Judges and Prosecutors prevent jury pool from being informed of their right to disagree with the judge and the Rule of Law.
So the defense attorneys can't even inform the jurors? They should make public service announcements about this on broadcast TV, so that at least one jury in each trial is aware and can tell the others behind closed doors. And knows not mention it to the prosecution during the jury selection...
It is 2009. We are almost have 15 years of mass customer acceptance of the Web Browser. Why isn't the web at least at World of Warcraft level of graphics? Crysis level of graphics? Able to run super-pi? quickly?
How many gigs of textures do WoW and crysis have? You really think you could put that on a web page?
Hell yeah, I wanna be a professional computer game player who gets payed big bucks for playing whatever game he chooses, regardless of how much he sucks at it.
At my university back in 2003, several professors in the Computer Science Department fell for those "Windows Security Patch" attachments sent by email from the "Microsoft Security Department."
I'm ashamed to admit that I almost double-clicked the exe file myself before thinking better of it...
Replace "play games" with "read comics" and "watch movies." Those are all entertainment too, right? And when was the last time you saw one with a message....
But didn't we already know all that? What ways did they think the black hole's energy/mass could be utilized that are now ruled out? Seems all they're saying is "there is even less information we have about the insides of a black hole than we thought, and ignorance=entropy".
So the point with black holes is, they aren't sequestering entropy to keep it from harming the universe in some way (like your BAC example); if anything they sequester energy and keep it from interacting with the rest of the universe, rendering it useless.
If that's all it is, than basically what this article is saying is that "black holes account for 100 times more of the total mass of our universe than we thought", instead of "a black hole of a given mass has 100 times more entropy than we thought"? I can buy that. But then what does this have to do with "having no idea how stuff is arranged inside black holes?"
FTA: A black hole is the entropy champ because there are myriad ways for all the material that has fallen into it to be arranged microscopically while the black hole retains the same numerical values for its observable properties -- charge, mass and spin.
So a black hole's entropy = "we don't know by looking what's inside"? How exactly does that contribute to the heat death of the universe? If there was a million times more entropy in black holes, how would it effect existance outside of black holes? Is there a background process constantly checking the total amount of entropy, ready to reboot the universe when it reaches an arbitrary level?
Example: blood alcohol content.
Sure, a.5% BAC is lethal, but only if its in the blood that circulates through your body. Say you had a large organ you do not use with its own blood flow, and occasionally a tiny bit of blood from your main blood stream enters that organ and is never seen again. And now you find out that the blood inside the organ gets converted to 200 proof alcohol. This messes with your average BAC, but does it make you die any sooner? You will die of blood loss eventually, and no matter what the BAC inside the organ is, it will not speed things up!
Those documents make a very interesting reading too, though you need a thaumic computer to get at them. It's a pain dealing with all the Out Of Cheese errors though...
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Judges and Prosecutors prevent jury pool from being informed of their right to disagree with the judge and the Rule of Law.
So the defense attorneys can't even inform the jurors? They should make public service announcements about this on broadcast TV, so that at least one jury in each trial is aware and can tell the others behind closed doors. And knows not mention it to the prosecution during the jury selection...
Get with the times, dude. Class action lawsuits are way more profitable!
PS - this is suppose to be FUNNY.
Well then, mission failed.
Will they give out a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry?
And once you download a game, you can make your own backups from within Steam just fine.
Wait, can you play those backups without launching Steam?
It is 2009. We are almost have 15 years of mass customer acceptance of the Web Browser. Why isn't the web at least at World of Warcraft level of graphics? Crysis level of graphics? Able to run super-pi? quickly?
How many gigs of textures do WoW and crysis have? You really think you could put that on a web page?
Seriously. Wake me up when they implement affinity or datavises.
Hell yeah, I wanna be a professional computer game player who gets payed big bucks for playing whatever game he chooses, regardless of how much he sucks at it.
Here you go. A strange choice for spider robots in the colon to be sure.
To me, AAA is more a measure of budget than anything else (not just Marketing budget though.)
But it will probably be in the Gold, or Platinum, or Diamond editions years down the road.
At my university back in 2003, several professors in the Computer Science Department fell for those "Windows Security Patch" attachments sent by email from the "Microsoft Security Department."
I'm ashamed to admit that I almost double-clicked the exe file myself before thinking better of it...
Yeah, that's Niven's early Known Space universe (I think the hydrogen scoop was abandoned after ships switched to hyperspace travel.)
How about Impulse Drive?
The DMCA REQUIRES the site to take down the offending content when they get the takedown notice.
So, can I create takedown notices for the videos that labels upload themselves?
How often do engineers need to write essays in real life? Now if this were a 500 word white paper. ...
Or should that be "If this was a 500 word white paper?" Eh, whatever.
I have won bullfights in San Juan
I wouldn't want anyone in my college who's into animal cruelty...
Replace "play games" with "read comics" and "watch movies." Those are all entertainment too, right? And when was the last time you saw one with a message....
But didn't we already know all that? What ways did they think the black hole's energy/mass could be utilized that are now ruled out? Seems all they're saying is "there is even less information we have about the insides of a black hole than we thought, and ignorance=entropy".
So the point with black holes is, they aren't sequestering entropy to keep it from harming the universe in some way (like your BAC example); if anything they sequester energy and keep it from interacting with the rest of the universe, rendering it useless.
If that's all it is, than basically what this article is saying is that "black holes account for 100 times more of the total mass of our universe than we thought", instead of "a black hole of a given mass has 100 times more entropy than we thought"? I can buy that. But then what does this have to do with "having no idea how stuff is arranged inside black holes?"
Could this Hawking Radiation be harnessed? That is, can it be considered as free energy as opposed to entropy?
Yeah, should've used "affect" instead of "effect" (preempting grammar nazis).
Sure there are other grammar errors tho.
FTA: A black hole is the entropy champ because there are myriad ways for all the material that has fallen into it to be arranged microscopically while the black hole retains the same numerical values for its observable properties -- charge, mass and spin.
So a black hole's entropy = "we don't know by looking what's inside"? How exactly does that contribute to the heat death of the universe? If there was a million times more entropy in black holes, how would it effect existance outside of black holes? Is there a background process constantly checking the total amount of entropy, ready to reboot the universe when it reaches an arbitrary level?
Example: blood alcohol content.
Sure, a .5% BAC is lethal, but only if its in the blood that circulates through your body. Say you had a large organ you do not use with its own blood flow, and occasionally a tiny bit of blood from your main blood stream enters that organ and is never seen again. And now you find out that the blood inside the organ gets converted to 200 proof alcohol. This messes with your average BAC, but does it make you die any sooner? You will die of blood loss eventually, and no matter what the BAC inside the organ is, it will not speed things up!
Or you could just look at the facts first instead of shooting from the hip.
Those documents make a very interesting reading too, though you need a thaumic computer to get at them. It's a pain dealing with all the Out Of Cheese errors though...