"including multiple engines with the ability to survive the failure of one or more of them, as well as vehicle parachutes launched by a spreader gun for rapid deployment"
Technically, a plane is easier to "drive" than a car. You don't have to worry about gears, mirrors, brake, clutch, indicators etc....
The difficulty with a plane is the "piloting" part. All the protocols that need to be followed (particularly before and during take off and during and after landing)
Interestingly, if someone has 2.7 trillion digits of Pi stored on their hard drive, they could actually have more than just a message. The may, unwittingly, be in possession of material that breaks copyright law!:-)
That is a great engineering answer. Technically correct and calculated all the factors brilliantly.
However Pi is not just used for measuring physical objects.
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician were on a train heading north, and had just crossed the border into Scotland.
The engineer looked out of the window and said "Look! Scottish sheep are black!"
The physicist said, "No, no. Some Scottish sheep are black."
The mathematician looked irritated. "There is at least one field, containing at least one sheep, of which at least one side is black."
"... it's an argument against having the British government that involved in broadcasting in the first place..."
It has very little to do with the government. The licence fee goes straight to the BBC. It allows the BBC to be as independent as possible from government or big business.
Although Chrome appears to do badly on the memory tests, they fail to mention that it is, effectively, a black box, has it's own task manager and garbage collector.
To some that may seem a waste, but it means that if a page/plugin crashes chrome, then only chrome is affected. Very useful!
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In Russia, M$ owns you!
Anonymous functions. Eww!
Don't, just don't!
"... alterate ..."
do you mean alter?
Huh, burger-eating, stinky-ass, fatty americans making up new words that aren't needed.
Stack the queue jokes!
And the missing 11 days (I worked on a genealogy site)
agreed
"including multiple engines with the ability to survive the failure of one or more of them, as well as vehicle parachutes launched by a spreader gun for rapid deployment"
erm, you mean like loads of planes have already?
Technically, a plane is easier to "drive" than a car. You don't have to worry about gears, mirrors, brake, clutch, indicators etc....
The difficulty with a plane is the "piloting" part. All the protocols that need to be followed (particularly before and during take off and during and after landing)
As trepidity just said, it has not been proven that there are no patterns.
"(if you can call 2.7 trillion finite!)"
:-)
erm, by definition it is finite!
Interestingly, if someone has 2.7 trillion digits of Pi stored on their hard drive, they could actually have more than just a message. The may, unwittingly, be in possession of material that breaks copyright law!
That is a great engineering answer. Technically correct and calculated all the factors brilliantly.
However Pi is not just used for measuring physical objects.
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician were on a train heading north, and had just crossed the border into Scotland.
The engineer looked out of the window and said "Look! Scottish sheep are black!"
The physicist said, "No, no. Some Scottish sheep are black."
The mathematician looked irritated. "There is at least one field, containing at least one sheep, of which at least one side is black."
"But the fact that the algorithm runs is the best proof of it working"
Eh?
I, and all other programmers, have written plenty algorithms that run. That does not mean it works correctly according to the initial spec.
Mod parent up!
Replying to my own post. oh well.
Even if there is a technical difference. The user hears a book read out, so there is not really a difference as far as the user is concerned!
"... those are not audio books. They are book-books that are converted to audio ..."
Eh!?! Is there a difference?
"... it's an argument against having the British government that involved in broadcasting in the first place ..."
It has very little to do with the government. The licence fee goes straight to the BBC. It allows the BBC to be as independent as possible from government or big business.
"... how can they read the instructions that are on the screen?" The instructions are read out too!
"... It doesn't record audio books or anything ..."
Actually, it does record them to MP3 if you watch the video.
"Why would you want to talk to Marvin?" Hey, he has the brain the size of a planet! Could be cool.
"don't you believe in freedom?" Yes, the freedom not to be killed on the road by gas guzzling speedsters!
"I'd rather have the option than even more regulation" You'd rather have the option to buy a less safe plug!?!
I suppose to someone who didn't know the actual "theology"/"scripture" of scientology would find it informative. Doesn't make it true though. :-)
Although Chrome appears to do badly on the memory tests, they fail to mention that it is, effectively, a black box, has it's own task manager and garbage collector. To some that may seem a waste, but it means that if a page/plugin crashes chrome, then only chrome is affected. Very useful!
Unless the passphrase is the incriminating data.
What happens if you say you have forgotten the password to decrypt the key?