Perhaps he had some other music playing at the time which he didn't want to stop, so he just asked that the dramatic music be queued to play later on, once his current playlist was over. Sheesh! Why do you take everything so figuratively?
Hey, I have an idea for a great social experiment! It seems like a lot of people are in the same boat as you; thinking that in the best case, voting is some sort of pointless endeavour, and in the worst case it's part of the actual problem. How about throwing a wrench in the entire system by coming up with a way to "democratically" selecting (via technology) which non-"Repubmocrat" candidate that EVERYONE will vote for in the next election?
I'm not too familiar with American politics, so please forgive me if this can't possibly work, but one idea would be to have some sort of app for your Android or iPhone device which determines (based on location) what non-"Repubmocrat" political parties and representatives are in your area, and would give you the option of specifying your preference(s), if any. However, in the back-end, everyone's preferences are compared (and perhaps compared to other external sources, like results from some of the more official political polls, like Gallup). Based on all of this information, popular opinion, etc., one representative would be selected in region such that their chance of winning against the "Repubmocrat" reps in that region is maximized.
This, of course, would all be completely transparent (everyone would know at any one time who the leading candidates were, how their support was faring against the "Repubmocrat" competition, etc) and would be ongoing months before an actual election. News outlets would pick up on it, talking about this popular app which young kids were downloading and which was going to select everyone's vote for them. This news would get even more people (and older people) interested, and app downloads would increase exponentially. Meanwhile, "Repubmocrats" would catch wind of what was going on and would probably download the app themselves to see what the fuss was about. Upon seeing that an election was busy being decided and they aren't even on the candidate list, they would undoubtedly react badly, raving about how the app was a tool of "The Terrorists" to undermine the democratic process and must be stopped, and this reaction would piss off (even more) those that take the app seriously, further solidifying their resolve in actually showing up on election night and voting for the app-selected candidate.
The weeks leading up to the election would be pure chaos, with repubmocrats panicking and shitting cinder-block-sized bricks all over the place, while the 3rd party candidates are suddenly thrust into the spotlight, further increasing their visibility to everyone. Front-page newspaper captions like "Is This Your Next President?" (showing the leader of some currently-unknown political party) might even jar some grandmas and grandpas out of their usual behaviour and might get them thinking about voting for somebody other than a Repubmocrat. The app would of course make available all media related to this fallout, to keep users interested and coming back to the app to see what the latest developments were. Facebook stock would plummet.
The circus would go on until the day of the election, with more scandals, accusations, false promises, lies and tension than usual. This would be a time of pure hell for the American political establishment and all of the corporations that back it, but for everyone else (including the world at large) it would be the best show on earth. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert would have a goldmine of new story ideas; enough to last them until the following election 4 years hence.
On the day of election, the app would remind everyone to go vote and would give them the candidate to vote for. Something magical might happen then and all of the people who used the app might actually show up at polling booths and for the first time in who-knows-how-long vote in a totally new political party which will be impervious to corruption and will transform the US back into a land of rainbows and ponies. Or, maybe the existing tyrants in Washington will find some way to rig the election, preserving their power,
I've started noticing that some iphone and android apps are "bribing" (to use a harsh but accurate term) their users to give 5-star reviews in return for some locked-out functionality in their free app. When I was on iphone I had downloaded some media player app (PlayerXtreme I think it was called) that nagged me every once in a while for this ("Get unlocked pro features if you give us 5 stars on itunes..."), and more recently I've seen this on an app I downloaded off of Google play. Some companies don't need to pay a whole department to write sham reviews, they get their very own users to do it, for free! If this continues, you eventually won't even be able to trust reviews by real users...
Keeping the wrong solution posted just to avoid people seeking out other wrong solutions elsewhere (which they could and probably will do anyway), isn't a solution.
Here's a perfectly stupid question that probably does a good job of highlighting how little I know about this topic: So they are saying time is an emergent property that occurs when only one particle out of a entangled pair is observed. Does this mean that all objects in our universe must therefore be composed of particles that are somehow entangled with other particles located elsewhere (since all of the objects that we observe appear to be subject to time)? Even when we perform measurements at a particle (e.g. atomic) level, individual particles themselves appear subject to time (e.g. radioactive decay, formation or breaking of atomic bonds with other particles, change in energy levels, etc). Does this mean that there isn't such a thing as a non-entangled particle (or they must be exceedingly rare), since all particles that we've ever interacted with change or can be made to change?
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics" --Richard Feynman
Amateurs. They obviously couldn't make it out of the police search area before being caught or finding a pay&spray. They really should have replayed GTA4 to polish up their police dodging skills...
Your comment reminds me of a novel called Blindsight by Peter Watts about an alien species that threatens Earth and humanity despite not having any individual or group consciousness. The author makes a claim that our consciousness slows us down and puts us at a severe disadvantage compared to other species (like the aliens) which can think much faster than us because they don't have an additional processing layer of consciousness to slow them down. I thought it was a really good book, and worth reading in my opinion.
Funny timing. I just had a "movie night" on Saturday with my kids and saw "Epic" for the first time, whose premise is based on this idea (insects and small things which live in slo-mo world, or rather, that they see themselves as moving normally while they see us "big people" as large, slow moving, bumbling idiots).
The site for the gadget itself says "USB Condoms achieve this by cutting off the data pins in the USB cable and allowing only the power pins to connect through."
Based on the fact that there appears to be a lot of active components on this board, I think this description might be a simplification of what the device actually does. The device probably isolates the datapath between the host and device, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't monitor and drive both sets of data pins for the purpose of arbitrating a compatible power state between the host and the attached device. Then again, I didn't design it, and maybe all of those devices are there to capture your personal information and send it off to some server somewhere like some other poster said. I'm not *that* paranoid (yet), though;-) Maybe after a few more stories about the NSA, I will be though...
Oh that’s bull. You make it sound like measuring the current and switching power off requires some elaborate logic and circuitry that couldn’t possibly fit in a consumer device. You know that all of that stuff is contained in small little 8-pin (or less) devices called “USB Power Switches” that are specifically designed for the task, right? We’ve used this one micrel.com in the past, for example.
Anecdotally, we’re not alone to use these things either: My wife’s iMac’s keyboard has a couple of "handy-dandy" USB ports on the back that are totally useless for anything other than wired mice and USB thumb drives, because the instant you plug something like a phone or MP3 player into it, a message pops up on the screen to say that the port has been disabled because a device requiring too much current was plugged in. Do you think Apple designed some elaborate circuit in order to detect and react to this condition? Damn no. They put a 60 cent device on their PCB to do it for them.
Anyone who builds a USB host device and who wires the USB 5V bus voltage directly to some internal supply without first using some sort of protection like a USB power switch is in my opinion an amateur and is asking for trouble.
In addition to being a great physicist, Richard Feynman was also quite funny and a pretty big troublemaker in his day. What a great guy. If you get a chance, the book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" is well worth the read.
What an awesome quote. Don't know if it's your own, AC, but it's awesome. And so true...
Reminds me of the numerous stories that I've heard or read of "pro" woodworkers (a coworker of mine included) cutting themselves on their table saw. Sometimes it was thankfully only a nick (as in the case of my coworker), sometimes it resulted in a lost finger or two, but in all cases that I've heard, the admitted cause was always complacency (or, more accurately, lack of attention due to complacency). Thankfully I haven't cut myself on my table saw yet, but then again I'm scared shitless of it, so maybe my fear is keeping me from getting complacent...
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Never mind them, what about those with trypophobia? Why won't anyone think of the trypophobics??
Perhaps he had some other music playing at the time which he didn't want to stop, so he just asked that the dramatic music be queued to play later on, once his current playlist was over. Sheesh! Why do you take everything so figuratively?
Version 6 looks really hot, especially while she beats up Version 4.
Hey, I have an idea for a great social experiment! It seems like a lot of people are in the same boat as you; thinking that in the best case, voting is some sort of pointless endeavour, and in the worst case it's part of the actual problem. How about throwing a wrench in the entire system by coming up with a way to "democratically" selecting (via technology) which non-"Repubmocrat" candidate that EVERYONE will vote for in the next election?
I'm not too familiar with American politics, so please forgive me if this can't possibly work, but one idea would be to have some sort of app for your Android or iPhone device which determines (based on location) what non-"Repubmocrat" political parties and representatives are in your area, and would give you the option of specifying your preference(s), if any. However, in the back-end, everyone's preferences are compared (and perhaps compared to other external sources, like results from some of the more official political polls, like Gallup). Based on all of this information, popular opinion, etc., one representative would be selected in region such that their chance of winning against the "Repubmocrat" reps in that region is maximized.
This, of course, would all be completely transparent (everyone would know at any one time who the leading candidates were, how their support was faring against the "Repubmocrat" competition, etc) and would be ongoing months before an actual election. News outlets would pick up on it, talking about this popular app which young kids were downloading and which was going to select everyone's vote for them. This news would get even more people (and older people) interested, and app downloads would increase exponentially. Meanwhile, "Repubmocrats" would catch wind of what was going on and would probably download the app themselves to see what the fuss was about. Upon seeing that an election was busy being decided and they aren't even on the candidate list, they would undoubtedly react badly, raving about how the app was a tool of "The Terrorists" to undermine the democratic process and must be stopped, and this reaction would piss off (even more) those that take the app seriously, further solidifying their resolve in actually showing up on election night and voting for the app-selected candidate.
The weeks leading up to the election would be pure chaos, with repubmocrats panicking and shitting cinder-block-sized bricks all over the place, while the 3rd party candidates are suddenly thrust into the spotlight, further increasing their visibility to everyone. Front-page newspaper captions like "Is This Your Next President?" (showing the leader of some currently-unknown political party) might even jar some grandmas and grandpas out of their usual behaviour and might get them thinking about voting for somebody other than a Repubmocrat. The app would of course make available all media related to this fallout, to keep users interested and coming back to the app to see what the latest developments were. Facebook stock would plummet.
The circus would go on until the day of the election, with more scandals, accusations, false promises, lies and tension than usual. This would be a time of pure hell for the American political establishment and all of the corporations that back it, but for everyone else (including the world at large) it would be the best show on earth. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert would have a goldmine of new story ideas; enough to last them until the following election 4 years hence.
On the day of election, the app would remind everyone to go vote and would give them the candidate to vote for. Something magical might happen then and all of the people who used the app might actually show up at polling booths and for the first time in who-knows-how-long vote in a totally new political party which will be impervious to corruption and will transform the US back into a land of rainbows and ponies. Or, maybe the existing tyrants in Washington will find some way to rig the election, preserving their power,
I've started noticing that some iphone and android apps are "bribing" (to use a harsh but accurate term) their users to give 5-star reviews in return for some locked-out functionality in their free app. When I was on iphone I had downloaded some media player app (PlayerXtreme I think it was called) that nagged me every once in a while for this ("Get unlocked pro features if you give us 5 stars on itunes..."), and more recently I've seen this on an app I downloaded off of Google play. Some companies don't need to pay a whole department to write sham reviews, they get their very own users to do it, for free! If this continues, you eventually won't even be able to trust reviews by real users...
Keeping the wrong solution posted just to avoid people seeking out other wrong solutions elsewhere (which they could and probably will do anyway), isn't a solution.
Lets give him the Voight-Kampff test and find out...
Here's a perfectly stupid question that probably does a good job of highlighting how little I know about this topic: So they are saying time is an emergent property that occurs when only one particle out of a entangled pair is observed. Does this mean that all objects in our universe must therefore be composed of particles that are somehow entangled with other particles located elsewhere (since all of the objects that we observe appear to be subject to time)? Even when we perform measurements at a particle (e.g. atomic) level, individual particles themselves appear subject to time (e.g. radioactive decay, formation or breaking of atomic bonds with other particles, change in energy levels, etc). Does this mean that there isn't such a thing as a non-entangled particle (or they must be exceedingly rare), since all particles that we've ever interacted with change or can be made to change?
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics" --Richard Feynman
You can come up with statistics to prove anything, AC. Forty percent of all people know that.
Maybe you should. I hadn't noticed that that "that that" was incorrect. That that was a good catch!
Maybe she knew that and literally thought that nobody was home and that she could get away with a bit of looting...
Can't blame her. I imagine that the pres must have a pretty nice TV in there...
They're going to feed escargots to starving people in slums? Those lucky bastards... Will they be serving it with baguette?
At least, that's what happened with copyright laws as a result of ubiquitous A/V recording...
Amateurs. They obviously couldn't make it out of the police search area before being caught or finding a pay&spray. They really should have replayed GTA4 to polish up their police dodging skills...
I wish they supported Apple devices. No, seriously, I'm not even kidding. I so wish I could dump iOS on my iphone and install CM instead...
Your comment reminds me of a novel called Blindsight by Peter Watts about an alien species that threatens Earth and humanity despite not having any individual or group consciousness. The author makes a claim that our consciousness slows us down and puts us at a severe disadvantage compared to other species (like the aliens) which can think much faster than us because they don't have an additional processing layer of consciousness to slow them down. I thought it was a really good book, and worth reading in my opinion.
Funny timing. I just had a "movie night" on Saturday with my kids and saw "Epic" for the first time, whose premise is based on this idea (insects and small things which live in slo-mo world, or rather, that they see themselves as moving normally while they see us "big people" as large, slow moving, bumbling idiots).
Aren't all engineers over-engineers? I know I am...
What?!? Why is everyone laughing at me again?
The site for the gadget itself says "USB Condoms achieve this by cutting off the data pins in the USB cable and allowing only the power pins to connect through."
Based on the fact that there appears to be a lot of active components on this board, I think this description might be a simplification of what the device actually does. The device probably isolates the datapath between the host and device, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't monitor and drive both sets of data pins for the purpose of arbitrating a compatible power state between the host and the attached device. Then again, I didn't design it, and maybe all of those devices are there to capture your personal information and send it off to some server somewhere like some other poster said. I'm not *that* paranoid (yet), though ;-) Maybe after a few more stories about the NSA, I will be though...
Oh that’s bull. You make it sound like measuring the current and switching power off requires some elaborate logic and circuitry that couldn’t possibly fit in a consumer device. You know that all of that stuff is contained in small little 8-pin (or less) devices called “USB Power Switches” that are specifically designed for the task, right? We’ve used this one micrel.com in the past, for example.
Anecdotally, we’re not alone to use these things either: My wife’s iMac’s keyboard has a couple of "handy-dandy" USB ports on the back that are totally useless for anything other than wired mice and USB thumb drives, because the instant you plug something like a phone or MP3 player into it, a message pops up on the screen to say that the port has been disabled because a device requiring too much current was plugged in. Do you think Apple designed some elaborate circuit in order to detect and react to this condition? Damn no. They put a 60 cent device on their PCB to do it for them.
Anyone who builds a USB host device and who wires the USB 5V bus voltage directly to some internal supply without first using some sort of protection like a USB power switch is in my opinion an amateur and is asking for trouble.
In addition to being a great physicist, Richard Feynman was also quite funny and a pretty big troublemaker in his day. What a great guy. If you get a chance, the book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" is well worth the read.
Perhaps if you had pronouced "6C" with an Australian accent, he would have gotten it...
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In that case, he should use Visual SourceSafe!
Bwahahahaha! Just kidding! Just kidding! I wouldn't wish VSS upon my worst enemy...
I would have said "crude" and "indecent" myself.
But then again, what do you expect from someone called "Crudely_Indecent"?
Complacency is a danger at all skill levels
What an awesome quote. Don't know if it's your own, AC, but it's awesome. And so true...
Reminds me of the numerous stories that I've heard or read of "pro" woodworkers (a coworker of mine included) cutting themselves on their table saw. Sometimes it was thankfully only a nick (as in the case of my coworker), sometimes it resulted in a lost finger or two, but in all cases that I've heard, the admitted cause was always complacency (or, more accurately, lack of attention due to complacency). Thankfully I haven't cut myself on my table saw yet, but then again I'm scared shitless of it, so maybe my fear is keeping me from getting complacent...