I had been trying to start a calculator collection, with my old HP-41, HP-11, HP-15 and HP-48. They all got sold to engineers begging me for them so they would have back ups in case their main calc ever failed.
I can't recall TI ever generating such loyalty. All I remember of my 70's and 80's TIs is how the keyboards always failed after a year or so...
were empathically bonded with their dogs and vice versa; and the bugs decimated the k-9'ers by killing one half of each team - which rendered the other half an emotional cripple.
Live animals have lots of limitations: most notably, if you don't treat them well, they die.
As for why "dogs", well, legged vehicles - autonomous or not - should have a lot of advantages in broken terrain.
Finally, I'd like to point out that if the army *didn't* invest in science fiction projects, you wouldn't be reading this message, because the internet wouldn't exist.
Personally, I got tired of having to re-locate the the set of arcana I needed to get my USB and DVD stuff working again on my Linux box after each kernel update. When the time came for a new machine, I bought a Powerbook.
I still have my Linux servers, but for daily use, my Mac is a dream.
Schwarzschild conceived of such things, but (I could be wrong here) I believe it was Hawking who actually tied observed phenomena to something which had been pure speculation until then.
Supposedly, you can take nothing and split it into positive and negative energy & matter (not the same as anti-matter, apparently).
How this happens, IIRC is the subject to a great amount of handwaving about spontaneous quantum fluctuations.
Where the quantum thingies came from isn't explained. Personally, I find this nearly as plausible as claiming the universe was created by a short jewish man named Nathan Brazil - but there you go.
Yup. It's easy to pontificate on the joys of globalism when you think you're riding the "long boom". It's different when your boom pops, but the other guys' doesn't.
Personally, I like to think I have enough integrity to take the long view: cycles come, cycles go, this to shall pass. Of course, I still have a job.
is that you can't find a rational basis to refute them, so you have to resort to calling their ideas "scary".
No, I take it back. What's even scarier is the fact that, apparently, it's never occurred to you that your inability to refute something might mean that you are wrong.
I tried to use evite.com to send out invitations to my holiday party - and either people are making lame excuses or a full third of them never got the invite.
I can only assume that spam filters blocked the invitations before they ever saw them.
I have a small non-profit website, and for the past year or so HotMail and AOL have refused to accept mail from it because I use dynamic DNS.
I understand the reason for them to be suspicious of dynamic DNS address ranges, but a complete blockade of all such e-mail is a big PITA.
And, yeah, I have good reason for not using a real hosting company - every one I chose went out of business. At this point, I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop on FeaturePrice.
Oh, and, what money? The whole reason pharma companies don't like making vaccines (besides getting sued for bogus reasons) is that vaccines don't make money. By definition they have to be cheap, or else they won't be used. By preference, pharma would rather specialize in chronic diseases of rich people.
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Never ran into that flavor before.
In *my* (red LED) day, it was TI that had the lousy keys and flimsy engineering.
Ah, sweet nostalgia. The older I get, the better I was.
Surely you mean either 15C or 12B? The "B" models are/were the business calculators.
the 15C was cool for the matrix functions. I'd sit writing games for it during meetings.
I had been trying to start a calculator collection, with my old HP-41, HP-11, HP-15 and HP-48. They all got sold to engineers begging me for them so they would have back ups in case their main calc ever failed.
I can't recall TI ever generating such loyalty. All I remember of my 70's and 80's TIs is how the keyboards always failed after a year or so...
Calc would have been insanly boring, if all we did was take intergrals, derivs, and solve diffi-Qs.
You just summed up the first 3 years of college for me.
It's been a while.
Heh. Now I'm going to spend the rest of the day telling people "I am a 30 second bomb."
were empathically bonded with their dogs and vice versa; and the bugs decimated the k-9'ers by killing one half of each team - which rendered the other half an emotional cripple.
you'd know that they actually require a good deal of pampering to get them to perform reliably.
Besides, I'd love to see a dog that can carry a 40 pound pack all day.
not that obscure.
Live animals have lots of limitations: most notably, if you don't treat them well, they die.
As for why "dogs", well, legged vehicles - autonomous or not - should have a lot of advantages in broken terrain.
Finally, I'd like to point out that if the army *didn't* invest in science fiction projects, you wouldn't be reading this message, because the internet wouldn't exist.
Darwin is the core of OS X; but you don't get the higher level APIs.
Personally, I got tired of having to re-locate the the set of arcana I needed to get my USB and DVD stuff working again on my Linux box after each kernel update. When the time came for a new machine, I bought a Powerbook.
I still have my Linux servers, but for daily use, my Mac is a dream.
Isn't the gravastar idea almost as old as the black hole theory?
It seems to me that a lot of people have been debating this for a long time.
Schwarzschild conceived of such things, but (I could be wrong here) I believe it was Hawking who actually tied observed phenomena to something which had been pure speculation until then.
Supposedly, you can take nothing and split it into positive and negative energy & matter (not the same as anti-matter, apparently).
How this happens, IIRC is the subject to a great amount of handwaving about spontaneous quantum fluctuations.
Where the quantum thingies came from isn't explained. Personally, I find this nearly as plausible as claiming the universe was created by a short jewish man named Nathan Brazil - but there you go.
Yup. It's easy to pontificate on the joys of globalism when you think you're riding the "long boom". It's different when your boom pops, but the other guys' doesn't.
Personally, I like to think I have enough integrity to take the long view: cycles come, cycles go, this to shall pass. Of course, I still have a job.
You fail to see the consequences.
1. American economy shifts overseas to reduce costs.
2. Foreign economies boom, American economy slows.
3. Foreign currencies boom, American currency tanks.
4. American currency becomes cheaper than foreign currencies.
5. Work flows back to America.
Meanwhile, standards of living across the world start to level out as nations like India and Pakistan become more prosperous.
that the US waited until the Russians had beaten Japan, then declared war on Japan so they could demand a part of the war reparations.
is that you can't find a rational basis to refute them, so you have to resort to calling their ideas "scary".
No, I take it back. What's even scarier is the fact that, apparently, it's never occurred to you that your inability to refute something might mean that you are wrong.
You said "20 years for smoking your first joint" - That's a bit different from dealing.
when you "exaggerate" to make a point, it's called "lying".
I tried to use evite.com to send out invitations to my holiday party - and either people are making lame excuses or a full third of them never got the invite.
I can only assume that spam filters blocked the invitations before they ever saw them.
I have a small non-profit website, and for the past year or so HotMail and AOL have refused to accept mail from it because I use dynamic DNS.
I understand the reason for them to be suspicious of dynamic DNS address ranges, but a complete blockade of all such e-mail is a big PITA.
And, yeah, I have good reason for not using a real hosting company - every one I chose went out of business. At this point, I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop on FeaturePrice.
Show me where someone holding a single joint got twenty years. Anywhere in the US - any time frame.
No hurry, I'll wait.
Thimerosal was proven safe *before* it was approved for use in vaccines. In multiple studies.
Studies on the Safety and Effectiveness of Thimerosal
Oh, and, what money? The whole reason pharma companies don't like making vaccines (besides getting sued for bogus reasons) is that vaccines don't make money. By definition they have to be cheap, or else they won't be used. By preference, pharma would rather specialize in chronic diseases of rich people.