Once something is discovered, it's almost impossible to put the genie back in the lamp.
"Those things which were thought can never be unthought." There is a great satire on this topic by Duerrenmatt.
High pressure from all that mass, possibly? Just speculating here.
So what does "about to" mean in astronomical terms? Tomorrow? Next year? In a few million years?
If everyone wants something,...
Don't know about "everyone" or even "the youth", but it is my impression that there is indeed a significant group of people who are fed up with the iPhone. Problem is, they don't like Android, blackberries, Meego, or W7, either. They all suffer from some subset of these severe problems: closedness, privacy/security issues, poor performance, poor build quality, poor battery life, being dead.
All in all, I don't think any of the above systems has won the race. Even a completely new player still would have a chance in this market dominated by mediocre offerings.
Same experience here (debian). Have bought 6 bundles so far, only remember 3 games that ran well and where worth it.
0 (zero!) games of the frozenbyte bundle worked. And splot, which was supposed to be included, still hasn't been released.
That said, some games did work & are great. World of Goo, Frozen Synapse, Dungeons of Dredmor.
It's why I will never trust my personal files on the likes of Dropbox and other backup services.
where you get silicon & oxygen in sufficient quantities
Everywhere on the earth's crust?
I don't actually understand enough about the chemistry of Si & C to make a direct comparison, but regarding the issue of bonding strength you mention, wouldn't other factors, like temperature and pressure affect this? Possibly even making Si-based life fitter for some environments?
My (very skilled, very capable, but 8 years younger) lead programmer asked out loud to our team of 4 -- in all sincerity -- "What's the maximum number stored in a byte?"
Se non e vero, e ben trovato.
256 different values, usually representing the numbers from -128 to 127 or from 0 to 255. Java or not -- no way anyone who has looked at a programming language doesn't know it.
Not even "Māori" displays correctly. How come slashdot still doesn't support non ASCII characters? At this point it is probably more of a tradition thing than difficulty of implementation, right?
when education gives certain children such a big advantage as portrayed in the film, the first political party to propose that it be provided as a government-funded service will be elected, and it will be declared a "right"
when health care gives certain children such a big advantage as portrayed in the film, the first political party to propose that it be provided as a government-funded service will be elected, and it will be declared a "right"
Sadly, I don't think it works quite like that. Not everywhere, at least.
It wouldn't be "the world's lightest material" if it was heavier than air. OTOH, it still isn't. It is heavier than many other gases. Or do materials only include solids, now?
To mc, it's eccn mcre iccprcccve thct pccple ccn rccd scntccccs like this one, rccccctructing mcst of the lcst infcrmcticn withcct mcch effcrt.
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I thought so, too.
The sonar thing sounds difficult. Less cool, but potentially easier: use the camera's autofocus. How accurate could that be?
If we do cut off the guns AND legalize drugs to kill a major source of their income, then they'll be hit pretty hard.
I agree. But: neither is going to happen. A far more likely scenario is, I think, that the US declines economically, and with it, the largest market for the cartel's drugs.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
