Now, I know your confusion stems from the many uses of the word "standard" (OOXML is clearly not a type of flag), but you're the one that sound like a fool when you say it's a lie that OOXML is a standard.
P.S. I hate Microsoft, I also hate disinformation. This is a fight between standards, don't pretend otherwise.
What I really dont get is the hatred over the inclusion of jarjar as if Lucas had never stooped to funny critters to appeal to kids in the first trilogy
1: Jar Jar had a lot of screen time to get farted on by a space cow and to step in space cow shit, but cool lighsaber force-sense action shots were cut from the movie. Remember how Darth Maul launches a couple of camera droids, and nothing happens about that? There was a scene of Qui Gon sabering one in half and then rushing to ship, but no, it had to be cut "for time". Time that was spent on multiple Jar-Jar + shit jokes.
The drill is used to make an undercut hole large enough to get stuffed with filling material.
I think the point is to kill the bacteria before they dissolve a hole big enough in your tooth to require filling. Then again I DNRTFA. The cleaning would proceed as usual.
...researchers took slices of dentin from extracted human molars, doused them with bacteria, and torched them with the plasma jet.
Do you ever wonder how they think up this stuff. Some researcher is sitting around drinking coffee thinking, "Hey, I wonder what would happen if you blasted a cavity with plasma?" How do you even think of questions like that without being stoned?
I just figure they get bored with tiny knives and needles and drills, and they want to take a tiny blowtorch to us now, those sadists;-)
It's not so simple as vegetative > coma > dead. Patients can come out of a coma without being vegetative.
vegetative is greater than coma is greater than dead.
I was replying to someone saying that if you detect awareness, it means coma. That guy was wrong, and I supplied information to correct him.
I don't know what diseased brain state you have to be in to jump to the conclusion that I mean that people ALWAYS go from coma to vegetative state. But sadly, you seem to be suffering from that. Lets hope you get better before you get the urge to pres that "reply" button again.
... and have successfully communicated with 4 out of 23 patients previously thought to be in a coma.
A vegetative state is by definition where there is no detectable awareness. You could legitimately say that they were "previously thought to be in a vegetative state," but if you detect awareness then they are in a coma.
To me, Calvin and Hobbes looked like the poster child of a comic that yearned to be on the web. If you read any of his books, he often had long and bitter fights with the publisher about the format of his comics. How much space he could use, if he had to have the “Throwaway frame” and so forth. I wish a comic like this had come along maybe 10 years later so it could take full advantage of the web, instead of being smothered by the oppressive newspaper guideline.
Look at what Lucas made when he had to contend with other people's input, and look at what he made once he got absolute, unsupervised creative control.
The best beef cows are in the US and have far lower levels of marbling than the famed "Kobe beef". It's not a matter of how coddled the cows are until they are slaughtered, it's all about breeding stock.
The beef I had in Kobe was, by far, the most delicious thing I've ever put in my mouth. I nearly drown in my own saliva every time I think about it. So good.... so, SO good.
Actually, there is some correlation between creativity and homosexuality; you'll find a larger percentage of gays in art school than studying any other discipline.
I don't remember that many gays (some, but not that many), but there were a lot of left-handers... And crazy art chicks. THAT was memorable.
If you want to take a dip in the gay pool, it's the theater you'll want to visit, rather than the art gallery.
Part of the beauty of the library is the copyright owner/author/interest holder is NOT able to control access to the work. How many publishers would love to say "this book is for retail sale only: all lending is prohibited" on all their books?
I'm pretty sure I've seen that in print... might have been on a sound recording though.
But we cannot have free and open dissemination of information and literature unless the use of written material continues to be controlled by those who write it or own legitimate right in it.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
So, what in her mind happens when that time expires?
Nothing, obviously: Under ACTA, copyrights will expire roughly two weeks after the heat death of the universe.
Everything we have is designed to work with our humanoid bodies, so if we want to make a device that interfaces with those things, it will work better if it shares the humanoid design.
To an extent. A humanoid form for domestic robots would seem useful but we see that a roomba does a pretty good job and it's nothing more than a flat disc.
Exactly, it does -one- good job. If someone breaks the android challenge, there's no need to redesign every aspect of human life with purpose-specific robots for every single job.
P.S. That logic was much better explained by Asimov, from whom I was convinced.
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Then how the hell did they get an ISO certification? :S
Oh, crap, ISO is in the pocket of major industry players? :(
When trying to debunk an obvious lie (such as "OOXML is a standard")
The first thing to do is to look up the definition of the word.
For instance, A technical standard is an established norm or requirement.
Then you look up the facts relevant to the question. Office Open XML (also referred to as OOXML or Open XML) is an ISO/IEC standardized ZIP-compatible file format originally developed by Microsoft.
Now, I know your confusion stems from the many uses of the word "standard" (OOXML is clearly not a type of flag), but you're the one that sound like a fool when you say it's a lie that OOXML is a standard.
P.S. I hate Microsoft, I also hate disinformation. This is a fight between standards, don't pretend otherwise.
if einstein became a creationist after his exposition of relativity, does that detract from his earlier genius?
if edmund hilary fell down a flight of stairs, does that detreact from the fact he climbed mount everest?
i don't understand a way of evaluating people that somehow their accomplishments are diminished by later missteps
You're right! Hitler SHOULD be remembered as an ok painter. Doesn't matter if he did a thing or two later on that got some bad press.
John Wilkes Booth: Remembered as the famous actor that he was, not for one teensy tiny misstep he might had near the end of his life.
Good idea
What I really dont get is the hatred over the inclusion of jarjar as if Lucas had never stooped to funny critters to appeal to kids in the first trilogy
1: Jar Jar had a lot of screen time to get farted on by a space cow and to step in space cow shit, but cool lighsaber force-sense action shots were cut from the movie. Remember how Darth Maul launches a couple of camera droids, and nothing happens about that? There was a scene of Qui Gon sabering one in half and then rushing to ship, but no, it had to be cut "for time". Time that was spent on multiple Jar-Jar + shit jokes.
2: I have a "french kiss Jar-Jar binks" lollipop toy that I'm keeping as proof that they actually sold such horrible things.
The franchise is dead. Lucas killed it.
The franchise is still churning out TV shows and selling merch.
Don't let the annoying voice make you stop after 2 minutes - once you get about 5 minutes in, you're gonna thank me.
Took over 6, but I listened to your advice, and I now wish to thank you.
This Star Wars review had a a lot more dead hooker jokes than I expected :)
The drill is used to make an undercut hole large enough to get stuffed with filling material.
I think the point is to kill the bacteria before they dissolve a hole big enough in your tooth to require filling. Then again I DNRTFA.
The cleaning would proceed as usual.
cavities (called "caries" by dentists).
(And by the French.)
Do you ever wonder how they think up this stuff. Some researcher is sitting around drinking coffee thinking, "Hey, I wonder what would happen if you blasted a cavity with plasma?" How do you even think of questions like that without being stoned?
I just figure they get bored with tiny knives and needles and drills, and they want to take a tiny blowtorch to us now, those sadists ;-)
"Studies" that are funded or sponsored or promoted by environmental organizations should be taken as expressions of religious dogma
They should be tax-exempt?
And it doesn't matter how many studies you show them that it doesn't, they just won't believe you.
And if you consider that many of these so-called 'independent' studies are in fact paid for by fringe anti-science groups
I'm gonna need some citations on your funding claim.
if this video shows you with a bunny head on, I may have to hunt you down.
But doc, it's DUCK season!
It's not so simple as vegetative > coma > dead. Patients can come out of a coma without being vegetative.
vegetative is greater than coma is greater than dead.
I was replying to someone saying that if you detect awareness, it means coma. That guy was wrong, and I supplied information to correct him.
I don't know what diseased brain state you have to be in to jump to the conclusion that I mean that people ALWAYS go from coma to vegetative state. But sadly, you seem to be suffering from that. Lets hope you get better before you get the urge to pres that "reply" button again.
A vegetative state is by definition where there is no detectable awareness. You could legitimately say that they were "previously thought to be in a vegetative state," but if you detect awareness then they are in a coma.
A persistent vegetative state is a condition of patients with severe brain damage who were in a coma, but then progressed to a state of wakefulness without detectable awareness.
Vegetative > coma > dead.
To me, Calvin and Hobbes looked like the poster child of a comic that yearned to be on the web. If you read any of his books, he often had long and bitter fights with the publisher about the format of his comics. How much space he could use, if he had to have the “Throwaway frame” and so forth. I wish a comic like this had come along maybe 10 years later so it could take full advantage of the web, instead of being smothered by the oppressive newspaper guideline .
Look at what Lucas made when he had to contend with other people's input, and look at what he made once he got absolute, unsupervised creative control.
It helps to have an editor to keep you grounded.
Why does it seem to me that if I were planning a trip to the moon, I wouldn't really have 'art people'?
Why don't you ask Mr. Von Braun and Mr. Disney?
The best beef cows are in the US and have far lower levels of marbling than the famed "Kobe beef". It's not a matter of how coddled the cows are until they are slaughtered, it's all about breeding stock.
The beef I had in Kobe was, by far, the most delicious thing I've ever put in my mouth.
I nearly drown in my own saliva every time I think about it. So good.... so, SO good.
art girls are really a lot of fun.
Crazy fun! ;-)
Actually, there is some correlation between creativity and homosexuality; you'll find a larger percentage of gays in art school than studying any other discipline.
I don't remember that many gays (some, but not that many), but there were a lot of left-handers... And crazy art chicks. THAT was memorable.
If you want to take a dip in the gay pool, it's the theater you'll want to visit, rather than the art gallery.
Part of the beauty of the library is the copyright owner/author/interest holder is NOT able to control access to the work. How many publishers would love to say "this book is for retail sale only: all lending is prohibited" on all their books?
I'm pretty sure I've seen that in print... might have been on a sound recording though.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
So, what in her mind happens when that time expires?
Nothing, obviously: Under ACTA, copyrights will expire roughly two weeks after the heat death of the universe.
people complain about our "unsightly" antennas
I think they look cool :)
a fragmented planet in which access to information and opportunity is dependent on where you live and the whims of censors."
Yeah, it's touching... it's also empty bullshit. When ACTA comes into effect, Hilary will be pushing hard to enforce the whims of her censors.
Somehow "heat engine" directly translates into "internal combustion engine" for me.
That's too bad, I hope this article will be enough to let you correct your thought
why emphasize that it is a heat engine?
Because they figure it's mostly usefull as a heat pump, not as a mechanical actuator.
It's lazy thinking, that.
If you want your floor vacuumed by your humanoid robot then you'll also need to buy him a vacuum cleaner with which to do it.
Because when you already have a vacuum cleaner, and a mop, and a broom, and a shed full or gardening equipement, you only need to buy a robot.
If you robotize everything, you need a new everything.
Everything we have is designed to work with our humanoid bodies, so if we want to make a device that interfaces with those things, it will work better if it shares the humanoid design.
To an extent. A humanoid form for domestic robots would seem useful but we see that a roomba does a pretty good job and it's nothing more than a flat disc.
Exactly, it does -one- good job.
If someone breaks the android challenge, there's no need to redesign every aspect of human life with purpose-specific robots for every single job.
P.S. That logic was much better explained by Asimov, from whom I was convinced.