Am I the only one who does not understand why diamonds are considered beautiful and desirable? I admit, fancily cut diamonds can be interesting and neat to look at, and I can appreciate the skill required to produce them, but I have never seen one that I have considered beautiful. Perhaps I have simply never seen a decent, beautifully cut diamond.
I think that gold is beautiful, onyx is beautiful, opals and sapphires are beautiful, but diamonds have no color, and seem industrial and cold to me.
Zebbler had a good point in regards to the business of TV news. Fear prods people to watch TV. The newstainment companies take advantage of that. "I Wash My TV in Fear" is a video show he puts on consisting of the most fearful snippets of TV news recorded over a couple of days. I wonder if it might be possible to create a horror movie that way.
Of course I may be completely wrong, but as I understand it, the phrase "everything is moving away from everything else" is a bit misleading. What is actually happening is that real, physical 'space' is constantly being created, and, as time goes on, there is more and more 'space' between everything and everything else. Is it 'movement' when you create space between two objects?
Simple movement, in an environment with no hard, fast point of reference like the universe, can be a hard concept to pin down. Even though 'movement' is simply the recording of changing distances between two distinct objects over time from an arbitrary point of reference, once you consider the facts that the data used to measure movement is carried by light, the fact that light does not cover distances instantaneously, and the idea that more 'space' for the light to travel through is constantly being created, then things get difficult. Are the concepts of 'a point of reference' and 'movement' artifical, and simply wrong? When such basic ideas get so messy, I wonder if there isn't a better way to think of things.
One thing I've always wondered is, how is the space created? What is it exactly? What is it made of, if anything? If it is not made of anything tangible, then how can it be created?
Forget Kansas. There is prime waterfront property to buy on the north shore of Canada, Alaska, and Russia. In fact, I predict the melting of the artic ice will lead to a resource gold rush by the nations bordering the artic. It will change the whole geopolitical landscape as much as, if not more than, the rise of China's economy.
I used to experience those flu-like symptoms after eating as well. I would develop a sore throat, a cough, and a runny nose. Eventually, after some some, I nailed the culprit down to beef, including hamburger and steak. Some other foods cause some of these symptoms as well, such as soda, but I have not been able to nail them all down. Generally, they involve fast food.
These days, for lunch I eat those little bowls of rice or beans that cost about $1 each. They do not give me any trouble, I save money, and I've lost weight.
If the universe expands so much that information about the early days is lost in one way or another, then won't that information be destroyed? Isn't it impossible for information to be destroyed? Isn't information eternal?
According to the article, the channel is named "Multi-National Force-Iraq", but a search on YouTube does not turn up anything. The article states it is the 16th most subscribed channel on YouTube, but I don't see it anywhere in the top subscribed channel list.
Judging from he workspace pictures, it appears Google subscribes to the idea that cubicles without high walls promote communication and interworking among employees. Of course, this is at the expense of privacy, peace and quiet, and for some people, stress relief. After working in both settings, I have to say that I prefer low walled cubicles. High walled cubicles create a claustrophobic, catacomb-like environment. Low walled cubicles create a friendlier work floor, and it is easier to have impromptu meetings in the cubicle hallways when people can spread out and still see each other.
I used to have one toy that certainly should have made the list. I don't remember who made it, but the toy was an enclosed, circular plastic maze with a nickel-sized ball of mercury contained within. The idea is that you tilt and rotate the toy to maneuver the mercury drop into the center of the maze. Imagine what would happen if the plastic broke. Imagine how many of these toys were simply thrown away in the garbage.
Come to think of it, my father may still have it somewhere. I'll have to find it and take it to the hazardous waste disposal site when I visit next time.
The idea that within 100,000 years there will be little evidence of our civilization make me wonder if there were ever any civilizations in the era of the dinosaurs. Or, for that matter, in any ancient era.
About a decade ago, when I was fresh out of college and trying to find a programming job, one of the resources I used was the local employment office. While I was going over a list of jobs with the employment office guy, I noticed some jobs I thought I should try for and asked about them. The guy told me that I was wasting my time, that it was a dishonest company, and that I had no chance of getting hired. He explained to me how that particular company only wanted to hire an HB1 visa employee, and that they only listed the job with the employment office because the law requires that they must make an effort to hire an American first. Every American that applies for the job will be found wanting, and, their legal obligations satisified, the company will then proceed to hire an HB1 employee. I was willing to work anywhere at that time, so I tried anyway, and of course i did not get the job.
That's only one of the schemes I've encountered while looking for work. The job market can be a scummy place.
If he really wants to mass produce this car, he has two big hurdles: federal safty regulations and litigation concerns. There is a huge amount of complexity and engineering that goes into making mass produced automobiles as safe as they are today.
I imagine that is partially why GM had to spend $1 billion for their car.
I wonder if a mass produced electric motorcycle would be easier to pull off?
Regarding Bushes impact on the future:
I often wonder if Bush will be to American history what to Caesar was to ancient Roman history. Rome was never the same after Caesar, and I believe the United States will never be the same after Bush is cycled out of office. I just hope the next president isn't like Augustus.
I think this story is over hyped. How is destroying data on the companies' laptop any different from destroying data on their database, or shredding documents?
How about adding a condensation coil to the top, and allowing the water to reach a boil. I imagine it won't produce a whole lot of water, but it should be cleaner.
Or, add a physical filter, made up of fine clean sand, moss, clean clay, or some other local substance, that you strain the water through before boiling it. Seriously, I once made an elementary school project where I placed clean sand, moss, and gravel in a can with holes in the bottom, and used it to strain muddy water. It wasn't drinkable, of course, but it was a little less muddy.
Don't ever forget, if you see it in your browser, it is most likely stored on the hard drive somewhere. The article suggests that users clear their browser's history, cookies, and other temporary files every time they close down their browser. However, they fail to point out that simply deleting the files the usual way does not actually delete them. 'Deleting' files merely removes the file information from your file systems catalog entry. It is like removing the card catalog entry from a libraries' catalog system and then claiming the book has been destroyed. If you are truly paranoid, then you must use a secure file deletion utility, of which there are many. However, even these tools won't completely erase all traces of a file from your hard drive.
In addition, many add-on browsing tools, such as Flash and fancy tool bars, may store temporary files and histories on their own. Erasure tools, or the browser's built in cleaning feature, may not be able to erase these third party files.
Why should you care? Well, over your hard drives' lifetime, a tremendous amount of data will be stored that can be used to analyze you down to the microscopic level.
In my opinion, the appearance of yet another framework to help alleviate HTML development is a symptom of the flawed HTML web page application paradigm. Every time I grit my teeth over the tedious complexities and limitations involved in developing an ordinary, half decent web page, I long for the days of Visual Basic, or even MFC. Does anybody even develop GUI widgets anymore? It seems like to me that, after everything became webified, we stepped into some kind of GUI dark age, and we can't seem to emerge from it.
I am aware of the dangers associated with poorly designed rich clients, but rich clients work well, as long as you use some discipline in the system architecture. I know some rich client architectures exist, such as Curl, but in general, it appears there is very little activity in this arena. I wish this industry would focus a little more on interesting GUIs, instead of beating the same horse over and over again.
You run Windows and the screen saver kicks in...
And it runs Linux with Wine, and the screen saver kicks in...
And it runs Linux with Wine, and the screen saver kicks in...
Ad Infinitum...
According to this article, it sounds like they caught the mistake quickly. However, events occurred too quickly. The order was entered at 9:27 AM. By 9:29 AM, the brokerage realized its mistake. They tried a number of times to cancel the trade. By 9:38 AM, 607,957 shares had traded.
When events happen this fast, it is very hard for human beings to keep up. I think it would be a good idea to use some sort of AI or statistical software checking to watch for outliers such as this trade, placing the trade on hold until a real person can double check.
Most people here are dismissing this as a crackpot idea or as a perpetual motion machine.
This is not a perpetual motion machine. It draws its energy from either solar radiation, warm industrial water runoff, or from a natural, warm body of water.
The engineering involved will not be easy, that's for sure, but the basic principle involved is not magical. It has more in common with a fair weather waterspout or a dust devil than a regular tornado.
I believe it may be possible to use ideas like this for energy generation, with enough money and study. It may even be possible to use this idea to produce fresh water, if some way of precipitating and collecting the water contained within the vortex can be engineered.
We should not dismiss this out of hand just because it is unorthodox.
When I was in 8th grade, our teacher brought in a tornado machine that she had built at home. It is really a very simple project to do, and it actually works.
Here are two sites that show some working examples.
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/tornbox.htmlhttp://www.tornadoproject.com/cellar/workshop.htm
The second site seems to be more like what this inventor is trying to do. Most of the other tornado machines found on the internet use fans to produce suction. However, it is not necessary to use fans, simply haveing warm water will work well enough.
Our teacher added a large tube to the top of the tornado box to produce a chimney effect, adding more strengh to the updraft. It was not necessary to heat the water to the boiling point. We used dry ice to generate the mist to show off the vortex.
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Am I the only one who does not understand why diamonds are considered beautiful and desirable? I admit, fancily cut diamonds can be interesting and neat to look at, and I can appreciate the skill required to produce them, but I have never seen one that I have considered beautiful. Perhaps I have simply never seen a decent, beautifully cut diamond.
I think that gold is beautiful, onyx is beautiful, opals and sapphires are beautiful, but diamonds have no color, and seem industrial and cold to me.
Zebbler had a good point in regards to the business of TV news. Fear prods people to watch TV. The newstainment companies take advantage of that. "I Wash My TV in Fear" is a video show he puts on consisting of the most fearful snippets of TV news recorded over a couple of days. I wonder if it might be possible to create a horror movie that way.
Of course I may be completely wrong, but as I understand it, the phrase "everything is moving away from everything else" is a bit misleading. What is actually happening is that real, physical 'space' is constantly being created, and, as time goes on, there is more and more 'space' between everything and everything else. Is it 'movement' when you create space between two objects?
Simple movement, in an environment with no hard, fast point of reference like the universe, can be a hard concept to pin down. Even though 'movement' is simply the recording of changing distances between two distinct objects over time from an arbitrary point of reference, once you consider the facts that the data used to measure movement is carried by light, the fact that light does not cover distances instantaneously, and the idea that more 'space' for the light to travel through is constantly being created, then things get difficult. Are the concepts of 'a point of reference' and 'movement' artifical, and simply wrong? When such basic ideas get so messy, I wonder if there isn't a better way to think of things.
One thing I've always wondered is, how is the space created? What is it exactly? What is it made of, if anything? If it is not made of anything tangible, then how can it be created?
Forget Kansas. There is prime waterfront property to buy on the north shore of Canada, Alaska, and Russia. In fact, I predict the melting of the artic ice will lead to a resource gold rush by the nations bordering the artic. It will change the whole geopolitical landscape as much as, if not more than, the rise of China's economy.
I used to experience those flu-like symptoms after eating as well. I would develop a sore throat, a cough, and a runny nose. Eventually, after some some, I nailed the culprit down to beef, including hamburger and steak. Some other foods cause some of these symptoms as well, such as soda, but I have not been able to nail them all down. Generally, they involve fast food. These days, for lunch I eat those little bowls of rice or beans that cost about $1 each. They do not give me any trouble, I save money, and I've lost weight.
If the universe expands so much that information about the early days is lost in one way or another, then won't that information be destroyed? Isn't it impossible for information to be destroyed? Isn't information eternal?
According to the article, the channel is named "Multi-National Force-Iraq", but a search on YouTube does not turn up anything.
The article states it is the 16th most subscribed channel on YouTube, but I don't see it anywhere in the top subscribed channel list.
Did the military or YouTube remove it?
Judging from he workspace pictures, it appears Google subscribes to the idea that cubicles without high walls promote communication and interworking among employees. Of course, this is at the expense of privacy, peace and quiet, and for some people, stress relief.
After working in both settings, I have to say that I prefer low walled cubicles. High walled cubicles create a claustrophobic, catacomb-like environment. Low walled cubicles create a friendlier work floor, and it is easier to have impromptu meetings in the cubicle hallways when people can spread out and still see each other.
I used to have one toy that certainly should have made the list. I don't remember who made it, but the toy was an enclosed, circular plastic maze with a nickel-sized ball of mercury contained within. The idea is that you tilt and rotate the toy to maneuver the mercury drop into the center of the maze. Imagine what would happen if the plastic broke. Imagine how many of these toys were simply thrown away in the garbage.
Come to think of it, my father may still have it somewhere. I'll have to find it and take it to the hazardous waste disposal site when I visit next time.
The idea that within 100,000 years there will be little evidence of our civilization make me wonder if there were ever any civilizations in the era of the dinosaurs. Or, for that matter, in any ancient era.
About a decade ago, when I was fresh out of college and trying to find a programming job, one of the resources I used was the local employment office. While I was going over a list of jobs with the employment office guy, I noticed some jobs I thought I should try for and asked about them. The guy told me that I was wasting my time, that it was a dishonest company, and that I had no chance of getting hired. He explained to me how that particular company only wanted to hire an HB1 visa employee, and that they only listed the job with the employment office because the law requires that they must make an effort to hire an American first. Every American that applies for the job will be found wanting, and, their legal obligations satisified, the company will then proceed to hire an HB1 employee. I was willing to work anywhere at that time, so I tried anyway, and of course i did not get the job.
That's only one of the schemes I've encountered while looking for work. The job market can be a scummy place.
If he really wants to mass produce this car, he has two big hurdles: federal safty regulations and litigation concerns. There is a huge amount of complexity and engineering that goes into making mass produced automobiles as safe as they are today.
I imagine that is partially why GM had to spend $1 billion for their car.
I wonder if a mass produced electric motorcycle would be easier to pull off?
Regarding Bushes impact on the future: I often wonder if Bush will be to American history what to Caesar was to ancient Roman history. Rome was never the same after Caesar, and I believe the United States will never be the same after Bush is cycled out of office. I just hope the next president isn't like Augustus.
This was already done a long time ago:
I think this story is over hyped. How is destroying data on the companies' laptop any different from destroying data on their database, or shredding documents?
How about adding a condensation coil to the top, and allowing the water to reach a boil. I imagine it won't produce a whole lot of water, but it should be cleaner.
Or, add a physical filter, made up of fine clean sand, moss, clean clay, or some other local substance, that you strain the water through before boiling it. Seriously, I once made an elementary school project where I placed clean sand, moss, and gravel in a can with holes in the bottom, and used it to strain muddy water. It wasn't drinkable, of course, but it was a little less muddy.
Hook up the robot to Plankton, steal the Crabby Patty secret formula, and achieve world domination.
Don't ever forget, if you see it in your browser, it is most likely stored on the hard drive somewhere. The article suggests that users clear their browser's history, cookies, and other temporary files every time they close down their browser. However, they fail to point out that simply deleting the files the usual way does not actually delete them. 'Deleting' files merely removes the file information from your file systems catalog entry. It is like removing the card catalog entry from a libraries' catalog system and then claiming the book has been destroyed. If you are truly paranoid, then you must use a secure file deletion utility, of which there are many. However, even these tools won't completely erase all traces of a file from your hard drive.
In addition, many add-on browsing tools, such as Flash and fancy tool bars, may store temporary files and histories on their own. Erasure tools, or the browser's built in cleaning feature, may not be able to erase these third party files.
Why should you care? Well, over your hard drives' lifetime, a tremendous amount of data will be stored that can be used to analyze you down to the microscopic level.
What kind of logs do they keep, even with dynamically assigned ip addresses?
reminds me of Rick Moranis, of "Ghostbusters" and "Little Shop of Horrors" fame.
He looks a little bit like him, and even sounds like him.
I am aware of the dangers associated with poorly designed rich clients, but rich clients work well, as long as you use some discipline in the system architecture. I know some rich client architectures exist, such as Curl, but in general, it appears there is very little activity in this arena. I wish this industry would focus a little more on interesting GUIs, instead of beating the same horse over and over again.
You run Windows and the screen saver kicks in...
And it runs Linux with Wine, and the screen saver kicks in...
And it runs Linux with Wine, and the screen saver kicks in...
Ad Infinitum...
According to this article, it sounds like they caught the mistake quickly. However, events occurred too quickly. The order was entered at 9:27 AM. By 9:29 AM, the brokerage realized its mistake. They tried a number of times to cancel the trade. By 9:38 AM, 607,957 shares had traded.
When events happen this fast, it is very hard for human beings to keep up. I think it would be a good idea to use some sort of AI or statistical software checking to watch for outliers such as this trade, placing the trade on hold until a real person can double check.
This is not a perpetual motion machine. It draws its energy from either solar radiation, warm industrial water runoff, or from a natural, warm body of water.
The engineering involved will not be easy, that's for sure, but the basic principle involved is not magical. It has more in common with a fair weather waterspout or a dust devil than a regular tornado.
I believe it may be possible to use ideas like this for energy generation, with enough money and study. It may even be possible to use this idea to produce fresh water, if some way of precipitating and collecting the water contained within the vortex can be engineered.
We should not dismiss this out of hand just because it is unorthodox.
When I was in 8th grade, our teacher brought in a tornado machine that she had built at home. It is really a very simple project to do, and it actually works. Here are two sites that show some working examples. http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/tornbox.html http://www.tornadoproject.com/cellar/workshop.htm The second site seems to be more like what this inventor is trying to do. Most of the other tornado machines found on the internet use fans to produce suction. However, it is not necessary to use fans, simply haveing warm water will work well enough. Our teacher added a large tube to the top of the tornado box to produce a chimney effect, adding more strengh to the updraft. It was not necessary to heat the water to the boiling point. We used dry ice to generate the mist to show off the vortex.