There's answer A which is the egg came first because eggs evolved long ago and many other animals lay eggs. (Like dinosaurs and fish which existed long before chickens.) If you mean a chicken egg then they evolved together. (IE there's is no hard and fast delination between not chicken/chicken and like wise none for not chicken egg/chicken egg.)
He could reproduce the acceleration problem consistantly. I mean he's a good engineer, very technically minded. If he says he can reproduce it I tend to believe him.
Well can't say I'm surprised
But I have karma to burn and I wasn't surprised to get modded down on that one. BTW, thanks for demonstrating how true my signature really is. (Oh well, I hope a few other readers on Slashdot get a laugh or 2 out of my sig since it does capture the reality of alot of posts that are modded down as "troll".)
Note, this posting is what is known as a rant. A rant. (Last a checked a rant isn't a relative of a troll in LotR) Please feel free to use this as a guide in the future if you ever think another post is a troll. It also demonstrates sarcasm and derision. Yes, people use those outside of literature class.
Right wingers are the ones that think Obama was born in Kenya, left wingers are the ones that think Bush fired Shinseki over troop levels. Yup, seems true to me and in other news water is wet, snow is cold, and lead is heavy.
At least from what I remember since it's been a long time. When I first started usenet (wow, back in 1990) I never saw flame wars like there are today. (Admittedly on the right boards today it's still ok) And of course IRC was cool at first but broke down as well.
Of course I wish I knew before I went to university. Of course it made me appreciate what my uncle said about colleges. Since you're doing the teaching yourself anyway the differences between universities isn't the education, it's the name. (For what it's worth the only university who he though had a good enough name to be worth the money over a state school was Harvard.)
Maybe but the funny thing is 2 of the worst professors I had in university were amongst the most intelligent people I've ever met. Admittedly one knew he was kind of bad, largely because his english was pretty bad and gave everybody a break. They other guy was obviously super smart and wrote "the" book in his field but couldn't teach at all. (Unfortunately other professors at the school only knew him by his reputation and would say stupid things like "he's really good isn't he?" This guy was so bad he couldn't tell you how he determined your grade. The reason he couldn't tell you is because he didn't even know how he was going to do it. Yes, that's literally true.)
What happens when a car with this stuff gets into a crash and we see the sudden release of a few million atmospheres of pressure. In other news I hear that Ford is bring back the Pinto to use this technology.
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the guy was kind of stalking his ex-girlfriend or something? Wow, who'd imagine that would fail?
It was just personal curiosity since I had heard of it but boy, he was so straight forward about it I understood very quickly. The guy deserves his success.
this idea. That a theory is just a tool for understanding and predicting reality. As long as you know where and when you can apply this tool and you use it in those circumstances it's a useful thing. (IE a hammer is great when you just need to hammer in a nail and don't expect it to be some super tool that can cut wood, turn a screw, measure an angle, etc.)
I mean look, my Tivo is basically a computer and I can use it to watch youtube. However the one thing I really want to do is use my tivo to watch on demand stuff. You'd think all they'd have to do is write an app to use the "IPTV" standard and then have my Tivo connect to one of Comcast servers to request an on-demand program. I mean seriously, my Tivo is hooked up to the ethernet, that's hooked up to the internet through Comcast so I'm inside their network and I'm using their cable cards on top of it. They can't have a stupid server that would let me watch stuff on my tivo and instead they've got to hack together some stupid switched video system to implement on demand?
I mean if you buy something you pay up front and get it cheaper. If you lease it you basically rent over time and end up paying more. I mean really are they saying the want them to hide the cost of the battery by making it "separate" and making you pay for it separately? (And making you pay more for it? You're going to pay for the battery one way or another.)
Except he didn't take into consideration that shrinking the size of computer hardware probably means that a huge program now actually fits into a smaller space in physical reality than an old program did on older hardware. (Any hardware guru want to do the math and find out how much physical area a 100k program took back in the 80's vs a 150mb program now?)
It's alot easier to ask engineering questions when both you and the guy on the other end speak the same language. Makes asking questions a lot more straight forward. Yes I've been there before. (Admittedly the engineer I was working with over the phone spoke english but the receptionist didn't so getting in touch with him could have easily become a problem.)
The thing is both Nintendo and Sony managed to pull off backward compatibility with the Wii and PS3. (Well ok, it got dumped from the PS3 later on but it was there at first.) Plus it is more convenient to play them on the 360 for a number of reasons. For one I generally don't have my Xbox hooked up because I have no room to do that. (It was pretty huge and they didn't make the top flat so you can't put it in a stack of consoles. If they had just made the system flat on top I'd probably have my XBox hooked up right now.) Plus on top of that when I play an old game on the 360 it gets upscaled and I have the cables for HD play. With the XBox I don't even have component cables. (Mostly because I didn't get an HD TV until after I got my 360 so I never got around to it.) Anyway it would have been nice if I could play all my old XBox games on the 360. (Since that upscaling does make it look a bit nicer.)
Thanks for the reply. (Since it convinced me to look it up.) I didn't realize so many of the commonwealth nations kept her on as queen. (The only one I can find that she isn't a queen of is India but there's probably others.) I guess they still like to have some ties to the UK.
To give an example of how insane the AMA/AAMC is I give myself as an example. I didn't do well in college(We're talking B-/C+ GPA) when I was younger but I got bit by the medicine bug in my early to mid 30's and went back to do a premed program as a post bacc. It was surprising how much I had grown up and changed and I did extremely well. Taking the standard premed coursework I had a GPA on that in excess of 3.9 and even got a balanced 33 on my MCAT. Anybody want to guess what I was judged on? Yup, that classwork that was on the order of 15 years old and not the stuff I had just taken. (You'd think someone like me would be a great to have in medical school since I was doing this on my own and not to please a parent and shown how much I wanted to do this. Instead I was judged on things that didn't reflect me at the time of application and was insulted behind my back which is really a dick move.)
I know one of the standard talking points about ESCR is the line about we should do it because the embryos will just be thrown away. However that doesn't consider embryonic stem cell nuclear transfer where you would start with an adult's DNA, shove it into an egg and develop that into an embryo. You could do that to generate stem cells and hopefully the adult who's DNA could accept these stem cells with little risk of rejection.(Which would be a big bonus) I mention this because I wouldn't be surprised if this was on of the major forms of stem cell treatment in the future and in this case the embryos are being with embryos that are not going to be just thrown away if we don't use them. (I expect if the religious nuts are mad over the case of using otherwise discarded material it's going to be a hell of alot worse when the case comes to making a new embryo which is a partial clone of the person and then pulling it apart for extra bits.)
Oh well, I've got Karma to burn even though I'll get modded down for pointing out a talking point.
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There's answer A which is the egg came first because eggs evolved long ago and many other animals lay eggs. (Like dinosaurs and fish which existed long before chickens.) If you mean a chicken egg then they evolved together. (IE there's is no hard and fast delination between not chicken/chicken and like wise none for not chicken egg/chicken egg.)
Of course all I could think about when he was on the doc was "Wow he's annoying, I want to shove him off into the pond."
He could reproduce the acceleration problem consistantly. I mean he's a good engineer, very technically minded. If he says he can reproduce it I tend to believe him.
Well can't say I'm surprised But I have karma to burn and I wasn't surprised to get modded down on that one. BTW, thanks for demonstrating how true my signature really is. (Oh well, I hope a few other readers on Slashdot get a laugh or 2 out of my sig since it does capture the reality of alot of posts that are modded down as "troll".) Note, this posting is what is known as a rant. A rant. (Last a checked a rant isn't a relative of a troll in LotR) Please feel free to use this as a guide in the future if you ever think another post is a troll. It also demonstrates sarcasm and derision. Yes, people use those outside of literature class.
If I remember correctly he also designed the sound chip in the SNES
Right wingers are the ones that think Obama was born in Kenya, left wingers are the ones that think Bush fired Shinseki over troop levels. Yup, seems true to me and in other news water is wet, snow is cold, and lead is heavy.
In 3 years when that game comes out, there will be a card available to run that game and it'll cost about $100-$150.
At least from what I remember since it's been a long time. When I first started usenet (wow, back in 1990) I never saw flame wars like there are today. (Admittedly on the right boards today it's still ok) And of course IRC was cool at first but broke down as well.
Of course I wish I knew before I went to university. Of course it made me appreciate what my uncle said about colleges. Since you're doing the teaching yourself anyway the differences between universities isn't the education, it's the name. (For what it's worth the only university who he though had a good enough name to be worth the money over a state school was Harvard.)
Maybe but the funny thing is 2 of the worst professors I had in university were amongst the most intelligent people I've ever met. Admittedly one knew he was kind of bad, largely because his english was pretty bad and gave everybody a break. They other guy was obviously super smart and wrote "the" book in his field but couldn't teach at all. (Unfortunately other professors at the school only knew him by his reputation and would say stupid things like "he's really good isn't he?" This guy was so bad he couldn't tell you how he determined your grade. The reason he couldn't tell you is because he didn't even know how he was going to do it. Yes, that's literally true.)
What happens when a car with this stuff gets into a crash and we see the sudden release of a few million atmospheres of pressure. In other news I hear that Ford is bring back the Pinto to use this technology.
the guy was kind of stalking his ex-girlfriend or something? Wow, who'd imagine that would fail?
Wow, I guess politics truely does make strange bed fellows.
only reason I know anything about him is when I ran across the "Shannon number" estimate of the size of the game tree for chess.
It was just personal curiosity since I had heard of it but boy, he was so straight forward about it I understood very quickly. The guy deserves his success.
this idea. That a theory is just a tool for understanding and predicting reality. As long as you know where and when you can apply this tool and you use it in those circumstances it's a useful thing. (IE a hammer is great when you just need to hammer in a nail and don't expect it to be some super tool that can cut wood, turn a screw, measure an angle, etc.)
I mean look, my Tivo is basically a computer and I can use it to watch youtube. However the one thing I really want to do is use my tivo to watch on demand stuff. You'd think all they'd have to do is write an app to use the "IPTV" standard and then have my Tivo connect to one of Comcast servers to request an on-demand program. I mean seriously, my Tivo is hooked up to the ethernet, that's hooked up to the internet through Comcast so I'm inside their network and I'm using their cable cards on top of it. They can't have a stupid server that would let me watch stuff on my tivo and instead they've got to hack together some stupid switched video system to implement on demand?
I mean if you buy something you pay up front and get it cheaper. If you lease it you basically rent over time and end up paying more. I mean really are they saying the want them to hide the cost of the battery by making it "separate" and making you pay for it separately? (And making you pay more for it? You're going to pay for the battery one way or another.)
Except he didn't take into consideration that shrinking the size of computer hardware probably means that a huge program now actually fits into a smaller space in physical reality than an old program did on older hardware. (Any hardware guru want to do the math and find out how much physical area a 100k program took back in the 80's vs a 150mb program now?)
It's alot easier to ask engineering questions when both you and the guy on the other end speak the same language. Makes asking questions a lot more straight forward. Yes I've been there before. (Admittedly the engineer I was working with over the phone spoke english but the receptionist didn't so getting in touch with him could have easily become a problem.)
The thing is both Nintendo and Sony managed to pull off backward compatibility with the Wii and PS3. (Well ok, it got dumped from the PS3 later on but it was there at first.) Plus it is more convenient to play them on the 360 for a number of reasons. For one I generally don't have my Xbox hooked up because I have no room to do that. (It was pretty huge and they didn't make the top flat so you can't put it in a stack of consoles. If they had just made the system flat on top I'd probably have my XBox hooked up right now.) Plus on top of that when I play an old game on the 360 it gets upscaled and I have the cables for HD play. With the XBox I don't even have component cables. (Mostly because I didn't get an HD TV until after I got my 360 so I never got around to it.) Anyway it would have been nice if I could play all my old XBox games on the 360. (Since that upscaling does make it look a bit nicer.)
Thanks for the reply. (Since it convinced me to look it up.) I didn't realize so many of the commonwealth nations kept her on as queen. (The only one I can find that she isn't a queen of is India but there's probably others.) I guess they still like to have some ties to the UK.
The Queen of Canada too? I mean I know they only became a real country in the 80's but you'd think they'd get their own Queen when that happened.
To give an example of how insane the AMA/AAMC is I give myself as an example. I didn't do well in college(We're talking B-/C+ GPA) when I was younger but I got bit by the medicine bug in my early to mid 30's and went back to do a premed program as a post bacc. It was surprising how much I had grown up and changed and I did extremely well. Taking the standard premed coursework I had a GPA on that in excess of 3.9 and even got a balanced 33 on my MCAT. Anybody want to guess what I was judged on? Yup, that classwork that was on the order of 15 years old and not the stuff I had just taken. (You'd think someone like me would be a great to have in medical school since I was doing this on my own and not to please a parent and shown how much I wanted to do this. Instead I was judged on things that didn't reflect me at the time of application and was insulted behind my back which is really a dick move.)
I know one of the standard talking points about ESCR is the line about we should do it because the embryos will just be thrown away. However that doesn't consider embryonic stem cell nuclear transfer where you would start with an adult's DNA, shove it into an egg and develop that into an embryo. You could do that to generate stem cells and hopefully the adult who's DNA could accept these stem cells with little risk of rejection.(Which would be a big bonus) I mention this because I wouldn't be surprised if this was on of the major forms of stem cell treatment in the future and in this case the embryos are being with embryos that are not going to be just thrown away if we don't use them. (I expect if the religious nuts are mad over the case of using otherwise discarded material it's going to be a hell of alot worse when the case comes to making a new embryo which is a partial clone of the person and then pulling it apart for extra bits.) Oh well, I've got Karma to burn even though I'll get modded down for pointing out a talking point.