I viewed your SVG animations using Mac OSX 10.3, in Safari 1.2.1 (v125.1), using the Adobe SVG viewer 3.0, and there was one noticable problem I thought perhaps you were unaware of. For some reason on my platform, the alpha in alpha-ketol was not rendering properly. In place of the alpha was an empty box (most probably a font problem). Interestingly, the HTML "MEP Synthase (α-ketol rearrangement)" showed the alpha just fine for me.
Just thought you would like to know.
Other than that, the animations were excellent. Did you write the SVG by hand, or use a tool?
it has other uses as well. If you wrap your head in this spider silk mesh it is even more effective at blocking the evil thought control waves than tin foil!
Sounds like a good argument for further fusion reactor tests.
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Well sort of... They have hardware interrupts which really complicates things. Not to mention that for nearly all intents and purposes, they have enough memory to be treated as a TM.
Hardcore would be writing a virtual machine (and write in in machine code) to run on the new processor that would emulate the old one.
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Nothing could be easier to understand than finite state machines. The only trick is that you can't do as much with them. It doesn't make them hardcore.
That is like saying hardcore is writing an english novel using only one vowel. There are a lot of novels you couldn't write that way.
Why in the world would he think that they would purge his information just because he isn't a customer any more? I worked for an ISP and our billing software didn't even allow for that sort of thing. You could get fired for deleting a users information for any reason. As a business I think they have to keep that sort of information around for several years for accounting purposes anyway.
I mean after all, there are plenty of companies out there that have your personal information that you have never even done business with (and they buy and sell personal information all the time).
Besides, it isn't like it is just ISPs either. How often do you get phone calls from ex-long distance providers asking you to switch back?
Umm... you don't have to register www unless you want www.com or www.org or something. That is a sub domain of the domain you have already registered (i.e. microsoft.com).
Electrons are not "produced" by solar cells
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Solar cells harness engergy by absorbing photons, which cause electrons in an atom (which are already there) to move to a higher energy state. This technique moves two electrons per photon, rather than one. The point I am making is simply that electrons are being moved, and not created. That would have amazingly different implications, as that would be creating matter from the energy in a single photon, which would only work with very high energy photons.
All I know is that when I was in high school we were expected to have already mastered the basics of English. The only thing that was emphasized was content.
By the way, you can grade content without grading opinions. The grade is based on how well formed an argument is, or how well an idea is fleshed out. In other words, you are grading the an author based on what they intend their words to mean, rather than just their words. These are things that a computer just can't do. ou don't get an A because of what you think, but how you convey what you think.
The whole idea of an automated grading system for essays is insane to begin with. The single most important aspect of an essay is its content, not its form. Form and grammar are important in conveying a message, but the message is what is actually important. The things an automated grading system can grade should not make up much of an essay's total grade.
Besides, anyone who has read much literature knows that many great authors play with grammar, spelling, and form in non-standard ways in order convey a message. An automated system would grade them poorly, because only those who conform exactally to the rules get a good grade. Is our goal to turn all of our students into mindless automatons whose only goal is to churn out exactally the same drivell as the next guy?
They are not graded fairly, and they determine 10% of the final grade.
10% of the grade on the essay? Or in a particular class? 10% on the essay may actually be tolerable, because that means that at least a human actually read it to give the other 90% of the grade.
Yeah, he made some really good points. But because he came at it from the angle he did, it made me sympathize with Bush about how hard it would be to win a war like the one we are engaged in in Iraq. All of the various things that come up that make it so you lose no matter what you do (even if you defeat the "enemy" you still haven't "won".
So what? Real war is not a game. But to quote Wargames, "the only way to win, is not to play." The article was written as though Bush was forced into some horrible situation he has little chance of winning in. Who forced him to go to war with Iraq? Sometimes I think maybe he wanted to have a real war game, so he made one.
I have always thought that a realistic real-time war sim would be nothing like the Warcraft/Comand & Conquer type games, because those give you way too much control. In real warfare you can't control individual soldiers. As a general you can map out a very general battle plan, and then kind of sit back and hope it works out. Even with the best communcation systems in place at best you could give orders to individual soldiers, but you wouldn't have any control over how they carried them out.
Now, how much fun is it to play a game where you basically sit back and watch the action, rather than being able to interact with it?
I don't agree with you at all... Obviously money is the only thing that matters. Implicit in what I said is that if every one hates a show, then obviously the advertisers will notice that no one is watching it. Besides, I never even specified who to voice your oppions to. I was just pointing out that it isn't mean-spirited to voice your oppion about shows you don't like.
If you don't watch it why would it matter to you whether or not it is cancelled?
I don't get UPN, so I have no oppinion on this particular show, but in general I think there is a very good reason to want a show you don't like to be cancelled. The prime reason is that the networks only have so much money to invest in making shows, and if they are spending it on something you don't like, it is taking that money away from being invested in something that perhaps you would like. If enough people voice their oppion about a "bad" show, then the network will listen and replace it with something else.
over a hundred people lose their jobs as a result, and I'm not talking about high-paid actors, I'm talking about camera men, editors, janitors-- normal people.
That is unfortunate, but I hardly think major investments should be made based on the fate of a little over a hundred jobs. It isn't as though these people have no chance of being employed again. If they were hired once, they probably had some qualities that would make them worth hiring again. It is even possible that these people have a chance of being part of the crew on what ever show replaces the current one.
What happens when major shows go off the air, not because they are cancelled, but because they are at the end of a long run? That is just the nature of television shows, because they all eventually come to an end. No one gets a job like this and expects it to last forever.
Of course it can, but that doesn't mean it is going to magically "sling-shot" particles out of the way that would have otherwise collided with the Earth. It could "sling-shot" particles that would have missed us anyway. Gravity is always attractive (except with sagging breasts as mentioned above), and the "sling-shot" effect is caused by attraction.
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If it makes you feel better, I would have to install flash if I wanted to look at any SWF files too.
He developed the L/R buttons? Did anyone else notice these on the Super Nintendo?
what happens to crap networks like QVC and HSN? Is anyone going to pay for 24 hour a day shopping channels? Are these going to be given away for free?
I viewed your SVG animations using Mac OSX 10.3, in Safari 1.2.1 (v125.1), using the Adobe SVG viewer 3.0, and there was one noticable problem I thought perhaps you were unaware of. For some reason on my platform, the alpha in alpha-ketol was not rendering properly. In place of the alpha was an empty box (most probably a font problem). Interestingly, the HTML "MEP Synthase (α-ketol rearrangement)" showed the alpha just fine for me.
Just thought you would like to know.
Other than that, the animations were excellent. Did you write the SVG by hand, or use a tool?
Sorry, this is a more direct link.
If you are looking for an SVG viewer (as I was), Adobe has one for download.
it has other uses as well. If you wrap your head in this spider silk mesh it is even more effective at blocking the evil thought control waves than tin foil!
Sounds like a good argument for further fusion reactor tests.
Well sort of... They have hardware interrupts which really complicates things. Not to mention that for nearly all intents and purposes, they have enough memory to be treated as a TM.
Hardcore would be writing a virtual machine (and write in in machine code) to run on the new processor that would emulate the old one.
Nothing could be easier to understand than finite state machines. The only trick is that you can't do as much with them. It doesn't make them hardcore.
That is like saying hardcore is writing an english novel using only one vowel. There are a lot of novels you couldn't write that way.
Hey, why don't you post your username and password? That will teach them.
Why in the world would he think that they would purge his information just because he isn't a customer any more? I worked for an ISP and our billing software didn't even allow for that sort of thing. You could get fired for deleting a users information for any reason. As a business I think they have to keep that sort of information around for several years for accounting purposes anyway.
I mean after all, there are plenty of companies out there that have your personal information that you have never even done business with (and they buy and sell personal information all the time).
Besides, it isn't like it is just ISPs either. How often do you get phone calls from ex-long distance providers asking you to switch back?
Or the Soviets will make him an unperson.
Actually the post is a former Mac user who wants to install something on an HP laptop. He wasn't looking to install on a PPC machine.
Umm... you don't have to register www unless you want www.com or www.org or something. That is a sub domain of the domain you have already registered (i.e. microsoft.com).
Solar cells harness engergy by absorbing photons, which cause electrons in an atom (which are already there) to move to a higher energy state. This technique moves two electrons per photon, rather than one. The point I am making is simply that electrons are being moved, and not created. That would have amazingly different implications, as that would be creating matter from the energy in a single photon, which would only work with very high energy photons.
All I know is that when I was in high school we were expected to have already mastered the basics of English. The only thing that was emphasized was content.
By the way, you can grade content without grading opinions. The grade is based on how well formed an argument is, or how well an idea is fleshed out. In other words, you are grading the an author based on what they intend their words to mean, rather than just their words. These are things that a computer just can't do. ou don't get an A because of what you think, but how you convey what you think.
The whole idea of an automated grading system for essays is insane to begin with. The single most important aspect of an essay is its content, not its form. Form and grammar are important in conveying a message, but the message is what is actually important. The things an automated grading system can grade should not make up much of an essay's total grade.
Besides, anyone who has read much literature knows that many great authors play with grammar, spelling, and form in non-standard ways in order convey a message. An automated system would grade them poorly, because only those who conform exactally to the rules get a good grade. Is our goal to turn all of our students into mindless automatons whose only goal is to churn out exactally the same drivell as the next guy?
They are not graded fairly, and they determine 10% of the final grade.
10% of the grade on the essay? Or in a particular class? 10% on the essay may actually be tolerable, because that means that at least a human actually read it to give the other 90% of the grade.
Umm... Just go to the "View" menu and click on Status Bar.
Yeah, he made some really good points. But because he came at it from the angle he did, it made me sympathize with Bush about how hard it would be to win a war like the one we are engaged in in Iraq. All of the various things that come up that make it so you lose no matter what you do (even if you defeat the "enemy" you still haven't "won".
So what? Real war is not a game. But to quote Wargames, "the only way to win, is not to play." The article was written as though Bush was forced into some horrible situation he has little chance of winning in. Who forced him to go to war with Iraq? Sometimes I think maybe he wanted to have a real war game, so he made one.
I have always thought that a realistic real-time war sim would be nothing like the Warcraft/Comand & Conquer type games, because those give you way too much control. In real warfare you can't control individual soldiers. As a general you can map out a very general battle plan, and then kind of sit back and hope it works out. Even with the best communcation systems in place at best you could give orders to individual soldiers, but you wouldn't have any control over how they carried them out.
Now, how much fun is it to play a game where you basically sit back and watch the action, rather than being able to interact with it?
I don't agree with you at all... Obviously money is the only thing that matters. Implicit in what I said is that if every one hates a show, then obviously the advertisers will notice that no one is watching it. Besides, I never even specified who to voice your oppions to. I was just pointing out that it isn't mean-spirited to voice your oppion about shows you don't like.
If you don't watch it why would it matter to you whether or not it is cancelled?
I don't get UPN, so I have no oppinion on this particular show, but in general I think there is a very good reason to want a show you don't like to be cancelled. The prime reason is that the networks only have so much money to invest in making shows, and if they are spending it on something you don't like, it is taking that money away from being invested in something that perhaps you would like. If enough people voice their oppion about a "bad" show, then the network will listen and replace it with something else.
over a hundred people lose their jobs as a result, and I'm not talking about high-paid actors, I'm talking about camera men, editors, janitors-- normal people.
That is unfortunate, but I hardly think major investments should be made based on the fate of a little over a hundred jobs. It isn't as though these people have no chance of being employed again. If they were hired once, they probably had some qualities that would make them worth hiring again. It is even possible that these people have a chance of being part of the crew on what ever show replaces the current one.
What happens when major shows go off the air, not because they are cancelled, but because they are at the end of a long run? That is just the nature of television shows, because they all eventually come to an end. No one gets a job like this and expects it to last forever.
Of course it can, but that doesn't mean it is going to magically "sling-shot" particles out of the way that would have otherwise collided with the Earth. It could "sling-shot" particles that would have missed us anyway. Gravity is always attractive (except with sagging breasts as mentioned above), and the "sling-shot" effect is caused by attraction.