But it's the same problem that Word has. Get a doc from Word 2010, send it to somebody with Word 2003, then Word 97 then 2008 for OS X and hilarity ensues. This is where Google might have a leg up. The couldnt create such a clusterfuck of file formats if they tried.
Of course, if they are going to award a Nobel prize in Economics, then intelectual honesty would suggest that the committee consider a prize in Astrology as well.
And yet few want to talk about the root problem here. Too many humans.
Every time I hear someone utter this type of rhetoric I can't help but to think they are suicidal or homicidal maniacs.
Pound for pound the Earth can, and has, sustained a much larger mammalian population than your "unworthy of life" humans.
Homo industrialis has a much bigger environmental footprint that any dinosaur, whale or large mammal created. That said, other animals and plants have significantly changed the environment in the past to the detriment of some organisms and advantage of others. Shit happens.
Settle down you two. You do realize that the term 'scientists' is broadly encompassing? People that work for the evil industry. People whose moral compass shines brightly through the evil fog of the world (that's IT, no more caffeine this morning).
They don't live under volcanoes and play with obese felines. Well, most of them anyway.
First of all, bacterial resistance genes turn out to me much more complex than previously thought. Many resistance genes have evolved on cassettes which have the ability to evolve irrespective of the host bacterial genome. So they are selected to hang around, even in the absence of the initial selection factor.
Further, these cassettes can be transmitted to OTHER bacteria even without antibiotic selection and annoyingly enough, tend to get lumped together into multiple antibiotic resistant bacteria. So, we've let the cat out of the bag - it was inevitable although we managed to make it a bigger problem faster than need be.
TL;DR antibiotic resistance is going to be around a long time whether or not we use the antibiotics. Scientists aren't all greedy douchebags. There are more things in heaven and earth, dear Slashdotters, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The Microsoft tortoise beat the hares as far as I'm concerned (as a hardcore gamer, a CPAN brogrammer, and a professional gadget fiddler).
You've managed to box yourself in to a demographically trivial corner. Nobody really cares about you. Not Apple, Not Microsoft, Not Google. They're going for where the money is and you ain't it.
So we're all happy your happy and now existentially complete as to your computing needs and desires. But the market doesn't give a damn.
I think benjfowler is pointing out the fact that for ICBMs you really want the storage flexibility of solid fuel boosters. You can argue all you want about the pros and cons of solids in a non military application but for bombs you want to be able to create Armageddon at the drop of the hat.
Look at the trailer for any modern film. There are literally hundreds of people given credit for the film. There were thousands of computers and tens of thousands of computer hours. Professional digital cameras are anything but inexpensive, even if you rent them.
Yes, the budgets are inflated but a major movie costs real dollars.
(Although Monsters is an interesting example of what can be done on a low budget. But it's not LOTR.)
I guess I'm not much blown away by this. Companies looking for the big money go wherever the big money is.
Soon banks will be into banking, stocks,derivatives, commodities, overthrowing small countries, buying out large countries. You know, business as usual.
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It's data intensive and would likely turn your iPhone into a spot welder for the second or two it would take to trash the battery. Some things need REAL COMPUTERS(TM) to work well.
If Ehtanol is so great how come it's not used in the Aviation industry?
Hooray!
Two things:
- It lowers the specific energy of the fuel. Ethanol does not have the joules per unit weight that gasoline has. In a car, that isn't all that much of an issue, just get a bigger tank, in aircraft it is a bigger problem. That means less payload. That's a hassle both for economic and practical reasons. - You now have to rejigger all of the fuel line components to make it alcohol tolerant. That for many aircraft that aren't even made currently. It's not like people toss airplanes after a decade - they just get rebuilt. They get rebuilt in low volumes so there is no significant financial incentive to do all the research for every odd ball plane in General Aviation. Somebody has to pay to design it, build it and get it passed the EPA. It could certainly possible, but nobody is going to be arsed to do it.
2002 Jaguar XJS. Will misfire like crazy if I use ethanol.
Re. boats? Any. Ethanol absorbs water and the stock fuel filters / water separators do not adequately remove the resultant water in the fuel.
Huh? All the current fuel / water seperators I've seen are OK to use with ethanol blends. The water in the ethanol / gasoline mixture actually burns OK. I am sure that there are older bits of equipment that can't handle ethanol, but the new stuff has no issue with it.
Requesting "regular", et al, is different from requesting "regular, ethanol 10 or less", especially if the driver doesn't know that they may encounter E15 and/or what it could do to their engine. And the possibility of the wrong grade gasoline at a pump - doesn't have to be the aviation fuel at a gas station linked to by the OP - then what? Getting regular instead of high-test won't cause the same problems as getting E15 when your car can't handle it.
Come on, it will be just like Starbucks "Low Octane grande with two shots of E-10, no whip". If people can get it straight for coffee, they can do it for gasoline.
Which is an exceedingly important fact. While handguns and long guns go together like.... well, I'll leave it to your imaginations - lots of people have one or the other. So the only utility of this map is to annoy gun owners and make some sort of social noise (ooh, lots of people have guns).
Let's rephrase it: This is a map of people with registered handguns. Not rifles, not caches of ammunition, diesel and ammonium nitrate (those are the people you want to have a reasonable buffer around), not unregistered guns. So it tells you - not much.
Want to see who has more disposable income? Check out property values. Look at cars. Want to see how many people have alarm systems? Stumble around Google Maps or for heaven's sake, walk around a neighborhood ('case the joint').
It's a dick move and won't help move the discussion very far, but that's journalism.
And, IMHO, my submission was a bit lengthier and contained a bit more relevant info for the Slashdot crowd.
You're doing it wrong. Just keep in mind that the editors have the attention span of a Chihuahua on meth and the reading comprehension of a flatworm and you're golden.
Funny we don't care about that when we're talking about guys. After I found out I was mutilated and the pain I experienced was not a normal part of being a man, I stopped giving a shit about FGM, because I realized everything that horrified me about the idea was something I was already living with no way to reverse it, ever.
Funny, the rest of the circumcised world doesn't have your sorts of issues. Maybe it's just you.
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This is off topic in exactly what way?
But it's the same problem that Word has. Get a doc from Word 2010, send it to somebody with Word 2003, then Word 97 then 2008 for OS X and hilarity ensues. This is where Google might have a leg up. The couldnt create such a clusterfuck of file formats if they tried.
We want Dr. Bob back!
I've been subluxing since his disappearance.
Give him credit where it is due. People don't have anything to say to each other. It's just that little fact hasn't stopped them.
Of course, if they are going to award a Nobel prize in Economics, then intelectual honesty would suggest that the committee consider a prize in Astrology as well.
And yet few want to talk about the root problem here. Too many humans.
Every time I hear someone utter this type of rhetoric I can't help but to think they are suicidal or homicidal maniacs.
Pound for pound the Earth can, and has, sustained a much larger mammalian population than your "unworthy of life" humans.
Homo industrialis has a much bigger environmental footprint that any dinosaur, whale or large mammal created. That said, other animals and plants have significantly changed the environment in the past to the detriment of some organisms and advantage of others. Shit happens.
Settle down you two. You do realize that the term 'scientists' is broadly encompassing? People that work for the evil industry. People whose moral compass shines brightly through the evil fog of the world (that's IT, no more caffeine this morning).
They don't live under volcanoes and play with obese felines. Well, most of them anyway.
First of all, bacterial resistance genes turn out to me much more complex than previously thought. Many resistance genes have evolved on cassettes which have the ability to evolve irrespective of the host bacterial genome. So they are selected to hang around, even in the absence of the initial selection factor.
Further, these cassettes can be transmitted to OTHER bacteria even without antibiotic selection and annoyingly enough, tend to get lumped together into multiple antibiotic resistant bacteria. So, we've let the cat out of the bag - it was inevitable although we managed to make it a bigger problem faster than need be.
TL;DR antibiotic resistance is going to be around a long time whether or not we use the antibiotics. Scientists aren't all greedy douchebags. There are more things in heaven and earth, dear Slashdotters, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The Microsoft tortoise beat the hares as far as I'm concerned (as a hardcore gamer, a CPAN brogrammer, and a professional gadget fiddler).
You've managed to box yourself in to a demographically trivial corner. Nobody really cares about you. Not Apple, Not Microsoft, Not Google. They're going for where the money is and you ain't it.
So we're all happy your happy and now existentially complete as to your computing needs and desires. But the market doesn't give a damn.
I think benjfowler is pointing out the fact that for ICBMs you really want the storage flexibility of solid fuel boosters. You can argue all you want about the pros and cons of solids in a non military application but for bombs you want to be able to create Armageddon at the drop of the hat.
Look at the trailer for any modern film. There are literally hundreds of people given credit for the film. There were thousands of computers and tens of thousands of computer hours. Professional digital cameras are anything but inexpensive, even if you rent them.
Yes, the budgets are inflated but a major movie costs real dollars.
(Although Monsters is an interesting example of what can be done on a low budget. But it's not LOTR.)
But we use cheap android tablets, not ipads, because sometimes devices get run over by forklifts.
Let me guess, employee retention is not one of your company's strong points.
I guess I'm not much blown away by this. Companies looking for the big money go wherever the big money is.
Soon banks will be into banking, stocks,derivatives, commodities, overthrowing small countries, buying out large countries. You know, business as usual.
I think banning humans would go a long way to solving the world's problems.
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It's data intensive and would likely turn your iPhone into a spot welder for the second or two it would take to trash the battery. Some things need REAL COMPUTERS(TM) to work well.
Didn't see the 'Velocorapter' voxel. The one for 'American Bison' was pretty easy to spot however (whatever the hell that means).
Interesting, still trying to figure out where Rule 34 fits.
If Ehtanol is so great how come it's not used in the Aviation industry?
Hooray!
Two things:
- It lowers the specific energy of the fuel. Ethanol does not have the joules per unit weight that gasoline has. In a car, that isn't all that much of an issue, just get a bigger tank, in aircraft it is a bigger problem. That means less payload. That's a hassle both for economic and practical reasons.
- You now have to rejigger all of the fuel line components to make it alcohol tolerant. That for many aircraft that aren't even made currently. It's not like people toss airplanes after a decade - they just get rebuilt. They get rebuilt in low volumes so there is no significant financial incentive to do all the research for every odd ball plane in General Aviation. Somebody has to pay to design it, build it and get it passed the EPA. It could certainly possible, but nobody is going to be arsed to do it.
2002 Jaguar XJS. Will misfire like crazy if I use ethanol.
Re. boats? Any. Ethanol absorbs water and the stock fuel filters / water separators do not adequately remove the resultant water in the fuel.
Huh? All the current fuel / water seperators I've seen are OK to use with ethanol blends. The water in the ethanol / gasoline mixture actually burns OK. I am sure that there are older bits of equipment that can't handle ethanol, but the new stuff has no issue with it.
Oregon is (maybe was, this was a couple of years ago) the same way.
Requesting "regular", et al, is different from requesting "regular, ethanol 10 or less", especially if the driver doesn't know that they may encounter E15 and/or what it could do to their engine. And the possibility of the wrong grade gasoline at a pump - doesn't have to be the aviation fuel at a gas station linked to by the OP - then what? Getting regular instead of high-test won't cause the same problems as getting E15 when your car can't handle it.
Come on, it will be just like Starbucks "Low Octane grande with two shots of E-10, no whip". If people can get it straight for coffee, they can do it for gasoline.
Which is an exceedingly important fact. While handguns and long guns go together like .... well, I'll leave it to your imaginations - lots of people have one or the other. So the only utility of this map is to annoy gun owners and make some sort of social noise (ooh, lots of people have guns).
Let's rephrase it: This is a map of people with registered handguns. Not rifles, not caches of ammunition, diesel and ammonium nitrate (those are the people you want to have a reasonable buffer around), not unregistered guns. So it tells you - not much.
Want to see who has more disposable income? Check out property values. Look at cars.
Want to see how many people have alarm systems? Stumble around Google Maps or for heaven's sake, walk around a neighborhood ('case the joint').
It's a dick move and won't help move the discussion very far, but that's journalism.
That might work. It just might.
I don't seem to be able to get our CIO to pony up for them any other way.
Is 4chan down again or something?
And, IMHO, my submission was a bit lengthier and contained a bit more relevant info for the Slashdot crowd.
You're doing it wrong. Just keep in mind that the editors have the attention span of a Chihuahua on meth and the reading comprehension of a flatworm and you're golden.
Funny we don't care about that when we're talking about guys. After I found out I was mutilated and the pain I experienced was not a normal part of being a man, I stopped giving a shit about FGM, because I realized everything that horrified me about the idea was something I was already living with no way to reverse it, ever.
Funny, the rest of the circumcised world doesn't have your sorts of issues. Maybe it's just you.
No, only if you channel Norman Rockwell. Now his stuff was disgusting.