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Actually, if snopes is to be trusted, they didn't emphasize the 'blueprint' part as much, but were willing to go along with when the media spun it as part of their rock star image, so they didn't correct people when they assumed that.
Not really on topic, but I'm really sorry to hear that you lost both parents at the same time, and when you were that young. At least you have a CS degree -- silicon valley (at least) needs a lot of software engineers right now.
One other thing I learned from yoga that people may not realize -- sitting on your butt means you're curving your lower back to do so. You want to be sitting at a 90-degree angle, back and pelvis vertical, and upper legs horizontal, which means you're actually supposed to be sitting mostly on the backs of your thighs. If you can't bend your thighs in your pelvic socket to 90degrees -- which I think may be more of an issue for men than women -- you'll want to improve your hip socket flexion.
And me without mod points. Yoga helped me out in the same way, and I'm feeling better than I did when younger for various reasons. The question I have to ask is if the human body was physically adapted to physical activity in a variety of postures, what makes us think that 40 hours in a restricted position in a chair for a week won't produce effects that require some corresponding weekly or at least periodic activity to reverse those effects?
My decision is NEVER based on the number of users worldwide.
Well, you have to use a browser that will work on the websites you visit -- websites designed based on the number of users on various browsers worldwide (or locally). Those numbers filter through a couple layers and eventually come down to force your browser choice, unless visiting and properly viewing the websites you're interested in isn't a priority.
If either Chrome or Firefox (or Safari or Opera for that matter) take share away from IE, websites are under more and more pressure to design to standards, which is better for anyone learning, hiring for, or consuming websites. It almost doesn't matter which slots Chrome or Firefox claim as long as:
the percentage of website visits from standards-compliant browsers increases
the number of browsers (especially ones with fast development cycles) increase, splitting the market and requiring coding and design to the common denominator
Google has the marketing muscle to push Chrome, and the goal of preferring standards compliance to proprietary lock-in in their browser. If Chrome increases marketshare by mostly taking away from IE users and pulls ahead of Firefox, it seems that it would be better for Firefox by improving the standards landscape across the web.
One of my friends is running the no-cost Crashplan friends-and-family option and has already started backing up his (distributed) family's stuff. Crashplan is multiplatform (Java) as well.
As it was I wanted to work for NASA as an aerospace engineer, so I did - and I've got some really cool memories and patches of missions I was in charge of, and a $100k in a 401k that's gone nowhere for the last decade.
And a life spent moving humanity forward and making a difference in the big picture, rather than pushing electronic representations of currency around. You actually went hiking and camping instead of staying indoors and playing Monopoly, and current and future generations will build on your work to do the same. Not many people have the ability to do that, and while governments can print money, they can't print vision, talent, and discipline.
"Pismo Technic" has something they call a file audit package that lets you mount ISOs, zips, etc. Per their web page, it's been available for systems since win2k, and I've never had a problem with it when I needed to use it on Windows XP and above.
In the end of the movie, it was pretty evident that while the different tribes were busy fighting amongst themselves and making sacrifices to god, the Europeans were busy making ships and advanced weapons. I don't mean to put the native americans down - just to say that they were on a completely different timescale versus their eventual conquerors. I think that has less to do with genetics and more to do with population density. The Europeans were on the fast track to technology because the competition to survive demanded it.
Native Americans? What you're describing sounds like the current political situation in the US. Add 'Chinese' to 'Europeans' and the rest pretty much holds as well.
From Peter Watts' Ambassador, a quote that's stuck with me and that's made its way into Blindsight, also available in its full form on the same page:
In benign environments technology is a stunted, laughable thing, it can't thrive in cultures gripped by belief in natural harmony. What need of fusion reactors if food is already abundant, the climate comfortable? Why force change upon a world which poses no danger?
In short, would you say most technology or formal civilization comes from tropical, comfortable climates, or from colder and harsher ones -- Silicon Valley being an exception:-).
I know lots of people here like to parrot the nonsense that profit profit profit now now now is legally and ethically the sole objective of publicly traded corporations, but that's simply hogwash.
This doesn't hold with Las Vegas casinos, if you believe this animated anecdote from Derek Sivers. I also thought that originally corporate charters were about protecting the public interest?
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I guess physicists get a photo shoot and a puff piece for the same achievement, but we cannot be all held to the same standard.
Well, duh.
Prisoners should be making big rocks into little rocks.
Well in that case, problem solved!
Actually, if snopes is to be trusted, they didn't emphasize the 'blueprint' part as much, but were willing to go along with when the media spun it as part of their rock star image, so they didn't correct people when they assumed that.
Here's the description with a little bit of accompanying history with attribution.
But technically, wouldn't breakfast be the first meal of the day? So ... he shouldn't be fed after midnight?
Of course, there's always this approach.
Too bad there's no estimates on when they plan to turn this mutha out...
Not really on topic, but I'm really sorry to hear that you lost both parents at the same time, and when you were that young. At least you have a CS degree -- silicon valley (at least) needs a lot of software engineers right now.
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Handy posture cartoon.
And me without mod points. Yoga helped me out in the same way, and I'm feeling better than I did when younger for various reasons. The question I have to ask is if the human body was physically adapted to physical activity in a variety of postures, what makes us think that 40 hours in a restricted position in a chair for a week won't produce effects that require some corresponding weekly or at least periodic activity to reverse those effects?
Not just fun, but also useful.
My decision is NEVER based on the number of users worldwide.
Well, you have to use a browser that will work on the websites you visit -- websites designed based on the number of users on various browsers worldwide (or locally). Those numbers filter through a couple layers and eventually come down to force your browser choice, unless visiting and properly viewing the websites you're interested in isn't a priority.
Google has the marketing muscle to push Chrome, and the goal of preferring standards compliance to proprietary lock-in in their browser. If Chrome increases marketshare by mostly taking away from IE users and pulls ahead of Firefox, it seems that it would be better for Firefox by improving the standards landscape across the web.
Marshall Brain came up with a couple scenarios in Manna, an interesting read. People don't sit in the dark and starve, but something comparable.
The possibilities are endless.
Marshall Brain described two possibilities of the social impact of ubiquitous robots in Manna -- definitely worth a read.
Really? I'd think the agency would be pretty popular among tea baggers.
One of my friends is running the no-cost Crashplan friends-and-family option and has already started backing up his (distributed) family's stuff. Crashplan is multiplatform (Java) as well.
As it was I wanted to work for NASA as an aerospace engineer, so I did - and I've got some really cool memories and patches of missions I was in charge of, and a $100k in a 401k that's gone nowhere for the last decade.
And a life spent moving humanity forward and making a difference in the big picture, rather than pushing electronic representations of currency around. You actually went hiking and camping instead of staying indoors and playing Monopoly, and current and future generations will build on your work to do the same. Not many people have the ability to do that, and while governments can print money, they can't print vision, talent, and discipline.
"Pismo Technic" has something they call a file audit package that lets you mount ISOs, zips, etc. Per their web page, it's been available for systems since win2k, and I've never had a problem with it when I needed to use it on Windows XP and above.
In the end of the movie, it was pretty evident that while the different tribes were busy fighting amongst themselves and making sacrifices to god, the Europeans were busy making ships and advanced weapons. I don't mean to put the native americans down - just to say that they were on a completely different timescale versus their eventual conquerors. I think that has less to do with genetics and more to do with population density. The Europeans were on the fast track to technology because the competition to survive demanded it.
Native Americans? What you're describing sounds like the current political situation in the US. Add 'Chinese' to 'Europeans' and the rest pretty much holds as well.
In benign environments technology is a stunted, laughable thing, it can't thrive in cultures gripped by belief in natural harmony. What need of fusion reactors if food is already abundant, the climate comfortable? Why force change upon a world which poses no danger?
In short, would you say most technology or formal civilization comes from tropical, comfortable climates, or from colder and harsher ones -- Silicon Valley being an exception :-).
Are the others soon to follow?
I know lots of people here like to parrot the nonsense that profit profit profit now now now is legally and ethically the sole objective of publicly traded corporations, but that's simply hogwash.
This doesn't hold with Las Vegas casinos, if you believe this animated anecdote from Derek Sivers. I also thought that originally corporate charters were about protecting the public interest?
Yup! Here you go. Be sure to bring some kind of, er, protection.