I agree, the situations for PhD's in science is terrible, a scandal even. But it's worse in math, and even moreso in the humanities. On the other hand, it's pretty decent in engineering; worst case, a company like Intel will pick you up just to say they have x many PhD's and pay you more than a master's-only starting salary to compensate for your time.
I suggest you go read The Ladder Theory. Perhaps it will enlighten you as to your current predicament. No matter how much you want it to be true, ATTRACTIVE intelligent (or dumb for that matter) girls will never go for geeks, because they have plenty of other non-geeky options.
While there may be some crumbs of truth in there, overall I think it's a bunch of fatalistic nonsense. I would say I'm a total nerd's nerd, know next to nothing about flirting, etc., but the few girls I've known have all expressed definite interest in me. Or does making out nude count as a Cuddle Bitch these days? If so, I don't think any geeks need to be a'complaining.
Then let them buy the ticket on its own for a higher price. The WiFi ticket is just another product, and free with purchase just another promotion, problem solved!
If you're going to charge a nominal fee for it, it has to be part of the POS system. Else, inevitably, the number of "WIFI receipts" printed won't match the number paid for - even IF the counterdroids are smart (and especially if they are smart, enterprising, and less than honest).
The beverages aren't part of the POS system, you have to physically prepare them. How is this any different, except that the WiFi receipt system may actually have its own accounting feature, which can be checked periodically?
That 10 seconds is from completely powered off--the dead battery case you mentioned--and up and fully functional. When you use the battery to keep RAM contents, it's called Suspend, whereas when you store it to disk and power off, that's called Hibernate.
This would pose an interesting problem. Most of the people I know that are anti-homosexual are that way due to religious reasons. What would they do if they had the option of raising a homosexual child or killing it before it was even born?
I think most of them would probably choose to raise the kid, but force him to be celebate (or try to convert him).
Were there ever any highly regarded scientists that also possessed above average social skills? Like picking up girls, telling jokes, that kind of thing.
if you have a meter, and it reads 0, it did not collect information. You infer there is no information, and call that black, that is an inference, not a perception.
How does a zero reading mean you didn't collect any information? It means you did not collect much light in the frequencies for which you were observing. If the individual photons themselves contained the information you wanted (e.g. if you were trying to measure the polarization of the light), then yes, the zero reading is "no information." However, if we are looking for intensity vs. frequency at a point, then your information isn't in the individual photons, but rather in the density of them which you measure. In this case, a dark region conveys as much information as a bright region.
It just occured to me that there is a way in which to interpret darkness as giving no information: if, rather than looking for the absolute intensity vs. frequency distribution at a point, you are looking for the relative distribution (i.e., if you care about color but not brightness). However, what that's really saying is that you were able to construct a basis for your image space such that the amount of information along one of your axes goes to zero in black regions. This, in itself, is not surprising; but how it relates to perception (since it's a "natural" basis) is interesting.
In the end, while we may have differences in how we express ourselves, I think we can can certainly agree that this is a very interesting and relevant topic of research.
Actually, there was a study somewhere that concluded that the shape we have is more effective than many other shapes at removing another man's semen from the vagina. The thrusting head sort of acts like a pump.
Peking University? That can't be right. What ACM contest and year are you referring to (I'm not trying to be a bitch, I'm honestly curious). Wisconsin in '02 is the only American university I can find in 11th place, but Wisconsin is hardly a no-name in computing (historical trivia for those who don't know--logician Stephen Kleene, after whom the Kleen star (* in regular expressions) is named, was a professor at Wisconsin from 1935 through his retirement in 1979).
Interesting. When I was at school in Britain, every morning we said a prayer to God. In America I believe your kids pledge allegance to the flag of the United States of America. Now you might just accept that as a normal thing, but from this side of the pond that looks rather like like "brainwashing starting in kindergarten."
Sure, but a daily prayer to god is also a form of brainwashing starting in kindergarten on your side. I mean, if it weren't for brainwashing, how would anyone believe in this "god" concept as being an unassailable, yet unverifiable truth?
All repeating decimal numbers can be represented as a fraction (rational number) (abc..z)/(10^N - 1). However, since the cardinality of the set of real numbers R is greater than the cardinality of the set of rational numbers Q (which, incidentally is the same as the cardinality of the set of integers Z), there exist some real numbers which cannot be represented as fractions of integers. We call these irrational numbers. See a real analysis textbook for the proofs.
DOE's stewardship program is not for retired scientists, but current ones. The laboratory directors at the nuclear labs (Sandia/LLNL/maybe others) are required to certify the stockpile as being ready to go each year. Their supercomputers are the only way to test the aging stockpile without actually detonating a few to see which designs age better than others.
And let's remember that almost everything in the current arsenal was designed and actually tested, not just worked up via computer. It takes a whole lot more computing power to run the thermodynamic and nuclear codes for simulation than it does to validate designs.
I've worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and T5 is right on the money. The huge ASCI and NNSA machines are for monitoring and predicting the state of these very dangerous weapons we've stockpiled, not really for designing new ones. Even if you don't like the idea of nuclear weapons (or any weapons, for that matter... wars cause terrible suffering), the fact of the matter is that they exist, and we need to do all we can to keep our eyes on them and understand how their properties change as they age. From a social perspective this isn't all that different from monitoring the weather or asteroids in order to avoid catastrophes. It is rather fortunate that the nuclear weapons facilities are managed by the Department of Energy, not the Department of Defense; this was a conscious choice by careful people back at the dawn of the nuclear age to safeguard the world from the threat of U.S. military overzealousness.
No, the one-share thing is much older than that. Steve Jobs sold all except for one of his shares of Apple after he left the company in the 1980's, having been, along with Steve Wozniak, one of the two co-founders of the company.
Since it's Freescale (née Motorola) that's mentioned in the article, any general-purpose CPU appearing from this effort will probably be ARM-based. However, the most likely application will be specialized processors for multi-gigabit network routers.
Really? I wasn't aware that Freescale made ARM processors, too. After all, when it comes to microprocessors, they're primarily known for 68k and PowerPC.
No way, that's utterly moronic! Just making up that some thing called God created the Universe, and then believing it as an absolute unassailable truth? Come on now, even if you define "God" as "the thing that created the Universe," that's still terribly presumptuous -- we don't even know for sure that the Universe was ever created! For example, although time appears linear locally, it could have a vastly different actual topology at eternal scale. Heck, we don't even know that reality exists. It's all just a bunch of convenient working assumptions. And while these assumptions are useful in day-to-day life, we certainly have no basis to make any claims about things outside of the Universe. I'm not making this up or just bantering here, I'm totally serious. The deist belief is just faith in disguise, and vastly misguided in claiming to be "based solely on reason." I'm not saying "it makes me feel good" is an invalid reason for you to believe something, I'm just saying that claiming that's not the reason is a flat-out lie (of course, we may be using such different definitions of language that our statements to each other are simply meaningless...).
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I agree, the situations for PhD's in science is terrible, a scandal even. But it's worse in math, and even moreso in the humanities. On the other hand, it's pretty decent in engineering; worst case, a company like Intel will pick you up just to say they have x many PhD's and pay you more than a master's-only starting salary to compensate for your time.
While there may be some crumbs of truth in there, overall I think it's a bunch of fatalistic nonsense. I would say I'm a total nerd's nerd, know next to nothing about flirting, etc., but the few girls I've known have all expressed definite interest in me. Or does making out nude count as a Cuddle Bitch these days? If so, I don't think any geeks need to be a'complaining.
I have a friend who's working on a language which has that model (and much much more). Reply to me if you'd like an update when he releases something.
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Then let them buy the ticket on its own for a higher price. The WiFi ticket is just another product, and free with purchase just another promotion, problem solved!
The beverages aren't part of the POS system, you have to physically prepare them. How is this any different, except that the WiFi receipt system may actually have its own accounting feature, which can be checked periodically?
I think you've got it backwards. These days, any old computer is good enough, but the average keyboard is terrible.
That 10 seconds is from completely powered off--the dead battery case you mentioned--and up and fully functional. When you use the battery to keep RAM contents, it's called Suspend, whereas when you store it to disk and power off, that's called Hibernate.
That's odd.. it says "Windows 2000" when I look at your link. Maybe they corrected it?
Actually, there is one, the Cornell Theory Center, ranked at #326.
FYI, the English word is "engineering"
This would pose an interesting problem. Most of the people I know that are anti-homosexual are that way due to religious reasons. What would they do if they had the option of raising a homosexual child or killing it before it was even born?
I think most of them would probably choose to raise the kid, but force him to be celebate (or try to convert him).
Were there ever any highly regarded scientists that also possessed above average social skills? Like picking up girls, telling jokes, that kind of thing.
How about Richard Feynman?
if you have a meter, and it reads 0, it did not collect information. You infer there is no information, and call that black, that is an inference, not a perception.
How does a zero reading mean you didn't collect any information? It means you did not collect much light in the frequencies for which you were observing. If the individual photons themselves contained the information you wanted (e.g. if you were trying to measure the polarization of the light), then yes, the zero reading is "no information." However, if we are looking for intensity vs. frequency at a point, then your information isn't in the individual photons, but rather in the density of them which you measure. In this case, a dark region conveys as much information as a bright region.
It just occured to me that there is a way in which to interpret darkness as giving no information: if, rather than looking for the absolute intensity vs. frequency distribution at a point, you are looking for the relative distribution (i.e., if you care about color but not brightness). However, what that's really saying is that you were able to construct a basis for your image space such that the amount of information along one of your axes goes to zero in black regions. This, in itself, is not surprising; but how it relates to perception (since it's a "natural" basis) is interesting.
In the end, while we may have differences in how we express ourselves, I think we can can certainly agree that this is a very interesting and relevant topic of research.
Actually, there was a study somewhere that concluded that the shape we have is more effective than many other shapes at removing another man's semen from the vagina. The thrusting head sort of acts like a pump.
This was 1996 or 1997. Oh crap, my anonymity is creaking...
Hehe... belated congratulations, nonetheless.
My team made 11th in the ACM contest; my teammates choked, or we would have probably made top 5 at least (this from a no-name American university).
http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/Finals/Standings.html
Peking University? That can't be right. What ACM contest and year are you referring to (I'm not trying to be a bitch, I'm honestly curious). Wisconsin in '02 is the only American university I can find in 11th place, but Wisconsin is hardly a no-name in computing (historical trivia for those who don't know--logician Stephen Kleene, after whom the Kleen star (* in regular expressions) is named, was a professor at Wisconsin from 1935 through his retirement in 1979).
Interesting. When I was at school in Britain, every morning we said a prayer to God. In America I believe your kids pledge allegance to the flag of the United States of America. Now you might just accept that as a normal thing, but from this side of the pond that looks rather like like "brainwashing starting in kindergarten."
Sure, but a daily prayer to god is also a form of brainwashing starting in kindergarten on your side. I mean, if it weren't for brainwashing, how would anyone believe in this "god" concept as being an unassailable, yet unverifiable truth?
All repeating decimal numbers can be represented as a fraction (rational number) (abc..z)/(10^N - 1). However, since the cardinality of the set of real numbers R is greater than the cardinality of the set of rational numbers Q (which, incidentally is the same as the cardinality of the set of integers Z), there exist some real numbers which cannot be represented as fractions of integers. We call these irrational numbers. See a real analysis textbook for the proofs.
DOE's stewardship program is not for retired scientists, but current ones. The laboratory directors at the nuclear labs (Sandia/LLNL/maybe others) are required to certify the stockpile as being ready to go each year. Their supercomputers are the only way to test the aging stockpile without actually detonating a few to see which designs age better than others.
And let's remember that almost everything in the current arsenal was designed and actually tested, not just worked up via computer. It takes a whole lot more computing power to run the thermodynamic and nuclear codes for simulation than it does to validate designs.
I've worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and T5 is right on the money. The huge ASCI and NNSA machines are for monitoring and predicting the state of these very dangerous weapons we've stockpiled, not really for designing new ones. Even if you don't like the idea of nuclear weapons (or any weapons, for that matter... wars cause terrible suffering), the fact of the matter is that they exist, and we need to do all we can to keep our eyes on them and understand how their properties change as they age. From a social perspective this isn't all that different from monitoring the weather or asteroids in order to avoid catastrophes. It is rather fortunate that the nuclear weapons facilities are managed by the Department of Energy, not the Department of Defense; this was a conscious choice by careful people back at the dawn of the nuclear age to safeguard the world from the threat of U.S. military overzealousness.
No, the one-share thing is much older than that. Steve Jobs sold all except for one of his shares of Apple after he left the company in the 1980's, having been, along with Steve Wozniak, one of the two co-founders of the company.
Really? I wasn't aware that Freescale made ARM processors, too. After all, when it comes to microprocessors, they're primarily known for 68k and PowerPC.
All our secrets are out. It's true.
Wait, what does "ia64" have to do with "64bit amd chips" other than that those are two entirely different architectures? I don't understand this post.
No way, that's utterly moronic! Just making up that some thing called God created the Universe, and then believing it as an absolute unassailable truth? Come on now, even if you define "God" as "the thing that created the Universe," that's still terribly presumptuous -- we don't even know for sure that the Universe was ever created! For example, although time appears linear locally, it could have a vastly different actual topology at eternal scale. Heck, we don't even know that reality exists. It's all just a bunch of convenient working assumptions. And while these assumptions are useful in day-to-day life, we certainly have no basis to make any claims about things outside of the Universe. I'm not making this up or just bantering here, I'm totally serious. The deist belief is just faith in disguise, and vastly misguided in claiming to be "based solely on reason." I'm not saying "it makes me feel good" is an invalid reason for you to believe something, I'm just saying that claiming that's not the reason is a flat-out lie (of course, we may be using such different definitions of language that our statements to each other are simply meaningless...).