I would challenge the argument that the Omega is copyrighted by pointing out that it was put on the product by the manufacturer, and the right to use the product was acquired by a legal purchase, and moreover exerting that right is indivisible from the product and thus the logo.
To everyone suggesting aliens may have high moral standards:
We don't know how their society works at all. And the only society we know, ours, doesn't hold higher moral standards for less than a decade, and even these are not held onto firmly.
Imagine that we eventually had built a generation-type-spaceship to escape our eventually doomed planet Earth, and we finally arrived at star system with a planet harbouring intelligent life.
Would we turn back? No we wouldn't even if we had the resources to. At the very least we would encroach on the domain of the aliens by settling somewhere in their system.
So this is why we wouldn't want to announce the existance of a habitable planet by broadcasting. Other species might take this even more serious, and would have policies in place that forbid even accidental broadcasts. And maybe not because of xenophobia, but because they KNOW there are hostile species out there.
Either the laser light gets absorbed by the air, resulting in some non-focused emissions of non-laser light, but the problem is that the emissions start far away up in space, which means losing all energy before the beam hits the ground, or you somehow(I don't know how) use a laser which doesn't get disspelled as much, in which case the laser will not really illuminate an area, but just some spots or a line on the ground. And the coastline to be painted by such a laser might be really long, resulting in the laser passing by only every minute or so, so it would not be very noticeable.
I don't know about this experiment, but in the double-slit experiment, you can confirm that the photons pass the slit unobserved(in wave form) when you get a peculiarly structured hit pattern on the wall with the photoreactive film that can only result from the adding and cancelling of two wave distributions.
According to the Everett interpretation, http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm, the universe will split at the time of the observation, not at the time of being placed in wave state, at least that is what section "Q7 When do worlds split?" says.
IMO, the worlds split according to wave functions only to an uninformed observer, which we are most of the time; but we still got enough information to mess up measurements enough so that we can't prove the everett interpretation(At least my impression was that it hasn't been proven yet).
No seriously.. take this with a grain of salt, because this is written by someone who has so far managed to avoid learning python, but knows the other languages: Python syntax is unique, and it will not prepare you for the goodness of the many curly-braces languages.
In my initial sifting, I would not rule out php as programming language if the programming exercise benefits from graphics, which most likely it doesn't in such a contest though.
I think Java will do fine because it has easy looking string operations, and not too many weird standard invocations, like in C "#include <stdio.h>". I would consider C++ first if not for its weirdness of having the same operator code for bit-shifting as for simple input and output.
In fact, if the problem involves file handling, I think C appears to be more easy to handle this, at least on first sight to the student(which I think is important - don't scare them stiff on first sight of a language). I mean the java way is easy too in practice, but you have to string two objects together to handle file reading or writing in a standard invocation.
I look forward to many python counter examples to my concerns, as/. seems to champion python.
He could just as well have said: "We welcome low standards for patents and long timespans for copyrights because this will help our economy, and we will push these rules down the throat of other nations."
Nothing new, probably just using caching and a makefile-like dependency-checking algorithm.
Kind like you can speed up the calculations in the game of life if you calculate the sums of 3 adjacent cells over x first, and calculate the sums over y of the previous sums. So you use 4 addition operations instead of 8 (and some array indexing operations which I'm too lazy to calculate, probably 6 instead of 8).
Really sad that they will probably patent it so no one else can use it for 20 years.
LAN play is essential, and today it should even support IPv6. Why?
Well, if the game ends to be a cash cow for the company many companies decide that they want to shut down the meta servers, or they simply become sloppy and have downtimes. For you to enjoy the game that you have "bought" after its days are over or to just show it to your kids, it is necessary to have LAN play.
And think of the poor astronauts on a dull journey to Mars. They will not be able to take advantage of blizzards servers they are maybe 8 light minutes away;-)
I read that company money transfers will be excluded from surveillance.
So the achilles heel is really that the financial information will give great blackmail opportunities against people who did not pay their taxes but hid their money.
This is great - now if I ever wanted to move to the US, I'd just violate some local laws that don't apply to the US and claim that I am a special group being prosecuted.
You only get to vote once, so you have a choice between like effectively 4 or so parties.
Claiming that with that vote you supported all n>100 decisions and laws that the govenment makes (giving more than 2^n possibilities) is clearly nonsense.
Well, I used javascript for a puzzle game when there was no Ajax; I used an iframe for loading data instead of xmlhttprequest, and things were called dhtml for dynamic html. Game is still essentially working without modifications in modern browsers: http://hylzee.sourceforge.net/hylZee/ (Preview; The full version is meant to be downloaded and hacked.)
On the other hand, somehow, in ff+addons the victory advancement to next level doesn't work and the loss message is hidden/misplaced.
And on the other hand, C and C++ practically force you to be a psychic in finding bugs, because the memory allocation merrily ignores duplicate freeing of memory till it barfs a second later. You can use debug memory allocators, but then the program is so slow that you never get to the situation you need to debug.
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My guess as a non-expert is that the change in bacteria composition comes later.
Why? Because the brain play a big role in controlling/working with the immune system.
I guess banning the creation is ok, but banning the transportation is clearly against the human rights of such manimals.
What would be funny would have been if the comment got modded insightful.
No way, I'll just download a firmware update .. ..
Oh wait
I would challenge the argument that the Omega is copyrighted by pointing out that it was put on the product by the manufacturer, and the right to use the product was acquired by a legal purchase, and moreover exerting that right is indivisible from the product and thus the logo.
To everyone suggesting aliens may have high moral standards:
We don't know how their society works at all.
And the only society we know, ours, doesn't hold higher moral standards for less than a decade, and even these are not held onto firmly.
Imagine that we eventually had built a generation-type-spaceship to escape our eventually doomed planet Earth, and we finally arrived at star system with a planet harbouring intelligent life.
Would we turn back? No we wouldn't even if we had the resources to. At the very least we would encroach on the domain of the aliens by settling somewhere in their system.
So this is why we wouldn't want to announce the existance of a habitable planet by broadcasting.
Other species might take this even more serious, and would have policies in place that forbid even accidental broadcasts. And maybe not because of xenophobia, but because they KNOW there are hostile species out there.
Technical requirements
* A Fedora GNU/Linux installation
* python (2.6 or higher preferred, but not 3)
* python-magic
* GNU binutils (for readelf and strings)
* e2tools http://freshmeat.net/projects/e2tools/ (optional)
* squashfs tools (4.0 highly recommended)
* module-init-tools (for modinfo)
* gzip (for zcat)
* xz (for lzma)
* PyLucene (latest version possible)
* OpenJDK, Apache Ant and dependencies to build PyLucene
Maybe you could hold a meeting to discuss your plan of more efficient meetings because of IM.
I still think it is an awful idea.
Either the laser light gets absorbed by the air, resulting in some non-focused emissions of non-laser light, but the problem is that the emissions start far away up in space, which means losing all energy before the beam hits the ground, or you somehow(I don't know how) use a laser which doesn't get disspelled as much, in which case the laser will not really illuminate an area, but just some spots or a line on the ground. And the coastline to be painted by such a laser might be really long, resulting in the laser passing by only every minute or so, so it would not be very noticeable.
Well, the elegance of your wording will surely lead to some positive feedback.
How about using the sensor data to tell what keys the person has pressed on the keyboard?
http://www.everything2.com/title/Stop+killing+me+now
Requires some knowledge of the many worlds interpretation or the anthropic principle though.
I don't know about this experiment, but in the double-slit experiment, you can confirm that the photons pass the slit unobserved(in wave form) when you get a peculiarly structured hit pattern on the wall with the photoreactive film that can only result from the adding and cancelling of two wave distributions.
According to the Everett interpretation, http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm, the universe will split at the time of the observation, not at the time of being placed in wave state, at least that is what section "Q7 When do worlds split?" says.
IMO, the worlds split according to wave functions only to an uninformed observer, which we are most of the time; but we still got enough information to mess up measurements enough so that we can't prove the everett interpretation(At least my impression was that it hasn't been proven yet).
Go for python, that will prepare them to code in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)
No seriously .. take this with a grain of salt, because this is written by someone who has so far managed to avoid learning python, but knows the other languages: Python syntax is unique, and it will not prepare you for the goodness of the many curly-braces languages.
In my initial sifting, I would not rule out php as programming language if the programming exercise benefits from graphics, which most likely it doesn't in such a contest though.
I think Java will do fine because it has easy looking string operations, and not too many weird standard invocations, like in C "#include <stdio.h>".
I would consider C++ first if not for its weirdness of having the same operator code for bit-shifting as for simple input and output.
In fact, if the problem involves file handling, I think C appears to be more easy to handle this, at least on first sight to the student(which I think is important - don't scare them stiff on first sight of a language). I mean the java way is easy too in practice, but you have to string two objects together to handle file reading or writing in a standard invocation.
I look forward to many python counter examples to my concerns, as /. seems to champion python.
He could just as well have said:
"We welcome low standards for patents and long timespans for copyrights because this will help our economy, and we will push these rules down the throat of other nations."
Nothing new, probably just using caching and a makefile-like dependency-checking algorithm.
Kind like you can speed up the calculations in the game of life if you calculate the sums of 3 adjacent cells over x first, and calculate the sums over y of the previous sums. So you use 4 addition operations instead of 8 (and some array indexing operations which I'm too lazy to calculate, probably 6 instead of 8).
Really sad that they will probably patent it so no one else can use it for 20 years.
LAN play is essential, and today it should even support IPv6. Why?
Well, if the game ends to be a cash cow for the company many companies decide that they want to shut down the meta servers, or they simply become sloppy and have downtimes. For you to enjoy the game that you have "bought" after its days are over or to just show it to your kids, it is necessary to have LAN play.
And think of the poor astronauts on a dull journey to Mars. They will not be able to take advantage of blizzards servers they are maybe 8 light minutes away ;-)
Clearly multiplying all estimates by 3 and then adding them is less efficient than adding them and then multiplying by 3 once.
I read that company money transfers will be excluded from surveillance.
So the achilles heel is really that the financial information will give great blackmail opportunities against people who did not pay their taxes but hid their money.
This is great - now if I ever wanted to move to the US, I'd just violate some local laws that don't apply to the US and claim that I am a special group being prosecuted.
You forgot to add
WHERE playernickname = 'mynickname'
in both sql statements.
It would suck if everyone else also would be Really Rich wouldn't it?
Also, real banks would use Oracle, not sql server as the database.
Well it is not base-democratic like Switzerland.
You only get to vote once, so you have a choice between like effectively 4 or so parties.
Claiming that with that vote you supported all n>100 decisions and laws that the govenment makes (giving more than 2^n possibilities) is clearly nonsense.
Don't submit something if you can't tell the difference between patent and copyright.
Well, I used javascript for a puzzle game when there was no Ajax; I used an iframe for loading data instead of xmlhttprequest, and things were called dhtml for dynamic html. Game is still essentially working without modifications in modern browsers: http://hylzee.sourceforge.net/hylZee/
(Preview; The full version is meant to be downloaded and hacked.)
On the other hand, somehow, in ff+addons the victory advancement to next level doesn't work and the loss message is hidden/misplaced.
And on the other hand, C and C++ practically force you to be a psychic in finding bugs, because the memory allocation merrily ignores duplicate freeing of memory till it barfs a second later. You can use debug memory allocators, but then the program is so slow that you never get to the situation you need to debug.