From the article: the machine should never really run higher than ambient room temperature if all is well
How long after you switch it on does the ambient room temperature make it up to the operating temperature of the pc?
Every other day, I tie my cell phone to a well trained swallow (european - it's a small phone) and let it fly around with it all day. Worst case, it nests in the eaves of a meth lab, in which case I present the DEA with the swallow.
In many areas, including job interviews, your command of your primary language can have great influence. I found that by studying a second language, Spanish in my case, my English grammer improved immensely. I think this was because I was forced to think about it for Spanish, whereas in my native English I had picked up most of it by example and never really paid attention to English grammar in elementary school.
Homer: I was working on a flat tax proposal and I accidentally proved there's no God. Ned Flanders: We'll just see about tha--Oh, maybe he made a mistake? Nope... it's air-tight.
Being slightly attention deficit, I can tell you that this does work. If I have a background of unintelligible noise, or even something relatively constant like music, I can concentrate. But if there is no constant background and I can occasionally pick up a piece of conversation, I get distracted as my mind tries to focus on that conversation, even if it is none of my business and/or not of any interest to me.
Music has a few drawbacks like when a really good tune comes on. White noise or "environmental soundscape" are good for covering occasional minor sounds in a quiet area, but this is probably better because it specifically obfuscates the distracting conversations.
You are most likely correct in stating that for those people who perform better in mostly quiet conditions, this would only detract from the silence between conversations.
And with the virtual taxes that the government collects, what services will they provide? I forsee:
Public works - highways that use 5 times the number of prims that a private highway would use, are unnecessarily and inefficiently scripted, and go nowhere anyone wants to go
A standing army - to protect Second Life from hackers (or to invade SWG)
Welfare - L$ supplemental income for people who can't script well enough to support themselves.
If one of these rolled into your cubicle/office/building, would you: a) punt it 2) hack it c) disassemble it for useful parts d) melt it down for useful chemicals and metals
and although I can't imagine a/.er chosing this one, I'll go ahead and include it: e) let it map the interior of your personal space
I thought that plant flowering triggered by reaching a certain number of hours of daylight during the day. OMG, is global warming slowing the rotation of the earth?
I finally went back to school and got my bachelors in Computer Science in 1999 a month before my 38th birthday. I immediately got a job with a major corporation in the industry. It certainly helped that I look a good 10-15 years younger than my real age, but if you can do the course work and prove in an interview that you have what it takes, mid to late 20s is certainly not too old to change careers.
You should however be certain of where you are going. Building PCs and doing light web development are not what most software engineers do in their day jobs. Teach yourself Java or Python or something and try your hand at some more substantial software development. And that is good practice - in most software engineering classes, the focus of the class is more about basic concepts and you are expected to teach yourself whatever you need of the language du jour to implement projects.
Admittedly the stuff on the Wolfram Mathworld link was above my head. But I think that it said that a curvature could be detectable without being able to perceive the higher dimension through which it curved. I don't think it actually said that the curvature exists without the higher dimension, i.e. the flatlander on the surface of the balloon could determine that the balloon wasn't a plane surface, but it is still a balloon in 3-space.
This would be analogous to us being able to determine that space-time is curved in proximity to mass, even though we cannot directly perceive what it curves into.
I'm not qualified intellectually or philosophically to question the validity of your statement that curvature can exist without the higher dimension; I'm just saying that the link you provided doesn't actually seem to support that statement explicitly.
Perhaps not impossible, but phenomenally unlikely for at least a couple of reasons.
The amount of energy produced by a human brain is quite small. It is governed by the inverse squared law like all electromagnetic energy. So at even a couple of feet it would take something much more sensitive than another human brain to even detect the existence of the energy, much less make any coherent interpretation of it.
There is no focusing mechanism at either end. So telepathy would be as easy as facing your monitor toward a wall painted flat white and trying to read the text by looking at the reflected light through your closed eyelids.
An as to the 200 years ago argument, the scientific method is the main reason that we have a better idea today of what is beyond our present technology versus what is almost certainly impossible. Given the difficulties I listed above, telepathy would require a mechanism completely unexpected by any rational theory of physics. Impossible? I cannot say that it is. But (according to quantum theory) it also is possible that some day the quanta composing my body will align with those of the earth in just such a way that I will slip through to the center. And I give both the occurrence of that event and existence of telepathy about the same odds.
Your question was, What is an "offensive" word/concept? But your subsequent argument focused solely on why a word isn't intrinsically offensive. What you failed to address is the fact that words are the manifestation of an idea or an action or something. "Nazi" and "nigger" are just words. But if someone were to call me either of those, I would take offense at the word. Not because my upbringing has trained me to have a Pavlovian response to the phonemes, but because the ideas being expressed by the speaker are counter to my ethical and/or moral framework.
What percentage of people who advocate piracy actually produce anything themselves that someone would want to pirate? I'm sure that there are some, but just based on averages it's pretty certain that most of these people have never lost a potential dollar to someone who just got a bootleg copy rather than paying for the product of their labor.
It's the same bogus argument they've trotted out before, which is easily debunked. Much of that unauthorized software is being used to make firms much more productive than they would be otherwise -- probably benefiting the overall economy quite a bit.
That's B.S. So a firm might be more productive (and profitable?) using a software package, thus contributing to the general economy. No argument with that. But I fail to see how this debunks the BSA's arguments. Is techdirt (or Mike, or whoever) arguing that the same firm would be less productive if it had paid for instead of pirated the software?
and come back to spacefaring when we have a better solution? There's the rub. First, once you put NASA on hiatus, a major part of the incentive for new engineers to enter the field is lost; you will soon drop the talent pool substantially. Second, if NASA goes away, it will be much harder (both from a logistics viewpoint and from a public relations viewpoint) to bring it back. There are lots of people now who say that NASA is a waste of money to maintain. Stopping it then restarting it is not only expensive, but those same people would be able to point out how we are getting along without it just fine.
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From the article:
the machine should never really run higher than ambient room temperature if all is well
How long after you switch it on does the ambient room temperature make it up to the operating temperature of the pc?
Every other day, I tie my cell phone to a well trained swallow (european - it's a small phone) and let it fly around with it all day. Worst case, it nests in the eaves of a meth lab, in which case I present the DEA with the swallow.
In many areas, including job interviews, your command of your primary language can have great influence. I found that by studying a second language, Spanish in my case, my English grammer improved immensely. I think this was because I was forced to think about it for Spanish, whereas in my native English I had picked up most of it by example and never really paid attention to English grammar in elementary school.
Homer: I was working on a flat tax proposal and I accidentally proved there's no God.
Ned Flanders: We'll just see about tha--Oh, maybe he made a mistake? Nope... it's air-tight.
Nano shiv used to cut out of a cell.
But....don't naked eyes in space freeze or explode or something equally unpleasant?
Being slightly attention deficit, I can tell you that this does work. If I have a background of unintelligible noise, or even something relatively constant like music, I can concentrate. But if there is no constant background and I can occasionally pick up a piece of conversation, I get distracted as my mind tries to focus on that conversation, even if it is none of my business and/or not of any interest to me.
Music has a few drawbacks like when a really good tune comes on. White noise or "environmental soundscape" are good for covering occasional minor sounds in a quiet area, but this is probably better because it specifically obfuscates the distracting conversations.
You are most likely correct in stating that for those people who perform better in mostly quiet conditions, this would only detract from the silence between conversations.
If one of these rolled into your cubicle/office/building, would you:
/.er chosing this one, I'll go ahead and include it:
a) punt it
2) hack it
c) disassemble it for useful parts
d) melt it down for useful chemicals and metals
and although I can't imagine a
e) let it map the interior of your personal space
Not to mention the iPod shuffle
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I thought that plant flowering triggered by reaching a certain number of hours of daylight during the day. OMG, is global warming slowing the rotation of the earth?
No, Microsoft has already been there, done that.
You should however be certain of where you are going. Building PCs and doing light web development are not what most software engineers do in their day jobs. Teach yourself Java or Python or something and try your hand at some more substantial software development. And that is good practice - in most software engineering classes, the focus of the class is more about basic concepts and you are expected to teach yourself whatever you need of the language du jour to implement projects.
This would be analogous to us being able to determine that space-time is curved in proximity to mass, even though we cannot directly perceive what it curves into.
I'm not qualified intellectually or philosophically to question the validity of your statement that curvature can exist without the higher dimension; I'm just saying that the link you provided doesn't actually seem to support that statement explicitly.
No, serious bears have a similar system. Funny bears never eat people. (Wocka Wocka Wocka!).
Unfortunately, "Wii" was already taken.
- The amount of energy produced by a human brain is quite small. It is governed by the inverse squared law like all electromagnetic energy. So at even a couple of feet it would take something much more sensitive than another human brain to even detect the existence of the energy, much less make any coherent interpretation of it.
- There is no focusing mechanism at either end. So telepathy would be as easy as facing your monitor toward a wall painted flat white and trying to read the text by looking at the reflected light through your closed eyelids.
An as to the 200 years ago argument, the scientific method is the main reason that we have a better idea today of what is beyond our present technology versus what is almost certainly impossible. Given the difficulties I listed above, telepathy would require a mechanism completely unexpected by any rational theory of physics. Impossible? I cannot say that it is. But (according to quantum theory) it also is possible that some day the quanta composing my body will align with those of the earth in just such a way that I will slip through to the center. And I give both the occurrence of that event and existence of telepathy about the same odds.Your question was, What is an "offensive" word/concept? But your subsequent argument focused solely on why a word isn't intrinsically offensive. What you failed to address is the fact that words are the manifestation of an idea or an action or something. "Nazi" and "nigger" are just words. But if someone were to call me either of those, I would take offense at the word. Not because my upbringing has trained me to have a Pavlovian response to the phonemes, but because the ideas being expressed by the speaker are counter to my ethical and/or moral framework.
What percentage of people who advocate piracy actually produce anything themselves that someone would want to pirate? I'm sure that there are some, but just based on averages it's pretty certain that most of these people have never lost a potential dollar to someone who just got a bootleg copy rather than paying for the product of their labor.
It has been known for many years that cell phone radiation stimulates the brains of product liability lawyers.
That's B.S. So a firm might be more productive (and profitable?) using a software package, thus contributing to the general economy. No argument with that. But I fail to see how this debunks the BSA's arguments. Is techdirt (or Mike, or whoever) arguing that the same firm would be less productive if it had paid for instead of pirated the software?
The self replicating repair nanobots just have to keep the space elevator working long enough for us to get out ahead of the grey goo.
As a side note, the "confirm you're not a script" word when I posted this was "barbecue"
and come back to spacefaring when we have a better solution?
There's the rub. First, once you put NASA on hiatus, a major part of the incentive for new engineers to enter the field is lost; you will soon drop the talent pool substantially. Second, if NASA goes away, it will be much harder (both from a logistics viewpoint and from a public relations viewpoint) to bring it back. There are lots of people now who say that NASA is a waste of money to maintain. Stopping it then restarting it is not only expensive, but those same people would be able to point out how we are getting along without it just fine.
"If you've ever handled a penny, the government's got your DNA. Why do you think they keep 'em in circulation?"