I wondered whether the Bush administration's willingness to junk Hubble was a symptom of the same American retreat from Science as th pressure to give "Scientific Cretionism" equal support and prestige in America's schools.
That retreat from knowledge is a crying shame.
I had a buddy who always referred to it as "Scientific Cretinism -- I'm sorry Creationism".
I think HTTP and HTML are both ill-conceived disasters.. a messy yet simplistic protocol and an awful markup language...
Okay. But, if that is true, it can't be the whole story, because his implementation has been very successful.
Ted Nelson first described the idea of a hypertext over four decades ago. So, if everyone is smarter than TBL, why weren't their implementations of hypertext already in use?
FWIW I don't think your comment deserved to be marked as a troll.
Large means dimension. When was the last time you heard, "This star shines largely!" or "This star is weighs large" or something like that? Large, in this context, obviously means diameter.
If you like his provocative stuff, you will be disappointed. I have seen his PBS show a few times -- it is on opposite the early morning infomercials here. And on his PBS show he is very well behaved, none of the imflammatory stuff that many of his fans love.
I disagreed with him. I thought Stewart made some good points. But I wish him well. He was capable of acknowledging when his debating opponents made a good point -- selectively. Which was not true of some of his older colleagues.
Five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago generic clones were a lot cheaper than name brand computers. But this last few years the difference in price between a name brand computer and a generic clone has shrunk. I used to build my own machines, for my self and my friends. But I can't do so anymore -- not for less than the cost of a store bought computer.
If the profit to be made making these computers is slim, why not sell that part of the business to a place with lower labour costs?
They aren't selling their chip foundries, are they?
Latvian 57.7%, Russian 29.6%, Belarusian 4.1%, Ukrainian 2.7%, Polish 2.5%, Lithuanian 1.4%, other 2% (2002)
Riga, the capital city, has a higher proportion of ethnic Russians. It is about fifty-fifty now.
Most of the ethnic Russians have not bothered to become Latvian citizens. Latvia joined the EU this year. This makes Latvian citizenship valuable. But new laws mean that they can't assume Latvian citizenship until they learn to speak Latvian.
No one uses solid fuel for anything important now.
Liquid fueled rockets have to be topped up with volatile liquids, like liquid oxygen, shortly before launch. This is not really practical for missiles -- nuclear missiles, or bazooka shells. The very first ICBMs were liquid fueled. And the change to solid fuel was seen as a big improvement.
OK. Then why did the photos of Alexandra Kerry wearing a surprisingly daring dress disappear from google's searches. Ms Kerry is a film-maker, who wore a dress to an event during the Cannes Film Festival that had a special feature. It looked like a normal, classy black dress under normal circumstances. But when photographed with a high-power flash the dress became translucent, revealing a lovely figure, and a lovely bosom. At the time these photos could be found using google.
But a month or so ago google couldn't find those images. I wanted to use one as port of an argument here on slashdot. So I fired up altavista.com for the first time in a couple of years. Altavista.com had no trouble finding the images.
My conclusion was that google had made a decision to deep-six the links to those images.
The X-Files was shot up there. I remember Duchovny complaining about that and saying he'd want to be closer to his wife or something.
His contract said he agreed to shoot the first five (or was it four) seasons in Vancouver. Subsequent seasons were shot back in the USA when this contract expired.
Isolation on an island, over time, makes for smaller individuals. It is a well known phenomenon. There are islands off Siberia that had populations of smaller Mammoths.
This island had smaller elephants. It shouldn't surprise us that this happened to Homo Erectus. The BBC article seems to be saying that these individuals were descended from Homo Erectus, not modern humans or Neanderthal.
To my way of thinking this is just as remarkable as discovering an entirely new branch of humanity, as Homo Erectus dates back about 500,000 years, about twice as long ago as Homo Neanderthalis. The BBC World News said that the discoverers were surprised at how sophisticated the tools associated with the site were.
Homo Neanderthalis are believed to have disappeared about 30,000 years ago. I would find it remarkable if descendants of Homo Erectus outlasted them.
Canada also has hyperwallet.
Last time I used it the cost was $1. $1 CAD for Canadian dollar transfers. And $1 USD for US dollar transfers.
Like paypal it only works within North American financial institutions. It is a payment option supported by ebay. Like paypal it is not to be used for online gambling or adult services. And it can't be used to transfer money to another electronic service...
But it has a 3 cyliner gasoline engine. This means it still puts out prodigious amounts of CO2.
Maybe it is a mistake to respond to a comment from an anonymous coward, but...
What is wrong with an internal combustion engine producing prodigious amounts of Carbon Dioxide? Carbon Dioxide is the result of complete combustion. If you are going to use an internal combustion engine at all, this is a good thing. It means you are getting all the possible energy out of the fuel. Producing Carbon Monoxide would be undesirable.
Is there any reason to believe, in principle, that a 3 cylinder car will produce more CO than a car with any other number of cylinders?
Taylor Flagg, are you interested in doing exciting, cutting edge stuff? There are people like Ted Nelson, and Larry Wall, who don't any have formal training in Computer Science. But, when you look at the ranks of those who have done noteworthy, interesting things don't you find a disproportionate number have PhDs? So, they are good for something.
A generation ago, when I was an undergrad, the Computer Science department at my University was sufficiently pressed finding PhDs that other departments within the University were left to shift for themselves. They had to find the guy or gal within their own ranks who took some computer courses, when they were undergrads, to teach the introductory computer course for Geographers, or English majors. This was a worldwide phenomenon.
Professors who were newly minted PhDs, around here at least, commanded a salary comparable to that of a brand new, starting high-school teacher, who only had a Bachelor's degree and a teacher's certificate. While in industry they could earn at least twice as much.
I used to give any Canadian Tire money I got to the neighbour's kid, to whom it still seemed exciting. And I always used to give it with the fatherly advice, "Now don't spend it all in one place."
The matter that makes up the Earth, you and I, the sun, our Galaxy, was all part of the explosion we call the Big Bang. So you don't have to look far away, and deep into the past to see something that was once part of the Big Bang. Everything you look at, including the nose on your face, was once part of the Big Bang. So, the Big Bang is not the edge of the Universe.
I haven't forgotten it, but I think you might have forgotten some aspects of it, like the title.
The film were Billy-Bob met Ms Jolie is actually entitled Pushing Tin.
Tin men, also a good film, is about cynical, dishonest, aluminum siding salesman in 1950s Baltimore.
As for the comments suggesting Ms Jolie is some kind of psycho... two points. First, it may be worth bearing in mind that this image of her as a psycho sells papers. She may be a lot more benignly eccentric than psycho. Second, Billy-Bob is probably just as "psycho" as as Ms Jolie.
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I wondered whether the Bush administration's willingness to junk Hubble was a symptom of the same American retreat from Science as th pressure to give "Scientific Cretionism" equal support and prestige in America's schools.
That retreat from knowledge is a crying shame.
I had a buddy who always referred to it as "Scientific Cretinism -- I'm sorry Creationism".
Okay. But, if that is true, it can't be the whole story, because his implementation has been very successful.
Ted Nelson first described the idea of a hypertext over four decades ago. So, if everyone is smarter than TBL, why weren't their implementations of hypertext already in use?
FWIW I don't think your comment deserved to be marked as a troll.
I agree with you, by and large ...
If you like his provocative stuff, you will be disappointed. I have seen his PBS show a few times -- it is on opposite the early morning infomercials here. And on his PBS show he is very well behaved, none of the imflammatory stuff that many of his fans love.
I disagreed with him. I thought Stewart made some good points. But I wish him well. He was capable of acknowledging when his debating opponents made a good point -- selectively. Which was not true of some of his older colleagues.
If all our cars were hydrogen cars we wouldn't have to hold our breath.
If the profit to be made making these computers is slim, why not sell that part of the business to a place with lower labour costs? They aren't selling their chip foundries, are they?
Riga, the capital city, has a higher proportion of ethnic Russians. It is about fifty-fifty now.
Most of the ethnic Russians have not bothered to become Latvian citizens. Latvia joined the EU this year. This makes Latvian citizenship valuable. But new laws mean that they can't assume Latvian citizenship until they learn to speak Latvian.
Liquid fueled rockets have to be topped up with volatile liquids, like liquid oxygen, shortly before launch. This is not really practical for missiles -- nuclear missiles, or bazooka shells. The very first ICBMs were liquid fueled. And the change to solid fuel was seen as a big improvement.
His reference to "frigging laser beams" was intended to be a humourous reference to a rant the villian utters in the film Austin Powers: International man of mystery.
But, did he stand under a 100 foot long banner, that said "Mission accomplished!"?
But none of the results that google search are links to the pictures of her wearing this dress
But a month or so ago google couldn't find those images. I wanted to use one as port of an argument here on slashdot. So I fired up altavista.com for the first time in a couple of years. Altavista.com had no trouble finding the images. My conclusion was that google had made a decision to deep-six the links to those images.
Radiation from the supernova would have wiped any local planets clean of life, and the planets of stellar systems within a dozen light years or so...
It is remarkable because, up until the discovery of these specimens, Homo Erectus was believed to have gone extinct over 100,000 years ago.
His contract said he agreed to shoot the first five (or was it four) seasons in Vancouver. Subsequent seasons were shot back in the USA when this contract expired.
Duchovny is married to Tea Leoni.
Yes, Canada is already in an Axis.
This island had smaller elephants. It shouldn't surprise us that this happened to Homo Erectus. The BBC article seems to be saying that these individuals were descended from Homo Erectus, not modern humans or Neanderthal.
To my way of thinking this is just as remarkable as discovering an entirely new branch of humanity, as Homo Erectus dates back about 500,000 years, about twice as long ago as Homo Neanderthalis. The BBC World News said that the discoverers were surprised at how sophisticated the tools associated with the site were.
Homo Neanderthalis are believed to have disappeared about 30,000 years ago. I would find it remarkable if descendants of Homo Erectus outlasted them.
Like paypal it only works within North American financial institutions. It is a payment option supported by ebay. Like paypal it is not to be used for online gambling or adult services. And it can't be used to transfer money to another electronic service...
Maybe it is a mistake to respond to a comment from an anonymous coward, but...
What is wrong with an internal combustion engine producing prodigious amounts of Carbon Dioxide? Carbon Dioxide is the result of complete combustion. If you are going to use an internal combustion engine at all, this is a good thing. It means you are getting all the possible energy out of the fuel. Producing Carbon Monoxide would be undesirable.
Is there any reason to believe, in principle, that a 3 cylinder car will produce more CO than a car with any other number of cylinders?
A generation ago, when I was an undergrad, the Computer Science department at my University was sufficiently pressed finding PhDs that other departments within the University were left to shift for themselves. They had to find the guy or gal within their own ranks who took some computer courses, when they were undergrads, to teach the introductory computer course for Geographers, or English majors. This was a worldwide phenomenon.
Professors who were newly minted PhDs, around here at least, commanded a salary comparable to that of a brand new, starting high-school teacher, who only had a Bachelor's degree and a teacher's certificate. While in industry they could earn at least twice as much.
Isn't this still basically true?
I used to give any Canadian Tire money I got to the neighbour's kid, to whom it still seemed exciting. And I always used to give it with the fatherly advice, "Now don't spend it all in one place."
It came in handy occasionally.
But I really carried as a prop, for one of my favourite dumb jokes.
When someone was speculating about how big somthing was, I could pull it out, and say:
That reminds me... I saw The Passenger, and I saw Passenger 57. But I missed Passengers 2 through 56. Can anyone tell me if they were any good?
Lol.
No, I didn't make this up myself. Someone else did -- years ago. I would cite them if I knew who they were.
I haven't forgotten it, but I think you might have forgotten some aspects of it, like the title .
The film were Billy-Bob met Ms Jolie is actually entitled Pushing Tin.
Tin men, also a good film, is about cynical, dishonest, aluminum siding salesman in 1950s Baltimore.
As for the comments suggesting Ms Jolie is some kind of psycho... two points. First, it may be worth bearing in mind that this image of her as a psycho sells papers. She may be a lot more benignly eccentric than psycho. Second, Billy-Bob is probably just as "psycho" as as Ms Jolie.