An interesting quote from the site: "Thus, for sixty years Utah has led the nation in per capita production of scientists. To many people, likely, the fact that a distinctive "religious" state was also notable for scientist productivity, was remarkable, a challenge for some explanation."
I don't know if it explains how Christians can be scientists, but it does show that not only Christians can be scientists, but that there are a lot of them.
(To those who object that Mormons aren't Christians, I reply that Mormons believe in the bible, which I think is the point of the OP.)
I feel that religion is bullshit. No wait, I know that religion is bullshit.
I think Agent K said it best:
1500 years ago everyone knew the Earth was the center of the Universe. 500 years ago everyone knew the Earth was flat. 15 minutes ago you knew people were alone on this planet. Imagine what you will know tomorrow.
As a programmer, and halfway decent touch typing class could make my life much much better.
Two words: Popcap Typershark.
Great game.
Great practice.
TTFN
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useful distance is in meters *NOT* kilometers
The useful distance of 10GBase-CX4 is 10-20m. However, 10G ethernet is not limited to CX4. It has a fiber-optic PHY and can interoperate with OC192, both of which have a useful range of kilometers.
The cholera toxin is quite nasty, whether you get adequate water/electrolytes or not.
While I don't know what other effects the cholera toxin has, it is true that most cholera deaths are from dehydration. Rehydration is a more effective treatment for cholera than antibiotics.
Numerous studies have shown that when a virus first infects a human it is generally pretty deadly, but over time they adapt to NOT be so deadly. Afterall, the less deadly/less severe the symptoms the more likely the virus will be passed on...simple evolution.
The reverse also happens, however. If conditions change so that a disease is easily transmitted (cholera during the industrial revolution), it can evolve into very deadly forms.
Can someone solve our quarrel? Is he right and the only thing stopping FTL comms is they ability to consistently change spin? Or am I right in thinking quantum teleportation is just quantum entanglement over distance (seperate 2 particles, check one and infer the other's spin, nothing more)?
When two particles are in an entangled state, it means that an observation of one counts as an observation of the other as well. That can be interpreted as information traveling instantaneously from one particle to the other. Lots of people have gotten wacky ideas because of this. However, the information that "travels" between the particles is random, and cannot be used to send information. Bear in mind that it's not the change of spin that is communicated between the two. It's the measurement of the spin, and it only works once, and only if you've managed to maintain the entangled state while you separate the particles.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that no known phenomenon can be used to transfer information from one place to another faster than light can travel between them. It's not a matter of technical hurdles that must be overcome. It's a matter of fundamental limitations in the way the universe works.
When I was a kid/young adult, most nights I'd be lucky to catch 1 or 2 shooting stars an hour. A fireball maybe once a year, and it was very memorable. These days, I'm hardly looking up and yet I see regular fireballs, sometimes as often as 2 or 3 in a night.
My first guess would be de-orbiting space junk. The number of tracked debris objects that deorbit increases every year.
Really it shouldn't be that hard to find this sort of thing. You can just use a time domain reflectometer, and power companies have these for finding cable faults.
Out of curiosity, how do you hook up a TDR to a hundred kilovolt power line? For example, how do you generate an impulse big enough for its reflection to be detected above the massive noise on the line?
You are addicted to air but no one is complaining.
Sorry to be pedantic here, but there's a big difference between having a metabolism adapted to require oxygen, and voluntarily ingesting neurotransmitter analogues to alter your brain function.
Is truth a consensus process? Have we come to this?
It's not about truth, it's about trust. You can't possibly research every subject in the world from first principles. You can't even come anywhere close. If you want to build on the work of others you have to trust someone. The questions are who, and how far.
Wikipedia gives you a lot of information. You decide what to trust.
I disagree. The thing about paper is that people can read it as well as machines can. There's no way for a voter to trust a voting machine unless he can read the record it's making.
Economic solutions using real money can work, and needn't cost much for those who are sending legitimate mail. The devil is in the details -- some proposed implementations really suck, others get closer to something that regular people could live with. I would not mind spending 25 cents a month for all the e-mail I send, if the volume of spam could be cut dramatically.
You haven't considered the impact of such a system on legitimate mailing lists. Some lists send out thousands of emails per day. Who would foot the bill? If all mailing lists were forced into a pay-to-subscribe model, most of them would die.
A way to solve this would be to allow either anonymity or bulk mailings, but not both. Unfortunately, this would require a new email protocol.
All perfectly unique, all one move away, no intermediate transitions. The trick is finding an electrical equivalent.
I think we should use two wires for each symbol, with each wire carrying [-1,0,1]. That gives 9 possible combinations. If you define 0,0 as "no symbol present", you get 3 bits on 2 wires with a guard state to use for transitions.
The only feasible long-term solution that I can see right now is uploading all players (brain scan, digitalisation and uploading) to controlled server environment, where they are prevented from cheating.
Do not strive to frag with the railgun. Only strive to realize the truth.
I've always wanted to get a CT scan or MRI of my skull, and make a model of it on a rapid prototyping machine. Then I could get a face reconstruction done and see what they come up with. I think it would be fascinating. And I'd have a model of my own skull. How cool would that be?
Face it. There is stolen code in Linux. How much and how severe the value of the theft is to be determined but that there was theft is almost certain.
Did you believe this before SCO claimed it? If so, who did you tell? If not, how did SCO convince you? Or did SCO just buy you?
As others have said, where's the evidence? The answer is, there is no evidence. This is a pump and dump scheme to allow SCO executives to get rid of their stock then ditch the company. And they're doing it on the backs of all those who have contributed time and effort to making Linux available for everyone to use.
How much did they pay you? Was it a one-time deal or do they send you a check every time you parrot their company line in a public forum?
The truly weird thing is that R+B = M, because R and B are on far ends of the scale. We perceive the color palette as a wheel, when it really is linear.
The space of our color perceptions is three dimensional because of the three types of receptors in the human retina. However, the shape of that space--meaning which colors appear similar to each other--is determined by the opponent processes that happen in the nerve cells in the retina and visual processing centers of the brain. There are three: red versus green, blue versus yellow, and white versus black. The CIE chromaticity diagram makes this principle clear.
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So, does this count as a chernobylgram?
TTFN
I will never understand how Christians can be scientists, ever.
You might want to take a look at this then.
An interesting quote from the site: "Thus, for sixty years Utah has led the nation in per capita production of scientists. To many people, likely, the fact that a distinctive "religious" state was also notable for scientist productivity, was remarkable, a challenge for some explanation."
I don't know if it explains how Christians can be scientists, but it does show that not only Christians can be scientists, but that there are a lot of them.
(To those who object that Mormons aren't Christians, I reply that Mormons believe in the bible, which I think is the point of the OP.)
I feel that religion is bullshit. No wait, I know that religion is bullshit.
I think Agent K said it best:
1500 years ago everyone knew the Earth was the center of the Universe.
500 years ago everyone knew the Earth was flat.
15 minutes ago you knew people were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you will know tomorrow.
TTFN
As a programmer, and halfway decent touch typing class could make my life much much better.
Two words: Popcap Typershark.
Great game.
Great practice.
TTFN
useful distance is in meters *NOT* kilometers
The useful distance of 10GBase-CX4 is 10-20m. However, 10G ethernet is not limited to CX4. It has a fiber-optic PHY and can interoperate with OC192, both of which have a useful range of kilometers.
TTFN
once you acquire a copy of the source, you are free to redistribute it
Not only that, but once you acquire a copy of the binary, you are entitled to a copy of the source at the cost of delivering the source to you.
Which is what this discussion is all about.
TTFN
The cholera toxin is quite nasty, whether you get adequate water/electrolytes or not.
While I don't know what other effects the cholera toxin has, it is true that most cholera deaths are from dehydration. Rehydration is a more effective treatment for cholera than antibiotics.
TTFN
Numerous studies have shown that when a virus first infects a human it is generally pretty deadly, but over time they adapt to NOT be so deadly. Afterall, the less deadly/less severe the symptoms the more likely the virus will be passed on...simple evolution.
The reverse also happens, however. If conditions change so that a disease is easily transmitted (cholera during the industrial revolution), it can evolve into very deadly forms.
TTFN
Can someone solve our quarrel? Is he right and the only thing stopping FTL comms is they ability to consistently change spin? Or am I right in thinking quantum teleportation is just quantum entanglement over distance (seperate 2 particles, check one and infer the other's spin, nothing more)?
When two particles are in an entangled state, it means that an observation of one counts as an observation of the other as well. That can be interpreted as information traveling instantaneously from one particle to the other. Lots of people have gotten wacky ideas because of this. However, the information that "travels" between the particles is random, and cannot be used to send information. Bear in mind that it's not the change of spin that is communicated between the two. It's the measurement of the spin, and it only works once, and only if you've managed to maintain the entangled state while you separate the particles.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that no known phenomenon can be used to transfer information from one place to another faster than light can travel between them. It's not a matter of technical hurdles that must be overcome. It's a matter of fundamental limitations in the way the universe works.
TTFN
When I was a kid/young adult, most nights I'd be lucky to catch 1 or 2 shooting stars an hour. A fireball maybe once a year, and it was very memorable. These days, I'm hardly looking up and yet I see regular fireballs, sometimes as often as 2 or 3 in a night.
My first guess would be de-orbiting space junk. The number of tracked debris objects that deorbit increases every year.
TTFN
Radar is using radio waves. We need something faster and longer range.
Faster than radio waves? Got something you'd like to share with the rest of us?
TTFN
Really it shouldn't be that hard to find this sort of thing. You can just use a time domain reflectometer, and power companies have these for finding cable faults.
Out of curiosity, how do you hook up a TDR to a hundred kilovolt power line? For example, how do you generate an impulse big enough for its reflection to be detected above the massive noise on the line?
TTFN
Ye find yeself in yon tech manual. Ye see a ASTROLABE. Obvious exits are NEXT PAGE, LAST PAGE, and LEWIS.
What wouldst thou deau?
>Get ye astrolabe
You can't get ye astrolabe!
(with apologies to the Homestar Runner gang...for sooth!)
You are addicted to air but no one is complaining.
Sorry to be pedantic here, but there's a big difference between having a metabolism adapted to require oxygen, and voluntarily ingesting neurotransmitter analogues to alter your brain function.
TTFN
Is truth a consensus process? Have we come to this?
It's not about truth, it's about trust. You can't possibly research every subject in the world from first principles. You can't even come anywhere close. If you want to build on the work of others you have to trust someone. The questions are who, and how far.
Wikipedia gives you a lot of information. You decide what to trust.
TTFN
I'm not sure I really understand your point of using an existing asteroid for this.
I believe the OP's point was that using an existing asteroid for radiation shielding might be easier than the other options available.
TTFN
Look, the paper trail isn't the important part.
I disagree. The thing about paper is that people can read it as well as machines can. There's no way for a voter to trust a voting machine unless he can read the record it's making.
TTFN
Economic solutions using real money can work, and needn't cost much for those who are sending legitimate mail. The devil is in the details -- some proposed implementations really suck, others get closer to something that regular people could live with. I would not mind spending 25 cents a month for all the e-mail I send, if the volume of spam could be cut dramatically.
You haven't considered the impact of such a system on legitimate mailing lists. Some lists send out thousands of emails per day. Who would foot the bill? If all mailing lists were forced into a pay-to-subscribe model, most of them would die.
A way to solve this would be to allow either anonymity or bulk mailings, but not both. Unfortunately, this would require a new email protocol.
TTFN
Plotting their trajectories is something else
Plotting the trajectory of an object is easy once you know it's there. Especially if you have 100 extra telescopes available.
TTFN
C doesn't impose measures against buffer overflows, but that doesn't mean it is prohibitively difficult to implement them.
That is backwards. The default should be secure. C is broken because the default is insecure and it takes work to implement basic security.
TTFN
All perfectly unique, all one move away, no intermediate transitions. The trick is finding an electrical equivalent.
I think we should use two wires for each symbol, with each wire carrying [-1,0,1]. That gives 9 possible combinations. If you define 0,0 as "no symbol present", you get 3 bits on 2 wires with a guard state to use for transitions.
TTFN
The only feasible long-term solution that I can see right now is uploading all players (brain scan, digitalisation and uploading) to controlled server environment, where they are prevented from cheating.
Do not strive to frag with the railgun. Only strive to realize the truth.
There is no railgun.
And it is you that frags.
TTFN
I've always wanted to get a CT scan or MRI of my skull, and make a model of it on a rapid prototyping machine. Then I could get a face reconstruction done and see what they come up with. I think it would be fascinating. And I'd have a model of my own skull. How cool would that be?
TTFN
Then you have the case of wi-fi. Unless your laptop is a Centrino, there is no way of going wifi without a wireless card.
Not quite true. There are a lot of laptops with mini-pci slots which accept an 802.11 card.
TTFN
Face it. There is stolen code in Linux. How much and how severe the value of the theft is to be determined but that there was theft is almost certain.
Did you believe this before SCO claimed it? If so, who did you tell? If not, how did SCO convince you? Or did SCO just buy you?
As others have said, where's the evidence? The answer is, there is no evidence. This is a pump and dump scheme to allow SCO executives to get rid of their stock then ditch the company. And they're doing it on the backs of all those who have contributed time and effort to making Linux available for everyone to use.
How much did they pay you? Was it a one-time deal or do they send you a check every time you parrot their company line in a public forum?
Just curious.
TTFN
The truly weird thing is that R+B = M, because R and B are on far ends of the scale. We perceive the color palette as a wheel, when it really is linear.
The space of our color perceptions is three dimensional because of the three types of receptors in the human retina. However, the shape of that space--meaning which colors appear similar to each other--is determined by the opponent processes that happen in the nerve cells in the retina and visual processing centers of the brain. There are three: red versus green, blue versus yellow, and white versus black. The CIE chromaticity diagram makes this principle clear.
TTFN