I for one will welcome our North Pole finally becoming... a North Pole!
The North Pole is actually a south magnetic pole. After the flip, all the naming screwups of the past will finally be corrected. After all the north pole of a compass will align itself in the direction that a positive magnetic charge will be accelerated, i.e., toward a magnetic south pole.
You might want to consider that many non-elite programmers know windows apps better (i.e. fear them less). If they used a format that wasn't readable by either MS Word or Adobe, then they would probably be scared away. (Yes, I know people like this. No, I don't beat them over the head because of it.)
Just because we hate the paperclip, doesn't mean everyone else has to.
<generalization> (You are not going to convert all of the Windows users. You should target the younger generations and let the older ones die out. Not soon enough for you? Tough. This won't happen overnight.) </generalization>
Is there a good place to go to find programs (.NET or Java) written to use JUMP's libraries? Preferably with MS Access, since I know my computer can create those pretty easily.
I will keep exploring your website, but I had never heard of you until today (though I've been curious).
I'd love to find a cheap/free alternative to ESRI. Their stuff is generally pretty good, but God forbid that you have a nasty bug in a feature that few people use but you. It'll never get fixed. This way, I could fix it myself!
(I'm still hot about how if you use tags in their text boxes, full justification fails and reverts to left. We make professional maps, and that is not acceptable for our text blocks. I had to rig it so that it prints out a separate box for every line and I tweak the word spacing so that it is the right length. The processing required eats up some decent time).
I would also like to be able to design some of my own free software at home using GIS. I could redesign my mother-in-law's customer geodatabase to query artists, customers by distances from their shop, art shows, customer or artist location, etc. Or maybe an address book, and set it up so that you could enter a meeting/get-together with a location and it gives driving distances for everybody concerned, etc. ESRI licenses cost thousands of dollars....
I think the confusion is due to using mass and volume in the same sentence. The two are related by density, but I don't think mass has anything to do with his reasoning. I think that he was basically saying that Mars is a lot smaller than Earth, so it has more SA per V.
A good analogy is with mammals. Small mammals have a very high SA/V so they lose heat very quickly (so they need a high metabolism to keep their body temp up). Large mammals, like elephants, have a much lower SA/V so they need special adaptations to release heat (like their large ears).
I believe that the SA/V argument is somewhat independent, but not mutually exclusive, of the density of the metal core/magnetic field argument. (Although a cooler Mars could lead to a solidified core.)
The probability of this happening is extremely low. The amount of extra energy required for an asteroid to achieve a delta orbit from Earth all the way out to Saturn is huge. It is much more probably, though still unlikely, [if life were to exist on Titan] that a life-bearing asteroid would travel from Titan to Earth.
If you hate VB6, then try VB.NET. It is almost as good as C#, but you can program a little easier in it. At work (we're a VB6 shop, unfortunately), I got to start a new project and I code it mostly in VB.NET (so other developers can understand it more easily) with some of the more complicated stuff in C#.
And before anyone says it, I love Java as well as C#. I will soon be checking out the new IDE that a previous post recommended over at Sun's website. I like Strong Languages + easy GUIs.
Hell, I make $hit for a programmer and my new house is going to be dependent on me continuing to make $hit or better. I'm sure as h3ll hoping that I don't ever lose my job [again]. It took long enough trying to recover from a year of unemployment/underemployment.
Btw, even $hit for a programmer beats the h3ll out of minimum wage and close. I had a hard enough time holding onto my engagement/marriage and apartment with unemployement + low wage.
And the company I'm at now.... You ever have a president/salespeople that loves to make impossible promises about your product and then you have to squeeze half-assed features in with no time in the budget. AND we're programming in VB6! We adhere to fast and cheap. *Good* is not in our dictionary.
Oh, that pun made me grin and cringe at the same time!
I really think that this is about nit-picking (sp? sorry). There are so many more things that people are saying that are completely wrong, rather than having to quibble over semantics. There is definitely subconscious behavior going on, and as an AC bravely pointed out there are probably some changes in pheremones, etc. Nothing conscious though. And I agree, females humans do not consciously [attempt to/partially] conceal their fertility. It's been evolved into us (please, I do not want to get into an evolution argument with anyone).
The posterior of a female baboon swells during ovulation into an elaborate bump of brightly colored flesh. It is the size of these swellings that signal each female's reproductive value, the study says.
I think that we can agree that most women don't go through this. Human females are nearly unique in that their bodies conceal the times in which they are fertile, rather than advertising it. This has nothing to do with what they might tell you if you ask about it.
There are plenty of "facts" to fight over, but this should not really be one of them.
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The article was a little thin, so I mosied on down to Wikipedia. I always get confused when I hear glassy, but it appears to be related to the material structure, not any transparency/translucency of the material.
Apparently amorphous metals are considered by some scientists to be a type of liquid rather than a solid. Kind of like glass, if you look at an old house you can see that the windows have slowly flowed downward.
For those of us who have not liked the newer series, we have had plenty of time already. Other than reruns on Spike TV, I haven't watched Star Trek since ST:TNG ended. I tried them out (and enjoyed ST:DSN more than the others), but I didn't find them worth following closely.
I would love to have some more Star Trek. And since one of my regrets is that I never followed Babylon V very closely (yet realized in hindsight that it is a great series), I welcome their insight into the Star Trek universe.
Ah, you're lucky. I'm going to try to squeeze it down to 36" (from 39"). I guess I could always print the 19" side on 36" (with 17" of waste), but I didn't want to have to trim.
Yeah. If you want to have a baby in a month, you need to hire an 8-months pregnant woman.
(Analogy: don't start from friggin' scratch and you can't customize everything, the parents have already been chosen!) Otherwise, you got 9+ months of waiting.
Don't forget all of the status reports and project meetings to discuss the progress of the indivisible tasks and to look for solutions on how to improve productivity.
Then the really fun meetings when you're behind schedule. The finger-pointing. Blame shifting. Back-stabbing.
Oops, I forgot to explicity use my <burned-out> and <pessimism> tags.
[In the] Spring of 1942 Nazi Germany sends a team of eight saboteurs to the United States for purposes of causing havoc in America and crippling their new enemy's war industries.
Good summary (see parent for link). It is exactly what I was looking for to back up what I said:
Saboteurs George Dasch and Peter Burger revealed to each other that they were ready to go over to the U.S. side.
The sentences were all carried out, again in secret, except that Dasch and Burger were rewarded with a commutation to life imprisonment, and returned to Germany after the war.
It's amazing how lucky we were. If the Nazis had been a little more careful and did not turn themselves in, they could have done some serious damage. Look at how inept we were:
Dasch called the New York FBI, but they thought it was a crank call. He eventually traveled to Washington, went to the FBI building, and started telling his story. J. Edgar Hoover bombastically grandstanded by claiming credit for the FBI's breaking the case, skipping over the fact that the FBI had come to dead ends until it reluctantly started interviewing Dasch.
What's interesting is that entanglement guarantees instantaneous quantum state change therefore contradicting somehow the theory of special relativity. This theory says that events cannot be 100% simultaneous if they occur in different points in space - there is a timing separation based on the particular reference chosen. Practically, no standard matter interaction can be faster than the speed of light.
I don't see how this is 100% simultaneous. Let's say one pair breaks down. We call that event A in the observer X's IRF. Then another pair breaks down - event B. Let's use A as our reference point. An observer Y in a different IRF will say that event B did not happen at the same time oberver X said it did. There will be a difference in the time elapsed.
Am I looking at this wrong? I can picture a different way of looking at it, maybe you can give me the answer:
Particle A and B are entangled. Let them be 1 lightyear apart. When the state changes, observers of each particle send a signal to each other. The observer at A gets the signal about B one year later. The observer at B gets the signal about A one year later. I don't see how anything really changes by adding in a bunch of IRFs.
Please elaborate. Wikipedia is interesting, but doesn't go into detail about simultaneity.
I also heard of a bunch of Nazi spies being landed on the East Coast in 2 groups. They had all kinds of sabotage and terrorism planned, but were brought down by one of them being a defector (IIRC).
This one looks really interesting. It's a book about a German spy tasked with taking down the Manhattan Project.
This is a good summary of WWII-related activities in the US (by Germany and Japan). They only provide a handful of links for more information though.
That is hardly a sound argument. A few counterexamples does not prove that something can not exist.
I expect that you are also applying your middle class perspective on how free a society is. I would too. But how free do you really think the lower class is in capitalist society? Just because the pressures against them are more subtle and indirect doesn't mean they don't exist.
Oh, and if you cast magic weapon on a weapon, do not (after patch) try to enhance it with 'Craft Weapons and Armor' feat. The game just hangs.
Before the patch, this was a great money maker because you could enchant the weapon and then craft it. This would give you the +1 for free. You could spend 3000 to up it to +2 and then sell if for ~5500 (out of value of 6000) with a PC with a good appraise skill. I never got around to trying out the +2 from greater magic weapon. I patched just as my characters got to 8th level. I think it would work (prepatch) to make "cheap" +3 weapons.
The game is incredible. It's too bad that the GUI sucks. I hope they will make a sequel, and hopefully then the GUI will be up to par with the gameplay. And hopefully the sequel will be much more deep than ToEE. Hopefully, ToEE was Troika testing the waters before diving in. It's too bad that I couldn't put a character in the inn to rest and pick up a new character and then swap back again later (in ToEE, once you drop a character, it's like dropping your keys in a river of molten lava).
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I for one will welcome our North Pole finally becoming... a North Pole!
The North Pole is actually a south magnetic pole. After the flip, all the naming screwups of the past will finally be corrected. After all the north pole of a compass will align itself in the direction that a positive magnetic charge will be accelerated, i.e., toward a magnetic south pole.
Just because we hate the paperclip, doesn't mean everyone else has to.
Is there a good place to go to find programs (.NET or Java) written to use JUMP's libraries? Preferably with MS Access, since I know my computer can create those pretty easily.
I will keep exploring your website, but I had never heard of you until today (though I've been curious).
Links to JUMP and others at freegis.org.
I'd love to find a cheap/free alternative to ESRI. Their stuff is generally pretty good, but God forbid that you have a nasty bug in a feature that few people use but you. It'll never get fixed. This way, I could fix it myself!
(I'm still hot about how if you use tags in their text boxes, full justification fails and reverts to left. We make professional maps, and that is not acceptable for our text blocks. I had to rig it so that it prints out a separate box for every line and I tweak the word spacing so that it is the right length. The processing required eats up some decent time).
I would also like to be able to design some of my own free software at home using GIS. I could redesign my mother-in-law's customer geodatabase to query artists, customers by distances from their shop, art shows, customer or artist location, etc. Or maybe an address book, and set it up so that you could enter a meeting/get-together with a location and it gives driving distances for everybody concerned, etc. ESRI licenses cost thousands of dollars....
I think the confusion is due to using mass and volume in the same sentence. The two are related by density, but I don't think mass has anything to do with his reasoning. I think that he was basically saying that Mars is a lot smaller than Earth, so it has more SA per V.
A good analogy is with mammals. Small mammals have a very high SA/V so they lose heat very quickly (so they need a high metabolism to keep their body temp up). Large mammals, like elephants, have a much lower SA/V so they need special adaptations to release heat (like their large ears).
I believe that the SA/V argument is somewhat independent, but not mutually exclusive, of the density of the metal core/magnetic field argument. (Although a cooler Mars could lead to a solidified core.)
The last time Halley's comet came by was 1986. It isn't due again until 2061. Oh, and there's only one Halle's comet. Bad analogy.
The probability of this happening is extremely low. The amount of extra energy required for an asteroid to achieve a delta orbit from Earth all the way out to Saturn is huge. It is much more probably, though still unlikely, [if life were to exist on Titan] that a life-bearing asteroid would travel from Titan to Earth.
If you hate VB6, then try VB.NET. It is almost as good as C#, but you can program a little easier in it. At work (we're a VB6 shop, unfortunately), I got to start a new project and I code it mostly in VB.NET (so other developers can understand it more easily) with some of the more complicated stuff in C#.
And before anyone says it, I love Java as well as C#. I will soon be checking out the new IDE that a previous post recommended over at Sun's website. I like Strong Languages + easy GUIs.
Hell, I make $hit for a programmer and my new house is going to be dependent on me continuing to make $hit or better. I'm sure as h3ll hoping that I don't ever lose my job [again]. It took long enough trying to recover from a year of unemployment/underemployment.
Btw, even $hit for a programmer beats the h3ll out of minimum wage and close. I had a hard enough time holding onto my engagement/marriage and apartment with unemployement + low wage.
And the company I'm at now.... You ever have a president/salespeople that loves to make impossible promises about your product and then you have to squeeze half-assed features in with no time in the budget. AND we're programming in VB6! We adhere to fast and cheap. *Good* is not in our dictionary.
Oh, that pun made me grin and cringe at the same time!
I really think that this is about nit-picking (sp? sorry). There are so many more things that people are saying that are completely wrong, rather than having to quibble over semantics. There is definitely subconscious behavior going on, and as an AC bravely pointed out there are probably some changes in pheremones, etc. Nothing conscious though. And I agree, females humans do not consciously [attempt to/partially] conceal their fertility. It's been evolved into us (please, I do not want to get into an evolution argument with anyone).
There are plenty of "facts" to fight over, but this should not really be one of them.
The article was a little thin, so I mosied on down to Wikipedia. I always get confused when I hear glassy, but it appears to be related to the material structure, not any transparency/translucency of the material.
Apparently amorphous metals are considered by some scientists to be a type of liquid rather than a solid. Kind of like glass, if you look at an old house you can see that the windows have slowly flowed downward.
For those of us who have not liked the newer series, we have had plenty of time already. Other than reruns on Spike TV, I haven't watched Star Trek since ST:TNG ended. I tried them out (and enjoyed ST:DSN more than the others), but I didn't find them worth following closely.
I would love to have some more Star Trek. And since one of my regrets is that I never followed Babylon V very closely (yet realized in hindsight that it is a great series), I welcome their insight into the Star Trek universe.
Ah, you're lucky. I'm going to try to squeeze it down to 36" (from 39"). I guess I could always print the 19" side on 36" (with 17" of waste), but I didn't want to have to trim.
Yeah. If you want to have a baby in a month, you need to hire an 8-months pregnant woman.
(Analogy: don't start from friggin' scratch and you can't customize everything, the parents have already been chosen!) Otherwise, you got 9+ months of waiting.
Then the really fun meetings when you're behind schedule. The finger-pointing. Blame shifting. Back-stabbing.
Am I looking at this wrong? I can picture a different way of looking at it, maybe you can give me the answer:
Particle A and B are entangled. Let them be 1 lightyear apart. When the state changes, observers of each particle send a signal to each other. The observer at A gets the signal about B one year later. The observer at B gets the signal about A one year later. I don't see how anything really changes by adding in a bunch of IRFs.
Please elaborate. Wikipedia is interesting, but doesn't go into detail about simultaneity.
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This one looks really interesting. It's a book about a German spy tasked with taking down the Manhattan Project.
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This is a good summary of WWII-related activities in the US (by Germany and Japan). They only provide a handful of links for more information though.
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Wow. Another great link. Read this.
No more links. Just look it up yourself. I wasn't able to find a good link for the story.So if California floats... like wood. And wood burns... like a witch... it's a witch!
Burn it! Burn it! Burn it! Burn! Burn!...
That is hardly a sound argument. A few counterexamples does not prove that something can not exist.
I expect that you are also applying your middle class perspective on how free a society is. I would too. But how free do you really think the lower class is in capitalist society? Just because the pressures against them are more subtle and indirect doesn't mean they don't exist.
If we can upload a virus onto an alien mothership, then surely we can handle this!?!
Was 7th guest out before Myst? It has similar gameplay. I believe they both came out in the mid 90's, right?
I couldn't find the dates on a quick google (partly because most game sites are banned by WebSense here at work).
Oh, and if you cast magic weapon on a weapon, do not (after patch) try to enhance it with 'Craft Weapons and Armor' feat. The game just hangs.
Before the patch, this was a great money maker because you could enchant the weapon and then craft it. This would give you the +1 for free. You could spend 3000 to up it to +2 and then sell if for ~5500 (out of value of 6000) with a PC with a good appraise skill. I never got around to trying out the +2 from greater magic weapon. I patched just as my characters got to 8th level. I think it would work (prepatch) to make "cheap" +3 weapons.
The game is incredible. It's too bad that the GUI sucks. I hope they will make a sequel, and hopefully then the GUI will be up to par with the gameplay. And hopefully the sequel will be much more deep than ToEE. Hopefully, ToEE was Troika testing the waters before diving in. It's too bad that I couldn't put a character in the inn to rest and pick up a new character and then swap back again later (in ToEE, once you drop a character, it's like dropping your keys in a river of molten lava).