Personally, if they have found an interesting story to tell in the years between Hobbit and LotR, then I'm eager to hear it. If it is well worked into Tolkiens world, I'll be happy; if not, not.
I can answer that question: blood would have been spilt outside my office door.
There's folks involved in both these missions with offices on my corridor:)
"computing is no longer taught in schools (parents look quizzical), they are simply 'trained' (parents look like they vaguely get it). if this was sex instead of computing that was taught in schools, would you prefer that your kids have sex _education_ or sex _training_? (parents finally get it)".
Children should not perform chemistry experiments in school ('training'), they should be taught what the theory predicts the results of those experiments should be ('education'). It's a catchy analogy, but it falls down right there.
Kids need both kinds of computer experience. Some will grow up to write programs and some will tab through fields in data entry systems.
So, a script that changes the content for a video of Obama looking around the room for a few seconds at a random time every few days and then restores the original content. That would probably send some paranoid folks nucular.
This is an opportunity, not a problem.
Pack the lights with a nice long half-life radioisotope that we want to dispose of and let them melt their own snow. That way we still get all of the green benefits of LED over incandescent.
Your statement that 'there exists no solution for radioactive waste' is incorrect as we have solutions for the disposal of the waste that we currently generate.
You confuse radiation with toxicity, showing that you know little about the actual subject.
We are capable of creating nuclear powerstations that produce a fraction of the waste of current powerstations and in a more manageable form.
They will just ensure that the word laser doesn't appear anywhere. These will be 'display goggles with photon-stream (TM) technology'. See the change of NMR into MRI.
The BBC is a really weird organisation. It's a state-run TV channel, which usually we assume means "propaganda mouthpiece". The BBC is set up in a peculiar way whereby the state collects the money for them but the government is not allowed (in theory) control over the BBC itself. The BBC's charter has various requirements to show balance in political reporting and the government is denied direct mechanisms to interfere in editorial decisions.
It wasn't until I read it put in these terms that I realised that this is really a model that we should be looking at for providing education and medicine in this country. It would stop political interference and ensure that decisions on curriculum etc. were made by experts in the fields rather than as the latest government knee-jerk reaction.
You, sir, are a flipping comic genius and came close to wrecking two laptops due to my wife and I snorting our respective beverages. I have 10 year-old Laphroaig in my sinuses.
This is thought to be the same mechanism that allowed short-sighted humans to survive - the males were left back at camp with the women when the hunters went out:)
Equally, it is a pity that some poorly written papers and a huge amount of media hype has lead to people putting Science in quotation marks when talking about climate change.
There was certainly caution involved as he brought his head back towards the table to investigate.
Something I read somewhere : "In our haste to child-proof the world, we seem to have forgotten the arguably more important task of world-proofing the child."
When the ball goes under the coffee table, and the kid goes under to get it - you know exactly what is going to happen next. The kid is going to stand up, full speed, and bang the hell out of his head on the underside of the table.
I spotted my 2-yr old do this the other day, hard but not so hard as to provoke screaming. He spent the next minute carefully proving that it was hitting his head on the table that had caused the pain, and then hitting it again a couple of times very gently and then a bit harder to see when it hurt. I was astounded at the level of reasoning going on as he worked out what had happened to his head and how it had been caused.
I recall one study that noted a statistically significant increase in the miscarriage rate of female physiotherapists that used ultrasound on their patients while they were pregnant. From that study alone, it seems that there is a case for a study on the effects of routine ultrasound scans for pregnant women, but the ethics of such a study when such screening is so effective in detecting other problems are questionable.
It was that study that made me decide against getting one of those 4d movie ultrasounds done of my son - no medical benefit and a possible risk.
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Personally, if they have found an interesting story to tell in the years between Hobbit and LotR, then I'm eager to hear it. If it is well worked into Tolkiens world, I'll be happy; if not, not.
I can answer that question: blood would have been spilt outside my office door. There's folks involved in both these missions with offices on my corridor :)
"computing is no longer taught in schools (parents look quizzical), they are simply 'trained' (parents look like they vaguely get it). if this was sex instead of computing that was taught in schools, would you prefer that your kids have sex _education_ or sex _training_? (parents finally get it)".
Children should not perform chemistry experiments in school ('training'), they should be taught what the theory predicts the results of those experiments should be ('education'). It's a catchy analogy, but it falls down right there.
Kids need both kinds of computer experience. Some will grow up to write programs and some will tab through fields in data entry systems.
For oral cancers sake, get checked at least once per year. At that rate, they are usually treatable.
I now have a PhD in math, in part due to this game (and subsequent RPGs that I played).
PhD Maths? Hmm, let me think. Rolemaster by any chance? :)
So, a script that changes the content for a video of Obama looking around the room for a few seconds at a random time every few days and then restores the original content. That would probably send some paranoid folks nucular.
This is an opportunity, not a problem. Pack the lights with a nice long half-life radioisotope that we want to dispose of and let them melt their own snow. That way we still get all of the green benefits of LED over incandescent.
Your statement that 'there exists no solution for radioactive waste' is incorrect as we have solutions for the disposal of the waste that we currently generate. You confuse radiation with toxicity, showing that you know little about the actual subject.
We are capable of creating nuclear powerstations that produce a fraction of the waste of current powerstations and in a more manageable form.
Stop scare-mongering.
One must-see for a geek trip to London has to be the Science Museum http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum.aspx
They will just ensure that the word laser doesn't appear anywhere. These will be 'display goggles with photon-stream (TM) technology'. See the change of NMR into MRI.
The BBC is a really weird organisation. It's a state-run TV channel, which usually we assume means "propaganda mouthpiece". The BBC is set up in a peculiar way whereby the state collects the money for them but the government is not allowed (in theory) control over the BBC itself. The BBC's charter has various requirements to show balance in political reporting and the government is denied direct mechanisms to interfere in editorial decisions.
It wasn't until I read it put in these terms that I realised that this is really a model that we should be looking at for providing education and medicine in this country. It would stop political interference and ensure that decisions on curriculum etc. were made by experts in the fields rather than as the latest government knee-jerk reaction.
"Man, that is flagrant false advertising!" :)
I was once warned that dish soap damaged some of the coatings applied to the lenses - not sure how accurate that was or how relevant it is today.
Sharing the shower doesn't help since we tend to run it longer when we do.
You just couldn't resist slipping that in there, could you?
Also Old Sodbury and Slack Bottom.
You, sir, are a flipping comic genius and came close to wrecking two laptops due to my wife and I snorting our respective beverages. I have 10 year-old Laphroaig in my sinuses.
This is thought to be the same mechanism that allowed short-sighted humans to survive - the males were left back at camp with the women when the hunters went out :)
Equally, it is a pity that some poorly written papers and a huge amount of media hype has lead to people putting Science in quotation marks when talking about climate change.
my lease forbids livestock and the downstairs neighbors frown upon blood dripping through the ceiling
Sacrificing the neighbours would avoid both problems. I'm just sayin'...
Something I read somewhere : "In our haste to child-proof the world, we seem to have forgotten the arguably more important task of world-proofing the child."
When the ball goes under the coffee table, and the kid goes under to get it - you know exactly what is going to happen next. The kid is going to stand up, full speed, and bang the hell out of his head on the underside of the table.
I spotted my 2-yr old do this the other day, hard but not so hard as to provoke screaming. He spent the next minute carefully proving that it was hitting his head on the table that had caused the pain, and then hitting it again a couple of times very gently and then a bit harder to see when it hurt. I was astounded at the level of reasoning going on as he worked out what had happened to his head and how it had been caused.
You can downgrade the MacPro from the standard 2x4 core setup to 1x4 core - this saves you the best part of £1k in the UK.
It was that study that made me decide against getting one of those 4d movie ultrasounds done of my son - no medical benefit and a possible risk.
Visions of Ballmer frothing at the mouth doing a rabies dance... shudder
Nicely spotted. For those going 'huh?': HRH is never used by the monarch, see here