Comment: Considering... (Score 1) 465
...that a lot of our politicians are tools, it's going to be hard to justify it to the robots why they can't run for office.
Comment: Did anyone find some relating papers to this? (Score 1) 271
Checked his website and didn't find any? Did someone have more luck?
Comment: Re:sure, sure. (Score 1) 464
Oh, please let me introduce you to a common problem. Assume you have a nice hot pot of coffee. Now you stir it and at the end you put a shot of milk in. Now, I really can't tell you how hot any given point inside the mug is within the next 5 minutes. But, let me share a long term prediction it'll be within a degree of room temperature in 30 minutes. Enjoy!
Comment: Re:I agree (Score 1) 370
Agreed.
Also, e.g. why should Europe wait a friggin' year to watch 'Lost' or 'Two and a Half Men'? Especially if you prefer it in the original language anyways? Give me a reasonable option to get it on release (preferably in HD) and I'll gladly pay up. Waiting a year for it - ain't gonna happen.
Also, e.g. why should Europe wait a friggin' year to watch 'Lost' or 'Two and a Half Men'? Especially if you prefer it in the original language anyways? Give me a reasonable option to get it on release (preferably in HD) and I'll gladly pay up. Waiting a year for it - ain't gonna happen.
Comment: Here it comes... (Score 1) 113
... sine to the rescue.
Comment: Finally ... (Score 1) 245
... time to get a share in the Korean Starcraft pro-gaming teams. Oh my, wars might get to be fun to watch again. =)
Comment: Watched the story.. (Score 1) 744
... and the obligatory quote thus said:
Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
Comment: Re:Ted Dziuba (Score 3, Interesting) 619
OK, I did actually read this blog he wrote and yes I think his position is valid. To summarize: Coding in your free time does not make you a good coder. Neither does not coding in your free time make you a balanced person. Both unrelated, thankyouverymuch. This is all in all a discussion you can have or simply ignore.
The one point I'd like to make is ... have your read this guys other posts? To summarize: He's a little young fuck with little experience raining down on everyone. It's mixture of the standard troll and Mr. Whiney-Whiney; with a focus on whiney-whiney.
Cheers.
The one point I'd like to make is
Comment: Re:Sigh. Not this shit again (Score 1) 1073
1) Countries don't do an even job testing their students. In the US, everyone gets tested, even kids with severe emotional disabilities (meaning from broken homes and such). In some countries, only kids who are in the "college track" schools get tested. Yes, in some places young kids are tracked like that. In Germany students go to the Gymnasium, Hauptschule, or Realschulabschluss depending on ability. The Gymnasium is for kids who are going to university, the Realschulabschluss is for kids going directly in to the work force. Unless they changed it since last I checked, they only test kids in the Gymnasium with these higher level math tests.
Meeep
So to retort the fallacy, why don't they test kids that dropped out after junior high with those higher level math tests?
Comment: Re:Missing variables... (Score 1) 121
1.) 'Shaun of the dead'-style, page 2 second to last sentence.
2.) Already there. Zombies can be 'killed' and then enter the Removed group, final defeat is modelled by the parameter alpha (page 3).
3.) Touché.
2.) Already there. Zombies can be 'killed' and then enter the Removed group, final defeat is modelled by the parameter alpha (page 3).
3.) Touché.
Comment: 'nuff said .... (Score 1) 668
12 angry men
+ - IBM and Amazon settle patents row
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schmu_20mol writes "According to this BBC article, IBM and Amazon settled their patent-infringement lawsuits. ''Under the deal, Amazon said it would pay IBM an undisclosed sum of money, while both firms agreed to allow the other access to some of its technology.''"
Speed of Light Exceeded? 393
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from the when-pigs-fly-faster-than-light dept.
from the when-pigs-fly-faster-than-light dept.
PreacherTom writes "Scientists at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ are reporting that they have broken the speed of light. For the experiment, the researchers manipulated a vapor of laser-irradiated atoms, causing a pulse that propagates about 300 times faster than light would travel in a vacuum. The pulse seemed to exit the chamber even before entering it." This research was published in Nature, so presumably it was peer-reviewed. It's impossible from the CBC story to determine what is being claimed. First of all they get the physics wrong by asserting that Einstein's special relativity only decrees that matter cannot exceed the speed of light. Wrong. Matter cannot touch the speed of light in vacuum; energy (e.g. light) cannot exceed it; and information cannot be transferred faster than this limit. What exactly the researchers achieved, and what they claim, can only be determined at this point by subscribers to Nature.