Most people I know who saw V for Vendetta loved it, including myself.
Well, yeah. I mean, the people you know are friends of yours. That, right there, establishes their level of taste and critical thinking -- low to nonexistent. No wonder they liked V for Vendetta!
(Of course, I don't know you from Adam, nor do I know your friends, and for the record, I liked that movie. But, look, I saw the opportunity for the slam and I took it. Don't hate me for doin' what I gotta do.:) )
This is a special case of a more general observation: If system X allows some particular thing and system Y doesn't, then system X is generally more usable.
You mean, because OS X allows you to refer to a file without getting the case exactly right, and Linux does not, OS X is generally more usable?
But don't worry, pretty soon people will be complaining about the glut of birds feeding on the skeeters followed by the glut of cats eating the birds, followed by....
There's a diagram that gives a better sense of proportion here. There is a lot of room between us and the moon.
Just for kicks, here's the Moon vs. Phobos. The asteroid in question is about 1/30 the size of Phobos. Now imagine that asteroid in the Wikipedia diagram.
Space is big. Really big.
I think you'll agree that we had nothing to worry about.
(P.S. You can also see the Moon vs. Unicron ibid.:) )
I think the reason why people want to know how much money they are making is because they want to know how to price the Apple stock.
Not that I disagree, but I don't know why this is even an issue. The stock market decides what the price of a share is. That's all there is to it. People want to guess whether it will be worth more or less in the future, well, let them guess! And when they act on that guess, the share price will go up or down accordingly, and consensus as to the actual value of Apple's stock will be achieved.
I mean, if everyone just asked a company what its shares are worth, what would be the point of the stock market?
That depends on what you are actually trying to study. Remember that article about the eyes posted above the coffee jar? People changed their behavior simply because they were (kinda) being observed. Merely being observed is enough to change behavior, even with no stated test purpose at all.
But if they paid you... that would change the outcome. You'd have sub-conscious influences. You know that you can't study someone who knows they're being studied, right?
I think the point here is that Carnegie now has a reputation as a philanthropist, regardless of what ill effect he had in the past. That has all been forgotten by everyone except historians and others with a special interest.
On another note, the fact that people, in general, have assumed the belief that someone ELSE will take care of things is indicative of deeper, more serious logical faults which allowed the people to believe such a ridiculous thing.
This is not a logical fault. People would take it upon themselves to fix things, to oversee the government, and all that. People do -- retirees and college students do.
But they are the only ones who can take the time. Everyone else is too busy working to have any attention or energy left over to deal with things. Everyone has to assume that someone else will take care of it, or else assume that it just won't be taken care of.
That is what is allowing our government to become corrupt. Over-work.
Here's a tidbit that might be of interest. Now, here, I'm only talking about our universe, or multiverse, the one(s) following our physics.
The many worlds interpretation of quantum physics says that everytime something happens, the universe splits into several universes, where each universe is one possible outcome of what happened. And the somethings that happen are on the level of brownian motion, atomic decay, etc., i.e. there are a lot of somethings and they happen very often, both of which are understatements on a level that would drive a person mad.
So, one would naturally assume that the number of parallel universes almost immediately spiraled to, basically, infinity, and that universes will continue to multiply without bound. That was a rather intimidating concept to me, but luckily, it turns out that this is not correct, for two reasons.
First, sometimes quantum events split a universe into several universes, but sometimes they collapse several universes into one. This happens when two events counteract each other, or finally counteract a sequence of events that started a while back, like chain of undo's.
Second, a finite space has only a finite number of states, and that is the count of parallel universes; any quantum event will end up in one of those states. Of course, that is still an ungraspably large number of universes, but hey, at least it is a finite number.
Has anybody read Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast," or read the web-comic "Starslip Crisis?" It's kinda like that.
IPC (inter-process communication) is the method by which two different computer programs, or parts of computer programs, can request information or actions of each other, or give status updates or event notifications. In many cases, this is just an abstraction: the two processes do not communicate, but simply go in and directly fiddle with each other's bits.
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Well, yeah. I mean, the people you know are friends of yours. That, right there, establishes their level of taste and critical thinking -- low to nonexistent. No wonder they liked V for Vendetta!
(Of course, I don't know you from Adam, nor do I know your friends, and for the record, I liked that movie. But, look, I saw the opportunity for the slam and I took it. Don't hate me for doin' what I gotta do.
Irony is dead.
Alanis Morrisette killed it.
Now, isn't that ironic?
"Twister, it's a twister!" -- Wizard of Oz
Of course, technically, it should be:
...short for abated, y'know.
with 'bated breath.
Science Fiction & Fantasy Wikipedia
http://www.infoshop.org/sf/index.php/Main_Page
Star Wars Technical Commentaries - teh roxxorz
c lopedia/frontmatter/entergl.html
http://theforce.net/swtc/
Babylon 5 Tech-Manual
http://www.b5tech.com/index.htm
Uplift Universe Galactic Library
http://www.geocities.com/allianceforprogress/ency
Tycho is scary. Really scary.
TextWrangler has the best system for merging two files that I've found.
Better merging than FileMerge? I find that hard to believe. FileMerge is very good at thinking of differences in the same way a person does.
I don't really need the toilet paper player, because I make my own music in the bathroom!
'Specially after eating burritos.
Ah, yes, the supine position. Very useful for certain robots.
Really, anybody with sufficient abs can fly, at least according to Dr. McNinja. The muscles form an organic jetpack.
Superman has good abs, right?
You mean, because OS X allows you to refer to a file without getting the case exactly right, and Linux does not, OS X is generally more usable?
Can't argue against that.
Hell if I know, I just take the mod points when they come!
But don't worry, pretty soon people will be complaining about the glut of birds feeding on the skeeters followed by the glut of cats eating the birds, followed by....
And then the gorillas freeze to death?
There's a diagram that gives a better sense of proportion here. There is a lot of room between us and the moon.
:) )
Just for kicks, here's the Moon vs. Phobos. The asteroid in question is about 1/30 the size of Phobos. Now imagine that asteroid in the Wikipedia diagram.
Space is big. Really big.
I think you'll agree that we had nothing to worry about.
(P.S. You can also see the Moon vs. Unicron ibid.
Phaedo says things about the properties of the soul, but it does not attempt to determine whether there is such a thing to begin with.
I think the reason why people want to know how much money they are making is because they want to know how to price the Apple stock.
Not that I disagree, but I don't know why this is even an issue. The stock market decides what the price of a share is. That's all there is to it. People want to guess whether it will be worth more or less in the future, well, let them guess! And when they act on that guess, the share price will go up or down accordingly, and consensus as to the actual value of Apple's stock will be achieved.
I mean, if everyone just asked a company what its shares are worth, what would be the point of the stock market?
That depends on what you are actually trying to study. Remember that article about the eyes posted above the coffee jar? People changed their behavior simply because they were (kinda) being observed. Merely being observed is enough to change behavior, even with no stated test purpose at all.
But if they paid you... that would change the outcome. You'd have sub-conscious influences. You know that you can't study someone who knows they're being studied, right?
I think the point here is that Carnegie now has a reputation as a philanthropist, regardless of what ill effect he had in the past. That has all been forgotten by everyone except historians and others with a special interest.
At Mach 2, my laptop is even better! Now it lifts and separates!
On another note, the fact that people, in general, have assumed the belief that someone ELSE will take care of things is indicative of deeper, more serious logical faults which allowed the people to believe such a ridiculous thing.
This is not a logical fault. People would take it upon themselves to fix things, to oversee the government, and all that. People do -- retirees and college students do.
But they are the only ones who can take the time. Everyone else is too busy working to have any attention or energy left over to deal with things. Everyone has to assume that someone else will take care of it, or else assume that it just won't be taken care of.
That is what is allowing our government to become corrupt. Over-work.
Here's a tidbit that might be of interest. Now, here, I'm only talking about our universe, or multiverse, the one(s) following our physics.
The many worlds interpretation of quantum physics says that everytime something happens, the universe splits into several universes, where each universe is one possible outcome of what happened. And the somethings that happen are on the level of brownian motion, atomic decay, etc., i.e. there are a lot of somethings and they happen very often, both of which are understatements on a level that would drive a person mad.
So, one would naturally assume that the number of parallel universes almost immediately spiraled to, basically, infinity, and that universes will continue to multiply without bound. That was a rather intimidating concept to me, but luckily, it turns out that this is not correct, for two reasons.
First, sometimes quantum events split a universe into several universes, but sometimes they collapse several universes into one. This happens when two events counteract each other, or finally counteract a sequence of events that started a while back, like chain of undo's.
Second, a finite space has only a finite number of states, and that is the count of parallel universes; any quantum event will end up in one of those states. Of course, that is still an ungraspably large number of universes, but hey, at least it is a finite number.
Has anybody read Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast," or read the web-comic "Starslip Crisis?" It's kinda like that.
Would it kill them to give a few examples of 'words'?
I'm guessing it'll be something like Droidspeak.
IPC (inter-process communication) is the method by which two different computer programs, or parts of computer programs, can request information or actions of each other, or give status updates or event notifications. In many cases, this is just an abstraction: the two processes do not communicate, but simply go in and directly fiddle with each other's bits.