I installed iTunes last week on my Windows PC in order to search for some iOS games I saw on Android...my God, the iTunes UI sucks a lot!!!
First of all, the different areas of the Window are no longer cleanly separated. Trying to find where each UI element starts and stops was near impossible without mouse over.
Secondly, the scroll bars appear only on mouse over. In order to scroll, I had to constantly move the mouse over the area to scroll in order to make the scroll bar appear.
Thirdly, for some odd reason, scrolling lists in iTunes are horizontal.
Forthly, I could not find where games were. I uninstalled iTunes, thinking that games were removed from it, but then after seeing that Apple still does not have their game catalog online, I had to install iTunes again. I then found out that iOS games are listed under the Apps section.
The 3 properties that God has, according to Scripture, is that he is omnipotent, i.e. can do everything, he is omniscient, i.e. he knows everything, and he is omnipresent, i.e. he is everywhere.
Logic (of the mathematical kind:-)) says the above cannot exist, because it is contradictory to itself.
If a being is omnipotent, then it certainly can create something stronger than itself, can it? But then it is not omnipotent. But if it cannot create something stronger than itself, then it is also not omnipotent.
If a being is omniscient, then it certainly knows every person's future, and hence our future is prewritten, and so it is also prewritten if we are good and go to heaven or bad and go to hell. But the scripture also says we should try to be good...but if the future is predetermined, the word 'try' is completely meaningless.
If a being is omnipresent, can it create anything? If it can, then it is not omnipresent, because there was free space for creation. If it cannot create anything, then it is not omnipotent.
The above might sound like wordplay, but it is not. It is actually math disguised as wordplay. It is math that talks about sets and infinity. And it is indisputable mathematical proof that there cannot be an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent God.
As a user of several devices, I can tell you that the N900 was the only device that actually felt like a pocket computer.
For us computer geeks, the concept of N900 was the ideal device: quite open, based on Linux, accessible from the command line, with a nice keyboard you could use to program for, etc.
There are millions like me who are waiting for the successor of N900. It is a huge lost opportunity for Nokia. Bringing out tablets with Android is cool, but what they did with N900 was way cooler...
Fake reviews can be eliminated by forcing the reviewers to post a key code along with the review.
The key codes would have been given to the reviewers by the hotel.
The hotel would have gotten the keys from Trip Advisor.
Therefore, TripAdvisor can then check if each review is legit or not. Non legit reviews would not contain the appropriate keys, and the keys would be expirable after a month.
Since we are in a different universe, they might as well do a Picard movie, and their is no better actor to play him than Vin Diesel.
The great Diesel could kick some serious Borg butt in this movie, and destroy the Romulans/Klingons/Kardassians as well in the proceedings, leaving the door open for the Federation to anex the whole galaxy.
Joking aside, Diesel would be a much more believable Federation Officer than a 30 year old with a 15 year old face...
It will not be long that the UK government will choose to put any site they do not like into the black list.
In a few years time, the internet will contain government-approved material only.
If you want to read an opinion that is different than the government's, you will not be able to without turning the filter off.
If you turn the filter off, then you might be flagged as a terrorist.
The sad part in all this is not what the governments are trying to do though...it is the people's reaction. There is a largs percentage of people willing to accept tyrrany. This thread is full of them...look at all the posts that downplay the signifance of this filter equating it to wifi hotspot login...
Actually, no. The point of light in the cloud will not move faster than the speed of light, as this violates the special relativity theory.
Please remember that pointing a laser beam onto a cloud is like transmitting information. For example, by turning the beam on and off ala morse code, a message is transmitted. So it cannot be faster than light.
I think it is wrong to say simultaneity is wrong. The fact that the two clocks are correct does not mean simultaneity does not exist, it only means that we cannot measure simultaneity with clocks.
The fact is thinga happen in parallel in the universe, and so simultaneity exists, because for any event another event would have to have happened at the same time.
All we need to do is to create enough solar cells and enough batteries so as that we can always have power.
If the Sun is producing 4000000000000000000000000000 watts per second, we are, as humanity, simply fools, in that we have the absolutely best power source right above our heads and we are not using it.
The solution of the problem is pretty easy: replace the chairs with beds. Not normal beds (of course), but bed/chair hybrid boards that are reclined in such a degree that allow the person to relax, stretch his/her body, take a nap etc, while at the same time have even more passengers in flight.
The NBA is dominated by blacks. How come there isn't a problem there? Shouldn't the NBA have more diversity?
You see how stupid this thing sounds, doesn' it? People are drawn to whatever they are good at or like to do. Let the white males be programmers and the black males be athletes or whatever they like. If the blacks want to be scientists, teachers or anything else, let them be. It's not really a problem...
Buffer overruns can be statically prevented at compile time without any runtime penalty.
All that is required is that the type system of the target programming language enforces a special type for array indexes and that any integer can be statically promoted to such an array index type by a runtime check that happens outside of an array access loop.
Array indexes are essentially pointer types that happen to be applicable to a specific memory range we call an array. Memory itself is just an array, but for that specific array C gives you special types to access it, namely pointers.
Could it be that neurons simply don't store new information except the first time and that all experiences are stored as an incremental backup, i.e. it's only the changes that are stored?
This solves the stability-plasticity dillemma: the first experience that comes is stored as a whole, and then similar experiences are only stored as a delta from the initial experience - thus allowing the brain to maintain some 'forever' experiences like touching a hot stove but also be flexible enough to remember new experiences.
This can also account for the deja vu effect - recalling experiences that are similar.
The basis of our economic system is our right to sell our products in the way we see fit. Thus, content providers have the right to put any DRM system they want on their products. If we don't like DRM, then we simply shouldn't buy those products.
We don't have any right to pirate content, because piracy is theft: for any pirated product in use, the creator is missing a certain amount of money.
The argument "a pirated product is not a lost sale" is a bad argument, because it is a tautology: "a lost sale is a lost sale".
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I installed iTunes last week on my Windows PC in order to search for some iOS games I saw on Android...my God, the iTunes UI sucks a lot!!!
First of all, the different areas of the Window are no longer cleanly separated. Trying to find where each UI element starts and stops was near impossible without mouse over.
Secondly, the scroll bars appear only on mouse over. In order to scroll, I had to constantly move the mouse over the area to scroll in order to make the scroll bar appear.
Thirdly, for some odd reason, scrolling lists in iTunes are horizontal.
Forthly, I could not find where games were. I uninstalled iTunes, thinking that games were removed from it, but then after seeing that Apple still does not have their game catalog online, I had to install iTunes again. I then found out that iOS games are listed under the Apps section.
Copyright should be infinite. If an author is so good that demand for his works is infinite, then so be it.
You, me or anybody else have zero rights over someone else's works.
The 3 properties that God has, according to Scripture, is that he is omnipotent, i.e. can do everything, he is omniscient, i.e. he knows everything, and he is omnipresent, i.e. he is everywhere.
Logic (of the mathematical kind :-)) says the above cannot exist, because it is contradictory to itself.
If a being is omnipotent, then it certainly can create something stronger than itself, can it? But then it is not omnipotent. But if it cannot create something stronger than itself, then it is also not omnipotent.
If a being is omniscient, then it certainly knows every person's future, and hence our future is prewritten, and so it is also prewritten if we are good and go to heaven or bad and go to hell. But the scripture also says we should try to be good...but if the future is predetermined, the word 'try' is completely meaningless.
If a being is omnipresent, can it create anything? If it can, then it is not omnipresent, because there was free space for creation. If it cannot create anything, then it is not omnipotent.
The above might sound like wordplay, but it is not. It is actually math disguised as wordplay. It is math that talks about sets and infinity. And it is indisputable mathematical proof that there cannot be an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent God.
As a user of several devices, I can tell you that the N900 was the only device that actually felt like a pocket computer.
For us computer geeks, the concept of N900 was the ideal device: quite open, based on Linux, accessible from the command line, with a nice keyboard you could use to program for, etc.
There are millions like me who are waiting for the successor of N900. It is a huge lost opportunity for Nokia. Bringing out tablets with Android is cool, but what they did with N900 was way cooler...
Fake reviews can be eliminated by forcing the reviewers to post a key code along with the review.
The key codes would have been given to the reviewers by the hotel.
The hotel would have gotten the keys from Trip Advisor.
Therefore, TripAdvisor can then check if each review is legit or not. Non legit reviews would not contain the appropriate keys, and the keys would be expirable after a month.
Since we are in a different universe, they might as well do a Picard movie, and their is no better actor to play him than Vin Diesel.
The great Diesel could kick some serious Borg butt in this movie, and destroy the Romulans/Klingons/Kardassians as well in the proceedings, leaving the door open for the Federation to anex the whole galaxy.
Joking aside, Diesel would be a much more believable Federation Officer than a 30 year old with a 15 year old face...
And he stole that move from Space Battleship Yamato...
It will not be long that the UK government will choose to put any site they do not like into the black list.
In a few years time, the internet will contain government-approved material only.
If you want to read an opinion that is different than the government's, you will not be able to without turning the filter off.
If you turn the filter off, then you might be flagged as a terrorist.
The sad part in all this is not what the governments are trying to do though...it is the people's reaction. There is a largs percentage of people willing to accept tyrrany. This thread is full of them...look at all the posts that downplay the signifance of this filter equating it to wifi hotspot login...
All that is needed for manned exploration of the solar system is a transport spaceship, with rotating sections for gravity and nuclear propulsion.
Actually, no. The point of light in the cloud will not move faster than the speed of light, as this violates the special relativity theory.
Please remember that pointing a laser beam onto a cloud is like transmitting information. For example, by turning the beam on and off ala morse code, a message is transmitted. So it cannot be faster than light.
I think it is wrong to say simultaneity is wrong. The fact that the two clocks are correct does not mean simultaneity does not exist, it only means that we cannot measure simultaneity with clocks.
The fact is thinga happen in parallel in the universe, and so simultaneity exists, because for any event another event would have to have happened at the same time.
It is the Sun.
All we need to do is to create enough solar cells and enough batteries so as that we can always have power.
If the Sun is producing 4000000000000000000000000000 watts per second, we are, as humanity, simply fools, in that we have the absolutely best power source right above our heads and we are not using it.
It is called 'QBasic'.
The solution of the problem is pretty easy: replace the chairs with beds. Not normal beds (of course), but bed/chair hybrid boards that are reclined in such a degree that allow the person to relax, stretch his/her body, take a nap etc, while at the same time have even more passengers in flight.
If you are interested in first person combat, try Darkfall Unholy Wars. It is a full loot MMORPG with FPS style combat.
Japan will create its Space Force, better known as Star Force, in 2199. The article has a typo.
On my setup, Windows 7, Firefox 30, the demo videos display just fine in 60 fps, 1080 p, using Flash.
Question: what is your Ms PacMan record?
The NBA is dominated by blacks. How come there isn't a problem there? Shouldn't the NBA have more diversity?
You see how stupid this thing sounds, doesn' it? People are drawn to whatever they are good at or like to do. Let the white males be programmers and the black males be athletes or whatever they like. If the blacks want to be scientists, teachers or anything else, let them be. It's not really a problem...
Buffer overruns can be statically prevented at compile time without any runtime penalty.
All that is required is that the type system of the target programming language enforces a special type for array indexes and that any integer can be statically promoted to such an array index type by a runtime check that happens outside of an array access loop.
Array indexes are essentially pointer types that happen to be applicable to a specific memory range we call an array. Memory itself is just an array, but for that specific array C gives you special types to access it, namely pointers.
Could it be that neurons simply don't store new information except the first time and that all experiences are stored as an incremental backup, i.e. it's only the changes that are stored?
This solves the stability-plasticity dillemma: the first experience that comes is stored as a whole, and then similar experiences are only stored as a delta from the initial experience - thus allowing the brain to maintain some 'forever' experiences like touching a hot stove but also be flexible enough to remember new experiences.
This can also account for the deja vu effect - recalling experiences that are similar.
The problem is that Communism only works on paper. In practice, greed can easily kill it.
Capitalism can be killed too by greed, but at least in Capitalism there are enough conflicting forces to slow down the process.
In Communism, there is only one force, the Communist Party, and so everything can go to hell really fast.
Yes they are.
Science = the universe is 14 billion years old, here is why.
Religion (Christianity, for example): the universe is 6000 years old, no proof at all.
The basis of our economic system is our right to sell our products in the way we see fit. Thus, content providers have the right to put any DRM system they want on their products. If we don't like DRM, then we simply shouldn't buy those products.
We don't have any right to pirate content, because piracy is theft: for any pirated product in use, the creator is missing a certain amount of money.
The argument "a pirated product is not a lost sale" is a bad argument, because it is a tautology: "a lost sale is a lost sale".
After watching James T. Kirk "managing" those green girls, they decided this planet isn't for them.