A friend of mine once wrote a message to archeologists. It was a sheet of paper, hidden in an old furniture item. It was discovered a couple of decades later, when this person was already the father of two kids.
Deja vu is just one example of a glitch within this vitual world.
Why is this an example? Because this is what they said in 'The Matrix'?
An alternative explanation would be that the brain accidentally placed a memory that refers to a current event into the storage location which is used for long term memories. Then, when the data are processed, the timestamp says "this memory was written on date X" (X is a date in the past, derived from the offset of the file pointer [imagine that the brain is a file]), while today's timestamp is "X+delta". You conclude that the memory is old and that this event happened again, but the real deal is that the file pointer was not offset correctly, so the memory was written to the wrong slot on the timeline.
There is no need to store everything; perhaps data can be generated ad-hoc using an algorithm whenever someone requests it. Since we cannot observe the entire universe at the same time, but only a part of it - the simulation mechanism doesn't have to "simulate everything all the time". If this is correct, then it means that you can simulate something infinite using "finite" stuff.
As an example of how something can be generated - fractals, or the curve of a function (all you need to store is f(x) and some rules about how to represent it graphically). You might also like the 64 KB demos posted on scene.org (personally, I recommend that you check out those created by the team called 'Farbrausch').
Not necessarily. As a developer, when you run a bunch of testcases, if you find a bug, you don't halt everything in the debugger and fix the bug immediately, you just wait until it's all over, fix the bug, and re-start the test run. If this guy's theory is correct, then I would assume that any such flaws would persist until the end of our universe and then get fixed for the next one.
True, but the problem is that when the simulation is updated, it is ran again and the state of the variables is (or can be) re-written. In other words, the memory of a "bug in the simulation" will be wiped off.
I think a nice comparison is how multi-tasking is implemented by switching contexts. When a process is not active, its "program status word" (i.e. the contents of the registers) is dumped somewhere. Next time the process is getting to use the CPU, it has no idea that it was interrupted, from its point of view time never stopped and everything is continuous. Further, we can alter its state before loading it back, and the process would never have a clue that it was tampered with.
You assume that "another run" == "the end of the universe"; but why would it be? As I explained above, the simulation can be stopped/resumed/altered anytime, there's no need to wait until main() returns or crashes.
nnm.ru is where you can find some interesting information; it is not/.-like, it never will be. A drawback is that there are a lot of lame comments posted by trolls and flamers, and perhaps too much advertising?
The good part is that with time the quality of the content does improve. This is the only Russian site that has a broad audience, and which sometimes manages to spawn interesting discussions.
Cyrillic is far more efficient all things considered - with one letter for each distinct sound
The Cyrillic alphabet is suitable for sounds that are typical to the Russian language. However, it is not suitable for languages such as English. For instance, there is no equivalent for 'th' in Russian, so you hear people pronouncing it in funny ways.
I even wrote a short story about it, "In SOVIET Russia, Bluetooth mispronounces YOU!!". Most folks tend to say "s" instead of "th", even though a plain "f" sounds nicer, IMHO. The Hamming distance between "s" and "th" is greater than between "f" and "th", so "f" should be a "compatibility-mode sound for 'th'", if I can express myself that way.
The final point is that you need a right tool to do the job right.
Note: I am a fluent speaker of both, Russian and English. I also happen to be a fluent speaker of Romanian. In this case we also have some special letters - diacritics: {, , , î, â}/*slashdot didn't render the first three characters, they were 's' and 't' with a tail, and 'a' with a curved line on top*/. There are no words in English that use either of these - {î,â}.
To support your point, I do think that Cyrillic is a bit more flexible than Latin. Back in the days when my country was occupied by the soviets (I live in Moldova), they forced a transition to the Cyrillic alphabet (to speed up the "rusification" of the locals). As a result, Romanian (Moldova and Romania used to form a single state; and in the future we will be united again) was spelled with Cyrillic letters, this artificial language was called "Moldovan" (or "Moldavian"). I am not going to criticize the fact that they forced people to switch to a different writing; but this does show that Cyrillic can be used for languages other than Russian.
I must also add that you too are correct, this: "w Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn" is a weird linguistic artifact. I don't speak Polish, but in my mind it is known as the "szcz-language":-) I am not familiar with the history of Poland, so I don't know why Latin characters were chosen.
If you can't move at all, and you cannot speak either, your dream is of a special kind - that's a sleep paralysis.
While I agree with the ideas of the FA, I don't yet see sleep paralysis fits into the big picture. Either way, it is a very interesting and unusual phenomenon, and I've spent a lot of time trying to force myself to enter such a state; it was fun, especially that most people are afraid of it, while I find it to be an entertaining experiment.
It happened so that 2007 was a year in which many things went wrong, and I was really upset with my [lack of] performance. However, on December the 31st I concluded that everything can also be interpreted as good news, because after analyzing the failed projects, I noticed that the bottleneck was in me, and not in my colleagues, friends, or the environment.
In other words, things are [relatively] simple now, because I only have to focus on myself (there is no need to "change other people" or "alter my environment", etc). Of course, this may also be nothing but lying to myself and trying to excuse the poor results of 2007:-) 2008 will tell.
I happen to be living in Moldova, a small country which probably scores worse than Romania if you check it with your "country-o-meter".Romania is our Western neighbor (the really long story is that our countries used to be united, but this is just FYI).
A lot of times I have to deal with the fact that an online-store does not deliver to Moldova, so either I have to know someone abroad (who lives in a "good" country and can make the purchase for me) or forget about the product.
But hey, we're people too! We are intelligent, reasonable, we have feelings, we trust other people, and other people trust us. Simply 'blacklisting' a country is not a good solution, because it still leaves a lot of unhappy folk.
I even had cases in which some companies refused to sell software (no export control regulations involved), all they have to do is send me an email with the registration number _after_ the money is transferred to their account; but no...
What the hell will I do? Stick my hand into "teh tubes", grab their necks and then suck them into the abyss?
In other words, item#1 in your list should be removed, imho.
Of course we know what you mean... Except that 'tsar' means 'king' in Russian, and 'msar' means nothing in English. Perhaps it means something in the language of those who sent it towards Mars?;-)
Maybe their solution was to get out of there (colonize other planets, flee into another dimension, etc) because they were able to formally prove there is no way to master a black hole?
Alternatively, they may be taking advantage of this phenomenon, using the radiation somehow.
Though I do see people falling in "love" with robots, much in the same way that people fall in love with a car, a favorite chair, an appliance. I "love" my car right now, it keeps me safe, keeps me warm, takes me places... sure any make or model car could do those same things, even another one of the same model I have, but mine has the seat adjusted just right, I know where all the nicks and scratches are, and I know all the weird littles noises it makes, just like I do with my girlfriend... where was I going with this?
You were heading towards an interesting conclusion. The fact that you "love" your car now, and the fact that after some time you will "love" another car just as much does not mean that your "love" for the previous car was not real.
The same applies to humans. Sure, you can get along very well with a person, and love them; this does not exclude the possibility that you might get along just as well with another person.
Actually, this is what happens when your spouse dies, or if they leave you- you have to find someone else.
I wrote about it - "Simple relationship mathematics". Now I can express the same idea using the terms proposed in that story: you can't have more than one yellow dot at the same time, but once you get disconnected from the yellow dot (for whatever reason), you can find another one.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned b2evolution after so many posts. I use this platform for quite some time and I've always been happy with it.
I'm ok with Wordpress too, but I still prefer b2evo for its flexibility (not that WP is not flexible). The decision to choose b2evo over something else was made a long time ago, so I don't recall all the factors that influenced me. Since then b2evo has improved significantly.
Any slashdotter who is thinking about setting up a blog should also consider b2evolution.
I can read, so if there's a box that says in plain English that I should "cross here", or "do X" - I'll do it (this also works with intuitive icons); but not all icons are intuitive for a non-driver.
You've mentioned that mega-damage can be inflicted if a tire blows 'at the wrong time'; I never thought things were potentially THAT bad. In case others are interested, here are some stories about this http://www.msgroup.org/forums/mtt/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6360.
I'm not a driver, but I am currently going through some driving classes, so I am interested in such discussion points.
I [think I] agree with the general tone of your post - that drivers of smaller vehicles should put themselves in your shoes and try not to make your life complicated, because there are some natural limitations that make you and your vehicle less flexible.
Are there any rules that provide trucks a higher priority in certain cases (or offer you various 'discounts', making some constraints less strict)? If not - why is it the four wheeler's problem that you can't see them?
I always thought that traffic regulations should be "backwards compatible", the pedestrian being the most primitive level, followed by four wheelers, then trucks, then special vehicles, etc.
To put it in different words: as a pedestrian, I do *not* need to know the traffic rules (what the hell? I don't own a car, why must I know all the signs?!); as a four-wheeler driver, I'm not aware of what it feels like to be driving a truck - so I "have the right" not to know that it's difficult for you to stop/start the vehicle, or that 2/3 of your vehicle are a blind spot, etc. On the other hand, you're familiar with all the details, as a truck driver, and you can also place yourself in the shoes of the four wheeler driver, as well as in the shoes of the pedestrian. Therefore you are the only one who can be objective and make right decisions, and it is unreasonable for you to expect others to see things your way.
That's the rationale behind "backwards compatibility". However, I see that life is a bit unfair, and things are different in practice. As a pedestrian, I sometimes find it quite difficult to figure out when to cross a road at an intersection with several semaphores (unless there's one with "walk | don't walk" on it, which explicitly tells me what I should do). Instead I see several semaphores at different locations, and I have absolutely no idea which cars go first, which ones go second etc. So I am forced to study traffic regulations even though I am not a driver.
Having read your post, I became aware of a broad range of potential issues, so I guess now I'll have to be more careful when trucks are around - the odds of staying alive are now much lower:-)
Although AES-256 is not a hashing algorithm, I've seen it applied in hashing. Since it is a block cipher, when you encrypt a file, at the last iteration you have a chunk of 256 bits, which is used as a digest. If you change anything in the file, the change will propagate to other blocks (if encryption is done in CBC mode), so the last block (i.e. digest) will be different.
The moon has been around for a far longer period of time than the human race. Isn't it more reasonable to assume that the human menstrual cycle closely matches that of the moon?
the only problem I have with Opera is the "lack" of support for Flash for Opera on Linux
Hmm, I'm not sure I'm following you. I've used Opera with Flash on Linux and things worked as expected. You can find instructions on Opera's site: Installation of Plug-ins for Opera on Linux.
The only problem I've had is that at times the Flash clip would turn black, and I had to reload the page to get things rendered properly.
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A friend of mine once wrote a message to archeologists. It was a sheet of paper, hidden in an old furniture item. It was discovered a couple of decades later, when this person was already the father of two kids.
:-)
Boy, they had a good laugh... so I was told..
Just in case, Ministry Of Sound is a label that promotes electronic music, check out their site, http://www.ministryofsound.com/
An alternative explanation would be that the brain accidentally placed a memory that refers to a current event into the storage location which is used for long term memories. Then, when the data are processed, the timestamp says "this memory was written on date X" (X is a date in the past, derived from the offset of the file pointer [imagine that the brain is a file]), while today's timestamp is "X+delta". You conclude that the memory is old and that this event happened again, but the real deal is that the file pointer was not offset correctly, so the memory was written to the wrong slot on the timeline.
There is no need to store everything; perhaps data can be generated ad-hoc using an algorithm whenever someone requests it. Since we cannot observe the entire universe at the same time, but only a part of it - the simulation mechanism doesn't have to "simulate everything all the time". If this is correct, then it means that you can simulate something infinite using "finite" stuff.
As an example of how something can be generated - fractals, or the curve of a function (all you need to store is f(x) and some rules about how to represent it graphically). You might also like the 64 KB demos posted on scene.org (personally, I recommend that you check out those created by the team called 'Farbrausch').
I think a nice comparison is how multi-tasking is implemented by switching contexts. When a process is not active, its "program status word" (i.e. the contents of the registers) is dumped somewhere. Next time the process is getting to use the CPU, it has no idea that it was interrupted, from its point of view time never stopped and everything is continuous. Further, we can alter its state before loading it back, and the process would never have a clue that it was tampered with.
You assume that "another run" == "the end of the universe"; but why would it be? As I explained above, the simulation can be stopped/resumed/altered anytime, there's no need to wait until main() returns or crashes.
nnm.ru is where you can find some interesting information; it is not /.-like, it never will be. A drawback is that there are a lot of lame comments posted by trolls and flamers, and perhaps too much advertising?
The good part is that with time the quality of the content does improve. This is the only Russian site that has a broad audience, and which sometimes manages to spawn interesting discussions.
I even wrote a short story about it, "In SOVIET Russia, Bluetooth mispronounces YOU!!". Most folks tend to say "s" instead of "th", even though a plain "f" sounds nicer, IMHO. The Hamming distance between "s" and "th" is greater than between "f" and "th", so "f" should be a "compatibility-mode sound for 'th'", if I can express myself that way.
The final point is that you need a right tool to do the job right.
Note: I am a fluent speaker of both, Russian and English. I also happen to be a fluent speaker of Romanian. In this case we also have some special letters - diacritics: {, , , î, â}
To support your point, I do think that Cyrillic is a bit more flexible than Latin. Back in the days when my country was occupied by the soviets (I live in Moldova), they forced a transition to the Cyrillic alphabet (to speed up the "rusification" of the locals). As a result, Romanian (Moldova and Romania used to form a single state; and in the future we will be united again) was spelled with Cyrillic letters, this artificial language was called "Moldovan" (or "Moldavian"). I am not going to criticize the fact that they forced people to switch to a different writing; but this does show that Cyrillic can be used for languages other than Russian.
I must also add that you too are correct, this: "w Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn" is a weird linguistic artifact. I don't speak Polish, but in my mind it is known as the "szcz-language"
If you can't move at all, and you cannot speak either, your dream is of a special kind - that's a sleep paralysis.
While I agree with the ideas of the FA, I don't yet see sleep paralysis fits into the big picture. Either way, it is a very interesting and unusual phenomenon, and I've spent a lot of time trying to force myself to enter such a state; it was fun, especially that most people are afraid of it, while I find it to be an entertaining experiment.
It happened so that 2007 was a year in which many things went wrong, and I was really upset with my [lack of] performance. However, on December the 31st I concluded that everything can also be interpreted as good news, because after analyzing the failed projects, I noticed that the bottleneck was in me, and not in my colleagues, friends, or the environment.
:-) 2008 will tell.
In other words, things are [relatively] simple now, because I only have to focus on myself (there is no need to "change other people" or "alter my environment", etc). Of course, this may also be nothing but lying to myself and trying to excuse the poor results of 2007
I happen to be living in Moldova, a small country which probably scores worse than Romania if you check it with your "country-o-meter".Romania is our Western neighbor (the really long story is that our countries used to be united, but this is just FYI).
A lot of times I have to deal with the fact that an online-store does not deliver to Moldova, so either I have to know someone abroad (who lives in a "good" country and can make the purchase for me) or forget about the product.
But hey, we're people too! We are intelligent, reasonable, we have feelings, we trust other people, and other people trust us. Simply 'blacklisting' a country is not a good solution, because it still leaves a lot of unhappy folk.
I even had cases in which some companies refused to sell software (no export control regulations involved), all they have to do is send me an email with the registration number _after_ the money is transferred to their account; but no...
What the hell will I do? Stick my hand into "teh tubes", grab their necks and then suck them into the abyss?
In other words, item#1 in your list should be removed, imho.
640 K ought to be enough for anybody.
And the other problem is that it takes a long time to 'blend in' naturally.
NO CARRIER
Of course we know what you mean... Except that 'tsar' means 'king' in Russian, and 'msar' means nothing in English. Perhaps it means something in the language of those who sent it towards Mars? ;-)
Maybe their solution was to get out of there (colonize other planets, flee into another dimension, etc) because they were able to formally prove there is no way to master a black hole?
Alternatively, they may be taking advantage of this phenomenon, using the radiation somehow.
The same applies to humans. Sure, you can get along very well with a person, and love them; this does not exclude the possibility that you might get along just as well with another person.
Actually, this is what happens when your spouse dies, or if they leave you- you have to find someone else.
I wrote about it - "Simple relationship mathematics". Now I can express the same idea using the terms proposed in that story: you can't have more than one yellow dot at the same time, but once you get disconnected from the yellow dot (for whatever reason), you can find another one.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned b2evolution after so many posts. I use this platform for quite some time and I've always been happy with it.
I'm ok with Wordpress too, but I still prefer b2evo for its flexibility (not that WP is not flexible). The decision to choose b2evo over something else was made a long time ago, so I don't recall all the factors that influenced me. Since then b2evo has improved significantly.
Any slashdotter who is thinking about setting up a blog should also consider b2evolution.
Well, you've taken it to the extreme.
I can read, so if there's a box that says in plain English that I should "cross here", or "do X" - I'll do it (this also works with intuitive icons); but not all icons are intuitive for a non-driver.
You've mentioned that mega-damage can be inflicted if a tire blows 'at the wrong time'; I never thought things were potentially THAT bad. In case others are interested, here are some stories about this http://www.msgroup.org/forums/mtt/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6360.
I'm not a driver, but I am currently going through some driving classes, so I am interested in such discussion points.
:-)
I [think I] agree with the general tone of your post - that drivers of smaller vehicles should put themselves in your shoes and try not to make your life complicated, because there are some natural limitations that make you and your vehicle less flexible.
Are there any rules that provide trucks a higher priority in certain cases (or offer you various 'discounts', making some constraints less strict)? If not - why is it the four wheeler's problem that you can't see them?
I always thought that traffic regulations should be "backwards compatible", the pedestrian being the most primitive level, followed by four wheelers, then trucks, then special vehicles, etc.
To put it in different words: as a pedestrian, I do *not* need to know the traffic rules (what the hell? I don't own a car, why must I know all the signs?!); as a four-wheeler driver, I'm not aware of what it feels like to be driving a truck - so I "have the right" not to know that it's difficult for you to stop/start the vehicle, or that 2/3 of your vehicle are a blind spot, etc. On the other hand, you're familiar with all the details, as a truck driver, and you can also place yourself in the shoes of the four wheeler driver, as well as in the shoes of the pedestrian. Therefore you are the only one who can be objective and make right decisions, and it is unreasonable for you to expect others to see things your way.
That's the rationale behind "backwards compatibility". However, I see that life is a bit unfair, and things are different in practice. As a pedestrian, I sometimes find it quite difficult to figure out when to cross a road at an intersection with several semaphores (unless there's one with "walk | don't walk" on it, which explicitly tells me what I should do). Instead I see several semaphores at different locations, and I have absolutely no idea which cars go first, which ones go second etc. So I am forced to study traffic regulations even though I am not a driver.
Having read your post, I became aware of a broad range of potential issues, so I guess now I'll have to be more careful when trucks are around - the odds of staying alive are now much lower
Although AES-256 is not a hashing algorithm, I've seen it applied in hashing. Since it is a block cipher, when you encrypt a file, at the last iteration you have a chunk of 256 bits, which is used as a digest. If you change anything in the file, the change will propagate to other blocks (if encryption is done in CBC mode), so the last block (i.e. digest) will be different.
The moon has been around for a far longer period of time than the human race. Isn't it more reasonable to assume that the human menstrual cycle closely matches that of the moon?
The only problem I've had is that at times the Flash clip would turn black, and I had to reload the page to get things rendered properly.
Hmm... isn't a "doctor" a person who has a PhD? You don't have to be a medical industry employee in order to be called a "doctor".