also, iTunes is so slow to get it going and doesn't properly react on a mouseclick. Except for the Windows' search function, nothing is as frustrating to use as iTunes.
Not providing the answer, but some thoughts... Using the intermediate states of a transistor does not change the principle of classic computing. Although a single transistor may represent either 0 or 1, two transistors can define some state inbetween, which is still a classical computer. Also, Babbage's computer was digital, but used 10 states for its 'mechanical transistors' and it was still not a quantum computer. Also many analog computers of the past (for calculating trajectories of gunfire for example) use intermediate states, but aren't quantum.
Totally agree! Hear, hear! I just don't understand people can say such a thing without touching the tip of a ten times exactly right. It's NOT at the speed of light, only CLOSE to it. If you walk on a pavement, don't walk on the lines between the tiles.
It's not about placing a lock on your front door and calling yourself decent, it's about digging a castle moat around your neighbour's house and calling him a thief.
he can tell you everything that is written on any Pokemon or Digimon card ever made.
This is not Pokemon. Pokemon is cool. Because of millions of dollars spent on marketing. Chemistry cards are not cool. Unless you have some genuine interest in chemistry in the first place. French language cards aren't cool either. Even though they might learn you the difference between le and la, I couldn't care less. Then again, it is not that you can not make a textbook interesting, it only requires a lot of work. But it's only children, they're obligated to buy the dull stuff anyway, why bother?
Here's 2 more that you didn't think of....
3) You are a moron.
4) You tried to be funny but failed.
I think it was funny. Me personally, I need those minutes to charge up again. It depends on the work. The work I'm doing now involves a lot of social interaction for the introvert person I am. Like making constant phone calls and managing all kinds of stuff to be done by many people. And I'm just not such a person. I like doing it, but I need the break by myself.
Well, I guess they are. During my university years I shared a house with another student who vacumed his room every so many months. He never noticed the tube was blocked.
That's what works for me. Need to implement a large piece of code and don't know where to start? Pick the easiest part of the project, and implement that. Repeat. Before you know it, you're all done. This works particularly well with an object-oriented language like C++, since there are usually lots of little methods you can work on.
I used to do that making exams. That worked very well. When I'm designing however, I start with the most difficult part. Also, as I'm such a compulsive perfectionist, I just start designing drafts or test version. Keeping them far from any real project. Just to see how it looks. Though, by the end of the day it is good enough to copy it into the design I'm really working on.
Another thing I find that helps: At the end of the day, try to leave something trivial for the start of the next day. That way, if you're not a morning person, you have something to warm up with until the coffee kicks in.
This doesn't work for me. Some things just look trivial, but once I'm delaying the work, I get lost. Sometimes I have to do the work again just because it really wasn't that simple at all and I just have no idea anymore how I got there in the first place. What helps in this case is telling myself that it has to be done anyway, however simple it may seem. So why not spend a few minutes extra to finish it directly.
If all you care about is the "get up and go to work in the morning" part, you're probably right. However, if you're interested in the possibility that the brain may be reducedable to a Newtonian mechanism, the question is an interesting one.
[i]About the only thing I never worked out is how they get them to release from the molds so cleanly, and with such straight walls[/i]
Just a guess...
They use draft angles as in any mould, so in the mould the brick is tapered. However, the brick may be a little thicker near the bottom side than near the top side, leading to extra shrinkage at the bottom (pulling the brick straight).
I agree. I wonder if the mechanisms involving the climate are understood well enough to fix it like this. I also find it difficult to graps why so few people profit hugely in money and power from selling oil, while the population in general will need to cough up thousands of billions of dollars to fix the problem.
> how can these bozos predict the depletion of ocean > life when they can't even count how many species . Because they need not to know. They make assumptions and use statistics. Just as you have made your assumptions in your post. Except for the fact that I'll give them more credit about the kind of assumptions they make than I'll give you. Ever wrote an assay you thought was brilliant and your teacher thought it was not? It's like that. . Besides, as far a the big fish and mammals in the higher part of the food chain are concerned, they know very well what the numbers are.
Why would you recreate life that apparently can't be kept alive anyway? I think a DNA database adds no value at all (as far as the empty oceans are concerned). It's like having a backup, but no computer.
A purple heart loses its value in about 35 years. The merit badge will undoubtedly be a far better investment. Then again, be a drunk and wear no badge at all, will make you win the elections.
What's the difference between compressing pixels of stored data and compressing pixels on the fly? Well for one, there're less algorithms that you can use if you don't store. Unless you save data first there's no looking back and forth. That is to say suppose you can extract all you need from the previous pixel, what then is the problem with fractal compression? Why can't we still not save an image effectively into very few pixels and a key? I think there's nothing remarkable about this camera.
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also, iTunes is so slow to get it going and doesn't properly react on a mouseclick. Except for the Windows' search function, nothing is as frustrating to use as iTunes.
Not providing the answer, but some thoughts... Using the intermediate states of a transistor does not change the principle of classic computing. Although a single transistor may represent either 0 or 1, two transistors can define some state inbetween, which is still a classical computer. Also, Babbage's computer was digital, but used 10 states for its 'mechanical transistors' and it was still not a quantum computer. Also many analog computers of the past (for calculating trajectories of gunfire for example) use intermediate states, but aren't quantum.
Totally agree! Hear, hear! I just don't understand people can say such a thing without touching the tip of a ten times exactly right. It's NOT at the speed of light, only CLOSE to it. If you walk on a pavement, don't walk on the lines between the tiles.
It's not about placing a lock on your front door and calling yourself decent, it's about digging a castle moat around your neighbour's house and calling him a thief.
This is not Pokemon. Pokemon is cool. Because of millions of dollars spent on marketing. Chemistry cards are not cool. Unless you have some genuine interest in chemistry in the first place. French language cards aren't cool either. Even though they might learn you the difference between le and la, I couldn't care less. Then again, it is not that you can not make a textbook interesting, it only requires a lot of work. But it's only children, they're obligated to buy the dull stuff anyway, why bother?
It's just that that's the price he can charge, since there were literally thousands of others I could have gone to.
That would be a neat definition to put in Webster's Dictionary defining 'not slave labour'
Here's 2 more that you didn't think of....
3) You are a moron.
4) You tried to be funny but failed.
I think it was funny. Me personally, I need those minutes to charge up again. It depends on the work. The work I'm doing now involves a lot of social interaction for the introvert person I am. Like making constant phone calls and managing all kinds of stuff to be done by many people. And I'm just not such a person. I like doing it, but I need the break by myself.
Nice angles. That's exactly how I make my member stand out on gay profiles.
but goddamnit my floors are clean now
Well, I guess they are. During my university years I shared a house with another student who vacumed his room every so many months. He never noticed the tube was blocked.
Then again, those 27% might be exellent papers, while the others delivered some hasty garbage. Was that surveyed, too?
That's what works for me. Need to implement a large piece of code and don't know where to start? Pick the easiest part of the project, and implement that. Repeat. Before you know it, you're all done. This works particularly well with an object-oriented language like C++, since there are usually lots of little methods you can work on.
I used to do that making exams. That worked very well. When I'm designing however, I start with the most difficult part. Also, as I'm such a compulsive perfectionist, I just start designing drafts or test version. Keeping them far from any real project. Just to see how it looks. Though, by the end of the day it is good enough to copy it into the design I'm really working on.
Another thing I find that helps: At the end of the day, try to leave something trivial for the start of the next day. That way, if you're not a morning person, you have something to warm up with until the coffee kicks in.
This doesn't work for me. Some things just look trivial, but once I'm delaying the work, I get lost. Sometimes I have to do the work again just because it really wasn't that simple at all and I just have no idea anymore how I got there in the first place. What helps in this case is telling myself that it has to be done anyway, however simple it may seem. So why not spend a few minutes extra to finish it directly.
If all you care about is the "get up and go to work in the morning" part, you're probably right. However, if you're interested in the possibility that the brain may be reducedable to a Newtonian mechanism, the question is an interesting one.
No, it doesn't work anymore. It was shot out of orbit by the colossal petawatt laser I've built in kindergarten.
[i]About the only thing I never worked out is how they get them to release from the molds so cleanly, and with such straight walls[/i] Just a guess... They use draft angles as in any mould, so in the mould the brick is tapered. However, the brick may be a little thicker near the bottom side than near the top side, leading to extra shrinkage at the bottom (pulling the brick straight).
Stop the increase of the climate change from CO2 pollution, with more pollution!!!!!!
It's like a patch for Windows. Once you start patching, you'll never be able to stop.
H2 gets burned with O2, that's what you want it to do. So there's no increase in O2. Analogously there can not be any increase in H2O.
I agree. I wonder if the mechanisms involving the climate are understood well enough to fix it like this. I also find it difficult to graps why so few people profit hugely in money and power from selling oil, while the population in general will need to cough up thousands of billions of dollars to fix the problem.
I've once found two pages sticking together in a book I got from the library. Burn all the libraries!
> how can these bozos predict the depletion of ocean
> life when they can't even count how many species
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Because they need not to know. They make assumptions and use statistics. Just as you have made your assumptions in your post. Except for the fact that I'll give them more credit about the kind of assumptions they make than I'll give you. Ever wrote an assay you thought was brilliant and your teacher thought it was not? It's like that.
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Besides, as far a the big fish and mammals in the higher part of the food chain are concerned, they know very well what the numbers are.
Why would you recreate life that apparently can't be kept alive anyway? I think a DNA database adds no value at all (as far as the empty oceans are concerned). It's like having a backup, but no computer.
> My problem with evolution is that it doesn't explain the beginning.
My problem with intelligent design is that it doesn't explain how to drive a car.
A purple heart loses its value in about 35 years. The merit badge will undoubtedly be a far better investment. Then again, be a drunk and wear no badge at all, will make you win the elections.
What's the difference between compressing pixels of stored data and compressing pixels on the fly? Well for one, there're less algorithms that you can use if you don't store. Unless you save data first there's no looking back and forth. That is to say suppose you can extract all you need from the previous pixel, what then is the problem with fractal compression? Why can't we still not save an image effectively into very few pixels and a key? I think there's nothing remarkable about this camera.
What a relief they've found the bug. OK, now it's save to use.