To be exact, MPEG files don't compress well because they contain little redundancy (because compression schemes work by finding and removeing redundancy), thus they look like random data.
Well, the real key point is that we humans tend to think that our thoughts are more relevant and thus more complex than our physical forms. And our thoughts are definitely not encoded in our DNA and almost entirely a result of our environemnt.
There is even a N-Cell Life program that overcomes the base brute-force calculation time limitations.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK programs like this don't actually "overcome" anything: in theory, the program replicates itself and thus "creates" steadily increasing computation power. In practice, the program and its copies all run on a limited computer, so it's completely worthless unless you create programs that physically replicate hardware, and even then you're limited to cubic growth by our physical space - rather useless when the problem is of an exponential nature.
At one point, yes. "A few people" isn't enough. It would have taken a significant percentage of the popularity not to fall for Hitler's populism. But the basic idea is correct.
Paper flyers' costs are paid by the person making them. Email spam's costs are paid by everyone and are so cheap that the pure volume can potentially be so large that they become *much* harder to ignore than someone ranting. You can walk away from someone, but you can't walk away from your inbox when you need to find the five relevant mails between the 500 spam mails.
And a very simple comparsion it is, too: Flash ram wins the battery lifetime and resilence categories, Microdrive wins the price/capacity and transfer rate category. I'm not sure about latency, but that's probably flash ram.
Nope. People can survive up to 45g (for nor more than a tent of a second, of course). And where does that even come into play when discussing the hazards of dropping equipment? Fact is, it's very easy to exceed 20 or even 30 g when dropping stuff on a hard surface. Though I guess that the microdrive's small size would make it more resilent, they can probably withstand far more than 20g (30g is a quite common spec, even for full-size HDs). And the rest of the player would protect the drive by breaking first in most cases...
Nobody's forcing you to use inheritance and polymorphism. I just like object-oriented languages because they make it easier to write clean, modular code. "Advanced" features like inheritance and polymorphism can be useful too, and only become a problem when used obsessively. Program in a way that best solves the problem, not in a way that best fits the programming paradigm.
Gigabit transfer rates, perhaps, but with latency far worse than Gigabit Ethernet, so it's still not enough for some applications. Not to speak of the extra effort needed for the network topology - standard topology would require too big and expensive switches.
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DDT was certainly effective, but saying that it was safe is either a sign of incredible ignorance or a paid-for lie. DDT killed birds (eagles) by propagating up the food chain through small animals because it doesn't decompose properly. And in the same way it can (and did) kill people by propagating up our food chain through fish, cattle or whatever. See more data
The point of making fuel out of biomass is that all the CO2 that is released has previously been removed from the atmosphere by the plants to produce the biomass in the first place. Thus, the overall amount of extra CO2 is zero, as opposed to fossile fuels that release CO2 that has been removed from the atmosphere for many millions of years.
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Don't know about "willingly", but roughly 25% of the French learn German in school, and about the same percentage of Germans learn French...
The EU parliament is elected democratically by the citizens of all member states. Go take your "euroskeptic" propaganda and shove it where the sun don't shine.
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While it is optional for stores to accept DM, the vast majority of shops, especially larger chains, will do so. However, on the first day it looked like most customers already used the Euro, so they may decide to stop accepting DM earlier than planned.
so weve already cut all these so called "unreasonable strings." so.. whats your point exactly?
The point is that MPAA, RIAA & Co. are lobbying for the act of cutting those strings and the tools necessary to do so to be made illegal. And that they may actually succeed because they have all the lobbying money and the majority of people aren't even aware of the strings.
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The opposite is the case. If you go down, there's less overall water content that on the surface.
No shit, Sherlock. Fact is, to anybody not very technically-minded and even those who are but are not anal retentive, "uses a driver that all current implementations of USB come with" is a reasonable approximation of "driverless".
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To be exact, MPEG files don't compress well because they contain little redundancy (because compression schemes work by finding and removeing redundancy), thus they look like random data.
Wrong again. It is not know whether PI is a normal number, i.e. whether it really contains all possible finite sequences.
random numbers.
Wrong. Some seemingly random numbers can be generated, but that is not necessarily the case for all random numbers.
Well, the real key point is that we humans tend to think that our thoughts are more relevant and thus more complex than our physical forms. And our thoughts are definitely not encoded in our DNA and almost entirely a result of our environemnt.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK programs like this don't actually "overcome" anything: in theory, the program replicates itself and thus "creates" steadily increasing computation power. In practice, the program and its copies all run on a limited computer, so it's completely worthless unless you create programs that physically replicate hardware, and even then you're limited to cubic growth by our physical space - rather useless when the problem is of an exponential nature.
At one point, yes. "A few people" isn't enough. It would have taken a significant percentage of the popularity not to fall for Hitler's populism. But the basic idea is correct.
Wrong. Spam is illegal
Paper flyers' costs are paid by the person making them. Email spam's costs are paid by everyone and are so cheap that the pure volume can potentially be so large that they become *much* harder to ignore than someone ranting. You can walk away from someone, but you can't walk away from your inbox when you need to find the five relevant mails between the 500 spam mails.
A set bit in the non-writable part of the disc that enables the music CD recorders to tell one from the other. Now who's the fucking dumb faggot?
And a very simple comparsion it is, too: Flash ram wins the battery lifetime and resilence categories, Microdrive wins the price/capacity and transfer rate category. I'm not sure about latency, but that's probably flash ram.
Nope. People can survive up to 45g (for nor more than a tent of a second, of course). And where does that even come into play when discussing the hazards of dropping equipment? Fact is, it's very easy to exceed 20 or even 30 g when dropping stuff on a hard surface. Though I guess that the microdrive's small size would make it more resilent, they can probably withstand far more than 20g (30g is a quite common spec, even for full-size HDs). And the rest of the player would protect the drive by breaking first in most cases...
Actually, there is a difference: dedicated music CD recorders will refuse to record on data CD blanks.
No Myth. Such techniques are easier to apply when the language itself is geared towards it.
Nobody's forcing you to use inheritance and polymorphism. I just like object-oriented languages because they make it easier to write clean, modular code. "Advanced" features like inheritance and polymorphism can be useful too, and only become a problem when used obsessively. Program in a way that best solves the problem, not in a way that best fits the programming paradigm.
Gigabit transfer rates, perhaps, but with latency far worse than Gigabit Ethernet, so it's still not enough for some applications. Not to speak of the extra effort needed for the network topology - standard topology would require too big and expensive switches.
DDT was certainly effective, but saying that it was safe is either a sign of incredible ignorance or a paid-for lie. DDT killed birds (eagles) by propagating up the food chain through small animals because it doesn't decompose properly. And in the same way it can (and did) kill people by propagating up our food chain through fish, cattle or whatever. See more data
The point of making fuel out of biomass is that all the CO2 that is released has previously been removed from the atmosphere by the plants to produce the biomass in the first place. Thus, the overall amount of extra CO2 is zero, as opposed to fossile fuels that release CO2 that has been removed from the atmosphere for many millions of years.
Don't know about "willingly", but roughly 25% of the French learn German in school, and about the same percentage of Germans learn French...
The EU parliament is elected democratically by the citizens of all member states. Go take your "euroskeptic" propaganda and shove it where the sun don't shine.
While it is optional for stores to accept DM, the vast majority of shops, especially larger chains, will do so. However, on the first day it looked like most customers already used the Euro, so they may decide to stop accepting DM earlier than planned.
The point is that MPAA, RIAA & Co. are lobbying for the act of cutting those strings and the tools necessary to do so to be made illegal. And that they may actually succeed because they have all the lobbying money and the majority of people aren't even aware of the strings.
The opposite is the case. If you go down, there's less overall water content that on the surface.
Yup. The lack for a separate reader, i.e. the "plug and play" convenience factor.
You have a very... interesting definition of "instant"...
No shit, Sherlock. Fact is, to anybody not very technically-minded and even those who are but are not anal retentive, "uses a driver that all current implementations of USB come with" is a reasonable approximation of "driverless".