I'm so tired of people using this word incorrectly. An epicenter is "the point of the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.", not "4.7 miles below surface". Epicenters are, by definition, ON the surface. The center of the earthquake was 4.7 miles below the surface.
Sorry for the rant, but the word "epicenter" is being misused so frequently that it's beginning to morph into a different word.
Wouldn't a smart card do everything that a user would have wanted out of Hailstorm? A smart card can store your personal profile, and any system equipped with a smart card reader can read and transmit this information. It is safe and reliable, and no one can get at your data unless your card is in a reader and you have entered your PIN.
I'm hoping that ubiquitous smart card support becomes a reality in the near future. Now that many keyboards are coming equipped with USB ports, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to equip them with smart card readers as well.
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There's another scenario -- speculative, at best -- that could explain it. If time travel becomes practical 10 million years from now, our particular portion of history may be so uninteresting to them that they don't bother to reveal themselves to us. For example, if we invented time travel today, we may not be interested in explaining our accomplishment to a bunch of dinosaurs.
IANAL, but I think you committed a US Federal crime with your post. Conspiring to assassinate the President of the United States is illegal, and I think your post can be construed as conspiracy. I hope for your sake that you're not in the United States.
No, you're mistaken. It's not a question of whether you're creating matter or energy, it's a question of whether you're creating value. Is a Da Vinci sculpture more valuable than the rock, tools, and calories consumed in creating it? Of course it is, based on its price. That's what creation of value is all about.
'Twas the night before Christmas / At Schrödinger's house;
Baseball is an excellent example of a non-zero-sum game. Each team must create wealth, in the form of points, from the resources at hand, which are an unlimited number of pitches. When one team scores, it does not come at the expense of the other team; it simply means the other team must produce even more points in order to win. Virtually nothing about this game is limited: unlimited pitches, hits, time. The 9 innings is just a convenience to allow people to go home eventually.
'Twas the night before Christmas / At Schrödinger's house;
Totally wrong about your concept of zero sum. Just because a game has winners and losers does not make it a zero-sum game. The question is, does everything one team wins come directly at the expense of the other team, or are the points 'created'?
Monopoly is indeed a zero-sum game, because there is a fixed amount of cash and real estate available, and any of these resources that one acquires is at the expense of their opponents. Baseball, basketball, football, and soccer, on the other hand, are non-zero-sum games, because each team is free to create as many points as they can. Any time a team scores, that does not mean that a possible score is taken away from the opposing team, just that the opposing team must work harder to create more points.
'Twas the night before Christmas / At Schrödinger's house;
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I'm so tired of people using this word incorrectly. An epicenter is "the point of the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.", not "4.7 miles below surface". Epicenters are, by definition, ON the surface. The center of the earthquake was 4.7 miles below the surface.
Sorry for the rant, but the word "epicenter" is being misused so frequently that it's beginning to morph into a different word.
Wouldn't a smart card do everything that a user would have wanted out of Hailstorm? A smart card can store your personal profile, and any system equipped with a smart card reader can read and transmit this information. It is safe and reliable, and no one can get at your data unless your card is in a reader and you have entered your PIN.
I'm hoping that ubiquitous smart card support becomes a reality in the near future. Now that many keyboards are coming equipped with USB ports, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to equip them with smart card readers as well.
There's another scenario -- speculative, at best -- that could explain it. If time travel becomes practical 10 million years from now, our particular portion of history may be so uninteresting to them that they don't bother to reveal themselves to us. For example, if we invented time travel today, we may not be interested in explaining our accomplishment to a bunch of dinosaurs.
IANAL, but I think you committed a US Federal crime with your post. Conspiring to assassinate the President of the United States is illegal, and I think your post can be construed as conspiracy. I hope for your sake that you're not in the United States.
"Cartridge dimension: Approximately 129 x 131 x 7mm"
I guess the different physical format means:- I can't burn any disc that can be used in my home CD or DVD player, regardless of encoding format
- I can't use one drive to access BlueRay and standard DVD/CD discs
Shucks.How about utilizing the potential of references to creative poets? I'm talking about your sig, penned by Stephen Crane in 1899.
'Twas the night before Christmas / At Schrödinger's house;
'Twas the night before Christmas / At Schrödinger's house;
'Twas the night before Christmas / At Schrödinger's house;