If the universe is deterministic, there is no need to store the past states. From any given state, you can run the universe backward or forward however you see fit.
You can't be so sure. I mean, look at the difference in inclination and longitude of ascending nodes between the two orbits. At collision, the relative inclination was nearly 90 degrees! There was therefore a crapload of plane-changing velocity imparted. I think that this would make for a massively unpredictable orbit for the chunks. Eyeballing the tracks is not a good way to get an idea for the path of the debris in such an extreme case.
I often wonder where people see "peak" or any other quantifying word on these advertisements. These companies slap a number on their website "10 Mbps*" and then when you look at the "*" it says "this is no guarantee". However, they nowhere tell you what exactly the 10 Mbps* DOES mean...
No object in the universe is at the center because space itself is expanding, and if you stand at any point, it appears that everything is moving away from you. So, no matter where you are, it looks like you're at the center of the universe.
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
Joshua 10:12-13
Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aijalon." And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.
So, it's not very good evidence that the Earth was the center of everything, but it was good enough to get the Church to believe it. When Copernicus challenged this belief, he was challenging a VERY VERY old imbedded belief.
What _I_ want to know is how the heck did the computer model figure out what his clothes looked like?!
The solution may not be simple, but I believe it should start like this:
When someone registers to vote, give them a usb key with pgp or gpg software on it (with a nice & easy GUI specialized for this application). They go home (or to a library) to create their secret and public keys on the usb key. They then return to their voter registration office and give the office their public key. After verifying the voter's credentials, the office signs the voter's public key. Now, any voting machine can verify this signature using the office's public key.
Here's the good part. After the voter completes a ballot, he sticks his usb key in and signs his ballot. He also encrypts his ballot using the office's public key. He saves the encrypted and signed ballot as a receipt (somewhere in the ballot should be a value that only the voting machine can generate). So, if the ballot somehow gets lost, the voting office can now decrypt and verify the ballot that got saved onto the usb key.
Does it cost more? Yes. Does it require infrastructure? Yes. Is it more secure than paper or the current system? LOADS.
1) The periods for these cyclers is long. If a crop fails in the first few years before they've had sufficient time to store a lot of food, it's very unlikely that you would be able to get every person back on a cycler before the whole colony dies.
2) It's expensive. You have to build a very large ship that can survive in "sleep mode" for years on end without crashing or rebooting in the face of cosmic radiation which can wreak havoc on electronic systems and mediums for storage. So, building a fleet of these so that a cycler would come by often enough to prevent a colony emergency would be really prohibitive.
3) Assuming you want to ride the cycler back to earth, you must launch a smaller ship that has enough fuel to catch up to the same speed as the cycler, and then decelerate enough to enter Earth's atmosphere safely. Granted, you would be launching off of Mars, and you could do aerobraking at Earth to get your speed down. In other words, the "smaller ship" would still have to carry a good deal of fuel.
4) Wouldn't it be cool if the first colony mysteriously vanished and we had to send a second colony to investigate? It would be like every sci-fi space movie ever.:) j/p
Basically the cost vs. efficiency just doesn't cut it. You would probably spend close to a trillion dollars for cyclers that don't have a real good chance at saving a colony. More likely, your company (or government) would just go bankrupt over 100 people.
Just because you work in Proteonics doesn't mean you are an expert on how an electric field changes viscosity of a fluid.
They aren't talking about using and electric field to vaporize the fuel. If you had read TFA, you would have seen the discussion about how application of a large electric field aggregates nano-scale particles (aka big molecules) into micrometer-scale aggregates and therefore reducing the viscocity. This lower viscocity makes it easier for the injector to inject smaller droplets. That's it. I love how you people call science snake-oil. Sound like a bunch of religious fundies to me...
Right. However, if you like to believe in the multiverse theory, a prediction machine here in our universe could predict exactly what is going on in any of the other supposed universes (if universes are deterministic). So, without even observing other universes (because that would be impossible), we would be able to predict exactly what was happening there...pretty interesting. Perhaps someone in another universe is predicting the fact that I am typing this right now...
So, in other words, all you've proved is that in order to be able to predict a deterministic universe, your prediction machine must be isolated from that universe. The reason that Russel's paradox works is because the act of prediction (when the prediction machine is within the universe) actually causes changes in the universe (not only because it turns on a light, but also because it shuffles around electrons or other information-carrying particles).
If you allow no interaction at all between the prediction machine and the universe, then there's no problem. This case is what people mean when they ask the question: "is the universe deterministic?"
Well, first of all, there aren't many Atheist organizations with any sum of money that can remotely come close enough to the money that the Christian Church has. So, if you're questioning why atheists as a group don't go to homeless shelters or go on some sort of atheist mission trip, that's why. However, I know several non-religious people that have done great things at shelters and with Peace Corps.
Secondly, just because a religion might give people hope or an extra motivation to do good things still does not make it right. In my opinion, the motivation given is usually that you will be rewarded with good things when you get to heaven. Why is this good motivation? Really, it's just people pretending to be good when they are really being selfish in expecting a reward later. Being non-religious, when I do something good for someone else, I know I did it just to help a fellow person and because it just made the world a tiny bit better.
So, just think about WHY religious people would do the things they do.
You get all sorts of hints from the public information about global music market and the password data is based on publicly available audio data. In addition, if you know your victim, you can even make more correct guesses as to what songs did that person choose.
Yes. And other people here are saying that there are only a few thousand possible files on a computer, but I say it's even worse than that. You know most users will pick a file right out of "My Documents" or one of only a handful of other folders. A simple virus could sit in the background and compute the hashes of the files in these common folders and report the hash list back to it's creator.
...And what exactly happens if the FBI confiscates your computer?? Tards...
Car wax (like turtle wax) will get out really big scratches, but it will live lots of swirl marks. Personally, I use turtle wax only if necessary, followed by meguiar's auto polish to fill the swirl marks and tiny scratches. You'll never be able to tell it was ever scratched, and this procedure has saved my discs several times.
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...it's half a binary planet.
... and how to effectively address it
Uh, stop using gadgets while driving?
I was trying to submit a Windows 7 bug report last week and found it damn near impossible. It's like they would rather pay you to NOT submit bugs.
If the universe is deterministic, there is no need to store the past states. From any given state, you can run the universe backward or forward however you see fit.
Voyager had just taken its first step to becoming V'Ger by that 1-bit point mutation.
Could it be more ironic to redact the contract for a website that is supposed to make things transparent?
Yes, bats...
You can't be so sure. I mean, look at the difference in inclination and longitude of ascending nodes between the two orbits. At collision, the relative inclination was nearly 90 degrees! There was therefore a crapload of plane-changing velocity imparted. I think that this would make for a massively unpredictable orbit for the chunks. Eyeballing the tracks is not a good way to get an idea for the path of the debris in such an extreme case.
A smart boy, avid reader, who picks up lotsa chicks? Nah... Girls select for dumbness and overconfidence.
I often wonder where people see "peak" or any other quantifying word on these advertisements. These companies slap a number on their website "10 Mbps*" and then when you look at the "*" it says "this is no guarantee". However, they nowhere tell you what exactly the 10 Mbps* DOES mean...
This is what I mean.
No object in the universe is at the center because space itself is expanding, and if you stand at any point, it appears that everything is moving away from you. So, no matter where you are, it looks like you're at the center of the universe.
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
Joshua 10:12-13
Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aijalon." And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.
So, it's not very good evidence that the Earth was the center of everything, but it was good enough to get the Church to believe it. When Copernicus challenged this belief, he was challenging a VERY VERY old imbedded belief.
What _I_ want to know is how the heck did the computer model figure out what his clothes looked like?!
By the way, something you could use for anonymity is blind signature whereby the office would sign your key without even seeing your key.
At least I tried to make a solution. Stop complaining and propose a solution.
The solution may not be simple, but I believe it should start like this: When someone registers to vote, give them a usb key with pgp or gpg software on it (with a nice & easy GUI specialized for this application). They go home (or to a library) to create their secret and public keys on the usb key. They then return to their voter registration office and give the office their public key. After verifying the voter's credentials, the office signs the voter's public key. Now, any voting machine can verify this signature using the office's public key.
Here's the good part. After the voter completes a ballot, he sticks his usb key in and signs his ballot. He also encrypts his ballot using the office's public key. He saves the encrypted and signed ballot as a receipt (somewhere in the ballot should be a value that only the voting machine can generate). So, if the ballot somehow gets lost, the voting office can now decrypt and verify the ballot that got saved onto the usb key. Does it cost more? Yes. Does it require infrastructure? Yes. Is it more secure than paper or the current system? LOADS.
There are a few issues...
:) j/p
1) The periods for these cyclers is long. If a crop fails in the first few years before they've had sufficient time to store a lot of food, it's very unlikely that you would be able to get every person back on a cycler before the whole colony dies.
2) It's expensive. You have to build a very large ship that can survive in "sleep mode" for years on end without crashing or rebooting in the face of cosmic radiation which can wreak havoc on electronic systems and mediums for storage. So, building a fleet of these so that a cycler would come by often enough to prevent a colony emergency would be really prohibitive.
3) Assuming you want to ride the cycler back to earth, you must launch a smaller ship that has enough fuel to catch up to the same speed as the cycler, and then decelerate enough to enter Earth's atmosphere safely. Granted, you would be launching off of Mars, and you could do aerobraking at Earth to get your speed down. In other words, the "smaller ship" would still have to carry a good deal of fuel.
4) Wouldn't it be cool if the first colony mysteriously vanished and we had to send a second colony to investigate? It would be like every sci-fi space movie ever.
Basically the cost vs. efficiency just doesn't cut it. You would probably spend close to a trillion dollars for cyclers that don't have a real good chance at saving a colony. More likely, your company (or government) would just go bankrupt over 100 people.
...and a PartridgeInAPearTree ;)
I guess you're right.
:)
Good job Chinese! You're following the U.S.' footsteps to faking the world that you're going to the moon! Hooray!
Just because you work in Proteonics doesn't mean you are an expert on how an electric field changes viscosity of a fluid.
They aren't talking about using and electric field to vaporize the fuel. If you had read TFA, you would have seen the discussion about how application of a large electric field aggregates nano-scale particles (aka big molecules) into micrometer-scale aggregates and therefore reducing the viscocity. This lower viscocity makes it easier for the injector to inject smaller droplets. That's it. I love how you people call science snake-oil. Sound like a bunch of religious fundies to me...
Right. However, if you like to believe in the multiverse theory, a prediction machine here in our universe could predict exactly what is going on in any of the other supposed universes (if universes are deterministic). So, without even observing other universes (because that would be impossible), we would be able to predict exactly what was happening there...pretty interesting. Perhaps someone in another universe is predicting the fact that I am typing this right now...
So, in other words, all you've proved is that in order to be able to predict a deterministic universe, your prediction machine must be isolated from that universe. The reason that Russel's paradox works is because the act of prediction (when the prediction machine is within the universe) actually causes changes in the universe (not only because it turns on a light, but also because it shuffles around electrons or other information-carrying particles).
If you allow no interaction at all between the prediction machine and the universe, then there's no problem. This case is what people mean when they ask the question: "is the universe deterministic?"
But can it play Van Halen's "Eruption"?
Well, first of all, there aren't many Atheist organizations with any sum of money that can remotely come close enough to the money that the Christian Church has. So, if you're questioning why atheists as a group don't go to homeless shelters or go on some sort of atheist mission trip, that's why. However, I know several non-religious people that have done great things at shelters and with Peace Corps.
Secondly, just because a religion might give people hope or an extra motivation to do good things still does not make it right. In my opinion, the motivation given is usually that you will be rewarded with good things when you get to heaven. Why is this good motivation? Really, it's just people pretending to be good when they are really being selfish in expecting a reward later. Being non-religious, when I do something good for someone else, I know I did it just to help a fellow person and because it just made the world a tiny bit better.
So, just think about WHY religious people would do the things they do.
Yes. And other people here are saying that there are only a few thousand possible files on a computer, but I say it's even worse than that. You know most users will pick a file right out of "My Documents" or one of only a handful of other folders. A simple virus could sit in the background and compute the hashes of the files in these common folders and report the hash list back to it's creator.
...And what exactly happens if the FBI confiscates your computer?? Tards...
Car wax (like turtle wax) will get out really big scratches, but it will live lots of swirl marks. Personally, I use turtle wax only if necessary, followed by meguiar's auto polish to fill the swirl marks and tiny scratches. You'll never be able to tell it was ever scratched, and this procedure has saved my discs several times.
"Hubris" and "obviate" eh? Studying your vocab. for the GRE?