Imagine that there is a bomb in LA that just went off. Jack Bauer finds a way to make his PDA use quantum entanglement to tell this to Washington before they would be able to detect the event any other way. If some horrendous female actor, err, computer analyst found a way to disarm the bomb before Washington would receive a signal traveling at c from LA and transmit the data back it could get there before either the bomb went off or Jack sent the first message.
No? When the bomb would have exploded and that Jack would instantaneously inform Washington, then no matter what they would do in Washington, no matter whether they'd do it at the speed of light or instantaneously, it wouldn't change a thing.
Can you explain me how on Earth could they prevent anything this way? Unless you can send information back in time, which what you says must imply..
Sometimes the idea that my english/american is most likely better (barring accent, but could be trained) than half of the people speaking it as a native language scares me.
Same here, I often have to reword what I say with simpler and more common words for native english speakers. The annoying part is that many of them refuse to acknowledge that both my level of english and my awareness and knowledge of the american civilization near or exceed those of the average american citizen, most likely due to a kind of complex of inferiority in them imputable to their relatively poor awareness of the "outside world" and their linguistical ignorance.
On the other hand I completely suck at figuring out ebonics.
And how long does it take for me to become (and stay) bilingual? Is there a net gain, or would my time be better spent elsewhere?
Depends on so many things, mainly how close the learnt language is to the language you already master, how instensively do you learn it, how hard the language is (easier to learn english than french usually) and most of all, you, your skills and your brain.
Some spanish speakers can become fluent in french in a few monthes for either reasons, and you can try to learn any language and still be far from fluent after 8 years.
I think proliferation in the Middle East will bring some long needed maturity to those ridiculous tribal governments or be self-limiting.
Hallelujah. I'm getting kind of tired of hearing the whole world and their momma condemning Iran for trying to have nukes. As simplistic as it might sound, having nukes equals peace. With quite some ICBM's, you can make sure that the USA or Russian or anyone else will never invade you. It's sad that scientists who participated to the Manhattan project felt that bad about their invention due to its earliest uses, when now it guarantees peace to many nations (well it guarantees at least no war on your soil, because then some countries go around the world to look for trouble)
Which reminds me how silly it was to claim to invade Iraq because they had WMD's. No one in his right mind will invade a country with actual WMD's by fear of being WMDed.
The man is a great ENGINEER. He doesn't compare with Jobs when it comes to doing what Jobs always did. He doesn't even have his vision, heck, Woz even prefered those optical pens to mice.
plenty of companies do just fine without a reality distortion field, so why shouldn't Apple?
I agree that it's an euphemism to say that Ive helped a lot with Apple's success, but if you wanted to compare Apple to other companies, you would have to compare it to companies which made non IBM PC compatible computers, and they all died or quit this branch of the industry. Apple has made non-IBM PC compatible computers for over 30 years, and I don't think they'd still be in business without Jobs' charisma and vision.
America would feel less american with the metric system. It would be yet one more of these countries that uses boring little metric system where everything multiplies by multiples of ten. Booooooring!
Come on, it's not THAT bad. Heck, what OS runs on more various machines than NetBSD? And at least new releases don't break things up as just discussed in Linux. Plus you get some advantages with using a micro-kernel. I think you ruled out BSD's a bit too quickly.
The proposed legislation, which does not yet have a primary sponsor, would block underage buyers from purchasing any game which [...] lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors.
Good, for a minute I thought they would prevent kids from playing Pac Mac.
Oh please let me be the 241th Slashdotter to say that it won't work because we've been emitting radio waves for only 100 years and that in a few centuries we will stop emitting any radio waves and that because of that aliens are not likely to use radio and must be so advanced that they all have VDSL2 and that they perform every of their communications over cat5 cables or optic fiber.
Seriously I hate it when I see 20 people all getting modded up for bringing up the exact same point
Remember Star Trek IV when the aliens though just the marine mammals were intelligent.
Well marine mammals are intelligent, actually, I don't see what's wrong with this claim. I'm not talking about intelligence in a quantitative manner as most people usually do by the way.
I doubt any alien civilization is going to be interested in sharing technology with a planet of retarded monkeys that give morons like Bush who openly admit talking to invisible men in the sky nuclear weapons.
lol, I love when people project themselves in their vision of what aliens might be like. It's not because you're atheist and that you think every smart person should be atheist or so that aliens are atheists and would despize getting in contact with god-fearing creatures.
Actually I'll never understand why so many people seem to think that aliens would have to be way superior to us and that because of that they would despize us as we are so striving to find even an alien bacteria.
I remember reading that they planned on doing that in a magazine in 2000 or 2001. When I just read that they did it I thought to myself "oh okay, at last..." because there's no reason to really care, mostly when the iPhone gets release.
If I was new here I couldn't yet have noticed the recurrence of comments about religion and politics when come the science related articles. I complain about it because I've noticed it for quite a while and am getting tired of it.
And while you're much older than me here I'm the one with the excellent karma lol.
I'll agree to say that this project is only one example of misplaced french/europeean pride. As for Chirac, I think he's gonna be the last of the gaulist presidents before a while. Of the two candidates likely to be elected, Sarkozy must be even less gaulist than Ségolène Royal, he's must be more libertarian than Tony Blair, and as you said I think he'd try hard to get closer to the US, I'm also afraid he'd make France flip to the wild side of capitalism and make us rival in capitalistic dementia with both UK and the US. So yeah, I think this is the end for the good old almost-centrist gaulism that Chirac incarnates and I agree about him trying to build a legacy, I however think that this project is more motivated by a misplaced feeling of international rivalry than anything else.
This is Keynesian economics and it was proven wrong a long time ago.
In case you're saying that Keynesian economics have been proven flawed, you must be either british or american, because it hasn't, and although a new wave of anti-Keysianism/ultra-libertarianism wiped Keynes out of the scope in certain countries since about 1973, some countries (such as France) are still more Keynesian than anything else and it works out, at least not worse as in ultra-libertarian countries.
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Imagine that there is a bomb in LA that just went off. Jack Bauer finds a way to make his PDA use quantum entanglement to tell this to Washington before they would be able to detect the event any other way. If some horrendous female actor, err, computer analyst found a way to disarm the bomb before Washington would receive a signal traveling at c from LA and transmit the data back it could get there before either the bomb went off or Jack sent the first message.
No? When the bomb would have exploded and that Jack would instantaneously inform Washington, then no matter what they would do in Washington, no matter whether they'd do it at the speed of light or instantaneously, it wouldn't change a thing.
Can you explain me how on Earth could they prevent anything this way? Unless you can send information back in time, which what you says must imply..
I agree, as long as it's legal, feel free to do it and fuck anyone who won't let you :-).
Sometimes the idea that my english/american is most likely better (barring accent, but could be trained) than half of the people speaking it as a native language scares me.
Same here, I often have to reword what I say with simpler and more common words for native english speakers. The annoying part is that many of them refuse to acknowledge that both my level of english and my awareness and knowledge of the american civilization near or exceed those of the average american citizen, most likely due to a kind of complex of inferiority in them imputable to their relatively poor awareness of the "outside world" and their linguistical ignorance.
On the other hand I completely suck at figuring out ebonics.
learning a language takes about five years of your life, full time
If it really takes you 5 years *full time* to learn a language I advise you to take an IQ test ;-)
And how long does it take for me to become (and stay) bilingual? Is there a net gain, or would my time be better spent elsewhere?
Depends on so many things, mainly how close the learnt language is to the language you already master, how instensively do you learn it, how hard the language is (easier to learn english than french usually) and most of all, you, your skills and your brain.
Some spanish speakers can become fluent in french in a few monthes for either reasons, and you can try to learn any language and still be far from fluent after 8 years.
Not really, they don't get along together this well.
There's something you're forgetting. Peanut butter is harmful for a very few people. Tobacco is harmful to *everybody*.
I think proliferation in the Middle East will bring some long needed maturity to those ridiculous tribal governments or be self-limiting.
Hallelujah. I'm getting kind of tired of hearing the whole world and their momma condemning Iran for trying to have nukes. As simplistic as it might sound, having nukes equals peace. With quite some ICBM's, you can make sure that the USA or Russian or anyone else will never invade you. It's sad that scientists who participated to the Manhattan project felt that bad about their invention due to its earliest uses, when now it guarantees peace to many nations (well it guarantees at least no war on your soil, because then some countries go around the world to look for trouble)
Which reminds me how silly it was to claim to invade Iraq because they had WMD's. No one in his right mind will invade a country with actual WMD's by fear of being WMDed.
Then put Woz at the wheel.
The man is a great ENGINEER. He doesn't compare with Jobs when it comes to doing what Jobs always did. He doesn't even have his vision, heck, Woz even prefered those optical pens to mice.
plenty of companies do just fine without a reality distortion field, so why shouldn't Apple?
I agree that it's an euphemism to say that Ive helped a lot with Apple's success, but if you wanted to compare Apple to other companies, you would have to compare it to companies which made non IBM PC compatible computers, and they all died or quit this branch of the industry. Apple has made non-IBM PC compatible computers for over 30 years, and I don't think they'd still be in business without Jobs' charisma and vision.
If you know/knew OJ killed 2 people, why were you NOT at his trial?
Because I was 9?
America would feel less american with the metric system. It would be yet one more of these countries that uses boring little metric system where everything multiplies by multiples of ten. Booooooring!
Awesome! I loved that lesbian scene with Jenaveve Jolie, can't wait to see it again in HD. :)
BSD? Hardware support is even more lacking.
Come on, it's not THAT bad. Heck, what OS runs on more various machines than NetBSD? And at least new releases don't break things up as just discussed in Linux. Plus you get some advantages with using a micro-kernel. I think you ruled out BSD's a bit too quickly.
Am I the only one to think that Jack Thompson looks an awful lot like Jon Stewart in 20 years?
The proposed legislation, which does not yet have a primary sponsor, would block underage buyers from purchasing any game which [...] lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors.
Good, for a minute I thought they would prevent kids from playing Pac Mac.
No wait..
I believe,as with gays and other sexual deviants from procreation,it is genetic,not their faults.
Hahaha, I see what kind of person you are. Discussion's over I guess.
lol tho, genetic gayness, just lol.
Oh please let me be the 241th Slashdotter to say that it won't work because we've been emitting radio waves for only 100 years and that in a few centuries we will stop emitting any radio waves and that because of that aliens are not likely to use radio and must be so advanced that they all have VDSL2 and that they perform every of their communications over cat5 cables or optic fiber.
Seriously I hate it when I see 20 people all getting modded up for bringing up the exact same point
Remember Star Trek IV when the aliens though just the marine mammals were intelligent.
Well marine mammals are intelligent, actually, I don't see what's wrong with this claim. I'm not talking about intelligence in a quantitative manner as most people usually do by the way.
I doubt any alien civilization is going to be interested in sharing technology with a planet of retarded monkeys that give morons like Bush who openly admit talking to invisible men in the sky nuclear weapons.
lol, I love when people project themselves in their vision of what aliens might be like. It's not because you're atheist and that you think every smart person should be atheist or so that aliens are atheists and would despize getting in contact with god-fearing creatures.
Actually I'll never understand why so many people seem to think that aliens would have to be way superior to us and that because of that they would despize us as we are so striving to find even an alien bacteria.
I remember reading that they planned on doing that in a magazine in 2000 or 2001. When I just read that they did it I thought to myself "oh okay, at last..." because there's no reason to really care, mostly when the iPhone gets release.
You must be new here...
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If I was new here I couldn't yet have noticed the recurrence of comments about religion and politics when come the science related articles. I complain about it because I've noticed it for quite a while and am getting tired of it.
And while you're much older than me here I'm the one with the excellent karma lol.
Oh God, why do you Slashdotters always have to start talking about religion or politics whenever we get an article about science?
I'll agree to say that this project is only one example of misplaced french/europeean pride. As for Chirac, I think he's gonna be the last of the gaulist presidents before a while. Of the two candidates likely to be elected, Sarkozy must be even less gaulist than Ségolène Royal, he's must be more libertarian than Tony Blair, and as you said I think he'd try hard to get closer to the US, I'm also afraid he'd make France flip to the wild side of capitalism and make us rival in capitalistic dementia with both UK and the US. So yeah, I think this is the end for the good old almost-centrist gaulism that Chirac incarnates and I agree about him trying to build a legacy, I however think that this project is more motivated by a misplaced feeling of international rivalry than anything else.
This is Keynesian economics and it was proven wrong a long time ago.
In case you're saying that Keynesian economics have been proven flawed, you must be either british or american, because it hasn't, and although a new wave of anti-Keysianism/ultra-libertarianism wiped Keynes out of the scope in certain countries since about 1973, some countries (such as France) are still more Keynesian than anything else and it works out, at least not worse as in ultra-libertarian countries.
Otherwise, please disregard this comment.