Isn't it a standard in Justice that information be submitted in Word Perfect format? I thought somewhere I heard that, and it is why the law firms stick with it.
It used to be standard. Part of the issue is that Word doesn't (or, at least it didn't when last I heard) handle legal footnoting and citation properly.
If you want a skill-based MMORPG, try Puzzle Pirates. Combat etc. are all resolved by participants solving puzzles, rather than clicking madly in an all-out twitch-fest.
I always wonder whether the "It's accelerating so it'll drift apart in the end" folks understand basic calculus. The rate of expansion accelerating doesn't mean it will continue accelerating
Well, if you've done any General Relativity you'll know that for a standard cosmology (FLRW cosmology), the final state is one of recollapse, asymptotic expansion, or accelerating expansion. This end state depends on the total mass-energy content of the universe and the nature of the dark energy (cosmological constant). It really isn't a lack of understanding of "basic calculus", but rather a deeper understanding of the physics involved. So, basically, we don't need to know all the derivatives -- we just need to have an understanding of the potential in which our universe evolves.
There was a fantastic mod for the original Unreal (it was called serpentine, if anyone else remembers it) that actually did all of what you're talking about. IIRC, it had the zoomed view, manual reloading, time-of-flight, something like double-damage on headshots with all weapons, and grenades with realistic blast radius. I only wish I could find a version for Unreal Tournament...
Having to lead your target, figure the drop over the range, and reload the sniper rifle after 5 shots made for a lot of fun.
Well, you'll need a couple of Telescope Operators, Technicians for each of the systems, maintenance workers, etc. I'd say at least 12-15 full-time on-site workers rotating through.
Scientists can still do things remotely if there's a fast connection, but you'll always need reliable operators in the dome.
Yes. One of the sites under consideration for the Thirty Meter Telescope is on an island in the Canadian high arctic. Very dark skies with remarkably good atmospherics for such a low altitude. Now about getting staff to work there.....
Sorry to nitpick, but since it only strengthens your point... are physicists really only paid ~ 80K/year? (And by the way it costs like $140K/year to employ somebody who gets paid 80K/year).
Well, if they hire postdocs, you can basically cut those numbers in half.....
Actually, it depends on how many actuators they use on the mirror. With too few actuators, a large mirror can actually do worse than one of the same size with no AO at all! It will get remarkably expensive and will be technologically difficult to control a 100m mirror with sufficient accuracy to do any better than the proposed 30m telescope.
Basically, adaptive optics (AO -- deformable mirrors which compensate for atmospheric turbulence) are what makes projects like this possible. That being said, projects like the European OWL (100m) telescope will need a *huge* number of actuators to get the level of mirror control necessary to eliminate most of the distortions. In fact, with a small number of AO actuators, large telescopes can actually do *worse* than with no AO system at all!
A large chunk of the budget on these large optical telescopes will be going toward developing such large AO systems.
That, however, is only your opinion. For others, the fun lies in having a kick-ass character and being able to hand the BBEG his head on a platter without breaking a sweat.
If "getting there is half the fun", then logically, the rest of the fun happens once you've arrived. Some people want to get there more quickly. How does that affect your enjoyment of the game?
Part of the reason everyone in Britain drank prodigious amounts of alcohol back then was the fact that the availablility of potable water was quite low. The Thames was horribly polluted, as was the groundwater anywhere near a population center. Drinking gin rather than water was about the only way to avoid dysentery.
Lawyers are the real bottom feeding scum. Everyone's asses hurt around them. I've personally been take for a lawyer-ride (without lubrication), shareholders get raped by lawyers, Enron still has lawyers on the payroll to date while 401ks lie empty (due to foolish investment strategies and ignoring reality, but still, its a bit unfair to think lawyers take precedent here har har). In fact the inexorably complex US tax code is created, administered and massively profited off of by lawyers. Judges are lawyers. Politicians are lawyers. Anyone who isn't a scientist, a manager, a doctor, a musician, in the military, well, there is a class of people who are really ancillary to everything around them. This class finds themselves needing work because they are inherently useless. So instead of sticking to trial law, lawyers band together to form raping bands of hyenas that rove the corporate and political landscape raping everything in sight. Why cant Ted Turner just call the webmaster and say, Hey, can you cut the shit? Mano a mano? These fucking lawyers have no face, no use and no spine. BAR. What a crock. Barrister. Some crappy construct leftover from the days of King George of England.
You're an idiot. Do you think lawyers are really going around magically making money off the backs of "the little guy" without having someone to pay for their services? Do they do it for fun? Are they all independently wealthy?
If anyone should be on the receiving end of your vitriolic rant, it's the people who hire lawyers.
A friend of mine went to Columbia University and actually went a little insane in his time there. When asked by a local TV reporter (in a man-on-the-street interview) what could be done to improve the quality of life in NYC his reply was, "level it, and start over again".
Needless to say, his response was not featured on the 6:00 news...
80 oz of coke would have a whopping 933 calories! That's over a third of what an active adult male can comfortably handle in a day. It's an absolutely ludicrous amount to be consuming in a nutritionally void beverage form.
It's no wonder that obesity is (or really *should be*) such a concern nowadays...
So much for HotMail's server-side scanning (it uses McAfee AFAIK). I've seen it block attachments with viruses before, but I guess it's not 100% effective (after all, it is a MS product!).
My home system became infected with Klez after my wife opened an attachment from her hotmail account (and she knows better!) which the server-side scanning had claimed was okay. What a monster pain in the ass that was! From then on, any attachments get scanned, then opened under Linux!
Remember, this is still only proposed legislation! It still needs to be debated and potentially revised. If this proposal even passes, in all likelihood those levy numbers will come down. As the old adage says, don't make your first offer your best offer -- of course the recording industry wants the proposed numbers to be high, otherwise they have nowhere to go to compromise.
Yes, it would be the end of Open Source. Who in their right mind would code for a project part time if it
meant they were legally liable for anything that might go wrong with it?
By your logic, no one would ever volunteer with a first-aid organization (a la St. John Ambulance). Once they've begun performing any sort of aid, they are immediately liable if they stop before a fully-qualified medical professional comes to relieve them.
If people want to volunteer for a cause they believe in, they will. I don't think the open-source movement would collapse simply because of a potential liability. It just mans that people would have to take a bit more responsibility for what they produce.
Before everyone gets up in arms, keep in mind that this is only a proposed levy. The bill has not been enacted and may not ever be. It is misleading and irresponsible to write that Canada WILL impose this levy until, and if, the bill becomes law.
Dark matter is different from dark energy. Basically, dark matter is just that -- normally gravitating matter which does not emit sufficient EM radiation to be detected by us, and is therefore, dark. That would include such things as brown dwarfs, and massive neutrinos. Pockets of gas that are in thermal equilibrium with the microwave background would also appear "dark" to us, as they would emit radiation with the same distribution as the CMB. Dark matter need not be anything particularly "exotic" (in the colloquial sense of the word).
Dark energy, on the other hand, is a "cosmological constant"-like force that causes the repulsive force that leads to an acceleration of the universe. The acceleration has (tentatively) been observed in surveys of high-redshift supernovae. It was initially surmised that this force could be caused by quantum mechanical vacuum fluctuations (much like the Casimir force). Unfortunately, the "cosmological constant" those fluctuations would produce is off by an astounding (IIRC) 50 orders of magnitude!
Since NASA headquarters moved into the "rough" part of DC, there have, of course, been stray bullets in the area. One actually made it through someone's window, leaving a nice sized bullet-hole through the middle. The next day there was a sign beside the hole saying, "Goldin's office is on the third floor" or words to that effect...
Slashdot Mirror
It used to be standard. Part of the issue is that Word doesn't (or, at least it didn't when last I heard) handle legal footnoting and citation properly.
If you want a skill-based MMORPG, try Puzzle Pirates. Combat etc. are all resolved by participants solving puzzles, rather than clicking madly in an all-out twitch-fest.
Well, if you've done any General Relativity you'll know that for a standard cosmology (FLRW cosmology), the final state is one of recollapse, asymptotic expansion, or accelerating expansion. This end state depends on the total mass-energy content of the universe and the nature of the dark energy (cosmological constant). It really isn't a lack of understanding of "basic calculus", but rather a deeper understanding of the physics involved. So, basically, we don't need to know all the derivatives -- we just need to have an understanding of the potential in which our universe evolves.
There was a fantastic mod for the original Unreal (it was called serpentine, if anyone else remembers it) that actually did all of what you're talking about. IIRC, it had the zoomed view, manual reloading, time-of-flight, something like double-damage on headshots with all weapons, and grenades with realistic blast radius. I only wish I could find a version for Unreal Tournament...
Having to lead your target, figure the drop over the range, and reload the sniper rifle after 5 shots made for a lot of fun.
Well, you'll need a couple of Telescope Operators, Technicians for each of the systems, maintenance workers, etc. I'd say at least 12-15 full-time on-site workers rotating through.
Scientists can still do things remotely if there's a fast connection, but you'll always need reliable operators in the dome.
Yes. One of the sites under consideration for the Thirty Meter Telescope is on an island in the Canadian high arctic. Very dark skies with remarkably good atmospherics for such a low altitude. Now about getting staff to work there.....
Well, if they hire postdocs, you can basically cut those numbers in half.....
Sorry to say, it's sad but true.
Actually, it depends on how many actuators they use on the mirror. With too few actuators, a large mirror can actually do worse than one of the same size with no AO at all! It will get remarkably expensive and will be technologically difficult to control a 100m mirror with sufficient accuracy to do any better than the proposed 30m telescope.
What do you use a Viola for in a network? I don't think he's trying to set up a Ugandan string quartet.
Basically, adaptive optics (AO -- deformable mirrors which compensate for atmospheric turbulence) are what makes projects like this possible. That being said, projects like the European OWL (100m) telescope will need a *huge* number of actuators to get the level of mirror control necessary to eliminate most of the distortions. In fact, with a small number of AO actuators, large telescopes can actually do *worse* than with no AO system at all!
A large chunk of the budget on these large optical telescopes will be going toward developing such large AO systems.
Jesus Saves!
And takes 1/2 damage...
That, however, is only your opinion. For others, the fun lies in having a kick-ass character and being able to hand the BBEG his head on a platter without breaking a sweat.
If "getting there is half the fun", then logically, the rest of the fun happens once you've arrived. Some people want to get there more quickly. How does that affect your enjoyment of the game?
Part of the reason everyone in Britain drank prodigious amounts of alcohol back then was the fact that the availablility of potable water was quite low. The Thames was horribly polluted, as was the groundwater anywhere near a population center. Drinking gin rather than water was about the only way to avoid dysentery.
You're an idiot. Do you think lawyers are really going around magically making money off the backs of "the little guy" without having someone to pay for their services? Do they do it for fun? Are they all independently wealthy?
If anyone should be on the receiving end of your vitriolic rant, it's the people who hire lawyers.
Of course, maybe we'd all be better off not having anyone to protect our rights from the government.
Yes. A contract signed under duress (e.g. at gunpoint) is not entered into in good faith and is, therefore, invalid and not enforceable.
As always, IANAL (but my wife is).
A friend of mine went to Columbia University and actually went a little insane in his time there. When asked by a local TV reporter (in a man-on-the-street interview) what could be done to improve the quality of life in NYC his reply was, "level it, and start over again".
Needless to say, his response was not featured on the 6:00 news...
80 oz of coke would have a whopping 933 calories! That's over a third of what an active adult male can comfortably handle in a day. It's an absolutely ludicrous amount to be consuming in a nutritionally void beverage form.
It's no wonder that obesity is (or really *should be*) such a concern nowadays...
So much for HotMail's server-side scanning (it uses McAfee AFAIK). I've seen it block attachments with viruses before, but I guess it's not 100% effective (after all, it is a MS product!).
My home system became infected with Klez after my wife opened an attachment from her hotmail account (and she knows better!) which the server-side scanning had claimed was okay. What a monster pain in the ass that was! From then on, any attachments get scanned, then opened under Linux!
Remember, this is still only proposed legislation! It still needs to be debated and potentially revised. If this proposal even passes, in all likelihood those levy numbers will come down. As the old adage says, don't make your first offer your best offer -- of course the recording industry wants the proposed numbers to be high, otherwise they have nowhere to go to compromise.
Yes, it would be the end of Open Source. Who in their right mind would code for a project part time if it
meant they were legally liable for anything that might go wrong with it?
By your logic, no one would ever volunteer with a first-aid organization (a la St. John Ambulance). Once they've begun performing any sort of aid, they are immediately liable if they stop before a fully-qualified medical professional comes to relieve them.
If people want to volunteer for a cause they believe in, they will. I don't think the open-source movement would collapse simply because of a potential liability. It just mans that people would have to take a bit more responsibility for what they produce.
How is that a bad thing?
Before everyone gets up in arms, keep in mind that this is only a proposed levy. The bill has not been enacted and may not ever be. It is misleading and irresponsible to write that Canada WILL impose this levy until, and if, the bill becomes law.
I *really* wish I had mod points right now...
Parent comment is 5: Insightful.
Dark matter is different from dark energy. Basically, dark matter is just that -- normally gravitating matter which does not emit sufficient EM radiation to be detected by us, and is therefore, dark. That would include such things as brown dwarfs, and massive neutrinos. Pockets of gas that are in thermal equilibrium with the microwave background would also appear "dark" to us, as they would emit radiation with the same distribution as the CMB. Dark matter need not be anything particularly "exotic" (in the colloquial sense of the word).
Dark energy, on the other hand, is a "cosmological constant"-like force that causes the repulsive force that leads to an acceleration of the universe. The acceleration has (tentatively) been observed in surveys of high-redshift supernovae. It was initially surmised that this force could be caused by quantum mechanical vacuum fluctuations (much like the Casimir force). Unfortunately, the "cosmological constant" those fluctuations would produce is off by an astounding (IIRC) 50 orders of magnitude!
"So now the porn stars ar emaking their own websites?"
Yes. At least one is.
Since NASA headquarters moved into the "rough" part of DC, there have, of course, been stray bullets in the area. One actually made it through someone's window, leaving a nice sized bullet-hole through the middle. The next day there was a sign beside the hole saying, "Goldin's office is on the third floor" or words to that effect...
Overheard by a colleague at a conference.