The reason why English is lingua franca has nothing to do with how easy it is to learn, it's the most used language because it is the language of the wealthiest and most powerful nations.
Too bad I don't have mod points, but anyway I was going to say the same thing, I've heard about animals seeking out natural drugs (plants or ripe fruit) at least a year ago.
Isn't there a rule that you have to inform people about your patents, so it doesn't become like a trap/landmine? "Letting" people invest in the technology first violates this rule.
Evolution can't communicate knowledge this way. In human technology, when a company makes an innovation the other companies see it's good and copy it. Unrelated species can't copy each other's innovation. They can only "inherit" innovations from their parent species.
> One of Twitter's engineers has chimed in over the weekend This whistle-blower should post the evidence that twitter is censoring wikileaks on wikileaks.
The most original Flash-based ad I've seen so far first asked you to shoot at 5 targets - it's like a Flash game, and only if and when the 5th target is shown it proceeds to show you the ad. It made me work to see the ad so I read everything they said in the ad - I don't know why, it just seemed silly to skip it after putting effort to reach to it.
How can I do that? Right now I have a static IP but before that I was behind NAT and would have liked to know about that. Do you use a proxy server? Are there public servers that do this?
I admit I haven't seen one live. May be I should try it. What put me off were the solid blue color flat rectangles. They make the phone look like it can't support more than 16 colors. It just doesn't feel modern. And even if it's just the photo - this photo was on all articles I saw, making a bad impression. I wonder how many lost sales that photo alone might have generated.
I might be the exception, but when I saw a picture of a phone with this OS, my first reaction was to think it's plain ugly. I wouldn't buy one just for that. Does anyone else think it looks ugly, too?
Yes, but wouldn't the network card's limited hardware be a problem? I mean if you want to make a spam bot / P2P, etc., the code+data will have to fit in whatever RAM or EEPROM capacity the network card has.
>>In fact the value of currency is psychological. >In fact it's not. Or more precisely, not only.
Exactly, currencies had to start as things with intrinsic value, or else they would never have established themselves. It starts out like that - I'm a carpenter and I have made a chair, but I want to eat strawberries (duh). But there might be no strawberry-possessing chair-wanters around me. What do I do? Suppose I know a man that has fish, who wants a chair. If I exchange my chair for fish, now I can offer fish for strawberries. Now it's much more likely to find strawberry-possessing fish-wanters, because there are more fish-wanters than chair-wanters at any given moment. Now we take this a step further. Suppose the guy that has strawberries doesn't want fish. Even then he accepts my fish, because he knows that he can exchange it in the future with someone who does want fish for something he wants. Thus, fish plays the role of a medium of exchange.
People think that gold doesn't have intrinsic value, but they forget that gold is jewelry. And who wants jewelry - the rich. So if you have gold in ancient times you knew you can always find a rich guy and he can give you whatever *you* want for it. And even a poor guy will give you stuff for gold because then he can go to the rich guy and exchange it.
Intrinsic value doesn't mean utility - it means that you might want to posses something even if you never intend to exchange it. If for example gold was as common as sand, wouldn't you want to drink your coffee from a golden cup instead of a ceramic one? Wouldn't we use golden wire for electricity instead of copper?
Well, yes, but what I wanted to say (but was too lazy to write it), was that because the brain is analogue, most likely there is no low-level part dedicated to crunching numbers. I mean the absolutely core part of the CPU is the ALU(Arithmetic logic unit) - its sole purpose is to crunch numbers.
And here lies the problem - the brain has a part dedicated to making fast Fourier transformations for example - thats how you construct a 3d image in your mind from the two 2d surfaces sent by your eyes. But it doesn't have a low-level part dedicated to number crunching. And it doesn't have it because it's analogue-based, so it doesn't need to crunch numbers to function.
I think it is because the brain is at heart an analog instead of digital machine. Multiplying integer numbers however isn't a task well suited for analog machines.
Caveat emptor. Those who have been burned should stop buying Dell and also talk shit about Dell to everyone they know to ruin their reputation. That's how the free market could fix this.
Well here in Bulgaria (Eastern Europe), a third to a half of netbooks are with some sort of Linux. Or at least were last time I searched for a laptop. Hell, there are plenty of FreeDOS (aka "intended to run pirated Windows") laptops sold at the shelves.
This is why the country is called the United States of America. -It's a collection of State bound by a common defense. Not some over ridding power structure that controls the people. It retains it's authenticity through the consent of the governed and that consent was given though the US constitution.
I'm a european, and looking from outside, the states seem to function more like provinces, with some local autonomy. I don't think of them as a confederation the way the EU is.
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The reason why English is lingua franca has nothing to do with how easy it is to learn, it's the most used language because it is the language of the wealthiest and most powerful nations.
Too bad I don't have mod points, but anyway I was going to say the same thing, I've heard about animals seeking out natural drugs (plants or ripe fruit) at least a year ago.
I wonder how big my amy-whatever is. Probably missing in my brain...
What the fuck?
Are you sure this means the backdoor is obvious? Like "if user == CIA then give_full_root_rights" code snippet lying somewhere?
Ha, I thought I was the only one who did that. My passwords are phrases actually, but still make 10-15 characters.
This mostly depends on whether the game is written for DirectX or OpenGL. Other than that most games don't make non-trivial use of windows APIs.
Yes, but they remotely wiped this statement from all the digital media in the world, so now we have nothing against them!
Isn't there a rule that you have to inform people about your patents, so it doesn't become like a trap/landmine? "Letting" people invest in the technology first violates this rule.
Evolution can't communicate knowledge this way. In human technology, when a company makes an innovation the other companies see it's good and copy it. Unrelated species can't copy each other's innovation. They can only "inherit" innovations from their parent species.
> One of Twitter's engineers has chimed in over the weekend
This whistle-blower should post the evidence that twitter is censoring wikileaks on wikileaks.
The most original Flash-based ad I've seen so far first asked you to shoot at 5 targets - it's like a Flash game, and only if and when the 5th target is shown it proceeds to show you the ad. It made me work to see the ad so I read everything they said in the ad - I don't know why, it just seemed silly to skip it after putting effort to reach to it.
This reminds me of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, there were desks like that there.
How can I do that? Right now I have a static IP but before that I was behind NAT and would have liked to know about that. Do you use a proxy server? Are there public servers that do this?
> First he wanted to update the OS
May be the iPad 'just works' for all those average users who don't even understand what updating the OS means? There must be some of those, too.
A desktop shortcut to http://boards.4chan.org/b/
I admit I haven't seen one live. May be I should try it. What put me off were the solid blue color flat rectangles. They make the phone look like it can't support more than 16 colors. It just doesn't feel modern. And even if it's just the photo - this photo was on all articles I saw, making a bad impression. I wonder how many lost sales that photo alone might have generated.
I might be the exception, but when I saw a picture of a phone with this OS, my first reaction was to think it's plain ugly. I wouldn't buy one just for that. Does anyone else think it looks ugly, too?
Yes, but wouldn't the network card's limited hardware be a problem? I mean if you want to make a spam bot / P2P, etc., the code+data will have to fit in whatever RAM or EEPROM capacity the network card has.
>>In fact the value of currency is psychological.
>In fact it's not. Or more precisely, not only.
Exactly, currencies had to start as things with intrinsic value, or else they would never have established themselves. It starts out like that - I'm a carpenter and I have made a chair, but I want to eat strawberries (duh). But there might be no strawberry-possessing chair-wanters around me. What do I do? Suppose I know a man that has fish, who wants a chair. If I exchange my chair for fish, now I can offer fish for strawberries. Now it's much more likely to find strawberry-possessing fish-wanters, because there are more fish-wanters than chair-wanters at any given moment. Now we take this a step further. Suppose the guy that has strawberries doesn't want fish. Even then he accepts my fish, because he knows that he can exchange it in the future with someone who does want fish for something he wants. Thus, fish plays the role of a medium of exchange.
People think that gold doesn't have intrinsic value, but they forget that gold is jewelry. And who wants jewelry - the rich. So if you have gold in ancient times you knew you can always find a rich guy and he can give you whatever *you* want for it. And even a poor guy will give you stuff for gold because then he can go to the rich guy and exchange it.
Intrinsic value doesn't mean utility - it means that you might want to posses something even if you never intend to exchange it. If for example gold was as common as sand, wouldn't you want to drink your coffee from a golden cup instead of a ceramic one? Wouldn't we use golden wire for electricity instead of copper?
Well, yes, but what I wanted to say (but was too lazy to write it), was that because the brain is analogue, most likely there is no low-level part dedicated to crunching numbers. I mean the absolutely core part of the CPU is the ALU(Arithmetic logic unit) - its sole purpose is to crunch numbers.
And here lies the problem - the brain has a part dedicated to making fast Fourier transformations for example - thats how you construct a 3d image in your mind from the two 2d surfaces sent by your eyes. But it doesn't have a low-level part dedicated to number crunching. And it doesn't have it because it's analogue-based, so it doesn't need to crunch numbers to function.
I think it is because the brain is at heart an analog instead of digital machine. Multiplying integer numbers however isn't a task well suited for analog machines.
Caveat emptor. Those who have been burned should stop buying Dell and also talk shit about Dell to everyone they know to ruin their reputation. That's how the free market could fix this.
Well here in Bulgaria (Eastern Europe), a third to a half of netbooks are with some sort of Linux. Or at least were last time I searched for a laptop. Hell, there are plenty of FreeDOS (aka "intended to run pirated Windows") laptops sold at the shelves.
This is why the country is called the United States of America. -It's a collection of State bound by a common defense. Not some over ridding power structure that controls the people. It retains it's authenticity through the consent of the governed and that consent was given though the US constitution.
I'm a european, and looking from outside, the states seem to function more like provinces, with some local autonomy. I don't think of them as a confederation the way the EU is.