Well, now that we all have a climate simulation software on our computers we can all backup our claims what will happen to earth with good simulation data.
Well not entirely true - it depends on your idea of "good". I was once skiing last winter in lapland about 80km from the nearest human habitat, by a lake surrounded by high hills, a client decided to call. Trying to solve a problem in -20C temperature with heavy gloves on on a mobile phone in the dark made me think that good GMS coverage would be one that would have excluded that bit of frozen paradice.
My daughter uses 3110 and it does work just fine, but she would like one that would make her friends green with envy.
I'm no friend of spam either, and although switching to thunderbird has reduced that problem greatly, I find find it annoying, but I think there is the fundamental issue of national sovereignty.
Nations shouldn't write their legislation so that it extends beyond their borders that is a receipe for chaos, confusion and injustice. I know this just from trying to be a law obedient resident of both US and Finland alternatively. Just figuring how to declare taxes is a chore.
To address international problems like porn spam countries should seek mutual agreements, which would enable law enforcement to co-operate across national borders. UK and US could have similar laws where sending spam from one country to the other is illegal in the country of origin.
Idon't know how much time fractal decompression takes, but I do remember that when JPEG format came out my old 286 "laptop" would take almost a minute to open one image. Of course, this was not really a big issue, since only images on the internet were from usenet alt.binaries and downloading them over 9600 baud modem was tedious and somehow grainy images human copulation in shades of magenta weren't worth the trouble.
Counter argument is of course that US propably doesn't want to harm relations with UK too much for couple of porn spammers either. On second thought I might be wrong since it's porn and politicians in US are nowdays bit too inclined to listen to their fundamentalist base.
Unlikely. Despite US citizens being spammed US laws do not apply in UK or other way around.
Of course these guys might run into trouble if they enter US, but UK wouldn't extradite them for sending spam. There might be laws in UK to do that though.
My ten year old daughter was the last one in her class to get a cell phone. But then again we live in the Nokia city (Espoo, Finland).
Other kids got them few years earlier.
Text messages are about 10 cents a pop (in US dollars here). Calling is pretty expensive, but I tell the kids not use the phone as a toy. Some kids do get into
trouble, but in recent years it has become less of a problem since parents know that a potential problem exists.
It is also possible to set a cap on the phone bill for a 1 euro or so. We used to have 10 euro cap on our eldest daughters phone, but dropped it since she never hit it.
Now we know how Harrison Ford will star in all the upcoming Indiana Jones movies and how Arnold can star in the next twenty Terminator movies without a walker.
But with limited access wouldn't the benefit to communities along the highway be zero while they would have to put up with all the noise, pollution and division that a highway causes.
Even in Texas I would think that a road will be built through existing communities since that's where people usually go and come from.
My ninth grade science teacher also told us this fact, but I had hard time believing it, because according to his numbers T-Rex would have had only 2 1/2 hours of day light back in its days.
My sceptism was ignored by him and rest of the class.
Actually, they don't know that quality of life was better back when processors were slower. One application that I first coded in 1994 used to take 45 minutes to compile. How did I use that time? I learned to drink coffee, read newspaper, unfortunately internet wasn't available to me nor did it have the same entertainment value back then.
Now the same application takes 1 - 2 minutes to recompile. Not enough time even for grammar and spell checking of./ posts.
I don't think we can ignore our "programming". The way our brain works is in large part physiological. You can't change the way you hear in drastic way (although some musicians might disagree with me here) or the way you see. This is all hard wired into your brain. Some parts of our brains are mallable. You can train people to do math, read, speak foreign languages (but not write as I'm proving here) etc.
Behaviour that we often consider thinking, "Do i take turkey instead of spagetti", is just decided on our experience and perhaps some outside factors like do I want to bother the host or do I want do something unexpected.
Best part of our mind I think is the ability to think things through. For example I can read many different posts on slashdot and form an opinion about something. Then I use this opinion without thinking about it eg. Linux vs. Windows in my daily life. If my experience goes against the the opinion I can ponder why it is so and form a new opinion.
This is of course nothing that an ordinary house cat couldn't do. It would choose windows every time, you can't see outside through Linux. (Hm, why did I write that? Was about to backspace it, but decided against it. Strange...)
Sounds like a cool device;) Must be expensive and stuff...
Here in techno maniac Finland we also use these mysterious devices. Then we use our hands and eyes to count scribbles on the ballots. Long time ago I was asked to be election monitor and it wasn't very difficult to count couple of thousand votes. There was three of us and it took about thirty minutes. Of course we don't have dog catcher elections etc. only one or two ballot items at a time.
I always figured, that if you'd try to unsubscribe, your email address would be tagged as verified adding value to. This is just a thought, I've had since dawn of junk mail.
It is propably impossible when you are crossing Atlantic, but I saw few weeks ago in the news that they (if I remember right Airbus) are planning on having the link onboard the aircraft, which will then connect to satellite over sea and ground bases when flying over land or something.
This will have the additional safety benefit that the signal from the phones doesn't have to be at full power, since the distance to the link is only ten or so meters instead of over 10km at cruising altitude and so the chance or interference to onboard equipment is reduced.
Economist is always so down to earth about scientist spending money. I bet they would have written an article about Fiere the Caveman wasting time rubbing sticks together - if some optimist had invented a printing press in time.
If we consider the amount of money that western countries spend on defense or medical research, then fusion research spending is peanuts.
Being Finnish, I was a minority of my own, when I spent my high school years in New Jersey.
I got quite excited by the rap culture and other by gone black artists. When I drilled my black school mate about the subject, he was put off by it and told me that I'm applying a stereo type to him, and he propably was right. He was into science, literature etc. and quite good at them if I remember right. It made me think the whole subject in a new way.
The number of athletes and artists the black community springs forth is amazing. This success, while source of pride to many, might be counter productive to the aspiring scientist of the future, because role models in those fields are invisible hidden in the blaze of the entertainment stars. And number of stars is actually quite small when compared to number of laywers, doctors and engineers.
All cultures have a set of patterns that young people mimic to succeed as adults, here in Finland many dream of a NHL career for their kid and at expense of school work drag their kids to ice morning and night. So often these patterns can be counter productive to the general population. If the tradition in the family is to work at the local mill and TV shows glittering path to fame and glory, many will not think of the third path. My wife who came from blue collar background, would propably never have done a PhD if she hadn't met me and been introduced to circles where practically everybody had a PhD. On this I might be wrong of course...
Back before I broke my pocketPCs glass screen with a pocket camera. (yes both were in the same pocket). I use to go and get classics from UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S E-BOOK LIBRARY.
I read a book "Phantoms in the Brain" by Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran awhile back and he described a case, where a person with brain injury saw in part of her vision everything as "cartoons". He went on to speculate, if I remember correctly, that we all have this cartoon vision under our "real vision".
This came to mind, when I after looking at these pictures read your post. Perhaps our brain needs some sort of caricature or simplified image of faces for us to recognize them, but this layer of vision is hidden in uninjured brain from our conscious mind.
I just saw a documentary on this guy flying over the channel. It was an amazing feat and I don't think anybody has been able to do better than that, though I don't know if anybody has even tried.
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I don't want to accept gravity. It's such a downer.
Well, now that we all have a climate simulation software on our computers we can all backup our claims what will happen to earth with good simulation data.
My daughter uses 3110 and it does work just fine, but she would like one that would make her friends green with envy.
Nations shouldn't write their legislation so that it extends beyond their borders that is a receipe for chaos, confusion and injustice. I know this just from trying to be a law obedient resident of both US and Finland alternatively. Just figuring how to declare taxes is a chore.
To address international problems like porn spam countries should seek mutual agreements, which would enable law enforcement to co-operate across national borders. UK and US could have similar laws where sending spam from one country to the other is illegal in the country of origin.
Idon't know how much time fractal decompression takes, but I do remember that when JPEG format came out my old 286 "laptop" would take almost a minute to open one image. Of course, this was not really a big issue, since only images on the internet were from usenet alt.binaries and downloading them over 9600 baud modem was tedious and somehow grainy images human copulation in shades of magenta weren't worth the trouble.
Counter argument is of course that US propably doesn't want to harm relations with UK too much for couple of porn spammers either. On second thought I might be wrong since it's porn and politicians in US are nowdays bit too inclined to listen to their fundamentalist base.
Unlikely. Despite US citizens being spammed US laws do not apply in UK or other way around. Of course these guys might run into trouble if they enter US, but UK wouldn't extradite them for sending spam. There might be laws in UK to do that though.
My ten year old daughter was the last one in her class to get a cell phone. But then again we live in the Nokia city (Espoo, Finland). Other kids got them few years earlier. Text messages are about 10 cents a pop (in US dollars here). Calling is pretty expensive, but I tell the kids not use the phone as a toy. Some kids do get into trouble, but in recent years it has become less of a problem since parents know that a potential problem exists. It is also possible to set a cap on the phone bill for a 1 euro or so. We used to have 10 euro cap on our eldest daughters phone, but dropped it since she never hit it.
Well, the pigs have to look all the same, don't they? Although to my eye they already do.
Now we know how Harrison Ford will star in all the upcoming Indiana Jones movies and how Arnold can star in the next twenty Terminator movies without a walker.
Even in Texas I would think that a road will be built through existing communities since that's where people usually go and come from.
Argh, this was ment as a reply to the truck driver. Got to get some more coffee and clean my monitor
I hope your not reading slashdot at work like rest of us...
My sceptism was ignored by him and rest of the class.
Now the same application takes 1 - 2 minutes to recompile. Not enough time even for grammar and spell checking of ./ posts.
Behaviour that we often consider thinking, "Do i take turkey instead of spagetti", is just decided on our experience and perhaps some outside factors like do I want to bother the host or do I want do something unexpected.
Best part of our mind I think is the ability to think things through. For example I can read many different posts on slashdot and form an opinion about something. Then I use this opinion without thinking about it eg. Linux vs. Windows in my daily life. If my experience goes against the the opinion I can ponder why it is so and form a new opinion.
This is of course nothing that an ordinary house cat couldn't do. It would choose windows every time, you can't see outside through Linux. (Hm, why did I write that? Was about to backspace it, but decided against it. Strange...)
Here in techno maniac Finland we also use these mysterious devices. Then we use our hands and eyes to count scribbles on the ballots. Long time ago I was asked to be election monitor and it wasn't very difficult to count couple of thousand votes. There was three of us and it took about thirty minutes. Of course we don't have dog catcher elections etc. only one or two ballot items at a time.
Hope your guy wins next time.
I always figured, that if you'd try to unsubscribe, your email address would be tagged as verified adding value to. This is just a thought, I've had since dawn of junk mail.
This will have the additional safety benefit that the signal from the phones doesn't have to be at full power, since the distance to the link is only ten or so meters instead of over 10km at cruising altitude and so the chance or interference to onboard equipment is reduced.
If we consider the amount of money that western countries spend on defense or medical research, then fusion research spending is peanuts.
I got quite excited by the rap culture and other by gone black artists. When I drilled my black school mate about the subject, he was put off by it and told me that I'm applying a stereo type to him, and he propably was right. He was into science, literature etc. and quite good at them if I remember right. It made me think the whole subject in a new way.
The number of athletes and artists the black community springs forth is amazing. This success, while source of pride to many, might be counter productive to the aspiring scientist of the future, because role models in those fields are invisible hidden in the blaze of the entertainment stars. And number of stars is actually quite small when compared to number of laywers, doctors and engineers.
All cultures have a set of patterns that young people mimic to succeed as adults, here in Finland many dream of a NHL career for their kid and at expense of school work drag their kids to ice morning and night. So often these patterns can be counter productive to the general population. If the tradition in the family is to work at the local mill and TV shows glittering path to fame and glory, many will not think of the third path. My wife who came from blue collar background, would propably never have done a PhD if she hadn't met me and been introduced to circles where practically everybody had a PhD. On this I might be wrong of course...
Back before I broke my pocketPCs glass screen with a pocket camera. (yes both were in the same pocket). I use to go and get classics from UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S E-BOOK LIBRARY.
This came to mind, when I after looking at these pictures read your post. Perhaps our brain needs some sort of caricature or simplified image of faces for us to recognize them, but this layer of vision is hidden in uninjured brain from our conscious mind.
I have this great bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell them.
I just saw a documentary on this guy flying over the channel. It was an amazing feat and I don't think anybody has been able to do better than that, though I don't know if anybody has even tried.