I think this is a reasonable description of 'most everyone's productivity cycles. Granted I'm just another more-or-less Asperger's engineer/physicist with a strong love of music, but take a look at writers, artists, or almost any field of endeavor. You'll find people's output varies significantly over time. Vacations help too.:-) . The ability to take on side-projects without feeling guilty is probably a very handy thing in one's life.
Sounds like a perfect excuse for a preemptive strike
Paraphrasing from "Second Foundation" :
What would [US gov't] have done in the absence of [provocation]? Nothing. Therefore this [provocation] can only have been intended to make [US gov't] carry out [preemptive strike], so the correct response is to do nothing.
Funny how we call helium a scarce resource... it's the 2nd most common element in the Universe.
In the universe, yes. On Earth, no. All the helium on Earth has been here from the beginning, and no process on Earth is creating more.
Oh, I dunno, I keep hearing about "fusion this decade," after which we'll not only have unlimited free electricity but all the He you could ask for. Until we run out of deuterium, anyway.
These processors can only process sounds to something like 300 Hz (don't quote me on that), but a cello is something like 65 Hz.
A above middle C is 440 Hz. Two octaves down is 110 Hz. That's the lowest A on a cello. Just posting this to support your claim that the lowest note (C two octaves below middle C) is in fact 65.4... Hz.
Something people would like to see, and at the same time being close enough to what is actually possible that the believability factor is relatively high.
Yeah, but year after year the demand is so great that Thinkgeek ends up producing the item after all. The tauntaun sleeping bag is probably the most notable in that category.
You have to get a background check to write VBA code
Considering some of the Office macros I've run up against, this would be a fantastically good idea. Well, a background check plus a serious licensing requirement at the level of a multi-engine aircraft pilot's test.
Just a side note - but if you happen not to have an i386 (32 or 64) PC, very few of the distros listed have a PPC binary available. That's the primary reason I chose Ubuntu12.04 -- because I could load it right up onto an ancient G4 Mac.
How interesting to see a religious debate in the comments of an article about salt on Slashdot.
Choose one (or more) of the following:
1) You must be new here 2) it's "God Wins Law" (thanks to boingboing for that one: the concept that any sufficiently long thread will give rise to a theology flame war)
Quite true -- and someone's been missing the difference between blindly bumping into boundaries and helplessly (but not due to blindness) bumping into transparent solid objects which pretty much don't occur in nature. Rather a lot of birds kill themselves flying into picture windows. Heck, I've seen humans (sober!) walk straight into clean glass slider doors. AFAIK flies don't bump into walls; just windows.
No, you missed the point entirely. Science never thought it was impossible. Science quite correctly proved flight with rigid wings was impossible. Science went on to conclude, correctly, that since bumblebees fly, their wings aren't rigid. Please stop promulgating that teabagger meme that "scientists [have] an established mindset." As a very funny British comedian once said, "of course science doesn't have all the answers. If it did, we'd be done."
Reminds me of that poster on my ex-boss wall. "Aerodynamics say the bumblebee cannot fly. The bumblebee doesn't know and flies instead".
Sadly for your ex-boss and anti-scientists everywhere, the aerodynamicists (be they scientists or engineers) were quite right: the bumble bee could not fly if one assumed rigid wings. Their research led to greater understanding of a rather interesting organic control system which produces significant lift.
Ok, so you choose to deny your own ignorance? Did you ever so much as open a copy of NEJM in your life? "The plural of anecdote is not data." If that's not clear enough for you: your personal experience is 100% irrelevant, and you do yourself and the public a disservice by posting as though it were informative or indicative of any suggested action.
I pay more for health insurance in one year than the total of my entire life's expenses for health services (and I am old).
So now we know that:
1) you're a doctor 2) you've been lucky enough not to suffer significant either organic or physical injury 3) When it comes to statistics you're a fucking moron.
FWIW, I'm not an MD but have both friends and family members who are. I don't know any of them who would make as foolish a statement about insurance as you did here.
I'm also tempted to suggest this cold case team work on the couple hundred thousand murders allegedly perpetrated by a former TX governor, but that might be flamebait (duh).
There have been scientific reports about sinkholes, reversal of water flow in aquifers (i.e. salt water working its way into former fresh sources), damage to the protected swamp areas, etc. in Florida for years now. But the only thing that put a damper on new housing developments was the mortgage securities crash. Just this year, a reasonably intelligent (!!) friend of mine - Steve D. if you happen to read this, sorry for outing you -- decided to buy a retirement spot in Fla. Steve, I'll miss you if you get sinkholed, but I sure won't blame such an event on anything other than a very foolish real estate decision.
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I think this is a reasonable description of 'most everyone's productivity cycles. Granted I'm just another more-or-less Asperger's engineer/physicist with a strong love of music, but take a look at writers, artists, or almost any field of endeavor. You'll find people's output varies significantly over time. Vacations help too. :-) . The ability to take on side-projects without feeling guilty is probably a very handy thing in one's life.
There is no "alive" vs "not alive"! Itâ(TM)s a gradient! And there exists, and existed, every step in-between!
Sorry, but it *is* the weekend: so that's how one defines zombies vs. vampires?
Sounds like a perfect excuse for a preemptive strike
Paraphrasing from "Second Foundation" :
What would [US gov't] have done in the absence of [provocation]? Nothing. Therefore this [provocation] can only have been intended to make [US gov't] carry out [preemptive strike], so the correct response is to do nothing.
Funny how we call helium a scarce resource... it's the 2nd most common element in the Universe.
In the universe, yes. On Earth, no. All the helium on Earth has been here from the beginning, and no process on Earth is creating more.
Oh, I dunno, I keep hearing about "fusion this decade," after which we'll not only have unlimited free electricity but all the He you could ask for. Until we run out of deuterium, anyway.
Man, I thought the first-post messages on Slashdot were bad.
At least the incorrect messages on slashdot won't incite World War III
Never seen a flame war break out over God, Not-God, Apple, Microsoft, ClimateChange, emacs vs vi? It's practically WW-III every day here on Slashdot!
These processors can only process sounds to something like 300 Hz (don't quote me on that), but a cello is something like 65 Hz.
A above middle C is 440 Hz. Two octaves down is 110 Hz. That's the lowest A on a cello. Just posting this to support your claim that the lowest note (C two octaves below middle C) is in fact 65.4... Hz.
Thinkgeek has April fools jokes nailed.
Something people would like to see, and at the same time being close enough to what is actually possible that the believability factor is relatively high.
Yeah, but year after year the demand is so great that Thinkgeek ends up producing the item after all. The tauntaun sleeping bag is probably the most notable in that category.
Really? Did you miss Theo de Raadt? I imagine Theo throwing chairs with the best of them.
Bobby Knight.
Just sayin'....
..time to go long on Dell stock?
You have to get a background check to write VBA code
Considering some of the Office macros I've run up against, this would be a fantastically good idea.
Well, a background check plus a serious licensing requirement at the level of a multi-engine aircraft pilot's test.
Just a side note - but if you happen not to have an i386 (32 or 64) PC, very few of the distros listed have a PPC binary available. That's the primary reason I chose Ubuntu12.04 -- because I could load it right up onto an ancient G4 Mac.
So, I take it the names Mars, Venus, and Jupiter somehow offend you, too?
Naah, they're fine with me. After all, why not name a really burning hot planet after a burning hot goddess?
Then again, if Jupiter's got that one red eye, maybe it should have been named for Odin...
How interesting to see a religious debate in the comments of an article about salt on Slashdot.
Choose one (or more) of the following:
1) You must be new here
2) it's "God Wins Law" (thanks to boingboing for that one: the concept that any sufficiently long thread will give rise to a theology flame war)
It is 11:48 Eastern right now and I bet most posters are Americans sitting in their cubes or offices.
I'm on my lunch break, you insensitive clod!
(no, seriously, I am eating lunch. It's not 1PM yet)
Quite true -- and someone's been missing the difference between blindly bumping into boundaries and helplessly (but not due to blindness) bumping into transparent solid objects which pretty much don't occur in nature.
Rather a lot of birds kill themselves flying into picture windows. Heck, I've seen humans (sober!) walk straight into clean glass slider doors.
AFAIK flies don't bump into walls; just windows.
No, you missed the point entirely. Science never thought it was impossible. Science quite correctly proved flight with rigid wings was impossible. Science went on to conclude, correctly, that since bumblebees fly, their wings aren't rigid.
Please stop promulgating that teabagger meme that "scientists [have] an established mindset." As a very funny British comedian once said, "of course science doesn't have all the answers. If it did, we'd be done."
Why don't they just graft tadpole eyes onto its butt?
That raises the question: is is possible for Slashdot moderators to mod up stupid posts while they are in a vegetative state?
The evidence is right there on your viewing screen.
Signed, Living in a Carnivative State.
Reminds me of that poster on my ex-boss wall. "Aerodynamics say the bumblebee cannot fly. The bumblebee doesn't know and flies instead".
Sadly for your ex-boss and anti-scientists everywhere, the aerodynamicists (be they scientists or engineers) were quite right: the bumble bee could not fly if one assumed rigid wings. Their research led to greater understanding of a rather interesting organic control system which produces significant lift.
Does anyone think that this will actually fly, or are they just trying to make a point about DRM.
//redundant: This will fly when Ballmer gets hold of it.
Ok, so you choose to deny your own ignorance? Did you ever so much as open a copy of NEJM in your life? "The plural of anecdote is not data." If that's not clear enough for you: your personal experience is 100% irrelevant, and you do yourself and the public a disservice by posting as though it were informative or indicative of any suggested action.
I'm not completely sure that attacking all of Texas is 'ad hominem,' but that's ok with me.
My point is this: Texas has lots bigger problems with their judicial system (and their police system) than improving their cold case closure rate.
I pay more for health insurance in one year than the total of my entire life's expenses for health services (and I am old).
So now we know that:
1) you're a doctor
2) you've been lucky enough not to suffer significant either organic or physical injury
3) When it comes to statistics you're a fucking moron.
FWIW, I'm not an MD but have both friends and family members who are. I don't know any of them who would make as foolish a statement about insurance as you did here.
Maybe you guys could start by putting that self-appointed "arson analysis specialist" who is responsible for the death of at least one innocent man behind bars? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann
I'm also tempted to suggest this cold case team work on the couple hundred thousand murders allegedly perpetrated by a former TX governor, but that might be flamebait (duh).
There have been scientific reports about sinkholes, reversal of water flow in aquifers (i.e. salt water working its way into former fresh sources), damage to the protected swamp areas, etc. in Florida for years now. But the only thing that put a damper on new housing developments was the mortgage securities crash. Just this year, a reasonably intelligent (!!) friend of mine - Steve D. if you happen to read this, sorry for outing you -- decided to buy a retirement spot in Fla. Steve, I'll miss you if you get sinkholed, but I sure won't blame such an event on anything other than a very foolish real estate decision.