With some rare exception even long distance trips are generally less than 500 miles one way and probably even both ways.
I beg to differ. Most long distance trips I do are longer than 500 miles. My mother-in-law lives about 550 miles from my home, my brother about 700 miles from my home, and only my parents are less than 500 miles (400 in fact) away from me. On the other hand: all of them live in Germany, so more than 80 mph cruising speed are not an issue, which easily allows to drive those distances during a day.
For me a car that takes longer than half an hour to recharge is useless for those distances.
For commuting I am using the bicycle, except for the time I am oncall, because then I have to lug around my tool boxes. A car that can only be recharged overnight thus has not much appeal to me.
(My current car interestingly though manages to go about 600 mls on a single refuel.)
Not exactly. I for instance nearly never write non-cursive except if I have to fill in forms (where "please print" is explicitely commanded). All other things I write in cursive, personal notes, postcards (yes I still write postcards), and the occasional letter. It has nothing to do with a concious decision to actually use cursive, it just comes naturally to me.
If we have a simple hyperbolic distribution (which is a special case of Pareto), then adding more elements to the set and waiting for the distribution to renormalize as hyperbolic increases the relative weight of the top 20%. So if you have a big online retailer like Amazon with more titles than a conventional bookstore, then you can expect the top 20% sellers on Amazon generating a bigger part of all sales of Amazon than the top 20% of a bookstore in relation to all sales of said bookstore.
None of them starts with "Once upon a time", and only a single one, "The Peasant's Wise Daughter" ends at least in German with the german equivalent to "and they lived happily ever after" ("Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute").
In the majority of human civilization, such pictures (the ones of mutilation) would not be regarded as artistic, but rather as obscene. In modern times, we've turned freedom of speech into a license to do wholesale degradation to beauty, truth, human sexuality, etc. to such a degree that even the most perverse things as tolerable.
I take it you only know the Disney side of world heritage. You have never read the Bible (recommended: Judges 19 and Lamentations), you know nothing about the Aztec or the Greek creation myths (and by the way about most creation myths anyway, the norse or the slavic ones are no less violent), you've never seen a painting from Hieronymus Bosch, and you might never ever have read Grimm's fairy tales themselves ("Cat and Mouse in Partnership" anyone?). As a matter of fact: During most of the human civilisation tales and songs and pictures about mutilation, torture or violence were the norm, not the exception.
Part of the organism still lives at the very place the oldest fossil leaves are found, and there is no evidence of the whole organism ever dying there. So we can assume that the very organism that shed those leaves is the same that is still living (and cloning itself) today.
.. which need an already loaded OS to work... so what if GRUB is fucked up for some reason and the USB driver is not loaded yet to operate the serial console?
The thought that we would spend 10-15 minutes downloading some silly 2-3 second loop is embarrassing.
The thought should be deeply ingrained into people who think that adding some filtering magic to the internet will make it somehow a better place. Nothing withstands for long the combined hormone pressure and ingenuity of a horde of male teenagers wanting to look at some boobs.
Some basic training will always be required to understand certain things without a reference, though. Very simple example: nowhere in the wikipedia article on "clouds" does it say they're too diffuse to stand on.:) Don't go skydiving with intent to land on one, folks!
This reminds me of an article long ago (20 years?) about Cyc, the knowledge system that once should be able to read and understood anything it comes across and autonomously increase its own knowledge base.
The guy from Cyc said, one of the most basic problems was to add rules which are deeply ingrained in our brains while seldom being explicitely stated like "any human has a limited, continous life span".
So, tell me the difference between N2O, the Laughing Gas, and N2O, the nitrous oxide created for instance in internal combustion engines by while burning gas with air at high temperatures.
I'm pretty sure that in Germany, "private" or "public" is determined not by number of people. If you can only if you are known beforehand to the host, it's considered private.
No. If it comes to fatal accidents (and there have been fatal accidents where one driver was texting while driving and causing an accident), then a single event is good enough to enact a law (or interpret an existing one accordingly). This law is not primarily intended to be a general driving safety measure, but to penalize a reckless behaviour, that is known to be dangerous and that has resulted in fatalities already. So the base for your calculation can't and shouldn't be the numbers of accidents in general, but the number of people falling victim to people texting while driving. And this number has indeed increased, from zero in the days before the cell phone to a non-zero number today.
No, they are not. They are an XOR of two plaintext messages. If you XOR it with a part of the known plaintext, it will result in a part of the plaintext of the other message.
Ask any country whose government broke down and didn't provide enough services to the people, if government services are so unnecessary after all. And don't underestimate the number of governmental services you actually use either! The U.S. has actually one of the larger public sectors in the world (in terms of relative workforce and cost), more than for instance the "socialist" scandinavian countries. And why? Not afraid to let the government provide a service, those countries have an idea how to organize it and how to monitor it so it doesn't get out of hand, and they have a public that actually expects those services to work efficiently. With the general mistrust prevalent in the U.S. most people don't expect a governmental service to work at all or at least work efficiently, and so they don't complain too much, if it doesn't. And there is not much experience either how to set up an efficient public service, they seem more or less clobbed together ad hoc. So I guess every country gets the public services it deserves.
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With some rare exception even long distance trips are generally less than 500 miles one way and probably even both ways.
I beg to differ. Most long distance trips I do are longer than 500 miles. My mother-in-law lives about 550 miles from my home, my brother about 700 miles from my home, and only my parents are less than 500 miles (400 in fact) away from me. On the other hand: all of them live in Germany, so more than 80 mph cruising speed are not an issue, which easily allows to drive those distances during a day.
For me a car that takes longer than half an hour to recharge is useless for those distances.
For commuting I am using the bicycle, except for the time I am oncall, because then I have to lug around my tool boxes. A car that can only be recharged overnight thus has not much appeal to me.
(My current car interestingly though manages to go about 600 mls on a single refuel.)
You could even go and buy Z80 compatible cores for US$ 0,95 each. That would get you more than 8000 cores for under 8K.
Not exactly. I for instance nearly never write non-cursive except if I have to fill in forms (where "please print" is explicitely commanded). All other things I write in cursive, personal notes, postcards (yes I still write postcards), and the occasional letter. It has nothing to do with a concious decision to actually use cursive, it just comes naturally to me.
Yes, Zipf's Law is the hyperbolic special case of Pareto's distribution.
Then the 80/20-rule is just a good rule of thumb.
If we have a simple hyperbolic distribution (which is a special case of Pareto), then adding more elements to the set and waiting for the distribution to renormalize as hyperbolic increases the relative weight of the top 20%. So if you have a big online retailer like Amazon with more titles than a conventional bookstore, then you can expect the top 20% sellers on Amazon generating a bigger part of all sales of Amazon than the top 20% of a bookstore in relation to all sales of said bookstore.
Some comments about Grimm's fairy tales:
None of them starts with "Once upon a time", and only a single one, "The Peasant's Wise Daughter" ends at least in German with the german equivalent to "and they lived happily ever after" ("Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute").
In the majority of human civilization, such pictures (the ones of mutilation) would not be regarded as artistic, but rather as obscene. In modern times, we've turned freedom of speech into a license to do wholesale degradation to beauty, truth, human sexuality, etc. to such a degree that even the most perverse things as tolerable.
I take it you only know the Disney side of world heritage. You have never read the Bible (recommended: Judges 19 and Lamentations), you know nothing about the Aztec or the Greek creation myths (and by the way about most creation myths anyway, the norse or the slavic ones are no less violent), you've never seen a painting from Hieronymus Bosch, and you might never ever have read Grimm's fairy tales themselves ("Cat and Mouse in Partnership" anyone?). As a matter of fact: During most of the human civilisation tales and songs and pictures about mutilation, torture or violence were the norm, not the exception.
Part of the organism still lives at the very place the oldest fossil leaves are found, and there is no evidence of the whole organism ever dying there. So we can assume that the very organism that shed those leaves is the same that is still living (and cloning itself) today.
Hey, that was three years ago :) I said "used to have".
All the Lifebook laptops from Fujitsu I am using at work have serial ports. And I am using the port quite often.
.. which need an already loaded OS to work... so what if GRUB is fucked up for some reason and the USB driver is not loaded yet to operate the serial console?
My colleague used to have a T-Shirt: "My kernel compiles in 2:06 min. How fast is yours?" (Build machine was a mere 80 cores cluster).
The thought that we would spend 10-15 minutes downloading some silly 2-3 second loop is embarrassing.
The thought should be deeply ingrained into people who think that adding some filtering magic to the internet will make it somehow a better place. Nothing withstands for long the combined hormone pressure and ingenuity of a horde of male teenagers wanting to look at some boobs.
Some basic training will always be required to understand certain things without a reference, though. Very simple example: nowhere in the wikipedia article on "clouds" does it say they're too diffuse to stand on. :) Don't go skydiving with intent to land on one, folks!
This reminds me of an article long ago (20 years?) about Cyc, the knowledge system that once should be able to read and understood anything it comes across and autonomously increase its own knowledge base.
The guy from Cyc said, one of the most basic problems was to add rules which are deeply ingrained in our brains while seldom being explicitely stated like "any human has a limited, continous life span".
Just use the HTML characters like é for é.
Mr. Proudhons word pun works only in french, where "privé" means both: "private" and "stolen" ;)
Because this is New Zealand we are talking about, not the U.S. U.S. law does only apply there if forced by economic or military blackmail.
You turn the wings of the wind wheel so the resulting force is zero.
So, tell me the difference between N2O, the Laughing Gas, and N2O, the nitrous oxide created for instance in internal combustion engines by while burning gas with air at high temperatures.
They are actually exactly the same stuff.
I'm pretty sure that in Germany, "private" or "public" is determined not by number of people. If you can only if you are known beforehand to the host, it's considered private.
So you think this might backfire? ;)
No. If it comes to fatal accidents (and there have been fatal accidents where one driver was texting while driving and causing an accident), then a single event is good enough to enact a law (or interpret an existing one accordingly). This law is not primarily intended to be a general driving safety measure, but to penalize a reckless behaviour, that is known to be dangerous and that has resulted in fatalities already. So the base for your calculation can't and shouldn't be the numbers of accidents in general, but the number of people falling victim to people texting while driving. And this number has indeed increased, from zero in the days before the cell phone to a non-zero number today.
Or to be more specific:
Let's call the first OTP P1 and the new one P2.
We encrypt Message M1 with P1 by using M1^P1, then we send the new Pad P2 as P1^P2. Finally we send M2 encrypted with P2.
To guess a part of M2 with a known part of M1, you just do:
(M1^P1)^(P1^P2)^(P2^M2), and you get M1^(P1^P1)^(P2^P2)^M2 = M1^M2.
So each part of M1 you already know reveals a part of M2.
No, they are not. They are an XOR of two plaintext messages. If you XOR it with a part of the known plaintext, it will result in a part of the plaintext of the other message.
Ask any country whose government broke down and didn't provide enough services to the people, if government services are so unnecessary after all. And don't underestimate the number of governmental services you actually use either! The U.S. has actually one of the larger public sectors in the world (in terms of relative workforce and cost), more than for instance the "socialist" scandinavian countries. And why? Not afraid to let the government provide a service, those countries have an idea how to organize it and how to monitor it so it doesn't get out of hand, and they have a public that actually expects those services to work efficiently.
With the general mistrust prevalent in the U.S. most people don't expect a governmental service to work at all or at least work efficiently, and so they don't complain too much, if it doesn't. And there is not much experience either how to set up an efficient public service, they seem more or less clobbed together ad hoc. So I guess every country gets the public services it deserves.