So, we're now sure there's a blackhole at the center of the milkyway. But what is there at the center of the blackhole? What are the physics like inside? What's it like to fall in? How many dimensions inside? What would it look like to stand inside and look out at the light falling in? What's it feel like to be a blackhole?
These are the things we still don't know, and I'm afraid we'll never know them within my lifetime.
Fix Steven Hawking? Or is his amazing intellect _caused_ by the fact his brains don't do much with his body?
Hawking was brilliant long before he came down with ALS. Though, you would still have to think it's kept him focused on physics instead of sex, drugs, and rock&roll, like some of his contemporaries.
The DNA provides the scaffolding for the metal atoms to sit on. It's easy to generate, and it makes small/straight threads easily. I challenge you to invent a metal wire effectively one-atom-thick without using something like DNA as a substrate.
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I wouldn't respond to you, but I'm afraid my silence would be interpreted as tacit consent.
What right do you have to declare me a troll? Judging from your user.pl page, you haven't posted much lately, but you specifically took the time out of (what's hopefully) a busy day at work and levied this accusation against me. I can't decide whether you're merely mistaken (as you are, empirically speaking) or actually malicious in your libel. If it's the latter, then you, sir are the worst kind of troll.
This software could be considered a circumvention-mechanism under the DMCA, violating AOL's intellectual-property rights to its ads. I'd be very wary, if I were Justin Frankel.
If there's DNA in it, then it can reproduce, right? Has anyone looked into this? Because if no one has, then someone should. That's what I'm getting at, I think.
Pi was shot on a $60,000 budget (of which 60% was spent on the 'reversal' film stock alone). I can only imagine what a $60,000 Batman movie would look like. Even Monty Python movies cost more.
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I think it's an invasion of privacy to install cameras in the toilets!
Perhaps, but what they don't know can't hurt them.
Are you looking for a lawsuit or something?
Actually, this is the funny part: that we're immune. You know those fine-legal-print documents all employees have to sign before starting? That company wisely inserted a clause about "conducting information-gathering for occupational-research purposes".
I have to go with VP on this one. FreeBSD, working under the BSD liscense, is pretty free with its liscensing. Debian, however, is the distro most anal about enforcing the "GPL v. non-GPL" distinction and, like you said, won't include Pine/Pico for that reason. There is a small niche for a politically-active/pure distro, and Debian fills that niche, but it's hardly the same niche as FreeBSD'd. Slackware, on the other hand, with its even slower release-schedule but almost cult-like following of old unix hardliners, is much closer to FreeBSD.
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Katz cites a range of "27%-50%", but from my own experience, it's really more like "40%-60%". I was hired by one of the smaller Fortune 500 companies to do some consulting on company morale, and that's the range I came up with, but it's interesting what methodology I had to use.
You see, you can't do regular survey work when looking for these data -- employees either don't bother to fill them out, or they do fill them out but lie, hoping to kiss up to management or simply not jeopardize their jobs.
You might think you could just measure attendance at these events. But people do have good reasons for not coming, like busy personal lives or kids to drive to soccer games, etc. And measuring attendance at alcohol-laced cocktail parties on Fridays doesn't help either, since most people do stop by on their way out, for a quick beer if nothing else.
So, we had to come up with a unique methodology to implement. And I bet you'll never guess what we used: bathroom breaks. We installed cameras in the ir-activation mechanisms on those automatic toilets the company had installed two years previously, and we cross-matched bathroom-goers with the company facebook. It turns out, so-called "corporate isolates" are more likely to take frequent bathroom breaks, where they can escape the banter of coworkers (and decrease productivity at the same time). Like I said, the range came out to about "40%-60%", and needless to say, management was not pleased.
An interesting footnote, though, was the number of managers who also fit the profile according to our methodology. You'd think they'd be more likely to interact with others, being managers and all, but you'd be mistaken.
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So, we're now sure there's a blackhole at the center of the milkyway. But what is there at the center of the blackhole? What are the physics like inside? What's it like to fall in? How many dimensions inside? What would it look like to stand inside and look out at the light falling in? What's it feel like to be a blackhole?
These are the things we still don't know, and I'm afraid we'll never know them within my lifetime.
Fix Steven Hawking? Or is his amazing intellect _caused_ by the fact his brains don't do much with his body?
Hawking was brilliant long before he came down with ALS. Though, you would still have to think it's kept him focused on physics instead of sex, drugs, and rock&roll, like some of his contemporaries.
OSes.
Cheers,
Froid
The DNA provides the scaffolding for the metal atoms to sit on. It's easy to generate, and it makes small/straight threads easily. I challenge you to invent a metal wire effectively one-atom-thick without using something like DNA as a substrate.
I wouldn't respond to you, but I'm afraid my silence would be interpreted as tacit consent.
What right do you have to declare me a troll? Judging from your user.pl page, you haven't posted much lately, but you specifically took the time out of (what's hopefully) a busy day at work and levied this accusation against me. I can't decide whether you're merely mistaken (as you are, empirically speaking) or actually malicious in your libel. If it's the latter, then you, sir are the worst kind of troll.
I say this as a former-Christian, and someone who has read a version of the Bible twice.
Me too. I've read Yggdrasil's Linux Bible version at least a couple times.
This software could be considered a circumvention-mechanism under the DMCA, violating AOL's intellectual-property rights to its ads. I'd be very wary, if I were Justin Frankel.
Let me check my calendar.... Hmmm.... Is next Tuesday good for you?
If there's DNA in it, then it can reproduce, right? Has anyone looked into this? Because if no one has, then someone should. That's what I'm getting at, I think.
Pi was shot on a $60,000 budget (of which 60% was spent on the 'reversal' film stock alone). I can only imagine what a $60,000 Batman movie would look like. Even Monty Python movies cost more.
I think it's an invasion of privacy to install cameras in the toilets!
Perhaps, but what they don't know can't hurt them.
Are you looking for a lawsuit or something?
Actually, this is the funny part: that we're immune. You know those fine-legal-print documents all employees have to sign before starting? That company wisely inserted a clause about "conducting information-gathering for occupational-research purposes".
Cheers,
Froido
I have to go with VP on this one. FreeBSD, working under the BSD liscense, is pretty free with its liscensing. Debian, however, is the distro most anal about enforcing the "GPL v. non-GPL" distinction and, like you said, won't include Pine/Pico for that reason. There is a small niche for a politically-active/pure distro, and Debian fills that niche, but it's hardly the same niche as FreeBSD'd. Slackware, on the other hand, with its even slower release-schedule but almost cult-like following of old unix hardliners, is much closer to FreeBSD.
Katz cites a range of "27%-50%", but from my own experience, it's really more like "40%-60%". I was hired by one of the smaller Fortune 500 companies to do some consulting on company morale, and that's the range I came up with, but it's interesting what methodology I had to use.
You see, you can't do regular survey work when looking for these data -- employees either don't bother to fill them out, or they do fill them out but lie, hoping to kiss up to management or simply not jeopardize their jobs.
You might think you could just measure attendance at these events. But people do have good reasons for not coming, like busy personal lives or kids to drive to soccer games, etc. And measuring attendance at alcohol-laced cocktail parties on Fridays doesn't help either, since most people do stop by on their way out, for a quick beer if nothing else.
So, we had to come up with a unique methodology to implement. And I bet you'll never guess what we used: bathroom breaks. We installed cameras in the ir-activation mechanisms on those automatic toilets the company had installed two years previously, and we cross-matched bathroom-goers with the company facebook. It turns out, so-called "corporate isolates" are more likely to take frequent bathroom breaks, where they can escape the banter of coworkers (and decrease productivity at the same time). Like I said, the range came out to about "40%-60%", and needless to say, management was not pleased.
An interesting footnote, though, was the number of managers who also fit the profile according to our methodology. You'd think they'd be more likely to interact with others, being managers and all, but you'd be mistaken.