Nobody's saying that human colonies in space won't have their own disasters and problems. It's a matter of putting various eggs in various baskets, hedging our bets, kind of thing. With multiple, isolated, colonies a single thing won't wipe out ALL the humans.
"We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system," added Hawking, who arrived to a rock star's welcome Monday. Tickets for his lecture planned for Wednesday were sold out.
The thing is, if we DO find someplace as nice as Earth, we're going to need to be prepared to wrest it from its indigenous inhabitants.
That might be easier than MAKING a place as nice as Earth.
> I'm not really sure what to make of this statement.
I read it like this: "If OEM PC manufacturers are going to consider helping us propagate our OS, they have to know that PCs with Linspire are sellable." If Linspire is installed aftermarket, it's just another Linux distro.
SBC/Yahoo DSL is my ISP, and since this story broke I've been struggling with the choice between dropping them and switching to a local cable provider and justifying their actions for them.
No matter what, I know I'm a lousy hypocrite. I buy stuff made in China. Probably every day I'm responsible for some child's dismemberment, or some Chinese coal miner's cancer. In my less reflective moments I can say, "It's not me, man, it's the System." But what is the System, but a bunch of mes?
Yahoo was compelled to follow the law. But even so, Yahoo is responsible for their own actions. A soldier is morally responsible for his conduct even when he's "just following orders." My wife was recently disciplined at work for refusing to break the law. The point is, sometimes there are negative consequences for doing the right thing. Doing the right thing despite that fact is a good definition of "courage."
It's going to be a pain to switch to a new ISP, but I think I have hold them to account like the lousy hypocrite I am.
> that cooking time will be proportional to the inverse > square of the output power for a given distance from > egg to phone.
Even if everything else about TFA were true, I wouldn't buy this part. It's sort of like saying that 30 minutes at 350 degrees is the same as 15 minutes at 700 degrees. Tell that to a chef.
Blah, blah, blah. I hear Perl is a write-only language, too. And that it looks like executable line noise. And it's well past its prime and no one uses it any more. Python, blah blah, Ruby on Rails blah blah blah. Is there some sort of script that automatically makes this post whenever the word "Perl" appears in a Slashdot headline? Yeah, and that script is probably written in Perl.
All this talk of a hoax gives me an IDEA... how about producing a DVD that can only be played ONCE? It can't miss! I'd better get going; what time does the patent office close?
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So we're going to lose our information. Who cares? Proton decay will eventually destroy all of it. Sure, that's a long time in the future. You know how things go: it's 10^1032 years away today, but before you know it the kids have moved out and the end of the universe is right around the corner.
...one giant leap for the first wise ass to press all the buttons (Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere...) and piss off the other astronauts.
Just realized, as soon as I hit submit, that I reversed $ and ^. Guess that sort of makes the case for \A and \z. But not because they make people look them up.
I, too, purchased the book about a month ago. I was hoping it would be sort of an "Effective C++" but for Perl.
It's nice to have, and it gives me things to think about for improving code, but it's by no means essential.
In some cases, the author's advice is inconsistent. For example, he sometimes suggests that a programmer avoid constructs that would force a reader to look something up. And some other times, he suggests using a construct (e.g., \A and \z instead of $ and ^, respectively, in regular expressions) BECAUSE it's unusual and many people will have to look it up.
I bought a random $50 scanner at OfficeMax. I use it with Finale (quite possibly the same thing that your sister is using). Works swell. For OCR, you don't need to go nuts.
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Nobody's saying that human colonies in space won't have their own disasters and problems. It's a matter of putting various eggs in various baskets, hedging our bets, kind of thing. With multiple, isolated, colonies a single thing won't wipe out ALL the humans.
"We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system," added Hawking, who arrived to a rock star's welcome Monday. Tickets for his lecture planned for Wednesday were sold out.
The thing is, if we DO find someplace as nice as Earth, we're going to need to be prepared to wrest it from its indigenous inhabitants.
That might be easier than MAKING a place as nice as Earth.
> Did I forget anything? The sex at the end. You forgot the sex at the end.
> I'm not really sure what to make of this statement.
I read it like this: "If OEM PC manufacturers are going to consider helping us propagate our OS, they have to know that PCs with Linspire are sellable." If Linspire is installed aftermarket, it's just another Linux distro.
SBC/Yahoo DSL is my ISP, and since this story broke I've been struggling with the choice between dropping them and switching to a local cable provider and justifying their actions for them.
No matter what, I know I'm a lousy hypocrite. I buy stuff made in China. Probably every day I'm responsible for some child's dismemberment, or some Chinese coal miner's cancer. In my less reflective moments I can say, "It's not me, man, it's the System." But what is the System, but a bunch of mes?
Yahoo was compelled to follow the law. But even so, Yahoo is responsible for their own actions. A soldier is morally responsible for his conduct even when he's "just following orders." My wife was recently disciplined at work for refusing to break the law. The point is, sometimes there are negative consequences for doing the right thing. Doing the right thing despite that fact is a good definition of "courage."
It's going to be a pain to switch to a new ISP, but I think I have hold them to account like the lousy hypocrite I am.
> that cooking time will be proportional to the inverse
> square of the output power for a given distance from
> egg to phone.
Even if everything else about TFA were true, I wouldn't buy this part. It's sort of like saying that 30 minutes at 350 degrees is the same as 15 minutes at 700 degrees. Tell that to a chef.
From TFA: Turns out bee flight mechanisms are more exotic than thought. Aw, come on! Thought isn't all that exotic.
Blah, blah, blah. I hear Perl is a write-only language, too. And that it looks like executable line noise. And it's well past its prime and no one uses it any more. Python, blah blah, Ruby on Rails blah blah blah. Is there some sort of script that automatically makes this post whenever the word "Perl" appears in a Slashdot headline? Yeah, and that script is probably written in Perl.
...it evokes the Disney logo. It says, "It's not the head that counts, but what's sticking out of it."
All this talk of a hoax gives me an IDEA... how about producing a DVD that can only be played ONCE? It can't miss! I'd better get going; what time does the patent office close?
What, if anything, do you think George W. Bush could learn from Civilization about dealing with foreign leaders?
So we're going to lose our information. Who cares? Proton decay will eventually destroy all of it. Sure, that's a long time in the future. You know how things go: it's 10^1032 years away today, but before you know it the kids have moved out and the end of the universe is right around the corner.
Just try and keep those bits in line.
...one giant leap for the first wise ass to press all the buttons (Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere...) and piss off the other astronauts.
...will partner with NASA to make great strides in space elevator music.
It sounds like a dreadfully boring game. Skiing? I learned programming by, you know, programming; and I had a perfectly entertaining time.
Just realized, as soon as I hit submit, that I reversed $ and ^. Guess that sort of makes the case for \A and \z. But not because they make people look them up.
I, too, purchased the book about a month ago. I was hoping it would be sort of an "Effective C++" but for Perl.
It's nice to have, and it gives me things to think about for improving code, but it's by no means essential.
In some cases, the author's advice is inconsistent. For example, he sometimes suggests that a programmer avoid constructs that would force a reader to look something up. And some other times, he suggests using a construct (e.g., \A and \z instead of $ and ^, respectively, in regular expressions) BECAUSE it's unusual and many people will have to look it up.
I bought a random $50 scanner at OfficeMax. I use it with Finale (quite possibly the same thing that your sister is using). Works swell. For OCR, you don't need to go nuts.
Every bit as free as it is now, which is completely free.
I don't wanna be a robot. I just want a hoverbike. Where's my #*%$! hoverbike??
Either that or it's been taking albedo-enhancing drugs.
Why can't it be a planet _and_ a Kuiper belt object?