Sure, some games are unoriginal rehashes, but there's nothing wrong with that if it's a fun game. Pocket God is nothing revolutionary, but is fun nonetheless. The Settlers HD is a direct port of The Settlers IV, but it's nice to be able to play it on the iPad. I could play equivalent flash games for free on my PC but the convenience of having it in an offline portable form and devoid of advertising or other peripheral moneymaking distractions makes it worth paying a few $ for. I think you are mistaken that people will only pay for top of the line games, and the top grossing apps list on the App Store undermines your point.
The factors in an orbit : the current velocity body, and the force acting on it (and how that velocity and force change over time). If the velocity is perpendicular to the centre of mass, and if force is just right, the body will orbit in a circle. If it is too strong, it will fall in on an elliptical orbit, and if it is too weak or the object is moving too fast then it will fall outwards on an elliptical orbit or hyperbolic escape arc.
So, presumably we know the velocity of the stars at a particular distance out, but our calculations say that at that speed they should not be in a stable orbit at that radius.
Firstly, who says that they *are* in a stable, near-circular orbit? If they are already in elliptical orbits, then they will mostly be going faster than they would if they were in a circular orbit at that position.
What do we know about the velocity of the stars? Do we just know their speed? Do stars weave about as they go around the galaxy, caught in a complex dance with all the neighbouring stars? Could this account for faster apparent motion than a simple orbit around the galaxy?
What about relativity? Half the mass of the galaxy is 30,000 light years away, does that mean that its gravitational influence has to take into account this 30,000 year time delay in the gravitational influence reaching us? If you figure out the gravitational effect of the galactic core based on where we were 30,000 years ago, does that change the force vector? Or, am I just being simple-minded in thinking of gravity travelling like that?
Unfortunately the ever increasing lifespan due to improved medicine and nutrition requires an ever increasing population to support the ever increasing number of old people who are not contributing to the economy.
But that also disregards meatspace relationships that are nothing to do with Facebook. For instance, my Facebook distance to Prince Charles might be 4, 5, 6, I don't know. But my meatspace distance is 2 since I've met Eric Anderson (we cleared the brambles from a cemetary and shared a jug of fresh lemonade one summer), who taught Prince Charles at Gordonstoun. So the Facebook distance is an interesting statistic but you can't derive real distances directly from it.
I think the suggestion was to use full disk encryption prior to putting classified data on it. At that point it would not matter if defective sectors came into play, as the data in them would be random garbage.
Make sure to wipe out the key afterwards, of course.
Er... if overwriting is not sufficient due to defective sectors, then how does encrypting the data deal with those defective sectors? And how does writing an encrypted version to a SSD do a better job than writing random data to a SSD? It's worse, because you can write data to the entire SSD whereas encrypting will only write as much as you encrypt, leaving some blocks unwritten.
The contract was probably written that way so that the incumbent could not undercut the competition by avoiding the costs involved in destruction and replacement. That would leave no option but to swallow that cost and do as the nice government says.
You've said it better than I could - and I'd go further to say that the fact that he considered encrypting the data and then destroying the key indicates that the OP is incompetent to be doing this kind of work. You don't destroy data by making an unreadable copy of it. You destroy it by destroying it, which could mean physical destruction, or could mean multiple overwrites (but the face that the government requirements state physical destruction implies that they have already considered and rejected this option).
And if particles moving faster than light will let you send the lottery numbers back to you at the past (or make a nondeterministic computer), faster than light neutrinos will let you send the lottery numbers back to you at the past. It doesn't matter how they are created, what they turn into in the path or anything else.
The point is that these virtual particles and waves cannot carry any information faster than light or back in time, and if those wrong-way-arrows on a Feynman Diagram are interpreted as antiparticles travelling back in time, they only do it for billionths of a second, if that. And they carry no information.
The images you get from Image Search are Google's version of the image which have been resized to fit the search layout. I would still be surprised if that made Google the number 1, I would have thought Akamai would be the top slot, or Facebook.
I expect that there may well be some new physics here, but I don't expect that physics to be "Neutrinos travel faster than light". Maybe the neutrinos are being produced slightly earlier than we expected, that would be new physics. Maybe there is some localised small-scale faster-than-light-or-back-in-time Feynman Diagram chicanery going on, after which they settle down to traditional lightspeed travel. But one thing I'm pretty certain of - you can't use this phenomenon to send the lottery numbers back to yourself.
He got some money. Clearly the Zynga management believe that all money belongs to them, so the Google Chef story where the canteen staff make millions in stock options is anathema to them.
That's fine. You aren't advertising in the UK, you aren't trying to do business with me. If I order something from you, and give you a UK shipping address, it's my problem to deal with the import duty, which I have done when ordering from ThinkGeek. But Facebook clearly are deliberately doing business with German consumers and German companies, so they have to play by German rules when doing so. Same as you have to deal with Massachusetts laws, this "internet thing" doesn't make you immune to that, and it doesn't make Facebook immune to this.
Are you seriously suggesting that they abduct or murder foreign government officials? Or even that they just ignore the laws of countries that they do business in?
From what i've read, the theory is that he was always there. Sounds simple to me.
If "where did god come from" can be answered by "he was always there", then it is surely simpler to answer the "where did the world come from" question in the same way, thus keeping the number of questions down to 1 instead of 2. This is the "do not multiply entities unnecessarily" part of Occam's Razor is - don't just add a second question that requires an arbitrary answer, when you could just apply the arbitrary answer to question 1 and avoid wasting everyone's time.
Fair enough. The problem is that the people who believe the hardcore creationist stuff are a simple lot, and "God did it" is a very simple answer which can be molded to fit any conflicting evidence you choose to present. Fossils predating the supposed biblical age of the Earth? God put them there to tempt the non-believer. Why would he do that? Because he moves in mysterious ways. Duh.
With the answers "god did it" and "god moves in mysterious ways" at the ready, you'll be hard pressed to win an argument with a creationist, at least on their terms. The only way to win is not to play.
As has been said in a thread nearby, the reason to play is so that some people bystanders who are unsure about god or science might be enlightened and saved from a life of ignorance.
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Sure, some games are unoriginal rehashes, but there's nothing wrong with that if it's a fun game. Pocket God is nothing revolutionary, but is fun nonetheless. The Settlers HD is a direct port of The Settlers IV, but it's nice to be able to play it on the iPad. I could play equivalent flash games for free on my PC but the convenience of having it in an offline portable form and devoid of advertising or other peripheral moneymaking distractions makes it worth paying a few $ for. I think you are mistaken that people will only pay for top of the line games, and the top grossing apps list on the App Store undermines your point.
The factors in an orbit : the current velocity body, and the force acting on it (and how that velocity and force change over time). If the velocity is perpendicular to the centre of mass, and if force is just right, the body will orbit in a circle. If it is too strong, it will fall in on an elliptical orbit, and if it is too weak or the object is moving too fast then it will fall outwards on an elliptical orbit or hyperbolic escape arc.
So, presumably we know the velocity of the stars at a particular distance out, but our calculations say that at that speed they should not be in a stable orbit at that radius.
Firstly, who says that they *are* in a stable, near-circular orbit? If they are already in elliptical orbits, then they will mostly be going faster than they would if they were in a circular orbit at that position.
What do we know about the velocity of the stars? Do we just know their speed? Do stars weave about as they go around the galaxy, caught in a complex dance with all the neighbouring stars? Could this account for faster apparent motion than a simple orbit around the galaxy?
What about relativity? Half the mass of the galaxy is 30,000 light years away, does that mean that its gravitational influence has to take into account this 30,000 year time delay in the gravitational influence reaching us? If you figure out the gravitational effect of the galactic core based on where we were 30,000 years ago, does that change the force vector? Or, am I just being simple-minded in thinking of gravity travelling like that?
That's a lot of water-recycling infrastructure, which adds to the cost and maintenance of the whole installation.
Solar power is best in hot, low-population places - i.e. deserts. 90% of that water will be lost to evaporation and will go elsewhere.
It does. Twice.
Nuclear power is mentioned twice and uranium once, and the article is about renewables anyway so it isn't about nuclear.
Unfortunately the ever increasing lifespan due to improved medicine and nutrition requires an ever increasing population to support the ever increasing number of old people who are not contributing to the economy.
But that also disregards meatspace relationships that are nothing to do with Facebook. For instance, my Facebook distance to Prince Charles might be 4, 5, 6, I don't know. But my meatspace distance is 2 since I've met Eric Anderson (we cleared the brambles from a cemetary and shared a jug of fresh lemonade one summer), who taught Prince Charles at Gordonstoun. So the Facebook distance is an interesting statistic but you can't derive real distances directly from it.
I think the suggestion was to use full disk encryption prior to putting classified data on it. At that point it would not matter if defective sectors came into play, as the data in them would be random garbage.
Make sure to wipe out the key afterwards, of course.
That solution involves time travel.
Er... if overwriting is not sufficient due to defective sectors, then how does encrypting the data deal with those defective sectors? And how does writing an encrypted version to a SSD do a better job than writing random data to a SSD? It's worse, because you can write data to the entire SSD whereas encrypting will only write as much as you encrypt, leaving some blocks unwritten.
The contract was probably written that way so that the incumbent could not undercut the competition by avoiding the costs involved in destruction and replacement. That would leave no option but to swallow that cost and do as the nice government says.
You've said it better than I could - and I'd go further to say that the fact that he considered encrypting the data and then destroying the key indicates that the OP is incompetent to be doing this kind of work. You don't destroy data by making an unreadable copy of it. You destroy it by destroying it, which could mean physical destruction, or could mean multiple overwrites (but the face that the government requirements state physical destruction implies that they have already considered and rejected this option).
And if particles moving faster than light will let you send the lottery numbers back to you at the past (or make a nondeterministic computer), faster than light neutrinos will let you send the lottery numbers back to you at the past. It doesn't matter how they are created, what they turn into in the path or anything else.
The point is that these virtual particles and waves cannot carry any information faster than light or back in time, and if those wrong-way-arrows on a Feynman Diagram are interpreted as antiparticles travelling back in time, they only do it for billionths of a second, if that. And they carry no information.
The images you get from Image Search are Google's version of the image which have been resized to fit the search layout. I would still be surprised if that made Google the number 1, I would have thought Akamai would be the top slot, or Facebook.
Is it? What makes you think that?
Because of the 730km of rock in between.
I expect that there may well be some new physics here, but I don't expect that physics to be "Neutrinos travel faster than light". Maybe the neutrinos are being produced slightly earlier than we expected, that would be new physics. Maybe there is some localised small-scale faster-than-light-or-back-in-time Feynman Diagram chicanery going on, after which they settle down to traditional lightspeed travel. But one thing I'm pretty certain of - you can't use this phenomenon to send the lottery numbers back to yourself.
Because Iran is an enemy state, and it is against our strategic interest for them to have nuclear weapons. Duh.
A t-shirt with "_nomurder" printed on the back would be cool.
He got some money. Clearly the Zynga management believe that all money belongs to them, so the Google Chef story where the canteen staff make millions in stock options is anathema to them.
That's fine. You aren't advertising in the UK, you aren't trying to do business with me. If I order something from you, and give you a UK shipping address, it's my problem to deal with the import duty, which I have done when ordering from ThinkGeek. But Facebook clearly are deliberately doing business with German consumers and German companies, so they have to play by German rules when doing so. Same as you have to deal with Massachusetts laws, this "internet thing" doesn't make you immune to that, and it doesn't make Facebook immune to this.
Are you seriously suggesting that they abduct or murder foreign government officials? Or even that they just ignore the laws of countries that they do business in?
If they want to do business only in America, then they can ignore the laws of the rest of the world.
My brain hurts a lot
From what i've read, the theory is that he was always there. Sounds simple to me.
If "where did god come from" can be answered by "he was always there", then it is surely simpler to answer the "where did the world come from" question in the same way, thus keeping the number of questions down to 1 instead of 2. This is the "do not multiply entities unnecessarily" part of Occam's Razor is - don't just add a second question that requires an arbitrary answer, when you could just apply the arbitrary answer to question 1 and avoid wasting everyone's time.
Fair enough. The problem is that the people who believe the hardcore creationist stuff are a simple lot, and "God did it" is a very simple answer which can be molded to fit any conflicting evidence you choose to present. Fossils predating the supposed biblical age of the Earth? God put them there to tempt the non-believer. Why would he do that? Because he moves in mysterious ways. Duh.
With the answers "god did it" and "god moves in mysterious ways" at the ready, you'll be hard pressed to win an argument with a creationist, at least on their terms. The only way to win is not to play.
As has been said in a thread nearby, the reason to play is so that some people bystanders who are unsure about god or science might be enlightened and saved from a life of ignorance.