Here's an idea: lets bring some asteroids back and place them at L1 and L2, then build stuff on them.
Maybe someone with actual physics knowledge can comment on whether this is more efficient than just lifting the equivalent mass or volume out of Earths gravity well?
Wait, from your description he really *does* sound like a random schmuck who accidentally acquired a lot of money and is doing the silly things that any random schmuck would do with it. I'm not sure how that makes him "cool" though.
Uh, forgive me for not understanding QM, but how exactly would we *know* that the cat is in a superposition of states? As soon as we check, they would collapse, no?
Unless of course we can cause the probability wave of the cat state to interfere with itself in some way not classically explainable, but I have a hard time thinking of a way to do that.
I use Subversion on a daily basis, and I believe everything positive you said about ClearCase holds true for Subversion, except point 9. There are some philosophical objections to 9 (you should test the resulting code before committing it anyway), but I don't know if it's a design decision or a missing feature.
That's not to say that Subversion doesn't have problems of its own though, but using CVS as a representation of the state of version control systems is like judging proprietary software on the basis of Windows 95.
I think that's quite common; Sweden itself has a limit of 4%. Which in my view may be good as it kept some xenophobic parties out of parliament (unlike in many other European countries this election, I'm sad to say). It also makes things like debates and campaign funding easier to manage, otherwise we would have hundreds of parties which would all have to be treated equal.
They aren't saying that 50% of *people* in the UK are sharing illegally, though.. they are saying that 50% of *traffic* is illegal, presumably counting by data volume. That 50% could be caused by a minority of people.
Not that I support them, but we shouldn't misrepresent their made up statistics.
Finally someone who understands the role of chaos/complexity in finance - it seems to me that even economists in general have never viewed it that way (though some are working on it).
I don't think you can come up with the tool you are suggesting, though, because the tool would alter the game and would thus have to take *itself* into account in the model, and it can only do this through the simplifications you want to avoid.
I think you're talking about the FRA law, allowing domestic wiretapping of all data traffic. This article is about IPRED, which makes it possible for copyright holders to request customer information from ISPs given IP addresses suspected of copyright infringement. Or something like that.
Speaking as a Swedish software developer, I don't know any local professional in the field who would even consider writing identifiers and comments in anything other than English. Documentation is a different issue where the choice depends upon the target audience: if it has a chance of being international, it's always in English.
I think the reason can be summed up in four points: culture - IT is done in English, that's just how it is. literature - Who would translate The Pragmatic Programmer to Swedish? communication - It's the lingua franca of software engineering in international settings. harmonization - All APIs are in English, so having Swedish identifiers would just look stupid and not read very well.
Funny, I was watching the same speech, and I thought he went out of his way to stress that this goes beyond the campaign. I guess I'm just retarded.
Regarding his concrete plans, he's a *politician*. None of the candidates have provided much in the way of concrete plans, much to my frustration. There is no doubt that Obama can fail to live up expectations -- hell, I don't see how he *can* -- but that goes for any new president, and America wouldn't have a separate presidential election if it was all about the issues as opposed to the person.
I think I'm actually proud of you, America. Not just for electing Obama over McCain; but for producing *two* sensible candidates and then choosing the one who makes history. I'm glad I stayed up to watch it live.
I agree (Swede here) - I don't think Obama is the bloody Messiah, and I agree more with McCain on some issues, but damn.. I was up until 7am just to see this unfold, and seeing both McCains gracious concession speech and Obamas acceptance speech was rather emotional.
As a citizen of one of said Nordic welfare states, I think most of us (including those who agree with their ideologies) consider both your major parties to be right-wing. Accusing the Democratic party of being communist is like accusing Hugo Chavez of being a libertarian anarchist.
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Herman Cain, is that you?
Google has a sentient bidding algorithm and it's trying to communicate.
Here's an idea: lets bring some asteroids back and place them at L1 and L2, then build stuff on them.
Maybe someone with actual physics knowledge can comment on whether this is more efficient than just lifting the equivalent mass or volume out of Earths gravity well?
Or perhaps it is the perfect time to do it?
This should be decided by a court, not by people on the internet.
"When they bounce off of each other, A will, naturally, have velocity +4 and B velocity -1."
I'm not sure that's true in this scenario.
People.
... but unfortunately I'm speeding to my death as I type.
Wait, from your description he really *does* sound like a random schmuck who accidentally acquired a lot of money and is doing the silly things that any random schmuck would do with it. I'm not sure how that makes him "cool" though.
Uh, forgive me for not understanding QM, but how exactly would we *know* that the cat is in a superposition of states? As soon as we check, they would collapse, no?
Unless of course we can cause the probability wave of the cat state to interfere with itself in some way not classically explainable, but I have a hard time thinking of a way to do that.
I use Subversion on a daily basis, and I believe everything positive you said about ClearCase holds true for Subversion, except point 9. There are some philosophical objections to 9 (you should test the resulting code before committing it anyway), but I don't know if it's a design decision or a missing feature.
That's not to say that Subversion doesn't have problems of its own though, but using CVS as a representation of the state of version control systems is like judging proprietary software on the basis of Windows 95.
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I think that's quite common; Sweden itself has a limit of 4%. Which in my view may be good as it kept some xenophobic parties out of parliament (unlike in many other European countries this election, I'm sad to say). It also makes things like debates and campaign funding easier to manage, otherwise we would have hundreds of parties which would all have to be treated equal.
They aren't saying that 50% of *people* in the UK are sharing illegally, though.. they are saying that 50% of *traffic* is illegal, presumably counting by data volume. That 50% could be caused by a minority of people.
Not that I support them, but we shouldn't misrepresent their made up statistics.
Finally someone who understands the role of chaos/complexity in finance - it seems to me that even economists in general have never viewed it that way (though some are working on it).
I don't think you can come up with the tool you are suggesting, though, because the tool would alter the game and would thus have to take *itself* into account in the model, and it can only do this through the simplifications you want to avoid.
I think you're talking about the FRA law, allowing domestic wiretapping of all data traffic. This article is about IPRED, which makes it possible for copyright holders to request customer information from ISPs given IP addresses suspected of copyright infringement. Or something like that.
Speaking as a Swedish software developer, I don't know any local professional in the field who would even consider writing identifiers and comments in anything other than English. Documentation is a different issue where the choice depends upon the target audience: if it has a chance of being international, it's always in English.
I think the reason can be summed up in four points:
culture - IT is done in English, that's just how it is.
literature - Who would translate The Pragmatic Programmer to Swedish?
communication - It's the lingua franca of software engineering in international settings.
harmonization - All APIs are in English, so having Swedish identifiers would just look stupid and not read very well.
Talk about selective memory. Did you miss the global financial crisis? Everybody elses economy is in the crapper too. Including China.
Time Nazis would make an excellent Doctor Who episode..
There are non-underage children? I guess technically everyone is someones child, but..
Funny, I was watching the same speech, and I thought he went out of his way to stress that this goes beyond the campaign. I guess I'm just retarded.
Regarding his concrete plans, he's a *politician*. None of the candidates have provided much in the way of concrete plans, much to my frustration. There is no doubt that Obama can fail to live up expectations -- hell, I don't see how he *can* -- but that goes for any new president, and America wouldn't have a separate presidential election if it was all about the issues as opposed to the person.
This will certainly be interesting.
I think I'm actually proud of you, America. Not just for electing Obama over McCain; but for producing *two* sensible candidates and then choosing the one who makes history. I'm glad I stayed up to watch it live.
I agree (Swede here) - I don't think Obama is the bloody Messiah, and I agree more with McCain on some issues, but damn.. I was up until 7am just to see this unfold, and seeing both McCains gracious concession speech and Obamas acceptance speech was rather emotional.
Now I'm very tired.
And then the question becomes: what else was in that bill?
Oh it will, in the rest frames of those other two objects.
As a citizen of one of said Nordic welfare states, I think most of us (including those who agree with their ideologies) consider both your major parties to be right-wing.
Accusing the Democratic party of being communist is like accusing Hugo Chavez of being a libertarian anarchist.