Wow, you still haven't figured it out. Or maybe you're just one of those really worthwhile people who just pretend to not get it so you can troll on Slashdot.
The Chinese government wants things censored. Google wants to offer their services to the sixth of the world's population that is China. If Google at any time does not comply with the Chinese government's censorship, they'll simply be removed from China, and those billion people will have no access to Google, save by tunneling through the government's firewalls to other nations' Google servers.
However, Google chose to comply so that most of Google is still open to China. Additionally, things that are censored are very notably pointed out to those who use Google - if "democracy" is censored by the government, Google will tell the user that it is. This allows a great flow of information, and importantly, it can show the Chinese what their government doesn't want them to see - or at least point them in the right direction.
If it really bothers you that much that Google is helping in the struggle to save your eroding rights, why don't you just move to a country where people are not granted those freedoms?
It's been a while since I played with that applet, but the green cubes are just one side of the cube. In a 3D space, you can't physically see all of the 4D cube. As in the documentation, you can Control-click a side to center it in your view. Which ever side you focus on will prevent you from seeing one of the other sides.
Technically, your view in the 4D applet is inside the hypercube. The side you don't see is the closet one to you, but they made it invisible in order to let you see as many sides as possible. And you'll always have one side obscured from your sight, just like trying to visualize a 3D cube all at once, even though you can only see it one plane at a time.
So yeah, it's fully 4D, but projected into 3D, like a 3D cube projected into 2D.
They mention a large pre-Titanic boat, but wasn't the Titanic also caused by engineering? It was later discovered that iron rivets, IIRC, were made in a way that caused them to become brittle in cold temperatures. Naturally, when Titanic sailed through icy water, they easily broke.
Also, as I recall, the Titanic was designed to withstand a leak by having compartments in the hull. However, they did not anticipate that having several leaking compartments would tip the boat, causing the others to even more quickly fill, domino-style, making the ship unexpectedly capsize.
Fourth graders, ironically, are actually better at reasoning in the sciences now than they were ten years ago.
I would sure hope that fourth-graders are better at reasoning in the sciences than they were ten years ago. Half of them weren't have even been born yet.
No, he's saying they don't need to. Like he says in that quotation you selected. Because that will be the default engine on most computers once IE7 is installed on computers sold in stores.
Exactly, the site is kind of fucked up, it makes Firefox crash every ten profiles I visit, but damn, what better spot than that is there to make yourself a better substitute of a social life?
Doesn't someone around here have a signature to the effect of "A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber?"
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You might not like this program then...I thought it was funny at the time.
What the hell, man? There's nothing about God in this article.
If evolution was universally accepted, there would still be believers in God, and if God was universally accepted, there would still be believers in evolution.
I don't know how you got modded either insightful or flamebait, much less both. Your post is simply off-topic.
Lorem ipsums are Latin filler texts. The origanl Lorem Ipsum was from some famous work, way back in the day.
An excerpt translation from Wikipedia: "H. Rackham's 1914 translation: "Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"
The poster probably used a Lorem Ipsum generator like this one.
Slashdot Mirror
1. Submit it to Slashdot.
2. ?????
3. Er, don't profit.
Would that be the laissez-fairy?
Wow, you still haven't figured it out. Or maybe you're just one of those really worthwhile people who just pretend to not get it so you can troll on Slashdot.
The Chinese government wants things censored. Google wants to offer their services to the sixth of the world's population that is China. If Google at any time does not comply with the Chinese government's censorship, they'll simply be removed from China, and those billion people will have no access to Google, save by tunneling through the government's firewalls to other nations' Google servers.
However, Google chose to comply so that most of Google is still open to China. Additionally, things that are censored are very notably pointed out to those who use Google - if "democracy" is censored by the government, Google will tell the user that it is. This allows a great flow of information, and importantly, it can show the Chinese what their government doesn't want them to see - or at least point them in the right direction.
If it really bothers you that much that Google is helping in the struggle to save your eroding rights, why don't you just move to a country where people are not granted those freedoms?
It's been a while since I played with that applet, but the green cubes are just one side of the cube. In a 3D space, you can't physically see all of the 4D cube. As in the documentation, you can Control-click a side to center it in your view. Which ever side you focus on will prevent you from seeing one of the other sides.
Technically, your view in the 4D applet is inside the hypercube. The side you don't see is the closet one to you, but they made it invisible in order to let you see as many sides as possible. And you'll always have one side obscured from your sight, just like trying to visualize a 3D cube all at once, even though you can only see it one plane at a time.
So yeah, it's fully 4D, but projected into 3D, like a 3D cube projected into 2D.
Except then, a group of bitter slashdotters could go through and take every /. story off of the main page.
...
Hey, I guess I'll head over to Digg right now...feel free to also report every story as a dupe.
And check out this yearly graph too.
They mention a large pre-Titanic boat, but wasn't the Titanic also caused by engineering? It was later discovered that iron rivets, IIRC, were made in a way that caused them to become brittle in cold temperatures. Naturally, when Titanic sailed through icy water, they easily broke.
Also, as I recall, the Titanic was designed to withstand a leak by having compartments in the hull. However, they did not anticipate that having several leaking compartments would tip the boat, causing the others to even more quickly fill, domino-style, making the ship unexpectedly capsize.
Fourth graders, ironically, are actually better at reasoning in the sciences now than they were ten years ago.
I would sure hope that fourth-graders are better at reasoning in the sciences than they were ten years ago. Half of them weren't have even been born yet.
Yeah, I know. But that wouldn't be funny. :P
This isn't newsworthy to me. I don't get viruses - I use Linux.
*ducks*
No, he's saying they don't need to. Like he says in that quotation you selected. Because that will be the default engine on most computers once IE7 is installed on computers sold in stores.
Well hell, I guess I'll vote for him again, in this coming election.
Who's with me?
The one who apparently linked it to terrorism, however, was Alberto Gonzales, who I consider part of the Bush administration.
That doesn't make any sense. Why are you dividing anything? It doesn't weigh anything. That's 0 - not 1/0.
I haven't been there myself, but does everyone on myspace live in their own small French village?
Doesn't someone around here have a signature to the effect of "A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber?"
You might not like this program then...I thought it was funny at the time.
#include <windows.h>
void main()
{
Beep(392,500);//G
Beep(466,500);//Bb
Beep(523,1000);//C2
Beep(392,500);//G
Beep(466,500);//Bb
Beep(554,500);//Db
Beep(523,1000);//C2
Beep(392,500);//G
Beep(466,500);//Bb
Beep(523,1000);//C2
Beep(466,500);//Bb
Beep(392,1000);//G
}
That would potentially amuse Southpaw, if he could see it. :)
Snakes on a Plane!
I heard it would cost an ARM and a LEG...
What the hell, man? There's nothing about God in this article.
If evolution was universally accepted, there would still be believers in God, and if God was universally accepted, there would still be believers in evolution.
I don't know how you got modded either insightful or flamebait, much less both. Your post is simply off-topic.
Lorem ipsums are Latin filler texts. The origanl Lorem Ipsum was from some famous work, way back in the day.
An excerpt translation from Wikipedia: "H. Rackham's 1914 translation: "Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"
The poster probably used a Lorem Ipsum generator like this one.
It is found in 99% of cancer cells
Large quantities are known to kill people
It is found in quantity in the brains of sociopaths
It is a vehicle for spreading most diseases
A powerful solvent in and of itself
Allows the breeding of mosquitos
We actually got quite a few vehement people wanting to ban this chemical in all of its forms.
Cute, huh?
...kill me now...