There's a pair of roads near me with a cutover road between them. However, many years ago, when checking a map of the area (from a major name company) I found two cutovers listed. One correctly named and one with a bogus but plausible name. (Don't you love themed areas?) Bingo!
As far as safety or directions go, I can't see anyone having any problems. The cutover is really only there to avoid dumping people onto the main roads to go around the block; no firefighter would bother to zig-zag from one road to the other that way.
You're falling for the noble savage BS. Yes, Native Americans liked accumulating wealth. Where do you think the Spanish got all the gold they shipped back home?
The more primitive the society, the more likely it is going to be non-accumulative. This isn't because it's better or more noble--it's because rampant accumulation in primitive situations causes the local environment to go to pieces. The Aztec society was just as greedy, mean, and nasty as any European one.
Someone needs to tell the writer of the article that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. I'm fairly sure that even someone from Wired should have been able to identify each one.
Of course, interviewing the guy who built it would be a dead giveaway for almost anyone else.
Anyone remember how you could use the Bass Fishing controller with Soul Calibur to control the weapons? Give yourself plenty of room and slash away.
(Well, to be honest, I don't; because I could never justify buying a special controller for a fishing game. Maracas, on the other hand...those I wish I had bought a second set.)
Why do people assume that you see flares around stars? Could it be because you get them in pictures, even those taken by the Hubble? The longer an exposure is, the more at risk you are for lens flare from light sources. And, since stars are all light sources (a hard concept, I'll admit), the brighter stars in a field of view are always a risk for flares when the exposure time is set to bring out the fainter stars. Granted, nobody wants the lens flares showing up, particularly the scientists, but you can't eliminate them without eliminating some of the data as well.
And then there's the bitching about color photos being from multiple images. Well, the Hubble only takes monocrome photos, so it has to be a
composite image. Geez, they even tell you how some of the photos are manipulated to enhance details to make it easier to detect structures at particular wavelengths. That's hardly a 'fabrication'. Instead, it's basic science. Not to mention the photos taken at non-visible-light wavelengths; it's kind of hard to have a UV photo that people can see without using a 'fake' color.
And finally, why is cheerleading bad? The pictures are great; people should see them. Maybe they'll even tell Congress they want to see more. Heaven knows we don't fund NASA's science programs well enough.
This is one of those times where even reading the slashdot blurb would have helped. You would have noticed that nasty little word, "potential". People are debating whether or not the US should pay attention to China's attempt to go to the moon.
Of course, you can start complaining about the US ignoring the Chinese if that will make you feel better.
It may be less than a day's work difference in price, but that doesn't mean it's insignificant. Imagine if someone offered to sell you a candybar for $100. Which would you say: "Gee, that's less than a day's pay." or "You've got to be kidding."
If you're paying $150 for a motherboard without PAT and $250 for one with PAT, that's a 66% markup for 7% performance increase. Not all that impressive of a deal.
Of course, my Slashdot user ID is follower_of_christ, so what am I going to obviously post?
For a brief moment, I had the hope you might post something like:
As a follower of Christ, I realize I should be humble. I understand that the Bible is not a chemistry textbook, nor a biology textbook. I realize if all truths were in the Bible, no human would be able to read such a massive volume â" and more importantly, that the truths God wanted us to understand would be lost. I also realize that trying to make the Bible into the ultimate textbook is both a waste of time and a slight to God. There is no formula in the bible for penicillin, for Godâ(TM)s purpose was not to create chemistry majors â" we can do that on our own â" but rather to instruct and enlighten us about the important things, the things we call religion.
Let's see. We have acquired the know-how to create intersteller spacecraft with almost unimaginable powers and...we're still throwing money into the space shuttle...
Brazil's not exactly overflowing with cash at the moment. A tool that does 90% of the job for free is better than a tool that does 100% of the job but that you can't afford to purchase.
Not only would the costs be insane, but you'd end up with a severely damaged craft with obsolete sensors.
Space is a harsh environment...space near Jupiter is much worse. The intense radiation causes cumlative damage to the instruments, so if you reused them, you're at much greater risk of failure during the next mission. Oh, and speaking of radiation, the power units would be useless as the fuel would have decayed past usability.
But even if there wasn't damage, you wouldn't want to reuse anything anyway, because all the gear would be out of date. Sensor technology is advancing rapidly, so you'd end up ripping the guts of the probe and replacing everything. So all you'd end up reusing is the frame of the probe--which is the cheapest part in the first place.
Fighting over ten bucks? If I was offered nine I'd turn it down just to watch the researcher wet his pants over the bad data point.
Now, if it were a thousand bucks, and I was offered a hundred -- that's about a good dinner out -- yeah, I'd take it if I wasn't in a bad mood. But if I were feeling surly or pissed-off, I might refuse it just to make the other guy suffer too.
A million and I'm offered a hundred thousand? It doesn't matter what my mood is, I take the money. Other Joe's got nine-hundred thousand? Who cares, I got my cash!
Moral of the story: Trying to prove things on the cheap doesn't work.
Right now, people in Japan are complaining about how computers are ruining kid's abilities at writing.
Except it's worse, because while there's not much difference in content between a written sentence and a typed one in English, there is in Japanese. The children aren't learning the more difficult kanji, instead spelling things out in kana--which removes a layer of meaning.
It's kind of annoying to have to drag my laptop over to the printer, hook up a cable, print out a page, unhook the printer, head back to my chair, shoo the dog off of it, fight with the wife to get the TV back on the football game...only to discover I need to print another page. Better wait for the commercial.
The OS should be case-insensitive. Nobody in real life thinks that 'Cat', 'cat', 'CAT', and 'cAt' are different words; why should they be different file names?
Slashdot Mirror
There's a pair of roads near me with a cutover road between them. However, many years ago, when checking a map of the area (from a major name company) I found two cutovers listed. One correctly named and one with a bogus but plausible name. (Don't you love themed areas?) Bingo!
As far as safety or directions go, I can't see anyone having any problems. The cutover is really only there to avoid dumping people onto the main roads to go around the block; no firefighter would bother to zig-zag from one road to the other that way.
You're falling for the noble savage BS. Yes, Native Americans liked accumulating wealth. Where do you think the Spanish got all the gold they shipped back home?
The more primitive the society, the more likely it is going to be non-accumulative. This isn't because it's better or more noble--it's because rampant accumulation in primitive situations causes the local environment to go to pieces. The Aztec society was just as greedy, mean, and nasty as any European one.
D.M. Dinwiddie, Physician-In-Training?
It's a curious name for a game, considering that the Bursar's name is Dr. A. A. Dinwiddie, D.M. (7th).* So close, yet just far enough away.
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* And my name is Dr. A. A. Dinwiddie, D.M. (7th), D.Thau., B.Occ., M.Coll., B.F. That's Dinwiddie with an 'O'.Someone needs to tell the writer of the article that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. I'm fairly sure that even someone from Wired should have been able to identify each one.
Of course, interviewing the guy who built it would be a dead giveaway for almost anyone else.
Anyone remember how you could use the Bass Fishing controller with Soul Calibur to control the weapons? Give yourself plenty of room and slash away.
(Well, to be honest, I don't; because I could never justify buying a special controller for a fishing game. Maracas, on the other hand...those I wish I had bought a second set.)
Why do people assume that you see flares around stars? Could it be because you get them in pictures, even those taken by the Hubble? The longer an exposure is, the more at risk you are for lens flare from light sources. And, since stars are all light sources (a hard concept, I'll admit), the brighter stars in a field of view are always a risk for flares when the exposure time is set to bring out the fainter stars. Granted, nobody wants the lens flares showing up, particularly the scientists, but you can't eliminate them without eliminating some of the data as well.
And then there's the bitching about color photos being from multiple images. Well, the Hubble only takes monocrome photos, so it has to be a composite image. Geez, they even tell you how some of the photos are manipulated to enhance details to make it easier to detect structures at particular wavelengths. That's hardly a 'fabrication'. Instead, it's basic science. Not to mention the photos taken at non-visible-light wavelengths; it's kind of hard to have a UV photo that people can see without using a 'fake' color.
And finally, why is cheerleading bad? The pictures are great; people should see them. Maybe they'll even tell Congress they want to see more. Heaven knows we don't fund NASA's science programs well enough.
Ummm...I don't know how to tell you this, but...
The US isn't.
This is one of those times where even reading the slashdot blurb would have helped. You would have noticed that nasty little word, "potential". People are debating whether or not the US should pay attention to China's attempt to go to the moon.
Of course, you can start complaining about the US ignoring the Chinese if that will make you feel better.
It may be less than a day's work difference in price, but that doesn't mean it's insignificant. Imagine if someone offered to sell you a candybar for $100. Which would you say: "Gee, that's less than a day's pay." or "You've got to be kidding."
If you're paying $150 for a motherboard without PAT and $250 for one with PAT, that's a 66% markup for 7% performance increase. Not all that impressive of a deal.
According to the article, NASA is planning on launching a probe in '04. But we all know it's going to end up hitting Venus on the way in.
Shame nobody ever told China that they needed a space program to build ICBMs.
Timeline:
0700 - Get coffee, gossip with coworkers.
0800 - Install PuTTY on company computer.
0815 - ssh to home.
0817 - Get escorted out of the building by two rather large and unfriendly gentlemen.
0900 - Apply for unemployment insurance.
Of course, my Slashdot user ID is follower_of_christ, so what am I going to obviously post?
For a brief moment, I had the hope you might post something like:
As a follower of Christ, I realize I should be humble. I understand that the Bible is not a chemistry textbook, nor a biology textbook. I realize if all truths were in the Bible, no human would be able to read such a massive volume â" and more importantly, that the truths God wanted us to understand would be lost. I also realize that trying to make the Bible into the ultimate textbook is both a waste of time and a slight to God. There is no formula in the bible for penicillin, for Godâ(TM)s purpose was not to create chemistry majors â" we can do that on our own â" but rather to instruct and enlighten us about the important things, the things we call religion.
But then you posted the usual stupid crap.
Let's see. We have acquired the know-how to create intersteller spacecraft with almost unimaginable powers and...we're still throwing money into the space shuttle...
Yeah, right.
Brazil's not exactly overflowing with cash at the moment. A tool that does 90% of the job for free is better than a tool that does 100% of the job but that you can't afford to purchase.
Not only would the costs be insane, but you'd end up with a severely damaged craft with obsolete sensors.
Space is a harsh environment...space near Jupiter is much worse. The intense radiation causes cumlative damage to the instruments, so if you reused them, you're at much greater risk of failure during the next mission. Oh, and speaking of radiation, the power units would be useless as the fuel would have decayed past usability.
But even if there wasn't damage, you wouldn't want to reuse anything anyway, because all the gear would be out of date. Sensor technology is advancing rapidly, so you'd end up ripping the guts of the probe and replacing everything. So all you'd end up reusing is the frame of the probe--which is the cheapest part in the first place.
Fighting over ten bucks? If I was offered nine I'd turn it down just to watch the researcher wet his pants over the bad data point.
Now, if it were a thousand bucks, and I was offered a hundred -- that's about a good dinner out -- yeah, I'd take it if I wasn't in a bad mood. But if I were feeling surly or pissed-off, I might refuse it just to make the other guy suffer too.
A million and I'm offered a hundred thousand? It doesn't matter what my mood is, I take the money. Other Joe's got nine-hundred thousand? Who cares, I got my cash!
Moral of the story: Trying to prove things on the cheap doesn't work.
And I thought it was Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start.
Right now, people in Japan are complaining about how computers are ruining kid's abilities at writing.
Except it's worse, because while there's not much difference in content between a written sentence and a typed one in English, there is in Japanese. The children aren't learning the more difficult kanji, instead spelling things out in kana--which removes a layer of meaning.
It's kind of annoying to have to drag my laptop over to the printer, hook up a cable, print out a page, unhook the printer, head back to my chair, shoo the dog off of it, fight with the wife to get the TV back on the football game...only to discover I need to print another page. Better wait for the commercial.
Unfortunately, I fear that I'll never be able to forget...make it stop hurting!
The almost mandatory Lucas jokes:
Q: What are the three headlight setting on a Lucas -designed car?
A: Dim, flicker, and off.
Q: Why do the British drink warm beer?
A: Because Lucas made refrigerators too.
Q: Why didn't Lucas make televisions sets?
A: They couldn't figure out from where the oil should be leaking
You got flush toilets last year, what more do you want?
The OS should be case-insensitive. Nobody in real life thinks that 'Cat', 'cat', 'CAT', and 'cAt' are different words; why should they be different file names?
Of course it does. Using real words for directory names instead of easy to remember abbreviations is a mark of evil.
Remember, they did it just to piss you off.
Except keyboard trays aren't computer supplies, they're office furniture. So they come out of a different pool of money. (Yep, they're that stupid.)