And the best bit is that using AppleScript on a quad-core Mac you might even find you have time to finish War and Peace before it's finished processing half a dozen files.
> Making it cost even $0.01 would probably reduce the submissions significantly
Yes, that's exactly the point the parent poster was making. I think they understand the difference between "free" and "not free" very well.
...is that life forms a kind of amplification process.
If you have some random soup of molecules formed by abiotic processes then apart from some small biases brought about by parity-violating fundamental physics we expect complete symmetry between left- and right-handed molecules.
But life, arguably, forms a kind of amplification process. Competition between molecules with different chirality might serve to increase any initial small difference between one group and another. So what starts as almost exact symmetry results in a planetwide bias one way or the other.
But there are two issues.
(1) Could such a planetwide bias show up strongly enough in the polarisation of light reflected from the planet. It seems very unlikely given how messy a planet is. Let's say you pick a million different types of molecule than come in chiral pairs and for each molecule pick one of the pair, discarding the other. Now jumble up many different copies of each of these molecule types. Your chances of detecting chirality from afar is minimal even though, in some sense, the mixture is perfectly chiral, because of the overall randomness of the mixture.
(2) Could any other physical processes cause such amplification? The answer is yes. For example some kinds of crystal growth can result in homochirality.
So I'm pretty sceptical despite the idea being neat.
Is that like Slashdot School 101? You know, the one where you learn to post obvious groupthink-compatible comments on slashdot and see your karma go up and up?
> OTOH, we don't even start to become sexual beings until the early teen years.
Presumably you weren't ever a child. Or you've repressed the memory. I'm constantly amazed when I hear about parents who are surprised when their almost newborns get erections and when kids of 3 or 4 discover it's fun to play down there. Certainly by time I was 9 I'd figured out there was a connection between all that and seeing girls in underwear and I wasn't too smart at figuring those kinds of things out.
Who said that the character sometimes called 'God' in BSG is all powerful and all knowing? Well...maybe Baltar said it. But who said that Baltar's religion was in any way a representation of the truth? He clearly didn't believe it. Don't spoil a good story by bringing in Christian baggage. This is not a Christian story.
Yesterday we brought the pet carrier out from the basement and as soon as the cat saw it she hid behind the sofa. Predicting what will happen next is something any mammal can learn. That's not what this story is about. It's about planning tool use for the future.
> Otherwise, the Web revolution might have begun a year earlier.
OMG! You mean I could have been using myspace a year earlier and I'd have twice as many friends by now?! We could have had lolcats twelve months earlier and my application in the lolcat programming language would already be finished?! It's like a year of my life has been stolen. Who do I sue?
Yup. Two systems are entangled if their joint state is not simply the product of their individual states; which is generally the case for humans that have any shared history.
Ironically, when people publish papers about entangled systems they're usually talking about systems that are entangled in some particularly simple way that's easy to prove theorems about. But real people are more entangled than a galaxy sized bowl of spaghetti.
In Iceland there is a finite list of names you are a allowed to choose from and it takes an act of parliament to make a new name legal. That's even more stupid than 32 bit IP addresses.
...and I'll say it a million times more. The primary function of giving someone a name is to allow you to single out one person from a collection of people. If you call someone John or David or some other common name then you are failing in that one simple task.
Names should be unique identifiers. For some strange reason, the one segment of American society that understands this issue are vilified for using "black-sounding names". What's so hard for people to get? Stories like this are the inevitable consequence of selfish parents copying names from people around them. Frankly, I think anyone who calls their kid John should be guilty of child abuse.
The only thing I can suggest is suing your parents.
The purpose of Wikipedia isn't to satisfy someone's vanity by calling them what they wish to be called. Millions of people might read an article about person X, but person X is at most just one of those people. What matters is picking a name that allows those millions of people to find the article they want. So the fact that there is a law in the UK allowing people to call themselves whatever they want is completely irrelevant (except if the article wishes to talk about the person's preferred name).
Studios want to keep control over where their TV shows are shown. In particular, they often have exclusive deals with different local distributors in each country (eg. I think Warner Brothers distribute BBC stuff in the US). These studios don't want Apple competing with their distributors. Not much Apple can do about it.
It's not just kids that play video games you know. And if you'd actually met a woman you'd know that they shave too. (They even have their own pink razors made especially for them.) And where I live, the men wear cosmetics too.
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That's why I stay indoors.
And the best bit is that using AppleScript on a quad-core Mac you might even find you have time to finish War and Peace before it's finished processing half a dozen files.
> Making it cost even $0.01 would probably reduce the submissions significantly Yes, that's exactly the point the parent poster was making. I think they understand the difference between "free" and "not free" very well.
...is that life forms a kind of amplification process.
If you have some random soup of molecules formed by abiotic processes then apart from some small biases brought about by parity-violating fundamental physics we expect complete symmetry between left- and right-handed molecules.
But life, arguably, forms a kind of amplification process. Competition between molecules with different chirality might serve to increase any initial small difference between one group and another. So what starts as almost exact symmetry results in a planetwide bias one way or the other.
But there are two issues.
(1) Could such a planetwide bias show up strongly enough in the polarisation of light reflected from the planet. It seems very unlikely given how messy a planet is. Let's say you pick a million different types of molecule than come in chiral pairs and for each molecule pick one of the pair, discarding the other. Now jumble up many different copies of each of these molecule types. Your chances of detecting chirality from afar is minimal even though, in some sense, the mixture is perfectly chiral, because of the overall randomness of the mixture.
(2) Could any other physical processes cause such amplification? The answer is yes. For example some kinds of crystal growth can result in homochirality.
So I'm pretty sceptical despite the idea being neat.
It means that I'll never have more than three spyware apps on my computer at one time.
For viewing on local.google.com.
> District Attorney School 101
Is that like Slashdot School 101? You know, the one where you learn to post obvious groupthink-compatible comments on slashdot and see your karma go up and up?
> OTOH, we don't even start to become sexual beings until the early teen years.
Presumably you weren't ever a child. Or you've repressed the memory. I'm constantly amazed when I hear about parents who are surprised when their almost newborns get erections and when kids of 3 or 4 discover it's fun to play down there. Certainly by time I was 9 I'd figured out there was a connection between all that and seeing girls in underwear and I wasn't too smart at figuring those kinds of things out.
Who said that the character sometimes called 'God' in BSG is all powerful and all knowing? Well...maybe Baltar said it. But who said that Baltar's religion was in any way a representation of the truth? He clearly didn't believe it. Don't spoil a good story by bringing in Christian baggage. This is not a Christian story.
Yesterday we brought the pet carrier out from the basement and as soon as the cat saw it she hid behind the sofa. Predicting what will happen next is something any mammal can learn. That's not what this story is about. It's about planning tool use for the future.
> Otherwise, the Web revolution might have begun a year earlier.
OMG! You mean I could have been using myspace a year earlier and I'd have twice as many friends by now?! We could have had lolcats twelve months earlier and my application in the lolcat programming language would already be finished?! It's like a year of my life has been stolen. Who do I sue?
I thought /. had human editors. I guess I was mistaken.
You win!
Yup. Two systems are entangled if their joint state is not simply the product of their individual states; which is generally the case for humans that have any shared history.
Ironically, when people publish papers about entangled systems they're usually talking about systems that are entangled in some particularly simple way that's easy to prove theorems about. But real people are more entangled than a galaxy sized bowl of spaghetti.
In the right sauce, tastes just like chicken.
> it's quite literally mix and match
What's wrong with that?
> sounds like all the other names
I don't know if you noticed but the original article was about looking people up on the web - a domain where spelling is significant.
> Your point is lost on me.
No surprise there given the quality of your comment.
In Iceland there is a finite list of names you are a allowed to choose from and it takes an act of parliament to make a new name legal. That's even more stupid than 32 bit IP addresses.
...and I'll say it a million times more. The primary function of giving someone a name is to allow you to single out one person from a collection of people. If you call someone John or David or some other common name then you are failing in that one simple task.
Names should be unique identifiers. For some strange reason, the one segment of American society that understands this issue are vilified for using "black-sounding names". What's so hard for people to get? Stories like this are the inevitable consequence of selfish parents copying names from people around them. Frankly, I think anyone who calls their kid John should be guilty of child abuse.
The only thing I can suggest is suing your parents.
All the mistakess in this post are because I waz straining to take a crap at the same tyme.
The purpose of Wikipedia isn't to satisfy someone's vanity by calling them what they wish to be called. Millions of people might read an article about person X, but person X is at most just one of those people. What matters is picking a name that allows those millions of people to find the article they want. So the fact that there is a law in the UK allowing people to call themselves whatever they want is completely irrelevant (except if the article wishes to talk about the person's preferred name).
Put your money in a bank instead.
Studios want to keep control over where their TV shows are shown. In particular, they often have exclusive deals with different local distributors in each country (eg. I think Warner Brothers distribute BBC stuff in the US). These studios don't want Apple competing with their distributors. Not much Apple can do about it.
...scenarios like this. But it takes a science fiction writer of special talent to be able to get their fiction to be considered a 'paper'.
Their best coders didn't even make it into the top 10.
It's not just kids that play video games you know. And if you'd actually met a woman you'd know that they shave too. (They even have their own pink razors made especially for them.) And where I live, the men wear cosmetics too.