Consider the "33000" year old wood (not fossils) has been found embedded in "millions of years old" Hawkesbury sandstone in Sydney. Which date is right?
Can you provide a reference? I looked around the net and couldn't find ANYTHING regarding this, although I suspect that it probably has something to do with your next question:
Consider the many, many polystrate fossils in the world. Intrusion's ridiculous, unless you have a religious attachment to the dating of the rock layers that are crossed.
First, the type of fossils you're talking about are, invariably, fossils of trees found in sedimentary rock. What has happened is that a tree (or a stump of a tree) has been covered up by different layers, causing the tree to have become fossilized through several different layers. Go to http://talkorigins.org/faqs/polys trate/trees.html for a discussion of this.
Consider many thousands of square miles of "upside down" strata (in one chunk; yes, even in the US) with negligible signs of movement at the interface. How did they get there? Did the whole lot flip over, extending hundreds of miles into space, and likewise into the magma?
I assume you're talking about places where older rock is found above younger rock. When two masses of earth run into each other, a few different things can happen: They both crumple upwards, they both crumple downwards, or one goes on top of the other (overthrusting). If the one that ends up on top is geologically older, then the situation that you have described occurs
Consider the sudden end of life-signs at the pre-Cambrian level.
The organisms in the precambrian were soft-shelled, and while there are plenty of fossils from that time, you would expect fewer to be found from soft animals. The cambrian period marks the advent of hard-shelled organisms that leave remains (shells) that fossilize much more easily. Hence, the great increase of observable fossils. Not to mention the fact that the "sudden" event happened over millions of years... http://www2.uic.edu/~vuletic/cefec.html #5.4
Consider the observation that the gremlins in the lowest levels of strata are generally the kind of gremlins that would be there anyway: bottoom dwellers.
bottom dwellers? how is a jellyfish (found in the oldest fossils) a bottom dweller, considering that it floats?
Consider the skeletons of modern man that Leakey found much further down than "Lucy."
Leakey found no such thing.
Consider the many thousands of fossil sites at which "local flooding" events are blamed - and the "global flood" on dry Mars - and yet nobody wants to know about a global flood here. Why?
First of all, the existence of local floods in no way implies the existence of a large, world-encompassing global flood.
Speaking of global floods, you have a shifting definition here. Using the example of Mars, where the amount of liquid water on a global scale may have changed, then yes, the earth has experienced periods where the sea levels have gone up and down by huge amounts, when water has become locked up in large ice sheets. Using the definition of a biblical-style "global flood", many problems arise, not the least of which is, "where did the water go?":). I recommend looking at http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/ faq-noahs-ark.html for a discussion of some of the problems with a biblical style global flood.
The problems that science has with young earth creationism are not because scientists refuse to look at the evidence, but instead because they have.
That's because somewhere along the line two chromosomes condensed into a single chromosomes for humans (or some split for the chimps, I can't remember which way it went at the moment). But you can match up the extra chimp chromosomes with the matching genes on a human chromosome, showing that while the DNA is in a different place it still is the same, in the same relative order, and so on. Incidentally, chromosomes are a remarkably bad way of determining heredity, mainly because of how flexible the number of chromosomes is. Adding a whole extra chromosome to a human genome doesn't alwys make an embryo die (although the resulting person isn't "normal"), and in flowers chromosome sets can be doubled and tripled and still generate viable plants. Chromosomes are just the packages for the information. As long as the information is there, it doesn't really matter how many packages it takes up.
Which context are you talking about? The original comment was about the fact that someone found Ms. Breazeal attractive. In that context, talking about someone's appearance is perfectly suitable. It isn't as if he said "her research is crap because i don't think she's pretty".
Well, the book was published back in 1997, so you should take what it says about global warming with a grain of salt. Global warming is still pretty cutting edge science, so "no detected warming" then doesn't mean that it hasn't been detected now.
As it is, there is more research coming up that shows a definite warming trend of the earth. Of course, it is difficult to say whether this is a normal fluctuation or a man-made occurence, but we shouldn't quickly discount the possibility that global warming may be occuring right now.
Did you actually read the whole page? Or even the site where it is posted?
While reading it, my BS meter was pinging pretty strongly. It claims that it can detect what kind of "constitution" someone has (however, nothing about charisma or wisdom). Another page has describes the effects that various "drugs" supposedly have on the iris. "Drugs" meaning "bromides", lead (called "plumbum"), and other things straight out of 19th century snake oil sales brochures. The whole "iridology" thing seems to sound quite a lot like phrenology, aura-reading, and other quasimystical hocus-pocus.
Chances are there was something up there that they could use to kill themselves with. It isn't like the military is against using suicide pills. Remember, Gary Powers (the U2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union) had orders to use a cyanide capsule to kill himself in the event that he was shot down. Problem is, he didn't, and he gave the USSR some great propaganda material...
What you call "lies" is also just plain common courtesy to the families of the people involved. Sure, the Challenger astronauts probably didn't die immediately, but it doesn't really serve anybody for NASA to describe in great detail how Christa McAuliff spent her last minute alive in sheer terror as the shuttle plummeted to the ocean surface.
"It's like the claims that we have full employment. I drive down main street Guadalupe at 7am in the morning and see the Hispanic men standing on the street corners, hoping someone will stop and hire them to work in the fields."
Do you want to know why you see workers standing on the corner looking for day jobs rather than working on a picking crew or being hired directly by farmers? Because, usually, day laborers are not documented workers ("illegal aliens"). While I have nothing against illegal aliens (they're just trying to make an honest buck like anyone else), because of laws which crack down on employers trying to hire them, they must work in a day-to-day manner, getting paid under the table. The fact that they are standing on the street corners is not because there are no jobs, but that there are no jobs that they can legally work at.
Think about it: If there were no jobs, then why would these guys be standing around looking to be hired? If you see hookers standing around on a street, does that mean that nobody is hiring them?
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"Take a look at the TAs on Californias campuses. TAs perform an indespensible task for the school for barely above minumim wage."
I hardly count gaining a graduate education "barely above minimum wage". If the grad students want to make real money they are free to leave school and get jobs in the real world. It's hilarious to hear these students who are living such sheltered, pampered lives complaining about the fact that they aren't being paid enough while they are gaining an education that will allow them to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
"We're talking something "hard" here. If Chevy decided to make a Porsche 911 knockoff and call it a Chevy 119 they would definitly be open for some lawsuits."
What if Mazda came out with a little low slung two seater car that it called the "Roadster", and then later Porsche came out with a little low slung two seater car that it called the "Boxster"? And suppose every other car manufacturer in the world started coming out with little low slung two seaters. Would that be theft as well?
You might argue that "the insides are different", but the insides of the iMac and this other machine are pretty different too. They just happen to look rather similar. Unless this PC clone company directly copied the blueprints for the design, it isn't theft, and as long as they are not trying to confuse the iMac with their own machine it isn't a violation of trademark.
P.S. Don't let your Apple Myopia color your judgement...
Where do you think the names florida, california, arizona, new mexico, nevada, montana, colorado, and texas came from? Much of the western US (and therefore, much of the US in general) was colonized by the spanish, not the english
While english may be the most common language in the western US, it does help to be able to habla espanol a little bit, even if to just appreciate place names a little bit.
Some example street names that I've seen in southern california: El Camino Real --> "the king's road" Salsipuedes --> "get out if you can" Indio Muerto --> "dead indian"
Most of the people who have posted so far seem to be complaining about the same words that they were complaining about before, and completely ignoring the new material that was added to the TOS. For example, look at the second sentence of part 8:
"You license the Content to Yahoo as set forth below for the purpose of displaying and distributing such Content on our network of properties and for the promotion and marketing of our services."
In other words, all the language later on in part 8 that so many people are getting themselves worked up over is only valid for the purposes mentioned in the second sentence. This is important, because it means that if Yahoo was to take your IP and use it in a way that was not for the purposes stated in that sentence then the language later in the paragraph no longer applies. It is wrong to read only the second part outside the context of the first part.
Every morning, double Nobel prize winner Linus "nature of the chemical bond" Pauling would stir 18 grams of Vitamin C into his orange juice! Sounds a little bit wacko, but he lived to be 93, so i guess there's at least one data point on the good side.:)
More rambling: As should be expected, different animals have different tolerances to LSD. I ran across a reference several years ago about an experiment where they injected an elephant with a rather small amount of LSD and it dropped dead on the spot!
Why would they do this? Who knows? Please don't ask me for the reference, because I saw this about 6 years ago and I can't even remember the paper/book I saw it in. I thought it was pretty damn funny though.:)
There's no need for gatorade. For rehydration you can use some water with about 12 cents worth of salt/mineral tablets. The problem with relief efforts usually isn't obtaining the supplies, but is with the distribution. It's really easy to airlift in crates, but it's really hard to make sure that they get to where they should be going. The types of people who need relief the most are usually the last in line when things are given out.
For example: A while ago, when a North Korean sub ran aground in south korea, it turned out that the inside was filled with canned goods labelled as relief supplies from American churches.
Notice how all your "sub $1000" computers that you mention were all many years out of date at the time you are talking about. You could buy an apple ][ for less than a thousand too, I bet, if you don't mind a 1Mhz 6502 processor. I bought one of the early macintosh machines (a 512K unenhanced mac) in 1989, and it was, indeed, less than $500 (as I think you meant to type). But it only had 400K disk drives, no hard drive, and a tiny black and white display. Not only could it not run most mac software that was available at the time, there was almost no way to expand it so that it could. It was close to a dead end machine, although it could run mac write, which was fine for my purposes.
The situation then was very different than it is today, where you can get a machine that is not much slower than the top of the line consumer machine and pay less than $500 in many cases. Your $400 333Mhz machine can run pretty much anything that a faster machine can, and if you really are bothered by the lack of speed, then just open it up and drop in a faster processor.
The fact is, on a power per dollar basis, computing power is cheaper today an ever before. And rather than making computers more expensive, the PC "bandwagon" actually allowed today's current situation to develop. Once PCs became more popular, people wanted cheaper versions of the PC, and clones became popular, hardware prices started dropping, and now you can put together a quite usable machine for less than $400 if you look around a bit. Contrast this with the macintosh, with their cheapest machine being about twice that of the cheapest PC. (And that doesn't even include a floppy drive!:) ) The reason being, of course, that there is no competition Macintosh hardware, so they set their prices to whatever they can get.
Oh, this reminds me of a similar phenomenon: Take a plate of metal, place it parallel to another piece of metal. Put a large ELECTRIC potential between the two plates, and, if you measure it, you will detect a FORCE between the two plates!
It gets even better! If you place a mesh between the two plates, and apply a potential to it, you can change the force that goes between the two solid plates. As you BIAS the potential on the mesh differently, the amount of FORCE changes as well! That's right! You can MODULATE the force by using something as simple as a car battery! Or use the effect that EINSTEIN received the NOBEL PRIZE for and hook up a SOLAR CELL! It will work too!
The US government may not tell you this, but this technology has been around since the early part of the century! This technology allows you to MANIPULATE the basic forces of NATURE, so why isn't it used? Because the MULTINATIONAL ENERGY CORPORATIONS want to be able to sell their overpriced, environment wrecking fossil fuels, and the TOADIES in WASHINGTON D.C. won't stop them.
I doubt that it was sold as "unlimited" I had cox@home for a while (until I moved), and I knew from day 1 that you were not allowed to run a server. Just read the contract that you sign.
This isn't what he's talking about. He's talking about the fact that during a download the amount of data going in one direction is much larger than the amount of data going in the reverse direction. That's the asymmetry that he's talking about.
Actually, what you've described is a nice description of water...:)
Silicon Dioxide is rather different. First, the sizes between Si and O are not that big, with the Silicon atom being about 50% larger.
Secondly, and more importantly, SiO2 forms a tetrahedral crystal form, so that rather than just having individual SiO2 molecules, each silicon atom shares each oxygen atom with another silicon atom. In fact, it ends up that each silicon atom shares 4 different oxygen atoms with 4 other silicon atoms. So, while the total amount of silicon and oxygen works out to 2 oxygens for every silicon atom, there are no actual single SiO2 molecules.
I owned a pair of I-glasses, and actually enjoyed them quite a bit. I tried the version that has a VGA input, but the resolution on them was not quite good enough to use a dos window, and there was some clipping on the edges which made things even harder to use. For watching movies, though, they were pretty cool.
Weird moment: Sitting at home late one night in the dark with my VR goggles strapped on my head watching the scene in "Strange Days" where someone in the movie goes home late one night, straps on some VR playback machine and sits in the dark watching movies. Of course, the scene is supposed to show how lonely and isolated that guy is...:)
I've used Sony's Glasstron, too, when I was in Tokyo last year and stopped by the Sony store. It seemed to be about the same as the I-glasses. I even picked up the brochure that they have for them, but it's in Japanese, and I don't have it scanned in. The big difference seems to be that Sony's version uses batteries.
No kidding! Every chip generation the story is the same: AMD announces that it can make better chips than intel, demonstrates some nice specs, and then falls on their face as they can't manufacture anything. By the time they work out their manufacturing kinks, often many months later, intel drops their prices to below what AMD can sell them at, comes out with new chips that beat AMDs chips, and once again AMDs chips are second best.
AMD has lost credibility with tons of people so far, and every time they screw up they lose even more. There are always people who are willing to cheer for AMD, mainly because it isn't Intel, but those are usually the people who are most disappointed the next time AMD announces that there are manufacturing problems, and they won't be able to meet their quotas, etc. etc. Until AMD has shown that they can produce chips in quantity, and on time, the proper response to anything that comes from them should be skepticism.
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Hawkesbury sandstone in Sydney. Which date is right?
Can you provide a reference? I looked around the net and couldn't find ANYTHING regarding this, although I suspect that it probably has something to do with your next question:
Consider the many, many polystrate fossils in the world. Intrusion's ridiculous, unless you have a religious
attachment to the dating of the rock layers that are crossed.
First, the type of fossils you're talking about are, invariably, fossils of trees found in sedimentary rock. What has happened is that a tree (or a stump of a tree) has been covered up by different layers, causing the tree to have become fossilized through several different layers. Go to http://talkorigins.org/faqs/polys trate/trees.html for a discussion of this.
Consider many thousands of square miles of "upside down" strata (in one chunk; yes, even in the US) with
negligible signs of movement at the interface. How did they get there? Did the whole lot flip over, extending
hundreds of miles into space, and likewise into the magma?
I assume you're talking about places where older rock is found above younger rock. When two masses of earth run into each other, a few different things can happen: They both crumple upwards, they both crumple downwards, or one goes on top of the other (overthrusting). If the one that ends up on top is geologically older, then the situation that you have described occurs
Consider the sudden end of life-signs at the pre-Cambrian level.
The organisms in the precambrian were soft-shelled, and while there are plenty of fossils from that time, you would expect fewer to be found from soft animals. The cambrian period marks the advent of hard-shelled organisms that leave remains (shells) that fossilize much more easily. Hence, the great increase of observable fossils. Not to mention the fact that the "sudden" event happened over millions of years... http://www2.uic.edu/~vuletic/cefec.html #5.4
Consider the observation that the gremlins in the lowest levels of strata are generally the kind of gremlins
that would be there anyway: bottoom dwellers.
bottom dwellers? how is a jellyfish (found in the oldest fossils) a bottom dweller, considering that it floats?
Consider the skeletons of modern man that Leakey found much further down than "Lucy."
Leakey found no such thing.
Consider the many thousands of fossil sites at which "local flooding" events are blamed - and the "global
flood" on dry Mars - and yet nobody wants to know about a global flood here. Why?
First of all, the existence of local floods in no way implies the existence of a large, world-encompassing global flood.
Speaking of global floods, you have a shifting definition here. Using the example of Mars, where the amount of liquid water on a global scale may have changed, then yes, the earth has experienced periods where the sea levels have gone up and down by huge amounts, when water has become locked up in large ice sheets. Using the definition of a biblical-style "global flood", many problems arise, not the least of which is, "where did the water go?"
The problems that science has with young earth creationism are not because scientists refuse to look at the evidence, but instead because they have.
That's because somewhere along the line two chromosomes condensed into a single chromosomes for humans (or some split for the chimps, I can't remember which way it went at the moment). But you can match up the extra chimp chromosomes with the matching genes on a human chromosome, showing that while the DNA is in a different place it still is the same, in the same relative order, and so on. Incidentally, chromosomes are a remarkably bad way of determining heredity, mainly because of how flexible the number of chromosomes is. Adding a whole extra chromosome to a human genome doesn't alwys make an embryo die (although the resulting person isn't "normal"), and in flowers chromosome sets can be doubled and tripled and still generate viable plants. Chromosomes are just the packages for the information. As long as the information is there, it doesn't really matter how many packages it takes up.
Which context are you talking about? The original comment was about the fact that someone found Ms. Breazeal attractive. In that context, talking about someone's appearance is perfectly suitable. It isn't as if he said "her research is crap because i don't think she's pretty".
Maybe, just maybe, if you listened to customers and potential customers, you might get more of them.
Actually, you better not, or else you'll have people like Katz saying that your site sucks.
MODs could also be considered a type of music compression.
As it is, there is more research coming up that shows a definite warming trend of the earth. Of course, it is difficult to say whether this is a normal fluctuation or a man-made occurence, but we shouldn't quickly discount the possibility that global warming may be occuring right now.
links:
1998 was hottest year on record
Coral bleaching hits record level
Did you actually read the whole page? Or even the site where it is posted?
While reading it, my BS meter was pinging pretty strongly. It claims that it can detect what kind of "constitution" someone has (however, nothing about charisma or wisdom). Another page has describes the effects that various "drugs" supposedly have on the iris. "Drugs" meaning "bromides", lead (called "plumbum"), and other things straight out of 19th century snake oil sales brochures. The whole "iridology" thing seems to sound quite a lot like phrenology, aura-reading, and other quasimystical hocus-pocus.
Chances are there was something up there that they could use to kill themselves with. It isn't like the military is against using suicide pills. Remember, Gary Powers (the U2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union) had orders to use a cyanide capsule to kill himself in the event that he was shot down. Problem is, he didn't, and he gave the USSR some great propaganda material...
What you call "lies" is also just plain common courtesy to the families of the people involved. Sure, the Challenger astronauts probably didn't die immediately, but it doesn't really serve anybody for NASA to describe in great detail how Christa McAuliff spent her last minute alive in sheer terror as the shuttle plummeted to the ocean surface.
"It's like the claims that we have full employment. I drive down main street Guadalupe at 7am in the morning and see the Hispanic men standing on the street corners, hoping someone will stop and hire them to work in the fields."
Do you want to know why you see workers standing on the corner looking for day jobs rather than working on a picking crew or being hired directly by farmers? Because, usually, day laborers are not documented workers ("illegal aliens"). While I have nothing against illegal aliens (they're just trying to make an honest buck like anyone else), because of laws which crack down on employers trying to hire them, they must work in a day-to-day manner, getting paid under the table. The fact that they are standing on the street corners is not because there are no jobs, but that there are no jobs that they can legally work at.
Think about it: If there were no jobs, then why would these guys be standing around looking to be hired? If you see hookers standing around on a street, does that mean that nobody is hiring them?
"Take a look at the TAs on Californias campuses. TAs perform an indespensible task for the school for barely above minumim wage."
I hardly count gaining a graduate education "barely above minimum wage". If the grad students want to make real money they are free to leave school and get jobs in the real world. It's hilarious to hear these students who are living such sheltered, pampered lives complaining about the fact that they aren't being paid enough while they are gaining an education that will allow them to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
"We're talking something "hard" here. If Chevy decided to make a Porsche 911 knockoff and call it a Chevy 119 they would definitly be open for some lawsuits."
What if Mazda came out with a little low slung two seater car that it called the "Roadster", and then later Porsche came out with a little low slung two seater car that it called the "Boxster"? And suppose every other car manufacturer in the world started coming out with little low slung two seaters. Would that be theft as well?
You might argue that "the insides are different", but the insides of the iMac and this other machine are pretty different too. They just happen to look rather similar. Unless this PC clone company directly copied the blueprints for the design, it isn't theft, and as long as they are not trying to confuse the iMac with their own machine it isn't a violation of trademark.
P.S. Don't let your Apple Myopia color your judgement...
Where do you think the names florida, california, arizona, new mexico, nevada, montana, colorado, and texas came from? Much of the western US (and therefore, much of the US in general) was colonized by the spanish, not the english
While english may be the most common language in the western US, it does help to be able to habla espanol a little bit, even if to just appreciate place names a little bit.
Some example street names that I've seen in southern california:
El Camino Real --> "the king's road"
Salsipuedes --> "get out if you can"
Indio Muerto --> "dead indian"
Well, considering that the original comment concerned the french the germans and WW2, it shouldn't be too surprising.
Most of the people who have posted so far seem to be complaining about the same words that they were complaining about before, and completely ignoring the new material that was added to the TOS. For example, look at the second sentence of part 8:
"You license the Content to Yahoo as set forth below for the purpose of displaying and distributing such Content on our network of properties and for the promotion and marketing of our services."
In other words, all the language later on in part 8 that so many people are getting themselves worked up over is only valid for the purposes mentioned in the second sentence. This is important, because it means that if Yahoo was to take your IP and use it in a way that was not for the purposes stated in that sentence then the language later in the paragraph no longer applies. It is wrong to read only the second part outside the context of the first part.
Every morning, double Nobel prize winner Linus "nature of the chemical bond" Pauling would stir 18 grams of Vitamin C into his orange juice! Sounds a little bit wacko, but he lived to be 93, so i guess there's at least one data point on the good side. :)
:)
More rambling: As should be expected, different animals have different tolerances to LSD. I ran across a reference several years ago about an experiment where they injected an elephant with a rather small amount of LSD and it dropped dead on the spot!
Why would they do this? Who knows? Please don't ask me for the reference, because I saw this about 6 years ago and I can't even remember the paper/book I saw it in. I thought it was pretty damn funny though.
There's no need for gatorade. For rehydration you can use some water with about 12 cents worth of salt/mineral tablets. The problem with relief efforts usually isn't obtaining the supplies, but is with the distribution. It's really easy to airlift in crates, but it's really hard to make sure that they get to where they should be going. The types of people who need relief the most are usually the last in line when things are given out.
For example: A while ago, when a North Korean sub ran aground in south korea, it turned out that the inside was filled with canned goods labelled as relief supplies from American churches.
Notice how all your "sub $1000" computers that you mention were all many years out of date at the time you are talking about. You could buy an apple ][ for less than a thousand too, I bet, if you don't mind a 1Mhz 6502 processor. I bought one of the early macintosh machines (a 512K unenhanced mac) in 1989, and it was, indeed, less than $500 (as I think you meant to type). But it only had 400K disk drives, no hard drive, and a tiny black and white display. Not only could it not run most mac software that was available at the time, there was almost no way to expand it so that it could. It was close to a dead end machine, although it could run mac write, which was fine for my purposes.
:) ) The reason being, of course, that there is no competition Macintosh hardware, so they set their prices to whatever they can get.
The situation then was very different than it is today, where you can get a machine that is not much slower than the top of the line consumer machine and pay less than $500 in many cases. Your $400 333Mhz machine can run pretty much anything that a faster machine can, and if you really are bothered by the lack of speed, then just open it up and drop in a faster processor.
The fact is, on a power per dollar basis, computing power is cheaper today an ever before. And rather than making computers more expensive, the PC "bandwagon" actually allowed today's current situation to develop. Once PCs became more popular, people wanted cheaper versions of the PC, and clones became popular, hardware prices started dropping, and now you can put together a quite usable machine for less than $400 if you look around a bit. Contrast this with the macintosh, with their cheapest machine being about twice that of the cheapest PC. (And that doesn't even include a floppy drive!
Oh, this reminds me of a similar phenomenon: Take a plate of metal, place it parallel to another piece of metal. Put a large ELECTRIC potential between the two plates, and, if you measure it, you will detect a FORCE between the two plates!
It gets even better! If you place a mesh between the two plates, and apply a potential to it, you can change the force that goes between the two solid plates. As you BIAS the potential on the mesh differently, the amount of FORCE changes as well! That's right! You can MODULATE the force by using something as simple as a car battery! Or use the effect that EINSTEIN received the NOBEL PRIZE for and hook up a SOLAR CELL! It will work too!
The US government may not tell you this, but this technology has been around since the early part of the century! This technology allows you to MANIPULATE the basic forces of NATURE, so why isn't it used? Because the MULTINATIONAL ENERGY CORPORATIONS want to be able to sell their overpriced, environment wrecking fossil fuels, and the TOADIES in WASHINGTON D.C. won't stop them.
I doubt that it was sold as "unlimited" I had cox@home for a while (until I moved), and I knew from day 1 that you were not allowed to run a server. Just read the contract that you sign.
This isn't what he's talking about. He's talking about the fact that during a download the amount of data going in one direction is much larger than the amount of data going in the reverse direction. That's the asymmetry that he's talking about.
Actually, what you've described is a nice description of water... :)
Silicon Dioxide is rather different. First, the sizes between Si and O are not that big, with the Silicon atom being about 50% larger.
Secondly, and more importantly, SiO2 forms a tetrahedral crystal form, so that rather than just having individual SiO2 molecules, each silicon atom shares each oxygen atom with another silicon atom. In fact, it ends up that each silicon atom shares 4 different oxygen atoms with 4 other silicon atoms. So, while the total amount of silicon and oxygen works out to 2 oxygens for every silicon atom, there are no actual single SiO2 molecules.
I owned a pair of I-glasses, and actually enjoyed them quite a bit. I tried the version that has a VGA input, but the resolution on them was not quite good enough to use a dos window, and there was some clipping on the edges which made things even harder to use. For watching movies, though, they were pretty cool.
:)
Weird moment: Sitting at home late one night in the dark with my VR goggles strapped on my head watching the scene in "Strange Days" where someone in the movie goes home late one night, straps on some VR playback machine and sits in the dark watching movies. Of course, the scene is supposed to show how lonely and isolated that guy is...
I've used Sony's Glasstron, too, when I was in Tokyo last year and stopped by the Sony store. It seemed to be about the same as the I-glasses. I even picked up the brochure that they have for them, but it's in Japanese, and I don't have it scanned in. The big difference seems to be that Sony's version uses batteries.
How about making a real account, and, if you want to give out confidential data, log out and post it anonymously?
Or is that too simple of a solution?
No kidding! Every chip generation the story is the same: AMD announces that it can make better chips than intel, demonstrates some nice specs, and then falls on their face as they can't manufacture anything. By the time they work out their manufacturing kinks, often many months later, intel drops their prices to below what AMD can sell them at, comes out with new chips that beat AMDs chips, and once again AMDs chips are second best.
AMD has lost credibility with tons of people so far, and every time they screw up they lose even more. There are always people who are willing to cheer for AMD, mainly because it isn't Intel, but those are usually the people who are most disappointed the next time AMD announces that there are manufacturing problems, and they won't be able to meet their quotas, etc. etc. Until AMD has shown that they can produce chips in quantity, and on time, the proper response to anything that comes from them should be skepticism.