What sensory information did they feed it its brief life? Yeah yeah, this sim was just generalized neural matter. No real structure. But they are moving toward the real thing. I wonder what kind of experience they plan to give their creation. Bliss and contentment in a land of plentiful cheese with many family members around? Or running a maze?
Instead of heading inward, speed up the orbit and try moving further out toward the edge of the galaxy. Intergalactic space has fewer nasty sources of radiation.
The mold was different because it went through the loop more times, due to uncontrolled entry and exit from the box+field. It experienced months in the box by bouncing back and forth through the same minute of time as seen outside the box. Like a photon bouncing between the mirrors of a laser only has a small chance of coming out the hole in one mirror, the mold only had a small chance each time it came to the later end of the loop of coming out of it as the field collapsed.
I disagree that they ever killed their past selves. They clearly drug them and knock them out, but that is all that is clearly shown. And the "sounds in the attic" imply that at least some of their past selves weren't killed, just hidden out of the way. There is at least one shot showing one waking up confused. This is a pretty good timeline that I agree with on the major details.
About the mold: The mold just sat in the machine running through the same time loop again and again (until someone outside at the later end of the loop pulled it out). They jumped out when they were back at the earlier end of the loop. A full cycle of the loop is twice as long as the machine has its resonating field going. The mold rode through some large number of shorter loops, they were never in for longer than 1/2 of the longer loop.
About killing your past self: They never did that.
After hearing about the implanted magnets experiment (and thinking it daft to put them inside like that), I tried gluing some to my fingernails. Obviously I didn't get the same sensitivity as having thing in close contact to the sensors (as you mention), but I could find the motors in things. In a few days I got reasonably good at determining ferrous from non-ferrous metals (except for the weird exceptions) with a little "back of the fingers tap motion" (since only two fingers had the magnets, they would lag in the tapping). They weren't noticeable, since I wore band-aids over them (band-aids make good social camo for all sorts of things --see "Spies Like Us"--). I'm keen to try again with stronger magnets, if I ever find some or remember to order them.
I agree. I recall some episode where people were being taken regularly, and they had some line about setting the computer to tell them if anyone went missing. Most of the time there just wasn't any call for it. Btw, to earn my nerd-cred on this one, it was "Schisms", and iirc, it has Data's Ode to Spot in it.
"Felis catus, is your taxonomic nomenclature an endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature?..."
Eventually, the "cheating" sites would come to include the various notes that one needs to "produce" for each milestone. Along with a list articles that you can say you "read" a few of (with a bullet point form to learn the right phrases from them to say).
That book truly rocks. Just how much it rocks is plain when one is reading along about something, and he mentions that the point can be illustrated with an example that "looks like this ---->" with the arrow (which was way nicer than hyphens and a greater-than sign) pointing to a little example which fit neat and clean in the margin just after the line that was explaining the point. He laid out that page, so that there would be completely seamless interplay between text and image at just the point he needed it to best deliver a point. Smooth.
Here is something for you to try. Dig up lots of things and send pieces to different labs to be tested. If you can show that any of them systematically inflate the ages, you can put them out of business. One less godless lab to worry about! Get to work.
Evolution is not a religion; you receive a 0/10 on this quiz. Neither, incidentally, is the theory of natural selection, but you get 5 bonus points if you can explain the difference between the two.
Well, of the people I know that really, really liked the series in all the previous seasons the Christians all seem to have found the Ori to be vaguely unsettling. The others found them to be more of the SG1-same. I know that isn't proof or anything, but still.
Seems like a good idea, your word replacement test, but really it is just another dodge if you don't have a good way to determine when the word replacement is allowed and when it isn't. The reductio... "Simply replace the word 'cow' or 'fish' with the word 'child' in all your examples and the ethics of eating meat becomes clear." The absurdum... "Simply replace the word 'rock' with the word 'child' in all your examples and the ethics of breaking things with hammers becomes clear."
Perhaps you feel that your use of "can think for themselves" solves this. In which case, you assume the contentious claim that cows can not think? Your word replacement test just hides the real, hard work of drawing that "thinking"-line, and finding what is on which side of the line in the condition(s) for its use.
The license forbids users running home versions of Vista in Parallels or, in fact, in any VM software, such as, surprise, surprise, VMWare, which is a big competitor to Microsoft's Virtual PC and which Microsoft is trying desperately to kill.
I'm undereducated on the particular legalities (and know next to nothing about the PC virtualization market), but if that is why the terms are in the license, it sounds a little like Microsoft using terms in the OS license (part of the market they have monopoly in) to harm a competitor in another market and enlarge their position there. I.e. it sounds like illegal behavior.
But if you find something on your car, how are you supposed to know the intent of whoever put it there? Seems like any reasonable guess would have to be accepted.
Maybe it was a gift? Or some cryptic advertisement? I find flyers on my car now and then, maybe this weird little thing is just some gimicky new flyer-like talking box, so I'm good to cut it open or put it on some other car. Perhaps it is some magnetic road trash and got randomly stuck to my car, so I am fine to toss it. Are the devices going to be marked? Is the burden on every non-cop to learn what all the models of these things look like? Maybe it was put there by some non-cop private investigator with the same model device, but with no right to use such a thing on my car, so I'm back to being good to break it.
"If it does happen, I'm well off enough to just move to wherever the weather is still nice." (Had this one given to me from someone in the crowd at W.'s first inagural.)
Shouldn't "Java Programmers " be further up in that vertical column? Pointing to the Javascript or Visual Basic boxes, maybe. Or is this a statement that Java programmers are humble?
A hollow volume with the same volume as an elephant is not an elephant. You should be trying to work out how many of these chips you could feed to a real elephant.
[1] What sane person would make 'z' the largest letter on the keyboard?
Dude, you aren't being fair. "z" isn't the largest, "q" is just as big!;-) Along with those symbols on the other side.
Personally, I'd trade the 770's handwriting crap for graffiti (with word guessing) without hesitation. The new, big keyboard helps, but graffiti was the right answer. Heck, some dasher action would be way nicer than tapping a virtual keyboard.
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What sensory information did they feed it its brief life? Yeah yeah, this sim was just generalized neural matter. No real structure. But they are moving toward the real thing. I wonder what kind of experience they plan to give their creation. Bliss and contentment in a land of plentiful cheese with many family members around? Or running a maze?
Instead of heading inward, speed up the orbit and try moving further out toward the edge of the galaxy. Intergalactic space has fewer nasty sources of radiation.
The mold was different because it went through the loop more times, due to uncontrolled entry and exit from the box+field. It experienced months in the box by bouncing back and forth through the same minute of time as seen outside the box. Like a photon bouncing between the mirrors of a laser only has a small chance of coming out the hole in one mirror, the mold only had a small chance each time it came to the later end of the loop of coming out of it as the field collapsed.
I disagree that they ever killed their past selves. They clearly drug them and knock them out, but that is all that is clearly shown. And the "sounds in the attic" imply that at least some of their past selves weren't killed, just hidden out of the way. There is at least one shot showing one waking up confused. This is a pretty good timeline that I agree with on the major details.
About the mold: The mold just sat in the machine running through the same time loop again and again (until someone outside at the later end of the loop pulled it out). They jumped out when they were back at the earlier end of the loop. A full cycle of the loop is twice as long as the machine has its resonating field going. The mold rode through some large number of shorter loops, they were never in for longer than 1/2 of the longer loop.
About killing your past self: They never did that.
After hearing about the implanted magnets experiment (and thinking it daft to put them inside like that), I tried gluing some to my fingernails. Obviously I didn't get the same sensitivity as having thing in close contact to the sensors (as you mention), but I could find the motors in things. In a few days I got reasonably good at determining ferrous from non-ferrous metals (except for the weird exceptions) with a little "back of the fingers tap motion" (since only two fingers had the magnets, they would lag in the tapping). They weren't noticeable, since I wore band-aids over them (band-aids make good social camo for all sorts of things --see "Spies Like Us"--). I'm keen to try again with stronger magnets, if I ever find some or remember to order them.
Eventually, the "cheating" sites would come to include the various notes that one needs to "produce" for each milestone. Along with a list articles that you can say you "read" a few of (with a bullet point form to learn the right phrases from them to say).
That book truly rocks. Just how much it rocks is plain when one is reading along about something, and he mentions that the point can be illustrated with an example that "looks like this ---->" with the arrow (which was way nicer than hyphens and a greater-than sign) pointing to a little example which fit neat and clean in the margin just after the line that was explaining the point. He laid out that page, so that there would be completely seamless interplay between text and image at just the point he needed it to best deliver a point. Smooth.
Here is something for you to try. Dig up lots of things and send pieces to different labs to be tested. If you can show that any of them systematically inflate the ages, you can put them out of business. One less godless lab to worry about! Get to work.
Evolution is not a religion; you receive a 0/10 on this quiz. Neither, incidentally, is the theory of natural selection, but you get 5 bonus points if you can explain the difference between the two.
Well, of the people I know that really, really liked the series in all the previous seasons the Christians all seem to have found the Ori to be vaguely unsettling. The others found them to be more of the SG1-same. I know that isn't proof or anything, but still.
Wait, Kermit has a freaking doctorate!? Just great. Nice to know that after all the hard work, I'll get a title that a hand puppet already has.
Then again, Kermit has probably done more good for the world than me...
This strikes me as a strange comment to make less than 24 hours after we (United States citizens) all changed our clocks due to a law.
Seems like a good idea, your word replacement test, but really it is just another dodge if you don't have a good way to determine when the word replacement is allowed and when it isn't. The reductio... "Simply replace the word 'cow' or 'fish' with the word 'child' in all your examples and the ethics of eating meat becomes clear." The absurdum... "Simply replace the word 'rock' with the word 'child' in all your examples and the ethics of breaking things with hammers becomes clear."
Perhaps you feel that your use of "can think for themselves" solves this. In which case, you assume the contentious claim that cows can not think? Your word replacement test just hides the real, hard work of drawing that "thinking"-line, and finding what is on which side of the line in the condition(s) for its use.
Putting the solar energy collectors where they don't work best isn't the idea.
But if you find something on your car, how are you supposed to know the intent of whoever put it there? Seems like any reasonable guess would have to be accepted.
Maybe it was a gift? Or some cryptic advertisement? I find flyers on my car now and then, maybe this weird little thing is just some gimicky new flyer-like talking box, so I'm good to cut it open or put it on some other car. Perhaps it is some magnetic road trash and got randomly stuck to my car, so I am fine to toss it. Are the devices going to be marked? Is the burden on every non-cop to learn what all the models of these things look like? Maybe it was put there by some non-cop private investigator with the same model device, but with no right to use such a thing on my car, so I'm back to being good to break it.
Shouldn't "Java Programmers " be further up in that vertical column? Pointing to the Javascript or Visual Basic boxes, maybe. Or is this a statement that Java programmers are humble?
A hollow volume with the same volume as an elephant is not an elephant. You should be trying to work out how many of these chips you could feed to a real elephant.
It might be a little more personal if you weren't constantly sloughing if off everywhere you go.
As long as it includes a crossover episode with the casts of every Trek and SG1 wherein they must fend off zombie farm animals with clubs.
Dude, you aren't being fair. "z" isn't the largest, "q" is just as big! ;-) Along with those symbols on the other side.
Personally, I'd trade the 770's handwriting crap for graffiti (with word guessing) without hesitation. The new, big keyboard helps, but graffiti was the right answer. Heck, some dasher action would be way nicer than tapping a virtual keyboard.