Sounds as if you'd be a tribal shaman, then. Makes me wonder if shamen weren't the stone-age form of nerds. They'd be the most likely to have the spare time needed for thought that wasn't immediately productive. You've definitely hit on something.
...I don't think you could be one. To be a nerd implies that you're willing and able to focus on a non-essential task in the effort of expanding human knowledge or technology. In the Stone Age, you'd be likely to be too busy struggling to survive to have the resources, time, or inclination to do anything non-essential. You'd be berift of any education system, system of organized thinking or development, and you lack basic things like a numbering or writing system. Even if you somehow manage to gain a bit of free time and somehow make an epic discovery, how do you pass that information on, especially if it's something beyond what you could portray beyond dumb show?
I'm thankful that I live when I live; I've learned too much about history to hold any romantic notions about it.
... about absolute figures. But when the total world population is less than 300 million, 2 million a year is about 2/3 of a percent. I'm not a statistician or stat geek by any stretch of the imagination, but I promise you that percentage-wise, the period to which I refer was far deadlier.
More specifically, from about 600 AD - 1300 AD. Nasty, nasty stuff. No centralized government, nothing like the Red Cross, no medical treatment worthy of the name, travelers slaughtered for their food, the worst plague in history, untold destruction of knowledge and people... all and all, it's not a time I'd like to visit should I ever get a time machine.
Cutting cables merely temporarily deprives your opponent of his ability to use that cable. Far better to tap the cable and monitor everything that's being sent across it without your opponent knowing that you're listening in. It also has the added bonus that cable traffic is not typically encrypted as radio transmissions are.
That's was my first thought, too, but look at it this way:
They used a century-old camera, with the great-grandson of the original photographer in the helicopter, using the exact same lenses and photographic techniques. You might ding them for the helicopter -- I congratulate them for everything else.
It's a good thing because the United States is a net exporter of food. If you look at just the United States, rising food prices would hurt other nations before they would hurt the United States, since those other nations aren't self-sufficient in maize. That being said, corn-based ethanol is very inefficient and requires so much corn that it's almost not worth it.
From my experience reading HTML books from Baen on my iPhone, I can get upwards of 6 hours. Now, that was in a dimly lit space, so the display wasn't as bright as it could have been, so your results may vary.
For me, at least, the iPhone already makes a decent ebook reader when coupled with Baen Books' archive of books in HTML format. Just type in the URL, and it's all there. No special software needed. I just wish more publishers would make their books available in HTML. Sure, it's the lowest common denominator in terms of quality, but text is text.
If Sony's calling it a stalemate, then HD-DVD is already ahead. If all Sony can manage with it's PR department is to call the situation a "stalemate," then HD-DVD likely ahead in real terms.
Incidentally, I just conducted an informal, non-scientific poll here in the office. Of 20+ people, only two had heard of Blu-Ray. Half had heard of HD-DVD, but almost all were able to figure out what it was by the name alone. It makes me think that HD-DVD has an advantage just because of its name.
Actually, there are 32. I wrote my senior thesis on this topic. That number is actually down from the late 1970s, when there were nearly 60. As a previous commenter said, they're virtually all research reactors, and most are of the TRIGA design designed by General Atomics. When the engineers and scientists went about designing it in the 1950s, they asked themselves how they could design a reactor that was completely accident-proof. Even if you wanted to melt down a TRIGA, you couldn't. Yanking every control rod fully out of the reactor will cause a spark in neutron activity before the water moderates the reaction back down.
NC State had the first collegiate nuclear reactor in the United States, before even the TRIGA design. Rest assured, they know what they're doing.
Can you provide an example of what you're talking about? Generally, if something is well-known, it's been mentioned and/or discussed enough to warrant at least a single article or book on the subject. Even if it's one paragraph in a three-page paper published somewhere, that's a source.
And with the advent of broadband wireless, I wouldn't be surprised to see that particular service become a public utility. Sure, you're not going to be setting any speed records, but the most intensive thing most folks do is download music and stream movies. The vast majority of people don't have full-on downloads running 24/7. It could work, and I think we'll see it more often.
Actually, approximately half of the floating arctic icecap melts every year, due to temperature fluctuations and ice currents. Approximately every seven years, the entire floating arctic icecap is renewed. Note that this doesn't include glacial ice in Greenland, Alaska, Scandinavia, etc.
I won't argue that they're prevalent in academic environments... I'm here at Virginia Tech, home of the big Apple supercomputer, and they're pretty ubiquitous here as well. But you're talking almost two orders of magnitude different in terms of numbers.
Bigger targets require more invasive security. It's why your average missile silo has better defenses than the police station down the street. There's a bigger "reward" for breaching the security, so although both do their jobs well, one simply requires more defenses because of its nature and its "importance." The same arguments can be made for Firefox/IE7 security. (Relative) anonymity is perhaps the most important layer of security.
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Sounds as if you'd be a tribal shaman, then. Makes me wonder if shamen weren't the stone-age form of nerds. They'd be the most likely to have the spare time needed for thought that wasn't immediately productive. You've definitely hit on something.
...I don't think you could be one. To be a nerd implies that you're willing and able to focus on a non-essential task in the effort of expanding human knowledge or technology. In the Stone Age, you'd be likely to be too busy struggling to survive to have the resources, time, or inclination to do anything non-essential. You'd be berift of any education system, system of organized thinking or development, and you lack basic things like a numbering or writing system. Even if you somehow manage to gain a bit of free time and somehow make an epic discovery, how do you pass that information on, especially if it's something beyond what you could portray beyond dumb show? I'm thankful that I live when I live; I've learned too much about history to hold any romantic notions about it.
... about absolute figures. But when the total world population is less than 300 million, 2 million a year is about 2/3 of a percent. I'm not a statistician or stat geek by any stretch of the imagination, but I promise you that percentage-wise, the period to which I refer was far deadlier.
More specifically, from about 600 AD - 1300 AD. Nasty, nasty stuff. No centralized government, nothing like the Red Cross, no medical treatment worthy of the name, travelers slaughtered for their food, the worst plague in history, untold destruction of knowledge and people... all and all, it's not a time I'd like to visit should I ever get a time machine.
...the chips cost six times as much as normal ones.
Cutting cables merely temporarily deprives your opponent of his ability to use that cable. Far better to tap the cable and monitor everything that's being sent across it without your opponent knowing that you're listening in. It also has the added bonus that cable traffic is not typically encrypted as radio transmissions are.
That's was my first thought, too, but look at it this way: They used a century-old camera, with the great-grandson of the original photographer in the helicopter, using the exact same lenses and photographic techniques. You might ding them for the helicopter -- I congratulate them for everything else.
...his theory is that Xbox Live is having load issues due to the number of new subscribers, and that the servers are having a hard time catching up.
It's a good thing because the United States is a net exporter of food. If you look at just the United States, rising food prices would hurt other nations before they would hurt the United States, since those other nations aren't self-sufficient in maize. That being said, corn-based ethanol is very inefficient and requires so much corn that it's almost not worth it.
From my experience reading HTML books from Baen on my iPhone, I can get upwards of 6 hours. Now, that was in a dimly lit space, so the display wasn't as bright as it could have been, so your results may vary.
For me, at least, the iPhone already makes a decent ebook reader when coupled with Baen Books' archive of books in HTML format. Just type in the URL, and it's all there. No special software needed. I just wish more publishers would make their books available in HTML. Sure, it's the lowest common denominator in terms of quality, but text is text.
If Sony's calling it a stalemate, then HD-DVD is already ahead. If all Sony can manage with it's PR department is to call the situation a "stalemate," then HD-DVD likely ahead in real terms. Incidentally, I just conducted an informal, non-scientific poll here in the office. Of 20+ people, only two had heard of Blu-Ray. Half had heard of HD-DVD, but almost all were able to figure out what it was by the name alone. It makes me think that HD-DVD has an advantage just because of its name.
Actually, there are 32. I wrote my senior thesis on this topic. That number is actually down from the late 1970s, when there were nearly 60. As a previous commenter said, they're virtually all research reactors, and most are of the TRIGA design designed by General Atomics. When the engineers and scientists went about designing it in the 1950s, they asked themselves how they could design a reactor that was completely accident-proof. Even if you wanted to melt down a TRIGA, you couldn't. Yanking every control rod fully out of the reactor will cause a spark in neutron activity before the water moderates the reaction back down. NC State had the first collegiate nuclear reactor in the United States, before even the TRIGA design. Rest assured, they know what they're doing.
Can you provide an example of what you're talking about? Generally, if something is well-known, it's been mentioned and/or discussed enough to warrant at least a single article or book on the subject. Even if it's one paragraph in a three-page paper published somewhere, that's a source.
I'd love to go, but I can't justify leaving the Keys in order to go diving. Unless, of course, it's in the Pacific Ocean.
...let me boot up Photoshop, and I'll get a couple ideas out there in a jiffy.
The summary is incorrect. It should be among three oceans, not between them. Between implies two objects. Among implies three or more.
"Boiler up!" gets a whole new meaning.
And with the advent of broadband wireless, I wouldn't be surprised to see that particular service become a public utility. Sure, you're not going to be setting any speed records, but the most intensive thing most folks do is download music and stream movies. The vast majority of people don't have full-on downloads running 24/7. It could work, and I think we'll see it more often.
Actually, approximately half of the floating arctic icecap melts every year, due to temperature fluctuations and ice currents. Approximately every seven years, the entire floating arctic icecap is renewed. Note that this doesn't include glacial ice in Greenland, Alaska, Scandinavia, etc.
If you start playing EVE, you may want to change your sig.
I won't argue that they're prevalent in academic environments... I'm here at Virginia Tech, home of the big Apple supercomputer, and they're pretty ubiquitous here as well. But you're talking almost two orders of magnitude different in terms of numbers.
Bigger targets require more invasive security. It's why your average missile silo has better defenses than the police station down the street. There's a bigger "reward" for breaching the security, so although both do their jobs well, one simply requires more defenses because of its nature and its "importance." The same arguments can be made for Firefox/IE7 security. (Relative) anonymity is perhaps the most important layer of security.
99 nights and 210 days? Must be Microsoft math.
It's spelled "grammar."