Ideally if we could work out communications via quantum entanglement they could have take a quantum entangled particle with them to make communications faster back to Earth. Perhaps even build some sort of router to hook the computer LAN on that side back to the internet on this side. Probably would be low-bandwidth but latency would be tolerable.
Wrong. Classical (i.e. useful) communication via quantum entanglement cannot exceed the classical speed limit. See the no-cloning and the no-broadcast theorem (or just read the first paragraph on quantum teleportation).
Dunno about "top secret", but the DoE puts a huge amount of computing resources into physical simulation. Check out some of the NERSC projects (GTC, for example).
Younger person here (though not as young as my handle indicates;) ). No offense, but unlike you, we haven't been brainwashed by the how-to-cook-a-frog treatment spread out over our whole lifespans. We have a very clear perception of having been dumped into scalding water, whereas you geezers are only feeling mildly jacuzzied.
I have X too, but we're in a tiny minority of Mac users. Apple no longer even gives resources to develop their own X11.app and tells everyone to use the third party XQuartz instead.
Just as an interesting addendum, Quartz is a PDF-based display system descended from Display Postscript, and I'm pretty sure OS X/iOS between them have far more installations than X.
Are you familiar with the mythos of the Warcraft universe? Personally, I prefer the older RTS titles to WoW, but there are definitely some compelling stories to be told in that universe, if done right.
That's a touchy subject. Seems like I see an article on/. about how "fiber is coming to rural VT" at least once every couple months. Well heck if I've ever met someone who has it, outside of the FiOS service in Burlington (which definitely isn't "rural VT").
I don't want to spend my hobby time fixing a bug that someone else has already fixed or adding a feature that someone else has already added. If you're going to use my code for free, then you're going to have to do me the courtesy of returning the favorite. If you want to negotiate a no-questions-asked license that involves giving me money, that's a different story.
This is why I LGPL most everything I release. You're welcome to do whatever you want with my software, but if you make changes to my code, I want to see them.
Ah, yes, you're completely right about that. What I was trying to get at, and communicated incorrectly, was that better behaved distributions can cover up sloppy sample technique.
It actually doesn't matter that the sample is such a small percentage of the population. It's size that matters, not percent
This is only true given a certain set of underlying assumptions about the backing distribution, which are often poorly controlled for in experiments like this.
...it makes you better able to make reality-informed decisions based on whatever ethical norms you subscribe to: science is descriptive, ethics are prescriptive. If you're a completely amoral sociopath bent on making people miserable, scientific literacy will enable you to achieve those ends. If you're a consummate altruist and want to improve the lives of those around you, scientific literacy will also enable you to achieve those ends.
Guess what: I'm a Baptist. Half my extended family are in the long term mission field, and both my grandfathers have been pastors in evangelical churches at one time or another. My uncle did graduate work at Princeton Theological Seminary, my godfather is a philosophy professor at a Lutheran school (Augustana), and I've been studying theology and apologetics as a primary hobby for the better part of a decade. Let's consider the possibility that your family's warped view of sola scriptura has misinformed your view of what the doctrine actually means.
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Wrong. Classical (i.e. useful) communication via quantum entanglement cannot exceed the classical speed limit. See the no-cloning and the no-broadcast theorem (or just read the first paragraph on quantum teleportation).
Dunno about "top secret", but the DoE puts a huge amount of computing resources into physical simulation. Check out some of the NERSC projects (GTC, for example).
Younger person here (though not as young as my handle indicates ;) ). No offense, but unlike you, we haven't been brainwashed by the how-to-cook-a-frog treatment spread out over our whole lifespans. We have a very clear perception of having been dumped into scalding water, whereas you geezers are only feeling mildly jacuzzied.
I have X too, but we're in a tiny minority of Mac users. Apple no longer even gives resources to develop their own X11.app and tells everyone to use the third party XQuartz instead.
No one said anything about Linux, I thought we're talking about X replacements for Unixes and Unix-likes.
Just as an interesting addendum, Quartz is a PDF-based display system descended from Display Postscript, and I'm pretty sure OS X/iOS between them have far more installations than X.
I'm not talking about "orcs and elves", I'm talking about the characters that fans of the series know and love. Sylvanas, Thrall, Arthas, Grom.
I'd love a story about the founding of the Orcish nation of Durotar.
Are you familiar with the mythos of the Warcraft universe? Personally, I prefer the older RTS titles to WoW, but there are definitely some compelling stories to be told in that universe, if done right.
Also, if you're doing any serious work in algorithms, a strong understanding of proof techniques and discrete math is a must.
oddly enough, I'm pretty sure it will break for Slashdot subdomains.
That's a touchy subject. Seems like I see an article on /. about how "fiber is coming to rural VT" at least once every couple months. Well heck if I've ever met someone who has it, outside of the FiOS service in Burlington (which definitely isn't "rural VT").
You must live somewhere with public transit if you think that raising the driving age to 21 is even feasible.
Bingo.
And in this day and age, it takes much less skill to build things that go boom than it does to learn to shoot well.
I don't want to spend my hobby time fixing a bug that someone else has already fixed or adding a feature that someone else has already added. If you're going to use my code for free, then you're going to have to do me the courtesy of returning the favorite. If you want to negotiate a no-questions-asked license that involves giving me money, that's a different story.
*eyeroll* FUD troll is FUDdy. Also...how's that LLVM/Clang/WebKit/CUPS you're using?
This is why I LGPL most everything I release. You're welcome to do whatever you want with my software, but if you make changes to my code, I want to see them.
Ah, yes, you're completely right about that. What I was trying to get at, and communicated incorrectly, was that better behaved distributions can cover up sloppy sample technique.
This is only true given a certain set of underlying assumptions about the backing distribution, which are often poorly controlled for in experiments like this.
I did that to a lot of school graphing calculators, in TI-Basic: While 1 Input "",Str1 Disp rand*10^(randInt(-5,5)) End
Meth is almost exclusively a scourge on the poor because it's cheap and prohibition has driven up the cost of less toxic drugs.
...it makes you better able to make reality-informed decisions based on whatever ethical norms you subscribe to: science is descriptive, ethics are prescriptive. If you're a completely amoral sociopath bent on making people miserable, scientific literacy will enable you to achieve those ends. If you're a consummate altruist and want to improve the lives of those around you, scientific literacy will also enable you to achieve those ends.
I think you meant to reply to the post above mine :)
Guess what: I'm a Baptist. Half my extended family are in the long term mission field, and both my grandfathers have been pastors in evangelical churches at one time or another. My uncle did graduate work at Princeton Theological Seminary, my godfather is a philosophy professor at a Lutheran school (Augustana), and I've been studying theology and apologetics as a primary hobby for the better part of a decade. Let's consider the possibility that your family's warped view of sola scriptura has misinformed your view of what the doctrine actually means.