Not to start an epistemiological debate, but I wonder how you define "right" and "wrong" in the context of contemporary science?
I try not to:-) I don't think it's possible to prove a scientific theory (yet, anyway) but thinking about it, I would (for example) consider Einstein's theory as more correct, more "right", than Newton's...even though, in Newton's time, Occam's razor would have led me to support Newton.
Heh...I'm not even sure if that's what you were asking; I looked to my.sig for guidence and now my head hurts...
Well, according to the book (read it and enjoyed it), the problem is trying to find something to predict that could be tested.....the strings are so small that it's very difficult to show that they aren't points. As far as Occam's razor goes, string appears to be the more elegant theory, but the new theory tends to have the burden of proof....anyway, all Occam's razor is is a rough guide on what to work with...it doesn't actually have anything to do with what's "right" or "wrong"...
Errrmmmm... I know you guys aren't professional journalists, but Roblimo has been in the business long enough to know that leaving in all of somebody's "You know"'s and "OK"'s in an attempt to make them look like a moron isn't good ethics.
I doubt it was to make the guy look like a moron. They said it was difficult to get hold of anyone, the interview seems to have been conducted over the phone, and you know what the alternative to a verbatim account is; clean it up, send the final version back for approval, and then post it....
Maybe they didn't want to wait another 6 months to post the interview.:-) Anyway, I suspect they asked "you mind if we just run exactly what you said" and he agreed....
No other costs? How do you supposed the robot runs? Magic? There are lots and lots of other costs:
I doubt it uses that much power, compared to the cost of keeping the cookers running, etc. Maintenance and repairs I'll accept. Cleaning staff are required anyway whether you have robot or human so that's not extra, and probably same with deliveries. Construction maybe, unless that's part of the original price....
I guess I was wrong to say "No other costs" but I still maintain that it would be cheaper than a human employee in the long run (which you seem to agree with in your final sentence)....not that I expect you to still be reading this tho:-)
They seriously think that there is a market for a $150,000 machine ( plus maintenance) that only makes burgers and pancakes?!? You can pay a single fast-food cook for over 8 years for that amount--and he will cook everything on the menu.
Actually, as was pointed out, that's over 5 years, so:
$150,000 divided by 5 years, divided by 365 days, divided by 16 hours gives roughly $5.14 an hour.
I suspect that's a bit cheaper than most employees, with no other costs. Also, the machine seems to be a lot more efficient than a person...
ts also debatable if Star Trek invented Vulcan, as it is used as a planet in a Dr Who show at about the same time as star trek started (ST wasn't shown in the UK for some time afterwards though)
Wasn't the original Vulcan a theoretical planet that was suggested was the cause of the variations in Mercury's orbit that couldn't be accounted for at the time? I think it was supposed to be orbiting the sun directly opposite the earth, so we would never see from here....or something like that...(and the variations in Mercury's orbit were later used to show that relativity was correct?)
I can't remember exactly, but it was something like that.
Hmm...just had a look through their Spanish Language version, and the book doesn't seem to be there....dunno what's up with that, cos it's on the UK one.
D'oh! Of course, I guess the Spanish version of the site has Spanish language books only.....anyone know any good books on Logical Thinking?:-)
Does anyone know a good, English-language technical bookstore that is online in Europe (except for Amazon-UK)? I live in Spain, and the markup on English technical texts here is brutal (often double).
You could try www.bol.com (Books Online). They have it for 24.29 UKP. Hmm...just had a look through their Spanish Language version, and the book doesn't seem to be there....dunno what's up with that, cos it's on the UK one.
Oh yeah, the other thing is that they call it "The Pragmatic Program" but the ISBN number finds it OK. Hope this helps
Now we just have to wait for the day when there is so much GPL code floating around that any CS student who cracks a book will be unable to write software without GPLing it.
Yeah, in much the same way that there are so many books around just now, that no-one can write a novel without paying out copyright fees to large numbers of authors....
The Scottish ones are a bit misleading I think. It's legal to trespass in Scotland, cos there's no trespass law. The reason for this is that much of Scotland is made up of large estates, and particularly in the Highlands, many folk live in crofts on those estates. They don't own the land they live on, but pay rent (though it's fairly minimal, and they have special rights to stop the estate owner throwing them off the land). If there was a trespass law, it would mean that there would be very few places you'd be allowed to wander about in the Highlands...there are plenty of other laws to stop people destroying the place...
The "guilty until proven innocent" one refers (I think) to poaching. If you're caught with a salmon, for example, on someone's estate, it's up to you to prove you came by it legally, rather than the other way about....what's more, if you're found guilty, anything you used in the process of poaching the salmon (including that shiny new Range Rover you have parked just down the road) can be confiscated. This is indeed a crappy law.
As for the others, AFAIK if a Scottish law falls into disuse, then it's no longer considered valid legally....maybe some expert can expand on that one...I believe that this is not the case in England.
I know my GMT offset, even though I don't live in Europe.
That's because GMT is the standard. I know my GMT offset too. Maybe, therefore, it would be a good idea just to give the time in GMT? It's not trying to remember two numbers that's the pain, it's idiocy like expecting the whole world to memorise the name of each and every time zone, just in case something happens there.
Let's say you work at a software company, and you know something that could be benificial to the community that you want to share. However, you do not want what you say getting back to your employers (for whatever reason).
Then you create a new hotmail/yahoo/whatever address and get a new account created just for that post, or for posts where you want to remain anonymous....that seems about as anonymous as AC does anyway.
All people will do is create accounts, still act like idiots and create new accouts if Rob deletes them (if he even does that).
Hopefully he won't delete them; just let their karma carry them down to default Score: -1. Sure there would still be some people who would go to the bother of creating a new account, just to scrawl some idiocy, but far fewer than we currently have...
Hmmm, does anyone else think God (or Alla or Odin, or the Great Bannanarama, or whoever your supreme being is) will have a problem with these big companies patenting His invention?
Yes, he does. Unfortunately the Other Guy has all the lawyers....:-)
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That is unfair. Why does that fucking moron gets rated as funny, just for using M$ Word 97 to summarize the text?
Because someone reading the comment, who had moderator points today, thought it was funny. Any more Mysteries of the Universe you need revealed?
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ps. Actually, I thought it was funny too, and wish I'd thought of it first. Auto-summarise is just so...appropriate for JK. :-)
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I thought it was a very interesting piece. I'd never heard of Panty Raider....
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Not to start an epistemiological debate, but I wonder how you define "right" and "wrong" in the context of contemporary science?
I try not to :-) I don't think it's possible to prove a scientific theory (yet, anyway) but thinking about it, I would (for example) consider Einstein's theory as more correct, more "right", than Newton's...even though, in Newton's time, Occam's razor would have led me to support Newton.
Heh...I'm not even sure if that's what you were asking; I looked to my .sig for guidence and now my head hurts...
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Is there any evidence for string theory?
Well, according to the book (read it and enjoyed it), the problem is trying to find something to predict that could be tested.....the strings are so small that it's very difficult to show that they aren't points. As far as Occam's razor goes, string appears to be the more elegant theory, but the new theory tends to have the burden of proof....anyway, all Occam's razor is is a rough guide on what to work with...it doesn't actually have anything to do with what's "right" or "wrong"...
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DO NOT CLICK THE "THIS IS MORE INFORMATIVE LINK"!
It's a link that sends a message from yourself to this page.....
Hmmm...I heard of this a while back, and thought it would have been fixed by now...
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Errrmmmm
I doubt it was to make the guy look like a moron. They said it was difficult to get hold of anyone, the interview seems to have been conducted over the phone, and you know what the alternative to a verbatim account is; clean it up, send the final version back for approval, and then post it....
Maybe they didn't want to wait another 6 months to post the interview. :-) Anyway, I suspect they asked "you mind if we just run exactly what you said" and he agreed....
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No other costs? How do you supposed the robot runs? Magic? There are lots and lots of other costs:
I doubt it uses that much power, compared to the cost of keeping the cookers running, etc. Maintenance and repairs I'll accept. Cleaning staff are required anyway whether you have robot or human so that's not extra, and probably same with deliveries. Construction maybe, unless that's part of the original price....
I guess I was wrong to say "No other costs" but I still maintain that it would be cheaper than a human employee in the long run (which you seem to agree with in your final sentence)....not that I expect you to still be reading this tho :-)
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Hmm...
Mozilla x (Perl + Python) = New IDE
Firewall + Censorware = Trouble
It seems the million dollars for solving mathematical puzzles is preying on the minds of the Slashdot folks....
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Excellent! Very funny, and possibly the most moderated post I've seen (Twelve?!)
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They seriously think that there is a market for a $150,000 machine ( plus maintenance) that only makes burgers and pancakes?!? You can pay a single fast-food cook for over 8 years for that amount--and he will cook everything on the menu.
Actually, as was pointed out, that's over 5 years, so:
$150,000 divided by 5 years, divided by 365 days, divided by 16 hours gives roughly $5.14 an hour.
I suspect that's a bit cheaper than most employees, with no other costs. Also, the machine seems to be a lot more efficient than a person...
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ts also debatable if Star Trek invented Vulcan, as it is used as a planet in a Dr Who show at about the same time as star trek started (ST wasn't shown in the UK for some time afterwards though)
Wasn't the original Vulcan a theoretical planet that was suggested was the cause of the variations in Mercury's orbit that couldn't be accounted for at the time? I think it was supposed to be orbiting the sun directly opposite the earth, so we would never see from here....or something like that...(and the variations in Mercury's orbit were later used to show that relativity was correct?)
I can't remember exactly, but it was something like that.
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@@ how do you know?
@@ have you seen a photon
@@ i have not
I suspect you have. I've seen billions of them.
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Hmm...just had a look through their Spanish Language version, and the book doesn't seem to be there....dunno what's up with that, cos it's on the UK one.
D'oh! Of course, I guess the Spanish version of the site has Spanish language books only.....anyone know any good books on Logical Thinking? :-)
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Does anyone know a good, English-language technical bookstore that is online in Europe (except for Amazon-UK)? I live in Spain, and the markup on English technical texts here is brutal (often double).
You could try www.bol.com (Books Online). They have it for 24.29 UKP. Hmm...just had a look through their Spanish Language version, and the book doesn't seem to be there....dunno what's up with that, cos it's on the UK one.
Oh yeah, the other thing is that they call it "The Pragmatic Program" but the ISBN number finds it OK. Hope this helps
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Now we just have to wait for the day when there is so much GPL code floating around that any CS student who cracks a book will be unable to write software without GPLing it.
Yeah, in much the same way that there are so many books around just now, that no-one can write a novel without paying out copyright fees to large numbers of authors....
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Mine's done:
Don't need much more than that... :-)
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Gotta be:
"A tornado, for example, attracts with ease substantial ``test particles'' such as cars"
:-)
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#2 Use a fscking spell checker! You're post was beyond atrocious
That's "Your post" not "You're post".
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2nd Verse
"Michael, Michael
Here is my answer true
I won't cycle
Down to the church with you
If you can't afford a carriage
You can't afford a marriage
And I'll be damned
If I'll be crammed
On a bicycle built for two"
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The Scottish ones are a bit misleading I think. It's legal to trespass in Scotland, cos there's no trespass law. The reason for this is that much of Scotland is made up of large estates, and particularly in the Highlands, many folk live in crofts on those estates. They don't own the land they live on, but pay rent (though it's fairly minimal, and they have special rights to stop the estate owner throwing them off the land). If there was a trespass law, it would mean that there would be very few places you'd be allowed to wander about in the Highlands...there are plenty of other laws to stop people destroying the place...
The "guilty until proven innocent" one refers (I think) to poaching. If you're caught with a salmon, for example, on someone's estate, it's up to you to prove you came by it legally, rather than the other way about....what's more, if you're found guilty, anything you used in the process of poaching the salmon (including that shiny new Range Rover you have parked just down the road) can be confiscated. This is indeed a crappy law.
As for the others, AFAIK if a Scottish law falls into disuse, then it's no longer considered valid legally....maybe some expert can expand on that one...I believe that this is not the case in England.
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Is this SOOOO hard?
I know my GMT offset, even though I don't live in Europe.
That's because GMT is the standard. I know my GMT offset too. Maybe, therefore, it would be a good idea just to give the time in GMT? It's not trying to remember two numbers that's the pain, it's idiocy like expecting the whole world to memorise the name of each and every time zone, just in case something happens there.
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Let's say you work at a software company, and you know something that could be benificial to the community that you want to share. However, you do not want what you say getting back to your employers (for whatever reason).
Then you create a new hotmail/yahoo/whatever address and get a new account created just for that post, or for posts where you want to remain anonymous....that seems about as anonymous as AC does anyway.
All people will do is create accounts, still act like idiots and create new accouts if Rob deletes them (if he even does that).
Hopefully he won't delete them; just let their karma carry them down to default Score: -1. Sure there would still be some people who would go to the bother of creating a new account, just to scrawl some idiocy, but far fewer than we currently have...
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Hmmm, does anyone else think God (or Alla or Odin, or the Great Bannanarama, or whoever your supreme being is) will have a problem with these big companies patenting His invention?
Yes, he does. Unfortunately the Other Guy has all the lawyers.... :-)
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My question:
How far do you think the GUI can go from here? What's next in GUI design, and what'll be the next big thing after pointy-clicky?
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Also, why don't you try listing requirements for Solaris 12 or Linux 10.9.5.3.1
You shouldn't be using Linux 10.9.5 because it's the development kernel. Use 10.8.7 instead. :-)
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