Although it isn't that expensive and the cost is apparently applicable only if you are calling someone who doesn't have Skype. I suspect that somebody will be paying more in the future if their is wide-spread use of this service.
The linked in the story sort of breaks down at the end...
I think that the New Scientist might be more informative. However, I don't have a subscription.
OK, an obvious question, what if Bush wants to look at other search records while he has them. Say Google searches about Iraq, Osama, or polical candidates? Does anyone really think this won't open up the door for more civil rights abuses? This could really hurt Google in the long run if they turn over there records, even if they show that they are putting up a fight.
--my two cents.
Because Yahoo science articles are usually crap. I'm all for showing how ID just another creationist banner and nothing more, but gleaning support from Yahoo news ain't gonna cut it. Also, the "mysteries" of bee flight have been known for about 20 years (I'm an entomologist, I've taken insect behavior classes). The scientists in the article were actually exploring some more subtle aspects of insect flight.
I agree with the Captain on this. Adjust your preferences and be happy! Slashdot provides plenty of flexibility for the user to filter out the garbage they don't want. Giving Slashdot more moderation power means that the end-user gets less freedom. Do you really want less freedom of choice in an "open-source" community? Seems a little hypocritical don't ya' think? Come on people, the site moderators shouldn't have to hold your hand so you aren't exposed to the big, bad submitter working an angle. Again, go to your preferences page -- after you login, it's the link just below your username on the upper left-hand column.
What is special about it? That's easy: 1)At the time I purchased mine the iPod was the most compatible MP3 player with my iMac. 2) I have a large music collection and I can fit most of it on this tiny device! 3) It is virtually skip-proof!
Basically, it does what it is supposed to do. You don't seem to have a need for such a device or you would understand its utility. Why complain about something you don't own, need, or use on a regular basis? Unless you have something to gain...
..and he could get more electricity than he wants
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I'm no meteorologist but I think, unless the vortex is kept very, very clean, he will end up generating a collosal static charge (e.g., lightning). How is his machine going to address lighting strikes?
On a somewhat unrelated note... I think this could be a grand concept for harvesting energy from other solar bodies (providing it has a source of heat of course).
Nothing short of educational brilliance
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As a casual musician and a professional entomologist I think it's great. I was surprised that they were actually quite good at their musical composition! Now, if I can only figure out how to substitute in trehalos (i.e., insect blood sugar) for glucose.
Ooook. Notice, Anonymous Coward, I didn't post the image on his servers. I just thought it was amusing that such dramatic anit-microsoft images have made it into his images servers all ready. I guess I'll go now to take a knap-time after I learn my new alphabet letter.
Don't worry your not that old. I'm sure that there are people reading this that can best me in old age but the 2400 baud modem I had back in the day only allowed me to interact with bulletin boards. And from there maybe I could download an ASCI version of hangman!
I probably would not have gone to see this movie. Now, I think I will. The acting doesn't seem to shabby, and the plot moves along fast enough for you not predict every tangent. Of course, this is just the first few minutes, the rest could be aweful. But I know I've seen far worse scifi flicks within the same opening-sequence timeframe.
Cheers!
No, I do mean NMR and its a relative dating technique. The NMR profiles of amber turn out to be unique to certain mines in the Dominican Repuplic. I'm sorry I don't know the details of the analysis, I'm not a physical scientist, but the work is published and does state that the proceedure was NMR. The dates of these mines have been surveyed using other techniques. So, if you have a specimen of Dominican amber and apply NMR analysis to it you can infer or confirm both its collection locality and date. Again, based on previous studies.
He may have also used nuclear magnetic resonance to date the specimen. I'm currently describing a new bug in amber and plan to use an NMR technique. All of the Dominican amber mines have been dated according to a paper that I don't have handy at the moment. Anyway in it, they describe the NMR resonance of the ambers from several Dominican mines. This manuscript is often referenced in Dominican amber dating as a relative reference to date a newly described specimen. Additionally, if he knows from what mine the amber was taken he may not need to date the specimen himself because some of the mines (e.g., the La Toca mines) have been dated several times by several techniques. To the fossil dating critics out there, you really need to read some of this research yourself before spouting of your thoughts. As is true for much as science, no one puts all of their wait on one technique to make a conclusion. There are a few ways to date amber and if they all point to approx. the same age they are probably about that age.
It's own label! Look, with artists like U2 and Madonna collaborating with them why don't they spin off their own label. Could be huge!? And, considering Apple's sales I'm sure there will always be smaller labels that would happily distribute their stuff through Apple.
...and how was it being used? Was the file being used by admissions? Did anyone with access to the file have write permission? And does this mean that anyone in that class of students could have easily changed their records? Yes, this is a breach of privacy, but it might have also been an oportunity for some unethical clod.
Lost photos from the Serengeti and my dissertation
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Earlier this year I lost a 1 gig. SanDisk CF card full of gorgious photos of large animals and such from the Serengeti. The card just decided to forget its purpose. Later that week I lost my 200 GB Seagate drive WITH MY DISSERTATION AND ASSOCIATED DATA! Also (stupid me) I had not recently checked our Retrospect client-side info. tool to find out if that drive was being backed up. And, when I check with our IT guy I found out that that drive was not being backed up (rather my other failing drive was being backed up). I send the drive in to DriveSavers.com and they found that the drive head had come in contact with the platers; therefore, the disk was unrecoverable. After a day or two of genernal freaking out, I realized that I had many reams of hardcopy raw data and and old copy of the folder containing my dissertation on the old "failing-but-not-dead-yet drive" and so I am just now getting caught up. This was a lot of fun!!
And John if your reading this... I just had to tell the story and thanks again for the St. Peter's Porter!!
In my experience in science keeping graphics very simple is best. I usually hope to have the audience leave my presentations with three adjectives in mind when they critique it: simple, clean, and creative. Assuming that you have followed rules of grammar and your scientific method is sound, a simple yet innovative presentation can make a good memory. Your data will be well understood and remembered. I absolutely detest the obligatory sequence data slide that creeps into many science presentations. Surely a creative scientist will someday discover a better way to effectively communicate sequence data in a presentation. And, how many people are going to stand at your poster for 4 hours to hand-copy all of your sequence data?
"In Xanadu did Kubla Kan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea..." -- Samuel Coleridge
Well, I suppose the State Department http://www.state.gov/ is needing to boost their income. Interesting how terror has created new funding opportunities.
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Although it isn't that expensive and the cost is apparently applicable only if you are calling someone who doesn't have Skype. I suspect that somebody will be paying more in the future if their is wide-spread use of this service.
The linked in the story sort of breaks down at the end... I think that the New Scientist might be more informative. However, I don't have a subscription.
OK, an obvious question, what if Bush wants to look at other search records while he has them. Say Google searches about Iraq, Osama, or polical candidates? Does anyone really think this won't open up the door for more civil rights abuses? This could really hurt Google in the long run if they turn over there records, even if they show that they are putting up a fight. --my two cents.
Because Yahoo science articles are usually crap. I'm all for showing how ID just another creationist banner and nothing more, but gleaning support from Yahoo news ain't gonna cut it. Also, the "mysteries" of bee flight have been known for about 20 years (I'm an entomologist, I've taken insect behavior classes). The scientists in the article were actually exploring some more subtle aspects of insect flight.
I agree with the Captain on this. Adjust your preferences and be happy! Slashdot provides plenty of flexibility for the user to filter out the garbage they don't want. Giving Slashdot more moderation power means that the end-user gets less freedom. Do you really want less freedom of choice in an "open-source" community? Seems a little hypocritical don't ya' think? Come on people, the site moderators shouldn't have to hold your hand so you aren't exposed to the big, bad submitter working an angle. Again, go to your preferences page -- after you login, it's the link just below your username on the upper left-hand column.
What is special about it? That's easy: 1)At the time I purchased mine the iPod was the most compatible MP3 player with my iMac. 2) I have a large music collection and I can fit most of it on this tiny device! 3) It is virtually skip-proof! Basically, it does what it is supposed to do. You don't seem to have a need for such a device or you would understand its utility. Why complain about something you don't own, need, or use on a regular basis? Unless you have something to gain...
I'm no meteorologist but I think, unless the vortex is kept very, very clean, he will end up generating a collosal static charge (e.g., lightning). How is his machine going to address lighting strikes? On a somewhat unrelated note... I think this could be a grand concept for harvesting energy from other solar bodies (providing it has a source of heat of course).
As a casual musician and a professional entomologist I think it's great. I was surprised that they were actually quite good at their musical composition! Now, if I can only figure out how to substitute in trehalos (i.e., insect blood sugar) for glucose.
Ooook. Notice, Anonymous Coward, I didn't post the image on his servers. I just thought it was amusing that such dramatic anit-microsoft images have made it into his images servers all ready. I guess I'll go now to take a knap-time after I learn my new alphabet letter.
I think this image from his image gallery speaks for his intentions pretty well. :-)
... that will be painfully out of date in 2 seconds.
I knew I could be bested easily in the old-school modem catagory. Good to know you guys still have your eyesight! ;-p
Don't worry your not that old. I'm sure that there are people reading this that can best me in old age but the 2400 baud modem I had back in the day only allowed me to interact with bulletin boards. And from there maybe I could download an ASCI version of hangman!
Ever had a commercial jingle that you just couldn't get out of your head? Ouch.
I probably would not have gone to see this movie. Now, I think I will. The acting doesn't seem to shabby, and the plot moves along fast enough for you not predict every tangent. Of course, this is just the first few minutes, the rest could be aweful. But I know I've seen far worse scifi flicks within the same opening-sequence timeframe. Cheers!
No, I do mean NMR and its a relative dating technique. The NMR profiles of amber turn out to be unique to certain mines in the Dominican Repuplic. I'm sorry I don't know the details of the analysis, I'm not a physical scientist, but the work is published and does state that the proceedure was NMR. The dates of these mines have been surveyed using other techniques. So, if you have a specimen of Dominican amber and apply NMR analysis to it you can infer or confirm both its collection locality and date. Again, based on previous studies.
He may have also used nuclear magnetic resonance to date the specimen. I'm currently describing a new bug in amber and plan to use an NMR technique. All of the Dominican amber mines have been dated according to a paper that I don't have handy at the moment. Anyway in it, they describe the NMR resonance of the ambers from several Dominican mines. This manuscript is often referenced in Dominican amber dating as a relative reference to date a newly described specimen. Additionally, if he knows from what mine the amber was taken he may not need to date the specimen himself because some of the mines (e.g., the La Toca mines) have been dated several times by several techniques. To the fossil dating critics out there, you really need to read some of this research yourself before spouting of your thoughts. As is true for much as science, no one puts all of their wait on one technique to make a conclusion. There are a few ways to date amber and if they all point to approx. the same age they are probably about that age.
It's own label! Look, with artists like U2 and Madonna collaborating with them why don't they spin off their own label. Could be huge!? And, considering Apple's sales I'm sure there will always be smaller labels that would happily distribute their stuff through Apple.
Color me sudo...
...and how was it being used? Was the file being used by admissions? Did anyone with access to the file have write permission? And does this mean that anyone in that class of students could have easily changed their records? Yes, this is a breach of privacy, but it might have also been an oportunity for some unethical clod.
Earlier this year I lost a 1 gig. SanDisk CF card full of gorgious photos of large animals and such from the Serengeti. The card just decided to forget its purpose. Later that week I lost my 200 GB Seagate drive WITH MY DISSERTATION AND ASSOCIATED DATA! Also (stupid me) I had not recently checked our Retrospect client-side info. tool to find out if that drive was being backed up. And, when I check with our IT guy I found out that that drive was not being backed up (rather my other failing drive was being backed up). I send the drive in to DriveSavers.com and they found that the drive head had come in contact with the platers; therefore, the disk was unrecoverable. After a day or two of genernal freaking out, I realized that I had many reams of hardcopy raw data and and old copy of the folder containing my dissertation on the old "failing-but-not-dead-yet drive" and so I am just now getting caught up. This was a lot of fun!!
And John if your reading this... I just had to tell the story and thanks again for the St. Peter's Porter!!
"nyah nyah, yak NYAK NYAK!!!" Oh, you don't understand... Well check this out!!
In my experience in science keeping graphics very simple is best. I usually hope to have the audience leave my presentations with three adjectives in mind when they critique it: simple, clean, and creative. Assuming that you have followed rules of grammar and your scientific method is sound, a simple yet innovative presentation can make a good memory. Your data will be well understood and remembered. I absolutely detest the obligatory sequence data slide that creeps into many science presentations. Surely a creative scientist will someday discover a better way to effectively communicate sequence data in a presentation. And, how many people are going to stand at your poster for 4 hours to hand-copy all of your sequence data?
"In Xanadu did Kubla Kan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea..." -- Samuel Coleridge
Well, I suppose the State Department http://www.state.gov/ is needing to boost their income. Interesting how terror has created new funding opportunities.