You are very wrong. Almost no sects of Christianity believes that the bible is the literal truth and the word of God. The Pope, even, have stated that at least Genesis is allegory.
There are even more moderate sects, like the state church of Denmark. Where there are priests who don't believe in God. Here's a quote from the priest Thorkild Grosbøll: "God belongs in the past. He is actually so old fashioned that I am baffled by modern people believing in his existence. I am thoroughly fed up with empty words about miracles and eternal life."
As to your last comment, you do realize that abstinence and self control is proven to be the best birth control one could use right?
It is the worst type of birth control. The last time someone used it, she gave birth not only to a child but to 2000+ years worth of drivel and gibberish.
The Michaelson-Mauley experiment failed to detect the aether
I'm hoping you mean the Michelson-Morley experiment here....
That was the follow up experiment, after the Michaelson-Mauley experiment did not show conclusive evidence because a couple of grad students got too close to the grizzly.
I don't know how things work in common law countries like the US, but here in Denmark such statements by lawmakers are very important. If a case has to be decided by the supreme court they will not only consider the law in question, but also the interplay of other laws and the protocols from the treatment of the law in parliament. So if a law has been questioned in parliament and the supporters have said it was never meant to be applied that way, the supreme court will take the position that the law as it was passed was indeed not meant to cover the abusive cases.
They do not have a way of sending light, and no way of receiving the radio. It is simply the LHC ring dumping the beam into a target pointed at a neutrino detector in Gran Sasso in Italy. Because the neutrinos interact so little they can pass directly through the Earth's crust. This means you do not have to dig a 700 km long tunnel.
The ignorance of the statement "You might think of linguistics as being interesting but not really useful" is simply astounding.
What ignorance would that be. I read that as a statement as a hypothesis that the common man might hold linguistics to be not really useful. The statement makes no claim whatsoever that linguistics is in fact not useful. In fact it makes the exact opposite claim.
Do you believe that the commonly held opinion is that linguistics is useful? or simply some academic pursuit for bearded people with leather patches on their elbows. I think you can easily get a feeling by looking at research grants to linguistics and compare them to those for generally perceived as useful areas like chemistry. I would not be surprised if linguistics get a lot less funding.
I completely agree with you that this buzzword bingo has to stop. However you seem to also have messed up the terminology a bit.:)
Cloud computing refers to provisioning of resources across the network normally using virtual machines. You retain "full" control of the machine. Cloud computing could be used for distributed computing.
Grid computing is the connection of supercomputers across the world. This involves things like handling access rights, policies, accounting etc.
Parallel computation involves the computation of a problem spread out over several processors.
Distributed computing is like parallel computation, but distributed across several machines. It therefore has to take into account things such as network latencies, machine failures etc.
Volunteer Computing involves harnessing the power of resources donated by the public. This can be a form of distributed computing, but not necessarily. BOINC is a good example of this.
Their project obviously falls into the last category, and has nothing to do with either Grid or Cloud. Their main difference from BOINC is the ability to run directly in the browser. This is hardly a new idea, and I remember projects like this from at least back in 2003. As far as I can see from the documentation, software such as MiG has been able to do all they do and much more since 2005. I'm a bit disappointed that Oxford Uni is not more innovative and get the terminology wrong, but it is the Physics department so let's cut them some slack.:)
Disclaimer: I'm a researcher in distributed computing particularly Grid and Volunteer Computing.
I would like to thank you for considering our ilustrious instituion. I regret to inform you, however, that you have not been accepted to our "Universe creation and it's applications" Ph.d. programme.
While your admission project did indeed show a lot of practical skill and hard effort, we believe your theoretical understanding is somewhat deficit. We asked for the best way to turn hydrogen into plutonium, not iron.
We encourage you to take another year of theoretical physics, and reapplying for the programme next semester.
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And it could also be related to a gross misgeneralization of the theory of relativity. Which basically states the exact opposite: That any careful observer in any frame of reference will agree on the value of the speed of light and the laws of physics. A better name would have been the theory of constancy.
... perhaps having to delay US release a day or two, or drop some foriegn lang versions (and leave them with English versions only).
Oh the horror. How would I know what to do without translations like:
"please click bypass on tabletop to send agenda into space."
I hate it when I get a translated version, because it's invariably done by someone with no knowledge of computers or the language or indeed both.
Well, my experience is that the Danish postal service is pretty forgiving about the payment too. I'd forgotten to put a stamp on a letter, so I got a letter from the post office with a photo of the letter proving that there was no stamp on it. They reminded me to put one on in the future, but they would deliver the letter at no charge this time.
(wich is more than the speed of light in the fibers and the speed of electrons in a copper wire).
It's a lot more than the speed of electrons in copper wire. Depending on the conditions the average speed of electrons is on the order of a couple of centimeters pr second. But in the end the speed of the electrons is not that interesting, the important factor is the speed of the propagation of the electrical field, which is obviously the speed of light in the material in question.
Living in Scandinavia sucks in winter.
"3 pm class: Everyone open your books to page 65"
"But I wanna go night night"
"It's day time"
"No it's not" *Points to the darkness pouring through the windows from an overcast sky reminiscent of Mordor*
"grrr"
I do wear glasses, but don't have headaches or issues with 3D glasses. Maybe I'm lucky or perhaps my cavemen ancestors were blessed with 3D wiring in their brains.
Only a small percentage of us are not. Contrary to what Murch proposes, there is nothing evolutionary going on. There is no physiological link between the focus and the convergence of the eyes. So we are talking about a reflex we've learned, and as such it can be unlearned. Much in the same way as there is nothing in nature that teaches our fingers to type or play the piano, so the first couple of hours are going to be slow and painful. But after enough training almost all of us can learn to play Chopin or touch type.
I get the same amount of eye-strain from 3D and 2D movies, which I guess stems from having to hunt for where on the screen the focus is.
Astrology is a superstitious hobby of zero scientific merit...
I have to disagree with you. It is rather a discredited scientific theory. The pursuit of which by for example Tycho Brahe proved the heavens not to be immutable as well as supplying the scientific data allowing Johannes Kepler to derive the laws of planetary motion.
Much like cold fusion is an interesting topic for research. However believing in horoscopes is similar to believing in special magnets creating fusion in your engine giving you better milage.
And then you can re-read my comment. I didn't say that he created the system, I said he created a philosophy. There is a difference between praxis and theory. Nor did I advance any argument for or against his philosophy being generative of such a system. Finally, I did not say he created THE idea of a market economic system, but simply A philosophy.
I don't agree with you that what he described were the practices of people when left alone. That is rather a barter economy. Smiths certainly favours a monetary system, and such a system requires governmental meddling to be truly efficient(see Wealth of nations chapter 4), or conversely, I believe, any such system becoming efficient would lend it governmental powers.
Marx did certainly not dream up what he thought would be fair, but based his ideas, just as Smith, on practices already established in society. In this case french communes and thinkers of the french revolution.
Adam Smith created a philosophy of economics based on the division of labour and laize faire capitalism, but he did not invent the assembly line.
The venetian republic used an assembly line approach to building warships in the Arsenale Nuove build in the beginning of the 1300s. In its heyday in the 1600s it could produce a fully equipped warship in a day. If you ever go to Venice, the Arsenale is well worth a visit.
There are a lot of subjects not covered by algorithm development in CS e.g. data structures.
Here in Denmark the field is called datalogy, and the canonical translation to English is computing science. I believe computing science is also used in the UK.
I think that's a much better word than computer science.
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Thus the 32 to 42 oz.
OMG. 42 Australias of water? That's insane.
You are one of those evil handsome men, aren't you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66c7el1E11o
You are very wrong. Almost no sects of Christianity believes that the bible is the literal truth and the word of God.
The Pope, even, have stated that at least Genesis is allegory.
There are even more moderate sects, like the state church of Denmark. Where there are priests who don't believe in God.
Here's a quote from the priest Thorkild Grosbøll: "God belongs in the past. He is actually so old fashioned that I am baffled by modern people believing in his existence. I am thoroughly fed up with empty words about miracles and eternal life."
As to your last comment, you do realize that abstinence and self control is proven to be the best birth control one could use right?
It is the worst type of birth control. The last time someone used it, she gave birth not only to a child but to 2000+ years worth of drivel and gibberish.
flagrantly biased coverage by corporate interests.
I'm hoping you mean the Michelson-Morley experiment here....
That was the follow up experiment, after the Michaelson-Mauley experiment did not show conclusive evidence because a couple of grad students got too close to the grizzly.
But if people have tons of old quality movies available they won't watch "I know what you transformered last Star wars 8".
I don't know how things work in common law countries like the US, but here in Denmark such statements by lawmakers are very important.
If a case has to be decided by the supreme court they will not only consider the law in question, but also the interplay of other laws and the protocols from the treatment of the law in parliament. So if a law has been questioned in parliament and the supporters have said it was never meant to be applied that way, the supreme court will take the position that the law as it was passed was indeed not meant to cover the abusive cases.
They do not have a way of sending light, and no way of receiving the radio. It is simply the LHC ring dumping the beam into a target pointed at a neutrino detector in Gran Sasso in Italy.
Because the neutrinos interact so little they can pass directly through the Earth's crust. This means you do not have to dig a 700 km long tunnel.
..., was generally about hope. That's really the central, core tenant of the show.
Who was Hope? Another one of Kirk's conquests? And, they rented out the Enterprise? :)
The ignorance of the statement "You might think of linguistics as being interesting but not really useful" is simply astounding.
What ignorance would that be. I read that as a statement as a hypothesis that the common man might hold linguistics to be not really useful. The statement makes no claim whatsoever that linguistics is in fact not useful. In fact it makes the exact opposite claim.
Do you believe that the commonly held opinion is that linguistics is useful? or simply some academic pursuit for bearded people with leather patches on their elbows. I think you can easily get a feeling by looking at research grants to linguistics and compare them to those for generally perceived as useful areas like chemistry. I would not be surprised if linguistics get a lot less funding.
I completely agree with you that this buzzword bingo has to stop. :)
However you seem to also have messed up the terminology a bit.
Cloud computing refers to provisioning of resources across the network normally using virtual machines. You retain "full" control of the machine. Cloud computing could be used for distributed computing.
Grid computing is the connection of supercomputers across the world. This involves things like handling access rights, policies, accounting etc.
Parallel computation involves the computation of a problem spread out over several processors.
Distributed computing is like parallel computation, but distributed across several machines. It therefore has to take into account things such as network latencies, machine failures etc.
Volunteer Computing involves harnessing the power of resources donated by the public. This can be a form of distributed computing, but not necessarily. BOINC is a good example of this.
Their project obviously falls into the last category, and has nothing to do with either Grid or Cloud. Their main difference from BOINC is the ability to run directly in the browser. This is hardly a new idea, and I remember projects like this from at least back in 2003. As far as I can see from the documentation, software such as MiG has been able to do all they do and much more since 2005. I'm a bit disappointed that Oxford Uni is not more innovative and get the terminology wrong, but it is the Physics department so let's cut them some slack. :)
Disclaimer: I'm a researcher in distributed computing particularly Grid and Volunteer Computing.
Dear Mr. 94343,
I would like to thank you for considering our ilustrious instituion. I regret to inform you, however,
that you have not been accepted to our "Universe creation and it's applications" Ph.d. programme.
While your admission project did indeed show a lot of practical skill and hard effort, we believe your theoretical understanding is somewhat deficit.
We asked for the best way to turn hydrogen into plutonium, not iron.
We encourage you to take another year of theoretical physics, and reapplying for the programme next semester.
yours sincerely,
zxzxlodzlxz 39324øåæ+
Dean of admissions
Interdimensional University of Awesomeness
And it could also be related to a gross misgeneralization of the theory of relativity. Which basically states the exact opposite: That any careful observer in any frame of reference will agree on the value of the speed of light and the laws of physics. A better name would have been the theory of constancy.
... end up in long distance relationships.
With modern broadband and VNC it doesn't matter where in the world you are it's almost the same as being right with her back in mom's basement.
... perhaps having to delay US release a day or two, or drop some foriegn lang versions (and leave them with English versions only).
Oh the horror. How would I know what to do without translations like: "please click bypass on tabletop to send agenda into space." I hate it when I get a translated version, because it's invariably done by someone with no knowledge of computers or the language or indeed both.
Well, my experience is that the Danish postal service is pretty forgiving about the payment too. I'd forgotten to put a stamp on a letter, so I got a letter from the post office with a photo of the letter proving that there was no stamp on it. They reminded me to put one on in the future, but they would deliver the letter at no charge this time.
(wich is more than the speed of light in the fibers and the speed of electrons in a copper wire).
It's a lot more than the speed of electrons in copper wire. Depending on the conditions the average speed of electrons is on the order of a couple of centimeters pr second. But in the end the speed of the electrons is not that interesting, the important factor is the speed of the propagation of the electrical field, which is obviously the speed of light in the material in question.
Where were you people when wall street ruined the economy, and the government opened an illegal prison in Cuba?
I was trying to rid my inbox of spam.
Living in Scandinavia sucks in winter.
"3 pm class: Everyone open your books to page 65"
"But I wanna go night night"
"It's day time"
"No it's not" *Points to the darkness pouring through the windows from an overcast sky reminiscent of Mordor*
"grrr"
I do wear glasses, but don't have headaches or issues with 3D glasses. Maybe I'm lucky or perhaps my cavemen ancestors were blessed with 3D wiring in their brains.
Only a small percentage of us are not. Contrary to what Murch proposes, there is nothing evolutionary going on. There is no physiological link between the focus and the convergence of the eyes. So we are talking about a reflex we've learned, and as such it can be unlearned. Much in the same way as there is nothing in nature that teaches our fingers to type or play the piano, so the first couple of hours are going to be slow and painful. But after enough training almost all of us can learn to play Chopin or touch type.
I get the same amount of eye-strain from 3D and 2D movies, which I guess stems from having to hunt for where on the screen the focus is.
Astrology is a superstitious hobby of zero scientific merit...
I have to disagree with you. It is rather a discredited scientific theory. The pursuit of which by for example Tycho Brahe proved the heavens not to be immutable as well as supplying the scientific data allowing Johannes Kepler to derive the laws of planetary motion.
Much like cold fusion is an interesting topic for research. However believing in horoscopes is similar to believing in special magnets creating fusion in your engine giving you better milage.
And then you can re-read my comment. I didn't say that he created the system, I said he created a philosophy. There is a difference between praxis and theory. Nor did I advance any argument for or against his philosophy being generative of such a system. Finally, I did not say he created THE idea of a market economic system, but simply A philosophy.
I don't agree with you that what he described were the practices of people when left alone. That is rather a barter economy. Smiths certainly favours a monetary system, and such a system requires governmental meddling to be truly efficient(see Wealth of nations chapter 4), or conversely, I believe, any such system becoming efficient would lend it governmental powers.
Marx did certainly not dream up what he thought would be fair, but based his ideas, just as Smith, on practices already established in society. In this case french communes and thinkers of the french revolution.
Adam Smith created a philosophy of economics based on the division of labour and laize faire capitalism, but he did not invent the assembly line.
The venetian republic used an assembly line approach to building warships in the Arsenale Nuove build in the beginning of the 1300s. In its heyday in the 1600s it could produce a fully equipped warship in a day. If you ever go to Venice, the Arsenale is well worth a visit.
There are a lot of subjects not covered by algorithm development in CS e.g. data structures. Here in Denmark the field is called datalogy, and the canonical translation to English is computing science. I believe computing science is also used in the UK. I think that's a much better word than computer science.