Interesting graph, but just observing a correlation between two parameters does not proof that one is influenced by the other. Even if there is an explanation, it might be the reverse relation, or both parameters might depend on a third. If I remember correctly, presidents in the U.S. are elected by the people. Likewise, the economical situation is also determined by the spending behaviour of people.
I was talking about the planet three times as big (and with 27 times the mass of earth) and having 10 times more water, which equals to an ocean of at least 5 km deep over the whole planet.
... because the are also much bigger, meaning that the G force will be much higher. Not that it makes life impossible, but it will create enourmous presures. For life forms on such a planet it would be very difficult to explore space, I guess. Simply, because the escape speed will be very high as well.
When is someone coming up with a real good language for specifying applications. This is yet another language for describing the graphical interface of an application. And as such it adds nothing new! Just another technology for something that we already have dealt with before. I am waiting for the first frame work that gives you the ability to query and edit data in a consistent manner, without having to write code for every single query/insert/delete/update statement myself. That provides you with built in undo/redo functionality and things like locking. A frame work where you specify data manipulation, instead of having to implement it over and over again. A frame work that let you generate single tire, two tire, tree tire, or what ever many tire systems, using any possible web-based or non-web-based communication protocol with the push of a button.
One of the dangers of long nanotubes is that they are extremely strong compared to their thickness. This makes them ideal for cutting purposes. I guess one of the dangers of long nanotubes might be that people can be cut. Imagine (accidently) cutting someones throat with a fiber thinner than a hair, which is almost invible to the eye.
Theoretically, a webcam should be sufficient for scanning documents. So far, I haven't found a package able to do this. This package should combine multiple (still) frames into a single frame for noise reduction, or possible even stick multiple frames into a single frame, and rescale the whole images to the paper size. Would it not be nice to pick your webcam and move it over the document and have an instant scan of it?
It is one or the other. It is impossible to increase security without reducing anonimity. Internet has been hailed for its anonimity, and it is a thing that should be kept. But on the hand it also lacks the possibilities (with the current email protocol) to increase ones security with a reduction of anonimity. For example, there is not yet a possibility to only receive email from people that have revealed their identity with a trusted third party. I am affraid that is mainly a problem of legacy that a secure email protocol has not been deployed yet.
I have been voting through electronic voting machines since 1981. That is now for 22 years. The city where I lived in 1981 was one of the first to introduce electronic voting machines in the Netherlands. Nowadays, almost all cities have electronic voting machines. In the past 22 years I have never heard about any problems with electronic voting, nor about people protesting against it.
But, of course, I live in a country where we can trust the government because it has a political system where political success does not depend on having access to large amounths of money, and where the press it not owned by large companies that have ties with political parties, and where companies are forbidden to donate money for (presidential) election campains. I am happy that we do not have a president and election campains that cost millions of dollars, which can only be seen as a form of legalized corruption.
It is a long time ago that the cube was popular, and it has been many years ago that I have seen the 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 versions. These are not really much harder than the original one. Just more of the same. Through the years I have never lost my ability to solve the cube, because I only make use of a few formuleas to solve it. I start with putting all the rib cubes in the right position. That only requires two formuleas, one of them being a little tricky, the other rather straight forward (a did find it myself). Then all the corner cubes can be moved in to the right location and orientation with a single formulea consisting of 8 moves.
Methods that start with solving the cube layer by layer are require a lot of formulea that you simply have to learn by heart (or read from the book) and thus are very hard to remember especially over the long run.
The formulea that is used to move the corner cubes to the right location also lays at the basis of the moves needed to solve the 4x4x4 and
5x5x5 cubes. I have never solved those, but I have others seen doing it.
I am getting more and more convinced that most of the complexity is caused by the fact that computers are too slow for the kind of tasks want them to perform. The real problem is that we are no longer aware that 99.5% of our efforts are related to optimization, and that 90% of our code is related to moving data around in the memory pyramide, or to calculate differential queries.
Calculating a differential query means that you modify the outcome of a query based on how the data changed instead of reexecuting the whole query.
Over and over again, I see people mention alternative energy sources (such as wind and solar power) as a replacement for fossile energy sources. However, nobody seems to understand that those energy sources are expensive because they need a lot of fossile energy to be constructed. Every taken the time to calculate the amouth of energy required to build a wind mill or a solar cell and compare that to the amouth of energy that they will produce, and it will become clear to you that the so called alternative energy sources will become even more expensive when oil prices go up.
Here in the Netherlands we have this system everywhere. I cannot remember having encountered timed traffic lights in the past ten years. But what is even nicer is that we even have this system for bikes, which have their own traffic lights, which operate independently from the lights for cars. At some junctions bikes from all directions will get green lights together, and more often then the cars.
Even if there is optimal information exchange, my conclusion still seems to holds. If the majority does not truely understand a certain freely available fact (or cannot judge its correctness) it is not likely that any decision (made by the majority) based on this fact, can be good.
It seems to me that if there is no optimal information exchange that the quality of the decision can only be worse.
It seems to me that open-source platforms, open discussion platforms (such as/.), and wiki's (such as wikipedia) suffer from the same problem, as soon as "un-educated" people start to dominate the place.
Rational decisions are only possible when sufficient reliable and objective information is available. The kind of decisions that politicians are facing, generally do not meet these criteria.
The real problem is that we live in a world with limited resources, both with respect to materials and knowledge. For these reason we tend to listen to those people that sound convincing. The best way to prevent corruption, is to prevent concentration of power. (It is a known law that the power attracts the corruptable.) The main disadvantage of preventing this, is the slowdown of decision making and the danger of bureaucracy. There is a general tendency for concentration of power.
It is also true that those that sound convincing often believe that rational decisions are not possible (because no reliable information does exists) and that their popularity amongh the masses affirm the correctness of the decisions they have made.
One could conclude that the qualities of decisions made in any democratic system can never be greater than the average quality of understanding of the people in that democracy. That is one of the greatest weaknesses of true democracy.
There are now some cities in the Netherlands where disposable diaper should go into the "organic" waste bin, instead of the "rest" waste bin. Most cities in the Netherlands have collect "organic" and "rest" waste seperately.
Appearantly there are now some waste processing plants that can process disposable diapers as organic material and recycle them in some manner.
Yes, and lets continue subsidizing agriculture in our western countries, such that we can sell food below the price of which they can be produced in third world countries, with the result that farmers in those countries will remain poor for every, and milions of children will die because of poverty till the end of time.
> PS Object Oriented is a concept adapted from functional programming languages, i.e. LISP.
It is definitely not. Functional programming languages work with "values" not "objects". Objects (with having a state) and Functional languages are mutually exclussive. All attempts to introduce objects into functional programming languages have failed.
Some people think that only artificial languages can be regular. This is not the case. Both Turkish and Finnish are agglutinative languages, which have many suffixes, were each suffix represents a destinct concept.
He was looking for something cheap. Smarts are nice, but they are way too expensive compared to what you get. There are cars just a little bigger that are much cheaper.
He does not have adrenoleukodystrophy, as the boy Lorenzo in the movie had. Adrenoleukodystrophy is a progressive disease, meaning that things tend to get worse and worse. My son suffers from Kabuki Syndrome. With him it is just that the process of myelination goes slower than normal. Myelination usually starts around three months before birth and continues while the child is developing. In some parts of the brain it goes slower than in other areas. Visual perception, for example is slower, which is the reason that children cannot read small print.
We have seen an improvement with him, since we start giving him a supplement of Essential Fatty Acids.
We feel very blessed having him as our son and we are very proud of his achievements. He is just a very lovely boy (when he is not nagging:-).
In his case that would not work. He suffers from poor myelination, which means that the isolation around his nerve endings is poor or lacking. I understand that because of this the restore time of the nerve is longer than normal, and thus causing a lower signal throughput than normal. Increasing the frequence would not work in this case, because poorly isolated conductors usually have higher impedance on higher frequencies.
It looks like my mentally handicapped son (almost 6) with a P.I.Q. of 50, also has this preference. He always asks us to play his favourite video at twice the normal speed, especially if he already has watched them before.
Although the press messages was made from Amsterdam, it doesn't mean the research was done there. And although hash is freely available in almost every major city in the Netherlands, it doesn't mean that all Dutch are smoking pot every day. That would be the same as saying that all Americans over 18 are drunken, because they can buy beer in every city (except Utah).
I agree, bonus cards are not a reliable means of tracing people. But the point I wanted to make is that being able to associate a buyer with the items he bought, is not always a bad thing, as some others have been suggesting in this discussion. Every technology, including RFID, has their bad and good uses.
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Interesting graph, but just observing a correlation between two parameters does not proof that one is influenced by the other. Even if there is an explanation, it might be the reverse relation, or both parameters might depend on a third. If I remember correctly, presidents in the U.S. are elected by the people. Likewise, the economical situation is also determined by the spending behaviour of people.
I was talking about the planet three times as big (and with 27 times the mass of earth) and having 10 times more water, which equals to an ocean of at least 5 km deep over the whole planet.
... because the are also much bigger, meaning that the G force will be much higher. Not that it makes life impossible, but it will create enourmous presures. For life forms on such a planet it would be very difficult to explore space, I guess. Simply, because the escape speed will be very high as well.
When is someone coming up with a real good language for specifying applications. This is yet another language for describing the graphical interface of an application. And as such it adds nothing new! Just another technology for something that we already have dealt with before. I am waiting for the first frame work that gives you the ability to query and edit data in a consistent manner, without having to write code for every single query/insert/delete/update statement myself. That provides you with built in undo/redo functionality and things like locking. A frame work where you specify data manipulation, instead of having to implement it over and over again. A frame work that let you generate single tire, two tire, tree tire, or what ever many tire systems, using any possible web-based or non-web-based communication protocol with the push of a button.
One of the dangers of long nanotubes is that they are extremely strong compared to their thickness. This makes them ideal for cutting purposes. I guess one of the dangers of long nanotubes might be that people can be cut. Imagine (accidently) cutting someones throat with a fiber thinner than a hair, which is almost invible to the eye.
Theoretically, a webcam should be sufficient for scanning documents. So far, I haven't found a package able to do this. This package should combine multiple (still) frames into a single frame for noise reduction, or possible even stick multiple frames into a single frame, and rescale the whole images to the paper size. Would it not be nice to pick your webcam and move it over the document and have an instant scan of it?
It is one or the other. It is impossible to increase security without reducing anonimity. Internet has been hailed for its anonimity, and it is a thing that should be kept. But on the hand it also lacks the possibilities (with the current email protocol) to increase ones security with a reduction of anonimity. For example, there is not yet a possibility to only receive email from people that have revealed their identity with a trusted third party. I am affraid that is mainly a problem of legacy that a secure email protocol has not been deployed yet.
But, of course, I live in a country where we can trust the government because it has a political system where political success does not depend on having access to large amounths of money, and where the press it not owned by large companies that have ties with political parties, and where companies are forbidden to donate money for (presidential) election campains. I am happy that we do not have a president and election campains that cost millions of dollars, which can only be seen as a form of legalized corruption.
Methods that start with solving the cube layer by layer are require a lot of formulea that you simply have to learn by heart (or read from the book) and thus are very hard to remember especially over the long run.
The formulea that is used to move the corner cubes to the right location also lays at the basis of the moves needed to solve the 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 cubes. I have never solved those, but I have others seen doing it.
Calculating a differential query means that you modify the outcome of a query based on how the data changed instead of reexecuting the whole query.
Over and over again, I see people mention alternative energy sources (such as wind and solar power) as a replacement for fossile energy sources. However, nobody seems to understand that those energy sources are expensive because they need a lot of fossile energy to be constructed. Every taken the time to calculate the amouth of energy required to build a wind mill or a solar cell and compare that to the amouth of energy that they will produce, and it will become clear to you that the so called alternative energy sources will become even more expensive when oil prices go up.
Here in the Netherlands we have this system everywhere. I cannot remember having encountered timed traffic lights in the past ten years. But what is even nicer is that we even have this system for bikes, which have their own traffic lights, which operate independently from the lights for cars. At some junctions bikes from all directions will get green lights together, and more often then the cars.
It seems to me that if there is no optimal information exchange that the quality of the decision can only be worse.
It seems to me that open-source platforms, open discussion platforms (such as /.), and wiki's (such as wikipedia) suffer from the same problem, as soon as "un-educated" people start to dominate the place.
The real problem is that we live in a world with limited resources, both with respect to materials and knowledge. For these reason we tend to listen to those people that sound convincing. The best way to prevent corruption, is to prevent concentration of power. (It is a known law that the power attracts the corruptable.) The main disadvantage of preventing this, is the slowdown of decision making and the danger of bureaucracy. There is a general tendency for concentration of power.
It is also true that those that sound convincing often believe that rational decisions are not possible (because no reliable information does exists) and that their popularity amongh the masses affirm the correctness of the decisions they have made.
One could conclude that the qualities of decisions made in any democratic system can never be greater than the average quality of understanding of the people in that democracy. That is one of the greatest weaknesses of true democracy.
There are now some cities in the Netherlands where disposable diaper should go into the "organic" waste bin, instead of the "rest" waste bin. Most cities in the Netherlands have collect "organic" and "rest" waste seperately. Appearantly there are now some waste processing plants that can process disposable diapers as organic material and recycle them in some manner.
Yes, and lets continue subsidizing agriculture in our western countries, such that we can sell food below the price of which they can be produced in third world countries, with the result that farmers in those countries will remain poor for every, and milions of children will die because of poverty till the end of time.
It is definitely not. Functional programming languages work with "values" not "objects". Objects (with having a state) and Functional languages are mutually exclussive. All attempts to introduce objects into functional programming languages have failed.
Some people think that only artificial languages can be regular. This is not the case. Both Turkish and Finnish are agglutinative languages, which have many suffixes, were each suffix represents a destinct concept.
He was looking for something cheap. Smarts are nice, but they are way too expensive compared to what you get. There are cars just a little bigger that are much cheaper.
Here is an interesting animation of Poincare Dodecahedral Space, also known as S3#.
We have seen an improvement with him, since we start giving him a supplement of Essential Fatty Acids.
We feel very blessed having him as our son and we are very proud of his achievements. He is just a very lovely boy (when he is not nagging :-).
In his case that would not work. He suffers from poor myelination, which means that the isolation around his nerve endings is poor or lacking. I understand that because of this the restore time of the nerve is longer than normal, and thus causing a lower signal throughput than normal. Increasing the frequence would not work in this case, because poorly isolated conductors usually have higher impedance on higher frequencies.
It looks like my mentally handicapped son (almost 6) with a P.I.Q. of 50, also has this preference. He always asks us to play his favourite video at twice the normal speed, especially if he already has watched them before.
Although the press messages was made from Amsterdam, it doesn't mean the research was done there. And although hash is freely available in almost every major city in the Netherlands, it doesn't mean that all Dutch are smoking pot every day. That would be the same as saying that all Americans over 18 are drunken, because they can buy beer in every city (except Utah).
I agree, bonus cards are not a reliable means of tracing people. But the point I wanted to make is that being able to associate a buyer with the items he bought, is not always a bad thing, as some others have been suggesting in this discussion. Every technology, including RFID, has their bad and good uses.