...in which the author argued that most of the "great philosophical questions" have been matters of fuzzy semantics. In this case, it's a problem of defining exactly what is meant by "chicken" and what is meant by "egg". Once you do that, the answer becomes obvious. Same with the tree falling making a sound, angels dancing on heads of pins, etc.
As for the biology major's worry that bacteria will lose the genetic modifications over time - yes that will happen - as the modifications that make them better for the purpose of making electricity will make them less good at simply multiplying - so loosing the extra function will give them an advantage which will be naturally selected for - so those bacteria will take over the culture.
How about a mechanical setup inside the fuel cell that allows better access to the input food the better your electrical output is? Maybe something like gel electrophoresis? Then you'd actually be evolving better and better bacteria the longer you use the cell.
The best part of "Star Trek" is the message of hope. (I have read the profiles of many felony convicts and have yet to come across one who is a Trekkie.)
Not to politicize the discussion, but I'd be fascinated(, Captain,) to see how what percentage of Republicans and what percentage of Democrats (and of the other parties too) are Trekkies.
At room temperature the atoms and molecules of which the air consists move in different directions at a speed of about 4,000 km/hr.
This is around 1100 m/s, or 2500 MPH. It goes on to point out that you don't get down to the 1 m/s range till about a millionth of a Kelvin (at which point it's a quarter of 1 m/s).
So, remember, every second, you're being bombarded (BOMBARDMENT! [POW!]) by brazillions of atoms going twenty-five hundred miles per hour.
The universe would not allow such a coincidence. The guy's name, according the the article, is actually John Simley.
The universe would, however, allow him to be named John Grinner, or perhaps John Visage. In fact, prior evidence points to these being the most likely cases.
I used to have a job that required the shirt and tie too. (Why should a programmer wear a tie?? Whatever.) Anytime I went to any kind of retail establishment on the way home, I would get around one customer question every ten minutes.
Definitely, if you want to cause havoc like this, it's far easier (and more plausibly deniable) to go for the shirt-and-tie route.
Word 2003 is set up to automatically define a new style every time you manually apply direct formatting to a paragraph. If you look in the styles list for these templates, there are literally hundreds of styles defined there, all with meaningless names.
On the other hand, this does help when trying to un-FUBAR a document that's been willy-nilly formatted this way -- you can click the made-up style's dropdown, pick "Select all ___ instances" and then assign a sane style to the selection.
Because there's no such thing as the Old Video Games That Don't Generate Incomes For Our Member Companies Anymore Association Of America to buy off our governmental representatives and sue random citizens.
I don't know if you're familiar with it, but a good source of music data is AllMusic.com. They have fairly good genre/style info. You'll probably have to roll your own screen-scaper around it, though, if you intend to automate at all. This guy seems to have taken a stab at it. (Of course, I understand Tag&Rename can pull from there as well...)
Shouldn't the reduction be considered on a log scale as well? Since a 50-degree reduction from 105 degrees above room temperature to 55 above is far easier than a 50 degree reduction from +55 to +5?
Wouldn't we expect the level of file sharing to go up, proportional to the growing internet population? If it has, in fact, stayed flat that would indicate something is creating downward pressure.
I'd say it means people are being more cagey about letting their activity be seen, through ever more fiendishly untraceable P2P networks, blockers like PeerGuardian, and so on.
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...in which the author argued that most of the "great philosophical questions" have been matters of fuzzy semantics. In this case, it's a problem of defining exactly what is meant by "chicken" and what is meant by "egg". Once you do that, the answer becomes obvious. Same with the tree falling making a sound, angels dancing on heads of pins, etc.
You do realize a meter is different from a kilometer, right?
Just checking.
http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1997/pres
So, remember, every second, you're being bombarded (BOMBARDMENT! [POW!]) by brazillions of atoms going twenty-five hundred miles per hour.
Don't you feel tougher now?
I thought this sort of thing was the whole point of the Coral Cache.
...using DSS rain fade.
They're sure to get several dozen results by then.
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/
I used to have a job that required the shirt and tie too. (Why should a programmer wear a tie?? Whatever.) Anytime I went to any kind of retail establishment on the way home, I would get around one customer question every ten minutes.
Definitely, if you want to cause havoc like this, it's far easier (and more plausibly deniable) to go for the shirt-and-tie route.
And the topper is that he explained it along with a pretty much identical idea that comes from ancient Hindu beliefs.
http://www.rediff.com/news/jan/29sagan.htm
Because there's no such thing as the Old Video Games That Don't Generate Incomes For Our Member Companies Anymore Association Of America to buy off our governmental representatives and sue random citizens.
I would have thought that was obvious...
Read the prohesy.
You're laughing your asshole off? How does that work?
Well, Sarcastro, you might wish also to consult the styles listed right in front of your fat face:
* Industrial Dance
* Electro-Industrial
* Dark Ambient
They even have a bunch of moods listed:
* Provocative
* Reflective
* Confrontational
* Confident
* Energetic
* Passionate
* Stylish
* Theatrical
* Brash
* Brooding
* Hypnotic
* Intense
* Intimate
* Enigmatic
Still not good enough? Classify 'em yourself, lazy.
I don't know if you're familiar with it, but a good source of music data is AllMusic.com. They have fairly good genre/style info. You'll probably have to roll your own screen-scaper around it, though, if you intend to automate at all. This guy seems to have taken a stab at it. (Of course, I understand Tag&Rename can pull from there as well...)
Shouldn't the reduction be considered on a log scale as well? Since a 50-degree reduction from 105 degrees above room temperature to 55 above is far easier than a 50 degree reduction from +55 to +5?
Voting.
Kick the bums out...
Jonathan Green? Is that you?