On the island of Guam there are two colonies of Love Birds that have sprung up. They are certainly not native to the island so the only possible conclusion is that they were brought to Guam and released, possibly by pet owners who couldn't pawn them off on other people before leaving the island. Both flocks number in the several hundred and don't seem to have caused any seriously adverse effects on the local environment. They are actually a welcome addition (except to local farmers whose crops are pecked at) to the bird population as most of the native birds, including the roadrunner 'koko' species, have been wiped out by another introduced species, the brown tree snake.
Despite the doom and gloom prophecies of the anti-nuke crowd, nuclear power generation has proved itself the least environmentally impacting electricity generating method time and again. Canada and France (while certainly not governmental systems to model) have come up with a system of genericized nuclear breeder facilities that provide clean, cheap power to their respective countries.
It's sad that Germany has made the decision to kill more birds and disrupt weather patterns with their latest misguided policies. And it's sad that the radical left in California has blocked nuclear power plant construction in their state.
A diesel train to generate electricity? Why not just legalize tobacco again and ruin everyone's lungs?
Will the programs that incorporate Cg have to be completely written in Cg? Can Cg be used as a library or will it have to be the base language of the program?
The interviewer could have been clearer on some technical points, but I guess it's managers that they are aiming at being on ZD and all. If they were interested in talking to engineers they could have done the interview with/.
Actually I was thinking about 4D, as in hypercubes, and trying to wrap my mind around the idea of what it would be like for someone in the 3 dimensional world to suddenly be transported to a 4 dimensional world. I wondered if the perceptions that person would have would be of the fourth spatial dimension or merely three dimensional representations of the fourth dimension.
Ford's plan to use three dimensional imaging to showcase cars is much like a thought I had today regarding the layout of my desk. I don't have one of those flat desks that are so common with executives. Rather, I have a few shelves and cubby holes to hold my stuff. I was trying to think of a way to organize all of it without actually pulling everything out of its place, and at that point I thought about modeling it on the computer using a CAD program. Unfortunately, I don't have one of those here at work and no one is likely to spring for one either, so I have to do it the old fashioned way with pen and paper.
That's when it hit me. Why *isn't* there a three dimensional modeling program that can help lay out desktops? People rearrange their desktops all the time, whether to clean them off or to simply change the scenery. I didn't want to duplicate any effort that may have already gone into this so I submitted the question to Ask Slashdot, but apparently it's not edgy enough or something.
Can anyone help me? Is there a 3 dimensional modeling tool for laying out desktops?
Interesting. I just tried it out again and the problem appears to be fixed. With all those periods and slashes in there, the new anti-page widening code must have thought it to be malicious code.
Hacking gets almost no coverage in the mainstream media outside of the 8 second blurb about some devastating email virus every now and then.
The Mitnick story makes no ripples when two airplanes crash into each other over Germany and American bombs mistakenly take out a wedding party instead of our bearded foes.
The news and hype around hackers that you speak of is only visible in dark reaches of the Net like ZDNet and Slashdot. CNN, MSNBC, and the other Major internet news outlets relegate these stories to the Technology page where they rightly belong.
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Even if what you explained is true, how does that negate the assertion that this is simply another evolutionary path towards living on dry land?
The efficiency would break down as the train velocities approached the speed of light.
Ouch!
Who knows? Maybe they are kept covered because they are the sexiest women on the planet. Then again, the men are some ugly dudes, so I doubt that.
Although I've also seen some very ugly dudes from Mexico and their VERY hot wives...
Remove the burqas!
On the island of Guam there are two colonies of Love Birds that have sprung up. They are certainly not native to the island so the only possible conclusion is that they were brought to Guam and released, possibly by pet owners who couldn't pawn them off on other people before leaving the island. Both flocks number in the several hundred and don't seem to have caused any seriously adverse effects on the local environment. They are actually a welcome addition (except to local farmers whose crops are pecked at) to the bird population as most of the native birds, including the roadrunner 'koko' species, have been wiped out by another introduced species, the brown tree snake.
I'd normally admonish you to stay the hell away from the gene pool, but I think you're managing quite well on your own.
What an ugly fish.
Despite the doom and gloom prophecies of the anti-nuke crowd, nuclear power generation has proved itself the least environmentally impacting electricity generating method time and again. Canada and France (while certainly not governmental systems to model) have come up with a system of genericized nuclear breeder facilities that provide clean, cheap power to their respective countries.
It's sad that Germany has made the decision to kill more birds and disrupt weather patterns with their latest misguided policies. And it's sad that the radical left in California has blocked nuclear power plant construction in their state.
A diesel train to generate electricity? Why not just legalize tobacco again and ruin everyone's lungs?
It will run Linux, but the device drivers may be hard to come by. No, they don't sell it with Linux pre-installed.
It's not quite "surgical precision" when you take out the bridesmaids as well...
And what arguments do you feel would be worth considering?
Now you're just trolling the apostrophe pedants! :-)
Criminal hackers or religious zealots?
The answer is clear.
Will the programs that incorporate Cg have to be completely written in Cg? Can Cg be used as a library or will it have to be the base language of the program?
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The interviewer could have been clearer on some technical points, but I guess it's managers that they are aiming at being on ZD and all. If they were interested in talking to engineers they could have done the interview with
There's no doubt that they deserve to go broke, but the question is if you are going to break the law to help bring them down.
Small, Fast, Cheap.
Pick any two.
Actually I was thinking about 4D, as in hypercubes, and trying to wrap my mind around the idea of what it would be like for someone in the 3 dimensional world to suddenly be transported to a 4 dimensional world. I wondered if the perceptions that person would have would be of the fourth spatial dimension or merely three dimensional representations of the fourth dimension.
Ford's plan to use three dimensional imaging to showcase cars is much like a thought I had today regarding the layout of my desk. I don't have one of those flat desks that are so common with executives. Rather, I have a few shelves and cubby holes to hold my stuff. I was trying to think of a way to organize all of it without actually pulling everything out of its place, and at that point I thought about modeling it on the computer using a CAD program. Unfortunately, I don't have one of those here at work and no one is likely to spring for one either, so I have to do it the old fashioned way with pen and paper.
That's when it hit me. Why *isn't* there a three dimensional modeling program that can help lay out desktops? People rearrange their desktops all the time, whether to clean them off or to simply change the scenery. I didn't want to duplicate any effort that may have already gone into this so I submitted the question to Ask Slashdot, but apparently it's not edgy enough or something.
Can anyone help me? Is there a 3 dimensional modeling tool for laying out desktops?
Too true. Just look at what Team Knight Rider did to the Knight Rider franchise. What a travesty.
More crap on TV. Like we didn't have enough already.
Interesting. I just tried it out again and the problem appears to be fixed. With all those periods and slashes in there, the new anti-page widening code must have thought it to be malicious code.
Try it for yourself. Slashdot has eaten the link.
Note that all the periods have been removed as well.
Here's the un-hrefed link.
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http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.h
Reading between the lines, of course.
Came up 404 for me. Maybe some sort of blocking software at work?
Hacking gets almost no coverage in the mainstream media outside of the 8 second blurb about some devastating email virus every now and then.
The Mitnick story makes no ripples when two airplanes crash into each other over Germany and American bombs mistakenly take out a wedding party instead of our bearded foes.
The news and hype around hackers that you speak of is only visible in dark reaches of the Net like ZDNet and Slashdot. CNN, MSNBC, and the other Major internet news outlets relegate these stories to the Technology page where they rightly belong.