Only if the predator has a FRICKIN LASER BEAM on its head! Being as most creatures don't come with light-emitting organs as standard equipment, this speculation falls short of an explanation. Maybe there were large populations of electroluminescent bacteria a hojillion years ago.
Iguanas have a rudimentery third eye on the top of their head. It can sense changes to light and not much else. It's also known as parietal eye.
This is pretty basic stuff. Didn't you pay attention in biology/anatomy. I guess not since you believe in ID and creationism.
The burden of proof is on you to prove that a god exists. Once you prove the existence of a god then you can go about with your law suit. Seperation of Church and State has nothing to do with private companies or the failure to provide basic verifiable evidence of the existence of a god.
Spot on! It seems like people are taking to much stock in the, "You don't have to know how to do something to manage" philosophy. The fact is to be a good manager you do have to know the business of your group pretty damn well. How else can you know to put your people in the right spots and recognize the barriers. The only time a manager who doesn't "know" can do well is when his team consists of superstars.
Also good engineers generally enjoy what they are doing and don't want to change to managment. You will only get promoted if you show interest and ask. Thus there is a real lack of qualified technical managers.
For what it is worth every Republican christian in the SouthEast that I have met believes that evolution is a lie or are seriously consider ID. On the other hand the Democratic Christians actually hold scientific research in high regard.
The religous right is ruining it for all the other Christians.
The first is education - the crap that is called "science education" in the schools in this country is raising idiots. They are taught to regurgitate "facts", and the definition of "fact" has changed from "what is provable" to "what we tell you". Critical thinking is discouraged, experimentation has no lab budget, and standards are dropping wildly. I read once (can't find source) that several decades ago most middle school girls could tell you what an aileron was. Today I'd be surprised if more than a few percent of high school graduates have a clue.
The reduction in pay for Science and Engineering in the U.S. is a big piece of the problem. Why do the hard work when you can make just as much in another field?
However, the religous right is also a part of the problem. The religous right hates our public education system and has been seeking to undermine the system. The relgious right is attempting to drive people towards private education. They do this by lobying for vouchers, attacking science and getting their members ellected to the local school boards. The purpose is to weaken the public education system so people will no longer support the institution which helped America become a world leader in the 20th century.
It's all about more power for their church.
Private education does not have to worry about the seperation of church and state. Private education is exactly what the church wants. The vast majority of people in the U.S. can't afford private education and will be driven to the church sponsered private schools.
You got two options people:
Either wise up and realize that being smarter is a good thing
or
Practice sucking up to whatever country will surpass us.
The second option is also known as the "British" approach.
Parent poster is right. There goes a lot of there business. If parents are truly worried they should put their childs computer in the living room. Our society seems eager to blame businesses and schools instead of the lack of parenting.
The real story is content distribution. Apple just broke into the video distribution market in a huge way. Add this video itunes service with the new iMac remote control and you can guess were apple is headed. They are headed straight to your living room. MicroSoft has the same strategy to dominate the living room. MS has chosen another route with their Media Center version of Windows. I would say Apple just took a huge lead. It will be interesting how this play out...
Exactly, I had a friend the other day ask about that. I told them to get a TIVO. You would have to spend over 1K before you could get the same performance as a tivo. DirectTv tivos cost 99 dollars. Tivo's are much cheaper and easier to use/maintain than a DIY solution.
I tend to run XBMC with my XBOX. When I get around to hacking my DirectTV TIVO I should be able to share the TIVO streams. If you have directTV you may want to go that route.
If it was down to $60 or so, you could have a cheap and effective box to run a Linux PVR from, and perhaps even the ability to play an XBox game (are there any good XBox games?).
The XBOX has no TV in capabilities. I haven't seen any mods for a TV in either. If you have seen a hack for this please send a link.
These GEM's are really niche market. Great for little towns where its 20mph or less, but if you hold up traffic then they are in the wrong place. Just as golf carts in the USA, they are a pain in the ass when given the right of way.
GEMcar.com even says "build the town/neighborhood around the car"..
These could work in really big Cities. Traffic in big congested cities is stop and go and averages about 20MPH. Unfortunately modern U.S. cities have given up the grid patern and let the developers do the planing ad hoc with huge high ways. These GEM cars won't work in these "modern" cities.
I could see these things working in European cities or even the older U.S. cities. Big Cities that charge congestion tolls could make exceptions for these small vehicles.
I wish there was a settlement for the TI book hinges on the display. Every one I know that owns one has had them break. Both my right and left hinge have broken on my 2002 Ti book.
I held off getting the original Ipods because I was skeptical about the internal batteries. Batteries go bad after use every one knows that. The hinges on the TI book are another story. Who expects the display of their laptop to just snap off?
Having worked on mainframes in the early part of my career, I know that they were useful then, and still are. They excel at what they were designed to do... large volumes of repetetive transactions.
The mainframes real purpose is fault tolerence. They are designed to keep failure to a minimum. They are not designed to handle large volumes fast. If that is all you need then save money and invest in one of Sun or IBM's large midrange servers.
but not we forget how the snakes from SM2 made us smile. Thank god humans don't bud, eh? What would console makers do for controllers the? But I digress....anyway, does anyone else shed the tears I described for the innocent days of game play?
Innocent? surely you must be forgeting the exploit in SM2 which was a forefather of the GTA Adult themed exlpoit. You know the one were you can make it appear as though Luigi is humping anything he is standing on including turtles by pressing up/down on the controller? Yeah, I miss those days too.
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Good point! You can tell I am not a practicing pastafarian.
Beat me to the FSM reference! However, if we use this sonic weapon we can eliminate the main cause of global warming.....pirates!
All subsequent FSM posts will now be modded redundent.
Did they decide to add THC to their cigarettes?
Turns out cannabis inhibits lung cancer.
Surely you must be trolling....
Only if the predator has a FRICKIN LASER BEAM on its head! Being as most creatures don't come with light-emitting organs as standard equipment, this speculation falls short of an explanation. Maybe there were large populations of electroluminescent bacteria a hojillion years ago.
Iguanas have a rudimentery third eye on the top of their head. It can sense changes to light and not much else. It's also known as parietal eye. This is pretty basic stuff. Didn't you pay attention in biology/anatomy. I guess not since you believe in ID and creationism.
how can you patent something that you didn't invent and what can you do with this patent?
It's not that hard.... Just ask the native american indians how they feel about Europe's "Discovery" of the new world.
The burden of proof is on you to prove that a god exists. Once you prove the existence of a god then you can go about with your law suit. Seperation of Church and State has nothing to do with private companies or the failure to provide basic verifiable evidence of the existence of a god.
Spot on! It seems like people are taking to much stock in the, "You don't have to know how to do something to manage" philosophy. The fact is to be a good manager you do have to know the business of your group pretty damn well. How else can you know to put your people in the right spots and recognize the barriers. The only time a manager who doesn't "know" can do well is when his team consists of superstars.
Also good engineers generally enjoy what they are doing and don't want to change to managment. You will only get promoted if you show interest and ask. Thus there is a real lack of qualified technical managers.
For what it is worth every Republican christian in the SouthEast that I have met believes that evolution is a lie or are seriously consider ID. On the other hand the Democratic Christians actually hold scientific research in high regard. The religous right is ruining it for all the other Christians.
The first is education - the crap that is called "science education" in the schools in this country is raising idiots. They are taught to regurgitate "facts", and the definition of "fact" has changed from "what is provable" to "what we tell you". Critical thinking is discouraged, experimentation has no lab budget, and standards are dropping wildly. I read once (can't find source) that several decades ago most middle school girls could tell you what an aileron was. Today I'd be surprised if more than a few percent of high school graduates have a clue.
The reduction in pay for Science and Engineering in the U.S. is a big piece of the problem. Why do the hard work when you can make just as much in another field?
However, the religous right is also a part of the problem. The religous right hates our public education system and has been seeking to undermine the system. The relgious right is attempting to drive people towards private education. They do this by lobying for vouchers, attacking science and getting their members ellected to the local school boards. The purpose is to weaken the public education system so people will no longer support the institution which helped America become a world leader in the 20th century.
It's all about more power for their church. Private education does not have to worry about the seperation of church and state. Private education is exactly what the church wants. The vast majority of people in the U.S. can't afford private education and will be driven to the church sponsered private schools.
You got two options people: Either wise up and realize that being smarter is a good thing or Practice sucking up to whatever country will surpass us. The second option is also known as the "British" approach.
Parent poster is right. There goes a lot of there business. If parents are truly worried they should put their childs computer in the living room. Our society seems eager to blame businesses and schools instead of the lack of parenting.
The real story is content distribution. Apple just broke into the video distribution market in a huge way. Add this video itunes service with the new iMac remote control and you can guess were apple is headed. They are headed straight to your living room. MicroSoft has the same strategy to dominate the living room. MS has chosen another route with their Media Center version of Windows. I would say Apple just took a huge lead. It will be interesting how this play out...
Lets see a Tivo with 2 tuners which does it's job damn well 24x7 for $99 or a $1000+ dollar desktop which won't be up 24x7....
Exactly, I had a friend the other day ask about that. I told them to get a TIVO. You would have to spend over 1K before you could get the same performance as a tivo. DirectTv tivos cost 99 dollars. Tivo's are much cheaper and easier to use/maintain than a DIY solution.
From TFA , a quote from RedHat support regarding Crest...
"We asked the customer to do a diagnostic test and the customer never responded, so it was impossible for us to address the issue," Mr McLaren says.
These Crest guy's didn't even have the ability to use support properly.
and
"We run Linux on our web server"
The entire company has 1 webserver? Unless he was missquoted this guy doesn't have a clue what his IT department should be doing.
Nuff said.
I always heard the same thing about the name being a marketing ploy. Looks like you are spot on about the west coast. Wikipedia of Greenland
I tend to run XBMC with my XBOX. When I get around to hacking my DirectTV TIVO I should be able to share the TIVO streams. If you have directTV you may want to go that route.
If it was down to $60 or so, you could have a cheap and effective box to run a Linux PVR from, and perhaps even the ability to play an XBox game (are there any good XBox games?).
The XBOX has no TV in capabilities. I haven't seen any mods for a TV in either. If you have seen a hack for this please send a link.
Really? Compared to what? Large hydroelectric dams?
How many people were killed at Three Mile Island? ZERO.
The U.S. nuclear power industry has been operating for over 50 years without ONE fatality to a member of the general public.
Hydro, coal, and oil cannot say the same.
It's really a case of guilt by association. When was the last time you heard some one say," We need to Hydro/Coal/Lube that country" ?
These GEM's are really niche market. Great for little towns where its 20mph or less, but if you hold up traffic then they are in the wrong place. Just as golf carts in the USA, they are a pain in the ass when given the right of way. GEMcar.com even says "build the town/neighborhood around the car"..
These could work in really big Cities. Traffic in big congested cities is stop and go and averages about 20MPH. Unfortunately modern U.S. cities have given up the grid patern and let the developers do the planing ad hoc with huge high ways. These GEM cars won't work in these "modern" cities.
I could see these things working in European cities or even the older U.S. cities. Big Cities that charge congestion tolls could make exceptions for these small vehicles.
I wish there was a settlement for the TI book hinges on the display. Every one I know that owns one has had them break. Both my right and left hinge have broken on my 2002 Ti book.
I held off getting the original Ipods because I was skeptical about the internal batteries. Batteries go bad after use every one knows that. The hinges on the TI book are another story. Who expects the display of their laptop to just snap off?
Having worked on mainframes in the early part of my career, I know that they were useful then, and still are. They excel at what they were designed to do... large volumes of repetetive transactions.
The mainframes real purpose is fault tolerence. They are designed to keep failure to a minimum. They are not designed to handle large volumes fast. If that is all you need then save money and invest in one of Sun or IBM's large midrange servers.
Yeah , scared the crap out of me too! Only seems to do it during certain mouse movements.
Raid is not for backups. Raid is intended to keep the machine running in the event of a hardware failure.
but not we forget how the snakes from SM2 made us smile. Thank god humans don't bud, eh? What would console makers do for controllers the? But I digress....anyway, does anyone else shed the tears I described for the innocent days of game play?
Innocent? surely you must be forgeting the exploit in SM2 which was a forefather of the GTA Adult themed exlpoit. You know the one were you can make it appear as though Luigi is humping anything he is standing on including turtles by pressing up/down on the controller? Yeah, I miss those days too.