I agree it's not all Christians by a long shot, but the most vocal (who also seem to be the most ignorant of what the Bible actually says) tend to speak out with crap like God punishing everybody who has a disease.
It's been a while since I've read a Brief History of Time, but I believe he did mention God (or at least a higher power) at one point. I think he was basically saying that he wasn't ruling out God as the one who set the Big Bang into motion. Great book, along with The Universe In A Nutshell
The funny thing is that I've heard a lot of creationists saying his condition is a result of defying God (by being a scientist apparently). If I were a creationist, then the fact that he's defied his condition for half a century would tell me that either 1) Hawkings is stronger than God or 2) someone up there is looking out for.
But I'm not a creationist, so I'll chalk it up to his willingness to fight and his access to good healthcare. And maybe random dumb luck.
My Cirrus can get around 29mpg on the Thruway with moderately high acceleration and 24-26mpg suburban driving. If I gun it at stop lights, then I usually measure around 21-23mpg. The cirrus is also a relatively light car with a small (by most standards) V6. I call bullshit on anything above 26mpg if you're jamming the accelerator at stop lights on a regular basis.
Some low-level vehicles have CVTs and they have consistently received praise when compared to more traditional transmissions in the same vehicle. There's not a whole lot of them yet, but most of the major automakers offer CVT on at least one vehicle.
1G is equivalent to Earth-normal gravity (an object at rest on the planetary surface). 40G is equivalent to 40 times Earth-normal gravities. Gravities is commonly used when discussing force related to multiples of Earth-normal gravity.
On the one hand, instead of physics I took classes in computer networking which I now do as a career. I really don't think I missed much as I haven't needed to calculate trajectories in a few years.
On the other hand, while physics was optional, French was not. And that my friend, is what's screwed up with the American education system.
At first I was thinking they meant Moore's Law and somebody had found a way to make really tiny ultra fast processors. Moore, Ohm, Watt... learned all of their laws in the same class in high school. I really need to take up drinking coffee in the morning.
My girlfriend and I tried a couple of 3D TVs at Best Buy. They all appeared blurry and none had a 3D effect, so either the displays were set up wrong or they just plain suck. However, we did go to a 3D viewing of some movie (there was no 2D showing of it at the time) a while back and that impressed me. Not enough that I'd pay to have the 3D effect at home, but enough to pay a couple extra bucks for the odd movie in theaters.
Assuming you did the install. There's plenty of cases where a person can reliably set up their own PC shipped from Dell or HP but couldn't be trusted to back up to an external drive and then keep it safe and in a known location.
I was thinking have it be on an encrypted partition that you said the password for on the initial install or first boot... that way you don't have to worry about your grandmother losing the external drive its saved on.
Next up, movie add-ons! You get a copy of the script for free. $5 gets you a copy showing the characters against a greenscreen with no CGI. Another $10 will add in backgrounds. $10 each for household items, guns, explosions and nudity.
Google doesn't want to game their own search engine. The entire point of the article is that they're "punishing" themselves because a sub-contractor did try to game Google's own search engine and Google is saying "Hey, look, we control the damned thing and we don't want to give ourselves an unfair advantage so don't come bitching to us if we catch you trying to game our system and then we punish you for it."
I don't think they planned on automatically shoving Chrome on page 3 of any search so much as lowering it's weight in their search method. If you Google "Chrome" you will still get the web browser because even with a lower weight, it still vastly outweighs most other results for "chrome". However, if you search for something like "web browser" then the effect is much more apparent.
What surprised me: 1) Opera shows up so often, although this may be because of their huge mobile marketshare 2) IE doesn't show up more often. Maybe because it's on Windows PCs by default so less people search for it to download it? 3) Dogpile still exists. I don't think I've used it in the past decade until now. 4) Bing and Yahoo gave the same exact search results. 5) The only time Chrome showed up was on generic websites (IE: Wikipedia entries or CNet downloads) that included all of the major browsers
I forget which game it was, but I think it was an indie company that released a game and let people decide how much to pay for it... a surprising number of people payed well above the minimum because they liked the game and paid what they thought it was worth.
It was just for campus parking spots, which did go through that one particular sergeant. All I wanted was a temporary sticker for around campus which was well within his power. According to campus policy, all I needed was to prove I could not walk 500 feet. I couldn't walk 50 feet with the aid of crutches at that point.
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For a while. Have a little faith, we'll get there some day. Or at least our distant descendants.
I agree it's not all Christians by a long shot, but the most vocal (who also seem to be the most ignorant of what the Bible actually says) tend to speak out with crap like God punishing everybody who has a disease.
It's been a while since I've read a Brief History of Time, but I believe he did mention God (or at least a higher power) at one point. I think he was basically saying that he wasn't ruling out God as the one who set the Big Bang into motion. Great book, along with The Universe In A Nutshell
The funny thing is that I've heard a lot of creationists saying his condition is a result of defying God (by being a scientist apparently). If I were a creationist, then the fact that he's defied his condition for half a century would tell me that either 1) Hawkings is stronger than God or 2) someone up there is looking out for.
But I'm not a creationist, so I'll chalk it up to his willingness to fight and his access to good healthcare. And maybe random dumb luck.
My Cirrus can get around 29mpg on the Thruway with moderately high acceleration and 24-26mpg suburban driving. If I gun it at stop lights, then I usually measure around 21-23mpg. The cirrus is also a relatively light car with a small (by most standards) V6. I call bullshit on anything above 26mpg if you're jamming the accelerator at stop lights on a regular basis.
Some low-level vehicles have CVTs and they have consistently received praise when compared to more traditional transmissions in the same vehicle. There's not a whole lot of them yet, but most of the major automakers offer CVT on at least one vehicle.
Well, it is French
I prefer moose explosives myself
And what do you think the G in G-force stands for?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force
1G is equivalent to Earth-normal gravity (an object at rest on the planetary surface). 40G is equivalent to 40 times Earth-normal gravities. Gravities is commonly used when discussing force related to multiples of Earth-normal gravity.
On the one hand, instead of physics I took classes in computer networking which I now do as a career. I really don't think I missed much as I haven't needed to calculate trajectories in a few years.
On the other hand, while physics was optional, French was not. And that my friend, is what's screwed up with the American education system.
Can I pilot the Millennium Camel?
Actually I learned Ohm's law in a high school computer/networking class. Never got around to taking physics.
At first I was thinking they meant Moore's Law and somebody had found a way to make really tiny ultra fast processors. Moore, Ohm, Watt... learned all of their laws in the same class in high school. I really need to take up drinking coffee in the morning.
But then you'd need virtual TSA grunts to do virtual gropes after you remove your virtual shoes.
My girlfriend and I tried a couple of 3D TVs at Best Buy. They all appeared blurry and none had a 3D effect, so either the displays were set up wrong or they just plain suck. However, we did go to a 3D viewing of some movie (there was no 2D showing of it at the time) a while back and that impressed me. Not enough that I'd pay to have the 3D effect at home, but enough to pay a couple extra bucks for the odd movie in theaters.
Assuming you did the install. There's plenty of cases where a person can reliably set up their own PC shipped from Dell or HP but couldn't be trusted to back up to an external drive and then keep it safe and in a known location.
I was thinking have it be on an encrypted partition that you said the password for on the initial install or first boot... that way you don't have to worry about your grandmother losing the external drive its saved on.
Next up, movie add-ons! You get a copy of the script for free. $5 gets you a copy showing the characters against a greenscreen with no CGI. Another $10 will add in backgrounds. $10 each for household items, guns, explosions and nudity.
Microsoft Flight without any add-ons would be better known as Microsoft Walk.
Google doesn't want to game their own search engine. The entire point of the article is that they're "punishing" themselves because a sub-contractor did try to game Google's own search engine and Google is saying "Hey, look, we control the damned thing and we don't want to give ourselves an unfair advantage so don't come bitching to us if we catch you trying to game our system and then we punish you for it."
Their revenue comes from displaying advertisements... I don't think that's the same as marketing or creating advertisements.
I don't think they planned on automatically shoving Chrome on page 3 of any search so much as lowering it's weight in their search method. If you Google "Chrome" you will still get the web browser because even with a lower weight, it still vastly outweighs most other results for "chrome". However, if you search for something like "web browser" then the effect is much more apparent.
I gave this a try too, results as follows in order of first page
Bing: Generic, Opera, Generic, Safari, Generic, IE, Netscape, Opera, Generic, Generic
Google: Firefox, Generic, Opera, Safari, Generic, Generic, IE, Avant, Generic, Generic
Yahoo: Generic, Opera, Generic, Safari, Generic, IE, Netscape, Opera, Generic, Generic
Dogpile: Generic, Opera, Firefox, Safari, Generic, Generic, IE, Generic, MSN Explorer (IE?), Netscape
What surprised me:
1) Opera shows up so often, although this may be because of their huge mobile marketshare
2) IE doesn't show up more often. Maybe because it's on Windows PCs by default so less people search for it to download it?
3) Dogpile still exists. I don't think I've used it in the past decade until now.
4) Bing and Yahoo gave the same exact search results.
5) The only time Chrome showed up was on generic websites (IE: Wikipedia entries or CNet downloads) that included all of the major browsers
Skynet, Landru, M5, the Matrix, HAL
There's plenty of art for reality to follow.
I forget which game it was, but I think it was an indie company that released a game and let people decide how much to pay for it... a surprising number of people payed well above the minimum because they liked the game and paid what they thought it was worth.
It was just for campus parking spots, which did go through that one particular sergeant. All I wanted was a temporary sticker for around campus which was well within his power. According to campus policy, all I needed was to prove I could not walk 500 feet. I couldn't walk 50 feet with the aid of crutches at that point.