To me the most daming evidence that there is no such thing as paranormal is that they are associated in some way with people. That alone dictates that the number of incidents will increase as more and more people are born/die. As time goes on it should become easier to find evidence yet very little "evidence" exists. So if you are of the type that thinks there is currently no evidence when the expectation is of an increasing opportunity for such evidence then it is reasonable to assume that it is not possible.
You should scan all that shit in and put it on the web. Nothing like generating a fsckass amount of bad press to get a company to fix their broken shit. What you did, certified letter etc... will probably work but does nothing to fix the general problem.
I wish there was a website like gettingFuckedBy.com or something witty that devoted itself to showing how companies are screwing us everyday.
wow you missed that point completely. Lets use some logic shall we? First of all, it is pretty damn hard to travel around without eyes. Therefore it would not be a silly expectation that the eyes developed long before humans started globe trotting. Hence the quite reasonable expectation that people have the same type of eyes. (Not that they are exactly the same, color varies widely for example.)
And different races do not end up in the same place by chance. When people live in an area long enough, certain changes are quite common in order to better cope with the environment. Skin color is one of those.
The purpose of the mule example, which you did not even bother to research at all, is that they exist at all considering their parents have differening dna lengths. And no, a mule is NOT a mutation, merely an offspring, an unsuccessful offspring, which is NOT uncommon in evolution. Evolution is NOT a direct path to success. Evolution is trial and error. The mule is an error obviously since it is sterile.
Look, it is obvious that you know very little about what you are claiming is bunk. If you truly wish to argue against something then you must know more about the material then the people you are arguing with. That does not mean you have to believe it, but merely that you know it.
How could they all have possibly developed the same organs, eyes, brain etc etc...AND have totally interchangable DNA...
The amount of time it takes to evolve things suchs as eyes is extraordinarly large compared to the amount of time it took humans to develop means of moving around.
And also, you should look up what a mule is. You would be suprised at how different two things can be and still produce offspring. (sterile in this case but amazing nonetheless.)
mule -- (sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)
The thought that software cannot damage your hardware is a naive assumption. Go ahead and set your refresh rate on your vid card to the highest damn thing you got. Chances are you'll hear a pop and see a puff of smoke as your high voltage capacitor blows up.
In fact I am right now listening to the scsi session of the
OSDN/Usenix Kernel Summit and they are talking about their concern of spinning too many scsi devices up at once since it could spike your power supply and fry it.
With this kind of description, it would make more sense if it was some kind of weird mold eating the crap that has sunk into the concrete. Mostly likely spreading underneath the concrete.
Uhh no. A lot of Microsoft licenses prevent you from transferring your licenses. That coupled with the inability to buy windows95 means there is no legal means to install windows95 on new hardware.
And also, Apple has to support the warranty on the new hardware on the off chance that an untested old version of MacOS fries the hardware or nukes the hard drive. Do you honestly expect them to continually make sure that MacOS 9 is compatible with every new release of hardware? Do you think Microsoft tests Windows XP on your 5 year old Dell?
And also, the Windows 95 link you have there is a different situation, that's about microsoft no longer making their most current libraries available for windows 95. A completely sensible thing to do, but assine to do without ample warning time of the change.
Even if they have EOL's OS 9, that's no reason to prevent future hardware from booting it.
Yes there is. Perhaps MacOS 9 does some stupid checks which could actually damage future hardware. Maybe apple is going to change some aspect of the hardware that could be toasted by the ignorant OS 9. The difference with windows is that the bios does a lot of hardware setup so that windows doesn't fry anything.
The question is silly. First of all, if there was no hole there would be no need for a cover. Thus the hole must have come first. How do you make a hole like that? Usually with a large drill. Drills make circular holes. Pipes to put into the holes are also circular because they don't crush very easily, e.g., a square shape would need a triangle support member to make it incompressible. Thus when faced with a hole in the ground that is circular, you put a circular cover on it. The remaining qualites such as not being able to fall into the hole are free extras.
It depends on how it is phrased. I would ask one of two questions
1) Estimate how many gas stations there are in the US. 2) How many gas stations are there in the US?
Note the importance of wording. Your answer is clearly wrong for question (2). For question (1) I would expect your type of answer but for question (2) I would expect an answer such as, going to the proper government agency that gives licenses to sell gas and ask them how many active licenses there are. That would be as exact an answer you could get.
Even if a law requires it, it can still fail spectacularly. Imagine that the law passes and they say that on Jan 1, 2003, all computers sold must be compliant. There'll be huge rush on the grandfathered computers. I find my 900MHz Athlon from years ago still more than capable for everything I do. What will happen is after Jan 1, 2003, sales will plummet. Intel/Asus/etc... will start bleeding money like never before. Sales will be completely stagnant. Can the populace wait 1 measly year before buying a new computer? Easily. Can Intel et al survive a black year? Hell no. The laws will get negated faster than a virus appearing in your email.
DJVU will never get anywhere, they are far too restrictive. Just try and find software to create djvu files. The decoder is easy, they distribute a qpl version, works great, I viewed Shannon's original Information Theory paper with it. But ultimately, it will not be able to compete with JPEG2000 since performance et al will come second to easy access to working implementations.
This almost sounds like Barney's little movie in the Simpsons episode where they are doing a local film festival. It was something like "Don't cry for me, I'm already dead". I wish I could find that video.
It's doubtful that a patent would be valid for wavelets since the math has been around for a long time and rediscovered multiple times. Rather it is the compression techniques for the wavelet coefficients that have the most potential for being patented. I believe the zero-tree technique is patented , which is suprising since it is not a leap to come up with it.
Whatever happen to the other screwup they made, the composite coins with the different inner part. Apparently if you put them in a freezer the middle would fall out! Pretty funny I wish I could get some of those.
Microsoft doesn't develop graphics hardware, so what could they have in mind for these patents that makes them worth $62.5 million?
Uhh... they do have this flagging product called the xbox you know. Maybe they have been so used to being the "batter" that when Nvidia made them the "catcher" they felt that $62.5mil was a small price to pay for dominance.
I figured that out too after reading the
Simpsons Math page. I decided that the value could be semi valid for the type of car that Grandpa Simpson could have had when he was teenager.
This link talks about glass. I was not referring to the technical definition of crystalline vs amorphous. To be a crystalline solid it would need long-range order. That does not mean that glass does not have short-range cyrstalline like fragments. Glass does not have the odd shaped, interlocking fragments to which I was referring to. Graphite would be a better example in that it is structured in the form of sheets, making it very brittle.This link has pictures and explanations.
I was thinking of this too, generally the harder something is, the more brittle it becomes. Glass e.g. is really hard but obviously brittle. I think the catch is that this relation only holds in cyrstalline materials. Imagine those fancy bricks which have interlocks and such to allow easy assembly without mortar. Now if the internal structure of this alloy is such that you have all of these irregular fragments all intertwined then it would be nearly impossible to shear the piece apart. It would be more akin to paper where when you rip it, you end with a jagged edge since there is no crystalline faults in the material.
I guess what would be the decisive factor for this alloy is what happens to those fragments as they break. Do they rejoin? Does the low melting temperature aid in this aspect by making it easier to rejoin? Or does it worsen the effect exponentially?
Personally I wonder what would happen if you made a skelton for your desired object using casting techniques with good steel, and then cast this liquid metal alloy around it.
I've actually thought of this, it is easier to redirect the energy rather than to absorb it. Thus I want a car with a ultra strong scoop and reinforced cabin. That way when joe dipshit with his cell phone and suv hit me, they will go sailing through the air while I will be laughing. The only work I'll need to do is to wash the tire tracks off my hood.
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I wish there was a website like gettingFuckedBy.com or something witty that devoted itself to showing how companies are screwing us everyday.
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And different races do not end up in the same place by chance. When people live in an area long enough, certain changes are quite common in order to better cope with the environment. Skin color is one of those.
The purpose of the mule example, which you did not even bother to research at all, is that they exist at all considering their parents have differening dna lengths. And no, a mule is NOT a mutation, merely an offspring, an unsuccessful offspring, which is NOT uncommon in evolution. Evolution is NOT a direct path to success. Evolution is trial and error. The mule is an error obviously since it is sterile.
Look, it is obvious that you know very little about what you are claiming is bunk. If you truly wish to argue against something then you must know more about the material then the people you are arguing with. That does not mean you have to believe it, but merely that you know it.
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And also, you should look up what a mule is. You would be suprised at how different two things can be and still produce offspring. (sterile in this case but amazing nonetheless.)
mule -- (sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)
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http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SquareRoot.html
Read and learn.
If you had bothered to reference it at all you would find that the answer is either 1000 or -1000. We'll never know which is the correct answer.
In fact I am right now listening to the scsi session of the OSDN/Usenix Kernel Summit and they are talking about their concern of spinning too many scsi devices up at once since it could spike your power supply and fry it.
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And also, Apple has to support the warranty on the new hardware on the off chance that an untested old version of MacOS fries the hardware or nukes the hard drive. Do you honestly expect them to continually make sure that MacOS 9 is compatible with every new release of hardware? Do you think Microsoft tests Windows XP on your 5 year old Dell?
And also, the Windows 95 link you have there is a different situation, that's about microsoft no longer making their most current libraries available for windows 95. A completely sensible thing to do, but assine to do without ample warning time of the change.
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1) Estimate how many gas stations there are in the US.
2) How many gas stations are there in the US?
Note the importance of wording. Your answer is clearly wrong for question (2). For question (1) I would expect your type of answer but for question (2) I would expect an answer such as, going to the proper government agency that gives licenses to sell gas and ask them how many active licenses there are. That would be as exact an answer you could get.
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Everything old is new again.
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See a comparison of djvu/jp2k etc...
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This almost sounds like Barney's little movie in the Simpsons episode where they are doing a local film festival. It was something like "Don't cry for me, I'm already dead". I wish I could find that video.
It's doubtful that a patent would be valid for wavelets since the math has been around for a long time and rediscovered multiple times. Rather it is the compression techniques for the wavelet coefficients that have the most potential for being patented. I believe the zero-tree technique is patented , which is suprising since it is not a leap to come up with it.
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This link talks about glass. I was not referring to the technical definition of crystalline vs amorphous. To be a crystalline solid it would need long-range order. That does not mean that glass does not have short-range cyrstalline like fragments. Glass does not have the odd shaped, interlocking fragments to which I was referring to. Graphite would be a better example in that it is structured in the form of sheets, making it very brittle.This link has pictures and explanations.
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Apparently people have written software to automate the generation of these lists from badwords lists such as yours.
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Ah but if it is stronger then they'll use less material. If they use less material, it may heat up quicker then Al under the same conditions.
I guess what would be the decisive factor for this alloy is what happens to those fragments as they break. Do they rejoin? Does the low melting temperature aid in this aspect by making it easier to rejoin? Or does it worsen the effect exponentially?
Personally I wonder what would happen if you made a skelton for your desired object using casting techniques with good steel, and then cast this liquid metal alloy around it.
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