Well Everest is just under 9km up, and people have scaled it without oxygen.
And I assume they went from base to peak in just a few minutes, like a "duty free guzzling pilot" would?
They'd better get up in less than 3.5 minutes or else the batteries will be flat and you wouldn't want that to happen at that altitude, especially when you've just passed out from lack of oxygen.
Are you saying that anyone who does experimentation with DNA is thereby a scientist?
I thought the common term for those people was "parents". And apparently it doesn't seem to require a degree (although from what I see around me, maybe it should).
Example would be that mouse-over-button bug that was in bugzilla for 6 years before somebody got the nerve to go unpack the problem and rework the bits of the code that needed to be reworked so that a window with a button in it that was drawn under where the mouse currently was would actually automatically hilight the button and let you click it. Before this guy got the balls go and fix it, it sat there. And bugged the hell out of me for 3 years while I deluded myself into thinking the OSS development model was superior.
Superior to the commercial model where similarly irritating bugs routinely get ignored for years because overworked teams are busy working on $NextLayerOfCruftyFeatures as demanded by marketing instead of fixing their damn product ? In that case you're right, it's not always superior. It mostly depends on the team managing the project (in both worlds, be it OSS or commercial).
Your statement is literally true, but the design of the truck contributed to the severity of the accident. One presumes that there are building sites in Europe, yet somehow they manage to use trucks there.
Nope, sorry, for safety reasons all of our building sites use Smart cars.
BTW he is one of the most successful, post WW 2, Italian leaders.
Successful at what ?
You don't evaluate success by the number of underage bimbos you screw, sneak into your government or by the number of trials you weasel your way out of while claiming it's all the fault of the "red judges" and the "communist press" (aka. newspapers he doesn't own).
Italy is going down the drain at such a speed that it's dizzying to watch.
And how to protect the workers' health from the bombardments of the EMPs?
I'd worry less about the worker's exposition to EMPs than about their loss of hearing from the noise of the holes being punched by this gizmo when the mostly silent lasers are replaced by those things that are likely to be pretty noisy.
Some scholars believe the writer is referring to an elephant or a hippo, but other scholars note that the phrase in verse 17 comparing the animal's tail to a cedar sounds more like an overall description of a dinosaur, since that particular phrase would not accurately describe the tail of the elephant or hippo.
It could work with an elephant described front to back. People weren't very good at natural sciences back then.
From not only a scientific point of view with the near complete annihilation of Drake's equation but also from a philosophical and -- perhaps most importantly -- theological point of view.
A lot of people may consider it rather strange that you find mind constructs more important than the real world (whether or not they add value to one's daily life).
Hey boys! This feller here is calling himself "IT Ninja" but he doesn't know the difference between java and javascript! I say we run him outa slashdot!
I tried TagFS. And I found the main problem is, that the tagging is way too much work, to get to the level of tagging I want.
While tagging has always been (and presumably always will be) the major hurdle in document management, some types of documents are self-tagged. For example photos already carry an amount of meta-data through EXIF (and now XMP). So do a number of media files (music mostly). So those can be auto-indexed fairly easily. So can any data that holds explicit information (text), more or less.
If this was easily made available in a database thingy at the filesystem level instead of at the application level, we could not only avoid the multiple instances of the data (only having it once in the file and once in the file system) instead of once in every app that uses the data (which is usually done for to speed up data retrieval).
Anyway knowing that Ext4 is good enough for Google is a good step forward (although I'll have to see what options they used) in our never ending quest towards data preservation.
Yeah, she was involved in it, the same way that you're "involved" in a bank robbery if you happen to be one of the customers present when I bust through the door and demand money at gunpoint.
If you do that, remember not to bring any sea men along, they're the ones who ratted on the perp last time.
You didn't read the FA. The complaint is that the navigation menus etc are not included in the text-to-speech converter.
Even if they were, how is it going to help kids with no arms ? They can read fine but they can't press the buttons. Amazon are uncaring bastards, that's what they are !
There will *always* be some minority that will need some special accommodation not provided by the default thingie. "One size fits all" never works.
Common, this is just a stunt in order to get his picture all over the net in order to find a girlfriend !
I disagree. It's an uncommon stunt. He scores point for creativity. Although I seriously doubt any girl will find him more attractive for it, it does increase his geek score somewhat.
GM is an accelerated version of what happens in nature.
No it's not. It's the artificial manipulation of a genotype to get a desired trait by means that are not very well understood but that mostly work although their consequences are not very well grasped.
We need it to feed our billions.
No we don't. Crop rotation and the use of better seeds works much better and with far less pesticides and other toxic chemicals, notably in emerging markets.
However, a certain company won't get as rich if we go that way...
with ethical and moral corporations performing proper testing on products prior to release (and with unbiased, independent regulatory bodies ensuring proper standards are met), there would be little to fear in GM foods
So you're saying that what we need is the exact opposite of what Monsanto is ?
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Well Everest is just under 9km up, and people have scaled it without oxygen.
And I assume they went from base to peak in just a few minutes, like a "duty free guzzling pilot" would?
They'd better get up in less than 3.5 minutes or else the batteries will be flat and you wouldn't want that to happen at that altitude, especially when you've just passed out from lack of oxygen.
Are you saying that anyone who does experimentation with DNA is thereby a scientist?
I thought the common term for those people was "parents". And apparently it doesn't seem to require a degree (although from what I see around me, maybe it should).
+1
Just to see the face on the toreador on seeing an elephant sized wild bull with 2m horns charging down on him.
I'd pay to see that.
OTOH Less cables is good as well. The cable mess is getting old pretty quick.
Ok. What is your phone number?
Sorry, I don't take calls when I'm cycling.
There really aren't any of those irritating bugs in Windows though; nor does using the desktop feel like molasses.
Never happened to me. *And* I still from time to time run Linux on an actual Pentium II laptop (with X11 too).
Maybe you should upgrade your 286 ?
Example would be that mouse-over-button bug that was in bugzilla for 6 years before somebody got the nerve to go unpack the problem and rework the bits of the code that needed to be reworked so that a window with a button in it that was drawn under where the mouse currently was would actually automatically hilight the button and let you click it. Before this guy got the balls go and fix it, it sat there. And bugged the hell out of me for 3 years while I deluded myself into thinking the OSS development model was superior.
Superior to the commercial model where similarly irritating bugs routinely get ignored for years because overworked teams are busy working on $NextLayerOfCruftyFeatures as demanded by marketing instead of fixing their damn product ?
In that case you're right, it's not always superior. It mostly depends on the team managing the project (in both worlds, be it OSS or commercial).
Your statement is literally true, but the design of the truck contributed to the severity of the accident. One presumes that there are building sites in Europe, yet somehow they manage to use trucks there.
Nope, sorry, for safety reasons all of our building sites use Smart cars.
Cyclists spend a lot of time on the road. It would be nice if drivers were paying enough attention to see them.
Apparently the obvious fix is for cyclists to call drivers to warn them that they are on the same road (or at least leave voice mail).
I don't know for sure but I thought some of the "real" scenes were also CGIed
I thought they all were. Wasn't that the point ?
BTW he is one of the most successful, post WW 2, Italian leaders.
Successful at what ?
You don't evaluate success by the number of underage bimbos you screw, sneak into your government or by the number of trials you weasel your way out of while claiming it's all the fault of the "red judges" and the "communist press" (aka. newspapers he doesn't own).
Italy is going down the drain at such a speed that it's dizzying to watch.
And how to protect the workers' health from the bombardments of the EMPs?
I'd worry less about the worker's exposition to EMPs than about their loss of hearing from the noise of the holes being punched by this gizmo when the mostly silent lasers are replaced by those things that are likely to be pretty noisy.
Shut up! Don't you know Ubuntu is the ONLY linux distribution that does not require to write kernel modules in assembly by yourself ?
I'm glad they finally switched to assembly, I've misplaced my paper card puncher and I've been afraid to reboot ever since !
Shut up! It is a known fact that pulse audio sucks for EVERYONE.
Speak up, we Ubuntu users can't hear a word you're saying !
Some scholars believe the writer is referring to an elephant or a hippo, but other scholars note that the phrase in verse 17 comparing the animal's tail to a cedar sounds more like an overall description of a dinosaur, since that particular phrase would not accurately describe the tail of the elephant or hippo.
It could work with an elephant described front to back.
People weren't very good at natural sciences back then.
From not only a scientific point of view with the near complete annihilation of Drake's equation but also from a philosophical and -- perhaps most importantly -- theological point of view.
A lot of people may consider it rather strange that you find mind constructs more important than the real world (whether or not they add value to one's daily life).
Hey boys! This feller here is calling himself "IT Ninja" but he doesn't know the difference between java and javascript! I say we run him outa slashdot!
Get the feathers, I'm heating the tar !
Not to worry. It's all in the cloud, right?
The trouble with stuff that's in clouds is that sometimes it rains...
I tried TagFS. And I found the main problem is, that the tagging is way too much work, to get to the level of tagging I want.
While tagging has always been (and presumably always will be) the major hurdle in document management, some types of documents are self-tagged.
For example photos already carry an amount of meta-data through EXIF (and now XMP). So do a number of media files (music mostly). So those can be auto-indexed fairly easily. So can any data that holds explicit information (text), more or less.
If this was easily made available in a database thingy at the filesystem level instead of at the application level, we could not only avoid the multiple instances of the data (only having it once in the file and once in the file system) instead of once in every app that uses the data (which is usually done for to speed up data retrieval).
Anyway knowing that Ext4 is good enough for Google is a good step forward (although I'll have to see what options they used) in our never ending quest towards data preservation.
Yeah, she was involved in it, the same way that you're "involved" in a bank robbery if you happen to be one of the customers present when I bust through the door and demand money at gunpoint.
If you do that, remember not to bring any sea men along, they're the ones who ratted on the perp last time.
I really don't think living in a closet is going to be a viable alternative to going outside every once in a while.
I've got screen captures of that "outside" you speak of. Looks over rated to me.
You didn't read the FA. The complaint is that the navigation menus etc are not included in the text-to-speech converter.
Even if they were, how is it going to help kids with no arms ?
They can read fine but they can't press the buttons.
Amazon are uncaring bastards, that's what they are !
There will *always* be some minority that will need some special accommodation not provided by the default thingie. "One size fits all" never works.
Common, this is just a stunt in order to get his picture all over the net in order to find a girlfriend !
I disagree. It's an uncommon stunt. He scores point for creativity.
Although I seriously doubt any girl will find him more attractive for it, it does increase his geek score somewhat.
GM is an accelerated version of what happens in nature.
No it's not. It's the artificial manipulation of a genotype to get a desired trait by means that are not very well understood but that mostly work although their consequences are not very well grasped.
We need it to feed our billions.
No we don't. Crop rotation and the use of better seeds works much better and with far less pesticides and other toxic chemicals, notably in emerging markets.
However, a certain company won't get as rich if we go that way...
with ethical and moral corporations performing proper testing on products prior to release (and with unbiased, independent regulatory bodies ensuring proper standards are met), there would be little to fear in GM foods
So you're saying that what we need is the exact opposite of what Monsanto is ?