Was 'proven' by flying a jet plane with an atomic clock really fast for a while (In Science, back when the title perhaps meant a bit more).
Other than these sorts of controlled experiments it is 'just a theory' supported by observation (but not direct experimentation) that the forces which effec an atomic clock in a fast mover also cause the various observations of uncontrolled (by humans) processess.
Seems to me likewise you could 'prove' climate change by showing the effect in a laboratory.
Eg if adding green house gasses to a system which is heated by the sun (or a radiant heat source producing the same wavelengths as the sun) causes temperatures in the system to rise, global warming is as proven as relativity, given the limits of our ability to demonstrate large scale processes within controlled environments...
The next step will be to stop paying the volunteers in the armed forces altogether. I mean guys, stop being greedy, you have the privelege of risking your lives to bring democracy and Halliburton cafeterias to the huddled masses, what more do you want?
'ask not what the New American Century can do for you, ask what you can do for the NAC!.
You can't change the TC settings with Blackboard
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anyway, so they're (BB inc's) idiotic set up of Tomcat, your stuck with it.
A better idea is to get them to switch to Moodle, it's every bit as good as BB, faster, and runs on straight LMAP, no need for stinky ol'Tomcat (nor MS SQL & IIS, ak-pffft!).
Think: do you know how to count the words in a Word file?
Leingang doesn't?
I mean I'm all for MacOSX and I often use the command line, but I also think clicking "Tools" and selecting "Word Count" from the drop down is more fun than typing a string of commands into a CLI.
because its not a M1 Abrams.
The real problem is that there are so many Abrams drivers out their trying to sell their clients on a Main Battle Tank of a DB when for most DB projects, something faster, lighter, and easier to drive is a better fit.
they are so stripped down they can't move themselves, and they can infect only a few species for the same reason. Further, since they can't move themselves, they have a built in tendancy to evolve toward being sub-lethal (if they kill of their hosts too quickly, they stick themselves in their own firewall).
The gray goo scenario involved self mobile nanomachines that could consume any and all organic matter so rapidly that there could be no defense.
This is exactly why man-made machines are not likely to be more efficient than natural microbes and viruses: thermodynics and the energy denisity of materials.
Now humans might someday invent a nanomachine that is as efficient as a paramecium at the same weight, but it wouldn't be able to do so and carry around armor or weapons any better than the paramecium has, and so would make just as tasty a meal for a rotifer as a paramecium.
IOW, the paranoid are easily scared because they don't know as much about biology and physics as they think they do (and this certainly includes computer genies who get their name in print by expounding on things they lack the training to understand).
in an airplane, and only the gummint was holding us back.
But it doesn't, Columbus used regular old coastal trading ships to sail to the Bahamas.
Mars will take specially designed ships & thus a significant part of the GDP to get there, there are only a few private individuals who could finance that, and only if they dropped most of their other causes and threw most of their money at it.
Human travel to Mars & human settlement is the kind of expedition that only makes sense for Govts. to fund, for a very long term ROI.
Well put, the schools aren't failing most kids because of technology spending, their failing most kids because they aren't designed for learning.
Human learning should be as fun as monkey kids have chasing each other around the trees, that's how we're programmed to learn.
Now some kids like sitting in neat little rows and listen to teach drone on and scratch on the chalk board. For them, the schools are great.
Most kids though learn better in other ways, by doing things they find fun, and they deserve better than the current school model can give them. And when they don't get it, they cause all the trouble we see in the schools!
The real problem is our schools don't work
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and computers can't fix them.
So the latest thing to blame the failures of a coercive education system designed on the factory model that serves only a few of the many learning styles and punishes the others is: (taadaaa) technology!
Woo hoo. Take all the computers out of the schools, put all the abstract basket weaving back in, and then sit back and read how that was a dismal failure too (and not only can Johhny not read, but now he can't even punch the right little pictures on the McD's register).
Our schools will continue to fail most kids, most of the time, until we find the political will to re-design them for the modern era.
Can't wait for that, homeschool. Online homeschooling is growing by leaps and bounds. But do it via the social constructivist model that actually works:-).
When you take your first science course, you will learn that scientific definitions are meant to be as specific as possible.
Vaugely describing a human being as anything ranging from a living diploid cell that can divide into several potential organisms or fuse with another into one, to an individual organism with a complex interdependent organ system, along with explanations of why some diploid cells formed by gametic fusion are not "human beings" while others are (depending on how long ago the fusion took place), is a definition based on a religious or philosophical need, not a scientfic one.
It only sounds simple and straightforward to people who don't know the details of reproduction in specific and cellular biology in general.
Of course, the truth is, you do get it, you're just engaging in sophistry to deny the fact that what you attack is the harvesting of human cells for the benefit of human beings.
When the gametes fuse, a diploid cell is formed
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from two haploid cells.
Whether that cell forms a new organism, several new organisms, or a spot on your panties, depends on what happens next.
Defining a cell by what it could become if certain events occur is a semantic (not scientific) excersise in absurdity especially as science progresses, a human cell that could become a human being is any human cell, and you have to come up with a whole new term for human being (post-totipotent person?).
Lets just start calling today 'tomorrow' while we're at it.
Human beings can't divide into parts and form two ro more new human beings, while embryos can.
Thus (from your biology book) the earliest one could call an bundle of human cells a 'being' is ~14 days, when specialized tissues begin to form and the zygote can no longer be divided into totipotent cells.
If this is hard for you to understand, please re-visit your (college level) biology text books.
Choosing the Wrong Tool for the Job.
Common mistake people (for some reason esp. academics) make when choosing software.
At least with open source it generally costs less to back out.
At least with free software, when you get the shaft, you can often still afford to hire a programmer to get it out.
While with closed source software, you usually have to learn to work around the shaft until marketing decides whether they would make more $ taking it out or sticking it in further...
WTF is with all the attempted lessons on business management doing in an article where the author specifically asked for OSS solutions to a particular business issue for a particular business model!!!?!
You folks are no better than spammers clogging up the discussions with your attempts to steer the asker "straight" with your lame ass advice to pony up to commercial vendors!
Its like some guy asked which Pepsi machine to use for his new coin-op business and was crapflooded with a bunch of folks who love Coke. IOW, poster wasn't asking for help with the Business Model, hello!?!
Maybe the model of pasting Made with OSS on the product will be no more effective than Harley's Made in USA, but let them try their business model and give them the advice they asked for rather than carpflood the discussion with borderline SPAM about commercial products.
I wasn't aware that you needed to download special
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Other than these sorts of controlled experiments it is 'just a theory' supported by observation (but not direct experimentation) that the forces which effec an atomic clock in a fast mover also cause the various observations of uncontrolled (by humans) processess.
Seems to me likewise you could 'prove' climate change by showing the effect in a laboratory.
Eg if adding green house gasses to a system which is heated by the sun (or a radiant heat source producing the same wavelengths as the sun) causes temperatures in the system to rise, global warming is as proven as relativity, given the limits of our ability to demonstrate large scale processes within controlled environments...
until toyota perfects their crazy-driving, swordfighting pizza delivery robot!
be brave....
Bush is talking about?
The next step will be to stop paying the volunteers in the armed forces altogether. I mean guys, stop being greedy, you have the privelege of risking your lives to bring democracy and Halliburton cafeterias to the huddled masses, what more do you want?
'ask not what the New American Century can do for you, ask what you can do for the NAC!.
anyway, so they're (BB inc's) idiotic set up of Tomcat, your stuck with it. A better idea is to get them to switch to Moodle, it's every bit as good as BB, faster, and runs on straight LMAP, no need for stinky ol'Tomcat (nor MS SQL & IIS, ak-pffft!).
Think: do you know how to count the words in a Word file?
Leingang doesn't?
I mean I'm all for MacOSX and I often use the command line, but I also think clicking "Tools" and selecting "Word Count" from the drop down is more fun than typing a string of commands into a CLI.
So the lawsuits will keep on coming!
Solaris! Woo hoo, whats next, new video abilities being added to Be?
crash everywhere. Although ourtools is one fast, solid little jar:-)
because its not a M1 Abrams. The real problem is that there are so many Abrams drivers out their trying to sell their clients on a Main Battle Tank of a DB when for most DB projects, something faster, lighter, and easier to drive is a better fit.
they are so stripped down they can't move themselves, and they can infect only a few species for the same reason. Further, since they can't move themselves, they have a built in tendancy to evolve toward being sub-lethal (if they kill of their hosts too quickly, they stick themselves in their own firewall).
The gray goo scenario involved self mobile nanomachines that could consume any and all organic matter so rapidly that there could be no defense.
This is exactly why man-made machines are not likely to be more efficient than natural microbes and viruses: thermodynics and the energy denisity of materials.
Now humans might someday invent a nanomachine that is as efficient as a paramecium at the same weight, but it wouldn't be able to do so and carry around armor or weapons any better than the paramecium has, and so would make just as tasty a meal for a rotifer as a paramecium.
IOW, the paranoid are easily scared because they don't know as much about biology and physics as they think they do (and this certainly includes computer genies who get their name in print by expounding on things they lack the training to understand).
in an airplane, and only the gummint was holding us back.
But it doesn't, Columbus used regular old coastal trading ships to sail to the Bahamas.
Mars will take specially designed ships & thus a significant part of the GDP to get there, there are only a few private individuals who could finance that, and only if they dropped most of their other causes and threw most of their money at it.
Human travel to Mars & human settlement is the kind of expedition that only makes sense for Govts. to fund, for a very long term ROI.
Well put, the schools aren't failing most kids because of technology spending, their failing most kids because they aren't designed for learning.
Human learning should be as fun as monkey kids have chasing each other around the trees, that's how we're programmed to learn.
Now some kids like sitting in neat little rows and listen to teach drone on and scratch on the chalk board. For them, the schools are great.
Most kids though learn better in other ways, by doing things they find fun, and they deserve better than the current school model can give them. And when they don't get it, they cause all the trouble we see in the schools!
and computers can't fix them.
So the latest thing to blame the failures of a coercive education system designed on the factory model that serves only a few of the many learning styles and punishes the others is: (taadaaa) technology!
Woo hoo. Take all the computers out of the schools, put all the abstract basket weaving back in, and then sit back and read how that was a dismal failure too (and not only can Johhny not read, but now he can't even punch the right little pictures on the McD's register).
Our schools will continue to fail most kids, most of the time, until we find the political will to re-design them for the modern era.
Can't wait for that, homeschool. Online homeschooling is growing by leaps and bounds. But do it via the social constructivist model that actually works:-).
is a human being.
When you take your first science course, you will learn that scientific definitions are meant to be as specific as possible.
Vaugely describing a human being as anything ranging from a living diploid cell that can divide into several potential organisms or fuse with another into one, to an individual organism with a complex interdependent organ system, along with explanations of why some diploid cells formed by gametic fusion are not "human beings" while others are (depending on how long ago the fusion took place), is a definition based on a religious or philosophical need, not a scientfic one.
It only sounds simple and straightforward to people who don't know the details of reproduction in specific and cellular biology in general.
Of course, the truth is, you do get it, you're just engaging in sophistry to deny the fact that what you attack is the harvesting of human cells for the benefit of human beings.
from two haploid cells.
Whether that cell forms a new organism, several new organisms, or a spot on your panties, depends on what happens next.
Defining a cell by what it could become if certain events occur is a semantic (not scientific) excersise in absurdity especially as science progresses, a human cell that could become a human being is any human cell, and you have to come up with a whole new term for human being (post-totipotent person?).
Lets just start calling today 'tomorrow' while we're at it.
but of course they are human.
Human beings can't divide into parts and form two ro more new human beings, while embryos can.
Thus (from your biology book) the earliest one could call an bundle of human cells a 'being' is ~14 days, when specialized tissues begin to form and the zygote can no longer be divided into totipotent cells.
If this is hard for you to understand, please re-visit your (college level) biology text books.
Choosing the Wrong Tool for the Job. Common mistake people (for some reason esp. academics) make when choosing software. At least with open source it generally costs less to back out.
Bring back the Martian Oceans and all the air and warmth that went with them!
its not like we're talking about building it out of iron.
flying his sopwith doghouse to the universe and beyond!!!
on expensive or budget busting software.
At least with free software, when you get the shaft, you can often still afford to hire a programmer to get it out.
While with closed source software, you usually have to learn to work around the shaft until marketing decides whether they would make more $ taking it out or sticking it in further...
WTF is with all the attempted lessons on business management doing in an article where the author specifically asked for OSS solutions to a particular business issue for a particular business model!!!?!
You folks are no better than spammers clogging up the discussions with your attempts to steer the asker "straight" with your lame ass advice to pony up to commercial vendors!
Its like some guy asked which Pepsi machine to use for his new coin-op business and was crapflooded with a bunch of folks who love Coke. IOW, poster wasn't asking for help with the Business Model, hello!?!
Maybe the model of pasting Made with OSS on the product will be no more effective than Harley's Made in USA, but let them try their business model and give them the advice they asked for rather than carpflood the discussion with borderline SPAM about commercial products.
software"
That will probably be step one:
1) Break Google on Longhorn.
2) Default to msn search when Google breaks.
3) Profit.
In the search for microbial life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa, a new idea has emerged, suggesting that heavy doses of lethal radiation surrounding the massive planet might spur chemical reactions on its tiny satellite, providing fuel for life in the suspected liquid ocean below.
Now if they want my Steelhead Pale, I'm gonna turn the heater down until they get ick!