Florida has the highest Viagra sales. When Florida decides something, it invariably decides on the dumbest course of action. Florida is the one that gets hurt when violent weather strikes. The Florida Keys kind of dribble south into the Caribbean.
If our universe is a black hole in some other universe, who says that the natural laws of that uber-universe are anything like ours?
We haven't even got the laws of this universe figured out, and you want to toss in another universe? Okay, sure, why not. If you just want to start making crap up, then who's to say the external universe even has laws that allow black holes?
The concern for me is that while "I" teleported from point A to B, how do I know the guy in point B is "me" and the goo in point A is not me?
Only an issue if you have a soul. Otherwise, it's just as if you were built of Legos -- the plans can be transmitted and reconstituted exactly.
Even if spin states weren't the entire story, you wouldn't have to be reconstituted identically to be "identical." It's like identity vs. equality in an objects-all-the-way-down programming language. 3 is not identical to 3 because they are different objects, but 3 = 3 because they act exactly the same as far as arithmetic is concerned.
If you trap a metallic molecule inside, maybe it'll bounce around inside the cage and generate a miniscule magnetic field?
Aside from that, well, the point of carbon bonds is that they're stable, yeah? So it's like asking if you can do a lot of tricks with a rock laying on the ground. The answer is, "not so many."
Unless it's a pet rock, in which case it can "stay!" pretty good.
Alice would observe how certain sub-atomic particles decay under rare conditions, and the observed behavior would indicate a right-handed matter universe or a left-handed antimatter universe.
I knew she was an intelligent and imaginitive girl, but I didn't know she was smart enough for that!
Although, I guess hanging with the Cheshire Cat and shrinking to the size of a mouse would tend to direct one's interests towards subatomic quantum physics.:)
Why, oh why, are I-names (and every other login on the planet) so restrictive? No accents, no question marks, no symbols but periods, hyphens, and underscores, no Unicode, even more restrictions on first and last characters, and God forbid you use spaces!
You can guess, but until there's a study, you're just guessing. It's not even an educated guess. My guess is that a) executives are more likely to embezzle from you than non-executives, and that b) executives have good credit ratings.
The joke was, the man didn't like it when citizens were considered as statistics, and the reply was the statistics of citizens. The reply wasn't necessarily making a factual assertion.
i could see it in upscale higher profile retail stores - just to prevent someone from gettign a job there and then slowly rip them off to pay of debt...
They need some other sort of protection in place, anyway, to prevent someone from just ripping them off.
An executive's duty is ensure his company is as profitable as ethically possible. Every citizen also has a duty to ensure the health of his nation, and that includes allowing others a chance to work their way out of a pit.
And if the school system is not doing a good job of teaching personal finance, well, acknowledging the fact doesn't make the problem go away. People aren't good with credit, that's the situation, and accomodationsh have to be made.
Terminal is certainly better than cmd.exe or straight xterm. However, it doesn't do tabs or any of the really whizzy stuff that you expect on your Linux/BSD box's kterm/gnome-terminal.
Here's something that I've never seen in another terminal app (not that I'm a connoisseur):
When you change the size of the window, Terminal.app rewraps all the lines to the new width. So if you size up from 80 colums to 95, you don't have a blank rectangle to the left.
Do any other terminal apps do this? It's a must-have feature, as far as I'm concerned.
I once read an article by a forward-thinking HCI/usability guy discussing how people should interact with increasingly "smart" devices.
He pointed out that these devices will attempt to be context-aware, and will do or not do certain things based on what they think you want. These devices will screw this up.
He suggested that the usability community come up with a simple, but flexible system for giving devices positive or negative reinforcement. I believe he proposed three buttons: "thumbs down," "not what I meant," and one other that I forget ("try again?"). The thumbs-down button would do the expected thing, the not-what-I-meant button would undo the last learning in case the device misinterpreted what the thumbs-down button applied to.
Every time the device makes a guess about what you want, it would beep or something and, if it guessed wrong, you'd press the thumbs-down button. Eventually, once the device has established your preferences in a given situation, it would stop alerting you and just do it. It's kind of like a dog. You'd hit it on the nose and say "bad dog!" until it stops peeing on the carpet.
These buttons would be an industry standard for smart devices, like the familiar "play" "pause" "fast-forward" buttons.
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Indeed, Florida truly is America's wang.
"The gamer is trying to seduce you. Roll for a save on Wisdom."
Denied!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/04
You can only trade Dolly Parton songs.
In Soviet Russia, lives wreck WoW!
Dammit, UtherMon is on a date, we were supposed to go on a Strat run tonight!
No good. Google was built with paradox-absorbing crumple zones.
Or, to put it another way, "a difference that makes no difference, is no difference."
Even if spin states weren't the entire story, you wouldn't have to be reconstituted identically to be "identical." It's like identity vs. equality in an objects-all-the-way-down programming language. 3 is not identical to 3 because they are different objects, but 3 = 3 because they act exactly the same as far as arithmetic is concerned.
He can walk like an egyptian.
Is that real, or what?
If you trap a metallic molecule inside, maybe it'll bounce around inside the cage and generate a miniscule magnetic field?
Aside from that, well, the point of carbon bonds is that they're stable, yeah? So it's like asking if you can do a lot of tricks with a rock laying on the ground. The answer is, "not so many."
Unless it's a pet rock, in which case it can "stay!" pretty good.
Ah, but here we have a plant that can not only sense the existence but also the direction of airborne chemicals. That makes a big difference.
I'm holding out for Cavorite.
I knew she was an intelligent and imaginitive girl, but I didn't know she was smart enough for that!
Although, I guess hanging with the Cheshire Cat and shrinking to the size of a mouse would tend to direct one's interests towards subatomic quantum physics.
Earthican is from Futurama, a term used in the 31st century. They also use the term orphanarium for what we would call an orphanage.
That's an "Ender's Game" reference, for the curious.
Why, oh why, are I-names (and every other login on the planet) so restrictive? No accents, no question marks, no symbols but periods, hyphens, and underscores, no Unicode, even more restrictions on first and last characters, and God forbid you use spaces!
Why? Supporting these things is trivial! Trivial!
I'm betting that that is some sort of polarization effect.
You can guess, but until there's a study, you're just guessing. It's not even an educated guess. My guess is that a) executives are more likely to embezzle from you than non-executives, and that b) executives have good credit ratings.
The joke was, the man didn't like it when citizens were considered as statistics, and the reply was the statistics of citizens. The reply wasn't necessarily making a factual assertion.
"It's funny, laugh."
i could see it in upscale higher profile retail stores - just to prevent someone from gettign a job there and then slowly rip them off to pay of debt...
They need some other sort of protection in place, anyway, to prevent someone from just ripping them off.
An executive's duty is ensure his company is as profitable as ethically possible. Every citizen also has a duty to ensure the health of his nation, and that includes allowing others a chance to work their way out of a pit.
And if the school system is not doing a good job of teaching personal finance, well, acknowledging the fact doesn't make the problem go away. People aren't good with credit, that's the situation, and accomodationsh have to be made.
When you change the size of the window, Terminal.app rewraps all the lines to the new width. So if you size up from 80 colums to 95, you don't have a blank rectangle to the left.
Do any other terminal apps do this? It's a must-have feature, as far as I'm concerned.
I once read an article by a forward-thinking HCI/usability guy discussing how people should interact with increasingly "smart" devices.
He pointed out that these devices will attempt to be context-aware, and will do or not do certain things based on what they think you want. These devices will screw this up.
He suggested that the usability community come up with a simple, but flexible system for giving devices positive or negative reinforcement. I believe he proposed three buttons: "thumbs down," "not what I meant," and one other that I forget ("try again?"). The thumbs-down button would do the expected thing, the not-what-I-meant button would undo the last learning in case the device misinterpreted what the thumbs-down button applied to.
Every time the device makes a guess about what you want, it would beep or something and, if it guessed wrong, you'd press the thumbs-down button. Eventually, once the device has established your preferences in a given situation, it would stop alerting you and just do it. It's kind of like a dog. You'd hit it on the nose and say "bad dog!" until it stops peeing on the carpet.
These buttons would be an industry standard for smart devices, like the familiar "play" "pause" "fast-forward" buttons.