The parent comment should not be labeled as "Insightful" just because he tells us something that is already in the article. Direct quotes FROM the article:
Scientists have long known that magnetic poles migrate and in rare cases, swap places.
Previous studies have shown that the strength of the Earth's magnetic shield has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years. During the same period, the north magnetic pole wandered about 685 miles out into the Arctic, according to a new analysis by Stoner.
The north magnetic pole was first discovered in 1831 and when it was revisited in 1904, explorers found that the pole had moved 31 miles.
In the study, Stoner examined the sediment record from several Arctic lakes. Since the sediments record the Earth's magnetic field at the time, scientists used carbon dating to track changes in the magnetic field.
They found that the north magnetic field shifted significantly in the last thousand years. It generally migrated between northern Canada and Siberia, but it sometimes moved in other directions, too.
Add to it the fact that not all computers that can access the internet (laptops, PDAs, cellphones, even desktops) have 3d graphics cards. If someone tries to implement a website that only allows you to input information utilizing your 3dFX card... they just end up drastically cutting back on the amount of users visiting their site.
Ditto for anything web-related, not just form controls. I've helped many people (friends and family) set up their systems without enabling ActiveX because of all of these security issues over the past few years. I also try to direct everyone to Firefox and use the Flashblock extension. (speeds up page download time and doesn't bother you with any flash ads or apps unless you specifically tell it to open it up.) For me, if a site is developed using Flash, I typically just don't bother with it. (Anyone else notice that Hollywood seems to think that Flash is the only way to develop websites.)
So quit what you are doing W3C, pick standards you want that are important, pick features, make standard, and FREEZE IT. Dont change dont add, or remove features.
Freeze it?!? Are you serious? So, you're saying they never should have included background colors or images as part of "the standard" 10 years ago. Or never should have implemented CSS or EMCAScript or the OBJECT tag.... If that's your opinion, maybe we should still be sending our mail via stagecoach and steamboat.
Standards are created to try to have everything compliant, no matter what company implements it. Sometimes you get companies that deviate from the standards because they think they are adding some kind of value to the whole, but that's their choice. [see M$ implementation of the MARQUEE tag. ick.] For the most-part, I think the W3C has been doing an excellent job at designing these standards and making sure to retain backwards-compatibility when possible. But there's no reason to forever lock us into what is currently technologically possible. Web Services would be a complete mess if there were no standards for different companies to agree on how they work.
(and a buzzkill and shoot down your little attempt at humor) but with a window, it would not be a closed-system (photons being able to enter and leave the container) and would therefore invalidate the whole experiment.
FYI: Its abbreviation is not "CWRU" anymore. As of about 2 years ago, they changed it to simply "Case" and gave it the silly new logo of 2 paperclips stuck together.
Why? I have no idea. Some "university branding" thing that some people thought was important to the growth of the campus or something. Apparently it ticked a bunch of alumni (from the original Western Reserve University) too.
Any variation in a sample that size is just signal noise.
Normally, I'd agree... but in this situation (when talking about IQs), I think 20 points is a VERY significant amount.
I would, however, be more interested in which counties these children were from. This could just be a difference in upbringing and education rather than genetic.
I bought a Maxtor 120Gig drive about a year ago and it already died on me a little over a week ago. I had it full. FULL! And it died on me.
This is the first harddrive that has ever died on me in 15+ years of owning my own personal computer(s).
Does anyone know anything about resurrecting data from a dead Maxtor? Seriously!
Because I really don't want to spend all of that time re-ripping all of my CDs to OGGs again. And it's not just music that I lost: all of my backups of software apps, games, programming projects... hell, I just realized that I think my resume was on that drive too.
I've always used my newest harddrive as my backup drive, thinking that it would be the most reliable. guess I was wrong. "... all your eggs in one basket" and all that... rassinfrassin....:-(
(And the porn! Dear God, all of that porn... GONE!!!)
OOooo big guy can do fractions. Well, let me tell you, you mathematical whiz, I could do "0" way back in kindergarden. And ALL of the digits on BOTH SIDES of the decimal point. So THERE!
Real ID: You Can Stll Fight It Perhaps this was deliberate! Like, it means "you" can still fight it, but "I"'m not gettin involved cuz I know you're all gonna end up goin down as anti-americ... hey, stop laughing. I'm tryin to be serious here! YOU must be part of it too!!!
_____ "The squirrels! They're after me!!! They think I'm nuts!!!!!"
1. Why would there be waste? If there is spare carbon left over from creating a 3-foot CNT, why nto use it as raw material for the next one you're making? We ARE talking about building structures with atomic perfection, no?
2. As far as I know, diamonds don't corrode, so I don't see why CNTs would either. Ditto for decomposition.
3. If there are leftover CNTs floating around in the air, I would assume they would be more harmful that asbestos and/or inhaling fiberglass. CNTs are so tiny that they could easily be pulled all the way, deep into your lungs and get lodged in there... possibly tearing away at your flesh with every in/exhale.
I don't get it. I've read a lot of these posts and a bunch of them keep talking about going back in time and killing Hitler.
Why always him and not someone else? Did he show up to this Time Travelers' Convention and annoy a lot of people or something? If so, it's your own fault for inviting all time travellers and you should have seen this coming by simply reading a newspaper from May 8, 2005.
If I were them I wouldn't be exploiting the lack of labor laws. You can only expect people to be so productive in something as fundamentaly brain draining as CS if you run them into the ground.
Check out FlashBlock for FireFox. Not only should it prevent this whole PIE thing, it'll stop all MacroMedia ads from opening in your browser... unless you specifically want it to open.
The xi is 600, the chi is 60, and the digamma is 6.
Revelation 13:18 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
According to the bible, wouldn't the numeric-letters actually be 600, 20, 20, 20 and 6?
If you actually read a little bit about the vehicle, you would realize that they were dumping their money into a lost cause too. The car was battery powered and could only go 55-95 (or 75-130, depending on the type of battery) miles per charge and took up to 8 hours to recharge. There is no possible way that they could make a profit off of a vehicle that performed that poorly. (I know I wouldn't buy a car that I would have to refill almost every night and wouldn't even be able to go too far out of the city on a roadtrip.)
Instead, I'm sure they will just be redirecting their funds into research for their hybrid and hydrogen-powered vehicles.
And I wouldn't exactly say that weather.com is "useless". I can visit the site and it tells me what the forecast for taday, tonight, and tomorrow is. For me, that is typically enough. (And a weekend or 10-day forecast is one-click away too.)
Of course, if I am feeling frisky and want to look at nifty Java apps for radar data, I'll visit IntelliCast or some other site.
Again, for me, seeing the weather for today and tomorrow in my status bar is all the functionality I typically require.
SVG was developed in a long process after Macromedia and Microsoft introduced VML whereas Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems submitted a competing format known as PGML.
A. Vector Markup Language (VML) and Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML) were both submitted in 1998 as early proposals for beginning a W3C vector graphics standard. VML and PGML are more similar than they are different, but, in general, VML supports the constructs necessary for office graphics, while PGML was proposed to support richer graphics more suited to the professional design and publishing community.
As a result of these and other proposals, the W3C assembled the SVG Working Group. SVG is the culmination of these efforts to fill the need for a standardized vector format that incorporates the best features of both VML and PGML.
Why bother working on getting Mozilla to use an outdated vector markup language when they're eventually going to get SVG going anyways? SVG does everything VML does, and more.
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heh, I know. And clearly you know this better than I since, by comparing our IDs, you seem to have been around here even longer than I have.
Try reading my first quote from the article.
Direct quotes FROM the article:
Damn. Even our MODERATORS don't RTFA.
I totally agree.
Add to it the fact that not all computers that can access the internet (laptops, PDAs, cellphones, even desktops) have 3d graphics cards. If someone tries to implement a website that only allows you to input information utilizing your 3dFX card... they just end up drastically cutting back on the amount of users visiting their site.
Ditto for anything web-related, not just form controls. I've helped many people (friends and family) set up their systems without enabling ActiveX because of all of these security issues over the past few years. I also try to direct everyone to Firefox and use the Flashblock extension. (speeds up page download time and doesn't bother you with any flash ads or apps unless you specifically tell it to open it up.) For me, if a site is developed using Flash, I typically just don't bother with it. (Anyone else notice that Hollywood seems to think that Flash is the only way to develop websites.)
Freeze it ?!? Are you serious? So, you're saying they never should have included background colors or images as part of "the standard" 10 years ago. Or never should have implemented CSS or EMCAScript or the OBJECT tag.... If that's your opinion, maybe we should still be sending our mail via stagecoach and steamboat.
Standards are created to try to have everything compliant, no matter what company implements it. Sometimes you get companies that deviate from the standards because they think they are adding some kind of value to the whole, but that's their choice. [see M$ implementation of the MARQUEE tag. ick.] For the most-part, I think the W3C has been doing an excellent job at designing these standards and making sure to retain backwards-compatibility when possible. But there's no reason to forever lock us into what is currently technologically possible. Web Services would be a complete mess if there were no standards for different companies to agree on how they work.
(and a buzzkill and shoot down your little attempt at humor) but with a window, it would not be a closed-system (photons being able to enter and leave the container) and would therefore invalidate the whole experiment.
FYI: Its abbreviation is not "CWRU" anymore. As of about 2 years ago, they changed it to simply "Case" and gave it the silly new logo of 2 paperclips stuck together.
Why? I have no idea. Some "university branding" thing that some people thought was important to the growth of the campus or something. Apparently it ticked a bunch of alumni (from the original Western Reserve University) too.
Knowing is half the battle.
Ahhh.... in the words of Homer:
"I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T!"
I would, however, be more interested in which counties these children were from. This could just be a difference in upbringing and education rather than genetic.
No no no... that's the NEXT sequel to the Superman saga, and a crossover to Bubba Ho-Tep.
Here's the quote at the bottom of my
I bought a Maxtor 120Gig drive about a year ago and it already died on me a little over a week ago. I had it full. FULL! And it died on me.
:-(
This is the first harddrive that has ever died on me in 15+ years of owning my own personal computer(s).
Does anyone know anything about resurrecting data from a dead Maxtor? Seriously!
Because I really don't want to spend all of that time re-ripping all of my CDs to OGGs again. And it's not just music that I lost: all of my backups of software apps, games, programming projects... hell, I just realized that I think my resume was on that drive too.
I've always used my newest harddrive as my backup drive, thinking that it would be the most reliable. guess I was wrong.
"... all your eggs in one basket" and all that... rassinfrassin....
(And the porn! Dear God, all of that porn... GONE!!!)
OOooo big guy can do fractions. Well, let me tell you, you mathematical whiz, I could do "0" way back in kindergarden. And ALL of the digits on BOTH SIDES of the decimal point. So THERE!
Real ID: You Can Stll Fight It
Perhaps this was deliberate! Like, it means "you" can still fight it, but "I"'m not gettin involved cuz I know you're all gonna end up goin down as anti-americ... hey, stop laughing. I'm tryin to be serious here! YOU must be part of it too!!!
_____
"The squirrels! They're after me!!! They think I'm nuts!!!!!"
Honestly, I DID have that as my bootup sound for my Win3.11 machine back in '94.
But you gotta admit, it's a pretty slick lookin case.
1. Why would there be waste? If there is spare carbon left over from creating a 3-foot CNT, why nto use it as raw material for the next one you're making? We ARE talking about building structures with atomic perfection, no?
2. As far as I know, diamonds don't corrode, so I don't see why CNTs would either. Ditto for decomposition.
3. If there are leftover CNTs floating around in the air, I would assume they would be more harmful that asbestos and/or inhaling fiberglass. CNTs are so tiny that they could easily be pulled all the way, deep into your lungs and get lodged in there... possibly tearing away at your flesh with every in/exhale.
OYDUIAPOTVN-WCTGITNOGRAUEPSCBRTASW. ...
AIYDUWTASF, LIUY (And if you don't understand what the acronym stands for, look it up yourself.)
I don't get it. I've read a lot of these posts and a bunch of them keep talking about going back in time and killing Hitler.
Why always him and not someone else? Did he show up to this Time Travelers' Convention and annoy a lot of people or something? If so, it's your own fault for inviting all time travellers and you should have seen this coming by simply reading a newspaper from May 8, 2005.
Bah dum dum TCHSSSSSHHHHHH!!!!
Check out FlashBlock for FireFox. Not only should it prevent this whole PIE thing, it'll stop all MacroMedia ads from opening in your browser... unless you specifically want it to open.
The xi is 600, the chi is 60, and the digamma is 6.
Revelation 13:18 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
According to the bible, wouldn't the numeric-letters actually be 600, 20, 20, 20 and 6?
No, it isn't part of "the Big Oil conspiracy".
If you actually read a little bit about the vehicle, you would realize that they were dumping their money into a lost cause too. The car was battery powered and could only go 55-95 (or 75-130, depending on the type of battery) miles per charge and took up to 8 hours to recharge. There is no possible way that they could make a profit off of a vehicle that performed that poorly. (I know I wouldn't buy a car that I would have to refill almost every night and wouldn't even be able to go too far out of the city on a roadtrip.)
Instead, I'm sure they will just be redirecting their funds into research for their hybrid and hydrogen-powered vehicles.
... in my web browser using Forecast Fox.
And I wouldn't exactly say that weather.com is "useless". I can visit the site and it tells me what the forecast for taday, tonight, and tomorrow is. For me, that is typically enough. (And a weekend or 10-day forecast is one-click away too.)
Of course, if I am feeling frisky and want to look at nifty Java apps for radar data, I'll visit IntelliCast or some other site.
Again, for me, seeing the weather for today and tomorrow in my status bar is all the functionality I typically require.
And from http://www.adobe.com/svg/indepth/faq.html#vml
Why bother working on getting Mozilla to use an outdated vector markup language when they're eventually going to get SVG going anyways? SVG does everything VML does, and more.
I just want to repeat your post.
I got an invite from my buddy just last week in my Hotmail account from his gmail address.
FUD in my opinion too.
(hopefully everyone else on Slashdot who has NOT had a problem with this happening will post here as well to completely kill this.)