The first name often sticks. The word Native Americans wasn't made up until way later and the first news back from the voyage the people figured out what went right about it. Their idea of the Ocean Sea was wrong and there's a lot more land than they expected. Hell even the people Columbus sailed with knew he was wrong at the time.
To wit, there's a very important protein called Sonic Hedgehog and it's a completely silly name for what has turned out to be an amazing find and amazingly useful... however I'm pretty sure the name will stick and rightfully so.
Names don't change just because they suck. Take a good long thought at the "Big Bang" one of these days and draw conclusions about how stupid we all are.
They weren't dark because they completely lost the Greek knowledge rather they simply never built on any previous discoveries and doing so pissed off the church. In fact, the church was pretty good at locking that stuff away.
Seriously, I have a BS in computer science and I couldn't get that patch to work (I only tried for a minute or two before just watching the video) and it seems to be to be considerably easier just to get porn on the internet. I am absolutely perplexed how difficult to get to work, crappy drawings, in a game, at a part of the game that nobody should care about (who the hell ever dated her after the fire anyway?) and a pain in the ass to do to boot should be so traumatizing to require a lawsuit.
I fully understand the want to sue for money. However, it's like walking five miles to see this one rock that somebody drew a penis on in chalk... and then suing because it was traumatic.
I'd go the other way. You can always learn languages with fewer abilities, but I'd say teach him Java straight off. First it gets him set directly into the OO paradigm and secondly it has a lot of really good structures to save him a lot of time before producing some nice code. You can always learn to code poorly later.
Actually we've gotten a bit better and could power the world for a few thousand years on the our supply of uranium. We don't consider it spent because it's all used up, rather it gets some plutonium building up on it and unlike some of the planned new gen reactors we need remove it (which is quite easy to do) but then we have some plutonium that we don't exactly need. The real solution is to make reactors which could burn the plutonium too and get use it to start getting rid of all these aged nuclear weapons we have lying around. Though, also using up the uranium and burning the plutonium directly would be great (but we have so many fricking old nukes we wouldn't get to the "spent fuel" for a long long time). Doing this is going to break the Uranium down even more and run into a lot of lighter and much more radioactive elements which are either going to burn directly in the same reaction or decay in a couple hours or days at most. Other than the gloves and reactor cores and everything else which is just tainted the rest can be burned pretty much. The high level waste isn't that much of an issue.
In short, I doubt the people in the future will forget where all the fuel is stored.
Any physics doctorates want to straighten me out? It seems as though if the line every lost the super conductivity it would go crazy and vaporize. Did they cover that in tfa that I didn't r? Or what?
Perhaps our ears hear well at the frequency of the noises made by humans. I daresay that chimps hear chimp sounds and dogs hear dog sounds quite aptly. If our speech arose out of our ability to make verbal noises, then this result would make perfect sense even without suggesting a damn thing about complex human language.
What's worse is they could read slashdot and believe that they work by photon pressure rather than solar winds. What next? Does reentry burn you up because of friction (rather than rapid pressure change)?
Because even if we drilled ANWR and everywhere else we still wouldn't be able to get oil out of the ground fast enough to beat our previous max output record from 2005. Make no mistake ANWR has about 7bb and at todays values that's 800 billion dollars of oil. However, with the rates we use oil that will offset a few percent of our oil supply. It would have the net effect of giving us the oil prices we were paying 3 months ago.
Peak Oil is the point where the increase in supply fails to outstrip the increase in demand. Where we have managed to use half the oil on the planet.
I thought when Gasoline hit $4 and oil up in the got up in the $130 people would stop calling the folks who say that 'oil is going to become expensive after the cheap oil is extracted'... loonies. Drat.
Also, as far as I recall the only peak oil claim about food is that it will cost more to transport when gas costs $3.50 a gallon or whatever ridiculously high yanked out of their ass number those loons tossed around (this claim was from like four years ago).
Not only that but couldn't you argue that because it pours that power onto the grid it might as well be any town? It seems like somebody nearby has a wind farm and therefore that city is thusly powered by wind. Couldn't my town be completely powered by wind out of the Loess Hill Wind Farm if it takes less than 16 gigawatt hours? Local windfarm produces more than local towns power consumption? It isn't like the town owns the wind farm... it's exactly like there's a windfarm near a town!
This is completely stupid. Well played Slashdot, well played.
What? My PC is always idling. I run it 24/7 and it does nothing most of the time. I watch a few things, download, code up some programs, play some counterstrike. None of those things tend to max out my CPU cores.
Also, you can undervolt a system perfectly fine. It will take less power and can be verified as stable.
What kind of freak world do you live in where you max out your cpu all the time?
What's worse about nipples isn't that the learning curve is so steep (some animals in nature die before they learn) but the installation of nipples are universal to all units whereas they are only needed in about half the units.
According to the IAU definition a planet needs to orbit around the Sun. No exoplanet is really a planet. Though the question depends a lot on what it's made of. It needs to be at hydrostatic equilibrium and fairly round (this is easier fluids and gases) and it needs to have cleared it's area.
Lets say it needs to be about the size of mercury and sweep the question under the rug as frankly a ball of water the size of a basketball, if the only object orbiting a star, would qualify as a planet.
I fully understand that you can and we should shift away from fossil fuels as fast as possible and I strongly agree with all of your notes. However, I wouldn't restrict to just pebble bed reactors as a number of other reactors are passively safe and even just standard issue WPR are quite safe and quite effective. However, my main objection is that it just might be too little too late. I think there needs to be another Gear to research and implement some way to remove the heat-trapping pollution already in the atmosphere. Even if we stop as fast as you suggest we're still going to have 400 PPM of CO2 and it's still going to wreck havoc.
Also, for the solar power plant we need to make a lot more solar cell plants probably with the ability to mass produce like that printing solar panel tech which has started to kick into high gear.
All reactors are breeder reactors. And we can easily reprocess the fuel and use it over again and burn off the plutonium for a good while. In fact most of our high grade nuclear waste is spent about 1% of it's fuel capacity. We could easily let it breed a number of isotopes of Pu and just burn them off again. Until they finally break down to some far lighter elements which have extremely short half-lives (and would kill you rather instantly if you were in the room) of several days. The only real difference between breeders and non-breeders is we call the breeders what they are and lie about the other kind.
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We should invest in passively safe (physically unable to meltdown) nuclear reactors and reprocess all that fuel, burn up our old nuclear weapons while your at it, and take a little bit of Pu for NASA. The science is pretty clear and nuclear energy could be done without massive amounts of high grade waste (you're still going to have *SHITLOADS* of low grade waste like gloves and old reactors / we have a lot of that from the medical field already). Come on, let's ditch those fossil fuels and switch over to the French system of running our power on safe green DEATH-BOMB power.
I swear the odd association of everything nuclear (bombs) with everything else nuclear (energy) is downright amusing. It's almost like the association of everything chemical with everything else chemical. "This new wholesome food, contains no chemicals!"
"'Evolution is a theory about the origin of life' is presented as false. It is not. I know many people like to recite the mantra that "abiogenesis is not evolution," but it's a cop-out. Evolution is about a plurality of natural mechanisms that generate diversity. It includes molecular biases towards certain solutions and chance events that set up potential change as well as selection that refines existing variation. Abiogenesis research proposes similar principles that led to early chemical evolution. Tossing that work into a special-case ghetto that exempts you from explaining it is cheating, and ignores the fact that life is chemistry. That creationists don't understand that either is not a reason for us to avoid it."
According to the DNA studies Neanderthals are a cousin species to sapien. Splitting off from us several hundred thousand years prior to modern humans. Lucy is millions of years old. The difference between snakes and worms is massive.
I recommend isolating a clearly false claim he's making, and breaking out a $20 bill. Bet him he's stupid. Then look it up (as would be required for the pay out).
The namers of the asteroids are reportedly fans. So it's not all an interesting coincidence.
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I think that over twenty years the extra weight of that little tag is going to knock it off it's current course and make it hit Earth. I ask that all of you repeat this, make youtube videos about it and proclaim repeatedly that we're all going to die.
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The first name often sticks. The word Native Americans wasn't made up until way later and the first news back from the voyage the people figured out what went right about it. Their idea of the Ocean Sea was wrong and there's a lot more land than they expected. Hell even the people Columbus sailed with knew he was wrong at the time.
To wit, there's a very important protein called Sonic Hedgehog and it's a completely silly name for what has turned out to be an amazing find and amazingly useful... however I'm pretty sure the name will stick and rightfully so.
Names don't change just because they suck. Take a good long thought at the "Big Bang" one of these days and draw conclusions about how stupid we all are.
They weren't dark because they completely lost the Greek knowledge rather they simply never built on any previous discoveries and doing so pissed off the church. In fact, the church was pretty good at locking that stuff away.
Seriously, I have a BS in computer science and I couldn't get that patch to work (I only tried for a minute or two before just watching the video) and it seems to be to be considerably easier just to get porn on the internet. I am absolutely perplexed how difficult to get to work, crappy drawings, in a game, at a part of the game that nobody should care about (who the hell ever dated her after the fire anyway?) and a pain in the ass to do to boot should be so traumatizing to require a lawsuit.
I fully understand the want to sue for money. However, it's like walking five miles to see this one rock that somebody drew a penis on in chalk... and then suing because it was traumatic.
No sir, I don't get it.
I'd go the other way. You can always learn languages with fewer abilities, but I'd say teach him Java straight off. First it gets him set directly into the OO paradigm and secondly it has a lot of really good structures to save him a lot of time before producing some nice code. You can always learn to code poorly later.
Actually we've gotten a bit better and could power the world for a few thousand years on the our supply of uranium. We don't consider it spent because it's all used up, rather it gets some plutonium building up on it and unlike some of the planned new gen reactors we need remove it (which is quite easy to do) but then we have some plutonium that we don't exactly need. The real solution is to make reactors which could burn the plutonium too and get use it to start getting rid of all these aged nuclear weapons we have lying around. Though, also using up the uranium and burning the plutonium directly would be great (but we have so many fricking old nukes we wouldn't get to the "spent fuel" for a long long time). Doing this is going to break the Uranium down even more and run into a lot of lighter and much more radioactive elements which are either going to burn directly in the same reaction or decay in a couple hours or days at most. Other than the gloves and reactor cores and everything else which is just tainted the rest can be burned pretty much. The high level waste isn't that much of an issue.
In short, I doubt the people in the future will forget where all the fuel is stored.
Any physics doctorates want to straighten me out? It seems as though if the line every lost the super conductivity it would go crazy and vaporize. Did they cover that in tfa that I didn't r? Or what?
Perhaps our ears hear well at the frequency of the noises made by humans. I daresay that chimps hear chimp sounds and dogs hear dog sounds quite aptly. If our speech arose out of our ability to make verbal noises, then this result would make perfect sense even without suggesting a damn thing about complex human language.
And here I read it e^((pi)*i) + 1 times.
What's worse is they could read slashdot and believe that they work by photon pressure rather than solar winds. What next? Does reentry burn you up because of friction (rather than rapid pressure change)?
640s cost $100 (due to the platter density I highly recommend the 640) whereas the 500s cost about 80 currently.
Because even if we drilled ANWR and everywhere else we still wouldn't be able to get oil out of the ground fast enough to beat our previous max output record from 2005. Make no mistake ANWR has about 7bb and at todays values that's 800 billion dollars of oil. However, with the rates we use oil that will offset a few percent of our oil supply. It would have the net effect of giving us the oil prices we were paying 3 months ago.
Peak Oil is the point where the increase in supply fails to outstrip the increase in demand. Where we have managed to use half the oil on the planet.
I thought when Gasoline hit $4 and oil up in the got up in the $130 people would stop calling the folks who say that 'oil is going to become expensive after the cheap oil is extracted'... loonies. Drat.
Also, as far as I recall the only peak oil claim about food is that it will cost more to transport when gas costs $3.50 a gallon or whatever ridiculously high yanked out of their ass number those loons tossed around (this claim was from like four years ago).
Not only that but couldn't you argue that because it pours that power onto the grid it might as well be any town? It seems like somebody nearby has a wind farm and therefore that city is thusly powered by wind. Couldn't my town be completely powered by wind out of the Loess Hill Wind Farm if it takes less than 16 gigawatt hours? Local windfarm produces more than local towns power consumption? It isn't like the town owns the wind farm... it's exactly like there's a windfarm near a town!
This is completely stupid. Well played Slashdot, well played.
What? My PC is always idling. I run it 24/7 and it does nothing most of the time. I watch a few things, download, code up some programs, play some counterstrike. None of those things tend to max out my CPU cores.
Also, you can undervolt a system perfectly fine. It will take less power and can be verified as stable.
What kind of freak world do you live in where you max out your cpu all the time?
What's worse about nipples isn't that the learning curve is so steep (some animals in nature die before they learn) but the installation of nipples are universal to all units whereas they are only needed in about half the units.
I daresay anything which results in that course of action is powered by a large store of stupid somewhere up the line.
According to the IAU definition a planet needs to orbit around the Sun. No exoplanet is really a planet. Though the question depends a lot on what it's made of. It needs to be at hydrostatic equilibrium and fairly round (this is easier fluids and gases) and it needs to have cleared it's area.
Lets say it needs to be about the size of mercury and sweep the question under the rug as frankly a ball of water the size of a basketball, if the only object orbiting a star, would qualify as a planet.
Um. If you want to stop a hurricane... blow as hard as you can in the other direction!
I fully understand that you can and we should shift away from fossil fuels as fast as possible and I strongly agree with all of your notes. However, I wouldn't restrict to just pebble bed reactors as a number of other reactors are passively safe and even just standard issue WPR are quite safe and quite effective. However, my main objection is that it just might be too little too late. I think there needs to be another Gear to research and implement some way to remove the heat-trapping pollution already in the atmosphere. Even if we stop as fast as you suggest we're still going to have 400 PPM of CO2 and it's still going to wreck havoc.
Also, for the solar power plant we need to make a lot more solar cell plants probably with the ability to mass produce like that printing solar panel tech which has started to kick into high gear.
Those things get set off by bananas too. The potassium isotopes in a truck load is enough to freak it out.
Even one messed up pointer could cause this child to die!
Segmentation faults are murder!
Honestly I wonder about the moral oddities of AI.
All reactors are breeder reactors. And we can easily reprocess the fuel and use it over again and burn off the plutonium for a good while. In fact most of our high grade nuclear waste is spent about 1% of it's fuel capacity. We could easily let it breed a number of isotopes of Pu and just burn them off again. Until they finally break down to some far lighter elements which have extremely short half-lives (and would kill you rather instantly if you were in the room) of several days. The only real difference between breeders and non-breeders is we call the breeders what they are and lie about the other kind.
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We should invest in passively safe (physically unable to meltdown) nuclear reactors and reprocess all that fuel, burn up our old nuclear weapons while your at it, and take a little bit of Pu for NASA. The science is pretty clear and nuclear energy could be done without massive amounts of high grade waste (you're still going to have *SHITLOADS* of low grade waste like gloves and old reactors / we have a lot of that from the medical field already). Come on, let's ditch those fossil fuels and switch over to the French system of running our power on safe green DEATH-BOMB power.
I swear the odd association of everything nuclear (bombs) with everything else nuclear (energy) is downright amusing. It's almost like the association of everything chemical with everything else chemical. "This new wholesome food, contains no chemicals!"
We should have been off fossil fuels decades ago.
PZ Myers put it pretty distinctly:
"'Evolution is a theory about the origin of life' is presented as false. It is not. I know many people like to recite the mantra that "abiogenesis is not evolution," but it's a cop-out. Evolution is about a plurality of natural mechanisms that generate diversity. It includes molecular biases towards certain solutions and chance events that set up potential change as well as selection that refines existing variation. Abiogenesis research proposes similar principles that led to early chemical evolution. Tossing that work into a special-case ghetto that exempts you from explaining it is cheating, and ignores the fact that life is chemistry. That creationists don't understand that either is not a reason for us to avoid it."
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/15_misconceptions_about_evolut.php
According to the DNA studies Neanderthals are a cousin species to sapien. Splitting off from us several hundred thousand years prior to modern humans. Lucy is millions of years old. The difference between snakes and worms is massive.
I recommend isolating a clearly false claim he's making, and breaking out a $20 bill. Bet him he's stupid. Then look it up (as would be required for the pay out).
You'll win 20 bucks and show him he's wrong.
The namers of the asteroids are reportedly fans. So it's not all an interesting coincidence.
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I think that over twenty years the extra weight of that little tag is going to knock it off it's current course and make it hit Earth. I ask that all of you repeat this, make youtube videos about it and proclaim repeatedly that we're all going to die.
Thank you.