Textual literalism in general is a particularly American phenomenon. American religion is intensely Protestant in the sense that it derives everything from Biblical sources as opposed to many other religions which have popes, imams and gurus from which authoritative wisdom may be derived.
Similarly the US takes a kind of literalist view of its Constitution where many legal decisions are in fact textual analyses trying to extract the "original intention". It is interesting that the Magna Carta, for example, plays a far more important role in American history than it does in British history!
AIDS is a syndrome because the word 'disease' has negative connotations and so it's more politically correct to say 'syndrome'. Of course it's a disease.
So influenza viruses cause influenza. Smallpox viruses cause smallpox. Common cold viruses cause the common cold. But HIV viruses cause AIDS. It's weird how everyone becomes so picky when it comes to AIDS and HIV but not for other diseases. I wonder why.
Well you've already got a good name for it. Religeon. You could put the stress on the 'ge' so as to differentiate it from 'religion' which everyone else practices.
Give us more than just an mp3 file. Give us high resolution tiffs of the album sleeve and the band. Make us feel we are really buying into something. Send an email from the actual band members to anyone who actually pays. Make people feel like when they pay (1) they're really getting something and (2) make it feel like a personal transaction with the band itself - something that P2P can never offer. Give people who pay coupons and special offers that they don't offer anyone else (and undercut other vendors - mustn't forget that).
Until the record companies figure out how to make us interested they can lose all the money they want.
Effects houses have been simulating mass and inertia for many years now. If Jar Jar looked crap it was because the animators chose to ignore physics for that particular animation.
Every time there's an Opera story on/. I download it (except this time). But I always uninstall it within minutes. Usually it crashes on me. Often it doesn't render pages very well. And IE seems pretty nippy to me anyway.
Well, unlike many women, I think she improved with age. In the movies I think she's actually pretty attractive. But early on she was just horrible. You may have forgotten - check out Episode 1 again.
Each series of Star Trek has one. On NG it was Troi. On DS9 it was Kira. On Voyager it was Neelix. And on Enterprise it's Phlox. He should take some of his own medicine and get himself killed in an upcoming episode.
A quantum computer isn't just the sum of its parts (technically it's the product, the tensor product). You just can't go sticking individual components together and expect that the combined system is going to be able to maintain coherence. I bet that if they build a 1024x1024 array they'll be using almost all of it to do the quantum error correction for just a handful of useful quantum bits.
Either this story has been severely garbled by journalists or its an outright lie designed to get funding.
It doesn't matter what diamonds cost. A diamond is a symbol that you have spent a certain amount of money. Asking that question is like asking whether a $1 is worth it. A $1 is worth $1 because everyone recognises it's worth that.
Unless you mean "is having a sparkly stone worth that money?". Don't ask silly questions.
Still, that said I bought my wife's ring through a brother of a friend who travels around the world collecting gems and who could negotiate directly with a wholesaler for me. It was like getting a $10 bill for $5.
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(1) What Lamarck suggested is not Evolution in the sense it has today and
(2) Here are lots of examples of pre-Lamarckian evolutionary theories.
Similarly the US takes a kind of literalist view of its Constitution where many legal decisions are in fact textual analyses trying to extract the "original intention". It is interesting that the Magna Carta, for example, plays a far more important role in American history than it does in British history!
AIDS is a syndrome because the word 'disease' has negative connotations and so it's more politically correct to say 'syndrome'. Of course it's a disease.
How are you measuring cost effectiveness.
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Ignore this bit. I'm just padding the time to 20s.
So influenza viruses cause influenza. Smallpox viruses cause smallpox. Common cold viruses cause the common cold. But HIV viruses cause AIDS. It's weird how everyone becomes so picky when it comes to AIDS and HIV but not for other diseases. I wonder why.
Well you've already got a good name for it. Religeon. You could put the stress on the 'ge' so as to differentiate it from 'religion' which everyone else practices.
Until the record companies figure out how to make us interested they can lose all the money they want.
Is that like the way horse sales declined with the advent of the automobile?
I think you're confusing it with USENET.
They were rushed. I know because many of my friends worked on it. And I know they are more talented than that!
Effects houses have been simulating mass and inertia for many years now. If Jar Jar looked crap it was because the animators chose to ignore physics for that particular animation.
Every time there's an Opera story on /. I download it (except this time). But I always uninstall it within minutes. Usually it crashes on me. Often it doesn't render pages very well. And IE seems pretty nippy to me anyway.
...that Opera is the fastest browser doesn't actually make it faster (although some religious types might believe differently).
Well, unlike many women, I think she improved with age. In the movies I think she's actually pretty attractive. But early on she was just horrible. You may have forgotten - check out Episode 1 again.
Agreed.
Yeah...but he didn't appear in that many episodes. Or maybe my memory is rose tinted...
Each series of Star Trek has one. On NG it was Troi. On DS9 it was Kira. On Voyager it was Neelix. And on Enterprise it's Phlox. He should take some of his own medicine and get himself killed in an upcoming episode.
Either this story has been severely garbled by journalists or its an outright lie designed to get funding.
...to pick the leat corrupt city in the whole of the US as their starting point.
Hey! If you commit a crime you could sue your parents for not bringing you up right.
Must be wrong. Anything called a "Slashdot gene" has about a zero chance of even having a next generation in which to spread.
Unless you mean "is having a sparkly stone worth that money?". Don't ask silly questions.
Still, that said I bought my wife's ring through a brother of a friend who travels around the world collecting gems and who could negotiate directly with a wholesaler for me. It was like getting a $10 bill for $5.
With OpenGL spanning both screens.
Because they were such a bunch of raving Puritans nobody in Europe would tolerate them?
Huh?