What's next for our divine intellectuals to discover? Moons around those planets? No, say it ain't so.. Did we take into consideration the mass those moons have and their effect on the Stars, when determining how much dark matter exists?
At least in the only solar system for which we have particularly accurate measurements, the mass of the planets, moons, and assorted detritus is less than 1% of the mass of the sun. So it's unlikely that objects of those types will make up much of the mass of the galaxy.
I thought this was more appropriate because we are talking about two evils.
Indeed, we know how Blair has gassed the Northern Irish and Bush has let millions of his people starve.
I'm no fan of George Bush, but that doesn't mean the Iraqi and North Korean governments aren't evil. If it could be done "cleanly", the world would be better off without their ilk.
Although this is an obvious troll, I'll bite only because the date is wrong. The Bible would actually put the age of the beginning somewhere around 6,000 years.
Do you really think the whole Trent Lott fiasco was because he "misspoke himself"?
Bush and his allies saw an opportunity to oust someone not completely in line with their platforms for someone who was. That they could do so while looking morally superior was a bonus.
If Bush had needed Lott as majority leader, the White House would have spun a different tune.
Most of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence died or ended up destitute by the end of the war but there were few regrets because they knew they were right.
While [bone marrow stem cells] can differentiate into a wide number of cells, they are relatively committed to becoming some type of formed element in the blood or bone marrow.
The article is *very* short on details, but it seems to be claiming that they have a procedure that reduces these limitations. Brain cells were specifically mentioned.
But the reporter could misunderstand, misquote, etc.; thus we really need more details before we can be sure this is the case.
So would you rather die from pancreatic cancer in horrible agony, or would you rather that a charitable organization provided you with morphine to ease your pain?
Why is this an either/or?
Unless you give *all* of your money beyond subsistence level to charities, giving money to Gnome that will benefit both oneself and others is something to view on its own merits.
Wrong. One time pads cannot be cracked. It is mathematically impossible.
Sure they can; just get your hands on the pad.
One time pads deal with the encryption problem by splitting up the message, and assuming part of it (the exchange of the pads) is secure. But how do you exchange the pads securely?
I'm no lawyer, but I don't think legal precedent was set, unfortunately.
Juries decide issues of fact. Judges rule on issues of law. Legal precedent is all about issues of law, not fact.
What *does* happen, however, is if prosecutors see juries unwilling to convict, they may be reluctant to waste their time with cases they feel they won't win.
Card scanners? Why not a simple username and password?
Because people keep forgetting them. Also you would have to have a fairly larger username space for all the library customers. Usually you bring your card to the library.
Just think, it would be a use for all those otherwise worthless Cue:Cats!
OK, for one, this article totally glosses over Metroid Prime, which was an excellent game, and definitely had me a little freaked out and scared for Samus' mortality.
My son is finally starting to get over his fear of skulltulas in Zelda Oracle of Time, and I certainly find the Shadow Temple creepy. We turn down the music for that place.
The very success of the United States proves that capitalism is the only answer.
But what if there is no directly profitable use for space at our current level of technology? Insisting that there must be doesn't make it so. If someone with the resources really saw a profit in space development, there's nothing really stopping them.
With a 1/10th cost things like space tourism start to become realistic.
The claimed Russian cost is 1/4 the shuttle cost. Do you really expect to get much below that?
There are schemes like building linear accelerators inside a mountain that seem like they have potential, but launching rockets seems doomed to be very expensive.
What would really be useful for Internet culture would be a.kid TLD that would be free of content that requires a mature personality to process
But why not do it by whitelist? There are dozens of organizations with the resources and motivation to create whitelists (lists of acceptable sites), and browsers could easily be modified to use them and check for updates. So then as a parent I could set my kids' browser to use the Christian Coalition whitelist, the PFAW whitelist, etc. I could even tell schools and libraries what whitelist I want for my kid, if they rig the computers up with card scanners that control how the person can use it.
There's your key. Most of the place I see will say oh you can get a PC for 1000. What happens if you need a monitor too?
Just like most of us have older consoles, most of us have a monitor already. My kids got my 20" hand-me-down when I bought the computer before this one.
Also your experience will suck on those machines because you probably cheaped out on something.
Oh, please. DDR RAM rather than RAMBUS is the closest I came to cheaping out.
640x480 just looks horrid to me...
Ah, so you don't play on consoles.
Then you get on the net and half the guys on there have the latest P4 with a ATI 9700 Pro
140 FPS instead of 100 at 1280x1024? I think I can manage.
a highspeed connection
Isn't the connection speed also an issue in the console world?
tons of ram and lots of drive space
More than 512 MB of DDR RAM and a 60 GB hard drive? Somehow I doubt it'll make a difference.
will kick your ass!
My ass'll be kicked by the kid with the overclocked pre-Thunderbird Athlon and TNT2 card anyway...:-)
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The nice thing about the Afterburner frontlit mod is that the screen looks great in both sunlight and total darkness.
Speaking of which, has anyone seen both of these systems (the Afterburner and the SP) such that they could comment on how they compare?
What's next for our divine intellectuals to discover? Moons around those planets? No, say it ain't so.. Did we take into consideration the mass those moons have and their effect on the Stars, when determining how much dark matter exists?
At least in the only solar system for which we have particularly accurate measurements, the mass of the planets, moons, and assorted detritus is less than 1% of the mass of the sun. So it's unlikely that objects of those types will make up much of the mass of the galaxy.
Cartoon Network, by the way, has taken it up and will be running it all this week (I think 10PM CST.)
'cording to TVguide.com, it starts this Sunday, with daily eps starting that Monday.
finally, a descent gui
:-S
A gui where you fly through tunnels in 3-D?
The guy said 4003 years ago, not 4003 BC.
Oop. I presumed he was describing Bishop Ussher's claim of 4004 BC, the most noted bible-based claim to the age of the universe.
I thought this was more appropriate because we are talking about two evils.
Indeed, we know how Blair has gassed the Northern Irish and Bush has let millions of his people starve.
I'm no fan of George Bush, but that doesn't mean the Iraqi and North Korean governments aren't evil. If it could be done "cleanly", the world would be better off without their ilk.
Although this is an obvious troll, I'll bite only because the date is wrong. The Bible would actually put the age of the beginning somewhere around 6,000 years.
Erm, 4003 BC is approximately 6000 years ago...
Do you really think the whole Trent Lott fiasco was because he "misspoke himself"?
Bush and his allies saw an opportunity to oust someone not completely in line with their platforms for someone who was. That they could do so while looking morally superior was a bonus.
If Bush had needed Lott as majority leader, the White House would have spun a different tune.
Most of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence died or ended up destitute by the end of the war but there were few regrets because they knew they were right.
No they didn't. See snopes.com for a refutation.
What I am curious is why don't North american's prefer trains?
Having ridden Amtrak from North Carolina to Florida once, I'd say it's that we'd rather be treated like cattle for two hours than 14...
The new spines are reserved for politicians that are unable to do the right thing when faced with large sums of cash.
Give a politician a spine? You'd need some *serious* anti-rejection drugs...
While [bone marrow stem cells] can differentiate into a wide number of cells, they are relatively committed to becoming some type of formed element in the blood or bone marrow.
The article is *very* short on details, but it seems to be claiming that they have a procedure that reduces these limitations. Brain cells were specifically mentioned.
But the reporter could misunderstand, misquote, etc.; thus we really need more details before we can be sure this is the case.
So would you rather die from pancreatic cancer in horrible agony, or would you rather that a charitable organization provided you with morphine to ease your pain?
Why is this an either/or?
Unless you give *all* of your money beyond subsistence level to charities, giving money to Gnome that will benefit both oneself and others is something to view on its own merits.
Wrong. One time pads cannot be cracked. It is mathematically impossible.
Sure they can; just get your hands on the pad.
One time pads deal with the encryption problem by splitting up the message, and assuming part of it (the exchange of the pads) is secure. But how do you exchange the pads securely?
I'm quite frankly surprised that /. works at all most of the time considering the illiterate childish posers who run it.
Well Michael just posted an article using "mendacity" correctly in his description, so perhaps they're getting better...
I'm no lawyer, but I don't think legal precedent was set, unfortunately.
Juries decide issues of fact. Judges rule on issues of law. Legal precedent is all about issues of law, not fact.
What *does* happen, however, is if prosecutors see juries unwilling to convict, they may be reluctant to waste their time with cases they feel they won't win.
This is slightly off-topic, but if I were to buy anime movies for an anime fan (that doesn't really have a lot) ... what should I get him?
Depending on budget (and whether Netflix has a way to allow it), perhaps a few months of Netflix? Just a thought.
Card scanners? Why not a simple username and password?
Because people keep forgetting them. Also you would have to have a fairly larger username space for all the library customers. Usually you bring your card to the library.
Just think, it would be a use for all those otherwise worthless Cue:Cats!
OK, for one, this article totally glosses over Metroid Prime, which was an excellent game, and definitely had me a little freaked out and scared for Samus' mortality.
My son is finally starting to get over his fear of skulltulas in Zelda Oracle of Time, and I certainly find the Shadow Temple creepy. We turn down the music for that place.
The very success of the United States proves that capitalism is the only answer.
But what if there is no directly profitable use for space at our current level of technology? Insisting that there must be doesn't make it so. If someone with the resources really saw a profit in space development, there's nothing really stopping them.
With a 1/10th cost things like space tourism start to become realistic.
The claimed Russian cost is 1/4 the shuttle cost. Do you really expect to get much below that?
There are schemes like building linear accelerators inside a mountain that seem like they have potential, but launching rockets seems doomed to be very expensive.
What would really be useful for Internet culture would be a .kid TLD that would be free of content that requires a mature personality to process
But why not do it by whitelist? There are dozens of organizations with the resources and motivation to create whitelists (lists of acceptable sites), and browsers could easily be modified to use them and check for updates. So then as a parent I could set my kids' browser to use the Christian Coalition whitelist, the PFAW whitelist, etc. I could even tell schools and libraries what whitelist I want for my kid, if they rig the computers up with card scanners that control how the person can use it.
When will the United States finally have to act like everybody else and use ".us" for sites hosted in the country?
nemetschek.com is a German company. sony.com is Japanese. fiat.com is (was? mighta been bought) Italian. The US *is* acting like everyone else.
How many of us use "bob" as an object name when we can't think of anything better? static chatClient bob[] = new chat
I used to use fred, since the keys are together in a nice square on qwerty keyboards.
There's your key. Most of the place I see will say oh you can get a PC for 1000. What happens if you need a monitor too?
Just like most of us have older consoles, most of us have a monitor already. My kids got my 20" hand-me-down when I bought the computer before this one.
Also your experience will suck on those machines because you probably cheaped out on something.
Oh, please. DDR RAM rather than RAMBUS is the closest I came to cheaping out.
640x480 just looks horrid to me...
Ah, so you don't play on consoles.
Then you get on the net and half the guys on there have the latest P4 with a ATI 9700 Pro
140 FPS instead of 100 at 1280x1024? I think I can manage.
a highspeed connection
Isn't the connection speed also an issue in the console world?
tons of ram and lots of drive space
More than 512 MB of DDR RAM and a 60 GB hard drive? Somehow I doubt it'll make a difference.
will kick your ass!
My ass'll be kicked by the kid with the overclocked pre-Thunderbird Athlon and TNT2 card anyway...:-)