For example, use a low-pressure tyre to soak up the minor bumps, ripples, potholes etc then an actively controlled maglev suspension to pick up the larger surges (crossing other roads, etc) and act as shock-absorber, plus perfectly ordinary coil springs and crash-stops to soak up anything really large and/or protect the other components.
Have to join the chorus here, though: nothing significantly innovative in this idea at all.
...in which you had to say "Shhh!" at the doors to get them to open or close.
Or Saturn III, in which they used a booting Apple//e (rattle of drive heads smacking into the stops 39 times and all) as one of their computer-is-doing-things noises.
...people who write operating systems, databases and office suites just because they can. "I'm writing it so I can use it myself" sounds pretty lame after three years...
The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat.
-- John McNulty
Well... cowshit.
And I don't know about "for people to eat", even in the case of eating the cow instead of eating what it turns the grass into. You are made of meat: why not slice yourself up, pack yourself onto a styrene tray and toddle down to the local supermarket?
...if Humphreys hadn't actually burned two across the plate already. I'd add even more skepticism if any of the other pundits had been in the ballpark with Neptune and Uranus.
Mercury should prove (or else support) his reasoning. We may get some answers there as early as October 2007.
He visited his doc because he felt a bit under the weather, and was told "Well, you had gonnorhea..." - his body had already flushed the disease, and the symptoms were it recovering from the effort.
(likely Russell Humphries, since he does a lot of tectonics work) has had a look at core fields. He lacks sufficient historical data to comment directly on decaying core fields, but he did find enough stuff to thoroughly trash everyone else's core models. Lessee...
Here's an article on Earth's magnetic field which appears to say different stuff to the link referenced above. "Dr. Humphreys is an ICR Adjunct Professor of Physics and a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquergue, New Mexico. The Laboratories have not supported this work."
It's not linked above, but here's the CRSQ article which led to all of the fuss. The next Mercury flyby that measures magnetic fields should be interesting.
I'm fairly sure none of this includes direct mention of the Earth's core fields, so either the article I have in mind wasn't written by Humphries or I've missed it somewhere along the line.
Re:Given Uganda's high AIDS infection rates...
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Heterosexual sex was responsible for a majority of the spread of HIV in Uganda.
Not the kind of heterosexual sex promulgated by Christian organisations
Homosexual transmissions are still inordinately high, per capita (ie, the few % of the population who are bent/bi contribute way more than their share)
Bisexual, for the purpose of counting disease vectors, is the same as homosexual but often not tallied as such in statistical compilations
Roman Catholic views are different to the majority of Christian denominations, for example
They reject the use of condoms on dogmatic grounds (in real life condoms do help a little, but only as a last resort, and are often used as a "first" resort and as if they were highly effective - which they are not; in fact, one reason they "work" is because they add enough inconvenience to reduce the frequency of contact)
They introduce their own problems with their irrational approach to sacerdotal celibacy and "cash-in-lieu" moral codes
Several of the Christian groups I've had personal contact with work essentially in secret because of the religious objections to their success (from, in the most general terms, Atheism, Catholicism and Islam) so the UN would not be accounting for their efforts
Have a careful look at what the WB intervention has really cost Uganda, tinfoil hat or no.
I use an AOpen O-35G total-of-five-buttons-including-one-on-a-scroll-wh eel optical mouse. The two scroll-wheels are both fairly broad and positive, but only one of them is clickable. I saw this as a shortcoming when I first bought it (wanted an extra button), but IRL I use the second wheel for scrolling and the first as a button. That way, I don't risk "nervous finger", a disease occasioned by using Microsoft scroll-wheel mice that treat the gentlest caress of the wheel as a click. The AOpen mouse is also lighter than most other mice (except for frail/unreliable brands like Dexxa), which makes it less wearing to use, and more manageable for kids.
Specifically for children, I use and recommend a matchbox-sized optical scroll wheel mouse I get from Big W's stationery department. It is labelled "GO TECH COMPUTERWARE | Keycode: 439 2347 | Model: IA20074B | N433 | Made in China". The red LED in it is easy to change for another colour. The LED's frequency/spectrum doesn't seem to matter, as long as it is high efficiency.
Given Uganda's high AIDS infection rates...
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...and that the only system which has ever been seriously effective against AIDS in Africa is Christian-sponsored abstinence campaigns (which Atheist organisations decry and actively undermine; apparently it is better in their eyes to die slowly and painfully than to hold Christian beliefs), that statement is suddenly no longer funny, and no longer a troll.
Lest you think to idly mod this into the ground, bear in mind that what we're talking about here is real people catching a real disease and really dying horribly by the millions. This is not a game, this is not a joke, this is not armchair-discussion fodder, this is real life. There are over four million new cases of AIDS every year in Africa, and that number is not going down. I live in Western Australia, a state with a population of around two million people, which makes this the equivalent of everyone in my entire state dying, twice a year.
Compared with that, how prominent a need is access to porn and spam? So yes, go right ahead and check that your buddy's not gay, and not Atheist, because they're the two greatest threats to life in Africa and you don't want to make him your exemplar - the person others turn to for advice - if he's either.
I have a number of friends in Australia who are gay, and one in particular who has extensive contacts in the USA (which has less than 1% of Africa's AIDS problem) and something like ten percent of his many gay friends there have died of AIDS already. This gives you a pretty good idea of how closely AIDS is tied to homosexuality in real life.
Yes, the Scouts have both Catholic and Masonic ties, and yes, both organisations have their own agendas which have very little to do with the welfare of their members, even less to do with the welfare of mankind in general, and in point of fact even less to do with Christianity as such, but the Scouts as they are generally have an extremely positive impact on society, and these two features which you have chosen to isolate (and yes, I do appreciate the funny side of it) are essential to that positive impact.
it's not a programming language unless you can write and execute an infinite loop with it.
But that makes MS-Windows a programming language! All you have to do is write, and sooner or later it will go into an infinite loop. Strictly speaking, the "write" part is optional there.
Please stop making up words and pretending that they have generally accepted meanings.
Phrrk, phrrk, is this thing on?
It would have been much simpler and politer to say (onymously) "I don't like the GPL" rather than going through the whole petulant deliberate-ignorance act. On a non-technical blog you might have some hope of coming across as justifiably confused and indignant but here you're just lame and it shows.
OpenOffice.org Writer in HTML mode. WYSIWYG, much better HTML than word, and click on the @ in the toolbar to see/hand-edit the HTML as you go. And runs on other than MS-Windows, and can be legitimately taken home (or to school) and installed there.
...has a long and chequered history of selling your info off... and what they don't sell off deliberately gets vamped by bored St Petersburg teenagers at irregular intervals and sold to spammers for pennies a record.
When Microsoft get around to Freeing Windows, perhaps TrollTech will Free the Windows version of Qt?
As another poster points out, wxWindows does a lot of the Qt stuff in the WIMP arena, and I'd like to add that systems like libSDL pretty much cover the unWIMPy, less structured stuff anyway. Having a spectrum of alternatives is good, and since the smallest disk I can buy these days without going out of my way is 40GB, I don't have a problem with installing a dozen or so sets of libraries.
See you in a couple of weekends, I'll be over there for 7th & 8th Dec. I can bring samples of new limestone formed in the last few decades, if you like. (-:
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"After it passes, there will be a rain of soot and CO2"? (-:
Have to join the chorus here, though: nothing significantly innovative in this idea at all.
...in which you had to say "Shhh!" at the doors to get them to open or close.
//e (rattle of drive heads smacking into the stops 39 times and all) as one of their computer-is-doing-things noises.
Or Saturn III, in which they used a booting Apple
...people who write operating systems, databases and office suites just because they can. "I'm writing it so I can use it myself" sounds pretty lame after three years...
Well... cowshit.
And I don't know about "for people to eat", even in the case of eating the cow instead of eating what it turns the grass into. You are made of meat: why not slice yourself up, pack yourself onto a styrene tray and toddle down to the local supermarket?
Mercury should prove (or else support) his reasoning. We may get some answers there as early as October 2007.
Mate of mine must be immortal, then. (-:
He visited his doc because he felt a bit under the weather, and was told "Well, you had gonnorhea..." - his body had already flushed the disease, and the symptoms were it recovering from the effort.
Here's an article on Earth's magnetic field which appears to say different stuff to the link referenced above. "Dr. Humphreys is an ICR Adjunct Professor of Physics and a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquergue, New Mexico. The Laboratories have not supported this work."
Here's a (linked) article celebrating his straight-over-home-plate predictions about other planetary magnetic fields from when Voyager II validated his predictions. The Sandia footnote has this interesting appendix: "and they neither affirm nor deny its scientific validity.".
It's not linked above, but here's the CRSQ article which led to all of the fuss. The next Mercury flyby that measures magnetic fields should be interesting.
I'm fairly sure none of this includes direct mention of the Earth's core fields, so either the article I have in mind wasn't written by Humphries or I've missed it somewhere along the line.
Have a careful look at what the WB intervention has really cost Uganda, tinfoil hat or no.
I use an AOpen O-35G total-of-five-buttons-including-one-on-a-scroll-wh eel optical mouse. The two scroll-wheels are both fairly broad and positive, but only one of them is clickable. I saw this as a shortcoming when I first bought it (wanted an extra button), but IRL I use the second wheel for scrolling and the first as a button. That way, I don't risk "nervous finger", a disease occasioned by using Microsoft scroll-wheel mice that treat the gentlest caress of the wheel as a click. The AOpen mouse is also lighter than most other mice (except for frail/unreliable brands like Dexxa), which makes it less wearing to use, and more manageable for kids.
Specifically for children, I use and recommend a matchbox-sized optical scroll wheel mouse I get from Big W's stationery department. It is labelled "GO TECH COMPUTERWARE | Keycode: 439 2347 | Model: IA20074B | N433 | Made in China". The red LED in it is easy to change for another colour. The LED's frequency/spectrum doesn't seem to matter, as long as it is high efficiency.
...and that the only system which has ever been seriously effective against AIDS in Africa is Christian-sponsored abstinence campaigns (which Atheist organisations decry and actively undermine; apparently it is better in their eyes to die slowly and painfully than to hold Christian beliefs), that statement is suddenly no longer funny, and no longer a troll.
Lest you think to idly mod this into the ground, bear in mind that what we're talking about here is real people catching a real disease and really dying horribly by the millions. This is not a game, this is not a joke, this is not armchair-discussion fodder, this is real life. There are over four million new cases of AIDS every year in Africa, and that number is not going down. I live in Western Australia, a state with a population of around two million people, which makes this the equivalent of everyone in my entire state dying, twice a year.
Compared with that, how prominent a need is access to porn and spam? So yes, go right ahead and check that your buddy's not gay, and not Atheist, because they're the two greatest threats to life in Africa and you don't want to make him your exemplar - the person others turn to for advice - if he's either.
I have a number of friends in Australia who are gay, and one in particular who has extensive contacts in the USA (which has less than 1% of Africa's AIDS problem) and something like ten percent of his many gay friends there have died of AIDS already. This gives you a pretty good idea of how closely AIDS is tied to homosexuality in real life.
Yes, the Scouts have both Catholic and Masonic ties, and yes, both organisations have their own agendas which have very little to do with the welfare of their members, even less to do with the welfare of mankind in general, and in point of fact even less to do with Christianity as such, but the Scouts as they are generally have an extremely positive impact on society, and these two features which you have chosen to isolate (and yes, I do appreciate the funny side of it) are essential to that positive impact.
Now if you want a serious rant... (-:
Linux's Hypocrisy Buffer probably overflowed, so it automatically deinstalled. Either that, or the kernel panicked and left the building.
Watch for D'ohl and co to explain that they had to replace their Linux server with UnixWare 'coz "Linux couldn't take the heat". Whackers.
But that makes MS-Windows a programming language! All you have to do is write, and sooner or later it will go into an infinite loop. Strictly speaking, the "write" part is optional there.
Ha, ha, very funny! <g/d/r>
Phrrk, phrrk, is this thing on?
It would have been much simpler and politer to say (onymously) "I don't like the GPL" rather than going through the whole petulant deliberate-ignorance act. On a non-technical blog you might have some hope of coming across as justifiably confused and indignant but here you're just lame and it shows.
Have fun grinding your axe on your own time.
OpenOffice.org Writer in HTML mode. WYSIWYG, much better HTML than word, and click on the @ in the toolbar to see/hand-edit the HTML as you go. And runs on other than MS-Windows, and can be legitimately taken home (or to school) and installed there.
True, but it can be Freed, which is what I wrote.
...has a long and chequered history of selling your info off... and what they don't sell off deliberately gets vamped by bored St Petersburg teenagers at irregular intervals and sold to spammers for pennies a record.
When Microsoft get around to Freeing Windows, perhaps TrollTech will Free the Windows version of Qt?
As another poster points out, wxWindows does a lot of the Qt stuff in the WIMP arena, and I'd like to add that systems like libSDL pretty much cover the unWIMPy, less structured stuff anyway. Having a spectrum of alternatives is good, and since the smallest disk I can buy these days without going out of my way is 40GB, I don't have a problem with installing a dozen or so sets of libraries.
Spoilsport, but correct. (-:
Your fault for not having moved up in the world. (-:
Vidi, vici, veni - Alexander the Great (read that carefully).
More importantly, I'd like to take the opportunity to add "One Virus" to the Microsoft ad, together with the rejoinder, "and they're all toast!"
...we get maybe a dozen frosty (crunchy-lawn) days a year, on average, here at the bottom of the dent on the left edge of Oz.
See you in a couple of weekends, I'll be over there for 7th & 8th Dec. I can bring samples of new limestone formed in the last few decades, if you like. (-:
...pointless comments are acceptable. (-: