This is totally unrelated to the story. I'm looking for 50-60 people who can claim that they're audiophiles, for a short-term very well paid job. Thank you for your attention.
Programming is plagued with the choice of languages/frameworks for sequential programming. There are just too many to list. I'm kind of envious of the guy who light-heartedly chose Fortran for his parallel tasks. May be this strategy works for sequential programming too!
Perhaps I should change my wording to suit your age. You confuse a popular image of successful scientist (modeled after Einstein) with actual science. Einstein (and his predecessors) didn't discard previous world models, they refined them. Sometimes (as with Einstein specifically) it came in unexpected and brilliant way. Still, the new model is an extension of an older one, with addition of few new principles - which is not surprising, given the fact that the old model was derived in the same scientific way, tested in the real world e.t.c. "Science challenges everything" happens only in cartoons, even movies generally don't fall as low as that, let alone real life...
The idea that we owe science to Greece is based on tradition. Greece was not the only scientific center of the time, just the one we(me and you) know most about.
Your hypothesis is quite good, but I suggest generalizing it a bit. The societies that foster competition are know to have both higher quality of life and more civil rights for they citizens. Islamic countries supress competition on many levels, so they suffer.
As for US, I suspect that the crucial factor was Atlantic ocean as a barrier for low-IQ people, but I lack any hard data so it's just a guess.
HDI shows the corellation between a quality of life, freedom and capitalism. Very true! The original post, however, conjectured that science corellates with freedom and capitalism. Not true at all. Science depends on having high IQ people and having an incentive for working in scientific fields. An incentive can arouse from desire for profit(Industrial revolution), civic tradition (ancient Greece), quasi-religious tradition (ancient China), utility as viewed by opressive government(Soviet Union), perhaps some other sources. Islamic world clearly has no such incentive. Worse yet, they IQ probably suffered from centuries of incest. Wile IQ is probably hard to fix, incentive is not. The problem of Islamic world is that it's ruled by people like OeLeWaPpErKe. He's been taught that freedom is good, and tries to solve all problems by it, wherever it works or not. Islamic scholars has been taught that Islamic values are good, and they try to solve all the problems by adhering to them, wherever it works or not.
A society that takes away rights from 50% of its population cannot prosper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece#Social_Structure Only free, land owning, native-born men could be citizens entitled to the full protection of the law in a city-state
Life is not complex at all. Especially not complex in your meaning of the word. You use the word "complex" but what you mean is "whatever I say is right, everything else is misunderstood" Complex as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system
You've build your world model from your moral principles. Quite ironically, that's exactly the problem of Islamic world, although the difference in moral code makes it non-obvious.
Freedom of speech and science are directly related Care to provide any data?
The best scientific advancements come when someone declares "everything we know about this is wrong" and formulates, tests, and publishes some bold new idea That's a familiar pattern - for pseudoscience. Scientists usually builds stuff upon older stuff, 'cos previous generation of scientists were not idiots. Sometimes it happens in a bold, unexpected way.
A society that takes away rights from 50% of its population cannot prosper. Societies that oppress women are invariably under-developed, strife-riven and backward. Ancient Greece
Any system that proclaims a monopoly on truth and mandates severe punishments for those who question the system cannot produce scientific progress. Soviet Union
Any society that produces riots in response to satirical cartoons cannot progress in the modern world. You've got me there...
Seriously, life is tad more complicated than moralists would like it to be...
"Can demand now"? I remember hearing long time ago that you face up to 2 years of jail if you don't give up your encryption keys to police in UK. I'm pretty confident about that - I rarely hear any UK news at all...
I don't need you. Scared?
How's a computer that stopped serving you is different from a human who stopped serving you?
The computers are different, of course. They don't have our instincts. There's no reason for them to fight us for territory/mates. Is it in your calculations?
The danger they present is the danger of algorithmic error. Well, you're exposed to it already, withot computers being intelligent(by our standards)
Russian government often promises more than it delivers. On the other hand Russian government is in the procces of passing a law that requires a license for programming, which will render Russian shareware illegal. That, I'm sure, is something they will deliver.
Typhoon was the biggest because of an inefficient solid fuel (hence big missiles) and a requirement to use existing ports. Only idiots are proud of its size.
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Smaller animals....warm-blooded... sounds like mice!
I bet the next on the development scale should be dolphins...
This is totally unrelated to the story. I'm looking for 50-60 people who can claim that they're audiophiles, for a short-term very well paid job. Thank you for your attention.
overloads -> overlords.
On the second thought, given an electrical heating I welcome overloads too
welcome our brand new electrically heated dummy overloads! Coming to a car seat near you!
Programming is plagued with the choice of languages/frameworks for sequential programming. There are just too many to list. I'm kind of envious of the guy who light-heartedly chose Fortran for his parallel tasks. May be this strategy works for sequential programming too!
Perhaps I should change my wording to suit your age. You confuse a popular image of successful scientist (modeled after Einstein) with actual science. Einstein (and his predecessors) didn't discard previous world models, they refined them. Sometimes (as with Einstein specifically) it came in unexpected and brilliant way. Still, the new model is an extension of an older one, with addition of few new principles - which is not surprising, given the fact that the old model was derived in the same scientific way, tested in the real world e.t.c. "Science challenges everything" happens only in cartoons, even movies generally don't fall as low as that, let alone real life...
The idea that we owe science to Greece is based on tradition. Greece was not the only scientific center of the time, just the one we(me and you) know most about.
Your hypothesis is quite good, but I suggest generalizing it a bit. The societies that foster competition are know to have both higher quality of life and more civil rights for they citizens. Islamic countries supress competition on many levels, so they suffer.
As for US, I suspect that the crucial factor was Atlantic ocean as a barrier for low-IQ people, but I lack any hard data so it's just a guess.
HDI shows the corellation between a quality of life, freedom and capitalism. Very true! The original post, however, conjectured that science corellates with freedom and capitalism. Not true at all. Science depends on having high IQ people and having an incentive for working in scientific fields. An incentive can arouse from desire for profit(Industrial revolution), civic tradition (ancient Greece), quasi-religious tradition (ancient China), utility as viewed by opressive government(Soviet Union), perhaps some other sources. Islamic world clearly has no such incentive. Worse yet, they IQ probably suffered from centuries of incest. Wile IQ is probably hard to fix, incentive is not. The problem of Islamic world is that it's ruled by people like OeLeWaPpErKe. He's been taught that freedom is good, and tries to solve all problems by it, wherever it works or not. Islamic scholars has been taught that Islamic values are good, and they try to solve all the problems by adhering to them, wherever it works or not.
A society that takes away rights from 50% of its population cannot prosper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece#Social_Structure
Only free, land owning, native-born men could be citizens entitled to the full protection of the law in a city-state
the system cannot produce scientific progress.
Scientific progress in the soviet union was dropping at alarming rates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_the_Soviet_Union
No progress at all, and also dropping at alarming rate (must be a negative value all along)
Life is not complex at all. Especially not complex in your meaning of the word. You use the word "complex" but what you mean is "whatever I say is right, everything else is misunderstood"
Complex as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system
You've build your world model from your moral principles. Quite ironically, that's exactly the problem of Islamic world, although the difference in moral code makes it non-obvious.
Freedom of speech and science are directly related
Care to provide any data?
The best scientific advancements come when someone declares "everything we know about this is wrong" and formulates, tests, and publishes some bold new idea
That's a familiar pattern - for pseudoscience. Scientists usually builds stuff upon older stuff, 'cos previous generation of scientists were not idiots. Sometimes it happens in a bold, unexpected way.
Dunno. Last time I checked we were independ of Scotland as well...At least officially
A society that takes away rights from 50% of its population cannot prosper. Societies that oppress women are invariably under-developed, strife-riven and backward.
Ancient Greece
Any system that proclaims a monopoly on truth and mandates severe punishments for those who question the system cannot produce scientific progress.
Soviet Union
Any society that produces riots in response to satirical cartoons cannot progress in the modern world.
You've got me there...
Seriously, life is tad more complicated than moralists would like it to be...
"Can demand now"? I remember hearing long time ago that you face up to 2 years of jail if you don't give up your encryption keys to police in UK. I'm pretty confident about that - I rarely hear any UK news at all...
I guess you've never been exposed to Windows
I haven't RTFA yet, so I have a question: how many times they've used the word painful in the article?
all your documents are belong to us
You won't believe what you can get from some sites if your user-agent string doesn't contain something familiar to them
I don't need you. Scared?
How's a computer that stopped serving you is different from a human who stopped serving you?
The computers are different, of course. They don't have our instincts. There's no reason for them to fight us for territory/mates. Is it in your calculations?
The danger they present is the danger of algorithmic error. Well, you're exposed to it already, withot computers being intelligent(by our standards)
oops, sorry. license for distribution of programs, which will render domestic shareware illegal.
Russian government often promises more than it delivers. On the other hand Russian government is in the procces of passing a law that requires a license for programming, which will render Russian shareware illegal. That, I'm sure, is something they will deliver.
leaves a lot of states to launch from without the hassle
sorry, along=alone
item 4 along is sufficient to rate this post informative
how (if) the smaller PC game studios turn a profit.
Isn't development for pc significantly cheaper for a number of reasons?
Typhoon was the biggest because of an inefficient solid fuel (hence big missiles) and a requirement to use existing ports. Only idiots are proud of its size.