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The Red Cross wouldn't lie. Certainly my-main-man at the Cross, Jean-Jacques, was nothing but totally upfront during our interview. And I've interviewed plenty of spivs. My spivometre didn't move a nanometre while I was talking to him. Jean-Jacques was a straight up bro.
What in the holy name of hell is passing for journalism these days? I might as well be reading my little brother's blog.
The solution to this is remarkably simple -- people need to stop being such damned pushovers. I don't understand why more people feel the need to complain about how management expects more out of them now that they're more easily reachable; all they have to do is show a little backbone and stand up for their free time once in a while.
When people negotiate pay, they need to take availability into account. Want to be able to call me on Saturdays? That'll cost you a few thousand more a year, because I value my free time. Want to send me on business trips? Here's the minimum per diem I expect. A retired gentleman I worked for a few months ago gave quite a lot of testimony as an expert witness for product liability lawsuits, and his view on it was simple: he starts getting paid the moment he walks out his door. If they want him bad enough, they'll pay it, and he makes a bundle; otherwise, he can stay at home and enjoy his retirement.
Sure, 1500W isn't too hard to deliver when you've got 120V coming out of the wall. Voltage is a measure of energy per unit charge -- at 120V, carriers are lot more excited than they are at 12V, so you can deliver the same power with less current. Try charging a 12V battery with 120V, though.
To deliver 1500W at 12VDC, you need 125A of charging current. You'd probably want 4AWG copper for this. Compare that to the 12.5A your hair dryer is pulling through 14AWG wire.
The attraction is that the power lines already exist. How many communications companies really want to lay shiny and expensive new fiber to extremely rural areas where the population density is 0.1 people per square mile?
My guess would be that wardriving is illegal in the same sense that "burglar's tools" are illegal: although hammers, gloves, or even lockpicks (in some states) aren't illegal to possess by themselves, if you intend to use them to commit burglary, they become burglar's tools, and the state can try and convict you on another felony statute violation.
According to a press release regarding the concert in Los Angeles, Uemastu "creat[ed] the score for the two hour concert... [f]eaturing a full orchestra and a 32-person choir."
Or, you can ask Uematsu at his Square-Enix homepage.
One of the amazing things about being underwater is that it's not difficult for a submersible not to be underwater anymore. That, combined with the amazing things done with solar cells, batteries, and Ohm's Law for the last twenty years makes me fairly confident that the team's premise is sound.
Seriously, why is that comment insightful? Will I get modded up the next time an article on solar farms goes up if I question the decision to build the farm in a location where sometimes it's not daytime?
So please, stop asking for clarification on the percentage, because it just doesn't matter. All it tells us is that we are closely related, but not how close, or in what way.
That was exactly my point. Why bother to run expensive computational genetics experiments if the result comes out as "Well, we know it's close, but not how close, or in what way." The scientists might as well give a picture of an animal to a sketch artist and say, "Draw this, except more primordial."
EA's stock closed up 4.8% today at its highest value since late July at $52.80.
Seems like the investors don't believe EA will actually blow the company profits on their developers either:)
From the article: "Then they made their algorithm work backward from these descendants, to see if it could recreate the original ancestor. The ancestor the algorithm came up with had a sequence that was 98% accurate..."
Human and chimpanzee DNA are about 98% similar, too. In that context, 98% similarity doesn't seem that impressive. Maybe someone needs to invent a new benchmark for sequence comparison for species that are already similar?
By definition, inanimate constructs, whether they be machine-gun toting robots, code snippets, or Bic pens, are *amoral*. They simply don't belong in the realm of ethical vs. unethical. I could use my snazzy Bic pen to write a treatise on world peace, or I could stab a Nobel Peace laureate in the eye. Either way, the pen is an instrument, and only my use of it is subject to moral interpretation.
No matter the field, I think scientific advancements are always potentially beneficial, weapons engineering included. The important consideration is, once we've made the breakthrough, who do we let loose on the world with it?
For the same reason people liked high-speed dubbing for copying tapes -- capturing a lot of audio in real time sucks. It's also hassle to chop up 5 hours of music into individual tracks. Granted, you can find utilities to assist with that task with little trouble, but Joe User likely wouldn't try anything beyond Sound Recorder and Winamp.
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Once it arose in a population, parasitic sex would catch on pretty quickly.
Looks like the author's been to Vegas recently.
Am I the only one who actually moused over the links?
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The Red Cross wouldn't lie. Certainly my-main-man at the Cross, Jean-Jacques, was nothing but totally upfront during our interview. And I've interviewed plenty of spivs. My spivometre didn't move a nanometre while I was talking to him. Jean-Jacques was a straight up bro.
What in the holy name of hell is passing for journalism these days? I might as well be reading my little brother's blog.
Ellen Simonetti's blog, mentioned in the CNN article as having "suggestive photographs of [her] in uniform," dies a slow horrible death...
Do you think they may expect more of you?
The solution to this is remarkably simple -- people need to stop being such damned pushovers. I don't understand why more people feel the need to complain about how management expects more out of them now that they're more easily reachable; all they have to do is show a little backbone and stand up for their free time once in a while.
When people negotiate pay, they need to take availability into account. Want to be able to call me on Saturdays? That'll cost you a few thousand more a year, because I value my free time. Want to send me on business trips? Here's the minimum per diem I expect. A retired gentleman I worked for a few months ago gave quite a lot of testimony as an expert witness for product liability lawsuits, and his view on it was simple: he starts getting paid the moment he walks out his door. If they want him bad enough, they'll pay it, and he makes a bundle; otherwise, he can stay at home and enjoy his retirement.
Gagarin wasn't flying, he was falling with style.
Sure, 1500W isn't too hard to deliver when you've got 120V coming out of the wall. Voltage is a measure of energy per unit charge -- at 120V, carriers are lot more excited than they are at 12V, so you can deliver the same power with less current. Try charging a 12V battery with 120V, though.
To deliver 1500W at 12VDC, you need 125A of charging current. You'd probably want 4AWG copper for this. Compare that to the 12.5A your hair dryer is pulling through 14AWG wire.
The attraction is that the power lines already exist. How many communications companies really want to lay shiny and expensive new fiber to extremely rural areas where the population density is 0.1 people per square mile?
My guess would be that wardriving is illegal in the same sense that "burglar's tools" are illegal: although hammers, gloves, or even lockpicks (in some states) aren't illegal to possess by themselves, if you intend to use them to commit burglary, they become burglar's tools, and the state can try and convict you on another felony statute violation.
I have three acronyms for you: DS9, TNG, and CSI. Need I say more? If so, I could add MXC too.
According to a press release regarding the concert in Los Angeles, Uemastu "creat[ed] the score for the two hour concert... [f]eaturing a full orchestra and a 32-person choir."
Or, you can ask Uematsu at his Square-Enix homepage.
One of the amazing things about being underwater is that it's not difficult for a submersible not to be underwater anymore. That, combined with the amazing things done with solar cells, batteries, and Ohm's Law for the last twenty years makes me fairly confident that the team's premise is sound.
Seriously, why is that comment insightful? Will I get modded up the next time an article on solar farms goes up if I question the decision to build the farm in a location where sometimes it's not daytime?
So long as you don't send a letter to the editor:
Please keep in mind that we will not post letters that contain vulgar language and/or non-constructive comments.
Read: If we're going to censor things we disagree with, dammit, we're going all the way!
So please, stop asking for clarification on the percentage, because it just doesn't matter. All it tells us is that we are closely related, but not how close, or in what way.
That was exactly my point. Why bother to run expensive computational genetics experiments if the result comes out as "Well, we know it's close, but not how close, or in what way." The scientists might as well give a picture of an animal to a sketch artist and say, "Draw this, except more primordial."
If I recall correctly from my btech MUSE days, the 'mechs relied on pretty massive gyros to keep their balance, like a Segway.
... that he didn't mention "starving to death as a result of massive overpopulation" as one of the ways these future Methusalahs will die.
EA's stock closed up 4.8% today at its highest value since late July at $52.80. Seems like the investors don't believe EA will actually blow the company profits on their developers either :)
From the article: "Then they made their algorithm work backward from these descendants, to see if it could recreate the original ancestor. The ancestor the algorithm came up with had a sequence that was 98% accurate..."
Human and chimpanzee DNA are about 98% similar, too. In that context, 98% similarity doesn't seem that impressive. Maybe someone needs to invent a new benchmark for sequence comparison for species that are already similar?
By definition, inanimate constructs, whether they be machine-gun toting robots, code snippets, or Bic pens, are *amoral*. They simply don't belong in the realm of ethical vs. unethical. I could use my snazzy Bic pen to write a treatise on world peace, or I could stab a Nobel Peace laureate in the eye. Either way, the pen is an instrument, and only my use of it is subject to moral interpretation.
No matter the field, I think scientific advancements are always potentially beneficial, weapons engineering included. The important consideration is, once we've made the breakthrough, who do we let loose on the world with it?
For the same reason people liked high-speed dubbing for copying tapes -- capturing a lot of audio in real time sucks. It's also hassle to chop up 5 hours of music into individual tracks. Granted, you can find utilities to assist with that task with little trouble, but Joe User likely wouldn't try anything beyond Sound Recorder and Winamp.
Google cache: amasci.com traffic experiments.
You don't need autonomous vehicles to combat traffic jams.