Because the fingerprint is more likely to be misread or mismatched than the entire genome. Previous methods of DNA fingerprinting were supposed to have low chances of false positives, but turned out to have greater than 1 in 1000 odds of a match due to poor estimations of uniqueness and lax laboratory standards when comparing samples.
It won't hold up to a more complete comparison, but it would be enough to get you arrested/charged with one of those crimes that ruin your life even if you are proven innocent.
From what I understand, the implants can only trigger particular frequency bands, so what you hear is far from reality. Granted, it's better than nothing, but if you want to spend your days listening to the world through a 32-band vocoder (basically) it's your choice.
You can get 32 bands now? Thanks goodness, perhaps by the time I need one, those models will be cheap enough. I was under the impression they were only up to 22 and most models were less.
And it's not like these things have to be done in separate titles. You could teach someone algebraic rules without ever exposing them to an X or a Y, while they were enjoying themselves, no less.
What, like making an RTS with races that builds units on either an geometric, logarithmic, or exponential basis? I think somebody may have done that, but I don't think they formalized the concepts as such.
You can't ask your fans how they like your shooters if you've never made a shooter before and you can't "reskin" previously successful education games if all educational games suck. The best you can do is find out why previous games sucked and say "don't do that", which isn't the logical equivalent to "do something both fun and educational".
If you hadn't quoted GP, I'd have thought you responded to the wrong post.
Yah, it would take him 2 minutes to find that reducing salt only affects blood pressure in 1/3 of people.
I was recently diagnosed with hypertension and the first thing we did was to reduce sodium in my diet, then a drug to remove it. Didn't change my BP at all, although the stress of having high blood pressure might've countered whatever effect it had:)
Just get a differential GPS survey beacon for your building, they're accurate down to a few inches. I imagine they only cost a grand or two these days. Oh, and a dGPS add-on for your GPS.
Even better(worse): work it out with the phone/camera mfgrs to subsidize a line of phones or cameras that automatically does this whenever you take a picture. Then it is on the original and thus appears everywhere.
Another reason is that Intel won't sell to stores smaller than, say, Amazon because they don't want to ship less than a truckload.
A good chunk of the "distributer overhead" covers the customer service, accounts receivable, and other staff that Intel doesn't have to handle, as well as the logistics to cover warehousing & shipping SKUs smaller than pallet size.
If they took over distribution to stores, prices wouldn't fall as much as one might think because Intel would take over those functions and charge accordingly.
I think you missed the part where it said ". ..a layer of urea crystals breaks down the waste into fertilizer, killing off disease-producing pathogens found in feces." The difference between shitting in a hole and burying this bag of shit in a hole is that the latter is not only sanitary, but it also helps crops grow.
So they just need to piss on top of it?
Or get their dogs to do so, as canines produce higher concentrations of urea than humans.
I once had a calc prof who was somewhat similar to your first example. He wasn't bad at math(multiple PhDs and I think he had a Erdos number of 4), it just was that he hadn't taught a class that "simple" in years.
First day, he came in a bit late and said "right, calculus... Let's see if I can remember". He then started scribbling on the chalkboard and re-worked calculus from scratch, like you or I might split a large check on a napkin.
After that he turned around, exclaimed "Well, that wasn't as hard as I remember it the first time around. Everybody copy this down, we'll discuss it on Wednesday", walked out of the room, hit what he thought was the elevator button, and then walked into the disabled women's bathroom after the automatic door opened.
About half the class dropped out before the next class, the rest hung on for dear life and, I don't think, were any worse for it. Or, at least, not after the TA told him that the syllabus only covered the left half of the chalkboard and gave us a sheet with the english translation of it.
The property issue isn't so much the problem as children. If two guys and three gals are married with one child, who gets the kid when the marriage dissolves? One of the genetic parents probably, especially if they stick as a pair.
But what if the genetic parents are splitting(from everyone, including each other) but the 3 remaining parents are staying together?
Usually when a parent and stepparent separate, the genetic parent gets the kids, but not-infrequently the unrelated parent will. Plus, past law generally prefers the most stable and providing environment, which would suggest the non-genetic parent triad retain the child, as they probably have more income and can still sustain the loss of 2 more parents before they are equal to a single parent.
Actually, if taken in the context of a defense against a high-adult mortality environment(or a high divorce rate) instead of certain members of one gender monopolizing access to the other gender, polygamy makes sense as a triad-or-higher relationship is more likely to have at least one pair of parents after a divorce than a regular marriage. They aren't guaranteed to have at least a surviving pair, as everyone may split, but regular marriage can only split into singles. Unless the custodial parent already had somebody lined up:)
And, of course, the group marriages may be more likely to split than regular marriages, but it doesn't take much to be better than the 0% of pairs from the 50% of (first) marriages that end in divorce, 67%/75%/etc of subsequent marriages, and however many of the non-divorcing marriages that end in death before the children become adults.
One of my grandparents got me a set of Weekly Readers from the years covering WWII. It was fascinating reading the kind of stuff they gave kids back then. The ads were hilarious, both for pricing and their writing compared to modern ads, and the articles ranged from funny to scary in their datedness and propaganda.
Yup, it'd only be their responsibility if they had reason to expect it.
A company I used to work for would take every Xth spool of cable, unroll it, then measure it because otherwise our suppliers would short. Usually just an inch or two but sometimes up to a foot per 100 feet. They kept doing it because, oddly, one supplier or another would start doing it again every few months.
Another company actually counted and reboxed nearly everything that came in to its warehouse because many customers hated being overshipped as much as undershipped, even we didn't charge as they had limited space and some of our products required costly disposal.
Preface: Ebooks are my preferred format these days, as otherwise my home wouldn't have any room left.
He's also talking about books with odd materials or peculiar shapes that change how it is interacted with. Also, books that can be made into non-books like those with tear-out foldable cardstock airplanes and pre-colored origami.
Stuff you can't do with an ebook, barring recreating them with some paper and a printer.
What, like when Stardock released their first couple games without any DRM? They seemed to grow pretty quickly for somebody without customers.
Although now that they're big, they've adopted some "no-need to crack" honor system DRM just to satisfy the suits.
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But back to TFA, I can't believe it didn't occur to Haselton that sending email to a site that has these ads is a bad idea that will probably get you on more spam lists.
Why on earth would you assume that he doesn't generate a single-use email address for such correspondence?
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Because the fingerprint is more likely to be misread or mismatched than the entire genome. Previous methods of DNA fingerprinting were supposed to have low chances of false positives, but turned out to have greater than 1 in 1000 odds of a match due to poor estimations of uniqueness and lax laboratory standards when comparing samples.
It won't hold up to a more complete comparison, but it would be enough to get you arrested/charged with one of those crimes that ruin your life even if you are proven innocent.
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You can get 32 bands now? Thanks goodness, perhaps by the time I need one, those models will be cheap enough. I was under the impression they were only up to 22 and most models were less.
But you can buy Xcom on Stardock. It runs in DOSBox, though.
It would be awesome for moving heat between layers, as it wouldn't heat the surrounding components as much as a metal via.
What, like making an RTS with races that builds units on either an geometric, logarithmic, or exponential basis? I think somebody may have done that, but I don't think they formalized the concepts as such.
Break into a new genre, not invent a new genre.
You can't ask your fans how they like your shooters if you've never made a shooter before and you can't "reskin" previously successful education games if all educational games suck. The best you can do is find out why previous games sucked and say "don't do that", which isn't the logical equivalent to "do something both fun and educational".
If you hadn't quoted GP, I'd have thought you responded to the wrong post.
And prevent anyone from ever having to endure a warm soft drink. Or hot beverages with the tiniest heat source, given enough time.
Alas, physics.
Don't bring a pointy stick to a banana fight.
Unless you are already up close, then you can probably get inside before the other guy will even get the banana out of its peel.
Yargh, where do you live? My blackberry data plan is only 30 USD more than just voice.
But unlike the Wii, if you'd rather just sit down and waggle the controller, you can't.
And if you happen to be missing a hand, you are probably out of luck. Well, unless it is a pirate game.
Yah, it would take him 2 minutes to find that reducing salt only affects blood pressure in 1/3 of people.
I was recently diagnosed with hypertension and the first thing we did was to reduce sodium in my diet, then a drug to remove it. Didn't change my BP at all, although the stress of having high blood pressure might've countered whatever effect it had:)
Just get a differential GPS survey beacon for your building, they're accurate down to a few inches. I imagine they only cost a grand or two these days. Oh, and a dGPS add-on for your GPS.
Even better(worse): work it out with the phone/camera mfgrs to subsidize a line of phones or cameras that automatically does this whenever you take a picture. Then it is on the original and thus appears everywhere.
Another reason is that Intel won't sell to stores smaller than, say, Amazon because they don't want to ship less than a truckload.
A good chunk of the "distributer overhead" covers the customer service, accounts receivable, and other staff that Intel doesn't have to handle, as well as the logistics to cover warehousing & shipping SKUs smaller than pallet size.
If they took over distribution to stores, prices wouldn't fall as much as one might think because Intel would take over those functions and charge accordingly.
So they just need to piss on top of it?
Or get their dogs to do so, as canines produce higher concentrations of urea than humans.
Absolute 0 is the coldest a material can get. You can have a temperature lower than 0 Kelvin, but it doesn't mean what you think it means.
I once had a calc prof who was somewhat similar to your first example. He wasn't bad at math(multiple PhDs and I think he had a Erdos number of 4), it just was that he hadn't taught a class that "simple" in years.
First day, he came in a bit late and said "right, calculus... Let's see if I can remember". He then started scribbling on the chalkboard and re-worked calculus from scratch, like you or I might split a large check on a napkin.
After that he turned around, exclaimed "Well, that wasn't as hard as I remember it the first time around. Everybody copy this down, we'll discuss it on Wednesday", walked out of the room, hit what he thought was the elevator button, and then walked into the disabled women's bathroom after the automatic door opened.
About half the class dropped out before the next class, the rest hung on for dear life and, I don't think, were any worse for it. Or, at least, not after the TA told him that the syllabus only covered the left half of the chalkboard and gave us a sheet with the english translation of it.
The property issue isn't so much the problem as children. If two guys and three gals are married with one child, who gets the kid when the marriage dissolves? One of the genetic parents probably, especially if they stick as a pair.
But what if the genetic parents are splitting(from everyone, including each other) but the 3 remaining parents are staying together?
Usually when a parent and stepparent separate, the genetic parent gets the kids, but not-infrequently the unrelated parent will. Plus, past law generally prefers the most stable and providing environment, which would suggest the non-genetic parent triad retain the child, as they probably have more income and can still sustain the loss of 2 more parents before they are equal to a single parent.
Actually, if taken in the context of a defense against a high-adult mortality environment(or a high divorce rate) instead of certain members of one gender monopolizing access to the other gender, polygamy makes sense as a triad-or-higher relationship is more likely to have at least one pair of parents after a divorce than a regular marriage. They aren't guaranteed to have at least a surviving pair, as everyone may split, but regular marriage can only split into singles. Unless the custodial parent already had somebody lined up:)
And, of course, the group marriages may be more likely to split than regular marriages, but it doesn't take much to be better than the 0% of pairs from the 50% of (first) marriages that end in divorce, 67%/75%/etc of subsequent marriages, and however many of the non-divorcing marriages that end in death before the children become adults.
One of my grandparents got me a set of Weekly Readers from the years covering WWII. It was fascinating reading the kind of stuff they gave kids back then. The ads were hilarious, both for pricing and their writing compared to modern ads, and the articles ranged from funny to scary in their datedness and propaganda.
Yup, it'd only be their responsibility if they had reason to expect it.
A company I used to work for would take every Xth spool of cable, unroll it, then measure it because otherwise our suppliers would short. Usually just an inch or two but sometimes up to a foot per 100 feet. They kept doing it because, oddly, one supplier or another would start doing it again every few months.
Another company actually counted and reboxed nearly everything that came in to its warehouse because many customers hated being overshipped as much as undershipped, even we didn't charge as they had limited space and some of our products required costly disposal.
Preface: Ebooks are my preferred format these days, as otherwise my home wouldn't have any room left.
He's also talking about books with odd materials or peculiar shapes that change how it is interacted with. Also, books that can be made into non-books like those with tear-out foldable cardstock airplanes and pre-colored origami.
Stuff you can't do with an ebook, barring recreating them with some paper and a printer.
I've got this CISC chip, has just 2 instructions: PHW and CLS.
Technically, I can do it in one line, but I like a tidy screen.
What, like when Stardock released their first couple games without any DRM? They seemed to grow pretty quickly for somebody without customers.
Although now that they're big, they've adopted some "no-need to crack" honor system DRM just to satisfy the suits.
Why on earth would you assume that he doesn't generate a single-use email address for such correspondence?