You're truck may not go slower the farther you go, but it does stop completely if you don't refill the tank. Given the choice between per-minute use and slow-down on highbandwidth months, I'd go for the slowdown.
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Exactly. I was listening to the commentary track on a DVD (I think it was Disney's Atlantis, I have kids, so flame me.) and the producer specifically stated that one of the rules of motion pictures was that you had to show something 3 times if you wanted the audience to remember it. And its true. I see a lot of things that my wife and family never notice in a film, cause it only shows up once. That's why some films deserve multiple viewings, even from the most observent of us.
Given that it only takes one civilization to have done this, and given that our solar system is probably quite interesting given it's layout, I wouldn't put too high odds on there NOT being such a device hanging around near here.
There is, unfortunately it's buried under a ton of asteroid dust on the far side of the moon. We need to send another moon mission to dig it up. It should be rather easy to find, since its such a large magnetic anomaly.
This reminds me of a Science-Fiction story I read many years ago. I apologise for not remembering the name, but I think it was by Piers Anthony. The gist of the story was a woman who bought a TOSTR, which was an all-encompasing robot companion. The woman finally resorted to erasing the robots system so that she could get it to make toast.
Oops... You caught me. When I wrote the post, I was thinking of an optimal solution. Since, as another poster has pointed out, he really only needs a solution, not necessarily optimal, it probably is not NP.
Incidentally, I was also assuming normal considerations, such as prefering one long tour over several short ones.
Unless your student availability varies wildly day to day.
Have you database detect collisions between the current schedule and the new student availabilities. Then try to juggle only the students with a collision. You won't always be able to do it, so a backup layer would juggle some of the other students, preferably randomly chosen (ie the most-available students don't always get shafted), until it works. This reduces the processing load of an otherwise NP-complete problem, and actually encourages the more stable students with a more stable schedule.
One drawback, initialy schedule needs to be entered by hand, but only once.
But don't Rot-13 twice... I can never find the decryption program for that. You'd think the Rot-13 decrypter would work if you ran it twice, but nooooo. You just get the same encrypted text you started with.
Actually, the books even mentioned this. If at any time a robot was unable to determine the correct course of action without violating one of the laws, then the robot shutdown. I believe permanently.
The problem is the old addage... Power corrupts. And the addendum, Power attracts the corruptible. Any corporation that is successful is going to attract people who want to profit from it. Many of those people will be willing to forego business ethics in the search for greater profit. The only way to avoid that is to put the reins in the hands of an honest, hard-working CEO, and those are hard to find.
How many people visit your current site? Do you get a lot of feedback currently, either by email or snail-mail? If you live in a community that is actively discussing local topics, and you have enough people who already come to your site that can spread the word when the local gossip goes dot-com, then it'll work. If you don't get any traffic now, then it'll never get big enough to be useful if you just revamp it. If your local community is filled with introverts that don't talk to each other anyway, giving them a way to ignore each other online won't make much difference either.
OK...I'm not disagreeing with the general tone of your post, but this part:
. Outside of our own discipline our knowledge is fairly scanty, most physicist's knowledge of chemisty for instance is probably no better than your average layman.
I think you're a tad bit optomistic about that. In the US, the average layman's knowledge of chemistry does not even include how to spell it, much less anything else. I assume that you (and most physicists) could recognise a periodic table of the elements, and even explain what most, if not all of the reference numbers on it refer to. An average layman is more likely to to describe it as "a map of the country. But it looks kinda funny...is that really where Californium is? I thought it was out west!"
D. Someone with a narrow range of reading tastes, and a LARGE public library.
I did pretty well in Dallas. Library held pretty much everything I wanted, and I didn't exhaust it in the year I was there. I moved back to rural New York, and there isn't a library within 30 miles that has a Sci-Fi book that I haven't read already.
Clearly I'm missing something here. Little help, Anyone?
When you sell your couch, or your CD, you can't continue to use it. Same thing if you give them away. If you give sell/give away mp3s, you still have the original, and can continue to play it. If you bought a new cd for each set of mp3s you gave away, and destroyed them as you do it, then fair use would apply.
If you read all of it, it tells you that the view was originally of the back of some large bushes. This means your answers are 1. Ugly brown sticks, and 2. Nothing. The neighbors still see the bushes.
The thing that I like most about
astrology is that there are so many amazing things out there that sometimes it's hard to believe. But it's true!
Emphasis added.
Sorry, but this is astronomy, not astrology. In astronomy, there are in fact many strange but true things out there. In astrology, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who can prove a single thing true, wheteer it's strange or not. Though you'll find plenty of people who believe in it anyway.
It is ordinarily some 75,000 light-years from the Sun.
Is the current distance, or an average distance? Or are they by some miracle the same? Since this cluster orbits nearly perpendicular to the galactic plane, the distance between our sun and the cloud should vary by up to the full diameter of the Milky Way. Not that any of us will be around for a full orbit.
Actually, I was referring to the standard Macarthy era question... "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?" and the fact that many groups that have nothing to do with the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks will still be considered terrorists.
Commie... That's soooo 50s. Now, everyone is a "terrorist." Just can't wait until we get the House Commitee on Unam^H^H^H^HTerrorist Activities."
"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of a terrorist organisation?"
Yep, NRA counts(they own guns !) For you guys on the other side of the fence, Greenpeace counts, too. (They stage protests !, and finance Eco-terrorists.)
Well, then, that wouldn't be the WHOLE planet then, would it. Now, I'm not saying that the people who wrote the article are right, but this statement would mean that the highest point on Mars (Olympus Mons?) would still be under 500 meters of water if it were all liquid.
And to answer the original question, over teh millenia, melting at the equator and freezing at the poles could move the ice into polar caps, even if the entire surface was originally under watrer.
I appreciate being given a review of a book I'll probably read, but hadn't heard of before. Maybe it didn't belong on the front page, but I, for one, am glad it wasn;t rejected.
Actually, the article says that it will be just as bloated as before, but you won't necessarily see it all. This is the smallest step MS could make in the right direction, but its not big enough. The ability to actually remove the various components, not just hide them, for both OEMs and consumers, that is what I'm waiting for.
MS has this server built-in to many installs. It like installing an room air conditioner and the contractor puts a hinge on it so you can use it as a door. Then, he installs a lock on the hinge, but leaves it unlocked, and doesn't even bother to give you the key.
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You're truck may not go slower the farther you go, but it does stop completely if you don't refill the tank. Given the choice between per-minute use and slow-down on highbandwidth months, I'd go for the slowdown.
Exactly. I was listening to the commentary track on a DVD (I think it was Disney's Atlantis, I have kids, so flame me.) and the producer specifically stated that one of the rules of motion pictures was that you had to show something 3 times if you wanted the audience to remember it. And its true. I see a lot of things that my wife and family never notice in a film, cause it only shows up once. That's why some films deserve multiple viewings, even from the most observent of us.
There is, unfortunately it's buried under a ton of asteroid dust on the far side of the moon. We need to send another moon mission to dig it up. It should be rather easy to find, since its such a large magnetic anomaly.
This reminds me of a Science-Fiction story I read many years ago. I apologise for not remembering the name, but I think it was by Piers Anthony. The gist of the story was a woman who bought a TOSTR, which was an all-encompasing robot companion. The woman finally resorted to erasing the robots system so that she could get it to make toast.
Incidentally, I was also assuming normal considerations, such as prefering one long tour over several short ones.
Have you database detect collisions between the current schedule and the new student availabilities. Then try to juggle only the students with a collision. You won't always be able to do it, so a backup layer would juggle some of the other students, preferably randomly chosen (ie the most-available students don't always get shafted), until it works. This reduces the processing load of an otherwise NP-complete problem, and actually encourages the more stable students with a more stable schedule.
One drawback, initialy schedule needs to be entered by hand, but only once.
But don't Rot-13 twice... I can never find the decryption program for that. You'd think the Rot-13 decrypter would work if you ran it twice, but nooooo. You just get the same encrypted text you started with.
Actually, the books even mentioned this. If at any time a robot was unable to determine the correct course of action without violating one of the laws, then the robot shutdown. I believe permanently.
The problem is the old addage... Power corrupts. And the addendum, Power attracts the corruptible. Any corporation that is successful is going to attract people who want to profit from it. Many of those people will be willing to forego business ethics in the search for greater profit. The only way to avoid that is to put the reins in the hands of an honest, hard-working CEO, and those are hard to find.
Or is that 50% predatation, and 50% liquidation?
Of course, you could always try it and see.
I think you're a tad bit optomistic about that. In the US, the average layman's knowledge of chemistry does not even include how to spell it, much less anything else. I assume that you (and most physicists) could recognise a periodic table of the elements, and even explain what most, if not all of the reference numbers on it refer to. An average layman is more likely to to describe it as "a map of the country. But it looks kinda funny...is that really where Californium is? I thought it was out west!"
D. Someone with a narrow range of reading tastes, and a LARGE public library.
I did pretty well in Dallas. Library held pretty much everything I wanted, and I didn't exhaust it in the year I was there. I moved back to rural New York, and there isn't a library within 30 miles that has a Sci-Fi book that I haven't read already.
It's to the far right of the bar directly under the article which tells you what your current Mod Thresholds are.
If you read all of it, it tells you that the view was originally of the back of some large bushes. This means your answers are 1. Ugly brown sticks, and 2. Nothing. The neighbors still see the bushes.
Is the current distance, or an average distance? Or are they by some miracle the same? Since this cluster orbits nearly perpendicular to the galactic plane, the distance between our sun and the cloud should vary by up to the full diameter of the Milky Way. Not that any of us will be around for a full orbit.
Actually, I was referring to the standard Macarthy era question... "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?" and the fact that many groups that have nothing to do with the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks will still be considered terrorists.
"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of a terrorist organisation?"
Yep, NRA counts(they own guns !) For you guys on the other side of the fence, Greenpeace counts, too. (They stage protests !, and finance Eco-terrorists.)
How convenient. Now I won't have to "forward you this email in order to have your advise."
And to answer the original question, over teh millenia, melting at the equator and freezing at the poles could move the ice into polar caps, even if the entire surface was originally under watrer.
I appreciate being given a review of a book I'll probably read, but hadn't heard of before. Maybe it didn't belong on the front page, but I, for one, am glad it wasn;t rejected.
Actually, the article says that it will be just as bloated as before, but you won't necessarily see it all. This is the smallest step MS could make in the right direction, but its not big enough. The ability to actually remove the various components, not just hide them, for both OEMs and consumers, that is what I'm waiting for.
MS has this server built-in to many installs. It like installing an room air conditioner and the contractor puts a hinge on it so you can use it as a door. Then, he installs a lock on the hinge, but leaves it unlocked, and doesn't even bother to give you the key.