According to Deutsch's book The Fabric of Reality (iirc) one of the consequences of Many Worlds is that time travel is logically possible. You can travel back to a different parallel universe and it doesn't matter if you kill your grandfather there because you're not in the same universe you were born in. It's a far-fetched example but it shows that you can't rule out the possibility of a definitive test of Many Worlds.
Reminds me of a recent dailywtf "how to write a method to calculate factorial thread". I know I've been in development too long when I start by writing
Exactly. It looks tricky, but once you realise it's a kite-shape it becomes a lot easier - especially pt iii where the perpendiculars in the two triangles are then coplanar.
Incidentally, the phrasing of the question is confusing - the point E is introduced but is neither properly defined nor used.
Even the Dagbladet article pointed out that it was a minority suggestion. In fact the
guy in the photo is a member of the majority on the committee who oppose the proposal. It sounds like a pretty dysfunctional committee.
I have it on good authority that Dudley Dursley turns out to be the last horcrux. Harry cleverly kills Voldemort by stuffing Dudley down Voldermort's throat.
One of these days, when the kids have moved away and I'm quietly retired, I'm really going to have to try all those psychadelics I missed out on when I was young. (ie all of them) (one at a time)
Puts me in mind of my dear old Cambridge College library where the "No Refreshments" sign had been vandalised to read "No Freshmen". I had always believed that fresher is an abbreviation of "freshman". The OED seems to agree with me - finding uses of the term "freshman" in a British context from the 16thC up to modern times.
My mother came back from her cruise-of-a-lifetime with her new digital camera. "Here" she says,
"I'll get the thingie from the camera and you can put the photos on your computer". Two minutes later
she comes in and hands me.... a battery. "This is not a good sign", thinks I. Later digging around in her actual memory card produces a handful of pictures from the second half of the voyage. What happened to the rest is a mystery, but they were probably wiped by a "helpful" crew-member who provided some "tech-support" of his own at one point during the cruise.
That's possibly a good thing. Pissing off a few file-sharers won't make any difference, but
if they piss off the big ISP's then they may have a fight on their hands.
You can be rude...
or you could point out why this is a bad idea. It's not like he
suggested putting "." at the front of the path. Putting
. at the end of the path is potentially dangerous only if there
are trojans around based on common typos.
Has anyone ever seen such malware in the wild?
Direct measurements of variation in solar brightness (irradiation) don't really go back before
the space age. There are various kinds of proxy measurements that can push it back further.
Sunspots can go back to Galileo, or earlier with care. Solar magnetic fields also influence
the rate of cosmic-ray bombardment which can be measured over geological timescales.
The direct effect of changes in solar brightness are probably small. (These guys
http://pda.physorg.com/lofi-news-solar-since-sun_6 15.html are a respectable source.)
A more controversial idea is that the modulation of the cosmic ray flux by the
heliospheric magnetic field affects the rate of cloud formation on Earth
( http://www.dsri.dk/sun-climate/NewPublications.htm). The idea isn't silly, but it's definitely "fringe",
plus nobody really knows what effect it would have on climate if it was true.
Btw, I'm very impressed with the standard of some of the discussion here. It's good
to see people rationally debating the merits of prevention v. adaptation, for example.
It sounds like a good idea to me. I'm always getting confused between Sweden and Switzerland, New Guinea and Guyana, that kind of thing. If every nation had to carry its own identity card at all times it would be much easier to tell them apart.
I don't think it becomes useless if the messages are out of order. There are only 50000 possible starting positions on the pad, so just decrypt the message
against each position in turn and check which of those looks like a plausible
plaintext (e.g. by frequency analysis).
I don't get the quasar thing, though. Do quasar signals have no temporal
correlation? Perhaps I should just read the damn paper...
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According to Deutsch's book The Fabric of Reality (iirc) one of the consequences of Many Worlds is that time travel is logically possible. You can travel back to a different parallel universe and it doesn't matter if you kill your grandfather there because you're not in the same universe you were born in. It's a far-fetched example but it shows that you can't rule out the possibility of a definitive test of Many Worlds.
I bought some children's dvds from amazon about four years ago. I'm still getting recommendations for dvds for the same age group.
Reminds me of a recent dailywtf "how to write a method to calculate factorial thread". I know I've been in development too long when I start by writing
void testFactorial(){
assertTrue(120, factorial(5));
}
Exactly. It looks tricky, but once you realise it's a kite-shape it becomes a lot easier - especially pt iii where the perpendiculars in the two triangles are then coplanar. Incidentally, the phrasing of the question is confusing - the point E is introduced but is neither properly defined nor used.
The problem requires calculating certain angles. This certainly requires use of some trigonometry - I think the simplest way uses the cosine rule.
There were plenty of retail outlets for "genitals in movement" when I lived in Norway from 1998-2001. Have things changed?
How old is Svein Willassen?
Even the Dagbladet article pointed out that it was a minority suggestion. In fact the guy in the photo is a member of the majority on the committee who oppose the proposal. It sounds like a pretty dysfunctional committee.
I have it on good authority that Dudley Dursley turns out to be the last horcrux. Harry cleverly kills Voldemort by stuffing Dudley down Voldermort's throat.
One of these days, when the kids have moved away and I'm quietly retired, I'm really going to have to try all those psychadelics I missed out on when I was young. (ie all of them) (one at a time)
Puts me in mind of my dear old Cambridge College library where the "No Refreshments" sign had been vandalised to read "No Freshmen". I had always believed that fresher is an abbreviation of "freshman". The OED seems to agree with me - finding uses of the term "freshman" in a British context from the 16thC up to modern times.
I've always believed that the more I know the less I understand. But I've never before given much thought to the converse.
Please post a link to this story. I so want it to be true.
I like this guy's stuff - http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/researchers/mirr/ researcher/300. His
paper on Lord of the Rings-based sexploitation movies at last-year's
Tolkien-2005 conference was, er, unique. As was the video-show at the party
afterwards.
It's a typo for "noobium".
My mother came back from her cruise-of-a-lifetime with her new digital camera. "Here" she says, "I'll get the thingie from the camera and you can put the photos on your computer". Two minutes later she comes in and hands me .... a battery. "This is not a good sign", thinks I. Later digging around in her actual memory card produces a handful of pictures from the second half of the voyage. What happened to the rest is a mystery, but they were probably wiped by a "helpful" crew-member who provided some "tech-support" of his own at one point during the cruise.
That's possibly a good thing. Pissing off a few file-sharers won't make any difference, but if they piss off the big ISP's then they may have a fight on their hands.
You can be rude ...
or you could point out why this is a bad idea. It's not like he suggested putting "." at the front of the path. Putting . at the end of the path is potentially dangerous only if there are trojans around based on common typos.
Has anyone ever seen such malware in the wild?
The direct effect of changes in solar brightness are probably small. (These guys http://pda.physorg.com/lofi-news-solar-since-sun_
Btw, I'm very impressed with the standard of some of the discussion here. It's good to see people rationally debating the merits of prevention v. adaptation, for example.
Perhaps you _are_ going mad and are just imagining all these people agreeing with
you about the spelling of "lose".
--
Yours Faithfully
yr. diseased imagination
"Jap Egghead Senility Breakthrough" would be the British tabloid version.
On the other hand, I believe the iLoo spawned a _cottaging_ industry.
It sounds like a good idea to me. I'm always getting confused between Sweden and Switzerland, New Guinea and Guyana, that kind of thing. If every nation had to carry its own identity card at all times it would be much easier to tell them apart.
I don't think it becomes useless if the messages are out of order. There are only 50000 possible starting positions on the pad, so just decrypt the message against each position in turn and check which of those looks like a plausible plaintext (e.g. by frequency analysis).
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I don't get the quasar thing, though. Do quasar signals have no temporal correlation? Perhaps I should just read the damn paper
"Possession of an offensive wife"