Do not be scared. An eruption is not due for at least another several hundred years.
Really? Know that for a fact do you? Yellowstone could blow up tomorrow, or it could blow up in 17,000 years. All we know is that it will blow up again someday. It's tricky to predict because all the standard warning signs that we usually notice when volcanoes are about to erupt are already happening in Yellowstone.
This hotspot is just grumblinb a little. Even if it does erupt any time soon, it will be a nice change of pace.
Yeah, it would be a change of pace. What, do you think ash melts away?
Let's look at Bill Bryson's description:
Yellowstone, it turns out, is a supervolcano. It sits on top of an enormous hot spot, a reservoir of molten rock that rises from at least 125 miles down in the Earth. The heat from the hot spot is what powers all of Yellowstone's vents, geysers, hot springs, and popping mud pots. Beneath the surface is a magma chamber that is about forty-five miles across--roughly the same dimensions as the park--and about eight miles thick at its thickest point. Imagine a pile of TNT about the size of Rhode Island and reaching eight miles into the sky, to about the height of the highest cirrus clouds, and you have some idea of what visitors to Yellowstone are shuffling around on top of. The pressure that such a pool of magma exerts on the crust above has lifted Yellowstone and about three hundred miles of surrounding territory about 1,700 feet higher than they would otherwise be. It if blew, the cataclysm is pretty well beyond imagining.
"The ash fall from the last Yellowstone eruption covered all or parts of nineteen western states (plus parts of Canada and Mexico) nearly the whole of the United States west of the Mississippi. This, bear in mind, is the breadbasket of America, an area that produces roughly half the world's cereals...It took thousands of workers eight months to clear 1.8 billion tons of debris from the sixteen acres of the World Trade Center site in New York. Imagine what it would take to clear Kansas.
The GP is saying that a virus that kills that quickly can't spread globally. For example: ebola kills that quickly so it can't spread globally. Hence, Hot Zone's premise is easily dismissed.
2) Science is guided by intuition and obviousness. It's silly to say that metric boatloads of evidence do not "prove in any way" that to which they obviously point. You cannot "prove in any way" that you exist, that you are not merely the representation of a very elaborate bit of tinkering with my brain, which, by the way, may also not exist. It is enormously more likely, given the evidence, that you actually do exist.
Surely you're joking [title] chaboud.
Science is guided by the scientific method. Observe, hypothesize, test, explain.
Also:
Merely because electrial triggers work, doesn't mean that's how our nerves were meant to operate. If I were a brain surgeon I could make your muscles "work" by pushing on your brain.
Spot on. The service at that store is simply awful. Want to buy something? Well you'd better bring a lasso to wrangle an employee into helping you out.
I went in on Valentine's Day to buy my wife a macbook for (surprise) Valentine's Day. The store was moderately busy, ~7 people milling around. No line at the register, only three customers were taking up store employee's time. I decided that this would be a good chance to really see how they handled customer support. (For a depressing month I was the store manager at The Sharper Image right next door.)
So, here I am: a customer who knows exactly what he wants (black macbook and a shiny black 80G iPod). Easy sale! I stand by the laptops inspecting the machines and info cards for a few minutes. Nothing. I figure perhaps I look too much like a casual shopper (even though that shouldn't deter anyone from asking if I need any help) so I look around for store associates and try to make eye contact. A few look over or walk past, but still nothing. Okay.
I finally walk over to the register and just stand there until someone wanders over to check out an iPod sleeve to another customer. After they are finished and while he is in mid-turn to walk away back to the back of the store I relate that I would like to purchase a laptop and ipod.
I get a relatively sullen acknowledgement and am smoothly (that's good at least) rung up and out the door.
I can't imagine what they are doing to their employees to make them so deliberately unhelpful, but something ain't right at that store. I don't know if it's systemic throughout all of Apple's retail locations, but you'd think that a company so focused on image would do a little more to motivate its retail employees.
If, like I, you consider it a medium to express emotion then every videogame is art. Most videogames are just designed to convey happiness and enjoyment.
If, like I suspect, you think of art as a very serious and reserved undertaking that must be intellectually appreciated then check out 'Grim Fandango' if nothing else.
Why are so many people having trouble with this concept?
Taking an object and modifying it to be a better hunter is the concept here. Crows do it and will actually hang on to a favored twighook. Now we have evidence that chimps do it as well.
What's the problem? Animals can make and use tools to hunt more effectively. Gosh, what a concept.
First it was: man is the only creature that solves problems. Then it was: well, man and other man-like creatures. Will we ever cede the use of a brain for more than instinct storage to the animal kingdom?
All you people that have trouble with this need to watch: The Life of Birds, Life in the Undergrowth, and The Life of Mammals. Animals are much smarter than you think.
As the replacement for Apple's consumer-level iBook line, the new 13-inch MacBook isn't being marketed toward creative professionals. Nevertheless, packed with one of the most powerful mobile processors on the market--a 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo--this little notebook offers amazing rendering and encoding performance. But is it good enough to compete with the MacBook Pros and with desktop G5 systems? Surprisingly, yes, it is.
It's good that they are trying to catch up with the rest of the computing world, but, from what I've read, Vista doesn't implement this feature very well. (Many programs require admin access to open, many non-admin tasks require admin, etc.)
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Do not be scared. An eruption is not due for at least another several hundred years.
Really? Know that for a fact do you? Yellowstone could blow up tomorrow, or it could blow up in 17,000 years. All we know is that it will blow up again someday. It's tricky to predict because all the standard warning signs that we usually notice when volcanoes are about to erupt are already happening in Yellowstone.
This hotspot is just grumblinb a little. Even if it does erupt any time soon, it will be a nice change of pace.
Yeah, it would be a change of pace. What, do you think ash melts away?
Let's look at Bill Bryson's description:
The GP is saying that a virus that kills that quickly can't spread globally. For example: ebola kills that quickly so it can't spread globally. Hence, Hot Zone's premise is easily dismissed.
If you really want the format to take off, the hybrid discs need to be equal in price (or many just a tiny bit above) to the regular DVDs.
Oh they do, they really do. Look back at the uproar that publishers and authors unleashed when photocopiers because standard equipment for libraries.
Surely you're joking [title] chaboud.
Science is guided by the scientific method. Observe, hypothesize, test, explain.
Also:
Merely because electrial triggers work, doesn't mean that's how our nerves were meant to operate. If I were a brain surgeon I could make your muscles "work" by pushing on your brain.
However, it seems a lot easier to completely blow a 3D game than a 2D one.
It only seems that way because of the rose colored glasses. There was a ton of crap back then too.
Spot on. The service at that store is simply awful. Want to buy something? Well you'd better bring a lasso to wrangle an employee into helping you out.
I went in on Valentine's Day to buy my wife a macbook for (surprise) Valentine's Day. The store was moderately busy, ~7 people milling around. No line at the register, only three customers were taking up store employee's time. I decided that this would be a good chance to really see how they handled customer support. (For a depressing month I was the store manager at The Sharper Image right next door.)
So, here I am: a customer who knows exactly what he wants (black macbook and a shiny black 80G iPod). Easy sale! I stand by the laptops inspecting the machines and info cards for a few minutes. Nothing. I figure perhaps I look too much like a casual shopper (even though that shouldn't deter anyone from asking if I need any help) so I look around for store associates and try to make eye contact. A few look over or walk past, but still nothing. Okay.
I finally walk over to the register and just stand there until someone wanders over to check out an iPod sleeve to another customer. After they are finished and while he is in mid-turn to walk away back to the back of the store I relate that I would like to purchase a laptop and ipod.
I get a relatively sullen acknowledgement and am smoothly (that's good at least) rung up and out the door.
I can't imagine what they are doing to their employees to make them so deliberately unhelpful, but something ain't right at that store. I don't know if it's systemic throughout all of Apple's retail locations, but you'd think that a company so focused on image would do a little more to motivate its retail employees.
What is art?
If, like I, you consider it a medium to express emotion then every videogame is art. Most videogames are just designed to convey happiness and enjoyment.
If, like I suspect, you think of art as a very serious and reserved undertaking that must be intellectually appreciated then check out 'Grim Fandango' if nothing else.
Offtopic, but why did you put quotes around the word "perk"? A top end laptop sounds like a genuine perk to me.
Perhaps he is debugging the dev tools using the dev tools.
Sad. I thought we had already passed the Dark Ages.
Human "progress" is cyclical.
Running for months, multi-hour sessions, cramped entertainment center: feelin' fine.
*knocks on his wooden desk*
Why are so many people having trouble with this concept?
Taking an object and modifying it to be a better hunter is the concept here. Crows do it and will actually hang on to a favored twighook. Now we have evidence that chimps do it as well.
What's the problem? Animals can make and use tools to hunt more effectively. Gosh, what a concept.
First it was: man is the only creature that solves problems. Then it was: well, man and other man-like creatures. Will we ever cede the use of a brain for more than instinct storage to the animal kingdom?
All you people that have trouble with this need to watch: The Life of Birds, Life in the Undergrowth, and The Life of Mammals. Animals are much smarter than you think.
There are a hojillion music podcasts.
One off the top of my head: The Beat Oracle.
And library fines.
Explorer is unique in the sense that when you authorize a file operation via UAC it doesn't elevate the entire explorer process.
Then what is elevated?
There are a bunch of reasons for this.
Such as?
You are comfortable granting a process unlimited time as admin, but not comfortable caching admin access?
It's not a bad idea, just a bad implementation. Which is weird, considering Windows is the last major operating system to add this feature.
It's a good start, but not for 2007. This stuff should have been in Windows 95.
Tie Fighter.
This is the basic human fundamental fight.... individualism vs collectivsm.... the bee hive vs the wasps....
Kinda funny to learn that ants evolved from wasps, eh?
Also, who gave you the idea that bees are a collective? Better go watch "Life in the Undergrowth".
Like OS X and admin vs. root?
Like [unix] and wheel users vs. root?
It's good that they are trying to catch up with the rest of the computing world, but, from what I've read, Vista doesn't implement this feature very well. (Many programs require admin access to open, many non-admin tasks require admin, etc.)
While the destruction of the moon will certainly cause problems, it isn't in low Earth orbit so this wouldn't be one of them.
Your 5 step process falls apart around #2. It's not as trivial as you imply and you make two assumptions that aren't justified.
You shouldn't have to google it.
Ah yes, the new employee uniforms are also useful for signaling rescue planes.