The SEC has been investigating "about 80" companies for this since July. Apple started their own internal investigation, which they're sharing with the SEC. Oh, and it's former employees who are being looked at. Oh, and maybe backdating isn't illegal, it just should be declared.
If a planet has an atmosphere, it's possible that life on that planet will cause it to be in a non-equilibrium state (chemically speaking). This is something that would not be too hard to detect from earth (i.e. lots of oxygen in an atmosphere won't last long w/out life). Our efforts should therefore be focussed on what we can, in principle, detect.
This is the thinking that led James Lovelock to formulate his Gaia Hypothesis. His basic premise is that you can discover life on a planet without going there simply by looking at the composition of the atmosphere.
From the Wikipedia article:
Since life started on Earth, the energy provided by the Sun has increased by 25% to 30%; however the surface temperature of the planet has remained remarkably constant when measured on a global scale. Furthermore, he argued, the atmospheric composition of the Earth is constant. The Earth's atmosphere currently consists of 79% nitrogen, 20.7% oxygen and 0.03% carbon dioxide. Oxygen is the second most reactive element after fluorine, and should combine with gases and minerals of the Earth's atomosphere and crust. Traces of methane (at an amount of 100,000 tonnes produced per annum), should not exist, as methane is combustible in an oxygen atmosphere. This composition should be unstable, and its stability can only have been maintained with removal or production by living organisms.
Blockbuster doesn't carry pr0n, neither does Wal-Mart. Besides, your neighbors are at Wal-Mart.
I think TV series are in the position that VHS movies were 15 years ago. Back then, movies cost 80$ US, and nobody bought them. When the price came down to the 20$ range, they started to sell. I think many people feel the same about TV series. At 80$ a season, they're not going to sell. I mean, after all it's just a TV show. If the prices came down to the 30$ range, I bet more people would buy them because they're major fans, or to watch the two episodes they missed.
"Too busy" isn't an "excuse", it's the "truth". You and your guys are understaffed and overworked, running around like chickens with your heads cut off. Anything that decreases your productivity or slows you down is doomed to failure. Time sheets (whatever you call them) are a perfect example. "What did I do today?" Errrmm. "How about yesterday?" Ahhhh. "Last Tuesday?" Not a clue.
Hand out digital voice recorders to facilitate "taking notes". You can use them as you're dashing from one fire to the next. Give each guy two or three hours a week phone free, where the other two cover for him, and he can transcribe what he's been up to. Just enforce that. "Dave, you got nothing to do but write up your notes on Tuesdays after 2:00; but at 5:00, I expect to see what you've written up."
I've used casette recorders for many years doing big HP-UX/Solaris installs/upgrades. They don't slow you down at the time, but they help you remember for next time.
If by "robot" you mean "automaton", then you are correct, they wouldn't be able to ask for anything. However, if by "robot" you mean "an AI" (which is what TFA is talking about), then you have to postulate a self-aware entity, probably with more than a little evolutionary content, possibly (quasi) self-replicating. Since trying to survive is, by definition, a survival trait, it's safe to say that AIs would be interested in self-preservation.
The "Powered Exoskeleton: The real bionic man" entry brought to you by none other than Robert A. Heinlein, the inventor of the Waldo, the waterbed and I don't know what else...
The main thing that was missing from Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers was the powered exoskeletons, courtesy R.A.H., circa 1959. Not that I didn't adore the "Doogie Howser, S.S.", "Klendathu 90210" aspects of the film, but the only really good example of the notion we've had in film is Ripley's "Get away from her, you bitch!" from Aliens.
LOL - too funny - you owe me a keyboard.
How long ago did you glark how funny "WABAC" is/was? I only caught it a few years ago when we had a R&B film festival when the DVD came out.
> Nintendo can't control users throwing the wiimote with enough force to break a strap designed to keep you from inadvertently dropping the thing.
Nintendo produces games like bowling and baseball where people are making throwing motions with the (motion sensing) remote. Are they really amazed that it could slip from a person's hand and go flying?
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Yeah. Here's another.
Actually, birdseed came before the chicken OR the egg ;)
I thought The Devil Wears Prada.
It's September on USENET all over again.
Just be careful you don't shoot your eye out.
Gaaaaaa. Having seizure... Musn't swallow tongue...
The SEC has been investigating "about 80" companies for this since July. Apple started their own internal investigation, which they're sharing with the SEC. Oh, and it's former employees who are being looked at. Oh, and maybe backdating isn't illegal, it just should be declared.
Take a look here or here.
This is the thinking that led James Lovelock to formulate his Gaia Hypothesis. His basic premise is that you can discover life on a planet without going there simply by looking at the composition of the atmosphere.
From the Wikipedia article:
Blockbuster doesn't carry pr0n, neither does Wal-Mart. Besides, your neighbors are at Wal-Mart.
I think TV series are in the position that VHS movies were 15 years ago. Back then, movies cost 80$ US, and nobody bought them. When the price came down to the 20$ range, they started to sell. I think many people feel the same about TV series. At 80$ a season, they're not going to sell. I mean, after all it's just a TV show. If the prices came down to the 30$ range, I bet more people would buy them because they're major fans, or to watch the two episodes they missed.
They shouldn't bother looking for any Pluto-sized planets - there aren't any.
Ford was also the last surviving member of the Warren Commission.
Ford was never Speaker of the House. He was the Minority Leader from 1965 to 1973.
"Too busy" isn't an "excuse", it's the "truth". You and your guys are understaffed and overworked, running around like chickens with your heads cut off. Anything that decreases your productivity or slows you down is doomed to failure. Time sheets (whatever you call them) are a perfect example. "What did I do today?" Errrmm. "How about yesterday?" Ahhhh. "Last Tuesday?" Not a clue.
Hand out digital voice recorders to facilitate "taking notes". You can use them as you're dashing from one fire to the next. Give each guy two or three hours a week phone free, where the other two cover for him, and he can transcribe what he's been up to. Just enforce that. "Dave, you got nothing to do but write up your notes on Tuesdays after 2:00; but at 5:00, I expect to see what you've written up."
I've used casette recorders for many years doing big HP-UX/Solaris installs/upgrades. They don't slow you down at the time, but they help you remember for next time.
Working the Suse helldesk for Microsoft...
<full body shudder>
I'd feel like I'd been shot down behind enemy lines. Or maybe more like a galley slave.
If by "robot" you mean "automaton", then you are correct, they wouldn't be able to ask for anything. However, if by "robot" you mean "an AI" (which is what TFA is talking about), then you have to postulate a self-aware entity, probably with more than a little evolutionary content, possibly (quasi) self-replicating. Since trying to survive is, by definition, a survival trait, it's safe to say that AIs would be interested in self-preservation.
eBay always sides with the seller, when they can be bothered to look into anything at all, because the sellers are who eBay makes their money from.
Yes. And Microsoft's record in following consent decrees and contracts with others (Sun) is inviolate.
The "Powered Exoskeleton: The real bionic man" entry brought to you by none other than Robert A. Heinlein, the inventor of the Waldo, the waterbed and I don't know what else...
The main thing that was missing from Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers was the powered exoskeletons, courtesy R.A.H., circa 1959. Not that I didn't adore the "Doogie Howser, S.S.", "Klendathu 90210" aspects of the film, but the only really good example of the notion we've had in film is Ripley's "Get away from her, you bitch!" from Aliens.
LOL - too funny - you owe me a keyboard.
How long ago did you glark how funny "WABAC" is/was? I only caught it a few years ago when we had a R&B film festival when the DVD came out.
Schrodinger's cat is NOT hypothetical. He exists... probably
Where's Mr. Peabody?
"Sherman, fire up the wayback machine..."
A guy is on an elevator alone.
A beautiful girl gets on.
He says "Hey, can I smell your pussy?"
She says "NO!".
He says "Oh, must be your breath."
> Nintendo can't control users throwing the wiimote with enough force to break a strap designed to keep you from inadvertently dropping the thing.
Nintendo produces games like bowling and baseball where people are making throwing motions with the (motion sensing) remote. Are they really amazed that it could slip from a person's hand and go flying?
That's BigbooTAY!
Erm, no. The sticker on your power supply shows the PEAK wattage available, not the actual current draw, which is undoubtedly much less.