The working man who owns the store that got vandalized and has to buy new windows? There are still quite a few stores that are owned and operated by Mom and Pop, and even vandals that think they're fighting in the name of freedom generally aren't very discriminate about what they smash.
Correction: Talking/Language can be learned to a certain degree even if the window is missed, but the person will never sound the same as a normal person.
According to the psychology books I've read, it's automatic. At a certain age, children begin to walk on two legs, unless they are impaired (unlike talking, which must be taught at a certain stage of growth). A parent can try to "help" a child learn to walk, but they won't do it until the instinct kicks in.
It depends on how well she develops the ability. Walking upright makes you easier to catch, running upright makes you much harder to. It may have been a defect when the first human did it, but it survived and we ended up all the better for it.
...what remains to be seen, is if the macaque spreads the knowledge of how to walk on two legs permanently by teaching its young or other apes. If it doesn't, then the incident will be nothing more than a curiosity. If it does...we may have seen a major evolutionary breakthrough in a species.
They'd probably get the same reaction that people do who go around trying to piss people off, and I wouldn't call it undeserved. I don't know any serious atheists who go around painting "God is dead" on things...Someone who did would only do it to provoke a reaction.
Legally, unless they painted it on someone else's property or state property, they would be innocent of any crime. Just like it would be legal to walk through LA, San Fran, or Seattle in a Confederate uniform waving a rebel flag, but someone doing so would get glares, insults, and likely get the living @#$% beaten out of them as well.
On the topic of the article, I think putting up "security cameras" in public is a horrible idea. If people getting mugged is such a problem, let them carry weapons.
Unless the "more powerful" CPU is several times as fast as the original, no. Two men that can lift 100 pounds can carry a 200-pound load, but one man that can lift 150 pounds can't.
And RAM will only help to a point (and there's a cap on how much a regular computer can take)...I could deck out a K6 running at 333 Mhz with 512 MB of RAM, but it still wouldn't make it run as fast as a computer with multiple CPUs or one with a newer processor.
No, just because you can compete in something doesn't make it a sport...You can have a chess tournament, but it doesn't test physical prowess, so it isn't a sport. Someone decided to propose letting math team qualify a student for a letter jacket when I was in high school, and everyone (including me) laughed in their face.
There are other benefits and awards for intelligentsia, and if one wants to become an athlete, there's no law against it. All he has to do is work at a sport long enough to have some skill, and spend a couple of years on the school's team.
...But he wouldn't really be building them if the NZ Government hired him, he'd be designing them, and maybe overseeing the construction of a few for the purpose of models or test subjects. Neighbors would only get shifty-eyed if you started mass-producing them. They don't see what goes on in your laboratories.
Also, if they'd hired him, they could have prevented all the hubbub. Their neighbors wouldn't know anything about him if it hadn't been made into a big deal.
Actually, I wonder why the New Zealand government's equivalent to the DoD didn't hire him, if they're so worried about him. That would seem to be the most sensible thing for them to do, rather than try to stifle/imprison/crucify and have humanitarians/wannabe humanitarians all over the world yelling "Foul!"
I still think what he did wasn't too bright, but neither was their response...
"Video accounted for 27 percent, up from 25.2 percent, the study will say."
Okay, the 62.5 to 48.6 percent drop for music files was sizable, but video doesn't seem to have increased much at all.
Shouldn't the title say "documents and software overtaking music downloads"? That's the only thing that could be making up the difference. Shoot, it even says that in the last paragraph of the article.
"You Stand Before the Museum of Natural History... Before you is a magnificently architected building, containing many marvels of the world. In front of it is a clear fountain, around which students sit and chatter. Beneath your feet is a manhole.
A policeman (white aura) stands here, looking around in search of troublemakers.
Well, if you want to really use an environment for anything other than looking at it from a distance, you have to be willing to get it a little dirty. If this becomes an issue, they'll probably set aside a certain region for exploration and leave the rest alone.
I doubt many of the Space Utility Vehicles will last for very long. Not that they aren't a good idea, but space vehicles just don't seem to have long lives. And I'm sure they'll have another craft in the area to get the astronauts off in case of a breakdown.
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The working man who owns the store that got vandalized and has to buy new windows? There are still quite a few stores that are owned and operated by Mom and Pop, and even vandals that think they're fighting in the name of freedom generally aren't very discriminate about what they smash.
Yeah, like that "Theory of Gravity". Everyone's always treating that one like a proven fact, too...
Correction: Talking/Language can be learned to a certain degree even if the window is missed, but the person will never sound the same as a normal person.
According to the psychology books I've read, it's automatic. At a certain age, children begin to walk on two legs, unless they are impaired (unlike talking, which must be taught at a certain stage of growth). A parent can try to "help" a child learn to walk, but they won't do it until the instinct kicks in.
It depends on how well she develops the ability. Walking upright makes you easier to catch, running upright makes you much harder to. It may have been a defect when the first human did it, but it survived and we ended up all the better for it.
...what remains to be seen, is if the macaque spreads the knowledge of how to walk on two legs permanently by teaching its young or other apes. If it doesn't, then the incident will be nothing more than a curiosity. If it does...we may have seen a major evolutionary breakthrough in a species.
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And nope, he's probably real.
They'd probably get the same reaction that people do who go around trying to piss people off, and I wouldn't call it undeserved. I don't know any serious atheists who go around painting "God is dead" on things...Someone who did would only do it to provoke a reaction.
Legally, unless they painted it on someone else's property or state property, they would be innocent of any crime. Just like it would be legal to walk through LA, San Fran, or Seattle in a Confederate uniform waving a rebel flag, but someone doing so would get glares, insults, and likely get the living @#$% beaten out of them as well.
On the topic of the article, I think putting up "security cameras" in public is a horrible idea. If people getting mugged is such a problem, let them carry weapons.
Unless the "more powerful" CPU is several times as fast as the original, no. Two men that can lift 100 pounds can carry a 200-pound load, but one man that can lift 150 pounds can't.
And RAM will only help to a point (and there's a cap on how much a regular computer can take)...I could deck out a K6 running at 333 Mhz with 512 MB of RAM, but it still wouldn't make it run as fast as a computer with multiple CPUs or one with a newer processor.
...Right on the heels of this too.
No, just because you can compete in something doesn't make it a sport...You can have a chess tournament, but it doesn't test physical prowess, so it isn't a sport. Someone decided to propose letting math team qualify a student for a letter jacket when I was in high school, and everyone (including me) laughed in their face.
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There are other benefits and awards for intelligentsia, and if one wants to become an athlete, there's no law against it. All he has to do is work at a sport long enough to have some skill, and spend a couple of years on the school's team.
You just have a weird high school.
Quite a few, if not most, of them would prefer to risk that instead of being shoved in a nursing home where they're watched every minute of the day.
...But he wouldn't really be building them if the NZ Government hired him, he'd be designing them, and maybe overseeing the construction of a few for the purpose of models or test subjects. Neighbors would only get shifty-eyed if you started mass-producing them. They don't see what goes on in your laboratories.
Also, if they'd hired him, they could have prevented all the hubbub. Their neighbors wouldn't know anything about him if it hadn't been made into a big deal.
Actually, I wonder why the New Zealand government's equivalent to the DoD didn't hire him, if they're so worried about him. That would seem to be the most sensible thing for them to do, rather than try to stifle/imprison/crucify and have humanitarians/wannabe humanitarians all over the world yelling "Foul!"
I still think what he did wasn't too bright, but neither was their response...
"Video accounted for 27 percent, up from 25.2 percent, the study will say."
Okay, the 62.5 to 48.6 percent drop for music files was sizable, but video doesn't seem to have increased much at all.
Shouldn't the title say "documents and software overtaking music downloads"? That's the only thing that could be making up the difference. Shoot, it even says that in the last paragraph of the article.
Well, they can prevent the deranged human being that broke into your house from killing you.
"You Stand Before the Museum of Natural History... Before you is a magnificently architected building, containing many marvels of the world. In front of it is a clear fountain, around which students sit and chatter. Beneath your feet is a manhole.
A policeman (white aura) stands here, looking around in search of troublemakers.
Visible exits are north, west, east, (down)."
Well, if you want to really use an environment for anything other than looking at it from a distance, you have to be willing to get it a little dirty. If this becomes an issue, they'll probably set aside a certain region for exploration and leave the rest alone. I doubt many of the Space Utility Vehicles will last for very long. Not that they aren't a good idea, but space vehicles just don't seem to have long lives. And I'm sure they'll have another craft in the area to get the astronauts off in case of a breakdown.