Uh.. how about not expressing an infinitely repeating number as a finite value?
Well, if you know how to count, it doesn't really matter.
How do you determine the area of a circle with a radius of 25.0 units, without "expressing an infinitely repeating number as a finite value"?
You can use 3.14 to get a reasonable degree of accuracy. Using 3 will introduce too much error in your result, and using 3.14159 is just silly because you can only be sure of 3 digits anyway from your measurement of the radius. There's usually a whole course on this when you take any science major.
Significant figures are important. In this case, the 2/3rds rule, being a constant, MUST be taken to at least 3 digits. Otherwise why not just use 0.6 instead of 0.667 - that way all you need is 124 votes.
Mathematics should not be subject to politics. Some idiot legislators want to twist the law to get their stupid agenda passed. Instead they should call for a re-vote if their rules allow it, or ADMIT DEFEAT DAMN IT. This attitude makes a mockery of democracy.
the reason they get away with it being that citizens -- myself included -- have neither the guts nor the means to stage an armed uprising against today's leading governments
Living conditions have to get pretty shitty before we start thinking it's worth getting our heads blown off. Much, much shittier than this. However sadly you are right - every time the government makes a law, it takes away a little bit more of your rights. The world today is vastly different (and more restrictive) than the world I knew 40 years ago.
fraud: deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
perjury: the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
When are these people going to face the music? Why is there one law for the individual, and a different application of the law when a multi-million dollar company does it?
exactly why I don't go to the movies anymore. Blame piracy if you will (despite the fact that some movies keep breaking records). A lot of us are fed up with being ripped off at the box office, raped at the confection stand, and then accused of being pirates (talk about preaching to the choir) before the movie starts, only to be ripped off again by movies that fail to deliver.
Back in the day, there were basically two forms of entertainment - staying home and watching tv, or going to the movies. Nowadays there are many more things to do that entertain, from playing multi-player games, to playing with consoles, to watching people ignite their farts on youtube. Your market share will drop accordingly.
Until you can name a volcano something that the rest of the world can actually pronounce, you will still be considered a terrorist nation. No amount of volcanic ash or glaciers melting (playing up to the global warming crowd) will excuse you.
Apple fanboys will do what Apple says, regardless of what anyone thinks. And those of us who aren't in Apple's lap really aren't affect by this. So long story short - who cares? Apple is performing the sacred duty of separating fools from their money.
thanks to a clause it secretly added to the online terms and conditions for its website.
Er no, no it doesn't, thanks to a clause I secretly added to our agreement. They can come to my house and read it if they want.
After all, if the law allows a party to state implicit agreement to a contract and/or modify said contract - the law applies to EVERYONE, including the other party of the contract.
It's not only humans that show preference, it's hard-wired into every living thing with a brain. Fortunately for us, our brains are so developed that we can override this once vital but now irrelevant feature. Well at least some of us can.
Good luck with covering your face faster than the speed of light. By the time you realize your picture will been taken, there's no point in covering your face. If you regularly run red lights with your face covered on purpose, you don't deserve to be in our gene pool. Please leave.
If you still insist this would not happen, why don't you read slashdot at -1 for a while.
I _do_ read slashdot at -1. The garbage is very easy to ignore. I would simply rather have the chance to make up my own mind than have someone decide for me what is worth reading and what isn't. Of course it takes more time to sort through the pile of crap - but then again anything worthwhile always has some form of cost associated with it.
When there is a lot of money involved. Just like Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema. Everyone wants a bigger share of the pie. The execs should realize that it was the activision TEAM that helped produce the product, and the company should realize that the two "idiots" they are suing delivered the best selling game ever.
How do you propose they filter out heavily biased views, or people writing false articles for manipulation of the public?
Manipulation? Surely no one uses the internet for manipulation!
If you think that "they" (whoever they may be) need to filter internet content, you are advocating that people should be trusting, obedient sheep that assume everything they are being fed has been sanitized by "someone". This gives that someone power - and people have tended to abuse power since there have been people around.
I myself enjoy the internet, with all its trolls and biases and wild stories. Anyone with a brain is smart enough to take EVERYTHING they read with a pinch of salt - be it from Wikipedia or Encyclopaedia Brittanica... but the internet with its "low barrier for entry" in the realm of global publishing, is a place where such fantasies are rampant. It's just due diligence to confirm everything you read here from a different (non internet) source.
the possibility of a medical diagnostic system in every home
Er no. You realize we doctors don't go to school for 4 or 5 years (and more for specialization) just to gouge people out of their hard earned money, right? While "cheaper" and "more portable" equipment makes it a lot easier to screen a population - the actual DIAGNOSIS can only be made by a physician. Not only do you need to have to be able to read what the machine is telling you - you have to understand why it's telling you what it is, and when not to believe it. You have to assess the whole patient, not just a set of lab results.
Hurray for the technology. Now how many people will die because of it when they decide they don't need their doctors anymore?
No one is forced to buy pop-corn at cinemas. In fact, there's no rule that says you have to eat while watching a movie. Let them charge what they want. Separating fools from their money is a holy duty.
Sure it can. Chaos theory. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Physics can't predict exactly where the next tornado will touch down either. That doesn't mean weather is independent of the laws of physics.
It is precisely this inability to predict that I am referring to. While the human brain is running along on well established science, there is no way you can use said physical laws to predict what my response will be to, say, tonight's news. We are the aggregate result of aggregates of aggregates, from the brownian motion of the ions and proteins floating along in our water-based bodies, to the slightly skewed thought pattern arising from the microscopic brain infarct we suffered during that minor car crash 10 years ago (due to a freak hailstorm) with, apparently, no injury (at least macroscopically), to the mood we feel today because we ate one too many chili peppers last night.
You can trace everything back to its origins. However you may not use the origins to tell me what's going to happen tomorrow with any degree of certainty. Probability might tell me that the chance of rolling a "5" on a dice is 1/6th. However it cannot tell me what my next roll will be.
The human mind is created by the brain which is governed by the laws of physics.
Rubbish. While the underlying biochemical reactions occurring in the brain are completely dependent on physical laws, the actual connections between neurons, expression of certain genes in certain cells, and levels of neurotransmitters and receptors are governed by a myriad of factors. These factors range from past experiences, conditioning and training to diet, to current amount of sunlight, etc. The brain is receiving inputs from every possible sensory organ and responding to it - modifying it's actual structure because of it, and also responding to factors in its internal environment - chemical and electrical concentration gradients.
This is why even identical twins raised in identical environments will respond differently to the same stimulus - if only because on is sitting on the left and the other one on the right. Physics cannot explain why I, at this instant, choose to think about a magenta capybara and why you, having never heard of this creature I just made up, actually imagined one when you read it.
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Uh.. how about not expressing an infinitely repeating number as a finite value?
Well, if you know how to count, it doesn't really matter.
How do you determine the area of a circle with a radius of 25.0 units, without "expressing an infinitely repeating number as a finite value"?
You can use 3.14 to get a reasonable degree of accuracy. Using 3 will introduce too much error in your result, and using 3.14159 is just silly because you can only be sure of 3 digits anyway from your measurement of the radius. There's usually a whole course on this when you take any science major.
Significant figures are important. In this case, the 2/3rds rule, being a constant, MUST be taken to at least 3 digits. Otherwise why not just use 0.6 instead of 0.667 - that way all you need is 124 votes.
0.6 * 206 = 123.6
0.66 * 206 = 135.96
0.666 * 206 = 137.196
Mathematics should not be subject to politics. Some idiot legislators want to twist the law to get their stupid agenda passed. Instead they should call for a re-vote if their rules allow it, or ADMIT DEFEAT DAMN IT. This attitude makes a mockery of democracy.
Hell, in the same episode they have a "Jesus", "Moses", "Krishna", "John Smith", "Lao Tze", etc. It's not like Mohammed was singled out.
Try this link, mate. Greetings from Costa Rica. It worked for me.
With their crappy DRM, I wasn't planning on buying any of their games anyway.
Next they will be deleting a directory known to be full of malware called system32
Thank goodness our lawmakers are tackling these important non-existent problems
Surely this is as important an issue as the fact that the island of Guam might tip over...
I just can't help it!
the reason they get away with it being that citizens -- myself included -- have neither the guts nor the means to stage an armed uprising against today's leading governments
Living conditions have to get pretty shitty before we start thinking it's worth getting our heads blown off. Much, much shittier than this. However sadly you are right - every time the government makes a law, it takes away a little bit more of your rights. The world today is vastly different (and more restrictive) than the world I knew 40 years ago.
fraud: deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
perjury: the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
When are these people going to face the music? Why is there one law for the individual, and a different application of the law when a multi-million dollar company does it?
exactly why I don't go to the movies anymore. Blame piracy if you will (despite the fact that some movies keep breaking records). A lot of us are fed up with being ripped off at the box office, raped at the confection stand, and then accused of being pirates (talk about preaching to the choir) before the movie starts, only to be ripped off again by movies that fail to deliver.
Back in the day, there were basically two forms of entertainment - staying home and watching tv, or going to the movies. Nowadays there are many more things to do that entertain, from playing multi-player games, to playing with consoles, to watching people ignite their farts on youtube. Your market share will drop accordingly.
Dear Iceland,
Until you can name a volcano something that the rest of the world can actually pronounce, you will still be considered a terrorist nation. No amount of volcanic ash or glaciers melting (playing up to the global warming crowd) will excuse you.
Apple fanboys will do what Apple says, regardless of what anyone thinks. And those of us who aren't in Apple's lap really aren't affect by this. So long story short - who cares? Apple is performing the sacred duty of separating fools from their money.
thanks to a clause it secretly added to the online terms and conditions for its website.
Er no, no it doesn't, thanks to a clause I secretly added to our agreement. They can come to my house and read it if they want.
After all, if the law allows a party to state implicit agreement to a contract and/or modify said contract - the law applies to EVERYONE, including the other party of the contract.
"Birds of a feather flock together"
It's not only humans that show preference, it's hard-wired into every living thing with a brain. Fortunately for us, our brains are so developed that we can override this once vital but now irrelevant feature. Well at least some of us can.
That isn't even a copyright issue; that's a trademark issue.
Er no, designs are copyrighted.
Good luck with covering your face faster than the speed of light. By the time you realize your picture will been taken, there's no point in covering your face. If you regularly run red lights with your face covered on purpose, you don't deserve to be in our gene pool. Please leave.
If you still insist this would not happen, why don't you read slashdot at -1 for a while.
I _do_ read slashdot at -1. The garbage is very easy to ignore. I would simply rather have the chance to make up my own mind than have someone decide for me what is worth reading and what isn't. Of course it takes more time to sort through the pile of crap - but then again anything worthwhile always has some form of cost associated with it.
When there is a lot of money involved. Just like Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema. Everyone wants a bigger share of the pie. The execs should realize that it was the activision TEAM that helped produce the product, and the company should realize that the two "idiots" they are suing delivered the best selling game ever.
But no, humans are and will always be factious.
How do you propose they filter out heavily biased views, or people writing false articles for manipulation of the public?
Manipulation? Surely no one uses the internet for manipulation!
If you think that "they" (whoever they may be) need to filter internet content, you are advocating that people should be trusting, obedient sheep that assume everything they are being fed has been sanitized by "someone". This gives that someone power - and people have tended to abuse power since there have been people around.
I myself enjoy the internet, with all its trolls and biases and wild stories. Anyone with a brain is smart enough to take EVERYTHING they read with a pinch of salt - be it from Wikipedia or Encyclopaedia Brittanica... but the internet with its "low barrier for entry" in the realm of global publishing, is a place where such fantasies are rampant. It's just due diligence to confirm everything you read here from a different (non internet) source.
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." -- The Maid of Orleans, Frederich Schiller.
The fact that you post this anonymously only makes me laugh louder.
the possibility of a medical diagnostic system in every home
Er no. You realize we doctors don't go to school for 4 or 5 years (and more for specialization) just to gouge people out of their hard earned money, right? While "cheaper" and "more portable" equipment makes it a lot easier to screen a population - the actual DIAGNOSIS can only be made by a physician. Not only do you need to have to be able to read what the machine is telling you - you have to understand why it's telling you what it is, and when not to believe it. You have to assess the whole patient, not just a set of lab results.
Hurray for the technology. Now how many people will die because of it when they decide they don't need their doctors anymore?
No one is forced to buy pop-corn at cinemas. In fact, there's no rule that says you have to eat while watching a movie. Let them charge what they want. Separating fools from their money is a holy duty.
Sure it can. Chaos theory. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Physics can't predict exactly where the next tornado will touch down either. That doesn't mean weather is independent of the laws of physics.
It is precisely this inability to predict that I am referring to. While the human brain is running along on well established science, there is no way you can use said physical laws to predict what my response will be to, say, tonight's news. We are the aggregate result of aggregates of aggregates, from the brownian motion of the ions and proteins floating along in our water-based bodies, to the slightly skewed thought pattern arising from the microscopic brain infarct we suffered during that minor car crash 10 years ago (due to a freak hailstorm) with, apparently, no injury (at least macroscopically), to the mood we feel today because we ate one too many chili peppers last night.
You can trace everything back to its origins. However you may not use the origins to tell me what's going to happen tomorrow with any degree of certainty. Probability might tell me that the chance of rolling a "5" on a dice is 1/6th. However it cannot tell me what my next roll will be.
The human mind is created by the brain which is governed by the laws of physics.
Rubbish. While the underlying biochemical reactions occurring in the brain are completely dependent on physical laws, the actual connections between neurons, expression of certain genes in certain cells, and levels of neurotransmitters and receptors are governed by a myriad of factors. These factors range from past experiences, conditioning and training to diet, to current amount of sunlight, etc. The brain is receiving inputs from every possible sensory organ and responding to it - modifying it's actual structure because of it, and also responding to factors in its internal environment - chemical and electrical concentration gradients.
This is why even identical twins raised in identical environments will respond differently to the same stimulus - if only because on is sitting on the left and the other one on the right. Physics cannot explain why I, at this instant, choose to think about a magenta capybara and why you, having never heard of this creature I just made up, actually imagined one when you read it.
We are more than the sum of our parts.