Anti-arbitrage rule. E = mc^2. If c varies, then you could find a moment where converting energy to matter and later matter to energy would produce surplus energy, allowing you to perform arbitrage against laws of thermodynamic, producing perpetual motion/free energy.
So why did democrats want it, and republicans not want it?
If we're not careful, we may have to give republicans the nod on this one.
At this point, I think most people would consider me a Democrat, and I did not want the TPP.
When we were cutting out 35% tariff rates and the like, that improves the system. When we're talking about exporting out broken copyright protections to the world, that is just wrong.
The Right is also absolutely convinced of the correctness of their intentions. They differ primarily in that they do not react to rejection with rioting, fires, and threats of murder. They regroup, attack each other as the cause of failure, and fail to respond to the Left's absolute dominance of education, media, and culture.
Is this snark of some sort? Because AFAICT, the Right is throwing their fine morals overboard and lining up behind their unwanted candidate, and their involvement with rioting and fires and threats of murder were all threats made _during_ the election, not in response to it.
But the Right has a different goal, and theirs permits individual liberty.
Also, are there a lot of hate crimes against people on the right just now? I guess technically the hate crimes aren't against people on the left, since it's challenging to visually distinguish that kind of thing. It's just those performing the hate crimes which appear to have a bias. That's some fine fine individual liberty you have there.
Why use Linux? Because of security! Because of control! Because of privacy, community, and a general sense of purpose! Because it’s fast! Because it’s virus free! Because i’m dang-well used to it now! Because, heck, I can shape it to look like pretty much anything I want it to using themes and widgets and CSS and extensions and blingy little desktop trinkets!
Security - unless you screw up one of a million subtle things. Control? Not only does it allow you control, it _requires_ that you understand how to control every damned thing (90% of the time it just works, then the other time everything is broken). Fast? Unless you configure something wrong. Virus free? Granted. Can make it look any way you want to? Well, yes and no - you can make it look many different ways, but you end up swearing at whoever forbade the particular combination you actually wanted, and every few years and upgrade screws everything up because new-GNOME has no relationship to old-GNOME.
because it’s better
Well... I was dedicated to having a Linux desktop for over a decade, then one day I realized that those hours and days of things being broken every time I pulled the upgrade trigger were avoidable. Now I have various Linux devices around as infrastructure, but my desktop machines are pretty vanilla OSX. Which maybe was more expensive in dollars, but my desktop hasn't been comprehensively busted for years, now. Minor bustage, of course, but not xkcd "being circled by sharks" levels of bustage.
Unfortunately, now that my desktop is set, I get cranky about my infrastructure services breaking every six months when I do an upgrade. Unfortunately, there isn't an alternative that I think will beat Linux for what I want to do. But at that point we're well into nerdville, so if you want to get into a heated discussion about Linux versus FreeBSD, great, but that isn't going to drive installs for normal users.
It's also hard for tourists who come from a non-tipping culture. When I go to the US tips are clearly expected, but I have no basis for judging what the should be, or which industries deserve / expect them.
Why do you think it's easier for people who live here?
I just mostly only bother to figure it out if it's a service I use frequently, like restaurants or haircuts. If some bellhop or shuttle driver really really really wants to get $5 or something for lifting the luggage I just shuttled across the country all by myself, well, sorry.
What's your first response to seeing evidence of malware on your system? Reimage the shit out of that thing.
This is even ignoring the likelihood that the simulation even simulates anything related to the world the hardware is in. I mean, at the end of Tron Legacy the gal gets to come to our world through... the power of boners? I mean, I can see how the simulation can simulate a real-world person (I mean, his meat body would have died meanwhile), but the real world isn't setup to actualize a simulation, you can't just wish things to happen.
Or maybe we break out into a cold dark universe where all matter has been converted into computational elements in service of the simulation. Hell, maybe it's running in sound-wave interference in a black hole. That'll be quite fun! Or, again, maybe the enclosing universe has no relationship to our universe, so not only do we have to understand our universe so thoroughly we can break out of it, we have to understand the enclosing universe thoroughly enough to break into it.
And then, of course, when you come down to it, if you prove that we live in a simulation by breaking out of the simulation, now what you know is that it is possible to simulate a universe detailed enough to be thoroughly believable. So how the hell do you know you broke out of the simulation, as opposed to just running a new scenario in the simulation? If you actually did break out, how do you know that the new level isn't a simulation?
Shouldn't we be spending that money to save humanity by stopping global warming?
5 billion?
That's a drop in the ocean compared to (eg.) the military. One F35. A few days in Afghanistan. Why don't we start there instead of cutting the sciency things??
Making people interested science isn't a waste and NASA are the ones who might actually save the planet.
Or, worst case, when the aliens get here and see Venus and New Venus, maybe they'll see our abandoned outpost on Mars and ponder what went wrong.
Maybe the editors should also just group together other articles? Like you have one article about Stallman wanting to allow anonymous payment, and another about Apple approving certain crypto-currencies - just lump those together, they're about the same thing.
It's not like C is going away anytime soon, but if there are fewer new C programmers coming online, maybe I don't have to worry about being put out to pasture?
I'm not really sure what the point of this would be. I'm currently unable to purchase new games using my credit card on my PSN account, because of some undefined error I'm not allowed to know. Adding a new credit card fails. PayPal fails. Tech support tells me I've entered my information incorrectly (without telling me what information is incorrect). Basically after years of working fine and no changes from my end, Sony has decided my money is no good. So if some Russian hacker wants to walk to Walgreens to buy a PSN cash card to upload to my account to purchase me some games, well, they should just go for it.
[And Sony leaks all my information in bulk, no need to crack my login for that.]
I didn't actually use Gopher that much, though I knew about it. My main memory of Gopher was around 1995 when I was a research student again. I was interested in such search tools, and I remember searching on usenet for relevant groups. I was actually expecting a different one to be more important, though now I can't even remember what that system was called.
Sometimes, after you turn your computer off, activity does not immediately cease! There are various thermal adjustments which continue to happen for hours after power down! Sometimes random electrical signals can be sent for no apparent reason!
Seriously, the human body is a complicated chemical plant without centralized control. Some stuff keeps happening. Other stuff doesn't. Big deal.
When you think about it, there's a lot that's pretty fishy about our reality
The whole speed-of-light being a constant thing. That's just weird. Special relativity. Really ?
Wave/Particle duality. Yeah...
Quantum entanglement. Uh-huh ?
...
Speed of light being non-constant is less weird? How about pi, is that being a constant weird?
With wave/particle duality and quantum entanglement, we understand them well enough to engineer useful consumer products based on them. What we don't understand is _why_ they are that way. But why is that evidence of anything? Complicated systems are complicated. Given current technology we can generate machine-learning systems which can successfully play at a high level in Go, but that doesn't mean we understand _how_ they manage this. That doesn't mean that they can't do it, and it doesn't mean that there's automatically magic involved. It just means that we have limits to our understanding.
Singularities are a feature, because it is generally agreed that they work pretty much the same wherever they exist throughout the universe. A bug would be if you could prove that one super-massive black hole was a singularity, but another was _not_ a singularity.
Given the percentage of a population that are about to vote for someone who's running on a platform of building a wall around the country, I'd say the bugs are in the 100s of millions:)
They all arrived at their decisions using the same underlying systems of operation. Just because one chaotic system has different emergent properties than another doesn't make it a bug.
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Surely there would have been hundreds of millions sold if it only supported Linux. Short-sighted at best.
Anti-arbitrage rule. E = mc^2. If c varies, then you could find a moment where converting energy to matter and later matter to energy would produce surplus energy, allowing you to perform arbitrage against laws of thermodynamic, producing perpetual motion/free energy.
Doesn't sound like the Big Bang at all!
If he's not currently running for president, then he can say whatever he likes and it doesn't go on his permanent record. Right?
So why did democrats want it, and republicans not want it?
If we're not careful, we may have to give republicans the nod on this one.
At this point, I think most people would consider me a Democrat, and I did not want the TPP.
When we were cutting out 35% tariff rates and the like, that improves the system. When we're talking about exporting out broken copyright protections to the world, that is just wrong.
The Right is also absolutely convinced of the correctness of their intentions. They differ primarily in that they do not react to rejection with rioting, fires, and threats of murder. They regroup, attack each other as the cause of failure, and fail to respond to the Left's absolute dominance of education, media, and culture.
Is this snark of some sort? Because AFAICT, the Right is throwing their fine morals overboard and lining up behind their unwanted candidate, and their involvement with rioting and fires and threats of murder were all threats made _during_ the election, not in response to it.
But the Right has a different goal, and theirs permits individual liberty.
Also, are there a lot of hate crimes against people on the right just now? I guess technically the hate crimes aren't against people on the left, since it's challenging to visually distinguish that kind of thing. It's just those performing the hate crimes which appear to have a bias. That's some fine fine individual liberty you have there.
You'll probably need to hangout in high-traffic areas, like airports.
Why use Linux? Because of security! Because of control! Because of privacy, community, and a general sense of purpose! Because it’s fast! Because it’s virus free! Because i’m dang-well used to it now! Because, heck, I can shape it to look like pretty much anything I want it to using themes and widgets and CSS and extensions and blingy little desktop trinkets!
Security - unless you screw up one of a million subtle things. Control? Not only does it allow you control, it _requires_ that you understand how to control every damned thing (90% of the time it just works, then the other time everything is broken). Fast? Unless you configure something wrong. Virus free? Granted. Can make it look any way you want to? Well, yes and no - you can make it look many different ways, but you end up swearing at whoever forbade the particular combination you actually wanted, and every few years and upgrade screws everything up because new-GNOME has no relationship to old-GNOME.
because it’s better
Well ... I was dedicated to having a Linux desktop for over a decade, then one day I realized that those hours and days of things being broken every time I pulled the upgrade trigger were avoidable. Now I have various Linux devices around as infrastructure, but my desktop machines are pretty vanilla OSX. Which maybe was more expensive in dollars, but my desktop hasn't been comprehensively busted for years, now. Minor bustage, of course, but not xkcd "being circled by sharks" levels of bustage.
Unfortunately, now that my desktop is set, I get cranky about my infrastructure services breaking every six months when I do an upgrade. Unfortunately, there isn't an alternative that I think will beat Linux for what I want to do. But at that point we're well into nerdville, so if you want to get into a heated discussion about Linux versus FreeBSD, great, but that isn't going to drive installs for normal users.
It's also hard for tourists who come from a non-tipping culture. When I go to the US tips are clearly expected, but I have no basis for judging what the should be, or which industries deserve / expect them.
Why do you think it's easier for people who live here?
I just mostly only bother to figure it out if it's a service I use frequently, like restaurants or haircuts. If some bellhop or shuttle driver really really really wants to get $5 or something for lifting the luggage I just shuttled across the country all by myself, well, sorry.
Muon-catalyzed transistors!
"requiring him only to provide his savings account details, which he did in mid-August."
Eh, why did you give a 12 year old this information in the first place? I am genuinely confused as to why he had the banking info needed.
They said he was a 12-year-old, not an idiot.
What's your first response to seeing evidence of malware on your system? Reimage the shit out of that thing.
This is even ignoring the likelihood that the simulation even simulates anything related to the world the hardware is in. I mean, at the end of Tron Legacy the gal gets to come to our world through ... the power of boners? I mean, I can see how the simulation can simulate a real-world person (I mean, his meat body would have died meanwhile), but the real world isn't setup to actualize a simulation, you can't just wish things to happen.
Or maybe we break out into a cold dark universe where all matter has been converted into computational elements in service of the simulation. Hell, maybe it's running in sound-wave interference in a black hole. That'll be quite fun! Or, again, maybe the enclosing universe has no relationship to our universe, so not only do we have to understand our universe so thoroughly we can break out of it, we have to understand the enclosing universe thoroughly enough to break into it.
And then, of course, when you come down to it, if you prove that we live in a simulation by breaking out of the simulation, now what you know is that it is possible to simulate a universe detailed enough to be thoroughly believable. So how the hell do you know you broke out of the simulation, as opposed to just running a new scenario in the simulation? If you actually did break out, how do you know that the new level isn't a simulation?
Shouldn't we be spending that money to save humanity by stopping global warming?
5 billion?
That's a drop in the ocean compared to (eg.) the military. One F35. A few days in Afghanistan. Why don't we start there instead of cutting the sciency things??
Making people interested science isn't a waste and NASA are the ones who might actually save the planet.
Or, worst case, when the aliens get here and see Venus and New Venus, maybe they'll see our abandoned outpost on Mars and ponder what went wrong.
Current title is:
Apple Approaches McLaren About A Potential Acquisition: FT
It's hard to read this as not being about Apple approaching McLaren about buying FT. Then:
Apple has approached British Formula One team owner McLaren for a strategic investment or a potential buyout
So Apple is investing in ... McLaren? Formula One? The British Formula One team? British modifies McLaren, maybe?
Sigh.
Gaming.
Wait, not coding?
Maybe the editors should also just group together other articles? Like you have one article about Stallman wanting to allow anonymous payment, and another about Apple approving certain crypto-currencies - just lump those together, they're about the same thing.
I'm heading right over to Walnut Creek to order the CDROM! In two weeks I'll be installing this puppy...
It's not like C is going away anytime soon, but if there are fewer new C programmers coming online, maybe I don't have to worry about being put out to pasture?
Amen. Get your child's toy off the roads that are meant for cars and trucks
Yeah, cyclists, you didn't build that road!
I'm not really sure what the point of this would be. I'm currently unable to purchase new games using my credit card on my PSN account, because of some undefined error I'm not allowed to know. Adding a new credit card fails. PayPal fails. Tech support tells me I've entered my information incorrectly (without telling me what information is incorrect). Basically after years of working fine and no changes from my end, Sony has decided my money is no good. So if some Russian hacker wants to walk to Walgreens to buy a PSN cash card to upload to my account to purchase me some games, well, they should just go for it.
[And Sony leaks all my information in bulk, no need to crack my login for that.]
I didn't actually use Gopher that much, though I knew about it. My main memory of Gopher was around 1995 when I was a research student again. I was interested in such search tools, and I remember searching on usenet for relevant groups. I was actually expecting a different one to be more important, though now I can't even remember what that system was called.
Possibly WAIS and Z39.50.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sometimes, after you turn your computer off, activity does not immediately cease! There are various thermal adjustments which continue to happen for hours after power down! Sometimes random electrical signals can be sent for no apparent reason!
Seriously, the human body is a complicated chemical plant without centralized control. Some stuff keeps happening. Other stuff doesn't. Big deal.
When you think about it, there's a lot that's pretty fishy about our reality
Speed of light being non-constant is less weird? How about pi, is that being a constant weird?
With wave/particle duality and quantum entanglement, we understand them well enough to engineer useful consumer products based on them. What we don't understand is _why_ they are that way. But why is that evidence of anything? Complicated systems are complicated. Given current technology we can generate machine-learning systems which can successfully play at a high level in Go, but that doesn't mean we understand _how_ they manage this. That doesn't mean that they can't do it, and it doesn't mean that there's automatically magic involved. It just means that we have limits to our understanding.
General relativity is a workaround/bugfix that preserves the old behaviour.
Is your argument that before Einstein formulated general relativity, the universe worked differently?
A bugfix would be where a creator changed something, not where the contents of the simulation changed their understanding of things.
Singularities could be a bug.
Singularities are a feature, because it is generally agreed that they work pretty much the same wherever they exist throughout the universe. A bug would be if you could prove that one super-massive black hole was a singularity, but another was _not_ a singularity.
How many bugs have we seen in reality?
Given the percentage of a population that are about to vote for someone who's running on a platform of building a wall around the country, I'd say the bugs are in the 100s of millions :)
They all arrived at their decisions using the same underlying systems of operation. Just because one chaotic system has different emergent properties than another doesn't make it a bug.