Aha, my plan worked perfectly *rubs hands in delight*. I hack the entire internet at once by flipping single bits on a large number of machines. The maths is kind of chaotic. It's fun to track viruses as ant-algorithm analogies too.
I hope they'll also be suing the mathematicians who developed the statistical analysis tools the geologist used. And the engineers who helped develop the equipment. And me. I did absolutely nothing to help, and am therefore either more to blame than the geologists, or maybe less. It's difficult to tell when it's a bunch of lawyers trying to line their pockets from the deaths of innocents.
Or even Principia...
"This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. You might wish to discuss with your children how views on space, time, the precession of orbits, the speed of light, and inertial reference frames have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work."
Solar sailing? Oh yes! I love this, it's one of the signals that we're living in the future, if you grew up on Clarke, Asimov et al. Required reading: Clarke's "A Wind From The Sun", Stross's "Accelerando".
I entirely get your point. However, if you stop paying Apple whatever they ask in the future, then the iPad loses functionality. This doesn't happen with an OS like Ubuntu or any other free distro.
I know it's off-form to re-reply, but sod it, your comment and the one above are too good not to discuss. Yup, you've both hit the nail on the head. I referenced a fictional character (and was also thinking of Stephen Baxter's excellent "Titan") because at the moment SF is at the forefront in many ways. Yes, there may be life out there, but we have exactly as much evidence for it as we do for god (take your pick), exactly none. If there is, then it might be like this, and it's certainly evidence that life, once established, can exist in extreme conditions compared to Earth's "habitable" zones, but until we find life that's without a doubt non-terrestrial then we're a one-off fluke as far as certainties go.
Please mod into oblivion, or re-reply yourselves and be damned with the consequences;)
Or, in fact, symbiotic organisms on Titan, along with ones which might well be methanogenic in nature if they exist, and at even lower temperatures. Life finds a way, ladies and gents.
I have two children. One is a boy born on a tuesday. What are the odds that the other is a boy?
Precisely the same question, and for precisely the same reason....showing off mathematical quirks, it has nothing to do with MPG calculations other than showing they involve maths.
Hell yeah! Free speech doesn't just mean you can speak out against real injustice, it means you should be intentionally abusive of other people's cultures and religions! As often as possible!
This attitude utterly disgusts me. You people are pathetic. "Not drawing pictures of Mohammed" (PBUH) takes away precisely one "right" of yours, the right to be an idiot with no sense of tact or respect.
If you've got a really good reason to draw a picture of the prophet, other than something along the lines of "I have a misguided idea of what free speech means, and I want to be offensive for a laugh" then I'd love to hear it.
I'm a British atheist. What say I go to Alabama, defecate on a bible, wrap it in the US flag and burn the bundle. That's free speech isn't it? That's me exercising the right of a person living in the US isn't it?
No, it's me being an offensive dick for the sake of it. I'd get lynched, and rightly so. Grow up, the lot of you.
So the cars without seatbelts have to drive in one set of tubes, and the cars with seatbelts drive in different tubes, and some of those tubes aren't allowed to go into SA airspace? Ok, I think I get it.....
"Hello? Canonical? UK-ISP here, we've got loads of people downloading your 'Ubuntu' programme for free over P2P, do you want their details to sue them? What? Don't be silly....no, seriously, we spent a lot of money getting this data for you...."
If I read it right they're banning all commercial tweets except those going directly via twitter's in-house advertisers scheme. The adverts produced will be dropped into (I'm guessing at an example) an ongoing conversation using keyword spotting.
You're right though, doubledoubletwaddlespeak left right and centre.
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Aha, my plan worked perfectly *rubs hands in delight*. I hack the entire internet at once by flipping single bits on a large number of machines. The maths is kind of chaotic. It's fun to track viruses as ant-algorithm analogies too.
And Anil Ananthaswamy covers both in a very entertaining way in "The Edge Of Physics", a cool look at the more practical side of physics - well worth a read, my brief review here: http://coolsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2010/04/edge-of-physics.html
I hope they'll also be suing the mathematicians who developed the statistical analysis tools the geologist used. And the engineers who helped develop the equipment. And me. I did absolutely nothing to help, and am therefore either more to blame than the geologists, or maybe less. It's difficult to tell when it's a bunch of lawyers trying to line their pockets from the deaths of innocents.
That young man has a great mechanical engineering career ahead of him :)
Or even Principia... "This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. You might wish to discuss with your children how views on space, time, the precession of orbits, the speed of light, and inertial reference frames have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work."
That's really interesting, as was this, last year: http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
Jetpacks? No. Flying cars? No. Sentient robots? No.
Solar sailing? Oh yes! I love this, it's one of the signals that we're living in the future, if you grew up on Clarke, Asimov et al. Required reading: Clarke's "A Wind From The Sun", Stross's "Accelerando".
I entirely get your point. However, if you stop paying Apple whatever they ask in the future, then the iPad loses functionality. This doesn't happen with an OS like Ubuntu or any other free distro.
You made me smile when I wasn't previously :)
Thank you :)
The quote was the title, from Jurassic Park.
I know it's off-form to re-reply, but sod it, your comment and the one above are too good not to discuss. Yup, you've both hit the nail on the head. I referenced a fictional character (and was also thinking of Stephen Baxter's excellent "Titan") because at the moment SF is at the forefront in many ways. Yes, there may be life out there, but we have exactly as much evidence for it as we do for god (take your pick), exactly none. If there is, then it might be like this, and it's certainly evidence that life, once established, can exist in extreme conditions compared to Earth's "habitable" zones, but until we find life that's without a doubt non-terrestrial then we're a one-off fluke as far as certainties go.
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Please mod into oblivion, or re-reply yourselves and be damned with the consequences
Or, in fact, symbiotic organisms on Titan, along with ones which might well be methanogenic in nature if they exist, and at even lower temperatures. Life finds a way, ladies and gents.
I have two children. One is a boy born on a tuesday. What are the odds that the other is a boy?
Precisely the same question, and for precisely the same reason....showing off mathematical quirks, it has nothing to do with MPG calculations other than showing they involve maths.
The things you're looking for are called "waves" ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7mmO0CsyZA
In related news, kitebuggies will generally travel at three times the wind speed, depending on the aspect ration of the kite.
So presumably everyone who played the machine previously can claim their stakes back...the machine was faulty. You can't have it both ways.
Hell yeah! Free speech doesn't just mean you can speak out against real injustice, it means you should be intentionally abusive of other people's cultures and religions! As often as possible!
This attitude utterly disgusts me. You people are pathetic. "Not drawing pictures of Mohammed" (PBUH) takes away precisely one "right" of yours, the right to be an idiot with no sense of tact or respect.
If you've got a really good reason to draw a picture of the prophet, other than something along the lines of "I have a misguided idea of what free speech means, and I want to be offensive for a laugh" then I'd love to hear it.
I'm a British atheist. What say I go to Alabama, defecate on a bible, wrap it in the US flag and burn the bundle. That's free speech isn't it? That's me exercising the right of a person living in the US isn't it?
No, it's me being an offensive dick for the sake of it. I'd get lynched, and rightly so. Grow up, the lot of you.
That's a good idea as internet access has a serious western influence on these countries, for better or for worse.
So the cars without seatbelts have to drive in one set of tubes, and the cars with seatbelts drive in different tubes, and some of those tubes aren't allowed to go into SA airspace? Ok, I think I get it.....
I think you're being unduly harsh, he probably gets his power from Verizon, $0.05 = half a cent.
"Hello? Canonical? UK-ISP here, we've got loads of people downloading your 'Ubuntu' programme for free over P2P, do you want their details to sue them? What? Don't be silly....no, seriously, we spent a lot of money getting this data for you...."
If I read it right they're banning all commercial tweets except those going directly via twitter's in-house advertisers scheme. The adverts produced will be dropped into (I'm guessing at an example) an ongoing conversation using keyword spotting.
You're right though, doubledoubletwaddlespeak left right and centre.
And then get beaten unconscious. That's kind of when I stopped listening to adults and surveys and started getting sneaky.
A good few places (in the UK at least) have "dining in the dark" nights where everything is blacked out. It's supposed to highlight your other senses.
The DMCA is evil! Everything should be free! Copyright infringement isn't theft, it doesn't deprive anybody of anything!
(What? It's my stuff?)
I'll DMCA their arses! That's my stuff! I sell those, you're taking away my living!
Balls. Didn't work. Please mod into oblivion. Worked on Twitter though: http://twitter.com/_The_Geoff_
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Now if folk's wanted to be offensive they could claim otherwise. I'm not. It's Dave.