not to forget power failure, earth quake, fire, burglar, sysadmin has a stroke, air cond failure, water main bursted, building hit by a big flying object etc....................
Yes, there should be a big jackpot for the winner, otherwise who would think of joining these multi-million dollar gamble.
Back on the subject, MRSA-killing bacteria were found, there is no mention of how safe the damn thing is. We might have found a potent dose for killing MRSA, but would it clog the blood vessel, causing kidney infections..... who knows. That's why lots of work has to be done, which means money.
Bomb a nation for reasons of "I don't like your policy" sets a damn ugly precedence. Bush is moron by making huge tax cut at a huge deficit and running an expensive war at the same time. Bush got votes on giving him authority to attack on the ground of finding a single piece evident out of billions of dollars of high tech survellance equipments in the orbit, turns out none was found. If he has to bomb Iraq, please do it right. Say, fight two autopilot unmanned F16 flying slow and low over Iraq, which were to be shot down. Then next morning, flash the headline and launch full attack makes all audience feel much better. Bush is known to be the president of downtime and tragedies, the bill he tables to UN will face the same fate of his presidence election, I mean vote-counting, recounting...
(GOO.gul) v. To use an Internet search engine such as google.com to look for information related to a new or potential girlfriend or boyfriend. (Note that Google(TM) is a trademark of Google Technologies Inc.) --Googling pp.
To name GOOGLE as a mean of 'look for information related to a new or potential girl/boy friend' is pathetic a gross mis-intrepreted description. It is like labeling your kitchen knife as a murder weapon which in extreme case it might turn up to be.
This is no baby foam. The scene is visible to ground telescope miles below, which doesn't look like a tile hitting the wing. Its more like a dinosau shit hitting a helicopter.
Just the opposite, if you receive an email from your accountant film stating on the subject "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY". You will immediate have an anxiety complex for not updating you Office.
With a hard disk, I'll put down the book of botany. With a big drive, I'll add photos along. With a even bigger drive, I'll scan the trees and flowers. I'll need a next generation hard disk to store the budding of seeds, blooming of flowers in mpg. Seeeee it never ends.
The wrong hands have already had all the informations they needed. With brief google search, you can find subs in south america that can carry a payload of over 2 tons.
The payment scheme starts to make sense when you are talking about payments in the $0.001 range. Now when a customer wants to download a 3-D logo from a website which charges him for $0.001 each, this customer opens an account with the Peppercoin. He then spend $0.001 from his account to buy a token and pay this website. The customer gets his 3-D logo, and the website owner gets a token that in 1/10000 chance of cashing in a $10 note. Now if your website has 1,000,000 downloads per day. You are receiving 1,000,000 tokens everyday. but it turns out many of them are worthless. Theoretically 1 in 10000 you will receive a token that worths $10. For 1,000,000 tokens there should be about 100 jackpots, or in dollar terms $1,000.
So, what's the advantage of the system? Since 9999 out of 10000 tokens is worthless. Just put it into/dev/null. Saving all the paper work. If you take all these micro payment to credit card company, they would charge you for $0.25 each transaction which is a waste of time and money. So by the end of the day, the website owner accumulates around 100 tokens that worths $10 each.
For the Peppercoin, if the company is acting fair and square, they should issue one $0.001 token out of 10000, so theoretically, their book is balance. The one who is gambling is the trader who collects the tokens. As we learn in the statistics class, when the trials tends to infinity..... well, we all gamble, don't we.
This payment scheme seems to make sense when you are looking at real micro-payments. Now suppose you charge the poor fellow who download your game for, say, $0.001. Your customer go to Peppercoin, buy a token, then send you. His token will have $0.001 / $10 chance, or 1/10000 chance redeemable for a real hard $10 bill. For your customer who had download 56 times will only spent $0.056. No more, not less. But for your website that accumulates 1,000,000 download for the day, you would end up probably 1,000,000 * 1/10000 chance of making $10. That should end up to about $1000 if the system works correctly. But of course, the 1,000,000 filing to VISA/MASTERcard could be skipped.
You might think $0.001 is a small amount, but if every LINUX user donate $0.001 to Linus, he'll be a real rich guy.
You may find designing a useful circuit an interesting project. But then you can also design a circuit that can improve itself. Or even better approach is
1). expressing your circuit in a form of a strand of genes.
2) print the circuit on paper and test against an objective function.
3) allow these paper circuits to reproduce by exchanging genes information.
It is basically a genetic algorithm running on paper circuits. The fun part is to watch these paper circuit multiply and grow ( in the sense of size and complexity ).
But as you can see mounting paper circuit A on paper circuit B in exchange of genetical information requires some kind of manuvering.
I assume recreating a 8086 on paper circuit is not as rewarding as creating circuits in the form of neural network.
All watch nowadays has a beeper for alarm. I am quite sure the watch has an amplify hooked up to the beeper so it works like a GM-counter where you can hear the clicking sound when ionization occurs. Last time I played around with a hand-held radioactive sensor it gave out clicking sound of about one click per second as the background radiatiion.
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To build the energy collector, where would you find your supply, from earth or the moon?
Carbon nanotube is one of them, perhaps. The space elevator is easier to build on the moon than here on earth.
not to forget power failure, earth quake, fire, burglar, sysadmin has a stroke, air cond failure, water main bursted, building hit by a big flying object etc....................
A dupe is fine as long as it does not happen too often too soon. We need a perl script to scan for dupes, these lazy editors hardly have time to read.
even expert cannot predict correctly most of the time, so people would turn to something like oracle for such prediction.
Back on the subject, MRSA-killing bacteria were found, there is no mention of how safe the damn thing is. We might have found a potent dose for killing MRSA, but would it clog the blood vessel, causing kidney infections..... who knows. That's why lots of work has to be done, which means money.
Bomb a nation for reasons of "I don't like your policy" sets a damn ugly precedence.
Bush is moron by making huge tax cut at a huge deficit and running an expensive war at the same time.
Bush got votes on giving him authority to attack on the ground of finding a single piece evident out of billions of dollars of high tech survellance equipments in the orbit, turns out none was found.
If he has to bomb Iraq, please do it right. Say, fight two autopilot unmanned F16 flying slow and low over Iraq, which were to be shot down. Then next morning, flash the headline and launch full attack makes all audience feel much better.
Bush is known to be the president of downtime and tragedies, the bill he tables to UN will face the same fate of his presidence election, I mean vote-counting, recounting...
google
(GOO.gul) v. To use an Internet search engine such as google.com to look for information related to a new or potential girlfriend or boyfriend. (Note that Google(TM) is a trademark of Google Technologies Inc.)
--Googling pp.
To name GOOGLE as a mean of 'look for information related to a new or potential girl/boy friend' is pathetic a gross mis-intrepreted description. It is like labeling your kitchen knife as a murder weapon which in extreme case it might turn up to be.
This is no baby foam. The scene is visible to ground telescope miles below, which doesn't look like a tile hitting the wing. Its more like a dinosau shit hitting a helicopter.
Yes, no one can stop you in front of the screen to taken pictures from wrist-watch camera, right? Mr Bond.
Just the opposite, if you receive an email from your accountant film stating on the subject "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY". You will immediate have an anxiety complex for not updating you Office.
With a hard disk, I'll put down the book of botany. With a big drive, I'll add photos along. With a even bigger drive, I'll scan the trees and flowers. I'll need a next generation hard disk to store the budding of seeds, blooming of flowers in mpg. Seeeee it never ends.
It's called DHYB (don't hold your breath) drives.
The wrong hands have already had all the informations they needed. With brief google search, you can find subs in south america that can carry a payload of over 2 tons.
So, what's the advantage of the system? Since 9999 out of 10000 tokens is worthless. Just put it into /dev/null. Saving all the paper work. If you take all these micro payment to credit card company, they would charge you for $0.25 each transaction which is a waste of time and money. So by the end of the day, the website owner accumulates around 100 tokens that worths $10 each.
For the Peppercoin, if the company is acting fair and square, they should issue one $0.001 token out of 10000, so theoretically, their book is balance. The one who is gambling is the trader who collects the tokens. As we learn in the statistics class, when the trials tends to infinity..... well, we all gamble, don't we.
For your customer who had download 56 times will only spent $0.056. No more, not less. But for your website that accumulates 1,000,000 download for the day, you would end up probably 1,000,000 * 1/10000 chance of making $10. That should end up to about $1000 if the system works correctly. But of course, the 1,000,000 filing to VISA/MASTERcard could be skipped.
You might think $0.001 is a small amount, but if every LINUX user donate $0.001 to Linus, he'll be a real rich guy.
First, the metal detector alarm goes off like hell. Then you were invited into a dark room where you're striped for inspection of firearms.
I'll noticed the guy also looks bald. It seems the dead cells in the hair does not emit much terahertz signal.
A list of beer for the dish washer:
http://www.tobp.com/humor/systems.shtml
that explains why beer has more bubble than wine...
1). expressing your circuit in a form of a strand of genes.
2) print the circuit on paper and test against an objective function.
3) allow these paper circuits to reproduce by exchanging genes information.
It is basically a genetic algorithm running on paper circuits. The fun part is to watch these paper circuit multiply and grow ( in the sense of size and complexity ).
But as you can see mounting paper circuit A on paper circuit B in exchange of genetical information requires some kind of manuvering.
I assume recreating a 8086 on paper circuit is not as rewarding as creating circuits in the form of neural network.
The first few tons of smart dust might end up underneath the carpets in the Wall street.
I always thought the magnet bubbles were pulled out of the market by the dept of defence. These device is ideal for cruise missile.
high concentration of aluminum in the brain causes nerve degeneration, symptoms like slow learning, slower movement is observed.
All watch nowadays has a beeper for alarm. I am quite sure the watch has an amplify hooked up to the beeper so it works like a GM-counter where you can hear the clicking sound when ionization occurs. Last time I played around with a hand-held radioactive sensor it gave out clicking sound of about one click per second as the background radiatiion.