I say if time travel is possible, you should certainly be able to kill your grandfather as well as the rest of the human race if you like. Remember that we live in a multiverse of many, many possibilities. Going back in time and killing everybody doesn't mean those people that you left are going to disappear forever. The problem is that they will disappear as far as you're concerned. By going back in time and killing your grandfather, you've tied yourself to a different set of probabilities than the one you left.
You can think of it like navigating a huge binary tree of 50/50 probabilities. After navigating back far enough in time, performing an action, such as killing your grandfather causes you to force a choice on existence, but existence from your perspective.
We can see from this that navigating back and forth through time is not a linear activity at all, but a multidimensional spatial problem. We think of moving forward in time as 'freezing' and then 'arriving' within our own probability stream. I believe it makes more sence that if you are able to navigate backwards along a probability tree, that you should be able to navigate along a series of possibilities to arrive at whichever one you desired most.
All-in all, I'll bet you can kill your own grandfather.
I remember picking up an HP48G back when I was in high school because I found out that I could (potentially) replace the 32k sram chip with 128k and add more 128k chips directly on the two ports originally for card slots in the HP48GX. What a great idea that was.
After finding all of the parts, etching out a really crappy board (thanks, Radio Shack), I had a lot of tiny wires and some soldering to do. Of course, I never soldered anything in my life, so I thought it would be fun.
I had solder, a butane soldering iron and no flux, of course, since I didn't know what that was. After I soldered some big 128k sram chips to my crappy etched out PCB and even drew some traces with solder I was ready for the wires.
I'm sure you've heard of the metaphor regarding trying to herd kittens in a wheelbarrow, right? Imagine those kittens are made of molten tin solder. I learned after a particularly bad solder burn that I did indeed taste like chicken when I was cooked.
Six hours later I had a big hunk of crap stuck to the back of my calculator as a daughter board. There wasn't enough room in the case for the three big chips, so I had to cut a hole in the back. I just had to try burning away the plastic with the soldering iron first until I nearly passed out from the fumes, and found that a jigsaw just might work better.
After I put power to it, of course it didn't work, so I checked things out and found some solder had made it underneath the chips. What a pain in the ass. I took it apart, cleaned out the solder, and put everything back together. That was maybe six more hours. I was getting good at this.
I turned it on and then it booted up straight away. So I'm thinking, "Great! All done!" I even was able to store 128k strings without trouble.
After showing some friends at school that I could put greyscale tetris on the device and play without any trouble whilst thumbing my nose at the two suckers that shelled out the extra cash for a GX, it fell out of my bag and onto the street. I figured everything should be ok, right? I turned it on and got a black screen. I then thought that maybe I screwed up the memory somehow, so I put in two batteries backwards for a second to clear the memory. Blue smoke started to pour out the back. I whacked the batteries out of the back and then waited until I got home to work on it some more. When I got home, I removed everything and put the old 32k chip back in. I also found that I had learned the hard way about cold solder joints. It worked fine, except that calculator could drain its batteries from fresh to empty in 15 minutes. It blew out the reverse polarity protection circuit.
I had this calculator during finals with a bag of batteries at my desk. You could imagine the looks I got when I smashed the batteries out the back and put new ones in four times during the same exam. I was used to doing this, so it was weird turning to others and saying, "what?"
Ah, good times, good times. Of course the next one I did was much, much cleaner. A professional job. It was stolen. I found an HP49G some time later with 2+ megs of storage on it, and at a better price point than burning hands.
Hmm... I'm just thinking if my landlord saw that in my apartment.
The Department of Homeland Security would have confiscated that wunderbox in their effort to quash the pursuit of "un-American activities" a-la the Patriot Act.
The phone company has the rights to your voice and anything you say using that logic. That's simply not the case. They don't own the media, only the transport mechanism.
No, I don't think so. I can't help it if management bought into some Microsoft BS about how groupware will "bring IT all together". The fact of the matter is that those promises required money that nobody was willing to spend, so it was a hell of alot easier to justify the move. If we had used Exchange as proper groupware, then we would have moved to Suse OpenExchange anyhow. Getting that set up and maintained would have cost money that we already had spent on our bosses raises.
Such licensing would be convenient for disaster recoveries, where it's important to replace a failed server as soon as possible without calling Microsoft support or licensing partner
That's funny. The last disaster recovery I was involved with kicked off with scrapping all of the hard drives. IIS, Exchange, and Windows 2000 Server were tossed and replaced with Apache and Sendmail on a couple of Mandrake boxes. Our network was lightning fast after that upgrade. It took a complete and utter failure of both the primary and secondary domain controllers for us to realise how stupid keeping the MS machine oiled is.
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LD50 is the dosage which kills 50% of a sample population. The FDA is not going to round up sample populations and administer high dosages of caffeine to humans. However, they'll do the same with rats and guinea pigs. This doesn't scale to humans very well obviously, as there are creatures that will die from any caffeine ingestion, like cats for example.
After finding a ScummVM emulator for my Sharp Zaurus, digging out my old Sam N Max disks, and completing the thing, I was ready for more! I haven't seen anything good from Lucas since Grim Fandango! What the heck?
Don't forget tail -f/var/log/secure if you syslog is set up like that. I have to say that the conscious lack of DES support created a day of patch porting for me so our company could do site-to-site tunnel. Cool product though.
Sure, we've seen the comments regarding spindle rpms, cache size/speed, and so on. What about the actual file systems used here? Doesn't ReiserFS have equivalent read access for smaller file structures as the large streaming ones?
by the lack of brilliance that this guy shows us in his paper. I thought everyone knew that a so-called "instant in time" was taking that 1/t as t approaches infinity. It's no more than a concept. That's why we call it a "continuum". All of these "big ideas" about relative states of matter that cause micro states to relate to macro systems are dealt with by relativistic theories. That's it, no more time to waste on this. And yes, I'm still not disillusioned with NTP services just yet. Bozos.
Does anyone else envision ad execs forcing network programmers to pack in 15 minutes of commercials so the TiVo audience will be able to absorb 3x as many ads in the same amount of time?
If this trend continues, how many much time does an obese person have to spend viewing these blipverts before he spontaneously combusts?
"I find it curious that much of the vegetarian food industry is devoted to foodstuff that looks and tastes like meat. There's a biological desire there to use meat as a source of protein"
That's because they're trying to make it easier for people who want to be vegetarian to wean themselves off of cravings for animal flesh. The food chemists have virtually created a market for themselves by creating meat-like substances such as VEAT (tm) and the various products by Gardenburger , Boca, Morningstar Farms, and Yves Veggie Cuisine.
As far as your comment on the ribeye, I'll do naught but politely disagree, and say that though I personally believe that you are wrong, I respect that you have the right to chose to eat another animal's flesh. I like a good paneer curry, myself, but vegetarians aren't about exotics. Plenty of contemporary dishes can be made vegetarian.
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I say if time travel is possible, you should certainly be able to kill your grandfather as well as the rest of the human race if you like. Remember that we live in a multiverse of many, many possibilities. Going back in time and killing everybody doesn't mean those people that you left are going to disappear forever. The problem is that they will disappear as far as you're concerned. By going back in time and killing your grandfather, you've tied yourself to a different set of probabilities than the one you left.
You can think of it like navigating a huge binary tree of 50/50 probabilities. After navigating back far enough in time, performing an action, such as killing your grandfather causes you to force a choice on existence, but existence from your perspective.
We can see from this that navigating back and forth through time is not a linear activity at all, but a multidimensional spatial problem. We think of moving forward in time as 'freezing' and then 'arriving' within our own probability stream. I believe it makes more sence that if you are able to navigate backwards along a probability tree, that you should be able to navigate along a series of possibilities to arrive at whichever one you desired most.
All-in all, I'll bet you can kill your own grandfather.
After finding all of the parts, etching out a really crappy board (thanks, Radio Shack), I had a lot of tiny wires and some soldering to do. Of course, I never soldered anything in my life, so I thought it would be fun.
I had solder, a butane soldering iron and no flux, of course, since I didn't know what that was. After I soldered some big 128k sram chips to my crappy etched out PCB and even drew some traces with solder I was ready for the wires.
I'm sure you've heard of the metaphor regarding trying to herd kittens in a wheelbarrow, right? Imagine those kittens are made of molten tin solder. I learned after a particularly bad solder burn that I did indeed taste like chicken when I was cooked.
Six hours later I had a big hunk of crap stuck to the back of my calculator as a daughter board. There wasn't enough room in the case for the three big chips, so I had to cut a hole in the back. I just had to try burning away the plastic with the soldering iron first until I nearly passed out from the fumes, and found that a jigsaw just might work better.
After I put power to it, of course it didn't work, so I checked things out and found some solder had made it underneath the chips. What a pain in the ass. I took it apart, cleaned out the solder, and put everything back together. That was maybe six more hours. I was getting good at this. I turned it on and then it booted up straight away. So I'm thinking, "Great! All done!" I even was able to store 128k strings without trouble.
After showing some friends at school that I could put greyscale tetris on the device and play without any trouble whilst thumbing my nose at the two suckers that shelled out the extra cash for a GX, it fell out of my bag and onto the street. I figured everything should be ok, right? I turned it on and got a black screen. I then thought that maybe I screwed up the memory somehow, so I put in two batteries backwards for a second to clear the memory. Blue smoke started to pour out the back. I whacked the batteries out of the back and then waited until I got home to work on it some more. When I got home, I removed everything and put the old 32k chip back in. I also found that I had learned the hard way about cold solder joints. It worked fine, except that calculator could drain its batteries from fresh to empty in 15 minutes. It blew out the reverse polarity protection circuit.
I had this calculator during finals with a bag of batteries at my desk. You could imagine the looks I got when I smashed the batteries out the back and put new ones in four times during the same exam. I was used to doing this, so it was weird turning to others and saying, "what?"
Ah, good times, good times. Of course the next one I did was much, much cleaner. A professional job. It was stolen. I found an HP49G some time later with 2+ megs of storage on it, and at a better price point than burning hands.
No good sir, I'm on the level.
Hmm... I'm just thinking if my landlord saw that in my apartment.
The Department of Homeland Security would have confiscated that wunderbox in their effort to quash the pursuit of "un-American activities" a-la the Patriot Act.
The phone company has the rights to your voice and anything you say using that logic. That's simply not the case. They don't own the media, only the transport mechanism.
No, I don't think so. I can't help it if management bought into some Microsoft BS about how groupware will "bring IT all together". The fact of the matter is that those promises required money that nobody was willing to spend, so it was a hell of alot easier to justify the move. If we had used Exchange as proper groupware, then we would have moved to Suse OpenExchange anyhow. Getting that set up and maintained would have cost money that we already had spent on our bosses raises.
Such licensing would be convenient for disaster recoveries, where it's important to replace a failed server as soon as possible without calling Microsoft support or licensing partner
That's funny. The last disaster recovery I was involved with kicked off with scrapping all of the hard drives. IIS, Exchange, and Windows 2000 Server were tossed and replaced with Apache and Sendmail on a couple of Mandrake boxes. Our network was lightning fast after that upgrade. It took a complete and utter failure of both the primary and secondary domain controllers for us to realise how stupid keeping the MS machine oiled is.
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LD50 is the dosage which kills 50% of a sample population. The FDA is not going to round up sample populations and administer high dosages of caffeine to humans. However, they'll do the same with rats and guinea pigs. This doesn't scale to humans very well obviously, as there are creatures that will die from any caffeine ingestion, like cats for example.
After finding a ScummVM emulator for my Sharp Zaurus, digging out my old Sam N Max disks, and completing the thing, I was ready for more! I haven't seen anything good from Lucas since Grim Fandango! What the heck?
Don't forget tail -f /var/log/secure if you syslog is set up like that. I have to say that the conscious lack of DES support created a day of patch porting for me so our company could do site-to-site tunnel. Cool product though.
Sure, we've seen the comments regarding spindle rpms, cache size/speed, and so on. What about the actual file systems used here? Doesn't ReiserFS have equivalent read access for smaller file structures as the large streaming ones?
by the lack of brilliance that this guy shows us in his paper. I thought everyone knew that a so-called "instant in time" was taking that 1/t as t approaches infinity. It's no more than a concept. That's why we call it a "continuum". All of these "big ideas" about relative states of matter that cause micro states to relate to macro systems are dealt with by relativistic theories. That's it, no more time to waste on this. And yes, I'm still not disillusioned with NTP services just yet. Bozos.
Does anyone else envision ad execs forcing network programmers to pack in 15 minutes of commercials so the TiVo audience will be able to absorb 3x as many ads in the same amount of time? If this trend continues, how many much time does an obese person have to spend viewing these blipverts before he spontaneously combusts?
"I find it curious that much of the vegetarian food industry is devoted to foodstuff that looks and tastes like meat. There's a biological desire there to use meat as a source of protein" That's because they're trying to make it easier for people who want to be vegetarian to wean themselves off of cravings for animal flesh. The food chemists have virtually created a market for themselves by creating meat-like substances such as VEAT (tm) and the various products by Gardenburger , Boca, Morningstar Farms, and Yves Veggie Cuisine.
As far as your comment on the ribeye, I'll do naught but politely disagree, and say that though I personally believe that you are wrong, I respect that you have the right to chose to eat another animal's flesh. I like a good paneer curry, myself, but vegetarians aren't about exotics. Plenty of contemporary dishes can be made vegetarian.