Did 3PO ever do anything useful aside from translate for R2-D2?
In the movies? No. He's a protocol droid, he specializes in languages, protocol, and ettiquette. Basically, I figure he's supposed to be a combination of party planner, diplomat, family lawyer, cultural liaison, and programmer.
The biggest and most exciting thing to me about Time Machine is the plug-in system. Time Machine itself can just restore files. But the plug-in system looks like it allows the application to extract individual pieces of data from within backed-up files, and to treat a set of files as one unit for browsing purposes. Plus, there's the QuickView tie-in allowing apps to preview the contents of a backup.
Plants are social -- if attacked, they release warning chemicals, so the plants around them can take precautions.
If you cut them, they bleed...sap.
We routinely rip out their sexual organs and feed on their unborn offspring, like when we detassel or eat corn. Now, granted, in some cases the plant's offspring is indestructable enough so that plants count on them being eaten and later defecated, but that isn't true of all plants.
They have hormones and immune systems and all that jazz. They just work slowly and differently.
Some can be quite active in their defense, poisoning predators. Others have developed more passive defenses like bitterness, spines, or protective skin.
And this is just casual information that I've picked up one place or another. A dedicated plant scientist undoubtedly has more examples.
Apple really should haul out the old Sketch.app code and update it to a nice modern drawing program, ideally one as efficient and productive as FreeHand.
Sketch.app is a standard Xcode sample application that comes with OS X. So, hey, knock yourself out!
Interesting that you would put the blame on the manufacturer, rather than the parent(s) allowing their child to play with chemicals unsupervised.
Have you ever had one of these kits, or any hobby at all, as a kid? Parents can't supervise enough. Kids are willing to spend hours and hours doing their thing, and parents can't afford the time to watch over them. And unless the parents lock up the chemistry set when they stop supervising the kid, the kid is going to take it somewhere and use it without supervision.
Plus, isn't ad hoc experimentation the entire purpose of a chemistry set? Unless the parents buy into the idea of mixing random chemicals together, a supervised kid won't be doing that, limiting his, shall we say, learning opportunities.
The box is heavy in my hands. No, not heavy; sturdy, powerful, as though the beast contained within was projecting itself beyond the confines of its cardboard prison. Or perhaps it was the weight of newfound brotherhood.
I like that feature. With a translucent menu bar, I can see that part of my desktop wallpaper. The way it is now, with the top cut off, that makes a surprising amount of difference in the aesthetic qualities of my wallpapers!
There's a web-site dedicated to the concept of paying politicians to vote a certain way. First, you promise to contribute if they vote a certain way. Second, they vote that way. Third, you contribute to their campaigns.
At least, that's how I remember it working, but the web-site is currently down: http://www.dollarvote.org/
So to me, that interpretation undermines the whole Soddom and Gomorrah story. If you are right, then how can you reconcile some group slapping some hate speech into the Bible with the idea that the Bible is meant to be an authorative tome on all things good. From my point of view such a disconnect would have to be very destructive to Christianity in general (unless you take the point that the New Testament invalidates the Old)
Well, I'm guessing that Biblical scholars -- which the GP was not -- do not consider the Bible to be an authoritative tome on all things good. Or, if it is one, it is one that has been filtered through human writers, who introduced all-too-human prejudices. Or, it was authoritatively good in its time, which has now passed.
Me, I solve issues like that by being an atheist. I guess that would be the logical result of destructive-to-Christianity disconnects.:)
But you can't force an obligation on somebody, just because they *might* have seen a movie or a TV show in which the concept was a plot element.
Not me who said that, I'm just saying I figure at least half of the citizenry know what jury nullification is. It'll be harder and harder for lawyers to make a jury that doesn't.
I don't know how anyone can be obligated to believe anything, really.
Most jurors will never have heard of nullification. I've read this several times during this discussion. I don't buy it. Everyone who has watched Law & Order or The Practice, everyone who saw 12 Angry Men in Junior High, will know what jury nullification is.
The GAO doesn't have the authority to change anything. All they can do is investigate for Congress then congress has to debate the issue and try to pass a bill.
Don't see how Congress has a role here. After all, the FCC rules are already in the law, it's just that the FCC is violating those laws. This sounds like a job for the Executive branch, charged with enforcing law!
Wait...the FCC is part of the Executive branch. Well, shit.
This whole idea of 'choice overload' is so much drivel, IMHO.
How can you say that? Of course choice overload is real! Saying otherwise is like saying the sky is green -- wrong on the face of it!
Have you ever known anybody to say: "There are just too many girls to choose from, I guess I'll go hide in the basement."?
Haven't you known anyone who's said "I like them both, I don't know which one to pick?"
Or: "There are ten thousand restaurants in this city. I just can't cope. I'm going to stop eating."? What about "What do you feel like? Mexican, Chinese?...I dunno. Let's just stay in and order pizza."
Both those are examples of choice paralysis. Choice paralysis is just another way of saying indecision when there are several options and one isn't clearly better than all the rest.
It is a real and known issue. Have you studied human factor or user interface design at all? Why do you think they recommend against long menus and lists?
Earth-Moon is a different order of magnitude than Earth-Mars.
The Earth-Moon system is 385 000 km, the Sun-Earth-Mars system is 150 000 000 km, so that's about three orders of magnitude difference, specifically. So if had a slide rule that could do six significant decimals instead of three, you'd be good.:)
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Before the journalists were led away by police, one of them could be heard yelling, "My nipples explode with delight!"
Why does that pickle you?
Sorry, Isaac was WRONG!
Well, yes and no. If you know what the robot is going to do, it's cheaper to build a robot that only does that thing.
However, if it is a general-purpose robot, yeah, humaniform is the way to go.
Did 3PO ever do anything useful aside from translate for R2-D2?
In the movies? No. He's a protocol droid, he specializes in languages, protocol, and ettiquette. Basically, I figure he's supposed to be a combination of party planner, diplomat, family lawyer, cultural liaison, and programmer.
The biggest and most exciting thing to me about Time Machine is the plug-in system. Time Machine itself can just restore files. But the plug-in system looks like it allows the application to extract individual pieces of data from within backed-up files, and to treat a set of files as one unit for browsing purposes. Plus, there's the QuickView tie-in allowing apps to preview the contents of a backup.
There's no street-cred in being a long-term faggot.
Depends on the street in question, I'd say. Certain neighborhoods in Seattle and San Fran. spring to mind...
- Plants are social -- if attacked, they release warning chemicals, so the plants around them can take precautions.
- If you cut them, they bleed...sap.
- We routinely rip out their sexual organs and feed on their unborn offspring, like when we detassel or eat corn. Now, granted, in some cases the plant's offspring is indestructable enough so that plants count on them being eaten and later defecated, but that isn't true of all plants.
- They have hormones and immune systems and all that jazz. They just work slowly and differently.
- Some can be quite active in their defense, poisoning predators. Others have developed more passive defenses like bitterness, spines, or protective skin.
And this is just casual information that I've picked up one place or another. A dedicated plant scientist undoubtedly has more examples.Apple really should haul out the old Sketch.app code and update it to a nice modern drawing program, ideally one as efficient and productive as FreeHand.
Sketch.app is a standard Xcode sample application that comes with OS X. So, hey, knock yourself out!
there were a fair number of people with said ancient APE lying around on their drives without their ever realizing it
Ancient Ape? I thought the new Ubuntu was Hardy Heron!
Interesting that you would put the blame on the manufacturer, rather than the parent(s) allowing their child to play with chemicals unsupervised.
Have you ever had one of these kits, or any hobby at all, as a kid? Parents can't supervise enough. Kids are willing to spend hours and hours doing their thing, and parents can't afford the time to watch over them. And unless the parents lock up the chemistry set when they stop supervising the kid, the kid is going to take it somewhere and use it without supervision.
Plus, isn't ad hoc experimentation the entire purpose of a chemistry set? Unless the parents buy into the idea of mixing random chemicals together, a supervised kid won't be doing that, limiting his, shall we say, learning opportunities.
The box is heavy in my hands. No, not heavy; sturdy, powerful, as though the beast contained within was projecting itself beyond the confines of its cardboard prison. Or perhaps it was the weight of newfound brotherhood.
Tycho? Is that you?
ObFuturama!
Leela: Hey, what's behind that door?
Glurmo: Nothing!
Leela: Is it the secret ingredient?
Grunka Lunkas: Grunka Lunka Dunkity Dingredient, you should not ask about the secret ingredient.
Bender: Ok, ok. We get the point.
Leela: I was just curious because of the armed guards.
Grunka Lunkas: Grunka Lunka Dunkity Darmed Guards...
Bender: Shut the hell up!
I like that feature. With a translucent menu bar, I can see that part of my desktop wallpaper. The way it is now, with the top cut off, that makes a surprising amount of difference in the aesthetic qualities of my wallpapers!
Yes, of course! The rostral anterior cingulate! How could I have been such a fool, why didn't I see that?!
*bangs head against wall*
Stupid, stupid, stupid!!
There's a web-site dedicated to the concept of paying politicians to vote a certain way. First, you promise to contribute if they vote a certain way. Second, they vote that way. Third, you contribute to their campaigns.
At least, that's how I remember it working, but the web-site is currently down: http://www.dollarvote.org/
Well, I'm guessing that Biblical scholars -- which the GP was not -- do not consider the Bible to be an authoritative tome on all things good. Or, if it is one, it is one that has been filtered through human writers, who introduced all-too-human prejudices. Or, it was authoritatively good in its time, which has now passed.
Me, I solve issues like that by being an atheist. I guess that would be the logical result of destructive-to-Christianity disconnects.
But you can't force an obligation on somebody, just because they *might* have seen a movie or a TV show in which the concept was a plot element.
Not me who said that, I'm just saying I figure at least half of the citizenry know what jury nullification is. It'll be harder and harder for lawyers to make a jury that doesn't.
I don't know how anyone can be obligated to believe anything, really.
I saw one of those at CES last year. It was pretty darn cool.
Where the heck is the difference to earlier elections?
But this time, you'll be lied to, tricked, and robbed...on the Internet!!
Most jurors will never have heard of nullification.
I've read this several times during this discussion. I don't buy it. Everyone who has watched Law & Order or The Practice, everyone who saw 12 Angry Men in Junior High, will know what jury nullification is.
He's spinning in his grave - in a quantum mechanical way of course.
Would that be spin-up or spin-down?
Infrared cameras normally see through clothes. Do you want the government taking (black and white) photos of you driving naked?
It could be a low-resolution camera...
Damn, I wish I had mod points for ya..
The GAO doesn't have the authority to change anything. All they can do is investigate for Congress then congress has to debate the issue and try to pass a bill.
Don't see how Congress has a role here. After all, the FCC rules are already in the law, it's just that the FCC is violating those laws. This sounds like a job for the Executive branch, charged with enforcing law!
Wait...the FCC is part of the Executive branch. Well, shit.
This whole idea of 'choice overload' is so much drivel, IMHO.
...I dunno. Let's just stay in and order pizza."
How can you say that? Of course choice overload is real! Saying otherwise is like saying the sky is green -- wrong on the face of it!
Have you ever known anybody to say: "There are just too many girls to choose from, I guess I'll go hide in the basement."?
Haven't you known anyone who's said "I like them both, I don't know which one to pick?"
Or: "There are ten thousand restaurants in this city. I just can't cope. I'm going to stop eating."?
What about "What do you feel like? Mexican, Chinese?
Both those are examples of choice paralysis. Choice paralysis is just another way of saying indecision when there are several options and one isn't clearly better than all the rest.
It is a real and known issue. Have you studied human factor or user interface design at all? Why do you think they recommend against long menus and lists?
Earth-Moon is a different order of magnitude than Earth-Mars.
:)
The Earth-Moon system is 385 000 km, the Sun-Earth-Mars system is 150 000 000 km, so that's about three orders of magnitude difference, specifically. So if had a slide rule that could do six significant decimals instead of three, you'd be good.