Military projects are easier to understand, LHC might have help mankind by advancing science and have some unpredictable spinoff*. Choose one. The fact that it doesn't inspire you doesn't mean anything: it's not art, it's science.
Remember that from the stone age to middle ages people understood the tools they used. It's the advancement of science that resulted in tools that are so sophisticated the layman can't understand.
* I'm not nuclear physicist, but I would expect that material science and fusion technology are the likely beneficiaries.
From wikipedia: "He began to teach himself survival skills such as tracking, edible plant identification, and how to construct primitive technologies such as bow drills.[1] However, he quickly realized that it was not possible for him to live that way, as a result of watching the wild land around him get destroyed by development and industry."
But I could just remind you the whole history of colonisation.
I know it's fashionable to bash Avatar, at least for the hype sorrounding it, but I think it wasn't a bad film. It had a nice twist on the Pocahontas story (which is at least 200 years old, and a lot of other works used it for a basis as well), the dialog flows nicely, most characters have an actual motivation. Though it wasn't really revolutionary (wasn't Beowulf done in 3D as well?).
Maybe it was my age when I saw it, but to me I don't care what's in the books - the Lynch movie is what the Dune universe is to me, complete with the TOTO soundtrack, sting, the floating fat man, and all the stuff not in the book.
Maybe I get stoned for this, but for me Dune is the game (Dune II to be exact). I never had the patience to watch the films. What I got from the game and from the Wikipedia summary was quite enough for me. (And now I get off your lawn.)
I've heard rumors, that the zooming gesture won't be officially supported, because it would violate Apple patents. Does anyone know anything about that?
As far as I know with encoding used in CD you lose phase difference. I'm not claiming I can hear phase difference. But theoretically it should be possible to retain that information, I wouldn't be surprised if FLAC would do that.
"*The technique is widely used by advertisers to make their particular ad louder without breaking volume level regulations or normalisation."
As far as I know the volume regulation says that all frequency components bust be under a certain ampitude, so if you "normalise" with an equalizer, you get a higher average loudness (energy per area).
In information theory there's no difference between randomness and inaccessible information.
Information is the lack of randomness. (That's why it's measured in entropy.)
I guess not. At the atomic level there's a lot of randomness.
Einstein wasn't quite statisfied with these consequences, that's why he said:
God doesn't play dice.
No, it's not the broken window fallacy. No goods were destroyed here.
At worst it's New Deal fallacy, but then I might say it's BS as well. (Hey, all those people in the Universities are doing useless research ? )
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Military projects are easier to understand, LHC might have help mankind by advancing science and have some unpredictable spinoff*. Choose one.
The fact that it doesn't inspire you doesn't mean anything: it's not art, it's science.
Remember that from the stone age to middle ages people understood the tools they used. It's the advancement of science that resulted in tools that are so sophisticated the layman can't understand.
* I'm not nuclear physicist, but I would expect that material science and fusion technology are the likely beneficiaries.
From wikipedia:
"He began to teach himself survival skills such as tracking, edible plant identification, and how to construct primitive technologies such as bow drills.[1] However, he quickly realized that it was not possible for him to live that way, as a result of watching the wild land around him get destroyed by development and industry."
But I could just remind you the whole history of colonisation.
I know it's fashionable to bash Avatar, at least for the hype sorrounding it, but I think it wasn't a bad film. It had a nice twist on the Pocahontas story (which is at least 200 years old, and a lot of other works used it for a basis as well), the dialog flows nicely, most characters have an actual motivation. Though it wasn't really revolutionary (wasn't Beowulf done in 3D as well?).
Maybe it was my age when I saw it, but to me I don't care what's in the books - the Lynch movie is what the Dune universe is to me, complete with the TOTO soundtrack, sting, the floating fat man, and all the stuff not in the book.
Maybe I get stoned for this, but for me Dune is the game (Dune II to be exact). I never had the patience to watch the films. What I got from the game and from the Wikipedia summary was quite enough for me. (And now I get off your lawn.)
HTC is Taiwanese.
I've heard rumors, that the zooming gesture won't be officially supported, because it would violate Apple patents. Does anyone know anything about that?
Or that audience can't handle such a complex codebase.
It's the typical self-help bullshit: be self-confident, smile and every problem solves itselves.
1) Ask the child what happened and listen without judgment.
2) Ask the child to identify their mistake. (Often children only know that someone got upset, but don't understand their own role in the outcome.)
Do you see any contradiction between the two?
As far as I know with encoding used in CD you lose phase difference. I'm not claiming I can hear phase difference. But theoretically it should be possible to retain that information, I wouldn't be surprised if FLAC would do that.
A chinese guy works a day job, works as a hacker at night.
Wake up, Neo. Welcome to the real world.
"*The technique is widely used by advertisers to make their particular ad louder without breaking volume level regulations or normalisation."
As far as I know the volume regulation says that all frequency components bust be under a certain ampitude, so if you "normalise" with an equalizer, you get a higher average loudness (energy per area).
Mod parent funny, jees ...
Anyway, in my country only disabled people use automatic transmission, so we can conclude that driving automatic will cause you lose one of your legs.
But seriously, I've yet to hear about an accident that could have been prevented by automatic transmission.
At least they don't have spare limbs for cell phones.
Hungarian scientists already knew that.
Nothing can stop you installing Firefox besides IE. They can have IE for their legacy ActiveX intranet stuff, Firefox for anything else.
In information theory there's no difference between randomness and inaccessible information. Information is the lack of randomness. (That's why it's measured in entropy.)
I guess not. At the atomic level there's a lot of randomness.
Einstein wasn't quite statisfied with these consequences, that's why he said: God doesn't play dice.
We should, in theory, be able to simulate the universe, just not as fast as the universe actually moves.
And what about Schrödinger's cat?
We cannot measure anything completely accurately, so our physical constants and formulas are all flawed.
001 Gather data
002 Hypothesise
003 Profit
I fixed that for ya.
No, it's not the broken window fallacy. No goods were destroyed here.
At worst it's New Deal fallacy, but then I might say it's BS as well. (Hey, all those people in the Universities are doing useless research ? )
Google for Carnot cycle, and second law of thermodynamics.
Motherland. "Fatherland" is Germany, and Germany didn't do no stinking commies.
Only Marx and Engels.
How the hell was parent modded informative? (Anyway from fatherland I would associate to Germany.)
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