ITER is/was a white elephant for inertial confinement physicists.
Laser confinement is basically weapons research (refinement of bomb codes, never going to break even in sustained fusion).
Bussard-esq electo-static confinement is cool, but unconfirmed in terms of a possible break-even.
University College London isn't in America.
Can you see why?
We already have airships that carry water. They're called clouds.
Not equivalent. $(...) tries to use the onDOMReady event -- you don't want to wait for all resources (images, etc) to be loaded before JavaScript works, do you?
He didn't say it was equivalent.
He said it still worked. The whole point being that jquery is not in any way vital to the functioning of the original page.
I don't think so. It think it's because a game, like a film or a book, is something to consume and then move on from, i.e. by its very nature it's hard to maintain user and developer interest over years and years, even with the continual addition of new features.
Open source works very well were the software is not an end in itself, but a tool. Eg you don't get bored of vi, you get better and better at it.
I don't care if the laughter is real. I don't need to be told if something is funny. And shows that feel the need to have something "funny" every 10 seconds to justify the regular canned laughter (and yes, it's canned even if it's from the same show but edited and moved around) are invariably as funny as an air-borne Ebola virus outbreak.
Laughter tracks are hideous plain and simple, and should have died sometime in the mid 1980s.
Er, the ipad is selling hugely. This is the start of the era of tablets, so no they are not dead.
The advantage they offer over laptops and netbooks is a tactile natural way to consume media at your leisure i.e. while you're on the sofa.
They won't replace laptops or desktops or anything else, but they're here to stay.
My problem (at least at this point) isn't really with the iPad, but with people who are insisting the iPad is some kind of revolutionary device.
It will be revolutionary to most people. Because most people have never owned a tablet PC, just like most people hadn't owned a smart phone before getting the iPhone.
Apple is refined and locked down revolution for the masses.
I'm more excited about the Microsoft Courier, which looks like a genuinely revolutionary (for everyone) form factor.
It can -- but Gaia's fix will involve the die-off of most or all of humanity.
Not doing too well on that so far, is it?
Enjoy your pseudo-religious "Armageddon of the heathens" fantasies though.
It boils down to people wanting to benefit from pollution (economically) without having to pay the consequences. Unfortunately, they don't see the damage to their health from a dirty environment.
There's zero damage to their health from CO2 output. Because it's not "dirty" or "artificial" or a "pollutant". It's a natural trace gas that plants crave.
People want technology to overcome problems. And it can.
Taxation, totalitarianism, restrictions, and repression don't overcome problems. Innovation does. The world and life aren't zero sum game.
Why can't you hysterical luddites accept that?
Good way to "thrash out" a scientific theory by using a smear word to label those on the other side, which is also applied to certain neo-nazis.
Happiness is twin floppies.
