Buck-Henry has the plans already drawn up...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(TV_series)
"...Quark is an American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin... May 7, 1977 (canceled in April 1978). Quark was created by Buck Henry,...The show was set on the United Galaxies Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow operating out of United Galaxies Space Station Perma One in the year 2222. Adam Quark, the main character, works to clean up trash in space by collecting "space baggies"..."
"Jupiter just went through Superior Conjunction (i.e., went behind the Sun as seen from the Earth)"...wake me when Jupiter passes between the sun and the earth ("inferior conjunction"?), or on second thought, don't.
There will always be loopholes in any legislation, (it's like the fourth law of thermodynamics or something). So understanding that, we shouldn't attempt to protect our rights via legislation? Or said another way: they're just politicians, you have to encourage them once they've made *any* step in the right direction.
Sitting at a point of near perfect ignorance about this, are there any programs available for translating Flash into a format that is more acceptable (to Apple)?
I've dealt with lots of crufty old numerical and molecular file formats where such-and-such a software suite refuses to import or accept a not-invented-here format and I've often found or written a translator or filter to get from one to the other. Can it be that there is nothing remotely adequate for getting from Flash to MPEG-4 or H.264 or whatever? Because if there are such, why is there such a fuss? and if there aren't such, why hasn't one of you brilliant coders written one for some potential income?
Here is a good direct opinion piece to point to your congress critter:
"Comcast Can Censor This Blog Post... With FCC's Permission?" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-ammori/ten-things-comcast-will-b_b_560897.html
Try to impress on them the notion of what if Comcast should decide not to be supportive of your their reelection webpage?
There is no question that having the data released eventually should be the rule. It shouldn't even be considered proven science until it can be thoroughly recreated.
However, the tricky bit is mandating exactly by when it must be released. If a lab has spent a long time, let's say 10 years, accumulating some hard fought data, they should be allowed the benefit of a few publications before releasing all the data so that better (likely privately) funded labs do to the easy rapid analysis and 24/7 postdoc tag-team writing abuse and thus steal all the reward. Give them say... the sqrt(years_to_collect_the_data) out of encouragement to continue to do the heavy lifting. (my experience of this situation comes from protein crystallography and deposition of the hard won data there)
"If all goes as planned, on Sept. 15, 2017, Cassini will die a warrior’s death, diving inside the rings for 22 spectacular orbits on the fringes of Saturn’s atmosphere before plunging into the planet."...they hope to orbit inside the rings! that's just as cool as it gets outside of riding a comet out of the solar system.
don't get me wrong, i'm not fond of any of these technological constrictions on my free-will to "misbehave" -- but, if we've decided to crack down on cell-phone use while driving why not go all big brother tech and: "you have received this ticket (via the post) because a cell-phone number registered to you was recorded at passing through [3] cell towers in excess of [45 mph]" (the [x] as adjustable parameters depending on the strictness of the constabulary)" ??
To find a bad programmer (or bad anything actually) hire anyone whose resume/CV features "certified" or "certification" by a corporation that sells the product covered by the certificate (e.g.: "microsoft certified"). The circular nature of such training guarantees a worker who's view is designed to be narrow.
Does this version of GNOME allow for easy global key rebinding? There was a version not long ago that sent me off to KDE that appeared to impose some rather autocratically determined key-bindings.
Here's a badly thought out notion: sharp demarcations on moon-sized and larger bodies are generally associated with "lighting" from a side at an angle from the observer (zB: a half moon). so what we're looking at here is two sources of illumination against Mimas; or (even crazier?) Mimas is illuminated by a single source (i dunno... the sun?) and has two main stable orbital orientations. Pretty unlikely oddball theory, i know, but i'm still on my first coffee.
It's jarring - to be sure. But consider that most public schools demand fingerprints from their teachers now. It would be nice if there was indication that this sort of privacy challenge was peaking - but i think it's only accelerating.
"At what level...?" is always an curious legalistic way to go about the question. I'd reply "as low as possible", that is, it becomes an engineering/economic question, not a biochemical one. How low a leakage of tritium (not good for human ingestion at any level) is feasible? and/or: i'll wager they can do much better than where it currently stands.
(what should be done when the subject-line says it all? the posting software won't allow us either a blank subject-line or blank body. fair enough, i suppose, but what if one's thought is no more than a subject-line in length? well i suppose one could just prattle on about something unrelated, or post one's favorite recipe...
Oatmeal-Molasses Chews
1 C butter, softened 1 tsp baking soda
1.5 C brown sugar, packed 1 tsp baking powder
2 large eggs 3 tsp cinnamon
0.5 C molasses 1 tsp allspice
3 tsp vanilla 1 tsp cloves
3 C rolled oats 1 tsp nutmeg
1.5 C white flour 1.25 C raisins
1 C wheat flour 0.75 C walnuts, chopped
Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in eggs, molasses and vanilla; add oats. Mix flours and spices in another bowl, then add raisins and nuts, to coat with flour. Add this to sugar mixture. Bake at 375oF 12 minutes, makes about 3 dozen
but that seems entirely silly
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Buck-Henry has the plans already drawn up... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(TV_series) "...Quark is an American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin ... May 7, 1977 (canceled in April 1978). Quark was created by Buck Henry, ...The show was set on the United Galaxies Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow operating out of United Galaxies Space Station Perma One in the year 2222. Adam Quark, the main character, works to clean up trash in space by collecting "space baggies"..."
"Jupiter just went through Superior Conjunction (i.e., went behind the Sun as seen from the Earth)" ...wake me when Jupiter passes between the sun and the earth ("inferior conjunction"?), or on second thought, don't.
yep... see also the plot of "The Mouse That Roared" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared )
There will always be loopholes in any legislation, (it's like the fourth law of thermodynamics or something). So understanding that, we shouldn't attempt to protect our rights via legislation? Or said another way: they're just politicians, you have to encourage them once they've made *any* step in the right direction.
Sitting at a point of near perfect ignorance about this, are there any programs available for translating Flash into a format that is more acceptable (to Apple)? I've dealt with lots of crufty old numerical and molecular file formats where such-and-such a software suite refuses to import or accept a not-invented-here format and I've often found or written a translator or filter to get from one to the other. Can it be that there is nothing remotely adequate for getting from Flash to MPEG-4 or H.264 or whatever? Because if there are such, why is there such a fuss? and if there aren't such, why hasn't one of you brilliant coders written one for some potential income?
Here is a good direct opinion piece to point to your congress critter: "Comcast Can Censor This Blog Post ... With FCC's Permission?" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-ammori/ten-things-comcast-will-b_b_560897.html
Try to impress on them the notion of what if Comcast should decide not to be supportive of your their reelection webpage?
Somewhat a dup from seven years ago ...
Posted by Cliff on Thursday June 26 2003, @04:42PM
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/03/06/26/0044223/Floating-Point-Programming-Today ...ah well
In related news, did you know that the word "gullible" was left out of the dictionary on that site?
I'll believe it when they digitize and make available the works of Maria Valtorta (not so long ago forbidden by cardinal Ratzinger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poem_of_the_Man_God#Publication_controversy
...and if you don't code >X lines/day you're lower man on burrito madness day
how many pixels X pixels is the standard human retina? that is, is there a limit we can appreciate while our noses are less than a meter away?
There is no question that having the data released eventually should be the rule. It shouldn't even be considered proven science until it can be thoroughly recreated. However, the tricky bit is mandating exactly by when it must be released. If a lab has spent a long time, let's say 10 years, accumulating some hard fought data, they should be allowed the benefit of a few publications before releasing all the data so that better (likely privately) funded labs do to the easy rapid analysis and 24/7 postdoc tag-team writing abuse and thus steal all the reward. Give them say... the sqrt(years_to_collect_the_data) out of encouragement to continue to do the heavy lifting. (my experience of this situation comes from protein crystallography and deposition of the hard won data there)
"If all goes as planned, on Sept. 15, 2017, Cassini will die a warrior’s death, diving inside the rings for 22 spectacular orbits on the fringes of Saturn’s atmosphere before plunging into the planet." ...they hope to orbit inside the rings! that's just as cool as it gets outside of riding a comet out of the solar system.
COBOL was supposed to be about making everything clear and obvious in a business environment. But given the current business world it's time to give obfuscated-perl, brainfuck ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck ), or whitespace ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language) ) a fair chance.
don't get me wrong, i'm not fond of any of these technological constrictions on my free-will to "misbehave" -- but, if we've decided to crack down on cell-phone use while driving why not go all big brother tech and: "you have received this ticket (via the post) because a cell-phone number registered to you was recorded at passing through [3] cell towers in excess of [45 mph]" (the [x] as adjustable parameters depending on the strictness of the constabulary)" ??
To find a bad programmer (or bad anything actually) hire anyone whose resume/CV features "certified" or "certification" by a corporation that sells the product covered by the certificate (e.g.: "microsoft certified"). The circular nature of such training guarantees a worker who's view is designed to be narrow.
Does this version of GNOME allow for easy global key rebinding? There was a version not long ago that sent me off to KDE that appeared to impose some rather autocratically determined key-bindings.
wake me when it can handle inside-out shorts or a brassiere. (i know... why would anyone want to fold a brassiere? ...well i wouldn't)
Here's a badly thought out notion: sharp demarcations on moon-sized and larger bodies are generally associated with "lighting" from a side at an angle from the observer (zB: a half moon). so what we're looking at here is two sources of illumination against Mimas; or (even crazier?) Mimas is illuminated by a single source (i dunno... the sun?) and has two main stable orbital orientations. Pretty unlikely oddball theory, i know, but i'm still on my first coffee.
One person's random is another's expectation value
Seems like the current Scalia conservative court set the tone for this whole matter http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/opinion/20tue1.html
It's jarring - to be sure. But consider that most public schools demand fingerprints from their teachers now. It would be nice if there was indication that this sort of privacy challenge was peaking - but i think it's only accelerating.
"At what level...?" is always an curious legalistic way to go about the question. I'd reply "as low as possible", that is, it becomes an engineering/economic question, not a biochemical one. How low a leakage of tritium (not good for human ingestion at any level) is feasible? and/or: i'll wager they can do much better than where it currently stands.
(what should be done when the subject-line says it all? the posting software won't allow us either a blank subject-line or blank body. fair enough, i suppose, but what if one's thought is no more than a subject-line in length? well i suppose one could just prattle on about something unrelated, or post one's favorite recipe... Oatmeal-Molasses Chews 1 C butter, softened 1 tsp baking soda 1.5 C brown sugar, packed 1 tsp baking powder 2 large eggs 3 tsp cinnamon 0.5 C molasses 1 tsp allspice 3 tsp vanilla 1 tsp cloves 3 C rolled oats 1 tsp nutmeg 1.5 C white flour 1.25 C raisins 1 C wheat flour 0.75 C walnuts, chopped Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in eggs, molasses and vanilla; add oats. Mix flours and spices in another bowl, then add raisins and nuts, to coat with flour. Add this to sugar mixture. Bake at 375oF 12 minutes, makes about 3 dozen but that seems entirely silly
I spent around $350 building my current desktop system from individual components. It's much better than the system listed, and uses less power.
It would be most edifying if you listed the exact parts and if you're entirely happy with them (thankee)