Cain's wife was one such member of the pre-existing human society that existed outside of the Garden. The creation of Eve is stated clearly to be performed on an entirely different allegorical "day" than human females per se.
I hate doing this, but I really am concerned. So, here goes:
The so-called "interdisciplinary" research projects can benefit greatly from your programing skills, if you take them to a new field. I guess that you have already proven, through your co-operation with geologists, that you are able to grasp a new topic and reach a high level of competency in that field (as in being co-author in a paper in that discipline), so you should definitely play that card while applying, in my opinion.
Traveling, as well as learning/using a new language should be considered. I tried Germany and it turned out really well. Central european countries in general have quite good research projects and you can get a job at a university paying about 1500-1700 Euros per month after taxes plus full benefits (health insurance and pension).
As for the field, start with looking in geology projects, but don't restrict yourself to that. Chemistry researchers are in a dire need for some sane programing skills, I can tell you...
I see your point, but, as in many topics, you can't draw a straight line. Let's say we ban advertising. You develop a product and you want to sell it. How do you do it? Do you go up to your family and friends and talk about your new product? That's advertising. You sell them your product and you ask them to tell their friends? That's more advertising. Is the church bell ringing on Sundays? Is the mullah on the minaret yelling a prayer? Advertising (and pretty intrusive, too).
I run Firefox 21.0 in Win8 and websites suddenly start to render like shit after the 2nd or the 3rd visit. The situation is remedied when the cache is cleared from the "clear recent history" menu. But after some time, the problem reappears. I set the cache size to a very small value so that practically nothing fits and nothing is saved, which is obviously a lame thing. The problem also cost me quite a bit of time before I figured it out. So there.
For the record, I like Firefox, but I find fast release schedules to be a totally retarded thing. I find myself updating less often because the chance of the next release being a crappy one is higher. I had a similar experience with VLC.
This just made me very, very sad... If we have such laws that get applied on a per-choice basis, then I will also choose to apply only the laws that I'm fond of (up yours RIAA and MPAA!!).
I have been resisting buying a smartphone for years. The only sensible reason for me to own one would be so that I can tinker with it. Sure you can play around with Android a bit, but I want something that will ease my tinkering rather than try to prevent me. Apple, of course, is straight out because of this. I want a smartphone that I can turn inside out, hack, wipe, reinstall its OS, re-hack, re-wipe and re-install, write small apps for, use to exchange data with, and get creative with its WiFi, bluetooth and accelerometers. And I want all that without fearing of EULAs and other layer mumbo jumbo. And a pony.
it's sad to watch HP fall into ruins, but it seems that me that everything they touch turns into coal instead of gold. They used to build decent hardware. My brother owns an HP handheld from the time before the smartphone craze that had a stylus, Windows mobile (from the era when it actually used to work), a *shitload* of software and GPS. They acquired Compaq and the laptop I bought from them back in 2004 was built to last. Then they phased out all the Compaq products and the laptops they have been marketing since are all crap IMHO. They also killed the Compaq Fortran Compiler with the promise to launch a modernized version for some serious number-crunching on HP-servers that never materialized. When they bought Palm I was looking forward to my new phone that I would buy from them, but all that came out was the half-assed HP Pre 3 and then they dumped that too. WebOS died a shameful death. At home have a long lineage of HP printers and scanners that go back to the Deskjet 1120C from the 90ies that is a parallel port inkjet A3 printer that may still be functional if I tried to revive it. I uses ink cartridges that are the size of my fist and don't dry easily. Shortly after that all they made was give-away printers and all-in-ones that capitalized on the high price of their fart-sized cartridges. Then they stated that they want to offer cloud services, which obviously left me out as their intended audience, but I still kept an eye on them.
I tried to give IE a chance when I got Win8 (the desktop version, of course). I'm a heavy user of the search-box that Firefox has and IE used to have. This is integrated with the address bar now, which I don't like, because searching and typing-in a URL are two totally different things. Ditto for Chrome. Also, adding search engines to the list is much better implemented in Firefox, which at the end was my decision criterion. Firefox, on the other hand, seems to have issues with its cache, that I had to clean up constantly in order to make websites render right. I eventually set its size to a very small value so that it practically won't save anything. Lame. I attribute this to the half-assed release schedule of Firefox, which is a bandwagon almost everyone has stepped on, sadly.
I have nothing against a new/minimalistic look as long as the new look is at least as functional as the old one. This, for example, is the only reason I tolerate Office's ribbon.
I gave a scientific answer for "Why did the big bang happen?"
Do you have any citation that a humble engineer like myself has a remote chance of understanding? This is no trollish [citation needed] post, I'm actually interested.
Metro is the retarded interface that wants you to use your computer like you do your phone. Everybody with a real use for a computer treats it like a splash-screen that is there to ignore and promptly clicks the desktop icon. Once you are there though, I find Win8 quite slick. Much, much better than the original Aero design.
Besides, this is 2013 and design has moved on. Textures are so 10-years-ago.
Both science and religion are used to give us the answer to "why?". Nothing more; nothing less.
That's a fallacy, IMHO. The actual question that is answered by science is "how" not "why". You may phrase your question as in e.g. "why does pure water boil at a certain temperature?" but you will actually go on making a model about water coming in balance with its vapor at a certain temperature and pressure and you'll make equations and diagrams describing how water boils at different temperatures under different pressures and so on. If you really want to dig deeper into the actual "why" you'll proceed with describing how molecules move and bounce against each other and how that translates into temperature above a certain value of which the molecules move too much and are more widely spaced, And then you'll define this as "boiling". And if you then ask "why do molecules do that?" you'll go even deeper into the molecular and atomic structure with all the electrons spinning around and doing lots of things that make my head spin as well. And the next question "why do electrons, protons and neutrons do all these things and form such atoms and molecules that move and bounce and boil?" then you'll probably follow the thread all the way back to the big bang, but in this complete process you have actually only described the hows and not the whys although all your questions started with a "why".
"Why did the big bang happen?" That may be the next question that will be answered with a "how" in the course of science. If someone already thinks that he/she has an answer, as in "because there is a god that is good and almighty" that is absolutely fine by me. And if someone asks "OK, but how did god create the universe?" the answer will most probably be "well, he just did because he is god, you know?". Which is also fine by me. In my opinion there is pretty much zero overlap between science and religion. I really don't get what the whole fuss is all about...
My bank card measures 85 x 54 x 0.5 mm, can be used to make payments in all of Europe with a very small fee when abroad, makes stealing it worthless by requiring a PIN, has a chip and a magnetic band so that it can be used in lots of kind of terminals and can also be used for drawing cash out of ATMs. It also gets accepted on amazon and lots of other websites. In addition, the liability and the burden of keeping the hardware and the software running and up-to-date lies with the bank and the merchants, and if it melts, breaks or gets stolen I can get a new one at no cost within days.
So, can somebody please tell me why I would like to replace that with a phone?
Wow. I'm not a gamer, but this is impressive. If it didn't come directly from Microsoft I would expect 99% of it to be FUD thrown by the competition. Are the MS people FUDing themselves? Can you even do that? We need new terminology to describe this idiocy.
Even the matching interests are irrelevant. I think you pretty much nailed it with "goals in life and a similar long term plan". My parents got married through matchmaking, the really old-fashioned way. I would say they had pretty much zero common interests at the time of their marriage. They had, however, a very powerful motivation: have a family. So they went on to have 3 kids and they still have a happy marriage some 45 years later.
On the other hand, they belong to the generation that gave birth to the baby boomers (I'm not a baby boomer, but our eldest brother probably counts). Maybe having survived a world war as kids had an influence, especially when it comes to defining your life's goals, i.e. "have a family". Also, both of my parents looked pretty good, based on the photos I've seen of their marriage, and maybe that also paves the way somewhat.
Long-term monogamy is needed to establish a household for the raising and acculturating of children. Keeping a difficult relationship together for the sake of raising the kids benefits society as a whole to an extreme degree. Sure, there may be other approaches to raising kids, but none that have been proven effective.
You are describing a model that not only fits the western society alone, but it has also seen application for a relatively limited (culturally speaking) amount of time. In ancient Greece, for example, men were monogamous only in terms of an "official" partner. It was quite common to be involved with one or more hetaera, if one could afford it. They were, essentially, sex workers, but also wealthy and well-respected. Similar models can be found in Asia. This lasted up to the middle ages, in which religion changed the rules of what is culturally acceptable. I also don't see how being monogamous benefits society. Given a good constitution and wealth to support the upraising (the first factor being the rather "hard-wired" selection criterion, the second more of a modern-day extrapolation of the first) an modern human alpha-male may raise many kids with different partners. A lot of them do!
I don't think we are genetically predisposed to be 100% monogamous, because, given a choice from our society and culture, a large percentage of the population wouldn't be (and a large percentage of the population isn't, even now, and wish the don't get caught, due to the cultural consequences).
Amateur photographer here. Does this mean that the camera will just be able to photograph at higher ISOs without noise (or rather, that you could use a lower ISO in darker situations), or that the sensor will be able to record a picture with a wider stop range? Digital cameras have a range of about 6-7 stops, whereas our eyes have a 16-stop range (according to Bryan Peterson). HDR can be used to remedy this, but, more often than not, the pictures seem much too blown, saturated and unnatural. Sony has an in-camera HDR function, that can be tweaked to keep the color explosion at bay, but it is not exactly it. Being able to take photos in bad light is sweet and all, but it would be much more interesting creatively to have a camera that can picture what I see, without having to set up a whole flash array for lighting up all the dark areas (and having to imagine and troubleshoot, if I have the time, the combination of a flash+natural light exposure).
So photo-gurus, will this sensor cut it? Are there any products in the market that address the issue described above?
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Cain's wife was one such member of the pre-existing human society that existed outside of the Garden. The creation of Eve is stated clearly to be performed on an entirely different allegorical "day" than human females per se.
I hate doing this, but I really am concerned. So, here goes:
[citation needed]
The so-called "interdisciplinary" research projects can benefit greatly from your programing skills, if you take them to a new field. I guess that you have already proven, through your co-operation with geologists, that you are able to grasp a new topic and reach a high level of competency in that field (as in being co-author in a paper in that discipline), so you should definitely play that card while applying, in my opinion.
Traveling, as well as learning/using a new language should be considered. I tried Germany and it turned out really well. Central european countries in general have quite good research projects and you can get a job at a university paying about 1500-1700 Euros per month after taxes plus full benefits (health insurance and pension).
As for the field, start with looking in geology projects, but don't restrict yourself to that. Chemistry researchers are in a dire need for some sane programing skills, I can tell you...
This will take playing D&D to a whole new level!
I see your point, but, as in many topics, you can't draw a straight line. Let's say we ban advertising. You develop a product and you want to sell it. How do you do it? Do you go up to your family and friends and talk about your new product? That's advertising. You sell them your product and you ask them to tell their friends? That's more advertising. Is the church bell ringing on Sundays? Is the mullah on the minaret yelling a prayer? Advertising (and pretty intrusive, too).
I run Firefox 21.0 in Win8 and websites suddenly start to render like shit after the 2nd or the 3rd visit. The situation is remedied when the cache is cleared from the "clear recent history" menu. But after some time, the problem reappears. I set the cache size to a very small value so that practically nothing fits and nothing is saved, which is obviously a lame thing. The problem also cost me quite a bit of time before I figured it out. So there.
For the record, I like Firefox, but I find fast release schedules to be a totally retarded thing. I find myself updating less often because the chance of the next release being a crappy one is higher. I had a similar experience with VLC.
but at least it is the law.
This just made me very, very sad... If we have such laws that get applied on a per-choice basis, then I will also choose to apply only the laws that I'm fond of (up yours RIAA and MPAA!!).
Socrates really did die in vain. *sigh*
I have been resisting buying a smartphone for years. The only sensible reason for me to own one would be so that I can tinker with it. Sure you can play around with Android a bit, but I want something that will ease my tinkering rather than try to prevent me. Apple, of course, is straight out because of this. I want a smartphone that I can turn inside out, hack, wipe, reinstall its OS, re-hack, re-wipe and re-install, write small apps for, use to exchange data with, and get creative with its WiFi, bluetooth and accelerometers. And I want all that without fearing of EULAs and other layer mumbo jumbo. And a pony.
Give me such a phone and you have a customer.
Nevermind JS. Did they fix the cache problems already?
you'd need incredibly twisted logic and totally ass-backward laws to support these ideas.
Now you got me worried...
it's sad to watch HP fall into ruins, but it seems that me that everything they touch turns into coal instead of gold. They used to build decent hardware. My brother owns an HP handheld from the time before the smartphone craze that had a stylus, Windows mobile (from the era when it actually used to work), a *shitload* of software and GPS. They acquired Compaq and the laptop I bought from them back in 2004 was built to last. Then they phased out all the Compaq products and the laptops they have been marketing since are all crap IMHO. They also killed the Compaq Fortran Compiler with the promise to launch a modernized version for some serious number-crunching on HP-servers that never materialized. When they bought Palm I was looking forward to my new phone that I would buy from them, but all that came out was the half-assed HP Pre 3 and then they dumped that too. WebOS died a shameful death. At home have a long lineage of HP printers and scanners that go back to the Deskjet 1120C from the 90ies that is a parallel port inkjet A3 printer that may still be functional if I tried to revive it. I uses ink cartridges that are the size of my fist and don't dry easily. Shortly after that all they made was give-away printers and all-in-ones that capitalized on the high price of their fart-sized cartridges. Then they stated that they want to offer cloud services, which obviously left me out as their intended audience, but I still kept an eye on them.
And now this story...
Farewell HP, it was good while it lasted.
A satisfied customer.
This is nice and all, but I think the real news here is that Opportunity is, although aged, still alive and kicking.
I tried to give IE a chance when I got Win8 (the desktop version, of course). I'm a heavy user of the search-box that Firefox has and IE used to have. This is integrated with the address bar now, which I don't like, because searching and typing-in a URL are two totally different things. Ditto for Chrome. Also, adding search engines to the list is much better implemented in Firefox, which at the end was my decision criterion. Firefox, on the other hand, seems to have issues with its cache, that I had to clean up constantly in order to make websites render right. I eventually set its size to a very small value so that it practically won't save anything. Lame. I attribute this to the half-assed release schedule of Firefox, which is a bandwagon almost everyone has stepped on, sadly.
I have nothing against a new/minimalistic look as long as the new look is at least as functional as the old one. This, for example, is the only reason I tolerate Office's ribbon.
I gave a scientific answer for "Why did the big bang happen?"
Do you have any citation that a humble engineer like myself has a remote chance of understanding? This is no trollish [citation needed] post, I'm actually interested.
And a pony!
Win8 design != Metro
Metro is the retarded interface that wants you to use your computer like you do your phone. Everybody with a real use for a computer treats it like a splash-screen that is there to ignore and promptly clicks the desktop icon. Once you are there though, I find Win8 quite slick. Much, much better than the original Aero design.
Besides, this is 2013 and design has moved on. Textures are so 10-years-ago.
Awww... I can't take my Hubble telescope with me? What a bummer...
Both science and religion are used to give us the answer to "why?". Nothing more; nothing less.
That's a fallacy, IMHO. The actual question that is answered by science is "how" not "why". You may phrase your question as in e.g. "why does pure water boil at a certain temperature?" but you will actually go on making a model about water coming in balance with its vapor at a certain temperature and pressure and you'll make equations and diagrams describing how water boils at different temperatures under different pressures and so on. If you really want to dig deeper into the actual "why" you'll proceed with describing how molecules move and bounce against each other and how that translates into temperature above a certain value of which the molecules move too much and are more widely spaced, And then you'll define this as "boiling". And if you then ask "why do molecules do that?" you'll go even deeper into the molecular and atomic structure with all the electrons spinning around and doing lots of things that make my head spin as well. And the next question "why do electrons, protons and neutrons do all these things and form such atoms and molecules that move and bounce and boil?" then you'll probably follow the thread all the way back to the big bang, but in this complete process you have actually only described the hows and not the whys although all your questions started with a "why".
"Why did the big bang happen?" That may be the next question that will be answered with a "how" in the course of science. If someone already thinks that he/she has an answer, as in "because there is a god that is good and almighty" that is absolutely fine by me. And if someone asks "OK, but how did god create the universe?" the answer will most probably be "well, he just did because he is god, you know?". Which is also fine by me. In my opinion there is pretty much zero overlap between science and religion. I really don't get what the whole fuss is all about...
My bank card measures 85 x 54 x 0.5 mm, can be used to make payments in all of Europe with a very small fee when abroad, makes stealing it worthless by requiring a PIN, has a chip and a magnetic band so that it can be used in lots of kind of terminals and can also be used for drawing cash out of ATMs. It also gets accepted on amazon and lots of other websites. In addition, the liability and the burden of keeping the hardware and the software running and up-to-date lies with the bank and the merchants, and if it melts, breaks or gets stolen I can get a new one at no cost within days.
So, can somebody please tell me why I would like to replace that with a phone?
"Bricking through trolling"?
Wow! I better go make some popcorn...
Wow. I'm not a gamer, but this is impressive. If it didn't come directly from Microsoft I would expect 99% of it to be FUD thrown by the competition. Are the MS people FUDing themselves? Can you even do that? We need new terminology to describe this idiocy.
Even the matching interests are irrelevant. I think you pretty much nailed it with "goals in life and a similar long term plan". My parents got married through matchmaking, the really old-fashioned way. I would say they had pretty much zero common interests at the time of their marriage. They had, however, a very powerful motivation: have a family. So they went on to have 3 kids and they still have a happy marriage some 45 years later.
On the other hand, they belong to the generation that gave birth to the baby boomers (I'm not a baby boomer, but our eldest brother probably counts). Maybe having survived a world war as kids had an influence, especially when it comes to defining your life's goals, i.e. "have a family". Also, both of my parents looked pretty good, based on the photos I've seen of their marriage, and maybe that also paves the way somewhat.
Long-term monogamy is needed to establish a household for the raising and acculturating of children. Keeping a difficult relationship together for the sake of raising the kids benefits society as a whole to an extreme degree. Sure, there may be other approaches to raising kids, but none that have been proven effective.
You are describing a model that not only fits the western society alone, but it has also seen application for a relatively limited (culturally speaking) amount of time. In ancient Greece, for example, men were monogamous only in terms of an "official" partner. It was quite common to be involved with one or more hetaera, if one could afford it. They were, essentially, sex workers, but also wealthy and well-respected. Similar models can be found in Asia. This lasted up to the middle ages, in which religion changed the rules of what is culturally acceptable. I also don't see how being monogamous benefits society. Given a good constitution and wealth to support the upraising (the first factor being the rather "hard-wired" selection criterion, the second more of a modern-day extrapolation of the first) an modern human alpha-male may raise many kids with different partners. A lot of them do!
I don't think we are genetically predisposed to be 100% monogamous, because, given a choice from our society and culture, a large percentage of the population wouldn't be (and a large percentage of the population isn't, even now, and wish the don't get caught, due to the cultural consequences).
Precisely. That is why we need more laws. And they have to be so complicated that only trained professionals can understand them. Oh wait...
Did you just say off? I would expect it to be off all the time and switch itself on when the taser comes out and we're down to business.
Amateur photographer here. Does this mean that the camera will just be able to photograph at higher ISOs without noise (or rather, that you could use a lower ISO in darker situations), or that the sensor will be able to record a picture with a wider stop range? Digital cameras have a range of about 6-7 stops, whereas our eyes have a 16-stop range (according to Bryan Peterson). HDR can be used to remedy this, but, more often than not, the pictures seem much too blown, saturated and unnatural. Sony has an in-camera HDR function, that can be tweaked to keep the color explosion at bay, but it is not exactly it. Being able to take photos in bad light is sweet and all, but it would be much more interesting creatively to have a camera that can picture what I see, without having to set up a whole flash array for lighting up all the dark areas (and having to imagine and troubleshoot, if I have the time, the combination of a flash+natural light exposure).
So photo-gurus, will this sensor cut it? Are there any products in the market that address the issue described above?