He doesn't have any source for it, because he's wrong. You need a solid understanding of newtonian mechanics to build a steam engine from scratch. The (ancient) Romans couldn't even understand how Achilles could overtake a tortoise. I.e. they didn't have any modell to understand, explain, or predict motion.
I was not arguing whether psychology is a science; I was commenting on your argument "It is a science because the people practicing it have power." You seem to lack the capacity to distinguish between these two which makes this little conversation kind of pointless. Have a nice life.
Society deems it a science. A psychologist can sign you into a hospital for evaluation, the cops will bag you up like you are wild life on Wild Kingdom, and put you in a padded room. For a "pseudoscience" that is a lot of power.
This is one of the most retarded arguments I've heard this year. Having power and being scientific are in no way correlated, or at least not correlated in the way you suggest. A few hundred years ago a catholic priest could have you burned at the stake, that is far more power than any psychologist has today. That doesn't make Catholicism the pinnacle of science. Do you even know what the word scientific means?
I would have to take the entire lot of them out in the country and put a.22 short in the thin of their skulls due to the fact they shouldn't be allowed to pass their stupidity on to other generations.
I thought the above was just a momentary lapse of reason, because some things you write actually make sense. Ha. Turns out you really are a retard.
You will find that the imports/exports from America to Germany and South Korea are about equal.
Not even close. Exports to Germany in 2011 total about $ 40 billion, imports from Germany in 2011 are about $ 80 billion. The ratio is up from about 3:4 (imports : exports) from the early 90s to the 1:2 it is today (see http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4280.html)
In fact, if you exclude China and Oil, America has no trade deficit.
And I agree that China has not been running around the world, but that is about to change. Not only have the invaded India [...]
China invading India? Are you talking about the Sino-Indian war in the early 60s? Where's the connection to post-industialized China?
But the real issue is their military build-up.
Soon they will be invading countries left and right, start kidnapping and killing random people from all around the world, from "allied" and "enemy" countries alike, imprison them without any rule of law and torturing them. These bastards.
I suspect that we will finally pass a broad set of tariffs against Chinese goods. That will be to prevent your dumping them on America
Being responsible for all your action including investments in criminal companies and being held accountable for them does not kill capitalism. It is in fact one of the core principles that make capitalism work. Take a look at Polanyi's work for examples on how the spontaneous order of the market breaks down without it in theory; take a look at the America's current economy on how it breaks down in practice.
It will however kill the kleptocracy that the feeble-minded like to call capitalism.
To distribute a "signed" GRUB you would be required to make the private key available.
I don't know how secure boot works or what it actually does, so allow me some questions: Why can't you just sign GRUB yourself with your own private key before installing it and then use your own private key for secure boot? Why does GRUB have to be signed by some central authority in order to be used by secure boot?
That is the dirty secret, the taboo: Secure Boot will give a closed source system (or at least a system with secret private keys) a clear security advantage.
Seems to me that "somebody" chose a "secure boot" implementation to achieve just that, i. e. to punish open source systems. Am I missing something here?
That's doen't change anything. Compare your head version to the version from 2 weeks ago and you get 100s of changes with 99% of them beeing only different indention, line breaks, etc and the actual change you are looking for buried somewhere between them.
How do you acknowledge that your new product doesn't meet expectations, and that you're aware of the problems and serious about addressing them, while at no time admitting any error on the part of the corporate entity?
Guile is an interpreter and compiler for the Scheme programming language, a clean and elegant dialect of Lisp. Would somebody please tell me why we keep resorting to these ridiculously nondescript descriptions.
"We" don't do that. "Clean" means that the scheme language is well defined (see RnRS) and the number of fully compliant Scheme implementations proofs that specifiaction is complete and not subject to interpretation. "Elegant" is used in the classical engineering interpretation of that word: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Scheme is a minimal subset of Lisp; it contains just enough to build a common lisp implementation on top of it in a pretty straight forward way.
You are missing something: In Germany you own your personal information. Facebook is not allowed to store or use your personal information without your consent. The facebook "Like" button is not just a link, it's a javascript program that sends personal information to Facebook.
IIRC all (i. e. confirmed *and* unconfirmed) transactions are distributed to each node, not just to miners. The fact that you are mining doesn't create any more traffic than you would get from running a non-mining node. You only produce additional traffic if you solve a block and announce it to the network. That's what? At most one additional message per miner per week or per month or even more rarely?
OT, but bitcoin transactions are propagated to each bitcoin peer and hence cause network traffic, bitcoin mining is just calculating hashes with special properties and doesn't produce any network traffic.
It actually will provide load balancing also. The DNS-server changes the order of the addresses supplied in the response, choosing the order randomly or in a sequential “round robin” fashion.
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He doesn't have any source for it, because he's wrong. You need a solid understanding of newtonian mechanics to build a steam engine from scratch. The (ancient) Romans couldn't even understand how Achilles could overtake a tortoise. I.e. they didn't have any modell to understand, explain, or predict motion.
I was not arguing whether psychology is a science; I was commenting on your argument "It is a science because the people practicing it have power." You seem to lack the capacity to distinguish between these two which makes this little conversation kind of pointless. Have a nice life.
Society deems it a science. A psychologist can sign you into a hospital for evaluation, the cops will bag you up like you are wild life on Wild Kingdom, and put you in a padded room. For a "pseudoscience" that is a lot of power.
This is one of the most retarded arguments I've heard this year. Having power and being scientific are in no way correlated, or at least not correlated in the way you suggest. A few hundred years ago a catholic priest could have you burned at the stake, that is far more power than any psychologist has today. That doesn't make Catholicism the pinnacle of science. Do you even know what the word scientific means?
I would have to take the entire lot of them out in the country and put a .22 short in the thin of their skulls due to the fact they shouldn't be allowed to pass their stupidity on to other generations.
I thought the above was just a momentary lapse of reason, because some things you write actually make sense. Ha. Turns out you really are a retard.
You will find that the imports/exports from America to Germany and South Korea are about equal.
Not even close. Exports to Germany in 2011 total about $ 40 billion, imports from Germany in 2011 are about $ 80 billion. The ratio is up from about 3:4 (imports : exports) from the early 90s to the 1:2 it is today (see http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4280.html)
In fact, if you exclude China and Oil, America has no trade deficit.
Wrong again: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/top/dst/2011/10/deficit.html
And I agree that China has not been running around the world, but that is about to change. Not only have the invaded India [...]
China invading India? Are you talking about the Sino-Indian war in the early 60s? Where's the connection to post-industialized China?
But the real issue is their military build-up.
Soon they will be invading countries left and right, start kidnapping and killing random people from all around the world, from "allied" and "enemy" countries alike, imprison them without any rule of law and torturing them. These bastards.
I suspect that we will finally pass a broad set of tariffs against Chinese goods. That will be to prevent your dumping them on America
Right, protectionsim will save you.
Being responsible for all your action including investments in criminal companies and being held accountable for them does not kill capitalism. It is in fact one of the core principles that make capitalism work. Take a look at Polanyi's work for examples on how the spontaneous order of the market breaks down without it in theory; take a look at the America's current economy on how it breaks down in practice.
It will however kill the kleptocracy that the feeble-minded like to call capitalism.
Why would anybody swap the platters when they can just copy the data?
To distribute a "signed" GRUB you would be required to make the private key available.
I don't know how secure boot works or what it actually does, so allow me some questions: Why can't you just sign GRUB yourself with your own private key before installing it and then use your own private key for secure boot? Why does GRUB have to be signed by some central authority in order to be used by secure boot?
That is the dirty secret, the taboo: Secure Boot will give a closed source system (or at least a system with secret private keys) a clear security advantage.
Seems to me that "somebody" chose a "secure boot" implementation to achieve just that, i. e. to punish open source systems. Am I missing something here?
That's doen't change anything. Compare your head version to the version from 2 weeks ago and you get 100s of changes with 99% of them beeing only different indention, line breaks, etc and the actual change you are looking for buried somewhere between them.
My editor has been matching the braces for me since the early 90s.
Yes!Whitespacesreallysuckandmakeeverythingtotallyunreadable.
Sigh. Energy can not be produced. Watt is the SI unit of power. News for Nerds indeed.
You're way off. http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/sig_fig/SIG_dig.htm
If our universe has angular momentum that would correlate to the angular momentum of the collapsing star when it reached singularity
White holes are not formed by gravitational collapse but are "only" the "other side" of eternal black holes. At least in theory ...
How do you acknowledge that your new product doesn't meet expectations, and that you're aware of the problems and serious about addressing them, while at no time admitting any error on the part of the corporate entity?
That's easy. You call it a beta version.
Thanks, didn't know that.
Guile is an interpreter and compiler for the Scheme programming language, a clean and elegant dialect of Lisp.
Would somebody please tell me why we keep resorting to these ridiculously nondescript descriptions.
"We" don't do that. "Clean" means that the scheme language is well defined (see RnRS) and the number of fully compliant Scheme implementations proofs that specifiaction is complete and not subject to interpretation. "Elegant" is used in the classical engineering interpretation of that word: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Scheme is a minimal subset of Lisp; it contains just enough to build a common lisp implementation on top of it in a pretty straight forward way.
Fair enough. Which compilers are fully C++03 compliant?
Fully C++0x compliant? Can you name one or two?
You are missing something: In Germany you own your personal information. Facebook is not allowed to store or use your personal information without your consent. The facebook "Like" button is not just a link, it's a javascript program that sends personal information to Facebook.
You're just mad because you didn't get your T-shirt.
"It was estimated by internet security expert Dan Kaminsky that XCP was in use on more than 500,000 networks". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
IIRC all (i. e. confirmed *and* unconfirmed) transactions are distributed to each node, not just to miners. The fact that you are mining doesn't create any more traffic than you would get from running a non-mining node. You only produce additional traffic if you solve a block and announce it to the network. That's what? At most one additional message per miner per week or per month or even more rarely?
Unless it's a massive bitcoin mining operation
OT, but bitcoin transactions are propagated to each bitcoin peer and hence cause network traffic, bitcoin mining is just calculating hashes with special properties and doesn't produce any network traffic.
Won't do any sort of load balancing
It actually will provide load balancing also. The DNS-server changes the order of the addresses supplied in the response, choosing the order randomly or in a sequential “round robin” fashion.
I have that much experience in Windows programming but I guess it will be similar.
Forgot a "don't" in here: I don't have that much experience in Windows programming but I guess it will be similar.