"Overall, 69% of respondents who were violent by the age of 34 years reported that they ate sweets nearly every day during childhood. Sweets were eaten this regularly by 42% of those who were non-violent."
This is an inconclusive result if I've ever seen one.
I've seen this argument about a thousand times on slashdot. I'll cut to the end:
The moisture on your skin would evaporate due to the lack of atmosphere. This in turn would quickly cool your skin. In addition, your lungs would be completely depleted of all oxygen. Most likely, you would suffocate before being able to freeze, but freezing would come soon after.
If a conjecture can neither be proven nor disproved given a set of axioms, then either the conjecture or the axioms were wrongly chosen. If your ultimate goal is to prove or disprove that conjecture, you must pick a set of axioms that allows that goal to be achieved. If your ultimate goal is to prove or disprove every conjecture possible given a specific set of axioms, then you must ignore the conjectures that can neither be proven nor disproved with that set of axioms.
It isn't that math doesn't work. Given a set of axioms, you can find absolute truths. However, not all absolute truths can be discovered with a single set of axioms.
Why limit this to College? Most college text books are written by professors, and commissioned by publishing companies. How many college textbooks are actually funded by the government, anyway?
The place open textbooks actually makes sense is in Elementary and High School. The public schools are already spending the resources necessary to decide what should be in the books. Why not take the next step and start publishing them? There is no reason for public Elementary and High Schools to be buying books from 3rd party publishers, when the government could commission (and distribute freely) their own. If it was made open source, teachers could submit corrections and improvements which would benefit everyone (instead of lining the publishing companies' wallets). It's not like the things being taught in Elementary and High School change very much. High quality books could quickly be written, then small revisions every year would suffice.
I would also like to point out that if the government actually did commission their own textbooks, they could distribute an infinite number practically for free. For the cost of a few textbooks, every public school desk could have a computer on which to read the new digital textbooks.
Finally, this would be a great source of low cost textbooks for low GDP communities both domestic and foreign.
It's hard to dig deep into rocks without some variety of explosive. It's pretty hard to plant explosives well. The Mars rovers have a rock-digging tool, the RAT: it regularly measures its dig depths in millimeters. This project wants to dig in and learn about well below the surface: we don't really have a good way of doing this right now without smashing stuff.
We can always recycle this variety of space junk once we get there: this is patently untrue of genuine junk in space. The usefulness of a ridiculously high-tech junkyard cannot be underestimated.
Exactly. Furthermore, why bother planning and executing a difficult controlled landing when all that kinetic energy could be used directly for 'drilling' into the rock.
Sorry, but Prodigy 'The Fat of the Land' is the first and last good techno album.
Probably every song on that album has been in at least one blockbuster movie (not that being in a movie makes it good). Some of them have been in dozens.
The current drives designs probably aren't that far away from being able to hold a decent vacuum (just enough to spin faster. There still needs to be enough air to keep the head of the disk). The problem is that the air eventually will leak in, and without a way to remove it again, the drive lifetime will be dramatically reduced.
In other words, in order for low internal air pressure drives to work, they need to have built in pumps. That is not going to happen.
The question is not whether the amount exceeds the standards set by the government (they are almost guaranteed to), but whether the amount actually absorbed into the body through the lungs is even near the amount absorbed by eating a piece of tuna. I don't have supporting evidence, but I would be willing to bet the tuna would lead to much more absorption. My main reason for guessing this is that the mercury in tuna is in organic compounds which are more likely to be absorbed than elementary mercury. It also turns out that organic mercury is what is actually dangerous (read: carcinogenic) about mercury.
You know you can just run emulators in full screen, right? You don't have to change the screen size. Not that the dialogue box not fitting isn't absolutely ridiculous. It's what we call a bug. They happen. Bugs that are encountered during normal usage are usually fixed before they make it into a release. You happened to use a resolution that is pretty rare these days. Hence why the bug was not caught.
I just started grad school at The University of Texas at Austin in the Electrical & Computer Engineering dept. The services seem to be very compatible with linux (or at least all the ones I have used). The school wide wireless can be accessed fairly easily on a linux box. The ECE dept. even has a couple dozen linux (Suse I think) workstations available for the students to use. National Instrument's LabView (required in some undergrad courses) even runs on Linux (supposedly... I didn't try).
Now if only they would discuss some of the linux tools in the beginning programming courses (through cygwin for those with windows laptops?), maybe this world could move on to a modern OS.
I know you were moded Funny, but I think there could be some bit of truth to your statement.
Especially when the drugs are meant to treat depression, this could be part of the effect. We have record levels of depression in this country. Could part of that be due to pharmaceutical advertising?
Playing pirated games on any device is not and should not be illegal. It shouldn't even be copyright infringement (a civil offence). There is no distribution, and there for no infringement, involved.
However, commercial distribution of copyrighted material, AKA commercial copyright infringement (which this student may have been commiting if he provided games with the modded consoles), is a criminal offence.
You completely missed the point of his comment. Have you ever had to get somewhere at a specific time, and planned on leaving just early enough only to realise you need to get gas? That is what he is talking about.
Also, thank you for stating the obvious. Everyone understands the drawback of a slow charging electric car. However, for daily commutes in a lot of cities this would suffice. And as the GP stated, most households have more than 1 car, so for the longer trips they still have access to a gasoline fueled vehicle.
First generation fusion was always going to be dirty compared to wind and solar. However, compared to fission it is rather clean.
The idea is that maybe we will eventually be able to achieve low neutron fuel fusion, such as boron+hydrogen. The difficulty is the order of magnitude (or more) decrease in fusion cross-section.
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Not to mention all the adverse side-effects that taking a massive dose of hormones can cause.
So he has a PhD's in physics from Stanford, but doesn't know about encryption? Stanford, you should be ashamed of yourself!
"Overall, 69% of respondents who were violent by the age of 34 years reported that they ate sweets nearly every day during childhood. Sweets were eaten this regularly by 42% of those who were non-violent."
This is an inconclusive result if I've ever seen one.
I've seen this argument about a thousand times on slashdot. I'll cut to the end:
The moisture on your skin would evaporate due to the lack of atmosphere. This in turn would quickly cool your skin. In addition, your lungs would be completely depleted of all oxygen. Most likely, you would suffocate before being able to freeze, but freezing would come soon after.
Where did you learn to count?
If a conjecture can neither be proven nor disproved given a set of axioms, then either the conjecture or the axioms were wrongly chosen. If your ultimate goal is to prove or disprove that conjecture, you must pick a set of axioms that allows that goal to be achieved. If your ultimate goal is to prove or disprove every conjecture possible given a specific set of axioms, then you must ignore the conjectures that can neither be proven nor disproved with that set of axioms.
It isn't that math doesn't work. Given a set of axioms, you can find absolute truths. However, not all absolute truths can be discovered with a single set of axioms.
They'll do anything to look like they're worth their salt.
Why limit this to College? Most college text books are written by professors, and commissioned by publishing companies. How many college textbooks are actually funded by the government, anyway?
The place open textbooks actually makes sense is in Elementary and High School. The public schools are already spending the resources necessary to decide what should be in the books. Why not take the next step and start publishing them? There is no reason for public Elementary and High Schools to be buying books from 3rd party publishers, when the government could commission (and distribute freely) their own. If it was made open source, teachers could submit corrections and improvements which would benefit everyone (instead of lining the publishing companies' wallets). It's not like the things being taught in Elementary and High School change very much. High quality books could quickly be written, then small revisions every year would suffice.
I would also like to point out that if the government actually did commission their own textbooks, they could distribute an infinite number practically for free. For the cost of a few textbooks, every public school desk could have a computer on which to read the new digital textbooks.
Finally, this would be a great source of low cost textbooks for low GDP communities both domestic and foreign.
I still remember when AOL signed-up too many customers, and the result was a service that was slow and unresponsive.
Yeah, I remember their grand opening, too.
That's probably because their family members are in the same boat. Obesity is viral.
It's hard to dig deep into rocks without some variety of explosive. It's pretty hard to plant explosives well. The Mars rovers have a rock-digging tool, the RAT: it regularly measures its dig depths in millimeters. This project wants to dig in and learn about well below the surface: we don't really have a good way of doing this right now without smashing stuff.
We can always recycle this variety of space junk once we get there: this is patently untrue of genuine junk in space. The usefulness of a ridiculously high-tech junkyard cannot be underestimated.
Exactly. Furthermore, why bother planning and executing a difficult controlled landing when all that kinetic energy could be used directly for 'drilling' into the rock.
My brain hurts.
That might have had something to do with the ridiculous suspense music in the background. I couldn't help but laugh.
Sorry, but Prodigy 'The Fat of the Land' is the first and last good techno album.
Probably every song on that album has been in at least one blockbuster movie (not that being in a movie makes it good). Some of them have been in dozens.
To be fair, most of the netbook preinstalled distro's are complete trash.
The current drives designs probably aren't that far away from being able to hold a decent vacuum (just enough to spin faster. There still needs to be enough air to keep the head of the disk). The problem is that the air eventually will leak in, and without a way to remove it again, the drive lifetime will be dramatically reduced.
In other words, in order for low internal air pressure drives to work, they need to have built in pumps. That is not going to happen.
The question is not whether the amount exceeds the standards set by the government (they are almost guaranteed to), but whether the amount actually absorbed into the body through the lungs is even near the amount absorbed by eating a piece of tuna. I don't have supporting evidence, but I would be willing to bet the tuna would lead to much more absorption. My main reason for guessing this is that the mercury in tuna is in organic compounds which are more likely to be absorbed than elementary mercury. It also turns out that organic mercury is what is actually dangerous (read: carcinogenic) about mercury.
You know you can just run emulators in full screen, right? You don't have to change the screen size. Not that the dialogue box not fitting isn't absolutely ridiculous. It's what we call a bug. They happen. Bugs that are encountered during normal usage are usually fixed before they make it into a release. You happened to use a resolution that is pretty rare these days. Hence why the bug was not caught.
I just started grad school at The University of Texas at Austin in the Electrical & Computer Engineering dept. The services seem to be very compatible with linux (or at least all the ones I have used). The school wide wireless can be accessed fairly easily on a linux box. The ECE dept. even has a couple dozen linux (Suse I think) workstations available for the students to use. National Instrument's LabView (required in some undergrad courses) even runs on Linux (supposedly... I didn't try).
Now if only they would discuss some of the linux tools in the beginning programming courses (through cygwin for those with windows laptops?), maybe this world could move on to a modern OS.
I know you were moded Funny, but I think there could be some bit of truth to your statement.
Especially when the drugs are meant to treat depression, this could be part of the effect. We have record levels of depression in this country. Could part of that be due to pharmaceutical advertising?
If it is more convenient to use KiB, MiB, and GiB, then use them. Just don't call them KB, MB, and GB.
I don't understand why the hell this is so difficult.
Welcome to the real world. No one likes the government, unless of course the government is giving them a free lunch.
Playing pirated games on any device is not and should not be illegal. It shouldn't even be copyright infringement (a civil offence). There is no distribution, and there for no infringement, involved.
However, commercial distribution of copyrighted material, AKA commercial copyright infringement (which this student may have been commiting if he provided games with the modded consoles), is a criminal offence.
You completely missed the point of his comment. Have you ever had to get somewhere at a specific time, and planned on leaving just early enough only to realise you need to get gas? That is what he is talking about.
Also, thank you for stating the obvious. Everyone understands the drawback of a slow charging electric car. However, for daily commutes in a lot of cities this would suffice. And as the GP stated, most households have more than 1 car, so for the longer trips they still have access to a gasoline fueled vehicle.
First generation fusion was always going to be dirty compared to wind and solar. However, compared to fission it is rather clean.
The idea is that maybe we will eventually be able to achieve low neutron fuel fusion, such as boron+hydrogen. The difficulty is the order of magnitude (or more) decrease in fusion cross-section.