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  1. Re:Dreaming of code? on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 1

    Apple Machine code? My memory is telling me the first is a single byte instruction, the second is a jump...

  2. Re:A bigger mystery on Flying Snake Mysteries Revealed · · Score: 1

    Snakes climb trees, and jump (okay, slither) out of trees, all the time. The best eggs are up there, and an occasional bite that tastes like chicken.

    Point being, that this one doesn't require lots of snakes to die; it's a normal progression.

  3. Re:It's the orbit, stupid on What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? · · Score: 1

    Aside from that, I pulled up the links from a google search to cherry-pick the items that I was looking for. These things have all appeared in reputable journals; but a) people who espouse popular theories odon't cite; b) those who do cite while espousing popular theories put their articles behind paywalls.

    Face it, if you know about a journal article, and want to easily give references here on the web, you're going to have to learn to look at papers with theories you consider nutty.

    Either that, or you're going to have to come up with a service tthat reads journal articles, references them, and summarizes them with all the relevant information, and then pays for itself with google ads.

    Take your pick.

  4. Re:It's the orbit, stupid on What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? · · Score: 1

    Umm... there IS evidence of Noah's flood. And georeactors are common. Admittedly, they may have some crackpot ideas, but they are right to point out that certain items of evidence don't line up with current theory.

    In that sense, I wish more slashdotters would listen to creation theorists, and tinfoil hatters more often, because to drown them out implies a blind faith in scientists and textbooks, a rational absurdity.

    Remember that quote that the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine? To silence evidence that conflicts with current theory is a a no-brainer, as in, it is a negation of the brain God gave you.

  5. Re:It's the orbit, stupid on What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That bit about continents *is* a standard theory... but it has nothing on 11k years ago. Same thing goes for the orbit. So no, it isn't the orbit, and it isn't the landmasses.

    Let's see... you have the North American Clovis Point people going extinct at the same time. So it isn't *who* killed them either. If the Clovis people had killed them off, you wouldn't have had them going extinct.

    Also, at the same time, you have wildfires throughout North America. That soot contains microdiamonds.

    You also have mammoths in Siberia at that time, flash frozen (Alaska Science Forum November 1, 1976. Mystery of the Mammoth and the Buttercups Article #122 by J. Holland).

    You also have great areas in Alaska of jumbled up, blasted fauna caracases, many of them torn apart.

    Now, all told, I'm going to posit -- and I doubt I'm the first to do so -- that an asteroid hit a glacier up against the south side of a mountain in Northern Alaska. The first thing it did, was melt/throw the ice of the glacier in a great parabolic trajectory. The water of the glacier went into near space, froze to extremely low temperatures, and came down. But meanwhile, the asteroid impacted the south side of the mountain, and vaporized, causing a fireball to project back into North America.

    Thus the soot, thus the extinctions (animal and Clovis culture), thus the flash-frozen mammoth, thus the tectites, thus the great boneyards.

    And no, for those creationists here, I extremely doubt that ANY of this had to do with Noah's flood. Noah's flood dates to about 5000 ya, and seems to match the Madagascar chevrons and 8' of river mud, pretty well. This is something different.

  6. Re:units please on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 2

    Welcome to the era of Rome. 100 miles is 100.000 paces, which is very a very appropriate unit when you are asking OUT OF CHARGE!!!?!?!

  7. Re:VT University? *facepalm* on Powering Phones, PCs Using Sugar · · Score: 1

    The Educational Institute of Engineering and Industrial Operations

  8. Re:The 1%'ers on How Silicon Valley CEOs Conspired To Suppress Engineers' Wages · · Score: 1

    Do you mean the settlements before the mega-bonuses, or after, or both? And do you mean settlement payments made with funds acquired from TARP, which doubled the national debt and gave it all in interest-free (negative real interest) loans with no date due?

    Yes, I was very aware of it. I was also aware of what it did to the job market, since it crashed a huge number of businesses, and put employees on the street without job, house, or home.

    Yes. That was quite a wakeup call.

    Do you think the bankers missed it? Or do you think they noticed?

  9. Re:Time for unionization in the tech sector yet? on How Silicon Valley CEOs Conspired To Suppress Engineers' Wages · · Score: 1

    What you just said is why I don't argue against socialized medicine in the US. We already have socialized medicine. What is the hallmark of socialized medicine? Any limobough listener can tell you: the unavailability of service.

    What they cannot tell you is what those words mean, because IT IS STARING THEM IN THE FACE AND THEY DON'T SEE IT!

    They say, well, you can get very good health care, if you can afford it... and fail to notice that almost nobody can afford it. I've got news for you! The Chinese party leadership and Russian party leadership and their favorites of the day could also get very good healthcare. But it is practically speaking, unavailable.

    Posting anonymously because nobody's going to read it, much less my moniker above...

  10. Re:Good news, everyone! on How Silicon Valley CEOs Conspired To Suppress Engineers' Wages · · Score: 1

    Operagost!

    The galactic police are after you!

  11. Are we forgetting something? on Gmail Bug Sends Thousands of Emails To One Man · · Score: 1

    This guy has a HOTMAIL account. One of my brothers had a hotmail account about the time hotmail started ...ummm... releasing the names of their users' non-hotmail contacts to spammers.

    Point being, maybe this guy should change to a non-hotmail account. Then Google can update their form to the NEXT super-popular hotmail user.

    Okay, tongue in cheek all done.

    Yes, it is not lost on me that worse than "don't be evil" is the unstated "don't be NSA", and worse than that is "don't be Microsoft", and Google is even messing up that one...

  12. Option #3 is overblown on Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World · · Score: 1

    Printing something on an old blank book is hardly an indication that a forger predicted carbon dating. It rather indicates that one of the best standard starters for creating a forgery is to use original materials.

    1) The Gospel of Thomas manuscript is printed on paper from the Middle East dating to about seventy AD, with inks local to the region and time period, but with pollen embedded in the ink that dates to 1100 AD italy. The manuscript upholds Muslim claims about Jesus, at a time when Muslims were moving into Italy.

    2) Even the fact that the manuscript is made on old paper doesn't demonstrate that the artist intended a forgery. Suppose the artist were painting on paper he recieved from a friend, who in turn recieved it from his Grandpa's estate?

    Actually, I think that this manuscript is not very interesting.

  13. For a less snide answer... on Ask Slashdot: It's 2014 -- Which New Technologies Should I Learn? · · Score: 1

    I would suggest that you ought to forget employability.

    Get the web Version of âoeThe incredible Secret Money machineâoe by Don Lancaster. Then realize that the new growth industry is poverty and homelessness. Invest in that!
    Make a bicycle trailer that can be a really practical camper. Or make a good solar system. Just one product line is all you need for starters.

    Make something that the homeless or soon-to-be-homeless can use to live and survive cost free.

  14. Re:Universal... on Ask Slashdot: It's 2014 -- Which New Technologies Should I Learn? · · Score: 1

    For employability?

    Learn to flip burgers... for a job at McDonalds.

    Learn to drive, for a job at Dominos where you have to clock out whenever you're actually doing your job, and use up your own car, and the company charges a delivery fee that goes in the owner's pocket and ends up eliminating the actual tip.

    Learn to smile and say welcome to Walmart, then turn around and ask to see people's receipts when they leave.

    Learn to lie and cheat and steal and backstab your opponents' friends for a job in politics.

    Learn to embezzle for a job on Wall Street

    I guess we're also paying doctors at the moment, possibly dentists; insurance makes an okay scam...

    The government employees' unions haven't crashed, so being a union rep might pay (but I expect the glorious pensions of the employees themselves will evaporate when the cities go bankrupt)

    I'm not sure that any other skills are employable. To be employable, you have to do a job that those with money will pay for.

    Oh, sooner or later there will be jobs for soldiers to shoot rioters, but they won't pay for that. See what happened in Zaire/Congo.

  15. Re: Bios code? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    Gandalf? Is that you?

  16. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    I disagree with your assertion and explanation AND history, in addition to the fact that the words of Jesus were for all time, by one who could see all time.

    It doesn't work.
    BUT aside from and on top of all that, "meek" refers to being powerfully in good self control. Ninjas, if they existed, would have to be meek (I'm agnostic on that one).

    So turning the other cheek in the manner you described would reflect a determination to be meek at all costs.

    What Ysua Mossioch ben Joseph / ben David was saying is given a context by the rest of what he said in that commentary: that you are to be meek and of good will toward all. And that he was both, is inadvertently testified to by the Jewish saying, 'the first mossiach , he is the second mossioch". They don't think they mean it like that--they think that it means that the mossioch will share characteristics with Moses, such as being meek and humble, and they are right. But it is also true that the first mossioch (ben Joseph) he is the second mossioch (ben David), for the mossioch who tragically died also demonstrated the full power of the mossioch ben David, and used it to heal the sick and lame. But he had to pay for it with his own suffering, as it says in Isaiah, "upon him were laid our stripes", and in the Psalms, âoeHow shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good He has done for me? The cup of salvation (the fourth cup of the Passover is called that, and there is a hymn, the Great Hallel, sung between the 3rd and 4th) I will take up (which also can be understood 'aloft', that is, while hanging on the cross) and I will call upon the Lord"

    Thus, to be mossioch Son of David, he had to be meek enough to be willing to be Mossioch Son of Joseph, afterwards, and go to his death, trusting in God despite everything. And because he was willing to do this, he was counted worthy to be not only high priest, and king, but also redeemer of God's people, and the one to bring the nations to God.

  17. Re:If that wasn't cruel and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 2

    Anecdote time.

    I for one got attacked, ringed, and beaten by three guys while walking home at night. It gave me PTSD. Seriously, every time I walked past someone who looked remotely similar to my attackers, I wanted to have a gun, pull it out, and shoot them in the face. At all OTHER times, I desperately wanted to be sure I'd never have a gun, for I could see I'd kill an innocent person. This got worse and worse, until in prayer I got back that I had to give up all thought of defending myself or even my family with violence. When I offered that up, the PTSD evaporated.

    Fast forward to six years later, in Lithuania. My wife looked out her window and screamed. I came running, and she pointed to a guy down in the parking lot who was kicking a woman to death. She was unconscious; He'd pull back his leg for a good, full-swing kick, let loose, and her head would go up about a foot, and the ragdoll would flop to the ground again. Well, the Bible says you shall not let an innocent person be put to death, so I had to go running out there. I was terrified, because this guy was nuts with violence, and I couldn't use violence. I especially didn't want my wife, who was watching, to see me fall in that thing.
    So I went out, and tried to reason with him, and he started explaining why she really needed a good beating to death, and I responded that you still can't do that... so she started coming to. He turned around, saw it, and went to say, come on, let's go. I thought, "he's going to take her away somewhere private and finish the job", so I interposed my hands between him and her. He turned on me with a viciouse harvester to my temple, knocked me back. I made the sign of the cross with my arms, and a it absorbed a roundhouse kick that threw me back about eight feet. At this point, I thought that the cross with the arms was too martial or anti-vampire-like, so I changed it to a hand-wave sign of the cross blessing, and said God bless you. He shook himself, looked around, and saw that the girl's sister was leading her away. He followed them at 100 feet; I followed him at 100'; and after a bit I realized a police van was following ME at 100'. we went a quarter of a mile, and the sister turned to the guy, told him to run away, get outta there, pointed to the police van. He left.Then they pulled up next to me, said that they had seen everything, and would pick him up later. They knew who he was and where he lived.

    In a way, it was all very comical.

    But it also points out two things: yes Christians really are supposed to take Jesus seriously, and no, He doesn't leave them defenseless. Just, his defenses are other than you would expect, and where war is the result of the ultimate of clumsiness, Jesus' defenses for His people are anything but clumsy.

  18. Standard Deviation is fn of 2nd moment of the data on Why Standard Deviation Should Be Retired From Scientific Use · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can really go for renaming standard deviation, but it should not be abolished.

    Standard deviation is a function of the second moment of the data, and if you remember your laws for combining moments of inertia (the parallel axis theorem), then you'll understand better what you're dealing with.

    2nd moments detail resistance to spin, and thus the resiliance of your findings to changes and errors.

  19. Re:His bio: Solution for n-particle problem on Kazakh Professor Claims Solution of Another Millennium Prize Problem · · Score: 2

    Arxiv.org/pdf/1007.1677

    The solution is published there, and easy to understand.

    Considering that the Taylor series is an exact solution, and existance /uniqueness of the solution has been proven, one can.definitively say that the solution is numerically differentiable. That is not CFD/FEM. That is an exact solution.

  20. Re:His bio: Solution for n-particle problem on Kazakh Professor Claims Solution of Another Millennium Prize Problem · · Score: 2

    I believe his claim. My father published the solution to the n-body problem: it involves applying the Parker-Sochacki solution to the Picard Iteration to celestial mechanics.

    Google it. His tutorial is easy to understand and use for other applications.

    http://csma31.csm.jmu.edu/physics/rudmin/parkersochacki.htm

    Arxiv.org/pdf/1007.1677

    Why do I believe his claim? Because although Parker and Sochacki independently came up with their solutions, my father believes that others have as well: an italian guy seems to have done it in the 50s, and his paper describes another such historical event. In both cases, the solution was not published, but the results were, and show the hallmarks of the method.

  21. Re:Conspiracy on Kazakh Professor Claims Solution of Another Millennium Prize Problem · · Score: 3, Informative

    Okay, define three points, and a fourth point not coplanar with the first three. Now, sum up the area of the triangles defined by the fourth point, and subtract the area of the triangle of the first three. You thus define a field that is zero on the triangle of the first three, but nonzero everywhere else. Now, if you substitute a function for the perpendicular position of point four, you can get a field that is zero on a predefined curved plane, bounded by the three-point triangle.

    Now, divide any arbitrary surface into such triangles, and multiply the fields together, and you will have a field that is zero on the surface of your object, nonzero everywhere else.

    Do this with Parker-sochacki equations, and the solution is computationally simple.

    Now, based on this field define a coordinate system whose air velocity is a function of the field value, and zero where the field is zero.

    Now, again using Parker-Sochacki, plug that into the Navier Stokes equations, under the effect of a body force that is a miniscule fraction of the difference in velocity from your desired free-stream velocity.

    The result will be a mclauren (taylor) series that gives the velocity of the air at any point and time. Since the existance and uniqueness of the Parker Sochacki is already proven, then the existance/uniqueness of the Navier-Stokes solution is also provable.

  22. Re:Why does Ford need this data? on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    So... there are two types of people in the world, those who crave closure, deserve what they get.

    Okay.

    That said, I quoted you to my wife, and she burst out laughing.

  23. Re:Why does Ford need this data? on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    And those who don't pay attention?

  24. Re: Verilog on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it looks like all my math got eaten up between less-than and greater than signs.

  25. Re: Verilog on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 1

    I should also note that it is possible to MULTIPLY the factors to get the target number, which is simply an incrementally-ordered shift and an addition and subtraction.

    Example: with all numbers in floatingepoint binary,

    Take log (1011.0111)
    T=1.0110111, Mantissa=11

    1.1>T; don't use 1.1
    1.01T, try 1.0000000001)

    So :

    log(1.0110111)=log(1.01)+log(1.001)+log(1.000001)+log(1.00000000001)+...

    And

    Log(1011.011)=11+log(1.0110111)