Perhaps they're not being consumer friendly... Since their CD rootkit scheme a couple years ago backfired they're branching out to find new and compelling ways to pwn consumers computers.
/conspiracy theory
It's cool that there's a testable prediction coming out of string theory, but I would take this with a grain of salt for the next few decades. For one thing, I don't think neutrinos themselves are well enough understood yet that string theory would provide the only (or even the best) possible explanation for discrepencies in their 'up' and 'down' neutrino rates. A multitude of experiments are being done now just to try to pin down the parameters governing neutrnio behavior. So if AMANDA sees the discrepency predicted by string theory, it would take a lot more work and many more years to demonstrate that there isn't a better explanation for it.
You want to believe that they can predict the weather 100 years from now?
Well, actually, I think you're a little confused on the issue of weather vs. climate. First, predicting weather is different from predicting overall trends in the climate system. So no, obviously, they're not going to know exactly what's going to happen on a particular day a week from now to say nothing of a century from now. However, it is reasonable to predict an increase in the planet's temperature over the next several decades based on amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and so forth.
Using your logic as stated, we'd have to be skeptical that New York City is going to be about 50 degrees F warmer in six months than it was today.
If anyone is interested in getting into robotics, they might find some of the on-line material at places like BEAM Robotics or BEAM-online useful too. They're how I got started with robotics when I was in high school and knew absolutely nothing about electronics, soldering, etc.
The idea of BEAM robots (BEAM is an acroonym for Biology Electronics Aesthetics Mechanics) is that they use analog circuts and many of them are very simple and cheap to build but do kind of interesting things and have solar cells and look really cool. There are also more complicated ones... and ones that you can buy in kits and such. Anyway, the nice thing about the above sites (particularly BEAM-online) is that they explain lots of basic robotics stuff and include links to other places with more info - and you don't need to buy a book.
Ok, in all fairness I haven't verified whether or not this is true (feel free to correct me)- but supposedly the reason the movie industry established itself in California in the first place was because people who wanted to make movies were having patent issues with Thomas Edison. They went out west where enforcing patent law wasn't a big deal and screwed Edison out of a profit.
So now the RIAA are going to go after people for violating copyright law and screwing them out of their profit. *Sigh* Not that it's the same people in charge now... but still. Anyone want to vote hypocritical bastards?
The stunt pilots say their biggest challenge will be flying at 40 mph nearly a mile over the Utah desert without any visual reference points to judge distance or speed as they close in with hook and cable on the capsule, which will be descending 400 feet a minute at a forward speed of 20 mph.
So will the capsule get bonus points if it takes out one of the helicopters without the pilots seeing it first?
Not to troll, I'm not going to argue that one needn't verify any information that one gets from Wikipedia, but here I quote from the procedure of the "experiment":
The changes were:
Layzie Bone (biographical page). I inserted "born 1973", but a quick Google search reveals that he was born in 1977.
Magni, from norse mythology. I said that he was commonly depicted wielding an axe or a spear. In fact, Magni was the only person other than Thor himself who could lift Thor's hammer, and Magni is commonly associated with that weapon. Interestingly, the fact about Thor's Hammer is in the Wikipedia entry (though they call it by the proper name, Mjollnir), yet nobody seemed to notice the incongruity that a god whose special power is lifting a hammer would be depicted with an axe or a spear.
Empuries, a Mediterranean town, I made the site of sadly lost Greek ruins. The Greek ruins are true enough, but they aren't lost, sadly or otherwise. This travel site helpfully informs us that Empuries has "lots of free parking close to the ruins" as well as a cafe and a museum at the archeological site.
Philipsburg, PA, became located at the junction of U.S. highway 233 and state route 503. Not U.S. highway 322 and state route 504, as most maps show.
Bernice Johnson Reagon, while apparently a prolific author, never wrote Georgia in Song. In fact, Amazon lists no such book by any author.
I don't see this as a great experiment. Obviously, pages in the Wikipedia that get more traffic will be corrected more quickly. As far as I can tell, none of these are exactly hot topics. A better experiment might include adding mistakes to pages that are more likely to be read by lots of people and then figuring out a relationship between general interest/importance of the entry and time until correction.
Obviously, if you pick an entry that only one person has ever worked on or looked at (I exaggerate slightly), it won't be corrected quickly.
Probably because larger numbers of people live around the Nile than in other parts of North Africa... this would almost certainly be something to do with the easy access to, you know, water.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica (I would link, but I got access through my schools private subscription): "Ninety-nine percent of the Egyptian population lives on only 3.5 percent of the land. Most of them are in the Nile River valley and the large, fertile delta of the river."
LOL! M$'s new "marketing strategy": Cut losses by selling *crappier* version of crappy os for less than pirated (fully functional) version of os but more than freely available (fully functional) oss os.
Yay! They've just eliminated themselves from competition.
It seems to me that it would make more sense to come up with a roofing material that blocked infrared above a certain temperature. For example, I'm sure that my house gains far more heat from having the dark roof sitting out in the hot sun all day than it does from the windows. It would be *really* cool if someone set something up that would absorb IR in the winter (like a dark roof) but not in the summer (light roof). Still, I guess windows are better than nothing.
Browsing their website, it appears that they are currently looking to hire people for 11 positions. I sense an imminent overload of their mail servers when/.ers all simultaneously attempt to send their resumes.
Toyota says the Prius gets: 60mpg city
Ford reports that the Escape hybrid will get 35-40 mpg city. That's only a little bit better than a regular non-hybrid sedan. And being an SUV it will still take up tons of space on the road and be difficult for other drivers to see around. Forgive my cynicism if I don't go running out to buy one.
that if a government decides to focus very hard on a particular goal there's a real possibility of their becoming dominant in that area. See also: US's determination to build the A-bomb in WWII, JFK's determination to win the space race, etc. and the effects that these had on related science/technology industries in the US at the time. The South Koreans decided that modernizing their telecommunications infrastructure was necessary to revitalize their economy, pursued the goal, and can now watch television over their internet connections.
7. If that were true I doubt Bush Jr. would have made it as far as he has.
For the record (and not that I like the guy): There is no Bush Jr. W is not a Jr. because he doesn't have the same name as his father -- George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush. Different names.
Columbia University has a decent amount of material availible to the public through Columbia Interactive. Unfortunately, it isn't free (unless you happen to be a CU student or faculty member) and it isn't for normal credit courses, but is nevertheless interesting. Last I checked, you need RealPlayer to get the audio/video content, but it should work with most browsers (I use Mozilla, and it's never given me a problem).
No wonder I've been having trouble concentrating since starting college... it's those damn PBDEs from my computer causing a learning defect. This is so much better than my sleep deprivation theory; now I can sue someone! Yay!;-)
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It seems like kite photography (or videography) would be far more cost-effective for civilian purposes.
Perhaps they're not being consumer friendly... Since their CD rootkit scheme a couple years ago backfired they're branching out to find new and compelling ways to pwn consumers computers.
/conspiracy theory
Says Gates, who makes billions off of support for hideously expensive software.
It's cool that there's a testable prediction coming out of string theory, but I would take this with a grain of salt for the next few decades. For one thing, I don't think neutrinos themselves are well enough understood yet that string theory would provide the only (or even the best) possible explanation for discrepencies in their 'up' and 'down' neutrino rates. A multitude of experiments are being done now just to try to pin down the parameters governing neutrnio behavior. So if AMANDA sees the discrepency predicted by string theory, it would take a lot more work and many more years to demonstrate that there isn't a better explanation for it.
Is it really possibly to buy too many legos?
Perhaps I'm being too optimistic.
Well, actually, I think you're a little confused on the issue of weather vs. climate. First, predicting weather is different from predicting overall trends in the climate system. So no, obviously, they're not going to know exactly what's going to happen on a particular day a week from now to say nothing of a century from now. However, it is reasonable to predict an increase in the planet's temperature over the next several decades based on amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and so forth.
Using your logic as stated, we'd have to be skeptical that New York City is going to be about 50 degrees F warmer in six months than it was today.
The idea of BEAM robots (BEAM is an acroonym for Biology Electronics Aesthetics Mechanics) is that they use analog circuts and many of them are very simple and cheap to build but do kind of interesting things and have solar cells and look really cool. There are also more complicated ones... and ones that you can buy in kits and such. Anyway, the nice thing about the above sites (particularly BEAM-online) is that they explain lots of basic robotics stuff and include links to other places with more info - and you don't need to buy a book.
So now the RIAA are going to go after people for violating copyright law and screwing them out of their profit. *Sigh* Not that it's the same people in charge now... but still. Anyone want to vote hypocritical bastards?
So will the capsule get bonus points if it takes out one of the helicopters without the pilots seeing it first?
The changes were:
Layzie Bone (biographical page). I inserted "born 1973", but a quick Google search reveals that he was born in 1977.
Magni, from norse mythology. I said that he was commonly depicted wielding an axe or a spear. In fact, Magni was the only person other than Thor himself who could lift Thor's hammer, and Magni is commonly associated with that weapon. Interestingly, the fact about Thor's Hammer is in the Wikipedia entry (though they call it by the proper name, Mjollnir), yet nobody seemed to notice the incongruity that a god whose special power is lifting a hammer would be depicted with an axe or a spear.
Empuries, a Mediterranean town, I made the site of sadly lost Greek ruins. The Greek ruins are true enough, but they aren't lost, sadly or otherwise. This travel site helpfully informs us that Empuries has "lots of free parking close to the ruins" as well as a cafe and a museum at the archeological site.
Philipsburg, PA, became located at the junction of U.S. highway 233 and state route 503. Not U.S. highway 322 and state route 504, as most maps show.
Bernice Johnson Reagon, while apparently a prolific author, never wrote Georgia in Song. In fact, Amazon lists no such book by any author.
I don't see this as a great experiment. Obviously, pages in the Wikipedia that get more traffic will be corrected more quickly. As far as I can tell, none of these are exactly hot topics. A better experiment might include adding mistakes to pages that are more likely to be read by lots of people and then figuring out a relationship between general interest/importance of the entry and time until correction.
Obviously, if you pick an entry that only one person has ever worked on or looked at (I exaggerate slightly), it won't be corrected quickly.
because a) fewer people and b) no (or at least less) industrial development
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica (I would link, but I got access through my schools private subscription): "Ninety-nine percent of the Egyptian population lives on only 3.5 percent of the land. Most of them are in the Nile River valley and the large, fertile delta of the river."
Yay! They've just eliminated themselves from competition.
Ah, I see. That makes sense. Well, never mind me then.
It seems to me that it would make more sense to come up with a roofing material that blocked infrared above a certain temperature. For example, I'm sure that my house gains far more heat from having the dark roof sitting out in the hot sun all day than it does from the windows. It would be *really* cool if someone set something up that would absorb IR in the winter (like a dark roof) but not in the summer (light roof). Still, I guess windows are better than nothing.
Browsing their website, it appears that they are currently looking to hire people for 11 positions. I sense an imminent overload of their mail servers when /.ers all simultaneously attempt to send their resumes.
Toyota says the Prius gets: 60mpg city
Ford reports that the Escape hybrid will get 35-40 mpg city. That's only a little bit better than a regular non-hybrid sedan. And being an SUV it will still take up tons of space on the road and be difficult for other drivers to see around. Forgive my cynicism if I don't go running out to buy one.
that if a government decides to focus very hard on a particular goal there's a real possibility of their becoming dominant in that area. See also: US's determination to build the A-bomb in WWII, JFK's determination to win the space race, etc. and the effects that these had on related science/technology industries in the US at the time. The South Koreans decided that modernizing their telecommunications infrastructure was necessary to revitalize their economy, pursued the goal, and can now watch television over their internet connections.
For the record (and not that I like the guy): There is no Bush Jr. W is not a Jr. because he doesn't have the same name as his father -- George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush. Different names.
In this case, Nader would be a reasonable steward of Gondor... seeing as he could potentially tip the scales in favor of the bad guys.
Obi-Wan: You must not give in to the Dark Side
Anakin: Damnit, Obi-Wan, I'm a bad actor, not a Jedi.
Columbia University has a decent amount of material availible to the public through Columbia Interactive. Unfortunately, it isn't free (unless you happen to be a CU student or faculty member) and it isn't for normal credit courses, but is nevertheless interesting. Last I checked, you need RealPlayer to get the audio/video content, but it should work with most browsers (I use Mozilla, and it's never given me a problem).
No wonder I've been having trouble concentrating since starting college... it's those damn PBDEs from my computer causing a learning defect. This is so much better than my sleep deprivation theory; now I can sue someone! Yay! ;-)