Thank you so much for pointing all of this out. While it would be a folly to assume that sentient alien beings would be just like us, it would be a greater folly to assume that the evolutionary pressures that made us the way we are would be entirely absent.
Sorry, but Vulcan women, and in fact Vulcans in general, aren't logical, they're just stoic. If they were really logical, they'd realize that logic can only be applied in situations where one has reliable axioms, which excludes the vast majority of all common situations (I say this as a math major). Furthermore, I'd wager that in cases where one doesn't have enough information to make a "logical" decision, it's usually much wiser to follow one's emotions.
Since the Vulcans are too dumb to figure this stuff out and follow a philosophy we abandoned that hit its peak and quickly declined about two thousand years ago, I'd say that they are too dumb to have actually created warp technology on their own and they must have just stolen the technology from another civilization.
I love watching that show just to see how much drama they can get out of a trading card game. Last time I watched it some guy was trying to get all three in a set of really good cards so he could "rule the world."
Here's a page with a bunch of other character names that have been used, including Eve. The distinction between Eve and Mallory seems to be that Eve can only intercept a message in transit, but Mallory has potentially unlimited resources for more sophisticated attacks.
This is a little tradition borrowed from cryptography. Whenever you describe some apparatus for transmitting information, you refer to the sender as Alice and the receiver as Bob. Other people have added a bunch of other characters, such as Mallory, who represents anyone who might maliciously try to intercept the message in transit.
I'm told that she once tried to get Sideways Stories from Wayside School banned because the first teacher in it was a witch and that must mean this book is a menace to all children. And that wasn't her only crusade. Mind you, this is a woman who once believed that God told her to have three more children (despite the fact they couldn't really afford to take care of more children) and move to the island of Java as missionaries.
Surprisingly, I haven't heard anything about her making any attacks on Harry Potter, but she has been slighly less nuts in the past few years, so maybe she's getting better.
Why shouldn't a schedule be a living entity? It would be a greater folly to continue using estimates that have been shown to be inaccurate. Getting it right the second time isn't bad at all given the number of unknown variables involved in a project like this, especially in an industry famous for pushing back release dates at the last minute.
And you can't just pad a schedule with extra time to try to accomodate for unseen delays. Based on my observations, if you give a person a deadline and it is within their ability to finish before that deadline, 90% of the time they will still find a way to make the work last up until the deadline.
I didn't say he's a great musician, I said that the fact that he made a new song by borrowing heavily from an old song can not be counted against him. It's fine if you count everything else against him though.
There's nothing wrong with this. If you look back, there are plenty of examples of musicians in the past doing the same sort of thing dating back hundreds of years. Not just mediocre musicians who don't know any better, but great musicians too. For example, just about every great jazz musician has done their own take on Summertime and some even took great liberties with it. I can come up with more examples than that if you really want me to. It's the musical equivalent of allusion in literature.
Sounds like a feature that Evolution has had for some time called Virtual Folders. I don't know if they were the first to come up with this idea though.
I parked an SUV on a guy's foot one time. He had boots on, but they weren't steel toe or anything. He told me I was parked on his foot but I didn't believe him at first because he wasn't screaming in pain. Surprisingly, nothing was broken.
It needs the AI to figure out what your brain wants the arms to do. You can't just wire four extra limbs into your brain and expect it to be able to control them with any sort of precision. So from what I can gather, their idea was the AI is there to seamlessly integrate these new functions into an adult's not-entirely-malleable brain.
The arms also seem to have their own set of sensors so the AI should also have to process this data and send it to the brain.
I'd say that it's more than likely that they simply gave the role to whoever had a dissenting opinion. I doubt they forced anyone to write a dissenting review.
What some people don't realize is that sampling is part of a very old tradition. Many jazz and classical compositions have been enriched by incorporating material from other sources. Often the borrowed material is just as recognizeable as a sampled song, so it's not like this is something that has been hidden.
This practice is in many ways similar to allusion in literature. By making reference to earlier works, one can enhance the depth of one's own work. Ezra Pound said, "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal" and this statement can be generalized to all forms of art.
Nope, doesn't work that way. In order to make this work you also need a classical (ie slower than light) communication channel. In quantum teleportation, one person interacts a qubit with one half of an entangled pair of qubits, performs a measurement, and then sends that measurement to the other person. The other person then performs an action on their half of the entangled pair that transforms it into the same quantum state as the original qubit. The original qubit is altered in this process and each entangled pair can only be used once.
A lot of people misunderstand the nature of entangled pairs as a result of the fact that many reporters do not understand how they work. An entangled pair is just a pair of qubits set up in a quantum state so that there is a 50% chance they will both be 0 and a 50% chance they will both be 1 (this is an oversimplification, but it's still better than how they are usually explained). If you measure one half of the pair, you automatically know what will happen when you measure the other one.
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Thank you so much for pointing all of this out. While it would be a folly to assume that sentient alien beings would be just like us, it would be a greater folly to assume that the evolutionary pressures that made us the way we are would be entirely absent.
Unless 90 of the remaining 95 pounds are lead shielding, I still don't want the thing near my lap.
Sorry, but Vulcan women, and in fact Vulcans in general, aren't logical, they're just stoic. If they were really logical, they'd realize that logic can only be applied in situations where one has reliable axioms, which excludes the vast majority of all common situations (I say this as a math major). Furthermore, I'd wager that in cases where one doesn't have enough information to make a "logical" decision, it's usually much wiser to follow one's emotions.
Since the Vulcans are too dumb to figure this stuff out and follow a philosophy we abandoned that hit its peak and quickly declined about two thousand years ago, I'd say that they are too dumb to have actually created warp technology on their own and they must have just stolen the technology from another civilization.
It was a joke and I did not expect anyone to take it seriously.
Those are questions best left unanswered.
Obviously they had two offices.
No, it means that someone should take a peek inside before they open it up on live television.
I love watching that show just to see how much drama they can get out of a trading card game. Last time I watched it some guy was trying to get all three in a set of really good cards so he could "rule the world."
Here's a page with a bunch of other character names that have been used, including Eve. The distinction between Eve and Mallory seems to be that Eve can only intercept a message in transit, but Mallory has potentially unlimited resources for more sophisticated attacks.
This is a little tradition borrowed from cryptography. Whenever you describe some apparatus for transmitting information, you refer to the sender as Alice and the receiver as Bob. Other people have added a bunch of other characters, such as Mallory, who represents anyone who might maliciously try to intercept the message in transit.
I'm told that she once tried to get Sideways Stories from Wayside School banned because the first teacher in it was a witch and that must mean this book is a menace to all children. And that wasn't her only crusade. Mind you, this is a woman who once believed that God told her to have three more children (despite the fact they couldn't really afford to take care of more children) and move to the island of Java as missionaries.
Surprisingly, I haven't heard anything about her making any attacks on Harry Potter, but she has been slighly less nuts in the past few years, so maybe she's getting better.
Why shouldn't a schedule be a living entity? It would be a greater folly to continue using estimates that have been shown to be inaccurate. Getting it right the second time isn't bad at all given the number of unknown variables involved in a project like this, especially in an industry famous for pushing back release dates at the last minute.
And you can't just pad a schedule with extra time to try to accomodate for unseen delays. Based on my observations, if you give a person a deadline and it is within their ability to finish before that deadline, 90% of the time they will still find a way to make the work last up until the deadline.
I didn't say he's a great musician, I said that the fact that he made a new song by borrowing heavily from an old song can not be counted against him. It's fine if you count everything else against him though.
There's nothing wrong with this. If you look back, there are plenty of examples of musicians in the past doing the same sort of thing dating back hundreds of years. Not just mediocre musicians who don't know any better, but great musicians too. For example, just about every great jazz musician has done their own take on Summertime and some even took great liberties with it. I can come up with more examples than that if you really want me to. It's the musical equivalent of allusion in literature.
Cute like a stomach pump.
And yet few people seemed to realize that.
Sounds like a feature that Evolution has had for some time called Virtual Folders. I don't know if they were the first to come up with this idea though.
I parked an SUV on a guy's foot one time. He had boots on, but they weren't steel toe or anything. He told me I was parked on his foot but I didn't believe him at first because he wasn't screaming in pain. Surprisingly, nothing was broken.
You should really stop to think about the implications of what you're saying.
It needs the AI to figure out what your brain wants the arms to do. You can't just wire four extra limbs into your brain and expect it to be able to control them with any sort of precision. So from what I can gather, their idea was the AI is there to seamlessly integrate these new functions into an adult's not-entirely-malleable brain.
The arms also seem to have their own set of sensors so the AI should also have to process this data and send it to the brain.
I'd say that it's more than likely that they simply gave the role to whoever had a dissenting opinion. I doubt they forced anyone to write a dissenting review.
What some people don't realize is that sampling is part of a very old tradition. Many jazz and classical compositions have been enriched by incorporating material from other sources. Often the borrowed material is just as recognizeable as a sampled song, so it's not like this is something that has been hidden.
This practice is in many ways similar to allusion in literature. By making reference to earlier works, one can enhance the depth of one's own work. Ezra Pound said, "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal" and this statement can be generalized to all forms of art.
Or Dick Cheney.
Unfortunately I can't find a link to the picture that was on the cover of the World Weekly News.
Nope, doesn't work that way. In order to make this work you also need a classical (ie slower than light) communication channel. In quantum teleportation, one person interacts a qubit with one half of an entangled pair of qubits, performs a measurement, and then sends that measurement to the other person. The other person then performs an action on their half of the entangled pair that transforms it into the same quantum state as the original qubit. The original qubit is altered in this process and each entangled pair can only be used once.
A lot of people misunderstand the nature of entangled pairs as a result of the fact that many reporters do not understand how they work. An entangled pair is just a pair of qubits set up in a quantum state so that there is a 50% chance they will both be 0 and a 50% chance they will both be 1 (this is an oversimplification, but it's still better than how they are usually explained). If you measure one half of the pair, you automatically know what will happen when you measure the other one.
Don't tell people about your religion. Give them a reason to ask about your religion.