Buy some cables to connect your amplifier to your pc's sound card and use some recording program to record the vinyl, then convert the digital recordings to mp3's. I had to do this with some of my vinyl. Not as good as digital originals of course, but it works.
Not commenting on whether the latest Harry Potter book should have been on the list or not, I cannot see that sales figures should be a reason for giving a book an award. High sales figures != quality
From the article: "The Poly Play videogame was Eastern Bloc's answer to the capitalist's Pac Man"
In short, the object of the game is for the ghosts to crush the despotic tyrant McPacMan. After voting two of the ghosts as their representatives in the socialist ghosts party these two ghosts share all the dots between them leaving one dot for the other two ghosts to share. The number of votes each ghost gets is based on the number of dots in their region of the screen.
That's right, aim low. Personally, I'd go to some bar where geek girls hang out and ask if any of them would want to go back to my place and see my 92TBps router.
I know that science learn a lot from nature. Perhaps I wasn't to clear on making my point.
I think science could be improved by learning even more from nature. The bat/sonar example I gave is one case I think illustrates this. AFAIK scientists did not learn how to build sonars and radars from nature. But they could have. The Wale flipper story is another example. We learned making wings from studying birds wings (I think?). It took a century of flying before someone came up with the idea that maybe the design of whale flippers was better for building aircraft wings.
But then again, I'm not a scientist, it was just a thought.
I think science could do well learning more from nature. After all, nature have perfected lots of designs over millions of years.
Take bats for instance, only after spending years inventing sonars and radars we humans discover these little creatures had used the same solutions for quite some time.
Ricard Dawkins' brilliant book The blind watchmaker did a good job convincing me that we still have lots and lots to learn from nature.
I agree that BBC's miniseries was a disapointment.
But HHGG was originally a radio series, which later turned into a book. Or actually four books which later again turned into six books. Only the first two were based on the radio series. As far as I know BBC are planning to make a radio series of book 3 and 4 later this year, with most of the original actors in it.
The books are way better than the TV series, and in my opinion the radio series are even better than the books.
Totally offtopic, but when it comes to mythology I just can't help it.
The phoenix bird did not burst into flames. It was a bird which was considered immortal. As its end approached, it set fire to its nest, was consumed by the flames and was reborn from the ashes.
There are Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Egyptian, and Native American versions of the phoenix bird
If creationism is actually an issue at all in the american educational system, perhaps one shouldn't be too surprised that the US is loosing its scientific dominance?
A bit of a curiosity:
Earlier this week, a norwegian comedian, Shabana Rehman, insulted the well-known, and reportedly militant, mullah Krekar by lifting him up in an attemt to prove that he was not very dangerous. The Mullah, which found this very humiliating, has filed a complaint to the police (and managed to attack a journalist while doing so).
However, this incident has now resulted in a online game called "Lift a mulla".
Actually a bit boring. Use your left and right arrows to play if you must
Things like adblock are based on the ability not to load things that lie under some certain path's, for instance/ads/
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be pretty easy to bypass things like adblock?
Say you put all the ads in a folder called, lets say "e4FFyz3kk1j8r". Then every night you let a perl script rename the folder at random, and then change all the references in all the html's, php's or whatever's. Sooner or later someone is bound to try it, so I think we should already now start thinking in new directions.
Perhaps I'm beeing to pessimistic, but I don't think they'll get to far with this project, unfortunately. There is, after all, only about 15% of the map which has been found, in no less than 1,186 pieces. Many of them probably very similar. As the article says, the program "has found seven high-probability matches and a host of other possibilities".
But the idea is very cool. Probably this could make it easier to put together pieces of other artifats like clay tablets and the likes, and speed up the field of archaeology, which has in some cases been painfully slow.
I agree. The more interesting information I find on the net, the more books I buy to go in depth. I'll soon have a library of my own;) But I do not expect a 30pst increase in visitors, despite my computer...
I have to admit I had similar thoughts. Then I read the article.
I says that at West Farms library in Bronx they draw young people in with computers, and try to convert them to read books. And they have succeeded in this with something like 40pst of the young people. Which I think is a good thing.
I am afraid the satelite photos doesn't do much to convince. And as for the historical background, it just tells us that much of the earlier storys of the bible took place in what is now Iraq. This is not exactly new knowledge.
What the story fails to do is to tell how many similarities there is between the flood myth and earlier myths in that same area (The story in the link only mentions one of several similar myth from that same area). There are differences too of course, but then again, storys do tend to change a bit when they are retold, don't they?
There is NO Norse flood myth. I've seen especially christians claim this over and over, but it is not true.
It might be a misunderstanding though. In retelling the old Norse myths, Snorre Sturlason started off by retelling the bible's creation myth to reassure the readers that he was a christian and not a pagan (remember, pagans weren't treated too kindly back then).
Well, at least part of it is belived to be true:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2982891. stm
Wether the flood story part is true or not, is in my opinion not to relevant. Both the Gilgamesh epos and several other myths at the time tells a story about a flood that is very similar to the story told in the bible. Most of these myths are much older than any parts of the bible.
There has also been found evidence that an early sumerian culture was destroyed by a great flood.
Another funny fact is that the first sumerians lived in the plains south in Mesopotamia. The sumerian word for plain is 'Edin'
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Buy some cables to connect your amplifier to your pc's sound card and use some recording program to record the vinyl, then convert the digital recordings to mp3's.
I had to do this with some of my vinyl. Not as good as digital originals of course, but it works.
2000 years ago Jesus was a carpenter; now He builds robots. There is hope for geeks yet Blessed are the geeks...
Actually, that would save me both time and money.
Not commenting on whether the latest Harry Potter book should have been on the list or not, I cannot see that sales figures should be a reason for giving a book an award.
High sales figures != quality
From the article: "The Poly Play videogame was Eastern Bloc's answer to the capitalist's Pac Man"
In short, the object of the game is for the ghosts to crush the despotic tyrant McPacMan. After voting two of the ghosts as their representatives in the socialist ghosts party these two ghosts share all the dots between them leaving one dot for the other two ghosts to share. The number of votes each ghost gets is based on the number of dots in their region of the screen.
And while we're waiting for the broadway version, why not enjoy the lego version
... with 21 rules of thumb?
You know, I wasn't born in a densly populated area, you insensitive clod!
(Or as grandpa used to say, "21 thumbs up!")
law enforcement (..) can get overhead and street level views of the same location -- just by entering an address.
Great. Now they'll be sure not to miss that donut shop.
I begins with 'p' and ends with 'r0n'.
That's right, aim low. Personally, I'd go to some bar where geek girls hang out and ask if any of them would want to go back to my place and see my 92TBps router.
"Learning from nature" is what science _does_.
I know that science learn a lot from nature. Perhaps I wasn't to clear on making my point.
I think science could be improved by learning even more from nature. The bat/sonar example I gave is one case I think illustrates this. AFAIK scientists did not learn how to build sonars and radars from nature. But they could have. The Wale flipper story is another example. We learned making wings from studying birds wings (I think?). It took a century of flying before someone came up with the idea that maybe the design of whale flippers was better for building aircraft wings.
But then again, I'm not a scientist, it was just a thought.
I think science could do well learning more from nature. After all, nature have perfected lots of designs over millions of years.
Take bats for instance, only after spending years inventing sonars and radars we humans discover these little creatures had used the same solutions for quite some time.
Ricard Dawkins' brilliant book The blind watchmaker did a good job convincing me that we still have lots and lots to learn from nature.
I agree that BBC's miniseries was a disapointment.
But HHGG was originally a radio series, which later turned into a book. Or actually four books which later again turned into six books. Only the first two were based on the radio series. As far as I know BBC are planning to make a radio series of book 3 and 4 later this year, with most of the original actors in it.
The books are way better than the TV series, and in my opinion the radio series are even better than the books.
Totally offtopic, but when it comes to mythology I just can't help it.
The phoenix bird did not burst into flames. It was a bird which was considered immortal. As its end approached, it set fire to its nest, was consumed by the flames and was reborn from the ashes.
There are Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Egyptian, and Native American versions of the phoenix bird
From the article:
The next step likely will be to drop the prototype from higher altitudes, with the help of a high-altitude balloon
And the next step after that should be to send one of those Opportunity rovers to explore the surface of Sweden and see if they can find any water
and debates over evolution vs. creation
If creationism is actually an issue at all in the american educational system, perhaps one shouldn't be too surprised that the US is loosing its scientific dominance?
A bit of a curiosity:
Earlier this week, a norwegian comedian, Shabana Rehman, insulted the well-known, and reportedly militant, mullah Krekar by lifting him up in an attemt to prove that he was not very dangerous. The Mullah, which found this very humiliating, has filed a complaint to the police (and managed to attack a journalist while doing so).
However, this incident has now resulted in a online game called "Lift a mulla".
Actually a bit boring. Use your left and right arrows to play if you must
Things like adblock are based on the ability not to load things that lie under some certain path's, for instance /ads/
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be pretty easy to bypass things like adblock?
Say you put all the ads in a folder called, lets say "e4FFyz3kk1j8r". Then every night you let a perl script rename the folder at random, and then change all the references in all the html's, php's or whatever's.
Sooner or later someone is bound to try it, so I think we should already now start thinking in new directions.
...that the guys at MS already knows that prior art exists. They probably just don't think that the rule about prior art applies to them
Perhaps I'm beeing to pessimistic, but I don't think they'll get to far with this project, unfortunately. There is, after all, only about 15% of the map which has been found, in no less than 1,186 pieces. Many of them probably very similar. As the article says, the program "has found seven high-probability matches and a host of other possibilities".
But the idea is very cool. Probably this could make it easier to put together pieces of other artifats like clay tablets and the likes, and speed up the field of archaeology, which has in some cases been painfully slow.
Cuneiform recognition software, anyone?
I agree. The more interesting information I find on the net, the more books I buy to go in depth. I'll soon have a library of my own ;)
But I do not expect a 30pst increase in visitors, despite my computer...
I have to admit I had similar thoughts. Then I read the article.
I says that at West Farms library in Bronx they draw young people in with computers, and try to convert them to read books. And they have succeeded in this with something like 40pst of the young people. Which I think is a good thing.
I am afraid the satelite photos doesn't do much to convince. And as for the historical background, it just tells us that much of the earlier storys of the bible took place in what is now Iraq. This is not exactly new knowledge.
What the story fails to do is to tell how many similarities there is between the flood myth and earlier myths in that same area (The story in the link only mentions one of several similar myth from that same area). There are differences too of course, but then again, storys do tend to change a bit when they are retold, don't they?
There is NO Norse flood myth. I've seen especially christians claim this over and over, but it is not true.
It might be a misunderstanding though. In retelling the old Norse myths, Snorre Sturlason started off by retelling the bible's creation myth to reassure the readers that he was a christian and not a pagan (remember, pagans weren't treated too kindly back then).
Well, at least part of it is belived to be true: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2982891. stm
Wether the flood story part is true or not, is in my opinion not to relevant. Both the Gilgamesh epos and several other myths at the time tells a story about a flood that is very similar to the story told in the bible. Most of these myths are much older than any parts of the bible.
There has also been found evidence that an early sumerian culture was destroyed by a great flood.
Another funny fact is that the first sumerians lived in the plains south in Mesopotamia. The sumerian word for plain is 'Edin'
Scott Adams already predicted something (almost) close to this in an old Dilbert stripe:
Someday, the people who know how to use computers will rule over those who don't. And there will be a special name for them: secretaries.