"And I know from history that most innovation, commerce and investment has been instigated by the private sector, it's really only since the second world war that the national governments have become so important, and that is down to the fact that the can print money."
Before the second world war "private sector" R&D was largely a man or two tinkering in his garage. Basic research has never been profitable. Things have just gotten so complex these days that the basic research can no longer be done by one man, it requires a research lab with many full-time (government or university)researchers. Of course commerce and investment have been driven by companies, that's their purpose. As for innovation, it will take a lot more than packing more transistors on a wafer or building a better mousetrap to build a space elevator. It will take a project of Wonder of the World proportions.
I don't really see why you're worried about discouraging truancy. Most students will probably desire to attend the class anyway, if nothing else for the social aspect. MIT posts videos of all their lectures (or is trying to get to that point, I'm not sure how far they are) and I don't see them having any problems.
Another thing, I suspect this would be beneficial to some students who, like me, are not morning people. If I have to drag my ass out the door for an 8:00 class there's a good chance I'm not going to be paying much attention to the lecture. If a student chooses to defer his viewing of the lecture to a time when he's actually awake I don't see why he shouldn't be allowed to do so.
Wow, you are such a shill. What are you going to say next? "Call in the next 10 minutes and you'll receive this mini biometric-encrypted usb drive, a $30 value, absolutely free!" ? I would have just modded you down, but that crap really deserved a good vocal response.
UVA? I'm posting right now from this "ridiculous" internet. Max of about 75KBps downloads, and for a game it's generally 50+ ping, sometimes triple digits. Now perhaps gaming in the CS lab is different, but the internet connections in the dorms suck. 120 people share 100mbps bandwidth, with the ethernet connection to the rooms being 10mbps. Pah.
Hear hear! A while back I upgraded the RAM in my girlfriend's Vaio desktop. The thing was so poorly laid-out that it took me a chopstick and a bent coathanger just to get it in! And that was just RAM! I think the motherboard or psu would have been nigh-impossible, but luckily that hasn't come up yet.
What part of "practical" do you not understand? You'll never be able to keep everyone who doesn't want a child right away from having sex. The closest you can get involves a lot of repression, social stigmas and a host of other side-effects. That's where the whole practical thing comes into play. It is IMpractical to try to force behavior onto people when it goes against one of their most fundamental drives.
Witness Catholic schoolgirls and the failure of abstinence-only sex ed.
A sabre isn't much different in weight than a foil, a little heavier, and it does utilize the edge of the weapon. Flailing is still a bad strategy. And anyhow, flailing becomes a worse strategy the heavier and more massive a weapon becomes. It becomes easier to dodge and you have longer to counterattack.
Blacksmithing tools is one niche market where you're going to get a good price on what you're selling. Having just bought my first anvil (139 lb. 1893 Hay Budden, if anyone cares), and having done a good month of research beforehand, I never saw a good used anvil sell for less than $1 per pound, and rarely less than $2 per pound, which is what one might expect for something like that.
That having been said, what people have been saying about exhorbitant shipping rates and sleazy sellers is definitely true. I saw quite a few sellers who were selling worthless cast iron Chinese "anvils" and low-quality toad-looking Russian anvils advertised as quality European steel ones. Not only the deceptive advertising, but they were listing their items with ridiculous frequency. A number of sellers list a new anvil every day, hoping that some unsuspecting buyer will click the buy it now buttion.
My solution was being very picky about what I bought, making sure there were lots of pictures, doing research on anvils, and picking the thing up in person. Driving to Pennsylvania (whence all anvils are sold, apparently) was worth it to ensure I wasn't getting screwed. Not getting screwed on ebay is a hassle.
I take it you've never fenced. A foil isn't much heavier than a wiimote, and the center of mass is very close to the guard. Random flailing is possible, and it's one of the worst ideas ever in the history of swordfighting. Trust me, random flailing is not an advantage. Any decent opponent or AI can easily see the back-and-forth pattern that "random" flailing is sure to use and strike at the right moment.
Outspoken doesn't mean one is in the minority, being largely disagreed with. It means they speak out, they're very verbose with their opinions and usually get a lot of press.
My neighbor is an acquaintance of Dr. Bussard. I've never met the guy (Bussard) but my neighbor is a big fan of him. He's a pretty good engineer, and from what he's told me of Bussard's ideas, I think they have a pretty good shot. Thing is, Bussard is getting old (in his 80's, I think), so he may not survive to see them through. Apparently he doesn't really like to publish papers either, though I don't know why.
What I've heard of his IEC device is that it absorbs the alpha particles emitted by the reaction and generates power off of them to feed back into the fusor. I don't really know the specifics, but he seems to think that he's worked a lot of the problems out of IEC devices that make most physicists think that they could never be energy positive. This is my chosen field of study, so I'll probably look into this stuff more in-depth, maybe even work with it myself.
One of my friends is an amateur astronomer. What I heard from him (I've yet to corroborate this, but I believe him) is that the flag on the moon is too small to be seen by any of our telescopes. The reason we can see objects at the edges of the universe is because of their massive size; speaking in angular terms, they're still larger than the flag on the moon.
We do need something to be proud of. Personally, I'd be a lot more proud of not being in massive debt than going to the moon... again. But then, I'm a pragmatist. I suppose the plebs are glad to watch daily gladiatorial games even though they're being paid for with the city's grain reserves.
I was wondering that too, but I think that something that relieves the injury probably wouldn't be the original cause. If anything, it seems the sitting would contribute more to the injury.
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Pissing off the media is a great way to hurt your PR. I can't imagine CNet having anything good to say about HP for a while.
is the phrase "it figures". Frankly, I'd expect nothing else from them.
"And I know from history that most innovation, commerce and investment has been instigated by the private sector, it's really only since the second world war that the national governments have become so important, and that is down to the fact that the can print money."
Before the second world war "private sector" R&D was largely a man or two tinkering in his garage. Basic research has never been profitable. Things have just gotten so complex these days that the basic research can no longer be done by one man, it requires a research lab with many full-time (government or university)researchers. Of course commerce and investment have been driven by companies, that's their purpose. As for innovation, it will take a lot more than packing more transistors on a wafer or building a better mousetrap to build a space elevator. It will take a project of Wonder of the World proportions.
I don't really see why you're worried about discouraging truancy. Most students will probably desire to attend the class anyway, if nothing else for the social aspect. MIT posts videos of all their lectures (or is trying to get to that point, I'm not sure how far they are) and I don't see them having any problems.
Another thing, I suspect this would be beneficial to some students who, like me, are not morning people. If I have to drag my ass out the door for an 8:00 class there's a good chance I'm not going to be paying much attention to the lecture. If a student chooses to defer his viewing of the lecture to a time when he's actually awake I don't see why he shouldn't be allowed to do so.
Wow, you are such a shill. What are you going to say next? "Call in the next 10 minutes and you'll receive this mini biometric-encrypted usb drive, a $30 value, absolutely free!" ? I would have just modded you down, but that crap really deserved a good vocal response.
Yeah, but that game is powerful fun.
UVA? I'm posting right now from this "ridiculous" internet. Max of about 75KBps downloads, and for a game it's generally 50+ ping, sometimes triple digits. Now perhaps gaming in the CS lab is different, but the internet connections in the dorms suck. 120 people share 100mbps bandwidth, with the ethernet connection to the rooms being 10mbps. Pah.
Just build 350 launch arcologies, then they'll "take off", and you'll have "beat" the game! ....what?
Hear hear! A while back I upgraded the RAM in my girlfriend's Vaio desktop. The thing was so poorly laid-out that it took me a chopstick and a bent coathanger just to get it in! And that was just RAM! I think the motherboard or psu would have been nigh-impossible, but luckily that hasn't come up yet.
What part of "practical" do you not understand? You'll never be able to keep everyone who doesn't want a child right away from having sex. The closest you can get involves a lot of repression, social stigmas and a host of other side-effects. That's where the whole practical thing comes into play. It is IMpractical to try to force behavior onto people when it goes against one of their most fundamental drives. Witness Catholic schoolgirls and the failure of abstinence-only sex ed.
A sabre isn't much different in weight than a foil, a little heavier, and it does utilize the edge of the weapon. Flailing is still a bad strategy. And anyhow, flailing becomes a worse strategy the heavier and more massive a weapon becomes. It becomes easier to dodge and you have longer to counterattack.
Blacksmithing tools is one niche market where you're going to get a good price on what you're selling. Having just bought my first anvil (139 lb. 1893 Hay Budden, if anyone cares), and having done a good month of research beforehand, I never saw a good used anvil sell for less than $1 per pound, and rarely less than $2 per pound, which is what one might expect for something like that. That having been said, what people have been saying about exhorbitant shipping rates and sleazy sellers is definitely true. I saw quite a few sellers who were selling worthless cast iron Chinese "anvils" and low-quality toad-looking Russian anvils advertised as quality European steel ones. Not only the deceptive advertising, but they were listing their items with ridiculous frequency. A number of sellers list a new anvil every day, hoping that some unsuspecting buyer will click the buy it now buttion. My solution was being very picky about what I bought, making sure there were lots of pictures, doing research on anvils, and picking the thing up in person. Driving to Pennsylvania (whence all anvils are sold, apparently) was worth it to ensure I wasn't getting screwed. Not getting screwed on ebay is a hassle.
I take it you've never fenced. A foil isn't much heavier than a wiimote, and the center of mass is very close to the guard. Random flailing is possible, and it's one of the worst ideas ever in the history of swordfighting. Trust me, random flailing is not an advantage. Any decent opponent or AI can easily see the back-and-forth pattern that "random" flailing is sure to use and strike at the right moment.
Ben Stiller? Lean over here so I can slap you. Everyone knows the only man for that part is Pauly Shore.
Outspoken doesn't mean one is in the minority, being largely disagreed with. It means they speak out, they're very verbose with their opinions and usually get a lot of press.
Actually, 8 * 911 = 7288. 27000 people is actually 29.63776. Man, you see the worst math on /.
To be fair, I think it's yeast that gives us beer, not bacteria.
My friend was once knocked out of a tree when he was young by his father's well-aimed shoe. That learned him not to talk about his grandma...
Better a shoe than jail, I suppose.
Simple solution: braid them into your hair. Or, if you're old-school (as in, grew up on assembler), into your beard. Who says nerds can't have style?
who, upon seeing the headline, thought that this was about using electricity to cauterize wounds?
My neighbor is an acquaintance of Dr. Bussard. I've never met the guy (Bussard) but my neighbor is a big fan of him. He's a pretty good engineer, and from what he's told me of Bussard's ideas, I think they have a pretty good shot. Thing is, Bussard is getting old (in his 80's, I think), so he may not survive to see them through. Apparently he doesn't really like to publish papers either, though I don't know why.
What I've heard of his IEC device is that it absorbs the alpha particles emitted by the reaction and generates power off of them to feed back into the fusor. I don't really know the specifics, but he seems to think that he's worked a lot of the problems out of IEC devices that make most physicists think that they could never be energy positive. This is my chosen field of study, so I'll probably look into this stuff more in-depth, maybe even work with it myself.
One of my friends is an amateur astronomer. What I heard from him (I've yet to corroborate this, but I believe him) is that the flag on the moon is too small to be seen by any of our telescopes. The reason we can see objects at the edges of the universe is because of their massive size; speaking in angular terms, they're still larger than the flag on the moon.
We do need something to be proud of. Personally, I'd be a lot more proud of not being in massive debt than going to the moon... again. But then, I'm a pragmatist. I suppose the plebs are glad to watch daily gladiatorial games even though they're being paid for with the city's grain reserves.
So wait, are they being laid off or beaten to death with helmets by their coworkers?
I was wondering that too, but I think that something that relieves the injury probably wouldn't be the original cause. If anything, it seems the sitting would contribute more to the injury.