I've come up with a little experiment which would empirically prove the existence of God, if he deicdes to show up and take part. A negative result would simply prove that God either does not exist or does not wish to take part in my experiment.
To start with, we pray for God's intervention in our experiment. Next Experimenter 1 flips a coin 1024 times and writes down a 0 for HEADS and a 1 for TAILS.
Experimenter 2 then generates 1024 bits with a quantum random number generator. These bits are non-deterministic, so its supposed to be impossible to know what they will be beforehand.
Now we compare the bits. There's a 1 in 2^1024 probability that every bit compares.
We can also do the experiments in opposite order to control for say, evil spirits. Or we could do them in sync. And yes, I'm entirely serious.
To prove or disprove the Genesis story, one could set up a large telescope 6000 light years away and watch history unfold. We'd just have to figure out how to get it there quickly.
I loved Commander Keen. I wish they would do something with that franchise. Its lighthearted storyline was just a lot of fun. Don't we have enough FPSes? Jeeze.
Just put it all in a dump. WAY cheaper than conventional recycling, and when Plasma Gasification gets to be ubiquitous, someone can make a profit turning it all back into its component elements.
People say that the close votes in presidential elections are because "America is polarized" or "America is deeply divided". This is BS. Both canditates found the center line and walked as close to it as possible. As a result, half of the voters voted for one and half voted for the other. The sad fact is, let me emphasise this: THERE IS VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GEORGE W BUSH, JOHN KERRY, AND AL GORE. America is not deeply divided, America is straddling the centrist fence.
They'd plug it into the grid and sell the electricity. Then with that money they would build a larger unit and create more electricity. Soon the enirety of britain would be buying electricity from these guys and they'd be very very rich. The very fact that they want to go public at the prototype stage argues for them being a fraud.
No, it is nothing like a child at a restaurant. It is like the defeated political party spending the next 4 years poking fun at the new president. While some might claim that mockery is bad behavior, I would say it is necessary and fundamental to a free political or business process.
When your product dominates the marketplace as Windows does, you can and should expect the underdog to take potshots at you. This is not considered bad behavior for an underdog. Microsoft doesn't publicly bash Apple because that would play in Apple's favor, not because of some odd sense of propriety. If Microsoft's people (Paul Thurrott) feel badly because their one desktop competitor bashes their product they seriously need to get a life and quit taking this personally.
I seem to recall that Apple ripped off Karelia's Watson for their search capability, not Vista. Both companies have a penchant for stealing features from each other and their own third party developers to bundle with their operating system. Anyone remember the Stacker/Doublespace fiasco? Netscape/Internet Explorer. Konfabulator/Dashboard. Watson/Sherlock. And let us not forget the Apple vs. MS look and feel lawsuit of 1988. Surprise! Apple and MS both ripped off Xerox! I'm sure there are many many more I coud add to this list.
In summary: It's perfectly acceptable to mock the incumbent; in addition, idea "theft" is practically a tradition in the operating system business.
It has occurer to me there's a problem with sequels. They are difficult to do well. For instance the Matrix was awesome but its two sequels were crap. Why? The tension was all resolved in the first film. Few loose ends were left. When the sequel came it had to invent all new tension but constrained by the bounds of the original plot. When the Wachowski finally finished raking in big bags of money form those, they produced the excellect V for Vendetta. What could they have written if they had left the Matrix alone? Something better? What if Lucas hadn't written the star wars prequels? We'd have something better. Storylines have to be written with sequels of prequels in mind.
Please... resist the temptation to milk perfectly good existing stories to death. Write something cool.
Frankly, nobody has any business surveilling the whereabouts of my car with such an automated system. I don't mind if a physical person can look up my plate in a database, but when technology has advanced to the point where I can be virtually tailed everywhere I go, its time to put and end to that. Lets abolish license plates and regain a little privacy!
This deserves its own thread as I've seen a few comments about people making a lot of money begging. The Straight Dope recently addressed this issue...
I read this as Manual Writing tools as in pens and pencils. A topic dear to our hearts. So what are your favorite writing tools of the manual variety? I had a zebra telescoping pen but I found it fell apart in my pocket a lot. I've switched to the Fischer space pen and I'm loving it so far.
I have a nervous habit. When I'm sitting, I'm constantly shaking my legs. Restless leg syndrome I think they call it. Anyway, I'm willing to bet this habit prevents me from getting a DVT by keeping my legs moving. YMMV.
In real life stuff doesn't always work. Employers don't bend over backwards to make your job search as easy as possible. Maybe once you have gained some of this experience you won't be looking to stock shelves at Krogers. Until then, suck it up and solve your own problems, and don't look for society (laws) to solve your problems. We don't really give a rip.
In the borehole pressure mines 100km beneath Planetsurface, at the Mohorovicic Discontinuity where crust gives way to mantle, temperatures often reach levels well in excess of 1000 degrees Celsius. Exploitation of Planet's resources under such brutal conditions has required quantum advances in robotic and teleoperational technology.
Netmeeting. No, it does not in any meaningful way. It only supports audio to NetMeeting, which is NOT the way NetMeeting is actually used in the real world. NetMeeting is primarily used to share slide presentations and views of office applications among 2-100 remote meeting attendees, and to remote control someone's desktop for support purposes. Saying GnomeMeeting/Ekiga supports NetMeeting is like saying elinks supports the Web. Technically, its true, but practically, the web is more than text. Voice (audio conferencing) is provided as a separate service, usually through the telephone system. Part of the reason for changing the name to Ekiga is that GnomeMeeting implies interoperability with NetMeeting, which is embarrassingly inadequate and has been for years. Ekiga developers consider NetMeeting "dead" but it's not. Its still very much in use inside Microsoft-dependent companies, and the effort to get Ekiga to interoperate would be very much appreciated. I myself would buy the developer of this feature a case of fine local beer. In the 3-5 year future we will also need to interop with MS LiveMeeting.
So I tried to play FFX but I get the sense I'm missing a lot of backstory. Is there some kind of compilation or way I can play through the whole thing?
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I've come up with a little experiment which would empirically prove the existence of God, if he deicdes to show up and take part. A negative result would simply prove that God either does not exist or does not wish to take part in my experiment.
To start with, we pray for God's intervention in our experiment. Next Experimenter 1 flips a coin 1024 times and writes down a 0 for HEADS and a 1 for TAILS.
Experimenter 2 then generates 1024 bits with a quantum random number generator. These bits are non-deterministic, so its supposed to be impossible to know what they will be beforehand.
Now we compare the bits. There's a 1 in 2^1024 probability that every bit compares.
We can also do the experiments in opposite order to control for say, evil spirits. Or we could do them in sync. And yes, I'm entirely serious.
To prove or disprove the Genesis story, one could set up a large telescope 6000 light years away and watch history unfold. We'd just have to figure out how to get it there quickly.
Who owns the rights to it? Maybe we can start an online petition to convince them to revive it.
I loved Commander Keen. I wish they would do something with that franchise. Its lighthearted storyline was just a lot of fun. Don't we have enough FPSes? Jeeze.
Just put it all in a dump. WAY cheaper than conventional recycling, and when Plasma Gasification gets to be ubiquitous, someone can make a profit turning it all back into its component elements.
In Soviet Russia, Shark jumps YOU!
People say that the close votes in presidential elections are because "America is polarized" or "America is deeply divided". This is BS. Both canditates found the center line and walked as close to it as possible. As a result, half of the voters voted for one and half voted for the other. The sad fact is, let me emphasise this: THERE IS VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GEORGE W BUSH, JOHN KERRY, AND AL GORE. America is not deeply divided, America is straddling the centrist fence.
They'd plug it into the grid and sell the electricity. Then with that money they would build a larger unit and create more electricity. Soon the enirety of britain would be buying electricity from these guys and they'd be very very rich. The very fact that they want to go public at the prototype stage argues for them being a fraud.
I did that ONE TIME with a laptop (placed it in the center of my suitcase) and it arrived with a broken LCD.
No, it is nothing like a child at a restaurant. It is like the defeated political party spending the next 4 years poking fun at the new president. While some might claim that mockery is bad behavior, I would say it is necessary and fundamental to a free political or business process.
Wikipedia> makes no mention of that alleged fact. Care to provide a source?
When your product dominates the marketplace as Windows does, you can and should expect the underdog to take potshots at you. This is not considered bad behavior for an underdog. Microsoft doesn't publicly bash Apple because that would play in Apple's favor, not because of some odd sense of propriety. If Microsoft's people (Paul Thurrott) feel badly because their one desktop competitor bashes their product they seriously need to get a life and quit taking this personally.
I seem to recall that Apple ripped off Karelia's Watson for their search capability, not Vista. Both companies have a penchant for stealing features from each other and their own third party developers to bundle with their operating system. Anyone remember the Stacker/Doublespace fiasco? Netscape/Internet Explorer. Konfabulator/Dashboard. Watson/Sherlock. And let us not forget the Apple vs. MS look and feel lawsuit of 1988. Surprise! Apple and MS both ripped off Xerox! I'm sure there are many many more I coud add to this list.
In summary: It's perfectly acceptable to mock the incumbent; in addition, idea "theft" is practically a tradition in the operating system business.
I have the non-networked 1022 and I love it.
It has occurer to me there's a problem with sequels. They are difficult to do well. For instance the Matrix was awesome but its two sequels were crap. Why? The tension was all resolved in the first film. Few loose ends were left. When the sequel came it had to invent all new tension but constrained by the bounds of the original plot. When the Wachowski finally finished raking in big bags of money form those, they produced the excellect V for Vendetta. What could they have written if they had left the Matrix alone? Something better? What if Lucas hadn't written the star wars prequels? We'd have something better. Storylines have to be written with sequels of prequels in mind.
Please... resist the temptation to milk perfectly good existing stories to death. Write something cool.
Frankly, nobody has any business surveilling the whereabouts of my car with such an automated system. I don't mind if a physical person can look up my plate in a database, but when technology has advanced to the point where I can be virtually tailed everywhere I go, its time to put and end to that. Lets abolish license plates and regain a little privacy!
That's a Princess Bride quote, by the way...
Sorry, it stripped the link... The Straight Dope
This deserves its own thread as I've seen a few comments about people making a lot of money begging. The Straight Dope recently addressed this issue...
I read this as Manual Writing tools as in pens and pencils. A topic dear to our hearts. So what are your favorite writing tools of the manual variety? I had a zebra telescoping pen but I found it fell apart in my pocket a lot. I've switched to the Fischer space pen and I'm loving it so far.
* tile is not a runescape construction material
* runescape characters may in fact sit (and rock!) in their new chairs.
I have a nervous habit. When I'm sitting, I'm constantly shaking my legs. Restless leg syndrome I think they call it. Anyway, I'm willing to bet this habit prevents me from getting a DVT by keeping my legs moving. YMMV.
In real life stuff doesn't always work. Employers don't bend over backwards to make your job search as easy as possible. Maybe once you have gained some of this experience you won't be looking to stock shelves at Krogers. Until then, suck it up and solve your own problems, and don't look for society (laws) to solve your problems. We don't really give a rip.
In the borehole pressure mines 100km beneath Planetsurface, at the Mohorovicic Discontinuity where crust gives way to mantle, temperatures often reach levels well in excess of 1000 degrees Celsius. Exploitation of Planet's resources under such brutal conditions has required quantum advances in robotic and teleoperational technology.
Morgan Industries, Ltd.
"Annual Report"
Netmeeting. No, it does not in any meaningful way. It only supports audio to NetMeeting, which is NOT the way NetMeeting is actually used in the real world. NetMeeting is primarily used to share slide presentations and views of office applications among 2-100 remote meeting attendees, and to remote control someone's desktop for support purposes. Saying GnomeMeeting/Ekiga supports NetMeeting is like saying elinks supports the Web. Technically, its true, but practically, the web is more than text. Voice (audio conferencing) is provided as a separate service, usually through the telephone system. Part of the reason for changing the name to Ekiga is that GnomeMeeting implies interoperability with NetMeeting, which is embarrassingly inadequate and has been for years. Ekiga developers consider NetMeeting "dead" but it's not. Its still very much in use inside Microsoft-dependent companies, and the effort to get Ekiga to interoperate would be very much appreciated. I myself would buy the developer of this feature a case of fine local beer. In the 3-5 year future we will also need to interop with MS LiveMeeting.
So I tried to play FFX but I get the sense I'm missing a lot of backstory. Is there some kind of compilation or way I can play through the whole thing?
And here I was hoping it had built in electrodes to give you a jolt when you get shot.