"I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. 'How not to make a mess of it', has not been met. On the contrary, most of our systems are much more complicated than can be considered healthy, and are too messy and chaotic to be used in comfort and confidence. The average customer of the computing industry has been served so poorly that he expects his system to crash all the time, and we witness a massive worldwide distribution of bug-ridden software for which we should be deeply ashamed."
Most millionaires are savvy businessmen almost no one has never heard of, and, quite honestly, most millionaires are simply regular people who had unique insight and were willing to take a risk
True. What I find curious is the observation (sorry, I forget where I read this) that most millionaires don't have a college degree.
... neanderthals... are supposed to have had more brain mass than humans did/do.
The ratio of brain mass to body mass determines intelligence, not brain mass alone.
Women have smaller brains than men, but that doesn't make them less smart: their bodies are proportionately smaller, so the brain/body mass ratio remains constant. (See The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan for more details.)
The funny thing about liquids is that they propogate waves pretty well. Shouldn't this result in a tsunami? Or, at the very least, noticable seismic activity?
Good point, worth investigating.
Another funny thing about liquids is when you crack a joke, and someone who is drinking beer laughs really hard and the beer shoots out their nose.
Doesn't exactly explain aircraft though. Air turbulance can be a factor, but.......
Methane is flammable -- a big cloud of it getting into a plane engine could ignite, or cause engine failure from insufficient oxygen. (Maybe also cause the pilot to fail from insufficient oxygen.)
How to sink an aircraft carrier:
Make its average density greater than water.
Alternately, make the water less dense:
A British scientist
claims to have solved the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle - and says the explanation could fix the world's energy problems.
Geologist Dr Ben Clennell told a conference that the phenomenon where planes, ships and people have vanished was caused by giant gas bubbles.
The gas bubbles resulted from underwater landslides releasing frozen methane gas which had built up over millennia. The methane ice "gas hydrate" was produced by deep-sea bacteria feeding beneath the ocean bed.
The effect of these apple-sized bubbles rising to the surface could be disastrous because the release of a large quantity of methane would reduce the density of seawater.
How to sink an aircraft carrier:
Make its average density greater than water.
I'm not sure this is accurate. My understanding is that a boat will float if mass of the boat is less than the mass of the water displaced by the boat.
Mass and density are not the only issues: what also matter is that the hull offers sufficient displacement of water.
Rats are smart. They adapt really fast to new kinds of poison. When they find food they send a test rat and watch it for a while. Only when this rat seams to be fine they go for the food. The period rats watch the scaperat got longer during the last decades.
Very interesting! Have you got any links to further information? Thanks.
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Hammerhead sharks can detect subtle electric fields -- the "hammers" are actually sensor arrays, which the sharks use to find the bioelectric signature of prey animals buried in the mud. The sharks also follow geo-electric paths to feeding grounds.
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... guide to tricking private members to do your bidding...
Inevitably the server will attract evil forces that cause it to melt in a fulminant struggle between access requests and bandwith into a hot-steaming blob of liquid metal.
Evil forces? Fulminant struggle!? Hell, I'd pay to see something like that...!
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Key members of the White House "Praetorian Guard" were in on the JFK assassination. Some things never change ....
Bach had twenty children because his organ had no stops.
"I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. 'How not to make a mess of it', has not been met. On the contrary, most of our systems are much more complicated than can be considered healthy, and are too messy and chaotic to be used in comfort and confidence. The average customer of the computing industry has been served so poorly that he expects his system to crash all the time, and we witness a massive worldwide distribution of bug-ridden software for which we should be deeply ashamed."
E.W. Dijkstra: The end of Computing Science?
Austin, 19 November 2000
Perhaps a name change is in order? from "Great Britain" to "Really Great Britain" ....
Made me laugh!
Most millionaires are savvy businessmen almost no one has never heard of, and, quite honestly, most millionaires are simply regular people who had unique insight and were willing to take a risk
True. What I find curious is the observation (sorry, I forget where I read this) that most millionaires don't have a college degree.
Maybe this is going to signal a change in the way record companies think about file sharing?
It probably signals that CNBC is going to support RIAA in a big way.
...what are the practicle applications for this research? How will it benifit mankind?
More to the point -- what are the military applications?
... neanderthals ... are supposed to have had more brain mass than humans did/do.
The ratio of brain mass to body mass determines intelligence, not brain mass alone.
Women have smaller brains than men, but that doesn't make them less smart: their bodies are proportionately smaller, so the brain/body mass ratio remains constant. (See The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan for more details.)
"... says the former president of the International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting."
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What the hell is an "engrosser"
I would, but I'm not a moderator today.
Correct link here
The funny thing about liquids is that they propogate waves pretty well. Shouldn't this result in a tsunami? Or, at the very least, noticable seismic activity?
Good point, worth investigating.
Another funny thing about liquids is when you crack a joke, and someone who is drinking beer laughs really hard and the beer shoots out their nose.
So, in essence, the sea is farting at us?
Yes, that's the theory.
This display of disrespect cannot go unpunished! We must bomb them!
I propose we ignite the mega-farts with a gigantic Bic lighter -- using butane to fight methane, so to speak.
Doesn't exactly explain aircraft though. Air turbulance can be a factor, but.......
Methane is flammable -- a big cloud of it getting into a plane engine could ignite, or cause engine failure from insufficient oxygen. (Maybe also cause the pilot to fail from insufficient oxygen.)
Informative!
Make its average density greater than water.
Alternately, make the water less dense:
How to sink an aircraft carrier:
Make its average density greater than water.
I'm not sure this is accurate. My understanding is that a boat will float if mass of the boat is less than the mass of the water displaced by the boat. Mass and density are not the only issues: what also matter is that the hull offers sufficient displacement of water.
Anything by Plutarch -- especially his biography of Caesar.
Rats are smart. They adapt really fast to new kinds of poison. When they find food they send a test rat and watch it for a while. Only when this rat seams to be fine they go for the food. The period rats watch the scaperat got longer during the last decades.
Very interesting! Have you got any links to further information? Thanks.
And for God's sake -- never turn a Bag of Holding inside-out ... !
Very interesting -- thanks!
Hammerhead sharks can detect subtle electric fields -- the "hammers" are actually sensor arrays, which the sharks use to find the bioelectric signature of prey animals buried in the mud. The sharks also follow geo-electric paths to feeding grounds.
... guide to tricking private members to do your bidding ...
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Is this anything like How to Pick Up Women
Inevitably the server will attract evil forces that cause it to melt in a fulminant struggle between access requests and bandwith into a hot-steaming blob of liquid metal.
...!
Evil forces? Fulminant struggle!? Hell, I'd pay to see something like that