Did any of those experiments use thousands of brawny, well-fed, enthusiastic volunteers who had been doing this type of work their entire lives, working several months out of the year in a highly organized society with a huge infrastructure already in place for quarrying, transporting, and cutting stone? Didn't think so...
There's no way this could possibly backfire on Amazon, like for instance if we organized everybody with a Kindle to buy the same book, and make the same note on the same page to guarantee it makes the "most popular" position. Especially if that note is simply "Amazon sucks!!!" And of course, if Amazon chooses to censor the note, they then become responsible for all content.
The only devices I've seen using 3 CCDs are $4000 Sony videocameras. High-quality optics make each lens and mirror very expensive, so most high-end cameras have very simple optical paths (old Hasselblads are now being repurposed as digital cameras). Dealing with RGB is different from directing a laser beam, which has a single frequency. For a laser, I suspect even a hologram could be used as a lensing system. Not so for multi-megapixel RGB cameras.
Nice to hear from you jd. I think I know whom you are talking about. (Isn't he now listed as "Senior Technologist"?) I apologize for getting you thinking about old jobs when we both should just be focusing on moving on. Hope you're doing well and have found a much easier commute.
The ancient Greeks devised systems 3000 years ago whereby each citizen could voice their objections without their vote being known publicly. The term "blackball" still in use today is derived from one of those systems. And yet you can't conceive of any way for a person to object to a prayer without doing it in front of everyone else?!?
If the majority of the people want a couple of troublemakers to shut up and be quiet so that they can hear the person who is talking, their right to hear the speaker should overrule those few people's right to be noisy and disruptive. Unless, of course, the interrupting asshat is a member of the House of Representatives, in which case he has a right to do whatever he wants.
Uh, no. Dig a shallow pit where the base of the pyramid is going to go. Flood it. Mark the water level all around. Now you know exactly where your first course of stones needs to start to be perfectly level. Lower level stones could have been floated into place using dikes and locks, but yes, this is probably impractical for higher level stones. But water could be used to lift stones arbitrarily high by a simple method: build a dike on the opposite side of structure. Add heavy boat and fill with water. Run rope over top of structure to stone you want to lift. Let water out -- lowering boat pulls stone up into place! Later, rinse, repeat. The point being, instead of using hundreds of people to drag a stone, you could use thousands of people or even some windmills to pump water uphill by distributing the pumps all along a long channel.
In many schools, students are forbidden from sharing food due to allergy concerns. I don't know of anybody allergic to Jolly Ranchers, but sharing candy containing nuts should be a no-no. If a kid brings candy from home, that should be the kid's own business. If a kid gets candy from another kid, that should only be the school's business if the kid's parents have given the school a directive to prevent food sharing.
The slashdot effect is being used as a force for good for a change, and it feels great to see that! I expect another surge in sales. I just kicked in $10 myself (which makes me a cheapskate compared to the average Linux user).
Unlike stupidity, computing resources are inherently limited. Which is a good thing... imagine, if it were really unlimited, the huge bill you would get at the end of the month for a runaway task attempting to use every node?
The Egyptians were experts in using water. Easy to level the base of the pyramids, just flood the whole area on a calm day, and mark the water level. Likewise, why drag/roll stones for miles when you can just build a canal and float them to the work site? With use temporary dykes and thousands of people to pump water up hill, you could practically float them into place and drop them. Of course, there would be no trace left of temporary systems put in place to move stones, be they canals or ramps, any more than there are traces of scaffolding around the great cathedrals.
I also find silly our clinging to the belief that there was absolutely no interaction between Egyptian and South American civilizations, despite growing evidence of "native" South American plants showing up in ancient Egypt. It seems like blatant Euro-centricism to assume that Europeans were the only ones capable of "discovering" new continents, especially since these continents were already inhabited by other peoples!
My apologies... my impressions of Mandriva were formed many years ago when it was Mandrake. At the time, it was much easier to install than Windows and any other Linux distros I looked at. But I obviously haven't kept up with it lately.
Until one of the participants objects, I don't see what the fucking problem is. Ask everybody if they consent to participating in the prayer. If everyone consents, then the government should stay out of it. If someone does object, then you need to find a procedure that doesn't make them feel like they are being coerced into joining in.
There is a big difference between "being forced to pray" and "being allowed to pray". As long as no one is being coerced into joining in, there should be no problem with public prayer. I'm a firm believer in separation of church and state, but that principle was intended to prevent the state from favoring one religion over another, not to forbid all public displays of religious practice. Those that don't wish to participate in the prayer should be allowed not to, just like those that don't wish to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Animals are considered property. Are you really going to feel the same way about eating that cow after finding out your neighbor has been fucking it? If it is your own animal that you are having sex with, then how is anyone else going to find out? I'd say your cow didn't consent to it, but then she probably didn't consent to being artificially inseminated just to keep her giving milk either.
It prevented the forming for sororities in the state for a long time. Just as well... "What's the difference between a sorority house and a whorehouse? The whorehouse charges."
Slashdotters should be sympathetic to this; she obviously just trying to get laid! Entertainment industry advocates are quite well known for their aptitude at screwing people! (Kagan has never been married; I suspect she may be sympathetic to same-sex marriage issues, which in itself is a good reason to support her.)
As long as paying for damages is cheaper than outfitting all equipment with safety measures, corporations have a fiduciary obligation to their shareholders to skimp on safety measures. The only way to modify this behavior is to make the cost of a spill far more expensive than the cost of preventing a spill.
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Did any of those experiments use thousands of brawny, well-fed, enthusiastic volunteers who had been doing this type of work their entire lives, working several months out of the year in a highly organized society with a huge infrastructure already in place for quarrying, transporting, and cutting stone? Didn't think so...
There's no way this could possibly backfire on Amazon, like for instance if we organized everybody with a Kindle to buy the same book, and make the same note on the same page to guarantee it makes the "most popular" position. Especially if that note is simply "Amazon sucks!!!" And of course, if Amazon chooses to censor the note, they then become responsible for all content.
The only devices I've seen using 3 CCDs are $4000 Sony videocameras. High-quality optics make each lens and mirror very expensive, so most high-end cameras have very simple optical paths (old Hasselblads are now being repurposed as digital cameras). Dealing with RGB is different from directing a laser beam, which has a single frequency. For a laser, I suspect even a hologram could be used as a lensing system. Not so for multi-megapixel RGB cameras.
they can't.
This effect can be easily prevented by the judicious use of tinfoil headgear; hence it's popularity in areas subject to lightning strikes.
Nice to hear from you jd. I think I know whom you are talking about. (Isn't he now listed as "Senior Technologist"?) I apologize for getting you thinking about old jobs when we both should just be focusing on moving on. Hope you're doing well and have found a much easier commute.
The ancient Greeks devised systems 3000 years ago whereby each citizen could voice their objections without their vote being known publicly. The term "blackball" still in use today is derived from one of those systems. And yet you can't conceive of any way for a person to object to a prayer without doing it in front of everyone else?!?
If the majority of the people want a couple of troublemakers to shut up and be quiet so that they can hear the person who is talking, their right to hear the speaker should overrule those few people's right to be noisy and disruptive. Unless, of course, the interrupting asshat is a member of the House of Representatives, in which case he has a right to do whatever he wants.
Uh, no. Dig a shallow pit where the base of the pyramid is going to go. Flood it. Mark the water level all around. Now you know exactly where your first course of stones needs to start to be perfectly level. Lower level stones could have been floated into place using dikes and locks, but yes, this is probably impractical for higher level stones. But water could be used to lift stones arbitrarily high by a simple method: build a dike on the opposite side of structure. Add heavy boat and fill with water. Run rope over top of structure to stone you want to lift. Let water out -- lowering boat pulls stone up into place! Later, rinse, repeat. The point being, instead of using hundreds of people to drag a stone, you could use thousands of people or even some windmills to pump water uphill by distributing the pumps all along a long channel.
In many schools, students are forbidden from sharing food due to allergy concerns. I don't know of anybody allergic to Jolly Ranchers, but sharing candy containing nuts should be a no-no. If a kid brings candy from home, that should be the kid's own business. If a kid gets candy from another kid, that should only be the school's business if the kid's parents have given the school a directive to prevent food sharing.
The slashdot effect is being used as a force for good for a change, and it feels great to see that! I expect another surge in sales. I just kicked in $10 myself (which makes me a cheapskate compared to the average Linux user).
How exactly is it that you know that everyone you know shaves? Wait -- I don't want to know.
If it's a student who is the recipient, then schools kick them out until they're free and clear.
Wait... teachers are checking student's pubic hair for lice now?!?
Unlike stupidity, computing resources are inherently limited. Which is a good thing... imagine, if it were really unlimited, the huge bill you would get at the end of the month for a runaway task attempting to use every node?
I don't think LIDAR works underwater. Try SONAR instead.
The Egyptians were experts in using water. Easy to level the base of the pyramids, just flood the whole area on a calm day, and mark the water level. Likewise, why drag/roll stones for miles when you can just build a canal and float them to the work site? With use temporary dykes and thousands of people to pump water up hill, you could practically float them into place and drop them. Of course, there would be no trace left of temporary systems put in place to move stones, be they canals or ramps, any more than there are traces of scaffolding around the great cathedrals.
I also find silly our clinging to the belief that there was absolutely no interaction between Egyptian and South American civilizations, despite growing evidence of "native" South American plants showing up in ancient Egypt. It seems like blatant Euro-centricism to assume that Europeans were the only ones capable of "discovering" new continents, especially since these continents were already inhabited by other peoples!
More to the point, why did Sodom have SO MANY sex acts named after it, while Gomorrah had none?
My apologies... my impressions of Mandriva were formed many years ago when it was Mandrake. At the time, it was much easier to install than Windows and any other Linux distros I looked at. But I obviously haven't kept up with it lately.
Mandriva is essentially a repackaged Red Hat distro... how much can it cost to maintain? Too bad there aren't any alternatives.
Until one of the participants objects, I don't see what the fucking problem is. Ask everybody if they consent to participating in the prayer. If everyone consents, then the government should stay out of it. If someone does object, then you need to find a procedure that doesn't make them feel like they are being coerced into joining in.
There is a big difference between "being forced to pray" and "being allowed to pray". As long as no one is being coerced into joining in, there should be no problem with public prayer. I'm a firm believer in separation of church and state, but that principle was intended to prevent the state from favoring one religion over another, not to forbid all public displays of religious practice. Those that don't wish to participate in the prayer should be allowed not to, just like those that don't wish to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Animals are considered property. Are you really going to feel the same way about eating that cow after finding out your neighbor has been fucking it? If it is your own animal that you are having sex with, then how is anyone else going to find out? I'd say your cow didn't consent to it, but then she probably didn't consent to being artificially inseminated just to keep her giving milk either.
It prevented the forming for sororities in the state for a long time. Just as well... "What's the difference between a sorority house and a whorehouse? The whorehouse charges."
Slashdotters should be sympathetic to this; she obviously just trying to get laid! Entertainment industry advocates are quite well known for their aptitude at screwing people! (Kagan has never been married; I suspect she may be sympathetic to same-sex marriage issues, which in itself is a good reason to support her.)
As long as paying for damages is cheaper than outfitting all equipment with safety measures, corporations have a fiduciary obligation to their shareholders to skimp on safety measures. The only way to modify this behavior is to make the cost of a spill far more expensive than the cost of preventing a spill.