They allowed it for a couple of the sessions I was in. One of them had an O'Reilly staff member in it, and a guy asked her if he could tape it and she said sure, as long as he didn't interfere with the actual session.
Reader bwcarty, too, calls "FUD" on claims that the list is indiscriminant or exclusively targets those with Arab names, writing "I work for a division of a large financial firm, and we are required to download a list of Specially Designated Nationals from the Treasury Department and compare names from it against new accounts and transfers.
I'm glad I come from good hearty Irish stock and my name won't be showing up on these lists.
The list includes lists of suspected terrorists, and they're not all Arabic (think Irish Republican Army)."
Sure, there are plenty of good American beers, but the vast majority of American beer drinkers don't drink them. Anheuser-Busch holds roughly 50% of the market, SABMiller takes about 18%, and Coors is somewhere around 15%. Add 'em up and you get about 83% of the beer drunk in America is from one of those three megabreweries.
Given that beer from those megabreweries is generally shit, one could very realistically say that American beer is indeed fucking close to water.
All I've seen is a replacement for the front page and general stories. What about sections like Your Rights Online or Games? Please tell me they're not keeping their garish colour schemes?
p.s. however, I ask you to consider, what would the affect on highschool average test scores be if you dropped the lowest six percent at age 14?
That's a stupid question. If you drop the lower end out, of course the average is going to increase. You may as well ask "what would the average be if we only counted the smartest student in the school?"
And because you can't come up with any sort of proof at all that there's at least one country that gets high averages in schooling their students and also eliminates the dumb ones at the age of 10, then your entire argument falls apart. Either produce some data or admit that you're talking out your ass.
And this blocks out the light needed for ground based telescopes that are a) situated ABOVE the clouds and b) are not on flightpaths.
I have two points to make here.
One: clouds go pretty high. The telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii are situated at ~14,000 feet. They get clouded out relatively frequently, roughly 20% of the time.
Two: Contrails form in the atmosphere. The atmosphere moves. Therefore contrails move, and can affect locations where there aren't any flightpaths.
If there are clouds you can't see through them. You can make the telescopes as efficient as you like, but if there's too much cloud (or, for some wavelength bands, water vapour) in the way, it doesn't matter how efficient you are because you won't get any photons hitting your detector.
Re:And the question on everyone's mind ...
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Try reading the article.
In terms of total amount of production worldwide, the scientists' first guesses are between 60 and 240 million tonnes of methane per year. That means that about 10 to 30 percent of present annual methane production comes from plants.
The largest portion of that - about two-thirds - originates from tropical areas, because that is where the most biomass is located.
Those three sentences pretty much answer all of your questions. Given the last sentence, one can infer that all plants release methane.
In terms of total amount of production worldwide, the scientists' first guesses are between 60 and 240 million tonnes of methane per year. That means that about 10 to 30 percent of present annual methane production comes from plants.
10 to 30 percent is a substantial fraction. Even if they're high by a factor of two, that's 5 to 15 percent, which is still substantial.
This should be used in other games...
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They should think about this for other games that are based on movies. For example, if you manage to score 500,000 points without going through any warp smokestacks, the Titanic doesn't sink. Or if you manage to kill everybody in Star Wars: Galaxies using only the force-grip-throw-off-a-cliff-or-into-a-wall thing you get to go back in time and slap George Lucas around so he leaves the movie industry directly after the release of Return of the Jedi to go live in a commune in Montana, sparing us horror of the Special Editions and the prequels.
You really sound like you're talking about two different things. First off, you say you want to learn better and more advanced web design. If this is the case, then you should check out the CSS Zen Garden for inspiration. Use that as a basis for learning about advanced CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) techniques, page layout, colour integration, and so on. They have links there for places you can steal from. Eric Meyer also has excellent ideas. A List Apart has excellent columns and tutorials.
Second, you talk about the alphabet soup of AJAX, XML, Perl, etc. This is web programming. It doesn't have anything to do with web design, it has everything to do with web content. I don't know about advanced web programming (I've done all mine in Perl, PHP, ASP, and ColdFusion, and those last two were five years ago). Others can chime in on that count.
...if we want Uwe Boll to stop making shitty video game knockoff movies, we have to go see one enough times so that it makes a profit and his financial backers lose money?
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They allowed it for a couple of the sessions I was in. One of them had an O'Reilly staff member in it, and a guy asked her if he could tape it and she said sure, as long as he didn't interfere with the actual session.
I'm glad I come from good hearty Irish stock and my name won't be showing up on these lists.
Shit.
That analogy would hold if you could only use PayPal to pay for items bought off eBay. Since PayPal is a general payment system, it doesn't hold.
A more accurate analogy would be if Sears owned Visa and banned MasterCard and American Express purchases.
That's not 3D, that's just the back side of a 2D object.
Sure, there are plenty of good American beers, but the vast majority of American beer drinkers don't drink them. Anheuser-Busch holds roughly 50% of the market, SABMiller takes about 18%, and Coors is somewhere around 15%. Add 'em up and you get about 83% of the beer drunk in America is from one of those three megabreweries.
Given that beer from those megabreweries is generally shit, one could very realistically say that American beer is indeed fucking close to water.
All I've seen is a replacement for the front page and general stories. What about sections like Your Rights Online or Games? Please tell me they're not keeping their garish colour schemes?
At this point? The ISS has been a money hole since before it was put up in orbit.
...it can work for you. Forward your phone to a call centre in India.
In other words, someone had a PDF of Starship Troopers, or Forever War, or any number of sci-fi books about space marines.
Fine by me so long as "I Got You Babe" doesn't start playing on my radio alarm clock each morning.
And from my limited poll of friends with Macs, the vast majority of them are programmers and not artists.
Anecdotal evidence is worthless at best when trying to back up your argument.
You must be colour-blind, because the Games section is the most eye-cringing section on Slashdot. That purple is absolutely hideous.
I guess jokes go over people's heads around here fairly often. :-)
The consumer likes acronyms. Look at the battles: VHS vs Beta. VHS won. CD vs... uh... MiniDisk. CD won. DVD vs LaserDisk. DVD won.
:-)
Alright, some of them weren't really battles, but there aren't many "battles" where a named format beat out an acronymed format*.
* and now dozens of people are going to come up with counter-examples. I urge moderators to mod them down as trolls.
Actually, goatadsl.co.uk is a legitimate ISP. I would have gone with them but their download rates are only 1.5 megableats per second.
That's a stupid question. If you drop the lower end out, of course the average is going to increase. You may as well ask "what would the average be if we only counted the smartest student in the school?"
And because you can't come up with any sort of proof at all that there's at least one country that gets high averages in schooling their students and also eliminates the dumb ones at the age of 10, then your entire argument falls apart. Either produce some data or admit that you're talking out your ass.
I suppose you're right, if by "relatively few" you mean "200,000 and counting".
..."the only winning move is not to play" gets smacked.
I have two points to make here.
One: clouds go pretty high. The telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii are situated at ~14,000 feet. They get clouded out relatively frequently, roughly 20% of the time.
Two: Contrails form in the atmosphere. The atmosphere moves. Therefore contrails move, and can affect locations where there aren't any flightpaths.
If there are clouds you can't see through them. You can make the telescopes as efficient as you like, but if there's too much cloud (or, for some wavelength bands, water vapour) in the way, it doesn't matter how efficient you are because you won't get any photons hitting your detector.
Those three sentences pretty much answer all of your questions. Given the last sentence, one can infer that all plants release methane.
10 to 30 percent is a substantial fraction. Even if they're high by a factor of two, that's 5 to 15 percent, which is still substantial.
They should think about this for other games that are based on movies. For example, if you manage to score 500,000 points without going through any warp smokestacks, the Titanic doesn't sink. Or if you manage to kill everybody in Star Wars: Galaxies using only the force-grip-throw-off-a-cliff-or-into-a-wall thing you get to go back in time and slap George Lucas around so he leaves the movie industry directly after the release of Return of the Jedi to go live in a commune in Montana, sparing us horror of the Special Editions and the prequels.
You really sound like you're talking about two different things. First off, you say you want to learn better and more advanced web design. If this is the case, then you should check out the CSS Zen Garden for inspiration. Use that as a basis for learning about advanced CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) techniques, page layout, colour integration, and so on. They have links there for places you can steal from. Eric Meyer also has excellent ideas. A List Apart has excellent columns and tutorials.
Second, you talk about the alphabet soup of AJAX, XML, Perl, etc. This is web programming. It doesn't have anything to do with web design, it has everything to do with web content. I don't know about advanced web programming (I've done all mine in Perl, PHP, ASP, and ColdFusion, and those last two were five years ago). Others can chime in on that count.
...if we want Uwe Boll to stop making shitty video game knockoff movies, we have to go see one enough times so that it makes a profit and his financial backers lose money?
Jesus, that's quite the kick in the head, eh?