Maybe because in some ways, slime molds and fungi (slime mold isn't a true fungus) actually have far more advanced physiologies than our own. Don't confuse the primitive appearance of the organism with its biological complexity and resilience. If the fungi had ever evolved locomotion, they would be dominating the planet right now.
Your argument might have smelled more honest if you had included at least one counterexample, for instance Richard Feynman. Beyond his sheer brilliance, the man was committed to thinking scientifically in every one of his life endeavors (except maybe his divergences into art) and worked diligently to communicate the principles of scientific thinking to every student he ever came in contact with.
Uhhh.. What am I missing here? If they reject upside-down faxes, this must mean they can tell the difference between a fax which is upside-down and one which isn't. In which case, maybe there is some kind of solution, such as rotating the image 180 degrees?
You don't seem to understand how justice works and how rights work. The Constitution spells out certain fundamental rights, not because it is granting you those rights (you had them already) but just to make it crystal clear that these rights do exist. But your rights are not absolute, in that they cannot be used to suppress another person's rights. One of the rights we all have is the right to a speedy and fair trial. Allowing jurors to access information relevant to the trial in a manner not controlled by the processes of justice is an infringement of the defendant's rights. Yes, you have the right to freely communicate, but you cannot exercise this right in a way that deprives someone else of their right to a fair trial. If you're selected for jury duty, could you please take some time out of your all-so-fucking-important life and try to help carry out the process of justice in a way that's fair to everyone involved? Thanks.
A self-replicating binary isn't a virus either. It's a worm. A virus is a piece of code that attaches itself to a host program and depends on the host program's execution to replicate itself. As long as we're being pedantic.
In that case, I would think I made a pretty bad decision by being in the middle lane. If the middle lane was the only choice, due to traffic control patterns or something, I would re-evaluate how important it is to reach that particular destination.
There are several CAD apps out there. It will eventually come down to trying them and personal preference.
Personal preference, huh? Interesting that you leave out the "Correct enough to design a piece of vehicular hardware that doesn't fucking explode halfway out of Earth's atmosphere" criterion. The idea of using software which is untested and unvetted for this purpose borders on criminal.
By Jove you're right, we certainly have the time for that when involved in an emergency rescue -- why worry about whether his leg will have to be amputated, we need to align these god damned antennas
What is with all these crazy people suggesting that you should shift into neutral? With a floored accelerator, that's a great way to completely destroy the engine. How about you do what you always do when you want to slow down? Push the fucking brake!
The universe doesn't give too much of a shit whether you think light is a photon or not. In some contexts it acts like a particle, in others like a wave. Feynman was pretty sure that light is a particle, whose behavior can be predicted by equations which are based on waves. Whether that means light is particle, wave, both, or neither, doesn't interest me as far as knowing how to modulate it. The fact is, treating light of sufficient intensity as a wave works just fine. Take your pedantry somewhere it could do some good.
In early 1982, concern about widespread contamination in the area's shallow ground water led the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Water Board) to send chemical use questionnaires to over 2,000 facilities regarding the use of hazardous materials. Intel Corporation (Intel) was among the few questionnaire recipients that responded proactively by installing ground water monitoring wells adjacent to their underground chemical storage tanks. Intel also responded with a full inventory of all chemicals used in its operations.
Although it was evident by the late 1980s that the VOC
contamination at Santa Clara 3 and Magnetics was minor,
these sites became federal Superfund sites on the National
Priority List (NPL) because they were among the handful of
sites that had sufficient data to be evaluated by the United
States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for
inclusion on the NPL.
In other words, the Intel sites became Superfund sites because Intel, unlike so many other manufacturers, actually responded to environmental investigations with COPIOUS information -- such comprehensive information is rarely acquired, and so Superfund took this project under its wing mostly to praise Intel for their proactiveness. By omitting the relevant details you make it sound like Intel was injecting dioxins into aquifers or something like that.
This "magical thinking" you gun owners engage it is always amusing. Guess what: a gun, properly checked and unloaded, bodily in your possession, will not magically re-load itself. The moment the gun leaves your bodily possession, all bets are off. But these sorts of unthinking assertions can actually CAUSE accidents. You get used to the idea that if you just follow a list of prescribed rules, you'll be safe. You think you don't need to use your brain anymore.
At a gun-cleaning session one time, one friend handed his pistol to another friend. The second friend dutifully checked it, declared it to be unloaded, then began disassembling it. I asked him why he bothered to check the weapon -- after all, ALL guns are ALWAYS loaded. After the initial moment of confusion as he realized the paradox implicit in two fundamental gun safety rules: it's always loaded, and always check if it's loaded, his response was, I quote, "Except when they're not, and I'm trying to clean one." This sort of thought process is completely irrational and doesn't contribute to safety. I prefer to use my brain to keep me and those around me safe.
Is a bolt-action loaded if the bolt is removed? What about a completely disassembled gun sitting on a table, is it loaded? At what point do you cease this nonsense and admit that safety comes from intelligence, not rule-following?
Yeah, we have no fucking idea how to deal with echoes. It's not like we have a cellular network that handles multi-path, selective fading, and moving transmitters... Light is a bit harder to modulate than radio frequency, but it's still just a wave, and we actually do have a few years (somewhere around 100) of experience with modulation schemes.
The idea that you think they are pulsing a little light on and off at 1 GHz made me laugh out loud.
Depends whether the cipher is "idempotent" or not. If a cipher is idempotent, then encrypting with key A followed by key B is the same as encrypting just a single time with some key C. Clearly, this is no more secure than just encrypting once, since you only need to find key C. If a cipher is NOT idempotent, the result of encrypting by A and then by B can't be reproduced by any single key C.
A lot of people seem to think that by repeating this particular maxim over and over, they somehow appear knowledgable of statistics and experimental methodology.
I don't disagree that economic considerations make some people unable to attend college through no fault of their own, and that this situation requires repair. But to describe higher education as inherently "bigoted" is a load of bullshit. You seem to be part of the modern culture of proud stupidity.
In most cases, you're required to study OUTSIDE of your area of focus. A degree tells me that not only did you understand the core subject matter, you also didn't have a piss-poor showing in other topics. In other words, you know how to learn, not just pass tests. When I earned a 4-year CS degree, I also studied quite a bit of physics (earning a minor, in fact), and took some real gem classes such as "Alpine Environments," "Prehistoric American Cultures," and "Introduction to Chaos." I won't dispute that there aren't some really bad 4-year programs out there, but that's the idea.
Some science author, I cannot remember who, postulated that it would be possible for living beings to progressively slow down their biological functions in a way that "led the curve" of heat death -- the universe of course increases in entropy, but the rate of biological activity in these beings could somehow overcome that increase by essentially "slowing down time" as far as their own bodies were concerned. Provided the universe doesn't actually cease to exist, life could continue forever, but at slower and slower rates. I wish I could remember who the author was. He wasn't a crackpot, though I'm not sure I buy the theory.
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So you turn off something called "Protected Mode" and you're surprised that this may cause problems?
Maybe because in some ways, slime molds and fungi (slime mold isn't a true fungus) actually have far more advanced physiologies than our own. Don't confuse the primitive appearance of the organism with its biological complexity and resilience. If the fungi had ever evolved locomotion, they would be dominating the planet right now.
Your argument might have smelled more honest if you had included at least one counterexample, for instance Richard Feynman. Beyond his sheer brilliance, the man was committed to thinking scientifically in every one of his life endeavors (except maybe his divergences into art) and worked diligently to communicate the principles of scientific thinking to every student he ever came in contact with.
Uhhh.. What am I missing here? If they reject upside-down faxes, this must mean they can tell the difference between a fax which is upside-down and one which isn't. In which case, maybe there is some kind of solution, such as rotating the image 180 degrees?
You don't seem to understand how justice works and how rights work. The Constitution spells out certain fundamental rights, not because it is granting you those rights (you had them already) but just to make it crystal clear that these rights do exist. But your rights are not absolute, in that they cannot be used to suppress another person's rights. One of the rights we all have is the right to a speedy and fair trial. Allowing jurors to access information relevant to the trial in a manner not controlled by the processes of justice is an infringement of the defendant's rights. Yes, you have the right to freely communicate, but you cannot exercise this right in a way that deprives someone else of their right to a fair trial. If you're selected for jury duty, could you please take some time out of your all-so-fucking-important life and try to help carry out the process of justice in a way that's fair to everyone involved? Thanks.
A self-replicating binary isn't a virus either. It's a worm. A virus is a piece of code that attaches itself to a host program and depends on the host program's execution to replicate itself. As long as we're being pedantic.
In that case, I would think I made a pretty bad decision by being in the middle lane. If the middle lane was the only choice, due to traffic control patterns or something, I would re-evaluate how important it is to reach that particular destination.
There are several CAD apps out there. It will eventually come down to trying them and personal preference.
Personal preference, huh? Interesting that you leave out the "Correct enough to design a piece of vehicular hardware that doesn't fucking explode halfway out of Earth's atmosphere" criterion. The idea of using software which is untested and unvetted for this purpose borders on criminal.
Or you could press the brake and avoid both problems?
By Jove you're right, we certainly have the time for that when involved in an emergency rescue -- why worry about whether his leg will have to be amputated, we need to align these god damned antennas
By Jove you're right, we'll certainly have no problems aligning the transmitter and receiver through solid rock
What is with all these crazy people suggesting that you should shift into neutral? With a floored accelerator, that's a great way to completely destroy the engine. How about you do what you always do when you want to slow down? Push the fucking brake!
The universe doesn't give too much of a shit whether you think light is a photon or not. In some contexts it acts like a particle, in others like a wave. Feynman was pretty sure that light is a particle, whose behavior can be predicted by equations which are based on waves. Whether that means light is particle, wave, both, or neither, doesn't interest me as far as knowing how to modulate it. The fact is, treating light of sufficient intensity as a wave works just fine. Take your pedantry somewhere it could do some good.
Nice omission of detail there, buddy. http://intelsuperfundcleanup.com/
In early 1982, concern about widespread contamination in the area's shallow ground water led the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Water Board) to send chemical use questionnaires to over 2,000 facilities regarding the use of hazardous materials. Intel Corporation (Intel) was among the few questionnaire recipients that responded proactively by installing ground water monitoring wells adjacent to their underground chemical storage tanks. Intel also responded with a full inventory of all chemicals used in its operations.
Although it was evident by the late 1980s that the VOC contamination at Santa Clara 3 and Magnetics was minor, these sites became federal Superfund sites on the National Priority List (NPL) because they were among the handful of sites that had sufficient data to be evaluated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for inclusion on the NPL.
In other words, the Intel sites became Superfund sites because Intel, unlike so many other manufacturers, actually responded to environmental investigations with COPIOUS information -- such comprehensive information is rarely acquired, and so Superfund took this project under its wing mostly to praise Intel for their proactiveness. By omitting the relevant details you make it sound like Intel was injecting dioxins into aquifers or something like that.
This "magical thinking" you gun owners engage it is always amusing. Guess what: a gun, properly checked and unloaded, bodily in your possession, will not magically re-load itself. The moment the gun leaves your bodily possession, all bets are off. But these sorts of unthinking assertions can actually CAUSE accidents. You get used to the idea that if you just follow a list of prescribed rules, you'll be safe. You think you don't need to use your brain anymore.
At a gun-cleaning session one time, one friend handed his pistol to another friend. The second friend dutifully checked it, declared it to be unloaded, then began disassembling it. I asked him why he bothered to check the weapon -- after all, ALL guns are ALWAYS loaded. After the initial moment of confusion as he realized the paradox implicit in two fundamental gun safety rules: it's always loaded, and always check if it's loaded, his response was, I quote, "Except when they're not, and I'm trying to clean one." This sort of thought process is completely irrational and doesn't contribute to safety. I prefer to use my brain to keep me and those around me safe.
Is a bolt-action loaded if the bolt is removed? What about a completely disassembled gun sitting on a table, is it loaded? At what point do you cease this nonsense and admit that safety comes from intelligence, not rule-following?
Yeah, we have no fucking idea how to deal with echoes. It's not like we have a cellular network that handles multi-path, selective fading, and moving transmitters... Light is a bit harder to modulate than radio frequency, but it's still just a wave, and we actually do have a few years (somewhere around 100) of experience with modulation schemes.
The idea that you think they are pulsing a little light on and off at 1 GHz made me laugh out loud.
Depends whether the cipher is "idempotent" or not. If a cipher is idempotent, then encrypting with key A followed by key B is the same as encrypting just a single time with some key C. Clearly, this is no more secure than just encrypting once, since you only need to find key C. If a cipher is NOT idempotent, the result of encrypting by A and then by B can't be reproduced by any single key C.
That's a pointless waste of time. Such manipulations can just be filtered out later. But hey, feel free to act like an ass.
Where was causation claimed?
A lot of people seem to think that by repeating this particular maxim over and over, they somehow appear knowledgable of statistics and experimental methodology.
I don't like the name because it's too close to iPod.
Why can't you just dual-boot your Mac? I'm posting this from an Intel Mac Mini running Kubuntu 9.10.
I don't disagree that economic considerations make some people unable to attend college through no fault of their own, and that this situation requires repair. But to describe higher education as inherently "bigoted" is a load of bullshit. You seem to be part of the modern culture of proud stupidity.
In most cases, you're required to study OUTSIDE of your area of focus. A degree tells me that not only did you understand the core subject matter, you also didn't have a piss-poor showing in other topics. In other words, you know how to learn, not just pass tests. When I earned a 4-year CS degree, I also studied quite a bit of physics (earning a minor, in fact), and took some real gem classes such as "Alpine Environments," "Prehistoric American Cultures," and "Introduction to Chaos." I won't dispute that there aren't some really bad 4-year programs out there, but that's the idea.
A stationary science platform on Mars? Sounds awesome! Way to go NASA, you've had hits and misses, but this one was fantastic.
Some science author, I cannot remember who, postulated that it would be possible for living beings to progressively slow down their biological functions in a way that "led the curve" of heat death -- the universe of course increases in entropy, but the rate of biological activity in these beings could somehow overcome that increase by essentially "slowing down time" as far as their own bodies were concerned. Provided the universe doesn't actually cease to exist, life could continue forever, but at slower and slower rates. I wish I could remember who the author was. He wasn't a crackpot, though I'm not sure I buy the theory.