They didn't get it wrong. Their statement is perfectly correct. It's also more relevant than your reason.
Ionizing radiation doesn't give you headaches and inability to concentrate that goes away on weekends. Exposure to RF at microwave oven, heating-up-your-brain levels could do so a lot more plausibly than ionizing radiation.
Yeah, the AC's post was pretty well done. It took me to the end to decide he wasn't serious. The rest of the way through I was picturing Alan from "Two and a Half Men."
The last thing you want is a bunch of angry chiropractors after you. Those guys can snap your neck like THAT.
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"pretty sure parents wouldn't have voted to allow the school to spy on students through webcams"
Are you sure? Based on the overprotectiveness of the average parent these days, I suspect a good portion of them would probably be interested in getting a copy of the surveillance software for themselves. You know, just in case.
"A group of Ontario parents dubbed the Simcoe County Safe School Committee believes Wi-Fi transmitters in schools may be responsible for a host of symptoms their kids show -- from headaches to an inability to concentrate -- all of which disappear on weekends."
In grade eight my mother noticed that I tended to be sick on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Rather than blaming the t-ness of those days, she correctly deduced that those were the days I had health class with the evil principal.
I wonder how many of those kids have wifi at home?
Javascript interpreters got a LOT of work put into them by some very big names fairly recently. Before that JS wasn't particularly fast.
I think the OP was suggesting that we should have been using Python instead, and put all that work into Python interpreters. Then we'd be coding web stuff in a language that doesn't compete with perl for obfuscation, AND we'd have some killer Python interpreters for non-web stuff too.
Python also has a multiprocess library that uses exactly the same interface as the threading library. So you can do perfectly good multicore stuff with Python very easily just by starting multiple interpreters.
Good luck with that. Somebody seems to have decided that everybody needs to "join the conversation" and we can not only replace journalists with crappy journalists, but we can replace those with random yahoos.
Did you miss the part where he said we have private clinics in Canada too? No need to fly anywhere, unless it's unethical you can always pay someone to do whatever you want, right at home.
If it's unethical you can always fly to some medical tourism destination. The US is FAR from the last bastion of get-what-you-pay-for.
It's a small continent. Why would you think there's more there than in, say, Australia? Australia also has the distinct advantage that most of it isn't covered by a kilometre of ice.
Well, you could get a netbook. But then you'd have to install everything on it yourself, and it's kind of small and....
Nobody makes exactly what you want because what you want is a VERY small part of the market. For me, the jailbreaking is no big deal (takes about thirty seconds) and then I have EXACTLy what I want.
10.6 is Snow Leopard, and 10.3 was Panther and 10.1 was Puma. Even if they didn't use any more leopards they've still got Lion, and Cougar (so up to 10.8).
First, the galaxy doesn't work like the solar system - the orbital velocity of stars doesn't depend strongly on their distance from the centre.
Second, the arms aren't believed to be persistent structures formed from individual stars but density waves that cause increased star formation where they pass. So the arms appear to be very distinct because they have more young, bright stars in them while the space between arms is more older, dimmer stars.
Galactic arms aren't ejected from the core. They're just waves of star formation. They appear bright because they have more young, bright stars than the areas between arms.
The catholic church has an awful lot of books that tell you what you're supposed to believe. They don't just keep it in their heads, or in the bible. One of the best examples is their take on sex. If you actually read the bible, the sex is pretty freewheeling - boys, girls, prostitutes, donkeys. About the only things there are serious consequences for trying to have sex with are another man's wife and Jesus.
Then along comes St. Augustine and the church decides sex is dirty, bordering on evil, and you definitely shouldn't be doing it with anybody but your wife.
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They didn't get it wrong. Their statement is perfectly correct. It's also more relevant than your reason.
Ionizing radiation doesn't give you headaches and inability to concentrate that goes away on weekends. Exposure to RF at microwave oven, heating-up-your-brain levels could do so a lot more plausibly than ionizing radiation.
Don't tell them the rock is radioactive.
He he. Whoosh.
Yeah, the AC's post was pretty well done. It took me to the end to decide he wasn't serious. The rest of the way through I was picturing Alan from "Two and a Half Men."
That's why he posted as AC, of course.
The last thing you want is a bunch of angry chiropractors after you. Those guys can snap your neck like THAT.
"pretty sure parents wouldn't have voted to allow the school to spy on students through webcams"
Are you sure? Based on the overprotectiveness of the average parent these days, I suspect a good portion of them would probably be interested in getting a copy of the surveillance software for themselves. You know, just in case.
That's okay, but this quote is WAY better:
"A group of Ontario parents dubbed the Simcoe County Safe School Committee believes Wi-Fi transmitters in schools may be responsible for a host of symptoms their kids show -- from headaches to an inability to concentrate -- all of which disappear on weekends."
In grade eight my mother noticed that I tended to be sick on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Rather than blaming the t-ness of those days, she correctly deduced that those were the days I had health class with the evil principal.
I wonder how many of those kids have wifi at home?
Why should they? If your employees are surfing Facebook instead of working, fire them. If they're surfing Facebook and working, why do you care?
Javascript interpreters got a LOT of work put into them by some very big names fairly recently. Before that JS wasn't particularly fast.
I think the OP was suggesting that we should have been using Python instead, and put all that work into Python interpreters. Then we'd be coding web stuff in a language that doesn't compete with perl for obfuscation, AND we'd have some killer Python interpreters for non-web stuff too.
Python also has a multiprocess library that uses exactly the same interface as the threading library. So you can do perfectly good multicore stuff with Python very easily just by starting multiple interpreters.
Why a stripped down subset? The Python interpreter isn't that big, and the rest is just libraries that you can have or not have - just like JS.
Such a thing is just too good an idea to actually happen.
Good luck with that. Somebody seems to have decided that everybody needs to "join the conversation" and we can not only replace journalists with crappy journalists, but we can replace those with random yahoos.
Did you miss the part where he said we have private clinics in Canada too? No need to fly anywhere, unless it's unethical you can always pay someone to do whatever you want, right at home.
If it's unethical you can always fly to some medical tourism destination. The US is FAR from the last bastion of get-what-you-pay-for.
Really? The church is that desperate these days, hey? My grandmother got excommunicated just for marrying my grandfather.
According to the pope swiping the holy cracker is worse than genocide, so maybe if you made a habit of that they'd kick you out.
Right. Because all countries in the world without state religions are moral cess pools.
Are you seriously saying the only thing making you act morally is a demonstrably corrupt organization with a history of brutality?
"You have to explicitly request excommunication"
Boring. Just make them WANT to excommunicate you. It's much more fun.
It's a small continent. Why would you think there's more there than in, say, Australia? Australia also has the distinct advantage that most of it isn't covered by a kilometre of ice.
Well, you could get a netbook. But then you'd have to install everything on it yourself, and it's kind of small and....
Nobody makes exactly what you want because what you want is a VERY small part of the market. For me, the jailbreaking is no big deal (takes about thirty seconds) and then I have EXACTLy what I want.
Sounds like you want my jailbroken iPad with Python installed on it. And none of the horror that is MatLab.
Today I was wondering how hard it would be to convince VTK to compile on it.
10.6 is Snow Leopard, and 10.3 was Panther and 10.1 was Puma. Even if they didn't use any more leopards they've still got Lion, and Cougar (so up to 10.8).
Even if the majority of Slashdot members don't use OS X, I bet the majority of the ones in the Apple section are at least interested.
Except for trolls like yourself, of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_wave_theory
It's a nice writeup, with some good figures.
First, the galaxy doesn't work like the solar system - the orbital velocity of stars doesn't depend strongly on their distance from the centre.
Second, the arms aren't believed to be persistent structures formed from individual stars but density waves that cause increased star formation where they pass. So the arms appear to be very distinct because they have more young, bright stars in them while the space between arms is more older, dimmer stars.
Galactic arms aren't ejected from the core. They're just waves of star formation. They appear bright because they have more young, bright stars than the areas between arms.
The catholic church has an awful lot of books that tell you what you're supposed to believe. They don't just keep it in their heads, or in the bible. One of the best examples is their take on sex. If you actually read the bible, the sex is pretty freewheeling - boys, girls, prostitutes, donkeys. About the only things there are serious consequences for trying to have sex with are another man's wife and Jesus.
Then along comes St. Augustine and the church decides sex is dirty, bordering on evil, and you definitely shouldn't be doing it with anybody but your wife.
Catholics believe parts of the bible are literal truth. They just don't believe ALL of it is. They pick and choose the convenient parts.