I don't think we can hold these crimes against the IBM of today. All of the people responsible for these things must be retired or dead by now.
While IBM has done some other bad things since World War II, I think that for the past few years they've done a good job of behaving themselves. So I will trust them until they give me reason not to.
The thing is, couldn't an adventure game be made on a shoestring budget these days? The adventure game fans care about the writing more than anything else. I wish we could convince them to keep making 2D adventure games for cheap and they should be able to make at least a small profit.
One correction. Quantum entanglement can be used to transmit information, but only if you already have a classical (slower-than-light) information channel already running between the two places. Basically, if Alice and Bob each took half of an EPR pair then later if Alice has a qubit she wants to send Bob, there is a method by which she can perform operations and measurements and then send the results of the measurements to Bob who then acts on his half of the EPR pair which becomes the qubit that Alice wanted to send. There is no way to do this without the classical information channel though.
You know that I have no way of knowing whether or not you're just pulling this stuff out of your ass. All of this is indistinguishable from dialogue from an episode of Doctor Who to me.
Or, the particle might be negated by a Hawking anti-particle before it crosses the event horizon.
This reminds me of Bertrand Russell's short story, "The Metaphysician's Nightmare." The metaphysician recalls a dream he had when he had a fever. He found himself in hell where the damned were punished by extremely improbable events. The devil himself was simply a region of nothingness. Every time a particle was about to enter another paticle would happen to collide with it knocking it away.
This drive is a part of me. It is one of the most important parts of me. To forsake this principle would be to forsake myself. This is simply how I am.
The problem with this rule is that in common usage, prepositions often follow verbs to form a sort of ad-hoc compound verb. Other languages have similar constructions except they use the preposition as a prefix to form a single word. Attempts to rearrange sentences ending in these pseudo-compound verbs end up being awkward.
In fact, "Reverse Polish Notation, in which he speaks." is a sentence fragment. "In which he speaks" is a clause modifying "Reverse Polish Notation."
"I am a man; nothing human is alien to me"
--Publius Terentius Afer
In life, we human beings only have eachother. As such, I am committed to the survival of every person. Call it selfish if you like, but I believe it to be every creature's imperative to preserve its own kind.
There wasn't really any reason for this article to be written. All of these things have been said too many times before. At this point, the N-Gage is effectively irrelevent and no one really needs to bother writing anything about it unless the situation changes. The same can be said of the PSP.
Perhaps they should give people a chance to find out more about the Tapwave Zodiac by writing more articles about it. They might even find a flaw in its design that can be made into another tired joke!
Gene therapy refers to any technique in which genes not present in an organism are introduced. This isn't about modifying the DNA of a rat and using it to create a new rat with specific characteristics. This is about effectively giving an adult rat a gene it wasn't born with.
Gene therapy has the potential to provide treatments and possibly even cures for genetic diseases.
Crossover Office is just a version of Wine configured to run MS Office. If it won't run MS Project, that means that the people at Codeweavers, who wrote most of Wine, don't know how to get Wine to run MS Project.
Actually astrum (star), is Latin. And nauta is Latin for sailor. So you need the Latin word for mouse which is mus (pronounced like the English word moose).
From what was there it sounds like there was such a game, but that it was more mundane than some people would like to think. Apparently the mazes made some people dizzy and the strobe effect it used could induce epileptic seizures. These effects are entirely possible and it sounds like they were exaggerated badly.
it in some way offers an alternate reaction path that is more favorable. Some catalysts work by providing a surface to which the reactants stick. I suspect that is what is happening here since making microbeads of titanium dioxide would maximize the surface area and thus the potential catalytic effect. By definition catalysts are not used up in the reaction that they catalyse.
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The fundamentals of logic are assumed to be true and it's very unlikely that any alien civilization would not use the same principles or at least principles equivalent to them.
However, it would be possible to derive mathematical systems very different from our own. It all depends on what one takes to be fundamental concepts. For example, we define functions in terms of sets, but we could also define sets in terms of functions.
We're not even certain that some of our own axioms are true. For example, the axiom of choice says that given any set of disjoint non-empty sets, there exists a set that contains exactly one element from each set. While most people will say that this seems to be a reasonable statement, if it is true, a number of counterintuitive statements are also true.
None of these things change the universe, only the way the universe is modeled. One might be able to come to some new conclusions and possibly even a few contradictory conclusions using a different form of mathematics, but all in all mathematics effectively is universal since there is no reason a mathematician from earth couldn't learn to understand alien mathematics.
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I don't think the frosty piss thing can even be called a joke.
I believe it was John Updike who said that there are only two plots in literature. Someone goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
His contempt for humanity is what makes him an ideal Microsoft employee.
I've heard some variant of it attributed to Ezra Pound.
That link gets posted in 90% of all Slashdot science stories.
I don't think we can hold these crimes against the IBM of today. All of the people responsible for these things must be retired or dead by now.
While IBM has done some other bad things since World War II, I think that for the past few years they've done a good job of behaving themselves. So I will trust them until they give me reason not to.
The thing is, couldn't an adventure game be made on a shoestring budget these days? The adventure game fans care about the writing more than anything else. I wish we could convince them to keep making 2D adventure games for cheap and they should be able to make at least a small profit.
One correction. Quantum entanglement can be used to transmit information, but only if you already have a classical (slower-than-light) information channel already running between the two places. Basically, if Alice and Bob each took half of an EPR pair then later if Alice has a qubit she wants to send Bob, there is a method by which she can perform operations and measurements and then send the results of the measurements to Bob who then acts on his half of the EPR pair which becomes the qubit that Alice wanted to send. There is no way to do this without the classical information channel though.
You know that I have no way of knowing whether or not you're just pulling this stuff out of your ass. All of this is indistinguishable from dialogue from an episode of Doctor Who to me.
Sapiens is the singular form. Sapientes is plural. So homo sapiens is singular and its plural form would be homines sapientes.
This reminds me of Bertrand Russell's short story,
"The Metaphysician's Nightmare." The metaphysician recalls a dream he had when he had a fever. He found himself in hell where the damned were punished by extremely improbable events. The devil himself was simply a region of nothingness. Every time a particle was about to enter another paticle would happen to collide with it knocking it away.
I highly reccommend everyone to read this story.
This drive is a part of me. It is one of the most important parts of me. To forsake this principle would be to forsake myself. This is simply how I am.
The problem with this rule is that in common usage, prepositions often follow verbs to form a sort of ad-hoc compound verb. Other languages have similar constructions except they use the preposition as a prefix to form a single word. Attempts to rearrange sentences ending in these pseudo-compound verbs end up being awkward.
In fact, "Reverse Polish Notation, in which he speaks." is a sentence fragment. "In which he speaks" is a clause modifying "Reverse Polish Notation."
In life, we human beings only have eachother. As such, I am committed to the survival of every person. Call it selfish if you like, but I believe it to be every creature's imperative to preserve its own kind.
There wasn't really any reason for this article to be written. All of these things have been said too many times before. At this point, the N-Gage is effectively irrelevent and no one really needs to bother writing anything about it unless the situation changes. The same can be said of the PSP.
Perhaps they should give people a chance to find out more about the Tapwave Zodiac by writing more articles about it. They might even find a flaw in its design that can be made into another tired joke!
Gene therapy refers to any technique in which genes not present in an organism are introduced. This isn't about modifying the DNA of a rat and using it to create a new rat with specific characteristics. This is about effectively giving an adult rat a gene it wasn't born with.
Gene therapy has the potential to provide treatments and possibly even cures for genetic diseases.
Crossover Office is just a version of Wine configured to run MS Office. If it won't run MS Project, that means that the people at Codeweavers, who wrote most of Wine, don't know how to get Wine to run MS Project.
I don't know about you but I'd follow the Kool-Aid Man to the ends of the earth.
YOu're forgetting Beanie Babies.
Actually astrum (star), is Latin. And nauta is Latin for sailor. So you need the Latin word for mouse which is mus (pronounced like the English word moose).
From what was there it sounds like there was such a game, but that it was more mundane than some people would like to think. Apparently the mazes made some people dizzy and the strobe effect it used could induce epileptic seizures. These effects are entirely possible and it sounds like they were exaggerated badly.
"Every valid combination of words in the English language has been attributed to Mark Twain at some point in time."
--Mark Twain
it in some way offers an alternate reaction path that is more favorable. Some catalysts work by providing a surface to which the reactants stick. I suspect that is what is happening here since making microbeads of titanium dioxide would maximize the surface area and thus the potential catalytic effect. By definition catalysts are not used up in the reaction that they catalyse.
The fundamentals of logic are assumed to be true and it's very unlikely that any alien civilization would not use the same principles or at least principles equivalent to them.
However, it would be possible to derive mathematical systems very different from our own. It all depends on what one takes to be fundamental concepts. For example, we define functions in terms of sets, but we could also define sets in terms of functions.
We're not even certain that some of our own axioms are true. For example, the axiom of choice says that given any set of disjoint non-empty sets, there exists a set that contains exactly one element from each set. While most people will say that this seems to be a reasonable statement, if it is true, a number of counterintuitive statements are also true.
None of these things change the universe, only the way the universe is modeled. One might be able to come to some new conclusions and possibly even a few contradictory conclusions using a different form of mathematics, but all in all mathematics effectively is universal since there is no reason a mathematician from earth couldn't learn to understand alien mathematics.
Bill Gates offered them a set of steak knives but for some reason they turned down the offer.