They say the asteroid is a little bigger than the Tunguska object, but they depict something that looks a little bit smaller than the moon. It's a file picture, though, because it's their conception of the asteroid that allegedly did the dinosaurs in. Still seems like something THAT big would be even more devastating.
To my knowledge, no video game actually affects the equilibrium of your inner ear, so even playing a game with non-earth (by which I presume you mean zero-g) physics will not convince your brain that it is in a free-fall environment.
But what irks me about your post is the comment, "baby's on a glass table are scared, ya, that is really good scientific proof." Do you even know what that experiment is, who conducted it, and what were the follow-up studies? It's one of the classics of developmental psychology. And they were careful not to draw too many conclusions from it. But it does support (not prove, nor does it claim to) the notion that our sense of gravity is innate.
and when did he say that? Was it not, oh, back in Dec 2000?
Microsoft could collapse in 6 months
And if you read the article that that story links to, you will find the accurate quote:
"I think Linux will become dominant before it is really ready technically for the end users. And the reason I believe that is because I now think that Microsoft monopoly is going to collapse for other reasons in the near future."
(Emphasis added for people who cannot discern subtleties in written text.)
He never said Microsoft would collapse. He said their market dominance would erode within six months so they would no longer enjoy the monopoly status they do now. Don't recall if he was talking about server side, desktop, or something else, though. I also don't know how you'd test that statement, but in any case, he wasn't as far out-of-whack with his prediction as you think he was.
IIRC, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was told to change his name, he said something like: "It takes a little effort to remember, but once they do, they'll never forget it."
I find the acronyms and "cute names" for some of the UNIX-style utilities to be the same way; they require a little more explanation to tie the meaning together with the word, but (like all good mnemonics) they make up for it by staying longer in the brain.
You may be right about what SourceForge or OSS development doesn't add to your resume. Realize, though, that nothing that isn't a job itself exactly replicates a job. What work on an OSS project demonstrates is that you are self-motivated (because nobody's forcing you to do this), that you work well with people even if you don't see them day-to-day (because you are working on a distributed project) and that you have the ability to finish a project and create a working piece of code. All in all, an intelligent employer should recognize the benefit.
I'm not sure, but I suspect if you publish something written by your great-grandfather, you become copyright holder. Something that's never seen light of day can't sublimate automagically into public domain. Anyone know who owns copyright on True at First Light (the latest posthumous Hemingway novel?)
Of course, take anything I have to say with a grain of salt. IM ANAL--I, macrobat, am not a lawyer.
First, the size of a baby's head has little to do with how uncomfortable labor is--other parts of the body do that just fine. The skull, in fact, is not fully fused, so a baby's head is noticeably distorted for 24-48 hours after going through what I like to call the "Play-doh fun factory of life." You can spot Caesarean babies precisely because their heads are bulbous and not funny mush-shapes. Also, many other animals (especially mammals) evince what appears to be extreme discomfort during labor; it's not limited to humans.
Second, many societies are advanced, in the sense that they form stable social units with laws and traditions, without the aid of writing. True, technological society as we know it wouldn't exist, but to say that people are "little more than animals" without the benefits of writing is ignorant and absurd.
Third, "atom" and "adam" come from different languages. Atomos means "small" in Greek; adam means "person" in Hebrew. The similarity in English transliteration means nothing. It certainly doesn't mean that we have a "spin" and a "charge" in any meaningful, macro-level sense, that has to be aligned or balanced as willed by anyone.
Finally, you shouldn't call just any means of communication "language." Even chimps who have been taught sign language lack the ability to put together elaborate sentences, and just because horses respond well to soothing whispers doesn't mean their comprehension of "language" meets even the bottom rung of sophistication for human speech.
I don't quite know if you're trying to sway people to your religious beliefs with this post, but if you are, you need to present them with a little more clarity of mind.
Still yet more English language pedantry...
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So, is the title supposed to be pronounced "dot dot con", or just "dot con?" If the former, it should have been titled ".Con". If the latter, well, that's just stupid.
You have "latter" and "former" mixed up. Either way, your right about one thing: titles with.anything in them are passé by now.
I just visited my friend's brother to pick up a used telescope. His brother's system is down because he clicked on a link in an email that said something like "pictures of me naked."
When I told him that anything like that was obviously a worm or some kind of scam, he responded: "But it was from a girl who DOES send me pictures of herself naked!"
In their house is just that, nothing more. Anything I can't see or hear without going in. Once again, technology has rendered it virtually meaningless.
Actually, the Supreme Court ruled just last year (Kyllo vs. United States) that infrared technology could not be used to snoop inside a residence. The police had used IR traces to detect heat lamps he'd used to grow cannabis. The wording of the judgement also said that Kyllo had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his home because the technology revealed information "that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion."
"Previously unknowable" is telling; a low-tech standard has been set as the measure against which the suitability of surveillance technologies will be judged. So, no matter what the capacity for the police to gather data will be, home will still be home and unreasonable use of technology will still be unreasonable search. (We hope; the courts may rule against freedom in future cases, but that's always been a risk.)
So if I buy the Necronomicon and De Vermis Mysteriis from a store and they give me $0.50 discount on the bundle, and then I resell them seperately at pull price, I am ripping off the store or publisher?
Man, you're ripping off the Old Ones, and you've got a lot bigger problem than a silly EULA.
As I recall, "Hitler's Willing Executioners" wasn't the soundest example of historical reasoning either. He ignored the anti-Semitism of other European nations, for example, and downplayed the importance of German resistance movements. I don't remember where I read it (this was shortly after the book came out), but several historians criticised his methodology as imprecise and biased, and pointed out internal inconsistencies in the book.
I'm sure you're being humorous, but no, a "near miss" is the proper term. If you said something like "nearly missed," that would be a hit. But a "near miss" is simply a miss that swung by near enough to notice. Besides, it sounds better than "close miss."
I don't know of any Jews or Muslims (other than fundamentalists) that practice such sorts of intolerance for "pagans" and others as christians do.
A lot of Jewish, Muslim, and other religious groups are often insular and distrustful of outsiders, even to other sects of the same religion sometimes. And I have to imagine there's not exactly a lot of open acceptance of the Islamic faith in certain regions of Israel, either.
And what do you mean by no Muslims "other than fundamentalists" practice intolerance? No Christians "other than fundamentalists" do, either.
As far as lesser-known and smaller religions (in terms of numbers) go, I suspect we don't hear much of their abuse of outsiders simply because they don't have the political and social power to act upon their prejudices. This isn't to say that every religious person is intolerant, only that no religion is immune to it.
Although the Christian influence in the Narnia stories is, shall we say, much more noticeable than in LotR, C.S. Lewis also disliked allegory, and did not mean for his books to be interpreted that way, either. I don't recall exactly where I remember reading it, but I think he even went so far as to say he hoped he'd made the stories enjoyable even if the reader didn't catch the Biblical references. I also think that's why he made the Calormen in A Horse and His Boy Arabic in their manners, because he never liked the heavy-handed political symbolism in the 1001 Nights.
The classical allegory doesn't usually make for a good story, partly because, once decoded for its meaning, the structure turns out to be a thinly-veiled kind of analytical essay, and if Lewis or Tolkien had wanted to write one of those, they would have gone ahead and done so. In fact, they both did.
"Forewarn" isn't entirely redundant, though. I can warn you that the enemy is attacking; I can forewarn you that they are coming and soon will attack. It's a matter of degree, of how close the impending trouble is.
Actually, Steven King, Tom Clancy, and the couple dozen or so "guaranteed-blockbuster" authors have their own copyright problems. (And remember, copyright and patent are two different beasts.) If someone mails them a story "for advice" or something, and they write a story that contains enough plot elements in common, they can be sued for lifting the story. That's why King, for one, publically states that he will not read story submissions, and why I suspect he and the other big authors have their legal help screen out letters that might look like manuscripts, et al, so they can verify that they have *not* read the would-be plaintiff's work. (Of course, most of them have secretaries and the like so they only ever read a tiny sample of their fan mail anyhow...can you imagine the volume someone like King gets?)
"Project: UFO" was the name of the series, aired in '77 or '78. Producer (or exec producer) was...dang it, whatsisname, Joe Friday from "Dragnet." (I really know his name, I'm just drawing a blank for the minute.)
Some people mentioned the title "Project Bluebook," but I think that the name was changed in syndication a la "Have Gun Will Travel/Paladin."
If you bust a kid for defacing a website, he'll be lucky not to spend time in jail, along with drug-dealers, murderers, gang-bangers, and child-molestors...
Get some perspective. If he's a kid, he'll go through the juvenile detention system, at worst. If he's an adult, he'll most likely end up in a minimum-security prison with a bunch of other white-collar criminals.
He didn't just swipe a badge, though. He ran a password cracker on the password file after he was specifically told to leave it alone. And even if the door to a business establishment through an unlocked door, if it says "authorized employees only," you're trespassing if you go through.
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They say the asteroid is a little bigger than the Tunguska object, but they depict something that looks a little bit smaller than the moon. It's a file picture, though, because it's their conception of the asteroid that allegedly did the dinosaurs in. Still seems like something THAT big would be even more devastating.
But what irks me about your post is the comment, "baby's on a glass table are scared, ya, that is really good scientific proof." Do you even know what that experiment is, who conducted it, and what were the follow-up studies? It's one of the classics of developmental psychology. And they were careful not to draw too many conclusions from it. But it does support (not prove, nor does it claim to) the notion that our sense of gravity is innate.
"I think Linux will become dominant before it is really ready technically for the end users. And the reason I believe that is because I now think that Microsoft monopoly is going to collapse for other reasons in the near future."
(Emphasis added for people who cannot discern subtleties in written text.)
Umm...you do realize Ogre wasn't a videogame, right? What do you need an emulator for?
He never said Microsoft would collapse. He said their market dominance would erode within six months so they would no longer enjoy the monopoly status they do now. Don't recall if he was talking about server side, desktop, or something else, though. I also don't know how you'd test that statement, but in any case, he wasn't as far out-of-whack with his prediction as you think he was.
IIRC, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was told to change his name, he said something like: "It takes a little effort to remember, but once they do, they'll never forget it."
I find the acronyms and "cute names" for some of the UNIX-style utilities to be the same way; they require a little more explanation to tie the meaning together with the word, but (like all good mnemonics) they make up for it by staying longer in the brain.
You may be right about what SourceForge or OSS development doesn't add to your resume. Realize, though, that nothing that isn't a job itself exactly replicates a job. What work on an OSS project demonstrates is that you are self-motivated (because nobody's forcing you to do this), that you work well with people even if you don't see them day-to-day (because you are working on a distributed project) and that you have the ability to finish a project and create a working piece of code. All in all, an intelligent employer should recognize the benefit.
Of course, take anything I have to say with a grain of salt. IM ANAL--I, macrobat, am not a lawyer.
First, the size of a baby's head has little to do with how uncomfortable labor is--other parts of the body do that just fine. The skull, in fact, is not fully fused, so a baby's head is noticeably distorted for 24-48 hours after going through what I like to call the "Play-doh fun factory of life." You can spot Caesarean babies precisely because their heads are bulbous and not funny mush-shapes. Also, many other animals (especially mammals) evince what appears to be extreme discomfort during labor; it's not limited to humans.
Second, many societies are advanced, in the sense that they form stable social units with laws and traditions, without the aid of writing. True, technological society as we know it wouldn't exist, but to say that people are "little more than animals" without the benefits of writing is ignorant and absurd.
Third, "atom" and "adam" come from different languages. Atomos means "small" in Greek; adam means "person" in Hebrew. The similarity in English transliteration means nothing. It certainly doesn't mean that we have a "spin" and a "charge" in any meaningful, macro-level sense, that has to be aligned or balanced as willed by anyone.
Finally, you shouldn't call just any means of communication "language." Even chimps who have been taught sign language lack the ability to put together elaborate sentences, and just because horses respond well to soothing whispers doesn't mean their comprehension of "language" meets even the bottom rung of sophistication for human speech.
I don't quite know if you're trying to sway people to your religious beliefs with this post, but if you are, you need to present them with a little more clarity of mind.
I just visited my friend's brother to pick up a used telescope. His brother's system is down because he clicked on a link in an email that said something like "pictures of me naked."
When I told him that anything like that was obviously a worm or some kind of scam, he responded: "But it was from a girl who DOES send me pictures of herself naked!"
Didn't know what to say to that.
When they came for the mute, I didn't speak up because...well...
Man, you're ripping off the Old Ones, and you've got a lot bigger problem than a silly EULA.
I'm sure you're being humorous, but no, a "near miss" is the proper term. If you said something like "nearly missed," that would be a hit. But a "near miss" is simply a miss that swung by near enough to notice. Besides, it sounds better than "close miss."
Not quite, but close.
And what do you mean by no Muslims "other than fundamentalists" practice intolerance? No Christians "other than fundamentalists" do, either.
As far as lesser-known and smaller religions (in terms of numbers) go, I suspect we don't hear much of their abuse of outsiders simply because they don't have the political and social power to act upon their prejudices. This isn't to say that every religious person is intolerant, only that no religion is immune to it.
The classical allegory doesn't usually make for a good story, partly because, once decoded for its meaning, the structure turns out to be a thinly-veiled kind of analytical essay, and if Lewis or Tolkien had wanted to write one of those, they would have gone ahead and done so. In fact, they both did.
"Forewarn" isn't entirely redundant, though. I can warn you that the enemy is attacking; I can forewarn you that they are coming and soon will attack. It's a matter of degree, of how close the impending trouble is.
Actually, Steven King, Tom Clancy, and the couple dozen or so "guaranteed-blockbuster" authors have their own copyright problems. (And remember, copyright and patent are two different beasts.) If someone mails them a story "for advice" or something, and they write a story that contains enough plot elements in common, they can be sued for lifting the story. That's why King, for one, publically states that he will not read story submissions, and why I suspect he and the other big authors have their legal help screen out letters that might look like manuscripts, et al, so they can verify that they have *not* read the would-be plaintiff's work. (Of course, most of them have secretaries and the like so they only ever read a tiny sample of their fan mail anyhow...can you imagine the volume someone like King gets?)
Some people mentioned the title "Project Bluebook," but I think that the name was changed in syndication a la "Have Gun Will Travel/Paladin."
He didn't just swipe a badge, though. He ran a password cracker on the password file after he was specifically told to leave it alone. And even if the door to a business establishment through an unlocked door, if it says "authorized employees only," you're trespassing if you go through.