A typical example is the approach to the issue of why the bible describes a circular object that is 30 units around and 10 units across
That's of course no problem assuming that you are not using planar, but spherical geometry. On spheres, the quotient of circumference and diameter is always smaller than pi. As an extreme case, if the circle is the equator, then the circumference is just twice the diameter.
Of course if you use that assumption to calculate the size of that sphere, you'll find a sphere circumference of exactly 60 units. I somehow doubt they used such a large unit that the circumference of the earth has only 60 of them.
Yeah, since when weren't there already precise analytical solutions to this? Gravity is a constant vector force downward, air resistance is proportional to the square of the velocity and opposite to that direction, plug it all into f=ma and you get
mg{0,0,-1} + -k((d/dt)x)^2 = m(d^2/dt^2)x
where x is position vector. Express x as a function of t, set initial conditions from starting velocity, integrate and yer done. Have I forgotten something? (It has been a while...)
You've forgotten to actually give the analytical solution to this differential equation.
Ah, dynamic memory allocation and referencing. How very... academic. COBOL of course has facilities for such things, but why would you ever want to use
them?
Syntactically correct answer:
BPTR USAGE IS POINTER.
APTR USAGE IS POINTER.
SET APTR TO ADDRESS OF BPTR....and then the global economy crashes...
"People who are outgoing, optimistic, easygoing, and have a good sense of humor and a large social network are likely to live longer than others who don't possess these personality traits
But I'm a computer nerd you insensitive clod
Let's see...
Outgoing: You don't wait for the internet to connect with you, you connect to the internet. How more outgoing could you be?
Optimistic: Well, you are surfing on the internet, despite all the dangers of malware out there. You must be optimistic, right?
Easygoing: You are sitting comfortably in front of your computer, instead of hasting through the world.
Have a good sense of humor: You are laughing at Soviet Russia jokes on Slashdot, right?
Have a large social network: You are on Facebook, aren't you?
So don't worry, you'll have a long life... and if not, you can just start the game again.:-)
Well, the unit would make some sense if speaking about the building speed of solar power plants. Then 22 kW/h would mean that in every hour they add a production capacity of 22 kW.
No, it clearly means that Germany started to develop God-like time control: While not having reached anywhere the level of God (for whom a thousand years are just one day) it at least managed a thousand years to be just twelve years.:-)
Serving different content based on IP or self-identification is possible even without JavaScript. However if the detection makes use of peculiar behavior of the JavaScript implementation (and the JavaScript implementation will have to have some differences, or else it won't find content which is initially hidden, but unhidden by an user interaction), just fetching from a different UI or with a different browser/spider identification doesn't work.
And BTW, the spider will certainly expose itself from the very fact that it accesses robots.txt
The point is, with Google executing JavaScript you could make it less obvious, by just having the JavaScript depend on some difference between the Google and the Browser JavaScript execution (maybe timings of certain rendering operations).
Also, it might be used through XSS, to have competitors delisted.
Non sequitur. Just because the iris changes doesn't say it tells you something about your health status. The planets indeed move, does that validate astrology?
Send Google JavaScript which generates different results for Google than for normal visitors, in order to rank up the site.
Re:I Wouldn't Necessarily Mind AI?
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Where's HAL 9000?
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If (potential results) > (harm) then DO
I, your sentient AI robot, have determined that the potential results of killing you in a human way now is that a possibly cruel death awaiting you at some later time has been eradicated. The harm that you'll be dead afterward is not that large because all evidence says you'd die in a few decades anyway, and then you'll be dead forever. Therefore the relative extension of your death time is infinitesimal and thus negligible. I've also considered the removal of possible good feelings in the future, however there's also the possibility of bad feelings in the future which is also removed, and I cannot find any indication which lets me conclude that your positive moments will outweight the negative moments. Moreover I notice that you're optimistic, which means you expect the best, and therefore all good things will be just expected, while all bad things will be a bad surprise to you, therefore I conclude that bad moments would carry relatively more weight to you. In short, I determined it is best for you if I kill you now. Therefore I've put some poison into the food I've just made for you, and which you just have eaten. Be assured that I chose a poison which makes you die peacefully and without pain. After all, as you know, preventing harm from you is my top priority.
Re:The same place you'll find Jetpacks, Flying car
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Flying cars are not too hard. The "problem" is that in the market, flying cars won't fly. (Pun intended)
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Except that we have lots of evidence that the laws of physics did not change significantly in the 5-10000 year frame.
That's of course no problem assuming that you are not using planar, but spherical geometry. On spheres, the quotient of circumference and diameter is always smaller than pi. As an extreme case, if the circle is the equator, then the circumference is just twice the diameter.
Of course if you use that assumption to calculate the size of that sphere, you'll find a sphere circumference of exactly 60 units. I somehow doubt they used such a large unit that the circumference of the earth has only 60 of them.
If you have the right extensions installed, nothing — by clicking on it you'd see that it redirects to Slashdot, and can decide to follow the link ...
Yeah, since when weren't there already precise analytical solutions to this? Gravity is a constant vector force downward, air resistance is proportional to the square of the velocity and opposite to that direction, plug it all into f=ma and you get
mg{0,0,-1} + -k((d/dt)x)^2 = m(d^2/dt^2)x
where x is position vector. Express x as a function of t, set initial conditions from starting velocity, integrate and yer done. Have I forgotten something? (It has been a while...)
You've forgotten to actually give the analytical solution to this differential equation.
"If they cut out the crap for the smart kids, I could easily see calculus by 12 for competent kids. But 6? It seems difficult."
Last time I checked, the AP Calculus course was taken only by about 10% of high school students in the US.
So I would say that Calculus by 12 is something for geniuses, not simply "smart kids".
So if you learn something the majority of people doesn't bother to learn, you're automatically a genius?
Objective-C is to C as Javascript is to Java. Thanks.
Javascript is an extension of Java?
Semantically correct answer:
Ah, dynamic memory allocation and referencing. How very... academic. COBOL of course has facilities for such things, but why would you ever want to use
them?
Syntactically correct answer:
BPTR USAGE IS POINTER. ...and then the global economy crashes...
APTR USAGE IS POINTER.
SET APTR TO ADDRESS OF BPTR.
Ah, that's what happened at Lehman Brothers. :-)
"People who are outgoing, optimistic, easygoing, and have a good sense of humor and a large social network are likely to live longer than others who don't possess these personality traits
But I'm a computer nerd you insensitive clod
Let's see ...
Outgoing: You don't wait for the internet to connect with you, you connect to the internet. How more outgoing could you be?
Optimistic: Well, you are surfing on the internet, despite all the dangers of malware out there. You must be optimistic, right?
Easygoing: You are sitting comfortably in front of your computer, instead of hasting through the world.
Have a good sense of humor: You are laughing at Soviet Russia jokes on Slashdot, right?
Have a large social network: You are on Facebook, aren't you?
So don't worry, you'll have a long life ... and if not, you can just start the game again. :-)
He means, the country that started World War I and World War II, and probaly will start the next, World War V.
So who will start World War III and World War IV? And why will World War V be started before III and IV?
In Germany, almost no one uses electricity for heating.
Do you really think there would be a single nuclear power plant today if their development hadn't been heavily subsidized?
Well, I for one prefer the energy think tanks being renewable. You don't want to be stuck with old think tanks after a few years, right? ;-)
Well, the unit would make some sense if speaking about the building speed of solar power plants. Then 22 kW/h would mean that in every hour they add a production capacity of 22 kW.
Bankrupting everyone is actually the American way. After all, it was not in Germany where lots of people lost their homes in the financial crisis.
No, it clearly means that Germany started to develop God-like time control: While not having reached anywhere the level of God (for whom a thousand years are just one day) it at least managed a thousand years to be just twelve years. :-)
But energy per unit time is power. So you cannot prefer one to the other any more that you can prefer pork to meat from pigs.
More energy - yes.
More electricity - no.
You don't suggest to put nuclear reactors into homes for heating, do you?
And how would you emulate middle-click (essential on Linux)? For two-button pads (and two-button mice) it's emulated by pressing both buttons at once.
Serving different content based on IP or self-identification is possible even without JavaScript. However if the detection makes use of peculiar behavior of the JavaScript implementation (and the JavaScript implementation will have to have some differences, or else it won't find content which is initially hidden, but unhidden by an user interaction), just fetching from a different UI or with a different browser/spider identification doesn't work.
And BTW, the spider will certainly expose itself from the very fact that it accesses robots.txt
The point is, with Google executing JavaScript you could make it less obvious, by just having the JavaScript depend on some difference between the Google and the Browser JavaScript execution (maybe timings of certain rendering operations).
Also, it might be used through XSS, to have competitors delisted.
Maybe it hasn't come up in court before because only douchebags would try it?
Non sequitur. Just because the iris changes doesn't say it tells you something about your health status. The planets indeed move, does that validate astrology?
Send Google JavaScript which generates different results for Google than for normal visitors, in order to rank up the site.
I, your sentient AI robot, have determined that the potential results of killing you in a human way now is that a possibly cruel death awaiting you at some later time has been eradicated. The harm that you'll be dead afterward is not that large because all evidence says you'd die in a few decades anyway, and then you'll be dead forever. Therefore the relative extension of your death time is infinitesimal and thus negligible. I've also considered the removal of possible good feelings in the future, however there's also the possibility of bad feelings in the future which is also removed, and I cannot find any indication which lets me conclude that your positive moments will outweight the negative moments. Moreover I notice that you're optimistic, which means you expect the best, and therefore all good things will be just expected, while all bad things will be a bad surprise to you, therefore I conclude that bad moments would carry relatively more weight to you. In short, I determined it is best for you if I kill you now. Therefore I've put some poison into the food I've just made for you, and which you just have eaten. Be assured that I chose a poison which makes you die peacefully and without pain. After all, as you know, preventing harm from you is my top priority.
Flying cars are not too hard. The "problem" is that in the market, flying cars won't fly. (Pun intended)