Well he's right at least with Geometry - if you ever try writing your own engine code - you need a university level understanding of Linear Algebra in order to even understand what you're looking at. I'm not talking about when you open Valve's SDK to make a Source Deathmatch Mod, that's peanuts that any teenager can pick up and go with. If you want your new game to run with both OpenGL and DirectX (as some developers do), and you start relatively from the ground up - knowledge of matrices and how to use them is key.
In regards to the actual topic at hand - like the OP said, there are too many definitions floating around that are technically incorrect but accepted by many. Even with a rigorous understanding of the actual technical correctness of the social aspects - you still might not find what someone is looking for - simply because their definition of "conservatism" is wrong with what it actually means.
Since when was IE9 actually launched? Are we seriously predicting the doom of IE because not so many people downloaded a browser that isn't even released yet?
Help... About... IE8... hmmm.
Start... All programs... Windows Update.... Huh... no IE9...
Google: IE9... Download the Beta?
Yeah it looks like they're making a big deal over an unreleased product. I think they should slow it down some. I prefer MORE time in between my IE releases, who knows if this next one is going to break my application.
I live in Canada so the idea of AC at home seems silly to me. Even in our hottest days (like 38 Celcius) it's not hard to just go to the basement, grab a couple cold ones with the tv until the sun starts to set.
My girlfriend is visitting Washington right now - and it's the start of November. She says the weather is still pretty nice, sometimes rainy but still much warmer than on the plains this time of year. What annoys her the most is that EVERYWHERE has their AC cranked on full. She finds it freezing! As a Canadian!
I USED to use my phone as an alarm clock when I was in-between houses and couch-jumping from friend to friend - all of which who still live with their parents.
All in all though - I'm terrible at getting myself out of bed. Sleep is like a drug, my semi-conscious self in the mornings will battle it out mentally on whether I can spare another 5 minutes with my eyes closed or not. My phone, being a touch device, can dismiss the alarm with a simple mash, and that'll be the end of it.
Whereas my alarm clock, even with the snooze button, will continue to go off every 9 minutes at least. I've used this to my advantage though - since I know It usually takes me hitting the snooze button 5 times before getting out of bed, I just set my alarm 45 minutes early. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, in actuallity I get less sleep this way, but it works for me.
Point is though - phones today don't cater to this rather niche area where I want to be able to look over and see what time it is whenever, and not have to pickup my phone or anything. Likewise, I want a large snooze button, and a simple way to turn it off but not so simple you can do it without some focus.
And in before someone says "Why don't you just put your alarm clock (or phone) across the room, forcing you to get out of bed before you turn it off?"
I have tried this, and it results in me falling back to sleep on the floor and not in my bed, which isn't pleasant to wake up to.
Really? I don't think sex is one of those things that people like just because its Taboo. I think a lot of teenage boys 12 and up would be venturing into Adult Source and buying stuff if it were legal to sell it to them.
That depends though - right? I mean Tenenbaum was sued for the downloading AND sharing, wasn't he?
I mean they were essentially distributing their website for free online anyways, and its long been shut down, so its not like they are losing any money, so no damages can be set. At what point do you have a case to bring in front of a judge? It's copyrighted and being distributed therefor I need moneys? Like I said before - I could see someone using their copyrighted designs and that might cause damages to any new sites they might have launched after Geocities came down.
I don't think you can be sued for copying a web page to a file... If so, browsers better take out that page view source functionality because it makes it all too easy.
If you were to perhaps actually host a website, with some of the infringing material, then I think you might have grounds. But an archive of it all? I doubt it.
It's also recently been suggested by a study saying that about 1-4% of our DNA is Homo neanderthalensis - so even had THEY been the dominant species it's likely that 1-4% of their DNA today would be Homo Sapien.
Either way you slice it, any of the intelligent species on Earth appear to have a common ancestor. So whether we killed off other intelligent forms of life and thats why there aren't any is moot: none of the other animal kingdoms have shown anything along the scale that humans have, or else we'd be competing with them like we did with Neanderthals. Or there'd be intelligent oceanic life, or something along those lines.
We assume we're unique because we haven't found anything else like us. Does that make sense?
One circle of life existed 65 Million years ago for far longer than we have been alive and yet they didn't develop the intellect to construct anything. We look at the other parts of life around us that are just beginning to use tools - but they're still a long ways away from reaching where we were a million years ago.
Given that we've only been able to study these two sample cases, and both suggest that we're "above average" at the learning curve - we assume we're unique.
It seems pretty reasonable to be fairly optimistic about every other term in Drake's equation.
f = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
I've always found these 2 to be the ones that I have trouble being optimistic about. Just because a planet CAN support life doesn't mean that it definately will. And just because life forms, it doesn't always develop intelligence (see Dinosaurs and Ancient Marine Reptiles).
We've only got ONE case study so far where this has occured, us. I have trouble believing these two have high probabilities.
I am using common sense - I'm sure there must be at least ONE piece of information about you that you wished wasn't public. A letter you wrote. A picture or video taken of you. Any kind of record. Not necessarily something you regret but still not something you want everyone to know. Something possibly 1, 5, or 10 years old now. And it doesn't bug you that it can be made public without your permission?
I feel like I'm going crazy re-iterating the same point - sometimes its NOT in your control.
Your friends can post things about you - and your employers can look them up... You can have all the privacy settings on their most restricted settings and it does not change this fact...
If you find yourself in a position where you are limitted by something like that - you're better off just keeping a regular XP box running and supporting it yourself than you are virtualizing IE6 on Windows 7.
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Well he's right at least with Geometry - if you ever try writing your own engine code - you need a university level understanding of Linear Algebra in order to even understand what you're looking at. I'm not talking about when you open Valve's SDK to make a Source Deathmatch Mod, that's peanuts that any teenager can pick up and go with. If you want your new game to run with both OpenGL and DirectX (as some developers do), and you start relatively from the ground up - knowledge of matrices and how to use them is key.
In regards to the actual topic at hand - like the OP said, there are too many definitions floating around that are technically incorrect but accepted by many. Even with a rigorous understanding of the actual technical correctness of the social aspects - you still might not find what someone is looking for - simply because their definition of "conservatism" is wrong with what it actually means.
Since when was IE9 actually launched? Are we seriously predicting the doom of IE because not so many people downloaded a browser that isn't even released yet?
Help... About... IE8... hmmm.
Start... All programs... Windows Update.... Huh... no IE9...
Google: IE9 ... Download the Beta?
Yeah it looks like they're making a big deal over an unreleased product. I think they should slow it down some. I prefer MORE time in between my IE releases, who knows if this next one is going to break my application.
I live in Canada so the idea of AC at home seems silly to me. Even in our hottest days (like 38 Celcius) it's not hard to just go to the basement, grab a couple cold ones with the tv until the sun starts to set.
My girlfriend is visitting Washington right now - and it's the start of November. She says the weather is still pretty nice, sometimes rainy but still much warmer than on the plains this time of year. What annoys her the most is that EVERYWHERE has their AC cranked on full. She finds it freezing! As a Canadian!
Hi, nice to meet you, now you do.
I USED to use my phone as an alarm clock when I was in-between houses and couch-jumping from friend to friend - all of which who still live with their parents.
All in all though - I'm terrible at getting myself out of bed. Sleep is like a drug, my semi-conscious self in the mornings will battle it out mentally on whether I can spare another 5 minutes with my eyes closed or not. My phone, being a touch device, can dismiss the alarm with a simple mash, and that'll be the end of it.
Whereas my alarm clock, even with the snooze button, will continue to go off every 9 minutes at least. I've used this to my advantage though - since I know It usually takes me hitting the snooze button 5 times before getting out of bed, I just set my alarm 45 minutes early. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, in actuallity I get less sleep this way, but it works for me.
Point is though - phones today don't cater to this rather niche area where I want to be able to look over and see what time it is whenever, and not have to pickup my phone or anything. Likewise, I want a large snooze button, and a simple way to turn it off but not so simple you can do it without some focus.
And in before someone says "Why don't you just put your alarm clock (or phone) across the room, forcing you to get out of bed before you turn it off?"
I have tried this, and it results in me falling back to sleep on the floor and not in my bed, which isn't pleasant to wake up to.
You know... that sounds awfully familiar...
Are you saying that it's not, in fact, a bug?
And that it could be, instead, a feature?
Really? I don't think sex is one of those things that people like just because its Taboo. I think a lot of teenage boys 12 and up would be venturing into Adult Source and buying stuff if it were legal to sell it to them.
Inversely, would the porn industry be bigger or better if there were no age restrictions?
In 2010 that suggested that somewhere around 1-4% of everyone's DNA is Neanderthal ish?
That depends though - right? I mean Tenenbaum was sued for the downloading AND sharing, wasn't he?
I mean they were essentially distributing their website for free online anyways, and its long been shut down, so its not like they are losing any money, so no damages can be set. At what point do you have a case to bring in front of a judge? It's copyrighted and being distributed therefor I need moneys? Like I said before - I could see someone using their copyrighted designs and that might cause damages to any new sites they might have launched after Geocities came down.
You have to preview, as far as I know.
I don't think you can be sued for copying a web page to a file... If so, browsers better take out that page view source functionality because it makes it all too easy.
If you were to perhaps actually host a website, with some of the infringing material, then I think you might have grounds. But an archive of it all? I doubt it.
Intelligence is expensive to get. ... there's a lot of guesswork and probably bribery and extortion involved.
Expensive? If I'm giving out money and then taking money from someone else, and the rest is just guessing, shouldn't I break even?
Hey hedwards,
Here's a dollar for some intel. Now give me a dollar or I'll share that intel. I guess my work here is done!
Nah, we should level an American city that isn't being useful anymore.
Washington DC?
It's also recently been suggested by a study saying that about 1-4% of our DNA is Homo neanderthalensis - so even had THEY been the dominant species it's likely that 1-4% of their DNA today would be Homo Sapien.
Either way you slice it, any of the intelligent species on Earth appear to have a common ancestor. So whether we killed off other intelligent forms of life and thats why there aren't any is moot: none of the other animal kingdoms have shown anything along the scale that humans have, or else we'd be competing with them like we did with Neanderthals. Or there'd be intelligent oceanic life, or something along those lines.
We assume we're unique because we haven't found anything else like us. Does that make sense?
One circle of life existed 65 Million years ago for far longer than we have been alive and yet they didn't develop the intellect to construct anything. We look at the other parts of life around us that are just beginning to use tools - but they're still a long ways away from reaching where we were a million years ago.
Given that we've only been able to study these two sample cases, and both suggest that we're "above average" at the learning curve - we assume we're unique.
It seems pretty reasonable to be fairly optimistic about every other term in Drake's equation.
f = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
I've always found these 2 to be the ones that I have trouble being optimistic about. Just because a planet CAN support life doesn't mean that it definately will. And just because life forms, it doesn't always develop intelligence (see Dinosaurs and Ancient Marine Reptiles).
We've only got ONE case study so far where this has occured, us. I have trouble believing these two have high probabilities.
I am using common sense - I'm sure there must be at least ONE piece of information about you that you wished wasn't public. A letter you wrote. A picture or video taken of you. Any kind of record. Not necessarily something you regret but still not something you want everyone to know. Something possibly 1, 5, or 10 years old now. And it doesn't bug you that it can be made public without your permission?
But by then the damage is already done.
I think we all know that if it were Freddy vs Jason vs IE6 who would win.
IE 6 would make Freddy Facepalm and Jason would commit seppuku from frustration.
I feel like I'm going crazy re-iterating the same point - sometimes its NOT in your control.
Your friends can post things about you - and your employers can look them up... You can have all the privacy settings on their most restricted settings and it does not change this fact...
So if I don't want my boss to see me eyes glazed over, drunk, at my own new years eve party - and I can't be "that guy" - theres nothing I can do?
If you find yourself in a position where you are limitted by something like that - you're better off just keeping a regular XP box running and supporting it yourself than you are virtualizing IE6 on Windows 7.
I think you're overestimating it.
But I don't have anything besides anecdotal evidence to back up my claims (As those were the estimated times for upgrading OUR legacy applications).
Technically its not illegal or against company policy to have relations with someone who works there - but it's highly frowned upon.
It's happened - so and so hooked up with so and so and now they both need to be replaced. They'll find a reason.
They rarely hold up against company paid lawyers is all.