You jest, but for a summer job in 92, I worked at a Large Computer Company inc. as a beta tester for a program running on Windows 3.0. As part of our 3 day training, we were made to play solitaire for several hours the first day to train using the mouse.
I don't know about elephants, but I know cats have to be taught to hunt mice by other cats that do so or else they're not effective at it. Learning isn't the same as planning ahead though, and planning requires being able to model reality in your head. I remember reading somewhere that primates so far are the only animals we know of that can execute plans because they can put a model of the real world in their head.
Freeze at 45 and melt at 80? Aren't melting and freezing temperatures the same? I know outer limits was fictional but I didn't know they were that far out.
Actually, it's a matter of standardization. Sure, the actual name 'planet' doesn't matter, but it's more than that. Scientists classify particles like electrons into more than just 'subatomic particles' such as leptons, hadrons, bosons, etc so they can discuss properties of the groups. Having everyone agree on which particles are in which groups makes these discussions less prone to misunderstandings. Now, if some state legislature were to declare that electrons and protons are both now classed as baryons in that state, that is going to cause some confusion in communicating between scientists in and out of that state because the formulas that apply to the sets of particles would have to be modified so they work with the now not so simple organization of particles.
In the same sense, the categorization of a body as a planet or not-a-planet is more than simple semantics as it affects what properties you can say apply to the category of planet in that state. And these properties would be different when applied to what is called a planet outside of that state.
The Canadian economy is heavily linked to the US. Being a USian living in Canada, I see Canadian officials on the news constantly saying how the affect of the US economy is at fault for Canada's economic woes and explaining why economic bailouts for Canada won't work work unless the US also bails out their banks (before the US bailout). When the Canadian dollar hit above par with the US dollar, they were explaining how it could not last, because it was caused by the US dollar falling, and the Canadian dollar would not stay above the USD for long and was destined to come down as well (and eventually so it did) because of the respective and connected economies of the two countries. If you think coming to Canada will save you from the possibility of a failed US economy, I think the Canadian govt. would disagree with you.
Sometimes you need a p2p application on a work computer. What happens when you want a vmware embedded machine that's only available via torrent? Or a later version of a distro? The problem comes about when you have an idiot not handling the tool properly, but it's not an idiotic thing to use the tool.
You are assuming the lack of an ability to scan our memories as they are via a ranged (or even wired) device. Why bother carrying around a cellphone sized device when you can just go home and plug on a headset and upload via usb type connector? You might end up losing the cellphone sized device or getting it stolen. It might be more inaccurate and altered by your own perceptions, but far more convenient to only go around with your own memory (or an implant flash drive) but carrying a personal recorder is going to be less convenient. Something like memory scanning might become illegal if people scan other people's memories like we take public pictures but it would still happen.
About 3 or 4 weeks ago, there was a news story that broke on CBC about a law firm's voicemail system that got hacked, and they got stuck with a phone bill for $250,000 CAD. The firm said the phone company had at first offered to eat the costs (they have to pay their upstream international partner) if they kept quiet about the whole deal, but the law firm had broken the news to the public. The phone company's representative kept saying that they encourage their customer to work with them and didn't want to comment about any 'private conversations' with their customer. They blamed it on bad voicemail passwords on the customer's site that the 'hacker' had guessed at and used to initially get into the system that he exploited to make the calls. This is sounding like reactive fallout from phone companies that want to hinder similar bad press about their hacked system when this happens again, rather than spending money to fix what they can (some suggestions I can't remember were offered by the law firm in the interview).
Telus in Canada also does this. You have to do the initial setup with Windows to run their setup disk (though they did it for me on the phone since I didn't have Windows). You also have to give them your imac address as part of the login setup.
Uh.. the surface area doesn't increase exponentially. It increases by square. They are comparing the energy usage PER square inch which would be the same amount of surface area (one square inch) regardless of the total surface area of the TV. The OLED has 40% lower power usage for EACH square inch is what I am gathering from that quote.
Now, if the size of the screen affects the power usage PER square inch is what you mean, that is a different story (I don't know), but it's not what you said.
I don't really buy this is for terrorist measures specifically. It has more to do with control of where people go.
In the first Gulf War, the Iraqi military mostly didn't have gps devices and thus were limited to staying on or near the roads and thus tactics were easier for the US forces as predictions of an enemy without gps were easier. They'd get lost in the desert and wouldn't head off the road. In the second Gulf War, the Iraqi forces had gps and thus their movements were harder to predict.
In the same manner, the Egyptian govt. would be happier if criminal and state enemies were restricted to urban areas or roads. With GPS becoming cheap and easy however, they would instead be able to operate more commonly from the middle of the desert without becoming lost.
Maybe you mean that correlation is a necessary condition for causation. However, "correlation is a good way to show causality" would mean just the opposite.
You wouldn't even need lights. If computer controlled, the cars could just time their crossing of the intersection to umm.. not intersect that of another vehicle. No need for visible lanes or paint on the road, no need for a well defined two way traffic, no need for police to direct traffic. The only thing you need are pedestrian walk and don't walk lights which would need to communicate their timing with cars.
Given a 4000 mile radius of the earth, multiply by 4 pi r^2 to get surface area. Divide by 4 for land mass (not water) and multiply by 640 acres / square mile. Divide by 6.5 billion people.
You get about 9 acres per person (not family).
Let's reserve most of this for wildlife, ice, desert, etc, I'd be happy for 1 acre of land and I guess another for farming for a person? I don't know how many acres are needed per person for modern farming so I could be off on that. But there's about 36 acres per 4 person family on this planet right now.
You could have a few mutations that could lead to a less fit organism that would die 50,000 years ago. However, combining them together could lead to something quite useful. Organisms evolving these separate genes might have not survived past one or two generations 50,000 years ago, but today they are surviving long enough to combine. This is the advantage of not weeding out all the 'bad' mutations.
It would be hypothetically interesting if the USA were to pass some law fining its companies for hiring people in other countries under the USA minimum wage or bypassing other laws while operating outside the country rather than only violating privacy. Fining people or corps for breaking US laws while not operating in the US sets up precedent where these things may become issues.
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You jest, but for a summer job in 92, I worked at a Large Computer Company inc. as a beta tester for a program running on Windows 3.0. As part of our 3 day training, we were made to play solitaire for several hours the first day to train using the mouse.
I don't think you've read the definition you've linked to.
I don't know about elephants, but I know cats have to be taught to hunt mice by other cats that do so or else they're not effective at it. Learning isn't the same as planning ahead though, and planning requires being able to model reality in your head. I remember reading somewhere that primates so far are the only animals we know of that can execute plans because they can put a model of the real world in their head.
Freeze at 45 and melt at 80? Aren't melting and freezing temperatures the same? I know outer limits was fictional but I didn't know they were that far out.
Actually, it's a matter of standardization. Sure, the actual name 'planet' doesn't matter, but it's more than that. Scientists classify particles like electrons into more than just 'subatomic particles' such as leptons, hadrons, bosons, etc so they can discuss properties of the groups. Having everyone agree on which particles are in which groups makes these discussions less prone to misunderstandings. Now, if some state legislature were to declare that electrons and protons are both now classed as baryons in that state, that is going to cause some confusion in communicating between scientists in and out of that state because the formulas that apply to the sets of particles would have to be modified so they work with the now not so simple organization of particles.
In the same sense, the categorization of a body as a planet or not-a-planet is more than simple semantics as it affects what properties you can say apply to the category of planet in that state. And these properties would be different when applied to what is called a planet outside of that state.
The Canadian economy is heavily linked to the US. Being a USian living in Canada, I see Canadian officials on the news constantly saying how the affect of the US economy is at fault for Canada's economic woes and explaining why economic bailouts for Canada won't work work unless the US also bails out their banks (before the US bailout). When the Canadian dollar hit above par with the US dollar, they were explaining how it could not last, because it was caused by the US dollar falling, and the Canadian dollar would not stay above the USD for long and was destined to come down as well (and eventually so it did) because of the respective and connected economies of the two countries. If you think coming to Canada will save you from the possibility of a failed US economy, I think the Canadian govt. would disagree with you.
Sometimes you need a p2p application on a work computer. What happens when you want a vmware embedded machine that's only available via torrent? Or a later version of a distro? The problem comes about when you have an idiot not handling the tool properly, but it's not an idiotic thing to use the tool.
You are assuming the lack of an ability to scan our memories as they are via a ranged (or even wired) device. Why bother carrying around a cellphone sized device when you can just go home and plug on a headset and upload via usb type connector? You might end up losing the cellphone sized device or getting it stolen. It might be more inaccurate and altered by your own perceptions, but far more convenient to only go around with your own memory (or an implant flash drive) but carrying a personal recorder is going to be less convenient. Something like memory scanning might become illegal if people scan other people's memories like we take public pictures but it would still happen.
Where have I heard that before? Gee, they can't synthesize lysine so they'll die in the wild.....
About 3 or 4 weeks ago, there was a news story that broke on CBC about a law firm's voicemail system that got hacked, and they got stuck with a phone bill for $250,000 CAD. The firm said the phone company had at first offered to eat the costs (they have to pay their upstream international partner) if they kept quiet about the whole deal, but the law firm had broken the news to the public. The phone company's representative kept saying that they encourage their customer to work with them and didn't want to comment about any 'private conversations' with their customer. They blamed it on bad voicemail passwords on the customer's site that the 'hacker' had guessed at and used to initially get into the system that he exploited to make the calls. This is sounding like reactive fallout from phone companies that want to hinder similar bad press about their hacked system when this happens again, rather than spending money to fix what they can (some suggestions I can't remember were offered by the law firm in the interview).
Telus in Canada also does this. You have to do the initial setup with Windows to run their setup disk (though they did it for me on the phone since I didn't have Windows). You also have to give them your imac address as part of the login setup.
Uh.. the surface area doesn't increase exponentially. It increases by square. They are comparing the energy usage PER square inch which would be the same amount of surface area (one square inch) regardless of the total surface area of the TV. The OLED has 40% lower power usage for EACH square inch is what I am gathering from that quote.
Now, if the size of the screen affects the power usage PER square inch is what you mean, that is a different story (I don't know), but it's not what you said.
What about grass? What about unconscious people?
I don't really buy this is for terrorist measures specifically. It has more to do with control of where people go.
In the first Gulf War, the Iraqi military mostly didn't have gps devices and thus were limited to staying on or near the roads and thus tactics were easier for the US forces as predictions of an enemy without gps were easier. They'd get lost in the desert and wouldn't head off the road. In the second Gulf War, the Iraqi forces had gps and thus their movements were harder to predict.
In the same manner, the Egyptian govt. would be happier if criminal and state enemies were restricted to urban areas or roads. With GPS becoming cheap and easy however, they would instead be able to operate more commonly from the middle of the desert without becoming lost.
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Maybe you mean that correlation is a necessary condition for causation. However, "correlation is a good way to show causality" would mean just the opposite.
Hindsight 20-20: Especially if you have your head up your ass, like many spore creatures.
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The second one will be cheaper, as you can take the ribbon up via the first elevator, and then roll it down from space instead of launching it up.
You wouldn't even need lights. If computer controlled, the cars could just time their crossing of the intersection to umm.. not intersect that of another vehicle. No need for visible lanes or paint on the road, no need for a well defined two way traffic, no need for police to direct traffic. The only thing you need are pedestrian walk and don't walk lights which would need to communicate their timing with cars.
A lot of times in school, I was told viruses aren't alive because they can't reproduce. I always wondered if this would apply to eunichs or mule
Given a 4000 mile radius of the earth, multiply by 4 pi r^2 to get surface area.
Divide by 4 for land mass (not water) and multiply by 640 acres / square mile.
Divide by 6.5 billion people.
You get about 9 acres per person (not family).
Let's reserve most of this for wildlife, ice, desert, etc, I'd be happy for 1 acre of land and I guess another for farming for a person? I don't know how many acres are needed per person for modern farming so I could be off on that. But there's about 36 acres per 4 person family on this planet right now.
You could have a few mutations that could lead to a less fit organism that would die 50,000 years ago. However, combining them together could lead to something quite useful. Organisms evolving these separate genes might have not survived past one or two generations 50,000 years ago, but today they are surviving long enough to combine. This is the advantage of not weeding out all the 'bad' mutations.
I remember many people thought Michael Moore's "Sicko" movie was released on BitTorrent on purpose.
It would be hypothetically interesting if the USA were to pass some law fining its companies for hiring people in other countries under the USA minimum wage or bypassing other laws while operating outside the country rather than only violating privacy. Fining people or corps for breaking US laws while not operating in the US sets up precedent where these things may become issues.