If you read your own article it claims that DPRK has been successful in containing AIDS, not a very impressive feat considering the police state that they all like under.
Oh my god, you destablised the middle east with your comment, we were all sleeping until you said that. Damn you! Didn't you know, we're the peace capital of the universe!?
Russia had previously been the only country to confirm the test, saying within only a few hours of North Korea's announcement that it was "100% certain" a nuclear test had been carried out.
Who ever drops the next nuke bomb, it signals the end of the human race.
I'm going to have to disagree. It may very well escalate into a nuclear war amongst superpowers, but a single nuclear bomb (likely to be dropped on Iran by the US, considering their own rhetoric) on a non-superpower may illicit a large conventional response on key infrastructure. Or a limited nuclear retaliation.
Either way, a small nuclear attack will definitely not signal the end of the human race. You would need a large first strike which illicit a second strike and so on for that to occur. That would never happen due to Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). Nuclear doomsday scenarios are so overrated.
It says the pattern matches a mathematical formula not discovered by the West until the 1970's, and that mathematics was thriving at the time in the area. This isn't the same thing as proving that they had to know the math to make the tiles.
Does a bear shit in the forest? Read this also from the article:
The set of five girih tiles decorated, with lines that fit together to make regular patterns first appeared about 1200 AD, a time when Islamic mathematics was flowering. The designs grew increasingly complex, and by the 15th century produced near-perfect Penrose patterns found on the Darb-i Imam shrine in Isfahan, Iran.
Anyone with a speck of logic and without prejudice against Persians would understand this as strong evidence of the claim.
>It is their product, if you didn't pay for it I don't see how you can complain that they aren't going to support you or allow you to continue using it. If you want software to be free that much, use Linux and stop complaining.
I did pay for it, why should I have it use up my bandwidth in order to phone home whenever it feels like it?
Nothing will ever replace paper. You can write over your stuff if's wrong, it doesn't require batteries, if you knew how you could make it yourself, etc.
With the exception of programming, I can't put ideas down faster on computers than on paper. When civilisation is brought to it's knees, perhaps the use of paper will cease, but until then...
Length of a movie with a specific quality encoding would be nice. Much better than "record our entire lives", which really insults people who are blind and deaf. Really, to be fair since it's the journey not the destination, you'd have to store every connection nerons make in time. So first you'll need to define a data structure which describes that before it's quantitative. I'm pretty sure it'll be a lot more than 100 TB.
The storage unit described is the ROEL (i.e. "recording of entire life") which refers to the number of complete human lives that can be recorded on a single disc.
So we will only need a 1 MROEL disk to build a soul cube... =)
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I bought this book a few days ago. I have one criticism so far. The author attempts to do linear algebra lightly ... but does it completely wrong:
[4x1 column vector] . [4x4 matrix] = [4x1 column vector]
Eh? If this is some kind of whacked convention he should really say so. This said, it seems good so far.
I hope that the EFF will pursue this matter promptly!
He thought he could bend copyright laws too!
If you read your own article it claims that DPRK has been successful in containing AIDS, not a very impressive feat considering the police state that they all like under.
uh? I'll try not to be? kthxbi.
Oh my god, you destablised the middle east with your comment, we were all sleeping until you said that. Damn you! Didn't you know, we're the peace capital of the universe!?
I'm going to have to disagree. It may very well escalate into a nuclear war amongst superpowers, but a single nuclear bomb (likely to be dropped on Iran by the US, considering their own rhetoric) on a non-superpower may illicit a large conventional response on key infrastructure. Or a limited nuclear retaliation.
Either way, a small nuclear attack will definitely not signal the end of the human race. You would need a large first strike which illicit a second strike and so on for that to occur. That would never happen due to Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). Nuclear doomsday scenarios are so overrated.
It says the pattern matches a mathematical formula not discovered by the West until the 1970's, and that mathematics was thriving at the time in the area. This isn't the same thing as proving that they had to know the math to make the tiles.
Does a bear shit in the forest? Read this also from the article:
The set of five girih tiles decorated, with lines that fit together to make regular patterns first appeared about 1200 AD, a time when Islamic mathematics was flowering. The designs grew increasingly complex, and by the 15th century produced near-perfect Penrose patterns found on the Darb-i Imam shrine in Isfahan, Iran.
Anyone with a speck of logic and without prejudice against Persians would understand this as strong evidence of the claim.
Indeed, the brain matter inside those individuals is so much less that it does balance out!
:)
So much lower, I presume. Just which side are we talking about...?
Well, they had me fooled! :P
Because civilisation will continue to grow without the male species. *rolls eyes* Grow up.
Sorry if I didn't make my point clear. For a legit user, "Microsoft may be turning off copies of Windows without WGA installed."
According to the summary that's everyone, legit or not. How is that legal? What if I don't want to install it, even if I own a legit copy of windows?
>It is their product, if you didn't pay for it I don't see how you can complain that they aren't going to support you or allow you to continue using it. If you want software to be free that much, use Linux and stop complaining.
I did pay for it, why should I have it use up my bandwidth in order to phone home whenever it feels like it?
Is there anything in the EULA that allows them to get away with this?
This is modded informative? What a fucking joke.
Look at abu gharib and tell me who is protecting who.
Yep, that's a cracker that one ;)
Nothing will ever replace paper. You can write over your stuff if's wrong, it doesn't require batteries, if you knew how you could make it yourself, etc.
With the exception of programming, I can't put ideas down faster on computers than on paper. When civilisation is brought to it's knees, perhaps the use of paper will cease, but until then...
(they did)
Wrong, not in the description. =)
Length of a movie with a specific quality encoding would be nice. Much better than "record our entire lives", which really insults people who are blind and deaf. Really, to be fair since it's the journey not the destination, you'd have to store every connection nerons make in time. So first you'll need to define a data structure which describes that before it's quantitative. I'm pretty sure it'll be a lot more than 100 TB.
LOL. I love it.
How about number of cat's lives... it's just as meaningful. =) (since they have 9 of them and typically live a little more than a decade)
Exactly the same situation with this "rest of our lives" unit ... but I was being selfish and I was thinking in terms of:
code you have written
your papers
mathematica notebooks
and crap like that. =)
Read this http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=118044&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&tid=198&mode=thread&pid=997382 8#9973867
Hope you now understand what I was going on about.
The storage unit described is the ROEL (i.e. "recording of entire life") which refers to the number of complete human lives that can be recorded on a single disc.
So we will only need a 1 MROEL disk to build a soul cube... =)
Hahaha, right on the dot
I suppose the most people *can* store their life's achivements on a CD-ROM... I'd be lucky to fit 'em on a 250MB zip disk so far. =)
I wonder how big the service packs will be... =P