The uncertainty principle states that the more accurately you know a particle's position, the less accurately you can know its velocity, and vice versa.
So, if you know wherethe particle is, you can't know how fast or in which direction it is spinning. Conversely, if you know which direction ond how fast it is going, you cannot know its position.
Because they either did not need them, or evolved more efficient methods.
Take the horse. It moves very fast, by pushing against the ground in four places. Also, take the bird. It is very light and pushes against the air.
In both of these, wheels would be useless. Horses usually are on rough terrain, not smooth roads. Birds could not use wheels, as there is nothing for them to use them on.
Howver, in The Amber Spyglass (a book), the author describes an animal that did evolve the wheel. They secrete a lubricant from their u-shaped hooves (no jokes), and place their front and back pairs of feet on cylindrical protrusions from large nuts from the trees above. They use these nuts to roll along hardened lava flows at high speeds. Nowhere on Earth are there these lava flows serving as roads. This could be why no animal uses the wheel.
Actually, it may help you develop one of those useless tricks, like crossing your eyes: looking at something with only one eye. I'm not sure how I learned to do it, but I can unfocus my eyes, and look at something with only one eye focused.
It's rather pointless, except when you're doing something where both eyes show a different image, like the "eyebuds".
And besides, it helps you to zone out during those boring meetings.
People seem to think that the leap second would have affected the countdown in Times Square. Actually, it wouldn't. Over here, the time is -0400. This means that if it was added at 11:59:60, it would appear at 6:59:60. So, unless they started the countdown five hours early, it would go exactly as planned. (And it did.)
I think that most data transfer is done over phone lines. Even if you don't have dialup, DSL still uses the phone lines, just eliminating the slow part between the pole and your house or the phone company's building and the house.
Well, since everyone here seems to doubt that they are car lights, why not just get everyone to go a different way during a lull in traffic (so as to incenvenience as few people as possible). If the lights still appear, then they're not car lights.
And anyway, if they were head or taillights, wouldn't they only be white or red?
Slashdot Mirror
So, can we have the code?
No, no, you misunderstood.
The employees are not getting something axed.
They are getting axes.
use of fiber, wireless, and PVC
I'm sorry, but since when is PVC conductive?
There is no open source community.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
There is no such thing as DRM!
You forgot "*waves hand*".
The uncertainty principle states that the more accurately you know a particle's position, the less accurately you can know its velocity, and vice versa.
So, if you know wherethe particle is, you can't know how fast or in which direction it is spinning. Conversely, if you know which direction ond how fast it is going, you cannot know its position.
This is going to be hell for data storage.
I'm not sure about this, but I don't think algae can contract STDs.
Algae doesn't do that.
Here's a tip...
Learn to count. Don't put Chapter 10 before Chapter 1.
I'm not sure if anyone's said it yet or not, but...
WHY the FUCK ARE YOU SWITCHING TO WINDOWS?!
Actually, at the moment, all games only use the first processor. Until games that need lots of processing power come out, they other two are useless.
the dude in the mask in the basement
Jason Voorhees?
Because they either did not need them, or evolved more efficient methods.
Take the horse. It moves very fast, by pushing against the ground in four places.
Also, take the bird. It is very light and pushes against the air.
In both of these, wheels would be useless. Horses usually are on rough terrain, not smooth roads. Birds could not use wheels, as there is nothing for them to use them on.
Howver, in The Amber Spyglass (a book), the author describes an animal that did evolve the wheel. They secrete a lubricant from their u-shaped hooves (no jokes), and place their front and back pairs of feet on cylindrical protrusions from large nuts from the trees above. They use these nuts to roll along hardened lava flows at high speeds. Nowhere on Earth are there these lava flows serving as roads. This could be why no animal uses the wheel.
with the possibility of doing everything alone
Yes, that's the problem with geeks... we end up doing literally everything alone.
it's a MS Windows app but works great under wine
The only time you should be using Windows is when intoxicated with something such as wine.
Actually, it may help you develop one of those useless tricks, like crossing your eyes: looking at something with only one eye. I'm not sure how I learned to do it, but I can unfocus my eyes, and look at something with only one eye focused.
It's rather pointless, except when you're doing something where both eyes show a different image, like the "eyebuds".
And besides, it helps you to zone out during those boring meetings.
Ah, Slashdot... where the first post is modded "redundant".
People seem to think that the leap second would have affected the countdown in Times Square. Actually, it wouldn't. Over here, the time is -0400. This means that if it was added at 11:59:60, it would appear at 6:59:60. So, unless they started the countdown five hours early, it would go exactly as planned. (And it did.)
I, for one, do not welcome our porn-restricting overlords.
Maybe they need to use watercooling on their servers.
devices that use the telephone network
I think that most data transfer is done over phone lines. Even if you don't have dialup, DSL still uses the phone lines, just eliminating the slow part between the pole and your house or the phone company's building and the house.
if he did bad things with the board seats
Like let the dog sit on them?
Well then he'd have to hit Down, down, up, up, right, left, right, left, A, B, A, B, Select; and that's just not right!
They wouldn't find anything. The executives check periodically.
Well, since everyone here seems to doubt that they are car lights, why not just get everyone to go a different way during a lull in traffic (so as to incenvenience as few people as possible). If the lights still appear, then they're not car lights.
And anyway, if they were head or taillights, wouldn't they only be white or red?
And that's yet another reason I have stuck with 50.6 kb/sec dialup.