Your reasoning is trapped by trying to imagine the universe as some defined boundary expanding. It's the same reasoning that images the Big Bang as an explosion in space.
The bang wasn't an explosion in spacetime, it was an explosion of spacetime. The expansion of space just means that the metric which measures distance between two points that stay at the same location changes. As time passes, two points which stay at the same location on some hypothetical reference grid will first measure one foot apart, then two, then five, etc. They aren't going anywhere, they're being carried along on space itself.
I like your grading scale suggestion. However, do you really want to have the shithead helicopter parents harass you because their crotchfruit failed an exam that had to be hard enough for "average" to mean missing every other question?
Pardon me, but... LOL WUT? Lady Ada and Messr's Babbage, Turing and Godel would like to talk to you before they beat you up and leave you for dead in a bad neighborhood.
Oh, we only wish. Weather is a chaotic system, which means that "nearby" numerical solutions diverge from each other in the system's phase-space at an exponential rate.
Thus, running a simulation longer requires an exponentially shorter timestep to keep the errors supressed. Worse, it also demands exponentially more accurate initial conditions since any initial errors are amplified. I doubt we'll ever see serious "the weather will be..." forecasts for more than a few weeks, mainly due to the IC problem.
And by the time we come up with your "indisputable evidence" the northwest passage will probably be ice-free all year round, we'll be in the middle of a mad scramble to raise city ocean barriers another 10 feet because another massive chunk of Antarctica collapsed into the sea, and you'll be demanding indisputable evidence that those calthrate blowouts that are happening more and more up north will be a real problem.
Some problems really are bad enough that they require proactive attention. Stop hiding behind "B b but it has to be indisputable" as an excuse to do nothing.
Yeah, I bet your father said that when Intel produced their first 1024x1 ram chip. Pff... fuckin pie in the sky that was, integrated circuit RAM. They sure wasted their time; It never did become widely available at a decent price, as I recall.
Woops, gotta go. Sense amplifier on my core is drifting out of alignment.
I don't support it, but I don't go around casting aspersions on teens who get preggers out of wedlock.
I will, however, pour some of the acid scorn upon the utter hypocrites of the religious right which they so richly deserve. The hypocrites who would have hounded Beau Biden to the edge of suicide if they'd found out that he got a girl knocked up yet demand that we all ignore Bristol Palin, because her family is off limits. Speaking of which, these are also the idiots who push abstinence-only sex ed, despite the demonstrable fact that it couldn't keep the daughter of a "family values" Republican governor from going down on the cock. The hypocrites who praise Bristol for the decision to keep the child, even as they seek fervently to deny anyone else such a choice. The utter douchebag hypocrites who call Democrats elitist while prattling without end about how morally superior they are to those worthless, lazy city people. The hypocrites who would have us believe they have a monopoly on "family values" while running a candidate who cheated on and left his disabled first wife to marry an extremely rich trophy wife. The hypocrites who claim to be the noble and the decent among us while gleefully supporting one of the most visciously deceitful, outright lying campaigns in recent history. I give you they whose doublethink knows no bounds: The Religious Right!
Woa, uh, kinda went off on a slight tangent there... ^c^v^s'ed for later.
If you look for it rather than letting your brain process it out, you'll find that anything significantly nearer/farther than where your eyes are focused is also a double image. The thing is that they have to greatly increase the effect in SDTV because it's resolution is so bad, hence ghosting appears with much smaller depth variations.
A lot of FOSS projects fall into the closed-community trap and get ossified in place. "Write your own patch" is code for "this is our perfect little gem and we have no interest in changing it." They will never achieve an audience outside a very narrow niche, let alone contribute to what Linus called FOSS's "completely unintentional side effect" of toppling closed-source software, and they're perfectly happy with it. Here's an example:
I've played bzflag on and off since about version 1.7. It's somewhere between 10 and 15 years old. In and of itself, a remarkable acheivement in a world where computer games are flashes in a pan. It still has some heritage from it's ancient past as a game for Silicon Graphics workstations, such as support (buried in the manual) for hardware stereo screens and anaglyph mode*. But it's stuck in the past. It's played by about the same one thousand people worldwide. The exact same two dozen or so out of nearly 400 servers receive 99% of the traffic, and 2/3 of those have a distinct group that plays there for the most part.
Now, as far as I know, version 2.0 was the first to add support for graphics more complex than pre-textured boxes and pyramids. Everyone was cont significant audience, or for that matter an audience outside their existing niche.ent jumping around on boxes and would've been happy to keep doing it forever I bet.
There have been physics problems since before I started playing that still stand, and you can't complain because that's just how the game works. It's my fault when my tank gets stuck in a crevice, or on a pyramid, or between meshes, and I should stop whining. Apparently, there are no plans to use something like ODE to give BZflag actual physics. It has options for momentum and basic friction, but they're nigh-always off; Everyone is happy to just drive their inertialess tanks around and jump in parabolic arcs, because that's how the game works.
There is no armor or even hitpoints. It's "too complex" to play with apparently. I suggested it, and was met with people not understanding why I'd even want the option or even scorn. It's a bad sign that I honestly wondered whether it was a joke when someone claimed he truly didn't understand why hitpoints might be a desired feature in a FPS game. But hey, that's the game. When playing "capture the flag," I've often said that hitpoints would open up deeper strategies than lone-hero and zerg-rush, but no one cares... They're perfectly content to sit there playing sniper & thief, or on rare occasions trade waves of tanks. That's the way the game has been since time immemorial (equivalent to between one and two centuries in meatspace by most estimates), and by God that's the way it'll always be.
Have I mentioned the cheater problem? The server does no sanity checking what so ever. Cheaters can zoom across the map, hover, be shot at point blank range with area-affect and tracking weapons, to no effect. I've asked several times if the server couldn't at least run basic checks for hovering or impossible movement. But bzfs is a very lightweight server, and adding collision checking would unduly burden it - that's what I was told, in all seriousness. While 5-10 megabytes is indeed an impressively small memory footprint, how in God's name can "the client does everything and the server implicitly trusts it" have been considered a viable model unless it were being implemented with a closed, unchanging community?
At any rate, the game plods along, with a closed, ossified community happy with nothing at all changing ever. It'll never be accepted for wide playing, but no one cares, because it's our perfect little gem. Our precious, to cherish and polish forever and ever.
And you want to change it? Well bugger off... go write your own code, or fork the project.
*Actually any OpenGL program supports stereo buffers if the hardware does, but good luck finding any references to GL_BACK_RIGHT in the wild with games
Actually they can have a charge. As charge must be conserved and (to our knowledge) black holes don't get an exception, any net charge that falls into a black hole must manifest as the hole having a charge.
Yeah, not being able to trade in London explains why the hell the US stock markets were up after the two biggest mortgage companies we have failed over the weekend. I kept going "WTF over?" until I found out about this.
This is one of three parts that will enable ubiquitous computing - the ubiquitous data gatherers & environmental sensors.
The second is a wireless routing protocol that really supports jumping from one AP to another (This will be worked out, probably as a derivative of cell phone networks, when people start roaming further than a single WiFi AP and demand seamless transitions) without disrupting existing sessions. More than just auto-connecting to a new AP, but having previous datastreams (streaming music, calls, chat) redirected to the new address and handing over authentication tokens as well.
The third is a system capable of generating or pattern-matching meaningful information from new sensors without being explicitly told how (since not even a geek such as I would want to program my implants to recognize every new blobject they encounter). We'll get there eventually.
Install Gnash or Swfdec, they play Youtube videos. Now if only God would magic the code into existance and free us from Adobe.
I mean, seriously, has anyone read Adobe's penguin.swf? x86_64 is THE number 1 request, but instead they're working out bugs and other shit for a dying architecture (x86) and people who ask where x86_64 support are receive nothing but a snide, mocking dismissal from the guy who runs it.
I think that the best solution would be to store in "stages," each containing information to bootstrap to the next one. The simplest solution is etching smaller and smaller text onto an ultra-durable oxide ceramic that would survive the ages. Start with 1mm character height for a few pages, then shrink the characters by a factor of 10. For the first 3 stages, you could include a simple lab microscope. Beyond that you'd need either an electron microscope or a reader described by the preceeding text.
The first sets of plates would hold a few pages, the second would hold short books, and the third would hold whole encyclopedias. The ones smaller than the microscope could read would hold compressed (and multiply redundant) digital data; The fifth-generation plates would hold over a terabyte each if they were 10x10cm.
It would probably be a good idea to make the optical-read parts into cylinders; The outer layers, holding low-density information, would protect the more fragile inner layers. You could even put mounts for them on the microscope, so it would be as simple as attaching a cylinder and cranking a handle to scroll text past.
Needless to say, this is probably something more suited for the Long Now Foundation than a 25 year time capsule.
Honestly, that's why I tend to use Bushco rather than Bush to try and avoid the equivocation. "Bush" refers to just him; He's a braindead meat puppet for the neocon cabal. A psuedo-charming front to deflect criticism. "Bushco" refers to the neocons with IQs above room temperature (far above, most likely) who actually run the show.
A risk of Godwinning: Hitler was a moron. He failed frickin art school. But Himmler, Gobbels, Eichmann - The psychopaths who actually ran the show? Most of them had IQs of 125 or more. I imagine they approached Hitler as Bush's handlers approach him: "How can I get the idiot child to say what I need?"
Digital? Wtf? From the second sentence of the fucking summary:
The Rosetta disk contains analog 'human-readable' scans of scripts, text, and diagrams using nickel deposited on an etched silicon disk
It's microfilm, except enormously more durable than silver oxide on acetate or polyester. This one is a text record; a rosetta stone with several thousand languages.
The dynamics of small (9 story in this case) structures are completely different from those of skyscrapers. The upper levels of small structures don't have to be built feather-light to keep the weight down, and their lower levels are under vastly less stress.
PS: It is sufficient to pose the question without adding an incendiary remark like "retards," dipshit troll.
Bushco knew what was going to happen and tacitly let it happen because they wanted their New Pearl Harbor? Yeah, I wouldn't put that past a group of sociopaths.
Had the structure in Europe just suffered massive structural damage due to a large jetliner impact? No. The events of 9/11 are unique in the history of structural damage.
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Your reasoning is trapped by trying to imagine the universe as some defined boundary expanding. It's the same reasoning that images the Big Bang as an explosion in space.
The bang wasn't an explosion in spacetime, it was an explosion of spacetime. The expansion of space just means that the metric which measures distance between two points that stay at the same location changes. As time passes, two points which stay at the same location on some hypothetical reference grid will first measure one foot apart, then two, then five, etc. They aren't going anywhere, they're being carried along on space itself.
You need the link to the picture for lulz.
On clothes exported from USA to France: [We are sorry that our president is an idiot. We didn't vote for him]
I like your grading scale suggestion. However, do you really want to have the shithead helicopter parents harass you because their crotchfruit failed an exam that had to be hard enough for "average" to mean missing every other question?
Pardon me, but... LOL WUT? Lady Ada and Messr's Babbage, Turing and Godel would like to talk to you before they beat you up and leave you for dead in a bad neighborhood.
Oh, we only wish. Weather is a chaotic system, which means that "nearby" numerical solutions diverge from each other in the system's phase-space at an exponential rate.
Thus, running a simulation longer requires an exponentially shorter timestep to keep the errors supressed. Worse, it also demands exponentially more accurate initial conditions since any initial errors are amplified. I doubt we'll ever see serious "the weather will be..." forecasts for more than a few weeks, mainly due to the IC problem.
And by the time we come up with your "indisputable evidence" the northwest passage will probably be ice-free all year round, we'll be in the middle of a mad scramble to raise city ocean barriers another 10 feet because another massive chunk of Antarctica collapsed into the sea, and you'll be demanding indisputable evidence that those calthrate blowouts that are happening more and more up north will be a real problem.
Some problems really are bad enough that they require proactive attention. Stop hiding behind "B b but it has to be indisputable" as an excuse to do nothing.
Yeah, I bet your father said that when Intel produced their first 1024x1 ram chip. Pff... fuckin pie in the sky that was, integrated circuit RAM. They sure wasted their time; It never did become widely available at a decent price, as I recall.
Woops, gotta go. Sense amplifier on my core is drifting out of alignment.
I know. This idea is a real turd.
If she's got nothing to hide, why the clearly panicked deletion of both accounts simultaneously?
I don't support it, but I don't go around casting aspersions on teens who get preggers out of wedlock.
I will, however, pour some of the acid scorn upon the utter hypocrites of the religious right which they so richly deserve. The hypocrites who would have hounded Beau Biden to the edge of suicide if they'd found out that he got a girl knocked up yet demand that we all ignore Bristol Palin, because her family is off limits. Speaking of which, these are also the idiots who push abstinence-only sex ed, despite the demonstrable fact that it couldn't keep the daughter of a "family values" Republican governor from going down on the cock. The hypocrites who praise Bristol for the decision to keep the child, even as they seek fervently to deny anyone else such a choice. The utter douchebag hypocrites who call Democrats elitist while prattling without end about how morally superior they are to those worthless, lazy city people. The hypocrites who would have us believe they have a monopoly on "family values" while running a candidate who cheated on and left his disabled first wife to marry an extremely rich trophy wife. The hypocrites who claim to be the noble and the decent among us while gleefully supporting one of the most visciously deceitful, outright lying campaigns in recent history. I give you they whose doublethink knows no bounds: The Religious Right!
Woa, uh, kinda went off on a slight tangent there... ^c^v^s'ed for later.
Thank you; Your new password has been emailed to the secondary address you provided.
If you look for it rather than letting your brain process it out, you'll find that anything significantly nearer/farther than where your eyes are focused is also a double image. The thing is that they have to greatly increase the effect in SDTV because it's resolution is so bad, hence ghosting appears with much smaller depth variations.
A lot of FOSS projects fall into the closed-community trap and get ossified in place. "Write your own patch" is code for "this is our perfect little gem and we have no interest in changing it." They will never achieve an audience outside a very narrow niche, let alone contribute to what Linus called FOSS's "completely unintentional side effect" of toppling closed-source software, and they're perfectly happy with it. Here's an example:
I've played bzflag on and off since about version 1.7. It's somewhere between 10 and 15 years old. In and of itself, a remarkable acheivement in a world where computer games are flashes in a pan. It still has some heritage from it's ancient past as a game for Silicon Graphics workstations, such as support (buried in the manual) for hardware stereo screens and anaglyph mode*. But it's stuck in the past. It's played by about the same one thousand people worldwide. The exact same two dozen or so out of nearly 400 servers receive 99% of the traffic, and 2/3 of those have a distinct group that plays there for the most part.
Now, as far as I know, version 2.0 was the first to add support for graphics more complex than pre-textured boxes and pyramids. Everyone was cont significant audience, or for that matter an audience outside their existing niche.ent jumping around on boxes and would've been happy to keep doing it forever I bet.
There have been physics problems since before I started playing that still stand, and you can't complain because that's just how the game works. It's my fault when my tank gets stuck in a crevice, or on a pyramid, or between meshes, and I should stop whining. Apparently, there are no plans to use something like ODE to give BZflag actual physics. It has options for momentum and basic friction, but they're nigh-always off; Everyone is happy to just drive their inertialess tanks around and jump in parabolic arcs, because that's how the game works.
There is no armor or even hitpoints. It's "too complex" to play with apparently. I suggested it, and was met with people not understanding why I'd even want the option or even scorn. It's a bad sign that I honestly wondered whether it was a joke when someone claimed he truly didn't understand why hitpoints might be a desired feature in a FPS game. But hey, that's the game. When playing "capture the flag," I've often said that hitpoints would open up deeper strategies than lone-hero and zerg-rush, but no one cares... They're perfectly content to sit there playing sniper & thief, or on rare occasions trade waves of tanks. That's the way the game has been since time immemorial (equivalent to between one and two centuries in meatspace by most estimates), and by God that's the way it'll always be.
Have I mentioned the cheater problem? The server does no sanity checking what so ever. Cheaters can zoom across the map, hover, be shot at point blank range with area-affect and tracking weapons, to no effect. I've asked several times if the server couldn't at least run basic checks for hovering or impossible movement. But bzfs is a very lightweight server, and adding collision checking would unduly burden it - that's what I was told, in all seriousness. While 5-10 megabytes is indeed an impressively small memory footprint, how in God's name can "the client does everything and the server implicitly trusts it" have been considered a viable model unless it were being implemented with a closed, unchanging community?
At any rate, the game plods along, with a closed, ossified community happy with nothing at all changing ever. It'll never be accepted for wide playing, but no one cares, because it's our perfect little gem. Our precious, to cherish and polish forever and ever.
And you want to change it? Well bugger off... go write your own code, or fork the project.
*Actually any OpenGL program supports stereo buffers if the hardware does, but good luck finding any references to GL_BACK_RIGHT in the wild with games
Actually they can have a charge. As charge must be conserved and (to our knowledge) black holes don't get an exception, any net charge that falls into a black hole must manifest as the hole having a charge.
There are 4 'classes' of black hole, rotating or non-rotating and charged or non-charged.
Yeah, not being able to trade in London explains why the hell the US stock markets were up after the two biggest mortgage companies we have failed over the weekend. I kept going "WTF over?" until I found out about this.
This is one of three parts that will enable ubiquitous computing - the ubiquitous data gatherers & environmental sensors.
The second is a wireless routing protocol that really supports jumping from one AP to another (This will be worked out, probably as a derivative of cell phone networks, when people start roaming further than a single WiFi AP and demand seamless transitions) without disrupting existing sessions. More than just auto-connecting to a new AP, but having previous datastreams (streaming music, calls, chat) redirected to the new address and handing over authentication tokens as well.
The third is a system capable of generating or pattern-matching meaningful information from new sensors without being explicitly told how (since not even a geek such as I would want to program my implants to recognize every new blobject they encounter). We'll get there eventually.
This thing is slow as it is. Do you really want to knock it back to single-digit MHz equivalent with a software CPU emulator?
Install Gnash or Swfdec, they play Youtube videos. Now if only God would magic the code into existance and free us from Adobe.
I mean, seriously, has anyone read Adobe's penguin.swf? x86_64 is THE number 1 request, but instead they're working out bugs and other shit for a dying architecture (x86) and people who ask where x86_64 support are receive nothing but a snide, mocking dismissal from the guy who runs it.
I think that the best solution would be to store in "stages," each containing information to bootstrap to the next one. The simplest solution is etching smaller and smaller text onto an ultra-durable oxide ceramic that would survive the ages. Start with 1mm character height for a few pages, then shrink the characters by a factor of 10. For the first 3 stages, you could include a simple lab microscope. Beyond that you'd need either an electron microscope or a reader described by the preceeding text.
The first sets of plates would hold a few pages, the second would hold short books, and the third would hold whole encyclopedias. The ones smaller than the microscope could read would hold compressed (and multiply redundant) digital data; The fifth-generation plates would hold over a terabyte each if they were 10x10cm.
It would probably be a good idea to make the optical-read parts into cylinders; The outer layers, holding low-density information, would protect the more fragile inner layers. You could even put mounts for them on the microscope, so it would be as simple as attaching a cylinder and cranking a handle to scroll text past.
Needless to say, this is probably something more suited for the Long Now Foundation than a 25 year time capsule.
Honestly, that's why I tend to use Bushco rather than Bush to try and avoid the equivocation. "Bush" refers to just him; He's a braindead meat puppet for the neocon cabal. A psuedo-charming front to deflect criticism. "Bushco" refers to the neocons with IQs above room temperature (far above, most likely) who actually run the show.
A risk of Godwinning: Hitler was a moron. He failed frickin art school. But Himmler, Gobbels, Eichmann - The psychopaths who actually ran the show? Most of them had IQs of 125 or more. I imagine they approached Hitler as Bush's handlers approach him: "How can I get the idiot child to say what I need?"
It's microfilm, except enormously more durable than silver oxide on acetate or polyester. This one is a text record; a rosetta stone with several thousand languages.
The dynamics of small (9 story in this case) structures are completely different from those of skyscrapers. The upper levels of small structures don't have to be built feather-light to keep the weight down, and their lower levels are under vastly less stress.
PS: It is sufficient to pose the question without adding an incendiary remark like "retards," dipshit troll.
Bushco did 9/11? Nonsense.
Bushco knew what was going to happen and tacitly let it happen because they wanted their New Pearl Harbor? Yeah, I wouldn't put that past a group of sociopaths.
Had the structure in Europe just suffered massive structural damage due to a large jetliner impact? No. The events of 9/11 are unique in the history of structural damage.
Don't bother. If you agree, he's obviously right. If you disagree, you're obviously brainwashed and/or sent by the government.
Welcome to the wonderful world of self-confirming delusions, wherein you need never admit you're wrong.