Muammar Gaddafi sure got the the "abandon WMD" message when the U.S. invaded Iraq. I wonder if he'll take this as a message to relinquish control of Libya...
In 2004 Slashdot had a story on an interview published in New Scientist. The interview was with Alexander Yuvchenko, a Chernobyl nuclear engineer on duty that night. The article is behind a paywall but you can find a free version of it here.
Absolutely fascinating read.
A couple times over the years I (or a close relative) have been contacted by someone researching the family name, trying to piece together a family history. It's fascinating to speculate how 100 years from now how a genealogist will go about that process.
about how you can accept Jesus into your life.
oops, wrong thread.
I'd like to talk to you about the (reality|deceptiveness) of climate change.
Funny how both raise the hackles the same way. Why is that?
They ought to do the same thing to spammers that they've done to the diplomats. Why doesn't someone post the emails the spammers are sending around? It's about time someone put those bastards in their place.
Just like in E.T. where they digitally replaced the cops' guns with walkie-talkies, they're going to replace the light-sabers with "touch-sticks". Oh, that and lots of overlays of Jar-Jar walking along side the characters talking to them.
I recently took issue with an editorial in Nature, and ran some numbers on the country of origin of the articles they publish. In 2008, 59% of the articles originated from the US. The UK, the journal's home, came in second at 9% of the articles. Most (but not quite all) of the articles tallied were peer-reviewed research articles. If you accept that Nature publishes world-class research, these numbers suggest that the U.S. is generating the vast majority of quality research. Assuming a high correlation between the quality of research produced by an academic institution and the quality of the education provided there, then yes, the US is the best center of university level education.
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is said to be: The Replicant Whisperer
The patent for Clippy is reportedly valued at $250,000.
And there's few things more enjoyable than giving real cash to a little niece or nephew.
Give them a gift card to Bed Bath & Beyond
a fifth sequel to their yet-to-be-released aquatic mammal basketball flick.
Muammar Gaddafi sure got the the "abandon WMD" message when the U.S. invaded Iraq. I wonder if he'll take this as a message to relinquish control of Libya...
In 2004 Slashdot had a story on an interview published in New Scientist. The interview was with Alexander Yuvchenko, a Chernobyl nuclear engineer on duty that night. The article is behind a paywall but you can find a free version of it here. Absolutely fascinating read.
You give them an inch and they take a mile.
of course, that might just be the Ritalin...
Where can I find that. Is that under the accessories menu?
using a command-line interface. I'm a huge CLI guy, but GUIs have their place.
Yea, but what if you've got some blind dude coming at you with a knife?
Have any C++ programmers tried using Google's Go programming language? Any opinions?
There are an awful lot of glowing blips from all over Japan. Is that plausible?
Even then, it only works in the home, when the iPad is connected to the company's cable modem via a Wi-Fi router
It also must be line of sight to your TV. It uses the iPad's new camera to "beam" a signal from your TV to your iPad.
A couple times over the years I (or a close relative) have been contacted by someone researching the family name, trying to piece together a family history. It's fascinating to speculate how 100 years from now how a genealogist will go about that process.
Raccoon
Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video
Chrome tries to file a police report. Officer replies, "Well, yea. Just look at the way you're dressed."
about how you can accept Jesus into your life. oops, wrong thread. I'd like to talk to you about the (reality|deceptiveness) of climate change. Funny how both raise the hackles the same way. Why is that?
Get it right. There a pedants lur...oh, nevermind.
They ought to do the same thing to spammers that they've done to the diplomats. Why doesn't someone post the emails the spammers are sending around? It's about time someone put those bastards in their place.
Just like in E.T. where they digitally replaced the cops' guns with walkie-talkies, they're going to replace the light-sabers with "touch-sticks". Oh, that and lots of overlays of Jar-Jar walking along side the characters talking to them.
I'm just going to watch the highly anticipated Taiwanese News Recreation of the meteor shower.
Milo suffers BSOD (Blue Navi of Death)
Depends leaks email addresses of 114,000 smart underwear users
I recently took issue with an editorial in Nature, and ran some numbers on the country of origin of the articles they publish. In 2008, 59% of the articles originated from the US. The UK, the journal's home, came in second at 9% of the articles. Most (but not quite all) of the articles tallied were peer-reviewed research articles. If you accept that Nature publishes world-class research, these numbers suggest that the U.S. is generating the vast majority of quality research. Assuming a high correlation between the quality of research produced by an academic institution and the quality of the education provided there, then yes, the US is the best center of university level education.
The second video which shows the robot performing actual packaging tasks is remarkable given how it used to be done.