One of the advantages of getting older is that your own visual resolution drops. So you can get just as much information from 720p as from that 4K stuff. The device can try to give you more but you can't use. Same goes for sound. You don't have to stand around and argue about compression algorithms cause you can't hear the difference. It doesn't matter if they're different. You can't use it.
The peace prize is actually awarded by a Norwegian group and the science prizes by Swedes. So you can keep your respect for the science prizes and still cling to your crappy politics. Lucky you.
Right after I posted, I tried the original 6x6x6. I did it by making 6x6's and folding them over onto the growing cube. I was able to almost make it except that I now appear to have only 213 balls instead of the original 216. I left off 3 corners. It would clearly have been more stable if I had all of them. After fondling it a bit, it went haywire and collapsed into the close-pack on one plane. So I smushed it into randomness again.
My wife gave me some of these Buckballs for Christmas a couple of years ago before they were banned. I have to admit, it's real tempting to put them in your mouth. Also, it's impossible to get them back into that cube shape like they were when she bought them. But they are fun to play with. I enjoy them even more now that they're banned.
But at the same time, Steve Ballmer without Microsoft is worth more than Steve Ballmer with Microsoft. And that makes his decision a good one for him, financially.
So we don't do comments on the poll anymore? Is this where I have to come to comment on the poll? What's going on? Maybe I don't think there are enough options. Maybe I have some random Commander Taco comment. What do I do now?
It's easy to get these guys, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, mixed up with with these guys, The American Association for the Advancement of Science. They're not the same. The latter are the ones that publish Science, the prestigious scientific journal. The former, I'm not sure who those guys are. Seems like I've heard controversy about this woman before.
I have a PhD in organic chemistry from a pretty good school and used to have a pretty good career. Most of the people like me, over 50, are out of work or grossly underemployed. And it's very bad for new grads, too. And not great for the rest.
We're not so happy about that H-1B and STEM talk coming from everywhere either.
We didn't have no stinkin' computers at my high school. But when I got to college, they had one. I took a new kind of calculus course where you used programming to learn the conceptsof calculus. So we learned a little PL/c, a version of PL/1 for sissies, and used it to approximate a Riemann sum. After that the professors didn't quite know what to do, so we didn't program much more for calculus. Then we learned Fortran in p-chem. I became a chemist.
The best thing that could happen to the defense of the USA is for China to start building the V-22 Osprey. Better yet, maybe we could sell some to them. At cost even.
For the few years after you couldn't smoke in your office but before it was banned outright, the various smoking places were a great place to get to know and interact with other people in the company on a more casual level. I finally gave it up about 6 years ago but I miss the social aspect of hanging out with a few people who all knew they were doing something wrong. I don't understand why some health nazi modded you down.
This may not be germaine, but it is well known that if you test a new antidepressant in the clinic, you get an average 30% positive response in the control group. It's also known that if Neil Young tells you that your music is crap, 30% will believe him. However, few will do anything about it.
CRT's have negative worth. We have a lot of CRT monitors sitting around gathering dust. I try to get people to just get rid of them the most benign way we can. They're worse than worthless. If you were standing on the street and someone handed you a CRT monitor, your net worth would drop.
When I was in graduate school about 30+ years ago, I came home to my apartment only to find it ransacked, my stereo missing and my roommate's camera equipment gone. I called the cops. "I've been robbed", I said. "Were you there at the same time as the person taking your stuff?", they asked. "No", I replied. "Oh, you haven't been robbed, you've merely been burglarized. That's different. Not nearly as serious." Darn. The police came over and looked around for a few minutes and then left. I never heard from them or my stereo again.
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One of the advantages of getting older is that your own visual resolution drops. So you can get just as much information from 720p as from that 4K stuff. The device can try to give you more but you can't use. Same goes for sound. You don't have to stand around and argue about compression algorithms cause you can't hear the difference. It doesn't matter if they're different. You can't use it.
Fusion! The energy of the Future and always will be!
The peace prize is actually awarded by a Norwegian group and the science prizes by Swedes. So you can keep your respect for the science prizes and still cling to your crappy politics. Lucky you.
Hmmm! OK, I'll bite. I think you're making this up and don't really have a clue about recycled helium. I could be wrong but that's what I think.
Right after I posted, I tried the original 6x6x6. I did it by making 6x6's and folding them over onto the growing cube. I was able to almost make it except that I now appear to have only 213 balls instead of the original 216. I left off 3 corners. It would clearly have been more stable if I had all of them. After fondling it a bit, it went haywire and collapsed into the close-pack on one plane. So I smushed it into randomness again.
Maybe those 3 lost balls are what killed the cat.
My wife gave me some of these Buckballs for Christmas a couple of years ago before they were banned. I have to admit, it's real tempting to put them in your mouth. Also, it's impossible to get them back into that cube shape like they were when she bought them. But they are fun to play with. I enjoy them even more now that they're banned.
Your comment is an odd one. Are you saying that the change in stock price was unrelated to Ballmer's resignation?
But at the same time, Steve Ballmer without Microsoft is worth more than Steve Ballmer with Microsoft. And that makes his decision a good one for him, financially.
What if you used a pigeon? A third-party pigeon, that is.
But like he said, you still can't be sure it's secure.
And, of course, you'd need to use a US-based pigeon.
So we don't do comments on the poll anymore? Is this where I have to come to comment on the poll? What's going on? Maybe I don't think there are enough options. Maybe I have some random Commander Taco comment. What do I do now?
It's easy to get these guys, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, mixed up with with these guys, The American Association for the Advancement of Science. They're not the same. The latter are the ones that publish Science, the prestigious scientific journal. The former, I'm not sure who those guys are. Seems like I've heard controversy about this woman before.
They did this same kind of mirror thing in Rattenberg, Austria a few years back.
I have a PhD in organic chemistry from a pretty good school and used to have a pretty good career. Most of the people like me, over 50, are out of work or grossly underemployed. And it's very bad for new grads, too. And not great for the rest. We're not so happy about that H-1B and STEM talk coming from everywhere either.
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work
I'm thinking tatoo might be a good medium. Depends on your storage needs and the size of your back.
What are the chances that maybe the down film is just the up film run backwards? Or vice-versa? Just curious.
Who said "give them away"?
We didn't have no stinkin' computers at my high school. But when I got to college, they had one. I took a new kind of calculus course where you used programming to learn the conceptsof calculus. So we learned a little PL/c, a version of PL/1 for sissies, and used it to approximate a Riemann sum. After that the professors didn't quite know what to do, so we didn't program much more for calculus. Then we learned Fortran in p-chem. I became a chemist.
The best thing that could happen to the defense of the USA is for China to start building the V-22 Osprey. Better yet, maybe we could sell some to them. At cost even.
For the few years after you couldn't smoke in your office but before it was banned outright, the various smoking places were a great place to get to know and interact with other people in the company on a more casual level. I finally gave it up about 6 years ago but I miss the social aspect of hanging out with a few people who all knew they were doing something wrong. I don't understand why some health nazi modded you down.
I bought my aluminum iMac back in 2007 and it works just fine, though I wouldn't mind an upgrade. What happened to that damn sequester?
On another note, can you really use a computer to accurately calculate how fast a nuclear arsenal will deteriorate? I didn't think so.
This may not be germaine, but it is well known that if you test a new antidepressant in the clinic, you get an average 30% positive response in the control group. It's also known that if Neil Young tells you that your music is crap, 30% will believe him. However, few will do anything about it.
CRT's have negative worth. We have a lot of CRT monitors sitting around gathering dust. I try to get people to just get rid of them the most benign way we can. They're worse than worthless. If you were standing on the street and someone handed you a CRT monitor, your net worth would drop.
Why you get modded up to "Interesting" for side tracking a post on Time Warner to whine about Apple is beyond me.
But there you go.
When I was in graduate school about 30+ years ago, I came home to my apartment only to find it ransacked, my stereo missing and my roommate's camera equipment gone. I called the cops. "I've been robbed", I said. "Were you there at the same time as the person taking your stuff?", they asked. "No", I replied. "Oh, you haven't been robbed, you've merely been burglarized. That's different. Not nearly as serious." Darn. The police came over and looked around for a few minutes and then left. I never heard from them or my stereo again.