Postulate: "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
Proof: "You have to choose your life mate. The rules we adopt for this model are that you will be presented 100 choices one after another, you may date them, sleep with them, whatever. But, at the end, you must say yea or nay and if you say nay, you will never see them again."
This is a popular argument, but I'm not sure if I buy it in this instance. True, this kind of research is not the type typically adopted by biotech and pharmaceuticals because it is long-term, and high risk. However, a unique situation has arisen because these companies can invest in technology the academic sector does not have acess to and will not be able to obtain patent rights to(a much wider range of better stem cells). Also, they can play the game that Japanese industries played in the 80's by closely monitoring the progress of academic labs working with less sophisticated technology (existing cell lines) - saving time and money on early stage research as these companies are already used to doing. Additionally, the massive media attention, miraculous promises, and dramatic preliminary results thus far achieved have likely created a milieu of eager investors.
netscape lost its sexiness in the public eye when it failed to keep up with IE. The whole mozilla revival thing with version 7 failed because it was essentially an older less sexy version of mozilla that had ads and spyware (AOL) stuck in it with no advantages over the true mozilla browser and was further dragged down by the netscape name which had already become synonmous with oldy-moldy. Now they are going to try to jump on the firefox bandwagon which will surely lead down the same avenue and may even taint the firefox name.
man, screw your moon base. Perfect place for a five-star resort. This sounds like prime realty. The europeans should stake a claim to it and auction it off as land for when the moon is colonized. The price this would go for would probably fund a colonization project, oh and a moonbase - somewhere else.
yeah, I get it. I was trying to play on the dynamic that exists betweening marketing and engineering - some obvious technological advance is stymied because of the profit to be gained by pressuring consumers into a stepwise upgrade scheme.
I picked the example of the razor companies, because it is easy, and potentially humorous to imagine a group of engineers drafting up a plan for a three bladed razor and one rogue engineer saying something like, "...and what if we added a fourth blade?!" A silence fills the drafting room, the other engineers stare at this outcast like he is completely mad and then knowingly at each-other. One of them nods his head cautiously toward a dark glass panel on the side of the room (he's hinting at the one-way window where the marketing department peers on at the group). They then return to their discussions of their new three-bladed masterpiece trying to pretend that nothing has just happened.
obviously the folks that made the blue laser devices had as much foresight as the razor-company engineers that felt that they had to make a three blade razor before they could make one with four blades.
have you been to a video arcade recently? It's pretty damn easy to sit behind a computer and kill all sorts of things in all sorts of ways.
I imagine that the military is planning on implementing these robots in the same fashion as bots deployed in that movie toys - they will be controlled by unknowning teenagers with good reflexes and hand-eye coordination.
Well, it's becoming relatively obvious at this point that Bush is going to lose tonight, but in his memory perhaps we need a doctrine for spyware that is similar to the anti-terrorism doctorine he founded.
As a result, SpywareInfo and many other anti-spyware sites are delisting Aluria's 'Spyware Eliminator' from their lists of preferred software.
I would encourage these groups to take it one step further and to consider software that associates spyware - spyware itself. I would love to see Ad-aware detect 'Spyware Eliminator' as spyware.
So could there be a service that puts this stuff on your existing CD collection for you? Or for that matter just about anything? If this coating is as good as they make it sound, I want just about everything I own shellacked with it.
How is this like the hole hawg? As long as I am aware of the potential consequences of using the hole hawg I can avoid them. If used correctly it can make just about any kind of hole I want. I can't control the google desktop, it simply allows users to jump the security rules that the OS and most software obey.
This inability to control this problem is why, my dear Ms. Mayer, this is a bug and not a feature.
this is surely flamebait, but this is exactly the reason I was always so disgusted when studying the social sciences. The more I read, the more I would see social "scientists" using "math" in "formulas" such as this which only serve to impress upon the reader a sense of discovery or understanding by the author.
looking at the Saftey Page only proceeded to scare the crap out of me. "In a front collision the wheels also serve as a crumple zone."
That's wonderful. Many times 4 feet of steel crumple zone in the hood is not enough, but here we have two little dinky wheels to take the edge off the impact.
I did not feel like jumping through all of MSN's convoluded hoops to be able to play the crash video, but it looks to me as though it simply demonstrates that real cars have crumple zones and the "smart" car is a rigid little bubble of doom. I'd like to see the standard 30mph into a cement wall test.
To me this car is cute the way a handgrenade is cute.
Shatner has a temper as short as a Klingon's. He would be a wreck in a reality tv kind of situation.
Have you heard him freak out about his hairpiece?
If anyone can find a link to the radio interview I am referring to, please post it here.
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Postulate:
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
Proof:
"You have to choose your life mate. The rules we adopt for this model are that you will be presented 100 choices one after another, you may date them, sleep with them, whatever. But, at the end, you must say yea or nay and if you say nay, you will never see them again."
This is a popular argument, but I'm not sure if I buy it in this instance. True, this kind of research is not the type typically adopted by biotech and pharmaceuticals because it is long-term, and high risk. However, a unique situation has arisen because these companies can invest in technology the academic sector does not have acess to and will not be able to obtain patent rights to(a much wider range of better stem cells). Also, they can play the game that Japanese industries played in the 80's by closely monitoring the progress of academic labs working with less sophisticated technology (existing cell lines) - saving time and money on early stage research as these companies are already used to doing. Additionally, the massive media attention, miraculous promises, and dramatic preliminary results thus far achieved have likely created a milieu of eager investors.
it's because it's cached on all our machines already from the last time it was posted =)
a bit huburistic for the poster to assume he'd start a tidalwave.
Shuttle website here
uhh, try mozilla 1.7.3 - works fine.
netscape lost its sexiness in the public eye when it failed to keep up with IE. The whole mozilla revival thing with version 7 failed because it was essentially an older less sexy version of mozilla that had ads and spyware (AOL) stuck in it with no advantages over the true mozilla browser and was further dragged down by the netscape name which had already become synonmous with oldy-moldy. Now they are going to try to jump on the firefox bandwagon which will surely lead down the same avenue and may even taint the firefox name.
I would prefer to see a walking robotic banana lead the flies out of my kitchen. but, hey, that's just me.
man, screw your moon base. Perfect place for a five-star resort. This sounds like prime realty. The europeans should stake a claim to it and auction it off as land for when the moon is colonized. The price this would go for would probably fund a colonization project, oh and a moonbase - somewhere else.
This looks like serious competition for Paul Allen's Science Fiction Museum."
Yeah, I can't decide which one to poop on.
Au contraire!
yeah, I get it. I was trying to play on the dynamic that exists betweening marketing and engineering - some obvious technological advance is stymied because of the profit to be gained by pressuring consumers into a stepwise upgrade scheme.
I picked the example of the razor companies, because it is easy, and potentially humorous to imagine a group of engineers drafting up a plan for a three bladed razor and one rogue engineer saying something like, "...and what if we added a fourth blade?!" A silence fills the drafting room, the other engineers stare at this outcast like he is completely mad and then knowingly at each-other. One of them nods his head cautiously toward a dark glass panel on the side of the room (he's hinting at the one-way window where the marketing department peers on at the group). They then return to their discussions of their new three-bladed masterpiece trying to pretend that nothing has just happened.
obviously the folks that made the blue laser devices had as much foresight as the razor-company engineers that felt that they had to make a three blade razor before they could make one with four blades.
have you been to a video arcade recently? It's pretty damn easy to sit behind a computer and kill all sorts of things in all sorts of ways.
I imagine that the military is planning on implementing these robots in the same fashion as bots deployed in that movie toys - they will be controlled by unknowning teenagers with good reflexes and hand-eye coordination.
Well, it's becoming relatively obvious at this point that Bush is going to lose tonight, but in his memory perhaps we need a doctrine for spyware that is similar to the anti-terrorism doctorine he founded.
As a result, SpywareInfo and many other anti-spyware sites are delisting Aluria's 'Spyware Eliminator' from their lists of preferred software.
I would encourage these groups to take it one step further and to consider software that associates spyware - spyware itself. I would love to see Ad-aware detect 'Spyware Eliminator' as spyware.
hmm, you obviously are not L337.
So could there be a service that puts this stuff on your existing CD collection for you? Or for that matter just about anything? If this coating is as good as they make it sound, I want just about everything I own shellacked with it.
yeah but the red sox won the world series...
all bets are off this year.
How is this like the hole hawg? As long as I am aware of the potential consequences of using the hole hawg I can avoid them. If used correctly it can make just about any kind of hole I want. I can't control the google desktop, it simply allows users to jump the security rules that the OS and most software obey.
This inability to control this problem is why, my dear Ms. Mayer, this is a bug and not a feature.
RTFSummary,
but the circumstances of the seizure still remain unclear: who took them, why were they taken, and under which court order?
... But everyone knows these activities will rot you brain!
Yes.
this is surely flamebait, but this is exactly the reason I was always so disgusted when studying the social sciences. The more I read, the more I would see social "scientists" using "math" in "formulas" such as this which only serve to impress upon the reader a sense of discovery or understanding by the author.
Agreed, I do not believe this hack does this, but if it did, it might actually be worth using.
looking at the Saftey Page only proceeded to scare the crap out of me.
"In a front collision the wheels also serve as a crumple zone."
That's wonderful. Many times 4 feet of steel crumple zone in the hood is not enough, but here we have two little dinky wheels to take the edge off the impact.
I did not feel like jumping through all of MSN's convoluded hoops to be able to play the crash video, but it looks to me as though it simply demonstrates that real cars have crumple zones and the "smart" car is a rigid little bubble of doom. I'd like to see the standard 30mph into a cement wall test.
To me this car is cute the way a handgrenade is cute.
Shatner has a temper as short as a Klingon's. He would be a wreck in a reality tv kind of situation.
Have you heard him freak out about his hairpiece?
If anyone can find a link to the radio interview I am referring to, please post it here.