This isn't necessarily true. I had a similar conversation with my dentist. He had one client who was a religious floss we and brusher, they have terrible teeth. Multiple root canals, at least 12 fillings. Then there's me. I rarely floss unless I can tell something is stuck, then I do to get it out. The strength of your teeth is mainly genetic and environment. Sadly my son has his mother's teeth and already has problems.
I understand the desire to maximize profits, I really do. The theater experience is terrible. $30+ dollars to get in the door for three people, another $30-40 on garbage snacks, if your lucky they have real butter, otherwise it's butter flavored product. Wedged next to people who sense of courtesy stops that sneezing on you. They won't shut up all film. Some kid kicking the back of the seat randomly. Uncomfortable chairs terrible angles if the theater happens to be full. People getting up mid way and walking Iin front of you.
No thanks. I'd rather stay home, make fresh popcorn with real butter, maybe enjoy a reasonably priced beer, on my couch. Sure the screen isn't 900 inches across. I'll sit closer.
Sanctity of theater experience my ass.
Good luck quitting a modern antidepressant cold turkey. They are as addictive as anything else you take. People experience massive withdrawls and other symptoms if they've been on them any length of time.
Judgement can easily be spoofed or jammed. That's a common tactic for magic tricks. What you think should happen doesnt. You can learn to respond counter intuitively to what you see but you can, and will be fooled, even if you know it's a trick.
Entrapment is when they coerce you into doing something you wouldn't do normally, through prompting or other means. It requires you to prove you had no intention to do the action.
If they run the site, and you download from it, without being guided, or groomed to do it, it shows you already had the intent to do it.
God forbid people have a sense of humor, or find joy in little things that you think are pointless.
Just because you don't think it's worthwhile doesn't mean others don't enjoy it.
Actually, current trends disagree with you. Jobs that are easily automated are even easier to monitor. I know SMT companies are designing systems that perform on the fly adjustment of parameters for machines multiple levels upstream from the end result in order to drift a process back into alignment.
Slight change in humidty causes problems with the wave solder joint? The vision system picks up the change and communicates it to the central controller. Information is relayed and the line adjusts one of many parameters and tracks the results to see what happened.
I would argue the other way. Computer programmers are a dime a dozen these days. Why flood the market with more. You could just as easily lose a good chef as a good programmer. The upside is food service will never go away, unless people cook all their own meals, at home.
Never skimp on a power supply. It is the single most important component that can affect the life of your system because it touches every internal component.
A cheap supply will cause immense, random headaches, and can easily fry components. Poor 12v regulation? There goes a harddrive, or random drive errors. Cheap caps? Might blow or not sufficiently filter and stabilize the incoming power. Poor line filtering....
The list goes on.
Decimate us, huh? Thank goodness! You see, Decimate literally means "to reduce by ten percent", or "to kill one of every ten". If an alien asteroid attack on Earth is only going to kill one in ten, I'll take my chances.
Had you said we'd be annihilated, which means "to destroy completely", then I'd be scared.
Dictionary Definition
Main Entry: decimate
Pronunciation: \de-s-mt\
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): decimated; decimating
Etymology: Latin decimatus, past participle of decimare, from decimus tenth, from decem ten
Date: 1660
1 : to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
2 : to exact a tax of 10 percent from
3 a : to reduce drastically especially in number b : to cause great destruction or harm to
You are correct and pedantic. The use of decimate that he chose was correct.
The use would be the unethical portion and science because there is no guarantee that what results from the sperm-egg coupling using one of this would be a viable, working person. Religious and moral beliefs aside I think this is a great thing. It may not now help us understand how our bodies work but it may lead to it in the future. I'm a firm believer that cloning has a huge potential in the long term for helping out humanity as a race.
.I have never read such utter drivel in all my life. There was a problem with the code and a researcher got trapped - this doesn't mean the robot is lovesick, it means their OH&S has a serious problem.
Perhaps you should read closer. The robot was designed to be some facsimile of human emotion. It was designed to form attachments and bonds along the lines of love. Sure it was a programming error but it acted in a fairly human manner in my opinion.
We are getting closer and closer to that line where robots abilities to emulate emotions are getting a bit blurry when compared to ours.
I've seen many older rotaries go past 150k, better than most american cars of that time. The reason most people have problems with rotaries is they don't know how to take care of them. I've seen at least one rotary to go over 300k or 500k km, though I can't remmeber off hand which one it was.
The rotaries are far from efficient. In fact, the rotary is probably the least fuel efficient engine on the market for a couple of reasons.
1.) Compression ratios are typically lower than equivalent piston engines.
2.) Exhaust/intake overlap - It's not at all uncommon for a small amount of exhaust to get pulled in with the intake becauseo the shape of the pistons and chambers with a lack of valves.
Nothing about a rotary is efficient when it comes to fuel usage. The reason rotaries were banned from racing was because a rotary engine with 1/2 the displacement of a piston engine could produce equal or more than the power of it's piston counterpart. You see alot of the rotary crowd building 3-rotor, 2.6 liter displacement engines putting out a reliable 750+ horsepower. The 2nd gen 1.3 liter could be modified to over 500 horsepower. At those power levels though you're looking at milage under 9mpg and 6mpg for the 3 rotors.
My 1985 RX-7, with it's smalle 1.2 liter engine gets 12 mpg city driving, and 18-20 highway and that's when I baby it and don't put the pedal down. Stock engine, no modifications, 100hp roughly. I've considered swapping to a v8 with a different transmission just to get better milage with it.
Yeap. If the "Terri Schiavo...." had read the article, he'd have found they specifically mention her and how this case is vastly different from her persistent vegatative state. This person, while considered by us to be vegatative, was grunting minimal replies, moving with some consciouse effort.
..Daikatana? The game took an overly long period of development, was hyped over and over again, and when it finally hit the market it flopped like a killer whale doing tricks for the crowd. Unless they've made some fantastic engine developments, kept them hidden this long, the game is going to look just plain outdated when it hits the market new. It's going to need one hell of a replay factor to stand a chance.
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I'm tired of hearing shut about Obama also. They need to shut up too.
This isn't necessarily true. I had a similar conversation with my dentist. He had one client who was a religious floss we and brusher, they have terrible teeth. Multiple root canals, at least 12 fillings. Then there's me. I rarely floss unless I can tell something is stuck, then I do to get it out. The strength of your teeth is mainly genetic and environment. Sadly my son has his mother's teeth and already has problems.
I understand the desire to maximize profits, I really do. The theater experience is terrible. $30+ dollars to get in the door for three people, another $30-40 on garbage snacks, if your lucky they have real butter, otherwise it's butter flavored product. Wedged next to people who sense of courtesy stops that sneezing on you. They won't shut up all film. Some kid kicking the back of the seat randomly. Uncomfortable chairs terrible angles if the theater happens to be full. People getting up mid way and walking Iin front of you. No thanks. I'd rather stay home, make fresh popcorn with real butter, maybe enjoy a reasonably priced beer, on my couch. Sure the screen isn't 900 inches across. I'll sit closer. Sanctity of theater experience my ass.
Good luck quitting a modern antidepressant cold turkey. They are as addictive as anything else you take. People experience massive withdrawls and other symptoms if they've been on them any length of time.
Why take chances that all people are good or bad, deport us all, can't risk a few bad apples doing bad things.
Judgement can easily be spoofed or jammed. That's a common tactic for magic tricks. What you think should happen doesnt. You can learn to respond counter intuitively to what you see but you can, and will be fooled, even if you know it's a trick.
Entrapment is when they coerce you into doing something you wouldn't do normally, through prompting or other means. It requires you to prove you had no intention to do the action. If they run the site, and you download from it, without being guided, or groomed to do it, it shows you already had the intent to do it.
God forbid people have a sense of humor, or find joy in little things that you think are pointless. Just because you don't think it's worthwhile doesn't mean others don't enjoy it.
I'm confused. Saddam was captured in 2003, two years after 9/11. Was it a pre-emotive motive?
Actually, current trends disagree with you. Jobs that are easily automated are even easier to monitor. I know SMT companies are designing systems that perform on the fly adjustment of parameters for machines multiple levels upstream from the end result in order to drift a process back into alignment. Slight change in humidty causes problems with the wave solder joint? The vision system picks up the change and communicates it to the central controller. Information is relayed and the line adjusts one of many parameters and tracks the results to see what happened.
I would argue the other way. Computer programmers are a dime a dozen these days. Why flood the market with more. You could just as easily lose a good chef as a good programmer. The upside is food service will never go away, unless people cook all their own meals, at home.
Never skimp on a power supply. It is the single most important component that can affect the life of your system because it touches every internal component. A cheap supply will cause immense, random headaches, and can easily fry components. Poor 12v regulation? There goes a harddrive, or random drive errors. Cheap caps? Might blow or not sufficiently filter and stabilize the incoming power. Poor line filtering.... The list goes on.
Decimate us, huh? Thank goodness! You see, Decimate literally means "to reduce by ten percent", or "to kill one of every ten". If an alien asteroid attack on Earth is only going to kill one in ten, I'll take my chances. Had you said we'd be annihilated, which means "to destroy completely", then I'd be scared.
Dictionary Definition Main Entry: decimate Pronunciation: \de-s-mt\ Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): decimated; decimating Etymology: Latin decimatus, past participle of decimare, from decimus tenth, from decem ten Date: 1660 1 : to select by lot and kill every tenth man of 2 : to exact a tax of 10 percent from 3 a : to reduce drastically especially in number b : to cause great destruction or harm to You are correct and pedantic. The use of decimate that he chose was correct.
What's unethical about this?
The use would be the unethical portion and science because there is no guarantee that what results from the sperm-egg coupling using one of this would be a viable, working person. Religious and moral beliefs aside I think this is a great thing. It may not now help us understand how our bodies work but it may lead to it in the future. I'm a firm believer that cloning has a huge potential in the long term for helping out humanity as a race.
Perhaps you should read closer. The robot was designed to be some facsimile of human emotion. It was designed to form attachments and bonds along the lines of love. Sure it was a programming error but it acted in a fairly human manner in my opinion.
We are getting closer and closer to that line where robots abilities to emulate emotions are getting a bit blurry when compared to ours.
I've seen many older rotaries go past 150k, better than most american cars of that time. The reason most people have problems with rotaries is they don't know how to take care of them. I've seen at least one rotary to go over 300k or 500k km, though I can't remmeber off hand which one it was.
The rotaries are far from efficient. In fact, the rotary is probably the least fuel efficient engine on the market for a couple of reasons. 1.) Compression ratios are typically lower than equivalent piston engines. 2.) Exhaust/intake overlap - It's not at all uncommon for a small amount of exhaust to get pulled in with the intake becauseo the shape of the pistons and chambers with a lack of valves. Nothing about a rotary is efficient when it comes to fuel usage. The reason rotaries were banned from racing was because a rotary engine with 1/2 the displacement of a piston engine could produce equal or more than the power of it's piston counterpart. You see alot of the rotary crowd building 3-rotor, 2.6 liter displacement engines putting out a reliable 750+ horsepower. The 2nd gen 1.3 liter could be modified to over 500 horsepower. At those power levels though you're looking at milage under 9mpg and 6mpg for the 3 rotors. My 1985 RX-7, with it's smalle 1.2 liter engine gets 12 mpg city driving, and 18-20 highway and that's when I baby it and don't put the pedal down. Stock engine, no modifications, 100hp roughly. I've considered swapping to a v8 with a different transmission just to get better milage with it.
Yeap. If the "Terri Schiavo...." had read the article, he'd have found they specifically mention her and how this case is vastly different from her persistent vegatative state. This person, while considered by us to be vegatative, was grunting minimal replies, moving with some consciouse effort.
Because we know this joke hasn't been beat to death on slashdot at all....
It's an interesting step in the direction of AI. I'd like to see how far they can get this to go on current computing power.
..Daikatana? The game took an overly long period of development, was hyped over and over again, and when it finally hit the market it flopped like a killer whale doing tricks for the crowd. Unless they've made some fantastic engine developments, kept them hidden this long, the game is going to look just plain outdated when it hits the market new. It's going to need one hell of a replay factor to stand a chance.