You're making the same sort of simplification again. Yes, if everyone makes the same sort of action at the same time bad things can happen. But I agree with the original idea. I choose my actions based on thought process which I evaluate with one of the criteria being "would it be ok if everyone did it this way?".
Choose the route that gets you somewhere fastest, including taking a longer route if the shorter one is congested. Choose a store that is most convenient to you, taking into account how busy different stores are.
Actually, I think driving is a perfectly good decision to apply the rule to. You could get to your destination by speeding or driving recklessly, but if everyone did it then the danger of driving would skyrocket.
The flaw with lawpoop's argument is that you aren't choosing a specific route to work, rather you are choosing the route (within the rules of the road) that gets you to work the fastest (or whatever criteria you have for choosing the 'best route'). Part of your choice of route is influenced by how crowded that route will be. And so if everyone used your way of choosing a route, then yes, things would probably be ok.
If this were possible, it would certainly be the way to do it. However, the space of possible moves explodes so quickly that storing possible moves is practically impossible (and, assuming that the amount of information the universe can contain is finite, I wouldn't be surprised if it were technically impossible as well).
Note: The score is not calculated by the number of live stones each player has, but rather by the number of empty spaces that each player's stones surround, plus the number of enemy stones that player has captured. (There are other methods of scoring, but they also center around the number of surrounded empty spaces)
This is true, and of course the asmmetric maps are a bad place to look for color disparity, I just meant to be funny. However Well, Granary, and Badlands are symmetric maps, and all three of those have red winning slightly more often than blue.
I disagree. I rather like Tycho's writing style; it reminds me of Douglas Adams and others who take the time to play with the language and create sentences that not only get the point across, but are a joy to parse.
On the one hand the article says that the univers is 156 billion light years across, but on the other hand, it says that the universe is probably not finite. Whats up with that? Am I correct in translating to "The universe is at least 156 billion light years across?"
Well, that would depend on whose frame of reference you're looking at, in an 'ordinary' FTL situation, but this is kinda different because its not that things are moving FTL with respect to each other, its that the space between things is growing on its own. Apparrantly, according to the article, this can happen FTL without violating causality and such.
Re:Watched most of it last night....
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Tesla Special on PBS
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If Mr. Edison had worked smarter, he wouldn't have sweat so much - Nikolai Tesla
Isn't that slowing only relative? I mean, it will only be slowed and stopped as observed by someone outside that frame of reference. So inside that frame of reference there will still be intence heat and the like, right?
If god is all-powerful then surely it is within his power to create a non-pre-programmed being which, non-the-less is not always peskily asking "Are you there?"
While we're at it, he could have made it so the apple would not be eaten, while not violating free will.
"Lets sue some little girl with no money! Oops, maybe that wasn't such a hot idea. I know, I know! Lets get some student who doesn't have a computer at all! That'll learn 'em!"
From what I rememer of my modern physics class, the universe is not actaully flat. Imagine an ant carrying a spear on the surface of a beach ball. The ant is trying to keep the spear pointing in the same direction, as it walks from a pole to the equator, a fourth of the way around the equator, and back to the pole. When it gets back to the pole, the spear points 90 degrees from its origional direction. From this, the ant can conclude that the surface it is on is round. (It might also conclude that from having made three right turns and ended up at its origional location, but whatever.)
From what I remember, people have made similar "spear carrying" measurements which indicate that seem to indicate that the "surface" of space is curved (although not necessarily spherical). It was also breifly mentioned in my non-Euclidean geometry class that hyperbolic space, the 3d version of the hyperbolic plane (mmm... this one; all those fish are the same size in the hyperbolic plane) seems to be a good model of the universe on a very large scale.
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You know who else violated Godwin's law?
You're making the same sort of simplification again. Yes, if everyone makes the same sort of action at the same time bad things can happen. But I agree with the original idea. I choose my actions based on thought process which I evaluate with one of the criteria being "would it be ok if everyone did it this way?".
Choose the route that gets you somewhere fastest, including taking a longer route if the shorter one is congested. Choose a store that is most convenient to you, taking into account how busy different stores are.
Actually, I think driving is a perfectly good decision to apply the rule to. You could get to your destination by speeding or driving recklessly, but if everyone did it then the danger of driving would skyrocket.
The flaw with lawpoop's argument is that you aren't choosing a specific route to work, rather you are choosing the route (within the rules of the road) that gets you to work the fastest (or whatever criteria you have for choosing the 'best route'). Part of your choice of route is influenced by how crowded that route will be. And so if everyone used your way of choosing a route, then yes, things would probably be ok.
If this were possible, it would certainly be the way to do it. However, the space of possible moves explodes so quickly that storing possible moves is practically impossible (and, assuming that the amount of information the universe can contain is finite, I wouldn't be surprised if it were technically impossible as well).
Note: The score is not calculated by the number of live stones each player has, but rather by the number of empty spaces that each player's stones surround, plus the number of enemy stones that player has captured. (There are other methods of scoring, but they also center around the number of surrounded empty spaces)
This is true, and of course the asmmetric maps are a bad place to look for color disparity, I just meant to be funny. However Well, Granary, and Badlands are symmetric maps, and all three of those have red winning slightly more often than blue.
Especially if you're playing on Goldrush (last graph is wins per team per map
I disagree. I rather like Tycho's writing style; it reminds me of Douglas Adams and others who take the time to play with the language and create sentences that not only get the point across, but are a joy to parse.
I'd prefer it if we just required companies to add summaries to their legal aggreements. Like a little bit at the top that says thing like
* You're not allowed to re-sell this software
* We can use our update feature to install whatever we want on your computer
* Your soul belongs to us
Followed by all the legal mumbo jumbo required to make it all hold up in a court.
You're suggesting that people actually live off that stuff? I'm sure most people would rather suffocate.
TRO: 'You've hurt our music!'
Jibjab: 'You've got no humor!'
Both: 'This judge will surely side with me!'
This just in. The Richmond Organization is now sueing CNN.
On the one hand the article says that the univers is 156 billion light years across, but on the other hand, it says that the universe is probably not finite. Whats up with that? Am I correct in translating to "The universe is at least 156 billion light years across?"
Well, that would depend on whose frame of reference you're looking at, in an 'ordinary' FTL situation, but this is kinda different because its not that things are moving FTL with respect to each other, its that the space between things is growing on its own. Apparrantly, according to the article, this can happen FTL without violating causality and such.
If Mr. Edison had worked smarter, he wouldn't have sweat so much - Nikolai Tesla
They'll have flying cars. Or something.
If Hitler told you the sun was going to rise tomorrow, would you agree with him?
Aluminum foil wallpaper! Stylish and functional.
"Don't worry! Its inflammable!"
Smooooke.
Isn't that slowing only relative? I mean, it will only be slowed and stopped as observed by someone outside that frame of reference. So inside that frame of reference there will still be intence heat and the like, right?
If god is all-powerful then surely it is within his power to create a non-pre-programmed being which, non-the-less is not always peskily asking "Are you there?"
While we're at it, he could have made it so the apple would not be eaten, while not violating free will.
"Lets sue some little girl with no money! Oops, maybe that wasn't such a hot idea. I know, I know! Lets get some student who doesn't have a computer at all! That'll learn 'em!"
From what I rememer of my modern physics class, the universe is not actaully flat. Imagine an ant carrying a spear on the surface of a beach ball. The ant is trying to keep the spear pointing in the same direction, as it walks from a pole to the equator, a fourth of the way around the equator, and back to the pole. When it gets back to the pole, the spear points 90 degrees from its origional direction. From this, the ant can conclude that the surface it is on is round. (It might also conclude that from having made three right turns and ended up at its origional location, but whatever.)
From what I remember, people have made similar "spear carrying" measurements which indicate that seem to indicate that the "surface" of space is curved (although not necessarily spherical). It was also breifly mentioned in my non-Euclidean geometry class that hyperbolic space, the 3d version of the hyperbolic plane (mmm... this one; all those fish are the same size in the hyperbolic plane) seems to be a good model of the universe on a very large scale.
Why my cousin Jake, he's got him a pinball machine thats at least half that size. And his has sound effects.
Its also totally lame to screw up your so-called emphasis, and not preview your post. COOL PEOPLE PREVIEW. I'll go away now.