Yep. All the stupid convicts that got caught first got sent to the US. The craftier convicts that could figure out how to avoid capture eventually got sent to Australia.:)
Nope. The probability of a coin toss is 0.5. That is the same if it is 1 toss or 1000 tosses.
If you are trying to guess a specific number then sure 1000 is easier, but that's only because with 1 toss you can only go 1 or 0 which are both equally far away from 0.5. With 1000 you'd of course go for 500 but the probability is still 0.5 (0.5 * 1000 = 500).
What would you guess for a billion? Yep 500,000,000. (0.5 * 1,000,000,000). Same probability. Nothing changes.
Yep I'm with you. There have been some abuses of speed cameras but on the whole you don't get fined if you don't speed.
Some people call them revenue raisers. It would be more accurate to say that they are voluntary donations to your local council/state and that some people like to donate a lot.
What exactly is wrong with that? If you accidentally speed as a once off then 3 days shouldn't be an issue. If you are speeding consistently then you really need to be taught what a law is and multiple speed tickets should hopefully accomplish that.
You shouldn't use speeding tickets to determine what you're going. You should look at your bloody speedo.
Your saying Firewire was great because you could plug a whopping 2 devices in to it? And both those devices had USB connectors which everything else used?
I'm not saying that Firewire isn't technically better than USB for several things. Its just a poor reason to say its great because you managed to find something to plug in to it. FYI I have never used my firewire ports - nothing I have uses it.
Is a separate technology really required just for hard drives? Not really which is why USB 'won'.
Erm the 9/11 guys didn't want to negotiate at all.
In fact even if the military/politicians were going to negotiate, it had all happened before they noticed anything was wrong. There was no opportunity at all for negotiations.
You can. You open Firefox if you want Gecko, Chrome if you want Blink, Safari if you want Webkit and IE if you get a brain disease and think opening it is a good idea.
If you want them in one program its simply not possible. Too many interlinked rendering components. E.g. Firefox's entire interface is made with XUL which is rendered the same way as pages. Put webkit in it and webkit can't do XUL so you need Gecko anyway for the interface. Get the idea?
Yes it does cease being paranormal once you explain it, however you are missing two points:
1. You don't need to explain any of these things. You only need to show them in controlled conditions. You don't need to know how it works - most of these people give nonsensical answers anyway.
2. You'd still get the million if you opened up a new field of physics out of what has been called paranormal (psychics, telekinesis, etc...).
Randi doesn't keep moving the goal posts. Its just that no one goes to him and does anything he can't explain using current physics.
HDDs are mature, but aren't going to be obsolete for awhile yet. SSDs are new and finally becoming affordable.
Seagate managed to take a well established technology, blend it in with the new technology, and make both somewhat worse. Thats just a bog standard fail.
The example above involves no new concepts. UV sensitive photoreceptors sensing photons. No physics paper could be written about it. Its mild biological curiosity at best.
Now naturally occurring quantum entanglement in brain cells allowing thoughts to be conveyed from one person to another? You could certainly write a physics paper on that. And you'd also collect your million bucks.
The difference being that telepathy cannot occur using any laws of physics that we know about. Seeing UV light? That is physics 101, just in a strange form.
Except you just explained it and there is no mystery. Mutant photoreceptors. That doesn't meet the 'paranormal' criteria since that is perfectly normal (well not common or in the least bit likely, but it has a normal explanation).
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Yep. All the stupid convicts that got caught first got sent to the US. :)
The craftier convicts that could figure out how to avoid capture eventually got sent to Australia.
Nope. The probability of a coin toss is 0.5. That is the same if it is 1 toss or 1000 tosses.
If you are trying to guess a specific number then sure 1000 is easier, but that's only because with 1 toss you can only go 1 or 0 which are both equally far away from 0.5.
With 1000 you'd of course go for 500 but the probability is still 0.5 (0.5 * 1000 = 500).
What would you guess for a billion? Yep 500,000,000. (0.5 * 1,000,000,000). Same probability. Nothing changes.
Erm the accuracy of predicting a single coin toss is THE SAME as 1000 coin tosses.
Where as climate is a far more complicated system sort of like where the probability of heads is determined by the previous coin flips.
The Register *is* doing that. The LOHAN project will have a rocket after their successful PARIS mission.
No but the cold war wasn't that long ago.
Its a domain name only. No traffic goes through the provider's network.
Actually it is legal to link to child porn and how to make bombs.
What law exactly do you think forbids links?
Bootstrapping a company no, but maintaining a company yes.
Crowd funding a company is inherently stupid.
The company has to be able to stand on its own two feet.
This comes in only if the company doesn't really have a interest in a feature but a user with cash does.
I'd like to think you'd know how to drive and what a speed limit was.
So yes a stupidity fine.
So...the neighbour changed her background image to scare her?
Occam's Razor.
So its ok to be oblivious on the road?
In that case they definitely need 3 fines not 1.
Call it a stupidity fine.
I agree on that point in principal, however two wrongs don't make a right.
If everyone is doing 20mph over the limit on a particular road then install a bloody camera there.
That should fix it fairly easily.
Great idea mate! That would really start to make some budget savings.
I think you've just found the solution!
Yep I'm with you. There have been some abuses of speed cameras but on the whole you don't get fined if you don't speed.
Some people call them revenue raisers.
It would be more accurate to say that they are voluntary donations to your local council/state and that some people like to donate a lot.
What exactly is wrong with that? If you accidentally speed as a once off then 3 days shouldn't be an issue.
If you are speeding consistently then you really need to be taught what a law is and multiple speed tickets should hopefully accomplish that.
You shouldn't use speeding tickets to determine what you're going. You should look at your bloody speedo.
Your saying Firewire was great because you could plug a whopping 2 devices in to it? And both those devices had USB connectors which everything else used?
I'm not saying that Firewire isn't technically better than USB for several things.
Its just a poor reason to say its great because you managed to find something to plug in to it.
FYI I have never used my firewire ports - nothing I have uses it.
Is a separate technology really required just for hard drives? Not really which is why USB 'won'.
Erm the 9/11 guys didn't want to negotiate at all.
In fact even if the military/politicians were going to negotiate, it had all happened before they noticed anything was wrong.
There was no opportunity at all for negotiations.
You can. You open Firefox if you want Gecko, Chrome if you want Blink, Safari if you want Webkit and IE if you get a brain disease and think opening it is a good idea.
If you want them in one program its simply not possible. Too many interlinked rendering components.
E.g. Firefox's entire interface is made with XUL which is rendered the same way as pages. Put webkit in it and webkit can't do XUL so you need Gecko anyway for the interface. Get the idea?
Yes it does cease being paranormal once you explain it, however you are missing two points:
1. You don't need to explain any of these things. You only need to show them in controlled conditions.
You don't need to know how it works - most of these people give nonsensical answers anyway.
2. You'd still get the million if you opened up a new field of physics out of what has been called paranormal (psychics, telekinesis, etc...).
Randi doesn't keep moving the goal posts. Its just that no one goes to him and does anything he can't explain using current physics.
Not sure that it applies here.
HDDs are mature, but aren't going to be obsolete for awhile yet.
SSDs are new and finally becoming affordable.
Seagate managed to take a well established technology, blend it in with the new technology, and make both somewhat worse.
Thats just a bog standard fail.
Not quite.
The example above involves no new concepts. UV sensitive photoreceptors sensing photons.
No physics paper could be written about it. Its mild biological curiosity at best.
Now naturally occurring quantum entanglement in brain cells allowing thoughts to be conveyed from one person to another?
You could certainly write a physics paper on that. And you'd also collect your million bucks.
The difference being that telepathy cannot occur using any laws of physics that we know about.
Seeing UV light? That is physics 101, just in a strange form.
I was about to post something similar. Dowsing is always done on random land and chances are you can find water on random land.
Except you just explained it and there is no mystery. Mutant photoreceptors.
That doesn't meet the 'paranormal' criteria since that is perfectly normal (well not common or in the least bit likely, but it has a normal explanation).
You didn't actually list anything that most people would actually need in a device of that type.