Most modern monitors have circuitry which shuts down the display if the sync rates go out of spec. This is partially due to the fact most modern monitors are multisync and have special circuitry to adjust to almost any rate within a wide range, whereas old 80's monitors were fixed-sync and could only accept very specific set of rates (usually counted on one hand).
IIRC there have been repeated public service announcements in the middle east asking for people to stop firing rifles into the air during celebrations, as there are numerous injuries and even deaths each year from bullets falling back to the ground.
One thing I love about mythbusters is how it makes some people so angry!
The ice bullet myth busted in particular seems to get lots of people upset on various forums. I guess it can be pretty devastating to have a cherished belief come crashing down in the span of a few minutes.
The other thing I love is unexpected outcomes, like firing a pistol vs a rifle into a swimming pool, or the alcatraz escape.
They're testing the plausibility of urban legends. In some cases they are able to prove a positive (eg, escape from alcatraz). In other cases they show something is very unlikely (eg, blown away, ice bullet).
It isn't science and doesn't claim to be. It's more like junkyard wars -- they try to see if something is possible, not make sure it's scientifically accurate.
I am Christian, and there are many ways I can tie ID to Science.
Wrong, mainly because ID makes the claim that science is bunkum. This is exactly why the kansas school board redefined science to include supernatural explanations so that ID could be called "science".
The only way you can tie ID to science is if you redefine science the way the kansas school board did. But then it is no longer science, it is "science" (quotes for emphasis).
Yes, python syntax is very strict. However it is also very rich. Despite a rich syntax, python applications tend to be very easy to read. It's sort of like a perl which doesn't suck.
Flexible grammar has its disadvantages too, yahoo stores was written in lisp, and had to be rewritten in c++/perl because the lisp code became unmaintainable.
it was modded down as troll because it was a troll.
all this database elitism smacks of the old "my amiga is better than your atari" infantilism.
only those people so insecure in their choice of software would find a need to go out of their way to bash something else.
after all, everyone with an IQ greater than a glass of water knows both postgresql and mysql suck. oracle is the only real database in the entire universe.
Sounds like a moving target to me. No matter what mysql does (or doesn't do), it will never be "good enough", because elitists will always need something to bash. Even if it was just the postgresql codebase renamed. It would still "suck" because it's "mysql".
It's just a fashionable and trendy target to bash.
Sorta like the (open|free|net)bsd zealots who bash linux. They're so insecure in their choice of OS that they need to put down something else in order to feel better.
What? Consumers are just now getting sick of the manufactured music crapola?
How is it any different now that it was in the 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, etc. ?
1990s: backstreet boys, britney spears, n'sync 1980s: menudo, new kids on the block, wham! 1970s: the village people, the bee gees, kc and the sunshine band i could go on and on...
The WSJ also lists familiar reasons for the decline -- 'online piracy, CD burning, high prices and competition for consumer dollars from videogames and DVDs'
And of course they (deliberately?) omit the #1 reason:
shit product
They'll still blame the #1 reason on piracy though.
Never happen. Executives contribute far too much money to politicians to be in any danger of prosecution.
The only thing that ever gets executives in trouble is if the corporation loses money (enron, mci, etc). Why in the world would politicians penalize executives of a profitable company?
The main difference here is that the experts consulted in the study can correct the wikipedia errors themselves, reducing the errors in those articles to zero. There is no way they can correct the britannica errors.
The differences go way beyond just "tight editorial policies". The difference in content is enormous. Compare Britannica's entry on C (programming language) versus the entry in Wikipedia.
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the long term graph shows a definite trend in declining java popularity, and growing php popularity. a 1 year delta does not nullify the 5 year trend, unfortunately for you.
but go ahead and quote till you turn blue in the face, won't change facts:)
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no, it's more than that. the linux version includes a bunch of platform-specific binary gtk shared libs. the osx version includes a bunch of platform-specific binary carbon shared libs.
don't even get me started on how bloated and slow azureus is either:)
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it doesn't need code recompilation nor does it need the developer to be aware of what the platform actually does beneath
Gosh, weren't the Brits the ones that managed to prove that the "car vs. taxi" myth is real when Mythbusters miserably failed due to overly zealous legal contentions imposed by the insurance company?
It was limitations imposed by the networks' insurance company, in this case the australian network which produces mythbusters. In case you forget, mythbusters is an australian production, not an american one.
In any case, the mythbusters already stated the myth was true even though they were unable to reproduce it.
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Most modern monitors have circuitry which shuts down the display if the sync rates go out of spec. This is partially due to the fact most modern monitors are multisync and have special circuitry to adjust to almost any rate within a wide range, whereas old 80's monitors were fixed-sync and could only accept very specific set of rates (usually counted on one hand).
IIRC there have been repeated public service announcements in the middle east asking for people to stop firing rifles into the air during celebrations, as there are numerous injuries and even deaths each year from bullets falling back to the ground.
One thing I love about mythbusters is how it makes some people so angry!
The ice bullet myth busted in particular seems to get lots of people upset on various forums. I guess it can be pretty devastating to have a cherished belief come crashing down in the span of a few minutes.
The other thing I love is unexpected outcomes, like firing a pistol vs a rifle into a swimming pool, or the alcatraz escape.
It's not supposed to be pure science.
They're testing the plausibility of urban legends. In some cases they are able to prove a positive (eg, escape from alcatraz). In other cases they show something is very unlikely (eg, blown away, ice bullet).
It isn't science and doesn't claim to be. It's more like junkyard wars -- they try to see if something is possible, not make sure it's scientifically accurate.
I am Christian, and there are many ways I can tie ID to Science.
Wrong, mainly because ID makes the claim that science is bunkum. This is exactly why the kansas school board redefined science to include supernatural explanations so that ID could be called "science".
The only way you can tie ID to science is if you redefine science the way the kansas school board did. But then it is no longer science, it is "science" (quotes for emphasis).
Yes, python syntax is very strict. However it is also very rich. Despite a rich syntax, python applications tend to be very easy to read. It's sort of like a perl which doesn't suck.
Flexible grammar has its disadvantages too, yahoo stores was written in lisp, and had to be rewritten in c++/perl because the lisp code became unmaintainable.
it was modded down as troll because it was a troll.
all this database elitism smacks of the old "my amiga is better than your atari" infantilism.
only those people so insecure in their choice of software would find a need to go out of their way to bash something else.
after all, everyone with an IQ greater than a glass of water knows both postgresql and mysql suck. oracle is the only real database in the entire universe.
Sounds like a moving target to me. No matter what mysql does (or doesn't do), it will never be "good enough", because elitists will always need something to bash. Even if it was just the postgresql codebase renamed. It would still "suck" because it's "mysql".
It's just a fashionable and trendy target to bash.
Sorta like the (open|free|net)bsd zealots who bash linux. They're so insecure in their choice of OS that they need to put down something else in order to feel better.
What? Consumers are just now getting sick of the manufactured music crapola?
How is it any different now that it was in the 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, etc. ?
1990s: backstreet boys, britney spears, n'sync
1980s: menudo, new kids on the block, wham!
1970s: the village people, the bee gees, kc and the sunshine band
i could go on and on...
It was a british law.
Do you think the RIAA will ever own up to that? No. They'll continue to blame declining sales solely on piracy, and no other reason except piracy.
The WSJ also lists familiar reasons for the decline -- 'online piracy, CD burning, high prices and competition for consumer dollars from videogames and DVDs'
And of course they (deliberately?) omit the #1 reason:
shit product
They'll still blame the #1 reason on piracy though.
Sounds like you need to file a criminal complaint with the police. What ebay is doing is quite obviously fraud.
File a criminal complaint with the police against each rep at paypal you talked with.
I'm sure they will be more cooperative when the police show up at their office with a subpoena with their name on it.
I find it funny that billg would call and scream at you for an obvious error on his part.
But then it is symptomatic of how microsoft operates in general. Symptomatic of their lack of ethics, from top to bottom.
mafia car is right. my guess is if the dealership ever finds out you're the one who defeated their scam, you'll be dead (literally).
Cheap, fraud free online auctions are a hard problem to solve.
States solve this problem through bonding. The same could be done for online sellers.
Never happen. Executives contribute far too much money to politicians to be in any danger of prosecution.
The only thing that ever gets executives in trouble is if the corporation loses money (enron, mci, etc). Why in the world would politicians penalize executives of a profitable company?
I think his point is that google is likely to be more responsive than ebay when it comes to fraud control.
The main difference here is that the experts consulted in the study can correct the wikipedia errors themselves, reducing the errors in those articles to zero. There is no way they can correct the britannica errors.
The differences go way beyond just "tight editorial policies". The difference in content is enormous. Compare Britannica's entry on C (programming language) versus the entry in Wikipedia.
the long term graph shows a definite trend in declining java popularity, and growing php popularity. a 1 year delta does not nullify the 5 year trend, unfortunately for you.
:)
but go ahead and quote till you turn blue in the face, won't change facts
no, it's more than that. the linux version includes a bunch of platform-specific binary gtk shared libs. the osx version includes a bunch of platform-specific binary carbon shared libs.
:)
don't even get me started on how bloated and slow azureus is either
it doesn't need code recompilation nor does it need the developer to be aware of what the platform actually does beneath
which of course is why there are seven different distributions of azureus, each one OS-specific.
"php is dying", eh?
if anything, the long term graph shows it's java that is dying.
The hoax is that the british public believes that the participants are unaware of the hoax.
as pointed out, the participants are really actors, and the hoax is on you.
Gosh, weren't the Brits the ones that managed to prove that the "car vs. taxi" myth is real when Mythbusters miserably failed due to overly zealous legal contentions imposed by the insurance company?
It was limitations imposed by the networks' insurance company, in this case the australian network which produces mythbusters. In case you forget, mythbusters is an australian production, not an american one.
In any case, the mythbusters already stated the myth was true even though they were unable to reproduce it.