Polonium halos? 1,
2
"Decay" of planetary magnetic fields. 1,
2,
3
Interplanetary dust? 1,
2,
3,
4
And many more, all information that "smug liberals idealogues" have compiled and endlessly link to in their patient responses to rants like yours in the talkorigins.org feedback.
All cross-referenced and detailed in their explanations.
I thought you were surely a troll, which was why you were marked up as "funny" but now I recognise the same empty arguments from the feedback.
The same problem testers of the efficacy of other "magnetic healing" devices have. Many of them claim to control for that by watching the subjects carefully, and keeping the environment mostly made up of plastics or non-ferrous metals, but still... what if the subject merely touches two of the supposed magnets to each other, and looks for repulsion or attraction?
Very difficult to eliminate the placebo effect.
(and yes, I do think the placebo effect is real, despite that meta-study. Countless studies show improvement in patients in both the control and actual group, an effect which can only be explained by placebo)
... also, bandwidth is much, much less expensive then transmitting that same information by paper. which is why the failure of internet advertising came as such a shock. advertiser illusions were stripped away.
There are plenty of servers, fat pipes, and systems administrators on the paper side of things. As well as massive archives, and a whole lot of impressive machinery.
Servers are really more of a one-time cost, from then on, you are paying for electricity and (possibly) hosting.
Sys-admins, well, yes. But the article was discussing costs of the actual distribution materials. Sysadmnins exist in paper-world too.
The only key issue is bandwidth. Bandwidth is expensive, but I think the key issue is indeed the one that has been raised many times, that for the first time advertisers get to see exactly how effective advertising is.
Christians Retaliate
It may well be imagined how Alexandria continued to be shaken by social strife during such a period. After a mere twenty years since the abdication of Diocletian, Canstantine became Emperor and declared Christianity Rome's official religion. By 391, the Emperor Theodosius had reversed Diocletian's edict and commanded all paganism to be stamped out, signalling the end of the Museum.[56] For, throughout the fourth century the power of the church grew; an army of Gnostic monks became the main tool of the Patriarch of Alexandria and enforced his will. After the edict of Theodosius, the mob was led by the Patriarch Theophilus to demolish the Serapeum.[57] Perhaps the library at the Caesarium survived; while references to Alexandrian scholars persist a little while longer, no sources actually mention its destruction. In 412 Theophilus' nephew Cyril succeeded him. The Patriarch exercised ever more control of the city, and the conflict between secular and religious authority was decided in 415, when the Roman prefect Orestes, officially still in charge of the province, objected to Cyril's order that all Jews be expelled from the city. Cyril's army of monks murdered the prefect and were cannonized by him for this deed; marauding through the city they came across Hypatia, daughter of the Museum's last great mathematician Theon. She was a Neoplatonist philosopher and astronomer whose teachings are partially recorded by one of her admirers and pupils, the Christian Synesius, and she was also supposedly an advisor to Orestes and one of the last members of the Museum. Driving home from her own lectures without attendant, this independent woman and scholar epitomized the suspect nature of Paganism and its heretical scientific teachings. She was dragged from her chariot by the mob, stripped, flayed, and finally burned alive in the library of the Caesareum as a witch. Cyril was made a saint.[58] After her death Alexandria became steadily less stable, overrun by the monks who evolved into the Copts, who incorporated the old Alexandrian prejudices towards foreigners with the new prejudice towards any scientific or classical knowledge. Too turbulent even to bow to the Emperor, Alexandria eventually revolted against Constantinople, wound up with two factions contending between two Patriarchs, and eventually fell to Arab conquerers, who had the last of the Library burned as fuel in the bath-houses of the city in 686.[59]
And no, I'm not going to bother to use HTML formatting.
Hm. I wonder, if NASA gets the high-altitude balloon idea working, maybe that could be used instead? Even lower latency, since the signal doesn't have as far to go, and balloons have got to be cheaper then rockets... A few hundred balloons drifting along at the edge of the atmosphere...
So, import your Windows truetype fonts if you've got the space. Me, I downloaded all of the ones off of a work machine, and it sucked up all the free space on my poor little linux machine (until I upgraded from 2Gig to 46 recently)
10MB per font.
Ick.
Specifically, skeletal.
We've been doing that with all types of cells for some time now.
This article in Times claims they have found a way to turn adult differntiated cells into stem cells.
Completely different matter.
Which is exactly what/. should do. Simply have an automatic note both on the link and on the mirror saying that this is a mirror created X hours ago and provide a link if people want to try the slashdotted site.
Well, if you're being lazy, you could simply tile your house with a binary encoded version of DeCSS. Then have a webcam point at your floor - any machine around the world could simply decode the b/w tiles.
No Life snapshot required.
Re:Besides cardboard characters, inconsistent too.
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Dune: House Harkonnen
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That's what I said. When he posseses Alia, he makes her fat. If he was a fitness fanatic, he would be glorying in not having a degenerated body, not making her sybaritic and overweight (well, sybaritic yes, not overweight).
The degenerative disease was exactly what I was complaining about. It doesn't fit. Like any of the rest of the prequel.
Besides cardboard characters, inconsistent too.
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Dune: House Harkonnen
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· Score: 2
The original Dune books have the Duke as having always been a fat bastard, not an fitness fanatic layed low. In trying to "reveal" some hidden portion of the Dune past in their money milking prequels (ooh, sounds familiar!) they ignored the fact that the Baron was portrayed as a lazy sensualist when he posseses Alia, causing her to become overweight and slothful.
Ignoring the original series, its religion and its subtlety can also be tacked on to the list of problems with this abuse of the Dune name...
Of course the Linux community is Microsoft bashing. We have a teensy tiny market share. That's why we're worried about M$ FUD and all that fun stuff.
BTW, why don't you spellcheck your.sig?
The libraries are there as a public service.
They are not owned by the government, they are owned by us. The citizens. If we don't stand up and say no, we don't want demonstrably flawed censorware blocking what information can be accessed at a library, who will?
At least Gore's idea offers us some choice.
From a libertarian standpoint it's clear enough.
The girlfriend wished to have a child. The man invaded her body to prevent this.
This is assault, and damage to property.
Most abortions aren't killing children - they are killing fetuses or embryos. The level of complexity is very different.
Heck the Pill and fertility clinics kill countless embryos.
Nevertheless I applaud your libertarian commitment to supporting a right you find distasteful.
Minor point. I know it's in fashion to go over everything Jon Katz says with a fine-toothed comb, but in this case Katz wasn't making any assertion - simply reporting what people had written to him in a remarkably concise post.
Given how much of the planet we have to explore, pretty much any place they bounce is going to be interesting.
Although, random bouncing can still eventually get you where you want to be. Another New Scientist article says the military is looking into this as an option to replace current anti-tank mines.
See, right now the U.S. refuses to sign with other countries in the anti-personnel mine ban. Reason, they are afraid of their anti-tank fields getting cleared.
But if the mines communicated with one another, they would start hopping around again once a path was cleared, stopping once the gap was filled.
Same researcher, same deal. Presumably the NASA bots would just keep hopping 'till they hit something useful. Still faster then crawling around, or getting stuck...
Hm. Perhaps a combination of the two. Crawling for precision maneuvering, hopping to avoid getting stuck, or to cover a lot of ground?
Slashdot Mirror
Polonium halos?
1, 2
"Decay" of planetary magnetic fields.
1, 2, 3
Interplanetary dust?
1, 2, 3, 4
And many more, all information that "smug liberals idealogues" have compiled and endlessly link to in their patient responses to rants like yours in the talkorigins.org feedback.
All cross-referenced and detailed in their explanations.
I thought you were surely a troll, which was why you were marked up as "funny" but now I recognise the same empty arguments from the feedback.
That would work in Alex Chiu's case, not so well in the case where you have to check for, say, a reduction in pain.
The same problem testers of the efficacy of other "magnetic healing" devices have. Many of them claim to control for that by watching the subjects carefully, and keeping the environment mostly made up of plastics or non-ferrous metals, but still... what if the subject merely touches two of the supposed magnets to each other, and looks for repulsion or attraction?
Very difficult to eliminate the placebo effect.
(and yes, I do think the placebo effect is real, despite that meta-study. Countless studies show improvement in patients in both the control and actual group, an effect which can only be explained by placebo)
... also, bandwidth is much, much less expensive then transmitting that same information by paper. which is why the failure of internet advertising came as such a shock. advertiser illusions were stripped away.
There are plenty of servers, fat pipes, and systems administrators on the paper side of things. As well as massive archives, and a whole lot of impressive machinery. Servers are really more of a one-time cost, from then on, you are paying for electricity and (possibly) hosting. Sys-admins, well, yes. But the article was discussing costs of the actual distribution materials. Sysadmnins exist in paper-world too. The only key issue is bandwidth. Bandwidth is expensive, but I think the key issue is indeed the one that has been raised many times, that for the first time advertisers get to see exactly how effective advertising is.
Erm. Scratch sort problem.
Sort is a bgit smarter then I thought.
1
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is different then
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awk '{print $2 " " $3 " " $4}' /var/logs/security | sort | uniq -c | sort
Also, your sort will look like this...
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2
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4
5
6
7
8
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no text. I mean it /.! Can't I post a comment with a minimum of bandwidth and DB waste without hitting lameness filters?
You know, the first time an AC did that, it was funny, the next half-dozen times?
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I think that I might just have to get rid of even that obfuscated contact information.
*sigh* I miss the old
Oh well, if a spam-bot is browsing this thread, might as well give him something to occupy itself.
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http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/alex.htm
Christians Retaliate
It may well be imagined how Alexandria continued to be shaken by social strife during such a period. After a mere twenty years since the abdication of Diocletian, Canstantine became Emperor and declared Christianity Rome's official religion. By 391, the Emperor Theodosius had reversed Diocletian's edict and commanded all paganism to be stamped out, signalling the end of the Museum.[56] For, throughout the fourth century the power of the church grew; an army of Gnostic monks became the main tool of the Patriarch of Alexandria and enforced his will. After the edict of Theodosius, the mob was led by the Patriarch Theophilus to demolish the Serapeum.[57] Perhaps the library at the Caesarium survived; while references to Alexandrian scholars persist a little while longer, no sources actually mention its destruction. In 412 Theophilus' nephew Cyril succeeded him. The Patriarch exercised ever more control of the city, and the conflict between secular and religious authority was decided in 415, when the Roman prefect Orestes, officially still in charge of the province, objected to Cyril's order that all Jews be expelled from the city. Cyril's army of monks murdered the prefect and were cannonized by him for this deed; marauding through the city they came across Hypatia, daughter of the Museum's last great mathematician Theon. She was a Neoplatonist philosopher and astronomer whose teachings are partially recorded by one of her admirers and pupils, the Christian Synesius, and she was also supposedly an advisor to Orestes and one of the last members of the Museum. Driving home from her own lectures without attendant, this independent woman and scholar epitomized the suspect nature of Paganism and its heretical scientific teachings. She was dragged from her chariot by the mob, stripped, flayed, and finally burned alive in the library of the Caesareum as a witch. Cyril was made a saint.[58] After her death Alexandria became steadily less stable, overrun by the monks who evolved into the Copts, who incorporated the old Alexandrian prejudices towards foreigners with the new prejudice towards any scientific or classical knowledge. Too turbulent even to bow to the Emperor, Alexandria eventually revolted against Constantinople, wound up with two factions contending between two Patriarchs, and eventually fell to Arab conquerers, who had the last of the Library burned as fuel in the bath-houses of the city in 686.[59]
And no, I'm not going to bother to use HTML formatting.
Hm. I wonder, if NASA gets the high-altitude balloon idea working, maybe that could be used instead? Even lower latency, since the signal doesn't have as far to go, and balloons have got to be cheaper then rockets... A few hundred balloons drifting along at the edge of the atmosphere...
Line breaks in code are meaningless? Well, that just made all my python coding a hell of a lot easier...
Heck, I'm sure the VB and QBasic programmers around here would be happy to hear that too.
Granted. after tidying, I ended up with 18 lines of fairly readable code. But who are you to say LOC is a completely meaningless standard?
So, import your Windows truetype fonts if you've got the space. Me, I downloaded all of the ones off of a work machine, and it sucked up all the free space on my poor little linux machine (until I upgraded from 2Gig to 46 recently)
10MB per font.
Ick.
Specifically, skeletal. We've been doing that with all types of cells for some time now. This article in Times claims they have found a way to turn adult differntiated cells into stem cells. Completely different matter.
Which is exactly what /. should do. Simply have an automatic note both on the link and on the mirror saying that this is a mirror created X hours ago and provide a link if people want to try the slashdotted site.
Well, if you're being lazy, you could simply tile your house with a binary encoded version of DeCSS. Then have a webcam point at your floor - any machine around the world could simply decode the b/w tiles.
No Life snapshot required.
That's what I said. When he posseses Alia, he makes her fat. If he was a fitness fanatic, he would be glorying in not having a degenerated body, not making her sybaritic and overweight (well, sybaritic yes, not overweight).
The degenerative disease was exactly what I was complaining about. It doesn't fit. Like any of the rest of the prequel.
The original Dune books have the Duke as having always been a fat bastard, not an fitness fanatic layed low. In trying to "reveal" some hidden portion of the Dune past in their money milking prequels (ooh, sounds familiar!) they ignored the fact that the Baron was portrayed as a lazy sensualist when he posseses Alia, causing her to become overweight and slothful.
Ignoring the original series, its religion and its subtlety can also be tacked on to the list of problems with this abuse of the Dune name...
Of course the Linux community is Microsoft bashing. We have a teensy tiny market share. That's why we're worried about M$ FUD and all that fun stuff. .sig?
BTW, why don't you spellcheck your
The libraries are there as a public service.
They are not owned by the government, they are owned by us. The citizens. If we don't stand up and say no, we don't want demonstrably flawed censorware blocking what information can be accessed at a library, who will?
At least Gore's idea offers us some choice.
From a libertarian standpoint it's clear enough.
The girlfriend wished to have a child. The man invaded her body to prevent this.
This is assault, and damage to property.
Most abortions aren't killing children - they are killing fetuses or embryos. The level of complexity is very different.
Heck the Pill and fertility clinics kill countless embryos.
Nevertheless I applaud your libertarian commitment to supporting a right you find distasteful.
I consider Bush's advocation of all libraries receiving federal funds being forced to install internet filters to be the bad-crazy kind of nuts.
What has Gore said that puts him in that category in your mind?
Minor point. I know it's in fashion to go over everything Jon Katz says with a fine-toothed comb, but in this case Katz wasn't making any assertion - simply reporting what people had written to him in a remarkably concise post.
Given how much of the planet we have to explore, pretty much any place they bounce is going to be interesting.
Although, random bouncing can still eventually get you where you want to be. Another New Scientist article says the military is looking into this as an option to replace current anti-tank mines.
See, right now the U.S. refuses to sign with other countries in the anti-personnel mine ban. Reason, they are afraid of their anti-tank fields getting cleared.
But if the mines communicated with one another, they would start hopping around again once a path was cleared, stopping once the gap was filled.
Same researcher, same deal. Presumably the NASA bots would just keep hopping 'till they hit something useful. Still faster then crawling around, or getting stuck...
Hm. Perhaps a combination of the two. Crawling for precision maneuvering, hopping to avoid getting stuck, or to cover a lot of ground?