At Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA, about 70% of headphones are iPod earbuds, and most of the rest are replacements connected to a iPod. I don't think I've seen any other mp3 players, and it sort of makes me scared to get anything else. Although, I think I'll be getting an LG Chocolate and using it as an mp3 player.
And as for public transit, Rutgers has free bus service and everyone complains at the start of the fall semester because of the people who think they can drive to class. They don't realize that there are just too many cars on the road if they do that.
From the tree's point of view, yes. From our point of view, how can we know? From God's point of view from outside the universe, then yes, he probably saw that sound waves were created from the tree falling.
I'm glad you were such a rebel -- who else would there be to admire? Your superior knowledge on societal issues is truly refreshing, considering how wimpy all my fellow young americans are. Surely there is something worth fighting for more than scurrying up the social ladder as fast as possible, so that when 28% of the country's population decides to retire, they will be able to take those meaningless upper management and senior engineer positions. I for one will be more than happy to learn from the previous generation on Rugged Individualism while I pay for 1/3 of their retirement. I believe that all those losers who drink, do drugs, and vegetate in front of the TV because they see only two choices, go to college or get stuck in menial jobs, are simply skirting their duty to assert themselves to their peers, their parents, and the world that they will never surrender their ideals, no matter what hardships they face. For what use is it to have a nice house in the suburbs on a quarter acre with a 42" TV and a kegerator when you don't have the firepower to protect it when the FBI comes to your house and informs you that you are a terrorist? I would rather live in a trailer, happily shooting cans with my.22, comfortable in the undeniable fact that I held to my ideals. I'm not worried -- I have $3000 worth of gold, two generators, and 3 years supply of MREs for when the world goes to shit.
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And because Bob, Carol, et al are part of this society too, they don't get to directly choose where their tax money goes. That would be direct democracy -- but by dollars. So, since we elect representatives, and tell them to go vote for what they like, we can't really do much when a majority of them decide that SETI is important, or at least not hurtful enough to warrant it being denied funding. Because who is to say what parts of science are useless? At least you can point to the idea of SETI finding a way for people to donate a portion of the computing power of their computers to a single program, a model subsequently taken up by Folding@Home and others. Its just like how particle accelerators don't produce much direct science, and yet encourage research in superconductors. Think of it this way: the more we push the limits of humans outwards, to knowledge or science or outer space, the less we push on each other (ie war, genocide, crime).
Not that SETI doesn't seem like a waste of time. You'd figure we'd have found something by now. Maybe we are first. Maybe everyone is evolving at just about the same time. Hell, if background radiation is so uniform, perhaps the creation of life is too.
Except he didn't prove anything. He did author the book with Mathematica, but it took his assistant Matthew Cook, under an NDA, to prove that Rule 110 was universal, or (approximately) turing complete, to avoid his coinage.
What really needs to happen is for people to move back into cities. That way, the schools can actually be large enough and have enough resources to both foster students who are very good at certain fields but can decently BS most anything else, and those students who won't really every have a single skill they can rely on. The way you would do it is treat high school more like a university (without the majors and minors) and while ensuring that most kids get a well-rounded education, you can also ensure that the 10% who really excel at certain fields get the chance to be trained well for those fields. Face it: most people see only what they experience and don't try to look any deeper. For them, you need to make them experience everything. For the people who do try to look deeper, whatever skills they have are usually more specialized. For them, you have to ensure they can properly interact with the jacks-of-all-trades (masters of none), but let them get skilled at what they are good at.
There are many reasons to keep some of these more obscure and esoteric languages around. English may be a very adaptable language, but we pay the price in inconsistency. Many of these languages are highly evolved for the small environments they developed in. There is a reason that Eskimo has so many words for varieties of snow, while we ignorant English speakers only have a few. Other languages define things differently, and therefore use those words differently than we do. This is very useful for understanding what other ways of thinking there are rather than the democracy and capitalism influenced English language. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis posits that language influences how you think -- if we lose these languages, then we lose the thought processes those languages encourage. Not that it isn't possible to think that way in English, it would just be a bit harder.
Many people consider companies or named groups of people to be plural to emphasize the constituents. From Wikipedia:
A number of words like army, company, crowd, fleet, government, majority, mess, number, pack, and party may refer either to a single entity or the members of the set that compose it. Thus, as H. W. Fowler describes, in British English they are "treated as singular or plural at discretion"; Fowler notes that occasionally a "delicate distinction" is made possible by discretionary plurals: "The Cabinet is divided is better, because in the order of thought a whole must precede division; and The Cabinet are agreed is better, because it takes two or more to agree."[6] Also in British English, names of towns and countries take plural verbs when they refer to sports teams but singular verbs when they refer to the actual place: England are playing Germany tonight refers to a football game, but England is the most populous country of the United Kingdom refers to the country. In North American English, such words are invariably treated as singular.
Don't listen to this guy. Mercury is not tidally locked with the sun, but rotates very slowly at about 3 rotations for every 2 revolutions around the sun. And even more, an ocean does not act as any sort of a buffer against gravitational forces from the sun. There's just not a significant enough amount of water even on Earth to do so.
The point is that while he was going to school to get a good education, his teacher was only going to do what he was supposed to do and get paid. So, instead of assuming that your teacher cares about your effort and being disappointed when you put in a lot of work only to fail, you should invest that time in yourself, because you certainly appreciate that you learned something new, and that will be useful later.
But the interesting problems today are not what a computer can do but how you can make money off it. There are already enough people working on AI and single-system problems and other people are realizing that integrating this technology back in to society at large through internet services is not only going to get them more money (for some risk), but it is going to be the next big problem in computing. We can worry about whether the traveling salesman problem will be proven to be P-complete later when we have to worry about the bigger problem of how do we improve people's lives through computing.
I think that you are overestimating how complex the human brain is. I believe that humans think the way they do due to a complex interaction between the logical (computer-like) side and the emotional (highly trained neural network) side and little more. It's just that neurons are really efficient at doing that and computers aren't.
The problem with what you outlined is that it goes far too deep across too many levels to be understood quickly. It would be much more effective for a lay person to understand the different components of a computer and how they interact. Such a book should be focused more on how to do different things and where to find them.
This sounds similar to the Deltoid Pumkin Seed, another airplane/blimp hybrid. It was more of a helium-filled flying wing that was tested in the seventies.
You don't have to answer everything right on the SAT's to get an 800. They grade on a curve on a scale from 0 to 1000 and throw out the lowest and highest 200.
The ogg codec ignores the equalizer levels while the mp3 one doesn't. There is an add-on equalizer module that equalizes anything, however, but is slightly buggy. All this is in typical linux fashion.
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At Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA, about 70% of headphones are iPod earbuds, and most of the rest are replacements connected to a iPod. I don't think I've seen any other mp3 players, and it sort of makes me scared to get anything else. Although, I think I'll be getting an LG Chocolate and using it as an mp3 player.
And as for public transit, Rutgers has free bus service and everyone complains at the start of the fall semester because of the people who think they can drive to class. They don't realize that there are just too many cars on the road if they do that.
From the tree's point of view, yes. From our point of view, how can we know? From God's point of view from outside the universe, then yes, he probably saw that sound waves were created from the tree falling.
I think that most of the cost of cabling is actually in the connectors, and HDMI connectors aren't exactly the simplest ones either.
Isn't Japan doing this to all foreigners, not just those from the US?
I'm glad you were such a rebel -- who else would there be to admire? Your superior knowledge on societal issues is truly refreshing, considering how wimpy all my fellow young americans are. Surely there is something worth fighting for more than scurrying up the social ladder as fast as possible, so that when 28% of the country's population decides to retire, they will be able to take those meaningless upper management and senior engineer positions. I for one will be more than happy to learn from the previous generation on Rugged Individualism while I pay for 1/3 of their retirement. I believe that all those losers who drink, do drugs, and vegetate in front of the TV because they see only two choices, go to college or get stuck in menial jobs, are simply skirting their duty to assert themselves to their peers, their parents, and the world that they will never surrender their ideals, no matter what hardships they face. For what use is it to have a nice house in the suburbs on a quarter acre with a 42" TV and a kegerator when you don't have the firepower to protect it when the FBI comes to your house and informs you that you are a terrorist? I would rather live in a trailer, happily shooting cans with my .22, comfortable in the undeniable fact that I held to my ideals. I'm not worried -- I have $3000 worth of gold, two generators, and 3 years supply of MREs for when the world goes to shit.
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of $200 Wal-Mart PCs...
Oh, I guess someone did.
And because Bob, Carol, et al are part of this society too, they don't get to directly choose where their tax money goes. That would be direct democracy -- but by dollars. So, since we elect representatives, and tell them to go vote for what they like, we can't really do much when a majority of them decide that SETI is important, or at least not hurtful enough to warrant it being denied funding. Because who is to say what parts of science are useless? At least you can point to the idea of SETI finding a way for people to donate a portion of the computing power of their computers to a single program, a model subsequently taken up by Folding@Home and others. Its just like how particle accelerators don't produce much direct science, and yet encourage research in superconductors. Think of it this way: the more we push the limits of humans outwards, to knowledge or science or outer space, the less we push on each other (ie war, genocide, crime).
Not that SETI doesn't seem like a waste of time. You'd figure we'd have found something by now. Maybe we are first. Maybe everyone is evolving at just about the same time. Hell, if background radiation is so uniform, perhaps the creation of life is too.
Except he didn't prove anything. He did author the book with Mathematica, but it took his assistant Matthew Cook, under an NDA, to prove that Rule 110 was universal, or (approximately) turing complete, to avoid his coinage.
What really needs to happen is for people to move back into cities. That way, the schools can actually be large enough and have enough resources to both foster students who are very good at certain fields but can decently BS most anything else, and those students who won't really every have a single skill they can rely on. The way you would do it is treat high school more like a university (without the majors and minors) and while ensuring that most kids get a well-rounded education, you can also ensure that the 10% who really excel at certain fields get the chance to be trained well for those fields. Face it: most people see only what they experience and don't try to look any deeper. For them, you need to make them experience everything. For the people who do try to look deeper, whatever skills they have are usually more specialized. For them, you have to ensure they can properly interact with the jacks-of-all-trades (masters of none), but let them get skilled at what they are good at.
There are many reasons to keep some of these more obscure and esoteric languages around. English may be a very adaptable language, but we pay the price in inconsistency. Many of these languages are highly evolved for the small environments they developed in. There is a reason that Eskimo has so many words for varieties of snow, while we ignorant English speakers only have a few. Other languages define things differently, and therefore use those words differently than we do. This is very useful for understanding what other ways of thinking there are rather than the democracy and capitalism influenced English language. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis posits that language influences how you think -- if we lose these languages, then we lose the thought processes those languages encourage. Not that it isn't possible to think that way in English, it would just be a bit harder.
Well, their event horizons can collide, but once that happens, all bets are off, until some einstein 2.0 can figure out what happens in a black hole.
In what part of the country do people say "hoomor"? Not where I'm from.
Don't listen to this guy. Mercury is not tidally locked with the sun, but rotates very slowly at about 3 rotations for every 2 revolutions around the sun. And even more, an ocean does not act as any sort of a buffer against gravitational forces from the sun. There's just not a significant enough amount of water even on Earth to do so.
The point is that while he was going to school to get a good education, his teacher was only going to do what he was supposed to do and get paid. So, instead of assuming that your teacher cares about your effort and being disappointed when you put in a lot of work only to fail, you should invest that time in yourself, because you certainly appreciate that you learned something new, and that will be useful later.
But the interesting problems today are not what a computer can do but how you can make money off it. There are already enough people working on AI and single-system problems and other people are realizing that integrating this technology back in to society at large through internet services is not only going to get them more money (for some risk), but it is going to be the next big problem in computing. We can worry about whether the traveling salesman problem will be proven to be P-complete later when we have to worry about the bigger problem of how do we improve people's lives through computing.
I think that you are overestimating how complex the human brain is. I believe that humans think the way they do due to a complex interaction between the logical (computer-like) side and the emotional (highly trained neural network) side and little more. It's just that neurons are really efficient at doing that and computers aren't.
The problem with what you outlined is that it goes far too deep across too many levels to be understood quickly. It would be much more effective for a lay person to understand the different components of a computer and how they interact. Such a book should be focused more on how to do different things and where to find them.
This sounds similar to the Deltoid Pumkin Seed, another airplane/blimp hybrid. It was more of a helium-filled flying wing that was tested in the seventies.
You don't have to answer everything right on the SAT's to get an 800. They grade on a curve on a scale from 0 to 1000 and throw out the lowest and highest 200.
Your body shouldn't be that good of a resonator that it can tell the difference between two frequencies closer than one hertz.
The ogg codec ignores the equalizer levels while the mp3 one doesn't. There is an add-on equalizer module that equalizes anything, however, but is slightly buggy. All this is in typical linux fashion.
"Ha ha, charade you are!"
Pink Floyd -- Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Maybe that will be when linux is /finally/ ready for the desktop.