...is a note played on an electric guitar played simultaneously with the note whose frequency is approximately 50% higher. The simple ratio means you get nice interaction between harmonics, even when the guitar is heavily distorted. They're very popular with many guitarists and are easy to play. Bands ranging from Hawkwind to Nirvana made/make great use of them. They don't usually come with projectors.
Dude! Your idea of what the word "museum" means is skewed by the fact that you're familiar with the museums of what is possibly the #1 museum location in the world, London. Bletchley Park is a fine museum with plenty of exhibits and reconstructed wartime rooms including actual Enigma machines and teletypes, reconstructed Bombes and an amazing reconstruction of Colossus. You get to see the actual buildings in which WWII cryptography took place including the huts. You also get a guided tour full of interesting historical anecdotes. Of course it's smaller than the Imperial War Museum, the latter was created by a national government effort and is probably one of the largest museums of its type in the entire world.
Eh? Cancer is a disease of the elderly who are about 10 times more likely to get cancer than younger people. Cancer has very little impact on rates of reproduction and so it's obvious that it's not any kind of serious brake on population growth. Finding more successful treatments for cancer will have almost no impact on population growth.
Breaking news! Michael Crichton, the author of the blockbuster science-fiction novel "Jurassic Park," and winner of an Academy Technical Achievement Award has died. He was 66. Truly an American icon.
It's no good just taking or leaving the meds whenever you feel like it. The whole point is to have a constant level in your brain, and that is only going to happen if you take them regularly, even on the days when you feel good. Otherwise, this is just the sort of comment you're going to keep writing.
> you'd still have to fight the gravitational pull from other objects, not to mention the occasional instance when you'd be in a collision course with other objects (asteroids, meteorites, space junk, etc)
You've been watching way too many science fiction movies. You also don't have to worry about black holes, rifts in the spacetime continuum and hostile life forms.
What's 'only' about 49? If you toss a coin 49 times and get heads 90% of the time you can be so sure that something fishy's going on that you could happily stake your life on it. I don't know the exact statistics in this case, but you can judge little from sample size. Even a sample size of 1 can be statistically significant.
It's the most trivial equation I've ever seen. It ranks up there with embarassing things like the Hardy-Weinberg equation and the Fick equation.
Maybe exp(pi*sqrt(163))'s equation ought to become famous. The probability of getting to work is the probability of me being alive in the morning times the probability of me getting up times the probability of it being a work day times the probability of me being bothered with going in times the probability of me surviving the journey.
That's a weird thing to say. It's like the guy who wins a lottery and says "I can't have won, there are millions of others who entered and I'm just one person". Some small place in the universe has to be the place where life first began.
> people also seem to think the real world is stuck to doing serial "trials" when in reality it is massively parallel.
But conversely, many people also to fail to realise that the parallelism of the physical world is tiny and insignificant compared to the combinatorial explosion that comes about when you consider the number of ways to combine atoms into molecules. Unfortunately, we don't really have much of a handle on what proportion of the space of possible molecule sets is occupied by autocatalytic ones. If it's 1 in 10^100, say, that a universe with 10^80 particles starts looking like a very small place.
Ordinary people know that if they want to be able to retire at 65 they need to own property and have their mortgage fully paid otherwise they won't be able to afford healthcare.
In fact, astronauts have reported seeing 'atmospheric' effects at sunrise and sunset on the moon because of the amount of dust hovering above the surface.
GPS data is filtered. A single sample discontinuity in the raw data is not propagated downstream as a discontinuity. If multiple samples are consistent with a discontinuity, then it will get through filtering, and it means that the discontinuity was probably real, and it ought to be passed on to the pilot or flight control system.
I owned my first calculator 30 years ago and implemented my first one in BASIC not long after. If it's only just reached the capability of a machine with just a few K of RAM and a BASIC interpreter then it can't be very impressive. What is LittleBigPlanet anyway? The codename for the latest OS from Microsoft? Trust the/. editors not to provide any context.
Darwin proposed a theory for how we ended up with the species that we have on Earth. That has nothing to do with what is and isn't worthwhile. You sound like one of those Nazis who judge everything in terms of what is and isn't "good for the species" (which is a gross parody of what Darwin actually said).
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...is a note played on an electric guitar played simultaneously with the note whose frequency is approximately 50% higher. The simple ratio means you get nice interaction between harmonics, even when the guitar is heavily distorted. They're very popular with many guitarists and are easy to play. Bands ranging from Hawkwind to Nirvana made/make great use of them. They don't usually come with projectors.
Dude! Your idea of what the word "museum" means is skewed by the fact that you're familiar with the museums of what is possibly the #1 museum location in the world, London. Bletchley Park is a fine museum with plenty of exhibits and reconstructed wartime rooms including actual Enigma machines and teletypes, reconstructed Bombes and an amazing reconstruction of Colossus. You get to see the actual buildings in which WWII cryptography took place including the huts. You also get a guided tour full of interesting historical anecdotes. Of course it's smaller than the Imperial War Museum, the latter was created by a national government effort and is probably one of the largest museums of its type in the entire world.
Plagiarist. You even copied my bit about his being an American icon.
Eh? Cancer is a disease of the elderly who are about 10 times more likely to get cancer than younger people. Cancer has very little impact on rates of reproduction and so it's obvious that it's not any kind of serious brake on population growth. Finding more successful treatments for cancer will have almost no impact on population growth.
Breaking news! Michael Crichton, the author of the blockbuster science-fiction novel "Jurassic Park," and winner of an Academy Technical Achievement Award has died. He was 66. Truly an American icon.
> The hypothetical particle even seems to have the right mass to account for one theory of dark matter.
That may say more about the number of theories of dark matter than about this particle.
You made me all excited about astrophysics. I wish I had a telescope big enough to see M87's jet.
It's no good just taking or leaving the meds whenever you feel like it. The whole point is to have a constant level in your brain, and that is only going to happen if you take them regularly, even on the days when you feel good. Otherwise, this is just the sort of comment you're going to keep writing.
...quiche.
> you'd still have to fight the gravitational pull from other objects, not to mention the occasional instance when you'd be in a collision course with other objects (asteroids, meteorites, space junk, etc)
You've been watching way too many science fiction movies. You also don't have to worry about black holes, rifts in the spacetime continuum and hostile life forms.
You could try taking your kid outdoors sometimes.
What's 'only' about 49? If you toss a coin 49 times and get heads 90% of the time you can be so sure that something fishy's going on that you could happily stake your life on it. I don't know the exact statistics in this case, but you can judge little from sample size. Even a sample size of 1 can be statistically significant.
It's the most trivial equation I've ever seen. It ranks up there with embarassing things like the Hardy-Weinberg equation and the Fick equation.
Maybe exp(pi*sqrt(163))'s equation ought to become famous. The probability of getting to work is the probability of me being alive in the morning times the probability of me getting up times the probability of it being a work day times the probability of me being bothered with going in times the probability of me surviving the journey.
That's a weird thing to say. It's like the guy who wins a lottery and says "I can't have won, there are millions of others who entered and I'm just one person". Some small place in the universe has to be the place where life first began.
> people also seem to think the real world is stuck to doing serial "trials" when in reality it is massively parallel.
But conversely, many people also to fail to realise that the parallelism of the physical world is tiny and insignificant compared to the combinatorial explosion that comes about when you consider the number of ways to combine atoms into molecules. Unfortunately, we don't really have much of a handle on what proportion of the space of possible molecule sets is occupied by autocatalytic ones. If it's 1 in 10^100, say, that a universe with 10^80 particles starts looking like a very small place.
...for the two and a half slashdot readers who like worms.
I wonder how the 'hydro' in 'hydrocarbon' emerges as you break CO2.
> Greedy people want houses they cant afford
Ordinary people know that if they want to be able to retire at 65 they need to own property and have their mortgage fully paid otherwise they won't be able to afford healthcare.
> The US$3 million price tag won't her first cash contribution...
The leaving-a-word-out meme/troll is really unfunny. It's even more unfunny when you use it in a story rather than a comment.
In fact, astronauts have reported seeing 'atmospheric' effects at sunrise and sunset on the moon because of the amount of dust hovering above the surface.
GPS data is filtered. A single sample discontinuity in the raw data is not propagated downstream as a discontinuity. If multiple samples are consistent with a discontinuity, then it will get through filtering, and it means that the discontinuity was probably real, and it ought to be passed on to the pilot or flight control system.
It's "Cue lawsuit...".
> The game allows the creation of puzzles from a collection of simple objects and tool
But I work with a system like that every day. It's called C++.
I owned my first calculator 30 years ago and implemented my first one in BASIC not long after. If it's only just reached the capability of a machine with just a few K of RAM and a BASIC interpreter then it can't be very impressive. What is LittleBigPlanet anyway? The codename for the latest OS from Microsoft? Trust the /. editors not to provide any context.
> Well, according to Darwin...
Darwin proposed a theory for how we ended up with the species that we have on Earth. That has nothing to do with what is and isn't worthwhile. You sound like one of those Nazis who judge everything in terms of what is and isn't "good for the species" (which is a gross parody of what Darwin actually said).