Do you really want to see the broadcasting industry go into the shitter?
So you are saying that if I go there during a commercial, they go too?
I can hardly wait for the DMCA ruling declaring that owning a mute button is grounds for imprisonment. I'm pretty sure I never signed any contract promising to watch commercials, although they are often better than the programming.
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The United States Statutes at Large is a list of all the Federal laws (but not regulations, etc.) which is now bulked up to a quarter million pages. Read a hundred pages a day, and in a little over 7 years you will have finished, unless of course some more laws are enacted in that interval! For only $3,800, you too can have all the laws on CD, so "ignorance is no excuse" can have meaning for you.
Here's two places to buy real diamonds for less than the local jewelry store, eBay (of course!) and HardCarbon. If you buy on eBay, make sure the seller 1) has good feedback, and 2) takes returns if stone doesn't appraise right. Get it appraised right away, it should cost less than $50 to do so. Then your local jewelry store can set your new stone in a ring of your choosing.
Good alternatives for diamond should be hard, (so they don't scratch,) brilliant, and valuable. Real demantoid garnet and real alexanderite are both stunning. Never buy opal in a ring you plan wear a lot, even the triplets with quartz tops scratch too easily. Turquoise, coral, jade, and pearls are also much to soft for ring stones.
Open Sourcing is... an instant referance to help them in cheating.
If the game code were open source, it would be possible to add security that actually worked. The chances that a cheat would be found by l33t h4x0rs would go down as many eyes would have had a chance to really close the holes.
Even in the event that a cheat were found, the ability to respond quickly would be a plus for open sourcing the game.
"Rocky's Boots" was a great game. A logic puzzle game, tied into a begining electronics course, all fun. Probably the closest thing recently would be "The Incredible Machine". BTW, Warren Robinett also wrote the Atari 2600 game "Adventure". You can find it for the PC as Indenture. The original "Loadrunner" was also great, and had a good level editor you could use to create your own levels.
Opera fills in all the fields for me, making creating an account easy. I can give each vendor exactly the information I want. (This could be automated even further, I think, while control of my info still remains on my machine.) PayPal alows me to pay without exposing my credit card number to each vendor. Why would I want to give the care of my info and identity away to some company, any company, even one I trusted? Even good companies go bad, or get bought out. Nobody trusts Microsoft for plenty of good reasons.
Linus Torvalds has written a program called BogoMips to calculate a "MIPS" rating for your computer. He goes on to suggest that performance measurements between two computers can be misleading because not all contributing factors are stated or even understood.
This kind of chat-bot program has been around for a long time. I had RACTER on my PC, and it was pretty good. You can read some snips of RACTER and ELIZA duking it out.
Spamalamadingdong, please go back and read my post. I said you have to make the ball pivot on the pole, so it *lags* 90 degrees out of phase with the Moon. If you do that, it will slow the Moon. The tides are bulges on the Earth (land and sea) that *lead* the Moon by a small angle in its orbit, speeding it up.
Also, "so the rest of the Moon moves outward and slows down," seems wrong. Speeding up the Moon would move its orbit outward.
Unfortunately, this is hard to do as the Earth spins once in every 24 hrs (relative to the Sun) while the Moon orbits the Earth in a month. So, gathering wave power actually cashes in on the Earth's spin energy, moving the Moon out.
The only way to do it would be to build a giant ball on an arm pivoting on the North (or South) pole and keep it 90 degrees out of phase with the Moon, so the Moon's gravity would always pull it forward. It would do one RPM (revolution per month!) You could put a generator on the arm, and tap out the power, which would slow the Moon down in its orbit, and gradually lower it toward the Earth.
Much easier is to put a lot of nukes on the Moon, and beam microwave energy back to Earth. If the occasional reator blows up, it is no big deal on the Moon.
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Two problems with one-time pads: 1) Generating the pad initially, and 2) exchanging the pad.
1) Generating the one-time pad is easy with a hardware noise generator such as an avalanche diode. Marx makes a USB dongle that has a true white noise generator. Just pump the noise into a file, walla!
2) Exchanging pads is not needed, as the one-time pad can be used in a symetric scheme, just a simple XOR will do fine. You only have to transfer the pad one way. Unfortunately, that is a problem that has no good solution.
Now insurers naturally want to know the value of what they are insuring. NASA's official and much repeated line is that all lunar material is priceless. This poses a serious problem for insurers, so the next question was what is the cost to replace the sample. No joke, they figured the cost of the policy, and hence the premiums, based on the cost of building a rocket, flying to the moon, collecting a new sample, and bringing it back.
Or they could just go to eBay...
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPIC ommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&que ry=lunar+meteorite
Many confirmed lunar meteorites are available now, not only on eBay but from other meteorite dealers.
Fernlea is my favorite...
http://fernlea.tripod.com/forsale.html
A much more interesting story would be that someone had written a program that could play world class chess without world class CPU horsepower.
Fritz (available for $25) will beat you on a 1GHz Pentium unless you are a master.
http://www.chessbaseusa.com/
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Ok, you're an ignorant butt.
Do you really want to see the broadcasting industry go into the shitter?
So you are saying that if I go there during a commercial, they go too?
I can hardly wait for the DMCA ruling declaring that owning a mute button is grounds for imprisonment. I'm pretty sure I never signed any contract promising to watch commercials, although they are often better than the programming.
The United States Statutes at Large is a list of all the Federal laws (but not regulations, etc.) which is now bulked up to a quarter million pages. Read a hundred pages a day, and in a little over 7 years you will have finished, unless of course some more laws are enacted in that interval! For only $3,800, you too can have all the laws on CD, so "ignorance is no excuse" can have meaning for you.
Here's two places to buy real diamonds for less than the local jewelry store, eBay (of course!) and HardCarbon. If you buy on eBay, make sure the seller 1) has good feedback, and 2) takes returns if stone doesn't appraise right. Get it appraised right away, it should cost less than $50 to do so. Then your local jewelry store can set your new stone in a ring of your choosing.
Good alternatives for diamond should be hard, (so they don't scratch,) brilliant, and valuable. Real demantoid garnet and real alexanderite are both stunning. Never buy opal in a ring you plan wear a lot, even the triplets with quartz tops scratch too easily. Turquoise, coral, jade, and pearls are also much to soft for ring stones.
The solution to the problem is obvious, once you study it for a while...
....WTO
+WIPO
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DMCA
Can be solved as...
....831
+8571
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9402
Here is a link to a page with a reference to a book on just that topic, as well as a reference to the "country" made on an abondoned oil platform.
If the game code were open source, it would be possible to add security that actually worked. The chances that a cheat would be found by l33t h4x0rs would go down as many eyes would have had a chance to really close the holes.
Even in the event that a cheat were found, the ability to respond quickly would be a plus for open sourcing the game.
"Rocky's Boots" was a great game. A logic puzzle game, tied into a begining electronics course, all fun. Probably the closest thing recently would be "The Incredible Machine".
BTW, Warren Robinett also wrote the Atari 2600 game "Adventure". You can find it for the PC as Indenture.
The original "Loadrunner" was also great, and had a good level editor you could use to create your own levels.
Opera fills in all the fields for me, making creating an account easy. I can give each vendor exactly the information I want. (This could be automated even further, I think, while control of my info still remains on my machine.) PayPal alows me to pay without exposing my credit card number to each vendor. Why would I want to give the care of my info and identity away to some company, any company, even one I trusted? Even good companies go bad, or get bought out.
Nobody trusts Microsoft for plenty of good reasons.
Linus Torvalds has written a program called BogoMips to calculate a "MIPS" rating for your computer. He goes on to suggest that performance measurements between two computers can be misleading because not all contributing factors are stated or even understood.
On my mac I set my center button up to open links in a new window (like netscape on Unix). Under windows there is apparently no way to do this....
Under Opera and IE (if you must), control-shift-click on the link will do it.This kind of chat-bot program has been around for a long time. I had RACTER on my PC, and it was pretty good. You can read some snips of RACTER and ELIZA duking it out.
Spamalamadingdong, please go back and read my post. I said you have to make the ball pivot on the pole, so it *lags* 90 degrees out of phase with the Moon. If you do that, it will slow the Moon. The tides are bulges on the Earth (land and sea) that *lead* the Moon by a small angle in its orbit, speeding it up.
Also, "so the rest of the Moon moves outward and slows down," seems wrong. Speeding up the Moon would move its orbit outward.
Unfortunately, this is hard to do as the Earth spins once in every 24 hrs (relative to the Sun) while the Moon orbits the Earth in a month. So, gathering wave power actually cashes in on the Earth's spin energy, moving the Moon out.
The only way to do it would be to build a giant ball on an arm pivoting on the North (or South) pole and keep it 90 degrees out of phase with the Moon, so the Moon's gravity would always pull it forward. It would do one RPM (revolution per month!) You could put a generator on the arm, and tap out the power, which would slow the Moon down in its orbit, and gradually lower it toward the Earth.
Much easier is to put a lot of nukes on the Moon, and beam microwave energy back to Earth. If the occasional reator blows up, it is no big deal on the Moon.
1) Generating the pad initially, and
2) exchanging the pad.
1) Generating the one-time pad is easy with a hardware noise generator such as an avalanche diode. Marx makes a USB dongle that has a true white noise generator. Just pump the noise into a file, walla!
2) Exchanging pads is not needed, as the one-time pad can be used in a symetric scheme, just a simple XOR will do fine. You only have to transfer the pad one way. Unfortunately, that is a problem that has no good solution.
Now insurers naturally want to know the value of what they are insuring. NASA's official and much repeated line is that all lunar material is priceless. This poses a serious problem for insurers, so the next question was what is the cost to replace the sample. No joke, they figured the cost of the policy, and hence the premiums, based on the cost of building a rocket, flying to the moon, collecting a new sample, and bringing it back.
Or they could just go to eBay... http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPIC ommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&que ry=lunar+meteorite
Many confirmed lunar meteorites are available now, not only on eBay but from other meteorite dealers. Fernlea is my favorite... http://fernlea.tripod.com/forsale.html
A much more interesting story would be that someone had written a program that could play world class chess without world class CPU horsepower. Fritz (available for $25) will beat you on a 1GHz Pentium unless you are a master. http://www.chessbaseusa.com/
How about Lignux? (Just keep on pronouncing it however you're accustomed to, a silent "g" in "gn" is normal as in "align".)