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by slowpoke 15y ago
>So by the intuitive explanation we can make this single line any dimension that we want. And if this makes sense in the given context - sure, why not? You seem to be missing my point. What I'm saying is that it's useless to have tota
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>sounds like you had a bad high school experience. Not exactly high school. I'm a university student in Germany. But yes, it's pretty much a bad experience. I've seen quite a lot of other students which are otherwise bright persons st
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Mathematically, an n-dimensional space is R^n, that is, the cross product of the real numbers (R) with itself n times. Each copy of R lets you specify a number independently of all the others. See, that's exactly what I'm talking abo
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by slowpoke 15y ago
A more recent example I've come across are n-dimensional spaces. I realized that most people have problems to make sense of the concept behind that because they've been stuck in thinking mathematically. I think of points in an n-dimensional
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Most other disciplines don't try to force their jargon onto other fields though. Math often does. Also, I'd generally say that almost all jargon is bad . A quote that's frequently attributed to Einstein says that "If you cannot explain som
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by slowpoke 15y ago
No. Programming is logic , and logic is a superset of math. What you need to make good programs isn't some obscure, arcane language that the few who actually understand it (mathematicians) assert to be the universal answer to everything, y
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Not sure what Windows deal breakers would be? Unless you have a specific reason for wanting to use a Unix OS. See, that's what I'm talking about. Lots of the crap Windows throws at you is simply accepted because people do not even re
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by slowpoke 15y ago
My last information was that they used a combination of third party search APIs (Yahoo, Bing, Google) and producing their own search content. By now, in terms of functionality[1], I mostly use DDG for the bangs, having set it as my default
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'm not under 18, but personally refuse to use Paypal on the grounds of not wanting to support criminal activity (see Wikileaks blockade for the beast example), and really it's the same for CC. I'd probably have bought Minecraft ages ago if
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>The problem is that there are many relatively minor things that can be deal breakers for lots of people in terms of operating systems. True, but that exactly is one of the greatest sources of hypocrisy in these discussions. Windows h
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by slowpoke 15y ago
About 4: For me, all the more reason to install Linux on as many machines of as many people as possible. Should the situation arrive where a piece of hardware doesn't work (which is rare, in my experience), I tell people to blame the hardwa
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>and where kids are allowed to do all the things they're not allowed to do legally on the www, I see big problems. How in the seven hells is this a problem of the network protocol? Or any other technology, really? I seriously don't wa
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Okay, thanks for clearning that up. It doesn't change my point though.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>but as the people in power get younger Except they aren't. If at all, they will be getting older. But anyways, age doesn't really matter. Neither does understanding of the current technology. It's the fact that we allow corporations
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>What are companies like Google doing to ensure that the Internet is not run by Hollywood? I'm really sorry to break it to you, but Google will not give half a damn about the internet being run by Hollywood as long as they can still m
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>So if we can make it through the next 20-25 years, the people in power will protect technology for us, not fear it. No, they won't. They will be the same corporate sellouts as they are today because we keep thinking like this. That m
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Where I study, it's a general consensus that in Math, N does not include 0 unless explicitly included as N index 0. In CompSci on the other hand, 0 is assumed to be included for practical and technical reasons.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The iPad isn't a computer, it's a toy. A kid quickly learning how to use a toy is neither new nor outstanding, and least of all a contribution to society.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That's correct. In these cases however, I think it's not unreasonable to side with them, if only temporary. The enemy of your enemy is your friend, after all. Sometimes it doesn't matter why someone fights, it matters who he/she fights.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That's a strawman. Theft involves actual loss for someone, and piracy - for the I-lost-count-after-the-first-three-hundred-and-sixty-four-thousand-times - is not theft, it's an infringement against a nonsensical law. All the RIAA and thei
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The point isn't whether those services are legal or not. The RIAA fails to accept the fact that the internet has made middlemen (gatekeepers) utterly obsolete. The internet doesn't "have the potential" to be a an efficient means of distribu
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>As the line for the x-ray scanner started to grow, they started letting people just go through the metal detectors. Once the line shrunk back down, they started forcing people to go through the scanner again. That's not even limited
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Every beautifully written code I've seen has always been CLI programs. I might be a fairly novice coder, but I think a good solution for this would be a client/server model. I'm a full-time Linux user and for various reasons, I reall
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>They make no distinction between more and less legitimate patents. It's a valid position to question the legitimacy of the patent system as a whole and to consider all patents illegitimate. There are multiple levels on which the enti
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>So I'm quite sure that C is a high level language. Except it isn't. At least not anymore. This statement was true a few decades back, when C was the highest level available. Today, C is barely a level above Assembly on the abstract
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Well, it arguably got worse with the advent of the mass media, but technically you're right.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>On the flip-side, just because a doctor is sued for malpractice doesn't mean he's guilty of malpractice. And there you have a fundamental problem of major parts of today's society: for many crimes (especially grave things like rape o
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Edit: Woops, this was supposed to be an answer to your parent (zecho), not you. A common definition must not necessarily be a correct definition - ask any scientist, there's probably a number of terms that are misused by the general populac
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by slowpoke 15y ago
His entire argument - if you could call this boatload of FUD one - fell apart at the moment he implied that anarchy is equivalent to chaos. I can't take anyone serious who does this. It showcases ignorance.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Where did I ever mention any model of my own? Arguing against something does not imply my stance on anything else. You're committing a fallacy here. Also, there are very few artists which can actually live of their art alone, WITH copyright

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