It sucks that Nature paywalls, but how exactly do you expect research articles to pay for themselves in advertising? Research isn't exactly material in high enough demand for typical advertising schemes to pull a profit, even over the entire life of the article.
So prison work programs are required to provide only incompetent labor? Seems to me that they could get a lot more done with skilled labor. Perhaps those workers should be fired as soon as they show any improvement in the work they perform?
If you're going to put politics up on the front page, don't select slanted articles from known biased sources. What are you going to do next? Follow it up with a response by the KKK?
Imagine coming back from Iraq, telling the citizenry about your personal experiences, and then being told by them that you're dead wrong. That's how uninformed our citizens are. Their reality resembles the ads on the back of the cereal boxes more than it resembles anything else. The only problem is that we fail to recognize that news is now a commodity, bought, sold, and marketed by people trying to make the highest profit. Only profitable news sells, and even then it gets crowded out by more profitable opinion, hearsay, innuendo, and speculation. What is left can't barely be considered news at all.
Attention to Television at this age is a reflex. One that trains his brain to expect more activity than he will encounter in mundane, real life. Don't feed him that much activity unless you want a brain that needs a complete change of scenery every ~1 second to keep an attention span.
When I was younger, it would be normal for a person to talk to another person on the television for four or five seconds. Now you don't get to see four or five seconds of anything in one continuous shot. It is like the film cutters are getting paid by the cut.
Assuming that a scientist could accurately predict the moral and ethical implications of some natural physical phenomena, how would they not have discovered the the knowledge for which their predictions would be based on? Sounds like your logic circuits have been washed in magical holy water once too often.
If you're really sweating the point.setX(point.getX()+1) call pattern, pray tell why don't you create a point.increment() method? Of if you need more flexibility, a point.add(1) method? It seems like you're really trying to program like an idiot to prove you point that idiots program in Java.
Don't ruin his day, he can't wait to pay the police to follow up on his burglary. The burglars are also banking on stealing items of small enough worth that the cost of police followup makes investigating the crime too expensive. Arguing that some services are social will mess up the whole scheme to have every item under $20 robbed from his house on a daily basis.
Raising fish has given me a lot of insight into light. Put an incandescent bulb above a fish tank and you'll do better than nothing, but will likely cook your fish (and the light isn't enough to do much anyway). Put a cheap fluorescent bulb above a fish tank and you'll get enough light (but in the wrong bandwidths). Put a good fluorescent light above a fish tank and you can sustain plant growth.
It is obvious to other fields too, the best lamps used by quilters are ott (sp?) lamps. My mom swears by them. They reduce eyestrain by putting out a full sun spectrum of light, and a lot of it.
People are getting educated slowly, as now there are at least three different hues of fluorescent light at my hardware store. Don't buy your florescent based on price along (as they are cheaper in the long run than incandescent). Pay attention to what you buy, and get what you feel will be good for you. In your case that's probably a full spectrum bulb.
For a few dollars more, they will sell you a built-in day / night indicator. If you act now, they will sell you the product at the fully price with the day / night indicator thrown in for free!
It's a mixed bag. UV light is necessary for certain vitamin synthesis (not all vitamins are essential, you're body makes a few of them). UV is also good therapeutically at treating certain diseases, and UV light helps produce chemicals in the skin which assist in proper brain regulation. That said, UV light also is directly responsible for skin cancer.
I'll bet that these guys are promoting the good, and ignoring the bad. Odds are the light is filtered, even if filtered unintentionally, buy the first sheet of plastic or glass it passes through, and the "medical" benefits are reduced likewise. But hey, would you expect anything less than a walk on the sunny side of the street of medical optimism from a sales rep?
Besides, you can always charge someone with more than you actually can prove. It's a form of prosecutorial slander, because people don't emotionally know the difference between being charged and being guilty.
I blame CSI, because when was the last time you saw someone charged who was innocent on that program?
You can't respect a profession which takes credit for a community effort and then denies responsibility for something that's supposed to be their domain of excellence.
Teachers stand up and state that they are building the future minds of the country, but when those minds come out sloppy and misshapen, they blame the parents, the administration, the poor economic conditions, the quality of the classroom, lack of pay, etc.
And for five bucks Facebook will sell all that private information to you're employer. Perhaps not today, perhaps not tomorrow, but eventually they'll figure out that it will be a good revenue stream.
Of course, the sale will eventually be reported, and a lawsuit will follow; but, that won't put the cat back into the bag.
Have you ever wondered if it is not the political system that's being applied, but the skill of the practitioners who are responsible for the success and failure of the political system?
Have you listened to a lot of talk radio? There are certainly a number of thought provoking people on the airwaves, but for each one of them there's twenty people spewing non-sequiters and thinly veiled hate speech. A rational argument could be made that all talk radio should be disbanded for the good of our country's educational system.
Personally, I wouldn't want to see talk radio disappear, I'd just want them required to adhere to news standards. By constantly voicing their opinion in "news-like" clothing, they're confusing current issues with inflammatory fantasy. And their audience is eating it up because it's so entertaining. The downside is that we have proven as a nation that people don't think, they repeat what they have been told are good ideas.
It's so bad now that I can't even follow my brother's arguments, because as I just try to ask for an explanation of what he's so worked up about, I get hit with new unrelated arguments. It's like a new argumentative fallacy, if you manage to bewilder your audience, you're right!
You're getting into the upper ranks. Once you earn your first Circular Slide Rule, doors you never even knew existed start opening up for you. Try the Transcendental Hyper-Sphere Squared Quantum State Slide Rule. It's the same model used by Nuclear Scientists and NASA Physicists. Of course, immediately prior to use you need to calibrate it with three independent agencies to be dead on balls accurate. It's an industry term.
A Turing Machine is a mathematical model of computation. In any math model there may be an impedance mismatch between the model and it's translation to physical representation. The key is to make sure the mismatch only affects items which are not critical to the usefulness of the model.
I agree that from a physical and practical point of view, this is a Turning Machine, because it is the best approximation of the model in physical form that anyone will be able to build.
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Insightful. Sucks when you were going for the "funny" mod, doesn't it?
It sucks that Nature paywalls, but how exactly do you expect research articles to pay for themselves in advertising? Research isn't exactly material in high enough demand for typical advertising schemes to pull a profit, even over the entire life of the article.
Remember that at least one of the alternatives is "the perfect market". Free market can't be better than that!
So prison work programs are required to provide only incompetent labor? Seems to me that they could get a lot more done with skilled labor. Perhaps those workers should be fired as soon as they show any improvement in the work they perform?
Problems with coverage in population centers shouldn't be discounted, because it's the population that uses the phones.
If you're going to put politics up on the front page, don't select slanted articles from known biased sources. What are you going to do next? Follow it up with a response by the KKK?
+20 Insightful.
Imagine coming back from Iraq, telling the citizenry about your personal experiences, and then being told by them that you're dead wrong. That's how uninformed our citizens are. Their reality resembles the ads on the back of the cereal boxes more than it resembles anything else. The only problem is that we fail to recognize that news is now a commodity, bought, sold, and marketed by people trying to make the highest profit. Only profitable news sells, and even then it gets crowded out by more profitable opinion, hearsay, innuendo, and speculation. What is left can't barely be considered news at all.
Attention to Television at this age is a reflex. One that trains his brain to expect more activity than he will encounter in mundane, real life. Don't feed him that much activity unless you want a brain that needs a complete change of scenery every ~1 second to keep an attention span.
When I was younger, it would be normal for a person to talk to another person on the television for four or five seconds. Now you don't get to see four or five seconds of anything in one continuous shot. It is like the film cutters are getting paid by the cut.
Assuming that a scientist could accurately predict the moral and ethical implications of some natural physical phenomena, how would they not have discovered the the knowledge for which their predictions would be based on? Sounds like your logic circuits have been washed in magical holy water once too often.
... most PCs have gone waaaaay past good enough several years back, and for most have reached ludicrous speed...
I won't be happy till my PC goes plaid!
If you're really sweating the point.setX(point.getX()+1) call pattern, pray tell why don't you create a point.increment() method? Of if you need more flexibility, a point.add(1) method? It seems like you're really trying to program like an idiot to prove you point that idiots program in Java.
Don't ruin his day, he can't wait to pay the police to follow up on his burglary. The burglars are also banking on stealing items of small enough worth that the cost of police followup makes investigating the crime too expensive. Arguing that some services are social will mess up the whole scheme to have every item under $20 robbed from his house on a daily basis.
No, but the chain of people submitting stories seem to need such clarification...
Raising fish has given me a lot of insight into light. Put an incandescent bulb above a fish tank and you'll do better than nothing, but will likely cook your fish (and the light isn't enough to do much anyway). Put a cheap fluorescent bulb above a fish tank and you'll get enough light (but in the wrong bandwidths). Put a good fluorescent light above a fish tank and you can sustain plant growth.
It is obvious to other fields too, the best lamps used by quilters are ott (sp?) lamps. My mom swears by them. They reduce eyestrain by putting out a full sun spectrum of light, and a lot of it.
People are getting educated slowly, as now there are at least three different hues of fluorescent light at my hardware store. Don't buy your florescent based on price along (as they are cheaper in the long run than incandescent). Pay attention to what you buy, and get what you feel will be good for you. In your case that's probably a full spectrum bulb.
For a few dollars more, they will sell you a built-in day / night indicator. If you act now, they will sell you the product at the fully price with the day / night indicator thrown in for free!
It's a mixed bag. UV light is necessary for certain vitamin synthesis (not all vitamins are essential, you're body makes a few of them). UV is also good therapeutically at treating certain diseases, and UV light helps produce chemicals in the skin which assist in proper brain regulation. That said, UV light also is directly responsible for skin cancer.
I'll bet that these guys are promoting the good, and ignoring the bad. Odds are the light is filtered, even if filtered unintentionally, buy the first sheet of plastic or glass it passes through, and the "medical" benefits are reduced likewise. But hey, would you expect anything less than a walk on the sunny side of the street of medical optimism from a sales rep?
Besides, you can always charge someone with more than you actually can prove. It's a form of prosecutorial slander, because people don't emotionally know the difference between being charged and being guilty.
I blame CSI, because when was the last time you saw someone charged who was innocent on that program?
You can't respect a profession which takes credit for a community effort and then denies responsibility for something that's supposed to be their domain of excellence.
Teachers stand up and state that they are building the future minds of the country, but when those minds come out sloppy and misshapen, they blame the parents, the administration, the poor economic conditions, the quality of the classroom, lack of pay, etc.
And for five bucks Facebook will sell all that private information to you're employer. Perhaps not today, perhaps not tomorrow, but eventually they'll figure out that it will be a good revenue stream. Of course, the sale will eventually be reported, and a lawsuit will follow; but, that won't put the cat back into the bag.
But all that sand will scratch the finish. That is, if you don't breathe on the finish scratching it first.
Have you ever wondered if it is not the political system that's being applied, but the skill of the practitioners who are responsible for the success and failure of the political system?
Have you listened to a lot of talk radio? There are certainly a number of thought provoking people on the airwaves, but for each one of them there's twenty people spewing non-sequiters and thinly veiled hate speech. A rational argument could be made that all talk radio should be disbanded for the good of our country's educational system.
Personally, I wouldn't want to see talk radio disappear, I'd just want them required to adhere to news standards. By constantly voicing their opinion in "news-like" clothing, they're confusing current issues with inflammatory fantasy. And their audience is eating it up because it's so entertaining. The downside is that we have proven as a nation that people don't think, they repeat what they have been told are good ideas.
It's so bad now that I can't even follow my brother's arguments, because as I just try to ask for an explanation of what he's so worked up about, I get hit with new unrelated arguments. It's like a new argumentative fallacy, if you manage to bewilder your audience, you're right!
Skeptical look.... Is this micro-controller made with real bits of Turing?
You're getting into the upper ranks. Once you earn your first Circular Slide Rule, doors you never even knew existed start opening up for you. Try the Transcendental Hyper-Sphere Squared Quantum State Slide Rule. It's the same model used by Nuclear Scientists and NASA Physicists. Of course, immediately prior to use you need to calibrate it with three independent agencies to be dead on balls accurate. It's an industry term.
A Turing Machine is a mathematical model of computation. In any math model there may be an impedance mismatch between the model and it's translation to physical representation. The key is to make sure the mismatch only affects items which are not critical to the usefulness of the model.
I agree that from a physical and practical point of view, this is a Turning Machine, because it is the best approximation of the model in physical form that anyone will be able to build.