I would think this will open up lots of new trade opportunities between Russia and North America. I don't know what that could mean, but it is certainly interesting. What kind of manufacturing prowess does Russia have that has been heretofore underutilized because they could not as efficiently get goods to North American ports? Or is this all a bunch of hooey?
Russia has plenty of oil and methane, perhaps they could export it to North America that way.
Complete with four changes specifically for the VAX architecture. I myself have one or two alphas but why put so much effort into (for example) getting X11 to run on VAX? Its not as if anybody is going to run Gnome or anything. The vax is (probably) equivalent to a 386.
I recollect reading in atleast 1 book of Richard Dawkins (not sure which), that ageing was evolutionarily inevitable.
If evolution had meant us to fly it would have given us wings. It didn't, yet we do fly.
Its called engineering and its as much a result of our evolution as anything else. We already live 2 or 3 times longer than we did "in the wild" because of our engineered environment. I don't see why we couldn't go further.
Pay the money to people with a family history of long lifespans if they breed with other qualifiers. Even if this prize leads to mice with long lifespans it may not deliver usable insights into human ageing
Fire a gun, and within seconds, you're taking heavy fire.
How about look a bit dogy, and within seconds you get tasered. The frustration is obviously building up behind the video monitors. Perhaps those "technically nolethal" weapons will be the next step.
Back when I worked for the local road authority we had a few CCTV cameras for traffic monitoring. There was a story going around about a legendary camera outside the nurses quarters at one of the teaching hospitals. It was beautifully positioned but management found out and it had to be moved.
We had fifty cameras or so in those days. These days you wouldn't be able to stop that kind of thing.
The approved phraseology here is, "Drop your weapon. You have ten seconds to comply." And then they shoot you anyway.
They get a warning now? I didn't know that.
My sister just set off to live in the UK for two years and frankly I am worried. Even at 27 she is not very mature (the other day she was sending me SMS messages from the plane) and would probably treat a warning like that as a joke.
Wouldn't making this device illegal be like making studying the form of horses illegal? Or making bets on footbal based on previous football results illegal?
Here in Victoria, Australia it really is illegal to implement a system to beat the casino. People have been charged for doing that. Its silly, but so is the whole casino thing.
Surely in this day and age it would be easier and less risky to have a PDA in your pocket do the calculations and not broadcast your activities over a wifi/cellular link.
Either way, it shows that the universe changed substantially in the 60 million years that separate IOK-1 and the next oldest galaxies to be observed on Earth, the astronomers said.
Considering that we are talking about the first billion years after the big bang.
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Now that you have got the theme music running in my head I am wondering if I can get old episodes on youtube.
The real cost is three orders of magnitude lower.
It would make a great loss leader for a broader based business. Its also a good fit with the news corp policy of running tabloid newspapers.
Or, for that matter, could it be a foreground star and not associated with that galaxy at all?
Russia has plenty of oil and methane, perhaps they could export it to North America that way.
Not only that, we will be spared a remake of Ice Station Zebra.
There won't be as many icebergs for ships to run into.
I think he took the idea further in Time Enough For Love
What about uploaders?
Complete with four changes specifically for the VAX architecture. I myself have one or two alphas but why put so much effort into (for example) getting X11 to run on VAX? Its not as if anybody is going to run Gnome or anything. The vax is (probably) equivalent to a 386.
If evolution had meant us to fly it would have given us wings. It didn't, yet we do fly.
Its called engineering and its as much a result of our evolution as anything else. We already live 2 or 3 times longer than we did "in the wild" because of our engineered environment. I don't see why we couldn't go further.
Pay the money to people with a family history of long lifespans if they breed with other qualifiers. Even if this prize leads to mice with long lifespans it may not deliver usable insights into human ageing
Well, the command mode itself has two modes thanks to caps lock.
My problem with vi and emacs is that they have failed to evolve in an environment where ui design really has advanced.
vi is ok for doing quick edits in an xterm. But I still think of it as a tacked on editing mode for more.
How about look a bit dogy, and within seconds you get tasered. The frustration is obviously building up behind the video monitors. Perhaps those "technically nolethal" weapons will be the next step.
Back when I worked for the local road authority we had a few CCTV cameras for traffic monitoring. There was a story going around about a legendary camera outside the nurses quarters at one of the teaching hospitals. It was beautifully positioned but management found out and it had to be moved.
We had fifty cameras or so in those days. These days you wouldn't be able to stop that kind of thing.
They get a warning now? I didn't know that.
My sister just set off to live in the UK for two years and frankly I am worried. Even at 27 she is not very mature (the other day she was sending me SMS messages from the plane) and would probably treat a warning like that as a joke.
My old 6502 system had a sound card of sorts. All it needed was an AM radio tuned to nothing in particular on the desk beside the machine.
The 6502 runs at one or two Mhz, just like an AM transmitter and you can almost hear the registers incrementing in the resulting signal.
Um, why? If its a Public Place, here anyway, the operators have very little scope to discriminate against people who want to attend.
Here in Victoria, Australia it really is illegal to implement a system to beat the casino. People have been charged for doing that. Its silly, but so is the whole casino thing.
Surely in this day and age it would be easier and less risky to have a PDA in your pocket do the calculations and not broadcast your activities over a wifi/cellular link.
As a bike rider myself the first thing I thought of was the death in March of Richard Rauch.
This is sad news. My sympathies to his family.
Chuck Norris?
Another one I came across recently had been saved as html from ms word and had file:// links all though it.
You cant use that popular name. We will give it our own name so that you know that its ours, not yours.
Or something like that. My copy is upstairs and I can't be bothered to check.
I thought this was a bit bold:
Considering that we are talking about the first billion years after the big bang.