While your logic is sound, your proposal is ridiculous. How many car crashes are there where all occupants are naked while wearing a ridiculous hat? Not very many. Clearly, we should mandate that *everyone* drive naked (and wear a ridiculous hat).
Because one huge tech company is finally acknowledging the existence of another huge tech company's mobile operating system, something long overdue (according to some). Perhaps boring -- especially if you use neither Office nor iOS -- but certainly tech news.
How many people-hours are spent texting while driving vs. talking while driving? The fact that only 5% are linked to texting doesn't say anything about the "specific danger" of texting, that is, the danger of texting normalized to some sane metric (people-hours spent texting, number of people who routinely text and drive, etc.). Since most people wear seatbelts, one could say that a very high percentage of accidents involve seatbelts, but that's not exactly a useful statistic. Apologies if this info is prominently in TFA...
Have you tried contacting Sony to see if you are one of the lucky 10M with compromised CC info? Of course, not that I'd necessarily trust Sony after their lack of honesty and transparency throughout this fiasco ("oh just a PSN outage / actually some account info has been stolen / actually CC info has been compromised").
Another possibility could be that there are a lot of stolen CC numbers out there, but the thieves are biding their time so as not to draw unwanted attention. However, now that this PSN thing hit the fan, they figure they can get lost in the noise and have Sony blamed for their actions. A very shaky theory and I really doubt that's the case, but still.
I've only listened to one of those once or twice, and I thought it sounded ok. However, for $500, you could have an entry level component system (skimp on the receiver, not on the speakers). Heck, I bet you could rival the sound quality with a good pair of computer speakers (with sub) plugged into the headphone-out of a decent clock-radio-CD player. That should cost well under $500.
Of course, aesthetics and size matter to some, and a Bose system certainly beats computer speakers. Of course, you can always beat the performance and/or make a "neater" system, if you're willing to buy used and wait for good deals -- I've scrapped together a modest system over the years, and having spent probably under $100, I have a pair of 80s Klipsch floorstanding speakers, a 60s (?) tube amp, an 80s receiver (which I use as a preamp) and a decent-sized 80s SS power amp (in case the ol' tube needs work...I hope to bi-amp it some day). Fun stuff, but not as chic (or compact) as the Wave system, to be sure.
Indeed -- such visionary powers would've come in handy on some of my old quantum psets!
I suspect the comment was referring to simple classical mechanical systems. I do find it fascinating that on a windy day at the beach, I can throw a baseball well over a hundred feet and have the other person catch it without needing to move (and I'm not particularly coordinated). Granted, with such lax accuracy, the relevant calculations aren't too tricky, but I still find it neat that humans (and other animals) have such a good intuitive sense of (classical) mechanics.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.:)
In response to this I thought about making a Portal cartoon of a meadow with portals on either side to illustrate the sillyness of this (the sillyness of the human tendency to think this way, not of you relating it). I did not do this because a) I've never played Portal and b) I'm lazy;)
A higher rate of obesity in America does not necessarily make most Americans fat. Where'd you learn logic, America?
Correct in the Spock sense, not in the Joe Friday sense:
Q: How many adults age 20 and older are overweight or obese (Body Mass Index, or BMI, > 25)?
A: Over two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese.[4]
All adults: 68 percent
Women: 64.1 percent
Men: 72.3 percent
That's from an NIH page, and it references an AMA paper. I guess the fat vs. overweight distinction can be argued.
You actually demonstrated how one can be totally ungrammatical but still convey the information, which maybe you intended to bolster my point? Thank you!
Certainly. By returning the favor, please fork GCC such that any syntax error is automatically fixed with something syntactically valid. No one should be bothered with semicolons, matching parentheses and braces, etc.
If English required technical accuracy to work, your analogy would make more sense.
English requires technical accuracy to work well, just the same as math. If I start Taylor-expanding something for a few more terms than necessary, but mess up the signs on the higher order terms, my answer could still be qualitatively right; however, it introduces some ambiguity -- "is this dude doing something tricky that I don't understand, or is he just wrong?"
Both "OR maybe they're employees?" and "OR maybe their employees?" make sense, but mean very different things (I realize the original mistake used "there," but still...).
Personally, I just find it difficult to "decode" certain botched sentences. For example, "on sundae I went two the store and wile I was they're aye red a book (vary suite!) and blue my knows," is...well, tricky to read (reed?). I know, an exaggerated example...
I suspect there are stricter privacy laws regarding minors. So if these are the 3G versions which end up tracking the user...who's responsible? Apple, the school or...? Just curious. For example, if the iPads sync with school computers but are free to go with the student when school's not in (no, I didn't RTFA...), then there could be very personal data on the computers which may not have encrypted home partitions. Makes a whole lotta minors' personal data relatively easy to collect.
...I just really despise this sport. I am pretty sure you could write baseball AI in a couple lines.
while(FansNotBored)
{
If (IHaveBall)
ThrowBall();
else
StandStill();
}
If baseball is so easy, then why are you posting on/. instead of, oh I don't know, raking in millions of dollars with the Yankees?
And in case you claim that human's aren't fast enough to efficiently execute your algorithm, I think that's rubbish: Evaluating whether or not the fans are bored can be easily checked by just having your coach yell at you (a callback method, if you will...nyuk nyuk). Evaluating whether or not you have the ball is trivial. Throwing the ball takes no arguments, and I assume you're a sophisticated enough coder to avoid excessive globals. Assuming you're decently coordinated, you should be able to throw the ball several hundred feet which, if you're playing infield, shouldn't be a problem. And standing still is, of course, trivial.
Just because you don't understand the game doesn't make it trivial. I realize your comment was somewhat in jest, but I find such animosity towards something which causes you no harm rather, well, silly (kind of like this reply). I mean, to the untrained eye, a programmer does the following:
while (atWork) {
if (butt_itches) scratchIt();
if (now() - most_recent_burp > fifteen_minutes) drinkSoda();
swearAtComputer();
if (feelingUnderweight) orderPizza();
}
Well, most people "#@{&" carbon-based life, so...sorta.
Not contained in the most abundant molecule in the body, but still. Though continuing on that line of thought just made me very uneasy about grabbing a glass of water...
That's like saying, "the temperature of something is measured by its least-energetic particle, not the most." No, it's measured by neither -- both civilization and thermodynamic quantities are statistical in nature.
True, those propositions were CA-specific, but I was responding to the claim that "any place where you get locked in a cell for growing a plant can hardly be called civilized. and don't even get me started on gay marriage," and not to taxation. And, more to the point, certain parts of the US are addressing those issues -- not yet successfully, but baby steps.
I agree that defense spending should be cut, but I also wonder if we (the US) need to restructure what we call "defense." For example, I think a lot of defense-related research is a Good Thing (ARPANET comes to mind). My guess is the research would be the first to go, which could royally screw us down the road.
It does seem to me that cutting the military operations budget could be a good thing, but I'm really not qualified to speak on that I guess...
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While your logic is sound, your proposal is ridiculous. How many car crashes are there where all occupants are naked while wearing a ridiculous hat? Not very many. Clearly, we should mandate that *everyone* drive naked (and wear a ridiculous hat).
Because one huge tech company is finally acknowledging the existence of another huge tech company's mobile operating system, something long overdue (according to some). Perhaps boring -- especially if you use neither Office nor iOS -- but certainly tech news.
How many people-hours are spent texting while driving vs. talking while driving? The fact that only 5% are linked to texting doesn't say anything about the "specific danger" of texting, that is, the danger of texting normalized to some sane metric (people-hours spent texting, number of people who routinely text and drive, etc.). Since most people wear seatbelts, one could say that a very high percentage of accidents involve seatbelts, but that's not exactly a useful statistic. Apologies if this info is prominently in TFA...
That said, shut up and drive.
Or just use a drone to drop them some money.
FTFY.
...the final size of the animal is sort of irelephant.
FTFY.
Have you tried contacting Sony to see if you are one of the lucky 10M with compromised CC info? Of course, not that I'd necessarily trust Sony after their lack of honesty and transparency throughout this fiasco ("oh just a PSN outage / actually some account info has been stolen / actually CC info has been compromised").
Another possibility could be that there are a lot of stolen CC numbers out there, but the thieves are biding their time so as not to draw unwanted attention. However, now that this PSN thing hit the fan, they figure they can get lost in the noise and have Sony blamed for their actions. A very shaky theory and I really doubt that's the case, but still.
I've only listened to one of those once or twice, and I thought it sounded ok. However, for $500, you could have an entry level component system (skimp on the receiver, not on the speakers). Heck, I bet you could rival the sound quality with a good pair of computer speakers (with sub) plugged into the headphone-out of a decent clock-radio-CD player. That should cost well under $500.
Of course, aesthetics and size matter to some, and a Bose system certainly beats computer speakers. Of course, you can always beat the performance and/or make a "neater" system, if you're willing to buy used and wait for good deals -- I've scrapped together a modest system over the years, and having spent probably under $100, I have a pair of 80s Klipsch floorstanding speakers, a 60s (?) tube amp, an 80s receiver (which I use as a preamp) and a decent-sized 80s SS power amp (in case the ol' tube needs work...I hope to bi-amp it some day). Fun stuff, but not as chic (or compact) as the Wave system, to be sure.
Indeed -- such visionary powers would've come in handy on some of my old quantum psets!
I suspect the comment was referring to simple classical mechanical systems. I do find it fascinating that on a windy day at the beach, I can throw a baseball well over a hundred feet and have the other person catch it without needing to move (and I'm not particularly coordinated). Granted, with such lax accuracy, the relevant calculations aren't too tricky, but I still find it neat that humans (and other animals) have such a good intuitive sense of (classical) mechanics.
Was going to make a joke about calculating the eigenvalues of the department's debt matrix -- det(dept. debt). It sounded funny in my head.
What a long way Apple has come.
I find it rather sad really...I used to be a Mac-guy (before Linux stole my heart), so I've a special place in my heart for 'em.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. :)
In response to this I thought about making a Portal cartoon of a meadow with portals on either side to illustrate the sillyness of this (the sillyness of the human tendency to think this way, not of you relating it). I did not do this because a) I've never played Portal and b) I'm lazy ;)
A higher rate of obesity in America does not necessarily make most Americans fat. Where'd you learn logic, America?
Correct in the Spock sense, not in the Joe Friday sense:
Q: How many adults age 20 and older are overweight or obese (Body Mass Index, or BMI, > 25)?
A: Over two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese.[4]
All adults: 68 percent
Women: 64.1 percent
Men: 72.3 percent
That's from an NIH page, and it references an AMA paper. I guess the fat vs. overweight distinction can be argued.
You actually demonstrated how one can be totally ungrammatical but still convey the information, which maybe you intended to bolster my point? Thank you!
Certainly. By returning the favor, please fork GCC such that any syntax error is automatically fixed with something syntactically valid. No one should be bothered with semicolons, matching parentheses and braces, etc.
If English required technical accuracy to work, your analogy would make more sense.
English requires technical accuracy to work well, just the same as math. If I start Taylor-expanding something for a few more terms than necessary, but mess up the signs on the higher order terms, my answer could still be qualitatively right; however, it introduces some ambiguity -- "is this dude doing something tricky that I don't understand, or is he just wrong?"
Both "OR maybe they're employees?" and "OR maybe their employees?" make sense, but mean very different things (I realize the original mistake used "there," but still...).
Personally, I just find it difficult to "decode" certain botched sentences. For example, "on sundae I went two the store and wile I was they're aye red a book (vary suite!) and blue my knows," is...well, tricky to read (reed?). I know, an exaggerated example...
I suspect there are stricter privacy laws regarding minors. So if these are the 3G versions which end up tracking the user...who's responsible? Apple, the school or...? Just curious. For example, if the iPads sync with school computers but are free to go with the student when school's not in (no, I didn't RTFA...), then there could be very personal data on the computers which may not have encrypted home partitions. Makes a whole lotta minors' personal data relatively easy to collect.
Just wondering out loud.
...I just really despise this sport. I am pretty sure you could write baseball AI in a couple lines. while(FansNotBored)
{
If (IHaveBall)
ThrowBall();
else
StandStill();
}
If baseball is so easy, then why are you posting on /. instead of, oh I don't know, raking in millions of dollars with the Yankees?
And in case you claim that human's aren't fast enough to efficiently execute your algorithm, I think that's rubbish: Evaluating whether or not the fans are bored can be easily checked by just having your coach yell at you (a callback method, if you will...nyuk nyuk). Evaluating whether or not you have the ball is trivial. Throwing the ball takes no arguments, and I assume you're a sophisticated enough coder to avoid excessive globals. Assuming you're decently coordinated, you should be able to throw the ball several hundred feet which, if you're playing infield, shouldn't be a problem. And standing still is, of course, trivial.
Just because you don't understand the game doesn't make it trivial. I realize your comment was somewhat in jest, but I find such animosity towards something which causes you no harm rather, well, silly (kind of like this reply). I mean, to the untrained eye, a programmer does the following:
while (atWork) {
if (butt_itches) scratchIt();
if (now() - most_recent_burp > fifteen_minutes) drinkSoda();
swearAtComputer();
if (feelingUnderweight) orderPizza();
}
its a page with some python you tube clips on it.
No dude that's flash.
The first is that just because some numerical measure is called 'regret' it doesn't mean it has anything to do with the common use of the term.
And here I thought that my defective RAM stick actually caused a baby to die.
Well, most people "#@{&" carbon-based life, so...sorta.
Not contained in the most abundant molecule in the body, but still. Though continuing on that line of thought just made me very uneasy about grabbing a glass of water...
You might find this interesting, too.
That's like saying, "the temperature of something is measured by its least-energetic particle, not the most." No, it's measured by neither -- both civilization and thermodynamic quantities are statistical in nature.
True, those propositions were CA-specific, but I was responding to the claim that "any place where you get locked in a cell for growing a plant can hardly be called civilized. and don't even get me started on gay marriage," and not to taxation. And, more to the point, certain parts of the US are addressing those issues -- not yet successfully, but baby steps.
If we stop funding defense, what happens?
I agree that defense spending should be cut, but I also wonder if we (the US) need to restructure what we call "defense." For example, I think a lot of defense-related research is a Good Thing (ARPANET comes to mind). My guess is the research would be the first to go, which could royally screw us down the road.
It does seem to me that cutting the military operations budget could be a good thing, but I'm really not qualified to speak on that I guess...
As a tax payer, I'm pissed at this stupid ass "war". You want to reduce spending and increase revenues? Legalize and tax marijuana.
Yeah, but then the hippies will have won!
Yeah...grad students need beer, too!