The only problem is... will they find 11 people to play this game? If they don't it might be quite hard to pass the test of trust!:-P
Seriously, though, will anyone bother making clans there? What for? Not for protection against other clans... so for what? For votes in the tests? Oh great, are we going to transport the worst bits of politics (without the only good bits, ie actually doing positive stuff for society) and go and pay to play that???
No! No sex, drugs and rock'n'roll! However, we invite you to take part in our highly interesting tests!!!
For instance:
The test of Trust. To complete this challenge, a player must place a significant amount of gold in a ritual vault, and give keys to ten high-level individuals. If, after 24 hours, none of the ten powerful individuals has stolen the gold, then the player really does know who to trust. He passes the test, and gains a level in leadership.
Fascinating, is it not? What about this one!
The test of the Bedouin. You must travel the land in search of the most remote, the most strange and unheard-of locales. In these places you will find altars, and you must anoint these altars with exotic spices and essences. These gods know who has found the most mysterious of places. The persistence, fortitude and endurance of these players is rewarded with a level in the discipline of the human body.
I say, you will have NO END OF FUN with this game! Buy it now! Run to the store!! You know you want to!!!
So hold on, maybe someone knowledgeable can answer this question for me... if I write, say, a servlet, that I integrate with, say, Jetty, then I can compile that with gjc and have it running as a NATIVE application under linux?
If the answer is yes, is there a way to do this under windows too??
I'd like to understand, cause I don't get this... what exactly is wrong with the word "paper", that everyone feels so compelled to use "dead trees" instead? Is it some sort of ecologically correct movement or something? In any case, it's disturbing and stupid.
You gotta keep the pigeons alive somewhere - if there's an earthquake or a dirty bomb or whatever it's a fair bet that if the electronic communications system don't make it, neither will the pigeons (nor you, most likely...).
Unless it's an attack specifically targetted on electronics only, of course.
Yup, and carry a portable radio with you if you're scared of catastrophic events. Radio is the one service which should survive any catastrophic event - when the public (govt) radio doesn't survive, it's likely the whole place was wiped out and there are no survivors.
Unless you have a crazy dictator at the head of the country. When Romania was struck by a massive earthquake in the 70's, the radio went silent, even though most people were alright and it could have transmitted. Why? Because they needed to ask for Ceaucescu's permission to announce on the radio that there had been an earthquake, and he was away on holiday somewhere. Thus for several hours the rest of the civilised world thought that Romania had been wiped off the map by this earthquake...
But normally, radio is one thing which has enough backups everywhere that it will survive.
Yup, but in the paid GPL case, the GPL actually extends the rights you would expect to have from buying a box with software in it, whereas if you buy a usual proprietary software, the licence decreases the rights you could expect to have on that software (eg the right to resell it).
A good comparison is a book, which has existed for so long that the rights you expect to get from buying a book are well established. You buy a book, you expect to be allowed to lend it, you expect to be allowed to sell it second hand. You buy a GPL'ed software, you have the extra rights that you can alter the book, reprint it, redistribute it, etc. You buy a proprietary software, you lose the right to lend it, and in some cases you even lose the right to resell it second hand!
Hmm... not in our current form. I don't think we'd be able to survive in our current form, even slowed down, if the temperature gradient across our entire Hubble Sphere (the bit of universe we can interact with) was 0.1 degrees...
Sorry mate, I have a degree in physics and you're talking out of your arse:-)
Even if we can pick up dark matter and turn it into energy, the quantities are not limitless (though certainly huge). They only push the problem back by a few hundred billion years at the most.
You could actually technically live forever by moving your mind into some huge and subtle machine that slows down your thoughts (and thus the expenditure of energy) progressively as time passes (obviously no need to do that for the first few billions of years). By the end, you might have one atomic thought per X years, where X is an insanely huge number (and growing all the time) but technically you'd still be alive, and unless some bad shit happened (which, I'll admit, is fairly likely in an infinite lifespan), you could go on living like that for a very long time indeed, approaching infinity.
Don't wet your panties yet, we still have billions of years to go to figure out some way out of this mess (assuming we don't wipe ourselves out in a "nucular" war first...)
That's a pretty unfair perspective on physics. It's rather more than just 'black box testing'. Or if you want to take it as 'black box testing', then you'd have to consider a black box with an infinite number of continuous inputs, and an infinite number of continuous outputs, each of which can produce an infinite, continuous number of values. And "valid" physics theories are those which consistently predict the right outputs given an infinite number of infinite, continuous sets of inputs.
A bit more than a black box in my opinion.
Sure, electron or energy or dark energy are labels for bits and pieces in theories, but that doesn't mean that the concepts which they label are not valid and observed. A good example of this is quarks - you could ask "how do they know the stuff inside hadrons is quarks?" They don't, per se. What they know is that the stuff inside hadrons has a certain number of characteristics, and that's the characteristics that describe what we call "quarks". All of physics is like that, but that doesn't make it any less useful or insightful.
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"I don't get paid anything for being their CEO, but they send me $5mil every year cause they like me so much." ...
Daniel
With my luck I bet I'll be the one who's living at normal speed while everyone else has slowed to extremely slow thoughts... How boring...
Daniel
Yes, Jetty is a lightweight servlet container, so written in Java.
But would a windows user be able to use the compiled version without having cygwin installed??
Daniel
The only problem is... will they find 11 people to play this game? If they don't it might be quite hard to pass the test of trust! :-P
Seriously, though, will anyone bother making clans there? What for? Not for protection against other clans... so for what? For votes in the tests? Oh great, are we going to transport the worst bits of politics (without the only good bits, ie actually doing positive stuff for society) and go and pay to play that???
I mean, hell...
Daniel
No! No sex, drugs and rock'n'roll! However, we invite you to take part in our highly interesting tests!!!
For instance:
The test of Trust. To complete this challenge, a player must place a significant amount of gold in a ritual vault, and give keys to ten high-level individuals. If, after 24 hours, none of the ten powerful individuals has stolen the gold, then the player really does know who to trust. He passes the test, and gains a level in leadership.
Fascinating, is it not? What about this one!
The test of the Bedouin. You must travel the land in search of the most remote, the most strange and unheard-of locales. In these places you will find altars, and you must anoint these altars with exotic spices and essences. These gods know who has found the most mysterious of places. The persistence, fortitude and endurance of these players is rewarded with a level in the discipline of the human body.
I say, you will have NO END OF FUN with this game! Buy it now! Run to the store!! You know you want to!!!
Daniel
Please do so - but tell me where you work first so I can take over!
:-)
kthxby
Daniel
So hold on, maybe someone knowledgeable can answer this question for me... if I write, say, a servlet, that I integrate with, say, Jetty, then I can compile that with gjc and have it running as a NATIVE application under linux?
If the answer is yes, is there a way to do this under windows too??
Daniel
roflmao @ Detroit... :-P
:-)
Mod parent up!!! Funny!
Daniel
I want to know too.
Daniel
Actually, as far as I know the energy density (per weight of material) of hydrogen is greater than that of hydrocarbons.
Check this link for more information.
Daniel
A: Go back to the future, you Anonymous Coward! :-)
B: *turns around*
B: Nobody calls me an Anonymous Coward!!!
Daniel
I'd like to understand, cause I don't get this... what exactly is wrong with the word "paper", that everyone feels so compelled to use "dead trees" instead? Is it some sort of ecologically correct movement or something? In any case, it's disturbing and stupid.
Daniel
You gotta keep the pigeons alive somewhere - if there's an earthquake or a dirty bomb or whatever it's a fair bet that if the electronic communications system don't make it, neither will the pigeons (nor you, most likely...).
Unless it's an attack specifically targetted on electronics only, of course.
Daniel
Yup, and carry a portable radio with you if you're scared of catastrophic events. Radio is the one service which should survive any catastrophic event - when the public (govt) radio doesn't survive, it's likely the whole place was wiped out and there are no survivors.
Unless you have a crazy dictator at the head of the country. When Romania was struck by a massive earthquake in the 70's, the radio went silent, even though most people were alright and it could have transmitted. Why? Because they needed to ask for Ceaucescu's permission to announce on the radio that there had been an earthquake, and he was away on holiday somewhere. Thus for several hours the rest of the civilised world thought that Romania had been wiped off the map by this earthquake...
But normally, radio is one thing which has enough backups everywhere that it will survive.
Daniel
"Strong or Weak Typing doesn't make good programs. Good programmers make good programs."
Daniel
Yup, but in the paid GPL case, the GPL actually extends the rights you would expect to have from buying a box with software in it, whereas if you buy a usual proprietary software, the licence decreases the rights you could expect to have on that software (eg the right to resell it).
A good comparison is a book, which has existed for so long that the rights you expect to get from buying a book are well established. You buy a book, you expect to be allowed to lend it, you expect to be allowed to sell it second hand. You buy a GPL'ed software, you have the extra rights that you can alter the book, reprint it, redistribute it, etc. You buy a proprietary software, you lose the right to lend it, and in some cases you even lose the right to resell it second hand!
Hence the decrease/increase perspective.
Daniel
So sue me :-P
:-P
Oh well, I didn't pick up the irony when I read it. Shoot.
Daniel
Yup, true... unless you start at t=0 with an infinite speed of thinking, lol :-) Oh well, still, could extend your life by quite a stretch...
Daniel
I still think it's better than:
:-)
Q: Why did the universe come into being?
A: Because God willed it to be.
Q: Why did God come into being?
A: Because He did.
The former actually passes Occam's razor, at least
Daniel
Hmm... not in our current form. I don't think we'd be able to survive in our current form, even slowed down, if the temperature gradient across our entire Hubble Sphere (the bit of universe we can interact with) was 0.1 degrees...
Daniel
The more interesting religions and philosophies realise that everything is already one :-)
:-)
Yeah, yeah, that's just an opinion, but so's yours
Daniel
Sorry mate, I have a degree in physics and you're talking out of your arse :-)
Even if we can pick up dark matter and turn it into energy, the quantities are not limitless (though certainly huge). They only push the problem back by a few hundred billion years at the most.
Daniel
You could actually technically live forever by moving your mind into some huge and subtle machine that slows down your thoughts (and thus the expenditure of energy) progressively as time passes (obviously no need to do that for the first few billions of years). By the end, you might have one atomic thought per X years, where X is an insanely huge number (and growing all the time) but technically you'd still be alive, and unless some bad shit happened (which, I'll admit, is fairly likely in an infinite lifespan), you could go on living like that for a very long time indeed, approaching infinity.
Daniel
Don't wet your panties yet, we still have billions of years to go to figure out some way out of this mess (assuming we don't wipe ourselves out in a "nucular" war first...)
Daniel
That's a pretty unfair perspective on physics. It's rather more than just 'black box testing'. Or if you want to take it as 'black box testing', then you'd have to consider a black box with an infinite number of continuous inputs, and an infinite number of continuous outputs, each of which can produce an infinite, continuous number of values. And "valid" physics theories are those which consistently predict the right outputs given an infinite number of infinite, continuous sets of inputs.
A bit more than a black box in my opinion.
Sure, electron or energy or dark energy are labels for bits and pieces in theories, but that doesn't mean that the concepts which they label are not valid and observed. A good example of this is quarks - you could ask "how do they know the stuff inside hadrons is quarks?" They don't, per se. What they know is that the stuff inside hadrons has a certain number of characteristics, and that's the characteristics that describe what we call "quarks". All of physics is like that, but that doesn't make it any less useful or insightful.
Daniel