It's a ideological virus that spreads among anti-USA people here in Brazil (and possibly latin america as well). You know, "the USA want to rule the world and think all American continent is their playground, so they call themselves 'Americans', even if the entire continent is called in textbooks as 'America' and bla bla bla they are United Statians, not Americans".
Pretty lame argument, if you ask me. I live in the Federative Republic of Brazil, that makes me a Federative Republican and not a Brazilian?
Or you can think the way Sagan and Clarke did: if there is civilizations advanced enough to achieve interestellar travel, they will have no need (as they got advanced technology for obtaining their resources) or drive towards other species extermination.
Also, I think it's unlikely to exists jupiter-sized rogue planets. AFAIK rogue planets are not strongly bound to the original star, and there were never been detected jupiters very far from their star (so gravitational interaction in weak enough to allow the planet to become a rogue).
Here in Brasil, I've heard that the card companies take ~1% of each transaction. So it's common that stores won't accept anything but cash for cigarrettes (as their margin of profit is thin, so they say).
Also, uptime is a major problem. When I used to go out at saturday nights, systems were always "timing out".
Still better than carrying money around, if you ask me
I remember back in 2002 when some student uploaded a.arj file containing DOOM 2 to the state university website. I heard there was a huge process and the university ended up closing the server and paying what was at the time a million dollars.
Well, it's generally a good thing when experiments are descriptive enough to be reproducible by other parties. For what I saw, it's pratically impossible to reproduce this mini-internet, and would be extremelly expensive. The internet, on the other hand, is there.
And it takes more than one company or person to make a conspiracy.
I don't think that's something to do with maths, but with computing. very practical computing. Like, how to run a job for one year (or ten months, as the pages said).
However, I couldn't find anything resembling a computer setup in the japanese page. maybe because I can't really read japanese.
How random is that:
1) generate random string
2) compare to something not random
3) if it's not equal, back to step 1
it's easy to "randomly" generate any text, given that it's given.
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It's a ideological virus that spreads among anti-USA people here in Brazil (and possibly latin america as well). You know, "the USA want to rule the world and think all American continent is their playground, so they call themselves 'Americans', even if the entire continent is called in textbooks as 'America' and bla bla bla they are United Statians, not Americans".
Pretty lame argument, if you ask me. I live in the Federative Republic of Brazil, that makes me a Federative Republican and not a Brazilian?
Hi, I live in the Federative Republic of Brazil. Therefore I am a Federative Republican (or FRican)
Or you can think the way Sagan and Clarke did: if there is civilizations advanced enough to achieve interestellar travel, they will have no need (as they got advanced technology for obtaining their resources) or drive towards other species extermination.
Also, I think it's unlikely to exists jupiter-sized rogue planets. AFAIK rogue planets are not strongly bound to the original star, and there were never been detected jupiters very far from their star (so gravitational interaction in weak enough to allow the planet to become a rogue).
Didn't get one thing: the article says the star is 13 billions yo, but it's 375 ly from our solar system.
I always have thought that distance meant age. Which other technique there is to tell a star's age?
Here in Brasil, I've heard that the card companies take ~1% of each transaction. So it's common that stores won't accept anything but cash for cigarrettes (as their margin of profit is thin, so they say).
Also, uptime is a major problem. When I used to go out at saturday nights, systems were always "timing out".
Still better than carrying money around, if you ask me
We still use plenty of paper checks here in Brasil too.
I remember back in 2002 when some student uploaded a .arj file containing DOOM 2 to the state university website. I heard there was a huge process and the university ended up closing the server and paying what was at the time a million dollars.
Morphine is also naturally sinthesized by our organism.
The movie "Avatar" costed half a billion dollars - 7 millions seems too low a budget to make it real.
Well, it's generally a good thing when experiments are descriptive enough to be reproducible by other parties. For what I saw, it's pratically impossible to reproduce this mini-internet, and would be extremelly expensive. The internet, on the other hand, is there.
And it takes more than one company or person to make a conspiracy.
No one else have a mini internet - so this way, nobody could contest their results.
And for a bonus point, guess which one politicians use when trying to craft a new law?
I guess the same kind that alternative therapists use to cite. I shiver when I read the words "quantum physics" in non-physics contexts..
Exactly. You can fit anything to a given set of data to show some sort of correlation
Sounds like science to me.
Can you get Magsafe power adapters from anyone else anyways? I've never seen any, and a quick Googling says no.
Our friends from China say "yes, you can". I burned two original magsafe PA, then bought this one by U$ 30 (w/ shipping) two years ago. Still working.
Slashdot actually allow you to skip the news you don't want to read - It takes zero clicks to be accomplished.
the key word here is "designed". Both systems were economically designed to keep civilization working smoothly, however by different means.
I don't think that's something to do with maths, but with computing. very practical computing. Like, how to run a job for one year (or ten months, as the pages said).
However, I couldn't find anything resembling a computer setup in the japanese page. maybe because I can't really read japanese.
Capitalism is a economic process designed to keep civilization working smoothly.
I see. Just like communism [claimed to be].
In fact that's a important thing, we haven't seen Apple in Brasil since that happened: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=997&st=1
That's what's corruption is all about - not paying taxes.
How random is that: 1) generate random string 2) compare to something not random 3) if it's not equal, back to step 1 it's easy to "randomly" generate any text, given that it's given.
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Sorry, I'm brazilian - I don't get racism. Or why we should withold humor on serious matters.
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