If he really was a scientist the first thing he'd do is ask a friend to hop in a sailboat and watch for a few hours, when the sailboat vanished over the horizon, exactly as predicted, he'd go "huh, so I guess the earth is round after all".
The answer I've seen to this is quite clever (FSVO clever) - Light rays are heavy, so they "fall down" over distance, giving us the "illusion" of a round Earth.
Funny, the illusion gives a precisely equal circumference than all other indirect measurements...
at which point he either is debunked by his own evidence or changes his opinion.
”Oh, look what a strange optical illusion I found up here!”
Have you ever personally verified that the Earth is round? Few have.
Not in a single shot, but accumulating experiences from various trusted parties - I have met people living in Asia or Oceania in Europe and North America. We have discussed itineraries. They have sometimes travelled eastwards, sometimes westwards. So have I (flying from North America). The only way this would work is with a round Earth. It does not prove it is almost-spherical, though (FWIW it could be a cylinder).
During the peak of growth of Islam, there wasn't an "islamic culture" per se, there was a set of rules, a phylosophy. As it grew (by the means of military or cultural conquests), it *absorbed* and assimilated a lot of what was there before them. Islamic countries became the beacon of development of the world during the dark ages, not because science sprang out in a void,but because they conquered the cultural capitals of the South and East of the Mediterranean. Baghdad, Alexandria, Damascus, Córdoba, and so many other centers of englightenement were *already* important cities when they were conquered. Islam didn't arrive there to destroy their greatness.
Man, I *knew* this pressure they put on us to publish on well-ranked peer-reviewed academic journals was bad for health. My head hurts so much, it's going to explode!
Yes. Google has been blocked on chinese great firewall for quite a long time. That's why their android phones have special China only models. Normal android phones are utterly crippled in China.
You mean, they perform as badly as if they were Replicant / Cyanogen?
Of course - You can revoke it as well. Everybody that holds both the private and the public parts can issue a revocation certificate! (and somebody has... Lets assume it was Adobe!)
I don't recall anybody saying that. In this sense, capitalism is very much like democracy: Full of problems, but the best system we've come up with so far. Indeed, capitalism does democratize wealth unlike any other system that has come before it, and any other known system to this day. People who talk about how we need to replace capitalism always fail to explain what it would need to be replaced with. Most of them answer socialism, but you don't need to look hard at all to find out why socialism is terrible, and only the mentally blind can't see that.
Capitalism and socialism are not binary, it's not like a society chooses between them. It's a continuum. Also, it's not unidimensional, there are many other possibilities and qualifiers to which you could "slide" the description of a society. In full capitalism, there would be *no* state regulation of anything. *No* state-provided services. *No* minimum society support network for those in need (either by the sin of being poor, or after being hit by a natural disaster). That has also failed miserably.
I wasn't part of this book or the project that sustains it. However, I have edited two books for my university, one of which is a text book for the Operating Systems subject. They are both available for free, under permissive (CC-BY) licenses. Why? Not because students are my product, but because I have a full-time income by my university, and I wanted to live up to it. Of course, having written a text book looks nice when doing performance evaluations and such, but it was not a main motivator - I did it because we needed it. The phrase you are referring to is true when you talk about a company's main means of income. When it comes to the production of knowledge, the creative human mind is *much* more than just economics.
Having arguments that explain why a model failed is neither leftist nor rightist. I expect economics students to also understand why the USSR didn't work out in the end. Prospective economists should learn what are the main flaws in any of the available world-views (not like there are only two, but lets keep the oversimplification for the sake of the argument). If you learn economics in a way that *doesn't* criticize either absolute free market or absolute state-control, you are just getting indoctrinated.
For full disclosure on this, I work managing tech at the Economics Research Institute in Mexico's main university, UNAM; our students get their fair share of doctrine -- Marxist, mostly. No, it's not 1870s Marxism, we live in 2017 like the rest of you, but there is still a lot of appeal of the idea of a fairer society.
Well, their terms of service could include the fact that it's mandatory for owners to ship their boxes to Argentina, Australia or South Africa by April, and have it sent back by October.
Jerry is one of the few names I clearly remember from the many years I followed Byte. As a young, non-English-speaking boy, Byte is partly responsible for my interest in computers — and for my domain of English, mainly of a technical variety. So, in the later years I didn't like so much Jerry's viewpoints, but he was a clear influence in my life, and in my choice of career. Anyway... Thanks for all the fish.
It depends what you mean by "to run". Some research institutes publish their own journal. Being its chief editor is a honor for the designated scholar - And, if the journal is good and visible, gives them quite a bit of exposure, which translates into academic "points".
This machine was designed by an engineer for BEL (Bharat Electronics Limited) who is very famous for his writings. He goes by the pen name Sujatha and has written wonderful science fiction, mystery novels, humorous articles and some formal literature and formal poetry.
Science fiction such as, "The intelligent, autonomous voting machines". Mystery novels such as, "Mr. Prime Minister gets 115% of the votes". Humorous articles such as "Security and privacy in e-voting systems". Formal literature such as "An essay on popular but stupid ideas". Formal poetry such as "A B C, I hack thee!"
Reminds me of MacOS emulation for powerpc/m68k. Sounds good in theory but becomes extremely slow in practice.
This is not just emulating API calls like Wine or containing supervisor mode like most virtualization systems, this is machine language translation on the fly (mame).
Worse than slow. At least, the reason to migrate from m68k to Power was better performance, and a cleaner architecture for the future of the platform. And while ARM is much cleaner than Intel... The fastest ARMs now are way slower than their x86 counterparts — And that won't change, because they were _designed_ to be so. ARM is a clean-RISC architecture, oriented to low electrical consumption (and low heat dissipation). Not intended to be a match performance-wise for x86 behemoths.
When you write $350, I have to read MX$6500. When you write $850, I translate to roughly MX$16,000. I have a net income of roughly MX$25,000 a month (little bit over US$1000), and I am well trained and paid in the range of the upper 10% of Mexico's population. So, while this week's sale in Best Buy seems like a good deal, it's not something I'd rush out to buy. And, the price you paid three years ago? No, not by a long shot. I do own a projector and screen combo (that would make something more or less that size) and often use it to watch movies, but the reasons for buying it was not purely entertainment.
I was flipping yesterday through last bimester's edition of the IEEE Security and Privacy magazine (yes, I know, reading dead-tree magazines confirms me as an old guy). There are two articles very much related to the quesitons the OP brings up:
IOW it won't be long before your BD player serial number is tied to your monitor/TV serial number, and you get a one-time key when you purchase a movie on disc or download that ties it forever to *that* BD player connected to *that* monitor. So you'll be back to "pointing a camera at the screen" levels of copying.
...Add to this a QR-like fragment appearing on a piece of the screen (probably away from action, so it's least noticeable by us slow humans) for a frame every hundred, instructing compliant digital cameras to consider that content as illegitimate and not allow clips to be over n seconds long...
If you "just" need a 55" screen, you have focused on a very very very very very narrow proportion of people. If you add to it the need to have a good sight, you have halved-or-worse the number. I would not expect more than 1% of the public qualifies. So, yes, why bother?
Several activities were carried out this week to celebrate "Intellectual Property day", April 26. I usually complain that it falls just a day before my birthday. This time, our never-beloved-nor-believed judicial system granted me a very welcome birthday present. Thanks!
The reason for the Senate and Electoral college is to protect against tyranny by a minority of states with a higher population against a majority of states with less population. Why do you idiots continue to repeat propaganda when it's so easily disproved? Crack a damn history book instead of smoking it!
Funny how the USA is nowadays the only place in the world with such a retrograde, ridiculous electoral system. Most (democratic) countries had it during the 1800s, when travelling was so long and difficult, and there was a place for "electors". Every country without a brain-dead Congress looking just to perpetuate itself and offer a fake democracy when you have only a party duopoly went away to a true "one person, one vote" system.
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The answer I've seen to this is quite clever (FSVO clever) - Light rays are heavy, so they "fall down" over distance, giving us the "illusion" of a round Earth.
Funny, the illusion gives a precisely equal circumference than all other indirect measurements...
”Oh, look what a strange optical illusion I found up here!”
Not in a single shot, but accumulating experiences from various trusted parties - I have met people living in Asia or Oceania in Europe and North America. We have discussed itineraries. They have sometimes travelled eastwards, sometimes westwards. So have I (flying from North America). The only way this would work is with a round Earth. It does not prove it is almost-spherical, though (FWIW it could be a cylinder).
https://turnoff.us/geek/smart-...
In a country with an absolutist rule, what does "citizenship" grant you? If the prize is so little, even robots are entitled to it.
Well, the same thing is forbidden in Judaism and in some branches of Christianism. But Islamic geometric arts are way more developed than either.
During the peak of growth of Islam, there wasn't an "islamic culture" per se, there was a set of rules, a phylosophy. As it grew (by the means of military or cultural conquests), it *absorbed* and assimilated a lot of what was there before them. Islamic countries became the beacon of development of the world during the dark ages, not because science sprang out in a void,but because they conquered the cultural capitals of the South and East of the Mediterranean. Baghdad, Alexandria, Damascus, Córdoba, and so many other centers of englightenement were *already* important cities when they were conquered. Islam didn't arrive there to destroy their greatness.
Man, I *knew* this pressure they put on us to publish on well-ranked peer-reviewed academic journals was bad for health. My head hurts so much, it's going to explode!
You mean, they perform as badly as if they were Replicant / Cyanogen?
Of course - You can revoke it as well. Everybody that holds both the private and the public parts can issue a revocation certificate!
(and somebody has... Lets assume it was Adobe!)
Capitalism and socialism are not binary, it's not like a society chooses between them. It's a continuum. Also, it's not unidimensional, there are many other possibilities and qualifiers to which you could "slide" the description of a society.
In full capitalism, there would be *no* state regulation of anything. *No* state-provided services. *No* minimum society support network for those in need (either by the sin of being poor, or after being hit by a natural disaster). That has also failed miserably.
I wasn't part of this book or the project that sustains it. However, I have edited two books for my university, one of which is a text book for the Operating Systems subject. They are both available for free, under permissive (CC-BY) licenses. Why? Not because students are my product, but because I have a full-time income by my university, and I wanted to live up to it. Of course, having written a text book looks nice when doing performance evaluations and such, but it was not a main motivator - I did it because we needed it.
The phrase you are referring to is true when you talk about a company's main means of income. When it comes to the production of knowledge, the creative human mind is *much* more than just economics.
Having arguments that explain why a model failed is neither leftist nor rightist. I expect economics students to also understand why the USSR didn't work out in the end. Prospective economists should learn what are the main flaws in any of the available world-views (not like there are only two, but lets keep the oversimplification for the sake of the argument). If you learn economics in a way that *doesn't* criticize either absolute free market or absolute state-control, you are just getting indoctrinated.
For full disclosure on this, I work managing tech at the Economics Research Institute in Mexico's main university, UNAM; our students get their fair share of doctrine -- Marxist, mostly. No, it's not 1870s Marxism, we live in 2017 like the rest of you, but there is still a lot of appeal of the idea of a fairer society.
Well, their terms of service could include the fact that it's mandatory for owners to ship their boxes to Argentina, Australia or South Africa by April, and have it sent back by October.
Jerry is one of the few names I clearly remember from the many years I followed Byte. As a young, non-English-speaking boy, Byte is partly responsible for my interest in computers — and for my domain of English, mainly of a technical variety.
So, in the later years I didn't like so much Jerry's viewpoints, but he was a clear influence in my life, and in my choice of career.
Anyway... Thanks for all the fish.
...The average user as far as demographics go?
Most of us bothering to /. are seen as statistical noise.
It depends what you mean by "to run". Some research institutes publish their own journal. Being its chief editor is a honor for the designated scholar - And, if the journal is good and visible, gives them quite a bit of exposure, which translates into academic "points".
This machine was designed by an engineer for BEL (Bharat Electronics Limited) who is very famous for his writings. He goes by the pen name Sujatha and has written wonderful science fiction, mystery novels, humorous articles and some formal literature and formal poetry.
Science fiction such as, "The intelligent, autonomous voting machines".
Mystery novels such as, "Mr. Prime Minister gets 115% of the votes".
Humorous articles such as "Security and privacy in e-voting systems".
Formal literature such as "An essay on popular but stupid ideas".
Formal poetry such as "A B C, I hack thee!"
Reminds me of MacOS emulation for powerpc/m68k. Sounds good in theory but becomes extremely slow in practice.
This is not just emulating API calls like Wine or containing supervisor mode like most virtualization systems, this is machine language translation on the fly (mame).
Worse than slow. At least, the reason to migrate from m68k to Power was better performance, and a cleaner architecture for the future of the platform. And while ARM is much cleaner than Intel... The fastest ARMs now are way slower than their x86 counterparts — And that won't change, because they were _designed_ to be so. ARM is a clean-RISC architecture, oriented to low electrical consumption (and low heat dissipation). Not intended to be a match performance-wise for x86 behemoths.
When you write $350, I have to read MX$6500. When you write $850, I translate to roughly MX$16,000. I have a net income of roughly MX$25,000 a month (little bit over US$1000), and I am well trained and paid in the range of the upper 10% of Mexico's population.
So, while this week's sale in Best Buy seems like a good deal, it's not something I'd rush out to buy. And, the price you paid three years ago? No, not by a long shot.
I do own a projector and screen combo (that would make something more or less that size) and often use it to watch movies, but the reasons for buying it was not purely entertainment.
I was flipping yesterday through last bimester's edition of the IEEE Security and Privacy magazine (yes, I know, reading dead-tree magazines confirms me as an old guy). There are two articles very much related to the quesitons the OP brings up:
- Security Implications of Permission Models in Smart-Home Application Frameworks
- How Internet Resources Might Be Helping You Develop Faster but Less Securely
IOW it won't be long before your BD player serial number is tied to your monitor/TV serial number, and you get a one-time key when you purchase a movie on disc or download that ties it forever to *that* BD player connected to *that* monitor. So you'll be back to "pointing a camera at the screen" levels of copying.
...Add to this a QR-like fragment appearing on a piece of the screen (probably away from action, so it's least noticeable by us slow humans) for a frame every hundred, instructing compliant digital cameras to consider that content as illegitimate and not allow clips to be over n seconds long...
If you "just" need a 55" screen, you have focused on a very very very very very narrow proportion of people. If you add to it the need to have a good sight, you have halved-or-worse the number. I would not expect more than 1% of the public qualifies.
So, yes, why bother?
Usual rules don't apply to who possesses a three-digit Slashdot UID
Several activities were carried out this week to celebrate "Intellectual Property day", April 26. I usually complain that it falls just a day before my birthday.
This time, our never-beloved-nor-believed judicial system granted me a very welcome birthday present. Thanks!
The reason for the Senate and Electoral college is to protect against tyranny by a minority of states with a higher population against a majority of states with less population. Why do you idiots continue to repeat propaganda when it's so easily disproved? Crack a damn history book instead of smoking it!
Funny how the USA is nowadays the only place in the world with such a retrograde, ridiculous electoral system. Most (democratic) countries had it during the 1800s, when travelling was so long and difficult, and there was a place for "electors". Every country without a brain-dead Congress looking just to perpetuate itself and offer a fake democracy when you have only a party duopoly went away to a true "one person, one vote" system.