Why is it that when some one finally tells us that we must do things the smart way instead of the wasteful way, we start screaming at them? Are we all teenagers?
1. Paint your car a color that reflects light. 2. Inflate your tires. 3. Drive slower.
Each of these will improve your fuel economy noticeably. None of them require you to drive less or get a dinky car. What's the case for not doing them -- contrariness?
If the contamination screwed up the law enforcement customers' tests, I wonder what other customers' tests it screwed up. Does the vendor sell these swabs to hospitals, for example?
If the big studios stop making $100m blockbuster R-rated movies, then a smart film company should start leveraging CGI to make $5-$10m ones to tap into that market.
Which, since CGI will inevitably continue to drop in price, is why we need not fear an absence of such films.
Let the big studio serve up the vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. That will grow, rather than shrink, the market for a fine GoatCheese Sorbet.
The key idea is to support your child's growth, not to restrict it.
That's exactly what this dad is doing. When you teach a child to swim, at first you hold them every second, then you stand withing reach, then you watch from the shore, then you let them explore on their own in a safe shallow pool. Each step builds confidence and skills.
Trust this dad when he says that his child isn't ready yet to swim alone in the cold ocean with the currents and the sharks. What he's looking for is filtering software to turn the Internet into a nice, warm, shallow pool until his daughter is ready for the next level.
Chicago just went from logging only definite crimes (red light-running) and trying to ID the culprits to logging everyone who drives down the street and IDing them all. There is no difference between this and running a background check on every motorist every day.
In other news, the Chicago PD today established 132 permanent checkpoints throughout the city at which every motorist will be IDed whenever they pass through.
Said a CPD spokesman, "Thirteen states already have ID checkpoints on their roads. This way, people won't be able to move about Chicago without our knowing who they are."
SyFy: Though market studies clearly showed room for a mainstream channel catering to action/tech/paranormal fare, the stigma of having been the "Sci Fi" channel doomed NBC Universal's efforts to woo mainstreamers from the start.
SciFi: The channel formerly known as SciFi abandoned its core audience in 2010 an attempt to lure mainstreamers away from Fox. Immediately, a trio of new channels emerged in the unpopulated geek fringes. The strongest of these was soon purchased by News Corp., allowing it starve the former SciFi channel of geeks as well as mainstreamers.
For casual photographers, I recommend choosing a camera on the basis of cycle time (or, better yet, shots/minute) in full-res mode. Few things are more annoying than a camera that can snap three shots of the first pitch, but then locks up for "processing" until after the runner is on base.
It's mostly an issue of battery oomph and/or cache, but sustained-shooting cycle time is a vital statistic that can be quite hard to dig out of a camera's marketing literature.
...if you cure cancer I don't care if [you] walk around shirtless and speak in Klingon.
But, you should care. Let's suppose that the guy could, even with his inability to cooperate with anyone, cure cancer. If we could have gotten him to work with others, maybe he could have cured aging.
Great talent can be hard to coach, particularly because it can do pretty well without cooperation or discipline, but it can do even more with them.
Have we got a guy who can keep our network from crumbling? Great. But maybe he could be inventing the next bittorrent or HTML if we weren't letting him lose his focus by being a jerk.
Mod parent informative. The "tradition" that the grandparent is complaining of got whomped about 5 years ago.
It took a while, but doctors identified the problem, studied it, and then changed their practices to address it. Every profession should be so methodical.
The scientific method, logical skepticism, and research skills are the end game, but a working knowledge of basic facts is an important practical foundation.
For example, what does 9x7=? You know the answer immediately because you memorized a look-up table of basic facts when you were young. Those facts allow you to perform more complicated algorithms when you need to, such as base10 long division. Basic scientific facts help you in the same way.
How hot is boiling water? / How cold is ice water?
To jump a car battery, do you connect it in series or parallel?
How do you put out a fire when water won't work?
What actions lead to e-coli and salmonella poisoning?
How do you steer or stop a car on ice?
What body temperature indicates that your child has a fever?
You do not have the time to experimentally derive that information. And that's just knocking-around-the-house stuff. Heaven forbid that we try anything less-than-obvious, e.g.,
How much will a 130-meter windmill 3 miles offshore block the view from your 7th floor office?
If your flight leaves Gatwick at 8AM, can you make the sales presentation in L.A. at 5PM?
What fever temperature merits driving your sick child to the emergency room?
Not only would lofting water into space be a colossal waste of energy and water, . . .
Well, a colossal waste of energy to be sure. But, as wastes of water go, a few tens or hundreds of tonnes is, as they say, not even a drop in the bucket. That's on the order of a 50-meter swimming pool or three, or the annual water usage of a few dozen people.
As Spiner has pointed out, he is more than TWENTY YEARS older than when he originated the role. Playing Data is like playing the Scarecrow in the the Wizard of Oz -- the role requires a young, limber actor.
Sure, there are some Data stories that you could tell with an old actor, but there are many more that you'd have to tell badly to allow for the physical limitations that an android shouldn't have.
Brent did a fine turn as this character. We should quit while we're ahead. Cast son-of-Data with another actor if you must, but don't ruin what we have.
. . . and (c) that landing delays, diversions, unexpected headwinds, and the occasional airport-sacking terrorist suggest a certain safety reserve be maintained.
samzenpus: What's he doin? idle: He's finishing his senior thesis. Steinhauser is trying to prove the hair-free theory: a person with no belly hair does not accumulate naval lint. samzenpus: That's his thesis? idle: Yes! That's the beauty of college these days, slashdotter! You can major in naval lint if you know how to bullshit.
It's interesting how laws are written so broadly that they cover routine, legitimate acts. What makes activity criminal, apparently, is whether the government likes you this week.
There are 6.75 billion people on Earth. We will have no trouble finding enough who are (a) qualified and (b) want with all their hearts to volunteer for a one-way trip. (There would be quite a bit of attrition over 50 years, but 30 would be very doable.)
We will have much more trouble convincing people to fund the project than finding volunteers.
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Why is it that when some one finally tells us that we must do things the smart way instead of the wasteful way, we start screaming at them? Are we all teenagers?
1. Paint your car a color that reflects light.
2. Inflate your tires.
3. Drive slower.
Each of these will improve your fuel economy noticeably. None of them require you to drive less or get a dinky car. What's the case for not doing them -- contrariness?
If the contamination screwed up the law enforcement customers' tests, I wonder what other customers' tests it screwed up. Does the vendor sell these swabs to hospitals, for example?
If the big studios stop making $100m blockbuster R-rated movies, then a smart film company should start leveraging CGI to make $5-$10m ones to tap into that market.
Which, since CGI will inevitably continue to drop in price, is why we need not fear an absence of such films.
Let the big studio serve up the vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. That will grow, rather than shrink, the market for a fine Goat Cheese Sorbet.
About half of us were also born with schlongs.
You may be overestimating the size of certain demographics here on /.
Likewise, among audience for the comic book movies.
Did anyone else immediately think of Flotsam by David Wiesner?
The key idea is to support your child's growth, not to restrict it.
That's exactly what this dad is doing. When you teach a child to swim, at first you hold them every second, then you stand withing reach, then you watch from the shore, then you let them explore on their own in a safe shallow pool. Each step builds confidence and skills.
Trust this dad when he says that his child isn't ready yet to swim alone in the cold ocean with the currents and the sharks. What he's looking for is filtering software to turn the Internet into a nice, warm, shallow pool until his daughter is ready for the next level.
Chicago just went from logging only definite crimes (red light-running) and trying to ID the culprits to logging everyone who drives down the street and IDing them all. There is no difference between this and running a background check on every motorist every day.
Do you want terrorists driving anonymously around Chicago?
Won't some one think of the children?
In other news, the Chicago PD today established 132 permanent checkpoints throughout the city at which every motorist will be IDed whenever they pass through.
Said a CPD spokesman, "Thirteen states already have ID checkpoints on their roads. This way, people won't be able to move about Chicago without our knowing who they are."
This is turning into one of those plans, isn't it?
SyFy: Though market studies clearly showed room for a mainstream channel catering to action/tech/paranormal fare, the stigma of having been the "Sci Fi" channel doomed NBC Universal's efforts to woo mainstreamers from the start.
SciFi: The channel formerly known as SciFi abandoned its core audience in 2010 an attempt to lure mainstreamers away from Fox. Immediately, a trio of new channels emerged in the unpopulated geek fringes. The strongest of these was soon purchased by News Corp., allowing it starve the former SciFi channel of geeks as well as mainstreamers.
For casual photographers, I recommend choosing a camera on the basis of cycle time (or, better yet, shots/minute) in full-res mode. Few things are more annoying than a camera that can snap three shots of the first pitch, but then locks up for "processing" until after the runner is on base.
It's mostly an issue of battery oomph and/or cache, but sustained-shooting cycle time is a vital statistic that can be quite hard to dig out of a camera's marketing literature.
...if you cure cancer I don't care if [you] walk around shirtless and speak in Klingon.
But, you should care. Let's suppose that the guy could, even with his inability to cooperate with anyone, cure cancer. If we could have gotten him to work with others, maybe he could have cured aging.
Great talent can be hard to coach, particularly because it can do pretty well without cooperation or discipline, but it can do even more with them.
Have we got a guy who can keep our network from crumbling? Great. But maybe he could be inventing the next bittorrent or HTML if we weren't letting him lose his focus by being a jerk.
Mod parent informative. The "tradition" that the grandparent is complaining of got whomped about 5 years ago.
It took a while, but doctors identified the problem, studied it, and then changed their practices to address it. Every profession should be so methodical.
The scientific method, logical skepticism, and research skills are the end game, but a working knowledge of basic facts is an important practical foundation.
For example, what does 9x7=? You know the answer immediately because you memorized a look-up table of basic facts when you were young. Those facts allow you to perform more complicated algorithms when you need to, such as base10 long division. Basic scientific facts help you in the same way.
You do not have the time to experimentally derive that information. And that's just knocking-around-the-house stuff. Heaven forbid that we try anything less-than-obvious, e.g.,
Actually, TFA not only fails to show causation, it doesn't bother to show correlation either. Never fear! We can fix that for them.
1. Accusation is correlation!
2. Correlation is causation!
3. ???
4. Profit.
Not only would lofting water into space be a colossal waste of energy and water, . . .
Well, a colossal waste of energy to be sure. But, as wastes of water go, a few tens or hundreds of tonnes is, as they say, not even a drop in the bucket. That's on the order of a 50-meter swimming pool or three, or the annual water usage of a few dozen people.
DVRs are a nice stop-gap technology. They are a step along the way to full-scale subscription-based delivery.
Hulu, et al. are another step on the same road.
As Spiner has pointed out, he is more than TWENTY YEARS older than when he originated the role. Playing Data is like playing the Scarecrow in the the Wizard of Oz -- the role requires a young, limber actor.
Sure, there are some Data stories that you could tell with an old actor, but there are many more that you'd have to tell badly to allow for the physical limitations that an android shouldn't have.
Brent did a fine turn as this character. We should quit while we're ahead. Cast son-of-Data with another actor if you must, but don't ruin what we have.
. . . and (c) that landing delays, diversions, unexpected headwinds, and the occasional airport-sacking terrorist suggest a certain safety reserve be maintained.
Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Duluth
Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Death
Not the same thing at all.
Death isn't as cold.
ObPCU:
samzenpus: What's he doin?
idle: He's finishing his senior thesis. Steinhauser is trying to prove the hair-free theory: a person with no belly hair does not accumulate naval lint.
samzenpus: That's his thesis?
idle: Yes! That's the beauty of college these days, slashdotter! You can major in naval lint if you know how to bullshit.
It's interesting how laws are written so broadly that they cover routine, legitimate acts. What makes activity criminal, apparently, is whether the government likes you this week.
Nothing will bury search results like filing to run for office.
(Nothing will dig up your dirty laundry as fast, either.)
There are 6.75 billion people on Earth. We will have no trouble finding enough who are (a) qualified and (b) want with all their hearts to volunteer for a one-way trip. (There would be quite a bit of attrition over 50 years, but 30 would be very doable.)
We will have much more trouble convincing people to fund the project than finding volunteers.