Perhaps. The question we would want to ask is what is the cost? If there are genes that predispose people to being a math genius, and being a math genius is advantageous, then why aren't we already all so predisposed?
Because that's not how evolution works. As long as you fit your environment well enough to live long enough to procreate, you have won the Darwin game.
Hmm, maybe you're right. Do mathematicians get laid much?
I'm fairly certain that with bigger antennas... you would be able to do this trick at 300 feet
Radio doesn't work like that. For optimal transmitting/receiving you need the antenna to be tuned to the frequency being transmitted. Try to use a two meter antenna for wifi and you'll be lucky to get a signal at all. The antenna needs to be the same length as the frequency's wavelength (or certain multiples; I've forgotten a lot).
Also, I find it insulting that Mr. Turkewitz considers shared music illegitimate by default.
It's in his best interests -- YOU are his competition. You are the biggest threat to the RIAA -- you, the independent. Do you really think the RIAA gives a shit if I give you a copy of a Metallica album? But if I give Joe Blow a copy of your album, he might like it and buy another of your albums, leaving Joe with less money to buy an RIAA album with.
As Doctorow says, nobody ever went broke from piracy but many artists have starved from obscurity, which is why I put the first drafts of "Nobots" in my/. journal; as soon as I can get it printed (been waiting 3 weeks for a galley proof, they shipped it last Thursday and it's not here yet) I have a couple of sales. I may not make back what I've invested in it (so far about $350) but if nobody had read my stuff, how would I sell even a single copy?
As soon as I get to where you can get a copy from Amazon I'll put a finished version of it, one chapter per week, in my journal and on my new web site. A month after it's out I'll make paperback available, a month after that I'm posting PDF and e-pub on my site for free download... because I didn't write it to sell, I wrote it to be read.
It sure beats looking down at a fixed display to view the GPS map (often not in the best location).
And being punched in the mouth is preferable to being shot there. You don't try to fucking read while you're driving, you goddamned moron! Not a book, not a paper map, not a GPS. You pull off the road to look at your map, you irresponsible kid.
I'm saying you're wrong, and so is the the guy you responded to. I notice that folks like you who are against universal health care universally seem to be barely literate. FYI, the health insurance industry is a parasitic industry; they do absolutely nothing to make people healthy and are the #1 reason health care is so poor and so expensive in the US.
A single-payer system removes removes CEOs who earn millions per year and replaces them with bureaucrats who earn tiny fractions of that. A single payer system removes profits, which of course come from customers.
As to the GP, insurance is an interstate scam and is not stopped by state boundaries, making it a Federal matter.
And what displaces water better than anything? OIL. What is oil? A LUBRICANT. BTW, most electrical problems can be cured with a little WD-40 on the contacts. There are better switch oils available but WD-40 works. But it also works as a lubricant, even though unlike most lubricants the bottle says "water displacer".
Well, the process is probably not without a fair measure of bureaucracy. I guess that is why most people do not bother to do it. And I am not sure you can copyright in bulk like this without publishing a book with them or something.
I just registered Nobots a month or so ago, and registered two software programs in 1984. It's quick and painless; in 1984 there was paper you had to write the copyright office to get but the forms were easy to fill out. Today you just go to copyright.gov and do it online, it's an easy process.
Getting the damned thing in print is where the bureaucracy comes in, and it isn't government bureaucracy but corporate bureaucracy. It's been three weeks since I sent the PDF and cover and fee to Lulu, they shipped the galley proof last Thursday and I still haven't gotten it.
But all a photographer would have to do would be to register a URL and get hosted (I'm paying $15 a year to register4less for mcgrewbooks.com, registration and hosting), upload the pictures, send it to the copyright office with $35 and you can sue away. That is, if you actually need to.
Plus, if you see someone infringing, just register the copyright and call your lawyer.
"Quite rightly"? Seriously, WTF damage do you Brits have when it comes to pissing away your basic human rights without a second thought?
You don't have a "basic human right" to put my life in danger, jackass. I don't care if you're holding a phone, a book, a lipstick or a hamburger, you do NOT have a right to do that because it's dangerous to ME. You want to text or phone or read your map, pull the god damned car over, moron.
Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose. If you want to use makeup, phone, text, or read a fucking map while driving, do it on your own private property where the only one you put in danger is you, I'm fine with that. I'm not fine with you doing it on a public highway, sociopath.
Let me tell you about a 396 Camaro with a 4 speed stick shift sometime in the late seventies. A young acquaintance owned it, kid was about 20 IIRC. He had the worst day of anyone I ever heard of. First thing in the morning he got fired from his job. Then his girlfriend broke up with him. Then his dad threw him out of the house. 10:30 that night he hit the 17th car of a freight train at 96 MPH.
Everyone thought it was a suicide -- but the accident investigators found it was just plain old bad luck. He'd pulled out onto Highway 157 and a motor mound broke, twisting the engine sideways and pulling the throttle wide open. He had maybe ten seconds to react. Old style car with carburetor, drum brakes, points, stick shift, key. But with only ten seconds to react...
âoeEveryone wants to trace their family back to royalty,â she says.
If you look at the math, chances are almost everyone is related to royalty, if you go back far enough. Do you have any idea how many descendants my 35 times great grandfather has? Especially remembering that 75 years ago and earlier everyone had big families and lots of kids?
It isn't offtopic, it's a reference to 2001 (or maybe 2010) where we are warned to stay away from Europa. If you saw the movie it's obvious, if not it's offtopic.
I'm sure your teachers too did some kind of "How dumb can a computer be?" exercise where you tried instructing the teacher to put jam on a piece of bread and he tried acting as dumb as possible making you Lay. Out. Each. Step. Exactly.
The problem is everyone thinking that AI is actually intelligent. The only intelligence in a computer is its engineers' and programmers' intelligence; people called the early tube computers that had less computing power than a hallmark card an "electronic brain."
Stop confusing laymen with terms like "electronic brain" and "artificial intelligence" and stupid memes like "we'll upload our brains to computers in 20 years" because we won't. Computers don't work like that; as you said, it's just logic gates, if a=b then [perform task].
I'd like to be able to watch OTA TV on my phone (FM is right between channels 6 and 7 on the UHF band) but I don't think it would be physically possible; FM/TV wavelengths are a lot longer than wifi and cell frequencies. I don't know if you could get an antenna on a phone that would work with that.
But as to FM on your phone, get the TuneIn app. Almost every radio station in the world is accessible on it, since almost every station also streams. It was the first app I installed on my phone.
If you mean "Why do I have to pay for a whole new OS?" then the answer is instead simply that Microsoft make things easy for people and you'd never get end users to put up with needing to pay for an upgrade to the kernel one week, the networking stack a few months later and so forth.
I'm not looking for new functionality, I want them to fix their factory defects.
And for the sake of a single minute he gets modded to +5 Funny and you get down to 0 Redundant.
I'd have modded the first one redundant, because there's no "-1, too obvious, don't waste my fucking time." Nobody gets a +1 funny from me unless I at least grin, and if I think of the joke before you tell me that joke, it ain't funny.
Jehovah, who of all the good gods adored by men was certainly the most jealous, the most vain
Sorry, Bakunun, everything you do or say is in vain. "All is vanity."
Jehovah had just created Adam and Eve, to satisfy we know not what caprice
He'd just created a beautiful work of art and had nobody to appreciate it.
He generously placed at their disposal the whole earth, with all its fruits and animals, and set but a single limit to this complete enjoyment.
No, two limits. Two trees, two limits.
He expressly forbade them from touching the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Except it wasn't the "tree of knowledge" any more than the bible says that money is the root of all evil*. It was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In other words, the tree of the knowledge of pain and death. It was poisonous. Like the snake. That error wipes out everything he says later based on it.
The Buddhists in Thailand have a similar story. Theirs is, people lived in happiness and harmony forever, then the evil house cats taught them to speak ("Meow" is Thai for "I want") and they've been fighting and arguing ever since. And when two old Thai women are arguing, it sounds like cats.
I know I would have liked to have never learned of evil.
Indeed, Superstorm Sandy only affected people in the eastern seaboard. As to do I approach disaster differently? Not since Sandy, since March 12, 2006. Fo or folks down in St Louis it was 1994 when they had a 500 year flood. Folks in Louisiana with Katrina. And what about the folks in Oklahoma, who go through worse than the tornado I was in almost every year? How about Colorado with its fires and floods?
Hell, what about the British RIGHT NOW. I hear they're having some really shitty weather, that people have died.
What's so damned special about New York except the Church of Mammon and its high priests?
It's been over a decade, guys. I understand there are legacy software needs, but you've had ample time to find a replacement.
My 2002 automobile works just fine, and if a dangerous defect is found, the manufacturer will recall it. The computer I have XP on works fine, why should I have to replace my OS because Microsoft's code is full of bugs that they refuse to fix? The product is defective or it wouldn't need support. It is plain EVIL that MS won't support XP until the last computer running it lets out the magic smoke, and from what I've read a third of computers on the net are running XP.
There is simply no excuse for MS not supporting it, and no excuse for your excusing MS. Do you work for them, own a lot of stock, or are just not too smart? Stop excusing thieves!
Not nearly as much as mining and burning coal pollutes both the groundwater and the air. Not the best solution but better than coal.
Nuclear power? Can you say Fukushima?
Can you say "piss-poor planning"? Building a nuke plant where there are mammoth earthquakes and tsunamis was just brainless. I doubt you'll have that problem in Clinton, IL, 1000 miles from the ocean and geologically stable.
More hydro? What about the salmon?
Only a problem if your river has salmon in it to begin with. And you left out wind and solar and geothermal and tidal generation and...
They hadn't yet invented the jock-geek subspecies I saw come a long much later, and the rocker-geek subspecies was a cultural impossibility at the time.
The "rocker-geek subspecies" was ten years earlier. In the seventies, all one had to do was grow one's hair to be accepted, especially among musicians. We electronic hobbyists were especially welcomed, because we could fix the musicians' broken amplifiers and hook up stereo systems for friends.
In the lats '60s I was turning broken transistor radios into guitar fuzzboxes with about two dollars worth of parts and five minutes time and selling them for fifty, because the music stores wanted $300 for them.
As far as "jock geeks" that's an oxymoron. That's like saying "rich ghetto dweller". Jocks aren't geeks (except for that basketball player with a pHd).
He said he was old. The world we grew up in is not the same world you grew up in. Our world had no calculators, internet, or cell phones. Our world had three TV channels.
When we were young, being a nerd was the social kiss of death. Egghead, four-eyes (yes, back then few wore glasses; too much reading causes myopia as studies have shown), geek, nerd, all were insults yet true, like calling a homosexual "queer". We are, of course, even more queer than homosexuals because queer means "odd".
If you were seen with a book that wasn't assigned by a teacher you were looked down on. There used to be a big hate at the literate. It was a different world.
I think the problem is the US's national religion: the worship of money and those who have a lot of it. Seriously, Europeans value people and society, in my sad country the sociopath is celebrated. The 1% has got the rest of us snake charmed.
We are, in a very literal sense, a victim of our own size. No fat american jokes though please.
America is FAT. So fat that when it sits around the world, it sits AROUND the world!
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Perhaps. The question we would want to ask is what is the cost? If there are genes that predispose people to being a math genius, and being a math genius is advantageous, then why aren't we already all so predisposed?
Because that's not how evolution works. As long as you fit your environment well enough to live long enough to procreate, you have won the Darwin game.
Hmm, maybe you're right. Do mathematicians get laid much?
I'm fairly certain that with bigger antennas... you would be able to do this trick at 300 feet
Radio doesn't work like that. For optimal transmitting/receiving you need the antenna to be tuned to the frequency being transmitted. Try to use a two meter antenna for wifi and you'll be lucky to get a signal at all. The antenna needs to be the same length as the frequency's wavelength (or certain multiples; I've forgotten a lot).
These modern cars are safer in high speed collisions, but at a large cost in value.
Crumple zones are far cheaper than surgery, and burials aren't cheap, either.
Also, I find it insulting that Mr. Turkewitz considers shared music illegitimate by default.
It's in his best interests -- YOU are his competition. You are the biggest threat to the RIAA -- you, the independent. Do you really think the RIAA gives a shit if I give you a copy of a Metallica album? But if I give Joe Blow a copy of your album, he might like it and buy another of your albums, leaving Joe with less money to buy an RIAA album with.
As Doctorow says, nobody ever went broke from piracy but many artists have starved from obscurity, which is why I put the first drafts of "Nobots" in my /. journal; as soon as I can get it printed (been waiting 3 weeks for a galley proof, they shipped it last Thursday and it's not here yet) I have a couple of sales. I may not make back what I've invested in it (so far about $350) but if nobody had read my stuff, how would I sell even a single copy?
As soon as I get to where you can get a copy from Amazon I'll put a finished version of it, one chapter per week, in my journal and on my new web site. A month after it's out I'll make paperback available, a month after that I'm posting PDF and e-pub on my site for free download... because I didn't write it to sell, I wrote it to be read.
It sure beats looking down at a fixed display to view the GPS map (often not in the best location).
And being punched in the mouth is preferable to being shot there. You don't try to fucking read while you're driving, you goddamned moron! Not a book, not a paper map, not a GPS. You pull off the road to look at your map, you irresponsible kid.
Im not saying your wrong
I'm saying you're wrong, and so is the the guy you responded to. I notice that folks like you who are against universal health care universally seem to be barely literate. FYI, the health insurance industry is a parasitic industry; they do absolutely nothing to make people healthy and are the #1 reason health care is so poor and so expensive in the US.
A single-payer system removes removes CEOs who earn millions per year and replaces them with bureaucrats who earn tiny fractions of that. A single payer system removes profits, which of course come from customers.
As to the GP, insurance is an interstate scam and is not stopped by state boundaries, making it a Federal matter.
WD means "water displacer", not lubricant.
And what displaces water better than anything? OIL. What is oil? A LUBRICANT. BTW, most electrical problems can be cured with a little WD-40 on the contacts. There are better switch oils available but WD-40 works. But it also works as a lubricant, even though unlike most lubricants the bottle says "water displacer".
Well, the process is probably not without a fair measure of bureaucracy. I guess that is why most people do not bother to do it. And I am not sure you can copyright in bulk like this without publishing a book with them or something.
I just registered Nobots a month or so ago, and registered two software programs in 1984. It's quick and painless; in 1984 there was paper you had to write the copyright office to get but the forms were easy to fill out. Today you just go to copyright.gov and do it online, it's an easy process.
Getting the damned thing in print is where the bureaucracy comes in, and it isn't government bureaucracy but corporate bureaucracy. It's been three weeks since I sent the PDF and cover and fee to Lulu, they shipped the galley proof last Thursday and I still haven't gotten it.
But all a photographer would have to do would be to register a URL and get hosted (I'm paying $15 a year to register4less for mcgrewbooks.com, registration and hosting), upload the pictures, send it to the copyright office with $35 and you can sue away. That is, if you actually need to.
Plus, if you see someone infringing, just register the copyright and call your lawyer.
"Quite rightly"? Seriously, WTF damage do you Brits have when it comes to pissing away your basic human rights without a second thought?
You don't have a "basic human right" to put my life in danger, jackass. I don't care if you're holding a phone, a book, a lipstick or a hamburger, you do NOT have a right to do that because it's dangerous to ME. You want to text or phone or read your map, pull the god damned car over, moron.
Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose. If you want to use makeup, phone, text, or read a fucking map while driving, do it on your own private property where the only one you put in danger is you, I'm fine with that. I'm not fine with you doing it on a public highway, sociopath.
Let me tell you about a 396 Camaro with a 4 speed stick shift sometime in the late seventies. A young acquaintance owned it, kid was about 20 IIRC. He had the worst day of anyone I ever heard of. First thing in the morning he got fired from his job. Then his girlfriend broke up with him. Then his dad threw him out of the house. 10:30 that night he hit the 17th car of a freight train at 96 MPH.
Everyone thought it was a suicide -- but the accident investigators found it was just plain old bad luck. He'd pulled out onto Highway 157 and a motor mound broke, twisting the engine sideways and pulling the throttle wide open. He had maybe ten seconds to react. Old style car with carburetor, drum brakes, points, stick shift, key. But with only ten seconds to react...
âoeEveryone wants to trace their family back to royalty,â she says.
If you look at the math, chances are almost everyone is related to royalty, if you go back far enough. Do you have any idea how many descendants my 35 times great grandfather has? Especially remembering that 75 years ago and earlier everyone had big families and lots of kids?
If meteor-deflecting aliens did ever exist, perhaps this means they think we are ready to handle it ourselves?
Why is everyone so sure aliens exist?
It isn't offtopic, it's a reference to 2001 (or maybe 2010) where we are warned to stay away from Europa. If you saw the movie it's obvious, if not it's offtopic.
I'm sure your teachers too did some kind of "How dumb can a computer be?" exercise where you tried instructing the teacher to put jam on a piece of bread and he tried acting as dumb as possible making you Lay. Out. Each. Step. Exactly.
The problem is everyone thinking that AI is actually intelligent. The only intelligence in a computer is its engineers' and programmers' intelligence; people called the early tube computers that had less computing power than a hallmark card an "electronic brain."
Stop confusing laymen with terms like "electronic brain" and "artificial intelligence" and stupid memes like "we'll upload our brains to computers in 20 years" because we won't. Computers don't work like that; as you said, it's just logic gates, if a=b then [perform task].
I want a lot more RAM and an FM receiver.
I'd like to be able to watch OTA TV on my phone (FM is right between channels 6 and 7 on the UHF band) but I don't think it would be physically possible; FM/TV wavelengths are a lot longer than wifi and cell frequencies. I don't know if you could get an antenna on a phone that would work with that.
But as to FM on your phone, get the TuneIn app. Almost every radio station in the world is accessible on it, since almost every station also streams. It was the first app I installed on my phone.
If you mean "Why do I have to pay for a whole new OS?" then the answer is instead simply that Microsoft make things easy for people and you'd never get end users to put up with needing to pay for an upgrade to the kernel one week, the networking stack a few months later and so forth.
I'm not looking for new functionality, I want them to fix their factory defects.
And for the sake of a single minute he gets modded to +5 Funny and you get down to 0 Redundant.
I'd have modded the first one redundant, because there's no "-1, too obvious, don't waste my fucking time." Nobody gets a +1 funny from me unless I at least grin, and if I think of the joke before you tell me that joke, it ain't funny.
And BTW, everyone in this subthread is offtopic.
Bakunin was right after all...
Too bad he got so much wrong.
Jehovah, who of all the good gods adored by men was certainly the most jealous, the most vain
Sorry, Bakunun, everything you do or say is in vain. "All is vanity."
Jehovah had just created Adam and Eve, to satisfy we know not what caprice
He'd just created a beautiful work of art and had nobody to appreciate it.
He generously placed at their disposal the whole earth, with all its fruits and animals, and set but a single limit to this complete enjoyment.
No, two limits. Two trees, two limits.
He expressly forbade them from touching the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Except it wasn't the "tree of knowledge" any more than the bible says that money is the root of all evil*. It was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In other words, the tree of the knowledge of pain and death. It was poisonous. Like the snake. That error wipes out everything he says later based on it.
The Buddhists in Thailand have a similar story. Theirs is, people lived in happiness and harmony forever, then the evil house cats taught them to speak ("Meow" is Thai for "I want") and they've been fighting and arguing ever since. And when two old Thai women are arguing, it sounds like cats.
I know I would have liked to have never learned of evil.
*The love of money is the root of all evil.
Indeed, Superstorm Sandy only affected people in the eastern seaboard. As to do I approach disaster differently? Not since Sandy, since March 12, 2006. Fo or folks down in St Louis it was 1994 when they had a 500 year flood. Folks in Louisiana with Katrina. And what about the folks in Oklahoma, who go through worse than the tornado I was in almost every year? How about Colorado with its fires and floods?
Hell, what about the British RIGHT NOW. I hear they're having some really shitty weather, that people have died.
What's so damned special about New York except the Church of Mammon and its high priests?
It's been over a decade, guys. I understand there are legacy software needs, but you've had ample time to find a replacement.
My 2002 automobile works just fine, and if a dangerous defect is found, the manufacturer will recall it. The computer I have XP on works fine, why should I have to replace my OS because Microsoft's code is full of bugs that they refuse to fix? The product is defective or it wouldn't need support. It is plain EVIL that MS won't support XP until the last computer running it lets out the magic smoke, and from what I've read a third of computers on the net are running XP.
There is simply no excuse for MS not supporting it, and no excuse for your excusing MS. Do you work for them, own a lot of stock, or are just not too smart? Stop excusing thieves!
I know about Wine but it doesn't interest me. With Windows (or anything Microsoft touches) what works today probably won't tomorrow.
More natural gas? Fracking pollutes ground water.
Not nearly as much as mining and burning coal pollutes both the groundwater and the air. Not the best solution but better than coal.
Nuclear power? Can you say Fukushima?
Can you say "piss-poor planning"? Building a nuke plant where there are mammoth earthquakes and tsunamis was just brainless. I doubt you'll have that problem in Clinton, IL, 1000 miles from the ocean and geologically stable.
More hydro? What about the salmon?
Only a problem if your river has salmon in it to begin with. And you left out wind and solar and geothermal and tidal generation and...
They hadn't yet invented the jock-geek subspecies I saw come a long much later, and the rocker-geek subspecies was a cultural impossibility at the time.
The "rocker-geek subspecies" was ten years earlier. In the seventies, all one had to do was grow one's hair to be accepted, especially among musicians. We electronic hobbyists were especially welcomed, because we could fix the musicians' broken amplifiers and hook up stereo systems for friends.
In the lats '60s I was turning broken transistor radios into guitar fuzzboxes with about two dollars worth of parts and five minutes time and selling them for fifty, because the music stores wanted $300 for them.
As far as "jock geeks" that's an oxymoron. That's like saying "rich ghetto dweller". Jocks aren't geeks (except for that basketball player with a pHd).
He said he was old. The world we grew up in is not the same world you grew up in. Our world had no calculators, internet, or cell phones. Our world had three TV channels.
When we were young, being a nerd was the social kiss of death. Egghead, four-eyes (yes, back then few wore glasses; too much reading causes myopia as studies have shown), geek, nerd, all were insults yet true, like calling a homosexual "queer". We are, of course, even more queer than homosexuals because queer means "odd".
If you were seen with a book that wasn't assigned by a teacher you were looked down on. There used to be a big hate at the literate. It was a different world.
I think the problem is the US's national religion: the worship of money and those who have a lot of it. Seriously, Europeans value people and society, in my sad country the sociopath is celebrated. The 1% has got the rest of us snake charmed.
We are, in a very literal sense, a victim of our own size. No fat american jokes though please.
America is FAT. So fat that when it sits around the world, it sits AROUND the world!