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For the record, they are not the only lectures in existence. I have a set of videotapes of Feynman lecturing to a non-technical audience on QED no less! It's called QED in New Zealand. It's a set of 4 ~1 hour lectures plus a few questions after each. Even with my limited scientific...

This has been solved, according to the last spacebum in the cosmos... Rimmer: "...like the pyramids. How did they move such massive pieces of stone without the aid of modern technology?" Lister: "They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips." :smile:

New story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4501323.stm

Thanks for that, Warren. The day is almost over and I hadn't learned anything new yet. :biggrin:

No, he's saying people's belief in god proves nothing. You need some other evidence. So in his example, convincing others I breached the contract is meaningless. You'd need to produce the evidence (the contract) and show I breached it.

I doubt the BBC did this, looks like someone else did and made it look like a BBC page. Look at the address...it's not news.bbc.co.uk, as it should be.

For the same reason you don't hard-code values ("magic numbers") into software. You make the program read configuration files. Then changing, say, a directory location is as easy as shutting down the program, editing the text config file, and restarting the program. Otherwise you'd have to...

Given the date shown on the page, I wouldn't get too excited... :smile:

I was with you up to a point Sintwar, but I'm afraid all this makes no sense to me. "Nothing can exist without existence" is a tautology and essentially meaningless. The "existence of existence" is similarly without meaning. And what does it mean to say "nothing exists"? Does it exist if it is...

Also, any good programmer has a large toolkit of languages, technologies, and skills. You use the one that is best for each situation, and many complex situations require you to use more than one on a given problem. The mere fact that standard Basic doesn't have subroutines should be enough...

I think it means 'water maker.' Anyhoo, I'm not sure of the thread's purpose...you want to discuss hydrogen as a fuel? In fuel cells, fusion, etc.? I think it's a great idea if it can be made to work practically. Therein lies the rub, but I'm not up on the recent advances in that...

I'm so glad this is finally happening! I will have to buy a bunch of them!

Why did VHS beat Betamax? Why Windows and not Macs in every office in America? The best technology does not always win. Marketing and other factors come into account. I believe Delphi was much like VB when it came out and that was a time when VB was really going strong, so I guess people...

I've used Adaware for ages and I always delete everything it finds. If malware has a name similar to a system file it won't delete the system file because it's looking for the signature of the malware inside the file. It doesn't do it by name. Anyway, I of course take no resposibility should...

Some thoughts off the top of my head... 1. 12 people? Very small sample. 2. You'd probably want to measure the same people before and after practicing, to ensure the effect was due to the practice. How do we know the 6 controls didn't just have different gene expression? 3. You'd want...