12300 ft runway 17-35. From CNN I could see ppl stopped their cars on hiway shoulders to see the landing. It's a town of a few thousand, even the whole town turned out it'd called "small crowd" by network standard. I am sure it's big there.
I was at Crichton's National Press Club speech in DC in end of Jan. He mocked environmentalist by showing audience a news story "Expert worries many species might vanish before they can be identified", and comment "How do we know they were even there if we didn't identify them before they vanish?"
Duh... anyone heard of Dinosour?
I have to say I know little of Crichton's work before being dragged along by my friend. I found His argument was not logical, only muddy the water. I felt like looking at someone arguing smoking doesn't cause lung cancer... "They can't predict it."...
I only wish I had my thoughts together to ask him some pointed questions, but debating wasn't my strong suite.
Okay, What do you mean Insight and Civic Hybrid are "mild" hybrid? Civic Hybrid gets roughly same milage as prius. Considering Prius is designed as hybrid from ground up, Civic Hybrid did a impressive job to fit electric motor in a Civic body.
Read the ford.com FAQ, 40mpg is city driving. The hiway mpg is only 29 (at 55 mph). I am sure if you drive it at 70 mph it can hardly go above 25. That's on a 4x2. 4x4 gets even lower
Prius and Civic Hybrid are not specially built. Go to car dealers today and you can test drive them or take it home. Escape "will be available at selected dealers", meaning what? California?
And Civic Hybrid is as much an "option" to Honda Civic line as Escape Hybrid to Ford Escape line.
If you can live with a passenger car, why drive a SUV, even it's a hybrid. SUV still tends to tip over, remember that.
Unemployed software engineers whose jobs went to Bangalor, India, whose diet is pizza and chinese food, whose social activities are online chat, nline porn.
The whole point of capitalist production, however (according to Marx), is to keep the employee working longer in the day than is necessary to reproduce the value of the wage: it may take only a few hours to make commodities as valuable as the worker's daily wage--and any hours worked beyond that point produce commodities for sale, the proceeds of which belong to the employer above and beyond his wage costs. This latter portion of the value created in the work day is what Marx calls "surplus value" , and this is the source of profit.
Employers hence want to maximize surplus value (they ever want greater profits to prevail in their struggle with competitors), and they may do so in one of two ways:
1. add more hours to the working day and hence increase the number of hours creating surplus value (this Marx calls "absolute surplus value);
Yes, been there
2. introduce technical innovations that make production more efficient and thus, by providing more items for sale in a shorter period of time, reduce the proportion of the working day devoted to making up the value of wage costs and enlarge the proportion of the working day producing value above and beyond wage costs (this Marx calls 'relative surplus value'). "
Done that
3. Reduce the worker's wage by move the job to coutries that have lower wage. Marx didn't live long enough to see the "surplus value" resulted in this strategy, shall we call it "alienated surplus value"?
I have to clear one point, China is not communist anymore. By join the WTO, the organization officially recognizes that the law of the country is "basically" free-market capitalism.
What they have in China is a capitalist dictatorship, if you have to stick a "ism" on it, its cloest name is Fascist. It is not in the "jew-killing" racial way. More in the way of m-w.com definition:
that exalts nation and often race (N/A here) above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
Somewhere in there I see where US is turning into, I thought about posting anonymously for fear of being put on no fly list , but I can't do that.
I thought it'd be fun working/living in UK for a while. Now this ISP charge scheme really put a damper on things. I didn't buy my house in certain county around here just because they don't have Time Warner and Road Runner.
Another question, why does UK use such large electric plug?
Japanese for Japan is pronounced as "Nippon", as the N in NEC, NHK. It means not "Land of the Sun", but "Origin of the Sun" (as it is east of the major landmass of Eurasia).
yes, since sun = day in Japanese, and "notebook" is the same char as "origin", babelfishesq engine might produce "day book", but crisis in Chinese (I don't even know why we are talking about Japanese in the first place??!?! some ignorant American started this thread I bet) is a genuine composite word actually means "dangerous opptunity".
I got a few bones to pick with westerner's portraits of chinese characters:
1. The characters are BADLY written. It looks like written by a four year old who got hold of a pen brush. I know it doesn't matter to you dumb Americans, but do you like to see mispelled english quotations in foreign publications?
2. "danger opportunity" in Chinese is not "symbols", it is called "words". Would it be okay if I say the American "symbol" for ground beef + bread is called "hamburger" ? sounds wierd huh? It's your language, use it correctly.
It make sense. The color of cool is moving consistently to the shorter wavelength as progressive goes on. Future generations might well find blue color so "tacky".
The glowing aliens are probably that way because all their cellphones emits gamma rays. They are hairless too, just like after chemotherapy.
Just got a class action notice the other day from Verizon wireless. It said essentially "if you do nothing, you'll receive some coupons worth $10 - $20, and give up your right to receive settlement. Or you have to send a opt-out letter to provided address to participate in class action settlement".
I don't know what piece of legislation allow companies to do this. It is better for consumer that settlement is opt-out (do nothing and you'll participate in settlement).
Of course I actually send my name address to opt-in to this particular settlement. Darn thing that postal service raised postage again I end up using 2 32cent stamps.
In order for trains (high speed or maglev) to work, they'd better build a parking lot put walmart, target lot to shame.
I'm wondering how much distance a 150 mph train achieves its top speed. It's safe to assume we only have one station in every major cities, which are miles and miles of sprawl. Take a taxi from my place to airport cost me $50, and that's only one way.
I love trains, I do, but billions of dollars are better spent on some good city planning first. And like a famous quote from a Florida legislator: "We should pay every teacher in this state at least $60,000". I'll vote for that.
In chopstick culture (Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, where food are eaten with chopstick) family finance are viewed as women thing's because there is not stock, mutual fund and bond investing in Asian domestic finance (I suspect it still the case).
As a chinese arriving in US after my college, I am shocked to find out American women consider themself "not good with money managing". Asian women manage the finance because they are the ones do the shopping, not because they have more power.
Even as we live in technological advanced time as we do, somehow we still be bothered with ethernal worries, about love, moral, fear and greed etc. etc. that Greeks talked about thousands years ago.
What does it mean to "live in the future"? If you were a Roman in 100 A.D., do you want to live in the future year of 500 A.D.? I don't think so. I felt that the author takes on optimistic American attitude that "future is always a good thing" and the argument is pretty weak.
Haiku and tea ceremony and sushi are well liked for good reasons, but if world regard txt msging and robo-dog as the same level with Haiku, I would be worried about another upcoming "neo-medival age", an age of human without a soul.
The article raised an interesting point of comparing Japan with England, and other people went further comparing China to the European continent. Both Japan and England (Britian in general) went through relatively peaceful transition from medival to modern society and kept the monarch, and both culture are painfully rigid and full of rituals, while China and the Europe (France in particluar) went through bloody revolutions and social earthquakes to achieve the same thing, and people in both places value things like good food and tobacco smoking.:)
On the other hand, unlike to all nations mentioned above, Japan is a very exclusive society, their immmigration policy mirrors Denmark or Holland (a.k.a Never ever, not even think about it). In some cases 2rd generation Koreans born in Japan can not become a Japanese citizen. I find it strange that the author compare Tokyo to London, which is a very culturally diversed city. I'd say Hong Kong is more like London than any Japanese city ever would be (in decades to come). Case in point, I saw pakistainese in English movie, Hong Kong movie, but never in a Japanese movie.
All Vulcans are required to attend their own schools, because their IQ are not comparable to human children. If co-ed was allowed, Harvard and MIT would be filled with Vulcans students, so would be the trend for faculty members.
Vulcans are considered as atheists by Southern Baptists Church, which causes a lot of resentment from local populations. But unlike steorotypical rebellious Catholic high school graduates, Vulcan doesn't hate God. They have no past issues with him/her/it. People from California are dissapointed because they found out in order to understand Vulcan culture, they have to read Quantum Physics Theory.
Barber shops used to have "Humanoid only" sign, because barbers claim that Vulcan's hair strands are so hard that the scissors gets damaged easily, Every now and then groups of vulcan and human college students pickets outside local barber shops until police are called. Things are changing after UN ruled that since the scissors are made in China, Vulcans could sue barber shops in World Court in Hague.
Many supermarkets have a vulcan food shelf in "ethic food" section. But the buyers are normally curious humanoids. Vulcans prefer to drive to downtown and buy from shops bearing names like "Galactic Food and Supply" and "Out-of-this-world Grocery". The name of the store in vulcan script also appears on the sign, normally means totally different thing if translated into human languge literally.
And in Vulcan language the Earth is called "Rosewell" when the first Vulcan ship landed a confused Vulcan asked a apparently equally confused local "Where am I?" and the local answered truthfully, "Rosewell".
Politically, Vulcans are treated equally like other human aliens, they pay taxes but can not vote. Justice Department haven't find a way to deport illegal Vulcan immigrant yet. To solve the problem, they make every Vulcan found in US a legal resident and give them special ID card. But abuse of interchanging identities are common because all Vulcans look alike in their ID photo.
What would you think if your local Barnes & Noble or Borders start to sell ebook on their shelves with shrink-wrapped color boxes?
You'd say "stupid!". Isn't the whole point of ebook idea is that the book can be downloaded directly to your computer or reader, without you going to bookstore or LIBRARY? Why should your local library stock one copy of ebook at all?
We have to approach a problem first in term of whether the problem has a solution at all. Paper book has a physical contraint that once the book is checked out, the next person has to wait until the book is returned. If we want ebook to follow the same model, then new software has to be written to emulate that physical model, namely control access to viewing of ebook from library. This involves same techinical problem as SDMA and music industry are trying to solve. (Read MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE).
I do not have the answer. Maybe a book can be published in two editions, paper and ebook.
Maybe library should not be allowed to loan ebook at all, instead they could stock paper version of the book. If an ebook has interactive content, then maybe it should be instead be categorized as software instead of "book".
Now let's worry about something more urgent like global warming and over-population.
The reason freight train takes high priority over passenger train is because Amtrack doesn't own any rail tracks excpet that of North East Corridor (Bos-NY-Wash).
Private rail companies, which doesn't have passenger service, own most of the tracks, and their controller natually have their freight train pass and keep Amtrack waiting.
It can be expected to attract iron-rich plants, such as spinach. This in turn will attract cute little bunny rabbits. When the
bunnies eat too much of the spinach, they will become stuck to the tracks.
*fake ha-ha*, Correct me if I am wrong.
According to articles I read, sections of magnet are switched on/off based on where the train is travelling on, so the magnetic field is not always present. Given the speed the train, most of the line would be powered off most of the time.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.airnav.com/airport/SLN
12300 ft runway 17-35. From CNN I could see ppl stopped their cars on hiway shoulders to see the landing. It's a town of a few thousand, even the whole town turned out it'd called "small crowd" by network standard. I am sure it's big there.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/caves/
I thought about this NOVA serie as soon as I read the news. Not conclusive, but ineresting.
I was at Crichton's National Press Club speech in DC in end of Jan. He mocked environmentalist by showing audience a news story "Expert worries many species might vanish before they can be identified", and comment "How do we know they were even there if we didn't identify them before they vanish?"
Duh... anyone heard of Dinosour?
I have to say I know little of Crichton's work before being dragged along by my friend. I found His argument was not logical, only muddy the water. I felt like looking at someone arguing smoking doesn't cause lung cancer... "They can't predict it."...
I only wish I had my thoughts together to ask him some pointed questions, but debating wasn't my strong suite.
following post is from http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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Just for example:
Franklin County. 77.3% of voters registered Dems. Only 15.9% registered Reps. 58.5% of the votes reported FOR BUSH???
Holmes County. 72.7% of voters registered Dems. Only 21.3% registered Reps. 77% of the votes reported FOR BUSH???
Calhoun County. 82.4% of voters registered Dems. Only 11.9% registered Reps. 63.4% of the votes reported FOR BUSH???
See the data in following links.
http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.ht
http://ustogether.org/election04/florida_vote_p
Okay, What do you mean Insight and Civic Hybrid are "mild" hybrid? Civic Hybrid gets roughly same milage as prius. Considering Prius is designed as hybrid from ground up, Civic Hybrid did a impressive job to fit electric motor in a Civic body.
Read the ford.com FAQ, 40mpg is city driving. The hiway mpg is only 29 (at 55 mph). I am sure if you drive it at 70 mph it can hardly go above 25. That's on a 4x2. 4x4 gets even lower
Prius and Civic Hybrid are not specially built. Go to car dealers today and you can test drive them or take it home. Escape "will be available at selected dealers", meaning what? California?
And Civic Hybrid is as much an "option" to Honda Civic line as Escape Hybrid to Ford Escape line.
If you can live with a passenger car, why drive a SUV, even it's a hybrid. SUV still tends to tip over, remember that.
For people uses IPv6, how can they tell ".sixxs" is author originally intended or appended by gateway?
> But who wants to live in Idaho?
Unemployed software engineers whose jobs went to Bangalor, India, whose diet is pizza and chinese food, whose social activities are online chat, nline porn.
Employers hence want to maximize surplus value (they ever want greater profits to prevail in their struggle with competitors), and they may do so in one of two ways:
1. add more hours to the working day and hence increase the number of hours creating surplus value (this Marx calls "absolute surplus value);
Yes, been there
2. introduce technical innovations that make production more efficient and thus, by providing more items for sale in a shorter period of time, reduce the proportion of the working day devoted to making up the value of wage costs and enlarge the proportion of the working day producing value above and beyond wage costs (this Marx calls 'relative surplus value'). "
Done that
3. Reduce the worker's wage by move the job to coutries that have lower wage. Marx didn't live long enough to see the "surplus value" resulted in this strategy, shall we call it "alienated surplus value"?
Workers of the World, Unite!What they have in China is a capitalist dictatorship, if you have to stick a "ism" on it, its cloest name is Fascist. It is not in the "jew-killing" racial way. More in the way of m-w.com definition:
that exalts nation and often race (N/A here) above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
Somewhere in there I see where US is turning into, I thought about posting anonymously for fear of being put on no fly list , but I can't do that.
I thought it'd be fun working/living in UK for a while. Now this ISP charge scheme really put a damper on things. I didn't buy my house in certain county around here just because they don't have Time Warner and Road Runner.
Another question, why does UK use such large electric plug?
Japanese for Japan is pronounced as "Nippon", as the N in NEC, NHK. It means not "Land of the Sun", but "Origin of the Sun" (as it is east of the major landmass of Eurasia).
yes, since sun = day in Japanese, and "notebook" is the same char as "origin", babelfishesq engine might produce "day book", but crisis in Chinese (I don't even know why we are talking about Japanese in the first place??!?! some ignorant American started this thread I bet) is a genuine composite word actually means "dangerous opptunity".
I got a few bones to pick with westerner's portraits of chinese characters:
1. The characters are BADLY written. It looks like written by a four year old who got hold of a pen brush. I know it doesn't matter to you dumb Americans, but do you like to see mispelled english quotations in foreign publications?
2. "danger opportunity" in Chinese is not "symbols", it is called "words". Would it be okay if I say the American "symbol" for ground beef + bread is called "hamburger" ? sounds wierd huh? It's your language, use it correctly.
Okay, get that off my chest.
Trailer home, Winnabagle, The World Cruise, and now this crap.
It make sense. The color of cool is moving consistently to the shorter wavelength as progressive goes on. Future generations might well find blue color so "tacky".
The glowing aliens are probably that way because all their cellphones emits gamma rays. They are hairless too, just like after chemotherapy.
How many posts on slashdot is not predictable, esp those opinionated ones.
God is not a machintosh.
Just got a class action notice the other day from Verizon wireless. It said essentially "if you do nothing, you'll receive some coupons worth $10 - $20, and give up your right to receive settlement. Or you have to send a opt-out letter to provided address to participate in class action settlement".
I don't know what piece of legislation allow companies to do this. It is better for consumer that settlement is opt-out (do nothing and you'll participate in settlement).
Of course I actually send my name address to opt-in to this particular settlement. Darn thing that postal service raised postage again I end up using 2 32cent stamps.
Somehow I'll be had...
In order for trains (high speed or maglev) to work, they'd better build a parking lot put walmart, target lot to shame.
I'm wondering how much distance a 150 mph train achieves its top speed. It's safe to assume we only have one station in every major cities, which are miles and miles of sprawl. Take a taxi from my place to airport cost me $50, and that's only one way.
I love trains, I do, but billions of dollars are better spent on some good city planning first. And like a famous quote from a Florida legislator: "We should pay every teacher in this state at least $60,000". I'll vote for that.
In chopstick culture (Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, where food are eaten with chopstick) family finance are viewed as women thing's because there is not stock, mutual fund and bond investing in Asian domestic finance (I suspect it still the case).
As a chinese arriving in US after my college, I am shocked to find out American women consider themself "not good with money managing". Asian women manage the finance because they are the ones do the shopping, not because they have more power.
Even as we live in technological advanced time as we do, somehow we still be bothered with ethernal worries, about love, moral, fear and greed etc. etc. that Greeks talked about thousands years ago.
:)
What does it mean to "live in the future"? If you were a Roman in 100 A.D., do you want to live in the future year of 500 A.D.? I don't think so. I felt that the author takes on optimistic American attitude that "future is always a good thing" and the argument is pretty weak.
Haiku and tea ceremony and sushi are well liked for good reasons, but if world regard txt msging and robo-dog as the same level with Haiku, I would be worried about another upcoming "neo-medival age", an age of human without a soul.
The article raised an interesting point of comparing Japan with England, and other people went further comparing China to the European continent. Both Japan and England (Britian in general) went through relatively peaceful transition from medival to modern society and kept the monarch, and both culture are painfully rigid and full of rituals, while China and the Europe (France in particluar) went through bloody revolutions and social earthquakes to achieve the same thing, and people in both places value things like good food and tobacco smoking.
On the other hand, unlike to all nations mentioned above, Japan is a very exclusive society, their immmigration policy mirrors Denmark or Holland (a.k.a Never ever, not even think about it). In some cases 2rd generation Koreans born in Japan can not become a Japanese citizen. I find it strange that the author compare Tokyo to London, which is a very culturally diversed city. I'd say Hong Kong is more like London than any Japanese city ever would be (in decades to come). Case in point, I saw pakistainese in English movie, Hong Kong movie, but never in a Japanese movie.
All Vulcans are required to attend their own schools, because their IQ are not comparable to human children. If co-ed was allowed, Harvard and MIT would be filled with Vulcans students, so would be the trend for faculty members.
Vulcans are considered as atheists by Southern Baptists Church, which causes a lot of resentment from local populations. But unlike steorotypical rebellious Catholic high school graduates, Vulcan doesn't hate God. They have no past issues with him/her/it. People from California are dissapointed because they found out in order to understand Vulcan culture, they have to read Quantum Physics Theory.
Barber shops used to have "Humanoid only" sign, because barbers claim that Vulcan's hair strands are so hard that the scissors gets damaged easily, Every now and then groups of vulcan and human college students pickets outside local barber shops until police are called. Things are changing after UN ruled that since the scissors are made in China, Vulcans could sue barber shops in World Court in Hague.
Many supermarkets have a vulcan food shelf in "ethic food" section. But the buyers are normally curious humanoids. Vulcans prefer to drive to downtown and buy from shops bearing names like "Galactic Food and Supply" and "Out-of-this-world Grocery". The name of the store in vulcan script also appears on the sign, normally means totally different thing if translated into human languge literally.
And in Vulcan language the Earth is called "Rosewell" when the first Vulcan ship landed a confused Vulcan asked a apparently equally confused local "Where am I?" and the local answered truthfully, "Rosewell".
Politically, Vulcans are treated equally like other human aliens, they pay taxes but can not vote. Justice Department haven't find a way to deport illegal Vulcan immigrant yet. To solve the problem, they make every Vulcan found in US a legal resident and give them special ID card. But abuse of interchanging identities are common because all Vulcans look alike in their ID photo.
What would you think if your local Barnes & Noble or Borders start to sell ebook on their shelves with shrink-wrapped color boxes?
You'd say "stupid!". Isn't the whole point of ebook idea is that the book can be downloaded directly to your computer or reader, without you going to bookstore or LIBRARY? Why should your local library stock one copy of ebook at all?
We have to approach a problem first in term of whether the problem has a solution at all. Paper book has a physical contraint that once the book is checked out, the next person has to wait until the book is returned. If we want ebook to follow the same model, then new software has to be written to emulate that physical model, namely control access to viewing of ebook from library. This involves same techinical problem as SDMA and music industry are trying to solve. (Read MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE).
I do not have the answer. Maybe a book can be published in two editions, paper and ebook.
Maybe library should not be allowed to loan ebook at all, instead they could stock paper version of the book. If an ebook has interactive content, then maybe it should be instead be categorized as software instead of "book".
Now let's worry about something more urgent like global warming and over-population.
The reason freight train takes high priority over passenger train is because Amtrack doesn't own any rail tracks excpet that of North East Corridor (Bos-NY-Wash).
Private rail companies, which doesn't have passenger service, own most of the tracks, and their controller natually have their freight train pass and keep Amtrack waiting.
*fake ha-ha*, Correct me if I am wrong.
According to articles I read, sections of magnet are switched on/off based on where the train is travelling on, so the magnetic field is not always present. Given the speed the train, most of the line would be powered off most of the time.
I thought I saw those rotating snapshot in GAP commercials before Matrix was released.
Some guy with yellow shirt or sth jumped and froze in mid air and the shot rotated 180 degrees, with hip music playing in background.