Well, in that case, wait for event X to happen, and then short the stock. If you are right, you can make a lot of money that way. That is the nice part about the stock market - if you can spot any inefficiencies, you can make money on it.
Welcome to the modern world, post 1648 or so. Governments hold all kinds of power that your average citizen don't get. Try to lock up your neighbor in a jail of your own making and see how far you get.
I know you are joking, but this kind of stuff is actually very important to historians. For example, the only reason we are able to reconstruct how many hours a day people worked in the medieval era is by looking at court records - the judge will ask things like "what were you doing at five" and the person will respond with answers like "eating" or "sleeping" or "working", and by going though a lot of court records, we were able to guess at how people lived back then.
This will allow the historian of the future to guess much more accurately.
I am not too sure that my 128 bit base 2 register will use more power then your 64 bit base 3 register. That is dependent on how big our respective elements are, and it is entirely possible that my base 2 elements will be much smaller then your 3 bit elements.
a 32 bit base 8 system would be considerably less powerful then a 128 bit base 2 system, which exist right now, and isn't all that scary. (8^32 2^128)
There is a reason why we use binary systems - it is simply the most efficient ways to do things. Software wouldn't really care which base the underlying hardware is working on.
Correct. But 64 bits base 3 is no where near as good as 128 bits base 2. It is not exponential. In fact, you might even call it the opposite of exponential, or logarithmic.
Consider the following: If you want a base 4 computer, I can emulate that with a 2 bit base 2 computer. If you want a base 8 computer, I can emulate that with a 3 bit base 2 computer. If you want a base 16 computer, I can emulate that with a 4 bit base 2 computer. If you want a base 32 computer, I can emulate that with a 5 bit base 2 computer. If you want a base 64 computer, I can emulate that with a 6 bit base 2 computer. If you want a base 128 computer, I can emulate that with a 7 bit base 2 computer. If you want a base 256 computer, I can emulate that with a 8 bit base 2 computer.
Keep in mind that our computers are 64 bits. While we have no idea how precise the brain's computations are, it is highly unlikely that it is more then 64 bits (64 bits is base a whole lot), which suggest that 100 Trillion operations per second is what we are talking about on the hardware level. 100 TFLOPS is well within this decade. 1000 TFLOPS at 128 bits is well within the next 20 years.
That is sort of my point - a computer that have 32 4 state "bits" would be the same as a computer that have 64 2 state bits. On a 64 bit machine, for example, you can add two very large numbers in a single operation in a 64 bit machine. You can do the same with a base 1.84467441×10^19 machine, there are no difference bewteen the two.
A CPU can do considerably more then one computational action per second, and they have been capable of that since the 80s. You do that by having multiple ALUs and FPUs. For example, the NVIDIA gtx 280 can do 933 GFLOPS (billion floating point operations per second) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-9969234-23.html
A Pentium 4 processor is a 32 bit processor, so I am not too sure what the hell you are talking about there. It operates on base 4 billion, give or take a bit.
Not really. Something that operate on base 4 is only about twice as power as what we have now. (Just think of groups of two transistors as a single unit, and viola, 4 states.)
As for logic operations per second, my video card can easily do trillions of processes per second, and if 100 trillion is the bar, I am sure that NVIDIA or AMD will cross it in well under a decade.
Rather low interest rate though. A dollar worth of gold coins from 1000 years ago are not worth very much today (compared to the millions that one could get in theory with banks)
Historically, real interest rates (the nominal interest rate - inflation) have been about 2%. So in 1000 years, that 93 cents will be worth about 370 million in inflation adjusted terms. A respectable sum.
No, but it does say that the supreme court have the authority to decide whether it is in accordance or not. Which more or less allows them nullify it, as they merely have to say that whatever they are doing is in accordance with the law.
Actually, if you kill enough of the civilian population, you start reducing the number of enemies. After a while, the terrorists will run out of people to recruit.
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Well, there is also stock buybacks. If you own stock in a company that does well, they would be more capable of doing stock buybacks.
Note that all of them are violent crimes. We are not exactly talking about a pound of pot here.
Well, in that case, wait for event X to happen, and then short the stock. If you are right, you can make a lot of money that way. That is the nice part about the stock market - if you can spot any inefficiencies, you can make money on it.
Volkswagen L1 will indeed get better mileage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car
Welcome to the modern world, post 1648 or so. Governments hold all kinds of power that your average citizen don't get. Try to lock up your neighbor in a jail of your own making and see how far you get.
wouldn't this story generate even more free ads?
I know you are joking, but this kind of stuff is actually very important to historians. For example, the only reason we are able to reconstruct how many hours a day people worked in the medieval era is by looking at court records - the judge will ask things like "what were you doing at five" and the person will respond with answers like "eating" or "sleeping" or "working", and by going though a lot of court records, we were able to guess at how people lived back then.
This will allow the historian of the future to guess much more accurately.
I am not too sure that my 128 bit base 2 register will use more power then your 64 bit base 3 register. That is dependent on how big our respective elements are, and it is entirely possible that my base 2 elements will be much smaller then your 3 bit elements.
a 32 bit base 8 system would be considerably less powerful then a 128 bit base 2 system, which exist right now, and isn't all that scary. (8^32 2^128)
There is a reason why we use binary systems - it is simply the most efficient ways to do things. Software wouldn't really care which base the underlying hardware is working on.
Correct. But 64 bits base 3 is no where near as good as 128 bits base 2. It is not exponential. In fact, you might even call it the opposite of exponential, or logarithmic.
Consider the following:
If you want a base 4 computer, I can emulate that with a 2 bit base 2 computer.
If you want a base 8 computer, I can emulate that with a 3 bit base 2 computer.
If you want a base 16 computer, I can emulate that with a 4 bit base 2 computer.
If you want a base 32 computer, I can emulate that with a 5 bit base 2 computer.
If you want a base 64 computer, I can emulate that with a 6 bit base 2 computer.
If you want a base 128 computer, I can emulate that with a 7 bit base 2 computer.
If you want a base 256 computer, I can emulate that with a 8 bit base 2 computer.
Keep in mind that our computers are 64 bits. While we have no idea how precise the brain's computations are, it is highly unlikely that it is more then 64 bits (64 bits is base a whole lot), which suggest that 100 Trillion operations per second is what we are talking about on the hardware level. 100 TFLOPS is well within this decade. 1000 TFLOPS at 128 bits is well within the next 20 years.
That is sort of my point - a computer that have 32 4 state "bits" would be the same as a computer that have 64 2 state bits. On a 64 bit machine, for example, you can add two very large numbers in a single operation in a 64 bit machine. You can do the same with a base 1.84467441×10^19 machine, there are no difference bewteen the two.
A CPU can do considerably more then one computational action per second, and they have been capable of that since the 80s. You do that by having multiple ALUs and FPUs. For example, the NVIDIA gtx 280 can do 933 GFLOPS (billion floating point operations per second)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-9969234-23.html
A Pentium 4 processor is a 32 bit processor, so I am not too sure what the hell you are talking about there. It operates on base 4 billion, give or take a bit.
Not really. Something that operate on base 4 is only about twice as power as what we have now. (Just think of groups of two transistors as a single unit, and viola, 4 states.)
As for logic operations per second, my video card can easily do trillions of processes per second, and if 100 trillion is the bar, I am sure that NVIDIA or AMD will cross it in well under a decade.
You do know that the transistor count on most computers are on the order of hundreds billions as well, right?
slashdot is not expensive.
Rather low interest rate though. A dollar worth of gold coins from 1000 years ago are not worth very much today (compared to the millions that one could get in theory with banks)
Historically, real interest rates (the nominal interest rate - inflation) have been about 2%. So in 1000 years, that 93 cents will be worth about 370 million in inflation adjusted terms. A respectable sum.
If the grad student is willing to be a TA, he usually won't have to pay for his education.
There is just less money in new online compared to print media. Advertisers are just not as willing to pay as much.
No, but it does say that the supreme court have the authority to decide whether it is in accordance or not. Which more or less allows them nullify it, as they merely have to say that whatever they are doing is in accordance with the law.
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America
What you have posted indicates that Jefferson did not like it very much. That have very little to do with what the constitution actually says.
The constitution spells out pretty clearly who have the right to decide what is constitutional and what is not.
The American revolution was a very well organized event. Much better organized then Tiananmen Square.
Actually, if you kill enough of the civilian population, you start reducing the number of enemies. After a while, the terrorists will run out of people to recruit.