Comment Re:The whole map is... (Score 1) 53
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
H. Beam Piper posited that an archeological team, finding the remains of a reasonably advanced civilization would be able to puzzle out their language(s) based on the fundamentals of math and chemistry in his novel ``Omnilingual'':
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19445
I wonder what he would have thought of this, and how many other useful representations / arrangements there are of the periodic table.
Nice to see I'm not the only one who remembers this. Consider though that they confirmed the information it out from the electron shells and atomic weights since they had already found reasonable guesses for number symbols and "months", the fact that it was arranged as a table was just one of the clues used to decipher it.
(The concept of a periodic table as Rosetta Stone was reused in a Stargate episode and probably elsewhere, but Omnilingual is the oldest one I know of.)
Shame their web UI is stuck in the 1990's along with their mapping technology.
Literally. >_>
But most of the Moore Bond movies are terrible -- except for the Spy Who Loved Me. Somehow, everything worked in that feature.
A lotus that turned into a Submarine! Honestly they could have got away with no plot or actors and just done a documentary about the car. (With a Top Gear voice over of course...)
Now in theaters:
Coming Soon, Monsters N+1 and Despicable Me 2.
Hollywood has a severe idea shortage.
It's the 80's all over again, Jaws, Star Wars, Rocky, Rambo, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Give it a few years.
It's funny, because Hulk/Banner is one of the deepest, most complex characters in all of comic books.
And that's why I spent my early teens reading Heinlein, Asimov and Tolkien (.. among others too numerous to mention) and trying to figure out what was wrong with my classmates who thought that comic books were the bomb.
I respect the medium, but guys... they're comic books...
Regarding James Bond: The 2006 Casino Royale reboot brought the character MUCH closer to the character from the original 1950's Ian Fleming novels that many of us cherish, and have wanted to see on the big screen for decades.
Oh hell yes. As much as I like Roger Moore, he turned James Bond into a clown.
Try grabbing the demo version of RSA, (Rational Software Architect), it's great for turning Java and C++ code into UML models and has a neat way to explore models through diagrams.
The trial version is free for 30 days.
I am sure there are open source tools out there for this, but nothing so complete.
as there's no evidence that the NSA can actually break strong encryption.
That's funny since that's almost half of what they do. The NSA used to be Cray's biggest customer for exactly this purpose.
It may lose a bit in portability (but not to the Microsoft Surface) but when it comes to durability it simply rocks!
CST was my go-to portable device for eons, but I finally got fed up with the refresh rate and have since followed the expected upgrade path:
Clay Tablet -> Paypyrus -> Paper -> Laptop -> iPad
There are many studies showing that the vast majority of people *suck* at multitasking.
But they don't KNOW that they suck at it.
Any driving course will teach you how to avoid 'highway hypnosis'. If you are in a 'sterile driving environment' (ie staring straight ahead) you are doing it wrong. The correct way to fix that is to look at different things (when it is safe to do so). However, you should NOT be dedicating a significant part of your brain to that activity (like by trying to identify a bird or something). If you are texting or phoning you ARE dedicating a significant part of your brain to that activity.
I strongly suspect that what these studies are showing us is that most people are far worse at multi-tasking than they think.
I trust most people to make this distinction.
I don't. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
... and these are the same people trying to ban the practical use of satnav devices while driving, leading to everyone reading maps in traffic.
I am sick of the automotive nanny state.
Way to fail at the take-away message. The point is that anything that distracts you from the act of driving is dangerous.
If your GPS makes it easier for you to drive and pay attention then that's great, if you are constantly taking your eyes off the road to look at the GPS because you're a useless idiot who can't navigate for more than five minutes without one then you shouldn't even have a car, much less a GPS.
Perhaps we're just not restricting driving licenses as much as we should. (Which would probably prevent myself or my Dad from driving....)
Not that easy.
I guess you've never heard of easy transfer.
Yes, it really is that easy. I migrated a friend from an xp desktop to a Win7 laptop (refurbished T500) just a month ago. Plug-em-in, fire it up and go drink the wine and laugh.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca