Bah. If they didn't want people to randomly look at through articles, they wouldn't PROVIDE you with a CGI that points you to a random article.
Of course they want to provide that functionality in their website. Another thing is abusing the system by polling their server every time I open a new browser window. In my case, I do that around 100 times a day, so it would be unnecesarily uncourteous.
IMO, that's a bit irresponsible. I'm pretty sure you don't read 100% of those articles and knowing that they're having problems with their servers, one should attempt to stress them as little as possible.
Rather than doing that, you should have an easily accesible bookmark. What I do is to have my browser to launch a static html page with my most visited and favorite sites. Some middle-button clicks on them and I have them all opened in different tabs.
Also, instead of going directly to the wikipedia homepage to do a search, I use google (from my googlebar, of course): whatever_i_want site:wikipedia.org
and that does a good job.
... being the tech-avantgarde community it says it is, doesn't upgrade to modern standards, I don't know how can I expect other people to do it.
Check Slashdot's HTML code. It's been said before, and I think it's important to underline it again. Why is Slashdot's HTML code not modernized?
I may be wrong, but I think it shouldn't be so difficult to CSS-ize the code. I'm sure it would be leaner, more elegant and it would save a lot of bandwith to the./'s servers too. It would also
transform gracefully.
... I suspect it will be more of a testament to the power of experimental precision rather than a test of GR, which practically every serious physicist believes to be correct.
Err... I don't think so... every serious physicist strongly believes that relativity laws are an excellent model of the behaviour of the universe in the macroscopic scale.
Science is inherently an asymptotic quest for the truth. Any serious scientist knows that.
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And what is left for those of us that are month-minded?
What's so fscking incredible or scary about listening to some wind blowing in the microphone of a mobile phone?
I think this is one of the most stupid experiments I've ever heard...
People sometimes fail to have a little bit of common sense and a bit of scientific knowledge to be able to predict the outcome of certain kinds of experiments without actually performing them.
The Bering strait is in North America, separating the Alaska from Russia.
Besides, the distance from Tierra del Fuego to Cape town is approximately 6,600 Km, approximately 1/6 of Earth's circumference... isn't that a bit ambitious?
You might as well outlaw all ways that people try to give themselves better odds. Those who go to certain slot machines (that have been loosing for a long time) should be illegial, since it is a way people try to improve their odds.
I'm curious. Has anybody conducted a serious statistical analysis to validate this claim? I don't know how these slot machines operate, but it makes sense to believe that they're built in such a way that every 'sample' is statistically independent of the previous samples.
Probably a mechanical slot machine has that drawback, whereas a digital one can be constructed more easily to accomplish independence between rounds. I haven't been in a casino for a while (1996?), but I wouldn't be surprised if now digital slot machines are favoured over mechanical ones.
I paid around 50 bucks for the 2003 version of the Reference Library edition and I'm so glad I did.
I normally look for information on the web before resorting to Encarta, but when it comes to geography, I just love to play with Encarta's Atlas.
It includes many feature I'll never use, but there are two features (besides the encyclopedia) that I find very useful:
The Atlas's database is huge, and it's very easy to use, and visually stunning. It has a lot of highly interesting statistical maps.
In my personal case as an non-native English speaker I use the built-in dictionary which is always loaded in memory and has audible pronunciation for most words. It also has English translations (bidirectional) with Spanish, Italian, German and French. That's quite nice.
I don't tend to like MS products, but I must agree that Encarta is a very well made and very useful product. It is high quality software. Probably Britannica's articles is much better, but Encarta's Reference Library does the job very well.
My mother does that all the time. She doesn't understand that won't take her faster to her destination.
I've seen that some people just want to get in the elevator, and they don't care if they have to go from the 2nd floor to the 13th and then back to the basement...:-/
Part of the problem with the idea that the red shift is a doppler effect is that the observed quasars are apparently all in a relatively spherical arrangement about the Earth, thus implying that the Earth must be the center of the observed universe.
***Gasp*** What do you mean? it isn't??? I thought Copernicus had destroyed that theory!
Main Entry: smell Function: noun 1 : the property of a thing that affects the olfactory organs : ODOR 2 a : the process, function, or power of smelling b : the special sense concerned with the perception of odor 3 a : a very small amount : TRACE b : a pervading or characteristic quality : AURA 4 : an act or instance of smelling
Actually, it seems that the Internet is giving a big push to the Esperanto movement. It's now very easy to find Esperanto speakers in the net.
There are Esperanto chat rooms and a newsgroup soc.culture.esperanto
Many people, including myself, taught themselves Esperanto using online tutorials. It's a surprisingly easy language to learn. I wouldn't have learned Esperanto if I had not the online tools to learn it.
If you're interested, I recommend http://www.cursodeesperanto.com.br
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Not even being an esperantist myself will make me say that Incubus is a masterpiece.
I don't know what I missed, but it didn't seem a good movie at all.
October sky is a very inspiring movie. I also recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it, especially if they have any interest in science.
It may not have the best script, acting, etc. but it's very enjoyable.
... is now again, in the form of the now open source Mozilla and it's variants, the biggest threat to IE.
Unfortunately, its biggest threat is not that big at all. It's not like everybody is going to switch to Firefox in the short term.
IE is going to be the most used browser as long as it is bundled in Windows. Period.
You could start buy cleaning up your own posts ;)
Bah. If they didn't want people to randomly look at through articles, they wouldn't PROVIDE you with a CGI that points you to a random article.
Of course they want to provide that functionality in their website. Another thing is abusing the system by polling their server every time I open a new browser window. In my case, I do that around 100 times a day, so it would be unnecesarily uncourteous.
IMO, that's a bit irresponsible. I'm pretty sure you don't read 100% of those articles and knowing that they're having problems with their servers, one should attempt to stress them as little as possible.
Rather than doing that, you should have an easily accesible bookmark. What I do is to have my browser to launch a static html page with my most visited and favorite sites. Some middle-button clicks on them and I have them all opened in different tabs.
Also, instead of going directly to the wikipedia homepage to do a search, I use google (from my googlebar, of course):
whatever_i_want site:wikipedia.org
and that does a good job.
...with the Columbian cartels to get extra funding, ...
Columbian: relating to the United States or Christopher Colombus.
Colombian: relative to Colombia, a republic in northwestern South America.
The people who want to live forever is because they're so embedded in the system that they cannot see the bigger picture. Why are we here?
I believe there is so much more to being in this planet working and paying bills.
... being the tech-avantgarde community it says it is, doesn't upgrade to modern standards, I don't know how can I expect other people to do it.
Check Slashdot's HTML code. It's been said before, and I think it's important to underline it again. Why is Slashdot's HTML code not modernized?
I may be wrong, but I think it shouldn't be so difficult to CSS-ize the code. I'm sure it would be leaner, more elegant and it would save a lot of bandwith to the ./'s servers too. It would also
transform gracefully.
... I suspect it will be more of a testament to the power of experimental precision rather than a test of GR, which practically every serious physicist believes to be correct.
Err... I don't think so... every serious physicist strongly believes that relativity laws are an excellent model of the behaviour of the universe in the macroscopic scale.
Science is inherently an asymptotic quest for the truth. Any serious scientist knows that.
And what is left for those of us that are month-minded?
What's so fscking incredible or scary about listening to some wind blowing in the microphone of a mobile phone?
I think this is one of the most stupid experiments I've ever heard...
People sometimes fail to have a little bit of common sense and a bit of scientific knowledge to be able to predict the outcome of certain kinds of experiments without actually performing them.
You should take geography lessons...
The Bering strait is in North America, separating the Alaska from Russia.
Besides, the distance from Tierra del Fuego to Cape town is approximately 6,600 Km, approximately 1/6 of Earth's circumference... isn't that a bit ambitious?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/25/195023 4&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=185&tid= 187
You might as well outlaw all ways that people try to give themselves better odds. Those who go to certain slot machines (that have been loosing for a long time) should be illegial, since it is a way people try to improve their odds.
I'm curious. Has anybody conducted a serious statistical analysis to validate this claim? I don't know how these slot machines operate, but it makes sense to believe that they're built in such a way that every 'sample' is statistically independent of the previous samples.
Probably a mechanical slot machine has that drawback, whereas a digital one can be constructed more easily to accomplish independence between rounds. I haven't been in a casino for a while (1996?), but I wouldn't be surprised if now digital slot machines are favoured over mechanical ones.
I don't need to worry about Linux fscking up my system by auto-detecting hardware that I can't get a driver for.
You fsck your Linux system, not the other way around!
I paid around 50 bucks for the 2003 version of the Reference Library edition and I'm so glad I did.
I normally look for information on the web before resorting to Encarta, but when it comes to geography, I just love to play with Encarta's Atlas.
It includes many feature I'll never use, but there are two features (besides the encyclopedia) that I find very useful:
The Atlas's database is huge, and it's very easy to use, and visually stunning. It has a lot of highly interesting statistical maps.
In my personal case as an non-native English speaker I use the built-in dictionary which is always loaded in memory and has audible pronunciation for most words. It also has English translations (bidirectional) with Spanish, Italian, German and French. That's quite nice.
I don't tend to like MS products, but I must agree that Encarta is a very well made and very useful product. It is high quality software. Probably Britannica's articles is much better, but Encarta's Reference Library does the job very well.
My mother does that all the time. She doesn't understand that won't take her faster to her destination.
:-/
I've seen that some people just want to get in the elevator, and they don't care if they have to go from the 2nd floor to the 13th and then back to the basement...
Part of the problem with the idea that the red shift is a doppler effect is that the observed quasars are apparently all in a relatively spherical arrangement about the Earth, thus implying that the Earth must be the center of the observed universe.
***Gasp*** What do you mean? it isn't??? I thought Copernicus had destroyed that theory!
Main Entry: smell
Function: noun
1 : the property of a thing that affects the olfactory organs : ODOR
2 a : the process, function, or power of smelling b : the special sense concerned with the perception of odor
3 a : a very small amount : TRACE b : a pervading or characteristic quality : AURA
4 : an act or instance of smelling
Honestly, after the war on Iraq coverage on CNN, I try to stay away from that ultrabiased news source as much as I can.
jeez
But many do, and in fact, some of the most important have, like Einstein, Copernicus, Kepler and Newton (even Galileo).
I haven't programmed in VB for quite a while, but I always loved the debugger. It is so well integrated and easy to use!!!
Actually, it seems that the Internet is giving a big push to the Esperanto movement. It's now very easy to find Esperanto speakers in the net.
There are Esperanto chat rooms and a newsgroup soc.culture.esperanto
Many people, including myself, taught themselves Esperanto using online tutorials. It's a surprisingly easy language to learn. I wouldn't have learned Esperanto if I had not the online tools to learn it.
If you're interested, I recommend http://www.cursodeesperanto.com.br