With the proper tools, dismembering is indeed fairly easy.
I haven't flown in a while, but I'd think that it's quite difficult to get a butcher's knife on a plane these days. The whole security thing. I believe pilots are even checked before getting on. Not to say that there isn't some other weak link in security (send the knife in via a meal by getting your agents in food services?) but security will make this such a convoluted process that pulling off the stunt becomes more and more difficult and less and less likely.
Why are there symbiant relationships? It allows for division of labor, essentially. The genetic load of one organism after symbiosis does not have to take care of these certain task that the other is taking care of. Most of the cells contained in your body are not actually yours. The majority of cells in the body are bacteria living in your intestine which each produce proteins which help with digestion. If our DNA had to encode for every one of those digestive and metabolic proteins that are actually used in digestion, we would be selected against compared to an organism that could make more efficient use of its DNA.
Diversity also leads to a sort of long term stability. If there are different ways to obtain resources, the ecosystem as a whole can adapt to environmental changes far more gracefully.
It's the same bacteria that causes em... it just depends on where you get infected with it. Flesh and lymphatic systems = bubonic, lungs = pneumonic, septicemic = blood.
Or if one of those people ahead of you happen to be downloading the same file as you, there is the possibility of downloading from them once they have blocks. That in my mind is the real technological beauty of well designed P2P systems. (there is also social beauty to a P2P network, but different people will assign different values to it... the old guard might find it negative, people who want to stir things up will find it to be a godsend.)
And if you try to discipline someone else's child, you run the risk of getting yourself into a physical fight with the parents, or even sued. I don't think so.
People try to make wholsome products... problem is nobody buys them. Or at least not enough people to make them profitable.
Video games are not chemicals ingested in the body. Yes, you can argue that the playing of video games does alter neurochemistry somewhat, but that is totally a different thing. Regulating video game sales WITHOUT regulating the sales of books, movies, cds, magazines on the same basis is uneven and therefore unethical. There is far more violence in the bible than in any video game that I have seen... would you accept banning sales of bibles to children? The number of people killed by religion is far greater than the number of peoplekilledbecause of video games.
While icing would be a pretty easy way for me to increase the strength of an alcoholic beverage, I doubt the Mesopotamians would have found it that easy. The climate would not have had that many sources of natural below freezing areas, and I don't think they had freezers yet. Although there may have been some mountain ranges around where there would be the possibility of freezing....
However, this is just pedantic. Simply substitute cider for brandy, and you can get the idea of what they were asking. Was this a mix of different alcoholic beverages, or alcoholic beverages mixed with softer drinks.
Basically a runaway iceage starts because the albedo of ice is much higher than that of dry land. Sunlight reaching the earth simply reflects into space, not warming the earth, and the earth cools down in a positive feedback loop. It has been shown that the icecaps have extended all the way to the equator, and been theorized that the ice even covered the oceans (similar to how the north pole is covered in floating ice.)
However, oceans are a very good sink of CO2 (primarilly through geobiological processes, such as how petroleum was formed.) Once they are disconnected from the atmosphere by a layer of ice, they can no longer absorbe CO2, so they stop fuctioning as a carbon sink. As a result the CO2 from volcanoes is allowed to build up in the atmosphere to such a high level that the greenhouse effect from CO2 can warm the earth despite the high reflectivity of ice. The volcanic ash being deposited on the ice would also increase the heat being absorbed by the surface of the ice, contributing to a warming such that the showball can start melting.
Of course, there is still some debate as to whether snowball earth existed. However a lot of geological evidence tends to point towards it.
The sonic equivalent to the beauty of a natural landscape would be more like listening to rain or waves, many birds singning, or crickets chirping. Where you feel you can take an essentially chaotic system and find a rhythm in it. What Wolfram is doing is taking an ordered algorithm and adding a little chaos to it. While not necesarilly creating something beautiful, this program allows you to make some sounds that sound more like the natural phenomenon. And you get to play with it visually.
Were there really that many mouse gestures to remember in B&W 1? A spiral shape activates miracle mode, and little pictures of the gestures needed to activate available miracles pops up on the bottom of the screen. And the game has a lot of keyboard shortcuts, but you have to read the manual or at least go to the keyboard settings window to find them out. Everything else you pretty much intuitively interact with to make something happen.
And if you want stats, there are keyboard shortcuts to display the basic stats of villagers and the creature (shows up as numbers over their heads, I believe.) And the desires of the villagers were represented by the height of a flag in the original black and white. Not that hard to figure out. I had a lot more trouble balancing the villagers desires than I did trying to figure out what they were.
And if all else fails, simply hover your mouse above the object you want to interact with, and you are given help.
Now, there are other things about the game that frustrated me at times, but I really enjoyed the interface. I think the human mind is pretty adept at figuring out the status of things without menus showing everything... we've been doing pretty good without them up untill the last what... 25 years?
Why does it matter? Because some people wanted to make kiosks based on donated hardware to set up in New Orleans for this purpose, as well as hopefully contacting worrying family members. Installing windows would A) reduce the security of a kiosk B) cost more money as liscensing would be the most expensive part of the operation C) exclude most older donated hardware and d) take longer per kiosk. This means significantly less kiosks will be able to be be set up.
And people have run tests that show the website doesn't actually use any IE only features, it simply checks to make sure it is IE and then locks your browser out if it reports as something else. So there is no reason that the site is IE centric anyways.
If you CAN'T wait for a game, that means you are a game reviewer and chances are you got a pre-release copy gratis from the publisher or at the very least your employer bought the game for you. Or perhaps a game developer who wants to see what the competition is up to, but then $60 is just a drop in the bucket compared to purchasing all the necessary software ($3500 for 3DS Max alone.)
Otherwise, it just means you don't want to wait for the game and are willing to drop $60, $70 or...?
Yeah, it was kinda hard to find. Did a google search on shield volcano which took me to the USGS's site, which I figured was about the best authority. Hoped for a link on the page but couldn't find one, so took a wild chance and simply truncated the url to http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/ which ended up working, and did a search on the page for the word volcano. Eventually came across stratovolcano and I was like "Yeah, that's the one."
I'm just glad the USGS doesn't disallow directory requests like so many commercial sites.
Why? Because they don't have plans for actually leaving. My guess is the "going to mars" thing is a way to attract attention from starry eyed (pun not originally intended) investors and scientists to work for them. Then they'll just develop technology in many fields (mining, aerospace, medical, communications, robotics???) and just lease out the rights to use the tech. I bet Bruce Mackenzie doesn't really expect to make it there any time soon, but wouldn't mind helping others eventually get there (and profitting off of it in the meantime.)
You're releasing water. If this were done in an internal combustion engine, then the heat would cause nitrogen to react with oxygen to create NOx, but in a fuel cell this does not happen, IIRC. Also I think even if you are using internal combustion, it may be possible to burn hydrogen at a low enough temperature that the N2 + O2 -> NOx reaction does not occur (rather I should say that I do not know that this is impossible... I'm not a chemist.) I believe the problem with burning hydrocarbons is that lower temperature burning will result in incomplete burning meaning soot comes out of the tailpipe. To raise the temperature high enough for complete burning, then atmospheric nitrogen burns.
That sounds great, unless you actually want to USE your computer. So if the folder you want it in isn't open, then you have to minimize your application, navigate to the proper folder, arrange the windows so you can drag the icon to the folder, restore your application, then drag the icon to the folder, only to find you already have a file of that name.
Okay, looking at the picture, I guess the hard drive icon is on the launch bar thing on the bottom, so then at least you don't have to minimize and then restore the application. But looking at the picture I realize that in order to make any application usable for me it would have to be in full screen as there is so much on-screen clutter (partially a result of older hardware with presumably lower resolutions, partially a result of having what seems to be more than enough windows actually active, but nonetheless an unusable environment from what I see.)
But then again, the whole article reeks of someone who's never actually attempted to create a UI or do any studies on them.
1) Screen corners: I don't want the OS taking up every corner of my screen. That's usable space for the applications I want to run. In Windows I already have the bottom left corner for the start bar and the bottom right for a notification area (area just to the left of the clock) where any well coded program has the option of having their own icon in there or not. If a program doesn't put it there or doesn't allow removal from the notification area, then that's the program's problem, and those programs are generally poorly thought out and something I don't want. So, two of the screen corners are used, and I like to keep the other two open for the application to do as it likes. This is generally the file dialog and the close button, as I usually run programs maximized (at least the ones I am doing any real work on.) Well designed programs are spring loaded on the task bar to pop up when I try to drag and drop to them, so having to resize to copy and paste or whatever is not much of a problem.
2) The blogger wants a computer that gets more advanced as the use uses it, does not have preferences to determine this behavior, and does not have multiple ways of accomplishing a goal. Yeah, that's going to ever work. Don't forget about the great overhead that automatically determining user skill would impart. What about a computer used by multiple people without seperate accounts? What about a person using multiple computers... Each one would end up with a different layout and functionality. That would be a Bad Thing (tm.)
3) If every function had its own key, the keyboard would be flat out unusable. Key combinations are flat out unusable for the new user. There's a reason the space bar is so big... it's the most often used when typing text. You know, the main purpose of the computer.
And while hitting start to shut the computer down may seem non-intuitive, hitting the power button on my computer also brings up the shut-down dialog. This is what would seem to be the intuitive way to shut down a computer. The beginning user should not be able to hard shut down a computer, so needing to learn to hold the power button in for four seconds to do this isn't a big deal.
4) Multiple representations of the file system? I personally don't see it. Well designed programs either directly make a call to the windows file explorer already. If they write their own program, and it ends up being inferior, then I just won't use the program if I have a choice.
5) By the way, I personally like having different ways of doing things. Different circumstances, having different programs open, different tasks might call for the action to be performed in a slightly different way. Having the option to choose which way to do it is a boon to the user. You see, while the beginning user will only know one way (probably a slower but more intuitive method) the advanced user will learn more and more ways which are quicker under different circumst
Isn't there a difference between an investor and someone who falls for a pyramid scam? Aren't pyramid scams illegal (Well, I know it's against the law to use the USPS for a pyramid scam.)
Apparantly Paypal's problem was that the donations were going to Red Cross. Paypal will only allow donations going to the United Way. Links in TFA show that about 85.8% of money donated to United Way goes to the actual programs they are collecting money for, while 91.1% of the money donated to the Red Cross actually go to help people. While United Way apparantly has lower administrative expenses (3.6% versus 5.4% for Red Cross) the much higher fundraising expenses (10.5% for United Way vs. 3.5% for Red Cross) mean that for every dollar spent, ten cents goes to fundraising. This fundraising expense can easilly be abused by the organization's administrators for their own personal gain. That fundraising expense also goes to basically telemarketers who cold call everyone they can, treat their employees like shit and often skim a larger percent off the top than they are reporting.
It didn't matter whether Clinton signed it or not... unanimous Senate vote. Sure, he could've vetoed, in which case it would have went back and his veto would have been overturned. In the process Clinton would have lost good faith with the legislators, making everything else that much harder to push through.
Parent said about as unbiased as it gets for international news.
I instinctively mistrusted the CSM based on it's name alone, but I'm guessing they took the name before "Christian Scientists" came out. It actually seems that the CSM has relevant, interesting topics with a wide range of sources. That, and they actively admit where they were wrong.The ability to admit where you were wrong is something that far too many fundamental philosophies lack to their detriment.
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The best link from that page, Jeb's son arrested for pubic intoxication. Seriously, check out that police report.
With the proper tools, dismembering is indeed fairly easy.
I haven't flown in a while, but I'd think that it's quite difficult to get a butcher's knife on a plane these days. The whole security thing. I believe pilots are even checked before getting on. Not to say that there isn't some other weak link in security (send the knife in via a meal by getting your agents in food services?) but security will make this such a convoluted process that pulling off the stunt becomes more and more difficult and less and less likely.
Why are there symbiant relationships? It allows for division of labor, essentially. The genetic load of one organism after symbiosis does not have to take care of these certain task that the other is taking care of. Most of the cells contained in your body are not actually yours. The majority of cells in the body are bacteria living in your intestine which each produce proteins which help with digestion. If our DNA had to encode for every one of those digestive and metabolic proteins that are actually used in digestion, we would be selected against compared to an organism that could make more efficient use of its DNA.
Diversity also leads to a sort of long term stability. If there are different ways to obtain resources, the ecosystem as a whole can adapt to environmental changes far more gracefully.
there only carriers of bubonic plague
It's the same bacteria that causes em... it just depends on where you get infected with it. Flesh and lymphatic systems = bubonic, lungs = pneumonic, septicemic = blood.
Or if one of those people ahead of you happen to be downloading the same file as you, there is the possibility of downloading from them once they have blocks. That in my mind is the real technological beauty of well designed P2P systems. (there is also social beauty to a P2P network, but different people will assign different values to it... the old guard might find it negative, people who want to stir things up will find it to be a godsend.)
Does it bother anyone else that an article with the headline Britney Spears gives birth to baby boy is listed under technology news?
And if you try to discipline someone else's child, you run the risk of getting yourself into a physical fight with the parents, or even sued. I don't think so.
People try to make wholsome products... problem is nobody buys them. Or at least not enough people to make them profitable.
Video games are not chemicals ingested in the body. Yes, you can argue that the playing of video games does alter neurochemistry somewhat, but that is totally a different thing. Regulating video game sales WITHOUT regulating the sales of books, movies, cds, magazines on the same basis is uneven and therefore unethical. There is far more violence in the bible than in any video game that I have seen... would you accept banning sales of bibles to children? The number of people killed by religion is far greater than the number of people killed because of video games.
While icing would be a pretty easy way for me to increase the strength of an alcoholic beverage, I doubt the Mesopotamians would have found it that easy. The climate would not have had that many sources of natural below freezing areas, and I don't think they had freezers yet. Although there may have been some mountain ranges around where there would be the possibility of freezing....
However, this is just pedantic. Simply substitute cider for brandy, and you can get the idea of what they were asking. Was this a mix of different alcoholic beverages, or alcoholic beverages mixed with softer drinks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
Basically a runaway iceage starts because the albedo of ice is much higher than that of dry land. Sunlight reaching the earth simply reflects into space, not warming the earth, and the earth cools down in a positive feedback loop. It has been shown that the icecaps have extended all the way to the equator, and been theorized that the ice even covered the oceans (similar to how the north pole is covered in floating ice.)
However, oceans are a very good sink of CO2 (primarilly through geobiological processes, such as how petroleum was formed.) Once they are disconnected from the atmosphere by a layer of ice, they can no longer absorbe CO2, so they stop fuctioning as a carbon sink. As a result the CO2 from volcanoes is allowed to build up in the atmosphere to such a high level that the greenhouse effect from CO2 can warm the earth despite the high reflectivity of ice. The volcanic ash being deposited on the ice would also increase the heat being absorbed by the surface of the ice, contributing to a warming such that the showball can start melting.
Of course, there is still some debate as to whether snowball earth existed. However a lot of geological evidence tends to point towards it.
The sonic equivalent to the beauty of a natural landscape would be more like listening to rain or waves, many birds singning, or crickets chirping. Where you feel you can take an essentially chaotic system and find a rhythm in it. What Wolfram is doing is taking an ordered algorithm and adding a little chaos to it. While not necesarilly creating something beautiful, this program allows you to make some sounds that sound more like the natural phenomenon. And you get to play with it visually.
Were there really that many mouse gestures to remember in B&W 1? A spiral shape activates miracle mode, and little pictures of the gestures needed to activate available miracles pops up on the bottom of the screen. And the game has a lot of keyboard shortcuts, but you have to read the manual or at least go to the keyboard settings window to find them out. Everything else you pretty much intuitively interact with to make something happen.
And if you want stats, there are keyboard shortcuts to display the basic stats of villagers and the creature (shows up as numbers over their heads, I believe.) And the desires of the villagers were represented by the height of a flag in the original black and white. Not that hard to figure out. I had a lot more trouble balancing the villagers desires than I did trying to figure out what they were.
And if all else fails, simply hover your mouse above the object you want to interact with, and you are given help.
Now, there are other things about the game that frustrated me at times, but I really enjoyed the interface. I think the human mind is pretty adept at figuring out the status of things without menus showing everything... we've been doing pretty good without them up untill the last what... 25 years?
Exactly, and now that means that the compyters set up by these guys as a gesture of goodwill won't help people get the relief they need.
Why does it matter? Because some people wanted to make kiosks based on donated hardware to set up in New Orleans for this purpose, as well as hopefully contacting worrying family members. Installing windows would A) reduce the security of a kiosk B) cost more money as liscensing would be the most expensive part of the operation C) exclude most older donated hardware and d) take longer per kiosk. This means significantly less kiosks will be able to be be set up.
And people have run tests that show the website doesn't actually use any IE only features, it simply checks to make sure it is IE and then locks your browser out if it reports as something else. So there is no reason that the site is IE centric anyways.
would that dark brown soft and squishy material be petroleum? (okay, really really dark brown)
Yes I have seen the private sector take responsibility in times of crisis. But what is needed in time of crisis is the private and public sectors, as well as individual charity to actually get things done, not finger pointing and buck passing.
If you CAN'T wait for a game, that means you are a game reviewer and chances are you got a pre-release copy gratis from the publisher or at the very least your employer bought the game for you. Or perhaps a game developer who wants to see what the competition is up to, but then $60 is just a drop in the bucket compared to purchasing all the necessary software ($3500 for 3DS Max alone.)
Otherwise, it just means you don't want to wait for the game and are willing to drop $60, $70 or...?
I think you're looking for stratovolcano.
Yeah, it was kinda hard to find. Did a google search on shield volcano which took me to the USGS's site, which I figured was about the best authority. Hoped for a link on the page but couldn't find one, so took a wild chance and simply truncated the url to http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/ which ended up working, and did a search on the page for the word volcano. Eventually came across stratovolcano and I was like "Yeah, that's the one."
I'm just glad the USGS doesn't disallow directory requests like so many commercial sites.
Why? Because they don't have plans for actually leaving. My guess is the "going to mars" thing is a way to attract attention from starry eyed (pun not originally intended) investors and scientists to work for them. Then they'll just develop technology in many fields (mining, aerospace, medical, communications, robotics???) and just lease out the rights to use the tech. I bet Bruce Mackenzie doesn't really expect to make it there any time soon, but wouldn't mind helping others eventually get there (and profitting off of it in the meantime.)
Not a horrible business strategy in my mind.
You're releasing water. If this were done in an internal combustion engine, then the heat would cause nitrogen to react with oxygen to create NOx, but in a fuel cell this does not happen, IIRC. Also I think even if you are using internal combustion, it may be possible to burn hydrogen at a low enough temperature that the N2 + O2 -> NOx reaction does not occur (rather I should say that I do not know that this is impossible... I'm not a chemist.) I believe the problem with burning hydrocarbons is that lower temperature burning will result in incomplete burning meaning soot comes out of the tailpipe. To raise the temperature high enough for complete burning, then atmospheric nitrogen burns.
That sounds great, unless you actually want to USE your computer. So if the folder you want it in isn't open, then you have to minimize your application, navigate to the proper folder, arrange the windows so you can drag the icon to the folder, restore your application, then drag the icon to the folder, only to find you already have a file of that name.
Okay, looking at the picture, I guess the hard drive icon is on the launch bar thing on the bottom, so then at least you don't have to minimize and then restore the application. But looking at the picture I realize that in order to make any application usable for me it would have to be in full screen as there is so much on-screen clutter (partially a result of older hardware with presumably lower resolutions, partially a result of having what seems to be more than enough windows actually active, but nonetheless an unusable environment from what I see.)
But then again, the whole article reeks of someone who's never actually attempted to create a UI or do any studies on them.
1) Screen corners: I don't want the OS taking up every corner of my screen. That's usable space for the applications I want to run. In Windows I already have the bottom left corner for the start bar and the bottom right for a notification area (area just to the left of the clock) where any well coded program has the option of having their own icon in there or not. If a program doesn't put it there or doesn't allow removal from the notification area, then that's the program's problem, and those programs are generally poorly thought out and something I don't want. So, two of the screen corners are used, and I like to keep the other two open for the application to do as it likes. This is generally the file dialog and the close button, as I usually run programs maximized (at least the ones I am doing any real work on.) Well designed programs are spring loaded on the task bar to pop up when I try to drag and drop to them, so having to resize to copy and paste or whatever is not much of a problem.
2) The blogger wants a computer that gets more advanced as the use uses it, does not have preferences to determine this behavior, and does not have multiple ways of accomplishing a goal. Yeah, that's going to ever work. Don't forget about the great overhead that automatically determining user skill would impart. What about a computer used by multiple people without seperate accounts? What about a person using multiple computers... Each one would end up with a different layout and functionality. That would be a Bad Thing (tm.)
3) If every function had its own key, the keyboard would be flat out unusable. Key combinations are flat out unusable for the new user. There's a reason the space bar is so big... it's the most often used when typing text. You know, the main purpose of the computer.
And while hitting start to shut the computer down may seem non-intuitive, hitting the power button on my computer also brings up the shut-down dialog. This is what would seem to be the intuitive way to shut down a computer. The beginning user should not be able to hard shut down a computer, so needing to learn to hold the power button in for four seconds to do this isn't a big deal.
4) Multiple representations of the file system? I personally don't see it. Well designed programs either directly make a call to the windows file explorer already. If they write their own program, and it ends up being inferior, then I just won't use the program if I have a choice.
5) By the way, I personally like having different ways of doing things. Different circumstances, having different programs open, different tasks might call for the action to be performed in a slightly different way. Having the option to choose which way to do it is a boon to the user. You see, while the beginning user will only know one way (probably a slower but more intuitive method) the advanced user will learn more and more ways which are quicker under different circumst
Isn't there a difference between an investor and someone who falls for a pyramid scam? Aren't pyramid scams illegal (Well, I know it's against the law to use the USPS for a pyramid scam.)
Apparantly Paypal's problem was that the donations were going to Red Cross. Paypal will only allow donations going to the United Way. Links in TFA show that about 85.8% of money donated to United Way goes to the actual programs they are collecting money for, while 91.1% of the money donated to the Red Cross actually go to help people. While United Way apparantly has lower administrative expenses (3.6% versus 5.4% for Red Cross) the much higher fundraising expenses (10.5% for United Way vs. 3.5% for Red Cross) mean that for every dollar spent, ten cents goes to fundraising. This fundraising expense can easilly be abused by the organization's administrators for their own personal gain. That fundraising expense also goes to basically telemarketers who cold call everyone they can, treat their employees like shit and often skim a larger percent off the top than they are reporting.
Or they became a resource.
It didn't matter whether Clinton signed it or not... unanimous Senate vote. Sure, he could've vetoed, in which case it would have went back and his veto would have been overturned. In the process Clinton would have lost good faith with the legislators, making everything else that much harder to push through.
Parent said about as unbiased as it gets for international news.
I instinctively mistrusted the CSM based on it's name alone, but I'm guessing they took the name before "Christian Scientists" came out. It actually seems that the CSM has relevant, interesting topics with a wide range of sources. That, and they actively admit where they were wrong.The ability to admit where you were wrong is something that far too many fundamental philosophies lack to their detriment.