napthalene is a simple aromatic hydrocarbon, basically one benzene ring fused with another. molecular formula C10H8. hydrocarbons can be cracked under certain conditions to produce various aromatic hydrocarbons so finding it in space could be fairly common if there are hydrocarbons near a source capable of cracking them.
Great. Now you need to explain why by accident vast quantities of the organic material hydrocarbons were converted to napthalene in sufficient quantity to be detected at a range of 400 lightyears, and then explain how this event is locally unique so that it didn't happen in every corner of the universe. Good luck with that. May I offer you a noodle? You need only let it touch you to feel its effects.
Special prosecutors aren't and shouldn't be permanent positions because they need to be surprises for the people who are going to be their targets.
We've had special prosecutors for every president since Nixon in 1969. Do you really think they are still surprising? It's 50/50 whether the subjects are officially impeached, but the investigations might as well begin during the elections and coverups are a more fertile field than actual improprieties.
Maybe it would be better to choose our officials by lot and surprise them with their new role involuntarily.
Literally "the origin of life is everywhere," panspermia theory posits that the seeds life exist all over the universe. A related but separate theory called "exogenesis" posits that life began somewhere other than Earth and was delivered here.
We've observed vast clouds of organic material far larger than our galaxy in the reaches of space. Now we've discovered prebiotic chemicals there. It's not that much of a stretch to guess that life-as-we-know-it is not uncommon. Intelligence (such as it is?) may be less common. Given the vastness of space and time it's not unreasonable to hope that we're not alone.
A running mechanical clock is correct never. A stopped mechanical clock is correct twice each day. Some would say a stopped clock is more accurate, and Einstein might agree.
Despite the obvious absurdity, I would have included works for geologic and astronomical time so the clock could (absent wear) show the correct time from The Beginning to The End. It would suit my Absurd Limit theory.
A clock that symbolically destroys current moments as the moving hand writes is outside both Einstein's philosophy and his works. Attaching his name to it does him an injustice. That "The moving hand writes and having writ, moves on" does not imply that the moment that just was exists no more. That moment travels out subjectively from its origin to the end of the universe at the speed of light at least. Some would say, and with this Einstein might demur, the moment that was not has some existence too, in some place we cannot see. With this last Schroedinger might agree. The difference could be argued by Cant and Liebowitz.
"Steven Hawking might as well be Paris Hilton. He believes that time travel is possible because (he claims) it is not contradicted by Einstein's General Relativity"
Uh, cite?
Oh, and BTW... Stephen Hawking is so often right and others wrong that if he believes in the possibility of time travel I'm willing to take his word for it in the absence of contrary evidence.
And yes: He's admitted he was wrong before. More the better.
I'm also claiming intellectual property on giving every taxpayer a $100,000,000,000 "stimulus" rebate, and then devaluing the currency so that 1 Newdollar = 1M Old dollars. That way every homeowner can throw their mortgage company a Newbuck and tell them to keep the change.
Sure, for a little while a gallon of gas is going to cost $ND 100, but that'll be over soon. It's monopoly money anyway. What are they going to do -- not play?
Hey, Ben Bernanke -- I can be quite reasonable about the licensing on this one.
Can someone give me the rationale for those password recovery mechanism that are usually far weaker than the passwords themselves?
They're not. Of course I've changed it since, but yesterday my answer to "Where did you meet your spouse" was "At the intersection of Beta Sirius and EO5F4KNwSfIWsTv94VyXSCRXbRrOeUzcAOozDUpeYRHFmmKJbRImqt5XPr5lDZ1"
Color me shocked. I had thought all potential candidates for high public office were vetted for having ever used a PC attached to a network directly. Plausible deniability is what aides are for. That's why aides filter your email, and "interpret" it over an encrypted voip line for trivial stuff, and important stuff is conveyed in person directly without witnesses.
That's why they know nothing about tech issues. Getting plugged in is just too dangerous to your public career.
And while I'm at it, why isn't "Special Prosecutor" a permanent position? Do we have to go through the farce of pretending we're not going to investigate phantom coverups of every President, Vice President, the candidates for same, and supreme court nominee from now until the end of time? We could save the bucks on the turnover and we'd get faster amusement process just by keeping a pair of teams on permanent staff.
Intellectual property. Why just last Friday I patented "A business process and related methods to leverage instability in financial markets and raid the US treasury."
I don't expect to deploy the process myself, but licensing should be worth a good bit.
They're not interesting any more. I had some domains with them, but they raised their registrar rate to $35/yr for what costs them very little. They'll probably mention it to somebody one day, but I had to find out on a blog.
Jack my rates more than triple and not even tell me? See ya!
I'll give you this - I was really hoping somebody would call me on that.
And that somebody would confirm it.
Past a certain point all languages are the same. After you've parsed the grammar, mapped the library and grokked the customer's requirement, it's a rote implementation of one of Knuth's algorithms to get you from the data to the presentation. It's not even fun any more after that. All of the really neat stuff has already been figured out.
Peter Norton is an acknowledged hack who was never as interested in the classical skills as a real programmer - and he sold his name for cash and "Peter Symantec" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Carmack has got props due since he learned both his processes and his math, but he's a one trick pony and he's betting the wrong way on ray tracing. Tim Berners-Lee? He hasn't done anything in so long I wonder if he didn't have a stroke in the '80's. Knuth? (awed reverence) If I could write a book on IT that was still relevant and on the shelf 50 years later, yes, you'd know my name. You can't hold it against me that I'm no Knuth. There can be only one.
No, you don't know me. Not everybody gets their name in the papers.
Is that all you've got? You didn't even bother to create a fake account to bring that weak argument. Am I supposed to be impressed?
I agree it's not an easy problem but the fact that you accept such crap means you're not very bright to begin with, at least if you want to have some kind of a life outside of work.
What you say might be true, but examine this: If I fail in my job, it's my boss's job to fire me. If he should fail in that, then the customer will not be served and the customer will fire our company. He'll lose his job soon thereafter, or his department (or the whole company!) will fail and he'll lose his job anyway.
It's much better just to give the customer what he needs, don't you think?
My second response on this, and that's bad form so it'll be modded down but that's ok. You deserve a straight well considered answer.
"Project Manager" means different things in different places. In my role it means I'm the one responsible for meeting the customer's needs. If I fail in that I'll be replaced. In your case it might mean finding the ultimate development of a particular product, and that's quite a different thing. In my role I'm given fiat to choose my team members, to hire and fire, to spend what I must to serve the customer. In your environment that is probably not the case - your project might be to explore the potentials of a speculative product, or some test equipment, or some business process. We all build what we can from what we have. If you're in the development case you have more liberty to look around and choose the best course. If that's you then me and all my open source friends would really hope you would choose to do so with more of an open mind.
In large businesses, many people from many different units are involved in a single project, and the project has a goal but it's not a "do it or be gone" kind of project. They all have other jobs. That's a great way to work when you've got a huge organization full of well qualified people working on diverse developments with a persistent market. That's not what I've got and so we're talking at cross purposes here.
Need it be said? My employer's opinion is not mine and vice versa! Always!
I'm sorry. This is/. so I assume some stuff. Forgive me.
Ok, so what you do is click the address bar and type "google.com" (without the quotes) and press the enter key. Then in the search box on the page you type your heart's desire. If what you're looking for isn't on the first page, click the "2" and so on until you find it.
Slashdot Mirror
Dewd. The girls that eat up panspermia are teh hawtness.
Now escape mom's basement, k?
/Some elements of post may be parent specific.
Great. Now you need to explain why by accident vast quantities of the organic material hydrocarbons were converted to napthalene in sufficient quantity to be detected at a range of 400 lightyears, and then explain how this event is locally unique so that it didn't happen in every corner of the universe. Good luck with that. May I offer you a noodle? You need only let it touch you to feel its effects.
We've had special prosecutors for every president since Nixon in 1969. Do you really think they are still surprising? It's 50/50 whether the subjects are officially impeached, but the investigations might as well begin during the elections and coverups are a more fertile field than actual improprieties.
Maybe it would be better to choose our officials by lot and surprise them with their new role involuntarily.
Literally "the origin of life is everywhere," panspermia theory posits that the seeds life exist all over the universe. A related but separate theory called "exogenesis" posits that life began somewhere other than Earth and was delivered here.
We've observed vast clouds of organic material far larger than our galaxy in the reaches of space. Now we've discovered prebiotic chemicals there. It's not that much of a stretch to guess that life-as-we-know-it is not uncommon. Intelligence (such as it is?) may be less common. Given the vastness of space and time it's not unreasonable to hope that we're not alone.
A running mechanical clock is correct never. A stopped mechanical clock is correct twice each day. Some would say a stopped clock is more accurate, and Einstein might agree.
Despite the obvious absurdity, I would have included works for geologic and astronomical time so the clock could (absent wear) show the correct time from The Beginning to The End. It would suit my Absurd Limit theory.
A clock that symbolically destroys current moments as the moving hand writes is outside both Einstein's philosophy and his works. Attaching his name to it does him an injustice. That "The moving hand writes and having writ, moves on" does not imply that the moment that just was exists no more. That moment travels out subjectively from its origin to the end of the universe at the speed of light at least. Some would say, and with this Einstein might demur, the moment that was not has some existence too, in some place we cannot see. With this last Schroedinger might agree. The difference could be argued by Cant and Liebowitz.
You need not be concerned about the loss of that minute. That minute is still there, from now until time ends.
Uh, cite?
Oh, and BTW... Stephen Hawking is so often right and others wrong that if he believes in the possibility of time travel I'm willing to take his word for it in the absence of contrary evidence.
And yes: He's admitted he was wrong before. More the better.
I laughed at the "I'm a mac" ads too but I disagree. The Windows ads are also hilarious.
That's comedy gold, there.
I'm also claiming intellectual property on giving every taxpayer a $100,000,000,000 "stimulus" rebate, and then devaluing the currency so that 1 Newdollar = 1M Old dollars. That way every homeowner can throw their mortgage company a Newbuck and tell them to keep the change.
Sure, for a little while a gallon of gas is going to cost $ND 100, but that'll be over soon. It's monopoly money anyway. What are they going to do -- not play?
Hey, Ben Bernanke -- I can be quite reasonable about the licensing on this one.
They're not. Of course I've changed it since, but yesterday my answer to "Where did you meet your spouse" was "At the intersection of Beta Sirius and EO5F4KNwSfIWsTv94VyXSCRXbRrOeUzcAOozDUpeYRHFmmKJbRImqt5XPr5lDZ1"
Color me shocked. I had thought all potential candidates for high public office were vetted for having ever used a PC attached to a network directly. Plausible deniability is what aides are for. That's why aides filter your email, and "interpret" it over an encrypted voip line for trivial stuff, and important stuff is conveyed in person directly without witnesses.
That's why they know nothing about tech issues. Getting plugged in is just too dangerous to your public career.
And while I'm at it, why isn't "Special Prosecutor" a permanent position? Do we have to go through the farce of pretending we're not going to investigate phantom coverups of every President, Vice President, the candidates for same, and supreme court nominee from now until the end of time? We could save the bucks on the turnover and we'd get faster amusement process just by keeping a pair of teams on permanent staff.
Intellectual property. Why just last Friday I patented "A business process and related methods to leverage instability in financial markets and raid the US treasury."
I don't expect to deploy the process myself, but licensing should be worth a good bit.
This is cool. Did they license Microsoft's deprecated "Plays for Now" technology, or did they get sold a new castle in the sky?
Hey! I've heard of that group. Don't they distribute in the "ripped DVD" and "ISO" formats for maximum portability?
Inter hop vectoring?
If that won't do it posting my irrational mumblings on slashdot should get me there.
Your post is spot on.
Let's just forget the whole thread, shall we?
Didn't they used to have a website or something?
They're not interesting any more. I had some domains with them, but they raised their registrar rate to $35/yr for what costs them very little. They'll probably mention it to somebody one day, but I had to find out on a blog.
Jack my rates more than triple and not even tell me? See ya!
That is all.
I'll give you this - I was really hoping somebody would call me on that.
And that somebody would confirm it.
Past a certain point all languages are the same. After you've parsed the grammar, mapped the library and grokked the customer's requirement, it's a rote implementation of one of Knuth's algorithms to get you from the data to the presentation. It's not even fun any more after that. All of the really neat stuff has already been figured out.
Peter Norton is an acknowledged hack who was never as interested in the classical skills as a real programmer - and he sold his name for cash and "Peter Symantec" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Carmack has got props due since he learned both his processes and his math, but he's a one trick pony and he's betting the wrong way on ray tracing. Tim Berners-Lee? He hasn't done anything in so long I wonder if he didn't have a stroke in the '80's. Knuth? (awed reverence) If I could write a book on IT that was still relevant and on the shelf 50 years later, yes, you'd know my name. You can't hold it against me that I'm no Knuth. There can be only one.
No, you don't know me. Not everybody gets their name in the papers.
Is that all you've got? You didn't even bother to create a fake account to bring that weak argument. Am I supposed to be impressed?
That attitude among our competitors is how my customer service oriented company grew so fast. You keep it up please. I have options yet to vest.
What you say might be true, but examine this: If I fail in my job, it's my boss's job to fire me. If he should fail in that, then the customer will not be served and the customer will fire our company. He'll lose his job soon thereafter, or his department (or the whole company!) will fail and he'll lose his job anyway.
It's much better just to give the customer what he needs, don't you think?
My second response on this, and that's bad form so it'll be modded down but that's ok. You deserve a straight well considered answer.
"Project Manager" means different things in different places. In my role it means I'm the one responsible for meeting the customer's needs. If I fail in that I'll be replaced. In your case it might mean finding the ultimate development of a particular product, and that's quite a different thing. In my role I'm given fiat to choose my team members, to hire and fire, to spend what I must to serve the customer. In your environment that is probably not the case - your project might be to explore the potentials of a speculative product, or some test equipment, or some business process. We all build what we can from what we have. If you're in the development case you have more liberty to look around and choose the best course. If that's you then me and all my open source friends would really hope you would choose to do so with more of an open mind.
In large businesses, many people from many different units are involved in a single project, and the project has a goal but it's not a "do it or be gone" kind of project. They all have other jobs. That's a great way to work when you've got a huge organization full of well qualified people working on diverse developments with a persistent market. That's not what I've got and so we're talking at cross purposes here.
Need it be said? My employer's opinion is not mine and vice versa! Always!
I don't know what to say other than "you're doing it wrong".
Was that not what you were looking for?
I'm sorry. This is /. so I assume some stuff. Forgive me.
Ok, so what you do is click the address bar and type "google.com" (without the quotes) and press the enter key. Then in the search box on the page you type your heart's desire. If what you're looking for isn't on the first page, click the "2" and so on until you find it.
I hope this has been helpful.