Actually... After remembering while reading the Wiki article on the manuscript where it is suggested that John Dee did in fact sell the book to Emperor Rudolph.
Considering how much of Dee's traveling companion, Edward Kelley, was a dubious fraud, he might have wrote the book to earn them some traveling money.
If you want my theory, we're dealing with an unknown autistic artist's work.
Actually... Here is my theory. During the time this book appeared, cryptology was a really big craze in Europe. Persons like John Dee and fellows like him spent a great deal of time and money hunting for books on the subject in Northern Europe.
Someone thought to take advantage of this and wrote a book with nothing but gibberish and sold it to one of those book hunters at top dollar.
Say goodbye to bacon pizzas, tasty and meaty hamburgers, hot dogs, a good grilled steak with french fries and most importantly, delicious food.
No. It means 'real beef' made from free range cows will be bought at specialty stores for top dollar rather than this mass produced anti-biotic, hormoned, rotten grain fed crap they try to pass off as 'beef' now.
Seriously... Have you ever bought and ate a real steak. No... Not the kind you buy at Western Corral, but the NY cut or Filet mignon aged beef marinated over 24 hours cooked by a professional with the right blend of herbs spices that melts in your mouth usually costing you over 30-40 or even $100 per plate (depending on where you go) combined with a matched set of alcohol. Mmmm... I'm getting hungry....
Anyways... I really doubt you're going to be able to tell the difference between the current stock meat that goes into hotdogs and McDonald's burgers and the vat grown they are talking about.
Just shoot the fuckers already. Pretty soon there won't be any more of them.
International law forbids merchant vessels from being armed for a specific reason.
I mean would you want a bunch of random foreigners in NYC or San Fran port with military grade weapons at arms reach?
Secondly it makes for questionably transportation of illegal weapons quasi-legal:
I mean if they allowed it, and they caught a North Korean bought with AKs and naval rockets on the way to Iran "Yeah... We're using these to... protect ourselves from pirates... That's right!"
Lets say we have a tabby, an ocelot, and a simulation that we are told models one of the two. Given that we're able to perform any kind of scan or procedure on the two animals, could we determine which species the simulation was using only that data?
I'm not a neuro-scientist. Just a fan of it.
But its the different between looking at a brain of a brown field mouse, white lab mouse, and a hamster.
You could probably tell the different between the mice and the hamster by looking at the structure, but you can't really tell which one was which of the brown and white mouse.
I mean if you were allowed to examine more than that you could by fatty content and size based off assumptions of the animals diet.
I suppose you could assume that the field mouse had different diet conditions than the lab one...
But yeah, if we are talking about two completely different cat species of a house cat and an ocelot, you could just look at the brain structure if it were modeled correctly and say... This is that species.
AFAIK, we don't have single-neuron level imaging, and the resolution on FMRI and EEG put those right out.
Just so that you know... We can get higher resolutions on brains neurons by invasive means such as cutting the brain apart and looking at live cells slice by slice under a powerful microscope.
It is rather tedious and gruesome but it is a viable way to look at the neurons directly.
Its even been to done to humans after they have passed away, but animals you can sort of get away with doing it while the subject is still "hot". (Oh I am making this sound worse than it is)
As far as non-invasive resolutions, yes, so far we don't have individual neuron levels but doesn't mean we have other means.
Take your laptop, the freedom to transfer your photos locally, and ready internet access with wifi will make it worthwhile. There are internet cafes around, but it'll be more fuss to find one and time out of your vacation, rather than just packing a power convertor and changing your wifi settings.
I can't believe anyone is missing the real point of this trip.
When he comes back to US there is a 50/50 chance they will demand to search the files on his laptop (which is totally asinine as anyone really worth their intelligence will just keep anything worth finding hidden on the internet and not on the laptop).
So yes... Bring your laptop. But whatever you do... Do not put anything.. And I mean ANYTHING! on it that you do not want other eyes looking at.
Weather this be resumes, bank account information, or even MP3s and software. The customs will question it. They will also throw a fit if you refuse to unlock an encrypted partition if you find it.
Some people advise doing the whole hidden partition true crypt setup, but I say its not worth the hassle and keep everything that I need access to stored remotely without saving any history or addresses on the laptop.
Which is also handy if loose or have the laptop stolen they won't get to your personal things.
Oh, hey! We were about to build a hyperspace bypass through your solar system. But now that we know it's inhabited, we'll reroute that and give you an on-ramp.
Haven't I read this from somewhere before... Except they didn't reroute the hyperspace bypass.
...if you dump enough energy into the air near an infinitely-shiny object to explosively transform the nearby air into a plasma, the shiny object still probably gets a big dent in it. Probably even more so if the shiny object is supersonic.
I remember reading a SciFi book once about war in 2020 where the new apache like helicopter had smoke chaff of dust born particles to scatter the laser light of attacking craft trying to melt them.
I think that would be the only reasonable defense.
Of course you really wouldn't be able to see anything yourself and if it was really windy or you were moving really fast it wouldn't work.
Nor would it really be feasible with the whole turbulence from the chopper itself... Well it was an ok book.
There is also the side benefit of locking down the user so much the system is hard to break, which reduces support costs. I'd rather deal with potentially breaking a system than to not be able to use it to its fullest potential.
I had a conversation with a user about helping him customize an program gui once and the support session last for quite some time. Then it dawned on him to say "Funny. We spend so much time actually configuring our programs to do what we want, we don't actually have the time to use them. "
I non-nonchalantly agreed because I was paid by the hour.
I beg to differ. Access have a viable solution if you care about your datas: Use access as a front-end to a MsSQL back-end. You have then all the power of Access as a RAD tool with the integrity of a real database.
FFS!!!! Use MS Sharepoint for crying out loud! Its the official recommendation of Microsoft.
Heck they are pushing their user base out of Access and into.NET with the fact they are trying to drop Access support. Even they know its a horrid program.
So what would be the effect on Add-on development? Would it make it more difficult to develop them? Would it constrain the Add-on developers?
Its the same reason why IE made it easier to develop web pages by tolerating broken HTML code.
People were using unintended features to make their work easier, but then when the unintended feature was removed then it breaks a lot of things.
In that respect, the developers should have wrote to spec in the first place rather than taking advantage of loopholes because it might get fixed one day.
There are certain categories of product in the UK that Amazon must charge VAT and then pay that to the Gov; if they can do it here - and elsewhere in Europe - why not in the US?
There is some explicit stuff in the US constitution that forbids the US Fed from interfering with the state revenue process and cannot tax state revenue.
Also it isn't allowed to raise taxes on behalf of states on interstate commerce... It can however tax corps and citizens directly and give the states money out of its pocket.
As some states do not have sales tax, it may be a problematic thing for the Fed to do.
Proving these violations is REALLY EASY for a state. They simply need your bank statements and credit card statements, and they look for checks and credit purchaseds from out-of-state companies they already know don;t colelct tax, and then bill you the tax, times three, plus interest and penalties (usually ending up somewhere around 7 times the taxes you should have paid). This process takes about 30-60 minutes for the agent, and you get screwed. I know SEVERAL families who have gone through this recently, having made numerous large purchases online.
Which is why you just need to suck it up and move to Delaware.
Gravititic potential energy is another largely untapped resource.
I always had a hunch you could tap into gravitation forces at high levels of free fall between two celestial objects using something like a flywheel storage system
Of course it would be only useful for autonomous deep space voyages where solar energy is at a minimum and you're basically in a vacuum anyways with low power requirements and you are going to be orbit for a long time.
Otherwise for large energy needs you'd still need nuclear.
The code worked, but I didn't understand why and said so. Is that bad coding? It worked!
Yes. It's bad coding. Very very bad coding. And, no offense, but it indicates intellectual laziness on your part.
I dunno. The problem with a lot of code is that it is quite possible that it works and not even the people who wrote the API knows why it is.
I worked tech support a few years at company writing foxpro code who got on a conference call with Microsoft before and they told us they didn't know why it was doing this either because as far as their documentation was concerned it shouldn't be working under those circumstances.
And as management was concerned we were wasting time and MS support call fees if we continued any further on the matter.
Sometimes you have to call back. Sometimes you have to escalate to a manager. Sometimes you have to do both. In all cases it helps to not start out by being a jerk to the CSR who almost certainly isn't personally responsible for whatever situation you're calling about.
If I have to do any of the above (except for being a jerk thing) then it really isn't worth my business.
If I am calling CS or tech support. Something is wrong with that in the first place. Its not normal and should not be treated as such.
Ergo. I took my business elsewhere.
Didn't fight the ETF either. It was worth it. That and smashing the phone against the wall.
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Actually... After remembering while reading the Wiki article on the manuscript where it is suggested that John Dee did in fact sell the book to Emperor Rudolph.
Considering how much of Dee's traveling companion, Edward Kelley, was a dubious fraud, he might have wrote the book to earn them some traveling money.
If you want my theory, we're dealing with an unknown autistic artist's work.
Actually... Here is my theory. During the time this book appeared, cryptology was a really big craze in Europe. Persons like John Dee and fellows like him spent a great deal of time and money hunting for books on the subject in Northern Europe.
Someone thought to take advantage of this and wrote a book with nothing but gibberish and sold it to one of those book hunters at top dollar.
Its not the most efficient way, but often it is the most practical and economical.
Also, if the pipe breaks, then its not really that bad of a cleanup.
This is exactly why I never want to move everything "in the cloud", or in to Internet services for that matter.
Well... If the data is neither confidential nor important, I have no problems putting it on "the cloud".
Especially if I want to share it with others.
Secondly, what is the difference between a cloud hosting company and a web hosting company?
Really not that much if you think about it.
Say goodbye to bacon pizzas, tasty and meaty hamburgers, hot dogs, a good grilled steak with french fries and most importantly, delicious food.
No. It means 'real beef' made from free range cows will be bought at specialty stores for top dollar rather than this mass produced anti-biotic, hormoned, rotten grain fed crap they try to pass off as 'beef' now.
Seriously... Have you ever bought and ate a real steak. No... Not the kind you buy at Western Corral, but the NY cut or Filet mignon aged beef marinated over 24 hours cooked by a professional with the right blend of herbs spices that melts in your mouth usually costing you over 30-40 or even $100 per plate (depending on where you go) combined with a matched set of alcohol. Mmmm... I'm getting hungry....
Anyways... I really doubt you're going to be able to tell the difference between the current stock meat that goes into hotdogs and McDonald's burgers and the vat grown they are talking about.
Now... I need that filet mignon.
Just shoot the fuckers already. Pretty soon there won't be any more of them.
International law forbids merchant vessels from being armed for a specific reason.
I mean would you want a bunch of random foreigners in NYC or San Fran port with military grade weapons at arms reach?
Secondly it makes for questionably transportation of illegal weapons quasi-legal:
I mean if they allowed it, and they caught a North Korean bought with AKs and naval rockets on the way to Iran "Yeah... We're using these to... protect ourselves from pirates... That's right!"
Lets say we have a tabby, an ocelot, and a simulation that we are told models one of the two. Given that we're able to perform any kind of scan or procedure on the two animals, could we determine which species the simulation was using only that data?
I'm not a neuro-scientist. Just a fan of it.
But its the different between looking at a brain of a brown field mouse, white lab mouse, and a hamster.
You could probably tell the different between the mice and the hamster by looking at the structure, but you can't really tell which one was which of the brown and white mouse.
I mean if you were allowed to examine more than that you could by fatty content and size based off assumptions of the animals diet.
I suppose you could assume that the field mouse had different diet conditions than the lab one...
But yeah, if we are talking about two completely different cat species of a house cat and an ocelot, you could just look at the brain structure if it were modeled correctly and say... This is that species.
AFAIK, we don't have single-neuron level imaging, and the resolution on FMRI and EEG put those right out.
Just so that you know... We can get higher resolutions on brains neurons by invasive means such as cutting the brain apart and looking at live cells slice by slice under a powerful microscope.
It is rather tedious and gruesome but it is a viable way to look at the neurons directly.
Its even been to done to humans after they have passed away, but animals you can sort of get away with doing it while the subject is still "hot". (Oh I am making this sound worse than it is)
As far as non-invasive resolutions, yes, so far we don't have individual neuron levels but doesn't mean we have other means.
Take your laptop, the freedom to transfer your photos locally, and ready internet access with wifi will make it worthwhile. There are internet cafes around, but it'll be more fuss to find one and time out of your vacation, rather than just packing a power convertor and changing your wifi settings.
I can't believe anyone is missing the real point of this trip.
When he comes back to US there is a 50/50 chance they will demand to search the files on his laptop (which is totally asinine as anyone really worth their intelligence will just keep anything worth finding hidden on the internet and not on the laptop).
So yes... Bring your laptop. But whatever you do... Do not put anything.. And I mean ANYTHING! on it that you do not want other eyes looking at.
Weather this be resumes, bank account information, or even MP3s and software. The customs will question it. They will also throw a fit if you refuse to unlock an encrypted partition if you find it.
Some people advise doing the whole hidden partition true crypt setup, but I say its not worth the hassle and keep everything that I need access to stored remotely without saving any history or addresses on the laptop.
Which is also handy if loose or have the laptop stolen they won't get to your personal things.
Oh, hey! We were about to build a hyperspace bypass through your solar system. But now that we know it's inhabited, we'll reroute that and give you an on-ramp.
Haven't I read this from somewhere before... Except they didn't reroute the hyperspace bypass.
Just a word about Afghanistan...
The Soviets tried invading it like WWII and still lost.
They had no qualms about carpet bombing villages or shelling it ground level. They would even storm them with full tank brigades.
They would execute suspected guerrillas on the spot without question.
They still lost that war.
...if you dump enough energy into the air near an infinitely-shiny object to explosively transform the nearby air into a plasma, the shiny object still probably gets a big dent in it. Probably even more so if the shiny object is supersonic.
I remember reading a SciFi book once about war in 2020 where the new apache like helicopter had smoke chaff of dust born particles to scatter the laser light of attacking craft trying to melt them.
I think that would be the only reasonable defense.
Of course you really wouldn't be able to see anything yourself and if it was really windy or you were moving really fast it wouldn't work.
Nor would it really be feasible with the whole turbulence from the chopper itself... Well it was an ok book.
There is also the side benefit of locking down the user so much the system is hard to break, which reduces support costs. I'd rather deal with potentially breaking a system than to not be able to use it to its fullest potential.
I had a conversation with a user about helping him customize an program gui once and the support session last for quite some time. Then it dawned on him to say "Funny. We spend so much time actually configuring our programs to do what we want, we don't actually have the time to use them. "
I non-nonchalantly agreed because I was paid by the hour.
I beg to differ. Access have a viable solution if you care about your datas: Use access as a front-end to a MsSQL back-end. You have then all the power of Access as a RAD tool with the integrity of a real database.
FFS!!!! Use MS Sharepoint for crying out loud! Its the official recommendation of Microsoft.
Heck they are pushing their user base out of Access and into .NET with the fact they are trying to drop Access support. Even they know its a horrid program.
So what would be the effect on Add-on development? Would it make it more difficult to develop them? Would it constrain the Add-on developers?
Its the same reason why IE made it easier to develop web pages by tolerating broken HTML code.
People were using unintended features to make their work easier, but then when the unintended feature was removed then it breaks a lot of things.
In that respect, the developers should have wrote to spec in the first place rather than taking advantage of loopholes because it might get fixed one day.
They've spent millions teaching a computer how to destroy furnature and shit in your shoes.
At least computers don't get cat hair on all your clothes.
And almost forgot to add its the same reason that income from state level municipal bonds are tax exempt from federal income taxes.
Most people aren't aware of that and some people use it to legally avoid federal taxes.
There are certain categories of product in the UK that Amazon must charge VAT and then pay that to the Gov; if they can do it here - and elsewhere in Europe - why not in the US?
There is some explicit stuff in the US constitution that forbids the US Fed from interfering with the state revenue process and cannot tax state revenue.
Also it isn't allowed to raise taxes on behalf of states on interstate commerce... It can however tax corps and citizens directly and give the states money out of its pocket.
As some states do not have sales tax, it may be a problematic thing for the Fed to do.
Charge a single tax rate for all on-line purchases and pay each state based on the amount sold to that state.
Except some states *gasp* like Delaware don't have sales tax.
Sales tax is unfair because it's a regressive tax.
Also a sales tax inhibits economic activity with a artificial and arbitrary price addition.
Though it can at times be a inflation sink as it encourages people to not spend money, but then you end up with a deflationary death spiral.
Proving these violations is REALLY EASY for a state. They simply need your bank statements and credit card statements, and they look for checks and credit purchaseds from out-of-state companies they already know don;t colelct tax, and then bill you the tax, times three, plus interest and penalties (usually ending up somewhere around 7 times the taxes you should have paid). This process takes about 30-60 minutes for the agent, and you get screwed. I know SEVERAL families who have gone through this recently, having made numerous large purchases online.
Which is why you just need to suck it up and move to Delaware.
Gravititic potential energy is another largely untapped resource.
I always had a hunch you could tap into gravitation forces at high levels of free fall between two celestial objects using something like a flywheel storage system
Of course it would be only useful for autonomous deep space voyages where solar energy is at a minimum and you're basically in a vacuum anyways with low power requirements and you are going to be orbit for a long time.
Otherwise for large energy needs you'd still need nuclear.
I dunno. The problem with a lot of code is that it is quite possible that it works and not even the people who wrote the API knows why it is.
I worked tech support a few years at company writing foxpro code who got on a conference call with Microsoft before and they told us they didn't know why it was doing this either because as far as their documentation was concerned it shouldn't be working under those circumstances.
And as management was concerned we were wasting time and MS support call fees if we continued any further on the matter.
Mankind will probably be roaming the stars in search of biodiversity by then.
Wouldn't it be easier to simply build a Dyson spheres and computers as large as planets to simulate bio-diversity if needed.
Sometimes you have to call back. Sometimes you have to escalate to a manager. Sometimes you have to do both. In all cases it helps to not start out by being a jerk to the CSR who almost certainly isn't personally responsible for whatever situation you're calling about.
If I have to do any of the above (except for being a jerk thing) then it really isn't worth my business.
If I am calling CS or tech support. Something is wrong with that in the first place. Its not normal and should not be treated as such.
Ergo. I took my business elsewhere.
Didn't fight the ETF either. It was worth it. That and smashing the phone against the wall.