Except Armageddon was fiction. In reality, the shuttle is pretty much the exact opposite, with the most absurdly expensive hi-tech components possible, all triple- or quadruple-checked.
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It really wouldn't be too hard for them to get permission.
> Does this mean the plant I will get will not grow eatable bananas?
It means that the seed came from a single parent, rather than two. This is potentially bad b/c the seed is genetically the same as it's single parent, potentially leading to problems with disease resistance.
Not quite. Often when there's a study like this one, it's followed up closely by a study to determine how the results compare across cultures. I wouldn't be making overgeneralizations about scientists just yet.
But what if science created an entity (either an enhanced human or an AI) that could perform science? This seems particularly feasible in regards to your second point, by increasing "the rate they can ingest and gain understanding of other's works and actually process the information into something useable."
It's worse than that. If you're talking to somebody in the same car as you, they can see if you're currently occupied, or if there's something else (like a difficult turn) which should take precedence over the conversation. If you're talking to somebody on a cell phone, though, they can't see this, and will speak to you as if everything's normal. This is even worse on stealing your attention from driving, because you can't easily background the conversation for fear of appearing "rude" to the other person on the line who wouldn't understand the reason for the lull in the conversation.
There's actually a course on Information Warfare taught at CMU. First assignment:
Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to gather information about one of three instructors in this course (Benoit, Scott, or Tim). The one you select is your 'target'. They are all wanted by the U.S. Government for crimes against students. In order to more successfully prosecute them for these crimes, we need to know every bit of information on them.
In the article they say that their atomic memory has an energy density of 250 terabits per square inch (compared to 100 gigabits per square inch for a hard drive). A CD-ROM has 14 square inches of recordable area. If one were to use this technique on a surface the size of a CD-ROM, that would give:
I agree with most of what you say, but not with your claim that CDs always sound better. Whenever I buy a CD, I rip all the tracks to high-bitrate ogg and stow the CD away in a safe place. I'll admit I'm not an audiophile, but I can't tell the difference between playing straight from the CD and from the ogg.
I'm not sure if it's just me, but that doesn't sound like the ISP confounding the RIAA, but rather confounding potential leechers of servers on their network.
For those of us without the resources to run an mail server and create our own email addresses through it, sneakemail is a great resource to limit the amount of spam you get. If any of you haven't heard about sneakemail yet, it's a service that autogenerates email addresses for you (like asdoifu9832@sneakemail.com) which you can give to registration forms or list as a contact email and have forwarded to your real account. If it turns out that the registration form results in spam, you can get rid of that email address, and you also know which registration form it was which resulted in the spam. I really recommend sneakemail to anybody who hasn't tried it yet.
I'm not sure how apparent it was in the parent post, but the description is (I'm fairly certain) from a fictional novel by Dave Barry. From the Amazon.com review of "Big Trouble":
Dave Barry, the only newsman to win a Pulitzer for exemplary use of words like booger, will please humor and crime-fiction fans alike with this racy debut novel. The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a newsman turned adman, sneaks up to spritz a cute girl with a Squirtmaster 9000 to win a high school game called Killer. Meanwhile, two hit men sneak up to kill the girl's abusive stepdad, Arthur. Arthur cheated his bosses at corrupt Penultimate, Inc., which equipped a Florida jail with automatic garage-opener gates that accidentally freed prisoners in a lightning storm.
I wouldn't say that they're unambigious -- what if somebody smudges the ballot in the wrong way, or someone doesn't write their number clearly? Not to mention the fact that it'd be a bitch to machine-count.
The other problem with pen and paper is that it potentially allows one's ballot to be trackable. For reasons which should be fairly obvious, one doesn't want a situation in which the way one votes can be determined, or in which one can make it known that one voted in a certain way by marking the ballot uniquely. Anything that breaches the anonymity of voting probably isn't a good idea.
Can a clockless circuit be represented/simulated by a Turing machine (and thus any clocked digital computer)? Unless I'm not thinking right today, it seems to me like a Turing machine can only accurately simulate discrete systems. Sure, you could discretize the time steps of a clockless circuit simulation, but I can't think of how to do that without potentially losing accuracy.
The answer to this question may be relevant to other areas as well, as the brain could potentially be viewed as a clockless circuit (albeit a very complicated one with exotic operations).
Anyways, look at the title bar on the front page of slashdot. What does it say? "News for nerds." Think about that.
While it is certainly is not true that all nerds like anime, enough of them do to make it appropriate for a site like slashdot. On the same token, not all slashdot readers use linux or are devoted to cyber-issues, but enough of them are to make it worthwhile to post to the page. If you don't like it, as another post mentioned, you can certainly filter out the "anime" category in your preferences.
Regarding the "goodness" of anime in general, I'd have to agree in the sense that most of the stuff televised in the US is crap and falls into the category of "japanese kiddie shows" that you mention. My apologies to any fans of the series, but in my opinion series like Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z seem somewhat dull and I really don't understand their popularity among otaku. While all of it isn't for everybody, I still really do believe that some of it is quite good. As an example, I believe that the intellectual stimulation provided by a series like Neon Genesis Evangelion (particularly the ending) is almost unparalled in anything either live-action or animated. I would suggest that you actually experience quality anime (although I would agree that "quality" is quite subjective) before completely waving away the entire category.
I pretty much agree with your statements, but what's up with the statement about "Try switching to Cognitive Science" at the end? (Note that I'm saying this as a double major in computer science and cognitive science)
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Except Armageddon was fiction. In reality, the shuttle is pretty much the exact opposite, with the most absurdly expensive hi-tech components possible, all triple- or quadruple-checked.
It really wouldn't be too hard for them to get permission.
Doh... I just read the parent's parent, and now I'm not so sure about my answer. My apologies.
> Does this mean the plant I will get will not grow eatable bananas?
It means that the seed came from a single parent, rather than two. This is potentially bad b/c the seed is genetically the same as it's single parent, potentially leading to problems with disease resistance.
But yes, it will grow into an edible banana.
Not quite. Often when there's a study like this one, it's followed up closely by a study to determine how the results compare across cultures. I wouldn't be making overgeneralizations about scientists just yet.
But what if science created an entity (either an enhanced human or an AI) that could perform science? This seems particularly feasible in regards to your second point, by increasing "the rate they can ingest and gain understanding of other's works and actually process the information into something useable."
It's worse than that. If you're talking to somebody in the same car as you, they can see if you're currently occupied, or if there's something else (like a difficult turn) which should take precedence over the conversation. If you're talking to somebody on a cell phone, though, they can't see this, and will speak to you as if everything's normal. This is even worse on stealing your attention from driving, because you can't easily background the conversation for fear of appearing "rude" to the other person on the line who wouldn't understand the reason for the lull in the conversation.
Don't do it!
Dude, I just know you aren't dissin' the Simpsons arcade game.
You actually just need to run Sarien to play the old Sierra games.
There's actually a course on Information Warfare taught at CMU. First assignment:
Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to gather information about one of three instructors in this course (Benoit, Scott, or Tim). The one you select is your 'target'. They are all wanted by the U.S. Government for crimes against students. In order to more successfully prosecute them for these crimes, we need to know every bit of information on them.
There's a PDF of the real journal article available from Nanotechnology's site.
In the article they say that their atomic memory has an energy density of 250 terabits per square inch (compared to 100 gigabits per square inch for a hard drive). A CD-ROM has 14 square inches of recordable area. If one were to use this technique on a surface the size of a CD-ROM, that would give:
(14 square inches) * (250 terabits/square inch) / (8 bits/byte) = 437.5 terabytes
Incredibly huge, but I'm sure there's a number of people who would still be able to fill it up.
I agree with most of what you say, but not with your claim that CDs always sound better. Whenever I buy a CD, I rip all the tracks to high-bitrate ogg and stow the CD away in a safe place. I'll admit I'm not an audiophile, but I can't tell the difference between playing straight from the CD and from the ogg.
I'm not sure if it's just me, but that doesn't sound like the ISP confounding the RIAA, but rather confounding potential leechers of servers on their network.
For those of us without the resources to run an mail server and create our own email addresses through it, sneakemail is a great resource to limit the amount of spam you get. If any of you haven't heard about sneakemail yet, it's a service that autogenerates email addresses for you (like asdoifu9832@sneakemail.com) which you can give to registration forms or list as a contact email and have forwarded to your real account. If it turns out that the registration form results in spam, you can get rid of that email address, and you also know which registration form it was which resulted in the spam. I really recommend sneakemail to anybody who hasn't tried it yet.
Don't forget Super KKK Bros. 2, one of the most inherently wrong things I've seen in a while.
Wow, that was hilariously beautiful. I personally would substitute "deb" for "rpm," though, because it's what I use and the syllables match better.
I'm not sure how apparent it was in the parent post, but the description is (I'm fairly certain) from a fictional novel by Dave Barry. From the Amazon.com review of "Big Trouble":
Dave Barry, the only newsman to win a Pulitzer for exemplary use of words like booger, will please humor and crime-fiction fans alike with this racy debut novel. The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a newsman turned adman, sneaks up to spritz a cute girl with a Squirtmaster 9000 to win a high school game called Killer. Meanwhile, two hit men sneak up to kill the girl's abusive stepdad, Arthur. Arthur cheated his bosses at corrupt Penultimate, Inc., which equipped a Florida jail with automatic garage-opener gates that accidentally freed prisoners in a lightning storm.
I wouldn't say that they're unambigious -- what if somebody smudges the ballot in the wrong way, or someone doesn't write their number clearly? Not to mention the fact that it'd be a bitch to machine-count.
The other problem with pen and paper is that it potentially allows one's ballot to be trackable. For reasons which should be fairly obvious, one doesn't want a situation in which the way one votes can be determined, or in which one can make it known that one voted in a certain way by marking the ballot uniquely. Anything that breaches the anonymity of voting probably isn't a good idea.
But what I'm wondering is, can you make anything in sync that you can make in async?
Can a clockless circuit be represented/simulated by a Turing machine (and thus any clocked digital computer)? Unless I'm not thinking right today, it seems to me like a Turing machine can only accurately simulate discrete systems. Sure, you could discretize the time steps of a clockless circuit simulation, but I can't think of how to do that without potentially losing accuracy.
The answer to this question may be relevant to other areas as well, as the brain could potentially be viewed as a clockless circuit (albeit a very complicated one with exotic operations).
So how many gigs of data on your drives is actually legal?
Oh, wow. Them's fighting words!
Anyways, look at the title bar on the front page of slashdot. What does it say? "News for nerds." Think about that.
While it is certainly is not true that all nerds like anime, enough of them do to make it appropriate for a site like slashdot. On the same token, not all slashdot readers use linux or are devoted to cyber-issues, but enough of them are to make it worthwhile to post to the page. If you don't like it, as another post mentioned, you can certainly filter out the "anime" category in your preferences.
Regarding the "goodness" of anime in general, I'd have to agree in the sense that most of the stuff televised in the US is crap and falls into the category of "japanese kiddie shows" that you mention. My apologies to any fans of the series, but in my opinion series like Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z seem somewhat dull and I really don't understand their popularity among otaku. While all of it isn't for everybody, I still really do believe that some of it is quite good. As an example, I believe that the intellectual stimulation provided by a series like Neon Genesis Evangelion (particularly the ending) is almost unparalled in anything either live-action or animated. I would suggest that you actually experience quality anime (although I would agree that "quality" is quite subjective) before completely waving away the entire category.
Try using Gallery. You can use have the names of the people in the pictures as keywords, and just use the built-in search engine to find them.
I pretty much agree with your statements, but what's up with the statement about "Try switching to Cognitive Science" at the end? (Note that I'm saying this as a double major in computer science and cognitive science)