I actually already had that unchecked; I was remembering poorly. The real tricky attack is to use onmousedown to swap out the link, something like this:
Even worse, links are often already guarded by some javascript that rewrites what shows up in the status bar (please, no one bother saying this is why they use NoScript, we get it, but there are a few hundred million people who want their shiny).
by the end--and I'm not joking here--we are meant to understand that the flat world is a giant ice-cream sundae that is more beef than sizzle, in which everyone can fit his hose into his fire hydrant, and in which most but not all of us are covered with a mostly good special sauce.
You don't really need details of left and right to analyze driving style (so the data can be simplified down to velocity and change in elevation).
Over a short commute the details of the hills are probably important, but for a longer commute, I doubt they matter much (and the same thinking likely applies to road choice and whatnot).
But social factors have at least some roots in genetics (blah blah blah nature vs nurture, well guess what, it isn't 100% of either one).
Also, reproductive rates over 2 or 3 generations may not be particularly meaningful over the long term (if those people are dying substantially faster or whatever).
(read the summary carefully, 1 kg and 2 cm isn't much to worry about, there will still be plenty of taller and leaner women after those changes)
Hydroelectric power sort of depends on the sun to evaporate the water involved (that's where the water gets the potential energy it has, the sun does the initial work against gravity, and then later we harvest that energy).
I'm not sure about tidal, but I think the sun is at least involved in the tides.
The winds also get their energy primarily from the sun.
Total human energy utilization is about 15 terawatt-years / year (so the average power being utilized by humans at any given point in time is probably somewhere near 15 terawatts).
The sun strikes the Earth with something like 165 petawatts. So our energy utilization is about 0.01% of the solar energy striking the planet. In a completely static system, you could expect the conservation of our energy to contribute that 0.01% to the global temperature (at about that rate, so instead of being 100 degrees, it would be 100.01 degrees...). But it isn't even a completely static system, when you increase the temperature, you increase the rate at which heat is dumped into space.
The issue with global warming is not simply the building up of heat in the atmosphere and oceans, it is changing the rate at which the heat is dumped into space (which may result in a drastically different average temperature).
I don't think that instant communication as given by a cellular phone would have found its way into society had somebody not had the brainstorm to create one in the first place.
That's another one of those muddled sentences, it is a tautology (someone might have thought of how nice it would be without actually creating it, but that wouldn't quite be enough for it to make it into society).
I look back to the lightbulb; Edison gets the credit, but he probably didn't come up with the idea, he just came up with one that worked well, dozens or hundreds or thousands of people were trying to do exactly the same thing.
(Your last sentence is pretty muddled, I'm not sure it makes sense to argue that the 'need' for instant communication came about as a result of the invention of the cellphone and pager, I'm pretty sure people looking for faster, more convenient communication led directly to their creation)
(and I'm well aware that telecommunications took a while to reach everyone, my parents talk of their families having just gotten their party line phones in the 1950s...)
It seems that Anne Rice and Stephanie Meyer (I searched on 'awful vampire movie' and then 'vampire movie' to figure out who wrote Twilight...) disagree, and they seem to have good chunk of the popular imagination in the United States.
I don't know about this year, but judging from the internets, you should have dressed up as a prisoner, hot girls appear to enjoy dressing up as slutty cops.
You miss my point. I am not asserting that the presence of communicators in Star Trek had nothing to do with the invention of the cell phone, I am asserting that cell phones are an eventuality, even if there was never a Star Trek, we would still be worrying about which mega-corporation used the best lube.
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I actually already had that unchecked; I was remembering poorly. The real tricky attack is to use onmousedown to swap out the link, something like this:
Even worse, links are often already guarded by some javascript that rewrites what shows up in the status bar (please, no one bother saying this is why they use NoScript, we get it, but there are a few hundred million people who want their shiny).
There is rich critical commentary on the hilariousness of that book available on the internet. One of my favorites is this one:
http://rolocroz.com/junk/friedman.html
Quoting a bit:
by the end--and I'm not joking here--we are meant to understand that the flat world is a giant ice-cream sundae that is more beef than sizzle, in which everyone can fit his hose into his fire hydrant, and in which most but not all of us are covered with a mostly good special sauce.
I think selling the rights should also probably trigger a clock.
(Companies would probably work around this by having rights eventually revert back to the creator, but hey, that's a good thing to me)
Give it another 200 or 300 pages. It picks up a bit (I just read it for the first time a month ago...).
You don't really need details of left and right to analyze driving style (so the data can be simplified down to velocity and change in elevation).
Over a short commute the details of the hills are probably important, but for a longer commute, I doubt they matter much (and the same thinking likely applies to road choice and whatnot).
Then we would have been the Amway of states, instead of just the home of Amway, which is embarrassing enough.
There are open source/free software VNC programs that work on Windows XP, like TightVNC:
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html
The sun is involved in the tides, at least according to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide#Range_variation:_springs_and_neaps
It certainly isn't the primary source of the energy involved.
But social factors have at least some roots in genetics (blah blah blah nature vs nurture, well guess what, it isn't 100% of either one).
Also, reproductive rates over 2 or 3 generations may not be particularly meaningful over the long term (if those people are dying substantially faster or whatever).
(read the summary carefully, 1 kg and 2 cm isn't much to worry about, there will still be plenty of taller and leaner women after those changes)
Hydroelectric power sort of depends on the sun to evaporate the water involved (that's where the water gets the potential energy it has, the sun does the initial work against gravity, and then later we harvest that energy).
I'm not sure about tidal, but I think the sun is at least involved in the tides.
The winds also get their energy primarily from the sun.
Geothermal is probably not dependent on the sun.
Total human energy utilization is about 15 terawatt-years / year (so the average power being utilized by humans at any given point in time is probably somewhere near 15 terawatts).
The sun strikes the Earth with something like 165 petawatts. So our energy utilization is about 0.01% of the solar energy striking the planet. In a completely static system, you could expect the conservation of our energy to contribute that 0.01% to the global temperature (at about that rate, so instead of being 100 degrees, it would be 100.01 degrees...). But it isn't even a completely static system, when you increase the temperature, you increase the rate at which heat is dumped into space.
The issue with global warming is not simply the building up of heat in the atmosphere and oceans, it is changing the rate at which the heat is dumped into space (which may result in a drastically different average temperature).
In the most recent Hulk movie, he becomes the Hulk strictly because of gamma poisoning. That's as far as they take it. It was refreshing.
Ang Lee's sea cucumbers were out of place in a comic book movie (he shot a pretty decent tragedy, but it didn't really fit in with its own context).
I don't think that instant communication as given by a cellular phone would have found its way into society had somebody not had the brainstorm to create one in the first place.
That's another one of those muddled sentences, it is a tautology (someone might have thought of how nice it would be without actually creating it, but that wouldn't quite be enough for it to make it into society).
I look back to the lightbulb; Edison gets the credit, but he probably didn't come up with the idea, he just came up with one that worked well, dozens or hundreds or thousands of people were trying to do exactly the same thing.
Ugh all you want, 'zeitgeist' is the topic of discussion.
That's not really fair, most Christians in America fail to live up to the name.
Twister is meant to convey a disdain for curvy brunettes.
Yes, we are engaged in a full on opinion battle. Reality is on my side:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkie-talkie#History
(Your last sentence is pretty muddled, I'm not sure it makes sense to argue that the 'need' for instant communication came about as a result of the invention of the cellphone and pager, I'm pretty sure people looking for faster, more convenient communication led directly to their creation)
(and I'm well aware that telecommunications took a while to reach everyone, my parents talk of their families having just gotten their party line phones in the 1950s...)
Who cares about ideas? For example, Shakespeare stole everything he wrote (he just packaged it, um, pretty well).
It seems that Anne Rice and Stephanie Meyer (I searched on 'awful vampire movie' and then 'vampire movie' to figure out who wrote Twilight...) disagree, and they seem to have good chunk of the popular imagination in the United States.
I don't know about this year, but judging from the internets, you should have dressed up as a prisoner, hot girls appear to enjoy dressing up as slutty cops.
You miss my point. I am not asserting that the presence of communicators in Star Trek had nothing to do with the invention of the cell phone, I am asserting that cell phones are an eventuality, even if there was never a Star Trek, we would still be worrying about which mega-corporation used the best lube.
It's better to say Frankenstein's monster. Frankenstein was a human, Dr. Frankenstein.
(The popular ethos has clearly given over to calling the monster Frankenstein, but that doesn't make it better to do so...)
That's a ridiculous over-analysis, cell phones are pretty much a natural combination of the telephone, radios and miniaturization.
The zombie genre has its roots in the novel 'I am Legend'. In the book, the zombies have some sort of vampire virus that comes with the wind.
I haven't seen the Will Smith movie (nor the earlier adaptations), so I have no idea how it relates back to the book.