Interesting list, but some of the stuff is either bogus or filler. For example:
"41. Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street."
I believe they're called New York, Tennessee Avenue and St. James Place. And this is just common sense - their relationship with jail, and the fact that they're on the end of a row (More bang for buck, house/hotel wise, and a 6,8, or 9 after jail yields a hit), makes them ideal.
"43. The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units."
What does this have to do with '05? I've known that for a long time.
"61. You can bet on your own death."
That's a safe bet - but what do I get once my win has been confirmed?
Meanwhile, others are just best LEFT OUT:
"67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex." "11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed." "78. One in 18 people has a third nipple."
I hate to be a Google whore here, but couldn't google tech be adapted to search pretty much anything?
As for the tools being free for public use, are we talking free as in beer, or free as in Linux? Either way, I'm glad, but libre free would be exceptionally amazing.
Actually, we can only notice that this volcano started erupting more since google closed the deal with AOL. Perhaps the lava IS, in fact, from hell, is evil, and represents the extra 5% of evil that AOL gave to google.
They were a COLONY born of criminality, but I'm sure their nation wasn't founded on criminal ideals (if that's not an oxymoron). I believe it would be just as accurate (or more so) to claim that the USA is a nation founded on Puritian ideals.
The original Australian colonists may have been criminals, but it is inaccurate to say that they were, even at the very beginning, a nation of criminals.
Australia is simply catching up - this isn't a step past where we are now. We can already legally record onto VCRs and rip CD's, no?
OTOH, this article does show that australia is willing to take an opposing stance to the normal sort of DRM mishmash going around the rest of the world.
Another issue with their formula: It implies that "If we add more X to mixture Y, it'll taste better."
When wine tasting, again, is such a subjective thing, even given the fact that they may be able to figure out what gives the wine more of a fruiter aftertaste, for example, they still don't know if they actually WANT a fruiter aftertaste.
Again, if we get the experts deciding what would make the wine taste "better" and then working with the machine to decide what can be done to make the wine taste the way the experts want, we're still only doing something that can probably be done already (IANAWineGeek, BTW) without the aid of an expensive machine. And one expert's "better" might be another expert's "ruined"
Wine tasting, as I'm sure most experts will agree, is as much of an art as anything; I doubt that people will allow a computer to tell them if a wine is "good" or not, even if it's right most of the time.
OTOH, if the computer only tells people if the wine is drinkable, or ready to be tasted, that's a different story. As long as the computer doesn't try to encroach on the "art" side of wine tasting and stays firmly on the "science" side, I think that it could be quite a useful invention - although to a tiny demographic.
That's true, but OTOH, the big two religions are Christianity & Islam (http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.h tml): Both of these, afaik, put a large amount of stress on belief as well as action. While buddhism, hinduism, etc, put a stress on action taken, these religions aren't as large as Christianity or Islam. Even if you don't believe that, I did add an "often" qualifier - I didn't mean for my comment to involve "sweeping generalizations about religions". Sorry.
Ah yes, but religion is so CONVENIENT. It means that often the believer needs to make no personal moral decisions (your religion makes absolute moral decisions for you), and everyone's split into two camps: People that are going to Heaven (usually believers) and people that are going to Hell (usually everyone else). Often the sheer convenience and lifelong training in a religion overrides a personal quest for scientific truth.
Furthurmore, in times where science would say to you "Hey man, you're 100% screwed!" religion can give a more optimistic answer. It's easy to decry religion when you're sitting in front of your LCD or CRT, but it's can give hope to the otherwise hopeless if they think that an all-powerful, all-knowing being is watching over their backs ready to send them to paradise when they die.
I have no problem with religion whatsoever. However, I think that religion should stay in churches (for example) and science should stay in schools, universities, etc. Everything has its time and place.
They were a penal colony founded on crimials, but their nation was definitely NOT founded on a basis of criminality, regardless of what the british thought at the time.
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Actually, that's a pic of Gates using the winPod.
;)
Further proof that apple steals divine MS concepts.
Actually, I believe the resolution is "Resolved: The use of the state's power of eminent domain to promote private enterprise is unjust."
And, uh, you're correcting someone correcting some news story about Klingons and Star Trek on a website for nerds.
And I'm correcting someone someone correcting some news story about Klingons and Star Trek on a website for nerds.
I think that the geekiness is about to make my modem explo
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Interesting list, but some of the stuff is either bogus or filler. For example:
"41. Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street."
I believe they're called New York, Tennessee Avenue and St. James Place. And this is just common sense - their relationship with jail, and the fact that they're on the end of a row (More bang for buck, house/hotel wise, and a 6,8, or 9 after jail yields a hit), makes them ideal.
"43. The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units."
What does this have to do with '05? I've known that for a long time.
"61. You can bet on your own death."
That's a safe bet - but what do I get once my win has been confirmed?
Meanwhile, others are just best LEFT OUT:
"67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex."
"11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed."
"78. One in 18 people has a third nipple."
Thanks for the list, BBC.
I guess the sky really IS falling!
Stupid drivers...
I hate to be a Google whore here, but couldn't google tech be adapted to search pretty much anything?
As for the tools being free for public use, are we talking free as in beer, or free as in Linux? Either way, I'm glad, but libre free would be exceptionally amazing.
House baby-proofs YOU!
I'm sure the windows run Windows, while the fridge has various apple products.
Sounds intriuging. I doubt that it'll be as big as the USB innovation, but if it even comes CLOSE it'll be amazing.
OTOH, it could just end up being an overpriced, dysfunctional way of just making things even more complicated.
We'll have to see...
Actually, we can only notice that this volcano started erupting more since google closed the deal with AOL. Perhaps the lava IS, in fact, from hell, is evil, and represents the extra 5% of evil that AOL gave to google.
I think it's rather nonesevent, myself.
They were a COLONY born of criminality, but I'm sure their nation wasn't founded on criminal ideals (if that's not an oxymoron). I believe it would be just as accurate (or more so) to claim that the USA is a nation founded on Puritian ideals.
The original Australian colonists may have been criminals, but it is inaccurate to say that they were, even at the very beginning, a nation of criminals.
Not really:
Australia is simply catching up - this isn't a step past where we are now. We can already legally record onto VCRs and rip CD's, no?
OTOH, this article does show that australia is willing to take an opposing stance to the normal sort of DRM mishmash going around the rest of the world.
This is a dupe, too, iirc.
In Soviet Russia, Child poster pedantasizes YOU!
Old news. I've been able to debug my WINE install for ages now.
And what's this talk about "grapes" and "yeast", are they new distros?
Another issue with their formula: It implies that "If we add more X to mixture Y, it'll taste better."
When wine tasting, again, is such a subjective thing, even given the fact that they may be able to figure out what gives the wine more of a fruiter aftertaste, for example, they still don't know if they actually WANT a fruiter aftertaste.
Again, if we get the experts deciding what would make the wine taste "better" and then working with the machine to decide what can be done to make the wine taste the way the experts want, we're still only doing something that can probably be done already (IANAWineGeek, BTW) without the aid of an expensive machine. And one expert's "better" might be another expert's "ruined"
Puts a new spin on the story, eh?
Wine tasting, as I'm sure most experts will agree, is as much of an art as anything; I doubt that people will allow a computer to tell them if a wine is "good" or not, even if it's right most of the time.
OTOH, if the computer only tells people if the wine is drinkable, or ready to be tasted, that's a different story. As long as the computer doesn't try to encroach on the "art" side of wine tasting and stays firmly on the "science" side, I think that it could be quite a useful invention - although to a tiny demographic.
That's true, but OTOH, the big two religions are Christianity & Islam (http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.h tml): Both of these, afaik, put a large amount of stress on belief as well as action. While buddhism, hinduism, etc, put a stress on action taken, these religions aren't as large as Christianity or Islam. Even if you don't believe that, I did add an "often" qualifier - I didn't mean for my comment to involve "sweeping generalizations about religions". Sorry.
Actually, I believe spaghetti originated in Italy.
Now Ramen, OTOH...
He IS a /. regular, you insensitive clod!
Ah yes, but religion is so CONVENIENT. It means that often the believer needs to make no personal moral decisions (your religion makes absolute moral decisions for you), and everyone's split into two camps: People that are going to Heaven (usually believers) and people that are going to Hell (usually everyone else). Often the sheer convenience and lifelong training in a religion overrides a personal quest for scientific truth.
Furthurmore, in times where science would say to you "Hey man, you're 100% screwed!" religion can give a more optimistic answer. It's easy to decry religion when you're sitting in front of your LCD or CRT, but it's can give hope to the otherwise hopeless if they think that an all-powerful, all-knowing being is watching over their backs ready to send them to paradise when they die.
I have no problem with religion whatsoever. However, I think that religion should stay in churches (for example) and science should stay in schools, universities, etc. Everything has its time and place.
Does this imply that either -
A. Humans got to North America before we previously thought (I find this unlikely, because it requires an earlier russo-alaskan bridge)
B. Asia just got a massive head start?
So what's the proposed spread of humanity now - Asia => Africa & Europe, then to North & South America?
They were a penal colony founded on crimials, but their nation was definitely NOT founded on a basis of criminality, regardless of what the british thought at the time.
There's always a price to pay for a change, even if it's only in legal status.