I'm pretty certain I can put the dead X-Box on a shelf and until I need the space it will be no annoyance... Grandma will stink up the garage at the very least.
I can open up the X-Box and remove parts for other uses... Grandma, not so much. (Oh sure, you COULD try the teeth out I guess)
A former girlfriend almost kneecapped me one time while I was teaching her to bowl, no joke. She let go of the ball on the back swing and I had to jump to clear it.
Yup, kinda what I was thinking. Wouldn't want to be sitting at the telescope and notice a blue shifted star getting bigger and bigger... Thanks for the link.
Does this mean that at some point one of them could lose so much mass that there will no longer be a stable pair? I have this vision of one of them suddenly shooting off at a tangent at a horrendous velocity like some cosmic bowling ball.
With every advancement in figuring out genetic diseases, I can't help but think that the combination of this plus drug testing will lead to genetic discrimination, or at least defamation.
Plus, even then is there much we -can- do if we figure out something is genetic?
That seems to be a really short sighted view. Once you find the major problems and prevent people with those from passing the "bad data" on to their children the burden on both the family and society drops off sharply. True, there may at first be some people that can't bred with certain other people, or maybe even should not bred at all... I would think that if gene therapy is going to benefit us it would be easiest to apply at the "one egg, one sperm" level rather than trying to modify a complete human...
Centuries of domestication in animals has shown us that with enough time we can express desired results. Nothing is perfect at first, as I'm sure the people that died trying to domesticate cattle would attest. It doesn't mean we should not try to improve the conditions under which we exist.
Crap! I thought it was "travel in pears"... I have been avoiding the produce section of the store for no reason... though they still might be hiding in the live plant and fresh flowers area.... hmmm...
..In every language there are common phrases which make perfect sense to someone thinking in the language, but are untranslatable to the point where you as a translator just rephrase the whole sentence (example: "is right up Google's alley"). Then, if you get another translator to translate it back to the original language, you sure as hell won't get the original phrase back (assuming both translations are perfect in terms of understandability and conveying the message).
Then you have words that don't exist in the target language, like "brute-force" or "computing horsepower", or even concepts that don't exist.
I think the fact that we can understand machine translations is more a tribute to the error correction mechanisms in our brain than anything else.
Awl hour translate spume waffle. Ewe no other gender knot exchangeable!
Now that you mention it, the times I've been in the closest to radiation free rooms (faraday cages for testing cell phones), I felt quite uncomfortable. I always figured it was the poor ventilation of a small room, but just as likely the human body can't live without radiowaves as it is likely radiowaves (wifi) are hurting us.
We might not NEED it, but I would not be surprised if we did somehow sense it. Really, we are all raised in the background hum of the universe. Add to that the stuff we generate with communications and it's a butt load of white noise. It would be interesting to build some large structures that could be used for a double blind test, some rooms are Faraday cages, some are not, some are bombarded by WIFI, and they all look alike. I'd like to see if there is an effect on normal people and on people that claim to be electro-hypersensitive. Do all kinds of tests, cognition, physical skills and balance, awareness and estimation of the passing of time, etc...
You know of a device that awakens weeds? Or is this a person, like "The Rain Maker"? Rain making, useful. Weed waking, not so much... unless you can make them march on a location... Then it's "Pay me or your golf course will be unplayable in the morning, BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!
Only the printable ascii table and extended ascii table seem to be supported. If the HTML ascii code
(e.g. é=é) is greater than 255 (a.k.a. ÿ), then you can't get there from here. This fact has been pointed out by many users... no unicode, no change.
That's exactly what they WANT you to think! The stupid people and the people that don't care, they are the great mass that is like the sewer you mention. You will be that rare individual hovering close to the sewer, but never in it... and the more stealth you employ the faster and clearer your signature develops.
Or the whole concept could just be PR to get some of that sweet, sweet intelligence agency cash...
Oh sure, he had strength, stealth and skill, but if he ends up in the lava and the guy he was fighting walks (or even crawls) away then he had a sudden onset of one or more of the previously mentioned problems. I realize he may have been dancing around in glee over the reacquisition of his "precious"... but he didn't deliberately dive in to the lava. Suffering from a moment of poor balance could take out anyone in the right circumstances.
(Note to self: No victory dances near volcanoes, cliffs, mine shafts, laser beams, bomb bay doors, etc.. Oh, also, wait until Bond is dead BEFORE you leave the room).
Think after that point... like he's shot (though not by Frodo) outside of Bag End.
That was Saruman (a.k.a Sharky), former white wizard (chief among his kind) but later reduced to a subordinate of Sauron, the Lord of the Rings. Sauron ended when the ring was unmade.
OK, I've read the books a few times and I'm pretty sure Frodo failed in the end and succumbed to the temptation to (attempt to) become the new Dark Lord. His short lived usurpation of power was thwarted by another would be usurper that fortunately also suffered from bad balance and/or poor spacial awareness/maneuvering skills.
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I'm pretty certain I can put the dead X-Box on a shelf and until I need the space it will be no annoyance...
Grandma will stink up the garage at the very least.
I can open up the X-Box and remove parts for other uses...
Grandma, not so much. (Oh sure, you COULD try the teeth out I guess)
Someone is now working on a killer electron death ray. That pisses me off because I'm still waiting for hand held blasters. And my Flying Car.
Focus, Dammit!
*burp* *fart* *queef*
Wow, better get those leaks fixed...
A former girlfriend almost kneecapped me one time while I was teaching her to bowl, no joke. She let go of the ball on the back swing and I had to jump to clear it.
I don't try to teach anyone to bowl anymore.
Yup, kinda what I was thinking. Wouldn't want to be sitting at the telescope and notice a blue shifted star getting bigger and bigger...
Thanks for the link.
Does this mean that at some point one of them could lose so much mass that there will no longer be a stable pair? I have this vision of one of them suddenly shooting off at a tangent at a horrendous velocity like some cosmic bowling ball.
With every advancement in figuring out genetic diseases, I can't help but think that the combination of this plus drug testing will lead to genetic discrimination, or at least defamation.
Plus, even then is there much we -can- do if we figure out something is genetic?
That seems to be a really short sighted view. Once you find the major problems and prevent people with those from passing the "bad data" on to their children the burden on both the family and society drops off sharply. True, there may at first be some people that can't bred with certain other people, or maybe even should not bred at all... I would think that if gene therapy is going to benefit us it would be easiest to apply at the "one egg, one sperm" level rather than trying to modify a complete human...
Centuries of domestication in animals has shown us that with enough time we can express desired results. Nothing is perfect at first, as I'm sure the people that died trying to domesticate cattle would attest. It doesn't mean we should not try to improve the conditions under which we exist.
Seems too good to be true. I wonder what the downside is.
Well, when you burn things you get CO2. It seems that Methane has much less impact as a greenhouse gas than CO2, but only because of the volumes involved. So the down side is we are screwed if we continue burning stuff for power. I wonder about cracking the methane for hydrogen.... At least that burns in a more friendly manner... water vapor we can handle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts
Crap! I thought it was "travel in pears"... I have been avoiding the produce section of the store for no reason... though they still might be hiding in the live plant and fresh flowers area.... hmmm...
Me Too.
You do have to be careful to get all the juice.
..In every language there are common phrases which make perfect sense to someone thinking in the language, but are untranslatable to the point where you as a translator just rephrase the whole sentence (example: "is right up Google's alley"). Then, if you get another translator to translate it back to the original language, you sure as hell won't get the original phrase back (assuming both translations are perfect in terms of understandability and conveying the message).
Then you have words that don't exist in the target language, like "brute-force" or "computing horsepower", or even concepts that don't exist.
I think the fact that we can understand machine translations is more a tribute to the error correction mechanisms in our brain than anything else.
Awl hour translate spume waffle. Ewe no other gender knot exchangeable!
Due knot worry about yore typing skills. Soon wheel awl use voice input and jesters!
Throughput will bee increased and spelling airs will disappear.
Now that you mention it, the times I've been in the closest to radiation free rooms (faraday cages for testing cell phones), I felt quite uncomfortable. I always figured it was the poor ventilation of a small room, but just as likely the human body can't live without radiowaves as it is likely radiowaves (wifi) are hurting us.
We might not NEED it, but I would not be surprised if we did somehow sense it. Really, we are all raised in the background hum of the universe. Add to that the stuff we generate with communications and it's a butt load of white noise. It would be interesting to build some large structures that could be used for a double blind test, some rooms are Faraday cages, some are not, some are bombarded by WIFI, and they all look alike. I'd like to see if there is an effect on normal people and on people that claim to be electro-hypersensitive. Do all kinds of tests, cognition, physical skills and balance, awareness and estimation of the passing of time, etc...
You know of a device that awakens weeds? Or is this a person, like "The Rain Maker"? Rain making, useful. Weed waking, not so much... unless you can make them march on a location... Then it's "Pay me or your golf course will be unplayable in the morning, BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!
(Also, how do I write non-ASCII characters here?)
Only the printable ascii table and extended ascii table seem to be supported. If the HTML ascii code (e.g. é=é) is greater than 255 (a.k.a. ÿ), then you can't get there from here. This fact has been pointed out by many users... no unicode, no change.
That's exactly what they WANT you to think! The stupid people and the people that don't care, they are the great mass that is like the sewer you mention. You will be that rare individual hovering close to the sewer, but never in it... and the more stealth you employ the faster and clearer your signature develops.
Or the whole concept could just be PR to get some of that sweet, sweet intelligence agency cash...
can we start expecting contributions to the kernel?
Sorry comrade, it is now called "the Colonel".
I think that might have been his little brother Dildo.
You forgot one... developing a new unbreakable DRM based on some unreproducible hard drive identification via modification.
Naa, that would be too ironic...
Oh sure, he had strength, stealth and skill, but if he ends up in the lava and the guy he was fighting walks (or even crawls) away then he had a sudden onset of one or more of the previously mentioned problems. I realize he may have been dancing around in glee over the reacquisition of his "precious"... but he didn't deliberately dive in to the lava. Suffering from a moment of poor balance could take out anyone in the right circumstances.
(Note to self: No victory dances near volcanoes, cliffs, mine shafts, laser beams, bomb bay doors, etc.. Oh, also, wait until Bond is dead BEFORE you leave the room).
Think after that point... like he's shot (though not by Frodo) outside of Bag End.
That was Saruman (a.k.a Sharky), former white wizard (chief among his kind) but later reduced to a subordinate of Sauron, the Lord of the Rings. Sauron ended when the ring was unmade.
We do, however, have aspirations to play Frodo.
OK, I've read the books a few times and I'm pretty sure Frodo failed in the end and succumbed to the temptation to (attempt to) become the new Dark Lord. His short lived usurpation of power was thwarted by another would be usurper that fortunately also suffered from bad balance and/or poor spacial awareness/maneuvering skills.
The details are here:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/02/the-complaint-apples-patent-lawsuit-against-htc-is-all-about-android/
and yes, “Object-Oriented Graphic System” is one of them along with “Touch Screen Device, Method, And Graphical User Interface For Determining Commands By Applying Heuristics”.