As a recent OS X convert myself The most important part of your entire statement. It takes time to get used to any system. I switched from Linux to a Sun Ultra + Solaris a few years back and ran into similar types problems. After a year, I couldn't work on anything else.
Sure, hence the creationist's obsession with "truth". Rather than re-define fact, they hijack another word. I've actually heard creationists say things like "something can be 'true' even if it's not a 'fact'". Gah!! I swear they argue just to make my head hurt.
Hence Stephen Colbert's 2005 winning word: truthiness, defined as: truthy, not facty.
OK - I deal with Google ads (and MSN, etc) for a living. The fact is - Google has very strict policies - but not every account manager at Google is equal (what... you think these ads aren't manually managed?). Some are very paranoid, and will shut down anything with a single complaint, others will spend more time and look into it, and a few won't act until they have gotten multiple complaints or even threatened with lawsuits. Also, the size of the account plays into how lenient they are as well. If you are bidding on a million keywords they'll tend to let things slide, as opposed to someone who bids on 10 or 20.
So... it's not a conspiracy and it's not a corporate ethics thing, it's just that some people are better at their jobs than others.
And Mohammed, far from being a prophet, was an opportunist who figured like Akenaten, Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard that he could use religion as a tool and scam. Don't forget Paul and Moses and every other religious leader (I won't add Jesus, because everyone knows he never really existed:-P ). If prostitution is the world's oldest profession, profiting from religion runs a close second. Sadly, the difference is nil.
Yeah, I've never understood the popularity of String Theory... there exist more elegant solutions. A substrate-neutral theory is much more interesting to me, and solves problems like the ERP paradox.
"LQG has gained limited support in the physics community. At present more physicists work in string theory than in LQG." But why?
I tend to agree with Jeff Hawkins (the guy who designed Palm). AI is not a software or a computational problem - it's an engineering problem. Until we have circuits that can mimic neurons (massively parallel) we're just chasing our own tails with approximations of tasks.
Would you rather live in a world that's flat, or a world that's round? If Terry Pratchett is at all correct, I think I'd rather live on a flat world. At the very least, it would be fun to ride on the back of a turtle.
Science starts out with a question and then a solution, religion just jumps straight to the solution hoping they are correct. They don't just hope it's correct - they kick and plead and scream and change the board until it is correct. They go to congress and try and redefine "science", or get the local school board to kick out teachers to teach evolution. No, hope implies passivity - those kind of people try and remake reality in God's image.
Oh sweet Jesus - it's the "corporate whore" arguement: "I can't think of any commercial use for this research - ergo pointless."
People like you are the reason our schools are dropping art and music programs because there is no commercial use for them - and dropping pure mathematics research (like Calabi-Yau space... which eventually became integral in string theory years later) in favor of utilitarian discovery (like pushing the bounderies of actuarial science... not too inspiring). No wonder kids are dropping math and science. When I was a kid I wanted to be like Mr. Wizard (one cool motherfucker) - how inspiring is it to be a corporate wonk?
I've always wanted to have a ticket printed out that contains your votes, a code, and a phone number. So later in the day (or immediately?) you can call the number and verify - from the central vote repository - that your vote is correct. afaik votes are a matter of public record - so I've never understood the problem w/ just having a public database of voting records. When my dad ran for county council he just went to the court house and got a huge list of everyone who voted in the district the last election - every should be able to do it.
It amazes me that, in this day and age, there are still concerns like this around social networks. If you want community involvement in your platform - involve the community in its design! OSS and Wikipedia have proven that it is a workable model. That's why I've recently moved my blog+myspace profile over to a wiki-based social network: http://meopedia.com/en/User:Eric_Redmond
Depends on what you mean by "short". It took me 18 hours to beat it, without doing any extras (collecting cards, being the 100 samur-guys, the "trials" things...). There's easily a good 25 hours worth of playtime without repeating yourself. That's long enough for me.
It's so true... you can talk about how much a genius Plato was... but what was his competition? The CS "greats" were also smart guys - they also weren't encumbered by a lot of legacy crap.
It reminds me of the 'survival bias'... as time passes, people tend to forget the crap, and remember the good stuff (the things that survive). For every good thing these giants did (Aristotle defining the syllogism) there tended to be a lot of crap people forget (his knack for making physics dictums w/o testing them).
Average American? Absolutely. One think people don't realize is that average household wealth hasn't really increased much since the 50's... the difference now is that 2 people tend to work outside the home, instead of just 1. People are working far more for far less than before. My personal income is around 100K... add my wife's and our household income is around 250K. We know some fairly successful people, but veeeery few individuals make over $250/year, but a fair number of households do.
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Not the be a stickler, but the creation museum is in Kentucky. Kansas is the state with the retarded schoolboard.
Sure, hence the creationist's obsession with "truth". Rather than re-define fact, they hijack another word. I've actually heard creationists say things like "something can be 'true' even if it's not a 'fact'". Gah!! I swear they argue just to make my head hurt. Hence Stephen Colbert's 2005 winning word: truthiness, defined as: truthy, not facty.
We're talking about evidence here, which has nothing to do with joy or peace. Facts don't care if you feel good about them.
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OK - I deal with Google ads (and MSN, etc) for a living. The fact is - Google has very strict policies - but not every account manager at Google is equal (what... you think these ads aren't manually managed?). Some are very paranoid, and will shut down anything with a single complaint, others will spend more time and look into it, and a few won't act until they have gotten multiple complaints or even threatened with lawsuits. Also, the size of the account plays into how lenient they are as well. If you are bidding on a million keywords they'll tend to let things slide, as opposed to someone who bids on 10 or 20.
So... it's not a conspiracy and it's not a corporate ethics thing, it's just that some people are better at their jobs than others.
Yeah, I've never understood the popularity of String Theory... there exist more elegant solutions. A substrate-neutral theory is much more interesting to me, and solves problems like the ERP paradox.
"LQG has gained limited support in the physics community. At present more physicists work in string theory than in LQG." But why?
I tend to agree with Jeff Hawkins (the guy who designed Palm). AI is not a software or a computational problem - it's an engineering problem. Until we have circuits that can mimic neurons (massively parallel) we're just chasing our own tails with approximations of tasks.
What an impressive list - big deal.
Yeah, but what if I reeeally want it to be true?
Oh sweet Jesus - it's the "corporate whore" arguement: "I can't think of any commercial use for this research - ergo pointless." People like you are the reason our schools are dropping art and music programs because there is no commercial use for them - and dropping pure mathematics research (like Calabi-Yau space... which eventually became integral in string theory years later) in favor of utilitarian discovery (like pushing the bounderies of actuarial science... not too inspiring). No wonder kids are dropping math and science. When I was a kid I wanted to be like Mr. Wizard (one cool motherfucker) - how inspiring is it to be a corporate wonk?
I've always wanted to have a ticket printed out that contains your votes, a code, and a phone number. So later in the day (or immediately?) you can call the number and verify - from the central vote repository - that your vote is correct. afaik votes are a matter of public record - so I've never understood the problem w/ just having a public database of voting records. When my dad ran for county council he just went to the court house and got a huge list of everyone who voted in the district the last election - every should be able to do it.
according to NPR today it's 15
It amazes me that, in this day and age, there are still concerns like this around social networks. If you want community involvement in your platform - involve the community in its design! OSS and Wikipedia have proven that it is a workable model. That's why I've recently moved my blog+myspace profile over to a wiki-based social network: http://meopedia.com/en/User:Eric_Redmond
Depends on what you mean by "short". It took me 18 hours to beat it, without doing any extras (collecting cards, being the 100 samur-guys, the "trials" things...). There's easily a good 25 hours worth of playtime without repeating yourself. That's long enough for me.
It's so true... you can talk about how much a genius Plato was... but what was his competition? The CS "greats" were also smart guys - they also weren't encumbered by a lot of legacy crap.
It reminds me of the 'survival bias'... as time passes, people tend to forget the crap, and remember the good stuff (the things that survive). For every good thing these giants did (Aristotle defining the syllogism) there tended to be a lot of crap people forget (his knack for making physics dictums w/o testing them).
I'm more concerned about someone patenting "thought" as a "proprietary interface".
web searches you?
Oh poor Zelda realm, Your world can wait while I fish. Hyrulian crack!
Average American? Absolutely. One think people don't realize is that average household wealth hasn't really increased much since the 50's... the difference now is that 2 people tend to work outside the home, instead of just 1. People are working far more for far less than before. My personal income is around 100K... add my wife's and our household income is around 250K. We know some fairly successful people, but veeeery few individuals make over $250/year, but a fair number of households do.
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