The Cornish don't have their own parliament either - well, they do, in the form of the Stannary Parliament whose right to veto Westminster legislation is still extant, but central government simply refuses to accept it or even discuss it.
I remember reading about that from when I doing a PhD in Genetic Algorithms. I don't remember the reference, it might have been in: Goldberg, David E (1989), Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA.
Instead of proving the existence of Dark Energy, perhaps what this finding really does is prove that our models are wrong.
I often wonder if we're looking in the wrong place for an explanation...flaws in our cosmology sound more plausible to me than weird forms of matter and energy.
the word "glas", which is also vaguely cognote to "midori", has different color significance in Irish and Welsh
In Cornish "glas" means blue, and is also used to describe things which are naturally green, e.g. leaves etc. A different word is used for things which are coloured green artificially.
The Celts used a base-20 counting system - Cornish at least still counts in blocks of 20: 1-20; 1-20 + 20; 1-20 + 2*20 etc. up to 200, then in blocks of 200. I still prefer to use SI units in base-10 though.:-D
Hardware and software support under Ubuntu seems to be getting worse, not better. My Epson CX5400 scanner used to work, now it doesn't. Gaim used to be able to log in to MSN, now it can't. These are both long-term bugs which haven't been addressed. I am buying an iMac next time round.
I dual boot Edgy with XP. Edgy has recently (i) stopped recognising the scanner part of my all-in-one Epson CX5400 which was working fine previously (ii) Gaim crashes on connecting to MSN, which was working fine previously (iii) the print quality in Edgy sucks compared to XP, etc, etc, etc. I've stuck with Linux (SUSE then Ubuntu) for many years, waiting for it to become ready for everyday desktop use, but my next upgrade will be to OS X. I've had enough.
How about a straightforward GUI-based installer THAT JUST WORKS???
I have been using Ubuntu for several years now, and SuSE before that, and my next upgrade will be to an iMac. I am fed up to the back teeth with the crappy HW support in Linux, and the loss of support for the scanner part of my Epson CX5400 in Edgy was the final straw. I work in IT and the last thing I want to do is to have to piss around with obscure command-line switches and settings just to install a video driver or support a scanner. In the 21st Century it's (a) insane and (b) not acceptable in a desktop environment. If OSS programmers clubbed together to write a handful of top-end apps rather than hundreds of mediocre ones Linux could be a world-beater.
I am very sorry to say, because I want it to work, that at the moment Linux on the desktop sucks.
In order to maintain a fixed height from the asteroid, the ship will have to fire its thrusters towards the asteroid...which will impact the surface and push the asteroid back towards its original course! Hmmm...
Wasn't it in Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson?) where the counterweight on an elevator was destroyed, and the falling cable wrapped itself around the planet causing mass destruction as it went? Glad I don't live near the equator...
And another thing - how do they envisage putting up the cable? Tying one end to the back of a Saturn V and lighting the blue touch paper? Winding it down from the counterweight?
I don't like string theory - to me it looks like theorists just added degrees of freedom (dimensions) to a model until it became flexible enough to be solved in countless ways, some which resemble the physical properties of known particles.
Don't like dark matter / dark energy either - MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) fits observations better than Dark matter, which can't explain anomalous stellar velocities within globular clusters.
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"If this theory holds up, these dinosaurs would be the only ones that made it to the Paleocene Age."
Nope, these are the only ones we have found evidence of surviving to the Paleocene Age so far. There may be others we don't know about yet.
I blame the photino birds.
"In America they have the imperial system. They wouldn't know what fuck a millimeter is. They call them "Eight hairs"."
As in "my girlfriend's Brazilian has a millimeter"?
The Cornish don't have their own parliament either - well, they do, in the form of the Stannary Parliament whose right to veto Westminster legislation is still extant, but central government simply refuses to accept it or even discuss it.
I remember reading about that from when I doing a PhD in Genetic Algorithms. I don't remember the reference, it might have been in: Goldberg, David E (1989), Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA.
Instead of proving the existence of Dark Energy, perhaps what this finding really does is prove that our models are wrong.
I often wonder if we're looking in the wrong place for an explanation...flaws in our cosmology sound more plausible to me than weird forms of matter and energy.
I favour the name FLT.
Stop pussyfooting around with the phrase "holiday season". If you mean Christmas, say Christmas!
I'm sure there will be a delay in case there's a "wardrobe malfunction" with a space suit.
The length of time to the end game is what made me shut down my Lotro account. £10pm until 2014 is just far too much to pay for a life-sapping MMO.
the word "glas", which is also vaguely cognote to "midori", has different color significance in Irish and Welsh
In Cornish "glas" means blue, and is also used to describe things which are naturally green, e.g. leaves etc. A different word is used for things which are coloured green artificially.
The Celts used a base-20 counting system - Cornish at least still counts in blocks of 20: 1-20; 1-20 + 20; 1-20 + 2*20 etc. up to 200, then in blocks of 200. I still prefer to use SI units in base-10 though. :-D
Aardman Animations (the creators of Wallace and Gromit) may disagree with you that stop motion animation looks "unnatural" and "stiff".
Hardware and software support under Ubuntu seems to be getting worse, not better. My Epson CX5400 scanner used to work, now it doesn't. Gaim used to be able to log in to MSN, now it can't. These are both long-term bugs which haven't been addressed. I am buying an iMac next time round.
I dual boot Edgy with XP. Edgy has recently (i) stopped recognising the scanner part of my all-in-one Epson CX5400 which was working fine previously (ii) Gaim crashes on connecting to MSN, which was working fine previously (iii) the print quality in Edgy sucks compared to XP, etc, etc, etc. I've stuck with Linux (SUSE then Ubuntu) for many years, waiting for it to become ready for everyday desktop use, but my next upgrade will be to OS X. I've had enough.
How about a straightforward GUI-based installer THAT JUST WORKS???
I have been using Ubuntu for several years now, and SuSE before that, and my next upgrade will be to an iMac. I am fed up to the back teeth with the crappy HW support in Linux, and the loss of support for the scanner part of my Epson CX5400 in Edgy was the final straw. I work in IT and the last thing I want to do is to have to piss around with obscure command-line switches and settings just to install a video driver or support a scanner. In the 21st Century it's (a) insane and (b) not acceptable in a desktop environment. If OSS programmers clubbed together to write a handful of top-end apps rather than hundreds of mediocre ones Linux could be a world-beater.
I am very sorry to say, because I want it to work, that at the moment Linux on the desktop sucks.
1984 wasn't written by an American, so why should it be?
In order to maintain a fixed height from the asteroid, the ship will have to fire its thrusters towards the asteroid...which will impact the surface and push the asteroid back towards its original course! Hmmm...
I hope these things are biodegradable, there are enough cds clogging the rubbish tips of the world already.
Wasn't it in Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson?) where the counterweight on an elevator was destroyed, and the falling cable wrapped itself around the planet causing mass destruction as it went? Glad I don't live near the equator...
And another thing - how do they envisage putting up the cable? Tying one end to the back of a Saturn V and lighting the blue touch paper? Winding it down from the counterweight?
Remember the Titanic...
This cool fossil: http://www.dino-nakasato.org/en/special97/Fight-e. html is Protoceratops actually fighting with Velociraptor!
I don't like string theory - to me it looks like theorists just added degrees of freedom (dimensions) to a model until it became flexible enough to be solved in countless ways, some which resemble the physical properties of known particles.
Don't like dark matter / dark energy either - MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) fits observations better than Dark matter, which can't explain anomalous stellar velocities within globular clusters.