Re:Digitization means loss of data, no?
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You lose brain cells all the time. The brain has great redundancy so I don't think the lossieness of the digitization would have a big impact. The real question is whether a copy of you is you. Does the digitization capture the soul? A defining characteristic would seem to be uniqueness. How can can something unique be copied so easily.
In a clustered environment with a small dash of network intelligence you can service (and bring down) a node without shutting down the whole operation. By definition a system with fault tolerance can have parts brought down and serviced without halting anything.
I don't think the upgradability and hot-swapping ability is all THAT necessary.
I hate to feed that trolls but I thought the same thing. I was waiting for the poster to mention that he in fact sells said "magic anti-CTS" gloves for 19.95!!!! (4.95 S&H) ACT NOW!!!!
Ok if there was any question before that answered it. I can vouch for CrazyJim's coding skills.
You shouldn't have a hard time getting a job. Remember "What about Bob?" Baby steps! Baby step to the resume; baby step to the code portfolio, baby step to high paying job!
Seriously to all the doubters this guy wrote the pinnacle of all macros. Perhaps later ones were more impressive but those were only possible because of what Cam did to upgrade ACTool's functionality (basically the plug-in functions).
Given the tech at the time your macro was astounding. PS I graduated from MIT with a degree in EECS so I know a thing or two about code and what it takes to be good (I'm only so so). You should be earning a good living!
Bringing it back on topic it begs the question why you don't write code for REAL bots rather than virtual ones!
I if I hadn't already posted... I'd through a point at the parent.
Bandler said some really insightful things.
Many aspects of education could be improved immeasurably by applying video-game / hollywood style techniques for engrossing people. Who else remembers Schoolhouse Rock? I can still sing those songs.
I'm curious who you were. I used ACTool for a long time and farmed trade notes, plats and did a bit of combat macroing. Were you the one that made the shard bot?
Cato is a very conservative think tank but their numbers are basically correct.
Personal income is very skewed in the US, rightly or wrongly, and taxation is highly progressive (rich pay a higher %). That means that a very select number of people's taxes pay for everyone else's government services.
Bringing this post back on topic however the Cato institute fails to include use and service fees that do count as taxes like the one mentioned in the article. I'd have to check whether they are including social security, medicare, medicade and payroll taxes paid by both the employee and employer as well.
This tax on telecom service is basically a head tax on anyone with a phone and therefore hits everyone equally, regardless of income. That is very regressive (hits low earners more than the rich).
Historically the universal access policies are driven by the structure of our government. The mid-west has lots of senate seats and is often a swing vote in presidential elections. The universal access policy basically takes money from dense coastal states and gives it to mid-western states.
Actually if you think about it the universe may be infinite on a macro scale but it is quite finite on the micro scale. As physics turns quantum we are in essence seeing the granularity of the approximation. Ours isn't a prison of the large, its a prison of the small.
A simulated being in a world of our current technology might experience anti-aliasing the same way we experience quantum mechanics. I imagine the simulated being would believe that the world had infinite precision if only small things didn't get "fuzzy". In our world "fuzzy" = quantum mechanics (especially Heisenberg uncertainty).
Who is to say that in the "real" world that the quantum regime occurs at the same scale or at all. In that universe a subset of that universes state would be sufficient to describe our universe. That's pretty much straight from the article btw.
Information theory also doesn't factor in multiverse concepts. A quantum computer can trash certain concepts in information theory because of parallelism across many universes.
Actually the hamburger gets lighter if you could qeigh it below sea level. Convince yourself with the differential form of the gravity equation and some integral calculus but:
outside of a solid sphere gravity drops off as the square of the distance.
inside of a solid sphere gravity starts at zero at the center and increases linearly to the surface of the sphere.
The same math goes for electrostatics... here is a link: musr.physics.ubc.ca/~jess/hr/skept/Gauss/node4.htm l
The Sharper Image Ionic Breeze uses a wire. Atleast that is 1 more dimension that a needlepoint.
There actually is decent flow on those units. You can definitely feel the air movement - I'd estimate it to be about 60 CFM based on case fans and surface area. I put mine near a white wall and it got dark with particles.
Anyhow 60CFM would cycle a 360 ft^2 room in an hour. That isn't so bad considering it uses very little energy and is silent.
Acutally it's not a gamble if you find a place that will sell you the particular series I mentioned. They all go to 3.4ghz with stock voltage and cooling / 3.6ghz with mild overvolting and an aftermarket HSF combo. If you get an old 2.4b then you have no chance. Most people fail to get their rid higher b/c of memory or mobo not the CPU.
The difference in OC potential between the old batches ('02) and the new batches ('03) is so great that some mail order places charge premiums for guaranteed c1 stepping 2.4Bs. The best of that bunch are the SLRZ (from Costa Rica) and the SLEF.
People there are OCing their 2.4B Northwood SLRZ's to 3.6ghz/ 200mhz FSB on granite bay boards. All that is missing is Hyper Threading, but the 2.4B's only cost $160 and the boards... about $180.
That is pizza money compared to "soft" savings of having a larger % of employees with fewer rights. Temps are easier to fire, cost less to fire and have less redress if terminated for reasons other than cause.
Temps are a bit like scabs in pushing the full timers to work harder and complain less. Temps can also be used to vary your headcount with changing needs. The alternative is to pay full time people for overtime.
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You lose brain cells all the time. The brain has great redundancy so I don't think the lossieness of the digitization would have a big impact. The real question is whether a copy of you is you. Does the digitization capture the soul? A defining characteristic would seem to be uniqueness. How can can something unique be copied so easily.
That would be funnier except that that is exactly how the extreme overclock records are set.
They don't leak oil. In fact to keep corrosion down they are almost totally sealed.
Boats on the otherhand vent their oilly exhaust into the water and produce a decent amount of pollution.
In a clustered environment with a small dash of network intelligence you can service (and bring down) a node without shutting down the whole operation. By definition a system with fault tolerance can have parts brought down and serviced without halting anything.
I don't think the upgradability and hot-swapping ability is all THAT necessary.
I hate to feed that trolls but I thought the same thing. I was waiting for the poster to mention that he in fact sells said "magic anti-CTS" gloves for 19.95!!!! (4.95 S&H) ACT NOW!!!!
Ok if there was any question before that answered it. I can vouch for CrazyJim's coding skills.
You shouldn't have a hard time getting a job. Remember "What about Bob?" Baby steps! Baby step to the resume; baby step to the code portfolio, baby step to high paying job!
Seriously to all the doubters this guy wrote the pinnacle of all macros. Perhaps later ones were more impressive but those were only possible because of what Cam did to upgrade ACTool's functionality (basically the plug-in functions).
Given the tech at the time your macro was astounding. PS I graduated from MIT with a degree in EECS so I know a thing or two about code and what it takes to be good (I'm only so so). You should be earning a good living!
Bringing it back on topic it begs the question why you don't write code for REAL bots rather than virtual ones!
I if I hadn't already posted... I'd through a point at the parent.
Bandler said some really insightful things.
Many aspects of education could be improved immeasurably by applying video-game / hollywood style techniques for engrossing people. Who else remembers Schoolhouse Rock? I can still sing those songs.
I can back up that people like this existed on AC 1 and there were at most a handful of them - maybe only one.
Everything he described was totally possible. I am an AC 1 player and wrote macros that were a notch below what he says he did.
I'm curious who you were. I used ACTool for a long time and farmed trade notes, plats and did a bit of combat macroing. Were you the one that made the shard bot?
Cato is a very conservative think tank but their numbers are basically correct.
Personal income is very skewed in the US, rightly or wrongly, and taxation is highly progressive (rich pay a higher %). That means that a very select number of people's taxes pay for everyone else's government services.
Bringing this post back on topic however the Cato institute fails to include use and service fees that do count as taxes like the one mentioned in the article. I'd have to check whether they are including social security, medicare, medicade and payroll taxes paid by both the employee and employer as well.
This tax on telecom service is basically a head tax on anyone with a phone and therefore hits everyone equally, regardless of income. That is very regressive (hits low earners more than the rich).
Historically the universal access policies are driven by the structure of our government. The mid-west has lots of senate seats and is often a swing vote in presidential elections. The universal access policy basically takes money from dense coastal states and gives it to mid-western states.
Instead of pointing your ad server domain name searches at null (the host file ad killing trick) instead point the requests at an RIAA site.
Thousands of geeks hitting their servers on every blocked ad should cost them.
Actually if you think about it the universe may be infinite on a macro scale but it is quite finite on the micro scale. As physics turns quantum we are in essence seeing the granularity of the approximation. Ours isn't a prison of the large, its a prison of the small.
A simulated being in a world of our current technology might experience anti-aliasing the same way we experience quantum mechanics. I imagine the simulated being would believe that the world had infinite precision if only small things didn't get "fuzzy". In our world "fuzzy" = quantum mechanics (especially Heisenberg uncertainty).
Who is to say that in the "real" world that the quantum regime occurs at the same scale or at all. In that universe a subset of that universes state would be sufficient to describe our universe. That's pretty much straight from the article btw.
Information theory also doesn't factor in multiverse concepts. A quantum computer can trash certain concepts in information theory because of parallelism across many universes.
I think to him naive creationism = the universe was created in 7 (solar) days, adam and eve, etc.
Since gold is a "noble" metal I imagine it would be hard to craft a protein that could bind to it.
Actually the hamburger gets lighter if you could qeigh it below sea level. Convince yourself with the differential form of the gravity equation and some integral calculus but:
m l
outside of a solid sphere gravity drops off as the square of the distance.
inside of a solid sphere gravity starts at zero at the center and increases linearly to the surface of the sphere.
The same math goes for electrostatics... here is a link: musr.physics.ubc.ca/~jess/hr/skept/Gauss/node4.ht
Yes but CDRs are MUCH cheaper than DVD-Rs.
The Sharper Image Ionic Breeze uses a wire. Atleast that is 1 more dimension that a needlepoint.
There actually is decent flow on those units. You can definitely feel the air movement - I'd estimate it to be about 60 CFM based on case fans and surface area. I put mine near a white wall and it got dark with particles.
Anyhow 60CFM would cycle a 360 ft^2 room in an hour. That isn't so bad considering it uses very little energy and is silent.
Without ducting you are sunk.
SATA can use long cables and will soon have the capacities you need and they are generally higher quality. Price is much higher though.
Anyone know where they got the music for the Dark City trailer? It was excellent.
Um... thanks for coming in. Pls shut the door on your way out.
Acutally it's not a gamble if you find a place that will sell you the particular series I mentioned. They all go to 3.4ghz with stock voltage and cooling / 3.6ghz with mild overvolting and an aftermarket HSF combo. If you get an old 2.4b then you have no chance. Most people fail to get their rid higher b/c of memory or mobo not the CPU.
The difference in OC potential between the old batches ('02) and the new batches ('03) is so great that some mail order places charge premiums for guaranteed c1 stepping 2.4Bs. The best of that bunch are the SLRZ (from Costa Rica) and the SLEF.
People there are OCing their 2.4B Northwood SLRZ's to 3.6ghz/ 200mhz FSB on granite bay boards. All that is missing is Hyper Threading, but the 2.4B's only cost $160 and the boards... about $180.
The concorde has the best safety record of any aircraft. Fewest crashes per passenger*mile.
That is pizza money compared to "soft" savings of having a larger % of employees with fewer rights. Temps are easier to fire, cost less to fire and have less redress if terminated for reasons other than cause.
Temps are a bit like scabs in pushing the full timers to work harder and complain less. Temps can also be used to vary your headcount with changing needs. The alternative is to pay full time people for overtime.
The savings of $100 per temp is nothing.