Humans have had sex with anything that has a hole. The real question is with what frequency and what success. If there were hybrid human-neanderthal babies running around, that would be interesting. It would also explain the existence of 4chan.
I'm thinking this is a fallout from the recent Facebook changes. I've noticed it started making suggestions to do things like: "suggest a photo" for a facebook user with no profile pic "suggest friends" for a newer facebook user with only a handful of friends so far "write on a friend's wall" for a friend in your list you haven't talked to in a while
The thing about that last one is that there is a friend we have who passed away about a year ago. It's nice to have her account still active as we can look at pictures and whatnot. The daily reminders that you haven't talked to this person in a while, though, can be a little cruel. Our group of friends is not likely the only people who have this experience, and I can definitely understand if there were a ton of complaints or questions on how to get dead people off this feature. The simplest implementation for Facebook would be to just treat dead users as archived accounts. Leave the data there and make it accessible, but leave it off any kind of actively updating list.
It's amazing how much of the Germanic language family is intelligible with only a bit of extra training. I speak English, quite a bit of German, and have picked up a little Norwegian, and between these can understand quite a lot of Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Old Frisian, Saxon, as well as modern Dutch, Swedish, and Danish. The harder part with reading the old poetry isn't so much understanding the words as it is interpreting their meaning. The kennings can be pretty hard to decode without enough background knowledge--especially when you're unsure about the translation of some words.
It is fascinating to see how the languages change through time and between the different branches, how historical events affected the language's development, etc.
We met when we were young. Everything was new and exciting. Neither of us really knew what we were doing, but we were willing to try just about anything. And that was okay--it was just the two of us. I felt safe experimenting with you, as we could just start over if things got too scary. But after a while, this just wasn't good enough for you. You wanted us to start hooking up with others. I know you called it "networking", but you and I both know that was a thinly veiled euphemism. The things you had me do are too horrible to mention. You wouldn't even use protection. Then after you were done using me, you'd leave me crying on the floor, desperately trying to mend myself and restore some dignity. And I know in some ways it was my fault. I shouldn't have let you do anything you wanted to me. I should have set up boundaries. I should have saved some part of myself for me only. But I was too desperate to be loved. I needed you.
In time, you grew less interested in me. I'd try new things to keep you around. A new haircut, a new diet. You'd make cruel jokes about bloat and putting lipstick on a pig. You weren't interested in ME anymore. I was just a means to an end. You'd spend less and less time with me. Then you got that new job, and you met that other girl, Lynn. Sure, she wasn't as attractive, but she was more reliable. You could understand her and felt safe with her. I'd be lucky to see you for a few hours on the weekend.
You started making more money and started hanging out with all new friends. Suddenly I was just trailer trash to you. The final straw was when you brought another girl home, and left me on the curb. You said she was easier. I was just too much maintenance. Sorry pal, but I saw the price tag on that ring you bought her. That doesn't seem like low maintenance to me. But like a fool I kept trying to win you back. I'd dress just like her. I'd try to act like her. But somehow you knew I was the same person underneath.
Well, I've been on my own now for a while. I've had some time to think, to grow, to become my own person. I'm only the same in that my past experiences have made me who I am today. I still want you back, but I no longer trust you completely.
Any leading tech company can and should have resources dedicated to the bleeding edge of their industry. It takes a long time and a lot of work to figure out how to turn ideas into products. It takes a lot of support from vendors and customers to be able to produce something reliable and profitable. This is difficult to do, even for a company with Microsoft's resources.
I get to work in R&D at my company. The stuff I've been working on for the past two years won't see full production for another two years more. We've started looking into tech that won't even be in a test product for another 5+ years, let alone full production. Products that are still bringing in significant revenue are using tech I started developing almost 10 years ago.
128-bit is a LONG way off. It doesn't mean they shouldn't be working on it.
Not to defend the GP, but there are plenty of other low population states, and none of them even made the top ten. In fact, most of the rest of the top-listed are among the most populous states.
It seems much more likely to me that it's as an AC above posted--the data are bullshit. It reads like a survey released by a security software company to sell more copies of their tools. In a word, spam.
I propose a theory wherein the postulated dark matter is actually the bullshit that is a natural byproduct of lawyering. Dark energy is their concentrated greed. The historically unprecedented litigious nature of our society is responsible for the accelerating growth of the universe. Newton's perception of the "fixed heavenly bodies" was not an error on his part--they were truly stationary since the universe had not yet accumulated enough legal excrement to cause the stars to move.
I just fed all of the photos ever taken of me into Photosynth, made a 3-D model of myself, and then made the model pat itself on the back. I'm WAY too lazy to lift my own arm that far.
Absolutely 100% correct. I've lived in both Germany and the US, and the way science is approached between the two is drastically different. It wasn't until I was 10, in my first year in a school in Germany, that I was exposed to the concept of evolution. My senior year of high school was the first year that I had a genuinely good science teacher and hence a good class. He loved the subject, the experiments were actually experiments, and he actively promoted the idea of inquiry that's so important. It was his class that convinced me to go into Physics in college.
My wife is a 5th grade teacher, and so I help her to come up with the experiments for her class. When she tells them they're doing a science lesson, all of them get very excited. In many cases, they'll have gone years without a single science lesson of any kind. The desire is there, but they're given very little opportunity, especially in that critical window from about 10 to 15 years old where they're transitioning from childhood to adulthood.
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Perhaps we should commission a group of scientists to formally study the idea.
Who wants to write the grant proposal?
Humans have had sex with anything that has a hole. The real question is with what frequency and what success. If there were hybrid human-neanderthal babies running around, that would be interesting. It would also explain the existence of 4chan.
I'm thinking this is a fallout from the recent Facebook changes. I've noticed it started making suggestions to do things like:
"suggest a photo" for a facebook user with no profile pic
"suggest friends" for a newer facebook user with only a handful of friends so far
"write on a friend's wall" for a friend in your list you haven't talked to in a while
The thing about that last one is that there is a friend we have who passed away about a year ago. It's nice to have her account still active as we can look at pictures and whatnot. The daily reminders that you haven't talked to this person in a while, though, can be a little cruel. Our group of friends is not likely the only people who have this experience, and I can definitely understand if there were a ton of complaints or questions on how to get dead people off this feature. The simplest implementation for Facebook would be to just treat dead users as archived accounts. Leave the data there and make it accessible, but leave it off any kind of actively updating list.
Awesome. A fellow language nerd :)
It's amazing how much of the Germanic language family is intelligible with only a bit of extra training. I speak English, quite a bit of German, and have picked up a little Norwegian, and between these can understand quite a lot of Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Old Frisian, Saxon, as well as modern Dutch, Swedish, and Danish. The harder part with reading the old poetry isn't so much understanding the words as it is interpreting their meaning. The kennings can be pretty hard to decode without enough background knowledge--especially when you're unsure about the translation of some words.
It is fascinating to see how the languages change through time and between the different branches, how historical events affected the language's development, etc.
Assuming all the conspiracy theorists can be convinced it's true, at least this means I'll be dead before this idiocy crops up again.
Or does this part sound suspiciously like the contents of an email scam:
"The investigation was done in cooperation with Microsoft, to help develop smart technology software capable of detecting fraudulent emails. "
Sounds like the old BETA Email Tracking Application to me. I wonder if AOL is involved?
You're damn right I changed.
We met when we were young. Everything was new and exciting. Neither of us really knew what we were doing, but we were willing to try just about anything. And that was okay--it was just the two of us. I felt safe experimenting with you, as we could just start over if things got too scary. But after a while, this just wasn't good enough for you. You wanted us to start hooking up with others. I know you called it "networking", but you and I both know that was a thinly veiled euphemism. The things you had me do are too horrible to mention. You wouldn't even use protection. Then after you were done using me, you'd leave me crying on the floor, desperately trying to mend myself and restore some dignity. And I know in some ways it was my fault. I shouldn't have let you do anything you wanted to me. I should have set up boundaries. I should have saved some part of myself for me only. But I was too desperate to be loved. I needed you.
In time, you grew less interested in me. I'd try new things to keep you around. A new haircut, a new diet. You'd make cruel jokes about bloat and putting lipstick on a pig. You weren't interested in ME anymore. I was just a means to an end. You'd spend less and less time with me. Then you got that new job, and you met that other girl, Lynn. Sure, she wasn't as attractive, but she was more reliable. You could understand her and felt safe with her. I'd be lucky to see you for a few hours on the weekend.
You started making more money and started hanging out with all new friends. Suddenly I was just trailer trash to you. The final straw was when you brought another girl home, and left me on the curb. You said she was easier. I was just too much maintenance. Sorry pal, but I saw the price tag on that ring you bought her. That doesn't seem like low maintenance to me. But like a fool I kept trying to win you back. I'd dress just like her. I'd try to act like her. But somehow you knew I was the same person underneath.
Well, I've been on my own now for a while. I've had some time to think, to grow, to become my own person. I'm only the same in that my past experiences have made me who I am today. I still want you back, but I no longer trust you completely.
There'd be enough time for one game of Civ 3.
Mars goes to you!
Okay, now that's out of the way, only intelligent discussion from here on out. Come on Slashdot, I know you can do it.
Got a source?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_vaccines
1945, first Influenza vaccine.
Yes, but only at your prime.
Obligatory Flight of the Conchords:
"I want to tell her how hot she is, but she’ll think I’m being sexist.
She’s so hot she’s making me sexist."
Any leading tech company can and should have resources dedicated to the bleeding edge of their industry. It takes a long time and a lot of work to figure out how to turn ideas into products. It takes a lot of support from vendors and customers to be able to produce something reliable and profitable. This is difficult to do, even for a company with Microsoft's resources.
I get to work in R&D at my company. The stuff I've been working on for the past two years won't see full production for another two years more. We've started looking into tech that won't even be in a test product for another 5+ years, let alone full production. Products that are still bringing in significant revenue are using tech I started developing almost 10 years ago.
128-bit is a LONG way off. It doesn't mean they shouldn't be working on it.
Seriously. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have the glut of amateur porn that's available to us today.
God bless you, sirs.
If these things run too hot, you'll literally have vaporware.
Smug is weightless when contained within the RDF.
Not to defend the GP, but there are plenty of other low population states, and none of them even made the top ten. In fact, most of the rest of the top-listed are among the most populous states.
It seems much more likely to me that it's as an AC above posted--the data are bullshit. It reads like a survey released by a security software company to sell more copies of their tools. In a word, spam.
That's not got much spam in it.
A Hitler-style mustache has also been ruined forever, as has the name Adolph.
Oppenheimer, is that you?
I propose a theory wherein the postulated dark matter is actually the bullshit that is a natural byproduct of lawyering. Dark energy is their concentrated greed. The historically unprecedented litigious nature of our society is responsible for the accelerating growth of the universe. Newton's perception of the "fixed heavenly bodies" was not an error on his part--they were truly stationary since the universe had not yet accumulated enough legal excrement to cause the stars to move.
I just fed all of the photos ever taken of me into Photosynth, made a 3-D model of myself, and then made the model pat itself on the back. I'm WAY too lazy to lift my own arm that far.
maybe we need new definitions to describe these novel apparatus.
I agree. Perhaps something like extra-sensory apparatus, and the usage can be called extra-sensory perception.
Now THAT is some health care reform I would vote for!
Absolutely 100% correct. I've lived in both Germany and the US, and the way science is approached between the two is drastically different. It wasn't until I was 10, in my first year in a school in Germany, that I was exposed to the concept of evolution. My senior year of high school was the first year that I had a genuinely good science teacher and hence a good class. He loved the subject, the experiments were actually experiments, and he actively promoted the idea of inquiry that's so important. It was his class that convinced me to go into Physics in college.
My wife is a 5th grade teacher, and so I help her to come up with the experiments for her class. When she tells them they're doing a science lesson, all of them get very excited. In many cases, they'll have gone years without a single science lesson of any kind. The desire is there, but they're given very little opportunity, especially in that critical window from about 10 to 15 years old where they're transitioning from childhood to adulthood.