Sharks and whales are interesting in that they look similar, but are quite different. One breaths air while the other has gills to breath water. Also, the whales have a horizontal tail-fin and their propulsion motion is an up and down wave while the sharks are based on a fish body plan with a vertical tail-fin and their propulsion motion is a side to side wave.
There is a tv special made based on that book called Alien Planet. I had not heard of the book before you mentioned it, but I recognized the name of the planet and the strange types of creatures on it. It was interesting even though it is all made-up speculation and there is no real science in it. It is on Netflix if any one wants to check it out. I particularly liked the ideas on how the remote AI flying rovers would be designed and programmed each with a slightly different personality so they won't all befall the same mishap.
If that truly is a new quote for you, then you need to read "The Hichhiker's Guide to the Universe". You will be shitting yourself all the way through.
That's all fine and dandy that you will probably never need to defend yourself. In the vary rare case that someone breaks into my home with intent to harm me or my family, I don't want to be reliant on the criminal waiting for the police to show up after letting me use the phone. It come down to taking care of yourself and being prepared. People don't learn martial arts because they are getting the shit kicked out of them every day, it's good exercise and it is a useful skill to have if you ever need it. Same thing with having a gun. When seconds matter, the police are only minutes away.
On top of that, I'm certain other directors, musicians, or actors have had regret or embarrassment about previous works, and would like to change the past. But they don't, and know why they shouldn't. Filmmaking contains a certain element of preservation. To capture the time and era the film came out in, and leave all nuances intact. Yet another reason why film colorization for classic films is more often rejected than not.
Honestly, Lucas disrespected his own work as an artist and a director by changing it. It would be akin to Paul McCartney wanting to change the lyrics on the White Album decades later because he's had a political change of heart (ironically I'm talking about the man who wrote "Let it Be"). Any backlash Lucas gets is deserved.
The most crazy thing about Lucas making such drastic changes to his movies is that he agrees with you that it shouldn't be done. He has been a big proponent of keeping black and white films in their original. george lucas on colorization He argues that everybody else should keep the movies as they were originally made, but when it comes to his own movies that does not apply.
So the contrast is, "Thing which has happened to aircraft several times before", versus "Bizarre conspiracy by shadowy forces". I prefer the odds of the former until there's actual evidence of the latter.
I would tend to agree with you but there is one point I'd like to make. When the number of "Bizarre conspiracies by shadowy forces" that have been confirmed true by leaks starts to go up into higher numbers it makes you rethink anything about the official story as being possibly true.
If the car tries to avoid both cars for as long as possible, it will hit both of them at the same time. That would presumably spread the impact over an even larger area than hitting only one car would have so would give the best results.
I don't see how a car could know how many people would be killed in an accident. If the other cars have airbags the occupants may only get bruises or some broken bones. Some of these what-ifs are going to far with what a car could reasonably "know".
So with that logic, the police are responsible for all the murders that happen on the street because they didn't catch the criminals earlier or arrive on time to stop the murder from happening. I say we kill all the murderous police before we have more innocent dead people on our hands.
By the way, the courts have ruled that there is no requirement for the police to help you if you are in danger. In would not be illegal for them to fail to respond promptly to a call where the person was going to be murdered.
I remember reading an article about the information density in different number bases. Having a larger base, say base 10, allows you to write a big number with fewer digits, like 1022. While having a smaller base, base 2, would take more digits, 1111111110. By multiplying the number of symbols by the number of digits needed (something like that, it was a while ago I read about this) you were able to figure out how efficiently you can represent numbers in any base. It turns out that the most efficient base is between 2 and 3, actually it is base e that comes out as the most efficient base to use. Here is a link with possible references to this question.
I have had to use Open Office to open a Word document that was somehow corrupted and Word would fail to open it. By opening it in Open Office and then saving it to a new name, Word was able to open it again.
And I have not found something in a Word document that Open Office could not handle. That's not saying there are NO things, just saying that they are not used.
I have witnessed my step-dad do an amazing catch. He knocked filled glass off the table with the back of his hand. While the glass was falling, mouth faced downward, he moved quick enough to catch the glass. Then, rather than just catch the glass, he continued the motion to scoop up the falling liquid. He got all of it but two small drops that hit the floor. He was a black-belt tae kwon do instructor at the time, so his reflexes were probably pretty good from training but it was still really impressive to see.
The talk of how chickens have been modified makes me think of ChickieNobs.
"This is the latest," said Crake.
What they were looking at was a large bulblike object that seemed to be covered with stippled whitish-yellow skin. Out of it came twenty thick fleshy tubes, and at the end of each tube another bulb was growing.
"What the hell is it?" said Jimmy.
"Those are chickens," said Crake. "Chicken parts. Just the breasts, on this one. They've got ones that specialize in drumsticks too, twelve to a growth unit.
"But there aren't any heads..."
"That's the head in the middle," said the woman. "There's a mouth opening at the top, they dump nutrients in there. No eyes or beak or anything, they don't need those."
"This is horrible," said Jimmy. The thing was a nightmare. It was like an animal-protein tuber.
"Picture a sea-anemone body plan," said Crake. "That helps."
"But what's it thinking?" said Jimmy.
The woman gave her jocular woodpecker yodel, and explained that they'd removed all the brain functions that had nothing to do with digestion, assimilation, and growth.
"It's sort of like a chicken hookworm," said Crake.
"No need for added growth hormones," said the woman, "the high growth rate's built in. You get chicken breasts in two weeks-- that's a three-week improvement on the most efficient low-light, high-density chicken farming operation so far devised. And the animal-welfare freaks won't be able to say a word, because this thing feels no pain."
Yes, for Americans, they market them as throwback (Pepsi, Mounain Dew, etc.). For Mexicans, thats just the regular Pepsi or Mountain Dew. Regular Coke sold to Mexicans is also the real sugar recipie instead of the version sold to Americans. If you find a bottle or can the has the label in Mexican Spanish, it will have real sugar. From a quick online search, it even looks like the Coca-Cola company calls it Mexican Coke, and insists it's made with real cane sugar.
Well, I'm more of a PC gamer. So I won't comment on whether a Playstation steering wheel is any good or not. But my leather covered logitech wheel is awesome. Gas and brake peddles or the floor and F1 style shifter paddles on the wheel. But the feedback of the wheel is the main thing that makes it work great for driving. Gravel feels different than a paved road. Each bump you hit jerks the wheel a bit in your hands. A long tight turn will pull the wheel harder against you than a shallow turn does, so you start to get a feel for how much you can push it before you loose traction.
Unless it's a good force feedback steering wheel. That makes it so you can feel how much grip your tires have on the road and makes it feel like driving a real car.
You know, this makes sense. I like the sweeter taste of Pepsi better. But after drinking a whole can of it there is a gross aftertaste in my mouth that I don't like. It also feels like Pepsi leaves a film on my teeth. Plus, it sometimes makes me more thirsty after drinking it, probably all the sugar needing to be diluted. So even though I like the taste of a sip of Pepsi better, I feel Coke is more refreshing to drink.
Actually, all the sodas, even common ones like Coke and Pepsi, use real sugar when their market is Mexican people. Even soda sold in Mexican food stores in the US sell the real sugar version. They don't like the HFCS, so the companies make what will sell better. I don't know why us US Americans have such a weak will that we have to buy what they give us whether it tastes good or not. Brainwashing perhaps?
...which can be avoided by not requiring continuous contact with the screen, such as having a slowly-resetting (but "catchable") slider. All of the patent's claims note that the contact is continuous.
Or, if it is in the implementation like you say, and not just the idea, then I can do slide to unlock using a different algorithm in code than they used. Oh, that still falls under the patent doesn't it!
"bounce back when you reach the end of a list"
...which can be avoided by not showing the background behind the document (for example, by stretching the visible portion of the document so it remains filling the screen).
Or by using different code to "implement" the bounce back in my own way it should pass the patent lock-in, right? Oh yeah, sorry, it doesn't.
It sounds to me like you don't understand the problem at hand. Either that, or you are profiting from it.
I never hear about farmer's kids shooting themselves with all the guns people have in the country. It's the stupid city or suburb kids that play with dangerous tools.
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but it annoys me enough to type this to see people hit 1-3-0, when 9-0 works just as well.
Of course, 8-8 would be close enough to 9-0 to work and be quicker to enter also.
Sharks and whales are interesting in that they look similar, but are quite different. One breaths air while the other has gills to breath water. Also, the whales have a horizontal tail-fin and their propulsion motion is an up and down wave while the sharks are based on a fish body plan with a vertical tail-fin and their propulsion motion is a side to side wave.
There is a tv special made based on that book called Alien Planet. I had not heard of the book before you mentioned it, but I recognized the name of the planet and the strange types of creatures on it. It was interesting even though it is all made-up speculation and there is no real science in it. It is on Netflix if any one wants to check it out. I particularly liked the ideas on how the remote AI flying rovers would be designed and programmed each with a slightly different personality so they won't all befall the same mishap.
If that truly is a new quote for you, then you need to read "The Hichhiker's Guide to the Universe". You will be shitting yourself all the way through.
The odds of something with a million to one odds happening is actually pretty high when you consider there are 7 billion people on this planet.
That's all fine and dandy that you will probably never need to defend yourself. In the vary rare case that someone breaks into my home with intent to harm me or my family, I don't want to be reliant on the criminal waiting for the police to show up after letting me use the phone. It come down to taking care of yourself and being prepared. People don't learn martial arts because they are getting the shit kicked out of them every day, it's good exercise and it is a useful skill to have if you ever need it. Same thing with having a gun. When seconds matter, the police are only minutes away.
Paint Ball store. Some people use it for cold weather as it does not freeze up.
On top of that, I'm certain other directors, musicians, or actors have had regret or embarrassment about previous works, and would like to change the past. But they don't, and know why they shouldn't. Filmmaking contains a certain element of preservation. To capture the time and era the film came out in, and leave all nuances intact. Yet another reason why film colorization for classic films is more often rejected than not.
Honestly, Lucas disrespected his own work as an artist and a director by changing it. It would be akin to Paul McCartney wanting to change the lyrics on the White Album decades later because he's had a political change of heart (ironically I'm talking about the man who wrote "Let it Be"). Any backlash Lucas gets is deserved.
The most crazy thing about Lucas making such drastic changes to his movies is that he agrees with you that it shouldn't be done. He has been a big proponent of keeping black and white films in their original. george lucas on colorization He argues that everybody else should keep the movies as they were originally made, but when it comes to his own movies that does not apply.
So the contrast is, "Thing which has happened to aircraft several times before", versus "Bizarre conspiracy by shadowy forces". I prefer the odds of the former until there's actual evidence of the latter.
I would tend to agree with you but there is one point I'd like to make. When the number of "Bizarre conspiracies by shadowy forces" that have been confirmed true by leaks starts to go up into higher numbers it makes you rethink anything about the official story as being possibly true.
If the car tries to avoid both cars for as long as possible, it will hit both of them at the same time. That would presumably spread the impact over an even larger area than hitting only one car would have so would give the best results.
I don't see how a car could know how many people would be killed in an accident. If the other cars have airbags the occupants may only get bruises or some broken bones. Some of these what-ifs are going to far with what a car could reasonably "know".
So with that logic, the police are responsible for all the murders that happen on the street because they didn't catch the criminals earlier or arrive on time to stop the murder from happening. I say we kill all the murderous police before we have more innocent dead people on our hands.
By the way, the courts have ruled that there is no requirement for the police to help you if you are in danger. In would not be illegal for them to fail to respond promptly to a call where the person was going to be murdered.
Doo - Doo - Do Do Do.
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Doo - Do Do Do.
I remember reading an article about the information density in different number bases. Having a larger base, say base 10, allows you to write a big number with fewer digits, like 1022. While having a smaller base, base 2, would take more digits, 1111111110. By multiplying the number of symbols by the number of digits needed (something like that, it was a while ago I read about this) you were able to figure out how efficiently you can represent numbers in any base. It turns out that the most efficient base is between 2 and 3, actually it is base e that comes out as the most efficient base to use. Here is a link with possible references to this question.
I have had to use Open Office to open a Word document that was somehow corrupted and Word would fail to open it. By opening it in Open Office and then saving it to a new name, Word was able to open it again.
And I have not found something in a Word document that Open Office could not handle. That's not saying there are NO things, just saying that they are not used.
I have witnessed my step-dad do an amazing catch. He knocked filled glass off the table with the back of his hand. While the glass was falling, mouth faced downward, he moved quick enough to catch the glass. Then, rather than just catch the glass, he continued the motion to scoop up the falling liquid. He got all of it but two small drops that hit the floor. He was a black-belt tae kwon do instructor at the time, so his reflexes were probably pretty good from training but it was still really impressive to see.
"This is the latest," said Crake.
What they were looking at was a large bulblike object that seemed to be covered with stippled whitish-yellow skin. Out of it came twenty thick fleshy tubes, and at the end of each tube another bulb was growing.
"What the hell is it?" said Jimmy.
"Those are chickens," said Crake. "Chicken parts. Just the breasts, on this one. They've got ones that specialize in drumsticks too, twelve to a growth unit.
"But there aren't any heads..."
"That's the head in the middle," said the woman. "There's a mouth opening at the top, they dump nutrients in there. No eyes or beak or anything, they don't need those."
"This is horrible," said Jimmy. The thing was a nightmare. It was like an animal-protein tuber.
"Picture a sea-anemone body plan," said Crake. "That helps."
"But what's it thinking?" said Jimmy.
The woman gave her jocular woodpecker yodel, and explained that they'd removed all the brain functions that had nothing to do with digestion, assimilation, and growth.
"It's sort of like a chicken hookworm," said Crake.
"No need for added growth hormones," said the woman, "the high growth rate's built in. You get chicken breasts in two weeks-- that's a three-week improvement on the most efficient low-light, high-density chicken farming operation so far devised. And the animal-welfare freaks won't be able to say a word, because this thing feels no pain."
From Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood.
Yes, for Americans, they market them as throwback (Pepsi, Mounain Dew, etc.). For Mexicans, thats just the regular Pepsi or Mountain Dew. Regular Coke sold to Mexicans is also the real sugar recipie instead of the version sold to Americans. If you find a bottle or can the has the label in Mexican Spanish, it will have real sugar. From a quick online search, it even looks like the Coca-Cola company calls it Mexican Coke, and insists it's made with real cane sugar.
Well, I'm more of a PC gamer. So I won't comment on whether a Playstation steering wheel is any good or not. But my leather covered logitech wheel is awesome. Gas and brake peddles or the floor and F1 style shifter paddles on the wheel. But the feedback of the wheel is the main thing that makes it work great for driving. Gravel feels different than a paved road. Each bump you hit jerks the wheel a bit in your hands. A long tight turn will pull the wheel harder against you than a shallow turn does, so you start to get a feel for how much you can push it before you loose traction.
Unless it's a good force feedback steering wheel. That makes it so you can feel how much grip your tires have on the road and makes it feel like driving a real car.
You know, this makes sense. I like the sweeter taste of Pepsi better. But after drinking a whole can of it there is a gross aftertaste in my mouth that I don't like. It also feels like Pepsi leaves a film on my teeth. Plus, it sometimes makes me more thirsty after drinking it, probably all the sugar needing to be diluted. So even though I like the taste of a sip of Pepsi better, I feel Coke is more refreshing to drink.
Actually, all the sodas, even common ones like Coke and Pepsi, use real sugar when their market is Mexican people. Even soda sold in Mexican food stores in the US sell the real sugar version. They don't like the HFCS, so the companies make what will sell better. I don't know why us US Americans have such a weak will that we have to buy what they give us whether it tastes good or not. Brainwashing perhaps?
If you say so, Pepsi is like Mountain Dew. Not quite as bad though, and Dew tastes like hedgehog piss and liquid sugar.
Blasphemy!!! Mountain Dew is the nectar of the gods! Anyone who does not see that is a filthy heathen!
See "slide to unlock"
...which can be avoided by not requiring continuous contact with the screen, such as having a slowly-resetting (but "catchable") slider. All of the patent's claims note that the contact is continuous.
Or, if it is in the implementation like you say, and not just the idea, then I can do slide to unlock using a different algorithm in code than they used. Oh, that still falls under the patent doesn't it!
"bounce back when you reach the end of a list"
...which can be avoided by not showing the background behind the document (for example, by stretching the visible portion of the document so it remains filling the screen).
Or by using different code to "implement" the bounce back in my own way it should pass the patent lock-in, right? Oh yeah, sorry, it doesn't.
It sounds to me like you don't understand the problem at hand. Either that, or you are profiting from it.
I never hear about farmer's kids shooting themselves with all the guns people have in the country. It's the stupid city or suburb kids that play with dangerous tools.