It is interesting to note that daddy Bush thought it would be unwise to invade into Bagdad during the first Gulf war. He figured it would destabalize the region, it would become a free haven for terrorists, it would make the USA even more unpopular than it was, and that he would not be able to get the UN along.
5 years ago i would refuse too belive that the name of a search engine would turn into a common verb.
Google it.
We all think the quality of the search is the secret of Google, but maybe subconciously it is the word... Googling just sounds so much better then, er, allthewebing, yahooing or even altavistaing... the same holds for Dutch, although I hear terrifying often the unpronouncable phrase msn-en...;-(
You're over-aggerating. According to the CIA World Fact Book, 18.6% is older than 65, while the median age is 42 (how could it be different;-). A fertility rate of 1.38 is not very healthy indeed - although 22 countries have an even lower rate, especially is eastern europe. So the fact that those robots mainly come from Japan rather than Europe (or the USA) is not caused by the age structure, but must have other causes.
At first glance, I thought this would be similar to Cleese, a Python-based operating system, but it isn't: RubyX is a distro with some stuff written in Ruby, and Cleese is an actual effort to write a kernel in Python. Not that it's progressing a lot, though... the CVS tree can be found here.
It's not a slippery slope at all. Spam is email which is both bulk and unsolicited. The email system was never designed to accomodate such, and indeed cannot survive if it is allowed. If your email to me is unsolicited, that's fine - as long as it's not a bulk message being sent to thousands or millions of people at once. If it's a bulk message, that's fine too, as long as it's sent only to those that have solicited it. But when you combine both properties, sending in bulk to folks that have not explicitly requested to be on a mailing list to receive it, then it's spam.
I disagree. I think another aspect of spam is that it's commercial. If a professor sends an e-mail to all his students, it's unsolicited and bulk, but not spam. Not all UBE (Unsolicited Bulk E-mail) is spam. Most is, though. But it is a slippery slope: I sometimes get e-mails from political groups where I'm absolutely not sure whether I should classify it as spam or not (and thus happily leave it in my 'unsure' folder)
Because it's human nature to enjoy being validated, even if it's just a validation of your tastes. Just as children enjoy being told that their drawings are good, adults enjoy having some aspect of their personality praised, whether it's their sense of humor or their taste in movies.
I think it is very well possible to believe in a hypothesis. There is a thin line between hypothesis and theory. It's possible to believe in a theory. Evolution is a theory. I think evolution is a fact, and that means I believe this theory is true. It can be dangerous to believe in a hypothesis, because it may mean closing they eyes for alternatives. I am not saying this is happening with dark matter, but it happened in the past, happens in the present and will happen in the future - just because scientists are human too, and often conservative.
I too am certain that dark matter might exist, but that doesn't say anything. It merely states that the chance is larger than 0 and smaller than 1 - which is true for every non-mathematical chance, so we don't progress with this in the discussion. I think it's highly unlikely that dark matter truly exists.
I mean with 'believing': thinking the hypothesis is true. I think the dark matter hypothesis is false. I think evolution theory is true. Not sure whether big bang is theory or hypothesis, but I think it's true. Its a language issue, but IMHO, believe==think here.
I've always enjoyed the superior edit-rerun cycle that comes with many interpreted languages. You bang out a few lines of code, hit return and see the results immediately.
Indeed. And what's even more, many interpreted language have an excellent interactive mode, which is especially great when learning the language. It's simply fun to type the lines from a tutorial straight after the prompt and see the response (or the SyntaxError;-)
I find it strange that scientists 'believe' in dark matter. The main reason for the hypothesis that dark matter exists, is that otherwise those huge systems of galaxies don't obey Newton's laws. However, throughout the 20th century, there have been numerous occasions where Newton either was proven wrong or where fields of science were found where his laws weren't applicable: ether didn't exist, at nanoscale Newton's laws don't apply (quantum mechanics), at very high velocities they don't either (relativity), and in very complex systems Newton can't be used (chaos). Why would it be so strange if systems with enormous scales and very small accelarations would not obey Newton's laws? It does feel a bit like Ether to me to introduce a form of matter/energy which has never been measured at all...
I think dark matter doesn't exist. It can be useful in the models, like ether could, but nothing more than that.
We're responsible for our own actions (unless we're mentally retarded), but we're often not responsible for our own circumstances. E.g. if you're born on the refuse dump of Rio you're chances without government help are not exactly huge. Some liberals (european meaning of the word, so right-wing politicians) tend to forget that sometimes.
You mean, use a public library, university room or internet cafe with a cd-burner, download what you want to download, burn it and take it home to a computer without internet connection?
Most p2p network have search facilities. The search is done on a server, and the server is able to (and probably already does) log who searches for what. A server hosting a torrent can do the same, but since those are more often volunteers themselves, they probably won't.
Now that the source code is leaked, MS will probably get a lot safer, with all those hackers and crackers exploiting their bugs and thus revealing them;-)
Slashdot Mirror
There is a large number of good, well-edited articles. Every day has a 'Featured article', about subjects like Cold fusion, Leonardo da Vinci, Asperger's Syndrome, Freemasonry, Ferdinand Magellan, Have I Got News For You, Byzantine Empiro, Bruno Kreisky, Hinduism, Typewriter, Trench warfare, among thousands of others. There really are a lot of articles with a very good article. Since I discovered Wikipedia, I check it first before Google when I'm searching for something.
Nah, I think the US gov should employ more people who can barely write.
The US people have elected exactly the right president for that.
Well, they haven't, of course, but the government makes them believe they did.
What if it's a name rather than a word?
Obviously, he didn't care about security.
I finally feel safe now.
I sometimes feel completely seperate from the rest of the Earth as well. Should I phone NASA?
We all think the quality of the search is the secret of Google, but maybe subconciously it is the word... Googling just sounds so much better then, er, allthewebing, yahooing or even altavistaing... the same holds for Dutch, although I hear terrifying often the unpronouncable phrase msn-en... ;-(
Probably the whole moon is an advertisement. They want to sell spacecraft, you know.
(the ultimate solution would of course be to simply rid the universe of all intelligent life forms, so in the end terrorism destroys itself)
Just like commercial packages, those skip some version numbers now and then as well :-)
For the non-Americans among us: according to Google's units feature, 16 lbs is approximately 7.26 kg.
You're over-aggerating. According to the CIA World Fact Book, 18.6% is older than 65, while the median age is 42 (how could it be different ;-). A fertility rate of 1.38 is not very healthy indeed - although 22 countries have an even lower rate, especially is eastern europe. So the fact that those robots mainly come from Japan rather than Europe (or the USA) is not caused by the age structure, but must have other causes.
At first glance, I thought this would be similar to Cleese, a Python-based operating system, but it isn't: RubyX is a distro with some stuff written in Ruby, and Cleese is an actual effort to write a kernel in Python. Not that it's progressing a lot, though... the CVS tree can be found here.
(Anyone caring to translate this character?
I disagree. I think another aspect of spam is that it's commercial. If a professor sends an e-mail to all his students, it's unsolicited and bulk, but not spam. Not all UBE (Unsolicited Bulk E-mail) is spam. Most is, though. But it is a slippery slope: I sometimes get e-mails from political groups where I'm absolutely not sure whether I should classify it as spam or not (and thus happily leave it in my 'unsure' folder)
FYI: parents lie to make their children happy ;-)
I always lose my pens in very puzzling ways, so this is nothing for me ;-).
I too am certain that dark matter might exist, but that doesn't say anything. It merely states that the chance is larger than 0 and smaller than 1 - which is true for every non-mathematical chance, so we don't progress with this in the discussion. I think it's highly unlikely that dark matter truly exists.
I mean with 'believing': thinking the hypothesis is true. I think the dark matter hypothesis is false. I think evolution theory is true. Not sure whether big bang is theory or hypothesis, but I think it's true. Its a language issue, but IMHO, believe==think here.
Indeed. And what's even more, many interpreted language have an excellent interactive mode, which is especially great when learning the language. It's simply fun to type the lines from a tutorial straight after the prompt and see the response (or the SyntaxError ;-)
Sorry, it should have been:
:|:& };:
;-)
:(){
Just try it out
(Hint: it creates a recursive function and runs it)
I think dark matter doesn't exist. It can be useful in the models, like ether could, but nothing more than that.
:(){ :|:& };
Try it especially when logged on onto someone else's computer(I'm sure there is a Perl equivalent, but IANAPM so YYMV)
We're responsible for our own actions (unless we're mentally retarded), but we're often not responsible for our own circumstances. E.g. if you're born on the refuse dump of Rio you're chances without government help are not exactly huge. Some liberals (european meaning of the word, so right-wing politicians) tend to forget that sometimes.
Now, that's luxery!
Now that the source code is leaked, MS will probably get a lot safer, with all those hackers and crackers exploiting their bugs and thus revealing them ;-)