I'm a variable font user. I used Tahoma for the readability at lower resolutions, but ended up modifying it using a font editor to fix a few annoyances. I increased the width of the space, made all numbers, and punctuation characters the same width, as well as a few other minor tweaks (like adding a dot to the middle of the zero and adjusting the look of some characters like greater/less than signs)
I didn't say "dangerous to Earth". Astronauts in the shuttle and the ISS don't have an atmosphere to protect them from a few grams stamped with "In God We Trust" screaming at them at 15,000 miles per hour.
Irrelevant. Working class doesn't pay cash for cars so $40k is barely relevant... To them the bottom line is how much it costs per month - and since this can be compared to fuel costs per month, the conversation with the salesman is going to be "yes it costs this much more per month for the car, but this much less for fuel"
It's a question of whether one can offset the other. Can it?
The question I am raising is not whether it is possible to have some of your DNA originate from outside your ancestry. I'm questioning how you can distinguish between similarities due to copying in vs copying out.
Considering the necessity of viruses to have some "host-like" code within them, is it not just as possible that viruses got most of their code from hosts rather than vice versa?
Actually, yes. Apologies express regret, not guilt. It might go something like this:
"Sorry we killed innocent people. Though we saved hundreds of thousands of other innocent people, we deeply regret that we could not find a better way in time and for that we are sorry."
This is modded funny, but this was exactly my thought. I presume this was considered, and that there is a reason to have ruled it out, but there are already binary stars which sound like two identically sized stars orbiting each other, but are not always identically sized. Since scientists think that really large gas giants are just stars that weren't big enough to initiate fusion, it doesn't seem to much of a stretch to think that the "hot jupiter" is just a case of a binary star where one never made it to fusion.
Just to clarify, your brakes convert kinetic energy into heat that is wasted. If positioned correctly, an uphill plate could do the same work, but generate power instead of waste heat. So it actually uses what you would have wasted and saves your brakes. This then wouldn't be a free lunch, it would be one less wasted lunch.
An often overlooked feature the Lisa system used is document-centric[citation needed] computing instead of application-centric computing. On a Macintosh, Windows, or Linux system, a user typically seeks a program. In the Lisa system, users use stationery to begin using an application. Apple attempted to implement this approach on the Mac platform later with OpenDoc, but it did not catch on. Microsoft also later implemented stationery in a limited fashion via the Windows Start menu for Microsoft Office. Document-centric computing is more intuitive for new users because it is task-based[citation needed]. The user needs to knows which task he or she needs to perform, not which program is used to accomplish that task.
I don't see the point of very small cars like this. If I don't need to carry anything I will ride my bike. If I do then I use my big, inefficient van. A small car wouldn't be much use to me because it can't carry much.
The problem here is that neither the magnetizer nor the media is perfectly uniform, so a write to one bit that was 0.8 might yield 0.92 while another one might yield 0.99, and it becomes impossible to tell where the "line" between "was zero" and "was one" is.
Unless you have overwritten the area on the physical disk that contained the data, multiple times, the data can still be recovered.
This is simply bogus. Overwriting once with randomized data will suffice provided the randomization algorithm isn't known.
This claim is like the claim that some people can bend spoons with their thoughts... yet nobody every seems to be able to reproduce this feat in a controlled environment.
I've never heard of anyone actually recovering data in this fashion in a controlled environment.
Overwriting with just any data at all seems to actually suffice without multi-million dollar equipment and software that might not exist either
Simply not true. Those organisms which have the potential to pass on survival techniques to their offspring after reproduction will be selected to live longer in order to accomplish this.
Notice how animals that teach their young things like how to hunt etc., live longer. Also note that the more they teach, the longer they tend to live.
It is not as if they were fed antacid and their offspring had less heartburn.
These were genetically engineered. The fact that their offspring inherited the trait indicates nothing particularly remarkable except that they may have modified more than they intended.
All of evolution is based on mutations being inherited. That's Darwin, not Lamarck.
Close, but to be 100% and O(log n) correct, Goedel proved that statement P, such that neither P nor (not P) and the set of the intersection of (not P nor not P) and (P or Q) where Q is the set of (not P and not R) and R is (not Q unless P), then such statements can only be shown to have a thruthiness of P - Q, or zero.
The picture "air friction" paints is that as air rushes past a fast moving object, it grates against it and heats it up. (Actually, the opposite tends to happen.) The heat that accumulates on these objects happens in front of them as they compress the air ahead of them.
All I'm saying is that the idea that air rushing past something causes it to heat up is is misunderstanding
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I'm a variable font user. I used Tahoma for the readability at lower resolutions, but ended up modifying it using a font editor to fix a few annoyances. I increased the width of the space, made all numbers, and punctuation characters the same width, as well as a few other minor tweaks (like adding a dot to the middle of the zero and adjusting the look of some characters like greater/less than signs)
I didn't say "dangerous to Earth". Astronauts in the shuttle and the ISS don't have an atmosphere to protect them from a few grams stamped with "In God We Trust" screaming at them at 15,000 miles per hour.
Yikes, money in space is dangerous... especially coins.
Irrelevant. Working class doesn't pay cash for cars so $40k is barely relevant... To them the bottom line is how much it costs per month - and since this can be compared to fuel costs per month, the conversation with the salesman is going to be "yes it costs this much more per month for the car, but this much less for fuel"
It's a question of whether one can offset the other. Can it?
Statistics for XXX are uniformly awful, blind leading the blind.
They have statistics for porn? (!!)
What could be wrong with that? And blind on blind action? Strange, but interesting.
The question I am raising is not whether it is possible to have some of your DNA originate from outside your ancestry. I'm questioning how you can distinguish between similarities due to copying in vs copying out.
Considering the necessity of viruses to have some "host-like" code within them, is it not just as possible that viruses got most of their code from hosts rather than vice versa?
That makes sense only if the next step in this plan is to make it work, add the features people want, and get people to actually use it.
Actually, yes. Apologies express regret, not guilt. It might go something like this:
"Sorry we killed innocent people. Though we saved hundreds of thousands of other innocent people, we deeply regret that we could not find a better way in time and for that we are sorry."
This is modded funny, but this was exactly my thought. I presume this was considered, and that there is a reason to have ruled it out, but there are already binary stars which sound like two identically sized stars orbiting each other, but are not always identically sized. Since scientists think that really large gas giants are just stars that weren't big enough to initiate fusion, it doesn't seem to much of a stretch to think that the "hot jupiter" is just a case of a binary star where one never made it to fusion.
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Just to clarify, your brakes convert kinetic energy into heat that is wasted. If positioned correctly, an uphill plate could do the same work, but generate power instead of waste heat. So it actually uses what you would have wasted and saves your brakes. This then wouldn't be a free lunch, it would be one less wasted lunch.
From wikipedia:
An often overlooked feature the Lisa system used is document-centric[citation needed] computing instead of application-centric computing. On a Macintosh, Windows, or Linux system, a user typically seeks a program. In the Lisa system, users use stationery to begin using an application. Apple attempted to implement this approach on the Mac platform later with OpenDoc, but it did not catch on. Microsoft also later implemented stationery in a limited fashion via the Windows Start menu for Microsoft Office. Document-centric computing is more intuitive for new users because it is task-based[citation needed]. The user needs to knows which task he or she needs to perform, not which program is used to accomplish that task.
I don't see the point of very small cars like this. If I don't need to carry anything I will ride my bike. If I do then I use my big, inefficient van. A small car wouldn't be much use to me because it can't carry much.
It doesn't rain where you live?
use reference counting != deterministic behavior
reference counting + any indirect circular reference == memory leak
Or maybe it's your comma. Either way, a google search for "subcutaneous ants" has more hits.
No, because your "was" column never "was"...
It is more like:
Was -- Write -- Result
0.9 -- 1 -- 0.92
0.2 -- 1 -- 0.89
0.7 -- 0 -- 0.1
The problem here is that neither the magnetizer nor the media is perfectly uniform, so a write to one bit that was 0.8 might yield 0.92 while another one might yield 0.99, and it becomes impossible to tell where the "line" between "was zero" and "was one" is.
Unless you have overwritten the area on the physical disk that contained the data, multiple times, the data can still be recovered.
This is simply bogus. Overwriting once with randomized data will suffice provided the randomization algorithm isn't known.
This claim is like the claim that some people can bend spoons with their thoughts... yet nobody every seems to be able to reproduce this feat in a controlled environment.
I've never heard of anyone actually recovering data in this fashion in a controlled environment.
Overwriting with just any data at all seems to actually suffice without multi-million dollar equipment and software that might not exist either
Simply not true. Those organisms which have the potential to pass on survival techniques to their offspring after reproduction will be selected to live longer in order to accomplish this. Notice how animals that teach their young things like how to hunt etc., live longer. Also note that the more they teach, the longer they tend to live.
It is not as if they were fed antacid and their offspring had less heartburn. These were genetically engineered. The fact that their offspring inherited the trait indicates nothing particularly remarkable except that they may have modified more than they intended. All of evolution is based on mutations being inherited. That's Darwin, not Lamarck.
This is why Jesus is a goddamn thief. The bread and fish industries should have lynched that bread/fish-copying bastard.
Close, but to be 100% and O(log n) correct, Goedel proved that statement P, such that neither P nor (not P) and the set of the intersection of (not P nor not P) and (P or Q) where Q is the set of (not P and not R) and R is (not Q unless P), then such statements can only be shown to have a thruthiness of P - Q, or zero.
The picture "air friction" paints is that as air rushes past a fast moving object, it grates against it and heats it up. (Actually, the opposite tends to happen.) The heat that accumulates on these objects happens in front of them as they compress the air ahead of them. All I'm saying is that the idea that air rushing past something causes it to heat up is is misunderstanding
"Air friction" does not cause the heat up during reentry - that's a myth. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top5_myths_020903-4.html It is the air pressure created in front of the object as it pushes against the atmosphere.