Doesn't work that way in the real world at all. You can scream "get over yourself" till you're blue in the face, but you know what, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. There's no getting around office politics.
...has a margin of error of like 2000 years, it only gets you in the ballpark of the 10 thousands mark (up to about 80 thousand years, then it stops working altogether).
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet.
While I think the whole shroud thing is just religious propaganda, I do think we should objectively look at the inherent error in some scientific methods.
The continuity betweeh 1,2,3 and 4,5,6 is OK, but from 3 to 4 is a huge breach.
The gap between the Queen of Naboo and Dookie and the Rebellion and Leia is jarring. Where did this 'rebellion' and civil war come from? 3 is mostly about a universal shift of alliances -- think NATO and Warsaw Pact -- due to trade inequity (1 & 2). Now we're at civil war? Who is rebelling against whom? Has the 1,000 solar system rift (2) oppressed the other 1,000's of systems?
There's no way in hell Ep3 is going to link to Ep4 with any shred of continuity.
seeing as how it too 100 years of science fiction to produce one Douglas Adams, i think naming one asteroid out of millions isn't really "fitting", it seems kinda banal IMHO.
more fitting would be:
- an important deep space probe...
- a science fiction award in his name...
- an environmental activist award in his name (he probably would have liked that better)
- a 1000 ft tall statue decked in neon flames with 1000 mWatt laser-searchlights for eyes on the surface of the moon...
How do you know the spectral lines you're looking at are Hydrogen? Do the always appear in the same relative place compared to other elements, like helium? Or is it a matter that you expect to see a particular contour for *any* star, and the X-shift of that contour is the doppler shift?
Perhaps your cluelessness will inspire other impressionable minds to go look up the difference between veolicity in Newtonian mechanics and velocity in Einstein/Lorentz relativity.
The original alpha chips had no branch prediction or such, they required good code otherwise you stalled the pipeline,
Dude, at least take one computer architecture class before posting crap like this.
Even the best code in the world branches, and a CPU you doesn't have branch prediction it is leaving an enormous amount of performance on the table by keeping the machine idle. The penalty for not guessing far, far outweighs the penalty for a pipeline stall due to a mispredict.
Speculative execution is a demonstrable performance boost, not an "unclean hack" due to bad code. Any real programmer knows that.
Not to mention a real datacenter is limited by the municipalities supply. You need special lines run when your load expects XXX kW/seconds. Some towns simply cannot support datacenters for that reason alone.
so you can guarantee, right this instant, that you are saving enough money to pay for food, insurance, clothing, and medication 50 years from now, and that NOTHING well prevent you from tending to these PERSONAL liabilities?
True innovators innovate for the challenge and because that's just what they LIKE doing. Profiting from it is just a side effect.
Fallacy. I innovate because I get big fat paychecks for every patent that my company files in my name. Otherwise I'd just sit around and think about the ideas and do other critical work like writing powerpoint foils for planning... I've doubled my income for the past year just spending a few hours every weekend "innovating".
Anyone who says that the putative 'first cell' arose by random chance in the 'primordial soup,' and that we know this through observation, or good scientific inquiry, is probably the biggest idiot to ever grace these forums.
The only people that say this are Creationists who now zero about evolution: e.g, you.
Did VCRs also spontaneously arise out of the primordial soup? A VCR is a far far simpler device than a self-reproducing automaton...
Yeah, but there are instructions on how to build a VCR, and plausible explanations for how it could have been invented. On the other side, we have miracles.
Don't predicate your belief in a god on the technical limits of humans. When I sleep, I dream of things far more complicated than man, which exist as reality in my dream, therefore I am God. You are God. We are all God.
Yes, I noticed the article is 3 PAGES LONG! It makes only passing reference to other codecs. Not much of a primer, and it didn't take the entire afternoon to read, it to 5 minutes.
This article is already outdated.:) His discussion of lossless formats excludes the iTunes Apple Lossless encoder, which is supported by iPod. From their websites Import Music page:
Weapon of Choice
"However, you can choose to use different audio formats for any track that you import from CD. iTunes lets you convert your music to MP3s at high bit-rate for no additional charge. Using AAC or MP3, you can store more than 100 songs in the same amount of space as a single CD. Discerning customers and audiophiles want true CD audio, and now iTunes can give you that quality with the new Apple Lossless encoder. You'll get the full quality of uncompressed CD audio using about half the storage space. You can copy music in this format onto your iPod or iPod mini, to take perfect audio wherever you go"
I can't make out the HEAD of a pilot 100 yards away, let alone bullseye the pupil! Throw in the fact that the plane is moving, and, it just seems unlikely that you could actually hit someone in the face. Maybe if you had a good scope attached to it, and the plane was coming right at you. But still: when a plane takes off or lands, its nose is up; and when a plane is in flight, the cockpit is obscured by the nose of the aircraft. How the heck could you possible hit a pilot square in the pupil with a laser?
Just doesn't seem possible to me. At least, highly unlikely (or very lucky) to actually hit that pupil.
"...and agents watched as the hacker surfed to "My T-Mobile," and entered a username and password belonging to Peter Cavicchia, a Secret Service cyber crime agent in New York. "
I'm sorry, but that's just the funniest goddamn thing I've read in a week!
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Doesn't work that way in the real world at all. You can scream "get over yourself" till you're blue in the face, but you know what, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. There's no getting around office politics.
Exactly. It is a web-based "reader's poll".
Thank you for posting the scientific survey.
...has a margin of error of like 2000 years, it only gets you in the ballpark of the 10 thousands mark (up to about 80 thousand years, then it stops working altogether).
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet.
While I think the whole shroud thing is just religious propaganda, I do think we should objectively look at the inherent error in some scientific methods.
Becuase the Eunicycle is less effort and you like a little less like a dork.
Ah hell, who am I kidding. I totally want one, dorkiness be damned. But I can't ride a unicycle at all, so I guess I"m boned.
And you must be an asshole. Or Eurpoean. Same difference.
The continuity betweeh 1,2,3 and 4,5,6 is OK, but from 3 to 4 is a huge breach.
The gap between the Queen of Naboo and Dookie and the Rebellion and Leia is jarring. Where did this 'rebellion' and civil war come from? 3 is mostly about a universal shift of alliances -- think NATO and Warsaw Pact -- due to trade inequity (1 & 2). Now we're at civil war? Who is rebelling against whom? Has the 1,000 solar system rift (2) oppressed the other 1,000's of systems?
There's no way in hell Ep3 is going to link to Ep4 with any shred of continuity.
seeing as how it too 100 years of science fiction to produce one Douglas Adams, i think naming one asteroid out of millions isn't really "fitting", it seems kinda banal IMHO.
more fitting would be:
- an important deep space probe...
- a science fiction award in his name...
- an environmental activist award in his name (he probably would have liked that better)
- a 1000 ft tall statue decked in neon flames with 1000 mWatt laser-searchlights for eyes on the surface of the moon...
i'm fond of the latter
I reiterate the original posters interest.
How do you know the spectral lines you're looking at are Hydrogen? Do the always appear in the same relative place compared to other elements, like helium? Or is it a matter that you expect to see a particular contour for *any* star, and the X-shift of that contour is the doppler shift?
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Someone's been watching too much Futurama.
Too bad there werent' ENOUGH people watching too much Futurama.
*sigh*
Dude, take a 1st year physics class.
Perhaps your cluelessness will inspire other impressionable minds to go look up the difference between veolicity in Newtonian mechanics and velocity in Einstein/Lorentz relativity.
The original alpha chips had no branch prediction or such, they required good code otherwise you stalled the pipeline,
Dude, at least take one computer architecture class before posting crap like this.
Even the best code in the world branches, and a CPU you doesn't have branch prediction it is leaving an enormous amount of performance on the table by keeping the machine idle. The penalty for not guessing far, far outweighs the penalty for a pipeline stall due to a mispredict.
Speculative execution is a demonstrable performance boost, not an "unclean hack" due to bad code. Any real programmer knows that.
Not to mention a real datacenter is limited by the municipalities supply. You need special lines run when your load expects XXX kW/seconds. Some towns simply cannot support datacenters for that reason alone.
yes, but what else happens: bigger wires have more capacitance, and require more power to charge and discharge.
it's a viscious RC cycle...
I think you are looking at the electrical requirements of the voltage regulator, and not the CPU power consumption.
so you can guarantee, right this instant, that you are saving enough money to pay for food, insurance, clothing, and medication 50 years from now, and that NOTHING well prevent you from tending to these PERSONAL liabilities?
I didn't think so.
That is why we have SocSec.
I like the final scenario "Cycle of Fear".
I wonder if Orwell had any idea how big an impact his summarization of political oppression would play in the future?
True innovators innovate for the challenge and because that's just what they LIKE doing. Profiting from it is just a side effect.
Fallacy. I innovate because I get big fat paychecks for every patent that my company files in my name. Otherwise I'd just sit around and think about the ideas and do other critical work like writing powerpoint foils for planning... I've doubled my income for the past year just spending a few hours every weekend "innovating".
Anyone who says that the putative 'first cell' arose by random chance in the 'primordial soup,' and that we know this through observation, or good scientific inquiry, is probably the biggest idiot to ever grace these forums.
The only people that say this are Creationists who now zero about evolution: e.g, you.
Silly child.
When you regrouped the parenthesis, you did not account for even pairng, so there will always be a trailing -1 :
... -1 = 0
1 + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1)
1 - 1 = 0
nice try!
Did VCRs also spontaneously arise out of the primordial soup? A VCR is a far far simpler device than a self-reproducing automaton...
Yeah, but there are instructions on how to build a VCR, and plausible explanations for how it could have been invented. On the other side, we have miracles.
Don't predicate your belief in a god on the technical limits of humans. When I sleep, I dream of things far more complicated than man, which exist as reality in my dream, therefore I am God. You are God. We are all God.
Yes, I noticed the article is 3 PAGES LONG! It makes only passing reference to other codecs. Not much of a primer, and it didn't take the entire afternoon to read, it to 5 minutes.
Did I miss a crucial link or something?
This article is already outdated. :) His discussion of lossless formats excludes the iTunes Apple Lossless encoder, which is supported by iPod. From their websites Import Music page:
Weapon of Choice
"However, you can choose to use different audio formats for any track that you import from CD. iTunes lets you convert your music to MP3s at high bit-rate for no additional charge. Using AAC or MP3, you can store more than 100 songs in the same amount of space as a single CD. Discerning customers and audiophiles want true CD audio, and now iTunes can give you that quality with the new Apple Lossless encoder. You'll get the full quality of uncompressed CD audio using about half the storage space. You can copy music in this format onto your iPod or iPod mini, to take perfect audio wherever you go"
Ok, mod me down if I'm clueless, but on the first page: "Compact Discs use a bit depth of 16, allowing for 2 ^ 16 possible levels."
I always thought CDs were encoded in 12 bit, not 16?
How you actually injure a pilot with a laser?
I can't make out the HEAD of a pilot 100 yards away, let alone bullseye the pupil! Throw in the fact that the plane is moving, and, it just seems unlikely that you could actually hit someone in the face. Maybe if you had a good scope attached to it, and the plane was coming right at you. But still: when a plane takes off or lands, its nose is up; and when a plane is in flight, the cockpit is obscured by the nose of the aircraft. How the heck could you possible hit a pilot square in the pupil with a laser?
Just doesn't seem possible to me. At least, highly unlikely (or very lucky) to actually hit that pupil.
Explain?
"...and agents watched as the hacker surfed to "My T-Mobile," and entered a username and password belonging to Peter Cavicchia, a Secret Service cyber crime agent in New York. "
I'm sorry, but that's just the funniest goddamn thing I've read in a week!
Privacy and security are two gigantic myths!