The best results come from people applying their expertise to a problem, not from fallacious prioritizing. Google obviously believes this is a problem they'll be good at. Despite the bleak pictures the media likes to paint there is still plenty of benefit that developing countries can draw from internet access.
Okay, predict the upper-bound age of a man for the next 2500 years.
Just inflate your prediction so that you have a high confidence. There is no useful information in such arbitrary numbers.
If you get it dead-on, would there be a reason to believe things you say?
No, absolutely not. That would be an authoritarian fallacy.
I don't feel the need to retype everything for everyone who makes this claim, individually.
Ever heard of copy and paste? You could even link to the post. All you're doing here is deferring your argument, which is pretty clumsy. In reality you're just hoping people will lose interest and ignore all the holes poked in your posts.
Two different viewpoints. You could also say that with cheaper food people have moved more and more towards very rich foods and that in turn leads to obesity. If people were to eat more unrefined foods they would get fewer calories for the same volume and more minerals and micronutrients. But the rich stuff is certainly tastier, which is why people eat so much of it.
"3* Would you rather read a book in a traditional printed format or on an electronic book-reading device like a Kindle?"
Without any preconditions this question is pretty useless. Have these people tried an e-reader for a substantial amount of time? Are they heavy readers or just random people who might only ever read occasionally? Does the question include all the added conveniences of an e-reader or merely the visual aspect of reading?
For me personally there are definitely printed books which look better than e-readers, but there are also a great number of prints which look so terrible that I find it much more comfortable to read an electronic version.
2. e-readers are perfect for this too. 3. If you're so inclined you can do this on an e-reader too. 6. The paper industry is notoriously dirty. If you get through a lot of newspapers and books you're better off buying an e-reader.
Well, there sure are scientific reasons to believe that Adam wasn't the first man. Which makes sense. For that matter there aren't any scientific reasons to believe anything Genesis says.
But we're talking about the in-story world, in which it's pretty clear that Adam was the first man and there is no mention of any pre-existing society. So far you haven't provided any scientific of scriptural reasoning why the first generations got by without incest.
The decimal points imply you know it with kind of accuracy, where in fact nobody does. 1 Billion is definitely on the low end of estimates. A 10 year old study puts the number of L2 speakers at 1.5 Billion, and some higher estimates think the number is over 2 Billion.
The low estimates tend to rely on old statistics and look at stuff like population growth, which ignores the effect of cultural influences like the internet. For comparison the number of internet users has more than quadrupled since 2003, a time when most connections were also too slow for video. Of course a lot of this growth is from China though.
The way you worded your post implies that English was recently ahead of Chinese. I don't know if that was the case. But one thing most experts agree on is that English is rapidly growing
With the rise of the internet English has been on a surge. There is absolutely no indication that it's about to be overtaken by Spanish or -gasp- Mandarin, which is considered impenetrable by most the world's population.
Why would you want to memorize each location? It's all about memory efficiency and maximizing the mutual information. Predictability will inevitably suffer, but that's a fair trade off for some applications.
Which can you remember or communicate better, both of which have about the same precision: 1) Shot Mental Sunbeam 2) All of the following characters decimal characters: 61.5299 -144.4334
Of course it's not very useful for businesses, it works against their branding. It's mostly useful for remote locations or stuff not on Google Maps (fairly common in some countries).
It's not necessarily about contacting them. Even just discovering intelligent signals would be pretty cool, wouldn't it? That's scientific discovery, or would you dismiss this as "entertainment"?
If you replace the screen protector that's an extra 10 dollars you paid. Screen protectors also scratch much easier than gorilla glass, and most people don't bother replacing them when they do get scratched anyway.
Not sexy enough. Unless you're really clumsy it's a problem that's easily avoided anyhow: Use a case. But considering how many people buy iPhones or don't bother with a case I'm guessing people just simply don't care enough. They'd rather just deal with a broken phone every couple of years.
Scratches and glare on the other hand show more immediate results.
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The quality of advice is probably more of an illusion. These are sales people going on the recommendations of publisher bulletins. It's not feasibly for anybody to read all the new arrivals in a bookstore. Bookstores play more of a formative role in contemporary culture: They buy stuff they like the look of from the publisher, get exposed to whatever the bookstores put on display. The stuff people buy get's talked about and the assistants learn to give advice on the popular books.
But unless your interests happen to overlap you probably won't get awfully helpful advice on anything outside of mainstream pop culture. Which is probably why bookstores have reacted by reducing their stock of specialty books. Who is seriously going to ask the lady at the bookstore about which technical manual is better or in which ways a certain historian might be biased? Amazon's recommendations and user reviews are much more useful.
You will often find physical books in clearance sales or other bargains. And they also tend to lower the price with a new edition. ebooks on the other hand have a very sticky price.
People also know that charging the same price for a DRM'd piece of digital data is bullshit, which makes them perceive a price-parity with physical copies, or a $1 rebate as expensive.
Spying on foreign powers is one thing, but a surveillance program of everybody in the world is a bit different. Even if you were so minded, how can you reasonably assume the U.S. can protect the privacy of it's citizens whilst they go out of their way to invade the privacy of anybody considered too "foreign"?
SBS only results in half the resolution. While you could make a video twice as wide, the huge increase in bandwidth and data size would make them incompatible with first-generation Blu-Ray players and HDMI cables.
It's not the GPL which restricts downstream developers, it's the license for whatever proprietary code you want to integrate, which only gives you limited distribution and publication rights. If you owned those rights you could do whatever you wanted.
Even without the GPL you can very quickly cause problems for downstream developers if you integrate code which you don't own the full rights to.
Nah, a modern CPU is pretty much the whole machine which can use peripheral components like memory or display drivers using standard protocols. It's pretty robust which is why you can take a CPU and drop it in pretty much any PC (with reasonable restriction on sockets and chipsets of course), or use the same RAM or GPU chips in your PC as you do in your consoles or tablets.
Of course you could say that the chipset are different, but this is entirely similar to the PCs vs. Mac, which doesn't use different components than PCs but can still run Windows.
The fact that no-one has emulated the Xbox has more to do with lack of interest than anything else (hardly any notable exclusives that didn't eventually get a PC release). On the hardware side however people hacked that relatively quickly: Remember what XBMC stands for?
The news is primarily about their record electron beam energy.
The experiment in the paper does produce X-rays, but these come naturally from the electrons oscillating in the plasma, a "plasma wiggler". When they mention it in the news article they seem to be talking about using the electron beam in a conventional wiggler, which should produce more photons. It wasn't part of the experiment though.
A cyclotron is a continuous accelerator that doesn't need storage capacity. That's also one advantage of the plasma accelerator in the article, it doesn't need a storage ring. Anyway, the point is there are no conventional "compact high-energy low-luminosity" accelerators. It's inevitably a trade-off between size and energy. Which is why this new technology is so interesting, as it can reach the energy levels with a much smaller system.
BTW, do you have a source? A 5m 1 GeV electron accelerator sounds a bit far-fetched to me.
Anything capable of accelerating electrons to 2 GeV isn't even remotely tabletop or car-sized.
The energy limits for circular accelerators are set by the strength of the magnets and diameter of the ring. Even if you only have a small number of particles you're limited by the geometry of the machine.
The Luminosity is limited by how many particles you can keep on track. This becomes *harder* the bigger your accelerator. In other words, the LHC has a high luminosity *despite* it's large size, not because of it.
You're reading too much into it. As far as the developer was concerned there were two binary states, and 50% of combinations were invalid. That's a hell of a lot easier than managing URL requests. Should the developer have reasonably anticipated socially progressive policies and avoided implementing gender checks before achieving perfect bug-free software for fear of someday being accused of discrimination and wrong priorities?
It isn't right to "blame" anyone for the outcome. But no matter how you feel about the candidates or who voted for them there's no denying that there was an effect. Your arguments are simply fallacies:
Just for one example, take the Democrats in Florida who voted for Bush. Approximately 12% of registered Florida Democrats voted for Bush -- roughly 200,000 voters. This is a significantly larger number than all of Nader's votes combined, including Democrats, Republicans, and independents who voted for him.
True, but that doesn't change the fact that Nader's votes would easily have changed the outcome.
You blame the guy who lost for not being a better candidate and for failing to convince members OF HIS OWN PARTY to vote for him
This is entirely consistent with people's grievances. A candidate needs to prioritize the strategic chase for votes rather than rely on principle. It's a true dilemma for anyone voting in a first-past-the-post system. You can vote for a major candidate and that will decide who forms the Government, or you can vote for a candidate best suited to your ideals with the hope that this might someday translate to policy changes or electoral reform.
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The best results come from people applying their expertise to a problem, not from fallacious prioritizing. Google obviously believes this is a problem they'll be good at. Despite the bleak pictures the media likes to paint there is still plenty of benefit that developing countries can draw from internet access.
Okay, predict the upper-bound age of a man for the next 2500 years.
Just inflate your prediction so that you have a high confidence. There is no useful information in such arbitrary numbers.
If you get it dead-on, would there be a reason to believe things you say?
No, absolutely not. That would be an authoritarian fallacy.
I don't feel the need to retype everything for everyone who makes this claim, individually.
Ever heard of copy and paste? You could even link to the post. All you're doing here is deferring your argument, which is pretty clumsy. In reality you're just hoping people will lose interest and ignore all the holes poked in your posts.
Two different viewpoints. You could also say that with cheaper food people have moved more and more towards very rich foods and that in turn leads to obesity. If people were to eat more unrefined foods they would get fewer calories for the same volume and more minerals and micronutrients. But the rich stuff is certainly tastier, which is why people eat so much of it.
"3* Would you rather read a book in a traditional printed format or on an electronic book-reading device like a Kindle?"
Without any preconditions this question is pretty useless. Have these people tried an e-reader for a substantial amount of time? Are they heavy readers or just random people who might only ever read occasionally? Does the question include all the added conveniences of an e-reader or merely the visual aspect of reading?
For me personally there are definitely printed books which look better than e-readers, but there are also a great number of prints which look so terrible that I find it much more comfortable to read an electronic version.
2. e-readers are perfect for this too.
3. If you're so inclined you can do this on an e-reader too.
6. The paper industry is notoriously dirty. If you get through a lot of newspapers and books you're better off buying an e-reader.
Being academically noteworthy probably qualifies something as nerdy more than anything.
Well, there sure are scientific reasons to believe that Adam wasn't the first man. Which makes sense. For that matter there aren't any scientific reasons to believe anything Genesis says.
But we're talking about the in-story world, in which it's pretty clear that Adam was the first man and there is no mention of any pre-existing society. So far you haven't provided any scientific of scriptural reasoning why the first generations got by without incest.
The decimal points imply you know it with kind of accuracy, where in fact nobody does. 1 Billion is definitely on the low end of estimates. A 10 year old study puts the number of L2 speakers at 1.5 Billion, and some higher estimates think the number is over 2 Billion.
The low estimates tend to rely on old statistics and look at stuff like population growth, which ignores the effect of cultural influences like the internet. For comparison the number of internet users has more than quadrupled since 2003, a time when most connections were also too slow for video. Of course a lot of this growth is from China though.
The way you worded your post implies that English was recently ahead of Chinese. I don't know if that was the case. But one thing most experts agree on is that English is rapidly growing
With the rise of the internet English has been on a surge. There is absolutely no indication that it's about to be overtaken by Spanish or -gasp- Mandarin, which is considered impenetrable by most the world's population.
Why would you want to memorize each location? It's all about memory efficiency and maximizing the mutual information. Predictability will inevitably suffer, but that's a fair trade off for some applications.
Which can you remember or communicate better, both of which have about the same precision:
1) Shot Mental Sunbeam
2) All of the following characters decimal characters: 61.5299 -144.4334
Of course it's not very useful for businesses, it works against their branding. It's mostly useful for remote locations or stuff not on Google Maps (fairly common in some countries).
Any civilization capable of interstellar travel would surely be capable of detecting or presence anyway.
It's not necessarily about contacting them. Even just discovering intelligent signals would be pretty cool, wouldn't it? That's scientific discovery, or would you dismiss this as "entertainment"?
If you replace the screen protector that's an extra 10 dollars you paid. Screen protectors also scratch much easier than gorilla glass, and most people don't bother replacing them when they do get scratched anyway.
Not sexy enough. Unless you're really clumsy it's a problem that's easily avoided anyhow: Use a case. But considering how many people buy iPhones or don't bother with a case I'm guessing people just simply don't care enough. They'd rather just deal with a broken phone every couple of years.
Scratches and glare on the other hand show more immediate results.
The quality of advice is probably more of an illusion. These are sales people going on the recommendations of publisher bulletins. It's not feasibly for anybody to read all the new arrivals in a bookstore.
Bookstores play more of a formative role in contemporary culture: They buy stuff they like the look of from the publisher, get exposed to whatever the bookstores put on display. The stuff people buy get's talked about and the assistants learn to give advice on the popular books.
But unless your interests happen to overlap you probably won't get awfully helpful advice on anything outside of mainstream pop culture. Which is probably why bookstores have reacted by reducing their stock of specialty books. Who is seriously going to ask the lady at the bookstore about which technical manual is better or in which ways a certain historian might be biased? Amazon's recommendations and user reviews are much more useful.
You will often find physical books in clearance sales or other bargains. And they also tend to lower the price with a new edition. ebooks on the other hand have a very sticky price.
People also know that charging the same price for a DRM'd piece of digital data is bullshit, which makes them perceive a price-parity with physical copies, or a $1 rebate as expensive.
Spying on foreign powers is one thing, but a surveillance program of everybody in the world is a bit different. Even if you were so minded, how can you reasonably assume the U.S. can protect the privacy of it's citizens whilst they go out of their way to invade the privacy of anybody considered too "foreign"?
SBS only results in half the resolution. While you could make a video twice as wide, the huge increase in bandwidth and data size would make them incompatible with first-generation Blu-Ray players and HDMI cables.
It's not the GPL which restricts downstream developers, it's the license for whatever proprietary code you want to integrate, which only gives you limited distribution and publication rights. If you owned those rights you could do whatever you wanted.
Even without the GPL you can very quickly cause problems for downstream developers if you integrate code which you don't own the full rights to.
Nah, a modern CPU is pretty much the whole machine which can use peripheral components like memory or display drivers using standard protocols. It's pretty robust which is why you can take a CPU and drop it in pretty much any PC (with reasonable restriction on sockets and chipsets of course), or use the same RAM or GPU chips in your PC as you do in your consoles or tablets.
Of course you could say that the chipset are different, but this is entirely similar to the PCs vs. Mac, which doesn't use different components than PCs but can still run Windows.
The fact that no-one has emulated the Xbox has more to do with lack of interest than anything else (hardly any notable exclusives that didn't eventually get a PC release). On the hardware side however people hacked that relatively quickly: Remember what XBMC stands for?
The news is primarily about their record electron beam energy.
The experiment in the paper does produce X-rays, but these come naturally from the electrons oscillating in the plasma, a "plasma wiggler". When they mention it in the news article they seem to be talking about using the electron beam in a conventional wiggler, which should produce more photons. It wasn't part of the experiment though.
A cyclotron is a continuous accelerator that doesn't need storage capacity. That's also one advantage of the plasma accelerator in the article, it doesn't need a storage ring.
Anyway, the point is there are no conventional "compact high-energy low-luminosity" accelerators. It's inevitably a trade-off between size and energy. Which is why this new technology is so interesting, as it can reach the energy levels with a much smaller system.
BTW, do you have a source? A 5m 1 GeV electron accelerator sounds a bit far-fetched to me.
Anything capable of accelerating electrons to 2 GeV isn't even remotely tabletop or car-sized.
The energy limits for circular accelerators are set by the strength of the magnets and diameter of the ring. Even if you only have a small number of particles you're limited by the geometry of the machine.
The Luminosity is limited by how many particles you can keep on track. This becomes *harder* the bigger your accelerator. In other words, the LHC has a high luminosity *despite* it's large size, not because of it.
You're reading too much into it. As far as the developer was concerned there were two binary states, and 50% of combinations were invalid. That's a hell of a lot easier than managing URL requests. Should the developer have reasonably anticipated socially progressive policies and avoided implementing gender checks before achieving perfect bug-free software for fear of someday being accused of discrimination and wrong priorities?
It isn't right to "blame" anyone for the outcome. But no matter how you feel about the candidates or who voted for them there's no denying that there was an effect. Your arguments are simply fallacies:
Just for one example, take the Democrats in Florida who voted for Bush. Approximately 12% of registered Florida Democrats voted for Bush -- roughly 200,000 voters. This is a significantly larger number than all of Nader's votes combined, including Democrats, Republicans, and independents who voted for him.
True, but that doesn't change the fact that Nader's votes would easily have changed the outcome.
You blame the guy who lost for not being a better candidate and for failing to convince members OF HIS OWN PARTY to vote for him
This is entirely consistent with people's grievances. A candidate needs to prioritize the strategic chase for votes rather than rely on principle. It's a true dilemma for anyone voting in a first-past-the-post system. You can vote for a major candidate and that will decide who forms the Government, or you can vote for a candidate best suited to your ideals with the hope that this might someday translate to policy changes or electoral reform.