Looks like just as porn drives the advances in computer technology, alcohol will drive the advances in renewable sources technology.
Of course, now when someone says "this beer tastes like piss", you can tell them, it actually is piss. They then have the choice of running out and screaming "The booze is piss, people!"
They set up false expectations. Unfortunately everyone does it. I have bitten by this more than a few times.
Weight loss ad told me I could lose UP TO 50 lbs. I still need to request a seat-belt extender on airplanes
My employer said I could make UP TO a million dollars a year if the company does well. I am still driving a beat up Kia
And, worse of all, that nice email ad said I could increase my length UP TO 9 inches. My wife still has trouble finding it
Let us say there is a secret US military document. Say this document has complete details of a plan to attack Canada two months from now. Someone in the military leaks it out and Wikileaks publishes it on a server hosted by Pirate Party.
Questions:
1. Who should be jailed? (a)The military guy who leaked it (b)Wikieaks chief (Assange) (c)the Pirate Party chief (Falkvinge)?
2. What if the plans were to take out an Iranian nuclear facility? Would your answers change?
3. What if the plans were to take out a North Korean chemical weapons facility? Would your answers change?
4. What if the plans were to take out an AlQaeda hideout? Would your answers change?
Before you pooh-pooh these geeks/nerds for having orgasms about something so trivial, remember they were in an auditorium full of people.
When people are in a crowd situation trying to have fun, they will cheer or boo the most inane things to get the energy going and enhance their shared experience.
May be it is just me but I never liked the name of the company/service.
I am not against whimsical names. They have been all the rage since the dotcom era.
But, the name has to be at least easily pronunceable (like Google, Twitter etc).
I bet everyone of you has wondered at least once whether it was pronounced "skyyp" or "skyypeh" or "skip" or whatever.
And, to me, this confusion distracts the customer. Makes the company look amateur. And, makes the customer wonder about the quality and the professionalism of the compnay's services.
I am not sure ALL software patents should be disallowed.
Say I invest a large amount of time and money in inventing and testing an algorithm that very accurately recognizes faces in a picture or one that more efficiently routes gate connections inside a computer chip or one that produces better search results in a web search. I should be able to patent those algorithms and, hence, recover my investment by selling software based on those unique and novel algorithms.
Now before you mindlessly react by saying "Algorithms cannot be patented", read this.
If you are not one of these incoming Stanford/Berkeley students, you can get your own testing done for about $500
This company is owned by Google founder, Sergey Brin's wife, Anne.
Earth and Mars are constantly seeding life to each other? Wow!
This sounds very interesting at first glance but from the same link:
There is a trap in considering average (annual) values because the transfer of rocks occurs in spikes. It is assumed that impacts by asteroids 1km in diameter or larger are needed to launch ejecta into interplanetary flight. Such impacts produce craters 20km or more in diameter. They occur on Mars and Earth (land impacts only) over typical timescales of one to ten million years.
By definition, viable transfers only take place within 100,000 years of the impact so there are long periods between impacts when Mars rocks that fall to Earth have remained in space for too long and any hitchhiking microbes are assumed to have died. There do not appear to have been large impacts on Mars (or the Earth for that matter) over the past 100,000 years so it is unlikely that "hospitable" Mars rocks are reaching the Earth at present, or vice versa.
Ergo... we are not CONSTANTLY seeding any life to Mars or vice versa
Here is how a police officer relative of mine explained this:
(Please dont mod me down, I am just a messenger)
When you point a camera, it is not just a passive device recording events. Instead, it can actually influence the events that it is recording. A witness at a crime scene may be hesitant to say exactly what he or she thinks because he knows the neighbors may see it. People may run away or refuse to come forward because they are afraid that they will be identified later on television and thus could become the victims of a crime. A lot of things happen in police encounters and sometimes a camera can have a chilling effect on the proceedings. Sometimes the influence of camera presence can benefit society by keeping police abuses in check. Sometimes it can be a harm.
Personally, I think the police officers only have their own benefit in mind when they ask for a ban on cameras.
Another closely watched entry in this year's competition was National Enquirer's outing of John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter.
I guess the Enquirer didn't win. Othewise, it would have been another first - a Pulitzer awarded to a tabloid.
Here is a simple test to dertermine which group you fall into:
1. Hold both your arms in front of you with your hands about a foot (0.3 meters) apart.
2. Make fists with your hands.
3. Extend the index fingers of both hands towards each other.
4. Bring your index fingers close together and attempt to touch their tips precisely together.
If you can do it, you can enjoy 3D movies.
If you cannot, go to a vision therapist.
You can also try the above test with one eye closed.
You will almost always fail at step 4.
Please give generous support to these brave men and women in uniform who are sacrificing so much to keep us safe from our sworn enemies.
You can help in so many ways. Donate cash, send them care packages or offer substantial discounts on the goods and services you provide. Have them give inspirational talks to school children. Invite them to throw pitches at college baseball games or give them free front-row seating at NFL and NBA games. Celebrate them by having them line up on stage at the begining of any award or entertainment show.
Call your congressman or senator to increase military budgets because our brave servicemen remain shockingly under-equipped when facing our powerful enemies whose only goal is the utter and complete destruction of our homeland and our way of life.
To play devil's advocate, giving tax breaks to attract/keep major businesses is a normal thing for state governments. After all, these businesses bring in major direct (income taxes) and indrect revenue (local employees' property taxes, sales taxes etc) to the state. Nine years ago, Boeing ditched Seattle and moved to Chicago partly because of tax breaks offered by Chicago.
I am sorry but I would take this story with pinch of salt.
Could be someone is pulling a fast one on this guy?
There is nothing in the film that shows any originality or creativity in ideas. It seems like a amateur copy of scenes from "War of the Worlds" and "Independence Day".
So, what did Hollywood Studios see in this guy?
That he can make a hacky special effects film for $300? Even there, anyone can see that if you used the proper accounting methods, the budget was probaly way more than $300. All those crowds running was previously shot and reused dfootage. If he had to perform original shooting of those scenes, the budget would go way over $300. Same goes for the explosions and other special effects. He probably spent a long time on creating those but did not include the dollar value of that time which typically would add thousands of dollars to the film's budget.
So, I am not seeing what he brought to the table. Those fan-created Star Trek episodes have more going for them than this.
This is a perfect example of how deceptive headlines get created.
Original paper title: "Two white dwarfs with oxygen-rich atmospheres" The newspaper headline: "2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found- but they're stars not planets" Slashdot headline: "Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres"
The submitter could have simply stated "Two white dwarf stars with oxygen-rich atmospheres" but then who would have clicked further.
This decision just gave the IP address sword its second edge.
On the one hand, they were using IP addresses to identify and prosecute people for 'illegal' downloading and accessing child porn. Now, someone was aquitted based on their IP address.
Interesting indeed. Probably now, the authorities will realize the futility of using IP addresses as evidence.
Slashdot story in 2012: MPAA asks again for control of bank accounts
The MPAA is arguing that if they could directly control consumers' bank accounts, they could offer more goods to consumers.
Compare this simple robot to the high-tech Japanese one covered by Slashdot earlier. Makes one realize the difference in research money available to the Slovenians versus to the Japanese.
Your examples are of world-famous celebrities. They are popular cross-racially. People's knowledge of these celebrities and their identification with these celeberities is based on other things - not the skin color. In ads featuring unknown models in normal settings such as home and office, it is different.
This will lead to people indulging in arbitrage.
Unless, of course, Microsoft has somehow put in a mechanism that disables a UK-bought Windows 7 when someone attempts to install it on a computer located in the US.
Slashdot Mirror
Inflatable life buoy launcher gun
Inflatable and recoverable lifesaving projectile apparatus
The above don't use foam though.
Why do we need to go away when we still have to colonize about 80% of our planet?
Answer: Click here
Looks like just as porn drives the advances in computer technology, alcohol will drive the advances in renewable sources technology.
Of course, now when someone says "this beer tastes like piss", you can tell them, it actually is piss. They then have the choice of running out and screaming "The booze is piss, people!"
Weight loss ad told me I could lose UP TO 50 lbs. I still need to request a seat-belt extender on airplanes
My employer said I could make UP TO a million dollars a year if the company does well. I am still driving a beat up Kia
And, worse of all, that nice email ad said I could increase my length UP TO 9 inches. My wife still has trouble finding it
Meh..
Let us say there is a secret US military document. Say this document has complete details of a plan to attack Canada two months from now. Someone in the military leaks it out and Wikileaks publishes it on a server hosted by Pirate Party. Questions: 1. Who should be jailed? (a)The military guy who leaked it (b)Wikieaks chief (Assange) (c)the Pirate Party chief (Falkvinge)? 2. What if the plans were to take out an Iranian nuclear facility? Would your answers change? 3. What if the plans were to take out a North Korean chemical weapons facility? Would your answers change? 4. What if the plans were to take out an AlQaeda hideout? Would your answers change?
Before you pooh-pooh these geeks/nerds for having orgasms about something so trivial, remember they were in an auditorium full of people.
When people are in a crowd situation trying to have fun, they will cheer or boo the most inane things to get the energy going and enhance their shared experience.
May be it is just me but I never liked the name of the company/service.
I am not against whimsical names. They have been all the rage since the dotcom era.
But, the name has to be at least easily pronunceable (like Google, Twitter etc).
I bet everyone of you has wondered at least once whether it was pronounced "skyyp" or "skyypeh" or "skip" or whatever.
And, to me, this confusion distracts the customer. Makes the company look amateur. And, makes the customer wonder about the quality and the professionalism of the compnay's services.
I am not sure ALL software patents should be disallowed.
Say I invest a large amount of time and money in inventing and testing an algorithm that very accurately recognizes faces in a picture or one that more efficiently routes gate connections inside a computer chip or one that produces better search results in a web search. I should be able to patent those algorithms and, hence, recover my investment by selling software based on those unique and novel algorithms.
Now before you mindlessly react by saying "Algorithms cannot be patented", read this.
wikipedia has it. Doh!
citation please?
If you are not one of these incoming Stanford/Berkeley students, you can get your own testing done for about $500
This company is owned by Google founder, Sergey Brin's wife, Anne.
Earth and Mars are constantly seeding life to each other? Wow!
This sounds very interesting at first glance but from the same link:
There is a trap in considering average (annual) values because the transfer of rocks occurs in spikes. It is assumed that impacts by asteroids 1km in diameter or larger are needed to launch ejecta into interplanetary flight. Such impacts produce craters 20km or more in diameter. They occur on Mars and Earth (land impacts only) over typical timescales of one to ten million years.
By definition, viable transfers only take place within 100,000 years of the impact so there are long periods between impacts when Mars rocks that fall to Earth have remained in space for too long and any hitchhiking microbes are assumed to have died. There do not appear to have been large impacts on Mars (or the Earth for that matter) over the past 100,000 years so it is unlikely that "hospitable" Mars rocks are reaching the Earth at present, or vice versa.
Ergo... we are not CONSTANTLY seeding any life to Mars or vice versa
(Please dont mod me down, I am just a messenger)
When you point a camera, it is not just a passive device recording events. Instead, it can actually influence the events that it is recording. A witness at a crime scene may be hesitant to say exactly what he or she thinks because he knows the neighbors may see it. People may run away or refuse to come forward because they are afraid that they will be identified later on television and thus could become the victims of a crime. A lot of things happen in police encounters and sometimes a camera can have a chilling effect on the proceedings. Sometimes the influence of camera presence can benefit society by keeping police abuses in check. Sometimes it can be a harm.
Personally, I think the police officers only have their own benefit in mind when they ask for a ban on cameras.
Another closely watched entry in this year's competition was National Enquirer's outing of John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter.
I guess the Enquirer didn't win. Othewise, it would have been another first - a Pulitzer awarded to a tabloid.
Here is a simple test to dertermine which group you fall into:
1. Hold both your arms in front of you with your hands about a foot (0.3 meters) apart.
2. Make fists with your hands.
3. Extend the index fingers of both hands towards each other.
4. Bring your index fingers close together and attempt to touch their tips precisely together.
If you can do it, you can enjoy 3D movies.
If you cannot, go to a vision therapist.
You can also try the above test with one eye closed. You will almost always fail at step 4.
Please give generous support to these brave men and women in uniform who are sacrificing so much to keep us safe from our sworn enemies. You can help in so many ways. Donate cash, send them care packages or offer substantial discounts on the goods and services you provide. Have them give inspirational talks to school children. Invite them to throw pitches at college baseball games or give them free front-row seating at NFL and NBA games. Celebrate them by having them line up on stage at the begining of any award or entertainment show. Call your congressman or senator to increase military budgets because our brave servicemen remain shockingly under-equipped when facing our powerful enemies whose only goal is the utter and complete destruction of our homeland and our way of life.
To play devil's advocate, giving tax breaks to attract/keep major businesses is a normal thing for state governments. After all, these businesses bring in major direct (income taxes) and indrect revenue (local employees' property taxes, sales taxes etc) to the state. Nine years ago, Boeing ditched Seattle and moved to Chicago partly because of tax breaks offered by Chicago.
Here is a young slashdotter using a widely available version of this device to analyze planetary motion and black holes:
Video Link 1
Here is another one using it to visually depict string theory:
Video Link 2
I am sorry but I would take this story with pinch of salt.
Could be someone is pulling a fast one on this guy?
There is nothing in the film that shows any originality or creativity in ideas. It seems like a amateur copy of scenes from "War of the Worlds" and "Independence Day".
So, what did Hollywood Studios see in this guy?
That he can make a hacky special effects film for $300? Even there, anyone can see that if you used the proper accounting methods, the budget was probaly way more than $300. All those crowds running was previously shot and reused dfootage. If he had to perform original shooting of those scenes, the budget would go way over $300. Same goes for the explosions and other special effects. He probably spent a long time on creating those but did not include the dollar value of that time which typically would add thousands of dollars to the film's budget. So, I am not seeing what he brought to the table.
Those fan-created Star Trek episodes have more going for them than this.
This is a perfect example of how deceptive headlines get created.
Original paper title: "Two white dwarfs with oxygen-rich atmospheres"
The newspaper headline: "2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found- but they're stars not planets"
Slashdot headline: "Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres"
The submitter could have simply stated "Two white dwarf stars with oxygen-rich atmospheres" but then who would have clicked further.
This decision just gave the IP address sword its second edge.
On the one hand, they were using IP addresses to identify and prosecute people for 'illegal' downloading and accessing child porn. Now, someone was aquitted based on their IP address.
Interesting indeed. Probably now, the authorities will realize the futility of using IP addresses as evidence.
Slashdot story in 2012: MPAA asks again for control of bank accounts
The MPAA is arguing that if they could directly control consumers' bank accounts, they could offer more goods to consumers.
Compare this simple robot to the high-tech Japanese one covered by Slashdot earlier. Makes one realize the difference in research money available to the Slovenians versus to the Japanese.
Your examples are of world-famous celebrities. They are popular cross-racially. People's knowledge of these celebrities and their identification with these celeberities is based on other things - not the skin color. In ads featuring unknown models in normal settings such as home and office, it is different.
This will lead to people indulging in arbitrage.
Unless, of course, Microsoft has somehow put in a mechanism that disables a UK-bought Windows 7 when someone attempts to install it on a computer located in the US.