you're being pedantic and not even correct. The reasons centuries and millennia are starting with the year xxx1, is that they are numbered ("the fourteenth century", "the third millennium"). Because they are numbered, they have to start on a year that actually existed, 1CE generally, or any multiple of 1000/100 on top (+) of that.
No one numbers decades. If we did, it would be OK to call this decade the 201st and make it start on Jan 1 2001. But in reality, we don't number them, so we can make them start anytime, the simplest being to apply a 'floor' function.
...which is also an aspect of the deterence and protection of society features of prison: if you do manage to live off the grid, you're pretty much harmless to society, and careful not to get caught doing wrong. Heck throw in the punishment and reform features as well: you can say goodbye to modern lifestyle.
So you are telling us that you felt qualified to give IT advice to a PhD student, yet fail to understand basic design principles as "no single points of failure" ?
I don't buy it. By your interpretation of the conjecture, the people working at CERN couldn't possibly be born.
You make the fallacious reasoning that if A may lead to and precedes B, B to C, C to D and D to violation of causality, that A cannot possibly happen. This is faulty. Just because you can't have Y without having X and Y is impossible doesn't mean X is impossible.
Double standards. Why is it acceptable to have to take a taxi/expensive shuttle to the airport, but that would not be acceptable for a trip to the railway station ? Look at the Avignon, Champagne-Ardenne, or Aix-en-Provence TGV stations. They're quite far from the city centre.
Nope, don't see that at all. For a start you're picking only them more moderate philosophies from the religious books and ignoring all the other, more extreme items - killing witches, killing adulterers, killing homosexuals, killing non-believers, etc. etc.... and those are just the teachings of the bible. Religions are there to concentrate power in the hands of a few individuals and keep the masses in their place whether they be cults or major religions. They'll sell them to you as way to live your life better but that's not what they were created for...
That's one of the single most important points Dawkins makes in The God Delusion: modern morals cannot be derived from a holy book. Those who do fall in two categories: a minority of the believers will follow each law (which is probably not even possible because of contradictions within the book). Most believers cherry pick the laws that actually make sense and reject those (burning of homosexual shellfish on their periods) that are down right crazy. But based on which moral code did they discriminate between the sound laws and the crazy ones ?
You have not understood the parable. The meaning of the parable is exactly what it says: DESTRUCTION of goods is never a good thing. In the parable, the only actual winner is the windowmaker, the shopkeeper only rationalizes it -incorrectly- through the trickle down of the money he gave to the windowmaker.
In this particular case, the rich idiot has a direct gain -a kickass car- in exchange for his money. However futile, it is gainful to the rich idiot otherwise he would not buy it. If the shopkeeper had had no need to replace the window, he would have spent the money on things useful to him. The parable is about that (and correct to some extent): economy is a zero-sum game, by removing assets without compensation tou make it a negative sum game
Lemme see. I could afford a 600 Full HD flat screen, but really, why do it before my 82cm CRT dies somewhere in 2020 ? Even if I had a flat screen, DVD would be good enough.
DVD brought to us good enough pictures on a price that makes any video marketable at virtually any price. Yeah it was fine to watch LOTR on it, but seeing the crappy 1980s cartoons most Gen-Xers buy in bulk, the picture quality is not the main selling point. It's that it's very cheap to produce.
Blu Ray does not add a lot on top of it. Good classics won't be release for the next 5 years, for the same reason they were not released immediately on DVD: you don't want your A-list movie to be in the budget bin by the time everyone has a player. The manufacturing cost is probably low, but not as low as DVDs. And niche crap that we were happy to watch on a b&w CRT in 1982 are readily available on DVD, so why wait ?
aguably 2D: the thickness of the laptop has no useful purpose, just because the keyboard is not in the same plane as the display does not qualify it as 3D. You could represent any useful point of the laptop using just two coordinates.
Simulating on a computer is fine, only if you have already a stockpile of real life tested warheads. Would you base your deterrence on devices that "theoretically work" ? Would you even trust the nuke scientist who would sell you computer simulated snake oil ?
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you're being pedantic and not even correct. The reasons centuries and millennia are starting with the year xxx1, is that they are numbered ("the fourteenth century", "the third millennium"). Because they are numbered, they have to start on a year that actually existed, 1CE generally, or any multiple of 1000 /100 on top (+) of that.
No one numbers decades. If we did, it would be OK to call this decade the 201st and make it start on Jan 1 2001. But in reality, we don't number them, so we can make them start anytime, the simplest being to apply a 'floor' function.
...which is also an aspect of the deterence and protection of society features of prison: if you do manage to live off the grid, you're pretty much harmless to society, and careful not to get caught doing wrong. Heck throw in the punishment and reform features as well: you can say goodbye to modern lifestyle.
why should an electronic transaction be more expensive than a pen-and-paper order to a bank clerk to perform te exact same electronic transaction?
So you are telling us that you felt qualified to give IT advice to a PhD student, yet fail to understand basic design principles as "no single points of failure" ?
I guess the gov't and banks from Mexico will have to pay retired mayan sunstone engineers trillions of cocoa seeds to fix the B13 bug.
...which is exactly my point
I don't buy it. By your interpretation of the conjecture, the people working at CERN couldn't possibly be born.
You make the fallacious reasoning that if A may lead to and precedes B, B to C, C to D and D to violation of causality, that A cannot possibly happen. This is faulty. Just because you can't have Y without having X and Y is impossible doesn't mean X is impossible.
Double standards. Why is it acceptable to have to take a taxi/expensive shuttle to the airport, but that would not be acceptable for a trip to the railway station ? Look at the Avignon, Champagne-Ardenne, or Aix-en-Provence TGV stations. They're quite far from the city centre.
You don't get it. They're religions. That makes bad taste in clothing, child mutilations, not eating otherwise delicious food OK...
yes, be redoing Darwin's voyage is also an tribute to one of the key features of the scientific method: repeatability.
Ironic. Trying to get Turing straight is what got him suicidally depressed.
People change. Institutions remain. Brown is the chief of that institution, he apologises in name of the institution.
That's one of the single most important points Dawkins makes in The God Delusion: modern morals cannot be derived from a holy book. Those who do fall in two categories: a minority of the believers will follow each law (which is probably not even possible because of contradictions within the book). Most believers cherry pick the laws that actually make sense and reject those (burning of homosexual shellfish on their periods) that are down right crazy. But based on which moral code did they discriminate between the sound laws and the crazy ones ?
Working for a mobile phone company.
I believe our operations engineers all have spare sim cards, not of the competition, but of foreign operators.
747: project launch 1965 - rollout 1968 - maiden flight 1969 - exploitation Jan 1970.
You sure do love your country and totally got the spirit of Christmas
and then one that is particularly irrelevant to nerds too...
you believe in -1 gods ?
You have not understood the parable. The meaning of the parable is exactly what it says: DESTRUCTION of goods is never a good thing. In the parable, the only actual winner is the windowmaker, the shopkeeper only rationalizes it -incorrectly- through the trickle down of the money he gave to the windowmaker.
In this particular case, the rich idiot has a direct gain -a kickass car- in exchange for his money. However futile, it is gainful to the rich idiot otherwise he would not buy it. If the shopkeeper had had no need to replace the window, he would have spent the money on things useful to him. The parable is about that (and correct to some extent): economy is a zero-sum game, by removing assets without compensation tou make it a negative sum game
Lemme see. I could afford a 600 Full HD flat screen, but really, why do it before my 82cm CRT dies somewhere in 2020 ? Even if I had a flat screen, DVD would be good enough.
DVD brought to us good enough pictures on a price that makes any video marketable at virtually any price. Yeah it was fine to watch LOTR on it, but seeing the crappy 1980s cartoons most Gen-Xers buy in bulk, the picture quality is not the main selling point. It's that it's very cheap to produce.
Blu Ray does not add a lot on top of it. Good classics won't be release for the next 5 years, for the same reason they were not released immediately on DVD: you don't want your A-list movie to be in the budget bin by the time everyone has a player. The manufacturing cost is probably low, but not as low as DVDs. And niche crap that we were happy to watch on a b&w CRT in 1982 are readily available on DVD, so why wait ?
aguably 2D: the thickness of the laptop has no useful purpose, just because the keyboard is not in the same plane as the display does not qualify it as 3D. You could represent any useful point of the laptop using just two coordinates.
Yeah, right, Air Comet has no intrest whatsoever to accuse a meteor...
Caucasian ? does that mean "coming from the Caucasus" ?
Simulating on a computer is fine, only if you have already a stockpile of real life tested warheads. Would you base your deterrence on devices that "theoretically work" ? Would you even trust the nuke scientist who would sell you computer simulated snake oil ?