Will I be violating DCMA If I take apart my car and replace this with a 'dumb' bolt? I'm not against these so much as the political BS that could pile up around them. How long until the government starts regulating that the black boxes that are becoming common in cars are bolted in with coded bolts, such that removing it is a violation?
Let's go back to when IBM said/predicted 3Ghz on the G5, and use that to predict how well this new development will work out. Perhaps we should go back even further to when the G4 came out, and processor speeds had to be scaled back to match manufacturing capability. Methinks the Motorola part of that partnership is what was performing best.
IBM now has the market for the consoles; how important could apple production be to them?
In a digital perception, yes. That is what we have built up around us. But not everywhere. We have a digital interpretation of an analog world. We can define an analog expression in a formula, but but don't really think in it. Yes/No, Black/White, that is how we think. When we go between, we still try to digitize it. We have our monitors up to millions of colors to represent the infinite. Anyone know pi? Someone out there knows figured the digital representation out to millions/billions of digits, but do they think in terms of pi? Of the equation that defines it?
Many of the assumptions here have been that math is fundamental, 'we know it when we see it'.
But what about light diffraction patterns? When two lightwaves interfere, 1+1 = somewhere between 0 and 2.
When we grab an apple, point to it and say 'one', do they see the apple as a whole? Do they 'see' the most significant wavelength where we define 'red'? Do they 'see' our hand moving at a specific frequency? Do they see the heat energy transference? The potential energy change? All of these are different perceptions of the same event, and each of these as a different starting point in mathematics.
I would have to say that while mathematics may be fundamental, it is also infinite. What is the probability that we and an alien society have a starting point in common that we recognize?
Adama figured he was a Cylon because he was having issues at the station. I gathered that the stations was originally built because Cylons had issues with that area. They created a station that a cylon specifically couldn't live at.
As for Number Six's spine glowing, you would think that after two years together they would have tried a couple different positions... Wouldn't ya notice something like that?
either way, I liked it, and I want to see more. But PLEASE write the thing as a whole, compelling story first, so it doesn't become some episodic crap that so many degenerate into...
Tom
But has anybody thought of an iMac? Pivoting LCD screen, small case. The power adapter would be the only big hurdle I think. You might be able to get rid of the separate power supply if the voltage going in is similar enough to the 12-14 volts the car puts out.
1. If the sail translates any of the energy particles absorbed into heat, it will radiate more of it from the sun side than the dark side. It is recieving the engergy from the sun side and there should be a thermal gradient in the material, such that the sun side would be hotter, and radiate more engery back into space, and produce thrust, no matter how small.
2. Of the energy particles striking the sail that are not absorbed, energy will still be transfered while maintaining velocity. As many have said, there is a red shift - The particles may change from visible or ultraviolet to infared wavelengths, but they will still maintain velocity while giving up energy to the sail. These particles didn't give up kinetic energy (velocity was constant in the interaction), so my question is how does it get translated as so? Might the craft just sit there (or fall towards the gravity well) and heat up? Does this energy translate back into #1 above and produce thrust? would the definition of the perfect mirror mean that no heat is absorbed from a particle impact, only kinetic energy?
3.Ultamately this only considers the energy particles, and no the physical particles emmitted from the sun that could be turned to propulsion. These can lose velocity on impact and directly translate this to the sail as acceleration.
Tom
With the RIAA? If the RIAA had notified the school of the transgressions, I think they would have had a much better success rate in reducing piracy. Because they pursued legal action, they now have pissed off everyone in that community.
I wonder, if they pursued legal action at Michigan State University, could they be held legally accountable for the ensuing riot?
Programmers produce a set of logical arguments, that are constrained to a set of rules. programmers are not engineers, they are more like lawyers or Lawmakers.
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Will I be violating DCMA If I take apart my car and replace this with a 'dumb' bolt? I'm not against these so much as the political BS that could pile up around them. How long until the government starts regulating that the black boxes that are becoming common in cars are bolted in with coded bolts, such that removing it is a violation?
Let's go back to when IBM said/predicted 3Ghz on the G5, and use that to predict how well this new development will work out. Perhaps we should go back even further to when the G4 came out, and processor speeds had to be scaled back to match manufacturing capability. Methinks the Motorola part of that partnership is what was performing best. IBM now has the market for the consoles; how important could apple production be to them?
Time to start making aluminum foil wallets.
1+1=2?
In a digital perception, yes. That is what we have built up around us. But not everywhere. We have a digital interpretation of an analog world. We can define an analog expression in a formula, but but don't really think in it. Yes/No, Black/White, that is how we think. When we go between, we still try to digitize it. We have our monitors up to millions of colors to represent the infinite. Anyone know pi? Someone out there knows figured the digital representation out to millions/billions of digits, but do they think in terms of pi? Of the equation that defines it?
Many of the assumptions here have been that math is fundamental, 'we know it when we see it'.
But what about light diffraction patterns? When two lightwaves interfere, 1+1 = somewhere between 0 and 2.
When we grab an apple, point to it and say 'one', do they see the apple as a whole? Do they 'see' the most significant wavelength where we define 'red'? Do they 'see' our hand moving at a specific frequency? Do they see the heat energy transference? The potential energy change? All of these are different perceptions of the same event, and each of these as a different starting point in mathematics.
I would have to say that while mathematics may be fundamental, it is also infinite. What is the probability that we and an alien society have a starting point in common that we recognize?
Tom
Adama figured he was a Cylon because he was having issues at the station. I gathered that the stations was originally built because Cylons had issues with that area. They created a station that a cylon specifically couldn't live at. As for Number Six's spine glowing, you would think that after two years together they would have tried a couple different positions... Wouldn't ya notice something like that? either way, I liked it, and I want to see more. But PLEASE write the thing as a whole, compelling story first, so it doesn't become some episodic crap that so many degenerate into... Tom
But has anybody thought of an iMac? Pivoting LCD screen, small case. The power adapter would be the only big hurdle I think. You might be able to get rid of the separate power supply if the voltage going in is similar enough to the 12-14 volts the car puts out.
1. If the sail translates any of the energy particles absorbed into heat, it will radiate more of it from the sun side than the dark side. It is recieving the engergy from the sun side and there should be a thermal gradient in the material, such that the sun side would be hotter, and radiate more engery back into space, and produce thrust, no matter how small. 2. Of the energy particles striking the sail that are not absorbed, energy will still be transfered while maintaining velocity. As many have said, there is a red shift - The particles may change from visible or ultraviolet to infared wavelengths, but they will still maintain velocity while giving up energy to the sail. These particles didn't give up kinetic energy (velocity was constant in the interaction), so my question is how does it get translated as so? Might the craft just sit there (or fall towards the gravity well) and heat up? Does this energy translate back into #1 above and produce thrust? would the definition of the perfect mirror mean that no heat is absorbed from a particle impact, only kinetic energy? 3.Ultamately this only considers the energy particles, and no the physical particles emmitted from the sun that could be turned to propulsion. These can lose velocity on impact and directly translate this to the sail as acceleration. Tom
With the RIAA? If the RIAA had notified the school of the transgressions, I think they would have had a much better success rate in reducing piracy. Because they pursued legal action, they now have pissed off everyone in that community.
I wonder, if they pursued legal action at Michigan State University, could they be held legally accountable for the ensuing riot?
Tom
Programmers produce a set of logical arguments, that are constrained to a set of rules. programmers are not engineers, they are more like lawyers or Lawmakers.