It's always who survives becoming the hero. Always. Nevertheless, I would argue that the French Resistance (from what I read anyways), fought with a much higher importance on the human life. They really didn't fight while concealed within a crowd of fellow frenchmen, but rather fought else (and even then, it wasn't often direct action.. they couldn't really pull that off without getting slaughtered in the long run), and then blended back into the population when the Gestapo or the Heer came around looking for them. This is somewhat different from some of the behaviors we're seeing, or have seen in the Middle East, where their Resistance (whatever you want to call it) have forced direct engagements while hiding behind a screen of civilians. And then blow up the civilians trying to get to the Americans.
In all cases, history is written by the victor. And war is always hell.
The Romans went from a single city to an Empire sprawling around the Mediterranean that had a 'glory' day that lasted centuries. Even after the Empire fell, Rome became the spiritual capital of the Christian world, the seat of power of the bulk of Christianity for quite a long time (before the Protestants all showed up anyways). I think Rome has gained far more than it has ever gained.
But to be fair, military men in positions like that probably won't be going into software design/programming when they retire. I'm sure there are some, but the numbers are so few that it really doesn't matter realistically.
That is true. That being said, fraud is fraud anywhere. You have fraudsters based in Canada (I am Canadian btw), who are scamming American companies and then splitting the money into American and Canadian accounts. What the US Courts have done is found these people to be guilty of fraud (I'm finding it hard to argue against their logic. You have a group charging for a service that they are not providing. No matter how stupid people have to be to fall for that, its still fraud), and they have frozen their US accounts and assets. The Canadian courts can do whatever they want, but if the Canadian court has any conception of justice (or at least just doing their job properly), then they should freeze the Canadian assets and charge the fraudsters too.
There is quite a bit wrong with Americans trying to impose their rulings on everyone. But that doesn't mean they're always wrong. Nor that every case where our two court systems do something like this is a an outrageous act of Americans trampling over our sovereignty.
You don't need to move families. You just need some guys in those country to rip and then post as torrent. It's like how DVDrips work now. Some dude in China gets their hands on a copy from a factory run long before release date. You don't need to move everyone to China to listen, you just need the guy in China to post on the Pirate Bay or something.
OPFOR trains more than any other unit in the US Army. They are actually a combat ready brigade that happens to 'fight' the most. Every unit that trains at Fort Irwin trains against the same guys over and over. There's little surprise that they should have a significant advantage.
Well, the amount of time between sampling doesn't matter, just the amount of generations. It seems reasonable for me. They clearly aren't making E Coli multiple at maximum rate here, so when they do have to go back they can run a crap load of samples from multiple generations in parallel at higher speed and then analyze results.
A 4 spatial dimension hypercube as been solved. There are giant algorithms that allow humans to solve them given enough time (I think its around 1000 moves). A 5d version is also around (and also solved. by computers only I think).
Doesn't nearly all of NASA's images end up being released? I've heard that with Hubble bookings, images are kept private for a year or so while they process, and then send off to whoever booked the Hubble so they can publish findings/analysis first, and it all gets popped onto NASA website.
On the NASA site (first link), hit the visual button at the bottom of the screen. You'll be sent to http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2008-11/visuals.shtml
You can download 3000*2400 versions of each mosaic, or download each individual tile (16 in total) at insane resolution. Enjoy.
I wonder about his comparison of writing systems. The article doesn't provide many details, but is 100 different writing systems really that significant? Large groups of writing systems all share common ancestry. Does he include symbolic/character based languages? This is interesting, but I agree, the article leaves much unanswered.
I've heard about this before, and I think it's vaguely true. I can easily pick out 3, 4, or even 5 objects without having to count, of having them in any particular formation/sequence. But if you gave me 6 objects in a random configuration (without showing me a lesser number before hand), I really would have to count. Case in point is Roman Numerals (and Chinese I guess). Roman Numerals (now) goes up to III before IV (though apparently it use to go up to IIII). Chinese does the one stroke, two stroke, three stroke thing too, before switching to other symbols (though apparently the Chinese four also derived from a 4 stroke character too).
How often do people ship e85 over ship like that? I'm serious, I have no idea. I would have thought that oil tankers carry primarily crude oil to refineries, and then the separated stuff from it all over the world, where it gets turned into e85 (or e15 or w/e) locally.
Also, since ethanol is polar, it'll rapidly dissolve into the water and then spread everywhere. Even if you had a membrane that would selectively pull out ethanol, by the time you got there it would have dispersed all over the place (horizontally and vertically). Pulling ethanol out like that would be unfeasible I would think.
Why would Murdoch go on trial? NDS (the Murdoch company) was found guilty only of theft of satellite signals and fined like 1500 dollars. There was no proof for piracy or the like. If you want to put Murdoch on trial for something like that, that one of his many many companies did, then you're expecting the sky. No one is dumb enough to try that. There's zero chance of Murdoch actually being found guilty of anything related to this. Hell, I'm willing to wager that Murdoch himself might have actually been ignorant of this.
Or, drink it all the time, and when you really need it, spike your caffeine intake. I'm still a student, so this vicious cycle of (lack of) sleep, studying, and caffeine is pretty much my life.
Officially, its because Winamp 5 combines the Winamp 2 music player itself, with the Winamp 3 skin system (2+3=5). Unofficially, its because they don't want people asking for Winamp4 skins. That being said, Winamp 5 isn't that bad. If you're careful with your installs, and willing to do a little pruning (just deleting some plug ins), it runs almost as fast as Winamp 2 (depending on your skin of course), and it has some nice nifty plugins packaged with it (global hotkeys being my favorite). But I use foobar now, mainly cause I realized that I almost never actually LOOK at my media player. My only question is why it actually takes so long (there is a progress dialog) for foobar to load songs to playlists.
No. There are misbehaving children in Asian cultures. Even if we as a whole are more 'respectful' of our parents, that doesn't mean we'll silently do their bidding everytime. We might fight, we might argue, it just happens to be that parents always manage to win. So in the end, we do what our parents want, just after getting the shit yelled and kicked out of selves. After a while, you learn what things you can push, and where you should just shutup and do whatever cause it's not worth it. This skill has served me well.
Because they've been looking for the Tassie for the last 70 years. That hasn't quite panned out. Think about it. This isn't the entirety of the world's biological research focused at one thing. It's a bunch of scientists with some backing who are doing it. And it might have incredible payoffs (better ways to extract old/degraded DNA, figure out how to clone marsupials, blah blah). To do a search would require hundreds, if not thousands of workers, combing through the entire island on foot from end to end, looking in every cave, checking out every burrow. And that ain't going to be for free, or remotely cheap. The spinoff? They might find a Tassie colony.
How the hell can you say something like that? That is simply arrogant given the incredible amounts of things that we don't know about the past compared to what we know about today. In any case, estimates of the current rate of extinction pretty much states that there are less species today than there were 2000 years ago. We've knocked out key components of multiple ecosystems, and introduced the same species all over the world. Evolution is slow and gradual (generally). We are not. Pick any mega fauna in the world. We can wipe it out within 10 years. Pick all of them, we can wipe them out within a century. And there simply isn't time within a century to evolve new mega fauna. Hell, if we wanted me, we could probably reduce the entirety of North American forest to a monoplot of elm trees given a couple decades of unrestricted logging.
If you read the article (you should. its an excellent read), the company that the writer focuses on based its entire face recognition system on software they bought from an American company that developed those technologies using government grants, and is currently deploying many of those systems for DHS. This flies straight in the face of laws saying that companies cannot sell stuff to China that could be used for internal policing.
In general, the articles seems to show that this system does work. They were able to rapidly identify 'ringleaders' in the Tibet riots, and hunt them down. Golden Shield isn't just cameras and race recognition, its a government using all the tools of the information age to control its people and hunt down those who rebel.
No. It's far more sensible for Bush to ask Saudi Arabia to increase production. That has a possibility of working. Going on TV and saying "STOP BEING FAT" (even from the President of the United States), almost certainly will not work.
Slashdot Mirror
It's always who survives becoming the hero. Always. Nevertheless, I would argue that the French Resistance (from what I read anyways), fought with a much higher importance on the human life. They really didn't fight while concealed within a crowd of fellow frenchmen, but rather fought else (and even then, it wasn't often direct action.. they couldn't really pull that off without getting slaughtered in the long run), and then blended back into the population when the Gestapo or the Heer came around looking for them. This is somewhat different from some of the behaviors we're seeing, or have seen in the Middle East, where their Resistance (whatever you want to call it) have forced direct engagements while hiding behind a screen of civilians. And then blow up the civilians trying to get to the Americans.
In all cases, history is written by the victor. And war is always hell.
The Romans went from a single city to an Empire sprawling around the Mediterranean that had a 'glory' day that lasted centuries. Even after the Empire fell, Rome became the spiritual capital of the Christian world, the seat of power of the bulk of Christianity for quite a long time (before the Protestants all showed up anyways). I think Rome has gained far more than it has ever gained.
But to be fair, military men in positions like that probably won't be going into software design/programming when they retire. I'm sure there are some, but the numbers are so few that it really doesn't matter realistically.
That is true. That being said, fraud is fraud anywhere. You have fraudsters based in Canada (I am Canadian btw), who are scamming American companies and then splitting the money into American and Canadian accounts. What the US Courts have done is found these people to be guilty of fraud (I'm finding it hard to argue against their logic. You have a group charging for a service that they are not providing. No matter how stupid people have to be to fall for that, its still fraud), and they have frozen their US accounts and assets. The Canadian courts can do whatever they want, but if the Canadian court has any conception of justice (or at least just doing their job properly), then they should freeze the Canadian assets and charge the fraudsters too.
There is quite a bit wrong with Americans trying to impose their rulings on everyone. But that doesn't mean they're always wrong. Nor that every case where our two court systems do something like this is a an outrageous act of Americans trampling over our sovereignty.
You don't need to move families. You just need some guys in those country to rip and then post as torrent. It's like how DVDrips work now. Some dude in China gets their hands on a copy from a factory run long before release date. You don't need to move everyone to China to listen, you just need the guy in China to post on the Pirate Bay or something.
OPFOR trains more than any other unit in the US Army. They are actually a combat ready brigade that happens to 'fight' the most. Every unit that trains at Fort Irwin trains against the same guys over and over. There's little surprise that they should have a significant advantage.
Well, the amount of time between sampling doesn't matter, just the amount of generations. It seems reasonable for me. They clearly aren't making E Coli multiple at maximum rate here, so when they do have to go back they can run a crap load of samples from multiple generations in parallel at higher speed and then analyze results.
Canadians do say Aluminum instead of Aluminium (in general).
Not to mention the Gripen. Damn fine fighter plane. It's maybe a generation or half behind the bleeding edge, but it's cheap.
A 4 spatial dimension hypercube as been solved. There are giant algorithms that allow humans to solve them given enough time (I think its around 1000 moves). A 5d version is also around (and also solved. by computers only I think).
Doesn't nearly all of NASA's images end up being released? I've heard that with Hubble bookings, images are kept private for a year or so while they process, and then send off to whoever booked the Hubble so they can publish findings/analysis first, and it all gets popped onto NASA website.
On the NASA site (first link), hit the visual button at the bottom of the screen. You'll be sent to http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2008-11/visuals.shtml
You can download 3000*2400 versions of each mosaic, or download each individual tile (16 in total) at insane resolution. Enjoy.
Unless you left it ON when it was stolen. Cold Boot Attack. It will make your head spin.
I wonder about his comparison of writing systems. The article doesn't provide many details, but is 100 different writing systems really that significant? Large groups of writing systems all share common ancestry. Does he include symbolic/character based languages? This is interesting, but I agree, the article leaves much unanswered.
I've heard about this before, and I think it's vaguely true. I can easily pick out 3, 4, or even 5 objects without having to count, of having them in any particular formation/sequence. But if you gave me 6 objects in a random configuration (without showing me a lesser number before hand), I really would have to count. Case in point is Roman Numerals (and Chinese I guess). Roman Numerals (now) goes up to III before IV (though apparently it use to go up to IIII). Chinese does the one stroke, two stroke, three stroke thing too, before switching to other symbols (though apparently the Chinese four also derived from a 4 stroke character too).
How often do people ship e85 over ship like that? I'm serious, I have no idea. I would have thought that oil tankers carry primarily crude oil to refineries, and then the separated stuff from it all over the world, where it gets turned into e85 (or e15 or w/e) locally.
Also, since ethanol is polar, it'll rapidly dissolve into the water and then spread everywhere. Even if you had a membrane that would selectively pull out ethanol, by the time you got there it would have dispersed all over the place (horizontally and vertically). Pulling ethanol out like that would be unfeasible I would think.
Why would Murdoch go on trial? NDS (the Murdoch company) was found guilty only of theft of satellite signals and fined like 1500 dollars. There was no proof for piracy or the like. If you want to put Murdoch on trial for something like that, that one of his many many companies did, then you're expecting the sky. No one is dumb enough to try that. There's zero chance of Murdoch actually being found guilty of anything related to this. Hell, I'm willing to wager that Murdoch himself might have actually been ignorant of this.
Or, drink it all the time, and when you really need it, spike your caffeine intake. I'm still a student, so this vicious cycle of (lack of) sleep, studying, and caffeine is pretty much my life.
Ontario has it. Other provinces might have it too, but I know Ontario does.
Officially, its because Winamp 5 combines the Winamp 2 music player itself, with the Winamp 3 skin system (2+3=5). Unofficially, its because they don't want people asking for Winamp4 skins.
That being said, Winamp 5 isn't that bad. If you're careful with your installs, and willing to do a little pruning (just deleting some plug ins), it runs almost as fast as Winamp 2 (depending on your skin of course), and it has some nice nifty plugins packaged with it (global hotkeys being my favorite). But I use foobar now, mainly cause I realized that I almost never actually LOOK at my media player. My only question is why it actually takes so long (there is a progress dialog) for foobar to load songs to playlists.
No. There are misbehaving children in Asian cultures. Even if we as a whole are more 'respectful' of our parents, that doesn't mean we'll silently do their bidding everytime. We might fight, we might argue, it just happens to be that parents always manage to win. So in the end, we do what our parents want, just after getting the shit yelled and kicked out of selves. After a while, you learn what things you can push, and where you should just shutup and do whatever cause it's not worth it. This skill has served me well.
Because they've been looking for the Tassie for the last 70 years. That hasn't quite panned out. Think about it. This isn't the entirety of the world's biological research focused at one thing. It's a bunch of scientists with some backing who are doing it. And it might have incredible payoffs (better ways to extract old/degraded DNA, figure out how to clone marsupials, blah blah). To do a search would require hundreds, if not thousands of workers, combing through the entire island on foot from end to end, looking in every cave, checking out every burrow. And that ain't going to be for free, or remotely cheap. The spinoff? They might find a Tassie colony.
How the hell can you say something like that? That is simply arrogant given the incredible amounts of things that we don't know about the past compared to what we know about today. In any case, estimates of the current rate of extinction pretty much states that there are less species today than there were 2000 years ago. We've knocked out key components of multiple ecosystems, and introduced the same species all over the world. Evolution is slow and gradual (generally). We are not. Pick any mega fauna in the world. We can wipe it out within 10 years. Pick all of them, we can wipe them out within a century. And there simply isn't time within a century to evolve new mega fauna. Hell, if we wanted me, we could probably reduce the entirety of North American forest to a monoplot of elm trees given a couple decades of unrestricted logging.
If you read the article (you should. its an excellent read), the company that the writer focuses on based its entire face recognition system on software they bought from an American company that developed those technologies using government grants, and is currently deploying many of those systems for DHS. This flies straight in the face of laws saying that companies cannot sell stuff to China that could be used for internal policing.
In general, the articles seems to show that this system does work. They were able to rapidly identify 'ringleaders' in the Tibet riots, and hunt them down. Golden Shield isn't just cameras and race recognition, its a government using all the tools of the information age to control its people and hunt down those who rebel.
No. It's far more sensible for Bush to ask Saudi Arabia to increase production. That has a possibility of working. Going on TV and saying "STOP BEING FAT" (even from the President of the United States), almost certainly will not work.