Overkill. One key suffices. 1 and 0 can be distinguished according to the length of the key press. This also will teach you fast typing because if you type too slowly you'll get only zeros (assuming that zero is the longer keypress).
Well, Microsoft has an IntelliMouse, but I don't think they have a HyperIntelliMouse. Also, the number of dimensions is still restricted to four (two move and two scroll). Given that current theories assume that reality has at least 11 dimensions, that cannot really be called pandimensional.
However there's another fuzzy border: Where does code end and pure data begin? E.g. if I set a cookie at a browser, then it causes the browser to send the cookie back to me every time someone accesses my web server. Now, is the cookie code (because it actually triggers an action), or is it just data (because it doesn't actually have commands, it's just a name/value pair, and it's the browser which does the sending anyway).
This line is fuzzy because for interpreted languages you could as well say the commands are just data, and it's only the interpreter which actually performs certain actions based on the data.
I for one wouldn't be unhappy if that law also covered tracking cookies from advertisers.
If you post to slashdot from a computer which is in another state or country, then AFAICS you are doing interstate or foreign communication. The same applies if you exchange email with someone in another state or country. However IANAL.
I didn't say that the probability is equal. I said that the average number of daughters is the same.
Remember, in the "game" described, you have exactly one son, but you can have any number of daughters. And if e.g. I have no daughter and you have two, then on average we both have one.
Well, both would be the person before duplication in the same sense in which you after awakening in the moring are the same person as the one who fell asleep the evening before. Don't tell me that you don't change the slightest bit while sleeping.
Well, the verteron particles could disturb the singular field and therefore cause a Higgs anomaly, which would not only immediatly destroy the wormhole, but in addition would disturb subspace up to a distance of 100 lightyears. You wouldn't be able to use Warp drives in that region afterwards (i.e. you'd be stuck).
It doesn't need to be hacking. What if there's a secret manipulation built straight into the system? This could reach from goals like preventing crime (on download, search for all criminal thoughts and eliminate them; not good for writers of criminal stories, of course), up to perfect political manipulation (just make everyone a supporter of the current regime on download).
Indeed, for a dictator, this technology would be a dream.
Instead, it could be that engineers, who are obviously well educated (and thus the head of the family) and more likely to be men, favor boys. and so if the first kid is a boy, they say "enough kids! One is enough". And if the first kid is a girl, they say "let's go for another kid until we have a boy!"
Except that this would not create any statistical bias, if boy and girl are equally likely each time.
Proof: With the above scheme (neglecting unwanted childs, twins and so on), every engineer would have exactly one son, and the average number of daugters would calculate as follows:
With probability 1/2, they have none (first child was son).
With probability 1/4, they have exactly one (second child was son).
With probability 1/8, they have exactly two.
...
Therefore the average number of daughters would be 0*1/2 + 1*1/4 + 2*1/8 +..., which happens to be 1, which is the same as the average number of sons.
Your source code? I've never been given my source code, and even the binary (well actually the quaternary, given that it is encoded in base 4) is locked away in the cell nucleus in a form which is not easily accessible.
Well, XX sperm would cause ill childs anyway (namely XXX womans, unlessa the egg cell has an anomaly itself).
However, solving equations of course favours Y chromosomes. That's because you always solve after X, so you have its actual value and therefore can eliminate it. Eliminating X of course doesn't affect sperms with an Y chromosome (because it doesn't have an X to eliminate), but only sperms with an X chromosome (after all, x is exactly what you eliminate).
Steve Jobs said he liked the potato chips he was offered during an Intel presentation, and plans to sell the same chips in Apple's cafeteria as well.:-)
Well, it actually fits quite well: In a socialist economy, the party (there's basically only one) sets the rules of what has to be done and what may be done, and all others have no real say.
Now, in the description above replace "party" with "software provider", and remember that "there's basically only one" is called "monopoly" for companies, and think about what EULAs and DRM are all about, and you'll see that Microsoft is indeed quite socialistic.
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Overkill. One key suffices. 1 and 0 can be distinguished according to the length of the key press. This also will teach you fast typing because if you type too slowly you'll get only zeros (assuming that zero is the longer keypress).
Well, I guess Microsoft stock gave a few people dreamy eyes. After all, the one thing MS was always good in is producing cash inflow.
You don't know any passionate Windows hater?
Well, Microsoft has an IntelliMouse, but I don't think they have a HyperIntelliMouse. Also, the number of dimensions is still restricted to four (two move and two scroll). Given that current theories assume that reality has at least 11 dimensions, that cannot really be called pandimensional.
:-)
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... to join the Free Film Project, instead of making another independent project?
Well, maybe the trick is that the blur is exactly not at the interesting area?
Why shouldn't machine code be code? Or byte code?
However there's another fuzzy border: Where does code end and pure data begin? E.g. if I set a cookie at a browser, then it causes the browser to send the cookie back to me every time someone accesses my web server. Now, is the cookie code (because it actually triggers an action), or is it just data (because it doesn't actually have commands, it's just a name/value pair, and it's the browser which does the sending anyway).
This line is fuzzy because for interpreted languages you could as well say the commands are just data, and it's only the interpreter which actually performs certain actions based on the data.
I for one wouldn't be unhappy if that law also covered tracking cookies from advertisers.
Only if you don't agree. Does the EULA say anything about it?
If you post to slashdot from a computer which is in another state or country, then AFAICS you are doing interstate or foreign communication. The same applies if you exchange email with someone in another state or country. However IANAL.
I didn't say that the probability is equal. I said that the average number of daughters is the same.
Remember, in the "game" described, you have exactly one son, but you can have any number of daughters. And if e.g. I have no daughter and you have two, then on average we both have one.
Well, both would be the person before duplication in the same sense in which you after awakening in the moring are the same person as the one who fell asleep the evening before. Don't tell me that you don't change the slightest bit while sleeping.
Well, the verteron particles could disturb the singular field and therefore cause a Higgs anomaly, which would not only immediatly destroy the wormhole, but in addition would disturb subspace up to a distance of 100 lightyears. You wouldn't be able to use Warp drives in that region afterwards (i.e. you'd be stuck).
Like a big hammer? Or more like a giant screw driver?
Yes.
It doesn't need to be hacking. What if there's a secret manipulation built straight into the system? This could reach from goals like preventing crime (on download, search for all criminal thoughts and eliminate them; not good for writers of criminal stories, of course), up to perfect political manipulation (just make everyone a supporter of the current regime on download).
Indeed, for a dictator, this technology would be a dream.
The opposite of future is not history, but past. ...
However, I've never heared of Pastologists
Did you actually work at the support department, i.e. nursing computer users? :-)
Except that this would not create any statistical bias, if boy and girl are equally likely each time.
Proof:
With the above scheme (neglecting unwanted childs, twins and so on), every engineer would have exactly one son, and the average number of daugters would calculate as follows:
- With probability 1/2, they have none (first child was son).
- With probability 1/4, they have exactly one (second child was son).
- With probability 1/8, they have exactly two.
- ...
Therefore the average number of daughters would be 0*1/2 + 1*1/4 + 2*1/8 +Oh, and I thought Gnome favoured boys, while KDE favoured girls?
BTW, what about Emacs and vi?
Nurses get more radiation than engineers?
Your source code? I've never been given my source code, and even the binary (well actually the quaternary, given that it is encoded in base 4) is locked away in the cell nucleus in a form which is not easily accessible.
Well, XX sperm would cause ill childs anyway (namely XXX womans, unlessa the egg cell has an anomaly itself).
:-)
However, solving equations of course favours Y chromosomes. That's because you always solve after X, so you have its actual value and therefore can eliminate it. Eliminating X of course doesn't affect sperms with an Y chromosome (because it doesn't have an X to eliminate), but only sperms with an X chromosome (after all, x is exactly what you eliminate).
SCNR
Steve Jobs said he liked the potato chips he was offered during an Intel presentation, and plans to sell the same chips in Apple's cafeteria as well. :-)
Well, it actually fits quite well: In a socialist economy, the party (there's basically only one) sets the rules of what has to be done and what may be done, and all others have no real say.
Now, in the description above replace "party" with "software provider", and remember that "there's basically only one" is called "monopoly" for companies, and think about what EULAs and DRM are all about, and you'll see that Microsoft is indeed quite socialistic.