Diamond is really hard and also stable for a long time (a diamond is forever...).
Yep. But that's under "normal conditions" -- diamonds will burn quite readily given normal atmospheric gases, and very well with more oxygen. So for all over the posters talking about scratching rings with this new material, just use a lighter instead. It's easier, cheaper, more effective, and much more interesting.
Just picking your examples, the UK had the worlds first commercial nuclear power station (Calder Hall), the first computer, invented the Web, and had the first jet airliner (the Comet).
Ha! Everyone knows that one of our Vice Presidents invented the Web! n00b!
There was once a lawsuit over a defective X-ray pictures - there were no markings to indicate which side was front or back, so the surgeons got the patients left and right sides mixed up.
The X-ray pictures might have been "defective" because of this, but I find it a bit hard to believe that, um, the surgeons would not have thought of the ambiguity. What happened in the lawsuit?
So neurons are super low power, extremely highly connected, relatively simple logic gates.
I could be off-base here, but I think the thinking (heh) is that neurons are NOT relatively simple logic gates (which I suppose I'd characterize as being *like* your common NAND, OR, NOT operators, etc.). In particular, neurons are famously non binary; there are a lot more stimuli which go into making a neuron fire than just two inputs. Too, one can get radically different firing patterns out of neurons than just ON or OFF. This, coupled with the high interconnectivity of the brain, means massive complexity.
Oh, and REAL nerds have recognized that that polynomial has no nonreal roots, and probably checked it by expanding (x-1)*(x-66)*(x-1400)*(x-1000)*(x-2005).
you'll need to make sure you have a government approved electrical pulse generator implanted into your hippocampus and motor cortex to prevent you forming long term memories or making any copies while doing so.
Damn. Dubya always gets the most advanced technology long before the regular citizens do.
Kernal is an acronym for "Keyboard Entry Read, Network And Link" and is basically the core of the operating system. It holds interpretations and routines for all code which is handled and is mainly responsible for the entire operating system's handling behavior.
Yeah, the whole thing was too cutesy and poorly written. I actually got to the above statement and was just able to keep from retching. Did this guy misspell 'kernel' and then just make up an acronym? Or did he find this on some reputable website? As far as I can tell, 'kernal' applies only to Commodores.
Invariant manifolds? You were lucky! We dreamed of invariant manifolds. We had to make do with symplectic diffeomorphisms of the torus, what with its four fixed points, you know, assuming that the eigenvalues of the Jacobi matrix are not equal to minus unity at any point... and we liked it.
Sixty percent of all the people in the First World - people who're surrounded by the products of science and use them each and every day - believe that they're psychic. They don't believe that most of the *other* people who claim they're psychic actually are psychic, but they're certain that they themselves are the real deal.
What are those squiggly things that look alarmingly like sperm that can be occasionally seen in your near vision and appear to move when you chase them with your focus?
Hm... The simplest explanation is probably the right one....
What about who Lilith was? No need to know that I have to look under religious studies (or, more specifically, the apocryphal book of Enoch, in the extra-biblical Jewish mythology).
I'm sorry. That will have to be edited. She was the wife (then ex-wife, then...) of Dr. Frasier Crane on "Cheers" and then "Frasier". Yeesh.
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Diamond is really hard and also stable for a long time (a diamond is forever...).
Yep. But that's under "normal conditions" -- diamonds will burn quite readily given normal atmospheric gases, and very well with more oxygen. So for all over the posters talking about scratching rings with this new material, just use a lighter instead. It's easier, cheaper, more effective, and much more interesting.
Not to mention that your child will receive his very own "teacher unit" who just happens to also be related to the child! A Win-Win situation for all!
Oh, now you've done it. This is Slashdot. I think you meant "Lin-Lin situation".
I believe you're talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Ellehammer. However, that was in 1906 (as far as I can tell), whereas the article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_flying_machine recognizes the difficulties of defining "airplane" or "flying machine".
Just picking your examples, the UK had the worlds first commercial nuclear power station (Calder Hall), the first computer, invented the Web, and had the first jet airliner (the Comet).
Ha! Everyone knows that one of our Vice Presidents invented the Web! n00b!
There was once a lawsuit over a defective X-ray pictures - there were no markings to indicate which side was front or back, so the surgeons got the patients left and right sides mixed up.
The X-ray pictures might have been "defective" because of this, but I find it a bit hard to believe that, um, the surgeons would not have thought of the ambiguity. What happened in the lawsuit?
So neurons are super low power, extremely highly connected, relatively simple logic gates.
I could be off-base here, but I think the thinking (heh) is that neurons are NOT relatively simple logic gates (which I suppose I'd characterize as being *like* your common NAND, OR, NOT operators, etc.). In particular, neurons are famously non binary; there are a lot more stimuli which go into making a neuron fire than just two inputs. Too, one can get radically different firing patterns out of neurons than just ON or OFF. This, coupled with the high interconnectivity of the brain, means massive complexity.
Oh, and REAL nerds have recognized that that polynomial has no nonreal roots, and probably checked it by expanding (x-1)*(x-66)*(x-1400)*(x-1000)*(x-2005).
you'll need to make sure you have a government approved electrical pulse generator implanted into your hippocampus and motor cortex to prevent you forming long term memories or making any copies while doing so.
Damn. Dubya always gets the most advanced technology long before the regular citizens do.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
I suppose that this is useful if you come across a site so horribly broken as to not use a SALT [...]
In that case, you might try battery...
Kernal is an acronym for "Keyboard Entry Read, Network And Link" and is basically the core of the operating system. It holds interpretations and routines for all code which is handled and is mainly responsible for the entire operating system's handling behavior.
Yeah, the whole thing was too cutesy and poorly written. I actually got to the above statement and was just able to keep from retching. Did this guy misspell 'kernel' and then just make up an acronym? Or did he find this on some reputable website? As far as I can tell, 'kernal' applies only to Commodores.
...who's surprised?
[...] usually means said website is about to become very uncooperative.
Yes, well, they're Germans.
(I kid! I kid!)
Invariant manifolds? You were lucky! We dreamed of invariant manifolds. We had to make do with symplectic diffeomorphisms of the torus, what with its four fixed points, you know, assuming that the eigenvalues of the Jacobi matrix are not equal to minus unity at any point... and we liked it.
You forgot to add a link to where he describes this process and how he derrived it. A fascinating read, really.
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Oh, yes, I've just wet my pants with excitement.
It could be argued that there is no current body with the authority to license spectrum outside of Earth.
Next, on 60 Minutes, why stars really appear to die.... and Andy Rooney!
We may lack hardware support, modern operating system features, people liking us but at least we have... hmm, at least we have...
Huuuuge... tracts of land?
Sixty percent of all the people in the First World - people who're surrounded by the products of science and use them each and every day - believe that they're psychic. They don't believe that most of the *other* people who claim they're psychic actually are psychic, but they're certain that they themselves are the real deal.
I knew you were going to type that.
What are those squiggly things that look alarmingly like sperm that can be occasionally seen in your near vision and appear to move when you chase them with your focus?
Hm... The simplest explanation is probably the right one....
A worm shut down computers running Windows 2000 software across the United
States.
And that's IT. Ironically, I'm posting this from a Win2k machine. Sorry, all.
...finally, News for Nerds!
You can always booby-trap the case.
*Boingooingooingo!* Boobs!
No, that's just going to increase the attacks.
I was a hit at parties!
Why don't they just give us a hand crank?
/. readers were.
Huh. *I* was born with one. Probably most
What about who Lilith was? No need to know that I have to look under religious studies (or, more specifically, the apocryphal book of Enoch, in the extra-biblical Jewish mythology).
I'm sorry. That will have to be edited. She was the wife (then ex-wife, then...) of Dr. Frasier Crane on "Cheers" and then "Frasier". Yeesh.