Yeah, because a bug in some obscure corner case means the whole product is shit right? There are buglists for all those products. People didn't used to write web pages like that, give em a break
I guess people can live how they like, but IMO that would probably mean your GF would be likely to cheat on you. Sluts are fun but unreliable in the long term.
The coolest math tattoo you could get would be nothing at all. Just hold up your arm and say "it's the empty set" and have them marvel at your coolness.
Seriously, tattoos are lame. Resist the urge. It's going to be an ugly green smear you will regrat.
You're comparing apples and cadillacs. Excel doesn't use LAPACK either, but Prof used to dig it because of it's profound recursive capabilties. I didn't write the Vb6 code from scratch - it was originally written in Fortran using LAPACK there, and for some reason the guy wanted it in VB6 (I guess so he could enter the parameters from a database using a form.) It was a simulation of some complexity and ran well enough for his purposes. The same calculations were being done, on ordinary PCs.
It's a distinction without a difference. No cool points for using lapack just to use it.
I hate to essentially troll, and I hate to burst your bubbles, but these math packages aren't really doing anything all that wonderanomous. The guy I learned numerical analysis from in college used to use Excel to do a lot of his numerical techniques - and used to do a lot of them on a TI-80. Numerical analysis is all about knowing a lot to write an efficient algorithm to get the answer.
I've done Q/R decomposition in VB6 (for a real honest to god client! for money!)
I'm glad these tools are around for people to use but don't think they're all that new or revolutionary. Easy is easy, and there have been many generations of Easy for N years.
Back in the BBS days, from MacAffee, you could download SCAN.EXE and CLEAN.EXE and run them on DOS.
And - you still can!
Go to their website and find the command line scanner for win32. It claims to be a trial version, but with no install routine and being a command line program, that doesn't mean much. It uses the same.DAT files that you download for any other VirusScan program.
I get a huge chuckle when I run it, because it's exactly the same way it was in 1988 and that's the way it oughta be. all this other crap is fer lamos:-)
Just turning 39. A couple of years ago I was temporarily at a place with a bunch of 25 year olds who had nothing better to do than jerk off all night and come up with really bad ideas and work on them with great enthuasism and thoroughhness (the work equivalent of jerking off, IMO - enjoying a little too much you ought not to be doing.)
I got the hell out of there, and am only working with stupid 34 year olds now, but it's much better.
I re-upped my skillset with jQuery + WCF so now I'm mack daddy cool again. I decided, screw it, I'm just going to ride this out until I'm old. I'm gonna be the first one to just keep going:)
Yeah, but if the embryos were more useful as say two year olds, you know, they're not going to be real people anyway, they're just two year olds, it's not like they're going to live a real life or anything - would it be wrong to dismember them and use the for experiments, to put them in a blender and let people inject them?
I'm trying to find the point at which a life form that's not going to live a full life becomes unacceptable to use for experimentation. A 5 day old blastocyst that's only going to live 2 more days is different than a two year old that's only going to live two more days... So, where's the line?
You love all of them so much, and it's a tragedy that you can't turn all of them into your babies because any one of them has the possibility to make your dreams come true and your life not suck.
Then, you have to make the cruel decision to pick only the one that has the best chance of surviving. It's mean as hell to the other ones.
So, on top of not picking the less good ones, as told by Science! and your doctor, then on top of that I'm supposed to take these hopes and dreams of mind and let some fat broad inject them in her ass in hopes of getting better, or letting a doctor shred them to pieces and do experiments on them?
At most two of these little guys usually get picked to try to make it, and if one makes it, he's a baby. The whole damn experience if filled with tragedies, travesties, and painful emotions.
W = Voters of the first type B = Voters of the second type Wc = Candidates of the first type Bc = Candidates of the second type N = Number of votes each voter gets
Then each Wc candidate will get (W*N)/Wc on average, and each Bc candidate will get (B*N)/Bc on average, assuming W people only vote for Wc candidates and B people only vote for Bc candidates.
If the ratio of W/Wc is less than the ratio of B/Bc, then the Bc candidates will win.
In the usual case, W = White people, B = Black people, so the necessary condition that each type of voter usually votes for his own kind usually applies. In the NY case, B = H (Hispanic.)
The ratio of W/B is usually smaller than the ratio Wc/Bc, so the formula works.
This theory makes sense as long as you believe that the most important truth is that skin color is the most important factor in electing the best candidates and everyone on all sides is a complete asshole and judges have to engineer change and legislate from the bench and one man one vote doesn't mean dick:-)
I don't know if you have ever gone through it, I'm sure plenty of people do. When you go through IVF and don't know if a kid will make it or not, the pain and emotions as you quantify all your hopes and dreams via percentages, it just really makes you view the whole process through a different lens. It's not an abstraction for me, the fertilized eggs aren't a blowjob, they're qualitiatively different.
They're life, and life deserves respect. I guess reasonable people can disagree, but for me, it's like something you treat with Reverence. It's not raw material to be used. It's not an object.
It's not morally superior, it's morally imperative.
My son is a person. I have a picture of my son when he was a blastocyst.
They're real f'ing people in a certain state of nature. It'd desecration.
The difference between medical experimentation on corpses and taking the babies of mine that weren't as likely to make it and doing stuff to them, is, these guys deserve better.
[quote]The lines are generated from surplus material which would otherwise be discarded.[/quote]
As the father of a baby we got with IVF, I do not consider the other fertilized eggs as surplus material to be put to some use. They asked us if we wanted them to be used for stem cells, I said no.
Maybe they should stand under women who have miscarriages and ask if they can use that nice surplus material.
That's really bad science. Medicine is about trying things that are proven safe, not believing in advance that something is the cure and doing it first. That's why we torture all those poor little animals.
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Yeah, because a bug in some obscure corner case means the whole product is shit right? There are buglists for all those products. People didn't used to write web pages like that, give em a break
Apple used to have drm now they dont.
I guess people can live how they like, but IMO that would probably mean your GF would be likely to cheat on you. Sluts are fun but unreliable in the long term.
The coolest math tattoo you could get would be nothing at all. Just hold up your arm and say "it's the empty set" and have them marvel at your coolness.
Seriously, tattoos are lame. Resist the urge. It's going to be an ugly green smear you will regrat.
I really don't know what my APR is. I pay my bill in full each month.
Sorry, there's already prior art for granting idiotic patents, so you can't patent the idea (of granting idiotic patents).
Oh wait...
You're comparing apples and cadillacs. Excel doesn't use LAPACK either, but Prof used to dig it because of it's profound recursive capabilties. I didn't write the Vb6 code from scratch - it was originally written in Fortran using LAPACK there, and for some reason the guy wanted it in VB6 (I guess so he could enter the parameters from a database using a form.) It was a simulation of some complexity and ran well enough for his purposes. The same calculations were being done, on ordinary PCs.
It's a distinction without a difference. No cool points for using lapack just to use it.
I hate to essentially troll, and I hate to burst your bubbles, but these math packages aren't really doing anything all that wonderanomous. The guy I learned numerical analysis from in college used to use Excel to do a lot of his numerical techniques - and used to do a lot of them on a TI-80. Numerical analysis is all about knowing a lot to write an efficient algorithm to get the answer.
I've done Q/R decomposition in VB6 (for a real honest to god client! for money!)
I'm glad these tools are around for people to use but don't think they're all that new or revolutionary. Easy is easy, and there have been many generations of Easy for N years.
Flavor of the month.
Would the perl script be loaded at the same address in RAM every time? Wouldn't that likely be a one-time unrepeatable problem?
No the bias is there. It's only that it's fair.
Way back a long time ago, the press used to operate as some sort of neutral "above the fray" thing.
Those days are long gone - everyone's got an agenda, and most of the press are libs, and in choosing what to cover, that's bias. Fox is only balance.
Back in the BBS days, from MacAffee, you could download SCAN.EXE and CLEAN.EXE and run them on DOS.
And - you still can!
Go to their website and find the command line scanner for win32. It claims to be a trial version, but with no install routine and being a command line program, that doesn't mean much. It uses the same .DAT files that you download for any other VirusScan program.
I get a huge chuckle when I run it, because it's exactly the same way it was in 1988 and that's the way it oughta be. all this other crap is fer lamos :-)
No, he doesn't take it to a whole new level, he takes it to a level, and that irks the left - "that's OUR thing."
Turnabout IS fair play. Get over it, pointdexter :)
Just turning 39. A couple of years ago I was temporarily at a place with a bunch of 25 year olds who had nothing better to do than jerk off all night and come up with really bad ideas and work on them with great enthuasism and thoroughhness (the work equivalent of jerking off, IMO - enjoying a little too much you ought not to be doing.)
I got the hell out of there, and am only working with stupid 34 year olds now, but it's much better.
I re-upped my skillset with jQuery + WCF so now I'm mack daddy cool again. I decided, screw it, I'm just going to ride this out until I'm old. I'm gonna be the first one to just keep going :)
yeah, I just said that. get a grip. we don't all belong to each other.
Yeah, but if the embryos were more useful as say two year olds, you know, they're not going to be real people anyway, they're just two year olds, it's not like they're going to live a real life or anything - would it be wrong to dismember them and use the for experiments, to put them in a blender and let people inject them?
I'm trying to find the point at which a life form that's not going to live a full life becomes unacceptable to use for experimentation. A 5 day old blastocyst that's only going to live 2 more days is different than a two year old that's only going to live two more days... So, where's the line?
See my response to this guy:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1691318&cid=32631364
Probably time to let the thread die after this :-)
It's really, really easy to understand.
You love all of them so much, and it's a tragedy that you can't turn all of them into your babies because any one of them has the possibility to make your dreams come true and your life not suck.
Then, you have to make the cruel decision to pick only the one that has the best chance of surviving. It's mean as hell to the other ones.
So, on top of not picking the less good ones, as told by Science! and your doctor, then on top of that I'm supposed to take these hopes and dreams of mind and let some fat broad inject them in her ass in hopes of getting better, or letting a doctor shred them to pieces and do experiments on them?
At most two of these little guys usually get picked to try to make it, and if one makes it, he's a baby. The whole damn experience if filled with tragedies, travesties, and painful emotions.
It's not the same.
It's simple mathematics.
W = Voters of the first type
B = Voters of the second type
Wc = Candidates of the first type
Bc = Candidates of the second type
N = Number of votes each voter gets
Then each Wc candidate will get (W*N)/Wc on average, and each Bc candidate will get (B*N)/Bc on average, assuming W people only vote for Wc candidates and B people only vote for Bc candidates.
If the ratio of W/Wc is less than the ratio of B/Bc, then the Bc candidates will win.
In the usual case, W = White people, B = Black people, so the necessary condition that each type of voter usually votes for his own kind usually applies. In the NY case, B = H (Hispanic.)
The ratio of W/B is usually smaller than the ratio Wc/Bc, so the formula works.
This theory makes sense as long as you believe that the most important truth is that skin color is the most important factor in electing the best candidates and everyone on all sides is a complete asshole and judges have to engineer change and legislate from the bench and one man one vote doesn't mean dick :-)
I don't know if you have ever gone through it, I'm sure plenty of people do. When you go through IVF and don't know if a kid will make it or not, the pain and emotions as you quantify all your hopes and dreams via percentages, it just really makes you view the whole process through a different lens. It's not an abstraction for me, the fertilized eggs aren't a blowjob, they're qualitiatively different.
They're life, and life deserves respect. I guess reasonable people can disagree, but for me, it's like something you treat with Reverence. It's not raw material to be used. It's not an object.
What if it were better if they grew for a few years first? You know, more effective? Would it be wrong then?
The debate is not about whether or not all potential life forms should become actual life forms.
The debate is whether potential life forms or actual life forms should ever be harvested for excess tissue.
It's not morally superior, it's morally imperative.
My son is a person. I have a picture of my son when he was a blastocyst.
They're real f'ing people in a certain state of nature. It'd desecration.
The difference between medical experimentation on corpses and taking the babies of mine that weren't as likely to make it and doing stuff to them, is, these guys deserve better.
You're a sick fuck.
[quote]The lines are generated from surplus material which would otherwise be discarded.[/quote]
As the father of a baby we got with IVF, I do not consider the other fertilized eggs as surplus material to be put to some use. They asked us if we wanted them to be used for stem cells, I said no.
Maybe they should stand under women who have miscarriages and ask if they can use that nice surplus material.
They are potential life forms and not to be used.
That's really bad science. Medicine is about trying things that are proven safe, not believing in advance that something is the cure and doing it first. That's why we torture all those poor little animals.