Parent is right. It's easy to say "if you think it's bad, it's because you don't get it". It gives no info. Grandparent is flame bait if it doesn't supply an argument.
How can it be a "wrong model" if it is indistinguishable from the "right one"? If two models give the same responses... you know, if it looks like a duck, acts like a duck, eats... Maybe it's a homonymy. Like every NP-hard problem which is really the same thing.
For those without complexity theory, the traveler sales problem and the determining the minimum number of colors needed to draw a map. Though they seem different, are faces of the same thing.
Oh man! You are gonna hate Smallville! hehehe. Seriously, you are convincing me. For an action movie, it's probably best to have simple black and white. Though, Sin City is really grey... But again, it's easier to please the people if you follow the line. Like in every James Bond movie. It's just that a part of me believes it's possible to have action movies that are art. That exploit unseen moral dilemmas while exploding cars along the streets:D That's why many hated Matrix 2 & 3 probably. But hey, at least they tried something beyond...
Again, I agree mostly with your point, but in principle there's nothing wrong with doing a prequel who challenges what we thought we understood. Do you feel cheated when a movie treats a guy as the good one, and up to the end it's revealed it's all along a clever bad guy?
You cherish your memories and that's good. No matter how much George tries to screw the last dime out of a franchise, it doesn't matter. The relevance of art, isn't in why the author made it, or on what was he/she thinking, it's in what it provokes in you. If George is really a mercenary, just don't buy his products. All in all I agree with you mostly.
Your idea of "real object" is very very strange. Mass?? It's just a characteristic of matter. And an electron is as real as quark, and that doesn't exist by itself! Always in couples or triplets.
We are improving our observations, it's just that it isn't visible. Call it measurement. If there are strings, they have ways to interact with us.
I won't even bite the "mathematical models of things that don't really exist", because physics is by definition a model, a mathematical model. It's a map about reality.
By your train of thought. Let's hurry for wikipedia and every open source project is gonna crash.
How about if we stop pretending that people care much about vandalism. Yes, there will always be some trolls under the bridge. But most people don't have a motivation to destroy common wealth.
Just a minor comment.
Once the whole monomyth structure and clear cut sides fly out the window, it becomes a lot harder to empathise with the heroes or follow why did they have to do this and that. Or to what (justifiable) end. You really think it's easier to empathize with a clearly good alignment hero than with a "guy who thought he's doing the right thing"? Have to disagree. Don't know you, but in my life I have to make several decisions, with no clear black'n white. At the end, one can only do what one believes is good.
Moral ambiguity by itself isn't hard to understand, it's how the real world is after all. Tons of movies work with it. However as you pointed out, how Lucas did it wasn't the best implementation.
Dignity has nothing to do with being responsible. Those are values you have accepted as important, for whatever reason you want. Just as if you play chess, have come to realize that it is a winning strategy to have the initiative. Having no free will is accepting that you are an algorithm trying to win in a game called Life. From a biological standpoint, you, being able to develop strategies at run-time is the way your species has develop to survive.
In other words, you will have dignity as long as you wish, for it is all in your head, anyway.
Personally I have heard that too much. Cell phones, Teletransportation and so on and on. Yet, it's just a myth. I mean, sure they got some effect on people, but as much as any popular scifi show or even fantasy. Have we forgotten radios? Wikipedia points to 1945 as the zeroth generation... Teletransportation back in early 1900s... Common! I know you like the show, but please don't tell me the best thing it has to offer is nudging creativity when there are so many doing the same!
It's like saying Stargate prompted us to try wormholes. Or HHGG to want a universal translator...
I'm gonna take the hook. Yes, Linus isn't giving food to poor children in Africa, nor did he started the Open Source, but he is a symbol. And as such, it does't matter how historical reality reflects. He is the perceived pebble that made a revolution. It doesn't matter that there are thousand others. The thing is, Time is recognizing that there's a role in mankind which deserves admiration. Linus' hero-ship means, Time recognizes the value that a man commited to free software brings to society.
And if you think for it a moment, take a step back. Nations come, nations fall. And it may sound raw, but kids die all the time. And yet, humankind will be better, now that open source is in our minds. It isn't so fantastic to praise a leader of a time, when you compare with a "new" kind of person. A person who believes the tragedy of the commons isn't the only choice.
C'mon, mod the parent down. That's a bad bad advice. And it isn't true. Maybe he didn't get the right education, but you can have it incremental.
Arithmetic becomes algebra... it isn't that big step. 2+3=5, hey 2+x can be a function. Wow. I'm not mocking anyone, I remember that step. When I discovered numbers could be changed to variables. "Hey, why do I need 2 equations when we have 2 variables?" "Oh I got it!" And then you get to trigonometry, "nice functions, don't know why the fuzz, but they seem harmonious, like music". And of course number theory. And once you have algebra, it makes more sense how geometry and numbers mingle with each other. It was really exciting playing to see what each function could plot.
Not once did I have in math a discontinous lesson (except in discrete math:P)
You shouldn't once trust "that is truth because math says so". It's the beauty of it. You don't get why the inner angles of a triangle sum up to 180? Do the math:D Discover the demostration. (Yes, I understand the axiom word... but you should learn even the why of it).
Just a quick correction. CMM isn't a development methodology, just like ISO9000... CMM is a way to ensure processes, but it's up to you which ones. And maybe I'm wrong but isn't Agile a part of XP philosophy?
Maybe he's just worried that those guys don't know CVS, Eclipse framework and so on. I would agree wit you that knowing how to use tools is less important than knowing how to debug deadlocks (which is philosophy-agnostic).
Uhm, Neither Google nor IBM exist to attack MS. They are just making money. Every big name is after the same, Money. Each one has a different strategy, but thinking that weaking MS is the reason behind them using (notice I didn't say helping) Open Source is just incorrect.
The level of investment is directly proportional to what they expect to gain. Had MS disappear, nothing would change on their strategies. Sun would still be reluctant to opening Java, Google would still compete with Yahoo, and IBM would continue doing things like what they did with Eclipse.
You just let gravity do its share. Imagine you roll a tube in space. It would continue rolling if there's no friction. Now substitute endpoints with the spheres. If they have the same mass, one could define a fixed point around which both rotate at equal distances. Now, if one had a bigger mass, that fixed point would be nearer to it. If the proportion is great enough, one can assume the tiny one is orbiting around the big one. There you have a circular motion.
Now just let the tiny one have a small acceleration. Any vector in the orbit plane would suffice to make an elliptical orbit, so long as you don't give too much energy, in other words, don't give more than escape velocity. Voila!
Or you could just setup a motionless sun and shoot near it. If you send it right, the gravity of the big sphere will hook the tiny planet! Just like we got Halley, I guess...
Get the requirement in as much detail as possible. Having items sliced such that they are actions/changes that I think I could do alone in a 2-3 hours or less.
Then I gather PMs (count the number of activities) and multiply by 2.5
Most of the time I get a number which sounds huge, but I tell myself you ain't be doing just that, and emergencies happen. So even if I think it could be inflated I stay with the number. My changes are "critical" so most of the time others understand that I won't rush.
Then talk with some co-workers, ask them how much they calculate. Most of my coworkers get their numbers by feeling, so only if their guts ask for more time I re-check my number.
Profit!
As you do it over and over you'll become more adept at detailing your activities. Experience helps you add more activities that are more realistic. (Of course you should be improving your skills so things once took more time should lower) In the end I could rephrase, get your optimistic time and multiply by 2.5
I'm still new to estimates but this method had worked for me in at least 3 big projects. If you have to work with others, you need to find their factor, in this case 2.5 is my "weight". When I said activities I'm refering to such things as doing each and every use case, coding each function, doing UT, peer reviewing, and so on. All that's required, even talking with the guy next cube so he can't configure some bizarre environment that I will test. Everything counts. Hope it helps.
Maybe our culture is about to change once and for all, by this I mean something simple. Science and technology maybe coming to us, so fast, that we won't have time to call it "Next Big Thing". How can it be, if every month or so we got something world shattering but with the corner of the eye we hace an exotic new perspective!
There won't be a Next Big Thing because the future will be plagued by what in other eras we called Big.
You are right in the part that for general purpose we are bound to believe that reality shouldn't be contradictory. However you err to think that if in our common sense it's paradox, then the mathematics have also the inequalities ala 2=3. That's not the case, those strange equations make sense.
Whenever we found that something bears "contradictory" properties, maybe the answer lies in changing the interpretation, instead of ditching the equation. Specially if by experiments we find that it predicts other "nonsense" phenomena. I agree with you that if an equation gives an absurd solution, it's wrong. If it is at math level, NOT at the interpretation one. One has to understand that our intuition and common sense is based upon our daily lives. Thus, it should not be the criteria to follow. We live in a short range world. We measure time, distance, etc in scales that are limited per se. QM is far below our scale.
For instance, "spin" may be a misguiding concept, that electron property doesn't reflect movement at all. The name Spin was a metaphor. Another thing, spin isn't a binary property. There are particles with one and a half spin or two. I seem to recall that if graviton exists, it has a spin of 2.
Maybe what we need more is to understand the equations behind instead of discussing the words someone told us they mean.
BTW, as others have pointed out, science doesn't respond to "Why?" questions in a teleological sense.
Maybe OT, but while I was at school, people talked about VRML... There's Java 3D... Do anyone think that a 3D interface will ever be popular?
I love CLI and it doesn't seem we are ever going to forget about it.
With 2D we really don't use all the posibilities (maybe Squeak)...
I can see medicine and CAD using it, but a employee, aunt or kid?
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Parent is right. It's easy to say "if you think it's bad, it's because you don't get it". It gives no info. Grandparent is flame bait if it doesn't supply an argument.
How can it be a "wrong model" if it is indistinguishable from the "right one"? If two models give the same responses... you know, if it looks like a duck, acts like a duck, eats... Maybe it's a homonymy. Like every NP-hard problem which is really the same thing. For those without complexity theory, the traveler sales problem and the determining the minimum number of colors needed to draw a map. Though they seem different, are faces of the same thing.
Oh man! You are gonna hate Smallville! hehehe. Seriously, you are convincing me. For an action movie, it's probably best to have simple black and white. Though, Sin City is really grey... But again, it's easier to please the people if you follow the line. Like in every James Bond movie. It's just that a part of me believes it's possible to have action movies that are art. That exploit unseen moral dilemmas while exploding cars along the streets :D That's why many hated Matrix 2 & 3 probably. But hey, at least they tried something beyond...
Again, I agree mostly with your point, but in principle there's nothing wrong with doing a prequel who challenges what we thought we understood. Do you feel cheated when a movie treats a guy as the good one, and up to the end it's revealed it's all along a clever bad guy?
You cherish your memories and that's good. No matter how much George tries to screw the last dime out of a franchise, it doesn't matter. The relevance of art, isn't in why the author made it, or on what was he/she thinking, it's in what it provokes in you. If George is really a mercenary, just don't buy his products. All in all I agree with you mostly.
Your idea of "real object" is very very strange. Mass?? It's just a characteristic of matter. And an electron is as real as quark, and that doesn't exist by itself! Always in couples or triplets. We are improving our observations, it's just that it isn't visible. Call it measurement. If there are strings, they have ways to interact with us. I won't even bite the "mathematical models of things that don't really exist", because physics is by definition a model, a mathematical model. It's a map about reality.
By your train of thought. Let's hurry for wikipedia and every open source project is gonna crash.
How about if we stop pretending that people care much about vandalism. Yes, there will always be some trolls under the bridge. But most people don't have a motivation to destroy common wealth.
Moral ambiguity by itself isn't hard to understand, it's how the real world is after all. Tons of movies work with it. However as you pointed out, how Lucas did it wasn't the best implementation.
Dignity has nothing to do with being responsible. Those are values you have accepted as important, for whatever reason you want. Just as if you play chess, have come to realize that it is a winning strategy to have the initiative. Having no free will is accepting that you are an algorithm trying to win in a game called Life. From a biological standpoint, you, being able to develop strategies at run-time is the way your species has develop to survive.
In other words, you will have dignity as long as you wish, for it is all in your head, anyway.
Try reading this: http://xkcd.com/c167.html
Personally I have heard that too much. Cell phones, Teletransportation and so on and on. Yet, it's just a myth. I mean, sure they got some effect on people, but as much as any popular scifi show or even fantasy. Have we forgotten radios? Wikipedia points to 1945 as the zeroth generation... Teletransportation back in early 1900s... Common! I know you like the show, but please don't tell me the best thing it has to offer is nudging creativity when there are so many doing the same! It's like saying Stargate prompted us to try wormholes. Or HHGG to want a universal translator...
I'm gonna take the hook. Yes, Linus isn't giving food to poor children in Africa, nor did he started the Open Source, but he is a symbol. And as such, it does't matter how historical reality reflects. He is the perceived pebble that made a revolution. It doesn't matter that there are thousand others. The thing is, Time is recognizing that there's a role in mankind which deserves admiration. Linus' hero-ship means, Time recognizes the value that a man commited to free software brings to society.
And if you think for it a moment, take a step back. Nations come, nations fall. And it may sound raw, but kids die all the time. And yet, humankind will be better, now that open source is in our minds. It isn't so fantastic to praise a leader of a time, when you compare with a "new" kind of person. A person who believes the tragedy of the commons isn't the only choice.
C'mon, mod the parent down. That's a bad bad advice. And it isn't true. Maybe he didn't get the right education, but you can have it incremental.
:P)
:D Discover the demostration. (Yes, I understand the axiom word... but you should learn even the why of it).
Arithmetic becomes algebra... it isn't that big step. 2+3=5, hey 2+x can be a function. Wow. I'm not mocking anyone, I remember that step. When I discovered numbers could be changed to variables. "Hey, why do I need 2 equations when we have 2 variables?" "Oh I got it!" And then you get to trigonometry, "nice functions, don't know why the fuzz, but they seem harmonious, like music". And of course number theory. And once you have algebra, it makes more sense how geometry and numbers mingle with each other. It was really exciting playing to see what each function could plot.
Not once did I have in math a discontinous lesson (except in discrete math
You shouldn't once trust "that is truth because math says so". It's the beauty of it. You don't get why the inner angles of a triangle sum up to 180? Do the math
You may look at the News chart, just below the search one...
Just a quick correction. CMM isn't a development methodology, just like ISO9000... CMM is a way to ensure processes, but it's up to you which ones. And maybe I'm wrong but isn't Agile a part of XP philosophy?
Maybe he's just worried that those guys don't know CVS, Eclipse framework and so on. I would agree wit you that knowing how to use tools is less important than knowing how to debug deadlocks (which is philosophy-agnostic).
Uhm, Neither Google nor IBM exist to attack MS. They are just making money. Every big name is after the same, Money. Each one has a different strategy, but thinking that weaking MS is the reason behind them using (notice I didn't say helping) Open Source is just incorrect.
The level of investment is directly proportional to what they expect to gain. Had MS disappear, nothing would change on their strategies. Sun would still be reluctant to opening Java, Google would still compete with Yahoo, and IBM would continue doing things like what they did with Eclipse.
You just let gravity do its share.
Imagine you roll a tube in space. It would continue rolling if there's no friction. Now substitute endpoints with the spheres. If they have the same mass, one could define a fixed point around which both rotate at equal distances. Now, if one had a bigger mass, that fixed point would be nearer to it. If the proportion is great enough, one can assume the tiny one is orbiting around the big one. There you have a circular motion.
Now just let the tiny one have a small acceleration. Any vector in the orbit plane would suffice to make an elliptical orbit, so long as you don't give too much energy, in other words, don't give more than escape velocity. Voila!
Or you could just setup a motionless sun and shoot near it. If you send it right, the gravity of the big sphere will hook the tiny planet! Just like we got Halley, I guess...
- Get the requirement in as much detail as possible. Having items sliced such that they are actions/changes that I think I could do alone in a 2-3 hours or less.
- Then I gather PMs (count the number of activities) and multiply by 2.5
- Then talk with some co-workers, ask them how much they calculate. Most of my coworkers get their numbers by feeling, so only if their guts ask for more time I re-check my number.
- Profit!
As you do it over and over you'll become more adept at detailing your activities. Experience helps you add more activities that are more realistic. (Of course you should be improving your skills so things once took more time should lower) In the end I could rephrase, get your optimistic time and multiply by 2.5Most of the time I get a number which sounds huge, but I tell myself you ain't be doing just that, and emergencies happen. So even if I think it could be inflated I stay with the number. My changes are "critical" so most of the time others understand that I won't rush.
I'm still new to estimates but this method had worked for me in at least 3 big projects. If you have to work with others, you need to find their factor, in this case 2.5 is my "weight". When I said activities I'm refering to such things as doing each and every use case, coding each function, doing UT, peer reviewing, and so on. All that's required, even talking with the guy next cube so he can't configure some bizarre environment that I will test. Everything counts. Hope it helps.
Maybe our culture is about to change once and for all, by this I mean something simple. Science and technology maybe coming to us, so fast, that we won't have time to call it "Next Big Thing". How can it be, if every month or so we got something world shattering but with the corner of the eye we hace an exotic new perspective! There won't be a Next Big Thing because the future will be plagued by what in other eras we called Big.
You are right in the part that for general purpose we are bound to believe that reality shouldn't be contradictory. However you err to think that if in our common sense it's paradox, then the mathematics have also the inequalities ala 2=3. That's not the case, those strange equations make sense.
Whenever we found that something bears "contradictory" properties, maybe the answer lies in changing the interpretation, instead of ditching the equation. Specially if by experiments we find that it predicts other "nonsense" phenomena. I agree with you that if an equation gives an absurd solution, it's wrong. If it is at math level, NOT at the interpretation one. One has to understand that our intuition and common sense is based upon our daily lives. Thus, it should not be the criteria to follow. We live in a short range world. We measure time, distance, etc in scales that are limited per se. QM is far below our scale.
For instance, "spin" may be a misguiding concept, that electron property doesn't reflect movement at all. The name Spin was a metaphor. Another thing, spin isn't a binary property. There are particles with one and a half spin or two. I seem to recall that if graviton exists, it has a spin of 2.
Maybe what we need more is to understand the equations behind instead of discussing the words someone told us they mean.
BTW, as others have pointed out, science doesn't respond to "Why?" questions in a teleological sense.
Maybe OT, but while I was at school, people talked about VRML... There's Java 3D... Do anyone think that a 3D interface will ever be popular? I love CLI and it doesn't seem we are ever going to forget about it. With 2D we really don't use all the posibilities (maybe Squeak)... I can see medicine and CAD using it, but a employee, aunt or kid?
It seems to me that the guy runs a linux box.
Just because ONE company decided to back out, doesn't mean anything. How many people try to be a famous movie star and doesn't suceed?
We have Mandrake, who sure had bad moments. And yet continues...
Maybe it also disappears, so what? How many banks didn't came to see 21th century?