While it is true the majority of India is Hindu, Maybe you weren't aware that as of 2009, they also held the third largest Muslim population in the world, behind Indonesia and Pakistan, at roughly 160 million people.
Interesting
You never said "nowadays" in your post. You never gave any kind of time frame to contextualize your prejudiced generalization.
I know more about Islam than you imagine, having actually read (a part of) the Kuran and living in places with a significant amount of muslims.
..."nowadays" I don't see Christians running around with bombs in their underpants - but that's because they're too busy molesting altar boys. See? Generalizations serve no one...
Do you think I'm offended by that phrase? Bothered even slightly by it?! Do you think now I may be going to torch cars or going into a rampage against a cartoonist?!
That's what muslims don't get, do they?! No. That's your prejudice showing up. That's the whole disgrace, of going into a tantrum for any bs said against their religion
Muhammad got drunk. Jesus was born from an extra-marital affair. Doesn't matter.
Oh, by the way, in your example, that's the Catholic Church, not 'generic christians' doing crap.
If you say you are in the name of Islam and several people agree then IT IS ISLAM
Do you know anything about the demographics of Islam in this world?
More or less yes...
Al-Qaeda is certainly not representitive of the majority of Islamic thinking. Nor is Iran, or even Saudi Arabia.
[citation needed]
As of 2009, there isn't even a true Middle-Eastern country in the top 5 for Islamic population. Pakistan would be the closest to the region, but India, Indonesia, and Bangladesh outnumber the Pakistani population about 3 to 1.
India is not predominantly Muslim... (as Indonesia and Pakistan)
Last I knew, India wasn't that thrilled with Islamic extremist bombings.
What, India?! I wonder why, well, duh...
Claiming Islam is the only religion that's been perverted in the name of extremism is ignorant.
I never claimed that, the keyword is: NOWADAYS
Which is why I have little use for any kind of organized religion, whether it be Islam, Christianity, or Scientology.
In World War two it was discovered that the best way for the allies to get intel from their prisoners on what the Germans were up to was a steak dinner.
You mean like the one Cypher had with Agent Smith? Yes! I see how that works!
Someone is going to say "this violates conservation of energy/conservation of entropy/ blah" (even if it doesn't) and dismiss it. Also ignoring the fact that most new theories does violate something at the time of its discovery at some point
Another person is going to complain that this theory is crap but their favorite 'new thory' is the one, like, I dunno, "it's turtles all the way down" and this respects conservation of charge.
A "christian scientist" (LOL) is going to spin this as proof of Jesus or something.
I'm probably the only one that would think that the terrorism problem would be solving by taking them to a TGIF to have a Guinness and a huge burguer...
In math, 2+2 = 4 and that's it. There's no compromise to be done, no flexibility, etc
Now: how do you paint a picture?! How to make a DVD player menu look nice?! And, curiously enough: how to stop global terrorism?!
Also, lots of people in math/engineering etc do have some kind of mental disease. I know asperger's the 'fashionale' one but even in the past: think about Goedel, Cantor, etc, etc, etc...
"limited time" is a very vague term. And I'm not trolling...
Does anyone know what the authors of the constitution meant?! Maybe they meant one year. Maybe one hundred years.
Even in your example you're saying "100 years for sw is like forever", well there you go, 'limited time' for sw is different from limited time for a movie.
And the extensions in the law were, percent-wise, not that big...
D-Wave has made some completely incorrect statements in the past and a few out-and-out lies.
Agreed
Maybe they have pulled off what they claim, but there are some very valid doubts raised by the leading researchers in the field.
I've read the link you posted, and IMHO it's looking good for d-wave (I mean, not "shining, will change the world tomorrow" but still not looking like a flat-out scam, especially with that audience)
Finally, we mention that the experiments presented here were not designed to test the quantumness of the hardware. Results of such tests will be reported elsewhere.
Darn researchers that put the most important phrase of the article in the end!
Anyway, my guess is that QC is happening, but in a way they don't account for... (but that's just my IMHO guess)
Yes, I'm sure people at Google would just pour money for three years in the first bozo that claims quantum computing without checking the validity of its claims
We demonstrate a detector that has learned to spot cars by looking at example pictures. It was trained with adiabatic quantum optimization using a D-Wave C4 Chimera chip. There are still many open questions but in our experiments we observed that this detector performs better than those we had trained using classical solvers running on the computers we have in our data centers today
For the looks of it D-Wave is totally a scam... NOT
Oh people are going to douse themselves in this to pretend they are better than other people and lift horrendous weights and break their bones in the process, all in the name of "sport" (allegedly)
Do you also choose not to 'believe' in gravity or the electrostatic force? Perhaps the whole world is run by the tooth fairy?
I never know what to say when people just outright reject decades of scientific evidence. And if on Slashdot of all places people don't understand the scientific method or just flatly deny it then maybe humanity is in big doodoo.
No, people don't deny the scientific method, or gravity or the electrostactic force.
What people deny are corporate-sponsored 'scientific' papers with the objective of selling the newest/patented/most expensive drug...
Gravity, quantum mechanics, relativity, all of those have "Decades of scientific evidence", not the latest fad, not diagnosed by who-knows (yes, even pshychiatrists misdiagnose or just give whatever to the patient)
We evolved like this and it seems to work relatively well. The error you are objecting to is self-referential; it denies evolution, so has to posit that things were designed like that in the first place since they could not have evolved.
I don't deny evolution, at least that's not what I had in mind when writing it.
Evolution is about the imperfect, good enough solution that has its quirks (that's the point in my examples), as opposed to ID.
Until then I'm gonna have to believe we were designed like we were on purpose.
Yes, $DEITY made the waste pipes go through the recreational area on purpose It also "designed" such useful and not-the-least-troublesome parts such as the appendix, the thymus, etc on purpose.
The way the 'air pipe' meets the 'food and water pipe' is not faulty and no one goes to the hospital or dies because of it.
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While it is true the majority of India is Hindu, Maybe you weren't aware that as of 2009, they also held the third largest Muslim population in the world, behind Indonesia and Pakistan, at roughly 160 million people.
Interesting
You never said "nowadays" in your post. You never gave any kind of time frame to contextualize your prejudiced generalization.
I know more about Islam than you imagine, having actually read (a part of) the Kuran and living in places with a significant amount of muslims.
Do you think I'm offended by that phrase? Bothered even slightly by it?! Do you think now I may be going to torch cars or going into a rampage against a cartoonist?!
That's what muslims don't get, do they?! No. That's your prejudice showing up. That's the whole disgrace, of going into a tantrum for any bs said against their religion
Muhammad got drunk. Jesus was born from an extra-marital affair. Doesn't matter.
Oh, by the way, in your example, that's the Catholic Church, not 'generic christians' doing crap.
If you say you are in the name of Islam and several people agree then IT IS ISLAM
Do you know anything about the demographics of Islam in this world?
More or less yes...
Al-Qaeda is certainly not representitive of the majority of Islamic thinking. Nor is Iran, or even Saudi Arabia.
[citation needed]
As of 2009, there isn't even a true Middle-Eastern country in the top 5 for Islamic population. Pakistan would be the closest to the region, but India, Indonesia, and Bangladesh outnumber the Pakistani population about 3 to 1.
India is not predominantly Muslim... (as Indonesia and Pakistan)
Last I knew, India wasn't that thrilled with Islamic extremist bombings.
What, India?! I wonder why, well, duh...
Claiming Islam is the only religion that's been perverted in the name of extremism is ignorant.
I never claimed that, the keyword is: NOWADAYS
Which is why I have little use for any kind of organized religion, whether it be Islam, Christianity, or Scientology.
Agree 100%
In World War two it was discovered that the best way for the allies to get intel from their prisoners on what the Germans were up to was a steak dinner.
You mean like the one Cypher had with Agent Smith? Yes! I see how that works!
No, that was chicken! Whole different story
Maybe it'll be sonoluminescence turned to eleven, yay!
A bunch of muslim-ish arabs (19 of 'em) attacked us.
FIFY. What those extremists claim to be Islam is not Islam.
BS.
If you say you are in the name of Islam and several people agree then IT IS ISLAM
You don't see members of other religions with bombs in their underpants around...
YES, IT IS STUPIDITY
Relying on Sharepoint IS STUPID when there are alternatives.
Relying on IE 6 is BEYOND STUPID
Why do we keep up with the BS?!?
Here's a tip, when your IT guy comes talking about why it's important to keep IE6 for the same BS reasons as ever to cover his idiocy, FIRE HIM
So I suppose it's ok to have a slashdot user of Robert'); DROP TABLE Users;-- ?!
In addition:
Someone is going to say "this violates conservation of energy/conservation of entropy/ blah" (even if it doesn't) and dismiss it. Also ignoring the fact that most new theories does violate something at the time of its discovery at some point
Another person is going to complain that this theory is crap but their favorite 'new thory' is the one, like, I dunno, "it's turtles all the way down" and this respects conservation of charge.
A "christian scientist" (LOL) is going to spin this as proof of Jesus or something.
Yeah, look out China! China may get a stern worded letter or something like that.
Oh do you want to punish China economically?!? Embargo on their exports? good luck with that
Tell that to Apple and Google, kthx
I'm probably the only one that would think that the terrorism problem would be solving by taking them to a TGIF to have a Guinness and a huge burguer...
It's probably to do with the following:
In math, 2+2 = 4 and that's it. There's no compromise to be done, no flexibility, etc
Now: how do you paint a picture?! How to make a DVD player menu look nice?! And, curiously enough: how to stop global terrorism?!
Also, lots of people in math/engineering etc do have some kind of mental disease. I know asperger's the 'fashionale' one but even in the past: think about Goedel, Cantor, etc, etc, etc...
Time airborn I assume...
Mathematically, forever (infinite) minus one is still infinite.
But I'm sure lawmakers will work around that...
Actually, I guess they're right.
"limited time" is a very vague term. And I'm not trolling...
Does anyone know what the authors of the constitution meant?! Maybe they meant one year. Maybe one hundred years.
Even in your example you're saying "100 years for sw is like forever", well there you go, 'limited time' for sw is different from limited time for a movie.
And the extensions in the law were, percent-wise, not that big...
IMHO the limit should be 10 to 15 years
D-Wave has made some completely incorrect statements in the past and a few out-and-out lies.
Agreed
Maybe they have pulled off what they claim, but there are some very valid doubts raised by the leading researchers in the field.
I've read the link you posted, and IMHO it's looking good for d-wave (I mean, not "shining, will change the world tomorrow" but still not looking like a flat-out scam, especially with that audience)
Finally, we mention that the experiments presented here were not designed to test the quantumness
of the hardware. Results of such tests will be reported elsewhere.
Darn researchers that put the most important phrase of the article in the end!
Anyway, my guess is that QC is happening, but in a way they don't account for... (but that's just my IMHO guess)
Yes, I'm sure people at Google would just pour money for three years in the first bozo that claims quantum computing without checking the validity of its claims
We demonstrate a detector that has learned to spot cars by looking at example pictures. It was trained with adiabatic quantum optimization using a D-Wave C4 Chimera chip. There are still many open questions but in our experiments we observed that this detector performs better than those we had trained using classical solvers running on the computers we have in our data centers today
For the looks of it D-Wave is totally a scam... NOT
Actually the speed is pretty much the same, because of relativistic effects...
So instead of "double" it's another 9 as in "the speed is 99,9999% instead of 99,999% of the speed of light"
Oh people are going to douse themselves in this to pretend they are better than other people and lift horrendous weights and break their bones in the process, all in the name of "sport" (allegedly)
See: Tour de France
Antiemetics (that is, anti-throw-up / anti-motion-sickness)
Not having gravity to "set things straight" can mess things up royally (in several ways)
Funny you mention that.
(friend of a friend story) about a guy who used to work for a linux distribution, went to work for MS and, guess what, he uses Emacs!
Do you also choose not to 'believe' in gravity or the electrostatic force? Perhaps the whole world is run by the tooth fairy?
I never know what to say when people just outright reject decades of scientific evidence. And if on Slashdot of all places people don't understand the scientific method or just flatly deny it then maybe humanity is in big doodoo.
No, people don't deny the scientific method, or gravity or the electrostactic force.
What people deny are corporate-sponsored 'scientific' papers with the objective of selling the newest/patented/most expensive drug...
Gravity, quantum mechanics, relativity, all of those have "Decades of scientific evidence", not the latest fad, not diagnosed by who-knows (yes, even pshychiatrists misdiagnose or just give whatever to the patient)
I'm sorry, did you just compare a "secure" military network controlled by the most powerful nation in the world to a defenseless little old lady?
You are right, the comparison is preposterous.
The little defenseless old lady actually uses common sense, hence probably is more secure than the morons that are probably using IE still...
We evolved like this and it seems to work relatively well. The error you are objecting to is self-referential; it denies evolution, so has to posit that things were designed like that in the first place since they could not have evolved.
I don't deny evolution, at least that's not what I had in mind when writing it.
Evolution is about the imperfect, good enough solution that has its quirks (that's the point in my examples), as opposed to ID.
Until then I'm gonna have to believe we were designed like we were on purpose.
Yes, $DEITY made the waste pipes go through the recreational area on purpose
It also "designed" such useful and not-the-least-troublesome parts such as the appendix, the thymus, etc on purpose.
The way the 'air pipe' meets the 'food and water pipe' is not faulty and no one goes to the hospital or dies because of it.
Yeah, perfectly designed indeed...