Be nice to the kid damn it!! When you're in college you don't have the work experience to know what the hell you can do with the rest of your life. All you can go on is what other people tell you. Add to that the pressure of all the adults in your life telling you that if you fuck up in college your going to die miserable and lonely. It's not until after you go out and work a while that you realize that college is really just a form of hazing you have to go through to get access to better paying jobs.
Once I ordered a case from newegg. It looked good, it was cheap, and it looked like it could keep a Mexican woman cool after you just told her that her age old family recipe for mole was crappy (Not mole as in the animal. It's pronounced mol-ay, like the last part of guacamole). It arrived in the mail. I opened it up, and before I could put a power supply in it, the bastard blew up!!!
If by Windows/Linux debate you mean one side is horribly incompetant and shouldn't have to do with anything regarding the debate, while the other gets marginalized because the other side shouts the loudest than you are correct.
Linguists, with surprisingly few exceptions all agree that language is an innate property of the mind. The only people who debate this claim are those post-modernist thugs who don't want to believe that there is any innate property of the mind, and therefore no universals to the human experience. Needless to say, the denialists live in sociology, anthropology and literature departments and prat all day about Noam Chomsky (the father of modern linguistics, and the person who made the argument that language is innate clear enough to be taken seriously) having never read a single word by him.
I myself am a linguist, and one thing that I've realized is that EVERYBODY thinks that they are experts on language, no matter how prejudicial and ignorant they are about language. So if you have never taken a linguistics course please read the Language Instinct by Steven Pinker before you pretend to know something about language.
By the way, all that you learned was "good grammar" in public school is horseshit, "proper" grammer was invented by a couple of guys who wrote grammar books for the rich so that they could sound better than the poor. For a history of how this came about go here.
...a Freespire might be just the ticket for folks who are just not ready for Ubuntu/Kubuntu yet.
Who are these people? I would like to meet one of them. I love Ubuntu and it's my distro of choice, but let's face it: it's almost the fisher price "my first distro" of distros. The only reason why someone wouldn't be ready for it is b/c the name "linux" attached to it scares them.
Memory is just storage, like your hard-drive, it can only do 3 things: encode, store, and retrieve. Without a discrete mechanism for choice, we would be like R2 units with bad motivators.
You could do what they did with the server room at my old job: buy the noisiest airconditioning system you can find to cool the room down. I could barely hear the servers beeping at me to tell me I messed up the raid configuration.
It would be an interesting study to see how related the different animals of each species are there. If they went through a bottle kneck (or any other founder effect for that matter) it wouldn't be too hard then to isolate the genes for tolerance to radioactivity.
I highly doubt that many of the animals living in that area today are descendants of the animals that lived there right after it kerploaded. What seems most likely to me is that the animals there today are decendants from the ones around the area that were mildly affected if at all. When all the life around the epicenter died it left new land for colonization from the life around it. At first I'm sure lots of animals tried to colonize it but died off while the radiation levels were too high. But as the levels dropped the most radiation tolerant individuals left offspring there and that's what we see today. This would be hard to test (especially since the mutation rates of the animals in the radioactive areas would make it hard to determine kinship with animals in the surrounding areas), but I really can't see any other way for it to work.
Form the article: Chakrabarty said the debris disk most likely formed from metal-rich material that failed to escape the supernova. The disk resembled that seen around sun-like stars, leading researchers to conclude it might spawn a new planetary system.
Radiometric dating points to the earth's inception being ~4.6 billion years ago.
I want to know if the U238 that exists today was created as a result of the supernova that blew apart the solar system that provided all the matter for this one.
All the U238 that we've found in this solar system so far points to our entire system being ~4.6 billion years.
If the U238 was in fact created by this supernova, then we can't say that the earth as a planet is ~4.6 billion years old.
I really hope no creationists read this, I don't mean to give them any fodder.
I swear if anyone one makes the obligatory "I for one welcome our new robotic beer fetching overlords" joke I'll mod'em down. I don't know how that joke still gets mod points. I love the Simpsons too, but chill people, I don't know how many times I've read that joke today.
Vonage should be flooding New Orleans (pun intended) with advertising! Imagine having free internet PLUS vonage! My monthly bills would go down considerably.
It couldn't be like you describe. All the roaches gather outside the houses and feel around at eachother for a while and then divide and go into the 2 different houses. This requires communication and desicion making. It would be a completely different story if they all tried to cram into one house, and then the ones who couln't fit tried to cram into the other. But that's not what seems to be happening here.
One of the things that this suggests to me is that roaches have good spatial reasoning. If they can make the decision to break up into 2 groups before trying to cram everybody into one of the houses, then they must be able to judge spatial relationships quite well. How many humans can look at a room and say "you could fit 25 humans into that room"?
You know here in Mississippi where I live, atoms work a different way. Our air doesn't divide itself equally, instead all the oxygen atoms move to the nicer box while forcing the more numerous nitrogen atoms to stuff themselves intto the broken down old box. But you know, every atom's happy with this arrangement, they don't know no better.
This is new to our understanding of roaches, but the article doesn't realy go in to what's amazing about this.
Ants are pretty well understood, an ant colony is an aggregated indirect fitness machine. Since all the female offspring of the queen
are related to eachother by 3/4 (why? because they're way cool!!), and the worker caste is sterile, they promote the
fitness of their sisters who will become queens themselves and leave the colony, reproduce, and therefore replicate their sister's genes. This genetic system is called
haplodiploidy. Roaches on the other hand,
are diploids like you and I. The genetic incentive for the cooperation that we see in ants is just not there in roaches.
Instead, what the roaches are doing is more similar to reciprocal altruism.
from the article:
After much "consultation," through antenna probing, touching and more, the cockroaches divided themselves up perfectly within the shelters. For example, if 50 insects were placed in a dish with three shelters, each with a capacity for 40 bugs, 25 roaches huddled together in the first shelter, 25 gathered in the second shelter, and the third was left vacant.
A completely selfish roach would say "screw you, I'm not going to that other house, I want to stay where everybody else is!".
But because other roaches are willing to go to the second house so is any extraordinarily selfish roach. So this is an evolutionarily stable strategy.
This challenges how smart we think roaches are. They are truly making decisions. It's not that some of the roaches are genetically predisposed to being
the roach who decides not to stay with everyone else while other's lack that genetic predisposition. If this were the case the numbers of each group when they divide
would never be even.
Math is just something you really can't escape in technology nowadays. Don't sell yourself short when it comes to math. Even if you end up hating it you can always tell yourself that at least you understand that it really isn't your thing and you can go from there. I don't know how much math you've currently taken but I would say give it a while.
If you find you really hate it, and can't tolerate it being apart of what you do everyday than I would suggest journalism. I'm currently considering getting into science writing. You could be a tech reporter.
The biggest roadblock to adoption of linux isn't sandles and ponytails, it's soap and deoderant!! You can get away with long hair and sandals, just as long as you don't smell. I know that's what's keeping me from leaving my house right now.
That's nothing! My unborn son can tap out on his mothers womb in morse code the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy from rote in Elvish (both kinds!). Now he's learning semaphore!
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Be nice to the kid damn it!! When you're in college you don't have the work experience to know what the hell you can do with the rest of your life. All you can go on is what other people tell you. Add to that the pressure of all the adults in your life telling you that if you fuck up in college your going to die miserable and lonely. It's not until after you go out and work a while that you realize that college is really just a form of hazing you have to go through to get access to better paying jobs.
Once I ordered a case from newegg. It looked good, it was cheap, and it looked like it could keep a Mexican woman cool after you just told her that her age old family recipe for mole was crappy (Not mole as in the animal. It's pronounced mol-ay, like the last part of guacamole). It arrived in the mail. I opened it up, and before I could put a power supply in it, the bastard blew up!!!
If by Windows/Linux debate you mean one side is horribly incompetant and shouldn't have to do with anything regarding the debate, while the other gets marginalized because the other side shouts the loudest than you are correct.
Linguists, with surprisingly few exceptions all agree that language is an innate property of the mind. The only people who debate this claim are those post-modernist thugs who don't want to believe that there is any innate property of the mind, and therefore no universals to the human experience. Needless to say, the denialists live in sociology, anthropology and literature departments and prat all day about Noam Chomsky (the father of modern linguistics, and the person who made the argument that language is innate clear enough to be taken seriously) having never read a single word by him.
I myself am a linguist, and one thing that I've realized is that EVERYBODY thinks that they are experts on language, no matter how prejudicial and ignorant they are about language. So if you have never taken a linguistics course please read the Language Instinct by Steven Pinker before you pretend to know something about language.
By the way, all that you learned was "good grammar" in public school is horseshit, "proper" grammer was invented by a couple of guys who wrote grammar books for the rich so that they could sound better than the poor. For a history of how this came about go here.
You completely forgot:
stanz:"Everything was just fine until dickless here shot off the reactor grid!"
mayor:"Is this true?"
venkman:"Yes your honor, this man has no dick."
...a Freespire might be just the ticket for folks who are just not ready for Ubuntu/Kubuntu yet.
Who are these people? I would like to meet one of them. I love Ubuntu and it's my distro of choice, but let's face it: it's almost the fisher price "my first distro" of distros. The only reason why someone wouldn't be ready for it is b/c the name "linux" attached to it scares them.
Memory is just storage, like your hard-drive, it can only do 3 things: encode, store, and retrieve. Without a discrete mechanism for choice, we would be like R2 units with bad motivators.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00068E5HU/104-52 65533-6461558?v=glance&n=3760901
She's says their the most leek proof for her.
You could do what they did with the server room at my old job: buy the noisiest airconditioning system you can find to cool the room down. I could barely hear the servers beeping at me to tell me I messed up the raid configuration.
It would be an interesting study to see how related the different animals of each species are there. If they went through a bottle kneck (or any other founder effect for that matter) it wouldn't be too hard then to isolate the genes for tolerance to radioactivity.
This is obligatory, and therefore said in a monotone voice: I for one welcome our new radioactive bear overlords.
I highly doubt that many of the animals living in that area today are descendants of the animals that lived there right after it kerploaded. What seems most likely to me is that the animals there today are decendants from the ones around the area that were mildly affected if at all. When all the life around the epicenter died it left new land for colonization from the life around it. At first I'm sure lots of animals tried to colonize it but died off while the radiation levels were too high. But as the levels dropped the most radiation tolerant individuals left offspring there and that's what we see today. This would be hard to test (especially since the mutation rates of the animals in the radioactive areas would make it hard to determine kinship with animals in the surrounding areas), but I really can't see any other way for it to work.
Does it seem odd to anyone else how our identities are wrapped up in which OS we use?
Cygwin, I really can't do without it. I hate windows command line with a passion.
Does it scare anyone else that the French keep trying to prove that at least one planet in our solar system is made of cheese?
Form the article:
Chakrabarty said the debris disk most likely formed from metal-rich material that failed to escape the supernova. The disk resembled that seen around sun-like stars, leading researchers to conclude it might spawn a new planetary system.
Radiometric dating points to the earth's inception being ~4.6 billion years ago. I want to know if the U238 that exists today was created as a result of the supernova that blew apart the solar system that provided all the matter for this one. All the U238 that we've found in this solar system so far points to our entire system being ~4.6 billion years. If the U238 was in fact created by this supernova, then we can't say that the earth as a planet is ~4.6 billion years old.
I really hope no creationists read this, I don't mean to give them any fodder.
I swear if anyone one makes the obligatory "I for one welcome our new robotic beer fetching overlords" joke I'll mod'em down. I don't know how that joke still gets mod points. I love the Simpsons too, but chill people, I don't know how many times I've read that joke today.
Vonage should be flooding New Orleans (pun intended) with advertising! Imagine having free internet PLUS vonage! My monthly bills would go down considerably.
It couldn't be like you describe. All the roaches gather outside the houses and feel around at eachother for a while and then divide and go into the 2 different houses. This requires communication and desicion making. It would be a completely different story if they all tried to cram into one house, and then the ones who couln't fit tried to cram into the other. But that's not what seems to be happening here.
One of the things that this suggests to me is that roaches have good spatial reasoning. If they can make the decision to break up into 2 groups before trying to cram everybody into one of the houses, then they must be able to judge spatial relationships quite well. How many humans can look at a room and say "you could fit 25 humans into that room"?
You know here in Mississippi where I live, atoms work a different way. Our air doesn't divide itself equally, instead all the oxygen atoms move to the nicer box while forcing the more numerous nitrogen atoms to stuff themselves intto the broken down old box. But you know, every atom's happy with this arrangement, they don't know no better.
This is new to our understanding of roaches, but the article doesn't realy go in to what's amazing about this. Ants are pretty well understood, an ant colony is an aggregated indirect fitness machine. Since all the female offspring of the queen are related to eachother by 3/4 (why? because they're way cool!!), and the worker caste is sterile, they promote the fitness of their sisters who will become queens themselves and leave the colony, reproduce, and therefore replicate their sister's genes. This genetic system is called haplodiploidy. Roaches on the other hand, are diploids like you and I. The genetic incentive for the cooperation that we see in ants is just not there in roaches. Instead, what the roaches are doing is more similar to reciprocal altruism.
from the article: After much "consultation," through antenna probing, touching and more, the cockroaches divided themselves up perfectly within the shelters. For example, if 50 insects were placed in a dish with three shelters, each with a capacity for 40 bugs, 25 roaches huddled together in the first shelter, 25 gathered in the second shelter, and the third was left vacant.
A completely selfish roach would say "screw you, I'm not going to that other house, I want to stay where everybody else is!". But because other roaches are willing to go to the second house so is any extraordinarily selfish roach. So this is an evolutionarily stable strategy. This challenges how smart we think roaches are. They are truly making decisions. It's not that some of the roaches are genetically predisposed to being the roach who decides not to stay with everyone else while other's lack that genetic predisposition. If this were the case the numbers of each group when they divide would never be even.
...you pay tons of money to get a piece of paper that lets you join a club.
Higher education is just another form of hazing. You say that you've read the assignment, (the teacher) says "Fuck you, prove it!". --David Mamet
Math is just something you really can't escape in technology nowadays. Don't sell yourself short when it comes to math. Even if you end up hating it you can always tell yourself that at least you understand that it really isn't your thing and you can go from there. I don't know how much math you've currently taken but I would say give it a while.
If you find you really hate it, and can't tolerate it being apart of what you do everyday than I would suggest journalism. I'm currently considering getting into science writing. You could be a tech reporter.
The biggest roadblock to adoption of linux isn't sandles and ponytails, it's soap and deoderant!! You can get away with long hair and sandals, just as long as you don't smell. I know that's what's keeping me from leaving my house right now.
This would be funnier if in real life this wouldn't make Linus Torvald's so happy!
That's nothing! My unborn son can tap out on his mothers womb in morse code the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy from rote in Elvish (both kinds!). Now he's learning semaphore!