That's only if the acceleration continues. Ask the very same cosmologists if the rate of acceleration has been constant since the start of the universe or not. If the acceleration constant could change, perhaps it could become negative, in which case implosion is not ruled out.
It's one step closer to proving there's an infinite sequence of these numbers. Just infinity - 42 more to go and the proof is complete!
In all seriousness, they are interesting mainly because they are so simple mathematically that very very early mathematicians got interested in them. But even after hundreds of years of interest among mathematicians, there's no formula for predicting them, and very little successfully proven about them.
Since they are so rare, each find is a significant advancement for those who might be interested in trying to find a pattern.
Nah, the goal is obviously to find a technologically inferior bunch of intelligent aliens, and bring our cookbooks to their planet. Before any vegans complain, I want to point out that anything from another planet can't technically be an animal, so morally they should be fine to eat. And spicy!
Those are exactly the sort of people a sane society needs to move. Clearly the widow who's husband farmed the land for 60 years is no longer farming the land. If she was, she'd be able to pay the property taxes. If she can't, it's because someone who is willing and/or able to work hard has been paying for land in the area, and the property taxes are therefore rising. Property values are therefore rising too. The sane solution is for her to sell out, and retire to an area where the land isn't in such desperate demand.
What, so you're ok with all of the property gradually accumulating in the hands of the wealthy few. We need absentee landlords in this country?
Property tax prevents people from holding property indefinitely, and makes sure that to some extent those who will work to effectively use or enhance property have some access to it.
Have these people spent any time actually watching an octopus? They are constantly getting their tentacles tangled. Octopi frequently get their limbs tangled in permanent knots, which is probably part of why they have extras (as backups to cover for the loss of functionality). I don't think these guys are who we want to model our robots after.
You made a list of many of koster's worst design decisions and lauded them. That's very interesting. It's probably also why his designs appeal to so few people: his ideas just aren't what most people would call fun.
They should, but not this book. Koster is a game design disaster.
And for the most part, game designers do plenty of reading and thinking about what is fun, at least at some of the better game design houses. Theory of game design discussions and reading are very popular.
There were lots of game devs with all of these ideas long before koster. Koster's implementations of them weren't even very good. Koster does not know good game design.
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It was. People were all over push for a while. Then it became passe.
I have replies to my posts marked as messages, so I tend to see them pretty quickly.
I actually expect the future will look something like this very shortly:
Our personal config will follow us around. Either by being easily moved around the internet, or by residing on a small storage device we carry (USB key for example).
We'll typically carry a pretty reasonable amount of computer power around with us (ever improving notebook, for example).
We'll carry around our preferred display, which will be a roll-up plastic sheet with a cheap replaceable snap-lock frame. Hence you _will_ be able to easily carry a 30" display around.
At work I expect we'll either plug in our preferred config, or use the company mandated one, but regardless, we'll be working for the most part on computational hardware not located particularly near our desks. We're already heading this direction where I work, and it's only getting easier to do.
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Thanks, I think you may well be the only one who got it.
All it has to do is go negative for long enough, and crunch becomes inevitable.
I can't believe this got moderated offtopic. How much more on-topic could you possibly get. Maybe the moderator just didn't understand.
I can't tell you how much it impacts my daily life that the french and belgians are pissed off at my government.
That's only if the acceleration continues. Ask the very same cosmologists if the rate of acceleration has been constant since the start of the universe or not. If the acceleration constant could change, perhaps it could become negative, in which case implosion is not ruled out.
The mersenne primes are two to those numbers minus one. Those are the mersenne numbers, not the primes.
The real problem with using this to communicate with aliens will be deciding whether to use bigendian or littleendian encoding.
It's one step closer to proving there's an infinite sequence of these numbers. Just infinity - 42 more to go and the proof is complete!
In all seriousness, they are interesting mainly because they are so simple mathematically that very very early mathematicians got interested in them. But even after hundreds of years of interest among mathematicians, there's no formula for predicting them, and very little successfully proven about them.
Since they are so rare, each find is a significant advancement for those who might be interested in trying to find a pattern.
No no, you misunderstand. When they tell you a mersenne prime, they're giving you the exponent.
Nah, the goal is obviously to find a technologically inferior bunch of intelligent aliens, and bring our cookbooks to their planet. Before any vegans complain, I want to point out that anything from another planet can't technically be an animal, so morally they should be fine to eat. And spicy!
Those are exactly the sort of people a sane society needs to move. Clearly the widow who's husband farmed the land for 60 years is no longer farming the land. If she was, she'd be able to pay the property taxes. If she can't, it's because someone who is willing and/or able to work hard has been paying for land in the area, and the property taxes are therefore rising. Property values are therefore rising too. The sane solution is for her to sell out, and retire to an area where the land isn't in such desperate demand.
What, so you're ok with all of the property gradually accumulating in the hands of the wealthy few. We need absentee landlords in this country?
Property tax prevents people from holding property indefinitely, and makes sure that to some extent those who will work to effectively use or enhance property have some access to it.
Yellow light means you should MINIMIZE your speed in relation to the frame of the traffic light.
Nuclear weapons are great for cleaning up the environment. You can sterilize big areas with them very quickly.
Have these people spent any time actually watching an octopus? They are constantly getting their tentacles tangled. Octopi frequently get their limbs tangled in permanent knots, which is probably part of why they have extras (as backups to cover for the loss of functionality). I don't think these guys are who we want to model our robots after.
That would be everyone. Most psychologists would include associates in the environment though, so specifying the associates is redundant.
That's the OS shell. XP still runs fine headless.
Not when 31 degrees is considered toasty warm compared to the cold air outside.
Man, if I wasn't banned from moderation ... that is the funniest reply I've seen in days.
You made a list of many of koster's worst design decisions and lauded them. That's very interesting. It's probably also why his designs appeal to so few people: his ideas just aren't what most people would call fun.
They should, but not this book. Koster is a game design disaster.
And for the most part, game designers do plenty of reading and thinking about what is fun, at least at some of the better game design houses. Theory of game design discussions and reading are very popular.
There were lots of game devs with all of these ideas long before koster. Koster's implementations of them weren't even very good.
Koster does not know good game design.
It was. People were all over push for a while. Then it became passe.
You got nuthin because you didn't write your link right.
I have replies to my posts marked as messages, so I tend to see them pretty quickly.
I actually expect the future will look something like this very shortly:
Our personal config will follow us around. Either by being easily moved around the internet, or by residing on a small storage device we carry (USB key for example).
We'll typically carry a pretty reasonable amount of computer power around with us (ever improving notebook, for example).
We'll carry around our preferred display, which will be a roll-up plastic sheet with a cheap replaceable snap-lock frame. Hence you _will_ be able to easily carry a 30" display around.
At work I expect we'll either plug in our preferred config, or use the company mandated one, but regardless, we'll be working for the most part on computational hardware not located particularly near our desks. We're already heading this direction where I work, and it's only getting easier to do.