Quantum entanglement would be a possible way to have relativity hold true, yet allow superluminal information transport. Essentially, the states of two similar particles become, for a lack of a more definate word: "entangled" and changes made to one of the particles occurs instantaneously with the second.
This is in fact an excellent site. It also allows the members to vote on the best songs, which used to get put onto a compleation CD, now I believe that thee winners just get money prizes. Check my band out there: http://www.garageband.com/artist/slow_children or the personal site: Slow Children
News anchor: "In recent news, Bill Gates, president of Microsoft, just made a deal to purchace Denmark. When interviewed, Gates rationed this idea as 'marketing oriented'. Interviews were cut short when Gates cackled in some language of Mordor and flew to his 'death ray' with the origional James Bond jetpack."
*sigh* I've fufilled my weekly alotment of Microsoft bashing for now. Oh wait...Micro$oft.
I've been thinking this same concept since right since DOOM also. I was obsessed with Castle Wolfenstein when it came out. It seemed very revolutionary, (graphics, gameplay, etc) and I have still the upmost respect for it. DOOM was just an improvement of all the Wolf clones and then every other game was just a DOOM clone. Then quake...and the story goes on.
I think that the only thing keeping this first-person-kill-everything-and-escape industry now a days is multiplayer. Sure the AI's are good, but you can play some of these games in a day and find everything. Multiplayer is the only unpredictable aspect of the games becasue you are against other human players. But even taht sucks becasue all the players grew up with Doom, Quake, Wolf so they all have the same skills and techniques.
I do however like the new Wolf (Return to Castle WOlfenstien) because it came out in the wake of Half Life and Deus Ex, but was more oriented to a skill game. You have to snipe once and awhile, mad frenzy once and awhile, listen to all the conversations. But right now I dont think this type of game has anywhere to go.
Scientists have proposed building mylar mirrors that would have a diameter of 250 km (155.34 miles) and cover an area larger than Lake Michigan
and
The sudden raise in temperature would melt about a trillion tons of water, which is enough water to form a lake, with a depth of one meter, that could cover an area larger than the state of Connecticut
I'm glad to know that the proposed terraforming of Mars is using the common units of "Connecticuts" and "Lake Michigans".
I think you are refering to the Monte Carlo method of Pi calculation. Its specifically called the "Buffons needle" method. There is also a cool screensaver that utilizes this method to calculate Pi! Sweet, even in an idle state, my computer can still do something allmost useful!
Scientist: "I just cant believe that such a creature could ever exist, it sjust not possible. Probability dictates that even a minute number of the species will soon..." Joe Schmoe:"Yeah, I made up Bigfoot back in the day." Scientist: "I just cant believe that, Bigfoot must exist. You see, chaos dictates that soon, possibilities of events..."
There will be no satisfying a skeptic.
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>So...you want to go back to my place >>I thought you'd never ask
Back in my day if we wanted rain we had to dance for hours with no shoes. And they werent even called shoes back then, they were "foot-flams". And even when we got some rain, crops never grew, so we had to eat leather, grissle and dust. Damn hooligans and their automatic rain-ma-flangies...
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Just to make some comments on DAD:
Too many typical Bond puns. I.E. Villian: [holding sword] "I'll get to the point"
Gadgets you know Bond should allready have. Sure back in the day it was cool to see what new toy Bond was going to get, but we allready have seen it all. There were few suprises in that department.
The only cool gadget: The Invisible Car. Nice concept, cameras on each side project incoming image on the opposite pannel.
The Plot: Evil guy makes big gadget to take earth hostage...Bond shoots some guys & has lots of sex...Bond allmost dies...Bond saves world
Still some sweet explosions/gunfights.
Bond movies have allways been great, but there's just no more anticipation of whats going to happen or what Bond is going to do. Its just too predictable.
information cannot be transmitted faster than c, which usually implies that energy cannot either
It was theorised by Einstein that EM waves could be transmitted at super luminal (faster than light) speeds. The energy or information would travel back in time but the EM wave would "percieve" time as traveling at a normal direction and "veocity". The concept was and is very confusing to try and work out in the mind.
I'd have to agree partialy on this concept. I am a senior in HIgh School and I find that many of the "geeks" who are aroung my age group tend to stock themselves with the best newest gear they see on TV...dude, its a fucking Dell, get over it. I have little money, so I was forced into building my computers from scratch, which gives me more respect for my tower. I also made sure I had a computer just for coding and programming (an old 133 that can only handle that). Concequently, case moding just doesnt seem that important to me.
Just to partially disagree also, I know alot of geeks my age that are concerned with similar issues rather than what their case looks like in the dark. But there are alot of posers out there and/. does seem to cater to them too often. The page with the mod story has an entire HOW TO on making a CAT5 cable as new news. Making a CAT5 cable is so important that it should be common knowledge, but you know that hundreds of people who pass through the site are going to be amazed that they can make their own. *sigh* Where have the old times gone...
I would assume (using myself as refrence) that people who mod cases are usually people who have a reason to show it (i.e. LAN parties etc...). People like this wont settle for crappy components on the inside and most allways make sure that computer is high performance, as it would have to be for most 3d gaming @ LAN's. Case modding is not usually found on a family computer used for typing and surfing the web, there's just no need...nor the advanced computer love that mod geeks have for their precious....
Also, what about Karma and posting? I noticed that my Karma was bumped from Good to Excellent and my posts there dont show up in my personal page here and vice versa. Does anyone have the scoop on that?
Yes, radioactive materials release energy, but not heat (usually) during regular breakdown. The release three main types of rays/particles; alpha, beta and gamma. Alpha particles are helium nuclei (i.e. 2 protons and two neutrons), beta particles are free, high speed electrons and gamma particles/waves are high energy photons. For more info this site has a good description (basically the saem as in this post now that I look) plue some pics.
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Quantum entanglement would be a possible way to have relativity hold true, yet allow superluminal information transport. Essentially, the states of two similar particles become, for a lack of a more definate word: "entangled" and changes made to one of the particles occurs instantaneously with the second.
to ammend the drummer jokes....
Q. Hey, did you hear about the drummer who graduated fromhigh school?
A. No.
Q. Neither did I.
This is in fact an excellent site. It also allows the members to vote on the best songs, which used to get put onto a compleation CD, now I believe that thee winners just get money prizes. Check my band out there: http://www.garageband.com/artist/slow_children or the personal site: Slow Children
News anchor: "In recent news, Bill Gates, president of Microsoft, just made a deal to purchace Denmark. When interviewed, Gates rationed this idea as 'marketing oriented'. Interviews were cut short when Gates cackled in some language of Mordor and flew to his 'death ray' with the origional James Bond jetpack."
*sigh* I've fufilled my weekly alotment of Microsoft bashing for now. Oh wait...Micro$oft.
I've been thinking this same concept since right since DOOM also. I was obsessed with Castle Wolfenstein when it came out. It seemed very revolutionary, (graphics, gameplay, etc) and I have still the upmost respect for it. DOOM was just an improvement of all the Wolf clones and then every other game was just a DOOM clone. Then quake...and the story goes on.
I think that the only thing keeping this first-person-kill-everything-and-escape industry now a days is multiplayer. Sure the AI's are good, but you can play some of these games in a day and find everything. Multiplayer is the only unpredictable aspect of the games becasue you are against other human players. But even taht sucks becasue all the players grew up with Doom, Quake, Wolf so they all have the same skills and techniques.
I do however like the new Wolf (Return to Castle WOlfenstien) because it came out in the wake of Half Life and Deus Ex, but was more oriented to a skill game. You have to snipe once and awhile, mad frenzy once and awhile, listen to all the conversations. But right now I dont think this type of game has anywhere to go.
Short answer yes with an "if"...
Long answer no with a "but...Matrix Reloaded"
I think you are refering to the Monte Carlo method of Pi calculation. Its specifically called the "Buffons needle" method. There is also a cool screensaver that utilizes this method to calculate Pi! Sweet, even in an idle state, my computer can still do something allmost useful!
Scientist: "I just cant believe that such a creature could ever exist, it sjust not possible. Probability dictates that even a minute number of the species will soon..."
Joe Schmoe:"Yeah, I made up Bigfoot back in the day."
Scientist: "I just cant believe that, Bigfoot must exist. You see, chaos dictates that soon, possibilities of events..."
There will be no satisfying a skeptic.
>So...you want to go back to my place
>>I thought you'd never ask
Back in my day if we wanted rain we had to dance for hours with no shoes. And they werent even called shoes back then, they were "foot-flams". And even when we got some rain, crops never grew, so we had to eat leather, grissle and dust. Damn hooligans and their automatic rain-ma-flangies...
Too many typical Bond puns. I.E. Villian: [holding sword] "I'll get to the point"
Gadgets you know Bond should allready have. Sure back in the day it was cool to see what new toy Bond was going to get, but we allready have seen it all. There were few suprises in that department.
The only cool gadget: The Invisible Car. Nice concept, cameras on each side project incoming image on the opposite pannel.
The Plot: Evil guy makes big gadget to take earth hostage...Bond shoots some guys & has lots of sex...Bond allmost dies...Bond saves world
Still some sweet explosions/gunfights.
Bond movies have allways been great, but there's just no more anticipation of whats going to happen or what Bond is going to do. Its just too predictable.
Not only is handwriting a pain, most people can type faster than they write. Not to mention the legibility issuse.
It was theorised by Einstein that EM waves could be transmitted at super luminal (faster than light) speeds. The energy or information would travel back in time but the EM wave would "percieve" time as traveling at a normal direction and "veocity". The concept was and is very confusing to try and work out in the mind.
What about the entire episode where Moe got a new face...?
I'd have to agree partialy on this concept. I am a senior in HIgh School and I find that many of the "geeks" who are aroung my age group tend to stock themselves with the best newest gear they see on TV...dude, its a fucking Dell, get over it. I have little money, so I was forced into building my computers from scratch, which gives me more respect for my tower. I also made sure I had a computer just for coding and programming (an old 133 that can only handle that). Concequently, case moding just doesnt seem that important to me.
/. does seem to cater to them too often. The page with the mod story has an entire HOW TO on making a CAT5 cable as new news. Making a CAT5 cable is so important that it should be common knowledge, but you know that hundreds of people who pass through the site are going to be amazed that they can make their own. *sigh* Where have the old times gone...
Just to partially disagree also, I know alot of geeks my age that are concerned with similar issues rather than what their case looks like in the dark. But there are alot of posers out there and
Wouldnt it be great if the first signal a alien race recieved was an encoded pop-up ad for AOL...our race would be doomed.
I would assume (using myself as refrence) that people who mod cases are usually people who have a reason to show it (i.e. LAN parties etc...). People like this wont settle for crappy components on the inside and most allways make sure that computer is high performance, as it would have to be for most 3d gaming @ LAN's. Case modding is not usually found on a family computer used for typing and surfing the web, there's just no need...nor the advanced computer love that mod geeks have for their precious....
Also, what about Karma and posting? I noticed that my Karma was bumped from Good to Excellent and my posts there dont show up in my personal page here and vice versa. Does anyone have the scoop on that?
And what is up woth the "No Points +1 Bonus" under the new posting frame? The one right next to the "Post Anonymously" box.
Dont mod me down, my bro got onto my account and decided to voice his "opinion". I'll secure my account better so he doesnt flame anymore. Sorry
Keymaster...you are the keymaster you fucking whore
Yes, radioactive materials release energy, but not heat (usually) during regular breakdown. The release three main types of rays/particles; alpha, beta and gamma. Alpha particles are helium nuclei (i.e. 2 protons and two neutrons), beta particles are free, high speed electrons and gamma particles/waves are high energy photons. For more info this site has a good description (basically the saem as in this post now that I look) plue some pics.
What is a fractal you say? This site has some info on fractals.
I just hope that I never play a game where I dont believe I'm seeing.