Parents, who are legally and morally responsibile for their kids, are then empowered into deciding if a game is suitable. Instead of the kids buying the game at lunchtime, against the wishes of the parents, the parents have the power to decide if a game is appropiate. If it is, great. When carmageddon was released, I was too young. My dad decided I was mature enough to cope with it though, so he bought it for me. Same happend to my friends sister, with GTA: 1969.
All kids are different. Some 12 yearolds can tell reality from fantasy. Some cant. Therefore the decision is up to the parent, not the shop keeper, on whether to server the game/video/cd.
If I decide my 12 yearold kid can have alcohol, thats great. I dont want them buying it behind my back, hence they have to be 18 before they can buy it on their own (well, 16-17 depending on time, location and attitude)
All this legistation is doing is (rightly) expanding the laws that prevent minors from buying "Childs Play 3" to include other media, namely games. It does not take away the power, rights or responsibilities of the parent.
there's a big difference between that kind of thing and a NASA-sanctioned program encouraging teachers to risk space travel.
Risk is the name of the game if you want to sit in that chair. You risk your life every day on the interstate, you risk you life when you go swimming, you risk your life crossing the road. Hell a nuke might go off near you and you'd be dead as a dodo.
As long as the vollenteers know the risks, why the hell not?
P.S. publicity == more funding == more exploration (hopfully not more safty).
We're just using the normal email login/password thing, and unique student number, that everyone has, combined with a list of ellegible voters. bit of php, mysql, https and running on a "secure" server wedged in between a couple of £x,000,000 IBM supermachines. It's probably crackable with enough time and money, but its not worth it. Besides, the paper-voting system was much easier to break.
Did you still have voting booths? Or was it only from your own PC?
Here at Exeter, we start a test run tomorrow lunchtime. Voting on campus computers, at home, and in the union itself on special computers (where there are normally balot boxes).
The real, legally binding, election for the 7 sabbatical jobs, is in 4 weeks time.
Only data stored is 1) The vote (duh) 2) Who can vote
When someone votes, they are knocked off one list, and a number is added to the vote list. No fancy demographic logging or anything.
Get yourself a single-transferable vote system and get new ideas! In the U.S, a vote for a small party is a wasted vote. With STV, you could go
1) Green 2) Libertarian 3) Republican 4) No one 5) Democrats 6) Commumists 7) Cowboy Neal
Then when the result gets in, the #1 votes are tallied. the candidate with the least #1 votes gets knocked out, and the #2 they marked down becomes their number 1. Then the same thign happens until 1 candidate has 50%+1 of the votes.
In the above vote, stage 1
Green - 1% Libertarian - 12% Republican - 32% No one - 3% Democrats - 31% Commumists - 4% Cowboy Neal - 17%
Our vote then gets changed from "Green" to "Libertarian".
Next round Libertarian - 12.5% Republican - 33.2% No one - 3% Democrats - 31.3% Commumists - 4% Cowboy Neal - 17%
"No-One" is eliminated. Our vote (Libertarian ) stays
Well if its not going to work, lets just leave it all alone. Doesnt matter. Y'nkow women are "never going to get the vote", so why do they bother. The jamacans arent going to win the bobsled race, so no point in entering. The RIAA isnt going to have a change of heart and campaign against the DMCA, so theres no point in saying anything. Blacks will always be inferior, so why all this "civil rights" stuff.
Just because change is hard shouldnt mean we just go "Oh well".
Without discussion, change doesnt happen. Oh, and It's my right to think that people that kill endangered species, whether it be shark hunters, or the fleets that overfish the North Sea, are equally stupid as each other.
If you have two supposedly "simultaneous" events then an observer moving to the left at 0.9C would see event B happen BEFORE event A, and an observer moving to the right at 0.9C would see event B happen AFTER event A.
If theres two simultaneous explosions, one (A) at 3 miles north of X, one (B) at X, an observer at 3 miles south of X would hear Explosion B before A, and could then radio in to the observer to the north that explosion B has occured. B doesnt know the explosion has occured because he hasnt heard it yet. He ehars A, then B, and Believes A is nearer then B, which the Southern observer denies.
If I sit here at my computer, I dont know if you are typing a reply until I load up the page. Does this mean I can stop you typing it if I havent read it?
I think this boils down to the "universal clock". Just pick a clock that is the same distance from both people at any given point. For more then 2 people, pick a clock (Z) that is equidistant between person A and B, and a clock (Y) between C and D, and X between E and F, and W between G and H. A will see the same time as B (the time clock Z appears to be). C will see the same time as D (the time clock Y appears to be). E will see the same time as F (the time clock X appears to be). G will see the same time as H (the time clock W appears to be). Then set the clock Z and clock Y to the time that it perceives clock V, equidistant from Z and Y. then Z will see the same time as Y. Therefore A will see the same time as B, C and D. Then set the clock X and clock W to the time that it perceives clock U, equidistant from X and W. then X will see the same time as W. Therefore E will see the same time as F, G and H. Then set the clock V and clock U to the time that it perceives clock T, equidistant from V and U. then V will have the same time as U. Therefore A will see the same time as B, C and D, E, F, G and H.
If you see yourself in that telescope, that's not just an image of you, that is you. Changes you made in the universe, everything you did "yesterday" is happening now, as you watch it. As far as space, time, and the universe (from where you sit) are concerned, you are now in two places at the same time. If you were able to step back into your teleportation device, you would end up back on the earth "yesterday."
So what you are saying is that because you cant perceive what is going on "now", it's not going on? Isn't that more of a philosophical question (tree falls in forrest does it make a noise)? Because you havent heard an explosion 4 miles away when it goes off, it doesnt mean its gone off.
If its something to do with schrodingders cat and uncertaintly, FTL communications would break the uncertaintly about it, as sure as a CCTV or XRay will break the view of cat in the box.
As for the tacyon pistols, thats a very self centered view of the universe. Because I fire at someone doesnt mean it's there. If I track a plane via sound waves, then fire my laser, I'll miss. It wouldnt look like I had hit the person, as the tachyon "bullet" would travel away from me, and hit the person instantly. However as light is slow, the light from the bullet would take 16 seconds to reach me from where the person was when I fired. It would "look" like the bullet travelled at the speed of light (if it did travel at the speed of light it would look like it travelled at half the speed of light).
To the bloke being shot, He would fire his gun, then get hit at the same time. He'd then (if he didnt die) see the bullet he was hit by move backwards out of him at 1.0c An optical illusion, nothing more.
the passenger can see it too, so s/he'll shut up and let you concentrate on the road
Since when does the passanger have to be 1) Aware of road condition 2) Capable of being aware of road conditions 3) Not a couple of 3 yearolds in the back fighting each other.
Why? Not being a troll or flaimbait, I'm interested. If I'm on earth at 04:00UTC, Wednesday, then step through a portal to a ship 1 light day away from earth, taking 1 minute for my matter to get to the ship (while still being perfectly conscious), I emerge, according to my wristwatch, at 04:01UTC, Wednesday. I look out the window, with my powerful telescope and see yesterdays newspaper back on earth. I sync a clock on the ship to my wristwatch and step back through the portal to earth, at 04:02UTC, My wrist watch. I emerge at 04:03UTC, My wrist watch, and compare to a control watch on earth, they are the same.
I then wait for 23 hours 55 minutes, and look at the ship with my telescope. At 04:01UTC, Thursday, I see myself emerge on the ship, look through a telescope, then go back through the portal. The clock I see says 04:01UTC, Wednesday.
If the ship then travels to earth at a slow speed (say 0.001c - about 1,000,000km/h), 1000 days later, the ship enters earth orbit, I fly up on the shuttle, and look at the clock. Relativistic forces havent changed the time of the clock by more then a few seconds, if that.
Wheres the time travel? I look back in time, but astronauts on the moon looked back in time to earth when they were 1.5 light seconds away.
MPEG is fine for archiving, but its not that good if you want to edit later. MPEG encodes the difference between key frames. This makes it hard and expensive to edit frame-by-frame.
What I'd like to know is if there are any standard formats that are good for cuts. DV is great, but takes up a lot of space (3 minutes on a CD). It'd be nice to archive easilly editable source, just at a lower-than-dv quality.
It could just as easily be a device designed to screw with the navigation systems, or it could even be a homing beacon for a missle.
If you want to intefere with the system, simply leave the device on inside your bag, and disconnect the LCD. They'll never notice.
Hell I've lift a mobile phone on in the hold luggage on a 2 hour flight before. Interestingly didnt get any "welcome to {France, Switzerland, Germany}" text messages, implying the 1) Hold is shielded againt mobile phone signals 2) Plane was too high to get a signal, even while over the alps.
Electronic interference was blamed for a explosion that killed 200+ servicemen on a carrier during Vietnam. A fighter fired some of its ordinance while sitting on the deck before takeoff. I don't know the exact name of the kind of interference that was involved, but it had something to do with not shielding some of the circuitry.
The interference was something called "big-freakin-bomb-exploding inteference", it generally happens when you fire weapons when you shouldnt.
Video takes up a lot. Try storing multi-channel (multiple camera angles) uncompessed HDTV, gigs soon add up. Mix in some form of holographic projection and a dash of libraries of congress and you eat up terrabytes.
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Parents, who are legally and morally responsibile for their kids, are then empowered into deciding if a game is suitable. Instead of the kids buying the game at lunchtime, against the wishes of the parents, the parents have the power to decide if a game is appropiate. If it is, great. When carmageddon was released, I was too young. My dad decided I was mature enough to cope with it though, so he bought it for me. Same happend to my friends sister, with GTA: 1969.
All kids are different. Some 12 yearolds can tell reality from fantasy. Some cant. Therefore the decision is up to the parent, not the shop keeper, on whether to server the game/video/cd.
If I decide my 12 yearold kid can have alcohol, thats great. I dont want them buying it behind my back, hence they have to be 18 before they can buy it on their own (well, 16-17 depending on time, location and attitude)
All this legistation is doing is (rightly) expanding the laws that prevent minors from buying "Childs Play 3" to include other media, namely games.
It does not take away the power, rights or responsibilities of the parent.
Give me One good reason why this is a bad thing.
there's a big difference between that kind of thing and a NASA-sanctioned program encouraging teachers to risk space travel.
Risk is the name of the game if you want to sit in that chair. You risk your life every day on the interstate, you risk you life when you go swimming, you risk your life crossing the road. Hell a nuke might go off near you and you'd be dead as a dodo.
As long as the vollenteers know the risks, why the hell not?
P.S. publicity == more funding == more exploration (hopfully not more safty).
Nasa has a tendency to have dramatic accidents occasionally... We should send some politicians up instead...
Yes, "accidents"
That's strange, I thought space was really cold. Maybe they have some kind of generator up there?
Actually they put a webserver up there, then posted a link on slashdot, that'll thaw out anything!
Lose the cellphone and you wish you had remembered at least some, instead of being stuck in Italy on new years eve. Thank god for email
We're just using the normal email login/password thing, and unique student number, that everyone has, combined with a list of ellegible voters. bit of php, mysql, https and running on a "secure" server wedged in between a couple of £x,000,000 IBM supermachines. It's probably crackable with enough time and money, but its not worth it. Besides, the paper-voting system was much easier to break.
Did you still have voting booths? Or was it only from your own PC?
Here at Exeter, we start a test run tomorrow lunchtime. Voting on campus computers, at home, and in the union itself on special computers (where there are normally balot boxes).
The real, legally binding, election for the 7 sabbatical jobs, is in 4 weeks time.
Only data stored is
1) The vote (duh)
2) Who can vote
When someone votes, they are knocked off one list, and a number is added to the vote list. No fancy demographic logging or anything.
Get yourself a single-transferable vote system and get new ideas! In the U.S, a vote for a small party is a wasted vote. With STV, you could go
1) Green
2) Libertarian
3) Republican
4) No one
5) Democrats
6) Commumists
7) Cowboy Neal
Then when the result gets in, the #1 votes are tallied. the candidate with the least #1 votes gets knocked out, and the #2 they marked down becomes their number 1. Then the same thign happens until 1 candidate has 50%+1 of the votes.
In the above vote, stage 1
Green - 1%
Libertarian - 12%
Republican - 32%
No one - 3%
Democrats - 31%
Commumists - 4%
Cowboy Neal - 17%
Our vote then gets changed from "Green" to "Libertarian".
Next round
Libertarian - 12.5%
Republican - 33.2%
No one - 3%
Democrats - 31.3%
Commumists - 4%
Cowboy Neal - 17%
"No-One" is eliminated. Our vote (Libertarian ) stays
Next round
Libertarian - 13%
Republican - 34%
Democrats - 32%
Commumists - 4%
Cowboy Neal - 17%
Then
Libertarian - 15%
Republican - 34%
Democrats - 32%
Cowboy Neal - 19%
Then our vote transfers to republican
Republican - 37%
Democrats - 33%
Cowboy Neal - 30%
Then
Republican - 47%
Democrats - 53%
Our vote is used at every stage. The only problem I see is it takes longer to count.
chances of actually getting them into practice.
Well if its not going to work, lets just leave it all alone. Doesnt matter. Y'nkow women are "never going to get the vote", so why do they bother. The jamacans arent going to win the bobsled race, so no point in entering. The RIAA isnt going to have a change of heart and campaign against the DMCA, so theres no point in saying anything. Blacks will always be inferior, so why all this "civil rights" stuff.
Just because change is hard shouldnt mean we just go "Oh well".
Without discussion, change doesnt happen. Oh, and It's my right to think that people that kill endangered species, whether it be shark hunters, or the fleets that overfish the North Sea, are equally stupid as each other.
If you have two supposedly "simultaneous" events then an observer moving to the left at 0.9C would see event B happen BEFORE event A, and an observer moving to the right at 0.9C would see event B happen AFTER event A.
If theres two simultaneous explosions, one (A) at 3 miles north of X, one (B) at X, an observer at 3 miles south of X would hear Explosion B before A, and could then radio in to the observer to the north that explosion B has occured. B doesnt know the explosion has occured because he hasnt heard it yet. He ehars A, then B, and Believes A is nearer then B, which the Southern observer denies.
If I sit here at my computer, I dont know if you are typing a reply until I load up the page. Does this mean I can stop you typing it if I havent read it?
I think this boils down to the "universal clock". Just pick a clock that is the same distance from both people at any given point.
For more then 2 people, pick a clock (Z) that is equidistant between person A and B, and a clock (Y) between C and D, and X between E and F, and W between G and H.
A will see the same time as B (the time clock Z appears to be).
C will see the same time as D (the time clock Y appears to be).
E will see the same time as F (the time clock X appears to be).
G will see the same time as H (the time clock W appears to be).
Then set the clock Z and clock Y to the time that it perceives clock V, equidistant from Z and Y. then Z will see the same time as Y.
Therefore A will see the same time as B, C and D.
Then set the clock X and clock W to the time that it perceives clock U, equidistant from X and W. then X will see the same time as W.
Therefore E will see the same time as F, G and H.
Then set the clock V and clock U to the time that it perceives clock T, equidistant from V and U. then V will have the same time as U.
Therefore A will see the same time as B, C and D, E, F, G and H.
That syncronises watches for people A throguh H.
If you see yourself in that telescope, that's not just an image of you, that is you. Changes you made in the universe, everything you did "yesterday" is happening now, as you watch it. As far as space, time, and the universe (from where you sit) are concerned, you are now in two places at the same time. If you were able to step back into your teleportation device, you would end up back on the earth "yesterday."
So what you are saying is that because you cant perceive what is going on "now", it's not going on? Isn't that more of a philosophical question (tree falls in forrest does it make a noise)? Because you havent heard an explosion 4 miles away when it goes off, it doesnt mean its gone off.
If its something to do with schrodingders cat and uncertaintly, FTL communications would break the uncertaintly about it, as sure as a CCTV or XRay will break the view of cat in the box.
As for the tacyon pistols, thats a very self centered view of the universe. Because I fire at someone doesnt mean it's there. If I track a plane via sound waves, then fire my laser, I'll miss. It wouldnt look like I had hit the person, as the tachyon "bullet" would travel away from me, and hit the person instantly. However as light is slow, the light from the bullet would take 16 seconds to reach me from where the person was when I fired. It would "look" like the bullet travelled at the speed of light (if it did travel at the speed of light it would look like it travelled at half the speed of light).
To the bloke being shot, He would fire his gun, then get hit at the same time. He'd then (if he didnt die) see the bullet he was hit by move backwards out of him at 1.0c An optical illusion, nothing more.
For the most part, people only have/need one hand on the wheel anyway.
lucky for me otherwise I'd be stuck constantly in first gear with no radio
the passenger can see it too, so s/he'll shut up and let you concentrate on the road
Since when does the passanger have to be
1) Aware of road condition
2) Capable of being aware of road conditions
3) Not a couple of 3 yearolds in the back fighting each other.
Load of crap
Dont oyu guys have silent phones that vibrate?
Again, diffferent attitude. From these posts, americans seem pig ignorant. Only (two) times I've ever been in a cinema when soemone's
1) Talked during the trailers or films so I can hear sitting two seats away
2) Had a phone go off answered it before leaving the room
were 40-year old ean of far eastern origin
Mobile phones are inbedded into the european culture now, America is at the stage of immaturity that europe was 5 years ago.
FTL = time travel
Why? Not being a troll or flaimbait, I'm interested. If I'm on earth at 04:00UTC, Wednesday, then step through a portal to a ship 1 light day away from earth, taking 1 minute for my matter to get to the ship (while still being perfectly conscious), I emerge, according to my wristwatch, at 04:01UTC, Wednesday. I look out the window, with my powerful telescope and see yesterdays newspaper back on earth. I sync a clock on the ship to my wristwatch and step back through the portal to earth, at 04:02UTC, My wrist watch. I emerge at 04:03UTC, My wrist watch, and compare to a control watch on earth, they are the same.
I then wait for 23 hours 55 minutes, and look at the ship with my telescope. At 04:01UTC, Thursday, I see myself emerge on the ship, look through a telescope, then go back through the portal. The clock I see says 04:01UTC, Wednesday.
If the ship then travels to earth at a slow speed (say 0.001c - about 1,000,000km/h), 1000 days later, the ship enters earth orbit, I fly up on the shuttle, and look at the clock. Relativistic forces havent changed the time of the clock by more then a few seconds, if that.
Wheres the time travel? I look back in time, but astronauts on the moon looked back in time to earth when they were 1.5 light seconds away.
Yes, I can testify to this
*looks at 5,000 page essay due in in 7 hours*
MPEG is fine for archiving, but its not that good if you want to edit later. MPEG encodes the difference between key frames. This makes it hard and expensive to edit frame-by-frame.
What I'd like to know is if there are any standard formats that are good for cuts. DV is great, but takes up a lot of space (3 minutes on a CD). It'd be nice to archive easilly editable source, just at a lower-than-dv quality.
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Go to preferences, see where it has "karma bonus", set that to +1.
It allows trolls to moderated high-karma people out of existance, and others to mod high-karma people up by whatever bonus they want
I'm guessing that a cell phone mast has more power radiated along the ground, rather than up uselessly into the air.
The plane didnt crash either - arrived 20 minutes early in fact.
It's not hard to leave a phone, or a strong EM transmitter, on in your bag, noone will notice.
I never mentioned Bill Gates. Plenty of people have said the 640k thing, in erronously quoting him. I'm quoting them.
As long as you dont drop any packets over an inhabited area...
It could just as easily be a device designed to screw with the navigation systems, or it could even be a homing beacon for a missle.
If you want to intefere with the system, simply leave the device on inside your bag, and disconnect the LCD. They'll never notice.
Hell I've lift a mobile phone on in the hold luggage on a 2 hour flight before. Interestingly didnt get any "welcome to {France, Switzerland, Germany}" text messages, implying the
1) Hold is shielded againt mobile phone signals
2) Plane was too high to get a signal, even while over the alps.
Electronic interference was blamed for a explosion that killed 200+ servicemen on a carrier during Vietnam. A fighter fired some of its ordinance while sitting on the deck before takeoff. I don't know the exact name of the kind of interference that was involved, but it had something to do with not shielding some of the circuitry.
The interference was something called "big-freakin-bomb-exploding inteference", it generally happens when you fire weapons when you shouldnt.
Do we really need that much storage?
$GENERIC_QUOTE_640K
Video takes up a lot. Try storing multi-channel (multiple camera angles) uncompessed HDTV, gigs soon add up. Mix in some form of holographic projection and a dash of libraries of congress and you eat up terrabytes.