I agree, being able to put the console to sleep is the best feature of this gen. PS4 and Switch both have it as well, and for the latter it's especially handy.
I have a gaming PC, and I agree that in general if your option is only one gaming platform, then PC is the best.
But this generation, console exclusives are some of the best (if not the best) games out there: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, God of War, Yakuza, Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, Persona 5... and there are more on the way like The Last of Us Part II, Spiderman, Shadows Die Twice (speculated to possibly be Bloodborne 2), Death Stranding...
And those are just the ones I can name off the top of my head... In fact, if I didn't have a gaming PC first, I would probably say that PS4 is the best bang for your buck, by far.
Seems to assume all Twitter users are U.S. citizens.
Citizens aren't the only people the Constitution applies to. Also, I'm willing to bet the 75-page ruling (which you probably didn't read, and neither did I) is more nuanced than that.
That not allowing someone to talk to you is a violation of their right to free speech.
Replies to tweets are viewable by anyone, and anyone can reply to your reply, so you aren't just 'talking' to Trump. If this was about PMs, then maybe, but it's not.
And that digital forums are 'public', despite plenty of homeless and impoverished citizens lacking access to them.
I don't know why this would matter. By that definition pretty much nothing would be a public forum... e.g. any official written statement of any politician wouldn't count as 'public' because the literacy rate is less than 100%. Not restricting access to a forum != guaranteeing everyone has access to the forum.
I did no such thing. Read my comment again, and the one I responded to.
I am an EE, I do MATH for a living and I would be painfully slow at my job if I could not do basic ARITHMETIC in my head. Over time I (and most people) have developed mental shortcuts from common patterns that will always be much much faster than a calculator.
Again, I'll make the same challenge to you as I did to the GP. Remember, if you don't teach arithmetic then you can't do ANY arithmetic in your head. Everything comes from a calculator. We will do MATH and I will destroy you because I can do ARITHMETIC in my head instantly while you dick around with your Casio.
1) Spelling checkers do not include the full lexicon
Some of the omissions in spell check dictionaries are glaring, especially when it comes to science or engineering terms. And I'm not talking about some crazy obscure biology terms, but even things like "electromagnetism".
Assume you never learnt any Math. How the hell are you going to know how to use a calculator? What do any of the operators mean? Some calculators have a "1/x" button, but some use "x^-1", how would you know that they are the same thing? Would you know the difference between degrees and radians? Or fractions vs. decimal representation?
Unless you think an automated program can also tell you what Math you want to do before you do it? Even an AI singularity won't be psychic.
Even just mental arithmetic is a useful skill. Say you and I had a race where we had to complete a set of algebra problems (single variable, nothing complicated, just solve for x).
The catch is, you MUST put every single arithmetic operation into a calculator to get the result. If you have a term as simple as "2x/2" you cannot just write "x", you have to type "2/2" into the calculator, etc. On the other hand, I am allowed to use a calculator, but I don't HAVE to because unlike you (in this thought experiment) I learned how to do Math.
It looks like the issue is actually States' Rights, and not that a Federal Law regulating (or maybe even banning) gambling is necessarily unconstitutional. Last sentence of the majority opinion, partially quoted in TFA:
The legalization of sports gambling requires an important policy choice, but the choice is not ours to make. Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each State is free to act on its own. Our job is to interpret the law Congress has enacted and decide whether it is consistent with the Constitution. PASPA is not. PASPA "regulate[s] state governments' regulation" of their citizens, New York, 505 U. S., at 166. The Constitution gives Congress no such power.
Makes sense to me. Also, I'm always interested in the breakdown whenever one or more of the justices "defect" (liberal justice going with a conservative majority opinion or vice versa). For anyone who's curious: Ginsburg and Sotomayor dissented, Breyer concurred in part and dissented in part (counts as dissent), and Thomas concurred but wrote a separate opinion. Kagan was the "defection".
It depends. It moves around so sometimes it's inside the Sun and sometimes it's not. It depends on how the planets are oriented relative to one another in their orbit.
First of all, most planets (and former planets) were discovered before the US even existed. Most can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. So congratulations, other countries, you looked up!
Secondly, there are 2 kinds of countries on Earth. Those that use the metric system, and those that put a person on the Moon... and landed on Mars... and sent probes to Mercury...
I think we should pick the definition that is the most useful. The definitions are for our benefit after all.
So if including Pluto in the planet category makes the planet category too broad (less descriptive), then it might be better to place it in the planetoid category instead. There will always be things at the margins that don't fit into either or fit into both. Maybe there are enough of these that another category becomes useful to define, maybe not.
To take an example from Math: is 1 a prime number? It fits the definition of a prime, but if you include it with the rest of the prime numbers, then pretty much every meaningful statement involving prime numbers has to say "except for 1" (e.g. the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic). So even though 1 is technically prime according to the definition, it shares none of the useful properties that prime numbers share, and hence excluding it is more useful. So Mathematicians did exactly that.
So if we want to say "dwarf planets are planets", that's fine. But if we keep having to clarify "planets that aren't dwarfs", then maybe it is more useful to say that dwarf planets and planets are separate categories (rather than one being a subset of the other). For this reason I prefer planetoid (or even better, Plutoid) to "dwarf planet" as it sidesteps the "linguistic paradox" mentioned in TFA.
The dynamic range compression required to stop the needle jumping out of the groove plus the non linear frequency response of the needle itself and the also non linear way the actual dynamic range changes as the needle gets closer to the centre (and so is effectively moving slower) give vinyl a particular feel/sound which is what some people like. They fool themselves into thinking its better reproduction of the original source that digital - its anything but.
However music is subjective and its what you like that matters, not how true it is to the original.
They had less casualties in terms of absolute numbers, but in a relative sense, they were just as catastrophic as WW1. So it was not just "another war", it is comparable only to those two in previous European history.
Not even close. Comparing to the Napoleonic Wars, around 5 million people died over 13 years, or around 385,000 per year. In WWI, around 13 million died in only 4 years, or around 3.3 million per year. That is almost an order of magnitude difference.
Scaling to the population at the time helps your argument a bit, but not that much. From what I can find it approximately doubled in that time.
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Quantum mechanics is integral to modern integrated circuit design, especially microprocessors.
Good. They can't see where their going anyway.
They announced a new Battletoads at the press conference today.
Too bad, 'cuz video games are really really good right now. You just backed the wrong horse with X1.
Women are the most oppressed minority in human history, asshat.
they don't even know what happened 10.000 years ago
This is young Earth creationism on a whole new level. I'm pretty sure we know what happened in 2008...
Kepler's Third Law, yo:
The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.
As long as Earth stays about the same distance from the Sun, the length of a year won't change much.
Maybe not, but if you're willing to stand next to Nazis in a rally, maybe you need to re-evaluate your life choices.
Definitely get a PC, PS4 and Switch to have access to all of the current gens best games
Yep, and that's exactly what I have.
I agree, being able to put the console to sleep is the best feature of this gen. PS4 and Switch both have it as well, and for the latter it's especially handy.
I have a gaming PC, and I agree that in general if your option is only one gaming platform, then PC is the best.
But this generation, console exclusives are some of the best (if not the best) games out there: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, God of War, Yakuza, Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, Persona 5... and there are more on the way like The Last of Us Part II, Spiderman, Shadows Die Twice (speculated to possibly be Bloodborne 2), Death Stranding...
And those are just the ones I can name off the top of my head... In fact, if I didn't have a gaming PC first, I would probably say that PS4 is the best bang for your buck, by far.
Seems to assume all Twitter users are U.S. citizens.
Citizens aren't the only people the Constitution applies to. Also, I'm willing to bet the 75-page ruling (which you probably didn't read, and neither did I) is more nuanced than that.
That not allowing someone to talk to you is a violation of their right to free speech.
Replies to tweets are viewable by anyone, and anyone can reply to your reply, so you aren't just 'talking' to Trump. If this was about PMs, then maybe, but it's not.
And that digital forums are 'public', despite plenty of homeless and impoverished citizens lacking access to them.
I don't know why this would matter. By that definition pretty much nothing would be a public forum... e.g. any official written statement of any politician wouldn't count as 'public' because the literacy rate is less than 100%. Not restricting access to a forum != guaranteeing everyone has access to the forum.
The point of the challenge was to prove that it's a handicap.
Good luck teaching personal finance or economics to someone who doesn't know arithmetic.
Maybe it was a development build of the app running on an iPad provided by Valve, while they still wait for approval to put it on the store?
I did no such thing. Read my comment again, and the one I responded to.
I am an EE, I do MATH for a living and I would be painfully slow at my job if I could not do basic ARITHMETIC in my head. Over time I (and most people) have developed mental shortcuts from common patterns that will always be much much faster than a calculator.
Again, I'll make the same challenge to you as I did to the GP. Remember, if you don't teach arithmetic then you can't do ANY arithmetic in your head. Everything comes from a calculator. We will do MATH and I will destroy you because I can do ARITHMETIC in my head instantly while you dick around with your Casio.
1) Spelling checkers do not include the full lexicon
Some of the omissions in spell check dictionaries are glaring, especially when it comes to science or engineering terms. And I'm not talking about some crazy obscure biology terms, but even things like "electromagnetism".
Assume you never learnt any Math. How the hell are you going to know how to use a calculator? What do any of the operators mean? Some calculators have a "1/x" button, but some use "x^-1", how would you know that they are the same thing? Would you know the difference between degrees and radians? Or fractions vs. decimal representation?
Unless you think an automated program can also tell you what Math you want to do before you do it? Even an AI singularity won't be psychic.
Even just mental arithmetic is a useful skill. Say you and I had a race where we had to complete a set of algebra problems (single variable, nothing complicated, just solve for x).
The catch is, you MUST put every single arithmetic operation into a calculator to get the result. If you have a term as simple as "2x/2" you cannot just write "x", you have to type "2/2" into the calculator, etc. On the other hand, I am allowed to use a calculator, but I don't HAVE to because unlike you (in this thought experiment) I learned how to do Math.
Trust me, you'll eat my dust.
Yeah that's another way to look at it.
It looks like the issue is actually States' Rights, and not that a Federal Law regulating (or maybe even banning) gambling is necessarily unconstitutional. Last sentence of the majority opinion, partially quoted in TFA:
The legalization of sports gambling requires an important policy choice, but the choice is not ours to make. Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each State is free to act on its own. Our job is to interpret the law Congress has enacted and decide whether it is consistent with the Constitution. PASPA is not. PASPA "regulate[s] state governments' regulation" of their citizens, New York, 505 U. S., at 166. The Constitution gives Congress no such power.
Makes sense to me. Also, I'm always interested in the breakdown whenever one or more of the justices "defect" (liberal justice going with a conservative majority opinion or vice versa). For anyone who's curious: Ginsburg and Sotomayor dissented, Breyer concurred in part and dissented in part (counts as dissent), and Thomas concurred but wrote a separate opinion. Kagan was the "defection".
It depends. It moves around so sometimes it's inside the Sun and sometimes it's not. It depends on how the planets are oriented relative to one another in their orbit.
Even if what you're saying is true, it doesn't help your argument.
In 5 billion years the Sun will be a Red Giant. Does that mean we have to call it one right now?
Is it possible, perhaps, that the Universe is dynamic and not static?
First of all, most planets (and former planets) were discovered before the US even existed. Most can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. So congratulations, other countries, you looked up!
Secondly, there are 2 kinds of countries on Earth. Those that use the metric system, and those that put a person on the Moon... and landed on Mars... and sent probes to Mercury...
I think we should pick the definition that is the most useful. The definitions are for our benefit after all.
So if including Pluto in the planet category makes the planet category too broad (less descriptive), then it might be better to place it in the planetoid category instead. There will always be things at the margins that don't fit into either or fit into both. Maybe there are enough of these that another category becomes useful to define, maybe not.
To take an example from Math: is 1 a prime number? It fits the definition of a prime, but if you include it with the rest of the prime numbers, then pretty much every meaningful statement involving prime numbers has to say "except for 1" (e.g. the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic). So even though 1 is technically prime according to the definition, it shares none of the useful properties that prime numbers share, and hence excluding it is more useful. So Mathematicians did exactly that.
So if we want to say "dwarf planets are planets", that's fine. But if we keep having to clarify "planets that aren't dwarfs", then maybe it is more useful to say that dwarf planets and planets are separate categories (rather than one being a subset of the other). For this reason I prefer planetoid (or even better, Plutoid) to "dwarf planet" as it sidesteps the "linguistic paradox" mentioned in TFA.
I said in your original comment:
The dynamic range compression required to stop the needle jumping out of the groove plus the non linear frequency response of the needle itself and the also non linear way the actual dynamic range changes as the needle gets closer to the centre (and so is effectively moving slower) give vinyl a particular feel/sound which is what some people like. They fool themselves into thinking its better reproduction of the original source that digital - its anything but.
However music is subjective and its what you like that matters, not how true it is to the original.
They had less casualties in terms of absolute numbers, but in a relative sense, they were just as catastrophic as WW1. So it was not just "another war", it is comparable only to those two in previous European history.
Not even close. Comparing to the Napoleonic Wars, around 5 million people died over 13 years, or around 385,000 per year. In WWI, around 13 million died in only 4 years, or around 3.3 million per year. That is almost an order of magnitude difference.
Scaling to the population at the time helps your argument a bit, but not that much. From what I can find it approximately doubled in that time.