Just think of how good it could be if you could actually PAY people to put in the effort to make things right?
Uhh, no thanks. I've already done that and guess what, the software was STILL crap, but I got a huge impression of a misplaced sense of authority and entitlement from the publisher...
I remember reading about this as a kid, probably introduced to it by Carl Sagan in his "Cosmos" series.
At the time I wondered, after seeing all those flattened trees, how they failed to find the crater. Wouldn't it just be a case of going to several spots, drawing a parallel line to the flattened trees, then looking on a map for the point where the lines intersect? Presumably all the trees fell "away" from the blast area.
Unfortunately unexpected things come up in surgeries.
Yeah, but it's usually anesthesiology's fault. What they REALLY need to be working on is the "robot anasthesiologist" because a 20 min delay is usually not good enough to respond to minute by minute changes in patient physiology. The surgery part is fairly mechanical and if you have excellent prior information and a very good bot, shouldn't be much of a problem. But what do you do when your "patient" develops a collapsed lung because whoever placed the endotracheal tube before the op put it just a little too far in and now the patient's saturation blood pressure is dropping fast, doctor...
Actually, I'd say anything that takes place in public, or over a public network, the governement has a right to observe.
So you're fine with the idea of being randomly stopped on the street and searched by the police, right? Empty your pockets, son, and pop the trunk. Why? Well if you have nothing to hide, you should have nothing to worry about...
Buy an MP3 player and some headphones and shut the fuck up. This would be cheaper and more legal than a cellphone jammer, and would prevent you from deciding how other people should act in public.
The eloquence and logic behind your argument leaves me deeply impressed. How about YOU shut the fuck up? Isn't "telling someone to shut the fuck up" deciding how someone else should act in public? No one wants to hear you being reminded to take out the garbage when you get home, in the middle of a film.
But I need it for emergency... I'm a Sysadmin/Nurse/Surgeon/Firefighter
I'm a doc, and I have NO problem switching off my phone when I go to the movies or at a fancy restaurant. If I'm expected to be available, I simply don't go to those places that day. And I doubt very much that anyone can make up a more pressing reason to be reachable than me. It's just bad manners, there's no excuse.
I was lucky enough to study A-level chemistry in the UK. Despite the fact that I sold out and went into biology (medicine), I used to love chemistry. Our teacher (master) demonstrated the thermite process live. I've seen what happens when you put metallic lithium, sodium and potassium in regular water, etc. We got to play with a LOT of transition elements, making all the pretty colors with the various salts. And of course, organic chemistry was a riot.
Poor kids. Chemistry really is fun. I guess those who really want to learn can. As far as I know they haven't banned the elements yet.
HOW ABOUT PUNISH THE POLITCIANS!? I'm so sick of people repeatedly voting in incumbents, then whining about how things never change, and they're just all so corrupt.
Looks like somebody just made it onto the terrorist watch list...
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anyone old enough to remember VAX/VMS?
Hell I'm old enough to remember punch-cards.
Just think of how good it could be if you could actually PAY people to put in the effort to make things right?
Uhh, no thanks. I've already done that and guess what, the software was STILL crap, but I got a huge impression of a misplaced sense of authority and entitlement from the publisher...
Once a Release Candidate has few enough bugs left open against it, then it becomes the final build.
In Microsoft language this is called "Service Pack 3".
Plus the site TFA is hosted on is apparently a publication from The Archaeological Institute of America...??
October, Halloween. Even archaeologists have a sense of humor. Get one today!
I remember reading about this as a kid, probably introduced to it by Carl Sagan in his "Cosmos" series.
At the time I wondered, after seeing all those flattened trees, how they failed to find the crater. Wouldn't it just be a case of going to several spots, drawing a parallel line to the flattened trees, then looking on a map for the point where the lines intersect? Presumably all the trees fell "away" from the blast area.
LOOK OUT!!!
(grabs advocate_one and pushes him to the floor as a chair whooshes overhead)
Unfortunately unexpected things come up in surgeries.
Yeah, but it's usually anesthesiology's fault. What they REALLY need to be working on is the "robot anasthesiologist" because a 20 min delay is usually not good enough to respond to minute by minute changes in patient physiology. The surgery part is fairly mechanical and if you have excellent prior information and a very good bot, shouldn't be much of a problem. But what do you do when your "patient" develops a collapsed lung because whoever placed the endotracheal tube before the op put it just a little too far in and now the patient's saturation blood pressure is dropping fast, doctor...
Either that, or the promised "Free Laptop" from Microsoft failed to arrive.
Actually, I'd say anything that takes place in public, or over a public network, the governement has a right to observe.
So you're fine with the idea of being randomly stopped on the street and searched by the police, right? Empty your pockets, son, and pop the trunk. Why? Well if you have nothing to hide, you should have nothing to worry about...
Experience is important!
Of course it is. You can't level up without it.
Watts per time makes no sense
Watts per time is Power, which is what the electric company sells you. KiloWatt hours.
The ability of a water kettle to boil water is determined by its wattage and NOT by whether it runs 120 V or 240 V.
I am not an electrician but I seem to remember from high-school physics that Watts = Volts x Amperes. Double the volts, double the watts.
Buy an MP3 player and some headphones and shut the fuck up. This would be cheaper and more legal than a cellphone jammer, and would prevent you from deciding how other people should act in public.
The eloquence and logic behind your argument leaves me deeply impressed. How about YOU shut the fuck up? Isn't "telling someone to shut the fuck up" deciding how someone else should act in public? No one wants to hear you being reminded to take out the garbage when you get home, in the middle of a film.
But I need it for emergency... I'm a Sysadmin/Nurse/Surgeon/Firefighter
I'm a doc, and I have NO problem switching off my phone when I go to the movies or at a fancy restaurant. If I'm expected to be available, I simply don't go to those places that day. And I doubt very much that anyone can make up a more pressing reason to be reachable than me. It's just bad manners, there's no excuse.
Does it run Windows Vista? Did M$ appove of this? If not then its ILLEGAL! 0-| >:-(
More importantly, can you watch porn with it?
OBVIOUSLY the guy stole the code for Minix from SCO. Lawsuit at 11.
So he himself registered it, contacted the company, and documented the whole thing, prior to giving the domain to McDonalds.
It's rumored that a few months later McDonalds offered him a serving of large french fries.
Not only that - the idea is to shut your kid up. If you can do it for $14.99 and the kid thinks he got a Wii, all the better.
But where's the crater? "I wish I knew," says Keller."
And no one but me has ever noticed the round, almost crater-like shape of the Gulf of Mexico...?
I knew there had to be a reason...
No, that's just the internet.
I was lucky enough to study A-level chemistry in the UK. Despite the fact that I sold out and went into biology (medicine), I used to love chemistry. Our teacher (master) demonstrated the thermite process live. I've seen what happens when you put metallic lithium, sodium and potassium in regular water, etc. We got to play with a LOT of transition elements, making all the pretty colors with the various salts. And of course, organic chemistry was a riot.
Poor kids. Chemistry really is fun. I guess those who really want to learn can. As far as I know they haven't banned the elements yet.
you'd be lucky if you even got some odd-coloured smoke out of the chemistry sets you see on the shelves nowadays.
Mmmmmmm bromine..... cough cough cough
Yet.
Looks like somebody just made it onto the terrorist watch list...
It went bankrupt in just a matter of months as I recall.
:)
Damn, exactly how old ARE you?