Of course "over 700 (sic) buttons to replace the iDrive controls" is quickly discreditted as they (BMW) used only ONE CONTROL to replace these "over 700 (sic) buttons." Thus, through induction you can show that if you can use one, you can use two buttons, three, four, up through 699 buttons.
Apple switches to a non-IE default browser, and oops, there goes Microsoft Office. And just when Mac OS and Macintoshes were making inroads into the business market.
Yes, 20/20 is mostly arbitrary. The neumerator denotes the distance (in feet) the test is given at. (Usually 10 feet, but they use a mirror to double the distance to the standard 20 feet.) The denominator denotes the distance (in feet) at which the critical feature of the letters/numbers/shapes subtends one minute of visual angle. (Is that not a A answer, I'll find out on Friday)
You do realize that you both put forth a theorem and then disprove it all in the same post. It is proper form, but not what you were going for, I think.
I am not disparaging the content of this post (#2981556) or a previous post (#2981546). I just wish to point out that both are AC, were posted within six minutes of eachother (those times being 3:01am & 3:07am), and currently are at scores 5 informative and 4 informative, respectively. Could be coincidence. Could be the same poster voicing further similiar views one after the other. Could be something else. That's what critical thought is for.
Quick refresher on "bullet-proof" polycarbonate platics. Youy experiences were exactly what should have happend. Poly should be able to withstand huge forces (were talking tens of tonnes) for very short periods of time and/or over a decent sized area. With the first shot the bullets energy would have been absorbed and radially dissapated along the plane of material. I.e. a divet out with spider fractures radiating. Then the shotgun (at close range, shot not slugs I assume) would have then hit directly either the divet or one of the fractures and thus causing a total fracturing of the entire material. Possibly the whole piece (just like tempered glass). For the shell (the computer's that is, not the.762 CZ-52 handgun or 12 gauge) to be trully "bullet-proof" it would be sandwiched between some clear platic that doesn't fracture radially and is pretty strectchy. Long as the pieces are held together, a damaged pane becomes just a lot of smaller panes that can take almost as much force as the original.
Check out http://www.wearingwilliams.mb.ca/spec3.html for some more info.
A) Those cutesy macs are made of polycarbonate plastic. I.e. one variant of bullet-proof glass. I don't know about the handles/feet, but would assume the same material all over.
B) The only way PC cases are "hardened" is in referal to EMF. And that's only that they are metal cages that help conduct EMF around the contents. PC grade aluminum is darn soft.
C) You did see that the two metal cased PCs recieved equivalent amounts of damage.
As pointed out in an earlier post, the 32mb of ram will allow a fairly large buffer (20min.), allowing the HD to be in park most (95%-98%) of the time. Thus reducing the chance of platter damage to almost nil, reducing power usage, and also the heat generated. The only time when this would be untrue is when you are skimming through songs (not just thier names) and it's unlikely that that will be when you drop it, or skim for long enough to generate noticable heat.
All of this editing out of the WTC from media and not showing episodes that contain the WTC is really, really pissing me off. I am overjoyed that JFK, WWII, MLK, Vietnam, Challenger, etc. all happend before this infuriating Second Age Political Correctness set in or they too would be edited out of history.
You sir, are a troll. I wanna feed the troll. Exter University will be much worse off corrupting itself to corporate ideals, rather than upholding the concepts of education, inquiry, and social conscience. There are enough corporate technical colleges (college is used loosely here) to produce all the cookie-cutter worker bees needed. For humanities future we need as many institutions as possible that don't consider thier greatest assets to have a picture, denomination, and security strip.
Lets see; paper tax, tea tax, nail tax, poll tax, slavery, prohibition, vote only for male land owners, apartied, black crow laws, sex with jewish women being equal to bestiality and thus a hangable offense, jews having to wear stars of David, buddists having to wear yellow, legal to shoot your wife if caught cotis with another man. Anyone else can think of a MORALLY BANKRUPT LAW that has made it onto the books of a MORALLY, SOCIALLY UPRIGHT SOCIETY?
You know, that $1.3 trillion would have bought a whole hell of a lot of Russian involvment. How bout those SOBs in Congress send everyone a questionaire where we get to determine how we want a percentage of our taxes spent.
What you fail to relize is that 60% of the technology being made right now is created by people who learned to do things with these very 286/386/6502 computers. (The other 40% is by people to whom the concept of a personal computer was far fetched) There's this creeping black box mentality that's taking over the tech world that tries to limit low level contact beyond what is neccesary for abstraction. There are some fundamental skills that can be learned when the entire cpu can be understood by an individual without computer aid. I will admit there are a few embeded systems that similarly fill this role, but you can't afford to outfit a class with them.
As example my old Apple ][+ has been a stereo controller, midi synth, assembly teacher, x10 controller, and lego mindstorms precursor. All this with me building the controlling hardware... at age 7 thru 16. (well, i wasn't allowed to solder till 10, but breadboards are better anyways). I learned some fundamental logic skills that will be usefull for all time. Where as I run across people (young-un) that never had to deal with less than a Pentium that have trouble with complex boolean logic.
Where was I rambling with this? My argument is that old hardware taught the current generation fundamental skills that are used today. Until you can prove that something else fills this requirement it is logically sound to attempt to teach the current learning generation (5-18 years) about this same hardware.
And as a total asside, the power issue is valid but schools represent a large enough capital force to invest in alternative energy. (There are a couple of schools in my state that have erected wind generators. I'm sure the SW could look into solar, several schools built on garbage landfill are using methane generators)
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Besides tomcrooze's nice rejoinder, Are you aware that most groups are revising down allowable low level radiation limits due to studies of the people who cleaned up the mess. Specifically those that were not exposed intially but where moved there to supervise the clean-up and are now showing high incidents of radiation based illnesses?
Oh, wait. The USA isn't because they were told to keep it at current standards by members of the Bush administration. Standards that have absolutly no clinical basis at all. Silly me. Oh, and I do not have footnote references to back my claims as the university library is closed due to Memorial Day.
This is a very informative post, and as it is from someone logged in, I wonder how it can currently have a score of Zero? Hopefully that will change, and if it doesn't, hopefully that will be looked into also.
What? The creation of deities with exegarated proportions. "Never. No never? Well, hardly ever!"
Let's see:
Kali - the many armed
Shiva - what a shlong
Odin - old one eye himself (been playing to much FFVIII)
Earth mother statues
Actually pretty much every pantheon based religion's deities go that route. cept maybe the budhas. Shoot, look at the Christian Jehova, omnipotent, omniprecent, can only do good, bit over the top if you ask me.
Speaking as one who reads, studies, and partakes of rocketry, Apollo and its brethern (male declinsion intentional) were just a bunch of oversized dicks. There were plenty of designs for rockets that weren't all long shafts with bublious heads containing seed, I mean payload. Most designs, before USAF and NASA got into the game were of tapering cones in various states of being smushed flat. And look at where NASA is finally going with the shuttle design. Sure looks like a tapering cone in a state of being smushed flat. Maybe they'll even get rid of the forward facing windows.
I concur. Just remember good and better have no relation except the good, better, best of adjective escalation. It is a well established tenent of barkering to never stand on a products own merits, but to give leading statements of comparison to a competitor. "Step right up and see Mr.Moral, he's more upright than the President. Treats the fairer sex better than St.Paul." You walk in and it's still the geek decapitating chickens.
I automatically discount/disqualify/ignore any essay about a products merits that basis itself apon a comparison to a competing product. If you can't sell apon your own merits, then you really aren't the best product.
So you disagree with the statement: The top priority of any post on slashdot.org should be to foster discussion. When you rate articles by who posts them and how many reply posts there are it is really hard to beat Katz score.
Personaly I have the right to be offended. No, the duty. If any day goes by and I'm not offended at least once then something is greatly wrong with my society.
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Of course "over 700 (sic) buttons to replace the iDrive controls" is quickly discreditted as they (BMW) used only ONE CONTROL to replace these "over 700 (sic) buttons." Thus, through induction you can show that if you can use one, you can use two buttons, three, four, up through 699 buttons.
Apple switches to a non-IE default browser, and oops, there goes Microsoft Office. And just when Mac OS and Macintoshes were making inroads into the business market.
Spanked by the grammar police. Ouch, my tookus! On top of getting an B on the final no less.
Yes, 20/20 is mostly arbitrary. The neumerator denotes the distance (in feet) the test is given at. (Usually 10 feet, but they use a mirror to double the distance to the standard 20 feet.) The denominator denotes the distance (in feet) at which the critical feature of the letters/numbers/shapes subtends one minute of visual angle. (Is that not a A answer, I'll find out on Friday)
You do realize that you both put forth a theorem and then disprove it all in the same post. It is proper form, but not what you were going for, I think.
*cough cough* AC Motors
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*cough cough* Helio centric solar system
*cough cough* Evolution
*cough cough* Rockets in vacuum
*cough cough* Cryptozology
*cough cough* Jet Stream
*cough cough* Plate Tectonics
And a lot more. And there are serveral that went the other way; cold fusion and Ginger(IT) come to mind
Occum's Razor has all but been discredited in my view as it has a tollerance of zero for incomplete data sets.
I am not disparaging the content of this post (#2981556) or a previous post (#2981546). I just wish to point out that both are AC, were posted within six minutes of eachother (those times being 3:01am & 3:07am), and currently are at scores 5 informative and 4 informative, respectively. Could be coincidence. Could be the same poster voicing further similiar views one after the other. Could be something else. That's what critical thought is for.
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Billions and Billions of beings die every day. Few of those are loved, or give love unto others. Losing a member of either set is a loss to humanity.
Quick refresher on "bullet-proof" polycarbonate platics. Youy experiences were exactly what should have happend. Poly should be able to withstand huge forces (were talking tens of tonnes) for very short periods of time and/or over a decent sized area. With the first shot the bullets energy would have been absorbed and radially dissapated along the plane of material. I.e. a divet out with spider fractures radiating. Then the shotgun (at close range, shot not slugs I assume) would have then hit directly either the divet or one of the fractures and thus causing a total fracturing of the entire material. Possibly the whole piece (just like tempered glass). For the shell (the computer's that is, not the .762 CZ-52 handgun or 12 gauge) to be trully "bullet-proof" it would be sandwiched between some clear platic that doesn't fracture radially and is pretty strectchy. Long as the pieces are held together, a damaged pane becomes just a lot of smaller panes that can take almost as much force as the original.
Check out http://www.wearingwilliams.mb.ca/spec3.html for some more info.
A) Those cutesy macs are made of polycarbonate plastic. I.e. one variant of bullet-proof glass. I don't know about the handles/feet, but would assume the same material all over.
B) The only way PC cases are "hardened" is in referal to EMF. And that's only that they are metal cages that help conduct EMF around the contents. PC grade aluminum is darn soft.
C) You did see that the two metal cased PCs recieved equivalent amounts of damage.
That's pretty darn cool. I need to get one of those and velcro it to my backpack. I would then be uber-geek at the CS club.
As pointed out in an earlier post, the 32mb of ram will allow a fairly large buffer (20min.), allowing the HD to be in park most (95%-98%) of the time. Thus reducing the chance of platter damage to almost nil, reducing power usage, and also the heat generated. The only time when this would be untrue is when you are skimming through songs (not just thier names) and it's unlikely that that will be when you drop it, or skim for long enough to generate noticable heat.
All of this editing out of the WTC from media and not showing episodes that contain the WTC is really, really pissing me off. I am overjoyed that JFK, WWII, MLK, Vietnam, Challenger, etc. all happend before this infuriating Second Age Political Correctness set in or they too would be edited out of history.
You sir, are a troll. I wanna feed the troll. Exter University will be much worse off corrupting itself to corporate ideals, rather than upholding the concepts of education, inquiry, and social conscience. There are enough corporate technical colleges (college is used loosely here) to produce all the cookie-cutter worker bees needed. For humanities future we need as many institutions as possible that don't consider thier greatest assets to have a picture, denomination, and security strip.
You are aware of the Cocain Mummies, are you not??? (as for the contact with the americas)
Lets see; paper tax, tea tax, nail tax, poll tax, slavery, prohibition, vote only for male land owners, apartied, black crow laws, sex with jewish women being equal to bestiality and thus a hangable offense, jews having to wear stars of David, buddists having to wear yellow, legal to shoot your wife if caught cotis with another man. Anyone else can think of a MORALLY BANKRUPT LAW that has made it onto the books of a MORALLY, SOCIALLY UPRIGHT SOCIETY?
Excellent repartie, but where is the reposte?
/end glib sarcasm
You know, that $1.3 trillion would have bought a whole hell of a lot of Russian involvment. How bout those SOBs in Congress send everyone a questionaire where we get to determine how we want a percentage of our taxes spent.
What you fail to relize is that 60% of the technology being made right now is created by people who learned to do things with these very 286/386/6502 computers. (The other 40% is by people to whom the concept of a personal computer was far fetched) There's this creeping black box mentality that's taking over the tech world that tries to limit low level contact beyond what is neccesary for abstraction. There are some fundamental skills that can be learned when the entire cpu can be understood by an individual without computer aid. I will admit there are a few embeded systems that similarly fill this role, but you can't afford to outfit a class with them.
As example my old Apple ][+ has been a stereo controller, midi synth, assembly teacher, x10 controller, and lego mindstorms precursor. All this with me building the controlling hardware... at age 7 thru 16. (well, i wasn't allowed to solder till 10, but breadboards are better anyways). I learned some fundamental logic skills that will be usefull for all time. Where as I run across people (young-un) that never had to deal with less than a Pentium that have trouble with complex boolean logic.
Where was I rambling with this? My argument is that old hardware taught the current generation fundamental skills that are used today. Until you can prove that something else fills this requirement it is logically sound to attempt to teach the current learning generation (5-18 years) about this same hardware.
And as a total asside, the power issue is valid but schools represent a large enough capital force to invest in alternative energy. (There are a couple of schools in my state that have erected wind generators. I'm sure the SW could look into solar, several schools built on garbage landfill are using methane generators)
Besides tomcrooze's nice rejoinder, Are you aware that most groups are revising down allowable low level radiation limits due to studies of the people who cleaned up the mess. Specifically those that were not exposed intially but where moved there to supervise the clean-up and are now showing high incidents of radiation based illnesses?
Oh, wait. The USA isn't because they were told to keep it at current standards by members of the Bush administration. Standards that have absolutly no clinical basis at all. Silly me. Oh, and I do not have footnote references to back my claims as the university library is closed due to Memorial Day.
This is a very informative post, and as it is from someone logged in, I wonder how it can currently have a score of Zero? Hopefully that will change, and if it doesn't, hopefully that will be looked into also.
What? The creation of deities with exegarated proportions. "Never. No never? Well, hardly ever!"
Let's see:
Kali - the many armed
Shiva - what a shlong
Odin - old one eye himself (been playing to much FFVIII)
Earth mother statues
Actually pretty much every pantheon based religion's deities go that route. cept maybe the budhas. Shoot, look at the Christian Jehova, omnipotent, omniprecent, can only do good, bit over the top if you ask me.
Speaking as one who reads, studies, and partakes of rocketry, Apollo and its brethern (male declinsion intentional) were just a bunch of oversized dicks. There were plenty of designs for rockets that weren't all long shafts with bublious heads containing seed, I mean payload. Most designs, before USAF and NASA got into the game were of tapering cones in various states of being smushed flat. And look at where NASA is finally going with the shuttle design. Sure looks like a tapering cone in a state of being smushed flat. Maybe they'll even get rid of the forward facing windows.
I concur. Just remember good and better have no relation except the good, better, best of adjective escalation. It is a well established tenent of barkering to never stand on a products own merits, but to give leading statements of comparison to a competitor. "Step right up and see Mr.Moral, he's more upright than the President. Treats the fairer sex better than St.Paul." You walk in and it's still the geek decapitating chickens.
I automatically discount/disqualify/ignore any essay about a products merits that basis itself apon a comparison to a competing product. If you can't sell apon your own merits, then you really aren't the best product.
So you disagree with the statement: The top priority of any post on slashdot.org should be to foster discussion. When you rate articles by who posts them and how many reply posts there are it is really hard to beat Katz score.
Personaly I have the right to be offended. No, the duty. If any day goes by and I'm not offended at least once then something is greatly wrong with my society.