There is nothing more depressing to me than listening to how other industrial countries' space programs are flourishing while ours stagnates. It's as if America has lost its sense of humanity. It doesn't even really care about exploration anymore. Or apparently anything. All it wants to do is consume. Sigh....
The list is a pretty good one, especially the one about turning yourself into a diamond after you die. I can't help but wish they had included a link to the list, or told us if it was going to be published.
Unfortunately I discovered that the WoW downloading client acts as a pseudo bittorrent client, which caused my school to shut down my internet connection for seven days. For anyone else out there who is going to a school with draconian downloading rules (such as University of Florida and their ICARUS client [previously featured on slashdot]), be warned.
I have a friend who is disabled and wheelchair bound. He took me out to a gun range for my first time last Saturday.
This is so patronizing to people who have disabilities that I cannot imagine how much this would piss him off. People with disabilities don't need this kind of help to go hunting; they can do just fine on their own.
Any REAL hunter, too, would be pissed off by this. This isn't hunting, this is akin to shooting fish in a barrel. All you're doing is waiting for an animal to pass in front of the camera. Christ, I am so disgusted by this.
What I simply meant is that one had to worry about McCarthyism back then, but now one also has to worry about corporations as well as the government keeping track of you and your habits.
Your post is proof that poor reading comprehension is a dangerous thing.
Whenever I read a story like this, I can't help but long for the days when you didn't have to worry about companies gathering data on the side and blacklisting you. Sure, you still had to worry about the government (McCarthyism anyone?) but at least back then you could go to a store and be picky if you wanted, return things often, and not worry that one day they'd be dicks to you and tell you that if you keep returning things, you wouldn't be welcome back.
I get the feeling that 50 odd years ago, no one would have expected we'd long for the days of McCarthyism.
Having been friends with coke and heroin addicts, I can definitively say that if they can't make the money through a job then they will steal and sell what they must to get the money for their addiction. A friend of mine used to work at a local grocery store and steal the purses of of old ladies by tossing them into the bushes when they weren't looking.*
Many places are beginning to realise the value of passwords in protecting data, though one would have thought it would have been just as obvious in the past.
My college, the University of Florida, recently instituted a new rule that our school password had the be 12 or more characters long and have two of these three things: Capital letters, Numbers, and non-letter Characters.
Additionally, the passwords were checked against a dictionary and couldn't be a word in the dictionary. I thought this was all a bit much at the time, but as I said, I understand the need for security.
It's unfortunate that while a newer, faster version of the internet is in the works, it's supposedly going to be limited to use by scientists and other researchers. Perhaps the system with increased complexity that was previously reported on slashdot is the answer to our difficulties?
It used to be the internet was reliant upon the telephone systems across the US, but now it seems more and more than cell phones and telephones have come to rely on the internet to bolster their short-comings.
Does anyone know, however, if we would be double charged by both the cell phone company and the wireless internet company we were using to connect to the cell company by using this service? I'd hate to see the minutes being charged both ways by the two services.
They're not saying they're changing the genetic code, they're saying they want to activate the gene. Big difference. Changes in body chemistry activate and deactivate genes in our cells all the time, and while not a simply matter, it is quite possible to invent a pill that would turn the gene into the on position while the drug is in out body. We'd have to keep taking the pill, though, as the change wouldn't be permanent.
While yes hackers continue to find and exploit security holes in Explorer, let's not forget that holes would likely be found in Firefox et all as well, if the hackers decide to start concentrate on these other browsers once they have a large enough market share.
And how exactly do you suggest we magically fly to the sun to gain its power?
Solar power is great, but it requires large tracts of land that receive a lot of sunlight to be able to make use of it. Fusion would be a much better alternative, once we can get it to work.
I don't think the parent ever suggested it was the savior of humanity, he was simply pointing out that the drawbacks compared with coal and other forms of fuel that powerplants are using aren't nearly as great, but that fission is underused because of the unfair stigma against it.
Sure fusion power would be great to have, but until we do, we need to weigh the pros and cons of what we currently DO have use of.
It's easy to speculate that there may be a drawback to fusion power that would make it less than, but there are hundreds of scientists that make this their life's work, and I think that one of them would have raised a red flag by now if there were problems with pollution or otherwise that may arise in the future.
I'm all for competition in the console market place, but the real question is if Infinium's product is going to be competitive at all. The way the console is being planned and the way it is being marketed are questionable at best.
Does anyone here truly believe that the Phantom is going to be in anyway competitive with the other consoles in the market? It seems to be trying to straddle to gap in between console and pc gaming, and I don't think it will succeed because a better gaming experience can be found on either side, but the middle will simply be a tepid experience at best.
So the Magnetic pole reversal took place at the same time the impact took place? I wasn't aware that one could affect the pole reversal in any substantial way, even with someone as large as a meteoric impact.
Perhaps it was weakened and on the cusp of a change, such as we are today, and the impact disturbed the core of the Earth enough to cause turbulence in the convection of the molten outer core, and that was enough to cause the reversal to finally occur.
Anyone who thinks that human beings are going to work together for the common good, especially in an economics setting, has been smoking too much weed. We don't even have a FAIR capitalistic society yet.
Besides it's one thing to say that new forms of economics should be created, but it's quite another to go out and create that system. And even then, who is to say it won't be too idealistic, or just plain ineffective (communism, etc.)?
Could someone tell me how this would be useful? Honestly, I don't know.
It seems to me that if you were traveling and you were at a place that had broadband, then you most likely brought along a laptop. Wouldn't it be easier to just buy an ethernet cable rather than paying for this?
When are phone companies going to actually ask the public what they need and use their phones for? There are gadgets out there that already do what these features, and do them better than the cell phones could ever hope to achieve at a reasonable price.
What the public wants now is quality, better reception, and higher reliability.
The line between the two is what they orbit. A moon orbits a planet, an asteroid orbits the Sun.
Of course, when whether we should just stop calling an object orbiting a planet a moon, and just call it a rock when it's past a certain minimum size, is up to the scientists.
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There is nothing more depressing to me than listening to how other industrial countries' space programs are flourishing while ours stagnates. It's as if America has lost its sense of humanity. It doesn't even really care about exploration anymore. Or apparently anything. All it wants to do is consume. Sigh....
The list is a pretty good one, especially the one about turning yourself into a diamond after you die. I can't help but wish they had included a link to the list, or told us if it was going to be published.
Unfortunately I discovered that the WoW downloading client acts as a pseudo bittorrent client, which caused my school to shut down my internet connection for seven days. For anyone else out there who is going to a school with draconian downloading rules (such as University of Florida and their ICARUS client [previously featured on slashdot]), be warned.
I have a friend who is disabled and wheelchair bound. He took me out to a gun range for my first time last Saturday.
This is so patronizing to people who have disabilities that I cannot imagine how much this would piss him off. People with disabilities don't need this kind of help to go hunting; they can do just fine on their own.
Any REAL hunter, too, would be pissed off by this. This isn't hunting, this is akin to shooting fish in a barrel. All you're doing is waiting for an animal to pass in front of the camera. Christ, I am so disgusted by this.
What I simply meant is that one had to worry about McCarthyism back then, but now one also has to worry about corporations as well as the government keeping track of you and your habits.
Your post is proof that poor reading comprehension is a dangerous thing.
Whenever I read a story like this, I can't help but long for the days when you didn't have to worry about companies gathering data on the side and blacklisting you. Sure, you still had to worry about the government (McCarthyism anyone?) but at least back then you could go to a store and be picky if you wanted, return things often, and not worry that one day they'd be dicks to you and tell you that if you keep returning things, you wouldn't be welcome back.
I get the feeling that 50 odd years ago, no one would have expected we'd long for the days of McCarthyism.
Having been friends with coke and heroin addicts, I can definitively say that if they can't make the money through a job then they will steal and sell what they must to get the money for their addiction. A friend of mine used to work at a local grocery store and steal the purses of of old ladies by tossing them into the bushes when they weren't looking.*
*No, really, a friend of mine. I mean it.
Many places are beginning to realise the value of passwords in protecting data, though one would have thought it would have been just as obvious in the past.
My college, the University of Florida, recently instituted a new rule that our school password had the be 12 or more characters long and have two of these three things: Capital letters, Numbers, and non-letter Characters.
Additionally, the passwords were checked against a dictionary and couldn't be a word in the dictionary. I thought this was all a bit much at the time, but as I said, I understand the need for security.
It's unfortunate that while a newer, faster version of the internet is in the works, it's supposedly going to be limited to use by scientists and other researchers. Perhaps the system with increased complexity that was previously reported on slashdot is the answer to our difficulties?
So you're saying Jesus had hydrophobic legs?
It used to be the internet was reliant upon the telephone systems across the US, but now it seems more and more than cell phones and telephones have come to rely on the internet to bolster their short-comings. Does anyone know, however, if we would be double charged by both the cell phone company and the wireless internet company we were using to connect to the cell company by using this service? I'd hate to see the minutes being charged both ways by the two services.
Duh. Everyone knows that the greatest anime movie is Pokemon: The First Movie.
They're not saying they're changing the genetic code, they're saying they want to activate the gene. Big difference. Changes in body chemistry activate and deactivate genes in our cells all the time, and while not a simply matter, it is quite possible to invent a pill that would turn the gene into the on position while the drug is in out body. We'd have to keep taking the pill, though, as the change wouldn't be permanent.
While yes hackers continue to find and exploit security holes in Explorer, let's not forget that holes would likely be found in Firefox et all as well, if the hackers decide to start concentrate on these other browsers once they have a large enough market share.
Hydrogen can be easily obtained from water.
And how exactly do you suggest we magically fly to the sun to gain its power?
Solar power is great, but it requires large tracts of land that receive a lot of sunlight to be able to make use of it. Fusion would be a much better alternative, once we can get it to work.
I don't think the parent ever suggested it was the savior of humanity, he was simply pointing out that the drawbacks compared with coal and other forms of fuel that powerplants are using aren't nearly as great, but that fission is underused because of the unfair stigma against it.
Sure fusion power would be great to have, but until we do, we need to weigh the pros and cons of what we currently DO have use of.
It's easy to speculate that there may be a drawback to fusion power that would make it less than, but there are hundreds of scientists that make this their life's work, and I think that one of them would have raised a red flag by now if there were problems with pollution or otherwise that may arise in the future.
The parent post is correct, the burning of coal does introduce radiation trapped in the coal into the atmosphere. The parent should be modded up.
I'm all for competition in the console market place, but the real question is if Infinium's product is going to be competitive at all. The way the console is being planned and the way it is being marketed are questionable at best.
Does anyone here truly believe that the Phantom is going to be in anyway competitive with the other consoles in the market? It seems to be trying to straddle to gap in between console and pc gaming, and I don't think it will succeed because a better gaming experience can be found on either side, but the middle will simply be a tepid experience at best.
So the Magnetic pole reversal took place at the same time the impact took place? I wasn't aware that one could affect the pole reversal in any substantial way, even with someone as large as a meteoric impact.
Perhaps it was weakened and on the cusp of a change, such as we are today, and the impact disturbed the core of the Earth enough to cause turbulence in the convection of the molten outer core, and that was enough to cause the reversal to finally occur.
These don't sound like myths so much as they sound like uneducated things that ignorant, non IT people say.
Anyone who thinks that human beings are going to work together for the common good, especially in an economics setting, has been smoking too much weed. We don't even have a FAIR capitalistic society yet.
Besides it's one thing to say that new forms of economics should be created, but it's quite another to go out and create that system. And even then, who is to say it won't be too idealistic, or just plain ineffective (communism, etc.)?
Could someone tell me how this would be useful? Honestly, I don't know.
It seems to me that if you were traveling and you were at a place that had broadband, then you most likely brought along a laptop. Wouldn't it be easier to just buy an ethernet cable rather than paying for this?
When are phone companies going to actually ask the public what they need and use their phones for? There are gadgets out there that already do what these features, and do them better than the cell phones could ever hope to achieve at a reasonable price.
What the public wants now is quality, better reception, and higher reliability.
The line between the two is what they orbit. A moon orbits a planet, an asteroid orbits the Sun.
Of course, when whether we should just stop calling an object orbiting a planet a moon, and just call it a rock when it's past a certain minimum size, is up to the scientists.