The automakers have had 3 decades (minimum) to research and develop suitable, affordable low-emission vehicles. Instead, colluding with big oil and a rapacious administration, they have made billions off the guzzlers while big oil has made $billions/month for the past few years.
For the love of having a planet that's liveable for us and for generations to come: good for California. It's long overdue, but you finally got the balls.
Uh... as the article explained, this is not about science... it's about terminology. These guys are "real" in that they get paid to do astronomy. If you do too, then you have a professional disagreement. Happens all over science all the time.
As more non-star bodies that are found, eventually the spectrum of features will be all over the place. If the choice were mine, I'd call the classic nine planets, leave it there, and forget about deciding for a few more centuries.
When "cutting-edge technology" slows things down, that's a persuasive argument that it's cutting-edge clutter. This technology may have Bold intentions, but it Dies too often.
Modem failures: why are these machines designed, apparently, to "fool-proof" the transmission of accurate vote-counts by election officials... while they have been shown not to "fool-proof" their security?
One might conclude that the purpose of the technology is to displace local human intelligence, in favor of intelligence-central. This is hardly a democratic (or whatever we can agree to call American) solution.
Nature vs. nurture redux
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Of course "It takes approximately a decade of heavy labor to master any field."
In music for example, certainly Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Berlioz had to work hard to learn their craft, with some of the best teachers.
Nonetheless, most people would not benefit from that tutelage, because they would be unable to grasp what was important and what was not. A work of genius is not the result of privilege, but of someone whose innate ability to absorb, digest, and then apply in strikingly original ways are simply beyond the grasp of most of us.
The answer to the question of nature vs. nurture is that both are necessary. A genius feral child will not recreate social skills alone. Nor will a privileged imbecile be able to govern a nation.
And you forgot the SID synthesizer chip, which was influential enough that there is a popular hardware made out of them (SidStation) and a netradio dedicated to SID music.
Leaving the Vic/C64/C128 out is nuts. Toss out 14 flavors of me-too clones. VAIO?? HAH HA HA!!!
Most mash-ups that I've heard I would much rather listen to the songs serially and in their entireties
1. Your personal taste, however evolved (???) is not the subject 2. In many cases I might agree with you. But mashup is an emerging art. And it beats Shitney every time.
I don't like it when corporations try to be "cool" by adopting slang. It's like if your grandma started wearing low-rider jeans with a white sequined belt.
Yeah. I'm right with you on that one MH. Maybe they're looking for something like 'confabulation'. A mashup is a piece of music, not some patchwork spaghetti code looking for a home.
That's it. That's what I want too. The size of a sugar cube. Data stored in lattice and written/read optically. Let's say 1x10^22 bits, or 10 billion Tbits. I guess that should hold ALL the music, ALL the pron, and the library of Congress.
Better still if I can spin it on a flat surface and it reads me a bedtime story.
Fortunately there are millions of old books that desperately need to be indexed -- so when this is ready it'll be a few weeks before human indexers are all out of work.
Seriously though: IMHO it'll be a loooooooong time before machine-indexing reaches a level of nuance acceptable to -quality publishers- outside of tech. I'd even be glad to wager on it.
We know that the CongCrits aren't *personally* worried about sex predation, since they're all INTO it.
So MAN... they must be under some SERIOUS pressure after a summerload of that social-engineering TV show!
How much worse can it get?
How much longer do you take it before you stop using the products and services that YOU HAVE CHOSEN, and YOU PAY FOR, which are doing this to you?
You must be a neo-con. I see you automatically approach a question by ridiculing people rather than addressing the question with information and logic. Like there's nothing shrill about your hand-waving.
There are many, many problems with nuclear power. France is a little country. The US is a big country. Hopefully the founder of Greenpeace has ignited more fruitful discussion than your approach will.
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Did you go on vacation for a few days this summer? Did you have withdrawal symptoms? (Did you even *wish* to get on the net)
If not, it's not "addiction" - one of the latest buzzwords for people addicted to worrying and meddling in other people's lives.
The automakers have had 3 decades (minimum) to research and develop suitable, affordable low-emission vehicles. Instead, colluding with big oil and a rapacious administration, they have made billions off the guzzlers while big oil has made $billions/month for the past few years.
For the love of having a planet that's liveable for us and for generations to come: good for California. It's long overdue, but you finally got the balls.
So what else is new? "Research papers" were being sold in University newspapers 4 decades ago when I went to college.
If professors are smart (and some are), they will invent new ways to evaluate students' performance and knowledge.
Uh ... as the article explained, this is not about science ... it's about terminology. These guys are "real" in that they get paid to do astronomy. If you do too, then you have a professional disagreement. Happens all over science all the time.
As more non-star bodies that are found, eventually the spectrum of features will be all over the place. If the choice were mine, I'd call the classic nine planets, leave it there, and forget about deciding for a few more centuries.
Many "social" sites rake in the bucks and pay contributors with bupkiss. Yahoo's "answers" pays with -wallpaper with an embedded Yahoo ad-. WOW!
... communities with longevity have always found ways to reward quality contributors substantially. Ego strokes don't spend.
... said his Web site will not pay contributors ..." ??? Not THIS month, maybe.
It's obvious, but
"Jay Adelson
Up with warm air!
When "cutting-edge technology" slows things down, that's a persuasive argument that it's cutting-edge clutter. This technology may have Bold intentions, but it Dies too often.
... while they have been shown not to "fool-proof" their security?
Modem failures: why are these machines designed, apparently, to "fool-proof" the transmission of accurate vote-counts by election officials
One might conclude that the purpose of the technology is to displace local human intelligence, in favor of intelligence-central. This is hardly a democratic (or whatever we can agree to call American) solution.
"I'm all in favor of fixing things that are broken"
Don't astronomers have something *important* to so? Like, oh, explain "dark matter"? Or find all the earth-crossing asteroids?
But then only 300 of 2500 voted, so I guess *some* have a sense of proportion.
"Dwarf planet". Oh! that's so insensitive.
Of course "It takes approximately a decade of heavy labor to master any field."
In music for example, certainly Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Berlioz had to work hard to learn their craft, with some of the best teachers.
Nonetheless, most people would not benefit from that tutelage, because they would be unable to grasp what was important and what was not. A work of genius is not the result of privilege, but of someone whose innate ability to absorb, digest, and then apply in strikingly original ways are simply beyond the grasp of most of us.
The answer to the question of nature vs. nurture is that both are necessary. A genius feral child will not recreate social skills alone. Nor will a privileged imbecile be able to govern a nation.
And you forgot the SID synthesizer chip, which was influential enough that there is a popular hardware made out of them (SidStation) and a netradio dedicated to SID music.
Leaving the Vic/C64/C128 out is nuts. Toss out 14 flavors of me-too clones. VAIO?? HAH HA HA!!!
Following your suggested UD link, I see that your preferred def. has been usurped. Sorry, mate, seems your snook got cocked.
I'm waiting for Web 2.1 comes along with the bugs worked out.
Most mash-ups that I've heard I would much rather listen to the songs serially and in their entireties
1. Your personal taste, however evolved (???) is not the subject
2. In many cases I might agree with you. But mashup is an emerging art. And it beats Shitney every time.
I don't like it when corporations try to be "cool" by adopting slang. It's like if your grandma started wearing low-rider jeans with a white sequined belt.
IBM ain't gonna get relevant by trying to cool itself with ripoffs. First they gotta 'splain how they got stuffed so bigtime in the early 80s.
Yeah. I'm right with you on that one MH. Maybe they're looking for something like 'confabulation'. A mashup is a piece of music, not some patchwork spaghetti code looking for a home.
I want a cube. I want a cube about 1cm^3 in size.
That's it. That's what I want too. The size of a sugar cube. Data stored in lattice and written/read optically. Let's say 1x10^22 bits, or 10 billion Tbits. I guess that should hold ALL the music, ALL the pron, and the library of Congress. Better still if I can spin it on a flat surface and it reads me a bedtime story.
Ah but is it brillig enough to slithey toves?
Fortunately there are millions of old books that desperately need to be indexed -- so when this is ready it'll be a few weeks before human indexers are all out of work.
Seriously though: IMHO it'll be a loooooooong time before machine-indexing reaches a level of nuance acceptable to -quality publishers- outside of tech. I'd even be glad to wager on it.
We know that the CongCrits aren't *personally* worried about sex predation, since they're all INTO it. So MAN ... they must be under some SERIOUS pressure after a summerload of that social-engineering TV show!
How much worse can it get? How much longer do you take it before you stop using the products and services that YOU HAVE CHOSEN, and YOU PAY FOR, which are doing this to you?
"Allchin announced that Longhorn (later renamed Vista) would ship in the second half of 2004."
MS Fanboy: Hey man, quit complainin. They didn't go namin it "Shorthorn", now did they?
Yeah, Zune! As in "Real Zune Now"!
You must be a neo-con. I see you automatically approach a question by ridiculing people rather than addressing the question with information and logic. Like there's nothing shrill about your hand-waving.
There are many, many problems with nuclear power. France is a little country. The US is a big country. Hopefully the founder of Greenpeace has ignited more fruitful discussion than your approach will.
Methanol burns into carbon dioxide and water.
CO2 and H2O.
CO2.
If we're going to get away from warming, we need to NOT generate more CO2.
Did the guy on SF mention using algae to produce hydrogen? Burns into water.