I don't know why everyone thinks that the language ought to be altered just because it's difficult. English is beautiful with all of its nuances and stupidity. It would be a travesty to try to remove them!
Conversely, I have an original TiBook, and its LCD is absolute garbage compared to what you can get these days. From what everyone says, the LCD in my T61P is supposed to be pretty crappy, but it's about a thousand times nicer than the TiBook's LCD.
I am a physicist, and in my experience we just use whatever is convenient in the context. E=mc^2 is a perfectly cromulent equation as long as you know what you mean by m.
"We" could very easily mean "We [the county in which I live] put them away," the same as "we [the football team of the city in which I live/school to which I go] won the game."
On the other hand, they'll have enough information that if someone comes to them and says, "I want to destroy X person's life," they will happily be able to supply all of the dirt necessary.
It seems to me that you are likely to find that the issues that pass with near unanimity are the worst ones. The only thing dumber than a partisan bill is a bipartisan bill.
Lenovo T61P, $1200 five months ago, 3 gigs of ram, 2.4 GHz Penryn, 15.4" 1680x1050 screen, mobile nVidia quadro 570M video card, 4 hour battery life. Yes, it weighs a pound more than a Macbook Pro, but it's also less than half the cost. And I could drop it and it would probably still work.
The chance of winning 10000 subsequent times is Probability-of-winning^10000. However, for each one of those 10,000 times, regardless of the result of the previous time, the probability of winning is the same as it was the previous time.
I'm going to guess that you're actually the same person that I was just talking to, since you use the same sort of phrasing. (Not to mention your response coming just a minute or two after I posted). And so, of course, this is just feeding the trolls, but I want anyone else that reads this to understand what's actually going on: The uber-parent isn't just saying that science-fiction time travel is impossible. He is stating that Einstein's theories of relativity are wrong, that things in the universe do not progress forward in time. He also does not disbelieve in quantum computing. He disbelieves quantum mechanics and all of quantum physics.
I'm a physicist. It seems that you are widely-regarded as a crackpot. And, what, you're a programmer or something? And--if this one website is correct--you're trying to program a Christian AI based on Revelation?
Saying belief or disbelief in major branches of physics, tested and proven numerous times over, is an opinion is a major disservice to... science. I'm sorry. You're a crackpot.
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
I don't think I'd want to play foosball against a robot. Imagine how hard a robot would be able to jam the pole into your junk when he grabbed the wrong handle.
I've been using FF3 since the betas. I hate the new URL autocomplete. It is unbearably slow (and I have a modern, dual-core machine). Going back to FF2, installed on another machine, is like a dream.
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I don't know why everyone thinks that the language ought to be altered just because it's difficult. English is beautiful with all of its nuances and stupidity. It would be a travesty to try to remove them!
It does the same thing in Firefox.
Conversely, I have an original TiBook, and its LCD is absolute garbage compared to what you can get these days. From what everyone says, the LCD in my T61P is supposed to be pretty crappy, but it's about a thousand times nicer than the TiBook's LCD.
Self-reply: Sorry, this was a little snarky. I thought for a second that your comment was one of the other ones saying that it was omg-wrong.
I am a physicist, and in my experience we just use whatever is convenient in the context. E=mc^2 is a perfectly cromulent equation as long as you know what you mean by m.
I think that it's generally accepted that in that equation m is the relativistic mass.
Wow. Who let that ad happen? That poor kid.
"We" could very easily mean "We [the county in which I live] put them away," the same as "we [the football team of the city in which I live/school to which I go] won the game."
I've actually found it to be the exact opposite. Rand's philosophy appeals to young males particularly strongly. Most grow out of it.
On the other hand, they'll have enough information that if someone comes to them and says, "I want to destroy X person's life," they will happily be able to supply all of the dirt necessary.
It seems to me that you are likely to find that the issues that pass with near unanimity are the worst ones. The only thing dumber than a partisan bill is a bipartisan bill.
Lenovo T61P, $1200 five months ago, 3 gigs of ram, 2.4 GHz Penryn, 15.4" 1680x1050 screen, mobile nVidia quadro 570M video card, 4 hour battery life. Yes, it weighs a pound more than a Macbook Pro, but it's also less than half the cost. And I could drop it and it would probably still work.
Alternately, maybe US 12 year olds just look 16 because of the ridiculous number of hormones in all of our meat and milk. ;)
The chance of winning 10000 subsequent times is Probability-of-winning^10000. However, for each one of those 10,000 times, regardless of the result of the previous time, the probability of winning is the same as it was the previous time.
Assume each of the 20 people plays/surfs only 2-3 hours a day, and you'll average two or so people playing at a time, 24/7.
I'm going to guess that you're actually the same person that I was just talking to, since you use the same sort of phrasing. (Not to mention your response coming just a minute or two after I posted). And so, of course, this is just feeding the trolls, but I want anyone else that reads this to understand what's actually going on: The uber-parent isn't just saying that science-fiction time travel is impossible. He is stating that Einstein's theories of relativity are wrong, that things in the universe do not progress forward in time. He also does not disbelieve in quantum computing. He disbelieves quantum mechanics and all of quantum physics.
I'm a physicist. It seems that you are widely-regarded as a crackpot. And, what, you're a programmer or something? And--if this one website is correct--you're trying to program a Christian AI based on Revelation?
Saying belief or disbelief in major branches of physics, tested and proven numerous times over, is an opinion is a major disservice to... science. I'm sorry. You're a crackpot.
Dude. That guy is the crackpot. And I guess you are, too, if those are all of your comments there. What utter Time-Cubian drivel.
From the FAQ:
I don't think I'd want to play foosball against a robot. Imagine how hard a robot would be able to jam the pole into your junk when he grabbed the wrong handle.
Okay, but are those metric or Imperial Earths?
Penny, dime, nickel, quarter, half dollar, dollar.
I've done precisely the same thing, even (especially) on some really big decisions. Haven't regretted it yet!
If you drive a hybrid to work the terrorists win!
I've been using FF3 since the betas. I hate the new URL autocomplete. It is unbearably slow (and I have a modern, dual-core machine). Going back to FF2, installed on another machine, is like a dream.