zomgsh -1: DisagreeAndWishToCensor!
Seriously, I respect your opinion, but I always found the immense detail to be that much more fun as an exercise in how precisely I could match his view of things in his world - and he did a damned fine job of bringing *his* world to you. I also enjoy reading works that are designed for the reader to fill in the gaps, but Tolkienn wanted control of his world.
When I was a child, my brother, cousins and I would all sit around my grandparents' family room and our grandfather would act as a storyteller. He'd do the seemingly impossible and incorporate largely disparate items or people that each of the grandchildren wanted in the story. The way he narrated in those tales felt very much like Tolkienn's narrative voice in The Hobbit (and to a lesser extent, the LoTR) although he'd never read the works of Tolkienn. Later, my mother bought me the Hobbit, and that was when my love affair with the Tolkienn world began./reminiscence
And I never *ever* figured out how to tell when Tolkien intended 'ere' to mean 'before', 'after', 'where', 'when', 'here', 'there' or various other possibilities...
It's fairly simple. " ere " simply means " before " or " sooner than " (some say that it can also be used for " rather than " but it sounds stilted and I still replace it with " before " in those instances). With apostrophe - " 'ere " - you are seeing the use of slang and therefore you kind of have to pronounce it for yourself to ensure that you are reading correctly. Example:
" 'ere now, 'oo are you? " has an apostrophe and, therefore, is easily distinguishable from
" I shall return, ere the sun rise. "
"Ere" is used improperly if you ever see it used for "after" or "when".
People are way more adaptable than you give them credit for being. If people can learn to use objects with only the power of the brain, then they can interpret new signals as well. It doesn't have to be seeing the way *we* see, to be seeing. I wouldn't be surprised if they oriented to being able to see in new spectra with greater ease than a sighted person.
Yeah, then we can do things bass-ackwards like always. Look, planning for eventualities is a good thing (Especially when it becomes feasible). As we all know - whether or not it is practical, there will always be that one or two individuals who will do it as soon as they can. These are the same people who always end up flying under the radar, making trouble for everyone later.
Hmm... well, I most certainly agree some extensive testing should be done - after all, engineering is *never* "plug'n'play." The same is true for physics, biology and chemistry. There are very few things that work exactly as calculated in a real world environment. (Anyone who doesn't test and account for outside factors is not worthy of their engineer status.)
I won't even quibble with you on the definition of "math." Even addition, in the world I was born into, counts as math.
He said "manipulation of," not "definition of."
Mathematics is not intended to describe the shapes of the symbols that are being manipulated for the use of said science, although it *can* be a functionality thereof; QED, geometry is not necessarily the intended use of mathematics.
It makes it cheaper, but you can certainly have sophisticated turbine aircraft without the math.
Your opening argument has no supporting statement whatsoever. You don't refer to a single instance of making sophisticated aircraft without math in this whole post. When you make a radical statement such as that, you really should back yourself up with a source. But, then again, this *is* slashdot
For a second there I thought you said "brains." I was afraid this would become another zombie thread. I guess it's going to the down the toilet instead.
All waves have an amplitude. Here is a simple site for illustration.
I'm not an expert on electro-magnetic radiation propagation, but iirc when light propagates, each pulse contains two waves traveling orthogonally. The lead or lag of one of these fields is the result of polarization mode dispersion in optical fiber.
In most situations, someone wearing a shirt, tie, and slacks will get a lot more respect than someone wearing jeans and a t-shirt.
There, fixed that for you. I tend to have to dress well at all times, and when a friend of mine, who makes more than I do, and I go out for lunch (he dresses down most of the time) the wait staff usually addresses me as the one making the decisions. It lends a certain air of authority in most situations.
Maybe I didn't read this correctly. Are you telling us that people that use marijuana for its medicinal properties move to coke or speed for the medicinal properties thereof also?
When I meet someone that's graduated to that, I'll let you know. I've only known one person who "graduated" to another drug. That was "E". He had issues with substance abuse anyway (alcoholic, always high, purchased prescription drugs on the street and so forth). He also died pretty quick from said abuse.
Most of the weed smokers I've known use it only on occasion and have no interest in the different sort of high produced by the aforementioned drugs.
That is the exact same argument as me saying that Nero was a nice guy. You people are guessing and conjecturing that he was a madman and a general jerk because of what some "record" of him says. How do you know that record is accurate? sarcasm -> It's all guesswork and conjecture to me.
Scientists use a different type of record and are constantly updating the record with new information, tossing out stuff that is found to be incorrect, and generally working towards piecing together a big indisputable proof. That's a ton of work, but it *is* actually showing evolutionary change.
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zomgsh -1: DisagreeAndWishToCensor! Seriously, I respect your opinion, but I always found the immense detail to be that much more fun as an exercise in how precisely I could match his view of things in his world - and he did a damned fine job of bringing *his* world to you. I also enjoy reading works that are designed for the reader to fill in the gaps, but Tolkienn wanted control of his world.
/reminiscence
When I was a child, my brother, cousins and I would all sit around my grandparents' family room and our grandfather would act as a storyteller. He'd do the seemingly impossible and incorporate largely disparate items or people that each of the grandchildren wanted in the story. The way he narrated in those tales felt very much like Tolkienn's narrative voice in The Hobbit (and to a lesser extent, the LoTR) although he'd never read the works of Tolkienn. Later, my mother bought me the Hobbit, and that was when my love affair with the Tolkienn world began.
" 'ere now, 'oo are you? " has an apostrophe and, therefore, is easily distinguishable from
" I shall return, ere the sun rise. "
"Ere" is used improperly if you ever see it used for "after" or "when".
Yeah, the subjunctive is ill-advised here.
Confirmed to be the person that knows how to use Google.
People are way more adaptable than you give them credit for being. If people can learn to use objects with only the power of the brain, then they can interpret new signals as well. It doesn't have to be seeing the way *we* see, to be seeing. I wouldn't be surprised if they oriented to being able to see in new spectra with greater ease than a sighted person.
Yeah, then we can do things bass-ackwards like always. Look, planning for eventualities is a good thing (Especially when it becomes feasible). As we all know - whether or not it is practical, there will always be that one or two individuals who will do it as soon as they can. These are the same people who always end up flying under the radar, making trouble for everyone later.
And those are much more cost prohibitive.
IIRC, polygraph tests are illegal in most places of work because they don't work, not because of ethical concerns.
Hmm... well, I most certainly agree some extensive testing should be done - after all, engineering is *never* "plug'n'play." The same is true for physics, biology and chemistry. There are very few things that work exactly as calculated in a real world environment. (Anyone who doesn't test and account for outside factors is not worthy of their engineer status.) I won't even quibble with you on the definition of "math." Even addition, in the world I was born into, counts as math.
He said "manipulation of," not "definition of." Mathematics is not intended to describe the shapes of the symbols that are being manipulated for the use of said science, although it *can* be a functionality thereof; QED, geometry is not necessarily the intended use of mathematics.
For a second there I thought you said "brains." I was afraid this would become another zombie thread. I guess it's going to the down the toilet instead.
"eth"? tsk...
ardnmo
Or is it the Miniature Giant Space Hamsters?
Ted Huntington, is that you?
All waves have an amplitude. Here is a simple site for illustration.
I'm not an expert on electro-magnetic radiation propagation, but iirc when light propagates, each pulse contains two waves traveling orthogonally. The lead or lag of one of these fields is the result of polarization mode dispersion in optical fiber.
Mod this guy up some more!
Someone mod the parent up. This post deserves much better than its current rating.
Maybe I didn't read this correctly. Are you telling us that people that use marijuana for its medicinal properties move to coke or speed for the medicinal properties thereof also?
When I meet someone that's graduated to that, I'll let you know. I've only known one person who "graduated" to another drug. That was "E". He had issues with substance abuse anyway (alcoholic, always high, purchased prescription drugs on the street and so forth). He also died pretty quick from said abuse.
Most of the weed smokers I've known use it only on occasion and have no interest in the different sort of high produced by the aforementioned drugs.
Beard?
Sounds more like the Elder Scrolls Online.
That is the exact same argument as me saying that Nero was a nice guy. You people are guessing and conjecturing that he was a madman and a general jerk because of what some "record" of him says. How do you know that record is accurate? sarcasm -> It's all guesswork and conjecture to me.
Scientists use a different type of record and are constantly updating the record with new information, tossing out stuff that is found to be incorrect, and generally working towards piecing together a big indisputable proof. That's a ton of work, but it *is* actually showing evolutionary change.
Oh, please. Breed a setter and a beagle for me.