Either way, there's a serious need for patent reform. Unfortunately, that's a standard democrat white bread (lawyers, yum) and the republicans veered off of of their small government market freedom in favor of big business pandering years ago... So I can't imagine either party trying to fix this right now.
It just seemed to me that you were asserting that an entity (person or paiting) is defined more by it's information content that it's molecules. I was answering that question a while ago to some friends who insisted it was a different person while I contended that it was not, so I was just curious to hear your answer.
The problem with sharing the views of the wackos is it obscures the truth. How many people do you know who still believe there's scientific controversy around global warming? It's just people shouting "No! No! No!" without any scientific backing who've given doubt to the whole concept. If your science isn't valid (evidence driven, scientific method), it doesn't belong in the classroom.
Well, if you actually read the article they are pretty much just picking up impulses to move. They're taping into the brains random number generator as it's running and not surprisingly it's working while your thinking about being random. Even better is that they have a 70% chance of getting the hand correct in their guess. 50% is blind guessing, 100% is actually reading it. That means that have about 40% of actually detecting and a 30% chance of guessing right. Tell me when you can measure my answer to a math problem before I hit the buzzer to say I know the answer.
In a location where malaria is prevalent the absolute best gene makeup is one out of two active sickle cell genes. If you have less, Malaria is much more dangerous. If you have more you have a debilitating disease. So if both of your parents are one of two, you have a 50% chance of being one of two yourself. If your parents are one of two and zero of two or one of two and two of two you have a 25% chance of being one of two. If your parents are zero of two and two of two you have a 100% chance of being one of two.
What all those odds come down to is this: Unless both of your parents are in undesirable gene make ups you never have better than a 50% chance of getting a desirable gene make up. There is no pre-conception test that leads to desirable results.
I'm not talking about this helping Americans, I'm talking about the usefulness of embryo picking for people in areas where malaria is a real problem.
Yeah, I think the lesbians would get shafted because more of their potential partners would get lured into marrying rich as a trophy wife. So I guess most of the girls win, the lesbians don't.
This technique could allow selecting for 1/2 sickle cell in Africa though, no longer will 25% of their children be SOL one way and another 25% SOL the other way.
Wait... Whut? Wine-and-cheese liberals don't want to regulate this. Conservative christians want to ban this.
This is fertility clinic stuff, very popular with conservatives, moderates, and liberals (despite the same 'loss of life' objected to in stem cell research). In terms of loss of life, you still made 10 eggs and use 1, you still threw away 9.
More guys have to go gay, and those societies reproduce less and die out. What's the problem with that? The girls get an absolute win in this situation because guys are willing to bend over backwards to get one of the few girls around.
Maybe we should like CA certs because it deters one attack, MITM. Yes, Alice can still be hacked, yes Bob's site can still be hacked, but detering MITM is one fewer avenue Evel has to get to the Bahamas. Using self-signed certs makes MITM easier than I'd like. The harder we can make it to steal our money, the fewer people will do it (simple economics here, if there's a higher knowledge/time cost to steal a dollar fewer people will do it).
Seems Pelosi would be the kind of person you'd want a speaker, the kind who can utilize favors effectively to get the party synchronized. I have to say, I'm not familiar with her voting record, so maybe she's a dud, maybe not.
Ask the ancient greeks if the new kids who can't remember jack are stupid. The answer they'll give is yes. Well, they would if they weren't dead and spoke the same language as you.
One group having a few more or less than perfect statistical average is really no surprise. Anywhoo, it'd be interesting to ask Slashdot and news.google for their user stats and see if geeks really do use linux more than the general population.
The thing that killed it for me (was reading the books before buying them), wasn't Eladrin or Dragonborn, wasn't removal of Gnomes or Half-Orcs, wasn't removal of the bard, barbarian, and monk, wasn't the new stupid 5 point alignment... It was the cool-downs on fighter abilities....
WTF? Seriously? WTF!? Since when does any reasonably intelligent maneuver (read something where you're not hamstringing yourself) leave you unable to perform it again? Shield Wall or Last Stand or Shield Slam or Revenge or Blood Fury or Mortal Strike or Rampage or any other cooldown ability for warriors in WoW makes some level of sense because it's a video game and you really don't want to spam the same button forever, but in D&D? WTF? That was when I closed the book and walked away.
I was in college recently. A lot of kids are getting Macs these days. Like a lot. Anecdotal, I know, but something to back up that observation.
4.5/5 is the ratio if you dispute the first point. 4/5 or even 3/5 might be a realistic number for geeks.
GWTK, Flex, Java, Air, there's plenty of things they can use to make cross platform easily, and like h4rm pointed out, the graphics it uses are pretty primitive.
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Either way, there's a serious need for patent reform. Unfortunately, that's a standard democrat white bread (lawyers, yum) and the republicans veered off of of their small government market freedom in favor of big business pandering years ago... So I can't imagine either party trying to fix this right now.
It just seemed to me that you were asserting that an entity (person or paiting) is defined more by it's information content that it's molecules. I was answering that question a while ago to some friends who insisted it was a different person while I contended that it was not, so I was just curious to hear your answer.
So then the question is, if your atomic information gets stored, and then you get hit by a bus, and someone reassembles you... Is it still you?
I've always thought it's be cool to have a graveyard where you got brought as a pile of ash, buried, and then had a tree planted on top of you.
Ah, you're correct on the percentages. So it's never better than 50%, never worse than 50% assuming at least one optimal parent.
The problem with sharing the views of the wackos is it obscures the truth. How many people do you know who still believe there's scientific controversy around global warming? It's just people shouting "No! No! No!" without any scientific backing who've given doubt to the whole concept. If your science isn't valid (evidence driven, scientific method), it doesn't belong in the classroom.
Personally, I really like playing devout religious characters in RPs, especially if they have a real god, but sometimes without one too.
Well, if you actually read the article they are pretty much just picking up impulses to move. They're taping into the brains random number generator as it's running and not surprisingly it's working while your thinking about being random. Even better is that they have a 70% chance of getting the hand correct in their guess. 50% is blind guessing, 100% is actually reading it. That means that have about 40% of actually detecting and a 30% chance of guessing right. Tell me when you can measure my answer to a math problem before I hit the buzzer to say I know the answer.
You can still be masculine and not forget her birthday...
In a location where malaria is prevalent the absolute best gene makeup is one out of two active sickle cell genes. If you have less, Malaria is much more dangerous. If you have more you have a debilitating disease. So if both of your parents are one of two, you have a 50% chance of being one of two yourself. If your parents are one of two and zero of two or one of two and two of two you have a 25% chance of being one of two. If your parents are zero of two and two of two you have a 100% chance of being one of two.
What all those odds come down to is this: Unless both of your parents are in undesirable gene make ups you never have better than a 50% chance of getting a desirable gene make up. There is no pre-conception test that leads to desirable results.
I'm not talking about this helping Americans, I'm talking about the usefulness of embryo picking for people in areas where malaria is a real problem.
Yeah, I think the lesbians would get shafted because more of their potential partners would get lured into marrying rich as a trophy wife. So I guess most of the girls win, the lesbians don't.
This technique could allow selecting for 1/2 sickle cell in Africa though, no longer will 25% of their children be SOL one way and another 25% SOL the other way.
Wait... Whut? Wine-and-cheese liberals don't want to regulate this. Conservative christians want to ban this.
This is fertility clinic stuff, very popular with conservatives, moderates, and liberals (despite the same 'loss of life' objected to in stem cell research). In terms of loss of life, you still made 10 eggs and use 1, you still threw away 9.
Nope. I would have dropped you for one of the other eggs. Sorry.
More guys have to go gay, and those societies reproduce less and die out. What's the problem with that? The girls get an absolute win in this situation because guys are willing to bend over backwards to get one of the few girls around.
Ah. Thanks.
Maybe we should like CA certs because it deters one attack, MITM. Yes, Alice can still be hacked, yes Bob's site can still be hacked, but detering MITM is one fewer avenue Evel has to get to the Bahamas. Using self-signed certs makes MITM easier than I'd like. The harder we can make it to steal our money, the fewer people will do it (simple economics here, if there's a higher knowledge/time cost to steal a dollar fewer people will do it).
What's the job of the Speaker then?
Seems Pelosi would be the kind of person you'd want a speaker, the kind who can utilize favors effectively to get the party synchronized. I have to say, I'm not familiar with her voting record, so maybe she's a dud, maybe not.
Sounds about right, although I can't condemn or endorse your methods in particular without seeing them more. Skepticism is a gift from your parents.
Ask the ancient greeks if the new kids who can't remember jack are stupid. The answer they'll give is yes. Well, they would if they weren't dead and spoke the same language as you.
One group having a few more or less than perfect statistical average is really no surprise. Anywhoo, it'd be interesting to ask Slashdot and news.google for their user stats and see if geeks really do use linux more than the general population.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050327-4738.html
Wizard cool-downs makes sense. Fighter cool-downs... Eh... Not so much.
The thing that killed it for me (was reading the books before buying them), wasn't Eladrin or Dragonborn, wasn't removal of Gnomes or Half-Orcs, wasn't removal of the bard, barbarian, and monk, wasn't the new stupid 5 point alignment... It was the cool-downs on fighter abilities....
WTF? Seriously? WTF!? Since when does any reasonably intelligent maneuver (read something where you're not hamstringing yourself) leave you unable to perform it again? Shield Wall or Last Stand or Shield Slam or Revenge or Blood Fury or Mortal Strike or Rampage or any other cooldown ability for warriors in WoW makes some level of sense because it's a video game and you really don't want to spam the same button forever, but in D&D? WTF? That was when I closed the book and walked away.
I was in college recently. A lot of kids are getting Macs these days. Like a lot. Anecdotal, I know, but something to back up that observation.
4.5/5 is the ratio if you dispute the first point. 4/5 or even 3/5 might be a realistic number for geeks.
GWTK, Flex, Java, Air, there's plenty of things they can use to make cross platform easily, and like h4rm pointed out, the graphics it uses are pretty primitive.