How can a 4th spacial dimension exist if it can be expressed in 3-D?
People here bring forth the plane and circles example (if they intersect, you can untangle them by 'lifting' one off the plane through the z coordinate, shift it and put it back on the plane).
But from the viewpoint of the plane, that 3rd dimension can not be represented. An object in 3d (a cube) that doesn't intersect the plane is just plain not visible on the plane.
Sure you have the 3-d to 2-d projection to visualize 3-d on 2-d, but that is a fixed projection.
For this 4-d dimension in the game, it looks totally random, like they decide where something is placed in the 4th dimension.
The way they represent it in the game,It doesn't look like a 4th dimension, but rather a parallel 3-d.
If there really was a 4th spacial dimension, there would be an infinite amount of parallel 3-d spaces (and between every 3-d space, another infinite amount;-)), yet in the game it just looks as if there's one parallel 3-d space.
Am I making any sense?
When "computerizing" medical facilities, the argument is not about how much cheaper treatment is going to be, but how much better it will be for the patients.
So, computers are "bad", right?
How about scanners, computerized microscopes, computer assisted operation tools and/or any other monitoring system?
Sure, they cost more than if they were not used/purchased, but aren't all these meant for BETTER healthcare, and not cost reduction ???
How is the perform and master group correlated to perseverance?
Isn't it possible that ppl only interested in the skill/knowledge can just as well abandon the difficult puzzle once he mastered the skill to solve that type of puzzle as a whole?
And isn't it possible that the perform ppl will stubbornly solve the difficult puzzle to prove their talent/intellect?
This article is just a personal opinion by some guy and isn't based on research at all.
a socialist (caucasian) Belgian politician got on that list because the immigration officer thought he had too much South American stamps on his passport. So after taking him into a small office, they googled his name and found his articles to be too "left wing" to their taste and he was refused access and said that if he wanted to come to the US he had to apply for a visa. He did just that and of course it was refused. Lately, he took the plane to Brazil (a direct flight), and they had to detour the whole plane for hundreds of miles, because he was on it and they weren't allowed to fly over US territory (the crew told him afterwards) .
And of course, there is no way to get off that list.
yet it looks like a cheap knock-off from rick dangerous back in the days and that you can play online with flash http://rickdangerousflash.free.fr/ here.
52 weeks + 2 day weekends = 104 days.
Looks like a serious workaholic, that guy works more than 6 days week ( and almost half of the time the whole week !!!) and takes no vacation!!!
Maybe his daily 10 minutes masturbation session made him more productive?
Or maybe he didn't feel the urge to harrass his secretary afterwards?
All jokes aside, the calculation on how much tax-payers money was "lost" on this is dodgy at best.
Whole businesses and university spin-offs make a living on applying for those grants, I'm guessing that's not all money well spend either.
This sounds a little too black and white.
I'm sure projects aren't all 1-man operations (or 3- man operations for that matter) where everyone knows everything about the project.
You could very well be part of a project where your sub-project is very successful yet other parts are the deal-breakers.
For example, you could have been working on a very efficient GUI/web-interface that you could be proud of, yet the back-end guys totally f'ed up and made it unscalable.
Or you could have been working on the database-end that kicks ass, but the business logic guys bombed.
Not every developer is supposed to know the status of the whole projects, sometimes you're just asked to design by contract, and that's what you do. And this doesn't necessarely means you're just a code-monkey. Like, they could just ask you to design and implement a piece of software that exposes a certain API with a couple of constraints you need to comply to, but everything behind it is your responability. THis doesn't mean you know the overall status of the project.
If the guy has the right credentials, I would just ask what he did on the project, why he thinks it failed, etc...
a lesson lived is a lesson learned!
A question we may ask if we really want 'normal users' to be web developers?
Sure, you need designers and content writers for sites, and usability is certainly a plus in these areas, but what about security and all the other technical parts of developing a website?
I don't think it's a good evolution having ppl with no skills hosting sites not knowing wtf they're doing.
I studied applied Computer Science at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel(VUB)) and we had a course like that.
It was called "communication skills of Computer Science" and basically learned how to hold meetings, do presentations, negociate, etc...
It didn't have the "how to pick up woman" part they are getting in Germany though.
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I get a nullpointer exception on Vaginas :(
How can a 4th spacial dimension exist if it can be expressed in 3-D? ;-)), yet in the game it just looks as if there's one parallel 3-d space.
People here bring forth the plane and circles example (if they intersect, you can untangle them by 'lifting' one off the plane through the z coordinate, shift it and put it back on the plane).
But from the viewpoint of the plane, that 3rd dimension can not be represented. An object in 3d (a cube) that doesn't intersect the plane is just plain not visible on the plane.
Sure you have the 3-d to 2-d projection to visualize 3-d on 2-d, but that is a fixed projection.
For this 4-d dimension in the game, it looks totally random, like they decide where something is placed in the 4th dimension.
The way they represent it in the game,It doesn't look like a 4th dimension, but rather a parallel 3-d.
If there really was a 4th spacial dimension, there would be an infinite amount of parallel 3-d spaces (and between every 3-d space, another infinite amount
Am I making any sense?
"it is hard to understand how Uranus and Neptune, the two outermost planets, managed to get so big"
Martijn is a very common Dutch name, but then again, "dingen" means "stuff" in Dutch as well
how about he does a fundraiser with Metallica to save the artists in need!
Maybe they should put pedals on it so you can cycle with it. Also, it can be used at home as fitness equipment charging the battery at the same time!
When "computerizing" medical facilities, the argument is not about how much cheaper treatment is going to be, but how much better it will be for the patients.
So, computers are "bad", right?
How about scanners, computerized microscopes, computer assisted operation tools and/or any other monitoring system?
Sure, they cost more than if they were not used/purchased, but aren't all these meant for BETTER healthcare, and not cost reduction ???
How is the perform and master group correlated to perseverance?
Isn't it possible that ppl only interested in the skill/knowledge can just as well abandon the difficult puzzle once he mastered the skill to solve that type of puzzle as a whole?
And isn't it possible that the perform ppl will stubbornly solve the difficult puzzle to prove their talent/intellect?
This article is just a personal opinion by some guy and isn't based on research at all.
I don't know why I get modded down for what I wrote, maybe because I didn't give any references. So here is an official question asked to the Belgian minister of Foreign Affairs in the Belgian Senate about it. I was wrong about the destination though (but it doesn't matter in this context), it was to Mexico. Also, he isn't merely a left wing politician, he's actually a member of the European Parliament.
http://senat.be/www/?MIval=/Vragen/SchriftelijkeVraag&LEG=4&NR=4398&LANG=nl
It's in Dutch though, here's the google translation in english:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=nl&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsenat.be%2Fwww%2F%3FMIval%3D%2FVragen%2FSchriftelijkeVraag%26LEG%3D4%26NR%3D4398%26LANG%3Dnl&sl=nl&tl=en&history_state0=
a socialist (caucasian) Belgian politician got on that list because the immigration officer thought he had too much South American stamps on his passport. So after taking him into a small office, they googled his name and found his articles to be too "left wing" to their taste and he was refused access and said that if he wanted to come to the US he had to apply for a visa. He did just that and of course it was refused. Lately, he took the plane to Brazil (a direct flight), and they had to detour the whole plane for hundreds of miles, because he was on it and they weren't allowed to fly over US territory (the crew told him afterwards) . And of course, there is no way to get off that list.
yet it looks like a cheap knock-off from rick dangerous back in the days and that you can play online with flash http://rickdangerousflash.free.fr/ here.
52 weeks + 2 day weekends = 104 days.
Looks like a serious workaholic, that guy works more than 6 days week ( and almost half of the time the whole week !!!) and takes no vacation!!!
That guy seriously needs a raise !!!
Maybe his daily 10 minutes masturbation session made him more productive?
Or maybe he didn't feel the urge to harrass his secretary afterwards?
All jokes aside, the calculation on how much tax-payers money was "lost" on this is dodgy at best.
Whole businesses and university spin-offs make a living on applying for those grants, I'm guessing that's not all money well spend either.
play him off keyboard cat!
> businesses that address needs in food, water, health care and energy
guess which field in these businesses will address those challenges? the Information Technology field is my guess.
This sounds a little too black and white.
I'm sure projects aren't all 1-man operations (or 3- man operations for that matter) where everyone knows everything about the project.
You could very well be part of a project where your sub-project is very successful yet other parts are the deal-breakers.
For example, you could have been working on a very efficient GUI/web-interface that you could be proud of, yet the back-end guys totally f'ed up and made it unscalable.
Or you could have been working on the database-end that kicks ass, but the business logic guys bombed. Not every developer is supposed to know the status of the whole projects, sometimes you're just asked to design by contract, and that's what you do. And this doesn't necessarely means you're just a code-monkey. Like, they could just ask you to design and implement a piece of software that exposes a certain API with a couple of constraints you need to comply to, but everything behind it is your responability. THis doesn't mean you know the overall status of the project.
If the guy has the right credentials, I would just ask what he did on the project, why he thinks it failed, etc...
a lesson lived is a lesson learned!
Quantum chromodynamics, "subhadronic" matter,. .... , I think you got me lost there ;-)
How can these hypotheses be checked?
for all Tables add new column("product reviews, blog posts, Twitter messages and the like");
"and in that space we can now do new kinds of queries which create new kinds of products and new market opportunities"
I'd love to see the query that creates new products and market opportunities.
redundancy can be useful in databases for performance issues.
ever tried http://lucene.apache.org/?
it's as good as it gets!
...or Dreamcast !!!
> Agricultural production -- we're still one of the strongest, if not the strongest, in the world.
Oh please. US agriculture has been receiving aids for decades. http://www.card.iastate.edu/iowa_ag_review/summer_04/article3.aspx
A question we may ask if we really want 'normal users' to be web developers?
Sure, you need designers and content writers for sites, and usability is certainly a plus in these areas, but what about security and all the other technical parts of developing a website? I don't think it's a good evolution having ppl with no skills hosting sites not knowing wtf they're doing.
I studied applied Computer Science at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel(VUB)) and we had a course like that.
It was called "communication skills of Computer Science" and basically learned how to hold meetings, do presentations, negociate, etc...
It didn't have the "how to pick up woman" part they are getting in Germany though.
...and they're used at getting infected and spyware being installed on them on their behalf.