Wow, you learned that at grade school? Which school did you go to? Also, how old are you. When I was at school we learned that the earth orbits the sun, and the sun orbits the centre of the milky way.
With all these latest improvements in battery life being x10 in the last few years from nanotube anodes/cathodes to this lithium-air battery, why does my laptop still run out in 2 hours? Where is my 20 hours of battery life? I'll tell you where, it's been savagely consumed by the venture capital sharks promising but not delivering.
There is no advertising in Dropbox, and it's free... why? I'm a bit cautious of something that is free, has no advertising, and requires an online server.
2. Assuming I would I then have to worry about keeping the gold physically secure once I take possession of it.
That's easy, just keep it in the gold-smith's vault, and let him give you a receipt for it. If enough people do this, then they won't even need to go back to the vault to retrieve their gold to pay for goods and services, and they can just trade with the receipts.
I'm willing to be that they are attempting a 6.214 mile high explosion. Why? Because that is 10km. Good to see NASA using a civilized measurement system, too bad the press/media doesn't.
If the information gets outside your light cone it doesn't matter what kind of trick you used to make it happen... wormholes, warp bubbles, or rotating cylinders... you've violated causality.
It is impossible for information to get outside of the light cone. If information gets out then it is because the light cone is getting out, leaking if you will, but still not violating causality.
You still end up with global causality violation if an object can communicate outside its light cone.
I don't think our current concept of causality requires information to be slower or equal to the speed of light to work out. No violation neccessary.
It does require information to be less than or equal the speed of light. However, I'd like to conjecture that there is no causality violation because you are carrying part of the light cone with you in the bubble.
Back in the day in Poland (I don't know if it still happens) you were graded through a conversation with the teacher/professor. It would reveal whether you really understood the topic. Only problem is this requires a high level of quality teachers.
However, it might go supernova in the near future, if it hasn't already
It hasn't already, because we haven't seen it go boom yet. Even if it is half a millennium away in terms of light travel time, from our frame of reference it will only go boom when we observe it to.
There is currently a movement to develop a language which can replace Fortran for high performance/productivity computing by focusing on parallelism, such as X10 and Chapel.
Isn't as hard to write fast python code as fortran code? When you're paying large money for supercomputer time, your multi-day molecular dynamics simulations better run quickly.
Evidence slashdot moderators have lost the plot. How did this
If meteors can be so dangerous to airoplanes, why we don't see them hitting cars or buildings more often?
only get 3 Insightful, and this
70% of the earth is water. I would guess 98% of the land is not covered by buildings or roads. So, a lot of things can hit the ground without us noticing.
Do you also use a second terminal for typing in the "make" command? What about other terminals for viewing documentation or file structure? Vim is only a small part of the entire interactive development environment that you actually use. I code mostly in Java and use Netbeans. It contains not only the middle bit for actually writing the code, but I also get windows for debugging and viewing the directory structure. Although this could mostly be achieved by a few terminal windows and Vim, I prefer to use Netbeans because I get nice context boxes showing me the structure of a particular method/function with a little documentation on it.
I saw a f1 team roll a new nose cone on a trolley. It would probably be much easier to develop a trolley to swap out the batteries in one motion. First trolley grabs the batteries and moves them out of the way, second trolley with the new batteries rolls up to the side and slides them in. Sure it probably can't be done right now this very minute, there would be problems to overcome, but c'mon, a battery trolley with rails is beyond human capacity? (no pun intended).
If you're writing a program and using the default print preview control, then according to Microsoft you have to enforce all of your customers set their measurement to the U.S. imperial system in the regional options: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=814355 This was the final straw in a series of.NET programming frustrations/woes (binding anyone?) that made me decide to never go back to.NET ever again if I can help it.
Except for the fact that MS Word is more widely used than TeX
Not for professional, publication quality work.
Most journals and conferences that I've seen have both MS Word and LaTeX templates. The scientist doesn't usually need to worry about the presentation, just the content. It's the publisher that takes care of the presentation.
I have both, but I still prefer to use LaTeX because MS Word's figure and table captions, and equations including references are a royal pain in the ass.
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"mammals started to radiate"
Wow, you learned that at grade school? Which school did you go to? Also, how old are you. When I was at school we learned that the earth orbits the sun, and the sun orbits the centre of the milky way.
With all these latest improvements in battery life being x10 in the last few years from nanotube anodes/cathodes to this lithium-air battery, why does my laptop still run out in 2 hours? Where is my 20 hours of battery life? I'll tell you where, it's been savagely consumed by the venture capital sharks promising but not delivering.
They realized that it was taking Frodo too long to get to 70, so in the third patch they just created an FP to Mt. Doom.
rub one out, then get back to coding.
There is no advertising in Dropbox, and it's free... why?
I'm a bit cautious of something that is free, has no advertising, and requires an online server.
2. Assuming I would I then have to worry about keeping the gold physically secure once I take possession of it.
That's easy, just keep it in the gold-smith's vault, and let him give you a receipt for it. If enough people do this, then they won't even need to go back to the vault to retrieve their gold to pay for goods and services, and they can just trade with the receipts.
I'm willing to be that they are attempting a 6.214 mile high explosion. Why? Because that is 10km. Good to see NASA using a civilized measurement system, too bad the press/media doesn't.
If the information gets outside your light cone it doesn't matter what kind of trick you used to make it happen... wormholes, warp bubbles, or rotating cylinders... you've violated causality.
It is impossible for information to get outside of the light cone. If information gets out then it is because the light cone is getting out, leaking if you will, but still not violating causality.
You still end up with global causality violation if an object can communicate outside its light cone.
I don't think our current concept of causality requires information to be slower or equal to the speed of light to work out. No violation neccessary.
It does require information to be less than or equal the speed of light. However, I'd like to conjecture that there is no causality violation because you are carrying part of the light cone with you in the bubble.
Back in the day in Poland (I don't know if it still happens) you were graded through a conversation with the teacher/professor. It would reveal whether you really understood the topic. Only problem is this requires a high level of quality teachers.
However, it might go supernova in the near future, if it hasn't already
It hasn't already, because we haven't seen it go boom yet. Even if it is half a millennium away in terms of light travel time, from our frame of reference it will only go boom when we observe it to.
There is currently a movement to develop a language which can replace Fortran for high performance/productivity computing by focusing on parallelism, such as X10 and Chapel.
Isn't as hard to write fast python code as fortran code? When you're paying large money for supercomputer time, your multi-day molecular dynamics simulations better run quickly.
>> c(0:999) = a(0:999) + b(0:999)
Matlab.
but then you also have to call it manually all the time, resulting in a mess of nested try-finally calls
Try (no pun indended) this.
Evidence slashdot moderators have lost the plot. How did this
If meteors can be so dangerous to airoplanes, why we don't see them hitting cars or buildings more often?
only get 3 Insightful, and this
70% of the earth is water. I would guess 98% of the land is not covered by buildings or roads. So, a lot of things can hit the ground without us noticing.
get 5 Insightful???
Green laser pointers have been around for years, how are they different to the ones that are used in these projectors?
In addition to global earth day, we'll call this one global moon day.
Do you also use a second terminal for typing in the "make" command? What about other terminals for viewing documentation or file structure? Vim is only a small part of the entire interactive development environment that you actually use. I code mostly in Java and use Netbeans. It contains not only the middle bit for actually writing the code, but I also get windows for debugging and viewing the directory structure. Although this could mostly be achieved by a few terminal windows and Vim, I prefer to use Netbeans because I get nice context boxes showing me the structure of a particular method/function with a little documentation on it.
I saw a f1 team roll a new nose cone on a trolley. It would probably be much easier to develop a trolley to swap out the batteries in one motion. First trolley grabs the batteries and moves them out of the way, second trolley with the new batteries rolls up to the side and slides them in. Sure it probably can't be done right now this very minute, there would be problems to overcome, but c'mon, a battery trolley with rails is beyond human capacity? (no pun intended).
If you're writing a program and using the default print preview control, then according to Microsoft you have to enforce all of your customers set their measurement to the U.S. imperial system in the regional options: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=814355 .NET programming frustrations/woes (binding anyone?) that made me decide to never go back to .NET ever again if I can help it.
This was the final straw in a series of
or introduce him to ninjas or robots.
and don't get me started on what some people use Excel for!
For improving their pilot skills: http://www.eeggs.com/items/718.html
Except for the fact that MS Word is more widely used than TeX
Not for professional, publication quality work.
Most journals and conferences that I've seen have both MS Word and LaTeX templates. The scientist doesn't usually need to worry about the presentation, just the content. It's the publisher that takes care of the presentation.
I have both, but I still prefer to use LaTeX because MS Word's figure and table captions, and equations including references are a royal pain in the ass.