He took a long a hiatus, then started publishing again with "Number of the Beast". It was, umm, not his best. Each of his subsequent books, however, was better than the last. I especially appreciated "Job: A Comedy Of Justice".
If you have never read a Heinlein book, at _least_ buy, steal, download, or borrow The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. There are lots of other great ones, but that's my best recommendation. Doing anything else first is a waste of your time.
Is how many people are willing to make definitive statements about physics when it's clear they don't begin to understand relativity. I especially love the explanations about why quantum mechanics is all wrong. Go read a book for God's sake.
Fascinating argument. I didn't realize you'd refuted Einstein. Just one thing... what is this "object reference frame" you're talking about? Can you prove it exists?
See, the other explanation is that you just don't understand relativity, never mind quantum mechanics.
>> When the facts don't fit the theory of evolution, maybe it's time to look for new "facts."
Well here we go again. Actually facts against the theory of evolution would be really interesting to most biologists. They would mean we don't know something.
However, just because a piece of information is posted on a creationist web site doesn't make it a "fact". It's actually the creationists who are looking for new facts; they just haven't found them.
Consider this: it's actually much easier to disprove a theory than to prove one. If creationism were true, it would be glaringly obvious. Historically, scientists were dragged kicking and screaming to the theory of evolution, because nothing else fit the facts.
So don't buy the song. You go along all happy in your Pollyanna world. However, why you would want to buy the song after they excise certain words escapes me. Either you know what the word is anyway, or the song doesn't make any damn sense. Either way it's stupid.
As far as I know, Verizon is the only company that's made a huge bet on broadband by upgrading their whole network to fiber over the past few years. As a result, they've got a tremendous bandwidth advantage on you guys and are rolling out fiber to the home NOW.
Not only does that speed up Internet service, they can offer way more TV-on-demand than the cable companies or, for example, AT&T.
In short, you guys are dead. Your choices now are to play catch-up, or cut prices drastically. That's what happens when you've got your head in the sand. I'd feel some sympathy if I wasn't so p***ed off at my stupid lousy cable provider.
whether any of this stuff is even technologically feasible before they go making these proposals? The v-chip for TV only works because broadcasters attach ratings to their programming streams. What's the super-V-chip supposed to do for the unrated Internet? Examine all the traffic in real time using Artificial Intelligence to detect "bad" pictures, ideas, etc.? Not in the next 20 years, at least.
Plus if your Artificial Intelligence gets good enough, it's liable to conclude censorship is the bigger harm, and just turn itself off.
140 Million from financial institutions? That does boggle my mind. It also explains things like bankruptcy "reform". Money talks, the poor walk. Because the financial company took their house, their car,...
Actually, they do special previews in the US sometimes. However, the confusion arises because nearly everyone calls trailers "previews". When we see "preview" by itself, we think "trailer".
Really? How do you know? As I understand British law, they can do anything they like, and you wouldn't know about it. It would be covered under the Official Secrets Act.
In the US case, we had a law set up that gave the Administration almost carte blanch for wiretaps, and they went and violated it anyway. I have neither an explanation nor excuse for this.
Java generics are mildly useful. To even mention them in the same breath as C++ templates, however, is extremely misleading. C++ templates go far beyond simply providing type-safe collections.
<soapbox>Of course, both mechanisms are work-arounds for the defects in the strongly-typed language paradigm. For the right way to handle types, look at python. Python uses untyped references to refer to typed objects, and written code is far simpler.</soapbox>
The Democrats don't really want to impeach Bush. They LOVE the idea of having him still in office during the 2008 election. Although, one would think President Cheney could be just as awful.
>> With instant-on, even faster hibernation, and with new Intel CPUs/chipsets which support deeper sleep levels with more power savings, you'll never even notice your PC being slow. It will be always ready to use whenever you want.
Seems to me I remember the same promise for Windows 98. And ME. And 2000. And XP.
It's fine if you like your Windows box, but don't go singing the praises of vaporware. People will think you work for Microsoft's marketing department.
Another big example of mismanagement is that the Sun implementation is so godawful. Java the language isn't too bad (until you compare it to Python). But the Sun compilers are buggy and slow, and the virtual machine uses so many resources it can bring a good server to its knees.
I've seen it stated that adding new features to Java has been given a higher priority than fixing existing bugs. The result is a huge collection of libraries, none of which can be relied on to do what the documentation says they will.
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He took a long a hiatus, then started publishing again with "Number of the Beast". It was, umm, not his best. Each of his subsequent books, however, was better than the last. I especially appreciated "Job: A Comedy Of Justice".
If you have never read a Heinlein book, at _least_ buy, steal, download, or borrow The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. There are lots of other great ones, but that's my best recommendation. Doing anything else first is a waste of your time.
Is how many people are willing to make definitive statements about physics when it's clear they don't begin to understand relativity. I especially love the explanations about why quantum mechanics is all wrong. Go read a book for God's sake.
Fascinating argument. I didn't realize you'd refuted Einstein. Just one thing... what is this "object reference frame" you're talking about? Can you prove it exists?
See, the other explanation is that you just don't understand relativity, never mind quantum mechanics.
Well, yeah, actually I could. You mean you can't?
>> When the facts don't fit the theory of evolution, maybe it's time to look for new "facts." Well here we go again. Actually facts against the theory of evolution would be really interesting to most biologists. They would mean we don't know something. However, just because a piece of information is posted on a creationist web site doesn't make it a "fact". It's actually the creationists who are looking for new facts; they just haven't found them. Consider this: it's actually much easier to disprove a theory than to prove one. If creationism were true, it would be glaringly obvious. Historically, scientists were dragged kicking and screaming to the theory of evolution, because nothing else fit the facts.
So don't buy the song. You go along all happy in your Pollyanna world. However, why you would want to buy the song after they excise certain words escapes me. Either you know what the word is anyway, or the song doesn't make any damn sense. Either way it's stupid.
As far as I know, Verizon is the only company that's made a huge bet on broadband by upgrading their whole network to fiber over the past few years. As a result, they've got a tremendous bandwidth advantage on you guys and are rolling out fiber to the home NOW.
Not only does that speed up Internet service, they can offer way more TV-on-demand than the cable companies or, for example, AT&T.
In short, you guys are dead. Your choices now are to play catch-up, or cut prices drastically. That's what happens when you've got your head in the sand. I'd feel some sympathy if I wasn't so p***ed off at my stupid lousy cable provider.
whether any of this stuff is even technologically feasible before they go making these proposals? The v-chip for TV only works because broadcasters attach ratings to their programming streams. What's the super-V-chip supposed to do for the unrated Internet? Examine all the traffic in real time using Artificial Intelligence to detect "bad" pictures, ideas, etc.? Not in the next 20 years, at least. Plus if your Artificial Intelligence gets good enough, it's liable to conclude censorship is the bigger harm, and just turn itself off.
So who says we can't do both? Of course, for this I'd have to move to Massachusetts, and I'm not THAT committed.
140 Million from financial institutions? That does boggle my mind. It also explains things like bankruptcy "reform". Money talks, the poor walk. Because the financial company took their house, their car, ...
Here in VA we're paying 6.52 cents/kilowatt-hour. No wonder there have been charges of price-fixing and gouging. Holy crow.
Actually, they do special previews in the US sometimes. However, the confusion arises because nearly everyone calls trailers "previews". When we see "preview" by itself, we think "trailer".
>>At least we aren't wiretapped.
Really? How do you know? As I understand British law, they can do anything they like, and you wouldn't know about it. It would be covered under the Official Secrets Act.
In the US case, we had a law set up that gave the Administration almost carte blanch for wiretaps, and they went and violated it anyway. I have neither an explanation nor excuse for this.
Java generics are mildly useful. To even mention them in the same breath as C++ templates, however, is extremely misleading. C++ templates go far beyond simply providing type-safe collections.
<soapbox>Of course, both mechanisms are work-arounds for the defects in the strongly-typed language paradigm. For the right way to handle types, look at python. Python uses untyped references to refer to typed objects, and written code is far simpler.</soapbox>
The Democrats don't really want to impeach Bush. They LOVE the idea of having him still in office during the 2008 election. Although, one would think President Cheney could be just as awful.
The truth shall set you free.
Jesus of Nazareth, (-12BC - 39AD, according to one theory)
>> With instant-on, even faster hibernation, and with new Intel CPUs/chipsets which support deeper sleep levels with more power savings, you'll never even notice your PC being slow. It will be always ready to use whenever you want.
Seems to me I remember the same promise for Windows 98. And ME. And 2000. And XP.
It's fine if you like your Windows box, but don't go singing the praises of vaporware. People will think you work for Microsoft's marketing department.
I've seen it stated that adding new features to Java has been given a higher priority than fixing existing bugs. The result is a huge collection of libraries, none of which can be relied on to do what the documentation says they will.