It almost makes me think that all the Anti-Stem cell research rallying
You may not realize it, but what you refer to as "anti-stem cell research" is not actually anti-stem cell. It is focused against the use of embryonic stem cells because it is unethical to kill the children they come from. In fact, if you look at the guidlines from the Catholic Church, you will find that there are ethically acceptable sources of stem cells:
Adult stem cells extracted from donors
Stem cells from umbilical cord blood (which I believe contains embryonic stem cells>
Embryonic stem cells from miscarriages (rejected by the research community because they don't want to have to figure out why the miscarriage happened.)
"is that people don't consider $15 a good deal for an hours worth of music."
The truth is, most people don't spend an hour actually listening to an album. They put it on and do other things. It is background a lot of time. Now if I played that album 1 time for $15, I would have to compare that entertainment value to other forms of entertainment. I can go see a first run movie for just under $10 (SF Bay Area), so I get 15 minutes of mini-movies plus a feature length (90+ minutes) of entertainment at a price of $5/hour (figure about 2 hours of time for $10.)
Of course that analogy is wrong because you can't play that movie over and over again unless you buy it for home use.
Secondly, the argument "you've just gotten a great album you're going to be listening to for the rest of your life." is also not valid. Most albums I buy, I listen to 4-5 songs from for awhile, then they drift off, replaced by new songs. And who knows how long I will be able to play those songs from CD. At some point CDs will go the way of 8-track tapes.
Insert obligatory comment about the RIAA being a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first with their backs against the wall when the revolution comes...
The Mac has a large selection of "voices" available by default. 5 female, 4 male, and 14 "Novelty". This was one of the novelty voices called "Whisper".
And has been mentioned before, Leopard is supposed to improve on the high quality voices.
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He said "back then". Some of us are old enough to remember when MTV showed music videos, Junior.
The reason I carry one is because if I want access to my money via an ATM, I have to use a Mastercard labeled debit/check card, issued by my bank. Most banks have gone to this model. So unless I want to carry a lot of cash with me (because my bank isn't open 24/7) I don't have a choice.
You may however be able to predict general paterns over a significant period of time.
OK, here it goes:
Rain followed by Sun
Cooling trends with possible snow in the upper elevations
Warming weather after winter followed by hot summer weather
Godzilla attack
Occasional typhoon
Small chance of a tsunami followed by death and destruction
So either I'm a supercomputer, or this is easier than we thought...
OK, I have to bite on this: In fact, I think it's the only way to explain how many security bugs are in Windows.
I think you perhaps need to take some lessons in critical thinking. This is the equivelent of saying, "The only reason auto-manufactuers put problems into cars so they have to recall them is because the government makes them, which is why Japanese cars are better than American cars."
Large monolithioc systems are inherently more complex that smaller componant built systems. (Although those have problems too along the boundary interfaces.) Auto-makers put lots of time and money into making a car that A) doesn't fall apart and B) doesn't require a multi-billion dollar recall effort. Microsoft puts lots of time and money into trying to make their software more secure.
On the whole, I'd say the auto companies do a better job.:-) Thowing money at a problem very rarely solves the problem. The need to have an understanding of the problem, and how to fix the underlying problem is vital. I think that is where Microsoft fails. The systems they have in place (from what I hear) are more frustrating to the engineers than helpful.
I also have problems believing MS engineers are really motivated these days. Many of Microsoft's security issues have stemmed from their own code interactions which they implemented as deliberate features. Many more have been from sloppy programming (such as buffer overruns).
Trying to blame MS security issues on government mandated back doors smacks of plain political diatribe with a nice glossy veneer of ignorance on the top to give it a nice sheen.
GPS doesn't work everywhere. You have to have a visual line of site to the sky and 3 satelites in line of site. But a compass works indoors, in caves, and everyplace where you aren't sitting on a large magnet.
So was Isaac Asimov. Yet he seemed to know a bit about science. Just to reduce your ignorance a bit, Michael Crichton is/was also an M.D. graduating from Harvard Medical School.
Actually, it was the feeble minded press that started calling it "Star Wars". They had to have something they could belittle the project for so they tied it in to a well known movie title.
Now don't get me started on the press and their inability to actually report factually correct information... But think of each instance of something you heard on the news (or read in a paper) that you have actual independent knowledge of. How many errors did you notice. Now realize that every single article you read or hear has that level of competence.:-(
I put pretty much anything I hear in the press as on the same level as what I read on Weekly World News. Simple examples you say?
1) Gangs roaming the Superdome killing and raping after hurricane Katrina. A false rumor reported as fact for weeks. 2) U.S. ports to be run under UAE control. (It wasn't ports it was shipping terminals which are quite different.)
America is a fascist state, and has been for some time now. It probably started around Clinton's time,
LOL. Man you sound just like the idiots I went to college with back in the early 1980's. And they were just echos of the idiots from the 1970's. And those were just the final burnt out dregs of the idiots from the 1960's...
I remember the chants of "U.S. out of Vietnam!", and "U.S. out of Central America!", and "U.S. out of Korea!", and "U.S. out of South Africa!", and "U.S. out of America!", and "U.S. out of West Germany!". And every one of those protests included the cries and signs that Amerika was a facist state.
If you read through the whole thing (lengthy) it looks like it was accidentally started on top of an abandoned strip mine. Some coal seam was still on the surface and it was ignited.
This is also a cautionary tale about being penny wise and pound foolish. If they had spent a little extra money years ago, it would have been taken care of (probably.)
"Workers have taken care of themselves for millennia. The managers just make the workers work more efficiently, reaping big profits for themselves and their superiors."
I don't know what you have been smoking, but please, lay off of it for your own good. Now try to follow along with this:
Project: Build an automobile that you can drive from New York City to Miami, Florida.
Assets: 10,000 workers.
Begin. Let me know whe you are done.
Workers generally are able to make one or two types of things with any skill. (Think about woodworking or blacksmithing. The same few types of things are made over and over by the same people.) To create a more complex item usually requires a several disparate skill sets. Getting these to come together (especially if you use more than, say 3 or 4 people) requires some form of leadership (e.g. a manager.)
As another example, try to build a computer. From scratch. Start with mining the metals you need to build the wiring. You will probably want to start with aluminum. Oh, and go build a smelter for that too.
Workers are all find and good. Every project needs workers. But the people who organize (and manage) above the low-level worker are vital to producing anything also.
Since you gave the house example, good luck making the wiring for your house. Or rolling the pipes for your plumbing. If you want to live in a house that is even 4000 year old technology, you better learn how to quary stone and shape it.
I assume you don't want to go buy any of this stuff because that would contribute to the monopoly of the rich.
Actually the center of gravity for the elevator has to be position in geo-synchronous orbit. Once it is stable, the cable (part of the mass for the entire COG) then will be stationary over a fixed eqatorial point. The COG can be maintained by having a cable running out the other size with equal mass, or by hooking something large closer to the obital COG.
The cable is essentially in orbit at once spot all the time.
YT would be played by Angelina Jolie of course. She and Hiro (a six foot tall, blonde demi-god) would have a fling after which she would ditch him. Later she would return and save his ass in the nick of time and they would be an item again.
Excuse me while I go have a nice cleansing shock treatment...
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Of course that analogy is wrong because you can't play that movie over and over again unless you buy it for home use.
Secondly, the argument "you've just gotten a great album you're going to be listening to for the rest of your life." is also not valid. Most albums I buy, I listen to 4-5 songs from for awhile, then they drift off, replaced by new songs. And who knows how long I will be able to play those songs from CD. At some point CDs will go the way of 8-track tapes.
Insert obligatory comment about the RIAA being a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first with their backs against the wall when the revolution comes...
And has been mentioned before, Leopard is supposed to improve on the high quality voices.
He said "back then". Some of us are old enough to remember when MTV showed music videos, Junior.
The reason I carry one is because if I want access to my money via an ATM, I have to use a Mastercard labeled debit/check card, issued by my bank. Most banks have gone to this model. So unless I want to carry a lot of cash with me (because my bank isn't open 24/7) I don't have a choice.
No good. I've known too many Spaniards.
This is just a 3 screen variation.
A pointed stick? Luxury. We only had to make do with our pseudopods. And those only made little squishing sounds...
The patent sharing agreement was 5 years in duration. It expired several years ago.
OK, here it goes:
Rain followed by Sun
Cooling trends with possible snow in the upper elevations
Warming weather after winter followed by hot summer weather
Godzilla attack
Occasional typhoon
Small chance of a tsunami followed by death and destruction
So either I'm a supercomputer, or this is easier than we thought...
In fact, I think it's the only way to explain how many security bugs are in Windows.
I think you perhaps need to take some lessons in critical thinking. This is the equivelent of saying, "The only reason auto-manufactuers put problems into cars so they have to recall them is because the government makes them, which is why Japanese cars are better than American cars."
Large monolithioc systems are inherently more complex that smaller componant built systems. (Although those have problems too along the boundary interfaces.) Auto-makers put lots of time and money into making a car that A) doesn't fall apart and B) doesn't require a multi-billion dollar recall effort. Microsoft puts lots of time and money into trying to make their software more secure.
On the whole, I'd say the auto companies do a better job. :-) Thowing money at a problem very rarely solves the problem. The need to have an understanding of the problem, and how to fix the underlying problem is vital. I think that is where Microsoft fails. The systems they have in place (from what I hear) are more frustrating to the engineers than helpful.
I also have problems believing MS engineers are really motivated these days. Many of Microsoft's security issues have stemmed from their own code interactions which they implemented as deliberate features. Many more have been from sloppy programming (such as buffer overruns).
Trying to blame MS security issues on government mandated back doors smacks of plain political diatribe with a nice glossy veneer of ignorance on the top to give it a nice sheen.
GPS doesn't work everywhere. You have to have a visual line of site to the sky and 3 satelites in line of site. But a compass works indoors, in caves, and everyplace where you aren't sitting on a large magnet.
You haven't worked with some of the same people I have. I have to question both your fact and your theory now. ;-)
So was Isaac Asimov. Yet he seemed to know a bit about science. Just to reduce your ignorance a bit, Michael Crichton is/was also an M.D. graduating from Harvard Medical School.
Now don't get me started on the press and their inability to actually report factually correct information... But think of each instance of something you heard on the news (or read in a paper) that you have actual independent knowledge of. How many errors did you notice. Now realize that every single article you read or hear has that level of competence. :-(
(Thanks to Douglas Adams for that...)
But Lego isn't English, it's Danish!
1) Gangs roaming the Superdome killing and raping after hurricane Katrina. A false rumor reported as fact for weeks.
2) U.S. ports to be run under UAE control. (It wasn't ports it was shipping terminals which are quite different.)
LOL. Man you sound just like the idiots I went to college with back in the early 1980's. And they were just echos of the idiots from the 1970's. And those were just the final burnt out dregs of the idiots from the 1960's...
I remember the chants of "U.S. out of Vietnam!", and "U.S. out of Central America!", and "U.S. out of Korea!", and "U.S. out of South Africa!", and "U.S. out of America!", and "U.S. out of West Germany!". And every one of those protests included the cries and signs that Amerika was a facist state.
This is also a cautionary tale about being penny wise and pound foolish. If they had spent a little extra money years ago, it would have been taken care of (probably.)
Well Centralia, PA pops to mind when you ask that question. Although there are no dead there. But a 40 year fire is pretty bad.
I don't know what you have been smoking, but please, lay off of it for your own good. Now try to follow along with this:
Project: Build an automobile that you can drive from New York City to Miami, Florida.
Assets: 10,000 workers.
Begin. Let me know whe you are done.
Workers generally are able to make one or two types of things with any skill. (Think about woodworking or blacksmithing. The same few types of things are made over and over by the same people.) To create a more complex item usually requires a several disparate skill sets. Getting these to come together (especially if you use more than, say 3 or 4 people) requires some form of leadership (e.g. a manager.)
As another example, try to build a computer. From scratch. Start with mining the metals you need to build the wiring. You will probably want to start with aluminum. Oh, and go build a smelter for that too.
Workers are all find and good. Every project needs workers. But the people who organize (and manage) above the low-level worker are vital to producing anything also.
Since you gave the house example, good luck making the wiring for your house. Or rolling the pipes for your plumbing. If you want to live in a house that is even 4000 year old technology, you better learn how to quary stone and shape it.
I assume you don't want to go buy any of this stuff because that would contribute to the monopoly of the rich.
http://www.isr.us/video/SE-INTRO_Final-1stream-38
Kind of fluffy but a little interesting graphic.
Actually the center of gravity for the elevator has to be position in geo-synchronous orbit. Once it is stable, the cable (part of the mass for the entire COG) then will be stationary over a fixed eqatorial point. The COG can be maintained by having a cable running out the other size with equal mass, or by hooking something large closer to the obital COG.
The cable is essentially in orbit at once spot all the time.
YT would be played by Angelina Jolie of course. She and Hiro (a six foot tall, blonde demi-god) would have a fling after which she would ditch him. Later she would return and save his ass in the nick of time and they would be an item again.
Excuse me while I go have a nice cleansing shock treatment...