Most complications are due to incompentent doctors or technicians. And the serious complications are entirely due to incompentence. The procedure itself is actually quite safe if everybody does thier job properly.
You have to do your reseach on the doctor and the clinic and find those with the best credentials and experience. Despite what google seems to say, the large majority of people have no complications and rave about it.
radio is too slow, what is it that the sun produces that travels way faster than light and goes through everything? if anyone is out there, thats what they are using...what ever happened with that experimental thing they buried 1/2 mile underground filled with water to catch those things the sun produces?
my prediction? we will learn how to use that and will be connected to countless civs' (if they out there)
I think you're talking about neutrinos but they don't travel faster then the speed of light. They just travel very close to it. The only other thing we use underground detectors for (that I know of) is gravitational waves but they're still theoretical; we haven't seen any yet. But they don't travel faster then the speed of light either.
As far as I know, the only thing that can travel faster then light is information between quantum entangled particles. But we can't use that for SETI because you need to establish a communiation channel before trasmitting anything.
Most quadrupedal animals have at least three natural gaits.
In the genreal case they are:
Walk: Moving diagonally opposite legs at the same time
Trot: Moving the left legs together then the right (or vice versa)
Run: Moving the back legs together then the front (or vice-versa)
Now, some animals will have only a subset of those, and for some, the names (Walk, Trot, Run) might not be accurate. Also some will have additional gaits based on whether not they leave the ground in between strides. I'm sure there are many special cases but this is just in general.
I don't know anything about this special Wolf gait you mention, although I certainly belive you. It sounds interesting. Do you know which of those three types it is?
By 'correlation' you can only be talking about the mathematical representaion of a black hole. You only have to know that if you want to understand the sentence. I'm not talking about understanding what the sentence means. I don't understand it either.
What I'm saying is that there was no "jump" from math to black holes. You don't have to know what the correlation is to realize that. Anyone who is simply aware that the correlation exists between the math and the physical, shouldn't be suprised when people use them in the same sentence.
OK.. he goes from a math equation to black holes? I don't see the jump.
You're joking right? Everything in physics is math. All the phenomena they talk about: space-time, black holes, worm holes, cosmic strings, dark matter/energy etc, even the big bang, are all equations or other mathematical constructs. Physicts is about building models of reality. Math is the modeling language.
You don't think Hawking just sits around and comes up with this stuff off the top of his head right? What he did was develop a mathematical model of a black hole that is consistant with the mathematical model of quantum mechanics (at least with regard to information conservation).
I'm sure he's not that clueless. All you did was restate the last sentence of the paragraph with a slightly different wording. Obviously it was the first three sentences that were confusing. If you want to sound impressive then explain those.
I disagree. I play UT2004 when I get pissed, and unloading a round of flak into a corpse and watching it bounce around makes me laugh. Watching Mario fall into a hole doesn't. So I think the violence does let me release a little bit of anger. It's fun, anyway.
That doesn't actually disagree with what I said. You're just defining what you find entertaining. Though maybe you're suggesting that Americans in general find violence more entertaining than other things. I guess I don't have a basis to diagree, but if that's true then it would be very sad.
The amount of violence in a video game has absolutly nothing to do with the level of stress relief it provides. Anything that provides entertainment and makes you forget about the source of your stress works to a degree. The best thing for stress is physical activity. Kids who are stressed a lot should play more sports in a friendly not-to-competitve environment.
Suggesting that people would for some reason become violent in real life because they couldn't act out thier aggressions in a game is stupid. People have violent tendencies for reasons that no video game can fix.
My point is that they didn't know the system and ignorance causes problems. They could have edited a config file that was perilously set-up by the admin, breaking the entire system. I can't give exact "if A then B" examples for the same reason: I don't know the system. And because I don't know the system I'm not going to go poking around in it.
So basically you have no idea. First you assume they are ignorant, then you assume that they are in a position where that 'ignorance' might 'cause problems'. Well, yeah, any argument works if you invent the supporting evidence.
Whether they caused damage intentionally via an attack or unintentionally via a mistake while in the network, the results are still the same. The argument stands.
No it doesn't. All you did was restate your position. You haven't explaind how they could 'inadvertantly cause damage', or what 'unintentional mistake' they could have made.
the ins and outs of every inch of the network?? If that's your best argument then I suspect you have no idea what you're talking about.
I think you could say that these two acted with a disregard for the liberty of others in their pursuit. If they had seriously caused damaged, it would've affected thousands of other people, not just themselves. I don't think that kind of disregard can be justified as investigative journalism.
But they didn't cause any damage. So how can you argue that there was a "disregard for liberty"? You seem to imply that they could have accidently done some damage. That's absurd and shows a complete lack of technical understanding of the issue.
The most likely thing to actually catch one is the proposed space based interferometer:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/grav ity_waves_000727.html
I've read about this before. How the hell do they plan on keeping that system calibrated?
The three [spacecraft] are designed to detect gravity waves by measuring subtle changes in the spacecrafts' position. Aboard are instruments sensitive enough to notice positional changes as small as one-fiftieth the width of a human hair.
Sounds near impossible to me. Anyone know more about this?
How do you figure they were misled? Did you even read the emails? As Somerville noted in his email, the information that people submitted to his website was simply passed directly to Odeon's website. So if submitters thought their data was going to Odeon's site, they were correct. I don't see how they were misled.
Because they thought they were interacting directly with the Odeon site but they weren't. It doesn't matter if he just transparently passes the data, he's still misrepresenting his site.
The problem is that Odeon has no control over what he does. If there is a problem with his site or he screws up the customer's data, then they will think it was Odeon's fault. Even if his intentions are good, and everything seems to work find right now, it is still a dangerous liability for the company. Absolutly they have to shut him down. Or force him to make it absolutly clear to his visitors that his site is not affiliated with Odeon.
This is so commonplace that tools exist to deal with the multiple layers of formatting. I suggest getting a copy of VCDGear (search google). It can convert RAR'd BIN/CUE's directly into MPG files for viewing. One step, instead of two or three.
Mplayer can actually play bin/cue files directly btw.
Besides being part of a future Knoppix release, what is NX?
From what I gathered from the link before it was/.ed, NX is basically a system (client/server) for efficiently commpressing X-Window data. Personaly, I can't wait to try it; X over a busy internet connection is painful, often barely usable (in my experience anyway).
The problem is that the products only "claim" to work. I've seen the "articles" and read all about them, I work in a GNC. It's all bullshit for now, you can't genetically modify yourself with a pill.
Well you wouldn't have to do that. Myostatin is just a protien. A myostatin-blocker would be a drug (antibody) that attacked it. You're right, none of the current products actually work, but there is no reason that we can't eventually develop ones that do. The linked articles mention some drug companies that have been (and are) researching it.
"unaccented speach" is really just "the way people talk where I grew up".
He wasn't referring to 'unaccented speech'. He was referring to a neutral accent. Even if you want to call the difference semantics, you'd still be running with your blinders on if you think it doesn't exist.
The neutral accent is defined entirely by the media. It is 'neutral' because that is what Americans are used to hearing on TV. The news stations never use anything but neutral accent (except maybe a really local station), and the only time TV and film uses a non-neutral accent is if it is specifically called for as part of the character's personality. In fact, a neutral accent is required by film and TV so that they can exploit non-neutral accents as character devices. Actors that have a non-neutral accent almost always end up typecast into roles that specifically require that accent. Julia Roberts actually grew up with a really heavy southern drawl. She had to work hard with a tutor to get rid of it or it would have crippled her career.
It's also important for politicians. They are best served by using an accent that is neutral for thier voters. The Governer of Texas might be able to speak with a southern accent (though I don't know if he does), but Bush can't. He needs to give the impression of representing the entire country, which means he has to use the neutral accent.
The purpose of XNA is to make it easier for people to create games on Microsoft platforms. MS then make money on the OS or, in the case of consoles, from the sale of the game itself
No, no, no. The purpose XNA is to be the console OS.
The idea is that you have tons of hardware manufacturers making XNA compatible consoles, and you have tons of game companies making XNA compatible games (without caring about the hardware). Then Microsoft controls, and gets royalties from, the software in the middle.
Basically it's exactly the same as the way PC's work now. They want to reshape the console market so that it works the same as the PC market, where they control the OS.
in other words, what evidence supports that this thing is going to expand at an accelerating rate forever? seems like gravity is going to get a little upset about that eventually.
Which is exacly why scientists have postulated the existance of dark energy. You see, you're correct, the effect of gravity does suggest that the universe's expansion should be decelerating. But it's not. All of our observations say that it's accelerating. Most cosmologists would say that's it's pretty much a confirmed fact at this point. The cause of this acceleration is unknown. They're postulaing the existance of this 'dark enery' which exerts some sort of repulsive force.
Enistien actually came up with the idea first, but for a completely different reason. He didn't call it dark enegry though (I don't think), it was just a variable that he added to his equations to force the overall 'shape' of the universe's space-time to be flat. He later took it out because he thought it was stupid; it was much more logical to assume the universe wasn't flat, in which case it wasn't needed. However modern day measurements of the Cosmic Background Radiation have given very strong evidence that the universe is actually flat. So now they've put the variable back into his equations, and they're working on trying to prove it's existence.
The key point that you're missing is that MSM.com's behaviour is designed to make the user think that Opera has serious bugs. There is certianly no justification for that.
Your analogy only works if MSN were to completely and visibly block Opera; which they actually tried with every non-IE browser a few years ago. That didn't work out for them.
A 200-stage pipeline will only realize a performance gain on instructions that take 200 cycles to execute. The bulk of instructions that a CPU executes tend to end up being pushing words around. Even on a bloated Pentium, that does not take 200 cycles.
That makes no sense. You're obviously not a chip designer. The number of cycles needed to execute an instruction is defined based on the number of stages in the pipeline that implements that instruction. When designing a pipeline you consider the overall exceution time of the instruction in nanoseconds.
e.g. Lets say you have an instruction (or some other task) that takes 2ns to execute. You want to clock your system at 1GHz; that's 1ns per cycle. So you build a two stage pipeline for that instruction. Now that pipeline will be able to pump out results for that instruction every clock cycle.
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Most complications are due to incompentent doctors or technicians. And the serious complications are entirely due to incompentence. The procedure itself is actually quite safe if everybody does thier job properly.
You have to do your reseach on the doctor and the clinic and find those with the best credentials and experience. Despite what google seems to say, the large majority of people have no complications and rave about it.
radio is too slow, what is it that the sun produces that travels way faster than light and goes through everything? if anyone is out there, thats what they are using...what ever happened with that experimental thing they buried 1/2 mile underground filled with water to catch those things the sun produces? my prediction? we will learn how to use that and will be connected to countless civs' (if they out there)
I think you're talking about neutrinos but they don't travel faster then the speed of light. They just travel very close to it. The only other thing we use underground detectors for (that I know of) is gravitational waves but they're still theoretical; we haven't seen any yet. But they don't travel faster then the speed of light either.
As far as I know, the only thing that can travel faster then light is information between quantum entangled particles. But we can't use that for SETI because you need to establish a communiation channel before trasmitting anything.
Most quadrupedal animals have at least three natural gaits.
In the genreal case they are:
Walk: Moving diagonally opposite legs at the same time
Trot: Moving the left legs together then the right (or vice versa)
Run: Moving the back legs together then the front (or vice-versa)
Now, some animals will have only a subset of those, and for some, the names (Walk, Trot, Run) might not be accurate. Also some will have additional gaits based on whether not they leave the ground in between strides. I'm sure there are many special cases but this is just in general.
I don't know anything about this special Wolf gait you mention, although I certainly belive you. It sounds interesting. Do you know which of those three types it is?
By 'correlation' you can only be talking about the mathematical representaion of a black hole. You only have to know that if you want to understand the sentence. I'm not talking about understanding what the sentence means. I don't understand it either.
What I'm saying is that there was no "jump" from math to black holes. You don't have to know what the correlation is to realize that. Anyone who is simply aware that the correlation exists between the math and the physical, shouldn't be suprised when people use them in the same sentence.
OK.. he goes from a math equation to black holes? I don't see the jump.
You're joking right? Everything in physics is math. All the phenomena they talk about: space-time, black holes, worm holes, cosmic strings, dark matter/energy etc, even the big bang, are all equations or other mathematical constructs. Physicts is about building models of reality. Math is the modeling language.
You don't think Hawking just sits around and comes up with this stuff off the top of his head right? What he did was develop a mathematical model of a black hole that is consistant with the mathematical model of quantum mechanics (at least with regard to information conservation).
I'm sure he's not that clueless. All you did was restate the last sentence of the paragraph with a slightly different wording. Obviously it was the first three sentences that were confusing. If you want to sound impressive then explain those.
I disagree. I play UT2004 when I get pissed, and unloading a round of flak into a corpse and watching it bounce around makes me laugh. Watching Mario fall into a hole doesn't. So I think the violence does let me release a little bit of anger. It's fun, anyway.
That doesn't actually disagree with what I said. You're just defining what you find entertaining. Though maybe you're suggesting that Americans in general find violence more entertaining than other things. I guess I don't have a basis to diagree, but if that's true then it would be very sad.
Oh please. That is standard /. nonsense.
The amount of violence in a video game has absolutly nothing to do with the level of stress relief it provides. Anything that provides entertainment and makes you forget about the source of your stress works to a degree. The best thing for stress is physical activity. Kids who are stressed a lot should play more sports in a friendly not-to-competitve environment.
Suggesting that people would for some reason become violent in real life because they couldn't act out thier aggressions in a game is stupid. People have violent tendencies for reasons that no video game can fix.
Fancy that, Americans care more about reality than appearances.
Umm.. He didn't mean that Americans don't know how to create propaganda. He meant that Americans don't know how to identify propaganda.
My point is that they didn't know the system and ignorance causes problems. They could have edited a config file that was perilously set-up by the admin, breaking the entire system. I can't give exact "if A then B" examples for the same reason: I don't know the system. And because I don't know the system I'm not going to go poking around in it.
So basically you have no idea. First you assume they are ignorant, then you assume that they are in a position where that 'ignorance' might 'cause problems'. Well, yeah, any argument works if you invent the supporting evidence.
Whether they caused damage intentionally via an attack or unintentionally via a mistake while in the network, the results are still the same. The argument stands.
No it doesn't. All you did was restate your position. You haven't explaind how they could 'inadvertantly cause damage', or what 'unintentional mistake' they could have made.
the ins and outs of every inch of the network?? If that's your best argument then I suspect you have no idea what you're talking about.
I think you could say that these two acted with a disregard for the liberty of others in their pursuit. If they had seriously caused damaged, it would've affected thousands of other people, not just themselves. I don't think that kind of disregard can be justified as investigative journalism.
But they didn't cause any damage. So how can you argue that there was a "disregard for liberty"? You seem to imply that they could have accidently done some damage. That's absurd and shows a complete lack of technical understanding of the issue.
The most likely thing to actually catch one is the proposed space based interferometer: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/grav ity_waves_000727.html
I've read about this before. How the hell do they plan on keeping that system calibrated?
The three [spacecraft] are designed to detect gravity waves by measuring subtle changes in the spacecrafts' position. Aboard are instruments sensitive enough to notice positional changes as small as one-fiftieth the width of a human hair.
Sounds near impossible to me. Anyone know more about this?
How do you figure they were misled? Did you even read the emails? As Somerville noted in his email, the information that people submitted to his website was simply passed directly to Odeon's website. So if submitters thought their data was going to Odeon's site, they were correct. I don't see how they were misled.
Because they thought they were interacting directly with the Odeon site but they weren't. It doesn't matter if he just transparently passes the data, he's still misrepresenting his site.
The problem is that Odeon has no control over what he does. If there is a problem with his site or he screws up the customer's data, then they will think it was Odeon's fault. Even if his intentions are good, and everything seems to work find right now, it is still a dangerous liability for the company. Absolutly they have to shut him down. Or force him to make it absolutly clear to his visitors that his site is not affiliated with Odeon.
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LOL! You just made my day. Thanks.
This is so commonplace that tools exist to deal with the multiple layers of formatting. I suggest getting a copy of VCDGear (search google). It can convert RAR'd BIN/CUE's directly into MPG files for viewing. One step, instead of two or three.
Mplayer can actually play bin/cue files directly btw.
Besides being part of a future Knoppix release, what is NX?
/.ed, NX is basically a system (client/server) for efficiently commpressing X-Window data. Personaly, I can't wait to try it; X over a busy internet connection is painful, often barely usable (in my experience anyway).
From what I gathered from the link before it was
The problem is that the products only "claim" to work. I've seen the "articles" and read all about them, I work in a GNC. It's all bullshit for now, you can't genetically modify yourself with a pill.
Well you wouldn't have to do that. Myostatin is just a protien. A myostatin-blocker would be a drug (antibody) that attacked it. You're right, none of the current products actually work, but there is no reason that we can't eventually develop ones that do. The linked articles mention some drug companies that have been (and are) researching it.
Short of hacking the bank yourself, posting that information on /. was probably the worst possible thing you could have done with it.
"unaccented speach" is really just "the way people talk where I grew up".
He wasn't referring to 'unaccented speech'. He was referring to a neutral accent. Even if you want to call the difference semantics, you'd still be running with your blinders on if you think it doesn't exist.
The neutral accent is defined entirely by the media. It is 'neutral' because that is what Americans are used to hearing on TV. The news stations never use anything but neutral accent (except maybe a really local station), and the only time TV and film uses a non-neutral accent is if it is specifically called for as part of the character's personality. In fact, a neutral accent is required by film and TV so that they can exploit non-neutral accents as character devices. Actors that have a non-neutral accent almost always end up typecast into roles that specifically require that accent. Julia Roberts actually grew up with a really heavy southern drawl. She had to work hard with a tutor to get rid of it or it would have crippled her career.
It's also important for politicians. They are best served by using an accent that is neutral for thier voters. The Governer of Texas might be able to speak with a southern accent (though I don't know if he does), but Bush can't. He needs to give the impression of representing the entire country, which means he has to use the neutral accent.
The purpose of XNA is to make it easier for people to create games on Microsoft platforms. MS then make money on the OS or, in the case of consoles, from the sale of the game itself
No, no, no. The purpose XNA is to be the console OS.
The idea is that you have tons of hardware manufacturers making XNA compatible consoles, and you have tons of game companies making XNA compatible games (without caring about the hardware). Then Microsoft controls, and gets royalties from, the software in the middle.
Basically it's exactly the same as the way PC's work now. They want to reshape the console market so that it works the same as the PC market, where they control the OS.
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in other words, what evidence supports that this thing is going to expand at an accelerating rate forever? seems like gravity is going to get a little upset about that eventually.
Which is exacly why scientists have postulated the existance of dark energy. You see, you're correct, the effect of gravity does suggest that the universe's expansion should be decelerating. But it's not. All of our observations say that it's accelerating. Most cosmologists would say that's it's pretty much a confirmed fact at this point. The cause of this acceleration is unknown. They're postulaing the existance of this 'dark enery' which exerts some sort of repulsive force.
Enistien actually came up with the idea first, but for a completely different reason. He didn't call it dark enegry though (I don't think), it was just a variable that he added to his equations to force the overall 'shape' of the universe's space-time to be flat. He later took it out because he thought it was stupid; it was much more logical to assume the universe wasn't flat, in which case it wasn't needed. However modern day measurements of the Cosmic Background Radiation have given very strong evidence that the universe is actually flat. So now they've put the variable back into his equations, and they're working on trying to prove it's existence.
The key point that you're missing is that MSM.com's behaviour is designed to make the user think that Opera has serious bugs. There is certianly no justification for that.
Your analogy only works if MSN were to completely and visibly block Opera; which they actually tried with every non-IE browser a few years ago. That didn't work out for them.
A 200-stage pipeline will only realize a performance gain on instructions that take 200 cycles to execute. The bulk of instructions that a CPU executes tend to end up being pushing words around. Even on a bloated Pentium, that does not take 200 cycles.
That makes no sense. You're obviously not a chip designer. The number of cycles needed to execute an instruction is defined based on the number of stages in the pipeline that implements that instruction. When designing a pipeline you consider the overall exceution time of the instruction in nanoseconds.
e.g. Lets say you have an instruction (or some other task) that takes 2ns to execute. You want to clock your system at 1GHz; that's 1ns per cycle. So you build a two stage pipeline for that instruction. Now that pipeline will be able to pump out results for that instruction every clock cycle.