Would _accelerating_ through time be measured in seconds per second per second ?
I submit for you a proof that my CPU is accelerating through time: Your comment, that acceleration through time is seconds per second per second, states that acceleration is s/s/s=s/s^2=s^(-1)=Hz
My CPU is 2 GHz = 2x10^9/s = 2x10*9s/s^2, so my CPU accelerates through time at a rate of 2 billion seconds per second squared.
The bad news is that time does not change. Let's ignore this statement for now, as it's up for both scientific and philosophical debate.
Spatial velocity is given as dx/dt. Where x is a vector, not a scalar.
Velocity in time(dt/dt) is nonsensical. Well, besides the fact that dt/dt=1 (dt/dt = d[t]/dt = 1), dt/dt is NOT "velocity in time." Besides, velocity is a vector defined expressly in dealing with spatial (non-temporal) measurements. To use "velocity in time" requires a new definition of the word. In any case, the position in spacetime of a person may be expressed as a vector A(x,y,z,t). Thus, you would never take a derivative in that way; instead, we would have the partial derivative of A, which is A_t(x,y,z,t). This is not the same thing as dt/dt, and if you claim to know about this type of science, you'd better fucking know what a PDE is.
As simple as that. In other words, no time travel to the past or the future, no motion in space-time, no wormholes and no hanky-panky with your great, great grandmother. There is only the changing present, aka the NOW. The good news is that distance is an illusion and we'll be able to travel instantly from anywhere to anywhere. I honestly think this guy wrote some bullshit to prove that anything will get posted if it uses enough "science". It's like a junior high school student smoked some pot and read a physics textbook! "Hey, man. You know stars? Well, they're probably just like...mann....I'm so hiiiiigh..."
Also, the pricing is quite reasonable Indeed. When I lived in Japan I paid 30 bucks a month for a DSL connection that got 200KB/s up and who-knows-how-much down. Maybe 800KB/s down? I never saturated my connection to find out.
His disapproval may be enough to keep some developers from pursuing certain paths.
I don't know about that; I've never met a user nor a developer who held Cohen in such high regard. I don't mean to say he doesn't deserve to be, just that he is not.
That's what the network is like at U Texas. On-campus residents can choose between three weekly bandwidth plans at different prices. Then they do with the bandwidth as they wish (although they are not allowed to run webservers). The whippersnappers at my university are working on scripts right now to do bandwidth sharing: if you have extra bandwidth, there's supposed to be a group queue (the DC++ hub on campus is very organized, with a community-funded NetFlix account for ripping DVDs, for an example) that you put your torrent files in, and then everyone can donate whatever extra bandwidth they have at the last day of the metered week. This way, the bandwidth you pay for gets used, and eventually it will help you out as well as others.
Of course, they're still working on that one. I'd write it for them, but they're all a bunch of giant assholes. Like, IRC-support-for-Linux-as-proved-by-the-BOFH-level assholes.
since japanese only has 5 basic vowel sounds and no consonant clusters, it must be easier for the software to encode
But on the other hand, due to the limit amount of phonemes to choose from in Japanese, there are a ridiculous amount of homophones, and few hints as to where one word ends and one begins. Thus, the AI must be stronger. Unless of course, there are few enough phrases supported where it becomes a non-issue. I didn't RTFA, so I don't know.
I completely forgot to comment on two parts of the GP's post:
desu ka is like a verbalized period No, not at all. The "ka" is a question marker. It belongs only in interrogative sentences. However, GP's statement about "desu" being like "to be" is correct. It's called a copula.
The same word could be used to reference the self, another person, or an inanimate object Unless the GP means "verb", that's completely false. But I'm sure that's what GP meant, since he was talking about verbs and context clues.
The same word could be used to reference the self, another person, or an inanimate object
rootkit wa nani desu ka? Close. An accurate translation would be "ruutokitto [rootkit] wa nan desu ka." However, this sounds more like "What is a rootkit?" if you had already heard of one. I believe you would use this in a sense of...gosh, I can't explain it.. I think it would be more natural to say, "ruutokitto to iu no wa nan desu ka," which sounds more like, "The thing called "rootkit": what is it?" which carries the implication that you are just now hearing about a contraption called the "rootkit". It conveys more accurately the unfamiliarity with the idea.
Nani is roughly translated as what, but there's a few ways to say what. The only other word I can think of is "nan".
No. Microsoft was sued over code they included in their product that infringed a patent from 1994. OO.o is not affected, unless OO.o stole code from Microsoft;)
heck, in the distant past, there were societies that thought it quite normal to engage in sexual activity with children 1500 years ago isn't really the "distant past" in my opinion.
If burning sexually explicit images of children onto a previously blank CD isn't "making child porn," then what is? I'd say "making child porn" is taking the photographs yourself.
Otherwise, we get something like this, if I replace the nouns and what is in the quotes: If burning MP3s of Aerosmith onto a previously blank CD isn't "making music," then what is?.
Why do you care about the message the punishment sends? Is the punishment a deterrent for the commission of the crime? Because if a pedophile knows that raping a child will get her the same punishment as downloading child porn, she might just choose to go do the thing that gives her the greater high -- actually raping a child.
In this country we have a judicial system that is based on the prevention of crime, not retribution. If you are talking about the US, you could be wrong. As legal theory goes, there are generally few reasons for punishment: 1)retribution/revenge -- we are morally bound to punish wrongdoing/lawbreaking OR the person "deserves it" and we should "get even" 2)local deterrence ("reform") -- the punished person will not commit the crime again 3)global deterrence ("protection of the state") -- no one will commit the crime because of fear of punishment 4)incapacitation -- the person cannot commit the crime due to incarceration
You may also consider a different set of similar reasons:
6. The Purposes of Punishment: 3 to 5 purposes are traditionally cited:
a) reform or rehabilitation
b) incapacitation
c) general deterrence and/or the securing of social peace
d) retribution
Or these:
First, they review four traditional arguments justifying capital punishment[:] retribution, deterrence, reform and protection of the State.
The US system is largely based on #1 only -- retribution is the just reason for prosecution and punishment. As I am not a lawyer (yet), I do not consider myself an authority on the subject, but I have had law professors lead me through this concept before, and they have all come to the same conclusion -- the US system of justice is based largely upon retribution.
One such example that Western justice systems serve the purpose of retribution is the Nuremberg courts. It is pretty obvious that there is no method of deterring dictators from committing crimes against humanity. Thus, Nuremberg did not occur for #3. There was also no need to make sure the men on trial were prevented from committing the same crimes again -- it was virtually impossible for them to rise to that level of power and instigate another Holocaust. Thus, #2 as well was not a reason (similarly #4 was not a reason). That leaves retribution.
Some information about which I speak:
1 - It is to be remembered that one of the primary reasons for the law's existence, indeed the state's existence, is that people are to be relieved of their need to strike out against those who have wronged them. Not to argue the rights or wrongs of it; it is entirely natural for an individual, when injured or harmed by another or others, to seek revenge and retribution.
OK, I'm sure that I've sufficiently lost any reader, as I've lost myself in all this HTML mark-up I've done in this comment, mixed with the myriad of sources I've drawn from here. You can forget this comment ever existed, or you can use it as a springboard into more information on theory of punishment ("penology"). It really is quite fascinating.
I was always partial to the old Mad TV sketch, Sex Toy Story with Buzz Lighttouch (a vibrator) and Woody (a BDSM doll). Unfortunately, the only image I could find has neither of the aforementioned characters. But there is an inflatable woman in the picture.
I have a HP Workstation [and] changing from one network to another is a 10-minute process involving multiple "coffee breaks".
If you have a workstation, why do you have to change networks? Do you use your neighbors' connections instead of your own? I could understand this problem on laptops, but not on workstations!
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where little orange men are packing new iMacs into crates marked Nigeria... And you see a bunch of black guys opening these boxes after flashing their IDs -- all identical -- claiming to be Prince Mboto, and praising their God for the opportunity to connect with someone and save their vast family fortunes by transferring them into bank accounts of nice Americans.
So maybe Jobs thinks he can get in and infect Disney with Pixarness and save it. Maybe he just wants to cash out and do something else, and figures he can sell 14% of Disney a lot easier than he can sell half of Pixer.
I actually think both of those reasons would make this action illegal, just like the explanation that Jobs is selling Pixar to Disney in order to get in good with Disney and convince them to sell their movies on iTunes. This would also be illegal, I'd bet.
Proof that IRC is the true haven for nerds, and Direct Connect is not: my university's DC server had literally ZERO out of over 100 people on it that caught that reference when I made it a couple of months ago.
But wouldn't RSS imply the ability to display HTML as well? Not necessarily. RSS is a specific XML format. HTML is a different format. RSS doesn't necessarily have to carry HTML links at all; for example, podcasts are RSS feeds which contain links to audio files. Sony could be planning on RSS feeds existing which contain links to eBook files of samples of upcoming books or something like that (kind of like what Penguin Books is doing now with audio feeds of upcoming books -- like teasers!)
Why would the publishers down the prices of the books because of they wouldn't have paper?
Because downloading copies of these eBooks is just too easy. It's the same reason the recording industry is allowing iTunes sales; no matter how they fight it, there's not much choice. Isn't that what we're always saying on/.: "Give us a cheap, easy-to-use product, and we'll buy it!"?
to many people were graduating without knowing basic programming
Computer Science isn't all about programming -- "computer programming" is a subarea within CS in the manner that rings are a subarea of mathematics. Hell, I've heard that they won't do faculty vs. student coding competitions for fun at UT because half the CS faculty at the University of Texas (ranked 7 for CS schools) couldn't code to save their lives. CS is about recursion theory, computability and algorithm design and analysis. It is language independent and being a CS major should not imply that you can code. Coding is a technical skill better acquired at a trade school. Any monkey can code. Only a good CS student can understand automata theory.
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Would _accelerating_ through time be measured in seconds per second per second ?
I submit for you a proof that my CPU is accelerating through time:
Your comment, that acceleration through time is seconds per second per second, states that acceleration is s/s/s=s/s^2=s^(-1)=Hz
My CPU is 2 GHz = 2x10^9/s = 2x10*9s/s^2, so my CPU accelerates through time at a rate of 2 billion seconds per second squared.
Seriously, what the fuck is Taco smoking.
The bad news is that time does not change.
Let's ignore this statement for now, as it's up for both scientific and philosophical debate.
Spatial velocity is given as dx/dt.
Where x is a vector, not a scalar.
Velocity in time(dt/dt) is nonsensical.
Well, besides the fact that dt/dt=1 (dt/dt = d[t]/dt = 1), dt/dt is NOT "velocity in time." Besides, velocity is a vector defined expressly in dealing with spatial (non-temporal) measurements. To use "velocity in time" requires a new definition of the word. In any case, the position in spacetime of a person may be expressed as a vector A(x,y,z,t). Thus, you would never take a derivative in that way; instead, we would have the partial derivative of A, which is A_t(x,y,z,t). This is not the same thing as dt/dt, and if you claim to know about this type of science, you'd better fucking know what a PDE is.
As simple as that. In other words, no time travel to the past or the future, no motion in space-time, no wormholes and no hanky-panky with your great, great grandmother. There is only the changing present, aka the NOW. The good news is that distance is an illusion and we'll be able to travel instantly from anywhere to anywhere.
I honestly think this guy wrote some bullshit to prove that anything will get posted if it uses enough "science". It's like a junior high school student smoked some pot and read a physics textbook! "Hey, man. You know stars? Well, they're probably just like...mann....I'm so hiiiiigh..."
Also, the pricing is quite reasonable
Indeed. When I lived in Japan I paid 30 bucks a month for a DSL connection that got 200KB/s up and who-knows-how-much down. Maybe 800KB/s down? I never saturated my connection to find out.
His disapproval may be enough to keep some developers from pursuing certain paths.
I don't know about that; I've never met a user nor a developer who held Cohen in such high regard. I don't mean to say he doesn't deserve to be, just that he is not.
That's what the network is like at U Texas. On-campus residents can choose between three weekly bandwidth plans at different prices. Then they do with the bandwidth as they wish (although they are not allowed to run webservers). The whippersnappers at my university are working on scripts right now to do bandwidth sharing: if you have extra bandwidth, there's supposed to be a group queue (the DC++ hub on campus is very organized, with a community-funded NetFlix account for ripping DVDs, for an example) that you put your torrent files in, and then everyone can donate whatever extra bandwidth they have at the last day of the metered week. This way, the bandwidth you pay for gets used, and eventually it will help you out as well as others.
Of course, they're still working on that one. I'd write it for them, but they're all a bunch of giant assholes. Like, IRC-support-for-Linux-as-proved-by-the-BOFH-level assholes.
since japanese only has 5 basic vowel sounds and no consonant clusters, it must be easier for the software to encode
But on the other hand, due to the limit amount of phonemes to choose from in Japanese, there are a ridiculous amount of homophones, and few hints as to where one word ends and one begins. Thus, the AI must be stronger. Unless of course, there are few enough phrases supported where it becomes a non-issue. I didn't RTFA, so I don't know.
Rootkit ga doko desu ka?
Make that "wa" instead of "ga", and you've got yourself a deal. Assuming you meant, "Where is the rootkit?"
I completely forgot to comment on two parts of the GP's post:
desu ka is like a verbalized period
No, not at all. The "ka" is a question marker. It belongs only in interrogative sentences. However, GP's statement about "desu" being like "to be" is correct. It's called a copula.
The same word could be used to reference the self, another person, or an inanimate object
Unless the GP means "verb", that's completely false. But I'm sure that's what GP meant, since he was talking about verbs and context clues.
desu ka is like a verbalized period
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The same word could be used to reference the self, another person, or an inanimate object
rootkit wa nani desu ka?
Close. An accurate translation would be "ruutokitto [rootkit] wa nan desu ka." However, this sounds more like "What is a rootkit?" if you had already heard of one. I believe you would use this in a sense of...gosh, I can't explain it.. I think it would be more natural to say, "ruutokitto to iu no wa nan desu ka," which sounds more like, "The thing called "rootkit": what is it?" which carries the implication that you are just now hearing about a contraption called the "rootkit". It conveys more accurately the unfamiliarity with the idea.
Nani is roughly translated as what, but there's a few ways to say what.
The only other word I can think of is "nan".
But anyways, I'm going to bed. G'night,
US$100 until April 2. After that, the price will go up an unspecified amount. That is too much for 3 keys. Next, please.
Wow, the sarcasm airplane just flew right over your head.
No. Microsoft was sued over code they included in their product that infringed a patent from 1994. OO.o is not affected, unless OO.o stole code from Microsoft ;)
heck, in the distant past, there were societies that thought it quite normal to engage in sexual activity with children
1500 years ago isn't really the "distant past" in my opinion.
If burning sexually explicit images of children onto a previously blank CD isn't "making child porn," then what is?
I'd say "making child porn" is taking the photographs yourself.
Otherwise, we get something like this, if I replace the nouns and what is in the quotes:
If burning MP3s of Aerosmith onto a previously blank CD isn't "making music," then what is?.
Because if a pedophile knows that raping a child will get her the same punishment as downloading child porn, she might just choose to go do the thing that gives her the greater high -- actually raping a child.
In this country we have a judicial system that is based on the prevention of crime, not retribution.
If you are talking about the US, you could be wrong. As legal theory goes, there are generally few reasons for punishment:
1)retribution/revenge -- we are morally bound to punish wrongdoing/lawbreaking OR the person "deserves it" and we should "get even"
2)local deterrence ("reform") -- the punished person will not commit the crime again
3)global deterrence ("protection of the state") -- no one will commit the crime because of fear of punishment
4)incapacitation -- the person cannot commit the crime due to incarceration
You may also consider a different set of similar reasons:
Or these:
The US system is largely based on #1 only -- retribution is the just reason for prosecution and punishment. As I am not a lawyer (yet), I do not consider myself an authority on the subject, but I have had law professors lead me through this concept before, and they have all come to the same conclusion -- the US system of justice is based largely upon retribution.
One such example that Western justice systems serve the purpose of retribution is the Nuremberg courts. It is pretty obvious that there is no method of deterring dictators from committing crimes against humanity. Thus, Nuremberg did not occur for #3. There was also no need to make sure the men on trial were prevented from committing the same crimes again -- it was virtually impossible for them to rise to that level of power and instigate another Holocaust. Thus, #2 as well was not a reason (similarly #4 was not a reason). That leaves retribution.
Some information about which I speak:
OK, I'm sure that I've sufficiently lost any reader, as I've lost myself in all this HTML mark-up I've done in this comment, mixed with the myriad of sources I've drawn from here. You can forget this comment ever existed, or you can use it as a springboard into more information on theory of punishment ("penology"). It really is quite fascinating.
I was always partial to the old Mad TV sketch, Sex Toy Story with Buzz Lighttouch (a vibrator) and Woody (a BDSM doll). Unfortunately, the only image I could find has neither of the aforementioned characters. But there is an inflatable woman in the picture.
Who could ask for more out of Disney?
I have a HP Workstation [and] changing from one network to another is a 10-minute process involving multiple "coffee breaks".
If you have a workstation, why do you have to change networks? Do you use your neighbors' connections instead of your own? I could understand this problem on laptops, but not on workstations!
Roy resigned.
where little orange men are packing new iMacs into crates marked Nigeria...
And you see a bunch of black guys opening these boxes after flashing their IDs -- all identical -- claiming to be Prince Mboto, and praising their God for the opportunity to connect with someone and save their vast family fortunes by transferring them into bank accounts of nice Americans.
So maybe Jobs thinks he can get in and infect Disney with Pixarness and save it.
Maybe he just wants to cash out and do something else, and figures he can sell 14% of Disney a lot easier than he can sell half of Pixer.
I actually think both of those reasons would make this action illegal, just like the explanation that Jobs is selling Pixar to Disney in order to get in good with Disney and convince them to sell their movies on iTunes. This would also be illegal, I'd bet.
DO NOT WANT
Proof that IRC is the true haven for nerds, and Direct Connect is not: my university's DC server had literally ZERO out of over 100 people on it that caught that reference when I made it a couple of months ago.
Well, because it was "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," I'm pretty sure Darth Vader beat you to it.
But wouldn't RSS imply the ability to display HTML as well?
Not necessarily. RSS is a specific XML format. HTML is a different format. RSS doesn't necessarily have to carry HTML links at all; for example, podcasts are RSS feeds which contain links to audio files. Sony could be planning on RSS feeds existing which contain links to eBook files of samples of upcoming books or something like that (kind of like what Penguin Books is doing now with audio feeds of upcoming books -- like teasers!)
Why would the publishers down the prices of the books because of they wouldn't have paper?
/.: "Give us a cheap, easy-to-use product, and we'll buy it!"?
Because downloading copies of these eBooks is just too easy. It's the same reason the recording industry is allowing iTunes sales; no matter how they fight it, there's not much choice. Isn't that what we're always saying on
to many people were graduating without knowing basic programming
Computer Science isn't all about programming -- "computer programming" is a subarea within CS in the manner that rings are a subarea of mathematics. Hell, I've heard that they won't do faculty vs. student coding competitions for fun at UT because half the CS faculty at the University of Texas (ranked 7 for CS schools) couldn't code to save their lives. CS is about recursion theory, computability and algorithm design and analysis. It is language independent and being a CS major should not imply that you can code. Coding is a technical skill better acquired at a trade school. Any monkey can code. Only a good CS student can understand automata theory.