The inventor named it the "Perepiteia", so that kinda shoots your idea.
How does that shoot down that idea? There's noting in the word "perepiteia" to suggest anything perpetual. Yes, they both start with "per", but so does "peroxide", and that doesn't indicate the inventor thinks it'll make you blond. The name is actually quite appropriate, whether he's getting extra energy out of the machine or not, since the machine reacts in the opposite what expected under the tests (which is what the word means -- for ones actions to have the opposite of the effect intended).
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This article is ridiculous. Some noob spouting about anecdotal problems he had with a Circuit City computer does not inspire respect. His biggest issue? Facebook doesnt work because facebook's website is broken. But its Vista's fault. Is this some sort of joke?
Actually, he himself says that's not Vista's fault.
Has the slashdot demographic decayed this much?
Nope, people who skim an article and post "rebuttals" that completely mischaracterize what was said have been with us all along. You are part of a tradition that goes back to the beginning of Slashdot itself. (Trust me, I've been reading that long -- my user number is as high as it is because I read for quite a while before finally spotting something I felt like responding to and signed up for an account.) Some things never change...
Shyy's current focus is on the aerodynamics of flexible wings related to micro air vehicles with wingspans between 1 and 3 inches.
So, yeah. Congrats on refraining from making clueless comments about how pilots don't do so hot in such maneuvers (what pilots?) or how these kinds of maneuvers are possibly because swallows are smaller than airplanes (not the kind this article is about), unlike other people who clearly didn't read the article either, but feel compelled to explain to us what's wrong with it without having even read it.
One way to spot a rookie is that they think whether something is OO or not is relevant to whether it's efficient or even well-designed or not.
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How common is it?
More common than it should be.
Do you have data?
The book in question provides one example. Since there should be no examples (see RFC 2606), the existence of one example provides sufficient data to prove the previous assertion to be true.
If the theater only has one movie, it's true that you have a choice of watching it or not, but it's not true that you have a choice of movies to watch.
I think the OP was complaining about the lack of choices for software to buy, not about the ability to choose to refrain from buying computers. Assuming you've decided to give up on the old abacus and join the 21st century, if you walk into most stores, yes, you are forced to buy Microsoft products. You only "choice" here is Hobson's Choice.
Although this is true of most stores, it's getting better. I'm seeing "Apple Stores" springing up inside more and more these days. Still not a lot of choice but better than none.
Closer to four billion years ago (at least 3.7 billion in any case). And the conclusion here is not that life evolved in ice, but that it may have. It's possible. That has less significance for history on Earth as it does on other worlds...
Not that it actually works very well. I get much better framerates rebooting into Windows than I do running my games under Parallels. I love Parallels to death, but not for gaming. Gaming is why Boot Camp is a godsend...
i personally think sexual preference is NOT hardwired though it does stem from prepubescent experiences.
Based on... ?
There's fairly obvious evolutionary reasons why the two would go hand in hand. The fact that the gender studies cited don't note any discrepancy between the gender reversals and the appropriate sexual preference does tend to confirm that link (if they were unrelated, you'd expect less correlation with "normal" choices in the examples). It's not that what you're claiming isn't possible, it'd just require some better evidence to be considered a reasonable position.
Given the evidence cited, and lacking evidence to the contrary, there's just no good reason to think that. Personally, I've always considered the fact that someone considers it a matter of choice as proof that either (a) they've never tried, or (b) they're actually bisexual. Bisexuals get to choose. The rest of us are pretty much incapable. Bisexuals may have a preference, most people have a requirement.
This is unfortunately true. An animal that has actually overcome its instincts of avoidance (often due to unfortunate necessity) and killed a human becomes much more likely to do it again. There are no animals that, in the wild, are naturally mankillers, but there have been many documented instances of certain individuals becoming mankillers. Whatever the circumstances were and how unfair they were that provoked the first attack, once an individual animal has killed a man successfully, it becomes much more likely to do it again and again. Sadly, it's usually some stupid man who's turned the animal into a mankiller, but the fact remains that the animal now is a mankiller, and needs to be dealt with accordingly. I don't mourn for the idiot who provokes and gets killed in the first place, but one must deal realistically with the animal to prevent future innocent victims.
I know that after a while, I'm complete unaware of the actual movements of my hand and the mouse -- the pointer on the screen moves in response to my thoughts like any other body part, without me thinking about the individual pieces that need to be moved to make it happen. If I'm really deep into it, I lose any real sense of the keyboard, too, but that's when I'm in deep...
*nods* Mandrake Linux (or whatever they're calling themselves these days) owes its existence to this. I used it for quite a while before switching to Debian.
Yeah, unfortunately, as a desktop OS, Linux is still only 90% there. Which means it looks nice at first, you can even fall in love with it, but after you've been using it for ten hours, you reach a moment where you either go down to the command line and invoke the arcane incantation (e.g. "cp whatever/media/usb && sync"), or you bang your head on the monitor for a few hours, then reach for the XP reinstall disk.
I'm not sure that hydrogen is really that dangerous, with proper engineering control you can eliminate accumulations of flammable quantities in the ship and end up with the diesel or jet A used for the propulsion being as likely to explode as the hydrogen.
Yup. I'm failing to see how the Hindenburg tragedy was "inevitable", given that it was, let's see, the 129th or 130th airship built by the Zeppelin Company, and none of the others met such a spectacular end.
It's also a fact that we regularly deal with much more dangerous materials in our technology. The solution is to engineer to minimize the danger. Accidents still happen. Planes have crashed, killing everyone onboard (unlike the Hindenburg, where most of the people onboard got off in time and survived, since a burning hydrogen filled airship is still a lot safer than a burning 747, merely containing hydrogen instead of the much more dangerous jet-fuel), but we engineer better and minimize the risks. All evidence points to a hydrogen-filled airship, even using yestercentury's technology, being safer in a crash/fire than a passenger jet. Today, we could do even better.
*nods* The Intel move is what did it for me as well. When I saw the thing booting into Windows, and compared and saw it was a reasonably priced computer (not any more expensive than an equivalent Dell) and factored in the quality (most realiable computer I ever bought was a Mac SE/30 back in the late 80's. It still runs, in fact, although since I haven't really been using it for the last three or four years I don't really count those, but I was using it as recently as 2004, when I finally retired it as my mailserver when I couldn't get a more recent version of Debian installed on it due to lack of memory -- I hadn't used Mac software in many years, but the hardware was undeniably top-notch). I decided that if I didn't like OS X (I hadn't used Mac OS since 7.5, so I had no idea what a modern Mac was like), I could just use it the same way I'd use any other commodity PC, and be happy with an Apple-made computer regardless of what software I ran on it.
As it turns out, I liked OS X a lot, and I've since stopped using Linux on the desktop entirely. It's still on all my servers, but OS X is everything I was waiting for desktop Linux to become. Linux was always 90% of the way there, but they could never seem to close that last gap. OS X is what I always wanted Linux to be. Why keep waiting when I can have what I want now?
Or you could spend a third or a half of that on a powerful Mac desktop. Or you could spend a tenth of that on a cheap Mac desktop (I've seen last-gen Mac Mini's in the $300 range).
Um, where does it say it has tracking hardware? The summary implies it has the opposite. (Clue: "Tracking hardware" is something that broadcasts your position to others. This is the opposite of what GPS or other positioning technology does. I fail to see anything in the summary which implies this device has any kind of tracking hardware.)
1+1=2 seems irrefutable only because you never see it fail and can't conceive of a situation where it fails.
No, both of those are utterly unrelated to the reason "1+1=2" seems irrefutable. "1+1=2" seems irrefutable for the same reason "A bachelor is an unmarried man" seems irrefutable -- it's true by definition. If it doesn't seem utterly irrefutable to you, then you don't understand what the words mean.
Analytic truths don't seem irrefutable because you never see them fail. Analytic truths don't depending on "seeing" anything, they don't answer to observational tests, they're easily provable or falsifiable from your armchair, because they're not statement about the world.
*nods* "1+1=2" is true by definition. Synthetic truths could easily vary, but analytic truths aren't subject to such change. Sure, you can change what "two" means, but then you're making a different statement entirely, not falsifying the original statement.
You could argue like Plato that the mathematics we've discovered are 'true' because they exist independent of our having discovered them (i.e. PI). I'm not even 100% sure of that.
So, you think it's possible that the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of a circle was different before we came along and discovered it? o.O
What a funky geometry the universe must have had before we came along to "create" pi, the Pythagorean Theorem, etc...
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How does that shoot down that idea? There's noting in the word "perepiteia" to suggest anything perpetual. Yes, they both start with "per", but so does "peroxide", and that doesn't indicate the inventor thinks it'll make you blond. The name is actually quite appropriate, whether he's getting extra energy out of the machine or not, since the machine reacts in the opposite what expected under the tests (which is what the word means -- for ones actions to have the opposite of the effect intended).
Actually, he himself says that's not Vista's fault.
Nope, people who skim an article and post "rebuttals" that completely mischaracterize what was said have been with us all along. You are part of a tradition that goes back to the beginning of Slashdot itself. (Trust me, I've been reading that long -- my user number is as high as it is because I read for quite a while before finally spotting something I felt like responding to and signed up for an account.) Some things never change...
Uh huh...
One way to spot a rookie is that they think whether something is OO or not is relevant to whether it's efficient or even well-designed or not.
More common than it should be.
The book in question provides one example. Since there should be no examples (see RFC 2606), the existence of one example provides sufficient data to prove the previous assertion to be true.
Ah yes, Hobson's Choice...
If the theater only has one movie, it's true that you have a choice of watching it or not, but it's not true that you have a choice of movies to watch.
I think the OP was complaining about the lack of choices for software to buy, not about the ability to choose to refrain from buying computers. Assuming you've decided to give up on the old abacus and join the 21st century, if you walk into most stores, yes, you are forced to buy Microsoft products. You only "choice" here is Hobson's Choice.
Although this is true of most stores, it's getting better. I'm seeing "Apple Stores" springing up inside more and more these days. Still not a lot of choice but better than none.
Closer to four billion years ago (at least 3.7 billion in any case). And the conclusion here is not that life evolved in ice, but that it may have. It's possible. That has less significance for history on Earth as it does on other worlds...
Not that it actually works very well. I get much better framerates rebooting into Windows than I do running my games under Parallels. I love Parallels to death, but not for gaming. Gaming is why Boot Camp is a godsend...
i personally think sexual preference is NOT hardwired though it does stem from prepubescent experiences.
Based on... ?
There's fairly obvious evolutionary reasons why the two would go hand in hand. The fact that the gender studies cited don't note any discrepancy between the gender reversals and the appropriate sexual preference does tend to confirm that link (if they were unrelated, you'd expect less correlation with "normal" choices in the examples). It's not that what you're claiming isn't possible, it'd just require some better evidence to be considered a reasonable position.
Given the evidence cited, and lacking evidence to the contrary, there's just no good reason to think that. Personally, I've always considered the fact that someone considers it a matter of choice as proof that either (a) they've never tried, or (b) they're actually bisexual. Bisexuals get to choose. The rest of us are pretty much incapable. Bisexuals may have a preference, most people have a requirement.
This is unfortunately true. An animal that has actually overcome its instincts of avoidance (often due to unfortunate necessity) and killed a human becomes much more likely to do it again. There are no animals that, in the wild, are naturally mankillers, but there have been many documented instances of certain individuals becoming mankillers. Whatever the circumstances were and how unfair they were that provoked the first attack, once an individual animal has killed a man successfully, it becomes much more likely to do it again and again. Sadly, it's usually some stupid man who's turned the animal into a mankiller, but the fact remains that the animal now is a mankiller, and needs to be dealt with accordingly. I don't mourn for the idiot who provokes and gets killed in the first place, but one must deal realistically with the animal to prevent future innocent victims.
I know that after a while, I'm complete unaware of the actual movements of my hand and the mouse -- the pointer on the screen moves in response to my thoughts like any other body part, without me thinking about the individual pieces that need to be moved to make it happen. If I'm really deep into it, I lose any real sense of the keyboard, too, but that's when I'm in deep...
*nods* Mandrake Linux (or whatever they're calling themselves these days) owes its existence to this. I used it for quite a while before switching to Debian.
No no, you're confusing Zombie Nietzsche with Rob Zombie. :p
It's in the same solar system as us. Still only one sun in it, so yes, like all the planets, it has a lit side and an unlit side.
Two points:
(1) The sun's outer atmosphere is already in the millions of degrees.
(2) Our planet orbits within the sun's outer atmosphere.
Frightening, ain't it? Old coders never die... and they're reading what you write right now. :p
Yeah, unfortunately, as a desktop OS, Linux is still only 90% there. Which means it looks nice at first, you can even fall in love with it, but after you've been using it for ten hours, you reach a moment where you either go down to the command line and invoke the arcane incantation (e.g. "cp whatever /media/usb && sync"), or you bang your head on the monitor for a few hours, then reach for the XP reinstall disk.
Yup. I'm failing to see how the Hindenburg tragedy was "inevitable", given that it was, let's see, the 129th or 130th airship built by the Zeppelin Company, and none of the others met such a spectacular end.
It's also a fact that we regularly deal with much more dangerous materials in our technology. The solution is to engineer to minimize the danger. Accidents still happen. Planes have crashed, killing everyone onboard (unlike the Hindenburg, where most of the people onboard got off in time and survived, since a burning hydrogen filled airship is still a lot safer than a burning 747, merely containing hydrogen instead of the much more dangerous jet-fuel), but we engineer better and minimize the risks. All evidence points to a hydrogen-filled airship, even using yestercentury's technology, being safer in a crash/fire than a passenger jet. Today, we could do even better.
*nods* The Intel move is what did it for me as well. When I saw the thing booting into Windows, and compared and saw it was a reasonably priced computer (not any more expensive than an equivalent Dell) and factored in the quality (most realiable computer I ever bought was a Mac SE/30 back in the late 80's. It still runs, in fact, although since I haven't really been using it for the last three or four years I don't really count those, but I was using it as recently as 2004, when I finally retired it as my mailserver when I couldn't get a more recent version of Debian installed on it due to lack of memory -- I hadn't used Mac software in many years, but the hardware was undeniably top-notch). I decided that if I didn't like OS X (I hadn't used Mac OS since 7.5, so I had no idea what a modern Mac was like), I could just use it the same way I'd use any other commodity PC, and be happy with an Apple-made computer regardless of what software I ran on it.
As it turns out, I liked OS X a lot, and I've since stopped using Linux on the desktop entirely. It's still on all my servers, but OS X is everything I was waiting for desktop Linux to become. Linux was always 90% of the way there, but they could never seem to close that last gap. OS X is what I always wanted Linux to be. Why keep waiting when I can have what I want now?
Or you could spend a third or a half of that on a powerful Mac desktop. Or you could spend a tenth of that on a cheap Mac desktop (I've seen last-gen Mac Mini's in the $300 range).
Um, where does it say it has tracking hardware? The summary implies it has the opposite. (Clue: "Tracking hardware" is something that broadcasts your position to others. This is the opposite of what GPS or other positioning technology does. I fail to see anything in the summary which implies this device has any kind of tracking hardware.)
No, both of those are utterly unrelated to the reason "1+1=2" seems irrefutable. "1+1=2" seems irrefutable for the same reason "A bachelor is an unmarried man" seems irrefutable -- it's true by definition. If it doesn't seem utterly irrefutable to you, then you don't understand what the words mean.
Analytic truths don't seem irrefutable because you never see them fail. Analytic truths don't depending on "seeing" anything, they don't answer to observational tests, they're easily provable or falsifiable from your armchair, because they're not statement about the world.
*nods* "1+1=2" is true by definition. Synthetic truths could easily vary, but analytic truths aren't subject to such change. Sure, you can change what "two" means, but then you're making a different statement entirely, not falsifying the original statement.
So, you think it's possible that the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of a circle was different before we came along and discovered it? o.O
What a funky geometry the universe must have had before we came along to "create" pi, the Pythagorean Theorem, etc...