Special forces MREs have had these items for years, I remember trying to buy some Zapplesauce online a while back to give it a try but couldn't find a worthwhile price. Also, I've eaten a number of modern MREs and some of the are very tasty. Most packs now contain candy or Tobasco or other incentives to get you calories down. I wouldn't want it every day, but for a field ration it's pretty good.
Has anyone here actually bothered looking at all or is everyone just assuming? xbla provides a list of top rated and most downloaded games, Indie rpgs are all over those lists, including cthulu. And the marketplace has a new games section too, so cthulu got advertising.
I'm not really sure what to make of this. Unless people are just so lazy or uninformed that nobody bothers to check out the Indie games on Xbox. Or if steam's level of purchasing is just that high.
Random ideas off the top of my head: Rogue stars of any sort might carry clouds of hydrogen and/or other elements, possibly even rocky asteroids and protoplanets, with them. It might be possible to refuel in one of these systems. Gravitational slingshots become an interesting idea, possibly allowing for some really interesting maneuvers. A gravity source also makes orbiting possible, so we could send ahead robotic probes to orbit some big external fuel tanks to await a manned mission that will carry less mass on-board and pick up supplies along the way- the probes can use gravitational assist to cut down on fuel use when stopping and rejoining the manned mission. There's just all sorts of potential, although again I'm mostly talking about any rogue star and not just brown dwarves.
Newsflash, and I can't believe I have to say this on slashdot: Best Buy doesn't train people to inform customers, period. Best Buy trains salesmen (as in, lots of males) to increase profits. You, as a tech junkie, are a reliable source of income with no variables, you come in and get what you want, goodbye. What they care about is the mother of five who knows nothing at all about technology and gets upsold $1,500 worth of accessories on a $500 TV. On the release of the Xbox 360, Best Buy was "expecting" to upsell the average Rewards customer (and new people they could sell on the Rewards junk) over $600 worth of accessories- separate from the purchse of the system. That's an AVERAGE of double the system price, IN ADDITION TO selling the system. This has nothing to do with utility, or quality of product, or need of the customer- the only statistic is how much money was gotten from the customer, and if possible, how can we fleece them for more (Geek Squad). If you consider yourself even vaguely aware of smart shopping, and you still frequent BestBuy, you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself (other than comparison shopping of course, like handling a demo unit of a laptop in person before buying it online).
Is Amazon counting porn? No, seriously. The last report before Amazon stopped admitting the numbers was that over half (54%?) of Kindle sales were Harlequin quasi-porn and the like. The increased privacy, discreet nature of the transaction and storage, make the device a natural market for adults-only material. A big part of why Kindle is dominating dead tree, is because the porn industry is once again leading the charge into the new format.
Follow the link in TFA, see that image on the right, with the band of the Milky Way being so clear? With a truly clear sky, it's like you bluescreened the entire sky and that image is showing in impossibly high resolution. Absolutely jaw-dropping. It's so hard to understand how rural people, who can look up and SEE the stars at night, aren't foremost in space exploration. When you realize what you're seeing, you have to want to go up there.
But hospitals are forced by the government to eat the costs when an uninsured person shows up in the ER, and you can't choose beforehand whether you'll ever need a trip to the ER.
This is remarkably similar to Medicare and Medicaid, which wouldn't have half the budget problems they do if people would stop stealing cash out of the coffers to pay other debts.
Mod parent up. There is no direct threat to users, and this measure was taken out of an overabundance of caution. Lastpass does keep all of its passwords encrypted, and what they noticed was a potential attempt at brute force (dictionary) hacking, trying to guess people's passwords. If you have a strong password, your account is just as safe as it ever was.
Or, when we say time didn't exist before the Big Bang, what we literally meant was that we thought no data could possibly have survived from any previous universe. Given that we couldn't ever know a previous universe, we then have to assume for all practical purposes that time started at the moment of the Big Bang. Now that we think something can survive the Big Bang, it is once again meaningful to imagine that time also existed before the Big Bang.
No. A singularity is the point at which *known* science breaks down. The math comes out with a bunch of infinities. But if gravity inside a singularity was infinite, we would have been pulled in a long time ago. So we know there's some kind of science to what happens inside a singularity, and we can even make very accurate predictions about what will happen to singularities based on initial mass and spin and so forth. We're just not sure yet how we're going to stick an instrument in there to get good measurements.
Amateur here, but methinks....
1) You mean how the universe is made out of matter instead of antimatter? The truth is we don't know, and we're only just starting to come up with some good guesses.
2) Pose that a different way- why haven't antimatter black holes changed everything into antimatter? (Morbo: Black holes do not work that way!)
3) Anti-matter has exactly the same properties of matter (we think, so far). If the universe were made out of antimatter instead of matter, we would have just named the terms the other way around.
Some current research papers even argue the second derivative- the data in inconclusive enough that there may be in the range of 30% probability that the expansion is slowing, depending on how you run the numbers. (The universe is still expanding faster and faster, but instead of expanding runaway exponentially faster it may be falling back to linear, which could then slow down).
You know what's interesting? The next generation of Americans won't know the term "pre-existing", as it applies to insurance. That usage has become an artifact of our time.
Another phrasing: Remind me how many hundreds of thousands of people have been slaughtered by our armed forces since 9/11, versus how many people were actually killed in the attacks? We've done more damage to the Middle East (and ourselves) than they did to us.
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Special forces MREs have had these items for years, I remember trying to buy some Zapplesauce online a while back to give it a try but couldn't find a worthwhile price. Also, I've eaten a number of modern MREs and some of the are very tasty. Most packs now contain candy or Tobasco or other incentives to get you calories down. I wouldn't want it every day, but for a field ration it's pretty good.
In today's news, Slashdot has obtained a patent for misleading article summaries and intentionally overblown headlines.
Has anyone here actually bothered looking at all or is everyone just assuming? xbla provides a list of top rated and most downloaded games, Indie rpgs are all over those lists, including cthulu. And the marketplace has a new games section too, so cthulu got advertising. I'm not really sure what to make of this. Unless people are just so lazy or uninformed that nobody bothers to check out the Indie games on Xbox. Or if steam's level of purchasing is just that high.
Random ideas off the top of my head: Rogue stars of any sort might carry clouds of hydrogen and/or other elements, possibly even rocky asteroids and protoplanets, with them. It might be possible to refuel in one of these systems. Gravitational slingshots become an interesting idea, possibly allowing for some really interesting maneuvers. A gravity source also makes orbiting possible, so we could send ahead robotic probes to orbit some big external fuel tanks to await a manned mission that will carry less mass on-board and pick up supplies along the way- the probes can use gravitational assist to cut down on fuel use when stopping and rejoining the manned mission. There's just all sorts of potential, although again I'm mostly talking about any rogue star and not just brown dwarves.
Newsflash, and I can't believe I have to say this on slashdot: Best Buy doesn't train people to inform customers, period. Best Buy trains salesmen (as in, lots of males) to increase profits. You, as a tech junkie, are a reliable source of income with no variables, you come in and get what you want, goodbye. What they care about is the mother of five who knows nothing at all about technology and gets upsold $1,500 worth of accessories on a $500 TV. On the release of the Xbox 360, Best Buy was "expecting" to upsell the average Rewards customer (and new people they could sell on the Rewards junk) over $600 worth of accessories- separate from the purchse of the system. That's an AVERAGE of double the system price, IN ADDITION TO selling the system. This has nothing to do with utility, or quality of product, or need of the customer- the only statistic is how much money was gotten from the customer, and if possible, how can we fleece them for more (Geek Squad). If you consider yourself even vaguely aware of smart shopping, and you still frequent BestBuy, you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself (other than comparison shopping of course, like handling a demo unit of a laptop in person before buying it online).
I hate this comment, because nobody seems to remember that free beer is free as in free speech (freebeer.org).
Yeah, just name a country that isn't completely racist against some group, and that doesn't fearmonger its citizenry. Should be easy, right?
WE ARE AT WAR WITH (name not available). WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH (name not available).
Correlation != causation. End non-story.
I don't see how "this containment site broke" is a qualifier for a good containment site. Anyone care to explain?
Is Amazon counting porn? No, seriously. The last report before Amazon stopped admitting the numbers was that over half (54%?) of Kindle sales were Harlequin quasi-porn and the like. The increased privacy, discreet nature of the transaction and storage, make the device a natural market for adults-only material. A big part of why Kindle is dominating dead tree, is because the porn industry is once again leading the charge into the new format.
Follow the link in TFA, see that image on the right, with the band of the Milky Way being so clear? With a truly clear sky, it's like you bluescreened the entire sky and that image is showing in impossibly high resolution. Absolutely jaw-dropping. It's so hard to understand how rural people, who can look up and SEE the stars at night, aren't foremost in space exploration. When you realize what you're seeing, you have to want to go up there.
...except that big trucks are often tax-exempt. This issue is just too complicated to be dealt with simply.
But hospitals are forced by the government to eat the costs when an uninsured person shows up in the ER, and you can't choose beforehand whether you'll ever need a trip to the ER.
This is remarkably similar to Medicare and Medicaid, which wouldn't have half the budget problems they do if people would stop stealing cash out of the coffers to pay other debts.
Hey, don't be mad. He didn't actually make any specific claim. He just reports- and you decide. That's all I'm sayin'.
Mod parent up. There is no direct threat to users, and this measure was taken out of an overabundance of caution. Lastpass does keep all of its passwords encrypted, and what they noticed was a potential attempt at brute force (dictionary) hacking, trying to guess people's passwords. If you have a strong password, your account is just as safe as it ever was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole Black holes are about as theoretical as evolution.
Or, when we say time didn't exist before the Big Bang, what we literally meant was that we thought no data could possibly have survived from any previous universe. Given that we couldn't ever know a previous universe, we then have to assume for all practical purposes that time started at the moment of the Big Bang. Now that we think something can survive the Big Bang, it is once again meaningful to imagine that time also existed before the Big Bang.
No. A singularity is the point at which *known* science breaks down. The math comes out with a bunch of infinities. But if gravity inside a singularity was infinite, we would have been pulled in a long time ago. So we know there's some kind of science to what happens inside a singularity, and we can even make very accurate predictions about what will happen to singularities based on initial mass and spin and so forth. We're just not sure yet how we're going to stick an instrument in there to get good measurements.
Amateur here, but methinks.... 1) You mean how the universe is made out of matter instead of antimatter? The truth is we don't know, and we're only just starting to come up with some good guesses. 2) Pose that a different way- why haven't antimatter black holes changed everything into antimatter? (Morbo: Black holes do not work that way!) 3) Anti-matter has exactly the same properties of matter (we think, so far). If the universe were made out of antimatter instead of matter, we would have just named the terms the other way around.
Some current research papers even argue the second derivative- the data in inconclusive enough that there may be in the range of 30% probability that the expansion is slowing, depending on how you run the numbers. (The universe is still expanding faster and faster, but instead of expanding runaway exponentially faster it may be falling back to linear, which could then slow down).
You know what's interesting? The next generation of Americans won't know the term "pre-existing", as it applies to insurance. That usage has become an artifact of our time.
Another phrasing: Remind me how many hundreds of thousands of people have been slaughtered by our armed forces since 9/11, versus how many people were actually killed in the attacks? We've done more damage to the Middle East (and ourselves) than they did to us.