Into itself. It's a geometry problem, fully described by equations without the need to involve an 'out of this universe' space. Think "what is behind the north pole" ? When you ask a stupid question you get a stupid answer (like '42' or 'god').
Or until you leave the country. I know a couple that intends to leave for Romania as soon as they graduate. They'll have accumulated a little shy of 1 million dollars in student loans.
And in the meanwhile, the romanians who had 'free' education at home go to the US to make gobs of money once they have a diploma in hand, paid for by the public education system. Happens all the time.
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I'm always interested in taking new UI ideas for a spin
So what did you think of the Awesome window manager ? I liked the idea, but couldn't figure out how to use it properly... It's in the Ubuntu repositories.
And, since most libertarians agree that national defence is legitimate function of Federal government, and knowing weather and coast around your country has obvious military uses, I would see nothing wrong with NOAA and USGS being funded from DOD budget.
That's the case in Italy: weather forecast depends on the Aeronotica Militare. Unintended consequences: the guy who does the forecast on TV does so in full military dress, and archives of weather data are classified and difficult to get access to !
I don't know about this news report, but I remember over 20 years ago we had our 'last day of university event' at an Antillese (sp?) restaurant (in Paris). The dishes on the menu were marked mellow, mild or hot. Most people ordered in the 1st two categories with one or two macho types ordering the hot dishes. Nobody was actually able to eat more than two forks of their plates. It was inedible. I don't remember exactly how it went but most of the girls spent the rest of the evening in the bathroom. I was so pissed I wanted to leave without paying. I don't give a shit if we were wimps but I find those contest only worth of Idiocracy. And I like spicy food.
Yes, it seems likely. I know a few pro users of this closed garden phone company. They are very pissed, for good reasons. And they are going for the iPhone now. Another closed garden. Go figure. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
And that's exactly how the problem will be solved in the far future: scan a body completely (at the molecular level ? Or at the cellular level with some extrapolation ?) and run it into VirtualBod on your PC or in the (aptly named this time) Cloud. As long as you've paid your Oracle license and that Zombies won't trip on the power cord, you'll last forever. What, backup ?!?
Here's an idea: a browser plugin to encrypt/decrypt messages on facebook. Only people to whom you have given the key can make sense of your messages... Of course, don't send out the keys via facebook...
I don't know how the iPhone does it, bur on Android we REALLY need a way to disallow some permissions for each applications. I mean, you install a photo retouching app or music player and it asks for full internet access, full flash card access, GPS position, camera and whatnot. I want the RIGHT to tell the app: 'no, you can't access the net' and not in a way that the app can understand and refuse to work, more in a way 'there's currently no connection'. Come on, it's not that hard to understand and not that hard to do.
The chinese already 'own' the top of Antarctica: Dome A, potentially the best astronomy spot on the planet, and many other advantages as well (glaciology, atmospheric physics, etc).
Well, step into the guy's shoes for a sec: while everybody is busy at his job, he has nothing to do all day. They when the shit hits the fan (somebody gets hurt) he's on the front line with nobody to help him. If he fucks up, somebody dies. Kind of raises the tension, heh ?
Conceptually it's certainly possible to design something like that, but in practice... Just for those who complain that the budget of Nasa is too small, the budget of polar expeditions is orders of magnitude smaller. Hell, the french/italian can't even afford their own plane: they rent them by the day from the americans (big C130 and similar for inter-continental flights) or the canadians (small twin-otters for station to station flights). I'll let you reach conclusions as to the amount of money for such a project...
Well, my dog is gentle but very dumb. Yells a lot at passing people but strangely if we aren't around anybody can come to the house while she hides in the back of the garden. Great with kids and cats though. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a dog.
Still You think someone would take up the challenge to redesign a plane for the Antarctic environment.
First it would have to be several, not one. Several different planes are used for different things: flying from NZ/OZ/south Africa/South America to Antarctica, landing on snow/ice/graded pebbles, ferrying cargo or people. Not the same planes at all. For instance the US sells C130 to other nations, but they refuse to sell the ski sleds that allow them to land on snow...
"What would this be like if this happened in deep space, with no possibility of rescue or even airdropped (space dropped?) supplies?" Is there an age restriction on astronauts
That's probably the root issue. As someone who has worked for the french, italian and (indirectly) US antarctic programs, and also applied for astronaut, I can say that the tests are very different in the different projects, and weed out a lot more applicants on the astronaut side (no surprise here). At the same time, you can't ask for someone who applies to a mechanics or cook position in Antarctica to be as fit as an athlete. Also the american polar program must follow non-discriminatory guidelines when hiring, meaning there'll be be a lot of obese or other borderline medical issues. It's no surprise that most of the medical problems I've heard about were on american stations. But they also employ a lot more people, so read this with a grain of salt. After all, during my first winterover, the guy who became insane and had to be restrained was the doctor himself... Fun times.
There are lots of command line options. I haven't tried, but I guess it probably something like truecrypt VolumePath without specifying the mount point.
The big problem with TrueCrypt is that it doesn't allow you to perform lower-level maintenance operations (like fsck) on partitions.
Bzzzt! Wrong. In TrueCrypt, select your device and click on mount, click on [Options], click on [Do not mount]. Enter your password and [OK]. Then you can sudo fsck -C -f/dev/mapper/truecrypt1 easily.
I think it could work as tied with the tags. If a user gets regular +1 in association with certain tags, then make him an 'expert' in that tag/category and then add +1 to everything he posts under that tag. Same goes the other way.
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Into itself. It's a geometry problem, fully described by equations without the need to involve an 'out of this universe' space. Think "what is behind the north pole" ? When you ask a stupid question you get a stupid answer (like '42' or 'god').
Do they have a leg to stand on ?
Or until you leave the country. I know a couple that intends to leave for Romania as soon as they graduate. They'll have accumulated a little shy of 1 million dollars in student loans.
And in the meanwhile, the romanians who had 'free' education at home go to the US to make gobs of money once they have a diploma in hand, paid for by the public education system. Happens all the time.
I'm always interested in taking new UI ideas for a spin
So what did you think of the Awesome window manager ? I liked the idea, but couldn't figure out how to use it properly... It's in the Ubuntu repositories.
And, since most libertarians agree that national defence is legitimate function of Federal government, and knowing weather and coast around your country has obvious military uses, I would see nothing wrong with NOAA and USGS being funded from DOD budget.
That's the case in Italy: weather forecast depends on the Aeronotica Militare. Unintended consequences: the guy who does the forecast on TV does so in full military dress, and archives of weather data are classified and difficult to get access to !
I don't know about this news report, but I remember over 20 years ago we had our 'last day of university event' at an Antillese (sp?) restaurant (in Paris). The dishes on the menu were marked mellow, mild or hot. Most people ordered in the 1st two categories with one or two macho types ordering the hot dishes. Nobody was actually able to eat more than two forks of their plates. It was inedible. I don't remember exactly how it went but most of the girls spent the rest of the evening in the bathroom. I was so pissed I wanted to leave without paying. I don't give a shit if we were wimps but I find those contest only worth of Idiocracy. And I like spicy food.
Endorphins
If I want endorphins, I'll have sex. I don't need to suffer through idiotic self-inflicted burning sensations down my throat. Thank you.
Yes, it seems likely. I know a few pro users of this closed garden phone company. They are very pissed, for good reasons. And they are going for the iPhone now. Another closed garden. Go figure. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
We have too many moving parts
And that's exactly how the problem will be solved in the far future: scan a body completely (at the molecular level ? Or at the cellular level with some extrapolation ?) and run it into VirtualBod on your PC or in the (aptly named this time) Cloud. As long as you've paid your Oracle license and that Zombies won't trip on the power cord, you'll last forever. What, backup ?!?
The fortune of the day was quite on topic: "Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies." -- Charles D'Hericault
Here's an idea: a browser plugin to encrypt/decrypt messages on facebook. Only people to whom you have given the key can make sense of your messages... Of course, don't send out the keys via facebook...
I don't know how the iPhone does it, bur on Android we REALLY need a way to disallow some permissions for each applications. I mean, you install a photo retouching app or music player and it asks for full internet access, full flash card access, GPS position, camera and whatnot. I want the RIGHT to tell the app: 'no, you can't access the net' and not in a way that the app can understand and refuse to work, more in a way 'there's currently no connection'. Come on, it's not that hard to understand and not that hard to do.
The chinese already 'own' the top of Antarctica: Dome A, potentially the best astronomy spot on the planet, and many other advantages as well (glaciology, atmospheric physics, etc).
Well, step into the guy's shoes for a sec: while everybody is busy at his job, he has nothing to do all day. They when the shit hits the fan (somebody gets hurt) he's on the front line with nobody to help him. If he fucks up, somebody dies. Kind of raises the tension, heh ?
Conceptually it's certainly possible to design something like that, but in practice... Just for those who complain that the budget of Nasa is too small, the budget of polar expeditions is orders of magnitude smaller. Hell, the french/italian can't even afford their own plane: they rent them by the day from the americans (big C130 and similar for inter-continental flights) or the canadians (small twin-otters for station to station flights). I'll let you reach conclusions as to the amount of money for such a project...
Well, my dog is gentle but very dumb. Yells a lot at passing people but strangely if we aren't around anybody can come to the house while she hides in the back of the garden. Great with kids and cats though. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a dog.
Still You think someone would take up the challenge to redesign a plane for the Antarctic environment.
First it would have to be several, not one. Several different planes are used for different things: flying from NZ/OZ/south Africa/South America to Antarctica, landing on snow/ice/graded pebbles, ferrying cargo or people. Not the same planes at all. For instance the US sells C130 to other nations, but they refuse to sell the ski sleds that allow them to land on snow...
"What would this be like if this happened in deep space, with no possibility of rescue or even airdropped (space dropped?) supplies?"
Is there an age restriction on astronauts
That's probably the root issue. As someone who has worked for the french, italian and (indirectly) US antarctic programs, and also applied for astronaut, I can say that the tests are very different in the different projects, and weed out a lot more applicants on the astronaut side (no surprise here). At the same time, you can't ask for someone who applies to a mechanics or cook position in Antarctica to be as fit as an athlete. Also the american polar program must follow non-discriminatory guidelines when hiring, meaning there'll be be a lot of obese or other borderline medical issues. It's no surprise that most of the medical problems I've heard about were on american stations. But they also employ a lot more people, so read this with a grain of salt. After all, during my first winterover, the guy who became insane and had to be restrained was the doctor himself... Fun times.
Why smartass ? Where I live test scores are public record and it seems entirely fair to me.
What, nobody has mentioned Neal Stephenson's Interface, yet. A presidential candidate is interfaced with an instant polling system...
"[...] illegally revealed test scores [...]"
What, test scores are secret now ? So much easier to manipulate them in that case...
There are lots of command line options. I haven't tried, but I guess it probably something like truecrypt VolumePath without specifying the mount point.
The big problem with TrueCrypt is that it doesn't allow you to perform lower-level maintenance operations (like fsck) on partitions.
Bzzzt! Wrong. In TrueCrypt, select your device and click on mount, click on [Options], click on [Do not mount]. Enter your password and [OK]. Then you can sudo fsck -C -f /dev/mapper/truecrypt1 easily.
There are also a lot of widely used projects that haven't been updated in years, simply because they are finished, believe it or not.
I think it could work as tied with the tags. If a user gets regular +1 in association with certain tags, then make him an 'expert' in that tag/category and then add +1 to everything he posts under that tag. Same goes the other way.