Well, Darwinian is the method of evolution, by which blind forces may make an alteration, and if that is more succesful than the previous mode, then it will succeed.
So by the use of the term 'Darwinian', would that mean that HP have now sacked anyone capable of developing a long term plan, and they are now blindly altering and testing things they already have to see if they are in some way better than they used to be, without any real understanding of what they're doing?
Well, you weren't watching them very hard, or you'd have noticed at least one bit of news pointing out that worldwide opinion of the US nowadays is not exactly glowing. I'm not talking about the bits with the Iraqis who were happy that Saddam was no longer in power (and you'd have to be spectacularly nasty to make people prefer Saddam in charge of them), but at the reports on the opinion of the rest of the world. Which is what we're talking about - not whether Iraq was the right thing to do, but about what the rest of the world now thinks. And that's not your opinion on what the rest of the world should think, but on what they actually do think. We're not arguing over whether you are happy about the Iraq invasion, or whether the Iraqis are happy Saddam is dead, but over whether the rest of the world trusts the current US government. The opinion of John Doe in Denver is irrelevant as we aren't talking about the population of Denver, we're talking about the opinion in Dortmund, Delhi, and Dar-es-Salaam. If you're denying that worldwide goodwill towards the US has dropped since the immediate post 9/11 state then you are living in cloud cuckoo land. You can state that you believe it's unfair, or that foreigners shouldn't be thinking that way, both of which are a matter of opinion, but you can't claim that non-US people aren't less friendly to the US than they were, because it is blatantly obvious.
10% over 30 years? Rubbish, you wouldn't have noticed. If you did, you'd just put it down to nostalgia. Or, if you're not at least 40 years old, you'd view someone who did as some old fart moaning about how the 'summers were brighter when I were a lad'.
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Whether this is true of IR (which causes the majority atmospheric / planetary heating) and UV (cancer / tanning) spectrum is not touched upon
Yes it is. You haven't actually read the article, have you?
It states -
The missing radiation is in the region of visible light and infrared - radiation like the ultraviolet light increasingly penetrating the leaky ozone layer is not affected.
Sorry to be sarcastic, but you could at least have searched the text for, say, 'violet' before commenting.
Why are the Japanese building humanoid robots? So that the robots can fit in in a human environment. Basically, they eventually want humanoid helpers for their aging population. Rather than have a separate robot for various acts, they'd rather have one robot that can use the same equipment as a human (e.g. load the washing machine, do the ironing, pick things up before it vacuums the floor).
The US, British Empire and France defeat Germany and install regime change. Sit back and 15 years later, you have a Germany that is modernising, building up its factories, preparing to... invade Poland.
Through unity, there is strength. From strength, comes power. With enough power, anything is possible.
For some reason, this sort of Triumph of the Will spiel makes me a little... uncomfortable.
The Romans were able to create an island of civilization out of the natural world. No one was forced to live there.
Er... ever heard of slaves? Spartacus' lot decided they didn't want to live in the Roman Empire anymore, and they weren't allowed to 'just leave'.
The Bread and Circuses line is a description of what happened when the Empire was collapsing
Appealing to the plebs applied back in the days of the Republic, and all through the time of the empire. Free grain distribution didn't start at the end of the empire, and the Flavian Ampitheatre was built in the first century AD, a period in which you couldn't exactly describe the empire as being on the point of collapse.
You gave them weapons to stop Islamic fundamentalists taking over, and by invading you've filled Iraq with Islamic fundamentalists. Which any intelligence officer worth his salt would have told you, so if that is Bush and Blair's only reason left, they're incompetent. Any Iraqi official backed by the US is clearly a big target for the fundamentalists, so you have to stay, and prop up your puppet regime, no matter how bad a state it looks to be in.
Face it, your exit strategy is going to be by helicopter from the embassy roof.
You lost. Just deal with it. It was close, but you lost.
No, it's not the election they're complaining about, it's the removal of the right to a fair trial and the declarations of war on trumped up charges (the only thing left against Saddam was that he was an evil bastard. Well, he was an evil bastard when the US sold him WMDs. Are those responsible for that act going to face trial?). It's the two dead soldiers a day and unknown numbers of civilians for no apparent improvement in safety (and, if you ask the Brits or the Turks right now, it appears to have made things worse).
That's what they're complaining about. Winning an election doesn't justify every act afterwards.
$1500? For digital? If that's the case, someone is seriously screwing up in the US. Or you have eight TVs in the house. You can get digital in the UK for 100 pounds (about $170 at the moment).
The -en is very old English, which has largely died out (with the exception of oddities such as oxen). Go back a few centuries, and you'd have had some people in some regions of england referring to 'shoen' on their feet -Chaucer used that ending, although he spelt them 'shoon'. But there are uses of the 's' ending recorded back in the 10th century (e.g. in the Lindisfarne Gospel - "aes ic ne am wyre aette ic undoe his uong scoes").
The prints I get from digital are on the same quality paper as you get from having traditional film negatives developed. Indeed, in the UK at least, you can take your data in to have them printed out by the same people who'd you have your film negatives developed by, such as photo shops like Jessops or chemists such as Boots, and given a decent enough digital camera, I'd challenge the average person to be able to tell whether the resulting print came from a digital or a film camera.
So I expect them to last pretty much the same length of time. As for the ones I don't get developed - they are ones that I wouldn't have taken with a film camera. With digital, I may take two or three shots of the same thing from slightly different angles, or try to take pictures I wouldn't waste film trying to take otherwise.
What do you think the chances of your family photos being found in the attic by your descendants in 30 years and them being able to read them, now we're all shooting digital?
On the one hand, pretty good, considering that I use digital to shoot large numbers of images and then choose the best ones to print. On the other, pretty lousy, as I don't intend on being dead in 30 years, and I don't keep my photo albums in the attic.
Well, just in case it is, if no-one else has said so first, I hereby claim ownership of all dark matter and dark energy.
Right, now how would I word a General Public Licence for property?
Well, that's the problem. We're just intelligent enough to get bored. So we demand entertainment. Look at the number of posts relating to entertainment to Slashdot before anyone thinks we're better here than the sports watching masses.
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So by the use of the term 'Darwinian', would that mean that HP have now sacked anyone capable of developing a long term plan, and they are now blindly altering and testing things they already have to see if they are in some way better than they used to be, without any real understanding of what they're doing?
Well, you weren't watching them very hard, or you'd have noticed at least one bit of news pointing out that worldwide opinion of the US nowadays is not exactly glowing. I'm not talking about the bits with the Iraqis who were happy that Saddam was no longer in power (and you'd have to be spectacularly nasty to make people prefer Saddam in charge of them), but at the reports on the opinion of the rest of the world. Which is what we're talking about - not whether Iraq was the right thing to do, but about what the rest of the world now thinks. And that's not your opinion on what the rest of the world should think, but on what they actually do think. We're not arguing over whether you are happy about the Iraq invasion, or whether the Iraqis are happy Saddam is dead, but over whether the rest of the world trusts the current US government. The opinion of John Doe in Denver is irrelevant as we aren't talking about the population of Denver, we're talking about the opinion in Dortmund, Delhi, and Dar-es-Salaam. If you're denying that worldwide goodwill towards the US has dropped since the immediate post 9/11 state then you are living in cloud cuckoo land. You can state that you believe it's unfair, or that foreigners shouldn't be thinking that way, both of which are a matter of opinion, but you can't claim that non-US people aren't less friendly to the US than they were, because it is blatantly obvious.
Quite possibly. Were you watching Fox? Most of the planet wasn't.
Social or antisocial. I can't quite decide which.
Silly question - surely if that was true, then the US wouldn't have a trade deficit of over 40 billion dollars?
10% over 30 years? Rubbish, you wouldn't have noticed. If you did, you'd just put it down to nostalgia. Or, if you're not at least 40 years old, you'd view someone who did as some old fart moaning about how the 'summers were brighter when I were a lad'.
Yes it is. You haven't actually read the article, have you?
It states -
Sorry to be sarcastic, but you could at least have searched the text for, say, 'violet' before commenting.
Why are the Japanese building humanoid robots? So that the robots can fit in in a human environment. Basically, they eventually want humanoid helpers for their aging population. Rather than have a separate robot for various acts, they'd rather have one robot that can use the same equipment as a human (e.g. load the washing machine, do the ironing, pick things up before it vacuums the floor).
"Both feet leaving the ground" is the definition of running. It's a balance thing they are demonstrating here, not an absolute speed thing.
We really screwed Germany up the first time...
I gather the US police and fire services don't demand a credit card number before responding to a 911 call. Does that make them socialist too?
For some reason, this sort of Triumph of the Will spiel makes me a little... uncomfortable.
Er... ever heard of slaves? Spartacus' lot decided they didn't want to live in the Roman Empire anymore, and they weren't allowed to 'just leave'.
Appealing to the plebs applied back in the days of the Republic, and all through the time of the empire. Free grain distribution didn't start at the end of the empire, and the Flavian Ampitheatre was built in the first century AD, a period in which you couldn't exactly describe the empire as being on the point of collapse.
If you knew history, then you'd know the British did fight against the Vichy French navy in North Africa though. Google for Mers el Kebir.
Face it, your exit strategy is going to be by helicopter from the embassy roof.
No, it's not the election they're complaining about, it's the removal of the right to a fair trial and the declarations of war on trumped up charges (the only thing left against Saddam was that he was an evil bastard. Well, he was an evil bastard when the US sold him WMDs. Are those responsible for that act going to face trial?). It's the two dead soldiers a day and unknown numbers of civilians for no apparent improvement in safety (and, if you ask the Brits or the Turks right now, it appears to have made things worse).
That's what they're complaining about. Winning an election doesn't justify every act afterwards.
$1500? For digital? If that's the case, someone is seriously screwing up in the US. Or you have eight TVs in the house. You can get digital in the UK for 100 pounds (about $170 at the moment).
Follow the link - either the quoter typed rather than cut and paste, or the BBC have already corrected it...
The -en is very old English, which has largely died out (with the exception of oddities such as oxen). Go back a few centuries, and you'd have had some people in some regions of england referring to 'shoen' on their feet -Chaucer used that ending, although he spelt them 'shoon'. But there are uses of the 's' ending recorded back in the 10th century (e.g. in the Lindisfarne Gospel - "aes ic ne am wyre aette ic undoe his uong scoes").
The prints I get from digital are on the same quality paper as you get from having traditional film negatives developed. Indeed, in the UK at least, you can take your data in to have them printed out by the same people who'd you have your film negatives developed by, such as photo shops like Jessops or chemists such as Boots, and given a decent enough digital camera, I'd challenge the average person to be able to tell whether the resulting print came from a digital or a film camera. So I expect them to last pretty much the same length of time. As for the ones I don't get developed - they are ones that I wouldn't have taken with a film camera. With digital, I may take two or three shots of the same thing from slightly different angles, or try to take pictures I wouldn't waste film trying to take otherwise.
On the one hand, pretty good, considering that I use digital to shoot large numbers of images and then choose the best ones to print. On the other, pretty lousy, as I don't intend on being dead in 30 years, and I don't keep my photo albums in the attic.
Do you have a cite for that, or are you just making it up?
Yes, they do. Or have googled it. For example, this article in the Industrial Physicist mentions 300mm wafer sizes in the sixth paragraph.
Relevant for the features within devices, not the wafers the devices are fabricated on. Many, many devices are made on a single wafer.
So Google didn't miss it out, they just didn't stick the links up at the top so people with the attention span of a gnat wouldn't miss them...
Well, just in case it is, if no-one else has said so first, I hereby claim ownership of all dark matter and dark energy.
Right, now how would I word a General Public Licence for property?
Well, that's the problem. We're just intelligent enough to get bored. So we demand entertainment. Look at the number of posts relating to entertainment to Slashdot before anyone thinks we're better here than the sports watching masses.