There are actually several more: solid liquid gas plasma AND Bose-Einst ien Condensate Quark somethingorother superfluids
BEC's are ultra-cold bodies of matter where all atoms in the conglomerate 'march' to the same drum. In effect, each atom behaves not just exactly the same as all other atoms, but as if the whole she-bang were one single atom.
With the Quarks, inside super-hot, super-dense areas, quarks free themselves, something not normally allowed. The quarks end up shielding themselves from each other so that they cannot recombine quite as easily. IOW, you can actually cool the cloud down just a bit.
Superfluids are states not unlike BEC's wherein all sorts of strange things happen. Helium is the famous example. You can get superfluidic helium to flow uphill in the right conditions.
Oh,
you mean like XEmacs already handles dates with calendar, correlation with notes, mp3s, file system commands, TeX, LaTeX, HTML, RTF,.txt, chatting on IRC and ICQ and www? I forget to mention that it's 90% of the way there to being OS independent.
Something I've always wanted to know... just HOW does one go about determining whether animals have feelings or not? They obviously can't communicate on anything more than the most primitive of yes/no concepts.
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Yah, I read this book, I've also read rather scathing critiques about it (mostly about selective presentation of evidence, a scholarly no-no on the order of murder for the rest of us).
What the author fails to mention is that EVERY solution so far explored, other than the currently adopted one, fails at observation time. Every one.
Heck, Godel himself came up with a rotating solution for the Universe, but the while the laws of physics would've remained the same, the APPEARANCE of those laws would've been dramatically different (think constantly moving frame of reference magnified).
Sorry, but don't feel too bad, I thought it was a good book too, until I did the research on it.
The philosophy of animal rights is simply the application of this anti-anthrocentrism to ethical questions.
Ummm...NO.
Animal Rights is a form of anthropomorphising, attributing (wrongly) human traits to animals.
To quote:
<whine> "Animals have feelings too..." </whine>
Eradicating the rather silly belief that humans are somehow 'special' would have the result of allowing Gov't funded research, here in the US, of embryonic stemcells.
The reason the Brits kept that information secret was because the means of collection was secret.
That's pretty much standard policy amongst all intelligence agencies: Do nothing that will give away how (or that) you know about the enemy's actions. Until you can use the information to cripple him decisively.
What the Bush administration, OTH, is doing in it's usual ham-handed way, is going through public domain documents and re-classifying them.
Rather like closing barn doors if you ask me, but then, nobody has ever accused Bush of being intelligent.
The Bush administration just doesn't get it, a police state is NOT how you handle terrorists. You take away the terrorist's ability to complain by making his country somewhat wealthy. Hard to get recruits when they're all fat, dumb and happy, isn't it?
Over the course of 77 MILLION years, you better believe that the sediment deposition rate is constant. Why? Just look at the math:
using 40,000yrs as a base with radiocarbon dating, you can figure out what the rate of deposit for a region is in the past 40,000 years in mm/yr.
total_deposit (mm) =
deposit_per_year(mm/yr)* 7.7x10^6 (years)
The fact that the rate of deposit is so small corresponding to the number of years means that you can indeed treat a total sediment deposit as if it were averaged.
There is a fundamental problem with encrypting things for mass consumption:
At some point, it has to be decrypted and viewed. As long as that happens, then there won't be any way to prevent people copying it.
Remember the/. article about ebooks being decrypted? the 'Print Scrn' button on your keyboard takes care of that...
The same thing with this. People can develop a program that eliminates the screen flicker, or turn down the gain on their camcorders or tap into the feed before the projection ocurrs or any number of things...
There was quite a bit of comment in the article about "saving reais"... but regardless of the price comparison, notice how no explicit numbers were given for fuel economy...
The average farmer, given the information on the site, uses 70l of gasoline an hour (@ 245Reais / hour).
The alchohol plane uses 83.3- l of fuel / hour.
Meaning that the gas engine is more fuel efficient, and when dealing with jet engines, it isn't even possible to aquire enough fuel to make up for the lack of range without losing so much of the passenger / cargo space that all profit is lost.
So, while General aviation might like it, commercial aviation will not adopt it until you can give sufficient return on range to make the choice palatable.
I don't think that the savings is going to make up for the cost of switching for quite awhile, at least not in US GenAv.
3. Ask for the name of the company the telemarketer works for.
4. Ask for the mailing address.
3. Ask to speak to a manager (ask the manager for the mailing address too).
4. Inform the manager that your time is valuable and that if he wishes his telemarketer to continue his sales pitch that this will cost the managers company $100 every second. Inform him that considering how valuble your time is, this is a very reasonable rate. Only under this circumstance is the telemarketer allowed to continue. Remind him that agreeing to this condition means that a verbal contract has been entered between two parties and will be held up in any court in the land.
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There are actually several more:t ien Condensate
solid
liquid
gas
plasma
AND
Bose-Eins
Quark somethingorother
superfluids
BEC's are ultra-cold bodies of matter where all atoms in the conglomerate 'march' to the same drum. In effect, each atom behaves not just exactly the same as all other atoms, but as if the whole she-bang were one single atom.
With the Quarks, inside super-hot, super-dense areas, quarks free themselves, something not normally allowed. The quarks end up shielding themselves from each other so that they cannot recombine quite as easily. IOW, you can actually cool the cloud down just a bit.
Superfluids are states not unlike BEC's wherein all sorts of strange things happen. Helium is the famous example. You can get superfluidic helium to flow uphill in the right conditions.
Oh, .txt, chatting on IRC and ICQ and www? I forget to mention that it's 90% of the way there to being OS independent.
you mean like XEmacs already handles dates with calendar, correlation with notes, mp3s, file system commands, TeX, LaTeX, HTML, RTF,
Hmmm...
I can accept that. :)
Something I've always wanted to know... just HOW does one go about determining whether animals have feelings or not? They obviously can't communicate on anything more than the most primitive of yes/no concepts.
Yah, I read this book, I've also read rather scathing critiques about it (mostly about selective presentation of evidence, a scholarly no-no on the order of murder for the rest of us).
What the author fails to mention is that EVERY solution so far explored, other than the currently adopted one, fails at observation time. Every one.
Heck, Godel himself came up with a rotating solution for the Universe, but the while the laws of physics would've remained the same, the APPEARANCE of those laws would've been dramatically different (think constantly moving frame of reference magnified).
Sorry, but don't feel too bad, I thought it was a good book too, until I did the research on it.
The philosophy of animal rights is simply the application of this anti-anthrocentrism to ethical questions.
Ummm...NO.
Animal Rights is a form of anthropomorphising, attributing (wrongly) human traits to animals.
To quote:
<whine>
"Animals have feelings too..."
</whine>
Eradicating the rather silly belief that humans are somehow 'special' would have the result of allowing Gov't funded research, here in the US, of embryonic stemcells.
I have Two Words for you:
Thieves' World
Collaborative writing at it's very best.
Actually, this is a rather bad analogy.
The reason the Brits kept that information secret was because the means of collection was secret.
That's pretty much standard policy amongst all intelligence agencies: Do nothing that will give away how (or that) you know about the enemy's actions. Until you can use the information to cripple him decisively.
What the Bush administration, OTH, is doing in it's usual ham-handed way, is going through public domain documents and re-classifying them.
Rather like closing barn doors if you ask me, but then, nobody has ever accused Bush of being intelligent.
The Bush administration just doesn't get it, a police state is NOT how you handle terrorists. You take away the terrorist's ability to complain by making his country somewhat wealthy. Hard to get recruits when they're all fat, dumb and happy, isn't it?
Over the course of 77 MILLION years, you better believe that the sediment deposition rate is constant. Why? Just look at the math:
using 40,000yrs as a base with radiocarbon dating, you can figure out what the rate of deposit for a region is in the past 40,000 years in mm/yr.
total_deposit (mm) =
deposit_per_year(mm/yr)* 7.7x10^6 (years)
The fact that the rate of deposit is so small corresponding to the number of years means that you can indeed treat a total sediment deposit as if it were averaged.
Think before you post please.
Thank you, the Logic Police will be leaving now.
There is a fundamental problem with encrypting things for mass consumption:
/. article about ebooks being decrypted? the 'Print Scrn' button on your keyboard takes care of that...
At some point, it has to be decrypted and viewed. As long as that happens, then there won't be any way to prevent people copying it.
Remember the
The same thing with this. People can develop a program that eliminates the screen flicker, or turn down the gain on their camcorders or tap into the feed before the projection ocurrs or any number of things...
Another useless arms race.
My $0.25
Interesting to note what was NOT said:
There was quite a bit of comment in the article about "saving reais"... but regardless of the price comparison, notice how no explicit numbers were given for fuel economy...
The average farmer, given the information on the site, uses 70l of gasoline an hour (@ 245Reais / hour).
The alchohol plane uses 83.3- l of fuel / hour.
Meaning that the gas engine is more fuel efficient, and when dealing with jet engines, it isn't even possible to aquire enough fuel to make up for the lack of range without losing so much of the passenger / cargo space that all profit is lost.
So, while General aviation might like it, commercial aviation will not adopt it until you can give sufficient return on range to make the choice palatable.
I don't think that the savings is going to make up for the cost of switching for quite awhile, at least not in US GenAv.
My $0.25.
Turn Telemarketers into a business:
1. Record all calls from telemarketers.
2. Inform them that they are being recorded.
3. Ask for the name of the company the telemarketer works for.
4. Ask for the mailing address.
3. Ask to speak to a manager (ask the manager for the mailing address too).
4. Inform the manager that your time is valuable and that if he wishes his telemarketer to continue his sales pitch that this will cost the managers company $100 every second. Inform him that considering how valuble your time is, this is a very reasonable rate. Only under this circumstance is the telemarketer allowed to continue. Remind him that agreeing to this condition means that a verbal contract has been entered between two parties and will be held up in any court in the land.