1) Have you noticed that the stock market is tanking lately? Invest in what?
Yeah, it's much better to invest when the market is high.
As for savings, with the Federal government printing money as fast as it can, your cash's value is falling like a rock. You might as well buy something you enjoy with it.
Inflation for 2009 was negative. But that's irrelevant since we know the government is destroying all your money as we speak. If only there were some kind of low-risk investment options that would protect against inflation... oh, to live in a world like that.
No, you are right though, "investing" is a ludicrous idea, best spend all your money on useless shit.
Are you one of those people who has almost no material possessions, because they're too busy "saving" and "investing" all their money?
OK, fine, so I fed a troll.
(excellent insight into how economic bubbles work, by the way)
But the next time, if you wanna act superior, bring an argument. Like a common basis, and proper logic on top of it.
Ok, here you go:
Argument: Rocks don't evolve.
Logical support: It's fucking idiotic to say that rocks evolve.
Like I said, the author of that paper doesn't actually believe that rocks evolve, and I have very little interest in correcting the misconceptions of his readers. Just venting some annoyance, that's all.
By the way, you missed a tiny fact in your reasoned argument for why rocks don't evolve: rocks don't fucking reproduce.
Hasn't this bullshit "claim" been dredged up enough already? It's just a bit of really weak sensationalism from an attention-whoring geologist.
He himself doesn't even believe this nonsense, and does say, towards the end of that article that obviously "being changed by your environment" has nothing to do with "evolution", but hey, why not get some free publicity?
There was a recent article about engineers being more likely to turn to terror. Maybe it all comes to the bitterness of having missed out on all that pussy in college. But you da man, Mr. Elitist, you da man.
No, it's that in response to this sliver of a threat, you're guaranteeing that I'll spend twice the time in line, and the flight will be as miserable as you can make it.
Alright, I'll bite - you canceled your vacation because you may have to spend an extra, what, hour in line?
I've seen my fair share of spectacular delays (hey, I used to fly Aeroflot), but the extra time spent just on the security circus? I can only recall a few times where I spent more than 30 minutes in a security line. I know people will come back with their horror stories, but we're talking average added time here.
And the flight itself can be a pretty miserable experience, but how exactly is the security circus adding to that?
Don't get me wrong, I hate the Security Theater as much as anyone, on an aesthetic level, but let's not pretend that it's the fucking Spanish Inquisition, ok?
Oh yeah, and now you also have to plan ahead enough so you don't shit your pants during the last hour - yeah, it just doesn't sound like you were all that invested in your vacation.
Just go back to nature, eschew all this horrible modern sanitation and antibiotics, they are all poisoning you. Of course you expected lifespan will be changed from ~80 to about 35, but at least you won't be destroying our precious internal ecosystem.
What a profoundly stupid thing to say. Unless they are used to treat a specific life-threatening infection, antibiotics don't prolong your lifespan. And nobody is saying you shouldn't treat your Bubonic plague to protect your E. coli.
So yes, you can stop sterilizing your entire environment and taking antibiotics "just in case", and still enjoy the benefits of modern advances in sanitation, medicine and nutrition.
I've never seen anything expressed in "decimeters." Usually height of a person is given in centimeters.
Sure it's given in decimeters, people just phrase it as "1.8m".
If you want to use decimeters, then it makes more sense, but otherwise, metric uses nothing that compares roughly to a foot.
Did you really need a whole new thing for "more than ten inches, less than half a yard"?
With metric you can get a convenient measure at any scale with tens, hundreds, and tenths of a "common" unit (usually the unprefixed unit or kilo-).
Now, I can step off a room and tell you almost precisely what the dimensions of the room are: with my foot and shoe, it is almost exactly 12 inches (exactly 1 foot!). How do YOU do that in metric?
Most people can measure out a pretty reliable 1m stride (about 1/3 longer than a normal walking stride for an average male). Keeping in mind that most people don't have feet that are exactly a foot long, the whole heel-toe thing isn't that convenient for most.
I may be wrong, probably am, but it sounds a little like you are just redefining existing terms with more awesomer names.
Your "raid group" is just a different way of describing the solution representation. There is no reason why a candidate solution can't be subdivided into parts that are tuned individually. You're still testing the fitness of the complete solution - I'm not seeing how that's different from classical GP.
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1) Have you noticed that the stock market is tanking lately? Invest in what?
Yeah, it's much better to invest when the market is high.
As for savings, with the Federal government printing money as fast as it can, your cash's value is falling like a rock. You might as well buy something you enjoy with it.
Inflation for 2009 was negative. But that's irrelevant since we know the government is destroying all your money as we speak. If only there were some kind of low-risk investment options that would protect against inflation... oh, to live in a world like that.
No, you are right though, "investing" is a ludicrous idea, best spend all your money on useless shit.
Are you one of those people who has almost no material possessions, because they're too busy "saving" and "investing" all their money?
OK, fine, so I fed a troll.
(excellent insight into how economic bubbles work, by the way)
Japheth has a number of rather interesting projects that extend the functionality of DOS.
Awesome, I'm always on the lookout for cool stuff like this to keep my DOS workstation cutting edge.
So, does that mean they are going to call this one "Assassins' Creed", then?
I thought that was a requirement before anyone could get a Slashdot ID?
Hell, these days most readers probably don't event know about 'X-Bender' (et al).
What with their Twilights and Miley Cyruses and whatnot...
Get off my lawn.
I take it the headline is obnoxiously hard to parse* on purpose, right?
(* at least for anyone who's not necessarily familiar with every damn MMO out there)
What happens if you enter it for ASUS?
(ok, so I don't have anything useful to contribute)
But the next time, if you wanna act superior, bring an argument. Like a common basis, and proper logic on top of it.
Ok, here you go:
Argument: Rocks don't evolve.
Logical support: It's fucking idiotic to say that rocks evolve.
Like I said, the author of that paper doesn't actually believe that rocks evolve, and I have very little interest in correcting the misconceptions of his readers. Just venting some annoyance, that's all.
By the way, you missed a tiny fact in your reasoned argument for why rocks don't evolve: rocks don't fucking reproduce.
Rocks evolve too.
Hasn't this bullshit "claim" been dredged up enough already? It's just a bit of really weak sensationalism from an attention-whoring geologist.
He himself doesn't even believe this nonsense, and does say, towards the end of that article that obviously "being changed by your environment" has nothing to do with "evolution", but hey, why not get some free publicity?
Since, at a minimum, you can't solve for the state of the lottery lady
Huh, I rather thought that particular philosophical chestnut is still mostly considered an open question.
Clearly, the public needs more evidence because special treatment for allergy sufferers and public bans of nuts are getting out of hand.
Yeah, I can see how the whole "Sometimes don't eat nuts for a bit" thing is ruining your life. I mean, who can live like that?
and I say everybody deserves more room than is found on most airlines these days
You know there plenty of seats available which are quite roomy? All you have to do is fly business class, and you'll be much comfier.
Why do people always think they "deserve" shit for free?
Not, say, rats, zebrafish, yeast, or C. freakin elegans. Labs are just full of moths.
Dragon Age is another live-action roleplaying game
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Also, I mostly play DAO for the awkward sex scenes.
There was a recent article about engineers being more likely to turn to terror. Maybe it all comes to the bitterness of having missed out on all that pussy in college. But you da man, Mr. Elitist, you da man.
Whoa, methinks someone struck a nerve.
It is impossible for Mac users to nerd rage. Mac users would have to be nerds for that statement to qualify.
So... douche-rage?
Well, last time they banned liquids, so this time, I'm guessing, solids?
No, it's that in response to this sliver of a threat, you're guaranteeing that I'll spend twice the time in line, and the flight will be as miserable as you can make it.
Alright, I'll bite - you canceled your vacation because you may have to spend an extra, what, hour in line?
I've seen my fair share of spectacular delays (hey, I used to fly Aeroflot), but the extra time spent just on the security circus? I can only recall a few times where I spent more than 30 minutes in a security line. I know people will come back with their horror stories, but we're talking average added time here.
And the flight itself can be a pretty miserable experience, but how exactly is the security circus adding to that?
Don't get me wrong, I hate the Security Theater as much as anyone, on an aesthetic level, but let's not pretend that it's the fucking Spanish Inquisition, ok?
Oh yeah, and now you also have to plan ahead enough so you don't shit your pants during the last hour - yeah, it just doesn't sound like you were all that invested in your vacation.
Viruses are much smaller, though. But they're not "cells".
Good point. Also, potatoes are much larger, and also not "cells" (and just as relevant).
Just go back to nature, eschew all this horrible modern sanitation and antibiotics, they are all poisoning you. Of course you expected lifespan will be changed from ~80 to about 35, but at least you won't be destroying our precious internal ecosystem.
What a profoundly stupid thing to say. Unless they are used to treat a specific life-threatening infection, antibiotics don't prolong your lifespan. And nobody is saying you shouldn't treat your Bubonic plague to protect your E. coli.
So yes, you can stop sterilizing your entire environment and taking antibiotics "just in case", and still enjoy the benefits of modern advances in sanitation, medicine and nutrition.
Are the microbial cells really something like 1% the weight on average of a human cell?
Yes, they are. See Procaryote vs Eukaryote.
Well, that makes it "undesirable to Google" rather than "wrong".
I just have one tiny question after reading it: What the fuck is Etherpad?
I've never seen anything expressed in "decimeters." Usually height of a person is given in centimeters.
Sure it's given in decimeters, people just phrase it as "1.8m".
If you want to use decimeters, then it makes more sense, but otherwise, metric uses nothing that compares roughly to a foot.
Did you really need a whole new thing for "more than ten inches, less than half a yard"?
With metric you can get a convenient measure at any scale with tens, hundreds, and tenths of a "common" unit (usually the unprefixed unit or kilo-).
Now, I can step off a room and tell you almost precisely what the dimensions of the room are: with my foot and shoe, it is almost exactly 12 inches (exactly 1 foot!). How do YOU do that in metric?
Most people can measure out a pretty reliable 1m stride (about 1/3 longer than a normal walking stride for an average male). Keeping in mind that most people don't have feet that are exactly a foot long, the whole heel-toe thing isn't that convenient for most.
Make sure to keep us updated about every 0.2 TeV increment.
I may be wrong, probably am, but it sounds a little like you are just redefining existing terms with more awesomer names.
Your "raid group" is just a different way of describing the solution representation. There is no reason why a candidate solution can't be subdivided into parts that are tuned individually. You're still testing the fitness of the complete solution - I'm not seeing how that's different from classical GP.