Comment Re:Points to consider (Score 1) 506
A paradox, once in a while, makes your mind happy!
Comment Re:Points to consider (Score 1) 506
Everybody lies. Not just politicians.
Absolute statements like this are true and meaningless.
You should not equate everyone using statements like those.
Comment Re:USA citizens used to be first class (Score 1) 260
I think you mean:
"Listen, Goldman Sachs gave you a choice between Goldman Sachs and Goldman Sachs in the last election, so you can't complain that the government is raping your future!"
Comment Re:Hard to know whom to believe (Score 1) 227
Well, It is true that is "Hard to know whom to believe" if you can choose the graphics and facts to support your "gut feeling".
(Where are you Nate Silver?)
For another set of graphics see: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/
Comment Re:Socialist agenda on full display tonite (Score 5, Insightful) 529
No.. Third party votes do count. When the Republicans and Democrats are working together to divide the people in half as evenly as possible, and only winning by small margins, a small-margin of third-party votes has a huge effect.
The only problem is that "huge effect" is, usually, negative for the interests they represent. They "steal" votes from the candidate that is near to their interests making the other win. So, you have a real disincentive to promote a third party.
Submission + - Conway's Game of Life Freed from the Pixel Grid (revolutionanalytics.com)
Guillermito writes: What happens when you take the well known Conway's Game of Life and modify the rules so they can be applied to a continuous world, instead of the original, pixel-based, discrete one? Well, that is the question the authors of the SmoothLife project are trying to answer: They have generalized Conway's Game of Life to a continuous domain. Rather than working with discrete square cell, the software works at the level of points in a continuous 2-D space. A cell lives or dies depending on how much of a small disk in its immediate neighbourhood is filled, and also the density of a ring surrounding the cell. You can see some amazing 2D and 3D animations created with this software that really resemble living cells under a microscope.
Submission + - The space jump -- in Lego! (hlntv.com)
mykepredko writes: "All this chatter about Felix Baumgartner and his remarkable space jump, but where's the love for this brave little Lego man. Just because he's physically incapable of suffering from ebullism, going into a flat spin, or bleeding out through his eyes doesn't make this guy's faithful recreation of the space jump any less remarkable. Two fearless pioneers — one, a person; the other, plastic — plummeting from amazing heights. In the case of the Lego Man, that means about 365 feet, according to the video's "Scale 1:350" note."
Comment Re:"Everyone is replaceable" (Score 1) 236
Charles de Gaulle said it best: "The grave is full of irreplaceable men."
So he confirmed that there are irreplaceable men but, unfortunately, they are also mortal.
Comment Re:Exactly (Score 1) 179
If you just google "portuguese drug policy" there are a lot of interesting links.
I find interesting how a subject can be just overlooked by being discreetly "forgotten"...
Comment Re:an example where algebra is useful? (Score 2) 158
You do realize the metric equivalent ot MPG is... L/100km! Which is just a minor variation on GPM.
Sorry, while the rest of your post is correct, the metric equivalent of MPG (or better Miles/Gallon) would be Meters/Liter (distance/volume). L/100km (Volume/Distance), which is used in Europe is the "inverse" of MPG.
Comment Re:Bounce is obvious to any engineer (Score 1) 190
Only that something bouncing when it hits the bottom is a typical physical effect that you can see when an object (having some degree of elasticity) hits the floor. It is a virtual representation of a physical response just like a button that seems to go down when clicked.
I don't know how can you say that it is not obvious.
Of course, when the organism that grants patents is paid to grant then and not to reject then, the criteria of non obviousness becomes much easy...
Comment Re:Political Posturing (Score 1) 214
Let me know when you find a renewable energy source that provides constant power 24/7/365.
Usually a combination of wind turbines and hydroelectric. When there is wind overcapacity, it is used to pump water upstream. That water can be used as a 24/7/365 source of energy.
Comment Re:What about if works for unknown (yet) reasons? (Score 1) 526
I'm not claiming this is the case but why it's so hard for people dissing homeopathy that it may actually work for reasons yet unkonwn to science?
Like someone already pointed, most medicine works for reasons yet unknown to science. The science part happens when there are replicable tests that show some therapy is betters than placebo pills.
All I can say, it worked for me twice, for two different problems and in two different points of my life. It's cheap, and if it's just water, won't hurt so why not try? Even if it works by placebo effect, it works so no harm done.
Many conditions disappear without any external medicine. The thing that you are taking when that happens gets the fame to cure, at least to you. If many thousands are taking a homoeopathic solution, there will be some that solve their problem at the exact time to correlate to the homoeopathic substance.
As for the harm done, it can come from delaying the use of real medicine...
Comment Re:Very sad (Score 1) 396
Oh, yes, because everyone knows the future is pushing your own boring knock-off of PalmOS, just like Apple and Google. There's no future in pioneering the first significant UI upgrade since 1984. They should have just keeped on keepin' on, like RIM.
I can't stand companies that ruin themselves by innovating.
Either I missed the <SARCASM> tag or you don't know the meaning of the words "upgrade" and "innovating"...
Comment Re:Screw it. I've some karma to burn... (Score 1) 396
If all these innovations you think are so obvious are indeed that, then why didn't we see them implemented in popular phones released before 2007? I don't doubt that they existed before then, but it apparently took a company like Apple to implement them in a popular, readily available device.
Because, some "innovations" like pinch to zoom can only be used on capacitive touch devices where you can distinguish more than one finger press. Earlier touch screens, usually using resistive technology could only read one touch. I had a very nice N900 (release date: November 11, 2009) that still had resistive touch screen. You can't use a technological limitation that existed in the past to conclude that the absence of pinch to zoom was because nobody "thought" to use it.
