In Latin, "left" and "right" are "laevus" and "dexter", hence the L and D for left and right handedness.
I think [s]he knew what the L and D stood for... the comment "I was wrong" referred to the statement that "Biological processes on earth tend to produce almost exclusively right handed molecules."
It's just a matter of time, according to Apple, that Obama and the White House IT Dept. might consider trading in his Crackberry for the much more powerful and user friendly iPhone.
It seems a bit unfair to decry the BlackBerry 8830 as being inferior in power to the iPhone, when it was being sold long before even the first-generation iPhone was available. Compare it to a Bold or a Storm.
Typical politics, everything the government does is wrong. The easiest job in the world has got to be the opposition in government.
Given that Alberta's opposition was absolutely slaughtered in the last election, it can't be that easy.
I'm willing to grant Alberta a bit of leeway given that few predicted the changes of the last year. But a lot of their policies since the Klein years -- certain capital projects, individual and corporate tax cuts, and subsidies to the oil industry -- were condemned by the opposition as stupid at the time and look stupid now.
I'll grant you it would have been politically impossible for Alberta to put it all in a giant piggy bank, but they could've done better. Their rainy day fund could be a lot bigger and could be very usefully directed now, with record-low interest rates and a need for stimulus. There's never been a better time for capital projects.
I think when your provincial economy depends so heavily on the value of a particular resource, you should not bank on the value of that resource too heavily. Leave some buffer room to spare yourself indignities like this!
Am I the only one who thought that paying an extra $600/year per household to escape the burden of dealing with Windows (for all users, not just non-techie ones) wouldn't be that unreasonable a price?
I thought the earth has actually been getting cooler since 2004. I also thought the earth constantly went through cycles of heating and cooling. What we do does affect the planet, by all means. How MUCH it is affecting is still very much up for debate.
Apparently, you and a whole bunch of people decided I was somehow telling you to believe or disbelieve based on faith alone.
When I said "isn't it enough just to disbelieve", the implicit alternative was endorsing a wholly unsubstantiated claim which was the diametrical opposite of the one advanced, i.e. the claim that not only is AGW not happening, that carbon released into the atmosphere has no effect at all!
I think I was pretty clear, so I don't know how you (and presumably most of the people who modded me down).
God, why does Slashdot have so many AGW deniers? I hang out with geeks all the time and I only ever met a handful, one admittedly being one of the smartest people I know. Perhaps it's because I'm not American and most of you are there; I won't be rude and speculate on just why that might be.
Apparently, you and a whole bunch of people decided I was somehow telling you to believe or disbelieve based on faith alone.
When I said "isn't it enough just to disbelieve", the alternative was endorsing a wholly unsubstantiated claim which was the diametrical opposite of the one advanced, i.e. the claim that not only is AGW not happening, that carbon released into the atmosphere has no effect at all!
This was completely obvious from my post, you idiots.
Hey everyone! Because some other random thing is happening on a human time scale in another planet, therefore our pumping of millions of kilograms of carbon into the atmosphere, formerly sequestered underground for hundreds of millions of years, must therefore be having no effect at all on our climate! Yay!
Jeez. I realize that we get a lot of overheated (excuse the pun) rhetoric from proponents of AGW, but do you skeptics really have to take your rhetorical bandwagon so far in the opposite direction? Isn't it enough just not to believe?
Unless someone shows me otherwise, alterations in Jupiter's spot say exactly nothing about terrestrial global warming.
F/OSS only appeals to people who LIKE to trudge through others code to see how it works or make it "better". To me, software is an end to a means and I don't really give a rat's ass how it works as long as it's not doing shit behind may back that I don't want; which I can find out by other means than looking at source code.
Geez, just because the source code is available doesn't mean you *must* do everything from source.
Granted there are some programs are distributed only as source, but all or almost all popular F/OSS programs have binary distributions. The source is there only if you want to tinker. You may choose not to exercise that option, but with proprietary code, you don't even have the choice.
I hope I'm wrong. I thought that they DID show north america in revalations. If they did not, then I feel much better.
They did show North America, but that was in the end of Season 3. During the fleet's actual visit to Cinder Earth, to my knowledge we never saw continents. I remember this particularly because some blogger was even commenting on it at the time.
The divinely-guided parallel evolution, along with the willing decision to abandon technology, was the hardest pill to swallow. I was kind of hoping that the ultimate reveal, for the BSG characters at least, would be that "second Earth" was actually the original home of humanity before they went to Kobol.
No explainations given as to why this new "earth" has continents that look EXACTLY like the other "earth"
I'll grant your feelings of being cheated and share them to a degree. (The science of Mitochondrial Eve was just ridiculous; we will never, ever find a skeleton we can prove is Mitochondrial Eve.)
But to my knowledge in Galactica's visit to "cinder Earth" they never showed continents, or anything that looked recognizably like our Earth. Granted that Three did say something about "the same on Mars", definitely suggesting it was the Solar System. But if they are to have an original Earth, why not an original Mars as well?
The only time they showed Earth before the finale, to my knowledge, was the end of season 3 when they panned out of the Milky Way and zoomed into Earth. But that can be resolved by arguing that what we saw then was the second, non-destroyed Earth.
Canada is a responsible member of the international community that hasn't made threats to wipe neighbors off the map, allowed criminals within it's own population to overrun foreign embassies and supplied terrorist groups with financial support/weapons.
Just because it can't be emphasized enough: 1) Ahmadinejad is a provocateur and a colossal anti-Semitic asshole.
2) Ahmadinejad never ever, not even once, called for Israel to be "wiped off the map".
See this Guardian piece, this one where a native Persian speaker translates the phrase word-for-word, or the Wikipedia summary. The Persian phrase translates to "vanish from the page of time", and the jist of it is the assertion that Israel is on the "wrong side of history" and will slide out of history much as the Soviet Union did.
3) The phrase was not Ahmadinejad's, but Ayatollah Khomeini's.
Yes, you are free to argue that Khomeini shouldn't have said it, that Khomeini was a dangerous fanatic, or that Ahmadinejad shouldn't have quoted him on this subject. But repeating a phrase used by a respected authority in your culture is not the same thing as coining the phrase. I'm not saying it means nothing, but the fact that it is a quote must be taken into account when assessing the speaker's intent.
This issue, of a phrase spoken by an foreign leader which sounds sinister in translation, is very similar to the issue of Khrushchev's "We will bury you" remark, also not intended to be as threatening as it was taken.
That quotation was Tina Fey, in fact. Surprised? That's what media with opinions does to you.
No, actually, I was aware of the difference. In any case the Fey quote it was a parody of something Palin and the McCain campaign actually said... that Palin had foreign policy experience by virtue of Alaska's being a neighbour to Russia.
Pffft, easier said than done. If you think an Iraqi insurgent with an IED is a tough adversary just wait until you see a Canadian with a hockey stick...
According to Elsevier, his impact factor is 3.025, which does seem high compared to Elsevier titles like Advances in Applied Mathematics (founded by Gian-Carlo Rota, who was a respectable mathematician).
It's clear from the samples that El Naschie's articles are complete garbage, and I'm sure no respectable mathematician would want to publish in what's effectively a crackpot's vanity press. This is obviously the scientific journal version of Googlebombing.
So how did he pull this off? Is he citing himself, and if so, where?
While it is possible to extract DNA from feces it is difficult to say whos it is, the DNA and feces.
Well, that's not completely true... you can tell the difference between, say, a cat and a bird. So unless you have a cat that has eaten another cat, this should work for you.
Usually, you need to catch the thing, this is of course hard for rare creatures and it may also incure the rath of the endagered speices act.
Um, no. All you need is a blood sample, and as watching any popular-science nature show will how you, scientists are certainly allowed to take samples from and monitor the populations of endangered species.
Eutherians being the technically correct name for placental mammals.
Well, technically I don't think Eutheria and placental mammals is *exactly* synonymous. They have different criteria for inclusion, with placentals a subgrouping of Eutheria. It's just that there are no living non-placental eutherians.
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In Latin, "left" and "right" are "laevus" and "dexter", hence the L and D for left and right handedness.
I think [s]he knew what the L and D stood for... the comment "I was wrong" referred to the statement that "Biological processes on earth tend to produce almost exclusively right handed molecules."
Someone should start a wiki to track deletions from wikipedia..
See Deletionpedia.
It confirms my expectations: that most deleted articles are not the Secret Truth Suppressed by the Man, but just selfish crap.
It's just a matter of time, according to Apple, that Obama and the White House IT Dept. might consider trading in his Crackberry for the much more powerful and user friendly iPhone.
It seems a bit unfair to decry the BlackBerry 8830 as being inferior in power to the iPhone, when it was being sold long before even the first-generation iPhone was available. Compare it to a Bold or a Storm.
It's like Paul Reiser's case. There was a statistical possibility that he was innocent, so we all jumped to his defense.
Um, important correction: you mean Hans Reiser.
Whatever offences Paul Reiser is guilty of (and the gods of humour are not kind), murder ain't one of them!
Parent article is full of GROSS misstatements of fact--too many for me to bother to correct.
Um, could you at least correct a few then? I mean, the parent began with a pretty compact little summary. In what way is this not true?
Typical politics, everything the government does is wrong. The easiest job in the world has got to be the opposition in government.
Given that Alberta's opposition was absolutely slaughtered in the last election, it can't be that easy.
I'm willing to grant Alberta a bit of leeway given that few predicted the changes of the last year. But a lot of their policies since the Klein years -- certain capital projects, individual and corporate tax cuts, and subsidies to the oil industry -- were condemned by the opposition as stupid at the time and look stupid now.
I'll grant you it would have been politically impossible for Alberta to put it all in a giant piggy bank, but they could've done better. Their rainy day fund could be a lot bigger and could be very usefully directed now, with record-low interest rates and a need for stimulus. There's never been a better time for capital projects.
I think when your provincial economy depends so heavily on the value of a particular resource, you should not bank on the value of that resource too heavily. Leave some buffer room to spare yourself indignities like this!
Alberta might as well
In Alberta it is a moot point. Alberta has no provincial sales tax at all, though if they keep posting record-setting deficits that might change.
Guess the financial picture ain't so rosy when oil isn't trading for $100/barrel, eh?
Hmm, $3,367 over five years for a household...
Am I the only one who thought that paying an extra $600/year per household to escape the burden of dealing with Windows (for all users, not just non-techie ones) wouldn't be that unreasonable a price?
I thought the earth has actually been getting cooler since 2004. I also thought the earth constantly went through cycles of heating and cooling. What we do does affect the planet, by all means. How MUCH it is affecting is still very much up for debate.
Don't confuse speed with position. While 2008 was the coldest year since 2000, it is still the ninth warmest year since 1880. Global warming theories do not require a strictly increasing average global temperature over time.
Apparently, you and a whole bunch of people decided I was somehow telling you to believe or disbelieve based on faith alone.
When I said "isn't it enough just to disbelieve", the implicit alternative was endorsing a wholly unsubstantiated claim which was the diametrical opposite of the one advanced, i.e. the claim that not only is AGW not happening, that carbon released into the atmosphere has no effect at all!
I think I was pretty clear, so I don't know how you (and presumably most of the people who modded me down).
God, why does Slashdot have so many AGW deniers? I hang out with geeks all the time and I only ever met a handful, one admittedly being one of the smartest people I know. Perhaps it's because I'm not American and most of you are there; I won't be rude and speculate on just why that might be.
Apparently, you and a whole bunch of people decided I was somehow telling you to believe or disbelieve based on faith alone.
When I said "isn't it enough just to disbelieve", the alternative was endorsing a wholly unsubstantiated claim which was the diametrical opposite of the one advanced, i.e. the claim that not only is AGW not happening, that carbon released into the atmosphere has no effect at all!
This was completely obvious from my post, you idiots.
Hey everyone! Because some other random thing is happening on a human time scale in another planet, therefore our pumping of millions of kilograms of carbon into the atmosphere, formerly sequestered underground for hundreds of millions of years, must therefore be having no effect at all on our climate! Yay!
Jeez. I realize that we get a lot of overheated (excuse the pun) rhetoric from proponents of AGW, but do you skeptics really have to take your rhetorical bandwagon so far in the opposite direction? Isn't it enough just not to believe?
Unless someone shows me otherwise, alterations in Jupiter's spot say exactly nothing about terrestrial global warming.
That's "Schrodinger's cat". Your license to make quantum mechanics jokes is hereby revoked.
That's Schrödinger's cat. Your licence to use Latin characters outside the 7-bit ASCII range is hereby revoked.
F/OSS only appeals to people who LIKE to trudge through others code to see how it works or make it "better". To me, software is an end to a means and I don't really give a rat's ass how it works as long as it's not doing shit behind may back that I don't want; which I can find out by other means than looking at source code.
Geez, just because the source code is available doesn't mean you *must* do everything from source.
Granted there are some programs are distributed only as source, but all or almost all popular F/OSS programs have binary distributions. The source is there only if you want to tinker. You may choose not to exercise that option, but with proprietary code, you don't even have the choice.
I hope I'm wrong. I thought that they DID show north america in revalations. If they did not, then I feel much better.
They did show North America, but that was in the end of Season 3. During the fleet's actual visit to Cinder Earth, to my knowledge we never saw continents. I remember this particularly because some blogger was even commenting on it at the time.
The divinely-guided parallel evolution, along with the willing decision to abandon technology, was the hardest pill to swallow. I was kind of hoping that the ultimate reveal, for the BSG characters at least, would be that "second Earth" was actually the original home of humanity before they went to Kobol.
No explainations given as to why this new "earth" has continents that look EXACTLY like the other "earth"
I'll grant your feelings of being cheated and share them to a degree. (The science of Mitochondrial Eve was just ridiculous; we will never, ever find a skeleton we can prove is Mitochondrial Eve.)
But to my knowledge in Galactica's visit to "cinder Earth" they never showed continents, or anything that looked recognizably like our Earth. Granted that Three did say something about "the same on Mars", definitely suggesting it was the Solar System. But if they are to have an original Earth, why not an original Mars as well?
The only time they showed Earth before the finale, to my knowledge, was the end of season 3 when they panned out of the Milky Way and zoomed into Earth. But that can be resolved by arguing that what we saw then was the second, non-destroyed Earth.
On the other hand, in German it's
Nagetier-Lenkflugkörper
though that's just "Rodent" and "Guided missile" concatenated. For a missile *guided by* a rodent, it would be:
Nagetier-Geführter Flugkörper
A little more forbidding-looking and you even have an umlaut there. But it doesn't roll off the tongue.
Canada is a responsible member of the international community that hasn't made threats to wipe neighbors off the map, allowed criminals within it's own population to overrun foreign embassies and supplied terrorist groups with financial support/weapons.
Just because it can't be emphasized enough:
1) Ahmadinejad is a provocateur and a colossal anti-Semitic asshole.
2) Ahmadinejad never ever, not even once, called for Israel to be "wiped off the map".
See this Guardian piece, this one where a native Persian speaker translates the phrase word-for-word, or the Wikipedia summary. The Persian phrase translates to "vanish from the page of time", and the jist of it is the assertion that Israel is on the "wrong side of history" and will slide out of history much as the Soviet Union did.
3) The phrase was not Ahmadinejad's, but Ayatollah Khomeini's.
Yes, you are free to argue that Khomeini shouldn't have said it, that Khomeini was a dangerous fanatic, or that Ahmadinejad shouldn't have quoted him on this subject. But repeating a phrase used by a respected authority in your culture is not the same thing as coining the phrase. I'm not saying it means nothing, but the fact that it is a quote must be taken into account when assessing the speaker's intent.
This issue, of a phrase spoken by an foreign leader which sounds sinister in translation, is very similar to the issue of Khrushchev's "We will bury you" remark, also not intended to be as threatening as it was taken.
That quotation was Tina Fey, in fact.
Surprised? That's what media with opinions does to you.
No, actually, I was aware of the difference. In any case the Fey quote it was a parody of something Palin and the McCain campaign actually said... that Palin had foreign policy experience by virtue of Alaska's being a neighbour to Russia.
References: here and here.
Pffft, easier said than done. If you think an Iraqi insurgent with an IED is a tough adversary just wait until you see a Canadian with a hockey stick...
That, and we maintain a threatening lead in Zamboni technology!
How did El Naschie game the system?
According to Elsevier, his impact factor is 3.025, which does seem high compared to Elsevier titles like Advances in Applied Mathematics (founded by Gian-Carlo Rota, who was a respectable mathematician).
It's clear from the samples that El Naschie's articles are complete garbage, and I'm sure no respectable mathematician would want to publish in what's effectively a crackpot's vanity press. This is obviously the scientific journal version of Googlebombing.
So how did he pull this off? Is he citing himself, and if so, where?
While it is possible to extract DNA from feces it is difficult to say whos it is, the DNA and feces.
Well, that's not completely true... you can tell the difference between, say, a cat and a bird. So unless you have a cat that has eaten another cat, this should work for you.
Usually, you need to catch the thing, this is of course hard for rare creatures and it may also incure the rath of the endagered speices act.
Um, no. All you need is a blood sample, and as watching any popular-science nature show will how you, scientists are certainly allowed to take samples from and monitor the populations of endangered species.
Um, what is all this talk about the guy being Japanese?
He may be into anime, but "Le Trung" is not a Japanese name. (Offhand I would guess Vietnamese, but I'm not sure.)
In any case TFA says he is from Ontario, Canada.
Java is compiled Just-in-time, though I don't know about smaller, obscure or embedded platforms.
Not all Java is compiled JIT.
Eutherians being the technically correct name for placental mammals.
Well, technically I don't think Eutheria and placental mammals is *exactly* synonymous. They have different criteria for inclusion, with placentals a subgrouping of Eutheria. It's just that there are no living non-placental eutherians.