I don't think the Smart sells for mileage or anything, it's the car equivalent of an Apple: Small and stylish, mostly useful as a status symbol. I think some pizza delivery services use them too for easier parking but I doubt most people buy them just for that.
I don't think that redesign would work, they specifically made it like this to get to the 1l/100km value which is colloquially considered the goal of efficient cars. Some people claim cars like that have been designed long ago but Big Oil is preventing their release, well, this car shows just how many cuts you need to make to make it that efficient.
The problem (that especially ISPs are facing) is that as high bandwidth accounts become more common the number of high bandwidth applications increases too. These days using Youtube is common for many people, VoIP is getting more and more use and downloadable programs are bloating up into the hundreds of MBs range and that's before we count P2P. Emails and simple browsing can be done on 56k too, at least until websites bloat more and more (I think some already use an MB or 2 just for their flash stuff).
Nonsense. Brainfuck is just a complicated but still pretty direct way of describing a Turing Machine. Brainfuck is interpreted in a single direction and the code is static. Intercal lets you use COME FROM statements (act like goto except you jump from the label to this line, in threaded intercal you can have multiple COME FROMs for one label and each spawns a thread), has ABSTAIN FROM that deactivates certain commands at runtime until reenabled, expects you to say PLEASE every so often (or it rejects your code as impolite), implements boolean operators as unary operators (i.e. they take one argument instead of two), had explanations for the various signs used for operators and why they changed between punchcard and ASCII encoding ( was replaced with $ to signify the increasing cost of software, the select operator is ? since that's the reaction most users have when they try to understand it) and the whole manual continued the joke perfectly, including nonsensical circuit diagrams and tonsils (Other manuals have appendices so they wanted to have a removable organ in their manual too). Oh and Intercal comes in versions that use the bases 3-7 too (not 8 since that's too standard).
Take a brilliant mind, give it to Jewish parents, and then try to crush it under the intense pressure of early 20th century Germany. The result is an explosion.
Once I buy something physical, unless it was stolen, it is mine and I can do whatever I damn well please with it, as long as I don't misrepresent it.
That's the thing, counterfeits are trademark infringements and by wearing something that is designed to be confused with another product you do misrepresent it to people who are looking at you.
Is that the same social norm that makes people treat alledged "sex offenders" as subhumans no matter whether they were actually guilty or what they have really done?
Just going by a gut feeling works in a simple society but as society grows in complexity you'll find more and more cases where that gut feeling is wrong and can cause horrible damage to others.
Science does not seek the truth, it seeks useful knowledge. If all the world were just a computer simulation science wouldn't care if the results are the same, questions like that are not within the scope of science.
If you can somehow prove that creation of spacetime/ex nihilo/ can be performed without a deity then you have shown that a deity is an unnecessary factor.
No, you just have to show that spacetime is more or equally likely to come into existence as a deity. If we can't show that spacetime could come into existence like that but cannot show it for a deity either then both theories are still equal, while a deity might explain where spacetime came from it would still leave the question of where that deity came from. Naturally a sentient being outside the laws of physics is an awfully complex thing to just happen spontaneously so it'd most likely require supplemental theories about its origin and development. However, without evidence that part will just be filed under "we don't know" until something comes up.
Not really, they're providers of the medium and have no business limiting or snooping the datat that goes through their network especially since they were often granted a monopoly over building infrastructure in their area.
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I don't think the Smart sells for mileage or anything, it's the car equivalent of an Apple: Small and stylish, mostly useful as a status symbol. I think some pizza delivery services use them too for easier parking but I doubt most people buy them just for that.
I don't think that redesign would work, they specifically made it like this to get to the 1l/100km value which is colloquially considered the goal of efficient cars. Some people claim cars like that have been designed long ago but Big Oil is preventing their release, well, this car shows just how many cuts you need to make to make it that efficient.
They also made a real test run on the Autobahn and the mileage held up, the CEO used it to drive to some meeting.
Yeah but people don't think "should I have an accident or be rude?", they think "I shouldn't be rude" and without noticing cause an accident.
The problem (that especially ISPs are facing) is that as high bandwidth accounts become more common the number of high bandwidth applications increases too. These days using Youtube is common for many people, VoIP is getting more and more use and downloadable programs are bloating up into the hundreds of MBs range and that's before we count P2P. Emails and simple browsing can be done on 56k too, at least until websites bloat more and more (I think some already use an MB or 2 just for their flash stuff).
I thought they had a fairly bad reputation with pretty low recognition rates but my memory is kinda fuzzy.
As an Opera user I don't care, the link scanner only works for IE and Firefox. Or at least that's what the description says.
A proof is a chain of deductions, if one link in the chain fails catastrophically the entire chain is invalid. That's what happened here.
BQP (Bounded error, Quantum, Polynomial time which that algorithm is in) is not the same as P.
In my opinion restoration is a public benefit activity. what is it worth if the film is not made available for free afterwards.
Who pays for the restoration?
It really forced the creative team to utilize what is special about film, i.e. the images, rather than make a movie that is radio with images.
That's what all the film critics said until they saw M.
Nonsense. Brainfuck is just a complicated but still pretty direct way of describing a Turing Machine. Brainfuck is interpreted in a single direction and the code is static. Intercal lets you use COME FROM statements (act like goto except you jump from the label to this line, in threaded intercal you can have multiple COME FROMs for one label and each spawns a thread), has ABSTAIN FROM that deactivates certain commands at runtime until reenabled, expects you to say PLEASE every so often (or it rejects your code as impolite), implements boolean operators as unary operators (i.e. they take one argument instead of two), had explanations for the various signs used for operators and why they changed between punchcard and ASCII encoding ( was replaced with $ to signify the increasing cost of software, the select operator is ? since that's the reaction most users have when they try to understand it) and the whole manual continued the joke perfectly, including nonsensical circuit diagrams and tonsils (Other manuals have appendices so they wanted to have a removable organ in their manual too). Oh and Intercal comes in versions that use the bases 3-7 too (not 8 since that's too standard).
Don't you mean the least common multiple?
What, you just eat the bratwurst like that? Eating bratwurst without curry sauce makes baby jesus puke.
Take a brilliant mind, give it to Jewish parents, and then try to crush it under the intense pressure of early 20th century Germany. The result is an explosion.
A nuclear explosion, in fact.
"Far" is a great deal away from here.
In those situations, negative feedback was the only recourse that a scammed seller had.
Er, what about a lawsuit?
Once I buy something physical, unless it was stolen, it is mine and I can do whatever I damn well please with it, as long as I don't misrepresent it.
That's the thing, counterfeits are trademark infringements and by wearing something that is designed to be confused with another product you do misrepresent it to people who are looking at you.
Is that the same social norm that makes people treat alledged "sex offenders" as subhumans no matter whether they were actually guilty or what they have really done?
Just going by a gut feeling works in a simple society but as society grows in complexity you'll find more and more cases where that gut feeling is wrong and can cause horrible damage to others.
That's like saying a good writer is one that writes a lot of text.
Science does not seek the truth, it seeks useful knowledge. If all the world were just a computer simulation science wouldn't care if the results are the same, questions like that are not within the scope of science.
If you can somehow prove that creation of spacetime /ex nihilo/ can be performed without a deity then you have shown that a deity is an unnecessary factor.
No, you just have to show that spacetime is more or equally likely to come into existence as a deity. If we can't show that spacetime could come into existence like that but cannot show it for a deity either then both theories are still equal, while a deity might explain where spacetime came from it would still leave the question of where that deity came from. Naturally a sentient being outside the laws of physics is an awfully complex thing to just happen spontaneously so it'd most likely require supplemental theories about its origin and development. However, without evidence that part will just be filed under "we don't know" until something comes up.
Not really, they're providers of the medium and have no business limiting or snooping the datat that goes through their network especially since they were often granted a monopoly over building infrastructure in their area.
And even if, few people will actually call the police, that's Somebody Else's Problem (TM).
It's essential liberties for a little temporary safety. The qualifiers are important, it says nothing about minor freedoms or effective safety.
I don't think thse were Frank Herbert's Harkonnen...