It's not a matter of smoking anything. In the U.S. (at least in my experience), all of the college-bound students try to create at least some distance between themselves and their parents, usually on the order of a three-hour drive at least. Many just move across the country.
Just because your morality has such a strong sense of community (which I could easily rephrase in more disparaging terms---try, perhaps, "tying down young people to the same backward lives as their parents"), that doesn't mean it should be the one to receive government funding. Lemme repeat: it is not the government's job to enforce your morality.
Furthermore, as the EU is paying, I'm pretty sure that it's everyone in the EU's money, not just "THEIR OWN" money. Now I don't know about you, but if I lived in, e.g., France, I'd be pissed that these random guys were getting some of my money to install a mirror to create "hot spots" around their town. (Of course, if I lived in France, I'd be pissed for a lot of reasons... but that's another topic). But IANAEUTL (EU tax lawyer).
So basically grandparent poster should be scared of the 1918 flu. I'm sure he appreciates the warning for next time he time-travels back into a period dominated by a pandemic.:-P
Last year in high school AP physics, I had a running "fight" (good-natured) with my teacher about teaching Newtonian mechanics in the typical way, with F = ma always. Whereas what Newton really said---and what is compatible with the universe according to Einstein---is that F = dp/dt = d(mv)/dt. Since m can vary with v (according to Einstein), the latter is correct whereas F = ma is not except for v = 0.
It wasn't that I didn't recognize the utility of F = ma (i.e. for v c); I just wanted him to qualify his statements. Of course, I don't think he wanted to, given that few kids in the class knew calculus (i.e. what "dp/dt" meant) and were confused enough already.
Well, others have answered you very well, but I'd also like to point out that at least as originally conceived the theories of Lobachevsky and Reimman were mathematics, not science. And relating mathematics to the physical world has always been tricky---not to mention besides the point for us "pure" mathematicians:).
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Because then you have the awkward situation where you have the (main part of) the keyboard to the right of your screen's center. My XPS Gen 2 Dell could have its keyboard shifted to the right and add a numeric keypad, but then I'd be typing off-center. *Shrug*. It works for me.
Seconded. And unhappiness can be caused by the wrong drugs (by this I mean wrong dosages/types of antidepressants). It's rather amazing that way.
I don't agree with the sibling post that the drugs simply provide a medium for you to create your own happiness. If our definition of happiness is anything like "contentment," it can definitely be obtained simply with the right drugs, and lost without them.
The thing that would make me buy a new iPod would be if it were practically scratch-proof. Seriously. Is it that hard?
I don't have a cover to protect my iPod---I have a cover to cover up all the scratches already on it!
I don't think any scientific theory would have to be rewritten. I think it'd just provide extra evidence to fit in our existing framework. There's no theory I know of that says "life can only exist on Earth."
Given that, so yeah, it's social impact might be big, but I'd say our great discoveries in physics seriously outweight this kind of thing.
Huh, very cool. I was always under the impression there was something specific to each platform in the header file. You know how Microsoft always talks about "PE" (Portable Executable) files as their unique format.
What's making the porting hard in case of different software ecologies is not the compiler, cause gcc is really crossplatform and ubiquitous for years now. It's all those OS and otherwise libraries (gtk vs. cocoa vs. GDI) which do it. And I don't see Intel selling any crossplatform versions of those
Is that really true? (I really haven no idea, am asking for information). So I could compile some basic C++ program (e.g. loop from 1 to 10) in gcc and it would work on Windows and Linux? I suppose support for things like <stdio> is too much though, right?
See me, I'm planning on double-majoring in CS and math, or maybe math + physics and move CS down to a minor... CS is boring by itself, but it'd be fun to take in addition to something more... I don't know, mysterious, perhaps?
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I think there's a potential difference between the supporters and the attackers of it.
int i = 10;
No. There are 1000 bytes in a Kilobyte, and 1024 bytes in a Kibibyte.
Man, at times like this I wish there was an "+1 Awesome" moderation option ;).
It's not a matter of smoking anything. In the U.S. (at least in my experience), all of the college-bound students try to create at least some distance between themselves and their parents, usually on the order of a three-hour drive at least. Many just move across the country.
Just because your morality has such a strong sense of community (which I could easily rephrase in more disparaging terms---try, perhaps, "tying down young people to the same backward lives as their parents"), that doesn't mean it should be the one to receive government funding. Lemme repeat: it is not the government's job to enforce your morality.
Furthermore, as the EU is paying, I'm pretty sure that it's everyone in the EU's money, not just "THEIR OWN" money. Now I don't know about you, but if I lived in, e.g., France, I'd be pissed that these random guys were getting some of my money to install a mirror to create "hot spots" around their town. (Of course, if I lived in France, I'd be pissed for a lot of reasons... but that's another topic). But IANAEUTL (EU tax lawyer).
Isn't that what all monopolies do? Great service gets them on top, then once they have no competition they sit back and enjoy the spoils?
So basically grandparent poster should be scared of the 1918 flu. I'm sure he appreciates the warning for next time he time-travels back into a period dominated by a pandemic. :-P
Ah, but classical physics is wrong :-P. m is not constant.
As an aside...
:-P.
Last year in high school AP physics, I had a running "fight" (good-natured) with my teacher about teaching Newtonian mechanics in the typical way, with F = ma always. Whereas what Newton really said---and what is compatible with the universe according to Einstein---is that F = dp/dt = d(mv)/dt. Since m can vary with v (according to Einstein), the latter is correct whereas F = ma is not except for v = 0.
It wasn't that I didn't recognize the utility of F = ma (i.e. for v c); I just wanted him to qualify his statements. Of course, I don't think he wanted to, given that few kids in the class knew calculus (i.e. what "dp/dt" meant) and were confused enough already.
Thought that was special and worth sharing
Well, others have answered you very well, but I'd also like to point out that at least as originally conceived the theories of Lobachevsky and Reimman were mathematics, not science. And relating mathematics to the physical world has always been tricky---not to mention besides the point for us "pure" mathematicians :).
Yes.
Because then you have the awkward situation where you have the (main part of) the keyboard to the right of your screen's center. My XPS Gen 2 Dell could have its keyboard shifted to the right and add a numeric keypad, but then I'd be typing off-center. *Shrug*. It works for me.
No.
(I wanted to say "Yes." [with nothing else] for funny points, but decided to be truthful. Now I'm just confusing.)
Seconded. And unhappiness can be caused by the wrong drugs (by this I mean wrong dosages/types of antidepressants). It's rather amazing that way.
I don't agree with the sibling post that the drugs simply provide a medium for you to create your own happiness. If our definition of happiness is anything like "contentment," it can definitely be obtained simply with the right drugs, and lost without them.
The thing that would make me buy a new iPod would be if it were practically scratch-proof. Seriously. Is it that hard? I don't have a cover to protect my iPod---I have a cover to cover up all the scratches already on it!
That's called Tesler's Theorem by Hofstadter: "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."
No no no, these days you've got to do it right... JavaDoc syntax!
I don't think any scientific theory would have to be rewritten. I think it'd just provide extra evidence to fit in our existing framework. There's no theory I know of that says "life can only exist on Earth."
Given that, so yeah, it's social impact might be big, but I'd say our great discoveries in physics seriously outweight this kind of thing.
It always seemed to me like that was a major selling point of .NET...
Huh, very cool. I was always under the impression there was something specific to each platform in the header file. You know how Microsoft always talks about "PE" (Portable Executable) files as their unique format.
In addition to our favorite Libraries of Congress, metric buttloads, and the like, we now have... large fridges.
As in: your momma's so fat, her volume must be five large fridges!
Is that really true? (I really haven no idea, am asking for information). So I could compile some basic C++ program (e.g. loop from 1 to 10) in gcc and it would work on Windows and Linux? I suppose support for things like <stdio> is too much though, right?
With 10 of those 1kW power supplies :-P.
See me, I'm planning on double-majoring in CS and math, or maybe math + physics and move CS down to a minor... CS is boring by itself, but it'd be fun to take in addition to something more... I don't know, mysterious, perhaps?