Despite the link to the dreaming story, weathering and the absence of meteorite fragments suggest that the crater is millions of years old and humans could not possibly have witnessed the event, Hamacher said.
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His suggestion is that Aborigines may have learned to recognise craters from more recent impacts and then deduced the origin of the Palm Valley and Gosse's Bluff craters. Now, I don't know about you, but that feels extraordinarily unlikely to me, given the frequency of large meteorite strikes. But that might just be because I don't have the aboriginal sensibilities for land features.
My 7 year old daughter was quite interested in good old fashioned Logo. She worked out how to drive the turtle around the screen with the basic commands. Then I showed her how to use the basic loops and recursion to make fancier patterns. No idea if she will ever want to take programming further but she enjoys what she is doing and understands the basic 'a program is a series of commands' concept - so that's good enough for me.
Actually, I supplying clients with a complimentary copy of the game with the new map would actually be rather well received as a bit of promotional fun. Especially those clients with teenage kids.
I only obey laws out of fear of punishment, not because I believe that such behaviors is correct and moral.
Do you feel this about *all* laws? Including the ones prohibiting driving on the left and murdering people?
No? OK, so presumably you only feel this way about a proportion of laws. Of the thousands on the statute book, roughly how many do you only obey out of fear?
Umm, actually in the UK case, apparently the guy found shotgun and phoned the chief constable to request a chat (no mention of the gun, IIRC). He then came into the chief cop's office and bought forth the loaded gun. Said cop was not amused. Yes, I think the sentence was probably daft - but not as daft as the guy.
That's an interesting comment and it made me think. Initially my thought was that that the system you describe sounds silly and wasteful (I'm an IT-focussed guy and I hate the thought of information being captured multiple times and rekeyed).
But then I thought - perhaps it's actually quicker for those doctors to simply ask the question again, rather than to find a workstation and query the patient record. Perhaps by asking the question themselves they garner additional information from the way that the patient reponds. Perhaps the initial triage nurse was entering data for hospital; adminstrivia, whereas the doctor needs to interact directly with the patient to make an informed diagnosis. Would the triage nurse's data help him/her? Perhaps, marginally, but perhaps it's quicker and more human to say "Good Morning Mrs Jones, what seems to be the problem?".
The repeated questioning is undoubtedly annoying for the patient but it seems inefficient prima facie - but perhaps it isn't *actually* inefficient.
Probably not what you want to do - but when I've been in a similar position to you, I've travelled using an iPod Touch. It's lightweight, discreet and not prone to the more common malware. It's fine for online banking and brief e-mails.
The only problem it doesn't solve is the photo storage one. I've never for it too difficult in the larger towns to find photoshops that will dump to DVD for you.
Absolutely. Everyone who pokes around in a poorly secured computer system should be classified as a terrorist. As should anyone who creeps up behind me and shouts "boo!".
So you don't like some aspects of extreme Islam as practiced by its more extreme exponents. Fine, neither do I.. But Scientology is an entire "religion" that is predicated on one thing - to make money, and to pursue that goal ruthlessly.
From an outsider's perspective (atheist) it is a mistake to think that scientology isn't any more corrupt or evil than any other organized religion in the world. Not all religions have specific tenets requiring you to part with large amounts of money to simply read their 'scriptures'. Not all religions specifically attempt to stop members from contacting their families who are non-believers. Not all religions embark on well funded, well organised and effective smear campaigns against ex members. Not all religions have private internment camps for members who are being wayward.
To think that Scientology is on a par with the average world religion is a relativist mistake.
Speaking as a 45 year old who has just had to buy his first pair of reading glasses, I absolutely concur. Not only do have these devices fixed usability problems with my computer display, they also fixed the same problem that was manifesting itself with the rest of reality.
Anbody knowledgeable about tech knows that neither company is "evil". Some free software advocates might like to comfort themselves with the belief that they are striving against evil, but they're not.
Is Apple's success really due to a 'cool shell'. Partly perhaps, especially in the iPhone market (a product that is intrinsically cool, quite apart from the marketing). But the techies I know who use a Mac don't particularly use them because of a cool factor*, but because "hey sell a decent operating system, good computers".
Nowm I'm not actually bothered by the Chinese app, I'm all for plurality of opinion. But your analogy is poor. The BBC is not directly funded or controlled by the government, there aren't a growing number (or any?) state-owned news outlets. Apart from that - spot on.
Actually, if you look at the site, you'll find that it is an application that you download, not a flash Web site. The app uses your Web cam and displays you and the magazine fullscreen, overlaying the display with various animations. movies etc.
Rocket science? No. A bit of fun that's quite innovative, yes. Augmented reality? At a push.
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If only you'd bothered to write that in the summary, rather than the clever-clever "You don't need this" shenanigans. Half these initially posts could have been avoided.
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You lost me at step one. Find me a single quote from anyone ay Apple saying: "It's impossible to write a virus for our platform!"
.... as far as I'm concerned is...
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His suggestion is that Aborigines may have learned to recognise craters from more recent impacts and then deduced the origin of the Palm Valley and Gosse's Bluff craters. Now, I don't know about you, but that feels extraordinarily unlikely to me, given the frequency of large meteorite strikes. But that might just be because I don't have the aboriginal sensibilities for land features.
On a Mac it is ctrl-alt-cmd-8 by default.
Speaking as a parent with small children who flies with them occasionally; that idea sounds strangely attractive.
My 7 year old daughter was quite interested in good old fashioned Logo. She worked out how to drive the turtle around the screen with the basic commands. Then I showed her how to use the basic loops and recursion to make fancier patterns. No idea if she will ever want to take programming further but she enjoys what she is doing and understands the basic 'a program is a series of commands' concept - so that's good enough for me.
Actually, I supplying clients with a complimentary copy of the game with the new map would actually be rather well received as a bit of promotional fun. Especially those clients with teenage kids.
Let's get this into context:
Do you feel this about *all* laws? Including the ones prohibiting driving on the left and murdering people?
No? OK, so presumably you only feel this way about a proportion of laws. Of the thousands on the statute book, roughly how many do you only obey out of fear?
Umm, actually in the UK case, apparently the guy found shotgun and phoned the chief constable to request a chat (no mention of the gun, IIRC). He then came into the chief cop's office and bought forth the loaded gun. Said cop was not amused. Yes, I think the sentence was probably daft - but not as daft as the guy.
That's an interesting comment and it made me think. Initially my thought was that that the system you describe sounds silly and wasteful (I'm an IT-focussed guy and I hate the thought of information being captured multiple times and rekeyed).
But then I thought - perhaps it's actually quicker for those doctors to simply ask the question again, rather than to find a workstation and query the patient record. Perhaps by asking the question themselves they garner additional information from the way that the patient reponds. Perhaps the initial triage nurse was entering data for hospital; adminstrivia, whereas the doctor needs to interact directly with the patient to make an informed diagnosis. Would the triage nurse's data help him/her? Perhaps, marginally, but perhaps it's quicker and more human to say "Good Morning Mrs Jones, what seems to be the problem?".
The repeated questioning is undoubtedly annoying for the patient but it seems inefficient prima facie - but perhaps it isn't *actually* inefficient.
Hmmm.
Probably not what you want to do - but when I've been in a similar position to you, I've travelled using an iPod Touch. It's lightweight, discreet and not prone to the more common malware. It's fine for online banking and brief e-mails.
The only problem it doesn't solve is the photo storage one. I've never for it too difficult in the larger towns to find photoshops that will dump to DVD for you.
Anyway have fun it sounds like a great trip.
Absolutely. Everyone who pokes around in a poorly secured computer system should be classified as a terrorist. As should anyone who creeps up behind me and shouts "boo!".
It's the BSD v GPL question all over again.
I've ordered some for my 3 year old's bedroom.
So you don't like some aspects of extreme Islam as practiced by its more extreme exponents. Fine, neither do I.. But Scientology is an entire "religion" that is predicated on one thing - to make money, and to pursue that goal ruthlessly.
From an outsider's perspective (atheist) it is a mistake to think that scientology isn't any more corrupt or evil than any other organized religion in the world. Not all religions have specific tenets requiring you to part with large amounts of money to simply read their 'scriptures'. Not all religions specifically attempt to stop members from contacting their families who are non-believers. Not all religions embark on well funded, well organised and effective smear campaigns against ex members. Not all religions have private internment camps for members who are being wayward.
To think that Scientology is on a par with the average world religion is a relativist mistake.
Speaking as a 45 year old who has just had to buy his first pair of reading glasses, I absolutely concur. Not only do have these devices fixed usability problems with my computer display, they also fixed the same problem that was manifesting itself with the rest of reality.
Anbody knowledgeable about tech knows that neither company is "evil". Some free software advocates might like to comfort themselves with the belief that they are striving against evil, but they're not.
Is Apple's success really due to a 'cool shell'. Partly perhaps, especially in the iPhone market (a product that is intrinsically cool, quite apart from the marketing). But the techies I know who use a Mac don't particularly use them because of a cool factor*, but because "hey sell a decent operating system, good computers".
* MacBook Air users excluded.
I suspect your ability to understand will depend on your willingness to re-examine your axioms.
By that measure, every business is government owned because it is government-made laws that ensure that contracts involving payment can be enforced.
Nowm I'm not actually bothered by the Chinese app, I'm all for plurality of opinion. But your analogy is poor. The BBC is not directly funded or controlled by the government, there aren't a growing number (or any?) state-owned news outlets. Apart from that - spot on.
Do you know this for a fact, or are you suggesting a likelihood?
Actually, if you look at the site, you'll find that it is an application that you download, not a flash Web site. The app uses your Web cam and displays you and the magazine fullscreen, overlaying the display with various animations. movies etc.
Rocket science? No. A bit of fun that's quite innovative, yes. Augmented reality? At a push.
Ummm, while it maybe fun to bash the "Slashtards" it was Murdoch himself who invoked the concept of Fair Use.
Do enlightment me.
If only you'd bothered to write that in the summary, rather than the clever-clever "You don't need this" shenanigans. Half these initially posts could have been avoided.