"but, don't you need to have the file in order to connect to the swarm?" No. In most cases of file sharing, the very reason to join the activity is to gain the file you don't have, which clearly indicates you do NOT need to have the file in order to connect to the swarm. (Honestly, do you keep looking for your keys after you find them?)
When the h#@* did an imaginary alien invasion become a talking point in the debates?!?!
We're far more likely to be invaded by African Pygmies than Extraterrestrials.
For that matter, despite what Hollywood shows in it's movies, we'd be toast. It would be like a 2 cavemen in a dugout canoe trying to fight the WW2 Allied D-Day Invasion force backed up with 3 nuclear aircraft carriers.
Hybridization is more like surgery by a blind 'surgeon' using a shotgun, with the nurses in post-op making the decision if the patient shows any improvements or if they have to go in and try again. The process of hybridization is one of breed a hybrid, check the offspring for the desired trait, keep at it until you have some successes. But wait, even when you have the success in getting the trait, you aren't done. You may need to strengthen the trait as it could be too feeble or recessive, and you tend to have bunch of undesirable traits. You try again with your last batch of 'successes' and try to improve the weak stuff you want, and reduce the bad stuff you don't. Lets just say it's never 100%. You want some examples, sure, look at pure bred animals. How about dogs, they are popular in the USA. Those purebreeds almost always have negative traits, some of which are not insignificant. As a professional dog breeder, they can tell you all about them. Even when a breed has been around for centuries, they are still trying to get rid of the bad traits. Yeah, the main difference between those and plants is you can grow a lot more plants and throw away the undesirables without the SPCA having you arrested, and plants usually don't bite you.
No, they're still nutjobs. One non-gmo being declared a gmo when it fires up it's don't f-ing eat you you damn cow defense in drought situation and thus killing some cows dumb enough to eat it, then the press falsely declaring it a gmo, does not make the wackos correct, nor sane.
It is true they are pre-fabbing the building, then just assembling it rather than doing what we would usually consider constructing a building, but they are also claiming 90 DAYS vs 5 YEARS, as well as $628 MILLION vs $ 1.5 BILLION. Now, if you scour the new releases from China over the past decade, you will see an increasing pattern of false or heavily exaggerated claims. There have also been a number of scandals in their construction industry. So taking all that into account, does this sound like a reasonable claim from a construction company, or propaganda style B.S. ?
In my opinion, I would think the $628,000,000 would be significantly dented by the concrete needed. Then you've also got the actual construction of the components from it, and the trucking from the plant to the site, assuming it's not being built on site. Time would be a major issue, since it takes years to build cruise ships which are much smaller than that building, don't have the same height issues, and still make heavy use of prefabbed components, and the costs are withing a few hundred million of each other. So, unless someone is using some kind of reverse Hollywood Accounting on both cost and time, I really can't see those numbers being anything other than Lies, Propaganda, or Delusions. (And if they are using rHA, it's definitely delusional.)
I know two professors, one in math, currently working on open source text books at my local college. I know the math prof is looking for a stable book (not reshuffling the order of the problems and calling it a new edition), the ability to correct errors (some of these books have had the same blatant errors for over a decade), the ability to customize for your curriculum (the regular publishers won't even fix obvious errors, so nobody expects them to listen to requests/suggestions), and a reasonable cost (whatever printing costs if you don't have a laptop or something since $120 for a math book loaded with errors is INSANE.)
There are plenty of free or open source textbooks listed if you search, and whether it's appropriate for your class depends on your requirements. Other than that, I can't say anything about the quality of all of them, only the half dozen I've reviewed which looked just fine, but the teachers hadn't gone through them yet.
Neither the tsunamis nor the various storms are doing anything new, it's just that the floating dock was one of the largest things to float over here on the currents in a while. As a kid my parents walked on the Oregon coast picking up Japanese glass fishing floats that had broken loose from from their nets in storms and made their way here. (You can still search for them now, but most of the floats are now plastic, and there are dedicated collectors and resellers that comb the beaches at 2am with searchlights to get them first so you'd be extremely lucky to find one now.)
Anytime a big storm or tsunami (or tidal wave if you like) would hit Japan, you knew there'd be more stuff in the currents to show up over here eventually. It often had growth on it, so those invasive species have already tried invading at about a million times a decade.
Sure it's interesting, and for a marine biologist, a great opportunity to have such a large sample delivered to his or her beach without having to spring for a very expensive plane ticket, but why are so many people going bat-s#@% paranoid over a regular occurrence.
300% is correct because he's specifying "faster" than, which means that first 100% is not part of the result since that is not 'faster', it is in fact the base value.
Ok, sure the job is hard, but it is modeling at a public venue, in other words showing yourself off in eye catching outfits in an attempt to draw attention to yourself and those you represent. To say a booth babe doesn't like being stared at is like a physician that despises sick people. If you can't take a basic and obvious requirement of the job, you really shouldn't be trying to do the job in the first place.
Years ago they were worried that the launch facility in Florida would have a negative impact on the surrounding wildlife. Turns out it was one of the best things that could have happened down there. Besides, I've seen Texan deer, your dog is probably bigger.
For some reason you guys have reminded me of all the calls I used to get where people had moved their windows swap file to a ramdisk and they couldn't figure out why their systems destabilized and spit up digital hairballs when the machine was under a heavy work load.
There is a general tendency for media world wide to call any group that isn't backed by some government or known major religion to be called anarchists when they engage in terrorist type activities. Of course those same media people in the USA also like to call almost anything they disagree with politically terrorism, so basically the media people are full of more excrement than your local sewage processing facility. And no, I do not support the ideals of those cowardly murderers (or attempted murderers) in any way shape or form.
" three counts of intentionally accessing computers without authorization or intentionally causing damage to a protected computer"
You'd think the threats and other stuff would kick on a few other charges than those. ianal but I bet even I could find at least a half dozen additional things to nail them with.
I wonder if they'll let him keep his job. (Politics are bizarre.)
You've posted here, so we already know you aren't a number, but I can guarantee you HAVE a number. Probably several depending on which company or agency you check.
The chips can't be effectively disabled. You can flag them in the database and deny services, EXACTLY like they already do for people based on your identity. To get around it, you use a false identity. Do you really think a criminal wouldn't have a means of getting a forged chip? I could do it right now for a lot less than $1000, and that's not for one, it's for the gear to burn my own and a bunch of blanks. Of course I'm talking about the ones they implant in pets, but do you really think they'll develop a new version for humans? (If you don't know, the answer is no way.)
Not to mention it takes time to examine a fingerprint, unless you choose to use a lower accuracy rate, and fingerprints can get altered over time, especially due to disease, injury, or in some cases, certain types of work.
On the other hand, a chip won't change, it can be read in less than a second without any appreciable level of error, and they types they are using now should outlast the lifetime of any human.
Although I find the idea of being chipped rather creepy, it's effectively not a lot different than being forced to carry ID, except it can't easily be stolen or lost. Of course, depending on where the chip is, it should be rather easy to get something to block it from being read if you don't want to be scanned. Lifetime criminals will obviously remove them or get forged ones.
Kind of funny how they want to be so anally retentive over the grammar, and punctuation while paying no attention at all to the import part, the subject.
Yeah, my spelling, grammar, and punctuation suck. Nobody cares.
Drat, my keyboard is dropping stuff, the battery is low. And yeah, rangecheck is nothing special, we were doing those same things back in the 80s. We wrote them ourselves in less than 10 minutes since they were simply on requirement our programs were required to do when we got our daily assignments. Also, the smaller any chunk of code is, the more it tends to resemble any other small chunk of code that does the same task. (It's like asking a group of people to write a sonnet, each will be very different. Then asking those same people to write a list of vowels, most of them will look exactly alike.)
I started programming when I was in high school. It was the first time in my life I had access to a computer. About a half dozen of us worked together to figure out how to program the computers, since there were no classes for it and nobody at the school had any idea how use them either. If you are wondering why I didin't just google it, Google.com didn't exist. For that matter, neither did the internet, and aarpanet wasn't available to civilians, much less curious teenagers.
You either forget that access to computers as a fairly ubiquitous thing is very very new. If you want to look at anyone 30+ there is a distinct possibility that they didn't have the opportunity to play with computers until they were adults. There are still plenty of school districts that don't have computers available for the students to use, much less an actual class. And even if they do have computers available for the students, it may be less than would be required for a single class, much less the entire student body.
I think you should re-evaluate your question. You've had an opportunity that many people don't, and that in no way makes them stupid. Though your ignorance of those circumstances, or your out of hand dismissal of that reality, in way shows signs of intellect on your part. Though I can say it shows a distinct lack of critical thinking skills and manners.
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"but, don't you need to have the file in order to connect to the swarm?"
No.
In most cases of file sharing, the very reason to join the activity is to gain the file you don't have, which clearly indicates you do NOT need to have the file in order to connect to the swarm. (Honestly, do you keep looking for your keys after you find them?)
When the h#@* did an imaginary alien invasion become a talking point in the debates?!?!
We're far more likely to be invaded by African Pygmies than Extraterrestrials.
For that matter, despite what Hollywood shows in it's movies, we'd be toast. It would be like a 2 cavemen in a dugout canoe trying to fight the WW2 Allied D-Day Invasion force backed up with 3 nuclear aircraft carriers.
So long as it's a 21 gun salute to the face. :)
To the really stupid and violent out there, not literally, but I still hate spammers and spam trolls.
Hybridization is more like surgery by a blind 'surgeon' using a shotgun, with the nurses in post-op making the decision if the patient shows any improvements or if they have to go in and try again.
The process of hybridization is one of breed a hybrid, check the offspring for the desired trait, keep at it until you have some successes. But wait, even when you have the success in getting the trait, you aren't done. You may need to strengthen the trait as it could be too feeble or recessive, and you tend to have bunch of undesirable traits. You try again with your last batch of 'successes' and try to improve the weak stuff you want, and reduce the bad stuff you don't. Lets just say it's never 100%.
You want some examples, sure, look at pure bred animals. How about dogs, they are popular in the USA. Those purebreeds almost always have negative traits, some of which are not insignificant. As a professional dog breeder, they can tell you all about them. Even when a breed has been around for centuries, they are still trying to get rid of the bad traits. Yeah, the main difference between those and plants is you can grow a lot more plants and throw away the undesirables without the SPCA having you arrested, and plants usually don't bite you.
No, they're still nutjobs. One non-gmo being declared a gmo when it fires up it's don't f-ing eat you you damn cow defense in drought situation and thus killing some cows dumb enough to eat it, then the press falsely declaring it a gmo, does not make the wackos correct, nor sane.
It is true they are pre-fabbing the building, then just assembling it rather than doing what we would usually consider constructing a building, but they are also claiming 90 DAYS vs 5 YEARS, as well as $628 MILLION vs $ 1.5 BILLION. Now, if you scour the new releases from China over the past decade, you will see an increasing pattern of false or heavily exaggerated claims. There have also been a number of scandals in their construction industry.
So taking all that into account, does this sound like a reasonable claim from a construction company, or propaganda style B.S. ?
In my opinion, I would think the $628,000,000 would be significantly dented by the concrete needed. Then you've also got the actual construction of the components from it, and the trucking from the plant to the site, assuming it's not being built on site. Time would be a major issue, since it takes years to build cruise ships which are much smaller than that building, don't have the same height issues, and still make heavy use of prefabbed components, and the costs are withing a few hundred million of each other. So, unless someone is using some kind of reverse Hollywood Accounting on both cost and time, I really can't see those numbers being anything other than Lies, Propaganda, or Delusions. (And if they are using rHA, it's definitely delusional.)
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I've had both, T-bone is over-rated. Now T-bird on the other hand, but that's a lot more expensive than a steak. :)
I know two professors, one in math, currently working on open source text books at my local college. I know the math prof is looking for a stable book (not reshuffling the order of the problems and calling it a new edition), the ability to correct errors (some of these books have had the same blatant errors for over a decade), the ability to customize for your curriculum (the regular publishers won't even fix obvious errors, so nobody expects them to listen to requests/suggestions), and a reasonable cost (whatever printing costs if you don't have a laptop or something since $120 for a math book loaded with errors is INSANE.)
There are plenty of free or open source textbooks listed if you search, and whether it's appropriate for your class depends on your requirements. Other than that, I can't say anything about the quality of all of them, only the half dozen I've reviewed which looked just fine, but the teachers hadn't gone through them yet.
Neither the tsunamis nor the various storms are doing anything new, it's just that the floating dock was one of the largest things to float over here on the currents in a while. As a kid my parents walked on the Oregon coast picking up Japanese glass fishing floats that had broken loose from from their nets in storms and made their way here. (You can still search for them now, but most of the floats are now plastic, and there are dedicated collectors and resellers that comb the beaches at 2am with searchlights to get them first so you'd be extremely lucky to find one now.)
Anytime a big storm or tsunami (or tidal wave if you like) would hit Japan, you knew there'd be more stuff in the currents to show up over here eventually. It often had growth on it, so those invasive species have already tried invading at about a million times a decade.
Sure it's interesting, and for a marine biologist, a great opportunity to have such a large sample delivered to his or her beach without having to spring for a very expensive plane ticket, but why are so many people going bat-s#@% paranoid over a regular occurrence.
300% is correct because he's specifying "faster" than, which means that first 100% is not part of the result since that is not 'faster', it is in fact the base value.
Ok, sure the job is hard, but it is modeling at a public venue, in other words showing yourself off in eye catching outfits in an attempt to draw attention to yourself and those you represent.
To say a booth babe doesn't like being stared at is like a physician that despises sick people.
If you can't take a basic and obvious requirement of the job, you really shouldn't be trying to do the job in the first place.
Maybe we got grazed by a near miss Gamma Ray Burst, or hit with one that was so far away it's energy levels were greatly depleted.
Action & Adventure or Moralizing Emo?
:), latter :(
imo - former
Years ago they were worried that the launch facility in Florida would have a negative impact on the surrounding wildlife.
Turns out it was one of the best things that could have happened down there.
Besides, I've seen Texan deer, your dog is probably bigger.
For some reason you guys have reminded me of all the calls I used to get where people had moved their windows swap file to a ramdisk and they couldn't figure out why their systems destabilized and spit up digital hairballs when the machine was under a heavy work load.
There is a general tendency for media world wide to call any group that isn't backed by some government or known major religion to be called anarchists when they engage in terrorist type activities. Of course those same media people in the USA also like to call almost anything they disagree with politically terrorism, so basically the media people are full of more excrement than your local sewage processing facility.
And no, I do not support the ideals of those cowardly murderers (or attempted murderers) in any way shape or form.
I started in the late 70s, and there were no d100s either, but that didn't stop us.
I have a pair of d3s. They are d6s numbered from 1 to 3 twice. I've seen other d3s that only have 3 sides. They aren't flat, but they work.
" three counts of intentionally accessing computers without authorization or intentionally causing damage to a protected computer"
You'd think the threats and other stuff would kick on a few other charges than those. ianal but I bet even I could find at least a half dozen additional things to nail them with.
I wonder if they'll let him keep his job. (Politics are bizarre.)
You've posted here, so we already know you aren't a number, but I can guarantee you HAVE a number. Probably several depending on which company or agency you check.
The chips can't be effectively disabled. You can flag them in the database and deny services, EXACTLY like they already do for people based on your identity. To get around it, you use a false identity. Do you really think a criminal wouldn't have a means of getting a forged chip? I could do it right now for a lot less than $1000, and that's not for one, it's for the gear to burn my own and a bunch of blanks. Of course I'm talking about the ones they implant in pets, but do you really think they'll develop a new version for humans? (If you don't know, the answer is no way.)
Not to mention it takes time to examine a fingerprint, unless you choose to use a lower accuracy rate, and fingerprints can get altered over time, especially due to disease, injury, or in some cases, certain types of work.
On the other hand, a chip won't change, it can be read in less than a second without any appreciable level of error, and they types they are using now should outlast the lifetime of any human.
Although I find the idea of being chipped rather creepy, it's effectively not a lot different than being forced to carry ID, except it can't easily be stolen or lost. Of course, depending on where the chip is, it should be rather easy to get something to block it from being read if you don't want to be scanned. Lifetime criminals will obviously remove them or get forged ones.
Kind of funny how they want to be so anally retentive over the grammar, and punctuation while paying no attention at all to the import part, the subject.
Yeah, my spelling, grammar, and punctuation suck. Nobody cares.
Drat, my keyboard is dropping stuff, the battery is low. And yeah, rangecheck is nothing special, we were doing those same things back in the 80s. We wrote them ourselves in less than 10 minutes since they were simply on requirement our programs were required to do when we got our daily assignments. Also, the smaller any chunk of code is, the more it tends to resemble any other small chunk of code that does the same task. (It's like asking a group of people to write a sonnet, each will be very different. Then asking those same people to write a list of vowels, most of them will look exactly alike.)
I started programming when I was in high school. It was the first time in my life I had access to a computer. About a half dozen of us worked together to figure out how to program the computers, since there were no classes for it and nobody at the school had any idea how use them either. If you are wondering why I didin't just google it, Google.com didn't exist. For that matter, neither did the internet, and aarpanet wasn't available to civilians, much less curious teenagers.
You either forget that access to computers as a fairly ubiquitous thing is very very new. If you want to look at anyone 30+ there is a distinct possibility that they didn't have the opportunity to play with computers until they were adults. There are still plenty of school districts that don't have computers available for the students to use, much less an actual class. And even if they do have computers available for the students, it may be less than would be required for a single class, much less the entire student body.
I think you should re-evaluate your question. You've had an opportunity that many people don't, and that in no way makes them stupid. Though your ignorance of those circumstances, or your out of hand dismissal of that reality, in way shows signs of intellect on your part. Though I can say it shows a distinct lack of critical thinking skills and manners.