Dark matter isn't the explanation, it's the question.
Nope. It's a hypothesized explanation for a measurement that doesn't match theory. The process of formal education left us with a bunch of "scientists" who have decided it is better to make shit up and search for it than it is to come up with a new theory.
Well what do you expect? The left wants to vilify Russia to the point where Hillary will mostly likely start WW3 if she gets in office. This is one of the many reasons we need Trump.
That is absurd. The only thing physics is even capable of is to yield more questions while determining ways to exploit the universe.
On a very basic level the absurdity of your statement can be seen in a single statement: general relativity and quantum mechanics both appear correct in context but are absolutely incapable of being reconciled with modern knowledge.
What this translates to is: at least half of our knowledge of physics is exactly as wrong as the ancient Greek concept of everything being composed of Earth/fire/water/air.
While that statement may make your zeal for science drive you to begin decrying it - that is exactly the issue. Zealotry has no place in science, science is about discovery and if every answer doesn't lead to at least 1 more question chances are the answer is wrong or the scientist is incompetent.
science has no business telling people how to live
Maybe, but it would still be better than allowing religion or money telling people how to live.
Not really. Modern science is a religion. Look how much zealotry exists against even studying the EM Drive on the grounds it might contradict known physics to see this.
Technically true but if she actually held the power then I doubt we would be in this mess and when the politicians who do are far more right wing than your hereditary monarch you know you are in trouble.
She does hold the power. That's why you idiots are being lead to believe democracy is bad. She wants her offspring to lead.
And you, sir, are part of the reason things like Brexit are allowed to happen. Whether you like it or not, you *need* control in your life: you need rules decided upon by experts and enforced by authority. You do not exist in a vacuum, but only as part of a community that must be ruled upon for its own good. Conform.
You really don't deserve to have a say in anything if you are so willing to accept lack of control over your life on behalf of others. Brexit is a great thing, anything that goes against globalism is a great thing, you on the other hand are pure evil (with a heavy dose of indoctrinated and incompetent.)
Introducing a new gay character just means there's a character who, among other traits, happens to be gay.
Not true. He acknowledges either consciously or subconsciously that he is just making a shitty movie without a likable plot or narrative of any kind because he inherited the Star Trek franchise and can capitalize on it - with that in mind it is known he cannot make a gay character who has any trait other than being gay because he is just a political activist without any other skillset, not even the writing aptitude a kindergartner might use to advance the story of the Star Trek universe.
The ability to hide cameras is nothing new, and making them orders of magnitude smaller doesn't change that much
Not true. This is actually one of the breakthroughs required to achieve the goals of the "smart sand" project DARPA had posted about. I can't find the project on their site now (it might have been called something different and I'm remembering it wrong) but the general concept was: create cheap computing and surveillance devices the size of a grain of sand that construct their own mesh network to relay messages and are powered from ambient static in the air. The intent being to be able to blanket a city in them and see everywhere as the "sand" would get stuck on people's shoes, brought indoors and generally scattered around.
It's pretty straight-forward, the same exact reason Microsoft won out over everyone else with Windows: users do not matter, at all, they use what they are given. As much as they believe otherwise, web "developers" aren't programmers, they are power users of web browsers. As a result they got what developers were putting out for them to use and JavaScript, believe it or not, was the least horrible of all of the options.
If web developers knew how to program well enough to create their own browsers (cross-platform desktop applications capable of displaying virtually anything and changing dynamically per user requests) they probably would have done the same thing because ultimately the user is just a user and will use what they are given.
In case anyone asks about the Microsoft bit - desktop and server application-space developers are the power users of operating systems, Microsoft put out the best development tools for a very long time - not to say Visual Studio isn't horribly slow obtuse garbage at a great many things just like VB6 before it and VB3 before it and QBasic before it, but it has for a very long time been the best of a bunch of shitty options.
Nuclear isn't sustainable, solar is for the duration of life on Earth. Just like oil we have a finite amount of nuclear fuel, we should save it in case we end up with no other way to go to other solar systems than to putt along on generational ships.
of course these 'defective' genes get passed-on.. people usually have their kids before they get cancer. the only exception being the unfortunate kids who get sick young.
This isn't entirely true.
Yes many cancers are genetic but the thing is once the DNA of an individual has cancer (genetic or not) - if that DNA is in reproductive cells it is genetic from that point on.
One of the major contributors to cancer is that the ends of DNA break off a little more each time a cell divides without telomerase active - in other words you lose bits of your cellular source code with each division of a cell.
There is a drug which can stop this called TA-65, but they only prescribe it to people over 40-45 at the moment because it has a theoretical (never observed) risk of cancer (one of the hurdles a cell has to go through to become cancerous is to activate telomerase locally to prevent it from becoming non-cancerous again - that is dead or healthy and not dividing like mad.)
Seriously? In the entire universe the only place we know there to be life is Earth. All it takes is 1 asteroid and the universe goes from being a beautiful vast thing to nothingness from all we can tell at the moment. To say nothing of the survival of she species and the other species we can take with us elsewhere, sentience is the most important thing in the universe because without it nothing is capable of having importance. If not preserving it and working to ensure failsafes exist to keep it going isn't a crime against Humanity nothing is.
You're missing the potential advantages. Once you have a robotic shopping which requires electricity to function it's a relatively minor step to properly train the shopper into good habits. Just add some image recognition software to pick on the weight of the shopper and add things like audible taunts and electric shocks such as "**shock** put the Cheetos back, fatty." For repeat offenders trick them into signing something digitally, copy the signature onto a form requesting liposuction and make sure the shock is strong enough to stop their heart then call an ambulance for them while faxing in a copy of the liposuction form. The possibilities are endless.
Isn't "because they feel that doing so will result in kids being exposed to programming in a manner different then how they were introduced to it" at all.
The issue is that not everyone is cut out for high end intellectual work, 99% of the population are too stupid to teach and of the ~5-10% that are borderline it makes every competent programmer's life more difficult to have to work with them.
At the same time the issue is compounded by everyone with wealth who is sick of employing people at high wages trying to drive down the cost of labor in IT through code.org/summer-of-code and similar bullshit attempts. You might be able to beat a monkey with a stick or bribe it with a banana until it makes it through the MBA course but you can't even teach programming in a formalized manner because it takes decades of sitting alone highly focused learning what to and not to do. The most you can do, using the term "most" very loosely is indoctrinate a simpleton into some common methodologies yielding an arrogant prick that is incompetent with just enough knowledge to be dangerous.
If someone doesn't teach themselves how to program they will simply never learn to do so, inspiring them is one thing, trying to teach them is another.
He presented no code, but I'm going to discount you as a liar for suggesting you have 30+ years of experience. Nobody that experienced would agree with him unless they were absolutely incompetent.
Add more comments; don't use silly C obfuscation tricks, give variables and functions meaningful names; write the code so that someone else can maintain it later; and so forth.
Heathen! Read the bible least your career be damned!
Clearly either "troll" or "idiot." There is no form of argument lower than insulting the level of formal training. People work together to do things they are incapable of doing alone, anyone that is self-taught is inherently going to be better than anyone that was formally-educated in a 1-on-1 basis. If you believe modern universities exist for a reason beyond socialization and building up connections to leech off society like a parasite you are an "idiot" and deserve what is likely crushing student loan debt to go with your haughtiness and arrogance. If you just made the comment to get a response though I'll chalk you down as a rather successful "troll."
Of course not. But if you walk past someone's car and see a set of hubcaps you like, it is theft to pry them off and take them?
This is a false equivalency. An anonymous FTP server was designed explicitly to let people connect without authorization and to serve up whatever it contains to whomever asks.
Slashdot Mirror
How long until this makes it to the systemd feature list?
Media distributors distribute media, they don't have the right to alter it while maintaining the user base.
Thanks in large part to idiots trying to prevent other idiots from removing themselves from the genepool.
Dark matter isn't the explanation, it's the question.
Nope. It's a hypothesized explanation for a measurement that doesn't match theory. The process of formal education left us with a bunch of "scientists" who have decided it is better to make shit up and search for it than it is to come up with a new theory.
Well what do you expect? The left wants to vilify Russia to the point where Hillary will mostly likely start WW3 if she gets in office. This is one of the many reasons we need Trump.
"The republicans have saved us from slavery" You do realise the Republican party of 1863 is not the same Republican party of today, right?
Nice liberal revisionism you have going there. 8/10.
General physics is more or less solved.
That is absurd. The only thing physics is even capable of is to yield more questions while determining ways to exploit the universe.
On a very basic level the absurdity of your statement can be seen in a single statement: general relativity and quantum mechanics both appear correct in context but are absolutely incapable of being reconciled with modern knowledge.
What this translates to is: at least half of our knowledge of physics is exactly as wrong as the ancient Greek concept of everything being composed of Earth/fire/water/air.
While that statement may make your zeal for science drive you to begin decrying it - that is exactly the issue. Zealotry has no place in science, science is about discovery and if every answer doesn't lead to at least 1 more question chances are the answer is wrong or the scientist is incompetent.
Maybe, but it would still be better than allowing religion or money telling people how to live.
Not really. Modern science is a religion. Look how much zealotry exists against even studying the EM Drive on the grounds it might contradict known physics to see this.
UK is a monarchy. Nobody elected the Queen.
Technically true but if she actually held the power then I doubt we would be in this mess and when the politicians who do are far more right wing than your hereditary monarch you know you are in trouble.
She does hold the power. That's why you idiots are being lead to believe democracy is bad. She wants her offspring to lead.
And you, sir, are part of the reason things like Brexit are allowed to happen. Whether you like it or not, you *need* control in your life: you need rules decided upon by experts and enforced by authority. You do not exist in a vacuum, but only as part of a community that must be ruled upon for its own good. Conform.
You really don't deserve to have a say in anything if you are so willing to accept lack of control over your life on behalf of others. Brexit is a great thing, anything that goes against globalism is a great thing, you on the other hand are pure evil (with a heavy dose of indoctrinated and incompetent.)
Introducing a new gay character just means there's a character who, among other traits, happens to be gay.
Not true. He acknowledges either consciously or subconsciously that he is just making a shitty movie without a likable plot or narrative of any kind because he inherited the Star Trek franchise and can capitalize on it - with that in mind it is known he cannot make a gay character who has any trait other than being gay because he is just a political activist without any other skillset, not even the writing aptitude a kindergartner might use to advance the story of the Star Trek universe.
The ability to hide cameras is nothing new, and making them orders of magnitude smaller doesn't change that much
Not true. This is actually one of the breakthroughs required to achieve the goals of the "smart sand" project DARPA had posted about. I can't find the project on their site now (it might have been called something different and I'm remembering it wrong) but the general concept was: create cheap computing and surveillance devices the size of a grain of sand that construct their own mesh network to relay messages and are powered from ambient static in the air. The intent being to be able to blanket a city in them and see everywhere as the "sand" would get stuck on people's shoes, brought indoors and generally scattered around.
It's pretty straight-forward, the same exact reason Microsoft won out over everyone else with Windows: users do not matter, at all, they use what they are given. As much as they believe otherwise, web "developers" aren't programmers, they are power users of web browsers. As a result they got what developers were putting out for them to use and JavaScript, believe it or not, was the least horrible of all of the options.
If web developers knew how to program well enough to create their own browsers (cross-platform desktop applications capable of displaying virtually anything and changing dynamically per user requests) they probably would have done the same thing because ultimately the user is just a user and will use what they are given.
In case anyone asks about the Microsoft bit - desktop and server application-space developers are the power users of operating systems, Microsoft put out the best development tools for a very long time - not to say Visual Studio isn't horribly slow obtuse garbage at a great many things just like VB6 before it and VB3 before it and QBasic before it, but it has for a very long time been the best of a bunch of shitty options.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that spent days straight watching C-SPAN as a kid.
Oh shut up, gun nuts. Everybody's sick of your drama queen bullshit.
Epic troll.
Nuclear isn't sustainable, solar is for the duration of life on Earth. Just like oil we have a finite amount of nuclear fuel, we should save it in case we end up with no other way to go to other solar systems than to putt along on generational ships.
of course these 'defective' genes get passed-on.. people usually have their kids before they get cancer. the only exception being the unfortunate kids who get sick young.
This isn't entirely true. Yes many cancers are genetic but the thing is once the DNA of an individual has cancer (genetic or not) - if that DNA is in reproductive cells it is genetic from that point on. One of the major contributors to cancer is that the ends of DNA break off a little more each time a cell divides without telomerase active - in other words you lose bits of your cellular source code with each division of a cell. There is a drug which can stop this called TA-65, but they only prescribe it to people over 40-45 at the moment because it has a theoretical (never observed) risk of cancer (one of the hurdles a cell has to go through to become cancerous is to activate telomerase locally to prevent it from becoming non-cancerous again - that is dead or healthy and not dividing like mad.)
What's the point of colonization?
Seriously? In the entire universe the only place we know there to be life is Earth. All it takes is 1 asteroid and the universe goes from being a beautiful vast thing to nothingness from all we can tell at the moment. To say nothing of the survival of she species and the other species we can take with us elsewhere, sentience is the most important thing in the universe because without it nothing is capable of having importance. If not preserving it and working to ensure failsafes exist to keep it going isn't a crime against Humanity nothing is.
You're missing the potential advantages. Once you have a robotic shopping which requires electricity to function it's a relatively minor step to properly train the shopper into good habits. Just add some image recognition software to pick on the weight of the shopper and add things like audible taunts and electric shocks such as "**shock** put the Cheetos back, fatty." For repeat offenders trick them into signing something digitally, copy the signature onto a form requesting liposuction and make sure the shock is strong enough to stop their heart then call an ambulance for them while faxing in a copy of the liposuction form. The possibilities are endless.
Referencing things in other threads is dumb.
Isn't "because they feel that doing so will result in kids being exposed to programming in a manner different then how they were introduced to it" at all. The issue is that not everyone is cut out for high end intellectual work, 99% of the population are too stupid to teach and of the ~5-10% that are borderline it makes every competent programmer's life more difficult to have to work with them. At the same time the issue is compounded by everyone with wealth who is sick of employing people at high wages trying to drive down the cost of labor in IT through code.org/summer-of-code and similar bullshit attempts. You might be able to beat a monkey with a stick or bribe it with a banana until it makes it through the MBA course but you can't even teach programming in a formalized manner because it takes decades of sitting alone highly focused learning what to and not to do. The most you can do, using the term "most" very loosely is indoctrinate a simpleton into some common methodologies yielding an arrogant prick that is incompetent with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. If someone doesn't teach themselves how to program they will simply never learn to do so, inspiring them is one thing, trying to teach them is another.
He presented no code, but I'm going to discount you as a liar for suggesting you have 30+ years of experience. Nobody that experienced would agree with him unless they were absolutely incompetent.
Add more comments; don't use silly C obfuscation tricks, give variables and functions meaningful names; write the code so that someone else can maintain it later; and so forth.
Heathen! Read the bible least your career be damned!
Clearly either "troll" or "idiot." There is no form of argument lower than insulting the level of formal training. People work together to do things they are incapable of doing alone, anyone that is self-taught is inherently going to be better than anyone that was formally-educated in a 1-on-1 basis. If you believe modern universities exist for a reason beyond socialization and building up connections to leech off society like a parasite you are an "idiot" and deserve what is likely crushing student loan debt to go with your haughtiness and arrogance. If you just made the comment to get a response though I'll chalk you down as a rather successful "troll."
Of course not. But if you walk past someone's car and see a set of hubcaps you like, it is theft to pry them off and take them?
This is a false equivalency. An anonymous FTP server was designed explicitly to let people connect without authorization and to serve up whatever it contains to whomever asks.