If you are going to generate large quantities of energy from radioactive decay, then ideally you want a sample which emits a lot of alpha radiation, does not produce large amounts of gamma or bremsstrahlung , and is readily produced in quantities. Perhaps a bit ironicly, one of the safest compounds to use for this is Plutonium-238, which is almost a pure alpha-emitter, produces a lot of energy per decay, and has a halflife in the region where it is readily useful. Alpha radiation produces its own problems, namely it's not easily stopped by your skin and can damage your DNA, which could cause mutation in your children. For those who didn't pay attention in Chemistry 102, Beta radiation is very large (a free proton, AKA [1]H+) It isn't dangerous to humans because the cells it will damage are already dead; your outermost layer of skin. Alpha radiation is several orders of magnitude smaller than Beta radiation, because it is composed of electrons shot out from the decaying atom. They travel at very high speeds, and being very small, are not easily stopped by air or safely stopped by skin, and can damage your DNA more badly than X-rays emitted by blocking beta radiation.
and because there is a good old myth that "plutonium is the most toxic compound on earth", it is rather unlikely that Plutonium-238 will ever go into consumer electronics. Doesn't stop NASA from using it in satellites and their Mars probes however. Gotta love politics... Because NASA needs to take careful steps to keep from poisoning the space people.
Read that as "Considering that Google is one of the major sponsors of Firefox, I'm not surprised".
As I read it, GP was more suggesting that this is akin to "Microsoft adds new document support to Word". It's not really unexpected, nor is it particularly deceptive. We know what Google profits from, and since it's not enabled by default, you have to opt in anyhow, so it's really not a big deal.
No need to get the privacy machine riled up over a new, optional service offered.
As a response to the locally stored Phishing URLs, I think that would be excessive; I'd rather not have an ever expanding list of thousands of quickly expiring web sites on my hard drive, just in case I would ever stumble upon one without realizing that it was actually linking to 123.123.123.9 instead of the similarly titled amazon.com. I feel that a decent compromise would be to cache the URL and the result from Google once every few weeks, so they'd only know that I visit
Slashdot, not that I leave it auto-refreshing every 5 minutes, all day long.
The case for dark matter/dark energy becomes a lot more believable when you consider that we couldn't detect large planets orbiting other stars, much less large objects just outside of Pluto as recently as 10 years ago.
For most of human history we've only been able to see things emitting energy very strongly.
Science is based on the concept that a meter is a meter, no matter where you are. Our calculations have worked startlingly well upon Earth, an issue comes about under very weak amounts of gravity; namely that it is stronger than our calculations predict. This can be solved by either changing our (very, very accurate) calculations, or by filling the universe with stuff we have yet to be able to see.
Both solutions require a leap of faith; and many physicists are willing to believe they can't see something (our tools are far from perfect) rather than needing to throw out and recalculate everything unless there's substantial proof.
Again, this is all dealing with things that we really don't know for sure one way or another, and one of the more challenging aspects is coming up with a theory that not only provides a fit for few objects such as a solar system's movement, but for things such as galaxy formation. Disclaimer: IANAP
I think I know the problem; in the "Boston Bomb Detection Manual" LED isn't properly capitalized, so all the police looking for "IEDs" mistakenly find "leds" s/l/I.
The study was focusing on where people put their eyes. Keep in mind that your brain can process information even faster than you can read, so you could read the entire word quite easily while in transition to the next word.
Craziness.
I've got a few problems with this study though, what about people with just one eye?
How well do they compensate? is their reading speed halved? Accuracy halved? a combination of reduced accuracy/comprehension and speed?
This study demands the inclusion of privateer subjects.
There's dozens of ways to get Exp through quests; Eco-Warrior, Escort Quests, More Escort Quests, a bunch of CoP level-capped quests., and Ballista.
The problem with it is that most of these require either a reasonably high level already (Escort, Eco-Warror, Ballista and most of them are Fame based), or they require a certain mission completion (The CoP ones). This creates a sort of problem, but the thing is that you can use the exp quests when you have a high-level job to accelerate the leveling of lower level jobs.
FFXI is weird in that the longer you play, the easier *everything* gets, from earning money, killing monsters, and travelling. It's also interesting that they took out the alternate-character issues by using one character with multiple jobs, so even if I have 7 jobs at level 75, I've only had to do the Zilart/CoP/ToAU missions once, Each dynamis area once, and so on to have full access with all 7 jobs. (Disclaimer: I don't have 7 level 75 jobs)
Of course, with WoW, you only have to buy the expansion packs to have full access...
FFXI barely runs under Windows. I think we should quit hoping it'll work under Linux and maybe just wait for something that does.
My opinion is that SE's milking FFXI as long as they can, until they release their next MMORPG (forget what it's called)
Who're the other two?
That Porsche's aren't the most stolen car isn't quite relevant to whether they're more likely to be stolen. There's likely some skew towards Camrys, Carollas, and other relatively low end cars in the overall statistics simply because there's several thousand more Toyota Camrys sold in the United States than the number of Porsche. I would be willing to bet my weekly salary on that a single Porsche in a parking garage is more likely to be stolen than a single Carolla, though I would imagine that the chance of recovering a Porsche is probably higher, as it's much more difficult to sell a chopped Porsche for parts than it is a Carolla.
Because they don't know exactly how many customers there will be. Offering software for free loses money in itself, and if you want to be an independent organization, you need to milk as much money as possible from whatever you developed as part of a rainy day.
For a business, I would think the best way to make money from a piece of software would be to have several separate programs that work very well together, and once it hits a certain point in the software life cycle, free up the source/binary to help entice customers to your current product.
Kinda like if MS offered the calendar section of Outlook separately, but both could easily read and write to the same calendar file. I'm sure there's a better example out there somewhere.
Strawman!
Lemme correct your argument. This opinion is not my own, but I enjoy playing devil's advocate.
The Government has statistics showing that alcohol is disproportionately involved in criminal and destructive behaviors, true. However, I would argue that inexperience, cell phones, age/health problems, poor road design and fatigued drivers are also disproportionately involved.
It seems hypocritical of the government to vigorously enforce drinking and driving, yet have rather poor enforcement of who is qualified to be behind the wheel (and for that matter, who can buy a car). Elderly drivers cause disproportionate amount of accidents for their age group, due to slow reactions, degrading eyesight and increasing distractions from health problems, among other things. Why shouldn't people be tested on their ability to drive a vehicle effectively from time to time?
On other subjects of crashes, drowsiness and fatigue contribute to hundreds of thousands of accidents per year, and have been the primary cause of thousands.
I also find GP's connection of failing to pay insurance and property damage to Drunkenness somewhat disturbing. I have heard stories of poor people too stupid to learn from their 13th DUI crashing. I have also heard stories of lawyers, doctors and politicians driving drunk. I find it flawed to argue that DUI, at least for the first offense, correlates to being unable to pay damages.
I also believe that the majority of people who drive drunk might choose to do so, however I am also fairly sure that due to Public Service campaigns and strict laws they try to drive *well* within the law. I find it kind of interesting that many of the people swerving on videos on the internet are going about 10 miles an hour under the speed limit.
Now then, for my $.02
A couple years ago, some drunk teenager was going at least 50 MPH down my residential street, went into a power slide just outside my driveway, broke a tree at the trunk and did a fair amount of damage to a second tree. It woke up neighbors several blocks away and was easily audible in my basement, with sound from (ironically) Project Gotham Racing 3 blaring. There was a passenger in the car.
It is a good thing for the dumbass neither he nor his passenger died. However, I do not believe that additional penalties for DUI would have prevented that accident; It was already illegal for him to have the alcohol, and he was well over the limit at the time. While he managed to fuck himself over for a good amount of time, and cause a few hundred dollars in damage to the trees, a few thousand dollars and damage to the car, and a few hp of damage to the passenger, I am willing to believe that he won't be touching a steering wheel after touching a bottle for quite a while. I don't think it's quit effective to lower the limit any more than it is already, nor to increase the punishment. However, I do believe that other methods of discouragement can easily be implemented; taxi subsidies, breathalyzers, relaxed parking policies at night on weekends are some of the things that come to mind in 5 minutes.
The Mayan calendar ends on December 12, 2012. Many people think that the world will end due to this fact. It was meant to be more humorous than crazy-doomsday-prophet-ish.
Engineers say a bee can't flap its wings and fly; and it cannot. A bee (and for that matter, flies) remain airborne because their wings trace an s-like path through the air, allowing them to move through the air in much the same way as a shark.
Think of it like a ceiling fan that goes back and forth. If it didn't have the ability to turn back on itself, it wouldn't do much to the air. However, if the blades bent in different directions for each direction, it would be able to produce a downdraft.
April 13, 2029 is indeed a Friday. Look it up yourselves if you don't believe me.
Luckily, we'll all be dead in December 2012, so this asteroid's simply to finish off the rest of the life on the planet.
It's not about being a zealot, it's about seeing your own work go down the tubes due to crappy software.
As a web developer, isn't it your job to see your work go down the tubes? Crappy software or not, seeing it go down the tubes brings a smile to my face.
Slashdot Mirror
Finally, we can harvest these embryonic planets for stem cells to repair Earth's environment!
When FSF puts a web browser in GNU, then you'll have a point.
Fixed for you.
You're thinking normal corpses; These would be lawyer corpses, which, while better than live lawyers, still corrupt everything they touch.
it's supposed to be 100,000.
Sheesh, when's someone going to teach you all some decent arithmetic.
Isn't Dell based in the U.K.?
Unless someone takes 500 ballots from a dozen heavily partisan precincts and sets fire to the votes.
Read that as "Considering that Google is one of the major sponsors of Firefox, I'm not surprised".
As I read it, GP was more suggesting that this is akin to "Microsoft adds new document support to Word". It's not really unexpected, nor is it particularly deceptive. We know what Google profits from, and since it's not enabled by default, you have to opt in anyhow, so it's really not a big deal.
No need to get the privacy machine riled up over a new, optional service offered.
As a response to the locally stored Phishing URLs, I think that would be excessive; I'd rather not have an ever expanding list of thousands of quickly expiring web sites on my hard drive, just in case I would ever stumble upon one without realizing that it was actually linking to 123.123.123.9 instead of the similarly titled amazon.com. I feel that a decent compromise would be to cache the URL and the result from Google once every few weeks, so they'd only know that I visit Slashdot, not that I leave it auto-refreshing every 5 minutes, all day long.
The case for dark matter/dark energy becomes a lot more believable when you consider that we couldn't detect large planets orbiting other stars, much less large objects just outside of Pluto as recently as 10 years ago.
For most of human history we've only been able to see things emitting energy very strongly.
Science is based on the concept that a meter is a meter, no matter where you are. Our calculations have worked startlingly well upon Earth, an issue comes about under very weak amounts of gravity; namely that it is stronger than our calculations predict. This can be solved by either changing our (very, very accurate) calculations, or by filling the universe with stuff we have yet to be able to see.
Both solutions require a leap of faith; and many physicists are willing to believe they can't see something (our tools are far from perfect) rather than needing to throw out and recalculate everything unless there's substantial proof.
Again, this is all dealing with things that we really don't know for sure one way or another, and one of the more challenging aspects is coming up with a theory that not only provides a fit for few objects such as a solar system's movement, but for things such as galaxy formation. Disclaimer: IANAP
I think I know the problem; in the "Boston Bomb Detection Manual" LED isn't properly capitalized, so all the police looking for "IEDs" mistakenly find "leds" s/l/I.
Or perhaps they should quit watching 24.
I, for one, would be frightened if they caught a horrible man without DNA.
The study was focusing on where people put their eyes. Keep in mind that your brain can process information even faster than you can read, so you could read the entire word quite easily while in transition to the next word.
Craziness.
I've got a few problems with this study though, what about people with just one eye?
How well do they compensate? is their reading speed halved? Accuracy halved? a combination of reduced accuracy/comprehension and speed?
This study demands the inclusion of privateer subjects.
Are they rating the mileage in nautical miles, or in mile-miles?
if so, it's like... 5450 miles/2000 gallons, which is 15% better!
There's dozens of ways to get Exp through quests; Eco-Warrior, Escort Quests, More Escort Quests, a bunch of CoP level-capped quests., and Ballista.
The problem with it is that most of these require either a reasonably high level already (Escort, Eco-Warror, Ballista and most of them are Fame based), or they require a certain mission completion (The CoP ones). This creates a sort of problem, but the thing is that you can use the exp quests when you have a high-level job to accelerate the leveling of lower level jobs.
FFXI is weird in that the longer you play, the easier *everything* gets, from earning money, killing monsters, and travelling. It's also interesting that they took out the alternate-character issues by using one character with multiple jobs, so even if I have 7 jobs at level 75, I've only had to do the Zilart/CoP/ToAU missions once, Each dynamis area once, and so on to have full access with all 7 jobs.
(Disclaimer: I don't have 7 level 75 jobs)
Of course, with WoW, you only have to buy the expansion packs to have full access...
FFXI barely runs under Windows. I think we should quit hoping it'll work under Linux and maybe just wait for something that does.
My opinion is that SE's milking FFXI as long as they can, until they release their next MMORPG (forget what it's called)
Who're the other two?
That Porsche's aren't the most stolen car isn't quite relevant to whether they're more likely to be stolen. There's likely some skew towards Camrys, Carollas, and other relatively low end cars in the overall statistics simply because there's several thousand more Toyota Camrys sold in the United States than the number of Porsche. I would be willing to bet my weekly salary on that a single Porsche in a parking garage is more likely to be stolen than a single Carolla, though I would imagine that the chance of recovering a Porsche is probably higher, as it's much more difficult to sell a chopped Porsche for parts than it is a Carolla.
Because they don't know exactly how many customers there will be. Offering software for free loses money in itself, and if you want to be an independent organization, you need to milk as much money as possible from whatever you developed as part of a rainy day.
For a business, I would think the best way to make money from a piece of software would be to have several separate programs that work very well together, and once it hits a certain point in the software life cycle, free up the source/binary to help entice customers to your current product.
Kinda like if MS offered the calendar section of Outlook separately, but both could easily read and write to the same calendar file. I'm sure there's a better example out there somewhere.
Strawman!
Lemme correct your argument. This opinion is not my own, but I enjoy playing devil's advocate.
The Government has statistics showing that alcohol is disproportionately involved in criminal and destructive behaviors, true. However, I would argue that inexperience, cell phones, age/health problems, poor road design and fatigued drivers are also disproportionately involved.
It seems hypocritical of the government to vigorously enforce drinking and driving, yet have rather poor enforcement of who is qualified to be behind the wheel (and for that matter, who can buy a car). Elderly drivers cause disproportionate amount of accidents for their age group, due to slow reactions, degrading eyesight and increasing distractions from health problems, among other things. Why shouldn't people be tested on their ability to drive a vehicle effectively from time to time?
On other subjects of crashes, drowsiness and fatigue contribute to hundreds of thousands of accidents per year, and have been the primary cause of thousands.
I also find GP's connection of failing to pay insurance and property damage to Drunkenness somewhat disturbing. I have heard stories of poor people too stupid to learn from their 13th DUI crashing. I have also heard stories of lawyers, doctors and politicians driving drunk. I find it flawed to argue that DUI, at least for the first offense, correlates to being unable to pay damages.
I also believe that the majority of people who drive drunk might choose to do so, however I am also fairly sure that due to Public Service campaigns and strict laws they try to drive *well* within the law. I find it kind of interesting that many of the people swerving on videos on the internet are going about 10 miles an hour under the speed limit.
Now then, for my $.02
A couple years ago, some drunk teenager was going at least 50 MPH down my residential street, went into a power slide just outside my driveway, broke a tree at the trunk and did a fair amount of damage to a second tree. It woke up neighbors several blocks away and was easily audible in my basement, with sound from (ironically) Project Gotham Racing 3 blaring. There was a passenger in the car.
It is a good thing for the dumbass neither he nor his passenger died. However, I do not believe that additional penalties for DUI would have prevented that accident; It was already illegal for him to have the alcohol, and he was well over the limit at the time. While he managed to fuck himself over for a good amount of time, and cause a few hundred dollars in damage to the trees, a few thousand dollars and damage to the car, and a few hp of damage to the passenger, I am willing to believe that he won't be touching a steering wheel after touching a bottle for quite a while. I don't think it's quit effective to lower the limit any more than it is already, nor to increase the punishment. However, I do believe that other methods of discouragement can easily be implemented; taxi subsidies, breathalyzers, relaxed parking policies at night on weekends are some of the things that come to mind in 5 minutes.
Considering that the Gregorian Calendar was made in 1524, I would assume that sufficient digits were in place to handle A.D. 1000.
Perhaps you meant the Julian Calendar?
I, for one, prefer our legal system to work faster than a drive-through marriage.
Throw your buddy Steve in to watch the trial, and you're within the bounds of the constitution!
I think I'm onto something... I think I'll call it Judge-to-go. Divorce proceedings, hamburgers and fried food aplenty.
The Mayan calendar ends on December 12, 2012. Many people think that the world will end due to this fact. It was meant to be more humorous than crazy-doomsday-prophet-ish.
Engineers say a bee can't flap its wings and fly; and it cannot. A bee (and for that matter, flies) remain airborne because their wings trace an s-like path through the air, allowing them to move through the air in much the same way as a shark.
Think of it like a ceiling fan that goes back and forth. If it didn't have the ability to turn back on itself, it wouldn't do much to the air. However, if the blades bent in different directions for each direction, it would be able to produce a downdraft.
The best magazine in the universe.
April 13, 2029 is indeed a Friday. Look it up yourselves if you don't believe me. Luckily, we'll all be dead in December 2012, so this asteroid's simply to finish off the rest of the life on the planet.
And I was wondering... what the hell happened in March - April '06 that started the trend of Apache decreasing and IIS servers increasing?
.NET? SQL Server? Vista? Something changed in that time frame.
As a web developer, isn't it your job to see your work go down the tubes?
Crappy software or not, seeing it go down the tubes brings a smile to my face.