That could very well be, but it would be easy to configure it to check to see what the current temperature of the heating element is, and if it's not been used recently, to hold the toast a bit longer. And if it has been used recently and is already hot, to hold it for a different time to make the slices as similar as possible.
Don't forget the fact that the Song of Solomon would be alot racier if it was translated accurately -- the part where it goes 'thy navel is a cup that runneth over' or something along those lines -- the original word implied a place lower down that the navel!
I know it doesn't make logical sense on the surface, but I don't this this limitation is arbitrary. If there were no limits based on level, you could make a handful of level 1 characters whose sole existences were just to produce.
So, your problem with this is that it too closely simulates the real world?
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Since my roommate, who was at LinuxWorld with the NetBSD team, and actually got to use the Toaster and run the Toaster Demos, got back a little under 4 hours ago, I can answer your question.
The Toast will always cook for the correct time. The mechanism that 'drops' the basket the toast is in is held there by sleep, not by a monitor of the temperature of basket, or by some flimsy piece two metals sandwiched together that heat at different rates.
My god. I wish you people would stop saying these things about staying up. Staying, like anything else, will generally only cause health problems in people who already have them.
My Grandfather once had to stay up for over a week straight in the 50's when he was in the Army going into Military Intelligence, to see what exactly he would do if sleep deprived. All that happened to him was he temporarally lost his colour vision.
I myself have stayed up for 97 hours straight without sleep, and suffered no ill effects. This person died most likely because he was already infirm, or because he was taking massive ammounts of stimulants to keep awake, which will cause heart failure.
The fact is, while it is possible for permanant psychological damage or personality change to result from lack of sleep (I believe anything over 120 hours is supposed to be guarranteed of doing that), that it is impossible for a Human being to die of lack of sleep, like a rat can, for the simple fact that we 'microsleep.'
Ever been tired and driving and nod off for a half a second? Or had it happen some other time? That's your body forcing you to sleep for a fraction of a second, and it's impossible to stop. Human beings do not die from lack of sleep, but we can die from what comes from lack of sleep -- the body will not produce certain neccessities (anyone on the 'Uberman Diet' must eat lots of grape/grape product to make up for this,) and it can lead to behaviour that will cause death due to drowsiness and inattentiveness.
But lack of sleep by itself will not kill you anymore than a gun by itself will kill you. But lack of sleep will make it easier for you to be killed through your own negligence and stupidity, just as a gun makes it easier for you to be killed by someone else's negligence, stupidity, or malice.
Please, think.
Also, when I stayed up, I did it without stimulants, aside from 'friends' who 'smacked me' when I started to get tired.
Testify. Love thy Country, fear thy Government. And never forget that from time to time to the Tree of Liberty must be refreshed with the blood of Martyrs... and Tyrants.
Unfortunately, it's getting harder and harder to rebel in this day in age.
Okay, let's start with some facts: It's very hard to become a fossil.
To become a fossil requires the following things: Location, and a Good Deal of Luck.
If you want to become a fossil, it's no good to keel over on the future site of granite. You need to die in a place where your body, once covered by sediments, can be replaced by minerals to form a fossil. Also, over all the millions of years that seperate your time of death from whenever you're found, that fossil that your body has become must not be distorted or damaged beyond recognition as the layers of rock you're in are moved about, subducted, uplifted, rotated, and what-not.
Finally, you have to be found. Most fossils are found in hot, dry regions, where rock is exposed and worn away by wind and rain.
That's not because such places are simply better at producing fossils -- after all, such places may not have been like that when the fossil was created. It's simply that in such places, a fossil is more likely to be found.
Right now, where I'm sitting, there could be lots of very nice fossils of creatures that roamed Ancient Flordia all about me, waiting for some lucky person to find them. But they probably won't be found, because they're buried under lots of dirt and other things, and no one is going to just go to a place like an apartment complex, or an empty cattle field, and start digging in the hope of finding something that may or may not be there.
Also, if you're a soft-bodied thing, like a jellyfish, hoping to become a fossil, you're going to need a great deal more luck, since the things that most readily become fossilised are hard parts like bone and tooth.
Also, you need to be big. I've got a couple of rocks in my room that are rather old. In my collection I also have a rock that contains a small ammonite, which means that rock is atleast sixty-five million years old, up to about 400 million years old.
Now, if you're a microorganism, looking to get fossilised, you're a bit out of luck. First of all, there isn't really any of you that can be fossilised. All you're going to leave behind in rock is a few organic compounds that can hint at your existance. However, the other thing against you is that you're simply too damn small. When we look for fossils, we look for things we can see. Very, very few people are going to be breaking up ancient rocks just to see what might be in them.
You seem to be falling under the same break in thought that alot of Creationists fall into. Namely, that Evolution explains how life began. It doesn't. Evolution has never been touted to explain how life began. Only how life, once it had already started, got to where it is now.
Also, specifically on the Cabrian: There was life before the Cambrian explosion. Complicated, visible life. What the Cambrian explosion was, primarily, is not a sudden appearance of life, but a sudden increase in the size of life. Soft-bodied things, along with Microscopic things, don't leave alot of fossil evidence. The smaller a thing is, the less likely it is to show up in the fossil record, also.
Life was there all along, just mainly too small or too soft for us to see because it didn't have much chance of leaving a fossil. However, many fossils pre-dating the Cambrian explosion have been found.
I would think the range for the psi-device used by a Hyperdrive ship to detect stars and planets would have more than a few AU range. Shaeffer talks about the Quantum 1 Hyperdrive only needing a peek at the psi-device they use to check for dangerous masses every 6 hours or so. Also, they cover 1 lightyear per 3 days, so, that's about 880 AU to the hour, if I can do math in my head.
That and it would be orbiting, so it would be strange if no one had noticed it via its effect on hyperdrive craft, or from its effects upon other bodies.
I guess it's going to take Cthulu rising up from Puget Sound and devouring Redmond before you hairless chimps get the message and stop shitting all over web development.
Pssh. Cthulhu would never eat Redmond. You don't eat something more evil than you, no matter how many tendrils 'round your mouth you have.
I admit that it is against the law. I do not, however, see that there is anything wrong with it. I am a Rational Anarchist. I suggest you go read 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' by Heinlein.
I do not need to ask for permission. If my neighbour did not want someone using theirn network, they would have it configured so. Right now I can see 6 networks (My antennae is highly damaged from the damn thing falling off the wall all the time), and two of them are using WEP. I know, however, that using a small parabolic reflector in unison with my antennae, there are around thirty networks within reach using that method, and of those thirty, all but a handful are protected.
So obviously people know better.
My neighbour, therefore, either does not care, or is too stupid to read the instructions that come with the device. If that is the case, then he has no one to blame but himself when I use a device in the manner in which it was meant to be used.
As for being a man about it, and asking his permission, I really don't like to talk to him, seeing as how two to three times a week he and his friends throw huge parties outside, get insanely drunk, and he calls his girlfriend names that I wouldn't call my worst enemy until she is bawling like someone just shot her in the stomach.
However, until I actually hear her being physically harmed, I will not do anything, as since she is an adult, she can decided to leave him. Since she doesn't, she must accept being treated like shit.
However, if he hits her, I will be downstairs with this faster than you can say, "Justifiable Homicide, Officer."
So, in re: being a man about it, I do not see a need to treat an inferior as an equal.
Although, the last two weren't quite as bad as the others. And Heinrich was pretty cool. He's pretty much everything I hope to be: A moderately successful poet, unsuccessful in love, who kills himself.
Yeah. I mean, you think they would have noticed that the thing I left out there was a blob of Neutronium. And speaking of that blob of Neutronium I left out there, I wonder how it is that no one ever found it in the centuries afterwards. After all, you might have to pass very close to it, but it would still precipitate a ship out of Hyperspace, and it should damn well show on the Mass Detector.
Personally, I agree with nearly everything you've said, except for the bit about killing if productivity falls below a certain level.
If someone's stupid enough to sign a contract that lets their employer kill them, that person needs to be removed from the gene pool at once lest they spread their idiocy around too much.
Actually, I don't think Piracy is 'Okay.' Every piece of Pirated Software I have I try to buy at the earliest possible convenience. Which means I use very little pirated software. And right now, the only pieces of Pirated Software I have that I have not bought a physical copy of are insanely priced (Several Thousands/Tens of Thousands of Dollars) development tools, for the reason that a College Student working Part-Time cannot afford to drop five to six times his yearly wages including student aid on something. If the prices were lowered, I would be able to buy alot more software, and companies would be able to sell alot more software.
This is how Markets find their 'Happy Medium,' my friend.
I do see your point, but let me restate my point in a better way: It's about stupidity.
I struggle to find a good example in the 'Real World,' since situations in the world of technology are often so different from the 'Real World,' but it's something like the idea of an 'attractive nuisance.'
I don't know if you're familiar with the concept, but it goes something like this: If I have a swimming pool, and some neighbourhood child gets in it and drowns, I'm responsible if I didn't take proper steps to stop them from being able to get into it (such as a fence with a locking gate), because it is an attractive nuisance.
This person is using a piece of technology that they either know enough about to decide not to use WEP, or they do not know enough about it and just leave it wide open. Either way, if it's possible for me to get in the 'pool' and 'drown,' i.e., 'negotiate with the network for access successfully' and 'use the connection,' it's their fault, because they have not taken proper steps to stop me from doing it.
The purpose of a door is to keep people and things outside. The purpose of a pool is to be swum in.
Actually, a much better analogy would be a bouncer at a bar.
It's a bouncer's job to allow certain people into the bar, and to stop others from getting in (underage persons.) However, the bouncer doesn't decide who gets in and who doesn't -- the manager of the club does. If the manager hires a bouncer, but doesn't tell them who to not let in, and just has them stand by the door, it's not the bouncer's fault if under age people get into the bar and drink -- it's the manager's fault for not telling the bouncer what their job is.
In a similar way, if someone uses a Wireless Access Point, but doesn't set it up so that only they can use it, it's there fault if someone else does use it, since the WAP would then be doing exactly what it was supposed to be doing. The Ignorance of the Owner of the WAP, like the Ignorance of the Club Manager who hired the Bouncer, is not an excuse, or a reason to punish the Person Accessing the Network or the Under-age Person in the Bar.
However, a reason to punish the Person Accessing the Network, or the Under-age Person at the Bar, is what they do while accessing the network, or while in the bar.
Which would be, say, |o\/\/|\|1|\|6 boxen and drinking alcohol, respectively.
Having Black Bart as a relative would be extremely cool. Wasn't he the one who wrote all the poetry and was rather gallant, even as he robbed people?
And in re: to Persephone, as long as they don't find traces of scoop-mining in its atmosphere (which they shouldn't. Thermofluid effects are a bitch. Trust me. I had to hide some.), I'm happy.
As long as they don't assume that ten meter shiny thing is an 'artifact' of the kind you want to 'bring aboard your ship.'
They not Trinocs, after all. If they were, I would have to have dealt with them.
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That could very well be, but it would be easy to configure it to check to see what the current temperature of the heating element is, and if it's not been used recently, to hold the toast a bit longer. And if it has been used recently and is already hot, to hold it for a different time to make the slices as similar as possible.
Don't forget the fact that the Song of Solomon would be alot racier if it was translated accurately -- the part where it goes 'thy navel is a cup that runneth over' or something along those lines -- the original word implied a place lower down that the navel!
So, your problem with this is that it too closely simulates the real world?
Since my roommate, who was at LinuxWorld with the NetBSD team, and actually got to use the Toaster and run the Toaster Demos, got back a little under 4 hours ago, I can answer your question.
The Toast will always cook for the correct time. The mechanism that 'drops' the basket the toast is in is held there by sleep, not by a monitor of the temperature of basket, or by some flimsy piece two metals sandwiched together that heat at different rates.
It is a fine device.
My god. I wish you people would stop saying these things about staying up. Staying, like anything else, will generally only cause health problems in people who already have them.
My Grandfather once had to stay up for over a week straight in the 50's when he was in the Army going into Military Intelligence, to see what exactly he would do if sleep deprived. All that happened to him was he temporarally lost his colour vision.
I myself have stayed up for 97 hours straight without sleep, and suffered no ill effects. This person died most likely because he was already infirm, or because he was taking massive ammounts of stimulants to keep awake, which will cause heart failure.
The fact is, while it is possible for permanant psychological damage or personality change to result from lack of sleep (I believe anything over 120 hours is supposed to be guarranteed of doing that), that it is impossible for a Human being to die of lack of sleep, like a rat can, for the simple fact that we 'microsleep.'
Ever been tired and driving and nod off for a half a second? Or had it happen some other time? That's your body forcing you to sleep for a fraction of a second, and it's impossible to stop. Human beings do not die from lack of sleep, but we can die from what comes from lack of sleep -- the body will not produce certain neccessities (anyone on the 'Uberman Diet' must eat lots of grape/grape product to make up for this,) and it can lead to behaviour that will cause death due to drowsiness and inattentiveness.
But lack of sleep by itself will not kill you anymore than a gun by itself will kill you. But lack of sleep will make it easier for you to be killed through your own negligence and stupidity, just as a gun makes it easier for you to be killed by someone else's negligence, stupidity, or malice.
Please, think.
Also, when I stayed up, I did it without stimulants, aside from 'friends' who 'smacked me' when I started to get tired.
Just wait 300 years
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Testify. Love thy Country, fear thy Government. And never forget that from time to time to the Tree of Liberty must be refreshed with the blood of Martyrs... and Tyrants.
Unfortunately, it's getting harder and harder to rebel in this day in age.
Show me where Buddhism espouses violence.
Oh, wait, what's that? You can't?
That's right.
Now if only I weren't a Erisian.
Heh. Don't I know. Atleast out here in the Belt the Goldskins aren't so bad.
Just never try to make a run past them with a spent booster from an early mission strapped to your hull.
Tends to change your day.
Okay, let's start with some facts: It's very hard to become a fossil.
To become a fossil requires the following things: Location, and a Good Deal of Luck.
If you want to become a fossil, it's no good to keel over on the future site of granite. You need to die in a place where your body, once covered by sediments, can be replaced by minerals to form a fossil. Also, over all the millions of years that seperate your time of death from whenever you're found, that fossil that your body has become must not be distorted or damaged beyond recognition as the layers of rock you're in are moved about, subducted, uplifted, rotated, and what-not.
Finally, you have to be found. Most fossils are found in hot, dry regions, where rock is exposed and worn away by wind and rain.
That's not because such places are simply better at producing fossils -- after all, such places may not have been like that when the fossil was created. It's simply that in such places, a fossil is more likely to be found.
Right now, where I'm sitting, there could be lots of very nice fossils of creatures that roamed Ancient Flordia all about me, waiting for some lucky person to find them. But they probably won't be found, because they're buried under lots of dirt and other things, and no one is going to just go to a place like an apartment complex, or an empty cattle field, and start digging in the hope of finding something that may or may not be there.
Also, if you're a soft-bodied thing, like a jellyfish, hoping to become a fossil, you're going to need a great deal more luck, since the things that most readily become fossilised are hard parts like bone and tooth.
Also, you need to be big. I've got a couple of rocks in my room that are rather old. In my collection I also have a rock that contains a small ammonite, which means that rock is atleast sixty-five million years old, up to about 400 million years old.
Now, if you're a microorganism, looking to get fossilised, you're a bit out of luck. First of all, there isn't really any of you that can be fossilised. All you're going to leave behind in rock is a few organic compounds that can hint at your existance. However, the other thing against you is that you're simply too damn small. When we look for fossils, we look for things we can see. Very, very few people are going to be breaking up ancient rocks just to see what might be in them.
First, look at this: Ediacarian
Now, on to the other things.
You seem to be falling under the same break in thought that alot of Creationists fall into. Namely, that Evolution explains how life began. It doesn't. Evolution has never been touted to explain how life began. Only how life, once it had already started, got to where it is now.
Also, specifically on the Cabrian: There was life before the Cambrian explosion. Complicated, visible life. What the Cambrian explosion was, primarily, is not a sudden appearance of life, but a sudden increase in the size of life. Soft-bodied things, along with Microscopic things, don't leave alot of fossil evidence. The smaller a thing is, the less likely it is to show up in the fossil record, also.
Life was there all along, just mainly too small or too soft for us to see because it didn't have much chance of leaving a fossil. However, many fossils pre-dating the Cambrian explosion have been found.
Yes. We can only conclude that the ARM found it and used it for something. After all, a ball of neutronium that big is a dangerous thing.
I would think the range for the psi-device used by a Hyperdrive ship to detect stars and planets would have more than a few AU range. Shaeffer talks about the Quantum 1 Hyperdrive only needing a peek at the psi-device they use to check for dangerous masses every 6 hours or so. Also, they cover 1 lightyear per 3 days, so, that's about 880 AU to the hour, if I can do math in my head.
That and it would be orbiting, so it would be strange if no one had noticed it via its effect on hyperdrive craft, or from its effects upon other bodies.
Pssh. Cthulhu would never eat Redmond. You don't eat something more evil than you, no matter how many tendrils 'round your mouth you have.
Er, I mean...
IA! IA! CTHULHU FHTAGN!
Don't listen to this Leftist-Pink-Article-Reader Sympathiser! We shall never read the Articles, do you hear? NEVER! WE WILL NEVER RTFNO CARRIER
Listen. Kid, I know you saw the Movie Hackers when you were 12. So did I. However, that movie was not awesome, nor are any references to it.
The only thing that even slightly, marginally, redeems that movie, that moves that movie one angstrom away from the 'garbage file,' is Angelina Jolie.
Christ Kid, what are you doing here? You do know that Hackers wasn't even realistic, right?
Well, let's see here. If I add you to my statistical sampling, that would make one pothead in slightly over 30 who can function while stoned.
I admit that it is against the law. I do not, however, see that there is anything wrong with it. I am a Rational Anarchist. I suggest you go read 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' by Heinlein.
I do not need to ask for permission. If my neighbour did not want someone using theirn network, they would have it configured so. Right now I can see 6 networks (My antennae is highly damaged from the damn thing falling off the wall all the time), and two of them are using WEP. I know, however, that using a small parabolic reflector in unison with my antennae, there are around thirty networks within reach using that method, and of those thirty, all but a handful are protected.
So obviously people know better.
My neighbour, therefore, either does not care, or is too stupid to read the instructions that come with the device. If that is the case, then he has no one to blame but himself when I use a device in the manner in which it was meant to be used.
As for being a man about it, and asking his permission, I really don't like to talk to him, seeing as how two to three times a week he and his friends throw huge parties outside, get insanely drunk, and he calls his girlfriend names that I wouldn't call my worst enemy until she is bawling like someone just shot her in the stomach.
However, until I actually hear her being physically harmed, I will not do anything, as since she is an adult, she can decided to leave him. Since she doesn't, she must accept being treated like shit.
However, if he hits her, I will be downstairs with this faster than you can say, "Justifiable Homicide, Officer."
So, in re: being a man about it, I do not see a need to treat an inferior as an equal.
Like many other things, such as the absurdly high drinking age, I consider it to be a mainly (or nearly purely) American Problem.
Atleast you're famous relative never killed anyone. I'm related to these guys:
Although, the last two weren't quite as bad as the others. And Heinrich was pretty cool. He's pretty much everything I hope to be: A moderately successful poet, unsuccessful in love, who kills himself.
Yeah. I mean, you think they would have noticed that the thing I left out there was a blob of Neutronium. And speaking of that blob of Neutronium I left out there, I wonder how it is that no one ever found it in the centuries afterwards. After all, you might have to pass very close to it, but it would still precipitate a ship out of Hyperspace, and it should damn well show on the Mass Detector.
Personally, I agree with nearly everything you've said, except for the bit about killing if productivity falls below a certain level.
If someone's stupid enough to sign a contract that lets their employer kill them, that person needs to be removed from the gene pool at once lest they spread their idiocy around too much.
Actually, I don't think Piracy is 'Okay.' Every piece of Pirated Software I have I try to buy at the earliest possible convenience. Which means I use very little pirated software. And right now, the only pieces of Pirated Software I have that I have not bought a physical copy of are insanely priced (Several Thousands/Tens of Thousands of Dollars) development tools, for the reason that a College Student working Part-Time cannot afford to drop five to six times his yearly wages including student aid on something. If the prices were lowered, I would be able to buy alot more software, and companies would be able to sell alot more software.
This is how Markets find their 'Happy Medium,' my friend.
I do see your point, but let me restate my point in a better way: It's about stupidity.
I struggle to find a good example in the 'Real World,' since situations in the world of technology are often so different from the 'Real World,' but it's something like the idea of an 'attractive nuisance.'
I don't know if you're familiar with the concept, but it goes something like this: If I have a swimming pool, and some neighbourhood child gets in it and drowns, I'm responsible if I didn't take proper steps to stop them from being able to get into it (such as a fence with a locking gate), because it is an attractive nuisance.
This person is using a piece of technology that they either know enough about to decide not to use WEP, or they do not know enough about it and just leave it wide open. Either way, if it's possible for me to get in the 'pool' and 'drown,' i.e., 'negotiate with the network for access successfully' and 'use the connection,' it's their fault, because they have not taken proper steps to stop me from doing it.
The purpose of a door is to keep people and things outside. The purpose of a pool is to be swum in.
Actually, a much better analogy would be a bouncer at a bar.
It's a bouncer's job to allow certain people into the bar, and to stop others from getting in (underage persons.) However, the bouncer doesn't decide who gets in and who doesn't -- the manager of the club does. If the manager hires a bouncer, but doesn't tell them who to not let in, and just has them stand by the door, it's not the bouncer's fault if under age people get into the bar and drink -- it's the manager's fault for not telling the bouncer what their job is.
In a similar way, if someone uses a Wireless Access Point, but doesn't set it up so that only they can use it, it's there fault if someone else does use it, since the WAP would then be doing exactly what it was supposed to be doing. The Ignorance of the Owner of the WAP, like the Ignorance of the Club Manager who hired the Bouncer, is not an excuse, or a reason to punish the Person Accessing the Network or the Under-age Person in the Bar.
However, a reason to punish the Person Accessing the Network, or the Under-age Person at the Bar, is what they do while accessing the network, or while in the bar.
Which would be, say, |o\/\/|\|1|\|6 boxen and drinking alcohol, respectively.
I have never used a residential internet connection for illegal purposes. I do that from the public library.
Having Black Bart as a relative would be extremely cool. Wasn't he the one who wrote all the poetry and was rather gallant, even as he robbed people?
And in re: to Persephone, as long as they don't find traces of scoop-mining in its atmosphere (which they shouldn't. Thermofluid effects are a bitch. Trust me. I had to hide some.), I'm happy.
As long as they don't assume that ten meter shiny thing is an 'artifact' of the kind you want to 'bring aboard your ship.'
They not Trinocs, after all. If they were, I would have to have dealt with them.