Yet the designations of the two that we see are C3PO and R2-D2. Never do we find out if C3PO is a model number or a serial number, but the latter seems to be implied. As for R2, It is clearly implied that it is an R2-unit. Meaning model number R2, serial number D2. Even granting that there could be more letters in the galactic alphabet, The population of the republic is so large that our named numbers probably don't do it justice. Those droids have very low numbers indeed. What are the odds that two 'low-number' droids would end up in the hands of a moisture farmer on tatooine? I still remember that time I was driving behind the car with registration number: 7. Those droids are billions of times more rare than that.
I'm not convinced it ups the odds of being open-minded and tolerant at all. The "intelligent and educated" people I've known have been just as closed minded as everyone else. (of course they assumed they were more open-minded and tolerant than everyone else) Imagine the irony of my formative years: I was often persecuted for not being open-minded enough. I foolishly thought this meant "open to ideas other than your own" and not "open only to the groupthink"
After the second movie, I was hoping the "separatists" would evolve into the rebellion as they figured out what was going on. This would add extra [dramatic stuff] in that the emperor sowed the seeds of his own defeat by creating them in the first place.
I was especially disappointed when they turned out to STILL be working for sideous in the third movie despite the fact that they were double-crossed in the first movie and knew he was a dark jedi in charge of the senate in the second film.
Well they were right. It wasn't dangerous (unless they tried to remove it). It did however save many lives by preventing or delaying the spread of fire.
People weren't scared of DDT either until someone trumped up charges of its effects on nesting habits or somesuch. Now, millions of people die of malaria worldwide.
You'd think that by now, Mickey Mouse would be a trademark. (and therefore indefinitely extensible) Do you really want to watch a bunch of steamboat willy ripoffs anyway?
Actually, It's ok if it's not a sphere, the surface area increases with "r"^2 regardless of shape. outward in a manor regardless of the shape. Thinking of a balloon poodle expanding at the speed of light would be just as valid. (r is some characteristic length of the surface.. could be measured from the center to a point, but always to the same point)
The atmosphere is almost completely transparent to the signals they're looking at. Receiving ability depends on two things: directionality of the antenna and area of the antenna. You can simulate the first one with interferometry, but that won't help you pick up weak signals. To paraphrase muscle car owners: There's no replacement for area. (dang there's gotta be a way to make that rhyme.)
'Radiation flux' is the phrase you're looking for and it goes like 1/r^2 (It's power spread over an expanding surface). The liklihood that we can detect ET's depends on how sensitive our equipment is and how may ET's there are. I was under the impression that the telescope time was mostly in between actual experiments rather than dedicated project time itself.
Did you see "Andy Richter Controls the Universe?" It was what Ally McBeal was supposed to be (well according to the promos) a kind of herman's head homage.
Anyway, Richter had a 'Suit of Puppies' How can you not like a show with that many puppies?
It most certainly is not. I got the decimal by mashing the keyboard. If it was supposed to be repeating I would've indicated so. The fact that it happened to repeat once does not mean that it was expected to repeat again. your fraction is only an approximation of my decimal and not the exact fractional representation.
My point is still: it is trival to get A fraction that represents a decimal, which is why the decimal point is called in more logical locales, the fraction mark. Why you would need a calculator to do this is a mystery to me. also a mystery is why a calculator would be allowed at all on what really amounts to an arithmetic test. Calculators should only be allwed on tests where the arithmetic is both complicated and not what is really being tested. (so algebra and calculus tests.. but with properly chosen constants, these won't require calculators either.)
From the pictures, I'd swear there's no motors or anything in that suit.. I'd bet that the 'prototype' is just a mock-up of the real suit that doesn't exist yet. I mean, the woman look all that heavy to me. It's certainly possible for a man of his stature and age to be able to lift a woman of her size with both arms and her arm around his neck relieving some of the weight. Lemme know when he can pick up fifteen scuba cylinders or something.
wait a minute.. decimals to fractions??? what kind of useless skill is that. It's trivially based on the definition of decimals:.34523452 = 34523452/100000000
jeez that wasn't hard. In fact, any fraction which results in.34523452 is a valid fraction. I'm sure the calculator can go the other way uncrippled. Granted people should just know this, which is why timed tests are better: design the test so it's actually quicker to do without a calculator. My calc prof's did this routinely.. to the point that I didn't bother to bring a calculator to class after a while.
The calculators fit in the same form factor, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that they don't get checked anyway. and even if they do, I'd bet double or nothing that at least one student has simply bought the new calculator and transferred the visual elements of the crippled version to his useful one.
That's not quite the proper interpretation of your analysis. You are choosing one number out of 187,500 every second. This corresponds to about 17 bits of information each second. (you could enter the same data by pressing a left-right paddle once 17 times a second) the keyboard corresponds to 23 bits of information per second. so keyboard over mouse is about 45% improvement.
I think your estimate of a 250x250 grid is a bit larg though. I think 64x64 is probably a better estimate. This would result in only 10 bits of information per second. But it gets worse. If those were characters (such as in a chinese "keyboard"), you'd never be able to keep track of 1000 of them to consistantly make that rate, like you can actually type with the keyboard.
The mouse starts to fare better when the information desired is the actual rate and position information. It can give this information much faster than you could type it (imagine hitting the arrow key thousands of individual times to move a cursor around to draw a path in a graphics program) At which point the data obtained from the mouse is much greater than the paltry 23 bits/s you can get out of the keyboard. In fact, I have no way to propose quantifying it: the mouse's data rate depends on how much of its signal you find useful for a given application.
Make a random post to some newsgroup (well make it relevant) use a hash of that post (ascii-ized of course) as your password. If you make your post in a group related to your password, you'll be able to find the passwords you're looking for easily.
Or you could pick someone else who posts fairly infrequently and use their posts as your password-hash basis.
On the part of bill gates that is... What is he publishing his email? something demands that it must be bill.gates@microsoft.com? Surely he only gets 4 million a year on the email account he pays other people to ignore and his real email is no worse than the rest of ours.
Some of the canon drivers (there's none for my specific model) print out black text and pdf's much faster than the windows drivers for my printer, plus it doesn't wait in between every page (presumably to download the page over USB -- it said USB2.0 on the box, but it only uses USB1.0 speeds). oddly, not only does it print faster, but the letters are usually darker and crisper than when the same pdf documents are printed using windows (I dual boot). Especially strange because it's not a postscript printer. Color and margins are slightly off because i'm using the wrong driver.
I've always thought lightsabers and blasters were related tech.. like blasters came first, then someone figured out how to freeze the bolt next to the handle-BAM lightsaber that deflects blaster bolts. If that were the case, the lightsaber would BE the blaster as soon as you released the bolt. of course, we'd have to see evidence of blaster bolts reflecting off each other to consider that a possibility.
But that's probably too elegant a solution to be what lucas had in mind.
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But that's how the planet express ship drive works. They can't both do that...
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Yet the designations of the two that we see are C3PO and R2-D2. Never do we find out if C3PO is a model number or a serial number, but the latter seems to be implied. As for R2, It is clearly implied that it is an R2-unit. Meaning model number R2, serial number D2. Even granting that there could be more letters in the galactic alphabet, The population of the republic is so large that our named numbers probably don't do it justice. Those droids have very low numbers indeed. What are the odds that two 'low-number' droids would end up in the hands of a moisture farmer on tatooine? I still remember that time I was driving behind the car with registration number: 7. Those droids are billions of times more rare than that.
I'm not convinced it ups the odds of being open-minded and tolerant at all. The "intelligent and educated" people I've known have been just as closed minded as everyone else. (of course they assumed they were more open-minded and tolerant than everyone else) Imagine the irony of my formative years: I was often persecuted for not being open-minded enough. I foolishly thought this meant "open to ideas other than your own" and not "open only to the groupthink"
After the second movie, I was hoping the "separatists" would evolve into the rebellion as they figured out what was going on. This would add extra [dramatic stuff] in that the emperor sowed the seeds of his own defeat by creating them in the first place.
I was especially disappointed when they turned out to STILL be working for sideous in the third movie despite the fact that they were double-crossed in the first movie and knew he was a dark jedi in charge of the senate in the second film.
Don't you have to include a copy of the GPL with the GPL'd text as per terms of the GPL?
Well they were right. It wasn't dangerous (unless they tried to remove it). It did however save many lives by preventing or delaying the spread of fire.
People weren't scared of DDT either until someone trumped up charges of its effects on nesting habits or somesuch. Now, millions of people die of malaria worldwide.
You'd think that by now, Mickey Mouse would be a trademark. (and therefore indefinitely extensible) Do you really want to watch a bunch of steamboat willy ripoffs anyway?
Actually, It's ok if it's not a sphere, the surface area increases with "r"^2 regardless of shape. outward in a manor regardless of the shape. Thinking of a balloon poodle expanding at the speed of light would be just as valid. (r is some characteristic length of the surface.. could be measured from the center to a point, but always to the same point)
The atmosphere is almost completely transparent to the signals they're looking at. Receiving ability depends on two things: directionality of the antenna and area of the antenna. You can simulate the first one with interferometry, but that won't help you pick up weak signals. To paraphrase muscle car owners: There's no replacement for area. (dang there's gotta be a way to make that rhyme.)
'Radiation flux' is the phrase you're looking for and it goes like 1/r^2 (It's power spread over an expanding surface). The liklihood that we can detect ET's depends on how sensitive our equipment is and how may ET's there are. I was under the impression that the telescope time was mostly in between actual experiments rather than dedicated project time itself.
Did you see "Andy Richter Controls the Universe?" It was what Ally McBeal was supposed to be (well according to the promos) a kind of herman's head homage.
Anyway, Richter had a 'Suit of Puppies' How can you not like a show with that many puppies?
They want to do away with directories, but say nothing about drive letters?
It most certainly is not. I got the decimal by mashing the keyboard. If it was supposed to be repeating I would've indicated so. The fact that it happened to repeat once does not mean that it was expected to repeat again. your fraction is only an approximation of my decimal and not the exact fractional representation.
My point is still: it is trival to get A fraction that represents a decimal, which is why the decimal point is called in more logical locales, the fraction mark. Why you would need a calculator to do this is a mystery to me. also a mystery is why a calculator would be allowed at all on what really amounts to an arithmetic test. Calculators should only be allwed on tests where the arithmetic is both complicated and not what is really being tested. (so algebra and calculus tests.. but with properly chosen constants, these won't require calculators either.)
From the pictures, I'd swear there's no motors or anything in that suit.. I'd bet that the 'prototype' is just a mock-up of the real suit that doesn't exist yet. I mean, the woman look all that heavy to me. It's certainly possible for a man of his stature and age to be able to lift a woman of her size with both arms and her arm around his neck relieving some of the weight. Lemme know when he can pick up fifteen scuba cylinders or something.
wait a minute.. decimals to fractions??? what kind of useless skill is that. It's trivially based on the definition of decimals: .34523452 = 34523452/100000000
.34523452 is a valid fraction. I'm sure the calculator can go the other way uncrippled. Granted people should just know this, which is why timed tests are better: design the test so it's actually quicker to do without a calculator. My calc prof's did this routinely.. to the point that I didn't bother to bring a calculator to class after a while.
jeez that wasn't hard. In fact, any fraction which results in
The calculators fit in the same form factor, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that they don't get checked anyway. and even if they do, I'd bet double or nothing that at least one student has simply bought the new calculator and transferred the visual elements of the crippled version to his useful one.
I'd like to see the parent draw a circle with a mouse!
That's not quite the proper interpretation of your analysis. You are choosing one number out of 187,500 every second. This corresponds to about 17 bits of information each second. (you could enter the same data by pressing a left-right paddle once 17 times a second) the keyboard corresponds to 23 bits of information per second. so keyboard over mouse is about 45% improvement.
I think your estimate of a 250x250 grid is a bit larg though. I think 64x64 is probably a better estimate. This would result in only 10 bits of information per second. But it gets worse. If those were characters (such as in a chinese "keyboard"), you'd never be able to keep track of 1000 of them to consistantly make that rate, like you can actually type with the keyboard.
The mouse starts to fare better when the information desired is the actual rate and position information. It can give this information much faster than you could type it (imagine hitting the arrow key thousands of individual times to move a cursor around to draw a path in a graphics program) At which point the data obtained from the mouse is much greater than the paltry 23 bits/s you can get out of the keyboard. In fact, I have no way to propose quantifying it: the mouse's data rate depends on how much of its signal you find useful for a given application.
actually that's not a half bad idea:
Make a random post to some newsgroup (well make it relevant) use a hash of that post (ascii-ized of course) as your password. If you make your post in a group related to your password, you'll be able to find the passwords you're looking for easily.
Or you could pick someone else who posts fairly infrequently and use their posts as your password-hash basis.
On the part of bill gates that is... What is he publishing his email? something demands that it must be bill.gates@microsoft.com? Surely he only gets 4 million a year on the email account he pays other people to ignore and his real email is no worse than the rest of ours.
Different like, American league vs. National League or Major league vs. Little League?
Some of the canon drivers (there's none for my specific model) print out black text and pdf's much faster than the windows drivers for my printer, plus it doesn't wait in between every page (presumably to download the page over USB -- it said USB2.0 on the box, but it only uses USB1.0 speeds). oddly, not only does it print faster, but the letters are usually darker and crisper than when the same pdf documents are printed using windows (I dual boot). Especially strange because it's not a postscript printer. Color and margins are slightly off because i'm using the wrong driver.
We can only wish NASA would 'go against the grain' at least then it would going somewhere.
I've always thought lightsabers and blasters were related tech.. like blasters came first, then someone figured out how to freeze the bolt next to the handle-BAM lightsaber that deflects blaster bolts. If that were the case, the lightsaber would BE the blaster as soon as you released the bolt. of course, we'd have to see evidence of blaster bolts reflecting off each other to consider that a possibility.
But that's probably too elegant a solution to be what lucas had in mind.
But that's how the planet express ship drive works. They can't both do that...