And note that the fact that the Black Plague was actually the bubonic pest is not yet confirmed, we can't thus be sure if there may have been people infected with the plague while being asymptomatic.
Very good point. And sum to it that people had a very good reason to do that as many laborers mved from place to place for the harvests.
Here in Central Europe young men used to travel long distances during their time of apprenticeship in the different guilds, this tradition is still held in Germany (Wanderschaft). Guilds like the stonemasons travelled from Spain to Cenral Europe and you can find their guild emblems in Romanic and Gothic buildings across the whole continent. Some may even have been in Africa with the Arabs during the period of Al Andalus.
Well, rather fast. We had a network of roads, the Hanseatic societies and most importantly rivers and the sea. It took a ship a few weeks to get from here in Amsterdam to anywhere in the Baltic, and the same counts for the Mediterranean. Recall that the Italians and Catalonian had huge fleets?
And BTW, 2km is crap, in these times you would have travelled much more just from one village to another. These 2km per day make no sense at all. OK, it's maybe the mean or the average but it still makes no sense. OK, people in villages may have stayed close to home... but our smart "scientists" just forgot that in these days people had a favourite hobby that consisted in gather in huge numbers dressed in fancy metallic suites and go paying their neighbours a visit... they called in "armies" you know?
And there were fairs, and the aforementioned merchants, and comedians and pilgrims.... and this was just our dear old Europe, a little place in the backwaters of the medieval world filled with simple barbarians.
And we have to recall that Europe was jsut a very small part in the backwaters of a huge world connected mostly by sea with the Arab traders on one side, Asia and China on the other (until China closed itself later) and of course, the Mongols.
There is indeed a coordination language called Linda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_%28coordination_language%29) honouring this later incarnation of a Ms Lovelace. BTW there's a biopic too, not about the language but about this woman of remarkable oral abilities.
So, elevated levels of radiation in Tokio... hmmm. Have they already measured the levels in the water of Tokyo Bay? And what about the seismographs? Already checked these ones?
Well, I guess we all know what's coming. I would start preparing a replacement for the Tokyo Tower as we all know how fond Gojira is of crushing it every time he visit the Nippon capital.
Well, besides the fact that the whole internet is driven by Linux, the whole Big Data revolution is driven by Linux, the whole Cloud thingy is driven by Linux, almost any run-off-the-mill network enabled home storage device, almost every NAS/SAN, almost any virtual server, almost any supercomputer and Android... maybe, just maybe we will see someday Linux become a mayor operating system in some way. I[m so sad and depressed about this little unknown OS almost nobody uses.
Or maybe I have been wrong all these years and the definition of Operating System is actually "Something you run on your desktop PC and that can be used to run MS Office on it"...
Do the Red Cross think that games are like real worlds? i mean, come on mates! Do they think game programers waste their time creating tons of civilians and game unrelated NPCs just for the saake of it?
In a game, any game, you can just do what's intended to be done and little more... So, if you are playing World of Tanks you just have fucking tanks on the other side! What's the 'Mayhem' that you can create that should be penalized? Farting in the face of your buddies while playing?... Well, that would definitely cause some mayhem...
Indeed they aren't the first ones, there were already a few: On the general consumer market there was already the i'm Watch and a few others, and in the speciality sports market there are at least 2: The likr which sports on screen maps and there was another one I can't recall with a media player for joggers (hate them joggers, grrr).
just a little problem of no importance: How would the 4 year old manage to connect in the first place? Recall hat children learn to read at the age of 5 or 6.
So chances are that if you buy whatever phone you want it may end up in the kids oesophagus. An well, besides calling you need to recharge the thing from time to time, don't you?
So, you need a phone that is safe against swallowing and breaking, needs no maintenance or recharge and is able to react to barely understandable voice commands uttered by a 4 year old. Thus a phone from the future!!!
Another option is that the kid is a super-genius in which case there is no problem at all: Give him a solding iron and a 3D printer and he will design the phone of the first option himself... earn a lot of money and make his dad rich and famous... thus: Not going to happen;)
And the third option: The kid is Martian and he's actually 8 (1 mars year = 1.88 earth years). In this case any phone will do but you'll have to count with the lag... and unfortunately we poor slashdotters aren't too well informed about Martian phone brands.
Another option is that the author's keyboard wasn't working too well and he meant to write 14 instead of 4... in which case the answer is: "let the lad decide for himself, bet he knows more about phones than you do... and watch your credit card mate";)
If your theory is correct: Why isn't the Sahara full of polar bears and Weddle seals?
Why would Artic fish and animals like krill have it easier at higher temperatures?
And why do tulips not grow well in South Europe? It's warmer there than here in Holland... but the damn things doesn't seem to have understood your theory either;)
Because they feed the farm fish with fish from the oceans, that's why. They feed it with every thing that can't be commercially and they generate contamination in the seas (many such farms aren't on land but in the sea). To make matters worse, shrimp farming in Asia are being set in farm land and as these use sea water they are contaminating farm soil with salt.
It's thus not so easy.
Of course, you could farm herbivorous species and feed them from algae from a bioreactor... but I bet these have lower commercial value.
Besides the portable energy source another important thing that needs to be figured out is how to make a sword of it. A rifle is not cool at all. We need swords. And if possible before Disney churns out any Star Wars Pre-Post-Interquel so that we have something to retaliate with.
Well, I am more informed about the USA and mainland Europe. It had been a real plague here back in the 80's and 90's with people falling dead between the parking cars in the very centre of Hamburg, Amsterdam or Zurich to such extend that Switzerland legalised drugs partially...
but then it fell into disgrace as youth culture shifted towards party drugs like MDMA, which here in Holland is largely tolerated and even consumed by normal people when they go to dance events. A drug that may have somewhat similar effects to heroin is GHB, many users "cook" is at home. But it doesn't seem to be spreading too much, specially when you can get real MDMA easily or weed just around the corner in our traditional coffieshops.
In the US there is an heroine culture among the artists, models and even (from what I read) executives but it is a niche market, surely lucrative as the production has been taken over by the South American Mafia but still niche while the popular drugs are methamfetamines, coke, crack and the now semi-legal weed.
I guess that the shift in preferences is due to the fact that heroin is an isolating drug, where the user is isolated from the world while modern society is much more into socializing and there is where drugs as MDMA, speed and even weed or the common alcohol excel.
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Incubation period?
And note that the fact that the Black Plague was actually the bubonic pest is not yet confirmed, we can't thus be sure if there may have been people infected with the plague while being asymptomatic.
Tell that to Ghengis Khan.
Fuck mate, but that's only newbs until they get a decent flying mount.
Very good point.
And sum to it that people had a very good reason to do that as many laborers mved from place to place for the harvests.
Here in Central Europe young men used to travel long distances during their time of apprenticeship in the different guilds, this tradition is still held in Germany (Wanderschaft). Guilds like the stonemasons travelled from Spain to Cenral Europe and you can find their guild emblems in Romanic and Gothic buildings across the whole continent. Some may even have been in Africa with the Arabs during the period of Al Andalus.
Don't forget "the ship" another mythical contraption
Well, rather fast.
We had a network of roads, the Hanseatic societies and most importantly rivers and the sea.
It took a ship a few weeks to get from here in Amsterdam to anywhere in the Baltic, and the same counts for the Mediterranean. Recall that the Italians and Catalonian had huge fleets?
And BTW, 2km is crap, in these times you would have travelled much more just from one village to another. These 2km per day make no sense at all.
OK, it's maybe the mean or the average but it still makes no sense. OK, people in villages may have stayed close to home... but our smart "scientists" just forgot that in these days people had a favourite hobby that consisted in gather in huge numbers dressed in fancy metallic suites and go paying their neighbours a visit... they called in "armies" you know?
And there were fairs, and the aforementioned merchants, and comedians and pilgrims.... and this was just our dear old Europe, a little place in the backwaters of the medieval world filled with simple barbarians.
good point.
And we have to recall that Europe was jsut a very small part in the backwaters of a huge world connected mostly by sea with the Arab traders on one side, Asia and China on the other (until China closed itself later) and of course, the Mongols.
\m/
Srry mates, it's friday...
Well, it could have been worse, she could have been called Python or Javascript :P
There is indeed a coordination language called Linda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_%28coordination_language%29) honouring this later incarnation of a Ms Lovelace. BTW there's a biopic too, not about the language but about this woman of remarkable oral abilities.
So, elevated levels of radiation in Tokio... hmmm.
Have they already measured the levels in the water of Tokyo Bay? And what about the seismographs? Already checked these ones?
Well, I guess we all know what's coming. I would start preparing a replacement for the Tokyo Tower as we all know how fond Gojira is of crushing it every time he visit the Nippon capital.
Well, besides the fact that the whole internet is driven by Linux, the whole Big Data revolution is driven by Linux, the whole Cloud thingy is driven by Linux, almost any run-off-the-mill network enabled home storage device, almost every NAS/SAN, almost any virtual server, almost any supercomputer and Android... maybe, just maybe we will see someday Linux become a mayor operating system in some way. I[m so sad and depressed about this little unknown OS almost nobody uses.
Or maybe I have been wrong all these years and the definition of Operating System is actually "Something you run on your desktop PC and that can be used to run MS Office on it"...
The difference is that previous 3D printed engines had been made by NASA while this one has been made by students.
Sorry, I had to say it.
3th!
Bwahaaaaaa!
Do the Red Cross think that games are like real worlds?
i mean, come on mates! Do they think game programers waste their time creating tons of civilians and game unrelated NPCs just for the saake of it?
In a game, any game, you can just do what's intended to be done and little more... So, if you are playing World of Tanks you just have fucking tanks on the other side! ... Well, that would definitely cause some mayhem...
What's the 'Mayhem' that you can create that should be penalized? Farting in the face of your buddies while playing?
Indeed they aren't the first ones, there were already a few: On the general consumer market there was already the i'm Watch and a few others, and in the speciality sports market there are at least 2: The likr which sports on screen maps and there was another one I can't recall with a media player for joggers (hate them joggers, grrr).
Nice!
just a little problem of no importance: How would the 4 year old manage to connect in the first place?
Recall hat children learn to read at the age of 5 or 6.
So chances are that if you buy whatever phone you want it may end up in the kids oesophagus. An well, besides calling you need to recharge the thing from time to time, don't you?
So, you need a phone that is safe against swallowing and breaking, needs no maintenance or recharge and is able to react to barely understandable voice commands uttered by a 4 year old. Thus a phone from the future!!!
Another option is that the kid is a super-genius in which case there is no problem at all: Give him a solding iron and a 3D printer and he will design the phone of the first option himself... earn a lot of money and make his dad rich and famous... thus: Not going to happen ;)
And the third option: The kid is Martian and he's actually 8 (1 mars year = 1.88 earth years). In this case any phone will do but you'll have to count with the lag... and unfortunately we poor slashdotters aren't too well informed about Martian phone brands.
Another option is that the author's keyboard wasn't working too well and he meant to write 14 instead of 4... in which case the answer is: "let the lad decide for himself, bet he knows more about phones than you do... and watch your credit card mate" ;)
Why?
By what means?
Why if I may ask?
If your theory is correct: Why isn't the Sahara full of polar bears and Weddle seals?
Why would Artic fish and animals like krill have it easier at higher temperatures?
And why do tulips not grow well in South Europe? It's warmer there than here in Holland... but the damn things doesn't seem to have understood your theory either ;)
Because they feed the farm fish with fish from the oceans, that's why.
They feed it with every thing that can't be commercially and they generate contamination in the seas (many such farms aren't on land but in the sea).
To make matters worse, shrimp farming in Asia are being set in farm land and as these use sea water they are contaminating farm soil with salt.
It's thus not so easy.
Of course, you could farm herbivorous species and feed them from algae from a bioreactor... but I bet these have lower commercial value.
Marauding martians molest minors
Damn you! I ended up wasting an hour watching youtube!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si3WRRXVw0Y
How barbaric these times were. Nothing compared to our modern sophistication:
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE
LOLCODE RLZ !!!
Besides the portable energy source another important thing that needs to be figured out is how to make a sword of it. A rifle is not cool at all. We need swords.
And if possible before Disney churns out any Star Wars Pre-Post-Interquel so that we have something to retaliate with.
Well, I am more informed about the USA and mainland Europe.
It had been a real plague here back in the 80's and 90's with people falling dead between the parking cars in the very centre of Hamburg, Amsterdam or Zurich to such extend that Switzerland legalised drugs partially...
but then it fell into disgrace as youth culture shifted towards party drugs like MDMA, which here in Holland is largely tolerated and even consumed by normal people when they go to dance events. A drug that may have somewhat similar effects to heroin is GHB, many users "cook" is at home. But it doesn't seem to be spreading too much, specially when you can get real MDMA easily or weed just around the corner in our traditional coffieshops.
In the US there is an heroine culture among the artists, models and even (from what I read) executives but it is a niche market, surely lucrative as the production has been taken over by the South American Mafia but still niche while the popular drugs are methamfetamines, coke, crack and the now semi-legal weed.
I guess that the shift in preferences is due to the fact that heroin is an isolating drug, where the user is isolated from the world while modern society is much more into socializing and there is where drugs as MDMA, speed and even weed or the common alcohol excel.