Considering how rapidly bacteria tend to evolve...
I'm no microbiologist, but I suspect that statement is a bit simplistic. Some bacteria are very well known for their ability to resist and repair damage to their DNA, even under very harsh conditions. I guess choosing the right bacteria would be kind of important.
TFA says "Ships can use their engines to begin and end voyages and use sail power in lieu of engines for the middle portion. Use both, and you go even faster." So at least whoever wrote the article has the impression the sail can pull the ship without engines, although like you, I have my doubts.
TFA doesn't seem to say, I'd imagine that thing would have to be absolutely huge if, as they say, it can pull a full-sized ship. I'd like to see some details on deployment as well, I imagine a huge thing like that would be a bit tricky to handle in any kind of useful wind, when trying to get it launched. Great idea though - I've often wondered if wind-assist wouldn't be a useful idea on ships, but I had in mind more traditional masts and sails with a bit of automation, this is a lot simpler, and therefore presumably cheaper and more reliable.
Looks like someone got out the wrong side of bed this morning;). Admittedly I have no idea if dictionary definitions support this, but to me "incentive" tends to imply more of a material or financial reward (with "incentivise" being much shorter than saying "offer an incentive"), compared to "motivate". But I'm not going to look that shit up, it's your pet hate, you figure it out.
Why don't they look to incentivise people to watch ads, perhaps develop a technology that tracks ads that are played back, and gives a rebate to people who watch a certain amount of ads, or gives them credits towards premium channels or whatever. Disabling the fast-forward button will just royally piss people off, and that is not good business.
Without being long-winded, the technology just isn't there. The iPaq (with Windows Mobile 5) freezes up constantly (have to take out the battery to restart it).
That's that particular device, or the buggy early version of WM5, nothing to do with wireless. My much older iPAQ 3850, with an add-on wi-fi card, is a rock. I've never had to hard-reset it once, and it never locks up.
The handheld web browser only supports a small SMALL subset of Java (it basically has no Java support at all).
That would be JavaScript, not Java. Jesus christ. And you don't have to use IE on a PDA, any more than on the desktop. There are several better browsers such as Opera and NetFront.
In addition to that, even with the screen turned sideways, browsing the internet (especially the CSS enabled internet) is a nightmare!
So use a browser with decent small screen rendering, like Opera. In any case, sites designed for mobile devices work fine, and that would be the purpose of including wifi in a MS ipod killer - to access purpose-designed music stores to buy tunes.
Aggressive refactoring of the language would be nice. But IMHO you also ought to ensure words are unique i.e. the example given in the summary, changing "weigh" to "way", wouldn't work because then you've just introduced another meaning for "way" - you've just swapped one confusion for another. So we should eliminate words that are phonetic dupes, rather than rationalising their spelling.
Of course this'll never wash anyway, simply because people are used to the language as it is, and there's so much stuff already written that people would have to learn two sets of spellings for decades.
Those guys clearly get out even less than slashdotters, so I think they need some help. The question is how best to encode Jenna Jameson in barcode? I think a barcode version of ASCII art would probably work best, I doubt they'll be able to appreciate base64-encoded boobies.
Piezoelectric speakers are nothing new, but I don't think cellophane would have any advantages at all over the ceramic materials used currently. And as for electrostatic speakers (which is what I think you're referring to), they don't use a pizoelectric effect, so I don't think this would have any relevance there.
It won't be used with a seriously damaged shuttle. It will be used with a marginally damaged shuttle, with the type of damage they wouldn't even have known about a few years ago, and so would have quite happily risked landing with human crew on board. Now that they're looking for certain types of damage, that's a situation they have to deal with.
1. How does the RIAA control the media so well? Are the big papers and news channels really lazy enough to only report things that have press releases? Yes.
2. For a group of companies that makes their money by essentially making idiots look cool, why are they so incapable of making non-piracy cool? They spend many many millions on an awful lot of idiots, for each one they actually have a success with. Plus, making people feel that something they really want to do is actually uncool is way harder than convincing people that some scantilly-clad bunch of hot chicks that can kind of hold a tune are worth spending money on.
Presidents of the United States have issued executive orders since 1789. There is no United States Constitution provision or statute that explicitly permits this, aside from the vague grant of "executive power" given in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution and the statement "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" in Article II, Section 3.
Most executive orders are orders issued by the President to United States executive officers to help direct their operation, the result of failing to comply being removal from office. Some orders do have the force of law when made in pursuance of certain Acts of Congress due to those acts giving the President discretionary powers.
If wikipedia is accurate, then an executive order only has force of law if made with the backing of a congressional act. Also sounds like you couldn't be jailed or fined for ignoring it.
I've often thought that regardless where you stand on the cuases of climate change, the fact is conditions on this planet have been in the past, and probably will be in the future, pretty inhospitable for us. So thinking long-term, the only safe thing to do is start to establish some sort of control, preferably in ways that have an effect on a shorter scale than controlling emissions.
Now I'm off to read TFA, and see whether I'm on-topic or not;)
Seriously, why don't mailmen simply take any package that's not insured, then, and blatantly defend the act? "You didn't insure it so I have no responsibility".
Because that would be theft, and they'd go to jail. However if they take it and deny all knowledge, good luck getting anyone to look into it. That's the case here in the UK, at least. There was a mailman near where I live, he wasn't even stealing mail, just dumping it instead of delivering it. He got away with that for several months, until someone actually stumbled across where he'd dumped some of the mail. Up to that point, complaints about missing items seemingly fell on deaf ears.
I am amazed that you've been modded flamebait, that's poor even by recent slashdot moderation standards. This a perfectly reasonable point of view, even if one doesn't agree with it, but I guess you've had the bad luck of being moderated by an ebay ripoff merchant.
The first few times I bid for things on ebay, I saw the price ratchet up to well above what the item was worth (in on case, above the brand new price of the item, so that's not just a value judgement on my part). It didn't take me long to decide that bidding early was completely pointless. I decide what I'm willing to pay, and I make my bid close to the end of the auction. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, but I don't see what's unfair about it. It's a time-limited auction, the highest bid received before the end wins, end of effing story.
Hear hear. I really don't get the "speed is everything" attitude. If we were talking business news for day-traders, then yeah, every second counts. But the sort of stories posted on slashdot really aren't time-sensitive, I really don't feel I've missed anything by seeing them a day (week/month/whatever) after they appeared on some other site.
Hell, even the dupes sometimes generate interesting discussions that didn't come up the first time round.
Well my fancy browser prevents him from suppressing my sacred context menu, but it doesn't stop him opening his pop-up behind it (unless you turn javascript off entirely), which is almost as annoying.
Face it, there's no cure for asshole web designers short of the firing squad. Well, that or a greasemonkey script or two;).
And you don't find that annoying? You want to use your contect menu e.g. to copy some text, and then you have to use an additional click to close the pop-up that had appeared behind it, obscuring the article. GPP is right, that's annoying. That's not to say that non-annoying uses couldn't be found for this technique though.
...but granite is so thermally conductive, it's feeling very cold and keeping that way for hours.
Sorry to nitpick, but no it's not. Granite is a pretty decent insulator, and has a thermal conductivity a couple of orders of magnitude lower than a typical metal. Here are some thermal conductivity values for common materials. It is probably a couple of orders of magnitude higher than typical mouse-mat material, but you have to give context to that kind of statement.
Well, home users will get it because it ships with their new machines. Businesses will buy it because they know that before too long it'll be the only fully supported version of Windows. Home upgrades is no big deal for MS (not that many home users will be care one way or the other about WinFS, I doubt Joe Public has a clue what it means). Face it, despite Microsoft trying to make a big deal of Vista, it will simply replace XP as the current version of Windows, and it will be business as usual.
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I'm no microbiologist, but I suspect that statement is a bit simplistic. Some bacteria are very well known for their ability to resist and repair damage to their DNA, even under very harsh conditions. I guess choosing the right bacteria would be kind of important.
What? Winamp Went to 2.94 or so, prior to 3.0. Yes, it skipped 4.x, but that was to indicate that 5.x was not a sequential development from 3.x.
TFA says "Ships can use their engines to begin and end voyages and use sail power in lieu of engines for the middle portion. Use both, and you go even faster." So at least whoever wrote the article has the impression the sail can pull the ship without engines, although like you, I have my doubts.
TFA doesn't seem to say, I'd imagine that thing would have to be absolutely huge if, as they say, it can pull a full-sized ship. I'd like to see some details on deployment as well, I imagine a huge thing like that would be a bit tricky to handle in any kind of useful wind, when trying to get it launched. Great idea though - I've often wondered if wind-assist wouldn't be a useful idea on ships, but I had in mind more traditional masts and sails with a bit of automation, this is a lot simpler, and therefore presumably cheaper and more reliable.
Looks like someone got out the wrong side of bed this morning ;). Admittedly I have no idea if dictionary definitions support this, but to me "incentive" tends to imply more of a material or financial reward (with "incentivise" being much shorter than saying "offer an incentive"), compared to "motivate". But I'm not going to look that shit up, it's your pet hate, you figure it out.
Why don't they look to incentivise people to watch ads, perhaps develop a technology that tracks ads that are played back, and gives a rebate to people who watch a certain amount of ads, or gives them credits towards premium channels or whatever. Disabling the fast-forward button will just royally piss people off, and that is not good business.
That's that particular device, or the buggy early version of WM5, nothing to do with wireless. My much older iPAQ 3850, with an add-on wi-fi card, is a rock. I've never had to hard-reset it once, and it never locks up.
That would be JavaScript, not Java. Jesus christ. And you don't have to use IE on a PDA, any more than on the desktop. There are several better browsers such as Opera and NetFront.
So use a browser with decent small screen rendering, like Opera. In any case, sites designed for mobile devices work fine, and that would be the purpose of including wifi in a MS ipod killer - to access purpose-designed music stores to buy tunes.
Aggressive refactoring of the language would be nice. But IMHO you also ought to ensure words are unique i.e. the example given in the summary, changing "weigh" to "way", wouldn't work because then you've just introduced another meaning for "way" - you've just swapped one confusion for another. So we should eliminate words that are phonetic dupes, rather than rationalising their spelling.
Of course this'll never wash anyway, simply because people are used to the language as it is, and there's so much stuff already written that people would have to learn two sets of spellings for decades.
Those guys clearly get out even less than slashdotters, so I think they need some help. The question is how best to encode Jenna Jameson in barcode? I think a barcode version of ASCII art would probably work best, I doubt they'll be able to appreciate base64-encoded boobies.
Piezoelectric speakers are nothing new, but I don't think cellophane would have any advantages at all over the ceramic materials used currently. And as for electrostatic speakers (which is what I think you're referring to), they don't use a pizoelectric effect, so I don't think this would have any relevance there.
it is still the human actors behind the CG characters [CC] which make them alive.
Only a human could make Jar Jar so f*#king annoying!
How is Skidmarks (plan-view racer on the Amiga) not on there? That's got to be /the/ worst videogame name of all time, bar none!
No pics in the article, but Marissa Meyer is pretty hot, in case you didn't know.
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It won't be used with a seriously damaged shuttle. It will be used with a marginally damaged shuttle, with the type of damage they wouldn't even have known about a few years ago, and so would have quite happily risked landing with human crew on board. Now that they're looking for certain types of damage, that's a situation they have to deal with.
1. How does the RIAA control the media so well? Are the big papers and news channels really lazy enough to only report things that have press releases?
Yes.
2. For a group of companies that makes their money by essentially making idiots look cool, why are they so incapable of making non-piracy cool?
They spend many many millions on an awful lot of idiots, for each one they actually have a success with. Plus, making people feel that something they really want to do is actually uncool is way harder than convincing people that some scantilly-clad bunch of hot chicks that can kind of hold a tune are worth spending money on.
Well, wikipedia disagrees with you, FWIW.
Presidents of the United States have issued executive orders since 1789. There is no United States Constitution provision or statute that explicitly permits this, aside from the vague grant of "executive power" given in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution and the statement "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" in Article II, Section 3.
Most executive orders are orders issued by the President to United States executive officers to help direct their operation, the result of failing to comply being removal from office. Some orders do have the force of law when made in pursuance of certain Acts of Congress due to those acts giving the President discretionary powers.
If wikipedia is accurate, then an executive order only has force of law if made with the backing of a congressional act. Also sounds like you couldn't be jailed or fined for ignoring it.
I've often thought that regardless where you stand on the cuases of climate change, the fact is conditions on this planet have been in the past, and probably will be in the future, pretty inhospitable for us. So thinking long-term, the only safe thing to do is start to establish some sort of control, preferably in ways that have an effect on a shorter scale than controlling emissions.
;)
Now I'm off to read TFA, and see whether I'm on-topic or not
Because that would be theft, and they'd go to jail. However if they take it and deny all knowledge, good luck getting anyone to look into it. That's the case here in the UK, at least. There was a mailman near where I live, he wasn't even stealing mail, just dumping it instead of delivering it. He got away with that for several months, until someone actually stumbled across where he'd dumped some of the mail. Up to that point, complaints about missing items seemingly fell on deaf ears.
I am amazed that you've been modded flamebait, that's poor even by recent slashdot moderation standards. This a perfectly reasonable point of view, even if one doesn't agree with it, but I guess you've had the bad luck of being moderated by an ebay ripoff merchant.
The first few times I bid for things on ebay, I saw the price ratchet up to well above what the item was worth (in on case, above the brand new price of the item, so that's not just a value judgement on my part). It didn't take me long to decide that bidding early was completely pointless. I decide what I'm willing to pay, and I make my bid close to the end of the auction. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, but I don't see what's unfair about it. It's a time-limited auction, the highest bid received before the end wins, end of effing story.
Hear hear. I really don't get the "speed is everything" attitude. If we were talking business news for day-traders, then yeah, every second counts. But the sort of stories posted on slashdot really aren't time-sensitive, I really don't feel I've missed anything by seeing them a day (week/month/whatever) after they appeared on some other site.
Hell, even the dupes sometimes generate interesting discussions that didn't come up the first time round.
Well my fancy browser prevents him from suppressing my sacred context menu, but it doesn't stop him opening his pop-up behind it (unless you turn javascript off entirely), which is almost as annoying.
;).
Face it, there's no cure for asshole web designers short of the firing squad. Well, that or a greasemonkey script or two
And you don't find that annoying? You want to use your contect menu e.g. to copy some text, and then you have to use an additional click to close the pop-up that had appeared behind it, obscuring the article. GPP is right, that's annoying. That's not to say that non-annoying uses couldn't be found for this technique though.
Sorry to nitpick, but no it's not. Granite is a pretty decent insulator, and has a thermal conductivity a couple of orders of magnitude lower than a typical metal. Here are some thermal conductivity values for common materials. It is probably a couple of orders of magnitude higher than typical mouse-mat material, but you have to give context to that kind of statement.
Well, home users will get it because it ships with their new machines. Businesses will buy it because they know that before too long it'll be the only fully supported version of Windows. Home upgrades is no big deal for MS (not that many home users will be care one way or the other about WinFS, I doubt Joe Public has a clue what it means). Face it, despite Microsoft trying to make a big deal of Vista, it will simply replace XP as the current version of Windows, and it will be business as usual.
Or since it's now gone, how about "LoseFS"?