I think it comes from a range of experiments conducted at Princeton in the 80s. They modelled the way humans seemed to be altering the seemingly random output of experimental machines, based on a quantum-mechanical style model. Note that they were not saying that it was quantum-mechanical, just that it was similar in form. Sometime after that, vast numbers of new age types began explaining all paranormal things, using QM.
wow! really? In my experience, the reverse is true. Oh there are plenty who are buzzword-compliant - in that they can give a practiced three-sentence spiel on what spring is, but put them in front of a computer for some actual development, and you'll see some pretty dangerous stuff coming out. I'm afraid that two-thirds of applicants coming to us are like that. So, when you're rejecting yet another technically able person, could you send 'em our way? thanks!
1. invented those little sticky lables that go on fruit
2. invented advertising
3. invented reality tv
4. being George Lucas (I mean he's gotta pay for Jar-Jar Binks)
5. being any RIAA lawyer
6. and finally (for special irony) being a fundamentalist ideologue of any stripe
Then you may have a problem, since by your own beliefs, you are irrelevant to everything but you. So to any one else who is an irrelevantist, your statements should be disregarded as off-handedly as you have disregarded 5000-odd years of moral teachings and culture.
I came from a very similar background to you. Also I had not done Computer Science, so when I had to learn, I was very much at the mercy of whatever was out there.
(1) I used Sun's own course material (I didn't go on the courses, just went through the CDs
(2) Downloaded the J2SE and the J2EE (includes JDBC and the Servlet API), and MySQL
(3) With the help of some O'reilly books, began developing my own servlets.
This path got me started in the basic language, as well as the basics of some important APIs.
Once you've reach some confidence with the above, get fancy and download Spring, Hibernate etc.
Eclipse is what I use as an IDE and Maven 2 for project management, but y'know, hoses for courses.
Putting stuff in the cloud sorta worries me as well, which is why I've kept out of it.
I find that things like Picassa are OK because these are only copies of your digital stuff at home. But even then, your comments, captions and arrangements would, it seems belong to them.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's right. The antimatter particle has a weak antigravitational field around it, within which the matter particle would fall upward in. In the same fashion the matter particle has a gravitational field around it, within which the antimatter partle would fall away. The two would repel each other.
This, of course does not mean that the two particles cannot interact. The gravitational field is weak enough to be overcome by physical momentum, in all but the largest cases.
Oh come on, they've been working on this for years.
You don't actually think that seti@home was for looking for aliens do you?
It's gonna look (adjusting my tin foil hat) great!
The arguments against sequestration are (so far as I've seen) just as bogus as the anti-nuclear waste disposal arguments. What like, for instance, "it doesn't work". Oh unless you've actually demonstrated a working prototype in your back yard.
During the early 1600s there was an argument amongst various protestant faiths about whether there was free will or not, particularly in England. It all comes down to your vision of what God is and what omniscient means. I think the grandparent was being a bit absolutist there, implying that there was no room for discourse.
Now, why you would believe any of this is possible is something of a mystery, particularly with regard to your use of the word "being", which is normally understood to mean "a thing that exists in an entirely ordinary sense within our universe." While we're defining terms, could you tell me what you mean by "normally understood to mean"? The text following in the quotations is a far narrower definition than the one I would've used.
With such elementary things as fire denied to them, it's doubtful that they could progress to any reasonable level. Oh come on, what about the Gungans?
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I think it comes from a range of experiments conducted at Princeton in the 80s. They modelled the way humans seemed to be altering the seemingly random output of experimental machines, based on a quantum-mechanical style model. Note that they were not saying that it was quantum-mechanical, just that it was similar in form. Sometime after that, vast numbers of new age types began explaining all paranormal things, using QM.
The original studies are interesting though.
http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
can't believe I found it after all this time...that it still exists.
golly what are these people saying? not much? it must be commercial bulshytt
I have yet to meet a developer who says, "No, don't write my unit tests for me."
I'm one that would say that. That's kinda what test-driven development is all about.
People with technical skills are a dime a dozen
wow! really? In my experience, the reverse is true. Oh there are plenty who are buzzword-compliant - in that they can give a practiced three-sentence spiel on what spring is, but put them in front of a computer for some actual development, and you'll see some pretty dangerous stuff coming out. I'm afraid that two-thirds of applicants coming to us are like that. So, when you're rejecting yet another technically able person, could you send 'em our way? thanks!
Possible sins committed in previous life
1. invented those little sticky lables that go on fruit
2. invented advertising
3. invented reality tv
4. being George Lucas (I mean he's gotta pay for Jar-Jar Binks)
5. being any RIAA lawyer
6. and finally (for special irony) being a fundamentalist ideologue of any stripe
Then you may have a problem, since by your own beliefs, you are irrelevant to everything but you. So to any one else who is an irrelevantist, your statements should be disregarded as off-handedly as you have disregarded 5000-odd years of moral teachings and culture.
Never...just never!
Not necessarily, they may have also been referring to the solar wind.
I came from a very similar background to you. Also I had not done Computer Science, so when I had to learn, I was very much at the mercy of whatever was out there.
(1) I used Sun's own course material (I didn't go on the courses, just went through the CDs
(2) Downloaded the J2SE and the J2EE (includes JDBC and the Servlet API), and MySQL
(3) With the help of some O'reilly books, began developing my own servlets.
This path got me started in the basic language, as well as the basics of some important APIs.
Once you've reach some confidence with the above, get fancy and download Spring, Hibernate etc.
Eclipse is what I use as an IDE and Maven 2 for project management, but y'know, hoses for courses.
judging by one of the comments above (regarding the current state of Dubai's plumbing), not very good.
I find that things like Picassa are OK because these are only copies of your digital stuff at home. But even then, your comments, captions and arrangements would, it seems belong to them.
can't we just tow Titan back to earth for plundering?
way to go!
slashdot neocon trying to spell
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's right. The antimatter particle has a weak antigravitational field around it, within which the matter particle would fall upward in. In the same fashion the matter particle has a gravitational field around it, within which the antimatter partle would fall away. The two would repel each other.
This, of course does not mean that the two particles cannot interact. The gravitational field is weak enough to be overcome by physical momentum, in all but the largest cases.
Oh come on, they've been working on this for years. You don't actually think that seti@home was for looking for aliens do you? It's gonna look (adjusting my tin foil hat) great!
...and Father Angelo Sekki discovered that the Sun is actually a star
During the early 1600s there was an argument amongst various protestant faiths about whether there was free will or not, particularly in England. It all comes down to your vision of what God is and what omniscient means. I think the grandparent was being a bit absolutist there, implying that there was no room for discourse.
yeah, you're right. Richard Dawkins isn't trolling, but flamebaiting
I guess they got their last chance with Mission To Mars http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183523/