The absurdity is exacerbated by a line spoken by Fawkes after leaving the Vault. At one point he says somethings along the lines of "I wish there was a way to repay you for helping me." Note that this is after the first radiation run Fawkes will do for you. So the chance comes for Fawkes to repay you and he says fuck off. Made the ending even more asinine.
I keep hearing people talk about terraforming and creating an atmosphere on Mars. A glaring issue to me though is the reason that Mars doesn't currently have an atmosphere, or negligable one at that, and why the planet is dead.
Didn't Mars lose the ability(strong magnetic fields, generated by a molten liquid core) to protect its atmosphere from the solar wind, uv, gamma, all that good stuff?
If we start sending gas generators and hurling comets to Mars to make an atmosphere, how fast will the artificial atmosphere burn off? Can we keep up? That is a massive volume of gas to create; especially once the burn off and radiation into space are considered.
Bad analogy, the secretary and your boss are both human, whom with you have physically interacted with. You can verify the secretary's note with your boss face to face.
"God's" word was written by men who say they talked to god(not a human), but noone can verify by talking to god directly, for the whole not a human reason People who talk to god and claim he responds directly are considered heretics or touched--if the Christian church could still get a way with it, said people would be burned at the stake. The church doesn't want other people delivering a message that hasn't been edited through the appropriate channels.
Precisely, there are plenty of people who will tell you that the sky is blue because of the ocean's reflection and that water drains in a direction based on which hemisphere it is located. Things that might seem to make sense at a first glance, but quickly fall apart once actual science(i.e. hypothesis then experiment) is applied.
It seems to me that the whole point of the comparison is to demonstrate the difference in technology; Xbox and Nintendo comparisons are perfectly valid. People seem to be reading some sort of value judgement into it. I think it is kind of like "gee whiz look how far technology" has come.
Fortunately the antidote for methanol poisoning is ethanol! So you just need to slam a couple shots in the event of a terrorist methanol weapon attack.
Also keep this in mind for really old soda with aspartame, which can eventually degrade into methanol. Just add rum to that really really old diet coke and you'll be fine!
Eukaryotes are 1 of 3 domains of life in the current popular classification of life. The other 2 domains are Prokaryotes(single cell organisms) and Archaea(these tend to be the thermal vent/volcanic organisms, extremophiles.)
Eukaryotes are characterized by being mostly multicellular organisms(that is made up of more than 1 cell), and those cells have membrane bound organelles(think of little organs but for cells). Eukaryotic cells also have a nucleus which protects and regulates access to the DNA material. In the other domains the DNA is just floating around.
When the cell goes to make proteins, the blueprints are found in the DNA. When a template for a protein needs to be made, it is copied from the DNA, processed and then transported out of the nucleus to be further process into a protein, this template is called mRNA(messenger RNA).
In Eukaryotes you also find what is referred to as "junk DNA". Although this term isn't entirely accurate, this junk DNA is called such because no active proteins are made from the DNA sequences in this region. These non-coding regions are cut out from the template mRNA are called introns. The segements that are kept are called exons.
Basic rundown of some of the concepts the article refers to.
You can pretty much make any exe a screen saver. I remember a coworker doing this once with logon.exe on Win 2k. Funny thing is, that the screen saver ran as admin, this was a pretty big security hole, and quite amusing.
Getting written works off of paper and stored electronically should be a priority--bits are much easier to store, preserve, and copy for future use.
In Stanislaw Lem's science fiction book "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub", all the paper in the world gets eaten by a virus and chaos ensues. Interesting read if you've missed it, has made me paranoid about how much the world still depends on paper.
"You're assuming that people come here for news. I'll let you in on a secret: a lot of us don't. We get our news elsewhere. The reason people come here is for the bloody comments..."
I don't know about you, but I come here for the hot chicks.
All the tools needed for accident avoidance already are in place in vehicles:
Brakes - now even better with ABS.
Lights - To see and to be seen.
Windshie1d - Permits driver to see outside the vehicle, presumably to see other vehicles, people, and other hazards.
No computer assistance will help at all while idiots are still in control of the vehicle. Want less accidents? Put everyone on rail based transport who cannot pass a battery of tests that measure: IQ, reactions, literacy(this is a big one), driving skills. Anyone who wants to drive should be forced to take extensive and expensive driving courses, then have to pass said tests.
Steering Wheel - To manuever the vehicle.
Tires - Tire technology has come along way, safer and more reliable tires.
The problem is that most people are morons and shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel of any vehicle.
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I'm shocked...
with getting the sharks focused on labeling produce.
Well, we all know that the hard part about herding cats is staying on the tiny horses.
Someone has figured out my plan. Don't worry it's all under control.
The absurdity is exacerbated by a line spoken by Fawkes after leaving the Vault. At one point he says somethings along the lines of "I wish there was a way to repay you for helping me." Note that this is after the first radiation run Fawkes will do for you. So the chance comes for Fawkes to repay you and he says fuck off. Made the ending even more asinine.
I will reply to your achievement whoring post for my own personal achievement whoring.
Fear the achievement pimp hand.
Wow, I must say I never expected a Dawson's Creek reference to pop-up on Slashdot.
Now I have that damn Paula Cole song stuck in my head.
I keep hearing people talk about terraforming and creating an atmosphere on Mars. A glaring issue to me though is the reason that Mars doesn't currently have an atmosphere, or negligable one at that, and why the planet is dead.
Didn't Mars lose the ability(strong magnetic fields, generated by a molten liquid core) to protect its atmosphere from the solar wind, uv, gamma, all that good stuff?
If we start sending gas generators and hurling comets to Mars to make an atmosphere, how fast will the artificial atmosphere burn off? Can we keep up? That is a massive volume of gas to create; especially once the burn off and radiation into space are considered.
Bad analogy, the secretary and your boss are both human, whom with you have physically interacted with. You can verify the secretary's note with your boss face to face.
"God's" word was written by men who say they talked to god(not a human), but noone can verify by talking to god directly, for the whole not a human reason People who talk to god and claim he responds directly are considered heretics or touched--if the Christian church could still get a way with it, said people would be burned at the stake. The church doesn't want other people delivering a message that hasn't been edited through the appropriate channels.
Nothing beats security through obscurity!
Precisely, there are plenty of people who will tell you that the sky is blue because of the ocean's reflection and that water drains in a direction based on which hemisphere it is located. Things that might seem to make sense at a first glance, but quickly fall apart once actual science(i.e. hypothesis then experiment) is applied.
It seems to me that the whole point of the comparison is to demonstrate the difference in technology; Xbox and Nintendo comparisons are perfectly valid. People seem to be reading some sort of value judgement into it. I think it is kind of like "gee whiz look how far technology" has come.
Fortunately the antidote for methanol poisoning is ethanol! So you just need to slam a couple shots in the event of a terrorist methanol weapon attack.
Also keep this in mind for really old soda with aspartame, which can eventually degrade into methanol. Just add rum to that really really old diet coke and you'll be fine!
Some terms and stuff for the laymen:
Eukaryotes are 1 of 3 domains of life in the current popular classification of life. The other 2 domains are Prokaryotes(single cell organisms) and Archaea(these tend to be the thermal vent/volcanic organisms, extremophiles.)
Eukaryotes are characterized by being mostly multicellular organisms(that is made up of more than 1 cell), and those cells have membrane bound organelles(think of little organs but for cells). Eukaryotic cells also have a nucleus which protects and regulates access to the DNA material. In the other domains the DNA is just floating around.
When the cell goes to make proteins, the blueprints are found in the DNA. When a template for a protein needs to be made, it is copied from the DNA, processed and then transported out of the nucleus to be further process into a protein, this template is called mRNA(messenger RNA).
In Eukaryotes you also find what is referred to as "junk DNA". Although this term isn't entirely accurate, this junk DNA is called such because no active proteins are made from the DNA sequences in this region. These non-coding regions are cut out from the template mRNA are called introns. The segements that are kept are called exons.
Basic rundown of some of the concepts the article refers to.
You can pretty much make any exe a screen saver. I remember a coworker doing this once with logon.exe on Win 2k. Funny thing is, that the screen saver ran as admin, this was a pretty big security hole, and quite amusing.
Getting written works off of paper and stored electronically should be a priority--bits are much easier to store, preserve, and copy for future use.
In Stanislaw Lem's science fiction book "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub", all the paper in the world gets eaten by a virus and chaos ensues. Interesting read if you've missed it, has made me paranoid about how much the world still depends on paper.
"You're assuming that people come here for news. I'll let you in on a secret: a lot of us don't. We get our news elsewhere. The reason people come here is for the bloody comments..."
I don't know about you, but I come here for the hot chicks.
And I am especially qualified to say so.
Egads, I guess I should've used the preview button.
All the tools needed for accident avoidance already are in place in vehicles:
Brakes - now even better with ABS.
Lights - To see and to be seen.
Windshie1d - Permits driver to see outside the vehicle, presumably to see other vehicles, people, and other hazards.
No computer assistance will help at all while idiots are still in control of the vehicle. Want less accidents? Put everyone on rail based transport who cannot pass a battery of tests that measure: IQ, reactions, literacy(this is a big one), driving skills. Anyone who wants to drive should be forced to take extensive and expensive driving courses, then have to pass said tests.
Steering Wheel - To manuever the vehicle.
Tires - Tire technology has come along way, safer and more reliable tires.
The problem is that most people are morons and shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel of any vehicle.
3 years? Keep up the good work!! Give it another 10 and you might get a woman!
On the contrary, I submit that you rather enjoy being pedantic here.
I thought lawyer and human were mutually exclusive.
Warning may contain sarcasm-like substance:
The terrorists have already won. I am sure all Americans feel the pain of losing such a important event.
"You remember what Scotty used to say, "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me"."
I believe the quote is actually:
"Fool me once, shame on... shame on... I won't be fooled again." - George W. Bush