Most users also want a good music player. No matter what you think of iTunes, the iTunes Store surpassed the 10,000,000,000 mark last February, and I still can't get past vastly inferior sound and a speaker that hisses because of a bug in the kernel.
The dark matter halo around our galaxy is theorized roughly as a large sphere, not just extra mass along the flattened wheel of the spiral.
I guess no one knows such things, but I wonder what would prevent it from clumping up like normal baryonic matter. Maybe it's too diffuse to form dark matter nebulae, but those are only held together by gravity too, right? Or would fast-moving particles just fly apart before gravity could act? Or maybe we just can't see the clumps. Or maybe it's a happy medium—loosely bound to the galaxy but nothing more...
Argghh! So many questions and so little knowledge of cosmology and particle physics!
Ah. After reading your analogy and then seeing your name, it was like stopping by the gas station and realizing you won't have enough quarters for laundry if you completely fill the tank. It really is incredible though. I read as many of those pop-sci books as I could get my hands on as a kid in the 90's, and it astounds me to see how our view of the universe has changed in just that short time. The fish bowl isn't a bad analogy overall—hopelessly inadequate, of course—but I've never felt so confined in a universe full of endless possibilities as I do right now.
After doing a bit of reading, it seems he's upset about his implied endorsement of the album. He is identified by name and as such will "be deprived of monetary sums" and suffer "irreparable harm" as a result of continued album sales. Good luck, sir.
I won't speculate about the legality, although I can only imagine that being utterly unidentifiable in a public domain photo isn't going to get you too far in court. What I will say though, is that if a photo of me in space made it onto an album cover, the music would have to be pretty horrendous and offensive for me to object. In fact, it would probably only end with me feeling pretty darned awesome and my mom buying a few copies to frame and hang on the wall.
There really are some adorable videos of my nephew stumbling through the ABC's and talking about Lady Gaga, and I do love a good political/philosophical discussion, but ten posts daily on "What [religious zealot] says about Christian relationships" aren't exactly stimulating debate. In fact, I find that facebook stifles interesting conversation in favor of movie quotes/song lyrics/dumb quips/travel plans. That said, there are about three or four now-distant friends that I keep in contact with very tenuously via facebook. For me, that's the foot in the door that keeps me checking it daily, if only for lack of something better to do.
Thanks for the wake-up call. I'm going to the library.
You never know what the whole story is. If I were desperately trying to keep my head above water and avoid foreclosure, I might let this fee lapse, assuming the chance of losing my house to foreclosure is much greater than losing it to a fire. Now I have no idea whether that's the situation or not, but I would agree that it should follow health care rules, i.e. that an emergency room is obligated to help a patient and sort out the billing later.
Yeah, because who doesn't already love calling their ISP multiple times to sort out subtle account errors? I moved up one floor in my apartment last month and had to make about five phone calls and wait two and a half weeks before they could send someone with the authority to call the ISP and verify the S/N on my cable modem. The real kicker was when he was put on hold for a few minutes. Tech support gets the same crappy music we do! Let's also not forget the huge fraction of the population that is nearly computer illiterate and is going to have an extremely difficult time sweeping their computer clean and convincing the ISP they can be reconnected. It's no big deal for your average/.'er, but as beneficial as it may be, it's also going to cause huge headaches across the country. Not that I'm against it, just that it's not a simple matter.
This guy already scored a lot of points by my count for doing something simple and cool with his kid, but he's since doubled it for inciting so much nerd rage. Take care and keep takin' that blood pressure medicine, Brett!
Can I get an Amen?! Let's see... next to articles about iPhone apps, data centers, and frickin' laser beams, this article was a lot more fresh and inspiring whether or not the concept is new at all and whether or not a reporter knows what altitude qualifies as 'space.' This sort of project is exactly what drove me into engineering in the first place, and the pedantry of academia is why I now hate it. So thanks, Luke and Max, for reminding me why I'm here!
I opened the tab in the background. "I love Horses." Okay... Lots of sick/. trolls around here... I tilted my head, I squinted my eyes, and... I clicked. Then I heard the music. And I felt much better. What a relief.
(I promise I'll get modded "troll" by someone who glanced at the link and assumed the worst. Hard to blame them, but I do love using those links whenever possible...)
In some areas, yes. See Red Forest. But that doesn't stop plants and animals from making their way back in, however slowly. Sounds like an extreme environment ripe for adaptation/evolution.
From what I understand, radiation tolerance of cockroaches is somewhat of an urban legend, but "a thriving fruit fly population" doesn't have much of a ring to it.
Anyone can make any sort of wild "forward looking statement". I may have designed a zero emissions perpetual motion power generator. If I can get enough hits to my site, and persuade enough investors, I'll make a fortune!
It's been done. But I get the sense they're more desperate than filthy rich.
Ya. I have gray hair... The cake is a lie!
I love that you have gray hair and said, "The cake is a lie!" In fact, I'd say this shows we've already entered a brave new world even if flying cars haven't really panned out. Fact is, it's 2000 and things are different. Even in my lifetime (no gray hair yet) computers and communication have become completely pervasive in every aspect of our lives. Things will be different in 2100 in ways you can't imagine—and won't really need to worry about—but it's just that the reporters get carried away and want to know every potential application of things like this. And the scientists who spend all day in those cramped labs start daydreaming about sex-bots and life goes on.
Yeah, the quote from the book was just because I thought it was too hilarious not to share. You're right though. I am missing out. I typed up a whole nice long rant, but all that really needs to be said is yeah, you're right.
Wow, really? In my discipline it's not unusual to have classes of 30-40 people with perhaps a female-type, maybe even two. It wasn't quite so bad at my previous school due to (her words) pretty good Boobs in Engineering Scholarships.
On a tangentially related note, I just ran across this problem in a textbook today:
The Housewife Problem: A bucket containing 6 liters of water is emptied onto the ground. Calculate the wet surface area A for a contact angle theta_E = 1 degree.
Answer: 120 m^2
Dang. I had, "She better clean that up right now and have dinner ready on time too if she knows what's good for her."
How far we've come since... Copyright 2004?!? Oh, the authors are all French...
Slashdot Mirror
Why not? The water bottle I'm holding was created only weeks ago, but I see no reason to doubt that it could take a thousand years to biodegrade.
But it's Apple... And this is slashdot...
Brain... struggling to... process cognitive dissonance...
Most users also want a good music player. No matter what you think of iTunes, the iTunes Store surpassed the 10,000,000,000 mark last February, and I still can't get past vastly inferior sound and a speaker that hisses because of a bug in the kernel.
Here's one thing *nix can do!
sudo echo "127.0.0.1 www.pcworld.com" >> /etc/hosts"
Goodbye.
Gosh, that really is painfully obvious. How embarrassing. Thanks!
The dark matter halo around our galaxy is theorized roughly as a large sphere, not just extra mass along the flattened wheel of the spiral.
I guess no one knows such things, but I wonder what would prevent it from clumping up like normal baryonic matter. Maybe it's too diffuse to form dark matter nebulae, but those are only held together by gravity too, right? Or would fast-moving particles just fly apart before gravity could act? Or maybe we just can't see the clumps. Or maybe it's a happy medium—loosely bound to the galaxy but nothing more...
Argghh! So many questions and so little knowledge of cosmology and particle physics!
I guess here's a good start, if you're not afraid of a little math.
Ah. After reading your analogy and then seeing your name, it was like stopping by the gas station and realizing you won't have enough quarters for laundry if you completely fill the tank. It really is incredible though. I read as many of those pop-sci books as I could get my hands on as a kid in the 90's, and it astounds me to see how our view of the universe has changed in just that short time. The fish bowl isn't a bad analogy overall—hopelessly inadequate, of course—but I've never felt so confined in a universe full of endless possibilities as I do right now.
That probably is it. My fascination with Buzz Aldrin has really inspired me to take an interest in the series, "Date My Mom."
After doing a bit of reading, it seems he's upset about his implied endorsement of the album. He is identified by name and as such will "be deprived of monetary sums" and suffer "irreparable harm" as a result of continued album sales. Good luck, sir.
I won't speculate about the legality, although I can only imagine that being utterly unidentifiable in a public domain photo isn't going to get you too far in court. What I will say though, is that if a photo of me in space made it onto an album cover, the music would have to be pretty horrendous and offensive for me to object. In fact, it would probably only end with me feeling pretty darned awesome and my mom buying a few copies to frame and hang on the wall.
Needs more cat.
There really are some adorable videos of my nephew stumbling through the ABC's and talking about Lady Gaga, and I do love a good political/philosophical discussion, but ten posts daily on "What [religious zealot] says about Christian relationships" aren't exactly stimulating debate. In fact, I find that facebook stifles interesting conversation in favor of movie quotes/song lyrics/dumb quips/travel plans. That said, there are about three or four now-distant friends that I keep in contact with very tenuously via facebook. For me, that's the foot in the door that keeps me checking it daily, if only for lack of something better to do.
Thanks for the wake-up call. I'm going to the library.
You never know what the whole story is. If I were desperately trying to keep my head above water and avoid foreclosure, I might let this fee lapse, assuming the chance of losing my house to foreclosure is much greater than losing it to a fire. Now I have no idea whether that's the situation or not, but I would agree that it should follow health care rules, i.e. that an emergency room is obligated to help a patient and sort out the billing later.
Yeah, because who doesn't already love calling their ISP multiple times to sort out subtle account errors? I moved up one floor in my apartment last month and had to make about five phone calls and wait two and a half weeks before they could send someone with the authority to call the ISP and verify the S/N on my cable modem. The real kicker was when he was put on hold for a few minutes. Tech support gets the same crappy music we do! Let's also not forget the huge fraction of the population that is nearly computer illiterate and is going to have an extremely difficult time sweeping their computer clean and convincing the ISP they can be reconnected. It's no big deal for your average /.'er, but as beneficial as it may be, it's also going to cause huge headaches across the country. Not that I'm against it, just that it's not a simple matter.
This guy already scored a lot of points by my count for doing something simple and cool with his kid, but he's since doubled it for inciting so much nerd rage. Take care and keep takin' that blood pressure medicine, Brett!
Can I get an Amen?! Let's see... next to articles about iPhone apps, data centers, and frickin' laser beams, this article was a lot more fresh and inspiring whether or not the concept is new at all and whether or not a reporter knows what altitude qualifies as 'space.' This sort of project is exactly what drove me into engineering in the first place, and the pedantry of academia is why I now hate it. So thanks, Luke and Max, for reminding me why I'm here!
I opened the tab in the background. "I love Horses." Okay... Lots of sick /. trolls around here... I tilted my head, I squinted my eyes, and... I clicked. Then I heard the music. And I felt much better. What a relief.
Personally, I find the trend of redirecting to innocent sites via shady URL's much more alarming: http://5z8.info/foodporn_e0g0l_taliban-meetup
(I promise I'll get modded "troll" by someone who glanced at the link and assumed the worst. Hard to blame them, but I do love using those links whenever possible...)
[citation needed]
Did all the plants die off after Chernobyl?
In some areas, yes. See Red Forest. But that doesn't stop plants and animals from making their way back in, however slowly. Sounds like an extreme environment ripe for adaptation/evolution.
From what I understand, radiation tolerance of cockroaches is somewhat of an urban legend, but "a thriving fruit fly population" doesn't have much of a ring to it.
oh thats right All non-Apple OS's do.
FTFY.
Anyone can make any sort of wild "forward looking statement". I may have designed a zero emissions perpetual motion power generator. If I can get enough hits to my site, and persuade enough investors, I'll make a fortune!
It's been done. But I get the sense they're more desperate than filthy rich.
Ya. I have gray hair... The cake is a lie!
I love that you have gray hair and said, "The cake is a lie!" In fact, I'd say this shows we've already entered a brave new world even if flying cars haven't really panned out. Fact is, it's 2000 and things are different. Even in my lifetime (no gray hair yet) computers and communication have become completely pervasive in every aspect of our lives. Things will be different in 2100 in ways you can't imagine—and won't really need to worry about—but it's just that the reporters get carried away and want to know every potential application of things like this. And the scientists who spend all day in those cramped labs start daydreaming about sex-bots and life goes on.
Yeah, the quote from the book was just because I thought it was too hilarious not to share. You're right though. I am missing out. I typed up a whole nice long rant, but all that really needs to be said is yeah, you're right.
Wow, really? In my discipline it's not unusual to have classes of 30-40 people with perhaps a female-type, maybe even two. It wasn't quite so bad at my previous school due to (her words) pretty good Boobs in Engineering Scholarships.
On a tangentially related note, I just ran across this problem in a textbook today:
The Housewife Problem: A bucket containing 6 liters of water is emptied onto the ground. Calculate the wet surface area A for a contact angle theta_E = 1 degree.
Answer: 120 m^2
Dang. I had, "She better clean that up right now and have dinner ready on time too if she knows what's good for her."
How far we've come since... Copyright 2004?!? Oh, the authors are all French...