I thought this approach was proven years ago by Apple and their warmer-than-warm laptop machines. Plus I'd rather have a laptop in my lap than gold rods near my rod.... or something like that.
Tales of Cisco-induced semi-psychotic fits are common. Often, people on a Cisco binge end up curled into a fetal ball, shuddering and muttering paranoid rants. Nudity and violence may well be involved too.
Here we are, deep into the age-determination threads, and nobody's yet posted that it couldn't be a 100k year old tumor because the Earth's only 6k . What's wrong with/. this Friday that such a thing could happen?
Can't they just give someone else the authority to sue on their behalf? There must be a loophole somewhere in the Bible
Yeah, but only in the old testament. (Check out recent definitions of "eruv" , or the proliferation of "shabbat timers" on kitchen appliances). The Amish, not being of that faith, don't know how to work the system...errrr... faithbook.
Hah. No it hasn't. Is a "chicken egg" one which produces a chicken, or one which is produced BY a chicken? On such definitions does your "solution" hang by a thread... or sticky gob of eggwhite, maybe.
You would prefer "scientists now pretty sure water was on Mars, not even going to bother any more"?
That's rather like what The Onion might write. Except that it would probably be a good idea to stop going all ThePriceIsRight over every piece of info that comes back from the Mars rovers in the first place.
I win because I'm still using an Env3 which does voice, text messages, and email just fine, thank you. Plus it can run over a week on standby before recharging.
And thanks to the huge cost & popularity of "smartphones," DumbPhones (TM) are really cheap.
You're missing the point. Helicopters do so because their wings are not fixed to the airframe. The wings (rotor blades) are moving quite fast relative to the air around them. That generates lift. The speed of non-lift-generating portions of the craft (helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft) are irrelevant to the ability to take off.
Sure, but unless you can show that oxytocin is actually a causative agent of long-term pair-bonding, my point stands. It sure doesn't seem to do so from what I see in "real life."
Because PETA is the darling of the bleeding-heart liberals, assumed to value all living things except humans
Why, may I ask, do you presume to claim that liberals, "bleeding-heart" or otherwise, do not have pets and never eat meat and never wear leather? I find it hard to imagine a "liberal" that did not have a pet, and vegetarianism/veganism vs. carnivorism is orthogonal to liberal vs. conservative.
This is stupid, since dead bodies normally don't call or go on Facebook.
You jest, but I still get birthday auto-notices from FB for friends who died years ago. Unless you have a relative w/ access to your FB account, it's apparently impossible to delete the account, or even change the owner's status to "Dead. Stop wishing the corpse happy birthday."
But what if it isn't quantum and we've built an entire computer and don't know how it really works? At that point you may as well throw up your hands and yell magic.
I'm not so sure that anyone can really explain how a computer works, from the transistor level up thru the functioning of various hardware blocks and then thru maybe 30 layers of software abstraction. What we do have is piles of people who are very good at improving one level or another, and the results to date suggest these improvements tend to be independent, i.e. an improvement at one level rarely if ever forces a degradation at another level.
But, heck, if someone creates a *reproducible* new concept which works even better, who cares if it's not understood?
That is, the real-world version of HOLMES IV's Mycroft. And the NSA's playing right into his hands, so to speak, by building that fantastic new processing center with direct access to all communications and data. Watch out for falling rocks!
Yeah, but even if it's incredibly unlikely that this ancient organism is dangerous, an outbreak of beta-hemoth (I don't know how to post a greek character there) makes for one great story.
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I thought this approach was proven years ago by Apple and their warmer-than-warm laptop machines. Plus I'd rather have a laptop in my lap than gold rods near my rod.... or something like that.
Tales of Cisco-induced semi-psychotic fits are common. Often, people on a Cisco binge end up curled into a fetal ball, shuddering and muttering paranoid rants. Nudity and violence may well be involved too.
Wait a sec, Cisco wine does that, too?
Here we are, deep into the age-determination threads, and nobody's yet posted that it couldn't be a 100k year old tumor because the Earth's only 6k . What's wrong with /. this Friday that such a thing could happen?
Can't they just give someone else the authority to sue on their behalf? There must be a loophole somewhere in the Bible
Yeah, but only in the old testament. (Check out recent definitions of "eruv" , or the proliferation of "shabbat timers" on kitchen appliances). The Amish, not being of that faith, don't know how to work the system...errrr... faithbook.
I think it's wildly optimistic humans will still be alive in a hundred years.
Well, certainly most of the ones we can currently confirm exist won't be.
Hah. No it hasn't. Is a "chicken egg" one which produces a chicken, or one which is produced BY a chicken? On such definitions does your "solution" hang by a thread... or sticky gob of eggwhite, maybe.
You would prefer "scientists now pretty sure water was on Mars, not even going to bother any more"?
That's rather like what The Onion might write. Except that it would probably be a good idea to stop going all ThePriceIsRight over every piece of info that comes back from the Mars rovers in the first place.
I win because I'm still using an Env3 which does voice, text messages, and email just fine, thank you. Plus it can run over a week on standby before recharging.
And thanks to the huge cost & popularity of "smartphones," DumbPhones (TM) are really cheap.
Helicopters take off vertically via thrust alone
You're missing the point. Helicopters do so because their wings are not fixed to the airframe. The wings (rotor blades) are moving quite fast relative to the air around them. That generates lift. The speed of non-lift-generating portions of the craft (helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft) are irrelevant to the ability to take off.
Just because biology is talking, doesn't mean you have to listen.
Now you've done it: cue the "free will" flame wars...
Sure, but unless you can show that oxytocin is actually a causative agent of long-term pair-bonding, my point stands. It sure doesn't seem to do so from what I see in "real life."
Somehow I strongly doubt that any such epigenetic (or other) monogamy-influencing event takes place when humans mate.
We need 21st Century TANG!!!!
Being a fan of Mr. Mojo Rising, I'd prefer a nice 21st-Century Fox.
Just don't tell my wife.
But stool transplants might still be preferable...
I smell an upcoming /. poll
Something tells me, between stool samples and worm eggs, that it'll smell pretty bad.
Wait, there's a bikini model in xkcd/1190 and I missed it? Dang.
Ok, technically it might not have been a squirrel, either.
Because PETA is the darling of the bleeding-heart liberals, assumed to value all living things except humans
Why, may I ask, do you presume to claim that liberals, "bleeding-heart" or otherwise, do not have pets and never eat meat and never wear leather? I find it hard to imagine a "liberal" that did not have a pet, and vegetarianism/veganism vs. carnivorism is orthogonal to liberal vs. conservative.
This is stupid, since dead bodies normally don't call or go on Facebook.
You jest, but I still get birthday auto-notices from FB for friends who died years ago. Unless you have a relative w/ access to your FB account, it's apparently impossible to delete the account, or even change the owner's status to "Dead. Stop wishing the corpse happy birthday."
But what if it isn't quantum and we've built an entire computer and don't know how it really works? At that point you may as well throw up your hands and yell magic.
I'm not so sure that anyone can really explain how a computer works, from the transistor level up thru the functioning of various hardware blocks and then thru maybe 30 layers of software abstraction. What we do have is piles of people who are very good at improving one level or another, and the results to date suggest these improvements tend to be independent, i.e. an improvement at one level rarely if ever forces a degradation at another level.
But, heck, if someone creates a *reproducible* new concept which works even better, who cares if it's not understood?
Damn, I keep forgetting that slashdot removes anything that looks like an html tag.
the word "religion" was supposed to be followed with "LESSTHAN BACKSLASH flame GREATERTHAN"
What is the opposite of paranoia? You know, seeing danger and not believing it is real?
Religion?
More seriously, maybe cognitive dissonance, or willful ignorance.
That is, the real-world version of HOLMES IV's Mycroft. And the NSA's playing right into his hands, so to speak, by building that fantastic new processing center with direct access to all communications and data.
Watch out for falling rocks!
You really must love the feeling of WHOOOOOSH, I guess.
I mean, SRSLY? Low number ID like that and you descend into grouchiness like that?
Heh. I like to ask people if they have trouble distinguishing fact from reality.
And, sadly, even when people *are* taught what's real, they ignore that information most of the time in favor of believing what they want to believe.
Yeah, but even if it's incredibly unlikely that this ancient organism is dangerous, an outbreak of beta-hemoth (I don't know how to post a greek character there) makes for one great story.
I only buy porn, and that's not on the suspicious list.
Oh, and I start my sentence in the subject line, but that's not on the terrorist list either.