Re:The god question and quantum computing
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Psh...paradox? That's one's not worthy of the title, it only sounds reasonable until you realize Omni = Infinite. It's like asking if a Mathematician can make an Infinite number larger than another Mathematician's. To put it simply God can create a rock of infinite mass, so heavy that no one can lift it...and he can lift it. And btw in Christianity God didn't create the need for forgiveness, so your other complaint is a little off as well.
Well it makes a good sized corporation unhappy and they can claim it costs them revenue somehow...if that's not enough justification, well then someone needs to talk to the RIAA...
It means that the Starboard Manifold Coupling may overload due to Heisenberg Waves unless we can patch the Quantum Foam Warp Reactor Sealant before the Borg board us!
Seems like a pretty dumb move to me. You have the choice of, A: Patching immediately, costing you a few hours of time from a couple of your employees or B: Hoping that it won't be a big risk effectively betting a few hours of time against the possibility of a huge security breach and the corresponding bad press that comes with that.
Seems like a small patch wouldn't be that much trouble and would avoid much larger problems...
Well those are simple to fix too. You see that skyscraper? The one near your house? You drive over there, take the laptop, PDA, etc, to the highest floor you can manage to get to and then drop it off the edge. There you go, no more annoying blinking standby lights!
Beagles have way more than 310 calories, it's more like 2400 easy, you can have beagle meat for lunch and then the leftovers for dinner and breakfast the next day, and that's not counting the fat beagles, then you've got 3000 no problem.
Uh...not that I have any real world experience...>.> .
(Actually looking at the facts I would think that a humans MpG (of food) on your average bike would be a little less than 50, in line with these cars. Of course one is a biodegradable substance with many other uses (and whose byproduct is also biodegradable) and the other is oil but hey)
Precisely. I always enjoy it when scientists put dates on objects based on earlier dates placed on other objects and assumptions. How many assumptions can you stack on one another before it all comes crumbling down?
Oh, and as an intelligent religious person allow me to demonstrate to you a very simple thought that makes this dating process irrelevant thereby allowing the universe to be whatever age you want it to be. Just like carbon dating this process assumes that the initial amount of radioactive material was equal to a certain value. What if this star, created 6000 years ago (for argument), was simply created with more radioactive material than another star or similar age? Is there anything in physics that makes that impossible? I highly doubt it. (And just for reference I'm ignoring the whole "dating by distance" issue as it's easily solved by the VSL theory, which is unacceptable to most scientists, and offtopic anyhows). There is absolutely no proof that this started with a balanced mixture of the observed elements, or that it even started with the standard ratio, and yet we can deduce it's age because we know that it had to have started with ratio X of materials because then it's age would be 13.2 billion years which makes perfect sense if you accept our theory which is obviously true because this star is 13.2 billion years old!
This star may well be 13.2 billion years old but until a method of measuring it's age that doesn't depend on a huge number of assumptions is developed I don't see any reason to concern myself with it honestly. If you want to pull it out as evidence that the universe is 13.7 billion years old and I'm an idiot for believing it's not then fine, be my guest. I'll be over there pondering some of the current science, you know, the observable stuff that you can apply the scientific method to?
- Is totally prepared for a troll or flamebait mod, doesn't care because he's tired of seeing religious people bashed as idiots over and over again because they disbelieve something that is based on a number of assumptions and the belief that we're the smartest things that have ever and will ever live and that we understand everything...
Does this summary remind anyone else of a certain Voyager episode?
In all seriousness this is an interesting issue I've never heard about before. You'd think the media would be all over this as an actual new space story, it's been so long since anything new was really done (new in the sense of something you'd never think about). This begs the question of whether astronauts and their equipment should be decontaminated before going into space, sure there are microorganisms in their bodies but it would still probably be beneficial.
This also makes me wonder if NASA plans it's airflow so as to avoid situations where air is being blown into an area that the astronauts rarely visit and that is beneficial to bacteria, perhaps air flow could become a big part of space vessel designs so that situations like this are avoided?
"Neither have dedicated servers which is pathetic in 2007. If you want quality online gaming you need to buy a PS3 or stick to your PC."
Since when? I've played games with dedicated servers, I've played games without. I've found that dedicated server games almost always need the dedicated server because their code is so slow and laggy whereas a good non-dedicated server game has no lag whatsoever. I've never seen any lag playing online Halo. Frankly I'd say that having dedicated servers in 2007 makes you out of date, your game should be good enough so that your average person (easier to determine on a console) can host and play the game.
As a PC gamer I'm of the opinion that PC games have great online play, better than just about any console. On the other hand your average console, heck even an antique console, has much better LAN style play, I say LAN style because the consoles don't need a LAN whereas PCs do. I would much rather go over to my friends house to play some Halo against them then try to get them over here to play a LAN game, the setup issues for a LAN combined with everyone needing the game makes Halo the clear winner.
I've never played Gears so I can't compare it to that but I will say this, PC games !> Console games. PC games are different than console games...
He forgot Estonia!...wait, no he didn't...okay then...
Seriously though, estonia? Raise your hand if you know where that is. The only reason I ever recognize that is because I just finished a European History class where we had to memorize the current map of Europe, I'm sure if you asked me last year (or next year:P) I wouldn't know. Why not say just greedy teenager with a $300 Linux machine or, better yet, Greedy Nigerian Royalty with a $300 Linux machine.
And why a $300 machine? If it can be done with Linux couldn't a greedy Estonian purchase some really cheap parts and build a $100 machine then install Linux on it? Or do all computers in Estonia cost $300 min?
Yeah...that's gotta be one the strangest moding's I've ever seen. The first post is redundant? The post that came before all others was a copy of another one? What's with that?
"One other effect I can see this having, is let's say www.bigcompanyhere.com gets tagged as being potentially harmful. Now Google has done them a favor by alerting them to a security problem, which they can then address, and are likely to do so much quicker to try and minimize damage to their image."
A favor? Google has likely killed their company, or at least it's online portion. Remember the big debate about how certain companies weren't being seen on the front page of google searches a while ago? Remember how much less revenue those companies got? Think about it, if little old lady #13 wants to buy item xdfsd#14 from bigcompanyhere.com but Google tells her that it may contain scary Malware that could take over her computer how likely is she to buy item xdfsd#14 from bigcompanyhere.com? How likely is she to tell her friends not to buy item xdfsd#14 from bigcompanyhere.com? How likely is she to never shop on bigcompanyhere.com ever again even if they fix the minor problem that google flagged for them?
Any time a non-computer savy person sees this type of thing they're likely to avoid that site for a very long period of time. Sure, that'll make the companies more careful about what they put there, but it also gives Google even more control over the internet and internet based companies. I wouldn't be surprised if they (google) began offering "consulting" fees to remove the malware that google flagged from the companies site quickly, and how much of a leap is it from there to pure extortion?
Google controls a lot of the internet right now. Their job should not be to tell people where to search but rather to let them go where they want to go. This is a 'sounds like a good idea' idea but it could potentially be disastrous. Oh sure, what I layed out in my post is a pretty worst case scenario type thing, on the other hand how unlikely do you think it is? As for me, I'm expecting to see the 'Google Anti-Malware Division' started up pretty soon with their 'Low price of $100 to remove flagged malware from your site and get it back on the green list' within a year of this starting
Oh man...I love that second idea of yours! It's brilliant, of course they'd find a way to circumvent it, "We won't actually 'pay' you to sue for us, but hey, is that a big pile of cash in the corner...go on, take it, it's a donation" but that idea is genius. I can just see the plaintiff in some major case donating some money to the defense so that they can hire a good lawyer so that the plaintiff can hire a good one too. The only thing I would change about it would be a % system rather than actual values, as in "Neither side in a legal case may spend more than 10% over their opponent on legal fees or time spend in pro bono".
I really wish that was law...would get rid of 90% of the frivolous lawsuit's on it's own while also eliminating the majority of the 'sue for money' crowd.
I know what you mean, I bought BF1942 a while ago and lost the second CD. I've come pretty close to finding a crack for it somewhere so I can play the game I payed money for without paying more money for it. It's just absurd that they can get away with selling games/music/movies to consumers and then restricting those consumer's rights. Really if we're gonna call it like it is then the ability to buy games/music/movies died a long time ago, now you're just able to lease them for an extended time period. You can't claim to be selling something and then restrict rights on it using DRM and copy protection, that's not selling then.
"How can you be objective (or even funny) in reporting about an industry that you are now part of?"
Very easily, you don't talk about your work. Or are you claiming that a Computer Programmer can't be witty and objective about a programming issue (and if you're saying that you're gonna have to answer to most/.ers:P). What about a farmer talking about some farming practices in another country? So long as you're not discussing your work or a competitor's work or being payed to say certain things it's easy to be objective about the industry you're in. Since they won't have any competitors (there are few game studios left that make adventure style cheap games), are unlikely to talk about their game in their comics from what I've seen and will almost certainly not be payed to say anything now that they're making a game I see no problem with it.
IMHO someone who's a part of the industry tends to be the best source of information, so long as they can be trusted to avoid pushing their products over other people's. I've read Penny Arcade for a while and found that ever since they started this game they've been a lot kinder to the game industry without losing their wit or objectivity. Seems to me that they're now more qualified to talk about someone else's game as they are learning how difficult it can be. I'm a lot more likely to believe a game designer's extremely critical review of a game over your average joe who played it for 10 minutes. I'm not saying that's what Penny Arcade used to do but I would much rather hear their opinion on new games AFTER they've finished making one of their own that's (hopefully) good.
But hey, that's my.02 cents. If you want to get your news from a total outsider then that's your choice. I for one welcome our new game building game reviewing Penny Arcade overloads happily.
I mean seriously, we're getting to the point now where even doing something that could possibly be maybe related to a threat against a person/place/idea is a criminal offense. If you can be thrown in jail for picketing a group, especially if you have a good reason, then you have lost way too much freedom. I mean, if someone came and picketed my church I'd probably be more curious to hear their side of the story than wanting them thrown in jail.
Ugh...whatever happened to the place where you could jokingly punch your friend in the shoulder in school and say "I'm gonna kill you for that" then go off and demonstrate peacefully about something you care about and the police wouldn't care a bit?
Google it, it's a quote (mixed up but accurate nonetheless) from 1984 by George Orwell. I believe the GP is commenting on how this act is a very Orwellian move by the government, trying to restrict information. Personally I have to agree, most countries have spy satellites, at least ones that are considered powerful, and so really if the terrorist's have any links to any countries, no matter how obscure, this won't matter. This is really nothing more than a solution to a problem that doesn't exist...a solution which won't work...remind anyone of anything *cough cough* DRM *cough cough* copy protection *cough*
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Psh...paradox? That's one's not worthy of the title, it only sounds reasonable until you realize Omni = Infinite. It's like asking if a Mathematician can make an Infinite number larger than another Mathematician's. To put it simply God can create a rock of infinite mass, so heavy that no one can lift it...and he can lift it. And btw in Christianity God didn't create the need for forgiveness, so your other complaint is a little off as well.
Well it makes a good sized corporation unhappy and they can claim it costs them revenue somehow...if that's not enough justification, well then someone needs to talk to the RIAA...
"That makes sense... Bill Gates makes much more than me, so we should charge him $1,000 for a cup of coffee. Seems fair"
Are you perchance an IRS officer?
Oh my goodness...only on /. is a post about powering a time machine with a lightning bolt considered Insightful
(And yes, I got the reference)
It means that the Starboard Manifold Coupling may overload due to Heisenberg Waves unless we can patch the Quantum Foam Warp Reactor Sealant before the Borg board us!
Seems like a pretty dumb move to me. You have the choice of, A: Patching immediately, costing you a few hours of time from a couple of your employees or B: Hoping that it won't be a big risk effectively betting a few hours of time against the possibility of a huge security breach and the corresponding bad press that comes with that.
Seems like a small patch wouldn't be that much trouble and would avoid much larger problems...
Well those are simple to fix too. You see that skyscraper? The one near your house? You drive over there, take the laptop, PDA, etc, to the highest floor you can manage to get to and then drop it off the edge. There you go, no more annoying blinking standby lights!
Beagles have way more than 310 calories, it's more like 2400 easy, you can have beagle meat for lunch and then the leftovers for dinner and breakfast the next day, and that's not counting the fat beagles, then you've got 3000 no problem.
Uh...not that I have any real world experience...>.> .
(Actually looking at the facts I would think that a humans MpG (of food) on your average bike would be a little less than 50, in line with these cars. Of course one is a biodegradable substance with many other uses (and whose byproduct is also biodegradable) and the other is oil but hey)
You expect people to read the article to get their temperature conversions? You must be new here...
Precisely. I always enjoy it when scientists put dates on objects based on earlier dates placed on other objects and assumptions. How many assumptions can you stack on one another before it all comes crumbling down?
Oh, and as an intelligent religious person allow me to demonstrate to you a very simple thought that makes this dating process irrelevant thereby allowing the universe to be whatever age you want it to be. Just like carbon dating this process assumes that the initial amount of radioactive material was equal to a certain value. What if this star, created 6000 years ago (for argument), was simply created with more radioactive material than another star or similar age? Is there anything in physics that makes that impossible? I highly doubt it. (And just for reference I'm ignoring the whole "dating by distance" issue as it's easily solved by the VSL theory, which is unacceptable to most scientists, and offtopic anyhows). There is absolutely no proof that this started with a balanced mixture of the observed elements, or that it even started with the standard ratio, and yet we can deduce it's age because we know that it had to have started with ratio X of materials because then it's age would be 13.2 billion years which makes perfect sense if you accept our theory which is obviously true because this star is 13.2 billion years old!
This star may well be 13.2 billion years old but until a method of measuring it's age that doesn't depend on a huge number of assumptions is developed I don't see any reason to concern myself with it honestly. If you want to pull it out as evidence that the universe is 13.7 billion years old and I'm an idiot for believing it's not then fine, be my guest. I'll be over there pondering some of the current science, you know, the observable stuff that you can apply the scientific method to?
- Is totally prepared for a troll or flamebait mod, doesn't care because he's tired of seeing religious people bashed as idiots over and over again because they disbelieve something that is based on a number of assumptions and the belief that we're the smartest things that have ever and will ever live and that we understand everything...
Does this summary remind anyone else of a certain Voyager episode?
In all seriousness this is an interesting issue I've never heard about before. You'd think the media would be all over this as an actual new space story, it's been so long since anything new was really done (new in the sense of something you'd never think about). This begs the question of whether astronauts and their equipment should be decontaminated before going into space, sure there are microorganisms in their bodies but it would still probably be beneficial.
This also makes me wonder if NASA plans it's airflow so as to avoid situations where air is being blown into an area that the astronauts rarely visit and that is beneficial to bacteria, perhaps air flow could become a big part of space vessel designs so that situations like this are avoided?
All in all an interesting story.
"Neither have dedicated servers which is pathetic in 2007. If you want quality online gaming you need to buy a PS3 or stick to your PC."
Since when? I've played games with dedicated servers, I've played games without. I've found that dedicated server games almost always need the dedicated server because their code is so slow and laggy whereas a good non-dedicated server game has no lag whatsoever. I've never seen any lag playing online Halo. Frankly I'd say that having dedicated servers in 2007 makes you out of date, your game should be good enough so that your average person (easier to determine on a console) can host and play the game.
As a PC gamer I'm of the opinion that PC games have great online play, better than just about any console. On the other hand your average console, heck even an antique console, has much better LAN style play, I say LAN style because the consoles don't need a LAN whereas PCs do. I would much rather go over to my friends house to play some Halo against them then try to get them over here to play a LAN game, the setup issues for a LAN combined with everyone needing the game makes Halo the clear winner.
I've never played Gears so I can't compare it to that but I will say this, PC games !> Console games. PC games are different than console games...
He forgot Estonia!...wait, no he didn't...okay then...
:P) I wouldn't know. Why not say just greedy teenager with a $300 Linux machine or, better yet, Greedy Nigerian Royalty with a $300 Linux machine.
Seriously though, estonia? Raise your hand if you know where that is. The only reason I ever recognize that is because I just finished a European History class where we had to memorize the current map of Europe, I'm sure if you asked me last year (or next year
And why a $300 machine? If it can be done with Linux couldn't a greedy Estonian purchase some really cheap parts and build a $100 machine then install Linux on it? Or do all computers in Estonia cost $300 min?
Oh no, insane Star Trek nerdity nitpicking engaged. Setting nitpickiness to stun. Engage the nitpick drive.
GP's phrase was used by another Vulcan in the actual Star Trek series. Both are valid.
Google...badam chish!
Don't get it? Hits? As in, 100,000,000 hits for 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C1...badam chish!
Yeah...that's gotta be one the strangest moding's I've ever seen. The first post is redundant? The post that came before all others was a copy of another one? What's with that?
"One other effect I can see this having, is let's say www.bigcompanyhere.com gets tagged as being potentially harmful. Now Google has done them a favor by alerting them to a security problem, which they can then address, and are likely to do so much quicker to try and minimize damage to their image."
A favor? Google has likely killed their company, or at least it's online portion. Remember the big debate about how certain companies weren't being seen on the front page of google searches a while ago? Remember how much less revenue those companies got? Think about it, if little old lady #13 wants to buy item xdfsd#14 from bigcompanyhere.com but Google tells her that it may contain scary Malware that could take over her computer how likely is she to buy item xdfsd#14 from bigcompanyhere.com? How likely is she to tell her friends not to buy item xdfsd#14 from bigcompanyhere.com? How likely is she to never shop on bigcompanyhere.com ever again even if they fix the minor problem that google flagged for them?
Any time a non-computer savy person sees this type of thing they're likely to avoid that site for a very long period of time. Sure, that'll make the companies more careful about what they put there, but it also gives Google even more control over the internet and internet based companies. I wouldn't be surprised if they (google) began offering "consulting" fees to remove the malware that google flagged from the companies site quickly, and how much of a leap is it from there to pure extortion?
Google controls a lot of the internet right now. Their job should not be to tell people where to search but rather to let them go where they want to go. This is a 'sounds like a good idea' idea but it could potentially be disastrous. Oh sure, what I layed out in my post is a pretty worst case scenario type thing, on the other hand how unlikely do you think it is? As for me, I'm expecting to see the 'Google Anti-Malware Division' started up pretty soon with their 'Low price of $100 to remove flagged malware from your site and get it back on the green list' within a year of this starting
Oh man...I love that second idea of yours! It's brilliant, of course they'd find a way to circumvent it, "We won't actually 'pay' you to sue for us, but hey, is that a big pile of cash in the corner...go on, take it, it's a donation" but that idea is genius. I can just see the plaintiff in some major case donating some money to the defense so that they can hire a good lawyer so that the plaintiff can hire a good one too. The only thing I would change about it would be a % system rather than actual values, as in "Neither side in a legal case may spend more than 10% over their opponent on legal fees or time spend in pro bono".
I really wish that was law...would get rid of 90% of the frivolous lawsuit's on it's own while also eliminating the majority of the 'sue for money' crowd.
I think he's classifying space as orbital and beyond, not suborbital.
I know what you mean, I bought BF1942 a while ago and lost the second CD. I've come pretty close to finding a crack for it somewhere so I can play the game I payed money for without paying more money for it. It's just absurd that they can get away with selling games/music/movies to consumers and then restricting those consumer's rights. Really if we're gonna call it like it is then the ability to buy games/music/movies died a long time ago, now you're just able to lease them for an extended time period. You can't claim to be selling something and then restrict rights on it using DRM and copy protection, that's not selling then.
"How can you be objective (or even funny) in reporting about an industry that you are now part of?"
/.ers :P). What about a farmer talking about some farming practices in another country? So long as you're not discussing your work or a competitor's work or being payed to say certain things it's easy to be objective about the industry you're in. Since they won't have any competitors (there are few game studios left that make adventure style cheap games), are unlikely to talk about their game in their comics from what I've seen and will almost certainly not be payed to say anything now that they're making a game I see no problem with it.
.02 cents. If you want to get your news from a total outsider then that's your choice. I for one welcome our new game building game reviewing Penny Arcade overloads happily.
Very easily, you don't talk about your work. Or are you claiming that a Computer Programmer can't be witty and objective about a programming issue (and if you're saying that you're gonna have to answer to most
IMHO someone who's a part of the industry tends to be the best source of information, so long as they can be trusted to avoid pushing their products over other people's. I've read Penny Arcade for a while and found that ever since they started this game they've been a lot kinder to the game industry without losing their wit or objectivity. Seems to me that they're now more qualified to talk about someone else's game as they are learning how difficult it can be. I'm a lot more likely to believe a game designer's extremely critical review of a game over your average joe who played it for 10 minutes. I'm not saying that's what Penny Arcade used to do but I would much rather hear their opinion on new games AFTER they've finished making one of their own that's (hopefully) good.
But hey, that's my
As a religious person, it's a REALLY dumb law...
I mean seriously, we're getting to the point now where even doing something that could possibly be maybe related to a threat against a person/place/idea is a criminal offense. If you can be thrown in jail for picketing a group, especially if you have a good reason, then you have lost way too much freedom. I mean, if someone came and picketed my church I'd probably be more curious to hear their side of the story than wanting them thrown in jail.
Ugh...whatever happened to the place where you could jokingly punch your friend in the shoulder in school and say "I'm gonna kill you for that" then go off and demonstrate peacefully about something you care about and the police wouldn't care a bit?
Chaotic Neutral...
Google it, it's a quote (mixed up but accurate nonetheless) from 1984 by George Orwell. I believe the GP is commenting on how this act is a very Orwellian move by the government, trying to restrict information. Personally I have to agree, most countries have spy satellites, at least ones that are considered powerful, and so really if the terrorist's have any links to any countries, no matter how obscure, this won't matter. This is really nothing more than a solution to a problem that doesn't exist...a solution which won't work...remind anyone of anything *cough cough* DRM *cough cough* copy protection *cough*
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