That's pretty funny. You do realize that a lot of people lack the requisite skill set to be their own boss right? It's not just a matter of risk, it's a matter of business sense, accounting, paperwork, and all the other attendant infrastructure required for a successful business. And even among those with such aptitude many just have bad luck and can't get a business off the ground anyway. It's not a lack of maturity or willpower, it's often just a function of how we are that prevents us from striking out on our own and being a job creator.
It's broadcasting EM spectrum and that can be used to lock on to the sub's location. They're not saying the device is being hacked to cough up its GPS location, they're saying that the device is spewing EM radiation that gives away the ship's location.
Well, or when you're out in the wilderness. Any state/country/territory with vast swaths of untamed wilderness really needs to allow for carrying firearms openly at least in said wilderness because of wildlife. Even gunphobic California tends to let you do that in unincorporated areas of the state because it would be unsafe not to.
I think that could make for a good final exam for law students. Sell your book openly and successfully defend the case while representing yourself. If you manage to do this you graduate =)
You can train your reflexes though. And you can override them (to an extent). If you reach for something hot and consciously decide not to pull away from it, you will not automatically jerk your hand away if you have prepared for it.
Similarly you can tailor your reflexes to respond in a limited fashion. For instance most people jump when they are startled or unexpectedly touched. It is entirely possible to change this reflex to a defensive one where you attempt to grapple/control the person grabbing you. People with self defense training will often find this becomes their reaction.
You can liken this to EEPROM programming vs. general purpose computing. Your reflexes/spinal motor neurons have a limited subset of specific functionality that they can be programmed for which they perform incredibly quickly within their limited domain. For more broad/higher level processing you have to kick it up to the brain to make decisions like threat assessment and planning for next steps.
Because of people like this. Or the person (or people) who thought it would be fun to put cats in a bag and beat them to death, or the guy who raped and killed an 11-month old.
Umm....look, I think beating a bag of cats to death is horrific and all, and certainly the product of a disturbed mentality, but beating a bag of animals to death isn't in the same ballpark as rape and murder of a person. With the animals you're looking at a psych eval and if that passes then 5 years prison time (maybe) for cruelty to animals charges.
You make some good points (indistinct tabs is already annoying me), but one thing to point out - if you right click View Source is right there like it's always been. Still just two quick clicks away.
Though burying it in the menu bar strikes me as off-putting.
I will be extraordinarily impressed if you can get your Galaxy S5 to communicate with an 8" floppy drive (or the computer using it), even assuming you have some hypothetical proprietary/non-standard connector to make the physical connection with.
2003 is supported until 2015, this is true, but the codebase is sufficiently different that the 32-bit Windows 2003 patch won't directly run on Windows XP. Now the 64-bit 2003 patch will run on XP-64 but only because XP-64 is exactly Server 2003 64-bit with some XP logos thrown about (good luck finding drivers for that on standard desktops).
This will also affect vanilla Windows 7 installs and Vista as well. As those are still under support I would expect Microsoft to issue an IE patch for version 7-11, but just not make a specific patch for IE7/8 on Windows XP. Kind of like how IE6 patches for Windows 2000 stopped happening after 2010.
Not lead, iron, actually. It's the element with the maximum nuclear binding energy. Below that you perform fusion for a net gain, and above that fission produces a gain. Iron is kind of the "ground state" from a nuclear perspective.
In good sci-fi literature we see this come up again and again in many hypothetical scenarios. Ian Douglas answers the Fermi Paradox by positing a future where a galaxy-spanning race of hyper-darwinist xenophobes mercilessly wipe out any space faring "other" race much to humanity's horror when they stumble across ruins, relics, and artifacts left by other races.
In the Crystal Spheres by David Brin we see a future where all intelligent life is closed off from habitable worlds until they themselves become space faring, and humanity is among the first to reach the stars.
In To Outlive Eternity by Poul Anderson we see a possible scenario in which humans are first by design.
Peter F. Hamilton takes us through another possibility in the Night's Dawn Trilogy where intelligent life is fairly rare and what there is out there doesn't really have an interest in "lesser" forms.
In all, we won't know for sure for a long while yet, but I think there are some good possibilities out there. And until we actually do make contact or prove ourselves to be alone, good sci-fi keeps us company in the meantime =)
The brilliance of calculus is the usage of infinitely many infinitely small rectangular slices to nonetheless derive an exact measurement of the finite area under a curve. At its core, calculus is the merging of the infinite and the finite. When you truly understand it, it is one of the most elegant and beautiful discoveries in human history.
Few programmers actually do sorts and list manipulation at that level anymore, but any of them worth a damn should be *able* to do them at that level and understand the underlying theory to make the most effective use of them.
You may not need to be a mechanic to drive a car, but you'll damn sure get better performance out of it if you are.
No, ignorance of the contract is a defense - without a meeting of the minds there is no contract. Ignorance of the law will still absolutely get you penalized, incarcerated, etc. if you break it. But in one case you're talking about a private party or company and yourself, in the other you're talking about your relationship to the state.
Mostly because they don't know all your deductions. For most Americans they know your wages (W-2/1099) and certain deductions (mortgage interest, education expenses, and any charity big enough to actually file charitable contributions with the IRS). But there's a lot of deductions they wouldn't know about - dependents (especially qualifying adult dependents), child care expenses, charitable giving to smaller organizations like local churches, or item donations to charitable groups like the Salvation Army. For those reasons they can't just auto-compute everyone's taxes yet. But give it time. When every micro transaction is automatically logged all of your tax liability will be computed and deducted from your paycheck in advance. Hopefully not too long after that we'll turn into a post-scarcity society, or else things will get really grim.
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That's pretty funny. You do realize that a lot of people lack the requisite skill set to be their own boss right? It's not just a matter of risk, it's a matter of business sense, accounting, paperwork, and all the other attendant infrastructure required for a successful business. And even among those with such aptitude many just have bad luck and can't get a business off the ground anyway. It's not a lack of maturity or willpower, it's often just a function of how we are that prevents us from striking out on our own and being a job creator.
It's broadcasting EM spectrum and that can be used to lock on to the sub's location. They're not saying the device is being hacked to cough up its GPS location, they're saying that the device is spewing EM radiation that gives away the ship's location.
Well, or when you're out in the wilderness. Any state/country/territory with vast swaths of untamed wilderness really needs to allow for carrying firearms openly at least in said wilderness because of wildlife. Even gunphobic California tends to let you do that in unincorporated areas of the state because it would be unsafe not to.
I think that could make for a good final exam for law students. Sell your book openly and successfully defend the case while representing yourself. If you manage to do this you graduate =)
Unless he's a professor of English that's not really relevant to the discussion.
It wasn't addressed to him is the key point here.
You can train your reflexes though. And you can override them (to an extent). If you reach for something hot and consciously decide not to pull away from it, you will not automatically jerk your hand away if you have prepared for it.
Similarly you can tailor your reflexes to respond in a limited fashion. For instance most people jump when they are startled or unexpectedly touched. It is entirely possible to change this reflex to a defensive one where you attempt to grapple/control the person grabbing you. People with self defense training will often find this becomes their reaction.
You can liken this to EEPROM programming vs. general purpose computing. Your reflexes/spinal motor neurons have a limited subset of specific functionality that they can be programmed for which they perform incredibly quickly within their limited domain. For more broad/higher level processing you have to kick it up to the brain to make decisions like threat assessment and planning for next steps.
Of which ~20,000 were suicides. Oh, I'm sorry did logic ruin your talking point?
Or use helium instead, so that everyone's last statement has that extra layer of humor on top of it.
Because of people like this. Or the person (or people) who thought it would be fun to put cats in a bag and beat them to death, or the guy who raped and killed an 11-month old.
Umm....look, I think beating a bag of cats to death is horrific and all, and certainly the product of a disturbed mentality, but beating a bag of animals to death isn't in the same ballpark as rape and murder of a person. With the animals you're looking at a psych eval and if that passes then 5 years prison time (maybe) for cruelty to animals charges.
You make some good points (indistinct tabs is already annoying me), but one thing to point out - if you right click View Source is right there like it's always been. Still just two quick clicks away.
Though burying it in the menu bar strikes me as off-putting.
Super glue in all the USB ports pretty well prohibits them from being used and is cheap and effective. You'd need a PS/2 mouse and keyboard though.
I will be extraordinarily impressed if you can get your Galaxy S5 to communicate with an 8" floppy drive (or the computer using it), even assuming you have some hypothetical proprietary/non-standard connector to make the physical connection with.
2003 is supported until 2015, this is true, but the codebase is sufficiently different that the 32-bit Windows 2003 patch won't directly run on Windows XP. Now the 64-bit 2003 patch will run on XP-64 but only because XP-64 is exactly Server 2003 64-bit with some XP logos thrown about (good luck finding drivers for that on standard desktops).
This will also affect vanilla Windows 7 installs and Vista as well. As those are still under support I would expect Microsoft to issue an IE patch for version 7-11, but just not make a specific patch for IE7/8 on Windows XP. Kind of like how IE6 patches for Windows 2000 stopped happening after 2010.
Not lead, iron, actually. It's the element with the maximum nuclear binding energy. Below that you perform fusion for a net gain, and above that fission produces a gain. Iron is kind of the "ground state" from a nuclear perspective.
In good sci-fi literature we see this come up again and again in many hypothetical scenarios. Ian Douglas answers the Fermi Paradox by positing a future where a galaxy-spanning race of hyper-darwinist xenophobes mercilessly wipe out any space faring "other" race much to humanity's horror when they stumble across ruins, relics, and artifacts left by other races.
In the Crystal Spheres by David Brin we see a future where all intelligent life is closed off from habitable worlds until they themselves become space faring, and humanity is among the first to reach the stars.
In To Outlive Eternity by Poul Anderson we see a possible scenario in which humans are first by design.
Peter F. Hamilton takes us through another possibility in the Night's Dawn Trilogy where intelligent life is fairly rare and what there is out there doesn't really have an interest in "lesser" forms.
In all, we won't know for sure for a long while yet, but I think there are some good possibilities out there. And until we actually do make contact or prove ourselves to be alone, good sci-fi keeps us company in the meantime =)
The brilliance of calculus is the usage of infinitely many infinitely small rectangular slices to nonetheless derive an exact measurement of the finite area under a curve. At its core, calculus is the merging of the infinite and the finite. When you truly understand it, it is one of the most elegant and beautiful discoveries in human history.
Few programmers actually do sorts and list manipulation at that level anymore, but any of them worth a damn should be *able* to do them at that level and understand the underlying theory to make the most effective use of them.
You may not need to be a mechanic to drive a car, but you'll damn sure get better performance out of it if you are.
Honestly, I would just look forward to geeking out about my phone screen being made of transparent aluminum.
Yeah it's a funny thing - management screwed up, obviously the solution is to fire all of the workers.
No, ignorance of the contract is a defense - without a meeting of the minds there is no contract. Ignorance of the law will still absolutely get you penalized, incarcerated, etc. if you break it. But in one case you're talking about a private party or company and yourself, in the other you're talking about your relationship to the state.
No, the government won't deport the child because the child is a U.S. citizen. They can and do deport the parents all the damn time.
And that "policy" is enshrined in a constitutional amendment. Good luck getting that changed.
Mostly because they don't know all your deductions. For most Americans they know your wages (W-2/1099) and certain deductions (mortgage interest, education expenses, and any charity big enough to actually file charitable contributions with the IRS). But there's a lot of deductions they wouldn't know about - dependents (especially qualifying adult dependents), child care expenses, charitable giving to smaller organizations like local churches, or item donations to charitable groups like the Salvation Army. For those reasons they can't just auto-compute everyone's taxes yet. But give it time. When every micro transaction is automatically logged all of your tax liability will be computed and deducted from your paycheck in advance. Hopefully not too long after that we'll turn into a post-scarcity society, or else things will get really grim.
If you're going to pay for TuroTax anyway, it includes the Federal E-Filing in its bundle. They still charge you for state (at least in California).