Not even close. I asked it for the population of a nearby county and the answer was something like "Hopefully this page can answer your question:" with a link to the Wikipedia page about that county. Click on the link explaining how Start works and you'll see that even they don't pretend that it's really the same thing. The emphasis with Start is on parsing Natural Language Queries, period.
Oh god, no... are you insane? The Silmarillion was like the Old Testament "Numbers" but for people who fantasize about fucking elves. And yeah, "fucking" is a verb in that sentence. "And Elbereth begat Dorkagar who begat Losermir and Choadalwyn, and Choadalwyn began Unwashedereth who did dewll in his mother's basement."
If by "a little melodramatic" you mean "cloyingly fawning like some kind of loser who probably needs therapy," then yes, by all means, his interpretation was a little melodramatic.
Look again. Most cars also have an electric fuel pump that sits in the gas tank, in the fuel. The fuel is used to cool the fuel pump. And typically that fuel pump is connected to the same strip of metal where the sending unit that you just referred to is located...
It's depressing that this paranoid fantasy won you positive mod points.
On and off over the years I've had occasion to work with Microsoft developers on various things. At one point I worked with the COM team and the IE team for several months. I didn't work for MS, I worked for a company that had discovered a weird and complicated bug. "They" are just a bunch of guys, regular programmers, just like you find at every other big company in the world. Nobody has a secret evil plan. It just doesn't exist. They bust their ass meeting deadlines and building things and dealing with bug reports and testing and builds and everything else, and frankly there are so many different people involved, any such Evil Agenda would be exposed so quickly from the inside it would make your head spin.
It's exactly the same as people who talk about "the government" engaging in these elaborate machinations: both organizations are too large, and spread across too many people, and moving in too many different directions simultaneously to permit the kind of organization and single-mindedness of purpose that is required to execute these clever, evil plots. There are too many points of exposure. Too many potentially disgruntled employees in the loop.
Sure, occasionally somebody really does take it upon themselves to do something underhanded, but as an organization-wide "strategy" it just doesn't happen that way.
But this is slashdot, and reason takes a back seat to self-righteous anti-capitalism.
"Spin" itself is essentially jargon. Why not break it down into, say, quantum point source angular momentum? You could apply that same process to most of quantum physics and thoroughly eliminate the possibility of getting anything done.
If you throw out the phrase to somebody who doesn't know what it is, then sure, you probably should have explained better, or expect to be asked for an explanation. Spintronics is a convenience. Do you really think that a bunch of researchers, who presumably work on this daily, are going to keep repeating "spin polarization currents in conductors and semiconductors"?
For that matter, do you really suppose your hypothetical grandfather would derive more useful information from the phrase "spin polarization currents in conductors and semiconductors" versus "spintronics"? At least "spintronics" would give him a fighting chance to make the connection with "electronics"...
There is no great mystery about how "web log" became "blog", and Japanese or not (I'd have to see some evidence before I'll buy that), it's still one of the more annoying, stupid-sounding terms from the past five or ten years.
Based on a quick Google search, I'd say you're probably completely incorrect about any connection to Japanese convention. See example below. And on the off chance that was supposed to be humorous, well, don't quit your day job.:)
I'm having a hard time understanding what's silly about it. You have to call it SOMETHING. What do you suggest? Spinformation? Spin-o-matics? Magnetitronics? Electrospintronics?
At some point you just give it a name and move on.
Although I'd still like to give the person responsible for "blog" a kick in the nuts.
In most places it comes down to only two opposing factors:
1. Asphalt requires a six month cure-time. Concrete requires a two month cure-time.
2. Concrete costs about four times as much as equivalent asphalt coverage, depending on geographic location (primarily the asphalt plant's proximity to a port which supplies the required grade of pure liquid asphalt).
That's one of the dumbest comparisons I've read in quite awhile. You've managed to make statements of utter bullshit in every sentence you wrote, which I suppose is some kind of achievement.
However, I find it especially hilarious that you represent the god-awful swing-axle as "innovation"...
Nader's book "Unsafe At Any Speed" was a general indictment of many design issues of the day, and the Corvair was merely his example in a single chapter discussing problems with suspension design. Anyone with basic automotive knowledge understands that swing-axles are prone to tucking under when the suspension unloads, making the vehicle highly susceptible to roll-over. ANY vehicle. Swing-axles were used purely for economic reasons, not because the design was at all innovative.
GM did recognize that swing-axles were a piss-poor design, and an options package was available which significantly improved suspension performance, including better quality springs and dampers, a front sway bar, and rear axle rebound straps designed to prevent the axles from tucking in. VW never offered any such safety features on their swing-axle design.
Furthermore, VW ditched the swing-axle in favor of a true IRS half-shaft/CV-joint design, and trailing arms didn't show up on VWs until much, much later (70s and 80s).
Mercedes ditched swing-axles in the 50s... I suppose they were somehow "snuffing innvoation" since VW had the foresight to continue using them?
The real problem is that corrupt Republican congressmen like Ney and Cunningham received millions of dollars in bribes while kicking hundreds of millions of dollars of business to their corrupt contractor friends.
You're trolling. There is absolutely no connection between that and the point the GP made about welfare policy.
257 million people driving to work and home 180 days each year is 92.5 BILLION trips per year.
That gives you only a 1 in 2,312,500 chance of being one of those fatalities.
Or put another way, a staggeringly-small 0.000043% vehicular trips results in a fatality.
And that's purely based on the NHTSA's "drive to work" figure. It doesn't include going to the store, vacation travel, heading to the beach on the weekend, etc.
Hell, it's probably safer than the oft-quoted airline safety figures.
40K only sounds like a staggering number because you haven't put it into any context.
The government pegs the number of vehicles in the US at more than 243 million (only about 2.5m are large commercial vehicles -- multi-axle trucks). The NHTSA's 2001 statistics say 90% of Americans drive to work... that's more than 250 million people.
When you consider that a quarter billion Americans spend anywhere from a few minutes up to several hours driving every single day of every year, 40K starts to look like a rather small number.
"as they are now" is an important qualifier in the grandparent post. Gore's speech spoke to many of the technical requirements, but in terms of the way the 'net is actually used today, and it's extremely broad importance simply wasn't on anyone's radar in those days. I started using the 'net in the 88-89 time frame and e-mail was about as exciting as it got at the time. There was speculation in places like usenet discussions, but the earlier poster is correct -- nobody predicted the net as it is now.
Slashdot Mirror
You may have also noticed he operates a business by that name. Crazy, I know!
Not even close. I asked it for the population of a nearby county and the answer was something like "Hopefully this page can answer your question:" with a link to the Wikipedia page about that county. Click on the link explaining how Start works and you'll see that even they don't pretend that it's really the same thing. The emphasis with Start is on parsing Natural Language Queries, period.
Documentary based on the Silmarillion
Now that is a brilliant idea.
Oh god, no... are you insane? The Silmarillion was like the Old Testament "Numbers" but for people who fantasize about fucking elves. And yeah, "fucking" is a verb in that sentence. "And Elbereth begat Dorkagar who begat Losermir and Choadalwyn, and Choadalwyn began Unwashedereth who did dewll in his mother's basement."
If by "a little melodramatic" you mean "cloyingly fawning like some kind of loser who probably needs therapy," then yes, by all means, his interpretation was a little melodramatic.
This is why you should meta-moderate every now and then.
Look again. Most cars also have an electric fuel pump that sits in the gas tank, in the fuel. The fuel is used to cool the fuel pump. And typically that fuel pump is connected to the same strip of metal where the sending unit that you just referred to is located...
I wonder if the code for a combination lock is legally treated as a key?
It's depressing that this paranoid fantasy won you positive mod points.
On and off over the years I've had occasion to work with Microsoft developers on various things. At one point I worked with the COM team and the IE team for several months. I didn't work for MS, I worked for a company that had discovered a weird and complicated bug. "They" are just a bunch of guys, regular programmers, just like you find at every other big company in the world. Nobody has a secret evil plan. It just doesn't exist. They bust their ass meeting deadlines and building things and dealing with bug reports and testing and builds and everything else, and frankly there are so many different people involved, any such Evil Agenda would be exposed so quickly from the inside it would make your head spin.
It's exactly the same as people who talk about "the government" engaging in these elaborate machinations: both organizations are too large, and spread across too many people, and moving in too many different directions simultaneously to permit the kind of organization and single-mindedness of purpose that is required to execute these clever, evil plots. There are too many points of exposure. Too many potentially disgruntled employees in the loop.
Sure, occasionally somebody really does take it upon themselves to do something underhanded, but as an organization-wide "strategy" it just doesn't happen that way.
But this is slashdot, and reason takes a back seat to self-righteous anti-capitalism.
"Spin" itself is essentially jargon. Why not break it down into, say, quantum point source angular momentum? You could apply that same process to most of quantum physics and thoroughly eliminate the possibility of getting anything done.
If you throw out the phrase to somebody who doesn't know what it is, then sure, you probably should have explained better, or expect to be asked for an explanation. Spintronics is a convenience. Do you really think that a bunch of researchers, who presumably work on this daily, are going to keep repeating "spin polarization currents in conductors and semiconductors"?
For that matter, do you really suppose your hypothetical grandfather would derive more useful information from the phrase "spin polarization currents in conductors and semiconductors" versus "spintronics"? At least "spintronics" would give him a fighting chance to make the connection with "electronics"...
There is no great mystery about how "web log" became "blog", and Japanese or not (I'd have to see some evidence before I'll buy that), it's still one of the more annoying, stupid-sounding terms from the past five or ten years.
:)
Based on a quick Google search, I'd say you're probably completely incorrect about any connection to Japanese convention. See example below. And on the off chance that was supposed to be humorous, well, don't quit your day job.
http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2005/05/what_is_the_ori.html
The "major breakthrough" label was only used in the slashdot article... not exactly anything to get worked up about...
I'm having a hard time understanding what's silly about it. You have to call it SOMETHING. What do you suggest? Spinformation? Spin-o-matics? Magnetitronics? Electrospintronics?
At some point you just give it a name and move on.
Although I'd still like to give the person responsible for "blog" a kick in the nuts.
I know it's irrelevant to the GPL violation problem, but what did this "toolkit" supposedly do, anyway?
It did (more of a revival than revolution), and Dr. Bussard plans to use boron, not He-3...
Internal Electrostatic Confinement
In most places it comes down to only two opposing factors:
1. Asphalt requires a six month cure-time. Concrete requires a two month cure-time.
2. Concrete costs about four times as much as equivalent asphalt coverage, depending on geographic location (primarily the asphalt plant's proximity to a port which supplies the required grade of pure liquid asphalt).
That's one of the dumbest comparisons I've read in quite awhile. You've managed to make statements of utter bullshit in every sentence you wrote, which I suppose is some kind of achievement.
However, I find it especially hilarious that you represent the god-awful swing-axle as "innovation"...
Nader's book "Unsafe At Any Speed" was a general indictment of many design issues of the day, and the Corvair was merely his example in a single chapter discussing problems with suspension design. Anyone with basic automotive knowledge understands that swing-axles are prone to tucking under when the suspension unloads, making the vehicle highly susceptible to roll-over. ANY vehicle. Swing-axles were used purely for economic reasons, not because the design was at all innovative.
GM did recognize that swing-axles were a piss-poor design, and an options package was available which significantly improved suspension performance, including better quality springs and dampers, a front sway bar, and rear axle rebound straps designed to prevent the axles from tucking in. VW never offered any such safety features on their swing-axle design.
Furthermore, VW ditched the swing-axle in favor of a true IRS half-shaft/CV-joint design, and trailing arms didn't show up on VWs until much, much later (70s and 80s).
Mercedes ditched swing-axles in the 50s... I suppose they were somehow "snuffing innvoation" since VW had the foresight to continue using them?
$explanation
So you see, it actually isn't all that $emotion.
The real problem is that corrupt Republican congressmen like Ney and Cunningham received millions of dollars in bribes while kicking hundreds of millions of dollars of business to their corrupt contractor friends.
You're trolling. There is absolutely no connection between that and the point the GP made about welfare policy.
Please ask any question desired. I know more.
Is the Euler-Mascheroni Constant irrational?
Rockstar Games denies the existence of threesome code in the original release.
257 million people driving to work and home 180 days each year is 92.5 BILLION trips per year.
That gives you only a 1 in 2,312,500 chance of being one of those fatalities.
Or put another way, a staggeringly-small 0.000043% vehicular trips results in a fatality.
And that's purely based on the NHTSA's "drive to work" figure. It doesn't include going to the store, vacation travel, heading to the beach on the weekend, etc.
Hell, it's probably safer than the oft-quoted airline safety figures.
Well-said. You can't even buy a new motorcycle for $2K.
40K only sounds like a staggering number because you haven't put it into any context.
The government pegs the number of vehicles in the US at more than 243 million (only about 2.5m are large commercial vehicles -- multi-axle trucks). The NHTSA's 2001 statistics say 90% of Americans drive to work... that's more than 250 million people.
When you consider that a quarter billion Americans spend anywhere from a few minutes up to several hours driving every single day of every year, 40K starts to look like a rather small number.
Should we be reading anything into this?
Yeah: Urban Challenge II will be cool as hell.
"as they are now" is an important qualifier in the grandparent post. Gore's speech spoke to many of the technical requirements, but in terms of the way the 'net is actually used today, and it's extremely broad importance simply wasn't on anyone's radar in those days. I started using the 'net in the 88-89 time frame and e-mail was about as exciting as it got at the time. There was speculation in places like usenet discussions, but the earlier poster is correct -- nobody predicted the net as it is now.