So the difference, then, is how the rules play into it. The excitement in football is the guys throwing the ball or fumbling or running or smashing into the other people. In baseball, very very often the excitement turns on the rules. Football has the fourth down, but baseball has the sacrifice fly, the wild third strike, the double play and the full count. A gap hit with a runner on second can be worth more than a ball hit out of the stadium in baseball and be more exciting, but if you throw a 40 yard pass, that's pretty much invariably worth more than a one yard QB sneak.
So in this respect, baseball is more complex; though, perhaps a better word is "sophisticated": it is harder for the uninitiated to appreciate exactly what is going on. Just as Chess and Go are more complex/sophisticated than soccer, even though Go has four or five rules (capturing, turns, Ko, scoring) and Chess has maybe 14 or so.
Too true. I had the worst time at the last game I went to trying to oblige my friend when she asked me to "make this interesting." (Her inability to accept the idea of a ground rule double on a bounce out didn't make it any easier, either.)
If anything deserves a patent, it's a device that you strap to people's heads that makes them appreciate baseball.
FINGERNAIL OPTICAL DATA STORAGE: Pros: 5 megabits of data Lasts 6 months Information can be encoded
Cons: I can't scratch at my fingernails Probably prevents use of nail polish Requires laser to write/read (expensive) Where am I going to find laser?
STRING AROUND FINGER: Pros: Does not require lasers String is cheap Securely encoded using memory encryption
Cons: I have to have this string around my finger I don't like having string around my finger Requires string to write Where I am going to find string? Requires memory to read Encodes very little information Lasts only as long as I keep unsightly string tied around my finger
WRITING ON MY HAND: Pros: Does not need a laser I usually have a pen with me Requires no special device to read
Cons: Can only store 5 megabits with very very small handwriting My handwriting is terrible Washes off Not secure: Other people can read it
Normally, I'm all for artificial intelligence, but think what kind of warped intelligence we'd get with Google. It'd have to conclude that to be human is to desire warez, "lesbians + dogs" and sex tapes of disgustingly skinny stupid rich girls. I wouldn't raise a kid on the 200 most recent Google searches, is all I'm saying.
Four things consoles don't give me:
1. Mods.
2. Mice and Keyboards. Do you know how much it sucks not having my sniper rifle and flak cannon bound to keys? Even when consoles DO have mice and keyboards, they're not usefully situated. I stick my consoles by the TV, not by a table I can put a keyboard and mouse on.
3. Mp3s. When I'm playing Civilization, the in-game music gets tired after a while, and I want there to be my music. I have my mp3s on my computer, not on my console, and it will always be a hassle to move them.
4. Alt-Tabbing away from my game. I can never, EVER, look like I was doing something that wasn't a game (or very closely game-related) when I am playing a console.
Finally:
5. Space. I'll always need a computer, so consoles will always take up more space.
So there's reasons people will want to buy computer games instead of console games. Which means there's probably a market. So no.
Sounds like a great idea to me. Then again, I recently sufferred massive head trauma and now think waiting on hold for hours to get my ISP to do anything is really fun.
SETI engages in seeking distributed computing power through legitimate means..... to endorse this would undermine the purpose of SETI in the first place.
Illegitimate use of computers scares away aliens?
To be perfectly honest, I always had trouble with who the "me" was for the "My" in "My Computer". It's fine when I tell someone that my C drive is located under My Computer, but most of the time, it's the monitor which represents the name "My Computer" to me. This would seem to imply that it is the monitor, or the OS, whose computer I am browsing. But if partition my harddrive for a dual boot, the partition that doesn't belong to Windows is also in Windows's computer. Not to mention the trouble with assigning ownership of hardware to software.
My Documents complicates it further. If I have two accounts, My Documents on Account1 is Account1's Documents on Account2. Yet when I created an account on my dad's laptop when I went to his house for christmas, and discovered that his computer was My Computer, (like My Documents and in contrast to Randy's Documents), this didn't make him amenable to the idea that I take it back home with me.
An alternative to dosbox that I have found makes Colonization work excellently with XP (assuming you have Colonization for Windows) is to download wing.dll (google "wing.dll" and there are sites that offer it for download for free) and put in the directory you installed Colonization to.
Perhaps what we need is to have a P2P-friendly musician download one of these infected files which contains their music. Do you think any They Might Be Giants songs are affected?
That being said, I don't see how this matters, even if the law somehow prohibits downloading copyrighted materials. Would it be okay for someone to write an email virus if the email included a poem copyrighted by the writer of the virus and had a subject line to that effect?
The more money being transferred, the greater the uncertainty of the momentum of the money (for the same velocity), the more certain we'll be who has it.
This principle is generally true in classical economic transfers as well: Bill Gates keeps having lots of money, but I only sometimes have money; I know I owe lots of money to my bank for student loans, but I only have a suspicion that my friend owes me 50 cents.
I don't know the proof of this in general (and it's certainly not true for all rectangles, for example, ones whose lengths are integer multiples of the length of the square), but I can convince you it's true for some rectangles.
Suppose your squares are all 1x1 (arbitrary units, if it helps let it be meters). Now consider a box that is 2.9x2.9. If you stack the squares straight starting on the bottom, you can fit four. But turn them 45 degrees, you can fit five, as the hypotenuse (for lack of a better word) of a square is only sqrt(2) (by the pythagorean theorem), and 2.9 > 2*sqrt(2), which leaves you with an empty space in the middle you can stick a fifth square in:
I / \ / \ I
I \ / \ / I
I / \ / \ I
I \ / \ / I
And certianly any rectangle N+2.9xM+2.9 where N and M are integers, this is true in, as you can stack the rest in the normal way but use one corner to do this in. I suspect, however, that there are better tiling patterns for larger sizes.
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So the difference, then, is how the rules play into it. The excitement in football is the guys throwing the ball or fumbling or running or smashing into the other people. In baseball, very very often the excitement turns on the rules. Football has the fourth down, but baseball has the sacrifice fly, the wild third strike, the double play and the full count. A gap hit with a runner on second can be worth more than a ball hit out of the stadium in baseball and be more exciting, but if you throw a 40 yard pass, that's pretty much invariably worth more than a one yard QB sneak. So in this respect, baseball is more complex; though, perhaps a better word is "sophisticated": it is harder for the uninitiated to appreciate exactly what is going on. Just as Chess and Go are more complex/sophisticated than soccer, even though Go has four or five rules (capturing, turns, Ko, scoring) and Chess has maybe 14 or so.
Too true. I had the worst time at the last game I went to trying to oblige my friend when she asked me to "make this interesting." (Her inability to accept the idea of a ground rule double on a bounce out didn't make it any easier, either.) If anything deserves a patent, it's a device that you strap to people's heads that makes them appreciate baseball.
FINGERNAIL OPTICAL DATA STORAGE:
Pros:
5 megabits of data
Lasts 6 months
Information can be encoded
Cons:
I can't scratch at my fingernails
Probably prevents use of nail polish
Requires laser to write/read (expensive)
Where am I going to find laser?
STRING AROUND FINGER:
Pros:
Does not require lasers
String is cheap
Securely encoded using memory encryption
Cons:
I have to have this string around my finger
I don't like having string around my finger
Requires string to write
Where I am going to find string?
Requires memory to read
Encodes very little information
Lasts only as long as I keep unsightly string tied around my finger
WRITING ON MY HAND:
Pros:
Does not need a laser
I usually have a pen with me
Requires no special device to read
Cons:
Can only store 5 megabits with very very small handwriting
My handwriting is terrible
Washes off
Not secure: Other people can read it
WINNER (until I get a laser):
Writing on Hand
You can get chinese delivered in Portland. I've gotten the Essence Of China delivered, I liked the General Tso's Chicken.
Normally, I'm all for artificial intelligence, but think what kind of warped intelligence we'd get with Google. It'd have to conclude that to be human is to desire warez, "lesbians + dogs" and sex tapes of disgustingly skinny stupid rich girls. I wouldn't raise a kid on the 200 most recent Google searches, is all I'm saying.
Yeah, this one's been running so long it's winded.
Four things consoles don't give me: 1. Mods. 2. Mice and Keyboards. Do you know how much it sucks not having my sniper rifle and flak cannon bound to keys? Even when consoles DO have mice and keyboards, they're not usefully situated. I stick my consoles by the TV, not by a table I can put a keyboard and mouse on. 3. Mp3s. When I'm playing Civilization, the in-game music gets tired after a while, and I want there to be my music. I have my mp3s on my computer, not on my console, and it will always be a hassle to move them. 4. Alt-Tabbing away from my game. I can never, EVER, look like I was doing something that wasn't a game (or very closely game-related) when I am playing a console. Finally: 5. Space. I'll always need a computer, so consoles will always take up more space. So there's reasons people will want to buy computer games instead of console games. Which means there's probably a market. So no.
Using legitimate programs for illegitimate means is garbage. It should not be funny to anyone for any reason.
You know, call it a hunch, but I'm betting you're probably not the guy I want to be testing out my new Holocaust joke on.
Sounds like a great idea to me. Then again, I recently sufferred massive head trauma and now think waiting on hold for hours to get my ISP to do anything is really fun.
SETI engages in seeking distributed computing power through legitimate means..... to endorse this would undermine the purpose of SETI in the first place. Illegitimate use of computers scares away aliens?
Is 5 cents per PC the regular rate, or just the Memorial Day Weekend Sale price?
By a couple, you mean roughly ten, and not about two, right?
To be perfectly honest, I always had trouble with who the "me" was for the "My" in "My Computer". It's fine when I tell someone that my C drive is located under My Computer, but most of the time, it's the monitor which represents the name "My Computer" to me. This would seem to imply that it is the monitor, or the OS, whose computer I am browsing. But if partition my harddrive for a dual boot, the partition that doesn't belong to Windows is also in Windows's computer. Not to mention the trouble with assigning ownership of hardware to software. My Documents complicates it further. If I have two accounts, My Documents on Account1 is Account1's Documents on Account2. Yet when I created an account on my dad's laptop when I went to his house for christmas, and discovered that his computer was My Computer, (like My Documents and in contrast to Randy's Documents), this didn't make him amenable to the idea that I take it back home with me.
An alternative to dosbox that I have found makes Colonization work excellently with XP (assuming you have Colonization for Windows) is to download wing.dll (google "wing.dll" and there are sites that offer it for download for free) and put in the directory you installed Colonization to.
Perhaps what we need is to have a P2P-friendly musician download one of these infected files which contains their music. Do you think any They Might Be Giants songs are affected? That being said, I don't see how this matters, even if the law somehow prohibits downloading copyrighted materials. Would it be okay for someone to write an email virus if the email included a poem copyrighted by the writer of the virus and had a subject line to that effect?
They kept Sulu at the helm, the orange guy replaced Chekhov. See?
Even buying the CD didn't help.
Yeah, because that strategy worked so well with Ginger.
This principle is generally true in classical economic transfers as well: Bill Gates keeps having lots of money, but I only sometimes have money; I know I owe lots of money to my bank for student loans, but I only have a suspicion that my friend owes me 50 cents.
Just make sure you don't get entangled while doin it.
We already have a standard 3d format:
.gifs.
Animated
You can simulate this probabalistic balance behavior right now by getting married and getting a joint checking account.
Suppose your squares are all 1x1 (arbitrary units, if it helps let it be meters). Now consider a box that is 2.9x2.9. If you stack the squares straight starting on the bottom, you can fit four. But turn them 45 degrees, you can fit five, as the hypotenuse (for lack of a better word) of a square is only sqrt(2) (by the pythagorean theorem), and 2.9 > 2*sqrt(2), which leaves you with an empty space in the middle you can stick a fifth square in:
I / \ / \ I
I \ / \ / I
I / \ / \ I
I \ / \ / I
And certianly any rectangle N+2.9xM+2.9 where N and M are integers, this is true in, as you can stack the rest in the normal way but use one corner to do this in. I suspect, however, that there are better tiling patterns for larger sizes.
A new, low-cost internet version of the 4 AM robocalling of New Hampshire voters supposedly by the Dean campaign?
Do you want to install and run "Diebold Electronic Voting Machines" signed on 01/24/2004 12:04 PM and distributed by:
Diebold, Inc.
Publisher authenticity verified by Karl Rove.
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