13-year-olds inventing things just for sheer awesomeness is always great, but this 13-year-old didn't invent anything. He just used the Bang Goes the Theory design.
In many ways, it's the sort of cherry-picked, onslaught of soundbites like Svartalf provided that shutdown all rational, independent thought in people who lack cynicism, eventually creating enough unintelligible rage that society reacts broadly by locking down freedoms and independence.
Nonsense. MOST (non-mathematical) word puzzles are based on challenging assumptions inherent in colloquial English. They are designed to be misleading.
"Two halves make a whole, so you climb through the whole."
"The doctor is the boy's mother."
"His hair didn't get wet because the man was bald."
"Bob and Jan are fish."
Whenever a puzzle is presented as a simple setup, the puzzler should always consider each word as a clue. With regards to the given puzzle, the puzzler naturally assumes in colloquial English that, if the speaker mentions a set of characteristics applying to a group, the speaker would not intentionally leave out members of the group that have those same characteristics. In my opinion, that's a typical assumption challenged by word puzzles.
Consider this statement: "I have two children with birthday parties coming up during the week. One of whom is a boy born on a Tuesday. The other is also a boy born on a Tuesday, but he's already graduated college so we don't need to get him a clown." It's not improper, just inefficient.
Even more to the point, the health risk for stereopsis from 3D is, according to the article, caused by the two separate images projected at each eye. Not all 3D technology works that way. Popular 3D in film and television use glasses, but 3D images can be projected or simulated without any eye-wear. I'm not sure about the effects of all competing 3D technologies currently being considered for consumer televisions, but true holographic video does not suffer from that problem.
Even assuming you're correct that exposing a high school physics class to CFD software will fail at teaching them anything about fluid mechanics, you are still ignoring the more important benefit such exposure will have: sparking interest. I would bet that more than a few students would see the computer model and think, "wow! I wonder how other shapes would interact with airflow?". That right there is where the river of knowledge springs from.
ZIP+4 can be more than enough information to identify residents in apartment buildings. In my building, each 4 digit extension covers exactly 2 apartments.
The Daily Show mentioned some other journalist's report that this upset may have been caused primarily by Alvin's name coming first alphabetically. So it could be political conspiracy, software glitch, or just human stupidity...
That's the real issue. Why were there no robust contingency plans for an oil spill in place before off-shore drilling began? How were oil companies even given permission to drill before they demonstrated reliable containment and recovery plans with the necessary materials/products already stockpiled? The risk of spillage has always been a hot topic with offshore drilling. It's bullshit that solutions to the problem are only being worked on after the fact.
The disparity of skills is a reoccurring issue in games that cater to both casual and hardcore gamers. Not only do hardcore gamers have the advantage of having spent more time earning those leet rewards, but have also honed their skills more in that time. In games were skill matters and there is no way to segregate the skilled from the less-skilled (e.g., ranked games), people complain. It really is no different than complaining about paying for better gear. "I have to work and don't have time to commit 8 hours a day to playing this game... it's no fair that I have to compete against these people!"
Consumer HP products always come laden with ugly, slow, intrusive bloatware under the guise of enhancing user experience. Even their basic printer/scanner software has the tendency to crash and clog up your computer memory. The HP tablet will be about as attractive (and as useful) as the advertisement pullout from a newspaper.
Vonnegut, Twain, and Swift wrote satire, but if their satirical works used copyrighted material from other people, they would be infringing the copyright. Those authors, to my knowledge, did not use any pre-existing copyrighted works to write their famous satires. Satire is fine - it just isn't an excuse to ignore copyright.
Applying Chuck DeVore's logic, if the song's copyright owner publicly acknowledges his or her support of copyright protection, then as long as I believe in the opposite cause - no copyright protection - I can use and perform the song to my heart's content as a parody.
AC is simply pointing out the underlying truth that beauty is not in the eye of the beholder and that artistic quality can be rated on an absolute, objective value scale.
Except in the universe of physical-dimensions, when a body is moving in one dimension with a constant velocity, that velocity is not affected by the body's movements or even accelerations in any other dimension (unless, of course, the environment changes such that it now impedes the first dimension's constant motion). A spaceship in frictionless space moving at a constant velocity forward along the Z-axis will continue moving along the Z-axis with the same velocity even if maneuvering rockets give the spaceship new velocity along the X or Y axis.
Even under your own hypothesis, time must be different than space since time is the only dimension that must lose "speed" when velocity is increased in a different dimension. Consider a spaceship moving at 50% the speed of light along the Z-axis. Adding substantial velocity along the X or Y axis would increase the spaceship's overall speed, and the time experienced by those withing the spaceship would be slower (in agreement with your "conservation of space-time" hypothesis), but there would be no change to the velocity along the Z-axis. Losing that velocity in the X or Y axes would result in restoring the speed of time (as experienced by the passengers) to its previous rate, but not affect the velocity along the Z-axis. Therefore the time "axis" has special properties not shared by the several space axes.
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13-year-olds inventing things just for sheer awesomeness is always great, but this 13-year-old didn't invent anything. He just used the Bang Goes the Theory design.
In many ways, it's the sort of cherry-picked, onslaught of soundbites like Svartalf provided that shutdown all rational, independent thought in people who lack cynicism, eventually creating enough unintelligible rage that society reacts broadly by locking down freedoms and independence.
That's the perfect riddle to demonstrate the nature of the problem everyone's been discussing.
Nonsense. MOST (non-mathematical) word puzzles are based on challenging assumptions inherent in colloquial English. They are designed to be misleading.
Whenever a puzzle is presented as a simple setup, the puzzler should always consider each word as a clue. With regards to the given puzzle, the puzzler naturally assumes in colloquial English that, if the speaker mentions a set of characteristics applying to a group, the speaker would not intentionally leave out members of the group that have those same characteristics. In my opinion, that's a typical assumption challenged by word puzzles.
Consider this statement: "I have two children with birthday parties coming up during the week. One of whom is a boy born on a Tuesday. The other is also a boy born on a Tuesday, but he's already graduated college so we don't need to get him a clown." It's not improper, just inefficient.
Even more to the point, the health risk for stereopsis from 3D is, according to the article, caused by the two separate images projected at each eye. Not all 3D technology works that way. Popular 3D in film and television use glasses, but 3D images can be projected or simulated without any eye-wear. I'm not sure about the effects of all competing 3D technologies currently being considered for consumer televisions, but true holographic video does not suffer from that problem.
Even assuming you're correct that exposing a high school physics class to CFD software will fail at teaching them anything about fluid mechanics, you are still ignoring the more important benefit such exposure will have: sparking interest. I would bet that more than a few students would see the computer model and think, "wow! I wonder how other shapes would interact with airflow?". That right there is where the river of knowledge springs from.
ZIP+4 can be more than enough information to identify residents in apartment buildings. In my building, each 4 digit extension covers exactly 2 apartments.
The Daily Show mentioned some other journalist's report that this upset may have been caused primarily by Alvin's name coming first alphabetically. So it could be political conspiracy, software glitch, or just human stupidity...
nothing more than an expensive liability.
Fixed that for you.
It also questioned what will happen when we can do direct gene therapy to improve things like muscle strength/speed.
Clearly, the answer to that is that Steve Jobs will have to develop a better iPhone.
That's the real issue. Why were there no robust contingency plans for an oil spill in place before off-shore drilling began? How were oil companies even given permission to drill before they demonstrated reliable containment and recovery plans with the necessary materials/products already stockpiled? The risk of spillage has always been a hot topic with offshore drilling. It's bullshit that solutions to the problem are only being worked on after the fact.
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The disparity of skills is a reoccurring issue in games that cater to both casual and hardcore gamers. Not only do hardcore gamers have the advantage of having spent more time earning those leet rewards, but have also honed their skills more in that time. In games were skill matters and there is no way to segregate the skilled from the less-skilled (e.g., ranked games), people complain. It really is no different than complaining about paying for better gear. "I have to work and don't have time to commit 8 hours a day to playing this game... it's no fair that I have to compete against these people!"
Games are copyrightable, but only for the visual and narrative elements, not the game mechanics.
... and all this time I've been sending a royalty check to The Tetris Company every time I rotated a falling game piece....
Consumer HP products always come laden with ugly, slow, intrusive bloatware under the guise of enhancing user experience. Even their basic printer/scanner software has the tendency to crash and clog up your computer memory. The HP tablet will be about as attractive (and as useful) as the advertisement pullout from a newspaper.
If we can figure out what's going on here in less than five minutes, surely the courts could reach the same conclusion within one month...
I saw the early release. Not very good. Seagal movies are only believable when he's a cook.
Vonnegut, Twain, and Swift wrote satire, but if their satirical works used copyrighted material from other people, they would be infringing the copyright. Those authors, to my knowledge, did not use any pre-existing copyrighted works to write their famous satires. Satire is fine - it just isn't an excuse to ignore copyright.
Applying Chuck DeVore's logic, if the song's copyright owner publicly acknowledges his or her support of copyright protection, then as long as I believe in the opposite cause - no copyright protection - I can use and perform the song to my heart's content as a parody.
AC is simply pointing out the underlying truth that beauty is not in the eye of the beholder and that artistic quality can be rated on an absolute, objective value scale.
*Warning: Car Analogy*
Just because one car in the lot is full of explosives doesn't mean the keys to all the cars in the lot should be handed over.
Besides, if the encryption key was publicized, the government would just begin re-encrypting all the sensitive data with a new key.
Works for the DS
IDT-1000?
Skynet sends Arnold Schwarzenegger back in time to fight aliens?
Except in the universe of physical-dimensions, when a body is moving in one dimension with a constant velocity, that velocity is not affected by the body's movements or even accelerations in any other dimension (unless, of course, the environment changes such that it now impedes the first dimension's constant motion). A spaceship in frictionless space moving at a constant velocity forward along the Z-axis will continue moving along the Z-axis with the same velocity even if maneuvering rockets give the spaceship new velocity along the X or Y axis.
Even under your own hypothesis, time must be different than space since time is the only dimension that must lose "speed" when velocity is increased in a different dimension. Consider a spaceship moving at 50% the speed of light along the Z-axis. Adding substantial velocity along the X or Y axis would increase the spaceship's overall speed, and the time experienced by those withing the spaceship would be slower (in agreement with your "conservation of space-time" hypothesis), but there would be no change to the velocity along the Z-axis. Losing that velocity in the X or Y axes would result in restoring the speed of time (as experienced by the passengers) to its previous rate, but not affect the velocity along the Z-axis. Therefore the time "axis" has special properties not shared by the several space axes.