Paraphrased since it was hours ago and I was driving... "Traces of plutonium have been found around the Fukushima site, and although the amounts discovered were no higher than if the soil samples were taken from any random soil around the world, the scientists determined that the specific isotopes of plutonium found were from the plant." They then continued to explain why it was super dangerous.
What I heard was "DANGER DANGER! The soil around the Fukushima site is identical to the soil in your backyard. That's not a good thing! You must Fear It! Fear It!"
music and lock picks have been "outlawed" because the vast majority of uses are, in fact, illegal.
I don't know what "music" you're talking about, but lock picks are legal in all states (some states require locksmith license) because they recognize that people only think they're used for illegal purposes. Television has made the perception that criminals use them, but a kick to the door, crowbar, brick to the window, and bolt cutter to the padlock are the real burglar tools. Why would a criminal spend several minutes to an hour to pick a lock when some property damage gets them instant access? Lock picks are almost always used for legitimate purpose due to lost or locked keys.
production costs are something you would want to be talking about.
Okay. They say it's potentially cheap. Potentially. As in it's currently not cheap. In fact it's probably freakin expensive. And as someone else pointed out, nature does a better job of producing and storing hydrocarbons.
I do remember a sci-fi show (don't remember which one) in which the portable computers were held in one hand by a handle on the bottom and the top part could be any real shape, but it had a screen that could be rolled out of the side of the device while the device itself had the buttons for using it.
Perhaps the "center" of the tube is the large battery/handle/CPU section, and the screen and keyboard wrap around it? Imagine your whole laptop folded up into the size of a long maglite flashlight. Maybe there's an integrated LED light on the end for times you're not computing.
What are you talking about? If you have Windows installed, Windows is the firmware.
What are you talking about? Windows (like almost any OS) is software. I'm talking about:
updating the BIOS from the Mac partition
(which really isn't BIOS), and updating firmware for wireless devices or any other integrated devices which have their own firmware that Apple might send through a Mac OS X software update, but not a bootcamp update.
He just hasn't made the inductive leap to figure out where the carbon came from.
He knows the standard model where carbon (and heavier elements) comes from stars, but he thinks it would take longer for the types of stars that produce carbon-infused explosions (supernovas) than the time periods that are currently discussed.
Which means he's good with the equations, not so much with the imagination.
He's twelve, and he probably started thinking about it a month ago. It will probably come to him when he's playing Pokemon.
I pity the kid if he's not patient enough to learn what has already been done.
He's going to learn everything you and I know about astrophysics in the next year or so and surpass us. I don't pity him at all. If this were a prodigy civil engineer and he reinvented the wheel at 1, the screw and lever at 2, the arch at 3, suspension bridges at 4, etc, I'd laud the attempt. He's not wasting time. He's probably the type of mind that can't learn well unless he proves something to himself (instead of just believing something told to him).
And if ever an autistic person happens to specialize in procreation, it really would be tickets for society.
"Hey Baby, wanna go back to my hotel room and watch People's Court?"
"I'm not wearing any underwear."
"That's okay, we still have time to stop by K-Mart before People's Court starts."
and those with autism who aren't high functioning are essentially mentally retarded.
Very poor conclusion. You abviously have never been around many people with Autism.
Actually, I have. And what I said is true. If someone suffering from autism isn't otherwise intelligent (autism does _not_ make you more intelligent, despite rain-man movie inspired beliefs), they're on the low end of capability for normal functioning. And if they're in the population that is autistic _and_ less intelligent, then they're crippled intellectually and socially; they are unable to function without care.
If we were all autists, society would fall apart. High-functioning autism is great for specialized tasks, but it's nothing like neuro-typicals, and those with autism who aren't high functioning are essentially mentally retarded. They're like rain-man without the card-counting (or worse). High functioning autists are special gene sequences that bubble up every now and then, but environmental and sociological pressures will prevent them from being the norm.
Barnett doesn't realize, for example, that big bang carbon levels are well understood, so he's just wasting his time there.
That sounds a lot like "Don't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain!". If the carbon levels really are well understood, then he'll eventually learn this through induction/deduction instead of rote like most young astrophysicists. Good for him.
"But far from complaining, Jake has turned the sleepless nights to his advantage - debunking the big bang theory."
Wait...what? I think we need more of an explanation on this little gem.
It also includes PopeRatzo acting like an idiot disconnected from reality.
and now you have this thread too, where PopeRatzo thinks "Floating an idea" is the same as initiating legislation, but isn't proof enough of a desire for legislation.
The logical conclusion is offices with only one person. According to the summary, they can't get "offices of nine or less people", so they're getting "offices" with one person, and try to extend that to actual offices or home offices.
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Paraphrased since it was hours ago and I was driving... "Traces of plutonium have been found around the Fukushima site, and although the amounts discovered were no higher than if the soil samples were taken from any random soil around the world, the scientists determined that the specific isotopes of plutonium found were from the plant." They then continued to explain why it was super dangerous.
What I heard was "DANGER DANGER! The soil around the Fukushima site is identical to the soil in your backyard. That's not a good thing! You must Fear It! Fear It!"
But the party host scolded his servants for keeping the "good wine" for after the party goers already got drunk on the "bad wine".
And no computer can run ultima ix well now given its reliance on voodoo/glide instead of OpenGL.
music and lock picks have been "outlawed" because the vast majority of uses are, in fact, illegal.
I don't know what "music" you're talking about, but lock picks are legal in all states (some states require locksmith license) because they recognize that people only think they're used for illegal purposes. Television has made the perception that criminals use them, but a kick to the door, crowbar, brick to the window, and bolt cutter to the padlock are the real burglar tools. Why would a criminal spend several minutes to an hour to pick a lock when some property damage gets them instant access? Lock picks are almost always used for legitimate purpose due to lost or locked keys.
production costs are something you would want to be talking about.
Okay. They say it's potentially cheap. Potentially. As in it's currently not cheap. In fact it's probably freakin expensive. And as someone else pointed out, nature does a better job of producing and storing hydrocarbons.
Ooo, 5.5%. And it's *potentially* cheap!
Are laptop computers banned? Desktops? Internet? Logically extend.
I just sit in my cube screaming binary at my monitor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4huOrdIA6k
I do remember a sci-fi show (don't remember which one) in which the portable computers were held in one hand by a handle on the bottom and the top part could be any real shape, but it had a screen that could be rolled out of the side of the device while the device itself had the buttons for using it.
Earth Final Conflict. Global Link Communicator
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/earth-final-conflict-global-link-closed-prop
Earth Final Conflict Global Communicator Prop: http://www.movieprop.com/propscollectionother.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/google-and-sirius-xm-build-my-dream-handheld/9233
Perhaps the "center" of the tube is the large battery/handle/CPU section, and the screen and keyboard wrap around it? Imagine your whole laptop folded up into the size of a long maglite flashlight. Maybe there's an integrated LED light on the end for times you're not computing.
Is it easier to carry a fat tube than a thin rectangle?
If I have to start carrying a thin rectangle, I have to buy larger boxers.
What are you talking about? If you have Windows installed, Windows is the firmware.
What are you talking about? Windows (like almost any OS) is software. I'm talking about:
updating the BIOS from the Mac partition
(which really isn't BIOS), and updating firmware for wireless devices or any other integrated devices which have their own firmware that Apple might send through a Mac OS X software update, but not a bootcamp update.
He just hasn't made the inductive leap to figure out where the carbon came from.
He knows the standard model where carbon (and heavier elements) comes from stars, but he thinks it would take longer for the types of stars that produce carbon-infused explosions (supernovas) than the time periods that are currently discussed.
Which means he's good with the equations, not so much with the imagination.
He's twelve, and he probably started thinking about it a month ago. It will probably come to him when he's playing Pokemon.
I pity the kid if he's not patient enough to learn what has already been done.
He's going to learn everything you and I know about astrophysics in the next year or so and surpass us. I don't pity him at all. If this were a prodigy civil engineer and he reinvented the wheel at 1, the screw and lever at 2, the arch at 3, suspension bridges at 4, etc, I'd laud the attempt. He's not wasting time. He's probably the type of mind that can't learn well unless he proves something to himself (instead of just believing something told to him).
And if ever an autistic person happens to specialize in procreation, it really would be tickets for society.
"Hey Baby, wanna go back to my hotel room and watch People's Court?"
"I'm not wearing any underwear."
"That's okay, we still have time to stop by K-Mart before People's Court starts."
and those with autism who aren't high functioning are essentially mentally retarded.
Very poor conclusion. You abviously have never been around many people with Autism.
Actually, I have. And what I said is true. If someone suffering from autism isn't otherwise intelligent (autism does _not_ make you more intelligent, despite rain-man movie inspired beliefs), they're on the low end of capability for normal functioning. And if they're in the population that is autistic _and_ less intelligent, then they're crippled intellectually and socially; they are unable to function without care.
If we were all autists, society would fall apart. High-functioning autism is great for specialized tasks, but it's nothing like neuro-typicals, and those with autism who aren't high functioning are essentially mentally retarded. They're like rain-man without the card-counting (or worse). High functioning autists are special gene sequences that bubble up every now and then, but environmental and sociological pressures will prevent them from being the norm.
Barnett doesn't realize, for example, that big bang carbon levels are well understood, so he's just wasting his time there.
That sounds a lot like "Don't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain!". If the carbon levels really are well understood, then he'll eventually learn this through induction/deduction instead of rote like most young astrophysicists. Good for him.
"But far from complaining, Jake has turned the sleepless nights to his advantage - debunking the big bang theory."
Wait...what? I think we need more of an explanation on this little gem.
Explanation at http://www.indystar.com/article/20110320/LOCAL01/103200369/Genius-work-12-year-old-studying-IUPUI
Jump down to "Thinking big is what he does"
Ever see the margins on those low end phones? Dealers love them because of the money they make on them vs. smartphones.
Kind of like how most restaurant profits come from drinks, not the meals.
when users come to the end of the natural lifecycle of their Symbian device they will make the change to a Nokia Windows Phone device
That's some serious delusional thinking from Nokia.
But keep a small mac partition for firmware upgrades.
It also includes PopeRatzo acting like an idiot disconnected from reality.
and now you have this thread too, where PopeRatzo thinks "Floating an idea" is the same as initiating legislation, but isn't proof enough of a desire for legislation.
The logical conclusion is offices with only one person. According to the summary, they can't get "offices of nine or less people", so they're getting "offices" with one person, and try to extend that to actual offices or home offices.
Maybe the ISPs are counting a ton of DSL modem firmware updates that the users aren't aware of?