Disclaimer: I am, in fact, an explosives chemist with extensive experience with primary, secondary, and blasting explosives, including terrorist "improvised" explosives and devices.
Unlikely. If the mammal came from Australia (nearest landmass with mammals), shouldn't fossils of it be present there too? Only time will tell - it could be that it just hasn't been discovered yet.
They should have given it to SG1. Dr. Jackson would have figured it out in no time, and they would have used to save the Earth from a far more technologically advanced enemy.
I think another possible solution is simply to reduce the length of time before a patent expires, say down to 5 years. That still gives the inventor an advantage, but does not cripple everyone else and force the public to pay exorbitant prices for things (medicine for example).
However, software patents are still ridiculous and should be done away with entirely.
Imagine if you could patent mathematical methods. "I'm sorry, you have to pay us royalties if you want to use Simpson's rule to solve your integral."
Ideally people would switch to local plants and save water. Alas that's about as likely as people not wanting dyed clothes (dying eats loads of water) or makeup, or any of the other things that we use to display our prosperity.
How about you RTFA?
"What practical applications will this lead to? "We are still exploring the basic physics of this phenomenon," says Deveaud. "But just achieving this phase in the solid state is exciting. In the mid 1900s, transistors replaced vacuum lamps, and now most useful devices are made in the solid state," he explains. "Polaritons, although made with a photon, are really quasi-particles in the solid. It is likely that they can be manipulated much as electrons are -- an advance that has led to incredible new technologies such as the CCD chips in digital cameras."
More advanced versions might allow cars to lift from the ground and hover.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't microwaves dangerous? In space, hardly anyone is around so blasting microwaves all over the place doesn't hurt anyone, but on a crowded street, wouldn't it harm people?
All too true...
There are quite a few people I know whose relationships have broken down over WoW. For one girl, her boyfriend wouldn't even stop playing for sex.
If you want to venture beyond particle physics, there is plenty of opportunity for young theorists (and experimentalists) in fields such as cold atom physics - Bose-Einstein condensation and the like. That is a very rich field to be in.
This is an area I never even knew about when I was younger. I came across it in my third year as an undergrad and it had me hooked!
Just like XP, I find Gnome to be pretty slow, or unusable depending on RAM, below a 600-800Mhz PC. And asking kids and teachers to run XFCE, Fluxbox or anything like that will just get them frustrated.
When my little sister was 10 (a year ago), we put Fedora Core 3 on a PIII 500 MHz machine with 64 MB of RAM. With XFCE, it ran reasonably smoothly in terms of performance. Open Office crawled, but you would expect that on a machine like that. Up until then, she used Windows XP Home exclusively. She had no problem switching to XFCE. She liked it and could do everything she wanted on it.
She lives in a different town from us. That being the case, maintanence of the system didn't really happen at all apart from the original install and the occasional over the phone help (to her directly with no adult to help her). It worked happily on the home network. And you know what? There were no problems. None at all. It lasted over a year until we put together a new machine for her a few weeks ago (runs Ubuntu with Gnome). I can't say the same for the XP machine.
She's a little Linux fanatic now. It's really cute. She brags about it to all her friends.
Kids are extremely adaptable. I would be more worried about the teachers, though all it takes is a small amount of patience on their side.
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Wow, that must be the best job ever!
Unlikely. If the mammal came from Australia (nearest landmass with mammals), shouldn't fossils of it be present there too? Only time will tell - it could be that it just hasn't been discovered yet.
I though they just had a Yoda thing going.
They should have given it to SG1. Dr. Jackson would have figured it out in no time, and they would have used to save the Earth from a far more technologically advanced enemy.
I think another possible solution is simply to reduce the length of time before a patent expires, say down to 5 years. That still gives the inventor an advantage, but does not cripple everyone else and force the public to pay exorbitant prices for things (medicine for example). However, software patents are still ridiculous and should be done away with entirely. Imagine if you could patent mathematical methods. "I'm sorry, you have to pay us royalties if you want to use Simpson's rule to solve your integral."
"Don't use the time machine!"
Also, remember that Sacha Baron-Cohen is actually Jewish himself.
Soylent green!
Some parts of Australia don't have daylight savings due to too much interference with farming.
http://www.hell.co.nz/ is a chain of Pizza places in New Zealand :-)
And yes, it's all in Flash...
When I was in school (in the days before Wikipedia), we weren't allowed to use regular encyclopedias as references!
Whenever Mac people go on about how great and fancy their GUI is, I respond with this: "Can your computer do wobbly windows?"
Hah, tell that to all the angsty goth kids!
Not all light. Only ultraviolet.
You forgot furries.
How about you RTFA? "What practical applications will this lead to? "We are still exploring the basic physics of this phenomenon," says Deveaud. "But just achieving this phase in the solid state is exciting. In the mid 1900s, transistors replaced vacuum lamps, and now most useful devices are made in the solid state," he explains. "Polaritons, although made with a photon, are really quasi-particles in the solid. It is likely that they can be manipulated much as electrons are -- an advance that has led to incredible new technologies such as the CCD chips in digital cameras."
I think not. They don't allow taking photographs in customs, so I doubt they will allow a video camera. It would have to be hidden.
More advanced versions might allow cars to lift from the ground and hover. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't microwaves dangerous? In space, hardly anyone is around so blasting microwaves all over the place doesn't hurt anyone, but on a crowded street, wouldn't it harm people?
And in other news, Santa's workshop is nowhere to be found.
Holy shit, I thought that cows and goats were herbivores! Oh man, there goes my world view :-(
I live in New Zealand, and believe it or not, it's cheaper for me to fly to North America and Europe (via N. America) if I fly through China.
All too true... There are quite a few people I know whose relationships have broken down over WoW. For one girl, her boyfriend wouldn't even stop playing for sex.
If you want to venture beyond particle physics, there is plenty of opportunity for young theorists (and experimentalists) in fields such as cold atom physics - Bose-Einstein condensation and the like. That is a very rich field to be in. This is an area I never even knew about when I was younger. I came across it in my third year as an undergrad and it had me hooked!
I believe that most of those buildings were designed to fall inwards should something like that occur.
Just like XP, I find Gnome to be pretty slow, or unusable depending on RAM, below a 600-800Mhz PC. And asking kids and teachers to run XFCE, Fluxbox or anything like that will just get them frustrated.
When my little sister was 10 (a year ago), we put Fedora Core 3 on a PIII 500 MHz machine with 64 MB of RAM. With XFCE, it ran reasonably smoothly in terms of performance. Open Office crawled, but you would expect that on a machine like that. Up until then, she used Windows XP Home exclusively. She had no problem switching to XFCE. She liked it and could do everything she wanted on it.
She lives in a different town from us. That being the case, maintanence of the system didn't really happen at all apart from the original install and the occasional over the phone help (to her directly with no adult to help her). It worked happily on the home network. And you know what? There were no problems. None at all. It lasted over a year until we put together a new machine for her a few weeks ago (runs Ubuntu with Gnome). I can't say the same for the XP machine.
She's a little Linux fanatic now. It's really cute. She brags about it to all her friends.
Kids are extremely adaptable. I would be more worried about the teachers, though all it takes is a small amount of patience on their side.