The Department of Justice demands their presence in the U.S., but the Department of State denies it. Neither organization is accountable to the other. It's not like the DoJ can say 'well they didn't show up, it's their fault...'
This is too amusing to NOT be picked up by the media again. I don't think it will result in protests so much as the DoJ and DoS being the butt of jokes for a few weeks, but still.
Radiocarbon dating is four orders of magnitude too short, and needs atmospheric correlation anyway.
Potassium-Argon dating, probably. Since argon is a noble gas, it doesn't really bond with anything, or get trapped in something's liquid or gaseous form. So, when the creature dies, as it fossilizes its radioactive potassium starts slowly decaying into argon. As we know of no other way for the argon to show up, we can be fairly certain about the date that pops out (I'm not sure if 77 million years is so accurate on the dot, but, say, I would be pretty confident that it's 70-85, for example.)
I would disagree. When the Supreme Court finds the wording of the Constitution too vague, they look at the intent of the Founding Fathers, of whom Thomas Jefforson was quite clear on the issue - that one generation shall not have control over the next.
My fingers are crossed, of course, but I am more hopeful.
Blake's 7 is about right as far as setting is concerned. Plots, the kind of ship they are in etc. are all different. Better acting and graphics (duh) too.
If they introduce aliens the same kind of way Blake's 7 did, they have me sold. They should be rare, they should be alien, they should be... different.
Your eye has about 4 million or so cones, which are concentrated in the exact center, and taper off the further from the center (rods spread about the rest of your eye).
So, you need a bare minimum of 4 million pixels to challenge the complexity of the human eye, but because it's so concentrated on where we focus, resolution needs to be considerably higher before it becomes truly unnoticeable. No doubt some videophile of the future is going to whine about missing his 1600 dpi monitor, or something...
If you go to the forums on the ENWorld site mentioned, you can find the project for it. Never looked at it, myself - I prefer other systems to go for realism.
This is all kind of old, but it's Hasbro, not WotC
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WotC has to do what Hasbro tells it, and Hasbro is in its death throes. They're now worth a third of what they once were, and that number isn't going up.
Apparently WotC's art department got gutted like a fish. I don't presume their precious card games are going to recover any faster, at this point.
This is dealing with servers, where 'Windows' makes up ~40% of the market, Linux ~25%, and Unix ~25% or so, with some oddballs on the side.
Granted, these numbers are rather rough, but it's about right. The conversion statistics suggest that Linux is beginning to eat into NT/2000's marketshare, albeit slowly.
NT didn't overtake Novell and Unix in a year, either. I know comparisons between NT's rise and Linux's rise are lame and all, but if the trends are similar, Microsoft stands to lose half of its server share over the next few years.
MacOS X is not going to be helping, either.
All in all, though, this looks like about half of current companies are either moving into a trial phase for Linux, or at least considering it. Results remain to be seen, however I consider this a promising outlook.
Intel uses a Quad-pumped architecture, that is, in a given cycle, the flip-flops trigger four times (beginning rise, ending rise, beginning fall, ending fall).
AMD only has a 'double-pumped' architecture, where the flip-flops trigger on both the rising and fallig edge of the clock signal.
Unless AMD licenses Intel's technology, they really can't compete in that arena for awhile. There are other strengths to the AMD platform that help bridge the gap, for example.
However, the fossil record fails to show the progressive transformation of any living organism into a distinctly different kind of organism. The fossil record is "punctuated" by new fully formed organism. Is it not this observation that is the prime mover behind the concept of the "hopeful monster" or punctuated equilibrum.
If you don't consider horses and whales/dolphins to be drastic changes from their ancestors, you aren't gonna consider Earth's mass and Jupiter's mass to be drastically different, either, considering that they're both planets.
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There are type of glass that aren't transmittive very far into the UV spectrum. Many materials we think of as transparent are merely 'filters' for our own visual spectrum, like a red light filter, for example.
It's weird, I mean, I'm more surprised that BT didn't win, and this is obiously a good, no-brainer thing, but I can go to bed now knowing that sanity does, occasionally, prevail.
If this was not the U.S., but just a hodgepodge of 50 or so countries?
And they go to war, not for land, not for mineral or 'natural' resources, but for fucking (pun intended) -people- and the taxes they represent.
Why can I see this happening? Somewhere, on some planet or continent even more boneheaded than ours, this has, or will happen...
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Akin to a warrior-poet of medieval Japanese fame, only different:-)
I got one poem published in one of the poetry.com books, it is titled Imagination. Yeah, it's cheesy, it was written by a lovestruck 11th-grader, so there:-p
It follows the same concept though. You have something you wish to express, and a set of language tools with which to express it. I've noticed that problem-solving in programming gives the exact same feeling as finding the correct words and phrases in poetry. I also find a good programming mood to equal a good poetic mood.
I would not be at all surprised if they were found to use nearly the exact same centers of the brain, for example.
Having never actually composed music in my life (I've played Piano, Bass and Trombone, a year each and that's it), I wouldn't know.
So many women claimed that they should get their share, that some idiot was just picked to get that share.
Seriously, it's not a 'man's world' out there, it's a 'financial mind's world'. Male or female, it is the same concept. You stick a moron in a place of power, you get dissapointed. Go figure.
The CEO of HP is not the first time this has happened...
There are always difficulties, but if I can say anything about Borland, it is that they have never failed to impress me with their language tools.
I would hardly go so far as to say Borland is going to fail at it. They survive in the shadow of Microsoft, they have to have -something- going for them.
Intel is still making heat-resistant 386's just for this kind of reason. It's not like it hasn't been thought of before, and there are a lot of atoms to knock out of several microns.
Part 1: 1. A method for processing digital signals, where the digital signals have first values, second values and other values, to reduce the amount of data utilized to represent the digital signals and to form statistically coded signals such that the more frequently occurring values of digital signals are represented by shorter code lengths and the less frequently occurring values of digital signals are represented by longer code lengths, comprising,
forming first runlength code values representing the number of consecutive first values of said digital signals followed by said second value,
forming second runlength code values representing the number of consecutive first values of said digital signals followed by one of said other values.
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6. A method for processing input signals to reduce the amount of data utilized to represent the input signals, the steps comprising,
processing the input signals to form processed signals where the processed signals are digital numbers having first values, second values, and other values,
coding each digital number to form statistically coded signals such that the more frequently occurring values in the digital numbers are represented by shorter code lengths and the less frequently occurring values of coded signals are represented by longer code lengths, said coding including,
forming first runlength code values representing the number of consecutive first values followed by said second value in a digital number,
forming second runlength code values representing the number of consecutive first values followed by one of said other values in the digital number.
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Fourier Transform and Run-Length encoding. They patented an idea, and they don't even give a method. The fact that the method involved was one of the most widely used mathematical tools seemed to have slipped by the PTO.
Carbon 14 could use refinement, and is getting refined, but the ones used to date rocks/the Earth are pretty solid IMO.
I believe the coal deposits found with C-14 are those above/around uranium deposits, and they turn some c-13 into c-14 via neutron capture. This is all IIRC, so take with salt.
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The Department of Justice demands their presence in the U.S., but the Department of State denies it. Neither organization is accountable to the other. It's not like the DoJ can say 'well they didn't show up, it's their fault...'
This is too amusing to NOT be picked up by the media again. I don't think it will result in protests so much as the DoJ and DoS being the butt of jokes for a few weeks, but still.
Radiocarbon dating is four orders of magnitude too short, and needs atmospheric correlation anyway.
Potassium-Argon dating, probably. Since argon is a noble gas, it doesn't really bond with anything, or get trapped in something's liquid or gaseous form. So, when the creature dies, as it fossilizes its radioactive potassium starts slowly decaying into argon. As we know of no other way for the argon to show up, we can be fairly certain about the date that pops out (I'm not sure if 77 million years is so accurate on the dot, but, say, I would be pretty confident that it's 70-85, for example.)
I would disagree. When the Supreme Court finds the wording of the Constitution too vague, they look at the intent of the Founding Fathers, of whom Thomas Jefforson was quite clear on the issue - that one generation shall not have control over the next.
My fingers are crossed, of course, but I am more hopeful.
Who IS his ISP? Maybe we can shut the bozo down if he is violating his AUP...
Search results for: 64.80.161.170
PaeTec Communications, Inc. PAETECCOMM (NET-64-80-0-0-1)
64.80.0.0 - 64.80.255.255
Petnet PAET-NY-PETNE-1 (NET-64-80-161-128-1)
64.80.161.128 - 64.80.161.255
If they introduce aliens the same kind of way Blake's 7 did, they have me sold. They should be rare, they should be alien, they should be... different.
So, you need a bare minimum of 4 million pixels to challenge the complexity of the human eye, but because it's so concentrated on where we focus, resolution needs to be considerably higher before it becomes truly unnoticeable. No doubt some videophile of the future is going to whine about missing his 1600 dpi monitor, or something...
If you go to the forums on the ENWorld site mentioned, you can find the project for it. Never looked at it, myself - I prefer other systems to go for realism.
WotC has to do what Hasbro tells it, and Hasbro is in its death throes. They're now worth a third of what they once were, and that number isn't going up.
Apparently WotC's art department got gutted like a fish. I don't presume their precious card games are going to recover any faster, at this point.
This is dealing with servers, where 'Windows' makes up ~40% of the market, Linux ~25%, and Unix ~25% or so, with some oddballs on the side.
Granted, these numbers are rather rough, but it's about right. The conversion statistics suggest that Linux is beginning to eat into NT/2000's marketshare, albeit slowly.
NT didn't overtake Novell and Unix in a year, either. I know comparisons between NT's rise and Linux's rise are lame and all, but if the trends are similar, Microsoft stands to lose half of its server share over the next few years.
MacOS X is not going to be helping, either.
All in all, though, this looks like about half of current companies are either moving into a trial phase for Linux, or at least considering it. Results remain to be seen, however I consider this a promising outlook.
I'm sure -no one- on Slashdot would EVER have seen this one coming...
From more than ten years away, anyway. Heck even before then I could use BBSes for research purposes.
AMD only has a 'double-pumped' architecture, where the flip-flops trigger on both the rising and fallig edge of the clock signal.
Unless AMD licenses Intel's technology, they really can't compete in that arena for awhile. There are other strengths to the AMD platform that help bridge the gap, for example.
If you don't consider horses and whales/dolphins to be drastic changes from their ancestors, you aren't gonna consider Earth's mass and Jupiter's mass to be drastically different, either, considering that they're both planets.
There are type of glass that aren't transmittive very far into the UV spectrum. Many materials we think of as transparent are merely 'filters' for our own visual spectrum, like a red light filter, for example.
It's weird, I mean, I'm more surprised that BT didn't win, and this is obiously a good, no-brainer thing, but I can go to bed now knowing that sanity does, occasionally, prevail.
"I wear dead people" ... Not sure if this is a threat, or what...
If this was not the U.S., but just a hodgepodge of 50 or so countries?
And they go to war, not for land, not for mineral or 'natural' resources, but for fucking (pun intended) -people- and the taxes they represent.
Why can I see this happening?
Somewhere, on some planet or continent even more boneheaded than ours, this has, or will happen...
I got one poem published in one of the poetry.com books, it is titled Imagination. Yeah, it's cheesy, it was written by a lovestruck 11th-grader, so there :-p
It follows the same concept though. You have something you wish to express, and a set of language tools with which to express it. I've noticed that problem-solving in programming gives the exact same feeling as finding the correct words and phrases in poetry. I also find a good programming mood to equal a good poetic mood.
I would not be at all surprised if they were found to use nearly the exact same centers of the brain, for example.
Having never actually composed music in my life (I've played Piano, Bass and Trombone, a year each and that's it), I wouldn't know.
'So, how much does Sony pay you for this?'
This would be funnier if it weren't true :-) Of course they are 66 GB platters and 198 GB drives.
So many women claimed that they should get their share, that some idiot was just picked to get that share.
Seriously, it's not a 'man's world' out there, it's a 'financial mind's world'. Male or female, it is the same concept. You stick a moron in a place of power, you get dissapointed. Go figure.
The CEO of HP is not the first time this has happened...
There are always difficulties, but if I can say anything about Borland, it is that they have never failed to impress me with their language tools.
I would hardly go so far as to say Borland is going to fail at it. They survive in the shadow of Microsoft, they have to have -something- going for them.
Intel is still making heat-resistant 386's just for this kind of reason. It's not like it hasn't been thought of before, and there are a lot of atoms to knock out of several microns.
Part 1:
1. A method for processing digital signals, where the digital signals have first values, second values and other values, to reduce the amount of data utilized to represent the digital signals and to form statistically coded signals such that the more frequently occurring values of digital signals are represented by shorter code lengths and the less frequently occurring values of digital signals are represented by longer code lengths, comprising,
forming first runlength code values representing the number of consecutive first values of said digital signals followed by said second value,
forming second runlength code values representing the number of consecutive first values of said digital signals followed by one of said other values.
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6. A method for processing input signals to reduce the amount of data utilized to represent the input signals, the steps comprising,
processing the input signals to form processed signals where the processed signals are digital numbers having first values, second values, and other values,
coding each digital number to form statistically coded signals such that the more frequently occurring values in the digital numbers are represented by shorter code lengths and the less frequently occurring values of coded signals are represented by longer code lengths, said coding including,
forming first runlength code values representing the number of consecutive first values followed by said second value in a digital number,
forming second runlength code values representing the number of consecutive first values followed by one of said other values in the digital number.
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Fourier Transform and Run-Length encoding. They patented an idea, and they don't even give a method. The fact that the method involved was one of the most widely used mathematical tools seemed to have slipped by the PTO.
Speed of sound is significantly lower higher in the atmosphere, and since there is less air resistance, he can fall faster.
The last attempt, five miles lower, got pretty close to the speed of sound, this should do it. Not sure how safe it would be, but he should break it.
Of course, if his chute doesn't open, he becomes his own airbrake and bursts into flames.
I believe the coal deposits found with C-14 are those above/around uranium deposits, and they turn some c-13 into c-14 via neutron capture. This is all IIRC, so take with salt.