I know there are a number of reasons that it may not be feasible to do a similar study on women (small pool to choose from--not by fault of women by any means), but it would certainly be interesting to see! Ah well, back to my lab...first my testosterone injection; I don't want my prof to think I'm slacking.
Agreed. Nothing is more irritating than pretentious elitist who use thesaurus.com way too much. I guess they attract the sort of fans who like their intelligence to be in(as)sulted.
here's an idea patent the use of accepting credit cards for payment at the drive through ordering machine. then when the customer gets up to the window, they sign the reciept and off they go.
Sonic already has a patent for that; they have personal CC/ATM machines at each pod which is pending or has been approved iIrc.
Testing conducted by Apple in June 2003 using preproduction Power Mac G5 units with application software optimized for the PowerPC G5.
So, of course their optimizations make it run faster. Look how ATI and nVidia have been behaving; a couple more months of 'optimized' Win drivers and quake III will be running at ERROR_OVER_RUN frames per second:
I have become aware of a litigious situation between your company and that of Darl McBride (SCO). In your pending defense against their lawsuit(s) I would like to recommend to you that I, NMG be your sole defense attorney. I am not on your legal defense team, nor am I actually a lawyer. I am merely a reader of Slashdot. SCOâ(TM)s claimâ(TM)s of damages are so ludicrous, I believe that even a troop of Screaming Monkeyâ(TM)s could provide you proper defense. Unfortunately for you, the Screaming Monkeyâ(TM)s were already hired out for the year by the Federal Trade Commission. Therefore, I extend an offer of my services for your legal defense in return for a pack of smokes, a ThinkPad and a chance to punch SCO in the kisser. This union will save you a bundle of money in defense feeâ(TM)s and will save your legal resources for your pending investigation with the horde of Screaming Monkeyâ(TM)s. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Question about Miranda and other alternate IM's
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AOL Bridges AIM and ICQ
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· Score: 3, Insightful
My biggest concern is do these programs allow for inter-client (say Miranda to MSN or ICQ to Miranda) transfer of files? Is there a way to use the video conferencing 'tools' (and I use the word tools loosly) of MSN through any of the clients.
If all you want to do is chat this is all well and good, but I've noticed that if you want to start sharing pictures or video with family between clients and platforms (from mac to win to linux) problms arise.
Did anyone else besides me stop reading what Matt Oppenheim had written in response to these questions?
He should have just said:
"While lobbying for insane copyright extensions, suing kids, and whining about not milking that extra billion from teenagers over the last three years is generally not in the best interests of the public at large, it sure is helping us flog the last few drops out of a dying cow for benefit of the interested.05% of copyright holders!"
And left me some time to read Lessig's well thought out, poignant, and meaningful answers.
Set it up yourself and be a he-ro to all of your campus. Just make sure you dont allow any domains outside your campus to use the search function (thwart people from sueing you) and be sure to make it an opt-in service. It's worked for a couple years on my (ex)campus.
Indeed they have been published. Imram in the December 3, 1955 issue of in the Time and Tide. The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun which is thought to be written as an alternative ending for Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale and is published in the December, 1945 issue of the Welsh Review.
NMG
A lot of people are saying "I made these years ago with pvc, blah blah, not new."
Well, this much like saying the concept of firing lead out of a barrel is not new, and ignoring the fact that the technology behind it hasn't changed much either.
I don't know about you, but the potato guns I build were not industrial steel tubing with rifeling controled by butane-ethenol mixes. Nor could it punch through a wheelbarrel and the side of a house consecutively, like some I've seen today...
Counrtries with low military budgets (Ireland anyone?) should really consider these for artillary.
Nanotube technology still has a ways to go before it can handle the space elevator problem. Certainly NASA wouldn't be funding the project if there was no hope of it getting off the ground...
A reply to Arthur C. Clarke's letter to Scientific American:
Avouris and Collins reply: We have not read Edwards's report on the subject, but one may anticipate great difficulties in the implementation of the project. Although it is true that individual nanotubes have very high tensile strength, the record length achieved for a single nanotube is a mere two millimeters, and this applies only to multiwalled nanotubes, which have lower strength than single-walled tubes. One could make ropes from shorter tubes, but tube-tube adhesion is not particularly strong. That said, the carbon nanotube field is advancing at an incredible rate, and difficulties that appear insurmountable today may find simple solutions tomorrow.
Irregardless of the hurdles facing scientist trying to overcome the current limitations to nanotube technologies, I hope that this project finds itself successfully completed!
Gimmie a break. I love how your 'research' links point to religious web pages. You think they have a motive behind their theories? Some of their references are terribly outdated and misrepresented. I'm sitting in the same room as 16000 geological and geophysical journal publications and 2200 books going back to the 1880's. I did a quick skim through the referenced GSA and JSP publications and needless to say, they had NOTHING to do with what they were referenced for.
I liked the giant Andean clam page too some of my prof's got a kick out of it. As everyone commented on the page, they are most likely concretions. You can't really go on hearsay and fuzzy pictures, but a sample -loan would be nice. And like I said, dieing closed != cataclysmic death. Even if it were for these unlikely monster clams, who is to say that they were not suddenly killed and redeposited by a storm?
Evolutionist != Scientist or geologist. Sorry. Who knows what your evolutionist was smoking? I sure don't, and he probably wasn't a geologist.
I'm glad you're interested in educating yourself. Here's a non-intensive link that explains away some of your logic with noah's flood and the grand canyon. I can explain again why you're wrong regarding the river's erosion (a first semester geologist would understand) if you're interested. I'm getting tired of feeding the religion trolls in the science forum and I have to get back to my thesis.
Dumb science abounds today... Your friends are very wrong. People need to start learning science form scientists and not from their sunday morning sermons.
A lot of water was trapped north of the grand canyon in a huge lake. After some time, the dam holding the lake burst and the entire lake carved the Grand Canyon out of the soft sediment in a geologically short time (hours to months).
Nope. This doesn't even justify a geologic response. There is no global scale geologic evidence for a catastrophic flooding of the world a la Noah. Sorry.
Over the next thousand or so years the sediment hardened into the stone we see today
Compaction and lithification of sediment does take a bit longer than a thousand years. Especially the volume of sediment found in the colorado plateau.
One was how you can see the same rock strata all the way around the canyon. They claimed if it was formed over millions of years, much of the land would have shifted and the strata lines would not be so straight.
Not really. The sediment found in the colorado plateau represents the cumulation of billions of years of deposition and erosion. You have to realise that the colorado plateau was not always a basin collecting sediment, but was also a part of a huge Jurrasic desert (JR Navaj for geologists), an even bigger sea that connected the present day arctic with the gulf of mexico (albeit North America was a bit closer to the equator:) and uplifted to form the plateau we see today--just to name a few.
The strata in the canyon may appear flat, but like your friends hypothesize there is evidence of tectonic events--although a basic understanding of depisitional priciples could help understand some of their questions.
Another bit they pointed to was the closed clam shell fossils. They claimed clams open when they die and closed fossils are evidence of a catastrophic event.
Plenty of bivalves die with their shells closed. While modern clams tend to die open, it is not unheard for them to die closed even without a catastrophic event. Even so, the 'clams' of the canyon--which are often misidentified as such--had no problems dieing closed, or open. Who know what they did hundreds of millions of years ago? Go gather some samples from Redwall Limestone, or was it Toroweap, and identify them with an Autobann Society's guide to North American Fossils book. I bet you they aren't 'clams.'
Personally, I don't know enough about geology to support or refute the theories, so I tend to believe the mainstream scientific theory.
You know a bit more now. 'Modern' geology answered all of these questions a hundred years ago. Mainstream science is still science, and I have never seen a paper published or personal evidence that indicates what your friends believe. If they would open their eyes and look around instead of accepting on blind faith, they would come to many of the same conclusions geologists came to a century ago.
Not only was the colorado river not always so small but the colorado river never flowed up hill.
The Colorado river established it's course in the early Tertiary (paleocene or eocene) and as the Colorado plateau was uplifeted the river maintainted its course by increasing its rate of erosion, slicing through the uplifting plateau like a "hot knife through butter".
This is a very basic summary of the events, more can be found here.
Geology is not over due for a Harlan Bretz. Though, the ignorance you display of basic geology in your post (why are many of the fossils in each layer have been aligned in one direction...facing Mecca when they died? )it would seem geology is long over due to be taught in primary schools.
Though those are plausibe question--many were asked in the 1800's when the grand canyon was first studied--they have long been answered and explained by the most basic concepts of modern geology.
Those of you who modded the above up as "insightful": turn you brain on.
A number of years ago, when I was in grad school, several uranium deposits in southern Africa were discovered to have been "critical" during the Precambrian after they formed. Geochemists knew this because they contained daughter products that could only have been produced by a nuclear reaction, not just normal breakdown of radioactive isotopes. So the idea of a natural reactor is not that far fetched.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know if you were trying to be funny or just didn't realize that nm was an abbreviated form of nautical miles. In either case... ;)
"Space Shuttle" to "Space Plane" and some sort of "Space Elevator"
I can't wait to see the specs for the "Space Staircase."
http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_navbar_ shrunk.png
I know there are a number of reasons that it may not be feasible to do a similar study on women (small pool to choose from--not by fault of women by any means), but it would certainly be interesting to see! Ah well, back to my lab...first my testosterone injection; I don't want my prof to think I'm slacking.
I wish there was a mod point for idiocy.
Agreed. Nothing is more irritating than pretentious elitist who use thesaurus.com way too much. I guess they attract the sort of fans who like their intelligence to be in(as)sulted.
Sonic already has a patent for that; they have personal CC/ATM machines at each pod which is pending or has been approved iIrc.
"Our card runs it so fast, it's immesurable!"
So, when is slashdot going to change the icon?
Duct tape and an iPod; slap it on your wrist. Hey, at least it will be sexier.
Dear Mr. Palmisano:
I have become aware of a litigious situation between your company and that of Darl McBride (SCO). In your pending defense against their lawsuit(s) I would like to recommend to you that I, NMG be your sole defense attorney. I am not on your legal defense team, nor am I actually a lawyer. I am merely a reader of Slashdot. SCOâ(TM)s claimâ(TM)s of damages are so ludicrous, I believe that even a troop of Screaming Monkeyâ(TM)s could provide you proper defense. Unfortunately for you, the Screaming Monkeyâ(TM)s were already hired out for the year by the Federal Trade Commission. Therefore, I extend an offer of my services for your legal defense in return for a pack of smokes, a ThinkPad and a chance to punch SCO in the kisser. This union will save you a bundle of money in defense feeâ(TM)s and will save your legal resources for your pending investigation with the horde of Screaming Monkeyâ(TM)s. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
My biggest concern is do these programs allow for inter-client (say Miranda to MSN or ICQ to Miranda) transfer of files? Is there a way to use the video conferencing 'tools' (and I use the word tools loosly) of MSN through any of the clients.
If all you want to do is chat this is all well and good, but I've noticed that if you want to start sharing pictures or video with family between clients and platforms (from mac to win to linux) problms arise.
Did anyone else besides me stop reading what Matt Oppenheim had written in response to these questions?
.05% of copyright holders!"
He should have just said:
"While lobbying for insane copyright extensions, suing kids, and whining about not milking that extra billion from teenagers over the last three years is generally not in the best interests of the public at large, it sure is helping us flog the last few drops out of a dying cow for benefit of the interested
And left me some time to read Lessig's well
thought out, poignant, and meaningful answers.
One of many free SAMBA Search engines... Seek42
Set it up yourself and be a he-ro to all of your campus. Just make sure you dont allow any domains outside your campus to use the search function (thwart people from sueing you) and be sure to make it an opt-in service. It's worked for a couple years on my (ex)campus.
Holy smokes this will be nice nice nice
Indeed they have been published. Imram in the December 3, 1955 issue of in the Time and Tide. The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun which is thought to be written as an alternative ending for Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale and is published in the December, 1945 issue of the Welsh Review. NMG
New to Slashdot?
A lot of people are saying "I made these years ago with pvc, blah blah, not new."
Well, this much like saying the concept of firing lead out of a barrel is not new, and ignoring the fact that the technology behind it hasn't changed much either.
I don't know about you, but the potato guns I build were not industrial steel tubing with rifeling controled by butane-ethenol mixes. Nor could it punch through a wheelbarrel and the side of a house consecutively, like some I've seen today...
Counrtries with low military budgets (Ireland anyone?) should really consider these for artillary.
A reply to Arthur C. Clarke's letter to Scientific American:
Irregardless of the hurdles facing scientist trying to overcome the current limitations to nanotube technologies, I hope that this project finds itself successfully completed!
Here here!
:)
I just threw in the towel as well Pyr0
heres a link to hand out when confronted with zealots
http://www.durangobill.com/Creationism.html
Gimmie a break. I love how your 'research' links point to religious web pages. You think they have a motive behind their theories? Some of their references are terribly outdated and misrepresented. I'm sitting in the same room as 16000 geological and geophysical journal publications and 2200 books going back to the 1880's. I did a quick skim through the referenced GSA and JSP publications and needless to say, they had NOTHING to do with what they were referenced for.
I liked the giant Andean clam page too some of my prof's got a kick out of it. As everyone commented on the page, they are most likely concretions. You can't really go on hearsay and fuzzy pictures, but a sample -loan would be nice. And like I said, dieing closed != cataclysmic death. Even if it were for these unlikely monster clams, who is to say that they were not suddenly killed and redeposited by a storm?
Evolutionist != Scientist or geologist. Sorry. Who knows what your evolutionist was smoking? I sure don't, and he probably wasn't a geologist.
I'm glad you're interested in educating yourself. Here's a non-intensive link that explains away some of your logic with noah's flood and the grand canyon. I can explain again why you're wrong regarding the river's erosion (a first semester geologist would understand) if you're interested. I'm getting tired of feeding the religion trolls in the science forum and I have to get back to my thesis.
Nope. This doesn't even justify a geologic response. There is no global scale geologic evidence for a catastrophic flooding of the world a la Noah. Sorry.
Compaction and lithification of sediment does take a bit longer than a thousand years. Especially the volume of sediment found in the colorado plateau.
Not really. The sediment found in the colorado plateau represents the cumulation of billions of years of deposition and erosion. You have to realise that the colorado plateau was not always a basin collecting sediment, but was also a part of a huge Jurrasic desert (JR Navaj for geologists), an even bigger sea that connected the present day arctic with the gulf of mexico (albeit North America was a bit closer to the equator
The strata in the canyon may appear flat, but like your friends hypothesize there is evidence of tectonic events--although a basic understanding of depisitional priciples could help understand some of their questions.
Plenty of bivalves die with their shells closed. While modern clams tend to die open, it is not unheard for them to die closed even without a catastrophic event. Even so, the 'clams' of the canyon--which are often misidentified as such--had no problems dieing closed, or open. Who know what they did hundreds of millions of years ago? Go gather some samples from Redwall Limestone, or was it Toroweap, and identify them with an Autobann Society's guide to North American Fossils book. I bet you they aren't 'clams.'
You know a bit more now. 'Modern' geology answered all of these questions a hundred years ago. Mainstream science is still science, and I have never seen a paper published or personal evidence that indicates what your friends believe. If they would open their eyes and look around instead of accepting on blind faith, they would come to many of the same conclusions geologists came to a century ago.
Not only was the colorado river not always so small but the colorado river never flowed up hill.
The Colorado river established it's course in the early Tertiary (paleocene or eocene) and as the Colorado plateau was uplifeted the river maintainted its course by increasing its rate of erosion, slicing through the uplifting plateau like a "hot knife through butter".
This is a very basic summary of the events, more can be found here.
Geology is not over due for a Harlan Bretz. Though, the ignorance you display of basic geology in your post (why are many of the fossils in each layer have been aligned in one direction...facing Mecca when they died? )it would seem geology is long over due to be taught in primary schools.
Though those are plausibe question--many were asked in the 1800's when the grand canyon was first studied--they have long been answered and explained by the most basic concepts of modern geology.
Those of you who modded the above up as "insightful": turn you brain on.
A number of years ago, when I was in grad school, several uranium deposits in southern Africa were discovered to have been "critical" during the Precambrian after they formed. Geochemists knew this because they contained daughter products that could only have been produced by a nuclear reaction, not just normal breakdown of radioactive isotopes. So the idea of a natural reactor is not that far fetched.
of unstable isotopes in the molten inner core
Molten inner core?
Last time I talked to a geophysicist (today) the inner core was solid. Go to my web page and ask me how I know.
No science is worse than the science FOX NEWS reports on...