What's the mechanical means to tell if I am floating in deep space or falling down a liftshaft (in a vacuum, obviously;-).
The means by which you accelerate don't matter, which is why, at least that how I see it, why a clock near a gravity source goes slower. This notion is part of "General Relativity", I guess; Reading wikipedia, there is a line that reveals that since you don't feel an acceleration while falling, from your point of view as far as GR is concerned there is no acceleration - rather you are feeling a constant acceleration upwards while you are resting on the surface on the Earth, and a rather too rapid acceleration when you hit ground.
I believe there is a theory by Minkowsky which views this the other way around and states that actually spacetime around a gravity source is constantly expanding. Unfortunately, the parameters and consequences of that theory would have to be adjusted to make it match Einsteins theories, otherwise it won't work, so it is a good question what you would gain from using a theory which states that objects near a gravity source are constantly shrinking in respect to spacetime, which is somewhat hard to imagine for real, even though I believe it works.
Since it seemed to me 5 minutes ago that people where reluctant to answer to this topic, I went to read the intro of Einsteins paper. I found one line that is memorable and that might help you to answer the quiz-question "What are the two postulates of The theory of special relativity?"
The answer is in this quote:
.. the same laws of electrodynamics and optics will be valid for all frames of reference for which the equations of mechanics hold good. We will raise this conjecture (the purport of which will hereafter be called the "Principle of Relativity") to the status of a, postulate, and also introduce another postulate, which is only apparently irreconcilable with the former, namely, that light is always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity c which is independent of the state of motion of the emitting body. These two postulates suffice..
The thing that needs explaining to me would be "frames of reference". A difference between two frames can be that they are in motion with respect to each other. For example, take a spaceship accelerating to half the speed of light, starting from our resting position. The 2nd postulate explains that the speed of light can be a constant velocity c, both with respect to the frame of the resting observer and the frame(view) of the spaceship. This leads to the question: if you shoot a light ray(velocity c=the speed of light) from the spaceship moving with half= 0.5 c, how come the light ray moves with 1.0 c from the view of both observers, not with 1.5 c from the resting observer?
As Einstein states, he then proceeds to reconcile the two seemingly paradox postulates by formulating laws of electrodynamics that will work.
Take an arbitrarily large corpus of writings sampled from the world wide web.
These will contain random mistakes and contradictions and as such are probably not very good at creating an intelligence that can not only compress "the universe", but create new intelligent data as well(without repeating itself too much).
I also wasn't aware that his knowledge of physics and chemistry makes anyone better at picking up girls, i.e. at solving granular problems.
I predict that bzip -9 corpus.txt will be the winner of your contest, or more accurately, followed by strip bunzip2 && bunzip2 corpus.txt.bz2, where the pair of (bunzip2 corpus.txt.bz2) is the program.
Of course the real contest doesn't stop there. Because to compute the full information content, you need take into account the context provided by CPU and OS. You could also try to compress the bunzip2 binary, rename it to 'b', but all these savings will be minor compared to the already high compression rate of bunzip2.
At least that is how I am guessing it will turn out.
The US government is short of starting a war when some african nation is denying patents to a US company for the public good(at least, of their country), but it is ok to seize the property of lone US citizens and give it to corporations?
Well, on IRC you can moderate your own chat room. The downside is someone else can take over your chat room while your computers are down, unless you got allies.
Moderating like this isn't the problem, it is creating own chat rooms at all. I suppose Yahoo! will have to require an identification of all users who open up rooms if they want to stop that. This leads to other unpleasantness, like someone getting the idea that you are responsible for what people talk in the chat rooms you opened, even if you are away on holiday( or in jail:-P )
C'mon, force microsoft to offer a version without mediaplayer, while microsoft can still decide that this version costs about the same and thus there is no reason for PC vendors to prefer N over the normal version.
Dear friend, my name is Ali Ben Ogampa. I'm confiding in you because I am in need of a trustworthy associate. I'm a relative of Osama Bin Laden, whose assets have recently been frozen by the US government. However, I would be able to extract assets worth 20 mio $US with the help of a US national, who would offer to receive the sum split into small sums in his bank account and forward it to me, minus a handling bonus of 5% of the entire 20 mio...
All the crates have different heights and widths, and you have to fit them into a cargo container they just do fit in;-)
Try deleting your gmail trashcan ..
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It can take pretty long to delete all the stuff that you decided not to read or keep, because you can only delete 50 at a time. And then, when the trash can is empty, they tell you that you don't need to delete. Maybe that is true, but some stuff I just don't want or need anymore.
Yea, in fact I have come across "random one time bugs" that caused me "to shrug my shoulders" and most of the time they turned up again in the last days before I had to deliver the project, which I wasn't always succesful at.
You are right when talking about Tor as it is, but not in respect to the general concept. The problem of accountability can be worked around somewhat by using trust based networks, see www.advogato.org trust rating for the concept.
Terrorists don't need safe and secret networks to communicate in secret, they can communicate quite well using unsafe and supervised networks. Admittedly a Tor network offers some more protection, but probably not as much as you are making it out.
Spam is sent out by email in masses, and as long as no solution to spam in email is found, there is no need for spammers to take recourse to something like Tor. Admittedly, Tor could assist in hacking websites, but for this to work there has to be a primary vulnerability in the website, which could be exploited anyway, and most of the time can be exploited in principle anonymously because tracing back to the initial IP of the infection is ineffective.
You know, I wonder WHY does one NEED a flying webserver that's small?
Obviously, when a webserver detects the slashdot effect, it will signal the UWWWWCOM, which will quickly deploy a flock of webservers towards the site to serve webpages.
Then, when the slashdot effect cools off, the flying webservers can be redeployed as necessary, maybe to provide entertainment to soldiers in Iraq.
With BT, I can decide that I have no moral objection to spreading last nights episode of the Simpsons, with FreeNet (and others like it), I don't get the same choice.
Yea, fine, but you don't send a letter to the MPAA every time you are spreading one of their works, do you? So you are also relying on security by obscurity, namely that you will stay protected by the general open nature of the internet.
So, this means the revolution of Nintendo gives out details about the new features of something called "Emerge"? Probably a version control system, this "Emerge".
Slashdot Mirror
DRM is all about "to eat your cake and keep it too".
Children learn pretty fast that this doesn't work, while the media industry tries hard to work around it, keeping their data while distributing it.
permanent multicast of *.tar.gz and *.rpm :-)
.. when you can buy someone who will be evil for you?
I suppose the data last avg. 3 months, after which fresh unfragmented storage space is available
Can someone explain to me why this is digit-extraction?
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After bringing it to a common denominator, I don't see how it is always divisible?
I'd love to mod the AC up, but then I will miss on any replies to my question
What's the mechanical means to tell if I am floating in deep space or falling down a liftshaft (in a vacuum, obviously ;-).
The means by which you accelerate don't matter, which is why, at least that how I see it, why a clock near a gravity source goes slower. This notion is part of "General Relativity", I guess; Reading wikipedia, there is a line that reveals that since you don't feel an acceleration while falling, from your point of view as far as GR is concerned there is no acceleration - rather you are feeling a constant acceleration upwards while you are resting on the surface on the Earth, and a rather too rapid acceleration when you hit ground.I believe there is a theory by Minkowsky which views this the other way around and states that actually spacetime around a gravity source is constantly expanding. Unfortunately, the parameters and consequences of that theory would have to be adjusted to make it match Einsteins theories, otherwise it won't work, so it is a good question what you would gain from using a theory which states that objects near a gravity source are constantly shrinking in respect to spacetime, which is somewhat hard to imagine for real, even though I believe it works.
Is c(t) constant ?
We just need to identify the identity thiefs by gathering more identity data.
.. the same laws of electrodynamics and optics will be valid for all frames of reference for which the equations of mechanics hold good. We will raise this conjecture (the purport of which will hereafter be called the "Principle of Relativity") to the status of a, postulate, and also introduce another postulate, which is only apparently irreconcilable with the former, namely, that light is always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity c which is independent of the state of motion of the emitting body. These two postulates suffice ..
The thing that needs explaining to me would be "frames of reference". A difference between two frames can be that they are in motion with respect to each other. For example, take a spaceship accelerating to half the speed of light, starting from our resting position. The 2nd postulate explains that the speed of light can be a constant velocity c, both with respect to the frame of the resting observer and the frame(view) of the spaceship. This leads to the question: if you shoot a light ray(velocity c=the speed of light) from the spaceship moving with half= 0.5 c, how come the light ray moves with 1.0 c from the view of both observers, not with 1.5 c from the resting observer?As Einstein states, he then proceeds to reconcile the two seemingly paradox postulates by formulating laws of electrodynamics that will work.
Take an arbitrarily large corpus of writings sampled from the world wide web.
These will contain random mistakes and contradictions and as such are probably not very good at creating an intelligence that can not only compress "the universe", but create new intelligent data as well(without repeating itself too much).I also wasn't aware that his knowledge of physics and chemistry makes anyone better at picking up girls, i.e. at solving granular problems.
I predict that bzip -9 corpus.txt will be the winner of your contest, or more accurately, followed by strip bunzip2 && bunzip2 corpus.txt.bz2, where the pair of (bunzip2 corpus.txt.bz2) is the program.
Of course the real contest doesn't stop there. Because to compute the full information content, you need take into account the context provided by CPU and OS. You could also try to compress the bunzip2 binary, rename it to 'b', but all these savings will be minor compared to the already high compression rate of bunzip2.
At least that is how I am guessing it will turn out.
I particularly talk about AIDS drugs.
The US government is short of starting a war when some african nation is denying patents to a US company for the public good(at least, of their country), but it is ok to seize the property of lone US citizens and give it to corporations?
step 1: let company patent X
step 2: seize patent for the public good and pay back twice the patent fees
step 3: repeat
Can't find the download link ..
Well, on IRC you can moderate your own chat room. The downside is someone else can take over your chat room while your computers are down, unless you got allies.
:-P )
Moderating like this isn't the problem, it is creating own chat rooms at all. I suppose Yahoo! will have to require an identification of all users who open up rooms if they want to stop that. This leads to other unpleasantness, like someone getting the idea that you are responsible for what people talk in the chat rooms you opened, even if you are away on holiday( or in jail
C'mon, force microsoft to offer a version without mediaplayer, while microsoft can still decide that this version costs about the same and thus there is no reason for PC vendors to prefer N over the normal version.
A pointless and insane exercise.
All the crates have different heights and widths, and you have to fit them into a cargo container they just do fit in ;-)
It can take pretty long to delete all the stuff that you decided not to read or keep, because you can only delete 50 at a time. And then, when the trash can is empty, they tell you that you don't need to delete. Maybe that is true, but some stuff I just don't want or need anymore.
With DRM, your computer no longer is "your computer", it is the music and pictures industries computer.
Yea, in fact I have come across "random one time bugs" that caused me "to shrug my shoulders" and most of the time they turned up again in the last days before I had to deliver the project, which I wasn't always succesful at.
You are right when talking about Tor as it is, but not in respect to the general concept. The problem of accountability can be worked around somewhat by using trust based networks, see www.advogato.org trust rating for the concept.
Terrorists don't need safe and secret networks to communicate in secret, they can communicate quite well using unsafe and supervised networks. Admittedly a Tor network offers some more protection, but probably not as much as you are making it out.
Spam is sent out by email in masses, and as long as no solution to spam in email is found, there is no need for spammers to take recourse to something like Tor. Admittedly, Tor could assist in hacking websites, but for this to work there has to be a primary vulnerability in the website, which could be exploited anyway, and most of the time can be exploited in principle anonymously because tracing back to the initial IP of the infection is ineffective.
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You know, I wonder WHY does one NEED a flying webserver that's small?
Obviously, when a webserver detects the slashdot effect, it will signal the UWWWWCOM, which will quickly deploy a flock of webservers towards the site to serve webpages.Then, when the slashdot effect cools off, the flying webservers can be redeployed as necessary, maybe to provide entertainment to soldiers in Iraq.
A very efficient use of resources, isn't it?
With BT, I can decide that I have no moral objection to spreading last nights episode of the Simpsons, with FreeNet (and others like it), I don't get the same choice.
Yea, fine, but you don't send a letter to the MPAA every time you are spreading one of their works, do you? So you are also relying on security by obscurity, namely that you will stay protected by the general open nature of the internet.Hello mam, it's Major Paine speaking.
.. English is also very easy to misunderstand.
"Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge"
So, this means the revolution of Nintendo gives out details about the new features of something called "Emerge"? Probably a version control system, this "Emerge".