"I think music is a human construct," he says. "I doubt that it has pertinence to animals..."
Dude, why does everybody on Slashdot think they know so much more than some dolt they interview for an article. I mean, I have almost never seen an article posted on/. that didn't get an errata. So they guy is completely retarded and a bigoted speciesist. Sure, birds make vocalizations in repeating patterns to attract mates. Sure, whales have low harmonic sounds that seem to serve some purpose. Sure crickets churp and wolves howl... but this isn't music. It doesn't sound anywhere near as good as Brittney Spears or her soon to be ex-husband's loud noises. We are human and music belongs to us!
They need to speed off in some direction mind you to get up to speed as the cable would only be going at the GSO speed. But, it could be done, and done much cheaper than actually launching it from a ground craft. Although, I don't think you could get back down that way.
Personally I think Myspace is ugly as hell. Really, I don't see much of a point to their formatting. Why should a bunch of folks need to copy a bunch of awful CSS stuff from sites setup to provide such nonsense, while at the same time having little to no idea how to configure the stuff personally. Why don't they redesign their site to be easily configurable with AJAX. You should be able to edit your site by just dragging and dropping the different windows, changing background colors and images in extremely simple and quick ways.
I mean as it is you need to stream the background images from certain sites setup to host these, it would be trivial to have them replace the background image with goatse or the ilk. I really don't think that MySpace should allow any such edits.
I really don't think that anything that I could code better in a month with a small team of programmers should be worth much money at all.
Um, are these statistical analyzes magic? Can they determine the difference between a good teacher who taught to the test and an evil teacher who cheated? Oh, look this teachers student did better. Does that mean the teacher did well or does that mean the students cheated? Perhaps you could do something where you determine that every student got problem 3 right. Well, maybe problem three was just covered quite well by the teacher. What if they all get exactly 92% you flag it?
Come now, a good optimized compiler could catch it.
And we're talking biology, so there's no coder. It can do stuff in the most brilliant way possible or in a way so stupid a third grader might wince. Evolution isn't smart, but it solves problems.
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Class Bee : Public arthropod {
public:
Dance(location flowerLocation);//odd way to communicate
Lay(Object egg);
Kill(*Object t) { while (state == alive && t->state == alive) Sting(t); }
Sting(*Object t) { Stinger.Sting(*t); if (Bee != Queen) Die(); }//why?
Die() { state = dead; }
private:
Part Wings;
Part Thorax;
Part Head;
Part Stinger;
type Bee;
int size;
behavior Behavior;
existence state; } Bee::Bee {
state = alive;
size = 10;
if (Bee == Queen){
Behavior = "Go around laying eggs";
}
else {
StopGrowthHormone();//calls miRNA routine
Behavior = "Go around gathering honey";
}
If (exists(GrowthHormone)) {
size += 20;
} }
It's neat to find, but it had to be there. Each bee has the same core DNA. The drones and queen and each sub variety of bee all use the same DNA. For the geeks in the audience who aren't bio-geeks as well.
Make Wings; Make Thorax; Make Head; Size = 10; if (Bee == Queen){//miRNA
Size = 30;
Behavior = "Go around laying eggs"; } else {
Size = 10;
Behavior = "Go around gathering honey"; }
Give or take. miRNA goes around turning off certain gene stuff. I'm too lazy to RTFA, but I'd like to know the relationship between miRNA and royal jelly.
I actually considered this, having read a piece on cryovolcanics, several days ago.
I doubt geologists would count ice-plutons on plutons to be real plutons, unless they are composed of rocks. I doubt that water makes a very good replacement for magma in the pluton creation also with the differing gravities; I don't know if it is possible. A quick application of a fallacy from ignorance and it's not possible. QED.
They were both on Farscape from the beginning. You need somebody who gets brought in for just the last episodes of a long running show like Paul Provenza.
It was one of the best episodes. It would be like not knowing SG-1's Window of Opportunity or Space Above and Beyond's Sugar Dirt, or each and every episode of Firefly. It's just one of those things scifi people should know. The part where they read the damned label from across the room and John couldn't was fricking classic.
If you use the same word for too many things you end up failing to understand which Marklar Marklar was talking about, so some Marklar might not understand what the Marklar Marklar was talking about.
Because of their distance from the Sun (and lack of magma), plutons typically lack plutons. So a pluton such as Pluto and its pluton Charon, would both likely be devoid of any plutons.
Also very unlikely would be EM attraction rather than gravitational attraction. No more logical conclusions anywhere. It must be fairy dust... ah, dark matter.
Yes being behind other matter is much less likely than an invisible exotic form of matter that exists in superheavy halos around all galaxies and is completely invisible. Therefore we must accept dark matter.
We're geeks. Screw cancer. Acne is caused, in part by, P. acnes. While we are at it, tooth decay is cause primarily by Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus acidophilus. Lack of sex is called by Geekoccus maximus. Lets get some phages to eat this suckers.
Hmmm. I don't think it should be dropped. I mean, it's not as worthless as scroll lock.
We should remove pause and printscreen. Then move the caps lock key and the numlock key over there. So we have one nice little section that does all the locking. Put the little lights for the locks right above them.
Pry that windows key off these stupid boards. A button that just gets you killed while gaming. Crap**2.
Replace caps lock with a new key, function. Then drop all the function keys. Function+'1' = F1,... Function+'-' = F11, Function+'='=F12.
That or just convert it to yet another return key.
Today's "nuclear waste" is today's fuel. If we started up some Gen III or IV we could mix in some Pu and the still very good U, and we're set. We just run it through once because it builds up Pu, and Pu can be used in weapons systems. The newer versions mix up the fuel in such a way that it becomes extremely hard to get the Pu out, hard enough that it's safe, proliferation-wise.
The reason it can't meltdown is because the core will expand and slow the reaction if it gets too hot. It's designed to be passively safe. Even if nobody is there, it's still safe.
The worst disaster in US history, was about as bad as a chest X-Ray standing right outside the Three-Mile Island reactor. And that was a really old reactor design. Nuclear power releases less radiation than coal burning plants. Coal burning plants in the US are polluting the crap out of the world. The CO2 emissions are pretty bad, global warming needs action. Even if we were to stop driving cars, it wouldn't make anywhere near the same dent as several more nuclear power plants over coal burning plants.
I am pretty gung-ho for nuclear power because I am an environmentalist.
Although, nuclear fuel isn't renewable, we have enough to run the earth on it for the next few million years (with modern fuel cycles). It is however non-polluting. It does typically release a bit of hot water, this could cause some problems but it's typically harmless. It releases less radiation than coal burning does, and has no byproducts. Modern nuclear fuel cycles are the greenest sources of power you can get. Wind power kills a few birds. Nuclear power wouldn't. Unlike solar, it works at night and doesn't take up land usually displacing some critters who lived there before. Nuclear power is greener than green power. If your power generation cleaned the environment maybe it could win. But, you can't do better than 0 environmental problems. Well, it was yanked out of the ground pretty poorly way back when, but we've mined enough that we don't need to mine any more.
It is the environmentally friendly source of power, nuclear makes the sun shine and the environment exist at all. Modern fusion would use 99% whereas the old fuel sources used 1%. You can't compare it to any other source, because it whoops on any other source in terms of environment friendliness.
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"I think music is a human construct," he says. "I doubt that it has pertinence to animals..."
/. that didn't get an errata. So they guy is completely retarded and a bigoted speciesist. Sure, birds make vocalizations in repeating patterns to attract mates. Sure, whales have low harmonic sounds that seem to serve some purpose. Sure crickets churp and wolves howl... but this isn't music. It doesn't sound anywhere near as good as Brittney Spears or her soon to be ex-husband's loud noises. We are human and music belongs to us!
Dude, why does everybody on Slashdot think they know so much more than some dolt they interview for an article. I mean, I have almost never seen an article posted on
They need to speed off in some direction mind you to get up to speed as the cable would only be going at the GSO speed. But, it could be done, and done much cheaper than actually launching it from a ground craft. Although, I don't think you could get back down that way.
So the guy goes to his doctor and says.
"Hey Doc, everytime I use my space elevator to go to geosync orbit I die of radiation in the Van Allen belt!"
The doctor looks at him and says, "Then don't do that!".
Just let the humans off at LEO and keep sending the Sats and such up to GSO.
Personally I think Myspace is ugly as hell. Really, I don't see much of a point to their formatting. Why should a bunch of folks need to copy a bunch of awful CSS stuff from sites setup to provide such nonsense, while at the same time having little to no idea how to configure the stuff personally. Why don't they redesign their site to be easily configurable with AJAX. You should be able to edit your site by just dragging and dropping the different windows, changing background colors and images in extremely simple and quick ways.
I mean as it is you need to stream the background images from certain sites setup to host these, it would be trivial to have them replace the background image with goatse or the ilk. I really don't think that MySpace should allow any such edits.
I really don't think that anything that I could code better in a month with a small team of programmers should be worth much money at all.
Um, are these statistical analyzes magic? Can they determine the difference between a good teacher who taught to the test and an evil teacher who cheated? Oh, look this teachers student did better. Does that mean the teacher did well or does that mean the students cheated? Perhaps you could do something where you determine that every student got problem 3 right. Well, maybe problem three was just covered quite well by the teacher. What if they all get exactly 92% you flag it?
Seems a little spotty to me.
I graduated a few years back and it was included.
Come now, a good optimized compiler could catch it.
//odd way to communicate //why?
And we're talking biology, so there's no coder. It can do stuff in the most brilliant way possible or in a way so stupid a third grader might wince. Evolution isn't smart, but it solves problems.
----------------------
Class Bee : Public arthropod {
public:
Dance(location flowerLocation);
Lay(Object egg);
Kill(*Object t) { while (state == alive && t->state == alive) Sting(t); }
Sting(*Object t) { Stinger.Sting(*t); if (Bee != Queen) Die(); }
Die() { state = dead; }
private:
Part Wings;
Part Thorax;
Part Head;
Part Stinger;
type Bee;
int size;
behavior Behavior;
existence state;
}
Bee::Bee {
state = alive;
size = 10;
if (Bee == Queen){
Behavior = "Go around laying eggs";
}
else {
StopGrowthHormone();//calls miRNA routine
Behavior = "Go around gathering honey";
}
If (exists(GrowthHormone)) {
size += 20;
}
}
It's neat to find, but it had to be there. Each bee has the same core DNA. The drones and queen and each sub variety of bee all use the same DNA. For the geeks in the audience who aren't bio-geeks as well.
Make Wings;
Make Thorax;
Make Head;
Size = 10;
if (Bee == Queen){//miRNA
Size = 30;
Behavior = "Go around laying eggs";
}
else {
Size = 10;
Behavior = "Go around gathering honey";
}
Give or take. miRNA goes around turning off certain gene stuff. I'm too lazy to RTFA, but I'd like to know the relationship between miRNA and royal jelly.
No, I'm Sparticus!
I actually considered this, having read a piece on cryovolcanics, several days ago.
I doubt geologists would count ice-plutons on plutons to be real plutons, unless they are composed of rocks. I doubt that water makes a very good replacement for magma in the pluton creation also with the differing gravities; I don't know if it is possible. A quick application of a fallacy from ignorance and it's not possible. QED.
They were both on Farscape from the beginning. You need somebody who gets brought in for just the last episodes of a long running show like Paul Provenza.
It was one of the best episodes. It would be like not knowing SG-1's Window of Opportunity or Space Above and Beyond's Sugar Dirt, or each and every episode of Firefly. It's just one of those things scifi people should know. The part where they read the damned label from across the room and John couldn't was fricking classic.
No. Smurf replaced adjectives and occasionally a verb. But, Marklar replaces nouns.
If you use the same word for too many things you end up failing to understand which Marklar Marklar was talking about, so some Marklar might not understand what the Marklar Marklar was talking about.
It still will cause problems.
Because of their distance from the Sun (and lack of magma), plutons typically lack plutons. So a pluton such as Pluto and its pluton Charon, would both likely be devoid of any plutons.
Maybe the geologists shouldn't name shit associated with Roman Gods. The damned astronomers called dibs years ago!
Also very unlikely would be EM attraction rather than gravitational attraction. No more logical conclusions anywhere. It must be fairy dust... ah, dark matter.
Yes being behind other matter is much less likely than an invisible exotic form of matter that exists in superheavy halos around all galaxies and is completely invisible. Therefore we must accept dark matter.
I mean, duh.
We're geeks. Screw cancer. Acne is caused, in part by, P. acnes. While we are at it, tooth decay is cause primarily by Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus acidophilus. Lack of sex is called by Geekoccus maximus. Lets get some phages to eat this suckers.
Hmmm. I don't think it should be dropped. I mean, it's not as worthless as scroll lock.
... Function+'-' = F11, Function+'='=F12.
We should remove pause and printscreen. Then move the caps lock key and the numlock key over there. So we have one nice little section that does all the locking. Put the little lights for the locks right above them.
Pry that windows key off these stupid boards. A button that just gets you killed while gaming. Crap**2.
Replace caps lock with a new key, function. Then drop all the function keys. Function+'1' = F1,
That or just convert it to yet another return key.
Yeah, so am I. I thought I had a +5 funny on my hands when I thought up the concept. But, I got nada!
Today's "nuclear waste" is today's fuel. If we started up some Gen III or IV we could mix in some Pu and the still very good U, and we're set. We just run it through once because it builds up Pu, and Pu can be used in weapons systems. The newer versions mix up the fuel in such a way that it becomes extremely hard to get the Pu out, hard enough that it's safe, proliferation-wise.
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The reason it can't meltdown is because the core will expand and slow the reaction if it gets too hot. It's designed to be passively safe. Even if nobody is there, it's still safe.
The worst disaster in US history, was about as bad as a chest X-Ray standing right outside the Three-Mile Island reactor. And that was a really old reactor design. Nuclear power releases less radiation than coal burning plants. Coal burning plants in the US are polluting the crap out of the world. The CO2 emissions are pretty bad, global warming needs action. Even if we were to stop driving cars, it wouldn't make anywhere near the same dent as several more nuclear power plants over coal burning plants.
I am pretty gung-ho for nuclear power because I am an environmentalist.
Although, nuclear fuel isn't renewable, we have enough to run the earth on it for the next few million years (with modern fuel cycles). It is however non-polluting. It does typically release a bit of hot water, this could cause some problems but it's typically harmless. It releases less radiation than coal burning does, and has no byproducts. Modern nuclear fuel cycles are the greenest sources of power you can get. Wind power kills a few birds. Nuclear power wouldn't. Unlike solar, it works at night and doesn't take up land usually displacing some critters who lived there before. Nuclear power is greener than green power. If your power generation cleaned the environment maybe it could win. But, you can't do better than 0 environmental problems. Well, it was yanked out of the ground pretty poorly way back when, but we've mined enough that we don't need to mine any more.
It is the environmentally friendly source of power, nuclear makes the sun shine and the environment exist at all. Modern fusion would use 99% whereas the old fuel sources used 1%. You can't compare it to any other source, because it whoops on any other source in terms of environment friendliness.