I've never seen environmentalists trying to prevent Nature from happening. I'm not sure where you got that idea.
Metaphorically speaking, "preservation" usually entails roping off areas to prevent human meddling, not laminating everything to ensure it doesn't change.
but sometimes if you do, the mission goes over budget and doesnt get done at all. It's not clear to me that staying within budget--but degenerating shortly after arrival--is a better option, particularly when the spacecraft as a whole costs three quarters of a billion US dollars.
Reminds me of Futurama. Let's start dropping giant ice cubes into the sea to stop global warming! NARRATOR: Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time. Thus solving the problem once and for all.
I'll bet more of the IT-based Slashdotters than would like to admit are forced to support, or at least deal with, the most legacy of legacy crap now and then. And how many of them allow legacy tools like that out of a well-secured sandbox surrounded by modern, hardened boxes?
It should also be pointed out that the rats had an induced analogue of RTT where the relevant gene was artificially-suppressed. They observed the downward-spiral of RTT-like symptoms until they gave the rats a drug that released the lock that had been planted on that gene, freeing normal function. The rats got better.
What they showed, then, was that *IF* an RTT cure were developed, it should bring immediate mental and physical benefit to those given the cure.
It does *NOT* say that RTT has been cured, much less autism in general.
if you've never heard Bill Cosby's "Noah" routine, I am entirely too old. YouTube has a few versions of it. Here's one from one of his albums with some still images. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyc1315KawQ
I'm pretty sure we already have plenty of experience surviving on an ocean world, since we already live on one. What we're not used to is surviving while sea levels rise, perhaps uncontrollably, which is probably what you meant.
The projected maximum rise in sea level due to total melting of glaciers is around 80m. The average elevation of exposed land is about 2870m, which is about 35 times as high. Melting everything won't inundate the globe, but it will require relocation from low-lying areas.
I know it's a nitpick, but of course we're closer than ever to detecting them. Guess what, we're closer to detecting them now than when you began reading this reply (by a couple seconds, but still closer). You're older than you've ever been. And now you're even older. And now you're even older. And now you're even older.
You're older than you've ever been. And now you're even older. And now you're older still.
You really have to feel sorry for poor Quayle. He was (*is*) actually an intelligent fellow. MOUSEBENDER: It's not much of a cheese shop, is it? WENSLEYDALE: Finest in the district, sir. MOUSEBENDER: Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please. WENSLEYDALE: Well, it's so clean, sir. MOUSEBENDER: It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.
Week one was spent checking out the fit birds who came from the other schools, [...]
We met a lad on our first day who was introduced as Logger. Initially he seemed more popular than most of the council estate white trash I schooled with, as alot of his junior school mates seemed at pains to introduce him to the rest of the school.
In hindsight, I ought to have been suspicious, this was, after all, the eighties, "john's not mad" was still fresh in our pre adolescent minds, and "joey deacon" was still the insult de jour. Hooodam, that's some kinda furrin speak, there.
As someone who lives in Boston, I'm glad they decided to take these precautions. You have to take these all seriously, because who knows if they're threats or not? I imagine the terrorist bogeymen are happy that you're all panicking like sheep, too. Makes their jobs easier, I would think.
Wouldn't combating terrorism mean going about your lives as normal while taking *sensible* precautions? Those things had reportedly been up for *weeks*, yet suddenly they were possibly dangerous and consistent with home-made explosives? Please.
you didnt invent "ajax" in 1996, its part of the fucking javascript language.. and it didnt work then because your a shitty coder. I agree with your sentiment, but not your language (both the harshness and the poor spelling) You're replying to an AC about language and spelling, and you included your response in the quote. Niiiiice.
In education? Everything. I've learned so much about topics I never had the means to easily research, or things I never knew existed. The amount of knowledge on Wikipedia is fascinating and a dream for someone who loves to learn. It can be a blessing for students. ...or a nightmare for someone who gets easily distracted.
Heck, you could probably have some fun with wavelengths. different wavelengths get diffracted slightly differently, if you could take advantage of that to redirect photons of different wavelengths at the sensor. you could have a camera that takes _full spectrum_ pictures. The limiting factor there would be finding a material that allowed you to reflect or diffract photons all the way from infrared light to x-rays. Since we're talking about a single-pixel sensor, constructing separate sensors for the various areas of the EM spectrum would probably be more feasible.
Self replicating is ruled out due to risk. That sounds fairly silly since computers are computers. They do what we tell them to and not a thing more. And what we actually instruct them to do is often at variance, sometimes significantly, from what we intend we instruct them to do.
Of course they retrieve it - unless they already have a local or cached copy. How else would they be able to parse a document marked up using a custom DTD?
A DTD is used when the parser wants to validate the document at parse time. It isn't needed for parsing. Having a DTD present won't necessarily allow your XML application to interpret random XML you didn't expect.
It's not just a phone + iPod, it's a smartphone (with all of the features you expect when you hear "smartphone") + iPod with an interface that doesn't suck. A smartphone with an interface that doesn't suck is truly newsworthy, as the industry has been trying to build that for years and failing miserably.
Wouldn't it also be interesting if they later announced with little fanfare that the already-deployed base of iPhones can, in fact, play wireless games. Suddenly, Sony has a new, serious competitor for its PSP business.
After all, it's based on OSX. How hard could it be to port games to it?
(I won't even speculate if it could interface in interesting ways with the new Apple TV unit.)
Er. you know, or your hand will slice through it like a giant piece of bipedal monkey through a tiny cable.
Depending on the tensile strength of the "cable", it might in fact slice through your hand instead of the other way around. 300nm is a VERY sharp edge.
Armored and completely isolated - audio, video, access - the cockpits on commercial aircraft (requires new and separate external entry doors for the pilots)
Now the next person to need immediate medical attention will die instead, since the pilots can't be notified and the plane landed. Tough luck for them.
No hijacking can succeed in such a situation. [...] and consequently, someone will pop you before you can say in'shallah.
This means that more people will die, even if there are no highjackings. If a suicide terrorist can kill more than one person before he's killed in return, he's accomplished his mission. No bomb needed.
Also, the drunk idiot in the first class cabin who was toying with the weapon accidentally shot his neighbor. Plus, since you can't get the flight crew to land somewhere, the one who was shot dies of blood loss.
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I've never seen environmentalists trying to prevent Nature from happening. I'm not sure where you got that idea.
Metaphorically speaking, "preservation" usually entails roping off areas to prevent human meddling, not laminating everything to ensure it doesn't change.
doesnt get done at all. It's not clear to me that staying within budget--but degenerating shortly after arrival--is a better option, particularly when the spacecraft as a whole costs three quarters of a billion US dollars.
SUZIE: But--
NARRATOR: Once and for all!
It should also be pointed out that the rats had an induced analogue of RTT where the relevant gene was artificially-suppressed. They observed the downward-spiral of RTT-like symptoms until they gave the rats a drug that released the lock that had been planted on that gene, freeing normal function. The rats got better.
What they showed, then, was that *IF* an RTT cure were developed, it should bring immediate mental and physical benefit to those given the cure.
It does *NOT* say that RTT has been cured, much less autism in general.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyc1315KawQ
I'm pretty sure we already have plenty of experience surviving on an ocean world, since we already live on one. What we're not used to is surviving while sea levels rise, perhaps uncontrollably, which is probably what you meant.
The projected maximum rise in sea level due to total melting of glaciers is around 80m. The average elevation of exposed land is about 2870m, which is about 35 times as high. Melting everything won't inundate the globe, but it will require relocation from low-lying areas.
And now you're even older.
And now you're even older.
And now you're even older.
You're older than you've ever been.
And now you're even older.
And now you're older still.
- They Might Be Giants, "Older"
WENSLEYDALE: Finest in the district, sir.
MOUSEBENDER: Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please.
WENSLEYDALE: Well, it's so clean, sir.
MOUSEBENDER: It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.
We met a lad on our first day who was introduced as Logger. Initially he seemed more popular than most of the council estate white trash I schooled with, as alot of his junior school mates seemed at pains to introduce him to the rest of the school.
In hindsight, I ought to have been suspicious, this was, after all, the eighties, "john's not mad" was still fresh in our pre adolescent minds, and "joey deacon" was still the insult de jour. Hooodam, that's some kinda furrin speak, there.
Wouldn't combating terrorism mean going about your lives as normal while taking *sensible* precautions? Those things had reportedly been up for *weeks*, yet suddenly they were possibly dangerous and consistent with home-made explosives? Please.
http://xkcd.com/c214.html
And spammers, to boot.
Like the Planet Express ship, I notice the New Horizons spacecraft has a carbonated logic unit dubbed PEPSSI.
Don't forget the oft-quoted line allegedly from Steve Haflich in comp.lang.c++, "When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb."
A dictionary of the English language is distinct from a legal dictionary. Citing Webster's in a court of law would not be a good idea.
After all, it's based on OSX. How hard could it be to port games to it?
(I won't even speculate if it could interface in interesting ways with the new Apple TV unit.)
This means that more people will die, even if there are no highjackings. If a suicide terrorist can kill more than one person before he's killed in return, he's accomplished his mission. No bomb needed.
Also, the drunk idiot in the first class cabin who was toying with the weapon accidentally shot his neighbor. Plus, since you can't get the flight crew to land somewhere, the one who was shot dies of blood loss.
Wow, what a fantastic idea.