I'd like to see this much dedication in governments to other, more serious, forms of violence such as hunger, desease, poverty and (there I say it!?) corruption and unemployment. Yes, I realize banning unemployment is futile (some people are incompetent) but I consider it a vile form of violence against 40-something people when they're too old for employment but too young for retirement. But if they can get it right with some little things, maybe they can figure out how to get it right with bigger, more important things; but that is just a silly dream of mine.
OK, I have an idea for an article.
"Experiments on Seduction: Why 'Just Be Yourself' Is a Bad Idea. Personal Recounts and Anedoctes."
Abstract:
Friends and relatives often dispense wisdom on the subject of seduction of members of the opposite sex by stating "Just be yourself". In this paper we provide evidence for the failure of this conventional wisdom and provide alternate explanations to its failure.
Who wants to co-author?
Modifying Flash games to give yourself 2^31 - 1 points on the high score board.
Hah! I've beaten you, I'll pu 2^31 points in.
Oh wait...
TAKE 2:
Whadayameen you gave yourself 2^31 points? I played the whole game and got up to 2^32 - 2. I only missed the last point because mom passed the duster in front of the screen.
You're bound to make enemies at some point, simply because not everyone has that high-standard work ethics. All it takes is one day when someone is feeling like s*** (because everyone else has a girlfriend, because he didn't get the raise, whatver) and you come up to him and point out how he should do his work better, and you've created a grudging enemy.
The "be productive, work hard, listen to others" advice is good because it tends to create allies, not because it tends to avoid creating enemies.
I'm secretly hoping no prior art is found. Such issue would raise public awareness to the idiocy of how patenting is being applied to the software world. I guess many people would simply give up without trying to find out why, but sometimes we need a big accident or something "famous" dying to shock people into realizing the erring ways.
Would a company be that stupid that they'd bother the user too damn much? I imagine they'd apply it at a low rate, e.g. 1 ad per hour, or 1 ad after the equivalent of an album/movie playback, or right at the start of a movie. I admit it would be annoying, but I imagine still quite a lot of people would put up with it if it's at a low enough rate. Granted, the companies would pay dearly to serve ads on such devices.
I suppose plenty of people have a high tolerance level. See how they put up with the Blue Screen Of Death; you'd suppose it's an ad for buying Microsoft products.
Now, I admit it will be seriously alarming if (when?) they figure out a way to serve ads directly to the brain and requiring user interaction...
Nanoparticles killed up to 80% of the brain cancer cells after just five minutes of exposure to white light
Many people DO report seing a white light as they're about to meet their creator...
Now if it were black light... well I guess it would kill 100% of the tumor (as well as a very good portion of colateral damage).
Sorry for being the clueless noob here, so please enlighten me if you will.
But wouldn't Oracle's acquisition of Sun possibly, remotely, be a doorway for them to turn some/most/all of its products Open Source? IOW, if "their" Java tanks, they tank everything else (MySQL, etc), if not they start turning some of their products OS'ed? Or will this acquisition immediately make most (if not all) of previously-OS'ed code closed-source?
Granted, I've looked into MySQL's downloads page and their GA is still GPL-licensed (admittedly, they might change it in the future, and herein I might be answering my own question).
Instead of using a cellphone, whose network can falter in remote areas, one could use a token card. At most it would double the number of cards in one's wallet.
Some banks in Europe (I don't know how many) use a token card. During an online transaction initiated from the bank's netbanking site, the user is asked three digits from a 3-algarism number matrix in the card. This could replace the problem with not having mobile connection in some areas, although it does not eliminate the problem with the token being stolen (since people tend to keep both in the same wallet); although, admittedly, one's cellular can also be stolen in the same manner. However, the person's (secret) PIN would deter use long enough to alert proper authorities.
cut the fat, in your thinking as well as on your body
I think this is key. People think of weight as a measure of body fat. But if you go on a "crazy diet" you lose both fat (a little) and muscle and bone (potentially enough to make you really sick on other accounts). So it's important to cut on fat-rich foods. Sugary substances (which sometimes mimick the fruit sugars that our body tries to absorb as much as it can); fat (which our body also absorbs, "for times of famine"). But keep things like protein and vitamins which are essential for your metabolism.
If your drive is to ingest large ammounts of food (volume) then try to replace it low-caloric foods.
It also helps if you're stressed enough that your focus is elsewhere. Sure you fill lousy, but the key is not gourging after the stress is passed but rather maintaining your normal eating habit (if it's healthy enough).
Google around for "the hacker's diet" for some ideas. It includes some "shock treatments" such as fasting or barely eating for 1-2 days maximum, just enough so that you don't get really sick. But it *IS* a question of self-control.
I wouldn't be suprised if Shell (or other oil companies) would opt to do this. They gather the money now so they can buy those renewable-energy start-up companies AFTER they've proven SUCCESSFUL (i.e. let the weaklings die, then invite the survival-tried to join the gang).
The momentum carried by a photon with energy E is p=E/c.
To generalize to things other than photons:
E^2 = p^2c^2 + m^2c^4
Photons have no rest mass, so E=pc. Objects in their rest frame have p=0 by definition, so E^2=m^2c^4 or the oft-quoted E=mc^2. (You can make c=1 if you work in High Energy Physics or similar, to write shorter equations.)
If a photon fully dissipates on an object, both that equation and conservation of energy yield the object's final energy (squared) as
E_total^2 = p_photon^2c^2 + m_object^2c^4
As an interesting exercise for low-velocity (i.e. non-relativistic) approximation of the first equation, you can use the sqrt(x) Maclaurin series up to first order, and get the familiar
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I'd like to see this much dedication in governments to other, more serious, forms of violence such as hunger, desease, poverty and (there I say it!?) corruption and unemployment. Yes, I realize banning unemployment is futile (some people are incompetent) but I consider it a vile form of violence against 40-something people when they're too old for employment but too young for retirement. But if they can get it right with some little things, maybe they can figure out how to get it right with bigger, more important things; but that is just a silly dream of mine.
OK, I have an idea for an article. "Experiments on Seduction: Why 'Just Be Yourself' Is a Bad Idea. Personal Recounts and Anedoctes." Abstract: Friends and relatives often dispense wisdom on the subject of seduction of members of the opposite sex by stating "Just be yourself". In this paper we provide evidence for the failure of this conventional wisdom and provide alternate explanations to its failure. Who wants to co-author?
Modifying Flash games to give yourself 2^31 - 1 points on the high score board.
Hah! I've beaten you, I'll pu 2^31 points in. Oh wait... TAKE 2: Whadayameen you gave yourself 2^31 points? I played the whole game and got up to 2^32 - 2. I only missed the last point because mom passed the duster in front of the screen.
You're bound to make enemies at some point, simply because not everyone has that high-standard work ethics. All it takes is one day when someone is feeling like s*** (because everyone else has a girlfriend, because he didn't get the raise, whatver) and you come up to him and point out how he should do his work better, and you've created a grudging enemy. The "be productive, work hard, listen to others" advice is good because it tends to create allies, not because it tends to avoid creating enemies.
Just give it up, she's, er I mean they, are just not interested in you.
I'm secretly hoping no prior art is found. Such issue would raise public awareness to the idiocy of how patenting is being applied to the software world. I guess many people would simply give up without trying to find out why, but sometimes we need a big accident or something "famous" dying to shock people into realizing the erring ways.
GSpot??? Must be a new package. Hmm...
Damn... no wonder computer guys have so much trouble with the opposite sex.
Would a company be that stupid that they'd bother the user too damn much? I imagine they'd apply it at a low rate, e.g. 1 ad per hour, or 1 ad after the equivalent of an album/movie playback, or right at the start of a movie. I admit it would be annoying, but I imagine still quite a lot of people would put up with it if it's at a low enough rate. Granted, the companies would pay dearly to serve ads on such devices.
I suppose plenty of people have a high tolerance level. See how they put up with the Blue Screen Of Death; you'd suppose it's an ad for buying Microsoft products.
Now, I admit it will be seriously alarming if (when?) they figure out a way to serve ads directly to the brain and requiring user interaction...
BOFH, meet the new guy, the Bastard Operator From Space.
That's easy. "Neanderthal" is too much of a mouthful for some people. Try googling "Caveman porn" when you're not busy (in 3, 2, 1...).
Many people DO report seing a white light as they're about to meet their creator... Now if it were black light... well I guess it would kill 100% of the tumor (as well as a very good portion of colateral damage).
I mean, not the answer, but a definite step towards it.
Now we know the answer to a very recent, pertinent question: "how is babby formed?"
Great! Good thing my boxing gloves are orange, no one is going to notice it. Hehehehe...
Sorry for being the clueless noob here, so please enlighten me if you will. But wouldn't Oracle's acquisition of Sun possibly, remotely, be a doorway for them to turn some/most/all of its products Open Source? IOW, if "their" Java tanks, they tank everything else (MySQL, etc), if not they start turning some of their products OS'ed? Or will this acquisition immediately make most (if not all) of previously-OS'ed code closed-source? Granted, I've looked into MySQL's downloads page and their GA is still GPL-licensed (admittedly, they might change it in the future, and herein I might be answering my own question).
Firefox user = criminal
Iceweasel user = poser?
Instead of using a cellphone, whose network can falter in remote areas, one could use a token card. At most it would double the number of cards in one's wallet. Some banks in Europe (I don't know how many) use a token card. During an online transaction initiated from the bank's netbanking site, the user is asked three digits from a 3-algarism number matrix in the card. This could replace the problem with not having mobile connection in some areas, although it does not eliminate the problem with the token being stolen (since people tend to keep both in the same wallet); although, admittedly, one's cellular can also be stolen in the same manner. However, the person's (secret) PIN would deter use long enough to alert proper authorities.
Or they can use Cloud Computing to predict cloud motion and therefore how to distribute work loads.
I think this is key. People think of weight as a measure of body fat. But if you go on a "crazy diet" you lose both fat (a little) and muscle and bone (potentially enough to make you really sick on other accounts). So it's important to cut on fat-rich foods. Sugary substances (which sometimes mimick the fruit sugars that our body tries to absorb as much as it can); fat (which our body also absorbs, "for times of famine"). But keep things like protein and vitamins which are essential for your metabolism.
If your drive is to ingest large ammounts of food (volume) then try to replace it low-caloric foods.
It also helps if you're stressed enough that your focus is elsewhere. Sure you fill lousy, but the key is not gourging after the stress is passed but rather maintaining your normal eating habit (if it's healthy enough).
Google around for "the hacker's diet" for some ideas. It includes some "shock treatments" such as fasting or barely eating for 1-2 days maximum, just enough so that you don't get really sick. But it *IS* a question of self-control.
So what low-carbon-emission tech are they going to use to get rid of the goat droppings? If they let them be there, the grass might grow back...
Pretty easy: http://break.com/index/death-metal-puppy.html
So what is "Porn Mode"? You can browse with only one hand?
I wouldn't be suprised if Shell (or other oil companies) would opt to do this. They gather the money now so they can buy those renewable-energy start-up companies AFTER they've proven SUCCESSFUL (i.e. let the weaklings die, then invite the survival-tried to join the gang).
even before the collision, the risk of an impact was 1 in 185
It's expectable that the risk of impact increases with mission duration. Therefore, how exactly is the risk of an impact measured this way?
"1 in 185" of what?
1 out of 185 two-week (for example) missions will yield one collision (on average)?
1 out of 185 orbits will yield a collision?
What else?
To generalize to things other than photons:
E^2 = p^2c^2 + m^2c^4
Photons have no rest mass, so E=pc. Objects in their rest frame have p=0 by definition, so E^2=m^2c^4 or the oft-quoted E=mc^2. (You can make c=1 if you work in High Energy Physics or similar, to write shorter equations.)
If a photon fully dissipates on an object, both that equation and conservation of energy yield the object's final energy (squared) as
E_total^2 = p_photon^2c^2 + m_object^2c^4
As an interesting exercise for low-velocity (i.e. non-relativistic) approximation of the first equation, you can use the sqrt(x) Maclaurin series up to first order, and get the familiar
E = p^2/(2m)