I didnt realize that cell phones talked directly to each other...;-)
They bloody well should and it's always irked me that they don't. Why talk to a cell tower that's 4km away when I'm phoning someone across the street? And why the hell should I *pay* for it?!
Demonstrating it "in the lab" as you describe isn't half as impressive as demonstrating it "in the wild", IMO. Your option would definitely be the best way to do it for a business demo, yes. For a grad student project? I think their way is fine, and possibly even more appropriate.
Actually, if it's overpriced, more people will farm it until the supply rises and prices drop. I have, personally, had trouble with bots before; at one point the quest I was trying to do required a drop off a mob type that two levelling bots were camping, and (being bots, and in the states, and thus having superhuman reaction times) they managed to tag every single mob before it spawned on my screen. I ended up having to skip that quest for a couple of days until they moved on.
Hm... I'd argue that tedium (or rather, significant time investment required to achieve certain things) is important because that's the only way to really give real-world value to items. If an item is too easy to obtain, then it becomes worthless.
Witness the honour PvP gear during Burning Crusade - it was pretty easy to build up a full set of gear as good as anything you could get from 5 or 10 man raids, so *everyone* had it. For most roles the gear was so good that it made most of non-raid PvE gear completely obsolete.
All you had to do was spend 100-200 hours in battlegrounds for your full set of gear, which ended up making it obligatory to spend that time in order to begin being competitive. There was also an epidemic of AFK bots, making battlegrounds frustrating for people who did want to actually earn their gear.
The net result is that you need to "farm" for hours some stuff to get the money, or jsut give up on it. Don't get me started on some of the superfluous stuff like mount (with 45 gold 100 to 200% the real money of a newbie at level 30 unless you never had to buy anything at all) or bags.
No, the net result is that you can sell a level 15 green-quality sword for 2-3 gold instead of for 20 silver. People with high level characters think nothing of paying a few gold to kit out their latest alt, which means that it's very easy to make gold fast as a lowbie. Hell, stacks of copper ore sell for 20-30g on some servers. My wife recently started her first Alliance-side character, it's now level 23 and has well over 50 gold.
Last I checked, you don't get to choose whether you're black, Jewish (as in the race, not the religion), gay, or weigh more than a duck. You can choose your religion.
You don't have to be "full of hatred" to find it irritating when a big bunch of people choose willful ignorance over reason, and then demand your tolerance of their irrational behavior.
When a bird first returns to the colony it will dance with many partners, but after a number of years the number of birds an individual will interact with drops, until one partner is chosen and a pair is formed. They then continue to perfect an individual language that will eventually be unique to that one pair. Having established a pair bond that will last for life, however, most of that dance will never be used ever again. ... The "divorce" of a pair is a rare occurrence, usually only happening after several years of breeding failure.
(From Wikipedia). That sounds more like a marriage than today's 'til death (or statistically, til about 7 years pass) do us part'.
Less ground? We get more ocean - and oceans are the real 'cradle of life' from whence we all came. Not to mention (being human-centric, I am human and all) that sea-based algae or plankton crops hold the greatest overall promise for net gains in both carbon sequestration and food production for squishy land mammals.
As for the Earth cooling continually once an appreciable portion is ice; yes, and this is one of the major problems early climate researchers found when they ran computer simulations. Our planet sits on the brink of what I mentioned earlier as the 'white earth' or 'cold earth' scenarios, and the early sims often ended in this state, with oceans frozen and the world covered in a shiny layer of snow, which reflected incoming warmth and bound the earth forever in ice.
Flamebait? Nope. I'm pro-global-warming, wanna know why? The world that the Dinosaurs knew was destroyed by global cooling. The carbon locked away by millions of years of fossil formation left the Earth vulnerable to the 'white earth' scenario, a fate which we very narrowly escaped a few times. Now we have the technology to liberate all that carbon and return the world to its pre-Cambrian state as a warm, lush paradise. Sure, a few coastal cities may need relocating but necessity is the mother of invention and hardship fosters ingenuity and all that.
This is what I was thinking. If you skip all the horrible pseudo-technical artist talk, the experiment is really saying "would people, on average, point a crude cardboard approximation of a tourist in the right direction?" Not that it's not an interesting concept; I'd like to see it repeated with various 'tourists', like your postcard, a fluffy stuffed toy, a cardboard box etc. I wonder if the fact that the robot was "trying" to reach its destination would have made people more sympathetic?
You'll notice that it's facing away from the stack of pigeons, because it's a reverse polish cat. It's preparing to perform a:
rot # cat is now facing a pigeon
dup
dup2 # there are now 5 pigeons
pounce # takes 5 pigeons and a cat on the stack, returns 4 pigeons
# saved in temporary variables with high velocities and an incremented cat
Well, the basic concept of using nanoscale structures to improve solar cells is well known, so I'd assume that using diatoms to self-assemble such a thing would be a step in the process of turning "wow neat this works in the lab" into "solar cells, X dollars 99 per meter".
So, as the guy did with complex numbers, you say "nevertheless we shall proceed to operate", leaving the problematic entity as an algebraic value?
So say, like calling sqrt(-1) 'i' and manipulating it algebraically, you call the value of 1/0 by some label. I shall arbitrarily choose 'fuck'. Then you have equations like:
(a + 5) / 0 = 5
Which rearranges to:
(a + 5) * 1 / 0 = 5
(a + 5) * fuck = 5
a = 5 / fuck - 5
a = 5 / (1/0) - 5
a = 5 * 0/1 - 5
a = -5
...holy shit, that worked O.o I was just making stuff up.
I call shenanigans. I just re-watched the movie on the page linked in the summary and it doesn't say anything of the sort. There were no big or small words at any point saying anything like what you said; has the movie changed?
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I like that better than The Sun Way:
I didnt realize that cell phones talked directly to each other... ;-)
They bloody well should and it's always irked me that they don't. Why talk to a cell tower that's 4km away when I'm phoning someone across the street? And why the hell should I *pay* for it?!
Demonstrating it "in the lab" as you describe isn't half as impressive as demonstrating it "in the wild", IMO. Your option would definitely be the best way to do it for a business demo, yes. For a grad student project? I think their way is fine, and possibly even more appropriate.
Only if you document the entire incident on video and upload it so that we can verify that no breaches of justice took place. :P
Actually it's more like you leave your shed unlocked, I use your shed to *stash* my stuff in.
Next step; using Google Cache to stash data. :D
Actually, if it's overpriced, more people will farm it until the supply rises and prices drop. I have, personally, had trouble with bots before; at one point the quest I was trying to do required a drop off a mob type that two levelling bots were camping, and (being bots, and in the states, and thus having superhuman reaction times) they managed to tag every single mob before it spawned on my screen. I ended up having to skip that quest for a couple of days until they moved on.
What is this "wallcock that you speak of"? Oh whoops, "wall clock"...
Hm... I'd argue that tedium (or rather, significant time investment required to achieve certain things) is important because that's the only way to really give real-world value to items. If an item is too easy to obtain, then it becomes worthless.
Witness the honour PvP gear during Burning Crusade - it was pretty easy to build up a full set of gear as good as anything you could get from 5 or 10 man raids, so *everyone* had it. For most roles the gear was so good that it made most of non-raid PvE gear completely obsolete.
All you had to do was spend 100-200 hours in battlegrounds for your full set of gear, which ended up making it obligatory to spend that time in order to begin being competitive. There was also an epidemic of AFK bots, making battlegrounds frustrating for people who did want to actually earn their gear.
The net result is that you need to "farm" for hours some stuff to get the money, or jsut give up on it. Don't get me started on some of the superfluous stuff like mount (with 45 gold 100 to 200% the real money of a newbie at level 30 unless you never had to buy anything at all) or bags.
No, the net result is that you can sell a level 15 green-quality sword for 2-3 gold instead of for 20 silver. People with high level characters think nothing of paying a few gold to kit out their latest alt, which means that it's very easy to make gold fast as a lowbie. Hell, stacks of copper ore sell for 20-30g on some servers. My wife recently started her first Alliance-side character, it's now level 23 and has well over 50 gold.
This has to qualify as some sort of limited Turing test, IMO.
Last I checked, you don't get to choose whether you're black, Jewish (as in the race, not the religion), gay, or weigh more than a duck. You can choose your religion.
You don't have to be "full of hatred" to find it irritating when a big bunch of people choose willful ignorance over reason, and then demand your tolerance of their irrational behavior.
When a bird first returns to the colony it will dance with many partners, but after a number of years the number of birds an individual will interact with drops, until one partner is chosen and a pair is formed. They then continue to perfect an individual language that will eventually be unique to that one pair. Having established a pair bond that will last for life, however, most of that dance will never be used ever again.
...
The "divorce" of a pair is a rare occurrence, usually only happening after several years of breeding failure.
(From Wikipedia).
That sounds more like a marriage than today's 'til death (or statistically, til about 7 years pass) do us part'.
Less ground? We get more ocean - and oceans are the real 'cradle of life' from whence we all came. Not to mention (being human-centric, I am human and all) that sea-based algae or plankton crops hold the greatest overall promise for net gains in both carbon sequestration and food production for squishy land mammals.
As for the Earth cooling continually once an appreciable portion is ice; yes, and this is one of the major problems early climate researchers found when they ran computer simulations. Our planet sits on the brink of what I mentioned earlier as the 'white earth' or 'cold earth' scenarios, and the early sims often ended in this state, with oceans frozen and the world covered in a shiny layer of snow, which reflected incoming warmth and bound the earth forever in ice.
Flamebait? Nope. I'm pro-global-warming, wanna know why? The world that the Dinosaurs knew was destroyed by global cooling. The carbon locked away by millions of years of fossil formation left the Earth vulnerable to the 'white earth' scenario, a fate which we very narrowly escaped a few times. Now we have the technology to liberate all that carbon and return the world to its pre-Cambrian state as a warm, lush paradise. Sure, a few coastal cities may need relocating but necessity is the mother of invention and hardship fosters ingenuity and all that.
This is what I was thinking. If you skip all the horrible pseudo-technical artist talk, the experiment is really saying "would people, on average, point a crude cardboard approximation of a tourist in the right direction?" Not that it's not an interesting concept; I'd like to see it repeated with various 'tourists', like your postcard, a fluffy stuffed toy, a cardboard box etc. I wonder if the fact that the robot was "trying" to reach its destination would have made people more sympathetic?
You'll notice that it's facing away from the stack of pigeons, because it's a reverse polish cat. It's preparing to perform a:
rot # cat is now facing a pigeon
dup
dup2 # there are now 5 pigeons
pounce # takes 5 pigeons and a cat on the stack, returns 4 pigeons
# saved in temporary variables with high velocities and an incremented cat
Well, the basic concept of using nanoscale structures to improve solar cells is well known, so I'd assume that using diatoms to self-assemble such a thing would be a step in the process of turning "wow neat this works in the lab" into "solar cells, X dollars 99 per meter".
See my post above; if we abstract out 1/0 as a special constant (again, I've chosen to call it 'fuck') then it works.
:P
2/0 = 2 * 1/0 = 2 * fuck
3/0 = 3 * fuck
2/0 != 3/0.
So there.
(Yes, I'm aware that this is as mathematically rigorous as a duck-shaped pinata.)
So, as the guy did with complex numbers, you say "nevertheless we shall proceed to operate", leaving the problematic entity as an algebraic value?
So say, like calling sqrt(-1) 'i' and manipulating it algebraically, you call the value of 1/0 by some label. I shall arbitrarily choose 'fuck'. Then you have equations like:
(a + 5) / 0 = 5
Which rearranges to:
(a + 5) * 1 / 0 = 5
(a + 5) * fuck = 5
a = 5 / fuck - 5
a = 5 / (1/0) - 5
a = 5 * 0/1 - 5
a = -5
...holy shit, that worked O.o I was just making stuff up.
Sounds like you got a better one than me then, I'll watch that when I have time. :)
What sort of medical applications make use of post-it notes?
Ones where the surgeon has more than one thing to do to you before stitching you shut?
Better than titanium and blue LEDs.
I call shenanigans. I just re-watched the movie on the page linked in the summary and it doesn't say anything of the sort. There were no big or small words at any point saying anything like what you said; has the movie changed?
Iff'n that dang Conficker varmint ain't dern good 'nuff to take over'n yer dern mower then what th' 'ell is it good fer, you tell me boy!