Something about this stinks of... something. Corporate profit taking, perhaps.
In any case, considering the small number of situations this could help in, NASA shouldn't be complaining about budget cuts if dropping the billion or more dollars to prep a second launch is considered frugal.
If asking a basic skills test during an interview is there to weed out the 80% of people who claim greater IT skills than they have so you can hire out of the 20%, I wonder which group the OP is in if he/she refuses to take it?
These days the power used for a web browser and the broadband modem that's built into the laptop seem to be the biggest factor in usage for a large swath of business laptop users.
I suspect whatever power is needed for playing MP3's and keeping a browser up is typical for most non-business users.
My point was that you can register a custom car as a normal car.
If you want the benefits of registering it with a special plate or designation, you can, but in every state you can register a custom car as a normal use street legal vehicle.
Special categories like street rods and antique cars are used to keep from having to meet certain emissions and safety requirements that are not hard to meet but not necessarily aesthetic for the cars people tend to custom build. (Things like needing wipers for cars without a top, or catalytic converters on "hot rods" with straight pipes)
Its not hard -- people do it every day. I know literally dozens of people running entirely custom home-built cars on standard plates, and in many cases with mainstream insurance providers.
I'm not sure where you got your information, but its quite incorrect. If anything, guys I know who have done both custom cars and bikes have said the bikes are more of a pain in the neck to get VIN numbers for.
[annecdote] friend of mine knew how to speak some "klingon" and got into it with one of those staff actors at the bar. received a head butt and mock beat-down for his trouble.[/annecdote].
Good times.
I can't decide if I want to post a mocking reply or a "zomg, thats cool!" reply.
Tell you what, if anyone asks outside of Slashdot, I mocked your anecdote, but between you and me thats freakin' cool.
And then you have another language problem... how do you explain what the symbols mean?
In most cases the impact of a musical work is in details that would be lost on a simple mapping of notes to frequencies -- you need the instruments, you need the nuances that are learned by the musician and don't exist on the sheet of paper.
Really, one would've thought the reason music and film wasn't included is because... well, you can't listen to sounds or watch movies on an etched nickel disk through a 1000x microscope.
But DMCA rants are a sure path to karma here, no matter how irrelevant to the discussion they are.
I don't think anyone building these expects to ever have a net power output from them -- that's not the point. The point is to be able to say you built a fusion reactor, or as others have said to generate isotopes for other experimenting, etc.
IMO, a more important area of amateur and admittedly fringe scientific research around fusion and fusion-like reactions is the several hundred teams that still continue to this day to investigate what the heck is going on with low temperature fusion. Tons of progress is being made in the field, and some reasonable theories are starting to form. There's a lot of unknowns, but helium is regularly produced, neutrons are regularly produced and more interesting from a theoretical standpoint, lots of atoms are changing from one element to another...
Its like the 1700's experimenting with chemistry. Lots of people doing lots of very cool and interesting experiments and getting lots of very interesting results, even if we (humanity, not me personally) still don't quite get it.
IMO, its an aspect of science we miss in the modern world. These days we just assume we understand things pretty well and experimenting is about engineering or proving a theory. Its cool there are still areas of fundamental science experimentation going on where we just don't get what is happening and have no idea what might happen with the next variant.
You miss the point -- they are issuing a valid cert for an internal address.
"intranet" would be an example. Not intranet.mydomain.com.
Since your DNS will append mydomain.com automatically, it leaves you vulnerable to anyone who installs an "intranet" cert on a server they have spoofed into your DNS if you the browse to "intranet".
If "intranet" is an SSL VPN, then they can get in the middle and get your OTP.
Thats a very dramatic rant, but I really doubt US courts and the RIAA is going to end 50,000 years of the creation of music at the hand of human beings.
Although I see where you were going with it -- I'd have written almost the exact same thing on here, as it is a sure-fire way to get modded up.
The people writing the game, in most cases, are buying a library from a 3rd party.
There's not much of a gain to be had from that.
We used to joke about realtime ray tracing being two years away when I was in college.
Fifteen years ago.
The problem is, its always slower than rasterizing. You can get faster hardware, but as soon as you do people want bigger textures, higher resolution, more polygons and suddenly once again raytracing is too slow.
Even if solar systems configured like ours are rare, it doesn't suggest that is a problem for either the development of life or intelligence as we'd recognize it (and really is no problem for any other forms of "life").
A gas giant in the "habitable" zone may have multiple moons that end up habitable. If Jupiter was in Earth's orbit its entirely possible 2-3 or more of its moons would be habitable in some form.
That both increases the odds by having more places habitable, but increases the possibility of panspermia, so you could actually have greater diversity in that situation.
Science has a pretty good understanding of the physical basis for the neurological conditions that lead to theism when confronted with things that are not understood, or the natural tendencies for the brain to react in certain ways related to suspension of disbelief when presented with (and trained to blindly follow) authority figures.
Science can, and does in fact, say a lot about precisely why so many people so easily believe in something so patently ridiculous. It does say, in fact, a lot about why theism exists.
Science doesn't need to say anything about the existance of a supreme being because science can explain why you seem to think it should or shouldn't.
The GP is quite correct, even if modded down. The ability of a person to blindly accept things as plainly crazy and contradictory as the basis of all the common religions IS in fact a good indicator of a problem because it indicates a critical flaw in that persons ability to accurately judge information they are being given.
Theists are easy to control. Thats a bad, bad, bad thing when it comes to making rational decisions based on popular consensus.
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Something about this stinks of... something. Corporate profit taking, perhaps.
In any case, considering the small number of situations this could help in, NASA shouldn't be complaining about budget cuts if dropping the billion or more dollars to prep a second launch is considered frugal.
IntelliScreen isn't built with the Apple SDK. Its a jailbroken app built on the real APIs on the phone.
And if Jobs fucks it up and I lose my Intelliscreen, I'll be on my way out to Cupertino to shove my iPhone up his necrotic ass.
No, it just matters that you have more than one.
There's an LHC joke here somewhere ...
If asking a basic skills test during an interview is there to weed out the 80% of people who claim greater IT skills than they have so you can hire out of the 20%, I wonder which group the OP is in if he/she refuses to take it?
Hmmmm....
This place has been full of strange matter for a decade now ...
Most of that has gone online.
These days the power used for a web browser and the broadband modem that's built into the laptop seem to be the biggest factor in usage for a large swath of business laptop users.
I suspect whatever power is needed for playing MP3's and keeping a browser up is typical for most non-business users.
My point was that you can register a custom car as a normal car.
If you want the benefits of registering it with a special plate or designation, you can, but in every state you can register a custom car as a normal use street legal vehicle.
Every state lets you register custom cars.
Special categories like street rods and antique cars are used to keep from having to meet certain emissions and safety requirements that are not hard to meet but not necessarily aesthetic for the cars people tend to custom build. (Things like needing wipers for cars without a top, or catalytic converters on "hot rods" with straight pipes)
Its not hard -- people do it every day. I know literally dozens of people running entirely custom home-built cars on standard plates, and in many cases with mainstream insurance providers.
I'm not sure where you got your information, but its quite incorrect. If anything, guys I know who have done both custom cars and bikes have said the bikes are more of a pain in the neck to get VIN numbers for.
All nine of you are totally busted for pretending you read the article, since the link doesn't work.
[annecdote] friend of mine knew how to speak some "klingon" and got into it with one of those staff actors at the bar. received a head butt and mock beat-down for his trouble.[/annecdote].
Good times.
I can't decide if I want to post a mocking reply or a "zomg, thats cool!" reply.
Tell you what, if anyone asks outside of Slashdot, I mocked your anecdote, but between you and me thats freakin' cool.
And on top of that, mine IS set to Favorites and double clicking while locked goes to the iPod controls anyway. When unlocked it goes to Favorites.
Just wanted to point out that having a felony conviction doesn't necessarily mean somebody is an evil person.
Yeah, thats pretty much what I'd expect a felon to say...
(yes I'm kidding)
And then you have another language problem... how do you explain what the symbols mean?
In most cases the impact of a musical work is in details that would be lost on a simple mapping of notes to frequencies -- you need the instruments, you need the nuances that are learned by the musician and don't exist on the sheet of paper.
Nice rant.
Really, one would've thought the reason music and film wasn't included is because... well, you can't listen to sounds or watch movies on an etched nickel disk through a 1000x microscope.
But DMCA rants are a sure path to karma here, no matter how irrelevant to the discussion they are.
I don't think anyone building these expects to ever have a net power output from them -- that's not the point. The point is to be able to say you built a fusion reactor, or as others have said to generate isotopes for other experimenting, etc.
IMO, a more important area of amateur and admittedly fringe scientific research around fusion and fusion-like reactions is the several hundred teams that still continue to this day to investigate what the heck is going on with low temperature fusion. Tons of progress is being made in the field, and some reasonable theories are starting to form. There's a lot of unknowns, but helium is regularly produced, neutrons are regularly produced and more interesting from a theoretical standpoint, lots of atoms are changing from one element to another...
Its like the 1700's experimenting with chemistry. Lots of people doing lots of very cool and interesting experiments and getting lots of very interesting results, even if we (humanity, not me personally) still don't quite get it.
IMO, its an aspect of science we miss in the modern world. These days we just assume we understand things pretty well and experimenting is about engineering or proving a theory. Its cool there are still areas of fundamental science experimentation going on where we just don't get what is happening and have no idea what might happen with the next variant.
You miss the point -- they are issuing a valid cert for an internal address.
"intranet" would be an example. Not intranet.mydomain.com.
Since your DNS will append mydomain.com automatically, it leaves you vulnerable to anyone who installs an "intranet" cert on a server they have spoofed into your DNS if you the browse to "intranet".
If "intranet" is an SSL VPN, then they can get in the middle and get your OTP.
Thats a very dramatic rant, but I really doubt US courts and the RIAA is going to end 50,000 years of the creation of music at the hand of human beings.
Although I see where you were going with it -- I'd have written almost the exact same thing on here, as it is a sure-fire way to get modded up.
Get back into court, we now have clear evidence of a history of blatant defiance of property ownership and flaunting her stolen goods!
Like, you know, every product out there.
The people writing the game, in most cases, are buying a library from a 3rd party.
There's not much of a gain to be had from that.
We used to joke about realtime ray tracing being two years away when I was in college.
Fifteen years ago.
The problem is, its always slower than rasterizing. You can get faster hardware, but as soon as you do people want bigger textures, higher resolution, more polygons and suddenly once again raytracing is too slow.
I think he's running for president?
*waves bye to karma*
Even if solar systems configured like ours are rare, it doesn't suggest that is a problem for either the development of life or intelligence as we'd recognize it (and really is no problem for any other forms of "life").
A gas giant in the "habitable" zone may have multiple moons that end up habitable. If Jupiter was in Earth's orbit its entirely possible 2-3 or more of its moons would be habitable in some form.
That both increases the odds by having more places habitable, but increases the possibility of panspermia, so you could actually have greater diversity in that situation.
Thats actually quite incorrect.
Science has a pretty good understanding of the physical basis for the neurological conditions that lead to theism when confronted with things that are not understood, or the natural tendencies for the brain to react in certain ways related to suspension of disbelief when presented with (and trained to blindly follow) authority figures.
Science can, and does in fact, say a lot about precisely why so many people so easily believe in something so patently ridiculous. It does say, in fact, a lot about why theism exists.
Science doesn't need to say anything about the existance of a supreme being because science can explain why you seem to think it should or shouldn't.
The GP is quite correct, even if modded down. The ability of a person to blindly accept things as plainly crazy and contradictory as the basis of all the common religions IS in fact a good indicator of a problem because it indicates a critical flaw in that persons ability to accurately judge information they are being given.
Theists are easy to control. Thats a bad, bad, bad thing when it comes to making rational decisions based on popular consensus.
Well I suppose on those lines, as an American I'd like to say: I would not want to be judged by my country's history post 2000 either. :-S