Two words: antitrust lawsuit. Specifically, you cannot leverage a monopoly to unfairly gain an advantage in another market. If Microsoft were to do this, they would be broken up faster than you can say "Bill Gates."
"Smaller government" means "less market intervention" and "freedom" only refers to freedom to earn.
Someone's going to mark this as flamebait or troll, but it's not a value judgement. It's just the way things are. In fact, once this is clear you realize that there's nothing contradictory or hypocritical about the Right's message at all.
That's exactly what's contradictory about it. They don't say "less market intervention" and "freedom to earn," they say "smaller government" and "freedom." Saying one thing while doing another is the very definition of hypocrisy.
You are absolutely correct. If this can detect even the smallest cluster of cancer cells, it can be caught years before it would be detected using current methods. When cancerous clusters are very small, they are fairly easy to kill off. Therefore, this technology has the potential to be the mythical "cure for cancer" that we've been searching for for years.
Three things: First of all, Asimov lived half a century ago, not half a decade ago. Secondly, he can hardly be called "the father of robotics." He neither conceived the idea of a robot nor built any. Since none of the technology came about as a direct result of him, saying that he is the father of the field does a disservice to those who actually pioneered it. Finally, the three rules of robotics were never meant to be guidelines for people to follow. They are essentially MacGuffins, used only to advance the plot of the stories.
What I found most interesting about the Wind Waker is that despite its appearance, it seemed to have the darkest plot of any Zelda game. (Stop reading now if you don't want any plot details spoiled.) Essentially, it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where Hyrule has been completely forgotten, buried (though preserved) in a massive flood. At the end of the game, it is completely destroyed, and Links sticks a sword into Ganon's forehead.
Unfortunately, Bush is partly to blame for this. Last year, the federal funds earmarked to maintain the levees around NO were cut by the Bush administration to a third of what they needed (though Congress bumped it up to a half). Also, 3000 National Guardsmen were in Iraq. If Bush doesn't deserve any blame for this, I don't know who does.
You might be right, except that Zelda: Ocarina of Time is considered by many to be the best video game of all time. It even has the highest ranking at GameRankings, the major game review aggregator, with an average score higher than 98%.
What he says is true. I'm from St. Louis, and while it's by no means a very large city, you can still get very reasonably-priced houses in the nice areas of the city without moving out to the suburbs. Granted, the demand for houses in those particular areas is relatively high, and it's difficult to find houses for sale there, but this hasn't affected the prices too much. Also, the public schools are amongst the worst in the nation here, so you pretty much have to make sure that your children go to private schools (or parochial ones, which are very abundant and cheap).
I'm not sure that you understand what bias is. Just because Slashdot often paints Bush in a negative light when it comes to science-related issues, it doesn't mean that there's a bias. Face it, there's not much you can say that's positive about this administration's attitude towards science, and if the/. editors were to balance out all of the negative Bush-related science articles with positive ones, that would be extremely biased in Bush's favor. (In fact, that is the essence of what is wrong with Fox News.)
Apparently, there's something very good/special about the Revolution's controller, but thanks to the NDAs that Nintendo has forced its developers to sign, we don't know what. For example, Peter Molyneux made the following comment a couple days ago:
"There is a line at the end of the book 'Game Over' and it is, 'Never underestimate Nintendo.' That is all I can say about the controller."
It wasn't so much that relativity was ignored, as much as it was that the Nobel committee didn't want to award the prize for a theory for which there was not much proof yet. The fact that Einstein was given the Nobel prize for his other work was more of a nod to him than anything else.
Usually, I'd agree with you. Tivo likes to announce things long before they're viable. However, this time, Tivo users are being invited to beta test it, which indicates that it's nearly complete. You can see for yourself here. Now, to participate, you have to agree to a NDA, and to some other terms. Other than that, however, it's relatively easy for people to participate in.
I am a Tivo subscriber, and I also receive the "Tivo Newsletter." In the most recent edition, which was sent last week, the following information was included:
But again, as I so boldly teased at the start of this Q&A, that's just the beginning! This fall, we'll be introducing a host of fun, creative, useful and just plain clever broadband features, including:
* Getting select TV shows and programming via broadband to your TiVo® box (Begging
does not become you... I will tell you more when I can!)
* Games, streaming radio, podcasting, and more.
Thus, it appears that they're slating to release it sometime this fall.
Well, if you think about it, 4500 acres is really only a 2.65 by 2.65 mile square. That's not really that much environmental impact, especially if the thing is in the middle of the desert.
You remind me of a very interesting fact that most people do not know. From Wikipedia:
In 1927, the Belgian Jesuit priest Georges Lemaître independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began with the "explosion" of a "primeval atom"--what was later called the Big Bang.
Yes, the Big Bang theory was created by a priest. In fact, the Catholic Church jumped behind the theory before it was even scientifically well-established. Why? Because it supports the idea of a first cause.
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Two words: antitrust lawsuit. Specifically, you cannot leverage a monopoly to unfairly gain an advantage in another market. If Microsoft were to do this, they would be broken up faster than you can say "Bill Gates."
Fortunately, I never have that problem, because my Swingline stapler is red.
"Smaller government" means "less market intervention" and "freedom" only refers to freedom to earn. Someone's going to mark this as flamebait or troll, but it's not a value judgement. It's just the way things are. In fact, once this is clear you realize that there's nothing contradictory or hypocritical about the Right's message at all.
That's exactly what's contradictory about it. They don't say "less market intervention" and "freedom to earn," they say "smaller government" and "freedom." Saying one thing while doing another is the very definition of hypocrisy.
You are absolutely correct. If this can detect even the smallest cluster of cancer cells, it can be caught years before it would be detected using current methods. When cancerous clusters are very small, they are fairly easy to kill off. Therefore, this technology has the potential to be the mythical "cure for cancer" that we've been searching for for years.
Three things: First of all, Asimov lived half a century ago, not half a decade ago. Secondly, he can hardly be called "the father of robotics." He neither conceived the idea of a robot nor built any. Since none of the technology came about as a direct result of him, saying that he is the father of the field does a disservice to those who actually pioneered it. Finally, the three rules of robotics were never meant to be guidelines for people to follow. They are essentially MacGuffins, used only to advance the plot of the stories.
I think what we really want to know is how many of these it would take to cover a football field.
That was hardly pre-emptive. Remember a little conflict called the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Yes, because pre-emptive strikes have worked so well in this country before. Oh, wait a minute...
Actually, he never said that, though the GOP managed to convince many people that he did.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
Tivo's a brand name. This device is made by Hitachi, so it's not a Tivo. Hence, you should just call it an oversized DVR.
What I found most interesting about the Wind Waker is that despite its appearance, it seemed to have the darkest plot of any Zelda game. (Stop reading now if you don't want any plot details spoiled.) Essentially, it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where Hyrule has been completely forgotten, buried (though preserved) in a massive flood. At the end of the game, it is completely destroyed, and Links sticks a sword into Ganon's forehead.
Dude, it's a Futurama joke. Professor Farnsworth says that "one pound of dark matter is equivalent to over 10,000 pounds of regular matter."
Unfortunately, Bush is partly to blame for this. Last year, the federal funds earmarked to maintain the levees around NO were cut by the Bush administration to a third of what they needed (though Congress bumped it up to a half). Also, 3000 National Guardsmen were in Iraq. If Bush doesn't deserve any blame for this, I don't know who does.
You might be right, except that Zelda: Ocarina of Time is considered by many to be the best video game of all time. It even has the highest ranking at GameRankings, the major game review aggregator, with an average score higher than 98%.
What he says is true. I'm from St. Louis, and while it's by no means a very large city, you can still get very reasonably-priced houses in the nice areas of the city without moving out to the suburbs. Granted, the demand for houses in those particular areas is relatively high, and it's difficult to find houses for sale there, but this hasn't affected the prices too much. Also, the public schools are amongst the worst in the nation here, so you pretty much have to make sure that your children go to private schools (or parochial ones, which are very abundant and cheap).
Next they'll want to strap a nuclear reactor on the fighter planes to power the next version of the laser (150kW).
They could just strap on a Mr. Fusion, couldn't they? After all, we're only 10 years away from 2015, so it should be here in a few years.
I'm not sure that you understand what bias is. Just because Slashdot often paints Bush in a negative light when it comes to science-related issues, it doesn't mean that there's a bias. Face it, there's not much you can say that's positive about this administration's attitude towards science, and if the /. editors were to balance out all of the negative Bush-related science articles with positive ones, that would be extremely biased in Bush's favor. (In fact, that is the essence of what is wrong with Fox News.)
Al Gore did not say that he invented the Internet! Stop perpetuating this lie!
Apparently, there's something very good/special about the Revolution's controller, but thanks to the NDAs that Nintendo has forced its developers to sign, we don't know what. For example, Peter Molyneux made the following comment a couple days ago: "There is a line at the end of the book 'Game Over' and it is, 'Never underestimate Nintendo.' That is all I can say about the controller."
It wasn't so much that relativity was ignored, as much as it was that the Nobel committee didn't want to award the prize for a theory for which there was not much proof yet. The fact that Einstein was given the Nobel prize for his other work was more of a nod to him than anything else.
Usually, I'd agree with you. Tivo likes to announce things long before they're viable. However, this time, Tivo users are being invited to beta test it, which indicates that it's nearly complete. You can see for yourself here. Now, to participate, you have to agree to a NDA, and to some other terms. Other than that, however, it's relatively easy for people to participate in.
I am a Tivo subscriber, and I also receive the "Tivo Newsletter." In the most recent edition, which was sent last week, the following information was included:
But again, as I so boldly teased at the start of this Q&A, that's just the beginning! This fall, we'll be introducing a host of fun, creative, useful and just plain clever broadband features, including:
* Getting select TV shows and programming via broadband to your TiVo® box (Begging
does not become you... I will tell you more when I can!)
* Games, streaming radio, podcasting, and more.
Thus, it appears that they're slating to release it sometime this fall.
Well, if you think about it, 4500 acres is really only a 2.65 by 2.65 mile square. That's not really that much environmental impact, especially if the thing is in the middle of the desert.
All we need now is 1.42 more of these things!
You remind me of a very interesting fact that most people do not know. From Wikipedia:
In 1927, the Belgian Jesuit priest Georges Lemaître independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began with the "explosion" of a "primeval atom"--what was later called the Big Bang.
Yes, the Big Bang theory was created by a priest. In fact, the Catholic Church jumped behind the theory before it was even scientifically well-established. Why? Because it supports the idea of a first cause.