There are (commercial) programs which can legally play encrypted DVDs on Linux. Now if you were looking for free (as in beer) or open-source programs, that's a separate matter...
I don't know about "99+%"... and of course the president isn't really decided by plurality anyway. However... some states do have a runoff system for state and local offices. I recall runoffs in Texas when I was living there. Of course the President has to be handled according to the US Constitution (the electoral college and all that), the state has no say in that.
Of course non-prescription use is ethical - if it is used for its intended purpose. Just because a drug doesn't require a prescription doesn't make it ineffective. And abuse is abuse, whether or not the drug requires a prescription. The summary (and presumably the article) isn't really about whether a drug happens to require a prescription or whether a drug is actually prescribed (I suppose physicians can still subscribe drugs that don't require a prescription), but whether use of a drug outside of its specific intent is ethical.
I mean, I can easily imagine that parents of a child with ADHD might hear of some non-prescription alternative, do suitable research to determine if it is likely to be effective, what an appropriate dosage for their child would be, and of course compare costs - and decide to switch to the non-prescription alternative. What, exactly, would be unethical in that?
Wouldn't the amount of C-14 have been the same for humans and Neanderthals at any given time? Therefore while we may be unclear exactly when they went extinct (presuming Bigfoot is not a surviving branch of Neanderthals), we should have a pretty good idea in the overlap. Unless they use different dating methods for different events, this really shouldn't change the general picture.
It occurs to me... how large are normal crystals? Has anyone ever heard of a crystal a light-second across? If the size of a time crystal corresponds to the size of normal crystals... picoseconds? Not very practical.
We haven't had truly anonymous ballots in years here - sort of. When you show up at the poll, they write down your ballot number next to your name. Of course no one is supposed to be able to get that information and correlate it to the actual votes, but just saying... doesn't matter if they use bar codes or human-readable numbers, as long as no one actually can obtain both the ballots and the lists.
In that sense, no different from all this "anonymous usage data" and other statistics that most software or websites collect. Yes, it could be abused and in fact is hard to prove it is not being abused (as long as they don't tell you about it). Sorry, no idea how to solve that one...
Presumably that would require curved lenses (parabolic) reflecting the actual image to the wearer, like they use in those "holo sights" for firearms. Not impossible obviously, but not something from a standard ski goggle either.
Obviously focusing on a nearby object would be something of an issue though.
Opera Mobile supports video and camera via getUserMedia (mentioned in another reply, I see)... no idea of gamepad support though, as it's still pretty rare on phones and tablets.
As a mathematician who sometimes programs, much of my code is indecipherable to non-mathematicians and any degree of commenting won't change it. If you don't understand why there's an exponential function in that code for assigning probabilities to an event in the simulation, dumping an entire textbook into the comments won't explain it to you. Can I assume at least a certain level of knowledge so I don't have to write a textbook? Well, at the time, no - I knew the expertise of the person I was coding for, he simply couldn't grasp that. (He had told me so himself, too.)
If I'd been writing for people who have my non-programming knowledge, I wouldn't need to comment on that particular algorithm at all, it's pretty basic in the field. Should there be some comment left for people who don't know that discipline? Okay, sure - but honestly it won't explain it to them.
Personally, one of the first things I did on my XP system was change that infernal blue color scheme. Olive is so much easier on the eyes. (Yes, changed the wallpaper too.) Likewise I found my android tablet never went dark enough so I turned off Auto brightness - even in daylight I prefer it darker than they set it. (Even at minimum brightness I wish I could turn it down further at night.)
In general, no one forces you to buy bad software. (The exception being bad software updates, where the update may be forced on you.) Hence I don't see an issue if new software is not what you were expecting - only if updates are bad.
Currently, I'm sure you could sue for either intentional or negligent damages if you can prove that the developer knew or should have known that a bug could lead to monetary loss,,, but then again, with closed source software how could you prove that?
In an enterprise setting I could see a demand for a certain degree of liability as part of the reason you buy a certain software - and as the reason you pay hundreds of dollars for said software. If it's some program you bought for $10 (or got free online) to save money then it's partly your fault for choosing to use the no name software over its enterprise competitor. But if you paid for "enterprise" software over a cheaper non-enterprise software then you should expect that it really is suitable for enterprise use and should be able to sue if for some reason - including bugs - it is not (and the company doesn't resolve the issue suitably before you ever get to court, of course).
Depends on if you assume solar activity has been relatively consistent over time. If solar activity has decreased or increased substantially over time, then radioactive dating could be wrong. If solar activity has been relatively stable over the last million years, then dates within that period are probably pretty good. Even a mathematician can see that.
Don't be silly, it's based on neutrinos. Not that we have an effective way to block those either.
Radioactive decay generally produces neutrinos (or anti-neutrinos) as one of the decay products, hitting the nucleus with the opposite particle (anti-neutrinos if the decay would produce neutrinos, etc.) would tend to promote the decay, though obviously the nucleus is a very small target and (anti-)neutrinos do not interact strongly in any case. But if high solar activity produces an excess of neutrinos, those decays which would normally produce anti-neutrinos will be promoted, or vice versa. (Not my field hence I'm not sure which is actually involved here.)
Apple's shenanigans?? Apple would make a competitor's tablet look better? Oh, you mean in court, sorry, never seen anything from the Apple/Samsung case(s).
Actually no, I was thinking of the ones I've seen in Wal-mart, though checking now I see the Acer is really 1280x800 also... though the Coby is 1024x768. (Not that I'd buy a 10" tablet with such low resolution, but I have seen it in the store.)
All the 10" Android tablets seem to be 4:3 aspect, it's only the 7" tablets which are "widescreen" - and that actually allows them to fit better in a pocket... Looking online I do see some 10" widescreen and likewise 7" 4:3 tablets, but I'd venture the two common sizes will standardize on 10" 4:3 and 7" widescreen.
(Very few widescreen tablets or monitors are actually 16:9. The 1280x800 ones are 16:10, the 1024x600 ones are 128:75 (16:9 would be 128:72).
The person below with the 3D printer where you could actually disassemble the pieces might be onto something, but with too many colors transparency in a strictly solid model isn't enough to help.
In that sense, 4 categories would lead to 15 regions total. But as we can't really see in 3 dimensions - we can't see the inside and outside at the same time, we only see in stereo - this is not an improvement. (A computer could, in a theoretical sense, represent a large number of categories in any number of dimensions. It just can't present the results to you in more than stereo 2D.)
If you read TFA, it looks like it was a mistake by UPS, so why even mention Amazon? (And Amazon doesn't allow listing of guns anyway.) The article says the box was addressed to a gun dealer in PA... not an error by Amazon or the vendor, but by the shipper.
Though I do wonder what was in the other box. The photo shows a big shipping box with the rifle box on top of it, there's still another box in the shipping box...
I do that to cashiers all the time - in fact, last time was about an hour ago. Some I have to tell what the change would be, this one got it correct.
I have a problem with most of the discussion prior to this post though... too many people are talking about high school algebra when the article was obviously about university algebra (which really means Precalculus in context). Admittedly many students are coming to college without the proper prerequisites in high school and unfortunately many colleges will still be forced to teach remedial math even if pre-calc were no longer a prerequisite... but everyone who talked about Algebra 2 in context of the article is wrong. (Not that the math in elementary/high school discussion isn't interesting, even for a former math professor like me - it's just not related to the original article.)
And for the record, business majors are required to take Calculus too, but it's a calculus with no trig functions. "Math for Business, Life and Social Sciences" we called it at my school, course numbers Math 124 and 125 (yes, 2 semesters of Calculus). How this guy got to be a Poli Sci prof without it is beyond me.
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There are (commercial) programs which can legally play encrypted DVDs on Linux. Now if you were looking for free (as in beer) or open-source programs, that's a separate matter ...
I don't know about "99+%" ... and of course the president isn't really decided by plurality anyway. However ... some states do have a runoff system for state and local offices. I recall runoffs in Texas when I was living there. Of course the President has to be handled according to the US Constitution (the electoral college and all that), the state has no say in that.
Of course non-prescription use is ethical - if it is used for its intended purpose. Just because a drug doesn't require a prescription doesn't make it ineffective. And abuse is abuse, whether or not the drug requires a prescription. The summary (and presumably the article) isn't really about whether a drug happens to require a prescription or whether a drug is actually prescribed (I suppose physicians can still subscribe drugs that don't require a prescription), but whether use of a drug outside of its specific intent is ethical.
I mean, I can easily imagine that parents of a child with ADHD might hear of some non-prescription alternative, do suitable research to determine if it is likely to be effective, what an appropriate dosage for their child would be, and of course compare costs - and decide to switch to the non-prescription alternative. What, exactly, would be unethical in that?
Wouldn't the amount of C-14 have been the same for humans and Neanderthals at any given time? Therefore while we may be unclear exactly when they went extinct (presuming Bigfoot is not a surviving branch of Neanderthals), we should have a pretty good idea in the overlap. Unless they use different dating methods for different events, this really shouldn't change the general picture.
It occurs to me ... how large are normal crystals? Has anyone ever heard of a crystal a light-second across? If the size of a time crystal corresponds to the size of normal crystals ... picoseconds? Not very practical.
Probably meant "a la" (sorry, my keyboard doesn't have the proper accents for French) which mean like or similar to.
We haven't had truly anonymous ballots in years here - sort of. When you show up at the poll, they write down your ballot number next to your name. Of course no one is supposed to be able to get that information and correlate it to the actual votes, but just saying ... doesn't matter if they use bar codes or human-readable numbers, as long as no one actually can obtain both the ballots and the lists.
In that sense, no different from all this "anonymous usage data" and other statistics that most software or websites collect. Yes, it could be abused and in fact is hard to prove it is not being abused (as long as they don't tell you about it). Sorry, no idea how to solve that one ...
Of course now we need to find out if it will be safe after the zombie apocalypse!
Presumably that would require curved lenses (parabolic) reflecting the actual image to the wearer, like they use in those "holo sights" for firearms. Not impossible obviously, but not something from a standard ski goggle either.
Obviously focusing on a nearby object would be something of an issue though.
Opera Mobile supports video and camera via getUserMedia (mentioned in another reply, I see) ... no idea of gamepad support though, as it's still pretty rare on phones and tablets.
As a mathematician who sometimes programs, much of my code is indecipherable to non-mathematicians and any degree of commenting won't change it. If you don't understand why there's an exponential function in that code for assigning probabilities to an event in the simulation, dumping an entire textbook into the comments won't explain it to you. Can I assume at least a certain level of knowledge so I don't have to write a textbook? Well, at the time, no - I knew the expertise of the person I was coding for, he simply couldn't grasp that. (He had told me so himself, too.)
If I'd been writing for people who have my non-programming knowledge, I wouldn't need to comment on that particular algorithm at all, it's pretty basic in the field. Should there be some comment left for people who don't know that discipline? Okay, sure - but honestly it won't explain it to them.
84% of Sol's light, and likewise 1%. Combined, they still have 15% less light than Sol at the same distance.
Not possible given the orbital periods. Both planets orbit outside the orbits of the twin stars. (That's the definition of circumbinary, also.)
Personally, one of the first things I did on my XP system was change that infernal blue color scheme. Olive is so much easier on the eyes. (Yes, changed the wallpaper too.) Likewise I found my android tablet never went dark enough so I turned off Auto brightness - even in daylight I prefer it darker than they set it. (Even at minimum brightness I wish I could turn it down further at night.)
In general, no one forces you to buy bad software. (The exception being bad software updates, where the update may be forced on you.) Hence I don't see an issue if new software is not what you were expecting - only if updates are bad.
Currently, I'm sure you could sue for either intentional or negligent damages if you can prove that the developer knew or should have known that a bug could lead to monetary loss ,,, but then again, with closed source software how could you prove that?
In an enterprise setting I could see a demand for a certain degree of liability as part of the reason you buy a certain software - and as the reason you pay hundreds of dollars for said software. If it's some program you bought for $10 (or got free online) to save money then it's partly your fault for choosing to use the no name software over its enterprise competitor. But if you paid for "enterprise" software over a cheaper non-enterprise software then you should expect that it really is suitable for enterprise use and should be able to sue if for some reason - including bugs - it is not (and the company doesn't resolve the issue suitably before you ever get to court, of course).
Depends on if you assume solar activity has been relatively consistent over time. If solar activity has decreased or increased substantially over time, then radioactive dating could be wrong. If solar activity has been relatively stable over the last million years, then dates within that period are probably pretty good. Even a mathematician can see that.
Don't be silly, it's based on neutrinos. Not that we have an effective way to block those either.
Radioactive decay generally produces neutrinos (or anti-neutrinos) as one of the decay products, hitting the nucleus with the opposite particle (anti-neutrinos if the decay would produce neutrinos, etc.) would tend to promote the decay, though obviously the nucleus is a very small target and (anti-)neutrinos do not interact strongly in any case. But if high solar activity produces an excess of neutrinos, those decays which would normally produce anti-neutrinos will be promoted, or vice versa. (Not my field hence I'm not sure which is actually involved here.)
Apple's shenanigans?? Apple would make a competitor's tablet look better? Oh, you mean in court, sorry, never seen anything from the Apple/Samsung case(s).
Actually no, I was thinking of the ones I've seen in Wal-mart, though checking now I see the Acer is really 1280x800 also ... though the Coby is 1024x768. (Not that I'd buy a 10" tablet with such low resolution, but I have seen it in the store.)
All the 10" Android tablets seem to be 4:3 aspect, it's only the 7" tablets which are "widescreen" - and that actually allows them to fit better in a pocket ... Looking online I do see some 10" widescreen and likewise 7" 4:3 tablets, but I'd venture the two common sizes will standardize on 10" 4:3 and 7" widescreen.
(Very few widescreen tablets or monitors are actually 16:9. The 1280x800 ones are 16:10, the 1024x600 ones are 128:75 (16:9 would be 128:72).
The person below with the 3D printer where you could actually disassemble the pieces might be onto something, but with too many colors transparency in a strictly solid model isn't enough to help.
Can you see the internals of your four spheres?
In that sense, 4 categories would lead to 15 regions total. But as we can't really see in 3 dimensions - we can't see the inside and outside at the same time, we only see in stereo - this is not an improvement. (A computer could, in a theoretical sense, represent a large number of categories in any number of dimensions. It just can't present the results to you in more than stereo 2D.)
Of those listed above, I'd have to say Cthulu.
If you read TFA, it looks like it was a mistake by UPS, so why even mention Amazon? (And Amazon doesn't allow listing of guns anyway.) The article says the box was addressed to a gun dealer in PA ... not an error by Amazon or the vendor, but by the shipper.
Though I do wonder what was in the other box. The photo shows a big shipping box with the rifle box on top of it, there's still another box in the shipping box ...
The proxy is the man in the middle, nothing to it.
I do that to cashiers all the time - in fact, last time was about an hour ago. Some I have to tell what the change would be, this one got it correct.
I have a problem with most of the discussion prior to this post though ... too many people are talking about high school algebra when the article was obviously about university algebra (which really means Precalculus in context). Admittedly many students are coming to college without the proper prerequisites in high school and unfortunately many colleges will still be forced to teach remedial math even if pre-calc were no longer a prerequisite ... but everyone who talked about Algebra 2 in context of the article is wrong. (Not that the math in elementary/high school discussion isn't interesting, even for a former math professor like me - it's just not related to the original article.)
And for the record, business majors are required to take Calculus too, but it's a calculus with no trig functions. "Math for Business, Life and Social Sciences" we called it at my school, course numbers Math 124 and 125 (yes, 2 semesters of Calculus). How this guy got to be a Poli Sci prof without it is beyond me.