This is astronomy. 500 million years is negligible if you're talking about the beginnings of the universe.:/
And if I remember correctly (it's been a while), conditions right after the big bang were such that stars could not form for a while. Can't remember much else then that, but this probably is one of the first stars the universe formed if their observations + math are correct.
I assume you want to replace "intelligent" with "informed", because basing your judgement of someone's intelligence off of whether or not they know what DRM means is just not a good idea.
The general public may have heard of DRM before, but they still have no idea what it means, and multiple industries want to keep it that way. Get some perspective already... dislike of DRM is not very widespread, and until something an order of magnitude larger than the Sony rootkit fiasco happens, it will never be.
A pair of workers were killed after using buckets to mix nuclear fuel in a lab, a test that also created an uncontrolled chain reaction for a short time.
They... used BUCKETS to mix nuclear fuel? As in, they took a couple buckets of uranium and dumped them together in the sink?
Hopefully they at least got to see light flash before their eyes before their cells were sterilized permanently. And in the meantime, while I'm not glad that they're dead, I am glad that they can't kill anyone else with incompetence of this magnitude.
This really is an unbelievable story. Am I missing something here?
I wish most of these extensions worked on the firefox 3 alphas. I'm actually having a much better experience with 3.0 alphas than I did with earlier versions, but the main problem is a dearth of extensions that are any good. Right now I'm running NoScript and Adblock Plus... and while I certainly don't need anything more, some of the extensions listed in the article would have been pretty nice if I could, I don't know, use them?
Time to take a quick peek through addons.mozilla.org again... hopefully they have something now.
It's mostly a good reference for references. Meaning, it's a nice place to go to while looking for sources. Articles tend to point to other sources or cite stuff which would make good material for whatever you're doing/researching. However, the Wikipedia article itself should never be used as a source.
If nothing else, imagine your professor leafing through your bibliography and coming across a random IP address (or username) being credited for the edits, with the host site being wikipedia. Half will not know what an IP address is, and the other half will either laugh hysterically or cry. Either way, red pens will likely come out.
Do you know how much easier and cheaper launching exploration vehicles, both manned and unmanned from the moon would be rather than from earth? I know the DISTANCE isn't that big of a change, but the GRAVITY is a massive change, it would take exponentially less energy (read: fuel) to launch from the moon...
You still have to get the stuff to the moon in the first place, unless you plan to build it there.
FTA: "The refractive index describes the way the light waves bend when they enter and leave the material and the speed at which they propagate." However, this says little to nothing. "It describes the way light waves bend..." For all I know, it could mean they bend backwards while doing spirals or figure eights. Furthermore, it doesn't explain what the basic properties of a positive refraction index are (aside from saying that it's normal), let alone what negative indexes could do.
Newsflash: We aren't curbing the threat in Iraq. In actuality, we might as well be giving them combat training. We're losing, and if we keep losing, we'll be wasting more and more lives (ours and those of civillians), hemorrhaging money, and keep puttering along while they get better at the mass murder that is their newfound profession. Furthermore, if we really cared that much about our security, we would find alternatives to oil immediately to bankrupt them and keep them from buying those ak-47s they seem to enjoy, as well as immediately round up every mole of fissionable/fusion-able nuclear material ever made (which, sadly, the US isn't trying very hard to do).
Keeping soldiers in Iraq is not helping your security or your children's security or anyone's security at *all*.
I've always been under the assumption that, given proper preparation and time, a high-level IT guy with good enough access could repeat everything that happened in the Enron scandal. As of now, most incidents I've heard of seem to be just one guy trying to nail a company that angered him, but it's only a matter of time before someone decides to milk a company for all it's worth (or maybe it's happened and I just haven't heard about it). Preventing that sort of thing would probably be a good idea, to say the least.
Besides, other positions require background checks. Why would IT be different?
The thing is, lots of people outside the US cannot understand that our government is not representative of our people any longer. For you, I personally suggest removing the stereotype stick from your nether regions and getting a clue. I certainly do not condone my governments antics anymore, and most people I know don't either.
I'm sure the amounts that get through are tiny, but I bet people are glad to know that each glass of tap water they drink has more fish feces in it than before.
Disregard the question if you can answer it properly. The point is to see if you haven't heard of his books specifically or just don't care about java.
Scientists don't know what the gene does. But they do know that humans have more copies of it than chimpanzees, monkeys, rats and mice. And they know that the gene makes a protein that is found in the human brain
Guess you know what the gene does then.
You may not know what the protein does, but you know what the gene does.
Besides, just because humans have more of something doesn't mean it's what automatically causes the brain's "unique ability to think and reason." For all you know, the protein may have different effects between species. This whole article seems like attention-whoring to me.
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This is astronomy. 500 million years is negligible if you're talking about the beginnings of the universe. :/
And if I remember correctly (it's been a while), conditions right after the big bang were such that stars could not form for a while. Can't remember much else then that, but this probably is one of the first stars the universe formed if their observations + math are correct.
I assume you want to replace "intelligent" with "informed", because basing your judgement of someone's intelligence off of whether or not they know what DRM means is just not a good idea. The general public may have heard of DRM before, but they still have no idea what it means, and multiple industries want to keep it that way. Get some perspective already... dislike of DRM is not very widespread, and until something an order of magnitude larger than the Sony rootkit fiasco happens, it will never be.
A pair of workers were killed after using buckets to mix nuclear fuel in a lab, a test that also created an uncontrolled chain reaction for a short time.
They... used BUCKETS to mix nuclear fuel? As in, they took a couple buckets of uranium and dumped them together in the sink?
Hopefully they at least got to see light flash before their eyes before their cells were sterilized permanently. And in the meantime, while I'm not glad that they're dead, I am glad that they can't kill anyone else with incompetence of this magnitude.
This really is an unbelievable story. Am I missing something here?
I wish most of these extensions worked on the firefox 3 alphas. I'm actually having a much better experience with 3.0 alphas than I did with earlier versions, but the main problem is a dearth of extensions that are any good. Right now I'm running NoScript and Adblock Plus... and while I certainly don't need anything more, some of the extensions listed in the article would have been pretty nice if I could, I don't know, use them?
Time to take a quick peek through addons.mozilla.org again... hopefully they have something now.
Heh, flashgot got updated.
It's mostly a good reference for references. Meaning, it's a nice place to go to while looking for sources. Articles tend to point to other sources or cite stuff which would make good material for whatever you're doing/researching. However, the Wikipedia article itself should never be used as a source.
If nothing else, imagine your professor leafing through your bibliography and coming across a random IP address (or username) being credited for the edits, with the host site being wikipedia. Half will not know what an IP address is, and the other half will either laugh hysterically or cry. Either way, red pens will likely come out.
You still have to get the stuff to the moon in the first place, unless you plan to build it there.
If I check another site, I lose my excuse for bashing the poor quality of the article. That's just not an option.
FTA: "The refractive index describes the way the light waves bend when they enter and leave the material and the speed at which they propagate." However, this says little to nothing. "It describes the way light waves bend..." For all I know, it could mean they bend backwards while doing spirals or figure eights. Furthermore, it doesn't explain what the basic properties of a positive refraction index are (aside from saying that it's normal), let alone what negative indexes could do.
Is there a layman's explanation around somewhere?
We can have McDonalds again! Woot! Go America!
Newsflash: We aren't curbing the threat in Iraq. In actuality, we might as well be giving them combat training. We're losing, and if we keep losing, we'll be wasting more and more lives (ours and those of civillians), hemorrhaging money, and keep puttering along while they get better at the mass murder that is their newfound profession. Furthermore, if we really cared that much about our security, we would find alternatives to oil immediately to bankrupt them and keep them from buying those ak-47s they seem to enjoy, as well as immediately round up every mole of fissionable/fusion-able nuclear material ever made (which, sadly, the US isn't trying very hard to do).
Keeping soldiers in Iraq is not helping your security or your children's security or anyone's security at *all*.
Anyways, back on topic.
The Star Wars MMO was doing good for a while until the formula was fiddled with. Unfortunately, Firefly isn't nearly as popular as Star Wars...
I've always been under the assumption that, given proper preparation and time, a high-level IT guy with good enough access could repeat everything that happened in the Enron scandal. As of now, most incidents I've heard of seem to be just one guy trying to nail a company that angered him, but it's only a matter of time before someone decides to milk a company for all it's worth (or maybe it's happened and I just haven't heard about it). Preventing that sort of thing would probably be a good idea, to say the least.
Besides, other positions require background checks. Why would IT be different?
The thing is, lots of people outside the US cannot understand that our government is not representative of our people any longer. For you, I personally suggest removing the stereotype stick from your nether regions and getting a clue. I certainly do not condone my governments antics anymore, and most people I know don't either.
Nah, I simply base my determination of intellect on a different-enough basis than the IQ test. I'd go further, but it'd be off-topic.
Have fun enforcing that. Or even determining intelligence (hint: IQ tests suck).
I'm sure the amounts that get through are tiny, but I bet people are glad to know that each glass of tap water they drink has more fish feces in it than before.
I'm a member of the demographic. Whether or not you trust me when I say this is another question entirely, however. :/
It's certainly not a bad age to be a gamer at the very least. There's so many good games you can pick up for pretty much any system.
Which have you heard of?
Disregard the question if you can answer it properly. The point is to see if you haven't heard of his books specifically or just don't care about java.
Scientists don't know what the gene does. But they do know that humans have more copies of it than chimpanzees, monkeys, rats and mice. And they know that the gene makes a protein that is found in the human brain
Guess you know what the gene does then.
You may not know what the protein does, but you know what the gene does.
Besides, just because humans have more of something doesn't mean it's what automatically causes the brain's "unique ability to think and reason." For all you know, the protein may have different effects between species. This whole article seems like attention-whoring to me.
Come back when you know something useful, k?
The startup sound has obviously become the ca-ching of a cash register.
It'd be pure microsoft...
Use quad gpus and have them working (run a game in a windowed mode or something).
Your negative 14 becomes a positive 114.
(and since I don't know what unit of measurement you were referring to (fahrenheit or celsius?), let's just say celsius because that'd be hottest)
The question is whether or not Voyager will still be functioning when it does. :/
We haven't electrified our railroads in order to move freight without using oil. Wouldn't producing the electricity cost oil?
So how many times have you copy-pasted that? If I want ads, I'll start uninstalling my firefox extensions.