Your awe is understandable, but it is slightly misplaced. Semaphore telegraphs were not the first instance of communication faster than human travel. There were drums, smoke, etc.
In the Chinese Great Wall, for instance, they were able to transmit messages over more than 500 km within a few hours, according to a web site.
Even better would be to merge this robot with the one from a recent story that managed to stay up when pushed. He would be the complaints manager at the store and he would run around the customers playing the violin, so they could push him and he'd always go on playing.
If the separated screen could stand on its own, it would eliminate the need for an additional screen (at least ergonomically, of course you might still want a larger screen). Invent a trackpad that can be dettached and used as a small cordless mouse and you're set. Laptop manufacturers, get to work.
There are issues that affect our lives immediately, and then there are issues, such as evolution and flag burning, which influence the deep foundations of our civilization. I would argue that the latter are much more relevant, in the long term, than hedge funds and social security.
If you are in Lisbon, you might want to go to the Cinemateca (www.cinemateca.pt), where you can see old movies for 2,5. This Friday they are even showing Last Action Hero, but they mostly play classic movies, or movies related to some theme. I'm going there for a Buster Keaton movie tonight!
I am Portuguese too, and that is definitely possible here, although not everywhere. Have you never been in a theatre where ushers take you to your assigned seat with those little flashlights, when you get there late? See this website too, you can even book your seats online, for a fee: http://cinema.sapo.pt/
Actually, that is a current scientific hypothesis, but it is still controversial, as there are contradictory results (for instance, one of the consequences of this theory might be the decrease of auto-immune diseases, which is not happening).
I used Fox News on purpose, because he quoted a CNN article favorably and seemed doubtful regarding the UK media, but all the news I read at the time said the same, which can be easily confirmed with a quick search.
I think it would be great if you were right, but I seriously doubt it. Eyewitnesses are not the most reliable source and there were confusing and contradictory statements from the beginning (for instance about what he was wearing and whether he ran away). There was also controversy on the issue of CCTV footage availability, which will be much more reliable than eyewitnesses, if it exists.
No one ever suggested that the Brazilian dude was a terrorist (I believe the police said he was innocent the next day) and the issue is not whether the series of events that led to the police mistake was logical (obviously it had some kind of logic for those involved) but whether their behavior was correct and professional, which seems highly doubtful.
They do address that point, when they say the following:
"As for migration of office productivity suite applications, at this time we believe that the odds for migration success currently favor organizations or end users that do not rely heavily on use of advanced functions in Microsoft Office..."
Or just read the grey box marked Important, in the second page of the introduction.
Yes, this provided absolutely no security. Yes, I worked for this IT staff, so when I tell you they actually thought nobody else thought of this novel way of working around their stupidity (and that they thought they weren't stupid) you can be assured I'm correct.
Are you sure you weren't fired just because you couldn't express your thoughts coherently?
I agree that having peer reviewed articles, in reputable journals, is important to assess the validity of the results, but you cannot turn that into a dogma. What you are defending is just an argument of authority, instead of discussing the facts.
Read an article about the memory of water, which later became accepted as a ludicrous concept, and that was published in Nature.
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Your awe is understandable, but it is slightly misplaced. Semaphore telegraphs were not the first instance of communication faster than human travel. There were drums, smoke, etc. In the Chinese Great Wall, for instance, they were able to transmit messages over more than 500 km within a few hours, according to a web site.
Even better would be to merge this robot with the one from a recent story that managed to stay up when pushed. He would be the complaints manager at the store and he would run around the customers playing the violin, so they could push him and he'd always go on playing.
If the separated screen could stand on its own, it would eliminate the need for an additional screen (at least ergonomically, of course you might still want a larger screen). Invent a trackpad that can be dettached and used as a small cordless mouse and you're set. Laptop manufacturers, get to work.
There are issues that affect our lives immediately, and then there are issues, such as evolution and flag burning, which influence the deep foundations of our civilization. I would argue that the latter are much more relevant, in the long term, than hedge funds and social security.
If I am reading it correctly, only the first phrase is by Zemlin. The part about marketing and fending off competition is from the article.
Not that hard... ca.estou.eu la.vou.eu aqui.mando.eu
For the same people, BN is 'Billion', LUT is 'Lookup Table' and DONT is 'Disturbing Opponents' No Trump' (it doesn't have the apostrophe though).
If you are in Lisbon, you might want to go to the Cinemateca (www.cinemateca.pt), where you can see old movies for 2,5. This Friday they are even showing Last Action Hero, but they mostly play classic movies, or movies related to some theme. I'm going there for a Buster Keaton movie tonight!
I am Portuguese too, and that is definitely possible here, although not everywhere. Have you never been in a theatre where ushers take you to your assigned seat with those little flashlights, when you get there late? See this website too, you can even book your seats online, for a fee: http://cinema.sapo.pt/
You're missing out!
Actually, that is a current scientific hypothesis, but it is still controversial, as there are contradictory results (for instance, one of the consequences of this theory might be the decrease of auto-immune diseases, which is not happening).
Read this abstract for a quick summary.
If the guy is a clueless moron, why do I want to read his other posts?
According to some blogs, there are rumors...
It might be true and all, but seriously...
What does everyone else do? Look at ads in the newspaper?
I used Fox News on purpose, because he quoted a CNN article favorably and seemed doubtful regarding the UK media, but all the news I read at the time said the same, which can be easily confirmed with a quick search.
I think it would be great if you were right, but I seriously doubt it. Eyewitnesses are not the most reliable source and there were confusing and contradictory statements from the beginning (for instance about what he was wearing and whether he ran away). There was also controversy on the issue of CCTV footage availability, which will be much more reliable than eyewitnesses, if it exists.
No one ever suggested that the Brazilian dude was a terrorist (I believe the police said he was innocent the next day) and the issue is not whether the series of events that led to the police mistake was logical (obviously it had some kind of logic for those involved) but whether their behavior was correct and professional, which seems highly doubtful.
You're a bit behind on the news.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165960,00.htm
I don't know if the final report came out yet, so I'm not sure this is the official version. Google around and you will find more.
What the other person said was that it was illegal not to follow the standard.
Are you saying that the loophole in the law is that if someone decides not to follow it, then the law does not apply?
They could beat Kasparov and get his expletive reaction on the spot.
1945 called too. It claims it saw Himmler die and that he never even went near 1947.
And the laws of Newtonian physics were known at the time?
They do address that point, when they say the following:
"As for migration of office productivity suite applications, at this time we believe that the odds for migration success currently favor organizations or end users that do not rely heavily on use of advanced functions in Microsoft Office..."
Or just read the grey box marked Important, in the second page of the introduction.
Yes, this provided absolutely no security. Yes, I worked for this IT staff, so when I tell you they actually thought nobody else thought of this novel way of working around their stupidity (and that they thought they weren't stupid) you can be assured I'm correct.
Are you sure you weren't fired just because you couldn't express your thoughts coherently?
I agree that having peer reviewed articles, in reputable journals, is important to assess the validity of the results, but you cannot turn that into a dogma. What you are defending is just an argument of authority, instead of discussing the facts. Read an article about the memory of water, which later became accepted as a ludicrous concept, and that was published in Nature.
"There are many countries where everyone over a certain age has to vote"
And there are many others (possibly the vast majority?) where this does not happen. Many people (including me) find compulsory voting undemocratic.