Natural selection describes a process by which beneficial mutations are kept and improve the suitability of a species to its environs. It does not talk about genetics at all. Why wouldn't mutations caused by horizontal gene transfer also apply to natural selection?
Now your vote really doesn't count... if it ever did after creation of the electoral college.
You mean, with the writing of the Constitution? It's been there from the start. All the Twelfth Amendment did is make the President and VP get elected together on the same ticket, rather than separately.
I was waiting for the evidence that proves this was a bot, but none was supplied. How do you know for certain that this is a bot and not an idiot with too much time and just enough skill?
There seems no end of funding available to search passengers at airports, why can't retail goods be searched?
For the same reasons we have rules at airport security checkpoints like limiting all fluids to certain quantities: we can't easily "search" materials for different chemicals. You need a lab, trained personnel, and time, so checking everything is significantly expensive. (With "significantly" written in 72 point bold font and pronounced "prohibitively".)
Lots of things would be solved if we could actually invent a tricorder.
True autism is a very real and very impairing condition, not a matter of having odd interests and being a bit socially awkward.
Autism is a spectrum from slight to severe impairment, high-functioning to low-functioning. Asperger syndrome, on the high-functioning end of the spectrum, does include social impairment and odd interests in the diagnostic criteria.
Your comment is a lot like saying "true paralysis" implies quadriplegia not paraplegia, even though they're both on the spectrum of paralysis severity.
And Slashdot, where every story about biology turns into an attack on Christianity or some other faith. Things were different in the Pit & the Pendulum days, but lately it seems like you attack them way more than they attack you.
Because decentralized mocking in print is equivalent to the Spanish Inquisition. That's a very agile definition for "attack" you have there.
Catholicism != Christianity for all instances of Christianity. (There may very well be other branches of Christianity that embrace transubstantiation as well, but Catholicism is the only one I know of, off the top of my head.)
The Catholics appear to outnumber the rest, though.
What if terrorists have a space laser that will vaporize half the earth if we don't bow down to Allah?
Such plots have appeared in science fiction literature before, not least among them the suicide submarine filled with blanet-busting ICMBs in Dan Simmons' Olympos.
Frankly, such ideas are logical (though extreme) extensions of the suicide bomber mentality scaled into much higher tech.
Microsoft's aging WMF/EMF format is really not conceptually different than SVG, though it's not an open standard and was highly tied to the Windows GDI. I don't think it's lack of ability to support SVG that's held them up, I think that was a strategic business decision.
Replace "drug dealers" with "liquor stores" and "hard drugs" with "alcohol", and tell us what the difference is, aside from the fact that it's generally easier for kids to get hold of alcohol than pot.
...and supplementary to this, note that we already did a War on Alcohol and lost. We're arguably better off without it, given the criminal enterprises that thrived under it.
Why we decided to start another, longer-lived one of these in the 1980s is beyond me. Doomed to repeat it, and all that.
Iraq was deliberately and obviously preventing the inspections that they had agreed to in their surrender in the Kuwait war. All Iraq had to do to prevent the new war was allow inspections
And this clearly implies that they must actually be developing nuclear weapons, rather than their obviously bellicose leader being pigheaded about foreign nationals bossing him around in his own country.
Your judgment of people and assessment of their value is HIGHLY disturbing. The fact you have a +5 insightful, makes it even more saddening. Those millions of people you'd sooner see die in order to save a single bonds trader puts you on the intellectual level of some of the worlds finest despots.
You might want to look up someone named Jonathan Swift. He had an even more terrible proposal and seems worse.
Without Tanks, each class would have features that would help them participate in and survive many different encounters like heavy armor, strong avoidance, or some class or magical abilities that allow them to disengage from direct combat.
Er, what? This is in large part already true of games like WoW. Mages, for instance, can buff their own armor through spells, can blink away from combat, and can go invisible.
Without specialized DPS, all classes should be able to do damage in order to defeat enemies. Some classes might specialize in damage type, like area of effect (AoE) damage; others might be able to exploit enemy weaknesses, and some might just be good at swinging a sharpened bit of metal in the right direction at a rapid rate.
This is just dumb. Of course all classes can do damage in order to defeat enemites! Each class is itself balanced and able to solo its way through the world, though some specialties make certain aspects of a solo environment easier.
Class specialization narrows the choices your character can make within these roles, but the specialization doesn't DRIVE the roles of tank, DPS, and healer. Rather, these roles come from a particular optimzation of group cooperation. The point of tank+healer is to minimize the number of party members soaking up damage, minimizing the number of healers needed, maximizing the number of solely-damage-producing members. This maximizes the DPS your party can put out. Multiple classes have healing abilities, both for themselves and for others, so you could mix up the roles and all provide DPS+healing, but it's less efficient and easier to screw up due to misstep or miscommunication.
String "+" operator - in the hands of sucky Java programmers (who are a dime a dozen) is the bane of garbage collectors.
Sun did finally make a long string of String + in a single assignment do the right thing. It used to break this up into a new StringBuffer for each +, rather than one for the entire assignment.
However, if I had to choose one, I'd prefer to filter out the sucky programmers than a language feature they misuse, for the simple fact that sucky programmers have a deep well of things they can misuse.
refusing to deprecate Vector and HashMap
I think you mean "Hashtable".
I find it amusing in a Microsoft vs. Sun discussion that someone is dinging Sun on being too backwards-compatible.
Rather than someone willing to come in and support you when you work overtime, how about having a boss and management above that ensure you don't HAVE to work overtime.
That said, the title ought to be more like: "Scientists crack 'Entire Genetic Code' of one melanoma patient's tumor and one lung cancer patient's tumor. This is definitely a very impressive achievement in its own right, and the technology that has made this possible is pretty amazing, but it's a bit premature to say "we've cracked the genetic code of cancer" full stop.
The current state of science journalism seems to have swung more toward grabbing viewers than conveying accurate information. I think this is just another example of that.
Having a sufficient mental model of the controls and enough practice to make it second-nature, pretty much any control scheme will work. You're just used to using a mouse and keyboard, so those seem more natural to you.
All developers are blue collar. Programming is the IT equivalent of brick laying, it's a trade, not a profession. Professions have legal status; Doctors, lawyers, accountants have to be certified and approved.
blue collar = manual (physical) labor white collar = office labor
Developers are only blue collar if you're confused about the terminology.
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Natural selection describes a process by which beneficial mutations are kept and improve the suitability of a species to its environs. It does not talk about genetics at all. Why wouldn't mutations caused by horizontal gene transfer also apply to natural selection?
Now your vote really doesn't count... if it ever did after creation of the electoral college.
You mean, with the writing of the Constitution? It's been there from the start. All the Twelfth Amendment did is make the President and VP get elected together on the same ticket, rather than separately.
I was waiting for the evidence that proves this was a bot, but none was supplied. How do you know for certain that this is a bot and not an idiot with too much time and just enough skill?
There seems no end of funding available to search passengers at airports, why can't retail goods be searched?
For the same reasons we have rules at airport security checkpoints like limiting all fluids to certain quantities: we can't easily "search" materials for different chemicals. You need a lab, trained personnel, and time, so checking everything is significantly expensive. (With "significantly" written in 72 point bold font and pronounced "prohibitively".)
Lots of things would be solved if we could actually invent a tricorder.
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic" - Ben Frankin
This is oft-quoted, but I've never seen a verifiable citation for it. The talk page for Benjamin Franklin at Wikiquotes doubts it as well.
True autism is a very real and very impairing condition, not a matter of having odd interests and being a bit socially awkward.
Autism is a spectrum from slight to severe impairment, high-functioning to low-functioning. Asperger syndrome, on the high-functioning end of the spectrum, does include social impairment and odd interests in the diagnostic criteria.
Your comment is a lot like saying "true paralysis" implies quadriplegia not paraplegia, even though they're both on the spectrum of paralysis severity.
And Slashdot, where every story about biology turns into an attack on Christianity or some other faith. Things were different in the Pit & the Pendulum days, but lately it seems like you attack them way more than they attack you.
Because decentralized mocking in print is equivalent to the Spanish Inquisition. That's a very agile definition for "attack" you have there.
Catholicism != Christianity for all instances of Christianity. (There may very well be other branches of Christianity that embrace transubstantiation as well, but Catholicism is the only one I know of, off the top of my head.)
The Catholics appear to outnumber the rest, though.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations_by_number_of_members
What if terrorists have a space laser that will vaporize half the earth if we don't bow down to Allah?
Such plots have appeared in science fiction literature before, not least among them the suicide submarine filled with blanet-busting ICMBs in Dan Simmons' Olympos.
Frankly, such ideas are logical (though extreme) extensions of the suicide bomber mentality scaled into much higher tech.
Microsoft's aging WMF/EMF format is really not conceptually different than SVG, though it's not an open standard and was highly tied to the Windows GDI. I don't think it's lack of ability to support SVG that's held them up, I think that was a strategic business decision.
Replace "drug dealers" with "liquor stores" and "hard drugs" with "alcohol", and tell us what the difference is, aside from the fact that it's generally easier for kids to get hold of alcohol than pot.
...and supplementary to this, note that we already did a War on Alcohol and lost. We're arguably better off without it, given the criminal enterprises that thrived under it.
Why we decided to start another, longer-lived one of these in the 1980s is beyond me. Doomed to repeat it, and all that.
Iraq was deliberately and obviously preventing the inspections that they had agreed to in their surrender in the Kuwait war. All Iraq had to do to prevent the new war was allow inspections
And this clearly implies that they must actually be developing nuclear weapons, rather than their obviously bellicose leader being pigheaded about foreign nationals bossing him around in his own country.
Your judgment of people and assessment of their value is HIGHLY disturbing. The fact you have a +5 insightful, makes it even more saddening. Those millions of people you'd sooner see die in order to save a single bonds trader puts you on the intellectual level of some of the worlds finest despots.
You might want to look up someone named Jonathan Swift. He had an even more terrible proposal and seems worse.
Rolling your own and using it yourself is a guaranteed failure.
Not necessarily. You might have nothing of value that anyone wants, so nobody ever bothers cracking your encryption.
Without Tanks, each class would have features that would help them participate in and survive many different encounters like heavy armor, strong avoidance, or some class or magical abilities that allow them to disengage from direct combat.
Er, what? This is in large part already true of games like WoW. Mages, for instance, can buff their own armor through spells, can blink away from combat, and can go invisible.
Without specialized DPS, all classes should be able to do damage in order to defeat enemies. Some classes might specialize in damage type, like area of effect (AoE) damage; others might be able to exploit enemy weaknesses, and some might just be good at swinging a sharpened bit of metal in the right direction at a rapid rate.
This is just dumb. Of course all classes can do damage in order to defeat enemites! Each class is itself balanced and able to solo its way through the world, though some specialties make certain aspects of a solo environment easier.
Class specialization narrows the choices your character can make within these roles, but the specialization doesn't DRIVE the roles of tank, DPS, and healer. Rather, these roles come from a particular optimzation of group cooperation. The point of tank+healer is to minimize the number of party members soaking up damage, minimizing the number of healers needed, maximizing the number of solely-damage-producing members. This maximizes the DPS your party can put out. Multiple classes have healing abilities, both for themselves and for others, so you could mix up the roles and all provide DPS+healing, but it's less efficient and easier to screw up due to misstep or miscommunication.
String "+" operator - in the hands of sucky Java programmers (who are a dime a dozen) is the bane of garbage collectors.
Sun did finally make a long string of String + in a single assignment do the right thing. It used to break this up into a new StringBuffer for each +, rather than one for the entire assignment.
However, if I had to choose one, I'd prefer to filter out the sucky programmers than a language feature they misuse, for the simple fact that sucky programmers have a deep well of things they can misuse.
refusing to deprecate Vector and HashMap
I think you mean "Hashtable".
I find it amusing in a Microsoft vs. Sun discussion that someone is dinging Sun on being too backwards-compatible.
Rather than someone willing to come in and support you when you work overtime, how about having a boss and management above that ensure you don't HAVE to work overtime.
That would require TVs to have a copy of the sound track from prior programs to perform normalization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average
To be perfectly honest, murder is probably a lesser crime. You can kill someone in a fit of rage, or by accident. You can be defending yourself.
Murder is generally considered to be deliberate and premeditated, which by nature generally excludes self-defense.
That said, the title ought to be more like: "Scientists crack 'Entire Genetic Code' of one melanoma patient's tumor and one lung cancer patient's tumor. This is definitely a very impressive achievement in its own right, and the technology that has made this possible is pretty amazing, but it's a bit premature to say "we've cracked the genetic code of cancer" full stop.
The current state of science journalism seems to have swung more toward grabbing viewers than conveying accurate information. I think this is just another example of that.
They're trying to cater more and more towards the ADHD kids
Or perhaps adults who have day jobs and can't invest entire days playing the game.
Rule of thumb: All great things are simple, but not every simple thing is great.
Corollary: Something being simple does not imply it isn't great.
Having a sufficient mental model of the controls and enough practice to make it second-nature, pretty much any control scheme will work. You're just used to using a mouse and keyboard, so those seem more natural to you.
2^31 milliseconds is about 24.5 days
This is exactly what I thought on reading the headline. It's closer to 24.85 days.
All developers are blue collar. Programming is the IT equivalent of brick laying, it's a trade, not a profession. Professions have legal status; Doctors, lawyers, accountants have to be certified and approved.
blue collar = manual (physical) labor
white collar = office labor
Developers are only blue collar if you're confused about the terminology.