You need to post regularly in order to get modpoints. But there are plenty of weird behaviors (I posted for 2 years before I got my first ever modpoints, but that was way back). With one message a day, one reaching +5 every week or so on average, I get modpoints once or twice a month.
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Do those continuous sequels, prequels, reboots and remakes still interest somebody ? What's it gonna be like in 50 years after the 12th Batman reboot ? There are plenty of books (comics or not) still worthy of being turned into a movie, why not work on those instead ?
How about something rotating at just 10krpm but only thinly shielded and mounted right between your legs?
You know, like the engine on a motorcycle?
Not the same amount of inertia at all. Flywheels are designed to maximize inertia so they can rotate for a _long_ time. On the other hand a motor is designed to be reactive and change speed rapidly. Thus a motor can stop in less than a second, while a flywheel with shatter in shards of jump around at high speed. PS: I've had a CD explode in a reader and I don't want anything even remotely similar happen to a flywheel in my car !
The Houseowners Association of America today announced today their support for a bill that would make it punishable to share your rented home with non-family members.
It's happened twice to me while renting homes: the owners dropping by to tell me that I couldn't have any guests sleeping over. One time when she stayed ONE night and once when I had friends over for a week (the owner was even a cop in that case). In both cases a nice 'FUCK OFF' took care of it.
I don't see a problem with an underground flywheel, but the idea of some heavy thing rotating at 30krpm in a _moving car_ makes me blink. I want to see a video of a(n even slow speed) crash before I want to see them on the road.
No, but it allows you to make a choice. If you are predetermined, there's no randomness, and the opposite is also true. But if you have 60% chance to choose fries for lunch and 40% chance to chose carrots, even if that's predetermined, the randomness allows your free will to make the choice.
I've read those books and the Penrose one(s) are certainly the worse: it's basically all handwaving. There's not a single convincing argument or example. Hofstadter gives plenty of insightful examples of emergent properties where the intelligence grows (ants -> ant colony). As for Wolfram I think he's onto something, but's it's gonna be a while before we discover the cellular automata at the base of the universe...
This problem has been solved long ago: get a color calibrator and generate profiles for each of you printer + ink set + paper combination. Then you'll get reliable prints.
Now let's get onto the real problem: why did my printer stop working with Ubuntu 11.04 ?
Thank you. I've installed ampache on my server and after trying both Amdroid and JustPlay which wouldn't work, I got Lullaby to work on my phone. Great.
Tell me about it. I write (among other things) user interfaces for scientific software. After over 20 years I get few complaints from users as I've pretty much standardized my interfaces. I recently gave svn access to one of my project code to a researcher who had to add advanced numerical analysis code to a prog. He took it upon himself to 'improve' the user interface. Now every button and window has a different color !
Can anyone please tell me how to stream my music collection (mostly mp3) from my Linux PC (Kubuntu) to my Android phone. Two years ago I did an extensive search without finding a conclusive solution (there were some very complex music radio servers that I didn't figure out how to install and configure). But I see passing references to people who do just that, so please enlighten me.
I do control/command systems as well and there are many reasons why there's few if any security. One of them is that in the (rare) case of a reboot, you want the system back online automatically as quick as possible. You don't want to wait until 9am when the first employee who knowns the password can type it in... hence no passwords. Note: I'm NOT saying it's a good thing !
The system will still not be understandable, but this time computers will be blamed.
You are correct. You will end up with a big transform matrix while you currently have a binary tree. In other words you'll replace a series of questions such as 'Are you married?', 'Do you have children?', 'Do you have a job?', etc that can be negosciated in sequence by a matrix where thousands of parameters need to be input in one big formula at once.
It's the same reason why we don't replace the income brackets [20k-30k$/year], [30k-50k$/year], etc by an exponential formula. It would be more correct mathematically, more just when you go from 29999$ to 30001$ but people are too dumb to understand it.
I'm not saying it's undoable or that it shouldn't be done. It's just that, like with runoff voting, it will take quite a while before acceptance builds up.
Another way to phrase this question is "Do you *really* need all those pixels to do your job?"
Yes. And I'm dismayed that recently monitor resolution has been going DOWN. For the last couple years I'd been using a 1920x1440 monitor which broke down twice in a month. When I tried to replace it I couldn't find a similar or higher resolution at an affordable prices. Nowadays all monitors are build with TV specs in mind, that is 1920x1200.
Why do I want more pixels ? Two reasons:
more vertical pixels so there can be more text in windows that can't be too large anyway as it makes them a pain to read.
more dpi so that the sheer ugliness of antialiased fonts is somehow atenuated. I still weep when I think about the perfectly sharp fonts, optimized for each resolution, we had up to Win2K/XP. Then OSX started with fuzzy fonts. Then KDE/Gnome, Then IE9 in XP and now Win7. And I seem to be the only one who cannot focus on those fuzzy fonts while every tech pundit claims it's 'better'. So having a higher dpi allows each chars to use more pixels, thus reducing the subpixel fuzziness in proportion.
I'm with cpicon92, I love meat, which is why I hate hamburgers and most ground meat. What, don't you have any teeth to chew ? Grounding the meat is the best way to create a breeding ground for all kind of nasty germs. There was a recent/. story that 45% of ground meat in the US is contaminated by fecal coliforms. I sure don't want explosive diarrhea again !!!
I've been thinking about that lately. I'm sick of hearing things like conservative radio talk shows (but they aren't the only ones) make up their own 'facts' on the spot: "72% of americans think that [...]". Let's call a lie a lie and if free speech is all fine and dandy, why should outright lies aimed at manipulating people be tolerated at all ?
If you pretend to be a journalist and claim some statistics and it's not out of a peer-reviewed _published_ paper, you get an automatic fine. Why not ? No, I don't equate that to blanket censorship.
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You need to post regularly in order to get modpoints. But there are plenty of weird behaviors (I posted for 2 years before I got my first ever modpoints, but that was way back). With one message a day, one reaching +5 every week or so on average, I get modpoints once or twice a month.
Do those continuous sequels, prequels, reboots and remakes still interest somebody ? What's it gonna be like in 50 years after the 12th Batman reboot ? There are plenty of books (comics or not) still worthy of being turned into a movie, why not work on those instead ?
How about something rotating at just 10krpm but only thinly shielded and mounted right between your legs?
You know, like the engine on a motorcycle?
Not the same amount of inertia at all. Flywheels are designed to maximize inertia so they can rotate for a _long_ time. On the other hand a motor is designed to be reactive and change speed rapidly. Thus a motor can stop in less than a second, while a flywheel with shatter in shards of jump around at high speed. PS: I've had a CD explode in a reader and I don't want anything even remotely similar happen to a flywheel in my car !
The Houseowners Association of America today announced today their support for a bill that would make it punishable to share your rented home with non-family members.
It's happened twice to me while renting homes: the owners dropping by to tell me that I couldn't have any guests sleeping over. One time when she stayed ONE night and once when I had friends over for a week (the owner was even a cop in that case). In both cases a nice 'FUCK OFF' took care of it.
I don't see a problem with an underground flywheel, but the idea of some heavy thing rotating at 30krpm in a _moving car_ makes me blink. I want to see a video of a(n even slow speed) crash before I want to see them on the road.
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No, but it allows you to make a choice. If you are predetermined, there's no randomness, and the opposite is also true. But if you have 60% chance to choose fries for lunch and 40% chance to chose carrots, even if that's predetermined, the randomness allows your free will to make the choice.
Isn't it illegal to refuse cash [but accept other forms of payment] ? That's why it says 'legal tender' on the bills, no ?
I've read those books and the Penrose one(s) are certainly the worse: it's basically all handwaving. There's not a single convincing argument or example. Hofstadter gives plenty of insightful examples of emergent properties where the intelligence grows (ants -> ant colony). As for Wolfram I think he's onto something, but's it's gonna be a while before we discover the cellular automata at the base of the universe...
People want to be an uncaused cause. That's what the concept of free will boils down to.
Then it's enough to consider the uncertainty principle if you want free will. Why look further into uncharted territory ?
Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made from...
I never understood that quote. Wouldn't it better as:
Quantum Mechanics: The stuff dreams are made of.
This problem has been solved long ago: get a color calibrator and generate profiles for each of you printer + ink set + paper combination. Then you'll get reliable prints. Now let's get onto the real problem: why did my printer stop working with Ubuntu 11.04 ?
By definition, it's not libel if it's proved to be true. If he did, in fact, nail Imogen Thomas, then saying so cannot be libelous.
If I'd nailed _that_ I'd be screaming it from the rooftop, not trying to hide it !!!
Thank you. I've installed ampache on my server and after trying both Amdroid and JustPlay which wouldn't work, I got Lullaby to work on my phone. Great.
Tell me about it. I write (among other things) user interfaces for scientific software. After over 20 years I get few complaints from users as I've pretty much standardized my interfaces. I recently gave svn access to one of my project code to a researcher who had to add advanced numerical analysis code to a prog. He took it upon himself to 'improve' the user interface. Now every button and window has a different color !
Can anyone please tell me how to stream my music collection (mostly mp3) from my Linux PC (Kubuntu) to my Android phone. Two years ago I did an extensive search without finding a conclusive solution (there were some very complex music radio servers that I didn't figure out how to install and configure). But I see passing references to people who do just that, so please enlighten me.
I do control/command systems as well and there are many reasons why there's few if any security. One of them is that in the (rare) case of a reboot, you want the system back online automatically as quick as possible. You don't want to wait until 9am when the first employee who knowns the password can type it in... hence no passwords. Note: I'm NOT saying it's a good thing !
The system will still not be understandable, but this time computers will be blamed.
You are correct. You will end up with a big transform matrix while you currently have a binary tree. In other words you'll replace a series of questions such as 'Are you married?', 'Do you have children?', 'Do you have a job?', etc that can be negosciated in sequence by a matrix where thousands of parameters need to be input in one big formula at once.
It's the same reason why we don't replace the income brackets [20k-30k$/year], [30k-50k$/year], etc by an exponential formula. It would be more correct mathematically, more just when you go from 29999$ to 30001$ but people are too dumb to understand it.
I'm not saying it's undoable or that it shouldn't be done. It's just that, like with runoff voting, it will take quite a while before acceptance builds up.
Has it happened that they wanted to run again but their party wouldn't give them support ?
Another way to phrase this question is "Do you *really* need all those pixels to do your job?"
Yes. And I'm dismayed that recently monitor resolution has been going DOWN. For the last couple years I'd been using a 1920x1440 monitor which broke down twice in a month. When I tried to replace it I couldn't find a similar or higher resolution at an affordable prices. Nowadays all monitors are build with TV specs in mind, that is 1920x1200.
Why do I want more pixels ? Two reasons:
I'm with cpicon92, I love meat, which is why I hate hamburgers and most ground meat. What, don't you have any teeth to chew ? Grounding the meat is the best way to create a breeding ground for all kind of nasty germs. There was a recent /. story that 45% of ground meat in the US is contaminated by fecal coliforms. I sure don't want explosive diarrhea again !!!
"Boring: see engineer." -- from the Yellow Pages...
Well, read this if you think that bitcoins have real scarcity behind them. It's the best criticism of bitcoin I've read so far
I've been thinking about that lately. I'm sick of hearing things like conservative radio talk shows (but they aren't the only ones) make up their own 'facts' on the spot: "72% of americans think that [...]". Let's call a lie a lie and if free speech is all fine and dandy, why should outright lies aimed at manipulating people be tolerated at all ?
If you pretend to be a journalist and claim some statistics and it's not out of a peer-reviewed _published_ paper, you get an automatic fine. Why not ? No, I don't equate that to blanket censorship.