If God wanted Man to have stem cells, he'd have mentioned that someplace in Genesis.
I don't know, growing a human from an adult's rib - sure sounds like transdifferentiation of hematopoietic stem cells to me. Or did god just happen to choose one of the tissues that contain adult stem cells?
I don't actually care about monitors, but just about the best 22"-24" LCD is what, about $500 these days? If something like that is a point of contention, it's not a place I want to work for.
It costs under $5k to outfit a developer with just about anything they want for 2-4 years - compared to developer time it's not just insignificant, it's not noticeable.
Reporte them to your local commerce commission. Bundling is illegal, even for legal monopolies.
Ah, but it's not - where I live, Comcast will sell you a "promotional" internet/basic cable package for ~$70, whereas I pay $75 just for internet. Apparently it's all above-board - what are you going to do, not allow them to run "promotions"?
(I thought about switching, but they wouldn't sell me the bundle unless I actually got the cable hooked up, and the $5 didn't seem worth the trouble.)
Which brings up a converse point; why should physics be intuitive?
No one's saying that it is, which is why this experiment takes place at the scale we've evolved to understand: cats are very much intuitive.
Superposition is a demonstrated fact, just like most of the effects of relativity.
Fact is a pretty big word, I'd say it's more of a "well understood mathematical principle", but that's entirely beside the point, which is that superposition does not apply to the macroscopic world.
A scientific theory is not infallible. Although, from what we've observed, it may be highly unlikely that anything could violate it, it is not necessarily impossible. It takes but a single example to disprove it, no matter how unlikely that is.
That's technically true, I suppose, but it doesn't seem like a productive way to do research - essentially your only chance of success is if everything we know about physics is wrong.
In a real-life use of Schrodinger's theoretical paradoxical cat...
This phenomenon is described in Erwin Schrodinger's quantum mechanics thought experiment, in which a cat is simultaneously dead and alive, depending on the state of a subatomic particle.
I'm sure Dr Schrodinger would be glad to know that his thought experiment, showing the shortcomings of a naive interpretation of CI, is now taken as a literal description of quantum mechanics.
He did take it for granted - and I really think this is quite intuitive - that cats can't be both dead and alive at the same - why is this so hard for people (and especially popular science writers)?
Moral ambiguity bothers people. It's not enjoyable. It shouldn't be enjoyable, and it's good that it bothers us. Is it surprising that we don't like it in games?
Well, except for those of us that do like it in games; because it does bother us - that's what games are for, playing with things that bother us in real life.
This gets really frustrating when there's lots of HTML and Flash content mixed on a Web page. The UI turns into a tug-of-war between the browser and the Flash Player, where each touch produces varying effects, seemingly at random
Ah, so they've faithfully reproduced the Flash experience.
not all types are objects - hacked with boxing and unboxing
I could never understand why the "everything is an object" thing is considered something to strive for - can someone enlighten me?
I find primitives extremely useful - if I have an array of, say, 500 million integers, that I need to serialize between invocations, it's very helpful to know what's going on - byte-for-byte - both on disk and in memory. It doesn't matter how clever your compiler is, if it's doing extra work, there will always be overhead (and I don't just mean performance/space - conceptually, primitives are easier to work with).
If you don't like primitives you can always use the wrapper classes exclusively and pretend primitives don't exist. Autoboxing works well enough that you don't have to worry about interfaces that use primitive types - what's the big deal?
To me, one of the biggest strengths of Java is the sweet-spot of abstraction that makes it useful for a wide range of applications; it seems a lot of these "improvements" want to push it towards higher abstraction at the expense of the other end of the spectrum.
The main thing Tolkien learned in the war is that he never, ever wants to go back to war, which is why he spent the rest of his life in a magical land of dwarfs and faeries; it's not like he was some sort of military strategist.
I wasn't trying to encourage more of this sort of thing with my comment!
For what it's worth, I think he did fine with filming 18 hours of walking around. To be fair, I only saw about 2 hours of it and was never much into Tolkien.
In any case, the man made Heavenly Creatures - as far as I'm concerned he can do whatever he wants with your elves-and-wizards claptrap.
Unrelated tangent - Indiana Jones: Glassy Aliens is actually not as bad as it seems. It's hard to get past the sheer stupid on a first viewing, but after a second, it kinda grows on you (just a bit, not a lot).
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So, no?
Linux has had good package management and delivery for a long long time, all it's been missing is a good, navigable and appealing front end for it.
I've always been a little curious - what do all these package management front-ends actually do?
When I want to install a package, I do: apt-get install <name-of-package-i-want>, from time to time, I do a apt-get update; apt-get upgrade.
What, specifically, is being improved on here?
If God wanted Man to have stem cells, he'd have mentioned that someplace in Genesis.
I don't know, growing a human from an adult's rib - sure sounds like transdifferentiation of hematopoietic stem cells to me. Or did god just happen to choose one of the tissues that contain adult stem cells?
No... Stock price is not money, it's perception.
And perception is money.
You're a little off:
(40000/2/pi)^3(4/3)pi = ~1.0 x 10^12 km^3
10^12 km^3 * 10^18 = 10^30 mm^3
2^128 / 10^30 = 340,282,367
It's not 300 planets, it's 300 million planets.
I don't actually care about monitors, but just about the best 22"-24" LCD is what, about $500 these days? If something like that is a point of contention, it's not a place I want to work for.
It costs under $5k to outfit a developer with just about anything they want for 2-4 years - compared to developer time it's not just insignificant, it's not noticeable.
Water for Elephants, 2nd best, and ditto, tells a story.
Ah, I see, you don't mind if a movie is shit, as long as it's pretentious.
I would've gone with: "Shuttle program extended."
I'm a vocal stupid fucking idiot, and Windows 7 was my idea.
If it's not the God Particle, then how come this discovery has come out, arisen you could say, on Easter Sunday? Answer that, smart guy!
What does a large stringed instrument have to do with it?
Don't be ridiculous - obviously the OP was talking about a shipwrecked woman from Messaline, cross-dressing as a man to seduce the Duke Orsino!
Didn't this thing come out months ago? As I recall, it was a pile of ass and proprietary nonsense.
Reporte them to your local commerce commission. Bundling is illegal, even for legal monopolies.
Ah, but it's not - where I live, Comcast will sell you a "promotional" internet/basic cable package for ~$70, whereas I pay $75 just for internet. Apparently it's all above-board - what are you going to do, not allow them to run "promotions"?
(I thought about switching, but they wouldn't sell me the bundle unless I actually got the cable hooked up, and the $5 didn't seem worth the trouble.)
Even their flag is Red White and Blue.
Then again, half of Europe uses red, white, and blue flags.
Which brings up a converse point; why should physics be intuitive?
No one's saying that it is, which is why this experiment takes place at the scale we've evolved to understand: cats are very much intuitive.
Superposition is a demonstrated fact, just like most of the effects of relativity.
Fact is a pretty big word, I'd say it's more of a "well understood mathematical principle", but that's entirely beside the point, which is that superposition does not apply to the macroscopic world.
A scientific theory is not infallible. Although, from what we've observed, it may be highly unlikely that anything could violate it, it is not necessarily impossible. It takes but a single example to disprove it, no matter how unlikely that is.
That's technically true, I suppose, but it doesn't seem like a productive way to do research - essentially your only chance of success is if everything we know about physics is wrong.
In a real-life use of Schrodinger's theoretical paradoxical cat ...
This phenomenon is described in Erwin Schrodinger's quantum mechanics thought experiment, in which a cat is simultaneously dead and alive, depending on the state of a subatomic particle.
I'm sure Dr Schrodinger would be glad to know that his thought experiment, showing the shortcomings of a naive interpretation of CI, is now taken as a literal description of quantum mechanics.
He did take it for granted - and I really think this is quite intuitive - that cats can't be both dead and alive at the same - why is this so hard for people (and especially popular science writers)?
Moral ambiguity bothers people. It's not enjoyable. It shouldn't be enjoyable, and it's good that it bothers us. Is it surprising that we don't like it in games?
Well, except for those of us that do like it in games; because it does bother us - that's what games are for, playing with things that bother us in real life.
I assumed they meant making preserves in an isolated or inaccessible location.
This gets really frustrating when there's lots of HTML and Flash content mixed on a Web page. The UI turns into a tug-of-war between the browser and the Flash Player, where each touch produces varying effects, seemingly at random
Ah, so they've faithfully reproduced the Flash experience.
not all types are objects - hacked with boxing and unboxing
I could never understand why the "everything is an object" thing is considered something to strive for - can someone enlighten me?
I find primitives extremely useful - if I have an array of, say, 500 million integers, that I need to serialize between invocations, it's very helpful to know what's going on - byte-for-byte - both on disk and in memory. It doesn't matter how clever your compiler is, if it's doing extra work, there will always be overhead (and I don't just mean performance/space - conceptually, primitives are easier to work with).
If you don't like primitives you can always use the wrapper classes exclusively and pretend primitives don't exist. Autoboxing works well enough that you don't have to worry about interfaces that use primitive types - what's the big deal?
To me, one of the biggest strengths of Java is the sweet-spot of abstraction that makes it useful for a wide range of applications; it seems a lot of these "improvements" want to push it towards higher abstraction at the expense of the other end of the spectrum.
I hate to be in the dark - please fill me in.
The main thing Tolkien learned in the war is that he never, ever wants to go back to war, which is why he spent the rest of his life in a magical land of dwarfs and faeries; it's not like he was some sort of military strategist.
I wasn't trying to encourage more of this sort of thing with my comment!
For what it's worth, I think he did fine with filming 18 hours of walking around. To be fair, I only saw about 2 hours of it and was never much into Tolkien.
In any case, the man made Heavenly Creatures - as far as I'm concerned he can do whatever he wants with your elves-and-wizards claptrap.
Unrelated tangent - Indiana Jones: Glassy Aliens is actually not as bad as it seems. It's hard to get past the sheer stupid on a first viewing, but after a second, it kinda grows on you (just a bit, not a lot).