There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference, Difference. Compared to the people the planet is doing great. Been here 4.5 billion years. We've been here what 100,000? maybe 200,000? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200 years. 200 years versus 4.5 bilion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat. That we're going to put in jeopordy this beautiful little blue green ball floating around the sun. The planet has been through alot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages, and we think some plastic bags and some alluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE. We're goin' away. Pack your shit folks, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace either, thank god for that. Maybe a little styrofoam, maybe. planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation, just another closed end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul de sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleese. A surface nuisance. You want to know how the planet's doing? Ask those people in Pompeii who are frozen into position by volcanic ash. Or ask those people in mexico city or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. or how about those people who build their homes next to an active volcano and wonder why they have lava in the living room. The planet will be here for a long long long time after we're gone. And it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, because that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic does not degrade the planet will simply incorporate plastic in a new paradigm: "The Earth Plus Plastic". The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably just sees plastic as another one of its children. Could be the only reason the planet allowed us to exist in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself, didn't know how to make it, needed us. Could be the answer to the age old question, "Why are we here?". PLASTIC.
Excerpted from George Carlin's "The Planet is Fine".
Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time, e.g., double click.
When your patent application includes the term already in the popular lexicon for the very thing you're patenting shouldn't it be obvious that this isn't a new idea?
Quote: "The research team used a standing ultrasonic wave to help form and then implode the cavitation bubbles of deuterated acetone vapor. The oscillating sound waves caused the bubbles to expand and then violently collapse, creating strong compression shock waves around and inside the bubbles. Moving at about the speed of sound, the internal shock waves impacted at the center of the bubbles causing very high compression and accompanying temperatures of about 100 million Kelvin."
Sound waves travelling at about the speed of sound, you say?
The Space Shuttle doesn't go to the moon though, it can't get out of Low Earth Orbit (LEO). To get a significant amount of mass to the moon, like say, the Apollo Command and Lunar Excursion modules, you'd need a good deal more rocket. Like say, the Saturn V. And even that doesn't get you your 65,000 pounds of cargo.
The shuttles have a difficult enough time getting to the ISS, which is in such a low earth orbit it has to be boosted regularly to overcome the affects of atmospheric drag. Getting to the moon is a whole different ball game.
And it's amazing how many major metro areas are planted directly atop historical large-quake clusters.
Has it occurred to you that perhaps we tend to have a better long term history of earthquakes where there's a nice major metro area planted atop them? (Modern sensing equipment aside)
Pudge posted this on time. This means that either he a) lives in PST and spent midnight posting this, or b) lives elsewhere and stayed up so he could post this.
Actually, slashcode allows you to set when an article goes live, as far as I know. Not that I figure someone who's managed to get themselves made apple.slashdot.org editor has anything useful to do on new years eve anyways.
I have a similarly patternless sleep cycle. And also notice that dawn creates a 'wave' of tiredness if I haven't just recently awoken. I'm curious if there's anything to explain that.
It seems so long as my ratio of sleep to 'awakeness' over a given 5 days is somewhat normal, I'm ok. But the individual times of being asleep tend to be anywhere from 4 to 15 hours, and being awake are 6 to 30. Though beyond 30 I tend to feel the affects of being awake a long time, no matter how much sleep I've been getting.
I'm not sure if this is a natural thing for me, or has developed through conditioning over the past 10 years or so (I'm now 21). Certainly no longer being restricted to making it to middle/high school every day has allowed me to 'drift' more than before (though the ability to nap sitting upright in a schooldesk helped;), so it's hard to know if I always would have had such patternless sleep cycle.
The GPS/Avionics/etc company Garmin has a very nice simulator (windows only) for their GNS 530 panel mount GPS/Nav/Com unit for General Aviation. It was very useful for me to spend time at home learning how to use it instead of trying to do so while spending 100 dollars an hour and trying to fly a plane at the same time. I really wish more companies would do this kind of thing.
While the grandparent of this post seem to have a clear view of the difference between a product and a solution, the parent doesn't.
Just because something requires less effort on your part to make it do what you want it to (sliced bread vs flower and yeast) doesn't make it a solution.
With a product, the vendor determines the specifications and you decide if you want it or not. In the case of a solution, you tell the vendor what you want to be done, and they present an array of products which as a system will solve your particular problem.
The solutions are where Sun has ruled, and where IBM is riding Linux into their territory. Dell rules at moving the most units at the least overhead, without a care in the world how they're used. Apple is making a push into the enterprise, it'll be interesting to see what route they attempt.
While calling the business to register complaints seems perfectly reasonable to me, calling the employees at home about their business might have some issues involved with it.
So call and try to sell them something... like maybe your chair. Be courteous but make sure they're made aware of all the benefits of owning your chair for a few (157) easy payments of just 196.95.
~Lake
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There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference, Difference. Compared to the people the planet is doing great. Been here 4.5 billion years. We've been here what 100,000? maybe 200,000? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200 years. 200 years versus 4.5 bilion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat. That we're going to put in jeopordy this beautiful little blue green ball floating around the sun. The planet has been through alot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages, and we think some plastic bags and some alluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE. We're goin' away. Pack your shit folks, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace either, thank god for that. Maybe a little styrofoam, maybe. planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation, just another closed end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul de sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleese. A surface nuisance. You want to know how the planet's doing? Ask those people in Pompeii who are frozen into position by volcanic ash. Or ask those people in mexico city or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. or how about those people who build their homes next to an active volcano and wonder why they have lava in the living room. The planet will be here for a long long long time after we're gone. And it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, because that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic does not degrade the planet will simply incorporate plastic in a new paradigm: "The Earth Plus Plastic". The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably just sees plastic as another one of its children. Could be the only reason the planet allowed us to exist in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself, didn't know how to make it, needed us. Could be the answer to the age old question, "Why are we here?". PLASTIC.
Excerpted from George Carlin's "The Planet is Fine".
Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time, e.g., double click.
When your patent application includes the term already in the popular lexicon for the very thing you're patenting shouldn't it be obvious that this isn't a new idea?
~Lake
Quote: "The research team used a standing ultrasonic wave to help form and then implode the cavitation bubbles of deuterated acetone vapor. The oscillating sound waves caused the bubbles to expand and then violently collapse, creating strong compression shock waves around and inside the bubbles. Moving at about the speed of sound , the internal shock waves impacted at the center of the bubbles causing very high compression and accompanying temperatures of about 100 million Kelvin."
Sound waves travelling at about the speed of sound, you say?
~Lake
Aaaaaargh. You just got set to 'foe' for linking to a page that resizes my browser window.
1) Thou shalt not make noise.
2) Thou shalt not make new windows.
3) Thou shalt not change existing windows.
I'm still recovering from the horror of the experience.
~Lake
The Space Shuttle doesn't go to the moon though, it can't get out of Low Earth Orbit (LEO). To get a significant amount of mass to the moon, like say, the Apollo Command and Lunar Excursion modules, you'd need a good deal more rocket. Like say, the Saturn V. And even that doesn't get you your 65,000 pounds of cargo.
The shuttles have a difficult enough time getting to the ISS, which is in such a low earth orbit it has to be boosted regularly to overcome the affects of atmospheric drag. Getting to the moon is a whole different ball game.
~Lake
And it's amazing how many major metro areas are planted directly atop historical large-quake clusters.
Has it occurred to you that perhaps we tend to have a better long term history of earthquakes where there's a nice major metro area planted atop them? (Modern sensing equipment aside)
~Lake
Furthermore, the luminance layer is deconvolved to bring subtle spatial details into sharper relief.
Oooh, I see. Thanks for clarifying that.
~Lake
At least it wasn't "garageBand" instead. Then anyone who's ever touched Java(Script) would start to twitch and drool uncontrollably.
It's obviously a class, not an object. Sun's Java Naming Conventions.
~Lake
Pudge posted this on time. This means that either he a) lives in PST and spent midnight posting this, or b) lives elsewhere and stayed up so he could post this.
Actually, slashcode allows you to set when an article goes live, as far as I know. Not that I figure someone who's managed to get themselves made apple.slashdot.org editor has anything useful to do on new years eve anyways.
~Lake
Thank god it just got posted to slashdot. That frontpage-template of a website will be gone shortly.
~Lake
I have a similarly patternless sleep cycle. And also notice that dawn creates a 'wave' of tiredness if I haven't just recently awoken. I'm curious if there's anything to explain that.
;), so it's hard to know if I always would have had such patternless sleep cycle.
It seems so long as my ratio of sleep to 'awakeness' over a given 5 days is somewhat normal, I'm ok. But the individual times of being asleep tend to be anywhere from 4 to 15 hours, and being awake are 6 to 30. Though beyond 30 I tend to feel the affects of being awake a long time, no matter how much sleep I've been getting.
I'm not sure if this is a natural thing for me, or has developed through conditioning over the past 10 years or so (I'm now 21). Certainly no longer being restricted to making it to middle/high school every day has allowed me to 'drift' more than before (though the ability to nap sitting upright in a schooldesk helped
~Lake
Why is this front page slashdot?
It's front page slashdot for roughly the same reasons some Texan choking on a pretzel is front page CNN.
~Lake
Am I the only one who is actually annoyed by unmatched parenthesis in slashdot posts?
... too much Lisp.
We need a moderation of "Syntax Error: Unmatched ')'".
~Lake
While the grandparent of this post seem to have a clear view of the difference between a product and a solution, the parent doesn't.
Just because something requires less effort on your part to make it do what you want it to (sliced bread vs flower and yeast) doesn't make it a solution.
With a product, the vendor determines the specifications and you decide if you want it or not. In the case of a solution, you tell the vendor what you want to be done, and they present an array of products which as a system will solve your particular problem.
The solutions are where Sun has ruled, and where IBM is riding Linux into their territory. Dell rules at moving the most units at the least overhead, without a care in the world how they're used. Apple is making a push into the enterprise, it'll be interesting to see what route they attempt.
~Lake
While calling the business to register complaints seems perfectly reasonable to me, calling the employees at home about their business might have some issues involved with it.
So call and try to sell them something... like maybe your chair. Be courteous but make sure they're made aware of all the benefits of owning your chair for a few (157) easy payments of just 196.95.
~Lake
[chorus]
We didn't start the fire...
~Lake