Whoever killed him wanted to make a point and also wanted the fingers to be pointed at the usual suspects.
Which makes me on a second thought post anonymously:-)
Wimp. I know who did it, and I plan to provide definitive evidence to authorities in three countries, as well as to various rival crime organizations (just to be sure of some action), but I'm darned if I'm going to post as an Anonymous Cow%.@# NO CARRIER
You might just have unconsciously trained yourself to relax when one eye is shut, i.e. it may have nothing to do with the physiology. Doing such experiments on yourself is notoriously unreliable, and unless you've gone to some effort to rule out other explanations, the one you've hit on is more likely to be wrong than right.
Thanks for posting this story. It's the first thing I've seen that makes me think it might be worth overcoming my aversion to Al Gore (the man, not his politics) and watch this movie.
It's not an official title, if that's what you mean. Cresanti is the Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology. "Czar" is just a name the media likes to use, at least since the heyday of the "War on Drugs".
Critical thinking is an oxymoron. Critics don't think, they merely criticize.
You might want to look up what "critical thinking" means. Hint: it's not about critics.
Once you've learned what it means, try applying it to Star Wars, and we can have this discussion again. In the meantime, good luck with your studies. I'd suggest focusing on something a little more intellectually challenging than Star Wars, though, because that stuff'll rot your brain.
My point is that the Force is a phenomenon whose existence can be demonstrated even to those who don't have "faith" in it, the classic example being Vader choking Motti without physically touching him. The fact that there's a demonstrable Force that can be used to do this is sufficient: it means that it's not simply the imagined artifact of a non-scientific religion. Adding midichlorians to the picture adds nothing, other than exposing the author for what he is:
And not understanding that authors simply change a few letters around in soft science fiction between the science and the pseudoscience
Second-rate, lazy authors do this, sure. And that's the point. For Eps 1 through 3, Lucas was a second-rate, lazy author. If you disagree, please point me to the favorable critical reviews of that work.
theology is beyond your capabilities.
Apparently critical thinking is beyond yours, so let's call it even.
tetrions are a well known theoretical particle indicated by the math in Einstien's E=MC^2, as particles that can go no slower than the speed of light and thus are traveling backwards in time). Just because you don't have the education required to understand the technobabble doesn't make the technobabble into nonsense
You're apparently thinking of tachyons, which rather seems to indicate that you're the one who might not have the education to be having this discussion. In that case, I can understand why midichlorians might make sense to you. There are no tetrions in real-world physics, not even hypothesized ones.
I can't think of a Bradbury or Heinlein story that has quite so lame a device, and I've read quite a bit of both.
Your speculation about what would be lost along with midichlorians doesn't make much sense. The Force is an observable, repeatable phenomenon, unlike anything in any religion on Earth. Associating it with an organelle doesn't add anything to that. In real physics, we happily accept the concept of mass, even though we have little idea what "causes" it - we haven't yet demonstrated the existence of the Higgs boson, and it may not even exist, in which case we really don't understand mass.
The rep from TI (makers of DLP) was talking to someone else from TI and from one of the Korean television manufacturers (probably Samsung, but I don't recall). They weren't addressing him, they were talking to each other. He was 20 feet away, and couldn't hear what they were saying.
So you're saying they were practicing ass-kissing? I admire their dedication to the sport!
I'm just kidding, Cuban's a cool guy, all the more so for the fact that he doesn't do what most businessmen do, which is play it safe, stick to the company line in every public utterance, and keep their real opinions to themselves.
watching him speak was amazing, not for what he said, but to hear the AWE from the representatives of companies like TI that were talking about how nobody did more for their industry than him.
Uh, that's called "ass-kissing".;) It doesn't actually mean anything, other than to signify that the kissers would like to get their hands on more of the kissee's money.
Not doing PR will guarantee that the entire Space Program ends up being nothing but a bunch of expensive lawn ornaments and a theme park in Florida. ...
The primary goal of the space program should be to ensure its own future existence, and that means keeping the public interested. If that means going and sending some guy up to stand on an asteroid for a photo op next to a flag, so be it. It's that sort of thing which will keep the money flowing.
But in that case, why not just cut to the chase? If the space program depends for its success on being entertainment for the masses, then the obvious solution is to send Paris Hilton into space to do a reality show.
Oh please, how do midichlorians make it SCIENCE fiction? That's the exact problem with them: as someone else observed, it's just Star Trek style technobabble, with no real explanatory power. "Watch out Cap'n, the tetrions are going to blow a hole in the dilithium crystal!" That's not science fiction, it's the cheesiest of space opera. Removing midichlorians would only improve the story, and nothing would be lost.
I agree. You can ignore Jar Jar as just another annoying character aimed at 4 year olds, like the (admittedly cuter) Ewoks. But midichlorians completely remove both the romance and, in a weird way, the plausibility from arguably *the* central element of the Star Wars universe.
I find it hard to believe that the same person wrote the screenplays in both cases. It's as if there was one writer who didn't understand what the other one was trying to do.
It's almost like Anakin becoming Vader. Lucas' success and power corrupted him, until finally all he was capable of was demonstrating that he was so powerful that he could screw over his fans and get away with it.
This kind of thing is fairly common with someone who has achieved great success with something and then not been able to really repeat it. They return to what worked best for them, often with the idea that they know they can do better than they did the first time around, and that everyone else has just been making minor tweaks since then, not major conceptual advances. (In that case of spreadsheets, that may actually be true!)
So yes, there's a psychological issue here, not so much with spreadsheets specifically, but with past success.
I don't think you read that right. It's that our sticky eyeballs are hammers for Google's Nails of Advertisement. Or something like that.
Anybody else here think eyeballs wouldn't make the greatest hammers?
Yeah, but you got it backwards. Google has a hammer in search of nails. Our sticky eyeballs are the nails that Google is going to be hammering with their advertising. (Or if you prefer, they'll hammer the nails of advertising into our sticky eyeballs). Put that way, the metaphor makes much more sense!
You're stretching pretty hard to look for excuses not to learn open source technologies. Let's accept your hypothesis that their are sociopaths in open source. I have a simple suggestion to deal with them: ignore them! Saying "People like you want me to stay with Windows" makes as much sense as an overweight person saying "People like you make me want to eat a pint of ice cream".
Could you explain why you think having it affect their math grade doesn't make any sense? If an exam takes longer to be graded than its peers because it is written in poor natural language, that indicates that the student has a problem, which is affecting his ability to do math exams to a level equivalent to his peers. Why should this poor ability to communicate on the subject being tested for be overlooked in math? Do you expect this "affirmative action" principle for poor communicators to apply in other subjects also, or is it just math for some reason?
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Wimp. I know who did it, and I plan to provide definitive evidence to authorities in three countries, as well as to various rival crime organizations (just to be sure of some action), but I'm darned if I'm going to post as an Anonymous Cow%.@# NO CARRIER
You might just have unconsciously trained yourself to relax when one eye is shut, i.e. it may have nothing to do with the physiology. Doing such experiments on yourself is notoriously unreliable, and unless you've gone to some effort to rule out other explanations, the one you've hit on is more likely to be wrong than right.
Thanks for posting this story. It's the first thing I've seen that makes me think it might be worth overcoming my aversion to Al Gore (the man, not his politics) and watch this movie.
LOL
It's not an official title, if that's what you mean. Cresanti is the Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology. "Czar" is just a name the media likes to use, at least since the heyday of the "War on Drugs".
You might want to look up what "critical thinking" means. Hint: it's not about critics.
Once you've learned what it means, try applying it to Star Wars, and we can have this discussion again. In the meantime, good luck with your studies. I'd suggest focusing on something a little more intellectually challenging than Star Wars, though, because that stuff'll rot your brain.
My point is that the Force is a phenomenon whose existence can be demonstrated even to those who don't have "faith" in it, the classic example being Vader choking Motti without physically touching him. The fact that there's a demonstrable Force that can be used to do this is sufficient: it means that it's not simply the imagined artifact of a non-scientific religion. Adding midichlorians to the picture adds nothing, other than exposing the author for what he is:
Second-rate, lazy authors do this, sure. And that's the point. For Eps 1 through 3, Lucas was a second-rate, lazy author. If you disagree, please point me to the favorable critical reviews of that work.
Apparently critical thinking is beyond yours, so let's call it even.
You're apparently thinking of tachyons, which rather seems to indicate that you're the one who might not have the education to be having this discussion. In that case, I can understand why midichlorians might make sense to you. There are no tetrions in real-world physics, not even hypothesized ones.
I can't think of a Bradbury or Heinlein story that has quite so lame a device, and I've read quite a bit of both.
Your speculation about what would be lost along with midichlorians doesn't make much sense. The Force is an observable, repeatable phenomenon, unlike anything in any religion on Earth. Associating it with an organelle doesn't add anything to that. In real physics, we happily accept the concept of mass, even though we have little idea what "causes" it - we haven't yet demonstrated the existence of the Higgs boson, and it may not even exist, in which case we really don't understand mass.
So you're saying they were practicing ass-kissing? I admire their dedication to the sport!
I'm just kidding, Cuban's a cool guy, all the more so for the fact that he doesn't do what most businessmen do, which is play it safe, stick to the company line in every public utterance, and keep their real opinions to themselves.
No, he knew all the facts necessary to get the joke, but still didn't get it. That's kind of the opposite of getting the joke.
Wait, was that a joke?
But in that case, why not just cut to the chase? If the space program depends for its success on being entertainment for the masses, then the obvious solution is to send Paris Hilton into space to do a reality show.
Oh please, how do midichlorians make it SCIENCE fiction? That's the exact problem with them: as someone else observed, it's just Star Trek style technobabble, with no real explanatory power. "Watch out Cap'n, the tetrions are going to blow a hole in the dilithium crystal!" That's not science fiction, it's the cheesiest of space opera. Removing midichlorians would only improve the story, and nothing would be lost.
You're trying to barter your services as a male (or lesbian) prostitute? I doubt you're worth all that much.
People who would actually KNOW, the way Ken Lay knew what was going on at Enron?
I agree. You can ignore Jar Jar as just another annoying character aimed at 4 year olds, like the (admittedly cuter) Ewoks. But midichlorians completely remove both the romance and, in a weird way, the plausibility from arguably *the* central element of the Star Wars universe.
I find it hard to believe that the same person wrote the screenplays in both cases. It's as if there was one writer who didn't understand what the other one was trying to do.
It's almost like Anakin becoming Vader. Lucas' success and power corrupted him, until finally all he was capable of was demonstrating that he was so powerful that he could screw over his fans and get away with it.
Truly, turned to the dark side he has.
Your uid seems a little low for someone who's apparently just learned about mitochondria in high school.
This kind of thing is fairly common with someone who has achieved great success with something and then not been able to really repeat it. They return to what worked best for them, often with the idea that they know they can do better than they did the first time around, and that everyone else has just been making minor tweaks since then, not major conceptual advances. (In that case of spreadsheets, that may actually be true!)
So yes, there's a psychological issue here, not so much with spreadsheets specifically, but with past success.
As long as Jack Bauer does the torture ("interrogation") and I get to watch, I'm cool with that.
Apply directly to the forehead!
Apply directly to the forehead!
Apply directly to the forehead!
Yeah, but you got it backwards. Google has a hammer in search of nails. Our sticky eyeballs are the nails that Google is going to be hammering with their advertising. (Or if you prefer, they'll hammer the nails of advertising into our sticky eyeballs). Put that way, the metaphor makes much more sense!
Can't touch this!
You're stretching pretty hard to look for excuses not to learn open source technologies. Let's accept your hypothesis that their are sociopaths in open source. I have a simple suggestion to deal with them: ignore them! Saying "People like you want me to stay with Windows" makes as much sense as an overweight person saying "People like you make me want to eat a pint of ice cream".
By the logic in your own post, you don't have the proper education to make such judgements. Leave it to the professionals.
Could you explain why you think having it affect their math grade doesn't make any sense? If an exam takes longer to be graded than its peers because it is written in poor natural language, that indicates that the student has a problem, which is affecting his ability to do math exams to a level equivalent to his peers. Why should this poor ability to communicate on the subject being tested for be overlooked in math? Do you expect this "affirmative action" principle for poor communicators to apply in other subjects also, or is it just math for some reason?