In some ways they're quite puritanical, rememeber the fuss over the nipple in the superbowl show. Don't forget they had prohibition there - in some areas they still do.
she's amazed that her work colleagues will often go out drinking together of an evening and then roll in late and hung-over the next morning
Evening? Next morning? In Belgium that would be lunchtime and the afternoon. Lunch isn't complete without a few beers - and it's pretty much the same in France except you'd have wine instead.
Just because a person doesn't trust the pharmacutical/medical system doesn't mean that they distrust scientific method or rational thought.
Agreed. But if you assume someone who does the former also does the latter I suspect you'll be right more often than you'll be wrong.
In many countries you can just walk into a store and pick up an antibiotic
As pointed out by others, that's not really a good thing. I wonder if there's a correlation between distrusting scientific method and not knowing the diffwerence betreen bacteria and viruses?
getting a disease due to a vaccination isn't far-fetched... it happens a lot, but the disease is greatly reduced in its severity...
I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on television, but isn't that the point of vaccines? As in that's how they work - they give your immune system a practice run against a weakened opponent so it can like learn their playbook and stuff.
Given that the chance of any random person being in the computer labs at UIUC (whatever that is) is itself pretty low, that doesn't really make much of a hole in the grandparent's claim.
So, if someone has a vision, and does very little to make it happen (relatively speaking), but it just so happens that their vision was the correct one, they get credit for all the good that ocurred?
Credit? They get a fistful of patents too, since "maybe one day this" or "wouldn't it be nice if that" seems to be all that's needed for one these days. That working model or even a drawing requirement is just so totally web 1.0.
If you're outside the UK it won't let you see most things. And if it did, they'd be in realplayer format (don't install realplayer - it's crap).
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They were placing orders with factories using the NEC name. They commissioned R&D, their factories had NEC signs on the outside. They even designed and built their own products.
In which case they might as well have just set up as a normal company. Obviously the name NEC is already taken, so I'd suggest something nice and distinctive like Söny, Pànasonik, Hitaçhi...
why not go the next step and actually start creating Code that spews out Code. This is theoretically possible, the only barrier being the presentation of the problem from the human and the interpretation of the problem by the machine.
Er, there's some guy called Fred Brooks on line one...
a programming environment where you would program like this: "Computer, start new program. Write airport flight control program, and bring me a beer. Wake up signal when finished. Start.":P
I think it exists already - it's called being a manager.
is an established method for invoking realism into a movie or TV show
Sometimes trying too hard to make something look real reduces the effect and becomes distracting. When you run, you don't see things live like something filmed by a running person. Your brain corrects for the motion. So if you see the bouncy image when you're sitting still, it jars.
Seems your friend should have checked their CVs more carefully and recruited those with a literature or journalisnm background rather than perl programmers.
Could be that. Alternatively, we might just recognise (through bitter experience and disappointment) the difference between a useful, practical product and a conceptually flawed, half-implemented solution desperately searching for an ill-defined problem.
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Given that the chance of any random person being in the computer labs at UIUC (whatever that is) is itself pretty low, that doesn't really make much of a hole in the grandparent's claim.
If you're outside the UK it won't let you see most things. And if it did, they'd be in realplayer format (don't install realplayer - it's crap).
Doc: Can you read the top line on the chart?
Insect: Zzzzzzz.
Doc: Now the third line.
Insect: Zzzzzzz.
Doc: [Sigh] And the bottonm one, please.
Insect: Zzzzzzz.
Not exactly fast though, is it? Maybe that explains why larger plants use transpiration.
Are you German, by any chance?
It'd need a snappy name though. How about "postquels" - I like the sound of that.
But why were the Cylons created? Did they like fall in hot lava and get their arma & legs totally burned off or something?
Secondly, they didn't do it for very long - they usually packed in work when they got married in them thar' days.
Thirdly, they were properly trained.
Seems your friend should have checked their CVs more carefully and recruited those with a literature or journalisnm background rather than perl programmers.
I thought the monkeys/shakespeare conjecture had already been proved, if you account for genetic drift?
Could be that. Alternatively, we might just recognise (through bitter experience and disappointment) the difference between a useful, practical product and a conceptually flawed, half-implemented solution desperately searching for an ill-defined problem.