"Disclaimer: my degree in physics qualifies me to paint a general picture here. Technical nitpicks are always welcome."
I don't have a physics degree, but I'm pretty sure I understand that the Weak force can alter quark flavor, and that this constitutes a completely different decay mechanism from the one you described (not that the one you described is wrong). Am I confused?
First of all, it was the first Terminator, not the second.
Furthermore, I clearly know the difference between AI and A1. I'm not an AI expert but I have coded the Minimax algorithm in my time so I'm not completely ignorant.
Finally, just because the joke wasn't very funny doesn't mean you have to put me down.
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That's what it does! That's all it does! And it absolutely will not stop, EVER, until you are DEAD!
IT IS DAAAAANNNNNCCCCIIIINNNGGG!!!!! NNNYYYAARRRGGHHHH!
Remember how the Arilou were talking about the Nnngn, how if we knew how to look for them they would *smell* us, and come from their other dimension to get us? And we couldn't touch Nnngn because we aren't quite solid enough. It was stuff like that that made me love the game. Sigh.
I compare every adventure game I see to Star Control II. It was hands down the best game I've ever played. Funny, spooky, sometimes profound, and set in a really huge game universe. The music was great (quality was fantastic for the day). There will never be another Star Control II. Go out and buy a cheap old 486 and put DOS 5 on it. It's worth it just to play this game.
They can't be 180 degrees out of phase everywhere and at all times. For example, consider the portions of the wave directly between the two sources. They propagate toward each other and thus you get a standing wave at twice the amplitude of either one (assuming they each have equal amplitudes). In fact, the only place where you could get perfectly destructive interference is directly behind a source, as seen from the point of view of the other source.
Soon after it's finished, a big rock-eating lasagna-with-plenty-of-sauce comes wiggling out of a tunnel, headed straight for the first guy it sees wearing a red shirt. Then it burns the message "No Kill I" on the ground, but after noting the quizzical looks on everyone's faces, and no Spock doing a mind meld on it and screaming, "Pain!" it stops, says, "Er, sorry. Wrong universe," and heads back in the other direction.
In a study of 8,000 tech projects in businesses, only 16 percent of the new systems were deemed successes. The blame, Mann says, goes in good part to the "growing conflict between end-users and the IT department." Translation: No one can understand what the techies are talking about, and the techies think the rest of us are dimmer than Bozo.
Of course, many people see academia as a vast exercise in restating the obvious. But in this instance, the research is nothing short of revelatory: To overcome this cultural gap between techies and computer users, Mann concludes, tech folk "would need both technical and interpersonal skills."
First of all, the research is not relevatory: Office professionals need technical and interpersonal skills. Tech folk are office professionals. Therefore tech folk need technical and interpersonal skills. Duh.
In other words, the "techies" aren't the only ones that need both. But this article tries to put the onus on them rather than admitting that end users share some responsibility. Furthermore, most of the coders I've met have had interpersonal skills that were just fine.
If you know you're smart, then you know you can learn how to use your company's new email system, for example, which works almost exactly like the old one did and features online help anyway. So put in the effort to learn and stop whining about how hard it is.
Isn't is sad when you make an intelligent joke, only to have people call you a "dumbass" because of a misunderstanding? I guess you just have to laugh at the irony.
This happens pretty often for me. When it does I usually decide to start floating around. It's fun. Sometimes I get randy and go around grabbing women's boobs. Let's hope I never become a sleepwalker.
I went through a phase a couple of years ago (I'm 28) where this would happen whenever I slept on my back. Looking at the symptoms listed I see that this not an uncommon factor! I'm surprised to learn this. Fortunately, mine weren't that bad. I felt an intense fear response but the conscious, observing part of my mind was always lucid enough to understand what was happening. It got to the point where, during such an episode, I could just reflect on how strange the experience was. I'd say to myself, "How odd: I feel terrified, my heart is racing, but this all feels more visceral than mental." It was interesting to have my body be "afraid" while my mind stood mostly apart from it and watched.
About Greg Egan: Did you read Teranesia? I thought it wasn't nearly as well done as Distress. Maybe he was afraid of copying Blood Music, but he had an interesting idea and then just kind of let it go. Or maybe he was trying to do some real characterization -- I love him to death but I think he should just stick to what he's good at.
Also, have you read Schild's Ladder yet? Any word on whether it's worth it? It looks pretty good but I haven't yet brought myself to buy hardback.
Go to my web page. I wanked a S&S and got several minutes of that kind of trippy stuff. I recorded it to hard drive using a nice DAC. It's in my "Work" page. In my "Links" page you'll find links to a couple more web sites that do stuff like this.
3dB is a doubling in intensity. "Volume", on the other hand, is one of the terms used to describe the subjective sensation of loudness. So to say "10dB represents a doubling of volume" is actually a reasonably accurate statement.
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"Disclaimer: my degree in physics qualifies me to paint a general picture here. Technical nitpicks are always welcome."
I don't have a physics degree, but I'm pretty sure I understand that the Weak force can alter quark flavor, and that this constitutes a completely different decay mechanism from the one you described (not that the one you described is wrong). Am I confused?
First of all, it was the first Terminator, not the second.
Furthermore, I clearly know the difference between AI and A1. I'm not an AI expert but I have coded the Minimax algorithm in my time so I'm not completely ignorant.
Finally, just because the joke wasn't very funny doesn't mean you have to put me down.
That's what it does! That's all it does! And it absolutely will not stop, EVER, until you are DEAD!
Your boss opened the door and *came*? I always thought the French were kinda weird but geeze. Hope you guys had linoleum floors there.
IT IS DAAAAANNNNNCCCCIIIINNNGGG!!!!! NNNYYYAARRRGGHHHH!
Remember how the Arilou were talking about the Nnngn, how if we knew how to look for them they would *smell* us, and come from their other dimension to get us? And we couldn't touch Nnngn because we aren't quite solid enough. It was stuff like that that made me love the game. Sigh.
I compare every adventure game I see to Star Control II. It was hands down the best game I've ever played. Funny, spooky, sometimes profound, and set in a really huge game universe. The music was great (quality was fantastic for the day). There will never be another Star Control II. Go out and buy a cheap old 486 and put DOS 5 on it. It's worth it just to play this game.
They can't be 180 degrees out of phase everywhere and at all times. For example, consider the portions of the wave directly between the two sources. They propagate toward each other and thus you get a standing wave at twice the amplitude of either one (assuming they each have equal amplitudes). In fact, the only place where you could get perfectly destructive interference is directly behind a source, as seen from the point of view of the other source.
No, but the horse is already dead.
Soon after it's finished, a big rock-eating lasagna-with-plenty-of-sauce comes wiggling out of a tunnel, headed straight for the first guy it sees wearing a red shirt. Then it burns the message "No Kill I" on the ground, but after noting the quizzical looks on everyone's faces, and no Spock doing a mind meld on it and screaming, "Pain!" it stops, says, "Er, sorry. Wrong universe," and heads back in the other direction.
Of course, many people see academia as a vast exercise in restating the obvious. But in this instance, the research is nothing short of revelatory: To overcome this cultural gap between techies and computer users, Mann concludes, tech folk "would need both technical and interpersonal skills."
First of all, the research is not relevatory: Office professionals need technical and interpersonal skills. Tech folk are office professionals. Therefore tech folk need technical and interpersonal skills. Duh.
In other words, the "techies" aren't the only ones that need both. But this article tries to put the onus on them rather than admitting that end users share some responsibility. Furthermore, most of the coders I've met have had interpersonal skills that were just fine.
If you know you're smart, then you know you can learn how to use your company's new email system, for example, which works almost exactly like the old one did and features online help anyway. So put in the effort to learn and stop whining about how hard it is.
Isn't is sad when you make an intelligent joke, only to have people call you a "dumbass" because of a misunderstanding? I guess you just have to laugh at the irony.
This happens pretty often for me. When it does I usually decide to start floating around. It's fun. Sometimes I get randy and go around grabbing women's boobs. Let's hope I never become a sleepwalker.
I went through a phase a couple of years ago (I'm 28) where this would happen whenever I slept on my back. Looking at the symptoms listed I see that this not an uncommon factor! I'm surprised to learn this. Fortunately, mine weren't that bad. I felt an intense fear response but the conscious, observing part of my mind was always lucid enough to understand what was happening. It got to the point where, during such an episode, I could just reflect on how strange the experience was. I'd say to myself, "How odd: I feel terrified, my heart is racing, but this all feels more visceral than mental." It was interesting to have my body be "afraid" while my mind stood mostly apart from it and watched.
About Greg Egan: Did you read Teranesia? I thought it wasn't nearly as well done as Distress. Maybe he was afraid of copying Blood Music, but he had an interesting idea and then just kind of let it go. Or maybe he was trying to do some real characterization -- I love him to death but I think he should just stick to what he's good at.
Also, have you read Schild's Ladder yet? Any word on whether it's worth it? It looks pretty good but I haven't yet brought myself to buy hardback.
Of course I used an ADC, not a DAC. Duh.
Google "circuit bending". You'll find some howtos.
Go to my web page. I wanked a S&S and got several minutes of that kind of trippy stuff. I recorded it to hard drive using a nice DAC. It's in my "Work" page. In my "Links" page you'll find links to a couple more web sites that do stuff like this.
Careful...The link exits through Mattel to a goatse.cx pic on someone's personal page. Dirty trick.
Regarding your sig... The girl in the sixth photo on the left looks a lot like some nudie pictures I have. I'll bet they're the same girl.
I guess that post was flambait.
He must have been hard.
3dB is a doubling in intensity. "Volume", on the other hand, is one of the terms used to describe the subjective sensation of loudness. So to say "10dB represents a doubling of volume" is actually a reasonably accurate statement.
Ai, ai, ai... People! The parent post is a troll! Ignore it!
The discovery means faster-than-light travel, which is prohibited by the law of relativity, may one day be *necessary*. ;)
I have a degree in Computer Science and I understand a significant portion of the data. I am not unique or even special.