I'd say if the advertising will cover the costs, go for it. I don't think complainers would have much ground to stand on. No one would be forcing them to use the service, and they get it for free. Besides, it seems like more than 1/2 of the sites I go to have banner ads of their own anyway.
OK, let's call the laser station on the earth E, and the moon receivers M1 and M2. If you sweep a beam of light from M1 to M2, then you are doing this from E. Once the beam hits M1, the operator at E has already decided to point the beam at M2 and nothing you can do at M1 can stop or alter this. It is true that you are transmitting information, but you are doing it from E to M1 and M2 at the speed of light, not between M1 and M2 at the speed the point of impact travels.
You might think so, but all you have done is send information from the earth to 4 different points on the moon at c. There is no way for someone at the first sensor to change anything about the light going to the second sensor. By the time the guy at the first sensor sees the beam pass him, the light that will pass the second sensor has already left Earth.
Imagine a rotating laser light source. If you had a laser beam that was rotating at only 2rpm, the beam would move across the surface of the moon at approx 1.7 times the speed of light, but you are not really moving anything (not even light) at more than c. You can't use this to transmit any information or power.
Fully electronic systems do not provide any way that the voter can truly verify that the ballot cast corresponds to that being recorded, transmitted, or tabulated.
You're right. Who will pay good money to see a movie on the big screen with good sound when they can have their friend beam them the movie in 320x200 resolution with 8khz mono sound.
Another idea I saw on either battle bots or a simmilar show is to have different tasks to be accomplished. If the objective is just to pummel the crap out of the other bot, it gets a bit boring. If you have another task (collect balls, hit targets, etc) then designers have to build to pweform that task, and then any pummeling is just a happy side effect.
The reason I say that there is no chance is that for any move you make, you can look at the moves available to your opponent, and and for each of these, you can look at the moves available to you and so on. In a game like backgammon, monopoly, etc, there are dice or spinners or some element of randomness that keeps you from being able to make this kind of analysis.
You might think that an opponent could fool this strategy by making a few moves that the computer didn't expect. This is possible if the computer is not playing a "perfect" game. If it is playing a perfect game, then it would be able to follow your moves all the way to the end of the game and see that you could win. Therefore, it would expect you to make those moves and take whatever steps were available to it to keep you from being able to make those moves in the first place.
Yes, you read that right; you can send any window a WM_TIMER message with a non-zero second parameter (the first is a timer ID) and execution jumps to that address. As far as I know, the message doesn't even go into the message queue, so the application doesn't even have the chance to ignore it.
I think you're both right. We see a lot of 8 bit cpus and a lot of 32 bit cpus, but 16-bit cpus are not as popular. I think that as 64-bit cpus become more available, they will be used in higher end applications, while the 8-bit cpus will be used in the lower end applications.
This is true as you said for _exothermic_ reactions, but converting water to Hydrogen and Oxygen is not exothermic. If you could produce Hydrogen and Oxygen from water using less energy than you get from recombining them you would have a perpetual motion engine. Too bad you can no longer patent such a thing.
Actually, the story I heard is that Intel made 486 chips. The ones that ended up with working coprocessors were sold as 486DX, and the ones with broken coprocessors had the links to this part of the circuit severed and were sold as 486SX.
I believe this is still going on with processor speed. They don't set out to make several different speeds of CPU, but rather make the CPU as best they can and sort them out by how fast they can be clocked after the fact.
It's free software. Stop bitching and complaining about the way Ulrich did it. If you have a better way, write it up and it will probably be adopted. If not, STFU!
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I never realized how much those reel mowers cost. I always assumed $20 neighborhood.
I'd say if the advertising will cover the costs, go for it. I don't think complainers would have much ground to stand on. No one would be forcing them to use the service, and they get it for free. Besides, it seems like more than 1/2 of the sites I go to have banner ads of their own anyway.
OK, let's call the laser station on the earth E, and the moon receivers M1 and M2. If you sweep a beam of light from M1 to M2, then you are doing this from E. Once the beam hits M1, the operator at E has already decided to point the beam at M2 and nothing you can do at M1 can stop or alter this. It is true that you are transmitting information, but you are doing it from E to M1 and M2 at the speed of light, not between M1 and M2 at the speed the point of impact travels.
You might think so, but all you have done is send information from the earth to 4 different points on the moon at c. There is no way for someone at the first sensor to change anything about the light going to the second sensor. By the time the guy at the first sensor sees the beam pass him, the light that will pass the second sensor has already left Earth.
Imagine a rotating laser light source. If you had a laser beam that was rotating at only 2rpm, the beam would move across the surface of the moon at approx 1.7 times the speed of light, but you are not really moving anything (not even light) at more than c. You can't use this to transmit any information or power.
Fully electronic systems do not provide any way that the voter can truly verify that the ballot cast corresponds to that being recorded, transmitted, or tabulated.
How can I verify this under the current system?
You're right. Who will pay good money to see a movie on the big screen with good sound when they can have their friend beam them the movie in 320x200 resolution with 8khz mono sound.
I think you are right. The current scheme of Purchase Once Read N-times (P.O.R.N.) is something that the entertainment industry wants to fight.
Another idea I saw on either battle bots or a simmilar show is to have different tasks to be accomplished. If the objective is just to pummel the crap out of the other bot, it gets a bit boring. If you have another task (collect balls, hit targets, etc) then designers have to build to pweform that task, and then any pummeling is just a happy side effect.
45,128 votes for Bush
45,132 votes for Gore
2,000,000 write in votes for Bill Gates.
Wha?
The reason I say that there is no chance is that for any move you make, you can look at the moves available to your opponent, and and for each of these, you can look at the moves available to you and so on. In a game like backgammon, monopoly, etc, there are dice or spinners or some element of randomness that keeps you from being able to make this kind of analysis.
You might think that an opponent could fool this strategy by making a few moves that the computer didn't expect. This is possible if the computer is not playing a "perfect" game. If it is playing a perfect game, then it would be able to follow your moves all the way to the end of the game and see that you could win. Therefore, it would expect you to make those moves and take whatever steps were available to it to keep you from being able to make those moves in the first place.
How about:
Checkers (Chinese and domestic)
Chess
othello
go
None of these have any chance. They don't even have hidden information known to one player and not the other.
I wonder if a sufficiently powerful telescope could make out the landing sites on the moon. You could even charge people to look through it.
How to stick turtles to the ceiling?
They also call a knife naifu, does this mean that there were no knives in Japan before english speaking people came there?
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Yes, you read that right; you can send any window a WM_TIMER message with a non-zero second parameter (the first is a timer ID) and execution jumps to that address. As far as I know, the message doesn't even go into the message queue, so the application doesn't even have the chance to ignore it.
I think you're both right. We see a lot of 8 bit cpus and a lot of 32 bit cpus, but 16-bit cpus are not as popular. I think that as 64-bit cpus become more available, they will be used in higher end applications, while the 8-bit cpus will be used in the lower end applications.
I thought Microsoft would be the NT in .NET
It blows my mind that it has taken governments until the 21's century to understand this.
Right. I would have thought that governments would have figured this out in the 17th or maybe 18th century.
Cop: Sir, I've been following you for the last 3 miles and you stopped no less than 15 times and threw the car into reverse. I'm writing you a ticket.
Driver: But officer, the owner's manual recommends frequent backups.
Are you a physics troll?
This is true as you said for _exothermic_ reactions, but converting water to Hydrogen and Oxygen is not exothermic. If you could produce Hydrogen and Oxygen from water using less energy than you get from recombining them you would have a perpetual motion engine. Too bad you can no longer patent such a thing.
Actually, the story I heard is that Intel made 486 chips. The ones that ended up with working coprocessors were sold as 486DX, and the ones with broken coprocessors had the links to this part of the circuit severed and were sold as 486SX.
I believe this is still going on with processor speed. They don't set out to make several different speeds of CPU, but rather make the CPU as best they can and sort them out by how fast they can be clocked after the fact.
the Church Of Reverse Engineering. See if this could be used to overturn DMCA for violating our religous freedoms.
Watch the Simpsons:
Woman: Comb the Sweet Tarts out of your beard and you're on.
CBG: Don't try to change me baby.
It's free software. Stop bitching and complaining about the way Ulrich did it. If you have a better way, write it up and it will probably be adopted. If not, STFU!