It should be noted that glacial ice is far more dense than regular ice, because it is created via compaction of unthinkable amounts of snow rather than by simply freezing water directly. Not sure how that affects the equation.
Funny story about that... when they shot the long shots in that scene with stuntmen (yes, it was the real thing, no wires or anything) they had helmets on, but on the closeups of Connery ( not real) he didn't. They wanted to re-shoot the long shots without helmets, but they couldn't find a stuntman for any amount of money anywhere that was willing to fly that thing without a helmet.... they ended up having to call Connery back and reshoot his closeup with a helmet on, at great expense...
(Nowadays they would just remove the helmets digitally. Or just render the whole damn thing.)
Sounds simplistic but what happens if we just split the bill?
'cause the whole point of these missions is to stoke the fires of nationalism. The Bush administration has done its best to rm international-* , and since when has prudence had anything to do with it?
Quick, somebody tell the zebra mussel, fire ant, sea lamprey, european starling, asian tiger mosquito that the native north american species are already much better adapted and they will have no chance to compete!
Prior to experience this kind of reasoning does make a certain amount of sense. From experience, however, we have seen that invasive species can frequently overtake native populations.
If cars drove themelves than maybe people would see them less as a source for feelings of power, then maybe we would see people starting to drive sensible cars for their uses rather than the modern behemoth and the corresponding social costs of oil dependance.
.... naw, just wishful thinking.
Re:What, no editorial?
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Why does Red Hat get a free pass from the community and from the FSF for constricting our freedom as badly as Microsoft ever has?
No. People say they want style. Even if it's harder for them to use, they always prefer little pretty swooping animations and whatnot, even as you watch them blunder all over a poorly designed UI...
I think that the problem is that to have strong, consistent leadership and a single design focus, which is difficult when the you have a very large body of contributors who contribute voluntarily, sporadically and whom come and go frequently.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's a lot harder to have Bruce Perens to talk people into doing things his way, making them want to do it than it is for Steve Jobs to say "... or you're fired."
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I've read many books on this subject is by far the best, and most readable. It ends up giving a very good overview of the entire field of social psychology as it currently stands.
The problem is that when you buy something because it had the best sale pitch rather than because it was the best product. This rewards scam artists and gives companies incentive to spend all their time developing better sales pitches than developing better products.
When I was in college, I lived in a really cheap apartment. I don't know if they somehow aimed for the neighborhood, but my phone and mailbox were constantly bombarded with every scam imaginable. Maybe the previous residents collectively got that address on all the wrong mailing lists, I don't know.
Anyway, this one called me up and offered me a $50 gift certificate (to Wal*mart!) if I just saw some presentation. Easy $50, I figured. And I'm certainly too strong and smart too buy into one of these deals.
Anyway, my usual bad habit of arriving aggregriously late worked in my favor, and I wasn't let in to see the "main presentation". Instead, I was moved directly to a salesman who would work on individual prospects after they had seen the main presentation and not decided to buy.
And, I have to say, it was weird -- I really did start to feel a tiny but persuaded. The salesman told me that the offer was just for me, just for now, and that strangely made me not want to miss out on it. Of course, a totally different part of my brain told me that was why it had to be complete bullshit -- which I wisely listened to.
Still, I'll always remember that weird feeling I had, despite my best intentions and clear good sense contradicting it, so that perhaps if I ever feel it again I'll know for sure to discount it at all costs.
You mean an extraterrestrial object, not necessarily an "interstellar" one, don't you?
Incidentally "meteor" can refer either to the incandescence of a meteoroid burning up in the atmosphere or it can refer to the object itself (in which case it is a perfect synonym for "meteoroid").
No, since then there have been advances in the protection of "business dress", which could cover "look and feel". Apple has had success suing iMac clone manfacturers like eOne in recent years...
f you don't have the freedom to speak your mind, you build up anger that you can't release. Eventually enough people build up enough anger that they do speak out and with critical mass they form a revolution.
Err, no. One of the final nails in the coffin of the Soviet Union was a relaxation of speech control by Gorbachev's reforms. As a result, people could complain all they wanted to the government (often about ending the Afghanistan war), and that made the government's control all the more tenuous. By your reasoning, the opposite would have happened.
One of the countries with the largest per capita private gun ownership was Saddam's Iraq.
Sorry, but this guns=democracy theory doesn't work in either direction. Gunless societies have been democracies and gun-filled societies have been brutal dictatorships and/or warlord-run anarchies.
What keeps governments honest is a well-educated populace that can see through the governments claims and is resistant to propagandizing. Thank you.
I agree with you, but I think that eventually they'll be so many DVD players nobody will even notice when everything comes on DVD-Audio and not CD. The average consumer won't care enough to push DVDA over CD (can you really hear the difference?) but DVD players cost $30 now, soon you'll be hard up to find a computer that comes with a CD player and no DVD player. Don't forget DVD players all play CDs, too, so people are even less likely to ever even notice the difference.
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It should be noted that glacial ice is far more dense than regular ice, because it is created via compaction of unthinkable amounts of snow rather than by simply freezing water directly. Not sure how that affects the equation.
(Nowadays they would just remove the helmets digitally. Or just render the whole damn thing.)
SQLite is poised for a big boost. It's going to come bundled with the next version of PHP, PHP 5. That M in LAMP may be in trouble...
'cause the whole point of these missions is to stoke the fires of nationalism. The Bush administration has done its best to rm international-* , and since when has prudence had anything to do with it?
It doesn't matter. If the voter cannot understand how/if their vote was counted, then the voting system is broken. End of story.
Prior to experience this kind of reasoning does make a certain amount of sense. From experience, however, we have seen that invasive species can frequently overtake native populations.
'Cause the EULA is only to impress PHBs. Anyone who knows their salt doesn't have to abide by that EULA in any meaningful way.
No. People say they want style. Even if it's harder for them to use, they always prefer little pretty swooping animations and whatnot, even as you watch them blunder all over a poorly designed UI...
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's a lot harder to have Bruce Perens to talk people into doing things his way, making them want to do it than it is for Steve Jobs to say "... or you're fired."
Cialdini's six "weapons of influence" are:
The problem is that when you buy something because it had the best sale pitch rather than because it was the best product. This rewards scam artists and gives companies incentive to spend all their time developing better sales pitches than developing better products.
When I was in college, I lived in a really cheap apartment. I don't know if they somehow aimed for the neighborhood, but my phone and mailbox were constantly bombarded with every scam imaginable. Maybe the previous residents collectively got that address on all the wrong mailing lists, I don't know.
Anyway, this one called me up and offered me a $50 gift certificate (to Wal*mart!) if I just saw some presentation. Easy $50, I figured. And I'm certainly too strong and smart too buy into one of these deals.
Anyway, my usual bad habit of arriving aggregriously late worked in my favor, and I wasn't let in to see the "main presentation". Instead, I was moved directly to a salesman who would work on individual prospects after they had seen the main presentation and not decided to buy.
And, I have to say, it was weird -- I really did start to feel a tiny but persuaded. The salesman told me that the offer was just for me, just for now, and that strangely made me not want to miss out on it. Of course, a totally different part of my brain told me that was why it had to be complete bullshit -- which I wisely listened to.
Still, I'll always remember that weird feeling I had, despite my best intentions and clear good sense contradicting it, so that perhaps if I ever feel it again I'll know for sure to discount it at all costs.
It's a veritable bargain at $2,658.79 US!
I wish people would go for the common good against their own best interest, too.
I don't understand what you're talking about because I always use yum or apt-get (that's right, it comes with rhat now).
which is why you should always save the output of "make install" somewhere. I keep mine in /usr/local/install_logs
Incidentally "meteor" can refer either to the incandescence of a meteoroid burning up in the atmosphere or it can refer to the object itself (in which case it is a perfect synonym for "meteoroid").
Asteroids != meteors. This is about them entering the Earth's atmosphere eventually, right? So, shouldn't we be expecting nuclear 'meteors'?
Like swinging on a swing?
No, since then there have been advances in the protection of "business dress", which could cover "look and feel". Apple has had success suing iMac clone manfacturers like eOne in recent years...
Err, no. One of the final nails in the coffin of the Soviet Union was a relaxation of speech control by Gorbachev's reforms. As a result, people could complain all they wanted to the government (often about ending the Afghanistan war), and that made the government's control all the more tenuous. By your reasoning, the opposite would have happened.
I think that since most dictorships are in poor countries, you'll be hard up in finding this sort of thing.
Sorry, but this guns=democracy theory doesn't work in either direction. Gunless societies have been democracies and gun-filled societies have been brutal dictatorships and/or warlord-run anarchies.
What keeps governments honest is a well-educated populace that can see through the governments claims and is resistant to propagandizing. Thank you.
I agree with you, but I think that eventually they'll be so many DVD players nobody will even notice when everything comes on DVD-Audio and not CD. The average consumer won't care enough to push DVDA over CD (can you really hear the difference?) but DVD players cost $30 now, soon you'll be hard up to find a computer that comes with a CD player and no DVD player. Don't forget DVD players all play CDs, too, so people are even less likely to ever even notice the difference.