I wonder (and this just occurred to me now): If we had the technology to send people off to colonize a barren place like Mars, wouldn't we also be able to use the tech (and more easily) to keep a colony of people alive on earth after an asteroid impact? (assuming the colony isn't close to the impact point or the coasts, and you can tolerate the intense guilt of hanging out while everyone else dies a la Dr. Strangelove's plan)
>it's like when they show tornado reports on the national news from the midwest, it's always some trailer-parker in curlers and a mu-mu. ergo, all midwesterners are hicks.
What? Next you'll be telling me people from the deep south don't all drive pickup trucks with Confederate flags in them! I mean, Howard Dean seems to think so, and he *is* a doctor... and he figured out our secret - the flags are actually in the trucks, not on them; I prefer to wrap mine around the hole in my exhaust system...
This gets modded informative? GWB spent most of his infant (but born in New Haven, CT) and elementary school years in Midland, TX. That's where the accent is from.
I assume the poster is mistakenly referring to Bush's prep school teen years in New England.
I actually think you are low. I think it's probably closer to 98-99% water, especially in the case of prehistoric plants when the earth was much warmer.
I do agree that this is similar to the piling-dollar-bills of debt example. Namely, all style and no substance. Why dollar bills? Why not pennies, or $100 bills? Yeah, it's a different perspective. An irrelevant one. An interesting perspective would be an economic analysis of how national debt hurts/helps an economy, Kenesyian (sp?) theory, etc.
There's nothing inherently wrong with article like this for curiosity's sake; it's just when they are done as trumped-up press releases by a major university that it becomes silly.
Isn't most of the original biomass water that does not end up in the oil/coal/gas deposits? Or am I missing something.
I just don't quite see the point of the guy who did the calculations/report... and I did read the article. This is just throwing around big meaningless numbers. At least Ig Nobel candidate material is train-wreck-interesting.
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I would add to this, at the risk of overgeneralizing (but hey, that's what slashdot is for...):
If you find yourself an expert in something that is doomed to be a cost center (e.g., sysadmin), try to be a self-employed contractor/consultant. Companies will treat your role like one anyway in terms of penny pinching, but you have much more leverage (and tax breaks) if you are your own boss.
I'm also a Georgia native, and that's why I knew better than to try to explain Georgia politics fully in a single post. =) It's true that Barnes ticked off more groups than just conservatives. I suspect that what really killed him were the people who stayed home, not those who voted directly for Perdue. Definitely the education reform, support for the northern arc, the flag issue all played their part. I do also think Perdue tapped into a fundamental queasiness among longtime Georgians that has been caused by the last ten years' rapid growth (think the "rat" ad). Barnes was someone who wasn't afraid to exercise leadership and break a few eggs to make an omlet, whether Georgians were ready for that omlet or not. Having a reputation as a 'doer' and then being tied to the things the national Democratic party wanted to 'do' was enough to tip the scales.
You're absolutely right, I didn't quote poll results, but some others did. Generally it was projected to be a nail biter, which it was.
I certainly don't mean to condone the lack of open evaluation of Georgia's voting machines. It's especially sad given that better solutions do exist.
Zell is... Zell. He'll be a great subject for a retrospective biography in 25 years.
Disk drives replacing tapes? Ha. I could see flash RAM modules doing it when (not any time soon) they become cheap enough. There's more to backup than cost per megabyte. Would you be comfortable having a bunch of disk drives with critical data stored off in a remote location for as long as a year and then popping them in and expecting them to run? DLT tapes, on the other hand, can be stored indefinitely. That is the key. Hard disks just aren't stable enough over time. DLT (and Flash RAM, probably) is.
For anyone who's been following Georgia politics for a long time, Republican success in the 2002 election was no surprise. Naturally, I could write book about all the factors that finally came to a head. A short version: Georgia is, and has been, a fairly conservative state. The before Roy Barnes and Max Cleland, most democrats holding statewide office were your old-fashioned southern dems, not the kind of dems that your average slashdot reader thinks of. Just yesterday former (conservative democrat and senator) Zell Miller tore into the national democratic party for messing up the dems' chances in Georgia. That's your answer to the election, not some eeeevil voting machine conspiracy.
But no worries now; L.A. has Arnold to save them. I don't know if he'll be able to balance the budget, but salvation from nuclear destruction seems to be a strong point on his resume... (ok ignore T3) =)
As someone mentioned, it's part of a bioengineering concentration.
It's not just a EECS class, though. The "J" means it's a joint class (in this case with the ME and HST departments). There's a slew of three or four of these joint bioengineering classes. This one in particular has an EECS guy as the head prof, though.
Neoconservatives are the people like Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, etc. who believe in a global pax americana... that america must dominate and control the world. And, in the process, christianize everyone.
Wow, ok, I have been trolled. Hats off to you, kaltkalt, you reeled me in.
(for those saps who mederated him insightful instead of troll, here's the proof: both Bill Kristol and Paul Wolfowitz are Jewish. I'm sure they aren't looking to christianize anyone...)
Bob Barr, when in office, was one of those insane neocons ranting about gays and hell all the time.
You seem to have the meaning of "neocon" backwards. "Neocons" are almost always social libertarians; the only ranting you see neocons do about gays and hell is that politicians should stop butting in people's private lives re. gays and hell. For example, a well known "neocon" writer/blogger is Andrew Sullivan, who is homosexual himself.
Having grown up in Georgia, I can tell you that I know Bob Barr, and Bob Barr is no neocon. It's disappointing that the term "neocon" seems to be getting the "Trotskyist" treatment by elements of the left.
TBS and TNN wouldnt exist if they didn't have WWE contracts.
Au contraire, you really have to wonder if the WWE would still exist without their TV contracts, not the other way around. Don't think the PPV's have been doing so well these days.
And while I'm being anal, it's UPN and TNN, not TBS. TBS did WCW. I know all Slashdot readers wanted to know that...
...or is this story a bunch of snide sweeping statements around not-so-much? I'm not discounting the bright future of various "nanotech" method of genetic analysis, but I have a hard time understanding why this is a top-level slashdot story.
Imagine the type of skilled labor you could obtain over 200 years... More and more people will become highly (and i mean highly) trained specialists in whatever they do.
There's the optimist! And here I am worried that my specializations won't be relevant five years from now... =)
I also love the Smokies & the Blue Ridge (grew up in GA). However, I must gently correct you: the Adirondacks in upstate New York are even older than the Appilachians. Many geologists believe the Adirondacks were actually lifed and worn down once over and then relifted with the Appilachian mountain building event.
And if you're big on water parks, Schlitterbahn, in New Braunfels, TX (between San Antonio and Austin) is a great geek stop. Not only is it consistently rated the best waterpark in the country, it has some really interesting engineering feats: roller-coaster like water slides/rides that include lots of uphill sections where you're pushed by huge jets of water. Also lots of other cool rides, wave pools (and a wave canyon), etc.
I think an important point is that many business level workers thinking goes like this: there's a decent risk of ending up with bozos doing your IT work, be they be American, Indian, or something else. So if you might get screwed either way, why not go on the cheap.
For 5-6 years, a human driver could easily outbrake any ABS system. For many years, ABS systems sucked. And they still can barely compete with a human driver with an IQ higher than room temperature.
I generally agree with this, but there is one exception I've found where ABS is much better than human intuition: the rear wheels of an unloaded pickup truck. Granted, those wheels don't contribute much to breaking, but, for control reasons you really, really don't want them starting to skid. You've got all your power back there, under little weight. Of course, one should be driving an unloaded pickup truck very conservatively in the first place, but not everyone does.
As for Bush v Gore, it is generally acknowledged from every legal debate I've ever heard, that the 5 justices in favor of Bush were disresptected for it.
Were these legal debates by every day lawyers or talking heads on CNN? I know quite a few lawyers, and they seem to be split roughly 50-50 on Bush v Gore.
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As high as the pattern from my 12-gauge holds together. =)
I wonder (and this just occurred to me now):
If we had the technology to send people off to colonize a barren place like Mars, wouldn't we also be able to use the tech (and more easily) to keep a colony of people alive on earth after an asteroid impact? (assuming the colony isn't close to the impact point or the coasts, and you can tolerate the intense guilt of hanging out while everyone else dies a la Dr. Strangelove's plan)
Well, if you're going to be anal, it was moving from grunting to language. =)
>it's like when they show tornado reports on the national news from the midwest, it's always some trailer-parker in curlers and a mu-mu. ergo, all midwesterners are hicks.
What? Next you'll be telling me people from the deep south don't all drive pickup trucks with Confederate flags in them! I mean, Howard Dean seems to think so, and he *is* a doctor...
and he figured out our secret - the flags are actually in the trucks, not on them; I prefer to wrap mine around the hole in my exhaust system...
This gets modded informative? GWB spent most of his infant (but born in New Haven, CT) and elementary school years in Midland, TX. That's where the accent is from.
I assume the poster is mistakenly referring to Bush's prep school teen years in New England.
I actually think you are low. I think it's probably closer to 98-99% water, especially in the case of prehistoric plants when the earth was much warmer.
I do agree that this is similar to the piling-dollar-bills of debt example. Namely, all style and no substance. Why dollar bills? Why not pennies, or $100 bills? Yeah, it's a different perspective. An irrelevant one. An interesting perspective would be an economic analysis of how national debt hurts/helps an economy, Kenesyian (sp?) theory, etc.
There's nothing inherently wrong with article like this for curiosity's sake; it's just when they are done as trumped-up press releases by a major university that it becomes silly.
Isn't most of the original biomass water that does not end up in the oil/coal/gas deposits? Or am I missing something.
I just don't quite see the point of the guy who did the calculations/report... and I did read the article. This is just throwing around big meaningless numbers. At least Ig Nobel candidate material is train-wreck-interesting.
I would add to this, at the risk of overgeneralizing (but hey, that's what slashdot is for...):
If you find yourself an expert in something that is doomed to be a cost center (e.g., sysadmin), try to be a self-employed contractor/consultant. Companies will treat your role like one anyway in terms of penny pinching, but you have much more leverage (and tax breaks) if you are your own boss.
Agreement all around.
I'm also a Georgia native, and that's why I knew better than to try to explain Georgia politics fully in a single post. =) It's true that Barnes ticked off more groups than just conservatives. I suspect that what really killed him were the people who stayed home, not those who voted directly for Perdue. Definitely the education reform, support for the northern arc, the flag issue all played their part. I do also think Perdue tapped into a fundamental queasiness among longtime Georgians that has been caused by the last ten years' rapid growth (think the "rat" ad). Barnes was someone who wasn't afraid to exercise leadership and break a few eggs to make an omlet, whether Georgians were ready for that omlet or not. Having a reputation as a 'doer' and then being tied to the things the national Democratic party wanted to 'do' was enough to tip the scales.
You're absolutely right, I didn't quote poll results, but some others did. Generally it was projected to be a nail biter, which it was.
I certainly don't mean to condone the lack of open evaluation of Georgia's voting machines. It's especially sad given that better solutions do exist.
Zell is... Zell. He'll be a great subject for a retrospective biography in 25 years.
Disk drives replacing tapes? Ha. I could see flash RAM modules doing it when (not any time soon) they become cheap enough. There's more to backup than cost per megabyte. Would you be comfortable having a bunch of disk drives with critical data stored off in a remote location for as long as a year and then popping them in and expecting them to run? DLT tapes, on the other hand, can be stored indefinitely. That is the key. Hard disks just aren't stable enough over time. DLT (and Flash RAM, probably) is.
For anyone who's been following Georgia politics for a long time, Republican success in the 2002 election was no surprise. Naturally, I could write book about all the factors that finally came to a head. A short version: Georgia is, and has been, a fairly conservative state. The before Roy Barnes and Max Cleland, most democrats holding statewide office were your old-fashioned southern dems, not the kind of dems that your average slashdot reader thinks of. Just yesterday former (conservative democrat and senator) Zell Miller tore into the national democratic party for messing up the dems' chances in Georgia. That's your answer to the election, not some eeeevil voting machine conspiracy.
But no worries now; L.A. has Arnold to save them. I don't know if he'll be able to balance the budget, but salvation from nuclear destruction seems to be a strong point on his resume... (ok ignore T3) =)
As someone mentioned, it's part of a bioengineering concentration.
It's not just a EECS class, though. The "J" means it's a joint class (in this case with the ME and HST departments). There's a slew of three or four of these joint bioengineering classes. This one in particular has an EECS guy as the head prof, though.
>Yep, and Enter the Matrix is Atari's biggest example yet...well, that and the original Atari's horrific port of Pac Man.
Well, at least the original Atari gave us the dada-ist masterpiece that was "E.T."... =)
Neoconservatives are the people like Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, etc. who believe in a global pax americana... that america must dominate and control the world. And, in the process, christianize everyone.
Wow, ok, I have been trolled. Hats off to you, kaltkalt, you reeled me in.
(for those saps who mederated him insightful instead of troll, here's the proof: both Bill Kristol and Paul Wolfowitz are Jewish. I'm sure they aren't looking to christianize anyone...)
Bob Barr, when in office, was one of those insane neocons ranting about gays and hell all the time.
You seem to have the meaning of "neocon" backwards. "Neocons" are almost always social libertarians; the only ranting you see neocons do about gays and hell is that politicians should stop butting in people's private lives re. gays and hell. For example, a well known "neocon" writer/blogger is Andrew Sullivan, who is homosexual himself.
Having grown up in Georgia, I can tell you that I know Bob Barr, and Bob Barr is no neocon. It's disappointing that the term "neocon" seems to be getting the "Trotskyist" treatment by elements of the left.
TBS and TNN wouldnt exist if they didn't have WWE contracts.
Au contraire, you really have to wonder if the WWE would still exist without their TV contracts, not the other way around. Don't think the PPV's have been doing so well these days.
And while I'm being anal, it's UPN and TNN, not TBS. TBS did WCW. I know all Slashdot readers wanted to know that...
...or is this story a bunch of snide sweeping statements around not-so-much? I'm not discounting the bright future of various "nanotech" method of genetic analysis, but I have a hard time understanding why this is a top-level slashdot story.
What am I missing?
Imagine the type of skilled labor you could obtain over 200 years... More and more people will become highly (and i mean highly) trained specialists in whatever they do.
There's the optimist! And here I am worried that my specializations won't be relevant five years from now... =)
A good point indeed.
I also love the Smokies & the Blue Ridge (grew up in GA). However, I must gently correct you: the Adirondacks in upstate New York are even older than the Appilachians. Many geologists believe the Adirondacks were actually lifed and worn down once over and then relifted with the Appilachian mountain building event.
And if you're big on water parks, Schlitterbahn, in New Braunfels, TX (between San Antonio and Austin) is a great geek stop. Not only is it consistently rated the best waterpark in the country, it has some really interesting engineering feats: roller-coaster like water slides/rides that include lots of uphill sections where you're pushed by huge jets of water. Also lots of other cool rides, wave pools (and a wave canyon), etc.
I think an important point is that many business level workers thinking goes like this: there's a decent risk of ending up with bozos doing your IT work, be they be American, Indian, or something else. So if you might get screwed either way, why not go on the cheap.
Just an observation. Draw your own conclusions...
For 5-6 years, a human driver could easily outbrake any ABS system. For many years, ABS systems sucked. And they still can barely compete with a human driver with an IQ higher than room temperature.
I generally agree with this, but there is one exception I've found where ABS is much better than human intuition: the rear wheels of an unloaded pickup truck. Granted, those wheels don't contribute much to breaking, but, for control reasons you really, really don't want them starting to skid. You've got all your power back there, under little weight. Of course, one should be driving an unloaded pickup truck very conservatively in the first place, but not everyone does.
As for Bush v Gore, it is generally acknowledged from every legal debate I've ever heard, that the 5 justices in favor of Bush were disresptected for it.
Were these legal debates by every day lawyers or talking heads on CNN? I know quite a few lawyers, and they seem to be split roughly 50-50 on Bush v Gore.