While tornados happen a lot more than quakes, you have to realize that just like quakes most tornados pass without hurting much of anything. It is only the rare, strong tornado that also happens to pass over an inhabited area that causes any real damage. Also, when a major tornado happens and it hits an urban area, a handful of people usually die. On the other hand, when a major quake strikes an urban area hundreds or even thousands die and thats not counting the fires that they normally start.
I've lived in the midwest and I've even seen a tornado, I've seen trees blown over from real small ones and once saw a few houses damaged, but that was about it. On the other hand, while visiting family in LA I've felt several earthquakes...
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I wonder how many people think of the videos of F5s everytime someone says tornado... For what its worth, a VERY large tornado occurred yesterday but it received very little media attention simply because it didn't affect very many people. I'm speaking of the mile wide twister to the south of Kansas City. The majority of really bad ones are just like this, out in the middle of nowhere. Simple statistics, if you were to wipe out a 3/4 mile wide and 30 mile long stretch in the midwest, more than likely not that many people live in that small of an area. When that small area happens to intersect a pretty large area like OKC, Tulsa, or Kansas City you get devastation, but how many times per century does it happen?
One has only to look at the video from any major hurricane to know they do nearly as much damage to a vastly larger area of land. Thats also generally land that is more densely inhabited than the midwest.
I would suggest either Discover or Scientific American. Discover is more like New Scientist in format but less fringe. Scientific American is a bit more article oriented.
I wasn't really trying to bash New Scientist, just trying to display that what they write about isn't exactly always on the scientific horizon. I know that it isn't a journal and isn't intended to be and also that scientific "prospecting" is a somewhat valid idea, but I just think that New Scientist does it a bit more than they should.
I'm going to point out something that no one else seems to have noticed yet. This is an article in New Scientist, that should be enough said who ever actually read it. The have a real penchant for investigating off the wall oddball ideas then writing up the issue with just enough slant that one who reads it takes the same mentality as those who think cars which run on water have been made but are being held back by the big car manufacturers and oil companies. Virtually every issue of New Scientist has at least ONE grand convoluted conspiracy theory. I'm not saying there is no basis at all for this, just that New Scientist isn't exactly a reputable news source much less something approaching a peer-reviewed scientific journal. They are much more like Scientific American but don't even approach that level of credibility.
That said, go ahead and debate it all you want. I just think (as a molecular biologist...more DNA focused than applied protein mechanics like this, but still fairly well versed) that by the time all the "bugs" for this are worked out we'll have leapfrogged the whole idea of magnetic media Winchester syle drives. This is the equivalent to making a perfect artificial diamond point for a record player, by the time we had the tech to do it the world had already moved onto CDs or other media for the overwhelming majority of uses of said records...People still make record players, but they are a niche market to say the absolute least.
In what way is Intel's NetBurst NOT x86? New bus topography comes and goes but the instruction set stays the same. I would say that x86-64 is a much more significant change to the core architecture than NetBurst which is basically marketing speak for a slightly different bus layout combined with a very deeply pipelined CPU.
While I live on the opposite corner, we do happen to have quite a few local tech jobs around here. If one wanted to completely overlook all the secondary players, Wal-Mart alone employees several thousand programmers.
Honestly I hate the way people see pictures of southern Arkansas (or for that matter Memphis or Little Rock) and assume the whole damned state is like that. I live in a metro area of roughly 350,000 people with a 2.5% unemployment rate. AARP recently rated Fayetteville as the 5th best town in the country to live in. Our MSA is currently the sixth fastest growing in the country(47% increase in population from 1990-2000). It is also rated the 36th safest metropolitan area in the US. Our airport was one of only a handful that actually INCREASED in traffic after September 11th and continues to increase to this day.
I'm not really sure what started this diatribe, but please refrain from taking point statistics and making that information seem to apply to an entire two state region.
I faxed and called as well, however I agree that our governor probably doesn't listen to us quite as well as he should. Maybe the close call last election will make him think twice though.
Did you and I read different things??
But in a documentary series to be screened in the UK on Channel 4, Watson says that low intelligence is an inherited disorder and that molecular biologists have a duty to devise gene therapies or screening tests to tackle stupidity.
"If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease," says Watson, now president of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York. "The lower 10 per cent who really have difficulty, even in elementary school, what's the cause of it? A lot of people would like to say, 'Well, poverty, things like that.' It probably isn't. So I'd like to get rid of that, to help the lower 10 per cent
The lower 10 percent isn't limited to those that are retarded, that would be more like the lower.5 percent. He is basically refering to "common idiots". I happen to agree with him, but just wanted to point out what you didn't notice.
Actually, I would say that mankind has been predicting "doom and gloom" for a hell of a lot more than the last century. Look up the history of Copernicus or Kepler. Many thought their work was going to lead to the end of the world because of "God's wrath." Now their ideas are COMPLETELY accepted and no one bothers to say they are "against God or the bible."
People, in general, are stupid. However, if even 1 in 10 were geniuses after genetic engineering that would still leave 90% of the population at less intelligence than the geniuses and eventually THEY would be the new stupid people.
Stanley Kubrick ordered more than 120 takes in the scene where the camera simply slowly zooms in on Scatman Crothers as he "shines" in his bedroom. Kubrick originally wanted approximately 70 takes of the scene where Hollaran gets killed by Jack Torrance, but Jack Nicholson talked Kubrick into going easy on the 70 year-old Crothers and stopping after 40. At one point during the filming, Crothers became so exasperated with Kubrick's notorious, compulsive style of excessive retakes that he broke down and cried, asking "What do you want, Mr. Kubrick?"
This is from http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0081505
from another who loves The Shining =)
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Actually no, still wrong. A genome is the entire complement of genes an organism possess, a chromosome is a relatively arbitrary unit in which the genome is broken into. I doubt any scientist ever suggested that "more chromosomes=more complex" seeing as how most higher plants have significantly more chromosomes than any animals. A gene on the other hand is a functional unit, it can code for one or more proteins but they have a well known beginning and end (both to us and to the transcription machinery). These three words are about as non-exchangable as three words can be.
You noted you weren't "intending to be scientific", however you were commenting on a somewhat scientific article in a moderately well-read community. If you don't want anyone to insult you, don't comment on things you don't understand.
NWN will be primarily a client/server game for totally different reasons than most FPS games. NWN will follow the old style, in person role-playing game format closer than any other game ever (unless you could DM Assistant and things like that as games:\). While computer AI is nice, it could never make a decent DM. So either it is you DMing a bunch of computer players (which would be odd...to say the least) or a human DMing more human players which incidently we are now set up very well for:)
I would agree with everything you say except for your conclusion on why Intel is pushing RDRAM for the server market. I would say that it has more to do with price than any performance issue. 512 MB of RDRAM is about $4000. I think the vast majority of users buying that much RAM (which is not very large for the server market...) would rather spend their money in other areas.
In a few billion years we will either have expanded throughout most/all of the galaxy or destroyed ourselves. If we haven't spread beyond this solar system in even a million years, we don't really DESERVE to exist because we really ARE the Alabama of the universe...
Are you implying that SGI currently sells hardware aimed at little old e-mail checking ladies? I know they DO plan on lightening their systems a little, but the average HOME is still not their target market.
Solaris has run on x86 for at least 3 years now. Now run and run well are different things...but Solaris 8 may change that.
I would have moderated you down, but I lost moderator access sometime in the last 4 hours (and I never used any of my points...). Anyway, an actual reply is better than just moderating you down, and I couldn't do both...
Both of you undoubtably owe me royalties for my patent on paper. We currently have a patent pending on hydrogen/helium fusion, but apparently some moron is trying to prove prior art with "the sun," whatever the hell that is...
This IS a better explanation. When I said "from scratch" I meant "not a product which is either naturally occuring or designed to mimick the effects of other naturally occuring entities," NOT "produced by 3D modelling." Acyclovir is a very simple drug, but even it was almost certainly tweaked between the 3D design and actual production stages.
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While tornados happen a lot more than quakes, you have to realize that just like quakes most tornados pass without hurting much of anything. It is only the rare, strong tornado that also happens to pass over an inhabited area that causes any real damage. Also, when a major tornado happens and it hits an urban area, a handful of people usually die. On the other hand, when a major quake strikes an urban area hundreds or even thousands die and thats not counting the fires that they normally start.
I've lived in the midwest and I've even seen a tornado, I've seen trees blown over from real small ones and once saw a few houses damaged, but that was about it. On the other hand, while visiting family in LA I've felt several earthquakes...
I wonder how many people think of the videos of F5s everytime someone says tornado... For what its worth, a VERY large tornado occurred yesterday but it received very little media attention simply because it didn't affect very many people. I'm speaking of the mile wide twister to the south of Kansas City. The majority of really bad ones are just like this, out in the middle of nowhere. Simple statistics, if you were to wipe out a 3/4 mile wide and 30 mile long stretch in the midwest, more than likely not that many people live in that small of an area. When that small area happens to intersect a pretty large area like OKC, Tulsa, or Kansas City you get devastation, but how many times per century does it happen?
One has only to look at the video from any major hurricane to know they do nearly as much damage to a vastly larger area of land. Thats also generally land that is more densely inhabited than the midwest.
I would suggest either Discover or Scientific American. Discover is more like New Scientist in format but less fringe. Scientific American is a bit more article oriented.
I wasn't really trying to bash New Scientist, just trying to display that what they write about isn't exactly always on the scientific horizon. I know that it isn't a journal and isn't intended to be and also that scientific "prospecting" is a somewhat valid idea, but I just think that New Scientist does it a bit more than they should.
I'm going to point out something that no one else seems to have noticed yet. This is an article in New Scientist, that should be enough said who ever actually read it. The have a real penchant for investigating off the wall oddball ideas then writing up the issue with just enough slant that one who reads it takes the same mentality as those who think cars which run on water have been made but are being held back by the big car manufacturers and oil companies. Virtually every issue of New Scientist has at least ONE grand convoluted conspiracy theory. I'm not saying there is no basis at all for this, just that New Scientist isn't exactly a reputable news source much less something approaching a peer-reviewed scientific journal. They are much more like Scientific American but don't even approach that level of credibility.
That said, go ahead and debate it all you want. I just think (as a molecular biologist...more DNA focused than applied protein mechanics like this, but still fairly well versed) that by the time all the "bugs" for this are worked out we'll have leapfrogged the whole idea of magnetic media Winchester syle drives. This is the equivalent to making a perfect artificial diamond point for a record player, by the time we had the tech to do it the world had already moved onto CDs or other media for the overwhelming majority of uses of said records...People still make record players, but they are a niche market to say the absolute least.
In what way is Intel's NetBurst NOT x86? New bus topography comes and goes but the instruction set stays the same. I would say that x86-64 is a much more significant change to the core architecture than NetBurst which is basically marketing speak for a slightly different bus layout combined with a very deeply pipelined CPU.
That's my first thought too. Obviously round holes need round plugs ;)
While I live on the opposite corner, we do happen to have quite a few local tech jobs around here. If one wanted to completely overlook all the secondary players, Wal-Mart alone employees several thousand programmers. Honestly I hate the way people see pictures of southern Arkansas (or for that matter Memphis or Little Rock) and assume the whole damned state is like that. I live in a metro area of roughly 350,000 people with a 2.5% unemployment rate. AARP recently rated Fayetteville as the 5th best town in the country to live in. Our MSA is currently the sixth fastest growing in the country(47% increase in population from 1990-2000). It is also rated the 36th safest metropolitan area in the US. Our airport was one of only a handful that actually INCREASED in traffic after September 11th and continues to increase to this day. I'm not really sure what started this diatribe, but please refrain from taking point statistics and making that information seem to apply to an entire two state region.
I faxed and called as well, however I agree that our governor probably doesn't listen to us quite as well as he should. Maybe the close call last election will make him think twice though.
Did you and I read different things?? But in a documentary series to be screened in the UK on Channel 4, Watson says that low intelligence is an inherited disorder and that molecular biologists have a duty to devise gene therapies or screening tests to tackle stupidity. "If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease," says Watson, now president of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York. "The lower 10 per cent who really have difficulty, even in elementary school, what's the cause of it? A lot of people would like to say, 'Well, poverty, things like that.' It probably isn't. So I'd like to get rid of that, to help the lower 10 per cent The lower 10 percent isn't limited to those that are retarded, that would be more like the lower .5 percent. He is basically refering to "common idiots". I happen to agree with him, but just wanted to point out what you didn't notice.
Actually, I would say that mankind has been predicting "doom and gloom" for a hell of a lot more than the last century. Look up the history of Copernicus or Kepler. Many thought their work was going to lead to the end of the world because of "God's wrath." Now their ideas are COMPLETELY accepted and no one bothers to say they are "against God or the bible." People, in general, are stupid. However, if even 1 in 10 were geniuses after genetic engineering that would still leave 90% of the population at less intelligence than the geniuses and eventually THEY would be the new stupid people.
Stanley Kubrick ordered more than 120 takes in the scene where the camera simply slowly zooms in on Scatman Crothers as he "shines" in his bedroom. Kubrick originally wanted approximately 70 takes of the scene where Hollaran gets killed by Jack Torrance, but Jack Nicholson talked Kubrick into going easy on the 70 year-old Crothers and stopping after 40. At one point during the filming, Crothers became so exasperated with Kubrick's notorious, compulsive style of excessive retakes that he broke down and cried, asking "What do you want, Mr. Kubrick?" This is from http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0081505 from another who loves The Shining =)
Actually no, still wrong. A genome is the entire complement of genes an organism possess, a chromosome is a relatively arbitrary unit in which the genome is broken into. I doubt any scientist ever suggested that "more chromosomes=more complex" seeing as how most higher plants have significantly more chromosomes than any animals. A gene on the other hand is a functional unit, it can code for one or more proteins but they have a well known beginning and end (both to us and to the transcription machinery). These three words are about as non-exchangable as three words can be. You noted you weren't "intending to be scientific", however you were commenting on a somewhat scientific article in a moderately well-read community. If you don't want anyone to insult you, don't comment on things you don't understand.
Exactly what video card do you have that will work that far outside of spec?
That year ago comment is the most important aspect of your comment...the Athlon FPU SMOKES the CuMine FPU...
NWN will be primarily a client/server game for totally different reasons than most FPS games. NWN will follow the old style, in person role-playing game format closer than any other game ever (unless you could DM Assistant and things like that as games :\). While computer AI is nice, it could never make a decent DM. So either it is you DMing a bunch of computer players (which would be odd...to say the least) or a human DMing more human players which incidently we are now set up very well for :)
It was most likely Neverwinter Nights.
I would agree with everything you say except for your conclusion on why Intel is pushing RDRAM for the server market. I would say that it has more to do with price than any performance issue. 512 MB of RDRAM is about $4000. I think the vast majority of users buying that much RAM (which is not very large for the server market...) would rather spend their money in other areas.
In a few billion years we will either have expanded throughout most/all of the galaxy or destroyed ourselves. If we haven't spread beyond this solar system in even a million years, we don't really DESERVE to exist because we really ARE the Alabama of the universe...
Are you implying that SGI currently sells hardware aimed at little old e-mail checking ladies? I know they DO plan on lightening their systems a little, but the average HOME is still not their target market.
Solaris has run on x86 for at least 3 years now. Now run and run well are different things...but Solaris 8 may change that.
I would have moderated you down, but I lost moderator access sometime in the last 4 hours (and I never used any of my points...). Anyway, an actual reply is better than just moderating you down, and I couldn't do both...
Both of you undoubtably owe me royalties for my patent on paper. We currently have a patent pending on hydrogen/helium fusion, but apparently some moron is trying to prove prior art with "the sun," whatever the hell that is...
"...or pay them large sums of carbon dioxide for the privelege."
:) We're also paying off the sulfur digesting bacteria to help ward off future lawsuits...
Don't we already do that
Damn lunatic!
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This IS a better explanation. When I said "from scratch" I meant "not a product which is either naturally occuring or designed to mimick the effects of other naturally occuring entities," NOT "produced by 3D modelling." Acyclovir is a very simple drug, but even it was almost certainly tweaked between the 3D design and actual production stages.
Actually, I'm faily sure acyclovir was design from scratch.