The reason that the error rate is so high with javascript on websites is because the environment in which it is most commonly used, a web page, such mistakes are generally of no real consequence, and it's pretty certain that most (if not all, but I would hesitate to make that broad a generalization) programmers are lazy
Blaming a language for the fact that it's usually used in environments where it doesn't actually generally matter if the programmer was too lazy to write correct code is like blaming the inventor of the automobile for people who get into accidents while driving drunk.
The JS engines far outstrip any Java VM performance
Citation please. I'll concede that modern JS engines are very good, but arguing that an engine for a dynamic interpreted language outperforms a modern VM for a statically typed compiled one sounds a bit.... suspicious.
This isn't even true for most every-day materials and the more common definition of temperature, as specific heat capacity is not constant with respect to temperature. It is still an extensive property, but is not nice and constant or even linear.
If heat capacity can change with temperature, even when the amount of material is constant, then why is it considered an extensive property at all? From what I remember in school, extensive properties are those that must are supposed to be directly proportional to the amount of material in the system being studied. If heat capacity were a function of temperature as well, then it would be considered neither extensive nor intensive.
We can't just move it downward, because it's not a fixed point... in effect, you can achieve what "absolute zero" means by taking away a different amount of energy from a system depending on properties that were not previously thought to affect its heat capacity. One interpretation of that is that you can have temperatures lower than absolute zero. Another is that matter's heat capacity can change with a function of non-extensive properties of the matter whose temperature is being measured.
But I'm quite positive that there's going to come a time when using paper as opposed to digital is going to get prohibitively expensive, and when that happens, the printed form will finally become the uncommon exception.
Pure arrogance, yes.... ignorance, yes. I'd argue that the ignorance is necessarily willful, however.
Some people need to learn from direct personal experience that doing something they've been told is a bad idea is actually a bad idea. They might know it already intellectually, but it's long been shown to be the case that most people don't continually follow rules that they don't personally agree with... they will either try to not get caught if they believe consequences for not following them are too harsh, or else will be prepared to face whatever the consequences are.
It's called immaturity... and although it can be willful, it doesn't always follow that it is.
As you extract energy from a substance, it is supposed to be the case that temperature drops linearly with amount of energy removed. This is because the substance's heat capacity, which determines the rate at which temperature rises or falls in a substance as energy is added or removed, is defined such that when the amount of material being examined is constant, heat capacity is constant. It's defined that way, as an extensive property of matter. From my understanding of the article, I can only conclude that it has apparently been noted, however, that for some materials, you can keep extracting energy from it when absolute zero should have already been reached based on that constant. It's further my understanding that the exact "temperature" at which this could be achieved evidently is a function of what percentage of high energy particles there are in the substance, and so it's not just a matter of recalibrating the thermometer. The implication means that either temperatures below absolute zero exist, which is what the article was proposing, or else heat capacity itself, which has traditionally only ever been a function of the amount of material to be examined, is also a function of the current temperature (which is an intensive property of matter) of the material itself, which would completely change the procedure for how it is calculated. The reverse effect could also be an implication of the latter, meaning that "absolute zero" could be reached sooner than predicted by a constant heat capacity in some substances, which might have some interesting consequences when examining the properties of those substances at very low temperatures.
It'd be cooler if it visually simulated an asteroid of a user-entered size hitting the earth, and showing the impact visually instead of always using stock cgi footage of an asteroid entering the atmosphere and then just showing the raw data.
I never suggested that these things weren't important to the kids... I was only arguing that choosing to put such a curfew on their usage is not in any way an objectively unreasonable thing for a parent to do.
That said, considering what the kids resorted to doing here suggests to me that they may be in more need of some major mental therapy than prison. That matter should be for a judge to decide.
But with a basic job like gas stations, flipping burgers, etc... there really isn't much as "overqualified"
Actually, there is.... and I'm speaking from personal experience here. I've seen both fast food places *AND* gas stations decide to *NOT* hire a professional that they felt would leave them too quickly, needlessly wasting valuable time on training, when they can get another desperate and less over-qualified person for exactly the same amount of money, who is less likely to leave them right away.
Of course... but the point is that at the temperature at which ordinary matter has no energy, it's not actually the case for matter that certain matter which consists mostly of very high energy particles would also have no energy.
I might suggest that it is resorting to poisoning the parents in the first place that is unreasonable, especially considering the teens' reasons for dong so were not something any more unreasonable than what is found in millions of other homes.
to even begin to classify such curfews themselves as unreasonable, I think you'd have to show some evidence that most teenage children are actually harmed by the imposition of a 10pm curfew.
This was evidently done solely to bypass a 10PM curfew. If you think imposing such limits on teen behavior is unreasonable, I have to confess to a certain amount of morbid curiosity to wonder what your kids will turn out like.
Except, if I understand the concept correctly.... there isn't one.
Kelvin temperature is a reflection of average thermal energy per unit volume. Most matter still behaves a certain (normal) way and while there are a few high-energy particles, a majority of the particles in it possess an "average" amount of energy. For some materials, evidently, the particles' energy properties are inverse in this respect and have more than an average number of high energy particles. The lowest temperature that you could bring such a material to would, I believe, be a function of exactly what percentage of particles are, in fact, "high-energy", and would need to be defined on a per-material basis. Also, if I understand this correctly, this would mean that materials which have an above-average amount of low-energy particles should reach "absolute zero" at temperatures higher than 0K. Again, how much above would depend on the percentage of particles that are not of average energy. Either way, I'd expect the deviation from 0K, regardless of the concentration of non-average energy particles, to be on the order of very tiny fractions of a degree K.
For certain very serious crimes, such as this one (probably ranking just below premeditated attempted murder), it doesn't matter. The decision to drop charges for certain crimes such as this rests on the subjective judgement of the prosecuting attorney. The parents can only request charges be dropped. If the prosecuting attorney disagrees, the charges stand. It will still be taken into consideration in court, however, and could even result in a lighter or postponed sentence, especially if the kids seem to show some sense of remorse for what they did.
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Pointing out pedantry on slashdot? You must be new here.
I might have already suspected it was an exaggeration, thanks. That was kind of my point.
Oh.... and I think you may be confusing colloquial speech with hyperbole.
All?
Really?
Are you *SURE* about that?
The reason that the error rate is so high with javascript on websites is because the environment in which it is most commonly used, a web page, such mistakes are generally of no real consequence, and it's pretty certain that most (if not all, but I would hesitate to make that broad a generalization) programmers are lazy
Blaming a language for the fact that it's usually used in environments where it doesn't actually generally matter if the programmer was too lazy to write correct code is like blaming the inventor of the automobile for people who get into accidents while driving drunk.
Agreed... especially since there's another verb already that conveys the exact same notion.... "liken".
Citation please. I'll concede that modern JS engines are very good, but arguing that an engine for a dynamic interpreted language outperforms a modern VM for a statically typed compiled one sounds a bit.... suspicious.
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If heat capacity can change with temperature, even when the amount of material is constant, then why is it considered an extensive property at all? From what I remember in school, extensive properties are those that must are supposed to be directly proportional to the amount of material in the system being studied. If heat capacity were a function of temperature as well, then it would be considered neither extensive nor intensive.
We can't just move it downward, because it's not a fixed point... in effect, you can achieve what "absolute zero" means by taking away a different amount of energy from a system depending on properties that were not previously thought to affect its heat capacity. One interpretation of that is that you can have temperatures lower than absolute zero. Another is that matter's heat capacity can change with a function of non-extensive properties of the matter whose temperature is being measured.
But I'm quite positive that there's going to come a time when using paper as opposed to digital is going to get prohibitively expensive, and when that happens, the printed form will finally become the uncommon exception.
Pure arrogance, yes.... ignorance, yes. I'd argue that the ignorance is necessarily willful, however.
Some people need to learn from direct personal experience that doing something they've been told is a bad idea is actually a bad idea. They might know it already intellectually, but it's long been shown to be the case that most people don't continually follow rules that they don't personally agree with... they will either try to not get caught if they believe consequences for not following them are too harsh, or else will be prepared to face whatever the consequences are.
It's called immaturity... and although it can be willful, it doesn't always follow that it is.
As you extract energy from a substance, it is supposed to be the case that temperature drops linearly with amount of energy removed. This is because the substance's heat capacity, which determines the rate at which temperature rises or falls in a substance as energy is added or removed, is defined such that when the amount of material being examined is constant, heat capacity is constant. It's defined that way, as an extensive property of matter. From my understanding of the article, I can only conclude that it has apparently been noted, however, that for some materials, you can keep extracting energy from it when absolute zero should have already been reached based on that constant. It's further my understanding that the exact "temperature" at which this could be achieved evidently is a function of what percentage of high energy particles there are in the substance, and so it's not just a matter of recalibrating the thermometer. The implication means that either temperatures below absolute zero exist, which is what the article was proposing, or else heat capacity itself, which has traditionally only ever been a function of the amount of material to be examined, is also a function of the current temperature (which is an intensive property of matter) of the material itself, which would completely change the procedure for how it is calculated. The reverse effect could also be an implication of the latter, meaning that "absolute zero" could be reached sooner than predicted by a constant heat capacity in some substances, which might have some interesting consequences when examining the properties of those substances at very low temperatures.
It'd be cooler if it visually simulated an asteroid of a user-entered size hitting the earth, and showing the impact visually instead of always using stock cgi footage of an asteroid entering the atmosphere and then just showing the raw data.
How would you change the length of the venusian day, exactly?
What gold asteroid is this, exactly?
Oh my!!! Who ever would have imagined that we actually have to live with the consequences of the choices that we make?!
If you genuinely believe that, you clearly have never been a parent
I never suggested that these things weren't important to the kids... I was only arguing that choosing to put such a curfew on their usage is not in any way an objectively unreasonable thing for a parent to do.
That said, considering what the kids resorted to doing here suggests to me that they may be in more need of some major mental therapy than prison. That matter should be for a judge to decide.
The dad was hiring other people to do it... which would imply, to me, that his dad doesn't even play the game.
That's not the issue if he quit his last job.
Actually, there is.... and I'm speaking from personal experience here. I've seen both fast food places *AND* gas stations decide to *NOT* hire a professional that they felt would leave them too quickly, needlessly wasting valuable time on training, when they can get another desperate and less over-qualified person for exactly the same amount of money, who is less likely to leave them right away.
Of course... but the point is that at the temperature at which ordinary matter has no energy, it's not actually the case for matter that certain matter which consists mostly of very high energy particles would also have no energy.
I might suggest that it is resorting to poisoning the parents in the first place that is unreasonable, especially considering the teens' reasons for dong so were not something any more unreasonable than what is found in millions of other homes.
to even begin to classify such curfews themselves as unreasonable, I think you'd have to show some evidence that most teenage children are actually harmed by the imposition of a 10pm curfew.
This was evidently done solely to bypass a 10PM curfew. If you think imposing such limits on teen behavior is unreasonable, I have to confess to a certain amount of morbid curiosity to wonder what your kids will turn out like.
Except, if I understand the concept correctly.... there isn't one.
Kelvin temperature is a reflection of average thermal energy per unit volume. Most matter still behaves a certain (normal) way and while there are a few high-energy particles, a majority of the particles in it possess an "average" amount of energy. For some materials, evidently, the particles' energy properties are inverse in this respect and have more than an average number of high energy particles. The lowest temperature that you could bring such a material to would, I believe, be a function of exactly what percentage of particles are, in fact, "high-energy", and would need to be defined on a per-material basis. Also, if I understand this correctly, this would mean that materials which have an above-average amount of low-energy particles should reach "absolute zero" at temperatures higher than 0K. Again, how much above would depend on the percentage of particles that are not of average energy. Either way, I'd expect the deviation from 0K, regardless of the concentration of non-average energy particles, to be on the order of very tiny fractions of a degree K.
For certain very serious crimes, such as this one (probably ranking just below premeditated attempted murder), it doesn't matter. The decision to drop charges for certain crimes such as this rests on the subjective judgement of the prosecuting attorney. The parents can only request charges be dropped. If the prosecuting attorney disagrees, the charges stand. It will still be taken into consideration in court, however, and could even result in a lighter or postponed sentence, especially if the kids seem to show some sense of remorse for what they did.