between 2 percent and 5 percent of travelers get singled out for additional screening. The exact selection criteria aren't publicly available, but ethnicity is probably a consideration [...] Secondary screening can involve hours of questioning. Agents have been known to click through all of a traveler's digital photographs. Body searches are common, and agents usually take luggage apart one item at a time.
This does not sound better. Just racist, inefficient, and highly subjective.
TFA states that some species, such as the mosquito fish, are genetically imprinted to seek mosquitos as their only food source. Predator/prey relationships can be highly specific, so it's possible we'd cause a few "collateral damage" extinctions.
The best way to make coding fun is to do a project of your own. Make a fancy website, or a music or movie playing application, or a simple game. Something you can make progress on within a couple days.
Functions written in the early parts of the game could be used in subsequent challenges if not required.
The game SpaceChem provides exactly this. The player makes simple machines to assemble and break apart molecules. A lot of fun, especially if you have a programmer mindset.
They even demo'd Final Fantasy 7 for the PS3, and promptly dropped it after getting the fans excited. Redoing FF7 would be a damned easy way to make a ton of money AND make people happy at the same time.
The Top Gear show in question was the first I ever saw of the Tesla roadster. I came away from it wildly impressed. Maybe they misrepresented Tesla on a few specific spots, but overall it was a positive message. You should watch the actual show if you're going to debate whether they were biased.
The basic idea is to take a computational chemistry package and run it through a genetic algorithm to search for suitable candidates that solve certain problems.
Here, try mine.
Chembench is a web-based computational chemistry tool, runs genetic algorithm based models (among others).
The physics were over my head, too, but that wasn't a problem. We used commercial descriptor calculation tools for a while. Now the open-source chemical descriptors provided in CDK are getting good enough to replace those.
And Kongregate is a massive collection of Flash games. Many of them are left-mouse-button only. Their desire to make a gaming tablet makes much more sense given that information.
TFS: " each of whom have an average of 130 friends...
CC.
Actually, 130 is just right.
Dunbar's Number:
Dunbar's number is suggested to be a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person.[1] Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restrictive rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar's number. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 230, with a commonly used value of 150.
Thirding the orange Tamrac Aero. I've had mine for three years and carry my 17" laptop in it daily. DSLR + 4 lenses fits in the camera section when I'm hiking or vacationing. Even has a spare pocket for sandwiches! Very sturdy and reliable.
If you're looking for a hack-and-slash fix, there are hundreds of free alternatives; I'm loving Dragon Nest at the moment. And also plenty of very high-quality ones that you only have to pay for once, such as Guild Wars 2.
I'm not interested in paying money for a game that exists to sell me more crap. Diablo III is just Mafia Wars in RPG form.
Slashdot Mirror
If they continued to support SOPA it would have really hurt.
They DID continue to support SOPA. They just released some damage-control PR saying they weren't supporting it as strongly.
between 2 percent and 5 percent of travelers get singled out for additional screening. The exact selection criteria aren't publicly available, but ethnicity is probably a consideration [...] Secondary screening can involve hours of questioning. Agents have been known to click through all of a traveler's digital photographs. Body searches are common, and agents usually take luggage apart one item at a time.
This does not sound better. Just racist, inefficient, and highly subjective.
My favorite .bs domain (Yes, it is SFW.)
TFA states that some species, such as the mosquito fish, are genetically imprinted to seek mosquitos as their only food source. Predator/prey relationships can be highly specific, so it's possible we'd cause a few "collateral damage" extinctions.
metrics provide little insight
If only we had some kind of.... metric metric.
The best way to make coding fun is to do a project of your own. Make a fancy website, or a music or movie playing application, or a simple game. Something you can make progress on within a couple days.
PACE? HELP? STROKE? TIME?
The acronym is FAST - Face, Arms, Speech, Time. I learned it from watching House, so I think you have a point!
Functions written in the early parts of the game could be used in subsequent challenges if not required.
The game SpaceChem provides exactly this. The player makes simple machines to assemble and break apart molecules. A lot of fun, especially if you have a programmer mindset.
I have found that being a scientist is a fantastic way to learn how to think like a scientist.
They even demo'd Final Fantasy 7 for the PS3, and promptly dropped it after getting the fans excited. Redoing FF7 would be a damned easy way to make a ton of money AND make people happy at the same time.
Blacking out the secrets clearly isn't a good strategy.
Next time, they should just put whiteout on the screen to cover up the secret parts.
(Relevant xkcd)
The Top Gear show in question was the first I ever saw of the Tesla roadster. I came away from it wildly impressed. Maybe they misrepresented Tesla on a few specific spots, but overall it was a positive message. You should watch the actual show if you're going to debate whether they were biased.
The basic idea is to take a computational chemistry package and run it through a genetic algorithm to search for suitable candidates that solve certain problems.
Here, try mine.
Chembench is a web-based computational chemistry tool, runs genetic algorithm based models (among others).
The physics were over my head, too, but that wasn't a problem. We used commercial descriptor calculation tools for a while. Now the open-source chemical descriptors provided in CDK are getting good enough to replace those.
And Kongregate is a massive collection of Flash games. Many of them are left-mouse-button only. Their desire to make a gaming tablet makes much more sense given that information.
We put all our officers in these ten spots, and in these ten spots, our officers found crimes! The new prediction system must be working like a charm!
TFS: " each of whom have an average of 130 friends...
CC.
Actually, 130 is just right.
Dunbar's Number: Dunbar's number is suggested to be a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person.[1] Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restrictive rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar's number. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 230, with a commonly used value of 150.
Thirding the orange Tamrac Aero. I've had mine for three years and carry my 17" laptop in it daily. DSLR + 4 lenses fits in the camera section when I'm hiking or vacationing. Even has a spare pocket for sandwiches! Very sturdy and reliable.
I blame hipsters! (Is it still cool to blame hipsters?)
It was only cool to blame hipsters before it was cool to blame hipsters.
And here's an unrelated but great song about her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu_zwdmz0hE
Mod parent up.
If you're looking for a hack-and-slash fix, there are hundreds of free alternatives; I'm loving Dragon Nest at the moment. And also plenty of very high-quality ones that you only have to pay for once, such as Guild Wars 2.
I'm not interested in paying money for a game that exists to sell me more crap. Diablo III is just Mafia Wars in RPG form.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2320
"Any creative professional will testify just how hard it can be to convince IT managers to allow the use of Macs in Windows-dominated environments."
You mean, any creative professional who uses a Mac.
http://xkcd.com/927/
And Swasey said, "Let them drink lattes..."