Thanks for the Marneboy link. I watched that religiously many moons ago. Always waiting for the hair to move in the right direction;-). Never knew his suit was red!
(It is the opposite of most other metamorphic reactions, where an increase of pressure/temperature causes the change... in this case, it is the decrease.)
A lot of mafic minerals stable at high P&T are unstable(or metastable) at lower P&T.
The Vostok Ice core evidence begs to differ. Study some geology and you will see there is only one constant - change. The thing that geology tells us is that the steady state is a fleeting dream upon which we build our fleeting civilisations. There is statibility, but it is a "dynamic" stability. The stability of the earth is as a result of the biosphere managing to balance the atmospheric gases so that system fluctuations eventually are corrected. You are correct in that now anthopogenic (yes we are really part of the biosphere but with tools to break balanced systems) change means the earth is operating out of it's normal parameters. When I say normal, I mean within the past million years. Some would argue more strongly than that.
Check the time stamps. I didn't need to read the article to know that drilling through the oceanic crust is nowhere near the centre of the earth. It would've looked better if I did quote the correct figure instead of the "typical" oceanic crust thickness:-)
My bank upgraded it's "runs just about anywhere" net banking website. The upgrade pre-release had an annoying "we don't support your browser message". I whinged and a few days later they dropped the code. Nice bank. Thanks.
BitTorrent certainly spread Naruto into my house. With 4 teenagers, 3 of them became fanatics for a while. I picked up the Naruto 2 game cube game while in Japan and it was played to death. I also caught an episode on Japan TV. My son moved onto other titles, but they still watch Naruto when they can. As for Anime snobs and Naruto, get over it. Sure it is light entertainment, so what. It is immensely better than DBZ. It sure beats a lot of light entertainment out there. And there are some genuinely funny moments. Two side effects are that Ramen has been addded to the staple diet in our house and one of my kids is now learning Japanese.
I went through that IMDB list and counted just over 70 of those I haven't seen. Some I may have missed and counted them as "not watched" as I was too lazy to translate their titles to english. I did recognise a few of them like "Battleship Potemkin and Motorcycle Diaries. On the other hand, thankfully, I have only squirmed through 5 of these http://imdb.com/chart/bottom. Three of them I endured before my kids acquired a taste for good movies (or they could go watch the crap ones by themselves). "Chicken Park" wasn't on the list, though I only could watch it on video for about 15 minutes.
What if SEC said this? "I hear a lot of corporate frauds use CARS on ROADS to get to their victims. They often use PLANES and TELEPHONES, MOBILE PHONES and COMPUTERS. Without this technology, they wouldn't be doing what they are doing." They'd be laughed out of the public arena. The MPAA only get traction on this because BitTorrent is not something in most people's everyday experience.
Excellent point. I have a Honda Jazz GLi (in Japan, it is called the "Fit") and on a recent trip to the NSW south coast from Canberra, I got 4.2 L/100km down there and a total trip usage of 4.6 L/100km. By accelerating and slowing down slowly, I was able to cut my previous trip usage by a full litre per 100 km.
The Jazz has a 1.3 L dual spark ignition motor coupled with a CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission). It costs about 1/2 to 2/3 of a Prius. It doesn't seem to be available in in the US. Here is more info http://www.honda.com.au/jazz/gli/index.htm
Angband roolz. Quake is great too. I played a lot more 'bands than Quake though. Quake 1 - 100 hours, Quake 20 - 20 hours; Quake 3 - 3 hours. Angband - 250 hours, Zangband - 100 hours. Is there a pattern here? I have to restrict my 'band playing to semester breaks though;-)
Fantastic post there. Thanks for that. I have never been a maths wiz but I started a part-time science degree a couple of years ago. I tentatively put in two intro-level Maths courses in my second year plan as I was not confident of passing, given my previous experiences. During the first year, I was horrified at the general aversion to Maths among the science and arts students I came across. A sad state of affairs. I did a bridging course over summer and ended up enrolling in the honours stream Maths. It was fantastic as we went into maths foundations and analysis. I didn't do very well, but noone could get by with just memorising procedures. I have since dropped to the middle stream where it is more formulaic, but I can use the analytic skills I learned last year to succeed. Truly inspiring maths teachers are a rare breed. Sometimes really good mathematicians are deficient in human communicaiton skills. This doesn't help matters.
The reason Tannenbaum apparently gave Linus a "C" for his kernel hack probably wouldn't have been that the code was bad or derivative, but that he disapproved of sacrificing design elegance for a performance benefit available only on the x86.
Here is what Tannenbaum really said:-
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is
a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not
get a high grade for such a design:-)
And how fast were modems in the early 80s? You are right about the tapes though. Robert E;s used to get a tape delivered, but it wasn't the Usenet Feed for the week.
Evolution happens on a much smaller scale and has been observed regularly. Checkout microevolution in your favourite search engine. Macroevolution takes a bit longer generally, not always millions of years though.
I first saw a display on their perpendicular recording techniques in Shibuya Park, Tokyo. It was an exhibition celebrating Hitachi's 40th Anniversary. Covered everything from household appliances though nuclear plants to robots. IIRC they had an incredible 3.5MB on 3 1/2 inch and 8MB on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks.
You caught it? How? My understanding is that are quite "shy" creatures and only determined people who do things like drag them out of discarded bottles or play with them are at risk of death.
In my considered opinion, Evolution was manufactured with a view to supporting a God-less universe
Lamarck, Darwin, Wallace and others were people who struggled for quite some time to come to terms with what they observed in nature(mutability of species). They struggled to explain this mutability within the prevailing paradigm. That paradigm was based on what they had been told by people of religion was the origin of these species as created kinds. That paradigm had to be overturned as it could not be reconciled with the observed facts.
Darwin certainly was not an atheist when he wrote "The Origin of the Species" (have you read it? or Excerpt from Kenneth Miller's "Finding Darwin's God") His faith in God lapsed in later years for completely different reasons (the reconcilliation of suffering with the idea of a just God)
Evolution was not manufactured. It happens, regardless of belief. Natural Selection is an excellent theory that can be applied to explain this observable fact and used to make predictions about other observations regarding the past as well as predictions of expected outcomes such as breeding or clinical trials for example.
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Thanks for the Marneboy link. I watched that religiously many moons ago. Always waiting for the hair to move in the right direction ;-). Never knew his suit was red!
Good post
(It is the opposite of most other metamorphic reactions, where an increase of pressure/temperature causes the change... in this case, it is the decrease.)
A lot of mafic minerals stable at high P&T are unstable(or metastable) at lower P&T.
The Vostok Ice core evidence begs to differ. Study some geology and you will see there is only one constant - change. The thing that geology tells us is that the steady state is a fleeting dream upon which we build our fleeting civilisations. There is statibility, but it is a "dynamic" stability. The stability of the earth is as a result of the biosphere managing to balance the atmospheric gases so that system fluctuations eventually are corrected. You are correct in that now anthopogenic (yes we are really part of the biosphere but with tools to break balanced systems) change means the earth is operating out of it's normal parameters. When I say normal, I mean within the past million years. Some would argue more strongly than that.
Why the anonymous post? It has generated an interest in another culture. What's a Wapanese?
Check the time stamps. I didn't need to read the article to know that drilling through the oceanic crust is nowhere near the centre of the earth. It would've looked better if I did quote the correct figure instead of the "typical" oceanic crust thickness :-)
12-25km through the oceanic crust is *not* the centre of the earth.
My bank upgraded it's "runs just about anywhere" net banking website. The upgrade pre-release had an annoying "we don't support your browser message". I whinged and a few days later they dropped the code. Nice bank. Thanks.
BitTorrent certainly spread Naruto into my house. With 4 teenagers, 3 of them became fanatics for a while. I picked up the Naruto 2 game cube game while in Japan and it was played to death. I also caught an episode on Japan TV. My son moved onto other titles, but they still watch Naruto when they can. As for Anime snobs and Naruto, get over it. Sure it is light entertainment, so what. It is immensely better than DBZ. It sure beats a lot of light entertainment out there. And there are some genuinely funny moments. Two side effects are that Ramen has been addded to the staple diet in our house and one of my kids is now learning Japanese.
I went through that IMDB list and counted just over 70 of those I haven't seen. Some I may have missed and counted them as "not watched" as I was too lazy to translate their titles to english. I did recognise a few of them like "Battleship Potemkin and Motorcycle Diaries. On the other hand, thankfully, I have only squirmed through 5 of these http://imdb.com/chart/bottom. Three of them I endured before my kids acquired a taste for good movies (or they could go watch the crap ones by themselves). "Chicken Park" wasn't on the list, though I only could watch it on video for about 15 minutes.
University Presses are not-for-profit generally and have high unit prices due to generally low-volume runs.
What if SEC said this? "I hear a lot of corporate frauds use CARS on ROADS to get to their victims. They often use PLANES and TELEPHONES, MOBILE PHONES and COMPUTERS. Without this technology, they wouldn't be doing what they are doing." They'd be laughed out of the public arena. The MPAA only get traction on this because BitTorrent is not something in most people's everyday experience.
Hmmm. So you already shoot down every LEO satellite that passes your field of view with immpugnity?
Maybe there are still unsold tickets for BSDCan05.
Excellent point. I have a Honda Jazz GLi (in Japan, it is called the "Fit") and on a recent trip to the NSW south coast from Canberra, I got 4.2 L/100km down there and a total trip usage of 4.6 L/100km. By accelerating and slowing down slowly, I was able to cut my previous trip usage by a full litre per 100 km.
The Jazz has a 1.3 L dual spark ignition motor coupled with a CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission). It costs about 1/2 to 2/3 of a Prius. It doesn't seem to be available in in the US. Here is more info http://www.honda.com.au/jazz/gli/index.htm
PS Google tells me that 4.2 L/100km = 56 mpg.
Angband roolz. Quake is great too. I played a lot more 'bands than Quake though. Quake 1 - 100 hours, Quake 20 - 20 hours; Quake 3 - 3 hours. Angband - 250 hours, Zangband - 100 hours. Is there a pattern here? I have to restrict my 'band playing to semester breaks though ;-)
Fantastic post there. Thanks for that. I have never been a maths wiz but I started a part-time science degree a couple of years ago. I tentatively put in two intro-level Maths courses in my second year plan as I was not confident of passing, given my previous experiences. During the first year, I was horrified at the general aversion to Maths among the science and arts students I came across. A sad state of affairs. I did a bridging course over summer and ended up enrolling in the honours stream Maths. It was fantastic as we went into maths foundations and analysis. I didn't do very well, but noone could get by with just memorising procedures. I have since dropped to the middle stream where it is more formulaic, but I can use the analytic skills I learned last year to succeed. Truly inspiring maths teachers are a rare breed. Sometimes really good mathematicians are deficient in human communicaiton skills. This doesn't help matters.
Ah. the Slashdot auto-speling corectar works every time :-)
The reason Tannenbaum apparently gave Linus a "C" for his kernel hack probably wouldn't have been that the code was bad or derivative, but that he disapproved of sacrificing design elegance for a performance benefit available only on the x86.
Here is what Tannenbaum really said:-I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)
Note the smiley.And how fast were modems in the early 80s? You are right about the tapes though. Robert E;s used to get a tape delivered, but it wasn't the Usenet Feed for the week.
Evolution happens on a much smaller scale and has been observed regularly. Checkout microevolution in your favourite search engine. Macroevolution takes a bit longer generally, not always millions of years though.
I first saw a display on their perpendicular recording techniques in Shibuya Park, Tokyo. It was an exhibition celebrating Hitachi's 40th Anniversary. Covered everything from household appliances though nuclear plants to robots. IIRC they had an incredible 3.5MB on 3 1/2 inch and 8MB on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks.
You caught it? How? My understanding is that are quite "shy" creatures and only determined people who do things like drag them out of discarded bottles or play with them are at risk of death.
Looks like the moderator picked "Insighful" when they meant "Funny"
Which scientists are retracting these theories? What fields do they work in? Have you read anything in-depth on natural selection?
In my considered opinion, Evolution was manufactured with a view to supporting a God-less universe
Lamarck, Darwin, Wallace and others were people who struggled for quite some time to come to terms with what they observed in nature(mutability of species). They struggled to explain this mutability within the prevailing paradigm. That paradigm was based on what they had been told by people of religion was the origin of these species as created kinds. That paradigm had to be overturned as it could not be reconciled with the observed facts.
Darwin certainly was not an atheist when he wrote "The Origin of the Species" (have you read it? or Excerpt from Kenneth Miller's "Finding Darwin's God") His faith in God lapsed in later years for completely different reasons (the reconcilliation of suffering with the idea of a just God)
Evolution was not manufactured. It happens, regardless of belief. Natural Selection is an excellent theory that can be applied to explain this observable fact and used to make predictions about other observations regarding the past as well as predictions of expected outcomes such as breeding or clinical trials for example.