In school: what you put in is what you get out. Want to cheat and not learn anything, go right ahead but I doubt you'll be making as much money as me in a decade or two. Talk to the Professors, show interests, discuss things, do research, etc.
Also: Go to a better school then or get a better advisor. First of all the whole "you can learn it from a book just fine" is BS imho since unless you know which book to get you won't have a fun time. In addition, for many things the feedback you get on projects (or even just doing the thing assuming it's hard enough) is more valuable than anything else.
As for "tangents" let's see I'm a Junior now and I've taken courses in: Math, CS (including grad courses in AI, Robotics and Genomics), Statistics, Psychology, Philosophy (Bioethics, and now I know the main arguments for a dozen important issues), Physics, Biology, History, Writing and a few others. I learned something in all of them, I took classes much harder than what I should be taking and while I didn't get an A in them I learned much more than if I took a class where I did get an A easily
Let me first say: Mars is not Earth... what may be true on Earth may not be true on Mars. It has 1/3rd the gravity of Earth and 1/10th the atmosphere. As such unless multiple qualified people agree that a certain piece of data indeed means something, that piece of data is simply being misinterpreted by a bunch of morons. Please look at t all the crap about a "fake moon landing" for an example.
Images of Mars have been interpreted to have everything from water filled canals to giant faces, however both were simply due to light.
I forgot a few things like the fact that without infrastructure the survivors can't make money and without that they can't buy food. OF course, even with money they couldn't get food easily and without a roof over their heads they'd probably die rather quickly. I can go on but I think this is sufficient. So yes, the money being sent there is actively saving lives so get your head out of your ass.
...sigh. A tsunami is not a magical mass of pure death, it's a giant wave of water. In other words it doesn't necessarily kill you but maybe it traps you under rubble, or maybe a 5 foot pole get's rammed up your ass, etc. In other words many things can happen which don't kill you right away but which will lead to your eventual death without intervention. An that is what all that relief money is for.
So you want to ban all P2P software as well, right?
You do know that there are many legitimate uses for mailing lists, the OSS movement uses them quite often as do legitimate companies to communicate with their user base. Well how do you think they send all those emails, magic?
The author actually posted a reply and basically said that it was designed for legitimate mail lists, and it was written for in-house use but it was released when because he found it to be useful.
The concepts of "competing" and "choice" are not mutually exclusive. It all depends on how you compete, if you try and have people switch to your product but don't lock them in or otherwise force them to switch then you are both competing and giving them a choice.
How the hell is image and video software "spammersoft" or are you a moron who confused the copyu site screenshot for a screenshot of the original site.
If I understand it correctly the reason is simple, and someone commented on this in one of the other postings:
They knew the rough area in which the asteroid could end up, and with more data this area kept shrinking. However, the Earth was still in this area and since the total places the thing could go was shrinking the chance of going to one part of the area increased. Then suddenly the Earth went out of this area so it's probability went down.
Here is an analogy: think of having ten cups face down with a ball under one and one is labeled "Earth". Now Earth has a 1 in 10 chance of having the ball. However, if someone removed 5 of the false cups then Earth now has a 1 in 5 chance. However, if someone now removed the Earth cup since it did not have a ball then it's chance would go down to 0.
Yes it does, you can't really use much from the mass-produced version since it's a different design. The two devices are only superficially the same, since your goal isn't to copy the mass produced version part-for-part.
No that was an example, you can't change history however you can learn from it. I simply said that instead of throwing money at random "humanitarian" endeavors you instead see what your actions could lead to, and spend that money so that it provides the most benefit.
For example, curing disease is all nice however if the country lacks the social infrastructure to support those changes then maybe you should work on that infrastructure instead of just dumping medicine on them.
So much for the loving god, eh? I guess you should become Jewish since it's the Old Testament which had the vengeful god, and Jesus supposedly changed that. So it seems you don't believe in your own religion.
So by not spending money on scientific endeavors you think the US will become more relevant to the world and not fall behind. What the hell are you smoking and can I have some of it.
Actually wait a minute: the US/EU has high rates of unemployment and disease???? Well that's news to me. And even if they did 1 billion would have done absolutely jack shit as politicians would have simply spent it on various pet projects.
Damn liberals who think that the only way to solve problems is to spend tax money on them, without thinking of any of the consequences. You know why Africa is a shit hole: because in the last 100 years it's population went up seven fold. And you know why it did that: because liberal humanitarians decided that introducing modern medicine to lower child mortality is a great idea without even looking at the potential conflicts it would cause with the social and economic infrastructure. Disease is what holds populations in check when people arte too immature to do it themselves.
Materials in Earth orbits are worthless except for a few like Oxygen. Why? Because we can't do anything with them right now. We can't even extract them from the Asteroid may I add because we lack the methods or machinery. Then once we have the raw materials we need to make them into things. Are you aware of how many different factories, personnel, machines, etc. are sued to make say the space station? So you'd need to set up a whole manufacturing industry in space which no one would do since that is a long term (20+ years) investment and no one likes those. Sure we could send the stuff down to Earth but that's probably more expensive in the long run than mining them on Earth.
In other words: the asteroid is worthless to us right now.
It's tidal forces, the Earth's rotation has also been slowing down but not as much. Given enough time the Earth and Moon will always have the same faces aimed at each other.
I'd love Bush to be in charge because I doubt anyone else would have the guts to tell the environmentalists to stuff it and then build an Orion engine to get the thing.
It was asfaik simply a bunch of smaller bombs joined togother. It was designed to be built quickly, easily and to work not to be efficient so sending it up would be stupid since you can just send a bunch of smaller more efficient nukes.
Got that Ph.D. from a crappy school it seems as you lack even basic reasoning skills. Seeing as the person is in the field he/she knows what models are most often used and from this they can draw conclusions.
You can't compare the two based on MT because the energy released is in a different form.
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/ says that the damage wouldn be enough to damage (not even destroy) most of a small state like Maryland but that's about it.
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In school: what you put in is what you get out. Want to cheat and not learn anything, go right ahead but I doubt you'll be making as much money as me in a decade or two. Talk to the Professors, show interests, discuss things, do research, etc.
Also: Go to a better school then or get a better advisor. First of all the whole "you can learn it from a book just fine" is BS imho since unless you know which book to get you won't have a fun time. In addition, for many things the feedback you get on projects (or even just doing the thing assuming it's hard enough) is more valuable than anything else.
As for "tangents" let's see I'm a Junior now and I've taken courses in: Math, CS (including grad courses in AI, Robotics and Genomics), Statistics, Psychology, Philosophy (Bioethics, and now I know the main arguments for a dozen important issues), Physics, Biology, History, Writing and a few others. I learned something in all of them, I took classes much harder than what I should be taking and while I didn't get an A in them I learned much more than if I took a class where I did get an A easily
Oh come on, don't shatter his illusions of grandeur.
Let me first say: Mars is not Earth... what may be true on Earth may not be true on Mars. It has 1/3rd the gravity of Earth and 1/10th the atmosphere. As such unless multiple qualified people agree that a certain piece of data indeed means something, that piece of data is simply being misinterpreted by a bunch of morons. Please look at t all the crap about a "fake moon landing" for an example.
Images of Mars have been interpreted to have everything from water filled canals to giant faces, however both were simply due to light.
I forgot a few things like the fact that without infrastructure the survivors can't make money and without that they can't buy food. OF course, even with money they couldn't get food easily and without a roof over their heads they'd probably die rather quickly. I can go on but I think this is sufficient. So yes, the money being sent there is actively saving lives so get your head out of your ass.
...sigh. A tsunami is not a magical mass of pure death, it's a giant wave of water. In other words it doesn't necessarily kill you but maybe it traps you under rubble, or maybe a 5 foot pole get's rammed up your ass, etc. In other words many things can happen which don't kill you right away but which will lead to your eventual death without intervention. An that is what all that relief money is for.
So you want to ban all P2P software as well, right? You do know that there are many legitimate uses for mailing lists, the OSS movement uses them quite often as do legitimate companies to communicate with their user base. Well how do you think they send all those emails, magic? The author actually posted a reply and basically said that it was designed for legitimate mail lists, and it was written for in-house use but it was released when because he found it to be useful.
Well guess who's wrong, all except for the app in question are video and image software.
This is the scammer site: http://www.xequte.com/fraud/homepage_sm.jpg
This is the original site: http://www.xequte.com/software/index.html
See the difference? Good, now shut up.
The concepts of "competing" and "choice" are not mutually exclusive. It all depends on how you compete, if you try and have people switch to your product but don't lock them in or otherwise force them to switch then you are both competing and giving them a choice.
Maybe it's "innovative" to them since their previous versions needed a reboot.
I guess Microsoft doesn't accept something as existing unless they do it themselves so everything they do is "innovative" to them.
How the hell is image and video software "spammersoft" or are you a moron who confused the copyu site screenshot for a screenshot of the original site.
The German language thing seems to be somewhat common actually. In Polish it's niemecki for example.
Then there are the Start Menu items, specifically startup.
.. registry fun.
If anyone wants to see how easy it is to remove a windows program go look at the manual removal instructions for Norton Antivirus
If I understand it correctly the reason is simple, and someone commented on this in one of the other postings:
They knew the rough area in which the asteroid could end up, and with more data this area kept shrinking. However, the Earth was still in this area and since the total places the thing could go was shrinking the chance of going to one part of the area increased. Then suddenly the Earth went out of this area so it's probability went down.
Here is an analogy: think of having ten cups face down with a ball under one and one is labeled "Earth". Now Earth has a 1 in 10 chance of having the ball. However, if someone removed 5 of the false cups then Earth now has a 1 in 5 chance. However, if someone now removed the Earth cup since it did not have a ball then it's chance would go down to 0.
Yes it does, you can't really use much from the mass-produced version since it's a different design. The two devices are only superficially the same, since your goal isn't to copy the mass produced version part-for-part.
Except we are basically in a recession right now or rather just coming out of one, Yahoo was at the height of an expansion. There is a difference.
No that was an example, you can't change history however you can learn from it. I simply said that instead of throwing money at random "humanitarian" endeavors you instead see what your actions could lead to, and spend that money so that it provides the most benefit.
For example, curing disease is all nice however if the country lacks the social infrastructure to support those changes then maybe you should work on that infrastructure instead of just dumping medicine on them.
So much for the loving god, eh? I guess you should become Jewish since it's the Old Testament which had the vengeful god, and Jesus supposedly changed that. So it seems you don't believe in your own religion.
And those millions would be diverted from something, like setting up schools in those areas or helping to stop famines.
So by not spending money on scientific endeavors you think the US will become more relevant to the world and not fall behind. What the hell are you smoking and can I have some of it. Actually wait a minute: the US/EU has high rates of unemployment and disease???? Well that's news to me. And even if they did 1 billion would have done absolutely jack shit as politicians would have simply spent it on various pet projects. Damn liberals who think that the only way to solve problems is to spend tax money on them, without thinking of any of the consequences. You know why Africa is a shit hole: because in the last 100 years it's population went up seven fold. And you know why it did that: because liberal humanitarians decided that introducing modern medicine to lower child mortality is a great idea without even looking at the potential conflicts it would cause with the social and economic infrastructure. Disease is what holds populations in check when people arte too immature to do it themselves.
Materials in Earth orbits are worthless except for a few like Oxygen. Why? Because we can't do anything with them right now. We can't even extract them from the Asteroid may I add because we lack the methods or machinery. Then once we have the raw materials we need to make them into things. Are you aware of how many different factories, personnel, machines, etc. are sued to make say the space station? So you'd need to set up a whole manufacturing industry in space which no one would do since that is a long term (20+ years) investment and no one likes those. Sure we could send the stuff down to Earth but that's probably more expensive in the long run than mining them on Earth.
In other words: the asteroid is worthless to us right now.
It's tidal forces, the Earth's rotation has also been slowing down but not as much. Given enough time the Earth and Moon will always have the same faces aimed at each other.
I'd love Bush to be in charge because I doubt anyone else would have the guts to tell the environmentalists to stuff it and then build an Orion engine to get the thing.
It was asfaik simply a bunch of smaller bombs joined togother. It was designed to be built quickly, easily and to work not to be efficient so sending it up would be stupid since you can just send a bunch of smaller more efficient nukes.
Got that Ph.D. from a crappy school it seems as you lack even basic reasoning skills. Seeing as the person is in the field he/she knows what models are most often used and from this they can draw conclusions.
You can't compare the two based on MT because the energy released is in a different form. http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/ says that the damage wouldn be enough to damage (not even destroy) most of a small state like Maryland but that's about it.