Historical measurements of the galactic core's thickness by noted astronomer Monty Python resulted in a value of 16,000 light years, much closer to 12,000 than the previously accepted 6,000. The new light shed on this ancient knowledge should remind us all of Eristosthenes' measurement of the of the circumference of the earth, later confirmed to within 1%. Of course, less well known were Eristosthenes' dialogues on the Iberian Inquisition.
Yeah, I noticed these changes last night right before I went to bed. It is, simply put, damn creepy. Obviously all of the information given by the news feed would be normally available to the attentive and compulsive facebook browser, but having it all summarized is just bizzare. Person X has joined the "Asexual Students" club. Person Y has endorsed this candidate. I guess it's a little less weird when it's not simply a list of everything my school acquaintances have done in the last 24 hours.
How is this news? I remember reading about this in 2000 or so, and they don't seem to have much more information now than they did then. Why did this get posted? Don't get me wrong, I think this is an extremely interesting little bit of geologic investigation, but the article doesn't have anything new other than that it "is still growing".
Nah, it's condensation on the aircraft camera lens. That's why it appears at regular intervals along straight paths. The airplane flies straight and takes pictures every so often as it goes. It doesn't happen all of the time because there isn't supposed to be condensation; their housing must have leaked. Sorry.
(Come on, if they were UFOs, they would have to be BETWEEN the plane and the ground. Unlikely.)
If that were the case, it would be extraordinarly easy to measure. Just compare the number of degrees wide the moon is now with the literature figure. If it's different, you're right. My hunch is that this has been done and they were the same, since such an obvious example of relativity would draw attention in the physics/astro community. In short, I call BS, and challenge anyone to take that (easy to obtain) data and prove me wrong.
I know that my dad, who is a groundwater hydrologist, is personally convinced that the Deschutes Brewery in central Oregon benefits greatly from the quality of the water that they use. Since he is extremely familiar with both beer and water, I tend to believe him.
No, it is not morally equivalent, because with the exception of how it was obtained, you are using the music exactly how it was intended when first created by the artist. If you use GPL code in your own closed source application, you are using it in a way the author didn't intend. If you are listening to music from Napster, you are doing exactly what the musician wanted you to do with it. Your GPL example is more akin to buying a CD and then breaking it in half and stabbing someone with it.
I followed the directions given here for installing PithHelmet on Safari v125. It seems to install ok, although I did end up having to use Pacifist. However, when I start Safari, it tells me that that this version of PithHelmet is untested with Safari v125 and won't run. It is installed; it shows up in the Safari preferences. It just checks the Safari version when it loads too. It seems like cool software, but I think I'll wait until they have an official patch out, unless there are any other suggestions here of what to do.
So, you admit that your comment has nothing to do with this at all, since the legal dispute is over specifically anti-Haitian portions of the game that certain community members feel to be discriminatory. I am familiar with this Stalin character, but no games come to mind in which you play a Soviet soldier defending the purges from the attacking peasants.
Not meaning to rant angrily here, but what did that reply have to do with anything?
So if this would possibly fall under hate crime legislation, what would become of games like RtCW, where in multiplayer you can play on a team that killed a lot more people than any organized crime group, real or fictional. (Note: unlike the GTA Capos, the Nazis *actually* killed people, too) Would the makers of movies like American History X be similarly liable, since there were characters that encouraged hateful activity?
You know, characters in Fight Club really seemed to suggest that destroying skyscrapers is a good idea. Does that mean Paulahniuk (or whoever adapted the screenplay in the case of the movie) could be prosecuted under anti-terrorism laws?
As has been said already, it's a game(/movie/book)!! Get over it!
I think I'm going to prosecute the makers of Railroad Tycoon, since we all know that railroads were built largely with immigrant labor working under harsh conditions. Do we want people to get the idea that we want harsh working conditions (or for that matter, immigrants) in this country??
That just means that if you were, in fact, able to drive your car through their rubidium medium, it might produce somthing akin to cherenkov radiation, another example of massive particles traveling faster than c/n.
Ooooooo, pictures of ash. Exciting. The only good pictures I have are from last year, when the hills were on fire, and those are definitely off topic.....
Well, everything outside (here in Claremont) is covered with ash. Everything. The bottom of my skateboard is covered with a thin layer, and my bearings are starting to sound bad. Other than that, it just smells like a campfire outside now. Saturday night, though, was terrible. Big flakes of ash were falling that seemed to always land right in your eye. It was getting pretty depressing for a while. I hope it keeps getting better; I'm sick of not being able to go outside barefoot.
This doesn't do much good in San Diego, but for readers further north in Los Angeles County, this site has a lot of helpful info on the Grand Prix fire . It seems to be updated pretty frequently, too.
Eh, nothing new. I did this last year with a red cup of ice house and a handful of Skittles. They imparted a bit of flavor to the beer, which was not necessarily a bad thing. I can confirm that the skittles do turn to round white blobs in the beer. Unfortunately, (and perhaps obviously) it was not my first drink of the evening, and I forgot about it just as I was getting to the bottom of the glass. Something they failed to mention is that by morning, the skittles completely dissolve, leaving a gooey white layer on top of the flat, warm, beer. I can not comment on the flavor of the skittles at that point, since I had sobered up and was wondering what the hell I had been thinking.
OK, if a gigabyte is *really* 10^3 MB, then why does my 200GB hard drive read as only 186GB (in OS X)? They define it the "better" way when they are selling it to make it seem bigger, but their own OS uses the binary definition rather than the decimal definition. That seems to close it right there; Apple's own OS is telling me that they are being misleading.
This brings up another interesting point. My dad owns the Blade Runner soundtrack on LP. Last night, I downloaded the mp3 and sent it to him. Obviously I'm not supposed to have it (I have since deleted said mp3), but is it illegal for him to have it? He should have the right to listen to the song, since he bought the record, and can legally rip it to mp3 for himself. (Is THAT even right?) So is obtaining a copy that he himself did not rip a violation? Assuming that transferring songs that you own from one format to another is legal (i.e. a tape of a CD for purely personal use), does the law say that you yourself have to transfer it, or can you get it from another source?
So, people are probably wondering "Why doesn't AOL just open an online music store like Apple and integrate it into their browser?" Simple. AOL is too damn slow, and they know it. It would take *years* to download a cd from them.
(Plus, as was already noted many times above, they are already good at making a lot of CDs.)
Well, looking at my shelf now, I think pretty much anything by Stephen Jay Gould is a sure bet. His collections of essays (eg The Panda's Thumb, Ever Since Darwin) are the best evolutionary discussions I have come across, if that is what you're interested in.
Another good book is The Whole Shebang, by Timothy Ferris. It's a good introduction to various aspects of cosmology and astrophysics. I haven't read it for over a year, so I really can't go into more specifics. Definitely worth a look.
Hawking is good, but I'm sure everyone else will tell you that too. I've read a couple books by Carl Sagan, but I can't remember much about them, including the titles. They were definitely a good read, though.
No other titles are coming to mind, for some reason. Hope this helps!
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Certainly not the first Pixar/Lego crossover: http://tinyurl.com/25k99l8 (As seen in the Pixar lobby)
Oops, Eratosthenes. I noticed that ff highlighted it as a spelling error, but I figured, there's no way he can be in the dictionary...
Historical measurements of the galactic core's thickness by noted astronomer Monty Python resulted in a value of 16,000 light years, much closer to 12,000 than the previously accepted 6,000. The new light shed on this ancient knowledge should remind us all of Eristosthenes' measurement of the of the circumference of the earth, later confirmed to within 1%. Of course, less well known were Eristosthenes' dialogues on the Iberian Inquisition.
CLAP
CLAP
(Would have been more dramatic in all caps, but the filted doesn't like it.)
Yeah, I noticed these changes last night right before I went to bed. It is, simply put, damn creepy. Obviously all of the information given by the news feed would be normally available to the attentive and compulsive facebook browser, but having it all summarized is just bizzare. Person X has joined the "Asexual Students" club. Person Y has endorsed this candidate. I guess it's a little less weird when it's not simply a list of everything my school acquaintances have done in the last 24 hours.
How is this news? I remember reading about this in 2000 or so, and they don't seem to have much more information now than they did then. Why did this get posted? Don't get me wrong, I think this is an extremely interesting little bit of geologic investigation, but the article doesn't have anything new other than that it "is still growing".
Nah, it's condensation on the aircraft camera lens. That's why it appears at regular intervals along straight paths. The airplane flies straight and takes pictures every so often as it goes. It doesn't happen all of the time because there isn't supposed to be condensation; their housing must have leaked. Sorry.
(Come on, if they were UFOs, they would have to be BETWEEN the plane and the ground. Unlikely.)
If that were the case, it would be extraordinarly easy to measure. Just compare the number of degrees wide the moon is now with the literature figure. If it's different, you're right. My hunch is that this has been done and they were the same, since such an obvious example of relativity would draw attention in the physics/astro community. In short, I call BS, and challenge anyone to take that (easy to obtain) data and prove me wrong.
Smoke detector.
Yes, my laptop is fine now, but it was a rough couple of weeks.
I know that my dad, who is a groundwater hydrologist, is personally convinced that the Deschutes Brewery in central Oregon benefits greatly from the quality of the water that they use. Since he is extremely familiar with both beer and water, I tend to believe him.
No, it is not morally equivalent, because with the exception of how it was obtained, you are using the music exactly how it was intended when first created by the artist. If you use GPL code in your own closed source application, you are using it in a way the author didn't intend. If you are listening to music from Napster, you are doing exactly what the musician wanted you to do with it. Your GPL example is more akin to buying a CD and then breaking it in half and stabbing someone with it.
(I should point out that the sun has an apparent magnitude of only around -26, so minus infinity is a pretty damn bright comet.)
I followed the directions given here for installing PithHelmet on Safari v125. It seems to install ok, although I did end up having to use Pacifist. However, when I start Safari, it tells me that that this version of PithHelmet is untested with Safari v125 and won't run. It is installed; it shows up in the Safari preferences. It just checks the Safari version when it loads too. It seems like cool software, but I think I'll wait until they have an official patch out, unless there are any other suggestions here of what to do.
Here is the direct link. Just look in the source, man.
Not meaning to rant angrily here, but what did that reply have to do with anything?
You know, characters in Fight Club really seemed to suggest that destroying skyscrapers is a good idea. Does that mean Paulahniuk (or whoever adapted the screenplay in the case of the movie) could be prosecuted under anti-terrorism laws?
As has been said already, it's a game(/movie/book)!! Get over it!
I think I'm going to prosecute the makers of Railroad Tycoon, since we all know that railroads were built largely with immigrant labor working under harsh conditions. Do we want people to get the idea that we want harsh working conditions (or for that matter, immigrants) in this country??
That just means that if you were, in fact, able to drive your car through their rubidium medium, it might produce somthing akin to cherenkov radiation, another example of massive particles traveling faster than c/n.
Ooooooo, pictures of ash. Exciting. The only good pictures I have are from last year, when the hills were on fire, and those are definitely off topic.....
Well, everything outside (here in Claremont) is covered with ash. Everything. The bottom of my skateboard is covered with a thin layer, and my bearings are starting to sound bad. Other than that, it just smells like a campfire outside now. Saturday night, though, was terrible. Big flakes of ash were falling that seemed to always land right in your eye. It was getting pretty depressing for a while. I hope it keeps getting better; I'm sick of not being able to go outside barefoot.
This doesn't do much good in San Diego, but for readers further north in Los Angeles County, this site has a lot of helpful info on the Grand Prix fire . It seems to be updated pretty frequently, too.
Eh, nothing new. I did this last year with a red cup of ice house and a handful of Skittles. They imparted a bit of flavor to the beer, which was not necessarily a bad thing. I can confirm that the skittles do turn to round white blobs in the beer. Unfortunately, (and perhaps obviously) it was not my first drink of the evening, and I forgot about it just as I was getting to the bottom of the glass. Something they failed to mention is that by morning, the skittles completely dissolve, leaving a gooey white layer on top of the flat, warm, beer. I can not comment on the flavor of the skittles at that point, since I had sobered up and was wondering what the hell I had been thinking.
OK, if a gigabyte is *really* 10^3 MB, then why does my 200GB hard drive read as only 186GB (in OS X)? They define it the "better" way when they are selling it to make it seem bigger, but their own OS uses the binary definition rather than the decimal definition. That seems to close it right there; Apple's own OS is telling me that they are being misleading.
This brings up another interesting point. My dad owns the Blade Runner soundtrack on LP. Last night, I downloaded the mp3 and sent it to him. Obviously I'm not supposed to have it (I have since deleted said mp3), but is it illegal for him to have it? He should have the right to listen to the song, since he bought the record, and can legally rip it to mp3 for himself. (Is THAT even right?) So is obtaining a copy that he himself did not rip a violation? Assuming that transferring songs that you own from one format to another is legal (i.e. a tape of a CD for purely personal use), does the law say that you yourself have to transfer it, or can you get it from another source?
So, people are probably wondering "Why doesn't AOL just open an online music store like Apple and integrate it into their browser?" Simple. AOL is too damn slow, and they know it. It would take *years* to download a cd from them.
(Plus, as was already noted many times above, they are already good at making a lot of CDs.)
Well, looking at my shelf now, I think pretty much anything by Stephen Jay Gould is a sure bet. His collections of essays (eg The Panda's Thumb, Ever Since Darwin) are the best evolutionary discussions I have come across, if that is what you're interested in.
Another good book is The Whole Shebang, by Timothy Ferris. It's a good introduction to various aspects of cosmology and astrophysics. I haven't read it for over a year, so I really can't go into more specifics. Definitely worth a look.
Hawking is good, but I'm sure everyone else will tell you that too. I've read a couple books by Carl Sagan, but I can't remember much about them, including the titles. They were definitely a good read, though.
No other titles are coming to mind, for some reason. Hope this helps!