The best thing to come out of the end of OTA TV will be the end of the FCC's reign of terror over OTA TV. They'll be forced to spend all of their censorship efforts on terrestrial radio... until that goes away.
So, I RTFA. It's great that endometrial tissue has been grown, but it seems to me that is one of the (relatively) easier problems to solve in this process. You are going to have to build some sort of artificial placenta, and pump nutrient-filled blood through the umbillical cord (which is generated as part of the fetus), and also take waste material out in the other direction.
Please allow me to play the devil's advocate on this one:
Microsoft is a corporation and thus it has only one mandate: to maximize profit. As a shareholder of Microsoft, I expect it to do everything in its power to generate profit. I expect its CEO to spread FUD against FOSS at every chance, because that's part of his job description. I even expect it to utilize illegeal practices, as long as the expect profit is greater than the cost of settlement.
If Microsoft is not fighting against open source at every opportunity, the shareholders can sue the board of directors on the ground that they failed to fulfilled their duty of care. Microsoft already lost to FOSS in the server realm, and if it doesn't spread FUD it will completely lose the desktop realm as well.
So, as a shareholder, I'm sure you must be thrilled that Microsoft is working to limit the number of applications that will run in their mobile "ecosystem"? WP7 is already having trouble gaining the traction it will need. There's a pretty good argument that number of applications available can increase market share. I'll claim that limiting the number of applications that are available limits the potential market share.
can we stop killing each other and focus on space exploration now? For all you corporate types: I am sure there are plenty of diamonds, gold, oil and other fantastic elements on these planets.
I was going to bring a business plan to a VC today, but my Google Spreadsheet couldn't fit the 2,000 years of projections until we show break-even.
Maybe it only flew close to his hand and never touched it at all. He got burned by the speed/air/whatever, not the rock itself. But it could've felt like a hit because of the sheer speed.
How about a piece of the ground from the giant crater? It would be impossible for him (or anyone) to tell if he was hit before or after the crater was created.
Right or wrong, the 4th Amendment takes into account the fact that guilty parties should be allowed to be free as a consequence. The framers felt it was worth it.
I find it *extremely* disturbing. DNA evidence should be used to exclude, and with consent. You should need probable cause to search someone's DNA for a match. The rights of the victim *are* more important the rights of the criminal, but the rights of the innocent are at least equivalent to the rights of the victim. This process causes a violation of the rights of millions of non-criminals (imo).
Pr1mos and VMS had something in common: Kernels written primarily in Fortran!
Of course, the VAX chip practically understood Fortran in microcode. My favorite instruction was the POLY instruction, which evaluated polynomials. This was a RISC-free zone!
I don't understand the criteria used to select these operating systems to remember. It's mostly consumer OSes, but then they throw in some hobby OSes (plus the bizarre X-Windows, which they admit is not an OS, and I claim is still alive).
Nope. This is what I thought, at first. It actually works even when you're not in the map, just without GPS. It only can use radio tower location/signal strength when not in the map application. Humorously enough, the only time it doesn't work is when you are speaking on the phone, and in a non-3G/non-WiFi area (because it can't transmit your location over the net).
>For the cloud seeding technique, the researchers select clouds using specialist weather radar technology > that allows them to see all the tiny processes that take place within them.
Where's the control? How do they know that they are not (unintentionally, of course) *selecting* clouds that would have produced rain anyway?
The fact that they are testing over decades actually works against reaching the conclusion they've reached.
A quick search of the ASRS Database (the database of US aviation incident reporting) shows hundreds of instances of people (aviation employees who are totally unaware of the scientific method) blaming all sorts of issues on passenger electronic devices. Every time there is anything that has gone wrong, plus they are able to find a random electronic device on, it must be the fault of the device. I suggest that you can *always* find some electronic device that is on.
You've just given me a new idea for a reality show called "Minesweeper". I'm not normally a fan of pure carnage, but I shall produce it, and thus cause your argument to be invalid.
Good point. The day before the announcement, I checked out the registrations of the combinations of mccainxyz.com, where xyz was all of the people on the reported "short list". xyz==romney was the only one that wasn't obviously a cybersquatter and was even registered in Arizona! If he had been the selection, I could have written the same article about how anyone could have figured it out by using my method.
SPF would not even get rid of a fraction of a percent of spam. It only checks the e-mail address in the From: line against the SPF record (in DNS TXT) for the domain claimed by that e-mail address to make sure the last hop is an authorized sender. It's not the case that 90% of the spammers use someone else's domain in the From: line. It's just as easy to make up a fake domain. The e-mail address in the From: line isn't even seen by most people. The forgery that often goes on is in the "pretty name", which is what most mail readers display. SPF doesn't check that, and there really isn't a way to check that.
Turns out that the bulk of spam has actually been sent by bigfoot creatures in Georgia (US). They recently lost one of their own, and the rest are a bit busy right now.
>The in satellite reception was also not so great, JetBlue does a better job there.
This is true, and also interesting. The satellite system they use is from LiveTV, which is the same system used by JetBlue, and in fact is *owned* by JetBlue.
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If there's trouble, they can always rotate the shield harmonics.
The best thing to come out of the end of OTA TV will be the end of the FCC's reign of terror over OTA TV. They'll be forced to spend all of their censorship efforts on terrestrial radio... until that goes away.
So, I RTFA. It's great that endometrial tissue has been grown, but it seems to me that is one of the (relatively) easier problems to solve in this process. You are going to have to build some sort of artificial placenta, and pump nutrient-filled blood through the umbillical cord (which is generated as part of the fetus), and also take waste material out in the other direction.
full terrestrial weather station
That's a neat trick...
Send a probe to Mars just to tell us our weather here on Earth?
Please allow me to play the devil's advocate on this one:
Microsoft is a corporation and thus it has only one mandate: to maximize profit. As a shareholder of Microsoft, I expect it to do everything in its power to generate profit. I expect its CEO to spread FUD against FOSS at every chance, because that's part of his job description. I even expect it to utilize illegeal practices, as long as the expect profit is greater than the cost of settlement.
If Microsoft is not fighting against open source at every opportunity, the shareholders can sue the board of directors on the ground that they failed to fulfilled their duty of care. Microsoft already lost to FOSS in the server realm, and if it doesn't spread FUD it will completely lose the desktop realm as well.
So, as a shareholder, I'm sure you must be thrilled that Microsoft is working to limit the number of applications that will run in their mobile "ecosystem"? WP7 is already having trouble gaining the traction it will need. There's a pretty good argument that number of applications available can increase market share. I'll claim that limiting the number of applications that are available limits the potential market share.
can we stop killing each other and focus on space exploration now? For all you corporate types: I am sure there are plenty of diamonds, gold, oil and other fantastic elements on these planets.
I was going to bring a business plan to a VC today, but my Google Spreadsheet couldn't fit the 2,000 years of projections until we show break-even.
Great, we've finally hit the pinnacle of the information age: The government is actually trolling.
Maybe it only flew close to his hand and never touched it at all. He got burned by the speed/air/whatever, not the rock itself. But it could've felt like a hit because of the sheer speed.
How about a piece of the ground from the giant crater? It would be impossible for him (or anyone) to tell if he was hit before or after the crater was created.
No, you rotate the shield harmonics, then separate the saucer section.
Right or wrong, the 4th Amendment takes into account the fact that guilty parties should be allowed to be free as a consequence. The framers felt it was worth it.
I find it *extremely* disturbing. DNA evidence should be used to exclude, and with consent. You should need probable cause to search someone's DNA for a match. The rights of the victim *are* more important the rights of the criminal, but the rights of the innocent are at least equivalent to the rights of the victim. This process causes a violation of the rights of millions of non-criminals (imo).
Pr1mos and VMS had something in common: Kernels written primarily in Fortran!
Of course, the VAX chip practically understood Fortran in microcode. My favorite instruction was the POLY instruction, which evaluated polynomials. This was a RISC-free zone!
True, VM/CMS isn't dead, but that doesn't seem to be part of the criteria either! I'll bet Microsoft is still making money from Windows 95, too.
Somehow, the mention of Teco reminded me that I left out LISPM!
I don't understand the criteria used to select these operating systems to remember. It's mostly consumer OSes, but then they throw in some hobby OSes (plus the bizarre X-Windows, which they admit is not an OS, and I claim is still alive).
The ones I remember most fondly include:
Pr1mos
Multics
Tops-20 (Twenex)
Tops-10
ITS
VMS
VM/CMS
MVS
RSTS
RSX
It's impressive, but can it arrange the rocks into the text of a new stimulous bill?
Nope. This is what I thought, at first. It actually works even when you're not in the map, just without GPS.
It only can use radio tower location/signal strength when not in the map application. Humorously enough,
the only time it doesn't work is when you are speaking on the phone, and in a non-3G/non-WiFi area
(because it can't transmit your location over the net).
>For the cloud seeding technique, the researchers select clouds using specialist weather radar technology
> that allows them to see all the tiny processes that take place within them.
Where's the control? How do they know that they are not (unintentionally, of course) *selecting* clouds that
would have produced rain anyway?
The fact that they are testing over decades actually works against reaching the conclusion they've reached.
For text adventures you must always RTFH!
The preferred way to run dunnet is from the command line:
emacs -batch -l dunnet
I didn't really write it with curses mode in mind (although it is somewhat usable).
#Ron (Dunnet author) :-)
A quick search of the ASRS Database (the database of US aviation incident reporting) shows hundreds of instances of people (aviation employees who are totally unaware of the scientific method) blaming all sorts of issues on passenger electronic devices. Every time there is anything that has gone wrong, plus they are able to find a random electronic device on, it must be the fault of the device. I suggest that you can *always* find some electronic device that is on.
You've just given me a new idea for a reality show called "Minesweeper". I'm not normally a fan of pure carnage, but I shall produce it, and thus cause your argument to be invalid.
Good point. The day before the announcement, I checked out the registrations of the combinations of mccainxyz.com, where xyz was all of the people on the reported "short list". xyz==romney was the only one that wasn't obviously a cybersquatter and was even registered in Arizona! If he had been the selection, I could have written the same article about how anyone could have figured it out by using my method.
SPF would not even get rid of a fraction of a percent of spam. It only checks the e-mail address in the From: line against the SPF record (in DNS TXT) for the domain claimed by that e-mail address to make sure the last hop is an authorized sender. It's not the case that 90% of the spammers use someone else's domain in the From: line. It's just as easy to make up a fake domain. The e-mail address in the From: line isn't even seen by most people. The forgery that often goes on is in the "pretty name", which is what most mail readers display. SPF doesn't check that, and there really isn't a way to check that.
Turns out that the bulk of spam has actually been sent by bigfoot creatures in Georgia (US). They recently lost one of their own, and the rest are a bit busy right now.
I curse the FCC for making a decision with which I agree! Kevin Martin voodoo doll, I hardly knew ye.
>The in satellite reception was also not so great, JetBlue does a better job there.
This is true, and also interesting. The satellite system they use is from LiveTV, which is the same system used by JetBlue, and in fact is *owned* by JetBlue.