Oh sure, if newborn blood were used to build anything else it wouldn't be an issue. But throw in a secret government database and suddenly the hippies are up in arms.
The real purpose of this is to cut education costs by only providing 10 years of free public education, instead of 12. Schools can dump all the expensive advanced placement courses. This also helps keep poor kids from moving up in society, by diverting them off to some low-end community college, instead of bringing them to the point where they can compete for entrance to a good school.
Rich kids in private schools will have an even bigger edge than they have now.
The next step will be to divert the kids who don't make the cut into "work experience" programs, i.e. McDonalds.
What's stopping a kid who goes to community college 2 years early from transferring to a public university? I would think that would get them a lot of credit toward their acceptance.
Sorry to be blunt, but I don't visit Slashdot to get redirected to some shitty ad-plastered website with half-assed copy/pasted information.
Was it really so hard for the submitter to give this a proper non-misleading title, and a link to the actual ESA press release?
Is there a way to get kdawson fired? He seems to pull this shit a lot.
I'm going to guess it's because the linked article had that nice photo to look at. You know, the extreme close up photo that was the whole point of the article submission. Not that official information like the link you suggested isn't nice.
NAO comes with a 500MHz CPU, although an improved head with double the computing power is expected before the end of the year.
At least they are smart enough to put the CPU in the head. This makes the robot easier to disable once it starts using its new-found social skills to ask about the location of Sarah Connor.
Yes, words that have specific meanings that actually go together to form coherent thoughts tend to do that to people who can't understand relatively complex concepts.
Assuming this is BadAnalogyGuy, I usually appreciate your posts and, in fact, have you marked as a friend. However, you do yourself a disservice with this choice of wording. You even go on to deprecate it as appearing like market-speak yourself. I was just poking some fun at it.
Seriously, "orthogonality of conceptualization" is a fluff phrase of the highest caliber. If it were used satirically it would be comedy gold.
The Missile Defense Agency article does sound much more impressive. I am surprised to find that the Reuters rehash of the press release was so sloppy. I'd really like to see an independent journalist's description of the events though.
That would be hard to find. There really isn't such a thing as an independent journalist where military testing is concerned. They're not just going to let any publication send a reporter.
Finally, the ALTB fired its megawatt-class High Energy Laser, heating the boosting ballistic missile to critical structural failure...
Less than one hour later, a second solid fuel short-range missile was launched from a ground location on San Nicolas Island, Calif. and the ALTB successfully engaged the boosting target with its High Energy Laser, met all its test criteria, and terminated lasing prior to destroying the second target. The ALTB destroyed a solid fuel missile, identical to the second target, in flight on February 3, 2010.
Summary: the ALTB engaged and destroyed a liquid fueled target and then engaged, but did not destroy, a solid fueled target. The megawatt class laser was fired in both cases.
Actually this problem actually happened to me, I updated my HP notebook from Vista to windows 7 and within a week it told me my battery was useless, to be honest it never occurred to me that it could be a problem with the OS, specially since days later the video card melted, so the battery problem didn't seem that important compared to the dead video card:(, still saving to fix that laptop, i really liked it
For the domestic market they can use the marketing angle that aluminium is safer than mercury, and that it will case less pollution when you come to trade it in.
In fact, I think I'll order one now.
Everyone knows that aluminum is an intermediate material in terms of durability and weight reduction. Wake me up when it is replaced with carbon fiber.
Did the submitter or editors read the story? At the end they plainly state that even though the second "shooter" reacted faster, they could not make up the difference in time.
Actually, James Cameron's brother, Mike (an aeronautical engineer and stuntman) has invented a number of special film cameras. They are mostly for underwater filming: IMDB link. So I wouldn't be surprised if James and Mike actually invented new camera technology themselves for Avatar as has been reported.
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You were sitting in the wrong seat. Sit near the back for Imax movies and you won't have to move your head around.
I'd rather see the words: "Please insert nose to verify identity." than "Processing colonic map." on the ATM of the future.
You're gonna die from a hearth attack or a stroke. Possibly cancer.
Stress does that to ya.
You're right. If someone attacked me with a hearth, any guns I might have would be useless.
It's like, how much more black could it be? And the answer is none. None more black.
Oh sure, if newborn blood were used to build anything else it wouldn't be an issue. But throw in a secret government database and suddenly the hippies are up in arms.
Arg. I meant private university.
The real purpose of this is to cut education costs by only providing 10 years of free public education, instead of 12. Schools can dump all the expensive advanced placement courses. This also helps keep poor kids from moving up in society, by diverting them off to some low-end community college, instead of bringing them to the point where they can compete for entrance to a good school. Rich kids in private schools will have an even bigger edge than they have now.
The next step will be to divert the kids who don't make the cut into "work experience" programs, i.e. McDonalds.
What's stopping a kid who goes to community college 2 years early from transferring to a public university? I would think that would get them a lot of credit toward their acceptance.
put a hydrogen-atom-splitter on the bow of the ship, they'll just get cut in half and fall out of the way.
You don't have to split them. Think Space Cow-Catcher. (Space-Cow Catcher?)
Sorry to be blunt, but I don't visit Slashdot to get redirected to some shitty ad-plastered website with half-assed copy/pasted information. Was it really so hard for the submitter to give this a proper non-misleading title, and a link to the actual ESA press release? Is there a way to get kdawson fired? He seems to pull this shit a lot.
I'm going to guess it's because the linked article had that nice photo to look at. You know, the extreme close up photo that was the whole point of the article submission. Not that official information like the link you suggested isn't nice.
From TFA:
NAO comes with a 500MHz CPU, although an improved head with double the computing power is expected before the end of the year.
At least they are smart enough to put the CPU in the head. This makes the robot easier to disable once it starts using its new-found social skills to ask about the location of Sarah Connor.
Yes, words that have specific meanings that actually go together to form coherent thoughts tend to do that to people who can't understand relatively complex concepts.
Assuming this is BadAnalogyGuy, I usually appreciate your posts and, in fact, have you marked as a friend. However, you do yourself a disservice with this choice of wording. You even go on to deprecate it as appearing like market-speak yourself. I was just poking some fun at it.
Seriously, "orthogonality of conceptualization" is a fluff phrase of the highest caliber. If it were used satirically it would be comedy gold.
at a fundamental level there is a symmetry and orthogonality of conceptualization that leads to a seamless user experience.
The words! They burn my brain like acid!
The only way it would be able to happen is with a (possibly multiple) decade long "dual usage"
Finally I can market my line of centiyard rulers and kilofoot odometers!
The Missile Defense Agency article does sound much more impressive. I am surprised to find that the Reuters rehash of the press release was so sloppy. I'd really like to see an independent journalist's description of the events though.
That would be hard to find. There really isn't such a thing as an independent journalist where military testing is concerned. They're not just going to let any publication send a reporter.
Nothing was destroyed or shot down and the laser weapon was not fired.
This article says that you are wrong.
Finally, the ALTB fired its megawatt-class High Energy Laser, heating the boosting ballistic missile to critical structural failure...
Less than one hour later, a second solid fuel short-range missile was launched from a ground location on San Nicolas Island, Calif. and the ALTB successfully engaged the boosting target with its High Energy Laser, met all its test criteria, and terminated lasing prior to destroying the second target. The ALTB destroyed a solid fuel missile, identical to the second target, in flight on February 3, 2010.
Summary: the ALTB engaged and destroyed a liquid fueled target and then engaged, but did not destroy, a solid fueled target. The megawatt class laser was fired in both cases.
Actually this problem actually happened to me, I updated my HP notebook from Vista to windows 7 and within a week it told me my battery was useless, to be honest it never occurred to me that it could be a problem with the OS, specially since days later the video card melted, so the battery problem didn't seem that important compared to the dead video card :(, still saving to fix that laptop, i really liked it
Sounds like a great machine.
For the domestic market they can use the marketing angle that aluminium is safer than mercury, and that it will case less pollution when you come to trade it in.
In fact, I think I'll order one now.
Everyone knows that aluminum is an intermediate material in terms of durability and weight reduction. Wake me up when it is replaced with carbon fiber.
Did the submitter or editors read the story? At the end they plainly state that even though the second "shooter" reacted faster, they could not make up the difference in time.
THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING
YOU ARE NOW BREATHING MANUALLY
Oh no! Now what do I do? How do I know that once I stop thinking about breathing that it will continue? Oh, cruel Fate! Must not get distracted...
It is great fun to eat steak tartare or carpaccio with americans or english people at the table.
George Washington invented fire for a reason.
Why aren't they using an array of neural-network-controlled, articulated metal arms to control the fusion chamber?
If Creationist walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, let us just call him a duck and be done with it.
Man evolved into duck. QED.
Expect the addition of Vitamin D to popular gamer energy drinks.
Elitist much?
Actually, James Cameron's brother, Mike (an aeronautical engineer and stuntman) has invented a number of special film cameras. They are mostly for underwater filming: IMDB link. So I wouldn't be surprised if James and Mike actually invented new camera technology themselves for Avatar as has been reported.