Last days? They invaded Afghanistan 12 years before the USSR dissolved.
Ok... so what are you trying to say? That an entity can't be in its "last days" twelve years before its end?
Basically yes. The USSR lived for 69 years. By analogy, would you say of a person who lived for 69 years that from their 57th birthday on they were living their last days?
It's been my experience that most people don't have any opinions of their own; they just latch onto belief systems that are attractive to them and parrot arguments.
Yep, the parrot argument always pops up when we discuss Stallman here.
Meat gets antibiotics. Vegetables get synthetic fertilizer. No food source can feed the planet without modern agriculture techniques.
Considering mankind has survived without antibiotics and synthetic fertilizers for thousands of years, this is a rather distorted view, and is debatable given the greed and corruption behind the corporations that tell us we "need" these things in our food.
However, for these thousands of years the planet lacked the 7E9 humans that we need to feed today.
It was modded down because his post was nothing more than a way to say, "there is no god"..
It was at -1 because my karma was terrible - several people apparently took offence to my recent opinion that Visual Studio might be bloated.
"There is no god" and "we weren't designed" are not equivalent. You can have religions with gods that don't create. I meant "we're the product of evolution", not "there is no god". Honestly, the fact that some people "disbelieve" evolution boggles my mind.
Yes, I know what PGO is.
Would you not agree that that amount of memory depends both on what is being linked and on how extravagant the linker is about its memory consumption?
Thanks, but that was not my intention at all -- I have nothing against Microsoft.
It seems to me that seeing MS-bashing in every post looks like some kind of new./ fad, I predict in time it might become more fashionable than MS-bashing here.
Putin's advisor says:
-... Mr. Putin, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is your party only got 15% of the votes...
- And the good news?
- You still won!
Knowing how to do hard things doesn't mean I need to do it on a day by day basis.
I can know about a dozen sorting algorithms, it doesn't mean I shouldn't use the sort() provided by the standard library of whatever language I'm using. In fact, I'd be a retard not to use it.
True, but that only works for smart programmers like you. There's still a fair point with "if you make it too easy, riff-raff comes in".
Maybe true, but some losers I know are actually worth $7 per hour before they toke up, and you'd often be better off if they went home instead of coming back to work afterwards.
Sure, but you can make the same argument about a bottle of beer now, can't you?
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Fair enough.
Last days? They invaded Afghanistan 12 years before the USSR dissolved.
Ok... so what are you trying to say? That an entity can't be in its "last days" twelve years before its end?
Basically yes. The USSR lived for 69 years. By analogy, would you say of a person who lived for 69 years that from their 57th birthday on they were living their last days?
Surely diplomatic discourse would be more effective than the threat of invasion.
Surely? Can you back this up somehow?
I keep thinking of USSR in its last days. They invaded Afghanistan, and everybody claimed that it was all about the oil. Sound familiar?
Last days? They invaded Afghanistan 12 years before the USSR dissolved.
It's been my experience that most people don't have any opinions of their own; they just latch onto belief systems that are attractive to them and parrot arguments.
Yep, the parrot argument always pops up when we discuss Stallman here.
s/vacuum/air/
:D.
Yeah, I definitely need another coffee
Quick back of an envelope calculation... speed of sound 340m/s,
In vacuum. In solid objects sound is typically an order of magnitude faster -- e.g. sound travels at approx 3400 m/s in wood.
Meat gets antibiotics. Vegetables get synthetic fertilizer. No food source can feed the planet without modern agriculture techniques.
Considering mankind has survived without antibiotics and synthetic fertilizers for thousands of years, this is a rather distorted view, and is debatable given the greed and corruption behind the corporations that tell us we "need" these things in our food.
However, for these thousands of years the planet lacked the 7E9 humans that we need to feed today.
So what exactly do you propose?
Not N*3%. Learn some basic maths. It will be 1 - (1 - 3%)^N.
Are you implying I can never have more than 1 failure per year, no matter how many drives I have? Cool!
They build rockets better when their drunk!
Whose drunk?
We weren't designed at all, mind you.
Citation needed.
You can't use science to disprove hypotheses.
I have a hypothesis that the Earth is a flat disc. Don't you dare use science to disprove that.
It was modded down because his post was nothing more than a way to say, "there is no god". .
It was at -1 because my karma was terrible - several people apparently took offence to my recent opinion that Visual Studio might be bloated.
"There is no god" and "we weren't designed" are not equivalent. You can have religions with gods that don't create. I meant "we're the product of evolution", not "there is no god". Honestly, the fact that some people "disbelieve" evolution boggles my mind.
No. I prefer heirloom stuff when I can get it. And no matter what they say, GM food is bad for you, because we weren't designed to eat GM food.
We weren't designed at all, mind you.
Yes, I know what PGO is.
Would you not agree that that amount of memory depends both on what is being linked and on how extravagant the linker is about its memory consumption?
Thanks, but that was not my intention at all -- I have nothing against Microsoft.
./ fad, I predict in time it might become more fashionable than MS-bashing here.
It seems to me that seeing MS-bashing in every post looks like some kind of new
I think it speaks volumes about the bloat of VS2005 more than about the bloat of FF.
Got any advice, or pointers, aside from the usual combing corporate websites and social networking?"
Do not get killed.
Putin's advisor says: ... Mr. Putin, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is your party only got 15% of the votes...
-
- And the good news?
- You still won!
The first time I visited London, I felt right at home.
You mean left at home, right?
Knowing how to do hard things doesn't mean I need to do it on a day by day basis.
I can know about a dozen sorting algorithms, it doesn't mean I shouldn't use the sort() provided by the standard library of whatever language I'm using. In fact, I'd be a retard not to use it.
True, but that only works for smart programmers like you. There's still a fair point with "if you make it too easy, riff-raff comes in".
In this context, http://www.quantum-espresso.org would probably be best.
Maybe true, but some losers I know are actually worth $7 per hour before they toke up, and you'd often be better off if they went home instead of coming back to work afterwards.
Sure, but you can make the same argument about a bottle of beer now, can't you?
If a universe experiences heat death, can anyone be there to see it?
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER
1016 atoms, corresponding to a region of the crystal about 0.05 millimetres wide and 0.25 millimetres long
Dawg, you got your lengthscales all messed up, man.