Citations only mean given research was used in further scientific research. But researchers aren't the only people who read this stuff. Engineers do to - and they don't publish articles, they make projects - they directly utilize results to create useful real-world creations. Never-ending tables of material properties, new chemical processes, new methods of simulation and analysis for implementation in software, this all comes from white papers. Engineers do a lot of own research, and use a lot of methods that are long-established, but often they just look for "new&better" in the scientific publications. And the source may find its way into the project, but it's unlikely to show up in the final product.
Personally, I believe even observable universe is too small. There are some elements of abiogenesis that are ludicrously improbable - compound probabilistic properties (like nucleotides arranging themselves into chains that make sense) have this nasty habit of rapidly exploding into numbers much higher than "iterative" stuff like the count of nucleotides in primordial ocean times count of earth-like planets in the observable universe.
Still, with the universe (entire, not just observable) being infinite, even these numbers are tiny - life is bound to happen *somewhere* - and us hunting for it within several parsecs is just our resistance to accept the concept that chances like 1 in 10^1,000,000 are still equivalent to certainty if you have *infinite* tries.
I happen to be white, male, and in one of 2nd world countries, where US higher education used to be considered something "elite".
I also believe one of frequent forms of schizophrenia is confusion about own sexuality, and denial to even discuss trying to diagnose it in people, who claim to be "born of wrong gender" is doing them a severe disservice
I believe mass influx of Muslim immigrants to western countries is dangerous to the western culture.
I believe Blacks are not doing enough to combat violent elements in their own society, concentrating too much on creating positive image instead of ensuring the stereotypes are completely baseless.
I believe Antifa are fanatical violent thugs.
Even if I could afford an US college, I definitely couldn't afford the US hospital bills if my opinions were made known among the students.
With space being 13bln years old, and us being 11 light years away, and humanity being maybe 200 years into industrial revolution (and at most 300 years from being able to send something there), what, in your opinion, is the chance they have developed just enough to be able to detect us but not enough to have blown past Earth completely ignoring its life as too primitive to be of any interest?
Pick a ~500 year long window they'd need to get from beginnings of ability to listen in to space waves, until being able to explore all near exoplanets. Place it on any point of the 13bln years long time axis. What's the chance it overlaps our 500 year window?
It's the Fermi Paradox - the chance for any space-faring civilization to be roughly as primitive as us, at the same time, is minimal. Universe is extremely old, and any civilization that would have been comparable at one point, should be advanced past any human recognition by now. So either life is that rare, intelligent life is that rare, or there's some awful trap that destroys every civilization once it advances sufficiently to discover it. Certainly the likehood of races advanced similarly as humans, anywhere near, is next to zero.
And yet denying job basing on race, gender or religious background is illegal. It's only legal to prioritize semi-illegally imported foreigners over legal citizens. Are you implying the government should also remove the anti-discrimination laws?
The firms are still free to replace their employees with better employees that are legal citizens. They are also free to make the employees redundant, vacating the workplaces altogether. What they are not allowed is abusing law that is meant strictly for filling up shortages of highest tier professionals, to import under-qualified cheap labor replacing current employees.
While communism and socialism were a disaster, so was untamed, bloody 19th Century capitalism, where the employee had no rights. Restricted immigration in general are one of methods of indirectly protecting rights of employees - in the standard capitalist supply-demand-price triangle of the job market, it prevents the employers from inflating the supply side artificially, reducing the price for own profit. H1-B is a concession that would help employers in case supply is so low they are unable to fill the demand, no matter what price. But it's being abused - inflating the supply unreasonably.
Why are there so many, that just can't accept the fact that Trump is the legally, democratically elected president? Why do you find it so suspicious that majority of people support whom majority of people voted in? Personally, I'm finding it bizarre, that for the first time in the USA history, supporters of the losing party are treating the winner as illegal usurper (including protests and riots), instead of just shutting up and accepting it's the Republicans' turn at the helm. And why don't you try to clean up your house (e.g. assuring that DNC is impartial when picking candidates, instead of using dirty tricks to cheat half of their own electorate out of voting their candidate just to push the one DNC is literally owned by).
Politician, who promised you to keep your job, and whom you voted in, owes you a job. And if that means stopping your employer from replacing you with a cheaper foreign worker (through abusing a program that is meant only to allow import of talents that are lacking domestically, never intended to replace existing employees), stopping your employer from abusing that program is doing exactly what he owes you for your vote.
Of course it doesn't deal with DSL. It uses GSM connection and it's too small for a phone plug. Plus plugging the landline into a watch defeats the whole portability idea. Just imagine dragging your DSL link behind you as you go by car...
The smart watch will not replace the phone, because its physical limitations (screen size, touchscreen interface size, wrist attachment) make it unsuitable for most purposes for which the phone is sufficient.
There might be a hybrid; a wristband-phone. Flexible screen that can be wrapped around your wrist, worn like a smartwatch, or kept flat for use as a phone. But notice how phones actually *grow*, physical screen size becoming increasingly important. The tiny screen of a smartwatch is simply unsuitable for most multimedia uses.
The problem with "criminal" is (as the court put it) violation of DNC's internal regulations is DNC's internal affair and outside of courts' jurisdiction. Clinton activities regarding the primaries didn't violate the US law, despite being a total mockery of democratic process, breaking a slew of DNC status regulations - they could only be pursued and punished by DNC, and with DNC being practically owned by Clintons, that's not going to happen.
The public saw it though, saw how the organization with democracy in its name is run like a banana republic, and voted accordingly. And currently everyone, who had voted the counter-candidate being labeled Nazi by fanatic "strong arm" of the organization is only reinforcing the conviction.
- the more resources you dedicate to expanding your knowledge of board setup the less you have towards actual board domination.
- accurately predicting the board setup basing on what *should* be optimal currently is excessively difficult, as having a sub-optimal setup the opponent failed to predict is preferable to having optimal setup which the opponent predicted. That includes purposeful deceit.
Some programs are written to make users' lives easier.
Some are there to let everyone see how clever their author is. Hey, if you were given sensible defaults you'd never get to learn how many different options there are! And if you're feeling overwhelmed, you should understand only GREAT MINDS can comprehend something this complex and advanced - and only GENIUS can create it! Don't touch, just stare in awe.
Blender is hell for beginners, but efficient for experts/power users.
Gimp is hell for beginners and power users alike. It's not made to be efficient; it's being made to be a showcase of capabilities of the technology (of GTK+).
won't say a thing about "well constructed" though. I mean:
The button layout in toolbox, filling the rows depending on toolbox width, buttons behaving like characters, auto-filling the width, which is perfectly logical if you want to read them left to right like text... not quite so if you want to remember their positions.
Each configurable tool opens own pop-up with its options once you start using it. Perfectly logical. So what if the popup covers the area of the image you just wanted to modify (using the defaults from previous use). Who cares about some image, you're getting the important UI!
Selection has own settings of opacity, so do layers. If there's a doubt what to grab, when you want to drag, the top-most layer/selection with >50% opacity is chosen, so if you want to move the background and not the watermark, you don't need to seek around the watermark for a place to grab the background. OTOH, if you want to grab the watermark, you'll need to push its opacity above 50% for duration of the move. Perfectly logical, not quite comfortable. Also, moving that layer with only thin ink lines; area between lines empty? You'd better grab by a line, no matter it's 3 pixels wide.
There are at least 5 ways to change a numerical value under every slider. If you want to drag the slider at same speed as mouse cursor, just position the cursor on the *bottom half* of it, at where it's currently. Otherwise you'll get some incremental changes, proportional reduced rate, numerical entry, up/down buttons, or some other way to change the value. So many interesting choices.
If you want to apply a tool to image, you need to have the image window selected. Illogical choices like trying to paste current selection into the toolbox window or into a brush selector window are explicitly disallowed and won't produce any results.
And if you want to pick a font, you're sure to receive its name in a neat, readable default font, sure no junk like 'windings' written in windings! You'll also receive a sample of the appearance of the font: the letters A and a.
Zoom out is under the '-' key. Logically, Zoom in, obviously, is '+', (reachable as shift-'=').
You really can't fault the logic. Everything is perfectly logical. You need to be a programmer to appreciate that. Artists... they just won't understand it.
And don't you find it suspicious, that a zoophile would find these peple to be the lesser evil to what the liberal, "diverse and tolerant" left represents? Thing is, your tolerance only reaches skin deep. What lies beneath, under a thick veil of hipocrisy is bigotry of the same caliber as shouted out by neo-nazis.
These on the right just show willful ignorance. They pretend to care about the "christian values", but if you don't shove your stuff in their face, they'll just pretend they didn't see it and you'll be able to keep living your life as you see fit, just don't make a fuss. It's not optimal, but it's preferable to witch hunts organized by the left currently. Trying to regulate everything, restrictions on clothes, on speech, on access to work, and left free to do as they will they are bound to seek out new things to feel outraged about - and then fight and destroy them until everyone adheres to their code.
Look: I don't like Trump. I don't trust his decisions. I don't really understand him or the game he's playing. But from the glimpses both into the deep end of the SJW communities, and into the business end of DNC activities, I do consider him the lesser evil.
Ooooh, so I'm the undermench and underclass because I'm a furry / neckbeard / basement dweller... or whatever other slur you choose. Yet I'm considered over-privileged due to being a white male.
What you're doing is the exact same separation into the 'oppressed superior race' vs 'oppressing untermenchen' as it was in times of Hitler. Except currently the new Ubermenschen are Women, Blacks, LGBT and Muslim.
I know exactly where I'm standing. I know what trade-offs I made, who benefits from my stance - including who benefits from it even if I'd rather they didn't.
The radical left though, somehow believes it's only the blacks, the LGBT, the immigrants and the feminists who benefit from their activities. Somehow they completely lose sight of who benefits of America being split in twain by groups that violently oppose the democratically chosen government.
Diversity is the right thing, providing the composition of the diverse group matches the accepted profile. Blacks, Muslims, Transsexuals, Feminists, that's an acceptable mix. Different diversities are not acceptable. The rest is "privileged", and deserve to be oppressed.
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I think it was cancer that most diminished Jobs.
Citations only mean given research was used in further scientific research. But researchers aren't the only people who read this stuff. Engineers do to - and they don't publish articles, they make projects - they directly utilize results to create useful real-world creations. Never-ending tables of material properties, new chemical processes, new methods of simulation and analysis for implementation in software, this all comes from white papers. Engineers do a lot of own research, and use a lot of methods that are long-established, but often they just look for "new&better" in the scientific publications. And the source may find its way into the project, but it's unlikely to show up in the final product.
It's a matter of proper wording. Look for horse mating.
You mean, insight into how Trump sympathizers are regularly victims of violence in the universities?
Personally, I believe even observable universe is too small. There are some elements of abiogenesis that are ludicrously improbable - compound probabilistic properties (like nucleotides arranging themselves into chains that make sense) have this nasty habit of rapidly exploding into numbers much higher than "iterative" stuff like the count of nucleotides in primordial ocean times count of earth-like planets in the observable universe.
Still, with the universe (entire, not just observable) being infinite, even these numbers are tiny - life is bound to happen *somewhere* - and us hunting for it within several parsecs is just our resistance to accept the concept that chances like 1 in 10^1,000,000 are still equivalent to certainty if you have *infinite* tries.
I happen to be white, male, and in one of 2nd world countries, where US higher education used to be considered something "elite".
I also believe one of frequent forms of schizophrenia is confusion about own sexuality, and denial to even discuss trying to diagnose it in people, who claim to be "born of wrong gender" is doing them a severe disservice
I believe mass influx of Muslim immigrants to western countries is dangerous to the western culture.
I believe Blacks are not doing enough to combat violent elements in their own society, concentrating too much on creating positive image instead of ensuring the stereotypes are completely baseless.
I believe Antifa are fanatical violent thugs.
Even if I could afford an US college, I definitely couldn't afford the US hospital bills if my opinions were made known among the students.
This is definitely not Trump's doing.
With space being 13bln years old, and us being 11 light years away, and humanity being maybe 200 years into industrial revolution (and at most 300 years from being able to send something there), what, in your opinion, is the chance they have developed just enough to be able to detect us but not enough to have blown past Earth completely ignoring its life as too primitive to be of any interest?
Pick a ~500 year long window they'd need to get from beginnings of ability to listen in to space waves, until being able to explore all near exoplanets. Place it on any point of the 13bln years long time axis. What's the chance it overlaps our 500 year window?
It's the Fermi Paradox - the chance for any space-faring civilization to be roughly as primitive as us, at the same time, is minimal. Universe is extremely old, and any civilization that would have been comparable at one point, should be advanced past any human recognition by now. So either life is that rare, intelligent life is that rare, or there's some awful trap that destroys every civilization once it advances sufficiently to discover it. Certainly the likehood of races advanced similarly as humans, anywhere near, is next to zero.
I don't recall Republicans rioting in the streets and setting cars on fire over the past 8 years.
And yet denying job basing on race, gender or religious background is illegal. It's only legal to prioritize semi-illegally imported foreigners over legal citizens. Are you implying the government should also remove the anti-discrimination laws?
The firms are still free to replace their employees with better employees that are legal citizens. They are also free to make the employees redundant, vacating the workplaces altogether. What they are not allowed is abusing law that is meant strictly for filling up shortages of highest tier professionals, to import under-qualified cheap labor replacing current employees.
While communism and socialism were a disaster, so was untamed, bloody 19th Century capitalism, where the employee had no rights. Restricted immigration in general are one of methods of indirectly protecting rights of employees - in the standard capitalist supply-demand-price triangle of the job market, it prevents the employers from inflating the supply side artificially, reducing the price for own profit. H1-B is a concession that would help employers in case supply is so low they are unable to fill the demand, no matter what price. But it's being abused - inflating the supply unreasonably.
How is it wrong to enforce it?
Why are there so many, that just can't accept the fact that Trump is the legally, democratically elected president? Why do you find it so suspicious that majority of people support whom majority of people voted in? Personally, I'm finding it bizarre, that for the first time in the USA history, supporters of the losing party are treating the winner as illegal usurper (including protests and riots), instead of just shutting up and accepting it's the Republicans' turn at the helm. And why don't you try to clean up your house (e.g. assuring that DNC is impartial when picking candidates, instead of using dirty tricks to cheat half of their own electorate out of voting their candidate just to push the one DNC is literally owned by).
" but essentially an H1-B can move companies."
Except who's going to hire a H1-B employee, who was fired from a previous job? What sort of references does this make?
equally as, or less. It's frequent the employee that is to be let go must TRAIN the H1-B replacement.
"No one owes you a job."
False.
Politician, who promised you to keep your job, and whom you voted in, owes you a job. And if that means stopping your employer from replacing you with a cheaper foreign worker (through abusing a program that is meant only to allow import of talents that are lacking domestically, never intended to replace existing employees), stopping your employer from abusing that program is doing exactly what he owes you for your vote.
Of course it doesn't deal with DSL. It uses GSM connection and it's too small for a phone plug. Plus plugging the landline into a watch defeats the whole portability idea. Just imagine dragging your DSL link behind you as you go by car...
The smart watch will not replace the phone, because its physical limitations (screen size, touchscreen interface size, wrist attachment) make it unsuitable for most purposes for which the phone is sufficient.
There might be a hybrid; a wristband-phone. Flexible screen that can be wrapped around your wrist, worn like a smartwatch, or kept flat for use as a phone. But notice how phones actually *grow*, physical screen size becoming increasingly important. The tiny screen of a smartwatch is simply unsuitable for most multimedia uses.
The problem with "criminal" is (as the court put it) violation of DNC's internal regulations is DNC's internal affair and outside of courts' jurisdiction. Clinton activities regarding the primaries didn't violate the US law, despite being a total mockery of democratic process, breaking a slew of DNC status regulations - they could only be pursued and punished by DNC, and with DNC being practically owned by Clintons, that's not going to happen.
The public saw it though, saw how the organization with democracy in its name is run like a banana republic, and voted accordingly. And currently everyone, who had voted the counter-candidate being labeled Nazi by fanatic "strong arm" of the organization is only reinforcing the conviction.
Except:
- you only know a part of the current board setup
- the more resources you dedicate to expanding your knowledge of board setup the less you have towards actual board domination.
- accurately predicting the board setup basing on what *should* be optimal currently is excessively difficult, as having a sub-optimal setup the opponent failed to predict is preferable to having optimal setup which the opponent predicted. That includes purposeful deceit.
Some programs are written to make users' lives easier.
Some are there to let everyone see how clever their author is. Hey, if you were given sensible defaults you'd never get to learn how many different options there are! And if you're feeling overwhelmed, you should understand only GREAT MINDS can comprehend something this complex and advanced - and only GENIUS can create it! Don't touch, just stare in awe.
Blender is hell for beginners, but efficient for experts/power users.
Gimp is hell for beginners and power users alike. It's not made to be efficient; it's being made to be a showcase of capabilities of the technology (of GTK+).
Hey, GIMP interface is perfectly logical.
won't say a thing about "well constructed" though. I mean:
The button layout in toolbox, filling the rows depending on toolbox width, buttons behaving like characters, auto-filling the width, which is perfectly logical if you want to read them left to right like text... not quite so if you want to remember their positions.
Each configurable tool opens own pop-up with its options once you start using it. Perfectly logical. So what if the popup covers the area of the image you just wanted to modify (using the defaults from previous use). Who cares about some image, you're getting the important UI!
Selection has own settings of opacity, so do layers. If there's a doubt what to grab, when you want to drag, the top-most layer/selection with >50% opacity is chosen, so if you want to move the background and not the watermark, you don't need to seek around the watermark for a place to grab the background. OTOH, if you want to grab the watermark, you'll need to push its opacity above 50% for duration of the move. Perfectly logical, not quite comfortable. Also, moving that layer with only thin ink lines; area between lines empty? You'd better grab by a line, no matter it's 3 pixels wide.
There are at least 5 ways to change a numerical value under every slider. If you want to drag the slider at same speed as mouse cursor, just position the cursor on the *bottom half* of it, at where it's currently. Otherwise you'll get some incremental changes, proportional reduced rate, numerical entry, up/down buttons, or some other way to change the value. So many interesting choices.
If you want to apply a tool to image, you need to have the image window selected. Illogical choices like trying to paste current selection into the toolbox window or into a brush selector window are explicitly disallowed and won't produce any results.
And if you want to pick a font, you're sure to receive its name in a neat, readable default font, sure no junk like 'windings' written in windings! You'll also receive a sample of the appearance of the font: the letters A and a.
Zoom out is under the '-' key. Logically, Zoom in, obviously, is '+', (reachable as shift-'=').
You really can't fault the logic. Everything is perfectly logical. You need to be a programmer to appreciate that. Artists... they just won't understand it.
And don't you find it suspicious, that a zoophile would find these peple to be the lesser evil to what the liberal, "diverse and tolerant" left represents? Thing is, your tolerance only reaches skin deep. What lies beneath, under a thick veil of hipocrisy is bigotry of the same caliber as shouted out by neo-nazis.
These on the right just show willful ignorance. They pretend to care about the "christian values", but if you don't shove your stuff in their face, they'll just pretend they didn't see it and you'll be able to keep living your life as you see fit, just don't make a fuss. It's not optimal, but it's preferable to witch hunts organized by the left currently. Trying to regulate everything, restrictions on clothes, on speech, on access to work, and left free to do as they will they are bound to seek out new things to feel outraged about - and then fight and destroy them until everyone adheres to their code.
Look: I don't like Trump. I don't trust his decisions. I don't really understand him or the game he's playing. But from the glimpses both into the deep end of the SJW communities, and into the business end of DNC activities, I do consider him the lesser evil.
Ooooh, so I'm the undermench and underclass because I'm a furry / neckbeard / basement dweller... or whatever other slur you choose. Yet I'm considered over-privileged due to being a white male.
What you're doing is the exact same separation into the 'oppressed superior race' vs 'oppressing untermenchen' as it was in times of Hitler. Except currently the new Ubermenschen are Women, Blacks, LGBT and Muslim.
I know exactly where I'm standing. I know what trade-offs I made, who benefits from my stance - including who benefits from it even if I'd rather they didn't.
The radical left though, somehow believes it's only the blacks, the LGBT, the immigrants and the feminists who benefit from their activities. Somehow they completely lose sight of who benefits of America being split in twain by groups that violently oppose the democratically chosen government.
What are you even talking about?
It was the leftists groups that got played by Russians like a fiddle, as the article proves.
Oh. Ooozing tolerance, I see.
Diversity is the right thing, providing the composition of the diverse group matches the accepted profile. Blacks, Muslims, Transsexuals, Feminists, that's an acceptable mix. Different diversities are not acceptable. The rest is "privileged", and deserve to be oppressed.