I agree that "random" could be a human construct that doesn't actually happen, things just appear that way due to a the relavitely small sample set we are given.... but it also has little to do w/ the degree of predictability. Something could be entirely "random", or as "random" as we percieve it, but even in those cases we can still formulate the probability of the next value. Probability does not prove or disprove randomness...
I'm surprise no one has mentioned this yet... or maybe they did and I didn't read it... likely the later... Anyway, since they 0wn FPS, and they're in the horror/action genre as he says, what about a more action filled MMORPG? Those seem to be pulling in pretty decent returns lately...
I just skimmed thru the responses and most people seem to think it's silly to store the energy as hydrogen and they should be using batteries. Lots of talk about losing energy in the conversion process from sunlight to electricity to hydrogen back to elecricity...
Batteries are chemical reactors just as are fuel cells and therefore have the exact same stages, you just don't see two separate pieces(reactants and reactors) When you store energy in batteries you're forcing a chemical reaction which is very similar ot electrolysis of water. Fuel cells have the advantage of being clean and, because they are not intrisically linked with their fuel source, replenishable. Batteries are mostly toxic and wear out.
Actaully, better to buy now in that sense... The broadcast flag will have no effect on what is currently being made. It will only affect devices that are built to be affected
What the author is overlooking is that this rule gives exclusive control over production to the studios that are in "the club", essentially denying private citizens the right to make their own HDTV format video.
I don't particularly care for the ruling, but I think the above statement is wrong. From my understanding the broadcast flag tech is only required to be functional in the equipement. I don't think it is required to exist in the content...
Ok, you might be right. I had originally considered mushrooms to be colonys of fungus cells, but then you have the issue of when a colony of cells becomes a single being. Also, I double checked how a fungus is defined and it ranges from a single celled organism to a "mass of branched filamentous hyphae" which I guess might give rise to the structure of a mushroom meaning the whole item is a single life form.
I'll take a stab. It IS a vegetable as it is a plant that you eat. Fruit is a more specific definition in that it's the reproductive part of the plant... which the (normally)edible part of corn is. I'd say it is closer to a grain than to lettuce, but that doesn't preclude it from being either a vegetable or a fruit, which I say it is both.
you can't really, as far as I am aware, see a "fungus"... you can see a colony of fungi... therefore his description is fairly valid... on the other hand, who really cares?
Isn't that kind of like covering your eyes and ears and repeating "SCO does not exist. They can't hurt me!" Didn't you ever see the Nightmare on Elm Street series? That's exactly how Freddy gets you.
There was, but it included direct passages from history that were copyrighted, so the book was pulled from the shelves in a cease-and-desist order in an effort to stop the illegal spread of this proprietary information...
would YOU watch a show w/ overweight pimply girls, even if the writing was good? I don't care what people say, there is something very valuable in appearances...
Buffy: Don't worry. The writers didn't bother to look up the latin. All you have to do is sit and look constipated.
Willow: I can do that; I had bran today!
I don't think you can call a professional high-resolution digital motion picture camera a "camcorder". That's like calling a ferrari, a subcompact. It serves a similar function, but in an entirely different way...(altho the gap is closing on the video gear...)
Actually, half the cable is being centripetally pushed to the earth... and the other half is centrifugally flung out... 'centripetal' refers to the accelleration toward the center of a circle. centrifugal is the opposite stabilizing effect that keeps the object from actually going to the center....
blah blah blah... I just wanted to say something about your sig... I don't know the context, so maybe I am misunderstanding it. It also grieves me to say it because I think the general public is clueless and I don't trust the opinions of other people until they have proven themselves, but public opinion should be the basis of law. For example, for those of the public that have an opinion, DRM is generally considered a bad thing. The only ones promoting it are wealthy lobbiests. If public opinion is not the basis of whatever laws come out of this, then those w/ money are the only opinions that matter and we have an oligarchy(which does have it's advantages, but is generally going to be unfair to 99% of the citizens)
I agree w/ all of this, but now I think, perhaps we've all missed the point. I haven't read the book, so I could be completely off, but I don't think it's about "we have a grasp on at this level so what happens at another level?", tho we have to use these situations to describe the abstraction, it is "what is the process of this abstraction?" Not what happens and why, but how these abstractions are related.
This is a very valid point and really addresses what the controversy is. Which is the measurement of "the speed of gravity". I guess maybe what we should discuss is the real definition of gravity. Is gravity the effect on space? or is gravity the effect on other objects in the universe? Or is there even truely a difference? Given that they are distinct as in the example above, I don't know that we can ever measure the speed of gravity, only it's effects, which would be the speed of light... What's beyond that... uhm... anyone good at math?
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ah... sorry... I misunderstood what I said...
I agree that "random" could be a human construct that doesn't actually happen, things just appear that way due to a the relavitely small sample set we are given....
but it also has little to do w/ the degree of predictability. Something could be entirely "random", or as "random" as we percieve it, but even in those cases we can still formulate the probability of the next value.
Probability does not prove or disprove randomness...
I'm surprise no one has mentioned this yet... or maybe they did and I didn't read it... likely the later...
Anyway, since they 0wn FPS, and they're in the horror/action genre as he says, what about a more action filled MMORPG? Those seem to be pulling in pretty decent returns lately...
MIT used to be so creative... what happened...
I just skimmed thru the responses and most people seem to think it's silly to store the energy as hydrogen and they should be using batteries.
Lots of talk about losing energy in the conversion process from sunlight to electricity to hydrogen back to elecricity...
Batteries are chemical reactors just as are fuel cells and therefore have the exact same stages, you just don't see two separate pieces(reactants and reactors) When you store energy in batteries you're forcing a chemical reaction which is very similar ot electrolysis of water. Fuel cells have the advantage of being clean and, because they are not intrisically linked with their fuel source, replenishable. Batteries are mostly toxic and wear out.
Actaully, better to buy now in that sense...
The broadcast flag will have no effect on what is currently being made. It will only affect devices that are built to be affected
I'd think they'd be smart enough not to use the absense of a flag as a restriction... maybe I'm just optimistic...
I don't particularly care for the ruling, but I think the above statement is wrong. From my understanding the broadcast flag tech is only required to be functional in the equipement. I don't think it is required to exist in the content...
Ok, you might be right. I had originally considered mushrooms to be colonys of fungus cells, but then you have the issue of when a colony of cells becomes a single being.
Also, I double checked how a fungus is defined and it ranges from a single celled organism to a "mass of branched filamentous hyphae" which I guess might give rise to the structure of a mushroom meaning the whole item is a single life form.
I'll take a stab. It IS a vegetable as it is a plant that you eat. Fruit is a more specific definition in that it's the reproductive part of the plant... which the (normally)edible part of corn is. I'd say it is closer to a grain than to lettuce, but that doesn't preclude it from being either a vegetable or a fruit, which I say it is both.
you can't really, as far as I am aware, see a "fungus"...
you can see a colony of fungi... therefore his description is fairly valid...
on the other hand, who really cares?
Isn't that kind of like covering your eyes and ears and repeating "SCO does not exist. They can't hurt me!"
Didn't you ever see the Nightmare on Elm Street series? That's exactly how Freddy gets you.
There was, but it included direct passages from history that were copyrighted, so the book was pulled from the shelves in a cease-and-desist order in an effort to stop the illegal spread of this proprietary information...
would YOU watch a show w/ overweight pimply girls, even if the writing was good?
I don't care what people say, there is something very valuable in appearances...
uh... bran makes you regular, not constipaged
I don't think you can call a professional high-resolution digital motion picture camera a "camcorder". That's like calling a ferrari, a subcompact. It serves a similar function, but in an entirely different way...(altho the gap is closing on the video gear...)
I believe it's just "Minton's Play House" no "s" in "Minton"
uhm... how about this: you live your life and you let others live theirs.
I don't think I want people knowing that I read slashdot....
The clone wars have begun!
Actually, half the cable is being centripetally pushed to the earth... and the other half is centrifugally flung out...
'centripetal' refers to the accelleration toward the center of a circle. centrifugal is the opposite stabilizing effect that keeps the object from actually going to the center....
blah blah blah...
I just wanted to say something about your sig... I don't know the context, so maybe I am misunderstanding it. It also grieves me to say it because I think the general public is clueless and I don't trust the opinions of other people until they have proven themselves, but public opinion should be the basis of law. For example, for those of the public that have an opinion, DRM is generally considered a bad thing. The only ones promoting it are wealthy lobbiests. If public opinion is not the basis of whatever laws come out of this, then those w/ money are the only opinions that matter and we have an oligarchy(which does have it's advantages, but is generally going to be unfair to 99% of the citizens)
I agree w/ all of this, but now I think, perhaps we've all missed the point. I haven't read the book, so I could be completely off, but I don't think it's about "we have a grasp on at this level so what happens at another level?", tho we have to use these situations to describe the abstraction, it is "what is the process of this abstraction?" Not what happens and why, but how these abstractions are related.
This is a very valid point and really addresses what the controversy is. Which is the measurement of "the speed of gravity". I guess maybe what we should discuss is the real definition of gravity. Is gravity the effect on space? or is gravity the effect on other objects in the universe? Or is there even truely a difference? Given that they are distinct as in the example above, I don't know that we can ever measure the speed of gravity, only it's effects, which would be the speed of light... What's beyond that... uhm... anyone good at math?