Would have been exciting to be around back when Sputnik took off or men orbited or landed on the moon.
Wonder how long it will be until another major leap for humanity.
Perhaps the Wright Brothers achieving flight or Columbus discovering the New World fits in that category.
These days, we have to settle for technological achievements like the start of the world wide web or the launch of the iPhone --- maybe New Horizons flying past Pluto will be a bit of a "first ever" moment for humanity here in a bit over a year.
If the sun isn't the major driver of temperature then why is it colder at night?
Also why isn't the effect of carbon dioxide cumulative? How can we have colder years... shouldn't every year have to be warmer than the past?
Somewhere, there are people who took the science out of science --- maybe to argue with religious people or something --- but this social consensus crap isn't how real science is done.
This article is good, but it misses the boat on the larger issue.
What process is in place to recycle the used electrons that were powering these devices? These extra electrons have been released into the environment and I have yet to see a study assessing the environmental impact.
Sci-fi stories always have romantic plot holes the size of a truck.
Even Asimov's stories pretty much pretended that robots would be immortal (live virtually forever) --- in the real world, the Mars Rover may be in trouble, a 10 year car is assumed to be unreliable.
1950s robots like Gort could do anything. Or the Lost In Space robot. Or any given robot Captain Kirk ran into.
In the evenings, especially Friday and Saturday nights there are sloppy drivers that have many times nearly hit me because they ran red lights.
I'd like for those sloppy drivers to get tickets in the mail --- there aren't enough police.
I don't think automated speeding ticket cameras are a good idea, but I don't see the harm in red light cameras --- just stop and they aren't a problem. Now the yellow times in my city are very reasonable and I understand if some cities are cheating on yellow light times to induce *FALSE* and/or *DANGEROUS* situations to generate revenue. I'm just stating that I think red light cameras, if used correctly, can be helpful --- *IF* the local government isn't abusing them.
Then when you sit down the NSA, they are in a poor bargaining position and say "Look, you are talking to a guy who sends stupid emails. Does my behavior suggest I have anything to hide?"
> "The biggest political success for Republicans in the last 30 years..."
I'm a political agnostic and I truly find all the tossing of blame around in the Affordable Care Act revolting. Eventually the buck stops somewhere, and any logical person would have to admit that at this point the Affordable Care Act has been rolled out terribly.
Good intentions? Good ideas? No matter what the ideas or intentions are, the results are terrible.
At this point... maybe 2 or 3 years from now thing could be different, but this is a fiasco...
> Obamacare actually saves money while insuring more people. (Congressional Budget Office analysis). That's because the current system of treating the poor in
> emergency rooms is outrageously inefficient.
Right now, I think we are observing entirely new magnitudes of inefficient.
Inefficient is boldly going where inefficient has never gone before...
So you have the only intelligent comment in this thread.
Like you said, hydrogen + helium and maybe very tenuous traces of lithium would be the only molecules prior to start formation.
15 million years isn't enough time for there to be planetary nebula with even carbon.
I don't see how there are even planets --- there are only Population II stars (stars composed almost exclusively of hydrogen) in the very early days of the universe --- these stars wouldn't have much time to produce any metals, not even the very large ones with very short life spans...
Computer programming is no harder than following recipe instructions or assenbling legos or making a sandwich.
I repeat --- computer programming is no harder than making a sandwich.
Being a good computer programmer or a great one is a different story, but idea that exposing average people to very simple computer programming is bad because "they won't get it" is preposterous!
Computer programming is FAR EASIER than either geometry or calculus --- one example would be Visual Basic 6 or hello world in an interpreted language.
Technically you are correct as the phrase "beg the question" means avoid the question using circular logic.
Still, the phrase "begs the question" sounds like to a teenager that the scenario is just asking for a question to pop up.
In 50 years, your classical definition of "to beg a question" will be notated as "obsolete" --- because people in the media screw up the usage all the time. And it is annoying to witness...
But long term --- the phrase will eventually always mean what it sounds like it is supposed to mean... and people wanting to use "avoid the question" will just say "Hey, you are avoiding the question! lol lmafo ".
I have a fairly strong dislike for Microsoft like any good hardcore programmer, but I swear your post is wishful thinking and it ain't gonna happen.
Microsoft does several things right and very consistently --- backwards compatibility is strong, yes the mess up the interface but then they correct it like with Windows 7.
Microsoft can only be defeated by a *complete competitor* --- someone to defeat Visual Studio, to win in the "easy programming tools" department, someone to beat them in the "long term investment" department (I can run Windows 95 applications on Windows 8).
Microsoft still is the flagship operating system because no one else will be consistent over the long-term to offer an alternative. This is the frustrating but true environment of today and I don't see someone eroding Microsoft in the desktop arena anytime soon either because none of their competitors offer even Microsoft's somewhat rocky, but consistent, stability.
Plus I dislike the idea of someone spelling "partical" wrong and also claiming to have an "idea" on the subject. You don't spell particle wrong and also have a good set of knowledge in physics.
Seconded! Eyes bleeding... please mod down. Physics isn't about opinion or what people think or analogies they understand --- that isn't the backbone of science. Who cares if you understand, that's your responsibility --- not others to explain it to you.
I am disappointed the above is the only "Spooky action at a distance post" --- W.T.F. this is Slashdot!!!
(Einstein coined the term "Spooky action at a distance" for any muggles who don't get the reference.... sigh... Slashdot 2013 this is probably most people... ugh).
My own personal experience is that men are rewarded for bringing home the bacon by extra support and flexibility from their spouse.
And that career women are often single and unable to find the balance they want because men and women have difficulty in relationships where the female has a higher income because of social norms.
But I acknowledge that perhaps a new normal is slowly sinking in --- and if so, it sure would be an improvement.
"Current social trends" and "emerging social trends" are two different animals --- perhaps you are seeing something emerging that could manifest into a new normal in the future; if so the world would be a better place.
"They weren't saints, far from it. They did some good, but they also played cutthroat."
Business is like playing poker, chess and chief scientist all at the same time.
If you feel you have a worthy cause and in business this is going be a product philosophy, it IS necessary to a dictator-like strongman to get things done.
Now, before you react with shock --- consider this: the nature state of a human is to be lazy, have low-standards, think for today and to gravitate towards the minimum.
Success in business at the top tier requires focus, a strong belief that your ideas are worth fighting for, and that you can stand up to sharks, fools and cheats to get the job done.
Business isn't science, philosophy, religion or political --- it is ALL of them wrapped up into one.
And you have to bulldoze through crooked politicians, crooked attorneys, lowest-common-denominator employers, lazy vendors, bad distributors, opportunistic cheating Wall Street types, lying business adversaries and the cruel media to get there.
The results are worth fighting for with a business idea with vision --- every business magnate (Jobs, Gates, Ford, Edison, etc. etc.) had a vision of how to improve the world that was worth fighting for to get the job done.
Evolution rewards survivors. Business rewards those that can survive a shark tank and advance an idea to marketshare and sustenance. This isn't wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
> I bet more than 95% of everything older than 3 years is noise and rot that nobody has any use for.
...
Sounds plausible. Still -- one man's junk is another man's treasure
Archive.org is invaluable for this reason alone.
Would have been exciting to be around back when Sputnik took off or men orbited or landed on the moon.
Wonder how long it will be until another major leap for humanity.
Perhaps the Wright Brothers achieving flight or Columbus discovering the New World fits in that category.
These days, we have to settle for technological achievements like the start of the world wide web or the launch of the iPhone --- maybe New Horizons flying past Pluto will be a bit of a "first ever" moment for humanity here in a bit over a year.
Hint: I was being absurd.
Also because most servers aren't plugged into a monitor.
If every server had to have a monitor, it would take more space and no longer be economical.
If the sun isn't the major driver of temperature then why is it colder at night?
... shouldn't every year have to be warmer than the past?
Also why isn't the effect of carbon dioxide cumulative? How can we have colder years
Somewhere, there are people who took the science out of science --- maybe to argue with religious people or something --- but this social consensus crap isn't how real science is done.
This article is good, but it misses the boat on the larger issue.
What process is in place to recycle the used electrons that were powering these devices? These extra electrons have been released into the environment and I have yet to see a study assessing the environmental impact.
Sci-fi stories always have romantic plot holes the size of a truck.
Even Asimov's stories pretty much pretended that robots would be immortal (live virtually forever) --- in the real world, the Mars Rover may be in trouble, a 10 year car is assumed to be unreliable.
1950s robots like Gort could do anything. Or the Lost In Space robot. Or any given robot Captain Kirk ran into.
I disagree. Now I used to hate red light cameras.
In the evenings, especially Friday and Saturday nights there are sloppy drivers that have many times nearly hit me because they ran red lights.
I'd like for those sloppy drivers to get tickets in the mail --- there aren't enough police.
I don't think automated speeding ticket cameras are a good idea, but I don't see the harm in red light cameras --- just stop and they aren't a problem. Now the yellow times in my city are very reasonable and I understand if some cities are cheating on yellow light times to induce *FALSE* and/or *DANGEROUS* situations to generate revenue. I'm just stating that I think red light cameras, if used correctly, can be helpful --- *IF* the local government isn't abusing them.
> "DRM is probably the single greatest driver of privacy that their is"
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I don't save anything as drafts. I send them ALL!
...
Even the stupid ones!
Then when you sit down the NSA, they are in a poor bargaining position and say "Look, you are talking to a guy who sends stupid emails. Does my behavior suggest I have anything to hide?"
/NSA agent starts sweating
The only way to stop bots reliably is using the old "html imagemap".
Bots absolutely hate those.
> "The biggest political success for Republicans in the last 30 years ..."
... maybe 2 or 3 years from now thing could be different, but this is a fiasco ...
...
... NOW ... ]
I'm a political agnostic and I truly find all the tossing of blame around in the Affordable Care Act revolting. Eventually the buck stops somewhere, and any logical person would have to admit that at this point the Affordable Care Act has been rolled out terribly.
Good intentions? Good ideas? No matter what the ideas or intentions are, the results are terrible.
At this point
> Obamacare actually saves money while insuring more people. (Congressional Budget Office analysis). That's because the current system of treating the poor in > emergency rooms is outrageously inefficient.
Right now, I think we are observing entirely new magnitudes of inefficient.
Inefficient is boldly going where inefficient has never gone before
[Hire some freaking Europeans
So you have the only intelligent comment in this thread.
...
Like you said, hydrogen + helium and maybe very tenuous traces of lithium would be the only molecules prior to start formation.
15 million years isn't enough time for there to be planetary nebula with even carbon.
I don't see how there are even planets --- there are only Population II stars (stars composed almost exclusively of hydrogen) in the very early days of the universe --- these stars wouldn't have much time to produce any metals, not even the very large ones with very short life spans
Bull Turkeys!
Computer programming is no harder than following recipe instructions or assenbling legos or making a sandwich.
I repeat --- computer programming is no harder than making a sandwich.
Being a good computer programmer or a great one is a different story, but idea that exposing average people to very simple computer programming is bad because "they won't get it" is preposterous!
Computer programming is FAR EASIER than either geometry or calculus --- one example would be Visual Basic 6 or hello world in an interpreted language.
Another boring cyclohexane buckyball with the kind of bond elasticity commonly seen in low temperature gases = BOOOORING!
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Nothing to see here, move along
Technically you are correct as the phrase "beg the question" means avoid the question using circular logic.
...
... and people wanting to use "avoid the question" will just say "Hey, you are avoiding the question! lol lmafo ".
Still, the phrase "begs the question" sounds like to a teenager that the scenario is just asking for a question to pop up.
In 50 years, your classical definition of "to beg a question" will be notated as "obsolete" --- because people in the media screw up the usage all the time. And it is annoying to witness
But long term --- the phrase will eventually always mean what it sounds like it is supposed to mean
I have a fairly strong dislike for Microsoft like any good hardcore programmer, but I swear your post is wishful thinking and it ain't gonna happen.
Microsoft does several things right and very consistently --- backwards compatibility is strong, yes the mess up the interface but then they correct it like with Windows 7.
Microsoft can only be defeated by a *complete competitor* --- someone to defeat Visual Studio, to win in the "easy programming tools" department, someone to beat them in the "long term investment" department (I can run Windows 95 applications on Windows 8).
Microsoft still is the flagship operating system because no one else will be consistent over the long-term to offer an alternative. This is the frustrating but true environment of today and I don't see someone eroding Microsoft in the desktop arena anytime soon either because none of their competitors offer even Microsoft's somewhat rocky, but consistent, stability.
Plus I dislike the idea of someone spelling "partical" wrong and also claiming to have an "idea" on the subject. You don't spell particle wrong and also have a good set of knowledge in physics.
Seconded! Eyes bleeding ... please mod down. Physics isn't about opinion or what people think or analogies they understand --- that isn't the backbone of science. Who cares if you understand, that's your responsibility --- not others to explain it to you.
I am disappointed the above is the only "Spooky action at a distance post" --- W.T.F. this is Slashdot!!!
.... sigh ... Slashdot 2013 this is probably most people ... ugh).
(Einstein coined the term "Spooky action at a distance" for any muggles who don't get the reference
>Why pay when you can have it fo free?
I will sell you the letter "R" for $500 bucks!
In this case, they might not have to ...
TFA: "it also outlaws anybody who has been convicted of felony aggravated drug trafficking laws from operating any vehicle with hidden compartments. "
If the person arrested has a drug trafficking felony, TFA seems to indicate just operating a vehicle with hidden compartments is enough.
Your stereotype of Clippy is less helpful than the Clippy I remember.
Any proper Clippy should offer to improve on technique because he was all about maximizing productivity of the task you are focused on.
I respect your side of the argument.
My own personal experience is that men are rewarded for bringing home the bacon by extra support and flexibility from their spouse.
And that career women are often single and unable to find the balance they want because men and women have difficulty in relationships where the female has a higher income because of social norms.
But I acknowledge that perhaps a new normal is slowly sinking in --- and if so, it sure would be an improvement.
"Current social trends" and "emerging social trends" are two different animals --- perhaps you are seeing something emerging that could manifest into a new normal in the future; if so the world would be a better place.
"They weren't saints, far from it. They did some good, but they also played cutthroat."
Business is like playing poker, chess and chief scientist all at the same time.
If you feel you have a worthy cause and in business this is going be a product philosophy, it IS necessary to a dictator-like strongman to get things done.
Now, before you react with shock --- consider this: the nature state of a human is to be lazy, have low-standards, think for today and to gravitate towards the minimum.
Success in business at the top tier requires focus, a strong belief that your ideas are worth fighting for, and that you can stand up to sharks, fools and cheats to get the job done.
Business isn't science, philosophy, religion or political --- it is ALL of them wrapped up into one.
And you have to bulldoze through crooked politicians, crooked attorneys, lowest-common-denominator employers, lazy vendors, bad distributors, opportunistic cheating Wall Street types, lying business adversaries and the cruel media to get there.
The results are worth fighting for with a business idea with vision --- every business magnate (Jobs, Gates, Ford, Edison, etc. etc.) had a vision of how to improve the world that was worth fighting for to get the job done.
Evolution rewards survivors. Business rewards those that can survive a shark tank and advance an idea to marketshare and sustenance. This isn't wrong.