I am with Bell Canada. There is a Bell in the US. Seriously stop screwing people already!
What's the weather like over there? Must be sunny and warm all of the time. "Stop screwing" people? The (Baby) Bell(s)? To paraphrase Nathan Filler, "Darlin, that's what they do". The fact that they can screw you over both individually (as a state, province, country, whatever) and collectively is what makes it all worthwhile.
Well, at least in the Philadelphia region the state police routinely survail the onramps to highways like I-95 from the first stop in Delaware and people entering from that onramp are often stopped to check for alcohol. Another beautiful feature of PA law is that it is illegal to smuggle alcohol into the state - personal use or otherwise.
Good thing we have strong laws. We wouldn't want to be like Europe where everybody is intoxicated all day long, from age 3 and up, right?
Look at it this way - here in Alaska we don't have those sorts of draconian laws and we ended up with Sarah Palin. You should thank the various deities that your state is as strict as it is.
Sometimes, however, things aren't quite so black and white. I ran across this thing the other day looking for trackballs. Actually looked really interesting until I noticed the price.
It's a real product (although apparently discontinued). Would somebody pay $500 for a trackball? Hell, for that much money, I'll build them by one a time out of hand selected Unicorn hooves.
Since xanthopterin converts light directly into electricity, according to the research, what exactly does the wasp do with the electricity produced? Does it directly excite muscles? Is there a tiny capacitor in the abdomen that dumps the energy into pulling the wings down?
Presumably it would use the electrons generated in a redox reaction which generate ATP which is the basic power supply of the cell.
Of course, this is all very hypothetical and hand waving at this point. However, if real, it could be a Big Deal - now you have another molecule, aside from the chlorophyll complex that can take photons and use them in cellular reactions. Photosynthesis is quite a bit more efficient that photovoltaic cells - assuming that this really does produce electrons at the end of the reaction and it's similarly efficient, or even just easier to copy / clone / manipulate, we might yet have a decent solar to electricity system.
Back in the days of printed stuff, there were thousands of outlets. If one barred a certain publication, it was no big deal. The public could buy it in the other shop down the road.
With e-publishing, there's massive consolidation that changes this situation. Amazon or Apple blocking a publication is *not* analogous to a shop choosing not to stock a publication.
You're kidding, right? 15 seconds on Google gets you there.... Even on a MacBook. I bet I could even look at it on my iPhone [insert tasteless small breast joke here] You can't really seriously consider an iPad as the be all and end all of e-publishing. It doesn't even run Flash.
The only issues with it are the out-of-the-box software completely sucks and is dog slow, you need to be comfortable flashing your own ROMs from XDA Developers to get much value out of it at this point, and to do a tiny bit of hacking to get the Market working properly.
Great! I'll tell my mom. She's sure to be interesting it getting one. Sounds just up her alley.
Well, I suppose we could start with a sense of humor. Or at the very least, Star Trek trivia. Come on guys, it's TUESDAY for Christ's sake. The hangover should be gone by now.
Yeah, but Pojut is doing it wrong. He's writing. He's not consuming. Content creation by anyone other that the Media (big M) is so last century and more to the point
Other articles (better than the TFA) have noted that the place is so packed with junk - both explosive and non explosive) that the bomb crews cannot work in their usual protective gear - there isn't enough room.
They are also worried about booby traps and just plain explosive / dangerous crap. They are going through a lot of expense to do it this way. They are building a perimeter fence, coating a house with fire retardant foam, bringing in all manner of people. It appears that this is the safest of a number of unsafe choices.
Is the fact that for the first time in my life, I am literally afraid of my Govt if I go to see a website and that I fully expect to be traced, put in a database, and labeled as some subversive. For going to a web address.
Right. For a government that gropes 6 year olds while essentially ignoring whole classes of threats that might be more difficult to handle than a child (airline support staff). A government who couldn't find a bomb in a package until it's practically shoved under their noses by the Saudis. A government that puts a sitting Senator on the no-fly list (well, OK, they got that one right).
Really dude, take the foil off. They're nowhere near that organized and your're nowhere near that important. So keep up with 4chan, no one will care.
That's OK, when I was a grad student in Molecular and Cell Biology, we of course had to TA the 100 level intro course which, of course, was on the pre med track. The faculty was on this kick that college students could not express themselves so they decided that all of the tests were to be exposition style. Sentences and paragraphs and the like.
We hated that. As it turned out, the faculty's supposition was correct. The majority of students could not write a simple declaratory sentence, much less a coherent paragraph. Grading them was a nightmare, especially the premeds who would cry and moan over 1 or 2 points. Try as we might, I doubt that we taught them a whole lot (either English or Molecular Biology)
Then at least some of them went to Medical School.
But medicine these days is a really a long, drawn out vocational school. There is very little 'Science' and even less 'Humanity'. It is memorize and practice. To a large degree this is unavoidable - there is a huge volume of baseline knowledge to acquire in a relatively short period of time. But given that the premedical experience is likewise short on science and humanities, your average physician really does not have the broad educational experience that many folks assume they do.
Calculus? That's some form of kidney stone, right?
What I don't understand is why a low level intelligence guy in a forward base in the middle of nowhere had access to diplomatic cables from say, China.
Information is traditionally doled out on a 'need to know' basis. Yes, the intelligence agencies got nailed for closeting information before 9/11 but surely the answer to that is not 'information wants to be free'.
Look, it doesn't matter. Whether the 'editors' state that Bill Gates is the Archangel Micheal in drag or whether it's Steve Jobs, half the slashdotters will get up in arms no matter which side is pilloried.
Unless you change the socioeconomic fabric of most of the 'third world' or somehow manage to pull off a full scale device copier ala Neal Stephenson or Star Trek, the economics are always going to strongly favor the cheap, disposable, highly configurable human.
To paraphrase Heinlein - Humans can make more humans, that's a trick that robots haven't figured out yet.
That's not the point. He should talk to an attorney because, among other things, there is nothing to stop Bambi or whoever from prosecuting this further. He can still be in further trouble, even if the game has been pulled.
Really guys, lawyers don't bite (most of them anyway(. As Grond points out, a brief conversation with one won't set you back much, if at all. He needs very basic advice, not a trip to the Supreme Court.
You then have the advantage of knowing what you should and should not do instead of having to wander through some hundred odd mutually incompatible posts. Put your big boy underwear on and go out into the real world. It's good practice.
Screw it, just go ahead and put 360 degree wrap around cameras in all the cars, dump the data to Google, exhume George Orwell, prop him up in front of the Capitol Building and call it done.
Citations to actual books are needed, and to draw quotes from those books we need access to at least a bit of the content. Amazon provides this, meaning now I may be able to just click a citation and be directed to the proper page at amazon where I can access a few sample pages from the book - ba-bing, now I have a citation for my paper.
So, you think research is just "accessing a few sample pages" and then linking to that.
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I am with Bell Canada. There is a Bell in the US. Seriously stop screwing people already!
What's the weather like over there? Must be sunny and warm all of the time. "Stop screwing" people? The (Baby) Bell(s)? To paraphrase Nathan Filler, "Darlin, that's what they do". The fact that they can screw you over both individually (as a state, province, country, whatever) and collectively is what makes it all worthwhile.
Well, at least in the Philadelphia region the state police routinely survail the onramps to highways like I-95 from the first stop in Delaware and people entering from that onramp are often stopped to check for alcohol. Another beautiful feature of PA law is that it is illegal to smuggle alcohol into the state - personal use or otherwise.
Good thing we have strong laws. We wouldn't want to be like Europe where everybody is intoxicated all day long, from age 3 and up, right?
Look at it this way - here in Alaska we don't have those sorts of draconian laws and we ended up with Sarah Palin. You should thank the various deities that your state is as strict as it is.
Sometimes, however, things aren't quite so black and white. I ran across this thing the other day looking for trackballs. Actually looked really interesting until I noticed the price.
It's a real product (although apparently discontinued). Would somebody pay $500 for a trackball? Hell, for that much money, I'll build them by one a time out of hand selected Unicorn hooves.
Since xanthopterin converts light directly into electricity, according to the research, what exactly does the wasp do with the electricity produced? Does it directly excite muscles? Is there a tiny capacitor in the abdomen that dumps the energy into pulling the wings down?
Presumably it would use the electrons generated in a redox reaction which generate ATP which is the basic power supply of the cell.
Of course, this is all very hypothetical and hand waving at this point. However, if real, it could be a Big Deal - now you have another molecule, aside from the chlorophyll complex that can take photons and use them in cellular reactions. Photosynthesis is quite a bit more efficient that photovoltaic cells - assuming that this really does produce electrons at the end of the reaction and it's similarly efficient, or even just easier to copy / clone / manipulate, we might yet have a decent solar to electricity system.
One of these days.
Hey! He's not dead yet.
Oh, wait.
Back in the days of printed stuff, there were thousands of outlets. If one barred a certain publication, it was no big deal. The public could buy it in the other shop down the road.
With e-publishing, there's massive consolidation that changes this situation. Amazon or Apple blocking a publication is *not* analogous to a shop choosing not to stock a publication.
You're kidding, right? 15 seconds on Google gets you there.... Even on a MacBook. I bet I could even look at it on my iPhone [insert tasteless small breast joke here] You can't really seriously consider an iPad as the be all and end all of e-publishing. It doesn't even run Flash.
Doing a bit of research here. Haven't seen that much airbrushing since I quit looking at Playboy years ago....
Shiney!
Sorry your having so much difficulty with your search engine. Google even helpfully points to ""Side 9" (Not really SFW, natch).
Definitely not a kosher security measure.
The only issues with it are the out-of-the-box software completely sucks and is dog slow, you need to be comfortable flashing your own ROMs from XDA Developers to get much value out of it at this point, and to do a tiny bit of hacking to get the Market working properly.
Great! I'll tell my mom. She's sure to be interesting it getting one. Sounds just up her alley.
Clean it up? How the fuck do you clean it up?
Well, I suppose we could start with a sense of humor. Or at the very least, Star Trek trivia. Come on guys, it's TUESDAY for Christ's sake. The hangover should be gone by now.
This one goes to 11.
Yeah, but Pojut is doing it wrong. He's writing. He's not consuming. Content creation by anyone other that the Media (big M) is so last century and more to the point
- potential terrorist activity -
Grab those iPads, comrades!
A myriad is over 9000.
My goodness! A quantity Nazi. Slashdot always delights...
The last... 50 or so (random number)... Windows games I bought, all worked out of the box. The last 1 Mac game I tried to play, didn't.
Of course they won't. You need a Mac to run it on.Sheesh.
And I thought that gamers were smart...
Other articles (better than the TFA) have noted that the place is so packed with junk - both explosive and non explosive) that the bomb crews cannot work in their usual protective gear - there isn't enough room.
They are also worried about booby traps and just plain explosive / dangerous crap. They are going through a lot of expense to do it this way. They are building a perimeter fence, coating a house with fire retardant foam, bringing in all manner of people. It appears that this is the safest of a number of unsafe choices.
Is the fact that for the first time in my life, I am literally afraid of my Govt if I go to see a website and that I fully expect to be traced, put in a database, and labeled as some subversive. For going to a web address.
Right. For a government that gropes 6 year olds while essentially ignoring whole classes of threats that might be more difficult to handle than a child (airline support staff). A government who couldn't find a bomb in a package until it's practically shoved under their noses by the Saudis. A government that puts a sitting Senator on the no-fly list (well, OK, they got that one right).
Really dude, take the foil off. They're nowhere near that organized and your're nowhere near that important. So keep up with 4chan, no one will care.
That's OK, when I was a grad student in Molecular and Cell Biology, we of course had to TA the 100 level intro course which, of course, was on the pre med track. The faculty was on this kick that college students could not express themselves so they decided that all of the tests were to be exposition style. Sentences and paragraphs and the like.
We hated that. As it turned out, the faculty's supposition was correct. The majority of students could not write a simple declaratory sentence, much less a coherent paragraph. Grading them was a nightmare, especially the premeds who would cry and moan over 1 or 2 points. Try as we might, I doubt that we taught them a whole lot (either English or Molecular Biology)
Then at least some of them went to Medical School.
But medicine these days is a really a long, drawn out vocational school. There is very little 'Science' and even less 'Humanity'. It is memorize and practice. To a large degree this is unavoidable - there is a huge volume of baseline knowledge to acquire in a relatively short period of time. But given that the premedical experience is likewise short on science and humanities, your average physician really does not have the broad educational experience that many folks assume they do.
Calculus? That's some form of kidney stone, right?
What I don't understand is why a low level intelligence guy in a forward base in the middle of nowhere had access to diplomatic cables from say, China.
Information is traditionally doled out on a 'need to know' basis. Yes, the intelligence agencies got nailed for closeting information before 9/11 but surely the answer to that is not 'information wants to be free'.
Look, it doesn't matter. Whether the 'editors' state that Bill Gates is the Archangel Micheal in drag or whether it's Steve Jobs, half the slashdotters will get up in arms no matter which side is pilloried.
It's not we stay remotely on topic or anything.
Oh, wait.
Unless you change the socioeconomic fabric of most of the 'third world' or somehow manage to pull off a full scale device copier ala Neal Stephenson or Star Trek, the economics are always going to strongly favor the cheap, disposable, highly configurable human.
To paraphrase Heinlein - Humans can make more humans, that's a trick that robots haven't figured out yet.
That's not the point. He should talk to an attorney because, among other things, there is nothing to stop Bambi or whoever from prosecuting this further. He can still be in further trouble, even if the game has been pulled.
Really guys, lawyers don't bite (most of them anyway(. As Grond points out, a brief conversation with one won't set you back much, if at all. He needs very basic advice, not a trip to the Supreme Court.
You then have the advantage of knowing what you should and should not do instead of having to wander through some hundred odd mutually incompatible posts. Put your big boy underwear on and go out into the real world. It's good practice.
Screw it, just go ahead and put 360 degree wrap around cameras in all the cars, dump the data to Google, exhume George Orwell, prop him up in front of the Capitol Building and call it done.
Citations to actual books are needed, and to draw quotes from those books we need access to at least a bit of the content. Amazon provides this, meaning now I may be able to just click a citation and be directed to the proper page at amazon where I can access a few sample pages from the book - ba-bing, now I have a citation for my paper.
So, you think research is just "accessing a few sample pages" and then linking to that.
How very scholarly...
Well exactly, or they could just shuffle the database about a little bit so some of the busier links go somewhere else.
Now, that could be a lot of fun....