Actually that won't happen. If the laptop is running on batteries there won't be a closed loop through the bath water. The current has to flow from one pole of the battery through your body and back to the other end of the battery, preferrably after having the voltage multiplied a few times. If you are getting shocked from a self-powered laptop the route is probably from one part of the chassis to another, so grounding your feet in bath water won't make much of a difference.
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Windows does indeed support groups, at least Windows XP Pro does, and by extension I assume Vista does as well. However, they are a great pain to use. Not only do you have to set file permissions (similar to unix) but you also have to set registry permissions. This is not always done properly by the program installer, even if it is supposedly written for a multi-user system (If it's not written for a multi-user system then it isn't donw at all). Furthermore, the registry entries which need to be fixed are never documented. I was, for example, eventually able to get my Saitek flight controls to work properly with a limited account after much tinkering, but some applications, supposedly able to function (mostly) in a multi-user environment are stuck running in administrator. And not just with admin rights but only as the original administrator account. I tried creating a new user with admin access and these apps will not run on it--heck, I even copied all the administrator profile over to the new account and it will still not run. One tech support team recommended reinstalling Windows as a wild shot, the other threw up their hands and said it is a bug in the OS.
When Microsoft knew they were going to release XP Pro they should have started pushing multi-user features in their developer kits. All authoring systems should have had an option to build for multi-user and all installation kits should have been set up to do the same with a radio button. I suspect that Microsoft did not bother to do this, or they charged extra for it. As it stands out of maybe twenty large and small apps on my system that I paid for recently, only the big ticket items like Mathcad and Photoshop installed and ran properly. Some open-source stuff ran pretty well, too, but they tend to avoid the registry.
In the end I gave up trying to get everything to work. I tried running a few misbehaving apps with "Run as..." but you can not drag and drop between different user areas in Windows due to their separate memory areas (the pointer is inaccessible). So Windows XP Pro turned out to be a waste of money. I feel like I paid extra to beta test Microsoft's software.
This place you never heard of before is so incredibly irrelevant, it's almost surprising. Their moderate hype is somewhat misleading; if I hadn't mentioned it you might have been fooled, had you cared.
Or, more realistically, software that has a finer granularity and greater modularity so that the piece of ancient code that does this can be easily identified and swapped out, without needing to be understood by developers.
Natural laws are based on observation. Moore's law has held to this observation (with some slight tinkering) for decades, now.
Natural laws are not only useful for their predictive feature but for the fact that existence cries out for an explanation. The parent refers to a popular one: that Moore's law is a self-fulfilling prophecy because of social interactions. That probably makes it less reliable than g=-9.8ms^-2, but everyone seems to know that and knows how much faith to put in it.
When I was trained as an aerospace engineer in the early 1980's we were taught to begin any project by converting all specifications to metric, and then to convert them back if necessary when we were finished. I assume they did that over at nearby Grumman Aerospace when they designed the Lunar Module. I never worked as an aerospace engineer but I don't think many companies were working internally using the Imperial system. When I switched to electrical engineering the rule also was always metric. Meter-kilogram-second rules. Joules and watts, not horsepower. Although we still classified wire-wrap terminals and PCB features by mill size not everyone actually knew what a mill was; they were just size categories like "three-penny nail." When necessary we measured things with micrometers and reported them in metric.
Anyway, the idea that NASA was still issuing specifications in imperial units is curious. On one level it doesn't really matter, but on another it implies that they didn't know what was going on amongst the contractors.
Not quite right either. Of course they are entitled to an opinion, and of course they are entitled to voice their opinion. The problem is that idiots watching the boob tube think their opinion must be worth something, so the media dutifully report it.
Seriously, most journalists are smart enough to understand that most entertainment celebrities are morons. They report this stuff because the audience demands it.
It seems that the first 90% of posters did not bother to RTFA, and so I had to wade through a lot of redundant and irrelevant garbage to get here. I am tempted to use this client, but I am puzzled. Did they fork Azureus? I would have thought this could simply be run as a plugin. The things they are doing here with BitTyrant are things I have tried to effect manually by tweaking Azureus, but without the automatic dynamic response.
Let me quickly relate a recent experience. I installed Slackware on this machine a little while back. It took me two days, including one day to figure out how to set up Apache with a load of modules and Twiki. Kernel compiled, Apache compiled, ready to go.
More recently I had to install Windows XP Pro from an SP1 disk. It took me two days to set up Windows XP Pro with administrator and user accounts and get all my apps updated and working properly (or close enough with some apps running escalated privileges) in user mode.
My conclusion: Both Slackware and Windows are very difficult systems to build from scratch. If people had to install Windows themselves they would be as smart as Linux geeks.
Clearly Armstrong _intended_ to say it. Armstrong prefers that the quotation be written "One small step for (a) man..." so that it doesn't sound completely stupid.
I guess the magnitude of the moment had an effect even on him, which says a lot considering that he had always demonstrated a pretty cool head before.
Moonbounce is silly, show-off stuff. It is certainly possible with old technology but it suffers from the flaws of requiring too much power and too much geometry. Both you and your partner have to be able to see the moon, and the farther away your partner is the less likely that is to be true at any moment. Granted, it should be possible for at least a small period every day as the earth rotates, but this "appointment" would have to be set up beforehand every day to compensate for changes in the moon's position, making it extremely unreliable. All the moon bounces I've ever heard of were random contacts with strangers or were set up beforehand on a different channel (and still didn't work most of the time).
Slap on the wrist? There should be so much justice.
My solution is to use a custom hosts file. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm publishes a nice one. Whenever I click on a lick in a web search list and I immediately get a "link not found" then I can pretty sure I didn't really want to go there in the first place. A lot of advertisements show up as "404's" as well.
True. The moon is even easier to colonize, due to its proximity and the fact that it has no weather of its own to speak of. The availability of water might make a difference between Mars and the moon, but so far the data is incomplete.
At least they aren't called "Indians," or worse, "Dutch Indians."
Me? I'm Knickerbocker dutch, as opposed to Pennsylvania dutch. My ancestors bought Manhattan ("worthless investment" in the native Lenape tongue) from the American Indians for a few deeds on some undrained polders and renamed it Nieu Amsterdam. But the English preferred "New York" and so they sent in an army and changed the name by force. The Dutch responded with a whirlwind renaming attack, changing it to "New Orange" when the English weren't looking, but the English weren't fooled. They soon identified the island by listening for the awful dutch language (seriously, who speaks that?) and changed it back to New York.
They say having a sense of history will tell you more about where you are from, but it only leaves me confused. Anyway, I get cable.
The Texas gulf coast has a rolling easement. As the the water rises, your property will be rezoned as sea water and there is nothing you can do legally about it. This means that you cannot use technology to try to save your property with a bulkhead or artificial breakwater, for example, which would probably destroy your neighbors property even faster.
The "cow" threat is misleading. While methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, its half-life is extremely short compared to carbon dioxide. CO2 will pretty much stay in the atmosphere and ocean until some photosynthesizing plant or protist turns it into sugar so that it can be reburied under sediment where it belongs. (It can also be incorporated into the skeletons of sea creatures in the form of calcium carbonate, which is dissolved by CO2). So while cows are contributing to global warming, they have to keep pumping the stuff out continuously to keep it all from disappearing. All the CO2 we exhaust tends to add to the cumulative total.
The military has used SSN's as a service number almost from the outset, and we actually used to use ours in our mailing addresses. It made delivering mail to highly mobile service members a lot easier. This practice was discouraged in the late 1980's, but as late as the late 1990's the list of US military officers and their SSN's was annually published by congress.
Although the original legislation for SSN's states that it is not meant to be a sort of national identification number, this seems mainly aimed at evangelical Christians who identified such a thing with some passages from the Revelation of John. It wasn't until the communist and fascist regimes of Stalin and Hitler demonstrated the possibility of total control that secular fears of Big Brother began to surface.
The reality of the SSN is that--being as it is a guaranteed unique name--it is extremely useful as an ID. But using it as a password is absolutely asinine. The sad truth is that criminals are more likely to know a victim's social security number than the victim is.
The article is about olfactory receptors, not neurons. All the interactions described here are taking place where the external part of the olfactory receptor meets passing molecules. The actual news here is that the olfactory receptors might actually be capable of detecting quantum-level effects, unlike brain neurons which lack anything near the sensitivity required for that.
I doubt it would work any better on ice. The surface of ice (unless it is extremely cold) is always a thin layer of liquid water due to surface tension properties of the unattached hydrogen bonds. But since this is an exercise in surface characteristics it would be an interesting experiment to try. What if gecko feet reduce the monolayer of liquid?
Having good adherence to sand is also not very useful since you just cover the tire with loose sand. But perhaps good adherence to a clean road might help, though it might reduce your efficiency.
Tires tend to improve their traction by penetrating the soft outer layer of the surface they are on or by grabbing as much bulk material as they can. Ice is an exception to that.
Most mutations are not fatal, they are neutral, having no observable effects in the offspring. Elsewise, you would probably be dead. It is these random mutations that build up the gene pool, giving natural selection something to work on, and without which crossover would have no effect.
Actually, strong selection pressures are identified on a gene by the absence of crossover. When a gene is strongly selected the other genes and junk near it tend to be carried along intact, instead of being carved up by recombination.
Or are you suggesting that the gene for lactose tolerance arose through crossover? And if so how is that not a mutation?
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Actually that won't happen. If the laptop is running on batteries there won't be a closed loop through the bath water. The current has to flow from one pole of the battery through your body and back to the other end of the battery, preferrably after having the voltage multiplied a few times. If you are getting shocked from a self-powered laptop the route is probably from one part of the chassis to another, so grounding your feet in bath water won't make much of a difference.
Windows does indeed support groups, at least Windows XP Pro does, and by extension I assume Vista does as well. However, they are a great pain to use. Not only do you have to set file permissions (similar to unix) but you also have to set registry permissions. This is not always done properly by the program installer, even if it is supposedly written for a multi-user system (If it's not written for a multi-user system then it isn't donw at all). Furthermore, the registry entries which need to be fixed are never documented. I was, for example, eventually able to get my Saitek flight controls to work properly with a limited account after much tinkering, but some applications, supposedly able to function (mostly) in a multi-user environment are stuck running in administrator. And not just with admin rights but only as the original administrator account. I tried creating a new user with admin access and these apps will not run on it--heck, I even copied all the administrator profile over to the new account and it will still not run. One tech support team recommended reinstalling Windows as a wild shot, the other threw up their hands and said it is a bug in the OS.
When Microsoft knew they were going to release XP Pro they should have started pushing multi-user features in their developer kits. All authoring systems should have had an option to build for multi-user and all installation kits should have been set up to do the same with a radio button. I suspect that Microsoft did not bother to do this, or they charged extra for it. As it stands out of maybe twenty large and small apps on my system that I paid for recently, only the big ticket items like Mathcad and Photoshop installed and ran properly. Some open-source stuff ran pretty well, too, but they tend to avoid the registry.
In the end I gave up trying to get everything to work. I tried running a few misbehaving apps with "Run as..." but you can not drag and drop between different user areas in Windows due to their separate memory areas (the pointer is inaccessible). So Windows XP Pro turned out to be a waste of money. I feel like I paid extra to beta test Microsoft's software.
I suspect that religion called for their extermination in the first place.
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Here is Nothing Interesting
This place you never heard of before is so incredibly irrelevant, it's almost surprising. Their moderate hype is somewhat misleading; if I hadn't mentioned it you might have been fooled, had you cared.
That was insightful (hint to mods).
Now we need software that can breed sexually.
Or, more realistically, software that has a finer granularity and greater modularity so that the piece of ancient code that does this can be easily identified and swapped out, without needing to be understood by developers.
Natural laws are based on observation. Moore's law has held to this observation (with some slight tinkering) for decades, now.
Natural laws are not only useful for their predictive feature but for the fact that existence cries out for an explanation. The parent refers to a popular one: that Moore's law is a self-fulfilling prophecy because of social interactions. That probably makes it less reliable than g=-9.8ms^-2, but everyone seems to know that and knows how much faith to put in it.
When I was trained as an aerospace engineer in the early 1980's we were taught to begin any project by converting all specifications to metric, and then to convert them back if necessary when we were finished. I assume they did that over at nearby Grumman Aerospace when they designed the Lunar Module. I never worked as an aerospace engineer but I don't think many companies were working internally using the Imperial system. When I switched to electrical engineering the rule also was always metric. Meter-kilogram-second rules. Joules and watts, not horsepower. Although we still classified wire-wrap terminals and PCB features by mill size not everyone actually knew what a mill was; they were just size categories like "three-penny nail." When necessary we measured things with micrometers and reported them in metric.
Anyway, the idea that NASA was still issuing specifications in imperial units is curious. On one level it doesn't really matter, but on another it implies that they didn't know what was going on amongst the contractors.
Not quite right either. Of course they are entitled to an opinion, and of course they are entitled to voice their opinion. The problem is that idiots watching the boob tube think their opinion must be worth something, so the media dutifully report it.
Seriously, most journalists are smart enough to understand that most entertainment celebrities are morons. They report this stuff because the audience demands it.
It seems that the first 90% of posters did not bother to RTFA, and so I had to wade through a lot of redundant and irrelevant garbage to get here. I am tempted to use this client, but I am puzzled. Did they fork Azureus? I would have thought this could simply be run as a plugin. The things they are doing here with BitTyrant are things I have tried to effect manually by tweaking Azureus, but without the automatic dynamic response.
Let me quickly relate a recent experience. I installed Slackware on this machine a little while back. It took me two days, including one day to figure out how to set up Apache with a load of modules and Twiki. Kernel compiled, Apache compiled, ready to go.
More recently I had to install Windows XP Pro from an SP1 disk. It took me two days to set up Windows XP Pro with administrator and user accounts and get all my apps updated and working properly (or close enough with some apps running escalated privileges) in user mode.
My conclusion: Both Slackware and Windows are very difficult systems to build from scratch. If people had to install Windows themselves they would be as smart as Linux geeks.
Clearly Armstrong _intended_ to say it. Armstrong prefers that the quotation be written "One small step for (a) man..." so that it doesn't sound completely stupid.
I guess the magnitude of the moment had an effect even on him, which says a lot considering that he had always demonstrated a pretty cool head before.
Moonbounce is silly, show-off stuff. It is certainly possible with old technology but it suffers from the flaws of requiring too much power and too much geometry. Both you and your partner have to be able to see the moon, and the farther away your partner is the less likely that is to be true at any moment. Granted, it should be possible for at least a small period every day as the earth rotates, but this "appointment" would have to be set up beforehand every day to compensate for changes in the moon's position, making it extremely unreliable. All the moon bounces I've ever heard of were random contacts with strangers or were set up beforehand on a different channel (and still didn't work most of the time).
It's bitter if you squeeze it too much. That was his point.
Slap on the wrist? There should be so much justice.
My solution is to use a custom hosts file. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm publishes a nice one. Whenever I click on a lick in a web search list and I immediately get a "link not found" then I can pretty sure I didn't really want to go there in the first place. A lot of advertisements show up as "404's" as well.
True. The moon is even easier to colonize, due to its proximity and the fact that it has no weather of its own to speak of. The availability of water might make a difference between Mars and the moon, but so far the data is incomplete.
Maybe two birds could have carried it together, using a vine.
At least they aren't called "Indians," or worse, "Dutch Indians."
Me? I'm Knickerbocker dutch, as opposed to Pennsylvania dutch. My ancestors bought Manhattan ("worthless investment" in the native Lenape tongue) from the American Indians for a few deeds on some undrained polders and renamed it Nieu Amsterdam. But the English preferred "New York" and so they sent in an army and changed the name by force. The Dutch responded with a whirlwind renaming attack, changing it to "New Orange" when the English weren't looking, but the English weren't fooled. They soon identified the island by listening for the awful dutch language (seriously, who speaks that?) and changed it back to New York.
They say having a sense of history will tell you more about where you are from, but it only leaves me confused. Anyway, I get cable.
The Texas gulf coast has a rolling easement. As the the water rises, your property will be rezoned as sea water and there is nothing you can do legally about it. This means that you cannot use technology to try to save your property with a bulkhead or artificial breakwater, for example, which would probably destroy your neighbors property even faster.
The "cow" threat is misleading. While methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, its half-life is extremely short compared to carbon dioxide. CO2 will pretty much stay in the atmosphere and ocean until some photosynthesizing plant or protist turns it into sugar so that it can be reburied under sediment where it belongs. (It can also be incorporated into the skeletons of sea creatures in the form of calcium carbonate, which is dissolved by CO2). So while cows are contributing to global warming, they have to keep pumping the stuff out continuously to keep it all from disappearing. All the CO2 we exhaust tends to add to the cumulative total.
The military has used SSN's as a service number almost from the outset, and we actually used to use ours in our mailing addresses. It made delivering mail to highly mobile service members a lot easier. This practice was discouraged in the late 1980's, but as late as the late 1990's the list of US military officers and their SSN's was annually published by congress.
Although the original legislation for SSN's states that it is not meant to be a sort of national identification number, this seems mainly aimed at evangelical Christians who identified such a thing with some passages from the Revelation of John. It wasn't until the communist and fascist regimes of Stalin and Hitler demonstrated the possibility of total control that secular fears of Big Brother began to surface.
The reality of the SSN is that--being as it is a guaranteed unique name--it is extremely useful as an ID. But using it as a password is absolutely asinine. The sad truth is that criminals are more likely to know a victim's social security number than the victim is.
The article is about olfactory receptors, not neurons. All the interactions described here are taking place where the external part of the olfactory receptor meets passing molecules. The actual news here is that the olfactory receptors might actually be capable of detecting quantum-level effects, unlike brain neurons which lack anything near the sensitivity required for that.
I doubt it would work any better on ice. The surface of ice (unless it is extremely cold) is always a thin layer of liquid water due to surface tension properties of the unattached hydrogen bonds. But since this is an exercise in surface characteristics it would be an interesting experiment to try. What if gecko feet reduce the monolayer of liquid?
Having good adherence to sand is also not very useful since you just cover the tire with loose sand. But perhaps good adherence to a clean road might help, though it might reduce your efficiency.
Tires tend to improve their traction by penetrating the soft outer layer of the surface they are on or by grabbing as much bulk material as they can. Ice is an exception to that.
Only if the flares are pointed at us. But most flares (this one included) are not.
Most mutations are not fatal, they are neutral, having no observable effects in the offspring. Elsewise, you would probably be dead. It is these random mutations that build up the gene pool, giving natural selection something to work on, and without which crossover would have no effect.
Actually, strong selection pressures are identified on a gene by the absence of crossover. When a gene is strongly selected the other genes and junk near it tend to be carried along intact, instead of being carved up by recombination.
Or are you suggesting that the gene for lactose tolerance arose through crossover? And if so how is that not a mutation?