We still look up the numbers in primitive hardware like the Game Boy, where it's just too slow to computer this stuff. It not as taxing though when you can access the numbers with electrons.
Dunno if this has been mentioned, but I've been using a Deer Park alpha bild for a while on OS X and it has much better three-button mouse support, which the older Firefox seemed to be lacking.
Scrolling with the mouse wheel still sucks though.
His whole argument is that he didn't like Final Fantasy X-2, and therefore Final Fantasy Is Dead.
And golly gosh, what is the reason? It must be Enix because the merger happened around the time that FFX-2 sucked. You want some real evidence? Come on, he's busy trying to make a point here!
But maybe this is just the current state of affairs for Video Game Op-Ed.
If the memory of an old man serves me right, graphene has long been used to describe the carbon sheets within any sample of graphite (it's why pencils are so good at writing: the sheets strip off). What must be new here is the ability to make individual sheets of graphene.
So many of the article's examples describe the decline in physics research, without emphasizing it as such. Maybe now that the cold war's over, it's just that nuke-inspired physics research does not seem so essential. I would have liked more emphasis on biological trends, which seems to me to be the next big thing.
I should apologize, since I didn't mean to imply an alternative far-reaching theory. I just meant that if any particular phenomenon has been explained by strings (or whatever the latest incarnations are) then it has likely already been explained far more succintly in QED, QCD, etc.
The math coming out of the subject may be interesting, but it is still mathematics. It seems very misleading, especially to the public at large, to equate it with all of the observationally-motivated science of the world. When Brain Greene says that the microworld is inhumanly bizarre, and then proceeds to list the various consequences of string theory, he is presenting possible truth from a false position of authority, despite the scattered we-think's and we-believe's that absolve him from all blame.
I don't mean to advocate the death of strings. Mathematicians wouldn't have rewarded Witten if the ideas were bunk. But are they science? I suppose that, in true string-theory form, it depends on how you define "science".
Unfortunately this is already being modded into oblivion, but it's a perspective that the media rarely shows. Many physicists feel that string theory is bunk science, and a few dare to suggest that it has only been kept alive by peer review.
And if I'm not mistaken, string theory has yet to predict or even support a single observation that hasn't already been done by another, largely simpler, theory.
Mitnick has called on retired hackers to come forward with their stories, offering a $500 (283) prize for the best story that makes it into the book, and a $200 payment for all stories that make the final draft.
You know what? Some people think that the current law is too draconian, and should be changed. This is small potatoes in the history of unjust laws, but it's still unjust in the eyes of many.
Sorry, didn't see this. The book is calles Paroles. As best I can tell, the Teacher's edition is idential, except the margins are annotated, and there is an extra 40 pages or so in the front.
Considering that humans did affect the ozone concentration in the stratosphere (which only the utterly ignorant would deny), your hypothesis that humans cannot affect the global climate is the true spin here.
For those keeping score, this guy is referring to the eruptions of Mt. Pinatubo and El Chichon, whose temperature altering effects are compared to a "gradual" climate change of 150 years.
But if you think that sporadic events are the same thing as gradual modifications of the chemical composition of the atmosphere, then you know more than the experts of the world. Congratulations!
I've been told that the propensity to produce fraternal twins is an inherited trait, unlike identical twins. Is this Chimera twin state also inherited, or is it a random mutation?
Funding towards the arts fulfills its intentions: a novel, play, sculpture, etc. is produced. The project has often already been approved, so you already know what you're getting. And it will be something that can be enjoyed by a sizeable fraction of the population.
SETI funding is put towards seeking something that, knowing what we know, would be phenomenally unlikely. And if there *was* contact, communication of any sort would be just as difficult.
Funding for the arts will produce something. SETI will produce little. Yes, there is that great seti@home network, but running climatological models could have also revealed similar technology. Instead, consider that mankind still has only the vaguest understand of how the atmospheres and oceans work, or even how fluids and solids behave, how the human body works, how the *mind* works, etc. A better understanding in any of these fields would have positive contributions to our way of life and our economy.
I see many readers here captivated by the notion of aliens or quarks, but I would hope that they would recognize that the excitement of these topics clouds their judgement. Let us hope that those with the wallet feel differently.
I saw a hotshot from Los Alamos give a seminar (at a conference on forest fire modeling), and he informed the audience, in complete seriousness, that they're going to connect a huge cluster of Playstation 2's, because they're high power and incredibly cheap, thanks to the price war.
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I had to mount my floppy drive to get Win2000 installed on a Serial ATA drive. I'd like them to die but they're not quite dead yet in my world.
We still look up the numbers in primitive hardware like the Game Boy, where it's just too slow to computer this stuff. It not as taxing though when you can access the numbers with electrons.
Dunno if this has been mentioned, but I've been using a Deer Park alpha bild for a while on OS X and it has much better three-button mouse support, which the older Firefox seemed to be lacking.
Scrolling with the mouse wheel still sucks though.
His whole argument is that he didn't like Final Fantasy X-2, and therefore Final Fantasy Is Dead.
And golly gosh, what is the reason? It must be Enix because the merger happened around the time that FFX-2 sucked. You want some real evidence? Come on, he's busy trying to make a point here!
But maybe this is just the current state of affairs for Video Game Op-Ed.
By the same logic, they may as well get rid of the US Postal Service. And yet, FedEx and pals seem to do fine despite the looming USPS.
Chirac is such a businessman... quel dommage.
One step closer to the Bene Gesserit
If the memory of an old man serves me right, graphene has long been used to describe the carbon sheets within any sample of graphite (it's why pencils are so good at writing: the sheets strip off). What must be new here is the ability to make individual sheets of graphene.
So many of the article's examples describe the decline in physics research, without emphasizing it as such. Maybe now that the cold war's over, it's just that nuke-inspired physics research does not seem so essential. I would have liked more emphasis on biological trends, which seems to me to be the next big thing.
I should apologize, since I didn't mean to imply an alternative far-reaching theory. I just meant that if any particular phenomenon has been explained by strings (or whatever the latest incarnations are) then it has likely already been explained far more succintly in QED, QCD, etc.
The math coming out of the subject may be interesting, but it is still mathematics. It seems very misleading, especially to the public at large, to equate it with all of the observationally-motivated science of the world. When Brain Greene says that the microworld is inhumanly bizarre, and then proceeds to list the various consequences of string theory, he is presenting possible truth from a false position of authority, despite the scattered we-think's and we-believe's that absolve him from all blame.
I don't mean to advocate the death of strings. Mathematicians wouldn't have rewarded Witten if the ideas were bunk. But are they science? I suppose that, in true string-theory form, it depends on how you define "science".
Unfortunately this is already being modded into oblivion, but it's a perspective that the media rarely shows. Many physicists feel that string theory is bunk science, and a few dare to suggest that it has only been kept alive by peer review.
And if I'm not mistaken, string theory has yet to predict or even support a single observation that hasn't already been done by another, largely simpler, theory.
Now if they could just show that string theory is a realistic, predictive theory, then maybe there's a story here.
Mitnick has called on retired hackers to come forward with their stories, offering a $500 (283) prize for the best story that makes it into the book, and a $200 payment for all stories that make the final draft.
Meanwhile, he makes $500k off book sales.
You know what? Some people think that the current law is too draconian, and should be changed. This is small potatoes in the history of unjust laws, but it's still unjust in the eyes of many.
Sorry, didn't see this. The book is calles Paroles. As best I can tell, the Teacher's edition is idential, except the margins are annotated, and there is an extra 40 pages or so in the front.
Here's my little story:
My French course's textbook was $100, so I went online and found the Teacher's Edition of the same text for $30. Amazing.
Considering that humans did affect the ozone concentration in the stratosphere (which only the utterly ignorant would deny), your hypothesis that humans cannot affect the global climate is the true spin here.
For those keeping score, this guy is referring to the eruptions of Mt. Pinatubo and El Chichon, whose temperature altering effects are compared to a "gradual" climate change of 150 years.
But if you think that sporadic events are the same thing as gradual modifications of the chemical composition of the atmosphere, then you know more than the experts of the world. Congratulations!
I've been told that the propensity to produce fraternal twins is an inherited trait, unlike identical twins. Is this Chimera twin state also inherited, or is it a random mutation?
When the fuck did New Scientist become an "established journal"?
Oh, he's become a victim of his own storylines. Lol.
Yeah, put him on the $2 bill.
Funding towards the arts fulfills its intentions: a novel, play, sculpture, etc. is produced. The project has often already been approved, so you already know what you're getting. And it will be something that can be enjoyed by a sizeable fraction of the population.
SETI funding is put towards seeking something that, knowing what we know, would be phenomenally unlikely. And if there *was* contact, communication of any sort would be just as difficult.
Funding for the arts will produce something. SETI will produce little. Yes, there is that great seti@home network, but running climatological models could have also revealed similar technology. Instead, consider that mankind still has only the vaguest understand of how the atmospheres and oceans work, or even how fluids and solids behave, how the human body works, how the *mind* works, etc. A better understanding in any of these fields would have positive contributions to our way of life and our economy.
I see many readers here captivated by the notion of aliens or quarks, but I would hope that they would recognize that the excitement of these topics clouds their judgement. Let us hope that those with the wallet feel differently.
I saw a hotshot from Los Alamos give a seminar (at a conference on forest fire modeling), and he informed the audience, in complete seriousness, that they're going to connect a huge cluster of Playstation 2's, because they're high power and incredibly cheap, thanks to the price war.
Don't worrry everybody! We can always turn to the Hurd! (Just as soon as they finish it)
He's the first person I've seen use a telegramaphone.