Evolutionary dominance? Yes, because you know, over millions of years, several varieties of peas adapted to the conditions of the human lung and mechanisms of avoiding destruction by the immune system.
Well, as the article shows, they have done exactly that without even really trying.
(Or more correctly, but less elegantly in our agency-based language, without even being tried.)
Actually, what is the population of Earth north of 55 degrees (north latitude)? Is there any way to find that statistic?
Sure. Take a population density map and consider only the part of it that is north of 55 degrees. Depending on the legend, you may need to determine the land area north of 55 degrees or the total population of the world as well.
"My cousin (a total noob at any kind of gaming... or PCs) was like one of those target dummies in Oblivion, and my brother and I chased him all over the map blowing him up, mowing him down and generally turning him into dog food. Fun!"
How much fun did your cousin have?
Come on. Everyone knows that noobs aren't really people.
Your brain, being inhabited in tasty meat, is trained to react strongly to things it doesn't expect because it expects them to be a hungry animal on the lookout for said tasty meat.
People who use 'said' in this way are trying too hard to look clever.
People who use 'said' in what way exactly? I don't see said in the entire quote you have provided.
Japanese is a language with a perfectly phonemic alphabet, something almost no other language can boast of. No linguistic theory can explain why they don't use an existing, nearly perfect syllabary they already have, and everyone already knows. After learning to read 100 or so simple glyphs, Japanese children can immediately write and transcribe any word they know or have heard. Machines can easily translate between speech and text with a 1:1 lookup table. But they don't use this immensely efficient, perfectly phonemic syllabary, for no reason whatsoever except masochism.
Reminds me of that Seinfeld bit: "They're hanging in there with the chopsticks. Because if you think about it, you know they've seen the fork."
Everywhere you go you are subjected to escalators that beep when you approach the end, traffic lights that play Japanese folk music when you cross the street
Those are for the blind. AFB has been trying to get more aural feedback in U.S. cities.
Okay, but the aural feed back here in the US is just different kinds of chirping or wood-block noises. Nice and subtle. Our crossing signals do not play "Yankee Doodle" and "When the Saints Go Marching In." That would be really annoying. To us, anyway.
As far as I can tell, the article is saying that if you impose a condition in the present, you cause the past to change so that it matches. This process of imposing a condition must affect the quantum mechanical properties of whatever you are checking, similar to a quantum computer.
So basically, if your granddad rigs up a machine that kills him depending on the quantum state of a particle, and then he leaves that particle in an indeterminate quantum state until he has your dad and your dad has you, and then you collapse that particle's waveform into the state that would have killed him, he will have died back then. And somehow paradox is avoided.
Objective-C has the absolute most fucking retarded 'memory management' model I have ever seen. Its got all the disadvantages of ref counting and non-ref counting allocation, and absolutely none of the advantages of either.
I'd be interested if you elaborated. Prior to the introduction of garbage collection, Objective C did (and still does) have reference counting allocation, so how can it be missing the advantages? And what are the advantages of a non-reference-counting system?
Hooking up nose down may be easier, come to think of it. Because then what you should do is basically land on top of the wire with a small forward speed, letting your aircraft slide forward until the hook mounted all the way at the tail catches the wire. Presto, hanging nose down.
Yeah, that would be easier. But the video mentions that they plan to adapt this stall-out technique for landing drones in confined areas. You can land nose-down as well, of course, but this is called "crashing."
In particular, Wikipedia says that "contra proferentem" implies that "an ambiguous term will be construed against the party that imposed its inclusion in the contract". To me, this says that if I'm not specific enough, any clause that may be reasonably read as meaning two different things can and will be ruled as meaning whichever interpretation the other party prefers.
In the typical consumer/company relationship, all contract terms are imposed by the company, and the consumer can only accept or reject them as a whole. Is the contra proferentem rule still applicable to this situation? If so, that really sucks for companies and consumers both, in that the company is forced to be as explicit as possible to the detriment of the consumer's understanding.
It's one thing to be a mere service provider and be protected by certain laws, but what the Feds would really investigate is whether he's playing an active role in the hosting and distribution of illegal material.
Active role? You might as well say any role. I doubt the Feds distinguish between active and passive here. I am not even sure I can distinguish between them when it comes to servers.
I am kind of impressed that the programmers anticipated excessive gamma rays and instituted measures to prevent damage. Your standard-issue security and digital cameras don't do that.
The mosquitoes are actually infected, it just doesn't significantly negatively affect them.
I guess the hope is that the malariated mosquitos are significantly negatively affected, otherwise these new mosquitos aren't likely to out-compete their less desirable brethren.
Nonsense, just hold a large blunt object like a chair over your head and make eye contact. There's nothing subtle about violence.
I imagine you're fishing for a +1 Funny (and I'd give it to you if I could), but this is like saying "there's nothing subtle about bluffing."
I'm no expert in credible threats of violence, but I know it is not so easy as that. If you don't look dangerous, then if you just hold a chair over your head and stare them down, they might call your bluff (or what they think is your bluff). You've got to look like your back is against the wall and you've got nothing to lose. You've got to be prepared for a feint, and your reaction has to be an attack or aggressive feint of your own. Ideally, you'd be poised for an attack, leaning forward slightly.
Under those circumstances, your attackers know you will try to hurt them, and you may succeed.
Of course, that is for a last-ditch kind of deal when you actually might be attacked. If you and they are just jockeying for relative status, then resting your hand on a nearby chair, tilting your head, raising an eyebrow, and giving them a very direct look will be sufficient. Slightly smile for bonus points.
Oh for heaven's sake. One of the marks of a nerd is not caring much what other people think about you.
Only if you are a nerd by choice. If you don't want to be a nerd, but are treated as one anyway, you care a lot about what people think of you, but you don't know how to fix it.
I expect it's the same phenomenon as in your cited article, dogs and young children being VERY much alike.
In that both are un-housebroken semi-sentient drooling four-legged mobile disaster areas with a very poor sense of hygiene and a predilection for putting truly disgusting things in their mouths.
Kids. Gotta love 'em. Can't say the same about dogs, though.:-)
School usually starts between 7am and 9am. This is when most people also start work. It's a nice preparation for the working world.
Ostensibly, the reason kids go to school at all is for an education. Preparation for the working world is nice, but an early day makes it more difficult for them to learn and therefore runs directly counter the primary purpose of school. School should start later.
Of course, a secondary reason kids go to school is for supervision while their parents are at work. Normal school hours used to be good for that, when rural occupations were most common. But these days, those hours don't work so well, which is why we have latchkey kids. Parents work to later than school lets out.
A later school day advances both these purposes. First, the kids learn better. Second, if they don't have parental supervision during some part of the day, that time will be in the morning after their parents head out but before school starts, when the kids are too groggy to get into too much trouble anyway.
Preparing a student for the world of work is a tertiary purpose of school at best, but I would personally put it even lower, after physical fitness, socialization, and vocational or art classes.
The teacher flat out told us that no one teaches the multiplication table anymore
Heh. I never really learned my multiplication tables in middle school. It was easier for me to quickly add up stuff in my head than to actually memorize 100 combinations. I got in trouble for it too. No matter, I've picked up most of the table by now. But I still do 7 x 9 by doing 7 x 7 and adding 14, for example.
(Technically, I do 7x7, round up to 50, add 14, and subtract 1 to round back.)
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Well, as the article shows, they have done exactly that without even really trying.
(Or more correctly, but less elegantly in our agency-based language, without even being tried.)
Actually, what is the population of Earth north of 55 degrees (north latitude)? Is there any way to find that statistic?
Sure. Take a population density map and consider only the part of it that is north of 55 degrees. Depending on the legend, you may need to determine the land area north of 55 degrees or the total population of the world as well.
Come on. Everyone knows that noobs aren't really people.
http://www.haaretz.co.il/
Wow, that right-to-left thing just jumps right out, doesn't it? More obvious than I expected.
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Reminds me of that Seinfeld bit: "They're hanging in there with the chopsticks. Because if you think about it, you know they've seen the fork."
Okay, but the aural feed back here in the US is just different kinds of chirping or wood-block noises. Nice and subtle. Our crossing signals do not play "Yankee Doodle" and "When the Saints Go Marching In." That would be really annoying. To us, anyway.
As far as I can tell, the article is saying that if you impose a condition in the present, you cause the past to change so that it matches. This process of imposing a condition must affect the quantum mechanical properties of whatever you are checking, similar to a quantum computer.
So basically, if your granddad rigs up a machine that kills him depending on the quantum state of a particle, and then he leaves that particle in an indeterminate quantum state until he has your dad and your dad has you, and then you collapse that particle's waveform into the state that would have killed him, he will have died back then. And somehow paradox is avoided.
Wha?
Bread and Circuses works world wide.
Don't you mean "broads and circuses?"
I'd be interested if you elaborated. Prior to the introduction of garbage collection, Objective C did (and still does) have reference counting allocation, so how can it be missing the advantages? And what are the advantages of a non-reference-counting system?
Yeah, that would be easier. But the video mentions that they plan to adapt this stall-out technique for landing drones in confined areas. You can land nose-down as well, of course, but this is called "crashing."
Sorry, a hash is a derivative work.
I'd laugh but...I'm not so sure it isn't.
Has this been tested in court? Or have copyright lawyers not discovered hashes?
In the typical consumer/company relationship, all contract terms are imposed by the company, and the consumer can only accept or reject them as a whole. Is the contra proferentem rule still applicable to this situation? If so, that really sucks for companies and consumers both, in that the company is forced to be as explicit as possible to the detriment of the consumer's understanding.
Every developer, anyone learning a foreign language, and many boyfriends have heard this advice plenty of times.
"Do it right, then do it faster."
Active role? You might as well say any role. I doubt the Feds distinguish between active and passive here. I am not even sure I can distinguish between them when it comes to servers.
I am kind of impressed that the programmers anticipated excessive gamma rays and instituted measures to prevent damage. Your standard-issue security and digital cameras don't do that.
Also what does it mean? The Euro Sign is a stylized E, to represent Europe's currency.
Take another look at the rupee symbol; it is a stylized R, slashed similarly to the euro.
I guess the hope is that the malariated mosquitos are significantly negatively affected, otherwise these new mosquitos aren't likely to out-compete their less desirable brethren.
No, the moral of the story is to collect a group of sheep around you that you can sacrifice to the wolf if necessary.
Just remember, when the metaphorical bear attacks, you need to be wearing your metaphorical running shoes.
I imagine you're fishing for a +1 Funny (and I'd give it to you if I could), but this is like saying "there's nothing subtle about bluffing."
I'm no expert in credible threats of violence, but I know it is not so easy as that. If you don't look dangerous, then if you just hold a chair over your head and stare them down, they might call your bluff (or what they think is your bluff). You've got to look like your back is against the wall and you've got nothing to lose. You've got to be prepared for a feint, and your reaction has to be an attack or aggressive feint of your own. Ideally, you'd be poised for an attack, leaning forward slightly.
Under those circumstances, your attackers know you will try to hurt them, and you may succeed.
Of course, that is for a last-ditch kind of deal when you actually might be attacked. If you and they are just jockeying for relative status, then resting your hand on a nearby chair, tilting your head, raising an eyebrow, and giving them a very direct look will be sufficient. Slightly smile for bonus points.
Oh for heaven's sake. One of the marks of a nerd is not caring much what other people think about you.
Only if you are a nerd by choice. If you don't want to be a nerd, but are treated as one anyway, you care a lot about what people think of you, but you don't know how to fix it.
I expect it's the same phenomenon as in your cited article, dogs and young children being VERY much alike.
In that both are un-housebroken semi-sentient drooling four-legged mobile disaster areas with a very poor sense of hygiene and a predilection for putting truly disgusting things in their mouths.
Kids. Gotta love 'em. :-)
Can't say the same about dogs, though.
Ostensibly, the reason kids go to school at all is for an education. Preparation for the working world is nice, but an early day makes it more difficult for them to learn and therefore runs directly counter the primary purpose of school. School should start later.
Of course, a secondary reason kids go to school is for supervision while their parents are at work. Normal school hours used to be good for that, when rural occupations were most common. But these days, those hours don't work so well, which is why we have latchkey kids. Parents work to later than school lets out.
A later school day advances both these purposes. First, the kids learn better. Second, if they don't have parental supervision during some part of the day, that time will be in the morning after their parents head out but before school starts, when the kids are too groggy to get into too much trouble anyway.
Preparing a student for the world of work is a tertiary purpose of school at best, but I would personally put it even lower, after physical fitness, socialization, and vocational or art classes.
Reminds me of drivers who follow a GPS device off a pier.
The teacher flat out told us that no one teaches the multiplication table anymore
Heh. I never really learned my multiplication tables in middle school. It was easier for me to quickly add up stuff in my head than to actually memorize 100 combinations. I got in trouble for it too. No matter, I've picked up most of the table by now. But I still do 7 x 9 by doing 7 x 7 and adding 14, for example.
(Technically, I do 7x7, round up to 50, add 14, and subtract 1 to round back.)