Is the internet's biggest need right now adding a couple of interplanetary satellites to the net (very glamorous of course) or making it more secure, decreasing abuse (i.e. spam), and increasing access to high-speed connections? I'd say people's time, $, and energy would be better spent on less flashy but far more useful endeavors such as those.
Sounds like Mr. Cerf has reached the dabbling stage of his career.
How many generations of any creature have you monitored? 10? 20? Try hundreds of generations a year for millions of years (insects). Plus you'd have to monitor all of the population, not just one lineage. Even more complex organisms (people, horses, etc) can change over millions of generations, or even faster when subject to critical pressures (ice ages, droughts, disease outbursts). Sudden changes can also occur when species close enough to breed mix (dogs and wolves). Even people can be selectively "culled" by extreme pressures. Some think that polynesians tend to be fat since their ancestors who gained weight easily tended to survive the long risky trans-oceanic trips to new islands (studies of shipwrecked sailors from the air of sail tend to support this theory).
Some processes are too subtle for the limited human lifespan to observe directly. If you need to see something occur during your lifetime then you probably wouldn't believe in plate tectonics if it weren't for the extremely sensitive measuring devices that can show spreading of 1cm/yr of the Atlantic mid oceanic rift. Similar measurement of evolution is limited by the technical challenges (try monitoring every member of that species on earth for a few thousand years).
My question isn't creationism vs evolution but why creationists can only see God working like some Las Vegas magician causing things to pop out of thin air. Why can't they believe that evolution is God's mechanism for creation? Creation didn't stop 7000 yrs or so ago (when bible literalists believe the world was made) but is an ongoing process.
Hundreds of years ago these same people would've been saying that "There's no proof that planets orbit the sun" or that "The surface of the earth isn't slowly moving". As more scientific knowledge comes in they are forced to drop dearly held beliefs and move on to new ones. Eternal "truths" don't work very well when they are based on the current temporal world. Instead of tying their faiths to the physical world they should focus on the philosophical and spiritual worlds where they should've been all along.
Has anyone worked in an cube farm where people have speakers? Let me tell you nothing makes you want to turn around and go home quicker than the sound of dozens of PCs all blasting out their startup sounds and endless beep confirmations. As soon as I had a say about buying the next series of PCs the speakers went right out the door with the old machines, "Sorry, you'll have to use headphones to listen to your Celine Dione cd". It is bad enough dealing with phones with the ringer volume cranked up to the max (not to mention the mouths of the owners).
I'd definately subscribe to that. Just imagine how you'd gain experience! Think of all of the cool silicone and leather gear you could collect. And no more "player killers", instead you'd have "player f*****s"
Seriously, I'm surprised it hasn't been done already.
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It wasn't a problem, they had their turn signal on.
I hate to break it to you but it is a game with rules written by people, people who reserve the right to change them at any point for whatever reason. It is not like the real world where no matter what you cannot accelerate your learning or make things fall up. If tomorrow they want to set a cap on how much $ you can collect they could do that to. Don't get wrapped up in thinking a game is an unchangeable absolute universe.
I'd buy a block in the middle of a major city and knock down all of the buildings in it and turn it into a cow pasture. I can picture it now, office workers with their $tarbuck$ coffee shuffling by cows lazily chewing their cud.
Judging from the crowds I saw at Cedar Point OH this year, I'd say it'd would be pretty hard to prove that most folks weren't already brain damaged before getting on any of the rides.
"Dick Van Dyke was cancelled after year 1, then the producers talked them into keeping the series and it had a great 5 year run overall"
When Cheers went on the air it started with some of the lowest ratings for any show. Guess where it ended up?
I suspect people like this (the network execs) are cut from the same cloth as the Decca record agents who turned down the Beatles. It takes people willing to take risks and with vision to run these companies, not just accountants.
At 20+ bucks a shot a CD is not a trivial purchase and to find you've bought only 1-2 goods songs makes you feel like you've been burned. Plus at those prices I'm not going to buy like a collector ("Gee, I bought 10 cds today...hope they are good"), I'm going to buy like a picky consumer ("Better check it out online to see if has more than 1 good song").
I've found myself buying mainly cds by bands from the 60's and early 80s not just because they are cheaper but because the music was far better than most of today's, and I'm not some nostalgic old fogey either. Bands like Radiohead and the Foo Fighters are just too rare nowadays.
The cookie cutter mentality of the recording industry seems to be worse today than ever before. Radio airplay is especially bad. Many times I've flipped the dial between two completely different stations (with different owners) and heard the same exact song being played with only a 1 sec difference. It's no wonder I find myself being drawn more and more to small local and college stations and NPR.
Any industry that needs artificial propping up (barring acts of god) by the government to survive should be allowed a merciful death.
Maybe it also is being effected by the awful crap that dominates the recording industry and radio play; bland hip-hop, clone "new metal" bands, endless Brittany Spears rehashes. You look at the 60's and 77-87 and it is amazing how poor the current music world is compared to some periods in the past.
"Unfortunatly, in this country rather than letting an absolete [sic] industry die a well deserved death we'll probably prop it up with more unconstitutional laws"
Remember:
Welfare for people = BAD
Welfare for industries = GOOD
Conclusion: Industries (and the tiny elite that profit from them) matter more than people
I agree but I don't think the water content of the leaves is a major factor. They are quite thin and are charred, according to the lava chefs, when it is done. I suspect the leaves trap some of the moisture coming out of the hen and act as a form of insulation by retarding heat transfer via convection, plus the layer of steam that develops around the hen helps the hen cook evenly. Ever cook corn on the cob in it's leaves in hot coals? The outside leaves will be charred but peel those off and you get a cloud of steam escaping plus you have nicely cooked corn.
Like you said, every robot seemed to boil down to either a wedge or a flipper. The show killed itself via restrictions that ultimately only produced these two forms. The robots rarely did much to each other because of this and the controlers had such shitty control you had to wonder if they ever tested their robots before coming on the show.
They have to start allowing projectiles and chemicals. Base the show out at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in a concrete bunker/sound stage with remote cameras and allow for some real robot wars.
I noticed the same thing in Netscape 4.78. I'm not sure if he is trying to make a point (though he doesn't say anything) or if his own website is "obsolete" also.
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Is the internet's biggest need right now adding a couple of interplanetary satellites to the net (very glamorous of course) or making it more secure, decreasing abuse (i.e. spam), and increasing access to high-speed connections? I'd say people's time, $, and energy would be better spent on less flashy but far more useful endeavors such as those.
Sounds like Mr. Cerf has reached the dabbling stage of his career.
Actually I do and I have. ;)
Igloos are actually quite warm and I ended up having to sleep on top of my sleeping bag because I got so warm.
How many generations of any creature have you monitored? 10? 20? Try hundreds of generations a year for millions of years (insects). Plus you'd have to monitor all of the population, not just one lineage. Even more complex organisms (people, horses, etc) can change over millions of generations, or even faster when subject to critical pressures (ice ages, droughts, disease outbursts). Sudden changes can also occur when species close enough to breed mix (dogs and wolves). Even people can be selectively "culled" by extreme pressures. Some think that polynesians tend to be fat since their ancestors who gained weight easily tended to survive the long risky trans-oceanic trips to new islands (studies of shipwrecked sailors from the air of sail tend to support this theory).
Some processes are too subtle for the limited human lifespan to observe directly. If you need to see something occur during your lifetime then you probably wouldn't believe in plate tectonics if it weren't for the extremely sensitive measuring devices that can show spreading of 1cm/yr of the Atlantic mid oceanic rift. Similar measurement of evolution is limited by the technical challenges (try monitoring every member of that species on earth for a few thousand years).
My question isn't creationism vs evolution but why creationists can only see God working like some Las Vegas magician causing things to pop out of thin air. Why can't they believe that evolution is God's mechanism for creation? Creation didn't stop 7000 yrs or so ago (when bible literalists believe the world was made) but is an ongoing process.
Hundreds of years ago these same people would've been saying that "There's no proof that planets orbit the sun" or that "The surface of the earth isn't slowly moving". As more scientific knowledge comes in they are forced to drop dearly held beliefs and move on to new ones. Eternal "truths" don't work very well when they are based on the current temporal world. Instead of tying their faiths to the physical world they should focus on the philosophical and spiritual worlds where they should've been all along.
Too bad different copies of the software don't get different kludges, that way you could keep the one that survives just like in evolutionary theory!
I predict it would be used first to send porn clips to unsuspecting woman. "Hey honey, here I am spanking my monkey."
Has anyone worked in an cube farm where people have speakers? Let me tell you nothing makes you want to turn around and go home quicker than the sound of dozens of PCs all blasting out their startup sounds and endless beep confirmations. As soon as I had a say about buying the next series of PCs the speakers went right out the door with the old machines, "Sorry, you'll have to use headphones to listen to your Celine Dione cd". It is bad enough dealing with phones with the ringer volume cranked up to the max (not to mention the mouths of the owners).
I'd definately subscribe to that. Just imagine how you'd gain experience! Think of all of the cool silicone and leather gear you could collect. And no more "player killers", instead you'd have "player f*****s"
Seriously, I'm surprised it hasn't been done already.
It wasn't a problem, they had their turn signal on.
I hate to break it to you but it is a game with rules written by people, people who reserve the right to change them at any point for whatever reason. It is not like the real world where no matter what you cannot accelerate your learning or make things fall up. If tomorrow they want to set a cap on how much $ you can collect they could do that to. Don't get wrapped up in thinking a game is an unchangeable absolute universe.
The thing that is really shocking is that someone would want to pirate Bon Jovi.
I'd buy a block in the middle of a major city and knock down all of the buildings in it and turn it into a cow pasture. I can picture it now, office workers with their $tarbuck$ coffee shuffling by cows lazily chewing their cud.
Will you have a T1 line in your cell or just a crappy 56K modem?
What is Slashdot going to do next? Post an article titled "WIN FREE SEX"?
Judging from the crowds I saw at Cedar Point OH this year, I'd say it'd would be pretty hard to prove that most folks weren't already brain damaged before getting on any of the rides.
Porn truly is on the cutting edge of every technology!
Unless he has checked every possible source it is only the first known on-line smiley
"Dick Van Dyke was cancelled after year 1, then the producers talked them into keeping the series and it had a great 5 year run overall"
When Cheers went on the air it started with some of the lowest ratings for any show. Guess where it ended up?
I suspect people like this (the network execs) are cut from the same cloth as the Decca record agents who turned down the Beatles. It takes people willing to take risks and with vision to run these companies, not just accountants.
At 20+ bucks a shot a CD is not a trivial purchase and to find you've bought only 1-2 goods songs makes you feel like you've been burned. Plus at those prices I'm not going to buy like a collector ("Gee, I bought 10 cds today...hope they are good"), I'm going to buy like a picky consumer ("Better check it out online to see if has more than 1 good song").
I've found myself buying mainly cds by bands from the 60's and early 80s not just because they are cheaper but because the music was far better than most of today's, and I'm not some nostalgic old fogey either. Bands like Radiohead and the Foo Fighters are just too rare nowadays.
The cookie cutter mentality of the recording industry seems to be worse today than ever before. Radio airplay is especially bad. Many times I've flipped the dial between two completely different stations (with different owners) and heard the same exact song being played with only a 1 sec difference. It's no wonder I find myself being drawn more and more to small local and college stations and NPR.
Any industry that needs artificial propping up (barring acts of god) by the government to survive should be allowed a merciful death.
Maybe it also is being effected by the awful crap that dominates the recording industry and radio play; bland hip-hop, clone "new metal" bands, endless Brittany Spears rehashes. You look at the 60's and 77-87 and it is amazing how poor the current music world is compared to some periods in the past.
"Unfortunatly, in this country rather than letting an absolete [sic] industry die a well deserved death we'll probably prop it up with more unconstitutional laws"
Remember:
Welfare for people = BAD
Welfare for industries = GOOD
Conclusion: Industries (and the tiny elite that profit from them) matter more than people
I agree but I don't think the water content of the leaves is a major factor. They are quite thin and are charred, according to the lava chefs, when it is done. I suspect the leaves trap some of the moisture coming out of the hen and act as a form of insulation by retarding heat transfer via convection, plus the layer of steam that develops around the hen helps the hen cook evenly. Ever cook corn on the cob in it's leaves in hot coals? The outside leaves will be charred but peel those off and you get a cloud of steam escaping plus you have nicely cooked corn.
Like you said, every robot seemed to boil down to either a wedge or a flipper. The show killed itself via restrictions that ultimately only produced these two forms. The robots rarely did much to each other because of this and the controlers had such shitty control you had to wonder if they ever tested their robots before coming on the show.
They have to start allowing projectiles and chemicals. Base the show out at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in a concrete bunker/sound stage with remote cameras and allow for some real robot wars.
I noticed the same thing in Netscape 4.78. I'm not sure if he is trying to make a point (though he doesn't say anything) or if his own website is "obsolete" also.
Finally, a killer app for MS Passport!