I always thought that people who drove aggressively (well) were smoothing out the "shock waves" by avoiding congestion and filling gaps where traffic was too spaced out.
Sounds like a Microsoft phone droid did his job, saying "yes, yes" to everything over the phone so he could close the support ticket in minimal time and keep his manager happy. And then the Mexican repair shop droid did his job, treating the Xbox just like all the others so as not to annoy the manager or otherwise engage in troublesome independent decision-making.
Agreed. Hating the daily pain of life so much you have your suicide marked on the calendar is real depression. Being bummed about your favourite team losing a big game is something rather different.
Personally, I'm hoping that the Higgs boson is not found, as further evidence that the Heim Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory), and not the Standard Model, is a more accurate model for quantum physics.
Among other advantages over the Standard Model, the Heim model predicts particle masses from the fundamental physical constants, predicts the existence of dark energy, explains all four fundamental forces, and suggests novel ways the speed of light could be exceeded.
That reminds me of a famous scientist who was mentioning HIV in an article he was writing, and wanted to cite the original source where it was first discovered and published that HIV caused AIDS. He couldn't find it. No one else he talked to could either. It turns out that what is a common assumption (and perhaps true) has never actually been verified and published.
Apparently, there aren't so many phones that do more and do it better. For example, no other mobile phone browser seems to hold a candle to mobile Safari.
And lastly, even though it's over a million lines of code, all the person who commissioned the code wanted was something that could print "hello, world" ten times.
In Europe, do your politicians' professed policy positions actually matter?
My observation of US politics is that they don't, 99% of the time. Politicians say whatever they want and then all do the same thing -- raise taxes, increase the debt, bomb more countries, start more wars, build more jails.
Ron Paul is unique this time around, because he has a consistent 30 year record of voting against those things even when it made him the least popular man in Washington.
The election, as I understand it, isn't about one man's policies versus another's. It's about 5 (or so) candidates who will say whatever they want and flip flop as often as necessary to achieve power, and one lone candidate who actually stands by his policies (whatever they may be).
So is this McCain who meets your ideals the old McCain, who was ardently against invading Iraq and fighting useless wars, or the new McCain, who never met a country he didn't want to bomb?
Running a data centre requires well-trained computer technicians, not English speakers. (Although none of the Filipinos I happen to know, which is quite a few, have English anywhere close to impeccable.)
Why not just hire a human being to change it every day? Is there any particular reason these quasi-Voight-Kampff tests need to be generated from algorithms? Anything generated by an algorithm can be deciphered by an algorithm, after all.
The problem I have with there being no universal reference frame shows up with centrifugal forces. If I'm allowed to imagine that the rest of the universe is spinning and my merry-go-round is not, why do I get pulled to the outside? And would centrifugal forces exist in a universe that consisted of nothing but me, a merry-go-round, and a third "reference object"?
At the atomic level, there's no meaningful difference between two particles with identical quantum states. Instantly causing proton #2 to assume the properties of proton #1 remotely is as good as saying proton #1 was teleported. At the sub-atomic scale, there are no characteristics to differentiate a copy and an original.
You might even consider yourself teleported or copied from moment to moment. Time is not a smooth current but a series of intervals one planck unit in length. Each new planck unit interval, a given region of sub-atomic space is likely, but not guaranteed, to contain a particle similar or identical to the one that occupied that area during the last interval.
For technical and scientific reasons, it's unlikely that a complicated arrangement of 10^28 atoms (the number in a human body) can ever be teleported this way. I'm no physicist, but the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for starters, which forces you to choose between knowing a particle's location and its momentum, probably rules out even simple multi-atom structures.
The film "The Prestige", about two competitive magicians, has a similar plot twist. One of the magicians, unable to figure out his adversary's teleportation trick, invents his own with the help of Nicola Tesla. Instead of teleporting him, a machine creates a perfect clone of the magician, and then the clone kills and disposes of the original below the stage.
I believe Ubuntu experiments with different animals in variously-sized hamster wheels each release, hence the weird version names: grumpy gibbon, wheezing warthog, faltering fawn, etc.
There's only one presidential candidate who will put an end to this crap. No need to mention his name; he's voted against it for 30 years as a Congressmen and was just given $6 million in a single day by 50,000 Americans who are tired of all this crap.
"You keep saying 'that windows thinks is copyright' when really you mean 'that media producers have stated is copyright'."
It's well known that copyright fraud -- publishers claiming non-existent copyright or illegal copyright terms -- is rampant, possibly more widespread than legitimate copyright claims. Certainly, many of the copyright claims the RIAA makes about any CD I buy are deceptive if not downright wrong.
I assume the problem comes within the mosquitos themselves. Like all living things, a certain percentage of the carbon composing their bodies would once have been radioactive carbon-14.
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I always thought that people who drove aggressively (well) were smoothing out the "shock waves" by avoiding congestion and filling gaps where traffic was too spaced out.
Sounds like a Microsoft phone droid did his job, saying "yes, yes" to everything over the phone so he could close the support ticket in minimal time and keep his manager happy. And then the Mexican repair shop droid did his job, treating the Xbox just like all the others so as not to annoy the manager or otherwise engage in troublesome independent decision-making.
Does anyone expect otherwise from Microsoft?
Agreed. Hating the daily pain of life so much you have your suicide marked on the calendar is real depression. Being bummed about your favourite team losing a big game is something rather different.
Personally, I'm hoping that the Higgs boson is not found, as further evidence that the Heim Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory), and not the Standard Model, is a more accurate model for quantum physics.
Among other advantages over the Standard Model, the Heim model predicts particle masses from the fundamental physical constants, predicts the existence of dark energy, explains all four fundamental forces, and suggests novel ways the speed of light could be exceeded.
That reminds me of a famous scientist who was mentioning HIV in an article he was writing, and wanted to cite the original source where it was first discovered and published that HIV caused AIDS. He couldn't find it. No one else he talked to could either. It turns out that what is a common assumption (and perhaps true) has never actually been verified and published.
Apparently, there aren't so many phones that do more and do it better. For example, no other mobile phone browser seems to hold a candle to mobile Safari.
And lastly, even though it's over a million lines of code, all the person who commissioned the code wanted was something that could print "hello, world" ten times.
In Europe, do your politicians' professed policy positions actually matter?
My observation of US politics is that they don't, 99% of the time. Politicians say whatever they want and then all do the same thing -- raise taxes, increase the debt, bomb more countries, start more wars, build more jails.
Ron Paul is unique this time around, because he has a consistent 30 year record of voting against those things even when it made him the least popular man in Washington.
The election, as I understand it, isn't about one man's policies versus another's. It's about 5 (or so) candidates who will say whatever they want and flip flop as often as necessary to achieve power, and one lone candidate who actually stands by his policies (whatever they may be).
So is this McCain who meets your ideals the old McCain, who was ardently against invading Iraq and fighting useless wars, or the new McCain, who never met a country he didn't want to bomb?
Running a data centre requires well-trained computer technicians, not English speakers. (Although none of the Filipinos I happen to know, which is quite a few, have English anywhere close to impeccable.)
Why not just hire a human being to change it every day? Is there any particular reason these quasi-Voight-Kampff tests need to be generated from algorithms? Anything generated by an algorithm can be deciphered by an algorithm, after all.
They need some pruning.
And Slashdot dupes...
(Which are frequently related to aforementioned topics anyway.)
The problem I have with there being no universal reference frame shows up with centrifugal forces. If I'm allowed to imagine that the rest of the universe is spinning and my merry-go-round is not, why do I get pulled to the outside? And would centrifugal forces exist in a universe that consisted of nothing but me, a merry-go-round, and a third "reference object"?
At the atomic level, there's no meaningful difference between two particles with identical quantum states. Instantly causing proton #2 to assume the properties of proton #1 remotely is as good as saying proton #1 was teleported. At the sub-atomic scale, there are no characteristics to differentiate a copy and an original.
You might even consider yourself teleported or copied from moment to moment. Time is not a smooth current but a series of intervals one planck unit in length. Each new planck unit interval, a given region of sub-atomic space is likely, but not guaranteed, to contain a particle similar or identical to the one that occupied that area during the last interval.
For technical and scientific reasons, it's unlikely that a complicated arrangement of 10^28 atoms (the number in a human body) can ever be teleported this way. I'm no physicist, but the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for starters, which forces you to choose between knowing a particle's location and its momentum, probably rules out even simple multi-atom structures.
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The film "The Prestige", about two competitive magicians, has a similar plot twist. One of the magicians, unable to figure out his adversary's teleportation trick, invents his own with the help of Nicola Tesla. Instead of teleporting him, a machine creates a perfect clone of the magician, and then the clone kills and disposes of the original below the stage.
Actually, I'm pretty sure bears will always maul you to death for that.
Thank goodness you Americans have Big Brother keeping you from buying inexpensive products you might actually want.
I believe Ubuntu experiments with different animals in variously-sized hamster wheels each release, hence the weird version names: grumpy gibbon, wheezing warthog, faltering fawn, etc.
There's only one presidential candidate who will put an end to this crap. No need to mention his name; he's voted against it for 30 years as a Congressmen and was just given $6 million in a single day by 50,000 Americans who are tired of all this crap.
"You keep saying 'that windows thinks is copyright' when really you mean 'that media producers have stated is copyright'."
It's well known that copyright fraud -- publishers claiming non-existent copyright or illegal copyright terms -- is rampant, possibly more widespread than legitimate copyright claims. Certainly, many of the copyright claims the RIAA makes about any CD I buy are deceptive if not downright wrong.
What's wrong with "Chinaman"? Are you similarly offended by "Dutchman" and "Welshman"? Get over it.
If all three can be presented as theories, with educational discussions of the evidence involved, why the heck not?
I assume the problem comes within the mosquitos themselves. Like all living things, a certain percentage of the carbon composing their bodies would once have been radioactive carbon-14.
I don't think anyone's arguing that software was copied.