Please make that at The Comp^H^H^Hthe DM's discretion [although a good DM will of course make that the case anyway;)]...hightens the paranoia ('ohshitohshitohshit...is this my last clone or what?'):)
"...does not necessarily require belief in the supernatural..."
Uh, sorry? Could you expound on that? I'd think that religion by definition deals with something beyond the natural. Unless of course you take the view that this 'god' thing is natural, and therefore is not supernatural or whatever. Even zen (the only religion I'm aware of lacking a god) is supernatural, in that the final attainable state is beyond this earth (although of course a taoist would say tht it is the ultimate acheivable form of nature).
Anyway, you are missing the obvious here: maybe mister Clarcke means/exactly/ what he is quoted as saying: religion is ultimately a very bad thing, when it's good and bad points are balanced.
Now there is...used to be that you could sniff a logitech wireless kb just by byuing the same type and holding the reciever to the power outlet...and if someone was typing somewhere in the building, the words would magically appear on your screen:) I saw that one done on tv:)
They updated the osftware though, so now there's some kind of encryption going on.
It's all pseudo colour; all digital camera's are. To find out how it all works and why these pics are as good as you can get (and can be just about considered true colour), check here:
I don't think you can know what you are risking without having done 'it' before. Nearly every soldier I know who has been in combat either doesn't want to talk about it or tells me they rwally, really don't want to do it again. I think you should read and respect the memories and read the diaries of soldiers who know what they're talking about: the people who fought in Vietnam, WWII, WWI and most any modern war a) didn't know what they where getting into and b)never want to do it again. Unless they're diehards who wouldn't know what else to do/are officers/collect ears. It's only very rarely that you come across someone who knows the horrors of war and still thinks it is his duty to go and fight.
Which kinda shows that your command of the english language isn't up to scratch. Liquid/solid refers to an organisational structure of the atoms which form it, not to anything else.
At room temperature, this manifests itself as something which flows and something which stays the same shape...but room temperature isn't the only temperature there is (boy, I wish I coulda heard you when Einstein replaced Newton:)).
Entirely wrong, I think (but in such an interesting way that I had to look it up...which is good since I have an exam on this very subject in about a months time:)).
First off, electrons have integral spin, which makes them fermions...which means that Pauli does apply.
Second, Pauli only applies to the electrons etc in a small system where the probability waves as per Schrodinger overlap. This happens in close proximity, ie only in the system of the (single) helium atom. That's where the electrons can't inhabit the same energy level whilst having the same spin(/quantum numbers).
Pauli says nothing about the energy states of teh atoms in a system of multiple helium atoms, because the probability functions don't overlap. He couldn't care a rats ass what state the electrons in the other atoms are, in this case.
Still, ya gotta love preservation of impuls (or is that momentum? Damn, the diffence between dutch and english jargon sucks...and now I'm confused:(;P)!
My god...the CIA world fact book is the best you could do? Man-oh-man...hardly backs up your claim of having vistited 40 countries and up:) What say you start at the UN and it's numerous NGO's for some real real research. Maybe even try WHO (lotsa studies involving comparative research between literacy and health).
As for your statement regarding 'not needing a college degree'...true, we do need garbage collectors. But the way you trivialise education (not even taking the trouble to find an authoritative source for literacy and numeracy levels [hell, try sciam.com for some simplified graphs and figures...and bibliography]) is... disturbing. And the way you advocate student loans; that's just teaching bad accountability. The kind which has brought forth Enrons and put the US in exactly the position it is now; nearly bankrupt and still spending (with plans to go to Mars now! Come on...you can't spend what you don't have...even an american influenced organisation like the IMF is warning about the catastrophe-in-waiting!). We have student loans over here too (and education is cheaper...about 10% of US costs), but the only fiscally sound way of treating them is if they are for the poor. Education is so important that it should be affordable to the middle classes...and not a loan you're stuck with for the next 30 years.
Then we get to the last paragraph...your lack of understanding of international politics is astounding. Go look up Nato's charter...and read it. Then go ask someone for a basic explanation of teh countries treaty obligations. Then realise that american defence spending is way out of any bounds, obligations or even sanity. And as for the so called 'bad guys'. Again, do some research and find out that the mayority are in power due to US backing. Not only that, but read some Clausewitz, Patton and Churchill to realise that a) the world doesn't need a sherrif (who have you saves the world from exactly? The germans don't count, and neither do the japanese...that was before current military doctrine) and b) modern 'warfare' doesn't need nearly the troop numbers or organisation that the US currently uses. It is outdated and formulated on Cold war doctrine, whilst it is evident that that kind of war is not going to happen...unless it is actively sought out. Speak to some military officers (not grunts, I'm talking ranking officers) to have that confrimed.
In short: do some research, and don't come up with kiddie books for a grown up discussion. Get some socio-economic knowledge, some military knowledge, maybe even some scientific training and then go stock up on some basic facts.
You really wanna do something? Get some (a few hundred) geeks in the same city organised. Hope they're nicely geographically distibuted and all get some wifi equipment (not so expensive these days)...and set it up! Free city-wide coverage:)
Then get some kind of voice over ip (not the stuff the telco's are trying, I'm talking more like roger wilco; no connections to the traditional networks neccessary) working on palmpilots and ppc....et viola, you won't have to pay for inner-city calls (which makes a big difference for anyone who doesn't live in the US with it's free local calls);)
All you'd need the telco's for then is inter-city comms and landline internet access.
No way is autocad the standard. Not even close; the cad market is pretty fragmented; Pro/E, Catia, Solidworks, SolidEdge, Ironcad, etc etc etc etc.
The only thing holding companies back would be retraining and custom plugins...file-formats are pretty open and well documented, and all the big programms open all/most of 'em.
However, Photoshop has the gfx market quite well cornered...ecept for natural media in which case programs like Painter work damn well.
"First, the economy isn't depressed. In fact, we never even entered a recession, since we never had two quarters of negative growth in a row (though it was a close run thing)."
Dodged a bullet there, didn't the US. Uh-huh.
"We don't have "illitaracy" rampant, or even illiteracy for that matter. We've got the same levels of literacy as Western Europe."
Absolute and utter bollocks. Do your research. Not only is a large percentage of americans illiterate, but they are also innumerate: a large percentage of mericans leave high school (if they even manage that) without basic reading, writing and calculation skill. Well documented fact.
"The only reason a large number of our science graduates leave the country is because they're all going home. Ya see, like it or not, the US has the best tertiary education system in the world."
True, but only if you can afford it. If you can't, you don't even get a tertiary education.
"And to suggest the US economy is "third world" means you've either never been here, or never been to the third world."
Funny...I've lived in numerous third world countries. I know what I'm comparing to.
"I didn't have to step over anybody starving in the street on my to work this morning, and didn't have to wipe shit off my shoes before coming in the building. You do have to do those things in many parts of the third world."
Now this tells me it's you who hasn't been to a third world country. Ever been to Brazil? The capital city is a gleaming collection of highrises, skyscrapers and riches. Too bad only the richest of the rich live there, and it's surrounded by shanty towns.
Anyway, Politburo does get my post....it's all about priorities...and a country in such a state as the US which spends more than half it's budget on defense (whilst alrready spending more than the next twenty countries COMBINED!) can't afford to spend such money on something which is for all purposes trivial. Especially when they trample on basic human rights, broaden previously curtailed (after huge proven misuse) FBI powers, start up nuclear weapons programs, etc etc etc all in the name of freedom. A country where a grandma is not allowed to stand/where others are/ (there goes the 'security' argument) is not free anymore...and definitely not financially sound (then again, Enron et al proved that).
Have you considered that maybe, just maybe this isn't worth it? I mean, a lot less people get killed WORLDWIDE due to terrorism per YEAR than get killed in a single WEEK due to traffic accidents in the US alone.
When you look at numbers like that, doesn't it kind of put things into perspective? Are you still so adamantly giving up your bill of rights, allowing your president to get away with sealing protesters (guys/galss/grandma's with placcards) into 'free speech zones' so the camera's don't see 'em (look this one up...chilling stuff indeed when you can arrest a grandma with a sign saying something against the current administration for standing in a crowd) and much more? And what about the spending!? More than half the US' budget goes to defence and related activities...and that with you nation in debt, a depressed economy, illitaracy rampant, science graduates [who stay in the US] down, in other words a third world country economy...don't you think the money should be spent somewhere else?
So let me check if I have this correct; a (moderately) smart bet to take would be to go get an online instant stock buying selling programme (you know what I mean...I hope:)), buy some SCO stock, ride allong with the hype and dump it a few hours before the 11th?
And with the money gained, maybe even bet that SCO's stock will plumet after the case is closed (ie sell it short [or something like that...can't remember the technical term, but I know the option to do something like that exists]).
Anyone else notice this? You contradict yourself: first you say '3d is bad', then you sya '3d with big screens is good'...anyone doing physical/chemical etc. simulation will tell you that 3d output is (in many cases) good for comprehension.
You have to at least consider cases where you don't know the entire search space...mapping and catagorising helps immensely when you only have a vague idea what it is you're looking for.
This is more a data/info organisation tool than a search engine...which is why it's a plug in instead of a wholely new search engine.
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Please make that at The Comp^H^H^Hthe DM's discretion [although a good DM will of course make that the case anyway ;)]...hightens the paranoia ('ohshitohshitohshit...is this my last clone or what?') :)
But only commies would know that! *BLAM!*
:)
Wheel out Llywelyn_03
Which of course leads to: "Any sufficientlty rigged demo is indistinguishable from a pre-rendered movie." :)
"...does not necessarily require belief in the supernatural..."
/exactly/ what he is quoted as saying: religion is ultimately a very bad thing, when it's good and bad points are balanced.
Uh, sorry? Could you expound on that? I'd think that religion by definition deals with something beyond the natural. Unless of course you take the view that this 'god' thing is natural, and therefore is not supernatural or whatever. Even zen (the only religion I'm aware of lacking a god) is supernatural, in that the final attainable state is beyond this earth (although of course a taoist would say tht it is the ultimate acheivable form of nature).
Anyway, you are missing the obvious here: maybe mister Clarcke means
Bugger that...use triffids :)
Now there is...used to be that you could sniff a logitech wireless kb just by byuing the same type and holding the reciever to the power outlet...and if someone was typing somewhere in the building, the words would magically appear on your screen :) I saw that one done on tv :)
They updated the osftware though, so now there's some kind of encryption going on.
It's all pseudo colour; all digital camera's are. To find out how it all works and why these pics are as good as you can get (and can be just about considered true colour), check here:
http://www.atsnn.com/marscolors.html
Magnetism is inverse cubed proportional, not squareed.
I don't think you can know what you are risking without having done 'it' before.
Nearly every soldier I know who has been in combat either doesn't want to talk about it or tells me they rwally, really don't want to do it again.
I think you should read and respect the memories and read the diaries of soldiers who know what they're talking about: the people who fought in Vietnam, WWII, WWI and most any modern war a) didn't know what they where getting into and b)never want to do it again. Unless they're diehards who wouldn't know what else to do/are officers/collect ears.
It's only very rarely that you come across someone who knows the horrors of war and still thinks it is his duty to go and fight.
Which kinda shows that your command of the english language isn't up to scratch. Liquid/solid refers to an organisational structure of the atoms which form it, not to anything else.
:)).
At room temperature, this manifests itself as something which flows and something which stays the same shape...but room temperature isn't the only temperature there is (boy, I wish I coulda heard you when Einstein replaced Newton
Entirely wrong, I think (but in such an interesting way that I had to look it up...which is good since I have an exam on this very subject in about a months time :)).
:)
First off, electrons have integral spin, which makes them fermions...which means that Pauli does apply.
Second, Pauli only applies to the electrons etc in a small system where the probability waves as per Schrodinger overlap. This happens in close proximity, ie only in the system of the (single) helium atom. That's where the electrons can't inhabit the same energy level whilst having the same spin(/quantum numbers).
Pauli says nothing about the energy states of teh atoms in a system of multiple helium atoms, because the probability functions don't overlap. He couldn't care a rats ass what state the electrons in the other atoms are, in this case.
Or so I'm led to beleive from my textbooks
Not to mention 2D atoms :) There's a whole periodic table of 'em, too :)
Still, ya gotta love preservation of impuls (or is that momentum? Damn, the diffence between dutch and english jargon sucks...and now I'm confused :( ;P)!
Great plan! Now all we need is a real Klein bottle in this 3D+1 world...damn!
And that is why it's very usefull to keep on friendly terms with the mechanical engineers :)
Oh, that's easy: as soon as it asks for it :)
My god...the CIA world fact book is the best you could do? Man-oh-man...hardly backs up your claim of having vistited 40 countries and up :) What say you start at the UN and it's numerous NGO's for some real real research. Maybe even try WHO (lotsa studies involving comparative research between literacy and health).
... disturbing. ...about 10% of US costs), but the only fiscally sound way of treating them is if they are for the poor. Education is so important that it should be affordable to the middle classes...and not a loan you're stuck with for the next 30 years.
As for your statement regarding 'not needing a college degree'...true, we do need garbage collectors. But the way you trivialise education (not even taking the trouble to find an authoritative source for literacy and numeracy levels [hell, try sciam.com for some simplified graphs and figures...and bibliography]) is
And the way you advocate student loans; that's just teaching bad accountability. The kind which has brought forth Enrons and put the US in exactly the position it is now; nearly bankrupt and still spending (with plans to go to Mars now! Come on...you can't spend what you don't have...even an american influenced organisation like the IMF is warning about the catastrophe-in-waiting!). We have student loans over here too (and education is cheaper
Then we get to the last paragraph...your lack of understanding of international politics is astounding. Go look up Nato's charter...and read it. Then go ask someone for a basic explanation of teh countries treaty obligations. Then realise that american defence spending is way out of any bounds, obligations or even sanity. And as for the so called 'bad guys'. Again, do some research and find out that the mayority are in power due to US backing. Not only that, but read some Clausewitz, Patton and Churchill to realise that a) the world doesn't need a sherrif (who have you saves the world from exactly? The germans don't count, and neither do the japanese...that was before current military doctrine) and b) modern 'warfare' doesn't need nearly the troop numbers or organisation that the US currently uses. It is outdated and formulated on Cold war doctrine, whilst it is evident that that kind of war is not going to happen...unless it is actively sought out. Speak to some military officers (not grunts, I'm talking ranking officers) to have that confrimed.
In short: do some research, and don't come up with kiddie books for a grown up discussion. Get some socio-economic knowledge, some military knowledge, maybe even some scientific training and then go stock up on some basic facts.
You really wanna do something? Get some (a few hundred) geeks in the same city organised. Hope they're nicely geographically distibuted and all get some wifi equipment (not so expensive these days)...and set it up! Free city-wide coverage :)
;)
Then get some kind of voice over ip (not the stuff the telco's are trying, I'm talking more like roger wilco; no connections to the traditional networks neccessary) working on palmpilots and ppc....et viola, you won't have to pay for inner-city calls (which makes a big difference for anyone who doesn't live in the US with it's free local calls)
All you'd need the telco's for then is inter-city comms and landline internet access.
No way is autocad the standard. Not even close; the cad market is pretty fragmented; Pro/E, Catia, Solidworks, SolidEdge, Ironcad, etc etc etc etc.
The only thing holding companies back would be retraining and custom plugins...file-formats are pretty open and well documented, and all the big programms open all/most of 'em.
However, Photoshop has the gfx market quite well cornered...ecept for natural media in which case programs like Painter work damn well.
"First, the economy isn't depressed. In fact, we never even entered a recession, since we never had two quarters of negative growth in a row (though it was a close run thing)."
/where others are/ (there goes the 'security' argument) is not free anymore...and definitely not financially sound (then again, Enron et al proved that).
Dodged a bullet there, didn't the US. Uh-huh.
"We don't have "illitaracy" rampant, or even illiteracy for that matter. We've got the same levels of literacy as Western Europe."
Absolute and utter bollocks. Do your research. Not only is a large percentage of americans illiterate, but they are also innumerate: a large percentage of mericans leave high school (if they even manage that) without basic reading, writing and calculation skill. Well documented fact.
"The only reason a large number of our science graduates leave the country is because they're all going home. Ya see, like it or not, the US has the best tertiary education system in the world."
True, but only if you can afford it. If you can't, you don't even get a tertiary education.
"And to suggest the US economy is "third world" means you've either never been here, or never been to the third world."
Funny...I've lived in numerous third world countries. I know what I'm comparing to.
"I didn't have to step over anybody starving in the street on my to work this morning, and didn't have to wipe shit off my shoes before coming in the building. You do have to do those things in many parts of the third world."
Now this tells me it's you who hasn't been to a third world country. Ever been to Brazil? The capital city is a gleaming collection of highrises, skyscrapers and riches. Too bad only the richest of the rich live there, and it's surrounded by shanty towns.
Anyway, Politburo does get my post....it's all about priorities...and a country in such a state as the US which spends more than half it's budget on defense (whilst alrready spending more than the next twenty countries COMBINED!) can't afford to spend such money on something which is for all purposes trivial. Especially when they trample on basic human rights, broaden previously curtailed (after huge proven misuse) FBI powers, start up nuclear weapons programs, etc etc etc all in the name of freedom. A country where a grandma is not allowed to stand
Have you considered that maybe, just maybe this isn't worth it? I mean, a lot less people get killed WORLDWIDE due to terrorism per YEAR than get killed in a single WEEK due to traffic accidents in the US alone.
When you look at numbers like that, doesn't it kind of put things into perspective?
Are you still so adamantly giving up your bill of rights, allowing your president to get away with sealing protesters (guys/galss/grandma's with placcards) into 'free speech zones' so the camera's don't see 'em (look this one up...chilling stuff indeed when you can arrest a grandma with a sign saying something against the current administration for standing in a crowd) and much more?
And what about the spending!? More than half the US' budget goes to defence and related activities...and that with you nation in debt, a depressed economy, illitaracy rampant, science graduates [who stay in the US] down, in other words a third world country economy...don't you think the money should be spent somewhere else?
So let me check if I have this correct; a (moderately) smart bet to take would be to go get an online instant stock buying selling programme (you know what I mean...I hope :)), buy some SCO stock, ride allong with the hype and dump it a few hours before the 11th?
And with the money gained, maybe even bet that SCO's stock will plumet after the case is closed (ie sell it short [or something like that...can't remember the technical term, but I know the option to do something like that exists]).
Anyone else notice this? You contradict yourself: first you say '3d is bad', then you sya '3d with big screens is good'...anyone doing physical/chemical etc. simulation will tell you that 3d output is (in many cases) good for comprehension.
You have to at least consider cases where you don't know the entire search space...mapping and catagorising helps immensely when you only have a vague idea what it is you're looking for.
This is more a data/info organisation tool than a search engine...which is why it's a plug in instead of a wholely new search engine.
One word: Xerox. Do you still have one at your place of work? Pretty doubtfull. :)
Or how about Rolodex? Or Luxaflex?