I don't normally do this sort of thing, however, if you are unable to parse the simple nature of the great-grandparent post then please go back to school. In the post, the poster is referring to ideas such as the guild system and non-metric methods of measure, implying they discovered better ideas and moved forward. Are you seriously unable to grasp that? Will you think that in this post I'm talking about heredity because I used the word great-grandparent?
Just so we are clear, this post is not about lemons or jet engines.
If the full automaton moves like the remote controlled one, bring it on. Having done quite a lot of epee fencing in my past watching that robot was funny. It's lunge is so slow that an elderly sloth could dodge it and it's swing looks very powerless. Give me a philips head screw driver and a pair of wire cutters and the thing would be off before it could take it's second move.
Sad really, I've wanted a robot for practicing for a while, but that thing would be to easy to consistently beat.
We drive forward when the light turns to green, not because it does.
You tell someone you are willing to pay $20, then you are asked to pay that much. What is the problem? Oh, there isn't one, I see. If you are upset because someone didn't treat you special, that's one thing. At least admit to it. If you think paying $20 is too much, NEWS FLASH, don't bid that much.
Dig that sewer deep enough, and use a reservoir that drains into a larger tube and you can utilize the air that gets pulled into the larger tube to turn something. It's all about Bernoulli.
Let's compare this to a traditional auction shall we?
The auction starts, the Auctioneer starts the bidding at $1 dollar. In short order the Auctioneer is calling out bids and people are making them. Before too long the Auctioneer is saying, "do I hear $10?" Sure enough, to the chagrin of a few in the bidding, someone bids $10. At this point the Auctioneer asks the room, "do I hear $11?" There is some murmurings amongst those assembled, and one gentleman appears ready to take the $11 dollar plunge. You however are convinced that the bidding will go ever upward, and you really want to win, so you decide to cut to the chase. You jump to your feet and state in a loud commanding voice, "I bid $20!" The room is momentarily stunned, then the Auctioneer calming states as his imploring gazes scans the crowd now drawn by your outburst, "going once, twice, sold to the man with the dirty raincoat."
Now, will the auction house expect you to only pay $10 because that's what everyone else offered? No, they won't. You bid what you bid. Your bid is a promise to pay. If you think that now what you bid is too high and begin to shout, "FRAUD!" I'm certain the staff of the auction house will think this a rather unwise thing. Not to mention think you a fool.
How is placing a maximum ebay bid different from this? Guess what it isn't. That's what you bid, and that's what the bidding went to. In fact, ebay is rather less harsh given the above scenario. If the bidding on ebay was at $10 and you bid $20, it would only up the bid to $11 and then bid for you should the price go higher. Damn nice of them don't you think? Having sold a few things on ebay myself, not many, I can guarantee that there is no way for the seller to see what you the bidder set as your max bid. So I fail to see why you are complaining. Auctions are not retail.
I find it interesting that no one wants the freebie phones. I mean, why not? They make and receive calls just like the expensive ones. Oh yeah, they don't have web access or really annoying music ringtones or wallpapers or nifty games. So what? who surfs the web while driving? These phone don't do anything I want a phone to do.
Here's what I'd like to see in a phone:
flashlight (white and red (for those night sails));
compass (not GPS, compass);
built in lighter;
retractable mirror;
built in usb flash drive;
audio recorder (separate from the camcorder function);
AM/FM/Marine radio receiver;
personal PA (Public Address System);
thermometer/barometer (note, not a feed from a weather site); and
powered micro screwdriver with detachable heads.
Give me all that and I might start thinking the non-freebie phones are worth it.
In more rural ares people tend to store a lot of propane and sometimes gasoline (but usually diesel in these cases, and diesel is fairly safe, you can put a fire out by throwing diesel on it(depending)). Even in some not so rural areas tanks like this 250 gallon one are not at all uncommon. Granted you don't see much of that manner of thing in the burbs or in cities but a comparable hydride tank is much much smaller, in fact it's about the size of a 20 gallon gasoline tank.
Given that the hydrogen is stored in a metal hydride, yes, it is far safer to store the hydrogen in large quantities than it is to store gas in your car. You cannot ignite a metal hydride, even if the tank was ruptured and completely compromised.
So, I will go telling you that, because it's true. But, the price is indeed a bit daunting.
It doesn't work if you start comparing brand new shiny apples to run of the mill used oranges.
You're right. I have two friends that could be used as an example of this. One owns a brand new Prius the other owns a 12 year old Geo Metro with over 200,000 miles on it. The Prius gets real world millage of about 55-60mpg. The old Metro with it's 3 cylinder engine and bad muffler gets 65-70mpg. The one with the Metro tends to snicker a little when the one with the Prius complains about his car payment and the high cost of the full coverage insurance that the lender requires he carry. After all, he paid $500 cash for the Metro 3 years ago. and in 3 years the repairs haven't topped $800 combined, including oil changes.
But you happily store gasoline? You do realize that hydrogen has roughly 60% of the explosive power (potential energy) that gasoline does don't you? Storing hydrogen is far safer than storing propane even. Propane is also more explosive and since it is heavier than air it can fill areas in the event of a leak creating a massive explosion hazard. Hydrogen, on the other hand, can be stored in metal hydrides and be completely free from the possibility of accidental leaks even in cases of tank punctures and for that matter total tank destruction. Also, if the fuel hydrogen does leak it rapidly heads up and out of the atmosphere meaning your kids won't end up suffocating in a pool of sunken fuel with no oxygen.
But you are of course free to think what you like.
As for the "religious sect" bullshit, that stuff for some reason was never a problem before we lead the insurrection into Iraq.
So you agree that it was a problem. Funny how that slavery stuff was never a problem before the civil war! Just because something wasn't considered a problem before X happened, doesn't mean that it wasn't a problem.
I had no idea I was typing with invisible ink. No. I said it was not a problem. I did not say it wasn't considered a problem. Previous to our most recent invasion this was not a problem. As in, it didn't happen. When I visited Baghdad University there were Sunni and Shiite staffers working together with the utmost respect for each other, the director of the department was even a Christian woman. Amazing how now such cooperation is a myth.
Obviously your visit to Iraq didn't involve meeting and talking to too many Iraqis. Curious, was you visit before or after our insurrection?
Speaking as an American, we are dicks to the rest of the world, not just Iraq, the rest of the entire world. It's not flamebait if it's true. And as far as your examples, what? Do you actually think that women in Iraq weren't allowed to go to school? Do you seriously believe that? My advice, meet someone from Iraq. As for the "religious sect" bullshit, that stuff for some reason was never a problem before we lead the insurrection into Iraq. The voting thing, yes true, but it's a shame that now that they voted we've decided we don't like their choices and are still fucking with them.
You seem to be missing the point. Linus (and the hand full of other kernel developers) own the exclusive rights to the kernel code. They license it to you. If they don't put in DRM then who will? The owners of "all the worlds technology" are going to just up and write a new OS from scratch? That should be fun to watch. "They" can do whatever they like but nothing "they" do forces Linus to do anything. It's his code, not "theirs".
Until you can put a name to this "owner of exclusive rights to technologies used in computer hardware" vapor-being then your point is pure paranoid babble.
From what the article states, it seems Linus agrees with me.
Who exactly would "turn" linux into such a system? The owner of the code? Linus? Given his attitude I doubt he'll be putting DRM into his kernel anytime soon.
Sorry, wrong again. And so you don't get confused again in the future, here is a chart to help you understand the metric system and it's symbols.
Factor, Name, Symbol
10(24), yotta, Y
10(21), zetta, Z
10(18), exa, E
10(15), peta, P
10(12), tera, T
10(9), giga, G
10(6), mega, M
10(3), kilo, k
10(2), hecto, h
10(1), deka, da
10(-1), deci, d
10(-2), centi, c
10(-3), milli, m
10(-6), micro,
10(-9), nano, n
10(-12), pico, p
10(-15), femto, f
10(-18), atto, a
10(-21), zepto, z
10(-24), yocto, y
sorry, you arent going to be put in jail for murder on fingerprint evidence alone. even a free lawyer could defend that case.
Hmm, I take it you've never actually read any court files from a real murder case? You know, the everyday kind not the high profile media hype ones. I work for an attorney who has done defense work on many a murder case. Fact is most murder trials only last a day or two, and yes many people are convicted on fingerprint evidence or less. You are innocent until proven guilty, what most people fail to grasp is that this means you are NOT ALLOWED TO PROVE YOUR INNOCENCE. At all. All you can do is refute the prosecution, and if they don't bring up anything that you can easily use to show they have nothing, you are done.
Not sure how you think this is a broadside but whatever.
A simple experiment would be a rather classic "control group" style one. Take yourself some bacteria (the shorter the lifespan the easier it is to observe the changes over say 100 generations) and divide it into two groups. Place your control group in a nice contained environment with a plentiful food supply and all that and do the same for the second group except periodically expose the second group to various antibiotics. After a 100 or so generations take both groups and examine. If no evolution has occurred both groups will be identical.
Come on people, this is stuff they teach in 6th grade science.
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Nah, just handle it the way Ender Wiggins did.
I don't normally do this sort of thing, however, if you are unable to parse the simple nature of the great-grandparent post then please go back to school. In the post, the poster is referring to ideas such as the guild system and non-metric methods of measure, implying they discovered better ideas and moved forward. Are you seriously unable to grasp that? Will you think that in this post I'm talking about heredity because I used the word great-grandparent?
Just so we are clear, this post is not about lemons or jet engines.
If the full automaton moves like the remote controlled one, bring it on. Having done quite a lot of epee fencing in my past watching that robot was funny. It's lunge is so slow that an elderly sloth could dodge it and it's swing looks very powerless. Give me a philips head screw driver and a pair of wire cutters and the thing would be off before it could take it's second move.
Sad really, I've wanted a robot for practicing for a while, but that thing would be to easy to consistently beat.
We drive forward when the light turns to green, not because it does.
You tell someone you are willing to pay $20, then you are asked to pay that much. What is the problem? Oh, there isn't one, I see. If you are upset because someone didn't treat you special, that's one thing. At least admit to it. If you think paying $20 is too much, NEWS FLASH, don't bid that much.
Problem solved.
Dig that sewer deep enough, and use a reservoir that drains into a larger tube and you can utilize the air that gets pulled into the larger tube to turn something. It's all about Bernoulli.
Let's compare this to a traditional auction shall we?
The auction starts, the Auctioneer starts the bidding at $1 dollar. In short order the Auctioneer is calling out bids and people are making them. Before too long the Auctioneer is saying, "do I hear $10?" Sure enough, to the chagrin of a few in the bidding, someone bids $10. At this point the Auctioneer asks the room, "do I hear $11?" There is some murmurings amongst those assembled, and one gentleman appears ready to take the $11 dollar plunge. You however are convinced that the bidding will go ever upward, and you really want to win, so you decide to cut to the chase. You jump to your feet and state in a loud commanding voice, "I bid $20!" The room is momentarily stunned, then the Auctioneer calming states as his imploring gazes scans the crowd now drawn by your outburst, "going once, twice, sold to the man with the dirty raincoat."
Now, will the auction house expect you to only pay $10 because that's what everyone else offered? No, they won't. You bid what you bid. Your bid is a promise to pay. If you think that now what you bid is too high and begin to shout, "FRAUD!" I'm certain the staff of the auction house will think this a rather unwise thing. Not to mention think you a fool.
How is placing a maximum ebay bid different from this? Guess what it isn't. That's what you bid, and that's what the bidding went to. In fact, ebay is rather less harsh given the above scenario. If the bidding on ebay was at $10 and you bid $20, it would only up the bid to $11 and then bid for you should the price go higher. Damn nice of them don't you think? Having sold a few things on ebay myself, not many, I can guarantee that there is no way for the seller to see what you the bidder set as your max bid. So I fail to see why you are complaining. Auctions are not retail.
Truly nice, know if they plan to cover the Puget Sound area any time soon?
I find it interesting that no one wants the freebie phones. I mean, why not? They make and receive calls just like the expensive ones. Oh yeah, they don't have web access or really annoying music ringtones or wallpapers or nifty games. So what? who surfs the web while driving? These phone don't do anything I want a phone to do.
Here's what I'd like to see in a phone:
flashlight (white and red (for those night sails));
compass (not GPS, compass);
built in lighter;
retractable mirror;
built in usb flash drive;
audio recorder (separate from the camcorder function);
AM/FM/Marine radio receiver;
personal PA (Public Address System);
thermometer/barometer (note, not a feed from a weather site); and
powered micro screwdriver with detachable heads.
Give me all that and I might start thinking the non-freebie phones are worth it.
Try http://website.in/
Based obviously in India, and are actually rather good at what they do.
In more rural ares people tend to store a lot of propane and sometimes gasoline (but usually diesel in these cases, and diesel is fairly safe, you can put a fire out by throwing diesel on it(depending)). Even in some not so rural areas tanks like this 250 gallon one are not at all uncommon. Granted you don't see much of that manner of thing in the burbs or in cities but a comparable hydride tank is much much smaller, in fact it's about the size of a 20 gallon gasoline tank.
Given that the hydrogen is stored in a metal hydride, yes, it is far safer to store the hydrogen in large quantities than it is to store gas in your car. You cannot ignite a metal hydride, even if the tank was ruptured and completely compromised.
So, I will go telling you that, because it's true. But, the price is indeed a bit daunting.
But you happily store gasoline? You do realize that hydrogen has roughly 60% of the explosive power (potential energy) that gasoline does don't you? Storing hydrogen is far safer than storing propane even. Propane is also more explosive and since it is heavier than air it can fill areas in the event of a leak creating a massive explosion hazard. Hydrogen, on the other hand, can be stored in metal hydrides and be completely free from the possibility of accidental leaks even in cases of tank punctures and for that matter total tank destruction. Also, if the fuel hydrogen does leak it rapidly heads up and out of the atmosphere meaning your kids won't end up suffocating in a pool of sunken fuel with no oxygen.
But you are of course free to think what you like.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt_index.h
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=126&a
In case you'd like to brush up on some of our other activities in the area before the recent wars, here's another good place to start.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral
Obviously your visit to Iraq didn't involve meeting and talking to too many Iraqis. Curious, was you visit before or after our insurrection?
Speaking as an American, we are dicks to the rest of the world, not just Iraq, the rest of the entire world. It's not flamebait if it's true. And as far as your examples, what? Do you actually think that women in Iraq weren't allowed to go to school? Do you seriously believe that? My advice, meet someone from Iraq. As for the "religious sect" bullshit, that stuff for some reason was never a problem before we lead the insurrection into Iraq. The voting thing, yes true, but it's a shame that now that they voted we've decided we don't like their choices and are still fucking with them.
Not sure how this is flamebait, it's dead on.
You seem to be missing the point. Linus (and the hand full of other kernel developers) own the exclusive rights to the kernel code. They license it to you. If they don't put in DRM then who will? The owners of "all the worlds technology" are going to just up and write a new OS from scratch? That should be fun to watch. "They" can do whatever they like but nothing "they" do forces Linus to do anything. It's his code, not "theirs".
Until you can put a name to this "owner of exclusive rights to technologies used in computer hardware" vapor-being then your point is pure paranoid babble.
From what the article states, it seems Linus agrees with me.
Who exactly would "turn" linux into such a system? The owner of the code? Linus? Given his attitude I doubt he'll be putting DRM into his kernel anytime soon.
http://www.opsound.org/
Not all music is commercial, just most bad music.
Sorry, wrong again. And so you don't get confused again in the future, here is a chart to help you understand the metric system and it's symbols.
Factor, Name, Symbol
10(24), yotta, Y
10(21), zetta, Z
10(18), exa, E
10(15), peta, P
10(12), tera, T
10(9), giga, G
10(6), mega, M
10(3), kilo, k
10(2), hecto, h
10(1), deka, da
10(-1), deci, d
10(-2), centi, c
10(-3), milli, m
10(-6), micro,
10(-9), nano, n
10(-12), pico, p
10(-15), femto, f
10(-18), atto, a
10(-21), zepto, z
10(-24), yocto, y
Really? I was unaware that Roman numerals had different meanings in different parts of the world. Interesting.
Not sure how you think this is a broadside but whatever.
A simple experiment would be a rather classic "control group" style one. Take yourself some bacteria (the shorter the lifespan the easier it is to observe the changes over say 100 generations) and divide it into two groups. Place your control group in a nice contained environment with a plentiful food supply and all that and do the same for the second group except periodically expose the second group to various antibiotics. After a 100 or so generations take both groups and examine. If no evolution has occurred both groups will be identical.
Come on people, this is stuff they teach in 6th grade science.