Not that I believe in the accuracy of polygraphs as lie detectors, but...
Of course, this is a hazard to people who may get nervous when randomly selected to be hooked up to a bunch of wires and asked a bunch of questions - Knowing full well that perspiring or getting excited/nervous could cost them their jobs.
This is why they ask baseline questions before starting the interrogation proper.
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Wouldn't a tracked vehicle be perfectly fine for roads if they had a rubber sole over the metal? Actually, I'd think it would be better for roads than tires, since the weight is distributed more evenly.
I'm pretty skeptical of whether a questionnaire can accurately measure stress and relaxation better than physical measures (heart rate, blood pressure, etc).
I'm the opposite, I'm pretty skeptical that physical measurements can accurately measure stress and relaxation. I refer here to emotional relaxation or happiness. After playing sports or pedaling my way through traffic, my heart rate is elevated and I'm breathing hard, but I've got a smile on my face that I didn't have before. I'm physically stressed, but emotionally in a more relaxing place.
.NET is a great sandbox for rapidly developing web and windows apps.... Plus ASP as a web framework was sorely lacking just as PHP was emerging..NET I felt was a great thing to release; Certainly better than the Cocoa or Objective-C efforts on Mac
For web development, you seem to be right, but for application development, Cocoa is the better API. The.NET addict prefers Cocoa to.NET, which probably says something.
This modular desktop evaporation system, made by Ted Pella, can gracefully deposit thin films of metal or organic material onto any substrate.
I am also capable of gracefully depositing thin films of organic material on a substrate, but instead of an evaporation system, I use an ejaculation system! And instead of a substrate, I use a jailbait!
There are a lot of optimizations that a "smart compiler" can do. But, you know, it turns out that most compilers are ass-stupid.
I understand it is common with functional languages to hand-wave a compiler that optimizes everything down to one Australian man doing all the work [cf. Futurama], but that's not realistic.
Superconductivity: Metallic hydrogen is a superconductor. Not sure how that would work conducting current through the shells, though.
Aren't buckyballs small enough to allow quantum tunneling from one ball's hydrogen core to an adjacent ball's core? If so, and if quantum tunneling doesn't break superconductivity properties, Bob's yer uncle.
(BTW, anyone who comes up with some good ball jokes here gets an e-cookie.)
I noticed that the reaction time while it was recovering on the ice didn't seem much different from animals that I've seen slip. But you are right that the robot's precision is a lot better; its legs aren't getting in each other's way.
I wonder why the reaction time is about the same. Does the dynamics planner take that long to figure out what to do? Are the actuators slow enough so that it can't recover in a blur of leg motion? Or is that just the minimum amount of time stabilization can physically take?
fopen() is fine and good, but opening a file is a lot more complicated than just one posix function -- you have race conditions, concurrency issues, etc, if you're working on anything bigger than an academic project.
This is true, but.NET I/O libraries don't help with this. They try to help by introducing two kinds of asynchronous I/O, but both kinds are too complex and poorly documented. Does readAll block? I dunno. The asynchronous I/O stuff is a false trail that impedes learning.
Nitpick: You mean "the intersection of the set of developers that can reliably write code with good memory management in a language like that, and the set of developers that can make good architecture decisions..."
Are you sure you meant "orders of magnitude"? That is, if the C program took 5 minutes to do a file, the Lisp program would take 3 and a half days (i.e. 5000 min)?
I always liked Griffons. They look quite imposing, and aren't as well-defined as other fictional monsters.
Sometimes they're intelligent, sometimes they're savage, sometimes tame, sometimes noble. Even the spelling of their name is uncertain. Gryphon, griffon? Plus, they actually have some authenticity, being from real mythology.
A perfect storm for a disease is what happened when Cortes met the Aztecs. There appear to have been very few or no diseases in Precolumbian America, so once European diseases were introduced, they ripped through the native population with an estimated 90% lethality rate. For a perfect storm to occur again, you'd need a completely virgin population, which doesn't exist in the modern world.
No, the Aztecs weren't wiped out by European disease.
Usually, they say Cortes brought smallpox to the Aztecs, who had never been exposed to it before, and it wiped them out. This is incorrect on all counts, as related by this Discover article from a few years ago.
First, the Aztecs had been exposed to smallpox before the Europeans ever came. They knew about the disease and had a name for it. They weren't a virgin population.
Second, it wasn't even smallpox that took them out. The symptoms didn't match at all. It was a hemorrhagic fever like Ebola.
Third, it wasn't the Europeans that brought this disease. The Aztecs knew about the hemorrhagic fever, too, and had a name for it.
What actually happened, was that the Aztecs had the bad luck to be invaded by the Spanish and wiped out by a recurring native plague shortly thereafter.
The ultimate bottleneck for human population growth is the amount of available phosphorous. There are theoretical work-arounds for every other limiting factor, but the phosphorous limit would require mass-scale transmutation of matter to get past.
Surely space is cold enough in the shadow of the space station (I just watched Sunshine) to make it from the ingredients?
Space isn't actually cold. Space is not there, as far as temperature (or really, anything else) is concerned. If you put the ingredients of ice cream in the shadow of the space station, all that means is the space station, rather than the sun, is the heat source. The question is, how hot is the surface of the space station? It's got all those people and generators inside, not to mention the heat from the sun on the other side being shunted around by air conditioning.
So, the surface of the space station is probably above freezing. The space station will then be radiating heat. Some of that heat will be caught by the ice cream ingredients. The ingredients themselves will also be "evaporating" heat, of course, so the question is, will the ingredients evaporate more heat that they catch from the space station? If so, they will cool off, if not, they will warm up.
If you polarize into a great enough set of isolated viewpoints, you end up with a different set of beliefs for each individual. Exactly where we should be.
No one allows polarization to go that far, because we all want friends. We want enough people to count as "us" opposing "them" so that we feel comfortably supported in our opinions.
In fact, maybe that's why we only have the two parties. At a fundamental level, all you need is "us" and "them," and all smaller differences between "us" can be handled internally.
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This is why they ask baseline questions before starting the interrogation proper.
Wouldn't a tracked vehicle be perfectly fine for roads if they had a rubber sole over the metal? Actually, I'd think it would be better for roads than tires, since the weight is distributed more evenly.
I truly hope "tazed" catches on, but I don't have any hope that it will.
"Don't tase me, bro!"
Have a little faith, my man, the correct word is taking over.
I'm the opposite, I'm pretty skeptical that physical measurements can accurately measure stress and relaxation. I refer here to emotional relaxation or happiness. After playing sports or pedaling my way through traffic, my heart rate is elevated and I'm breathing hard, but I've got a smile on my face that I didn't have before. I'm physically stressed, but emotionally in a more relaxing place.
For web development, you seem to be right, but for application development, Cocoa is the better API. The
Not even that. After the Boston Tea Party, all they had were crumpets.
Mind you, I wouldn't be surprised if their baking was such that you could kill a man with a crumpet. Maybe a nice dwarfish war-crumpet.
Make an asterisk with their sharpened points touching in the middle.
Alternatively, make one triangle pointing south and another pointing north and put one on top of the other.
I am also capable of gracefully depositing thin films of organic material on a substrate, but instead of an evaporation system, I use an ejaculation system! And instead of a substrate, I use a jailbait!
[dodges a tomato]
lol! (no mod pts sry)
There are a lot of optimizations that a "smart compiler" can do. But, you know, it turns out that most compilers are ass-stupid.
I understand it is common with functional languages to hand-wave a compiler that optimizes everything down to one Australian man doing all the work [cf. Futurama], but that's not realistic.
Can you point to the full text? What are the exact provisions specified in the chapter where 2202 and 3314 are?
He said it was from the US Code, Title 44. Just Google it, for God's sake.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode44/usc_sup_01_44_10_22.html
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode44/usc_sup_01_44_10_33.html
There's a picture on ZDNET's page.
Dude, right now my "buckyballs" are overstuffed and ready to release their cargo, preferably all over someone's face.
Buckake?
Superconductivity: Metallic hydrogen is a superconductor. Not sure how that would work conducting current through the shells, though.
Aren't buckyballs small enough to allow quantum tunneling from one ball's hydrogen core to an adjacent ball's core? If so, and if quantum tunneling doesn't break superconductivity properties, Bob's yer uncle.
(BTW, anyone who comes up with some good ball jokes here gets an e-cookie.)
I noticed that the reaction time while it was recovering on the ice didn't seem much different from animals that I've seen slip. But you are right that the robot's precision is a lot better; its legs aren't getting in each other's way.
I wonder why the reaction time is about the same. Does the dynamics planner take that long to figure out what to do? Are the actuators slow enough so that it can't recover in a blur of leg motion? Or is that just the minimum amount of time stabilization can physically take?
This is true, but
Nitpick: You mean "the intersection of the set of developers that can reliably write code with good memory management in a language like that, and the set of developers that can make good architecture decisions..."
You can stream files as well in .NET.
Not as easily as fopen + fscanf in a loop.
Are you sure you meant "orders of magnitude"? That is, if the C program took 5 minutes to do a file, the Lisp program would take 3 and a half days (i.e. 5000 min)?
I always liked Griffons. They look quite imposing, and aren't as well-defined as other fictional monsters.
Sometimes they're intelligent, sometimes they're savage, sometimes tame, sometimes noble. Even the spelling of their name is uncertain. Gryphon, griffon? Plus, they actually have some authenticity, being from real mythology.
No, the Aztecs weren't wiped out by European disease.
Usually, they say Cortes brought smallpox to the Aztecs, who had never been exposed to it before, and it wiped them out. This is incorrect on all counts, as related by this Discover article from a few years ago.
First, the Aztecs had been exposed to smallpox before the Europeans ever came. They knew about the disease and had a name for it. They weren't a virgin population.
Second, it wasn't even smallpox that took them out. The symptoms didn't match at all. It was a hemorrhagic fever like Ebola.
Third, it wasn't the Europeans that brought this disease. The Aztecs knew about the hemorrhagic fever, too, and had a name for it.
What actually happened, was that the Aztecs had the bad luck to be invaded by the Spanish and wiped out by a recurring native plague shortly thereafter.
The ultimate bottleneck for human population growth is the amount of available phosphorous. There are theoretical work-arounds for every other limiting factor, but the phosphorous limit would require mass-scale transmutation of matter to get past.
An article in the Australian says we'll see shortages by 2040.
Wikipedia says we'll run out in about 345 years at current consumption rates (which means we'll actually run out sooner).
Surely space is cold enough in the shadow of the space station (I just watched Sunshine) to make it from the ingredients?
Space isn't actually cold. Space is not there, as far as temperature (or really, anything else) is concerned. If you put the ingredients of ice cream in the shadow of the space station, all that means is the space station, rather than the sun, is the heat source. The question is, how hot is the surface of the space station? It's got all those people and generators inside, not to mention the heat from the sun on the other side being shunted around by air conditioning.
So, the surface of the space station is probably above freezing. The space station will then be radiating heat. Some of that heat will be caught by the ice cream ingredients. The ingredients themselves will also be "evaporating" heat, of course, so the question is, will the ingredients evaporate more heat that they catch from the space station? If so, they will cool off, if not, they will warm up.
Yeah, I noticed that. Anybody want to tell me why there is a giant infrared sine wave strewn across the heavens?
If you polarize into a great enough set of isolated viewpoints, you end up with a different set of beliefs for each individual. Exactly where we should be.
No one allows polarization to go that far, because we all want friends. We want enough people to count as "us" opposing "them" so that we feel comfortably supported in our opinions.
In fact, maybe that's why we only have the two parties. At a fundamental level, all you need is "us" and "them," and all smaller differences between "us" can be handled internally.