There certainly is a great diversity of Christian sects and individuals vary in their commitment to these sects. However, among clergy you would probably find a pretty strong consensus that sin entered the world through Adam and Eve.
You have to realize that undermining the Creation myth does undermine something that is fundamental to the Christian faith. If you toss out Adam and Eve then nobody ate the apple and there is no original sin. Without sin there is no need for Christ. Christians have to hold on to the creation myth in order to validate the doctrine of salvation, which is central to their religion.
Damn. I need to read my posts before I click submit. My previous post is completely incomprehensable.
I'll start over.... The security scheme at work here is not "no one has the hardware to read this signal therefore it's secure." It is actually impossible to test the polarization of a wave without changeing that polarization (a la uncertainty principle). If a third party tries to tap the signal they will inevitably end up changing that signal in a detectable way. The communicating parties will quickly discover they are being tapped and can stop broadcasting immediatly.
That is not the basis of the scheme at all. You cannot the polarization of a wave of light with out changing it. It's one of those uncertainty principle things. The idea behind this scheme is not security through obscurity. It actually takes advantage of the properties of light to be sure that the signal can only be tapped by once. If the message that comes out on the other side is not all fucked up then they know that the the message was not comprimised.
If are using experimental design and logical inference then you are within the realm of science and it does not serve you to criticize the "scientific worldview". It just makes you look like your pushing irrational junk.
Even so, the anomalous data still persist, pointing to flaws, not in their experimental designs, but in the scientific worldview that rejects them.
I'm sorry. I guess pseudo-science is the wrong term. "Non-science" is much better. You're arguing that science is not valid as an epistomological method and already conceded that you proposition is outside the realm of science.
I don't know what epistomological method you are using to establish you claim but I suspect it is irrational.
If you can make your mental intent bounce photons off my qubits I'll give you a cookie. Pseudo-science surrounding quantum physics is really starting to get out of control.
I can't imagine a port would be necessart since Doom III uses entirely deterministic algorithms and the non-deterministic computation the quantum computer is capable of is a superset of deterministic computation.
With a deterministic computer we do several calculations in sequence therfore it is appropriate to think in terms of cycles per second. This doesn't change with a non-deterministic computer. The non-deterministic computer is still doing calculations in sequence The difference is that it is using the superposition of states of the bits to calculate the results of all possible bit combinations. The Quantum computer accomplishes a lot more in terms of computation per cycle in that it considers more than one bit patterm but it is still doing the same operation on all those patterns. It is necessary to do these operations in sequence, hence the need for a cycle.
If i had one of these chips the first thing I would try is a some sort of A.I. search tree. One could make a completely unbeatable chess player who could forcast all possible moves. Similarly, game A.I. would not be so stupid about running into doorframes.
You could also do some really cool web searching algorithms that would find what your looking for to an almost scary degree.
Most of the links on that page are broken! Ironically I think that is better evidence that you guys are into theory. Who wants to learn a worthless language like HTML. As we say at U Wash, "I'm a computer scientist! What the hell do I know about programming?"
My alma mater, the University of Washington, probably has the tightest relationship with Microsoft than any other school yet we've maintained a strong separation.
Our new building is being funded almost exclusivly by personal donations from Paul Allen and Bill Gates. We do a large amount a research with Microsoft Research. All students get all the free Microsoft Software they want (except games). Some of our talented faculty have spent many years at Microsoft
Desite all that we still have Unix orientation for new students. All homework is required to be turned in with a Unix Makefile and compile under gcc. Java is our introductory language.
I didn't write a line of code in Windows while I was there and I'm the rule and not the exception. I suspect University of Waterloo is has a pedagogical philosophy more along the lines of a community college and scimps on theory.
At the University of Washington I felt no pressure to learn Microsoft products or proprietary languages. It was quite the opposite, in fact. I'm certain no other University has a stronger relationship with Microsoft.
It seems to me that the benchmark for qualififying as an intelligent being keeps on being revised as computers achieve them. Once math skills were considered the ultamate in intelligence. After that came chess.
Do you think the Turing test will be written off in the same way once it is passed?
Touche. I misspoke/oversimplified on the BUS issue. X-Box is pretty good about passing textures around is all I meant there. X-box doesn't need a big cache because the CPU is not the workhorse of the system. Yhe Nvidia chip is. The CPU is for physics/AI.
I still strongly disagree with the statement that Halo is Half-life with shading. The lighting effects is where this stands out the most.
Q3 only fakes environment mapping. To do the real think you have to have a GPU.
Sure. Halo isn't pushing many more polys than Quake 3 but it is quality and not quantity, my friend. Quake 3 (and derivatves thereof) don't take advantage of programable shaders and therefore can't do some of the incredible effects you see in Halo.
My favorite effect is the ice reflection. That cannot be done in software in real-time. The best Quake 3 can do is put a nice texture on it. Halo actually reflects and distorts the environment. The lighting effects also add a lot more depth to the environment.
Halo is the direction everyone is going. Programmable shaders are going to do for games what 3D acceleration did for games years ago. It is the next big thing and if you don't believe me then look at the Doom 3 project.
As for X-box's Celeron chip, X-box has a BUS that is more games oriented so it doesn't need a huge on-board catch.
It only took three years for the general PC market to catch up with the power of the X-box. Not everyone has a GeForce 3+ yet and Halo relies strongly on programmable pixel shaders. The effects for surfaces like ice and water are amazing and cannot be replicated on current (by current I mean what most everyone has, not GeForce 3+) video cards. Halo is a lot better game because it cut out inferior systems like PS2, Gamecube and low-level PCs.
That's right. Most of the events in "the Patriot" had some basis in reality. Mostly name changes. Mel Gibson's character was based on some mysterious fella called the "swamp fox" or something to that effect. The burning of a town's citizens in a church actually happened too.
I'm fairly skeptical towards the idea that educating people is going to make them behave rationally. Damn near everyone in the US is aware that AIDS is transmitted sexually yet AIDS infections have been way up in the US over the last two years. I think education may slow things down slightly but I think you are overestimating Africa's ability to change.
There is a lot of talk going around saying that games are protected under the right of free speech. I think this is valid but the US constitution also garantees the right to assemble peacefully. What does this mean for communities that are forming around MMRPGs? If a certain on-line gaming community got on the government's bad side then what is to stop them for outlawing their means of gathering?
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There certainly is a great diversity of Christian sects and individuals vary in their commitment to these sects. However, among clergy you would probably find a pretty strong consensus that sin entered the world through Adam and Eve.
You have to realize that undermining the Creation myth does undermine something that is fundamental to the Christian faith. If you toss out Adam and Eve then nobody ate the apple and there is no original sin. Without sin there is no need for Christ. Christians have to hold on to the creation myth in order to validate the doctrine of salvation, which is central to their religion.
I heard the same story when I lived in Stockholm. I heard it from some professors who actually review for the prize.
Yeah, but then you have to have a trusted method of passing keys. This is a really good method of doing that.
Damn. I need to read my posts before I click submit. My previous post is completely incomprehensable.
I'll start over.... The security scheme at work here is not "no one has the hardware to read this signal therefore it's secure." It is actually impossible to test the polarization of a wave without changeing that polarization (a la uncertainty principle). If a third party tries to tap the signal they will inevitably end up changing that signal in a detectable way. The communicating parties will quickly discover they are being tapped and can stop broadcasting immediatly.
That is not the basis of the scheme at all. You cannot the polarization of a wave of light with out changing it. It's one of those uncertainty principle things. The idea behind this scheme is not security through obscurity. It actually takes advantage of the properties of light to be sure that the signal can only be tapped by once. If the message that comes out on the other side is not all fucked up then they know that the the message was not comprimised.
If are using experimental design and logical inference then you are within the realm of science and it does not serve you to criticize the "scientific worldview". It just makes you look like your pushing irrational junk.
Even so, the anomalous data still persist, pointing to flaws, not in their experimental designs, but in the scientific worldview that rejects them.
I'm sorry. I guess pseudo-science is the wrong term. "Non-science" is much better. You're arguing that science is not valid as an epistomological method and already conceded that you proposition is outside the realm of science.
I don't know what epistomological method you are using to establish you claim but I suspect it is irrational.
Holy shit! An intelligent comment that starts with the words "You could run a Beowulf cluster on....". Mod him up! This is a first!
If you can make your mental intent bounce photons off my qubits I'll give you a cookie. Pseudo-science surrounding quantum physics is really starting to get out of control.
I can't imagine a port would be necessart since Doom III uses entirely deterministic algorithms and the non-deterministic computation the quantum computer is capable of is a superset of deterministic computation.
With a deterministic computer we do several calculations in sequence therfore it is appropriate to think in terms of cycles per second. This doesn't change with a non-deterministic computer. The non-deterministic computer is still doing calculations in sequence The difference is that it is using the superposition of states of the bits to calculate the results of all possible bit combinations. The Quantum computer accomplishes a lot more in terms of computation per cycle in that it considers more than one bit patterm but it is still doing the same operation on all those patterns. It is necessary to do these operations in sequence, hence the need for a cycle.
If i had one of these chips the first thing I would try is a some sort of A.I. search tree. One could make a completely unbeatable chess player who could forcast all possible moves. Similarly, game A.I. would not be so stupid about running into doorframes.
You could also do some really cool web searching algorithms that would find what your looking for to an almost scary degree.
That's a little harsh, don't you think? How's about we just make him dead and not dead at the same time?
Most of the links on that page are broken! Ironically I think that is better evidence that you guys are into theory. Who wants to learn a worthless language like HTML. As we say at U Wash, "I'm a computer scientist! What the hell do I know about programming?"
Do you have any evidence to support that?
My alma mater, the University of Washington, probably has the tightest relationship with Microsoft than any other school yet we've maintained a strong separation.
Our new building is being funded almost exclusivly by personal donations from Paul Allen and Bill Gates. We do a large amount a research with Microsoft Research. All students get all the free Microsoft Software they want (except games). Some of our talented faculty have spent many years at Microsoft
Desite all that we still have Unix orientation for new students. All homework is required to be turned in with a Unix Makefile and compile under gcc. Java is our introductory language.
I didn't write a line of code in Windows while I was there and I'm the rule and not the exception. I suspect University of Waterloo is has a pedagogical philosophy more along the lines of a community college and scimps on theory.
At the University of Washington I felt no pressure to learn Microsoft products or proprietary languages. It was quite the opposite, in fact. I'm certain no other University has a stronger relationship with Microsoft.
It seems to me that the benchmark for qualififying as an intelligent being keeps on being revised as computers achieve them. Once math skills were considered the ultamate in intelligence. After that came chess.
Do you think the Turing test will be written off in the same way once it is passed?
Touche. I misspoke/oversimplified on the BUS issue. X-Box is pretty good about passing textures around is all I meant there. X-box doesn't need a big cache because the CPU is not the workhorse of the system. Yhe Nvidia chip is. The CPU is for physics/AI.
I still strongly disagree with the statement that Halo is Half-life with shading. The lighting effects is where this stands out the most.
Q3 only fakes environment mapping. To do the real think you have to have a GPU.
Sure. Halo isn't pushing many more polys than Quake 3 but it is quality and not quantity, my friend. Quake 3 (and derivatves thereof) don't take advantage of programable shaders and therefore can't do some of the incredible effects you see in Halo.
My favorite effect is the ice reflection. That cannot be done in software in real-time. The best Quake 3 can do is put a nice texture on it. Halo actually reflects and distorts the environment. The lighting effects also add a lot more depth to the environment.
Halo is the direction everyone is going. Programmable shaders are going to do for games what 3D acceleration did for games years ago. It is the next big thing and if you don't believe me then look at the Doom 3 project.
As for X-box's Celeron chip, X-box has a BUS that is more games oriented so it doesn't need a huge on-board catch.
Halo is really good but Rally Sport Challenge for X-box is fantastic as well.
It only took three years for the general PC market to catch up with the power of the X-box. Not everyone has a GeForce 3+ yet and Halo relies strongly on programmable pixel shaders. The effects for surfaces like ice and water are amazing and cannot be replicated on current (by current I mean what most everyone has, not GeForce 3+) video cards. Halo is a lot better game because it cut out inferior systems like PS2, Gamecube and low-level PCs.
That's right. Most of the events in "the Patriot" had some basis in reality. Mostly name changes. Mel Gibson's character was based on some mysterious fella called the "swamp fox" or something to that effect. The burning of a town's citizens in a church actually happened too.
I'm fairly skeptical towards the idea that educating people is going to make them behave rationally. Damn near everyone in the US is aware that AIDS is transmitted sexually yet AIDS infections have been way up in the US over the last two years. I think education may slow things down slightly but I think you are overestimating Africa's ability to change.
There is a lot of talk going around saying that games are protected under the right of free speech. I think this is valid but the US constitution also garantees the right to assemble peacefully. What does this mean for communities that are forming around MMRPGs? If a certain on-line gaming community got on the government's bad side then what is to stop them for outlawing their means of gathering?