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  1. Re:Choose wisely... on NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio · · Score: 1

    Aw, geez. I was having a pretty nice day too, and then someone goes and mentions Quicktime.

  2. I had a class there on RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today · · Score: 1

    Gee, yeah -- big windows all around the front come to think of it.

    maxwell-dworkin

    Also, they have a blow up a few pages of Willie's homework assignments hung in the foyer. His implementation of BASIC I think?

  3. Picture of Earth from new Planet: on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 1

    .-You Are Here

  4. Re:Tonnes on Manufacturing 1 PC Takes 1.8 Tons Of Raw Material · · Score: 1

    All I know for sure is that it ain't Guiness, unless it's a heck of a good sale. Then in short my world would be spinning around....

    Guessing American pint, yeah?

  5. Re:Heroin, crack, ain't got nuthin' on 'Brain Pacemakers' Being Tested · · Score: 1

    BTL = Better than Life

  6. hey, he's right!! on 'Brain Pacemakers' Being Tested · · Score: 1

    A fork *can* kill a person. How 'bout that? Um... oh,oh. Like Socrates said: Oh the tines, oh the morals!

  7. Re:Tonnes on Manufacturing 1 PC Takes 1.8 Tons Of Raw Material · · Score: 1

    >Over here in Europe where we use the metric system... It's easy in the British system too. "A pint's a pound the world around"

  8. Bible was not written as a scientific textbook on NASA Says Mars Once "Drenched With Water" · · Score: 1

    Something off of the internet (fixed formatting, sorry):

    "Genesis chapter one is clearly false and here's proof"

    The creation myth presented in the first Chapter of Genesis is clearly false, and here's proof.

    Genesis 1

    1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    Now it is certaintly true the before life first evolved, heaven or "space" and the planet earth had to first be created, and there is no scientific evidence disputing this.

    2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.

    Of course primitive single cell life did evolve at some point. Early life would not have had any way to detect robust forms and would have found their surrounding a void. Yes, life most likely would have come about on the surface of the planet, thus "the deep" would have been devoid of it, and, as is still the case today, dark. And, if we interpret the "Spirit of God" as being life itself, it most certaintly moved, whether through primitive cellular locomotion, or only via tidal currents, primarily over the face of the waters, where science does hold life began.

    3 And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

    Sure, at some point primitive single cell life forms would have developed the chemical ability to rudimentally detect light.

    4 And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

    And sure, when life "saw", it only makes sense that this "God", whatever that is, was able to see also. And of couse, being able to detect which direction light was in would have aided the survival of life and this, just to give the text the benifit of the doubt, was good. And yes, life would have been able to detect and act on the fact that some areas were light and some areas were dark.

    5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

    Primitive life would have experienced the motion of the earth relative to the sun which brings about day and night. Science has no evidence that there was a time in earths history when it did not move thusly. This time period of single celled life eventually able to detect certain wavelengths of the UV spectrum did indeed constitute a major epoch in life's development.

    6 And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."

    It is not disputed by reputable scientists that there was a time at which the atmosphere changed from its original clouded greehouse state. The was indeed accomplished through photosynthesis which, simply put, does separate one molecule of water into hydrogen and oxygen with the help of light from the sky. But this passage is hardly clear.

    7 And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so.

    This separation of water would have eliminated the greenhouse and revealed the sky and made clouds less ubiquitous. Sure the atmosphere changed a great deal, but this sentence is hardly clear in its meaning which is the first strike against this obvious fable.

    8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

    The change of the atmosphere and the subsequent changes in the way life survived also constituted a major epoch in the story of life.

    9 And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
    10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

    Sure, the continents as we know them (in differing locations) did appear after the change of the atmosphere, since the end of greenhouse conditions allowed for the icecaps to form. But are we supposed to believe there was no dry land at all before this t

  9. The Bible was not written as a scientific textbook on NASA Says Mars Once "Drenched With Water" · · Score: 1

    Something off of the internet... "Genesis chapter one is clearly false and here's proof" 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now it is certaintly true the before life first evolved, heaven or "space" and the planet earth had to first be created, and there is no scientific evidence disputing this. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. Of course primitive single cell life did evolve at some point. Early life would not have had any way to detect robust forms and would have found their surrounding a void. Yes, life most likely would have come about on the surface of the planet, thus "the deep" would have been devoid of it, and, as is still the case today, dark. And, if we interpret the "Spirit of God" as being life itself, it most certaintly moved, whether through primitive cellular locomotion, or only via tidal currents, primarily over the face of the waters, where science does hold life began. 3 And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. Sure, at some point primitive single cell life forms would have developed the chemical ability to rudimentally detect light. 4 And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. And sure, when life "saw", it only makes sense that this "God", whatever that is, was able to see also. And of couse, being able to detect which direction light was in would have aided the survival of life and this, just to give the text the benifit of the doubt, was good. And yes, life would have been able to detect and act on the fact that some areas were light and some areas were dark. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Primitive life would have experienced the motion of the earth relative to the sun which brings about day and night. Science has no evidence that there was a time in earths history when it did not move thusly. This time period of single celled life eventually able to detect certain wavelengths of the UV spectrum did indeed constitute a major epoch in life's development. 6 And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." It is not disputed by reputable scientists that there was a time at which the atmosphere changed from its original clouded greehouse state. The was indeed accomplished through photosynthesis which, simply put, does separate one molecule of water into hydrogen and oxygen with the help of light from the sky. But this passage is hardly clear. 7 And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. This separation of water would have eliminated the greenhouse and revealed the sky and made clouds less ubiquitous. Sure the atmosphere changed a great deal, but this sentence is hardly clear in its meaning which is the first strike against this obvious fable. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. The change of the atmosphere and the subsequent changes in the way life survived also constituted a major epoch in the story of life. 9 And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Sure, the continents as we know them (in differing locations) did appear after the change of the atmosphere, since the end of greenhouse conditions allowed for the icecaps to form. But are we supposed to believe there was no dry land at all before this time? What fools do the authors take us to be? 11 And God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth." And it was so. Sure, primitive lichens and mosses did sprea

  10. Wrong on NASA Says Mars Once "Drenched With Water" · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's why the latin is more elucidating. You're fallacy is falling into a linguistic trap. Cogito ergo sum. Think do I, thus am I. The first premise is think, the rest follows. Counter arguments that you can't think that you've thought until you have thought are Zeno-eqsue (google Zeno frog well) or that you perhaps only think you are thinking (google Chuang Tzu dream butterfly) are self-evidently moot. Dang, the frog ate the butterfly again. I hate it when that happens.

  11. Egads! We've been scalped! on US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Somewhere Quanah Parker is laughing....

  12. Re:134 years to find on HMS Beagle (Possibly) Found · · Score: 1

    no, no. The ark is in that government warehouse after Indy rescued it from the Nazis.

  13. Re:Why this research is in any way interesting on M&M's Pack Tighter Than Gumballs · · Score: 1

    of course they'd pack tighter than spheres. Angular momentum is in play. This research still rates a big "duh" in my mind....

  14. Re:In other news.... on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 1

    >Get to workin' on that cancer! I for one can only smoke so many packs a day. Oh, wait... cure?

  15. Re:I wish they'd just stop on It's All About the Ununpentium · · Score: 1

    From pentium to gateway jokes?

  16. At least it's not mikerowesoftium on It's All About the Ununpentium · · Score: 1

    What, are all the good names taken anyway?

  17. didn't they shread all the blueprints? on Columbia Disaster Anniversary · · Score: 1

    I heard someone in NASA management had all the blueprints to the Apollo rockets destroyed so there would be no choice but to build the shuttle. So it would cost billions to reconstitute the Saturn program -- they'd have to basically start from scratch.

  18. How it's done on Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas · · Score: 1

    Yeah, some sites check the referer (sic) field in the HTTP header sent by your browser to make sure you've really come from a link on their website. Such annoyances can be avoided by using a proxy, such as junkbuster, which doesn't send the referer field, or hacking up the browser to always send a referer that's one level up from where you are trying to go. You're right that the spammer's would be able to directly link to the captchas. If a site such as yahoo just put a little copyright yahoo string on their captchas, that would make copying them around a porn server a little more problematic, I would think.

  19. Re:Serves people right.. on Today's Windows Virus - MyDoom / Novarg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ooh! I've been drinking the windex and spraying the toner in my eyes. No wonder.

  20. The name of PKD's short story... on Mars Rover Opportunity Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it: "Spirit's Flash ROM can remember it for you Wholesale"?

  21. They're still coding after the launch?? on Spirit Rover Communications Error · · Score: 1

    That's nuts when there are billions on the line. What ever happened to a stitch in time?

  22. Power Bus! on Spirit Rover Communications Error · · Score: 1

    Power Bus?! Heck, if we gots one of them on Mars, what are we doing piddlin' round with this little rover? Quick -- To the power bus!

  23. Re:Questions. on Intel To Produce 65-Nanometer Chips In 2005 · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah. I meant as a rule of thumb. And my math was probably wrong too. But, give or take an order of magnitude....

  24. Re:Questions. on Intel To Produce 65-Nanometer Chips In 2005 · · Score: 1

    This link describes a transistor made by IBM with a 6nm gate and 4-8nm of silicon. http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/2002120 9_transistor.shtml Of course, there's three dimensions involved here, but an atom is about 3 anstroms wide, which is 3 ten billionths of a meter... let's see, carry the two... um. That's about 120-240 atoms across, I guess.

  25. Re:Moore's "Law"? on Intel To Produce 65-Nanometer Chips In 2005 · · Score: 1

    I always get it confused with Cole's Law. Which is odd considering Cole's Law is just thinly sliced cabbage.