If you have a basic understanding of tcp, and reasonable c skills, it is not at all hard to make your kernel play unfair, and it can really make a big difference to your transmission rates, assuming you have a reliable connection. I sometimes wonder how many people out there have an unfair kernel like me.
I hope you were kidding. Best theories != proof. Proof (evidence) is what raises the profile of theories. Taking a popular scientific theory, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity. Einstein proposes that E=MC^2. We have a lot of evidence for this, and scientists mostly believe it is true, however: 1) It is not proven (it might yet be proven false). 2) The evidence is not the same thing as the theory.
There have been many, many fully scientific theories that were at the time the best fit for the available evidence, and which were later proven false.
Oh how good life would be if we only needed to reach fairbanks temperatures for superconductivity. (Current best is a little worse than -300F, and fairbanks is not quite so cold, with a record of -66F). So if they invented a room temperature superconductor, the world would in fact be quite thrilled at such a major breakthrough.
The foundation series was written by Isaac Asimov, and he also wrote a number of history books, and in fact his knowledge of history was quite extensive:
I'm pretty sure it requires at least his acquiescence, in contract if nothing else. Choosing to be an ass to make money is still a choice, and not one i'm inclined to offer any respect once your past earning your basic necessities.
I'd venture that a poll of the gaming public would only put Sid Meier higher on the list of recognizable names, and only because he slaps his name all over everything because he thinks he's cooler than all the people who really make his games. And of the remaining two, neither is nearly as directly responsible for the advancement of the field as is Carmack. Heck, Gabe got his start by building Halflife:
Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by Valve Software, first released by Sierra Studios on November 19, 1998. Designed for PCs running Microsoft Windows,[1] the game uses a heavily modified version of the Quake engine, called GoldSrc.[4]
Do you have any evidence for that belief, or are you only qualifying academics as scientists, because there are other reasons that better account for the differential there.
BTW the evidence in favor of being able to fix stupid is overwhelming. You can change someone's IQ quite easily at least up to 25 by sending them to a good school. Plenty of psych research on the subject.
The problem is that it typically turns out to be a large number of small, dull tasks, with low reward for the developer (who has all the features he cares about...). Polish takes a lot of work and attention to detail. These are hard tasks that get done in commercial software because it makes the difference in sales.
Only because such a thing doesn't exist. Unless it's labeled as a multimeter, of course. People generally don't use those to do Scientology "audits". If they did, Scientology might remove those too.
If CoS tried to nuke the auctions of multimeters, they'd get sued and lose.
In what way are e-meters legitimate? They're a fraud in every sense of the word.
They are legitimate in the sense of a Van Gogh painting can be considered either legitimate, or a fraud. One is made by Van Gogh, the other is made by anyone else. They are not a fraud in this sense of the word, and thus not every sense of the word.
Why? And why should eBay give them the power to screw with auctions? Breaking of contracts is a matter for the courts to decide, not a matter of vigilante "justice" that screws with people. What obligation does eBay have to protect Scientology?
Ebay has to worry about being taken to court as a black market. If they do nothing to prevent such auctions, they risk some court finding them to be aiding illegal sales. Imagine if ebay didn't filter out auctions of narcotics.
You need to do a little more than that. First, it can't be a EULA. It needs to be an up-front contract of sale, like the CoS uses. Second, you can't delete competitor auctions, only resale auctions. Deleting your competitor's widgets auctions would get you sued into oblivion. Note that the CoS is not nuking the auctions of competitive scanners, only their own, legitimate scanners. I'm pretty sure they have every reasonable right to expect to be able to enforce those presale contracts. Don't buy one under contract if you don't want to be held to the contract later.
DA: If you allow the sale of a device that requires training to the untrained, they may misinterpret the results and cause themselves eternal harm by not joining the right religion on the false basis of a misinterpreted result. By preventing access to these devices except by qualified professionals, they prevent people from causing themselves irreparable eternal harm.
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If you have a basic understanding of tcp, and reasonable c skills, it is not at all hard to make your kernel play unfair, and it can really make a big difference to your transmission rates, assuming you have a reliable connection. I sometimes wonder how many people out there have an unfair kernel like me.
I hope you were kidding. Best theories != proof. Proof (evidence) is what raises the profile of theories. Taking a popular scientific theory, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity. Einstein proposes that E=MC^2. We have a lot of evidence for this, and scientists mostly believe it is true, however:
1) It is not proven (it might yet be proven false).
2) The evidence is not the same thing as the theory.
There have been many, many fully scientific theories that were at the time the best fit for the available evidence, and which were later proven false.
You may possibly have missed the sarcasm tags around my post.
That show is the best mathy/sciency show on television, mostly because they never, ever get the science wrong. Also, there's some good acting.
That's a common misperception among people who haven't read his 23rd century memoirs describing his adventures in time travel.
Oh how good life would be if we only needed to reach fairbanks temperatures for superconductivity.
(Current best is a little worse than -300F, and fairbanks is not quite so cold, with a record of -66F).
So if they invented a room temperature superconductor, the world would in fact be quite thrilled at such a major breakthrough.
Clarke's writing clearly defines him as a different sort of person. The Foundation series clearly identifies him as a man who knew history.
Perhaps it identifies him as a person who knew history. Or perhaps it identifies you as a person who does not know science fiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series
The foundation series was written by Isaac Asimov, and he also wrote a number of history books, and in fact his knowledge of history was quite extensive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Other_writing
I'm not sure ... if it was intentional, it was extra funny.
I'm thinking it's the whale sperm.
I'm pretty sure it requires at least his acquiescence, in contract if nothing else. Choosing to be an ass to make money is still a choice, and not one i'm inclined to offer any respect once your past earning your basic necessities.
Because he's not the kind of douchebag who puts his name on a collaborative effort?
I'd venture that a poll of the gaming public would only put Sid Meier higher on the list of recognizable names, and only because he slaps his name all over everything because he thinks he's cooler than all the people who really make his games. And of the remaining two, neither is nearly as directly responsible for the advancement of the field as is Carmack. Heck, Gabe got his start by building Halflife:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life
Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by Valve Software, first released by Sierra Studios on November 19, 1998. Designed for PCs running Microsoft Windows,[1] the game uses a heavily modified version of the Quake engine, called GoldSrc.[4]
Metamods: how is this a troll post? I certainly didn't mean it that way, and I think it's pretty strongly relevant to the discussion.
Do you have any evidence for that belief, or are you only qualifying academics as scientists, because there are other reasons that better account for the differential there.
BTW the evidence in favor of being able to fix stupid is overwhelming. You can change someone's IQ quite easily at least up to 25 by sending them to a good school. Plenty of psych research on the subject.
In 25 years we better have 10 terabit wired speeds. I would be surprised if 100 terabit wasn't becoming common.
The problem is that it typically turns out to be a large number of small, dull tasks, with low reward for the developer (who has all the features he cares about ...). Polish takes a lot of work and attention to detail. These are hard tasks that get done in commercial software because it makes the difference in sales.
That's the 10% that takes hard work.
Only because such a thing doesn't exist. Unless it's labeled as a multimeter, of course. People generally don't use those to do Scientology "audits". If they did, Scientology might remove those too.
If CoS tried to nuke the auctions of multimeters, they'd get sued and lose.
In what way are e-meters legitimate? They're a fraud in every sense of the word.
They are legitimate in the sense of a Van Gogh painting can be considered either legitimate, or a fraud. One is made by Van Gogh, the other is made by anyone else. They are not a fraud in this sense of the word, and thus not every sense of the word.
Why? And why should eBay give them the power to screw with auctions? Breaking of contracts is a matter for the courts to decide, not a matter of vigilante "justice" that screws with people. What obligation does eBay have to protect Scientology?
Ebay has to worry about being taken to court as a black market. If they do nothing to prevent such auctions, they risk some court finding them to be aiding illegal sales. Imagine if ebay didn't filter out auctions of narcotics.
You need to do a little more than that.
First, it can't be a EULA. It needs to be an up-front contract of sale, like the CoS uses.
Second, you can't delete competitor auctions, only resale auctions. Deleting your competitor's widgets auctions would get you sued into oblivion. Note that the CoS is not nuking the auctions of competitive scanners, only their own, legitimate scanners.
I'm pretty sure they have every reasonable right to expect to be able to enforce those presale contracts. Don't buy one under contract if you don't want to be held to the contract later.
DA: If you allow the sale of a device that requires training to the untrained, they may misinterpret the results and cause themselves eternal harm by not joining the right religion on the false basis of a misinterpreted result. By preventing access to these devices except by qualified professionals, they prevent people from causing themselves irreparable eternal harm.
kids are monsters. If there's a device to drive them off that's fantastic. Is there a similar device for lawyers?
It was yours, until you made a public revelation. Now you're screwed unless you already filed the patent.
Years from now we aren't remembering it, because we think it wasn't thousands of years in the past, thanks to the matrix.
I think you're looking for zoophilia.