It's getting closer. Verbal to verbal is there (really slow and incomplete, but it's better than babelfish [the website, not the Hitchhikers' Deus Machina]).
Incredible labor saving devices of the future! Vacuum Cleaner salesmen would always say they were labor saving devices. They are actually _more_ work than sweeping with a broom, but the end result is cleaner (brooms just move dust around). Of course, telling a PHB that the virtual environment will cost more in hardware and manpower but will be 3x as good doesn't win points. PHB only wants reduction in cost.
As the economy worsens and Election Day approaches, a conservative campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable to lower-class Americans has taken off on talk radio and e-mail.
You mean the 2008 election? I heard the argument you're denouncing before the global financial crisis was a twinkle in the Federal Gov's eye. That the results match the expectation doesn't prove anything, but the fact that the argument existed then (and was quickly brought to bear in late 2008) means that it's not a desperate act for votes in 2010.
But the data they will get will be biased to a tiny subset of commuters (fuel-gaugers), not a heterogeneous cross section. You sound like the type of twit that never learned math and is sure that his calculator is always correct. Science needs common sense to question stupid results. Or even better: A &*^%ing better method of selecting a sample set.
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"It seems that 99.9% of drivers drive the speed limit, and engine-break to lights."
Do they really expect anyone who isn't already driving a hybrid or electric and/or driving super-energy conscious will be interested in helping a project like this and send in Data? How people really commute: They drive 10-20 miles over the speed limit on highways, and 5-15 miles over the speed limit on city streets. They speed up to get in front of a slower (but still over the speed limit) car, just in time to brake hard for the stoplight. The data they collect will say regenerative braking is pointless, but the common-knowledge data will say that regenerative braking is the bee's knees.
Gay Bomb. They say it's been discontinued, oh my yes. The world would never tolerate the use of such a weapon. They get all bent out of shape and use mean words like "Atrocities" and "War Crimes", so the project was... discontinued... So the next time two guys from Al Quida are sitting outside a cave in Pakistan and their... eyes meet... the urges that they feel are completely natural.
Those students weren't laughing at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because of Iran's present census, but because they knew that after 2011, Iran's population growth will turn solidly negative. By 2025, all of Iran will have moved to San Fransisco.
what if they collected the fresh water vapour that is evaporating off the salt water as well?
I'm guessing this would require active refrigeration unless they're in a colder climate?
If it's on Earth, then it is a colder climate. Colder than 100 degrees centigrade. Or as you probably call it, 212 degrees-F.
Exactly. Just get a really long Aluminum pipe for the "waste steam", slightly angle it down, and you've got a water condenser. Run the "waste" pipe next to the input water pipe, and you've got increased efficiency on both heating and cooling.
Just like all the African-Americans that live in Africa, or the Native-Americans that live in India? And yes, I've heard both PC terms used very incorrectly.
"a platform for Dungeons and Dragons -- the true test of success for any new communications technology"
d00d! grab your manuals and head for Hat Creek, CA. The Allen Telescope Array needs to be tested so it can tell when it's picking up alien transmissions. We're going to need to know whether to consider them monsters or non-player characters.
Or players. Thousands of years ago, Xenu the Galactic Overlord broadcast his D&D games that he played with a group of precognitive servants. If you tune in with the right equipment, maybe you'll be the mind(s) the precogs touched, so you can "play" D&D with Xenu.
such as Slashdot. I trust them not to run shitty ads that will annoy me,
I don't anymore./. has been throwing evil popups at me at work and home the last few days. FF was set to block popups, but I didn't have noscript or adblock in place for/. Now I know better.
I'm not usually a fan of conspiracy theories, but "signals to turn off radar" seems more like a coverup to protect the Mossad agents who really turned off the radar. You can theoretically only use a kill signal like that once, but Mossad agents are much more versatile.
Personally, while I think Scientology is a pretty dangerous organization today, I'm not too worried about their future. Scientology today is just kind of like LDS church was 100 years ago -- feeling persecuted and justified in lashing out at its critics. They don't face the same kind of (often violent) persecution the LDS church did, and their ways are really out of touch with modern society's opinions on "asshatery in the name of faith," but give it a century, and they may well turn into model citizens.
I believe they will either die out or continue to be asshats. The bad histories around other religions were brought under control because the basic tenets of those religions said things like "do not murder", and when the older assholes who were breaching the mandates of their own religion died out, the younger set said "Hey, wait: it says here 'do not murder' Why are we murdering?" With Scientology, the rule is "fair game" (lie, cheat, steal, murder, etc. whatever is takes to get money or destroy a critic) They may have a brief flirtation with morality, but don't expect it to last.
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It's getting closer. Verbal to verbal is there (really slow and incomplete, but it's better than babelfish [the website, not the Hitchhikers' Deus Machina]).
Incredible labor saving devices of the future! Vacuum Cleaner salesmen would always say they were labor saving devices. They are actually _more_ work than sweeping with a broom, but the end result is cleaner (brooms just move dust around). Of course, telling a PHB that the virtual environment will cost more in hardware and manpower but will be 3x as good doesn't win points. PHB only wants reduction in cost.
As the economy worsens and Election Day approaches, a conservative campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable to lower-class Americans has taken off on talk radio and e-mail.
You mean the 2008 election? I heard the argument you're denouncing before the global financial crisis was a twinkle in the Federal Gov's eye. That the results match the expectation doesn't prove anything, but the fact that the argument existed then (and was quickly brought to bear in late 2008) means that it's not a desperate act for votes in 2010.
the data they seek is biased towards commuters.
But the data they will get will be biased to a tiny subset of commuters (fuel-gaugers), not a heterogeneous cross section. You sound like the type of twit that never learned math and is sure that his calculator is always correct. Science needs common sense to question stupid results. Or even better: A &*^%ing better method of selecting a sample set.
They're spending more than $40,000. The balloons, the people manning the balloons, the people organizing the contest, this all costs money.
well let the spam begin!
Dear Robbie.h.wilson,
Hello, I represet a cosortum which has found nine of the baloons in question. If your baloon is the tenth baloon, you to win $5714.28 ! Please to visit this website and enter your accounts infomations for your electronic payment. http://balooncontest.darpa.gov.example.com/ We look forward to hearing from you. We all want to win our $5714.28
"It seems that 99.9% of drivers drive the speed limit, and engine-break to lights."
Do they really expect anyone who isn't already driving a hybrid or electric and/or driving super-energy conscious will be interested in helping a project like this and send in Data? How people really commute: They drive 10-20 miles over the speed limit on highways, and 5-15 miles over the speed limit on city streets. They speed up to get in front of a slower (but still over the speed limit) car, just in time to brake hard for the stoplight. The data they collect will say regenerative braking is pointless, but the common-knowledge data will say that regenerative braking is the bee's knees.
Gay Bomb. They say it's been discontinued, oh my yes. The world would never tolerate the use of such a weapon. They get all bent out of shape and use mean words like "Atrocities" and "War Crimes", so the project was... discontinued... So the next time two guys from Al Quida are sitting outside a cave in Pakistan and their... eyes meet... the urges that they feel are completely natural.
Those students weren't laughing at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because of Iran's present census, but because they knew that after 2011, Iran's population growth will turn solidly negative. By 2025, all of Iran will have moved to San Fransisco.
what if they collected the fresh water vapour that is evaporating off the salt water as well?
I'm guessing this would require active refrigeration unless they're in a colder climate?
If it's on Earth, then it is a colder climate. Colder than 100 degrees centigrade. Or as you probably call it, 212 degrees-F.
Exactly. Just get a really long Aluminum pipe for the "waste steam", slightly angle it down, and you've got a water condenser. Run the "waste" pipe next to the input water pipe, and you've got increased efficiency on both heating and cooling.
Asian-American, please.
Just like all the African-Americans that live in Africa, or the Native-Americans that live in India? And yes, I've heard both PC terms used very incorrectly.
"Pickens Calls Off Massive Wind Farm In Texas" "Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 08, @12:35PM" http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/08/167212
Before video games, there was a wide range of active and sedate activities to choose from.
But the sedate ones couldn't trick your brain into thinking you're being active (pumping adrenaline, etc).
What if you ssh -X or ssh -Y and run your browser on the remote machine?
"a platform for Dungeons and Dragons -- the true test of success for any new communications technology" d00d! grab your manuals and head for Hat Creek, CA. The Allen Telescope Array needs to be tested so it can tell when it's picking up alien transmissions. We're going to need to know whether to consider them monsters or non-player characters.
Or players. Thousands of years ago, Xenu the Galactic Overlord broadcast his D&D games that he played with a group of precognitive servants. If you tune in with the right equipment, maybe you'll be the mind(s) the precogs touched, so you can "play" D&D with Xenu.
Not to get all ad hominem or anything, but [ad hominem logic].
There, condensed that for you.
Texans don't know what "rain" is, and when it happens, they lose all ability to drive.
Or maybe they know something about the nature of their local roads and rain-slickness that you don't.
such as Slashdot. I trust them not to run shitty ads that will annoy me,
I don't anymore. /. has been throwing evil popups at me at work and home the last few days. FF was set to block popups, but I didn't have noscript or adblock in place for /. Now I know better.
geeks do plenty of pointless things because they just want to do it to learn or in most cases, ePenis size.
Too true. That's why I learned a little about photo editing software.
I'll let the internet decide which reason I meant.
'dirty' sources, such as coal, oil and nuclear.
These sources aren't dirty (especially nuclear), they just aren't quickly renewable.
All downhill?
It's called non-ECC RAM. Fastest kill switch ever.
That's War with a capital W,
which rhymes with Cue, and that stands for Pool!
I'm not usually a fan of conspiracy theories, but "signals to turn off radar" seems more like a coverup to protect the Mossad agents who really turned off the radar. You can theoretically only use a kill signal like that once, but Mossad agents are much more versatile.
Personally, while I think Scientology is a pretty dangerous organization today, I'm not too worried about their future. Scientology today is just kind of like LDS church was 100 years ago -- feeling persecuted and justified in lashing out at its critics. They don't face the same kind of (often violent) persecution the LDS church did, and their ways are really out of touch with modern society's opinions on "asshatery in the name of faith," but give it a century, and they may well turn into model citizens.
I believe they will either die out or continue to be asshats. The bad histories around other religions were brought under control because the basic tenets of those religions said things like "do not murder", and when the older assholes who were breaching the mandates of their own religion died out, the younger set said "Hey, wait: it says here 'do not murder' Why are we murdering?" With Scientology, the rule is "fair game" (lie, cheat, steal, murder, etc. whatever is takes to get money or destroy a critic) They may have a brief flirtation with morality, but don't expect it to last.
About 2% of NPR's funding comes from the government
And a little stimulus money for a bank gives the government the ability to set payment levels. Why does NPR get a pass?