Genesis 11
The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel [c] -because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Thinking about 60 - 100 ft of water on New York City for 10 - 15 minutes. Washes entirely over Long Island. Manhattan has a lot of steel and concrete. Do the skyscrapers remain standing? Does the wave arrive as a wall, at full height, or is it a series of swells?
>Is Planck's constant really small, or is it just that the units it is expressed in are large?
That's why I put small in quotes.
>>More to the point, how is Avogadro's number a relevant reference for comparison?
Good point. I meant the amount of 'substance' refered to when using Avogadro's number in a measurement. The...uh... total number of quantum states in a mole. I'm way over my head with this but working through their paper. Whether I'll be closer to understanding at the end is douptful.
Seriously, IANAP but... according to quantum mechanics we do all percieve things slightly differently. The effect is only 'noticable' on a quantum scale because Plancks constant is so 'small' as compared to say Avogadros number.
>> "The environment is modified so that it contains an imprint of the pointer state," he says.
Which means that the photons (say) coming from one area and reaching another will statistically be similier at a level of accuracy attainable by the receptors(?)
Or are they implying that some 'resonance' (my word) is conserving information that should, according to Copenhagen, be lost. I'm trying to read the paper but I'm charitably near the bottom of the slashdot education graph so someone please explain. The phrase 'Environment monitors certain observables' sounds like a macroscopic pov in a microscopic (quantum) discussion.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.-- H.L. Mencken
One of the main stories of the 20th century is corruption in the munitions industry. Until that is addressed, we, in the USA, are at the mercy of the arms dealers.
It could also address the problem/myth of the 'welfare queens', slackers living off social programs.
Lay off already. You don't need to spin for a while. Kerry's gone and won't be back. Go back to blaiming Bill Clinton, it's more entertaining. To claim NY is anti-semitic or anti-Israel is surreal. You have bought some strange extremest spin.
The phrase 'fly over country' is indicative of insecurity that over TV'ed 'right wingers' get while watching Leo DeCaprio cavort with models.
And what's with the hatred of the French? That's like me hating Southerners except I don't: Seems like most of them (like most of everyone) are cool. Most New Yorkers have little to do with your hatred except we don't vote like you. And we get screwed on Homeland Security Funding, but that's another post.
New York City, speaking as a native, has an advantage, to me, over much of the country, including Hollywood, in that you don't need to drive everyday. Other than that, we're a huge amount of people trying to make the same kind of living that every one in the 'Red States' are trying to make, and some of us try to take advantage of being surrounded by a huge amount of people.
The article, (did you RTFA?) had as one of it's few interesting points a nice shout out to slashdot. The centralization and future of the super-city is an interesting topic not really addressed.
>>thinking of themselves as New Yorkers first and Americans second...
Always have. You will find that in Italy, too, which is a country sort of next to France with, IMHO, really good food.
I'm a New Yorker
I pledge allegance to the flag... (hopefully you can fill in the rest)
I am a citizen of the world, my religion is doing good.
This skill set isn't very rarified so chances are all the teams have it.
Kind of like poison gas in a war. Why be the first to get this started. During the 2000 fiasco there were online polls that were being stuffed. yawn
If you want to fight the current regeme, go to Flordia and help the elderly black people get past the inevitable police cordons.
Or if you have super skills hack Diebold and give all Ohio's votes to 'Nobody' or uh... Cowboy Neil.
Music involving the manipulation of a speaker's electromagnetic coil is electronic music? The electric guitar. See: Jimi Hendrix.
Music involving any 'overdubbing' is sound sculpture as opposed to creation at one time under a clock. Jazz is music created at once. Pop rock / since Pet Sounds Sgt Pepper etc... is music created slowly like painting. This includes all hiphop dance related musics of the 80s 90s.
Article \.ed all day but I thought I'd give my 2c.
As a minority (on \.) Flash guy (I like it, use it, and talk clients out of big ugly opening movies), the Action Script seems a bit too convoluted. In fact, here comes off-topic rant...
Much of MX2004 is to... uh... widget-ie(?). I could do all of this in F5 and now, besides the usual relearn new interface gripes, it's gotten more obfuscated. Unless I'm wrong and just haven't gotten my head around it.
As for Googles page, close but... IMHO the graphics don't improve on a barchart.
A (perhaps too) quick google reveals
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4788834/
(sample quote)
Money, it turns out, is one of the major reasons for the current patent logjam. In 1991, the financial burden of granting patents was shifted from taxpayers to patent applicants through the establishment of so-called user fees. But over time, those fees became a politically attractive source of funds to help balance the federal budget without raising taxes. So Congress began raiding the patent office piggy bank; as of last year, more than $650 million had been siphoned off to pay bills for other government functions. (end quote)
Probably partisan of me but this problem started at the end of the previous Bush (41) admin when downsizing the government starting forcing the patent office to pay for itself.
I got called for a job once when some friends had a patent and wanted me to dummy the technology in Flash - they already had the patent(?!), which I scrolled through, and some fun double talk about the technology. I said this was the 'Artist conception of flying car' patent. We haven't built it, but we want to sue you if you figure it out.
preaching to the choir:
p2p is good for corporate music
it's the ability to burn one for your friends that is taking monopoly money off the table in our big financial casino.
I've worked at home on and off for years. I find leaving the house in the morning at the same time makes me feel like I'm going to work. I get breakfast and come home which is my commute. Having a specific time that I make personal calls keeps the distraction level down and leaving news TV or the least obnoxious radio station on keeps company.
Also have a hobbie that hopefully takes you out of the house: join a bar band, play pool, do non-job reading in cafes.
The auto is great, but why are our communities (US centric rant) laid out in such a way that they are indispensable? Historically to sell cars, but it's not very efficent.
Big cities are a much more cost effective way to house people. And much better for the girl watching. Then again, I'm from NY. The best city, IMHO, is Bejing - ratio of cars to bikes reversed. Followed by the good walking cities: Rome, Paris. LA, frankly, sucks. Before wwII it was the garden of Eden, then came Roger Rabbit and now you can't breath, walk, or even drive during the day.
Someone (?) wrote an article on how science fiction is always viewing the present through the lens of the future. 1984 with burned out buildings and anonymous superpowers is 1948. The Lensmen an enormous world with layers of evil gangs (30s with the mob). Someone else (Bruce Sterling?) wrote a few years ago that we don't need science fiction anymore, we have the NASDAJ)
Combined with the inability of the story tellers to move into the new medium (hypertext). We have science fiction writers now. They're called kernel hackers.
Slashdot Mirror
when it comes to losing Plutonium. ...
Way behind former Soviet Union.
At least lets hope they're in second place
Genesis 11 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel [c] -because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Thinking about 60 - 100 ft of water on New York City for 10 - 15 minutes. Washes entirely over Long Island. Manhattan has a lot of steel and concrete. Do the skyscrapers remain standing? Does the wave arrive as a wall, at full height, or is it a series of swells?
>Is Planck's constant really small, or is it just that the units it is expressed in are large?
...uh ... total number of quantum states in a mole. I'm way over my head with this but working through their paper. Whether I'll be closer to understanding at the end is douptful.
That's why I put small in quotes.
>>More to the point, how is Avogadro's number a relevant reference for comparison?
Good point. I meant the amount of 'substance' refered to when using Avogadro's number in a measurement. The
but she can cold roll them anytime.
... according to quantum mechanics we do all percieve things slightly differently. The effect is only 'noticable' on a quantum scale because Plancks constant is so 'small' as compared to say Avogadros number.
Seriously, IANAP but
>> "The environment is modified so that it contains an imprint of the pointer state," he says.
Which means that the photons (say) coming from one area and reaching another will statistically be similier at a level of accuracy attainable by the receptors(?)
Or are they implying that some 'resonance' (my word) is conserving information that should, according to Copenhagen, be lost. I'm trying to read the paper but I'm charitably near the bottom of the slashdot education graph so someone please explain. The phrase 'Environment monitors certain observables' sounds like a macroscopic pov in a microscopic (quantum) discussion.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.-- H.L. Mencken
29 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, reported votes cast IN EXCESS of the number of registered voters - at least 93,136 extra votes total.
official Cuyahoga County Board of Elections website
Why not have all budgets viewable off the net.
One of the main stories of the 20th century is corruption in the munitions industry. Until that is addressed, we, in the USA, are at the mercy of the arms dealers.
It could also address the problem/myth of the 'welfare queens', slackers living off social programs.
Lay off already. You don't need to spin for a while. Kerry's gone and won't be back. Go back to blaiming Bill Clinton, it's more entertaining. To claim NY is anti-semitic or anti-Israel is surreal. You have bought some strange extremest spin.
... (hopefully you can fill in the rest)
The phrase 'fly over country' is indicative of insecurity that over TV'ed 'right wingers' get while watching Leo DeCaprio cavort with models.
And what's with the hatred of the French? That's like me hating Southerners except I don't: Seems like most of them (like most of everyone) are cool. Most New Yorkers have little to do with your hatred except we don't vote like you. And we get screwed on Homeland Security Funding, but that's another post.
New York City, speaking as a native, has an advantage, to me, over much of the country, including Hollywood, in that you don't need to drive everyday. Other than that, we're a huge amount of people trying to make the same kind of living that every one in the 'Red States' are trying to make, and some of us try to take advantage of being surrounded by a huge amount of people.
The article, (did you RTFA?) had as one of it's few interesting points a nice shout out to slashdot. The centralization and future of the super-city is an interesting topic not really addressed.
>>thinking of themselves as New Yorkers first and Americans second...
Always have. You will find that in Italy, too, which is a country sort of next to France with, IMHO, really good food.
I'm a New Yorker
I pledge allegance to the flag
I am a citizen of the world, my religion is doing good.
Bush is ahead in halloween mask sales. That and the Bin Laden / Putin endorsement might cancel out the game.
... that might mean the rapture.
The Red Sox, however
Too late and, temporarily, bipartisan for a slashdot post.
How did the internet grow in the early days? A bar chart of connectivity by year would be interesting.
The site doesn't work. As this is /., can't we do better? If not for this election, something encrypted and p2p for 2006?
Hey Slashdot -
What are the largest files moved around? From the wide-array telescope project? Genome and protein info? obligatory porn joke inserted here?
does it take to change a drummer?
or:
How many drummers does it take to stop a robot?
What I need is a chick singer who runs off USB
oh wait
she would forget to follow the program. Too realistic.
Firewire.
This skill set isn't very rarified so chances are all the teams have it.
... Cowboy Neil.
Kind of like poison gas in a war. Why be the first to get this started. During the 2000 fiasco there were online polls that were being stuffed. yawn
If you want to fight the current regeme, go to Flordia and help the elderly black people get past the inevitable police cordons.
Or if you have super skills hack Diebold and give all Ohio's votes to 'Nobody' or uh
Music involving any 'overdubbing' is sound sculpture as opposed to creation at one time under a clock. Jazz is music created at once. Pop rock / since Pet Sounds Sgt Pepper etc ... is music created slowly like painting. This includes all hiphop dance related musics of the 80s 90s.
Article \.ed all day but I thought I'd give my 2c.
Much of MX2004 is to ... uh ... widget-ie(?). I could do all of this in F5 and now, besides the usual relearn new interface gripes, it's gotten more obfuscated. Unless I'm wrong and just haven't gotten my head around it.
As for Googles page, close but ... IMHO the graphics don't improve on a barchart.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4788834/
(sample quote)
Money, it turns out, is one of the major reasons for the current patent logjam. In 1991, the financial burden of granting patents was shifted from taxpayers to patent applicants through the establishment of so-called user fees. But over time, those fees became a politically attractive source of funds to help balance the federal budget without raising taxes. So Congress began raiding the patent office piggy bank; as of last year, more than $650 million had been siphoned off to pay bills for other government functions.
(end quote)
The truth is occasionally partisan.
I got called for a job once when some friends had a patent and wanted me to dummy the technology in Flash - they already had the patent(?!), which I scrolled through, and some fun double talk about the technology. I said this was the 'Artist conception of flying car' patent. We haven't built it, but we want to sue you if you figure it out.
preaching to the choir:
p2p is good for corporate music
it's the ability to burn one for your friends that is taking monopoly money off the table in our big financial casino.
Also have a hobbie that hopefully takes you out of the house: join a bar band, play pool, do non-job reading in cafes.
Or an interesting case mod. "It's my aural exciter plug in ..."
Big cities are a much more cost effective way to house people. And much better for the girl watching. Then again, I'm from NY. The best city, IMHO, is Bejing - ratio of cars to bikes reversed. Followed by the good walking cities: Rome, Paris. LA, frankly, sucks. Before wwII it was the garden of Eden, then came Roger Rabbit and now you can't breath, walk, or even drive during the day.
I still want my flying car.
Someone (?) wrote an article on how science fiction is always viewing the present through the lens of the future. 1984 with burned out buildings and anonymous superpowers is 1948. The Lensmen an enormous world with layers of evil gangs (30s with the mob). Someone else (Bruce Sterling?) wrote a few years ago that we don't need science fiction anymore, we have the NASDAJ) Combined with the inability of the story tellers to move into the new medium (hypertext). We have science fiction writers now. They're called kernel hackers.
Just to clarify. Jimmy Carter tried to put the CIA on a leash but that ended with the election of 1980.