Seriously, I'd be afraid living at the bottom of the sea, because of abyssal gigantism (look it up!). This may be a bit irrational on my part, but there's some HUGE monsters, and over time we just seem to discover scarier and huger ones, like Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni. Even if it turned out to be perfectly safe, I'd be harboring an irrational fear of these beasts CRUSHING MY HOUSE while I lived there. Yikes!
Inflation since then runs close to 1000-1500% (depending on initial year) than 60,000%, actually. Please check out this inflation calculator if you would like to see for yourself.
Yeah, this in no way lessens the accomplishment of a robot actually learning to walk, but I figured it was half on-topic, half cool-as-hell so I'd post it:-)
True, but DOS came with GWBASIC, and in later versions, QBASIC. I did my first learning on the C64, but I had a bit of fun with both of those before I ever got my first compiler (Turbo Pascal).
That's a deeply disturbing self-indictment. If you think you have no self-worth and mean nothing, get the hell out of your apartment and go MAKE your name mean something, if only to yourself. Giving up your identity is moronic, and justifying it by pretending to be part of a great movement is worse: you sound just like the asshole cultists you think you're protesting. Choose what to do yourself and break out of the groupthink.
Goddamn.
You can draw that distinction, if you like; but the word "issue" in this sense dates from the 14th century legal term "issue", and was used in this way long before you were born. See here for a discussion of different uses of the word: The Issue with Issues
Actually, MythBusters busted that one. They build one building out of marshmallows and toothpicks, then they built ten. It took them ten times as long!
Gosh, it's been twenty years and my Super Nintendo still won't play movies! Now, do I upgrade to a Sony Nintendo or a Microsoft Nintendo, or do I go out and buy a Betamax deck?
There's a surprising number of google hits for demalloc!
(Typing random crap at the end of my entry to pass the time until Slashdot's 18-second-or-whatever lower bound is exceeded. Meh.)
"Usual random answer"? Should I take this to mean you made up a number, which may or may not have had a live person at the other end, signing them up to be pestered? That doesn't strike me as ethical.
Er, no. The person you're responding to may have been incorrect, but their statement didn't imply approval. I rather think it implied disapproval, actually.
The article linked offers a refutation of this interpretation, which I am not competent to support or argue with. I ran across this meme first while reading the book version of The Corporation, which may have helped spread it lately.
"Prove it with a proper diagnosis with a real doctor"? Hah. The problem with your dichotomy between self-diagnosis and "real" diagnosis is that many, many doctors are as clueless as the people self-diagnosing. The dedicated hypochondriac has little trouble obtaining "real" diagnoses, I'm afraid, so your suggestion to prove it isn't terribly useful. And that is to say nothing of false negative diagnoses.
People will believe and claim what they want, true or not, and there's little you can do about it, regardless of your opinion on the matter.
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Seriously, I'd be afraid living at the bottom of the sea, because of abyssal gigantism (look it up!). This may be a bit irrational on my part, but there's some HUGE monsters, and over time we just seem to discover scarier and huger ones, like Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni. Even if it turned out to be perfectly safe, I'd be harboring an irrational fear of these beasts CRUSHING MY HOUSE while I lived there. Yikes!
Inflation since then runs close to 1000-1500% (depending on initial year) than 60,000%, actually. Please check out this inflation calculator if you would like to see for yourself.
These six-legged robots can dance! Hexapod: Best of Dance 2009
Yeah, this in no way lessens the accomplishment of a robot actually learning to walk, but I figured it was half on-topic, half cool-as-hell so I'd post it :-)
That makes absolutely no sense, by the way.
Now that would be unjust.
True, but DOS came with GWBASIC, and in later versions, QBASIC. I did my first learning on the C64, but I had a bit of fun with both of those before I ever got my first compiler (Turbo Pascal).
That's a deeply disturbing self-indictment. If you think you have no self-worth and mean nothing, get the hell out of your apartment and go MAKE your name mean something, if only to yourself. Giving up your identity is moronic, and justifying it by pretending to be part of a great movement is worse: you sound just like the asshole cultists you think you're protesting. Choose what to do yourself and break out of the groupthink. Goddamn.
I use 4.8 for that.
You can draw that distinction, if you like; but the word "issue" in this sense dates from the 14th century legal term "issue", and was used in this way long before you were born. See here for a discussion of different uses of the word: The Issue with Issues
Actually, MythBusters busted that one. They build one building out of marshmallows and toothpicks, then they built ten. It took them ten times as long!
You left out bone changes, which can be the defining difference over time.
As a counterexample, I loved Portal, and it was definitely worth the money to me. But that game has zero replay value. YMMV
Same. In fifteen years, I've never hit it by accident.
Gosh, it's been twenty years and my Super Nintendo still won't play movies! Now, do I upgrade to a Sony Nintendo or a Microsoft Nintendo, or do I go out and buy a Betamax deck?
There's a surprising number of google hits for demalloc! (Typing random crap at the end of my entry to pass the time until Slashdot's 18-second-or-whatever lower bound is exceeded. Meh.)
"Usual random answer"? Should I take this to mean you made up a number, which may or may not have had a live person at the other end, signing them up to be pestered? That doesn't strike me as ethical.
Could you explain to me how "buying stock [...] to trade it to the next guy at a profit" can be something other than speculation?
500k is a drop in the browser bucket.
Note to non-Americans who managed to read the entire above post: Yeah, lots of us are assholes. But we're not all like this guy. Really.
I'm not aware of any context in which this makes sense. Could you please provide a reference so I can read more?
Er, no. The person you're responding to may have been incorrect, but their statement didn't imply approval. I rather think it implied disapproval, actually.
IANAL. However, this meme is based on this court decision: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Company
The article linked offers a refutation of this interpretation, which I am not competent to support or argue with. I ran across this meme first while reading the book version of The Corporation, which may have helped spread it lately.
You can prove a negative. http://departments.bloomu.edu/philosophy/pages/content/hales/articles/proveanegative.html
Ahh, they're just getting confused. They mean to mark it +1 Offtopic, but due to a bug on Slashdot, the polarity of the neutron flow got reversed.
"Prove it with a proper diagnosis with a real doctor"? Hah. The problem with your dichotomy between self-diagnosis and "real" diagnosis is that many, many doctors are as clueless as the people self-diagnosing. The dedicated hypochondriac has little trouble obtaining "real" diagnoses, I'm afraid, so your suggestion to prove it isn't terribly useful. And that is to say nothing of false negative diagnoses.
People will believe and claim what they want, true or not, and there's little you can do about it, regardless of your opinion on the matter.