That's what I love so much about graphene. It was just sitting there all those years and nobody thought of it. I remember being in electronics class years ago when we calculated the size of a capacitor that could power an electric car for a certain distance. It was HUGE. Yet we all knew the formula for capacitance and nobody came up with even ultracapacitors. Finally with graphene capacitors are going to get an incredible leap in what they can do... and all that time it was right under our noses.
That scripture only makes sense when you know that the dead are not in heaven but "sleeping" like Jesus taught. As he said, those who believe in him, he will raise in the last day.
You know when one posts an app to the App store they are first required to fill out tax information including whether or not Apple should withhold for taxes.
Couldn't it be argued that app developers are in effect employees of Apple and already indemnified?
For example if IBM has a license to use a patent, and they call in an outside contractor to work on a project using that patent... you couldn't sue the contractor since he was working for IBM.
Ahhh... well you see NaCl really means Sodium Chloride or common table salt.
Sodium or Chlorine by themselves are toxic, yet when combined they cancel out each other's effects and make our food yummier.
This is how Google plans to use native code execution and direct GPU access together. True, separately they are dangerous and leave a computer vulnerable to hackers. Yet, when combined, incredibly they cancel out each other's effects and make the internet yummier!
One time I was in Germany touring a factory. We get in one part of the building and the guide excitedly starts showing me the model of the room. This particular room was simply a storage room for excess stock and supplies. And in the corner of the room covered with a plexiglass case is the model. It was really nice, had the exact same number of shelves, tables, and boxes.
The guide proceded to spend about 10 minutes pointing out exactly how each shelf had the same number of boxes arranged in the same position as the ones in the actual room. Yes and the boxes were proportionally the same size and colors. Notice how the shelves have the same labels as the actual shelves... and also notice how the....
blah blah blah...
Seriously. We're in the room and touring the model of the same room. It was quite surreal. Now... from the article.
Located in Hamburg, Germany, the model is based on Hamburg Airport.
That's right. And if you could have a cut off temperature like certain diodes with voltage then you could use it as a temperature regulator and build it into walls.
Ever since I was a kid I've dreamed of having a hot/cold pad. It only lets heat go through it one way, cold side painted blue, hot side painted red. Put it around your soda or beer can blue side in, it cools off your drink, remove when it's just right. Put it around your coffee or soup red side in, it heats it up.
It would probably need a special holding case otherwise your backpack would catch on fire while carrying it.:-)
Get a grip already, for fuck's sake! The data is scrubbed of personally identifiable data, and you'll be lost in the sea of 'targets' anyway. Nobody wants to know your address, you have nothing anybody wants!
I just lost a few gigs through a bad iDisk sync in the Finder. It synced a few files partway through, got interrupted and then resumed by syncing the partials BACK to the server. So the 5 or so files that it hadn't started syncing yet were GONE... and the partials overwrote the complete copies.
Yay.
And I'm going to trust them with important stuff? Not likely.
You're right that the fallacy plays a large part of it, but there's more to it when politics is involved.
The one who makes the decision to shut down the unprofitable venture is the guy who gets all the blame for it. Why take the risk at ruining your own political carrer when you can ignore the problems and hope it keeps running til the next guy has to deal with it? At long as you can keep things running mostly the same people see it as success, but the moment you admit the facts you become a huge failure.
Sure there are cases that may warrant a full on raid (expected high power weapons, drugs, etc.) but busting down the doors for porn?
I suspect it has to do with the fear that someone will wipe the hard drives before they have a chance to collect evidence. Perhaps computer crimes normally get this sort of blitz attack? I know back in the 80's they would raid places where suspected hackers might be, which of course led to the parody of it in the Hackers film.
I think it's because geeks are a lot like "objectivists".
They research something, they weigh the facts, and then make a concrete decision that's completely based on reason.
Normal people also do this... they're called opinions. The difference is how much evidence they require and how much they trust their sources.
Just about everyone believes that what they believe is correct. But a geek doesn't have an "opinion" it's ALL FACT. Never mind that they may have missed many important facts, got biased or incorrect news, forget that something seemingly undoubtable a few years back has since been debunked...
This disaster wouldn't have been nearly as bad if they had simply let the fuel rods melt instead of blasting the region with steam, xenon, and iodine.
Awwww... leave your geek card at the door.
Seriously, haven't you heard of the China Syndrome before? Nice old-school disaster flick that scared the crap out of everyone since the events in the movie took place almost exactly the same just 10 days after it's release.
But seriously, the term is based on the idea that it'll just burn through the floor and "keep going til it makes it all the way to China." That's a joke... get it? Hah.
But eventually it'll hit some water underground and blast out a ton of radioactive steam that can't be contained.
I can't remember the name of that stupid ape they had in California where the trainer was the only person allowed to interact with it and "interpret" it's signs.
There was an interview with it on AOL long ago where it's trainer said something like "She's happy to communicate with all you people" when the ape was just signing "nipple" over and over and trying to grab someone's boob.
Workers also quit and accused the thing of being obsessed with sex and always grabbing at them. I talked to some deaf who had a chance to see it at the zoo, thing would just do random signs that didn't make any sense. Definitely not up to language ability of a 3 year old human. Heck I've had conversations with 3 year old deaf kids.
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That's what I love so much about graphene. It was just sitting there all those years and nobody thought of it. I remember being in electronics class years ago when we calculated the size of a capacitor that could power an electric car for a certain distance. It was HUGE. Yet we all knew the formula for capacitance and nobody came up with even ultracapacitors. Finally with graphene capacitors are going to get an incredible leap in what they can do... and all that time it was right under our noses.
That scripture only makes sense when you know that the dead are not in heaven but "sleeping" like Jesus taught. As he said, those who believe in him, he will raise in the last day.
You know when one posts an app to the App store they are first required to fill out tax information including whether or not Apple should withhold for taxes.
Couldn't it be argued that app developers are in effect employees of Apple and already indemnified?
For example if IBM has a license to use a patent, and they call in an outside contractor to work on a project using that patent... you couldn't sue the contractor since he was working for IBM.
Ahhh... well you see NaCl really means Sodium Chloride or common table salt.
Sodium or Chlorine by themselves are toxic, yet when combined they cancel out each other's effects and make our food yummier.
This is how Google plans to use native code execution and direct GPU access together. True, separately they are dangerous and leave a computer vulnerable to hackers. Yet, when combined, incredibly they cancel out each other's effects and make the internet yummier!
I was afraid to ask as I didn't want to start the tour over again.
One time I was in Germany touring a factory. We get in one part of the building and the guide excitedly starts showing me the model of the room. This particular room was simply a storage room for excess stock and supplies. And in the corner of the room covered with a plexiglass case is the model. It was really nice, had the exact same number of shelves, tables, and boxes.
The guide proceded to spend about 10 minutes pointing out exactly how each shelf had the same number of boxes arranged in the same position as the ones in the actual room. Yes and the boxes were proportionally the same size and colors. Notice how the shelves have the same labels as the actual shelves... and also notice how the....
blah blah blah...
Seriously. We're in the room and touring the model of the same room. It was quite surreal. Now... from the article.
Oh no, not this again!
Thank you, I have now added a one-way hinge to my imaginary pad.
That's right. And if you could have a cut off temperature like certain diodes with voltage then you could use it as a temperature regulator and build it into walls.
Ever since I was a kid I've dreamed of having a hot/cold pad. It only lets heat go through it one way, cold side painted blue, hot side painted red. Put it around your soda or beer can blue side in, it cools off your drink, remove when it's just right. Put it around your coffee or soup red side in, it heats it up.
It would probably need a special holding case otherwise your backpack would catch on fire while carrying it. :-)
now hopefully certain distros *cough*ubuntu*cough* will stop requiring mono just so they can put in Tomboy. (Or is it the other way around?)
Next thing you'll know they'll claim an IP address doesn't correspond to a person or something.
Heh.
This is the same as how they put "Closed Captions" on youtube videos.
Google has no interest in crowd-sourcing the translation or transcription of speech, they want it all automated.
Which is why YouTube Closed Captions SUCK!
Somebody here hasn't seen "The Jerk"!
Perhaps you could sorta read that document .. in reverse?
Never know, a chiro could fix a lymphatic problem that lets a persons body heal itself when it otherwise couldn't.
Not saying leprosy would heal, but just the general idea.
I just lost a few gigs through a bad iDisk sync in the Finder. It synced a few files partway through, got interrupted and then resumed by syncing the partials BACK to the server. So the 5 or so files that it hadn't started syncing yet were GONE... and the partials overwrote the complete copies.
Yay.
And I'm going to trust them with important stuff? Not likely.
You're right that the fallacy plays a large part of it, but there's more to it when politics is involved.
The one who makes the decision to shut down the unprofitable venture is the guy who gets all the blame for it. Why take the risk at ruining your own political carrer when you can ignore the problems and hope it keeps running til the next guy has to deal with it? At long as you can keep things running mostly the same people see it as success, but the moment you admit the facts you become a huge failure.
Almost like the 90's when every bit of tech we had somehow owed Microsoft thanks for it's existence.
I suppose after the Apple phase everyone will praise Google for 10 years or so.
I suspect it has to do with the fear that someone will wipe the hard drives before they have a chance to collect evidence. Perhaps computer crimes normally get this sort of blitz attack? I know back in the 80's they would raid places where suspected hackers might be, which of course led to the parody of it in the Hackers film.
Lucy! Lucy! Where are you taking her??? :-)
I think it's because geeks are a lot like "objectivists".
They research something, they weigh the facts, and then make a concrete decision that's completely based on reason.
Normal people also do this... they're called opinions. The difference is how much evidence they require and how much they trust their sources.
Just about everyone believes that what they believe is correct. But a geek doesn't have an "opinion" it's ALL FACT. Never mind that they may have missed many important facts, got biased or incorrect news, forget that something seemingly undoubtable a few years back has since been debunked...
geeks KNOW.
Awwww... leave your geek card at the door.
Seriously, haven't you heard of the China Syndrome before? Nice old-school disaster flick that scared the crap out of everyone since the events in the movie took place almost exactly the same just 10 days after it's release.
But seriously, the term is based on the idea that it'll just burn through the floor and "keep going til it makes it all the way to China." That's a joke ... get it? Hah.
But eventually it'll hit some water underground and blast out a ton of radioactive steam that can't be contained.
http://wireheading.com/wirehead.html
take a trip to the ISS and be the first sales manager who's LITERALLY "Out of this World!"
I can't remember the name of that stupid ape they had in California where the trainer was the only person allowed to interact with it and "interpret" it's signs.
There was an interview with it on AOL long ago where it's trainer said something like "She's happy to communicate with all you people" when the ape was just signing "nipple" over and over and trying to grab someone's boob.
Workers also quit and accused the thing of being obsessed with sex and always grabbing at them. I talked to some deaf who had a chance to see it at the zoo, thing would just do random signs that didn't make any sense. Definitely not up to language ability of a 3 year old human. Heck I've had conversations with 3 year old deaf kids.
Painful.