Laboratory animal tests show that when the bandage is applied for just two minutes, the clotting agent stops the bleeding.
Am I the only one who is wondering if the government is cutting the limbs off of rats, monkeys, sheep, and other animals to see if the clotting agent works or not? I mean seriously - what about the clotting agents that didn't work.
Bob! We got another dead monkey! Oh - You IDIOT! Don't spank it, it's not alive anymore!
Don't get me wrong, I am geeked at the idea of a true, powerful, zero-emissions vehicle. But, not only do the cars have to be produced, but the infrastructure needs to be put in place (since you need Hydrogen and Oxygen for a fuel cell, you need a good way to get this, not just creation, but distribution. Oxygen is easy, Hydrogen, not so much.)
This link explains how hydrogen and oxygen can be separated from water (which shouldn't be too hard to get). All you need is electricity and equipment. It probably wouldn't even be too hard to adjust the workings of a car so that you can actually fuel it with water. Then you can use the same processes as the hybrid cards to generate the electricity. Or you can just set up a central plant that produces hydrogen cells and have hydrogen/oxygen stations instead of gas stations.
Then why don't you send them this information. With the amount of things already researched on the timeline, I'm sure they would like a few more additions
But the default install usually only installs the program that the particular distro thinks is best. Apple is installing the software that they think is best. There is nothing wrong with this, especially since you can remove it with no harm done.
This is an interesting question. Is a domain name physical property? I think that it is. The line between physical and intellectual property is very fuzzy. At the same time, should a company be punished for responding to a letter that looked official? I suppose that depends on it. I think that if a lucrative domain name sends a letter asking for a transfer, the domain controller should be contacted. Seeing that he apparently wasn't, I think that the company is responsible.
No, I don't think they will. Perhaps you didn't see their way of avoiding this. Very ingenius if you ask me.
Information Wave will also deploy peer-to-peer clients on the Gnutella network from its security research and development network (honeynet) which will offer files with popular song titles derived from the Billboard Top 100 maintained by VNU eMedia. No copyright violations will take place, these files will merely have arbitrary sizes similar to the length of a 3 to 4 minute MP3 audio file encoded at 128kbps. Clients which connect to our peer-to-peer clients, and then afterwards attempt to illegally access the network will be immediately blacklisted from Information Wave's network. The data collected will be actively maintained and distributed from our network operations site.
This provides them with a way to avoid any action by the RIAA. They are basically saying "hey - I don't want you sending destructive files to my users, but I do agree that illegal copying is bad." Note that anyone who downloads the proxy files belonging to the ISP will "be immediately blacklisted" from their network. They are definitely not supporting illegal p2p downloads. Also, they will make the list of blacklisted users publically available on their website. They will still be busting you, just in a different way. In this case I have to say, that this was a shrewd business move. They have in one step both protected their customers and protected themselves from the RIAA and any lawsuite they could possibly think up.
I think a lot of the point here is (as AMD says lately) "Megahertz are obsolete". So what if it only runs a million cycles/second. Each of those million quads is running an operation at the same time (with maybe 33% actually operating, and the other 66% doing error checking), so its already running the same as 1 quad at 333,333 megahertz...
Did anyone else read "Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH?" (later translated into the cartoon movie "The secret of NIMH")
Reality has been mimicing sci-fi/fantasy for ages now - maybe this is just another step. Prolly not, buy what does it hurt to dream?;)
After all - yesterday we had the man with 'bionic' eyes
Ah, I see. We have resorted to the 'use of many verys' technique to show our strength of opinion in something that we know nothing about. This anchient time honored technique has been used by childred, teenagers, college students, and politicians for many generations. No need to stop now. Carry on.
Let's get the UN together and form an "Interplanetary Park Service." Then instead of simply sending a probe to the moon, we could send a manned mission to "Luna Interplanetary Park." Please don't take home any moon rocks - and no eating green cheese, either.
On a more serious note, though, I think that this is a good idea. Sometime in the future I'm sure we'll be figuring out how to colonize the moon (maybe not cause we have to, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to). Also, when countries spend more time and money on space programs and less on nuclear ones, that's always a good thing.
Actually, by their claim, Microsoft would be able to sue any of these corporations who use a logo which has something in it which resembles a window.
Oh, wait - they have a box in the background? sue them. Their application runs in a window? for shame, sue them Their building has windows? *gasp* sue them twice
While you were reading this post, your computer has been taking over by the ABLCM (association of blind little coding moles). have a nice day
Think about it:
Geek gets elected mayor of podunk, Tx
more geeks move to podunk
influx of geeks get another geek elected to house district of podunk
more geeks move to this district
influx of geeks get geek elected as a Texas senator in US senate, causing more geeks to move to Texas
geek gets elected governor of Tx.
geeks take over Tx, including the Tx representatives and senators to the US.
repeat until geeks rule the world.
This is, of course, an ideal situation that will never come to fruition
Admittedly, there are only a finite number of geeks, but all we need are a few good geeks in high places, and we will be able to better fight these laws.
There are many problems that have erupted in IT since the.com boom. These may or may not have been around before, but they are definitely known now.
One of the biggest problems I see is that there are many managers of IT departments who are just that - managers. Think of the pointy-haired boss in Dilbert. Just because someone is a manager doesn't mean they know the first thing about IT. I'm not advocating the promotion of your average IT nerd in place of them, but there are always a few people who have both management skills and IT knowledge. A good manager passes things off to the big bosses as good ideas. If he (or she) understands what he's working on, then they will probably be good ideas. If he doesn't, then they will be things that look good on paper and get him more funding. Nevermind that it makes the people below him aggrivated. It makes him look good, and gives him more money to spend on his desktop toys. I have seen this problem in action. It's always fun to get a blank look when you try and explain the simplest of tasks to these people. It's like trying to explain matrix algebra to a 3rd grader, only with less chance of success.
Another problem I've seen is that, in the name of saving money, people buy inferior products. Some manufacturers are more reliable than others. Before ordering 100 systems from a company because its "cheap", it might be a good idea to order 5 of them and test them for a month or two, and see how well they perform. Maybe even order 5 from another company to compare them to. Also, ask the people who regularly maintain the ystems which kind of systems they have the most problems with. It might be a good idea to get their advice on who to order systems from. Then you will avoid problems like the one I have seen recently, which involves losing more than 1 computer a week to hardware failure. These computers are not even a year old, and still under warranty, but it still causes problems when you have 4 more break before the first warranty part gets there.
Hopefully, the cutting of funding to IT departments will drive off people who are "in it for the money", like these managers without IT skills, and also will cause people to take more care when selecting computers.
Multi chip and multi card solutions are also coming, meaning that you will be able to fit more frame rendering power in a single tower case than Pixar's entire rendering farm. Next year.
The problem with this is that a company will never believe that such a miniaturization rate is possible.
They prefer to think of that as "silly" ("silly" == "you are trying to rip them off")
The proper way to do this is what most companies that make RAID servers and other computers with large hardware arrays are doing:
1: Build large motherboard with low circut density
2: Build case roughly the size of small wardrobe.
3: Attach motherboard inside case, and fit parts to motherboard.
4: Put lots of flashy lights on case, contemplate adding machine which goes 'bing'.
5: Use lots of external connections, so that there is lots of assembly required and there are lots of bells, whisles, cords, and dongles hanging from the case after assembly.
6: Next year, make the case about 2" smaller in each direction and raise the price about $250 per unit
You think I'm kidding - our school's grade server has less than half the volume of the one that was replaced, and they're not that different in performance.
Remember - size may not matter if you know how to use it, but it may stop you from getting the chance to use it in the first place.
Dave Arneson: Oh sure. I play a lot of computer games. In fact, you can get an A in my course if you can beat me in Age of Empires 2.
Wouldn't it be great if all college classes were like this? I would have my phd by now! Seriously though - Maybe there should be some classes in playtesting. I also think that basic game design should be offered at more schools than it is now. The industry is constantly pushed by the games. They have higher system requirements than anything else, and probably more and more varied users than any software besides OS software and maybe office suites. I think that it's important for programmers and hardware designers to understand how they work in some form or fashion.
The world needs more parents like you. We have all made mistakes, and I see too many parents in this world who say "I just don't want my child to make the same mistakes I did" and then either:
A. control them so much they don't get to do anything until that fateful day when they gain their freedom and run amok for the next 10 years before they either calm down, die, or go to jail,
B. don't give them any way to do the things they want except by following these same footsteps, or
C. say this repeatedly while hypocritically teaching them by example to make the same mistakes. There is no effective way of teaching when you have to say "do as I say, and not as I do."
I think that it is respectable and refreshing that you have brought yourself above the mistakes you made when you were younger, and that you are teaching your son the proper way to live his life. [/sermon]
All the links on www.news.com go to news.com.com
So unless someone hacked the entire webiste, then It's not a fake site. However, it was still posted on April 1, so might be an april fools.
I used to go to a bar where they required you to write down your DL number and your name and birthday on a list before you even got your ID checked. It didn't keep anyone from wanting to go in.
Here in Texas, it is illegal to carry more than one valid ID card/driver's license. I think that this is to help prevent fake ID's, but it would also keep you from having 2 different classes of license on different plastic.
Hey - could be worse. There is a bar here that will only take a valid texas ID, which is funny, because I live in a town that is a college town, so there are lots of out of state college students, a tourist trap, so there are lots of snowbirds (people who come where its warm in the winter), and is actually closer to some towns in new mexico than it is to most towns in texas. I almost got thrown out the other day because I hadn't gone to get my license renewed (it was less than a week expired)
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Am I the only one who is wondering if the government is cutting the limbs off of rats, monkeys, sheep, and other animals to see if the clotting agent works or not? I mean seriously - what about the clotting agents that didn't work.
This link explains how hydrogen and oxygen can be separated from water (which shouldn't be too hard to get). All you need is electricity and equipment. It probably wouldn't even be too hard to adjust the workings of a car so that you can actually fuel it with water. Then you can use the same processes as the hybrid cards to generate the electricity. Or you can just set up a central plant that produces hydrogen cells and have hydrogen/oxygen stations instead of gas stations.
Then why don't you send them this information.
With the amount of things already researched on the timeline, I'm sure they would like a few more additions
But the default install usually only installs the program that the particular distro thinks is best.
Apple is installing the software that they think is best. There is nothing wrong with this, especially since you can remove it with no harm done.
This is an interesting question. Is a domain name physical property?
I think that it is. The line between physical and intellectual property is very fuzzy.
At the same time, should a company be punished for responding to a letter that looked official?
I suppose that depends on it. I think that if a lucrative domain name sends a letter asking for a transfer, the domain controller should be contacted. Seeing that he apparently wasn't, I think that the company is responsible.
woman inherits the earth
dinosaur opens shopping mall
dinosaur becomes rich
No, I don't think they will. Perhaps you didn't see their way of avoiding this. Very ingenius if you ask me.
This provides them with a way to avoid any action by the RIAA. They are basically saying "hey - I don't want you sending destructive files to my users, but I do agree that illegal copying is bad."
Note that anyone who downloads the proxy files belonging to the ISP will "be immediately blacklisted" from their network. They are definitely not supporting illegal p2p downloads. Also, they will make the list of blacklisted users publically available on their website. They will still be busting you, just in a different way.
In this case I have to say, that this was a shrewd business move. They have in one step both protected their customers and protected themselves from the RIAA and any lawsuite they could possibly think up.
I think a lot of the point here is (as AMD says lately) "Megahertz are obsolete". So what if it only runs a million cycles/second. Each of those million quads is running an operation at the same time (with maybe 33% actually operating, and the other 66% doing error checking), so its already running the same as 1 quad at 333,333 megahertz...
Innovation in FPS == jedi outcast.
Lightsabers and force powers make this one a completely different ballgame than most FPS games.
Did anyone else read "Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH?" (later translated into the cartoon movie "The secret of NIMH") ;)
Reality has been mimicing sci-fi/fantasy for ages now - maybe this is just another step.
Prolly not, buy what does it hurt to dream?
After all - yesterday we had the man with 'bionic' eyes
Ah, I see. We have resorted to the 'use of many verys' technique to show our strength of opinion in something that we know nothing about. This anchient time honored technique has been used by childred, teenagers, college students, and politicians for many generations. No need to stop now.
Carry on.
There is an easy way around this. Buy 2 batteries and rotate them.
Let's get the UN together and form an "Interplanetary Park Service." Then instead of simply sending a probe to the moon, we could send a manned mission to "Luna Interplanetary Park." Please don't take home any moon rocks - and no eating green cheese, either.
On a more serious note, though, I think that this is a good idea. Sometime in the future I'm sure we'll be figuring out how to colonize the moon (maybe not cause we have to, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to). Also, when countries spend more time and money on space programs and less on nuclear ones, that's always a good thing.
Actually, by their claim, Microsoft would be able to sue any of these corporations who use a logo which has something in it which resembles a window.
Oh, wait - they have a box in the background? sue them.
Their application runs in a window? for shame, sue them
Their building has windows? *gasp* sue them twice
While you were reading this post, your computer has been taking over by the ABLCM (association of blind little coding moles).
have a nice day
...is geek politicians
Think about it:
Geek gets elected mayor of podunk, Tx
more geeks move to podunk
influx of geeks get another geek elected to house district of podunk
more geeks move to this district
influx of geeks get geek elected as a Texas senator in US senate, causing more geeks to move to Texas
geek gets elected governor of Tx.
geeks take over Tx, including the Tx representatives and senators to the US.
repeat until geeks rule the world.
This is, of course, an ideal situation that will never come to fruition
Admittedly, there are only a finite number of geeks, but all we need are a few good geeks in high places, and we will be able to better fight these laws.
There are many problems that have erupted in IT since the .com boom. These may or may not have been around before, but they are definitely known now.
One of the biggest problems I see is that there are many managers of IT departments who are just that - managers. Think of the pointy-haired boss in Dilbert. Just because someone is a manager doesn't mean they know the first thing about IT. I'm not advocating the promotion of your average IT nerd in place of them, but there are always a few people who have both management skills and IT knowledge. A good manager passes things off to the big bosses as good ideas. If he (or she) understands what he's working on, then they will probably be good ideas. If he doesn't, then they will be things that look good on paper and get him more funding. Nevermind that it makes the people below him aggrivated. It makes him look good, and gives him more money to spend on his desktop toys.
I have seen this problem in action. It's always fun to get a blank look when you try and explain the simplest of tasks to these people. It's like trying to explain matrix algebra to a 3rd grader, only with less chance of success.
Another problem I've seen is that, in the name of saving money, people buy inferior products. Some manufacturers are more reliable than others. Before ordering 100 systems from a company because its "cheap", it might be a good idea to order 5 of them and test them for a month or two, and see how well they perform. Maybe even order 5 from another company to compare them to. Also, ask the people who regularly maintain the ystems which kind of systems they have the most problems with. It might be a good idea to get their advice on who to order systems from. Then you will avoid problems like the one I have seen recently, which involves losing more than 1 computer a week to hardware failure. These computers are not even a year old, and still under warranty, but it still causes problems when you have 4 more break before the first warranty part gets there.
Hopefully, the cutting of funding to IT departments will drive off people who are "in it for the money", like these managers without IT skills, and also will cause people to take more care when selecting computers.
The problem with this is that a company will never believe that such a miniaturization rate is possible.
They prefer to think of that as "silly"
("silly" == "you are trying to rip them off")
The proper way to do this is what most companies that make RAID servers and other computers with large hardware arrays are doing:
1: Build large motherboard with low circut density
2: Build case roughly the size of small wardrobe. 3: Attach motherboard inside case, and fit parts to motherboard.
4: Put lots of flashy lights on case, contemplate adding machine which goes 'bing'.
5: Use lots of external connections, so that there is lots of assembly required and there are lots of bells, whisles, cords, and dongles hanging from the case after assembly.
6: Next year, make the case about 2" smaller in each direction and raise the price about $250 per unit
You think I'm kidding - our school's grade server has less than half the volume of the one that was replaced, and they're not that different in performance.
Remember - size may not matter if you know how to use it, but it may stop you from getting the chance to use it in the first place.
Wouldn't it be great if all college classes were like this? I would have my phd by now!
Seriously though - Maybe there should be some classes in playtesting. I also think that basic game design should be offered at more schools than it is now. The industry is constantly pushed by the games. They have higher system requirements than anything else, and probably more and more varied users than any software besides OS software and maybe office suites. I think that it's important for programmers and hardware designers to understand how they work in some form or fashion.
The world needs more parents like you. We have all made mistakes, and I see too many parents in this world who say "I just don't want my child to make the same mistakes I did" and then either:
A. control them so much they don't get to do anything until that fateful day when they gain their freedom and run amok for the next 10 years before they either calm down, die, or go to jail,
B. don't give them any way to do the things they want except by following these same footsteps, or
C. say this repeatedly while hypocritically teaching them by example to make the same mistakes. There is no effective way of teaching when you have to say "do as I say, and not as I do."
I think that it is respectable and refreshing that you have brought yourself above the mistakes you made when you were younger, and that you are teaching your son the proper way to live his life. [/sermon]
All the links on www.news.com go to news.com.com
So unless someone hacked the entire webiste, then It's not a fake site.
However, it was still posted on April 1, so might be an april fools.
I used to go to a bar where they required you to write down your DL number and your name and birthday on a list before you even got your ID checked. It didn't keep anyone from wanting to go in.
Here in Texas, it is illegal to carry more than one valid ID card/driver's license. I think that this is to help prevent fake ID's, but it would also keep you from having 2 different classes of license on different plastic.
Hey - could be worse. There is a bar here that will only take a valid texas ID, which is funny, because I live in a town that is a college town, so there are lots of out of state college students, a tourist trap, so there are lots of snowbirds (people who come where its warm in the winter), and is actually closer to some towns in new mexico than it is to most towns in texas.
I almost got thrown out the other day because I hadn't gone to get my license renewed (it was less than a week expired)
On Earth as it is in Texas.
And earlier someone asked why netscape wouldn't load the page....makes you wonder
You check the performace
You know "This chip boots winbl0wz 2k in less than 15 minutes, making it 3 times as fast as the p4 2.0 gHz"
--Corwin Stormsinger
"Wake me when they make a chip that runs dual monitor q3 in software mode."