Well, from a strictly physical standpoint your maturity is finalized around about 25 years of age. That's about the time your brain finishes developing and you are generally capable of rational thought and actions. Your body generally finishes developing at 18 +/- 2 years and while your brain still has a ways to go, you're perfectly fit to fight in a war and your lungs will be much less likely to be hurt by smoke inhalation. The voting thing got tied in with the going to fight in a war bit and I think those two should still be separated.
I would further argue that 25 would make a much better age for anything involving good judgment. Voting, gambling, possibly drinking, and unrestricted drivers licenses should have to wait until then. There's a reason why you can't be a congressman until you're 25.
If you happen to continue with the dumbassery after you turn 25, well, that's your own fault. At least you should be capable of better.
No, it happened when Christianity stopped being a useful tool of control for governments when people became educated and actually read what the teachings were. The same thing is likely to happen to Islam when its followers start becoming educated and actually read the Qu'ran. Then the governments there will seek out some other method of control.
To the extent that the burn orders must be manually inputted, it's "interactive" but there's zero feedback involved since it takes about 1.5 hours each way to get a signal out there. I also don't think the hardware on Cassini is that sophisticated (processing-wise) since it was launched in 1997. Think about that - the top of the line desktop computer was a Pentium II, 300 mHz.
Asperger's syndrome is on the autism spectrum. It's like having a "light" version of autism and is proposed to be classed as such in the upcoming DSM-V. To my understanding it is its own disorder in the current DSM-IV. Don't discredit something as just "made up" or "in someone's head" just because you can't relate to it. There's plenty of study showing not only that it exists as a disorder, but also that it is treatable and shows clear and defined characteristics.
Or would you also say that autism is a "syndrome" that does not exist?
The interesting part about that is that Darl himself stated that they didn't need the copyrights. It's quoted in the Groklaw report on his testimony. Basically, they got all the same rights as HP (HP-UX), IBM (AIX), and others who rolled their own Unix. They didn't need the copyrights and proving that should be trivial at this point.
Dude, I watched the Nostalgia Critic's review of the Star Wars Holiday Special and wanted to claw my own eyes out. There's no geek cred there, it exists only to ravage your soul and leave you a hollow, weeping, terrorized shell.
And what guns they recovered were carefully packed away for *extreme* long-term storage. The fighter jets -- that were FREAKING WORTHLESS during the original invasion -- were just ridiculous, notwithstanding the obvious "no way in hell they would run after 1,000 years" and the whole "how THE HELL did they learn to fly them" parts. The whole movie was bad, bad, bad.
Earth's bankruptcy and the plans for repossession are laid out much better in the book. There's actually a chapter where they figure out *by reading the laws of the galaxy* how to work around what the bankers are saying. It plays pretty well as political intrigue (though Poul Anderson does it *MUCH* better in The High Crusade), but ultimately it works out as a more or less peaceful takeover of an alien civilization due to some darn good lawyering.
<spoiler> As an aside, they also master the Psychlo art of teleportation (by stealing it from Terl), which gives weight to their claims since without new teleporters galactic commerce would grind to a halt. So the humans become necessary and are allowed to step into the Psychlo's shoes. But they do end up using the laws regarding ownership as a premise for allowing them to do that.
If you deal regularly with SQL queries then you're reasonably adept at set theory, whether you've had formal training in it or learned it the hard way on the job.
All of those except combinatorics were *required* for my Bachelor's degree in CS. The math curriculum at my university was so heavy that I took two extra classes (differential equations 1 & 2) and walked out with a math minor on top of a CS major. Combinatorics 1 & 2 were two of my early grad school classes, and I can't honestly say they're all that useful for day-to-day programming, at least in my experience.
However, I will say that any and every math class will help make you a better programmer just by helping you learn how to think properly about the problem put in front of you. And the most useful part of my undergrad program was exactly that: proper styles of critical thinking for given problems. Math helps immeasurably with that in CS because everything in CS has its roots in mathematics.
I would say unrecoverable it relative to how much money you throw at destroying it.
Degaussers are pretty good at leaving data unreadable.
A pit of molten white hot steel will pretty thoroughly destroy all information on a drive.
Launching the disk platters into the sun would be practically certain to eradicate all data for all time.
However, for the ultra-paranoid, finding a nearby black hole and dumping it in there is the only way to be 100% theoretically certain that all data is destroyed.
Bullshit! There's no way you gave one group a placebo, another the vaccine, and induced autism in a third group.
Out of curiosity, why would you need induced autism in a third group to have a valid study? What would that prove, exactly? (Ignoring the horrific and immoral thought of purposefully giving autism to a group of toddlers).
The question was: do vaccines cause an increased risk of autism? To answer that you need 2 groups - one that took the vaccine and one that didn't. If autism rates are the same in both, then there is no link between vaccines and autism.
I mean, I feel for your situation and everything, but you have to let this go. Studies have shown that vaccines do no increase the risk of autism. There's really nothing to gain by sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming "Yes they do! Yes they do!" That energy could be better spent helping in your son's development.
Well, there's also the point that it's really hard to get masses of people to behave without the belief in absolute moral authority. You can try and replace that with the government (see Russian and Chinese flavors of communism as example) but there has to be one or people get out of hand. I grant that it is possible for individuals to have sufficient self control to abide by a generated moral code without further motivations, but for the populace as a whole? Forget it. You don't want religion gone. On the whole it makes society a much more livable place. Yes, there are atrocities, yes there are issues with it, but that's true of any organization run by people.
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Well, from a strictly physical standpoint your maturity is finalized around about 25 years of age. That's about the time your brain finishes developing and you are generally capable of rational thought and actions. Your body generally finishes developing at 18 +/- 2 years and while your brain still has a ways to go, you're perfectly fit to fight in a war and your lungs will be much less likely to be hurt by smoke inhalation. The voting thing got tied in with the going to fight in a war bit and I think those two should still be separated.
I would further argue that 25 would make a much better age for anything involving good judgment. Voting, gambling, possibly drinking, and unrestricted drivers licenses should have to wait until then. There's a reason why you can't be a congressman until you're 25.
If you happen to continue with the dumbassery after you turn 25, well, that's your own fault. At least you should be capable of better.
My monitor has ONE BIG PIXEL. It ain't easy to use but I get by.
Actually that's just the disk activity light.
Really? Cause it's been telling me to kill.
No, it happened when Christianity stopped being a useful tool of control for governments when people became educated and actually read what the teachings were. The same thing is likely to happen to Islam when its followers start becoming educated and actually read the Qu'ran. Then the governments there will seek out some other method of control.
To the extent that the burn orders must be manually inputted, it's "interactive" but there's zero feedback involved since it takes about 1.5 hours each way to get a signal out there. I also don't think the hardware on Cassini is that sophisticated (processing-wise) since it was launched in 1997. Think about that - the top of the line desktop computer was a Pentium II, 300 mHz.
It's clear that piracy does result in lost sales,
My understanding is that that's not the case. That the people who pirate the most also tend to be the largest purchasers of legitimate music.
Reference: http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/04/study-pirates-buy-tons-more-music-than-average-folks.ars
And now for one that'll really hurt: Pi
Oh come now, be rational.
I've spent the last year building a statistical computation software that's entirely web-based, and entirely written in javascript.
Dear god! Why?
Some people believe that in order to grow closer to their spiritual nature they must torture their physical form to the utmost.
Corporeal Mortification - not just for overzealous Catholics anymore.
Basilisk. Medusa *used* to be pretty.
Asperger's syndrome is on the autism spectrum. It's like having a "light" version of autism and is proposed to be classed as such in the upcoming DSM-V. To my understanding it is its own disorder in the current DSM-IV. Don't discredit something as just "made up" or "in someone's head" just because you can't relate to it. There's plenty of study showing not only that it exists as a disorder, but also that it is treatable and shows clear and defined characteristics.
Or would you also say that autism is a "syndrome" that does not exist?
You know what else floats? A duck. And the AI's computer is heavier than a duck!
Obviously the AI is a witch! Burn her!
The interesting part about that is that Darl himself stated that they didn't need the copyrights. It's quoted in the Groklaw report on his testimony. Basically, they got all the same rights as HP (HP-UX), IBM (AIX), and others who rolled their own Unix. They didn't need the copyrights and proving that should be trivial at this point.
Dude, I watched the Nostalgia Critic's review of the Star Wars Holiday Special and wanted to claw my own eyes out. There's no geek cred there, it exists only to ravage your soul and leave you a hollow, weeping, terrorized shell.
And what guns they recovered were carefully packed away for *extreme* long-term storage. The fighter jets -- that were FREAKING WORTHLESS during the original invasion -- were just ridiculous, notwithstanding the obvious "no way in hell they would run after 1,000 years" and the whole "how THE HELL did they learn to fly them" parts. The whole movie was bad, bad, bad.
Harold and Kumar Go to the Scientology Center?
That should go down as a corollary to Clarke's law.
Earth's bankruptcy and the plans for repossession are laid out much better in the book. There's actually a chapter where they figure out *by reading the laws of the galaxy* how to work around what the bankers are saying. It plays pretty well as political intrigue (though Poul Anderson does it *MUCH* better in The High Crusade), but ultimately it works out as a more or less peaceful takeover of an alien civilization due to some darn good lawyering.
<spoiler> As an aside, they also master the Psychlo art of teleportation (by stealing it from Terl), which gives weight to their claims since without new teleporters galactic commerce would grind to a halt. So the humans become necessary and are allowed to step into the Psychlo's shoes. But they do end up using the laws regarding ownership as a premise for allowing them to do that.
If you deal regularly with SQL queries then you're reasonably adept at set theory, whether you've had formal training in it or learned it the hard way on the job.
All of those except combinatorics were *required* for my Bachelor's degree in CS. The math curriculum at my university was so heavy that I took two extra classes (differential equations 1 & 2) and walked out with a math minor on top of a CS major. Combinatorics 1 & 2 were two of my early grad school classes, and I can't honestly say they're all that useful for day-to-day programming, at least in my experience.
However, I will say that any and every math class will help make you a better programmer just by helping you learn how to think properly about the problem put in front of you. And the most useful part of my undergrad program was exactly that: proper styles of critical thinking for given problems. Math helps immeasurably with that in CS because everything in CS has its roots in mathematics.
EMC SAN arrays already do this. It's probably only a matter of time before you see something similar on performance desktops.
I would say unrecoverable it relative to how much money you throw at destroying it.
Degaussers are pretty good at leaving data unreadable.
A pit of molten white hot steel will pretty thoroughly destroy all information on a drive.
Launching the disk platters into the sun would be practically certain to eradicate all data for all time.
However, for the ultra-paranoid, finding a nearby black hole and dumping it in there is the only way to be 100% theoretically certain that all data is destroyed.
Black holes: nature's ultimate shredder.
Theoretically, that backdoor could be patched in the next round of Windows Updates.
Bullshit! There's no way you gave one group a placebo, another the vaccine, and induced autism in a third group.
Out of curiosity, why would you need induced autism in a third group to have a valid study? What would that prove, exactly? (Ignoring the horrific and immoral thought of purposefully giving autism to a group of toddlers).
The question was: do vaccines cause an increased risk of autism? To answer that you need 2 groups - one that took the vaccine and one that didn't. If autism rates are the same in both, then there is no link between vaccines and autism.
I mean, I feel for your situation and everything, but you have to let this go. Studies have shown that vaccines do no increase the risk of autism. There's really nothing to gain by sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming "Yes they do! Yes they do!" That energy could be better spent helping in your son's development.
Why sue when you know you're gonna LOSE?
Ask SCO.
So you're saying that Microsoft is secretly funding them?
<3 is the code that you're looking for: <3
Well, there's also the point that it's really hard to get masses of people to behave without the belief in absolute moral authority. You can try and replace that with the government (see Russian and Chinese flavors of communism as example) but there has to be one or people get out of hand. I grant that it is possible for individuals to have sufficient self control to abide by a generated moral code without further motivations, but for the populace as a whole? Forget it. You don't want religion gone. On the whole it makes society a much more livable place. Yes, there are atrocities, yes there are issues with it, but that's true of any organization run by people.