Yeah, because everyone that has had multiple partners in the past gets STDs.
No, but there is a positive correlation between number of partners and the probability of catching a disease. It's just like buying more lottery tickets, only the odds aren't millions to one - only hundreds to one. Enjoy your prize.
Another way to look at the study is that iPhone owners are insufferable idiots not prepared to make the compromises necessary to stay in a long term relationship, hence the greater number of "partners".
Either way I hope they enjoy their HPV induced cervical cancer and other sexually transmitted diseases.
But I'm guessing many would want to give Canonical this sort of data, so long as it's innocuously used
We would like to be ASKED. Paternalistic thinking only announces the proponent's fundamental disregard for the user's right to have a choice. It's my computer and my network connection, not yours.
If you actually read the bill you'll realize that it contains $100 billion for spending on "education", clauses to let States governments go suck at the TARP nipple (shocking huh? Whatever happened to green jobs, etc that were promised?), new taxes for foreigners doing business in the US, foreign companies doing business in the US, and US citizens previously entitled to tax credits from living abroad, and well over $1 trillion worth of rescinded spending (presumably to get money to give to the State governments). There are other details, obviously.
Actually no, I'm speaking English. My browser is in Spanish. And I don't wish I was an American since I am Canadian and actually consider being American as a downgrade...
So you have trouble with "quarter to three a.m." being written 0315, too?
Things change when you go from "spoken" or "prose" to number format. The rest of the world uses the day month year, and there is an ISO as others have pointed out which is year-month-day. But only one country insists on month day year...
they should fix the goddamn security issues and start having decent CUSTOMER SUPPORT.
Nah, it's much more important to release a new version that spams you with little pop up windows reminding you that you can use Skype to actually call people (I'm shocked! I had installed it thinking it would defrag my hard drive).
How do you avoid completely theoretical knowledge if you train solely via the internet?
While perhaps this might be suitable for 100% academic fields, sometimes you need hands on experience. I know from my medical training that most of the real knowledge comes from the thousands of hours spent in hospitals seeing patients and constantly being coached by my tutors to think about all the different possibilities for each clinical case. You just can't do that online.
Eventually you have to get your hands dirty. Otherwise anyone with an internet connection today could declare himself a physician (or any other specialized field). After all, pretty much all the theoretical knowledge is already out there. No, Mr. Gates, I disagree. Copy-Paste is not the same as learning. While I realize the rationale with your background (having copied DOS from another company and presented it to IBM in a shiny new wrapper) - just because it worked for you doesn't mean it will always work for everyone.
Does this tell anyone about how soon this laser will have real world applications?
I guess it all depends on which side of the fence you're on. I consider myself open minded. I can see regular cars equipped with these, shooting down the flying cars with a snigger. On the other hand, I can see them mounted on flying cars too. Strafing runs through heavy traffic could make for a very interesting drive to work in the mornings.
However, it just doesn't work for other type of games because people and target markets are different.
Interesting hypothesis. Now how can we prove this?
I would argue that there have been plenty of examples of "not so niche market" games released without DRM (examples: Return to Castle Wolfenstein and DOOM, both without copy protection, both of them "shooters") having made money for companies. Oblivion has no copy protection, and I don't see Bethesda suffering or complaining. I can go on...
And yet Paradox Interactive has managed to build a thriving company releasing buggy games with no DRM at all. Oh, they do get around to patching the bugs eventually, and their games end up pretty darned good if your into the strategy genre. But the only difference between a legitimate, registered owner and someone with a pirated copy is that the legitimate user can use a "metaserver" to hook up for multi-player. That's it. No copy protection.
For a company that's only 12 years old, they've produced or published over 50 titles.
Or wait, maybe the companies that whine about piracy hurting their sales refuse to admit that their games are crap, and that's what's hurting their sales.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Paradox. But I do enjoy their games.
this indicates to me that the critical step is highly endothermic.
It's a reversible reaction. Sunlight favors the forward reaction and that's all. It does happen on its own. And do you know, Vitamin D is good for you and there are pathologies involved in Vitamin D deficiency, but you could probably survive your entire life in a cave out of sunlight. It's not easy to die from rickets - though there certainly would be quality of life issues.
Just how far are you prepared to split hairs? While you may have an indication of the energies involved in these reactions, you in fact are merely speculating. I have studied it. When the reverse reaction happens, would you say that humans are giving energy back to the sun? After all, conservation of energy and all that. Please note the lack of quotes in the above post.
Organisms can perfectly draw energy directly from the sun, and animals and humans still do (such as vitamin D production).
As a physician I find your statement ludicrous. While there is a photochemical step in the synthesis of vitamin D it's hardly fair calling a double bond being split by a photon as "drawing energy" from the sun. For that matter you could say that the dimerization of thymine in DNA by sunlight (which produces the genetic damage observed when a person is exposed to UV radiation) is another way we "draw energy" from the sun.
Humans do not produce ATP from sunlight. Period.
And I would agree with OP - all organisms, including plants, are directly dependent on other organisms. Without nitrogen fixing bacteria to fix nitrogen for the plants, and without decomposing bacteria to release minerals again into the soil, even plants would not exist. While the organisms that are set up to harvest sunlight directly from photosynthesis are the biggest input into the food chain, they can't live without the rest of it, especially the lowly decomposers. We're now all totally dependent on one another.
Uh yeah sure, blame the oil companies for the gas you put in your tank. No on forced you to buy a car. No one is forcing you to fill up, either.
By the way, I realize the Earth has been warming since the last ICE AGE - it does these cycles from time to time. I doubt very much that the human race has anything but a negligible impact on this process, however. We will poison ourselves long before we can change mother Earth. She can take super-volcanoes with no problem. Why should she be concerned with us?
There's nothing like the back-stabbing hateful environment of the corporate world. Still, I'm sure the CEO will be ok with his multi-million dollar pension and more millions in stock and options.
And what's more we've built an information system that everyone can access from anywhere in the world. Said system never sleeps, and never forgets. Ever. So what you did to that puppy when you were 7, yeah, we'll always know about it.
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Yeah, because everyone that has had multiple partners in the past gets STDs.
No, but there is a positive correlation between number of partners and the probability of catching a disease. It's just like buying more lottery tickets, only the odds aren't millions to one - only hundreds to one. Enjoy your prize.
Another way to look at the study is that iPhone owners are insufferable idiots not prepared to make the compromises necessary to stay in a long term relationship, hence the greater number of "partners".
Either way I hope they enjoy their HPV induced cervical cancer and other sexually transmitted diseases.
That's how the government does it...
But I'm guessing many would want to give Canonical this sort of data, so long as it's innocuously used
We would like to be ASKED. Paternalistic thinking only announces the proponent's fundamental disregard for the user's right to have a choice. It's my computer and my network connection, not yours.
Doh! :)
That goes a long way in why France is aligned with Iran and the Arab states.
Yep. You just keep watching that Fox News.
If you actually read the bill you'll realize that it contains $100 billion for spending on "education", clauses to let States governments go suck at the TARP nipple (shocking huh? Whatever happened to green jobs, etc that were promised?), new taxes for foreigners doing business in the US, foreign companies doing business in the US, and US citizens previously entitled to tax credits from living abroad, and well over $1 trillion worth of rescinded spending (presumably to get money to give to the State governments). There are other details, obviously.
Actually no, I'm speaking English. My browser is in Spanish. And I don't wish I was an American since I am Canadian and actually consider being American as a downgrade...
So you have trouble with "quarter to three a.m." being written 0315, too?
Things change when you go from "spoken" or "prose" to number format. The rest of the world uses the day month year, and there is an ISO as others have pointed out which is year-month-day. But only one country insists on month day year...
Er, for the rest of us, it will actually be Sept 8th, 2010 (8/9/10). I don't know why Americans insist in writing the date the wrong way around...
they should fix the goddamn security issues and start having decent CUSTOMER SUPPORT.
Nah, it's much more important to release a new version that spams you with little pop up windows reminding you that you can use Skype to actually call people (I'm shocked! I had installed it thinking it would defrag my hard drive).
U.S. society: Violence-minded people want to spend taxpayer money for endless war.
Oh no, this would be privately funded! :)
How do you avoid completely theoretical knowledge if you train solely via the internet?
While perhaps this might be suitable for 100% academic fields, sometimes you need hands on experience. I know from my medical training that most of the real knowledge comes from the thousands of hours spent in hospitals seeing patients and constantly being coached by my tutors to think about all the different possibilities for each clinical case. You just can't do that online.
Eventually you have to get your hands dirty. Otherwise anyone with an internet connection today could declare himself a physician (or any other specialized field). After all, pretty much all the theoretical knowledge is already out there. No, Mr. Gates, I disagree. Copy-Paste is not the same as learning. While I realize the rationale with your background (having copied DOS from another company and presented it to IBM in a shiny new wrapper) - just because it worked for you doesn't mean it will always work for everyone.
Does this tell anyone about how soon this laser will have real world applications?
I guess it all depends on which side of the fence you're on. I consider myself open minded. I can see regular cars equipped with these, shooting down the flying cars with a snigger. On the other hand, I can see them mounted on flying cars too. Strafing runs through heavy traffic could make for a very interesting drive to work in the mornings.
Ahhh, so many possibilities.
Download != playing. I uhh, have a friend who downloaded Silent Hunter 5, played it 5 minutes and deleted it from his hard drive.
However, it just doesn't work for other type of games because people and target markets are different.
Interesting hypothesis. Now how can we prove this?
I would argue that there have been plenty of examples of "not so niche market" games released without DRM (examples: Return to Castle Wolfenstein and DOOM, both without copy protection, both of them "shooters") having made money for companies. Oblivion has no copy protection, and I don't see Bethesda suffering or complaining. I can go on...
And yet Paradox Interactive has managed to build a thriving company releasing buggy games with no DRM at all. Oh, they do get around to patching the bugs eventually, and their games end up pretty darned good if your into the strategy genre. But the only difference between a legitimate, registered owner and someone with a pirated copy is that the legitimate user can use a "metaserver" to hook up for multi-player. That's it. No copy protection.
For a company that's only 12 years old, they've produced or published over 50 titles.
Or wait, maybe the companies that whine about piracy hurting their sales refuse to admit that their games are crap, and that's what's hurting their sales.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Paradox. But I do enjoy their games.
this indicates to me that the critical step is highly endothermic.
It's a reversible reaction. Sunlight favors the forward reaction and that's all. It does happen on its own. And do you know, Vitamin D is good for you and there are pathologies involved in Vitamin D deficiency, but you could probably survive your entire life in a cave out of sunlight. It's not easy to die from rickets - though there certainly would be quality of life issues.
Just how far are you prepared to split hairs? While you may have an indication of the energies involved in these reactions, you in fact are merely speculating. I have studied it. When the reverse reaction happens, would you say that humans are giving energy back to the sun? After all, conservation of energy and all that. Please note the lack of quotes in the above post.
Organisms can perfectly draw energy directly from the sun, and animals and humans still do (such as vitamin D production).
As a physician I find your statement ludicrous. While there is a photochemical step in the synthesis of vitamin D it's hardly fair calling a double bond being split by a photon as "drawing energy" from the sun. For that matter you could say that the dimerization of thymine in DNA by sunlight (which produces the genetic damage observed when a person is exposed to UV radiation) is another way we "draw energy" from the sun.
Humans do not produce ATP from sunlight. Period.
And I would agree with OP - all organisms, including plants, are directly dependent on other organisms. Without nitrogen fixing bacteria to fix nitrogen for the plants, and without decomposing bacteria to release minerals again into the soil, even plants would not exist. While the organisms that are set up to harvest sunlight directly from photosynthesis are the biggest input into the food chain, they can't live without the rest of it, especially the lowly decomposers. We're now all totally dependent on one another.
Uh yeah sure, blame the oil companies for the gas you put in your tank. No on forced you to buy a car. No one is forcing you to fill up, either.
By the way, I realize the Earth has been warming since the last ICE AGE - it does these cycles from time to time. I doubt very much that the human race has anything but a negligible impact on this process, however. We will poison ourselves long before we can change mother Earth. She can take super-volcanoes with no problem. Why should she be concerned with us?
Considering I have close to 5000 posts on this board, that's a lot of puppies. It's an ongoing process. What can I say - it's what I do.
The beauty of open source - you don't like it, fork it.
There's nothing like the back-stabbing hateful environment of the corporate world. Still, I'm sure the CEO will be ok with his multi-million dollar pension and more millions in stock and options.
I deny it. I love puppies. Especially with salt and ketchup.
And what's more we've built an information system that everyone can access from anywhere in the world. Said system never sleeps, and never forgets. Ever. So what you did to that puppy when you were 7, yeah, we'll always know about it.