Oh, I understand Godel's theorem just fine. There's nothing in that link I didn't already know. What I don't understand is why the universe doesn't count as a formal axiomatic system.
If that actually worked the Democrats would have taken a turn to the left after Nader cost them the election in 2000. But they decided to try to win over Bush voters instead of Nader voters.
Aren't the laws of physics axioms for the universe? Isn't the idea behind a grand unified theory to find one or two simple mathematical expressions (axioms) from which the rest of the universe can be derived? The universe is clearly Turing complete, so I really don't see how it wouldn't apply.
People are jumping down your throat, but there's an element of truth to what you said. THC withdrawal exists, but it's mild, pretty difficult to induce, and would not be relevant to OTC use. You really have to try hard to consume enough THC to cause habituation. I only ever experienced withdrawal symptoms after smoking pot constantly for weeks on end. Even then it was nothing more than a little irritability and difficulty sleeping for a couple days. These days I still smoke a lot of pot, but only during the evenings and weekends. When I run out it doesn't bother me at all.
It's worth pointing out that there are several OTC drugs that cause withdrawal symptoms that are more severe than those from THC. Ever have a cold and take Afrin for a week? When you quit, there's a rebound effect (aka withdrawal symptoms). That rebound effect is far more unpleasant than THC withdrawal. The same goes for Benadryl. Then, of course, there's caffeine. Going THC free is no big deal for me (in fact I'm about 5 days out right now), going caffeine free scares the shit out of me.
So you see, THC withdrawal exists but it's no big deal. It's well within the range of acceptable risks for OTC products.
Cannabis is an effective and non-toxic analgesic. Every medicine cabinet should have some cannabis extract for general aches and pains, insomnia, stomach upset, and many other mild ailments.
I haven't had a real IP at home in about 10 years.
Any service plan that does not include a real IP address should not be called Internet access. The internet is built on TCP/IP which is a peer to peer protocol. If you are not a peer, you are not really part of the intertnet.
Eventually, those start going for too much money, and everyone gets off their butts and enables IPv6.
Why would ISPs enable IPv6 when selling IPv4 addresses is so lucrative?
You can't Ping of Death a machine that's behind a stateful firewall that's dropping ICMP packets either. Every bit of security you get from NAT can be done with a firewall without fundamentally breaking the peer to peer structure of TCP/IP. Claiming that NAT is a security mechanism is ignorant. NAT adds *nothing* a properly configured firewall does not already do.
Where exactly in the Constitution do you see an obligation for the government to formally recognize any given form of assembly? You might think it's a good idea, but nothing in the Constitution compels it.
If these people can't get a job, what motivation do they have to change? If you've got nothing to lose and no prospects of anything better, why not commit crimes? Do we really want violence prone drug addicts wandering the streets with nothing to do?
Hey, at least we agree in principle. My main point is that piracy rate in isolation tells you nothing important. The details of how each software economy works out are complicated. There's less piracy on the Apple platform, but Android is more widely used. A widely pirated app might have more name recognition, which leads to more paying customers. Or it might not. How exactly the numbers work out is a question that needs to be determined empirically.
Did people have free speech rights before the existence of corporations? Of course they did. So how does the creation of the corporation as a non-political entity take away those rights? Explain that to me.
Corporations do not have rights, but the individuals organized in them do not lose their rights just because they organized.
I heartily agree with this, and firmly disagree with the Citizens United ruling. Before Citizens United you lost no rights by incorporating. None. ZERO Every person in the country was free to say anything he wanted, and donate as much as he wanted. You could even organize with your friends and speak as a group.
What you couldn't do was incorporate and use that corporation as a political tool. See, corporations are an artificial construct. The government is under no obligation to recognize the existence of corporations. They could abolish the concept of the corporation entirely, and that would have no affect on your free speech rights. Since the corporation is a construct created entirely by the government, they get to define the scope of that construct.
So you see, limits on corporations have nothing to do with your personal rights to free speech and free assembly. You had exactly the same amount of free speech rights before Citizen's United as you would have in the absence of corporations. Anything the government chooses to facilitate with corporations is a bonus above and beyond your natural rights.
You're assuming a constant number of installs. I'm not sure why you'd do that. The number of installs, and the piracy rate are both meaningless in isolation. What matters is (1 - piracy rate)*(number of installs) = number of paying customers.
Piracy rate is meaningless. You can have a 0% piracy rate easily, just don't release your app. The only thing that matters is revenue. You're better off having 1000 paying customers and 1,000,000,000 pirates than you are having 100 customers and no pirates at all.
Wow, you've got a bit to learn about trolling. You're supposed to bait them into making fools of themselves. If you just insult them (poorly) you just look foolish instead. Thanks for trying though. Better luck next time.
You're right. In Racing the Beam they say that Asteroids on the 2600 could have been done in 4k with some extra time for optimization but Atari decided that time was money and sprung for the extra ROM chips.
I wonder if this kind of thing is easier to do in Javascript. Given the size of the javascript language themselves, they have a lot more to actually work with. But then javascript is a lot more verbose than 6502 machine language.
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Oh, I understand Godel's theorem just fine. There's nothing in that link I didn't already know. What I don't understand is why the universe doesn't count as a formal axiomatic system.
If that actually worked the Democrats would have taken a turn to the left after Nader cost them the election in 2000. But they decided to try to win over Bush voters instead of Nader voters.
Logic is the foundation for math which is the foundation for physics.
If the "Theory of Everything" isn't complete, then how is it a theory of *everything*?
Aren't the laws of physics axioms for the universe? Isn't the idea behind a grand unified theory to find one or two simple mathematical expressions (axioms) from which the rest of the universe can be derived? The universe is clearly Turing complete, so I really don't see how it wouldn't apply.
Godel proved that all formal systems are either incomplete or inconsistent. Perhaps that's what we're dealing with here.
People are jumping down your throat, but there's an element of truth to what you said. THC withdrawal exists, but it's mild, pretty difficult to induce, and would not be relevant to OTC use. You really have to try hard to consume enough THC to cause habituation. I only ever experienced withdrawal symptoms after smoking pot constantly for weeks on end. Even then it was nothing more than a little irritability and difficulty sleeping for a couple days. These days I still smoke a lot of pot, but only during the evenings and weekends. When I run out it doesn't bother me at all.
It's worth pointing out that there are several OTC drugs that cause withdrawal symptoms that are more severe than those from THC. Ever have a cold and take Afrin for a week? When you quit, there's a rebound effect (aka withdrawal symptoms). That rebound effect is far more unpleasant than THC withdrawal. The same goes for Benadryl. Then, of course, there's caffeine. Going THC free is no big deal for me (in fact I'm about 5 days out right now), going caffeine free scares the shit out of me.
So you see, THC withdrawal exists but it's no big deal. It's well within the range of acceptable risks for OTC products.
If they injure themselves with a ruler, they'll learn not to do that again. If the injury is fatal, that's natural selection at work.
Cannabis is an effective and non-toxic analgesic. Every medicine cabinet should have some cannabis extract for general aches and pains, insomnia, stomach upset, and many other mild ailments.
Most snakes won't eat carrion. The prey has to be moving to trigger hunting, and then feeding behavior.
I haven't had a real IP at home in about 10 years.
Any service plan that does not include a real IP address should not be called Internet access. The internet is built on TCP/IP which is a peer to peer protocol. If you are not a peer, you are not really part of the intertnet.
Eventually, those start going for too much money, and everyone gets off their butts and enables IPv6.
Why would ISPs enable IPv6 when selling IPv4 addresses is so lucrative?
You can't Ping of Death a machine that's behind a stateful firewall that's dropping ICMP packets either. Every bit of security you get from NAT can be done with a firewall without fundamentally breaking the peer to peer structure of TCP/IP. Claiming that NAT is a security mechanism is ignorant. NAT adds *nothing* a properly configured firewall does not already do.
Where exactly in the Constitution do you see an obligation for the government to formally recognize any given form of assembly? You might think it's a good idea, but nothing in the Constitution compels it.
If these people can't get a job, what motivation do they have to change? If you've got nothing to lose and no prospects of anything better, why not commit crimes? Do we really want violence prone drug addicts wandering the streets with nothing to do?
In what way am I biased if I filter out all "news" pertaining to the World Cup or Lady Gaga?
Hey, at least we agree in principle. My main point is that piracy rate in isolation tells you nothing important. The details of how each software economy works out are complicated. There's less piracy on the Apple platform, but Android is more widely used. A widely pirated app might have more name recognition, which leads to more paying customers. Or it might not. How exactly the numbers work out is a question that needs to be determined empirically.
Did people have free speech rights before the existence of corporations? Of course they did. So how does the creation of the corporation as a non-political entity take away those rights? Explain that to me.
Corporations do not have rights, but the individuals organized in them do not lose their rights just because they organized.
I heartily agree with this, and firmly disagree with the Citizens United ruling. Before Citizens United you lost no rights by incorporating. None. ZERO Every person in the country was free to say anything he wanted, and donate as much as he wanted. You could even organize with your friends and speak as a group.
What you couldn't do was incorporate and use that corporation as a political tool. See, corporations are an artificial construct. The government is under no obligation to recognize the existence of corporations. They could abolish the concept of the corporation entirely, and that would have no affect on your free speech rights. Since the corporation is a construct created entirely by the government, they get to define the scope of that construct.
So you see, limits on corporations have nothing to do with your personal rights to free speech and free assembly. You had exactly the same amount of free speech rights before Citizen's United as you would have in the absence of corporations. Anything the government chooses to facilitate with corporations is a bonus above and beyond your natural rights.
Citizens United has no bearing over what you can say. Before and after Citizens United you could say anything you wanted about the government.
You're assuming a constant number of installs. I'm not sure why you'd do that. The number of installs, and the piracy rate are both meaningless in isolation. What matters is (1 - piracy rate)*(number of installs) = number of paying customers.
Piracy rate is meaningless. You can have a 0% piracy rate easily, just don't release your app. The only thing that matters is revenue. You're better off having 1000 paying customers and 1,000,000,000 pirates than you are having 100 customers and no pirates at all.
The DS9 universe is so far from the STNG universe that it is almost in another dimension.
War will do that. The Europe of the 1910s is so far from the Europe of the 1900s that it's almost on another planet.
I thought he either defecated or ejaculated.
Wow, you've got a bit to learn about trolling. You're supposed to bait them into making fools of themselves. If you just insult them (poorly) you just look foolish instead. Thanks for trying though. Better luck next time.
I wouldn't think Asteroids would be too hard.
You're right. In Racing the Beam they say that Asteroids on the 2600 could have been done in 4k with some extra time for optimization but Atari decided that time was money and sprung for the extra ROM chips.
I wonder if this kind of thing is easier to do in Javascript. Given the size of the javascript language themselves, they have a lot more to actually work with. But then javascript is a lot more verbose than 6502 machine language.