Maybe it's time for some free software JVM to take the 'reformed' (protestant?), less bloated path, while remaining compliant with Sun's Java (with all the bells, whistles and shiny bits)?
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I think the word 'simulation' already sums it up - it is inferior to the real thing, it just pretends to be the real thing.
In some sense, we do live in a simulated world. The world as we see it is what our mind (whatever that may be) interprets it to be. We only see a limited range of colors, hear and smell in a limited range. We just don't need more, I guess. In addition, our senses filter out some information, or add information that isn't there. An example of this are Op-art pictures. Another example: at a seminar I attended a guy who is a tourist guide (I think) told how he took a group of city people to a forest. They were driving slowly in fog, and at some point there was a moose two meters away from the car. Some of the people in the car just didn't see the moose, because they had never seen one before.
Interesting things to read about (only a couple at the moment, as I don't have much time): David Bohm's hologram theory. He has said that the world is an illusion, like a hologram, and every piece contains the whole.
Jakob von Uexkull and umwelt - The ways how other animals perceive the world.
philosphy is great and all... just keep it to the books. If i go to see a movie i wnat to escape from reality, not get stuck up in it!!
When Ludwig Wittgenstein gave lectures in Cambridge, he felt shame after every lecture. He didn't consider himself worthy of teaching others philosohpy, in fact, he felt very bad (and stupid) about it. In the evenings after lectures he always went to cinema to see American movies. When the movie was over, he always felt much more confident...
As I said, what Suvorov writes is speculation. I know the man who translated Suvorov's books to Estonian; he said that Suvorov speaks 90% truth, but the 10% not true is the crucial parts of his proof... Suvorov also wrote about the NSDAP-Communists coalition, so it's probable that that's where I got this information from.
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With the economy in that mess, some of the other parties also thought that they could, and even went along with emergency legislation to kick the Communists (16.4 %) and the Social Democrats (19.9 %) out.
Actually, it were the Communists (I think they merged with Social Democrats) who formed the government with NSDAP. Some time later, when the Reichstag burned down, Hitler accused Communists for setting it on fire and got rid of them.
As for reasons why the Communists went in the same boat with NSDAP, Viktor Suvorov speculates that Stalin ordered the Communists to help Hitler gain power (so that there would be someone to liberate Europe from...). Or maybe the Communists were just stupid. Or something else.
Aww come on, this isn't fair. First, you mod the parent of my post flamebait just because it has some bad language in it. Hell, it was a joke completely on topic, it even had a link to a real programming language in it. Then you moddded me down, for the same reason. Go and get a sense of humor...
If you're gonna call it fuckzilla, you'd better write it in f*ckf*ck instead;)
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Is SARS From Mars?
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By the way, previously the WHO have said that cats (and cockroaches) do not spread the disease. As these animals that were tested were found/bought from a food market, it is probable that SARS originated from people eating cats.
Speech was what I actually had in mind when I wrote 'sound'. Sorry for this. As for the rest, I don't think even my dog has a perfect hearing - something still gets lost...
As far as I know, you get the most realistic sound by modelling human sound apparatus. I don't think you can do this in real time with a 1 GHz CPU. Feel free to correct me.
Re:$20/30mins ? $5 for a test drive ???
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In an old tech magazine, there was a picture (actually, two pictures) of a bicycle designed for the Toyota ideas contest. That bike could be folded into a wheelchair. The Brompton looks exactly like the idea-bike folded into wheelchair;7
Whistleblowing, wether it is calling the cops on pedophiles in the workplace, or terrorists in your apartment building, is a critical tool of law enforcement.
If you track someone's surfing habits to get a date, you're either a psycho or bloody desperate. In both cases, you have a problem. That certainly can't be good.
You'll say now: "That's not possible nobody can visualized 4 dimensional spaces."
An architect, a physicist and a mathematician were asked whether they could imagine a 4-dimensional space.
The architect said: "That's impossible! I can't draw that!"
The physicist said: "Well, that can be done, if we say that time is the fourth dimension..."
The mathematician said: "Let us imagine an n-dimensional space. Now, let n equal four..."
The article mentioned that these units are also used to help tell the air bags when to deploy. So if you hack this system, it's altogether possible that your air bags might not pop up when you really need them.
Erm. Fortunately, you are wrong. From the article: What's captured is the final five seconds leading up to a crash, or to the instant the car's electronic brain determines an air bag should deploy. The black box is not the brain, it's just a recorder. Hack freely...
Why shouldn't insurance companies charge higher premiums to those who consistantly drive in a less than safe manner? Why shouldn't YOU pay for what YOU use?
Yeah. I am a healthy young person (compared to most...), I am not unemployed or anything, why the hell do I still have to pay social security? Why do I have to pay for some cancer victim's expensive pills, or some kid's bracers? THEY use the service, let THEM pay, not ME!
(And if you think I really meant what I just said and agree with it, go and shoot yourself, you meanie...)
Good sheep don't speed anyway, because 1) they could be sentenced for this 2) it's not safe. If they do cause accidents, it's because they just don't look where they're going.
As for speed limits, there are people for whom even the current speed limits are too high. Is the senior citizen who drives 50 kph in 90 zone (slows down to 30 in the 50 zone) and slows down every time the driver in the car just behind decides to get some space between the two cars in case the senior citizen in front should suddenly break? Or the good sheep that overtook you, just to stay directly in front of you (bus drivers just "love" these guys...)? OR the guy who goes 70 kph, and when you try to overtake him, he suddenly wakes up and speeds up to 90?
Those who drive 150 kph in the 50 zone, wouldn't most probably give a damn about the black box, just as they don't care about getting speeding tickets or having their driving licence taken away. I remember a businessman who killed three people in two accidents, and still kept speeding (he was assassinated half a year later the second accident, most people thought it served him right...). Why should they slow down because of a black box?
I'm sure there are more than 171 million computers connected to the net - the ISC only counts the domains, not counting the numerous home computers and subnets (correct me if I'm wrong). Also, a virus can infect the same computer several times. Bacteria have viruses, too, and they only have a single cell. Of course, compared to colonies of bacteria, the net is still very small, but the first real viruses had to start somewhere...
1 m/s ~= 40 attoparsecs/microfortnight. Maybe this helps with the conversion.
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I only exist on the net in the form of information (filled registration forms,/. posts, IRC transcripts (some channels record them), my 'signature' on an anti-war petition, etc), that information is me in some sense. And I want to be free, not owned and sold wholesale by some company.
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In some sense, we do live in a simulated world. The world as we see it is what our mind (whatever that may be) interprets it to be. We only see a limited range of colors, hear and smell in a limited range. We just don't need more, I guess. In addition, our senses filter out some information, or add information that isn't there. An example of this are Op-art pictures. Another example: at a seminar I attended a guy who is a tourist guide (I think) told how he took a group of city people to a forest. They were driving slowly in fog, and at some point there was a moose two meters away from the car. Some of the people in the car just didn't see the moose, because they had never seen one before.
Interesting things to read about (only a couple at the moment, as I don't have much time):
David Bohm's hologram theory. He has said that the world is an illusion, like a hologram, and every piece contains the whole.
Jakob von Uexkull and umwelt - The ways how other animals perceive the world.
When Ludwig Wittgenstein gave lectures in Cambridge, he felt shame after every lecture. He didn't consider himself worthy of teaching others philosohpy, in fact, he felt very bad (and stupid) about it. In the evenings after lectures he always went to cinema to see American movies. When the movie was over, he always felt much more confident...
(Insert something about /. and checking facts here)
Indirect reference... is this like writing a Matrix: Reload spoiler and putting "SCO sucks" somewhere in the middle?
Actually, it were the Communists (I think they merged with Social Democrats) who formed the government with NSDAP. Some time later, when the Reichstag burned down, Hitler accused Communists for setting it on fire and got rid of them.
As for reasons why the Communists went in the same boat with NSDAP, Viktor Suvorov speculates that Stalin ordered the Communists to help Hitler gain power (so that there would be someone to liberate Europe from...). Or maybe the Communists were just stupid. Or something else.
Actually, the movie was made after a novel with the same title by William Gibson. Gibson also wrote the screenplay.
That'd be my bad English to blame - and the TV news people, who didn't know this eiter =^_^=
Aww come on, this isn't fair. First, you mod the parent of my post flamebait just because it has some bad language in it. Hell, it was a joke completely on topic, it even had a link to a real programming language in it. Then you moddded me down, for the same reason. Go and get a sense of humor...
If you're gonna call it fuckzilla, you'd better write it in f*ckf*ck instead ;)
By the way, previously the WHO have said that cats (and cockroaches) do not spread the disease. As these animals that were tested were found/bought from a food market, it is probable that SARS originated from people eating cats.
Speech was what I actually had in mind when I wrote 'sound'. Sorry for this. As for the rest, I don't think even my dog has a perfect hearing - something still gets lost...
As far as I know, you get the most realistic sound by modelling human sound apparatus. I don't think you can do this in real time with a 1 GHz CPU. Feel free to correct me.
In an old tech magazine, there was a picture (actually, two pictures) of a bicycle designed for the Toyota ideas contest. That bike could be folded into a wheelchair. The Brompton looks exactly like the idea-bike folded into wheelchair ;7
Exactly how long before the shipping date of a project do you usually finish testing?
whooooooo! *splat*
Three words: In Soviet Russia...
If you track someone's surfing habits to get a date, you're either a psycho or bloody desperate. In both cases, you have a problem. That certainly can't be good.
An architect, a physicist and a mathematician were asked whether they could imagine a 4-dimensional space.
The architect said: "That's impossible! I can't draw that!"
The physicist said: "Well, that can be done, if we say that time is the fourth dimension..."
The mathematician said: "Let us imagine an n-dimensional space. Now, let n equal four..."
Erm. Fortunately, you are wrong. From the article: What's captured is the final five seconds leading up to a crash, or to the instant the car's electronic brain determines an air bag should deploy. The black box is not the brain, it's just a recorder. Hack freely...
Yeah. I am a healthy young person (compared to most...), I am not unemployed or anything, why the hell do I still have to pay social security? Why do I have to pay for some cancer victim's expensive pills, or some kid's bracers? THEY use the service, let THEM pay, not ME!
(And if you think I really meant what I just said and agree with it, go and shoot yourself, you meanie...)
As for speed limits, there are people for whom even the current speed limits are too high. Is the senior citizen who drives 50 kph in 90 zone (slows down to 30 in the 50 zone) and slows down every time the driver in the car just behind decides to get some space between the two cars in case the senior citizen in front should suddenly break? Or the good sheep that overtook you, just to stay directly in front of you (bus drivers just "love" these guys...)? OR the guy who goes 70 kph, and when you try to overtake him, he suddenly wakes up and speeds up to 90?
Those who drive 150 kph in the 50 zone, wouldn't most probably give a damn about the black box, just as they don't care about getting speeding tickets or having their driving licence taken away. I remember a businessman who killed three people in two accidents, and still kept speeding (he was assassinated half a year later the second accident, most people thought it served him right...). Why should they slow down because of a black box?
I'm sure there are more than 171 million computers connected to the net - the ISC only counts the domains, not counting the numerous home computers and subnets (correct me if I'm wrong). Also, a virus can infect the same computer several times. Bacteria have viruses, too, and they only have a single cell. Of course, compared to colonies of bacteria, the net is still very small, but the first real viruses had to start somewhere...
1 m/s ~= 40 attoparsecs/microfortnight. Maybe this helps with the conversion.
I only exist on the net in the form of information (filled registration forms, /. posts, IRC transcripts (some channels record them), my 'signature' on an anti-war petition, etc), that information is me in some sense. And I want to be free, not owned and sold wholesale by some company.