You can get a lot of good beers in cans (depending on your idea of good -- Guinness, Yeungling, maybe even Corona) but it doesn't taste as good. Still, if I had a friend who could automatically have a beer flung to me whenever I wanted, I know I'd be watching games at his house and coping with the metallic aftertaste.
"Tactics encouraged by the workshop included new forms of communication, such as podcasts and YouTube; enlisting support from celebrities, like actors David Duchovny ("X-Files") and Patrick Stewart ("Star Trek: The Next Generation")..."
As one of the younger gen-xers (I'm 30) Patrick Stewart and David Duchovny are still kinda cool, but if you're trying to reach someone ten years younger, why not use someone from a TV-show that aired in this millenium?
Also, the kid at the end of the article who became convinced that the moon landing was a hoax based upon a single YouTube video is really depressing.
Half the shops here (in North Carolina) already allow enough high pitched noise that they've achieved this effect. Seemingly every cash register button and door is wired with loud, high-pitched beeps, sometimes even in upscale restaurants. While its annoying for me, my migraine-prone girlfriend simply can't go some places now. The presence of "scooters" equipped with shrieking sounds, presumably nearly inaudible that indicate reverse motion, while possibly nearly inaudible to the drivers, often drives her from local stores. The worst are gas stations where the pump authorization signals are often loud, warbling whines that to which the clerks seem oblivious.
My point is, this sort of thing doesn't seem to bother the majority of North Carolina customers and I fear that many might actually endorse it. While that's at the very least inconsiderate and more likely selfish, I wonder if the barrage of high pitched noises aren't having some sort of toll even on those with poor hearing -- I believe that studies have shown that people can still tell the presence of sounds outside their range of hearing (such as bat SONAR) even if they can't distinguish them, and that there are often negative physiological effects associated with those "inaudible" sounds.
Considering that reaction-diffusion equations are thought describe (among many, many other things) the propagation of electric waves in the heart, I'd say research understanding the patterns they form is highly worthwhile even if you have no intellectual curiousity whatsoever.
I believe both the original poster and the would-be corrector are incorrect. The correct wording would be to substitute "creating" with "using". The embryos used to create stem cell lines are "extras" from fertility treatments. They will be created and destroyed independent of stem cell research.
Targeting stem cell research is merely a way of winning over voters who dislike what they perceive as the demystifying of "humanity" by science without alienating people who are in favor of fertility treatments.
At least one of the new objects has an orbit 45 degrees out of the plane of the solar system. Though I'm not exactly certain where the Kuiper belt ends and the Oort Cloud of comets begins, I believe that once you get as far out as the Oort Cloud the distribution of objects is much more spherical than it is closer to the sun.
Like much of what the Bush administration does, your claim is not really true while containing a grain of truth. While the overall NASA budget is being slightly increased, the administration is also dictating which areas of research will be cut and which will be expanded. Most everything but manned space-flight is being extremely reduced.
Many projects in which billions have already been invested are being tossed asside because NASA has been directed to return to the moon and Mars and only been given a slight budget increase (for comparison, NASA's budget was about 10% of the overall federal budget during the Apollo program). For instance, the International Space Station may be abandoned now that it has just been completed and can actually be used for (however limited) scientific purposes. As with military and economic decisions under Bush, politicians are dictating scientific decisions for political gain.
Bush is also pushing to cut most NASA facilities not in Texas, even ones in "red state" staples Alabama and Ohio. The Texas facilities are already considered pork-barrel projects and most of the scientific work of NASA has historically been done elsewhere. Though that may sound like this is not a political decision, it is important to realize that he does not need reelection so he can be even more blatant than usual.
Actually, I agree with your joke suggestion. I think 24-hour news networks have changed far more aspects of our society and governance than many people realize. The constant need for "new" material may be a driving force behind both the sensationalization of the mundane and the dilution of serious discourse.
I would hope that CNN wouldn't have the audacity to name itself the number one innovation, however.
I was at the International Science Fair back in 1995 in Toronto competing in the physics division. The guy next to me had built his own cyclotron and had done very well three out of the four years he competed in high school science fairs (which eventuall lead to the ISEF). Rumor was -- and this is only a rumor -- that he made himself ill with the radiation from the experiment. I'm not sure of the specifics but it is definitely worth being being careful before building your own cyclotron. I recall having looked into building my own at one point and determining that it would be dangerous.
His review was definitely useful for me since, as you said, I was in the same shoes.
I also agree with him that if a game is supposed to be open-ended, then you should be able to do what you want within the scope of the game. In other words, if x-wing pilots in Star Wars spent the years leading up to attacking the Death Star wandering Tatooine killing Tuscan Raiders to save up for an R2 unit, then that's how it should be. Since my impression was that pilots mostly piloted, then a player should not be forced to do many land-based quests. At least no more so than a player playing a land-based profession should be forced to fly a starfighter.
Having not played SWG, I found the reviewer's angle intriguing becase there has been a great dearth of space combat sims and even if JTL is more primitive than what was available five years ago (in terms of functionality), anything is better than nothing.
What I am surprised by is that it doesn't sound like there's much multiplayer combat (if any?). Perhaps the reviewer didn't get involved in any, but I certainly hope that JTL's space combat is multiplayer.
Too bad physicists squander all our valuable resources on useless gadgets like MRI's, CAT scanners, pacemakers, lasers and microscopes. I guess you would have been happier in the days before science pushed aside leeches and unwashed hands in standard medical practice.
People who have never tried to solve them often underestimate the complexity of problems like cancer or AIDS (or any complex system). Sometimes the insights gained by fully understanding simpler systems (such as falling paper) lead to similar insights into other, messier problems. In this case, there is no known methodical approach to solving non-linear partial differential equations -- instead there is only a slowly expaning body of specific equations whose solutions have been found by chance. Since both biological and physical phenomena are often governed by similar non-linear PDE's, studying the simpler system is often more productive.
In other words, you can learn to drive in a parking lot or on the autobahn, but while their are merits to either approach, a lot of us prefer the parking lot.
The last I used AbiWord was in the fall of 2001. Back then, AbiWord's near-hourly crashes made Word seem a beacon of stability. Once I recall selecting all the text in a document and trying to change the font. CPU load shot up to 99% while the highlighted text flashed, and out of curiosity I let the system go at it for about 24 hours. In all that time AbiWord still wasn't able to change the font. Not exactly a viable alternative if you ask me (I've been using Office 97 since time immemorial -- also known as 1997). Given the number of glitches that many of the open source office offerings have with stability and even more fundamental things like files not losing formating between saves, I'd say MS has at least a few years more of dominance.
Didn't Sid Meier base the original Civilization computer game on Avalon Hill's game of the same name (albeit a British spelling)? (See, for instance:
http://www.lilback.com/civilization/ah/board.html. )
I never played it, but I wonder how similar the gameplay of the original version is to the
new board-game-to-computer-game-board-game version. At any rate, I call dibs on adapting the new board game into a computer game.
So it's possible that SCO code was incorporated into 2.5 at the time of the lawsuit, but if they had actually seen that happening when they filed the suit you'd think they might have mentioned it. Afterall, they would have been able to make a reasonable argument for an injunction.
If anyone did intentionally lift SCO code for 2.6 after the lawsuits they would have had to have been monumentally stupid, though hillariously spiteful.
One would think it would be easy enough to find the authors of the suspect code and ask them before filing a lawsuit.
On the other hand, rather than pushing linux past a "tipping point," listening to newbies might lead to many of the aspects of the Microsoft/Mac models that many hard core PC users hate.
Not that I think this is a bad thing, but it's worth considering that if, for instance, standardarized application appearance/performance becomes more important, much of the speed and robustness of Linux may fall by the wayside.
I think BASIC is what you should start with and I think the book you should us is "Getting Started with TRS-80 BASIC". It's quite old, but it's what I used when I was a kid. In the following twenty-some years I have never found a book that took a more interesting approach to programming.
My memory maybe slightly dusty, but the book, which came with the Radioshack TRS-80 computers, includes lots of non-computer user examples (random poetry generator, grocery store stockroom) because it was written for an era that assumed zero familiarity with computers.
You can get a pdf copy of the book here:
http://www2.asub.arknet.edu/wade/getstarttrsbasic. htm
Good luck. I hope you find the book as helpful as I did.
Poker has recently become somewhat popular among the grad students in the physics department at Duke. We try to play at least once a month, and ESPN's poker coverage has even accompanied our own play.
I'd thought we were becoming somewhat cooler -- I should have known we were just dragging poker into geekdom. Fantasy football, anyone?
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That's it. I just wanted to make a post with "panspermia" as the subject. You've got to sieze such opportunities whenever they arise...
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/fit.nation/obesi
It'd be a little too convient to just blame a virus, but if I did I'd go looking for it in the southeast.
You can get a lot of good beers in cans (depending on your idea of good -- Guinness, Yeungling, maybe even Corona) but it doesn't taste as good. Still, if I had a friend who could automatically have a beer flung to me whenever I wanted, I know I'd be watching games at his house and coping with the metallic aftertaste.
"Tactics encouraged by the workshop included new forms of communication, such as podcasts and YouTube; enlisting support from celebrities, like actors David Duchovny ("X-Files") and Patrick Stewart ("Star Trek: The Next Generation")..."
As one of the younger gen-xers (I'm 30) Patrick Stewart and David Duchovny are still kinda cool, but if you're trying to reach someone ten years younger, why not use someone from a TV-show that aired in this millenium?
Also, the kid at the end of the article who became convinced that the moon landing was a hoax based upon a single YouTube video is really depressing.
Half the shops here (in North Carolina) already allow enough high pitched noise that they've achieved this effect. Seemingly every cash register button and door is wired with loud, high-pitched beeps, sometimes even in upscale restaurants. While its annoying for me, my migraine-prone girlfriend simply can't go some places now. The presence of "scooters" equipped with shrieking sounds, presumably nearly inaudible that indicate reverse motion, while possibly nearly inaudible to the drivers, often drives her from local stores. The worst are gas stations where the pump authorization signals are often loud, warbling whines that to which the clerks seem oblivious. My point is, this sort of thing doesn't seem to bother the majority of North Carolina customers and I fear that many might actually endorse it. While that's at the very least inconsiderate and more likely selfish, I wonder if the barrage of high pitched noises aren't having some sort of toll even on those with poor hearing -- I believe that studies have shown that people can still tell the presence of sounds outside their range of hearing (such as bat SONAR) even if they can't distinguish them, and that there are often negative physiological effects associated with those "inaudible" sounds.
Considering that reaction-diffusion equations are thought describe (among many, many other things) the propagation of electric waves in the heart, I'd say research understanding the patterns they form is highly worthwhile even if you have no intellectual curiousity whatsoever.
Targeting stem cell research is merely a way of winning over voters who dislike what they perceive as the demystifying of "humanity" by science without alienating people who are in favor of fertility treatments.
See this NASA site for more details:l
http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/comet_worldbook.htm
Many projects in which billions have already been invested are being tossed asside because NASA has been directed to return to the moon and Mars and only been given a slight budget increase (for comparison, NASA's budget was about 10% of the overall federal budget during the Apollo program). For instance, the International Space Station may be abandoned now that it has just been completed and can actually be used for (however limited) scientific purposes. As with military and economic decisions under Bush, politicians are dictating scientific decisions for political gain.
Bush is also pushing to cut most NASA facilities not in Texas, even ones in "red state" staples Alabama and Ohio. The Texas facilities are already considered pork-barrel projects and most of the scientific work of NASA has historically been done elsewhere. Though that may sound like this is not a political decision, it is important to realize that he does not need reelection so he can be even more blatant than usual.
I would hope that CNN wouldn't have the audacity to name itself the number one innovation, however.
I was at the International Science Fair back in 1995 in Toronto competing in the physics division. The guy next to me had built his own cyclotron and had done very well three out of the four years he competed in high school science fairs (which eventuall lead to the ISEF). Rumor was -- and this is only a rumor -- that he made himself ill with the radiation from the experiment. I'm not sure of the specifics but it is definitely worth being being careful before building your own cyclotron. I recall having looked into building my own at one point and determining that it would be dangerous.
Having not played SWG, I found the reviewer's angle intriguing becase there has been a great dearth of space combat sims and even if JTL is more primitive than what was available five years ago (in terms of functionality), anything is better than nothing.
What I am surprised by is that it doesn't sound like there's much multiplayer combat (if any?). Perhaps the reviewer didn't get involved in any, but I certainly hope that JTL's space combat is multiplayer.
Too bad physicists squander all our valuable resources on useless gadgets like MRI's, CAT scanners, pacemakers, lasers and microscopes. I guess you would have been happier in the days before science pushed aside leeches and unwashed hands in standard medical practice.
In other words, you can learn to drive in a parking lot or on the autobahn, but while their are merits to either approach, a lot of us prefer the parking lot.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/02/space.sig nals.reut/index.html
The last I used AbiWord was in the fall of 2001. Back then, AbiWord's near-hourly crashes made Word seem a beacon of stability. Once I recall selecting all the text in a document and trying to change the font. CPU load shot up to 99% while the highlighted text flashed, and out of curiosity I let the system go at it for about 24 hours. In all that time AbiWord still wasn't able to change the font. Not exactly a viable alternative if you ask me (I've been using Office 97 since time immemorial -- also known as 1997). Given the number of glitches that many of the open source office offerings have with stability and even more fundamental things like files not losing formating between saves, I'd say MS has at least a few years more of dominance.
English is a very common language in India. The Times of India, for instance, is an English-language newspaper.
Didn't Sid Meier base the original Civilization computer game on Avalon Hill's game of the same name (albeit a British spelling)? (See, for instance: http://www.lilback.com/civilization/ah/board.html. )
I never played it, but I wonder how similar the gameplay of the original version is to the
new board-game-to-computer-game-board-game version. At any rate, I call dibs on adapting the new board game into a computer game.
According to http://www.dvorak.org/scotimeline/, the SCO suit was launched on March 6, 2003.
According to http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Timeline %20of%20Linux%20development
Linux Kernel 2.4 was released on January 4, 2001 so it would follow that the code for 2.5 would be under development until the release of 2.6 on December 18, 2003.
So it's possible that SCO code was incorporated into 2.5 at the time of the lawsuit, but if they had actually seen that happening when they filed the suit you'd think they might have mentioned it. Afterall, they would have been able to make a reasonable argument for an injunction.
If anyone did intentionally lift SCO code for 2.6 after the lawsuits they would have had to have been monumentally stupid, though hillariously spiteful. One would think it would be easy enough to find the authors of the suspect code and ask them before filing a lawsuit.
On the other hand, rather than pushing linux past a "tipping point," listening to newbies might lead to many of the aspects of the Microsoft/Mac models that many hard core PC users hate.
Not that I think this is a bad thing, but it's worth considering that if, for instance, standardarized application appearance/performance becomes more important, much of the speed and robustness of Linux may fall by the wayside.
I think BASIC is what you should start with and I think the book you should us is "Getting Started with TRS-80 BASIC". It's quite old, but it's what I used when I was a kid. In the following twenty-some years I have never found a book that took a more interesting approach to programming.
My memory maybe slightly dusty, but the book, which came with the Radioshack TRS-80 computers, includes lots of non-computer user examples (random poetry generator, grocery store stockroom) because it was written for an era that assumed zero familiarity with computers.
You can get a pdf copy of the book here:. htm
http://www2.asub.arknet.edu/wade/getstarttrsbasic
Good luck. I hope you find the book as helpful as I did.
Poker has recently become somewhat popular among the grad students in the physics department at Duke. We try to play at least once a month, and ESPN's poker coverage has even accompanied our own play. I'd thought we were becoming somewhat cooler -- I should have known we were just dragging poker into geekdom. Fantasy football, anyone?