Haggis was originally banned on account of the sheep lungs in it. Witch doctors at the FDA were afraid it would spread tuberculosis. In the midst of a ton of depressing news, this is a story to celebrate. It represents another wound to the nannyocracy etouffee which is oppressing an ever larger part of the earth's population. I urge everyone to go out and sample real haggis - it is freaking awesome, especially with a good single malt whisky.
To be fair you only need to avoid yellow corn. Blue corn is all right. Corn syrup shouldn't contain genetic material or plant-produced pesticides but it has high levels of mercury anyway. Buying organic is the best you can do. Incidentally, Monsanto & the rest have lobbied to prevent food producers from labeling their product "GMO-free".
How in Hell did they screw up the/. comment system so thoroughly? The status widget says I have 147 full comments & 419 hidden comments and there doesn't seem to be any way to get them except for the ones on the first page by clicking on them individually. My browsing level is set to -1 so I should be getting just about everything, right?
Well, that's what I meant. "Earth' circumference" is a reasonable concept that is usable, despite the fact that Earth is not a regular sphere, nor is its surface smooth.
Modelling the Earth as a sphere is a better model than the flat Earth model, but not as good as modeling it as an integrated ellipse.
WTF is an "integrated ellipse"? You make it sound like a line integral. I think from the context the term you are looking for is "oblate spheroid" or "oblate ellipsoid".
Oh, and you brain-dead modders? I'm sure there's a bright future in liberal arts for you.
I can't see why. The Higgs was postulated purely to give mass to certain fundamental particles. With this theory, a particle's mass depends only on the entropy it adds to a system..
Oh! And the ambient "temperature". This paper is truly subversive.
I can't see why. The Higgs was postulated purely to give mass to certain fundamental particles. With this theory, a particle's mass depends only on the entropy it adds to a system..
I smell a Nobel prize in this guy's future. His idea has all the advantages of a stochastic electrodynamics (SED) theory while neatly avoiding the fatal time-reversal flaw in SEDs. Above all, the theory is simple and compelling.
As an alternative (or prelude) to the second group of subjects mentioned, you should take a look at geometric or Clifford algebra. It's far simpler and more intuitive. If you're going to do 3D graphics, study the ins & outs of quaternions. Using quaternion algebra, it's easy to do sophisticated operations with a bare minimum of computation.
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That being said, there are a hell of a lot more uses for a LAN than internet access. Can you imagine a LAN party at 1Gbps?
Haggis was originally banned on account of the sheep lungs in it. Witch doctors at the FDA were afraid it would spread tuberculosis. In the midst of a ton of depressing news, this is a story to celebrate. It represents another wound to the nannyocracy etouffee which is oppressing an ever larger part of the earth's population. I urge everyone to go out and sample real haggis - it is freaking awesome, especially with a good single malt whisky.
Seems the more healthy and well off we are, the less kids we have.
That's true. As soon as I could afford broadband my chances of having kids went waaay down.
This is funny at first, but why the hell not? Provide universal high speed internet & see what happens to the birth rate.
Saddam's life is non-existent you moron.
Since when is a simple statement of truth and an expression of the resultant outrage "flamebait"?
So how would adding unique text to the UserAgent make you *less* recognizable ?
It's about lowering entropy bits, not adding them !!
You're not thinking it through. After posting that on slashdot, how many firefox browsers have the "unique" DROP TABLES appended to their UA string?
Where's my +1 Ultra-cynical?
My intuition says the lines are caused by some type of botnet activity.
Please, modders, mod parent insightful.
Yeah he does. All the plotted traffic is inbound. And yeah, botnet seems the most likely explanation.
Strange how they don't appear in the first half of the graph though. I didn't know that botnets took the weekends off.
botnets don't take the weekends off, but owners of infected machines are likely to turn off their computers over the weekend.
This is a lot more than guesswork. They've already sequenced the auroch DNA, so they'll know when they've got it right.
Actually in this case it was the second thing everyone said. The first (usually taking second place) was, "I wonder what they taste like."
Tasty aurochses, we wants 'em, precious!
Sorry if someone else posted this: The World According To Monsanto
To be fair you only need to avoid yellow corn. Blue corn is all right. Corn syrup shouldn't contain genetic material or plant-produced pesticides but it has high levels of mercury anyway. Buying organic is the best you can do. Incidentally, Monsanto & the rest have lobbied to prevent food producers from labeling their product "GMO-free".
What, nobody ever explained lobbyests and corruption to you?
How in Hell did they screw up the /. comment system so thoroughly? The status widget says I have 147 full comments & 419 hidden comments and there doesn't seem to be any way to get them except for the ones on the first page by clicking on them individually. My browsing level is set to -1 so I should be getting just about everything, right?
Not Blood Music. Eon. Blood Music is the one about grey goo.
Well, that's what I meant. "Earth' circumference" is a reasonable concept that is usable, despite the fact that Earth is not a regular sphere, nor is its surface smooth.
Modelling the Earth as a sphere is a better model than the flat Earth model, but not as good as modeling it as an integrated ellipse.
WTF is an "integrated ellipse"? You make it sound like a line integral. I think from the context the term you are looking for is "oblate spheroid" or "oblate ellipsoid".
Oh, and you brain-dead modders? I'm sure there's a bright future in liberal arts for you.
Is Higgs Boson still needed?
I can't see why. The Higgs was postulated purely to give mass to certain fundamental particles. With this theory, a particle's mass depends only on the entropy it adds to a system..
Oh! And the ambient "temperature". This paper is truly subversive.
The most fundamental force in the universe is not gravity - it's SLACK!
Is Higgs Boson still needed?
I can't see why. The Higgs was postulated purely to give mass to certain fundamental particles. With this theory, a particle's mass depends only on the entropy it adds to a system..
I smell a Nobel prize in this guy's future. His idea has all the advantages of a stochastic electrodynamics (SED) theory while neatly avoiding the fatal time-reversal flaw in SEDs. Above all, the theory is simple and compelling.
conscious open-heart surgery
conscious open-heart surgery? Are you telling me they've been doing this operation in their sleep for 40 years? Oh, wait..
As an alternative (or prelude) to the second group of subjects mentioned, you should take a look at geometric or Clifford algebra. It's far simpler and more intuitive. If you're going to do 3D graphics, study the ins & outs of quaternions. Using quaternion algebra, it's easy to do sophisticated operations with a bare minimum of computation.