There are still things in HTLM3 that not every platform does.
It all depends on who has access to reference environments, money, access to the internals, and motivation to make the changes to make it work.
Microsoft, being buried in cash and having access to just about anything it wants to play with, and the only access to Silverlight, could easily set a goal of making it better propagated than similar functions in HTML5.
I think what it really wanted was for, somehow, people to adopt Silverlight and go "HTLM5, who needs that?"
Or -- and this is just a gut feeling -- they've finally got a few people on top of the software strategy pile who aren't constitutionally incapable of letting a standard succeed.
You'll note that this same story explains how things had already changed at GITMO, and that closing it isn't off the table, it's just buried under a pile of more important things that are backed up because his political opponents are more willing to destroy the nation than to let him succeed at anything.
Now, you can apologize, you can sulk off forever, or you can keep coming around acting like you didn't just have your ass handed to you. Seriously, you're an idiot.
Imams are forever coming up with rationalizations for breaking the rules in the Quran. If they can rationalize blowing up Muslim civilians as an act of Jihad, they can rationalize eating a ham sandwich at a Seder.
Yes, because at present the mole is defined as the number of atoms in 12 g of C-12. So if they want to define the kg in terms of the mol, they're going to have to fill out the rest of the digits in Avogadro's number first, and arbitrarily dictate that as the one true number for all time.
Which is fine, really, because the arbitrary determination that a kilo is the weight of one liter of water, translated to a platinum-iridium cylinder of some dimensions by some over-enthusiastic eaters of frogs' legs at some time in the past, is what we're going on now.
I for one am curious as to what the hell the Planck length has to do with it.
It's hardly a trade matter as no shipment of anything (other than platinum-iridium reference cylinders) has ever depended on that level of accuracy.
It's an anal-retentive comparative science matter. The only people who could care are those who come up with different answers because their nearest reference cylinder was not the same exact mass as someone else's.
The artifact system is not reliable and accurate, and certainly not easy to use. If you can't replicate the conditions of the definition in a remote lab, then the definition is bollocks. I mean, what if we lose these things?
The right way to do this is to reverse the definition of Avogadro's number. Instead of "Avogadro's number is the number of C-12 atoms in 12 grams of C-12," you say "Avogadro's number is exactly 6.022141500000000000000000x10^24 and that number of C-12 atoms is 12 grams."
Now anyone who can refine carbon and count its atoms can produce a 12-gram sample. Case closed.
Wasn't the reason we got a "Department of Homeland Security" that the intelligence system was disjoint and we needed a single office in charge of coordinating it all?
Bush led us down a lot of primrose paths in the years after 9/11. And, as I predicted then, little of what he did actually improved security, and much of what he did put us into a war that will likely last a century.
It doesn't take two years. It only takes one bill. I have no doubt that the Bush/Cheney junta pushed through a lot of stuff just before they lost control of the Congress. Remember, they're the party of corporate excess, and enriching Halliburton through its no-bid contracts were still their primary focus for policy decisions.
We have one. It's called Congress. And at one point it was an entirely novel idea. Now lots of countries have them. Because it works a lot better than what they had before, which was secret police that nobody could check up on.
Gitmo is still open because, it turns out, it's better to keep them where they are than to move them to somewhere (else) in the U.S.
And while it is still open, you can bet that the things happening there are not the same things that were happening while W was signing the signing statements.
You need the POTUS and SECDEF concurring. SECDEF is the one who tells POTUS we're under attack. If POTUS went to SECDEF and said "launch a nuke", SECDEF would look at POTUS and go "what the fuck?"
There's also the matter of illegal orders. The military personnel all the way down the chain to the jolly, candy-like buttons are responsible for knowing that what they are doing is not illegal, and for refusing to do it if it is.
If we're not under attack, or Congress has not authorized war, tossing nukes at other nations - or our own - is murder, hence illegal.
If we are under attack, or there is reason to go to war, everyone in the chain will know it and be in place to carry out their mission by the time POTUS is asked by SECDEF to authorize it.
We're not going to wake up some morning to find that we've nuked Canada because the Commander in Chief was sleep-talking in nuclear authorization codes to an evil Secretary of Defense.
However, the qualities of this planet that make it suitable for life aren't as simple as "well, look at it!"
The entire planet has gone through several phases of development (molten, crusty, wet, snowball, volcanic, tropical, tectonic, plus some not-so-planet-killer asteroid impacts) to shape what is now its ecology, and it's not showing any signs of being static yet.
So it would be egregiously inept, given this knowledge, to assume that other planets with sapient beings must exist.
However, the topic of the article is "habitable", not "populated with spacefaring aliens". But even then, "habitable" would have to mean "able to support generations of humans without terraforming or special adaptations." Still-suits or underground bunker homes, okay, because we do things like that to survive some terran conditions. But if you can't walk the surface and breathe the air and eat the agriculture grown in the open spaces, it's a no-go.
And here's a thing: plants like our planet because of the CO2 and the eons of humus. Which means you're going to need to find a planet that's already got a significant history of biomass (billions of years perhaps). And, as I said above, that isn't just a "well, look at it!" proposition, certainly not a "well, look at a few photons with particular spectra that bounced from it!" sort of thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, not really.
There are still things in HTLM3 that not every platform does.
It all depends on who has access to reference environments, money, access to the internals, and motivation to make the changes to make it work.
Microsoft, being buried in cash and having access to just about anything it wants to play with, and the only access to Silverlight, could easily set a goal of making it better propagated than similar functions in HTML5.
I think what it really wanted was for, somehow, people to adopt Silverlight and go "HTLM5, who needs that?"
Or -- and this is just a gut feeling -- they've finally got a few people on top of the software strategy pile who aren't constitutionally incapable of letting a standard succeed.
Here's Obama satisfying his promise as far as he's legally capable, and doing it in one of the first orders he ever signs in his administration:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/us/politics/22gitmo.html
Here's the fact of the constitutional separation of powers coming back to foil his promise 5 months later:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/us/politics/26gitmo.html?hp
You'll note that this same story explains how things had already changed at GITMO, and that closing it isn't off the table, it's just buried under a pile of more important things that are backed up because his political opponents are more willing to destroy the nation than to let him succeed at anything.
Now, you can apologize, you can sulk off forever, or you can keep coming around acting like you didn't just have your ass handed to you. Seriously, you're an idiot.
Imams are forever coming up with rationalizations for breaking the rules in the Quran. If they can rationalize blowing up Muslim civilians as an act of Jihad, they can rationalize eating a ham sandwich at a Seder.
"already broken a promise to close the place"
Right. You're a total idiot. You figure it out.
yup:
http://www.google.com/search?q=scanning+tunnelling+microscope
probably a way to speed things up using this, which is one atom thick:
http://www.google.com/search?q=graphene
Yes, because at present the mole is defined as the number of atoms in 12 g of C-12. So if they want to define the kg in terms of the mol, they're going to have to fill out the rest of the digits in Avogadro's number first, and arbitrarily dictate that as the one true number for all time.
Which is fine, really, because the arbitrary determination that a kilo is the weight of one liter of water, translated to a platinum-iridium cylinder of some dimensions by some over-enthusiastic eaters of frogs' legs at some time in the past, is what we're going on now.
I for one am curious as to what the hell the Planck length has to do with it.
Because, in a piece of delicious irony, our Storm Troopers don't use imperial units.
It's the amount that fits into a cube that has a side equal to N wavelengths of light from the relaxation transition of atom X.
Oh I just stepped on your dick!
If it takes any of them more than 30 seconds to find the solution, they're suck for physicists.
It's hardly a trade matter as no shipment of anything (other than platinum-iridium reference cylinders) has ever depended on that level of accuracy.
It's an anal-retentive comparative science matter. The only people who could care are those who come up with different answers because their nearest reference cylinder was not the same exact mass as someone else's.
By posting the same thing anonymously.
The artifact system is not reliable and accurate, and certainly not easy to use. If you can't replicate the conditions of the definition in a remote lab, then the definition is bollocks. I mean, what if we lose these things?
The right way to do this is to reverse the definition of Avogadro's number. Instead of "Avogadro's number is the number of C-12 atoms in 12 grams of C-12," you say "Avogadro's number is exactly 6.022141500000000000000000x10^24 and that number of C-12 atoms is 12 grams."
Now anyone who can refine carbon and count its atoms can produce a 12-gram sample. Case closed.
He's being facetious. He knows full well there is no god.
Wasn't the reason we got a "Department of Homeland Security" that the intelligence system was disjoint and we needed a single office in charge of coordinating it all?
Bush led us down a lot of primrose paths in the years after 9/11. And, as I predicted then, little of what he did actually improved security, and much of what he did put us into a war that will likely last a century.
by knappe duivel (914316) on 2010.10.29 10:52 (#34065212):
all that intelligence, and still they don't know god doesn't excist
Exactly right.
It doesn't take two years. It only takes one bill. I have no doubt that the Bush/Cheney junta pushed through a lot of stuff just before they lost control of the Congress. Remember, they're the party of corporate excess, and enriching Halliburton through its no-bid contracts were still their primary focus for policy decisions.
2007-present may be less egregious, but the party affiliation of the chairman in 2001 and 2002 was irrelevant.
90% of the people in this country wanted blood after 9/11, and with those odds, politicians had no choice but to comply.
We have one. It's called Congress. And at one point it was an entirely novel idea. Now lots of countries have them. Because it works a lot better than what they had before, which was secret police that nobody could check up on.
But will that pizza keep bin Laden from leaving his cave?
This.
Gitmo is still open because, it turns out, it's better to keep them where they are than to move them to somewhere (else) in the U.S.
And while it is still open, you can bet that the things happening there are not the same things that were happening while W was signing the signing statements.
Where is it incorrect?
You need the POTUS and SECDEF concurring. SECDEF is the one who tells POTUS we're under attack. If POTUS went to SECDEF and said "launch a nuke", SECDEF would look at POTUS and go "what the fuck?"
There's also the matter of illegal orders. The military personnel all the way down the chain to the jolly, candy-like buttons are responsible for knowing that what they are doing is not illegal, and for refusing to do it if it is.
If we're not under attack, or Congress has not authorized war, tossing nukes at other nations - or our own - is murder, hence illegal.
If we are under attack, or there is reason to go to war, everyone in the chain will know it and be in place to carry out their mission by the time POTUS is asked by SECDEF to authorize it.
We're not going to wake up some morning to find that we've nuked Canada because the Commander in Chief was sleep-talking in nuclear authorization codes to an evil Secretary of Defense.
1% accuracy?
This isn't even a single-order-of-magnitude accuracy guess.
Make microwave popcorn without a microwave oven?
You are correct. That would be a rash assumption.
However, the qualities of this planet that make it suitable for life aren't as simple as "well, look at it!"
The entire planet has gone through several phases of development (molten, crusty, wet, snowball, volcanic, tropical, tectonic, plus some not-so-planet-killer asteroid impacts) to shape what is now its ecology, and it's not showing any signs of being static yet.
So it would be egregiously inept, given this knowledge, to assume that other planets with sapient beings must exist.
However, the topic of the article is "habitable", not "populated with spacefaring aliens". But even then, "habitable" would have to mean "able to support generations of humans without terraforming or special adaptations." Still-suits or underground bunker homes, okay, because we do things like that to survive some terran conditions. But if you can't walk the surface and breathe the air and eat the agriculture grown in the open spaces, it's a no-go.
And here's a thing: plants like our planet because of the CO2 and the eons of humus. Which means you're going to need to find a planet that's already got a significant history of biomass (billions of years perhaps). And, as I said above, that isn't just a "well, look at it!" proposition, certainly not a "well, look at a few photons with particular spectra that bounced from it!" sort of thing.
this thing can turn on my webcam and upload the vids just because i clicked on a link?
let me ask, how do i NEVER get this add-on?