There's an excellent example of different falling rates at the beginning of GoldenEye, [wikipedia.org] where Bond falls faster than a light plane, gets into the cabin and pulls it out of the dive.
Yeeesss... while possible, I don't think I'd use it as an "excellent example." If we're sticking with the Bond universe, I'd go for Moonraker, where Bond slips out of Jaws's grasp by opening his parachute and suddenly falling much slower than Jaws is - mainly because it was a real stunt, not an effect.
In a real way, the issue is not just why are women underrepresented in various technical/scientific fields, but also why are they over represented in others. More women are going to college after all.
The real issue is why does it matter so much? Do we really have to get an exact 50/50 gender split in every discipline before people will stop banging on about it? We should strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity regardless of gender (or race, or whatever else) but that is as far as our collective responsibility needs to go. After that you leave it to the individuals, and if fewer women show an interest in a particular area, so be it. Study that, if you find it interesting, but don't assume something must be amiss (or amister).
The best thing that can be done is a website can associate a browser with their a users session after they have logged out and cleared their cookies
So, kind of (exactly) like a cookie, then? What am I missing?
Okay, the server can't immediately identify you if all you do is fetch index.html, for example*, but it's pretty trivial for a server to correlate the user who fetches index.html with the user who fetches an image in index.html milliseconds later. HTTP requests don't exist in total isolation by any means.
ETags can be used to track unique users,[2] as HTTP cookies are increasingly deleted by privacy-aware users. In July 2011, Ashkan Soltani and a team of researchers at UC Berkeley reported that a number of websites, including Hulu.com, were using ETags for tracking purposes.[3] Hulu and KISSmetrics have both ceased "respawning" as of 29 July 2011,[4] as KISSmetrics and over 20 of its clients are facing a class-action lawsuit over the use of "undeletable" tracking cookies partially involving the use of ETags.
If you're a layman, they are pretty indistinguishable [from the originals]. Of course, if you're a connoisseur and you look more closely, you can see the difference.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Stargate Universe was canon-faithful. Doctor Who is still canon faithful (or as close as can reasonably be expected after fifty years) despite a pretty radical facelift when it came back.
McCoy was still alive (aged 135) in the first episode of TNG, which was set approximately 25 years before Renegades would be, and Chekov's about 20 years younger than McCoy (though I don't think McCoy looked early-40s in TOS). So with a little 24th century plastic surgery (which McCoy would never have stood for), no problem.
I get really confused that other countries are annoyed they get spied on. Do these other people actually trust their governments? Because that's weird.
You're implying that you don't trust your government, but aren't annoyed that you're being spied on. That seems weirder.
Slashdot Mirror
Nor did I until a few weeks ago.
Friend: "So, Lucy starts Twerking and..."
Me: "Wait, twerking?"
Friend: "Yeah. You know what twerking is?"
Me: "Uh... is it like a queef?"
Scottish Academic Mining the Moon For Helium 3 Is Evil
Why do you lock your front door when you leave the house?
In what sense is that "new-age"?
...but it got delayed somehow.
There's an excellent example of different falling rates at the beginning of GoldenEye, [wikipedia.org] where Bond falls faster than a light plane, gets into the cabin and pulls it out of the dive.
Yeeesss... while possible, I don't think I'd use it as an "excellent example." If we're sticking with the Bond universe, I'd go for Moonraker, where Bond slips out of Jaws's grasp by opening his parachute and suddenly falling much slower than Jaws is - mainly because it was a real stunt, not an effect.
You don't have to be "number one!" at everything.
"My favourite keyboard short-cut" was bad enough, but now we can submit any old made-up bullshit and get it posted as fact on Slashdot?
In a real way, the issue is not just why are women underrepresented in various technical/scientific fields, but also why are they over represented in others. More women are going to college after all.
The real issue is why does it matter so much? Do we really have to get an exact 50/50 gender split in every discipline before people will stop banging on about it? We should strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity regardless of gender (or race, or whatever else) but that is as far as our collective responsibility needs to go. After that you leave it to the individuals, and if fewer women show an interest in a particular area, so be it. Study that, if you find it interesting, but don't assume something must be amiss (or amister).
I wore mine 24 hours a day and got a skin infection... wait, too much information.
You got a skin infection from too much information? Hmm. Maybe that crusty orange lump isn't a cheeto...
The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever
Are you serious? This passes the Slashdot submission test?
Right, everybody, submit a story about your favourite keyboard shortcut. Go! I'll take Win+D.
That doesn't change the fact that this is the lamest excuse for a Slashdot story ever.
The best thing that can be done is a website can associate a browser with their a users session after they have logged out and cleared their cookies
So, kind of (exactly) like a cookie, then? What am I missing?
Okay, the server can't immediately identify you if all you do is fetch index.html, for example*, but it's pretty trivial for a server to correlate the user who fetches index.html with the user who fetches an image in index.html milliseconds later. HTTP requests don't exist in total isolation by any means.
*assuming it's not tagged, itself
ETags can be used to track unique users,[2] as HTTP cookies are increasingly deleted by privacy-aware users. In July 2011, Ashkan Soltani and a team of researchers at UC Berkeley reported that a number of websites, including Hulu.com, were using ETags for tracking purposes.[3] Hulu and KISSmetrics have both ceased "respawning" as of 29 July 2011,[4] as KISSmetrics and over 20 of its clients are facing a class-action lawsuit over the use of "undeletable" tracking cookies partially involving the use of ETags.
So you just put the same image on each page.
There's only man for the job - Michael Bay.
International Effort Could Put First Canadian On the Moon
Do the Canadians in general (and the one in particular) have any say in this, or are they just expendable?
If you're a layman, they are pretty indistinguishable [from the originals]. Of course, if you're a connoisseur and you look more closely, you can see the difference.
Wouldn't the same apply to a copy by an artist?
Oh, lighten up.
It is dire, having killed more than half of those who contracted it.
That's not a measure of direness by itself. How contractable is it?
(I'll make the obvious joke myself that it's highly contractable, since "MERS" has a lot fewer letters than "Middle East respiratory syndrome")
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Stargate Universe was canon-faithful. Doctor Who is still canon faithful (or as close as can reasonably be expected after fifty years) despite a pretty radical facelift when it came back.
McCoy was still alive (aged 135) in the first episode of TNG, which was set approximately 25 years before Renegades would be, and Chekov's about 20 years younger than McCoy (though I don't think McCoy looked early-40s in TOS). So with a little 24th century plastic surgery (which McCoy would never have stood for), no problem.
Who's saying the events are causally connected?
380 miles per second
.11c
Uh... no.
I get really confused that other countries are annoyed they get spied on. Do these other people actually trust their governments? Because that's weird.
You're implying that you don't trust your government, but aren't annoyed that you're being spied on. That seems weirder.