I introduced my daughter to computers at age 4--on a Data General Nova III minicomputer. She knew how to bootstrap it (from a 14-inch platter) and call up/run some simple programs I wrote for her (BASIC, FORTRAN). She later started programming in BASIC. June 2003, she graduated medical school--not that that is in any way related.
"The scene was captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array."
So, where are the pictures? I like pictures. Science is no fun without pictures. Pictures are cool.
Somewhere, my wife picked up these HUGE 5-pound cans of Starkist tuna. For months, I reveled in showing one to friends and declaring in my best Maxwell Smart impersonation, "That's the second biggest can of tuna I ever saw! Look, 99, KAOS sent us a tuna-bomb!"
No big deal, indeed. My wife and I do not go out to theaters to watch movies, nor buy/rent movies, on the simple basis that nothing Hollywood produces is worth the price. If a movie eventually makes it to TV, we'll watch if it is interesting, taking advantage of commercials to go to the john (or loo, in deference to my British acquaintances), and while there avail of the opportunity to piss on Hollywood and MPAA both literally and figuratively.
Frankly, we vastly prefer the fodder on the Turner Classic Movies cable/satellite channel as (a) superior and (b) free of the bilge water that passes for entertainment.
"A google search for "world's largest bird of prey" reveals that there's no concensus on which bird is the largest bird of prey. My money is on the Andean Condor..."
Uh, condors are scavengers, not predators (birds of prey). Ergo, the harpy eagle gets the prize.
"So its rapid increase in size appears to be a case of island gigantisism."
I suspect this might be the result of natural selection, bringing about equilibrium with the most abundant (and outsized) prey.
"I wonder if the number of flightless species in the area were caused by the presence of this predator in the air?"
A fascinating question, that. Another case of natural selection at work? OTOH, among modern species, not many raptors take prey from the air, although it can/does happen. Most prey is taken from the ground, among larger raptors, at least. So, I guess it would depend on the Haast's eagle's hunting method, which itself likely evolved with its prey.
I love this kind of stuff. It's like a game, a puzzle in retrospect.
What they do is maintain a onesuite.com account (from England) setup so that friends and relatives in the U.S. can call THEM using the service. People are more likely to call since it is "free" (as in beer).
I use http://www.onesuite.com/. I can call my daughter/son-in-law in England from the U.S. for something like.03/min, and my wife's brother in Thailand for.07. My daughter uses the same service to call us et al in the U.S. from England.
Other international rates here http://www.onesuite.com/rates.asp
You pre-pay for as many minutes as you want, and access is via a toll-free or local number.
I am the editor of a mid-size magazine (hard copy, not web). By necessity, my email address and those of the various department editors are published in the magazine and on our website so readers can contact us. Obviously, this is one of the worst possible scenarios, but necessary to address the lowest common demoninator among readership.
Due to this, I and the department editors that work for me (as well as the advertising and circulation departments) receive hundreds of spam messages daily.
I eliminate most of mine at the server level by filtering all email from non-U.S. servers based on IP (APNIC, LACNIC, and RIPE registry). The remainder get diverted to a spam folder by SpamBully, and are then reported to the FTC and to the originating ISP via SpamCop (not because I think it does any good, but because it makes me feel better).
Bottom line: about 80-plus percent of email is spam (except on deadline day).
Amen and halleluja!
I am sick to death of paying exhorbitant taxes to pay for the indoctrination (not "education" anymore) of other parent's kids. I worked may ass off (still do), bought property, built a house, paid for it, and then the government punishes me by taxing my ass off.
I am sick of property taxes and income taxes. The only fair tax is a sales tax.
Offtopic? I do not see how, considering all preceding comments. Nonethless, I bet a post hole against a panful of cornbread it gets modded so.
We'll see.
Network TV news keeps saying it caused Earth to "wobble on its axis." It already does that, which is where climatic seasons come from. If it did wobble more/differently, how might the seasons be impacted, if at all?
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Sorry, it is an exclusive school retricted to the children of out-dated geeks who have long beards and Napoleon complexes.
Okay, no more syntax-related jokes.
I introduced my daughter to computers at age 4--on a Data General Nova III minicomputer. She knew how to bootstrap it (from a 14-inch platter) and call up/run some simple programs I wrote for her (BASIC, FORTRAN). She later started programming in BASIC. June 2003, she graduated medical school--not that that is in any way related.
I doubt we'll have to deal with it. The Israelis will handle it for us.
I agree...I was going for Funny.
"The scene was captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array." So, where are the pictures? I like pictures. Science is no fun without pictures. Pictures are cool.
Somewhere, my wife picked up these HUGE 5-pound cans of Starkist tuna. For months, I reveled in showing one to friends and declaring in my best Maxwell Smart impersonation, "That's the second biggest can of tuna I ever saw! Look, 99, KAOS sent us a tuna-bomb!"
Yesss! Now, that's entertainig TV! Funny without being stupid or patently vulgar, even cerebral in a satirical way.
Glad to know I am not the only one who watches/appreciates this stuff.
Yeah, there's so many wannabe me's out there, I'm think of starting a fan club.
No big deal, indeed. My wife and I do not go out to theaters to watch movies, nor buy/rent movies, on the simple basis that nothing Hollywood produces is worth the price. If a movie eventually makes it to TV, we'll watch if it is interesting, taking advantage of commercials to go to the john (or loo, in deference to my British acquaintances), and while there avail of the opportunity to piss on Hollywood and MPAA both literally and figuratively.
Frankly, we vastly prefer the fodder on the Turner Classic Movies cable/satellite channel as (a) superior and (b) free of the bilge water that passes for entertainment.
So, like the man said, no big deal.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:7hdYYlLlgEgJ: www.edge.org/+edge.org+%22WHAT+DO+YOU+BELIEVE+IS+T RUE+EVEN+THOUGH+YOU+CANNOT+PROVE+IT%3F%22&hl=en&cl ient=firefox-a
"A google search for "world's largest bird of prey" reveals that there's no concensus on which bird is the largest bird of prey. My money is on the Andean Condor..."
Uh, condors are scavengers, not predators (birds of prey). Ergo, the harpy eagle gets the prize.
"So its rapid increase in size appears to be a case of island gigantisism."
I suspect this might be the result of natural selection, bringing about equilibrium with the most abundant (and outsized) prey.
"I wonder if the number of flightless species in the area were caused by the presence of this predator in the air?"
A fascinating question, that. Another case of natural selection at work? OTOH, among modern species, not many raptors take prey from the air, although it can/does happen. Most prey is taken from the ground, among larger raptors, at least. So, I guess it would depend on the Haast's eagle's hunting method, which itself likely evolved with its prey.
I love this kind of stuff. It's like a game, a puzzle in retrospect.
Say what you will, but an entire ecosystem with an avian apex predator is damned interesting stuff. Inspiration for a good ScFi novel, to be sure.
I do not understand why the parent is modded "Troll." He's absolutely correct--"Insightful" even.
Sorry, I got it all wrong.
What they do is maintain a onesuite.com account (from England) setup so that friends and relatives in the U.S. can call THEM using the service. People are more likely to call since it is "free" (as in beer).
I wouldn't use Vonage under any circumstances on the simple basis that their TV ad is annoying as hell.
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Other international rates here http://www.onesuite.com/rates.asp You pre-pay for as many minutes as you want, and access is via a toll-free or local number.
Mine is the "Sweeping stun guns to target crowds." Phasers on stun!
I am the editor of a mid-size magazine (hard copy, not web). By necessity, my email address and those of the various department editors are published in the magazine and on our website so readers can contact us. Obviously, this is one of the worst possible scenarios, but necessary to address the lowest common demoninator among readership.
Due to this, I and the department editors that work for me (as well as the advertising and circulation departments) receive hundreds of spam messages daily.
I eliminate most of mine at the server level by filtering all email from non-U.S. servers based on IP (APNIC, LACNIC, and RIPE registry). The remainder get diverted to a spam folder by SpamBully, and are then reported to the FTC and to the originating ISP via SpamCop (not because I think it does any good, but because it makes me feel better).
Bottom line: about 80-plus percent of email is spam (except on deadline day).
Precisely the sort of response I expected from one of the "welfare society" minions.
Amen and halleluja! I am sick to death of paying exhorbitant taxes to pay for the indoctrination (not "education" anymore) of other parent's kids. I worked may ass off (still do), bought property, built a house, paid for it, and then the government punishes me by taxing my ass off. I am sick of property taxes and income taxes. The only fair tax is a sales tax. Offtopic? I do not see how, considering all preceding comments. Nonethless, I bet a post hole against a panful of cornbread it gets modded so. We'll see.
Okay, so what causes the seasons to change?
Network TV news keeps saying it caused Earth to "wobble on its axis." It already does that, which is where climatic seasons come from. If it did wobble more/differently, how might the seasons be impacted, if at all?
I wonder why this is.
...we've already done this http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/25/141 8247&tid=111