Try "Power from the Earth" by Thomas Gold for an interesting read. He basically says oil is primordial material contaminated by biological products. He makes some interesting points.
You're right that your linux box is only faster, not smarter than ENIAC, but that is only true of the hardware. Software is also advancing, and AI research goes on, it's just slower than the hardware development.
Eventually the combination of fast hardware and advanced software will produce true artificial intelligence. At that point things get weird. Google for singularity.
Standard in Australia is four weeks paid annual leave, about seven or eight public holidays and in most jobs five 'sickies without a doctor's certificate' a year. Eight or ten more with a certificate.
Many jobs (mostly blue collar) also get an RDO each fortnight or month.
White collar jobs often have flexitime.
You need to speak english.
The interesting thing about this sort of strategy is that in a different way you are assisting them by making copyright infringement more difficult. The more fake files there are out there the more the poor downloaders will have trouble finding what they are looking for. If the actual infringing files get swamped by enough fakes this could significantly reduce copyright infringement.
It's called Donner Hall (large JPEG) and it'd be a nice joke if CMU were to name it after Gates instead. It's the residence hall where they stuff hundreds of freshmen every year.
Yeah sure, my head is full of pulsed lasers and extreme temperatures : )
Have you actually seen the conditions under which a compound involving a noble gas will even form, let alone hold together? Chemists get nobel prizes for that sort of thing. I don't think the conditions inside anyone's head are actually that extreme.
And just because it's noble doesn't mean it doesn't get involved with other atoms sometimes,
Actually that pretty much IS what noble means. Chemists have to work fairly hard and use some rather extreme conditions to get noble gases to react with anything.
The Star War defense systems are for taking down ICBM's. The threat to Seoul is half a million artillery shells per hour. That's a bit harder to knock out of the air.
If you believe you can ignore EULAs, you're the one with Fairly Odd Parents.
It's not a matter of belief, I ignore EULAs all the time. I don't even read them. I think you would have a hard time enforcing a contract that I haven't read, haven't signed, and that gives me nothing in return. My view is that my use of the software is governed by the terms of the sale, as agreed in advance of the sale, and the current law of the land. When they start presenting a EULA and demanding you READ and SIGN it before they will sell the software, then maybe they will have a case that the EULA is enforceable. Even then, a civil contract is always trumped by the law.
The library was closed and the signal was still available. I would say that implies that they expect the access to be used outside library hours, and therefore outside of the library building.
Actually the solid waste from coal power plants has more radioactivity per MW/hr generated than waste from nuclear power plants. Coal ash may be lower per kg of waste, but there is a hell of a lot more of it.
In logic, you can't. But I didn't intend the terms in a strict logical sense, where "impossible" is the logical complement to "possible".
What a load of crap.
Possible means it can happen.
Impossible means it can't.
That's how most people use these words. We say that it's "impossible" for something to happen when we mean, "not likely at all", and we say "possible" when we mean "likely".
If I say "possible" or "impossible" that is exactly what I mean. If I mean "likely" or "unlikely" I will bloody well say so.
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Try "Power from the Earth" by Thomas Gold for an interesting read. He basically says oil is primordial material contaminated by biological products. He makes some interesting points.
You're right that your linux box is only faster, not smarter than ENIAC, but that is only true of the hardware.
Software is also advancing, and AI research goes on, it's just slower than the hardware development.
Eventually the combination of fast hardware and advanced software will produce true artificial intelligence.
At that point things get weird. Google for singularity.
I think you mean 53. - An Australian.
Look into astronomical telescope mounts.
but no. WTF am I missing?
The words "round trip"
Oh my god(OMG) it's 6:30pm on a friday
The correct way is to use the acronym and expand it in parentheses the first time it is used :
OMG (Oh my God) it's 6:30pm on a friday. Why am I still here. OMG my boss just gave me more stuff to do
Standard in Australia is four weeks paid annual leave, about seven or eight public holidays and in most jobs five 'sickies without a doctor's certificate' a year. Eight or ten more with a certificate.
Many jobs (mostly blue collar) also get an RDO each fortnight or month.
White collar jobs often have flexitime.
You need to speak english.
you forgot step 4 -
introduce and pass an amendment that takes the milder version back up to the level of the original bill.
(and I guess the obligatory step 5 - Profit!! (for once it's actually appropriate))
If you can tell the difference without downloading it then so can they.
The interesting thing about this sort of strategy is that in a different way you are assisting them by making copyright infringement more difficult. The more fake files there are out there the more the poor downloaders will have trouble finding what they are looking for. If the actual infringing files get swamped by enough fakes this could significantly reduce copyright infringement.
It's called Donner Hall (large JPEG) and it'd be a nice joke if CMU were to name it after Gates instead. It's the residence hall where they stuff hundreds of freshmen every year.
Do they stuff them for the Donner Party?
Yeah sure, my head is full of pulsed lasers and extreme temperatures : )
Have you actually seen the conditions under which a compound involving a noble gas will even form, let alone hold together? Chemists get nobel prizes for that sort of thing.
I don't think the conditions inside anyone's head are actually that extreme.
And just because it's noble doesn't mean it doesn't get involved with other atoms sometimes,
Actually that pretty much IS what noble means.
Chemists have to work fairly hard and use some rather extreme conditions to get noble gases to react with anything.
The Star War defense systems are for taking down ICBM's. The threat to Seoul is half a million artillery shells per hour. That's a bit harder to knock out of the air.
I wonder if they know what they wish for? A government so weighed down it cannot act?
What's that first rule of medicine?
Oh yeah - "First, do no harm"
that's bloody hilarious !!
If you believe you can ignore EULAs, you're the one with Fairly Odd Parents.
It's not a matter of belief, I ignore EULAs all the time.
I don't even read them.
I think you would have a hard time enforcing a contract that I haven't read, haven't signed, and that gives me nothing in return.
My view is that my use of the software is governed by the terms of the sale, as agreed in advance of the sale, and the current law of the land.
When they start presenting a EULA and demanding you READ and SIGN it before they will sell the software, then maybe they will have a case that the EULA is enforceable. Even then, a civil contract is always trumped by the law.
The library was closed and the signal was still available. I would say that implies that they expect the access to be used outside library hours, and therefore outside of the library building.
- and after a few of them you see illegal duplicates.
Could you burn in an image on the projector?
There are some electric trains that do this - so they can run them faster on old tracks.
I think they are mostly in the UK.
He asked for one inch tranparent aluminum, when they didn't know what he was talking about he traded the formula for six inch thick plexiglass.
It's more likely that they are using the same magnetic ink that they use on bank cheques, and that they are reading that line of text.
Actually the solid waste from coal power plants has more radioactivity per MW/hr generated than waste from nuclear power plants.
Coal ash may be lower per kg of waste, but there is a hell of a lot more of it.
In logic, you can't. But I didn't intend the terms in a strict logical sense, where "impossible" is the logical complement to "possible".
What a load of crap.
Possible means it can happen.
Impossible means it can't.
That's how most people use these words. We say that it's "impossible" for something to happen when we mean, "not likely at all", and we say "possible" when we mean "likely".
If I say "possible" or "impossible" that is exactly what I mean. If I mean "likely" or "unlikely" I will bloody well say so.