Re:Ever wonder why ice melts?
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I agree with you, but I wish the guy gave credit where credit is due.
Ever wonder why ice melts?
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a. Summary is plagiarized from the article, unless I've missed some nested quotes. b. These guys took this problem because "the earliest phase of melting has never been seen" but they didn't do that either! All they did was make "see-through crystals that are like small beads and are visible in an optical microscope." Doesn't sound like a hell of a lot of progress to me; anyone care to elaborate? c. Their main result seems to be that the melting process starts at crystal defects and spreads to create liquidy regions within the crystal. Again, can anyone explain why the melting might not start at defects - the weak points? I'm sure there's something neater here than I'm seeing; it would be nice if the article had more info.
If you look at the linked site, each offender has a name, photo, and link to the county records. Even if the street name is misspelled, do you think the photo would frame an innocent person?
Do you have any idea how much water there is in the ocean? And what the specific heat of water is? By the time we're pulling enough energy to make a difference, we'll have colonies in multiple solar systems.
Google: Let's start our own free email service to compete with Yahoo and MSN. We'll give people 2GB of storage to get their attention, and hopefully, we'll become a larger part of their internet experience. Oh, and being Google, let's make our system work far, far, better than most college email systems.
Wait, would they have gone back in time if Fry hadn't been frozen in the first place? What if Fry dug Bender up today and moved to Roswell (avoiding hibernation). [brain explodes].
I'll buy it, since I'm a huge Nintendo fan. The casual gamer won't be so accomodating. Nintendo needs to build some hype around the system if they want to actually change the video game industry. Right now, even some hardcore Nintendo fans are skeptical.
Nintendo - shooting ourselves in the foot since 1990...
Considering that one "hack" would be just capturing the signal sent to the TV, I think it's fair to say they're not going to be banning anything anytime soon.
As the article says (in the headline, at least), scientists made dormant eggs hatch by putting them under the right conditions. "They found that eggs that had been trapped beneath the sediment years ago had never hatched, but miraculously, were still alive."
It may be a landmark - I have no idea - but it's not resurrection.
I believe the idea was that a whole village would purchase one together, or that some governing body would give them funds to do so. That way the village could have much easier access to information about market conditions, weather, etc. I'm not sure if the villagers ended up getting access to the Net after all (having lived in India for a while, I would guess not), but the Simputer project didn't fail because its cost was all that high. As I understand it, it failed because its competitors decreased their prices much more quickly than it could keep up.
Hmm. From one of the articles, "But local governments often prefer to accept donations from Microsoft Corp. and other companies rather than pay for a new technology like the Simputer." AP. I think this is a somewhat futile project, but it's not clear it's "government-funded boondoogle." Any info?
Well, let's look a little further back. The N64 had Super Mario 64, which was amazing. The PS1's real breakout title was Final Fantasy 7; even though it wasn't really a launch game, it gave the system a crucial boost over the Sega Saturn (esp. in Japan). I think it's fair to say that the drop in launch title quality is a consequence of the first to market madness. I miss the old days when Nintendo just didn't give a fuck when you wanted a game.
BTW, I didn't hate Halo, but I thought it was mediocre. Halo (1, 2) are fun just because it's so easy to get multiplayer games; Perfect Dark and Goldeneye were much better.
During my freshman year, I've watched a huge number of college kids switch to FireFox because of peer recommendations. Some of them even get OpenOffice.org and Thunderbird. I OSS software, especially for Windows, will continue to grow in popularity on quality alone.
1. Funny how the average distance between dancers was like 5ft.
2. Pressure sensors => Tetris where you tap to rotate, and have to run and follow you piece down.
Just like the MS monopoly is a net good thing right? I don't want to have to install two OSs "just to run all the apps out there." Forking and choice are OSS's selling points.
As another poster noted above, do you really want to feed the germs this way? Think about it, you're giving them access to your genes. It's only a matter of time before they clone you and empty your bank account...
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I agree with you, but I wish the guy gave credit where credit is due.
a. Summary is plagiarized from the article, unless I've missed some nested quotes.
b. These guys took this problem because "the earliest phase of melting has never been seen" but they didn't do that either! All they did was make "see-through crystals that are like small beads and are visible in an optical microscope." Doesn't sound like a hell of a lot of progress to me; anyone care to elaborate?
c. Their main result seems to be that the melting process starts at crystal defects and spreads to create liquidy regions within the crystal. Again, can anyone explain why the melting might not start at defects - the weak points?
I'm sure there's something neater here than I'm seeing; it would be nice if the article had more info.
If you look at the linked site, each offender has a name, photo, and link to the county records. Even if the street name is misspelled, do you think the photo would frame an innocent person?
Yeah, I'd say you captured the spelling skills of those vigilantes. Judging by /., anyway.
Do you have any idea how much water there is in the ocean? And what the specific heat of water is? By the time we're pulling enough energy to make a difference, we'll have colonies in multiple solar systems.
Google: Let's start our own free email service to compete with Yahoo and MSN. We'll give people 2GB of storage to get their attention, and hopefully, we'll become a larger part of their internet experience. Oh, and being Google, let's make our system work far, far, better than most college email systems.
AOL: ME TOO!!!11!!1!
Fry could just go look in New Mexico.
Wait, would they have gone back in time if Fry hadn't been frozen in the first place? What if Fry dug Bender up today and moved to Roswell (avoiding hibernation). [brain explodes].
I'll buy it, since I'm a huge Nintendo fan. The casual gamer won't be so accomodating. Nintendo needs to build some hype around the system if they want to actually change the video game industry. Right now, even some hardcore Nintendo fans are skeptical.
Nintendo - shooting ourselves in the foot since 1990...
Considering that one "hack" would be just capturing the signal sent to the TV, I think it's fair to say they're not going to be banning anything anytime soon.
As the article says (in the headline, at least), scientists made dormant eggs hatch by putting them under the right conditions. "They found that eggs that had been trapped beneath the sediment years ago had never hatched, but miraculously, were still alive."
It may be a landmark - I have no idea - but it's not resurrection.
But did it have a link? Oho!
I believe the idea was that a whole village would purchase one together, or that some governing body would give them funds to do so. That way the village could have much easier access to information about market conditions, weather, etc. I'm not sure if the villagers ended up getting access to the Net after all (having lived in India for a while, I would guess not), but the Simputer project didn't fail because its cost was all that high. As I understand it, it failed because its competitors decreased their prices much more quickly than it could keep up.
Hmm. From one of the articles, "But local governments often prefer to accept donations from Microsoft Corp. and other companies rather than pay for a new technology like the Simputer." AP. I think this is a somewhat futile project, but it's not clear it's "government-funded boondoogle." Any info?
Yay for duplicated comments! Never complain about the editors again.
Well, let's look a little further back. The N64 had Super Mario 64, which was amazing. The PS1's real breakout title was Final Fantasy 7; even though it wasn't really a launch game, it gave the system a crucial boost over the Sega Saturn (esp. in Japan). I think it's fair to say that the drop in launch title quality is a consequence of the first to market madness. I miss the old days when Nintendo just didn't give a fuck when you wanted a game.
BTW, I didn't hate Halo, but I thought it was mediocre. Halo (1, 2) are fun just because it's so easy to get multiplayer games; Perfect Dark and Goldeneye were much better.
During my freshman year, I've watched a huge number of college kids switch to FireFox because of peer recommendations. Some of them even get OpenOffice.org and Thunderbird. I OSS software, especially for Windows, will continue to grow in popularity on quality alone.
1. Funny how the average distance between dancers was like 5ft. 2. Pressure sensors => Tetris where you tap to rotate, and have to run and follow you piece down.
billlyuns and billlyuns of stars
It'll show up in a few days. Watch for the followup story.
Just like the MS monopoly is a net good thing right? I don't want to have to install two OSs "just to run all the apps out there." Forking and choice are OSS's selling points.
As another poster noted above, do you really want to feed the germs this way? Think about it, you're giving them access to your genes. It's only a matter of time before they clone you and empty your bank account...
Yes, I do, thanks.
It's a bit harder to walk across the yard than to walk an equal length straight down.
This is copied and pasted from a comment linked to by the first post. The idiot didn't even bother to change the name Cephus to Josie.
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
I don't want to spend a lot of money.