Meet the nuclear bomb: modern ones are all fusion weapons (with a fission trigger). As a power source fusion'll produce radiation, but it produces isotopes with much shorter half-lives than fission.
The coins-in-envelope model is the same idea as the "hidden variable" theory, no? As I understand it, observations don't support the idea that the photons (or whatever) have a "heads" or "tails" hidden away somewhere that they synchronized when they were together- the probabilities are wrong.
It's not really an IDE, no code highlighting, hints etc. The killer feature is that it compiles Flash as soon as you stop typing and reloads the swf. It's a really cool way to play around with Flash, and it's much smoother than having to compile locally (really!).
... exchange communication once every 10 years,...
We could give them, say, the entirety of Wikipedia, and they could give us their equivalent. Write up a "rosetta stone" with a bunch of pictorial/mathematical representations of words, and so on. Probably doable. Conversation back and forth will seem frustratingly slow, but there's no limit to the amount of info that can be streamed across. Mind you the chances that we will be in the near vicinity of a civilization that communicates by radio waves that we can pick up is possibly quite slim- we've only been doing it for less than a hundred years. They could be in our equivalent of 1750 and we'd never hear a peep.
You can listen in on some gadget's internal RF, stick them next to an AM radio tuned in between stations. At least, my old calculator produced satisfying beeps and boops.
Some solar uses huge parabolic mirrors to heat up a liquid to the point of boiling, so as to power a steam engine. Much less fancy than photovoltaics, but you need pretty intense sunlight.
Check under options->plugins->runner, there's a keyword cmd which invokes (what else?) cmd.exe with the command you give it. I added my system32 directory to the catalog (+.bat,.exe,.com file types). If you want to see the control panel too, open the control panel up and also open C:\Program Files\Launchy\Utilities\Special Folders\ . Drag all of the control panel icons into it. Boom, shortcuts that are invokable from Launchy.
That actually happened, didn't it? I recall hearing about how the Govt got a couple of physicists who knew nothing about nukes, and told them to get cracking on designing a bomb from publicly available information. The design they came up with was a perfectly viable bomb.
It's how I was introduced to programming. It's really easy to use it to draw stuff, which kids like. You have a "turtle", a pen you drag across a canvas, that you can move, change the color of, pick up, put down, animate... lots of room for experimentation. Recursion? Snowflakes! Interaction? Etch-a-sketch program. Plus it's free.
You can just as easily do things without graphics (eg, "Is the input a leap year?"). Then you can jump off into simple 3D graphics, too. Don't you dare introduce them to programming with HTML as some have suggested. It's not even a scripting language.
Who says the people grabbing the card numbers are the ones who eventually use them? The guys controlling the virus probably just sell them en masse to someone else.
I played Retromud (still around, retromud.org:3000, 14 years old) obsessively for about three months when I was fourteen and something like half the age of everyone else on the mud. Needless to say I was a bit of an asshat. Hell of a lot of fun though, and I learned to type too.
The best part of Retromud is the diversity of races and guilds (aka classes). There are dozens of races and a system of guilds where you advance through one guild as you level, until you reach the maximum guild level, and join a second, and then a third, and so on.
My character was a flying raccoon druid, fun times...
I don't think quantum encryption uses teleportation or entanglement, just the Uncertainty Principle. The photons (in a quantum state) are actually physically transferred through fiber-optics.
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Electromagnetic wavelengths != Sound wavelengths. Sound is vibration in matter, EM is a wave without a medium (or just streams of photons, depending...)
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Meet the nuclear bomb: modern ones are all fusion weapons (with a fission trigger). As a power source fusion'll produce radiation, but it produces isotopes with much shorter half-lives than fission.
Just as interesting as looking at the base pairs... which isn't very. Someone needs to put this into Songsmith somehow.
The coins-in-envelope model is the same idea as the "hidden variable" theory, no? As I understand it, observations don't support the idea that the photons (or whatever) have a "heads" or "tails" hidden away somewhere that they synchronized when they were together- the probabilities are wrong.
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It's not really an IDE, no code highlighting, hints etc. The killer feature is that it compiles Flash as soon as you stop typing and reloads the swf. It's a really cool way to play around with Flash, and it's much smoother than having to compile locally (really!).
... exchange communication once every 10 years,...
We could give them, say, the entirety of Wikipedia, and they could give us their equivalent. Write up a "rosetta stone" with a bunch of pictorial/mathematical representations of words, and so on. Probably doable. Conversation back and forth will seem frustratingly slow, but there's no limit to the amount of info that can be streamed across.
Mind you the chances that we will be in the near vicinity of a civilization that communicates by radio waves that we can pick up is possibly quite slim- we've only been doing it for less than a hundred years. They could be in our equivalent of 1750 and we'd never hear a peep.
You can listen in on some gadget's internal RF, stick them next to an AM radio tuned in between stations. At least, my old calculator produced satisfying beeps and boops.
He would, but he's being emulated on Steve Jobs' iPhone.
It's more if you count "underinsured" people, those who have insurance but it won't actually be enough to cover anything really serious.
Some solar uses huge parabolic mirrors to heat up a liquid to the point of boiling, so as to power a steam engine. Much less fancy than photovoltaics, but you need pretty intense sunlight.
Check under options->plugins->runner, there's a keyword cmd which invokes (what else?) cmd.exe with the command you give it. I added my system32 directory to the catalog (+.bat, .exe, .com file types). If you want to see the control panel too, open the control panel up and also open C:\Program Files\Launchy\Utilities\Special Folders\ . Drag all of the control panel icons into it. Boom, shortcuts that are invokable from Launchy.
There's also Executor too.
Try Launchy. Does that and more, I hardly touch my start menu. Runs on XP for that matter.
Well it can, on an xbox anyway.
What's the french for non-flammable? Ininflammable, of course!
That actually happened, didn't it? I recall hearing about how the Govt got a couple of physicists who knew nothing about nukes, and told them to get cracking on designing a bomb from publicly available information. The design they came up with was a perfectly viable bomb.
It's how I was introduced to programming. It's really easy to use it to draw stuff, which kids like. You have a "turtle", a pen you drag across a canvas, that you can move, change the color of, pick up, put down, animate... lots of room for experimentation. Recursion? Snowflakes! Interaction? Etch-a-sketch program. Plus it's free.
You can just as easily do things without graphics (eg, "Is the input a leap year?"). Then you can jump off into simple 3D graphics, too. Don't you dare introduce them to programming with HTML as some have suggested. It's not even a scripting language.
Who says the people grabbing the card numbers are the ones who eventually use them? The guys controlling the virus probably just sell them en masse to someone else.
I learned to type on a MUD, very cool to see I'm not alone.
I played Retromud (still around, retromud.org:3000, 14 years old) obsessively for about three months when I was fourteen and something like half the age of everyone else on the mud. Needless to say I was a bit of an asshat. Hell of a lot of fun though, and I learned to type too.
The best part of Retromud is the diversity of races and guilds (aka classes). There are dozens of races and a system of guilds where you advance through one guild as you level, until you reach the maximum guild level, and join a second, and then a third, and so on.
My character was a flying raccoon druid, fun times...
Don't feed the trolls. It was safely moderated into oblivion, so hardly anyone bothered to read it anyway.
I don't think quantum encryption uses teleportation or entanglement, just the Uncertainty Principle. The photons (in a quantum state) are actually physically transferred through fiber-optics.
You can communicate at the speed of light with... semaphore. It's not exactly hard.
Hard to sniff out sd cards, tho. Heroin/explosives have chemical signatures, SD cards presumably just smell like every other bit of silicon.
You just invented the feudal system, basically.
Would it matter?
Electromagnetic wavelengths != Sound wavelengths. Sound is vibration in matter, EM is a wave without a medium (or just streams of photons, depending...)