Tony: "Sure thing - I'll get on the phone right away to Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Japan and Kuwait!"
Then Later:
Tony: Well, I got through to most of those countries but every time I tried to dial Britain, I got a busy signal
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The story, if I recall correctly, from Niven himself is that he wanted to use the "moat/mote" pun but that the worry was that the American audience would not "get it" so had to have a simpler title.
Scroll bars suck. That's why the mousewheel is so popular and features like Logitech's universal scroll are a good idea. Your pointer should be where you're doing stuff. If I have to work with a mouse without a scroll-wheel, page-up, page-down are what I use for navigation.
That said, if you put your scroll-bars on the left, it is trivial to change your pointer so that it doesn't obscure what you're scrolling. But far better to not have had scrollbars in the first place. They are a crutch for a failure in imagination.
It's compiled on some M$ encumbered x86 every night from scratch
And when finally that CPU had come to the end of its working life and was finally retired, it's package was broken open and was found to be filled with some kind of organic matter. DNA analysis found its origins were from three men; Judas, Brutus, and Cassius
That is ships and that is salvage. FAA regs say not to move any wreckage of an aircraft that has been involved in an accident unless it is to help preserve it.
Voidengineer, I have read this and other of your posts in this thread and have to say that you seem somewhat misinformed. PLease don't take that as a slam, some of this stuff is quite complex.
Firstly, in the case of quantum entanglement, the speed of the quantum entanglement effect (the supposed information transfer) is not limited by the speed at which the particles separate from each other, the issue is that if the particles are half a galazy apart, the state of the particles may be unknown but as soon as you (party A) know the state of your particle, the other party (party B) knows the state of theirs, giving effectively infinite speed of information.
Your second error is in thinking that this means that information has been passed between party A and party B. It hasn't. And as it turns out, it hasn't passed between the particles either.
Imagine that your aunt sends a persent to you and your sister. You know that she always sends you both the same gift. You open the gift at the same time so you know instantaneously what your sister has received. But the important thing is that no information has passed between you and your sister.
The apparent paradox with quantum entanglement as I understand it is that the particles have no way to carry this commonality that they share with them unlike the parcel your aunt sent you which actually contains the gift. This seems very perplexing indeed but then, so do many things related to the quantum world. But when you do the maths, it tends to turn out OK.
This is the current mainstream scientific understanding as I know it. If you cannot reconcile it then I would suggest that you maybe need to do some more reading (if you are so inclined), these can be quite hard concepts to grasp. If you refuse to reconcile it then you're either haev extremely advanced cutting-edge physical theorie or you are a crackpot.
Well, I may not be exactly a libertarian but I do believe *most* of the dogma and that's certainly the way I feel too. I also think that patents and copyrights unfairly give too much power to corporations and should be abolished.
I came to the U.S. on a 90 day visa waiver. I married my wife (an American) towards the end of the waiver period so I returned to the U.K. to stay legal. My wife went to a lawyer to get my visa rolling and she said that I should just have stayed and applied for a change of status. We decided to live in the U.K. for a bit anyway so no big loss.
However, two years ago, we returned to the U.S. I went through all the application process as required (took 7 months in all I think. When my wife joined me in the U.K. , her visa took about two hours). I arrived in the U.S. and was told I should receive my green card in about seven months, if not to contact the INS, in the meantime, a stamp in my passport allowed me to work. Two years, two extra stamps and a replacement passport later, still no greencard. And their fax number for enquiring about the status never picks up.
Really, it's no surprise to me that terrorists get visas after they're dead.
Now when a diabetic goes hypo, the words "feed me sugar" can appear across their forehead.
Or, remembering a particularly traumatic experience when a friend went hypo, perhaps the words "fuck you" to save them the bother of saying them themselves (yes, I know a hypo diabetic is not in their right mind).
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"Is that a rocket in your pocket?"
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But usually, it's the other way around. Airspeed provides lift so acceleration is your main priority.
Pitch for airspeed, power for altitude.
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Then Later:
Tony: Well, I got through to most of those countries but every time I tried to dial Britain, I got a busy signal
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+IMAGINE+ +A+ +BEOWU+
+BEO+
+BFoW+
Error 211 Divide by zero. Application terminated
Classic.
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That said, if you put your scroll-bars on the left, it is trivial to change your pointer so that it doesn't obscure what you're scrolling. But far better to not have had scrollbars in the first place. They are a crutch for a failure in imagination.
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And when finally that CPU had come to the end of its working life and was finally retired, it's package was broken open and was found to be filled with some kind of organic matter. DNA analysis found its origins were from three men; Judas, Brutus, and Cassius
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I think you mean "Schrödingerian."
Are you certain?
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Maybe.
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Firstly, in the case of quantum entanglement, the speed of the quantum entanglement effect (the supposed information transfer) is not limited by the speed at which the particles separate from each other, the issue is that if the particles are half a galazy apart, the state of the particles may be unknown but as soon as you (party A) know the state of your particle, the other party (party B) knows the state of theirs, giving effectively infinite speed of information.
Your second error is in thinking that this means that information has been passed between party A and party B. It hasn't. And as it turns out, it hasn't passed between the particles either.
Imagine that your aunt sends a persent to you and your sister. You know that she always sends you both the same gift. You open the gift at the same time so you know instantaneously what your sister has received. But the important thing is that no information has passed between you and your sister.
The apparent paradox with quantum entanglement as I understand it is that the particles have no way to carry this commonality that they share with them unlike the parcel your aunt sent you which actually contains the gift. This seems very perplexing indeed but then, so do many things related to the quantum world. But when you do the maths, it tends to turn out OK.
This is the current mainstream scientific understanding as I know it. If you cannot reconcile it then I would suggest that you maybe need to do some more reading (if you are so inclined), these can be quite hard concepts to grasp. If you refuse to reconcile it then you're either haev extremely advanced cutting-edge physical theorie or you are a crackpot.
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However, two years ago, we returned to the U.S. I went through all the application process as required (took 7 months in all I think. When my wife joined me in the U.K. , her visa took about two hours). I arrived in the U.S. and was told I should receive my green card in about seven months, if not to contact the INS, in the meantime, a stamp in my passport allowed me to work. Two years, two extra stamps and a replacement passport later, still no greencard. And their fax number for enquiring about the status never picks up.
Really, it's no surprise to me that terrorists get visas after they're dead.
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No we shouldn't.
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Incidently, is there a URL definition for gnutella content? If not, there should be.
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Or, remembering a particularly traumatic experience when a friend went hypo, perhaps the words "fuck you" to save them the bother of saying them themselves (yes, I know a hypo diabetic is not in their right mind).
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