Look at this photograph. It depicts Einstein working with various equations.
Do you suppose he knew what the operators did? That he knew differentiation and integration rules? That he knew algebra? Or are you suggesting that he went back to his 101 textbooks at every step.
It is the most absurd thing to use Einstein to defend willful ignorance.
Yes, you do actually have to know stuff to learn how to think, guide your intuition, solve problems efficiently, and discuss topics intelligently. Get over it. Learning and understanding takes work beyond typing your query into Google or Alpha.
Back in the day, people submitted genuinely challenging questions to this forum. Today, we are bombarded with dull queries that are best answered by Let Me Google That For You or Consumer Reports. I think this is even worse than “How do I securely erase hard drives so that first world governments with infinite resources cannot recover my porn and warez collection?” for the umpteenth time in that little novel discussion will ensue. We are talking about consumer-grade hardware here, and entry level at that.
Seriously, Mister Novice Photographer: if you are just that, you go to your local future shop, find the cameras that look serious (usually having sexy black cases, featuring bigger lenses, and not made with plastic) and fall within your budget. Does the word Nikon or Cannon appear anywhere on the one you like? Great. Buy that one. Then go read books that feature terms like lighting, focus, exposure, and composition—because those are the concerns that result in truly good photographs.
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Your examples are misapplications. Science, and its products, are tools which may be misused. And I have not fallen into the “no true Scotsman” fallacy; science is, for instance, the reason we no longer perform lobotomies or practice eugenics. In contrast, dogmas originating from our major religions do—explicitly—command adherents to perform cruel acts.
Does science defend those practices? Is there some scientific precept that states: it is just and good to experiment upon or lobotomize humans? Are there scientific rules that dictate that physics, biology, and chemistry must be used for warfare?
If your data was really that sensitive, you would have encrypted it in the first place. Then there would be no need to wipe the disks. And you could have used Google, but you wanted attention, so you brought this old question back to Ask Slashdot for yet another unnecessary run.
Religion, magic, superstition, or whatever other flimflam you might imagine can not—in any fashion—mix with science. Why some people work to reconcile them is beyond me. As we learn more about the world through science, religion becomes less plausible. At the same time, religion can offer nothing to science—not even moral guidance.
You are wrong. These comparisons are apples to apples, not “proper” versus “improper” code. I found that link from The Java is Faster than C++ and C++ Sucks Unbiased Benchmark, which satirically demonstrates how people may arrive at flawed perceptions about performance.
Generally speaking, experience teaches engineers that languages are not slow. Algorithms and execution environments are slow. Bad code with good compilers can be fast. Good code with bad compilers can be slow. However, languages do affect developer performance.
In the simplest sense, your belief that any language is slow relative to another is easily refuted. Consider two programs written in language X and Y respectively. Both programs produce identical output for identical input. Suppose we then introduce machine translation that compiles X into Y (or vice versa) before compilation. Or, alternatively, our respective compilers for X and Y produce identical output.
The following comes from Revelation 22:18-19, NKJV.
18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
And from Deuteronomy 4:1-3, NKJV.
4:1 "Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you. 2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take anything from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
I know about some stories, such as one where the parents fed their child soy milk and apple juice. That is obviously incompletely. So, please cite your sources. Tell us which story, tell us what the mother was eating, and then tell us what nutrients the nursing child could not get from the breast milk. Meanwhile, please prove that your isolated case applies generally to everyone eating plant-based diets.
Numerous peer-reviewed studies and clinical trials have found plant-based diets have many benefits, including (but not limited to) reduced risk for heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. I am vegan myself, and I advocate strongly for the diet. (Additionally, I personally consider it essential in achieving my peak athletic fitness.) If you wish to promote this diet and lifestyle, please do not make outlandish claims about what it can do. There is no evidence that plant-based diets will treat nervous or skeletal-muscle system damage. It is no silver bullet, and, if you recast veganism as such, you will hurt the cause.
They have application stores, music stores, cloud services, software for desktops and servers. They do not sell computers, but Windows can be used on any computer—even Macs!
Flash is dead. As is the parallel port. The floppy disk. The CRT. And many more archaic technological inventions that have come and gone over the years. We have HTML 5. It is standards-based. It is fast. It eases development. Can we finally get over ourselves and accept that Apple have been dismissing Flash because it is simply not useful for low-powered, touch-controlled devices?
I am speculating, but this information could tell certain copyright cartels where to target their legislative action. Considering that risk, should these data be made public?
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Look at this photograph. It depicts Einstein working with various equations.
Do you suppose he knew what the operators did? That he knew differentiation and integration rules? That he knew algebra? Or are you suggesting that he went back to his 101 textbooks at every step.
It is the most absurd thing to use Einstein to defend willful ignorance.
Yes, you do actually have to know stuff to learn how to think, guide your intuition, solve problems efficiently, and discuss topics intelligently. Get over it. Learning and understanding takes work beyond typing your query into Google or Alpha.
Back in the day, people submitted genuinely challenging questions to this forum. Today, we are bombarded with dull queries that are best answered by Let Me Google That For You or Consumer Reports. I think this is even worse than “How do I securely erase hard drives so that first world governments with infinite resources cannot recover my porn and warez collection?” for the umpteenth time in that little novel discussion will ensue. We are talking about consumer-grade hardware here, and entry level at that.
Seriously, Mister Novice Photographer: if you are just that, you go to your local future shop, find the cameras that look serious (usually having sexy black cases, featuring bigger lenses, and not made with plastic) and fall within your budget. Does the word Nikon or Cannon appear anywhere on the one you like? Great. Buy that one. Then go read books that feature terms like lighting, focus, exposure, and composition— because those are the concerns that result in truly good photographs .
Next on Ask Slashdot: which MacBook Air is right for me?
They are not uncompromising, just realistic.
Because they want to develop software.
Your examples are misapplications. Science, and its products, are tools which may be misused. And I have not fallen into the “no true Scotsman” fallacy; science is, for instance, the reason we no longer perform lobotomies or practice eugenics. In contrast, dogmas originating from our major religions do—explicitly—command adherents to perform cruel acts.
The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2 , by Jane Poynter, is highly relevant. Human relationships break down in surprising ways under these conditions.
Does science defend those practices? Is there some scientific precept that states: it is just and good to experiment upon or lobotomize humans? Are there scientific rules that dictate that physics, biology, and chemistry must be used for warfare?
Please list some.
You can, yourself, verify scientific claims. All it takes is time for the right technologies to become available to you.
You will be on the chopping block the moment circumstances necessitate it.
If your data was really that sensitive, you would have encrypted it in the first place. Then there would be no need to wipe the disks. And you could have used Google, but you wanted attention, so you brought this old question back to Ask Slashdot for yet another unnecessary run.
Religion, magic, superstition, or whatever other flimflam you might imagine can not—in any fashion—mix with science. Why some people work to reconcile them is beyond me. As we learn more about the world through science, religion becomes less plausible. At the same time, religion can offer nothing to science—not even moral guidance.
Go investigate the relative performance yourself.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
You are wrong. These comparisons are apples to apples, not “proper” versus “improper” code. I found that link from The Java is Faster than C++ and C++ Sucks Unbiased Benchmark, which satirically demonstrates how people may arrive at flawed perceptions about performance.
Generally speaking, experience teaches engineers that languages are not slow. Algorithms and execution environments are slow. Bad code with good compilers can be fast. Good code with bad compilers can be slow. However, languages do affect developer performance.
In the simplest sense, your belief that any language is slow relative to another is easily refuted. Consider two programs written in language X and Y respectively. Both programs produce identical output for identical input. Suppose we then introduce machine translation that compiles X into Y (or vice versa) before compilation. Or, alternatively, our respective compilers for X and Y produce identical output.
See what I did there?
Did she ever act unlawfully?
One tool is better than another when it helps you accomplish the same task with less effort.
The following comes from Revelation 22:18-19, NKJV.
18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
And from Deuteronomy 4:1-3, NKJV.
4:1 "Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you. 2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take anything from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
And so on.
Please stop using them.
Please explain how proper vegan diets are difficult.
I know about some stories, such as one where the parents fed their child soy milk and apple juice. That is obviously incompletely. So, please cite your sources. Tell us which story, tell us what the mother was eating, and then tell us what nutrients the nursing child could not get from the breast milk. Meanwhile, please prove that your isolated case applies generally to everyone eating plant-based diets.
Numerous peer-reviewed studies and clinical trials have found plant-based diets have many benefits, including (but not limited to) reduced risk for heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. I am vegan myself, and I advocate strongly for the diet. (Additionally, I personally consider it essential in achieving my peak athletic fitness.) If you wish to promote this diet and lifestyle, please do not make outlandish claims about what it can do. There is no evidence that plant-based diets will treat nervous or skeletal-muscle system damage. It is no silver bullet, and, if you recast veganism as such, you will hurt the cause.
The degree it is accepted in exchange for goods and services.
They have application stores, music stores, cloud services, software for desktops and servers. They do not sell computers, but Windows can be used on any computer—even Macs!
Flash is dead. As is the parallel port. The floppy disk. The CRT. And many more archaic technological inventions that have come and gone over the years. We have HTML 5. It is standards-based. It is fast. It eases development. Can we finally get over ourselves and accept that Apple have been dismissing Flash because it is simply not useful for low-powered, touch-controlled devices?
The sound you just heard was an electric plane, carrying the joke, flying right over your head (at 30,000 feet).
I am speculating, but this information could tell certain copyright cartels where to target their legislative action. Considering that risk, should these data be made public?