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Reply to Quantum teleportation in Everything Else Elemental Forums

"Intuition" is an interesting mathematical topic in itself. That's what AI and neural nets are all about. Of course that is also something we are not very good at because that, too, is another extremely complex biological phenomenon. I would venture that it may even surpass biology and start getting into where biology meets the soul, in which case mathematics will never be able to touch it completely. I'm just a little incredulous

Reply to It's only days away..so Giants or Patriots?? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Is that a Jedi yorkie in your avatar, Kestral?

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Crikey you made my day. Humanity is only 6000 years old, that is too funny. Better not tell the Aboriginals of Australia who have been there about 70,000 years ago. The reason christians go on about 6000 years is because some muppet decided to go through the genealogy from Adam to Jesus and count up the years.[/quote] Actually, that goes back to the books of Moses, so it's more Jewish than Christianity. Also you have to back up your claim that the aboriginals

Reply to Shouldn't Science Writers Know Something About Science? in Science & Tech Elemental Forums

So the first thing, I think the science writer just made a writing mistake. Of course the earth doesn't revolve around the sun every 28 days. For the second thing, you can say anything is the center of the universe you want. Everything is relative. But that doesn't mean it makes the mathematical modelling easier. In this case, sure, we can say the sun revolves around the earth. I mean every 365.25 days it makes a full circle around the

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]'m pretty much out of the "discussion" here (for obvious reasons) but I think it's inappropriate for a moderator to suggest a person stop posting (with a suggestion to be careful or be at risk of a ban) because he disagrees with their statements on a personal level and then ends with "move on".[/quote] While I agree with this statement in general, I don't think that is what's happening here. It can be unclear when a mod has their mod hat on/mod

Reply to Quantum teleportation in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Good points. Of course, if biological systems are far too complex to model with deterministic accuracy, we can still model them with stochastic accuracy, and that would still be regarded as scientific. The philosophic arguments serve well to formulate good hypotheses. But you still have to collect experimental data, and if that can be put on a histogram, you can reasonably argue some conclusions from it (and better recognize where your grey areas are). &nbsp

Reply to It's only days away..so Giants or Patriots?? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

We indeed do have another halftime show scandal. Nice: http://news.yahoo.com/m-middle-finger-upstages-madonnas-super-bowl-125125952--spt.html Never pass up an opportunity to give the FCC the finger, I say. [e digicons]:|[/e]

Reply to It's only days away..so Giants or Patriots?? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Funny thing is, if the Cowboys hadn't lost all 3 of their last games they shouldn't have, the Giants wouldn't even be in the playoffs.

Reply to It's only days away..so Giants or Patriots?? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Are we going to have another scandal with the halftime show? They cussed. It was sort of mumbled, but not really. Also I think Madonna lip sync'ed at least part of it. The sound mix was a bit too perfect. She is singing and doing athletic dance moves--as a 53-year-old--and didn't miss a single inflection. Cee Lo's voice sounded real, though. You can tell the difference in the sound quality. Bette

Reply to FDA approves computer chip for humans (screw this) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]I wouldn't, as a matter of fact, unless you believe becoming ashes, a bar of soap or a lamp shade would constitute "doing well". I suggest you change that personal insult (by innuendo) quickly. When you know nothing of the person you're dealing with, implying such an association is at best risky, and at worst a TOS violation.[/quote] Being Jewish does not necessarily preclude one from being fascist. Although I'm not saying YOU are fascist, I am s

Reply to Shouldn't Science Writers Know Something About Science? in Science & Tech Elemental Forums

Sure, science writers know something about science. They just don't know much about writing. [e digicons]^_^[/e]

Reply to FE coding from the trenches in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Guys, developers are going to get peeved if you try to micromanage the development. They have to bite their tongue a lot because you're customers. Being a Stardock customer, I know what I would want: I just want to know that I am being heard. A "no, we're not going to do that" is more palatable for me than no answer at all--at least, so long as I'm comfortable that they understand exactly what I'm asking. At times I t

Reply to FDA approves computer chip for humans (screw this) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

It's reverse psychology. Those who believe in Revelation tend to believe chip implants are heralding the end of the world, and to those who do not believe that, the idea that chip implants will bring about the end of the world is just silly, to the tune of the Hale-Bob cultists, the Mayan calendar ending the world in 2012, Rev. Harold Camping preaching the world would end in 2011, and the Jehovah's Witnesses saying the world would end in 1914, 1918, 1925 and 1975

Reply to FDA approves computer chip for humans (screw this) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

You know how the saying goes: it's not paranoia if people really are out trying to get you.

Reply to GC2 Forums and how they fail when compared to Elemental or SINS in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Please voice your opinion and with any luck, if the community gets behind the idea, Brad and co may spruce up the place a little bit.[/quote] Will do. You make a very good point, and I agree with you on all counts. GC2 has some very good art and even better music. Putting a background image in the .css is not rocket science, and it will pay off big and may even help spur on a renaissance of GC2.

Reply to FDA approves computer chip for humans (screw this) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Actually? 1984.[/quote] No, 2004. The RedNeck is correct. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6237364/ns/health-health_care/t/fda-approves-computer-chip-humans/ The FDA already approved chip implants back in 2004, when we had all these same debates/discussions.

Reply to It's only days away..so Giants or Patriots?? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Patriots. They were stronger all season, Peyton Manning's got all the stuff going on and it might be a distraction for Eli, and the Giants stole a championship from them once already. It won't happen again.

Reply to FDA approves computer chip for humans (screw this) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

This is news? The FDA approved computer chips for humans almost a decade ago, and ADSX stock soared to like $4 a share on the news. Now ADSX got bought out and I don't know what became of the chip. This must be FDA approval for another chip.

Reply to Movie snobbage: The Star Wars prequels were bad? THAT bad? What? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote] That rules out just about everything after Jaws. Which thankfully includes everything by Adam Sandler.[/quote] The closest thing to sci fi by Adam Sandler I know of is probably Fast Forward. Which interestingly had a nice life lesson in it. In some respects Fast Forward was idiotic, but that one meaning about "don't fast forward in life" was deep. Of all the movies out there with the depth of a kleenex, I don't think that

Reply to Movie snobbage: The Star Wars prequels were bad? THAT bad? What? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

"The best battle scene" is a good subject (probably deserves a thread of its own entirely), but doesn't ring a bell for me. I think I only saw 3/4 of Aliens. But it sure looks like Alien(s) inspired the Terran Marines in Starcraft. (Starship Troopers had aliens being shot at with automatics, too, but I don't think it was the inspiration)

Reply to Movie snobbage: The Star Wars prequels were bad? THAT bad? What? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]and the spaceship battles were more audience-engaging than anything previously seen at the time[/quote] I have to agree. From the very moment of the opening battle scene (where they blow open the door and board Leia's tiny vessel), I was hooked. Actually, for a long time I thought the opening battle scene was the best. And then the Star Wars video game came out.... Then of course I liked assaulting the Death Star better. The s

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Maybe I haven't thought hard enough, but it seems that you can only prove the existence of God, since I don't know how it is possible to prove the nonexistence of anything.[/quote] This is a well-known philosophical enigma, and it's called a noseeum argument. There's also a legal term for it, I forget. Plenty of theistic debates go on and on about this principle. In law, it's basically that you can prove you were not at such-and

Reply to Movie snobbage: The Star Wars prequels were bad? THAT bad? What? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]I will chime in and say that, your a brainwashed zombie of plinketts because you would have never said that if he hadnt. You used his exact phrase. How do we know that those are even your own opinions? Plinkett could have sent you one of his mind controlling pizza rolls. We cannot trust you.[/quote] First off, if you are already stooping to calling people names over STAR WARS, you need to either get over Star Wars or get over yourself. Who's the brainwashed pers

Reply to Movie snobbage: The Star Wars prequels were bad? THAT bad? What? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

I will chime in and concur that the prequels sucked, but the worst was Episode I. An obvious attempt to reel in 12-year-olds. Then it gradually got better in II and III, but never did it hold a candle to the original. The so-called "love affair" between Amidala and Anakin was less than believable at best. The light sabres reflecting back lasers at their shooter was cheesy. The battles have everyone out in the wide open shooting each other--I mean, are those laser

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

No need to share your "new & enlightened" definitions of atheism. Everybody knows what atheism is. People have long known that long before the internet ever existed. Although I'm sure there is probably a new religion out there composed of younger folk who believe the internet is God and always existed, before the beginning of Time. They might be a pair of them knocking on your door soon.