Also , can someone explain whats the point of a clock if it doesn't give at least a rough approximation of the real time?
Care to explain what "the real time" is? Hours/minutes/seconds/time of day are just a constructs humans came up with, not inherent qualities of the universe.
Find your current position Pc. Define Hd as a 'heading direction'. Execute " Hd = Pnxt-Pc; ". Detect obstacle position Obst in heading direction Hd. If Obst is empty, then move with heading direction Hd. If Obst is not empty, then do the following. Compute turned heading direction Hds from Hd. Detect obstacle
So they basically reinvented Hypertalk? Here's a sample:
on mouseDown
put "Disk:Folder:MyFile" into filePath -- no need to declare variables
if there is a file filePath then
open file filePath
read from file filePath until return
put it into cd fld "some field"
close file filePath
set the textStyle of character 1 to 10 of card field "some field" to bold
end if
end mouseDown
BUT, the most important thing about the accelerometers from Analog I used was they were laser trimmed for 0G, and used a very cool sense mechanism. The sensor was a micro-machined silicon mass on springs with a capacitive force/sense system that detects a perturbation of position by using a 1 MHz AC pump signal with a capacitive bridge and synchronous demodulation feedback.
I assume you then reverse the polarity and feed it back through the deflector dish?
"Yamato people, formerly known as Worenn in Chinese records, are related to Yizu and Hani people in Yunnan, China, based on archaeological evidence of their folk customs. Several scholars proposed that Yamato people are related to Dai people in Yunnan, based on their Mongolian spots and blood types."
To disable the vehicle you have to press and hold the start button for 3-5 seconds, this is not labelled in any way, is not intuitive, and is not something the driver has ever had to do in the course of their normal activities
It's only a feature of every personal computer since the dawn of personal computing. Certainly something they've never encountered before.
One of my best friends in high school was killed when his car was hit by a drunk. To me, I'd rather the drunk lost his license rather than my car fitted with an interlock.
I am not supporting these finger-tip-drunk-indicator things, but think about this:
That drunk would have lost his license AFTER killing your friend. This tech would have (supposedly) prevented your friend's death by making the car unstartable.
If only a tiny fraction of Muslims are violent, why are they, as a group, the largest group of violent extremists?
You forgot to add "at the moment".
It's because of the current state of geopolitics. Give it 200 years or so and it'll be the Hindus, or Christians, or some other group.
Go back 30 years. 50 years. 100 years. There were still a many millions of Muslims in the world at those times. Islam certainly hasn't fundamentally changed since then (heck, "radical" Wahhabi-ism started in the 1700s), so why is it JUST NOW that there are a lot of Muslim terrorists?
And guess what - they have as much evidence for their beliefs as the Christians do!
Care to try that one again, with logic this time?
I'd say that the very, very specific things that Christians believe have a much higher bar to clear than an atheist "belief", such as it is.
Atheist = What you see is what you get. Show me some proof/promising research leading toward something else, or STFU.
Theist = My very specific take on the universe, no more or less valid than the thousands of other religions' takes on the universe, is 100% valid. My fiction is right and your fiction is wrong. Everyone else STFU.
you immediately give the government logical power over your health care as well: do you smoke? what do you eat? do you participate in risky sports? All of these things suddenly become part of the government's purview.
And that's worse than a private corporation, how? I already have to provide all that info to my insurer, and the insurer has a motive to dump anyone who's not profitable to them.
Sort of along the lines of "You know Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."
lolwut? Since when has math NOT been a big part of computer science when computer science is a branch of mathematics? You must conflate computer science with programming or software engineering.
Math shmath. It's much more logic than math. Unless you count logic as part of math, but I don't.
Finite State Machines? Logic Grammars? Logic Resource Contention? Logic Composite Systems? Logic Encryption? Logic and the ability to multiply and divide numbers, which is about as "math-centered" as paying your bills.
But you only need to ask "Why" once, and ultimately you know, that you just don't know. You don't know if there is some omni-potent being who decided exactly how the universe would operate. You don't know if there is anything after all this.
I like to think that there is no "Why" other than what we create ourselves, as animals capable of abstract- and meta-thought. "Why" is part of the human experience; it is a NOT quantitative feature of the world/universe.
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Sounds just like the DEA, they ban drugs all by themselves. Seems the republicans like that one just fine though.
Of course they like the DEA, because those laws only apply to "little people". Senator Mon E Bags, Republican, can get whatever blow he wants.
Wow, nice response. Asshole.
Also , can someone explain whats the point of a clock if it doesn't give at least a rough approximation of the real time?
Care to explain what "the real time" is? Hours/minutes/seconds/time of day are just a constructs humans came up with, not inherent qualities of the universe.
It's called paper!
*rimshot*
Find your current position Pc. Define Hd as a 'heading direction'. Execute
" Hd = Pnxt-Pc; ". Detect obstacle position Obst in heading direction Hd. If Obst
is empty, then move with heading direction Hd. If Obst is not empty, then do the
following. Compute turned heading direction Hds from Hd. Detect obstacle
So they basically reinvented Hypertalk? Here's a sample:
on mouseDown
put "Disk:Folder:MyFile" into filePath -- no need to declare variables
if there is a file filePath then
open file filePath
read from file filePath until return
put it into cd fld "some field"
close file filePath
set the textStyle of character 1 to 10 of card field "some field" to bold
end if
end mouseDown
Like he would have bought that stuff anyway...
What also amazes me is that people feel they are somewhat superior to others because they don't.
Why does that amaze you? Seems perfectly rational to me
And that they think they'll actually get people to listen to them by treating them as such.
I agree with you there. Not that their minds are changeable anyway...deprogramming humans raised from birth to think a certain way is damn hard.
BUT, the most important thing about the accelerometers from Analog I used was they were laser trimmed for 0G, and used a very cool sense mechanism. The sensor was a micro-machined silicon mass on springs with a capacitive force/sense system that detects a perturbation of position by using a 1 MHz AC pump signal with a capacitive bridge and synchronous demodulation feedback.
I assume you then reverse the polarity and feed it back through the deflector dish?
"Yamato people, formerly known as Worenn in Chinese records, are related to Yizu and Hani people in Yunnan, China, based on archaeological evidence of their folk customs. Several scholars proposed that Yamato people are related to Dai people in Yunnan, based on their Mongolian spots and blood types."
They're not THAT different...
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To disable the vehicle you have to press and hold the start button for 3-5 seconds, this is not labelled in any way, is not intuitive, and is not something the driver has ever had to do in the course of their normal activities
It's only a feature of every personal computer since the dawn of personal computing. Certainly something they've never encountered before.
West Texas?! Childress is almost in Oklahoma...
One of my best friends in high school was killed when his car was hit by a drunk. To me, I'd rather the drunk lost his license rather than my car fitted with an interlock.
I am not supporting these finger-tip-drunk-indicator things, but think about this:
That drunk would have lost his license AFTER killing your friend. This tech would have (supposedly) prevented your friend's death by making the car unstartable.
An up-to-date complete treatise of all the basic evidence that demonstrates the foundations of evolutionary theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
Read it from beginning to end. You're welcome.
Religions don't "self police". Anyone can join a religion who wants to, and can act as wacky in the name of said religion as they want to.
It's not like terrorists need approval to say "I'm killing people in the name of Islam" or something.
If only a tiny fraction of Muslims are violent, why are they, as a group, the largest group of violent extremists?
You forgot to add "at the moment".
It's because of the current state of geopolitics. Give it 200 years or so and it'll be the Hindus, or Christians, or some other group.
Go back 30 years. 50 years. 100 years. There were still a many millions of Muslims in the world at those times. Islam certainly hasn't fundamentally changed since then (heck, "radical" Wahhabi-ism started in the 1700s), so why is it JUST NOW that there are a lot of Muslim terrorists?
Geopolitics.
and completely averse to quality standards, quality control, or doing quality work.
Just ask the kids who died from melamine in the formula.
Or poisoned pet food. Or cadmium in kids jewelry.
Such quality control/standards!
I know I havenâ(TM)t been there with any regularity since my `ol slackware days *tugs pants up past waist*.
Double old-man points for using a backtick instead of a single quote
Minus 10,000 nerd points for putting it on the wrong side of "ol"
And guess what - they have as much evidence for their beliefs as the Christians do!
Care to try that one again, with logic this time?
I'd say that the very, very specific things that Christians believe have a much higher bar to clear than an atheist "belief", such as it is.
Atheist = What you see is what you get. Show me some proof/promising research leading toward something else, or STFU.
Theist = My very specific take on the universe, no more or less valid than the thousands of other religions' takes on the universe, is 100% valid. My fiction is right and your fiction is wrong. Everyone else STFU.
STATION!
That is all.
you immediately give the government logical power over your health care as well: do you smoke? what do you eat? do you participate in risky sports? All of these things suddenly become part of the government's purview.
And that's worse than a private corporation, how? I already have to provide all that info to my insurer, and the insurer has a motive to dump anyone who's not profitable to them.
Sort of along the lines of "You know Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."
He's seen "Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion." Poor bastard, never able to substantiate a story.
What never? No never!
What never? ......hardly ever!
lolwut? Since when has math NOT been a big part of computer science when computer science is a branch of mathematics? You must conflate computer science with programming or software engineering.
Math shmath. It's much more logic than math. Unless you count logic as part of math, but I don't.
Finite State Machines? Logic
Grammars? Logic
Resource Contention? Logic
Composite Systems? Logic
Encryption? Logic and the ability to multiply and divide numbers, which is about as "math-centered" as paying your bills.
Smoker?
But you only need to ask "Why" once, and ultimately you know, that you just don't know. You don't know if there is some omni-potent being who decided exactly how the universe would operate. You don't know if there is anything after all this.
I like to think that there is no "Why" other than what we create ourselves, as animals capable of abstract- and meta-thought. "Why" is part of the human experience; it is a NOT quantitative feature of the world/universe.
In the words of Neo: There is no Why.