In New Zealand a few years ago there was a crash of an Ansett plane with a few fatalities. The police wanted to use the flight recorder to prosecute the pilot for careless flying or some such thing (he crashed in fog). The result? Pilots started popping the circuit breakers to the black box when flying in NZ.
Apollo 12 landed on the moon next to a Surveyor probe that had been there for a couple of years. The astronauts cut off a camera, and brought it back to earth. Inside the camera some bacteria were still technically alive, but in a dormant state. So the vacuum won't destroy DNA by itself, and if bacteria if in a crack deep in a rock then radiation is not really an issue either.
Around 20% of the people attempting to climb Mount Everest end up dead. There's still a lot of climbers willing to try. It's not much different with astronauts.
Unfortunately trying such moves often weakens your own position. Nevertheless, this is a common anti-computer strategy, but it can be tricky to make it work.
Surely the major issue in this case is validity of prosecuting somebody in Russia under US law? Can anybody give details as to whether this was included in the legal arguments?
Note that Microsoft still receives the "Microsoft Tax" even if you get a refund from you vendor; it's just that the vendor is out of pocket. Microsoft still gets richer.
The only way to really avoid the tax is to by the components and build the PC yourself. Getting the refund doesn't really achieve anything.
It's going to be pretty hard to get an accurate measurement of the distance across a hydrogen atom, with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle futzing around with that electron.
Unfortunately it's actually a symbol of spending way more money than planned, and then cutting costs in such a way that the scientific return is very low, not to mention breaking contracts with other countries.
Sadly we now have an enormously expensive station that requires the crew to spend almost all their time maintaining it instead of doing science experiments. The amount of money spent on the station and the shuttle is so enormous that many other valuable missions have been cancelled.
The EULA might give Microsoft ownership of the legal ruling and allow them to "perform a derived work" instead;-)
Could a suit *actually* increase performance?
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First off, let's get one thing straight. Every now and then I have to wear a suit to talk to a customer, and I *hate* it.
However, I did once see a TV documentary about human psychology where the US Air Force did an experiment putting unexperienced people into flight simulators and got them to "fly" close to other aircraft, and try to identify them. The candidates were divided into two groups, one group had uniforms and the other had their normal clothes. The ones with uniforms significantly out-performed the casual-dressers.
So I have to wonder, could a suit make a geek like more more effective subconsciously, even if I spend all my time hating it? I hope I never find out...
It is the large size of the Go board (19 x 19) that makes the game so difficult for computers. Attempts to use brute force searches have to deal with the number of possible positions skyrocketing much more than chess with its 8 x 8 board.
Since General Relativity shows that intense gravity slows time similar to travelling near to the speed of light, wouldn't a singularity take an infinite amount of time to form?
In other words the collapsing object's gravity field would slow time more and more so that no matter when you observe it a true black hole has not yet formed. Hence there are no singularities in existence.
This is all very well, but the problem is that he must "steer the game" without making many tactical mistakes. All of today's strong players would beat these computers if they could be sure of not making any tactical errors during the game and have the luxury of just worrying about strategy.
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In New Zealand a few years ago there was a crash of an Ansett plane with a few fatalities. The police wanted to use the flight recorder to prosecute the pilot for careless flying or some such thing (he crashed in fog). The result? Pilots started popping the circuit breakers to the black box when flying in NZ.
Lots of checks from non-existent bank accounts would be fun. They pay the checks in, and get hit with the dishonour fees. Hehe.
Apollo 12 landed on the moon next to a Surveyor probe that had been there for a couple of years. The astronauts cut off a camera, and brought it back to earth. Inside the camera some bacteria were still technically alive, but in a dormant state. So the vacuum won't destroy DNA by itself, and if bacteria if in a crack deep in a rock then radiation is not really an issue either.
Around 20% of the people attempting to climb Mount Everest end up dead. There's still a lot of climbers willing to try. It's not much different with astronauts.
Unfortunately trying such moves often weakens your own position. Nevertheless, this is a common anti-computer strategy, but it can be tricky to make it work.
Surely the major issue in this case is validity of prosecuting somebody in Russia under US law? Can anybody give details as to whether this was included in the legal arguments?
The only way to really avoid the tax is to by the components and build the PC yourself. Getting the refund doesn't really achieve anything.
It's going to be pretty hard to get an accurate measurement of the distance across a hydrogen atom, with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle futzing around with that electron.
In a related article somewhere I read that this is the official line taught in Cuba, Angola and a few other places. Now that's pretty sad.
Sadly we now have an enormously expensive station that requires the crew to spend almost all their time maintaining it instead of doing science experiments. The amount of money spent on the station and the shuttle is so enormous that many other valuable missions have been cancelled.
The EULA might give Microsoft ownership of the legal ruling and allow them to "perform a derived work" instead ;-)
However, I did once see a TV documentary about human psychology where the US Air Force did an experiment putting unexperienced people into flight simulators and got them to "fly" close to other aircraft, and try to identify them. The candidates were divided into two groups, one group had uniforms and the other had their normal clothes. The ones with uniforms significantly out-performed the casual-dressers.
So I have to wonder, could a suit make a geek like more more effective subconsciously, even if I spend all my time hating it? I hope I never find out...
Likewise somebody moving at near to the speed of light relative to a "stationary" observer appears to have slowed down, not sped up.
It is the large size of the Go board (19 x 19) that makes the game so difficult for computers. Attempts to use brute force searches have to deal with the number of possible positions skyrocketing much more than chess with its 8 x 8 board.
Since General Relativity shows that intense gravity slows time similar to travelling near to the speed of light, wouldn't a singularity take an infinite amount of time to form? In other words the collapsing object's gravity field would slow time more and more so that no matter when you observe it a true black hole has not yet formed. Hence there are no singularities in existence.
The "Fritz" part was apparently a marketing decision. "Deep" seems to just refer to a multiprocessor machine these days.
This is all very well, but the problem is that he must "steer the game" without making many tactical mistakes. All of today's strong players would beat these computers if they could be sure of not making any tactical errors during the game and have the luxury of just worrying about strategy.