The Opportunity is a pretty awesome vehicle. It has outperformed its mission expectations by over 200% - it is in the fifth year of what was supposed to be a 90 sol mission. It takes pretty impressive panoramic pictures as well.
That's really interesting. At first I thought you were joking, but there's a little writeup on Wiki. I wonder if they did this to give the audience an adverse reaction to the rape scene?
This is not the only sound based non-lethal weapon used by the IAF. They also use a device called The Scream, which emits a sound that causes disorientation and nausea. This one works at low, inaudible frequencies that vibrate the internal organs of the targets. There is also an high frequency version that is audible, that also produces a burning sensation on the skin (but does not produce any permanent damage).
I think they were also toying with using these types of weapons against the pirates in Somalia.
Legal research was conducted in selected jurisdictions in every region of the world in order to develop standards for the implementation of a dispute process for the GNSO recommendation on morality and public order.
Sitting and former judges on international tribunals, as well as attorneys and law professors who regularly appear before them, were consulted on appropriate limitations found in the legal research that could be incorporate into workable standards.
As a result of the legal research and consultations, the four identified standards are: (i) Incitement to or promotion of violent lawless action; (ii) incitement to or promotion of discrimination based upon race, color, gender, ethnicity, religion or national origin; (iii) Incitement to or promotion of child pornography or other sexual abuse of children; or (iv) a determination that an applied-for gTLD string would be contrary to equally generally accepted identified legal norms relating to morality and public order that are recognized under general principles of international law I. Introduction and background
At the first company I worked for, the entire department I worked with would shut the doors and get a massive game of Quake going every Friday. It was a great chance for team building. It was also a great level setter - the manager wasn't always the best shot, you know. I agree that this can be a really productive thing if it's done right.
It's too bad the article didn't address the architecture behind all this. I would be curious to hear what kind of network they use, and what sort of relays (satellite?). If it is satellites, why is the bandwidth so low? (Hmmm... maybe they really should have made that ethernet cable just a little longer after all...)
I'm aware of that, my friend. I'm simply challenging the use of the word "ancestor". It may just be me, but that word usually denotes a pair of copulating parents somewhere in the past. I'm not arguing the *hypothesis* that the viruses could have injected the DNA into ours. So, if the radiation from a nuclear reactor causes a genetic mutation, does that mean that my great-granddaddy is Three Mile Island?
As far as the 8% being a coincidence, since we're both living beings, I would be surprised if it *weren't* 8%. We both belong to the category of "things that are alive", which must narrow down the allowable sequences of DNA. Referring back to the earlier post, I'll bet we also have some chemical components in common as well. Not necessarily because we are related, but because those are the specific chemicals that permit some form of life/sentience.
Wow - I think I really hit a nerve, Coward. I think you need to 1) switch to decaf and 2) RTFA. I quote
"Feschotte proposes that BDV insertions could be a source of mutations in the brain cells of infected individuals.
"These data yield a testable hypothesis for the alleged, but still controversial, causative association of BDV infection with schizophrenia and mood disorders," Feschotte said.
Note the words "hypothesis" and "alleged". You need to actually read the article before you pout off about my ignorance.
So they discovered some gene sequences that are the same in humans and viruses. Well, I probably share about 95% of the same chemicals as topsoil, but that doesn't mean my great-granddaddy was a ball of mud.
It's ironic to me that the company known for such a lean web page has such a huge footprint on their demo page. Sucker hung my computer for nearly 5 minutes.
Good thing we on Slashdot found out about this. Now all of us experts on this topic can go back to our normal lives now that we know why that one wasn't working. [/smirk]
In the couple of years leading up to Y2K, I saw my company pour millions into updating any outdated infrastructure. Since were all techies, I'm betting that we all have similar stories. All the negativity aside, is it also possible that we moved ourselves ahead with this non-existent catastrophe? I mean shoot, I know I at least got a new laptop out of the deal;^)
Actually, it was both, AC. I think you need to read the article too. The Aztec version of the game was called "ullamaliztli". From the article
The Aztec version of the ballgame is called ullamaliztli[63] and is derived from the word lli "rubber" and the verb llama or "to play ball". The ball itself was called llamaloni and the ballcourt was called a tlachtli [tatti].[64] In the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan the largest ballcourt was called Teotlachco ("in the holy ballcourt") – here several important rituals would take place on the festivals of the month Panquetzaliztli, including the sacrifice of four war captives to the honor of Huitzilopochtli and his herald Paynal.
For the Aztecs the playing of the ballgame also had religious significance, but where the Maya saw the game as a battle between the lords of the underworld and their earthly adversaries, the Aztecs saw it as a battle between the forces of night led by the moon and the stars represented by the goddess Coyolxauhqui and her sons the 400 Huitznahuah, and the sun personified by Huitzilopochtli.[65] But apart from holding important ritual and mythical meaning, the ballgame for the Aztecs was also a sport and a pastime played for fun, although in general the Aztec game was a prerogative of the nobles.[66]
I agree. During the early years, I was pining for a more realistic flight sim. I got more excited as they became realistic..up to a point. Than I discovered F-18 OIF. The thing is so realistic - you have to select weapons modes, select weapons, arm them, assign targets. It would be nice if I had years of operational training in a Hornet so I could fly the game - but then it would be work and not fun, wouldh't it?
WRT your second point(s), I have a good friend who used to be a trainer at the NORAD sites. He told me that back in the 60s, the ground stations would actually control the F-106 to the intercept points. The pilots weren't actually allowed to touch the sticks during this phase of the flight!
Sorry my friend - you need to touch up on your Aztec history. The name of the game was tlachli, and it indeed did involve the losing team losing more than the game in some cases. It was actually played as a proxy to war between different tribes. From the article:
The association between human sacrifice and the ballgame appears rather late in the archaeological record, no earlier than the Classic era.[49] The association was particularly strong within the Classic Veracruz and the Maya cultures, where the most explicit depictions of human sacrifice can be seen on the ballcourt panels – for example at El Tajin (850-1100 CE)[50] and at Chichen Itza (900-1200 CE) – as well as on the well-known decapitated ballplayer stelae from the Classic Veracruz site of Aparicio (700-900 CE). The Postclassic Maya religious and quasi-historical narrative, the Popol Vuh, also links human sacrifice with the ballgame (see below).
Hey ksemlerK - I think you make a really great point. Why not take it to the extreme? You could have the guy with screaming kids, bills to pay, and even a nagging wife. Shoot - throw in some unemployment and/or chronic diseases for the advanced level.
Although it is fun to see what it might be like to carjack a fire engine and tear around town capping tha peeps with an AK, I really have to wonder what lessons that's teaching our already impulsive youth. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big gamer. But some of these "life simulators" are teaching us to practice some very interesting skills.
When the ancient Aztecs played basketball, the rules were simple - the first team that made a shot through the basket got to live. The other team was...well...beheaded. Now, if you want to make video games that are realistic, why not go all the way? Have some sort of controller that provides an electric shock or poison if you really die. That will make you think twice about going into that room full of zombies.
The bottom line is that video games are for fun and "practice". You go to a new level of realism and it just gets boring. I love flight simulators, but the ones that are completely realistic are the most boring. Who wants to spend 4 hours in combat air patrol with a 1 in 1000 chance of actually getting to splash a bogie?
Wow...thanks for that. Another delicately worded reply to a redundant link with absolutely no new information . As far as I can tell from the website provided in your link, the only time she infers she's a constituent is in the name of the site.
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Silly humanoid - did you measure using martian time (sols?)
The Opportunity is a pretty awesome vehicle. It has outperformed its mission expectations by over 200% - it is in the fifth year of what was supposed to be a 90 sol mission. It takes pretty impressive panoramic pictures as well.
Jedi Pirates?
That's really interesting. At first I thought you were joking, but there's a little writeup on Wiki. I wonder if they did this to give the audience an adverse reaction to the rape scene?
This is not the only sound based non-lethal weapon used by the IAF. They also use a device called The Scream, which emits a sound that causes disorientation and nausea. This one works at low, inaudible frequencies that vibrate the internal organs of the targets. There is also an high frequency version that is audible, that also produces a burning sensation on the skin (but does not produce any permanent damage).
I think they were also toying with using these types of weapons against the pirates in Somalia.
This should be kind of interesting to the /.ers. The 2009 Public Comment Fourm meeting minutes produced an interesting document called the Standards for Morality and Public Order document. A summary of key points:
Legal research was conducted in selected jurisdictions in every region of the world in order to develop standards for the implementation of a dispute process for the GNSO recommendation on morality and public order.
Sitting and former judges on international tribunals, as well as attorneys and law professors who regularly appear before them, were consulted on appropriate limitations found in the legal research that could be incorporate into workable standards.
As a result of the legal research and consultations, the four identified standards are: (i) Incitement to or promotion of violent lawless action; (ii) incitement to or promotion of discrimination based upon race, color, gender, ethnicity, religion or national origin; (iii) Incitement to or promotion of child pornography or other sexual abuse of children; or (iv) a determination that an applied-for gTLD string would be contrary to equally generally accepted identified legal norms relating to morality and public order that are recognized under general principles of international law
I. Introduction and background
At the first company I worked for, the entire department I worked with would shut the doors and get a massive game of Quake going every Friday. It was a great chance for team building. It was also a great level setter - the manager wasn't always the best shot, you know. I agree that this can be a really productive thing if it's done right.
...NOT. According to him, it's
" a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
It must fly in the face of every business practice he's come up with.
It's too bad the article didn't address the architecture behind all this. I would be curious to hear what kind of network they use, and what sort of relays (satellite?). If it is satellites, why is the bandwidth so low? (Hmmm... maybe they really should have made that ethernet cable just a little longer after all...)
For those of you that can read Cyrillic, here is the company web site.
I'm aware of that, my friend. I'm simply challenging the use of the word "ancestor". It may just be me, but that word usually denotes a pair of copulating parents somewhere in the past. I'm not arguing the *hypothesis* that the viruses could have injected the DNA into ours. So, if the radiation from a nuclear reactor causes a genetic mutation, does that mean that my great-granddaddy is Three Mile Island?
As far as the 8% being a coincidence, since we're both living beings, I would be surprised if it *weren't* 8%. We both belong to the category of "things that are alive", which must narrow down the allowable sequences of DNA. Referring back to the earlier post, I'll bet we also have some chemical components in common as well. Not necessarily because we are related, but because those are the specific chemicals that permit some form of life/sentience.
Wow - I think I really hit a nerve, Coward. I think you need to 1) switch to decaf and 2) RTFA. I quote
"Feschotte proposes that BDV insertions could be a source of mutations in the brain cells of infected individuals.
"These data yield a testable hypothesis for the alleged, but still controversial, causative association of BDV infection with schizophrenia and mood disorders," Feschotte said.
Note the words "hypothesis" and "alleged". You need to actually read the article before you pout off about my ignorance.
So they discovered some gene sequences that are the same in humans and viruses. Well, I probably share about 95% of the same chemicals as topsoil, but that doesn't mean my great-granddaddy was a ball of mud.
It's ironic to me that the company known for such a lean web page has such a huge footprint on their demo page. Sucker hung my computer for nearly 5 minutes.
Good thing we on Slashdot found out about this. Now all of us experts on this topic can go back to our normal lives now that we know why that one wasn't working. [/smirk]
In the couple of years leading up to Y2K, I saw my company pour millions into updating any outdated infrastructure. Since were all techies, I'm betting that we all have similar stories. All the negativity aside, is it also possible that we moved ourselves ahead with this non-existent catastrophe? I mean shoot, I know I at least got a new laptop out of the deal ;^)
Actually, it was both, AC. I think you need to read the article too. The Aztec version of the game was called "ullamaliztli". From the article
The Aztec version of the ballgame is called ullamaliztli[63] and is derived from the word lli "rubber" and the verb llama or "to play ball". The ball itself was called llamaloni and the ballcourt was called a tlachtli [tatti].[64] In the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan the largest ballcourt was called Teotlachco ("in the holy ballcourt") – here several important rituals would take place on the festivals of the month Panquetzaliztli, including the sacrifice of four war captives to the honor of Huitzilopochtli and his herald Paynal.
For the Aztecs the playing of the ballgame also had religious significance, but where the Maya saw the game as a battle between the lords of the underworld and their earthly adversaries, the Aztecs saw it as a battle between the forces of night led by the moon and the stars represented by the goddess Coyolxauhqui and her sons the 400 Huitznahuah, and the sun personified by Huitzilopochtli.[65] But apart from holding important ritual and mythical meaning, the ballgame for the Aztecs was also a sport and a pastime played for fun, although in general the Aztec game was a prerogative of the nobles.[66]
True, but in this case the teams were highly motivated slaves, not the warriors.
I agree. During the early years, I was pining for a more realistic flight sim. I got more excited as they became realistic..up to a point. Than I discovered F-18 OIF. The thing is so realistic - you have to select weapons modes, select weapons, arm them, assign targets. It would be nice if I had years of operational training in a Hornet so I could fly the game - but then it would be work and not fun, wouldh't it?
WRT your second point(s), I have a good friend who used to be a trainer at the NORAD sites. He told me that back in the 60s, the ground stations would actually control the F-106 to the intercept points. The pilots weren't actually allowed to touch the sticks during this phase of the flight!
Sorry my friend - you need to touch up on your Aztec history. The name of the game was tlachli, and it indeed did involve the losing team losing more than the game in some cases. It was actually played as a proxy to war between different tribes. From the article:
The association between human sacrifice and the ballgame appears rather late in the archaeological record, no earlier than the Classic era.[49] The association was particularly strong within the Classic Veracruz and the Maya cultures, where the most explicit depictions of human sacrifice can be seen on the ballcourt panels – for example at El Tajin (850-1100 CE)[50] and at Chichen Itza (900-1200 CE) – as well as on the well-known decapitated ballplayer stelae from the Classic Veracruz site of Aparicio (700-900 CE). The Postclassic Maya religious and quasi-historical narrative, the Popol Vuh, also links human sacrifice with the ballgame (see below).
Hey ksemlerK - I think you make a really great point. Why not take it to the extreme? You could have the guy with screaming kids, bills to pay, and even a nagging wife. Shoot - throw in some unemployment and/or chronic diseases for the advanced level.
Although it is fun to see what it might be like to carjack a fire engine and tear around town capping tha peeps with an AK, I really have to wonder what lessons that's teaching our already impulsive youth. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big gamer. But some of these "life simulators" are teaching us to practice some very interesting skills.
When the ancient Aztecs played basketball, the rules were simple - the first team that made a shot through the basket got to live. The other team was...well...beheaded. Now, if you want to make video games that are realistic, why not go all the way? Have some sort of controller that provides an electric shock or poison if you really die. That will make you think twice about going into that room full of zombies.
The bottom line is that video games are for fun and "practice". You go to a new level of realism and it just gets boring. I love flight simulators, but the ones that are completely realistic are the most boring. Who wants to spend 4 hours in combat air patrol with a 1 in 1000 chance of actually getting to splash a bogie?
Wow...thanks for that. Another delicately worded reply to a redundant link with absolutely no new information . As far as I can tell from the website provided in your link, the only time she infers she's a constituent is in the name of the site.
I dunno - he did mention Windows ME. Me, my - I think Shadow7789 is looking at some hard time in the near future.
So if she can go to jail for using that particular name on a site, can I go to jail for having a MySpace page? What about MyYahoo? MyWay?