On Wikipedia, pages relating to quantum mechanics are sometimes vandalized.
Actually, every article on quantum mechanics exists in a state between vandalized and not vandalized. By viewing it you colapse the waveform and change it's value. Now, there is a good probability that it will turn out unvandalized, but as you have stated it occasionaly collapses into a vandalized article. After you leave the page, Wikipedia runs complex calculations in it's improbability engine and sends the article back into a quantum state.
P.S. This is presented as per my understanding of quantum mechanics which I learned entirely from Wikipedia. It may be wrong however as my viewing might have caused it to appear in a vandalized state.
P.P.S
Imagine Slashdot setting up a wiki where we had to determine which was better - Debian or Gentoo (or Ubuntu etc.), BSD or Linux, vi or emacs
Debian, Linux, emacs. That wasn't so hard. (Anyone who disagrees is a terrorist.)
I got my twelve sided die and I'm ready to roll with a wizard and my goblin crew. My friends are comin' over to my mom's basement bringing Funions and the Mountain Dew. I got a big broadsword made out of cardboard and the stereo's a pumpin' Zepplin. It's that time of the night, turn on the black light. Let the Dungeons and the Dragons begin.
IT'S D&D! Fightin' with the legends of yore. IT'S D&D! Never kissed a lady before (Nope. Nuh uh)
Now the Lord of The Rings, the Dark Crystal and things we use these as a reference tool. And when we put on our cloaks and tell warlock jokes we're the coolest kids in the school (No we're not. I know) Now attack's a real bastard, but a fair Dungeon Master has hitpoints and charisma to lend I rehearse in my room or what I call the Dragon's Tomb when I'm not out with my girlfriend.
IT'S D an... Wait wait, whoa, whoa. You got a girlfriend? Yeah... Yeah... No. IT'S D&D! Warriors who terrify IT'S D&D! Virgins, till the day weeeeeeeeeeee DIEEEEEEEEEEEE!
As sharp as d4s are I find them too light to impart enough damaging force upon targets. I think d6s are a happy medium between sharpness and force, expecially if you can get the larger razor-edged casino style ones.
Now, to post AC so no one can link me to a decidedly nerdy discussion on the weaponization of dice.
I'm not sure, but my gut strongly says that that I do NOT want any government trying to 'fix' this. Even thinking about them even considering a possible 'solution' is making me a little queasy.
First ten seconds: Prince tries to jump a pit, fails. Next ten seconds: Reverses time, fails again. Next ten seconds: See above Next ten seconds: See above above Next ten sconds: After running out of sand, on his last attempt, he barely makes it.
Next ten minutes: Lots of fighting, puzzle solving, and Fara.
Next 50 seconds: Oh noes, it's another huge pit! Time for trial and error.
It's gonna be hard to create a sense of life and death when your hero has to mess up multiple times before he's in mortal danger. Still, just the general concept with some decent FX goodies should make for a half-decent action film, and it can only get better from there.
Tie big magnets to the bird's heads and see if they can still find their way South. If not, we know it plays a big role in their navigation. Either that or it weighed them down so much they couldn't fly.
Well, perhaps if two of them were to string it on a rope between them...
I can see the headline now.
Scientists find unladen swallows navigate better than laden ones.
Here's an answer in the form of a rhetorical question, "Would he be doing this if there wasn't money to be made."
Also in TFA it links to another article where I guy listened in on an irc control channel and eventually followed instructions to a flood of spam running through the botnet which shows that these guys are at least making cash renting out bots to spammers.
I don't know who to be angry at. My list includes in order of hatred from greatest to least:
1) The asshat hackers who spread the worm 2) The companies that pay asshat hackers to shovel their crapware 3) The stupid people who actually give money to crapware companies and keep them alive
Honorable mention:
4) People who can't stop their system from being zombified.
What do you count as innovation? I see two ways in which wireless can get better 1) more bandwith 2) more range. 802.11n adds more bandwith (and range too I think, I can't remember). If it's cheaper/easier to use 2 antennas in a MIMO setup instead of making one really expensive super antenna then why not do it?
I don't even know why the notorius early adopter crowd would buy draft-n wireless equipment. When buying a laptop recently I had the choice to get a draft-n wireless card, however some quick googling showed me that draft-n devices universally underperform. The biggest thing though is that there is no garuntee whatsoever that these cards will work with n networks (they don't even play well with other draft-n devices) when they finalize the spec. I don't see any reason to buy into draft-n except that it contain 85% percent more buzzwords than leading competitors.
It's true. Ping times are insanely good at work. I can get a 65ms ping to mit.edu from New Mexico. Oops, I mean 5 tflanycsl(Trips from LA to NYC at the speed of light).
Stop calling my numbers voodoo! Libraries of Congress/Fornight is a respected measurment for bandwith and I know many people who like to have their ping times displayed as multiples of the time it takes light to travel from NY to LA (assuming a vacuum of course).
Yes, but with a birthdate check instead of just allowing in dishonest preteens, they will only allow in dishonest preteens who can do simple math problems.
Yep, one of the big uses of Roadrunner is to simulate nuclear reactions. We have quite a few nukes that have passed their expiration date and we don't fully understand how they will function. Instead of just blowing a few up to find out, we'd rather use a simulation.
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Here is a simple explanation with pictures of the observed phenomenon.
Actually, every article on quantum mechanics exists in a state between vandalized and not vandalized. By viewing it you colapse the waveform and change it's value. Now, there is a good probability that it will turn out unvandalized, but as you have stated it occasionaly collapses into a vandalized article. After you leave the page, Wikipedia runs complex calculations in it's improbability engine and sends the article back into a quantum state.
P.S. This is presented as per my understanding of quantum mechanics which I learned entirely from Wikipedia. It may be wrong however as my viewing might have caused it to appear in a vandalized state.
P.P.S
Debian, Linux, emacs. That wasn't so hard. (Anyone who disagrees is a terrorist.)
I got my twelve sided die and I'm ready
to roll with a wizard and my goblin crew.
My friends are comin' over to my mom's basement
bringing Funions and the Mountain Dew.
I got a big broadsword made out of cardboard
and the stereo's a pumpin' Zepplin.
It's that time of the night, turn on the black light.
Let the Dungeons and the Dragons begin.
IT'S D&D!
Fightin' with the legends of yore.
IT'S D&D!
Never kissed a lady before (Nope. Nuh uh)
Now the Lord of The Rings, the Dark Crystal and things
we use these as a reference tool.
And when we put on our cloaks and tell warlock jokes
we're the coolest kids in the school (No we're not. I know)
Now attack's a real bastard, but a fair Dungeon Master
has hitpoints and charisma to lend
I rehearse in my room or what I call the Dragon's Tomb
when I'm not out with my girlfriend.
IT'S D an... Wait wait, whoa, whoa. You got a girlfriend?
Yeah... Yeah... No.
IT'S D&D!
Warriors who terrify
IT'S D&D!
Virgins, till the day weeeeeeeeeeee DIEEEEEEEEEEEE!
"Dungeons and Dragons" by Stephen Lynch
As sharp as d4s are I find them too light to impart enough damaging force upon targets. I think d6s are a happy medium between sharpness and force, expecially if you can get the larger razor-edged casino style ones.
Now, to post AC so no one can link me to a decidedly nerdy discussion on the weaponization of dice.
Wow... you have just won the award for most on-topic off-topic anonymous coward first post ever.
For that I bestow upon you Cheetos and Mountain Dew.
I'm not sure, but my gut strongly says that that I do NOT want any government trying to 'fix' this. Even thinking about them even considering a possible 'solution' is making me a little queasy.
First ten seconds: Prince tries to jump a pit, fails.
Next ten seconds: Reverses time, fails again.
Next ten seconds: See above
Next ten seconds: See above above
Next ten sconds: After running out of sand, on his last attempt, he barely makes it.
Next ten minutes: Lots of fighting, puzzle solving, and Fara.
Next 50 seconds: Oh noes, it's another huge pit! Time for trial and error.
It's gonna be hard to create a sense of life and death when your hero has to mess up multiple times before he's in mortal danger.
Still, just the general concept with some decent FX goodies should make for a half-decent action film, and it can only get better from there.
Well, perhaps if two of them were to string it on a rope between them...
I can see the headline now.
Scientists find unladen swallows navigate better than laden ones.
Duckhunt. Nuff said. (And you said the Wiimote wasn't a light gun!)
That's it! I'm sick of these motherfuckin nets on my motherfuckin tubes.
I'm building a truck. It's gonna be full of drives. You can dump whatever you want on it.
I will then drive this truck wherever you want your data.
P.S. TruckNet can achieve good bandwith, but has very high latency.
Let me get this straight. Globabl warming is caused by farts from Siberian snow?
There's a bad Soviet Russia joke in here.
Here's an answer in the form of a rhetorical question, "Would he be doing this if there wasn't money to be made."
Also in TFA it links to another article where I guy listened in on an irc control channel and eventually followed instructions to a flood of spam running through the botnet which shows that these guys are at least making cash renting out bots to spammers.
I lump them in with 3.
I don't know who to be angry at. My list includes in order of hatred from greatest to least:
1) The asshat hackers who spread the worm
2) The companies that pay asshat hackers to shovel their crapware
3) The stupid people who actually give money to crapware companies and keep them alive
Honorable mention:
4) People who can't stop their system from being zombified.
Step 1) Discover possibly habitable worlds (or get others to do it for you)
Step 2) Sell acreage on said worlds
Step 3) Profit!
There is no ??? here, it's a pure goldmine. I have to hop on this right away (PATENT PENDING PATENT PENDING PATENT PENDING).
Once I run out of acreage on discovered planets, I'll just start selling space on the next discovered one.
C'mon you know you want a beach house in an entirely different galaxy (nevermind that the beach overlooks an ocean of magma).
What do you count as innovation? I see two ways in which wireless can get better 1) more bandwith 2) more range. 802.11n adds more bandwith (and range too I think, I can't remember). If it's cheaper/easier to use 2 antennas in a MIMO setup instead of making one really expensive super antenna then why not do it?
I don't even know why the notorius early adopter crowd would buy draft-n wireless equipment. When buying a laptop recently I had the choice to get a draft-n wireless card, however some quick googling showed me that draft-n devices universally underperform. The biggest thing though is that there is no garuntee whatsoever that these cards will work with n networks (they don't even play well with other draft-n devices) when they finalize the spec. I don't see any reason to buy into draft-n except that it contain 85% percent more buzzwords than leading competitors.
It's true. Ping times are insanely good at work. I can get a 65ms ping to mit.edu from New Mexico. Oops, I mean 5 tflanycsl(Trips from LA to NYC at the speed of light).
This memo is set to self-destruct in 16 hours.
PS, in case you were wondering I calculated it out. My current ping to google is 6.73 trips from LA to NY at the speed of light.
Stop calling my numbers voodoo! Libraries of Congress/Fornight is a respected measurment for bandwith and I know many people who like to have their ping times displayed as multiples of the time it takes light to travel from NY to LA (assuming a vacuum of course).
Yes, but with a birthdate check instead of just allowing in dishonest preteens, they will only allow in dishonest preteens who can do simple math problems.
I'm working on the project right now, and I can assure you that we are only building this so we will be ready for Crysis.
Yep, one of the big uses of Roadrunner is to simulate nuclear reactions. We have quite a few nukes that have passed their expiration date and we don't fully understand how they will function. Instead of just blowing a few up to find out, we'd rather use a simulation.
The same poeple who are apt to run linux