Indeed, with millions of prayers heaven's hotline is just overloaded. When God asked man to multiply, he should have thought about appropriate communication infrastructure...
The extra bit of rotation is so that a "day" is the time between two consecutive midnights. But yes, the difference is because of the orbit (and indeed, it's actually a mean day, but that wouldn't be needed if the stellar day was used, because the earth's own rotation doesn't change along the orbit; the solar day does, however, due to the excentricity of the Earth's orbit.
A concrete prediction must incorporate some explanation
No. While concrete predictions usually do come with explanations (because those explanations are what is used to make those predictions), it's perfectly possible to make predictions without explanations. All you need is to recognize some regularity, and to assume the regularity also holds in the future.
A simple prediction without explanation: "If you hit your thumb with a hammer, it will hurt." It's a prediction (which most likely will turn out true if you try it), but it contains absolutely no explanation (it doesn't say why it hurts when you hit your thumb with a hammer).
Did you actually RTFA? Sure, they send documents (might as well when they have the system), but what they're raving about in TFA is that they can send tissue samples and other bits and pieces of their patients.
They obviously didn't make the tubes large enough to send their patients as a whole, so they have to resort to sending them in bits and pieces. I wonder how long they need to put them back together on the receiving side... SCNR
A day from solar zenith to solar zenith is about 360.97 degrees of a rotation... I've always thought it was a better measurement to consider a full rotation to be a "day".
what does this potentially bring us, other than that better description?
Insight.
You know us engineers will be snickering until you show us something we can do or make shiny with this.
You know, when Newton figured out the fundamentals of physics, he didn't do so to produce new shiny toys, but to understand the universe. Newton was philosopher, not engineer.
Do you have any concrete prediction of religion which became true? And no, "everything will happen exactly as the god wants" is no prediction (unless you accompany it with an exact description of what the god wants). It is an explanation, though (it explains why things happen as they do, namely "because god wants them that way"), it's just not a very satisfying explanation (well, unless you are a True Believer(TM), then the explanation is perfectly satisfying:-))
For the "Personas" vs. Themes: From what I can see, Personas allow to modify only the part of the UI I care the least about: The background of the top and bottom parts. For me, Personas is something I'll almost certainly ignore completely. The main reason why I'm using a non-default theme is that it gives me much smaller icons than the default ones, thus eating less from my valuable screen space, despite having additional toolbars.
About JetPack, I cannot comment, because I ddon't know enough about it. But I know one thing for sure: If it doesn't allow to implement all of the functionality of NoScript, AdBlock Plus, RequestPolicy and FoxyProxy (and probably a few other extensions I depend on, but forgot), I don't want it. If they allow all the needed functionality, but with a sane interface which remains stable, I'm all for it.
Oh, and BTW, does anyone know an extension which replaces the silly one-menu-for-both-directions approach with the previous backwards-menu/forwards-menu approach, where I don't have to hunt for the position of the current page and move my mouse half across the screen just to go back two pages at once?
Indeed, I also can type purely by using my mind. I just think what I want to type, and my fingers type it. I don't have to think about which muscles to activate in which sequence, I don't even have to think about muscles, or about nerve pulses, or anything like that. I don't even explicitly command my fingers to press keys. I use my mind, and my body just does what I want.
That depends on the language. For example, if you want to write in German "Ich habe in Moskau liebe Genossen" (I have dear comrades in Moscow), but the system types "Ich habe in Moskau Liebe genossen" (I've enjoyed love in Moskow), you'll certainly not like the result, especially if the recipient is your wive (who doesn't live in Moscow):-)
Well, unless they built a perpetual motion machine of the second kind.:-)
But actually, it may be due to the fact that normally you don't really feel the real temperature, but when it's cold, the temperature of the air directly at your skin is still higher than the surrounding air (unless there is wind, which is why you feel cold faster when there's wind). If this device has better heat transport to the surrounding air (e.g. because the surface to air is larger than the surface to you skin), you may feel colder that normally.
Just for good measure, I still refuse to use XML in any application I design. I have no intentions of changing that any time soon either.
I get you're not planning to write a web browser.:-)
Yes, XML gets abused a lot. But I think there are applications where it makes sense. Namely those where the content is text with some markup (ever wondered what the "M" in XML stood for?:-))
Semantics. Java objects are very different from C++ objects (to start with, they don't support value semantics), Java generics are radically different from C++ templates, and the semantics of Java volatile is completely orthogonal to the semantics of C or C++ volatile (although it's a common error in C or C++ to use volatile as if it had Java semantics).
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Depends. Is it a +3 blessed jailbroken unlocked iPhone 3GS, or just a +1 blessed jailbroken unlocked iPhone 3GS?
All four, of course:
Conquest: viruses and worms
War: rootkits and trojans
Famine: DoS attacks
Death: Blue Screen (or Kernel Panic for Linux users)
Indeed, with millions of prayers heaven's hotline is just overloaded. When God asked man to multiply, he should have thought about appropriate communication infrastructure ...
But "Domain Name System Server" has exactly zero redundancy.
And the latter is called stellar day and is the actual time of one full rotation of the Earth around its axis.
That's completely irrelevant to the distinction between stellar day and sidereal day.
The extra bit of rotation is so that a "day" is the time between two consecutive midnights. But yes, the difference is because of the orbit (and indeed, it's actually a mean day, but that wouldn't be needed if the stellar day was used, because the earth's own rotation doesn't change along the orbit; the solar day does, however, due to the excentricity of the Earth's orbit.
No. While concrete predictions usually do come with explanations (because those explanations are what is used to make those predictions), it's perfectly possible to make predictions without explanations. All you need is to recognize some regularity, and to assume the regularity also holds in the future.
A simple prediction without explanation: "If you hit your thumb with a hammer, it will hurt." It's a prediction (which most likely will turn out true if you try it), but it contains absolutely no explanation (it doesn't say why it hurts when you hit your thumb with a hammer).
No, a sidereal day is about 0.008 seconds shorter than a stellar day. (See the second paragraph.)
Did you actually RTFA? Sure, they send documents (might as well when they have the system), but what they're raving about in TFA is that they can send tissue samples and other bits and pieces of their patients.
They obviously didn't make the tubes large enough to send their patients as a whole, so they have to resort to sending them in bits and pieces. I wonder how long they need to put them back together on the receiving side ...
SCNR
Indeed, I don't consider a concentration of marketing people and bureaucrats very attractive. Which seems to support the theory.
A day from solar zenith to solar zenith is about 360.97 degrees of a rotation... I've always thought it was a better measurement to consider a full rotation to be a "day".
That one is called stellar day.
Insight.
You know, when Newton figured out the fundamentals of physics, he didn't do so to produce new shiny toys, but to understand the universe. Newton was philosopher, not engineer.
Your nuts? Whose nuts?
All your nuts are belong to us.
Do you have any concrete prediction of religion which became true? And no, "everything will happen exactly as the god wants" is no prediction (unless you accompany it with an exact description of what the god wants). It is an explanation, though (it explains why things happen as they do, namely "because god wants them that way"), it's just not a very satisfying explanation (well, unless you are a True Believer(TM), then the explanation is perfectly satisfying :-))
I thought so. Had you been serious, you would have suggested VB instead. :-)
For the "Personas" vs. Themes: From what I can see, Personas allow to modify only the part of the UI I care the least about: The background of the top and bottom parts. For me, Personas is something I'll almost certainly ignore completely. The main reason why I'm using a non-default theme is that it gives me much smaller icons than the default ones, thus eating less from my valuable screen space, despite having additional toolbars.
About JetPack, I cannot comment, because I ddon't know enough about it. But I know one thing for sure: If it doesn't allow to implement all of the functionality of NoScript, AdBlock Plus, RequestPolicy and FoxyProxy (and probably a few other extensions I depend on, but forgot), I don't want it. If they allow all the needed functionality, but with a sane interface which remains stable, I'm all for it.
Oh, and BTW, does anyone know an extension which replaces the silly one-menu-for-both-directions approach with the previous backwards-menu/forwards-menu approach, where I don't have to hunt for the position of the current page and move my mouse half across the screen just to go back two pages at once?
How would a system only recognizing characters figure out the accent/focus?
Indeed, I also can type purely by using my mind. I just think what I want to type, and my fingers type it. I don't have to think about which muscles to activate in which sequence, I don't even have to think about muscles, or about nerve pulses, or anything like that. I don't even explicitly command my fingers to press keys. I use my mind, and my body just does what I want.
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That depends on the language. For example, if you want to write in German "Ich habe in Moskau liebe Genossen" (I have dear comrades in Moscow), but the system types "Ich habe in Moskau Liebe genossen" (I've enjoyed love in Moskow), you'll certainly not like the result, especially if the recipient is your wive (who doesn't live in Moscow) :-)
Well, unless they built a perpetual motion machine of the second kind. :-)
But actually, it may be due to the fact that normally you don't really feel the real temperature, but when it's cold, the temperature of the air directly at your skin is still higher than the surrounding air (unless there is wind, which is why you feel cold faster when there's wind). If this device has better heat transport to the surrounding air (e.g. because the surface to air is larger than the surface to you skin), you may feel colder that normally.
Of course they do. But only to install Linux on them.
Just for good measure, I still refuse to use XML in any application I design. I have no intentions of changing that any time soon either.
I get you're not planning to write a web browser. :-)
Yes, XML gets abused a lot. But I think there are applications where it makes sense. Namely those where the content is text with some markup (ever wondered what the "M" in XML stood for? :-))
That gives a whole new meaning to "root account" ... :-)
But yes, only root can fsck
Semantics. Java objects are very different from C++ objects (to start with, they don't support value semantics), Java generics are radically different from C++ templates, and the semantics of Java volatile is completely orthogonal to the semantics of C or C++ volatile (although it's a common error in C or C++ to use volatile as if it had Java semantics).