Pluto has many properties (structure being one) that Ceres and most KBOs do not have.
Second, should it matter? Once you have a scientific distinction between an asteroid and a planet, you destroy utterly the value of planetary science if you then contrive to select only that Sara which fits a preconceived notion of how many planets a solar system should have.
Only the planetary science should matter. School kids can have a cutoff point and ignore everything byond, same as they do in all other sciences. They're not going to be burdened by this.
Planetary scientists, if given data that is insensibly fitted to a theory, to use a Holmsian phrase, ARE going to be burdened. They, in all of this, are the ones who matter.
In part, software vendors renting rather than selling products are responsible, along with a refusal to offer a warranty.
I'd suggest placing stiff penalties on failing to follow established practices, and jail sentences for failing to fix in a timely manner or responsibly upgrade in a timely manner.
Making it a criminal offence with a ten year fixed tarrif should liven things up.
If you bought a car and the car is then recalled due to a propensity for the brakes to fail, you don't get to claim in court that the pedestrian you ran into was just unlucky but that it wasn't your shit to fix.
That excuse doesn't fly. If the product is dangerously defective and you know that it is, you are liable.
1. All commercial software must be classed as fit for purpose within specified design parameters.
2. All commercial software must have a warranty of 5 years where all defects will be fixed at vendor's expense.
3. Vendors of software that violates CERT's secure coding rules, implements back doors or uses encryption algorithms broken at time of release shall be liable for losses due to security flaws.
4. Vendors of mission-critical software must, on demand, provide proof of formal methods, extreme programming or tandem programming, and must be able to show ISO 900x compliance where relevant.
5. Vendors who cannot provide a court with design documents and specifications, and proof the software complies with them, shall be deemed automatically at fault in any lawsuit.
6. It shall be a crime punushable by 10 years to provide any mission critical device with unsecured or unauthenticated network access, whether anyone is injured or not.
Real software developers, the only ones who matter, are aiming for eliminating bugs. If satire about excessive religion in politics is distracting you from your job, you're in the wrong job.
I'd love to change your mind. You have been far too polite to that Godwinesque troll.
There are some people who are ideal test subjects for whether Mars can support life and anyone who equates abortion with eugenics richly deserved to become part of the Martian soil program.
Very true. Also, it's worth noting that an American company operating in India or Africa can't claim its pollution is from a BRICS country and therefore somehow not the responsibility of the American company. Equally, a consumer in America or Europe buying from a polluting company doesn't get to blame the country the company is in. It's the consumer who is buying the product.
Well, ok, there's one consideration with country. Pollution doesn't spread infinitely fast. It spreads across an atmospheric cell faster than between cells. Over any longer timeframes, the pollution will cover the globe, that's very true, but shorter-term effects migrate.
Correct, but there will be radioisotopes and other isotopes that are present in volcanic pollution and absent in fossil fuels, owing to the fact that they come from very very different sources. The reverse will also be true for the same reasons. Therefore we can determine percentages. And, indeed, we already do.
It's a subsystem. Every layer adds latency. Your core must support 100% of the atomic operations or everything is too slow, too unreliable and too prone to security defects.
You need many streams and the capacity to not just switch but utilize those to catch up.
You need high quality school lunches and a total ban on junk food.
You need the absolute fewest possible number of tests, no homework (since parents cheat) and proper mediation between teaching and practice. Exams should be at least to the much higher British standard, using floating grades (arithmetic mean score is a C).
You need no fixed reward systems, since kids become addicted to rewards rather than seeking out good work.
Age obsession is unhealthy. If a 13 year old qualifies for university, they need to be in university. 1% of all kids should be at this standard, which means you've enough young students to build a university.
Religion should be banned outside of religious education and history, and restricted to theory not dogma. This includes private and religious schools.
Nationalism should also be banned. No swearing allegiance, no flags in classroom outside of books, nothing from nationalistic perspectives, no filtering. Multiculturalism should be mandatory.
That would fix the problems in American schools.
The problem with Gates is he assumes Clippy and Word are enough.
I hope vanadium batteries get past the blockage. Lithium is good but a tad explosive.
The X-Prize car, 100 mpg at 100 mph with 2 adults and 2 kids - that was a decent car. Material science has moved on, so has engine tech. We should be able to set a standard of 70 mpg at 70 mph under the same loads and have a range of vehicles that were adequately safe.
It's not brilliant, but it's an improvement and I'd call it an ok improvement until battery tech has improved. It would get manufacturers to actually innovate for once and we have proof it's doable.
If people want cheap transit, they can use busses and electric trains. If the State doesn't have them, that's the choice of the voters. The voters should have asked.
Freezing standards makes industry less competitive. However, if you've a good deal from a foreign national offering a percent on cars sold, this would be the way to go.
Me, I'd look at what you'd need to scrap to make the X-Prize car street legal, then raise standards to the point things could still be reasonably safe.
A working OS to replace Windows Support for Elite Dangerous A decent filesystem Security Reliability A decent attitude at Microsoft Working technical support Standards-compliant software POSIX A shutdown that works without hacking it The ability to remove Clippy Jr Retention of privacy A decent compiler
If the spin is always the opposite, you can't argue chance.
The Pauli exclusion principle obviously allows leptons to interact, so it's just not good enough to say it's a meaningless correlation when it comes to other particles.
Assuming ER=EMR, and assuming information has effective energy density, then you cannot transmit net information. Net effective energy must be zero or less.
This implies that you could transmit information as long as there was an equal negative energy to the effective energy. Entanglement would not break.
Quantum entanglement may be limited the same way the Pauli exclusion principle is.
Second, if ER=EPR, and that seems likely, then the speed of light is not violated except in the long-obsolete pre-relativity 3+1 model of the universe.
So what if there are jobs? The machines have already claimed them.
If the water is rising, you don't care - and should not care - if there's plenty of space on the rung, you climb to a higher rung. If you need to keep on climbing to find one with room, then you keep on climbing until you find one with room.
Well, you only need to crowdsource the galaxies that can't be solved by AI. (If four out of five slightly different AIs all reach the same conclusion about a galaxy, then they're probably right. You'd need that many to cover all the cases this one can't cope with.)
However, the pool of unsolvable galaxies will be much smaller and much noisier, otherwise the AI would have solved them.
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Incorrect. Ontologically, a dwarf planet is subcategory of planet. It is a subset, not a distinct class.
According to QI, Earth has tens of thousands of non-transient objects in its path.
No.
Pluto has many properties (structure being one) that Ceres and most KBOs do not have.
Second, should it matter? Once you have a scientific distinction between an asteroid and a planet, you destroy utterly the value of planetary science if you then contrive to select only that Sara which fits a preconceived notion of how many planets a solar system should have.
Only the planetary science should matter. School kids can have a cutoff point and ignore everything byond, same as they do in all other sciences. They're not going to be burdened by this.
Planetary scientists, if given data that is insensibly fitted to a theory, to use a Holmsian phrase, ARE going to be burdened. They, in all of this, are the ones who matter.
In part, software vendors renting rather than selling products are responsible, along with a refusal to offer a warranty.
I'd suggest placing stiff penalties on failing to follow established practices, and jail sentences for failing to fix in a timely manner or responsibly upgrade in a timely manner.
Making it a criminal offence with a ten year fixed tarrif should liven things up.
If you bought a car and the car is then recalled due to a propensity for the brakes to fail, you don't get to claim in court that the pedestrian you ran into was just unlucky but that it wasn't your shit to fix.
That excuse doesn't fly. If the product is dangerously defective and you know that it is, you are liable.
Oh, that's easy.
1. All commercial software must be classed as fit for purpose within specified design parameters.
2. All commercial software must have a warranty of 5 years where all defects will be fixed at vendor's expense.
3. Vendors of software that violates CERT's secure coding rules, implements back doors or uses encryption algorithms broken at time of release shall be liable for losses due to security flaws.
4. Vendors of mission-critical software must, on demand, provide proof of formal methods, extreme programming or tandem programming, and must be able to show ISO 900x compliance where relevant.
5. Vendors who cannot provide a court with design documents and specifications, and proof the software complies with them, shall be deemed automatically at fault in any lawsuit.
6. It shall be a crime punushable by 10 years to provide any mission critical device with unsecured or unauthenticated network access, whether anyone is injured or not.
That should take care of everything.
Real software developers, the only ones who matter, are aiming for eliminating bugs. If satire about excessive religion in politics is distracting you from your job, you're in the wrong job.
If satirising religion in politics impacts your freedom, chances are you are living in Iran or China.
In most countries, satire is a Null operator.
You've just eliminated 50% of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and 95% of American comedy.
I'd love to change your mind. You have been far too polite to that Godwinesque troll.
There are some people who are ideal test subjects for whether Mars can support life and anyone who equates abortion with eugenics richly deserved to become part of the Martian soil program.
It's less about death than it is about religious extremism in politics denying people access to information and resources.
The joke satirises extremists, which is admittedly more airtime than the extremists deserve.
However, we live in a free() country that was previously malloced.
Very true. Also, it's worth noting that an American company operating in India or Africa can't claim its pollution is from a BRICS country and therefore somehow not the responsibility of the American company. Equally, a consumer in America or Europe buying from a polluting company doesn't get to blame the country the company is in. It's the consumer who is buying the product.
Well, ok, there's one consideration with country. Pollution doesn't spread infinitely fast. It spreads across an atmospheric cell faster than between cells. Over any longer timeframes, the pollution will cover the globe, that's very true, but shorter-term effects migrate.
Correct, but there will be radioisotopes and other isotopes that are present in volcanic pollution and absent in fossil fuels, owing to the fact that they come from very very different sources. The reverse will also be true for the same reasons. Therefore we can determine percentages. And, indeed, we already do.
It's a subsystem. Every layer adds latency. Your core must support 100% of the atomic operations or everything is too slow, too unreliable and too prone to security defects.
Always Keep It Simple, Stupid!
But it isn't cheap or politically easy.
You need trilingualism starting age 3.
You need many streams and the capacity to not just switch but utilize those to catch up.
You need high quality school lunches and a total ban on junk food.
You need the absolute fewest possible number of tests, no homework (since parents cheat) and proper mediation between teaching and practice. Exams should be at least to the much higher British standard, using floating grades (arithmetic mean score is a C).
You need no fixed reward systems, since kids become addicted to rewards rather than seeking out good work.
Age obsession is unhealthy. If a 13 year old qualifies for university, they need to be in university. 1% of all kids should be at this standard, which means you've enough young students to build a university.
Religion should be banned outside of religious education and history, and restricted to theory not dogma. This includes private and religious schools.
Nationalism should also be banned. No swearing allegiance, no flags in classroom outside of books, nothing from nationalistic perspectives, no filtering. Multiculturalism should be mandatory.
That would fix the problems in American schools.
The problem with Gates is he assumes Clippy and Word are enough.
I hope vanadium batteries get past the blockage. Lithium is good but a tad explosive.
The X-Prize car, 100 mpg at 100 mph with 2 adults and 2 kids - that was a decent car. Material science has moved on, so has engine tech. We should be able to set a standard of 70 mpg at 70 mph under the same loads and have a range of vehicles that were adequately safe.
It's not brilliant, but it's an improvement and I'd call it an ok improvement until battery tech has improved. It would get manufacturers to actually innovate for once and we have proof it's doable.
If people want cheap transit, they can use busses and electric trains. If the State doesn't have them, that's the choice of the voters. The voters should have asked.
Freezing standards makes industry less competitive. However, if you've a good deal from a foreign national offering a percent on cars sold, this would be the way to go.
Me, I'd look at what you'd need to scrap to make the X-Prize car street legal, then raise standards to the point things could still be reasonably safe.
A working OS to replace Windows
Support for Elite Dangerous
A decent filesystem
Security
Reliability
A decent attitude at Microsoft
Working technical support
Standards-compliant software
POSIX
A shutdown that works without hacking it
The ability to remove Clippy Jr
Retention of privacy
A decent compiler
If the spin is always the opposite, you can't argue chance.
The Pauli exclusion principle obviously allows leptons to interact, so it's just not good enough to say it's a meaningless correlation when it comes to other particles.
Assuming ER=EMR, and assuming information has effective energy density, then you cannot transmit net information. Net effective energy must be zero or less.
This implies that you could transmit information as long as there was an equal negative energy to the effective energy. Entanglement would not break.
Incorrect.
Quantum entanglement may be limited the same way the Pauli exclusion principle is.
Second, if ER=EPR, and that seems likely, then the speed of light is not violated except in the long-obsolete pre-relativity 3+1 model of the universe.
So what if there are jobs? The machines have already claimed them.
If the water is rising, you don't care - and should not care - if there's plenty of space on the rung, you climb to a higher rung. If you need to keep on climbing to find one with room, then you keep on climbing until you find one with room.
They had all the basic elements before humans, including symbolic representation.
Homo Erectus had language and sea travel, which is a start and enough to call it a proto-civilization.
Habilis did not. Neither did Sediba.
So certainly nothing before 1.2 million years ago.
Well, you only need to crowdsource the galaxies that can't be solved by AI. (If four out of five slightly different AIs all reach the same conclusion about a galaxy, then they're probably right. You'd need that many to cover all the cases this one can't cope with.)
However, the pool of unsolvable galaxies will be much smaller and much noisier, otherwise the AI would have solved them.
Still, they run a lot of other projects and some of those are almost as much fun.