This graphic is kinda dishonest, though. It excludes most of European Russia (by itself already about 13% the size of Africa and bigger then India) from Europe.
True, Russia is the biggest country, but in the list of countries ordered by size there are quite a few African countries in the top 40. Sudan, Algeria, and the DRC at 2 million KmSq; Libya at 1.7; Chad, Niger, Angola, Mali at 1.2;... er just a minute - what the hell is "European Russia"? Surely you don't mean Ukraine, Latvia, and other former Soviet states? Not a particularly popular terminology for that region:)
FAITH is belief despite a lack of proof. Science is belief in things that have proof. No I haven't been to space, but those that have can provide proof that they have.
Way to go to fail to understand both Religion and Science. Is there anything left to the world that you actually _do_ understand?
I wish I could, but I'm posting from a 386 I made in my minecraft world 1. I think I'm stuck here.
In an Inception-like twist, your computer is so slow because the game of minecraft you made the 386 in is actually running... IN ANOTHER COPY OF MINECRAFT!
There is a lot of vitriol, isn't there? I guess it's easy to confuse an issue you dislike (like gun ownership) with the people that are pro- the issue (gun owners). Also, text-based conversations lose a lot of nuance.
I hadn't thought of guns as being targets for thieves - they quite valuable, I suppose. Not just for resale, but for crimes. Pretty obvious - but maybe only if you think of a gun as more than just a weapon (IE: as a possession, as well). Sometimes I do learn things on/. it seems:)
Sorry, I meant 'funny' as in "what you said was amusing", but I guess I should have realised this is slashdot, where people come to score points, not have discussions. Yes, obviously I realise that there are atheists that hang out with religious people, and that not mentioning awkward differences is fairly common.
I'm willing to bet that you know lots of people with both guns AND carry permits, but they're well aware of your irrational fear of inanimate objects so they just don't tell you.
Funny, but there's an even more likely possibility - people that don't like guns hang out with others that feel the same way. It's like how deeply religious people might say "I just don't know ANY Atheists, I guess there aren't many of them!"...
Oh, and as for the 'irrational fear of inanimate objects', I think that fearing (say) a chair would be irrational. Fearing a gun in the hand of someone willing to shoot it is slightly more rational. I know, I know, guns don't kill people.
Think of the rocket fuel! No, no the best plan will be to form a giant human pyramid, and when the topmost human reaches a point where gravity is weak enough, he can start pulling everyone else into space.
but how can you have huge federal bureaucracies and sell carbon credits and implement strange new taxes if everybody uses the simple and elegant solution? Clearly this proposal has a fatal flaw.
I know what you mean, but this has surely the first time that a big pile of plant matter has been referred to as "elegant"...
Genetic analysis is not my area (I prefer structure to sequence) but I understood from a book called "Deep Time" on cladistics that it is really only informative to compare THREE species at a time, not two.
So, saying "chimps are similar to humans" is less meaningful than "chimps are more similar to humans than lemurs". All life forms on earth share some points of similarity.
Hmmm. Maybe that wasn't relevant to the question of : "Is X more evolved than Y?" but I guess I was thinking of the last common ancestor as being the third party in the comparison. That is : "Is X more evolved compared to LCA(X,Y) than Y?".
This is all very true of course. As a UK native, I don't know where many of the states are relative to each other. There's an episode of Friends (yeah, yeah, we all watch it sometimes...) where Ross gets increasingly annoyed because he can't even list all the states.
I've been to Belize, for example, but when telling someone about it forgot that it was in Central America, not South. I think geographical knowledge grows slowly as you get older - and visit more countries.
However, there is sometimes the impression that US citizens know more about the geography of their own country than of others around the world. I suspect that Europeans who know where all the countries of the EU are (and yet miss many states) also know where, say, Korea is. Or Saudi Arabia. The attitude of "what I know is important" is annoying - but surely there is a middle ground between listing ALL countries and having a balanced knowledge of the whole world.
Frankly, many foreigners will not know where states are because - as you say - they "don't make the news a lot":) They aren't individually important in the world, unlike the US as a whole.
End of the National Mall, west of the Washington Monument.
As soon as a read this I realised I already knew it from somewhere, despite being having never set foot in the US.
Turns out Fallout 3 is a more reliable source than Google Maps.
True, but I remember that area as crawling with super mutants. I would recommend that anyone going to the Lincoln Memorial to take along at least a chinese assault rifle, or prefereably stop off at the Museum of American History to pick up Charon and give him a minigun.
In general, brackets serve to contain elements of the equation and signify the order in they are treated - empty brackets should therefore logically denote zero
Logically denote zero? Nope. 0 = 0. Empty brackets clearly are just empty - that is, they contain no value.
Possibly GP is referring to the use of empty braces - rather than empty parenthesis - to mean the empty set. That is {} rather than (). If numbers are considered as sets, then the empty set corresponds to zero.
However the notation of () for a variable is a bit weird. Wikipedia talks about the history of variables in the entry on them. Also, in a translation of Cardano's Ars Magna by T. Richard Witmer he says:
...I have convinced myself that res had become... as much of an abstract term as is our x and that... [it] is a more accurate reflection of what Cardano meant than "thing" would be
My point is that either a word (like 'res') or a letter/symbol like 'x' has nearly always been used for a variable. Obviously the confusion over the meaning of '=' is different to the confusing use of "()".
There are aliens out there, in the deep vastness of space and time. Just as somewhere there is a smart intelligent girl that totally digs D&D. To bad she was born 200 years ago.
There are IIRC only 3 of me on earth. Mostly because my ancestors changed the spelling of their name to sound less German when they immigrated, but they didn't know enough English for it to make any sense.
And no, my user name is not even remotely related to that name.
Well, if we're playing the "who was the rarer name" game, then I probably win. I only know of one other person (on the internet) with my first name.
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This graphic is kinda dishonest, though. It excludes most of European Russia (by itself already about 13% the size of Africa and bigger then India) from Europe.
True, Russia is the biggest country, but in the list of countries ordered by size there are quite a few African countries in the top 40. Sudan, Algeria, and the DRC at 2 million KmSq; Libya at 1.7; Chad, Niger, Angola, Mali at 1.2; ... er just a minute - what the hell is "European Russia"? Surely you don't mean Ukraine, Latvia, and other former Soviet states? Not a particularly popular terminology for that region :)
Twitter ... consumes and distributes everything from minor status updates to breaking news.
Minor status updates are just that - minor. 24hr news networks can cover the breaking news.
The "everything new is a waste of time" attitude just makes you sound like a dottering old fool.
There are new things that are not a waste of time. Twitter is not among them
FAITH is belief despite a lack of proof. Science is belief in things that have proof. No I haven't been to space, but those that have can provide proof that they have.
Way to go to fail to understand both Religion and Science. Is there anything left to the world that you actually _do_ understand?
I wish I could, but I'm posting from a 386 I made in my minecraft world 1. I think I'm stuck here.
In an Inception-like twist, your computer is so slow because the game of minecraft you made the 386 in is actually running ... IN ANOTHER COPY OF MINECRAFT!
Move over M. Night Shyamalan...
There is a lot of vitriol, isn't there? I guess it's easy to confuse an issue you dislike (like gun ownership) with the people that are pro- the issue (gun owners). Also, text-based conversations lose a lot of nuance.
I hadn't thought of guns as being targets for thieves - they quite valuable, I suppose. Not just for resale, but for crimes. Pretty obvious - but maybe only if you think of a gun as more than just a weapon (IE: as a possession, as well). Sometimes I do learn things on /. it seems :)
Sorry, I meant 'funny' as in "what you said was amusing", but I guess I should have realised this is slashdot, where people come to score points, not have discussions. Yes, obviously I realise that there are atheists that hang out with religious people, and that not mentioning awkward differences is fairly common.
What are they thinking?
Seriously? I mean I may be a wussy European that will never defend myself from government tanks with my .22 rifle, but even I realise a basic fact:
SHOOTING A GUN IS FUN
I would think that was pretty obvious...
I'm willing to bet that you know lots of people with both guns AND carry permits, but they're well aware of your irrational fear of inanimate objects so they just don't tell you.
Funny, but there's an even more likely possibility - people that don't like guns hang out with others that feel the same way. It's like how deeply religious people might say "I just don't know ANY Atheists, I guess there aren't many of them!"...
Oh, and as for the 'irrational fear of inanimate objects', I think that fearing (say) a chair would be irrational. Fearing a gun in the hand of someone willing to shoot it is slightly more rational. I know, I know, guns don't kill people.
Think of the rocket fuel! No, no the best plan will be to form a giant human pyramid, and when the topmost human reaches a point where gravity is weak enough, he can start pulling everyone else into space.
Then we all just drift peacefully off...
Last time I was in London (some years now), I was appalled at the traffic, and the disorganized nature of the city's layout
Well, we tried burning it down in 1666, but that didn't quite work. Paris did a better job, but they had Napoleon.
but how can you have huge federal bureaucracies and sell carbon credits and implement strange new taxes if everybody uses the simple and elegant solution? Clearly this proposal has a fatal flaw.
I know what you mean, but this has surely the first time that a big pile of plant matter has been referred to as "elegant"...
Genetic analysis is not my area (I prefer structure to sequence) but I understood from a book called "Deep Time" on cladistics that it is really only informative to compare THREE species at a time, not two.
So, saying "chimps are similar to humans" is less meaningful than "chimps are more similar to humans than lemurs". All life forms on earth share some points of similarity.
Hmmm. Maybe that wasn't relevant to the question of : "Is X more evolved than Y?" but I guess I was thinking of the last common ancestor as being the third party in the comparison. That is : "Is X more evolved compared to LCA(X,Y) than Y?".
Completely off-topic but your sig should read "Did you exchange a walk on part in The Wall for a lead role in a cage?". Look up the lyrics.
No, it's definitely "war" not "The Wall". That wouldn't even make sense, anyway. Not that Pink Floyd always made sense...
This is all very true of course. As a UK native, I don't know where many of the states are relative to each other. There's an episode of Friends (yeah, yeah, we all watch it sometimes...) where Ross gets increasingly annoyed because he can't even list all the states.
I've been to Belize, for example, but when telling someone about it forgot that it was in Central America, not South. I think geographical knowledge grows slowly as you get older - and visit more countries.
However, there is sometimes the impression that US citizens know more about the geography of their own country than of others around the world. I suspect that Europeans who know where all the countries of the EU are (and yet miss many states) also know where, say, Korea is. Or Saudi Arabia. The attitude of "what I know is important" is annoying - but surely there is a middle ground between listing ALL countries and having a balanced knowledge of the whole world.
Frankly, many foreigners will not know where states are because - as you say - they "don't make the news a lot" :) They aren't individually important in the world, unlike the US as a whole.
End of the National Mall, west of the Washington Monument.
As soon as a read this I realised I already knew it from somewhere, despite being having never set foot in the US. Turns out Fallout 3 is a more reliable source than Google Maps.
True, but I remember that area as crawling with super mutants. I would recommend that anyone going to the Lincoln Memorial to take along at least a chinese assault rifle, or prefereably stop off at the Museum of American History to pick up Charon and give him a minigun.
I don't know, does his set have an invertible, associative operation that provides closure?
Yes, the group is G = (?, L) where '?' is the operation 'Is that Lil' Wayne?' and L is the one-element set {Lil' Wayne}. He is his own identity.
___, this is very ____ to do.
I can find at least two solutions :
In general, brackets serve to contain elements of the equation and signify the order in they are treated - empty brackets should therefore logically denote zero
Logically denote zero? Nope. 0 = 0. Empty brackets clearly are just empty - that is, they contain no value.
Possibly GP is referring to the use of empty braces - rather than empty parenthesis - to mean the empty set. That is {} rather than (). If numbers are considered as sets, then the empty set corresponds to zero.
However the notation of () for a variable is a bit weird. Wikipedia talks about the history of variables in the entry on them. Also, in a translation of Cardano's Ars Magna by T. Richard Witmer he says:
...I have convinced myself that res had become ... as much of an abstract term as is our x and that ... [it] is a more accurate reflection of what Cardano meant than "thing" would be
My point is that either a word (like 'res') or a letter/symbol like 'x' has nearly always been used for a variable. Obviously the confusion over the meaning of '=' is different to the confusing use of "()".
So she's a vampire, too? Cool.
Nah, just a fat goth
As a resident of London's Camden Town, I am not unfamiliar with this type of woman...
There are aliens out there, in the deep vastness of space and time. Just as somewhere there is a smart intelligent girl that totally digs D&D. To bad she was born 200 years ago.
So she's a vampire, too? Cool.
There is nothing worse than the fist bump. I promise you, everyone you fist bump hates it and the office is the last place you should it.
Furthermore, there is this rule to follow with regards to fist bumps: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/3/7/
I wish they would just allow us to use regular expressions and be done with it ...
There's a good reason why not - because of regex DDOS with people inputting "N(o|oo)" to match "Nooooooo....ooooo!" (or similar).
There are IIRC only 3 of me on earth. Mostly because my ancestors changed the spelling of their name to sound less German when they immigrated, but they didn't know enough English for it to make any sense.
And no, my user name is not even remotely related to that name.
Well, if we're playing the "who was the rarer name" game, then I probably win. I only know of one other person (on the internet) with my first name.
...and yes, that is also my slashdot username :)
I came here to make the same correction. What lowbrow editor posted this summary with such an ass-backwards statement in it?
What is worse is that the majority of the submission is copy and paste. All except the "[Aristotle]" inclusion.
So the ONE THING that was added (apart from a couple of links in sentences circumfixing the quote) is wrong.
Except single-edge swords.
Or "knives" as most people call them.
Oh, no, wait. Katanas.