I think you mean democratic republics as what Americans promote. As in majority elects a leader, everyone is bound to that representatives decisions. Such as joining a community with a leader and being bound by that persons decisions. Decisions which can include the language of the group, obscenity rules or even the whims of the leader.
The orkut model of having a community leader who has such control actually fits the Real US model better than this crap ideal of pure democracy (mob rule). It lacks checks and balances so it is more of tyranny but if anyone doesn't like it there aren't orkut community militaries to bind anyone to a community leaders decisions outside that community.
I think English and German (as well as Asian languages) are not latin derived. English if I recall is derived significantly from German with some French (a romance (latin derived) language) thrown in.
If the user sets in a profile which languages they speak then it might be possible to analyze it down to the language family. Then picking from the options the users profile claims to speak as a best guess might often be sufficient. A bi-lingual portugese/english speaker's posts might be automatically catagorizable as either a latin or germanic rooted language. Although distinguishing between a spanish/italian speaker's posts might not be feasible though since they would both be in the same language family.
The problem is they would not be buying the music. The students would be renting it for the duration of their college education. After which time they would have to pay 99 cents a song to actually 'buy' it. Three bucks a month and you still have to buy the CDs in the end.
Amazon does charge tax to WA residents, I think it's determined by billing address whether or not they collect the sales tax. The highlight of this though is that on occasions I've had ground (cheapest) shipped packages arrive overnight.
I could be wrong but wouldn't something as simple as conducting wires in the insulation with a small current would tell you if the line has been physically compromised? At the least any interruption is a warning to inspect the line and at best the attacker might not suspect such a tripwire to give them away.
Adding conducting wires to insulation or cladding would be a custom fiber but if you are spending that much on security you may as well do it right.
You are correct in guessing what I meant. To be more accurate I should have said that you know that the link has not been tapped by some fool or mere hacker.
You are thinking of public key encryption, try one time pads instead. Any current encryption system relies on primes and can be cracked (particular when quantum computers become available). Properly generated one time pads are entirely secure, but require the ability to securely transmit them.
You are missing the ideal application of this. Transmitting one time pads and ensuring they have not been compromised in transit. Properly generated one time pads are the only uncrackable cryptography but suffer from the problem of transmitting the key. So the data can't be accessed even if sent over a normal network so long as you know that the pad wasn't compromised. Quantum cryptography allows you to *know* that the pad wasn't compromised.
Both can be questioned. Anyone who has taken a calc class has probably seen the calculator return an answer of 3.00000001 or the like from an integration command due to rounding errors. Humans know well enough to doublecheck this if they see it but if it continues onward in the equation those tiny floating point numbers can add up. Also, very few (If any) programs are perfect and it is virtually impossible to write a non-trivial program without bugs.
I've found myself writing the courier style 'a' in the last few months, I like the look of it more than the 'a' I was taught and it feels smoother to write.
To the story poster, I've actually spent a lot of time in the last few years practicing handwriting for various reasons besides improving legibility, but as a side effect my handwriting improved. Practice does help, try keeping a journal or some other constant ongoing writing task. In just a few months you will likely see an improvement and you will have a lot of material to look through to observe and evaluate improvement. Unfortunately my handwriting has degraded since I haven't been practicing as much.
The 84's are basically the same as the 83's of the same type. Except I think they are educator versions. They all include (as a highlight in their features) projector compatibility, and feature faster processors allowing them to quickly graph on screen for students thus wasting less class time. Other features like changable faceplates, allow a teacher to distinguish their calculator (if it's loaned out perhaps) from a common one.
Differences between a TI-83+ and TI-84+, 6mhz to 15mhz processor, same otherwise from a student perspective with educator features (projector).
Differences between a TI-83 SE and TI-84 SE, none that I can see from the promotional page from a students perspective. Same memory same processor, just more educator features.
Looks like there's little need for students to rush out and buy the latest model of these. Did I miss anything with the features? I went by memory of the TI-83 models capabilities, but the TI-83 SE is 2.5x faster than the processor in 83+ and 83's which would put it at 15mhz as the 84's all have.
"vicious (not viscous, you idiots)" "Vicious" is usually something mean or hurtfull. "Viscious" refers to I'm not sure exactly, but something along the line of thickness of oils and other liquids and/or lubrication value.
"incensed (not "insensed", you idiots)" "Incensed" is how it is properly spelled in American English as well. "Insensed" isn't a proper word nor even a slang as far as I know in American English.
"Sulphur" and "Sulfur" Neither really looks right to me, but both I recognize as the same meaning and properly spelled.
"Caesium without the silent 'a'?" Hate to tell you, but it already is that way on the periodic tables I've seen.
Now I've just realized, I hope I didn't miss any intended sarcasm in your post. I'm posting anyway just so no one else is mislead though.
"since any legitimately-purchased merchandise would be de-tagged before it left the store. "
Mistakes happen, little magnetic tags currently used occasionally get left in things. Last time I purchased a wallet for example, the clerk flipped it open looked through it, and didn't find a little magnetic tag in it. Took me a few months to figure out why I was beeping intermittenly at the scanners everywhere. Thats not likely to happen too often, or be a major concern though, it's not institutionalized tracking tags after all.
Ultimately, the experience known as self and the sensation of free will boil down to being just a special set of computations that can run on any Turing Machine or x86 with enough memory.
Tell me quickly, will this set of instructions (a program if you will) ever end? "Recurse: definition, see recurse." Turing machines as far as I know can't solve the halting problem.
Here is the angle I use for morality. Not fearing reprecussions in an afterlife theres only 2 things left to keep me moral, legal reasons and my own opinions on morality. If for some reason I were completely exempt from laws (diplomatic immunity maybe) I still wouldn't commit crimes for. Why? It's something called the tragedy of commons. If you haven't heard of it then it is explained something like this. A community shares a parcel of land as a common green, and say 10 ranchers put 10 cattle each out onto a field capable of supporting 100 cattle. Then one gets the brilliant idea, I put out 11 cows, each of my cows is a tiny bit thinner but I get a whole extra cow. Then the next day every farmer has a few extra cows, and they overgraze and the village starves come winter since all the cows died of starvation. This can be applied to theft very effectively. I steal, gain a lot personally but hurt everyone a little in general. By a diminished feeling of safety, trust, and assuming the neighborhood was nice enough to donate some to the victim monetarily. This doesn't immediately harm myself, but tomorrow night when someone else follows the example I could be the next victim. So for each person that doesn't commit a crime they are making another individual signifigantly better off as well as making the world a little bit better for everyone including themself.
To summarize, by not commiting a crime even if there were no directly consequencial reasons not to. I make the world a better place, even if it's completely immeasurably insignifigantly better. And I count on others to do the same as individuals, which in the end makes the world tolerable. I can't myself limit everyone to 10 cows but all the ranchers know that if they want cows come winter they can only put so many on the field, and frown unhappily at the ranchers who put on too many.
So there is a view of morality and reasoning to use it that doesn't require religious beliefs.
I'll defend it as a tool of abstinance. Abstinance is the only foolproof way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Porn may not help children I don't know, but it certainly wouldn't harm an adult seeking a sexual outlet with no risks or effort in developing relationships.
Your mixing something up, maximum air speed is the fastest the missile can go, not a limit on how much energy it has. The missile could turn around waste a lot of fuel slowing and stopping relative to the ground but, it would be capable of accelerating to mach 2.5 afterward unless it ran out of fuel in the process. Running out of kinetic energy doesn't mean that it's out of fuel or potential energy. Even if it only managed to get hit by the opposing plane it's still going to do more damage most likely since it's flying head on into a plane instead of catching up to it the difference in speeds is greater.
There are some industries that can't support very many companies due to the markets they serve. If a company gains 50% in a niche that 5 companies compete in but none of them can make a profit off their marketshare (including the company with 50%) then they would all fail. The niche wouldn't be served and for trying to limit the market share a company could gain, the consumer would have been hurt. Even some major industries can't support very many companies, aircraft for instance, how many large aircraft manufacturing copmanies are there? In the world?
I think when it comes to media though there are already too few companies. Loosening restrictions to allow even fewer to dominate the market doesn't sound like a good thing. Just had to point out a flaw in your view.
For some people this could be a bad thing by increasing information overload. Most of the information I access recreationally is digital, this would be a wonderful thing for me by allowing me to carry information in digital form rather than printing it. I'm a broke college student so being able to access freely avialable information and saving the money on printing ink would be valuable to me.
I wouldn't want to run a webserver developed by GA. Theres more to good software than accomplishes the job. Outlook accomplishes the job of getting e-mail, that doesn't make it secure or cover other important considerations of software design.
"...when the nation became industrialized..."
We (Americans, Europeans, and other first world nations) aren't the world. Theres many countries that are still developing and populations are still growing. Those figures seem plausible to me. Perhaps on the pessimistic side but not unreasonably so.
Hydrogen burns with a blue flame (not very bright but not invisible)
Hydrogen is less explosive than gasoline, AND it is lighter than air so it's less likely to cause serious injuries. Nobody ever slipped and burned in a puddle of hydrogen.
Standard gas storage tanks are perfectly suitable to store hydrogen as safely as gasoline.
Hydrogen's biggest problem is public perception.
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I think you mean democratic republics as what Americans promote. As in majority elects a leader, everyone is bound to that representatives decisions. Such as joining a community with a leader and being bound by that persons decisions. Decisions which can include the language of the group, obscenity rules or even the whims of the leader.
The orkut model of having a community leader who has such control actually fits the Real US model better than this crap ideal of pure democracy (mob rule). It lacks checks and balances so it is more of tyranny but if anyone doesn't like it there aren't orkut community militaries to bind anyone to a community leaders decisions outside that community.
I think English and German (as well as Asian languages) are not latin derived. English if I recall is derived significantly from German with some French (a romance (latin derived) language) thrown in.
If the user sets in a profile which languages they speak then it might be possible to analyze it down to the language family. Then picking from the options the users profile claims to speak as a best guess might often be sufficient. A bi-lingual portugese/english speaker's posts might be automatically catagorizable as either a latin or germanic rooted language. Although distinguishing between a spanish/italian speaker's posts might not be feasible though since they would both be in the same language family.
Philosophers think they're God, have you seen some of the stuff they come up with? "God is dead!" for example.
The problem is they would not be buying the music. The students would be renting it for the duration of their college education. After which time they would have to pay 99 cents a song to actually 'buy' it. Three bucks a month and you still have to buy the CDs in the end.
I just gave it a try and it does work in firefox. Thanks for sharing this trick, I wouldn't have thought to try and find command line switches for it.
Amazon does charge tax to WA residents, I think it's determined by billing address whether or not they collect the sales tax. The highlight of this though is that on occasions I've had ground (cheapest) shipped packages arrive overnight.
I could be wrong but wouldn't something as simple as conducting wires in the insulation with a small current would tell you if the line has been physically compromised? At the least any interruption is a warning to inspect the line and at best the attacker might not suspect such a tripwire to give them away.
Adding conducting wires to insulation or cladding would be a custom fiber but if you are spending that much on security you may as well do it right.
You are correct in guessing what I meant. To be more accurate I should have said that you know that the link has not been tapped by some fool or mere hacker.
You are thinking of public key encryption, try one time pads instead. Any current encryption system relies on primes and can be cracked (particular when quantum computers become available). Properly generated one time pads are entirely secure, but require the ability to securely transmit them.
You are missing the ideal application of this. Transmitting one time pads and ensuring they have not been compromised in transit. Properly generated one time pads are the only uncrackable cryptography but suffer from the problem of transmitting the key. So the data can't be accessed even if sent over a normal network so long as you know that the pad wasn't compromised. Quantum cryptography allows you to *know* that the pad wasn't compromised.
Both can be questioned. Anyone who has taken a calc class has probably seen the calculator return an answer of 3.00000001 or the like from an integration command due to rounding errors. Humans know well enough to doublecheck this if they see it but if it continues onward in the equation those tiny floating point numbers can add up. Also, very few (If any) programs are perfect and it is virtually impossible to write a non-trivial program without bugs.
I've found myself writing the courier style 'a' in the last few months, I like the look of it more than the 'a' I was taught and it feels smoother to write.
To the story poster, I've actually spent a lot of time in the last few years practicing handwriting for various reasons besides improving legibility, but as a side effect my handwriting improved. Practice does help, try keeping a journal or some other constant ongoing writing task. In just a few months you will likely see an improvement and you will have a lot of material to look through to observe and evaluate improvement. Unfortunately my handwriting has degraded since I haven't been practicing as much.
The 84's are basically the same as the 83's of the same type. Except I think they are educator versions. They all include (as a highlight in their features) projector compatibility, and feature faster processors allowing them to quickly graph on screen for students thus wasting less class time. Other features like changable faceplates, allow a teacher to distinguish their calculator (if it's loaned out perhaps) from a common one.
Differences between a TI-83+ and TI-84+, 6mhz to 15mhz processor, same otherwise from a student perspective with educator features (projector).
Differences between a TI-83 SE and TI-84 SE, none that I can see from the promotional page from a students perspective. Same memory same processor, just more educator features.
Looks like there's little need for students to rush out and buy the latest model of these. Did I miss anything with the features? I went by memory of the TI-83 models capabilities, but the TI-83 SE is 2.5x faster than the processor in 83+ and 83's which would put it at 15mhz as the 84's all have.
You have some of our spellings mistaken
"vicious (not viscous, you idiots)"
"Vicious" is usually something mean or hurtfull.
"Viscious" refers to I'm not sure exactly, but something along the line of thickness of oils and other liquids and/or lubrication value.
"incensed (not "insensed", you idiots)"
"Incensed" is how it is properly spelled in American English as well. "Insensed" isn't a proper word nor even a slang as far as I know in American English.
"Sulphur" and "Sulfur"
Neither really looks right to me, but both I recognize as the same meaning and properly spelled.
"Caesium without the silent 'a'?"
Hate to tell you, but it already is that way on the periodic tables I've seen.
Now I've just realized, I hope I didn't miss any intended sarcasm in your post. I'm posting anyway just so no one else is mislead though.
"I've been playing with Stair Dismount as well, and although I can't come close to the high score, I did get a low score of 62. Beat that!"
:)
Done, low score of 25. Heading 204.08, pitch -53.73 low force, right hip
"since any legitimately-purchased merchandise would be de-tagged before it left the store. "
Mistakes happen, little magnetic tags currently used occasionally get left in things. Last time I purchased a wallet for example, the clerk flipped it open looked through it, and didn't find a little magnetic tag in it. Took me a few months to figure out why I was beeping intermittenly at the scanners everywhere. Thats not likely to happen too often, or be a major concern though, it's not institutionalized tracking tags after all.
Tell me quickly, will this set of instructions (a program if you will) ever end?
"Recurse: definition, see recurse."
Turing machines as far as I know can't solve the halting problem.
Here is the angle I use for morality. Not fearing reprecussions in an afterlife theres only 2 things left to keep me moral, legal reasons and my own opinions on morality. If for some reason I were completely exempt from laws (diplomatic immunity maybe) I still wouldn't commit crimes for. Why? It's something called the tragedy of commons. If you haven't heard of it then it is explained something like this. A community shares a parcel of land as a common green, and say 10 ranchers put 10 cattle each out onto a field capable of supporting 100 cattle. Then one gets the brilliant idea, I put out 11 cows, each of my cows is a tiny bit thinner but I get a whole extra cow. Then the next day every farmer has a few extra cows, and they overgraze and the village starves come winter since all the cows died of starvation. This can be applied to theft very effectively. I steal, gain a lot personally but hurt everyone a little in general. By a diminished feeling of safety, trust, and assuming the neighborhood was nice enough to donate some to the victim monetarily. This doesn't immediately harm myself, but tomorrow night when someone else follows the example I could be the next victim. So for each person that doesn't commit a crime they are making another individual signifigantly better off as well as making the world a little bit better for everyone including themself.
To summarize, by not commiting a crime even if there were no directly consequencial reasons not to. I make the world a better place, even if it's completely immeasurably insignifigantly better. And I count on others to do the same as individuals, which in the end makes the world tolerable. I can't myself limit everyone to 10 cows but all the ranchers know that if they want cows come winter they can only put so many on the field, and frown unhappily at the ranchers who put on too many.
So there is a view of morality and reasoning to use it that doesn't require religious beliefs.
"Tell me why anyone would defend porn?"
I'll defend it as a tool of abstinance. Abstinance is the only foolproof way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Porn may not help children I don't know, but it certainly wouldn't harm an adult seeking a sexual outlet with no risks or effort in developing relationships.
Your mixing something up, maximum air speed is the fastest the missile can go, not a limit on how much energy it has.
The missile could turn around waste a lot of fuel slowing and stopping relative to the ground but, it would be capable of accelerating to mach 2.5 afterward unless it ran out of fuel in the process. Running out of kinetic energy doesn't mean that it's out of fuel or potential energy.
Even if it only managed to get hit by the opposing plane it's still going to do more damage most likely since it's flying head on into a plane instead of catching up to it the difference in speeds is greater.
There are some industries that can't support very many companies due to the markets they serve. If a company gains 50% in a niche that 5 companies compete in but none of them can make a profit off their marketshare (including the company with 50%) then they would all fail. The niche wouldn't be served and for trying to limit the market share a company could gain, the consumer would have been hurt. Even some major industries can't support very many companies, aircraft for instance, how many large aircraft manufacturing copmanies are there? In the world?
I think when it comes to media though there are already too few companies. Loosening restrictions to allow even fewer to dominate the market doesn't sound like a good thing. Just had to point out a flaw in your view.
For some people this could be a bad thing by increasing information overload.
Most of the information I access recreationally is digital, this would be a wonderful thing for me by allowing me to carry information in digital form rather than printing it. I'm a broke college student so being able to access freely avialable information and saving the money on printing ink would be valuable to me.
I wouldn't want to run a webserver developed by GA. Theres more to good software than accomplishes the job. Outlook accomplishes the job of getting e-mail, that doesn't make it secure or cover other important considerations of software design.
"...when the nation became industrialized..."
We (Americans, Europeans, and other first world nations) aren't the world. Theres many countries that are still developing and populations are still growing. Those figures seem plausible to me. Perhaps on the pessimistic side but not unreasonably so.
Hydrogen burns with a blue flame (not very bright but not invisible)
Hydrogen is less explosive than gasoline, AND it is lighter than air so it's less likely to cause serious injuries. Nobody ever slipped and burned in a puddle of hydrogen.
Standard gas storage tanks are perfectly suitable to store hydrogen as safely as gasoline.
Hydrogen's biggest problem is public perception.