Even if it was to happen, the world is a very different place now. A self-replicating bit of RNA or some other precursor is made of things that "real" life wants to eat. Not really any possibility you can evolve from a replicator to something capable of defending itself from advanced life fast enough to avoid the replicator being eaten.
So, it could be happening all the time, but you're just not going to get a whole new form of life out of it, without some privacy and a chance to evolve.
There's no such thing as a good WYSIWYG any more. Unless there's something out there that will generate previews using Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari all in the same tool, and that tool is also an IDE that you're looking for.
Find a good text editor or PHP IDE and use tools like Chrome DOM Inspector or Firebug for Firefox to tweak your CSS and view its results in real-time.
I know its sort of taboo to mention it here, but Microsoft's Expression Studio Pro does that -- its both text, contextual and WYSIWYG editing for HTML, ASP, Silverlight, Javascript debugging, etc... and it has a feature "SuperPreview" that does some pretty nifty things including alpha blending the results of the various browsers so you can see exactly how each browser lays things out differently. I'm not sure it does Chrome.
Anyway, its not open source, and its not cheap, but a couple hundred bucks to save that kind of time is an investment that someone doing this professionally likely would find worthwhile, unless opposed on a theistic basis. If there's one thing MS does well, its tools.
Tests conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center in 1989 and elsewhere consistently show evidence of anomalous heat
There are plenty of ways "anomalous" heat can be generated during chemical/mechanical processes without jumping right to the conclusion that it must be two nuclei fusing - the same way that seeing something unknown in the sky does not automatically mean it came from some other planet.
This is true, but cold fusion research never really stopped, and there are a half dozen large labs around the world that have spent 20 years doing research, trying to figure out what is going on, even if there's no good theory behind the science yet. Discounting their work out-of-hand without a theory is just ignorant. There is vastly more published evidence *for* those reactions happening than against them, no matter what the theories might say. (And the variables that impacted the rapid set of tests that couldn't reproduce the P&F experiments are much better understood now -- according to published papers, the reproduction rate is near 100% in the last ten years.)
So the real electrochemists working on the problem don't claim to know *what* is causing the excess heat, but from a power generation standpoint, it kind of doesn't matter. They also have proven they're getting at least some transubstantiation going on, which suggests at least *some* of that heat is coming from nuclear processes.
Its weird (and strangely ignorant) that on this one subject, so many researchers take the "we don't know any way that COULD be happening, so lets not research it" position instead of the "something we don't understand is happening, and that is exciting to research" position. Even if it was a purely chemical reaction, there's something exciting about figuring out THAT, too!
So other than their currently operating Soyuz craft, the most recent entry on your list is over 40 years old. I understand the point you were trying to make, but you have to keep in mind that things change, and the current Soviet space program is not nearly as noteworthy as the space program you described.
You actually hit on the real difference there, in the mistake you made.
The current Russian space program is not nearly as noteworthy as the Soviet space program.
They're operating in a vastly different world now, and a vastly different political and economic climate. Its not the same space program. There's a continuity of people and facilities, to some extent, but its a total fallacy to pretend the current Russian space program has ANYTHING in common in that regard with the Soviet one. Its just fading echoes milking the technology and infrastructure as a means to making a profit for as long as it possibly can.
Laughable. (Apparently, so is their space program)
Well it's not like their joke of a space program put up the first satellite in orbit, the first man (and woman) in space, the first person to orbit the earth, the first moon probe, the first Mars probe, the first Venus probe, or the first space station--or are currently the only country in the world with the capability of launching humans into space. They're SUCH a joke! Let's all laugh at their weak-ass space program. Ha ha ha.
And the Italians had a massive empire. Your point?
China, ESA, and the US have the *capability* of launching humans into space. ESA and US may choose not to out of "safety" concerns with non-man-rated systems, but China has an active manned space program.
So... pretty much all your points are not really good points.
I'm fine with people saying evolution is the method, with a deity being the driving force. The issue is when they say that god created everything from nothing in six days around 6,000 years ago and any evidence to the contrary was put here by the devil to lure us away from the truth.
Then your position is no more supportable or rational than the people you claim to have a problem with. Both of you are wrong. Degrees of wrong is interesting from an academic standpoint, or when you want to mock someone, but wrong is, in fact, black or white. But you're drawing a line in a non-rationally-supportable position, so you're already on the wrong side of it.
This is just an example why you can't really 'argue' with a creationist. Anything you come up with, they can make a magic-fairy-dust argument that it's because God wanted it that way.
It isn't science.
And more importantly, it isn't rational.
But its just an arbitrary bar. Once you've stepped off the rational, any opinion is suspect. It doesn't matter if you pray to "god" when you're having a shitty day, believe in "intelligent design" or live in a compound having incestuous relations with 9 year old girls... its all a matter of degree. The path of rationality is very narrow, and once you step off it, and aren't willing to step back onto it, the rest is just haggling over price, as they say.
They're calculated from emissions readings at sample speeds.
That's why hybrids took a big drop in measured mileage a few years back -- the EPA tweaked the algorithms to better match the "normal" operation of a hybrid. But that's greatly benefits the cars that do less with the electric side, because the algorithms greatly overestimate the amount of contribution the hybrid drive makes. Thats why a lot of hybrids get a lot lower real-world numbers than their EPA rating, but some (like the Prius) are pretty spot on. (Guess which hybrid system was used by the EPA in determining the new algorithm!)
...to a computer, EVER, was through the Commodore 64 for me. I suppose this is true for many thousands of us ?
Probably millions, or tens of millions. It wasn't mine -- I had used a few others, particularly the older Atari systems that predated the C64, but in the mid 80's, the C64 was a VERY common computer for school computer labs. *That* is where most people at that time would've gotten their first experience with a computer.
Why is it that we non-USians know more about your country than many of you? When you turn 5 (mentally), get someone to explain how dimwitted your comment is and how much you have portrayed your ignorance.
Now, go back to your trailer and your cousin-wife, dumbass.
Hey, don't knock trailer-trash cousin-wives -- they can be all kinds of hot and dirty.
This is what ETFs are for. If the customer doesn't stick around, they have to pay $200+ to cover the subsidy that was given to them on their phone. There is no reason to lock phones at all because of this.
No matter what happens, the carrier will get paid back for the subsidy.
Strange, even the IRS can't manage to get 100% of the population to pay the taxes they owe. And you honestly think a cell company can economically justify seeking collections on all the people who stopped paying their bills without paying the ETF and took the phone to another network?
IMO, the problem isn't SIMlocked phones *in contract*, the problem is the hassle of getting the phone *unlocked* out of contract. The law should be simple -- when a particular device goes out of contract, the device is automatically unlocked. People with good credit should be able to request the unlock early, particularly for international usage. (Verizon will do that, for example.)
The US doesn't need to be within 5000 miles of Iran to wipe out their Navy.
Iran is a chihuahua nipping at the heels of a herd of elephants. Its cute, but pointless.
Irans threat to the US is directly proportional to the desire of the American people to avoid killing innocent Iranians. If they piss us off enough, we'll simply wipe the country off the planet. I think the American people no longer have the interest in a ten year occupation in a country and spending a trillion dollars. If Iran attacks the US's interest, I'd bet Iran can expect a VERY different reponse than happened in Afghanistan. Gas prices may go up temporarily, but not with the same impact the last ten years had.
If you live in that country you may as well just stop using the internet completely then, since it's effectively not the internet anymore, just an extremely small walled garden. Anyone want to take bets on exactly how many weeks this continues before they rescind it? A move like this couldn't be good for any country's economy.
Maybe I misread it, but it sounded to me like Belarus companies have to use Belarus domains -- you can't run a site on ilovebelarus.com if you're a Belarus company, but a Belarus citizen can use any non-Belarus sites they want on any URL they want.
Thankfully real scientists know theres no correlation between pirates and global warming, just as real scientists know the correlation here is plausable enough to warrant being careful.
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Even if it was to happen, the world is a very different place now. A self-replicating bit of RNA or some other precursor is made of things that "real" life wants to eat. Not really any possibility you can evolve from a replicator to something capable of defending itself from advanced life fast enough to avoid the replicator being eaten.
So, it could be happening all the time, but you're just not going to get a whole new form of life out of it, without some privacy and a chance to evolve.
There's no such thing as a good WYSIWYG any more. Unless there's something out there that will generate previews using Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari all in the same tool, and that tool is also an IDE that you're looking for.
Find a good text editor or PHP IDE and use tools like Chrome DOM Inspector or Firebug for Firefox to tweak your CSS and view its results in real-time.
I know its sort of taboo to mention it here, but Microsoft's Expression Studio Pro does that -- its both text, contextual and WYSIWYG editing for HTML, ASP, Silverlight, Javascript debugging, etc ... and it has a feature "SuperPreview" that does some pretty nifty things including alpha blending the results of the various browsers so you can see exactly how each browser lays things out differently. I'm not sure it does Chrome.
Anyway, its not open source, and its not cheap, but a couple hundred bucks to save that kind of time is an investment that someone doing this professionally likely would find worthwhile, unless opposed on a theistic basis. If there's one thing MS does well, its tools.
Tests conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center in 1989 and elsewhere consistently show evidence of anomalous heat
There are plenty of ways "anomalous" heat can be generated during chemical/mechanical processes without jumping right to the conclusion that it must be two nuclei fusing - the same way that seeing something unknown in the sky does not automatically mean it came from some other planet.
This is true, but cold fusion research never really stopped, and there are a half dozen large labs around the world that have spent 20 years doing research, trying to figure out what is going on, even if there's no good theory behind the science yet. Discounting their work out-of-hand without a theory is just ignorant. There is vastly more published evidence *for* those reactions happening than against them, no matter what the theories might say. (And the variables that impacted the rapid set of tests that couldn't reproduce the P&F experiments are much better understood now -- according to published papers, the reproduction rate is near 100% in the last ten years.)
So the real electrochemists working on the problem don't claim to know *what* is causing the excess heat, but from a power generation standpoint, it kind of doesn't matter. They also have proven they're getting at least some transubstantiation going on, which suggests at least *some* of that heat is coming from nuclear processes.
Its weird (and strangely ignorant) that on this one subject, so many researchers take the "we don't know any way that COULD be happening, so lets not research it" position instead of the "something we don't understand is happening, and that is exciting to research" position. Even if it was a purely chemical reaction, there's something exciting about figuring out THAT, too!
What could possibly go wrong . . .
Michael Bay is inspired for a new movie?
Or they're using it to more definitively track the clicks out, even if people have Javascript disabled.
In fact, it has always surprised me that "trick" worked with their links precisely for that reason.
So other than their currently operating Soyuz craft, the most recent entry on your list is over 40 years old. I understand the point you were trying to make, but you have to keep in mind that things change, and the current Soviet space program is not nearly as noteworthy as the space program you described.
You actually hit on the real difference there, in the mistake you made.
The current Russian space program is not nearly as noteworthy as the Soviet space program.
They're operating in a vastly different world now, and a vastly different political and economic climate. Its not the same space program. There's a continuity of people and facilities, to some extent, but its a total fallacy to pretend the current Russian space program has ANYTHING in common in that regard with the Soviet one. Its just fading echoes milking the technology and infrastructure as a means to making a profit for as long as it possibly can.
Laughable. (Apparently, so is their space program)
Well it's not like their joke of a space program put up the first satellite in orbit, the first man (and woman) in space, the first person to orbit the earth, the first moon probe, the first Mars probe, the first Venus probe, or the first space station--or are currently the only country in the world with the capability of launching humans into space. They're SUCH a joke! Let's all laugh at their weak-ass space program. Ha ha ha.
And the Italians had a massive empire. Your point?
China, ESA, and the US have the *capability* of launching humans into space. ESA and US may choose not to out of "safety" concerns with non-man-rated systems, but China has an active manned space program.
So... pretty much all your points are not really good points.
"I'm fine with people saying evolution is the method, with a deity being the driving force."
That is an rationally unsupportable stance.
I'm fine with people saying evolution is the method, with a deity being the driving force. The issue is when they say that god created everything from nothing in six days around 6,000 years ago and any evidence to the contrary was put here by the devil to lure us away from the truth.
Then your position is no more supportable or rational than the people you claim to have a problem with. Both of you are wrong. Degrees of wrong is interesting from an academic standpoint, or when you want to mock someone, but wrong is, in fact, black or white. But you're drawing a line in a non-rationally-supportable position, so you're already on the wrong side of it.
This is just an example why you can't really 'argue' with a creationist. Anything you come up with, they can make a magic-fairy-dust argument that it's because God wanted it that way.
It isn't science.
And more importantly, it isn't rational.
But its just an arbitrary bar. Once you've stepped off the rational, any opinion is suspect. It doesn't matter if you pray to "god" when you're having a shitty day, believe in "intelligent design" or live in a compound having incestuous relations with 9 year old girls ... its all a matter of degree. The path of rationality is very narrow, and once you step off it, and aren't willing to step back onto it, the rest is just haggling over price, as they say.
For some reason, the cops always assume I'm speeding when I do.
They're calculated from emissions readings at sample speeds.
That's why hybrids took a big drop in measured mileage a few years back -- the EPA tweaked the algorithms to better match the "normal" operation of a hybrid. But that's greatly benefits the cars that do less with the electric side, because the algorithms greatly overestimate the amount of contribution the hybrid drive makes. Thats why a lot of hybrids get a lot lower real-world numbers than their EPA rating, but some (like the Prius) are pretty spot on. (Guess which hybrid system was used by the EPA in determining the new algorithm!)
The Slashdot community is for the most part logically and scientifically oriented.
You must be new here.
EPA doesn't even do actual MPG testing -- they calculate the mileage numbers based on a set of readings taken from the car during other tests.
For all kinds of cars the energy efficiency is measured in ideal conditions and quite often is very far from what you get in real life.
Wrong, for all kinds of cars, the energy efficiency is calculated. The numbers on the sticker (in the US, at least) are *not* measured numbers.
Do you have a globe? Alaska isn't close enough to the pole for the desired purpose.
This is the US, we haven't been able to afford globes for classrooms since the '60s.
Nokia already said that they won't sell their smartphone division several hours ago. Why is this rumor still echoed on slashdot?
Because it gets ad views. Duh.
No idea if Commodore had that sort of a program -- at those prices, it hardly mattered.
Our school had a typing/computer lab with C64s, and a hand-ful of Apple II's on carts that classrooms could use.
Always struck me as stupid to do typing classes on a Commodore 64 -- the keyboard was just stupidly high off the table.
...to a computer, EVER, was through the Commodore 64 for me. I suppose this is true for many thousands of us ?
Probably millions, or tens of millions. It wasn't mine -- I had used a few others, particularly the older Atari systems that predated the C64, but in the mid 80's, the C64 was a VERY common computer for school computer labs. *That* is where most people at that time would've gotten their first experience with a computer.
Then stop telling jokes about us.
Jerk.
Why is it that we non-USians know more about your country than many of you? When you turn 5 (mentally), get someone to explain how dimwitted your comment is and how much you have portrayed your ignorance.
Now, go back to your trailer and your cousin-wife, dumbass.
Hey, don't knock trailer-trash cousin-wives -- they can be all kinds of hot and dirty.
This is what ETFs are for. If the customer doesn't stick around, they have to pay $200+ to cover the subsidy that was given to them on their phone. There is no reason to lock phones at all because of this.
No matter what happens, the carrier will get paid back for the subsidy.
Strange, even the IRS can't manage to get 100% of the population to pay the taxes they owe. And you honestly think a cell company can economically justify seeking collections on all the people who stopped paying their bills without paying the ETF and took the phone to another network?
IMO, the problem isn't SIMlocked phones *in contract*, the problem is the hassle of getting the phone *unlocked* out of contract. The law should be simple -- when a particular device goes out of contract, the device is automatically unlocked. People with good credit should be able to request the unlock early, particularly for international usage. (Verizon will do that, for example.)
The US doesn't need to be within 5000 miles of Iran to wipe out their Navy.
Iran is a chihuahua nipping at the heels of a herd of elephants. Its cute, but pointless.
Irans threat to the US is directly proportional to the desire of the American people to avoid killing innocent Iranians. If they piss us off enough, we'll simply wipe the country off the planet. I think the American people no longer have the interest in a ten year occupation in a country and spending a trillion dollars. If Iran attacks the US's interest, I'd bet Iran can expect a VERY different reponse than happened in Afghanistan. Gas prices may go up temporarily, but not with the same impact the last ten years had.
If you live in that country you may as well just stop using the internet completely then, since it's effectively not the internet anymore, just an extremely small walled garden. Anyone want to take bets on exactly how many weeks this continues before they rescind it? A move like this couldn't be good for any country's economy.
Maybe I misread it, but it sounded to me like Belarus companies have to use Belarus domains -- you can't run a site on ilovebelarus.com if you're a Belarus company, but a Belarus citizen can use any non-Belarus sites they want on any URL they want.
And ppl do not understand why I WANT us to continue drilling all over USA.
I suspect its more likely that people don't care.
Anyone have that graph handy?
Thankfully real scientists know theres no correlation between pirates and global warming, just as real scientists know the correlation here is plausable enough to warrant being careful.