The parent was not a troll. Not my style if you check my posting history.
I'd read the whole artical and found that it dealt with general cases and averages, for example:
"For a matter density today of 30% of closure density" and "Using the current measaured value of the Hubble constant of approx. 70 km/s/Mpc"
My understanding is that this won't result in an upper limit in all volumes by using this technique. My understanding is that they're calculating the maximum information processable in an average reachable volume.
Is quantum tunnelling across the event horizon of a light cone possible, in the same way that this evaporates black holes? Then excess energy can seep into the limited space.
And what if a light cone included a quasar? Are the physics of this understood well enough for it to be included in the general case?
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Thanks everyone for the alternate universal treatments. It was fun to read your practical solutions.
Though I'm racking my brain about the pole, duck and boat. And the mind flayer's psionics aren't as disturbing as its picture - the one with the head like a squid.
This advice may be scorned but communication/presentation/public speaking courses could help round out your resume. Have you done much of this?
There's a lot to be said for playing your strengths and developing your core proficiency. It's tough though to shine a flashlight into neglected dingy corners of your skill set. If what you've been doing isn't giving you the results you want, try something else.
It could help across the board, such as at interview time. Or widening the spectrum of jobs, allowing you to be open to higher visibility jobs like teaching some of your core knowledge. Or taking a management/departmental head position. It could be an avenue to a successful career change.
You can go as a guest to a local Toastmasters meeting for free, or look into a Dale Carnegie course. There are many other programs, but you can't exclusively learn this online.
You sound highly skilled. Making it more visible would be a powerful addition and could make the difference you're looking for.
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Who remembers stocking their character's backpacks with iron rations, rather than normal rations. I don't know why I did this. Maybe I figured the characters deserved it after their tough fights.
I never knew what it was though. Pemican? I should have asked my mom to make me some for my lunch bag.
Thinking about it now I don't know how we got thirty torches into the backpack either. Did anyone's DM ever complain that there was no way it would all fit?
Another cool item was the "bullseye lantern". Didn't know for years what it was. Anyone remember any of the other strange original inventory items (the mundane ones)?
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"The game was wrongly implicated in a missing persons case, a teen suicide and a number of murders. Some schools banned the game, and many parents refused to let their children play."
It bugged me at the time that for the amount of people playing the game, the incidence of suicide seemed lower than in the rest of the general public, but the press never seemed to report that.
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Just last night I printed off a bunch of polyhedra polyhedra for my six year to cut out and assemble for fun.
I remember before the Dungeon Master's Guide, Player's Footbook and Monster Manual (which our DM forbade us to read), there was only a thick pamphlet-like book with a few monsters (giant rats, hobgoblin, gelatenous cube), and a sample 1/2 level. There sure were a lot of gelatenous cubes for level 1...
Maybe this glossary is where the person who told you read it from. Under PFIB it says:
"Perfluoroisobutylene. A toxic, colorless, odorless gas that can be produced when Fluorinert liquid thermally decomposes when exposed to open flames, glowing electric heating elements, electric arcs, or temperatures above 200 degrees Celsius."
... Shrapnel everywhere... violence is and always will be the arena of last resort... to take out sattelites, nations should develop cleaner ways... even if that state is a potential enemy
You're obviously too considerate for any serious career in military weapons proliferation. Sorry.;-)
I have gradually abandoned almost all other sources of news and information,
Paper newspapers and magazines we read before didn't disappear, they mapped onto the internet with you.
The interface between you and the information has changed, but much of the professional sources - be they journalists or scientists - are still at the other end.
As in most conversations though, there can be more than one point. One of mine was trying to learn about some unusual music to get that "Altered States" effect happening:)
Sensory deprivation tanks can make a person feel pretty "out there", as can Echoes by Pink Floyd (all 23 minutes of it, whales sounds and all), even with the other 4 senses impinging.
I wonder how it would feel to have everything but hearing gone, and then be taken on a trip via it.
When I tried a sensory deprivation tank (no phone, just epsom salts thanks), it was a big egg-shaped tank without any lights. Afterwards my date and I got totally engrossed in cutlery at the restaurant. We were swimming in over-perception. The effect waned over a few days.
Guess with this one you could get your computer to phone you and play "Echoes" by Pink Floyd, or just shut the phone off.
Anyone know any good sensory deprivation music? Polly would need a hi-fi phone though...
BTW I'm experimenting with browsing at -4 funny, o/w my comment would have been something like "Looks like the woman's phone has 5 spheres not 3. Oh wait..." (someone's probably said this by now, let me check...)
Another Gibson take on the imagined future is his short story "The Gernsback Continuum". I think they did eat pill meals.
"Can't handle the future" Heck, the present is giving me enough difficulty and I've never fully dealt with the past. I'm running from them and the only way left is the future.
It was meant to be a reminder to prepare for bad scenarios and overcome them before they occured. Rather than just saying "that downside will not happen".
and to analyze their shortcomings. Indeed, the way engineers achieve success in their designs is by imagining how they might fail
Spot on.
Where I work we have independent feasibilty reviews of each new product concept. Not only does a new product need to do well in the market, it has to be profitable enough, and not expose the company to disproprtionate risk for the reward.
The reviews are always done by a department not affiliated with the one creating the new product. This way the review can stay relatively objective regarding new sales.
Okay I'm already sorry I phrased it that way. Here's some history of the NHL showing its Canadian roots, although who cares now. It's better with more teams.
But I should have said something more like "we play together in the NHL" rather than "let you play".
Sorry for the offence/offense/forward/left wing/whatever you want to call it.
My point was that something national doesn't have to be so exclusive.
Another example is that the fine people at NASA have graciously let other countries' astronauts fly on your shuttles on many occasions. Ironically making these guests national heroes in their own countries.
You've got me. What could be done with a database of email + phone numbers?
All right, say a email monitoring system finds a email/thread that's suspicious. If one came from a person one the list, then crossreferencing it with your whitepages gives an address and maybe a knock on the door.
This list might also help by mapping members in a questionable discussion thread to a geographical area.
"...as the Jan. 1, 2005, deadline approaches for the X Prize. Sure, it may seem like a long way off, but in the world of rocket science 16 months is a blip in time.
I've read that the longer a project is extimated to take, the greater the likelihood of it running overtime, and the greater the degree of this overrun. Plotting expected versus actual project length looked logarithmic. I think it was in Scientific American a few years ago but I can't find the reference. Anyone? I think they mentioned Denver Airport software as an example of an overrun project. It was built but couldn't be put into operation for a while until they finished the baggage handling programs.
That's why I prefer short, commando style projects. Do something simple, useful, and fast, and get it done on time! Maybe even early.
Now this "X Prize" looks anything but simple, but it sounds like Armadillo Aerospace hit the ground running, getting small results out, rather than not producing larger, more complex results for a long time.
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The parent was not a troll. Not my style if you check my posting history.
I'd read the whole artical and found that it dealt with general cases and averages, for example:
"For a matter density today of 30% of closure density"
and
"Using the current measaured value of the Hubble constant of approx. 70 km/s/Mpc"
My understanding is that this won't result in an upper limit in all volumes by using this technique. My understanding is that they're calculating the maximum information processable in an average reachable volume.
Is quantum tunnelling across the event horizon of a light cone possible, in the same way that this evaporates black holes? Then excess energy can seep into the limited space.
And what if a light cone included a quasar? Are the physics of this understood well enough for it to be included in the general case?
Thanks everyone for the alternate universal treatments. It was fun to read your practical solutions.
Though I'm racking my brain about the pole, duck and boat. And the mind flayer's psionics aren't as disturbing as its picture - the one with the head like a squid.
This advice may be scorned but communication/presentation/public speaking courses could help round out your resume. Have you done much of this?
.
There's a lot to be said for playing your strengths and developing your core proficiency. It's tough though to shine a flashlight into neglected dingy corners of your skill set. If what you've been doing isn't giving you the results you want, try something else
It could help across the board, such as at interview time. Or widening the spectrum of jobs, allowing you to be open to higher visibility jobs like teaching some of your core knowledge. Or taking a management/departmental head position. It could be an avenue to a successful career change.
You can go as a guest to a local Toastmasters meeting for free, or look into a Dale Carnegie course. There are many other programs, but you can't exclusively learn this online.
You sound highly skilled. Making it more visible would be a powerful addition and could make the difference you're looking for.
Who remembers stocking their character's backpacks with iron rations, rather than normal rations. I don't know why I did this. Maybe I figured the characters deserved it after their tough fights.
I never knew what it was though. Pemican? I should have asked my mom to make me some for my lunch bag.
Thinking about it now I don't know how we got thirty torches into the backpack either. Did anyone's DM ever complain that there was no way it would all fit?
Another cool item was the "bullseye lantern". Didn't know for years what it was. Anyone remember any of the other strange original inventory items (the mundane ones)?
"The game was wrongly implicated in a missing persons case, a teen suicide and a number of murders. Some schools banned the game, and many parents refused to let their children play."
It bugged me at the time that for the amount of people playing the game, the incidence of suicide seemed lower than in the rest of the general public, but the press never seemed to report that.
Just last night I printed off a bunch of polyhedra polyhedra for my six year to cut out and assemble for fun.
...
I remember before the Dungeon Master's Guide, Player's Footbook and Monster Manual (which our DM forbade us to read), there was only a thick pamphlet-like book with a few monsters (giant rats, hobgoblin, gelatenous cube), and a sample 1/2 level. There sure were a lot of gelatenous cubes for level 1
"I seem to remember hearing..."
Maybe this glossary is where the person who told you read it from. Under PFIB it says:
"Perfluoroisobutylene. A toxic, colorless, odorless gas that can be produced when Fluorinert liquid thermally decomposes when exposed to open flames, glowing electric heating elements, electric arcs, or temperatures above 200 degrees Celsius."
Dissenting, strongly stated, unpopular opinion, but not a troll. That was an unfair rating - and you don't have the history of it at all.
You do make a point.
... Shrapnel everywhere ... violence is and always will be the arena of last resort ... to take out sattelites, nations should develop cleaner ways ... even if that state is a potential enemy
;-)
You're obviously too considerate for any serious career in military weapons proliferation. Sorry.
I have gradually abandoned almost all other sources of news and information,
Paper newspapers and magazines we read before didn't disappear, they mapped onto the internet with you.
The interface between you and the information has changed, but much of the professional sources - be they journalists or scientists - are still at the other end.
The medium is not the message. Not wholly.
Thanks for pointing out my oxymoronic statement.
:)
As in most conversations though, there can be more than one point. One of mine was trying to learn about some unusual music to get that "Altered States" effect happening
Sensory deprivation tanks can make a person feel pretty "out there", as can Echoes by Pink Floyd (all 23 minutes of it, whales sounds and all), even with the other 4 senses impinging.
I wonder how it would feel to have everything but hearing gone, and then be taken on a trip via it.
Sounds great - except for the phone.
..." (someone's probably said this by now, let me check ...)
When I tried a sensory deprivation tank (no phone, just epsom salts thanks), it was a big egg-shaped tank without any lights. Afterwards my date and I got totally engrossed in cutlery at the restaurant. We were swimming in over-perception. The effect waned over a few days.
Guess with this one you could get your computer to phone you and play "Echoes" by Pink Floyd, or just shut the phone off.
Anyone know any good sensory deprivation music? Polly would need a hi-fi phone though...
BTW I'm experimenting with browsing at -4 funny, o/w my comment would have been something like "Looks like the woman's phone has 5 spheres not 3. Oh wait
Another Gibson take on the imagined future is his short story "The Gernsback Continuum". I think they did eat pill meals.
"Can't handle the future" Heck, the present is giving me enough difficulty and I've never fully dealt with the past. I'm running from them and the only way left is the future.
Aw, c'mon how about a good ole-style NHL straight trade, Quebec for Louisiana? You _know_ it's been on the table before :)
It was meant to be a reminder to prepare for bad scenarios and overcome them before they occured. Rather than just saying "that downside will not happen".
and to analyze their shortcomings.
Indeed, the way engineers achieve success in their designs is by imagining how they might fail
Spot on.
Where I work we have independent feasibilty reviews of each new product concept. Not only does a new product need to do well in the market, it has to be profitable enough, and not expose the company to disproprtionate risk for the reward.
The reviews are always done by a department not affiliated with the one creating the new product. This way the review can stay relatively objective regarding new sales.
Well after watching a few minutes of some show on Fox's lineup, I think the intersection set of criminals and idiots might not be null.
Okay I'm already sorry I phrased it that way. Here's some history of the NHL
showing its Canadian roots, although who cares now. It's better with more teams.
But I should have said something more like "we play together in the NHL" rather than "let you play".
Sorry for the offence/offense/forward/left wing/whatever you want to call it.
My point was that something national doesn't have to be so exclusive.
Another example is that the fine people at NASA have graciously let other countries' astronauts fly on your shuttles on many occasions. Ironically making these guests national heroes in their own countries.
You've got me. What could be done with a database of email + phone numbers?
All right, say a email monitoring system finds a email/thread that's suspicious. If one came from a person one the list, then crossreferencing it with your whitepages gives an address and maybe a knock on the door.
This list might also help by mapping members in a questionable discussion thread to a geographical area.
Hey we let you play in the National Hockey League. Thought you guys might return the favour :)
I got an error on my area code when I tried to register.
This seems to be a Canadian do not call registry, but it's private sector. So it wouldn't be as effective and may be open to abuse.
Does anyone know if there's a Canadian federal goverment equivalent service?
Thanks! At times my own estimates for work tend to be on the optimistic side. I'm curious to read specifically why the term mythical is used.
Well I hope I get a chance to meta- that one. Maybe their hand slipped - on a banana peel - when they were modding. (monkey and typewriter syndrome)
Anyway thanks for the info. I'm deciding which to get and the review you pointed to is useful.
"...as the Jan. 1, 2005, deadline approaches for the X Prize. Sure, it may seem like a long way off, but in the world of rocket science 16 months is a blip in time.
I've read that the longer a project is extimated to take, the greater the likelihood of it running overtime, and the greater the degree of this overrun. Plotting expected versus actual project length looked logarithmic. I think it was in Scientific American a few years ago but I can't find the reference. Anyone? I think they mentioned Denver Airport software as an example of an overrun project. It was built but couldn't be put into operation for a while until they finished the baggage handling programs.
That's why I prefer short, commando style projects. Do something simple, useful, and fast, and get it done on time! Maybe even early.
Now this "X Prize" looks anything but simple, but it sounds like Armadillo Aerospace hit the ground running, getting small results out, rather than not producing larger, more complex results for a long time.
I've heard that called "sneakernet".
:(
Well actually, running from one computer to another with a floppy containing the files to transfer