The article states that we are able to detect these planets only because they are so large and close to their stars, that their gravity causes the stars to appear to "wobble".
It will probably be quite some time until we can determine things such as rotation, revolution, presense of moons, virtual communities, etc...
Dear sir, Im having problems trying to transfer a file over your mIRC network. Its only 14 Meg and I am using a 56k line. It gets to about 400K and keeps dropping out, stalling, or just crashing. Why does this happen?
On, and yeah, since youre reading this already, can you also do something about Galt? He keeps kicking and banning me from #hottub but I did nothing wrong. He wont even acknowledge my numerous private messages to him after the fact. What is wrong with him?
Why not even take it a step farther? Assign everyone at birth the equivalent of a current class-C network, to do what you please. Sort of an expanded SSN system Where ever you live for the rest of your life, you will have the same phone number, etc.
Just a general suggestion that I think deserves future consideration, this is not detailed so keep the privacy flames to yourself for now, I know what they are already:)
Currently we do have 10 digits, if you include area codes, there are a potential 10 billion numbers available with our current system. Even if every single one of the 300 million or so Americans had a land line, cel phone, fax, and a dedicated dialup, there would STILL be over 8 billion numbers available.
I think it would be better to reform the current system of area codes. For example, why does Vermont need their own area code? They only have a million or so people. All of New England could probably fit on 4 area codes, but currently they use 13.
Is it really necessary to expand to 10 trillion potential phone numbers in the States? My cynical side is going to come out and suggest that its a marketing ploy by the phone companies who will undoubtedly make a ton of cash replacing all the equipment (and then again when they say we need 12 digits)
And if you dont think his opponent (not to mention the media) would hammer the point to death and do whatever he could to bring it back into the electorate's memory. You are the naive one here.
Do you honestly think that Bush's conduct has been any better? The running out the clock business and manipulating public sentiment through the media is not any better than what Gore has been doing. Both sides have been completely within their rights, but they have both made mistakes.
Personally, if Bush does ultimately win, I think the real winner is Hillary Clinton. I think Bush has shot himself in the foot for a 2nd term with his conduct. Gore may not be electable now due to public opinion (read: media opinion) -- and there really arent any other democrats of her prominance and national recognition/appeal. So if she proves to do well in her first couple years in the Senate, I wouldnt rule out her candidacy.
Actually, the French have an institution called "L'Academie Francaise" that meets every 10 years for just this purpose. They take words that have appeared from any language and come up with French ones to replace them. It is, however, a losing battle with the globalization mentioned in a previous post.
then you might not be spending enough time on solid design and correct coding or even just determing requirements before working
Remember, that most programmers are not the ones that are comming up with the requirements. I dont know how many times we have something planned out at the beginning, start building, then every few days, someone from marketing or biz dev calls and says "oh yeah, we need this too", or "this has to do this now". Every time this happens, you cant throw everything out, redesign, and start over, or you would never finish. So you adapt the old code to fit the new requirements or enhancements. Unfortunately, since you didnt plan for the new reqs, there will be unforseen problems.
The more mature a project, the more bugs there will be.
Technically, a mutant is an organism that has characteristics that neither of its parents had.
No, that is too based on the physical being, a mutated gene doesnt have to manifest itself into any visible difference. Nor does the fact that you have different color eyes from both your parents mean that you are a mutant. Recessive genes would be an example: to give you blue eyes, for example (to borrow from another post I just saw). Neither parent has blue eyes, but the way their DNA split and combined to form yours can give you a trait that neither of them have.
A mutant is the term you would use because the scientific term for what this woman has is a genetic mutation.
It is actually such things as the X-Men that gives the term a misunderstood meaning. A mutation doenst have to be anything as drastic as in the movie "The Fly" for example, and certainly, there arent any superheros flying around in the real world. Im sure if you looked closely enough, most of us have some sort of genetic mutation in our DNA, but they just arent significant enough to manifest themselves in any noticeable way.
If the 4 color vision is a good mutation, it will hopefully propogate into the general population eventually (well, half of it anyway:)
Value added tax is defined as "A consumption tax which is levied at each stage of production based on the value added to the product at that stage."
VAT is not based upon what you paid for the product (or service), and it is difficult to assess this value on this type of imported goods because a) it is free; and b) it wasnt made there so the audit trail is tougher to follow. An overly simplistic view is you buy some raw materials for $5 and produce something that costs $10. VAT is added to the $5 of value you "added" the product with your workmanship. Then you sell the $10 for that much more, plus what you paid in VAT, and pass the costs down along the line, ultimately to be paid by the end user.
So Poland in this case, has to look at the market and see that price for which similar products are selling. Whether or not you think Windows or Office is worth what they cost is moot, the market determines the price and people are obviously willing to pay what they are. So RH and StarOffice are, in the eyes of the government, similar in value as their MS counterparts. No matter that you didnt pay anything for it, you brought valuable merchandise into the country so you pay value added tax -- if the product was not free, you would have had to pay sales tax as well, but you didnt.
I am not an expert on this, but in my past work experience, I had to deal with VAT and getting VAT refunds (not available to the end user, unfortunately, just resellers). Hope this clears things up a little.
Basically, youre SOL unless you start electing officials who want to reform these tax systems.
Score:5, insightful????? Please! This is flamebait, pure and simple. There are no original ideas here, hell, there arent even any plagiarized ideas here, Dictator just rips on Katz. Im not defending the article, and should be moded down as Offtopic, but since when is the only criteria for an interesting or insightful post that someone have the ability to type more than 100 words?
It is a pretty interesting analysis on why Nader actually wants Bush to win. I respect Nader for everything he has done in his career to help the "little guy", but if this is even remotely in the back of his mind, Ive lost most of it.
Daycare is a very responsible thing to do for your children. This is certainly not opting out of anything -- its not as if you would have been there with them at that time anyway, you would have been at work. Remember, the person you are going to be is pretty much defined by the age of 6 (I cannot give a specific footnote here, sorry), and this interaction is very important.
Responsible parents check out multiple daycare centers in their community, get references, etc. It is the start of education, and where most kids begin to develop their social skills, i.e. how to deal with other children, share, etc.
And daycare is not just for preschoolers -- many offer programs for younger elementary school children after school and before their parent(s) get home.
You have some good points about living more frugally, but some people just cannot do that, and I think your opening statment is a bit extreme
You are seriously in need of a life, arent you?
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Besides, I didnt see her/him post on this topic. So is your strategy to wait for a new story so you can post this and get it moderated up? Theres no way you researched and wrote all that out in the minute and a half since the story went up.
I agree with a comment made by someone the other day in a recent post about how the President is more of a figurehead than actual hands-on leader. However, a figurehead is meant to lead by example so that the people do what they (the figurehead) think is the right thing. The one thing that struk me about the debates (I watched the 1st and 3rd in their entirety) were 2 things: Bush's evasiveness, esp in the 3rd, and Gore's willingness to admit when he didnt know something. More important than what someone does know is that they know what they do not know -- that is why the President has a cabinet. For example, its not the President that rebuilds the military, its the person he chooses as his Secretary of Defense. Picking the right advisors is what makes a President effective at doing his job on a day-to-day basis.
When it does come to personal ideals of the candidates, the one way they are very powerful at leaving a "legacy" is through Supreme Court appointments. In the next 4 years, there will very likely be 2, 3 or even 4 new justices appointed. Aside from whatever the media chooses as its "hot issues" of the campaign, I like Gore's forwardlookingness rather than Bush's protectionism.
I saw Gore speak in 88 at my HS and was impressed (disclaimer: sure, I was young and so more impressionable, but other speakers that impressed me: Mike Dukakis, Elizabeth Dole; those that did not: Dick Gephardt, Ron Paul, and George Bush, who was actually heckled for his evasiveness; Alexander Haig was simply scary -- I grew up in NH so had a unique opportunity). This year, both candidates have the wrong view with many of the issues we care about, but I feel much more comfortable in the fact that Gore seems more willing to listen to what we have to say and to learn what we have to teach him about filtering, the DMCI, etc...
I do think we are better off than we were 8 years ago, and I dont think 4 more years of the same is a bad thing. I also think we should start thinking about 40 years from now in our policymaking rather than what is good for me today. The big issue for me is so-called "oil crisis" we are having. Gore wants to find alternate fuels. Bush wants to drill for more and ignore the fact that it is a limited resource. If we started working on alternate fuels the last time we had this problem, we wouldnt be having it again now.
When trying to discredit someone, you should use sources that are not discredited themselves. The link in this very story http://commo ns. somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.The.New.Science.of.C.ht ml is dominated by articles from the Boston Globe that are picked apart and shown to be full of false statements. What you are doing here is basically the same as using a word to define itself. Also, Op-Ed pieces are opinions, not facts, and are nothing very creidible on which to base an argument.
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The article states that we are able to detect these planets only because they are so large and close to their stars, that their gravity causes the stars to appear to "wobble".
It will probably be quite some time until we can determine things such as rotation, revolution, presense of moons, virtual communities, etc...
Dear sir, Im having problems trying to transfer a file over your mIRC network. Its only 14 Meg and I am using a 56k line. It gets to about 400K and keeps dropping out, stalling, or just crashing. Why does this happen?
On, and yeah, since youre reading this already, can you also do something about Galt? He keeps kicking and banning me from #hottub but I did nothing wrong. He wont even acknowledge my numerous private messages to him after the fact. What is wrong with him?
Thank you,
Signed - lamer newbie #1038801
Why not even take it a step farther? Assign everyone at birth the equivalent of a current class-C network, to do what you please. Sort of an expanded SSN system Where ever you live for the rest of your life, you will have the same phone number, etc.
Just a general suggestion that I think deserves future consideration, this is not detailed so keep the privacy flames to yourself for now, I know what they are already :)
OK, I posted too fast. Seems they are doing this for pretty much my reasoning. Just transpose my argument for when they jack us up to 12
Currently we do have 10 digits, if you include area codes, there are a potential 10 billion numbers available with our current system. Even if every single one of the 300 million or so Americans had a land line, cel phone, fax, and a dedicated dialup, there would STILL be over 8 billion numbers available.
I think it would be better to reform the current system of area codes. For example, why does Vermont need their own area code? They only have a million or so people. All of New England could probably fit on 4 area codes, but currently they use 13.
Is it really necessary to expand to 10 trillion potential phone numbers in the States? My cynical side is going to come out and suggest that its a marketing ploy by the phone companies who will undoubtedly make a ton of cash replacing all the equipment (and then again when they say we need 12 digits)
And if you dont think his opponent (not to mention the media) would hammer the point to death and do whatever he could to bring it back into the electorate's memory. You are the naive one here.
Do you honestly think that Bush's conduct has been any better? The running out the clock business and manipulating public sentiment through the media is not any better than what Gore has been doing. Both sides have been completely within their rights, but they have both made mistakes.
Personally, if Bush does ultimately win, I think the real winner is Hillary Clinton. I think Bush has shot himself in the foot for a 2nd term with his conduct. Gore may not be electable now due to public opinion (read: media opinion) -- and there really arent any other democrats of her prominance and national recognition/appeal. So if she proves to do well in her first couple years in the Senate, I wouldnt rule out her candidacy.
Although USA Today and CNN dont mention it (at least on a quick scan), the vote was unanimous according to Reuters. Story at Yahoo
Actually, the French have an institution called "L'Academie Francaise" that meets every 10 years for just this purpose. They take words that have appeared from any language and come up with French ones to replace them. It is, however, a losing battle with the globalization mentioned in a previous post.
then you might not be spending enough time on solid design and correct coding or even just determing requirements before working
Remember, that most programmers are not the ones that are comming up with the requirements. I dont know how many times we have something planned out at the beginning, start building, then every few days, someone from marketing or biz dev calls and says "oh yeah, we need this too", or "this has to do this now". Every time this happens, you cant throw everything out, redesign, and start over, or you would never finish. So you adapt the old code to fit the new requirements or enhancements. Unfortunately, since you didnt plan for the new reqs, there will be unforseen problems.
The more mature a project, the more bugs there will be.
Technically, a mutant is an organism that has characteristics that neither of its parents had.
No, that is too based on the physical being, a mutated gene doesnt have to manifest itself into any visible difference. Nor does the fact that you have different color eyes from both your parents mean that you are a mutant. Recessive genes would be an example: to give you blue eyes, for example (to borrow from another post I just saw). Neither parent has blue eyes, but the way their DNA split and combined to form yours can give you a trait that neither of them have.
A mutant is the term you would use because the scientific term for what this woman has is a genetic mutation.
It is actually such things as the X-Men that gives the term a misunderstood meaning. A mutation doenst have to be anything as drastic as in the movie "The Fly" for example, and certainly, there arent any superheros flying around in the real world. Im sure if you looked closely enough, most of us have some sort of genetic mutation in our DNA, but they just arent significant enough to manifest themselves in any noticeable way.
If the 4 color vision is a good mutation, it will hopefully propogate into the general population eventually (well, half of it anyway :)
Yeah, I would have it like that, but Slashdot doenst allow a sig that long.. :(
I thought it was: "Nine nude nymphs nibling on Nat's nails and nicotine"
Value added tax is defined as "A consumption tax which is levied at each stage of production based on the value added to the product at that stage."
VAT is not based upon what you paid for the product (or service), and it is difficult to assess this value on this type of imported goods because a) it is free; and b) it wasnt made there so the audit trail is tougher to follow. An overly simplistic view is you buy some raw materials for $5 and produce something that costs $10. VAT is added to the $5 of value you "added" the product with your workmanship. Then you sell the $10 for that much more, plus what you paid in VAT, and pass the costs down along the line, ultimately to be paid by the end user.
So Poland in this case, has to look at the market and see that price for which similar products are selling. Whether or not you think Windows or Office is worth what they cost is moot, the market determines the price and people are obviously willing to pay what they are. So RH and StarOffice are, in the eyes of the government, similar in value as their MS counterparts. No matter that you didnt pay anything for it, you brought valuable merchandise into the country so you pay value added tax -- if the product was not free, you would have had to pay sales tax as well, but you didnt.
I am not an expert on this, but in my past work experience, I had to deal with VAT and getting VAT refunds (not available to the end user, unfortunately, just resellers). Hope this clears things up a little.
Basically, youre SOL unless you start electing officials who want to reform these tax systems.
Score:5, insightful????? Please! This is flamebait, pure and simple. There are no original ideas here, hell, there arent even any plagiarized ideas here, Dictator just rips on Katz. Im not defending the article, and should be moded down as Offtopic, but since when is the only criteria for an interesting or insightful post that someone have the ability to type more than 100 words?
Not quite. Raped would be violé (violée for women).
A viola is a musical instrument, a little larger than a violin
At least these are better than the average "your argument has no absolutely merit because you misspelled a word" post :)
John, it sounds like you read this article.
It is a pretty interesting analysis on why Nader actually wants Bush to win. I respect Nader for everything he has done in his career to help the "little guy", but if this is even remotely in the back of his mind, Ive lost most of it.
Daycare is a very responsible thing to do for your children. This is certainly not opting out of anything -- its not as if you would have been there with them at that time anyway, you would have been at work. Remember, the person you are going to be is pretty much defined by the age of 6 (I cannot give a specific footnote here, sorry), and this interaction is very important.
Responsible parents check out multiple daycare centers in their community, get references, etc. It is the start of education, and where most kids begin to develop their social skills, i.e. how to deal with other children, share, etc.
And daycare is not just for preschoolers -- many offer programs for younger elementary school children after school and before their parent(s) get home.
You have some good points about living more frugally, but some people just cannot do that, and I think your opening statment is a bit extreme
Give it a rest. Nobody cares.
Actually, your example #3 IS funny...
Besides, I didnt see her/him post on this topic. So is your strategy to wait for a new story so you can post this and get it moderated up? Theres no way you researched and wrote all that out in the minute and a half since the story went up.
Yeah, nice logic, the apostrophes would be in there had slashdot footers been allowed to exceed 120 characters.
Ive played that damn game about a thousand times and have never cracked the top 20...
The monkey forces an ISP to install Windows NT in New York, NY. The monkey is wanted for crimes against God in New York.
I am voting for Gore.
I agree with a comment made by someone the other day in a recent post about how the President is more of a figurehead than actual hands-on leader. However, a figurehead is meant to lead by example so that the people do what they (the figurehead) think is the right thing. The one thing that struk me about the debates (I watched the 1st and 3rd in their entirety) were 2 things: Bush's evasiveness, esp in the 3rd, and Gore's willingness to admit when he didnt know something. More important than what someone does know is that they know what they do not know -- that is why the President has a cabinet. For example, its not the President that rebuilds the military, its the person he chooses as his Secretary of Defense. Picking the right advisors is what makes a President effective at doing his job on a day-to-day basis.
When it does come to personal ideals of the candidates, the one way they are very powerful at leaving a "legacy" is through Supreme Court appointments. In the next 4 years, there will very likely be 2, 3 or even 4 new justices appointed. Aside from whatever the media chooses as its "hot issues" of the campaign, I like Gore's forwardlookingness rather than Bush's protectionism.
I saw Gore speak in 88 at my HS and was impressed (disclaimer: sure, I was young and so more impressionable, but other speakers that impressed me: Mike Dukakis, Elizabeth Dole; those that did not: Dick Gephardt, Ron Paul, and George Bush, who was actually heckled for his evasiveness; Alexander Haig was simply scary -- I grew up in NH so had a unique opportunity). This year, both candidates have the wrong view with many of the issues we care about, but I feel much more comfortable in the fact that Gore seems more willing to listen to what we have to say and to learn what we have to teach him about filtering, the DMCI, etc...
I do think we are better off than we were 8 years ago, and I dont think 4 more years of the same is a bad thing. I also think we should start thinking about 40 years from now in our policymaking rather than what is good for me today. The big issue for me is so-called "oil crisis" we are having. Gore wants to find alternate fuels. Bush wants to drill for more and ignore the fact that it is a limited resource. If we started working on alternate fuels the last time we had this problem, we wouldnt be having it again now.
When trying to discredit someone, you should use sources that are not discredited themselves. The link in this very story http://commo ns. somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.The.New.Science.of.C.ht ml is dominated by articles from the Boston Globe that are picked apart and shown to be full of false statements. What you are doing here is basically the same as using a word to define itself. Also, Op-Ed pieces are opinions, not facts, and are nothing very creidible on which to base an argument.