Science and classifications change. Pluto isn't a full fledged planet anymore. Get over it and stop yelling at the kids on your lawn. Do we really need any more damned arbitrary classifications? (planets, dwarf planets, minor planets, kuiper belt objects, plutinos, twotinos, cubewanos, scattered disc objects, ffs enough already...) Make a few and explicitly define them. Then stick each object in the solar system into the category. Don't make up crap to fit things into the classification you want it in. Square peg, round hole. This is just bad taxonomy.
Actually soap doesn't tend to kill bacteria. It merely lifts it off the surface of the skin and running water carries it away. (but for sanitization purposes it serves essentially the same outcome) However, there were studies done that found antibacterial soap was no better at sanitizing skin than normal hand soap. The antibiotic in some hand soap rarely takes effect until the bacteria is already off of your hands. And therefore is essentially useless. This is however merely allowing the bacteria to gain an evolutionary defense against the antibiotic. It should not be used in the home. It should be reserved for hospital use only.
I started encoding my discs for backups several years ago. (about late 1990's) My cdrom would pick up scratches and smudges and either stall on the track or enter artifacts into the music. I had to borrow friends' discs just to back up my own music if the disc had even a minor scratch. (this was before we had internet at my house) Currently, on my DVDRW drives I can encode the exact same discs using the exact same program and get a perfect rip every time. Even discs that have a complete crack through the whole one 'side' of the disc I have gotten a perfect rip. THAT seriously blows my mind. The technology sure has advanced over the last decade.
The hauling stuff excuse may be valid for some people, but you have to ask yourself how often do you really need to haul around so much stuff that you require an SUV. Most people haul stuff like that so rarely it would be far more cost effective to simply rent a pickup truck when they need to do that rather than spend all that money on the SUV full-time. Even small cars like mine can fit a surprisingly large amount of stuff in them. Indeed. I have a scion tC. It has a hatch and the back seats fold down. Last time I moved I hauled everything I own in it, with the exception of my mattress and computer desk, which I took on the second trip. My bed frame, my desk, and 2 of my dressers can be easily dismantled and reassembled. Having stuff from Ikea and some decent tetris skills and you'd be amazed how much crap you can pack into a decently designed small car.
Lookup abiogenesis on wikipedia for more. Already read it. This still has nothing to do with spontaneous generation. No new organisms were spontaneously generated from decaying organic substances or inorganic matter. Abio (ie. not from biological matter)
"Classical notions of abiogenesis, now more precisely known as spontaneous generation, held that complex, living organisms are generated by decaying organic substances, e.g. that mice spontaneously appear in stored grain or maggots spontaneously appear in meat."
Bacteria are living matter. The new organisms came from the old ones. Which happened to still be alive. (at the time at least)
Completely true. It is the end of the great cycle. The cycle starts and ends when there is a specific alignment of the milky way with a certain star or position in the night sky. Source:
"Is there something significant we should know about the Winter Solstice date of December 21, 2012? Yes. On this day a rare astronomical and Mayan mythical event occurs. In astronomic terms, the Sun conjuncts the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. The Milky Way, as most of us know, extends in a general north-south direction in the night sky. The plane of the ecliptic is the track the Sun, Moon, planets and stars appear to travel in the sky, from east to west. It intersects the Milky Way at a 60 degree angle near the constellation Sagittarius."
Uh, this has nothing to do with spontaneous generation (abiogenesis). "Abiogenesis: the now discredited theory that living organisms can arise spontaneously from inanimate matter; spontaneous generation."
"Lenski's experiment is also yet another poke in the eye for anti-evolutionists" But is it the blind eye or the remaining good eye after looking into the laser?...
C&C Generals does this as well. I actually OWN the game. Playing single player now does this to me, without reason. Just another example of stupid copy protection only screwing over the legit customers.
Hmm. It appears I fell for the joke then all those years ago... Maybe I just really wanted it to be true so we could one day read a slashdot article about someone finding the long lost larry 4 disks.
Actually LSL4 was in production and almost finished IIRC. The disks were lost in the office or stolen. I'm at work right now though so I'm afraid to look for citations... But it's out there. Google it.
My system as a reference (bought in march): $100 case $180 PSU 750W $400 mobo X48 $1000 CPU QX9650 $400 4GB DDR3 1333MHz $200 ($100x2) 500GB HDD SATAII 32MB, raid0 $300 8800GTS (G92) used dual monitors from previous system $2380 total without tax/shipping
Runs on 1280x1024 on high for everything except antialiasing. I can run AA at x2 for whole game, or x4 for everything except last scene but I have to set the graphics card to single performance mode or it gets bad, like in Doom3. I'd try higher but my monitor doesn't support higher res.
it will take before the official release date that the cracked version of the game will be on the bay this time. Last time I believe it was 3 days. If they keep that secuROM crap or any other debilitating DRM on it I'm not buying it. I got Crysis 'free' with my graphics card. I wasn't going to install it because of this. But then I found out that Daw of War: Soulstorm had already installed it on my computer anyways without me knowing. If you have it on your game list it on the box! I'm sick of this shady manipulative bullshit some software companies are pulling these days...
As far as the new one, are they doing a parallel timeline to when nomad was inside the ship or continuing the timeline after the end of Crysis? In the first case I can see why they are changing characters. In the second I don't really understand the point to changing to psycho.
As far as the tech requirements go. I'm damned glad that damn near nothing will run it at highest quality. It pushes the hardware technology to its limits. If you dumped buttloads of money into a badass system why should you have to limit yourself to low quality games (relatively speaking). If every company catered only to the mid to low range systems we'd never see any drive for improvement in graphics cards. There's a point where you have to stop pushing extra fps out of an old game that no one will, or can, visibly notice and start utilizing new technologies that will focus more on greater effects.
I have an expensive new system. I like having an extremely taxing game to see how badass I can get it. I have other games to play when my friends have a lan, that are still fun, that everyone can play. Someday in the future Crysis will be one of those games. Hell, Doom 3 IS one of those games. Used to be NO ONE could play it. Now every one of my friends can play it even on 'shit' systems.
It's not like the printers can get up and hop in their car and head to the movie theater. How else are they going to see ironman? Won't somebody think of the printers?!
$5 at staples for a self-destructing DVD for 48 hours. Or $1 out of the red box outside of Jewel for until you return it. Hmm... That's a tough one. These guys have heard of Blockbuster and Hollywood Video haven't they?...
So anti-matter falls up in gravity field and Guiness bubbles sink in a gravity field what happens when you mix the two? Annihilation, X-rays, and gamma rays?
Either that or really drunk irradiated physicists.
TFA questions whether anti-matter will be attracted (mass-> <-mass), or whether it will be repulsed (mass<- ->mass) by gravity. I think this experiment's findings could be even more important than finding antigravity. IANAP but if my rough sketches based on my undergrad physics classes are correct than if antiparticles are repelled by one another, gravitationally speaking, then this could possibly lead to cold fusion. Fusion, in normal matter, has to have energy added (kinetic or pressure) in order to overcome the coulomb barrier so that the strong interaction can take over and bind the nuclei. The nuclei are normally attracted gravitationally until they reach the coulomb barrier. If antimatter responds inversely to gravity then the antinuclei will repel each other, gravitationally, up until the coulomb barrier. Once that barrier is reached, the antinuclei should spontaneously combine releasing the energy it normally would need to overcome the barrier. I do realize that due to the gravity repulsion the antinuclei would need energy added in order to overcome it. However the force of gravity is far weaker than the nuclear repulsion. So in my amateur analysis the net result would be vastly in favor of higher output energy.
Quick answer: Leave it off during security, put it on before boarding. But then they probably wouldn't be very devout muslims and wouldn't be crazy enough to actually want to blow up themselves...
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Science and classifications change. Pluto isn't a full fledged planet anymore. Get over it and stop yelling at the kids on your lawn. Do we really need any more damned arbitrary classifications? (planets, dwarf planets, minor planets, kuiper belt objects, plutinos, twotinos, cubewanos, scattered disc objects, ffs enough already...) Make a few and explicitly define them. Then stick each object in the solar system into the category. Don't make up crap to fit things into the classification you want it in. Square peg, round hole. This is just bad taxonomy.
Fun info: List of solar system objects
Um, lime juice doesn't kill bactera. Hence why you put lime juice in the fridge. The lime is to keep the flies away from your cervesa.
Actually soap doesn't tend to kill bacteria. It merely lifts it off the surface of the skin and running water carries it away. (but for sanitization purposes it serves essentially the same outcome) However, there were studies done that found antibacterial soap was no better at sanitizing skin than normal hand soap. The antibiotic in some hand soap rarely takes effect until the bacteria is already off of your hands. And therefore is essentially useless. This is however merely allowing the bacteria to gain an evolutionary defense against the antibiotic. It should not be used in the home. It should be reserved for hospital use only.
Citation
I started encoding my discs for backups several years ago. (about late 1990's) My cdrom would pick up scratches and smudges and either stall on the track or enter artifacts into the music. I had to borrow friends' discs just to back up my own music if the disc had even a minor scratch. (this was before we had internet at my house) Currently, on my DVDRW drives I can encode the exact same discs using the exact same program and get a perfect rip every time. Even discs that have a complete crack through the whole one 'side' of the disc I have gotten a perfect rip. THAT seriously blows my mind. The technology sure has advanced over the last decade.
"Classical notions of abiogenesis, now more precisely known as spontaneous generation, held that complex, living organisms are generated by decaying organic substances, e.g. that mice spontaneously appear in stored grain or maggots spontaneously appear in meat."
Bacteria are living matter. The new organisms came from the old ones. Which happened to still be alive. (at the time at least)
Completely true. It is the end of the great cycle. The cycle starts and ends when there is a specific alignment of the milky way with a certain star or position in the night sky. Source:
"Is there something significant we should know about the Winter Solstice date of December 21, 2012? Yes. On this day a rare astronomical and Mayan mythical event occurs. In astronomic terms, the Sun conjuncts the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. The Milky Way, as most of us know, extends in a general north-south direction in the night sky. The plane of the ecliptic is the track the Sun, Moon, planets and stars appear to travel in the sky, from east to west. It intersects the Milky Way at a 60 degree angle near the constellation Sagittarius."
Uh, this has nothing to do with spontaneous generation (abiogenesis).
"Abiogenesis: the now discredited theory that living organisms can arise spontaneously from inanimate matter; spontaneous generation."
"Lenski's experiment is also yet another poke in the eye for anti-evolutionists"
But is it the blind eye or the remaining good eye after looking into the laser?...
C&C Generals does this as well. I actually OWN the game. Playing single player now does this to me, without reason. Just another example of stupid copy protection only screwing over the legit customers.
The only diamonds I'd give a girl would be on the edge of a cutting disc or drill bit. Chicks with powertools >> chicks with jewelry.
Hmm. It appears I fell for the joke then all those years ago... Maybe I just really wanted it to be true so we could one day read a slashdot article about someone finding the long lost larry 4 disks.
Actually LSL4 was in production and almost finished IIRC. The disks were lost in the office or stolen. I'm at work right now though so I'm afraid to look for citations... But it's out there. Google it.
I got a bad feeling about this. Fixed that for you.
My system as a reference (bought in march):
$100 case
$180 PSU 750W
$400 mobo X48
$1000 CPU QX9650
$400 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
$200 ($100x2) 500GB HDD SATAII 32MB, raid0
$300 8800GTS (G92)
used dual monitors from previous system
$2380 total without tax/shipping
Runs on 1280x1024 on high for everything except antialiasing. I can run AA at x2 for whole game, or x4 for everything except last scene but I have to set the graphics card to single performance mode or it gets bad, like in Doom3. I'd try higher but my monitor doesn't support higher res.
it will take before the official release date that the cracked version of the game will be on the bay this time. Last time I believe it was 3 days. If they keep that secuROM crap or any other debilitating DRM on it I'm not buying it. I got Crysis 'free' with my graphics card. I wasn't going to install it because of this. But then I found out that Daw of War: Soulstorm had already installed it on my computer anyways without me knowing. If you have it on your game list it on the box! I'm sick of this shady manipulative bullshit some software companies are pulling these days...
As far as the new one, are they doing a parallel timeline to when nomad was inside the ship or continuing the timeline after the end of Crysis? In the first case I can see why they are changing characters. In the second I don't really understand the point to changing to psycho.
As far as the tech requirements go. I'm damned glad that damn near nothing will run it at highest quality. It pushes the hardware technology to its limits. If you dumped buttloads of money into a badass system why should you have to limit yourself to low quality games (relatively speaking). If every company catered only to the mid to low range systems we'd never see any drive for improvement in graphics cards. There's a point where you have to stop pushing extra fps out of an old game that no one will, or can, visibly notice and start utilizing new technologies that will focus more on greater effects.
I have an expensive new system. I like having an extremely taxing game to see how badass I can get it. I have other games to play when my friends have a lan, that are still fun, that everyone can play. Someday in the future Crysis will be one of those games. Hell, Doom 3 IS one of those games. Used to be NO ONE could play it. Now every one of my friends can play it even on 'shit' systems.
It's not like the printers can get up and hop in their car and head to the movie theater. How else are they going to see ironman? Won't somebody think of the printers?!
(just kidding, I'll wait for it to be released on dvd first) So you can get a good quality torrent? Man those cams suck... I mean...
$5 at staples for a self-destructing DVD for 48 hours. Or $1 out of the red box outside of Jewel for until you return it. Hmm... That's a tough one. These guys have heard of Blockbuster and Hollywood Video haven't they?...
Either that or really drunk irradiated physicists.
Nigerian wives, Caribbean wives, Puerto Rican wives, Indian wives... Good to see slashdot won't be having the problem of monoculture!
Quick answer: Leave it off during security, put it on before boarding. But then they probably wouldn't be very devout muslims and wouldn't be crazy enough to actually want to blow up themselves...