... Maths provides no thrust, doesn't move mass, you can't eat it, you can't breathe it.
It does move mass. Without a lot of serious number crunching, we wouldn't have any modern cars, planes or anything else.Anything more complicated than a dugout canoe needs calculations.
You can't eat it, sure but without it millions would not eat.
If the world keeps trundling along without a few more sums, everyone will have as much fun breathing as people in Beijing
I never said you had to be particularly good at anything. Just possessing a basic grounding - hence the expression about 10 year old. That will not make you into a "space nutter". Education into some of the basics, not just mathematics, of being an adult will help you to make more informed decisions and statements.
A simple grasp of arithmetic would show you that spending less money on exploring space will not put any more money into the hands of the poor. A little background in human behaviour will explain the reason has something to do with the greed of the powerful. A little knowledge of history would show you what happens to groups, societies and empires that stop looking outwards and just try and concentrate on internals.
I presume by that description, you are referring to people who can do better mathematics than 10 year olds, know some history and perhaps basic sociology?
No. They will mostly ignore you. I just felt like a bit of troll feeding before I went to bed.
It is depressing to me just how few people admit haw mind bendingly awful it is that we have not been back for what used to be a lifetime.
As to why, I can think of several reasons that nobody from earth has been back in this time...
1. Lack of political leadership globally.
2. There are easier ways to fill pork barrels.
3. The press in the developed world is in the hands of an ever smaller bunch of sociopaths who take pride in being unscientific.
4. The world is too comfortable for the 1%
5. There is a myth that if we don't spend it on progress, the money will be used to feed/house the poor and hungry.
6. Fear by the powerful that once people are off earth, they will become "global citizens", not just good Americans, Russians, Brits or whatever.
Apple has been trying to play catch up for some time now. When the nice shiny Mac+ came out, that was them (partly) passing the Nexus5 generation. My daughters one seems nearly comparable to my Note4 except that her photos don't seem as sharp as mine.
Perhaps its just the inferior display?
It probably doesn't matter how far they are behind the market leaders. Few people by an iPhone because of its superiority.
Meanwhile Dubai, Riyadh, Baghdad, Manama, etc have average summer temperatures of 40 and pushing towards 50 degrees (122F)! And _still_ with high humidify. Desert heat with ocean humidity, and yet little rain - it rarely cools below the dew point.
I spent part of my childhood there - until 01/01/79 when we left in a rush. We were about 60 miles north/inland from Abadan which is on the coast. Summer temperatures were above 50C every day and often 55 to 60.
Temperature was not the only factor though. Humidity is fractionally under 100% and there are very strong hot winds. I visited a steelworks when at college, the two felt similar. Hot and uncomfortable but the steelworks smelled better!
How about Porsche being Apple only because that is what some brain dead "beautiful person" wants to do to keep the cool factor in their cars?
After all, if Android devices were allowed near their new baby, it would loose dome of its exclusivity now that 90% of new phones would work in it instead of 10 and falling, People who have an iThing because it shows that they are potential executives would shun this as would anyone who felt that appearance was more important than capability.
If you want to lower your sales, an easier answer is to raise your price.
I believe that, in the past, Microsoft lied about certain updates as to whether they were vital security updates or not,
They could just as easily lie in the future and force down something that helps them keep a better eye on us but label it as vital security.
Any non-IT person would normally be well advised to have the system automatically install security updates. Those of us who are may have to trust MS as our particular area of expertise does not include what "this" update is supposed to fix. Does everyone here check everything anyway? Life is busy...
I have come across so many idiots who think that all you need is education and caution and you don't need A/V. Please keep it up guys. it's sometimes really funny.
Why? For stating such a simple fact?
It's certainly a knockoff something. Apple is not exactly known for originality - just for tweaking other peoples inventions and then suing other people for it,.
This is a good example of why all forms of information should be retained and studied.
We have history going back ever further. Who know what might be found in ancient maths, astronomy, cooking, animal husbandry or whatever.
What other useful things might be pulled out when the right to people sit down together in the cafeteria. It is the best of blue sky thinking and a great reason to keep those non STEM subjects going.
Lets see about stopping the destruction of ancient history in Syria. Maybe we can find again how to make Damascus steel. (Something to keep the conservatives feeling positive there.)
Version 1 of a product is the point where something changes from "pre release", Beta, Developer edition, Alpha etc to Live.
I imagine that a lot of people here are familiar with using Betas - or even create them.
Like you, I have been using Privacy Badger for a while now but now, it is no longer experimental - hopefully anyway.
It should continue to update with time. Good luck to them.
Advertisments, in my mind, tend to be for things that will make the producers money. The EFF is not asking for money for this. You do not have to look at adverts. Do they count downloads? Probably. Do they track users? It would make an interesting story if they did but I think they probably don't.
Slashdit talks about new stuff. We might talk about new versions of Linux. That's not surprising. Someone might want to talk about the new #iShinyShiny thing from Apple as compared to his (more often than not) Android smartphone. People here like to slag off Apple. The EFF gets a more civilised ride.
There is a serious difference between saying negative things to/about someone and being rude. Learning that is one of the things that happens as people grow up.
Telling someone to their face that you don't like them does not show that you have anything other than a severe lack of tact. That is not honesty. At times, it can be straightforward stupidity.
There are very few people that I/we loathe. There are certainly plenty around that I would rather be somewhere else than next to but that is not the same thing. Loathing implies a wish to harm. One of the last times this country wished anyone harm, our prime minister obediently followed your president into Iraq. That was one of the most amazingly stupid things ever done by a British leader in centuries. We are now living with the consequences. I want us to go back to not loathing as soon as possible!
As for the empire, my ancestors gave it back to the peoples that their ancestors had taken it from. On the whole, we are still on good terms with most of them.
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Something that has been in the news a few times is how some places are better to live than others.
I regularly see people from the USA strongly disputing this. How can anywhere possibly be better to live than the US? You have your Constitution, various amendments and some of you have a lot of money.
If this is right, perhaps it is to do with manners. So often your countryfolk seem brusque at best and just plain rude a lot of the time. This is definitely not all of you and not everyone in Denmark and Bhutan are amazingly polite at all times. What is evident though is that rudeness can be taken as a badge of honour in some places. In others politeness is seen as the target.
Example: A couple of years ago, I was taking part in a discussion about the treatment of transgender people. My attitude is that if someone has gone through all "that process", it is just good manners to call them what they want to be. This was taken by some that I am somewhere in the LGBTIQ... spectrum. I'm not. I'm straight white Northern European but also a (usually) polite Brit.
It would be interesting to compare where is supposed to be good and bad places to live with their local norms of politeness.
The trouble is that you also come out with some strange ones.
An acre foot? Weight in pounds but no major units? Farenheit???
Fortunately, there is google to convert things and I am pretty good at mental arithmetic.
An acre foot is 325,851 and 2 fifths US "gallons" or 271,328.07 normal gallons. For those of us here on Earth, that is 1,233,481.84 litres. We laugh at "furlongs per hogshead" but this is pretty similar.
When old people here give their heights, they use feet and inches and I presume people in the US do too. How is that people in the US insist on things like saying their weight is 178 pounds or that item of equipment is 3,500 pounds? There are 14 pounds in a stone so that is 12 stone 10 and 2000 pounds in a "short" ton so that is 1.75 short tons. Why not drop larger units from distances and give all distances in furlongs then?
Water freezes at 0 and boils at 100. It's just simpler. With apropriate equipment and facilities, I can live between -50 and plus 50. I know the historical stories about the fallacies that 0F was the coldest you could get water and 100F was the temperature of the human body. Both of those are incorrect. If they were the only reason, there would be even less reason for people to use that I remember my parents explaining to my grandparents quite a few decades ago.
Using Celcius is probably the simplest change but it has the least pushing it as the sensible option.
I am 1.81 metres tall and a proper geeky 129 Kg. The weather is a balmy 22 degrees and the wind is only a couple of metres a second. I Have a litre sized water bottle on my desk. Those are pretty human sized units...
Recently, we were looking for a new supplier (DR I think) and one of the possibles had a hotmail adress. It didn't make us reject them because of it but we certainly wondered about them.
No they didn't get the contract but their email wasn't the reason.
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... Maths provides no thrust, doesn't move mass, you can't eat it, you can't breathe it.
It does move mass. Without a lot of serious number crunching, we wouldn't have any modern cars, planes or anything else.Anything more complicated than a dugout canoe needs calculations.
You can't eat it, sure but without it millions would not eat.
If the world keeps trundling along without a few more sums, everyone will have as much fun breathing as people in Beijing
I never said you had to be particularly good at anything. Just possessing a basic grounding - hence the expression about 10 year old. That will not make you into a "space nutter". Education into some of the basics, not just mathematics, of being an adult will help you to make more informed decisions and statements.
A simple grasp of arithmetic would show you that spending less money on exploring space will not put any more money into the hands of the poor. A little background in human behaviour will explain the reason has something to do with the greed of the powerful. A little knowledge of history would show you what happens to groups, societies and empires that stop looking outwards and just try and concentrate on internals.
Now the Space Nutters will.....
I presume by that description, you are referring to people who can do better mathematics than 10 year olds, know some history and perhaps basic sociology?
No. They will mostly ignore you. I just felt like a bit of troll feeding before I went to bed.
It is depressing to me just how few people admit haw mind bendingly awful it is that we have not been back for what used to be a lifetime.
As to why, I can think of several reasons that nobody from earth has been back in this time...
1. Lack of political leadership globally.
2. There are easier ways to fill pork barrels.
3. The press in the developed world is in the hands of an ever smaller bunch of sociopaths who take pride in being unscientific.
4. The world is too comfortable for the 1%
5. There is a myth that if we don't spend it on progress, the money will be used to feed/house the poor and hungry.
6. Fear by the powerful that once people are off earth, they will become "global citizens", not just good Americans, Russians, Brits or whatever.
Are they arresting people who are pointing out that not enough is being done, or those who are worried about the bottome lines of the big polluters?
Apple has been trying to play catch up for some time now. When the nice shiny Mac+ came out, that was them (partly) passing the Nexus5 generation. My daughters one seems nearly comparable to my Note4 except that her photos don't seem as sharp as mine.
Perhaps its just the inferior display?
It probably doesn't matter how far they are behind the market leaders. Few people by an iPhone because of its superiority.
It wasn't that long ago and we were supposed to be scared to death of the pending ice age that was driving us all into cold temperatures.
I remember reading science fiction about that sort of thing but apart from a bit of right-wing fearmongering nothing else.
Meanwhile Dubai, Riyadh, Baghdad, Manama, etc have average summer temperatures of 40 and pushing towards 50 degrees (122F)! And _still_ with high humidify. Desert heat with ocean humidity, and yet little rain - it rarely cools below the dew point.
I spent part of my childhood there - until 01/01/79 when we left in a rush. We were about 60 miles north/inland from Abadan which is on the coast. Summer temperatures were above 50C every day and often 55 to 60.
Temperature was not the only factor though. Humidity is fractionally under 100% and there are very strong hot winds. I visited a steelworks when at college, the two felt similar. Hot and uncomfortable but the steelworks smelled better!
Outside the USA, there are very few sidewalks and none in London.
As English is not only our first language but it goes back centuries, we have pavements.
It has to be turned on.
Just say "You have beautiful eyes." That might work.
How about Porsche being Apple only because that is what some brain dead "beautiful person" wants to do to keep the cool factor in their cars?
After all, if Android devices were allowed near their new baby, it would loose dome of its exclusivity now that 90% of new phones would work in it instead of 10 and falling, People who have an iThing because it shows that they are potential executives would shun this as would anyone who felt that appearance was more important than capability.
If you want to lower your sales, an easier answer is to raise your price.
Too much self respect.
I believe that, in the past, Microsoft lied about certain updates as to whether they were vital security updates or not,
They could just as easily lie in the future and force down something that helps them keep a better eye on us but label it as vital security.
Any non-IT person would normally be well advised to have the system automatically install security updates. Those of us who are may have to trust MS as our particular area of expertise does not include what "this" update is supposed to fix. Does everyone here check everything anyway? Life is busy...
I have come across so many idiots who think that all you need is education and caution and you don't need A/V. Please keep it up guys. it's sometimes really funny.
They'd think you were an idiot...
Why? For stating such a simple fact?
It's certainly a knockoff something. Apple is not exactly known for originality - just for tweaking other peoples inventions and then suing other people for it,.
How about Greek fire then? I'm sure that napalm isn't as good.
This is a good example of why all forms of information should be retained and studied.
We have history going back ever further. Who know what might be found in ancient maths, astronomy, cooking, animal husbandry or whatever.
What other useful things might be pulled out when the right to people sit down together in the cafeteria. It is the best of blue sky thinking and a great reason to keep those non STEM subjects going.
Lets see about stopping the destruction of ancient history in Syria. Maybe we can find again how to make Damascus steel. (Something to keep the conservatives feeling positive there.)
Version 1 of a product is the point where something changes from "pre release", Beta, Developer edition, Alpha etc to Live.
I imagine that a lot of people here are familiar with using Betas - or even create them.
Like you, I have been using Privacy Badger for a while now but now, it is no longer experimental - hopefully anyway.
It should continue to update with time. Good luck to them.
Advertisments, in my mind, tend to be for things that will make the producers money. The EFF is not asking for money for this. You do not have to look at adverts. Do they count downloads? Probably. Do they track users? It would make an interesting story if they did but I think they probably don't.
Slashdit talks about new stuff. We might talk about new versions of Linux. That's not surprising. Someone might want to talk about the new #iShinyShiny thing from Apple as compared to his (more often than not) Android smartphone. People here like to slag off Apple. The EFF gets a more civilised ride.
You seem to be verifying what I said.
There is a serious difference between saying negative things to/about someone and being rude. Learning that is one of the things that happens as people grow up.
Telling someone to their face that you don't like them does not show that you have anything other than a severe lack of tact. That is not honesty. At times, it can be straightforward stupidity.
There are very few people that I/we loathe. There are certainly plenty around that I would rather be somewhere else than next to but that is not the same thing. Loathing implies a wish to harm. One of the last times this country wished anyone harm, our prime minister obediently followed your president into Iraq. That was one of the most amazingly stupid things ever done by a British leader in centuries. We are now living with the consequences. I want us to go back to not loathing as soon as possible!
As for the empire, my ancestors gave it back to the peoples that their ancestors had taken it from. On the whole, we are still on good terms with most of them.
Something that has been in the news a few times is how some places are better to live than others.
I regularly see people from the USA strongly disputing this. How can anywhere possibly be better to live than the US? You have your Constitution, various amendments and some of you have a lot of money.
If this is right, perhaps it is to do with manners. So often your countryfolk seem brusque at best and just plain rude a lot of the time. This is definitely not all of you and not everyone in Denmark and Bhutan are amazingly polite at all times. What is evident though is that rudeness can be taken as a badge of honour in some places. In others politeness is seen as the target.
Example: A couple of years ago, I was taking part in a discussion about the treatment of transgender people. My attitude is that if someone has gone through all "that process", it is just good manners to call them what they want to be. This was taken by some that I am somewhere in the LGBTIQ... spectrum. I'm not. I'm straight white Northern European but also a (usually) polite Brit.
It would be interesting to compare where is supposed to be good and bad places to live with their local norms of politeness.
The trouble is that you also come out with some strange ones.
An acre foot? Weight in pounds but no major units? Farenheit???
Fortunately, there is google to convert things and I am pretty good at mental arithmetic.
An acre foot is 325,851 and 2 fifths US "gallons" or 271,328.07 normal gallons. For those of us here on Earth, that is 1,233,481.84 litres. We laugh at "furlongs per hogshead" but this is pretty similar.
When old people here give their heights, they use feet and inches and I presume people in the US do too. How is that people in the US insist on things like saying their weight is 178 pounds or that item of equipment is 3,500 pounds? There are 14 pounds in a stone so that is 12 stone 10 and 2000 pounds in a "short" ton so that is 1.75 short tons. Why not drop larger units from distances and give all distances in furlongs then?
Water freezes at 0 and boils at 100. It's just simpler. With apropriate equipment and facilities, I can live between -50 and plus 50. I know the historical stories about the fallacies that 0F was the coldest you could get water and 100F was the temperature of the human body. Both of those are incorrect. If they were the only reason, there would be even less reason for people to use that I remember my parents explaining to my grandparents quite a few decades ago.
Using Celcius is probably the simplest change but it has the least pushing it as the sensible option.
I am 1.81 metres tall and a proper geeky 129 Kg. The weather is a balmy 22 degrees and the wind is only a couple of metres a second. I Have a litre sized water bottle on my desk. Those are pretty human sized units...
Tonne actually but carry on anyway ;).
Or half litre ones?
So the bar can short you and the only comeback you have is to withdraw your insignificant custom?
Good for their bottom line anyway...
60 HZ FTW!
No thanks. I prefer the figure of 0.2 seconds per cycle rather than your 0.1666r seconds per cycle.
Recently, we were looking for a new supplier (DR I think) and one of the possibles had a hotmail adress. It didn't make us reject them because of it but we certainly wondered about them.
No they didn't get the contract but their email wasn't the reason.