Looking at the version of the King James Bible on gutenberg.org (the only one I have access to right now), I see that in Genesis 6:15, God tells Noah to build an ark 30 cubits high. Later on, Genesis 7:20 says "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered."
That means that had the ark stayed planted on the ground, the flood would only reach halfway up the side.
In addition, all the definitions I've seen for cubit put the length of a cubit around 0.4 to 0.7 meters. That means the ark was around 20 meters tall, and the flood was 10 meters high. Mighty small mountains to be covered by just 10 meters of water. If 1 story of a building is about 10 feet tall, that means you'd have to be on the 5th floor (with the 1st floor being on the ground) to avoid getting your feet wet. There probably weren't very many buildings that tall at the time specified in the Bible, but there were a lot of mountains that cleared 10 meters (Mt. Ararat, where some believe the ark to have settled, is over 5000 meters tall.)
I for one would like to see an asteroid named after James Doohan. He inspired more than his fair share of today's scientists and engineers to enter those fields, and I'm sure a few astronomers are among those who were inspired.
BTW: We're having 1,000 humble pies delivered to your house.
That... that's a whole LOT of pie, if they're similar to the ones in this story. (If that link's broken, try here.) Wouldn't it just be better to drop them all on Darl?
At worst I'd have told them to f-off and challenged them to do something about it.
If you were my kid, and you told me to f-off in this situation, I wouldn't say another word. I'd just start carrying the computer out of your room and into the living room, secure it to something relatively immobile (say a heavy table, the entertainment center, etc.) and take the power cord and/or the cable connecting the computer to the cable modem or the telephone jack with me to work. You will have access to the computer for exactly as long as you need to use it for schoolwork and only under my supervision, and if I see you playing a game or on IM or chat without permission, said software will be deleted from the computer.
So if the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, MSNBC, or any other news site were to run an article with a sentence like "police retrieved fragments of the bomb, including the explosive and the casing" would that be enough of the instructions for creating that type of bomb to force the censorship of the article? How much of the instructions is too much?
I'd imagine there are computers inside Microsoft running Windows Vista Internal Edition well. Windows Vista IE is like normal Vista, with one small change.
Yohoho Puzzle Pirates is free to play on doubloon oceans. If you want to buy things (swords, ships, houses, the better pieces of clothing) you will need doubloons, which you can buy with pieces of eight that you worked for or gained as booty from a pillage or you can purchase the doubloons with real money.
That's an interesting point. When Major League Baseball broadcasts pictures of fans holding signs, do they get permission to use the signs (whose copyright is held by the fans that created them) in the broadcast? MLB can't claim fair use in the broadcast of those signs without contradicting Executive Director Ross's comments in the editorial -- in that case, they are the consumer, and "fair use is not a consumer right."
So you don't call it a spam block list. You call it "the list of IP addresses we were ordered to state are not sources of spam by the US Federal court". That's a neutral and true description of the contents of the list. If mail server admins use that list as well as the regular block list to block messages, well that's their business.
Duke Nukem Forever is so hard, the developers challenged Chuck Norris to play it just before they released it. It took him three tries to beat it. After he was finished, he roundhouse kicked his copy of the game. The developer's still working on reconstructing it from the shattered fragments of a backup copy that had been etched in diamond and stored inside a locked bank vault on the other side of the country -- nothing survived of any other copies.
Ah, but what if they've come back from the year 3000, when copyright on works written in 2010 and before finally expired? Would their copies of the software, which were not under copyright when the copies were created, be subject to the copyrights if the time-traveling software pirates brought them back to our time?
If they release everywhere at once, they get one big burst of publicity in magazines and on the web. If they stagger their releases, they get publicity in different regions at different times, and some of the publicity from one region may bleed over into regions that haven't had their release yet. "North American gamers are having a great time playing game X, European gamers can't wait to get their hands on it!"
That's one possibility... another possibility is that they don't own the copyright to all the pieces of Netware (which could be the case if they licensed some libraries or something), can't Open Source it without those copyrights, and is unable to obtain those copyrights.
That's an interesting idea. I have another -- I may have heard this before on Slashdot, I can't remember.
When a person or business files a patent application with the Patent Office, they pay a filing fee. If the Patent Office can find prior art documentation that causes them to reject the patent, the filer agrees to pay them an additional "sorry to have wasted your time" fee. [To avoid the Patent Office rejecting every application they receive, they should be required to file documentation. including expert testimony, when they choose this option.] If they can't, they publish the provisional patent for review.
At this point, the provisional patent is a full-fledged patent, except that the general public can offer prior art that the patent holder and the Patent Office missed to the Patent Office for review (without going through the court system). If any of that prior art invalidates the patent, the filer pays the person or business that found the prior art a "bounty" -- the amount of the bounty to vary depending on how well-known the prior art is. If the filer missed a front page article in the New York Times that invalidates their patent, that deserves a larger penalty than if the missed prior art was an article in "the Western Elbonian Journal of Soil Engineering and other Science". Under this proposal, some people may actually create companies whose sole business is invalidating patents.
I'm sure that creating a game where you can assassinate the members of Parliament and whose map is based on the actual layout of the Parliament building won't attract ANY attention from the authorities. There's no chance that they would investigate you on suspicion of planning such an activity in the real Parliament building. It would be inconceivable (and yes, I know what that word means) that they'd treat you as though you were a terrorist. Never happen. Politicians and governments don't ever overreact like that, do they.
He will step down at that point provided he doesn't get himself assassinated while engaging in diplomacy in foreign lands.
Bush's greatest defense against assassination isn't the Secret Service. His greatest defense is that if he dies while in office, Dick Cheney becomes President.
You're thinking of the wrong hat. Besides, the Sorting Hat was originally Gryffindor's, so it makes some sense that you could retrieve Gryffindor's sword from Gryffindor's hat.
I always thought that the perfect random number generator would be the interval between prime numbers. If we can't predict whether or not a number will be prime then, by definition, the interval between one prime and the next should be random.
No, I don't think it would be a good generator. The vast majority of intervals between primes are of even length, and there is at most 1 interval for each odd length (1 interval of length n if 2+n is prime, and 0 if 2+n is composite, since the sum of two odd numbers is even.)
Those backdoors would be the biggest targets ever for any malware authors. I'd also envision a series of lawsuits from large companies (Intel, AMD, IBM, AT&T, the big pharmaceutical manufacturers, etc.) against the OS vendors and the government as soon as somebody breaks in via the backdoors and steals confidential information. "We've spent billions of dollars researching drug X, and your backdoors allowed hackers to break in, steal all that research, and sell it to our competitors. Now tell us again why we shouldn't sue you for all you're worth, destroy your corporate headquarters, and plow salt into the earth where it once stood, as a lesson never to try this again?"
Why is there a 'Student Edition' of MS Office at 80% discounts if MS doesn't pander to high school students?
Because they're pandering to college students? I imagine the percentage of high school students who need/want their own copy of Office is lower than the percentage of college students who need/want their own copy.
When someone changes their stance completely, we say "It's a U turn or a 180-degree shift" Should we say 1.55 radians shift instead?
No. 2*pi radians is 360 degrees, so pi radians is 180 degrees. We could say they made a pi-radians shift. pi/2 radians (or approximately 1.55 radians) is 90 degrees.
The default value for angles ought to be degrees, radians could be an option to cater to specific situations.
Go look at eBay item number 170129995323. You get the iPhone remnants, a blender, a DVD, and an autographed T-shirt. Not bad, if you're in the market for a blender or are into pulverized electronics.
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You can't reprogram a woman.
Looking at the version of the King James Bible on gutenberg.org (the only one I have access to right now), I see that in Genesis 6:15, God tells Noah to build an ark 30 cubits high. Later on, Genesis 7:20 says "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered."
That means that had the ark stayed planted on the ground, the flood would only reach halfway up the side.
In addition, all the definitions I've seen for cubit put the length of a cubit around 0.4 to 0.7 meters. That means the ark was around 20 meters tall, and the flood was 10 meters high. Mighty small mountains to be covered by just 10 meters of water. If 1 story of a building is about 10 feet tall, that means you'd have to be on the 5th floor (with the 1st floor being on the ground) to avoid getting your feet wet. There probably weren't very many buildings that tall at the time specified in the Bible, but there were a lot of mountains that cleared 10 meters (Mt. Ararat, where some believe the ark to have settled, is over 5000 meters tall.)
I for one would like to see an asteroid named after James Doohan. He inspired more than his fair share of today's scientists and engineers to enter those fields, and I'm sure a few astronomers are among those who were inspired.
I don't think those are LEDs. You might want to stop by your doctor's office as soon as possible.
So did Penny Arcade.
So if the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, MSNBC, or any other news site were to run an article with a sentence like "police retrieved fragments of the bomb, including the explosive and the casing" would that be enough of the instructions for creating that type of bomb to force the censorship of the article? How much of the instructions is too much?
I'd imagine there are computers inside Microsoft running Windows Vista Internal Edition well. Windows Vista IE is like normal Vista, with one small change.
Yohoho Puzzle Pirates is free to play on doubloon oceans. If you want to buy things (swords, ships, houses, the better pieces of clothing) you will need doubloons, which you can buy with pieces of eight that you worked for or gained as booty from a pillage or you can purchase the doubloons with real money.
That's an interesting point. When Major League Baseball broadcasts pictures of fans holding signs, do they get permission to use the signs (whose copyright is held by the fans that created them) in the broadcast? MLB can't claim fair use in the broadcast of those signs without contradicting Executive Director Ross's comments in the editorial -- in that case, they are the consumer, and "fair use is not a consumer right."
So you don't call it a spam block list. You call it "the list of IP addresses we were ordered to state are not sources of spam by the US Federal court". That's a neutral and true description of the contents of the list. If mail server admins use that list as well as the regular block list to block messages, well that's their business.
Duke Nukem Forever is so hard, the developers challenged Chuck Norris to play it just before they released it. It took him three tries to beat it. After he was finished, he roundhouse kicked his copy of the game. The developer's still working on reconstructing it from the shattered fragments of a backup copy that had been etched in diamond and stored inside a locked bank vault on the other side of the country -- nothing survived of any other copies.
Ah, but what if they've come back from the year 3000, when copyright on works written in 2010 and before finally expired? Would their copies of the software, which were not under copyright when the copies were created, be subject to the copyrights if the time-traveling software pirates brought them back to our time?
If they release everywhere at once, they get one big burst of publicity in magazines and on the web. If they stagger their releases, they get publicity in different regions at different times, and some of the publicity from one region may bleed over into regions that haven't had their release yet. "North American gamers are having a great time playing game X, European gamers can't wait to get their hands on it!"
That's one possibility ... another possibility is that they don't own the copyright to all the pieces of Netware (which could be the case if they licensed some libraries or something), can't Open Source it without those copyrights, and is unable to obtain those copyrights.
That's an interesting idea. I have another -- I may have heard this before on Slashdot, I can't remember.
When a person or business files a patent application with the Patent Office, they pay a filing fee. If the Patent Office can find prior art documentation that causes them to reject the patent, the filer agrees to pay them an additional "sorry to have wasted your time" fee. [To avoid the Patent Office rejecting every application they receive, they should be required to file documentation. including expert testimony, when they choose this option.] If they can't, they publish the provisional patent for review.
At this point, the provisional patent is a full-fledged patent, except that the general public can offer prior art that the patent holder and the Patent Office missed to the Patent Office for review (without going through the court system). If any of that prior art invalidates the patent, the filer pays the person or business that found the prior art a "bounty" -- the amount of the bounty to vary depending on how well-known the prior art is. If the filer missed a front page article in the New York Times that invalidates their patent, that deserves a larger penalty than if the missed prior art was an article in "the Western Elbonian Journal of Soil Engineering and other Science". Under this proposal, some people may actually create companies whose sole business is invalidating patents.
I'm sure that creating a game where you can assassinate the members of Parliament and whose map is based on the actual layout of the Parliament building won't attract ANY attention from the authorities. There's no chance that they would investigate you on suspicion of planning such an activity in the real Parliament building. It would be inconceivable (and yes, I know what that word means) that they'd treat you as though you were a terrorist. Never happen. Politicians and governments don't ever overreact like that, do they.
You're thinking of the wrong hat. Besides, the Sorting Hat was originally Gryffindor's, so it makes some sense that you could retrieve Gryffindor's sword from Gryffindor's hat.
Perhaps they have a "list of tasks we need to accomplish to complete development of FFXIII", and 13% of the items on that list are done?
Those backdoors would be the biggest targets ever for any malware authors. I'd also envision a series of lawsuits from large companies (Intel, AMD, IBM, AT&T, the big pharmaceutical manufacturers, etc.) against the OS vendors and the government as soon as somebody breaks in via the backdoors and steals confidential information. "We've spent billions of dollars researching drug X, and your backdoors allowed hackers to break in, steal all that research, and sell it to our competitors. Now tell us again why we shouldn't sue you for all you're worth, destroy your corporate headquarters, and plow salt into the earth where it once stood, as a lesson never to try this again?"
No. 2*pi radians is 360 degrees, so pi radians is 180 degrees. We could say they made a pi-radians shift. pi/2 radians (or approximately 1.55 radians) is 90 degrees.
If you're solving introductory geometry problems in school, you're probably using degrees. If you're using calculus or working in physics or engineering, you're probably using radians.
Go look at eBay item number 170129995323. You get the iPhone remnants, a blender, a DVD, and an autographed T-shirt. Not bad, if you're in the market for a blender or are into pulverized electronics.