Not clear. Electricity travels through wires significantly slower than light travels through a vacuum. OTOH, you can't give a generic speed for a generic wire, because it's different for different wires at different speeds. (And if you coil the wire it's worse, but she clearly wasn't coiling it.)
But it would have needed to be a long piece of wire.
I would note that both of those are interfaces to Smalltalk, though it's not clear to me that they need to be.
OTOH, I remember back long ago trying to program in Prograf, and there was an MSWind database system that was also programmed only graphically. YUCK!!! It wasn't that the logic was any harder, it was that you couldn't see nearly enough of the program to write anything sensible. Text can be a lot more compact, so you can see an entire function at once. Graphics takes up hugely more room, so you can't. And somehow when you collapse a portion of a graphics system it isn't as meaningful as when you collapse a function with a sensible name.
It is a good question. Often when "classified material" becomes public knowledge, say by being declassified, it becomes blatantly obvious that there was never any valid reason to classify it. But there really *are* significant secrets that actually shouldn't be revealed. However I don't include internal political advantage as a valid reason.
I can understand your point, but also the gp's. Probably they should work with starfish and oysters before they devote too much study to rats. But rats are easier to raise in a lab, and come in genetically standardized strains. And there *is* a lot of pre-existing work on rat brains.
Idiot. Population decrease is strongly correlated with access to television. Cancer generally doesn't happen at a young enough age to affect population. (The study about TV and population growth dates back to the 1950's or '60's. I suspect that internet access might show the same correlation, but I've never seen a study testing the hypothesis.)
Sorry, but that isn't an argument for stupid, that's an argument for evil. Now having your casino go bankrupt, that's an argument for stupid, at least on the surface. Perhaps there was some hidden way in which it benefited him, so it's only another argument for evil, but on the surface it looks like an argument for stupid.
Actually, sample simulations indicate that there is a superfluity of time for the process when particular limited characteristics are examined. And you've got to have those limits or current computers can't run the simulation (at least within budgets allocated for the experiment). This has, admittedly, only been done a few time, but every time it has been done the result has been that not only is there enough time, there's hugely more than is needed.
Now there have only been a few of these simulations done, because most people don't believe that those who deny them are willing to look at the results. As a result this isn't a sound argument...but at least it's based on SOME evidence.
The functional information is easy. To summarize, start out by making a bunch of random junk and then filter for things that increase on their own faster than they fall apart. Do this for millions of years.
For an explicit version of this check out evolutionary programming. This will show you some of the problems that need to be solved, and how simple most of the steps are. And do it in a way where you can examine every step of the process...if you've got enough patience and lifetime.
Actually, these guys are probably overthinking the point, but it's good work, regardless. But IIRC the amino acids needed to create something RNA like have been found in clouds of dust out in space. The sugars needed to bind them may be something else. But *I think* those may require a watery environment. And until there was something to eat them those could just pile up until they reached thermodynamic equilibrium.
Around here they aren't building new branches, but they're keeping the ones they've got. Sometimes they move them into smaller locations. If the new location has space for a drive through window, they'll use it. If not, they don't seem to care.
Additionally, while there are still bank tellers, there aren't anywhere near as many of them as there were in, say, 1960. There don't even seem to be as many bank officers over on the other side, they there are proportionally more of them (i.e., they haven't decreased as much).
Well, I'm one of the people who uses tellers and avoids the ATM. I forgot my card twice in the ATM, since then I avoid using it.
Now it's true that I'm getting older...but who isn't? I wouldn't have forgotten it when I was 40, but that was awhile ago now. These days I have a hard time picking up a new programming language, even if it seems quite apt for the problem I'm working on.
OTOH, I'm not sure that new antibiotics are the solution. Managed bacterial ecology might be a better approach. This would include applying predatory bacterial strains selected for effectiveness against the infecting bacteria, and would also include disrupting bacterial culture communication networks. Etc. It might also include quite specific antibiotics that were effective against only one particular strain of bacteria...but those would be expensive to develop, you'd need a lot of them, and it would require quite precise determination of the causative agent. Tricky, but perhaps doable.
True, medicine would only be returned to about its state in 1910, or perhaps 1900. Operations, even minor ones, would be a bad gamble with death...even when the best choice. Anesthetics would continue to be known and effective, but any incision could be fatal. Perhaps UV could substitute for some antibiotic uses, and strong poisons could be used to swab down surfaces, and disposable gloves and clothing could minimize risk. And... But we're already doing most of those things, and bacteria still get through.
European mass transit only works in areas where the population is sufficiently dense. In most (only many?) US states most state subdivisions are rural, so a lot of our priorities get set by a small fraction of the population. If you live in a rural area, or think of yourself as doing so, then you don't want to pay for mass transit...unless you are elderly or disabled, and sometimes not then.
No, that's not what I meant. E.g., clover, at least red clover, explicitly depends on bumble bees. Some flowering plants depend on butterflies, others on moths. (You can generally tell based on flower shape and color. White and hanging down indicates moths, flat and colorful indicates butterflies, though bees will also handle them.)
It seems most probably that most of the evidence won't be declassified this century. Some of it would probably be exculpatory to Trump. Whether any of it would be truly evidence to convict his is plausible, but not certain.
The government is going to say "trust us on this one" and we won't be allowed to see the evidence.
I feel you are probably correct about the conclusion that he will reach. This doesn't mean I think that's what an impartial examination of the evidence would show, but rather that when someone appoints the guy who's going to prosecute him, you can be reasonably certain that he'll appoint someone who will exonerate him.
P.S. If much of the evidence that is needed shouldn't be classified either secret or higher, I'd be real surprised. So don't believe you're seeing the evidence...only a selected subset of it. And that's however the investigation turns out.
I don't know about you, but I've noticed a marked, and reasonably considered alarming, decrease in earthworms over the last 4 decades. It used to be that whenever it rained the sidewalks would be covered with earthworms, these days nary a one. Snails and slugs also seem to be declining, but I have less info there. And when I consider a longer period back into the 1950, the number of bees and wasps of various kinds was staggering, and now I rarely see any. This is less good information, however, as I've moved several times since the original observations.
But all of these US based observations are consistent with the reported more precise data from Europe.
And there are even "short stories" that are shorter than most jokes. E.g. "The last man on earth sat alone in a room, There was a lock on the door." I believe that's Frederick Brown (Wikipedia says he said "knock").
I believe this is now out of copyright, but it certainly was originally copyrighted. So length is not the sole criterion. And I also believe that this would be fair use in any case, as the entire work is necessary to make the point, and it's considerably shorter than this post. And this is well removed from the original context (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction).
This may be significant for jokes, also. Often the changes to a joke are substantial, if only because of the changed context. And sometimes one could argue that a modified joke is a parody of the original.
But, in principle, I'm rather certain that a joke could be copyrighted. The question would usually be "Exactly what does the copyright cover?" as most "new" jokes are small modifications of pre-existing jokes, often placed in a new context. (But what was the original "light-bulb joke" a modification of? What was the original "elephant joke" a modification of? Would copyright of one elephant joke mean that the entire genera was under copyright?)
I think they did awhile ago, perhaps shortly after they found out that the burglar tools they were holding had been copied. But they *should* have gotten them to fix the problem nearly as soon as they discovered it.
MS issued a fix for the bug before the WannaCry attack was launched. That looks like advance warning, though it could be ordinary bug repair. The problem is that there are a huge number of systems that either won't be fixed or can't be fixed, and some of the most critical are those that can't be fixed.
Now I *am* assuming that the NSA knew about the problem years ago, and this may be incorrect. But to me it looks like betrayal of the citizenry.
I don't remember the exact language, but it essentially said "We have the right to add, modify, copy, or delete any file on your computer". MS used that first, and Apple followed a few years later.
P.S.: When I showed the license to the company lawyer his reaction was "I'd like to see them try to enforce that.". He didn't seem to realize that this was merely to cover them for actions that they took technically, and which required no legal enforcement.
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Not clear. Electricity travels through wires significantly slower than light travels through a vacuum. OTOH, you can't give a generic speed for a generic wire, because it's different for different wires at different speeds. (And if you coil the wire it's worse, but she clearly wasn't coiling it.)
But it would have needed to be a long piece of wire.
I would note that both of those are interfaces to Smalltalk, though it's not clear to me that they need to be.
OTOH, I remember back long ago trying to program in Prograf, and there was an MSWind database system that was also programmed only graphically. YUCK!!! It wasn't that the logic was any harder, it was that you couldn't see nearly enough of the program to write anything sensible. Text can be a lot more compact, so you can see an entire function at once. Graphics takes up hugely more room, so you can't. And somehow when you collapse a portion of a graphics system it isn't as meaningful as when you collapse a function with a sensible name.
It is a good question. Often when "classified material" becomes public knowledge, say by being declassified, it becomes blatantly obvious that there was never any valid reason to classify it. But there really *are* significant secrets that actually shouldn't be revealed. However I don't include internal political advantage as a valid reason.
Out of cheese error. Reboot from start.
I can understand your point, but also the gp's. Probably they should work with starfish and oysters before they devote too much study to rats. But rats are easier to raise in a lab, and come in genetically standardized strains. And there *is* a lot of pre-existing work on rat brains.
Idiot. Population decrease is strongly correlated with access to television. Cancer generally doesn't happen at a young enough age to affect population. (The study about TV and population growth dates back to the 1950's or '60's. I suspect that internet access might show the same correlation, but I've never seen a study testing the hypothesis.)
Sorry, but that isn't an argument for stupid, that's an argument for evil. Now having your casino go bankrupt, that's an argument for stupid, at least on the surface. Perhaps there was some hidden way in which it benefited him, so it's only another argument for evil, but on the surface it looks like an argument for stupid.
Sorry, my slip, you're right. But I believe they've also found nucleic acids.
Actually, sample simulations indicate that there is a superfluity of time for the process when particular limited characteristics are examined. And you've got to have those limits or current computers can't run the simulation (at least within budgets allocated for the experiment). This has, admittedly, only been done a few time, but every time it has been done the result has been that not only is there enough time, there's hugely more than is needed.
Now there have only been a few of these simulations done, because most people don't believe that those who deny them are willing to look at the results. As a result this isn't a sound argument...but at least it's based on SOME evidence.
The functional information is easy. To summarize, start out by making a bunch of random junk and then filter for things that increase on their own faster than they fall apart. Do this for millions of years.
For an explicit version of this check out evolutionary programming. This will show you some of the problems that need to be solved, and how simple most of the steps are. And do it in a way where you can examine every step of the process...if you've got enough patience and lifetime.
Actually, these guys are probably overthinking the point, but it's good work, regardless. But IIRC the amino acids needed to create something RNA like have been found in clouds of dust out in space. The sugars needed to bind them may be something else. But *I think* those may require a watery environment. And until there was something to eat them those could just pile up until they reached thermodynamic equilibrium.
Around here they aren't building new branches, but they're keeping the ones they've got. Sometimes they move them into smaller locations. If the new location has space for a drive through window, they'll use it. If not, they don't seem to care.
Additionally, while there are still bank tellers, there aren't anywhere near as many of them as there were in, say, 1960. There don't even seem to be as many bank officers over on the other side, they there are proportionally more of them (i.e., they haven't decreased as much).
Well, I'm one of the people who uses tellers and avoids the ATM. I forgot my card twice in the ATM, since then I avoid using it.
Now it's true that I'm getting older...but who isn't? I wouldn't have forgotten it when I was 40, but that was awhile ago now. These days I have a hard time picking up a new programming language, even if it seems quite apt for the problem I'm working on.
OTOH, I'm not sure that new antibiotics are the solution. Managed bacterial ecology might be a better approach. This would include applying predatory bacterial strains selected for effectiveness against the infecting bacteria, and would also include disrupting bacterial culture communication networks. Etc. It might also include quite specific antibiotics that were effective against only one particular strain of bacteria...but those would be expensive to develop, you'd need a lot of them, and it would require quite precise determination of the causative agent. Tricky, but perhaps doable.
True, medicine would only be returned to about its state in 1910, or perhaps 1900. Operations, even minor ones, would be a bad gamble with death...even when the best choice. Anesthetics would continue to be known and effective, but any incision could be fatal. Perhaps UV could substitute for some antibiotic uses, and strong poisons could be used to swab down surfaces, and disposable gloves and clothing could minimize risk. And... But we're already doing most of those things, and bacteria still get through.
European mass transit only works in areas where the population is sufficiently dense. In most (only many?) US states most state subdivisions are rural, so a lot of our priorities get set by a small fraction of the population. If you live in a rural area, or think of yourself as doing so, then you don't want to pay for mass transit...unless you are elderly or disabled, and sometimes not then.
No, that's not what I meant. E.g., clover, at least red clover, explicitly depends on bumble bees. Some flowering plants depend on butterflies, others on moths. (You can generally tell based on flower shape and color. White and hanging down indicates moths, flat and colorful indicates butterflies, though bees will also handle them.)
It seems most probably that most of the evidence won't be declassified this century. Some of it would probably be exculpatory to Trump. Whether any of it would be truly evidence to convict his is plausible, but not certain.
The government is going to say "trust us on this one" and we won't be allowed to see the evidence.
I feel you are probably correct about the conclusion that he will reach. This doesn't mean I think that's what an impartial examination of the evidence would show, but rather that when someone appoints the guy who's going to prosecute him, you can be reasonably certain that he'll appoint someone who will exonerate him.
P.S. If much of the evidence that is needed shouldn't be classified either secret or higher, I'd be real surprised. So don't believe you're seeing the evidence...only a selected subset of it. And that's however the investigation turns out.
Sorry, but no. It depends on your crop. And "cultivated bees" are also dying off.
I don't know about you, but I've noticed a marked, and reasonably considered alarming, decrease in earthworms over the last 4 decades. It used to be that whenever it rained the sidewalks would be covered with earthworms, these days nary a one. Snails and slugs also seem to be declining, but I have less info there. And when I consider a longer period back into the 1950, the number of bees and wasps of various kinds was staggering, and now I rarely see any. This is less good information, however, as I've moved several times since the original observations.
But all of these US based observations are consistent with the reported more precise data from Europe.
And there are even "short stories" that are shorter than most jokes.
E.g.
"The last man on earth sat alone in a room,
There was a lock on the door."
I believe that's Frederick Brown (Wikipedia says he said "knock").
I believe this is now out of copyright, but it certainly was originally copyrighted. So length is not the sole criterion. And I also believe that this would be fair use in any case, as the entire work is necessary to make the point, and it's considerably shorter than this post. And this is well removed from the original context (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction).
This may be significant for jokes, also. Often the changes to a joke are substantial, if only because of the changed context. And sometimes one could argue that a modified joke is a parody of the original.
But, in principle, I'm rather certain that a joke could be copyrighted. The question would usually be "Exactly what does the copyright cover?" as most "new" jokes are small modifications of pre-existing jokes, often placed in a new context. (But what was the original "light-bulb joke" a modification of? What was the original "elephant joke" a modification of? Would copyright of one elephant joke mean that the entire genera was under copyright?)
I think they did awhile ago, perhaps shortly after they found out that the burglar tools they were holding had been copied. But they *should* have gotten them to fix the problem nearly as soon as they discovered it.
MS issued a fix for the bug before the WannaCry attack was launched. That looks like advance warning, though it could be ordinary bug repair. The problem is that there are a huge number of systems that either won't be fixed or can't be fixed, and some of the most critical are those that can't be fixed.
Now I *am* assuming that the NSA knew about the problem years ago, and this may be incorrect. But to me it looks like betrayal of the citizenry.
I don't remember the exact language, but it essentially said "We have the right to add, modify, copy, or delete any file on your computer". MS used that first, and Apple followed a few years later.
P.S.: When I showed the license to the company lawyer his reaction was "I'd like to see them try to enforce that.". He didn't seem to realize that this was merely to cover them for actions that they took technically, and which required no legal enforcement.