The pixels wouldn't be too small. Take a long black line on a complete white background, one pixel wide. Is this line simply invisible to the human eye on those sub-eye resolutions? I don't think so.
So, bring on those uber-resolutions. Perhaps the pictures will simply look more beautiful, even if they shouldn't. Anyway, I would like to see those monitors anyway.
Excellent point, PHP is used because it was the first on the market.
You could always use CGI and then create dynamic web pages with anything, but that was slow, so, in a way, PHP was actually an optimization and speed improvement.
The fact that languages that do not do static type checking are easier to create (I mean the compiler itself) also contributes to the reasons why one of those became the first popular choice.
I still think I'm the first person in the world to finish E1M3 on nightmare level, starting with just a pistol. This is the one where you open the door and already have one or two invisible pinkies munching on you, and soldiers sniping on you as well... Ah, the good times.:)
I don't see what is the mystery here. If two people are negotiating a price, and both of them have a hidden high/low price for which they are ready to settle, then the dominating strategy in a game theory sense is to move your price by the smallest step possible. That way, you always hit your opponents price that is best for you and worst for him.
Of course, in face to face markets, this is insulting:
Yes, and as we know, solid state disks lose performance when files are fragmented, because, when the disk spins, err, i mean the electrons, the heat goes around, ah, fuck it.
But, why did you list the Boy - Boy combination twice? If you have two children, there are 4 possible orders for them to be born, all equally likely:
1 Boy-Boy 2 Boy-Girl 3 Girl-Boy 4 Girl-Girl
Just because in case (1) you can label any of the two boys as boy A, is not a reason to list that combination twice in your list of possible birth orderings. Therefore your list should be:
Boy-A Boy-B (or Boy-B Boy-A if you label the other boy as A) Boy-A Girl-B Girl-B Boy-A
1/3 is 1/3, as is correct.
You are confused by the fact that having two boys, you have a choice of which one you label as A. This does not make this option twice as likely as you have presented it.
You listed only cases where one of the boys was born on Tuesday. But that list is just a subset of a longer list that has all the possible combinations. In that complete list Boy-Tue, Boy-Tue pair only appears once.
So, in making your subset, you listed one element twice. This is wrong.
So he is banning usage of words that are less than couple of years old. I guess, they should also ban news that are less than couple of days old as well. Idiots.
"On the other hand, if you have two families, one driving a 33MPG compact, the other driving an old 10MPG station wagon, and you can choose to encourage the first to buy a 50MPG hybrid or encourage the second to buy a 20MPG SUV, which policy should you pursue?"
Almost all of the comments are wrong, in fact, for everybody in total it is much better if the 33 mpg car is replaced with a new 50 mpg car, which is exactly the total savings (for everybody in total) if you replace 10 mpg car with a new 50 mpg car.
And the best for everybody would be if the 10 mpg car is taken to the junk yard.
Here is why: secondary market in cars does not matter. If somebody else buys that 10 mpg car, he's going to drive it as well. Perhaps less perhaps more, but on average I would guess about the same. So, for the total fuel consumption and for the environment, it really does not matter which one you sell. Only thing that matters are the new cars that enter the roads, how many of the old cars get retired, and if people start to drive more or less. Those are the only three things that matter.
You are making a mistake of thinking that at exactly wind speed, there is no wind force on the car. That would be true, if there was no prob, but since there is one, and it is rotating, it is generating its own wind, in the opposite direction.
Thus, the wind is pushing against the air flowing back out of the propeller, and it can go faster than the wind.
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The pixels wouldn't be too small. Take a long black line on a complete white background, one pixel wide. Is this line simply invisible to the human eye on those sub-eye resolutions? I don't think so.
So, bring on those uber-resolutions. Perhaps the pictures will simply look more beautiful, even if they shouldn't. Anyway, I would like to see those monitors anyway.
Schneier is a self promoting idiot.
"we should be looking for 'sentient machines' rather than biological life"
So you are saying there is a difference between those two?
I cannot answer your question confidently, further study will be needed.
This is slashdot, even when linux crashes it's Microsoft's fault.
And I counter your Britney with fiddler crabs!
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex,+Britney+Spears&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Did you know that fiddler crabs exchange sex for survival?
The only problem with that theory is that women love selfish guys.
Excellent point, PHP is used because it was the first on the market.
You could always use CGI and then create dynamic web pages with anything, but that was slow, so, in a way, PHP was actually an optimization and speed improvement.
The fact that languages that do not do static type checking are easier to create (I mean the compiler itself) also contributes to the reasons why one of those became the first popular choice.
Once you are first, it is easy to stay first.
Windows update?
The site also allows professors to take the other side of the bet.
I still think I'm the first person in the world to finish E1M3 on nightmare level, starting with just a pistol. This is the one where you open the door and already have one or two invisible pinkies munching on you, and soldiers sniping on you as well... Ah, the good times. :)
I don't see what is the mystery here. If two people are negotiating a price, and both of them have a hidden high/low price for which they are ready to settle, then the dominating strategy in a game theory sense is to move your price by the smallest step possible. That way, you always hit your opponents price that is best for you and worst for him.
Of course, in face to face markets, this is insulting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3LL338aGA
but, we are talking bots with a really low ping here. And that's what those patterns are.
At least those with increasing prices by one cent. Those where the bids are going down don't fit this explanation.
Rows 2 and 4 in your list are kind of paradoxical.
I can see now, it is a form of handicap, as is often the case when sexual selection is involved.
Yes, and as we know, solid state disks lose performance when files are fragmented, because, when the disk spins, err, i mean the electrons, the heat goes around, ah, fuck it.
You are wrong.
>Label the child we know to be a boy as A.
Lets do that.
>The child without a known gender is B.
>Boy-A Boy-B
>Boy-A Girl-B
>Boy-B Boy-A
>Girl-B Boy-A
But, why did you list the Boy - Boy combination twice? If you have two children, there are 4 possible orders for them to be born, all equally likely:
1 Boy-Boy
2 Boy-Girl
3 Girl-Boy
4 Girl-Girl
Just because in case (1) you can label any of the two boys as boy A, is not a reason to list that combination twice in your list of possible birth orderings. Therefore your list should be:
Boy-A Boy-B (or Boy-B Boy-A if you label the other boy as A)
Boy-A Girl-B
Girl-B Boy-A
1/3 is 1/3, as is correct.
You are confused by the fact that having two boys, you have a choice of which one you label as A. This does not make this option twice as likely as you have presented it.
You've made an error in your enumeration.
You listed only cases where one of the boys was born on Tuesday. But that list is just a subset of a longer list that has all the possible combinations. In that complete list Boy-Tue, Boy-Tue pair only appears once.
So, in making your subset, you listed one element twice. This is wrong.
>>The real confusion occurs due to the use of odd numbers...
Lol at this from the gp.
The dad of B2B2 is also twice as rare as B1B2 for example. That takes it back to 13/27.
Two children can of course be:
Boy Boy @ 1/4
Boy Girl @ 1/2
Girl Girl @ 1/4
This is where your first mistake is. We already met one boy.
How does an off-topic reply that misses the point of the topic totally get modded "interesting" ?
Being wrong and being interesting often go together. Look at all the physics crackpots. Or politicians.
But what if that cancellation got overruled? Then the headline would say:
Tax relief cancellation overruled.
tax. Oh no. ...relief. Oh yes. ...cancellation. Noooo. ...overruled. Yessss.
So he is banning usage of words that are less than couple of years old. I guess, they should also ban news that are less than couple of days old as well. Idiots.
"On the other hand, if you have two families, one driving a 33MPG compact, the other driving an old 10MPG station wagon, and you can choose to encourage the first to buy a 50MPG hybrid or encourage the second to buy a 20MPG SUV, which policy should you pursue?"
Almost all of the comments are wrong, in fact, for everybody in total it is much better if the 33 mpg car is replaced with a new 50 mpg car, which is exactly the total savings (for everybody in total) if you replace 10 mpg car with a new 50 mpg car.
And the best for everybody would be if the 10 mpg car is taken to the junk yard.
Here is why: secondary market in cars does not matter. If somebody else buys that 10 mpg car, he's going to drive it as well. Perhaps less perhaps more, but on average I would guess about the same. So, for the total fuel consumption and for the environment, it really does not matter which one you sell. Only thing that matters are the new cars that enter the roads, how many of the old cars get retired, and if people start to drive more or less. Those are the only three things that matter.
You are making a mistake of thinking that at exactly wind speed, there is no wind force on the car. That would be true, if there was no prob, but since there is one, and it is rotating, it is generating its own wind, in the opposite direction.
Thus, the wind is pushing against the air flowing back out of the propeller, and it can go faster than the wind.