Let this be a lesson to folks taking advantage of their lovely college networks: THROTTLING. 100K/s forever is better than unthrottled sharing for a term at most. Keep your head down and perhaps your network admins will let it slide.
Weirdness is good. Better than predictability, anyway. I'm much more intruiged by the idea of "space fisherman" than I am by FIFA n+1. I like imaginative things. Super Monkey Ball - though scoring roughly 1 out of 10 on the Japanese scale of weirdness - was a pretty unusual release for this country, and it was also fantastic.
For a mathematician, this actually a very, very funny joke. Basically, the Banach-Tarski theorem says that you can take a unit sphere...
"Cut it up" into six pieces...
Rearrange the pieces...
And get TWO unit spheres - BOTH identical to the original. The proof hinges on the fact that the six "pieces" concerned are so complicated and "jaggedy" that they cannot be said to have an absolute volume. More information here.
On the Moon, we could build a solar farm that would fill our energy needs on Earth pretty much entirely.
How do you propose getting this energy back to Earth? The only way would be an insanely accurate microwave transmitter - in which case, why not simply build the collectors in space?
Um, not really THAT secure. The whole number (along with the previous best known prime, M39, at "only" 4,000,000 digits, which you'd presumably also be using) is there for anybody to download.
Excuse me, have you ever actually SAT in a lecture hall? Any lecture hall. Regardless of how comfy the seats are, after 24 hours, you'd be DEAD. I'm not a short man - 6'4" - and I know for a fact that in my lecture halls, lack of legroom would resulting in my knees both exploding by hour four.
Anyway. My question here is how this can be considered to be the longest lecture in Physics lecture in history if it is given on a multitude of different topics by various different people.
At risk of being modded into oblivion, has anyone actually tried pronouncing this word? With a straight face, I mean? The obvious shortening of "genetically engineered" - thank you Peter F. Hamilton - is "geneered" and you know it.
Gamers are usually good at telling you what they like and what they don't like - they are good at playtesting. But I would guess that the average gamer has very little idea about how to make a really good, balanced game. Just because an idea sounds good to them doesn't mean it would work out that way in practice. So their opinions on the current state of the game should be listened to, but their suggestions for how it should be altered should be taken with a pinch of salt - YOU are the one who knows about game design, not them.
Calling this man a mathematician is an insult to mathematicians. This guy is at best a very poor algebraist - he's used the variable c twice and put in a pair of completely arbitrary brackets. No working, no scientific theory or testing behind it, just arbitrary (and hidden) figures plucked out of the air...
Answers to some of those questions have easily been found just by looking at space from the ground or from a space-based telescope. The amount of information one can actually learn about a celestial body without actually *going* there is frankly astonishing. As long as Earth still works, the project to *physically* probe deeper into space isn't actually fantastically important...
And for your information, "our physics" is pretty much immutable throughout the universe apart from in the centres of singularities, and "our mathematics" is fundamentally correct even without a universe in which to study it. You could destroy all existence and kill God, but the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter would still be pi. Always.
As a hardcore gamer (though not of EQ) I totally understand the drive to succeed in a near-impossible videogame task like this, and I've seen milestones come and go time and again. The perfect Pac-Man game. 43 seconds Minesweeper Expert. Quake 1, completed in under 12 1/2 minutes. Perfect Dark, done on all difficulty settings in less than 100 minutes. I know the dedication you put in for an achievement likely to be recognised by only a tiny fraction of the whole world, and I know the elation when the barrier falls, the timer stops one second faster than the previous record, the final objective completes. I can only hope that there exist more and greater challenges out there, because, seriously, who in the world would want to stop here?
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Let this be a lesson to folks taking advantage of their lovely college networks: THROTTLING. 100K/s forever is better than unthrottled sharing for a term at most. Keep your head down and perhaps your network admins will let it slide.
Weirdness is good. Better than predictability, anyway. I'm much more intruiged by the idea of "space fisherman" than I am by FIFA n+1. I like imaginative things. Super Monkey Ball - though scoring roughly 1 out of 10 on the Japanese scale of weirdness - was a pretty unusual release for this country, and it was also fantastic.
"The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again..."
"Why do you call your dog Cauchy?" "Because he leaves a residue at every pole."
...I'll get my coat.
For a mathematician, this actually a very, very funny joke. Basically, the Banach-Tarski theorem says that you can take a unit sphere...
"Cut it up" into six pieces...
Rearrange the pieces...
And get TWO unit spheres - BOTH identical to the original. The proof hinges on the fact that the six "pieces" concerned are so complicated and "jaggedy" that they cannot be said to have an absolute volume. More information here.
On the Moon, we could build a solar farm that would fill our energy needs on Earth pretty much entirely.
How do you propose getting this energy back to Earth? The only way would be an insanely accurate microwave transmitter - in which case, why not simply build the collectors in space?
Another prime number? That's great! Not long now until we've found them all!
Um, not really THAT secure. The whole number (along with the previous best known prime, M39, at "only" 4,000,000 digits, which you'd presumably also be using) is there for anybody to download.
Excuse me, have you ever actually SAT in a lecture hall? Any lecture hall. Regardless of how comfy the seats are, after 24 hours, you'd be DEAD. I'm not a short man - 6'4" - and I know for a fact that in my lecture halls, lack of legroom would resulting in my knees both exploding by hour four.
Anyway. My question here is how this can be considered to be the longest lecture in Physics lecture in history if it is given on a multitude of different topics by various different people.
"Computer games make kids more violent". Still a hotly-contested issue...
At risk of being modded into oblivion, has anyone actually tried pronouncing this word? With a straight face, I mean? The obvious shortening of "genetically engineered" - thank you Peter F. Hamilton - is "geneered" and you know it.
Gamers are usually good at telling you what they like and what they don't like - they are good at playtesting. But I would guess that the average gamer has very little idea about how to make a really good, balanced game. Just because an idea sounds good to them doesn't mean it would work out that way in practice. So their opinions on the current state of the game should be listened to, but their suggestions for how it should be altered should be taken with a pinch of salt - YOU are the one who knows about game design, not them.
Perhaps you guys should invest in an appropriate T-shirt.
In gigapixel, regardless of your monitor, you'd be scrolling about the image for about twenty-five minutes before you figured out what it even was.
There is also the issue that he appears to be "in shape".
On the contrary: tetrahedral dice have been in use for at least 4500 years.
Time travel invented: 2075
Am I the only one who sees the massive glaring error here? Shouldn't this date read "BC" instead?
I won't be satisfied until the R/C car is also capable of travelling through time.
Calling this man a mathematician is an insult to mathematicians. This guy is at best a very poor algebraist - he's used the variable c twice and put in a pair of completely arbitrary brackets. No working, no scientific theory or testing behind it, just arbitrary (and hidden) figures plucked out of the air...
too much time on his hands
People always say this as though it's a BAD thing.
I wanna feel the bullets rip into my flesh during quake.
Personally I try to AVOID that when I'm playing Quake.
None of you are thinking big enough. I *own* the Sun. Gonna start charging people for using it, too.
Answers to some of those questions have easily been found just by looking at space from the ground or from a space-based telescope. The amount of information one can actually learn about a celestial body without actually *going* there is frankly astonishing. As long as Earth still works, the project to *physically* probe deeper into space isn't actually fantastically important...
And for your information, "our physics" is pretty much immutable throughout the universe apart from in the centres of singularities, and "our mathematics" is fundamentally correct even without a universe in which to study it. You could destroy all existence and kill God, but the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter would still be pi. Always.
"Nothing but posterity?" Hah! You can't buy this kind of recognition.
As a hardcore gamer (though not of EQ) I totally understand the drive to succeed in a near-impossible videogame task like this, and I've seen milestones come and go time and again. The perfect Pac-Man game. 43 seconds Minesweeper Expert. Quake 1, completed in under 12 1/2 minutes. Perfect Dark, done on all difficulty settings in less than 100 minutes. I know the dedication you put in for an achievement likely to be recognised by only a tiny fraction of the whole world, and I know the elation when the barrier falls, the timer stops one second faster than the previous record, the final objective completes. I can only hope that there exist more and greater challenges out there, because, seriously, who in the world would want to stop here?
"Nearly impossible" = "possible".