does anybody own one?? kiss it goodbye after dimmed sky. and those solar panels you just put on your house? no worky. i hope plants dont mind dimmed sun...maybe beaches will be filled with full coverage parkas afterwards
Baseball is a human game played by humans. If you replace the umpire, may as well replace the batters pitchers catchers runners and fielders managers coaches bat boys...
It's the reporters who keep talking about how scientists are surprised and it'll change everything. The scientists are just happy to have discovered anything and adds to current knowledge.
no, ive sat in waiting rooms with noise generators for an hour or more and after doing that for once a week many weeks in a row, i started really hating going into that waiting room. dont suggest any of that. very bad.
"The leading theory regarding the spokes' composition is that they consist of microscopic dust particles suspended away from the main ring by electrostatic repulsion, as they rotate almost synchronously with the magnetosphere of Saturn."
This is NOT like galactic rotation or any kind of like a solid disk. These formations are influenced by the rotation of Saturn's magnetosphere which you should expect to rotate as a coherent unit.
when there's enough turbulence that all of the falling down passengers roll to the back of the plane there wont be enough elevator to lift the tail == doesn't fly
Ok so it looked kinda neat so I decided to try it last year. I spent a couple weeks on and off messing around with Scratch and yeah I had a bit of fun. I've been coding since 1980 so of course I just see Scratch as yet another syntax. I'm a clock nut, so the first thing I wanted to do was make a clock. Welp. To do that you need to know what time it is. Guess what? You need a new block to do that! I would've expected getting time and date would be a rather likely thing to include in the default set of blocks. I'm sort of glad it wasn't because it turned me on to one fault I found with Scratch. I had no trouble digging through forum posts and eventually making a time block and a date block. I got my clock going in a matter of moments afterward with several sprites and it looked kinda spiffy. So I saved it and went to bed. Next day I get up to do some work on the thing and what a lode of BS! My time blocks were gone! Well after hours of digging in forums again I found out how to save my blocks so they'd be reloaded when I started Scratch...or so I thought. Didn't work! I still wanted to mess around with Scratch some more so I had to remake my blocks every time I loaded Scratch. From time to time I tried to solve the block saving problem again. Eventually I gave up. Maybe it was my version of Scratch that was no good but I did try a couple other versions.
Now I'm sure a bunch of you/.ers will chime in and say what an idiot I was for failing at this, but I find it a shortcoming of Scratch that it should be difficult to save new and simple blocks so that they're reloaded thence forth. What a PITA it is too for would be downloaders of my project to have to create these blocks to have my program work for them. I can accept that yes thats just the way it is with mods. But for goodness sake I find it a major problem that such simple mods would be so much of a pain that most people couldn't be expected to do it just to see your pitiful little noob project. Were that issue to go away, I still wouldn't torture anyone to learn scratch vs BASIC as a first language or pick your favorite text language to start with. I don't think its too much to ask to type a bit of text to get to the fun parts and you can do it pretty quickly in a few languages.
IMO, Scratch fail.
PS. I thought MIT was full of smart people.
Why does Occam's Razor favor the airliner when there is a very distinct history of missile tests off the coast of southern California and from Vandenberg on the coast of southern California? It would seem that Occam's Razor would favor the missile because it is the most common and obvious answer given the location. It happens multiple times per year. I know because I live here.
Which is so much more often than the 100s of times daily that commercial jets leave LAX?
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there is no evidence for souls, adding in that bit doesnt make any argument
does anybody own one?? kiss it goodbye after dimmed sky. and those solar panels you just put on your house? no worky. i hope plants dont mind dimmed sun...maybe beaches will be filled with full coverage parkas afterwards
Baseball is a human game played by humans. If you replace the umpire, may as well replace the batters pitchers catchers runners and fielders managers coaches bat boys...
You forgot, Google took away the don't be evil motto
It's the reporters who keep talking about how scientists are surprised and it'll change everything. The scientists are just happy to have discovered anything and adds to current knowledge.
no, ive sat in waiting rooms with noise generators for an hour or more and after doing that for once a week many weeks in a row, i started really hating going into that waiting room. dont suggest any of that. very bad.
from the wikipedia article you cited:
"The leading theory regarding the spokes' composition is that they consist of microscopic dust particles suspended away from the main ring by electrostatic repulsion, as they rotate almost synchronously with the magnetosphere of Saturn."
This is NOT like galactic rotation or any kind of like a solid disk. These formations are influenced by the rotation of Saturn's magnetosphere which you should expect to rotate as a coherent unit.
Same size tunnel, note van shaped thingy in video
Good will shouldn't be attacked by asshole
when there's enough turbulence that all of the falling down passengers roll to the back of the plane there wont be enough elevator to lift the tail == doesn't fly
What about motorcycles? Where do you buy petrol after all the cars are gone?
That's odd. I seem to get mod points every time I post a reply to anything. This. Admittedly, I probably post once a year.
Actually since you're asking this question on /. please forego your phd and become a breeder.
This. If you're not getting to work on it right now, please forego your phd and become a construction worker / burger flipper / breeder.
We HAVE solved it my dear fellow geek. Eat the whole can. There are no second uses.
Ok so it looked kinda neat so I decided to try it last year. I spent a couple weeks on and off messing around with Scratch and yeah I had a bit of fun. I've been coding since 1980 so of course I just see Scratch as yet another syntax. I'm a clock nut, so the first thing I wanted to do was make a clock. Welp. To do that you need to know what time it is. Guess what? You need a new block to do that! I would've expected getting time and date would be a rather likely thing to include in the default set of blocks. I'm sort of glad it wasn't because it turned me on to one fault I found with Scratch. I had no trouble digging through forum posts and eventually making a time block and a date block. I got my clock going in a matter of moments afterward with several sprites and it looked kinda spiffy. So I saved it and went to bed. Next day I get up to do some work on the thing and what a lode of BS! My time blocks were gone! Well after hours of digging in forums again I found out how to save my blocks so they'd be reloaded when I started Scratch...or so I thought. Didn't work! I still wanted to mess around with Scratch some more so I had to remake my blocks every time I loaded Scratch. From time to time I tried to solve the block saving problem again. Eventually I gave up. Maybe it was my version of Scratch that was no good but I did try a couple other versions. Now I'm sure a bunch of you /.ers will chime in and say what an idiot I was for failing at this, but I find it a shortcoming of Scratch that it should be difficult to save new and simple blocks so that they're reloaded thence forth. What a PITA it is too for would be downloaders of my project to have to create these blocks to have my program work for them. I can accept that yes thats just the way it is with mods. But for goodness sake I find it a major problem that such simple mods would be so much of a pain that most people couldn't be expected to do it just to see your pitiful little noob project. Were that issue to go away, I still wouldn't torture anyone to learn scratch vs BASIC as a first language or pick your favorite text language to start with. I don't think its too much to ask to type a bit of text to get to the fun parts and you can do it pretty quickly in a few languages.
IMO, Scratch fail.
PS. I thought MIT was full of smart people.
Therefore fake.
Neither science nor religion should hamper the other, IMHO, until sometime in future both might have merged into one body of knowledge.
Religion is not a body of knowledge.
and #1 isn't equally wrong?? How did you start counting wrongness at #2?
Why do people feel the need to respect religion? FTFY
How about all theists?
really? did it turn the wheel and press the gas pedal and break pedal at the appropriate times for you while you slept until you were at the mall?
Why does Occam's Razor favor the airliner when there is a very distinct history of missile tests off the coast of southern California and from Vandenberg on the coast of southern California? It would seem that Occam's Razor would favor the missile because it is the most common and obvious answer given the location. It happens multiple times per year. I know because I live here.
Which is so much more often than the 100s of times daily that commercial jets leave LAX?
Except that if you had proof you'd know something about an unknowable entity and that wouldn't work out would it?
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very good post.