To have a relative void large enough that it would distort observations by the right amount, I think you'd have to be talking about the scale of our galactic cluster (millions of LY), if not larger.
Disagree. For starters, if McCain had beaten Bush in the primary, Karl Rove would have been disemboweled and fed to his own pet hyenas. Also, McCain and Gore respected one another, unlike Bush.
And of course, if McCain (or anyone else outside PNAC) were President, he would have either prevented 9/11, or focused our full might on Al Qaida and gotten Bin Laden.
3 months out of warranty so it's going to cost me around $1200 to get it fixed
I have been a rabid evangelista for over 20 years, so heed me when I say that anyone who buys a pro-grade Mac laptop without extended AppleCare is a fool. Every PowerBook (and now MBP) that I've ever owned had at least one hardware failure in the 1-3 years out timeframe. This 8600 issue is par for the course.
As someone who has responded to "surveys" from both Dem & GOP, I have to say this is false. Dem surveys are substantially more open to (mainstream) differences of opinion than Republican ones.
The difference between Go and other games you may know where computers have surpassed the best human players is the immensity of the search space. On a standard 19x19 board there are 381 spaces, all of which are in play at every move, often including spaces currently occupied but not yet safe from capture. Therefore, within a handful of plies a computer player may be looking at trillions of possible branches. Go is NUMEROUS orders of magnitude more complex than chess from an algorithmic viewpoint.
p.s. Those of you saying "Go what?" are merely revealing your own ignorance. There are at least as many Go players in the world as chess; most of them are in Asia.
For the past few days, the "Parent" button and the click-subject-to-expand links have been non-functional for me in Firefox 3 (OSX 2008061004). The error console displays this every time I scroll a/. page:
I've enjoyed Mignola's work for decades, but my wife has neither seen the first movie nor read the comics. However, she is not opposed to comic-based movies, and really liked Pan's Labyrinth. Would she be able to jump in and enjoy HB2?
Not quite. There are four physical categories of solar system object:
stars
gas giants
rocks
snowballs
Due to hubris and geocentrism, the sentient inhabitants of Sol system's largest rock consider rocks which dominate their orbital neighborhoods to be comparably important as gas giants. Unless a superior gas giant species disputes this claim, I think it's a good enough definition.
Sure we've seen "before" and "after" bugs that evolved new traits, but this guy mapped out 40000 generations of "during". No more worries about "Then a miracle occurs", now it's all on film.
Documentation of the random mutations piling up over time until a beneficial combination hits. This fills in the question mark from Step 2.
"Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit. "We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient. That we are often 'captives' outside the sanctuary of the home and subject to objectionable speech and other sound does not mean we must be captives everywhere. The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain." - Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, Rowan v US Post Office
Power6 is a big change from Power4 & Power5 series. The key factor is: it gains clock and SMT at the expense of OoOE. In-order execution means its performance is deeply dependent on perfectly tuned compilers.
Other than the lack of out-of-order, on paper it looks pretty strong. Dual core, lots of bandwidth, up to 7 IPC (5 in one thread, 2 in the other), big GHz, voltage & frequency slewing, and yes it has AltiVec.
p.s. No, it would not be good for Macs. POWER chips are all made for big iron.
Ramen. E Gary Gygax and his party of friends(*) up in Wisconsin pulled together ideas from all of our favorite fantasy novels and turned them into an entire gaming genre that millions of people love. Some of the specific rules they created (HP, AC, spell memorization, etc) turned out to be really bad, but in the grand scheme of things I would place D&D right up there with the Wright brothers' plane.
(*) = Geek History Competition: name the players and their respective characters in the ORIGINAL "Grayhawk" campaign. I'll start with: EGG was Mordenkainen.
Come on already! How many fatal flaws have to be revealed before "scientists" will admit that the Theory of Gravity is invalid?
Intelligent Pushing describes this behavior quite easily. It's obvious that GSM would apply more appendage force to non-equatorial motion. Things going in odd directions are simply more fun to play with. Duh!
In Southern Building Code vs Veeck:
The Fifth Circuit further observed that laws are not subject to federal copyright law, and "public ownership of the law means that 'the law' is in the 'public domain' for whatever use the citizens choose to make of it."
He obviously left out Ron Paul to get a rise out of the large libertarian contingent of/.ers. And it worked! IOW, YHBT, HAND.
I am a registered Republican, and I will be most likely be voting for Ron Paul next week, but let's face facts. He's not going to win, and votes for him are valuable only as an indicator of dissent. He has good views on war, small government, and the Constitution, but he's also a creationist wacko, plus either a lying racist or so atrociously lazy and irresponsible about reading papers before signing them that it's hard to trust him.
Unless a vast number of voters in Super Tuesday states have been systematically lying to pollsters, it's going to McCain vs Clinton. So, will Ann Coulter do what she promised, and campaign for Hillary?
Sweet! At that damage level, the RIAA could afford to ditch all pretense of supporting music, and make a killing by sending lawyers down the street in major metro areas to slap subpoenas on every passerby with an MP3 player.
Damn straight, I completely agree! It's about time that Vesta, Pallas, and Juno get reinstated to the family of PLANETS, just like they were when they were discovered! Who cares that hundreds of other objects were discovered sharing their orbital region?
Scientists should stick to the exact classifications that I learned when I was a kid, and ignore any new information that contradicts it. And yes, you *do* need to GET OFF MY LAWN!
A quick look through recent Slashdot stories involving the FCC turns up a veritable cornucopia of positions from Kevin Martin. Some of them favor megacorps, others favor consumers. It's positively bizarre! No matter who put his name onto the nomination list, it's unlikely that anyone is getting everything they paid for out of this guy.
Huh? The "medical establishment" says a very simple thing: IT'S THE CALORIES, STUPID! Eating more calories than you burn makes you fat. Burning more calories than you eat makes you thin. Every diet study ever conducted boils down to this one simple principle (which could also be derived from thermodynamics, et al).
Doesn't matter if it's calories from fat, or calories from carbs, or calories from protein. Doesn't matter if it's direct exercise, or breastfeeding, or lugging equipment around an office for 8 hours. The only differences are which types of food enable you to feel full at a lower calorie level, and which types of activity get you to expend the proper amount of energy.
Don't worry though, I'm sure we'll have space defenses built up some time in the next 50000 years. And if not, we really weren't going to get very far in the galaxy anyways.
With computer research (either hardware or software), going from idea to demo to production sample is a fairly straightforward investment of money and labor hours. If it works, it works, and if not, you try again. No harm done.
With medical research (either equipment or chemicals), every one of those steps is harder:
the system you are trying to work on has millions of years of obfuscated kludges and minimal documentation, so coming up with good ideas in the first place is hard
once you have a demo of your new wonderdrug (or whatever), you need to do multiple rounds of testing on animals. I doubt that Fert and Grunberg had to fill out reams of humane treatment paperwork while experimenting on GMR.
assuming your stuff is effective & safe on lab rats, then you get to try it on actual human beings. again multiple consecutive rounds (safety, efficacy, dosing) with even more paperwork than before. Depending on what you're trying to treat, each round can take years.
And of course, the cost of screwing up is a bit higher than wasting a couple square feet of silicon at a fab.
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To have a relative void large enough that it would distort observations by the right amount, I think you'd have to be talking about the scale of our galactic cluster (millions of LY), if not larger.
Disagree. For starters, if McCain had beaten Bush in the primary, Karl Rove would have been disemboweled and fed to his own pet hyenas. Also, McCain and Gore respected one another, unlike Bush.
And of course, if McCain (or anyone else outside PNAC) were President, he would have either prevented 9/11, or focused our full might on Al Qaida and gotten Bin Laden.
3 months out of warranty so it's going to cost me around $1200 to get it fixed
I have been a rabid evangelista for over 20 years, so heed me when I say that anyone who buys a pro-grade Mac laptop without extended AppleCare is a fool. Every PowerBook (and now MBP) that I've ever owned had at least one hardware failure in the 1-3 years out timeframe. This 8600 issue is par for the course.
As someone who has responded to "surveys" from both Dem & GOP, I have to say this is false. Dem surveys are substantially more open to (mainstream) differences of opinion than Republican ones.
The difference between Go and other games you may know where computers have surpassed the best human players is the immensity of the search space. On a standard 19x19 board there are 381 spaces, all of which are in play at every move, often including spaces currently occupied but not yet safe from capture. Therefore, within a handful of plies a computer player may be looking at trillions of possible branches. Go is NUMEROUS orders of magnitude more complex than chess from an algorithmic viewpoint.
p.s. Those of you saying "Go what?" are merely revealing your own ignorance. There are at least as many Go players in the world as chess; most of them are in Asia.
Aw, shucks. If only they had pushed the prequel even farther back in the storyline, to its ultimate pre-clusion: Watchmen Babies: V for Vacation!
I've enjoyed Mignola's work for decades, but my wife has neither seen the first movie nor read the comics. However, she is not opposed to comic-based movies, and really liked Pan's Labyrinth. Would she be able to jump in and enjoy HB2?
Due to hubris and geocentrism, the sentient inhabitants of Sol system's largest rock consider rocks which dominate their orbital neighborhoods to be comparably important as gas giants. Unless a superior gas giant species disputes this claim, I think it's a good enough definition.
Sure we've seen "before" and "after" bugs that evolved new traits, but this guy mapped out 40000 generations of "during". No more worries about "Then a miracle occurs", now it's all on film.
Documentation of the random mutations piling up over time until a beneficial combination hits. This fills in the question mark from Step 2.
Lots and lots of links for your perusal. Google makes all computing simple
Oh come on, that's just silly. A cyber ant has the cold plasma laser in its abdomen, not the head.
"We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient. That we are often 'captives' outside the sanctuary of the home and subject to objectionable speech and other sound does not mean we must be captives everywhere. The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain."
- Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, Rowan v US Post Office
Power6 is a big change from Power4 & Power5 series. The key factor is: it gains clock and SMT at the expense of OoOE. In-order execution means its performance is deeply dependent on perfectly tuned compilers.
Other than the lack of out-of-order, on paper it looks pretty strong. Dual core, lots of bandwidth, up to 7 IPC (5 in one thread, 2 in the other), big GHz, voltage & frequency slewing, and yes it has AltiVec.
p.s. No, it would not be good for Macs. POWER chips are all made for big iron.
- WHOIS search for endsoftpatents.org
- Google search for Ben Klemens
OK, that's the guy.Ramen. E Gary Gygax and his party of friends(*) up in Wisconsin pulled together ideas from all of our favorite fantasy novels and turned them into an entire gaming genre that millions of people love. Some of the specific rules they created (HP, AC, spell memorization, etc) turned out to be really bad, but in the grand scheme of things I would place D&D right up there with the Wright brothers' plane.
(*) = Geek History Competition: name the players and their respective characters in the ORIGINAL "Grayhawk" campaign.
I'll start with: EGG was Mordenkainen.
Come on already! How many fatal flaws have to be revealed before "scientists" will admit that the Theory of Gravity is invalid?
Intelligent Pushing describes this behavior quite easily. It's obvious that GSM would apply more appendage force to non-equatorial motion. Things going in odd directions are simply more fun to play with. Duh!
I'm surprised the electric universe otaku haven't jumped in to claim credit for this yet.
He obviously left out Ron Paul to get a rise out of the large libertarian contingent of /.ers. And it worked! IOW, YHBT, HAND.
I am a registered Republican, and I will be most likely be voting for Ron Paul next week, but let's face facts. He's not going to win, and votes for him are valuable only as an indicator of dissent. He has good views on war, small government, and the Constitution, but he's also a creationist wacko, plus either a lying racist or so atrociously lazy and irresponsible about reading papers before signing them that it's hard to trust him.
Unless a vast number of voters in Super Tuesday states have been systematically lying to pollsters, it's going to McCain vs Clinton. So, will Ann Coulter do what she promised, and campaign for Hillary?
See also: Who's Nuttier: Apple Fanatics or Ron Paul Enthusiasts?
Sweet! At that damage level, the RIAA could afford to ditch all pretense of supporting music, and make a killing by sending lawyers down the street in major metro areas to slap subpoenas on every passerby with an MP3 player.
Damn straight, I completely agree! It's about time that Vesta, Pallas, and Juno get reinstated to the family of PLANETS, just like they were when they were discovered! Who cares that hundreds of other objects were discovered sharing their orbital region?
Scientists should stick to the exact classifications that I learned when I was a kid, and ignore any new information that contradicts it. And yes, you *do* need to GET OFF MY LAWN!
A quick look through recent Slashdot stories involving the FCC turns up a veritable cornucopia of positions from Kevin Martin. Some of them favor megacorps, others favor consumers. It's positively bizarre! No matter who put his name onto the nomination list, it's unlikely that anyone is getting everything they paid for out of this guy.
But I guess that's what happens when you hire someone who's playing two different sports, and music on two continents at the same time he's chairing the FCC...
Huh? The "medical establishment" says a very simple thing: IT'S THE CALORIES, STUPID! Eating more calories than you burn makes you fat. Burning more calories than you eat makes you thin. Every diet study ever conducted boils down to this one simple principle (which could also be derived from thermodynamics, et al).
Doesn't matter if it's calories from fat, or calories from carbs, or calories from protein. Doesn't matter if it's direct exercise, or breastfeeding, or lugging equipment around an office for 8 hours. The only differences are which types of food enable you to feel full at a lower calorie level, and which types of activity get you to expend the proper amount of energy.
I mod this article Score:0, Flamebait.
Don't worry though, I'm sure we'll have space defenses built up some time in the next 50000 years. And if not, we really weren't going to get very far in the galaxy anyways.
With computer research (either hardware or software), going from idea to demo to production sample is a fairly straightforward investment of money and labor hours. If it works, it works, and if not, you try again. No harm done.
With medical research (either equipment or chemicals), every one of those steps is harder: