No. In GP's interpretation, the universe itself is doing nothing. Taking the "prevent" word out of context is just playing word games.
The GP's interpretation assumes many worlds interpretation to be true. You can model that like this.. the universe you exist in right now is a data object, and there exists a computer that will calculate all the possible next states, according to the laws of physics, as the succeeding universes; and so on and so forth. The universes in which you won the lottery, the universes in which you won 10 times in a row, and the universes in which you never did, all exist - but you can only experience one trajectory along these possibilities.
Still with me? Yes it's weirder than science fiction. It's one of those really weird ideas that you can play with logic and physics, but doesn't really have much practical value.
Now what does it have to do with LHC? Simple - the universes, or data objects, in which the LHC started, exist. But the laws of physics somehow determines that in the next states of those universes, observers such as me and you wouldn't exist any more. But somehow, you and me are still chatting in Slashdot and observing something... so our trajectory simply cannot involve those universes. Extending that a bit, we can arrive at a theory that, as long as we're alive, we won't see the LHC start.
My opinion? It's interesting to talk about such things among nerds. But don't get carried away with it.
You're looking at the NaN (or rather, an undefined answer - NaN is just a programming term) because your equation cannot predict the current in the superconductor based on the voltage difference and the resistance. For a superconductor in normal operation, both V and r are 0 but I can be any finite number between 0 and the superconductor's physical limit. So the undefined value essentially means your current model no longer applies, and that's correct. It would be incorrect if it gives you a singular numerical in this case.
Also, the P in P=VI or P=I^2R or P=V^2/R concerns only the power dissipated over a resistance - it has nothing to do the power that can be carried over that resistance. For a superconductor in normal mode of operation, V and R are 0 and I is a finite value and so the power dissipated as heat is 0.
It's important to know what the models actually mean in physics or engineering, don't just plug numbers in blindly.
Code tests should be done as take home exams. Reason is... any competent programmers these days know at least half a dozen of programming langauges (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, C, C++, Objective-C, Java, JavaScript, several different flavors of SQL, shell scripts, several different flavors of asm, etc.). BUT! Nobody would be juggling all those half-a-dozen languages (even a significant part of that language's features and libraries) last month. Result - if you code test someone on the spot, the guy who crammed for the interview (but usually incompetent) gets good results while the competent programmer at your interview would have forgotten the exact class/function names, or even syntax to use. So basically you, the interviewer, are shooting yourself in the foot.
Asking for the general direction in which the interviewee would use to solve the problem, however, is ok. Once you've got the general direction down, it's trivial to ask Google for the exact syntax and names. And after you've been working on a project for a few days you can get accustomed to those little things anyway. Someone who can't get the general direction down or comes up with overcomplicated designs (e.g. architectural astronauts - trying to scare me with buzzwords huh?) would be a real pain in the ass to work with.
Totally agree on the communications part. Being an introvert is no excuse for poor communication skills. Even if you're an excellent coder/architect/manager (how can anyone be manager without good communications skills?!), good communication skills saves time for everybody. You don't have to be able to talk/write perfect English - just get the damned idea across and have a good sense of other people's feelings.
Hmm... back in the day Serious Sam WAS pretty. It was one of those games that would push a TNT2 or Voodoo 3 to the limits. It was the Crisis of the late 90s.
Do you seriously believe people without running water would go to universities, learn programming and work in front of computers all day? Shouldn't these people be... hmm... fighting for water and food all day?
Remember the flash games for the Olympics website that were re-skinned ripoffs?
Remember the babies that died from the milk that had a whitening substance in it so they could water it down?
This is the countrie that sells fake eggs. It's like a sausage.. This is the country that sells cardboard with fat and food coloring as hotdogs.
You can sum these all up in a few words: rational, but brutal. Cheapest isn't really a good description to everything that's happening here - the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony isn't exactly cheap, right? And for the record, the government had done the rational thing to stop the latter two items (which are public safety AND foreign relation disasters) immediately after they're discovered - whether they know about it BEFORE those things are discovered is quite another question.
But look at Green Dam it's really irrational... The government paid $40M RMB to the contractor for this foreign relations disaster - $5.85M USD isn't exactly cheap, right? Sure it's not exactly expensive for a nation-wide project, either. But... for a $5.85M USD project anyone with common sense would put in some checks and tests, right? If I'm really cheap I'd put even MORE checks and tests in it to make sure nobody screws up my investment.
I'm not really surprised by the censorship and monitoring things as they've been doing that all the time... but...
That piece of software, coming out from the central government itself - it's run by former engineers you know, is so stupid! If people can fly by being stupid then we don't need rockets! We just strap our astronauts to this guy, who is executing the plan, and everyone will get a ride to the moon for free! I can imagine false positives and false negatives aren't really big problems from the government's viewpoint. But... the censoring list is not encrypted?! Are you stupid? So basically you're telling everyone in China what sort of topics the government is afraid of and thus... get them to look for those things? pr0n isn't really a big problem actually but a kid having an unencrypted list of pr0n sites is still disturbing. Now kids in China don't need to look for pr0n from Baidu anymore, they just get the government-approved pr0n site list from this Green Dam CD and surf away!
Now foreign countries have found their code being by from this software... WTF? Where are the checks and balancing in place to make sure such obvious things would not happen? By obvious I mean whenever you contracted someone to write software in China, you should expect potential IP problems from their code because everyone copies code there! So you have this piece of software that you KNOW will surely be scrutinized closely by foreigners, and you also know there's a significant probability that your contractor would just nick the code from someone else... Then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you need to put some checks in place to prevent a potential foreign relation disaster, right?
Man, this is so stupid. Whoever responsible for implementing this plan must be smoking something good.
Send me $1,000,000 to my Nigerian bank and I'll blackmail your legislators to outlaw encryption. Send me another $1,000,000 and I'll blackmail your legislators to outlaw gravity too!
I live in Hong Kong. The noise, pollution and traffic in the urban area sucks. The stupid consumerist culture sucks. You can buy a noise canceling headphone or in-canal earphone to eliminate the noise, but you can't eliminate the pollution and wasted time caused by the traffic. You also can't stop your friends from showing you "bling" even though they actually earn less than you. Oh, and even my mom is wasting MY money for those useless bling, fuck.
Even in a place as dense as Hong Kong, the public FON APs are close to non-existent - even if you've found one in some shopping mall, it's usually of poor quality. They're often terribly slow and drop your connection regularly.
Now with unlimited HSDPA 3G plans being available here (I've been using one with my iPhone 3G), it's much easier to get Internet connection with your mobile phone. Previously, I've been using an old version PdaNet on my iPhone to do it. But with the 3.0 beta firmware (I'm an iPhone developer so I can get beta firmware from Apple) now I can just tether via USB. If you've got an unlimited 3G plan like me and some other 3G phone (like a Nokia), you can even do the tethering without fiddling with jailbreaking or beta firmware.
So, the only use of a FON left is to use it as a regular wifi router at home. But even for that, it's terribly insufficient - it doesn't have uPnP, DMZ or DDNS clients. So again, the only useful thing you can do with it, is to jailbreak it and install dd-wrt (or some other free router firmware) into it, so at least you get basic things like DMZ and uPnP.
I can imagine an introductory computer networking class being taught with this, with the students passing IPv6 messages over Facebook. Of course, some mechanism is needed to check for their correctness.
I just tried out CADIE's 3D glasses and the whole world turned black! Holy shit! CADIE is evil and it has now plunged the world into darkness! The whole world is surely on the way to hell now. Oh my God I can't even read Slashdot now because even my computer screen won't light up.
Slashdot Mirror
No. In GP's interpretation, the universe itself is doing nothing. Taking the "prevent" word out of context is just playing word games.
The GP's interpretation assumes many worlds interpretation to be true. You can model that like this.. the universe you exist in right now is a data object, and there exists a computer that will calculate all the possible next states, according to the laws of physics, as the succeeding universes; and so on and so forth. The universes in which you won the lottery, the universes in which you won 10 times in a row, and the universes in which you never did, all exist - but you can only experience one trajectory along these possibilities.
Still with me? Yes it's weirder than science fiction. It's one of those really weird ideas that you can play with logic and physics, but doesn't really have much practical value.
Now what does it have to do with LHC? Simple - the universes, or data objects, in which the LHC started, exist. But the laws of physics somehow determines that in the next states of those universes, observers such as me and you wouldn't exist any more. But somehow, you and me are still chatting in Slashdot and observing something... so our trajectory simply cannot involve those universes. Extending that a bit, we can arrive at a theory that, as long as we're alive, we won't see the LHC start.
My opinion? It's interesting to talk about such things among nerds. But don't get carried away with it.
You're looking at the NaN (or rather, an undefined answer - NaN is just a programming term) because your equation cannot predict the current in the superconductor based on the voltage difference and the resistance. For a superconductor in normal operation, both V and r are 0 but I can be any finite number between 0 and the superconductor's physical limit. So the undefined value essentially means your current model no longer applies, and that's correct. It would be incorrect if it gives you a singular numerical in this case.
Also, the P in P=VI or P=I^2R or P=V^2/R concerns only the power dissipated over a resistance - it has nothing to do the power that can be carried over that resistance. For a superconductor in normal mode of operation, V and R are 0 and I is a finite value and so the power dissipated as heat is 0.
It's important to know what the models actually mean in physics or engineering, don't just plug numbers in blindly.
Code tests should be done as take home exams. Reason is... any competent programmers these days know at least half a dozen of programming langauges (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, C, C++, Objective-C, Java, JavaScript, several different flavors of SQL, shell scripts, several different flavors of asm, etc.). BUT! Nobody would be juggling all those half-a-dozen languages (even a significant part of that language's features and libraries) last month. Result - if you code test someone on the spot, the guy who crammed for the interview (but usually incompetent) gets good results while the competent programmer at your interview would have forgotten the exact class/function names, or even syntax to use. So basically you, the interviewer, are shooting yourself in the foot.
Asking for the general direction in which the interviewee would use to solve the problem, however, is ok. Once you've got the general direction down, it's trivial to ask Google for the exact syntax and names. And after you've been working on a project for a few days you can get accustomed to those little things anyway. Someone who can't get the general direction down or comes up with overcomplicated designs (e.g. architectural astronauts - trying to scare me with buzzwords huh?) would be a real pain in the ass to work with.
Totally agree on the communications part. Being an introvert is no excuse for poor communication skills. Even if you're an excellent coder/architect/manager (how can anyone be manager without good communications skills?!), good communication skills saves time for everybody. You don't have to be able to talk/write perfect English - just get the damned idea across and have a good sense of other people's feelings.
TMATW you worked on a project that was behind schedule. TMATW you disagreed with the team. TMATW you made a mistake.
These questions are like... do you remember what you ate last Friday?
Similar to yesterday's.
So what's that?
Huh? Why would I remember the details?
Real banksters don't steal billions, they steal trillions.
You can just buy a GPS instead.
Jet was invented by Myron, VaultTec has nothing to do with it.
Hmm... back in the day Serious Sam WAS pretty. It was one of those games that would push a TNT2 or Voodoo 3 to the limits. It was the Crisis of the late 90s.
Republic of China is Taiwan, not mainland China.
Do you seriously believe people without running water would go to universities, learn programming and work in front of computers all day? Shouldn't these people be... hmm... fighting for water and food all day?
Remember the flash games for the Olympics website that were re-skinned ripoffs?
Remember the babies that died from the milk that had a whitening substance in it so they could water it down?
This is the countrie that sells fake eggs. It's like a sausage.. This is the country that sells cardboard with fat and food coloring as hotdogs.
You can sum these all up in a few words: rational, but brutal. Cheapest isn't really a good description to everything that's happening here - the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony isn't exactly cheap, right? And for the record, the government had done the rational thing to stop the latter two items (which are public safety AND foreign relation disasters) immediately after they're discovered - whether they know about it BEFORE those things are discovered is quite another question.
But look at Green Dam it's really irrational... The government paid $40M RMB to the contractor for this foreign relations disaster - $5.85M USD isn't exactly cheap, right? Sure it's not exactly expensive for a nation-wide project, either. But... for a $5.85M USD project anyone with common sense would put in some checks and tests, right? If I'm really cheap I'd put even MORE checks and tests in it to make sure nobody screws up my investment.
I'm not really surprised by the censorship and monitoring things as they've been doing that all the time... but...
That piece of software, coming out from the central government itself - it's run by former engineers you know, is so stupid! If people can fly by being stupid then we don't need rockets! We just strap our astronauts to this guy, who is executing the plan, and everyone will get a ride to the moon for free! I can imagine false positives and false negatives aren't really big problems from the government's viewpoint. But... the censoring list is not encrypted?! Are you stupid? So basically you're telling everyone in China what sort of topics the government is afraid of and thus... get them to look for those things? pr0n isn't really a big problem actually but a kid having an unencrypted list of pr0n sites is still disturbing. Now kids in China don't need to look for pr0n from Baidu anymore, they just get the government-approved pr0n site list from this Green Dam CD and surf away!
Now foreign countries have found their code being by from this software... WTF? Where are the checks and balancing in place to make sure such obvious things would not happen? By obvious I mean whenever you contracted someone to write software in China, you should expect potential IP problems from their code because everyone copies code there! So you have this piece of software that you KNOW will surely be scrutinized closely by foreigners, and you also know there's a significant probability that your contractor would just nick the code from someone else... Then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you need to put some checks in place to prevent a potential foreign relation disaster, right?
Man, this is so stupid. Whoever responsible for implementing this plan must be smoking something good.
Send me $1,000,000 to my Nigerian bank and I'll blackmail your legislators to outlaw encryption. Send me another $1,000,000 and I'll blackmail your legislators to outlaw gravity too!
Best Regards, Your Personal Nigerian Prince
But if you're driving a Prius while typing on a MacBook Pro, the smug will kill you too.
Yes. The GGP's Nigerian scam is totally Photoshopped.
s/state/rich/g
I live in Hong Kong. The noise, pollution and traffic in the urban area sucks. The stupid consumerist culture sucks. You can buy a noise canceling headphone or in-canal earphone to eliminate the noise, but you can't eliminate the pollution and wasted time caused by the traffic. You also can't stop your friends from showing you "bling" even though they actually earn less than you. Oh, and even my mom is wasting MY money for those useless bling, fuck.
Even in a place as dense as Hong Kong, the public FON APs are close to non-existent - even if you've found one in some shopping mall, it's usually of poor quality. They're often terribly slow and drop your connection regularly.
Now with unlimited HSDPA 3G plans being available here (I've been using one with my iPhone 3G), it's much easier to get Internet connection with your mobile phone. Previously, I've been using an old version PdaNet on my iPhone to do it. But with the 3.0 beta firmware (I'm an iPhone developer so I can get beta firmware from Apple) now I can just tether via USB. If you've got an unlimited 3G plan like me and some other 3G phone (like a Nokia), you can even do the tethering without fiddling with jailbreaking or beta firmware.
So, the only use of a FON left is to use it as a regular wifi router at home. But even for that, it's terribly insufficient - it doesn't have uPnP, DMZ or DDNS clients. So again, the only useful thing you can do with it, is to jailbreak it and install dd-wrt (or some other free router firmware) into it, so at least you get basic things like DMZ and uPnP.
Very large values of 1 and very small values of 0.
Opening a small bistro in your spaceship will allow it to go beyond light speed without turning you into a sofa.
And let's outlaw gravity as well.
I can imagine an introductory computer networking class being taught with this, with the students passing IPv6 messages over Facebook. Of course, some mechanism is needed to check for their correctness.
The tinfoil hats! They're useless! AARRGGGHHHH!!
Hey! You! Stop scamming people all over the world! I'm the REAL Nigerian prince! My father is a King so I'm the real deal!
I just tried out CADIE's 3D glasses and the whole world turned black! Holy shit! CADIE is evil and it has now plunged the world into darkness! The whole world is surely on the way to hell now. Oh my God I can't even read Slashdot now because even my computer screen won't light up.