The patriot act allows law enforcement to seize your stuff-any stuff, not just your computers, without any reason whatsoever and hold you indefinitely. Maybe you should add that part of the patriot act to the wikipedia article because I sure don't see it there.
an arbitrary numeric string can be found somewhere in a transcendental number... or maybe i'm the fool? I don't know if you're the fool, but what you say is not true in general about transcendental numbers. For example, the first number proved to be transcendental, Liouville's number, has only '1' and '0' in its decimal expansion.
EncycBrit has its flaws, yes, but at least its article on Space is solid enough to write a decent paper. Sorry dude, but I think the mods are too young to remember this.
Yes, the term has been misused a lot lately. A device can only really and truly be "bricked" if you have intimately introduced it to a significant amount of anti-matter.
In any other situation, you can always recover the device's full functionality simply by rearranging its constituent atoms and free electrons appropriately.
And of course what's really reaching a limit is not the CPU's, but our ability to use them effectively. I think there are about three issues being confused here. One is progress in fabrication techniques. Another is the semiconductor physics at small scales. The third is systems architecture.
I agree that this last problem is currently the most immediately pressing one. But that doesn't mean that the first two won't also be major problems in the near future, as we are approaching the limits of our current techniques.
Obviously tech people dislike Fiorina. She was well known for layoffs and (support of) outsourcing. But as far as business goes, she did leave the reinvented HP in a good position in 2005.
The 10-year chart isn't too useful because of the dot-bomb. You'll see the same kind of movement for MSFT, LNUX, and other at-the-time-hot tech stocks.
We get a Sagan once a generation, and to remain above the fray he had to go so far as refusing to denounce astrology. That was his choice, but I think more smart people should denounce astrology, and other dumb things, and I will support them when they do, even if they get attacked. Check out the AAAS, which the article is about. They actively support the study of 'parapsychology' (i.e., the study of psionics, ESP, etc.) as a legitimate science. Will you support smart people who denounce the AAAS?
But this is proof that the editorship of Wikipedia is solid and independent enough to correct problems in their data, even if put there by a high-profile person. Well, of course Wikipedia has no ethical problems. Any ethical problems that have been reported are quickly fixed.
But perhaps you ask: what about the problems that just haven't been reported yet? Well, there aren't any, silly! I mean, of course there were problems in the past, but they've all been taken care of now. Everything is perfectly totally 100% okay.
However, these people saw several red crustaceans crawling around on the beach. They were so ingrained in societies view of what was "moral" and appropriate, that they thought the lobsters where disgusting creatures, and stayed away from them. Charming story. However:
1. Lobsters do not crawl around on beaches. You might see a dead one wash up, but even this is not common.
2. Lobsters are not red, unless they have been cooked.
When I was a little kid, being a scientist was one of the coolest things you could be. Hell, I used to play with chemistry sets so I could pretend to be a scientist. No, today "Science" is under such constant attack I'm not surprised that people would rather become consultants to some corporation or move overseas to work. If chemistry sets, model rockets, and amateur astronomy have truly become unfashionable to kids, I think it would much more to do with Steve Urkel than with anything that creationists have ever done.
However, I doubt that science activities are actually strictly uncool to kids these days. The problem is that they are competing against video games, cable TV, and the internet.
In the context of this article, "U. S. publication" is supposed to mean "science and engineering (S&E) articles published by U.S.-based authors". For example, if a researcher is a green-card-holding Norwegian research scientist employed at a US institution, doing work supported by the US government, then the benefits of the research accrue somewhat more to the US scientific research establishment than to other countries.
So far as US research is concerned, it doesn't matter whether the individual scientists are from the US or Colombia or Italy. What you'd want to know is how much research is being done by US institutions like Berkeley or Princeton, and how much is done outside the US, at places like Oxford or l'École Polytechnique de Paris.
See the 'Methodological Issues' section of the report for more details on how the counting is defined.
In the US, research has first of all be "pleasant" to whoever funds it. Even more "pleasant combinations". I am "successful" the most. Perhaps after the biggest "party" you will understanding the Orz and I can showing you other "levels". It is funny enough. Do not forget to "enjoy the sauce"!!!
There's a lot of variant texts of Shakespeare's plays, because he apparently never intended them to be published. The differences are largest for the "bad quartos", which are basically low quality bootlegs, but it's true to some degree for of all of the primary sources. Between the sources that scholars work with, and the book form that you read in high school, there has been a significant amount of editing.
For an author like Jane Austen, the editing is much less substantial. If I'm not mistaken, her novels were published after the present style of capitalization became popular for printed works in England. There may be some regularization of spelling and punctuation going on, but I suspect it's pretty minor. The editions I've seen retain at least some of the original spellings in words such as "surprize", so perhaps it is so throughout the text.
Read the article. The features they describe are ones we read about here on slashdot (apple design patents). Ones for rotary gestures and such. This does not mean it's an iphone or a nano. I'll note that if you have watched the multi-touch demos from that guy whose famous for them (what's his name?) and who consults for apple, his MENUs are not bars but sectored circles and you call them up with a spiral gesture. Dialing a phone with a rotary gesture? What a ridiculous idea.
How does Richard Armitage leaking a covert CIA operative's identity to Robert Novak in July 2003 exculpate Scooter Libby from leaking the same operative's identity to Judith Miller on June 23, 2003? I'll see your 'Scooter Libby on June 23', and I'll raise you a 'Richard Armitage on June 13'.
According to http://eh.net/hmit/exchangerates/pound.php, the last time you could buy more than two dollars for a pound was 1975. Maybe try waiting until the viagra has worn out before spouting off drivel.
Actually, the person you're replying to is correct. Try daily exchange rates rather than yearly averages.
Good god. They're probably also responsible for the rise of the idiocy of the "evolution debate." I imagine a science-illiterate, god-trusting nation of ignoramuses would make it far easier to sell cigarettes.
For more on this topic, try Consider Her Ways by John Wyndham. Men have been wiped out by a gender-specific plague, but an all-female caste society lives on, and considers itself a utopia.
It's a longish short story, and available online for free over here. (Legitimately, no less.)
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Yes, the term has been misused a lot lately. A device can only really and truly be "bricked" if you have intimately introduced it to a significant amount of anti-matter.
In any other situation, you can always recover the device's full functionality simply by rearranging its constituent atoms and free electrons appropriately.
Of course BD offers advantages, but even if BD were priced comparably to DVD, the selection just won't be there yet by the end of the year.
The only way I could imagine them selling at the same rate is if DVD sales drastically drop off.
I agree that this last problem is currently the most immediately pressing one. But that doesn't mean that the first two won't also be major problems in the near future, as we are approaching the limits of our current techniques.
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Obviously tech people dislike Fiorina. She was well known for layoffs and (support of) outsourcing. But as far as business goes, she did leave the reinvented HP in a good position in 2005.
The 10-year chart isn't too useful because of the dot-bomb. You'll see the same kind of movement for MSFT, LNUX, and other at-the-time-hot tech stocks.
But perhaps you ask: what about the problems that just haven't been reported yet? Well, there aren't any, silly! I mean, of course there were problems in the past, but they've all been taken care of now. Everything is perfectly totally 100% okay.
Take a gander at: abiogenic petroleum origin.
Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on your point of view), almost all the evidence is against abiogenic terrestrial petroleum.
Ah, the well-known "Grand Master Planet Eaters" theory.
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1. Lobsters do not crawl around on beaches. You might see a dead one wash up, but even this is not common.
2. Lobsters are not red, unless they have been cooked.
However, I doubt that science activities are actually strictly uncool to kids these days. The problem is that they are competing against video games, cable TV, and the internet.
In the context of this article, "U. S. publication" is supposed to mean "science and engineering (S&E) articles published by U.S.-based authors". For example, if a researcher is a green-card-holding Norwegian research scientist employed at a US institution, doing work supported by the US government, then the benefits of the research accrue somewhat more to the US scientific research establishment than to other countries.
So far as US research is concerned, it doesn't matter whether the individual scientists are from the US or Colombia or Italy. What you'd want to know is how much research is being done by US institutions like Berkeley or Princeton, and how much is done outside the US, at places like Oxford or l'École Polytechnique de Paris.
See the 'Methodological Issues' section of the report for more details on how the counting is defined.
and I can showing you other "levels". It is funny enough. Do not forget to "enjoy the sauce"!!!
There's a lot of variant texts of Shakespeare's plays, because he apparently never intended them to be published. The differences are largest for the "bad quartos", which are basically low quality bootlegs, but it's true to some degree for of all of the primary sources. Between the sources that scholars work with, and the book form that you read in high school, there has been a significant amount of editing.
For an author like Jane Austen, the editing is much less substantial. If I'm not mistaken, her novels were published after the present style of capitalization became popular for printed works in England. There may be some regularization of spelling and punctuation going on, but I suspect it's pretty minor. The editions I've seen retain at least some of the original spellings in words such as "surprize", so perhaps it is so throughout the text.
Begun, the Clone Wars have.
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According to http://eh.net/hmit/exchangerates/pound.php, the last time you could buy more than two dollars for a pound was 1975. Maybe try waiting until the viagra has worn out before spouting off drivel.
Actually, the person you're replying to is correct. Try daily exchange rates rather than yearly averages.
The dollar traded for more than two pounds for a few days in September 1992.
This was a very famous economic event. I'm disappointed that you don't know about it, and chose to insult and harangue instead.
Cigarette smoking is more common in Western Europe than in the United States.
For more on this topic, try Consider Her Ways by John Wyndham. Men have been wiped out by a gender-specific plague, but an all-female caste society lives on, and considers itself a utopia.
It's a longish short story, and available online for free over here. (Legitimately, no less.)