Spanish and Portuguese are substantially similar. Speaking competent Spanish is generally enough to understand the basic idea of written Portuguese. Speaking as one who speaks passable Spanish, his translation looks pretty spot on. In Spanish it would just be:
Cuando no puedes competir, tu lo declaras abierto. Eso mascaras tu incompetencia.
I leave finding the similarities as an exercise to the reader.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
-Ecclesiastes 1:9
You think there's nothing new since that was written?
The only thing that never really changes is that people think like that.
There isn't anything new. People live and die, get greedy, hurt each other, fall in love, get jealous, eat and breathe. Fundamentally nothing has changed in all of recorded history. Just because we now do it with a computer or a cell phone doesn't somehow make it new. Someone should inform the patent office.
The friendly shooting to me makes Super Mario Sunshine one of the best Mario games.
And also the game with the most sadistic level design. That plinko red coin level where you never have enough water to levitate to where you to go was the first time I remember rage-quitting a console game.
Meh. The North Vietnamese government never gave two shits about capitalism or communism except as tools to further their goal of keeping Vietnam one nation. The Vietnamese put up with years (*hundreds*) of years of French colonial rule and were pissed as all hell about it. Ho Chi Minh was all about the U.S. and capitalism as long as we were supporting him (and promising to bail him out with the French), but when we stabbed him in the back on that promise to help France save face after being busted up in WW2, he switched to the communists (hello China!) to supply him with the means of getting rid of all foreign control.
The whole "South Vietnam" idea was doomed from the start. Outside of a fierce sense of nationalism (which would necessarily side them with the North Vietnamese folks) the people of the South had no realistic means of holding a government together - as such it ended up being run by corrupt officials who were interested more in maintaining their own power and authority than in actually running a country. They played to our expectations and made decisions that ultimately destabilized the whole southern region. Vietnam was a mess of our own making.
North Korea, on the other hand, exists at the whim and whimsy of China. If China cut off all support North Korea would be gone within a year.
More to the point - you'd have to find a site that would provide you with 1gbps of bandwidth to download *from* - I long ago found out that even with 5-10mbps available bandwidth, I'm often lucky to use 2-3mbps on a given download just because that's all the providers allow me to use of their site's bandwidth.
It would depend if Vernor bought them in good faith or not. If he knew about the agreement CTA had with Autodesk and ignored it, then he should be on the hook. If CTA deceived him, then he could plausibly sue CTA for actual damages. All about intent.
It wouldn't be illegal to resell the book, but it would be illegal to punch in the source code on another computer and run it.
Further, if the only use for the book was entering it into a computer to execute, you might get popped for contributory infringement, which is illegal.
There's so much material there though, how could you possibly adapt it even into 7-films without leaving newcomers behind?
I mean, the TV series piece will be helpful, but that's asking for a large time investment for someone that wasn't already a big fan of the books. I am cautiously hopeful though, and even if this is just something that ends up being for the fans it could be great fun for a season.
They did do a pretty good job a few years back translating Nightmares and Dreamscapes to the small screen *fingers crossed*
isn't any atom heavier than Fe technically supernova shrapnel?
Iron is kind of a ground-state on the periodic table. Below that, more energy is required to keep an atom together (hence, why fusion works to release energy), above that it takes less energy to have the atom be smaller (hence, why fission *also* releases energy). Iron is the direction everything trends towards. When every last drop of energy has been squeezed out of the universe, the final super-massive black hole of everything will be made up of a giant ball of iron.
Heapsort is optimal in time and space. It can be mildly complicated to code if you're not careful, but the whole thing can be done in one function without recursion, so you don't even have stack overhead with it. Of course, if your sorting needs are wildly complicated (like, you're a developer for Oracle or something) then others may make more sense. But for your average run-of-the-mill array sorting, Heapsort should be all you ever really need.
This is why I always liked Heapsort. In place sorting in an array (O(n) space) and optimal time complexity (O(n*lg(n)) steps). If you bother to learn Heapsort well, you don't really *need* any other sorting algorithm.
I don't see it happening. At a bare minimum, cache memory will always be faster just because it's baked on to the CPU and it takes less time for the signal to travel there.
Intuition tells me that no matter how fast non-volatile memory gets, it will always be outstripped by volatile memory because you don't have to concern yourself with permanently storing it.
Well, naturally Sci-Fi evolves as our understand evolves. It's like if you're standing on a road, and where you are is what science has proven/built/made possible, then Sci-Fi is what you can vaguely see off in the distance as cut off by the horizon. As you walk more towards it, you see it more clearly and near-term Sci-Fi becomes clearer, while far term Sci-Fi, what we can barely glimpse on the horizon, becomes even more distant than Sci-Fi of the past.
I don't see that as being a very easy attack vector to exploit. If the attacker is to the point where he can install a guest OS on your VMWare server, you were already completely owned. If it's a disgruntled sysadmin then the solution is "fire him/her and change the passwords". So...yeah, unsupported OS.
Now, if you find a way to exploit that from a *guest* OS that was support and got owned (like from within Windows Server 2008 or something) and you can run something that blows up ESX, then that may be a legit concern. As worded it sounds like a non-issue.
Is there some correlation between good SFX and a large screen?
In the sense that they are better appreciated when viewed on a 30ft+ screen as opposed to one at most 5ft (60 inches) across, yes.
By way of example: I do not feel that Transformers is a particularly good movie. I did, however, enjoy watching in the theaters because there's something just very fun for me in watching 30ft tall robots slug it out. I don't feel much urge to watch it repeatedly in my living room because I went for the experience, knowing that the plot would be lacking.
Inception is wonderful for it's mixture of plot and original looking effects. So, while the experiential side of it may be slightly enhanced on a large screen (and there really is something to the theater experience that's hard to get at home), it's really the plot of Inception that is giving it staying power. Thus, I agree with the OP that one need not see it in the theater to get the full effect of the film, but I feel you have missed his point by trying to imply something that he simply wasn't trying to say.
Well, in a way it's meta-reporting. Reporting on reporting, but the net effect is still the exposition of lies of half truths that are thrown at us. I would still call that real journalism, even if it's dressed up as satire. I mean, honestly, some of the most penetrative, biting political commentary ever made has come in the form of satire. The truth is easier to accept when it's dressed up as humor.
I agree, any list without John Carmack on it is meaningless. At least they got Shigeru Miyamoto, but what about Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy composer)? I mean, he's half the reason that all Final Fantasy games are distinctly Final Fantasy games. One of the longest running franchises in video game history, 1987-present, with 13 main titles spanning 5 major console systems. The guy's work is epic.
Mirrors are a waste, and too tricky to deal with (not to mention being easily cracked by standard kinetic weapons). You don't care particularly where the beam goes as long as it's *not* going through the armor into vital systems. Ergo your best bet is probably going to be a highly reflective white paint. Then your armor underneath can be whatever to protect against bullets and the laser light gets scattered relatively harmlessly in all directions. Granted, 100% reflective paint doesn't exist yet, but who knows what a few years research will turn up.
Actually no. You don't get a magic increase in kinetic energy just by picking a different reference frame. A car going 60mph dissipates the same kinetic energy whether it hits a wall (where the push-back force is exerted by the anchors of the wall) or another car going 60mph in the opposite direction (the push-back force was inherent). Either way you get the same dissipation of kinetic energy whether your frame is standing still or moving.
The significant reason for shooting at the front of the missile is that way the bullet dissipates it's entire kinetic energy, rather than pushing the missile along some lateral or forward direction and wasting destructive potential by translating it into motion.
Speaking as a sociopath (which I am - I can cut off anything even vaguely resembling emotion at will)
Psychopathy (or being a sociopath as it's sometimes called) is not the ability to turn off emotions at will, it's the inability to turn them on ever. You, sir, are not a sociopath.
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Spanish and Portuguese are substantially similar. Speaking competent Spanish is generally enough to understand the basic idea of written Portuguese. Speaking as one who speaks passable Spanish, his translation looks pretty spot on. In Spanish it would just be:
Cuando no puedes competir, tu lo declaras abierto. Eso mascaras tu incompetencia.
I leave finding the similarities as an exercise to the reader.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 1:9
You think there's nothing new since that was written?
The only thing that never really changes is that people think like that.
There isn't anything new. People live and die, get greedy, hurt each other, fall in love, get jealous, eat and breathe. Fundamentally nothing has changed in all of recorded history. Just because we now do it with a computer or a cell phone doesn't somehow make it new. Someone should inform the patent office.
The friendly shooting to me makes Super Mario Sunshine one of the best Mario games.
And also the game with the most sadistic level design. That plinko red coin level where you never have enough water to levitate to where you to go was the first time I remember rage-quitting a console game.
Meh. The North Vietnamese government never gave two shits about capitalism or communism except as tools to further their goal of keeping Vietnam one nation. The Vietnamese put up with years (*hundreds*) of years of French colonial rule and were pissed as all hell about it. Ho Chi Minh was all about the U.S. and capitalism as long as we were supporting him (and promising to bail him out with the French), but when we stabbed him in the back on that promise to help France save face after being busted up in WW2, he switched to the communists (hello China!) to supply him with the means of getting rid of all foreign control.
The whole "South Vietnam" idea was doomed from the start. Outside of a fierce sense of nationalism (which would necessarily side them with the North Vietnamese folks) the people of the South had no realistic means of holding a government together - as such it ended up being run by corrupt officials who were interested more in maintaining their own power and authority than in actually running a country. They played to our expectations and made decisions that ultimately destabilized the whole southern region. Vietnam was a mess of our own making.
North Korea, on the other hand, exists at the whim and whimsy of China. If China cut off all support North Korea would be gone within a year.
More to the point - you'd have to find a site that would provide you with 1gbps of bandwidth to download *from* - I long ago found out that even with 5-10mbps available bandwidth, I'm often lucky to use 2-3mbps on a given download just because that's all the providers allow me to use of their site's bandwidth.
You're doing it wrong. It's supposed to be:
Well, let's hope it doesn't get...
*puts on sunglasses*
...rooted.
YEEEAHHHHHHHHHH
It would depend if Vernor bought them in good faith or not. If he knew about the agreement CTA had with Autodesk and ignored it, then he should be on the hook. If CTA deceived him, then he could plausibly sue CTA for actual damages. All about intent.
It wouldn't be illegal to resell the book, but it would be illegal to punch in the source code on another computer and run it.
Further, if the only use for the book was entering it into a computer to execute, you might get popped for contributory infringement, which is illegal.
There's so much material there though, how could you possibly adapt it even into 7-films without leaving newcomers behind?
I mean, the TV series piece will be helpful, but that's asking for a large time investment for someone that wasn't already a big fan of the books. I am cautiously hopeful though, and even if this is just something that ends up being for the fans it could be great fun for a season.
They did do a pretty good job a few years back translating Nightmares and Dreamscapes to the small screen *fingers crossed*
isn't any atom heavier than Fe technically supernova shrapnel?
Iron is kind of a ground-state on the periodic table. Below that, more energy is required to keep an atom together (hence, why fusion works to release energy), above that it takes less energy to have the atom be smaller (hence, why fission *also* releases energy). Iron is the direction everything trends towards. When every last drop of energy has been squeezed out of the universe, the final super-massive black hole of everything will be made up of a giant ball of iron.
Heapsort is optimal in time and space. It can be mildly complicated to code if you're not careful, but the whole thing can be done in one function without recursion, so you don't even have stack overhead with it. Of course, if your sorting needs are wildly complicated (like, you're a developer for Oracle or something) then others may make more sense. But for your average run-of-the-mill array sorting, Heapsort should be all you ever really need.
This is why I always liked Heapsort. In place sorting in an array (O(n) space) and optimal time complexity (O(n*lg(n)) steps). If you bother to learn Heapsort well, you don't really *need* any other sorting algorithm.
Also, 4.5:
Is it:
if(foo==true) {
a=x;
}
or:
if(foo==true)
{
a=x;
}
I don't see it happening. At a bare minimum, cache memory will always be faster just because it's baked on to the CPU and it takes less time for the signal to travel there.
Intuition tells me that no matter how fast non-volatile memory gets, it will always be outstripped by volatile memory because you don't have to concern yourself with permanently storing it.
Or, you know, dashing off a quick comment on the internet doesn't invite the kind of rigorous proofreading that a scholarly paper would. Just maybe.
Well, naturally Sci-Fi evolves as our understand evolves. It's like if you're standing on a road, and where you are is what science has proven/built/made possible, then Sci-Fi is what you can vaguely see off in the distance as cut off by the horizon. As you walk more towards it, you see it more clearly and near-term Sci-Fi becomes clearer, while far term Sci-Fi, what we can barely glimpse on the horizon, becomes even more distant than Sci-Fi of the past.
If you fill out a Scantron with a #i pencil, does it evolve into Skynet when it tries to read your test?
I don't see that as being a very easy attack vector to exploit. If the attacker is to the point where he can install a guest OS on your VMWare server, you were already completely owned. If it's a disgruntled sysadmin then the solution is "fire him/her and change the passwords". So...yeah, unsupported OS.
Now, if you find a way to exploit that from a *guest* OS that was support and got owned (like from within Windows Server 2008 or something) and you can run something that blows up ESX, then that may be a legit concern. As worded it sounds like a non-issue.
Somehow, your sig extolling the coolness of bow-ties makes this extra creepy.
Is there some correlation between good SFX and a large screen?
In the sense that they are better appreciated when viewed on a 30ft+ screen as opposed to one at most 5ft (60 inches) across, yes.
By way of example: I do not feel that Transformers is a particularly good movie. I did, however, enjoy watching in the theaters because there's something just very fun for me in watching 30ft tall robots slug it out. I don't feel much urge to watch it repeatedly in my living room because I went for the experience, knowing that the plot would be lacking.
Inception is wonderful for it's mixture of plot and original looking effects. So, while the experiential side of it may be slightly enhanced on a large screen (and there really is something to the theater experience that's hard to get at home), it's really the plot of Inception that is giving it staying power. Thus, I agree with the OP that one need not see it in the theater to get the full effect of the film, but I feel you have missed his point by trying to imply something that he simply wasn't trying to say.
Well, in a way it's meta-reporting. Reporting on reporting, but the net effect is still the exposition of lies of half truths that are thrown at us. I would still call that real journalism, even if it's dressed up as satire. I mean, honestly, some of the most penetrative, biting political commentary ever made has come in the form of satire. The truth is easier to accept when it's dressed up as humor.
I agree, any list without John Carmack on it is meaningless. At least they got Shigeru Miyamoto, but what about Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy composer)? I mean, he's half the reason that all Final Fantasy games are distinctly Final Fantasy games. One of the longest running franchises in video game history, 1987-present, with 13 main titles spanning 5 major console systems. The guy's work is epic.
Mirrors are a waste, and too tricky to deal with (not to mention being easily cracked by standard kinetic weapons). You don't care particularly where the beam goes as long as it's *not* going through the armor into vital systems. Ergo your best bet is probably going to be a highly reflective white paint. Then your armor underneath can be whatever to protect against bullets and the laser light gets scattered relatively harmlessly in all directions. Granted, 100% reflective paint doesn't exist yet, but who knows what a few years research will turn up.
Actually no. You don't get a magic increase in kinetic energy just by picking a different reference frame. A car going 60mph dissipates the same kinetic energy whether it hits a wall (where the push-back force is exerted by the anchors of the wall) or another car going 60mph in the opposite direction (the push-back force was inherent). Either way you get the same dissipation of kinetic energy whether your frame is standing still or moving.
The significant reason for shooting at the front of the missile is that way the bullet dissipates it's entire kinetic energy, rather than pushing the missile along some lateral or forward direction and wasting destructive potential by translating it into motion.
Speaking as a sociopath (which I am - I can cut off anything even vaguely resembling emotion at will)
Psychopathy (or being a sociopath as it's sometimes called) is not the ability to turn off emotions at will, it's the inability to turn them on ever. You, sir, are not a sociopath.