How about a simple diagram? TFA is beautifully ambiguous. I can visualize normal refraction... but I'm just not understanding what "negative" refraction means. Can this property be displayed in a simple diagram? I took a look at the applet linked to the child post... it doesn't really help (unless, I suppose, you already know what you're looking at).
sure it does... It makes sence, I'm just not sure if this is what happened. I'll take it slow for you so you'll understand...
New Years arrives in New Zealand, and they add one second to the clock.
Then, one hour later, New Years arrives in the eastern parts of ?Russia... so if its one hour after New Zealand's new years, then its one hour and one second, actually, because of the leap second added in New Zealand. Then that time zone adds their leap second.
skipping forward to Greenwhich, England... the New Years arrives there 11 hours and 11 seconds later... then they add their leap second... (so New Years is 12 seconds later than normal)
skip ahead 5 hours and 5 seconds later to the New Years at EST on the East Coast of the US, and you have all the leap seconds added to the previous time zones, it amounts to, I think, 17 seconds. New Years occurs in the EST 18 seconds later than normal due to the leap second in the EST.
Are you seeing the pattern here? Each time zone is adding a leap second to the last year, and if the time zones are all one hour apart from each other, then the seconds will be cumulative. It makes sense... it is a valid question.
If a leap second is added to every New Years during the 24 hour period of world wide New Years, wouldn't each consecutive timezone get added all the previously added seconds of the time zones that came before it? (such that by the time the New Year's reached Hawaii last night, their clocks are actually set behind like... 20 seconds... and this done between 11:59PM and 12:00AM?) One second isn't very dramatic... but at 20 seconds its kind of surreal.
I didn't really know this actually existed... and if it did then it was probably that 2001 ratio, the first 3 squares, 1x4x9...
But I was wrong... and it turns out you are not entirely correct... it is not exactly 1:1.6, because the golden ratio is an irrational number, 1.618 033 988 749 894 848, etc.
I hate this site, but see [wikipedia.org]
Not quite solving all the issues, web distributors such as [newsstand.com] go for the traditional approach of delivering online the identical content that is in the print edition of major newspapers and magazines, right down to the advertisements and special sections. As 70-90% newspaper cost is in distribution, publishers love this idea.
The world, of course, awaits the cheap paper-display technology (or floppy computers) that can be seen in the movies (such as Harry Potter and Minority Report).
Why teach any programming? Is it because most universities have completely abandoned the fundamental roots of Computer Science, and have begun teaching computer programming instead? Some, even, as a slap in the face to both departments, have moved from Mathematics departments into Engineering departments. Computer Science is a subset of Math. "Software Engineering," a misnomer, is a product of marketing.... Just what do they think they are engineering??! Electrons? Magnetic Fields?
For those that have forgotten what Computer Science is, here is a decent definition:
The systematic study of computing systems and computation. The body of knowledge resulting from this discipline contains theories for understanding computing systems and methods; design methodology, algorithms, and tools; methods for the testing of concepts; methods of analysis and verification; and knowledge representation and implementation.
And lets also not forget that one does not need a computer to do real Computer Science (i.e. not computer programming).
Take it to the Universal and you will see (again, this is not touching the morality of abortion). There is a slippery-slope involved. Once you a first step towards this "solution," the next thousand come really easy. With abortion being legal, then farms of women, getting pregnant just to have an abortion, just to have a harvest of embryonic cells, becomes the next logical step. I think anyone can see that this would be entirely unethical (so I won't bother with the ethical argument against that).
As far as abortion is concerned, speaking personally of course, I don't think anyone has the ability or the right (including pregnant women) to determine exactly when an embryo, a fetus, whatever, becomes a person. What is clear is that when that happens, the fetus will have the same rights as any person. To avoid the mistake, personally speaking, I think it should be from the moment of conception. From the reverse argument, that the person, and the rights, only appear after childbirth is to open the door wide open to infanticide. (With babies being born 3 months premature and surviving, the difference between a late-term abortion and actually murdering a child, becomes academic and incidental. And attempting to justify infanticide is absurd (though I think could be applied to abortion in the way Jonathan Swift applied eating children as population control in his famous essay "A Modest Proposal).).
I am not saying that an embryo is a person per se, just that it is impossible to know in the same way that it is impossible to know just what it is like to be a bat, or anything or any one else. Subjective experience is just that... subjective. You don't know, I don't know, no one knows... so why fuck around with shit no one can has any possiblity of knowing? Just to save the life of someone who has lived already (even if this is to save the life of some brilliant world-famous scientist (or violin player, as the original famous argument goes))? From the other side, the moral argument for the use of embryonic cells to save a life is flimsey at best.
That being said, if anyone is going to make this sort of decision, then it must be the pregnant woman, and no one else.(so back off, BEIOCHES!!)
Well, still, using embryonic cells is pretty sick, unethical, and this doesn't even touch the issue of whether abortion is unethical in its own right (if abortion is ethical, shouldn't infanticide be considered ethical too?).
What I don't understand is why scientists don't take a single umbilical cord, take all the viable cells, and make a bajillion clones of those cells. If they can cloan a whole sheep, why can't they clone stem cells?
Why the heck would you run Linux as a screensaver? It's non-standardized, breaks itself, and any time you change anything you have to recompile the damn kernel. Now... if you could run NetBSD as a screensaver... or even OS X... that would be something...
yeah, and in Voyager, it was a fox, not a dog... which makes more sense, even applied here. Where the heck did you hear that it was a frog? Chakotay is spinning in his... uh, future womb...
I've had several chats with my friend this way, with me using iChat and him using Google Talk.
me too. Question is... what's going to happen now when using iChat, with Google also using AIM? Will I be able to chat with myself (the same Google ID showing up in the iChat Buddies list... and in the Jabber list)?
From lectures I've seen, from what I understand, is that Tesla did work it out feasably for the very large scale. He envisioned having merely 4 giant coils to provide safe, wireless power for the entire planet. The problem was regulation. Using a Tesla coil to distribute power, there is no way for the power co. to charge for it... so the power co.s conspired against his brillient ideas. Even today... nearly all of Tesla's patents are designated top secret by our govenment. They would have us believe it is for our own protection, but it is suggested that it is to keep the power companies in business with their natural monopolies.
I have a feeling there are more interfaces than I can count... I don't know, so I'm asking...
What are the other interfaces? And aren't there more than one interface from KDE & GNU?
I can appreciate that a PhD student has to narrow their field in order to complete their study, but this is an interesting topic. I could see entire periodicals dedicated to available interfaces. Hey, there aren't any of those are there?
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Color doesn't exist.
How about a simple diagram? TFA is beautifully ambiguous. I can visualize normal refraction... but I'm just not understanding what "negative" refraction means. Can this property be displayed in a simple diagram? I took a look at the applet linked to the child post... it doesn't really help (unless, I suppose, you already know what you're looking at).
Agreed... and this story is a case in point.
sure it does... It makes sence, I'm just not sure if this is what happened. I'll take it slow for you so you'll understand...
New Years arrives in New Zealand, and they add one second to the clock.
Then, one hour later, New Years arrives in the eastern parts of ?Russia... so if its one hour after New Zealand's new years, then its one hour and one second, actually, because of the leap second added in New Zealand. Then that time zone adds their leap second.
skipping forward to Greenwhich, England... the New Years arrives there 11 hours and 11 seconds later... then they add their leap second... (so New Years is 12 seconds later than normal)
skip ahead 5 hours and 5 seconds later to the New Years at EST on the East Coast of the US, and you have all the leap seconds added to the previous time zones, it amounts to, I think, 17 seconds. New Years occurs in the EST 18 seconds later than normal due to the leap second in the EST.
Are you seeing the pattern here? Each time zone is adding a leap second to the last year, and if the time zones are all one hour apart from each other, then the seconds will be cumulative. It makes sense... it is a valid question.
If a leap second is added to every New Years during the 24 hour period of world wide New Years, wouldn't each consecutive timezone get added all the previously added seconds of the time zones that came before it? (such that by the time the New Year's reached Hawaii last night, their clocks are actually set behind like... 20 seconds... and this done between 11:59PM and 12:00AM?) One second isn't very dramatic... but at 20 seconds its kind of surreal.
I didn't really know this actually existed... and if it did then it was probably that 2001 ratio, the first 3 squares, 1x4x9...
But I was wrong... and it turns out you are not entirely correct... it is not exactly 1:1.6, because the golden ratio is an irrational number, 1.618 033 988 749 894 848, etc.
I hate this site, but see [wikipedia.org]
Not quite solving all the issues, web distributors such as [newsstand.com] go for the traditional approach of delivering online the identical content that is in the print edition of major newspapers and magazines, right down to the advertisements and special sections. As 70-90% newspaper cost is in distribution, publishers love this idea.
The world, of course, awaits the cheap paper-display technology (or floppy computers) that can be seen in the movies (such as Harry Potter and Minority Report).
The New York Times... there is no better fish wrap.
fun: No such file or directory
-bash: kill: fun: no such pid
no fun in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin
OMG
You could be right!
er... I mean... Right could be you! (I learn fast, no?)
Why teach any programming? Is it because most universities have completely abandoned the fundamental roots of Computer Science, and have begun teaching computer programming instead? Some, even, as a slap in the face to both departments, have moved from Mathematics departments into Engineering departments. Computer Science is a subset of Math. "Software Engineering," a misnomer, is a product of marketing.... Just what do they think they are engineering??! Electrons? Magnetic Fields?
For those that have forgotten what Computer Science is, here is a decent definition:
[google.com]The systematic study of computing systems and computation. The body of knowledge resulting from this discipline contains theories for understanding computing systems and methods; design methodology, algorithms, and tools; methods for the testing of concepts; methods of analysis and verification; and knowledge representation and implementation.
And lets also not forget that one does not need a computer to do real Computer Science (i.e. not computer programming).
...welcome our new habitable zone habituating building blocks of life leaders.
If one thing is clear from the history of technology, its that people do not change. Technology changes.
The ethical argument is pretty simple.
Take it to the Universal and you will see (again, this is not touching the morality of abortion). There is a slippery-slope involved. Once you a first step towards this "solution," the next thousand come really easy. With abortion being legal, then farms of women, getting pregnant just to have an abortion, just to have a harvest of embryonic cells, becomes the next logical step. I think anyone can see that this would be entirely unethical (so I won't bother with the ethical argument against that).
As far as abortion is concerned, speaking personally of course, I don't think anyone has the ability or the right (including pregnant women) to determine exactly when an embryo, a fetus, whatever, becomes a person. What is clear is that when that happens, the fetus will have the same rights as any person. To avoid the mistake, personally speaking, I think it should be from the moment of conception. From the reverse argument, that the person, and the rights, only appear after childbirth is to open the door wide open to infanticide. (With babies being born 3 months premature and surviving, the difference between a late-term abortion and actually murdering a child, becomes academic and incidental. And attempting to justify infanticide is absurd (though I think could be applied to abortion in the way Jonathan Swift applied eating children as population control in his famous essay "A Modest Proposal).).
I am not saying that an embryo is a person per se, just that it is impossible to know in the same way that it is impossible to know just what it is like to be a bat, or anything or any one else. Subjective experience is just that... subjective. You don't know, I don't know, no one knows... so why fuck around with shit no one can has any possiblity of knowing? Just to save the life of someone who has lived already (even if this is to save the life of some brilliant world-famous scientist (or violin player, as the original famous argument goes))? From the other side, the moral argument for the use of embryonic cells to save a life is flimsey at best.
That being said, if anyone is going to make this sort of decision, then it must be the pregnant woman, and no one else.(so back off, BEIOCHES!!)
I pray it never happens. But I don't see why it hasn't.
What I don't understand is why scientists don't take a single umbilical cord, take all the viable cells, and make a bajillion clones of those cells. If they can cloan a whole sheep, why can't they clone stem cells?
Why the heck would you run Linux as a screensaver? It's non-standardized, breaks itself, and any time you change anything you have to recompile the damn kernel. Now... if you could run NetBSD as a screensaver... or even OS X... that would be something...
yeah, and in Voyager, it was a fox, not a dog... which makes more sense, even applied here. Where the heck did you hear that it was a frog? Chakotay is spinning in his... uh, future womb...
me too. Question is... what's going to happen now when using iChat, with Google also using AIM? Will I be able to chat with myself (the same Google ID showing up in the iChat Buddies list... and in the Jabber list)?
From lectures I've seen, from what I understand, is that Tesla did work it out feasably for the very large scale. He envisioned having merely 4 giant coils to provide safe, wireless power for the entire planet. The problem was regulation. Using a Tesla coil to distribute power, there is no way for the power co. to charge for it... so the power co.s conspired against his brillient ideas. Even today... nearly all of Tesla's patents are designated top secret by our govenment. They would have us believe it is for our own protection, but it is suggested that it is to keep the power companies in business with their natural monopolies.
Outstanding. Thank you!
maybe on a woman... but I don't consider my own very intuitive; I can't figure out what its purpose is.
I have a feeling there are more interfaces than I can count... I don't know, so I'm asking... What are the other interfaces? And aren't there more than one interface from KDE & GNU?
I can appreciate that a PhD student has to narrow their field in order to complete their study, but this is an interesting topic. I could see entire periodicals dedicated to available interfaces. Hey, there aren't any of those are there?