Its not the first time that Mythbuster's has had obviously politically motivated skews on their production and/or results.
Like the time they were testing all the various myths involved in beating alcohol tests (Breathalyzer, etc) and were very careful to word their statements to say that no one method managed to beat all the different tests, and never specifying which methods beat which tests. Or the time they tested the fuel efficiency of drafting behind a big rig truck and spent most of the episode hamming up the potential dangers of tailgating.
To be fair though, in those cases it was more about Safety (translate Liability) as they could heavily damage road safety and Law Enforcement's ability to police it. Its like how in most fiction Ive seen, they always misquote the proportions of charcoal, sulfur, and salt peter that go into gunpowder, so the young and/or stupid won't go out and blow off fingers.
Consumers would be confused because they wouldn't know if this McDonald's was going to sell them a low-quality slapped-together microwaved piece of McCrap, or if this one happened to be some mom-and-pop knockoff instead.
I notice how the MCrap is the large-scale Corporate product while the alternative is the small scale encroacher. Interesting...
It is also important to note the the WTC was designed with a plane impact in mind; it was one of the failure modes they designed for. Unfortunately, planes the size of a 767 weren't around or in commercial use at the time of design.
And thanks to rising fuel prices and the overall economics of it, they won't be again any time soon.
I got that one too. In the end i actually did the full system reformat (it was time anyway...I hate windows), only to find out that it was hiding in a forgotten system sector of one of my secondary drives. Apparently I had load WinME on it sometime in the distant past and never wiped it properly.
Is the justification Bandwidth and the belief that P2P will overload it or is it just another ploy in the copyright Wars?
And what about the increasing number of applications that use BitTorrent technology for legitimate, non file-sharing purposes?
A book series you can never start too young with is the Tom Swift series. It is in the demographic of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, but instead of mysteries it's a high school super-genius inventor getting into sci-fi adventures. They aren't what I would call educational per say, but they are entertaining for the younger age group.
There has been a series nearly every generation since the 1900's. My series had flying surfboards and alternate realities and Virtual Reality. My Father's generation had a Giant Robot, a Flying Lab, and a Rocket Ship. The Original had such gems as Tom Swift and his Motor Cycle, Tom Swift and his Electric Train, Tom Swift and his Moving Pictures.
That is basically why I believe in Science: because Tom Swift has given us a nice, continuing Record of Science Fiction becoming Science Fact. No fiction outside of MacGuyver played a bigger role in my education.
And one more bit (from Wikipedia):
Computer developer Steve Wozniak has stated that he grew up reading Tom Swift Jr., whom he regarded as the epitome of creative freedom, scientific knowledge, and the ability to find solutions to problems. For him Tom Swift also represented the potential rewards that invention might bring. "Spirit of American Innovation: The Personal Computer is Born"
I have to agree. One if the things I loved growing up was going back and reading some books i had read much younger and getting lines and passages that I had always glossed past before. McCaffery's Pern series is a good example of that. I think it was nice to have books like that that grew in depth as I did. But then for ever one that did kept up, dozens fell behind. They'll have to find the one they get into the most.
The basic idea of the the internet is connections. It was originally just computers connected, and so the web they carried was computer oriented communication, sharing and growth.
Now, its connecting people, and when you offer a new means of connecting people, especially one as broad and global as the Internet, then it will become as diverse as the people involved.
If you dont think so, think about the differences between the stereotype programmer, vs the Corperate Cog with his Blackberry, vs the average WoW-head, vs a MySpacer, vs the Goons, vs We here at Slashdot. We are all widely different, but we are all sharing the same common forum: The Net
From Wikipedia: A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Stephen Hawking and first published in 1988. It rapidly became a best-seller, and had sold 9 million copies by 2002. It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
Sold that much and arguably changed more understanding than any science book since Einstien's Relativity.
Its much less dry than most science books trend to. If that book doesn't qualify then no science book ever will unless its written by Bill Nye or has "For Dummies" at the end of it.
Most of the running of the operating system is a relatively low watt task.
The big things, the last straw on more than one of my aging power supplies, is Burning media. That is where it really needs the extra juice.
Id like to see a comparison of Burning Wattage, and the difference between the needs of CDs, DVDs, BlueRay, LightScribe, etc.
Any @Home program, from the LHC to SETI to protein folding to Fluid Modeling would all help the world. The one to figure out how many ways to place eight Queens on a chessboard so they cant kill each other...not so much
Most IT departments today just dont do much in the way of innovation. If Technology isn't the main thing a given company does, odd are it will think of the IT Department as simply people to call and fix those minor annoyances.
A computer savy graduate doesn't want to spend his time running network cables and resetting passwords. It would be like a mechanical engineer getting out of school and wanting to work in an auto-garage.
One more bit of Japanese culture: they have already had mandatory exercise at corporate offices for a good while. They realized that the average employee was spending 8 hours a day in a chair and going straight to the bar afterward. Going from manditory exercise an actual measurable standard is a logical and (in theory) beneficial step.
Truth is we only think it sucks because they picked a stupid standard. If they had simply said, "All employees can have no more than X % bodyfat, it wouldn't be so awful.
Exactly. By the BMI Michael Jordan is Obese. It operates as a general numeric comparison for large populations based on an average body frame and density (average in 1840 Europe when it was invented as a sociological tool).
Unfortunately, since Muscle is denser than bone, the Height to Weight Ratio will actually classify the heavy athletic as obese before it will catch the Lard-Carriers.
But to base it entirely on waist size? I was ill for several months and lost a dangerous amount of weight, and emaciated my waist was 34 inches.
Bottom line is that there are enough fast, reliable, and accurate methods of measuring % Body Fat directly these days that there is no need for such archaic and acceptedly faulty methods like these.
Do I have this right? It sounds like he's saying that a created black hole could not possibly harm the Earth on the basis that such black holes exist naturally and if they were dangerous there would be less stars in the sky now than we see.
In other words, if its not dangerous enough to wipe out a noticeable percentage of stars (the strong ones) then its not dangerous enough to mess up earth?
Because I can think of plenty of things that exist naturally in space that, while not dangerous enough to destroy a star, would certainly give our fragile climate and tidal system a bad day if it actually landed.
As a general rule, for long term storage any technology that relies on magnetic data storage has a much shorter lifespan than say optical. Over time the strip looses its magnetic charge, causing data loss and corruption.
I would go for optical storage (DVDs a big yet cost effective). They dont have near the base degradation over time that Magnetics do.
A few things to keep in mind for DVD backup:
-Buy Good Quality. Cheap disks tend to flake off and loose the back coating. I dont know how many movies and anime Ive lost that way.
-Store them somewhere cool and dry, much like any electronic.
-Be careful of wallets. Ive had several wallets and binders that cause friction on the back surface, causing scratches and flaking of the foil coating. Id go with spools.
-Dont mess with them. The more you touch them, take them out to look at, etc, the more chance of them getting damaged. You also run the risk of getting dirt in the storage (wallet or spool, etc) which will cut down their life again.
The recommendations of multiple backups is also a good idea.
nope. All magnetic storage have a (relatively) short storage life. Optical is much better if they are stored properly (ie. cool dry place and not touched much to avoid scratching)
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Its not the first time that Mythbuster's has had obviously politically motivated skews on their production and/or results.
Like the time they were testing all the various myths involved in beating alcohol tests (Breathalyzer, etc) and were very careful to word their statements to say that no one method managed to beat all the different tests, and never specifying which methods beat which tests. Or the time they tested the fuel efficiency of drafting behind a big rig truck and spent most of the episode hamming up the potential dangers of tailgating.
To be fair though, in those cases it was more about Safety (translate Liability) as they could heavily damage road safety and Law Enforcement's ability to police it. Its like how in most fiction Ive seen, they always misquote the proportions of charcoal, sulfur, and salt peter that go into gunpowder, so the young and/or stupid won't go out and blow off fingers.
Consumers would be confused because they wouldn't know if this McDonald's was going to sell them a low-quality slapped-together microwaved piece of McCrap, or if this one happened to be some mom-and-pop knockoff instead.
I notice how the MCrap is the large-scale Corporate product while the alternative is the small scale encroacher. Interesting...
It is also important to note the the WTC was designed with a plane impact in mind; it was one of the failure modes they designed for.
Unfortunately, planes the size of a 767 weren't around or in commercial use at the time of design.
And thanks to rising fuel prices and the overall economics of it, they won't be again any time soon.
It may just be me, but if I were one of your users, constant pop-ups asking me to rate the site would just result in low ratings of the site.
I got that one too. In the end i actually did the full system reformat (it was time anyway...I hate windows), only to find out that it was hiding in a forgotten system sector of one of my secondary drives. Apparently I had load WinME on it sometime in the distant past and never wiped it properly.
I wonder if there is a similar bump for an appearance on The Daily Show...
The secret to the Flux Capacitor perhaps?
Is the justification Bandwidth and the belief that P2P will overload it or is it just another ploy in the copyright Wars? And what about the increasing number of applications that use BitTorrent technology for legitimate, non file-sharing purposes?
It needs to be compatible with all the old 32-bit OS stuff that everyone is keeping XP to use.
A book series you can never start too young with is the Tom Swift series. It is in the demographic of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, but instead of mysteries it's a high school super-genius inventor getting into sci-fi adventures. They aren't what I would call educational per say, but they are entertaining for the younger age group.
There has been a series nearly every generation since the 1900's. My series had flying surfboards and alternate realities and Virtual Reality. My Father's generation had a Giant Robot, a Flying Lab, and a Rocket Ship. The Original had such gems as Tom Swift and his Motor Cycle, Tom Swift and his Electric Train, Tom Swift and his Moving Pictures.
That is basically why I believe in Science: because Tom Swift has given us a nice, continuing Record of Science Fiction becoming Science Fact. No fiction outside of MacGuyver played a bigger role in my education.
And one more bit (from Wikipedia):
Computer developer Steve Wozniak has stated that he grew up reading Tom Swift Jr., whom he regarded as the epitome of creative freedom, scientific knowledge, and the ability to find solutions to problems. For him Tom Swift also represented the potential rewards that invention might bring. "Spirit of American Innovation: The Personal Computer is Born"
I have to agree. One if the things I loved growing up was going back and reading some books i had read much younger and getting lines and passages that I had always glossed past before. McCaffery's Pern series is a good example of that. I think it was nice to have books like that that grew in depth as I did. But then for ever one that did kept up, dozens fell behind. They'll have to find the one they get into the most.
Piers' Incarnations of Immortality is really good, in a pun filled way like Xanth was
The basic idea of the the internet is connections. It was originally just computers connected, and so the web they carried was computer oriented communication, sharing and growth.
Now, its connecting people, and when you offer a new means of connecting people, especially one as broad and global as the Internet, then it will become as diverse as the people involved.
If you dont think so, think about the differences between the stereotype programmer, vs the Corperate Cog with his Blackberry, vs the average WoW-head, vs a MySpacer, vs the Goons, vs We here at Slashdot. We are all widely different, but we are all sharing the same common forum: The Net
Stephen Hawkings A Brief History of Time
From Wikipedia:
A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Stephen Hawking and first published in 1988. It rapidly became a best-seller, and had sold 9 million copies by 2002. It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
Sold that much and arguably changed more understanding than any science book since Einstien's Relativity.
Its much less dry than most science books trend to. If that book doesn't qualify then no science book ever will unless its written by Bill Nye or has "For Dummies" at the end of it.
Most of the running of the operating system is a relatively low watt task. The big things, the last straw on more than one of my aging power supplies, is Burning media. That is where it really needs the extra juice.
Id like to see a comparison of Burning Wattage, and the difference between the needs of CDs, DVDs, BlueRay, LightScribe, etc.
According to the article its available online
There are three Enigma's left to be precise.
Enigma@Home
Just how big can we make StarCraft?
Any @Home program, from the LHC to SETI to protein folding to Fluid Modeling would all help the world. The one to figure out how many ways to place eight Queens on a chessboard so they cant kill each other...not so much
BOINC runs the common software, and has a good directory of programs. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
Most IT departments today just dont do much in the way of innovation. If Technology isn't the main thing a given company does, odd are it will think of the IT Department as simply people to call and fix those minor annoyances.
A computer savy graduate doesn't want to spend his time running network cables and resetting passwords. It would be like a mechanical engineer getting out of school and wanting to work in an auto-garage.
One more bit of Japanese culture: they have already had mandatory exercise at corporate offices for a good while. They realized that the average employee was spending 8 hours a day in a chair and going straight to the bar afterward. Going from manditory exercise an actual measurable standard is a logical and (in theory) beneficial step.
Truth is we only think it sucks because they picked a stupid standard. If they had simply said, "All employees can have no more than X % bodyfat, it wouldn't be so awful.
Exactly. By the BMI Michael Jordan is Obese. It operates as a general numeric comparison for large populations based on an average body frame and density (average in 1840 Europe when it was invented as a sociological tool).
Unfortunately, since Muscle is denser than bone, the Height to Weight Ratio will actually classify the heavy athletic as obese before it will catch the Lard-Carriers.
But to base it entirely on waist size? I was ill for several months and lost a dangerous amount of weight, and emaciated my waist was 34 inches.
Bottom line is that there are enough fast, reliable, and accurate methods of measuring % Body Fat directly these days that there is no need for such archaic and acceptedly faulty methods like these.
Do I have this right? It sounds like he's saying that a created black hole could not possibly harm the Earth on the basis that such black holes exist naturally and if they were dangerous there would be less stars in the sky now than we see.
In other words, if its not dangerous enough to wipe out a noticeable percentage of stars (the strong ones) then its not dangerous enough to mess up earth?
Because I can think of plenty of things that exist naturally in space that, while not dangerous enough to destroy a star, would certainly give our fragile climate and tidal system a bad day if it actually landed.
As a general rule, for long term storage any technology that relies on magnetic data storage has a much shorter lifespan than say optical. Over time the strip looses its magnetic charge, causing data loss and corruption. I would go for optical storage (DVDs a big yet cost effective). They dont have near the base degradation over time that Magnetics do. A few things to keep in mind for DVD backup: -Buy Good Quality. Cheap disks tend to flake off and loose the back coating. I dont know how many movies and anime Ive lost that way. -Store them somewhere cool and dry, much like any electronic. -Be careful of wallets. Ive had several wallets and binders that cause friction on the back surface, causing scratches and flaking of the foil coating. Id go with spools. -Dont mess with them. The more you touch them, take them out to look at, etc, the more chance of them getting damaged. You also run the risk of getting dirt in the storage (wallet or spool, etc) which will cut down their life again. The recommendations of multiple backups is also a good idea.
nope. All magnetic storage have a (relatively) short storage life. Optical is much better if they are stored properly (ie. cool dry place and not touched much to avoid scratching)