I understand the point into giving a phone a bigger screen, and more computing capabilities. The idea has been around for ages. But stripping the keyboard from a netbook? Admit it, it is not HALF as useful as a netbook is- you only want it because it LOOKS cool, and they use it on Star Trek. It is very, very expensive for what it does.
If it were an EU member, there would be very many standards and procedures it would have to comply with. Labor would not be that cheap, child labor would be banned, running factories would be much more expensive and complicated (and less dangerous for the workers), specialized positions would demand degrees, so overall production costs would be much higher. Since Turkey ranks near to last on technology research for the "western" nation it is supposed to be, it would not have anything interesting to export and make money out of (like Austria's robotics, Norway's drilling experts, Sweden's missile technology, Denmark's clockwork farming)
Turkey is a G20 member because its many-tens-of-millions strong workforce is in poverty and under a tight leash from its government, and will work for food. So almost all production is the government's to play with.
Last time they did that was when Israel attacked the Lebanese population, and Syrians thought they were next- the queues of Syrians outside of Turkish embassies were enormous, and the "solution" the Turkish administration came up with was simple: fifty euros a head per visa. Not that good considering the typical size of a Syrian family. Do they still sound "nice enough" to you?
On the likes of a "patent troll", can a "patent stalker" exist? Someone who would wait until a patent has expired, and then file a patent for something quite similar, but arguably different? How does this work?
IT is supposed to be taught, still you get ridiculed when asking on Linux? This does not sound like an academic environment at all. What ever happened to "there are no stupid questions" ?
Sure, infrastructure can be really important, but it is collaboration between people and people themselves that elevate academia- if that guy (as you describe him) was at my university, he would had been sacked long, long ago. In an academic environment you should also be smart, not just smart-ass. Plus you should be open-minded and ready to entertain new suggestions.
For the guy you are mentioning; if, in the year 2011, he cannot fathom why he should keep an eye on Linux, even more so because IT is supposed to be his domain, then he is a lost cause. Unless he is one of the management/marketing people of the institution, so he was probably a lost cause long before he laughed at you. You should just train yourself to not take him very seriously- he 'll be around offering his wisdom up until he wrecks the university and moves along to "manage" some other company.
I have seen it many times, even experienced it myself at school about many teachers; frightened, creepy, weak-minded people with poor social skills that when given the opportunity to dominate in their microcosm they express themselves as the faschist fucks they really are- because they can get away with it, and because teens are an easy target.
Of course, when one is a teen one is not aware of this readily; though in retrospect, several years later as you get a more firm understanding of what 'real life' looks like, you come to wonder where the fuck some of them built up the nerve for the behavior they exhibited, and how they managed to pull up rules right from their asses and get away with it- on the lighter side, you really start to appreciate the ones that were good people, especially if you gave them a rough time being their student, and they were cool and virtuous about it.
Some may argue that this is okay, because life is hard, and school (via forementioned 'teachers') gets you prepared for dealing with backstabbing honorless lying jealous ill-willed individuals that project their anger deriving from their own failures to helpless kids, because life is 'not fair'.
School is not military, it is education. And teachers are not cops/DAs/judges/presidents, and those that think they are, better stay the fuck away from my kids or we take this to the next level.
There cannot be a WW3 yet, because WW2 has not really finished- just diffused here and there. Like so, more or less.
Let's hope it is going to be over soon, though I hardly think so- unless a world war is defined as a war between superpowers.
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McFarlane was pencils for ('The amazing', I think) Spiderman about a decade or so ago. And The Incredible Hulk, if I recall? Man he was good. So was Byrne.
I am not a professional biologist (I suspect you might be), so bare with me as I try to see it quantitatively; Good point with the daily iterations, i can surely see how it can be a selective process. But then the question would be wether it is enough, in terms of timescales, for what we see- tides do not necessarily repeat twice a day, some cycles can be a little more complicated, but again the timescales are in the order of hours or tens of hours. So a "rinse and repeat" scheme like this can definately be more challenging in terms of survival than that of, say, the timescale of the order of seconds (an ocean wave breaking on the shore) but would it be enough to "force" organisms to survive without water long enough for them to pass on their genes? Quantitatively, would those two be really that different? The different types of environment -muddy, water-y, and dry- would already be there, tide or not.
Also, there is the factor of a more complicated landscape as far as lengthscales (comparable to the lifeforms; mm or less? up to meters, perhaps?) are concerned, which may give further opportunities for biodiversity; creatures that adopt to their environment, some using pebbles, others sand, others the surface of the water to lay traps, eggs, establish nests and the like. Again, such features where earth meets the ocean will still be there, tide or no tide. It is the mixing of water and land that creates the diverse terrain that would give such opportunities for biodiversity, and that is because water has waves (turbulence) that break on the shore.
Even though this might be an argument "against" my sceptiscism so far, I need to include it; surface tension of water becomes dominant in smaller scales, so a small creature could effectively carry a pocket of water (or air) with it and wait it out. Which is something that could be done with no tide, though I admit there would probably be no motivation to do so- there would be nothing for the creature to 'wait out'. Now my point here is to make you wonder whether such a 'motivation' exists or not; if all life is a product of chance, then it does not (which makes one suspicious as to what actually 'chance' is), and the creature would be merely some sort of emergent-property automaton, no different in purpose than the Hydrogen/Helium/traces-of-other-elements cloud that made the Solar System in the first place. If, on the other hand, things such as awareness, planning and free will are not just for humans, but they are somehow experienced by other creatures, then it does; effectively, there comes a point where a more advanced creature knows (or suspects) that it would be better off elsewhere, and goes for it (that would be why I tend to like the colloquilism of plants "avoiding" stuff). As for the predators, since some of them were already in the water, is it not plausible that at least some of them would try to apply their predatory skills on land? I would not know if it is 'easier' to go on land and switch diet, rather than switch diet and then go on land.
Since the topic is 'advanced life' (environment-observing and decision-making life), I suspect that the authors are somehow trying to exclude the necessity of a moon comparable in mass to the host planet. Furthermore, though there has been quite sometime since I enjoyed a debate at slashdot as much as I am enjoying it now, I think we are both missing a central point; such a massive satellite may play a crucial part in keeping the internal of a planet fluid, therefore further enhancing the so-called 'dynamo effect', which in turn creates a magnetosphere that shields the planet from potentially harmful radiation. Radiation that, in lack of a magnetic field, staying underwater would be an efficient way of avoiding.
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Of course they do. They have been waiting for this since their formation, in 2005.
I understand the point into giving a phone a bigger screen, and more computing capabilities. The idea has been around for ages. But stripping the keyboard from a netbook? Admit it, it is not HALF as useful as a netbook is- you only want it because it LOOKS cool, and they use it on Star Trek. It is very, very expensive for what it does.
if it were a EU member, it'd rank 7th
I hardly think so, especially in the longrun.
If it were an EU member, there would be very many standards and procedures it would have to comply with. Labor would not be that cheap, child labor would be banned, running factories would be much more expensive and complicated (and less dangerous for the workers), specialized positions would demand degrees, so overall production costs would be much higher. Since Turkey ranks near to last on technology research for the "western" nation it is supposed to be, it would not have anything interesting to export and make money out of (like Austria's robotics, Norway's drilling experts, Sweden's missile technology, Denmark's clockwork farming)
Turkey is a G20 member because its many-tens-of-millions strong workforce is in poverty and under a tight leash from its government, and will work for food. So almost all production is the government's to play with.
giving shelter to Syrian citizens
Last time they did that was when Israel attacked the Lebanese population, and Syrians thought they were next- the queues of Syrians outside of Turkish embassies were enormous, and the "solution" the Turkish administration came up with was simple: fifty euros a head per visa. Not that good considering the typical size of a Syrian family. Do they still sound "nice enough" to you?
Oh, I was not. Actually I was wondering why they waited so long.
So now it is, what, 20 years until they become uberlords?
.. hurry up and build something!
Okay, can someone who knows answer this?
On the likes of a "patent troll", can a "patent stalker" exist? Someone who would wait until a patent has expired, and then file a patent for something quite similar, but arguably different? How does this work?
but the commission estimates that the program costs between $4 million and $5 million each year while bringing in only about $3.5 million annually.
So how much is that in human lives?
all of those US Letter pages...
Except, of course, the ones that will get misplaced.
IT is supposed to be taught, still you get ridiculed when asking on Linux? This does not sound like an academic environment at all. What ever happened to "there are no stupid questions" ?
Sure, infrastructure can be really important, but it is collaboration between people and people themselves that elevate academia- if that guy (as you describe him) was at my university, he would had been sacked long, long ago. In an academic environment you should also be smart, not just smart-ass. Plus you should be open-minded and ready to entertain new suggestions.
For the guy you are mentioning; if, in the year 2011, he cannot fathom why he should keep an eye on Linux, even more so because IT is supposed to be his domain, then he is a lost cause. Unless he is one of the management/marketing people of the institution, so he was probably a lost cause long before he laughed at you. You should just train yourself to not take him very seriously- he 'll be around offering his wisdom up until he wrecks the university and moves along to "manage" some other company.
Google makes their own hardware? Niceeee...
.. will fill the government demands.
Excuse me, have you seen this guy? And this was one of his neighbors.
First one still puts his face on stamps- do you seriously think there will ever be any reasonable way to "fill the government demands?
I'm starting to like Russia.
What do you mean "you 're starting to like". Perhaps "you 're starting to actually take time to think for yourself whether you like Russia or not"?
In that case, it IS a unit of measurement. What is not, is a proper multiple for it.
1.21 jiggawatts of energy
Sir, this is not a number.
I have seen it many times, even experienced it myself at school about many teachers; frightened, creepy, weak-minded people with poor social skills that when given the opportunity to dominate in their microcosm they express themselves as the faschist fucks they really are- because they can get away with it, and because teens are an easy target.
Of course, when one is a teen one is not aware of this readily; though in retrospect, several years later as you get a more firm understanding of what 'real life' looks like, you come to wonder where the fuck some of them built up the nerve for the behavior they exhibited, and how they managed to pull up rules right from their asses and get away with it- on the lighter side, you really start to appreciate the ones that were good people, especially if you gave them a rough time being their student, and they were cool and virtuous about it.
Some may argue that this is okay, because life is hard, and school (via forementioned 'teachers') gets you prepared for dealing with backstabbing honorless lying jealous ill-willed individuals that project their anger deriving from their own failures to helpless kids, because life is 'not fair'.
School is not military, it is education. And teachers are not cops/DAs/judges/presidents, and those that think they are, better stay the fuck away from my kids or we take this to the next level.
And I hope they never get them, because their treatment will be really unfair. Even by FBI standards.
There was a video on how to install Slackware??? NOW you 're telling me?!?!?
There is this great search engine called 'google'. You can start by clicking here.
You then enter keywords for what you want to look for, like "+linux +games". As an example, here is what I found: http://kahvipapu.com/blog/2007/06/16/linux-gaming-part-one-first-person-shooters/
I can't quite put a finger on Uranus.
There cannot be a WW3 yet, because WW2 has not really finished- just diffused here and there. Like so, more or less.
Let's hope it is going to be over soon, though I hardly think so- unless a world war is defined as a war between superpowers.
McFarlane was pencils for ('The amazing', I think) Spiderman about a decade or so ago. And The Incredible Hulk, if I recall? Man he was good. So was Byrne.
Marvel is making big bucks with their movies, so they want in.
and then sends it off to a pre-configured remote server
So is the physical location of this server know? Because if it is, then whopass and wedgies may be delivered directly.
I am not a professional biologist (I suspect you might be), so bare with me as I try to see it quantitatively; Good point with the daily iterations, i can surely see how it can be a selective process. But then the question would be wether it is enough, in terms of timescales, for what we see- tides do not necessarily repeat twice a day, some cycles can be a little more complicated, but again the timescales are in the order of hours or tens of hours. So a "rinse and repeat" scheme like this can definately be more challenging in terms of survival than that of, say, the timescale of the order of seconds (an ocean wave breaking on the shore) but would it be enough to "force" organisms to survive without water long enough for them to pass on their genes? Quantitatively, would those two be really that different? The different types of environment -muddy, water-y, and dry- would already be there, tide or not.
Also, there is the factor of a more complicated landscape as far as lengthscales (comparable to the lifeforms; mm or less? up to meters, perhaps?) are concerned, which may give further opportunities for biodiversity; creatures that adopt to their environment, some using pebbles, others sand, others the surface of the water to lay traps, eggs, establish nests and the like. Again, such features where earth meets the ocean will still be there, tide or no tide. It is the mixing of water and land that creates the diverse terrain that would give such opportunities for biodiversity, and that is because water has waves (turbulence) that break on the shore.
Even though this might be an argument "against" my sceptiscism so far, I need to include it; surface tension of water becomes dominant in smaller scales, so a small creature could effectively carry a pocket of water (or air) with it and wait it out. Which is something that could be done with no tide, though I admit there would probably be no motivation to do so- there would be nothing for the creature to 'wait out'. Now my point here is to make you wonder whether such a 'motivation' exists or not; if all life is a product of chance, then it does not (which makes one suspicious as to what actually 'chance' is), and the creature would be merely some sort of emergent-property automaton, no different in purpose than the Hydrogen/Helium/traces-of-other-elements cloud that made the Solar System in the first place. If, on the other hand, things such as awareness, planning and free will are not just for humans, but they are somehow experienced by other creatures, then it does; effectively, there comes a point where a more advanced creature knows (or suspects) that it would be better off elsewhere, and goes for it (that would be why I tend to like the colloquilism of plants "avoiding" stuff). As for the predators, since some of them were already in the water, is it not plausible that at least some of them would try to apply their predatory skills on land? I would not know if it is 'easier' to go on land and switch diet, rather than switch diet and then go on land.
Since the topic is 'advanced life' (environment-observing and decision-making life), I suspect that the authors are somehow trying to exclude the necessity of a moon comparable in mass to the host planet. Furthermore, though there has been quite sometime since I enjoyed a debate at slashdot as much as I am enjoying it now, I think we are both missing a central point; such a massive satellite may play a crucial part in keeping the internal of a planet fluid, therefore further enhancing the so-called 'dynamo effect', which in turn creates a magnetosphere that shields the planet from potentially harmful radiation. Radiation that, in lack of a magnetic field, staying underwater would be an efficient way of avoiding.