Nice attempt to discredit the climate science by implication, though.
I wouldn't necessarily assume that. There are so many things he could have been attempting to discredit - why do you assume climate change?
For instance, it is pretty sensible to respond to climate change by increasing energy efficiency wherever possible. Worst case scenario is improved productivity, competitiveness, and profit.
You need to explain what you mean by "increasing energy efficiency" then. If we are talking about product design, then increasing energy efficiency could very well mean LESS productivity, competitiveness, and profit. If you are talking about lifestyle changes, well, bicycling to work rather than driving would definitely decrease my productivity, and moving closer to work would decrease my profit.
Taking away coke addiction won't do a darn thing for 99.9999% of all coke users. If they don't want off it? then either they refuse to take it, or are given it without consent and can legitimately claim abuse and sue. Either way it won't stop the problem that caused them to want it in the first place.
That's what I think is the most interesting aspect of this: Does it really cure the addiction (the craving) or does it just make it impossible to satisfy the craving? If you keep taking the drug in vain trying to get high, will your vaccine-enhanced immune system keep the drug from killing you? Will it prevent whatever causes the dependency? I admit, I don't really understand the chemistry of cocaine addiction beyond the vague references in the article.
"pret - a - porter" means "off the shelf" clothing, as opposed to custom made. It looks like they forgot to space between the words. "pret-a-porter" was in italics, but (since this IS slashdot) you may have been using lynx or w3m and not seen that. If you have a graphical browser, the pictures are very helpful at understanding the fabric structure.
I don't know what a "ballistic mosquito net" is, but a "ballistic net" is a net that can be "shot" at something. I'm wondering if this is some military term that has nothing to do with mosquitoes.
I have heard that some stores use the cents part of the price to indicate a category of pricing. For example, $x.99 is regularly priced, $x.98 is sale priced, $x.97 is clearance priced, etc.
Today only! Closeout prices! Everything in the store is 3 cents off! That's right, 3 cents off! That's lower than sale price! Even lower than clearance sale price! Don't miss this amazing opportunity!
If it's just a simple buffer overflow, then shouldn't execute disable (NX bit for AMD, XD for stupid Intel who won't follow established standards) bit catch it for XP SP2 and other systems?
Good question. I was thinking the same thing. Someone mod parent up... and can anyone provide an answer?
I'm sure I speak for most IT professionals when I say when something comes along that's better for the particular job than Windows is, we'll switch eventually. This isn't religion, just practical and professional common-sense.
But don't forget that often when deciding that Windows is "the best tool for the job", the overriding factor is, "that's what all of our customers run". So the ubiquity of Windows can be a barrier to trying new things.
I think we need to change error messages to things that are technically accurate, with hyperlinks to wikipedia.
Instead of Windows saying "This network has limited or no connectivity" and leaving the user to puzzle out exactly what the hell that means, it should just say "Unable to obtain an [[IP address]] from the [[DHCP]] server: operation timed out."
(user clicks link)
"The page cannot be displayed."
... this is like the old joke about the network admin only reachable by email.
On the subject of maglev windmills- I fail to see any real savings here. Windmills are hard to turn because they're doing work (ie creating power with a generator), the actual friction involved is very low.
Great point. Plus, that's a vertical axis wind turbine they show, which is about 1/2 as efficient (in terms of power per area swept). Maybe the point is that they can build a much bigger turbine using maglev technology than they could otherwise, but is that somehow better than smaller, MORE efficient HAWTs?
Sure that's an impressive thing but I'd rather not hear about it unless it's radius grows larger than the sun. In the meantime, marvel over a comet with a long tail of crap
They are saying the comet's coma is bigger than the sun, not it's nucleus or it's "long tail of crap".
Seriously, though, while your suspicion of their motives is not entirely unfounded, this probably won't help them crack anything. The best thing about a good encryption algorithm is that just knowing the algorithm isn't enough to allow you to crack it.
Back up the truck. American's recognize that personality is an unneeded and costly add on for robots.
That's a good point. He talks about how much more Japan embraces anthropomorphic (or "animal-morphic"?) robots. Japan also has ATM machines with color screens that depict big-eyed female cartoon bank tellers bowing to you and female voices talking to you. It's just a different culture. It sounds like the author just REALLY, REALLY likes realistic robots and doesn't understand why some people don't value them as much.
Seriously, what kind of kid eats non-edible beads when they are 10 years old?
Although the article uses the word "ingested", I wonder if putting a bead in your mouth would do the same thing. It's not the entire bead, but the "glue" coating that has the chemical. Still sounds like a silly thing to do, but kids are often silly. Maybe the beads taste good - didn't I just see a post where someone said GHB tastes salty?
Well, since we're talking key setups, I use an odd one. First of all, I'm a lefty, so I have my right hand on the keyboard. I use u and j for forward and back, and i and k for left and right (respectively). It isn't "intuitive", and I probably can't "zigzag" as well as if left and right were 2 separate fingers, but I've gotten used to it and it "frees up" my third finger for, say, grenades in TFC or "sprint" in HL2. I think it started with trying to find a good control scheme for Descent. I settled on one where each finger controlled a different axis of movement.
People, en masse, are indeed stupid. (Should I reference Nietzsche?)
It depends on what people you're talking about. On slashdot, people, en masse, are condescending elitists. Now don't get angry. It's not like I called anyone stupid.
If a terrorist is going to plant a bomb somewhere, isn't it obvious wisdom to NOT draw attention to it? What kind of dumb-ass does it take to have the knowledge to build a significant bomb, place it without getting caught in the process, but make it horrifyingly obvious that it is a bomb?
I can see the sense in that argument, but once I'd gotten the idea of it being a bomb in my head, I probably would have started asking around about it. You assume someone "smart enough" to build and plant a bomb would have disguised it better. I would say someone crazy enough to build and plant the bomb might not care. Maybe they just want to scare everyone, or maybe they want to target the bomb squad rather than you.
Couldn't you argue that more layers = more possibilities for attack vectors?
I've never heard of a firewall bug creating a new attack vector, though in theory I guess it could happen. Still, I'd argue that multiple firewalls is safer. If there are two firewalls between you and the bad guys / bots, they would have to get past BOTH firewalls.
"The odds of these tracks being made by different individuals that just happen to be moving in the same direction, without their tracks stepping on one another, are small,"
It goes way beyond that. This proves that they were marching 6 abreast. If some were walking behind the others, the footprints would still have overlapped. The theory of caveman dinosaur cavalry formations has never had any fossil evidence... until now!
Not exactly; that's just a byproduct of their desire to replace all of the Mac's transistors with tubes.
Here we go! You may have just started the equally hot "digital amp" vs "tube amp" debate!
IANA audiophile, but I have friends that are musicians and I've been with them at recording sessions. Some studios still record to 24 track tape and use tubes wherever possible because of the "warmer" sound. I couldn't understand physically why you couldn't produce any analog effect digitally if the frequency is high enough (I mean, they're sampling at like 96khz on the studio tracks). There may be some benefit to analog I just don't appreciate, but to my untrained ear the digital recordings sound better.
I wonder if some digital remasters of old albums suffer from the same problems as old movies converted to digital - i.e., degradation of the signal on the stored analog medium (probably that wide magnetic tape). Most of the stuff I've compared was recently recorded music.
I suspected from the summary that this idea was mainly about political topics like evolution or global warming where the author assumes he has science backing him. That was confirmed reading the article. The author is Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson (not that that means anything - I just thought it was interesting), but no scientist himself. His criticism of those that doubt evolution is based on appeal to higher authority ("all those scientists").
I don't think there would be much point in having such a debate. If the questions are about the "scientific issues" - those questions will certainly be asked in the debates anyway. If they are general scientific questions, what would it prove? It might just turn out that a candidate who is a global warming skeptic and evolution denier knows more than the other candidates about science in general. Would that change anyone's mind about who they support? Would it change anyone's mind on those issues?
Oxen are basically a type of cattle, so it's not inaccurate to say cow-powered even if they are ox powered. The ones that do work are usually castrated - they are also called "steers". Regarding how much power they generate, it's angular velocity times torque. These are pretty strong animals, so they don't have to move very fast to generate a lot of power.
I only know about this because my next door neighbor is a rodeo performer and has such animals in his yard. The steers make me nervous, because they have big horns and they just stare at me while I go back and forth in front of them riding my big, red "toro" lawnmower. Learning that they were castrated made me feel a little better, since that generally means they're not as aggressive.
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I wouldn't necessarily assume that. There are so many things he could have been attempting to discredit - why do you assume climate change?
For instance, it is pretty sensible to respond to climate change by increasing energy efficiency wherever possible. Worst case scenario is improved productivity, competitiveness, and profit.You need to explain what you mean by "increasing energy efficiency" then. If we are talking about product design, then increasing energy efficiency could very well mean LESS productivity, competitiveness, and profit. If you are talking about lifestyle changes, well, bicycling to work rather than driving would definitely decrease my productivity, and moving closer to work would decrease my profit.
That's what I think is the most interesting aspect of this: Does it really cure the addiction (the craving) or does it just make it impossible to satisfy the craving? If you keep taking the drug in vain trying to get high, will your vaccine-enhanced immune system keep the drug from killing you? Will it prevent whatever causes the dependency? I admit, I don't really understand the chemistry of cocaine addiction beyond the vague references in the article.
I feel generous today so I googled it for you:
Okay, I'm confused. Are we Terran or Protoss?
Today only! Closeout prices! Everything in the store is 3 cents off! That's right, 3 cents off! That's lower than sale price! Even lower than clearance sale price! Don't miss this amazing opportunity!
Good question. I was thinking the same thing. Someone mod parent up ... and can anyone provide an answer?
But don't forget that often when deciding that Windows is "the best tool for the job", the overriding factor is, "that's what all of our customers run". So the ubiquity of Windows can be a barrier to trying new things.
Instead of Windows saying "This network has limited or no connectivity" and leaving the user to puzzle out exactly what the hell that means, it should just say "Unable to obtain an [[IP address]] from the [[DHCP]] server: operation timed out."
(user clicks link)
"The page cannot be displayed."
... this is like the old joke about the network admin only reachable by email.
Great point. Plus, that's a vertical axis wind turbine they show, which is about 1/2 as efficient (in terms of power per area swept). Maybe the point is that they can build a much bigger turbine using maglev technology than they could otherwise, but is that somehow better than smaller, MORE efficient HAWTs?
They are saying the comet's coma is bigger than the sun, not it's nucleus or it's "long tail of crap".
Did you know that many atheists believed black people were "less evolved"?
... prosthetics control your thoughts!
Or one of my favorites: "When they're out to get you, paranoid is just common sense!"
Admitting you have a problem is the first step ...
Seriously, though, while your suspicion of their motives is not entirely unfounded, this probably won't help them crack anything. The best thing about a good encryption algorithm is that just knowing the algorithm isn't enough to allow you to crack it.
I thought the always ended with the bullet point: "have fun"
That's a good point. He talks about how much more Japan embraces anthropomorphic (or "animal-morphic"?) robots. Japan also has ATM machines with color screens that depict big-eyed female cartoon bank tellers bowing to you and female voices talking to you. It's just a different culture. It sounds like the author just REALLY, REALLY likes realistic robots and doesn't understand why some people don't value them as much.
Although the article uses the word "ingested", I wonder if putting a bead in your mouth would do the same thing. It's not the entire bead, but the "glue" coating that has the chemical. Still sounds like a silly thing to do, but kids are often silly. Maybe the beads taste good - didn't I just see a post where someone said GHB tastes salty?
Well, since we're talking key setups, I use an odd one. First of all, I'm a lefty, so I have my right hand on the keyboard. I use u and j for forward and back, and i and k for left and right (respectively). It isn't "intuitive", and I probably can't "zigzag" as well as if left and right were 2 separate fingers, but I've gotten used to it and it "frees up" my third finger for, say, grenades in TFC or "sprint" in HL2. I think it started with trying to find a good control scheme for Descent. I settled on one where each finger controlled a different axis of movement.
It depends on what people you're talking about. On slashdot, people, en masse, are condescending elitists. Now don't get angry. It's not like I called anyone stupid.
If a terrorist is going to plant a bomb somewhere, isn't it obvious wisdom to NOT draw attention to it? What kind of dumb-ass does it take to have the knowledge to build a significant bomb, place it without getting caught in the process, but make it horrifyingly obvious that it is a bomb?I can see the sense in that argument, but once I'd gotten the idea of it being a bomb in my head, I probably would have started asking around about it. You assume someone "smart enough" to build and plant a bomb would have disguised it better. I would say someone crazy enough to build and plant the bomb might not care. Maybe they just want to scare everyone, or maybe they want to target the bomb squad rather than you.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad do you think the 10 point rating system is.
I've never heard of a firewall bug creating a new attack vector, though in theory I guess it could happen. Still, I'd argue that multiple firewalls is safer. If there are two firewalls between you and the bad guys / bots, they would have to get past BOTH firewalls.
It goes way beyond that. This proves that they were marching 6 abreast. If some were walking behind the others, the footprints would still have overlapped. The theory of caveman dinosaur cavalry formations has never had any fossil evidence ... until now!
Here we go! You may have just started the equally hot "digital amp" vs "tube amp" debate!
IANA audiophile, but I have friends that are musicians and I've been with them at recording sessions. Some studios still record to 24 track tape and use tubes wherever possible because of the "warmer" sound. I couldn't understand physically why you couldn't produce any analog effect digitally if the frequency is high enough (I mean, they're sampling at like 96khz on the studio tracks). There may be some benefit to analog I just don't appreciate, but to my untrained ear the digital recordings sound better.
I wonder if some digital remasters of old albums suffer from the same problems as old movies converted to digital - i.e., degradation of the signal on the stored analog medium (probably that wide magnetic tape). Most of the stuff I've compared was recently recorded music.
I suspected from the summary that this idea was mainly about political topics like evolution or global warming where the author assumes he has science backing him. That was confirmed reading the article. The author is Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson (not that that means anything - I just thought it was interesting), but no scientist himself. His criticism of those that doubt evolution is based on appeal to higher authority ("all those scientists").
I don't think there would be much point in having such a debate. If the questions are about the "scientific issues" - those questions will certainly be asked in the debates anyway. If they are general scientific questions, what would it prove? It might just turn out that a candidate who is a global warming skeptic and evolution denier knows more than the other candidates about science in general. Would that change anyone's mind about who they support? Would it change anyone's mind on those issues?
Oxen are basically a type of cattle, so it's not inaccurate to say cow-powered even if they are ox powered. The ones that do work are usually castrated - they are also called "steers". Regarding how much power they generate, it's angular velocity times torque. These are pretty strong animals, so they don't have to move very fast to generate a lot of power.
I only know about this because my next door neighbor is a rodeo performer and has such animals in his yard. The steers make me nervous, because they have big horns and they just stare at me while I go back and forth in front of them riding my big, red "toro" lawnmower. Learning that they were castrated made me feel a little better, since that generally means they're not as aggressive.