So in order for this to work in people, we'd need to genetically modify/engineer babies? I don't see that going over too well in the political arena.. at least in the US.
Also, hopefully there's no lupus-like autoimmune side effects. "Oops, your cancer killing super-immune system thinks your organs are tumors!"
Right -- a tenth of a second is nothing. I live in the South Pacific, and calls to the US on the POTS have a noticable delay -- at least 1-2 seconds. On the other hand, my ping times to the US average about 400MS, I have no problems using VOIP, and the discernable delay is usually less than that of POTS, if it's perceptible at all.
At any rate, delays over 1 second can be irritating, but are still "functional." Unless your conversations are often mistaken for auctions, any delay less than 1s should be largely transparent.
I'm guessing it's the same demographic that's already largely aware of current events, at least insomuch as there seems to be a large overlap between/. readers and comic readers.
I guess you've never heard of darn, dang, heck, jeepers, jeeze, gosh, frick, or freak, the latter of which is now synonymous with its inspiration. Also, the moment you start using those words in school, you might as well start walking around in a Klingon uniform -- if that's your thing -- because the ensuing ridicule/ass beating will be no less severe.
Which is I encourage all modders to release nudity patches for E rated games. Once all games have been branded as potential M/AO titles, the world will finally realize that video games should be banned altogether, along with those disturbing statues and paintings in the "art" museums. Maybe then we can finally start clothing our animals as well. I, for one, am sick and tired of seeing animal genitalia swaying to and fro right there in the open for everyone to see. It's a disgrace.
Actually, the article is rather ambiguous: Such components include central processing units -- the brain of the computer that powers its basic functions -- as well as monitors, keyboards and mice that customers can combine to create customized packages they can load in a shopping cart and take home right away.
It could be that the article was written by/for someone unfamiliar with buying computers by the component, or it could be that the program is as you say. I'm more inclined to believe they're actually going to sell individual components, since picking a monitor isn't exactly new to computer sales. What they really need to do is beat Fry's to the east coast (if they're not there already) by stocking a similar selection of products. If not Wal-Mart, then Fry's needs to get its ass in gear. There's no reason there shouldn't be one in every metropolitan area.
The flaw in your logic is that military firewalls are in large part administrated by military personnel. This isn't far from the truth: "Welcome to the Army. This is how you create an account. This is how you create an e-mail account. This is how you unlock someone's account after they type the wrong password. You've got the watch." The only saving grace, in my experience, is when the jobs happen to be staffed by computer/networking hobbiests. That's rarely the case, however, since your job is in large part determined by your aptitude, and those with sufficient cognitive skills to adquately administer a network are generally placed in "more demanding" fields.
I've had less thrilling results from Pandora. If you pick an artist or a song, you're likely to hear more of that artists less popular work, as if you weren't already familiar with them. If you want to hear what you already know about (but for some reason don't already have) then Pandora is fine. As far as discovering new music, I can only speak from my experience in that the bands I'd never heard of (which were few and far between, and I'm not exactly a musical encyclopedia) did not catch my ear. I'd wager heavily that you could get almost identical results from the "other people who bought this also bought..." block on Amazon.
The facts point out everything, but a vast section of this country doesn't want to admit they are wrong.
To be fair, most people don't want to admit when they're wrong. It's just a shortcoming of humanity in general. It doesn't help matters that there are compelling arguments for both sides of most issues.
Actually, the event is put on by the press, not the White House. The President has attended since (I think) '45, but it's not an official government function. This reply is also directed at the sibling post above.
April 28, 2006 Government Moves to Intervene in AT&T Surveillance Case
DOJ Will Assert Military and State Secrets Privilege and Request Dismissal of Lawsuit
San Francisco - The United States government filed a "Statement of Interest" Friday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against AT&T, announcing that the government would "assert the military and state secrets privilege" and "intervene to seek dismissal" of the case.
EFF's lawsuit accuses AT&T of collaborating with the National Security Agency in its massive surveillance program. EFF's evidence regarding AT&T's dragnet surveillance of its networks, currently filed under seal, includes a declaration by Mark Klein, a retired AT&T telecommunications technician, and several internal AT&T documents. This evidence was bolstered and explained by the expert opinion of J. Scott Marcus, who served as Senior Advisor for Internet Technology to the Federal Communications Commission from July 2001 until July 2005
Much of the evidence in the case is currently under seal, as AT&T claims public release of the documents would expose trade secrets. A hearing on the issue is scheduled for May 17th. http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_04.php#00461 3
Well, strictly speaking, liquids are non-compressible by definition. Gasses dissolved into the liquid can cause problems, but a liquid itself will not change its volume under pressure since the molecules are already tightly packed together. The GP's theory is that since the liquid won't change volume (if it's free of gasses.. deionized water is a common example), the hull doesn't need to be particularly strong. The difficulty would be in procuring components with no air pockets. Capacitors in particlar commonly use air as a dielectric, as do most low-voltage transformers, but the latter probably wouldn't be required. I'm not sure about ICs, but I don't think elimination of air pockets is one of the primary design characteristics. That said, you'd have to get custom made components, which would probably be quite costly.
Building a strong hull would certainly be the most economical and likely the fastest route.
The differences are the methods used, the reasoning behind them, and the expected duration they are/were imposed. Lincoln, for example, realized that his actions were wholly irregular and should be but a temporary imposition.
Clockwurk did a much better job of comparing the two than I could ever hope to do:
[A]s Lincoln showed during the Civil War, there may be times of military emergency where the executive believes it imperative to take immediate, highly irregular, even unconstitutional steps. "I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful," Lincoln wrote in 1864, "by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation." Bush seems to think that, since 9/11, he has been placed, by the grace of God, in the same kind of situation Lincoln faced. But Lincoln, under pressure of daily combat on American soil against fellow Americans, did not operate in secret, as Bush has. He did not claim, as Bush has, that his emergency actions were wholly regular and constitutional as well as necessary; Lincoln sought and received Congressional authorization for his suspension of habeas corpus in 1863. Nor did Lincoln act under the amorphous cover of a "war on terror" -- a war against a tactic, not a specific nation or political entity, which could last as long as any president deems the tactic a threat to national security. Lincoln's exceptional measures were intended to survive only as long as the Confederacy was in rebellion. Bush's could be extended indefinitely, as the president sees fit, permanently endangering rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution to the citizenry. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=184448&cid =15229298
(Mod me underrated if you want to mod this post up; I don't want to karma whore off of someone else's work.)
Probably because the Egyptian pyramids are about 5000 years old, whereas the pyramids in the Americas are less than half that -- some as recent as 400-500 years old. That there is much more known about the ancient Egyptians via a fully developed written language helps too. Regardless, any comparison is quantitative, not qualitative, and it's not worth worrying about people who believe otherwise.
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Or we just breed humans with all of the characteristics of mice, for which we've already cured cancer, and all of our problems are solved!
Good thing we don't retain the old cells... my odd neighbor excluded, of course.
So in order for this to work in people, we'd need to genetically modify/engineer babies? I don't see that going over too well in the political arena.. at least in the US.
Also, hopefully there's no lupus-like autoimmune side effects. "Oops, your cancer killing super-immune system thinks your organs are tumors!"
Right -- a tenth of a second is nothing. I live in the South Pacific, and calls to the US on the POTS have a noticable delay -- at least 1-2 seconds. On the other hand, my ping times to the US average about 400MS, I have no problems using VOIP, and the discernable delay is usually less than that of POTS, if it's perceptible at all.
At any rate, delays over 1 second can be irritating, but are still "functional." Unless your conversations are often mistaken for auctions, any delay less than 1s should be largely transparent.
I'm guessing it's the same demographic that's already largely aware of current events, at least insomuch as there seems to be a large overlap between /. readers and comic readers.
The biggest proposal is to change the minimum age from 14 to 18
Yeah, cause I'm sure the other 5 members will stick around after that.
Actually plenty of sites do; they just disguise it as the "Print" button.
Yeah, nothing screams interesting like putting out for large middle-aged bald men night after night. It's amazing they're not paying us.
I guess you've never heard of darn, dang, heck, jeepers, jeeze, gosh, frick, or freak, the latter of which is now synonymous with its inspiration. Also, the moment you start using those words in school, you might as well start walking around in a Klingon uniform -- if that's your thing -- because the ensuing ridicule/ass beating will be no less severe.
Now the FCC's pushing that stuff? Look, I don't have ED, but even if I did, I wouldn't ask the FCC for help.
But just out of curiosity, how much are they asking for 60?
Which is I encourage all modders to release nudity patches for E rated games. Once all games have been branded as potential M/AO titles, the world will finally realize that video games should be banned altogether, along with those disturbing statues and paintings in the "art" museums. Maybe then we can finally start clothing our animals as well. I, for one, am sick and tired of seeing animal genitalia swaying to and fro right there in the open for everyone to see. It's a disgrace.
Actually, the article is rather ambiguous: Such components include central processing units -- the brain of the computer that powers its basic functions -- as well as monitors, keyboards and mice that customers can combine to create customized packages they can load in a shopping cart and take home right away.
It could be that the article was written by/for someone unfamiliar with buying computers by the component, or it could be that the program is as you say. I'm more inclined to believe they're actually going to sell individual components, since picking a monitor isn't exactly new to computer sales. What they really need to do is beat Fry's to the east coast (if they're not there already) by stocking a similar selection of products. If not Wal-Mart, then Fry's needs to get its ass in gear. There's no reason there shouldn't be one in every metropolitan area.
The flaw in your logic is that military firewalls are in large part administrated by military personnel. This isn't far from the truth: "Welcome to the Army. This is how you create an account. This is how you create an e-mail account. This is how you unlock someone's account after they type the wrong password. You've got the watch." The only saving grace, in my experience, is when the jobs happen to be staffed by computer/networking hobbiests. That's rarely the case, however, since your job is in large part determined by your aptitude, and those with sufficient cognitive skills to adquately administer a network are generally placed in "more demanding" fields.
I've had less thrilling results from Pandora. If you pick an artist or a song, you're likely to hear more of that artists less popular work, as if you weren't already familiar with them. If you want to hear what you already know about (but for some reason don't already have) then Pandora is fine. As far as discovering new music, I can only speak from my experience in that the bands I'd never heard of (which were few and far between, and I'm not exactly a musical encyclopedia) did not catch my ear. I'd wager heavily that you could get almost identical results from the "other people who bought this also bought..." block on Amazon.
The facts point out everything, but a vast section of this country doesn't want to admit they are wrong.
To be fair, most people don't want to admit when they're wrong. It's just a shortcoming of humanity in general. It doesn't help matters that there are compelling arguments for both sides of most issues.
Actually, the event is put on by the press, not the White House. The President has attended since (I think) '45, but it's not an official government function. This reply is also directed at the sibling post above.
I really do like the trend we've seen, started by Fox News of hot looking 'news chicks'....
Yeah.. that Greta Van Sustren... Rrrrrraaooowww!
Well, strictly speaking, liquids are non-compressible by definition. Gasses dissolved into the liquid can cause problems, but a liquid itself will not change its volume under pressure since the molecules are already tightly packed together. The GP's theory is that since the liquid won't change volume (if it's free of gasses.. deionized water is a common example), the hull doesn't need to be particularly strong. The difficulty would be in procuring components with no air pockets. Capacitors in particlar commonly use air as a dielectric, as do most low-voltage transformers, but the latter probably wouldn't be required. I'm not sure about ICs, but I don't think elimination of air pockets is one of the primary design characteristics. That said, you'd have to get custom made components, which would probably be quite costly.
Building a strong hull would certainly be the most economical and likely the fastest route.
There is here.
They might be one in the same..
* or whatever the upmod is that doesn't affect karma.. Funny, perhaps.
Clockwurk did a much better job of comparing the two than I could ever hope to do:
(Mod me underrated if you want to mod this post up; I don't want to karma whore off of someone else's work.)
Probably because the Egyptian pyramids are about 5000 years old, whereas the pyramids in the Americas are less than half that -- some as recent as 400-500 years old. That there is much more known about the ancient Egyptians via a fully developed written language helps too. Regardless, any comparison is quantitative, not qualitative, and it's not worth worrying about people who believe otherwise.
...no-DRM with the DVD.
You're kidding, right? DVD was the first widely used format with built-in DRM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Restrictions Weak DRM, perhaps, but it's there.