At a basic level, a transparent battery frees up any design limitation regarding placement of battery becuse of opaqueness. It's one less thing to worry about regarding translucent design.
That freedom can possibly mean more efficient use of space, or to design a battery right into something translucent, to give an example. It's freedom, don't knock freedom.
The US is slowly falling from grace. And that's a good thing. I'll rejoice the day when you're broke enough to leave the rest of the world alone, not there yet, but soon.
Of course the difference here is that the government should represent the people and the people's interest, and letting the people know about the research is normal.
If your representatives are willing to block something vaguely important like this, what are they hiding which is really important?
- and concluded that, what Neil Tyson says is what all humans who haven't been educated in basic science do, i.e. make an argument from ignorance.
It's the normal human thing to do when you don't know, because as he says, not knowing is somehow wrong, but an ignorant assumption is somehow right to our primitive minds.
There's a lot I can thank the basic education, and one of them is not to trust arguments from ignorance, even though they didn't specifically teach it... It would be though nice if they did teach people about the normal everyday human fallacies we do, just so we can live better.
One question regarding google+, let's say I make a group, and we post in it, then I remove "bob" from the group, write "jesus, bob's a retard isn't he?" then add him back in, will he: a) see the message because you're allowing everyone within a group to see all messages retroactively, or b) he won't see the message because he wasn't allowed at the time of writing to see it.
Modern society is based around the "society of experts", where only a few people provide for the basic needs of the many (food, infrastructure) and the rest deal with either important services (maintainance, power-needs, health, education, waste-disposal) and the not-so important services (selling crap)
there's this obsession that selling some piece of shit to millions of people is the greatest things you can do, which is just not true. We need to eat and we need a shelter, without those we're doomed, everything else is gravy.
There's also this paranoia that replacing people with computers or AI will be damaging to society, and that's also not true. Humans can be trained to do almost any job necessary, or can invent a way to get a job done, as a resource we're limited, and better used as experts rather than as mundane work force.
There's also this delusion that people will have free time because they don't have to do anything, that's also untrue. We will always need to justify our existense as worthy to the society, if we don't, we get lost, like the homeless.
They must realize, that you can do this with facebook already.. right? You can sort your friends into groups, then select which group you'd like a comment to be posted in. You can even have it just for yourself, if you just want a note-to-self.
You can also have groups, so.. why?
If I can use the google tool with my facebook login, or openID, or google login (i.e. no need to register for something) and I can add facebook friends, or openID friends, or emails, or keep it open but have a simple password to a conversation (and a link I give people), then great, I might check it out.
You fail to see that any encrypted data, on anothers server means they can brute-force crack whatever you want to encrypt, check this story: http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/05/2028256/Cheap-GPUs-Rendering-Strong-Passwords-Useless - to see why you can't trust anyone with your data, even if encrypted as long as they can use their equipment freely to crack it..
Wave is actually a great idea, just poorly implemented.
They should have sticked with developing it as a protocol for a few more years, and streamlined it so it's fast, simple, and resource-light so even mobiles can easily use it in a mobile browser.
Then when they built applications on top of it which make the internet instant instead of write-send-write-send, they would really have something new and exciting.
Completely agree, his example of STV is quite accurate as conforming well to a certain game design, but being horribly boring place for a normal person.
You will never condition a person to like doing "kill X Y times" especially not as many times as nesingwary missions. The only reason a person does it is because of some other gain, it'll never be because of enjoyment. Killing something once, that has uniqueness and interest, killing something which spawns again after a couple of minutes has no enjoyment, especially when it's more than 3.
"Sales people" who do not know everything about what they are selling, as much as engineers who deal with the item from day to day shouldn't be selling.
the Sales people idea is just stupid anyway, as people don't like the idea of talking to someone who is being literally bribed by the company with percentages to sell as much as he possible can.
If you want to utilize the trust of engineers, I'd reduce the sales people to the job of organizing meetings between companies and your engineers, so a good secretary could do it.
If you want a real salesperson, then you would have to get some engineers to research into what companies are good targets for their services/goods, and organize meetings to see whether what they have to offer is valuable to the companies.
The thing is, homosexual people are born homosexual, they're wired like the other sex to fancy their own sex.
Like this article says, there's a difference between men and women regarding how they get turned on sexually, and men are probably the same as other men, gay or not, (i.e. one thing is enough, both get turned on both physically and psychologically) but what it is that turns them on, there the cues differ.
So it's normal for a nomal male to find it repulsive because straight men are born straight, we have cues to tell us what we should like, and cues what we shouldn't and these cues are different for homosexuals.
So although the vegetarian analogy is a "learned cue" it probably is quite similar. .
Actually, I will play that dos stuff tomorrow or some other time in the future.
I've recently started playing XCOM: Enemy unknown after I saw a friend play it. It was one of those games which I was too young to understand when I first tried it, but now I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Solid gameplay, great atmosphere, and random factor from hell makes it a blast to play. The 320x200 graphics look great on my 30" monitor;D
The old games are not just playable because of nostalgia value, many of them are playable because they're great games with interesting game-mechanics.
Even though IANAL, I know enough to know you're confusing the issue.
"The container store" - is a company, and its name is trademarked as a company. You can own a store with a different name with containers and reference it as a container store, but it won't be "THE" container store.
If apple had called its app store "The apple store" - no one would have touched it. Apple though is stupid in thinking that trademarking a generic term means they own the term, and they don't.
If they rename themselves to "app store" or "the app store" - Amazon would still be able to reference their store as an app store because they're referencing to what the store contains.
How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of SCIENCE after all IT has been through.!
IT lost her aunt, IT went through a divorce. IT had two fuckin kids.
ITs husband turned out to be a user, a cheater, and now IT’s going through a custody battle. All you people care about is.. readers and making money off of IT.
I don't think chess has any real benefits except to pass time with a friend doing something fun. Learning chess trains spatial calculations constricted to game mechanics, as well as memorisation of movements.
If you want to train the brain, I'd much rather see more music training in schools. Learning music teaches a lot more senses, i.e. rythm, tonal acuity, reading (notes), dexterity with an implement, memory.
I'm probably missing a few things from both, but learning music I'd believe gives someone more brain-training, if that's the goal.
Well, I think complaining about mileage for an electric car, but not for gasoline cars _on a track_ is stupid, because it's unfairly complaining about a car not having a never-ending supply of fuel in one type, and not the other.
If you really want that to be the complaint, please for every car you put on the track, measure the mileage you get on the track, let's see how many yards you get from a zonda or bugatti.
The complaint is that it takes a long time for the battery to recharge, just framed stupidly to ask the question again.
If Tesla is sure that they have a good car that can go 211 miles per charge, I'd throw up a challenge to Top Gear, Make the challenge be that they use the car as their normal car for a week, see how it goes.
the problem will still be slow recharge time, like everyone knows, but it would be interesting whether the capacity of the cars is enough for their day-to-day driving or not.
I don't have any mod points, so I'll just post: Well said.
It's not about everything being a game, it's about simulating in a fun, engaging way the skills you need to be at your best at a job/hobby you (hopefully) have a desire to be good at.
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At a basic level, a transparent battery frees up any design limitation regarding placement of battery becuse of opaqueness. It's one less thing to worry about regarding translucent design.
That freedom can possibly mean more efficient use of space, or to design a battery right into something translucent, to give an example. It's freedom, don't knock freedom.
If they beat them following his plans.. then that's HIS plan defeating the opposing army, so it's HIS victory isn't it?
The US is slowly falling from grace. And that's a good thing. I'll rejoice the day when you're broke enough to leave the rest of the world alone, not there yet, but soon.
Of course the difference here is that the government should represent the people and the people's interest, and letting the people know about the research is normal.
If your representatives are willing to block something vaguely important like this, what are they hiding which is really important?
I watched a youtube video the other day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfAzaDyae-k
And read about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
- and concluded that, what Neil Tyson says is what all humans who haven't been educated in basic science do, i.e. make an argument from ignorance.
It's the normal human thing to do when you don't know, because as he says, not knowing is somehow wrong, but an ignorant assumption is somehow right to our primitive minds.
There's a lot I can thank the basic education, and one of them is not to trust arguments from ignorance, even though they didn't specifically teach it. .. It would be though nice if they did teach people about the normal everyday human fallacies we do, just so we can live better.
One question regarding google+, let's say I make a group, and we post in it, then I remove "bob" from the group, write "jesus, bob's a retard isn't he?" then add him back in, will he:
a) see the message because you're allowing everyone within a group to see all messages retroactively, or
b) he won't see the message because he wasn't allowed at the time of writing to see it.
Which is it?
Modern society is based around the "society of experts", where only a few people provide for the basic needs of the many (food, infrastructure) and the rest deal with either important services (maintainance, power-needs, health, education, waste-disposal) and the not-so important services (selling crap)
there's this obsession that selling some piece of shit to millions of people is the greatest things you can do, which is just not true. We need to eat and we need a shelter, without those we're doomed, everything else is gravy.
There's also this paranoia that replacing people with computers or AI will be damaging to society, and that's also not true. Humans can be trained to do almost any job necessary, or can invent a way to get a job done, as a resource we're limited, and better used as experts rather than as mundane work force.
There's also this delusion that people will have free time because they don't have to do anything, that's also untrue. We will always need to justify our existense as worthy to the society, if we don't, we get lost, like the homeless.
They must realize, that you can do this with facebook already.. right? You can sort your friends into groups, then select which group you'd like a comment to be posted in. You can even have it just for yourself, if you just want a note-to-self.
You can also have groups, so.. why?
If I can use the google tool with my facebook login, or openID, or google login (i.e. no need to register for something) and I can add facebook friends, or openID friends, or emails, or keep it open but have a simple password to a conversation (and a link I give people), then great, I might check it out.
You fail to see that any encrypted data, on anothers server means they can brute-force crack whatever you want to encrypt, check this story: http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/05/2028256/Cheap-GPUs-Rendering-Strong-Passwords-Useless
- to see why you can't trust anyone with your data, even if encrypted as long as they can use their equipment freely to crack it..
Wave is actually a great idea, just poorly implemented.
They should have sticked with developing it as a protocol for a few more years, and streamlined it so it's fast, simple, and resource-light so even mobiles can easily use it in a mobile browser.
Then when they built applications on top of it which make the internet instant instead of write-send-write-send, they would really have something new and exciting.
Use the 2 minute rule. If it takes less than 2 minutes of your time, then go for it, if it takes more, then delete it.
Completely agree, his example of STV is quite accurate as conforming well to a certain game design, but being horribly boring place for a normal person.
You will never condition a person to like doing "kill X Y times" especially not as many times as nesingwary missions. The only reason a person does it is because of some other gain, it'll never be because of enjoyment. Killing something once, that has uniqueness and interest, killing something which spawns again after a couple of minutes has no enjoyment, especially when it's more than 3.
I'd recommend Tiddlywiki, a wiki in a single html file you can keep on your desktop or on a USB stick or wherever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcC2l8zioIw
School can be free-form and cater to individual learning. It's based on trust, and in America, there is no trust nowhere.
Geeks are people who enjoy learning and tinkering and exploring, they just do it on their own terms.
"Sales people" who do not know everything about what they are selling, as much as engineers who deal with the item from day to day shouldn't be selling.
the Sales people idea is just stupid anyway, as people don't like the idea of talking to someone who is being literally bribed by the company with percentages to sell as much as he possible can.
If you want to utilize the trust of engineers, I'd reduce the sales people to the job of organizing meetings between companies and your engineers, so a good secretary could do it.
If you want a real salesperson, then you would have to get some engineers to research into what companies are good targets for their services/goods, and organize meetings to see whether what they have to offer is valuable to the companies.
nice response.
The thing is, homosexual people are born homosexual, they're wired like the other sex to fancy their own sex.
Like this article says, there's a difference between men and women regarding how they get turned on sexually, and men are probably the same as other men, gay or not, (i.e. one thing is enough, both get turned on both physically and psychologically) but what it is that turns them on, there the cues differ.
So it's normal for a nomal male to find it repulsive because straight men are born straight, we have cues to tell us what we should like, and cues what we shouldn't and these cues are different for homosexuals.
So although the vegetarian analogy is a "learned cue" it probably is quite similar.
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No but we know the devil, and he doesn't like people playing outside his own hell.
I'm suspicious, looks like a normal TV with a very small asian woman beside it.
Actually, I will play that dos stuff tomorrow or some other time in the future.
I've recently started playing XCOM: Enemy unknown after I saw a friend play it. It was one of those games which I was too young to understand when I first tried it, but now I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Solid gameplay, great atmosphere, and random factor from hell makes it a blast to play. The 320x200 graphics look great on my 30" monitor ;D
The old games are not just playable because of nostalgia value, many of them are playable because they're great games with interesting game-mechanics.
Even though IANAL, I know enough to know you're confusing the issue.
"The container store" - is a company, and its name is trademarked as a company. You can own a store with a different name with containers and reference it as a container store, but it won't be "THE" container store.
If apple had called its app store "The apple store" - no one would have touched it. Apple though is stupid in thinking that trademarking a generic term means they own the term, and they don't.
If they rename themselves to "app store" or "the app store" - Amazon would still be able to reference their store as an app store because they're referencing to what the store contains.
*Ahem*
LEAVE SCIENCE ALONE!
How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of SCIENCE after all IT has been through.!
IT lost her aunt, IT went through a divorce. IT had two fuckin kids.
ITs husband turned out to be a user, a cheater, and now IT’s going through a custody battle. All you people care about is.. readers and making money off of IT.
*end scene*
Interesting point.
Interesting point.
I don't think chess has any real benefits except to pass time with a friend doing something fun. Learning chess trains spatial calculations constricted to game mechanics, as well as memorisation of movements.
If you want to train the brain, I'd much rather see more music training in schools. Learning music teaches a lot more senses, i.e. rythm, tonal acuity, reading (notes), dexterity with an implement, memory.
I'm probably missing a few things from both, but learning music I'd believe gives someone more brain-training, if that's the goal.
Well, I think complaining about mileage for an electric car, but not for gasoline cars _on a track_ is stupid, because it's unfairly complaining about a car not having a never-ending supply of fuel in one type, and not the other.
If you really want that to be the complaint, please for every car you put on the track, measure the mileage you get on the track, let's see how many yards you get from a zonda or bugatti.
The complaint is that it takes a long time for the battery to recharge, just framed stupidly to ask the question again.
If Tesla is sure that they have a good car that can go 211 miles per charge, I'd throw up a challenge to Top Gear, Make the challenge be that they use the car as their normal car for a week, see how it goes.
the problem will still be slow recharge time, like everyone knows, but it would be interesting whether the capacity of the cars is enough for their day-to-day driving or not.
I don't have any mod points, so I'll just post: Well said.
It's not about everything being a game, it's about simulating in a fun, engaging way the skills you need to be at your best at a job/hobby you (hopefully) have a desire to be good at.