Great, I just wish they would extend it to a game that is actually interesting to watch.
You've never heard of twitch, haven't you?
Unless you're one of those people who define "interesting" as "interesting for me, personally, and I don't care about the opinion of the other millions of spectators."
No. I'm not kidding. Yes, such thing already exists. No, I don't know if there's a male counterpart, nor am I willing to investigate that facet of the topic.
This is completely off topic but, being in Europe, I've often wondered why would people study in the US when they could get the same education in Europe for under a tenth of the price. I can understand language being a barrier but... a hundreds of thousands of dollars barrier?
There are certainly many reasons not to do it, but it's a loan I suppose some people take decades to pay so...
Melcher is associate athletic director at Robert Morris University, a Chicago-based university that gives out 1,400 athletic and activity scholarships across its 10 Illinois campuses as a way of recruiting and retaining students. But it occurred to him that one sport, rapidly growing in popularity, was missing from the scholarship roster.
Seeing it as a way of making the university more attractive, picking the most popular makes sense.
If you open Twitch at any given time, unless the finals of some important championship are being played at that very moment, the top of the list is League of Legends.
It is the average speed of the light over very large distances that needs a correction
I'll remember that next time I'm arguing a speeding fine.
"But, mr. officer, you can't fine me for breaking the speed limit. You only know the average speed I had over the distance between the two radar pulses!"
None of this is the issue; speed of light stays constant, as does distance measurements. What changes is the understanding of the stability of a photon of light in a vacuum and the effect of this instability on travel time while passing near a gravitational well.
Which is all fine and dandy except for the detail that what you're then describing as "the speed of light in vacuum" becomes different to "the speed at which light travels in vacuum", which although physically correct, would be linguistically abhorrent.
Therefore, if you want to keep the number, maybe it would be more appropriate to call that number "speed of photons" and redefine "speed of light" to the actual propagation rate of light, with vacuum polarization taken into account.
Li-Shiuan Peh, the Singapore Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
If he is the Singapore Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, who is the Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science?
Statistically, she's the most dangerous of the threats.
You've just failed the "Are you a woman/gay man?" test. Congratulations on passing the "Are you a straight man?" test. You should receive your male card in the next five working days.
Actually, Great Whites don't even hunt us out of necessity: We are literally useless to them as food. All they ever do to us is take a bite, realize their mistake, and carry on looking for a worthwhile meal.
The trouble is, given their method of taking a bite involves slamming into their target at high speed and sinking hundreds of teeth in, you may well have been torn in half by the time they go "oops" and spit you back out...
And all that happens... 0,2 times per year?
Compared to deaths at sea for any other reason (ran over by water bike, ran over by surfer, ran over by motorboat, drowned by currents,...) in which position are white sharks? Next to deaths by stepping on a rusty nail while running at the beach?
The system is overrated because of the user composition.
If Slashdot was a forum about games, movies and cars we'd have posts from five year olds with +5 insightful and infantile internet memes with +5 funny.
Except for the little detail about the NSA not being allowed to spy Americans indirectly either.
The problem is not that they find creative ways to bend the law, it's that they didn't really need to. It's been proven over and over again that even in the cases where they did break the law without any loophole or excuse, nothing happened anyway.
The problem is reality itself. The reality that since the beginning of times governing people requires spying that same people. We've gotten much more civilized in that now we make an effort of keeping that people in ignorance, so they are a bit happier; but the spying continues.
The government needs spies as it needs assassins and torturers and all kinds of evil agents. If the people keep pushing to reveal the truth, the result won't be the disappearance of evil agents but the removal of the pink veil.
At some point, if the kid insists enough, the parent's patience ends and he replies "because I say so, now shut up."
This is a waste of money, regardless, but considering the economy, it isn't a responsible use of taxpayer dollars, either.
Right. Because science is always a bad investment.
We should spend taxpayer money in military so we can steal from the countries that do advance technologically? Or what's your master plan on how to stay among the first instead of plummeting to the group of those countries that mostly serve as factories for the more advanced.
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Great, I just wish they would extend it to a game that is actually interesting to watch.
You've never heard of twitch, haven't you?
Unless you're one of those people who define "interesting" as "interesting for me, personally, and I don't care about the opinion of the other millions of spectators."
They could make a scholarship for pole dancing.
No. I'm not kidding.
Yes, such thing already exists.
No, I don't know if there's a male counterpart, nor am I willing to investigate that facet of the topic.
This is completely off topic but, being in Europe, I've often wondered why would people study in the US when they could get the same education in Europe for under a tenth of the price. I can understand language being a barrier but... a hundreds of thousands of dollars barrier?
There are certainly many reasons not to do it, but it's a loan I suppose some people take decades to pay so...
Melcher is associate athletic director at Robert Morris University, a Chicago-based university that gives out 1,400 athletic and activity scholarships across its 10 Illinois campuses as a way of recruiting and retaining students. But it occurred to him that one sport, rapidly growing in popularity, was missing from the scholarship roster.
Seeing it as a way of making the university more attractive, picking the most popular makes sense.
If you open Twitch at any given time, unless the finals of some important championship are being played at that very moment, the top of the list is League of Legends.
It is the average speed of the light over very large distances that needs a correction
I'll remember that next time I'm arguing a speeding fine.
"But, mr. officer, you can't fine me for breaking the speed limit. You only know the average speed I had over the distance between the two radar pulses!"
None of this is the issue; speed of light stays constant, as does distance measurements. What changes is the understanding of the stability of a photon of light in a vacuum and the effect of this instability on travel time while passing near a gravitational well.
Which is all fine and dandy except for the detail that what you're then describing as "the speed of light in vacuum" becomes different to "the speed at which light travels in vacuum", which although physically correct, would be linguistically abhorrent.
Therefore, if you want to keep the number, maybe it would be more appropriate to call that number "speed of photons" and redefine "speed of light" to the actual propagation rate of light, with vacuum polarization taken into account.
Perhaps you forgot to take into consideration the speed of light through fiber is less than c?
So... it's b?
What did I win?
Li-Shiuan Peh, the Singapore Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
If he is the Singapore Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, who is the Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science?
Statistically, she's the most dangerous of the threats.
You've just failed the "Are you a woman/gay man?" test. Congratulations on passing the "Are you a straight man?" test. You should receive your male card in the next five working days.
I blame Evolution.
but probably bad news for the morons who like their photo taken with a dead marine top predator.
I don't think necrophiliacs care much about sharks.
1 - Those three things are one and the same.
2 - Are you certain nobody bribed those police officers to "make a mistake"?
On one side, a vicious shark. On the other a retard with a motorbike, half a dozen beers and a large breasted bikini blonde to impress.
hmm. Based on my past experiences with both, I'll take my chances with the shark.
Oh, and I don't see how you can fight or escape a motorbike either.
Actually, Great Whites don't even hunt us out of necessity: We are literally useless to them as food. All they ever do to us is take a bite, realize their mistake, and carry on looking for a worthwhile meal.
The trouble is, given their method of taking a bite involves slamming into their target at high speed and sinking hundreds of teeth in, you may well have been torn in half by the time they go "oops" and spit you back out...
And all that happens... 0,2 times per year?
Compared to deaths at sea for any other reason (ran over by water bike, ran over by surfer, ran over by motorboat, drowned by currents, ...) in which position are white sharks? Next to deaths by stepping on a rusty nail while running at the beach?
Idiocracy was closer, but Monopoly predicted this first.
The system is overrated because of the user composition.
If Slashdot was a forum about games, movies and cars we'd have posts from five year olds with +5 insightful and infantile internet memes with +5 funny.
Do you think Somalia outsurces much of it's manual labor to Norway?
Except for the little detail about the NSA not being allowed to spy Americans indirectly either.
The problem is not that they find creative ways to bend the law, it's that they didn't really need to. It's been proven over and over again that even in the cases where they did break the law without any loophole or excuse, nothing happened anyway.
The problem is reality itself. The reality that since the beginning of times governing people requires spying that same people. We've gotten much more civilized in that now we make an effort of keeping that people in ignorance, so they are a bit happier; but the spying continues.
The government needs spies as it needs assassins and torturers and all kinds of evil agents. If the people keep pushing to reveal the truth, the result won't be the disappearance of evil agents but the removal of the pink veil.
At some point, if the kid insists enough, the parent's patience ends and he replies "because I say so, now shut up."
This is a waste of money, regardless, but considering the economy, it isn't a responsible use of taxpayer dollars, either.
Right. Because science is always a bad investment.
We should spend taxpayer money in military so we can steal from the countries that do advance technologically? Or what's your master plan on how to stay among the first instead of plummeting to the group of those countries that mostly serve as factories for the more advanced.
I must be a cynic but my first reaction is to think:
1 - Create cloud based system.
2 - Sell subscriptions for hundreds of $.
3 - Announce hacker attack!
4 - Profit.
Blind people are also heavily underrepresented.
You really believe those two problems would be solved by better cameras?
"Dialog" is a crime against culture perpatrated by Microsoft
"Seynte Aldelme returnyde to Briteyne..makenge mony noble bookes ... of the rewles of feete metricalle, of metaplasmus, of dialog metricalle." - Higden's Polychronicon 1475
Unless Domino's is offering baby seal chunks and fried panda bear slices as toppings,
...
Fried panda, Onions and peperoni!
in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written
Also: "Yes, it was actually written like that in the original. It makes me sic."