You know that in the 70ies it was common knowledge that the cooling cycle was about to begin somewhere in the late 90ies, but instead of the cooling, we got a warming.
I have been in a bicycle accident recently, and I am glad I was wearing a helmet at the time. A car was turning right while I was alongside, and I hit the car door and was taking down the rearview mirror with my head. The impact marks on my helmet were quite impressive in the literal sense of the word.
I know, this is anecdotical evidence, but at least for me wearing a helmet has paid off.
It's not a copyright claim. So expiring copyright does not play a role. In every museum I have been at, you need to get a photography permit before you are allowed to take pictures. And the permit includes wording about non commercial use. I guess the Stonehenge Heritage Authority is doing something similar.
"Wiki University" is more likely to be just like Wikipedia in general: corrupt, based entirely on "who you know" or "did your viewpoint contradict some corrupt loony with far too much crowd following or access to the delete/ban buttons."
Welcome to the real world, which is in general: corrupt, based entirely on "who you know" or "did your viewpoint contradict some corrupt loony with far too much crowd following or access to the delete/ban buttons."
You know, about 30 years ago (1978 to be specific) there was this strange thing called "KERBEROS"... it still works. Single-Sign-On is a non-issue in the UNIX-world. It was solved 30 years ago.
SAP R/3 was always a Three-Tiers-System, so it was "cloudy", before the term was coined. You have your big database server, you have some application servers hooked to the database, and you have clients which in turn connect to the application servers. When you connect to a R/3 system, it is never clear which dialog server you get connected to. That was so in 1995, and it is still so in 2010.
It's 40 minutes for 200 trains per day with 400-1000 passengers each. So it's at least 80,000 times 40 minutes per day saved, and if the tunnel gets used for 50 years, it saves 57.600.000.000 minutes or about 1 billion hours. Makes $10 per hour saved. Sounds sensible to me.
No one has an idea how to process iron into steel in an industrial process [...], and the process in a forge with remelting and reforging iron until it is malleable is slow and expensive.
Toppling Saddam Hussein was a completely idiotic thing to do. It was done so unter falsificated facts for the false reasons given. The main reasons given were Iraq's WMDs, which the weapon's inspectors told again and again wouldn't exist, and which failed to materialize afterwards, and for an allegedly collaboration with al-Qaida, which didn't materialize either, and which everyone (except in the U.S. apparently) was knowing was a figment of imagination. Saddam Hussein was during most of his reign an outspoken non-religious dictator, affiliated with the Ba'ath party which grew out of a christian founded, nationalistic-arab, socialist movement (ba'ath is arab and means "people") -- everything but a muslim fundamentalist. After 1991 he tried to steer away from Socialism to a more traditionalist arab ideology including embracing Islam, but no one was taking it serious, and he still hat christian people in his inner circle, like Tariq Aziz (christian name: Mikhail Yuhanna).
So the arab and the islamic world, knowing the WMDs were nonexistant and the link to al-Qaida fabricated, came to the conclusion, that only two reasons were valid: control of Iraqi Oil, and battling Islam at all cost -- not the way you make friends in the region. The U.S. and its allies were seen as the aggressors, taking on everything arab and islamic -- arab property, arab traditions, arab nationality, arab pride.
But -- you say, toppling a murderous dictator is right? Wrong. Helping the Iraqi people to get rid of Saddam Hussein on their own would have been right. Supporting the insurgencies in the southern part of Iraq would have been right. With the kurdish North it worked, Northern Iraq was no longer ruled by Saddam Hussein by 2003. But the South was neglected, and arab people saw themselves abandoned -- so it was natural for them to see the U.S. as primarily anti-arab.
If the U.S. would have waited another few years, Saddam Hussein would have been toppled anyway -- by the Iraqis themselves. Saddam Hussein was powerless already. He had nothing anymore to bribe his own ruling junta. He had to play games to reserve some street cred with his neighbours, but had to cave in whenever the Security Council of the U.N. was getting serious. The next big insurgence would have brought him down, either by the insurgents or by his own inner circle trying to hold on power on their own and sacrifying him as a scapegoat.
What are the lessons for the dictators around him? Caving in to UN sanctions and giving up on your weapons will make you weak and prone to the next invasion. Caving in to demands to stop the development of WMDs will make you weak and prone to the next invasion. If you want to stay in power, it is important to get WMDs as soon as possible, at all cost. North Korea and Iran have learned their lessons. North Korea is nuclear power since 2005, and the Iran is apparently doing everything to become one. Saudi-Arabia has an option to buy atomic bombs from Pakistan. The other Gulf states signed a contract in 2006 to develop civilian atomic facilities. Great job, United States!
Nothing. No one needs your steam engine. No one is able to manufacture an internal combustion machine or even refine the gasoline for it. No one has any use for electricity. There is not enough copper being mined to make for a decent wiring. You are missing the whole infrastructure to create large amounts of steel. No one has an idea how to process iron into steel in an industrial process (again a game changing invention with at least two inventors: Henry Bessemer and William Kelly), and the process in a forge with remelting and reforging iron until it is malleable is slow and expensive.
There are other SIP based VoIP-Systems out there. Cisco Callmanager comes to mind, and OpenScape Voice. Alas both are neither free as in freedom nor free as in beer.
I mean, the discovery of even 8 digits to a limb would be quite the curiosity.
I hereby present you the Acanthostega, which has eight digits per arm. The number of toes per limb is yet unknown. But the Ichthyostega, which has seven digits per arm, has also seven toes per limb, so I would not be surprised if newly found fossils would show eight toes per limb for the Acanthostega.
Also animal cells can multiply their genomes. Some butterflies for instance are known to appear with polyploid chromosome sets. One of the main reason why this plant has such a large number of genes is that it is an alloploid - a polyploid hybrid of at least four other species of plants. It is basicly a big heap of ammassed genes not yet sorted out.
Wouldn"t "God" be more like the steady state than the big bang (at least as most religions define God)?
I take issue with that statement. It should read "at least as most monotheistic religions define God". Only a few religions are monotheistic at all, most of them being in the tradition of Zoroastrism.
Many other religions don't have a problem with the sudden appearence of a god and his disappearance again. So those religions would rather tend to a big bang universe. The Greek with their aeons would even accept the idea of several universes appearing in a big bang and dissappearing again to make room for a newly formed universe. Also the Aztek myths know at least about the creations of five suns, the first four being somewhat unstable or unbalanced and being replaced by other suns.
A second reason was death in childbirth, due to infections because of the unclean environment. It makes no difference if you die at 18 after giving birth or at 36 after giving birth.
Electronic voting still can't solve a simple thing:
To make each vote proven unique and untrackable at the same time.
With paper it's easy. Each piece of paper is unique by virtue of being a real object. Electronic votes are data, and data is limitless copyable, so the only way to warrant a piece of data is unique is giving it a unique ID, at which moment it becomes trackable.
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Are you willing to pay the premium to insure a low lying land against flooding?
You know that in the 70ies it was common knowledge that the cooling cycle was about to begin somewhere in the late 90ies, but instead of the cooling, we got a warming.
I have been in a bicycle accident recently, and I am glad I was wearing a helmet at the time. A car was turning right while I was alongside, and I hit the car door and was taking down the rearview mirror with my head. The impact marks on my helmet were quite impressive in the literal sense of the word.
I know, this is anecdotical evidence, but at least for me wearing a helmet has paid off.
As a matter of fact, I am in Austria right now, and it is snowing right now with the temperatures barely above feezing point.
There are kangaroos in Austria.
It's not a copyright claim. So expiring copyright does not play a role. In every museum I have been at, you need to get a photography permit before you are allowed to take pictures. And the permit includes wording about non commercial use. I guess the Stonehenge Heritage Authority is doing something similar.
"Wiki University" is more likely to be just like Wikipedia in general: corrupt, based entirely on "who you know" or "did your viewpoint contradict some corrupt loony with far too much crowd following or access to the delete/ban buttons."
Welcome to the real world, which is in general: corrupt, based entirely on "who you know" or "did your viewpoint contradict some corrupt loony with far too much crowd following or access to the delete/ban buttons."
Kerberos is the hound protecting the entrance to the underworld. And KERBEROS is protecting the access to the underlying resources of a network.
Whose fault is it to ignore local conventions? Tables separated with colons or semicolons are older than Excel.
You know, about 30 years ago (1978 to be specific) there was this strange thing called "KERBEROS"... it still works. Single-Sign-On is a non-issue in the UNIX-world. It was solved 30 years ago.
SAP R/3 was always a Three-Tiers-System, so it was "cloudy", before the term was coined. You have your big database server, you have some application servers hooked to the database, and you have clients which in turn connect to the application servers. When you connect to a R/3 system, it is never clear which dialog server you get connected to. That was so in 1995, and it is still so in 2010.
It's 40 minutes for 200 trains per day with 400-1000 passengers each. So it's at least 80,000 times 40 minutes per day saved, and if the tunnel gets used for 50 years, it saves 57.600.000.000 minutes or about 1 billion hours. Makes $10 per hour saved. Sounds sensible to me.
Basicly Switzerland has basicly only electric trains, and the electricity is produced by hydro power.
It makes sense for personal transport too. The trains from Zurich to Milan will make it in 2:40 hrs through the tunnel. Car drive is 3:20 hrs.
Read, what I wrote:
No one has an idea how to process iron into steel in an industrial process [...], and the process in a forge with remelting and reforging iron until it is malleable is slow and expensive.
Toppling Saddam Hussein was a completely idiotic thing to do. It was done so unter falsificated facts for the false reasons given. The main reasons given were Iraq's WMDs, which the weapon's inspectors told again and again wouldn't exist, and which failed to materialize afterwards, and for an allegedly collaboration with al-Qaida, which didn't materialize either, and which everyone (except in the U.S. apparently) was knowing was a figment of imagination. Saddam Hussein was during most of his reign an outspoken non-religious dictator, affiliated with the Ba'ath party which grew out of a christian founded, nationalistic-arab, socialist movement (ba'ath is arab and means "people") -- everything but a muslim fundamentalist. After 1991 he tried to steer away from Socialism to a more traditionalist arab ideology including embracing Islam, but no one was taking it serious, and he still hat christian people in his inner circle, like Tariq Aziz (christian name: Mikhail Yuhanna).
So the arab and the islamic world, knowing the WMDs were nonexistant and the link to al-Qaida fabricated, came to the conclusion, that only two reasons were valid: control of Iraqi Oil, and battling Islam at all cost -- not the way you make friends in the region. The U.S. and its allies were seen as the aggressors, taking on everything arab and islamic -- arab property, arab traditions, arab nationality, arab pride.
But -- you say, toppling a murderous dictator is right? Wrong. Helping the Iraqi people to get rid of Saddam Hussein on their own would have been right. Supporting the insurgencies in the southern part of Iraq would have been right. With the kurdish North it worked, Northern Iraq was no longer ruled by Saddam Hussein by 2003. But the South was neglected, and arab people saw themselves abandoned -- so it was natural for them to see the U.S. as primarily anti-arab.
If the U.S. would have waited another few years, Saddam Hussein would have been toppled anyway -- by the Iraqis themselves. Saddam Hussein was powerless already. He had nothing anymore to bribe his own ruling junta. He had to play games to reserve some street cred with his neighbours, but had to cave in whenever the Security Council of the U.N. was getting serious. The next big insurgence would have brought him down, either by the insurgents or by his own inner circle trying to hold on power on their own and sacrifying him as a scapegoat.
What are the lessons for the dictators around him? Caving in to UN sanctions and giving up on your weapons will make you weak and prone to the next invasion. Caving in to demands to stop the development of WMDs will make you weak and prone to the next invasion. If you want to stay in power, it is important to get WMDs as soon as possible, at all cost. North Korea and Iran have learned their lessons. North Korea is nuclear power since 2005, and the Iran is apparently doing everything to become one. Saudi-Arabia has an option to buy atomic bombs from Pakistan. The other Gulf states signed a contract in 2006 to develop civilian atomic facilities. Great job, United States!
Nothing. No one needs your steam engine. No one is able to manufacture an internal combustion machine or even refine the gasoline for it. No one has any use for electricity. There is not enough copper being mined to make for a decent wiring. You are missing the whole infrastructure to create large amounts of steel. No one has an idea how to process iron into steel in an industrial process (again a game changing invention with at least two inventors: Henry Bessemer and William Kelly), and the process in a forge with remelting and reforging iron until it is malleable is slow and expensive.
There are other SIP based VoIP-Systems out there. Cisco Callmanager comes to mind, and OpenScape Voice. Alas both are neither free as in freedom nor free as in beer.
I mean, the discovery of even 8 digits to a limb would be quite the curiosity.
I hereby present you the Acanthostega, which has eight digits per arm. The number of toes per limb is yet unknown. But the Ichthyostega, which has seven digits per arm, has also seven toes per limb, so I would not be surprised if newly found fossils would show eight toes per limb for the Acanthostega.
Also animal cells can multiply their genomes. Some butterflies for instance are known to appear with polyploid chromosome sets. One of the main reason why this plant has such a large number of genes is that it is an alloploid - a polyploid hybrid of at least four other species of plants. It is basicly a big heap of ammassed genes not yet sorted out.
Wouldn"t "God" be more like the steady state than the big bang (at least as most religions define God)?
I take issue with that statement. It should read "at least as most monotheistic religions define God". Only a few religions are monotheistic at all, most of them being in the tradition of Zoroastrism.
Many other religions don't have a problem with the sudden appearence of a god and his disappearance again. So those religions would rather tend to a big bang universe. The Greek with their aeons would even accept the idea of several universes appearing in a big bang and dissappearing again to make room for a newly formed universe. Also the Aztek myths know at least about the creations of five suns, the first four being somewhat unstable or unbalanced and being replaced by other suns.
A second reason was death in childbirth, due to infections because of the unclean environment. It makes no difference if you die at 18 after giving birth or at 36 after giving birth.
Because you don't know a reply on that?
Electronic voting still can't solve a simple thing:
To make each vote proven unique and untrackable at the same time.
With paper it's easy. Each piece of paper is unique by virtue of being a real object. Electronic votes are data, and data is limitless copyable, so the only way to warrant a piece of data is unique is giving it a unique ID, at which moment it becomes trackable.
But I write LaTeX with a simple text editor.