Doctor Flamond: You see, a year ago, I was close to perfecting the first magnetic desalinization process so revolutionary, it was capable of removing the salt from over 500 million gallons of seawater a day. Do you realize what that could mean to the starving nations of the earth?
Nick Rivers: Wow. They'd have enough salt to last forever.
At best it's AmeriCorps for geeks. Peace Corps is a much different level of commitment. There are geeks in the Peace Corps, so really, Peace Corps is already "Peace Corps for geeks".
If you let pain bother you so much it will invade all aspects of your life. Before you know it, you'll be using different injury types for login names. Oh... nevermind.
For those of you who missed TFA, here is a juicy tidbit:
Teig estimates that the footprint of a Tabula chip is less than a third of an equivalent FPGA, making it five times cheaper to make, while providing more than double the density of logic and roughly four times the performance.
That is 6X more impressive than any other use of factors in a sentence... ever.
Complaining about 10 or 11 hours? My work day is 1000 hours, like most peoples'. I guess there really are only 10 kinds of people: those that complain about work hours and those that don't.
I've no experience on [research papers], not even read a complete one
Then you will likely have a hard time writing a legitimate paper. A key aspect of most papers is a comparison of your work to work previously published. You need to establish how yours is novel. Without ever reading any other articles, I doubt you'll be able to do that successfully. Of course you'd need to do this to get a patent as well if you go the route others seem to be suggesting.
Carnival Rube: Hey honey, let's see how good this guy is. What'd I win?
Navin: Uh, anything in this general area right in here. Anything below the stereo and on this side of the bicentennial glasses. Anything between the ashtrays and the thimble. Anything in this three inches right in here in this area. That includes the Chiclets, but not the erasers.
Yes, those odds seem inconceivably low. If an unguided rock can hit a plane with that frequency (1 in 20 times), you'd think we'd be able to develop an anti-ballistic missile system that worked.
They said there was a 1 in 20 chance that some plane in the last 20 years could have been taken down with a meteor. Not that 1 in 20 meteors takes down a plane.
Guess I'll be driving for the foreseeable future. It's not all bad though -- you get to control the music selection and don't have to put up with shitty food and horrible customer service;)
You obviously haven't been on a road trip with my wife.
I didn't see anyone mention him, so I thought I'd throw Paul Davies' name into the ring. My favorite of his (or any popular science book) is "The Last Three Minutes" which is a mirror to "The First Three Minutes." Whereas the latter discusses the birth of the universe, Davies' book explores what will be going on for the final moments of the universe. Very cool read.
Should it be DM, or do I not know what GM stands for... "GM" is a "Game Master." So a DM is a GM for D&D. GM is just more generic and doesn't have to be associated with D&D or even this genre of role-playing games.
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If you outlaw absolute zero, only outlaws will have absolute zero.
Is it just me, or does anyone else with Comcast now have the strong desire to start using Tor?
Doctor Flamond: You see, a year ago, I was close to perfecting the first magnetic desalinization process so revolutionary, it was capable of removing the salt from over 500 million gallons of seawater a day. Do you realize what that could mean to the starving nations of the earth?
Nick Rivers: Wow. They'd have enough salt to last forever.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088286/quotes?item=qt0358683
At best it's AmeriCorps for geeks. Peace Corps is a much different level of commitment. There are geeks in the Peace Corps, so really, Peace Corps is already "Peace Corps for geeks".
Of course Mars supported life... until capitalism killed it.
Worst X-games event ever.
"upset at my wife" AND "in a hurry to get home"????
This just proves how unreasonable human drivers can be.
Some clarification from http://www.uwec.edu/career/online_library/illegal_ques.htm :
"May ask about legal authorization to work in the specific position if all applicants are asked."
So if you must legally be a US citizen for the job and everyone is asked, it's OK.
If you let pain bother you so much it will invade all aspects of your life. Before you know it, you'll be using different injury types for login names. Oh... nevermind.
I'd like to see them test the ripping out a man's heart one, though I'm not sure PETA will appreciate them testing on live animals.
Simple, use politicians and lawyers. I think to be certain we need to try it on at least 10 thousand.
Your subjects are flawed... one needs a heart in the first place to have it ripped out.
Just because they erred on the side of a good result doesn't mean the estimates are better. It means their methodology is HEAVILY padded
Under promise, over deliver. I wish more organizations/projects had this "flaw".
Would appreciate it if you still have one to spare. At gmail, user name is joeylrios. TIA.
Must be this guy screwing with the launch times again. Jerk.
Is it a huge hassle to offload video rendering to your graphics card?
Teig estimates that the footprint of a Tabula chip is less than a third of an equivalent FPGA, making it five times cheaper to make, while providing more than double the density of logic and roughly four times the performance.
That is 6X more impressive than any other use of factors in a sentence... ever.
Complaining about 10 or 11 hours? My work day is 1000 hours, like most peoples'. I guess there really are only 10 kinds of people: those that complain about work hours and those that don't.
I've no experience on [research papers], not even read a complete one
Then you will likely have a hard time writing a legitimate paper. A key aspect of most papers is a comparison of your work to work previously published. You need to establish how yours is novel. Without ever reading any other articles, I doubt you'll be able to do that successfully. Of course you'd need to do this to get a patent as well if you go the route others seem to be suggesting.
Carnival Rube: Hey honey, let's see how good this guy is. What'd I win?
Navin: Uh, anything in this general area right in here. Anything below the stereo and on this side of the bicentennial glasses. Anything between the ashtrays and the thimble. Anything in this three inches right in here in this area. That includes the Chiclets, but not the erasers.
Yes, those odds seem inconceivably low. If an unguided rock can hit a plane with that frequency (1 in 20 times), you'd think we'd be able to develop an anti-ballistic missile system that worked.
They said there was a 1 in 20 chance that some plane in the last 20 years could have been taken down with a meteor. Not that 1 in 20 meteors takes down a plane.
...he's just making up new words on the fly.
With all the unzipping going on, making up words on the fly is probably OK in this instance.
Not sure if it was habit or just because of this guy.
Guess I'll be driving for the foreseeable future. It's not all bad though -- you get to control the music selection and don't have to put up with shitty food and horrible customer service ;)
You obviously haven't been on a road trip with my wife.
I didn't see anyone mention him, so I thought I'd throw Paul Davies' name into the ring. My favorite of his (or any popular science book) is "The Last Three Minutes" which is a mirror to "The First Three Minutes." Whereas the latter discusses the birth of the universe, Davies' book explores what will be going on for the final moments of the universe. Very cool read.
Wouldn't the Pentagon just want a kill switch for everything?