If it can't cause cancer doesn't that mean it also can't give me wicked super powers? You know, like how gamma radiation will either kill you or make you incredible strong.
Who wants to be a millionaire when you do 50/50 they don't actually eliminate 2 bad options randomly and actually just keep the bad option most people mistakenly think it is.
By having zombies run the places you don't have to give the workers protection against radiation since they're already dead. I hear they work pretty cheaply too, just give them some cow brains and they don't know the difference.
You know, where a retailer jacks up the price a bit and then claims that he's taking off say 10% because he likes you or some nonsense. The last time I had that happen was fairly recently with a cell phone carrier. (Which shall remain nameless.) This sounds like the same deal. I went on their web site and looked up how much a battery for my phone was and it listed a price. When I went to the local store they at first quoted a higher price and then said how they were giving me some money off. Surprise surprise it turned out to be the amount quoted on the web page.
I mean you say creationist you know it's a right wing kook. You hear about a person being anti-chemical or pro Naturopathy you just have to know they're a left wing idiot. Hell, both ends hate vaccines which is disturbing but true. Really both sides "use" science when they can and abuse it when it suits their purposes. (Ok, so I'm jaded. It's bad enough to have creationsts but then lefties saying how great evolution is and then basically quoting Lamarck.)
I don't think you're actually disagreeing with me. The point was when the levees were built it was expected that they were built well enough to handle a category 3 storm. Actually that jives with the Dutch system as you point out. (It was built strong enough to handle what was expected.) Unfortunately the ACoE really messed up, either in the original construction or up keep so by the time Katrina hit not only couldn't it handle a hurricane that should have been expected they had no idea that it wasn't up to the task anymore.
It isn't that they built something that they knew wasn't up to the task of handling a category 3 storm. (Because at least in that case you'd have some info.) They built the levees that they thought were good enough to handle a category 3 storm and only found out they were wrong when one hit New Orleans.
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That one about working software vs comprehensive documentation. I mean what company was it where they actually had a problem with too much documentation. All my experience has been in IT people don't want to document anything and that dogma would probably make them think not only is it ok to not document but it's actually a good idea.
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and everybody is theoretically supposed to be able to do system analysis, coding, and QA. That way nobody is unique and it's much easier for them to lay you off and swap some new cog into the machine. (Ok, so I just got laid off and I was on one of the agile teams. Actually we had a bunch of agile teams and they pretty much dumped most of the people on them and kept people who weren't on them because they had unique skills. I know, I should have seen that one coming.)
Well I'm not going to say the church didn't go nuts at a point. However the chances of him actually being in any real danger are kind of low, you know given that his college drinking buddy was the Pope. Actually one view of history holds that he only really got in trouble after he published his book was because he had a character named Simplicio mouthed the words of the Church. The result of this was his friend thought Galileo was calling him "Mr. Stupid" and took it kind of personally. On the other hand if I remember right James Burke's "Connections" (Really great show on the history of science btw.) talks about his main problem the Church had was he went too fast and they would have been ok if this got revealed slowly to the public. (Not all at once in a book in common Italian like he actually did.) Also you can't leave out there was alot of political pressure on the Pope to reign in "heretics". (So it's not something simple like "Oh my god, the Church hates science" nonsense you've probably heard.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
Since they were going with the Tychonic System and all of that is accepted as correct in that system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tychonic_system
(That whole thing about the church being pro Aristotle is kind of a myth) Oh, the other thing Galileo observed were the phases of Venus but again the Tychonic system is cool with that too.
Any evidence that the Earth moved. He did try to use his theory of tides to demonstrate that the Earth moved, too bad it was wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Galileo.2C_Kepler_and_theories_of_tides
Of course if you have Newtonian Mechanics, ability to observe stellar parallax, or even a Foucault pendulum it becomes pretty obvious that the Earth moves but he didn't have any of that.
Funny, I really didn't have to do much to get the problem to happen. I did a clean install of Win 7 on a new drive.(You'd think this would be the scenario least likely to cause problems.) Eventually I installed steam on my system. The first inkling of problems is when I rebooted Win 7 stopped at the start up screen and wouldn't go any further. It didn't give any info on what was going on and wouldn't respond to the keyboard. (I ended up leaving it at this screen for 1/2 hr figuring it'd work itself out since the icon was "twirling." Of course it didn't.) I ended up having to shut off my system (Yes I know, you're not supposed to do that but it didn't give me much of a choice.) boot into safe mode and disable steam at which point I could get into Windows. I re-enabled steam and this time when I rebooted I got into windows and that time but now the networking icon had a '!' next to it. If I tried IE it told me it couldn't get to the internet and gave a button to trouble shoot. The error didn't indicate what was wrong and after clicking the trouble shooting button it gave no info on what was wrong. (Actually all the trouble shooting button did was tell me to go to the internet which was a little difficult.)
Anyway after looking around for advice and trying a few things don't you know it, turning off the Windows Firewall fixes the problem. (I still wondering why adding Steam disables IE and makes that icon show up in the lower right. I also don't know why when I explicitly added steam as an app that had permission to go to the net it didn't fix the problem.) Of course as I've said it's not like anything on the system told me what was going wrong.(Honestly, you'd think the average programmer thinks the concept of "data hiding" is a description of the correct way to write an error message.) Oh well, I might re-install again. (I don't really have anything in my Win 7 install so it shouldn't be a problem.) Still makes me wary. (I know, I can just get a 3rd party firewall that wouldn't have these issues.)
Weird, exactly the opposite for me. (Admitteldy I didn't jump immediately on Vista, I got it after SP1) My Vista install has worked well the entire time I've had it. (Then again I've got fairly new hardware and nothing unusual at all.) Win 7 has just had problems the whole time. (And I've had Vista for about 1.5 years, 7 for 3 weeks and have already had problems with it.)
I mean I kept running into this issue in Win 7 where the Windows Firewall just blocks the internet after installing other apps. (Yes, this means all of a sudden IE 8 doesn't work and I get an error about not being able to get to the internet.) Unfortunately the error message doesn't actually tell you what's stopping you from getting to the internet. (Which would have been helpful. The trouble shooting doesn't either.) The only way to find out was to ask around and then play around with the Win 7 install and see that yes if you shut off the firewall all of a sudden it works. Fortunately I had installed 7 on a new drive so I just switched back to boot off of my old drive and I'm back in Vista. (BTW yes Vista actually works for me.) Hopefully SP1 fixes all of that.
I'm guessing I'm going to get modded down for this one but could people stop with this stupid "Just throw more language at em" nonsense. Yes, I'm apparently one of those very rare group who has massive problems with learning any foreign language. I can't tell you how much of a torture it is to get this shoved down your throat and then when you try to get help being basically told to just suck it up. Sure, try to suggest it so some of the students will try it, maybe it'll benefit them. However don't assume it will always benefit all students. (Because to be blunt for some of us this is just not true.)
Nuclear magnetic resonance? God man don't you know how dangerous that is, it's got nuclear right in the name. You can only guess how many extra limbs you'd get from that. Now if you'll excuse me I have to get ready for my MRI tomorrow:)
I've always been curious about that and wonder if anybody knows. I've read that Pu based devices are much harder to build than U based ones but also less likely to detonate accidently. Is another advantage that you can rapidly produce Pu-239 vs U-235 which I take is a pain to make quickly? Is there a size limit on Pu-239 vs U-235 or something?
Since I can buy a 16GB memory stick for my PSP2000 and it's my understanding I can buy the same Playstation store games that PSP Go owners can buy. Even better I hear I can run custom firmware and then just load up some of the UMD's I own and run them from the memory stick.
[sarcasm on] 0th Never document anything and never comment anything. (Hey, when the next guy comes through and has to reverse engineer your code he'll thank you for the fun.)
1st Don't write function. Just dump the code right in place. Hell, a function isn't really useful unless it's at least a couple thousand lines long.
2nd Don't give things good names. I is fine and what the hell, name your stack 'q'. The computer can figure it out no problem.
3rd Use GOTO's whenever possible.
4th White spaces is for chumps so don't have things line up and for god sakes skip the formatting.
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0th Never document anything and never comment anything. (Hey, when the next guy comes through and has to reverse engineer your code he'll thank you for the fun.)
1st Don't write function. Just dump the code right in place. Hell, a function isn't really useful unless it's at least a couple thousand lines long.
2nd Don't give things good names. I is fine and what the hell, name your stack 'q'. The computer can figure it out no problem.
3rd Use GOTO's whenever possible.
4th White spaces is for chumps so don't have things line up and for god sakes skip the formatting.
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If it can't cause cancer doesn't that mean it also can't give me wicked super powers? You know, like how gamma radiation will either kill you or make you incredible strong.
Who wants to be a millionaire when you do 50/50 they don't actually eliminate 2 bad options randomly and actually just keep the bad option most people mistakenly think it is.
By having zombies run the places you don't have to give the workers protection against radiation since they're already dead. I hear they work pretty cheaply too, just give them some cow brains and they don't know the difference.
Let me guess, the scientists refer to them as "A count ant". (Gets pelted with tomatoes.)
This one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Challenger plus he was involved with the NASA one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Prototype. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_B._MacCready Hmm, looks like he died a few years ago. (Note corelation =/= causation. His working on a solar plane probably had nothing to do with his death.)
You know, where a retailer jacks up the price a bit and then claims that he's taking off say 10% because he likes you or some nonsense. The last time I had that happen was fairly recently with a cell phone carrier. (Which shall remain nameless.) This sounds like the same deal. I went on their web site and looked up how much a battery for my phone was and it listed a price. When I went to the local store they at first quoted a higher price and then said how they were giving me some money off. Surprise surprise it turned out to be the amount quoted on the web page.
I mean you say creationist you know it's a right wing kook. You hear about a person being anti-chemical or pro Naturopathy you just have to know they're a left wing idiot. Hell, both ends hate vaccines which is disturbing but true. Really both sides "use" science when they can and abuse it when it suits their purposes. (Ok, so I'm jaded. It's bad enough to have creationsts but then lefties saying how great evolution is and then basically quoting Lamarck.)
I don't think you're actually disagreeing with me. The point was when the levees were built it was expected that they were built well enough to handle a category 3 storm. Actually that jives with the Dutch system as you point out. (It was built strong enough to handle what was expected.) Unfortunately the ACoE really messed up, either in the original construction or up keep so by the time Katrina hit not only couldn't it handle a hurricane that should have been expected they had no idea that it wasn't up to the task anymore.
It isn't that they built something that they knew wasn't up to the task of handling a category 3 storm. (Because at least in that case you'd have some info.) They built the levees that they thought were good enough to handle a category 3 storm and only found out they were wrong when one hit New Orleans.
That one about working software vs comprehensive documentation. I mean what company was it where they actually had a problem with too much documentation. All my experience has been in IT people don't want to document anything and that dogma would probably make them think not only is it ok to not document but it's actually a good idea.
and everybody is theoretically supposed to be able to do system analysis, coding, and QA. That way nobody is unique and it's much easier for them to lay you off and swap some new cog into the machine. (Ok, so I just got laid off and I was on one of the agile teams. Actually we had a bunch of agile teams and they pretty much dumped most of the people on them and kept people who weren't on them because they had unique skills. I know, I should have seen that one coming.)
Well I'm not going to say the church didn't go nuts at a point. However the chances of him actually being in any real danger are kind of low, you know given that his college drinking buddy was the Pope. Actually one view of history holds that he only really got in trouble after he published his book was because he had a character named Simplicio mouthed the words of the Church. The result of this was his friend thought Galileo was calling him "Mr. Stupid" and took it kind of personally. On the other hand if I remember right James Burke's "Connections" (Really great show on the history of science btw.) talks about his main problem the Church had was he went too fast and they would have been ok if this got revealed slowly to the public. (Not all at once in a book in common Italian like he actually did.) Also you can't leave out there was alot of political pressure on the Pope to reign in "heretics". (So it's not something simple like "Oh my god, the Church hates science" nonsense you've probably heard.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
Since they were going with the Tychonic System and all of that is accepted as correct in that system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tychonic_system (That whole thing about the church being pro Aristotle is kind of a myth) Oh, the other thing Galileo observed were the phases of Venus but again the Tychonic system is cool with that too.
Any evidence that the Earth moved. He did try to use his theory of tides to demonstrate that the Earth moved, too bad it was wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Galileo.2C_Kepler_and_theories_of_tides Of course if you have Newtonian Mechanics, ability to observe stellar parallax, or even a Foucault pendulum it becomes pretty obvious that the Earth moves but he didn't have any of that.
demo with kid on the dock. I hope it lets me shove him off the docks and into the pond.
Funny, I really didn't have to do much to get the problem to happen. I did a clean install of Win 7 on a new drive.(You'd think this would be the scenario least likely to cause problems.) Eventually I installed steam on my system. The first inkling of problems is when I rebooted Win 7 stopped at the start up screen and wouldn't go any further. It didn't give any info on what was going on and wouldn't respond to the keyboard. (I ended up leaving it at this screen for 1/2 hr figuring it'd work itself out since the icon was "twirling." Of course it didn't.) I ended up having to shut off my system (Yes I know, you're not supposed to do that but it didn't give me much of a choice.) boot into safe mode and disable steam at which point I could get into Windows. I re-enabled steam and this time when I rebooted I got into windows and that time but now the networking icon had a '!' next to it. If I tried IE it told me it couldn't get to the internet and gave a button to trouble shoot. The error didn't indicate what was wrong and after clicking the trouble shooting button it gave no info on what was wrong. (Actually all the trouble shooting button did was tell me to go to the internet which was a little difficult.) Anyway after looking around for advice and trying a few things don't you know it, turning off the Windows Firewall fixes the problem. (I still wondering why adding Steam disables IE and makes that icon show up in the lower right. I also don't know why when I explicitly added steam as an app that had permission to go to the net it didn't fix the problem.) Of course as I've said it's not like anything on the system told me what was going wrong.(Honestly, you'd think the average programmer thinks the concept of "data hiding" is a description of the correct way to write an error message.) Oh well, I might re-install again. (I don't really have anything in my Win 7 install so it shouldn't be a problem.) Still makes me wary. (I know, I can just get a 3rd party firewall that wouldn't have these issues.)
Weird, exactly the opposite for me. (Admitteldy I didn't jump immediately on Vista, I got it after SP1) My Vista install has worked well the entire time I've had it. (Then again I've got fairly new hardware and nothing unusual at all.) Win 7 has just had problems the whole time. (And I've had Vista for about 1.5 years, 7 for 3 weeks and have already had problems with it.)
I mean I kept running into this issue in Win 7 where the Windows Firewall just blocks the internet after installing other apps. (Yes, this means all of a sudden IE 8 doesn't work and I get an error about not being able to get to the internet.) Unfortunately the error message doesn't actually tell you what's stopping you from getting to the internet. (Which would have been helpful. The trouble shooting doesn't either.) The only way to find out was to ask around and then play around with the Win 7 install and see that yes if you shut off the firewall all of a sudden it works. Fortunately I had installed 7 on a new drive so I just switched back to boot off of my old drive and I'm back in Vista. (BTW yes Vista actually works for me.) Hopefully SP1 fixes all of that.
The worst part of that is I've actually heard a language professor (and a pretty high ranking one) come out and admit that's all true.
I'm guessing I'm going to get modded down for this one but could people stop with this stupid "Just throw more language at em" nonsense. Yes, I'm apparently one of those very rare group who has massive problems with learning any foreign language. I can't tell you how much of a torture it is to get this shoved down your throat and then when you try to get help being basically told to just suck it up. Sure, try to suggest it so some of the students will try it, maybe it'll benefit them. However don't assume it will always benefit all students. (Because to be blunt for some of us this is just not true.)
Nuclear magnetic resonance? God man don't you know how dangerous that is, it's got nuclear right in the name. You can only guess how many extra limbs you'd get from that. Now if you'll excuse me I have to get ready for my MRI tomorrow:)
I've always been curious about that and wonder if anybody knows. I've read that Pu based devices are much harder to build than U based ones but also less likely to detonate accidently. Is another advantage that you can rapidly produce Pu-239 vs U-235 which I take is a pain to make quickly? Is there a size limit on Pu-239 vs U-235 or something?
Since I can buy a 16GB memory stick for my PSP2000 and it's my understanding I can buy the same Playstation store games that PSP Go owners can buy. Even better I hear I can run custom firmware and then just load up some of the UMD's I own and run them from the memory stick.
Let's try this again
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0th Never document anything and never comment anything. (Hey, when the next guy comes through and has to reverse engineer your code he'll thank you for the fun.)
1st Don't write function. Just dump the code right in place. Hell, a function isn't really useful unless it's at least a couple thousand lines long.
2nd Don't give things good names. I is fine and what the hell, name your stack 'q'. The computer can figure it out no problem.
3rd Use GOTO's whenever possible.
4th White spaces is for chumps so don't have things line up and for god sakes skip the formatting.
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[sarcasm on] 0th Never document anything and never comment anything. (Hey, when the next guy comes through and has to reverse engineer your code he'll thank you for the fun.) 1st Don't write function. Just dump the code right in place. Hell, a function isn't really useful unless it's at least a couple thousand lines long. 2nd Don't give things good names. I is fine and what the hell, name your stack 'q'. The computer can figure it out no problem. 3rd Use GOTO's whenever possible. 4th White spaces is for chumps so don't have things line up and for god sakes skip the formatting. [sarcasm off]