My father told me once that he doesn't bother to check the mirror when changing lanes when he's 95% sure that there's no car there. I asked him what happens the 5% of the time that he's wrong (not even taking into account the fact that people suck at estimating probabilities.)
It's common sense, really, If you're gonna be staring at a character's backside for 16 hours a day, wouldn't you prefer it to be an attractive backside of whatever gender that suits your personal orientation?
The popularity of the undead may seem a bit disturbing, but hey, as long as you're not hurting anyone (living), I couldn't care less what your fetishes are.
I'm sure contests like this are lots of fun, but for this to be a serious contest, either the programmers need to come up with a single bot that can adjust its style of play, or we find a human with split personalities that are all expert poker players with different styles.
I thought top-tier players were supposed to be able to change up their game style at the drop of a hat in order to prevent others from reading them?
It's not just cell radiation, it's electricity in general!!!! These electro-magnetic waves interfere with your thinking and kill your fornits!!!!! How else do you explain the idiocy that happens around the world wherever electricity appears?????!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now if you excuse me, I gotta call the cable, telephone, and power companies and cancel my services.
Personally I think of Islam as currently being in the place where Christianity was hundreds of years ago. You know - crusades, inquisitions, witch hunts, and all that other neat stuff.
Given my financial situation, I would not even think of buying a car for more than $20k. If I could press a button and have a $300k Ferrari magically appear in front of me, I'd do it. Does that mean a $300k loss for the manufacturer?
That's at the basis of education: enabling you to think with your own mind.
It depends on the education. Quite often education is enabling you to think what the people in charge of the education want you to think. Especially when religion and/or nationalism are involved.
You are making a fundamental assumption - that these children are able to think for themselves. Face it, they are not. They can be *influenced* by things, rather than influence them, either passively, or actively. This is (also obviously) because they aren't adults yet.
You are making a fundamental assumption - that when children become adults they start thinking for themselves.
Better yet, why not get rid of hyperlinking and copy-paste functionality while we're at it? If the user really wants to go to a site, he should have no problem typing in the URL.
I'm not sure myself, but I think it was a different sort of space-suit that they used to fly around the Treesphere (didn't it give them solar wings as well?) from the skinsuits. The skinsuits wouldn't have been invented for thousands of years anyway. If the Outers had had that kind of technology in Endymion's time, they wouldn't have needed to worry about the Pax.
The Bell Inequality proves that there are no hidden variables. Get over it. Quantum mechanics is counterintuitive. Your standpoint is like Einstein's, and he was refuted.
Why don't you read a bit further in the very article you linked to.
As I understand it (without RTFA:)), it's a bit like this:
If photons aren't measured, a stream of them will form an interference pattern. Once you start measuring them, the interference pattern disappears, as soon as the photons you are measuring get to the screen. If you split each photon in the stream into two, and direct the resulting streams at different screens, measuring the photons of any one stream will stop the interference pattern of the other stream. So by watching the interference pattern at one screen you should be able to find out with rather high probability whether or not the photons are being measured at the other stream, no matter how far apart the screen for stream A is from the measuring device of stream B.
I understand what you're saying. But to me personally, determinism makes far more sense than true randomness, and if it means FTL communication, so be it. I also have full confidence that FTL communication and even travel are possible, whether through entanglement or wormholes or whatever. Maybe I'm just an optimist:)
Maybe they're somewhat realistic, but the odds are a bit off. If a butterfly flapping it's wings can start a hurricane on the other side of the world, there's no reason that a spearman throwing a spear can't sink a battleship nearby.
From the linked wikipedia article: Physicists such as Alain Aspect and Paul Kwiat have performed experiments that have found violations of these inequalities up 242 standard deviations[3](excellent scientific certainty). This rules out local hidden variable theories, but does not rule out non local ones. In addition, recently, the Bell theorem itself is criticized because of the Bell test loopholes.
Nonsense. Million-to-one chances occur nine times out of ten!
Only if the odds are exactly million-to-one. If it's million-and-one-to-one or nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-nin ety-nine-to-one, you're screwed.
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Cool, you have the Java Toaster too?
My father told me once that he doesn't bother to check the mirror when changing lanes when he's 95% sure that there's no car there. I asked him what happens the 5% of the time that he's wrong (not even taking into account the fact that people suck at estimating probabilities.)
It's common sense, really, If you're gonna be staring at a character's backside for 16 hours a day, wouldn't you prefer it to be an attractive backside of whatever gender that suits your personal orientation?
The popularity of the undead may seem a bit disturbing, but hey, as long as you're not hurting anyone (living), I couldn't care less what your fetishes are.
I'm sure Pamela's rack has gotten her way more than $1.3 mil.
Attempted IP infringement, now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry?
It's not Karl Rove, it's Dick Cheney. He remodeled a Saturn V rocket into an outhouse and wants some privacy.
I'm sure contests like this are lots of fun, but for this to be a serious contest, either the programmers need to come up with a single bot that can adjust its style of play, or we find a human with split personalities that are all expert poker players with different styles.
I thought top-tier players were supposed to be able to change up their game style at the drop of a hat in order to prevent others from reading them?
It's not just cell radiation, it's electricity in general!!!! These electro-magnetic waves interfere with your thinking and kill your fornits!!!!! How else do you explain the idiocy that happens around the world wherever electricity appears?????!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now if you excuse me, I gotta call the cable, telephone, and power companies and cancel my services.
Personally I think of Islam as currently being in the place where Christianity was hundreds of years ago. You know - crusades, inquisitions, witch hunts, and all that other neat stuff.
And the most important question - Are you doing it through a hole in a sheet?
Given my financial situation, I would not even think of buying a car for more than $20k. If I could press a button and have a $300k Ferrari magically appear in front of me, I'd do it. Does that mean a $300k loss for the manufacturer?
I'm curious whether a this 3.33GHz Celeron D w/512MB RAM system can run Vista Basic at even the same speed that a P3-600 could run Win2k.
That's at the basis of education: enabling you to think with your own mind.
It depends on the education. Quite often education is enabling you to think what the people in charge of the education want you to think. Especially when religion and/or nationalism are involved.
You are making a fundamental assumption - that these children are able to think for themselves. Face it, they are not. They can be *influenced* by things, rather than influence them, either passively, or actively. This is (also obviously) because they aren't adults yet.
You are making a fundamental assumption - that when children become adults they start thinking for themselves.
Better yet, why not get rid of hyperlinking and copy-paste functionality while we're at it? If the user really wants to go to a site, he should have no problem typing in the URL.
Not only that, but there are free XW:A mods out there that vastly improve the graphics. Just don't attempt to play them on a Pentium 3.
I'm not sure myself, but I think it was a different sort of space-suit that they used to fly around the Treesphere (didn't it give them solar wings as well?) from the skinsuits. The skinsuits wouldn't have been invented for thousands of years anyway. If the Outers had had that kind of technology in Endymion's time, they wouldn't have needed to worry about the Pax.
a) That's a really depressing thought. If the dice throws are predetermined, then so is your entire life.
Is a predetermined life more depressing than a random life? Free will is an illusion either way.
b) Many people want that to be true, yet somehow your personal take on it scores a 5 for interesting.
Yeah, that surprised me too, though a point of that is probably the karma modifier.
The Bell Inequality proves that there are no hidden variables. Get over it. Quantum mechanics is counterintuitive. Your standpoint is like Einstein's, and he was refuted.
Why don't you read a bit further in the very article you linked to.
As I understand it (without RTFA :)), it's a bit like this:
If photons aren't measured, a stream of them will form an interference pattern. Once you start measuring them, the interference pattern disappears, as soon as the photons you are measuring get to the screen. If you split each photon in the stream into two, and direct the resulting streams at different screens, measuring the photons of any one stream will stop the interference pattern of the other stream. So by watching the interference pattern at one screen you should be able to find out with rather high probability whether or not the photons are being measured at the other stream, no matter how far apart the screen for stream A is from the measuring device of stream B.
I understand what you're saying. But to me personally, determinism makes far more sense than true randomness, and if it means FTL communication, so be it. I also have full confidence that FTL communication and even travel are possible, whether through entanglement or wormholes or whatever. Maybe I'm just an optimist :)
Maybe they're somewhat realistic, but the odds are a bit off. If a butterfly flapping it's wings can start a hurricane on the other side of the world, there's no reason that a spearman throwing a spear can't sink a battleship nearby.
From the linked wikipedia article: Physicists such as Alain Aspect and Paul Kwiat have performed experiments that have found violations of these inequalities up 242 standard deviations[3](excellent scientific certainty). This rules out local hidden variable theories, but does not rule out non local ones. In addition, recently, the Bell theorem itself is criticized because of the Bell test loopholes.
Nonsense. Million-to-one chances occur nine times out of ten!
n ety-nine-to-one, you're screwed.
Only if the odds are exactly million-to-one. If it's million-and-one-to-one or nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ni
What about the multi-universe theory? As soon as you change the outcome, you've split off into a different timeline.