Ah yes, what are the chances of some random nerd seeing a documentary about something that will turn up as a story on/. Given enough nerds, actually close to 100%...
(Not to bash on you, but coincidence is often overrated)
What we see here is a clear display of memory and intelligence in fish.
Memory? Probably some.
Intelligence? Inconclusive. This could just be evolved behaviour. Each time it picks up a clam it gets the instinctive urge to bang it against some hard surface.
Ants, for example, do some complex tasks, but their nervous system is hardwired to do them.
Nonsense. Evolution can be easily demonstrated in the lab by observing viruses of bacteria for several generations. Or where did you think the next influenza strain comes from each year?
As you said, hidden variables have been proven to not exist (Bell's Inequality).
But what you proposed earlier (that the particles have a defined state from the start, we just don't know what it is until we measure it) implies just that: a hidden variable.
If one calculates the probabilities for an experiment with these unknown state particles, and superimposed ones, then one gets two different results. Experimental results do not agree with the first, but fit perfectly with the second.
So, even though superposition is weird/spooky, it seems to be an accurate description for reality.
There's some even weirder stuff, like delayed choice experiments that can only be explained with quantum spookyness.
I think the bigger problem with his system is that it would only work if all the source material was kept on the same server. Or at least if there was a common document provider to serve it.
The way the web works today doesn't allow this. Sure, you could fetch some text part from a remote server somewhere, but what if that site goes down? Or what if your document contains 100 snippets from 100 servers? Just imagine the load times.
At least now, when presented with a hyperlink, the user has an expectation that it might be broken, but even then the locally stored text remains accessible.
But it won't be truly convincing (and thus headache-free) until we fully reconstruct the three-dimensional light-field that should properly be emanating from the virtual objects.
A big part of the problem is that your inner ear stays motionless while the 3D movie/game depicts motion. Most people's brains have difficulties processing those conflicting information streams, resulting in motion sickness (headache, nausea).
So even holographic 3D would be problematic once it starts moving...
No. Their motivations are much simpler than that. They just want to sell more of their expensive scanner equipment (along with some equally expensive maintenance contracts).
This whole security theatre only exists for the sole purpose of diverting tax money to the pockets of already whealthy business owners (major shareholders of large corporations).
I kept a plastic bottle of ethanol solvent in an unplugged fridge (using it as a cupboard) a few years ago.
The bottle was sealed, but leaked trace amounts of gaseous ethanol.
So every time I opened that fridge, I was treated by this typical strong sweetish odor which I learned to associate with ethanol.
In fact, I had smelled that same odor already years before that when we distilled alcohol from wine during a chemistry practicum.
I have no idea if it's actually the odor of pure ethanol, or perhaps some natural breakdown product of it, but it's a very distinct odor nevertheless.
And it's very different from other alcohols.
We were surprised by our results because the ATM machines were shown to be heavily contaminated with bacteria
How is this surprising? It has been known for years that keyboards/mice are the dirtiest objects you can find in the house/office.
And these are basically the public variant of that, used by all, and cleaned by none...
3. You still have to provide the source to those who want it.
But only to those who received a binary (from them directly or via third parties).
And only within the first 3 years of (each individual) distribution.
there is a reason why they are that flat, and uniform. there is something grinding the stones to sand.
The variation in a planet's crust (from mountains to trenches) are tiny compared to it's diameter (less than a percent).
Sure atmospheric conditions contribute a bit by grinding down mountains a mile or two, but most of the flatness of rocky planets is caused by gravity and hydrostatic equilibrium.
Meaning that molten rock tried to form a spheroid (a bit bulgy at the equator due to rotational forces), similar to how water tends to form a drop (though the main force there is cohesion/electrostatic instead of gravity).
Smaller asteroids or moons never got enough mass to generate the needed internal pressure to fully melt their internals, so they have more irregular shapes.
Copyright owners can only revoke a license as stipulated by the terms of the license.
Basically if a licensee breaks the terms of the license, then the licensor can revoke the license. Some licenses like the GPL contain terms that automatically revoke the license when terms are broken.
TransGaming is legally "in the right", since the BSD license basically means "Do whatever you want with the code, even close it up and sell it, just leave the license header in the sources". That may not have been what the Wine developers intended people to do with the code, but that's the license they released it with. No good reason to whine about it.
How do you propose that pilots figure out what the "true" cardinal direction is as they approach the airport?
With a heading indicator, which is basically a gyroscope and keeps track of true north.
GPS is another posibility.
Of course one would be wise to keep a simple magnetic compass nearby for emergencies...
By itself it doesn't bother me, even feels natural.
But on occasion it causes headaches. For example, I often use gtalk to pass small code snippets to colleague developers. The annoying thing with gtalk is that is eats leading whitespace. For C-like snippets you can just reformat the code. With Python code, this obviously doesn't work. The same thing sometimes happens on other occasions, for example while posting Python code on the web.
Also, mixing tabs and spaces for indenting can sometimes produce code that looks to do one thing, but does something completely different (especially if tab size is variable).
Copying code from a file/colleague that uses a different indentation style is another headaache.
These things can be worked around, but they're annoying non the less.
I have seen people speaking Chinese resort to air-writing characters on multiple occasions.
That's probably because although people from different regions use the same written language, they pronounce the characters completely differently.
This is similar to strong regional dialects (although with much greater differences).
Spoken Chinese actually comprises of four major regional varieties: Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, and Min. These are basically different languages that just happen to be written down exactly the same. So when people from these regions meet, they often use writing to do the translating.
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So it was in fact their DNS server that linked to the offending materials then?
Actually, most of them would easily defeat the immune system. But they evolved not to do so, since a dead host doesn't make a good vector...
Ah yes, what are the chances of some random nerd seeing a documentary about something that will turn up as a story on /. ...
Given enough nerds, actually close to 100%
(Not to bash on you, but coincidence is often overrated)
Memory? Probably some.
Intelligence? Inconclusive. This could just be evolved behaviour. Each time it picks up a clam it gets the instinctive urge to bang it against some hard surface.
Ants, for example, do some complex tasks, but their nervous system is hardwired to do them.
* ahem * "die Hindenburg"
Which is renamed to Firebird of course...
Nonsense. Evolution can be easily demonstrated in the lab by observing viruses of bacteria for several generations. Or where did you think the next influenza strain comes from each year?
As you said, hidden variables have been proven to not exist (Bell's Inequality).
But what you proposed earlier (that the particles have a defined state from the start, we just don't know what it is until we measure it) implies just that: a hidden variable.
If one calculates the probabilities for an experiment with these unknown state particles, and superimposed ones, then one gets two different results. Experimental results do not agree with the first, but fit perfectly with the second.
So, even though superposition is weird/spooky, it seems to be an accurate description for reality.
There's some even weirder stuff, like delayed choice experiments that can only be explained with quantum spookyness.
I think the bigger problem with his system is that it would only work if all the source material was kept on the same server. Or at least if there was a common document provider to serve it.
The way the web works today doesn't allow this. Sure, you could fetch some text part from a remote server somewhere, but what if that site goes down? Or what if your document contains 100 snippets from 100 servers? Just imagine the load times.
At least now, when presented with a hyperlink, the user has an expectation that it might be broken, but even then the locally stored text remains accessible.
And then we didn't even mention copyrights...
No. String is immutable. It contains some methods that return an altered copy though.
A big part of the problem is that your inner ear stays motionless while the 3D movie/game depicts motion. Most people's brains have difficulties processing those conflicting information streams, resulting in motion sickness (headache, nausea).
So even holographic 3D would be problematic once it starts moving...
By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!
This whole security theatre only exists for the sole purpose of diverting tax money to the pockets of already whealthy business owners (major shareholders of large corporations).
You might want to take a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-97N6jNKb4
Just use dosbox...
I kept a plastic bottle of ethanol solvent in an unplugged fridge (using it as a cupboard) a few years ago.
The bottle was sealed, but leaked trace amounts of gaseous ethanol.
So every time I opened that fridge, I was treated by this typical strong sweetish odor which I learned to associate with ethanol.
In fact, I had smelled that same odor already years before that when we distilled alcohol from wine during a chemistry practicum.
I have no idea if it's actually the odor of pure ethanol, or perhaps some natural breakdown product of it, but it's a very distinct odor nevertheless.
And it's very different from other alcohols.
How is this surprising? It has been known for years that keyboards/mice are the dirtiest objects you can find in the house/office.
And these are basically the public variant of that, used by all, and cleaned by none...
But only to those who received a binary (from them directly or via third parties).
And only within the first 3 years of (each individual) distribution.
The variation in a planet's crust (from mountains to trenches) are tiny compared to it's diameter (less than a percent).
Sure atmospheric conditions contribute a bit by grinding down mountains a mile or two, but most of the flatness of rocky planets is caused by gravity and hydrostatic equilibrium.
Meaning that molten rock tried to form a spheroid (a bit bulgy at the equator due to rotational forces), similar to how water tends to form a drop (though the main force there is cohesion/electrostatic instead of gravity).
Smaller asteroids or moons never got enough mass to generate the needed internal pressure to fully melt their internals, so they have more irregular shapes.
Relative to it's diameter, yes, it is flat. Though it's a bit rougher than earth's crust.
Copyright owners can only revoke a license as stipulated by the terms of the license.
Basically if a licensee breaks the terms of the license, then the licensor can revoke the license.
Some licenses like the GPL contain terms that automatically revoke the license when terms are broken.
TransGaming is legally "in the right", since the BSD license basically means "Do whatever you want with the code, even close it up and sell it, just leave the license header in the sources".
That may not have been what the Wine developers intended people to do with the code, but that's the license they released it with. No good reason to whine about it.
With a heading indicator, which is basically a gyroscope and keeps track of true north.
GPS is another posibility.
Of course one would be wise to keep a simple magnetic compass nearby for emergencies...
If that's indeed the same issue, then a workaround would be to delete all draft messages before sending an SMS to a new recipient.
By itself it doesn't bother me, even feels natural.
But on occasion it causes headaches. For example, I often use gtalk to pass small code snippets to colleague developers. The annoying thing with gtalk is that is eats leading whitespace. For C-like snippets you can just reformat the code. With Python code, this obviously doesn't work. The same thing sometimes happens on other occasions, for example while posting Python code on the web.
Also, mixing tabs and spaces for indenting can sometimes produce code that looks to do one thing, but does something completely different (especially if tab size is variable).
Copying code from a file/colleague that uses a different indentation style is another headaache.
These things can be worked around, but they're annoying non the less.
That's probably because although people from different regions use the same written language, they pronounce the characters completely differently.
This is similar to strong regional dialects (although with much greater differences).
Spoken Chinese actually comprises of four major regional varieties: Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, and Min. These are basically different languages that just happen to be written down exactly the same. So when people from these regions meet, they often use writing to do the translating.