I am aware of the existence of such hi-tech material. You do realize that the midget is necessary for the real time, automatic updating, I hope. That's why he's the one listening.
People have replied to most things you said, I'll just add a note. You seem to talk about only half of the evolution theory. It states there is variability and then selection of the fittest organisms. That's why you don't need the 4^4000 combinations to get a useful molecule with 4000 bases. The molecule is sequentially improved, not by design and not at random, but by natural selection.
Incidentally, 4000 nucleotides is rather excessive for a useful DNA chain. There are useful chains that are less than 100 nucleotides long (reference here) and even a single aminoacid can work as an enzyme (reference here, even if I'm not sure The Hindu is a credible resource for this...). Naturally, one would think that the first forms of life had very small RNA/DNA molecules, that started replicating and got selected based on their ability to do so.
I had read this a long time ago, and my memory failed me... From Eco (original here):
"Moreover someone has discovered that some early manuscripts of De Contemptu Mundi of Bernard de Morlay, from which I borrowed the exameter "stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus", read "stat Roma pristina nomine" - which after all is more coherent with the rest of the poem, which speaks of the lost Babylon."
A funny thing about that name, according to a text I read by Umberto Eco, is that it is based on a verse from an Italian poem, which was originally "The name of Rome". The error may have cropped up somehow, and the author used the wrong version for the book title.
On the other hand, you have to consider that the skills you develop aren't useful for just one game. If you had played Doom for months, you'd be better at Quake when it came out, then you'd practice on that and you would be better at the next game, and so on. Even unrelated games can help, by improving your coordination, strategies, etc.
"If dogs ever choose a king, I hope they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some chihuahuas with some good ideas". --Deep thoughts, by Jack Handy
The only rights you have are the right to medical care, the right not to be abused, the right for an education, and the right for food and shelter.
I'm sure many adults would love to have zero rights too!
There's a misunderstanding here. Free, as in beer, is what free software is not, as opposed to free speech. From the Free Software definition, at the GNU website:
"Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech", not as in "free beer".
And you live where? In the very democratic European Union? Where something they call a Constitution is about to be accepted without much discussion, and where (very democratically) the people repeat the vote when it goes against what the European Union bureaucrats want (like it happened in Ireland when they voted no to the expansion of the EU)? You are free to criticize the US, making broad generalizations that you can't even begin to justify (an enslaved population? Just because their opinions on how to run a country are different from yours? Is that the democracy you want?), but I think we should worry more about the way we are handling the evolution of Europe and its lack of democratic processes, and how it is growing regardless of the interests and opinions of the people, driven by the political elite.
I think you have a good perspective, namely that final part about Science. Not only it changes contantly, sometimes the most interesting parts of it happen when you look at things from a different angle.
I came across this interesting paper from CATO Institute some time ago (it's a pdf, but if you google for "horse emissions" you'll find it high on the list). It ends with this paragraph:
"Beyond 50 years we have little, if any, idea what the energy infrastructure of our society will be. To highlight the folly of any such projection, compare the energy-related concerns of 1900, when pundits cautioned that major U.S. cities would be knee-deep in horse ''emissions'' by 1930 unless we saw fit to ''act now,'' with those of 2000. We simply cannot predict our technological future. Rather, the more serious question the facts on global warming provokes is this: Is the way the planet warms something that we should even try to stop?"
"But beyond 50 years we have little, if any, idea what the energy infrastructure of our society will be. To highlight the folly of any such projection, compare the energy-related concerns of 1900, when pundits cautioned that major U.S. cities would be knee-deep in horse ''emissions'' by 1930 unless we saw fit to '' act now,'' with those of 2000. We simply cannot predict our technological future."
It seems to me that publishers have to let Amazon do this, and they are letting Amazon do this. Maybe I'm missing something, but you can't search through every book in Amazon's catalog. The ones you can't search have a link explaining why the feature is disabled: the publisher didn't allow it. Maybe there's something I don't know about the whole issue, but if that's true I don't understand all the fuss.
(Different townspeople try to figure out how to get Timmy O'Toole out of the well)
Falcon Man: Grasping the child firmly in his talons, Socrates here will fly him to safety. Just watch. (falcon flies away) I don't think he's coming back.
Fisherman: With this hook, and this hunk of chocolate, I'll land your boy. And I'll clean him for free.
Professor Frink: Although we can't reach the boy, we can freeze him with liquid nitrogen so that future generations can rescue him.
I thought that was funny, "multiple times under different names if need arises". That would happen pretty soon, radio people going "Oh no, another tape from Joe Bloke and his latest hit, put it in the trash bin". So then you would flood them with the same song, under a different name and singer. Oh wait, that's not what you meant?
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I think maybe that's because of the way we perceive the words. They say we can still read them because we read the words as a whole, and not letter by letter, but if it's a word that rarely appears in a sentence, it becomes almost impossible, especially if it's big. I didn't even understand the 'nevertheless', maybe because of the punctuation.
The only problem is you're giving the code to a programmer. I'm not an expert programmer, but wouldn't it be relatively easy to do an automatic search and replace for all the permutations of variables? Unless you used ambiguous ones (like $raed and $read), but then it would be hard to read, and it would still probably be easier to debug that than to write the whole code from scratch anyway.
Surely you mean "grmammar nazis"? I'm kidding. I think the problem with bad grammar is when it gets to the point that it's hard to understand, or when you use an ambiguous word when there's a better alternative.
Clinton also had Iraq bombed (in 1998 if I'm not mistaken, after inspections ended), and also bombed Serbia until they submitted, and other countries. The reasons are always different, and you never know what would happen if he was the president after September 11, but it's possible that he would have done exactly the same thing as the Bush administration.
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You should write movie scripts.
I am aware of the existence of such hi-tech material. You do realize that the midget is necessary for the real time, automatic updating, I hope. That's why he's the one listening.
Yeah, and the midget that you carry in the backpack, who listens to the radio and updates the map.
It's not campuses, it's campa.
People have replied to most things you said, I'll just add a note. You seem to talk about only half of the evolution theory. It states there is variability and then selection of the fittest organisms. That's why you don't need the 4^4000 combinations to get a useful molecule with 4000 bases. The molecule is sequentially improved, not by design and not at random, but by natural selection.
Incidentally, 4000 nucleotides is rather excessive for a useful DNA chain. There are useful chains that are less than 100 nucleotides long (reference here) and even a single aminoacid can work as an enzyme (reference here, even if I'm not sure The Hindu is a credible resource for this...). Naturally, one would think that the first forms of life had very small RNA/DNA molecules, that started replicating and got selected based on their ability to do so.
I had read this a long time ago, and my memory failed me... From Eco (original here):
"Moreover someone has discovered that some early manuscripts of De Contemptu Mundi of Bernard de Morlay, from which I borrowed the exameter "stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus", read "stat Roma pristina nomine" - which after all is more coherent with the rest of the poem, which speaks of the lost Babylon."
A funny thing about that name, according to a text I read by Umberto Eco, is that it is based on a verse from an Italian poem, which was originally "The name of Rome". The error may have cropped up somehow, and the author used the wrong version for the book title.
On the other hand, you have to consider that the skills you develop aren't useful for just one game. If you had played Doom for months, you'd be better at Quake when it came out, then you'd practice on that and you would be better at the next game, and so on. Even unrelated games can help, by improving your coordination, strategies, etc.
Forget disabled people! I'd love to have a device to get out of bed myself.
"If dogs ever choose a king, I hope they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some chihuahuas with some good ideas". --Deep thoughts, by Jack Handy
The only rights you have are the right to medical care, the right not to be abused, the right for an education, and the right for food and shelter. I'm sure many adults would love to have zero rights too!
There's a misunderstanding here. Free, as in beer, is what free software is not, as opposed to free speech. From the Free Software definition, at the GNU website:
"Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech", not as in "free beer".
And you live where? In the very democratic European Union? Where something they call a Constitution is about to be accepted without much discussion, and where (very democratically) the people repeat the vote when it goes against what the European Union bureaucrats want (like it happened in Ireland when they voted no to the expansion of the EU)? You are free to criticize the US, making broad generalizations that you can't even begin to justify (an enslaved population? Just because their opinions on how to run a country are different from yours? Is that the democracy you want?), but I think we should worry more about the way we are handling the evolution of Europe and its lack of democratic processes, and how it is growing regardless of the interests and opinions of the people, driven by the political elite.
I think you have a good perspective, namely that final part about Science. Not only it changes contantly, sometimes the most interesting parts of it happen when you look at things from a different angle.
I came across this interesting paper from CATO Institute some time ago (it's a pdf, but if you google for "horse emissions" you'll find it high on the list). It ends with this paragraph:
"Beyond 50 years we have little, if any, idea what the energy infrastructure of our society will be. To highlight the folly of any such projection, compare the energy-related concerns of 1900, when pundits cautioned that major U.S. cities would be knee-deep in horse ''emissions'' by 1930 unless we saw fit to ''act now,'' with those of 2000. We simply cannot predict our technological future. Rather, the more serious question the facts on global warming provokes is this: Is the way the planet warms something that we should even try to stop?"
From a Cato article:
"But beyond 50 years we have little, if any, idea what the energy infrastructure of our society will be. To highlight the folly of any such projection, compare the energy-related concerns of 1900, when pundits cautioned that major U.S. cities would be knee-deep in horse ''emissions'' by 1930 unless we saw fit to '' act now,'' with those of 2000. We simply cannot predict our technological future."
It seems to me that publishers have to let Amazon do this, and they are letting Amazon do this. Maybe I'm missing something, but you can't search through every book in Amazon's catalog. The ones you can't search have a link explaining why the feature is disabled: the publisher didn't allow it. Maybe there's something I don't know about the whole issue, but if that's true I don't understand all the fuss.
That's true, and Japan has been meaning to change the constitution to have an army again.
Perhaps he's not feeling lucky.
Well, wouldn't Google's button be prior art?
(Different townspeople try to figure out how to get Timmy O'Toole out of the well)
Falcon Man: Grasping the child firmly in his talons, Socrates here will fly him to safety. Just watch. (falcon flies away) I don't think he's coming back.
Fisherman: With this hook, and this hunk of chocolate, I'll land your boy. And I'll clean him for free.
Professor Frink: Although we can't reach the boy, we can freeze him with liquid nitrogen so that future generations can rescue him.
I thought that was funny, "multiple times under different names if need arises". That would happen pretty soon, radio people going "Oh no, another tape from Joe Bloke and his latest hit, put it in the trash bin". So then you would flood them with the same song, under a different name and singer. Oh wait, that's not what you meant?
I think maybe that's because of the way we perceive the words. They say we can still read them because we read the words as a whole, and not letter by letter, but if it's a word that rarely appears in a sentence, it becomes almost impossible, especially if it's big. I didn't even understand the 'nevertheless', maybe because of the punctuation.
The only problem is you're giving the code to a programmer. I'm not an expert programmer, but wouldn't it be relatively easy to do an automatic search and replace for all the permutations of variables? Unless you used ambiguous ones (like $raed and $read), but then it would be hard to read, and it would still probably be easier to debug that than to write the whole code from scratch anyway.
Surely you mean "grmammar nazis"? I'm kidding. I think the problem with bad grammar is when it gets to the point that it's hard to understand, or when you use an ambiguous word when there's a better alternative.
Clinton also had Iraq bombed (in 1998 if I'm not mistaken, after inspections ended), and also bombed Serbia until they submitted, and other countries. The reasons are always different, and you never know what would happen if he was the president after September 11, but it's possible that he would have done exactly the same thing as the Bush administration.