It's a pretty obvious problem that clear thinking would have revealed from the get go.
It's very easy to go round finding mistakes that people have made and then criticize them with the benefit of hindsight. If you're the kind of person who likes to wallow in self-loathing for humanity you can spend all day looking for examples. But please, spare the rest of us.
So when people say "top 5" they mean the top 5 downloads from iTunes? But you can download any album track you want from iTunes. O they get counted too? And why iTunes? There are many ways to buy music. How do you aggregate them?
You must be right. I decided I needed to save money spent on buying CDs. So I made a CD with nothing but a 75 minute continuous 440Hz tone on it. I tried really hard to get into it and eventually I did. I can listen to this CD all day long and really get into it. Why bother with harmony and rhythm and all that? These are just societal stereotypes about how music should be. I gave them up and now I spend no money on CDs. And if I want some variety I burned a 466Hz CD too - though I haven't yet felt the need to play it.
We're not doctors. We don't know what is wrong with us. We don't know what we need.
Doctors talk out of their asses all the time. Let me give some examples:
I broke a finger many years ago. Pretty quickly it was obvious that it wasn't quite pointing in quite the right direction. "Your finger will point the right way when the swelling goes down". It was completely obvious to me that there was no way that a bit of swelling could have been pushing half my finger in the wrong direction. 3 months later I'm told "well, it's a bit late now that it's healed. The only way to straighten your finger is to open up your hand again and insert a metal plate..." That scuppered my chances of becoming the great bassist that I ought to be...
A few years back I was suddenly struck down with a short lived illness. One of those awful incidents where I was ejecting (bright yellow) from both ends so to speak. I was so tired that I was literally crawling to get to the bathroom. The doctor said "you must have eaten some food that was too rich".
Also many years back I went to the doctor with nasty stomach pains and a really bloated stomach. The doctor says "some research was done recently and it was found that some people are more sensitive than others to pressure in their stomachs and you're probably one of these people." Never mind the fact that the normally skinny me looked like I was pregnant and other people were commenting. (Maybe research shows that some people are sensitive to pressure in other people's stomachs.) What a moron.
Doctors are just ordinary people who've done some courses in medicine and have some experience with other sick people. They only have superficial knowledge of uncommon illnesses outside of their own specialised field. They don't always share interest with the patient so what they define as successful treatment doesn't necessarily agree with the patients definition. I'm sure other people will have plenty more anecdotes than me.
It doesn't try to conserve vorticity better. It defines a discrete analog of continuous vorticity and it guarantees that this is precisely conserved (up to machine precision). The whole point of this work, and related work, is to define discrete systems where discrete analogs of standard theorems of calculus hold exactly. This deserves more than "It's a neat method, but it's nothing revolutionary". It's actually a pretty awesome approach. I don't know how good it is in other respects however.
Years ago I wrote a really basic real-time cloth simulator. It was crap, the 'cloth' was more like rubber. But if you set it up in just the right way the rubber sheet formed a wonderful round shape that jiggled in just the right way...
...but the excitement of seeing some of those pictures can't compare with what I felt when I first saw this pair of galaxies and the Orion Nebula with my own eyes in my shiny new low cost ($300) 8" reflector (even if they didn't look as spectacular as in those pictures I linked to).
I don't quite understand this statement. In any ebay transaction I only act in such a way that I'd be better off after the transaction than before it. So I pay no more than what I think an item is worth to me, and sell with the converse strategy. I've had over 100 successful transactions. Does that make me a sucker?
The one that results in a nationwide furore over the accidental revelation of a nipple during a live TV performance. The one that causes a bare ass to be blurred out when shown on an innocent movie like The Full Monty. The one where you can't use a nude female body to sell a product used in the shower. I'm probably referring to the US you don't realise exists until you step outside its borders for a few minutes to contrast and compare. It's also the culture where people care more about the sexual infidelity of the president than the sacrifice of thousands of lives for a war started under false pretenses.
In case you didn't notice this is one party selling porn to another adult party. Which is still legal in the states.
Yes, but if AT&T, say, started selling porn this way, then significant groups who have dealings with AT&T would pull out of other deals refusing to deal with such a company. So even though someone may want to buy porn from AT&T, and AT&T may want to sell it, other parties who deal with AT&T get to veto it. At each stage, all of the parties appear free to choose which contracts they enter into, and yet the net effect is that because of the culture of prudishness in the US, parties can't buy and sell quite as freely as they'd like to.
Big advances in algebraic topology too. It kinda seems obvious that strings would be connected to knot theory so it's kinda weird that string theory helped push knot theory forward even though the strings of string theory actually turn out to have nothing to do with the strings in knots!
The story is so obviously a troll. Just coming out with "there are no landers on the moon" would have been rejected, even by the/. editors. So this is a very slightly disguised way of throwing out the same claim for 'discussion'. It's pretty obvious that all this will generate is comments about faked landings. Kudos to the author who slipped it past the editors!
I think that on a 37" TV the quality increase from DVD to HD-DVD would be significant. The differences are much more apparent than the differences between audio equipment so I expect the market is much bigger than the audiophile market.
I recently attended a presentation by a geologist (areologist?) investigating the gullies. She argued convincingly that many of these are caused by liquid water erupting horizontally from aquifers about 100m underground. This water would lie about 100m below plateaus and the water would emerge from the side of steep faces. This is exactly where the gullies appear in photography and the 100m is consistent with the pressure and temperature required to keep wtar in a liquid state. On emerging to the surface the water would only last a few minutes before boiling and freezing. This is consistent with the length of the gullies. From what we know of the temperature of Mars these conditions aren't suitable for liquid CO2. The sinuosity of the gullies is inconsistent with landslides.
This is quite different from evidence from radar. We're talking about water that may have flowed in the last couple of years. (Not geological time. A few years here means less than ten.)
63% male/37% women?
Almost all of my male friend know how to use bit torrent and often download movies and TV shows with it. About 10% of my female friends know how to do this. A sizable proportion of my male friends do this macho thing where they show off how much of the hard drive space they have is filled with pirated material. None of the women I know do this. So I don't believe that 37% of downloaders are women.
Correction: Some of them do. If they all just hated each other and wanted to eat each others babies I'd be all for leaving them to it. But unfortunately there is a large part of the population who are just ordinary people like you or me.
Maybe there's no incentive for you. All that's needed is that there is enough incentive for enough people for the manufacturers of HDTVs to sell them. There are plenty of people out there for whom a 26" screen is unsatisfactory. I've always mocked audiophiles because they imagine audible differences between hardware that don't exist. But I guarantee that I can tell the difference between watching a movie on my 50" rear projection TV and your 26" LCD screen. I suspect you can too.
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Not content with your loathing for humanity you seek to rewrite the world around you to justify that loathing. How sad.
So when people say "top 5" they mean the top 5 downloads from iTunes? But you can download any album track you want from iTunes. O they get counted too? And why iTunes? There are many ways to buy music. How do you aggregate them?
You must be right. I decided I needed to save money spent on buying CDs. So I made a CD with nothing but a 75 minute continuous 440Hz tone on it. I tried really hard to get into it and eventually I did. I can listen to this CD all day long and really get into it. Why bother with harmony and rhythm and all that? These are just societal stereotypes about how music should be. I gave them up and now I spend no money on CDs. And if I want some variety I burned a 466Hz CD too - though I haven't yet felt the need to play it.
Shows how out of touch I am. I don't know anyone who buys singles so I've no idea what "top N songs" could even mean.
Poor kids. They probably dream every night of how their real father is Steve Jobs.
...Allchin wishes he had a Mac.
You have to admit, it's better than two oxymorons.
I broke a finger many years ago. Pretty quickly it was obvious that it wasn't quite pointing in quite the right direction. "Your finger will point the right way when the swelling goes down". It was completely obvious to me that there was no way that a bit of swelling could have been pushing half my finger in the wrong direction. 3 months later I'm told "well, it's a bit late now that it's healed. The only way to straighten your finger is to open up your hand again and insert a metal plate..." That scuppered my chances of becoming the great bassist that I ought to be...
A few years back I was suddenly struck down with a short lived illness. One of those awful incidents where I was ejecting (bright yellow) from both ends so to speak. I was so tired that I was literally crawling to get to the bathroom. The doctor said "you must have eaten some food that was too rich".
Also many years back I went to the doctor with nasty stomach pains and a really bloated stomach. The doctor says "some research was done recently and it was found that some people are more sensitive than others to pressure in their stomachs and you're probably one of these people." Never mind the fact that the normally skinny me looked like I was pregnant and other people were commenting. (Maybe research shows that some people are sensitive to pressure in other people's stomachs.) What a moron.
Doctors are just ordinary people who've done some courses in medicine and have some experience with other sick people. They only have superficial knowledge of uncommon illnesses outside of their own specialised field. They don't always share interest with the patient so what they define as successful treatment doesn't necessarily agree with the patients definition. I'm sure other people will have plenty more anecdotes than me.
It doesn't try to conserve vorticity better. It defines a discrete analog of continuous vorticity and it guarantees that this is precisely conserved (up to machine precision). The whole point of this work, and related work, is to define discrete systems where discrete analogs of standard theorems of calculus hold exactly. This deserves more than "It's a neat method, but it's nothing revolutionary". It's actually a pretty awesome approach. I don't know how good it is in other respects however.
Years ago I wrote a really basic real-time cloth simulator. It was crap, the 'cloth' was more like rubber. But if you set it up in just the right way the rubber sheet formed a wonderful round shape that jiggled in just the right way...
That's the Stanford Bunny.
...but the excitement of seeing some of those pictures can't compare with what I felt when I first saw this pair of galaxies and the Orion Nebula with my own eyes in my shiny new low cost ($300) 8" reflector (even if they didn't look as spectacular as in those pictures I linked to).
Big advances in algebraic topology too. It kinda seems obvious that strings would be connected to knot theory so it's kinda weird that string theory helped push knot theory forward even though the strings of string theory actually turn out to have nothing to do with the strings in knots!
Well of course. You have to make the question seem as genuine as possible to get it posted.
The story is so obviously a troll. Just coming out with "there are no landers on the moon" would have been rejected, even by the /. editors. So this is a very slightly disguised way of throwing out the same claim for 'discussion'. It's pretty obvious that all this will generate is comments about faked landings. Kudos to the author who slipped it past the editors!
I think that on a 37" TV the quality increase from DVD to HD-DVD would be significant. The differences are much more apparent than the differences between audio equipment so I expect the market is much bigger than the audiophile market.
This is quite different from evidence from radar. We're talking about water that may have flowed in the last couple of years. (Not geological time. A few years here means less than ten.)
63% male/37% women? Almost all of my male friend know how to use bit torrent and often download movies and TV shows with it. About 10% of my female friends know how to do this. A sizable proportion of my male friends do this macho thing where they show off how much of the hard drive space they have is filled with pirated material. None of the women I know do this. So I don't believe that 37% of downloaders are women.