<quote><p> And to people using NT back then, Mac must have been a really bad joke.</p></quote>
No, Windows NT was not always better. I had 5 macs on OS 9 running one application combining: applescript, filemaker, photoshop, the predecessor of ImageJ, a scanner and a shared printer with permanently 30' in the buffer. With only one unstable Mac. By lack of Macs I had to add two NT PCs who implemented the first step of the process with only a scanner and photoshop, and there the trouble began as the PCs had a downtime of 20%.
<quote><p>If French courts are anything like courts in the rest of the world, the "spirit" of the law will apply.....</p><p>Basically - yawn!</p></quote>
Patents: If the US courts are anything... etc.
My guess is that in Common Law, the law becomes 'clear and unambiguous' by precedence (the spirit of the law), where outside the Commonwealth and the like, a law could stand more by itself. Anyway it is a new law, the spirit is the text of the lawmakers not what a judge thinks to see in it.
Yes, escape velocity is about is more an expression for energy, not speed. But the slower you go the more energy you need, and in a certain way the higer the escape velocity will be.
<quote><p>especially that Galileo only defended heliocentrism, as was described by Copernicus ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism</a> )</p></quote>
And Tycho Brahe had already proven that heliocentrism was false, leaving us with the choice between geocentrism and the cosmos.
I thought using the sun is good enough: Fill a PET bottle with water, leave it on your roof for a week. Given some African sun the water should be nearly sterile by then.
But then what about: the possible heavy metals, nasty chemicals, and what if there is no roof, and if it rains the whole week, can you wait a week,...
Only thirteen British colonies where involved in the American Revolutionary War. Sarah Palin for example could claim it was Russia, where George Bush could refer to Mexico, etc.
<quote><p>Microsoft played an even worse trick with Word for Windows when they released version 6 in '93 after their previous version 2 from '91. Afterall, WordPerfect was also at version 6, so now Word was up to speed as well.</p></quote>
Yes, but: - Word 5.1 for the Macintosh, released in 1992 - Version 6.0 for the Macintosh, released in 1994, was widely derided, unlike the Windows version. It was the first version of Word based on a common codebase between the Windows and Mac versions
<quote><p><p>In Europe (and presumably the Americas outside of the US), there is generally no strict separation between church and state, and religous education in schools is common - so there is no need to disguise religion as science.</p></quote>
True in Europe, we don't just print 'in god we trust' on bills, we print the whole bible on every bill
<quote><p>Imagine that a party leader becomes responsible for the actions of the members of his party. Some lowly member cheats, the leader gets a bullet in the head. </quote>
Never cheat on your own data, always rig your neighbours data.
<quote><p>I'll eat my hat if Apple sells 12 million iPads in 2010</p></quote> I don't expect it either but looking at the iPhone figures, they might.
<quote><p>Perhaps 3-5 million units will be "cannibalized" from Netbook sales by the end of the year.</p></quote> Yes but that's a 3-5 million dent in a period equivalent of 15 million netbooks sales. It's more than "about 5% of sales"
<quote><p>You took a robot, capable of crunching numbers at speeds in excess of a thousand calculations per second, programmed it and engineered it to perform a specific task, </quote>
Let him pick small fuzzy things on a fuzzy surface. Hankerchiefs,... whatever.
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Nothing new, the Mechanical Turk did it already more than 200 years ago.
It doesn't matter, Opera does not fit. Extensions, speed, bloated, ... are just excuses.
<quote><p> And to people using NT back then, Mac must have been a really bad joke.</p></quote>
No, Windows NT was not always better. I had 5 macs on OS 9 running one application combining: applescript, filemaker, photoshop, the predecessor of ImageJ, a scanner and a shared printer with permanently 30' in the buffer. With only one unstable Mac. By lack of Macs I had to add two NT PCs who implemented the first step of the process with only a scanner and photoshop, and there the trouble began as the PCs had a downtime of 20%.
<quote><p>If French courts are anything like courts in the rest of the world, the "spirit" of the law will apply. ....</p><p>Basically - yawn!</p></quote>
... etc.
Patents: If the US courts are anything
My guess is that in Common Law, the law becomes 'clear and unambiguous' by precedence (the spirit of the law), where outside the Commonwealth and the like, a law could stand more by itself. Anyway it is a new law, the spirit is the text of the lawmakers not what a judge thinks to see in it.
Yes, escape velocity is about is more an expression for energy, not speed. But the slower you go the more energy you need, and in a certain way the higer the escape velocity will be.
<quote><p>especially that Galileo only defended heliocentrism, as was described by Copernicus ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism</a> )</p></quote>
And Tycho Brahe had already proven that heliocentrism was false, leaving us with the choice between geocentrism and the cosmos.
<quote><p>
- 97,000 - 106,000 Civilian deaths</p><p>Afghanistan:
</p></quote>
Maybe not:
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq
1,360,000 death
I thought using the sun is good enough: Fill a PET bottle with water, leave it on your roof for a week. Given some African sun the water should be nearly sterile by then.
...
But then what about: the possible heavy metals, nasty chemicals, and what if there is no roof, and if it rains the whole week, can you wait a week,
Only thirteen British colonies where involved in the American Revolutionary War. Sarah Palin for example could claim it was Russia, where George Bush could refer to Mexico, etc.
<quote><p>Microsoft played an even worse trick with Word for Windows when they released version 6 in '93 after their previous version 2 from '91. Afterall, WordPerfect was also at version 6, so now Word was up to speed as well.</p></quote>
Yes, but:
- Word 5.1 for the Macintosh, released in 1992
- Version 6.0 for the Macintosh, released in 1994, was widely derided, unlike the Windows version. It was the first version of Word based on a common codebase between the Windows and Mac versions
<quote><p>they need Pu-238 (the alpha emmiter).</p></quote>
Interesting (was a good question), with an alpha emitter there is probably no need for heavy shielding.
<quote><p>Always use "Lorem Ipsum" text when you're doing layout work and don't want to be concerned with actual content.</p></quote>
Keep the Vatican out of this
<quote>Israelis couple their technique with some of the most thorough background checks and heavy racial profiling</quote>
Racial profiling won't help considering that Palestinians have the same DNA profile as average Israelis
<quote><p>two parallel wires carrying current in opposite directions will repel each other</p></quote>
Thanks. Maybe this explains how it works, as the wires are pushed apart when they touch each other.
How are the physics, will the two (light uninsulated) wires attract or repel each other?
- electrostatic = attract
- magnetic ?
<quote><p><p>In Europe (and presumably the Americas outside of the US), there is generally no strict separation between church and state, and religous education in schools is common - so there is no need to disguise religion as science.</p></quote>
True in Europe, we don't just print 'in god we trust' on bills, we print the whole bible on every bill
<quote><p>Imagine that a party leader becomes responsible for the actions of the members of his party. Some lowly member cheats, the leader gets a bullet in the head.
</quote>
Never cheat on your own data, always rig your neighbours data.
<quote><p>I'll eat my hat if Apple sells 12 million iPads in 2010</p></quote>
I don't expect it either but looking at the iPhone figures, they might.
<quote><p>Perhaps 3-5 million units will be "cannibalized" from Netbook sales by the end of the year.</p></quote>
Yes but that's a 3-5 million dent in a period equivalent of 15 million netbooks sales. It's more than "about 5% of sales"
if you can sell it 12 months in a year
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<quote>1. We'll never be able to beat a robot's reaction times {see note} speed and/or raw power</quote>
A robot playing tennis? Anyone
<quote><p>You took a robot, capable of crunching numbers at speeds in excess of a thousand calculations per second, programmed it and engineered it to perform a specific task, </quote>
... whatever.
Let him pick small fuzzy things on a fuzzy surface. Hankerchiefs,
'extending the frontiers of exploration beyond the wildest dreams of the early space pioneers,'
NASA underestimates dreams
We get the price of the seat, what does it cost to the NASA to set an astronaut into that seat? The NASA budget / 6 ?
"95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam"
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
So I read "95% of User Generated Content is stupid" I agree, count me in.