Reminds me of when they found that they could not use the phrase "Sydney Olympic Games" because Mr Syd Games -- Mr Sydney *Olympic* Games -- had registered it as his trademark.
As a non-astrophysicist, nor any kind of physicist I know that my statement is going to carry little weight...
I believe that one day we will discover that 'big bang theory' is every bit as small-minded, parochial and blinkered as geo-centrism (ie the theory that the earth is at the center of the solar system).
For example, if we decided that it was very practical for people to protect their lives by equipping themselves with thermonuclear destruct devices activated by the lack of a heartbeat
Please, nothing so complex.
A thermonuclear device mounted on a motorcycle sidecar will do me *just* fine, thanks. Glass knives are optional.
Never played the games, never been near a console game.
I had a friend once explain that the "metal gear solid" is a reference to one of the characters, someone called "Solid Snake" and the fighting robot suit called "metal gear". Apparently theres also someone named "Liquid Snake".
What I've always wondered is... are these names some kind of wierd Japanese toilet humor?
When I was in university the commerce (e.g. business) students signed a petition to abolish arts and humanities studies, since they're a waste of time, money and there's no profit to be made from studying such things.
It would be a foolish marketing droid indeed who failed to see the profit to be made from studying human nature, its drives and motivations... And thats not just the realm of psychology but requires study of cultural influences as well!
I mean, if you accept the initial premise of an all powerful God, standing outside spacetime, then it's not so far a step to imagining a God who created the whole shebang in all its four dimensional glory, and then instantiated it at a point in time about six and a half thousand years ago.
This.
Can a creator-god not create a universe with an infinite past?
Why would it need to be constrained by time and space and create a universe 6000 years ago and limit the past as perceived within that universe to 6000 years?
A long time ago I participated in a number of experiments involving hypnosis.
Among those experiments was one involving using hypnosis to make someone resistant to hypnosis, so that without a code word further hypnosis would be impossible. This wasn't a government project or anything spooky. Honest.
We had some success with this however there was a side effect.
The subjects became unable to bear watching advertising on television. It set off the hypnosis resistant defences. Other forms of advertising such as bill boards, newspaper or web banner ads didn't set this off.
Actually, ever since I studied cell biology and learned about protists I've wanted to do some kind of behavioral animal psychology tests on them to see if they are capable of learning.
I have a feeling we might be surprised and that even one cell is capable of the kind of thing you describe in roaches.
When my boss tells me he wants 0 downtime (or even five-9 downtime), I show him a quote for the 7-figure cost of creating such a system.
I think you mean 'uptime'. Five 9's of downtime would be pretty sad.
Apparently Google is expected to hit that level of uptime all while charging either nothing for their standard edition or $50 per user per year for the premier.
If google claim to offer five-9's of uptime on this then they would be lieing.
It is not possible to offer more than about three (3) nines of uptime on, get this:
Any service delivered over the INTERNET.
If you are on a LAN or on a specially provisioned network link then, yes, you can get into five 9's.
But if the service you provide has to traverse the public internet, just apply some common sense and realism.
If you ask a chick what she looks for in a man, she'll say a good sense of humor. It's a complete lie -- what she really wants is a good looking dude.
There are two ways to make an impression on a woman.
1. The way to a mans heart is through his stomach. The way to a womans heart is through her clothes. Not by ripping them off of her but by commenting on them.
2. It helps if you can make a woman laugh. It helps a LOT. So long as its not your taking your pants down that starts her laughing you are generally doing well.
And, despite being on/. I have 'been with' more women than I can count And I can count higher than 50. Lots higher
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Math can be proven to be 100% factually correct.
Look up Godel. Famous mathematician and logician. Especially famous for his 'incompleteness theorem'.
Reminds me of when they found that they could not use the phrase "Sydney Olympic Games" because Mr Syd Games -- Mr Sydney *Olympic* Games -- had registered it as his trademark.
Boy was John Clarke pissed about that.
In between projects I play world of warcraft
If you are doing the dailies then I'd suggest that you are in fact not 'playing' but engaged in a second job while at work for your primary employer.
As a non-astrophysicist, nor any kind of physicist I know that my statement is going to carry little weight...
I believe that one day we will discover that 'big bang theory' is every bit as small-minded, parochial and blinkered as geo-centrism (ie the theory that the earth is at the center of the solar system).
but the device goes off only if "his brain ceases to emit electrical impulses
Damn, so it would do no good for, say, George W Bush to have such a device!
For example, if we decided that it was very practical for people to protect their lives by equipping themselves with thermonuclear destruct devices activated by the lack of a heartbeat
Please, nothing so complex.
A thermonuclear device mounted on a motorcycle sidecar will do me *just* fine, thanks. Glass knives are optional.
Never played the games, never been near a console game.
I had a friend once explain that the "metal gear solid" is a reference to one of the characters, someone called "Solid Snake" and the fighting robot suit called "metal gear". Apparently theres also someone named "Liquid Snake".
What I've always wondered is... are these names some kind of wierd Japanese toilet humor?
When I was in university the commerce (e.g. business) students signed a petition to abolish arts and humanities studies, since they're a waste of time, money and there's no profit to be made from studying such things.
It would be a foolish marketing droid indeed who failed to see the profit to be made from studying human nature, its drives and motivations... And thats not just the realm of psychology but requires study of cultural influences as well!
I mean, if you accept the initial premise of an all powerful God, standing outside spacetime, then it's not so far a step to imagining a God who created the whole shebang in all its four dimensional glory, and then instantiated it at a point in time about six and a half thousand years ago.
This.
Can a creator-god not create a universe with an infinite past?
Why would it need to be constrained by time and space and create a universe 6000 years ago and limit the past as perceived within that universe to 6000 years?
I was in the WAR closed beta for a couple of months, and now in the open beta.
I heard that they had huge problems getting people to play the non-chaos faction. Everyone wanted to be chaos.
Did they manage to get around this and actually have something like a balanced population across factions?
My bad, I was being extremely sarcastic with no emoticons to indicate my state of mind.
Damn straight. I like my fresh air.
How right you are.
When will people learn that open windows *helps* airconditioning to be more efficient!?!?!?!
In the 1970s it sure was.
What is clearly evolutionary today would have been mind boggling science fiction in the 1970s.
True words.
There was an ipod in Blakes Seven; Calli listened to one from time to time.
Mind boggling science fiction doesn't come much more boggling than Blakes Seven.
I think theres a quote from Sarah Palin somewhere, about technology. I think it goes:
"If it kin get mah dawtah pregernant then Ahm agin it!"
It was private research done back in the early/mid '80s.
Nope, not available anywhere that I'm aware of.
A long time ago I participated in a number of experiments involving hypnosis.
Among those experiments was one involving using hypnosis to make someone resistant to hypnosis, so that without a code word further hypnosis would be impossible. This wasn't a government project or anything spooky. Honest.
We had some success with this however there was a side effect.
The subjects became unable to bear watching advertising on television. It set off the hypnosis resistant defences. Other forms of advertising such as bill boards, newspaper or web banner ads didn't set this off.
Some basic consumer rights should be taught at high school.
I strongly suspect that this would ruin the economy.
If you hold a magnifying glass up to anyone's life you are bound to find something objectionable if you look hard enough.
Theres an old saying that goes something like "Give me 6 lines penned by the most virtuous of men and I shall find something in it to hang him."
Plus downtime costs involved in having their servers unavailable during said downtime
They are worried about $600
This suggests that downtime isn't costing a lot.
Actually, ever since I studied cell biology and learned about protists I've wanted to do some kind of behavioral animal psychology tests on them to see if they are capable of learning.
I have a feeling we might be surprised and that even one cell is capable of the kind of thing you describe in roaches.
The point of TCP/IP was to keep the military running when the commies nuked our ass to hell. Where does this 'HTTP' fit in with that?
After the nuclear holocaust you are going to need some way to distribute porn and propaganda to the survivors.
C# is an ISO/ECMA standard, Java is not.
We don't have enough RAM on the desktop yet to make Java a realistic language for this sort of thing.
When peoples desktop machines have 16G of RAM on average, maybe then.
Perhaps like saying Christianity is defined as simply denial of pagan beliefs.
I think that monotheism itself can be simply defined as denial of *all* other beliefs.
When my boss tells me he wants 0 downtime (or even five-9 downtime), I show him a quote for the 7-figure cost of creating such a system.
I think you mean 'uptime'. Five 9's of downtime would be pretty sad.
Apparently Google is expected to hit that level of uptime all while charging either nothing for their standard edition or $50 per user per year for the premier.
If google claim to offer five-9's of uptime on this then they would be lieing.
It is not possible to offer more than about three (3) nines of uptime on, get this:
Any service delivered over the INTERNET.
If you are on a LAN or on a specially provisioned network link then, yes, you can get into five 9's.
But if the service you provide has to traverse the public internet, just apply some common sense and realism.
If you ask a chick what she looks for in a man, she'll say a good sense of humor. It's a complete lie -- what she really wants is a good looking dude.
There are two ways to make an impression on a woman.
1. The way to a mans heart is through his stomach. The way to a womans heart is through her clothes. Not by ripping them off of her but by commenting on them.
2. It helps if you can make a woman laugh. It helps a LOT. So long as its not your taking your pants down that starts her laughing you are generally doing well.
And, despite being on /. I have 'been with' more women than I can count And I can count higher than 50. Lots higher