Firstly, this is not mathematics. No thousand year problems have been solved, this is just general stupidity. This is roughly equivalent to saying the answer to life the universe and everything = 42. Sure you have an answer but it's nonsensical, there's nothing you can do with it.
Hooray! Now instead of not being able to do anything when you divide by zero, we have an answer! Sadly, we can't do anything with this answer.
Also, if any plane ever falls out of the sky because its software was dividing by zero, the engineers should be promptly be drug out into the street and shot.
I started my programming career in middle school but I never got very far...maybe I was lazy but finding the docs and getting things to work never went very well for me. I got myself a few hello world programs in a few languages out of the way....but other than that my programming was slim. Now that I'm at a University I have taken a couple of programming classes (having no purpose in my major...just for fun) and I'm really happy I did. I always wanted to learn to program it just wasn't easy enough to get my feet wet. I'll probably continue playing around...though I'd never consider it as a major or career...being a code monkey just doesn't sound like fun.
Ok, I am a teen, 18 to be exact, and I have relatively unabused ears for now. I've noticed every once in a while a high pitched noice comming from CRT screens, both my monitor and tv screens do it. Basicly, I hear the noise, 'feel' it a little in the back of my throat, and have the urge to go into a murderous rampage and/or vomiting spell whenever I hear it. I can honestly see this noise (if its the same one) being a quite effective mode of crowd control, or perhaps a new path to superhero-dom? I think there was a (new) Twilight Zone episode about this, alien signal saved the world and such. Anyhoo, happy hacking.
No details were emmitted eh? That's just amazing. Editors might actually want to _read_ articles and check for large glowing errors more often then say... never, which is pretty much what happens now.
I think these doctors have every right to sue, and win the cases against many of the online commentators. Sites like lasikfraud are misleading to the public and could lead to poor healthcare decisions. However, I ( and hopefully the judicial system ) have no problem with, and encourage, intelligent reasonable feedback on doctors and hospitals; that is useful to everyone. It seems most of the lawsuit targets are just unhappy people who start flames which intentionally mislead and unfairly damage reputation. Such things are definately and correctly NOT protected by the first ammendment.
As it turns out we've known for a long time that the human brain doesn't act like a computer, and while the report probably had some nice useful new information, the/. article wasn't presented well. If you're interested read "Dark Hero of the Information Age" or google "cybernetics", "Norbert Weiner". or pretty much anything on the workings of the human brain.
there IS a 64bit edition of FarCry (I got it free when I bought some parts) and on another note, I've have 64 bit windows for quite a while now, they gave the beta away free for a long time now.
The founding fathers never intended to put a bill of rights in because the state governments already had them. They only did it so it could be ratified because of stupid peoples' complaining because they didn't understand.
Apparently a stupid source. It looks like they mean bits not bytes and according to google
10 million bits = 0.00116415322 gigabytes
not impressive, toenail fungus is more useful
although their data may contain more stupid errors yet to be discovered
WiMax S
er....
a large meshing sort of wireless network with huge ranges, you could conquor the concept of ISP forever, and do all sorts of things for Africa and the like. Still 11s looks like it would be at least slightly nifty.
while photons are by definition massless, each one represents an exact amount of energy. Einstein gave us e=mc^2 (energy and mass are the same thing) so a photon sort of has mass
I would think some sort of receiver antenna and skull plug would be necessary, seems like neurons wouldn't pick up radio waves too well. Then again there are some things that screw with your head involving very strong magnets and alike hocus-pocus. Nothing is as fun as hacking brains, preferably others'. I'd rather not have a kernel panic in my head.
I'd like to see them implant probes in the prefrontal cortex (monkeys don't have those right?) and hook em up to antennas, that would truely be the one true killer ap! Think the Matrix without those silly plugs, or Trekkian class mind readers YAY
As I understand it dark matter is a broad term for matter that equations tell us exists, we just can't see it. These Baryons, apparently very heavy, solve some of the problem, maybe all, because it's more mass that we didn't know was there before. It came out of the dark. Nobody knows if there is another class of matter but clouds of baryon fill the gap.
I really think the steam DRM scheme gives users an easier time than non-DRM games. The idea of taking all of my games to any computer with only a username (and a hideous download time) seems much more convienient than discs and keys. The only problem is that users must authenticate so often causing too many problems when servers go down as they do. A 'logon once a week' scheme would probably ease these troubles, but otherwise I don't see how any of my rights are being squished.
You use eugenics like a dirty word when you really should be talking about natural selection. The truth is that autism, disease or not, hinders the individual. In a normal society a person with autism is less likely to survive than a person without. The same is true for a person who is anemic, or unusually stupid, or ugly. I'm not Hitler, i don't want to kill people who are a different race, or those who have poor genetics, but I acknoledge the differences.
I disagree, ther are too cures for red hiar, mainly hair dye. And people can learn to use their opposite hands.
as I remember it, the story was based on 'old' documents that were obviously typed in Microsoft Word. This was easily proven because the font in the documents was kerned(the letters were not monospace, the font of typewriters) in order to have kerned fonts at the supposed date of document creation, the writers would have needed typesetting equipment that would only have been used for books and such.
"science" psssh
Theory. T h e o r y. This is not science, it is a guess in a field we have hardly begun to understand. People should stop looking for theories that meet their needs and start searching for the truth.
My eyes have this little quirk; see the cones in my retina work just fine, like everybody else (they're the ones for bright light and color) but the rods (dim light) just decided to take a vacation and not work at all, 0, nothing. The basic technological fix is well, the lightbulb i guess, but there are times that it isn't practical or useful enough. Has anybody heard of anything nifty to help my problem. I heard of Project Blink involving magnets and large contacts but is there anything else?
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Firstly, this is not mathematics. No thousand year problems have been solved, this is just general stupidity. This is roughly equivalent to saying the answer to life the universe and everything = 42. Sure you have an answer but it's nonsensical, there's nothing you can do with it. Hooray! Now instead of not being able to do anything when you divide by zero, we have an answer! Sadly, we can't do anything with this answer. Also, if any plane ever falls out of the sky because its software was dividing by zero, the engineers should be promptly be drug out into the street and shot.
I started my programming career in middle school but I never got very far...maybe I was lazy but finding the docs and getting things to work never went very well for me. I got myself a few hello world programs in a few languages out of the way....but other than that my programming was slim. Now that I'm at a University I have taken a couple of programming classes (having no purpose in my major...just for fun) and I'm really happy I did. I always wanted to learn to program it just wasn't easy enough to get my feet wet. I'll probably continue playing around...though I'd never consider it as a major or career...being a code monkey just doesn't sound like fun.
oops. fin.
fin.
Honestly, RTFM poster. Google says it will give advertisers who believe they are victims of click fraud up to 90 mil in advertising credits.
Ok, I am a teen, 18 to be exact, and I have relatively unabused ears for now. I've noticed every once in a while a high pitched noice comming from CRT screens, both my monitor and tv screens do it. Basicly, I hear the noise, 'feel' it a little in the back of my throat, and have the urge to go into a murderous rampage and/or vomiting spell whenever I hear it. I can honestly see this noise (if its the same one) being a quite effective mode of crowd control, or perhaps a new path to superhero-dom? I think there was a (new) Twilight Zone episode about this, alien signal saved the world and such. Anyhoo, happy hacking.
No details were emmitted eh? That's just amazing. Editors might actually want to _read_ articles and check for large glowing errors more often then say... never, which is pretty much what happens now.
I think these doctors have every right to sue, and win the cases against many of the online commentators. Sites like lasikfraud are misleading to the public and could lead to poor healthcare decisions. However, I ( and hopefully the judicial system ) have no problem with, and encourage, intelligent reasonable feedback on doctors and hospitals; that is useful to everyone. It seems most of the lawsuit targets are just unhappy people who start flames which intentionally mislead and unfairly damage reputation. Such things are definately and correctly NOT protected by the first ammendment.
As it turns out we've known for a long time that the human brain doesn't act like a computer, and while the report probably had some nice useful new information, the /. article wasn't presented well. If you're interested read "Dark Hero of the Information Age" or google "cybernetics", "Norbert Weiner". or pretty much anything on the workings of the human brain.
hitler was elected with a majority
there IS a 64bit edition of FarCry (I got it free when I bought some parts) and on another note, I've have 64 bit windows for quite a while now, they gave the beta away free for a long time now.
The founding fathers never intended to put a bill of rights in because the state governments already had them. They only did it so it could be ratified because of stupid peoples' complaining because they didn't understand.
Apparently a stupid source. It looks like they mean bits not bytes and according to google 10 million bits = 0.00116415322 gigabytes not impressive, toenail fungus is more useful although their data may contain more stupid errors yet to be discovered
WiMax S er.... a large meshing sort of wireless network with huge ranges, you could conquor the concept of ISP forever, and do all sorts of things for Africa and the like. Still 11s looks like it would be at least slightly nifty.
while photons are by definition massless, each one represents an exact amount of energy. Einstein gave us e=mc^2 (energy and mass are the same thing) so a photon sort of has mass
I would think some sort of receiver antenna and skull plug would be necessary, seems like neurons wouldn't pick up radio waves too well. Then again there are some things that screw with your head involving very strong magnets and alike hocus-pocus.
Nothing is as fun as hacking brains, preferably others'. I'd rather not have a kernel panic in my head.
I'd like to see them implant probes in the prefrontal cortex (monkeys don't have those right?) and hook em up to antennas, that would truely be the one true killer ap! Think the Matrix without those silly plugs, or Trekkian class mind readers YAY
As I understand it dark matter is a broad term for matter that equations tell us exists, we just can't see it. These Baryons, apparently very heavy, solve some of the problem, maybe all, because it's more mass that we didn't know was there before. It came out of the dark. Nobody knows if there is another class of matter but clouds of baryon fill the gap.
Why Google is the new Microsoft: How a great thing turns evil.
I really think the steam DRM scheme gives users an easier time than non-DRM games. The idea of taking all of my games to any computer with only a username (and a hideous download time) seems much more convienient than discs and keys. The only problem is that users must authenticate so often causing too many problems when servers go down as they do. A 'logon once a week' scheme would probably ease these troubles, but otherwise I don't see how any of my rights are being squished.
You use eugenics like a dirty word when you really should be talking about natural selection. The truth is that autism, disease or not, hinders the individual. In a normal society a person with autism is less likely to survive than a person without. The same is true for a person who is anemic, or unusually stupid, or ugly. I'm not Hitler, i don't want to kill people who are a different race, or those who have poor genetics, but I acknoledge the differences. I disagree, ther are too cures for red hiar, mainly hair dye. And people can learn to use their opposite hands.
as I remember it, the story was based on 'old'
documents that were obviously typed in Microsoft Word. This was easily proven because the font in the documents was kerned(the letters were not monospace, the font of typewriters) in order to have kerned fonts at the supposed date of document creation, the writers would have needed typesetting equipment that would only have been used for books and such.
"science" psssh Theory. T h e o r y. This is not science, it is a guess in a field we have hardly begun to understand. People should stop looking for theories that meet their needs and start searching for the truth.
all I have to say is YAY for Iowa. This proves that there are actually a few interesting people in the homestate. And death to the Uranisians!
My eyes have this little quirk; see the cones in my retina work just fine, like everybody else (they're the ones for bright light and color) but the rods (dim light) just decided to take a vacation and not work at all, 0, nothing. The basic technological fix is well, the lightbulb i guess, but there are times that it isn't practical or useful enough. Has anybody heard of anything nifty to help my problem. I heard of Project Blink involving magnets and large contacts but is there anything else?