not a bad idea. it would certainly be possible to use land from the dangerous island as landfill to make dampening islands off the coast.
of course, much like my original idea it would cost a lot of money and would require a bunch of the potentially effected countries to get off their collective butts and take the risk of spending that much money on something like this. Its probably not likely to happen, but the alternative is not very pleasant to think about.
one has to wonder if we could defuse the problem by putting that mass in the water now, in a controlled manner. couldnt we start blowing off chunks of the island now and minimize the impact of any possible eruption?
clearly you would have to be very careful and the cost would be very high, but if everyone is certain that this mega tsunami is going to happen wouldnt it make sense to spend the money up front rather than on disaster relief?
Im a little confused by his talk of the efficient transmission.... its not like a Continually variable transmission cant be put into a conventional car or even a desiel car. In fact, dont they make civics with the CVT?
and arnt the manual transmissions more effective in terms of milage (probably because they weigh so much less)?
I will admit that I have not played any of those games.
I dont doubt that they are quite good actually... and I would never say that video games cannot be art... I loved the story telling that bungie used to do back in the days of marathon.
But if you are going to bash the art of blockbuster movies then you should really look at the quality of art in one of gamings best known titles.
Just as there are wonderful artistic games there are wonderful artistic movies... Just as there are crap movies there are crap games... thats all.
read your own post again... both dogs and cats are bigger than mice... even though dogs are bigger than cats
symphonies and blockbuster movies are more artistic than games does NOT imply in any way that symphonies and blockbuster movies contain any amount of art.
if it did your statement would imply that cats are inherently the same size as dogs.
not only that... allowing reel and users to continue to do this could have resulted in apple loosing its licensed rights to distribute music in the first place.
The record companies are not hot on the idea that there might be holes in the DRM....
Steve Jobs didnt put fairplay on the iPod because he is evil and maniacal... he did it because those were the conditions under which he could sell the music.
Its quite clear that people in the UK don't understand the concept of majors and minors.
A major is your field of study. If you attend a university you will work in the department associated with your major for most of the time you are there. A minor is entirely voluntary. You can choose to take additional courses in another field, related or unrelated and receive a minor. minors (or concentrations) have much simpler requirements and are meant to broaden your study should you choose to.
for instance, I have a Major in computer science. i took a very large number of computer science classes (the number of classes and what the classes are will vary from university to university). I also have a minor in physics (because I started as a physics major and switched) I had enough credits in physics to meat the requirement. It wasnt very many classes for the minor.
The minor does not need to be in any way related to the major. I just as easily could have gotten a minor in history. Unless in the UK you never take a single class ouside of your field of study i think you would find that the system in the US really isnt that much different and if universities in the UK are that narrow and strict, then i dont think I would be hiring people that graduated from them, because you really cant get a good education with out it being at least somewhat well rounded.
I just read something about a book that theorized that the rapture had already occured... back around the end of the roman empire or something like that... as I understand it, it had evidence of much of the prophecies coming true . I wish I could find it now.
remember, the rapture means that the worthy are taken into heaven and the rest of us sit around and wait for the end of time... I dont think they gave a schedule for that.
See son, this comercial is designed to make you think that the product makes you feel good if you use it. This is one of the things that people do to try and sell you something. They try to make it seem like the product will make you something that you are not.
seems prety simple to me.
if your kids can recognize an orgasm then perhaps its time to be talking to them more frankly about sex. Other than that, you talk around it... Parents have been doing this for a very long time.
the study you are commenting on only applied to programs that taught primarily abstinence (which are, actually, the religiously oriented ones). It does not apply to sex ed programs in general.
the thermometer is less than 300 years old. there is no way we have 500 years of directly observed temperature readings. and even the earliest readings we have are only in europe since that is where it was invented.
according to tree rings (which, admittedly arent very accurate) it appears that that time period is one of the coldest in european history... so its really tough to know whats been happening for more than the last say... 100-150 years.
thats not very long when talking about changes like this.
Im not saying there isnt something going on... or that we shouldn't pollute less but its tough to know if these changes are way out of wack or not or if natural counterbalances will be able to deal with the changes.
yep... Id say that Apple would be the prime suspect for implementing something like this... they have all the tech they need and they control both the hardware and the software.
While I have begun to realize over the last few years that Tog doesnt always find the right things to gripe about, his complaints are occasionally valid. while surviving a power outage might not be the highest on a users list of priorities, it would be a cool feature that every computer could have.
my bike has both a gague and a reserve... but that was their original intent.
Im not expecting the computer to be anticipating the outage. Im simply saying it should have a touch of juice saved up (in a small battery) to handle the emergency and save the data.
motorcycles come with a reserve to their tank that you can cut to as a backup, when you run out of fuel... good cars will tell you your out of gas when you still have a gallon left.
these are good things... a built in device that saves your machine in the case of a power failure would be pretty cool too... even if it only gave the OS the time to save all contents of memory to a file so it can re-boot to exactly the same state you left it in... with all your apps and docs open.
but your right... unlike the gas tank reserve (which is extremely cheep to implement) this might actually cost something.
still, its a shame nobody does this... it couldnt add more that 10-20 bucs to the cost of the computer.
Slashdot Mirror
not a bad idea. it would certainly be possible to use land from the dangerous island as landfill to make dampening islands off the coast.
of course, much like my original idea it would cost a lot of money and would require a bunch of the potentially effected countries to get off their collective butts and take the risk of spending that much money on something like this. Its probably not likely to happen, but the alternative is not very pleasant to think about.
one has to wonder if we could defuse the problem by putting that mass in the water now, in a controlled manner. couldnt we start blowing off chunks of the island now and minimize the impact of any possible eruption?
clearly you would have to be very careful and the cost would be very high, but if everyone is certain that this mega tsunami is going to happen wouldnt it make sense to spend the money up front rather than on disaster relief?
Im a little confused by his talk of the efficient transmission.... its not like a Continually variable transmission cant be put into a conventional car or even a desiel car. In fact, dont they make civics with the CVT?
and arnt the manual transmissions more effective in terms of milage (probably because they weigh so much less)?
he was no doubt confused by the lack of apostrophe's
ghosts of mars?
did that have less plot or more plot than doom...
oh who cares really...
I will admit that I have not played any of those games.
I dont doubt that they are quite good actually... and I would never say that video games cannot be art... I loved the story telling that bungie used to do back in the days of marathon.
But if you are going to bash the art of blockbuster movies then you should really look at the quality of art in one of gamings best known titles.
Just as there are wonderful artistic games there are wonderful artistic movies... Just as there are crap movies there are crap games... thats all.
read your own post again... both dogs and cats are bigger than mice... even though dogs are bigger than cats
symphonies and blockbuster movies are more artistic than games does NOT imply in any way that symphonies and blockbuster movies contain any amount of art.
if it did your statement would imply that cats are inherently the same size as dogs.
no kidding... how can you compare that dreck with something so sublime and beautiful as the complex intertwined plot of DOOM,
your on mars... and there are DEMONS!
you cant make that shit up!
not only that... allowing reel and users to continue to do this could have resulted in apple loosing its licensed rights to distribute music in the first place.
The record companies are not hot on the idea that there might be holes in the DRM....
Steve Jobs didnt put fairplay on the iPod because he is evil and maniacal... he did it because those were the conditions under which he could sell the music.
they dont have to be on the coast... the can also be off the coast as people are trying to do off the coast of cape cod massachusetts.
they are trying to build a huge wind farm out at sea that will barely be visible from the shore.
still, there is much controversy.
yea... but you can never reach that page....
took me a while to figure this out... good catch... obviously I missed that.
funniest correction ever.
Its quite clear that people in the UK don't understand the concept of majors and minors.
A major is your field of study. If you attend a university you will work in the department associated with your major for most of the time you are there. A minor is entirely voluntary. You can choose to take additional courses in another field, related or unrelated and receive a minor. minors (or concentrations) have much simpler requirements and are meant to broaden your study should you choose to.
for instance, I have a Major in computer science. i took a very large number of computer science classes (the number of classes and what the classes are will vary from university to university). I also have a minor in physics (because I started as a physics major and switched) I had enough credits in physics to meat the requirement. It wasnt very many classes for the minor.
The minor does not need to be in any way related to the major. I just as easily could have gotten a minor in history. Unless in the UK you never take a single class ouside of your field of study i think you would find that the system in the US really isnt that much different and if universities in the UK are that narrow and strict, then i dont think I would be hiring people that graduated from them, because you really cant get a good education with out it being at least somewhat well rounded.
so when your kid stubs his toe he goes
"yes... Yes...YES!!!"
I know I dont.
I just read something about a book that theorized that the rapture had already occured... back around the end of the roman empire or something like that... as I understand it, it had evidence of much of the prophecies coming true . I wish I could find it now.
remember, the rapture means that the worthy are taken into heaven and the rest of us sit around and wait for the end of time... I dont think they gave a schedule for that.
See son, this comercial is designed to make you think that the product makes you feel good if you use it. This is one of the things that people do to try and sell you something. They try to make it seem like the product will make you something that you are not.
seems prety simple to me.
if your kids can recognize an orgasm then perhaps its time to be talking to them more frankly about sex. Other than that, you talk around it... Parents have been doing this for a very long time.
to be fair... RE: sex education.
the study you are commenting on only applied to programs that taught primarily abstinence (which are, actually, the religiously oriented ones). It does not apply to sex ed programs in general.
I was under the impression that the iPod could handle exercise due to its rather large memory buffer. I dont own one myself so I cant confirm this.
any iPod owning, slashdot exercise freaks want to comment.
the thermometer is less than 300 years old. there is no way we have 500 years of directly observed temperature readings. and even the earliest readings we have are only in europe since that is where it was invented.
according to tree rings (which, admittedly arent very accurate) it appears that that time period is one of the coldest in european history... so its really tough to know whats been happening for more than the last say... 100-150 years.
thats not very long when talking about changes like this.
Im not saying there isnt something going on... or that we shouldn't pollute less but its tough to know if these changes are way out of wack or not or if natural counterbalances will be able to deal with the changes.
except Brandeis University...
no huge parties there.
yep... Id say that Apple would be the prime suspect for implementing something like this... they have all the tech they need and they control both the hardware and the software.
While I have begun to realize over the last few years that Tog doesnt always find the right things to gripe about, his complaints are occasionally valid. while surviving a power outage might not be the highest on a users list of priorities, it would be a cool feature that every computer could have.
my bike has both a gague and a reserve... but that was their original intent.
Im not expecting the computer to be anticipating the outage. Im simply saying it should have a touch of juice saved up (in a small battery) to handle the emergency and save the data.
motorcycles come with a reserve to their tank that you can cut to as a backup, when you run out of fuel... good cars will tell you your out of gas when you still have a gallon left.
these are good things... a built in device that saves your machine in the case of a power failure would be pretty cool too... even if it only gave the OS the time to save all contents of memory to a file so it can re-boot to exactly the same state you left it in... with all your apps and docs open.
but your right... unlike the gas tank reserve (which is extremely cheep to implement) this might actually cost something.
still, its a shame nobody does this... it couldnt add more that 10-20 bucs to the cost of the computer.
ah Preacher. quality work.
still I would think that would be butchered just as badly... maybe worse.
Ash is no simple cashier!
everyone knows he works in Housewares!
man...