God has no image, and it's form is the universe itself.
Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson points out that the 4 most common elements in the universe in order of prevelence are Hydrogen, Oxygen, Helium, and Carbon. The 3 most common elements in our bodies are Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon, in that order. We are very much made in God's own image.
(Helium is inert, so our body really can't use it for anything other than "making our voices sound funny.")
The physical differences between Asian, Aferican and European decendents exist because of the time it took for our species to propogate around the world, isolation, enviornmental factors, boarders, politics, and the slow speed of travel at the time.
In the forseable future, humanity may spread to other planets via generation ships with pressures not unlike those faced by our genetic ancestors. The limited communication between colonies, limited travel opportunities, and enviornmental pressures between habited planets will probably mean that humans on distant stars will begin to take on traits that are very different than those of us who live on earth.
It's entirely plausable, and even likely, that as humanity spreads around the stars, we will evolve into something not unlike the aliens of star trek. In the future, there just might be a green woman out there waiting for you - someone Alian, but also someone human.
That's all well and good... But maybe instead of using an back door account that is easily derived from the MAC address, they should have installed a public key?
I suspect they wanted the drives themselves for analysis - makes it possible to look for deleted or over-written information that might not exist on a duplicated disk.
Sometimes the value in your product isn't in the ability to make a profit, but in the ability to damage an established market leader that has a lot of money to spend.
I mean, if I sit in the bushes outside your house, and I happen to see you undressing, it's really your fault for not closing the windows more carefully. And if you didn't want me pointing a telescope at your daughters room, you really shouldn't have put her in a room with a window... If you didn't want me leering at your date, you probably shouldn't have brought her to a night club.
Yeah, the data is out there, and bad people will take advantage of it. But, that doesn't make it okay to do bad or creepy things. The ability to cross-reference and link data about people is a powerful and scary thing. It's really amazing to see people freaking out about Google's ability to profile you, and then blame the victim when another company facilitates the same.
Let's face it... It'd be nice to be able to have a public presence without worrying about this kind of BS.
The shell design can differ dramatically between vehicles, but I think you're over-estimating the size of the shell. On most cars, the shell is a piece of plastic with stress lines moulded into it. When the airbag deploys, the shell seperates along the lines, and folds open. If your hands are in the right place, the shell shouldn't be close enough to cause serious problems.
You can see in these two videos that your hands and fingers aren't at any risk from the shell. Some designs seperate the shell along the center and fold outwards in each direction.
Major mistake is holding the wheel with your thumbs on the inside - the thumbs can get caught if the wheel is suddenly jerked (hitting a rut, suspension jammed sideways by impact,) and will be broken.
Not sure why this got marked insightful. Most airbags are round in shape. The airbag isn't a long oval, and the position of the wheel really has no bearing on the shape of the bag when it's deployed. If the airbag was oval shaped, it wouldn't be oriented properly to protect your head if he wheel was turned when the bag deployed. Keeping your hands at 9 and 3 keeps the elbows lower and further out of the way of the bag. Imagine where your arm falls holding the wheel at the 12 o'clock position vs the 6 o'clock position, and you can see why lower tends to work better during airbag deployment.
Strictly speaking, the GP's concerns are a non issue if the driver is using proper push/pull technique. Proper technique is to drop both arms while turning - the arm on the inside of the turn drops to pull the wheel, and the arm on the outside of the turn drops to help push the wheel up as the inside arm is adjusted to turn further.
Notice that it's not actually necessary to bring the hands up to the 12 o'clock position, or all the way down to 6 o'clock.... I generally advise against such exaggerated motions, since it's not usually required for high speed driving, and tends to reduce your leverage on the wheel.
I think the focus on an unattainable vision of beauty tends to feed into the obesity epidemic. Being attractive by these rules takes an unbelievable or literally unattainable level of effort. By these rules you are ugly and worthless if you have the wrong body type or an average weight. By those rules what's the point of being in shape? After all, food is an immediate and available comfort, and beauty is impossible. If the goal is impossible and you don't value your health, why exercise? Why deny yourself simple comforts?
There's a saying: "Winners never quit, and quitters never win. But those who don't win and don't quit are idiots."
If there's no way to win, is someone wrong to quit?
If a resource is artificially restricted so that the performance falls below the capabilities of the hardware and infrastructure, then the resource has been limited. Read any book on virtualization - it's absolutely possible to set limits on CPU, network, and even storage performance.
To be fair, virtually all communication is speed limited. Most of the time, if you're not buying the fastest internet service available, you'll be getting a connection that is capped to some degree.
The change here is that the bandwidth limits are now being tied to data limits.
Where did the clip of the birdsong come from? Is this something the OP recorded himself? Or did he use an audio clip from some other source? If it's not his recording, it's entirely possible he did commit copyright infringement. And although I don't appreciate the way copyright is being handled here, I don't think it's appropriate to crucify Rumblefish without ensuring that the OP wasn't in fact, using one of their recordings.
When Napster was all the rage, just about everyone in IT including the younger generation started sharing MP3s all over the world. On one hand, free music. Yeh! On the other, it was piracy and I really did feel bad for the industry.
Around the time Napster started becoming popular, I started dropping $200+/wk on CDs. Napster introduced me to a lot of good music, and I bought a lot of CDs as a result. I didn't shed a damn tear for the recording industry at that time.
Unsurprisingly, napster was murdered to death, and I was purchasing fewer CDs. The dotcom bust eventually killed my music budget.
Hash the credit card number, associate the hash with the customer ID. Every time a card is swiped, see who's hash it matches. Card number isn't stored. Hash is useless if stolen.
Combined with a Loyalty card, it's a great way to see who's married to who, since the card minimally gives you the names of the people who are swiping. Names provide geneder information. Purchase history provides information on age, family status, etc.
My experience has been that stretching after exercise is beneficial.
Before any strenuous exercise, I would usually start with a warm up, and then I'd roll out all my joints to make sure that they were properly loose and lubricated. I'd exercise, and then finish the workout with a session of stretching.
I found that this approach would generally improve my exercise performance more than if I had stretched before hand, and resulted in less pain.
I would presume that with a little experience, he'll learn that that particular shade of purple looks like black to most other people, and will learn to correctly identify the object in question. He could do this for the same reason that when a man says he like a red scarf, a woman realizes he's probably referring to the burgandy one.
There's a huge difference between not being able to differentiate two colors, and seeing two colors where someone else only sees one.
Cutting defence spending would actually make things worse, not better. The government, no matter the programme, is a giant mechanism to pay its own citizens money from other citizens. If you cut defence spending by 500 billion dollars that 500 billion dollars worth of people who now collect unemployment, income supplements etc. And there's no other jobs eagerly awaiting those people unfortunately, oh and all of the stuff they were working on no longer exists to try and sell to other people.
The CEO of Boeing isn't going to go on unemployment. You will certainly see reduced wages and layoffs in the military industry complex if you cut that budget, but the impact to the economy will be significantly less than what was cut, and the gains significantly better if the money is invested in something that actually grows our economy.
Maybe not the 'main' bottleneck, but it depends on the application, no? Seems to me there are at least a few firehose situations where you can never have enough write bandwidth (say, uncompressed video-capture).
Centralized backup, especially of large data-stores. You have to write massive amounts of data on a regular basis, but rarely read the data, and when you do you usually only need a small subset of what's been written. I could imagine it being useful for certain kinds of RAID configurations and network filers as well.
You cannot, because there is no law in the US that protects you from having your opinion mocked. However, appearently in india, there is a law against mocking one of the state sanctioned religions. Unfortunately, Athiesm is not state sanctioned in India, and you cannot sue on such grounds there. You might have better luck in a Communist country.
Google has a policy of obeying the local laws, so it probably took the results down for the india domains. The decision shouldn't affect us directly.
Wanting to control our boarders is not racist. Wanting to close our boarders to anyone with brown skin is racist. Policies to make it more difficult for people who don't know English to travel our country, while we enjoy multi-lingual support pretty much everywhere else in the world is racist.
1. Store brand products are usually crap. Anyone who goes searching online is going to instantly realize that it's a store specific product, with potentially iffy support and take a pass. 2. Smart phones are becoming common. More and more of us are reading reviews of products as we shop... In fact, I usually check amazon just for the reviews, and buy locally. No online reviews, no purchase.
Facebook messaging is encroaching on email turf, but I doubt it will ever replace an independent email service; no one trusts them, and it's unrealistic to force all your email recipients to join Facebook; this was AOL's downfall as well.
Now that we've invented the screw, why the hell would we ever use a nail?
Yeah, seems pretty pervasive in technology that whenever a new technology comes out, there are thoughts that it will completely replace the old technology. Email and the FAX have certainly cut into snail mail's market share, but I don't see them replacing it completely. Hell, there's still a place for typewriters in the modern age (great tools for filling paper forms, when you don't have a digital copy handy.)
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Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson points out that the 4 most common elements in the universe in order of prevelence are Hydrogen, Oxygen, Helium, and Carbon. The 3 most common elements in our bodies are Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon, in that order. We are very much made in God's own image.
(Helium is inert, so our body really can't use it for anything other than "making our voices sound funny.")
The physical differences between Asian, Aferican and European decendents exist because of the time it took for our species to propogate around the world, isolation, enviornmental factors, boarders, politics, and the slow speed of travel at the time.
In the forseable future, humanity may spread to other planets via generation ships with pressures not unlike those faced by our genetic ancestors. The limited communication between colonies, limited travel opportunities, and enviornmental pressures between habited planets will probably mean that humans on distant stars will begin to take on traits that are very different than those of us who live on earth.
It's entirely plausable, and even likely, that as humanity spreads around the stars, we will evolve into something not unlike the aliens of star trek. In the future, there just might be a green woman out there waiting for you - someone Alian, but also someone human.
Finding/communicating with extratarestrial life is an entirely different set of probabilities than the existance of extratarestrial life.
That's all well and good... But maybe instead of using an back door account that is easily derived from the MAC address, they should have installed a public key?
I suspect they wanted the drives themselves for analysis - makes it possible to look for deleted or over-written information that might not exist on a duplicated disk.
Sometimes the value in your product isn't in the ability to make a profit, but in the ability to damage an established market leader that has a lot of money to spend.
An individual doesn't have the right to refuse a court ordered sopena either.
Crappy music is nothing new. Sift through the top hits for any decade you didn't grow up in, if you don't believe me.
Don't post your info on Facebook or 4square.
I mean, if I sit in the bushes outside your house, and I happen to see you undressing, it's really your fault for not closing the windows more carefully. And if you didn't want me pointing a telescope at your daughters room, you really shouldn't have put her in a room with a window... If you didn't want me leering at your date, you probably shouldn't have brought her to a night club.
Yeah, the data is out there, and bad people will take advantage of it. But, that doesn't make it okay to do bad or creepy things. The ability to cross-reference and link data about people is a powerful and scary thing. It's really amazing to see people freaking out about Google's ability to profile you, and then blame the victim when another company facilitates the same.
Let's face it... It'd be nice to be able to have a public presence without worrying about this kind of BS.
The shell design can differ dramatically between vehicles, but I think you're over-estimating the size of the shell. On most cars, the shell is a piece of plastic with stress lines moulded into it. When the airbag deploys, the shell seperates along the lines, and folds open. If your hands are in the right place, the shell shouldn't be close enough to cause serious problems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UytZmNzXmcE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2fAgW_1nD0
You can see in these two videos that your hands and fingers aren't at any risk from the shell. Some designs seperate the shell along the center and fold outwards in each direction.
Major mistake is holding the wheel with your thumbs on the inside - the thumbs can get caught if the wheel is suddenly jerked (hitting a rut, suspension jammed sideways by impact,) and will be broken.
Not sure why this got marked insightful. Most airbags are round in shape. The airbag isn't a long oval, and the position of the wheel really has no bearing on the shape of the bag when it's deployed. If the airbag was oval shaped, it wouldn't be oriented properly to protect your head if he wheel was turned when the bag deployed. Keeping your hands at 9 and 3 keeps the elbows lower and further out of the way of the bag. Imagine where your arm falls holding the wheel at the 12 o'clock position vs the 6 o'clock position, and you can see why lower tends to work better during airbag deployment.
Strictly speaking, the GP's concerns are a non issue if the driver is using proper push/pull technique. Proper technique is to drop both arms while turning - the arm on the inside of the turn drops to pull the wheel, and the arm on the outside of the turn drops to help push the wheel up as the inside arm is adjusted to turn further.
Here's an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62dbS8PhIFw
Notice that it's not actually necessary to bring the hands up to the 12 o'clock position, or all the way down to 6 o'clock.... I generally advise against such exaggerated motions, since it's not usually required for high speed driving, and tends to reduce your leverage on the wheel.
I think the focus on an unattainable vision of beauty tends to feed into the obesity epidemic. Being attractive by these rules takes an unbelievable or literally unattainable level of effort. By these rules you are ugly and worthless if you have the wrong body type or an average weight. By those rules what's the point of being in shape? After all, food is an immediate and available comfort, and beauty is impossible. If the goal is impossible and you don't value your health, why exercise? Why deny yourself simple comforts?
There's a saying: "Winners never quit, and quitters never win. But those who don't win and don't quit are idiots."
If there's no way to win, is someone wrong to quit?
If a resource is artificially restricted so that the performance falls below the capabilities of the hardware and infrastructure, then the resource has been limited. Read any book on virtualization - it's absolutely possible to set limits on CPU, network, and even storage performance.
To be fair, virtually all communication is speed limited. Most of the time, if you're not buying the fastest internet service available, you'll be getting a connection that is capped to some degree.
The change here is that the bandwidth limits are now being tied to data limits.
Nevermind. I didn't RTFA. Looks like the birdsong is ambient noise from the original recording.
Okay, sorry... But someone has to ask this...
Where did the clip of the birdsong come from? Is this something the OP recorded himself? Or did he use an audio clip from some other source? If it's not his recording, it's entirely possible he did commit copyright infringement. And although I don't appreciate the way copyright is being handled here, I don't think it's appropriate to crucify Rumblefish without ensuring that the OP wasn't in fact, using one of their recordings.
Around the time Napster started becoming popular, I started dropping $200+/wk on CDs. Napster introduced me to a lot of good music, and I bought a lot of CDs as a result. I didn't shed a damn tear for the recording industry at that time.
Unsurprisingly, napster was murdered to death, and I was purchasing fewer CDs. The dotcom bust eventually killed my music budget.
Hash the credit card number, associate the hash with the customer ID. Every time a card is swiped, see who's hash it matches. Card number isn't stored. Hash is useless if stolen.
Combined with a Loyalty card, it's a great way to see who's married to who, since the card minimally gives you the names of the people who are swiping. Names provide geneder information. Purchase history provides information on age, family status, etc.
My experience has been that stretching after exercise is beneficial.
Before any strenuous exercise, I would usually start with a warm up, and then I'd roll out all my joints to make sure that they were properly loose and lubricated. I'd exercise, and then finish the workout with a session of stretching.
I found that this approach would generally improve my exercise performance more than if I had stretched before hand, and resulted in less pain.
I would presume that with a little experience, he'll learn that that particular shade of purple looks like black to most other people, and will learn to correctly identify the object in question. He could do this for the same reason that when a man says he like a red scarf, a woman realizes he's probably referring to the burgandy one.
There's a huge difference between not being able to differentiate two colors, and seeing two colors where someone else only sees one.
The CEO of Boeing isn't going to go on unemployment. You will certainly see reduced wages and layoffs in the military industry complex if you cut that budget, but the impact to the economy will be significantly less than what was cut, and the gains significantly better if the money is invested in something that actually grows our economy.
Centralized backup, especially of large data-stores. You have to write massive amounts of data on a regular basis, but rarely read the data, and when you do you usually only need a small subset of what's been written. I could imagine it being useful for certain kinds of RAID configurations and network filers as well.
You cannot, because there is no law in the US that protects you from having your opinion mocked. However, appearently in india, there is a law against mocking one of the state sanctioned religions. Unfortunately, Athiesm is not state sanctioned in India, and you cannot sue on such grounds there. You might have better luck in a Communist country.
Google has a policy of obeying the local laws, so it probably took the results down for the india domains. The decision shouldn't affect us directly.
Wanting to control our boarders is not racist. Wanting to close our boarders to anyone with brown skin is racist. Policies to make it more difficult for people who don't know English to travel our country, while we enjoy multi-lingual support pretty much everywhere else in the world is racist.
I expect this to backfire for 2 reasons:
1. Store brand products are usually crap. Anyone who goes searching online is going to instantly realize that it's a store specific product, with potentially iffy support and take a pass.
2. Smart phones are becoming common. More and more of us are reading reviews of products as we shop... In fact, I usually check amazon just for the reviews, and buy locally. No online reviews, no purchase.
Now that we've invented the screw, why the hell would we ever use a nail?
Yeah, seems pretty pervasive in technology that whenever a new technology comes out, there are thoughts that it will completely replace the old technology. Email and the FAX have certainly cut into snail mail's market share, but I don't see them replacing it completely. Hell, there's still a place for typewriters in the modern age (great tools for filling paper forms, when you don't have a digital copy handy.)