Now imagine what happens when you add more energy to a chaotic system. Gee, I wonder if it will get more chaotic?
While the overall energy of the system will rise, local effects will vary and can be turbulent. It is just that local effects and surges of energy (hot and cold) will shift about on a much later time scale.
Right now it seems to be on the order of 2d6 months (for you pen and paper gamers out there), i.e. 2d6 months above average, 2d6 months below, per regional climate area, with a graduallly increasing trend (increasing chance of failing saving throws, etc)
of course, it could be worse. The weather could be chaotic evil.
are infamous for giving people percentages of the Net Profit, not the Gross Profit. Hollywood book-keeping is infamous for frittering away money in all kinds of obscure "expenses", so that there is never anything leftover from the Gross for the Gross Profit. In fact, if there is anything left over, it is usually by mistake, since it is the net profit that is taxed.
So I hope that Stan Lee gets his cut from the gross take, and nothing else.
On the other hand, Igo Kutchyakokov is reserved for over seas operations. He works with a marvelous Japanese Italian negotiator, Makya A. Soprano, related to the New York City and New Jersey Soprano families.
To construct any of these projections, the direction of every pixel in each of the three imagers was measured and expressed as a nadir and azimuth angle in a spherical coordinate system centered on the imager in question. Parallax due to coordinate center offsets was ignored. The distortion due to the optical systems was removed using an empirically-derived unwarping function. The images were projected onto a mosaicking plane using one of several projection algorithms (mercator, conic, stereographic or gnomonic) defined below, causing the various images to be spliced together.)
It was one of my buddies who got the the credit for the pretty graphic, and we folks around here are proud of him. the original graphic is wallpaper size at 1024x768, available via the original page at http://anthony.liekens.net/huygens_static.html
He's actually south of Boston, but it's close enough for the other side of the pond.
of course, with a screwed up human, you can arrived at negative coefficients for other tribes, etc. With humans, the technology to adjust such coefficients is not yet widely available. And the humans freak on any attempts to make adjustments.
It is important to have a viable meta system. Humans seem to be missing this. Just look at the political system, for example. What kind of coefficients are in place for the phrase "My Country, Right or Wrong?", for example
Obviously, if the coefficients are at variance with the owners, or with the societies, then there will be dis-agreements. The command to "Be a nice robot and wipe out those inhuman scum inhabiting that village over there" might meet some resistance.
One of the big criticisms about XP Starter Edition is that it can run just three applications simultaneously, so I was curious to see what it would do if you attempted to launch more than three. In this case, the system displays a notification window telling you that you can only run three applications. The notification roughly reads as, "With Windows XP Starter Edition, you can run three programs at a time. To open a new program, please save your work, close one open application, and open the new application again."
When I recall users who crashed a system by having 100+ copies of solitaire open, because they never closed a finished game, this makes sense. If they they tied the number into the system capacity, such as ram, etc. then it might even be useful for the US market.
The questions you raise arise typically from a unidimensional ethical system.
The answer is in having a multidimensional ethical system. One such previously published system suggested these dimensions (paraphrased)
personal self interest/survival
sexuality
family
tribal/group/national
ecological/cross species
expressive/artistic
This list is incomplete. Feel free to add others as desired. Working out the formulas for balancing the parameters and vectors in order to achieve the highest overall and most positive result is left as an exercise for the interested reader.
The situation re: the tsunami is easily resolved as the many contributions are pro-survival on a pan-tribal level, and there are few if any political quandries tied into the situation.
Working with robots raises interesting questions because here we are dealing with creatures who have the potential to be our equals, or possibly our superiors. This is scary to folks who normally are used to handling people and things on a commodity basis. what is the things they dispose of start fighting back?
See this Calvin and Hobbes Cartoon
A couple of years ago I was working at a local regional railroad and was given the job of upgrading all the 486s to newer machines. One of my last upgrades required me to upgrade a machine the was infrequently used at the car shop. Now the car shop is where they repair all rail cars that are not locomotives. This naturally results in a lot of airborne particles (soot, metal shavings, dust, etc) and the contaminants not only covered the work area but also creeped into the office. They combatted this by cleaning the office frequently and mopping the floor nightly. Unfortunately the machine I was to upgrade sat on the floor. For five years. Specifically they had been mopping around the computer for 1825 days.
When I arrived to get the machine I discovered I couldn't budge it. A closer examination revealed five years of rust underneath it and five years of floor polish sealing it to the floor. A quick call to my boss confirmed that we could consider the machine "field destroyed" and take whatever steps needed to remove it.
Which was just as well, as it took two of us and half a dozen whacks of a sledgehammer to get it free. Out of morbid curiosity, we opened up the case (wasting another 30 minutes) to discover the entire bottom of the case had rusted away, but you couldn't tell because the inch deep accumulation of who knows what covered every square inch of the inside. No one had ever seen fit to blow out the dust bunnies...or dust lions, as they were in this case.
A friend of mine asked me to take a look at her computer. She said the computer was unusually "quiet" and would reboot itself on occasion. I surmised correctly that the fan on her power supply was faulty. She was a chain smoker and apparently smoked a lot while working on the computer; not only was the power supply fan gummed up with revolting tar and nicotine, but the CPU's cooling fan was clogged beyond use, and the cdrom drive drawer would not open. This is the only computer I have ever worked on that died from smoking.
In reply to the above anecdote of stupidity, a reader sent in the following:
I've seen a computer die from smoking, too.
A customer came in with a dead computer, claimed it was under warranty, and asked if we could fix it. We had look at it, and before we even laid eyes on it, we could smell it. Imagine the stench of an overused ashtray times ten.
We looked at the yellow case (it was supposed to be beige) and the date of purchase (3-4 months previous) and goggled in disbelief that she actually had any lungs left.
"What are you doing with this computer?" I asked in total disbelief. It was at a taxi service. She smoked, the cabbies smoked, and the room was apparently only about eight by twelve. Smoking took place 24/7 in this place, and her fingers and the computer bore witness. We opened the case, and there were visible deposits of brown tar everywhere. The whole thing was gummy and slimy inside.
We had to tell her she was on her own. Naturally, she countered with the "it's under warranty" argument, but the computer was well beyond that. She left quite mad. We insisted she take her computer with her when she left.
All of which goes to speak on the need for keeping technology properly ventilated.
in general, once the waves hit the open ocean, it IS a straight line path. Islands will tend to absorb waves, "creating shadow patterns". There is an excellent analysis here:
The damage along the US East coast will be great, but not as nasty as you might think. Remember, waves go in a straight line from source point.
Points of reference.
Massachusetts is due west of Northern Spain
North Carolina is due west of the Canary Islands
The Bahamas are between Southern Florida and the Canary Islands
Washington DC is protected by the DelMaVa penisula to the east
Manhattan is tucked inside NY Harbour, and is further protected by Long Island
Cape Cod protects Boston
Much of Rhode Island is protected by Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard
The Barrier Island protect much of the Carolina mainland
Bottom line, there are islands, etc can be counted on to diminish the effect of the tsunamis. You can expect some surge to reach DC and NYC. But nothing like a direct hit.
But if the tsunamis are really big, they still might wash right over the smaller islands. Even a really big wave will only travel a mile or so inland, last I checked. YMMV
As noted by the users on the message board, the IP address for the website cited by the letter (66.250.450.10) doesn't/can't exist, a mistake repeated throughout the letters.
What does this mean for the owners of the domain? they can comply with the request, exactly as written.
"Your Honor - we had not destroyed or tampered with any evidence associated in anyway with the IP address 66.250.450.10. - No. Really."
that is sufficiently bizarre that the code breakers will try to decrypt it just on the off chance that something else might be hidden in the supposed text. (During wwII composer alban berg's music was inspected for encoded messages, until they realised it really was just music)
never mind if it's salted with random characters or typos.
some clueless corporate guy sues for damages due to bolluxed weather prediction, only to find out that the reason the weather forcasts are bolluxed up is because he sued for the right to use the frequencies they need to do better quality weather prediction in the first place.
I hope there is a clause that will make the police responsible for any damage they cause, and any property or trade secrets that are destroyed as a result of said software.
(snort)
you can't be serious, can you? They never take responsibility. It's your own darn fault for looking suspicious in the first place.
The store manager's wife asked me how I could afford all that, and I told her that I had 100% disposable income. She freaked, and hated me forever for that comment, but it was true! I couldn't afford my own place or even a car, but I could buy all the game cartridges I wanted.
which is why your folks stll want you to move out.
CrossIPTC software for digital pictures is a repair and cross-platform conversion tool to efficiently exchange IPTC metadata using extended characters between Windows and Macintosh platforms. CrossIPTC rewrites IPTC accents for Windows when created by a Macintosh computer [or vice-versa] to ensure compatibility and properly display author, captions, keywords, categories, credits and origins information containing texts with accents. Some CrossIPTC Features : - Mass conversion of extended characters into IPTC fields. - Translates Macintosh accents to Windows accents or Windows accents to Macintosh characters. - Works with all standard IPTC fields and with customised (non-standard) fields - Displays IPTC metadata information for each image - Lets you copy image IPTC data set to clipboard when browsing folder images. - Allows to display captured IPTC character strings, in Hexadecimal values - Optionally keeps a copy of input files to a backup folder. - Customization of period interval between two scans for processing - Language: English Designed to facilitate images and digital photos transmission, CrossIPTC enables automatic stock photography conversion during migration from one platform to another executing a mass repair on IPTC File Info fields added to JPEG or TIFF pictures: it translates Macintosh extended characters to Windows characters or Windows accents to Macintosh accents. Since extended characters are absolutely necessary for example in French, German, Portuguese and Spanish texts, no more need to avoid the use of accents for the description of digital pictures to treat by the other platform: the images are always tagged with appropriate accuracy to allow a good cataloguing and indexation. CrossIPTC works with all standard IPTC fields and with customised (non-standard) fields.
Other similar tools are available, of course, and could be well known to a photo geek. Of course, selling the rights to the photo means hundreds if not thousands of dollars in reproduction rights. Nothing outrageous. Just extra beer money.
Pictures before and after do not show the streak. You would think that the smoke trail would linger in the air for a while thereafter.
The edges of the smoke streak are what seems to be perfectly straight. Against, atmnospheric turbulance should cause the edges to be slightly billowed and/or irregular
The edges of the streak should be more like a long thin cone, indicating an expansion of the smoke plume as time passes with the transit of the proposed meteorite through the atmosphere. In the photo, the edges of the smoke plume are parrallel to each other.
The flash of light shows a seemingly symmetrical splash of light at right angles to the path of the streak. An impact would have hot particles going off at various angles, shedding sparks and light depending on the angle of impact.
Vaporization would tend to be omni directional, modified by the speed of transit/impact.
The secret to good photoshopping is attention to details.
"Rogue/Suspect" means that these products are of unknown, questionable, or dubious value as anti-spyware protection.
Some of the products listed on this page simply do not provide proven, reliable anti-spyware protection. Others may use unfair, deceptive, high pressure sales tactics and false positives to scare up sales from gullible, confused users. A very few of these products are either associated with known distributors of spyware/adware or have been known to install spyware/adware themselves. Users are advised to rely on anti-spyware applications with deserved reputations for trustworthy performance.
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Now imagine what happens when you add more energy to a chaotic system. Gee, I wonder if it will get more chaotic?
While the overall energy of the system will rise, local effects will vary and can be turbulent. It is just that local effects and surges of energy (hot and cold) will shift about on a much later time scale.
Right now it seems to be on the order of 2d6 months (for you pen and paper gamers out there), i.e. 2d6 months above average, 2d6 months below, per regional climate area, with a graduallly increasing trend (increasing chance of failing saving throws, etc)
of course, it could be worse. The weather could be chaotic evil.
So I hope that Stan Lee gets his cut from the gross take, and nothing else.
On the other hand, Igo Kutchyakokov is reserved for over seas operations. He works with a marvelous Japanese Italian negotiator, Makya A. Soprano, related to the New York City and New Jersey Soprano families.
See, for example, these field test photos of the camera in the Arizona area. as they say:
To construct any of these projections, the direction of every pixel in each of the three imagers was measured and expressed as a nadir and azimuth angle in a spherical coordinate system centered on the imager in question. Parallax due to coordinate center offsets was ignored. The distortion due to the optical systems was removed using an empirically-derived unwarping function. The images were projected onto a mosaicking plane using one of several projection algorithms (mercator, conic, stereographic or gnomonic) defined below, causing the various images to be spliced together.)
oooooooo.... Pictures.
He's actually south of Boston, but it's close enough for the other side of the pond.
The bug reports were closed under the heading "operates as designed"
And this is not Fear Factor or Survivor, so you don't have to eat the bugs
of course, with a screwed up human, you can arrived at negative coefficients for other tribes, etc. With humans, the technology to adjust such coefficients is not yet widely available. And the humans freak on any attempts to make adjustments.
It is important to have a viable meta system. Humans seem to be missing this. Just look at the political system, for example. What kind of coefficients are in place for the phrase "My Country, Right or Wrong?", for example
Obviously, if the coefficients are at variance with the owners, or with the societies, then there will be dis-agreements. The command to "Be a nice robot and wipe out those inhuman scum inhabiting that village over there" might meet some resistance.
When I recall users who crashed a system by having 100+ copies of solitaire open, because they never closed a finished game, this makes sense. If they they tied the number into the system capacity, such as ram, etc. then it might even be useful for the US market.
The answer is in having a multidimensional ethical system. One such previously published system suggested these dimensions (paraphrased)
- personal self interest/survival
- sexuality
- family
- tribal/group/national
- ecological/cross species
- expressive/artistic
This list is incomplete. Feel free to add others as desired. Working out the formulas for balancing the parameters and vectors in order to achieve the highest overall and most positive result is left as an exercise for the interested reader.The situation re: the tsunami is easily resolved as the many contributions are pro-survival on a pan-tribal level, and there are few if any political quandries tied into the situation.
Working with robots raises interesting questions because here we are dealing with creatures who have the potential to be our equals, or possibly our superiors. This is scary to folks who normally are used to handling people and things on a commodity basis. what is the things they dispose of start fighting back? See this Calvin and Hobbes Cartoon
A couple of years ago I was working at a local regional railroad and was given the job of upgrading all the 486s to newer machines. One of my last upgrades required me to upgrade a machine the was infrequently used at the car shop. Now the car shop is where they repair all rail cars that are not locomotives. This naturally results in a lot of airborne particles (soot, metal shavings, dust, etc) and the contaminants not only covered the work area but also creeped into the office. They combatted this by cleaning the office frequently and mopping the floor nightly. Unfortunately the machine I was to upgrade sat on the floor. For five years. Specifically they had been mopping around the computer for 1825 days.
When I arrived to get the machine I discovered I couldn't budge it. A closer examination revealed five years of rust underneath it and five years of floor polish sealing it to the floor. A quick call to my boss confirmed that we could consider the machine "field destroyed" and take whatever steps needed to remove it.
Which was just as well, as it took two of us and half a dozen whacks of a sledgehammer to get it free. Out of morbid curiosity, we opened up the case (wasting another 30 minutes) to discover the entire bottom of the case had rusted away, but you couldn't tell because the inch deep accumulation of who knows what covered every square inch of the inside. No one had ever seen fit to blow out the dust bunnies...or dust lions, as they were in this case.
A friend of mine asked me to take a look at her computer. She said the computer was unusually "quiet" and would reboot itself on occasion. I surmised correctly that the fan on her power supply was faulty. She was a chain smoker and apparently smoked a lot while working on the computer; not only was the power supply fan gummed up with revolting tar and nicotine, but the CPU's cooling fan was clogged beyond use, and the cdrom drive drawer would not open. This is the only computer I have ever worked on that died from smoking.
In reply to the above anecdote of stupidity, a reader sent in the following:
I've seen a computer die from smoking, too.
A customer came in with a dead computer, claimed it was under warranty, and asked if we could fix it. We had look at it, and before we even laid eyes on it, we could smell it. Imagine the stench of an overused ashtray times ten.
We looked at the yellow case (it was supposed to be beige) and the date of purchase (3-4 months previous) and goggled in disbelief that she actually had any lungs left.
"What are you doing with this computer?" I asked in total disbelief. It was at a taxi service. She smoked, the cabbies smoked, and the room was apparently only about eight by twelve. Smoking took place 24/7 in this place, and her fingers and the computer bore witness. We opened the case, and there were visible deposits of brown tar everywhere. The whole thing was gummy and slimy inside.
We had to tell her she was on her own. Naturally, she countered with the "it's under warranty" argument, but the computer was well beyond that. She left quite mad. We insisted she take her computer with her when she left.
All of which goes to speak on the need for keeping technology properly ventilated.
Can't wait for the MS damage control riot squad to find out about this.
MS vs the MPAA and the RIAA. Who says lawyers aren't good for something?
Massonetal01_ESR.pdf
in general, once the waves hit the open ocean, it IS a straight line path. Islands will tend to absorb waves, "creating shadow patterns". There is an excellent analysis here:
GRL- Cumbre Vieja Volcano -- Potential collapse and tsunami at La Palma, Canary Islands (PDF)
complete with illustrations that demonstrate that the Bahamas protect Miami, if not much else.
Points of reference.
Massachusetts is due west of Northern Spain
North Carolina is due west of the Canary Islands
The Bahamas are between Southern Florida and the Canary Islands
Washington DC is protected by the DelMaVa penisula to the east
Manhattan is tucked inside NY Harbour, and is further protected by Long Island
Cape Cod protects Boston
Much of Rhode Island is protected by Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard
The Barrier Island protect much of the Carolina mainland
Bottom line, there are islands, etc can be counted on to diminish the effect of the tsunamis. You can expect some surge to reach DC and NYC. But nothing like a direct hit.
But if the tsunamis are really big, they still might wash right over the smaller islands. Even a really big wave will only travel a mile or so inland, last I checked. YMMV
not until they start mobbing the rover with their bottles of windex and paper towels, screaming "Tip! Tip"
New Yorkers know what I mean
What does this mean for the owners of the domain? they can comply with the request, exactly as written.
"Your Honor - we had not destroyed or tampered with any evidence associated in anyway with the IP address 66.250.450.10. - No. Really."
If they are gutsy, they'll wipe anything associated with all other IP addresses, and encrypt the data file and to secretly send it to the free 1 terabyte storage online folks
Not quite as bad as the recent email virus redirecting people to 192.168.2.153 (or whatever it was), but really.
Wasn't it supposed to be another Satan spawn privacy invasion widget? Or am I confusing it with some other MS product?
that is sufficiently bizarre that the code breakers will try to decrypt it just on the off chance that something else might be hidden in the supposed text. (During wwII composer alban berg's music was inspected for encoded messages, until they realised it really was just music)
never mind if it's salted with random characters or typos.
now if everything was encrypted......
Like this would never happen.
(snort)
you can't be serious, can you? They never take responsibility. It's your own darn fault for looking suspicious in the first place.
which is why your folks stll want you to move out.
CrossIPTC software for digital pictures is a repair and cross-platform conversion tool to efficiently exchange IPTC metadata using extended characters between Windows and Macintosh platforms. CrossIPTC rewrites IPTC accents for Windows when created by a Macintosh computer [or vice-versa] to ensure compatibility and properly display author, captions, keywords, categories, credits and origins information containing texts with accents. Some CrossIPTC Features : - Mass conversion of extended characters into IPTC fields. - Translates Macintosh accents to Windows accents or Windows accents to Macintosh characters. - Works with all standard IPTC fields and with customised (non-standard) fields - Displays IPTC metadata information for each image - Lets you copy image IPTC data set to clipboard when browsing folder images. - Allows to display captured IPTC character strings, in Hexadecimal values - Optionally keeps a copy of input files to a backup folder. - Customization of period interval between two scans for processing - Language: English Designed to facilitate images and digital photos transmission, CrossIPTC enables automatic stock photography conversion during migration from one platform to another executing a mass repair on IPTC File Info fields added to JPEG or TIFF pictures: it translates Macintosh extended characters to Windows characters or Windows accents to Macintosh accents. Since extended characters are absolutely necessary for example in French, German, Portuguese and Spanish texts, no more need to avoid the use of accents for the description of digital pictures to treat by the other platform: the images are always tagged with appropriate accuracy to allow a good cataloguing and indexation. CrossIPTC works with all standard IPTC fields and with customised (non-standard) fields.
Other similar tools are available, of course, and could be well known to a photo geek. Of course, selling the rights to the photo means hundreds if not thousands of dollars in reproduction rights. Nothing outrageous. Just extra beer money.
The straightness of the trail seems to eliminate bugs. It is perfectly straight.
- Pictures before and after do not show the streak. You would think that the smoke trail would linger in the air for a while thereafter.
- The edges of the smoke streak are what seems to be perfectly straight. Against, atmnospheric turbulance should cause the edges to be slightly billowed and/or irregular
- The edges of the streak should be more like a long thin cone, indicating an expansion of the smoke plume as time passes with the transit of the proposed meteorite through the atmosphere. In the photo, the edges of the smoke plume are parrallel to each other.
- The flash of light shows a seemingly symmetrical splash of light at right angles to the path of the streak. An impact would have hot particles going off at various angles, shedding sparks and light depending on the angle of impact.
- Vaporization would tend to be omni directional, modified by the speed of transit/impact.
The secret to good photoshopping is attention to details."Rogue/Suspect" means that these products are of unknown, questionable, or dubious value as anti-spyware protection.
Some of the products listed on this page simply do not provide proven, reliable anti-spyware protection. Others may use unfair, deceptive, high pressure sales tactics and false positives to scare up sales from gullible, confused users. A very few of these products are either associated with known distributors of spyware/adware or have been known to install spyware/adware themselves. Users are advised to rely on anti-spyware applications with deserved reputations for trustworthy performance.
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