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Actually it reminds me of the innards of a Bose "wave" radio... I think the curved passage ways are very much part of the acoustic design, and not just an enclosure.
Yep, since the vertical displacement of the center of mass stays the same (axles travel in a straight line) and hence there's no transfer of kinetic enery to potential energy.
Of course there are dialects as well as languages, and "American English" would currently be properly regarded as a dialect of English... but should it ever diverge sufficiently to the point of being another language, then it'd be a bit perverse for America to call it's language "English" rather than "American" (and then tell the English to rename their language as something else?!). That was the only point I was making - that the language named "English" belongs to England, and always will do should it ever branch.
For that matter I believe there are more people of Irish descent here than in Ireland... so let's just call the country Ireland while we're at it too!;-)
Considering that English comes from England, I'd say that the English do indeed have a better claim to the name. If American settlers, who brought the language with them had kept the language the same (obviously an impossibility - not the way language works), then it might be reasonable to consider it just a dialect, but the way they are diverging I'd say "American English" is best (and presumably it'll eventually become a different language, unless global communications means that the time of new language creation is behind us).
P.S. Don't tell me that English in England should be called "British English"... we don't refer to "French French" just because some Canadians speak it too.
I'm browsing under XP on a PII 266MHz with 128MB RAM, and I can assure you that I can notice the difference. My main use of the browser is for eBay, and I typically perform a seach then open up all the resulting hits (30 or so) in separate tabs... With 1.7b I there's little or no delay in bringing up the popup menu to "open in new tab", whereas before there was a much more noticable delay.
Of course Linux (the distributions, not the kernel) wouldn't exist without GNU; but the point is that the GNU software (gcc, emacs) didn't need Linux to become useful and/or usable.
It's only Asimo's "modes" and cutesy audience interactions that are directed by remote control. His most impressive feat - walking up and down stairs (and walking at all for that matter)- is something that he does automomously.
I think the intented assertion was unchanged survivor... it's identical to the fossilized examples, same as the Coelacanth can be considered a Jurassic survivor. One thing interesting about species like these is why they havn't evolved... are they a genetic "dead-end of perfection", or is there something about their genetics and/or behavior that precludes viable adaptation?
One interesting thing about the Wollemi (apart from the fact that close-up it looks cool and wierd - more fern-like than tree-like), is that the group that were discovered are all genetically identical - they spread by shooting rather than sexually, so their DNA may in fact be very close to that of the Jurassic era fossilized examples.
What Vonage is selling isn't VoIP but rather the VoIP - POTS bridging ability, and even that part could be productized via an off-the-shelf home VoIP-to-phone bridge.
Naturally any VoIP call that terminates onto the PSTN is going to incur phone taxes, but if it terminates to another VoIP phone without ever having left the data network then it's free as long as internet bandwith remains tax free. Let's hope it does.
The smart phone companies will embrace VoIP and sell VoIP enabling and enhancing products rather than trying to fight it in the courts.
When was the last time you carried a box of VoIP out of a store or had it shipped by UPS... seems more like a service to me...
Nope.
Your ISP provides a service (internet connectivity).
VoIP is nothing more than the VoIP phone that you carry out of the store that enables you to use it for voice.
What you are saying is equivalent to proposing to tax people who buy fax machines or answering machines to get added value out of their (current) phone service, because "fax is a service" and "automated call answering" is a service.
So are you only human if you accululate genetic change in incremental amounts in line with "natural" evolution? What if we bioengineer a new genetic line who are more/less intelligent/sensitive/whatever than ourselves... are they human (i.e. do they get human rights or greater/lesser ones?) if they can interbreed with us? What if we engineer a chimp-human cross that can interbreed with us but has more chimp-level language skills and intelligence?
Yep. Not just "negation", but also other countries have seen the advantage that GPS guided weapons gives to the US, and are no doubt paying keen attention to the US's recently announced global reach weapons plans:
What with the European Space Agency now in collaboration with the Russian's and China's newfound interest, it looks like the next space (weapons) race may be on.
You young whippersnappers! Obviously, you're not old enough to remember punched cards and paper tape! Stores for decades, easily retrievable!
Actually, although weevils or damp may get to your paper tape, one of the serious contenders for long-term storage is mylar punched tape. If you want to send a time-capsule of earth-porn into space for the aliens then this would be the best bet. Not cheap in terms of per-bit storage, but the aliens will appreciate it.
What will kill the dollar will be Euro-denominated oil sales, as Iraq was engaging in pre-war and others such as Iran and Venezuela are considering. The UK when it eventually switches will also be a Euro oil seller. OPEC may even switch or support both Euro and Dollar sales either due to demand or due to fighting the US either over politics or any US attempt to bust OPEC via flooding the market with Iraqi oil.
Euro-denominated oil sales will subtract from dollar demand and petro-dollar reserves.
The US is only financially kept afloat due to loans from the rest of the world - $6.4T and increasing. The world next war is going to be an undeclared economic one, and the main weapon won't be a rocket powered sled - it'll be the Euro.
What you really want is a gyro auto-stabilized hoverer, like the Draganflyer. Unfortunately it costs ~$800, but one of these days I may succumb... Check out the videos!
The scary thing about SARS is that unlike cancer it's contagious, and unlike AIDS there's not much you can do to avoid getting it.
It's too early yet to be really alarmed about it (unless you live in China or Hong Kong), but history has shown that flu epidemics are nothign to be blase about.... The Spanish flu in 1918 killed ~30,000,000 people worldwide, 675,000 in the US alone (at a time when the US population was ~100M).
One of the problems with SARS is that it mutates, and for this reason the detection test that they originally ccame up with has a lot of false negatives.
Presumably there are some constraints on the mutation, but unless those are identified I'd have thought that any cure based on one genetic variant isn't necessarily going to be a whole lot of use. It's apparently mutating into more lethal varieties, and hence the death rate is climbing (from an initially reported 4% to a global average of 5%+ so far, but suspected to be closer to 10%).
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Actually it reminds me of the innards of a Bose "wave" radio... I think the curved passage ways are very much part of the acoustic design, and not just an enclosure.
Yep, since the vertical displacement of the center of mass stays the same (axles travel in a straight line) and hence there's no transfer of kinetic enery to potential energy.
Of course there are dialects as well as languages, and "American English" would currently be properly regarded as a dialect of English... but should it ever diverge sufficiently to the point of being another language, then it'd be a bit perverse for America to call it's language "English" rather than "American" (and then tell the English to rename their language as something else?!). That was the only point I was making - that the language named "English" belongs to England, and always will do should it ever branch.
For that matter I believe there are more people of Irish descent here than in Ireland... so let's just call the country Ireland while we're at it too! ;-)
Considering that English comes from England, I'd say that the English do indeed have a better claim to the name. If American settlers, who brought the language with them had kept the language the same (obviously an impossibility - not the way language works), then it might be reasonable to consider it just a dialect, but the way they are diverging I'd say "American English" is best (and presumably it'll eventually become a different language, unless global communications means that the time of new language creation is behind us).
P.S. Don't tell me that English in England should be called "British English"... we don't refer to "French French" just because some Canadians speak it too.
I'm browsing under XP on a PII 266MHz with 128MB RAM, and I can assure you that I can notice the difference. My main use of the browser is for eBay, and I typically perform a seach then open up all the resulting hits (30 or so) in separate tabs... With 1.7b I there's little or no delay in bringing up the popup menu to "open in new tab", whereas before there was a much more noticable delay.
Of course Linux (the distributions, not the kernel) wouldn't exist without GNU; but the point is that the GNU software (gcc, emacs) didn't need Linux to become useful and/or usable.
God bless Richard Stallman for giving us GNU.
God Bless Linus Torvalds for making it usable.
Nah - God bless Linus for giving us the Linux Kernel.
The GNU tools and libraries (e.g. gcc, glibc, emacs, bison) were used under other OS's such as Solaris before Linux came along.
It's only Asimo's "modes" and cutesy audience interactions that are directed by remote control. His most impressive feat - walking up and down stairs (and walking at all for that matter)- is something that he does automomously.
I think the intented assertion was unchanged survivor... it's identical to the fossilized examples, same as the Coelacanth can be considered a Jurassic survivor. One thing interesting about species like these is why they havn't evolved ... are they a genetic "dead-end of perfection", or is there something about their genetics and/or behavior that precludes viable adaptation?
One interesting thing about the Wollemi (apart from the fact that close-up it looks cool and wierd - more fern-like than tree-like), is that the group that were discovered are all genetically identical - they spread by shooting rather than sexually, so their DNA may in fact be very close to that of the Jurassic era fossilized examples.
What Vonage is selling isn't VoIP but rather the VoIP - POTS bridging ability, and even that part could be productized via an off-the-shelf home VoIP-to-phone bridge.
Naturally any VoIP call that terminates onto the PSTN is going to incur phone taxes, but if it terminates to another VoIP phone without ever having left the data network then it's free as long as internet bandwith remains tax free. Let's hope it does.
The smart phone companies will embrace VoIP and sell VoIP enabling and enhancing products rather than trying to fight it in the courts.
When was the last time you carried a box of VoIP out of a store or had it shipped by UPS... seems more like a service to me...
Nope.
Your ISP provides a service (internet connectivity).
VoIP is nothing more than the VoIP phone that you carry out of the store that enables you to use it for voice.
What you are saying is equivalent to proposing to tax people who buy fax machines or answering machines to get added value out of their (current) phone service, because "fax is a service" and "automated call answering" is a service.
Huh? If you want GPL use the GPL'd Qt. If you want to write a closed source app. use the commercial version.
Seems simple enough.
So are you only human if you accululate genetic change in incremental amounts in line with "natural" evolution? What if we bioengineer a new genetic line who are more/less intelligent/sensitive/whatever than ourselves ... are they human (i.e. do they get human rights or greater/lesser ones?) if they can interbreed with us? What if we engineer a chimp-human cross that can interbreed with us but has more chimp-level language skills and intelligence?
Yep. Not just "negation", but also other countries have seen the advantage that GPS guided weapons gives to the US, and are no doubt paying keen attention to the US's recently announced global reach weapons plans:
US to Develop High-speed Drone with Global Reach
What with the European Space Agency now in collaboration with the Russian's and China's newfound interest, it looks like the next space (weapons) race may be on.
You young whippersnappers! Obviously, you're not old enough to remember punched cards and paper tape! Stores for decades, easily retrievable!
Actually, although weevils or damp may get to your paper tape, one of the serious contenders for long-term storage is mylar punched tape. If you want to send a time-capsule of earth-porn into space for the aliens then this would be the best bet. Not cheap in terms of per-bit storage, but the aliens will appreciate it.
Ha!
So my lifetime goal of visiting space got one step closer...
Now all I need is to register sendmetospace.com, and wait for 20 million $1 donations to my PalPal account.
Better tell my fiancee to buy those bungee cords for the zero-G "research".
What will kill the dollar will be Euro-denominated oil sales, as Iraq was engaging in pre-war and others such as Iran and Venezuela are considering. The UK when it eventually switches will also be a Euro oil seller. OPEC may even switch or support both Euro and Dollar sales either due to demand or due to fighting the US either over politics or any US attempt to bust OPEC via flooding the market with Iraqi oil.
Euro-denominated oil sales will subtract from dollar demand and petro-dollar reserves.
The US is only financially kept afloat due to loans from the rest of the world - $6.4T and increasing. The world next war is going to be an undeclared economic one, and the main weapon won't be a rocket powered sled - it'll be the Euro.
What you really want is a gyro auto-stabilized hoverer, like the Draganflyer. Unfortunately it costs ~$800, but one of these days I may succumb... Check out the videos!
It's great to know that it's still online.
Please keep us updated.
The scary thing about SARS is that unlike cancer it's contagious, and unlike AIDS there's not much you can do to avoid getting it.
It's too early yet to be really alarmed about it (unless you live in China or Hong Kong), but history has shown that flu epidemics are nothign to be blase about.... The Spanish flu in 1918 killed ~30,000,000 people worldwide, 675,000 in the US alone (at a time when the US population was ~100M).
One of the problems with SARS is that it mutates, and for this reason the detection test that they originally ccame up with has a lot of false negatives.
Presumably there are some constraints on the mutation, but unless those are identified I'd have thought that any cure based on one genetic variant isn't necessarily going to be a whole lot of use. It's apparently mutating into more lethal varieties, and hence the death rate is climbing (from an initially reported 4% to a global average of 5%+ so far, but suspected to be closer to 10%).