* Prof David Hand: a statistician. He's done statistic work for a lot of companies. Doesn't seem to know much about climatology, but he knows more about statistics than I even dreamed existed.
* Prof David Hand: Professor of Theoretical Geophysics. Has publicly criticized the Mann Hockey Stick graph. Also really likes math.
But there were tricks like using genes from glow-worms to make cells in other organisms glow. Then I wondered if you could do this with neurons. Make them glow when they change state and use the emitted photons to record the information flow.
Maybe you could find a way for photoreceptors to directly sense magnetic fields by embedding little chunks of magnetite in them, then feed data in to it with an AC field.
In Texas, because we don't care about the environment, we're actually able to do things that are good for the environment [..] It's the most ironic, preposterous situation. If you want to build a wind farm, you just build it.
You know, it's easy to mock Texans (from a safe distance) but there's a fully fledged bastard of a good point here. Regulation doesn't produce things. Government doesn't make anything. By and large, government just means worthless expense, and pointless obstruction.
Given the choice between trusting The People, or trusting that small subset of The People who live by taxing the rest of us and telling us what's good for us, I think I'm going to have to call it for The People.
Okay lets put the next wind farm beside your house.
For me this is an example of how equipment generally can last longer away from Earth. Our environment is corrosive and toxic. Water gets into enclosures. Metals oxidize. Science stations in open space last the longest. On Venus they last the shortest time. Mars is nearer to the long end of the spectrum for survival time.
If I was going to be programmed into a robot I might choose to live in the asteroid belt. Things decay slower there.
The remains of a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias in the bottom of Endeavor crater would certainly create some interest.
But the long drives by Opportunity have actually been pretty interesting. It has found several meteors. It has also been able to study an increasingly wide area of mars. A long baseline helps a lot in science and I suspect data from Opportunity will be used decades into the future.
Also if not life, then maybe evidence of life elsewhere. A squatter probe (like phoenix and the vikings) would last longer on mars than on Earth.
I got free physiotherapy from the Royal Melbourne Hospital but they gave me home work as well. Maybe some doctors or phyios would recommend that some patients try exercising on the wii.
On the other side is WorkCover Minister Tim Holding
It was Tim Holding who got himself lost back country skiing in rather stupid circumstances last winter. So its wrong for him to oppose paying for a gadget which will get a recovering patient moving without risking his life.
Maybe Mr Jones from Coburg (hey! he's almost a neighbour) should throw himself off Mt Feathertop for exercise.
And Tim, try Lake Mountain. Believe me its your more speed. Harder to get lost.
90% of our DNA is viral. The viruses we hear about are the ones that make us sick. The ones that have no ill effects we don't notice so much; these are also called viruses or jumping genes
This is why I wonder about sexual behaviour which doesn't lead to reproduction. Could our genes have found ways to propagate themselves without reproduction?
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TFA shows how Zen lets you type in a terse message and have it expanded into a chunk of html code and describes it as sheer genius. Thats neat but I have nedit macros which do pretty much the same thing. They are time savers for sure.
But nothing which you couldn't do a thousand ways. With perl, awk or sed.
I recall reading an article back when 16 bit CPUs were a new thing which promoted the idea that 8 bit CPUs were superior for text processing because text was basically 7 bits.
Its old fashioned day trading accelerated by a factor of a few million. Of course, you need to back it up with a good AI because humans can't react fast enough and a flatline with his ass in a can will react in a predictable way.
Fair enough. I always vote correctly (except the time the City of Maroondah sent me seven postal voting letters in fake names) but for people who don't want to do that it sounds like an informal vote is the way to go.
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Some of us need all the available space and more.
Whats wrong with saying that a press and release within $DELAY is a click and going past $DELAY is a hover?
The only software I have on my laptop is OpenVPN. All I do once connected is VPN in and RDP to my workstation.
Are you an executive manager? How else do you get paid for getting absolutely no work done?
It sounds like a great way to get work done.
* Prof David Hand: a statistician. He's done statistic work for a lot of companies. Doesn't seem to know much about climatology, but he knows more about statistics than I even dreamed existed.
* Prof David Hand: Professor of Theoretical Geophysics. Has publicly criticized the Mann Hockey Stick graph. Also really likes math.
Clearly a talented guy.
Ellie Arroway: Is it possible that it didn't happen? Yes. As a scientist, I must concede that, I must volunteer that.
Wonder if their shower temperatures went loopy when they flushed their toilets too?
No , they sacrificed virgins to prevent that.
What a waste.
(of virgins)
If its your land you can do what you want. [...] I can ask you not to do it or I can move.
Great I'll get started on my pesticide plant.
That wouldn't happen because of zoning.
But GGP says If you want to build a wind farm, you just build it. Doesn't say anything about zoning.
But there were tricks like using genes from glow-worms to make cells in other organisms glow. Then I wondered if you could do this with neurons. Make them glow when they change state and use the emitted photons to record the information flow.
Maybe you could find a way for photoreceptors to directly sense magnetic fields by embedding little chunks of magnetite in them, then feed data in to it with an AC field.
You know, it's easy to mock Texans (from a safe distance) but there's a fully fledged bastard of a good point here. Regulation doesn't produce things. Government doesn't make anything. By and large, government just means worthless expense, and pointless obstruction.
Given the choice between trusting The People, or trusting that small subset of The People who live by taxing the rest of us and telling us what's good for us, I think I'm going to have to call it for The People.
Okay lets put the next wind farm beside your house.
I agree. I can hardly see into the ultraviolet and infared and I would love to be able to see microwaves...
For me this is an example of how equipment generally can last longer away from Earth. Our environment is corrosive and toxic. Water gets into enclosures. Metals oxidize. Science stations in open space last the longest. On Venus they last the shortest time. Mars is nearer to the long end of the spectrum for survival time.
If I was going to be programmed into a robot I might choose to live in the asteroid belt. Things decay slower there.
if they found life, numbnuts.
The remains of a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias in the bottom of Endeavor crater would certainly create some interest.
But the long drives by Opportunity have actually been pretty interesting. It has found several meteors. It has also been able to study an increasingly wide area of mars. A long baseline helps a lot in science and I suspect data from Opportunity will be used decades into the future.
Also if not life, then maybe evidence of life elsewhere. A squatter probe (like phoenix and the vikings) would last longer on mars than on Earth.
I got free physiotherapy from the Royal Melbourne Hospital but they gave me home work as well. Maybe some doctors or phyios would recommend that some patients try exercising on the wii.
On the other side is WorkCover Minister Tim Holding
It was Tim Holding who got himself lost back country skiing in rather stupid circumstances last winter. So its wrong for him to oppose paying for a gadget which will get a recovering patient moving without risking his life.
Maybe Mr Jones from Coburg (hey! he's almost a neighbour) should throw himself off Mt Feathertop for exercise.
And Tim, try Lake Mountain. Believe me its your more speed. Harder to get lost.
I shall, though I don't think its anything new
through what mechanism, I ask you..
DNA strands move between organisms all the time.
Well he's doing a shit job. Probably using ClearCase.
90% of our DNA is viral. The viruses we hear about are the ones that make us sick. The ones that have no ill effects we don't notice so much; these are also called viruses or jumping genes
This is why I wonder about sexual behaviour which doesn't lead to reproduction. Could our genes have found ways to propagate themselves without reproduction?
TFA shows how Zen lets you type in a terse message and have it expanded into a chunk of html code and describes it as sheer genius. Thats neat but I have nedit macros which do pretty much the same thing. They are time savers for sure.
But nothing which you couldn't do a thousand ways. With perl, awk or sed.
I recall reading an article back when 16 bit CPUs were a new thing which promoted the idea that 8 bit CPUs were superior for text processing because text was basically 7 bits.
So how do you type a percent? Let me guess: you just tape a lots of pound signs together.
Its old fashioned day trading accelerated by a factor of a few million. Of course, you need to back it up with a good AI because humans can't react fast enough and a flatline with his ass in a can will react in a predictable way.
my own fault for keeping stuff i need in /tmp
Yeah....
Fair enough. I always vote correctly (except the time the City of Maroondah sent me seven postal voting letters in fake names) but for people who don't want to do that it sounds like an informal vote is the way to go.