We were a lot like the UK, until 1982, when we got together and wrote a document that spells out freedom of 'expression', with some limits. (see section 2)
"...the method of calculating iq favors those who are educated. Racial biology has been proven a pseudo-science for quite some time, this whole iq-thing is just an attempt to sell the same old crap under a different name."
PC fantasy, sorry. Nobody working in cognetive science, neurology, or, for that matter, designing 'unbiased' tests for employment would agree with you.
As an example, I give you the paper in question. People learnt long ago not to spell it out too clearly, but look up MCPH1 or CDK5RAP2 and you'll find that they are related to brain function.
I read your first 'We don't need the paper' as an aside to bolster your point of already knowing that evolution is continuing.
The statement 'Still not interesting unless they've identified the exact function of each of those 30k genes already.' makes you seem to be one of the unengaged, uneducated, MTV attention span sheep that populate our malls and such. Many of those genes are identified, and the results tell an interesting story.
A syntactical nightmare? I think not. Semicolons are never needed, they are just around to make folk like you feel better. And comparing a generator with a for loop + index var kind of misses the power of generators.
To each his own, of course. At least it's not pearl. (The "There's 600+ ways to do it, but 580 of them aren't in the book you bought" language.)
Python and Ruby both have command line interpreters, full OO, and an elegant syntax. Either would make an excellent choice as a first language. In Python, for example, one could intoduce procedual programming, then OO, and then start intergrating Python with C.
Let us not ever speak of BASIC again, Visual or otherwise.
Look. The only people who care about linux market share are folks selling distros and linux users who would feel better if everyone else used their OS. When I contribute code, it's to do something I need, not 'the markets' needs.
Do you think NASA or Sandia National Laboratories (both running very large linux systems/installations) worry about market share? If they were the only users of linux in the world, would it make their supercomputers obselete?
If anything, I dread the day Linux takes over the desktop. At least now I can shrug my shoulders and pretend I don't know how to make your Windows box work like it did yesterday.:-) Seriously, I think it's inevitable that OSS will take over the world eventually, but people should realize that few people contributing to linux are going to be interested in making wizards and help pages.
So what? How does the number of windows users affect linux developers? We're not using windows. Linux does what I need it for. Sometimes it doesn't, and I fix it. This is the way it always has been.
Using these data, the releases of radioactive materials per typical plant can be calculated for any year. For the year 1982, assuming coal contains uranium and thorium concentrations of 1.3 ppm and 3.2 ppm, respectively, each typical plant released 5.2 tons of uranium (containing 74 pounds of uranium-235) and 12.8 tons of thorium that year. Total U.S. releases in 1982 (from 154 typical plants) amounted to 801 tons of uranium (containing 11,371 pounds of uranium-235) and 1971 tons of thorium. These figures account for only 74% of releases from combustion of coal from all sources. Releases in 1982 from worldwide combustion of 2800 million tons of coal totaled 3640 tons of uranium (containing 51,700 pounds of uranium-235) and 8960 tons of thorium.
The methods used (and demands on the system) are conducive to quick searching. The face is hashed into a (hopefully) unique numerical value using eigenfaces. This large databases of small numbers can then be searched quickly. The bottleneck is in counstructing the eigenvalues for all the faces in a crowd, this has been demod at pretty high speed on PC hardware, though.
The systems are plagued with false negatives...I think this computer will find all Chinese people look different.
On hardware that supports it (new Intel and AMD chips do), Xen does not need changes to the guest operation system. So you might be able to run OS X and Windows at the same time.
I would be interested in an estimate of how many non-software patents get a manufacturing line tooled up without having a working prototype built first. Or, what percentage of ideas go from theory to production?
If that turns out to be the case, Sony is looking at some painfull losses, and a lot of risk. Of the three, they hve the most justification to do that, as it's also a loss leader for Blu-Ray.
There's a lot special about the Cell. If used correctly (and it's debatable if/when this will happen), it could be delivering a gaming experience that puts the other two consoles to shame.
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Get a clue, welcome to the internet.
True, but we don't have secret torture prisons or secret wiretapping, either.
I think it was a few weeks before they started tourturing people in secret prisons and wiretapping without warrents.
PC fantasy, sorry. Nobody working in cognetive science, neurology, or, for that matter, designing 'unbiased' tests for employment would agree with you.
As an example, I give you the paper in question. People learnt long ago not to spell it out too clearly, but look up MCPH1 or CDK5RAP2 and you'll find that they are related to brain function.
The statement 'Still not interesting unless they've identified the exact function of each of those 30k genes already.' makes you seem to be one of the unengaged, uneducated, MTV attention span sheep that populate our malls and such. Many of those genes are identified, and the results tell an interesting story.
Once you can refine urainium enough to use it for power generation, you can refine it to weapon levels with a very small effort.
To each his own, of course. At least it's not pearl. (The "There's 600+ ways to do it, but 580 of them aren't in the book you bought" language.)
Python and Ruby both have command line interpreters, full OO, and an elegant syntax. Either would make an excellent choice as a first language. In Python, for example, one could intoduce procedual programming, then OO, and then start intergrating Python with C.
Let us not ever speak of BASIC again, Visual or otherwise.
That's why they don't use lawnmower engines.
Graphics shops and modeling agencies aren't exactly big business.
Every day, I pray to God that the rapture will come and take all these idiots away.
According to this Gallup poll, it's well over a hundred million of them.
Oh no! The terriorists have won.
Do you think NASA or Sandia National Laboratories (both running very large linux systems/installations) worry about market share? If they were the only users of linux in the world, would it make their supercomputers obselete?
If anything, I dread the day Linux takes over the desktop. At least now I can shrug my shoulders and pretend I don't know how to make your Windows box work like it did yesterday. :-) Seriously, I think it's inevitable that OSS will take over the world eventually, but people should realize that few people contributing to linux are going to be interested in making wizards and help pages.
What could a flood of Windows users contribute?
The systems are plagued with false negatives...I think this computer will find all Chinese people look different.
On hardware that supports it (new Intel and AMD chips do), Xen does not need changes to the guest operation system. So you might be able to run OS X and Windows at the same time.
I would be interested in an estimate of how many non-software patents get a manufacturing line tooled up without having a working prototype built first. Or, what percentage of ideas go from theory to production?
As I understand it, the AGP spec would be much harder to do at home. If anyone knows of anybody with a homebrew AGP design, I would love a link.
If that turns out to be the case, Sony is looking at some painfull losses, and a lot of risk. Of the three, they hve the most justification to do that, as it's also a loss leader for Blu-Ray.
It 'aint $900 worth of special, though.
I hate having to walk through the child slave market just to get drugs.
Here's the bigger picture