Not that I want to start a flame war or anything, but do you think if they actually cloned a neanderthal that it would finally shut up the darned Religious Right about their creationism and so-called Intelligent Design crap?!?! I mean, come on, if we showed them the DAMNED MISSING LINK, what more proof of evolution do you want?!?! Heck, thinking of it, have they asked George W. Bush for a DNA sample yet? Seeing as how he's more closely related to chimps and neanderthals than the rest of us, his DNA would come in quite handy in filling in some of the missing DNA sequences.
Apparently, this, "word," or more appropriately, this mispelling, has been used before. A quick search on urban dictionary reveals three definitions that were entered previously:
Smap refers to the act of spamming an internet forum without the intent to be annoying. Rather it is done for comic relief and to chase away forum trolls.
The word was first used during a drunken post in the JTS at the famous nforcershq.com.
Aug. 9, 2004
Sporst Music Assemble People
Japan`s most successful boy band to date. The 5 members are also comedians and actors.
May 9, 2005
It's the new "snap" - (see "snap" - An expression which expresses expression.)
There actually was an SGI laptop featured in the 1996 movie Twister. Thought it was custom built by the production company specifically for the movie, and not by SGI itself. It never hit the market, either. Nonetheless, with all the other computers featured in the movie, SGI must've paid 'em a helluva lost of money for product placement,...;-)
But obviously the word, "asshole" is clearly still french. Because (a) you commonly hear the phrase, "pardon my french, but you're an asshole," or some variant thereof. (b) The french desperately need a good word to describe themselves, and since they have such enlarged anuses from being buttf***ed so many times in history, "asshole" seems most appropriate.
Most of these left-wing, greenpeace-supporting, PETA-loving, new age, tree-hugging hippies don't have enough brain cells to be able to figure out what's really good for the planet or not. I remember an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit! where they covered the so-called environmental movement. Two of the most humorous parts of that show: (1) the supposed spokeswoman of the world wildlife federation. She was so clueless that when asked to define certain words used in the enviromental movement, it resulted in such blank stares that you could almost see her two brain cells grinding together (with smoke coming out the ears).
The other funny moment from this show were the clips about the Dihydrogen Monoxide petition that the Bullshit! producers passed around at one of these earth day celebrations. They actually had real people signing a petition to ban WATER because they were told of all the potential harm that could come to us because of it! What dumbasses!
Greenpeace is about as useless as PETA. Both organizations are so far to the left side of the spectrum, and so clueless, that even moderate republicans and democrats don't even listen to them!!!!
Just imagine if the internet cables leading to Nigeria had been cut. The rest of the world would probably not be quite so eager to restore them,... we'd get a bit of peace and quite from all those damned 401 emails!:-)
If Nigeria requested our assistance in restoring the cables, send back a reply charging them $200,000,000,000, in cold hard cash, packed into several suitcases.:-)
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Perhaps it was just made to look like an unintentional leak because the general public would expect it. In reality, I wonder if the WB though, well, we have an interesting pilot episode here but it's a geeky sci-fi thing that may or may not work in the real ratings game. So let's send a copy of this sucker out to bittorrent, make it look like it was leaked out, and see what the real geeks think about it?! In the meantime, we'll totally cover up by having our public relations and legal departments complain about the possibilities of copyright infringement,... just to cover up.
In other words:
1. Publicly reject show.
2. Secretly leak show to bittorrent.
3. Secretly watch internet for comments.
4. If comments on show are good and favorable, give it a network slot.
In this world of fantasy (which we do not live in) it would be nice...however I'd much rather my tax dollars going towards more enviromental regulations and research than some high tech sci-fi wonder.
I too, would not just buy this wonder, as it would cost the lives of too many citizens;-). This sounds to me like it would be like Future Tech #592. Much better to make sure your scientific ratio is set high enough to develop technologies. Future Tech #101 might actually solve this problem quite a bit sooner.
Ok, the death star beam definitely was cool. No questions there. But what about lightsabers? How come they don't make the list. Those are probably the coolest things that appear in pretty much every star wars movie.
The ID4 beam blowing up the white house definitely was cool. If only Bill & Hillary had been in the white house when that happened,... heck, we wouldn't have to worry about 2008! LOL
Makes you wonder how well windows XP starter edition is going to do. You know, that disabled version of windows that microsoft is considering selling in asian and third world markets.
Nobody wants anything that's less than, or inferior, to something else. As an example, look at how many "average joe's" that go out and shop for a computer, then ask their "techie friend" whether they should get windows xp pro or home edition. Most techie friends will opt for the pro edition, just because it's better, and the fact that they don't want their friend to come back and complain at them after reading some article saying that the home edition is a "disabled" or "inferior" version to the pro edition. Never mind the fact that nobody really needs all the features of the pro edition, unless their really into networking,...
Personally, I can't see how they were profitable with their paid access video system?! I don't think the average joe is all that news crazy that they've got to pay to get news clips of the 90% useless stories CNN shows anyway. Most people, unless they're very rich and don't give a crap, are going to just wait til they get home and watch CNN on cable.
Plus, most people weren't into the video as much because, back in the day, broadband wasn't as prevalent. As a result, advertisers were less likely to dump money into something that people weren't watching. Now that broadband is more or less mainstream, and the critical mass is there, hungry for high bandwidth applications, the advertising dollars show up. Hmm, sounds like a modern day example of the law of supply and demand, eh?;-)
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I don't know about you, but that cover photo from Semi-People magazine with the 50 hottest mutant bachelors,... It doesn't look very futuristic at all! To me, it just looks like Michael Jackson!;-)
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Well, they were going to name it GeorgeWBushium, in honor of the 43rd President of the United States, but after the crash and subsequent burning at the stake of members of the religious right in 2039, that plan was halted.
This particular issue was actually covered in the April 25 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. Click here for the article. Of course, since C&E News is an ACS publication, it is more or less slanted to their viewpoint.
Basically, my own thoughts on this are that both databases have good points about them and I believe that they can ultimately co-exist. Oddly enough, in my personal opinion, I believe that the superior product currently is the ChemAbstracts (CAS) service (ACS). Not only does it have 25 million compounds, compared to PubChem's 850,000, but it links to far more information, and provides info about patent literature and reactions, that simply isn't in PubChem. CAS is also easier to search; obviously here I am referring to their online search services, like SciFinder Scholar. If anyone's ever searched CAS using the paper-based books in the library, it's pretty much a royal pain in the ass!;-) But SciFinder Scholar has a really easy mechanism to search, and even lets you draw in the compound your searching for, and searches the structure. With PubChem, one must first get the SMILES string to search the structural information,...
So it's going to be some time before PubChem even comes close to equalling the kind of service that CAS offers.
So at first, you're not too sure what ACS is complaining about, since they're already ahead. But I think in the long run what they're concerned about is that every few years or so there's a major budget crunch by state supported schools, mainly because tax revenue shrinks and schools need to find more money. And one of the prime targets of this every time they cut budgets is looking at the library budget: what journal subscriptions are students/faculty actually reading and which ones are read by like 2 people that they can get by without having? And since CAS is a subscription service, usually provided by libraries (at most schools), it's also subjected to this same scrutiny. Furthermore, an organization like ACS, which publishes a substantial amount of journals, has a lot to lose every time this budget situation goes on.
But to ACS's credit, the rarely have to worry, since ACS journals are some of the most read and sought after journals at most schools. Chemistry, after all, is a pretty big program at many schools (some schools even have more than one chemistry department; if biochemistry is a separate program)! SciFinder Scholar also enjoys a pretty high amount of users as well.
I also think that most researchers would want to have more than one chemical database to search by; this could only enhance the quality of information, since it's unlikely that any two databases would be identical. Another great chemical database is the ZINC database, which is geared towards virtual screening. This database combines many databases into one, and has links to ordering compounds directly from other vendors.
It's not necessarily all molecules that we need to worry about! But we need to be especially careful about this one, otherwise known as Dihydrogen Monoxide.
Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere.
Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect.
But we've already built the Apollo Program wonder of the world!! Or maybe this is just proof of that conspiracy that we never landed on the moon?!?! Or possibly, the civilization game needs to be revised to include Google as a new wonder of the world!!;-)
Our wedding photographer will be giving us film and digital files for us to print ourselves (that's why he's so cheap, he doesn't do any photo processing himself) but if *this* is the kind of crap we're going to run into... yikes.
In the original article, it did state that it wasn't a problem in the old days: "In the old days, questions about an image's provenance could be settled with a negative. If you had it, you probably had the right to reproduce it."
So as long as a) your wedding photographer uses film and b) s/he gives you the original film/negatives, you won't have a problem.
This is really only a problem now that digital photography has started be used widely by the masses, and is probably a good indicator of the fact that the quality of digital photography rivals that of film. Heck, I remember back in about 1995/96 when the first digital cameras were starting to be sold in retail stores. The average quality pretty much sucked, but was acceptable for basic things like putting on web pages and such. Today, you can get a high quality digital SLR camera and the photos from it will be nearly impossible to distinguish from a film camera, at least by the average person.
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Not that I want to start a flame war or anything, but do you think if they actually cloned a neanderthal that it would finally shut up the darned Religious Right about their creationism and so-called Intelligent Design crap?!?! I mean, come on, if we showed them the DAMNED MISSING LINK, what more proof of evolution do you want?!?! Heck, thinking of it, have they asked George W. Bush for a DNA sample yet? Seeing as how he's more closely related to chimps and neanderthals than the rest of us, his DNA would come in quite handy in filling in some of the missing DNA sequences.
Sounds like you've lost the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps. But that's probably not all you've lost,. . . :-)
Move along now. This is not the smap you're looking for!
The word was first used during a drunken post in the JTS at the famous nforcershq.com.
Aug. 9, 2004
Japan`s most successful boy band to date.
The 5 members are also comedians and actors.
May 9, 2005
Aug. 23, 2004
It's a darn good thing that this shuttle flight is STS-114, and not STS-113,. .
Personally, I'm waiting for the google maps images for Uranus.
There actually was an SGI laptop featured in the 1996 movie Twister. Thought it was custom built by the production company specifically for the movie, and not by SGI itself. It never hit the market, either. Nonetheless, with all the other computers featured in the movie, SGI must've paid 'em a helluva lost of money for product placement,... ;-)
translates to:
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Most of these left-wing, greenpeace-supporting, PETA-loving, new age, tree-hugging hippies don't have enough brain cells to be able to figure out what's really good for the planet or not. I remember an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit! where they covered the so-called environmental movement. Two of the most humorous parts of that show: (1) the supposed spokeswoman of the world wildlife federation. She was so clueless that when asked to define certain words used in the enviromental movement, it resulted in such blank stares that you could almost see her two brain cells grinding together (with smoke coming out the ears). The other funny moment from this show were the clips about the Dihydrogen Monoxide petition that the Bullshit! producers passed around at one of these earth day celebrations. They actually had real people signing a petition to ban WATER because they were told of all the potential harm that could come to us because of it! What dumbasses! Greenpeace is about as useless as PETA. Both organizations are so far to the left side of the spectrum, and so clueless, that even moderate republicans and democrats don't even listen to them!!!!
If Nigeria requested our assistance in restoring the cables, send back a reply charging them $200,000,000,000, in cold hard cash, packed into several suitcases. :-)
In other words:
1. Publicly reject show.
2. Secretly leak show to bittorrent.
3. Secretly watch internet for comments.
4. If comments on show are good and favorable, give it a network slot.
5. PROFIT!
I too, would not just buy this wonder, as it would cost the lives of too many citizens
Apologies to Sid Meier,...
Ok, the death star beam definitely was cool. No questions there. But what about lightsabers? How come they don't make the list. Those are probably the coolest things that appear in pretty much every star wars movie.
Nobody wants anything that's less than, or inferior, to something else. As an example, look at how many "average joe's" that go out and shop for a computer, then ask their "techie friend" whether they should get windows xp pro or home edition. Most techie friends will opt for the pro edition, just because it's better, and the fact that they don't want their friend to come back and complain at them after reading some article saying that the home edition is a "disabled" or "inferior" version to the pro edition. Never mind the fact that nobody really needs all the features of the pro edition, unless their really into networking,...
Plus, most people weren't into the video as much because, back in the day, broadband wasn't as prevalent. As a result, advertisers were less likely to dump money into something that people weren't watching. Now that broadband is more or less mainstream, and the critical mass is there, hungry for high bandwidth applications, the advertising dollars show up. Hmm, sounds like a modern day example of the law of supply and demand, eh?
I don't know about you, but that cover photo from Semi-People magazine with the 50 hottest mutant bachelors,... It doesn't look very futuristic at all! To me, it just looks like Michael Jackson! ;-)
Well, they were going to name it GeorgeWBushium, in honor of the 43rd President of the United States, but after the crash and subsequent burning at the stake of members of the religious right in 2039, that plan was halted.
Basically, my own thoughts on this are that both databases have good points about them and I believe that they can ultimately co-exist. Oddly enough, in my personal opinion, I believe that the superior product currently is the ChemAbstracts (CAS) service (ACS). Not only does it have 25 million compounds, compared to PubChem's 850,000, but it links to far more information, and provides info about patent literature and reactions, that simply isn't in PubChem. CAS is also easier to search; obviously here I am referring to their online search services, like SciFinder Scholar. If anyone's ever searched CAS using the paper-based books in the library, it's pretty much a royal pain in the ass! ;-) But SciFinder Scholar has a really easy mechanism to search, and even lets you draw in the compound your searching for, and searches the structure. With PubChem, one must first get the SMILES string to search the structural information,...
So it's going to be some time before PubChem even comes close to equalling the kind of service that CAS offers.
So at first, you're not too sure what ACS is complaining about, since they're already ahead. But I think in the long run what they're concerned about is that every few years or so there's a major budget crunch by state supported schools, mainly because tax revenue shrinks and schools need to find more money. And one of the prime targets of this every time they cut budgets is looking at the library budget: what journal subscriptions are students/faculty actually reading and which ones are read by like 2 people that they can get by without having? And since CAS is a subscription service, usually provided by libraries (at most schools), it's also subjected to this same scrutiny. Furthermore, an organization like ACS, which publishes a substantial amount of journals, has a lot to lose every time this budget situation goes on.
But to ACS's credit, the rarely have to worry, since ACS journals are some of the most read and sought after journals at most schools. Chemistry, after all, is a pretty big program at many schools (some schools even have more than one chemistry department; if biochemistry is a separate program)! SciFinder Scholar also enjoys a pretty high amount of users as well.
I also think that most researchers would want to have more than one chemical database to search by; this could only enhance the quality of information, since it's unlikely that any two databases would be identical. Another great chemical database is the ZINC database, which is geared towards virtual screening. This database combines many databases into one, and has links to ordering compounds directly from other vendors.
Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
click here for aliens :-)
In the original article, it did state that it wasn't a problem in the old days: "In the old days, questions about an image's provenance could be settled with a negative. If you had it, you probably had the right to reproduce it."
So as long as a) your wedding photographer uses film and b) s/he gives you the original film/negatives, you won't have a problem.
This is really only a problem now that digital photography has started be used widely by the masses, and is probably a good indicator of the fact that the quality of digital photography rivals that of film. Heck, I remember back in about 1995/96 when the first digital cameras were starting to be sold in retail stores. The average quality pretty much sucked, but was acceptable for basic things like putting on web pages and such. Today, you can get a high quality digital SLR camera and the photos from it will be nearly impossible to distinguish from a film camera, at least by the average person.