> If this "clock" could live up to its claims... > to clock an object...
Why can't you write "cloak". Try it... Cl-oooooooooooo-ak. Try it again.
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Ape-Human DNA Split
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· Score: 3, Interesting
> Cannibalism [...], why is it that we as human beings find it so distasteful? Same-species protein is wrong simply because it comes from the same species.
Incorrect.
Cannibalism is wrong because same-species flesh carries bacteria, viruses, prions, concentrated toxins, and all sorts of nasty stuff that is bad for us.
Many seemingly senseless taboos have a basis in fact.
Why is it we eat lots of herbivores (chickens, pigs, cows, etc), but we don't eat carnivores (dogs, cats, tigers, lions)? Is it because it doesn't seem "right", or because carnivores being higher up the food chain concentrate toxins?
Why don't Jews eat pork? Is it because God said so, or is it because God (and his numerous assistants down here) noticed that before refrigerators you got Trichinosis from eating pork?
Why do many organized religions have taboos against sex outside of marriage? Is it because you will go to hell if you have sex, or perhaps it is because people recognized that lots of promiscuous sex was correlated to diseases?
>... the indigenous population of the Canary Islands. They lived on the string of islands, but never built boats and thus never actually met. They communicated between islands using whistles. In fact, their entire language was built on whistles. They are the only group of humans known to have a language built on whistles. Unfortunately, upon colonization of the Canaries, the Spanish all but wiped them out.
Close, but you got the details all wrong. "Silbo Gomero", the whistling language of the Canary Islands is a whistled encoding of SPANISH. It would be hard for them to never have left their island and never have met strangers yet still speak a variation of Spanish. It would also be incorrect to say the Spanish colonized and wiped them out... they ARE Spanish.
You are also incorrect on two other points: The language is spoken (whistled?) on only one of the Canary Islands, so it could not have created it in order to "communicate between islands". Instead it is theorized that it was created to facilitate communicating across the rugged and difficult to navigate terrain of the mountainous interior. They are also NOT the only group of humans known to communicate using a whistled language. There are many examples in South America and some other locations.
Why am I now picturing a scene from 'John Carpenter's The Thing' but instead of grizzly scientists in arctic parkas I see a circle of cellphone wielding models suspiciously eyeing each other... "I don't know which of you to trust..." "I know *I* am not a leaner..." "I don't care what you say... any of you moves I shoot..." "I saw Tiffany go outside with Barbi alone. If Barbi is a leaner, then Tiffany might be one too now..."
Having a day for SysAdmins is all well and good, but what about the underappreciated Lighthouse Keepers? These heros of coastal safety never get thanked! Let's start a movement to create a "day" for those lonely Lighthouse Keepers!
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Spam Doesn't Work?
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· Score: 3, Funny
> I'm gonna put my email down here... maxcohen@meditech.com and find out how quickly spammers harvest it
Nice try Max. If you need a Penis enlarger, just say so. You don't have to pretend this is a "market experiment".
> I've played a lot of strategy games in my life [...] these games have made me MORE intelligent by finding different solutions to different problems.
Since you've master those problems, here are some slightly more difficult problems for you to tackle:
1) Start a new company, grow it to the point where it employees hundreds of people, and go public for millions. Repeat.
2) Get laid. Get so good at it that you can walk into any social situation and walk out with someone you just met.
3) Find a person who perfectly compliments your own strengths and faults, marry them, create a strong and lasting marriage, have kids, and raise them to be excellent people.
you get the idea... I find these games to be much more challenging and rewarding than most video games.
The training of video games does NOT necessarily translate to real life.
During the first trial run they had the power turned up too high on the magnets. You can see in the photo that the train is levitating a good 15' above the track. This caused stability problems and the power has been reduced in subsequent trial runs.
Perhaps Lucas wants to acknowledge what a mistake Jar-Jar is by giving the fans what they want. The new scene will have Jar-Jar as a groveling, mistreated, abused slave of the Emperor. The Emperor will be in a discussion with his heads of state while Jar-Jar crawls in on all fours carrying a drink for the Emperor. Obviously beaten and broken, Jar-Jar cringes at each movement of his master.
Of course... since Jar-Jar is obviously a racial stereotype this may not go over so well...
>> Being 6'4'' the thing I look for in a cinema is enough room for me to sit comfortably and stretch my legs. > Amen brother. being 6' 5" makes sitting in movie theater rows awful cramped. Plus I can't find a place to keep my huge feets. =/
You said it man. Being 6'6" sure is a drag because I am so huge. In fact, slightly huger than you.
>... the military... thought this through... I'm sure they'll find a solution
Don't be so sure. All the military cares about is padding their budget and a fat private sector job after they "retire". Read about how they faked the results of the missile defense tests.
Don't worry- the same thing happened to the art world when making realistic paintings first became possible. Then the camera make it irrelevant and art reacted by moving away from photo-realism. The same will happen in computer graphics and games. Once we have perfected photorealism it will become passe and new areas of creativity will be explored. My guess is when 'Final Fantasy' (the movie) level graphics appear in games we will see a reaction against photo-realism and see some really creative ideas start popping up (most really terrible, but some great).
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> If this "clock" could live up to its claims...
> to clock an object...
Why can't you write "cloak". Try it... Cl-oooooooooooo-ak. Try it again.
> Cannibalism [...], why is it that we as human beings find it so distasteful? Same-species protein is wrong simply because it comes from the same species.
Incorrect.
Cannibalism is wrong because same-species flesh carries bacteria, viruses, prions, concentrated toxins, and all sorts of nasty stuff that is bad for us.
Many seemingly senseless taboos have a basis in fact.
Why is it we eat lots of herbivores (chickens, pigs, cows, etc), but we don't eat carnivores (dogs, cats, tigers, lions)? Is it because it doesn't seem "right", or because carnivores being higher up the food chain concentrate toxins?
Why don't Jews eat pork? Is it because God said so, or is it because God (and his numerous assistants down here) noticed that before refrigerators you got Trichinosis from eating pork?
Why do many organized religions have taboos against sex outside of marriage? Is it because you will go to hell if you have sex, or perhaps it is because people recognized that lots of promiscuous sex was correlated to diseases?
> ... the indigenous population of the Canary Islands. They lived on the string of islands, but never built boats and thus never actually met. They communicated between islands using whistles. In fact, their entire language was built on whistles. They are the only group of humans known to have a language built on whistles. Unfortunately, upon colonization of the Canaries, the Spanish all but wiped them out.
Close, but you got the details all wrong.
"Silbo Gomero", the whistling language of the Canary Islands is a whistled encoding of SPANISH. It would be hard for them to never have left their island and never have met strangers yet still speak a variation of Spanish. It would also be incorrect to say the Spanish colonized and wiped them out... they ARE Spanish.
You are also incorrect on two other points:
The language is spoken (whistled?) on only one of the Canary Islands, so it could not have created it in order to "communicate between islands". Instead it is theorized that it was created to facilitate communicating across the rugged and difficult to navigate terrain of the mountainous interior.
They are also NOT the only group of humans known to communicate using a whistled language. There are many examples in South America and some other locations.
> It has often been speculated that mitrocondria, the "energy factories" of the cell are in fact symbiotes. Mitrocondria even have their own DNA
It has also been speculated that Midichlorians, which create a different kind of energy, are also symbiotes.
Not to mention a lame cop-out explanation that ruined a once-interesting spiritual component to the Force.
> that guy in the back has a red shirt--must be gay
No, he's not gay. But the captain is about to send him to his death on an away team!
Man, when you say "a little info" you really mean LITTLE info...
The book's review: it's a great book, as great as other great books that were great.
It had people. Really realistic people.
Why am I now picturing a scene from 'John Carpenter's The Thing' but instead of grizzly scientists in arctic parkas I see a circle of cellphone wielding models suspiciously eyeing each other...
"I don't know which of you to trust..."
"I know *I* am not a leaner..."
"I don't care what you say... any of you moves I shoot..."
"I saw Tiffany go outside with Barbi alone. If Barbi is a leaner, then Tiffany might be one too now..."
I want a Shuttle SS51. It's exactly what I need for my "living room" PC. (I like the P4 > AMD for it's better heat handling)
But unlike many Slashdot readers I have no clue what parts to get to flesh out a barebones system.
If I ordered the SS51, what do I do next?
Are there some good FAQs for building your own system?
Having a day for SysAdmins is all well and good, but what about the underappreciated Lighthouse Keepers?
These heros of coastal safety never get thanked!
Let's start a movement to create a "day" for those lonely Lighthouse Keepers!
> I'm gonna put my email down here... maxcohen@meditech.com and find out how quickly spammers harvest it
Nice try Max. If you need a Penis enlarger, just say so. You don't have to pretend this is a "market experiment".
> Zig
Come on! Give this guy some Karma! It's funny. Laugh.
> I've played a lot of strategy games in my life [...] these games have made me MORE intelligent by finding different solutions to different problems.
Since you've master those problems, here are some slightly more difficult problems for you to tackle:
1) Start a new company, grow it to the point where it employees hundreds of people, and go public for millions. Repeat.
2) Get laid. Get so good at it that you can walk into any social situation and walk out with someone you just met.
3) Find a person who perfectly compliments your own strengths and faults, marry them, create a strong and lasting marriage, have kids, and raise them to be excellent people.
you get the idea...
I find these games to be much more challenging and rewarding than most video games.
The training of video games does NOT necessarily translate to real life.
> little girl of about 7 years old with plaid panties
For some really unorthodox views on children and sensuality read Pier Anthony's "Firefly"
I found it a bit disturbing, but amazingly honest, especially in today's political and moral climate (oh-oh I am starting to sound like Jon Katz...)
I guarantee you when she takes a look at the psycho who has kidnapped her about locked her in his pool area, she will be petrified!
During the first trial run they had the power turned up too high on the magnets. You can see in the photo that the train is levitating a good 15' above the track. This caused stability problems and the power has been reduced in subsequent trial runs.
The kids would really enjoy a game of Hitman.
Yeah! You tell 'em!
The correct spelling for Open Source Google modules is: Gnugle.
> Best thing [...] would be a colorless [...] roommate.
Racist!
Why is everyone assuming the worst?
Perhaps Lucas wants to acknowledge what a mistake Jar-Jar is by giving the fans what they want.
The new scene will have Jar-Jar as a groveling, mistreated, abused slave of the Emperor. The Emperor will be in a discussion with his heads of state while Jar-Jar crawls in on all fours carrying a drink for the Emperor. Obviously beaten and broken, Jar-Jar cringes at each movement of his master.
Of course... since Jar-Jar is obviously a racial stereotype this may not go over so well...
> jeffehobbs wrote:e ndo/controller.jpg
>courtesy of Something Awful:
> http://www.somethingawful.com/news/8-28-2000/nint
# cp goatsecx.jpg controller.jpg
Overwrite controller.jpg? y
#
No prices anywhere on the site.
Must be very expensive.
> The problem is ... there's no motive for any lawyer to charge a high fee
Yes, and it sounds like you are arguing that this is a problem.
You must be a lawyer.
>> Being 6'4'' the thing I look for in a cinema is enough room for me to sit comfortably and stretch my legs.
> Amen brother. being 6' 5" makes sitting in movie theater rows awful cramped. Plus I can't find a place to keep my huge feets. =/
You said it man. Being 6'6" sure is a drag because I am so huge. In fact, slightly huger than you.
> ... the military ... thought this through ... I'm sure they'll find a solution
Don't be so sure. All the military cares about is padding their budget and a fat private sector job after they "retire".
Read about how they faked the results of the missile defense tests.
Don't worry- the same thing happened to the art world when making realistic paintings first became possible. Then the camera make it irrelevant and art reacted by moving away from photo-realism. The same will happen in computer graphics and games. Once we have perfected photorealism it will become passe and new areas of creativity will be explored.
My guess is when 'Final Fantasy' (the movie) level graphics appear in games we will see a reaction against photo-realism and see some really creative ideas start popping up (most really terrible, but some great).