It's not just about how much you eat, it's about how the specific composition of that food interacts with your body chemistry. Your body makes fat from sugar, not the fat you eat. So if you eat sugar, your body will store the extra calories it doesn't burn. If you eat fat, most of the excess is going to be excreted instead of stored.
"Graviton" is just a working name for the virtual 'particles' (really mathematical points) that you move through equations and computer models. They have nothing to do with the actual mechanical reality of gravity, which we still have no clue about.
I used to teach 3D drawing, the sort that uses paper, a pencil, and a ruler. The math was elementary-level. By the 3rd semester I taught this class, it got to where I could predict a student's future performance fairly accurately on the first day. Just by taking their race/sex into account.
The 'levels' of performance were:
1) White Boys (competent in 1, 2, & 3-point perspective) 2) White Girls (competent in 1 & 2-point perspective) 3) Black Boys (competent in 1-point perspective) 4) Black Girls (struggle even with 1-point perspective)
An exceptionally good or bad student might move up or down one level, and I even had a single student jump up 2 levels. But 90% of all my students ranked up in exactly this order. Clearly, this pointed out a difference in each race/sex's ability to handle abstract spacial relationships.
I should point out though that I cherished having black students. Because they were the ones most likely to ask questions and spark meaningful discussions during my lectures/demonstrations. Whenever I was cursed with an all-white class, they'd just sit and stare at me blankly. Taking in all I said without question, when what I wanted was for them to think critically about what I was presenting.
So Every race/sex has its better and worse qualities. We really need to be honest about these, and stop expecting identical outcomes from each. Instead, let’s work to enhance and benefit from everyone’s strengths, and stop beating each other up over (or ignoring) our weaknesses.
I've set up bootloaders on Win/Linux/BeOS before. But Apple's system doesn't require you to know a damn thing about how it all works to set it up.
Nothing that Apple does is all that original. They just reduce the complexity of it. 'Time Machine' backups being another fine example. Easy to set up, brainless to use, easy to restore.
My wife has degrees in Programming and Mathematics, not to mention an MBA.
She discovered, upon graduating, that she really didn't like programming-as-work, and moved into IT systems consultation and management instead – which she rocks at. Beyond one very inappropriate joke by a salesman accepting an award at a company function, she doesn't feel like she's encountered anything like the anti-woman culture that has been trumpeted as the norm in geek-dom lately. In fact, she feels like her peers bend over backwards to make her feel included. From college all the way up to the consultant management position she holds today.
Likewise, I spent a good part of my career in the video games, movies, and other graphics shops. Even in companies that were 100% male and prone to extreme guy-humor without women around, we all cleaned up our act and did everything possible to welcome new female employees and make them feel comfortable. Nobody balked at that one bit, because we loved having women around more than making crude jokes.
So where is all of this misogyny? I'm not saying it doesn't exist anywhere, but it's certainly not as rampant as some would have you believe. I've not seen it in the 8-odd companies I've worked for, and my wife doesn't see it in the 50+ companies that she does work for every year.
So explain the rise of the iPhone and iPad. Both took products that already existed and made them suddenly desirable. If all it took was flashy marketing, the Microsoft Surface would be zooming off the shelves.
Read the CDC's own fact sheet. Anyone within about 3 feet of a victim can catch the virus through the air from a cough, sneeze, or just talking. No actual touching required, and that's only for the PREVIOUS versions of this virus. We don't fully understand this new one.
Having taught at both a community college, and a couple of for-profit mills, I can absolutely say that the quality of instruction (and of the students themselves) is much higher at the mills.
You pay a high price for that, and it's absolutely true that the sales team is much larger and better treated than faculty. But as a teacher used to the Mills' "get it done" attitude, I constantly found myself stonewalled at the local CC. Even over things as simple as getting copies made or printers/computers repaired.
At the Mills, there's a copier in the teacher's (cramped/shared) work area, and 2 more in other areas that nobody minds you using in a pinch. At the CC, there is one copier for the entire building (identical to the mill copiers). It has a 3-person staff and a 24-hour minimum turnaround for orders.
You've got me wondering... If you shipped a push-button LED device with a random on/off switch inside, such that you never know if it would actually blink when "turned on" by the user's button press... How many suckers would SWEAR it works as advertised? "Because I know she was lying and the light blinked that time!".
Seriously. I'm more concerned by NASA's apparent lack of data bandwidth from LEO. Or is the big deal that they did it with a LASER instead of using boring old radio waves?
The competitors to x86 (esp. PPC) could have scaled just as well, if not better. But they didn't have large enough markets to justify the expense of development. Whereas x86 did.
The problem is when the mantle of 'Science' is used to lend credence to unproven (and often unfalsifiable) theories that affect people politically and economically. At that point 'Science' just becomes another effing religion, and is treated as such by the general public.
Well that is the real issue. Only a small fraction of the population actually 'understands' any particular subject. Including religion itself. The rest of us have to take most things on... faith. So the further you get from the folks doing the actual observation, the more that 'belief' in their theories becomes just another ignorant dogma to be batted around politically.
But scientific truth is not determined by the popularity of an idea, and neither are the timeless truths conveyed by religious institutions.
Oh, come off it! Blaming our sci/tech problems on the religious is just plain silly. The greatest century of wealth creation and technological advancement in the history of the world was the 1800s. A time when our society was PROFOUNDLY more religious than it is now.
Instead, most of our real problems can be traced to a society-wide lack of long-term thinking and investment. As a people, we've gotten too used to living in the now. So of course companies don't want to invest in long-term projects of real advancement. Because that won't drive up the stock price next quarter. Better to make a small change to an existing product and kick it out the door as quick as possible to maximize the numbers for the next quarterly report.
That's why China is cleaning our clock right now. They think in terms of decades. Not quarters. They're quietly and steadily winning an economic battle that most of us can't even perceive. Because our collective attention span is too short to allow us to comprehend what's happening.
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Bullshit. You need to educate yourself on the real science of obesity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's not just about how much you eat, it's about how the specific composition of that food interacts with your body chemistry. Your body makes fat from sugar, not the fat you eat. So if you eat sugar, your body will store the extra calories it doesn't burn. If you eat fat, most of the excess is going to be excreted instead of stored.
"Graviton" is just a working name for the virtual 'particles' (really mathematical points) that you move through equations and computer models. They have nothing to do with the actual mechanical reality of gravity, which we still have no clue about.
Psst... That's a Windows problem. Doesn't happen on Mac. Cancel a job, and everything stops right away.
I used to teach 3D drawing, the sort that uses paper, a pencil, and a ruler. The math was elementary-level. By the 3rd semester I taught this class, it got to where I could predict a student's future performance fairly accurately on the first day. Just by taking their race/sex into account.
The 'levels' of performance were:
1) White Boys (competent in 1, 2, & 3-point perspective)
2) White Girls (competent in 1 & 2-point perspective)
3) Black Boys (competent in 1-point perspective)
4) Black Girls (struggle even with 1-point perspective)
An exceptionally good or bad student might move up or down one level, and I even had a single student jump up 2 levels. But 90% of all my students ranked up in exactly this order. Clearly, this pointed out a difference in each race/sex's ability to handle abstract spacial relationships.
I should point out though that I cherished having black students. Because they were the ones most likely to ask questions and spark meaningful discussions during my lectures/demonstrations. Whenever I was cursed with an all-white class, they'd just sit and stare at me blankly. Taking in all I said without question, when what I wanted was for them to think critically about what I was presenting.
So Every race/sex has its better and worse qualities. We really need to be honest about these, and stop expecting identical outcomes from each. Instead, let’s work to enhance and benefit from everyone’s strengths, and stop beating each other up over (or ignoring) our weaknesses.
All of that... made easy to use.
I've set up bootloaders on Win/Linux/BeOS before. But Apple's system doesn't require you to know a damn thing about how it all works to set it up.
Nothing that Apple does is all that original. They just reduce the complexity of it. 'Time Machine' backups being another fine example. Easy to set up, brainless to use, easy to restore.
My wife has degrees in Programming and Mathematics, not to mention an MBA.
She discovered, upon graduating, that she really didn't like programming-as-work, and moved into IT systems consultation and management instead – which she rocks at. Beyond one very inappropriate joke by a salesman accepting an award at a company function, she doesn't feel like she's encountered anything like the anti-woman culture that has been trumpeted as the norm in geek-dom lately. In fact, she feels like her peers bend over backwards to make her feel included. From college all the way up to the consultant management position she holds today.
Likewise, I spent a good part of my career in the video games, movies, and other graphics shops. Even in companies that were 100% male and prone to extreme guy-humor without women around, we all cleaned up our act and did everything possible to welcome new female employees and make them feel comfortable. Nobody balked at that one bit, because we loved having women around more than making crude jokes.
So where is all of this misogyny? I'm not saying it doesn't exist anywhere, but it's certainly not as rampant as some would have you believe. I've not seen it in the 8-odd companies I've worked for, and my wife doesn't see it in the 50+ companies that she does work for every year.
LOL. Wish I had mod points left.
So explain the rise of the iPhone and iPad. Both took products that already existed and made them suddenly desirable. If all it took was flashy marketing, the Microsoft Surface would be zooming off the shelves.
More importantly, does he have pancreatic cancer?
Read the CDC's own fact sheet. Anyone within about 3 feet of a victim can catch the virus through the air from a cough, sneeze, or just talking. No actual touching required, and that's only for the PREVIOUS versions of this virus. We don't fully understand this new one.
Having taught at both a community college, and a couple of for-profit mills, I can absolutely say that the quality of instruction (and of the students themselves) is much higher at the mills.
You pay a high price for that, and it's absolutely true that the sales team is much larger and better treated than faculty. But as a teacher used to the Mills' "get it done" attitude, I constantly found myself stonewalled at the local CC. Even over things as simple as getting copies made or printers/computers repaired.
At the Mills, there's a copier in the teacher's (cramped/shared) work area, and 2 more in other areas that nobody minds you using in a pinch. At the CC, there is one copier for the entire building (identical to the mill copiers). It has a 3-person staff and a 24-hour minimum turnaround for orders.
You've got me wondering... If you shipped a push-button LED device with a random on/off switch inside, such that you never know if it would actually blink when "turned on" by the user's button press... How many suckers would SWEAR it works as advertised? "Because I know she was lying and the light blinked that time!".
You obviously know nothing about Love Canal, or you wouldn't fetish-ise the role of government.
Who watches the watchers?
Seriously. I'm more concerned by NASA's apparent lack of data bandwidth from LEO. Or is the big deal that they did it with a LASER instead of using boring old radio waves?
The competitors to x86 (esp. PPC) could have scaled just as well, if not better. But they didn't have large enough markets to justify the expense of development. Whereas x86 did.
It really comes down to market share.
Surface is losing money, and XBox has been losing money for over a decade now. I wouldn't call them successes at all.
"Reproducibility and falsifiability."
The problem is when the mantle of 'Science' is used to lend credence to unproven (and often unfalsifiable) theories that affect people politically and economically. At that point 'Science' just becomes another effing religion, and is treated as such by the general public.
Well that is the real issue. Only a small fraction of the population actually 'understands' any particular subject. Including religion itself. The rest of us have to take most things on... faith. So the further you get from the folks doing the actual observation, the more that 'belief' in their theories becomes just another ignorant dogma to be batted around politically.
But scientific truth is not determined by the popularity of an idea, and neither are the timeless truths conveyed by religious institutions.
Oh, come off it! Blaming our sci/tech problems on the religious is just plain silly. The greatest century of wealth creation and technological advancement in the history of the world was the 1800s. A time when our society was PROFOUNDLY more religious than it is now. Instead, most of our real problems can be traced to a society-wide lack of long-term thinking and investment. As a people, we've gotten too used to living in the now. So of course companies don't want to invest in long-term projects of real advancement. Because that won't drive up the stock price next quarter. Better to make a small change to an existing product and kick it out the door as quick as possible to maximize the numbers for the next quarterly report. That's why China is cleaning our clock right now. They think in terms of decades. Not quarters. They're quietly and steadily winning an economic battle that most of us can't even perceive. Because our collective attention span is too short to allow us to comprehend what's happening.