"Today's cases", though, would be on a random pile on your desk.
And a more enterprising doctor might input all their patients and their symptoms into a database and attempt to do data mining on disease similarities.
Actually, 20 years ago they figured out highly intelligent "anal retentive" people (i.e. intelligent perfectionists) were frequently slobs precisely because they could look at a huge mess and instantly understand everything that needed to be done, and be all at once overwhelmed by the magnitude of it, and just not bother.
Whereas, presumably, stupider people, perfectionist or otherwise, would just get started and take a break or give up for a few days after awhile.
This is why video games are so insideuos -- it lets people of normal behavior ape that of intelligent perfectionists -- getting all the positive, "you're special" strokes of accomplishment while not actually accomplishing anything of value.
Point 1: Is it okay to demolish the other, smaller car and give those passengers a zero percent chance of survival because you like your bumper 4 ft off the ground and backed by 4 tons of steel?
Yes. You are the one elevating "protecting the environment" above personal safety. In a free country, I am free to disagree, and to act on that. Extra money for the vehicle and gas might be worth it to me to get the added protection.
I haven't read TFA, much less the above post or its response, but I feel a need to comment on this anyway. How dare you say that about IT journalism! >:(
I was just thinking this myself. Mutiple linkage allowing different orders seems isomorphic to having pre-calculated sort indices laying around. Indeed, said indices, with file and offset pointers to the actual data, amount to exactly such a list with "next" being merely i + 1, and the data being a 1-off pointer "leaf" hanging from each "segment".
Nah, just a context-free grammar. Unfortunately, there were only two words: Grrrrr, and ow!
I can't compete with this, but back in my day, we used to play Quake via reel-to-reel tape shuttled over the Atlantic by plane. Ping times in the 72-hour range, shit that was boring.
Standard practice with non-fixed-width fonts. Double spaces were used to make text easier to parse when everyone was using typewriters; now that we have computers we don't need that crutch any more.
People keep responding to this similarly.
Can someone explain how two spaces is needed with courier, but not with ariel? It seems to be useful in both. I don't wonder if it's not some "conserve space" thing gone amok. I do know stream formatters, which web pages are, should insert "proper spacing". That may not be two full spaces, but it's more than one space, which is what is currently in use.
I need people to join me in sparking this revolution.
This game is very pretty, but I never got why it was so awesome.
Hell, I even waited and bought both it and the expansion pack at the same time.
There was some fun stuff -- the RTS aspect, gathering up the water globules and heaving them through the vortex to help start up the next level. Gathering up the sheep to unlock the sheep monster.
But the whole giant aspect of it, yeesh. Am I supposed to play this as an RTS or as a giant/super-"hero unit" sandbox game? I also found it irritating you couldn't automate gathering grain somehow. At least I never figured out how, and stopped after only 2 or 3 maps. I had a huge civ, but apparently I needed to beat the hell out of them to get them to obey me more. Whatever.
> I think the universe is isomorphic to an infinite set.
Which set? Integers? Real numbers? "Number of possible curves"? One of the alephs generated by the "power set" operation?
It makes a huge difference whether the number of angles an object can take are finite, countably infinite, or uncountably infinite.
> in a model of a universe the atoms and fields have well defined positions > at any given point in the future by using the mathematical rules of physics
Except that physics defines that they don't. It is not necessarily reversible, these functions. Of course, quantum mechanics might be based on determinism, but that means reality is at a "deeper level" than Einstein was willing to go.
If there is a god, I'd like to think he actually sorts out who goes to Hell by whether they enjoy eating at Craker Barrel or not. Specifically, lovers of that country fried steak.
Sadly, I believe he's still actually using the same ancient TTS ROM chip (text-to-speech) used in the old Speak-n-Spell edumication toy from the mid-late 1980's.
> At an abstract level, the relationship between what you searched and the > links you tried is stuff Google wants to track to help enhance relevancy and search results.
I thought AskJeeves or someone had this patented already -- to let the links clicked on more for a given search string float to the top.
People searching for their social security numbers just for the hell of it, or their CC numbers, and presto! Now real numbers exist in some "Google history list" for ever and ever.
There's a goldmine of data there. "Anonymizing" it doesn't affect this, unless they have filters to try to recognize such and get rid of it.
Still, if it's in the form of "User X" searched for these 132 terms last month, some terms might identify them and hence link them to other things like their unfortunate search for "donkey love".
I wish people who got bent out of shape over this got bent out of shape over mega-politicians that knowingly conceal faulty promises to keep power and contributions high, at the expense of the people, "customers" or not.
As to the question, doesn't corn require some other enzyme or bacteria or bean or something you have to eat in order to get nutrition out of it?
The article continues: "Unfortunately, 9 out of 10 blue ray Casino Royale disc purchases were returned the next day because consumers had confused them with regular ones."
Exactly. I support companies fleeing confiscatory tax rates, however you should also not get any more business from that country's government.
They're seeing Iraq wrapping up within 2 years or so, so they make the move now, knowing Congress won't be able to switch out another contractor before then.
You guys do understand that an enormous chunk of software is embedded systems, right? It may even be most of it, for all I know.
You realize there are 20-30 other (typically real-time) Operating Systems out there to choose from, right? There's more than just writing Squeedunk Utility and porting it to Windows, Linux, and Mac, right?
And what about games? Those by definition do not stabilize -- people always want new stuff, not "off the shelf" stuff (though I do recommend Sacrifice and Total Annihilation even though they're quite old.)
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"Today's cases", though, would be on a random pile on your desk.
:)
And a more enterprising doctor might input all their patients and their symptoms into a database and attempt to do data mining on disease similarities.
You're useless! >:(
Actually, 20 years ago they figured out highly intelligent "anal retentive" people (i.e. intelligent perfectionists) were frequently slobs precisely because they could look at a huge mess and instantly understand everything that needed to be done, and be all at once overwhelmed by the magnitude of it, and just not bother.
Whereas, presumably, stupider people, perfectionist or otherwise, would just get started and take a break or give up for a few days after awhile.
This is why video games are so insideuos -- it lets people of normal behavior ape that of intelligent perfectionists -- getting all the positive, "you're special" strokes of accomplishment while not actually accomplishing anything of value.
Yes. You are the one elevating "protecting the environment" above personal safety. In a free country, I am free to disagree, and to act on that. Extra money for the vehicle and gas might be worth it to me to get the added protection.
I haven't read TFA, much less the above post or its response, but I feel a need to comment on this anyway. How dare you say that about IT journalism! >:(
I was just thinking this myself. Mutiple linkage allowing different orders seems isomorphic to having pre-calculated sort indices laying around. Indeed, said indices, with file and offset pointers to the actual data, amount to exactly such a list with "next" being merely i + 1, and the data being a 1-off pointer "leaf" hanging from each "segment".
Nah, just a context-free grammar. Unfortunately, there were only two words: Grrrrr, and ow!
I can't compete with this, but back in my day, we used to play Quake via reel-to-reel tape shuttled over the Atlantic by plane. Ping times in the 72-hour range, shit that was boring.
Personally, I plan on producing a "Brian Peppers on Crack" game, just to throw the game Wikipedia Nazis into a tizzy of what to do.
People keep responding to this similarly.
Can someone explain how two spaces is needed with courier, but not with ariel? It seems to be useful in both. I don't wonder if it's not some "conserve space" thing gone amok. I do know stream formatters, which web pages are, should insert "proper spacing". That may not be two full spaces, but it's more than one space, which is what is currently in use.
I need people to join me in sparking this revolution.
Sally Struthers: ...and with this correspondence school, you, too, can become a key punch operator...
...And with this correspondence school, you, too, can do VCR repair...
...DVD repair...
...Travel Reservationist!
...and with this correspondence school, you, too, can become a video game designer...
Correpsondence School Manager: No, key punches haven't been used since the mid '70's. Computers are all keyboards and online storage since then.
Sally: No key punch operator? Ok. Well, ummm.
Manager: Nope, DVD players now.
Sally:
Manager: Nobody repairs DVD players, they're like $20 now.
Sally:
Manager: Dead ever since airlines started launching direct booking via the web.
Sally: Well, what?
Manager: Lemme think a sec... Ok try this (whispers in her ear.) Lights, camera, action!
Sally:
This game is very pretty, but I never got why it was so awesome.
Hell, I even waited and bought both it and the expansion pack at the same time.
There was some fun stuff -- the RTS aspect, gathering up the water globules and heaving them through the vortex to help start up the next level. Gathering up the sheep to unlock the sheep monster.
But the whole giant aspect of it, yeesh. Am I supposed to play this as an RTS or as a giant/super-"hero unit" sandbox game? I also found it irritating you couldn't automate gathering grain somehow. At least I never figured out how, and stopped after only 2 or 3 maps. I had a huge civ, but apparently I needed to beat the hell out of them to get them to obey me more. Whatever.
> A Third of Console Owners are Adults
Woo hoo! Freebird! Freebird! Freebird on expert on Guitar Hero II!
> Hawking is talking about bubbles
Who made the bubbles?
(Ow! Stop hitting me!)
> I think the universe is isomorphic to an infinite set.
Which set? Integers? Real numbers? "Number of possible curves"? One of the alephs generated by the "power set" operation?
It makes a huge difference whether the number of angles an object can take are finite, countably infinite, or uncountably infinite.
> in a model of a universe the atoms and fields have well defined positions
> at any given point in the future by using the mathematical rules of physics
Except that physics defines that they don't. It is not necessarily reversible, these functions. Of course, quantum mechanics might be based on determinism, but that means reality is at a "deeper level" than Einstein was willing to go.
Some people get offended at the suggestion that anyone but God would have the balls and the brains to create the universe out of nothing.
Mmmmmm...Hawking balls!
If there is a god, I'd like to think he actually sorts out who goes to Hell by whether they enjoy eating at Craker Barrel or not. Specifically, lovers of that country fried steak.
Sadly, I believe he's still actually using the same ancient TTS ROM chip (text-to-speech) used in the old Speak-n-Spell edumication toy from the mid-late 1980's.
> At an abstract level, the relationship between what you searched and the
> links you tried is stuff Google wants to track to help enhance relevancy and search results.
I thought AskJeeves or someone had this patented already -- to let the links clicked on more for a given search string float to the top.
"Don't think of the children!"
People searching for their social security numbers just for the hell of it, or their CC numbers, and presto! Now real numbers exist in some "Google history list" for ever and ever.
There's a goldmine of data there. "Anonymizing" it doesn't affect this, unless they have filters to try to recognize such and get rid of it.
Still, if it's in the form of "User X" searched for these 132 terms last month, some terms might identify them and hence link them to other things like their unfortunate search for "donkey love".
E.g.
1234 Fake Street (suppose it's your real address)
+britney +bald +"bald down there"
What does "bedonk-i-donk" mean?
fat asses with tiny waists
I wish people who got bent out of shape over this got bent out of shape over mega-politicians that knowingly conceal faulty promises to keep power and contributions high, at the expense of the people, "customers" or not.
As to the question, doesn't corn require some other enzyme or bacteria or bean or something you have to eat in order to get nutrition out of it?
The article continues: "Unfortunately, 9 out of 10 blue ray Casino Royale disc purchases were returned the next day because consumers had confused them with regular ones."
Exactly. I support companies fleeing confiscatory tax rates, however you should also not get any more business from that country's government.
They're seeing Iraq wrapping up within 2 years or so, so they make the move now, knowing Congress won't be able to switch out another contractor before then.
Outlawing eating beef! Can you believe those backwards bastards?
Obviously, all advanced, non-backwards countries properly outlaw only eating horses.
And thank goodness this issue came up! Congress needs to focus their attention on important issues rather than pandering!
>:(
You guys do understand that an enormous chunk of software is embedded systems, right? It may even be most of it, for all I know.
You realize there are 20-30 other (typically real-time) Operating Systems out there to choose from, right? There's more than just writing Squeedunk Utility and porting it to Windows, Linux, and Mac, right?
And what about games? Those by definition do not stabilize -- people always want new stuff, not "off the shelf" stuff (though I do recommend Sacrifice and Total Annihilation even though they're quite old.)
So "anonymous coward" is a good thing all this time?
Well what do you know about that!