No Darwin didn't - the religious nut the said that was nowhere near the place at the time. She verifiably lied. Just putting that one to rest 'cuz it annoys me. - Pug
I have wondered whether anyone has ever studied the question of how connected the brain and the eye are evolutionarily.
EYes are really the first localized sense that develops in the body - as I understand it, during the development of the embryo, the eyes actually start out as brain material that specializes. So did the eyes actually develop out of a previously existing cluster of neurons, or did highly efficient clusters of neurons develop in lockstep with the immediately behind the eyes as they became sharper and more useful simply because so much processing capacity was required right there, close by.
And once you have a lot of processing capacity nearby, it's not the long a reach for mother nature to start building the decision making algorithms nearby - I mean, if you've got all this hardware there anyway, you might as well start using it during the 8 hour maintenance cycle for contingency planning and such.
If that works, we might even add extra capacity for processing during the day shift. No promise though, we'll see how this works out . . . [G]
The same reason *my* brain isn't stuck into my abdominal cavity where I keep all my other importan stuff - My brain is about 1% of my weight, but produces about 20% of my body heat.
That's why I store my brains in a lower, dangling organ, where they can cool easily - that's the way most of us Bipedal aliens do it. -
Frankly reminds me of the guy that tried to argue the IRS had no right to take income taxes because the law said it's was the United States, including territories and protectorates, without explicitly including the states themselves. Rather like trying to say that by saying my body includes my hands, I'm excluding the rest of it.
I've actually heard that argument from three different Libertarians - doesn't even make sense.
Thanks - studied Macroeconomics 101, got an A+, and I'm familiar with various theories (Though I tend towards Keynesian myself). Now, go back and watch the way he spoke during the debate.
There was absolutely nothing in his style or way he framed the issue to imply he meant something other than actually printing money. I rewound it a couple of times to make sure I wasn't projecting. He meant printing money, a'la Germany during the Great Depression.
Sorry, didn't impress me during the debates. He doesn't seem to me to know what he's talking about. "Inflation is caused by printing too much money"
Well, yeah, if you're in a limited economy in which printed money is the majority of the money supply. Currency is a relatively small percentage of the money supply in the U.S.
Which wouldn't bother me if he was presenting it as some simplified picture for purposes of debate, but every impression I've gotten off him is that he thinks he knew exactly what he was talking about.
Ignorant and aware of I'm fine with - Ignorant and sure he knows what he's talking about - not so much.
Umm - Gimp will import Inkscape SVG's as a mesh - I'm misremembering terminology (haven't needed the function in awhile and I'm at work), but Gimp can work with SVG just fine, albeint not as well as inkscape.
Yeah, why would I base my decision on the core competence and customer service of the bank. By the same token I won't use an electrician that can't change my oil and my car mechanic absolutely has to how to write video drivers.
I'm finding something odd that 13 of the 20 'great' games are basically first person shooters and none of them are from small companies.
This is like a review of beverages that argues between coke and pepsi, or musical talent that's really concerned about whether Britney or Christina are better.
Not that some of these aren't good games, but he doesn't even show any variation in taste in the FPS games - he's got, what, four FPS's about "Let's go kill the aliens", and Thief or No one lives forever didn't make the list?
I'm sorry submitter, but your gene pool license has been revoked - you're no longer allowed to reproduce. Remember, just because we're making you eligible for a Darwin award doesn't mean it *has* to be fatal.
Because studies have consistently shown that people that watch Fox news are far more likely to believe in things that are verifiably. untrue.
The belief that WMD's were found in Iraq, the belief that Iraq and/or Saddam Hussein were directly involved in 9-11, the belief that there is a "Debate" in the scientific community regarding Global Warming, and a half dozen other items where factual data contradicts administration propaganda, are all much more prevalent among fans of Fox.
What I find personally interesting is the accusations of media bias among "Everyone Else". NPR is considered the definitive "Liberal" media, when 2/3rds of NPR guests (among political/news shows - Yeah, I'm sure Garrison Keilor is Liberal. I'm also fairly sure 24's Keifer Sutherland is conservative. They don't count for our purposes.) come from conservative think tanks.
Personally I'm okay with that - I like seeing opposing viewpoints, and I think 'Hosts' that can't make an argument without cutting the mike are rather wimpy, but I find it odd that Liberal is when the liberals are only outnumbered 2 to 1.
The point of a standard click to install EULA is that, after downloading the program, the license agreement wishes to set terms, a violation of contract law. The contract should be agreed prior to delivery of the product, to remove the rights you would have under the U.S and local laws *after* payment should be formally illegal.
This is not what the GPL does - the GPL states after the fact that you have you're regular rights under U.S. law as you should. In addition to those rights, if you are willing to be bound by the limits of the GPL, you have additional rights. This is in fact an additional negotiation, and there is nothing unethical about it's being added after the initial delivery. The GPL is doing it exactly right, as it *should* be done under the law.
What *needs* to be done is get the other use invalidated.
What you're saying is - Conservative shows can't survive if they are forced to allow people that disagree equal time to critique them, but Liberals can survive that way?
However, as soon as Conservatives were given an environment where they could speak without fear of being held accountable, they could flourish?
Hmmm. Interesting indictment of the liberal media -[coff coff]
Actually, I'm rather amazed that more liberals don't get that the problem is the liberal mindset. I'm going to indulge in some self-serving political definition for a moment, but the nature of the "Liberal" is that they think we can do better, and they look to the future on how to do it (I'm distinguishing this from Radical - a Radical knows we can do better, and knows exactly how to change things to do it. Whether he's right or not is irrelevant, only that he's *certain*.) Contrawise a moderate is holding on to the present, a conservative looks to the past, and a reactionary looks to the past with certainty.
But what is commonly called conservative media is really reactionary media - media that is certain they are right. Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter don't *suspect* I'm an unpatriotic scummy Al-qaeda sympathizer that would risk a few bombs just to be *nice* to islamo-fascist's - they've flat out said so. That I'm a veteran that lost friends in the Pentagon has nothing to do with it.
Now, Radicals would be happy with the opposing media perspective - one that says greenpeace is right, conservatives are cowards etcetera and so on, but Liberals have never merged into radicalism the way conservatives have reactionaries. (Probably frankly, not because Liberals are any brighter perse, than simply because it's more dangerous for someone running to decide to close their eyes while running somewhere they haven't seen than for someone walking to close their eyes and walk backwards to someplace they've been. Hit a few walls running with your eyes shut, and you might decide maybe you don't know as much as you thought. Reactionaries are dumb, but at least they're generally someplace they've been. Radicals are *really* dumb.)
But Liberals are looking for something better, don't know exactly where to go to get it, and have no hesitation about grabbing every bit of info they can to find it. Consider that NPR is considered Liberal, but has 2/3rds conservative viewpoints presented. If you're basing Liberal/Conservative on jotting up point tallies, NPR and PBS are actually pretty conservative. (Unless of course, you just think Liberals are just much more manly and studly than Conservatives, and easily counterbalance two apiece. I'm not averse to that interpretation. )
On the other hand, if you consider that NPR is heavily biased towards maintaining objectivity, logical analysis, and pulling together all the information on a subject, even if that information disagrees with the biases of it's audience, then the Liberal tag makes more sense. Liberals depend on on their news media to act as lighthouses, warning us where we may crash on the rocks. Because, y'know, the rocks don't care where we were going - just where we are.
Then the concept of NPR being Liberal make sense. Countering viewpoints *are* a liberal value. Used to be a conservative value too, till they let themselves get sucked into the orbits of the reactionaries. But there's no real liberal market for conservative bashing because, as annoying as it is to be bashed by O'Reilly, we don't care that much about him - he's an idiot that is out of touch with reality. We don't *want* to become like that. We *do* care about the conservative echo chamber that is drowning us out, because occasionally we're right about where we're going to hit rocks too, and we've hit a whole lot lately that, frankly, we warned people about.
But as I read it - they didn't audit the proprietary code base - they counted the errors found, per 1,000 lines of code, and errors fixed.
Now, if Open source is better at finding more subtle errors, even if it fixes them, doesn't his methodology penalize OS code against proprietary code where they didn't find and correct the error in the first place?
I keep expecting to hear at some point some bright boffin prove that the reason there are so many variations of string theory is that string theory is actually homomorphic to all of mathematics - if you can describe it in math, you can describe it in string theory.
I hate to admit it - I'm jealous. I was on OKcupid for a fairly extended period, and while I didn't get 'No response' I only got about one a month, and no one was ever interested in a followup past that. Enjoyed the site, filled out quizes, sent emails, got the occasional friendly response from far away, but no followups and absolutely nothing from under 150 miles away.
Hell, I own my own home and have 2 acres (Old Farmhouse) and had absolutely no response from women in online dating.
Of course, my pictures were rated 3.5 on a ten point scale on a dating site too, so this may be more 'qualitative analysis' on the part of the female customers than quantitative analysis.
But this seems to me to be unlikely. Either the microwaves are in phase, in which case you have a maser and the pressure will be equal regardless of the shape of the waveguide, or they're not in phase, in which case destructive interference is going to result in less pressure on the wide wall, per unit, but the same amount total, regardless of the shape of the wave guide.
This looks a lot more like one of those things where the 'thrust' is within the error of the experiment and nobody else can reproduce it than a new propulsion mechanism. He may not even be a con artist, just bad scientist. See "Hafnium Triggering"
Because it's time consuming work, and a researcher would have to pay me far more money than it's worth to him at this stage of the research to get me to sit down in a cubicle, staring at a screen all day, instead of being here at my job where I . . . hey . . . waitminnit, while I untangle this cord going to my skull . . .
It's a headset. Really, I swear it comes off . . .
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No Darwin didn't - the religious nut the said that was nowhere near the place at the time. She verifiably lied.
Just putting that one to rest 'cuz it annoys me. - Pug
Just as soon as Spore gets released
I have wondered whether anyone has ever studied the question of how connected the brain and the eye are evolutionarily.
EYes are really the first localized sense that develops in the body - as I understand it, during the development of the embryo, the eyes actually start out as brain material that specializes. So did the eyes actually develop out of a previously existing cluster of neurons, or did highly efficient clusters of neurons develop in lockstep with the immediately behind the eyes as they became sharper and more useful simply because so much processing capacity was required right there, close by.
And once you have a lot of processing capacity nearby, it's not the long a reach for mother nature to start building the decision making algorithms nearby - I mean, if you've got all this hardware there anyway, you might as well start using it during the 8 hour maintenance cycle for contingency planning and such.
If that works, we might even add extra capacity for processing during the day shift. No promise though, we'll see how this works out . . . [G]
Pug
The same reason *my* brain isn't stuck into my abdominal cavity where I keep all my other importan stuff - My brain is about 1% of my weight, but produces about 20% of my body heat.
That's why I store my brains in a lower, dangling organ, where they can cool easily - that's the way most of us Bipedal aliens do it. -
Pug
Frankly reminds me of the guy that tried to argue the IRS had no right to take income taxes because the law said it's was the United States, including territories and protectorates, without explicitly including the states themselves. Rather like trying to say that by saying my body includes my hands, I'm excluding the rest of it.
I've actually heard that argument from three different Libertarians - doesn't even make sense.
Pug
Thanks - studied Macroeconomics 101, got an A+, and I'm familiar with various theories (Though I tend towards Keynesian myself). Now, go back and watch the way he spoke during the debate.
There was absolutely nothing in his style or way he framed the issue to imply he meant something other than actually printing money. I rewound it a couple of times to make sure I wasn't projecting. He meant printing money, a'la Germany during the Great Depression.
Pug
Ron Paul?
Sorry, didn't impress me during the debates. He doesn't seem to me to know what he's talking about.
"Inflation is caused by printing too much money"
Well, yeah, if you're in a limited economy in which printed money is the majority of the money supply. Currency is a relatively small percentage of the money supply in the U.S.
Which wouldn't bother me if he was presenting it as some simplified picture for purposes of debate, but every impression I've gotten off him is that he thinks he knew exactly what he was talking about.
Ignorant and aware of I'm fine with - Ignorant and sure he knows what he's talking about - not so much.
Pug
Umm - Gimp will import Inkscape SVG's as a mesh - I'm misremembering terminology (haven't needed the function in awhile and I'm at work), but Gimp can work with SVG just fine, albeint not as well as inkscape.
Pug
Yeah, why would I base my decision on the core competence and customer service of the bank. By the same token I won't use an electrician that can't change my oil and my car mechanic absolutely has to how to write video drivers.
Pug
There was a section related to boobies?!?!
Oh, yeah, they *did* mention that there were high utilization drives . . .
Didn't check the typing? (Check)
Congratulations, you're now officially a slashdot regular! - Pug
I don't recall playing anything in Baldurs Gate or Morrowind that felt quite that annoying.
Maybe the trauma blocked them out of my mind, but both PnP Rpgs and well written PC RPG's seem, to me, to be better than what he plays.
Pug
Oh dear lord that's good - I salute you sir.
Pug
I'm finding something odd that 13 of the 20 'great' games are basically first person shooters and none of them are from small companies.
This is like a review of beverages that argues between coke and pepsi, or musical talent that's really concerned about whether Britney or Christina are better.
Not that some of these aren't good games, but he doesn't even show any variation in taste in the FPS games - he's got, what, four FPS's about "Let's go kill the aliens", and Thief or No one lives forever didn't make the list?
I'm sorry submitter, but your gene pool license has been revoked - you're no longer allowed to reproduce. Remember, just because we're making you eligible for a Darwin award doesn't mean it *has* to be fatal.
Not if you cooperate.
Pug
Because studies have consistently shown that people that watch Fox news are far more likely to believe in things that are verifiably. untrue.
The belief that WMD's were found in Iraq, the belief that Iraq and/or Saddam Hussein were directly involved in 9-11, the belief that there is a "Debate" in the scientific community regarding Global Warming, and a half dozen other items where factual data contradicts administration propaganda, are all much more prevalent among fans of Fox.
What I find personally interesting is the accusations of media bias among "Everyone Else". NPR is considered the definitive "Liberal" media, when 2/3rds of NPR guests (among political/news shows - Yeah, I'm sure Garrison Keilor is Liberal. I'm also fairly sure 24's Keifer Sutherland is conservative. They don't count for our purposes.) come from conservative think tanks.
Personally I'm okay with that - I like seeing opposing viewpoints, and I think 'Hosts' that can't make an argument without cutting the mike are rather wimpy, but I find it odd that Liberal is when the liberals are only outnumbered 2 to 1.
Pug
The point of a standard click to install EULA is that, after downloading the program, the license agreement wishes to set terms, a violation of contract law. The contract should be agreed prior to delivery of the product, to remove the rights you would have under the U.S and local laws *after* payment should be formally illegal.
This is not what the GPL does - the GPL states after the fact that you have you're regular rights under U.S. law as you should. In addition to those rights, if you are willing to be bound by the limits of the GPL, you have additional rights. This is in fact an additional negotiation, and there is nothing unethical about it's being added after the initial delivery. The GPL is doing it exactly right, as it *should* be done under the law.
What *needs* to be done is get the other use invalidated.
Pug
What you're saying is - Conservative shows can't survive if they are forced to allow people that disagree equal time to critique them, but Liberals can survive that way?
However, as soon as Conservatives were given an environment where they could speak without fear of being held accountable, they could flourish?
Hmmm. Interesting indictment of the liberal media -[coff coff]
Pug
Actually, I'm rather amazed that more liberals don't get that the problem is the liberal mindset. I'm going to indulge in some self-serving political definition for a moment, but the nature of the "Liberal" is that they think we can do better, and they look to the future on how to do it (I'm distinguishing this from Radical - a Radical knows we can do better, and knows exactly how to change things to do it. Whether he's right or not is irrelevant, only that he's *certain*.) Contrawise a moderate is holding on to the present, a conservative looks to the past, and a reactionary looks to the past with certainty.
But what is commonly called conservative media is really reactionary media - media that is certain they are right. Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter don't *suspect* I'm an unpatriotic scummy Al-qaeda sympathizer that would risk a few bombs just to be *nice* to islamo-fascist's - they've flat out said so. That I'm a veteran that lost friends in the Pentagon has nothing to do with it.
Now, Radicals would be happy with the opposing media perspective - one that says greenpeace is right, conservatives are cowards etcetera and so on, but Liberals have never merged into radicalism the way conservatives have reactionaries. (Probably frankly, not because Liberals are any brighter perse, than simply because it's more dangerous for someone running to decide to close their eyes while running somewhere they haven't seen than for someone walking to close their eyes and walk backwards to someplace they've been. Hit a few walls running with your eyes shut, and you might decide maybe you don't know as much as you thought. Reactionaries are dumb, but at least they're generally someplace they've been. Radicals are *really* dumb.)
But Liberals are looking for something better, don't know exactly where to go to get it, and have no hesitation about grabbing every bit of info they can to find it. Consider that NPR is considered Liberal, but has 2/3rds conservative viewpoints presented. If you're basing Liberal/Conservative on jotting up point tallies, NPR and PBS are actually pretty conservative. (Unless of course, you just think Liberals are just much more manly and studly than Conservatives, and easily counterbalance two apiece. I'm not averse to that interpretation. )
On the other hand, if you consider that NPR is heavily biased towards maintaining objectivity, logical analysis, and pulling together all the information on a subject, even if that information disagrees with the biases of it's audience, then the Liberal tag makes more sense. Liberals depend on on their news media to act as lighthouses, warning us where we may crash on the rocks. Because, y'know, the rocks don't care where we were going - just where we are.
Then the concept of NPR being Liberal make sense. Countering viewpoints *are* a liberal value. Used to be a conservative value too, till they let themselves get sucked into the orbits of the reactionaries. But there's no real liberal market for conservative bashing because, as annoying as it is to be bashed by O'Reilly, we don't care that much about him - he's an idiot that is out of touch with reality. We don't *want* to become like that. We *do* care about the conservative echo chamber that is drowning us out, because occasionally we're right about where we're going to hit rocks too, and we've hit a whole lot lately that, frankly, we warned people about.
Pug
But as I read it - they didn't audit the proprietary code base - they counted the errors found, per 1,000 lines of code, and errors fixed.
Now, if Open source is better at finding more subtle errors, even if it fixes them, doesn't his methodology penalize OS code against proprietary code where they didn't find and correct the error in the first place?
Pug
I keep expecting to hear at some point some bright boffin prove that the reason there are so many variations of string theory is that string theory is actually homomorphic to all of mathematics - if you can describe it in math, you can describe it in string theory.
Pug
I hate to admit it - I'm jealous. I was on OKcupid for a fairly extended period, and while I didn't get 'No response' I only got about one a month, and no one was ever interested in a followup past that. Enjoyed the site, filled out quizes, sent emails, got the occasional friendly response from far away, but no followups and absolutely nothing from under 150 miles away.
Gets depressing after awhile.
Pug
Hell, I own my own home and have 2 acres (Old Farmhouse) and had absolutely no response from women in online dating.
Of course, my pictures were rated 3.5 on a ten point scale on a dating site too, so this may be more 'qualitative analysis' on the part of the female customers than quantitative analysis.
Pug
Gotta love "This one's for you Jack - Anniversary year, and his daughters birthday . . . I'm In!" ."
Jack Ryan "Remind me to change my ATM pin . .
Pug
But this seems to me to be unlikely. Either the microwaves are in phase, in which case you have a maser and the pressure will be equal regardless of the shape of the waveguide, or they're not in phase, in which case destructive interference is going to result in less pressure on the wide wall, per unit, but the same amount total, regardless of the shape of the wave guide.
This looks a lot more like one of those things where the 'thrust' is within the error of the experiment and nobody else can reproduce it than a new propulsion mechanism. He may not even be a con artist, just bad scientist. See "Hafnium Triggering"
See what peer review says. I could be wrong.
Pug
Because it's time consuming work, and a researcher would have to pay me far more money than it's worth to him at this stage of the research to get me to sit down in a cubicle, staring at a screen all day, instead of being here at my job where I . . . hey . . . waitminnit, while I untangle this cord going to my skull . . .
It's a headset. Really, I swear it comes off . . .
Pug