Prefab trusses are fine for developers slapping up hundreds of simple shotgun homes. Stray anywhere away from simple gable roofs, crackerbox layout, 2d sliding windows, box cabinetry, or plain-jane moulding though and you're into trig. More to do with angle of cut in custom jobs than length as suggested above.
Besides, nowadays, with everyone's wife watching HGTV, every job is a headache for those who don't know trig.
And if so why stop there? I'm sure Velociraptors wandered Texas long ago.
I heard this on NPR, last night. My question is related. Why 13,000 years ago? What makes that time period the best target? Why not attempt to emulate 100,000,000 years ago or the summer of '69? What makes 13K YA the standout snapshot period?
Also, I notice that the scientist that they quote is from New York. I'm from Oklahoma. Somehow, I get the feeling that one of the two of us is going to be closer to those cheetahs than the other.
a decrepit country where non-profit orgs are forced to take matters into their own hands to save their national treasures.
I reject your cynicism. How about a country where passionate guys and non-profits are allowed to take matters into their own hands to save their national treaures.
How does that look to the outside world?
I think a better question is how does it look to the outside world when all they hear is the noise of whiners like you cutting down your own country?
Sheesh. What ever happened to patriotism? These guys are scientist patriots as far as I'm concerned. Here's what is truly sad: That the most patriotic feeling that this story could conjure up in you is the urge to bitch. Get off your ass and do something for your country. Contribute. To this project or to your country. Encourage others to do the same. Build up instead of tearing down. That's the lesson to be taken from this.
I agree and I would add this. With the internet, we're at one of those transitional points between mediums. Generally, the newer the medium, the more doubt we cast on its authority. This happened with radio and television. The written word had been around for centuries and still retained some of the vestiges of authority that had been lent by the priest and scholar classes. Even now, for most people, there's a cultural instinct to trust the newspaper more than TV or radio.
The interesting transitions happen with things like the printing press. The written word still retains some of its authority, but because it is more freely available to the common man, many more ideas can be made publically available.
Because the information on the internet is still primarily written word, it is riding on the coat-tails of the authority previously lent to books and the newspaper. As with the printing press, the marketplace of ideas will eventually sort things out. Since it's early days yet, there's still a lot of gullibility.
Plus, each transition usually makes it easier and easier to disseminate ideas to more and more people. So, more people can be taken in by bad ideas.
Take that for what it's worth: a post on the internet
Poe
Burroughs
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Bram Stoker
Lovecraft OK. Some of them would be fantasy or horror, nowadays, but c'mon, son, back to your roots. Back to your roots.
Not if they're Penguin. Penguin is generally known for economy. I always appreciated my professors who ordered Penguin books for their courses. There were some cases where I could buy the new book from the campus bookstore for under a dollar. There were a couple of lit classes where I got away very cheap. Very good news after $100+ per book engineering courses.
In college, we invented Trivialopoly by combining Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly. If you wanted to buy a property or place a house or hotel, you had to correctly answer a question from the card drawn.
Why would that even register on anyone's radar? Because Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia gives them the stranglehold on desktop publishing by incorporating... what?... Flash? Director? Or maybe with Quark out of the playing field, Adobe-Macromedia's GoLive/Dreamweaver would no longer have to compete against Quark's web-publishing empire?
What does Quark have to do with purchasing Macromedia?
Expect the unexpected this week as an old friendship is renewed. Be open to the possibility that it will lead to something more. Business opportunities are all around you if you're willing to take a risk on a fresh idea. Your work relationships could become strained soon. Now might be a good time to take that vacation that you've been...
Discuss amongst yourselves: The SF show, Star Trek, a show that tries to make its techno-babble sound serious, comes off as imminently mockable because of a lack of scientific grounding among its writers and producers. On the other hand, Futurama, a SF cartoon whose science is meant to sound funny, actually has some serious math and science due to the backgrounds of the executive producer and someof thewriters.
Looks like they've included the ability to "share customer images." I wonder if they are expecting users to fill in the missing data.
It might not be inconceivable if this catches on. The Amazon rating and review system is pretty widely used. Aside from some astroturfing, I've generally found it to be pretty useful to look at user-volunteered info. And it seems like this would be an instance where astroturfing would be welcomed. If it catches on, it would be in the best interests of small businesses to submit photos of their own storefront to be included in the directory. Maybe A9 can also enlist the aid of the geocaching community to map local areas with gps and digital cameras.
I'm noticing a little "Best Picture?" link that comes up under the "Walk down the block" thumbnails. Just a guess, but it looks like users can rate which picture is the best view of the storefront. I'm guessing, the automated system first entered in the picture with the brown truck. By the time you visited -- after enough moderation -- the actual storefront became the default.
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This has already been done. And by China, no less. I don't think we should chastise them for wanting to modernize their research some.
SharkJumper
Ancient Chinese saying: He who sits at top of gravity well drops rocks on he who sits at bottom.
I suppose ego or national pride could play a part too though.
SharkJumper
If /. is any accurate representation of population, then his assertion holds true.
SharkJumper
Prefab trusses are fine for developers slapping up hundreds of simple shotgun homes. Stray anywhere away from simple gable roofs, crackerbox layout, 2d sliding windows, box cabinetry, or plain-jane moulding though and you're into trig. More to do with angle of cut in custom jobs than length as suggested above.
Besides, nowadays, with everyone's wife watching HGTV, every job is a headache for those who don't know trig.
SharkJumper
teams of volunteer guides who wear blue robes and hats
Blue robes, eh? Just out of curiosity, how much do you suppose those are worth?
SharkJumper
And if so why stop there? I'm sure Velociraptors wandered Texas long ago.
I heard this on NPR, last night. My question is related. Why 13,000 years ago? What makes that time period the best target? Why not attempt to emulate 100,000,000 years ago or the summer of '69? What makes 13K YA the standout snapshot period?
Also, I notice that the scientist that they quote is from New York. I'm from Oklahoma. Somehow, I get the feeling that one of the two of us is going to be closer to those cheetahs than the other.
SharkJumper
Here's a gorgeous picture from wikipedia.
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Uh oh. I can't tell if this invokes Godwin's law or not.
Hillary is doing what Presidential candidate hopefuls always do. She's getting some media time.
Eh. I already read it. They need to redo the ending.
a decrepit country where non-profit orgs are forced to take matters into their own hands to save their national treasures.
I reject your cynicism. How about a country where passionate guys and non-profits are allowed to take matters into their own hands to save their national treaures.
How does that look to the outside world?
I think a better question is how does it look to the outside world when all they hear is the noise of whiners like you cutting down your own country?
Sheesh. What ever happened to patriotism? These guys are scientist patriots as far as I'm concerned. Here's what is truly sad: That the most patriotic feeling that this story could conjure up in you is the urge to bitch. Get off your ass and do something for your country. Contribute. To this project or to your country. Encourage others to do the same. Build up instead of tearing down. That's the lesson to be taken from this.
I agree and I would add this. With the internet, we're at one of those transitional points between mediums. Generally, the newer the medium, the more doubt we cast on its authority. This happened with radio and television. The written word had been around for centuries and still retained some of the vestiges of authority that had been lent by the priest and scholar classes. Even now, for most people, there's a cultural instinct to trust the newspaper more than TV or radio.
The interesting transitions happen with things like the printing press. The written word still retains some of its authority, but because it is more freely available to the common man, many more ideas can be made publically available.
Because the information on the internet is still primarily written word, it is riding on the coat-tails of the authority previously lent to books and the newspaper. As with the printing press, the marketplace of ideas will eventually sort things out. Since it's early days yet, there's still a lot of gullibility.
Plus, each transition usually makes it easier and easier to disseminate ideas to more and more people. So, more people can be taken in by bad ideas.
Take that for what it's worth: a post on the internet
SharkJumper
Sorry. The second mod will be to add the "any" key.
SharkJumper
Poe
Burroughs
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Bram Stoker
Lovecraft
OK. Some of them would be fantasy or horror, nowadays, but c'mon, son, back to your roots. Back to your roots.
SharkJumper
Not if they're Penguin. Penguin is generally known for economy. I always appreciated my professors who ordered Penguin books for their courses. There were some cases where I could buy the new book from the campus bookstore for under a dollar. There were a couple of lit classes where I got away very cheap. Very good news after $100+ per book engineering courses.
SharkJumper
In college, we invented Trivialopoly by combining Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly. If you wanted to buy a property or place a house or hotel, you had to correctly answer a question from the card drawn.
I don't think we ever finished a game.
SharkJumper
Why would that even register on anyone's radar? Because Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia gives them the stranglehold on desktop publishing by incorporating ... what? ... Flash? Director? Or maybe with Quark out of the playing field, Adobe-Macromedia's GoLive/Dreamweaver would no longer have to compete against Quark's web-publishing empire?
What does Quark have to do with purchasing Macromedia?
SharkJumper
Forget cheap plastic. I'm making a real one.
SharkJumper
Expect the unexpected this week as an old friendship is renewed. Be open to the possibility that it will lead to something more. Business opportunities are all around you if you're willing to take a risk on a fresh idea. Your work relationships could become strained soon. Now might be a good time to take that vacation that you've been ...
...For the love of God, look out behind you!...
Oh, crap.
Discuss amongst yourselves:
The SF show, Star Trek, a show that tries to make its techno-babble sound serious, comes off as imminently mockable because of a lack of scientific grounding among its writers and producers. On the other hand, Futurama, a SF cartoon whose science is meant to sound funny, actually has some serious math and science due to the backgrounds of the executive producer and some of the writers.
SharkJumper
Sorry, you can't use notepad. You would be circumventing the DRM of John Cage's work.
SharkJumper
C'mon guys. Size doesn't matter, right?
Right?
SharkJumper
art is what people say it is
I would modify this to say:
art is what the right people say it is.
I wish I could say something was art and it would sell for six figures. I wouldn't have to be an artist very long before I could retire.
SharkJumper
Looks like they've included the ability to "share customer images." I wonder if they are expecting users to fill in the missing data.
It might not be inconceivable if this catches on. The Amazon rating and review system is pretty widely used. Aside from some astroturfing, I've generally found it to be pretty useful to look at user-volunteered info. And it seems like this would be an instance where astroturfing would be welcomed. If it catches on, it would be in the best interests of small businesses to submit photos of their own storefront to be included in the directory. Maybe A9 can also enlist the aid of the geocaching community to map local areas with gps and digital cameras.
SharkJumper
I'm noticing a little "Best Picture?" link that comes up under the "Walk down the block" thumbnails. Just a guess, but it looks like users can rate which picture is the best view of the storefront. I'm guessing, the automated system first entered in the picture with the brown truck. By the time you visited -- after enough moderation -- the actual storefront became the default.
SharkJumper