Uh, no. There are a HUGE number of people who drink in moderation (even if they do so regularly) and enjoy alcoholic beverages on more levels than just the ability to get plastered. This ain't no elitist snobbery, it's like enjoying the taste of a good steak, not just its ability to feed you. We all enjoy food, don't we? Why not our alcohol beverages as well? The reason you are not aware of these people is because they don't frequent the sorts of places where the primary intent is to get drunk. Instead, they (I should say WE since I'm one of these people) consume at small parties, backyard barbecues, beer festivals, etc. Sure, it's possible to overindulge, but when it happens it's more accidental than intentional.
My homebrewed beer for example is too precious to consume just for the sake of getting drunk. Once you're drunk, you might as well be drinking water so why waste the good stuff? Of course, if other people want to drink my beer, they're free to have as much of it as they want:-)
Just because two units are dimensionally equivalent doesn't mean they are interchangable. In this case, they are, but consider energy vs. torque. Two totally different things but they're both measured in newton-meters.
How would he like it if someone broke into his flat and snooped through all of his drawers? Oh. I'm sure he'd thank the burglar for exposing his security weaknesses for him, right? Just doing a service?
That's not the issue, and I'm sorry I ran out of mod points... It's fairly clear at this point that he did commit the crime, but no criminal of any caliber deserves to be held or imprisoned without trial. Guantanamo is one of the world's breeding grounds of civil rights violations. The US wants to toss him in a cell and forget about him. If I were him, I would run far, far away.
Next Windows whine...I've got a nice wheel of Gouda here that will enhance that vintage whine of yours.
Eh? I wasn't whining. I have a three-button mouse and happily use the buttons in OS X. I was commenting on the oddness of referring to option-click as "elegant."
It's more elegant to have to press two buttons on two different input devices simultaneously, to activate a single function? I love my Mac but you'll take my right mouse button over my dead body.
Sometimes you need to understand the math to prevent yourself from doing something stupid (like using a bubblesort to sort a 50,000 record database). It's not like we're inventing new math all the time but there are certain mathematical concepts that are applied on a daily basis, even if you aren't conciously aware of it. Simply choosing to use a tree instead of a list for a particular data structure is a decision guided by math.
Most computer software requires nothing more than simple arithmetic.
There are exceptions such as in finance and 3d graphics, but come on.
2d graphics, too. A large part of my job is designing and implementing fast 2d rendering of certain file formats. It involves a lot of matrix math, error analysis, multiple (and confusing) coordinate systems, etc.
Writing code which generates PDF files (I designed our humble little PDF library) feels an awful lot like math at times, but what's really going on is that it's sucking the life force from your brain;-)
Does that make me a Software Engineer? Or just a two-bit coder?
This is not a personal attack by any means, but I'd say that because you release code in an untested state, what you are doing is not "engineering." Imagine if a civil engineer built a bridge and tested it by having the public drive over it. The bridge might be okay, but it's not how things are done in engineering.
So why not concentrate a few plain-clothes cops in the same areas and tip the balance the other way?
Why not put that cop in uniform and provide some REAL deterrence? The primary goal shouldn't be to arrest offenders but to deter the crimes in the first place. Anyway, most city budgets wouldn't allow for even one officer to be assigned to a coffee shop or other Wifi hotspot.
Umm, how many light years away is this? Sure, it might take million years for the *light* from the spectacle of them merging to reach us, but if they're millions of light years away (center of the galaxy?), they may have already merged.
Time is all relative. The idea of "simultaneity" gets more and more ambiguous as distances increase. Does the fact that something is happening "now" even matter, if the effects of that occurrence can't reach us in less than millions of years? The entire concept of "now" loses its power.
Basically, you can't really talk about what is happening "now" at some location that is millions or billions of light years away.
Could anyone who knows more programming than I do (which, btw, isn't so hard so feel free to hop in here) give me just an idea of how this is even possible?
Sure. The code is compiled such that the code and data both link into the same segment. That segment can then be exported to a flat binary file. This file (the meat of the virus code) is then inserted into an EXE and an ELF executable. These two variants execute on their respective platforms. When the virus attempts to infect a new file, it detects whether it is a Linux or Windows binary, and takes the appropriate action. The BULK of the virus code is in fact shared between the two platforms but there are two small platform-specific stubs which let it hook into the two different executable formats. Both variants carry both stubs, so a Linux version can cross-infect Windows binaries (say, binaries it finds on a Samba mounted share) and vice-versa. Very straightforward, really.
But since the tree-huggers throw such a fit about it, we haven't built a nuclear plant in what, 30 years?
I'm a proponent of nuclear power and I'm still happy we stopped building them 30 years ago. The early history of nuclear power is rife with horrific accidents. The plants of 30 years ago were (and are) dangerous pieces of crap. New technologies like pebble bed reactors have made things much safer in the last decade. We needed those 30 years in order to figure out how to do it safely. Now, it's time to start building them again.
Okay, it's been queued. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait for the other ten million flamewar topics to be dequeued and processed before we can get to you. You queue number is 11791855. Have a nice day.
Oh. You meant "CUE" the religious flamewar. Sorry, my bad.
Then the question is: what is the difference in a construction between a computer CRT and a television CRT that causes the former to be relatively silent? I always assumed that it is the deflector coils that are driven at the hsync frequency. Those coils are big and actually driven at that kind of frequency.
In a television, the coil for the hsync oscillator is also part of the power supply for the electron guns. This is done purely to save money and components. Because the electron gun voltage must be relatively high, this means the entire coil needs to be beefier, which makes its mechanical resonance more pronounced.
In a computer CRT the electron gun is supplied by a separate power source, so the coil for the hsync oscillator is smaller and doesn't sound as loud.
Like you said, it's impossible to prove or disprove the existence of God, unless God proves himself.
Ever watched Stargate SG-1? It would take quite a bit of convincing for any being to prove to me that he/she/it is God. Maybe collapsing the entire universe into a black hole would do it for me...
So, saying atheism is a religion is like saying that people who are broke also have $100 in their pocket. It's a contradiction.
I think that when many people call atheism a religion, they are referring to the propensity for some atheists to proselytize their viewpoint. It's just a different kind of thumping. Fundamentalists thump the bible, pissed off atheists thump... well, I don't know what they thump but they're definitely thumping something.
However, they claim to have a patent on a "Wobble Yoke" that connects the four pistons together onto a single rotating shaft. This sounds just like a crank shaft on a regular engine. How can that be patented?
A wobble yoke (otherwise called a wobble plate) transfers the up and down motion of the pistons into a rotation ALONG THE SAME AXIS AS THE PISTON MOTION. In a car, the crankshaft rotates perpendicular to the piston motion. Wobble plates are not new (they've been used in torpedoes among other things), but they may have patented some aspect of the linkage that hasn't been done before...
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Uh, no. There are a HUGE number of people who drink in moderation (even if they do so regularly) and enjoy alcoholic beverages on more levels than just the ability to get plastered. This ain't no elitist snobbery, it's like enjoying the taste of a good steak, not just its ability to feed you. We all enjoy food, don't we? Why not our alcohol beverages as well? The reason you are not aware of these people is because they don't frequent the sorts of places where the primary intent is to get drunk. Instead, they (I should say WE since I'm one of these people) consume at small parties, backyard barbecues, beer festivals, etc. Sure, it's possible to overindulge, but when it happens it's more accidental than intentional.
My homebrewed beer for example is too precious to consume just for the sake of getting drunk. Once you're drunk, you might as well be drinking water so why waste the good stuff? Of course, if other people want to drink my beer, they're free to have as much of it as they want :-)
Ouch. Sorry to hear it. I hope you get your groove back and hit the rock again someday. Belay on.
Why did you have to stop?
Looks like these guys need some beta on what "beta" means... (Sorry, rock climbing joke)
Just because two units are dimensionally equivalent doesn't mean they are interchangable. In this case, they are, but consider energy vs. torque. Two totally different things but they're both measured in newton-meters.
That's not the issue, and I'm sorry I ran out of mod points... It's fairly clear at this point that he did commit the crime, but no criminal of any caliber deserves to be held or imprisoned without trial. Guantanamo is one of the world's breeding grounds of civil rights violations. The US wants to toss him in a cell and forget about him. If I were him, I would run far, far away.
Eh? I wasn't whining. I have a three-button mouse and happily use the buttons in OS X. I was commenting on the oddness of referring to option-click as "elegant."
It's more elegant to have to press two buttons on two different input devices simultaneously, to activate a single function? I love my Mac but you'll take my right mouse button over my dead body.
Sometimes you need to understand the math to prevent yourself from doing something stupid (like using a bubblesort to sort a 50,000 record database). It's not like we're inventing new math all the time but there are certain mathematical concepts that are applied on a daily basis, even if you aren't conciously aware of it. Simply choosing to use a tree instead of a list for a particular data structure is a decision guided by math.
2d graphics, too. A large part of my job is designing and implementing fast 2d rendering of certain file formats. It involves a lot of matrix math, error analysis, multiple (and confusing) coordinate systems, etc.
Writing code which generates PDF files (I designed our humble little PDF library) feels an awful lot like math at times, but what's really going on is that it's sucking the life force from your brain ;-)
This is not a personal attack by any means, but I'd say that because you release code in an untested state, what you are doing is not "engineering." Imagine if a civil engineer built a bridge and tested it by having the public drive over it. The bridge might be okay, but it's not how things are done in engineering.
Why not put that cop in uniform and provide some REAL deterrence? The primary goal shouldn't be to arrest offenders but to deter the crimes in the first place. Anyway, most city budgets wouldn't allow for even one officer to be assigned to a coffee shop or other Wifi hotspot.
Just take the derivative in your mind.
Time is all relative. The idea of "simultaneity" gets more and more ambiguous as distances increase. Does the fact that something is happening "now" even matter, if the effects of that occurrence can't reach us in less than millions of years? The entire concept of "now" loses its power.
Basically, you can't really talk about what is happening "now" at some location that is millions or billions of light years away.
Sure. The code is compiled such that the code and data both link into the same segment. That segment can then be exported to a flat binary file. This file (the meat of the virus code) is then inserted into an EXE and an ELF executable. These two variants execute on their respective platforms. When the virus attempts to infect a new file, it detects whether it is a Linux or Windows binary, and takes the appropriate action. The BULK of the virus code is in fact shared between the two platforms but there are two small platform-specific stubs which let it hook into the two different executable formats. Both variants carry both stubs, so a Linux version can cross-infect Windows binaries (say, binaries it finds on a Samba mounted share) and vice-versa. Very straightforward, really.
You want to have year-round hurricanes in Ohio? Well, I guess that's in keeping with the general intelligence level of the rest of your post...
I'm a proponent of nuclear power and I'm still happy we stopped building them 30 years ago. The early history of nuclear power is rife with horrific accidents. The plants of 30 years ago were (and are) dangerous pieces of crap. New technologies like pebble bed reactors have made things much safer in the last decade. We needed those 30 years in order to figure out how to do it safely. Now, it's time to start building them again.
One way to think about it is that in the light's reference frame, there is no time.
Oh. You meant "CUE" the religious flamewar. Sorry, my bad.
Deep man. Deep.
Then the question is: what is the difference in a construction between a computer CRT and a television CRT that causes the former to be relatively silent? I always assumed that it is the deflector coils that are driven at the hsync frequency. Those coils are big and actually driven at that kind of frequency.
In a television, the coil for the hsync oscillator is also part of the power supply for the electron guns. This is done purely to save money and components. Because the electron gun voltage must be relatively high, this means the entire coil needs to be beefier, which makes its mechanical resonance more pronounced.In a computer CRT the electron gun is supplied by a separate power source, so the coil for the hsync oscillator is smaller and doesn't sound as loud.
Ever watched Stargate SG-1? It would take quite a bit of convincing for any being to prove to me that he/she/it is God. Maybe collapsing the entire universe into a black hole would do it for me...
I think that when many people call atheism a religion, they are referring to the propensity for some atheists to proselytize their viewpoint. It's just a different kind of thumping. Fundamentalists thump the bible, pissed off atheists thump... well, I don't know what they thump but they're definitely thumping something.
That's superheated water, not supercritical water.
A wobble yoke (otherwise called a wobble plate) transfers the up and down motion of the pistons into a rotation ALONG THE SAME AXIS AS THE PISTON MOTION. In a car, the crankshaft rotates perpendicular to the piston motion. Wobble plates are not new (they've been used in torpedoes among other things), but they may have patented some aspect of the linkage that hasn't been done before...