If the router gets hot, it will result in a column of rising air above it, which will draw surrounding cooler air in from all directions. The increased airflow wouldn't just be around the vents. I have no idea if the increase would actually be significant.
Wifi routers operate on microwave frequencies. It's possible that the harmful effects on the seeds were culinary rather than carcinogenic; that is, the seeds' internal temperatures were raised slightly, cooking them to death, instead of genetic damage. On the other hand, a human body has a giant active cooling system (the bloodstream and skin,) so minute temperature variations are less harmful.
Alternate explanation: Based on my understanding of botany, I believe plant seeds usually consist of relatively few unusually large cells. This means there are fewer copies of each chromosome to go around, so damage to one chromosome is much more catastrophic than it would be in an adult human body, where mutations happen all the time and it's really no big deal.
Finally, consider the inverse square law. The amount of radiation, say, two inches from a router, is vastly less than the amount of radiation a foot and a half away.
Whenever I try to walk on a step that isn't there, or if I misjudge the slope of the ground, I stumble. So should the simulation become to engrossing and you get distracted, you'll end up on your face the first time you try to navigate some uneven virtual terrain and the floor is still level.
Quite right, but adding a macro language to HTML moves it much closer in that direction, as it adds a more declarative rather than imperative feel. Note that I fully support imperative markup, but if you're going to do that, you might as well use a real language.
I can think of a few alternatives. Lua, while usually thought of as a programming language, started out as a data description language, and still does that job well. JSON is basically JavaScript initializers. Hell, even S-expressions at least have the advantage of being less cluttered. There are plenty of existing, standardized plaintext formats for representing structured data, and just about all of them are better than HTML/XML. I guarantee you'd find _any_ of them more readable than HTML/XML, even if it was the first time you'd seen it.
HTML, XML, and really the whole SGML family kind of suck-- ugly syntax, annoying to hand-edit, lots of boilerplate, and the list of faults go on. The idea of writing actual programs in such a language is terrifying.
Exactly what I was going to say. How much does it take to run the IRS and its international equivalents, the US Mint and its equivalents, and the conventional banking system? It isn't nothing, that's for sure.
That's part of what I liked about Seasons 3 and 4-- there was a major mind-blowing plot twist (a "wham episode") every single week. It was, as I said, thoroughly awesome. On the other hand, the episodes I liked from Season 5 were mostly the smaller-scale, character-driven ones (Long Night of Londo Molari, Day of the Dead,) rather than the story-driven ones.
_Legend of the Rangers_ was, at one point, a very promising pilot. What happened to keep the show out of production, how would history be different if it had gotten made?
Can you list any examples of shows that have changed your approach to Science Fiction since Babylon 5 was written? For example, the latent success of Firefly showed how smaller-scale science fiction can be effective. How have you been influenced by Firefly or any other show post-B5?
I must confess, I still don't get OnLive. Sure, you can have powerful hardware rendering immaculate frames, but then you have to use lossy compression to get those frames to the screen, so you probably end up with inferior visual quality (and a subpar framerate.) Not to mention the latency concerns others have mentioned here-- OnLive might be fine for a single-player game, where there's only one round-trip, but a multiplayer game? Not a chance.
In fact, the author has become part of the free-market solution, by inadvertently "auditing" the quality of Yahoo and Hotmail's email service, and motivating their customers to demand better.
This story just goes to show, anyone can install and use Low-Orbit Ion Cannon, even if he or she doesn't understand how the Internet works. No matter where you fall on the "hacker" definition debate, it's pretty clear that these people aren't hackers.
Perhaps this *will* diminish Ada's contributions:
http://www.answers.com/topic/ada-lovelace#Controversy_over_extent_of_contributions
Choice quote: "Not only is there no evidence that Ada ever prepared a program for the Analytical Engine but her correspondence with Babbage shows that she did not have the knowledge to do so."
The depressing lack of female role models in CS is a real problem, but revisionist history is not a valid solution.
And Cadbury was already licensing the technology, IIRC. I read the recipe in a magazine years ago (apparently invented by some schoolkids) and actually made it. The trick is to melt the chocolate down, mix in a little glycerine, and let it set again.
It works pretty well, although my chocolate is pretty soft even when it's not melted. Could be I did it wrong.
I'm not saying for a moment that if you use an IDE, you're being lazy. On the contrary, not using an IDE is the lazier (and thus better) way to do it.
When I tell people I don't use an IDE, they assume I don't use a build system, debuggers, profilers, static analysis, or language documentation. In some extreme cases of ignorance, people think I don't even use a compiler. Nonsense. I use all of these things. I just find them easier and faster to use when they aren't lumped together in one cancerous mass. The only features that really need to be built into the editor are multiple tabs per window, syntax highlighting, and auto-indent (matching paren highlighting and a shortcut to comment out the selection are nice too, but not mandatory.) The rest of my development environment can go in separate programs which are purpose-built to do one thing well.
World of Goo is a great kid-friendly game, in addition to being a good game full-stop. It is mouse-only, but some of the puzzles would be very challenging (in a good way!) for a small child. Don't expect him to beat the whole thing though. So that's a good first one.
Another good game (although it requires some more advanced reading skills) is Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles:
http://www.howtogeek.com/92615/wind-and-water-puzzle-battles-an-awesome-game-for-linux-and-windows/
I wouldn't pull this one out right after World of Goo though.
So you should look for a few other games to put in between these two.
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It'll get rid of all that tedious "stretching your legs" you were previously forced to do.
Possibly using excessively hostile phrasing, but this poster is right-- I'd say the chances of the results not being reproducible are high.
Faraday cage is genius.
If the router gets hot, it will result in a column of rising air above it, which will draw surrounding cooler air in from all directions. The increased airflow wouldn't just be around the vents. I have no idea if the increase would actually be significant.
Wifi routers operate on microwave frequencies. It's possible that the harmful effects on the seeds were culinary rather than carcinogenic; that is, the seeds' internal temperatures were raised slightly, cooking them to death, instead of genetic damage. On the other hand, a human body has a giant active cooling system (the bloodstream and skin,) so minute temperature variations are less harmful. Alternate explanation: Based on my understanding of botany, I believe plant seeds usually consist of relatively few unusually large cells. This means there are fewer copies of each chromosome to go around, so damage to one chromosome is much more catastrophic than it would be in an adult human body, where mutations happen all the time and it's really no big deal. Finally, consider the inverse square law. The amount of radiation, say, two inches from a router, is vastly less than the amount of radiation a foot and a half away.
Whenever I try to walk on a step that isn't there, or if I misjudge the slope of the ground, I stumble. So should the simulation become to engrossing and you get distracted, you'll end up on your face the first time you try to navigate some uneven virtual terrain and the floor is still level.
It has an extra lowercase "l" at the end, remove that and it works.
Quite right, but adding a macro language to HTML moves it much closer in that direction, as it adds a more declarative rather than imperative feel. Note that I fully support imperative markup, but if you're going to do that, you might as well use a real language.
I can think of a few alternatives. Lua, while usually thought of as a programming language, started out as a data description language, and still does that job well. JSON is basically JavaScript initializers. Hell, even S-expressions at least have the advantage of being less cluttered. There are plenty of existing, standardized plaintext formats for representing structured data, and just about all of them are better than HTML/XML. I guarantee you'd find _any_ of them more readable than HTML/XML, even if it was the first time you'd seen it.
HTML, XML, and really the whole SGML family kind of suck-- ugly syntax, annoying to hand-edit, lots of boilerplate, and the list of faults go on. The idea of writing actual programs in such a language is terrifying.
Exactly what I was going to say. How much does it take to run the IRS and its international equivalents, the US Mint and its equivalents, and the conventional banking system? It isn't nothing, that's for sure.
That's part of what I liked about Seasons 3 and 4-- there was a major mind-blowing plot twist (a "wham episode") every single week. It was, as I said, thoroughly awesome. On the other hand, the episodes I liked from Season 5 were mostly the smaller-scale, character-driven ones (Long Night of Londo Molari, Day of the Dead,) rather than the story-driven ones.
Wanna talk socks?
_Legend of the Rangers_ was, at one point, a very promising pilot. What happened to keep the show out of production, how would history be different if it had gotten made?
Seriously? B5 was awesome in Season 4, and although Season 5 was kind of a letdown as a whole, it also had a few really good episodes.
Can you list any examples of shows that have changed your approach to Science Fiction since Babylon 5 was written? For example, the latent success of Firefly showed how smaller-scale science fiction can be effective. How have you been influenced by Firefly or any other show post-B5?
I must confess, I still don't get OnLive. Sure, you can have powerful hardware rendering immaculate frames, but then you have to use lossy compression to get those frames to the screen, so you probably end up with inferior visual quality (and a subpar framerate.) Not to mention the latency concerns others have mentioned here-- OnLive might be fine for a single-player game, where there's only one round-trip, but a multiplayer game? Not a chance.
I happen to know did a limited production run of these replicas, and gave some away to friends. (NOTE: long interview.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3fLntnhlgA
In fact, the author has become part of the free-market solution, by inadvertently "auditing" the quality of Yahoo and Hotmail's email service, and motivating their customers to demand better.
This story just goes to show, anyone can install and use Low-Orbit Ion Cannon, even if he or she doesn't understand how the Internet works. No matter where you fall on the "hacker" definition debate, it's pretty clear that these people aren't hackers.
Perhaps this *will* diminish Ada's contributions: http://www.answers.com/topic/ada-lovelace#Controversy_over_extent_of_contributions Choice quote: "Not only is there no evidence that Ada ever prepared a program for the Analytical Engine but her correspondence with Babbage shows that she did not have the knowledge to do so." The depressing lack of female role models in CS is a real problem, but revisionist history is not a valid solution.
And Cadbury was already licensing the technology, IIRC. I read the recipe in a magazine years ago (apparently invented by some schoolkids) and actually made it. The trick is to melt the chocolate down, mix in a little glycerine, and let it set again. It works pretty well, although my chocolate is pretty soft even when it's not melted. Could be I did it wrong.
I'm not saying for a moment that if you use an IDE, you're being lazy. On the contrary, not using an IDE is the lazier (and thus better) way to do it. When I tell people I don't use an IDE, they assume I don't use a build system, debuggers, profilers, static analysis, or language documentation. In some extreme cases of ignorance, people think I don't even use a compiler. Nonsense. I use all of these things. I just find them easier and faster to use when they aren't lumped together in one cancerous mass. The only features that really need to be built into the editor are multiple tabs per window, syntax highlighting, and auto-indent (matching paren highlighting and a shortcut to comment out the selection are nice too, but not mandatory.) The rest of my development environment can go in separate programs which are purpose-built to do one thing well.
They're playing Space Program! How cute. (Yes, I know about the Canadarm. Take a joke.)
World of Goo is a great kid-friendly game, in addition to being a good game full-stop. It is mouse-only, but some of the puzzles would be very challenging (in a good way!) for a small child. Don't expect him to beat the whole thing though. So that's a good first one. Another good game (although it requires some more advanced reading skills) is Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles: http://www.howtogeek.com/92615/wind-and-water-puzzle-battles-an-awesome-game-for-linux-and-windows/ I wouldn't pull this one out right after World of Goo though. So you should look for a few other games to put in between these two.