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by aufreak3 16y ago
Right. I had the same question about directly comparing the GDP figure versus the debt figure. It'll certainly help if someone knowledgeable lays bare the important factors and how they bear on the "rising debt" issue.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
A dumb question - isn't the GDP a per-year figure whereas the debt a total figure? ... so doesn't it simply mean that if all GDP goes to paying off the debt, it will necessarily take more than 1 year. That pay off period is increasing and a
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by aufreak3 16y ago
You can't get a reliable answer from anybody for this question. Academics might tend to say "absolutely!" while those who skipped it would say "who cares?" or something like that. They key is to figure out what directions you want to grow
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Denis Gabor's 110th birthday .. reminded by Google(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Right. Sometimes.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Its great that you've decided that you want out of this. In addition to the medical processes that the wonderful folks here are offering help with, you might benefit from just getting your mind off your condition. Since brain processing is
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Google SSL search beta(google.com)
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Scientists create first artificial cell(theglobeandmail.com)
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Nice writeup by Abhishek, though it still falls into the "A is cool because it has features f1, f2, ..." category (despite SlyShy thinking otherwise). My own experience of lisp has been more like learning origami. The basic stuff is a squar
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Alien attack on earth is possible, says Stephen Hawking(varsity.co.uk)
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by aufreak3 17y ago
At Broadcast Asia 2008, I saw a football game displayed on a multi-HD resolution screen (I think 12x HD, but not sure) @60fps. I should say it took the audience to the game. You can tell individual faces in a packed pavilion. Its all moving
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by aufreak3 17y ago
I was being sarcastic with my colour related remarks. The point being that a "new" dimension can feel pointless initially. Its as strange to think of 3D as a "new" dimension as it is to think of "colour" as one.
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by aufreak3 17y ago
For me, "How to train your dragon" was the most enjoyable 3D experience of all the 3D films I've seen - Avatar, Alice, Clash, HTTYD. The 3D didn't get in the way, and it really enhanced certain parts to the extent that I'd miss it. I've see
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by aufreak3 17y ago
This is really funny! The one who wrote this has to have an incredible "expert level" sense of humour!
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by aufreak3 17y ago
I don't mean that AK is involved in scratch, but that's the kind of educational stuff that seems to be on his radar.
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by aufreak3 17y ago
I buy Apple's lines on this one. For long, I've been going "Grrrr...." over Flash heating up my macbook pro when run under MacOSX, but running much cooler (as in temperature) under windows on the exact same hardware. So much for cross-platf
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Putting the touch into touch screens(newscientist.com)
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by aufreak3 17y ago
There is a restaurant in Singapore called "Annalakshmi" which has been operating like this for, like a decade at least. You go there, eat, and pay what you feel like paying. The food as well as ambience is good and I think on the average pe
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Another Zotero user here with one foot in Firefox and another in Chrome.
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Yes they are the same, but the harmonic function formulation seems a bit more more appealing because it focuses on the end result as opposed to the process.
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by aufreak3 17y ago
.. or rather "well going-to-do Google"!
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by aufreak3 17y ago
This is interesting news, but not very surprising strangely enough. If you assume that the next approximation to Newton's gravity equations are similar to Maxwell's equations (thereby introducing a secondary field analogous to B, the magnet
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by aufreak3 17y ago
This is INCREDIBLY great news and something I've been waiting for to hear for ages. Well done Google!
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Wonder why they didn't treat hierarchical labels by attaching labels to labels. That way you can have "Family/Kids" and "CuteStuff/Kids" refer to the same "Kids", you wouldn't need to always type out the hierarchy and can just say "Kids" to
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Copyright law looks like the only reference point for defining "write" - if you own copyright for something, you "wrote" it, otherwise you legally didn't (even if you claim otherwise). It might have been much simpler if Apple just said "all
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Not sure if even your "mechanical translation" condition works, though certainly tighter. What if I hire a human to do the translation? If even that would violate the agreement, then the "original written language" of every program is the
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by aufreak3 17y ago
I absolutely don't think I'm lying when I say "I wrote program B" (from my second argument). It hinges on what "write" means. It no longer means "put pen to paper". If that's true, then nobody "writes" software any more and all developers a
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Another argument against the validity of that requirement - if I write a program A that writes another program B, can I not claim copyright for program B? If not, then an artist using Adobe Photoshop cannot claim copyright for their PDF ima
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by aufreak3 17y ago
But if the compiler generates "readable code", there is no way to counter my claim that I "wrote" my program in Objective-C. If that is indeed Apple's instruction and what developers need to abide by, lets lobby the processor manufacturers
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by aufreak3 17y ago
People - relax. The cross-compiler vendors will simply change their target language from machine instructions to .... Objective-C. It's probably a much easier target anyway.

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