The big problem is that the government is making a huge effort nowadays to blame all the problems in the country on the West in general and the US in particular. They're rousing up a really nasty form of nationalism, which could be very dangerous in the long run.
And half of them post on slashdot and claim that they are just so inherently brilliant that they don't need any, and that a college degree is just a "piece of paper".
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I was not defending the post as a whole, I was responding to the specific point raised by the first replier that mathematicians' "scribblings" have done little to advance the physical sciences.
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Is English not your native language? The subject wasn't Wolfram's work, which I have respect for. It was a response to someone who seemed to feel that physicists were at the center of the universe, and mathematicians inconsequential to the advance of physical research. Maybe you just read every other word.
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Wow, and me having the audacity to post on slashdot means I think I'm the center of the universe? Hey, why don't you reveal who you are, instead of posting as an anon coward.
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Not too literate, are we. None of the replies refuted anything. Hell, most of them simply proved what I said.
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Yep, those guys are funny. "Well it couldn't possibly be humans, because not all carbon dioxide has historically come from humans."
Wonder if any of them tried that in court? "I couldn't possibly have stolen that car, as cars were being stolen before I was born..."
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More than half, actually, though the wingnuts in the White House are desperately hoping people will forget that...
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Good lord, now we have an egotistical little troll showing off his knowledge of paint history. Fine, I was wrong. My analogy wasn't exact (though keep in mind I said "invented", not "made"; each painter didn't reinvent the damn paint themselves). Now what about my main point? Oh, you just wanted to be pedantic? Very useful of you.
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Maybe he thought (with a good deal of justification) that physicists occasionally get a little too full of themselves, and need to be reminded that a lot of their work rests on the mathematicians who came before them.
Einstein was a physicist, not a mathematician. He faced some limitations because of this. He wasn't able to do a lot of his most important work until he hooked up with real mathematicians such as Marcel Grossman, simply because he didn't have the depth of mathematics that they did.
Let's look at your analogy; like a painter having no real clue of paint. How many of them actually do know how to actually make paint? Where would the Renaissance artists be without the guys who invented oil paints? The painters, like the physicists, only needed to know those properties which would affect their work.
It might be argued that physicists and their little problems have done more for the advancement of pure mathematics than all the scribblings of pure mathematicians.
Ah, "scribblings". There's an easy way to dismiss mathematicians as unimportant, without even having to back it up.
At the very least, an out-of-hand dismissal of physicists as, apparently, math-illiterates, is without justification.
As far as I know, you can't copyright individual ideas in a book; they wouldn't face any trouble I think, especially since the rest of the book bore no resemblance to the movie.
Actually, "unwashed masses" is NEVER used by elitists anymore. It's invariably spoken in a sarcastic tone of voice; nobody would ever actually use it seriously.
M: Please consider the fact that Blizzard is suing people who write software to interoperate with theirs when deciding whether you want to purchase this game.
What I don't understand is why the story said simply there was a bug in Mozilla; if it's xfree, then people using Mozilla on Windows aren't effected, eh?
And many didn't I'd bet. From the amount of spelling and grammatical errors I read on slashdots, you'd think they were pseudoliterate oafs. Point this out and we get the endless choruses of "but that's not IMPORTANT"--funny how they'll criticize some poor journalist for getting a minor technical detail incorrect, but see no problem with themselves mixing up "who's" and "whose".
The mistakes, of course, are even funnier when they're in one of the many self-congratulatory stories that slashdot often runs insisting that geeks are more literate in the humanities than the humanities graduates are in the sciences, and that engineers are just so well-rounded as opposed to those liberal arts morons.
I don't know, while I could appreciate the CGI, I was kind of disappointed that Yoda stooped to fighting. The cool thing about Yoda was always that he was THE Jedi master, even though he seemed frail and unimposing. I thought the whole point of putting him in the series to begin with was to emphasize that the Force wasn't about fighting power, but more about a sort of zen mystic state.
It's like in Lord of the Rings (book, not the movie). Tolkien effectively conveyed that Gandalf was incredibly powerful, without making him shoot fireballs or blow up dragons.
Well that's the problem with the libertarian philosophy on the environment; they very reasonably insist that companies be responsible for pollution they create, but then they put "pollution" into an extremely narrow category, leaving out most of the harmful things industry creates.
'fraid not. The UK average working week is 44hours, which is way more than anyone else in Europe, and more than in the US.
'fraid not. The average US work week is 46 hours; more, but not too much more, though you also have to factor in vacation time and retirement. The typical American vacation is 2 weeks a year, with many people never taking that, and Americans retire later than people in the UK.
Clarity is sacrificed for completeness. It's not perfect, but wouldn't you rather the manual have everything you need, or only part of what you need written very well?
BTW, where's this crack at American working habits come from? We really do work more hours than anyone else in the world, and have for a while, but for some reason this idiotic "lazy American" myth gets propagated. It's really hilarious coming from Europeans considering how little work they actually do.
I typed a reply three times and three times it wouldn't allow it.
Do the slashdot editors type 3 wpm or something? Do they assume the rest of us are that oafish? Is the idea that someone might type a message in under 20 seconds THAT foreign to them?
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The big problem is that the government is making a huge effort nowadays to blame all the problems in the country on the West in general and the US in particular. They're rousing up a really nasty form of nationalism, which could be very dangerous in the long run.
The animators are the best in the world. Too bad they're forced to draw the simpering, sugary, morally simplistic stories Disney feeds them.
Hey! What's your problem with dolphins?
And half of them post on slashdot and claim that they are just so inherently brilliant that they don't need any, and that a college degree is just a "piece of paper".
I was not defending the post as a whole, I was responding to the specific point raised by the first replier that mathematicians' "scribblings" have done little to advance the physical sciences.
Is English not your native language? The subject wasn't Wolfram's work, which I have respect for. It was a response to someone who seemed to feel that physicists were at the center of the universe, and mathematicians inconsequential to the advance of physical research. Maybe you just read every other word.
Wow, and me having the audacity to post on slashdot means I think I'm the center of the universe? Hey, why don't you reveal who you are, instead of posting as an anon coward.
Not too literate, are we. None of the replies refuted anything. Hell, most of them simply proved what I said.
Yep, those guys are funny. "Well it couldn't possibly be humans, because not all carbon dioxide has historically come from humans."
Wonder if any of them tried that in court? "I couldn't possibly have stolen that car, as cars were being stolen before I was born..."
More than half, actually, though the wingnuts in the White House are desperately hoping people will forget that...
Good lord, now we have an egotistical little troll showing off his knowledge of paint history. Fine, I was wrong. My analogy wasn't exact (though keep in mind I said "invented", not "made"; each painter didn't reinvent the damn paint themselves). Now what about my main point? Oh, you just wanted to be pedantic? Very useful of you.
Maybe he thought (with a good deal of justification) that physicists occasionally get a little too full of themselves, and need to be reminded that a lot of their work rests on the mathematicians who came before them.
Einstein was a physicist, not a mathematician. He faced some limitations because of this. He wasn't able to do a lot of his most important work until he hooked up with real mathematicians such as Marcel Grossman, simply because he didn't have the depth of mathematics that they did.
Let's look at your analogy; like a painter having no real clue of paint. How many of them actually do know how to actually make paint? Where would the Renaissance artists be without the guys who invented oil paints? The painters, like the physicists, only needed to know those properties which would affect their work.
It might be argued that physicists and their little problems have done more for the advancement of pure mathematics than all the scribblings of pure mathematicians.
Ah, "scribblings". There's an easy way to dismiss mathematicians as unimportant, without even having to back it up.
At the very least, an out-of-hand dismissal of physicists as, apparently, math-illiterates, is without justification.
Like you just dismissed mathematicians?
As far as I know, you can't copyright individual ideas in a book; they wouldn't face any trouble I think, especially since the rest of the book bore no resemblance to the movie.
His complaint with the Matrix wasn't about the physics within the Matrix, it was primarily about the humans-as-batteries nonsense.
Usually I can ignore the scientifically implausible, but that even caught my attention when I watched the movie. I mean, it was just plain dumb.
Actually, "unwashed masses" is NEVER used by elitists anymore. It's invariably spoken in a sarcastic tone of voice; nobody would ever actually use it seriously.
In other words, this is a thousand dollar case.
M: Please consider the fact that Blizzard is suing people who write software to interoperate with theirs when deciding whether you want to purchase this game.
Ok, I thought about it.
I don't care.
What I don't understand is why the story said simply there was a bug in Mozilla; if it's xfree, then people using Mozilla on Windows aren't effected, eh?
And many didn't I'd bet. From the amount of spelling and grammatical errors I read on slashdots, you'd think they were pseudoliterate oafs. Point this out and we get the endless choruses of "but that's not IMPORTANT"--funny how they'll criticize some poor journalist for getting a minor technical detail incorrect, but see no problem with themselves mixing up "who's" and "whose".
The mistakes, of course, are even funnier when they're in one of the many self-congratulatory stories that slashdot often runs insisting that geeks are more literate in the humanities than the humanities graduates are in the sciences, and that engineers are just so well-rounded as opposed to those liberal arts morons.
I assume you mean balrog, and being pulled by a balrog into a bottomless chasm doesn't really count as "taking out".
I don't know, while I could appreciate the CGI, I was kind of disappointed that Yoda stooped to fighting. The cool thing about Yoda was always that he was THE Jedi master, even though he seemed frail and unimposing. I thought the whole point of putting him in the series to begin with was to emphasize that the Force wasn't about fighting power, but more about a sort of zen mystic state.
It's like in Lord of the Rings (book, not the movie). Tolkien effectively conveyed that Gandalf was incredibly powerful, without making him shoot fireballs or blow up dragons.
Well that's the problem with the libertarian philosophy on the environment; they very reasonably insist that companies be responsible for pollution they create, but then they put "pollution" into an extremely narrow category, leaving out most of the harmful things industry creates.
'fraid not. The UK average working week is 44hours, which is way more than anyone else in Europe, and more than in the US.
'fraid not. The average US work week is 46 hours; more, but not too much more, though you also have to factor in vacation time and retirement. The typical American vacation is 2 weeks a year, with many people never taking that, and Americans retire later than people in the UK.
Clarity is sacrificed for completeness. It's not perfect, but wouldn't you rather the manual have everything you need, or only part of what you need written very well?
BTW, where's this crack at American working habits come from? We really do work more hours than anyone else in the world, and have for a while, but for some reason this idiotic "lazy American" myth gets propagated. It's really hilarious coming from Europeans considering how little work they actually do.
I typed a reply three times and three times it wouldn't allow it.
Do the slashdot editors type 3 wpm or something? Do they assume the rest of us are that oafish? Is the idea that someone might type a message in under 20 seconds THAT foreign to them?