Bookkeepers, shepherds, scientists and mathemaitcians have for centuries counted starting with 1. It is recent computer scientists that started this crazy standard break, as if they knew better how to count.
No. Computer scientists count starting from one, just like normal people. What we do not do is confuse cardinal numbers (which you use for counting) with ordinal numbers (which you use for coordinates, such as the position in an array).
I agree that burning the crap off is a good thing, but why tack on an expensive piece of extra equipment when pretty much the same effect can be achieved by being smarter about core design? I'm just not seeing the big advantage here.
By all means, let's move forward on the smarter core designs. However, we still have lots of waste from the older cores to deal with.
option A: moderate toxicity/radioactivity for (hundreds of) thousands of years
option B: EXTREME toxicity/radioactivity for decades
Toxicity and Radioactivity do not necessarily correlate positively. You might wind up with highly toxic, low radioactive waste, or waste that has low toxicity but high radioactivity.
Engine development/manufacture, mostly. The shuttle used 610 tons of oxygen and 100 tons of hydrogen which cost approximately $200,000 based on market prices. The cost of the solid rocket booster fuel is unknown, but one estimate is about $2,000,000. The cost to launch that bird was $450,000,000, so the fuel was half a percent of the launch costs.
Yeah, right! I suppose you think some prepubescent little twerp could fly a star fighter into the control ship, blow it up, and render an entire planetary invasion force of droid armies inert. Like that would ever happen!
There is no widespread practice of beastiality within the countries where HIV developed. Current operating hypothesis is that it came from improper animal handling procedures resulting in blood-to-blood contact between SIV-infected apes and ordinary humans, allowing the virus to jump hosts.
It doesn't have to be widespread. All it takes is one instance.
Current operating hypothesis is that it came from improper animal handling procedures resulting in blood-to-blood contact between SIV-infected apes and ordinary humans, allowing the virus to jump hosts.
Probably somebody cut themselves while butchering infected bush meat. Although, such accidents must have happened numerous times throughout history. Why is HIV only around now?
Obviously you mean the Thistle Dollars that were minted in the 16th and 17th century. But like you said, everyone uses dollars: The Canadians, the Australians, Taiwan, New Zealand, Singapore, Belize, and a bunch of others. Why not do something different? Call them Crowns, or Nobles, or something. Or use a digital currency.
Maybe you have the wrong e-reader. When you turn on the Kobo, the cover of the ebook is displayed for half a second before it switches to the last opened page.
Also, the Kobo keeps track of which books you've read and how much of the book you've gone through.
The shortcomings with the Kobo are:
1 - No color.
2 - Books are hard to place into series order, and hard to arrange on bookshelves.
3 - Conversion from one format to another sometimes causes paragraphs to merge. This makes it hard to read.
I'm hoping that Google has no automation for takedowns, and only one person responsible for doing it, and that that person is handling requests on a first come, first serve basis.
Getting a record that is close to your own would be of no benefit. If you need a heart transplant, you get the records of a patient that is worse off than you, so that you can gain a better position on the transplant waiting list.
Yes, the summary's idea that one could get a heart transplant with faked records is baloney.
I couldn't make sense of the summary, at first. If my medical condition is bad enough that a transplant is needed, then why should I need someone else's medical records? My own would do.
On the other hand, I suppose someone's glaucoma could get me medicinal marijuana...
When did the definition of troll change from "someone who is rational, polite, intelligent, and articulate, but who deliberately advances a minority opinion or deliberately misunderstands an issue in order to enjoy the anger and argument this causes from others" to "someone abusive"?
It didn't. Or rather, it has always been so. Trolls are a subset of abusive folk.
It won't work. You also need one more thing: a sender that pays attention to the out of office message. When I see an email which has a subject line that says "Out of office", I don't bother reading it. I just delete it. Obviously the recipient got the email; they just won't respond right away.
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Bookkeepers, shepherds, scientists and mathemaitcians have for centuries counted starting with 1. It is recent computer scientists that started this crazy standard break, as if they knew better how to count.
No. Computer scientists count starting from one, just like normal people. What we do not do is confuse cardinal numbers (which you use for counting) with ordinal numbers (which you use for coordinates, such as the position in an array).
I agree that burning the crap off is a good thing, but why tack on an expensive piece of extra equipment when pretty much the same effect can be achieved by being smarter about core design? I'm just not seeing the big advantage here.
By all means, let's move forward on the smarter core designs. However, we still have lots of waste from the older cores to deal with.
option A: moderate toxicity/radioactivity for (hundreds of) thousands of years
option B: EXTREME toxicity/radioactivity for decades
Toxicity and Radioactivity do not necessarily correlate positively. You might wind up with highly toxic, low radioactive waste, or waste that has low toxicity but high radioactivity.
fuel costs are a small portion of launch costs.
Really? What is the expensive part then?
Engine development/manufacture, mostly. The shuttle used 610 tons of oxygen and 100 tons of hydrogen which cost approximately $200,000 based on market prices. The cost of the solid rocket booster fuel is unknown, but one estimate is about $2,000,000. The cost to launch that bird was $450,000,000, so the fuel was half a percent of the launch costs.
In an age of sex bots and realistic toys I just can't see to relax my grip.
Well, they did warn you that if you keep doing that, you'd go blind.
Oh for FUCKTARDS sake. No one has EVER been laying on their death bed and thought, "was I politically correct enough in my life?"
No, it's not that. They're in Unicode and Slashdot doesn't support Unicode. They are literally unprintable.
Just don't look at Rob Ford. He's not even trying to disguise himself.
Well, at least he doesn't have a zipper on his forehead.
Thanks for the thoughtful post.
Christianity definitely didn't start at 0 AD. If wikipedia serves, started at about 300 AD when Constantine started recognizing the group.
Um... no. You're probably thinking of Roman Catholicism, the state religion of Rome instituted by Constantine in 313AD.
Christianity started in the mid first century.
I tried to watch it, but... well let me put it this way: I was actually relieved to be Rick-rolled.
What could possibly be unprintable on slashdot?
There are a couple of choice ones that are unprintable, but we can't actually tell you because, well, they're unprintable.
Nobody is forcing the adoption? Really? You do know that Gnome3 has a dependency on logind and logind has a dependency on ... yes, kids ... systemd.
It's a real pity, then, that all linux distros use Gnome3.
Robotic hive mind, just sounds like a bad idea.
Yeah, right! I suppose you think some prepubescent little twerp could fly a star fighter into the control ship, blow it up, and render an entire planetary invasion force of droid armies inert. Like that would ever happen!
Damn you, DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!**
[confused] So it was robots that developed the sentient monkeys and killed off all the dogs and cats? [/confused]
There is no widespread practice of beastiality within the countries where HIV developed. Current operating hypothesis is that it came from improper animal handling procedures resulting in blood-to-blood contact between SIV-infected apes and ordinary humans, allowing the virus to jump hosts.
It doesn't have to be widespread. All it takes is one instance.
Current operating hypothesis is that it came from improper animal handling procedures resulting in blood-to-blood contact between SIV-infected apes and ordinary humans, allowing the virus to jump hosts.
Probably somebody cut themselves while butchering infected bush meat. Although, such accidents must have happened numerous times throughout history. Why is HIV only around now?
... my building was apparently "earthquake proof" and I didn't feel any movement at all. What a let down.
The building's systems worked exactly as they were supposed to, and you feel let down?
Obviously you mean the Thistle Dollars that were minted in the 16th and 17th century. But like you said, everyone uses dollars: The Canadians, the Australians, Taiwan, New Zealand, Singapore, Belize, and a bunch of others. Why not do something different? Call them Crowns, or Nobles, or something. Or use a digital currency.
Maybe you have the wrong e-reader. When you turn on the Kobo, the cover of the ebook is displayed for half a second before it switches to the last opened page. Also, the Kobo keeps track of which books you've read and how much of the book you've gone through.
The shortcomings with the Kobo are:
1 - No color.
2 - Books are hard to place into series order, and hard to arrange on bookshelves.
3 - Conversion from one format to another sometimes causes paragraphs to merge. This makes it hard to read.
I'm hoping that Google has no automation for takedowns, and only one person responsible for doing it, and that that person is handling requests on a first come, first serve basis.
It won't work. They'll be able to track you through the "hole" you leave by not having a trackable smart phone.
Getting a record that is close to your own would be of no benefit. If you need a heart transplant, you get the records of a patient that is worse off than you, so that you can gain a better position on the transplant waiting list.
Yes, the summary's idea that one could get a heart transplant with faked records is baloney.
I couldn't make sense of the summary, at first. If my medical condition is bad enough that a transplant is needed, then why should I need someone else's medical records? My own would do.
On the other hand, I suppose someone's glaucoma could get me medicinal marijuana...
When did the definition of troll change from "someone who is rational, polite, intelligent, and articulate, but who deliberately advances a minority opinion or deliberately misunderstands an issue in order to enjoy the anger and argument this causes from others" to "someone abusive"?
It didn't. Or rather, it has always been so. Trolls are a subset of abusive folk.
I'd pay for roads without tolls.
It won't work. You also need one more thing: a sender that pays attention to the out of office message. When I see an email which has a subject line that says "Out of office", I don't bother reading it. I just delete it. Obviously the recipient got the email; they just won't respond right away.
Technology isn't the issue here - obviously you don't need special software to auto-delete emails.
The real issue is that Daimler is allowing its employees to do this without fear of reprisals from management.
Yeah. That'll last until the first upper manager misses an important email because he forgot to reset the out of office flag.