If producing energy via nuclear fusion is cheaper than extracting oil, then the oil companies are going to be to do diddley squat to stop it. If on the other hand it cost more than oil, then fusion has got a problem.
I think perhaps you have that the wrong way around.
Here's an idea to make Wikipedia more reliable: show the time of the last edit for pages [...]
It does; through the History for each page, obviously, but also at the bottom of the article (below the categories for that page).
As for showing the last modified information for each section of a page, that is slightly more difficult within the current structure of Wikipedia. It's an interesting idea, though.
You missed the reference: "We're not going to die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
As for TFA, I would personally love to see a continuation of Firefly in some form or another, but another TV series doesn't look like it's in the cards. I've heard suggestions that direct-to-video (DVD) movies would be one way to continue the series, due to the great DVD sales of both Firefly and Serenity on DVD...
I don't expect to see this happening any time soon. To wit:
One insider told me "Opera is his baby" (referring to [Jon von Tetzchner]) he would never sell it no matter the dollar size.
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[Robert Scoble] told me that it would be extremely unlikely for Microsoft to buy Opera. He told me that if this were to occur it's likely that the US Justice Department would view this as a monopoly, and block the purchase.
Both quotes from the reliable Opera Watch in the last few days.
For that matter, given the degree to which Internet Explorer is embedded in Windows, simply replacing it with Opera would be very non-trivial. I'd love to see Opera's market share increase, but this isn't the way.
Actually, you're thinking of Faraday's law: the induced emf is proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux density (the changing magnetic flux density being caused by the changing current). Lenz's Law just says that the induced emf acts in the direction such that the magnetic field produced opposes the magnetic field causing it.
RTFS. This proposal is intended for use within large businesses: the idea is to automate and improve maintenance of their internal network, not something they'd just unleash on the Internet.
Surely you can't be serious! They're at least as distinctive as the Foo for Dummies books -- it's difficult to miss a book with the title in a big colored box, with a pretty animal woodcut underneath it.
It's like picking up a book with "Don't Panic" printed in nice friendly letters on the cover and wondering what it could be...
How about Sold Out? (Oblig. disclaimer: I know the writer and artist.) It's pretty new to the scene, and the art of the first few comics isn't stellar, but it's getting a hell of a lot better. Plus: it's funny. Check it out: the archives aren't as long as, say, Megatokyo or Penny Arcade, so you don't need to set aside a whole weekend just to figure out what's going on...
I don't think so, although it does sound like an eminently sensible idea.
Here in New Zealand, I'm on a 2Mbps/128kbps ADSL plan (Top of the line! Only a 10GB/month cap!), and my download speeds go all the way up to 11...
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You miss the significance of the redesign: in the original memo, it is difficult to tell at a glance what the key details; of course, the title summarizes these, but only roughly. These design flaws are reduced (if not removed) by the revised design.
Of course, we can't tell which memo will be important, and as a result we don't know which data should be paid attention to. The reason? Because the current design is inefficient, it is more difficult to spot and correlate trends and patterns. With this proposed design, it is easier to highlight potential threats, simply because its design is both clear and simple.
Well, I'm no geologist, but I'd be willing to bet that the "Nuclear Sciences" part refers less to nuclear power or weaponry (as you point out, New Zealand is 'nuclear-free') and more to studying radioactive isotopes of elements for carbon dating and the like.
Well, there is also the Nokia 3108, which uses a rather nifty stylus entry system. I have one (imported from Hong Kong), and it works surprisingly well for both Chinese and English text entry. Alas, it doesn't have many of the obscure characters, but what can you expect? It's only a cellphone...
Oh, yes, and it supports Java, and MMS, and all that jazz. I don't know what the importing situation is in the US, but it shouldn't be too difficult to track down...
Gaps, or voids, were often left, and tests done since the Columbia accident have shown liquid hydrogen could seep into those voids. After launch, the gas inside the voids starts to heat up and expand, causing large pieces of insulation to pop off.
NASA said this happens on about 60 percent of its shuttle launches.
Sixty percent of the time? I don't pretend to be an expert, but that number seems a bit high, especially when this can cause such damage. Can anyone shed some more light on the situation here?
Raven's licensing deal for Quake 4 has been around for quite some time.
This "unidentified developer" is something completely different, but I have a sneaking suspicion we can expect something pretty awesome appearing on the radar in the next five months or so...
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Here's an idea to make Wikipedia more reliable: show the time of the last edit for pages [...]
It does; through the History for each page, obviously, but also at the bottom of the article (below the categories for that page).
As for showing the last modified information for each section of a page, that is slightly more difficult within the current structure of Wikipedia. It's an interesting idea, though.
To be fair, Jobs did offer to give them a gratis license to use OSX freely; they turned him down because OSX is not open-source.
You missed the reference: "We're not going to die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
As for TFA, I would personally love to see a continuation of Firefly in some form or another, but another TV series doesn't look like it's in the cards. I've heard suggestions that direct-to-video (DVD) movies would be one way to continue the series, due to the great DVD sales of both Firefly and Serenity on DVD...
I don't expect to see this happening any time soon. To wit:
Both quotes from the reliable Opera Watch in the last few days.
For that matter, given the degree to which Internet Explorer is embedded in Windows, simply replacing it with Opera would be very non-trivial. I'd love to see Opera's market share increase, but this isn't the way.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/10/26
If you're unsure of whether a particular edit is valid or not, it helps to be able to see the editor's track history.
International! International! :(
So, in this case, you'd suggest a New Zealand-made distribution of Linux?
You mean the controversial articles like, oh, the ones on abortion, or evolution, or apartheid, or the Israli-Palestinian conflict, or same-sex marriage, or alleged cults...
You have it exactly the wrong way around. These articles are some the best of Wikipedia, not the worst.
Actually, you're thinking of Faraday's law: the induced emf is proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux density (the changing magnetic flux density being caused by the changing current). Lenz's Law just says that the induced emf acts in the direction such that the magnetic field produced opposes the magnetic field causing it.
What, you mean like the worms that are already in the wild?
RTFS. This proposal is intended for use within large businesses: the idea is to automate and improve maintenance of their internal network, not something they'd just unleash on the Internet.
Surely you can't be serious! They're at least as distinctive as the Foo for Dummies books -- it's difficult to miss a book with the title in a big colored box, with a pretty animal woodcut underneath it.
It's like picking up a book with "Don't Panic" printed in nice friendly letters on the cover and wondering what it could be...
How about Sold Out? (Oblig. disclaimer: I know the writer and artist.) It's pretty new to the scene, and the art of the first few comics isn't stellar, but it's getting a hell of a lot better. Plus: it's funny.
Check it out: the archives aren't as long as, say, Megatokyo or Penny Arcade, so you don't need to set aside a whole weekend just to figure out what's going on...
I don't think so, although it does sound like an eminently sensible idea.
Here in New Zealand, I'm on a 2Mbps/128kbps ADSL plan (Top of the line! Only a 10GB/month cap!), and my download speeds go all the way up to 11...
You miss the significance of the redesign: in the original memo, it is difficult to tell at a glance what the key details; of course, the title summarizes these, but only roughly. These design flaws are reduced (if not removed) by the revised design.
Of course, we can't tell which memo will be important, and as a result we don't know which data should be paid attention to. The reason? Because the current design is inefficient, it is more difficult to spot and correlate trends and patterns. With this proposed design, it is easier to highlight potential threats, simply because its design is both clear and simple.
Well, I'm no geologist, but I'd be willing to bet that the "Nuclear Sciences" part refers less to nuclear power or weaponry (as you point out, New Zealand is 'nuclear-free') and more to studying radioactive isotopes of elements for carbon dating and the like.
Kind of catchy, really...
Well, there is also the Nokia 3108, which uses a rather nifty stylus entry system. I have one (imported from Hong Kong), and it works surprisingly well for both Chinese and English text entry. Alas, it doesn't have many of the obscure characters, but what can you expect? It's only a cellphone...
Oh, yes, and it supports Java, and MMS, and all that jazz. I don't know what the importing situation is in the US, but it shouldn't be too difficult to track down...
Sixty percent of the time? I don't pretend to be an expert, but that number seems a bit high, especially when this can cause such damage. Can anyone shed some more light on the situation here?
Raven's licensing deal for Quake 4 has been around for quite some time.
This "unidentified developer" is something completely different, but I have a sneaking suspicion we can expect something pretty awesome appearing on the radar in the next five months or so...