Technically you are correct, though in practice you are wrong.
In common use, when "we" (the non-scientific unwashed masses) talk of kilograms (or pounds) , we're talking about "at what value does your weight register when you're weighed on planet earth".(ie we mean "weight" not "mass")
If you took said person and placed him/her/it on an identical set of scales on Planet Mars, they would register as I described.
Unfortunately, at least in english, we talk about "weighing kilograms" (or, pounds / whatever) even though that's not "technically correct".
On a MORE serious note...
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Good to see more Australian companys getting involved with the space programs
Oddly enough The University Of Queensland (Brisbane, Queensland, The Great Uncharted DownUnder) is a University not a company.
"A team of scientists and students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Washington, and the University of Queensland, in Australia, plans to explore these questions. They're going to do it by launching mice into orbit."
"The mice will descend by parachute and land near Woomera, Australia"
("woomera" being an old Aboriginal word for "where the fuck are we? there's nothing of any interest within 100 miles of this place!") ie almost as completely "out in the middle of nowhere" as Mars is (relative to Planet Earth, that is).
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Yes Brain, though I can't see how the mice are going to fit sufficient MoonCheeze into their return vehicle for it to be profitable.
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Mars grav = 0.38 Earth Standard, therefore I postulate (pustulate?) 150 pounds * 0.38 => somewhere in the proximity of 25.8 kilograms {splat}.
All Hail the Obligatory NASA measurement cross-standards reference.
The article mentions "only female mice" so unless they screw up majorly (ie send a pregnant female) the number of *more* mice we receive is likely to be measured in numbers less than 1.
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That's all well and good, but
do you know that your house is about to be demolished to make way for a local State Transit freeway?
Do you care?
do you know where the nearest pub is?
Are you prepared (mentally and physically) to down 6 pints of beer in the next 5 minutes?
And , of course, the obligatory
do you know where your towel is?
.It must be Thursday, I never *could* get the hang of Thursdays.
Mice were the ones to build this planet.
Be nice to your lab rats.
Eh? WHY? They're RATS, not MICE.
On the other hand, be nice to any Lab *Mice* you might have the honor of associating with.
On the Gripping Hand (anyone remember that one?) my first thought was "Lab x Rat ? What traits were they trying to achieve with *that* selective crossbreeding?"
The abstruse reference you're struggling to establish here is rats, despite the various cries by many and sundry environmentalists along the lines of
the sky is falling
warning! warning! Danger, Will Robinson!
Anyway, thay have *not yet* reached the point of exclaiming
Mayday! Mayday! Abandon ship
No need to count noses on splashdown
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Sorry to disapoint you.
The students will be using only female mice, says Wooster.
I guess they don't want to risk cosmic-ray enhanced population explosion on the offchance it might produce <obligatory simpsons reference>.
(for those of you blinking in confusion) <obligatory simpsons reference>I, for one, welcome our new Cheese-Loving Overlords</obligatory simpsons reference>
One of the functions of Management it to be aware of any issues in their department , deal with them if possible and escalate them to Senior Management if necessary.
An event like this is recognition that Management is fundamentally failing to do their job, and than Senior Management doesn't have the skills/enthusiasm/determination to do anything constructive about it (ie fire/re-educate Management).
If you *ever* find yourself in this situation, basically you're screwed.
Functionally identical to your girlfriend/wife/SO asking "does this make me look fat?"
For you, the employee, this is a no win situation. At best, enjoy the fine dinner but say nothing even vaguely negative.
Spend your personal time updating your resume and job-hunting.
Imagine for a moment that there was only ONE browser to use, one language to program in, one way to view the web (excluding the fights that ensue over who currently controls those types of things). If there were only one way to do things, we'd be able to block these pop-up/under dicks without a problem.
No. If there was only one, then that ONE would sell out to the highest bidder. We'd have a never ending stream of advertising (popups, popunders, interstitial, SPAM, etc) that we have zero control over *and* we'd have no option but to grin-and-bear-it.
Oddly enough, the RIAA have actually *thought* about "the right number" here, just that they're thinking is a little muddy.
Their argument is that one track downloaded on a P2P network could then be shared by that user and translate to thousands of future downloads. fair enough
Of course, that logic means the X1000downloads against the value of one track should be applied to those who make tracks available online not to JimBob "I downloaded one song" SixPack.
Anyone who downloads music in violation of copyright should pay penalties equal to the value of songs (and if they're not "released singles" , then to the value of whole albums) which were downloaded. Anyone who makes songs available should be sued X10,000 (or some other irrationally high multiplier) because they're distributing music in violation of copyright.
Of course, having said that, the RIAA really should get off their fat arse and make available lossless-encoded tracks available for (at least) Windows, MAC OS, Linux, *BSD in some "available as OpenSource decoder" format so that we can have a legitimate alternative to purchasing CDs.
Not that that will stop *all* the illegal activity, but it would then at least put them in the position of having some morals/principles.
If it was legal for me to get a tape and record off the radio, then why is it illegal for me to use my pc?
Because your example doesn't match the reality of the situation.
Taping music off the radio is more like RIPing your CD to MP3. (ie "fair use") This is not (currently) illegal.
Taking that MP3 and giving it to someone (eg making it available on a filesharing network) is illegal. (because you just made a copy for the purposes of distribution, which is an exclusive right of the copyright-holder).
In the US, music licensing/copyright laws have explicit clauses for "fair use" (eg singing "Happy Birthday" at your kids party) while still defining as illegal other violations (eg public and/or for money performances of songs).
Think of it like this, if you bought a book and photocopied the entire thing 10,000 times, and gave those 10,000 copies to your friends (and their friends, and relatives, etc) - that's a violation of copyright and therefore illegal.
If you bought a first-edition hardcover signed book, made one single photo-copy, put the original in your book-archive storage room, and only even read the copy... well, technically it's probably still a violation of copyright but I'm reasonably certain any lawsuit would be quickly thrown out by arguing fair use. (ie you bought the book, you just made a backup to preserve the condition of the valuable original).
As outlined in the Mozilla project roadmap , the Mozilla Firebird browser will eventually replace the Seamonkey browser as the premiere end-user browser from mozilla.org. As part of the journey towards that goal, from milestone 0.7 onward Firebird 0.x releases will occur at the same time (or approximately the same time).Firebird Roadmap
Yes, you heard it right. This release of Mozilla is significant ALSO in that it heralds an impending release of FireBird.
Of course, Firebird 0.8 was due out December 2003, so we're overdue for that anyways.
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- si (like the Italians pronounce it, but longer - "see")
- mo' (as in Mo'Money)
- nicker (as in, well, knickers)
Join the fan club, see more knickers!Chances of SCO screwing Aussie companies for "linux licenses"? Two
For all you furry-ners it means pretty much the same as "Sweet FA" / "A SnowBall in Hell" / "Hell Freezes Over".Buckley's Chance William Buckley
Technically you are correct, though in practice you are wrong.
In common use, when "we" (the non-scientific unwashed masses) talk of kilograms (or pounds) , we're talking about "at what value does your weight register when you're weighed on planet earth".(ie we mean "weight" not "mass")
If you took said person and placed him/her/it on an identical set of scales on Planet Mars, they would register as I described.
Unfortunately, at least in english, we talk about "weighing kilograms" (or, pounds / whatever) even though that's not "technically correct".
Good to see more Australian companys getting involved with the space programs
Oddly enough The University Of Queensland (Brisbane, Queensland, The Great Uncharted DownUnder) is a University not a company.
"A team of scientists and students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Washington, and the University of Queensland, in Australia, plans to explore these questions. They're going to do it by launching mice into orbit."
"The mice will descend by parachute and land near Woomera, Australia"
("woomera" being an old Aboriginal word for "where the fuck are we? there's nothing of any interest within 100 miles of this place!") ie almost as completely "out in the middle of nowhere" as Mars is (relative to Planet Earth, that is).
Yes Brain, though I can't see how the mice are going to fit sufficient MoonCheeze into their return vehicle for it to be profitable.
Mars grav = 0.38 Earth Standard, therefore I postulate (pustulate?) 150 pounds * 0.38 => somewhere in the proximity of 25.8 kilograms {splat}.
All Hail the Obligatory NASA measurement cross-standards reference.
The article mentions "only female mice" so unless they screw up majorly (ie send a pregnant female) the number of *more* mice we receive is likely to be measured in numbers less than 1.
- do you know that your house is about to be demolished to make way for a local State Transit freeway?
- Do you care?
- do you know where the nearest pub is?
- Are you prepared (mentally and physically) to down 6 pints of beer in the next 5 minutes?
And , of course, the obligatory- do you know where your towel is?
.It must be Thursday, I never *could* get the hang of Thursdays.Mice were the ones to build this planet.
Be nice to your lab rats.
Eh? WHY? They're RATS, not MICE.
On the other hand, be nice to any Lab *Mice* you might have the honor of associating with.
On the Gripping Hand (anyone remember that one?) my first thought was "Lab x Rat ? What traits were they trying to achieve with *that* selective crossbreeding?"
Perhaps NOTHING.
The abstruse reference you're struggling to establish here is rats, despite the various cries by many and sundry environmentalists along the lines of
- the sky is falling
- warning! warning! Danger, Will Robinson!
Anyway, thay have *not yet* reached the point of exclaimingSorry to disapoint you.
The students will be using only female mice, says Wooster.
I guess they don't want to risk cosmic-ray enhanced population explosion on the offchance it might produce <obligatory simpsons reference>.
(for those of you blinking in confusion)
<obligatory simpsons reference>I, for one, welcome our new Cheese-Loving Overlords</obligatory simpsons reference>
it was a news piece that showed both sides of the issue
Now hold on there a minute, big fella. What do you mean both sides of the story?
There *is* only one side.
The side The Law is on.
What they're doing is equally as legal as selling heroin. (just to be clear not even slightly, not even for an instant, not even once)
You don't see Forbes.COM publishing articles saying "pity the poor crack-dealers" now do you?
The rumor/hearsay mill is working hard to convince the public that iTunes for Australia is due out in the next month or three.
There have been times when I've been wondering where the nearest {insert favorite exotic food} restaurant is.
- Grab Mobile
- set "restaurants only"=true
- turn on location announcing thingy
- wait 5
- turn off location announcing thingy
- read ads from local restaurants
Wire them up with an electronic compass and it should even be able to give you (updated in realtime, even) directions from where you are.One of the functions of Management it to be aware of any issues in their department , deal with them if possible and escalate them to Senior Management if necessary.
An event like this is recognition that Management is fundamentally failing to do their job, and than Senior Management doesn't have the skills/enthusiasm/determination to do anything constructive about it (ie fire/re-educate Management).
If you *ever* find yourself in this situation, basically you're screwed.
Functionally identical to your girlfriend/wife/SO asking "does this make me look fat?"
For you, the employee, this is a no win situation. At best, enjoy the fine dinner but say nothing even vaguely negative.
Spend your personal time updating your resume and job-hunting.
Here's a Reality Check for people who think this is kinda cool.
View my site, isn't it wonderful content. Geez, there's MORE ADVERTISING than CONTENT.
One banner ad, even TWO, I could live with. This page has HALF A DOZEN seperate graphic ads.
Intrusive (yes) Offensive (yes) Reasonable (no).
Imagine for a moment that there was only ONE browser to use, one language to program in, one way to view the web (excluding the fights that ensue over who currently controls those types of things). If there were only one way to do things, we'd be able to block these pop-up/under dicks without a problem.
No. If there was only one, then that ONE would sell out to the highest bidder. We'd have a never ending stream of advertising (popups, popunders, interstitial, SPAM, etc) that we have zero control over *and* we'd have no option but to grin-and-bear-it.
Complain to The IAB.
Tell them you're sick and tired of intrusive advertising. Tell them your failure to click-through is *not* because you didn't notice their ad.
Ah Bugger IT! Just write a script to auto-submit their "contact" web forms with SPAM.
Furthermore, she said if users complained about any advertisement, MSN would pull it.
So make sure you let MSN know exactly how pissed off you are about this.
The ads run on Windows Media Player software, which an estimated 8 of 10 Internet users have on their computers.
So Non-Windows users are off the hook, for a start. Heh! It's not as if I *needed* another excuse to not use MSIE.
er, don't you mean "baaaa-stards"?
Actually the description is a reference to BYTE Magazine, so in actual fact the article is relatively voluminous.
Anyhow, even if they *did* mean 8 binary digits, if they printed them with a HUGE font size, then the article could be quite large indeed.
How fast can you spank the monkey?
Spank The Monkey Cap
More Monkey Spank
Oddly enough, the RIAA have actually *thought* about "the right number" here, just that they're thinking is a little muddy.
Their argument is that one track downloaded on a P2P network could then be shared by that user and translate to thousands of future downloads. fair enough
Of course, that logic means the X1000downloads against the value of one track should be applied to those who make tracks available online not to JimBob "I downloaded one song" SixPack.
Anyone who downloads music in violation of copyright should pay penalties equal to the value of songs (and if they're not "released singles" , then to the value of whole albums) which were downloaded. Anyone who makes songs available should be sued X10,000 (or some other irrationally high multiplier) because they're distributing music in violation of copyright.
Of course, having said that, the RIAA really should get off their fat arse and make available lossless-encoded tracks available for (at least) Windows, MAC OS, Linux, *BSD in some "available as OpenSource decoder" format so that we can have a legitimate alternative to purchasing CDs.
Not that that will stop *all* the illegal activity, but it would then at least put them in the position of having some morals/principles.
If it was legal for me to get a tape and record off the radio, then why is it illegal for me to use my pc?
... well, technically it's probably still a violation of copyright but I'm reasonably certain any lawsuit would be quickly thrown out by arguing fair use. (ie you bought the book, you just made a backup to preserve the condition of the valuable original).
Because your example doesn't match the reality of the situation.
Taping music off the radio is more like RIPing your CD to MP3. (ie "fair use") This is not (currently) illegal.
Taking that MP3 and giving it to someone (eg making it available on a filesharing network) is illegal. (because you just made a copy for the purposes of distribution, which is an exclusive right of the copyright-holder).
In the US, music licensing/copyright laws have explicit clauses for "fair use" (eg singing "Happy Birthday" at your kids party) while still defining as illegal other violations (eg public and/or for money performances of songs).
Think of it like this, if you bought a book and photocopied the entire thing 10,000 times, and gave those 10,000 copies to your friends (and their friends, and relatives, etc) - that's a violation of copyright and therefore illegal.
If you bought a first-edition hardcover signed book, made one single photo-copy, put the original in your book-archive storage room, and only even read the copy
As outlined in the Mozilla project roadmap , the Mozilla Firebird browser will eventually replace the Seamonkey browser as the premiere end-user browser from mozilla.org. As part of the journey towards that goal, from milestone 0.7 onward Firebird 0.x releases will occur at the same time (or approximately the same time). Firebird Roadmap
Yes, you heard it right. This release of Mozilla is significant ALSO in that it heralds an impending release of FireBird.
Of course, Firebird 0.8 was due out December 2003, so we're overdue for that anyways.