I feel sorry for the article poster.:/ Don't worry, when I read it the first time through, I thought it was 70 degrees F. I guess that's just my outdated mindset. I have a hard time calculating differences between metric and english units that I have a bookmarked site to help me convert.:S
Anyway, interesting story. Trees, obviously, would always need some way to cool down or to keep warm throughout the seasons.
How come NS will print an article on astronomy, which freely admits to being mostly imaginary, but not one about I.D., which is based much more in fact?
So... umm... imagination! Just use your imagination, everyone!:P
I don't know if anyone has said this yet or if this will get any special attention, but...
The shuttle is an OLD piece of space equipment. Sure, it's great for nostalgic value, but we need a new "shuttle," something more up to date in terms of physical structure.
At the moment, in my opinion, the lack of strength in the hull is what's causing many of the current problems with the shuttle.
I'm glad to see video games starting to get some notice on the positive influences it can have over the negative influences we hear about daily (exaggeration).
I agree. We're responsible for our own behavior. Just because a gene has some sort of capability to make us more reckless, or cruel, doesn't mean we can't learn to restrain that behavior.
We're agents, we have agency, we can choose any choice we want. These types of things like this 'gene' just make it a little more difficult for us to make that choice, yet we can still choose to make it!
New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:
* Improvements to the user interface: better search support in the Download Manager, ability to zoom entire page or just the text, continuing look and feel improvements on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
* Richer personalization through: location bar that uses an algorithm based on site visit recency and frequency (called "frecency") to provide better matches against your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, as well as an adaptive learning algorithm which tunes itself to your browsing habits.
* Improved platform features such as: support for HTML5's window.postMessage and window.messageEvent, JavaScript 1.8 improvements, and offline data storage for web applications.
* Performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization resulted in significant gains over previous releases in the popular SunSpider test from Apple, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run much faster, and continued improvements to memory usage drastically reduce the amount of memory consumed over long web browsing sessions.
1. A view or prospect, especially one seen through an avenue of trees or other long and narrow opening.
2. a. A long narrow opening (esp. one made on purpose) in a wood, etc., through which a view may be obtained, or which in itself affords a pleasant prospect; an avenue or glade.
b. An open corridor or long passage in or through a large building; an interior portion of a building affording a continuous view.
c. An opening or passage-way. Obs.1 (Obsolete I think?) 3. fig. a. A mental view or vision of a far-reaching nature.
b. A view or vision, in prospect or retrospect, of an extensive period of time or series of events, experiences, etc.
I just wanted to point out the "narrow" and "long" parts with "experiences,etc." If we used those words alone, then Vista is a very long and narrow OS, unlike others, even other MS OSes, that were much broader (in capability and compatibility).:P
That's really cool. I was so into the planets when I was young. Loved the Voyager missions (even made a model of the probe out of Contrux... and it was accurate too), and watched as many Nova specials about the Voyager missions as possible. That kid is not dead, he's just taken a place inside of me. I keep an occasional glance at the Cassini mission, just like the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
This is, indeed, a surprise discovery and hopefully there might be more material to study concerning this ring-type.
On a somewhat related-note: It is ironic that this moon has a ring whereas two moons hang out in Saturn's outer rings (they are called the Shepherd Moons).
This is sad. Extremely sad. The destruction of the pursuit of knowledge due to money. Now, one may argue that we have lost so much money due to broken down space exploration robots, like a few to Mars, and some Shuttle explosions which also slew the innocent crew inside; however, observatories, telescopes and other ground-based astronomical projects, if any, should not be undermined or removed by money.
I agree with one the posters about volunteer work. If people love the project enough, this is their chance to get it by supporting MERLIN.
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I feel sorry for the article poster. :/ Don't worry, when I read it the first time through, I thought it was 70 degrees F. I guess that's just my outdated mindset. I have a hard time calculating differences between metric and english units that I have a bookmarked site to help me convert. :S
Anyway, interesting story. Trees, obviously, would always need some way to cool down or to keep warm throughout the seasons.
You can't win them all. :S
BTW: Statistics can be manipulated in anyway to make anything look they way you want to.
So... umm... imagination! Just use your imagination, everyone!
You should never take your harddrive to these magnetars. >.>
*ZAP*
I don't know if anyone has said this yet or if this will get any special attention, but...
The shuttle is an OLD piece of space equipment. Sure, it's great for nostalgic value, but we need a new "shuttle," something more up to date in terms of physical structure.
At the moment, in my opinion, the lack of strength in the hull is what's causing many of the current problems with the shuttle.
LOL. Yeah, I was assuming I was spelling "spacial" wrong. I couldn't figure out the real word though. :S
My mother told me that 3D games were good for helping me learn spacial relations; which she and I both have terrible spacial relations. x.x
Who divided by 0? :P
Brain Age anyone?
I'm glad to see video games starting to get some notice on the positive influences it can have over the negative influences we hear about daily (exaggeration).
... but have they tested this on a large group of kids playing games at mid-night without their parents knowing?
I agree. We're responsible for our own behavior. Just because a gene has some sort of capability to make us more reckless, or cruel, doesn't mean we can't learn to restrain that behavior.
We're agents, we have agency, we can choose any choice we want. These types of things like this 'gene' just make it a little more difficult for us to make that choice, yet we can still choose to make it!
MS to Yahoo!: "All we want to do is eat your brains, we're not trying to be unreasonable and eat your eyes..." :P
What if they're wiretapping the session? ;P
The shovels and how much digging you had to do that academy. ;)
I hope that helps.
I hope this doesn't affect my net storage there. :/ I've stored a lot of my stuff on my account and I hope it doesn't get deleted.
That explains all the lag I get for spending about an hour in deviant art. -_-;
What? I was just joking! O_o
"It doesn't run Windows..." "So, should we let him through?" "Maybe if we can sneak Vista onto it."
It's not like you ever use mice to play games! Heaven forbid that we need them for RTSes!!
In the days of 5.5:
"Internet Explorer isn't crappy enough! We need to make it worse!"
Thus, IE 6 and IE 7 were born.
I just wanted to point out the "narrow" and "long" parts with "experiences,etc." If we used those words alone, then Vista is a very long and narrow OS, unlike others, even other MS OSes, that were much broader (in capability and compatibility).
Ah, thank you on correction.
That's really cool. I was so into the planets when I was young. Loved the Voyager missions (even made a model of the probe out of Contrux... and it was accurate too), and watched as many Nova specials about the Voyager missions as possible. That kid is not dead, he's just taken a place inside of me. I keep an occasional glance at the Cassini mission, just like the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
This is, indeed, a surprise discovery and hopefully there might be more material to study concerning this ring-type.
On a somewhat related-note: It is ironic that this moon has a ring whereas two moons hang out in Saturn's outer rings (they are called the Shepherd Moons).
This is sad. Extremely sad. The destruction of the pursuit of knowledge due to money. Now, one may argue that we have lost so much money due to broken down space exploration robots, like a few to Mars, and some Shuttle explosions which also slew the innocent crew inside; however, observatories, telescopes and other ground-based astronomical projects, if any, should not be undermined or removed by money.
I agree with one the posters about volunteer work. If people love the project enough, this is their chance to get it by supporting MERLIN.