Actually many cubesats are just made by universities that beg everybody for launches. I know we made one as a grad student/senior project, though it was a more "risky" one since it had a deployable panel. They are perfect for demo launches like this because there is no primary payload that might be affected by it, and the launcher guys don't care as long as it acts like ballast.
Since you play more than one game in a year, then logically it follows that you haven't played a Nippon Ichi game.
I kid, but I have spent probably 600 hours of my life on the mainline Disgaea games. The combo of Valkyria Chronicles and Disgaea 3 was the best reason to even have PS3 two years ago.
* Atheists believe that there is no god.
* Atheists defend the belief that there is no god with the same zeal as any other religious zealot would defend the opposite.
* Atheists share the same close-mindedness to other religions as any other religious zealot.
And it's a tempting religion, at that, as it does not require any form of accountability from its believers.
Of course I am making generalizations here. What I say is not true of all atheists, but I think it is true for most (at least it is true for all my atheist friends, and certainly appears to be true for all other atheists that I have met or read)
Sorry, but *you* are wrong. Atheists do not "believe" that there is no god just like you do not "believe" that the flying spaghetti monster exists. There is no proof for either, and that's the end of the story. We aren't betting on it or just guessing, despite what you believe.
Prepend your second bullet with Zealous and that's fine. You are falsely accusing all atheists of zealotry, when most don't care what you believe as long as you aren't an ass about it. Hey, you wanna waste your time and money on church, that's fine with me. It's always nice to have a community to turn to for support. In my opinion there are many charities and causes that deserve your money far more, but it is yours to do with as you see fit.
And your third point I disagree whole-heartedly. I think it'd be swell for (insert deity) to actually show up in the world like (insert holy book) says he used to. I'd love to see somebody find the actual (insert holy object). But inventors of the more modern religions built safeguards into them. There are convenient explanations as to why these things don't happen, such as how Joseph Smith gave the Golden Plates back to Moroni. There are also methods of control built in: god leaves, not giving anybody a reason to believe in him, and then he comes back and punishes them for it. How convenient that we have an open-ended threat imposed upon us so that we'll behave.
But yes, atheism does not demand any additional accountability from athiests, since it is entirely unnecessary. Yes, I see the hidden, preposterous argument that morality comes solely from religion in there. Society itself demands that accountability, including with law as a last resort. Do we teach a child that he should not hit others because he'll go to Hell if he does? No, we teach him that he should not hit others because he wouldn't like it if somebody hit him.
12 civilians clearly unarmed shot with the murderers expressing clear joy at their slaughter.
I thought we went over this? The soldiers *clearly* thought they had an RPG, as they said so on multiple occasions. It's clear to us, sitting in our comfortable computer chairs and couches several months after the fact, and being told beforehand that they were unarmed journalists and one of them had a camera tripod. The only wrong they committed, as I understand, was firing on the van that tried to pick up the injured. The main problem was covering it up, and the grunts have no say in that. You can't blame kids that are trained to kill for the way they act in doing so. Blame the people who put them in that situation in the first place.
That said, what Wikileaks is doing is fantastic. Apparently we are getting the transparency that President Obama promised in his campaign, whether he likes it or not.
Does it have to be an uber-dos tool? My employers services have been hit by 10gbit/s dos attacks for no obvious reason, and later studies have shown somebody initiated them for fun (and it was cheap).
I imagine they just have to figure out what attack vectors wikileaks is vulnerable to. From what I've read, relatively few machines exploiting the slow POST vulnerability (Note: *not* the same as Slowloris) might do some damage.
I don't know that Acer rules any roost, so I think the point of this story is that tablets are getting bigger, more powerful and hopefully, as implied by the Acer name - cheaper.
They don't rule, per se, but as the second largest PC manufacturer behind HP (they leapfrogged over Dell with the netbook craze), they certainly are a force. It's also very nice to know they are back on board with giving a non-Windows OS a try. I bought their first netbook with a horrible version of Linux on it (it is happy as can be running Ubuntu 10.10 now), but of course when it didn't do as well they axed the Linux line and went Windows-only. They were also one of the manufacturers that pointedly ignored producing ARM laptops for the same reason.
As an interesting contrast, software used to be all what we'd consider open source -- BSD-style open. The relatively few programmers around back then were mostly academics and openly shared code until folks like Paul Allen and Bill Gates stepped in and decided they should be able to charge for Altair BASIC (see Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists). You could also see the stirrings of the open source rebellion, too, with the freely published Tiny BASIC design descriptions with full source code, which many groups implemented for many different architectures and sold for a small fee (as opposed to up to hundreds of dollars for Altair BASIC) independently.
He's also apparently never had a toddler that likes to constantly shut cats in whatever room or closet it happens to be in. My older, larger, lazier cat can hold his bowels all day when that happens, but the hyper little female cat goes all the time. I used to be able to go a couple days between changing the litter boxes before she adopted us. She eats and poops twice as much (probably more honestly, since she also goes outside all the time), but weighs half as much as he does.
The inefficiency of antimatter production is enormous: you get only a tenth of a billion (10-10) of the invested energy back. If we could assemble all the antimatter we've ever made at CERN and annihilate it with matter, we would have enough energy to light a single electric light bulb for a few minutes....
Can we make antimatter bombs?
No. It would take billions of years to produce enough antimatter for a bomb having the same destructiveness as ‘typical’ hydrogen bombs, of which there exist more than ten thousand already.
Sociological note: scientists realized that the atom bomb was a real possibility many years before one was actually built and exploded, and then the public was totally surprised and amazed. On the other hand, the public somehow anticipates the antimatter bomb, but we have known for a long time that it cannot be realized in practice.
I really have to wonder about this. Isn't the whole point of advancement of science learning to do things people didn't think was possible? Sure we suck at producing antimatter now, and even perfecting the current method won't help much. But who's to say we don't invent a completely different technique later? We already know a relatively significant amount of antimatter is created in solar flares. Sure they reach temperatures in the tens of millions of degrees, but we've created plasma at over a billion degrees at Sandia. Can we really say that humanity will never be able to create or capture antimatter more efficiently than we can now?
If this is blatant Geneva Convention-breaking torture, I apologize for my ignorance; the UN definition is so vague you could consider imprisonment a type of torture. I figure it seems far more "humane" than waterboarding at least.
Seriously folks, that's the worlds bigest copout.
The point of the Geneva Convention was to draw a line in the sand. If there's ANY question that it might possibly be turture, then it is.
The primary concept is this: if you were innocent, were detained for questioning, and THEY did THIS to YOU... Would you be TOTALLY PISSED , or would you think they were being perfectly reasonable?
Sorry, I didn't see your reply until just now, so this will probably be buried (and I'll forget to check it too).
I was thinking my idea was more inline with a lie detector test, perhaps augmenting it. An electrically-induced form of intimidation where the usual tactics (isolation, etc.) don't work.
Frankly, your definition of torture is still unhelpful, because I would be pissed if I was detained for questioning in the first place. I would be extremely pissed being in jail waiting for a trial, losing wages and probably my job waiting for my innocence to be proven.
Not the mod, but I can see where he's coming from. I can maybe see his claim having merit if he's only tried the heaviest GNOME or KDE distros, but "no matter how many distros he's tried?" That comes very close to trolling, considering there is at least one fairly well-known distro that loads itself entirely into RAM.
Of course it is difficult to argue against anecdotal evidence, especially if you don't know the hardware situation. Personally I'm fairly positive my nicely-tuned Arch install runs circles around my fully-patched Vista install, but that's just my experience.
I'm pretty sure this is a well-known and widely-accepted fact, even by the man himself. This is almost certainly why the submitter quoted him as saying, "Good job." That's unusually high praise coming from Linus.
Draw a dot, and eight concentric circles. The circles represent the orbits of the planets. Then draw an oval that touches the outermost circle on one end and goes out 2/3rds further on the other end. That's Pluto.
Below that, draw a straight line corresponding to the width of the circles. Those are the planets viewed edge on. Now draw a straight line tilted 17 degrees. That's Pluto.
I'm more interested in what implications this has into dealing with paranoia (as in full-on psychiatric disorder, not the popular usage of the word) .
I have seen what paranoid delusions can do to a person, and it ain't pretty.
That is an interesting question. I must be a bad person, but my first thought was the opposite of most commenters:
Can we hook up electrodes and magnify fear, say, for the purposes of obtaining a confession? It's a slippery slope I admit, but I would guess that the amount of stimulation is important. Especially if you can inflict a major mental disorder on the suspect.
If this is blatant Geneva Convention-breaking torture, I apologize for my ignorance; the UN definition is so vague you could consider imprisonment a type of torture. I figure it seems far more "humane" than waterboarding at least.
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OO.o wasn't written in Java. It uses Java for some components, but that's it. It certainly doesn't need it just to open.
Which means that OO.o needs 5 minutes to open because... well, I don't know really. It's a damn good question.
GP wasn't talking about OO.o in particular, but this is still worth talking about. Disable Java in Tools > Options... and open it again. In my experience, every version of OO.o opens much, much faster without, even without the other tweaks you find (reducing the number of undo steps, increasing memory per object, etc.).
Interesting how the possible state law for legalization of marijuana is getting as much or more attention from American people than the elections of the legislators who actually make our laws.
Not to mention it probably won't happen even if it passes. In Arizona we've passed a proposition to legalize medical marijuana three times, and it's on the ballot again this year.
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Actually many cubesats are just made by universities that beg everybody for launches. I know we made one as a grad student/senior project, though it was a more "risky" one since it had a deployable panel. They are perfect for demo launches like this because there is no primary payload that might be affected by it, and the launcher guys don't care as long as it acts like ballast.
Wow, I play a good pile of games a year..
Since you play more than one game in a year, then logically it follows that you haven't played a Nippon Ichi game.
I kid, but I have spent probably 600 hours of my life on the mainline Disgaea games. The combo of Valkyria Chronicles and Disgaea 3 was the best reason to even have PS3 two years ago.
* Atheists believe that there is no god. * Atheists defend the belief that there is no god with the same zeal as any other religious zealot would defend the opposite. * Atheists share the same close-mindedness to other religions as any other religious zealot.
And it's a tempting religion, at that, as it does not require any form of accountability from its believers.
Of course I am making generalizations here. What I say is not true of all atheists, but I think it is true for most (at least it is true for all my atheist friends, and certainly appears to be true for all other atheists that I have met or read)
Sorry, but *you* are wrong. Atheists do not "believe" that there is no god just like you do not "believe" that the flying spaghetti monster exists. There is no proof for either, and that's the end of the story. We aren't betting on it or just guessing, despite what you believe.
Prepend your second bullet with Zealous and that's fine. You are falsely accusing all atheists of zealotry, when most don't care what you believe as long as you aren't an ass about it. Hey, you wanna waste your time and money on church, that's fine with me. It's always nice to have a community to turn to for support. In my opinion there are many charities and causes that deserve your money far more, but it is yours to do with as you see fit.
And your third point I disagree whole-heartedly. I think it'd be swell for (insert deity) to actually show up in the world like (insert holy book) says he used to. I'd love to see somebody find the actual (insert holy object). But inventors of the more modern religions built safeguards into them. There are convenient explanations as to why these things don't happen, such as how Joseph Smith gave the Golden Plates back to Moroni. There are also methods of control built in: god leaves, not giving anybody a reason to believe in him, and then he comes back and punishes them for it. How convenient that we have an open-ended threat imposed upon us so that we'll behave.
But yes, atheism does not demand any additional accountability from athiests, since it is entirely unnecessary. Yes, I see the hidden, preposterous argument that morality comes solely from religion in there. Society itself demands that accountability, including with law as a last resort. Do we teach a child that he should not hit others because he'll go to Hell if he does? No, we teach him that he should not hit others because he wouldn't like it if somebody hit him.
While 436 Ron Pauls could certainly make majorities in both houses, you might consider cloning him 534 times just to be safe.
Well, we know how the author pronounces SQL now; I have always preferred "an SQL injection"---that is, "S.Q.L."
What, you don't mentally pronounce all acronyms? Well, now, aren't you just a SOB.
12 civilians clearly unarmed shot with the murderers expressing clear joy at their slaughter.
I thought we went over this? The soldiers *clearly* thought they had an RPG, as they said so on multiple occasions. It's clear to us, sitting in our comfortable computer chairs and couches several months after the fact, and being told beforehand that they were unarmed journalists and one of them had a camera tripod. The only wrong they committed, as I understand, was firing on the van that tried to pick up the injured. The main problem was covering it up, and the grunts have no say in that. You can't blame kids that are trained to kill for the way they act in doing so. Blame the people who put them in that situation in the first place.
That said, what Wikileaks is doing is fantastic. Apparently we are getting the transparency that President Obama promised in his campaign, whether he likes it or not.
Does it have to be an uber-dos tool? My employers services have been hit by 10gbit/s dos attacks for no obvious reason, and later studies have shown somebody initiated them for fun (and it was cheap).
I imagine they just have to figure out what attack vectors wikileaks is vulnerable to. From what I've read, relatively few machines exploiting the slow POST vulnerability (Note: *not* the same as Slowloris) might do some damage.
I'm peaked.
I think you mean, "[your interest is] piqued."
Well this is Slashdot, you know. I wouldn't be surprised if he had to quickly turn away from his keyboard just now.
I'd say Sculptris is more like digital silly putty (or clay, if that's what you meant). Linked to developer's site instead of the new Pixelogic one.
I don't know that Acer rules any roost, so I think the point of this story is that tablets are getting bigger, more powerful and hopefully, as implied by the Acer name - cheaper.
They don't rule, per se, but as the second largest PC manufacturer behind HP (they leapfrogged over Dell with the netbook craze), they certainly are a force. It's also very nice to know they are back on board with giving a non-Windows OS a try. I bought their first netbook with a horrible version of Linux on it (it is happy as can be running Ubuntu 10.10 now), but of course when it didn't do as well they axed the Linux line and went Windows-only. They were also one of the manufacturers that pointedly ignored producing ARM laptops for the same reason.
As an interesting contrast, software used to be all what we'd consider open source -- BSD-style open. The relatively few programmers around back then were mostly academics and openly shared code until folks like Paul Allen and Bill Gates stepped in and decided they should be able to charge for Altair BASIC (see Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists). You could also see the stirrings of the open source rebellion, too, with the freely published Tiny BASIC design descriptions with full source code, which many groups implemented for many different architectures and sold for a small fee (as opposed to up to hundreds of dollars for Altair BASIC) independently.
He's also apparently never had a toddler that likes to constantly shut cats in whatever room or closet it happens to be in. My older, larger, lazier cat can hold his bowels all day when that happens, but the hyper little female cat goes all the time. I used to be able to go a couple days between changing the litter boxes before she adopted us. She eats and poops twice as much (probably more honestly, since she also goes outside all the time), but weighs half as much as he does.
The inefficiency of antimatter production is enormous: you get only a tenth of a billion (10-10) of the invested energy back. If we could assemble all the antimatter we've ever made at CERN and annihilate it with matter, we would have enough energy to light a single electric light bulb for a few minutes. ...
Can we make antimatter bombs?
No. It would take billions of years to produce enough antimatter for a bomb having the same destructiveness as ‘typical’ hydrogen bombs, of which there exist more than ten thousand already.
Sociological note: scientists realized that the atom bomb was a real possibility many years before one was actually built and exploded, and then the public was totally surprised and amazed. On the other hand, the public somehow anticipates the antimatter bomb, but we have known for a long time that it cannot be realized in practice.
I really have to wonder about this. Isn't the whole point of advancement of science learning to do things people didn't think was possible? Sure we suck at producing antimatter now, and even perfecting the current method won't help much. But who's to say we don't invent a completely different technique later? We already know a relatively significant amount of antimatter is created in solar flares. Sure they reach temperatures in the tens of millions of degrees, but we've created plasma at over a billion degrees at Sandia. Can we really say that humanity will never be able to create or capture antimatter more efficiently than we can now?
If this is blatant Geneva Convention-breaking torture, I apologize for my ignorance; the UN definition is so vague you could consider imprisonment a type of torture. I figure it seems far more "humane" than waterboarding at least.
Seriously folks, that's the worlds bigest copout. The point of the Geneva Convention was to draw a line in the sand. If there's ANY question that it might possibly be turture, then it is. The primary concept is this: if you were innocent, were detained for questioning, and THEY did THIS to YOU ... Would you be TOTALLY PISSED , or would you think they were being perfectly reasonable?
Sorry, I didn't see your reply until just now, so this will probably be buried (and I'll forget to check it too).
I was thinking my idea was more inline with a lie detector test, perhaps augmenting it. An electrically-induced form of intimidation where the usual tactics (isolation, etc.) don't work.
Frankly, your definition of torture is still unhelpful, because I would be pissed if I was detained for questioning in the first place. I would be extremely pissed being in jail waiting for a trial, losing wages and probably my job waiting for my innocence to be proven.
Not the mod, but I can see where he's coming from. I can maybe see his claim having merit if he's only tried the heaviest GNOME or KDE distros, but "no matter how many distros he's tried?" That comes very close to trolling, considering there is at least one fairly well-known distro that loads itself entirely into RAM.
Of course it is difficult to argue against anecdotal evidence, especially if you don't know the hardware situation. Personally I'm fairly positive my nicely-tuned Arch install runs circles around my fully-patched Vista install, but that's just my experience.
So is Linus a dick?
I'm pretty sure this is a well-known and widely-accepted fact, even by the man himself. This is almost certainly why the submitter quoted him as saying, "Good job." That's unusually high praise coming from Linus.
Draw a dot, and eight concentric circles. The circles represent the orbits of the planets. Then draw an oval that touches the outermost circle on one end and goes out 2/3rds further on the other end. That's Pluto.
Below that, draw a straight line corresponding to the width of the circles. Those are the planets viewed edge on. Now draw a straight line tilted 17 degrees. That's Pluto.
Which of these is not like the other?
I'm more interested in what implications this has into dealing with paranoia (as in full-on psychiatric disorder, not the popular usage of the word) . I have seen what paranoid delusions can do to a person, and it ain't pretty.
That is an interesting question. I must be a bad person, but my first thought was the opposite of most commenters:
Can we hook up electrodes and magnify fear, say, for the purposes of obtaining a confession? It's a slippery slope I admit, but I would guess that the amount of stimulation is important. Especially if you can inflict a major mental disorder on the suspect.
If this is blatant Geneva Convention-breaking torture, I apologize for my ignorance; the UN definition is so vague you could consider imprisonment a type of torture. I figure it seems far more "humane" than waterboarding at least.
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Still not ideal. I mean, why not use metric time?
let me correct this for you: horsepower-hour... (which is roughly 750Wh)
also Kwh is not a unit of energy, kWh is... its kWh
He was speaking chocobo, you insensitive clod!
These categories of bugs are definitively excluded:
OO.o wasn't written in Java. It uses Java for some components, but that's it. It certainly doesn't need it just to open.
Which means that OO.o needs 5 minutes to open because... well, I don't know really. It's a damn good question.
GP wasn't talking about OO.o in particular, but this is still worth talking about. Disable Java in Tools > Options... and open it again. In my experience, every version of OO.o opens much, much faster without, even without the other tweaks you find (reducing the number of undo steps, increasing memory per object, etc.).
Interesting how the possible state law for legalization of marijuana is getting as much or more attention from American people than the elections of the legislators who actually make our laws.
Not to mention it probably won't happen even if it passes. In Arizona we've passed a proposition to legalize medical marijuana three times, and it's on the ballot again this year.
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