Almost all universities use textbooks from US and/or UK. I'm not talking about grad level courses, but basic physics, mathematics, biology etc. Since most of these books are photocopied by students, professors don't *waste* their time to produce more suitable materials to be used by the local universites and probably rest of the World.
Hi, I'm from Norway and I bought every single textbook. Every single one with proper copyright. There is no copying or photocopies.
The books are still from the UK/US.
Maybe we don't NEED a bunch of professors spending their time writing almost identical books?
Exactly. We rolled the dice once with the Manhattan Project. Before the first nuclear bomb was detonated, no one could prove with 100% certainty that the bomb would not ignite the entire planet's atmosphere. They could show that it was very unlikely to happen, but not impossible. So the dice were rolled and we got lucky. How many times can we roll the dice before our luck runs out?
When humans created the first man-made fire, nobody could prove with 100% certainty that the fire "would not ignite the entire planet's atmosphere".
I presume a "yes." Things humans make aren't natural? What if a monkey learned to make something, would it be natural?
Logically incorrect, the "artificial" argument should be considered a convenient simplification.
Humans are capable of creating some really nasty stuff. This is linked with industrialization and advances in chemistry. Or in short, that we're advancing so much faster than evolution can keep up with.
The "natural" approach simply reduces the exposure to things that you're not evolution-proofed by.
Lesson learned: DDT.
I'll err on the "natural" side of things. We can't evolve fast enough to adapt to advances in technology, but we can discover harmful side effects and learn from them. You are free to embrace any and all things "artificial", but one could argue that you're performing the job of human guinea pig by doing so.
And? Are those words meant to somehow refute the fact that humans are exploring space by remotely controlling probes have been wildly more successful than humans exploring space by sending up other humans?
The speed of light is a limiting factor on remote controlling over such distances. So yes, his "Speed of Light Latency" utterly, completely and definitely refutes any idea of a remote controlled, dexterous robot.
I am an extensive mass transport system user who, every day, benefits from a multi-modal network that involves bus, suburban train and subway system.
I live in Oslo, Norway. 550 NOK (~61 Euro) per month gives unlimited access to public transportation (Subway, tram, train, bus, boat) within the city limits.
Mass transit will likely have a boom as mobile devices with efficient route planners get more common. The key point is the network effect of mass transit - the more people that use it, the more efficient it becomes.
The unique benefit of cars is that they provide mobile storage. Having a place to dump all the stuff you "might" need is often more important than the difference in transportation.
And, as for secrets, is there any one of us who doesn't carry a TON of those around with them? Do you wake up every day and tell your wife that she's become a fat, bitter shrew and that you don't want to be married to her anymore because you want to go find a cute younger woman who isn't a fat, bitter shrew? Do you tell your kids that you're disappointed that they're not as smart or handsome as you'd hoped they'd be? Do you tell your boss he's a fucking idiot and that you think you could do a better job than him? Do you tell you mother that you don't want to visit her or call her because you're too different from her now to have anything to talk about? Do you tell yourself that you're not the hero of the story, just another loser in a world full of losers?
I think you're confusing "having secrets" with "having common sense".
Actually the argument most often used against child porn is that it 'encourages the abuse of children', this often allows 'them' to go after even non-photographic items such as drawings or computer renderings.
Similar to how Hollywood movies are banned because of drawings or computer renderings of illegal violence?
I was given a completely unrealistic goal to create a schematic in ONE week, for a project that I knew nothing about. I worked 80 hours in that single week, missed the deadline (no surprise), was threatened by my boss (...)
Don't accept an unrealistic goal. If you know nothing about the project, make sure to tell people there is no way anyone on earth could possibly reach the deadline. Do this the very moment you begin to suspect you'll have time issues.
Japanese is an interesting example. Oversimplifying in order to get to the point: - 5 vowels and 10 consonants. - Each character is a consonant+vowel combination.
The ultimate solution for this particular language seems to be a keyboard where the left hand selects the vowel while the right selects the consonant. However, Japanese use QWERTY.
Mobile phones keyboards do consider the fundamentals of the language and Japanese writing is very efficient. You have 1 key per consonant then push 1-5 times to cycle the vowels. An average of 2,5 button presses per syllable. (Again, this is a slight oversimplification, and slightly irrelevant without considering dictionary technology for both languages)
What is the value of life in the first place? As I see it, it is the culmination of billions of years of evolution.
Optimist. You assume there is life on Mars and that humans will develop to study it.
Earth is a single point of failure.
Ensuring life on both planets will protect life from cataclysmic events. This is more important than preserving (likely non-existent, mind you) native martian life.
What kind of punk kid would write a religious creed about programming without even mentioning the language that all other languages are written in (or at least the languages they were written in were written in).
Get off my lawn. Damned kids. And take your burning cross with you.
Assembly isn't a religion. It comes from the dawn of time, before religions, when magic was real.
This title is misleading. There are many types of genius outside of math and physics. Artists, authors, composers, financial gurus, etc. can all be geniuses.
They use the Scientific method. Math and Physics produce measurable, reproducible results. It is thus easier to spot a genius.
Arts depend on personal taste. Composers and artists may not be recognized as geniuses until after their deaths. Financial theories are also hard to verify and prove.
I think "stereotype" is the wrong idea, it's more related to if you can measure the genius.
As a paying broadband subscriber who intentionally leaves my AP unsecured, I say you're welcome. I'm too worried about getting a good wireless signal to borrow my neighbors connection, but as long as they aren't greedy with bandwidth I don't mind sharing my own.
My SSID is "Send SMS for password " + my mobile number.
As nice as unsecured, and I have a phone number reference for the user just in case.
It's easier to get someone to open a.wri or.doc file than a.exe file.
Much easier. Set up a dummy web site serving "documentation" on any subject you're pretending to represent. Users will get a.wri file, displayed with a very friendly "text document" user interface and allowing the user to open it.
It's not very difficult to make users "click here for documentation". The user is expecting to get a document file, they get a file in a document format. They will open it.
High-level content also require skill. But you hit the key point: MMOs force repetition, and much more repetition than what is needed to acquire the needed skill.
This is a fundamental flaw in the current model. Charge on a monthly basis, and they need to prevent people from playing 'too fast', or they would loose those customer.
To be blunt: You know something is wrong when your customers are willing to pay extra to avoid playing parts of your game.
Every creature dies as soon as it possibly can, to increase the generation rate and speed of evolution.
Way I see it, this still applies. Get rid of the old blood and bring in fresh generations. Filling the world with immortals will cause total stagnation.
A stable point is where there is just enough altruism and greed to consume all the available resources without too many people getting upset and changing the gene pool with a shotgun.
The stable point is not fixed, but depends on how the society reacts to greed.
The harder the punishment for greed, the more altruism a society can have.
CoC started out amazing. But then it turned into just another FPS.
More of the game should have been about sneaking around and running for your life when things go bad. You don't kill your enemies in CoC - they kill you!
But, if I am not afraid to die, to lose something I've worked for, I'll just think it's cool.
Give me that tension. Make losing my character be a significant loss. Then, those dark rooms, eerie creeks and nervous silences just might make a bit uncomfortable.
If I stretch that a bit, you're basically stating that horror movies or literature cannot exist. It does, so I claim you're wrong.
Losing playtime is about the hardcore / casual divide. You are correct that it can add a bit of extra tension to the game, but for many people (me included) it is just mindbogglingly annoying and ruins a game more than anything else.
You mention immersion, and you're right. And for me, worrying about save spots, backtracking safe areas to save, and reloading for the nth time breaks immersion just as bad as anything else.
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Almost all universities use textbooks from US and/or UK. I'm not talking about grad level courses, but basic physics, mathematics, biology etc. Since most of these books are photocopied by students, professors don't *waste* their time to produce more suitable materials to be used by the local universites and probably rest of the World.
Hi, I'm from Norway and I bought every single textbook. Every single one with proper copyright. There is no copying or photocopies.
The books are still from the UK/US.
Maybe we don't NEED a bunch of professors spending their time writing almost identical books?
Some purchase a legal copy, don't install it (because of DRM) and download the cracked version instead.
Been there, done that. I have a still shrink wrapped copy of Spore in my games shelf, and a pirated version installed.
Exactly. We rolled the dice once with the Manhattan Project. Before the first nuclear bomb was detonated, no one could prove with 100% certainty that the bomb would not ignite the entire planet's atmosphere. They could show that it was very unlikely to happen, but not impossible. So the dice were rolled and we got lucky. How many times can we roll the dice before our luck runs out?
When humans created the first man-made fire, nobody could prove with 100% certainty that the fire "would not ignite the entire planet's atmosphere".
Humans aren't natural?
I presume a "yes." Things humans make aren't natural? What if a monkey learned to make something, would it be natural?
Logically incorrect, the "artificial" argument should be considered a convenient simplification.
Humans are capable of creating some really nasty stuff. This is linked with industrialization and advances in chemistry. Or in short, that we're advancing so much faster than evolution can keep up with.
The "natural" approach simply reduces the exposure to things that you're not evolution-proofed by.
Lesson learned: DDT.
I'll err on the "natural" side of things. We can't evolve fast enough to adapt to advances in technology, but we can discover harmful side effects and learn from them. You are free to embrace any and all things "artificial", but one could argue that you're performing the job of human guinea pig by doing so.
And? Are those words meant to somehow refute the fact that humans are exploring space by remotely controlling probes have been wildly more successful than humans exploring space by sending up other humans?
The speed of light is a limiting factor on remote controlling over such distances. So yes, his "Speed of Light Latency" utterly, completely and definitely refutes any idea of a remote controlled, dexterous robot.
I am an extensive mass transport system user who, every day, benefits from a multi-modal network that involves bus, suburban train and subway system.
I live in Oslo, Norway. 550 NOK (~61 Euro) per month gives unlimited access to public transportation (Subway, tram, train, bus, boat) within the city limits.
Mass transit will likely have a boom as mobile devices with efficient route planners get more common. The key point is the network effect of mass transit - the more people that use it, the more efficient it becomes.
The unique benefit of cars is that they provide mobile storage. Having a place to dump all the stuff you "might" need is often more important than the difference in transportation.
And, as for secrets, is there any one of us who doesn't carry a TON of those around with them? Do you wake up every day and tell your wife that she's become a fat, bitter shrew and that you don't want to be married to her anymore because you want to go find a cute younger woman who isn't a fat, bitter shrew? Do you tell your kids that you're disappointed that they're not as smart or handsome as you'd hoped they'd be? Do you tell your boss he's a fucking idiot and that you think you could do a better job than him? Do you tell you mother that you don't want to visit her or call her because you're too different from her now to have anything to talk about? Do you tell yourself that you're not the hero of the story, just another loser in a world full of losers?
I think you're confusing "having secrets" with "having common sense".
Actually the argument most often used against child porn is that it 'encourages the abuse of children', this often allows 'them' to go after even non-photographic items such as drawings or computer renderings.
Similar to how Hollywood movies are banned because of drawings or computer renderings of illegal violence?
I was given a completely unrealistic goal to create a schematic in ONE week, for a project that I knew nothing about. I worked 80 hours in that single week, missed the deadline (no surprise), was threatened by my boss (...)
Don't accept an unrealistic goal. If you know nothing about the project, make sure to tell people there is no way anyone on earth could possibly reach the deadline. Do this the very moment you begin to suspect you'll have time issues.
For an example of a keyboard for a non-Latin alphabet, look at the alternate symbols on this Japanese keyboard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MacBookProJISKeyboard-1.jpg
Japanese is an interesting example. Oversimplifying in order to get to the point:
- 5 vowels and 10 consonants.
- Each character is a consonant+vowel combination.
Phonetic Japanese thus fits extremely neatly into a matrix:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4_lsVEmWxjA/RZeAdoEkVqI/AAAAAAAAAF8/Vic6glIK4PM/s1600-h/katakana.bmp
The ultimate solution for this particular language seems to be a keyboard where the left hand selects the vowel while the right selects the consonant. However, Japanese use QWERTY.
Mobile phones keyboards do consider the fundamentals of the language and Japanese writing is very efficient. You have 1 key per consonant then push 1-5 times to cycle the vowels. An average of 2,5 button presses per syllable. (Again, this is a slight oversimplification, and slightly irrelevant without considering dictionary technology for both languages)
Excuse me, you're missing a letter. It's "Will it BLEND??", not "Will it BEND??". Sheesh, newbs these days.
No, it's not "Will it BLEND??". The meme for this occation is "WOOOOSH!".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
What is the value of life in the first place? As I see it, it is the culmination of billions of years of evolution.
Optimist. You assume there is life on Mars and that humans will develop to study it.
Earth is a single point of failure.
Ensuring life on both planets will protect life from cataclysmic events. This is more important than preserving (likely non-existent, mind you) native martian life.
What kind of punk kid would write a religious creed about programming without even mentioning the language that all other languages are written in (or at least the languages they were written in were written in).
Get off my lawn. Damned kids. And take your burning cross with you.
Assembly isn't a religion. It comes from the dawn of time, before religions, when magic was real.
(Different topic, thus split in two replies)
I'll be looking forward to the day when the quality of books and music will be so high that a single individual can no longer produce a top-tier work.
Could you imagine a world where you have think-tanks of authors collaborating to write the absolutely best possible book?
This is already true for movies and TV series, it's interesting that books are still dominated by individuals.
This title is misleading. There are many types of genius outside of math and physics.
Artists, authors, composers, financial gurus, etc. can all be geniuses.
They use the Scientific method. Math and Physics produce measurable, reproducible results. It is thus easier to spot a genius.
Arts depend on personal taste. Composers and artists may not be recognized as geniuses until after their deaths. Financial theories are also hard to verify and prove.
I think "stereotype" is the wrong idea, it's more related to if you can measure the genius.
As a paying broadband subscriber who intentionally leaves my AP unsecured, I say you're welcome. I'm too worried about getting a good wireless signal to borrow my neighbors connection, but as long as they aren't greedy with bandwidth I don't mind sharing my own.
My SSID is "Send SMS for password " + my mobile number.
As nice as unsecured, and I have a phone number reference for the user just in case.
It's easier to get someone to open a .wri or .doc file than a .exe file.
Much easier. Set up a dummy web site serving "documentation" on any subject you're pretending to represent. Users will get a .wri file, displayed with a very friendly "text document" user interface and allowing the user to open it.
It's not very difficult to make users "click here for documentation". The user is expecting to get a document file, they get a file in a document format. They will open it.
Being a level 70 mage simply requires time.
High-level content also require skill. But you hit the key point: MMOs force repetition, and much more repetition than what is needed to acquire the needed skill.
This is a fundamental flaw in the current model. Charge on a monthly basis, and they need to prevent people from playing 'too fast', or they would loose those customer.
To be blunt:
You know something is wrong when your customers are willing to pay extra to avoid playing parts of your game.
Every creature dies as soon as it possibly can, to increase the generation rate and speed of evolution.
Way I see it, this still applies. Get rid of the old blood and bring in fresh generations. Filling the world with immortals will cause total stagnation.
Programmers, though, like it better when they write more code.
I clearly prefer to write less. Noting better than cleaning up code and ending up with deleting a third of it while making it work better than before.
A stable point is where there is just enough altruism and greed to consume all the available resources without too many people getting upset and changing the gene pool with a shotgun.
The stable point is not fixed, but depends on how the society reacts to greed.
The harder the punishment for greed, the more altruism a society can have.
Yes, I'm quite serious.
Still interested in doing this?
Make sure the 1GB encrypted file is a HD video of cuuute kittens. Disclose key when asked.
CoC started out amazing. But then it turned into just another FPS.
More of the game should have been about sneaking around and running for your life when things go bad. You don't kill your enemies in CoC - they kill you!
But, if I am not afraid to die, to lose something I've worked for, I'll just think it's cool.
Give me that tension. Make losing my character be a significant loss. Then, those dark rooms, eerie creeks and nervous silences just might make a bit uncomfortable.
If I stretch that a bit, you're basically stating that horror movies or literature cannot exist. It does, so I claim you're wrong.
Losing playtime is about the hardcore / casual divide. You are correct that it can add a bit of extra tension to the game, but for many people (me included) it is just mindbogglingly annoying and ruins a game more than anything else.
You mention immersion, and you're right. And for me, worrying about save spots, backtracking safe areas to save, and reloading for the nth time breaks immersion just as bad as anything else.