Well, they are right in that it's bounded by memory. A number of languages let you do arithmetic on arbitrarily large integers. Rational numbers are basically 2 integers of random size, and if arithmetic functions for rationals aren't provided (as in e.g. common lisp or Haskell), they can be implemented. Sure, it might be slower (addition and subtraction is O(n)), but if you're a researcher and if you know the program is correct, you should be able to just leave the computer on for a week or two (or however long) to let it run.
More than that, this problem is embarrassingly parallel - each number doesn't change the result of any other, so you can very easily split up the work load on many computers, or write something that will run on GPU's or something. At a certain point, arithmetic will become too time expensive (because the number uses so many words of memory). So either you run out of memory first (unlikely) or things start to take to long. Possibly things will start to take to long when the numbers become larger then some cache, and the cache miss rate will drive your running time into the ground.
The Diablos are basically a real-time Rogue-like clickfest. If you were to give them ascii graphics (but kept the gameplay), they would probably still work (although the graphics do help with the mood).
My grandfather's business, a steel yard in West Virginia, uses a Unix server that runs SCO. I've told him about the law suit, but they'll probably continue to run it until it's no longer supported.
There's probably a number of small businesses like his, that started using SCO back in the day, and never bothered to learn about their comparatively recent legal troubles.
The crux of the issue is child abuse, really. Photographic child porn is illegal because you have to abuse the child in order to get it. With a charcoal picture, you can either abuse a child or not.
Possessing child porn is held to be criminal because it creates a market for abusing children. Having a charcoal drawing of a lolicon which was drawn from the artists imagination does not create a market for child abuse, and should in no way, shape, or form be illegal to produce or posses.
Would allowing citizens easy access to guns really reduce the number of deaths/injuries a year? I doubt it.
Tell that to the people who had no choice other than cowering in their hotel rooms and waiting to be executed.
Easy access to guns decreases deaths from some things (e.g. the terrorists probably wouldn;t have killed as many), and increases deaths from other things (e.g. crimes of passion - bar fights that escalate too much, or arguments that get out of hand, and most importantly suicides - suicides done with a gun are the minority of suicides but the majority of successful ones, IIRC).
It would be interesting to see which way the total number of deaths go with increased/decresed access to guns. Does the number of suicidal people who would choose to eat their gun outweigh the number of violent criminals who would be stopped sooner or be more cautious if their victims could more easily kill them? And which would you rather have an increased number of?
1. "I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me..."
Seeing as freedom of religion is in our constitution, our law has no base in this.
2. "Do not make an image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..."
Again, freedom of religion. Nowhere is anything legislated that prohibits idol worship.
3. "Do not swear falsely by the name of the LORD..."
Guess what? Only kind of covered by obscenity laws, and definitely not covered today. Not explicitly illegal, but could be in certain situations (e.g. being broadcast in a puritan area).
4. "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy"
The only thing kind of like that are blue laws. Freedom of religion, and all, not much is legislated here.
5. "Honor your father and your mother..."
When your a minor, you're legally required to obey your parents a certain amount, but still, it's a stretch.
6. "Do not murder"
Well, plenty of laws against this.
7. "Do not commit adultery
Again, not precisely illegal, but can be used in legal proceedings for divorces and suchnot.
8. "Do not steal."
Another one where there are plenty of laws against.
9. "Do not bear false witness against your neighbor"
Only illegal in the case of purjury.
10. "Do not covet your neighbor's wife"
Not illegal in the slightest.
So... for a law system supposedly based on 10 rules, you've only got 2 which are really illegal, a handful which are completely legal, and several where a stretch can be made to link it to the law.
Yeah... our legal system is totally based on them...
Most votes for the president are wasted (a wasted vote does not help elect a candidate), no matter who casts them. Since you only need to beat your opponent in a state to win the state, and you only need to win half the electoral votes, you only need about 25% of the votes to be for you, as long as they are in the correct amounts in the correct states. Anything more than what was needed to make a candidate win is a wasted vote.
I myself will be voting for a 3rd party candidate because the chance that my vote will help swing my state is close to nil, because I don't live in a swing state.
Listen to it in a quiet enviroment, like what it was meant to be played in. If you have to jack up the volume to hear the quiet bits over the general noise, of course the loud bits are going to be deafening.
You'd have to be careful to pulverize it instead of merely breaking it up. A chain of smaller asteroids is not going to be all that much better than one big one - just look at how much damage Shoemaker Levy did to Jupiter.
Besides,if you split it up, you have a greater chance of one of the pieces landing in an city, or the middle of the ocean and creating a tsunami.
Sanshou Go would probably be a better term. Although the Tae Kwon Do Go players would probably be stronger at Go, and worse at fighting (Korean pros regularly beat Chinese and Japanese pros in international contests, but TKD sucks as a martial art. Trust me, I took it for a few years).
Although, AFAIK, Xiangqi (i.e. Chinese Chess) is more popular than Go in China (I know shogi is more popular in Japan, and I think it's the same way in China). Perhaps instead there would be a Sanshou Xiangqi champion and a Karate Shogi one?
When a copyright expires, is the government then stealing? After all, the same denial of the exclusive right to copy something is happening.
What about when the government breaks apart monopolies? Your taking away their right to be the only game in town!
Somehow, I imagine that holding down Command-S during the bootup would be suspicious.
Can you get the computer to automatically boot up into single-user mode? Also, how do you get from single-user mode to the regular mode?
I'm heading off over to Israel in a couple weeks. How well would making OS X boot up into a terminal? It's my primary computer, but I don't have anything that I really need to protect in it (or rather, the only thing it would protect is my privacy; no damning data or anything like that).
More then that, does anyone know how to do it? Also, what's the command to start quartz?
Except the cost isn't necessarily passed to the consumer. The person who has to pay the extra cost is determined by the elasticity of supply and demand.
If demand is very elastic and supply is inelastic, then the cost will be straight out of the profits of the producer.
Likewise, if demand is inelastic, then the consumer will pay.
With most things, some of the extra cost is payed by the consumer, and some is payed by the producer.
No. The first rule of war is that war is deception.
Appear strong where you are weak, weak where you are strong.
Attack where you are unexpected.
Use Strategems (i.e. tricks) where you can.
True skill, however, is being good enough that you can win without even going to war.
If you have the photorealism of the Rennaisance, you get all of the math involved in regular life (e.g. the golden ratio). With various less realistic artists (e.g. Pollock, Van Gogh), haven't mathematicians found various deep mathematical patterns in their work?
This is what you get when you start out with pure math, and turn it into art, whereas most of art is what you get when you have an intuitive understanding of math (i.e. what looks good) and go with that. All art has math in it.
I'd not consider the whole fake boarding pass thing a threat to security (or rather, Soghoian's blogging about it) because anyone with an average IQ and a bit of time could think up of it (they check the veracity of the boarding pass and the fact that you have ID and a boarding pass separately. Is making a fake pass to go along with your ID that difficult an idea?!?).
Posting about it is good because it forces the TSA to close a rather obvious exploit. Given that they ostensibly want security, the intelligent thing to do is plug said holes (which, so far as I can tell, has not yet been done), not persecute the person willing to point out the fact that they're being a bunch of idiots and leaving glaringly obvious exploits availible.
Oh wait, I forgot. The TSA couldn't give a rat's ass about security - they only care about giving people the illusion of security.
Just out of curiosity, do you have any statistics? How many lives does access to a taser save vs kill? Does the death count increase, decrease or stay the same when you give a police force access to a tazer? How much pain is caused with a tazer that wouldn't have been caused (i.e. by talking someone out of stuff) in it's absence, and how much pain is saved (i.e. by tazing someone instead of shooting them)? Only after seeing these numbers can you really make a value judgement as to their worth. Otherwise, your really just talking out of your ass.
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Who ever died from not drinking? Or, more appropriately, who ever died from not drinking in excess?
More than that, this problem is embarrassingly parallel - each number doesn't change the result of any other, so you can very easily split up the work load on many computers, or write something that will run on GPU's or something. At a certain point, arithmetic will become too time expensive (because the number uses so many words of memory). So either you run out of memory first (unlikely) or things start to take to long. Possibly things will start to take to long when the numbers become larger then some cache, and the cache miss rate will drive your running time into the ground.
The Diablos are basically a real-time Rogue-like clickfest. If you were to give them ascii graphics (but kept the gameplay), they would probably still work (although the graphics do help with the mood).
My grandfather's business, a steel yard in West Virginia, uses a Unix server that runs SCO. I've told him about the law suit, but they'll probably continue to run it until it's no longer supported.
There's probably a number of small businesses like his, that started using SCO back in the day, and never bothered to learn about their comparatively recent legal troubles.
If the guy uses underage models, he is.
The crux of the issue is child abuse, really. Photographic child porn is illegal because you have to abuse the child in order to get it. With a charcoal picture, you can either abuse a child or not.
Possessing child porn is held to be criminal because it creates a market for abusing children. Having a charcoal drawing of a lolicon which was drawn from the artists imagination does not create a market for child abuse, and should in no way, shape, or form be illegal to produce or posses.
Would allowing citizens easy access to guns really reduce the number of deaths/injuries a year? I doubt it.
Tell that to the people who had no choice other than cowering in their hotel rooms and waiting to be executed.
Easy access to guns decreases deaths from some things (e.g. the terrorists probably wouldn;t have killed as many), and increases deaths from other things (e.g. crimes of passion - bar fights that escalate too much, or arguments that get out of hand, and most importantly suicides - suicides done with a gun are the minority of suicides but the majority of successful ones, IIRC).
It would be interesting to see which way the total number of deaths go with increased/decresed access to guns. Does the number of suicidal people who would choose to eat their gun outweigh the number of violent criminals who would be stopped sooner or be more cautious if their victims could more easily kill them? And which would you rather have an increased number of?
1. "I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me..."
Seeing as freedom of religion is in our constitution, our law has no base in this.
2. "Do not make an image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..."
Again, freedom of religion. Nowhere is anything legislated that prohibits idol worship.
3. "Do not swear falsely by the name of the LORD..."
Guess what? Only kind of covered by obscenity laws, and definitely not covered today. Not explicitly illegal, but could be in certain situations (e.g. being broadcast in a puritan area).
4. "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy"
The only thing kind of like that are blue laws. Freedom of religion, and all, not much is legislated here.
5. "Honor your father and your mother..."
When your a minor, you're legally required to obey your parents a certain amount, but still, it's a stretch.
6. "Do not murder"
Well, plenty of laws against this.
7. "Do not commit adultery
Again, not precisely illegal, but can be used in legal proceedings for divorces and suchnot.
8. "Do not steal."
Another one where there are plenty of laws against.
9. "Do not bear false witness against your neighbor"
Only illegal in the case of purjury.
10. "Do not covet your neighbor's wife"
Not illegal in the slightest.
So... for a law system supposedly based on 10 rules, you've only got 2 which are really illegal, a handful which are completely legal, and several where a stretch can be made to link it to the law. Yeah... our legal system is totally based on them...
Most votes for the president are wasted (a wasted vote does not help elect a candidate), no matter who casts them. Since you only need to beat your opponent in a state to win the state, and you only need to win half the electoral votes, you only need about 25% of the votes to be for you, as long as they are in the correct amounts in the correct states. Anything more than what was needed to make a candidate win is a wasted vote.
I myself will be voting for a 3rd party candidate because the chance that my vote will help swing my state is close to nil, because I don't live in a swing state.
Listen to it in a quiet enviroment, like what it was meant to be played in. If you have to jack up the volume to hear the quiet bits over the general noise, of course the loud bits are going to be deafening.
Besides,if you split it up, you have a greater chance of one of the pieces landing in an city, or the middle of the ocean and creating a tsunami.
Sanshou Go would probably be a better term. Although the Tae Kwon Do Go players would probably be stronger at Go, and worse at fighting (Korean pros regularly beat Chinese and Japanese pros in international contests, but TKD sucks as a martial art. Trust me, I took it for a few years). Although, AFAIK, Xiangqi (i.e. Chinese Chess) is more popular than Go in China (I know shogi is more popular in Japan, and I think it's the same way in China). Perhaps instead there would be a Sanshou Xiangqi champion and a Karate Shogi one?
When a copyright expires, is the government then stealing? After all, the same denial of the exclusive right to copy something is happening. What about when the government breaks apart monopolies? Your taking away their right to be the only game in town!
Which is why as soon as that comes up, you type "clear" and press enter.
Somehow, I imagine that holding down Command-S during the bootup would be suspicious. Can you get the computer to automatically boot up into single-user mode? Also, how do you get from single-user mode to the regular mode?
I'm heading off over to Israel in a couple weeks. How well would making OS X boot up into a terminal? It's my primary computer, but I don't have anything that I really need to protect in it (or rather, the only thing it would protect is my privacy; no damning data or anything like that). More then that, does anyone know how to do it? Also, what's the command to start quartz?
Except the cost isn't necessarily passed to the consumer. The person who has to pay the extra cost is determined by the elasticity of supply and demand.
If demand is very elastic and supply is inelastic, then the cost will be straight out of the profits of the producer.
Likewise, if demand is inelastic, then the consumer will pay.
With most things, some of the extra cost is payed by the consumer, and some is payed by the producer.
No. The first rule of war is that war is deception. Appear strong where you are weak, weak where you are strong. Attack where you are unexpected. Use Strategems (i.e. tricks) where you can. True skill, however, is being good enough that you can win without even going to war.
If you have the photorealism of the Rennaisance, you get all of the math involved in regular life (e.g. the golden ratio). With various less realistic artists (e.g. Pollock, Van Gogh), haven't mathematicians found various deep mathematical patterns in their work? This is what you get when you start out with pure math, and turn it into art, whereas most of art is what you get when you have an intuitive understanding of math (i.e. what looks good) and go with that. All art has math in it.
I'd not consider the whole fake boarding pass thing a threat to security (or rather, Soghoian's blogging about it) because anyone with an average IQ and a bit of time could think up of it (they check the veracity of the boarding pass and the fact that you have ID and a boarding pass separately. Is making a fake pass to go along with your ID that difficult an idea?!?). Posting about it is good because it forces the TSA to close a rather obvious exploit. Given that they ostensibly want security, the intelligent thing to do is plug said holes (which, so far as I can tell, has not yet been done), not persecute the person willing to point out the fact that they're being a bunch of idiots and leaving glaringly obvious exploits availible. Oh wait, I forgot. The TSA couldn't give a rat's ass about security - they only care about giving people the illusion of security.
Just out of curiosity, do you have any statistics? How many lives does access to a taser save vs kill? Does the death count increase, decrease or stay the same when you give a police force access to a tazer? How much pain is caused with a tazer that wouldn't have been caused (i.e. by talking someone out of stuff) in it's absence, and how much pain is saved (i.e. by tazing someone instead of shooting them)? Only after seeing these numbers can you really make a value judgement as to their worth. Otherwise, your really just talking out of your ass.