Known around these parts as "eighteen-hundred-froze-to-death".
As in "Wow, that's old. Haven't seen one of those since eighteen-hundred-froze-to-death".
My friends usually look at me weird when I explain that the expression references 1816 and the effects of Mount Tambora exploding and putting lots and lots (and lots) of ash into the atmosphere.
To quote the (only) movie: "There can be only one".
I refuse to acknowledge that the fantastic movie Highlander ever has had any sequels, prequels, tv shows, a franchise or anything else.
Just that one movie, with its marvellous soundtrack and the mystery of who the immortals were, where they came from, and why there could be only one.
None of this "they came from space. No, the future!" malarkey. It is and was a mystery, never explained.
"Hurr durr I'ma sheep" won over the alternative "I like online polls" which got 38% of the votes.
In the real poll, "v4.0" beat out "v3.20" by 56% to 44% out of 29,110 votes.
Since nobody ever use the kernel code name, it doesn't matter in the slightest what it's called. Everyone will refer to the kernel as "4.0".
people in 1903 couldn't have dreamed of what the Saturn V would look like or how it would work.
Funny that you chose 1903 as your date, since that was the year Tsiolkovsky published The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices, wherein among other things were mentioned that escape velocity could be achieved with a multistage rocket fueled by liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen.
So yes, at least one person in 1903 not only could have dreamt, but did dream and explicitly state how rockets like the Saturn V would look and work.
Make that three. My OCZ Vertex II is still happily chugging along after a couple of years of use.
paedophile* At least spell it correctly.
It is spelled "pedo-" in USA spelling and "paedo-" in British spelling.
Unfortunately, Google Fit won't currently let you correct it. You can change Biking to another activity, but NOT to one that it supposedly automatically supports so you cannot change "biking" to "walking".
This is not true. I've changed "biking" to "walking" in Google Fit so I know it works.
Funny thing is that after I did that (it was during the first week I used Google Fit) it has never confused my walking with biking again - even though I've set numerous "speed records" as I got fitter.
I've been a programmer for more years than I care to mention, and never - not once - has the speed a coder types at been an issue. But fine. I'm sure there's some coding somewhere where typing speed is a significant factor.
Speed coding contests, perhaps?
Swordfish-style hacking-with-a-gun-to-your-head situations just don't crop up that often in my experience - I lead a rather boring life in that regard - but I guess that might count as well.
So what experience do you have that leads you to be so adamant that typing speed is a major factor in coding?
Typing speed is nearly insignificant in coding.
Typing speed is nearly insignificant in GuB-42's coding.
FTFY.
No, he had it right.
If you look at what you actually spend time on when going from specification to release, the actual typing of code is a minor part, and as such your typing speed is largely irrelevant.
I have a colleague who can't touch-type to save his life, uses the mouse to copy/paste/undo (and even step through the debugger - drives me crazy), and while he may take a little longer to type in his code, it's so small a difference to not matter even in the slightest.
Corporation Death Penalty
This is one death penalty I can get behind.
Yet one of Saturn's moon's, Iapetus, is unique
Aren't they all unique?
So, the problem with his pointing out the lack of "testing, reproduction of results" in prehistoric history tales is
And that's your scientific objection? To his scientific objection?
No, that's my non-scientific objection to his anti-science rant. A plea against ignorance and the wilful discrediting of a lot of hard-earned science, if you will.
This guy put it a lot better than I ever could; in short, calling these hypotheses "guessing" is ignorant as well as insulting, both to the scientists in the field and to everyone's general level of intelligence.
LOL. Hypothesis is just a fancy way to say "here's my guess". Whether put forward by Joe Schmoe or Johnatan P. Schmoe, PhD it means the same thing.
It really doesn't.
A hypothesis has to make sense, has to be based on observation and/or our best current knowledge of the subject matter. Ideally it is testable somehow, even if only mathematically or theoretically.
A guess doesn't have to have any of those constraints. "Aliens did it" is a guess, but it's not a hypothesis.
Early Universe ideas? Not fact. Not "well-known". Guesses.
That's... really selling science - and the scientific method - way short.
It's not "guesses", it's hypotheses, which are by their nature our best explanations of something given our current understanding of how those things work.
Calling these "guesses" reduces all the science that's actually going on and puts it on the same level as Joe Schmoe's wild-ass guessing on subjects he's not familiar with.
There is a world of difference between Joe guessing what happened in the early days of the universe and a scientist that has devoted several years of his life studying the matter putting forth a hypothesis of what happened.
Please don't paint these as the same thing, it's just doing the anti-science folk a service, and the rest of us a disservice.
Thank you Captain Obvious.
Although you should perhaps note that the term "stargazer" is often used as a description of "an observational astronomer, particularly an amateur".
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Frank Hubbard
