You're talking out your ass. My Droid X2 has a dock in my car, another at my bedside, and doesn't show up as a "dumb disk drive" when connected to my computer.
One of my friends is working on a doctorate in high energy particle physics at LSU. Their labs are critically underfunded, and they've been laying off technicians. It's at the point where a lot of experiments are forced to use substandard materials because they lack the resources to do things right. But hey, they beat the Crimson Tide yesterday, so it's all worth it, right?
College is where you move from practical, demonstrable stuff to abstract theoretical stuff, like Newton's laws of motion to quantum mechanics,etc
While that's true, a lot of students wash out before reaching quantum or similar topics. I'd say the problem is more that college is where you move from qualitative descriptions of physical processes (i.e. the calculus-free physics courses so popular in high school today) to quantitative descriptions, that demand you to actually know the math and do the work.
We've dumbed down high school too much already. The article's solution of dumbing down college to match would be disastrous.
The critical review in the mass media isn't "complete and honest". It's the crazed shoutings of a hundred million uninformed assholes, each with their own axe to grind. There will be some good feedback buried in the mountains of shit, but you could have gotten ~80% of it (without all the noise) by undergoing peer review.
Publishing in the mass media instead of traditional channels is like using a really crappy amplifier. You may get a few extra decibels of output, but the SNR is going to be trashed. Plus you have the additional downside of scaring millions of people, and possibly even tricking them into harming themselves or others. Of course, for many people who skip peer review, that's the whole goal. They want fame and money, and nothing gets ratings like some good ole fashioned fear mongering.
And for the record, getting published in the New Elbonia Journal of Medicine doesn't constitute peer review. The fact that trash journals exist doesn't invalidate the process.
They aren't "blaming this on a lack of beta tester vigilance". They're saying that in their beta tests, people didn't particularly care about these compliances, and thus they don't think that their customers will care either. They are being completely open and honest about the level of security they're providing. If it's insufficient for you, don't use their service. But don't say that nobody should use something simply because it doesn't meet your needs.
So she should be allowed to blackmail him for the rest of his life?
If she wanted justice, she could have released the video years ago, and he would be in prison right now. Instead she decided she'd rather have cash and a nice car. What the judge did was wrong. Between the two of them, he's definitely worse, and he will be punished by society even if he isn't by the legal system. But she's no saint either. People all too often fall into the trap of thinking that there must be exactly two sides to every issue: the good guys and the bad guys. Real life isn't so tidy.
Her reason for releasing the tape matters if she was using it to blackmail him. Two wrongs don't make a right.
What he did was wrong, but it also occurred beyond the statute of limitations. Knee-jerk changes to laws are bad. You're angry, not rational, and that's not the state of mind you should be in when making laws that affect hundreds of millions of lives.
Amazon is offering a wide array of products to meet the needs of different market segments, which is a perfectly normal thing for companies to do.
Want a cheap e-reader? The entry level model is just $80. Want easier text entry? Choose between the touchscreen version or the keyboard, both at $100. Want to access the internet away from WiFi? Pay $40 extra for Whispersync. Want a big screen for reading PDFs without pan & zoom, and have money to burn? Get the DX for $380. Want to watch videos and play games and browse the web? Get the Fire at $200.
Here's your car analogy of the day: Chevy offers the electric Volt now, but that doesn't mean that they're going to pull all their gas-engine cars from the market.
No, you are correct. There is a pattern. A better title would have been "...Repetition-Free Music". Any given set of notes within the "song" has no similar set of notes at another point in the piece. If you were to instead map pi's digits to music, there would be small pieces that repeat. For example, there are several occurrences of the pattern 141593 in the first million digits, and several more occurrences of 252604, and 363715, and so on. All of those would sound similar if mapped to notes. In a Costas array (which was used to make this music), there are no such repeated sub-arrays.
Screw off, troll. You overplayed your hand with the "American made weapons are ending up in the hands of illegal alien murderers" bit, as if even Rush Limbaugh could blame Obama for that.
Simple solution. Stop speeding. If people didn't speed, then the government wouldn't get any ticket revenues, and would be forced to find another income source (such as a direct tax). Personally, I'm glad that there are so many morons out there who pay extra taxes in order to reach their destination a few minutes quicker. Less tax burden for me!
Never! The denialists would never admit such a thing. They'll either claim that they never denied global warming and accuse those who point out the lie of "playing politics", or else they'll claim it's all the Democrats' fault for not being convincing enough.
The thing that you're missing is that 1s weigh more than 0s (or perhaps the reverse, I don't care enough to check). Since the memory will be initialized to all 0s, when you write some of those bits to 1, the mass increases.
Gitmo is open because the Republicans made it impossible to transfer the detainees out. Obama isn't a dictator. He can't just make things happen by declaration.
Obama did weaken the Patriot Act, though not as much as many would like.
Wars are multiplying? The one in Iraq is ending, the one in Libya didn't require any American troops in harm's way. How exactly is that multiplication? At worst it's staying flat, and if you're honest, you'll admit that our military commitments have been reduced since he took office.
The economy is way better than it was when he took office, you just suffer from a very short memory (along with most Americans). Here's a reminder: when Obama took office, we were hemorrhaging around half a million jobs a month. Now the number of jobs is rising each month, albeit slowly.
And that's it? That's all you got for him failing "on so many bold promises already"?
What about the promised and delivered credit card reform that prevents "universal defaults", short notice due date changes, and several other abuses? The promised and delivered closing of the Medicare doughnut hole? The end to "pre-existing conditions"? The new START treaty? Ending Don't Ask Don't Tell? The expansion of AmeriCorps? The surge in Afghanistan? Finally completing the CAT-5 levies in NOLA? Passing the promised Ledbetter Act? Allowing stem cell research to continue? Letting Cuban Americans visit their family in Cuba? Killing Osama freakin' bin Laden?
Look, if you don't like him, fine. If you don't agree with his policies, fine. But don't lie about what he's accomplished. For those of us who actually listened to him campaign instead of simply imagining what he might do, he's been an outstanding success, even in the face of opposition that goes well beyond what any president should have to deal with.
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You're talking out your ass. My Droid X2 has a dock in my car, another at my bedside, and doesn't show up as a "dumb disk drive" when connected to my computer.
One of my friends is working on a doctorate in high energy particle physics at LSU. Their labs are critically underfunded, and they've been laying off technicians. It's at the point where a lot of experiments are forced to use substandard materials because they lack the resources to do things right. But hey, they beat the Crimson Tide yesterday, so it's all worth it, right?
I sincerely doubt that. What school did you go to? It should be trivial to verify your statement.
College is where you move from practical, demonstrable stuff to abstract theoretical stuff, like Newton's laws of motion to quantum mechanics,etc
While that's true, a lot of students wash out before reaching quantum or similar topics. I'd say the problem is more that college is where you move from qualitative descriptions of physical processes (i.e. the calculus-free physics courses so popular in high school today) to quantitative descriptions, that demand you to actually know the math and do the work.
We've dumbed down high school too much already. The article's solution of dumbing down college to match would be disastrous.
The critical review in the mass media isn't "complete and honest". It's the crazed shoutings of a hundred million uninformed assholes, each with their own axe to grind. There will be some good feedback buried in the mountains of shit, but you could have gotten ~80% of it (without all the noise) by undergoing peer review.
Publishing in the mass media instead of traditional channels is like using a really crappy amplifier. You may get a few extra decibels of output, but the SNR is going to be trashed. Plus you have the additional downside of scaring millions of people, and possibly even tricking them into harming themselves or others. Of course, for many people who skip peer review, that's the whole goal. They want fame and money, and nothing gets ratings like some good ole fashioned fear mongering.
And for the record, getting published in the New Elbonia Journal of Medicine doesn't constitute peer review. The fact that trash journals exist doesn't invalidate the process.
They aren't "blaming this on a lack of beta tester vigilance". They're saying that in their beta tests, people didn't particularly care about these compliances, and thus they don't think that their customers will care either. They are being completely open and honest about the level of security they're providing. If it's insufficient for you, don't use their service. But don't say that nobody should use something simply because it doesn't meet your needs.
Because you probably don't know what you're doing. Not you, specifically, but the average person who asks that question.
As a native Texan, I'm all for corporal punishment as a method of last resort. But not in the manor in which this was delivered.
So the judge can't beat his daughter in his house, but could in someone else's? That seems kind of arbitrary.
So she should be allowed to blackmail him for the rest of his life?
If she wanted justice, she could have released the video years ago, and he would be in prison right now. Instead she decided she'd rather have cash and a nice car. What the judge did was wrong. Between the two of them, he's definitely worse, and he will be punished by society even if he isn't by the legal system. But she's no saint either. People all too often fall into the trap of thinking that there must be exactly two sides to every issue: the good guys and the bad guys. Real life isn't so tidy.
Her reason for releasing the tape matters if she was using it to blackmail him. Two wrongs don't make a right.
What he did was wrong, but it also occurred beyond the statute of limitations. Knee-jerk changes to laws are bad. You're angry, not rational, and that's not the state of mind you should be in when making laws that affect hundreds of millions of lives.
What's the joke supposed to be then? The Kindle supports other formats. So does the iPad. What is this supposed to be a reference to?
Amazon is offering a wide array of products to meet the needs of different market segments, which is a perfectly normal thing for companies to do.
Want a cheap e-reader? The entry level model is just $80.
Want easier text entry? Choose between the touchscreen version or the keyboard, both at $100.
Want to access the internet away from WiFi? Pay $40 extra for Whispersync.
Want a big screen for reading PDFs without pan & zoom, and have money to burn? Get the DX for $380.
Want to watch videos and play games and browse the web? Get the Fire at $200.
Here's your car analogy of the day: Chevy offers the electric Volt now, but that doesn't mean that they're going to pull all their gas-engine cars from the market.
No, you are correct. There is a pattern. A better title would have been "...Repetition-Free Music". Any given set of notes within the "song" has no similar set of notes at another point in the piece. If you were to instead map pi's digits to music, there would be small pieces that repeat. For example, there are several occurrences of the pattern 141593 in the first million digits, and several more occurrences of 252604, and 363715, and so on. All of those would sound similar if mapped to notes. In a Costas array (which was used to make this music), there are no such repeated sub-arrays.
Screw off, troll. You overplayed your hand with the "American made weapons are ending up in the hands of illegal alien murderers" bit, as if even Rush Limbaugh could blame Obama for that.
More than three per year seems pretty often to me. Are there really many people churning out a patch every couple weeks?
And WHEN it has been implemented, and accidents go down, will you THEN admit that you were wrong? Of course not.
Which is completely, 100% irrelevant. Show me evidence of cities lowering a speed limit to force people to speed.
You're paranoid.
'Course, just before the camera goes, it gets a pic of your plate.
Which is why you do this with your cousin's truck.
You mean your wife's? They can probably still trace it back to you...
Simple solution. Stop speeding. If people didn't speed, then the government wouldn't get any ticket revenues, and would be forced to find another income source (such as a direct tax). Personally, I'm glad that there are so many morons out there who pay extra taxes in order to reach their destination a few minutes quicker. Less tax burden for me!
Because it's better to judge someone by their actions than by their words?
Never! The denialists would never admit such a thing. They'll either claim that they never denied global warming and accuse those who point out the lie of "playing politics", or else they'll claim it's all the Democrats' fault for not being convincing enough.
The thing that you're missing is that 1s weigh more than 0s (or perhaps the reverse, I don't care enough to check). Since the memory will be initialized to all 0s, when you write some of those bits to 1, the mass increases.
Gitmo is open because the Republicans made it impossible to transfer the detainees out. Obama isn't a dictator. He can't just make things happen by declaration.
Obama did weaken the Patriot Act, though not as much as many would like.
Wars are multiplying? The one in Iraq is ending, the one in Libya didn't require any American troops in harm's way. How exactly is that multiplication? At worst it's staying flat, and if you're honest, you'll admit that our military commitments have been reduced since he took office.
The economy is way better than it was when he took office, you just suffer from a very short memory (along with most Americans). Here's a reminder: when Obama took office, we were hemorrhaging around half a million jobs a month. Now the number of jobs is rising each month, albeit slowly.
And that's it? That's all you got for him failing "on so many bold promises already"?
What about the promised and delivered credit card reform that prevents "universal defaults", short notice due date changes, and several other abuses?
The promised and delivered closing of the Medicare doughnut hole?
The end to "pre-existing conditions"?
The new START treaty?
Ending Don't Ask Don't Tell?
The expansion of AmeriCorps?
The surge in Afghanistan?
Finally completing the CAT-5 levies in NOLA?
Passing the promised Ledbetter Act?
Allowing stem cell research to continue?
Letting Cuban Americans visit their family in Cuba?
Killing Osama freakin' bin Laden?
Look, if you don't like him, fine. If you don't agree with his policies, fine. But don't lie about what he's accomplished. For those of us who actually listened to him campaign instead of simply imagining what he might do, he's been an outstanding success, even in the face of opposition that goes well beyond what any president should have to deal with.
Back that up. Where did they claim that marijuana use was so awful? Or are you just talking out of your ass?