It is not a dogma, it is the most likely answer compatible with the law of physics as we know them. How they got to this number is actually fascinating. How we combined methods to get further and further measurements, which, given the speed of light, allow us to tell the age of what we are seeing. How we observed the movement of things and derived equations which allowed us to go back in time and find the singularity which corresponds to the beginning of the universe. How we backed our research using independent observations. We don't know everything yet, in fact we don't know the real beginning of the universe, 13.8 billion year is actually the age of the universe that can be described by the current laws of physics. Maybe better theories (string theory, LQG,...) and new observations (gravitational waves, neutrinos,...) will allow us to go further. Or maybe the 13.8 billion number is just completely wrong. It is unlikely considering the pile of evidence but who knows. That scientific results could be wrong is part of what makes science science.
Or, you can do without that unity crap and get the minimal install with only the things that are required to boot the system and install the rest. No graphics but you can install it later.
The good thing with this is that you have a very customizable system but it is still Ubuntu, so it tends to be well supported by third parties. Debian has a minimal install too and it is pretty much interchangeable with Ubuntu.
An absolute number like "5" or "8" is meaningless. Even the most serious newspapers get hoaxed or lie sometimes.
The only thing I found in TFA is this:
Our results shouldn’t be taken as conclusive: Since Facebook personalizes its trends to each user, and we tracked results only during work hours, there’s no guarantee that we caught every hoax. But the observation that Facebook periodically trends fake news still stands — if anything, we’ve underestimated how often it occurs.
You said it : inconclusive. What is important is the ratio. If you reviewed 20 articles and 5 are fake, that's horrible. If it is 5 out of 500, it needs improvement but it is not so bad.
A travesty is not a tragedy, in theater it is quite the opposite in fact. It comes from the French word "travestir", coming from latin "trans" (cross) and "vestire" (dressing). And in French, it means exactly that.
Environmental travesty... now I have images of drag queens running in the woods...
BASIC (or some modern variant of it) is still a good language for beginners. And by beginners I mean like kids, not like adults making a professional reconversion.
I rediscovered it in the mid 2000s with Blitz BASIC and it is so simple. No boilerplate code, no need to understand higher concepts to actually do something. You want to draw a square, just call the instruction to draw a square. You can easily make a playable game in a couple of hours with this.
It is nice having a clean language like Python but nothing beats actually making something. And I find that BASIC offers much less friction than Python.
I think that "The Hobbit" should get the gold. 3x3 hours for a freakin' kids book. It is 5 times shorter than the Lord of the Rings, so logically, it should have been made into a standard 1h30-2h movie.
I think that's the problem with movie theaters in the US. Why the fuck do you have to eat or drink during a movie? You can't even eat properly in a theater. It's dark and there is no table, and yeah, the bladder problem. I guess it is a cultural thing but personally, I think that eating in theaters is unhealthy, annoying to others and not even enjoyable. I much prefer eating in a real restaurant before or after the movie.
According to some interview, it seems that Linus is quite tolerant of "morons" like you. He knows kernel dev is hard and he doesn't expect newcomers to be perfect. He is, however, much less lenient with seasoned kernel developers and recognized experts, because they should know better.
The biggest reason the Vive beats the Oculus Rift in most reviews is because of the controllers and room scale VR. For the headset itself, Oculus has a slight edge (more comfortable). The proper controllers for the Oculus are arriving now, and it seems like it is also capable of room scale, so maybe things will change.
The problem is that when you try to scratch the front side, the force transfers to the back side and cause a visible and permanent scratch even though the front side stays smooth. It is shown in the video.
Usually, by "customer" we mean the people who pay for something. AFAIK the Yahoo e-mail service is free, so its users aren't customers. Yahoo customers are advertisers, or people who make transactions on its e-commerce platform. And Yahoo don't control their e-mails unless they are also using Yahoo mail. So Yahoo cannot really monitor their incoming messages.
What's up with this "freedom" propaganda in the US? In most of the freedom indices, the US is unremarkable compared to other western countries. It is not bad, but among these countries, only the US seem to brag about it so much. I suppose it is some kind of political strategy to justify anything.
Well, they they partnered with Google before and I think they still do. That's where the money is coming from, mostly. The Microsoft partnership is just Mozilla stirring competition. In the end the only thing that changes is the default search engine and you can switch it back to the one you prefer.
The CA model is broken. The fundamental difference between a CA and a web of trust is that in a CA model, only the CA signs your certificate while in a WoT, the certificate can be signed by as many signers as you want, which mean you don't have a single point of failure. For example StartCom may not be worth your entire trust but it is still better than nothing. And complimented by, say, a few independent, free authorities, it starts getting good because the attacker now have several different targets. This is not an option with CA as we have now, that's blind trust or nothing.
The C-- I know was intended as a portable assembly, mostly for compilers to use as an intermediate language. No "come from" or "do for a while" ala intercal but a variety of low level operations and a low level type system. I found it interesting but it never took off.
You leak my personal information, you're a CXX, you go to jail for 2 years.
CXX? Are.cpp and.cc safe? And while leaks can sometimes be traced to bugs in source files, jailing them is not the solution. Jailing the running process may be a good idea though, but it is better do it before it starts leaking data.
You know the old joke where the curator of the monastery came up from the vault with the original texts and cried "Dammit, in the original it read 'celebRate'!"
Or the first line of the Bible, saying "The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons, places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred."
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It is not a dogma, it is the most likely answer compatible with the law of physics as we know them. ...) and new observations (gravitational waves, neutrinos, ...) will allow us to go further.
How they got to this number is actually fascinating. How we combined methods to get further and further measurements, which, given the speed of light, allow us to tell the age of what we are seeing. How we observed the movement of things and derived equations which allowed us to go back in time and find the singularity which corresponds to the beginning of the universe. How we backed our research using independent observations.
We don't know everything yet, in fact we don't know the real beginning of the universe, 13.8 billion year is actually the age of the universe that can be described by the current laws of physics. Maybe better theories (string theory, LQG,
Or maybe the 13.8 billion number is just completely wrong. It is unlikely considering the pile of evidence but who knows. That scientific results could be wrong is part of what makes science science.
Or, you can do without that unity crap and get the minimal install with only the things that are required to boot the system and install the rest. No graphics but you can install it later.
http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/net...
The good thing with this is that you have a very customizable system but it is still Ubuntu, so it tends to be well supported by third parties. Debian has a minimal install too and it is pretty much interchangeable with Ubuntu.
... ads evading our time and space ...
If only they could do that...
An absolute number like "5" or "8" is meaningless. Even the most serious newspapers get hoaxed or lie sometimes.
The only thing I found in TFA is this:
Our results shouldn’t be taken as conclusive: Since Facebook personalizes its trends to each user, and we tracked results only during work hours, there’s no guarantee that we caught every hoax. But the observation that Facebook periodically trends fake news still stands — if anything, we’ve underestimated how often it occurs.
You said it : inconclusive. What is important is the ratio. If you reviewed 20 articles and 5 are fake, that's horrible. If it is 5 out of 500, it needs improvement but it is not so bad.
A travesty is not a tragedy, in theater it is quite the opposite in fact.
It comes from the French word "travestir", coming from latin "trans" (cross) and "vestire" (dressing). And in French, it means exactly that.
Environmental travesty... now I have images of drag queens running in the woods...
BASIC (or some modern variant of it) is still a good language for beginners. And by beginners I mean like kids, not like adults making a professional reconversion.
I rediscovered it in the mid 2000s with Blitz BASIC and it is so simple. No boilerplate code, no need to understand higher concepts to actually do something. You want to draw a square, just call the instruction to draw a square. You can easily make a playable game in a couple of hours with this.
It is nice having a clean language like Python but nothing beats actually making something. And I find that BASIC offers much less friction than Python.
Audiophile gear had this for years!
Muons, which are more massive than elections, give more bass presence and smoother transitions.
Well, that's a very convoluted way of saying they covered the path with glow-in-the-dark paint.
I think that "The Hobbit" should get the gold.
3x3 hours for a freakin' kids book.
It is 5 times shorter than the Lord of the Rings, so logically, it should have been made into a standard 1h30-2h movie.
The food mediocre and overpriced.
I think that's the problem with movie theaters in the US.
Why the fuck do you have to eat or drink during a movie? You can't even eat properly in a theater. It's dark and there is no table, and yeah, the bladder problem.
I guess it is a cultural thing but personally, I think that eating in theaters is unhealthy, annoying to others and not even enjoyable. I much prefer eating in a real restaurant before or after the movie.
According to some interview, it seems that Linus is quite tolerant of "morons" like you.
He knows kernel dev is hard and he doesn't expect newcomers to be perfect. He is, however, much less lenient with seasoned kernel developers and recognized experts, because they should know better.
The biggest reason the Vive beats the Oculus Rift in most reviews is because of the controllers and room scale VR. For the headset itself, Oculus has a slight edge (more comfortable).
The proper controllers for the Oculus are arriving now, and it seems like it is also capable of room scale, so maybe things will change.
The problem is that when you try to scratch the front side, the force transfers to the back side and cause a visible and permanent scratch even though the front side stays smooth. It is shown in the video.
From a distance he couldn't tell whether the car was driving itself, or its human operator had made a mistake.
It is not even sure that the car was self driving.
Usually, by "customer" we mean the people who pay for something.
AFAIK the Yahoo e-mail service is free, so its users aren't customers.
Yahoo customers are advertisers, or people who make transactions on its e-commerce platform. And Yahoo don't control their e-mails unless they are also using Yahoo mail. So Yahoo cannot really monitor their incoming messages.
What's up with this "freedom" propaganda in the US?
In most of the freedom indices, the US is unremarkable compared to other western countries. It is not bad, but among these countries, only the US seem to brag about it so much. I suppose it is some kind of political strategy to justify anything.
Well, they they partnered with Google before and I think they still do. That's where the money is coming from, mostly.
The Microsoft partnership is just Mozilla stirring competition. In the end the only thing that changes is the default search engine and you can switch it back to the one you prefer.
A datajack? You are clearly lacking courage.
Do you have to actually use the watch or is it possible to sell it back the moment you receive it?
In the U.S., the software is the *ONLY* thing not made in China.
That's because it is made in India.
Firefox OS is free software.
If Google wanted it, they would have picked it up like they picked Webkit.
The CA model is broken.
The fundamental difference between a CA and a web of trust is that in a CA model, only the CA signs your certificate while in a WoT, the certificate can be signed by as many signers as you want, which mean you don't have a single point of failure.
For example StartCom may not be worth your entire trust but it is still better than nothing. And complimented by, say, a few independent, free authorities, it starts getting good because the attacker now have several different targets. This is not an option with CA as we have now, that's blind trust or nothing.
The C-- I know was intended as a portable assembly, mostly for compilers to use as an intermediate language. No "come from" or "do for a while" ala intercal but a variety of low level operations and a low level type system.
I found it interesting but it never took off.
You leak my personal information, you're a CXX, you go to jail for 2 years.
CXX? Are .cpp and .cc safe?
And while leaks can sometimes be traced to bugs in source files, jailing them is not the solution. Jailing the running process may be a good idea though, but it is better do it before it starts leaking data.
You know the old joke where the curator of the monastery came up from the vault with the original texts and cried "Dammit, in the original it read 'celebRate'!"
Or the first line of the Bible, saying "The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons, places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred."