...I dunno, perhaps learning to read Japanese? Crazy idea, I know.
And please don't play the "Japanese is difficult to read" card. I lived there for 4 1/2 years, and when I entered the country my Japanese speaking and reading ability were nearly zero. Reading menus in restaurants stopped being a problem in less than a year. It shouldn't be difficult to pick up enough kanji to be able to recognise things on the menu and point to them even if you are not sure how to pronounce them.
Besides, picking up the language is a good thing. It gets you lots of free stuff. I've had 6000 yen bar tabs paid for by complete stranger just because I could speak Japanese and I talked to them...
A Lagrange Point for the ISS should have been the bare minimul requirement.
Are there any rocket scientists in the house today? I am curious about the feasibility of this. I know a little bit about Lagrange points and why they exist, but am not an expert by any means, so apologies if my questions seem uninformed...
Which Lagrange point would be most appropriate for doing something like this? Once that is decided, how difficult is it to put something either on a Lagrange point, or at least into some sort of stable orbit around one? Would it be easier to try to orbit one or try to be stationary on one (or am I even understanding correctly that is is possible to orbit a Lagrange point)?
Assuming we could build a space station at a Lagrange point, how easy or difficult would it be to get stuff there? Would it be more or less difficult than getting things to the moon? Would it require more or less fuel to get there (and would the difference be significant)?
Would it be wise to build something at a Lagrange point, so far from any source of resources (as compared to LEO or a base on the moon)?
Finally, once at a Lagrange point or in orbit around one, how difficult is it to escape? i.e. on a moon base, you have to fight the moon's gravity to get into orbit and/or get back to earth. In LEO, you have to increase velocity to escape the Earth's gravity to get anywhere else. Since a Lagrange point is essentially a balance point between multiple sources of gravity, it seems to me that it would be easier to escape, but then again, common conceptions don't often apply to rocket science and orbital mechanics...
The point at which I really realized that school's only purpose in everybody's life, not just mine, is to get in the way of education was my freshman year of high school. We spent a month in my biology class rote memorizing the characteristics all the phyla and classes in the kingdom animalia, all the steps of the Krebs cycle, crap like that. Meanwhile, we barely spent a damn minute learning anything useful, and spent zero time whatsoever learning how scientists figured things out or following the reasoning behind any of these discoveries
emphasis mine.
Perhaps you didn't study those things in 9th grade because you were supposed to have spent your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science classes learning the scientific method. That way you could understand the gist of where those facts came from, and if you so desired to not take them at face value, look up on your own how they derived them.
I can't really say I care very much. Maybe I don't know very well how the internet works, but it seems to me that.com should only be reserved for GLOBAL commercial sites, and all other commercial sites should be.co.[country code] (.co.us,.co.uk,.co.ma, etc).
- believes women are chattel, homosexuals should be killed, etc.
- believes that the Koran is the only source of any worthwhile laws
- will cheerfully kill you because you disagree
I'm an atheist living in a Muslim country, and I have no idea what you are talking about. Yes, IMNSHO, Islam is about as fucked up as Christianity, and fundamentalists of both are psycho nut-jobs lower than the extreme tin-foil-hat-wearing-the-blue-star-is-coming-to-ki ll-us-all conspiracy theorists out there, but seriously, do you really think all Arabs believe the three things you have listed?
Try turning off Fox News, CNN, etc. and maybe get out of the house and meet people or something. If you are feeling really ballsy, try visiting another country and see firsthand what some of these places are like.
Is this seriously how people in the US see the Muslim world? Damn...every day I find more and more reasons to be glad I left 5 years ago.
Seriously, I don't understand the GPP's problem with the plasma pistol either. Plasma Pistol with the Battle rifle is perhaps the most deadly combination in the game, especially given the good sniping ability of the rifle.
Halo 2 on legendary went from impossible to simple because of this (well, as well as memorizing the positions of the instant kill lightning quick jackal snipers...Bungie, please don't do that again. It is stupid that the Master Chief and the Arbiter are the only characters in the game that can die from a single shot to the toe by a jackal sniper).
Of course, to give the GPP some credit, in Halo 2 the plasma pistol is ONLY useful for taking down shields. In Halo 1 it was a formidable weapon in its own right.
Tarlus said: I'd have to admit that the first one wasn't that great in single player mode
Wow. Simply, wow. I mean, to each his own, I guess, but I would have thought the opposite (halo 1 multiplayer not being that great).
Of course the reason I disagree is because of things like the Rockslide Megabattle and others. Have you tried these? If not, I recommend trying them out. Even though they are not intentional parts of the gameplay designed by Bungie, they are some of the most intense single-player gameplay experiences I have ever had in a game.
It's a shame that they are not intentional and even the ability to do them disappeared in Halo 2, but here's to hoping that Bungie have noticed and will get this kind of gameplay back in Halo 3.
ConfusedSelfHating said: It's also easy to find scientific data which will prove just about anything. It could be because of small sample size or faulty data, but if you pick and choose the information you'll get what you want. If someone has a grudge against blacks/homosexuals/women/men/heterosexuals/whites... they can probably find a study that demonizes them. [emphasis mine]
In that case, with the reasons you stated (small sample size, faulty data, etc), it would NOT be scientific data. Scientific data must be able to be replicated to a degree of statistical certainty. If you are working with small sample size then it may not be statistically significant, and unless your study is done again over either a larger sample population or a larger number of different small samples, then the results will not be scientific.
Same with faulty data. If your data is faulty and cannot be replicated, then your conclusions are not scientific.
Now, I'm not saying it would be impossible to create studies that may lead to scientific conclusions such as those you posted, but 1.) good luck getting the funding for such controversial things, 2.) good luck actually conducting a scientific study of such things that leads to those conclusions*, and 3.) good luck keeping bias out of your study.
*Remember: science is not explanations looking for strong supporting data. It is data looking for strong explanations.
The framerate slows to a crawl when you start becoming a big critter yourself and really struggles when you are a big critter trying to eat other big critters. I noticed the most problems while playing as a fairly evolved jellyfish trying to attack other largish jellyfish towards the end of level 2...
It seems that the game is a work in progress and (at least, the Flash version) isn't finished yet.
Apparently not so long ago, it was only one level. Hopefully it won't take long until it is several more levels with more creatures to play against and become.
For those who don't know, Bungie open-sourced Marathon and released the game data file for free. You can get them all at http://source.bungie.org/, or more specifically, here:
I agree that this is one of the most amazing games ever. Not only did it bring us some technical innovations (at the time) such as the ability to look up and down to aim your weapon, dual triggered weapons, etc., but it was one of the first FPS games to actually have an amazing, intricate plot.
Imagine if a major earthquake hit the Tokyo area. There are about 33-36 MILLION people living in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area (which I assume includes Yokohama, Saitama, and Chiba). If for every one of these people, there are 3 that they are trying to reach and 3 that are trying to reach them, we are talking about over 200 million phone calls within minutes of a disaster. The system simply cannot handle that kind of traffic. When I was living in Japan, I would sometimes lose the ability to connect in big crowds like at fireworks shows or even sometimes on a weekend in Shibuya. It is impossible to connect to wish someone a happy New Year just after midnight on Jan. 1.
Even if they tried to keep a part of the system open for users to make regular calls, it would soon be completely swamped and useless anyway. That is why they have the voicemail system set up. Also, I do believe that there is a way to contact emergency personnel through the emergency system for people who need immediate assistance. But you use the emergency voicemail system as a way of letting your family and friends know that you are OK and where they can find you.
Personally, I think it is better to pretty much garauntee that the system is open for emergency personnel to use than run the risk of having no communication at all because the system is completely flooded.
Japan has this as well, for earthquakes. In the event of a major earthquake, the mobile system essentially shuts down for normal use in the affected areas.
The only number a user can dial is an emergency earthquake voicemail number (which is only active in the emergency situation...don't ask me how they test it). When you connect, you type in your own mobile number and you can leave a message saying where you are, that you are OK (or that you need assistance), etc.
People outside the area can call a different number (IIRC) to connect, type in your mobile number, and hear your message.
The rest of the network is exclusively for emergency personnel. Not a bad idea, IMHO...
from the summary:"while specialty video sites like Pornotube concentrate on one point of interest"
I disagree with this statement. Pornotube concentrates on MANY points of interest: fetish, lesbian, gay, orgy, large breasts, strip tease, midget, asian, etc...
I can understand your points, though I don't necessarily completely agree with them ("flamebait" mods should lay off). Personally, I know if the authors of GPU were going for "pure pacifism" or not. They just don't want their product to be used to kill other people, especially if the fighting is being done for a reason they don't agree with. But that is beside the main point of my post...
Just out of curiosity, how would you feel if a product you produced was being used to kill others? This is of course assuming that the primary purpose of your product is not Military use, like GPU (which appears to be a distributed computing product). What if it was being used in a war you don't agree with?
I'm just assuming you to be a reasonable human being that doesn't actually want to kill or harm others and will only do so at the last resort...
Personally, I would not want anything I made to be used to harm others, and if I found out that this was happening, I would probably feel like the character Chris Knight in "Real Genius" when he realized what the laser was for.
The problem is that, according to the current dictionary defintion of the verb "google" it would be correct for someone to say, "I googled it on MSN." or "I googled it on Yahoo."
+ google/gogl/ (also Google) v. informal [intrans.] use an Internet search engine, particularly Google.com: she spent the afternoon googling aimlessly. [trans.] search for the name of (someone) on the Internet to find out information about them: you meet someone, swap numbers, fix a date, then Google them through 1,346,966,000 Web pages. ORIGIN: from Google, the proprietary name of a popular Internet search engine.
(emphasis mine)
Would it not be more correct to make the exact definition of the verb "google" to be "to use the Google.com search engine to search for information on the internet"? I mean, with the current definition, a person could say, "Yeah, I just googled it on MSN." I'm surprised Google hasn't gone after the dictionary to get the definition changed.
I don't currently own any computer as I am backpacking around the world, but...
In the last 5 years, I have owned 2 Apple notebooks with their respective power adapters: a late 2001 600MHz G3 iBook and a 12" 1.25GHz Powerbook. Both power adapters (which I wound up using both on the PowerBook after the iBook finally kicked it) lasted, and as far as my knowledge still last, up until I sold the PowerBook with both adapters before my trip.
I know full well that the singular of data is not anecdote, but it seems that the author of TFA doesn't. So, here's two power adapters over 6 years that are still working properly that say otherwise.
Now, the plug adapters that plug into the power adapters on the other hand...
Well, they seemed to wear out after about 3 or 4 years of wear and tear (and I mean that...I toted them everywhere and gave them a good run for their money)...
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It IS a country built by Puritans, people so uptight that the British kicked them out.
And please don't play the "Japanese is difficult to read" card. I lived there for 4 1/2 years, and when I entered the country my Japanese speaking and reading ability were nearly zero. Reading menus in restaurants stopped being a problem in less than a year. It shouldn't be difficult to pick up enough kanji to be able to recognise things on the menu and point to them even if you are not sure how to pronounce them.
Besides, picking up the language is a good thing. It gets you lots of free stuff. I've had 6000 yen bar tabs paid for by complete stranger just because I could speak Japanese and I talked to them...
Which Lagrange point would be most appropriate for doing something like this? Once that is decided, how difficult is it to put something either on a Lagrange point, or at least into some sort of stable orbit around one? Would it be easier to try to orbit one or try to be stationary on one (or am I even understanding correctly that is is possible to orbit a Lagrange point)?
Assuming we could build a space station at a Lagrange point, how easy or difficult would it be to get stuff there? Would it be more or less difficult than getting things to the moon? Would it require more or less fuel to get there (and would the difference be significant)?
Would it be wise to build something at a Lagrange point, so far from any source of resources (as compared to LEO or a base on the moon)?
Finally, once at a Lagrange point or in orbit around one, how difficult is it to escape? i.e. on a moon base, you have to fight the moon's gravity to get into orbit and/or get back to earth. In LEO, you have to increase velocity to escape the Earth's gravity to get anywhere else. Since a Lagrange point is essentially a balance point between multiple sources of gravity, it seems to me that it would be easier to escape, but then again, common conceptions don't often apply to rocket science and orbital mechanics...
Anyway, this inquiring mind is curious. :D
Share and enjoy...
Or, go stick your head in a pig...
Depending on how much of the slogan is visible...
Call me crazy (or just lazy because I don't feel like looking it up), but doesn't electrolysis happen more readily in salt water?
I seem to recall needing to add salt to the mix whenever we did electrolysis experiments in junior high science classes...
Perhaps you didn't study those things in 9th grade because you were supposed to have spent your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science classes learning the scientific method. That way you could understand the gist of where those facts came from, and if you so desired to not take them at face value, look up on your own how they derived them.
I can't really say I care very much. Maybe I don't know very well how the internet works, but it seems to me that .com should only be reserved for GLOBAL commercial sites, and all other commercial sites should be .co.[country code] (.co.us, .co.uk, .co.ma, etc).
However, that is probably overly idealistic...
Try turning off Fox News, CNN, etc. and maybe get out of the house and meet people or something. If you are feeling really ballsy, try visiting another country and see firsthand what some of these places are like.
Is this seriously how people in the US see the Muslim world? Damn...every day I find more and more reasons to be glad I left 5 years ago.
Halo 2 on legendary went from impossible to simple because of this (well, as well as memorizing the positions of the instant kill lightning quick jackal snipers...Bungie, please don't do that again. It is stupid that the Master Chief and the Arbiter are the only characters in the game that can die from a single shot to the toe by a jackal sniper).
Of course, to give the GPP some credit, in Halo 2 the plasma pistol is ONLY useful for taking down shields. In Halo 1 it was a formidable weapon in its own right.
Wow. Simply, wow. I mean, to each his own, I guess, but I would have thought the opposite (halo 1 multiplayer not being that great).
Of course the reason I disagree is because of things like the Rockslide Megabattle and others. Have you tried these? If not, I recommend trying them out. Even though they are not intentional parts of the gameplay designed by Bungie, they are some of the most intense single-player gameplay experiences I have ever had in a game.
It's a shame that they are not intentional and even the ability to do them disappeared in Halo 2, but here's to hoping that Bungie have noticed and will get this kind of gameplay back in Halo 3.
But, isn't that what DRM has always stood for?
In that case, with the reasons you stated (small sample size, faulty data, etc), it would NOT be scientific data. Scientific data must be able to be replicated to a degree of statistical certainty. If you are working with small sample size then it may not be statistically significant, and unless your study is done again over either a larger sample population or a larger number of different small samples, then the results will not be scientific.
Same with faulty data. If your data is faulty and cannot be replicated, then your conclusions are not scientific.
Now, I'm not saying it would be impossible to create studies that may lead to scientific conclusions such as those you posted, but 1.) good luck getting the funding for such controversial things, 2.) good luck actually conducting a scientific study of such things that leads to those conclusions*, and 3.) good luck keeping bias out of your study.
*Remember: science is not explanations looking for strong supporting data. It is data looking for strong explanations.
The framerate slows to a crawl when you start becoming a big critter yourself and really struggles when you are a big critter trying to eat other big critters. I noticed the most problems while playing as a fairly evolved jellyfish trying to attack other largish jellyfish towards the end of level 2...
Apparently not so long ago, it was only one level. Hopefully it won't take long until it is several more levels with more creatures to play against and become.
http://source.bungie.org/get/
I agree that this is one of the most amazing games ever. Not only did it bring us some technical innovations (at the time) such as the ability to look up and down to aim your weapon, dual triggered weapons, etc., but it was one of the first FPS games to actually have an amazing, intricate plot.
If you haven't played it, go for it.
Not to mention the "Demolicans"... Demolicans...Demo lican... Demo licking? hrmmm...
Even if they tried to keep a part of the system open for users to make regular calls, it would soon be completely swamped and useless anyway. That is why they have the voicemail system set up. Also, I do believe that there is a way to contact emergency personnel through the emergency system for people who need immediate assistance. But you use the emergency voicemail system as a way of letting your family and friends know that you are OK and where they can find you.
Personally, I think it is better to pretty much garauntee that the system is open for emergency personnel to use than run the risk of having no communication at all because the system is completely flooded.
The only number a user can dial is an emergency earthquake voicemail number (which is only active in the emergency situation...don't ask me how they test it). When you connect, you type in your own mobile number and you can leave a message saying where you are, that you are OK (or that you need assistance), etc.
People outside the area can call a different number (IIRC) to connect, type in your mobile number, and hear your message.
The rest of the network is exclusively for emergency personnel. Not a bad idea, IMHO...
And that, my fellow slashdotters, is a VERY scary thought. Most US citizens think that football is a game played using your hands.
;p
I disagree with this statement. Pornotube concentrates on MANY points of interest: fetish, lesbian, gay, orgy, large breasts, strip tease, midget, asian, etc...
What?
Just out of curiosity, how would you feel if a product you produced was being used to kill others? This is of course assuming that the primary purpose of your product is not Military use, like GPU (which appears to be a distributed computing product). What if it was being used in a war you don't agree with?
I'm just assuming you to be a reasonable human being that doesn't actually want to kill or harm others and will only do so at the last resort...
Personally, I would not want anything I made to be used to harm others, and if I found out that this was happening, I would probably feel like the character Chris Knight in "Real Genius" when he realized what the laser was for.
I am curious about your views of this.
That is probably part of why Google is concerned.
Would it not be more correct to make the exact definition of the verb "google" to be "to use the Google.com search engine to search for information on the internet"? I mean, with the current definition, a person could say, "Yeah, I just googled it on MSN." I'm surprised Google hasn't gone after the dictionary to get the definition changed.
In the last 5 years, I have owned 2 Apple notebooks with their respective power adapters: a late 2001 600MHz G3 iBook and a 12" 1.25GHz Powerbook. Both power adapters (which I wound up using both on the PowerBook after the iBook finally kicked it) lasted, and as far as my knowledge still last, up until I sold the PowerBook with both adapters before my trip.
I know full well that the singular of data is not anecdote, but it seems that the author of TFA doesn't. So, here's two power adapters over 6 years that are still working properly that say otherwise.
Now, the plug adapters that plug into the power adapters on the other hand...
Well, they seemed to wear out after about 3 or 4 years of wear and tear (and I mean that...I toted them everywhere and gave them a good run for their money)...