It's atheism. It's an 'ism'.
A - not
theism - belief in the existence of a god or gods; specifically : belief in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of the human race and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world (copied from Merriam Websters).
Not collecting stamps would be aphilately. Well, maybe not.
Not to be off-topic or anything but Jesse Ventura is bat-shit crazy. Too bad, seeing as how he was one of the few independent, Libertarian-like (Reform/Independence Party) governors around (only Dems and Reps right now). He had some really good ideas, tried to keep religion out of government, and yet now he's a truther. Too bad.
The first thing I thought of when seeing him climb out of it, is that he needs to put in a car alarm. I was half-expecting it at one point. Drive up in a tank, climb out, point the remote at it and "Bee-boop".
If you check the video out, it looks cool. Youtube also points out other robot snake videos. It looks like the Japanese already have several types of things like this, they are wireless and apparently have on-board batteries, and seem to do most if not all of what this one does. So, is this really a big advance or just a bad copy-cat of a Japanese version?
I don't think your analogy is quite right. VHS is not dogfood. I would say broadcast TV is dogfood. VHS allowed you to play back shows when you wanted, and record things off the TV. So lets say that VHS is a burger. Say a McDonald's burger, one of the cheap ones. DVDs bring that up to a good chicken dish, with a side of pasta and those breadsticks that are soft and warm. HD-DVD or BR might bring it up to lobster, but really, how often do you go have lobster? And that's just it. You go out to have lobster with all the trimmings and a good desert - movies. You don't usually bring home a lobster and cook it because it's a lot of trouble and it's just easier to stick with what's in the fridge. I mean the chicken is already defrosting and you have a can of the pop-n-fresh breadsticks. You've even got a bag of salad. For lobster, you'll need to get out the special plates, and melt some butter - do you even have butter, or just margarine? And your wife isn't a really a big fan of lobster, she'd just as soon have chicken. If she has to cook, she's not even sure how to cook the lobster anyway.
Well it says "iPod" and not what size. I did an estimate with an 80GB size. I came up with ~$17000 to fill it (20000 songs says Apple). I am guessing that most of my CDs have 12 or so songs on them. If you just use the $0.99 a song from iTunes, then it would of course be ~$20000. There is a 160GB version, so I suppose that is the $40000 they are figuring on. But, I've got a bunch of albums I've bought legally for less than $10 an album, so I don't think that it would cost me the full $40K. Worst case scenario I suppose.
One part of the math that might be bad (IANAM) is he looked at "Ball #1" and "Ball #2" etc. The balls are listing in numerical order in the database, however they don't get picked in that order. The database might list
3 14 29 30 46
but these might have been picked:
30 46 3 29 14
I think that invalidates some of the math. You would need to look at "the first ball picked", and then "the second ball picked", etc, to see if that made some difference. I would suspect that any statistical aberrations he might have found are probably lessened by this.
There is also perhaps not enough data available yet. I don't know how many runs makes a statistically useful sample.
... it means. I am only assuming here, but apparently as long as a company defines the words they use, they can use whatever words they want. For instance, I like Papa John's Pizza. We order from them on occasion. They have an offer for a Cowboy's Special (this is in Dallas). "Unlimited" toppings! Wow, huh? Put 'em all on, twice! In this case, "unlimited" means "five (5)".
Now I personally don't see how 5 == unlimited, but that's what the asterisk says. So apparently Comcast can have an asterisk as well. "* 'Unlimited' means whatever the hell we say it does. In this case, 'not unlimited', or even better: 'limited'."
Wasn't her revelation eventually revealed to be "Sorry for the inconvenience"? Always thought that book was a bit rushed or something, being the fourth in the trilogy (IIRC).
Thanks, that actually looks like what I want, however, being the cheap guy that I am, I don't think I'm willing to spend $500-600 on them. There were only a few available on eBay that I saw. Hate to think how much they are retail.
So maybe someone knows: Is there a box that does this? That is, a "VCR" with a hard drive instead of tape? That's all I really want. No monthly anything, I just don't watch that much TV. I just want to say "start recording for an hour at 8pm on Monday". It would be nice if it were HD, and maybe have two tuners (I have basic cable and an antenna for local HD channels).
I don't want to build a MythTV box, or buy a Windows solution or really even have another computer. My solution now is to download stuff off of Bittorrent and burn it to a RW DVD. However, the quality is hit or miss, and the sound doesn't always sync up (and Virtual Dub can't always fix this). And I'm probably breaking some sort of law.
Actually, I think that particles being created from nothing is observed in the lab. It's what allows black holes to radiate and decay. Virtual Particles (vacuum fluctuations) are created in matter/antimatter pairs that come into being and then annihilate each other after a short time. The Wikipedia article about this is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle.
The entire universe might be a vacuum fluctuation. That is, there might have originally been nothing. With all that potential, the universe pops into existence. With nothing, there is no time. The universe pops up, the clock starts. The universe either collapses into a big crunch, or if it expands long enough, everything evaporates, eventually leaving nothing. The bang/crunch cycle might exist for a while until there is at some point an evaporation. With nothing left, pop, another universe.
Thus, the "existence" can be "forever" without the "universe" lasting forever.
I can think of at least one reason why they might put this on the form. It is possible that it's easier to state that you lied on a form, or that the burden of proof is less, than it is to prove you actually committed one of the bad things. If that's the case, then they can kick you out, or stop you from entering, just by saying "We're pretty sure you committed genocide, you Nazi drug-pusher, so that means you lied on our official form, so you can't come in."
So yeah, they never expect anyone to answer anything but "no", but if there is someone that they already know they don't want coming in, this might be an easier way to keep them out.
Well, I'm not sure about "life-critical" systems, but I do know that the EKG machine I saw on a recent ER visit was running some version of Windows. So how "life-critical" is having the ER folks know the status of your heart?
The problem with parodying rap is that rap is already a parody of real music. It's like parodying Dr. Suess, just get a rhyming dictionary. Sorry, whatever song this originally was and the Weird Al parody both suck.
Hate to just have a "me-too" post, but thanks for pointing this out. In my view, people who don't like copyright are just wrong. Copyright law protects the "little guy" as well as the big shot Hollywood directors. Without it, if I have a story and publish it, someone else can take that story, put it out under their own name and make money/get fame/get all the chicks, and I have no recourse. WITH copyright law, I can show that it's my story and get compensation.
Now, the court system might be slow or expensive, but that's another kettle of fish to fry. And if I get a big-time publisher to put out my story, then I have an easier time in the courts as they have more money, and more incentive to help me out.
All this happens (as originally envisioned) for a limited time. So the courts might be "broken", and Congress might be "broken" (for extending the copyright law time limits too much, as with the Bono law), but overall, copyright law is not bad or broken. Not everyone has trade secrets to protect. Some people just want to put out a story.
An analogy, admittedly bad, is something like: Say you put out a birdbath in your front yard. All your neighbors love it. However, it gets stolen, and so you put out another. It also gets stolen. Since there are no police, and you can't afford to watch your front yard all the time (thus no enforcement), you eventually give up on the idea of having a birdbath, much to the sorrow of your neighbors, who liked the birdbath. You also decide not to put out the flowerpots, which your neighbors were really excited about when you mentioned it to them. What are you going to do here? Put up a big wall, a lock on the fence and only let your neighbors in to see the "secret"? That's what folks who don't like copyright law want to occur.
It seems to be missing some things. Surely some of the Companies shown fighting MS are also fighting each other? And who says it's a war anyway? Some things are just good ideas, and lots of folks are going to come up with variations. Does that always mean a battle? It seems silly to me, rather than informative.
You hear that "whooshing" sound? That's the whole idea, going right over your head.
Hawking isn't saying "Earth's toast, let's go screw someplace else up." He is saying that we don't want to put all our eggs in one basket. Let's have a backup Earth somewhere, so that if the huge meteor hits, or global warming drowns us all, or some virus comes along and kills us all, at least some of humanity will survive.
We can try to fix things that we can here on Earth, but we don't control the rest of the solar system, or viruses, or massive volcanoes, or [your favorite disaster here].
Maybe they meant 30 as in "any number that is greater than 29 and less than 40". You know, thirty. Thirty-ish. Mostly thirty. About thirty. Close to forty, but not quite. Good enough for government work. In Soviet Russia, YOU are 30. 30) Profit! 38 is the new 30.
Actually I didn't see any fingers or toes in the password at all.
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My wife and I wandered around as well and our pictures look almost exactly like yours.
I wondered why they said "Dallas to Canada" when it was obviously starting in Plano, which, while near Dallas, is not, in fact, Dallas.
The kids were all very eager and informative. Good luck to them that's still in the race.
It's atheism. It's an 'ism'.
A - not
theism - belief in the existence of a god or gods; specifically : belief in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of the human race and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world (copied from Merriam Websters).
Not collecting stamps would be aphilately. Well, maybe not.
Not to be off-topic or anything but Jesse Ventura is bat-shit crazy. Too bad, seeing as how he was one of the few independent, Libertarian-like (Reform/Independence Party) governors around (only Dems and Reps right now). He had some really good ideas, tried to keep religion out of government, and yet now he's a truther. Too bad.
The first thing I thought of when seeing him climb out of it, is that he needs to put in a car alarm. I was half-expecting it at one point. Drive up in a tank, climb out, point the remote at it and "Bee-boop".
If you check the video out, it looks cool. Youtube also points out other robot snake videos. It looks like the Japanese already have several types of things like this, they are wireless and apparently have on-board batteries, and seem to do most if not all of what this one does. So, is this really a big advance or just a bad copy-cat of a Japanese version?
All five of them thank you.
I don't think your analogy is quite right. VHS is not dogfood. I would say broadcast TV is dogfood. VHS allowed you to play back shows when you wanted, and record things off the TV. So lets say that VHS is a burger. Say a McDonald's burger, one of the cheap ones. DVDs bring that up to a good chicken dish, with a side of pasta and those breadsticks that are soft and warm. HD-DVD or BR might bring it up to lobster, but really, how often do you go have lobster? And that's just it. You go out to have lobster with all the trimmings and a good desert - movies. You don't usually bring home a lobster and cook it because it's a lot of trouble and it's just easier to stick with what's in the fridge. I mean the chicken is already defrosting and you have a can of the pop-n-fresh breadsticks. You've even got a bag of salad. For lobster, you'll need to get out the special plates, and melt some butter - do you even have butter, or just margarine? And your wife isn't a really a big fan of lobster, she'd just as soon have chicken. If she has to cook, she's not even sure how to cook the lobster anyway.
Mmmmm, breadsticks...
Well it says "iPod" and not what size. I did an estimate with an 80GB size. I came up with ~$17000 to fill it (20000 songs says Apple). I am guessing that most of my CDs have 12 or so songs on them. If you just use the $0.99 a song from iTunes, then it would of course be ~$20000. There is a 160GB version, so I suppose that is the $40000 they are figuring on. But, I've got a bunch of albums I've bought legally for less than $10 an album, so I don't think that it would cost me the full $40K. Worst case scenario I suppose.
One part of the math that might be bad (IANAM) is he looked at "Ball #1" and "Ball #2" etc. The balls are listing in numerical order in the database, however they don't get picked in that order. The database might list
3 14 29 30 46
but these might have been picked: 30 46 3 29 14
I think that invalidates some of the math. You would need to look at "the first ball picked", and then "the second ball picked", etc, to see if that made some difference. I would suspect that any statistical aberrations he might have found are probably lessened by this.
There is also perhaps not enough data available yet. I don't know how many runs makes a statistically useful sample.
... it means. I am only assuming here, but apparently as long as a company defines the words they use, they can use whatever words they want. For instance, I like Papa John's Pizza. We order from them on occasion. They have an offer for a Cowboy's Special (this is in Dallas). "Unlimited" toppings! Wow, huh? Put 'em all on, twice! In this case, "unlimited" means "five (5)".
Now I personally don't see how 5 == unlimited, but that's what the asterisk says. So apparently Comcast can have an asterisk as well. "* 'Unlimited' means whatever the hell we say it does. In this case, 'not unlimited', or even better: 'limited'."
Wasn't her revelation eventually revealed to be "Sorry for the inconvenience"? Always thought that book was a bit rushed or something, being the fourth in the trilogy (IIRC).
Thanks, that actually looks like what I want, however, being the cheap guy that I am, I don't think I'm willing to spend $500-600 on them. There were only a few available on eBay that I saw. Hate to think how much they are retail.
So maybe someone knows: Is there a box that does this? That is, a "VCR" with a hard drive instead of tape? That's all I really want. No monthly anything, I just don't watch that much TV. I just want to say "start recording for an hour at 8pm on Monday". It would be nice if it were HD, and maybe have two tuners (I have basic cable and an antenna for local HD channels).
I don't want to build a MythTV box, or buy a Windows solution or really even have another computer. My solution now is to download stuff off of Bittorrent and burn it to a RW DVD. However, the quality is hit or miss, and the sound doesn't always sync up (and Virtual Dub can't always fix this). And I'm probably breaking some sort of law.
Actually, I think that particles being created from nothing is observed in the lab. It's what allows black holes to radiate and decay. Virtual Particles (vacuum fluctuations) are created in matter/antimatter pairs that come into being and then annihilate each other after a short time. The Wikipedia article about this is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle.
The entire universe might be a vacuum fluctuation. That is, there might have originally been nothing. With all that potential, the universe pops into existence. With nothing, there is no time. The universe pops up, the clock starts. The universe either collapses into a big crunch, or if it expands long enough, everything evaporates, eventually leaving nothing. The bang/crunch cycle might exist for a while until there is at some point an evaporation. With nothing left, pop, another universe.
Thus, the "existence" can be "forever" without the "universe" lasting forever.
I can think of at least one reason why they might put this on the form. It is possible that it's easier to state that you lied on a form, or that the burden of proof is less, than it is to prove you actually committed one of the bad things. If that's the case, then they can kick you out, or stop you from entering, just by saying "We're pretty sure you committed genocide, you Nazi drug-pusher, so that means you lied on our official form, so you can't come in."
So yeah, they never expect anyone to answer anything but "no", but if there is someone that they already know they don't want coming in, this might be an easier way to keep them out.
Well, I'm not sure about "life-critical" systems, but I do know that the EKG machine I saw on a recent ER visit was running some version of Windows. So how "life-critical" is having the ER folks know the status of your heart?
Thank you! I was looking to see if anyone else was going to catch that. Apparently people think 17% means 10%.
... does he really need his own TLD? He's already got a tea shop and all. Seems like a bit much just for one musician.
The problem with parodying rap is that rap is already a parody of real music. It's like parodying Dr. Suess, just get a rhyming dictionary. Sorry, whatever song this originally was and the Weird Al parody both suck.
Hate to just have a "me-too" post, but thanks for pointing this out. In my view, people who don't like copyright are just wrong. Copyright law protects the "little guy" as well as the big shot Hollywood directors. Without it, if I have a story and publish it, someone else can take that story, put it out under their own name and make money/get fame/get all the chicks, and I have no recourse. WITH copyright law, I can show that it's my story and get compensation.
Now, the court system might be slow or expensive, but that's another kettle of fish to fry. And if I get a big-time publisher to put out my story, then I have an easier time in the courts as they have more money, and more incentive to help me out.
All this happens (as originally envisioned) for a limited time. So the courts might be "broken", and Congress might be "broken" (for extending the copyright law time limits too much, as with the Bono law), but overall, copyright law is not bad or broken. Not everyone has trade secrets to protect. Some people just want to put out a story.
An analogy, admittedly bad, is something like: Say you put out a birdbath in your front yard. All your neighbors love it. However, it gets stolen, and so you put out another. It also gets stolen. Since there are no police, and you can't afford to watch your front yard all the time (thus no enforcement), you eventually give up on the idea of having a birdbath, much to the sorrow of your neighbors, who liked the birdbath. You also decide not to put out the flowerpots, which your neighbors were really excited about when you mentioned it to them. What are you going to do here? Put up a big wall, a lock on the fence and only let your neighbors in to see the "secret"? That's what folks who don't like copyright law want to occur.
Everyone knows that dogs are colorblind.
It seems to be missing some things. Surely some of the Companies shown fighting MS are also fighting each other? And who says it's a war anyway? Some things are just good ideas, and lots of folks are going to come up with variations. Does that always mean a battle? It seems silly to me, rather than informative.
Yeah, but I don't have the clearance to get access.
You hear that "whooshing" sound? That's the whole idea, going right over your head.
Hawking isn't saying "Earth's toast, let's go screw someplace else up." He is saying that we don't want to put all our eggs in one basket. Let's have a backup Earth somewhere, so that if the huge meteor hits, or global warming drowns us all, or some virus comes along and kills us all, at least some of humanity will survive.
We can try to fix things that we can here on Earth, but we don't control the rest of the solar system, or viruses, or massive volcanoes, or [your favorite disaster here].
Maybe they meant 30 as in "any number that is greater than 29 and less than 40". You know, thirty. Thirty-ish. Mostly thirty. About thirty. Close to forty, but not quite. Good enough for government work. In Soviet Russia, YOU are 30. 30) Profit! 38 is the new 30.
Actually I didn't see any fingers or toes in the password at all.