According to wikipedia global dimming might have actually masked the effects of global warming. Too bad we got reversed the effects of global dimming. The two forms of pollution were canceling each other out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
Im an engineering student and it is entirely possible to get through the first year without a computer. People always looked at me like I was crazy when I told them I didn't get a computer. I didn't need to. My university had a huge computer lab filled with both Apple and PC computers. Every program I needed was installed and all I had to do was walk to the library. I could have done pretty much anything with those computers.
No, it is an insult, and it is not the truth. To be a liberal, means to be tolerant. To be a 'liberal wacko', would mean you believe very strongly in freedom of thought. I take offense to the way the term 'liberal wacko', because it means to be moderate.
Dam it. This has got to be one of the most annoying things I
have been taught in college. It's annoying because there are two
different definitions for both the term conservative and liberal.
In the United States the terms liberal and conservative are associated with the
political parties. Outside of that the term conservatism relates
to wanting to go back to a king. The
term liberal that you just defined is one of freedom of action
without harming others. Here is the kicker both parties in the
U.S. fall under that definition. You see. The insult does not
even work under your definition.
I hope this makes sense. It took a semester of college for it
sink through.
Can anyone tell me how liberal became a derogatory term in the U.S. ?
I find this very strange every time I see it here.
Ummmm... It isn't an insult. It's the truth. There are liberal wackos and conservative wackos. The term liberal is there to show which side of the political spectrum the person is on.
The patent system works. Yes, even for software patent. What the world needs however is patent reviewers that aren't orang-utang, actually verify the claims and the prior arts, and are given enough time to get familiarized with whatever the patent application is dealing with, and accept or reject said application fairly.
Unfortunately, it went from "the best and brightest" to "how do we do with less".
Ummm.... That is NASA's philosophy with the robotics program. I seriously doubt that It's actually one of the smartest ideas they have ever had. I always cringe whenever I hear the story about how close NASA was to sending in one huge nuclear powered robot instead of the miniture ones.
It is attitudes like this that has allowed other countries to catch up (and even surpass) the U.S. While we are arguing over whether evolution should be taught in schools, other countries are pulling ahead of the U.S. (and why not, as American corporations apparently feel that Americans are not worth hiring).
You are damned if you do and you are damned if you don't. It's a little known fact but NASA does go beyond space research. They actually did fund a service robot like the ones that the Japanese are making for the sole reason of showing how their technologies can help people. The only problem was that the project was not space related so they had to pull the funding. They rightly believed that the politicans would think that NASA was over funded.
Ummmm.... This article was just posted five minutes ago. It is late enough on the east coast where people might be sleeping. I didn't know slashdot had that much traffic.
To see a man of his importance go but least his influence is seen everywhere. I don't think anyone can claim that they are not affected by his invention. Intergrated circuits chips can be found everywhere.
Well, that depends on how you define
- he has occassionally suffered the effects of neurological toxins which rendered him incapable of normal function;
- he suffered from a disease similar to vampirism that made him incapable of being out in the light;
- he has drowned to the point of needing to be resuscitated;
- he has been impaled and flailed to the point where blood poured out of his costume;
Now, I am not enough of a comics geek to be able to point out issue / page numbers, but I fondly remember these events from the pages of the comics I read in my youth. I always thought he was the toughest superhero because of the predicaments in which he would be placed by writers.
Dam. He is the Energizer bunny of crime fighters. How the hell does a person go through all that and the only injury that stops him is a broken back?
- he has recevied wounds that resulted in broken ribs and broken arms (for that matter he has fallen from great heights in such a way that the reader would assume much worse);
Actually you can brace yourself that you can survive a fall. I don't know how high but it is theoretically possible to do that. It aparently also helps if a canopy is there. A lady survived a fall from what usually is a fatal height after falling on top of a canopy. All she suffered was a broken arm.
Sigh. Im starting to feel like a comic book nerd. It's actually quite pathetic. If I remember correctly Batman's cape is bulletproof also. All he has to do is throw up the cape and he is pretty much shielded. Also, the only major injury that Batman has had is a broken back by Bane I believe. During this time period he had to have another person replace him as Batman.
Wrong title. The name of the song is "White Rabbit". How did you get the name wrong when it was clearly visible on the website you linked to? Personally, I love the Blue Man Group's version of the song. Here is a link to their CD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complex_(Blue_Man _Group)#Track_listing
It's probably not the fact that software can be granted patents but the fact that patent enforcement is horrible. People have patented the combover. People have patented the wheel. God damn it. Enforce the laws!!!! Enforce the laws!!!! http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html
As for "teaching only as much as a major needs", that's the exact problem right there. How does a junior physics professor who studies general relativity have any idea at all what type of physics a neurobiologist is going to find useful? He doesn't, so they learn how balls bounce instead of how an MRI works.
Obviously any school worth your money is going to try and place the right professors for the right job. Look at the factulty that the my school has for biomedical physics. Doctors in addition to regular physics professors at my school.
http://www.physics.neu.edu/Department/Vone/Site/Up dated/Biomed/Biomed.htm
What would an electrical engineer be doing a millennia or three before the concept of resistors and capacitors?
The capacitor has been around since the 18th century in one form or another. The leyden jar was a basic capicator. The Mythbusters have used those numerous times. People were used as resistors. I know there was a special on the discovery channel were a bunch of people tried to replicate an experiment by monk's where they shocked a lot people at once. There were numerous static generators. It was a fun time and I would like to build some of these devices. Kites are an old but fun technology too.
Most of the truly enjoyable games (where you feel you have some amount of control over winning and losing) seem to have simple rules with complex ramifications. You can't precisely see what strategy will be best, so you have to try them all to find out.
I just finished playing throught Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones which actually uses a rock paper scissors style of turn based strategy. It's a great game and really challenging with player imposed restrictions. (ie. Don't have any characters die off) It takes a while to realize all the nuances of the game and figure out the strategies. The one thing that I found odd was the overtly over powered dragon unit.
was floored on my first day of intro physics when the professor told us it's just an assumption that intertial mass was the same as gravitational mass. It's been shown to 10 decimal places or so but not formally proven (I think it stems from the same inability to describe gravity that the original post was about). My college profs were always very good about pointing out what we do and don't know. my only beef there is that only the physics majors get the good profs who tell us this stuff. . someone who was taking physics for engineers or physics for biologists probably ended up doing alot of arithmetic about bouncing balls without ever being told the parts that are actually interesting.
You want to know why engineers aren't taught about this stuff.
They don't care. They don't care. They don't care. It's
a practicality issue. They can't muse over the issues that a
physicist does. Ten decimal places is more than enough for an
engineer not to care. No offense intended. It's just like trying to compare apples to oranges. Every situation is differnt and requires differing amounts of information. Personally, I find physics to be one of the hardest fields and I commend anyone who does become a physicist.
I wish schools would try and find professors who are good at teaching non-majors instead of relegating that duty to whichever disgruntled professor is on the department's naughty list. There actually was a chemistry 666 in my school, it was advanced synthetic organic chemistry I think:-)
Ehhhhhh... I go by the theory of teach only as much as the major needs.
If countries were as serious about robotics as the Japanese are, the whole idea of a Moon dominated by Japanese robots would just be a dream. But Tachikawa is just stating the obvious. The sadly, Japanese are the only ones qualified to provide useful robots.
Oooo well. I just discovered that this is an odd discussion. According to space.com the Japense are in a severe budget crisis. I honestly don't know why but from what I know Japan's space program has been plauged with lots of problems.
http://www.space.com/news/jaxa_trouble_050428.html
Sadly most of todays Sci Fi no longer tries to raise ideas. Most Geeks still associate SF from the past with the brain dead mass produced garbage of today. Because of this today's Sci-fi has become a badge of geekdom. It is a pity that Buffy and charmed are considered to be in the same genre as the works of the Masters of the Past.
What????? Who says that Buffy is Sci Fiction. It's not even close. It belongs in the similar category known as fantasy. I agree with you though. The mixing of the sci fi and fantasy genres happens often. I know someone once told me that they believed Lord of the Rings was sci fi.
Fantasy and SciFi appeals to every kid. I hope that geeks will recognize today's sci-fi, targeted for adults, as a marketing ploy, and leave sci-fi were it belongs -- as a fond memory before childhood's end.
I wouldn't say that. The genre does have quite a few television shows that are worth watching. Battlestar Galactica is a sci-fi show that focuses on interactions with people. Anything related to Ghost in the Shell appears to be good.(sometimes it's way over my head) Sometimes the Discovery Channel runs excellent sci-fi shows actually based on real science. The last show I saw was about probes discovering life on another planet.
I agree. My dad grew up on a farm and I still love to visit there. My grandpa is still out there farming to the best of his ability. Free food is always good. For some reason the chickens only like to lay three eggs each day. It's also amazing how much me and my dad like to watch the same shows on televison. We will pretty much watch any superhero cartoon and Stargate together because he was a comic book nerd.
It's dead or is it alive. We don't know and we will never know. Perhaps it's lying in an semid dead/alive state. Perhaps there are multiple realities each one witha cat with a differnt possiblity. Damn if I know but the only way this article makes sense if you use the second model. In that case you probably would create a new realitiy with the slim probability that you went back and time and killed someone. Now I feel like bashing my head up against the wall because quantom mechanics makes no sense whatsoever.
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According to wikipedia global dimming might have actually masked the effects of global warming. Too bad we got reversed the effects of global dimming. The two forms of pollution were canceling each other out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
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For the cost of a new car you too can pretend you are Iron Man. I would actually get one for my grandpa so he could walk again. It's a pretty neat technology.
Why do pepole talk to this person? Why do people invite this person who is under investigation by the SEC? Why? Why? Why? Here is a popular science article about the person and his company. Sigh...... http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,20 967,1006786,00.html
Im an engineering student and it is entirely possible to get through the first year without a computer. People always looked at me like I was crazy when I told them I didn't get a computer. I didn't need to. My university had a huge computer lab filled with both Apple and PC computers. Every program I needed was installed and all I had to do was walk to the library. I could have done pretty much anything with those computers.
Two articles on Batman and an a fake article about the future. I want to read about how Microsoft suxors and how Linux rules.
Ummmm.... This article was just posted five minutes ago. It is late enough on the east coast where people might be sleeping. I didn't know slashdot had that much traffic.
To see a man of his importance go but least his influence is seen everywhere. I don't think anyone can claim that they are not affected by his invention. Intergrated circuits chips can be found everywhere.
You know if the thing was deployed then everyone should be able to see it. It is of course a shiny metal object close to the atmosphere.
Sigh. Im starting to feel like a comic book nerd. It's actually quite pathetic. If I remember correctly Batman's cape is bulletproof also. All he has to do is throw up the cape and he is pretty much shielded. Also, the only major injury that Batman has had is a broken back by Bane I believe. During this time period he had to have another person replace him as Batman.
Wrong title. The name of the song is "White Rabbit". How did you get the name wrong when it was clearly visible on the website you linked to? Personally, I love the Blue Man Group's version of the song. Here is a link to their CD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complex_(Blue_Man _Group)#Track_listing
It's probably not the fact that software can be granted patents but the fact that patent enforcement is horrible. People have patented the combover. People have patented the wheel. God damn it. Enforce the laws!!!! Enforce the laws!!!! http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html
I agree. My dad grew up on a farm and I still love to visit there. My grandpa is still out there farming to the best of his ability. Free food is always good. For some reason the chickens only like to lay three eggs each day. It's also amazing how much me and my dad like to watch the same shows on televison. We will pretty much watch any superhero cartoon and Stargate together because he was a comic book nerd.
It's dead or is it alive. We don't know and we will never know. Perhaps it's lying in an semid dead/alive state. Perhaps there are multiple realities each one witha cat with a differnt possiblity. Damn if I know but the only way this article makes sense if you use the second model. In that case you probably would create a new realitiy with the slim probability that you went back and time and killed someone. Now I feel like bashing my head up against the wall because quantom mechanics makes no sense whatsoever.