All programmers know the correct way is to have the punctuation outside of the quote marks, otherwise you're modifying the string literal that the quote marks enclose. And I don't care whether the rules say it's meant to be like that or not, if I'm quoting a piece of text which didn't have that punctuation in it then it feels dirty to move the punctuation inside the quotes.
haha... I was about to say how it reminds me of a seminar I went to by a guy doing computing out of plasmodium mould growth so I looked it up, and it's the same guy. hilarious. This hot ice would have a similar growth pattern to the mould growth, but obviously a lot faster, and much more expensive.
Of course, those SEC fans might do what many music fans did...stop buying tickets.
"in news today, SEC have stepped up their lawsuits against tweeting fans, having seen profits fall massively, clearly caused by fans getting all the information about the game through 140 character messages, and therefore no longer needing to watch it in real life"
what has going to the moon accomplished to making all our lives better?
Don't get me wrong, I love that we did it, but I'm not going to say that it wasn't pointless unless we follow up on using the knowledge to get ourselves off this rock, which the government is not.
Yep, slashdot contains just as many of the humans-are-evil crew as the rest of society. I believed it all up until the beginning of this year when I decided to actually look at the data. The evidence just does not exist.
Do you know how fracking big the universe is? Even just our little solar system. This thing is orbiting the sun, like a planet. A planet the size of a small car. There's a lot of space around it. Even if we mined the whole planet and sent up as many of them as we could, we couldn't send up more than the mass of the earth. There would be a tiny tiny miniscule chance of them hitting each other.
Please, have some respect for the scale here. I take it when you're visiting people's houses, you don't leave behind any flakes of your skin, or any molecules or crumbs of any part of you behind? Hypocrite.
Sails generate lift when sailing close to the wind(i.e. upwind) but that lift isn't going to be directly forwards, so you are right that the keel has to balance that to make the boat go forwards, but you are wrong that the sails don't produce lift. Obviously, sailing downwind is different and you can just have the wind push you.
Actually that might work... Sails on boats work like wings, that's how it's possible to sail upwind.
If the sail was positioned at 90 degrees and then the fan blew across the front of it, you'd create the Bernoulli effect, with the lower pressure air behind the sail pushing you forward. Of course in the configuration in the cartoon I expect Wile E. was just blowing it from behind, in which case it wouldn't work at all.
Real scientists, if you have not yet done so, please sign the Global Warming Petition Project. It's not a web based petition so you'll have to actually sign it and send it in.
This is a good idea, and it's actually something I've had in my own head for years, but I've never been able to work out the finer points of how it might function.
Neither have they.
It's exactly what we need; come up with a sufficiently non-polluting means of mass-producing these things, and then line the streets with them.
With what money? Oh right, nobody cares about money, we can just print more and make everyone poor. That's a sensible thing to do right now.
Clean air for breathing
Carbon dioxide is not dirty.
, astronomy,
Nor does it block light
and as a major part of lowering global temperatures
Very tenuous link between global temperatures and carbon dioxide. CO2 change tends to FOLLOW global temperatures, not the other way round. Certainly it has SOME effect but it's tiny compared to the more massive effects of the other gasses and the feedback systems that are in play.
and cleaning up the environment.
See above. CO2 is not dirty.
I am seeing more and more, an influx of WoW forum refugees to Slashdot, as I've mentioned earlier, and they're just as anti-intellectual, brazenly sociopathic, and juvenile now as they were within the WoW forums.
Please go back there, former WoW players. Slashdot used to be a place for intelligent, often enjoyable discussion of ideas; and you're ruining it.
*sigh* I guess disagreement with you is "juvenile". I don't and never have played WOW.
You are perfectly able to perform collective action. Just don't force me to join in your collective. A free market system allows those who are happy working for an employer or to become an employer to do so, and those who want to start a collective with a group of friends can do just that as well.
Non-owners aren't at the mercy of the owners as long as they have a choice NOT to work for the owners.
I would very much expect that you'd get numerous collectivist groups form under a free society like this, just as you'd get corporations operating with a standard hierarchical structure. Just as long as there is no force to make everybody go one way or the other then you are free to choose how to proceed.
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Try rot26. It's twice as secure!
This is just whining for the sake of whining.
This is slashdot
there seems to be no way to contact a human at Google.
That's because there are no humans left at Google. It's all automated now.
in which the sun's energy is used to heat up a substance that produces steam
What is this mythically substance that produces steam when heated up?
Unfortunately this kind of interface is completely useless except as a gimmick.
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All programmers know the correct way is to have the punctuation outside of the quote marks, otherwise you're modifying the string literal that the quote marks enclose. And I don't care whether the rules say it's meant to be like that or not, if I'm quoting a piece of text which didn't have that punctuation in it then it feels dirty to move the punctuation inside the quotes.
you know... not being a driver, I realise I've learnt more about cars from slashdot than anywhere else. simply read the analogies in reverse :)
as long as the worker chose the work voluntarily and is therefore free to quit, Yes.
Do you have a problem with personal choice?
Or do you just believe that only you and people like you are capable of making the right choices, and should therefore force those choices on others?
haha... I was about to say how it reminds me of a seminar I went to by a guy doing computing out of plasmodium mould growth so I looked it up, and it's the same guy. hilarious. This hot ice would have a similar growth pattern to the mould growth, but obviously a lot faster, and much more expensive.
*My evidence? The use of the "or" conjunction, which in English is semantically equivalent to a logical XOR.
That would only narrow it down if Steven Colbert actually WAS mentioned in the book. Anyone got the book to check it out?
Of course, those SEC fans might do what many music fans did...stop buying tickets.
"in news today, SEC have stepped up their lawsuits against tweeting fans, having seen profits fall massively, clearly caused by fans getting all the information about the game through 140 character messages, and therefore no longer needing to watch it in real life"
It's called pinyin and is the standard romanisation of Chinese characters. It is used in China and therefore they DO use the "latin script".
that only applies to non-government jobs.
what has going to the moon accomplished to making all our lives better?
Don't get me wrong, I love that we did it, but I'm not going to say that it wasn't pointless unless we follow up on using the knowledge to get ourselves off this rock, which the government is not.
Yep, slashdot contains just as many of the humans-are-evil crew as the rest of society. I believed it all up until the beginning of this year when I decided to actually look at the data. The evidence just does not exist.
Do you know how fracking big the universe is? Even just our little solar system. This thing is orbiting the sun, like a planet. A planet the size of a small car. There's a lot of space around it. Even if we mined the whole planet and sent up as many of them as we could, we couldn't send up more than the mass of the earth. There would be a tiny tiny miniscule chance of them hitting each other.
Please, have some respect for the scale here. I take it when you're visiting people's houses, you don't leave behind any flakes of your skin, or any molecules or crumbs of any part of you behind? Hypocrite.
There's no where free left on land. It's time to colonise and move on to the High Seas.
Sails generate lift when sailing close to the wind(i.e. upwind) but that lift isn't going to be directly forwards, so you are right that the keel has to balance that to make the boat go forwards, but you are wrong that the sails don't produce lift. Obviously, sailing downwind is different and you can just have the wind push you.
See http://www.physclips.unsw.edu.au/jw/sailing.html for more.
Doh. of course, you are right, I got mixed up with lower speed... the lower speed air means it's higher pressure. Thanks.
I haven't looked into it either but intuitively it does seem very unlikely that you could improve on just having the fan thrusting behind you.
Actually that might work... Sails on boats work like wings, that's how it's possible to sail upwind.
If the sail was positioned at 90 degrees and then the fan blew across the front of it, you'd create the Bernoulli effect, with the lower pressure air behind the sail pushing you forward. Of course in the configuration in the cartoon I expect Wile E. was just blowing it from behind, in which case it wouldn't work at all.
Real scientists, if you have not yet done so, please sign the Global Warming Petition Project. It's not a web based petition so you'll have to actually sign it and send it in.
I'm sure there are a fair few of us who take option 2/3 and we are totally aware of the hypocrisy of the open source crazies.
I don't believe in intellectual property at all and I am accepting of every consequence that goes along with that.
This is a good idea, and it's actually something I've had in my own head for years, but I've never been able to work out the finer points of how it might function.
Neither have they.
It's exactly what we need; come up with a sufficiently non-polluting means of mass-producing these things, and then line the streets with them.
With what money? Oh right, nobody cares about money, we can just print more and make everyone poor. That's a sensible thing to do right now.
Clean air for breathing
Carbon dioxide is not dirty.
, astronomy,
Nor does it block light
and as a major part of lowering global temperatures
Very tenuous link between global temperatures and carbon dioxide. CO2 change tends to FOLLOW global temperatures, not the other way round. Certainly it has SOME effect but it's tiny compared to the more massive effects of the other gasses and the feedback systems that are in play.
and cleaning up the environment.
See above. CO2 is not dirty.
I am seeing more and more, an influx of WoW forum refugees to Slashdot, as I've mentioned earlier, and they're just as anti-intellectual, brazenly sociopathic, and juvenile now as they were within the WoW forums.
Please go back there, former WoW players. Slashdot used to be a place for intelligent, often enjoyable discussion of ideas; and you're ruining it.
*sigh* I guess disagreement with you is "juvenile". I don't and never have played WOW.
You are perfectly able to perform collective action. Just don't force me to join in your collective. A free market system allows those who are happy working for an employer or to become an employer to do so, and those who want to start a collective with a group of friends can do just that as well.
Non-owners aren't at the mercy of the owners as long as they have a choice NOT to work for the owners.
I would very much expect that you'd get numerous collectivist groups form under a free society like this, just as you'd get corporations operating with a standard hierarchical structure. Just as long as there is no force to make everybody go one way or the other then you are free to choose how to proceed.