It's like doing an article summary saying "having a gun in your room is dangerous", when it really means "a gunfight is something that might happen".
Having the gun does makes the 'gunfight' (i.e. someone entering with a gun) more dangerous, significantly raising the chances of you getting killed. Unlike the nuclear missile scenario, there is no MAD at work here - shooting first really does pay, and that goes for the other guy too.
It is only becoming more and more apparent every day that he was right:
By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself. Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.
Exactly. This study is taking an assembly-line operations approach to a process involving humans, who might be late, have special needs (e.g. "I can't lift this 300-lb carry-on into the overhead, please help"), have incomplete paperwork; all kinds of variables are at play. The failures of such an approach should be self-evident in real-world scenarios.
Oh please; _You_ are taking a literalist all-or-nothing view of it all. I doesn't have to be executed perfectly to get a significant saving. A more planned boarding order would speed things up a lot even if here are always a few exceptions to that order. Noone is suggesting you delay boarding a row until everyone on it is present. Just prevent too many people form entering too soon and blocking everyone else and you've scored big.
What would _really_ help is an overhead luggage system that was easier to stow from your seat than from the aisle.
A professional printing press still has many advantages over a home or office printer as well, and certainly isn't going away for precisely that reason.
Does that support the idea that cheap printers to the people hasn't changed anything about how we work with printed materials? Nope.
Also, the personal one-off fabricators get the limelight, but probably more important are the middle ground: Professional short-series fabrication, analogous to the internet book publishing services
You still use a professional service that gets better price/performance than you would at home (at least beyond true one-offs), but _they_ still use general purpose fabrication with no retooling that beats a factory for series well into the hundreds.
When these figures are quoted, are you people including [...] People who don't see a doctor on a regular basis
Uh, hell yeah? Don't they count? That's exactly the sort of symptom you get when health care is expensive or unavailable, and a reason for changing it.
Our healthcare system in the US works quite well if you have a job and insurance
Oh goody.
I do agree that social factor play a large role, but it still matters a _lot_ that it is easy to get help. If you are just above the (very low) limit for getting free help, you are still just scraping by. It will have to be _really_ serious before you shell out and opt for the effective bankruptcy that will let you get free treatment.
Poor health also prolongs and induces poverty, so it is doubly important to reach those whether or not they do what you believe one ought to expect of them.
Questioning one's faith is an important part of it [...] St. John of the Cross referred to these periods of doubt as the "Dark night of the soul."
The indoctrination works on many levels. Even while exercising their "freedom to doubt", many are still under the less-obvious influence of programming that makes the hypothetical loss of faith look unhappy and something to be feared.
The technical knowledge and precision of building bombs, or coordinating attacks would require it, otherwise 9/11 would've never happened
There were no bombs used in 9/11, and agreeing to board different flights at the same time really isn't rocket science. Nor was there any genius evident in the preparations: taking those flying lessons but not the landing lessons really doesn't count as laying low. The idea of the plane-ploy itself does show a bit of inspiration, I'll grant that.
Not saying they necessarily _are_ raving nuts. But don't portray them as these kinds of unbeatable masterminds either. They're just guys with a strong anger and an agenda that really doesn't go well with the rest of us. Apart from that they're probably as normal and varied as anyone else.
Well, they call it communism themesleves. If you look at the way it is actually run these days, it is really much more resembles straight fascism. Complete with vicious state-sponsored nationalism and xenophobia.
The reason why people use php is because of the huge list of built-in functions.
There are some unusual ones that are nice to have, but most are in fact equally well covered in other languages' standard classes, and would have been better to support as class methods than global functions.
The main reason _I_ sometimes use it is that I _know_ I will be able to deploy it at whatever ISP I might decide to use. And that there is extremely little overhead with starting to toy with a new project compared to many server-side platforms.
5.x _is_ a huge improvement, to the extent that you can now actually use it to do real work even if you know how to design applications. But it still feels like a pile-of-hacks language-wannabe.
The one other variant I could think of for a projector technology would be glasses with a tiny low-power laser tracking the retina and beaming photons into it.
Problem with this one is that if you want focus, then the laser can only beam photons on the area of the retina that sees the laser. It's just light after all, and is affected by optics just like all the incoming light: all light coming from the same point on the focus plane ends up in the same place on the retina.
You could reflect the laser off the inside of glasses, but that is basically just your projector again.
But while his material would undoubtedly be very efficient for absorbing heat, it does not represent any revolution in that area: we can already absorb sunlight for heat with reasonably high efficiency with just basically black paint. This invention is better, by many percentage points, but it is still only an incremental step up from what we can already easily get per square meter.
Also, as always, the economics come into play: it will often be a lot more attractive to use a cheaper and much simpler solution, and spend slightly more surface area to compensate for the lower efficiency. Extruded black plastic will probably still be hard to beat in the real world for a while.
I think it will be much more useful in light sensitive applications.
Everyone is asking what it is. When did we get so lazy?
Looooong ago. This led to a lot of people missing out on really interesting infoprmation. But then Slashdot was invented, to help us lazy humans and make it easier to handle the flow of information, by giving us hints about which current articles might be interesting to us, in a single easy-to-scan place, and get this, _before_ we read them. BRILLIANT!
Some posters though, fail to grasp this fundamental point of slashdot in its entirety. What they think it's for, and what they seek to accomplish by posting without this insight is really beyond my comprehension, but they clearly do exist in copious numbers.
But thank you for fixing it with a proper summary. Now I know that 'jazz' is a jumble of meaningless buzzwords and marketspeak.
God put those endogenous retroviruses into our genomes to test our faith!
Yup, sounds like my kind of benevolent God. To quote Bill Hicks:
"Dinosaur fossils? God put those there to test
our faith."
Thank God I'm strapped in right now here man.
I think God put you here to test my faith, Dude.
You believe that? "uh huh."
Does that trouble anyone here? The idea that God..
might be.. fuckin' with our heads? I have trouble
sleeping with that knowledge. Some prankster God running around: "Hu hu ho. We will see who believes in me now, ha ha.
I am God, I am a prankster. I am killing Me."
You know, You die and go to St. Peter... "Did you believe in dinosaurs?"
Well, yeah. There was fossils everywhere. [trapdoor opens]
Aaaaaaarhhh! "You fuckin idiot. Flying lizards, you're a moron.
God was fuckin' with you!"
It seemed so plausible! ahhhh! "Enjoy the lake of fire, fucker!"
If you do cargo-cult programming to the extent that our DNA does, you really shouldn't be allowed to program anything, and intellient design it sure as hell is not.
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It's like doing an article summary saying "having a gun in your room is dangerous", when it really means "a gunfight is something that might happen".
Having the gun does makes the 'gunfight' (i.e. someone entering with a gun) more dangerous, significantly raising the chances of you getting killed. Unlike the nuclear missile scenario, there is no MAD at work here - shooting first really does pay, and that goes for the other guy too.
No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can.
Kill yourself.
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers.
Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming.
You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.
Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.
the enigmatic ice moon Enceladus, whose surprising giant water geysers hint at a hidden ocean of liquid water.
Damn, I keep mixing them up. I thought Enceladus was the one that was "very noted for its exciting sit coms but ravaged by vicious mountain goats".
Beacuse an orbit remains in the same plane if left undisturbed.
It takes energy to change the orbital plane.
some computers may be found outside NSW
I think you missed a consonant there. "outside not safe work" doesn't even make any sense.
Exactly. This study is taking an assembly-line operations approach to a process involving humans, who might be late, have special needs (e.g. "I can't lift this 300-lb carry-on into the overhead, please help"), have incomplete paperwork; all kinds of variables are at play. The failures of such an approach should be self-evident in real-world scenarios.
Oh please; _You_ are taking a literalist all-or-nothing view of it all. I doesn't have to be executed perfectly to get a significant saving. A more planned boarding order would speed things up a lot even if here are always a few exceptions to that order. Noone is suggesting you delay boarding a row until everyone on it is present. Just prevent too many people form entering too soon and blocking everyone else and you've scored big.
What would _really_ help is an overhead luggage system that was easier to stow from your seat than from the aisle.
Also, I don't see what this has to do with the shipping industry.
A professional printing press still has many advantages
over a home or office printer as well, and certainly isn't
going away for precisely that reason.
Does that support the idea that cheap printers to the
people hasn't changed anything about how we work with
printed materials?
Nope.
Also, the personal one-off fabricators get the limelight,
but probably more important are the middle ground:
Professional short-series fabrication, analogous to the
internet book publishing services
You still use a professional service that gets better
price/performance than you would at home (at least
beyond true one-offs), but _they_ still use general
purpose fabrication with no retooling that beats a
factory for series well into the hundreds.
When did you first start seeing these "X"es?
When these figures are quoted, are you people including [...] People who don't see a doctor on a regular basis
Uh, hell yeah? Don't they count? That's exactly the sort of symptom you get when health care is expensive or unavailable, and a reason for changing it.
Our healthcare system in the US works quite well if you have a job and insurance
Oh goody.
I do agree that social factor play a large role, but it still matters a _lot_ that it is easy to get help. If you are just above the (very low) limit for getting free help, you are still just scraping by. It will have to be _really_ serious before you shell out and opt for the effective bankruptcy that will let you get free treatment.
Poor health also prolongs and induces poverty, so it is doubly important to reach those whether or not they do what you believe one ought to expect of them.
Questioning one's faith is an important part of it [...] St. John of the Cross referred to these periods of doubt as the "Dark night of the soul."
The indoctrination works on many levels. Even while exercising their "freedom to doubt", many are still under the less-obvious influence of programming that makes the hypothetical loss of faith look unhappy and something to be feared.
The technical knowledge and precision of building bombs, or coordinating attacks would require it, otherwise 9/11 would've never happened
There were no bombs used in 9/11, and agreeing to board different flights at the same time really isn't rocket science. Nor was there any genius evident in the preparations: taking those flying lessons but not the landing lessons really doesn't count as laying low. The idea of the plane-ploy itself does show a bit of inspiration, I'll grant that.
Not saying they necessarily _are_ raving nuts. But don't portray them as these kinds of unbeatable masterminds either. They're just guys with a strong anger and an agenda that really doesn't go well with the rest of us. Apart from that they're probably as normal and varied as anyone else.
- am sick and tired of that joke.
China is still communist.
Well, they call it communism themesleves. If you look at the way it is actually run these days, it is really much more resembles straight fascism. Complete with vicious state-sponsored nationalism and xenophobia.
"Kinder" as "nicer" or "kinder" as in "garten"
As in "chocolate on the outside, disappointing surprise on the inside"
The reason why people use php is because of the huge list of built-in functions.
There are some unusual ones that are nice to have, but most are in fact equally well covered in other languages' standard classes, and would have been better to support as class methods than global functions.
The main reason _I_ sometimes use it is that I _know_ I will be able to deploy it at whatever ISP I might decide to use. And that there is extremely little overhead with starting to toy with a new project compared to many server-side platforms.
5.x _is_ a huge improvement, to the extent that you can now actually use it to do real work even if you know how to design applications. But it still feels like a pile-of-hacks language-wannabe.
For something that doesn't require the complexity of OOP
OOP is not complex (although some languages that use it are), when
implemented well it makes life simpler.
Once you really get OOP under your skin, programming without it
feels like a work-around, even for tiny projects.
if the book is about these primitive forms of life, how could there be a bookmaker?
Yeah, I mean what are the odds?
The one other variant I could think of for a projector technology would be glasses with a tiny low-power laser tracking the retina and beaming photons into it.
Problem with this one is that if you want focus, then the laser can only beam photons on the area of the retina that sees the laser. It's just light after all, and is affected by optics just like all the incoming light: all light coming from the same point on the focus plane ends up in the same place on the retina.
You could reflect the laser off the inside of glasses, but that is basically just your projector again.
I was thinking along the same lines.
But while his material would undoubtedly be very efficient for absorbing heat, it does not represent any revolution in that area: we can already absorb sunlight for heat with reasonably high efficiency with just basically black paint. This invention is better, by many percentage points, but it is still only an incremental step up from what we can already easily get per square meter.
Also, as always, the economics come into play: it will often be a lot more attractive to use a cheaper and much simpler solution, and spend slightly more surface area to compensate for the lower efficiency.
Extruded black plastic will probably still be hard to beat in the real world for a while.
I think it will be much more useful in light sensitive applications.
But what the hell are messenger flies anyway, and should we welcome them as overlords too? Being from Mercury and all...
Everyone is asking what it is. When did we get so lazy?
Looooong ago. This led to a lot of people missing out on really
interesting infoprmation. But then Slashdot was invented, to
help us lazy humans and make it easier to handle the flow
of information, by giving us hints about which current articles
might be interesting to us, in a single easy-to-scan place, and
get this, _before_ we read them.
BRILLIANT!
Some posters though, fail to grasp this fundamental point of
slashdot in its entirety. What they think it's for, and what they
seek to accomplish by posting without this insight is really
beyond my comprehension, but they clearly do exist in copious
numbers.
But thank you for fixing it with a proper summary. Now I know that 'jazz'
is a jumble of meaningless buzzwords and marketspeak.
God put those endogenous retroviruses into our genomes to test our faith!
Yup, sounds like my kind of benevolent God.
To quote Bill Hicks:
"Dinosaur fossils? God put those there to test
our faith."
Thank God I'm strapped in right now here man.
I think God put you here to test my faith, Dude.
You believe that?
"uh huh."
Does that trouble anyone here? The idea that God..
might be.. fuckin' with our heads? I have trouble
sleeping with that knowledge. Some prankster God running around:
"Hu hu ho. We will see who believes in me now, ha ha.
I am God, I am a prankster. I am killing Me."
You know, You die and go to St. Peter...
"Did you believe in dinosaurs?"
Well, yeah. There was fossils everywhere.
[trapdoor opens]
Aaaaaaarhhh!
"You fuckin idiot. Flying lizards, you're a moron.
God was fuckin' with you!"
It seemed so plausible! ahhhh!
"Enjoy the lake of fire, fucker!"
If you do cargo-cult programming to the extent that our DNA does, you really shouldn't be allowed to program anything, and intellient design it sure as hell is not.
The key is to do it all reeaaallllyyyyy ssssssllllllloooooooowwwwwwwwwllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy.