They aren't installing the machines in Europe (well, I guess they may be in the U.K.). I sort of doubt that the EU is going to go to war with the United States over copyright, so you can question what they are doing all you want, but the best resolution you are likely to get is 'being unhappy about it'.
How big have you seen them? I'm also in Michigan, and I don't think I have ever seen (in the wild, knew someone with a tarantula) a spider any bigger than a half-dollar coin (and that was probably an extreme example).
If you go down the rabbit hole, you will find that the nose stuff is a tenuous bunch of speculation (I did this after I first replied, so don't give me too much credit), that you apparently decided to amplify into 'all guys have'.
It sounds neat, but the Wired article, and the stuff it cites, say very little. I can't access the Nature article that starts it all, but the 26 years of apparent silence since it was published do say something.
All you have to do is add a level of indirection. Take the reCAPTCHA images and present them to users of your rereCAPTCHA system, and then use the results to solve the reCAPTCHA tests.
I suppose keeping up with the turnover of the reCAPTCHA might be an issue, but if the problem were valuable enough to solve...
I suppose you are talking about the heliocentric view not taking hold right away, but coming to influence the history of science, but I don't really see any parochialism like the earth being the center of the universe infesting modern though.
There are probably billions of people who are imposing limits on themselves, but they aren't really the thinkers. Any person with the most basic grasp of cosmology is going to be quite excited at the prospect of life elsewhere, but it isn't going to shake their foundations, the unimaginable size of the universe makes it a clear possibility.
It isn't supposed to be a conclusion, it is supposed to frame the discussion. It is reasonably effective at doing so (in that it lists a bunch of factors to consider, and presents the opportunity to think about the limits for each factor).
So the fact that life could be nearly impossibly rare gets to butt heads with the fact that the stars are nearly uncountable. And so forth.
Landmarks vs maps is a poor way of characterizing the difference. Women navigate using stories (or narratives, whatever), men navigate spatially. So for a woman, one landmark comes after another, but for men, one landmark is north of another.
Well, that's the stereotype anyway, I'm sure there are exceptions.
You can safely assume that millions of years will not have passed when traveling to a planet that is only hundreds of light years away. If you assume that only most of, say, a 1000 light year journey takes place at 0.5c (so the trip will take 2 or 3 or 4 thousand years, assuming some clever sort of acceleration is worked out), the rest frame (the planet you launched from) will only be experiencing time about 15% faster than the ship, so only 2,300, or 3,450, or 4,600 years will have passed by the time you get to the other planet (or so). This guy worked it all out and put it in a nice table:
The effect starts to get 'huge' (in my opinion) somewhere around 0.995 C. It is also noteworthy that time is actually slowing down on the ship, not going faster outside it (it isn't completely crazy to say that light never quite exists, if you think in terms of a photon's frame of reference).
What are these hand-wavy implications you speak of?
I guess we could try beaming them 'Hi', and if they happen to be watching, they might answer, but we (as in you and I) would probably be dead before such a thing was finished.
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Another option would be no one.
He mentions py2app and py2exe, noting that getting them going can take quite a bit of effort.
They are still going to run into the problem that a lot of 'cool' stuff (graphics and whatnot) in Python depends on some C code.
Yeah, that's right. My bad on getting the quote wrong. Stupid memory.
For extra points, yell "I DON'T KNOW YOU!" and "GIVE ME BACK MY PURSE!"
May the socially ostracized unite!
I prefer:
Green: Your government is protecting you.
Yellow: Your government has stopped protecting you.
Red: Duct tape.
They aren't installing the machines in Europe (well, I guess they may be in the U.K.). I sort of doubt that the EU is going to go to war with the United States over copyright, so you can question what they are doing all you want, but the best resolution you are likely to get is 'being unhappy about it'.
I believe you would actually have to grind up the hipster.
How big have you seen them? I'm also in Michigan, and I don't think I have ever seen (in the wild, knew someone with a tarantula) a spider any bigger than a half-dollar coin (and that was probably an extreme example).
Unless, of course, someone with one of the machines were to take advantage of this newfangled 'internet' thingy.
You sure aren't trying very hard. It is explicitly stated that they are only offering this service for books that have passed into the public domain.
If you go down the rabbit hole, you will find that the nose stuff is a tenuous bunch of speculation (I did this after I first replied, so don't give me too much credit), that you apparently decided to amplify into 'all guys have'.
It sounds neat, but the Wired article, and the stuff it cites, say very little. I can't access the Nature article that starts it all, but the 26 years of apparent silence since it was published do say something.
I was referring to the comments about the nose, and less about the willingness of people to stick stuff under their skin.
Is there a band named "With Respect to Dave Barry"?
Nothing obvious on Google.
Someone sure spoon fed you a shovel full.
All you have to do is add a level of indirection. Take the reCAPTCHA images and present them to users of your rereCAPTCHA system, and then use the results to solve the reCAPTCHA tests.
I suppose keeping up with the turnover of the reCAPTCHA might be an issue, but if the problem were valuable enough to solve...
I suppose you are talking about the heliocentric view not taking hold right away, but coming to influence the history of science, but I don't really see any parochialism like the earth being the center of the universe infesting modern though.
There are probably billions of people who are imposing limits on themselves, but they aren't really the thinkers. Any person with the most basic grasp of cosmology is going to be quite excited at the prospect of life elsewhere, but it isn't going to shake their foundations, the unimaginable size of the universe makes it a clear possibility.
It isn't supposed to be a conclusion, it is supposed to frame the discussion. It is reasonably effective at doing so (in that it lists a bunch of factors to consider, and presents the opportunity to think about the limits for each factor).
So the fact that life could be nearly impossibly rare gets to butt heads with the fact that the stars are nearly uncountable. And so forth.
You have simply repeated the joke, with less subtlety.
Landmarks vs maps is a poor way of characterizing the difference. Women navigate using stories (or narratives, whatever), men navigate spatially. So for a woman, one landmark comes after another, but for men, one landmark is north of another.
Well, that's the stereotype anyway, I'm sure there are exceptions.
I think you might be disappointed in the actual overall reaction.
You can safely assume that millions of years will not have passed when traveling to a planet that is only hundreds of light years away. If you assume that only most of, say, a 1000 light year journey takes place at 0.5c (so the trip will take 2 or 3 or 4 thousand years, assuming some clever sort of acceleration is worked out), the rest frame (the planet you launched from) will only be experiencing time about 15% faster than the ship, so only 2,300, or 3,450, or 4,600 years will have passed by the time you get to the other planet (or so). This guy worked it all out and put it in a nice table:
http://ftp.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.html
The effect starts to get 'huge' (in my opinion) somewhere around 0.995 C. It is also noteworthy that time is actually slowing down on the ship, not going faster outside it (it isn't completely crazy to say that light never quite exists, if you think in terms of a photon's frame of reference).
What are these hand-wavy implications you speak of?
I guess we could try beaming them 'Hi', and if they happen to be watching, they might answer, but we (as in you and I) would probably be dead before such a thing was finished.
Of course it isn't feasible. But we are playing paranoid here. Jeez.
I take great offense at being compared to Dan Brown, I poured seconds into that post and marketed it to no one.