Well, they modeled the batter using random numbers and their player stats. The problem is that real people don't behave deterministically. They might hit better on their birthday, or when it was a clear sky the night before the game, just because they believe that (baseball players are extremely superstitious). The model doesn't take into account that some player might get psyched out by a certain number (and always screw up on the 13th consecutive hit), or just by the pressure of wanting to break the record. It doesn't take into account the pitcher, weather conditions, and a lot of other things that matter to real people but not to computers.
You might be able to model some long term behavior that way, but never the short term stuff, because the model is too simplified (man versus dice).
Probably not. But it doesn't cost them to try. A lot of EULAs have never been tried in a court of law. They just exist to scare the end user into doing what they want.
But they will never enforce this. They can never prove you downloaded the same binary twice or just copied it locally.
All matter vibrates, and usually at a much higher frequency. It's called temperature. The reason larger structures break, is because they often contain tiny flaws in their structure (crystal lattice) that get bigger with each bend. The smaller the structure, the less probable there is a flaw. And the silicon wafers are a single crystal to begin with.
I's be more worried about frequency drift because of thermal fluctuations.
Yeah, it's madness. Basically they want you to download a fresh copy of the Reader installer each time you install it. In a corporate environment, this makes no sense (downloading an identical binary for each computer and user). At home, it makes even less sense, because if you install it on several of your own computers, it is not redistributing.
the destination was changed to Jupiter for the sake of a shorter running time.
Actually, the reason Jupiter was used in the movie was because special effects at the time were too crude too give a realistic image of the rings around Saturn.
on the other hand, maybe a lot of religion would go away once people realize that We're Not Special
One can hope so, but I seriously doubt it. One cannot convert a fanatic believer. They will just deny, ignore, or destroy the evidence. We have much more evidence on evolution than on ETI, and still there are people that believe the earth was created in one week some six thousand years ago.
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You might be able to model some long term behavior that way, but never the short term stuff, because the model is too simplified (man versus dice).
Because baseball players aren't dice?
But they will never enforce this. They can never prove you downloaded the same binary twice or just copied it locally.
I's be more worried about frequency drift because of thermal fluctuations.
Yeah, it's madness.
Basically they want you to download a fresh copy of the Reader installer each time you install it.
In a corporate environment, this makes no sense (downloading an identical binary for each computer and user).
At home, it makes even less sense, because if you install it on several of your own computers, it is not redistributing.
Surely you mean Darth Mother?
Seems like someone found it...
I'm afraid there is something wrong with your Whitespace program. When I ran it through an interpreter, it generated a stack overflow...
Man, I had to google that before I got it.
Yes, and we'll name it SkyNet...
:) (sorry, I stopped modding long time ago. Consider this +1 Funny)
That, and people are more likely to remember 'My' than 'Postgre'.
Or, on the plane, shout to an old acquaintance who's a few rows farther:
"HI JACK!"
(Joke taken from Scott Adams' Dilbert)
Or worse, if they make a movie of that...
oh, wait...
A laser spectrometer can do this for you. It will still create microscopic damage though.
Not that hard, is it? Seems even simpler than in Objective-C...
And to think the spiders are saying the same thing about us...
Be careful: 300mg is enough to kill an elephant.