"if you as a parent don't work to teach your children, don't expect the public school to do a better job, regardless of what they're teaching." Wait, what? Are you saying that my parents would be better math teachers than my actual math teachers? My parents are very intelligent but I really don't see that happening.
The schools don't "force" evolution on students. They merely say "Today we are teaching evolution, which is supported by the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence. ID is not science so we will not teach it as if it were." Is a physics teacher "forcing" his "theory of gravity" on students?
How about a programmable nanotech phone that instantly reconfigures itself into any hardware configuration possible? That'd be pretty awesome, and "perfect" in that it could literally be anything you wanted.
Well if you ignore the media its on, emulators can run bit-for-bit copies of Nintendo/Sega/whatever games.
As for consoles, I can run N64 games (ROMs, not loading straight from the cartridge obviously) on my XBox1 with a bit of fiddling.
"Chinese researchers uncovered the fossilised remains of the flightless giant"
I know nobody reads TFA, but not reading the summary is surely a new low.
Except they do come from a finite pool: The planet itself (discounting sunlight of course). Granted, wind is obviously limitless but more or less everything else isn't, at least at the rate we are depleting it.
Maybe they're finding wealth in natural resources that are only being tapped recently, due to their later industrialization?
Yes, but it doesn't let you watch one particle and wait for it to change instantly when someone perturbs the other one. That would send a signal faster than light.
A voice of sanity! IANAP either, but that's my understanding as well. Makes me grind my teeth whenever people equate entanglement to "Poke one particle and the other one moves instantly!"
Problems in that one of the fundamental principles of modern physics is that _nothing_ can travel faster than light, not even information. Principles have been overturned, of course, but this one seems pretty solid.
There are Xbox dashboard exploits. My impression is that the font files are not signed and can be used to launch any arbitrary program, usually NKPatcher. You install the dashboard exploit with a game exploit, like MechAssault. I'm not sure on the details, there are all sorts of interesting information to be found on the Xbox Scene forums.
No, I mean in particular nkpatcher: handmade ASM homebrew (no XDK), it tweaks the BIOS as it loads to allow unsigned and habibi-signed programs ro run, as well as enabling VGA output, and a few more things. The result is a softmod that acts just like a chipped xbox. I've got it set up on mine, it works very well.
Not quite true. You can run on a stock BIOS and run a program that patches it during boot. Not sure how that counts for legality, but it works very well and you don't need to open up the xbox at all.
but has anyone else noticed the current general suckiness of PopSci in general? I've had a subscription for a few years and the current issue is basically ads, a fairly cool series of mini-articles on inventions, and an article on Litvinenko's poisoning (spread across excessive pages just to cram more ads in). That's about it. It used to be worth reading, now it's just a series of male-enhancement ads.
The big bang produced lots and lots of protons + electrons. Some got together and formed hydrogen and helium; beyond that, you need stars to produce heavier elements.
What? Ice and rock are both solids, yes, and you can find both on Earth, no need to go to Pluto. There are specific definitions for being liquid. There aren't any silicates that melt below 600C:http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ge ophys/meltrock.html Being liquid is not subjective.
I even looked it up on Google before I posted it to make sure I was: http://www.google.com/search?define%3A+tautology
"The repetition, in the definition, of information already provided by the term designating the concept."
"Magma: Molten rock beneath the surface of the earth." http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+magma
"Molten hot magma"
If it's magma, it's molten, molten rock is pretty much definately hot.
easthetics are subjective I go for westhetics myself, but to each his own.
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Basically there's another theory that says that, while cells start to die at low oxygen levels, if you reduce the amount of oxygen really really low then they'll stop metabolizing and killing themselves. Apparently either cryo or certain toxins will reduce oxygen intake to a level where the test subjects- animals of course- could survive in a not-alive (but not dead) state for hours.
I wear glasses... to try to give me 3d vision in the first place. One of my eyes is out of alignment and nobody thought to correct it when I was a baby and thus, no stereo vision (even in meatspace).
These articles always depress me, binocular people lording it all over the place. Harrumph.
Hey, isn't it true sci-fi comes up with what science goes on to create? I'll believe you when we're flying X-Wings around. Plenty of "true" scifi bends basic rules of the universe (speed of light for one) that scientists are (pretty darned) sure are more or less immutable.
In fact, if we hadn't used their database, our employee won't be able to go back in time to give it to Sohu, and we wouldn't have been able to steal their database. QED.
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"if you as a parent don't work to teach your children, don't expect the public school to do a
better job, regardless of what they're teaching."
Wait, what? Are you saying that my parents would be better math teachers than my actual math teachers? My parents are very intelligent but I really don't see that happening.
The schools don't "force" evolution on students. They merely say "Today we are teaching evolution, which is supported by the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence. ID is not science so we will not teach it as if it were." Is a physics teacher "forcing" his "theory of gravity" on students?
How about a programmable nanotech phone that instantly reconfigures itself into any hardware configuration possible? That'd be pretty awesome, and "perfect" in that it could literally be anything you wanted.
Well if you ignore the media its on, emulators can run bit-for-bit copies of Nintendo/Sega/whatever games. As for consoles, I can run N64 games (ROMs, not loading straight from the cartridge obviously) on my XBox1 with a bit of fiddling.
"Chinese researchers uncovered the fossilised remains of the flightless giant"
I know nobody reads TFA, but not reading the summary is surely a new low.
I think water absorbs light toward the red end of the spectrum. That's why water looks blue _under_ water, not just on the surface.
Except they do come from a finite pool: The planet itself (discounting sunlight of course). Granted, wind is obviously limitless but more or less everything else isn't, at least at the rate we are depleting it. Maybe they're finding wealth in natural resources that are only being tapped recently, due to their later industrialization?
Yes, but it doesn't let you watch one particle and wait for it to change instantly when someone perturbs the other one. That would send a signal faster than light.
A voice of sanity! IANAP either, but that's my understanding as well. Makes me grind my teeth whenever people equate entanglement to "Poke one particle and the other one moves instantly!"
Problems in that one of the fundamental principles of modern physics is that _nothing_ can travel faster than light, not even information. Principles have been overturned, of course, but this one seems pretty solid.
Or just make nothing illegal, ala Nineteen Eighty Four, but spirit people away.
There are Xbox dashboard exploits. My impression is that the font files are not signed and can be used to launch any arbitrary program, usually NKPatcher. You install the dashboard exploit with a game exploit, like MechAssault. I'm not sure on the details, there are all sorts of interesting information to be found on the Xbox Scene forums.
No, I mean in particular nkpatcher: handmade ASM homebrew (no XDK), it tweaks the BIOS as it loads to allow unsigned and habibi-signed programs ro run, as well as enabling VGA output, and a few more things. The result is a softmod that acts just like a chipped xbox. I've got it set up on mine, it works very well.
Not quite true. You can run on a stock BIOS and run a program that patches it during boot. Not sure how that counts for legality, but it works very well and you don't need to open up the xbox at all.
Run your car on hydrogen or electricity produced by nuclear power.
You mean, like an AOL Keyword?
but has anyone else noticed the current general suckiness of PopSci in general? I've had a subscription for a few years and the current issue is basically ads, a fairly cool series of mini-articles on inventions, and an article on Litvinenko's poisoning (spread across excessive pages just to cram more ads in). That's about it. It used to be worth reading, now it's just a series of male-enhancement ads.
The big bang produced lots and lots of protons + electrons. Some got together and formed hydrogen and helium; beyond that, you need stars to produce heavier elements.
What? Ice and rock are both solids, yes, and you can find both on Earth, no need to go to Pluto. There are specific definitions for being liquid. There aren't any silicates that melt below 600C:http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ge ophys/meltrock.html
Being liquid is not subjective.
I even looked it up on Google before I posted it to make sure I was:
http://www.google.com/search?define%3A+tautology
"The repetition, in the definition, of information already provided by the term designating the concept."
"Magma: Molten rock beneath the surface of the earth." http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+magma "Molten hot magma" If it's magma, it's molten, molten rock is pretty much definately hot.
Basically there's another theory that says that, while cells start to die at low oxygen levels, if you reduce the amount of oxygen really really low then they'll stop metabolizing and killing themselves. Apparently either cryo or certain toxins will reduce oxygen intake to a level where the test subjects- animals of course- could survive in a not-alive (but not dead) state for hours.
I wear glasses... to try to give me 3d vision in the first place. One of my eyes is out of alignment and nobody thought to correct it when I was a baby and thus, no stereo vision (even in meatspace).
These articles always depress me, binocular people lording it all over the place. Harrumph.
In fact, if we hadn't used their database, our employee won't be able to go back in time to give it to Sohu, and we wouldn't have been able to steal their database. QED.