Call me a n00b, but I'm unsure there are any ways to use this newfound information about prime numbers.
Next time good ol' (2^43,112,609 - 1) comes up in conversation, I'll make sure to impress everyone with my new knowledge, but other than that, I feel no smarter for having read this article.
So as long as you know that water is wet, the sky is blue, and the Sun goes around the Earth you are content?
Nintendo would have to support the damn thing. If they didn't get an exclusive deal they'd have to deal with random people having random problems on random carriers. Even if they did get an exclusive carrier they'd still have to deal with random people having random problems on a certain carrier. I'd rather have Nintendo sticking to games.
Bank transfers may be cheap and easy in Europe but are neither here in the states and all the alternatives looked about as legit as going into a smoky backroom and handing Guido a wad of cash to be delivered for you.
What really sucked was having the exchange rate eat $70. So instead of waiting the year+, I purchased an iPod touch.
Touch/iPhone games tend to cost under $5 and are generally for short bursts of opportunistic play.
If the go retains the old library you have expensive games that aren't playable in short bursts.
People carry the Touch or iPhone because they are small multi-function devices. The Go? Game machine. The DS (iDS especially) and UMD PSP are its true competition, not the Touch/iPhone.
Touring around England and having the train and underground stations shut down by some wannabe group is annoying.
If someone is going to leave suspicious packages around to shut down all the stations in London on the Queen's Jubilee or whatever it was it had damn well better be the real IRA. I hate having to asterisk my terrorism experiences when recounting my travels.
And kinetic electric watches tend to use capacitors instead of batteries, which take a charge more easily than a battery. You'd lose a lot of whatever the minuscule amount of power is generated trying to get it into the battery.
I like that I buy apps from Apple's app store and not from j.random developer's site.
Before I bought a Touch I had an Asus MyPal 636. I purchased exactly 0 apps for it since there tended to be about 50 sites trying to sell any particular app and they all looked rather shady at best and no reviews or ratings of either the app or the site.
There were a couple of good free apps I ran across, but most were junk and not worth the hassle of firing up the pc, plugging the 636 in, slogging through active sync and then clicking through dialogs on the 636.
The Touch and the App store is pure bliss compared to WM.
MAD doesn't stop you from being invaded. It keeps you from getting nailed with a nuclear first strike because you have the capability to respond in kind before the attacker's missiles strike your soil. Basically the first country to use a nuke loses now.
Nukes defend against nukes. That's it. Maybe back in the day when there was only a handful of bombs in the entire world you could use them against a conventional force. It worked that way for us, once. Now, it'd be suicidal for anyone. If Iran used a nuke, we would probably just grind them into dust conventionally. We wouldn't want to risk taking a real hit. We (the US) basically can't use our nukes. Any sane country won't use their nukes either.
And the pragmatic response: and we'll give up our nukes when everyone else gives up theirs. So really, it's not that pragmatic of an approach since it has no chance of happening in the real world.
" Well, yes. unless you live in South America, Africa, Eastern Europe, South East Asia (Hell, all of Asia). I might need to brush up on my history, but you need to brush up on your definition of the word "chill"."
Those are all excellent examples of areas that don't have a single dominant power.
A century or two ago, conflict hotspots like that would have seen quick "intervention" (invasion) from one of the big powers if there was any resources to be gained. These days however Imperialism isn't PC so you just have to let problem areas fester until they pose a direct threat (for justification).
When there's at least one "superpower" in charge, things are pretty chill.
When the "superpower" falls you don't get utopia, you get a warring states period.
People are selfish, short sighted, greedy bastards. The "superpower" isn't more enlightened, they just know that it is in their best interest (and they have self preservation as one of those interests) to have some restraint and civility. Get into a warring states situation and it's every bastard for themselves in a no-holds-barred deathmatch.
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It's not hypocrisy, it's experience. We've been there, done that, and gotten the backyard bomb shelters.
Once your country goes nuclear it's a whole new ballgame and it's a game no one can win with the best outcome being a perpetual tie.
If you're in the game and you see some hot-head with nothing to lose trying to join in it is in your and everyone else's interest to not let them in. There are only so many ways to keep them out, at least while being "nice". You ask them to stay out, you tell them to stay out or you won't let them play with some of your other toys.
The public challenging them isn't the problem. It's the guys after their 72 virgins and THEY ARE NOT "THE PUBLIC".
Making the public think twice does nothing but make our lives more of a hassle. Making the guys seeking an express check in to paradise think twice doesn't do much good either. They are planning to die, and that's if the operation is successful. Taking one for the sleeper cell and getting caught just means the guys in the next cell will be getting first choice in the afterlife.
Eventually terrorists won't have to actually do anything. They come up with a zany and half-baked plan, get caught, cause everyone to overreact and then they've caused more damage then if they actually did manage to blow something up.
I'd like to see a human powered whip take off someone's hand in one go.
A whip has speed, but the striking point doesn't have much mass and you can't continue to apply force to it. After the energy of the initial impact is spent you're done.
A sword, on the other hand, doesn't have the speed of a whip's tip but it has more mass, applies the its force in a very small area, and you can continuously apply more force.
Which is one of the reasons kevlar on its own does well against bullets but poorly against a blade. It can spread out the force of the initial a bit impact but the blade point doesn't deform and the blade is driven in with additional force which the cut fibers can't disperse.
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Call me a n00b, but I'm unsure there are any ways to use this newfound information about prime numbers. Next time good ol' (2^43,112,609 - 1) comes up in conversation, I'll make sure to impress everyone with my new knowledge, but other than that, I feel no smarter for having read this article.
So as long as you know that water is wet, the sky is blue, and the Sun goes around the Earth you are content?
You're a patent lawyer, aren't you?
Given the vagueness of patents, there probably isn't anything left to invent that relies on current understandings of physics or reality.
And a programmer would get nothing done if he had to check every method to see if it wasn't already patented.
What harm would it do?
Nintendo would have to support the damn thing. If they didn't get an exclusive deal they'd have to deal with random people having random problems on random carriers. Even if they did get an exclusive carrier they'd still have to deal with random people having random problems on a certain carrier. I'd rather have Nintendo sticking to games.
Some of us dropped out after the bank fiasco.
Bank transfers may be cheap and easy in Europe but are neither here in the states and all the alternatives looked about as legit as going into a smoky backroom and handing Guido a wad of cash to be delivered for you.
What really sucked was having the exchange rate eat $70. So instead of waiting the year+, I purchased an iPod touch.
My money is on the accidental discovery of the Murphy particle.
More so with the large decorated cardboard sleeves that hold the large black old timey records than the large black old timey records themselves.
If you can't innovate, litigate!
So what about good ol' smoke and mirrors optical effects or airbrushing or any of the other myriad analog ways of manipulating a picture?
Just playing with the lighting to put shadows in the right spot can make a big difference. Should light sources be banned too?
Touch/iPhone games tend to cost under $5 and are generally for short bursts of opportunistic play.
If the go retains the old library you have expensive games that aren't playable in short bursts.
People carry the Touch or iPhone because they are small multi-function devices. The Go? Game machine. The DS (iDS especially) and UMD PSP are its true competition, not the Touch/iPhone.
Touring around England and having the train and underground stations shut down by some wannabe group is annoying.
If someone is going to leave suspicious packages around to shut down all the stations in London on the Queen's Jubilee or whatever it was it had damn well better be the real IRA. I hate having to asterisk my terrorism experiences when recounting my travels.
And kinetic electric watches tend to use capacitors instead of batteries, which take a charge more easily than a battery. You'd lose a lot of whatever the minuscule amount of power is generated trying to get it into the battery.
I like that I buy apps from Apple's app store and not from j.random developer's site.
Before I bought a Touch I had an Asus MyPal 636. I purchased exactly 0 apps for it since there tended to be about 50 sites trying to sell any particular app and they all looked rather shady at best and no reviews or ratings of either the app or the site.
There were a couple of good free apps I ran across, but most were junk and not worth the hassle of firing up the pc, plugging the 636 in, slogging through active sync and then clicking through dialogs on the 636.
The Touch and the App store is pure bliss compared to WM.
Time for a trip to the nearest re-education center. MS good. Apple Bad. We've always been at war with Eurasia.
You're forgetting about the massive amount of smug they haul around all the time.
MAD doesn't stop you from being invaded. It keeps you from getting nailed with a nuclear first strike because you have the capability to respond in kind before the attacker's missiles strike your soil. Basically the first country to use a nuke loses now.
Nukes defend against nukes. That's it. Maybe back in the day when there was only a handful of bombs in the entire world you could use them against a conventional force. It worked that way for us, once. Now, it'd be suicidal for anyone. If Iran used a nuke, we would probably just grind them into dust conventionally. We wouldn't want to risk taking a real hit. We (the US) basically can't use our nukes. Any sane country won't use their nukes either.
And the pragmatic response: and we'll give up our nukes when everyone else gives up theirs. So really, it's not that pragmatic of an approach since it has no chance of happening in the real world.
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Well, yes. unless you live in South America, Africa, Eastern Europe, South East Asia (Hell, all of Asia). I might need to brush up on my history, but you need to brush up on your definition of the word "chill"."
Those are all excellent examples of areas that don't have a single dominant power.
A century or two ago, conflict hotspots like that would have seen quick "intervention" (invasion) from one of the big powers if there was any resources to be gained. These days however Imperialism isn't PC so you just have to let problem areas fester until they pose a direct threat (for justification).
And those bombs weren't used in the last actual bona-fide war against an actual declared aggressor. Nope, we just tossed them out willy-nilly.
Someone needs to brush up on their history a bit.
When there's at least one "superpower" in charge, things are pretty chill.
When the "superpower" falls you don't get utopia, you get a warring states period.
People are selfish, short sighted, greedy bastards. The "superpower" isn't more enlightened, they just know that it is in their best interest (and they have self preservation as one of those interests) to have some restraint and civility. Get into a warring states situation and it's every bastard for themselves in a no-holds-barred deathmatch.
It's not hypocrisy, it's experience. We've been there, done that, and gotten the backyard bomb shelters.
Once your country goes nuclear it's a whole new ballgame and it's a game no one can win with the best outcome being a perpetual tie.
If you're in the game and you see some hot-head with nothing to lose trying to join in it is in your and everyone else's interest to not let them in. There are only so many ways to keep them out, at least while being "nice". You ask them to stay out, you tell them to stay out or you won't let them play with some of your other toys.
The public challenging them isn't the problem. It's the guys after their 72 virgins and THEY ARE NOT "THE PUBLIC".
Making the public think twice does nothing but make our lives more of a hassle. Making the guys seeking an express check in to paradise think twice doesn't do much good either. They are planning to die, and that's if the operation is successful. Taking one for the sleeper cell and getting caught just means the guys in the next cell will be getting first choice in the afterlife.
Eventually terrorists won't have to actually do anything. They come up with a zany and half-baked plan, get caught, cause everyone to overreact and then they've caused more damage then if they actually did manage to blow something up.
Or trap some children. Think of the carbon.
Hanlon's razor is one of the best tools for deception ever invented.
Never attribute to incompetence that which can profit from malice.
At some level it may actually be incompetence, but someone at some point is likely to be letting/making that happen.
I'd like to see a human powered whip take off someone's hand in one go.
A whip has speed, but the striking point doesn't have much mass and you can't continue to apply force to it. After the energy of the initial impact is spent you're done.
A sword, on the other hand, doesn't have the speed of a whip's tip but it has more mass, applies the its force in a very small area, and you can continuously apply more force.
Which is one of the reasons kevlar on its own does well against bullets but poorly against a blade. It can spread out the force of the initial a bit impact but the blade point doesn't deform and the blade is driven in with additional force which the cut fibers can't disperse.