> News Flash: The NSA isn't part of the US State Department. They are part of the US Department of Defense./sarcasm Glad we got that cleared right up. I was worried about who was hacking who.
Sony, the parent company doesn't stick to selling insurance policies. It sells TVs, too, even though it canâ(TM)t manage to do so profitably. Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai said the company will lose money on its television business for the 10th year in a row, with the red ink for TVs this time amounting to Â¥ 25 billion yen.
And you want them to focus on a shitty under-clocked PC ???
You might actually want to take a look at reality then.
Let's compare the Communist Manifesto and the current state of affairs with the USA.
1. Abolition of private property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. 6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state. 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. 8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture. 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. 10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
So how does the USA measure up?
1. Allodial Title no longer exists 2. 30% isn't heavy?? 3. You're taxed even on death ?? 4, Starting with the confiscation of all gold bullion, good luck getting what the FBI and Police confescate 5. Federal Reserve ironically is nether federal, nor a reserve 6. FCC, Department of Transportation and the Interstate Commerce Commission 7. Agriculture is heavily subsidized 8. Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor 9. Planning Reorganization Act of 1949 10. Public schools, aka indoctrination
Gee, only batting a perfect 10/10 .:-(
This excellent An Underground History of American Education (PDF) book describes part of the problem.
And here I thought this Sears joke my brother sent me was exaggerating...
We had to have the garage door repaired. The Sears repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute, and said "We had the largest one Sears made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower."
He shook his head and said, "Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower."
> the Libertarians firmly believe that we should have only a defense force and not project power.
Uh, ignoring the few cases of the Police over-stepping their bounds, have you completely forgotten the history of the Police or Firemen and how they have operated in say the last 100 years?
The moto was: To Serve and To Project
They don't go around picking fights. They were originally there to stop them, and to help people.
On the global scene the USA is too busy putting its nose into places where it doesn't belong. Maybe if they focused more on the mother land and made a dent in idiotic wars like "War on Drugs", focused on investing in a quality Education, focused on the economy, worked on removing corruption from Politics and Wall St., then maybe people would respect them more.
You mean there is a difference with dubstep?:-)/me ducks
-- "One man's noise is another man's music (Yoshimura motorcycle muffler, Heavy Metal, Opera, etc.) "One man's relaxation is another man's boredom (Fishing, etc.)
> MS Office has some pretty good versioning support
This is the same company that bought SourceSafe from another company and you want to _trust_ them NOT to screw up version control???
There is this table of collaborative software. SharePoint's last stable release was in 2010, almost 5 years ago. Again, you want to trust Microsoft with updated Service Packs and Cumulative Updates ??
Our current definition of mathematics depends on variables having a single value. i.e. 0/0 is undefined because it has 2 simultaneous values +inf, and -inf.
When will Mathematics evolve to the next state where we start thinking about potentials and a system to manipulate them?
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> News Flash: The NSA isn't part of the US State Department. They are part of the US Department of Defense. /sarcasm Glad we got that cleared right up. I was worried about who was hacking who.
The data is also extremely misleading as Reddit readers points out in this this graph
Why the hell would Sony focus on _one_ division that basically sells a dumbed-down crippled PC ?
They already bailed on the PC market last year
Their TV division loses money hand over fist:
Sony, the parent company doesn't stick to selling insurance policies. It sells TVs, too, even though it canâ(TM)t manage to do so profitably. Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai said the company will lose money on its television business for the 10th year in a row, with the red ink for TVs this time amounting to Â¥ 25 billion yen.
And you want them to focus on a shitty under-clocked PC ???
Can we mod article: -1 Clueless Author
Xenophobia with ZERO evidence ...
Ah, good ol' humans, already ready to assume the _worst_ in everything.
> I thought it was a shitty rewrite of 2001.
Yeah, I wasn't impressed with him ripping off that video montage sequence either but I could understand why he did it.
Thanks for the clarification!
I wasn't exactly sure of which direction you were leaning.
Hard to tell with lack of emotes / sarcasm. :-/
Working link:
An Underground History of American Education (PDF)
You might actually want to take a look at reality then.
Let's compare the Communist Manifesto and the current state of affairs with the USA.
1. Abolition of private property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
So how does the USA measure up?
1. Allodial Title no longer exists
2. 30% isn't heavy??
3. You're taxed even on death ??
4, Starting with the confiscation of all gold bullion, good luck getting what the FBI and Police confescate
5. Federal Reserve ironically is nether federal, nor a reserve
6. FCC, Department of Transportation and the Interstate Commerce Commission
7. Agriculture is heavily subsidized
8. Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor
9. Planning Reorganization Act of 1949
10. Public schools, aka indoctrination
Gee, only batting a perfect 10/10 . :-(
This excellent An Underground History of American Education (PDF) book describes part of the problem.
Link to that data please? TIA
> That's like Sears.
WOW. Sears actually has crappy customer service!?
That sucks.
And here I thought this Sears joke my brother sent me was exaggerating ...
We had to have the garage door repaired. The Sears repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute, and said "We had the largest one Sears made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower."
He shook his head and said, "Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower."
I responded that "1/2 was larger than 1/4"
"NO, it's not. Four is larger than two."
We haven't used Sears repair since.
> the Libertarians firmly believe that we should have only a defense force and not project power.
Uh, ignoring the few cases of the Police over-stepping their bounds, have you completely forgotten the history of the Police or Firemen and how they have operated in say the last 100 years?
The moto was: To Serve and To Project
They don't go around picking fights. They were originally there to stop them, and to help people.
On the global scene the USA is too busy putting its nose into places where it doesn't belong. Maybe if they focused more on the mother land and made a dent in idiotic wars like "War on Drugs", focused on investing in a quality Education, focused on the economy, worked on removing corruption from Politics and Wall St., then maybe people would respect them more.
Your football mentality metaphor is a good one.
I thought this was old news. i.e.
Microsoft is offering a Ubuntu 14.04 in a VM to run Minecraft
> playing music on if noise
You mean there is a difference with dubstep? :-) /me ducks
--
"One man's noise is another man's music (Yoshimura motorcycle muffler, Heavy Metal, Opera, etc.)
"One man's relaxation is another man's boredom (Fishing, etc.)
Gravity is non-linear, and assumed to be zero at the core.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Yeah a lot people really don't understand the importance of a prototype.
Early screenshots of Path of Exile
Sorry, I don't use old broken languages that pass everything reference, whether you want it or not.
> [FSF] refusal to allow gcc be useful for third party applications (open source or otherwise).
[Citation] ?
Nice!
If you don't like the extra 2, then use Tau. It is not like you don't have a choice.
> Using the diameter is one of the biggest blunders in the history of mathematics.
Equations are statements of facts. Projecting your _opinion_ and _emotions_ onto them doesn't change the truth about them.
First, you argue that the superfluous 2 ...
... is sloppy. Now you arguing it is a blunder to use the simpler ...
C = Pi * D
So which is it? Sloppy? Simplicity? Blunder?
What's next? Are you going to complain about the definition of diameter being sloppy too??
D=2*r
Gee, if only there we had a another symbol to represent 2 Pi ...
> It's the smallest unit of measure that has any meaning in the real world.
That's actually an open question in Science.
We _assume_ that because we can't _actually_ measure anything smaller then the Planck meter (at this time with our current technology.)
That's complete nonsense. Either a constant is;
- static --> constant or
- dynamic --> variable
A constant divided by another constant is _still_ a _single_ constant.
Vi is simply trolling people.
One function in all of mathematics begs that it be developed further. :-)
That's a great example of sin x/x. I'm hoping that Calculas would be extended that equations like this wouldn't be undefined.
> MS Office has some pretty good versioning support
This is the same company that bought SourceSafe from another company and you want to _trust_ them NOT to screw up version control???
There is this table of collaborative software. SharePoint's last stable release was in 2010, almost 5 years ago. Again, you want to trust Microsoft with updated Service Packs and Cumulative Updates ??
> Perforce is widely used in the video game industry for saving both code AND art assets.
Actually Perforce's popularity is slowly decreasing due to free version control for code:
* Git,
* Mercurial, or
* SVN
At our fortune 50 company we use SVN (SmartSVN on OSX, TortoiseSVN on Windows)
For binary assets, AlienBrain is pretty popular. I've used it in the past and it seemed decent.
http://gamedev.stackexchange.c...
Our current definition of mathematics depends on variables having a single value. i.e. 0/0 is undefined because it has 2 simultaneous values +inf, and -inf.
When will Mathematics evolve to the next state where we start thinking about potentials and a system to manipulate them?
i.e.
Quantum Math.