I think we're talking about generalities here. When one particular person becomes "mature" is really irrelevent. If you were talking about height there's certainly 12 year olds that're taller than a 30 year old. That doesn't mean that there's not such a thing as growth spurts, and an age when most people are "full grown".
I also think there's a difference in brain maturity and being responsible. The researchers aren't studying "being responsible" as that would be quite hard to define and compare among different people in any kind of objective way. What they're studying is difference in brain structure, at different ages. What it sounds like they've found out is that generally speaking there is still brain development going on after age 18. To anyone that ever sees a lot of 18-20 year olds, compared to say anyone over 24 or 25 that really shouldn't be much of a surprise.
Since the weather on the moon will not replenish the "powder" upslope in anything resembling a useful timeframe on the scale of human lives (or even human civilizations), that will be the end of that. No more "powder" on the slope and no more "skiing."
Considering the moon has about the same surface area as Africa, I wouldn't really worry about a few Astronauts ruining the "skiing" for everyone else just yet.
What I don't understand is why Google is going out of their way to punish BMW for using SEO strategies to up their pagerank
Because it's a deliberate attempt to deceive the search engine. That's bad for any end user doing a search as it gives them wrong results. Why is that hard to understand? instead of chasing all the other junk (porn, pharmaceuticals, etc. websites that do the same with far more malicious intent.
I'm not sure what you're saying. Do you want google to eliminate searches for pharmaceuticals and porn? Or do you believe Google isn't stopping people who do inappropriate SEO techniques for drugs and porn? And on the off chance that Google is trying to 'make an example' by punishing a big company like BMW, someone there needs to be hit with the clue hammer; no disrespectable SEO slinger is going to pay attention to that sort of thing.
Are you kidding? Being delisted by Google is a Big Deal. The rogue SEO companies won't go away right away, but eventually everyone will hear about getting delisted from Google for doing this garbage and the rogue SEO companies will all but disapear. If you seriously think that BMW.de being delisted by google won't make BMW change their deceptive website, I think it's you that needs to be hit with a "clue hammer".
Are you implying that this is an abuse of search engine optimization, or you just don't like how the duplicate sites were ranked? If so, how is it an abuse? If not, what does this have to do with the article (other than both subjects being about Google)?
Fair enough, though car designs vary a lot, so I'd still wonder if some cars would lose braking power right away. I'll have to try shutting off my engine sometime in an empty parking lot sometime and see what happens with my brake power. I'd imagine you're right though, since I wouldn't think car manufacturers would design a car to lose brake power when the car stalls, for instance.
There's also the hybrids to contend with if you were actually able to do make this sci-fi device. What happens to a hybrid when you lose, or fry the computer?
The same goes for brakes, you won't have power assist so you will have to use some muscle and push that brake peddle down, but you will still be able to stop/slow the vehicle.
And how fast will you be able to stop? Will the driver panic because they've never experience non-power brakes before and don't know what's going on? (possibly thinking the brakes don't work and stop applying them). I've never driven a car without power brakes before, and I don't even think anyone has made such a car for a LONG time. If you create an unusual situation like this you could very well create an accident. This is especially true when someone is already nervous enough to run away from the cops.
Did you not understand that the point of this is to NOT pursue the suspect? It only takes a minute to stop the car, smash the thing to bits, and continue driving.
If the criminals have to stop to smash it from their rear bumper then surely its job is done.
How? The whole point of this thing is to not pursue them and pick them up later. If they stop for a minute, smash the thing to bits, and continue on then you've lost them.
Regardless of whether fleeing drivers realize they have been tagged, it's unlikely that individuals could unglue the dart.
Delicate electronics don't tend to survive being hit with a hammer. You don't have to get it off the car, all you have to do is disable it. I'd be curious to see how smash proof this thing is.
I'm sure the big Antivirus guys will resist tooth and nail any external change like the CME numbers. As the article says, they aren't the target for this naming scheme, the people who have to deal with these viruses (like a lot of us slashdotters) are the real people who benefit. With a common naming that us end users can agree on we can finally communicate about what virus is what, instead of having some giant table to translate all the time. People will still use the more common names in the press, etc.
The CME number will be like the scientific name of a plant or animal. Specialized to a certain group, but entirely definitive. The antivirus vendors will all eventually have to start publishing a CME identifier with each virus so any administrator will know "what the hell virus is that?".
The article claims it takes 28 seconds to damage your hearing at the loudest setting. That's plenty of time to take the earphones off, or lower the volume. If the iPod damaged hearing in under 1 or 2 seconds I could see how that would be an inherent flaw in the device as anyone can make that mistake by accident.
Obviously that's not the case, so I'd be surprised if this suit gets any father than dumb headlines on slashdot.
Again, it depends on what you consider "blogging" to be.
Exactly. I consider blogging to be when children eat ice cream too fast and get an ice-cream headache.
Seriously, can't we all agree on some basic definition of blogging rather than play these dumb word games? You've taken the word and completely redfined it so it no longer resembles the original word. Pigeons making blog entries through data gathered from devices attatched to them? I think you've broken some basic laws of logic about who does what, since obviously the pigeon doesn't actually post any information itself. If you want to define it that way, hey great. But don't expect anyone to understand what the hell you're talking about anymore.
Contrast that with America, where many technology parks and shopping centers don't even have proper sidewalks, and where the fastest, cheapest food you can get is at McDonalds, and it's no wonder Americans are fat.
I hate to break it to you, but Britain also has a problem with obesity. I would agree with you on how difficult it is to get good fast food in the US though. I cook fairly often, but not seven days a week. It's quite hard to get inexpensive healthy fast food.
The Military has battle plans for every single contingency. That is how they work.
I don't think it's the fact that the military has a plan for using the Internet, I think it's the plan itself of trying to prevent the militaries own propoganda from appearing in the US. That sounds a lot like government control of a free press, so it makes a lot of us who believe in democracy nervous.
And again you're talking about an explosion from a technical perspective. Within that context you're correct. But for everyone else in the world a big fireball is an explosion. Since this article wasn't written for a trade journal I think the rather untechnical description is perfectly applicable here. Explosion isn't a word who's definition is confined to people who work within a specialized techinical field.
What kind of strange definition of explosion does this guy have? the shuttle's fuel tank tore apart, spilling liquid oxygen and hydrogen which formed a huge fireball at an altitude of 46,000 ft.
That kind of sounds like an explosion to me. Maybe to a demolitions expert it doesn't meet some specialized technical definition of "explosion", but I don't see how that's really relavent. Talking about how the actual orbiter didn't explode is really starting to split hairs here.
I'd love a good replacement for outlook. The idea of an integrated scheduling, contact, and and email program isn't so bad, though personally I'd prefer a standard for scheduling and contact management that could tie together different programs.
I've never used it from a client perspective, but from a file, network, and multiple user perspective it's really quite a terribly designed program. I sincerly hope that Quickbooks is NOT ported to Linux, and someone else designed a different program that's designed with the Internet and multiple users in mind.
Just to give people some perpsective, quickbooks is used by a lot of small businesses. The problem is that these people need to access the books from more than one place. Usually home, and the office. Also, it's quite common for multiple people to want to use the same quickbooks file at the same time. Or, say you want to give access to your quickbooks files to your accountant. Quickbooks was never really designed for the Internet age, and it shows. People solve these problems with ad-hoc solutions like emailing quickbooks files back and forth. Please don't port quickbooks to linux, let this crappy program die the horrible death it deserves.
Comments like yours really make me realize that there are a lot of people who really have no sense of humor.
And comments like yours really make me realize that people don't read the replies or the moderation. There are several replies with the "what about the copper shortage!!!" that are obviously quite serious, and not labeled funny.
In addition to my other reply which lists 230 kilograms as a percentage of the world copper reserves, I'd like to point out that 230 kilograms of copper is almost exactly a cubic foot. That is a 1x1x1 foot cube of copper. Not exactly a "huge copper slug" that the article summary suggests.
We can use all the copper we can get here on earth.
Replies like this, and the moderations of them really makes me realize that there's a lot of people that really have no sense of scale. The world copper reserves are somewhere around 340 million tonnes (http://www.icsg.org/Factbook/copper_world/sd.htm) . That's about 340,000,000,000 kilograms (340 billion kilograms). The projectile they're talking about sending is 230 kilograms. Expressed as a percentage of our reserves, that's.000000068% of our copper reserves. I wouldn't really worry about losing that much copper.
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I think we're talking about generalities here. When one particular person becomes "mature" is really irrelevent. If you were talking about height there's certainly 12 year olds that're taller than a 30 year old. That doesn't mean that there's not such a thing as growth spurts, and an age when most people are "full grown".
I also think there's a difference in brain maturity and being responsible. The researchers aren't studying "being responsible" as that would be quite hard to define and compare among different people in any kind of objective way. What they're studying is difference in brain structure, at different ages. What it sounds like they've found out is that generally speaking there is still brain development going on after age 18. To anyone that ever sees a lot of 18-20 year olds, compared to say anyone over 24 or 25 that really shouldn't be much of a surprise.
Since the weather on the moon will not replenish the "powder" upslope in anything resembling a useful timeframe on the scale of human lives (or even human civilizations), that will be the end of that. No more "powder" on the slope and no more "skiing."
Considering the moon has about the same surface area as Africa, I wouldn't really worry about a few Astronauts ruining the "skiing" for everyone else just yet.
Whatever site that would have ranked number one if BMW.de didn't have a special page for the GoogleBot.
Strange. I never get results like that. I do know however that google DOES ban a lot of people that use banned SEO techniques.
What I don't understand is why Google is going out of their way to punish BMW for using SEO strategies to up their pagerank
Because it's a deliberate attempt to deceive the search engine. That's bad for any end user doing a search as it gives them wrong results. Why is that hard to understand?
instead of chasing all the other junk (porn, pharmaceuticals, etc. websites that do the same with far more malicious intent.
I'm not sure what you're saying. Do you want google to eliminate searches for pharmaceuticals and porn? Or do you believe Google isn't stopping people who do inappropriate SEO techniques for drugs and porn?
And on the off chance that Google is trying to 'make an example' by punishing a big company like BMW, someone there needs to be hit with the clue hammer; no disrespectable SEO slinger is going to pay attention to that sort of thing.
Are you kidding? Being delisted by Google is a Big Deal. The rogue SEO companies won't go away right away, but eventually everyone will hear about getting delisted from Google for doing this garbage and the rogue SEO companies will all but disapear. If you seriously think that BMW.de being delisted by google won't make BMW change their deceptive website, I think it's you that needs to be hit with a "clue hammer".
Are you implying that this is an abuse of search engine optimization, or you just don't like how the duplicate sites were ranked? If so, how is it an abuse? If not, what does this have to do with the article (other than both subjects being about Google)?
Fair enough, though car designs vary a lot, so I'd still wonder if some cars would lose braking power right away. I'll have to try shutting off my engine sometime in an empty parking lot sometime and see what happens with my brake power. I'd imagine you're right though, since I wouldn't think car manufacturers would design a car to lose brake power when the car stalls, for instance.
There's also the hybrids to contend with if you were actually able to do make this sci-fi device. What happens to a hybrid when you lose, or fry the computer?
The same goes for brakes, you won't have power assist so you will have to use some muscle and push that brake peddle down, but you will still be able to stop/slow the vehicle.
And how fast will you be able to stop? Will the driver panic because they've never experience non-power brakes before and don't know what's going on? (possibly thinking the brakes don't work and stop applying them). I've never driven a car without power brakes before, and I don't even think anyone has made such a car for a LONG time. If you create an unusual situation like this you could very well create an accident. This is especially true when someone is already nervous enough to run away from the cops.
Did you not understand that the point of this is to NOT pursue the suspect? It only takes a minute to stop the car, smash the thing to bits, and continue driving.
If the criminals have to stop to smash it from their rear bumper then surely its job is done.
How? The whole point of this thing is to not pursue them and pick them up later. If they stop for a minute, smash the thing to bits, and continue on then you've lost them.
Regardless of whether fleeing drivers realize they have been tagged, it's unlikely that individuals could unglue the dart.
Delicate electronics don't tend to survive being hit with a hammer. You don't have to get it off the car, all you have to do is disable it. I'd be curious to see how smash proof this thing is.
If this is true, I sure as hell don't want my employer, or the government to have pictures of my retina to implement biometric security.
I'm sure the big Antivirus guys will resist tooth and nail any external change like the CME numbers. As the article says, they aren't the target for this naming scheme, the people who have to deal with these viruses (like a lot of us slashdotters) are the real people who benefit. With a common naming that us end users can agree on we can finally communicate about what virus is what, instead of having some giant table to translate all the time. People will still use the more common names in the press, etc.
The CME number will be like the scientific name of a plant or animal. Specialized to a certain group, but entirely definitive. The antivirus vendors will all eventually have to start publishing a CME identifier with each virus so any administrator will know "what the hell virus is that?".
The article claims it takes 28 seconds to damage your hearing at the loudest setting. That's plenty of time to take the earphones off, or lower the volume. If the iPod damaged hearing in under 1 or 2 seconds I could see how that would be an inherent flaw in the device as anyone can make that mistake by accident.
Obviously that's not the case, so I'd be surprised if this suit gets any father than dumb headlines on slashdot.
Again, it depends on what you consider "blogging" to be.
Exactly. I consider blogging to be when children eat ice cream too fast and get an ice-cream headache.
Seriously, can't we all agree on some basic definition of blogging rather than play these dumb word games? You've taken the word and completely redfined it so it no longer resembles the original word. Pigeons making blog entries through data gathered from devices attatched to them? I think you've broken some basic laws of logic about who does what, since obviously the pigeon doesn't actually post any information itself. If you want to define it that way, hey great. But don't expect anyone to understand what the hell you're talking about anymore.
Contrast that with America, where many technology parks and shopping centers don't even have proper sidewalks, and where the fastest, cheapest food you can get is at McDonalds, and it's no wonder Americans are fat.
I hate to break it to you, but Britain also has a problem with obesity. I would agree with you on how difficult it is to get good fast food in the US though. I cook fairly often, but not seven days a week. It's quite hard to get inexpensive healthy fast food.
The Military has battle plans for every single contingency. That is how they work.
I don't think it's the fact that the military has a plan for using the Internet, I think it's the plan itself of trying to prevent the militaries own propoganda from appearing in the US. That sounds a lot like government control of a free press, so it makes a lot of us who believe in democracy nervous.
And again you're talking about an explosion from a technical perspective. Within that context you're correct. But for everyone else in the world a big fireball is an explosion. Since this article wasn't written for a trade journal I think the rather untechnical description is perfectly applicable here. Explosion isn't a word who's definition is confined to people who work within a specialized techinical field.
What kind of strange definition of explosion does this guy have?
the shuttle's fuel tank tore apart, spilling liquid oxygen and hydrogen which formed a huge fireball at an altitude of 46,000 ft.
That kind of sounds like an explosion to me. Maybe to a demolitions expert it doesn't meet some specialized technical definition of "explosion", but I don't see how that's really relavent. Talking about how the actual orbiter didn't explode is really starting to split hairs here.
I'd love a good replacement for outlook. The idea of an integrated scheduling, contact, and and email program isn't so bad, though personally I'd prefer a standard for scheduling and contact management that could tie together different programs.
Another program I hope is never ported to Linux. I hate outlook in every way there is to hate a program.
I've never used it from a client perspective, but from a file, network, and multiple user perspective it's really quite a terribly designed program. I sincerly hope that Quickbooks is NOT ported to Linux, and someone else designed a different program that's designed with the Internet and multiple users in mind.
Just to give people some perpsective, quickbooks is used by a lot of small businesses. The problem is that these people need to access the books from more than one place. Usually home, and the office. Also, it's quite common for multiple people to want to use the same quickbooks file at the same time. Or, say you want to give access to your quickbooks files to your accountant. Quickbooks was never really designed for the Internet age, and it shows. People solve these problems with ad-hoc solutions like emailing quickbooks files back and forth. Please don't port quickbooks to linux, let this crappy program die the horrible death it deserves.
Comments like yours really make me realize that there are a lot of people who really have no sense of humor.
And comments like yours really make me realize that people don't read the replies or the moderation. There are several replies with the "what about the copper shortage!!!" that are obviously quite serious, and not labeled funny.
In addition to my other reply which lists 230 kilograms as a percentage of the world copper reserves, I'd like to point out that 230 kilograms of copper is almost exactly a cubic foot. That is a 1x1x1 foot cube of copper. Not exactly a "huge copper slug" that the article summary suggests.
We can use all the copper we can get here on earth.
Replies like this, and the moderations of them really makes me realize that there's a lot of people that really have no sense of scale. The world copper reserves are somewhere around 340 million tonnes (http://www.icsg.org/Factbook/copper_world/sd.htm