I can't remember the exact details, but basically a living organism is still absorbing and removing stuff (including the various carbon isotopes used for carbon dating). Only after it dies does the system go into a predictable state, where the existing carbon isotopes decay and no new carbon is introduced.
But with all the fluctuation during its life, wouldn't you have to know the values at time of death to reach any reasonable conclusion at a later date?
ok, I've got a serious question. If carbon dating a live plant dates it at several thousand years old, what happens to it's structure upon death that suddently pulls the figures into an accurate reading? If the readings are scewed while its alive, why isn't its state frozen at death and progress from there? This isn't intended as flamebait or anything, I'm just curious.
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I, like most here, haven't read the book. My guess though would be that they don't exist as leaders yet, though they probably exist as people. I've probably never heard of whoever will be leading the free world (?) in 20 years so he doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. Then again, maybe I should read the book. Looks interesting.
Will someone please mod down these idiots posting the whole story? If I want to read it I'll wait until the server recovers and get it from the source. I don't need to scroll through three copies of the article while trying to read the comments. If you want to mirror a site, mirror it on your own server and post a link.
The USofA has been under the control of corporations in some form or other since its inception. Nothing new there. Perhaps they're just more brazen about it now.
I'll ignore your mentioning Spiderman for the moment. Yahoo News has a story with more details about this movie including a very basic plot and the character type of Batman and Superman.
That bug only affected users of the cvs version of slashcode, not the official release. The bug was also promptly fixed in cvs. People use the cvs version at their own risk.
Only when you get to 50 points will you get the strange slashdot math.
Sure enough. I think I should go to bed. I do think it would be easier to just get rid of the karma cap. Sometimes I intentionally blow karma just so I have to work my way back up. Isn't that the sort of behavior its supposed to prevent? Doesn't seem to work very well.
I don't really care. Karma is pretty meaningless. I rarely use my +1 bonus so what good is it doing me? I just think its stupid to calculate karma that way. Besides, that method of calculating affects people at every karma level, not just those of us who've whored 50 points.
You've really got to love slashdot math. 50 + 1 - 1 = 49. Would it really be that hard to calculate an overall value per comment and apply that to karma? E.G. 50 + (+1 - 1)=50 It seems so simple I'd be embarassed not to use it. Am I missing something that makes this impractical?
If I go rent a movie instead they'll lose business too (even more so). That doesn't mean it should be illegal. Life isn't fair. You can't legislate a profit although many seem to enjoy the challenge.
I can't speak for windows machines, but when novell servers syncronize time, it actually accelerates the rate at which time passes until the times match rather than just jumping to the correct time so it can take a couple minutes to make up a big difference. I guess this prevents timestamps on files and such from getting screwed up too much.
Encryption would be useless. If a client can decrypt it, the [RI|MP]AA can also. Proxies could help, but I'm sure that would only slow them down. It would have to be something along the lines of freenet.
For the time being, the USA has enough financial/economic clout to do pretty much whatever we want. That certainly won't always be the case, nor is it necesarily ok, but it's the truth. One day the US will be smacked down, but it won't be this year or the next.
With all due respect, you're an idiot. The second a few big distributers get busted, the majority of distributers will cower under their beds. Would you be willing to share GBs of MP3s on your broadband connection if the other big guys around you were getting their systems confiscated and facing major fines they could lose their homes over? History has shown intimidation works well, and it will continue to work well. People just want their music; they don't care about fighting the man.
That's something you don't have to worry about with water cooled systems though. Unless you use peltiers or refrigeration of some sort, the water will stay at a couple degrees above room temperature at the most. With only radiator cooling it's nearly impossible for the temp to fall below room temperature which is required for condensation to occur.
Actually you want distilled deionized water with some Water Wetter or something like that. Although it might be worth the added risk to be able to say you need to pick up some Evion for your computer.
It costs Microsoft money the same way refilling ink cartridges costs printer companies money. Microsoft is losing something like $150 on each X-Box it sells. Any X-Box that is used for something other than selling game cartridges cost MS money.
Wrong. What costs MS money is selling the X-Box below cost. That money is already lost. They hope to balance that loss with profits from games. Nothing you do after purchasing that X-Box will cost Microsoft money.
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I can't remember the exact details, but basically a living organism is still absorbing and removing stuff (including the various carbon isotopes used for carbon dating). Only after it dies does the system go into a predictable state, where the existing carbon isotopes decay and no new carbon is introduced.
But with all the fluctuation during its life, wouldn't you have to know the values at time of death to reach any reasonable conclusion at a later date?
ok, I've got a serious question. If carbon dating a live plant dates it at several thousand years old, what happens to it's structure upon death that suddently pulls the figures into an accurate reading? If the readings are scewed while its alive, why isn't its state frozen at death and progress from there? This isn't intended as flamebait or anything, I'm just curious.
Dude, ducks float. Therefor she must be a witch.
I, like most here, haven't read the book. My guess though would be that they don't exist as leaders yet, though they probably exist as people. I've probably never heard of whoever will be leading the free world (?) in 20 years so he doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. Then again, maybe I should read the book. Looks interesting.
Will someone please mod down these idiots posting the whole story? If I want to read it I'll wait until the server recovers and get it from the source. I don't need to scroll through three copies of the article while trying to read the comments. If you want to mirror a site, mirror it on your own server and post a link.
The US is now ruled by a corrupt corporate junta.
The USofA has been under the control of corporations in some form or other since its inception. Nothing new there. Perhaps they're just more brazen about it now.
I'll ignore your mentioning Spiderman for the moment. Yahoo News has a story with more details about this movie including a very basic plot and the character type of Batman and Superman.
That bug only affected users of the cvs version of slashcode, not the official release. The bug was also promptly fixed in cvs. People use the cvs version at their own risk.
While the bill indicates that this will effect the music industry...
Actually the music industry was created many years ago. It is now largly represented in the USA and abroad by the RIAA.
Your Flash peeve will be redundant, as the latest version . . .
How will it be redundant if you're implying he won't have to repeat it?
Only when you get to 50 points will you get the strange slashdot math.
Sure enough. I think I should go to bed. I do think it would be easier to just get rid of the karma cap. Sometimes I intentionally blow karma just so I have to work my way back up. Isn't that the sort of behavior its supposed to prevent? Doesn't seem to work very well.
I don't really care. Karma is pretty meaningless. I rarely use my +1 bonus so what good is it doing me? I just think its stupid to calculate karma that way. Besides, that method of calculating affects people at every karma level, not just those of us who've whored 50 points.
You've really got to love slashdot math. 50 + 1 - 1 = 49. Would it really be that hard to calculate an overall value per comment and apply that to karma? E.G. 50 + (+1 - 1)=50 It seems so simple I'd be embarassed not to use it. Am I missing something that makes this impractical?
If I go rent a movie instead they'll lose business too (even more so). That doesn't mean it should be illegal. Life isn't fair. You can't legislate a profit although many seem to enjoy the challenge.
I can't speak for windows machines, but when novell servers syncronize time, it actually accelerates the rate at which time passes until the times match rather than just jumping to the correct time so it can take a couple minutes to make up a big difference. I guess this prevents timestamps on files and such from getting screwed up too much.
Encryption would be useless. If a client can decrypt it, the [RI|MP]AA can also. Proxies could help, but I'm sure that would only slow them down. It would have to be something along the lines of freenet.
For the time being, the USA has enough financial/economic clout to do pretty much whatever we want. That certainly won't always be the case, nor is it necesarily ok, but it's the truth. One day the US will be smacked down, but it won't be this year or the next.
With all due respect, you're an idiot. The second a few big distributers get busted, the majority of distributers will cower under their beds. Would you be willing to share GBs of MP3s on your broadband connection if the other big guys around you were getting their systems confiscated and facing major fines they could lose their homes over? History has shown intimidation works well, and it will continue to work well. People just want their music; they don't care about fighting the man.
I'm sure it'll thrive in the market as well as Winmodems. I'll just be keeping my eyes open for a PC mod chip.
That's something you don't have to worry about with water cooled systems though. Unless you use peltiers or refrigeration of some sort, the water will stay at a couple degrees above room temperature at the most. With only radiator cooling it's nearly impossible for the temp to fall below room temperature which is required for condensation to occur.
I've always been nervous about the idea of mixing water and electricity...
Why? Water doesn't conduct electricity.
Actually you want distilled deionized water with some Water Wetter or something like that. Although it might be worth the added risk to be able to say you need to pick up some Evion for your computer.
Just wait until M$ decides to get a search engine...
You mean kinda like this?
It costs Microsoft money the same way refilling ink cartridges costs printer companies money. Microsoft is losing something like $150 on each X-Box it sells. Any X-Box that is used for something other than selling game cartridges cost MS money.
Wrong. What costs MS money is selling the X-Box below cost. That money is already lost. They hope to balance that loss with profits from games. Nothing you do after purchasing that X-Box will cost Microsoft money.
...or maybe we're just the result of a virus of intergalactic scale that some teenage cthulhu accidentally released from his basement.