The Hollywood Spectaculomatic will automatically analyze any for for content, theme, humor, plot, sub-plot, charactizations, social commentary, cultural reference, and political ramifications; cross analyze the results against a target demographics intellectual, visceral, and spiritual entertainment needs and produce a movie that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the original book. Buy yours today!
Just because gravity isn't a force doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Things fall to earth, mass is attracted to other mass and we call that phenomenon "gravity". The curvature of space-time is an explanation of gravity and the behaviour we see.
Gravity doesn't exist. Masses are attracted to each other because it is God's will that they do so. The fact that God wills it makes it so. And because God is infallible, he doesn't change his mind and the objects always behave in the same way. It can be helpful to us to create equations that describe God's will, but that doesn't mean it is okay to promote heretical views like "gravity" and "curvature of space-time."
Greed was not the driving force in the creation of laws that allow corporations to exist. I don't think the original lawmakers expected corporations to act in quite the manner as they do today.
length it to corporate greed and you got it right. The only goal a public corporation is allowed to pursue is that of obtaining money. Humans don't have that contraint.
Yes, well, you see the movie itself is constrained to a finite amount of information and so they had to edit down the book quite a bit. I mean, they can't just go thowing every little bit of trivia in there can they? You have to include only the bits that are really vital to a hitchhiker's survial. Plus there are the editors to worry about. You put a little too much in and they just throw out the whole entry. We should be happy that Earth is even mentioned at all.
On a slightly more serious note, let me just point out that despite all the bashing we give the Patriot Act, it's not actually been abused as much as some people would like to think (as this article [washingtontimes.com] explains, or just search Google News for "patriot act abuse" for recent articles on the Congressional hearings).
Said the frog in the slowly boiling pot of water.
"Look! Even though the stove is turned on high the water isn't that hot."
There is a trust issue with this idea. You have to trust that the person you are picking up will not mug you or that the person picking you up will not mug you. It also requires that you tell the system where you are going and what route you are planning to take. It requires real time feedback so the carpool system can tell you to take a detour to pick someone up. The system won't work until we have fully autonomous robotic automobiles. At that point, instead of owning a car you will subscribe to a car service (actually you may own a car, but it will make economic sense to rent it out to a car pooling service).
You don't have an optimal solution to compress a single message:
If I say nothing, assume 00 If I say 0, assume 01 If I say 1, assume 10 If I say 01, assume 11
Assuming a uniform distribution of the message, you can expect 1 bit of data to be transmitted.
However, this is a fake example. Given an information channel I need to define lots of things like what I am using to represent 0 and 1 and how often signals are expected.
Say I have a telegraph wire. Each second I transmit a short signal (dot.) for 0 and a long signal (dash -) for 1. Translate my example to this scheme and we get:
Notice that I am really using 3 symbols for each signal. 3 symbols = log2(3) bits = 1.58 bits. I am using 2 symbols per message so I am sending a 2 bit message in just over 3 bits.
Your example is the same: 0 == 00, 01 == 01, 10 == 10, 1 == 11
I receive a 0, should I complete the message or wait for a 1? How long should I wait? The answer to that sets the baud (symbol rate). If you wait and don't receive a 1 then you have received and 'empty' symbol (or end-of-file if you want to call it that). You encoding scheme is basically the same as my 'fake' one above.
If the messages you want to transmit (say 00, 01, 10, 11) all appear with the same regularity then you cannot compress the signal stream. However, if some of the bit pairs appear more often then we can use something like Huffman encoding to get a better bit count:
00 - 50% 01 - 25% 10 - 12.5% 11 - 12.5%
00 = 0 01 = 10 10 = 110 11 = 111
So a message like 00 01 00 10 11 would be 0100110111
I am pretty sure this is unambiguous.
This encoding scheme gives us an average bit count of:.5*1 +.25 *2 +.125*3 +.125*3 = 1.75 bits per 2 bits sent
We can use entropy calculations to determine how much real information we would be getting in the original stream: -0.5*log2(0.5) - 0.25*log2(0.25) - 2*0.125*log2(0.125) = 1.75 bits
Since the transmitted bit rate is the same as the message entropy the encoding scheme is optimal.
The projector should be on the floor and rear project on the playing surface. That way you don't have the nasty shadows when are interacting with the miniatures.
There is already a commercial system that does this. They say there is a six second delay between a gun being fired and the location showing up on 911.
Oh, and it looks like both systems use microphones -- not cameras
At some point, after sales have trickled off, I suspect they will release a patch that turns off the authentication requirement. That patch, along with one that lets you install from the CD, will be available online without steam. Of course, this is only speculation.
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Unless you are using a mac. Then you need the mouse.
Flat CRTs that use thousands of field emitters are coming and will eliminate LCD production.
But Yahoo would have been required to take it down anyway until the boyfriend could prove he owned the copyright.
And had that case gone to court, I bet the boyfriend would have lost.
She should have invoked the DMCA to have them removed.
Ion drives emit particles that bounce off the hulls of nearby ships (and cameras) to create sound within the nearby ship.
No no-prize for you!
The Hollywood Spectaculomatic will automatically analyze any for for content, theme, humor, plot, sub-plot, charactizations, social commentary, cultural reference, and political ramifications; cross analyze the results against a target demographics intellectual, visceral, and spiritual entertainment needs and produce a movie that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the original book. Buy yours today!
Wow! I think you are right. My life makes so much more sense now. Thanks.
Just because gravity isn't a force doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Things fall to earth, mass is attracted to other mass and we call that phenomenon "gravity". The curvature of space-time is an explanation of gravity and the behaviour we see.
Gravity doesn't exist. Masses are attracted to each other because it is God's will that they do so. The fact that God wills it makes it so. And because God is infallible, he doesn't change his mind and the objects always behave in the same way. It can be helpful to us to create equations that describe God's will, but that doesn't mean it is okay to promote heretical views like "gravity" and "curvature of space-time."
Greed was not the driving force in the creation of laws that allow corporations to exist. I don't think the original lawmakers expected corporations to act in quite the manner as they do today.
length it to corporate greed and you got it right. The only goal a public corporation is allowed to pursue is that of obtaining money. Humans don't have that contraint.
Yes, well, you see the movie itself is constrained to a finite amount of information and so they had to edit down the book quite a bit. I mean, they can't just go thowing every little bit of trivia in there can they? You have to include only the bits that are really vital to a hitchhiker's survial. Plus there are the editors to worry about. You put a little too much in and they just throw out the whole entry. We should be happy that Earth is even mentioned at all.
On a slightly more serious note, let me just point out that despite all the bashing we give the Patriot Act, it's not actually been abused as much as some people would like to think (as this article [washingtontimes.com] explains, or just search Google News for "patriot act abuse" for recent articles on the Congressional hearings).
Said the frog in the slowly boiling pot of water.
"Look! Even though the stove is turned on high the water isn't that hot."
A locksmith was able to pick a locked front door in a residential neiborhood in just under 3 minutes.
However, the FBI has superior entry method that involves breaking the door down in just under 8 seconds.
whereas conservativism meant monarchies
Sometimes I get the feeling that conservativism still means monarchy.
There is a trust issue with this idea. You have to trust that the person you are picking up will not mug you or that the person picking you up will not mug you. It also requires that you tell the system where you are going and what route you are planning to take. It requires real time feedback so the carpool system can tell you to take a detour to pick someone up. The system won't work until we have fully autonomous robotic automobiles. At that point, instead of owning a car you will subscribe to a car service (actually you may own a car, but it will make economic sense to rent it out to a car pooling service).
You don't have an optimal solution to compress a single message:
.) for 0 and a long signal (dash -) for 1. Translate my example to this scheme and we get:
.- = 11
.5*1 + .25 *2 + .125*3 + .125*3 = 1.75 bits per 2 bits sent
If I say nothing, assume 00
If I say 0, assume 01
If I say 1, assume 10
If I say 01, assume 11
Assuming a uniform distribution of the message, you can expect 1 bit of data to be transmitted.
However, this is a fake example. Given an information channel I need to define lots of things like what I am using to represent 0 and 1 and how often signals are expected.
Say I have a telegraph wire. Each second I transmit a short signal (dot
nothing nothing = 00
. nothing = 01
- nothing = 10
Notice that I am really using 3 symbols for each signal. 3 symbols = log2(3) bits = 1.58 bits. I am using 2 symbols per message so I am sending a 2 bit message in just over 3 bits.
Your example is the same:
0 == 00,
01 == 01,
10 == 10,
1 == 11
I receive a 0, should I complete the message or wait for a 1? How long should I wait? The answer to that sets the baud (symbol rate). If you wait and don't receive a 1 then you have received and 'empty' symbol (or end-of-file if you want to call it that). You encoding scheme is basically the same as my 'fake' one above.
If the messages you want to transmit (say 00, 01, 10, 11) all appear with the same regularity then you cannot compress the signal stream. However, if some of the bit pairs appear more often then we can use something like Huffman encoding to get a better bit count:
00 - 50%
01 - 25%
10 - 12.5%
11 - 12.5%
00 = 0
01 = 10
10 = 110
11 = 111
So a message like
00 01 00 10 11
would be
0100110111
I am pretty sure this is unambiguous.
This encoding scheme gives us an average bit count of:
We can use entropy calculations to determine how much real information we would be getting in the original stream:
-0.5*log2(0.5) - 0.25*log2(0.25) - 2*0.125*log2(0.125) = 1.75 bits
Since the transmitted bit rate is the same as the message entropy the encoding scheme is optimal.
The projector should be on the floor and rear project on the playing surface. That way you don't have the nasty shadows when are interacting with the miniatures.
Can you choose to invade other worlds with micro-organisms thus starting the game over on a larger scale?
You can also search for the letters on google to get a different set of results. I tried this several months ago.
Don't shop at Lowes. They keep their credit card information on a computer accessible from an insecure wireless access point.
The same thing happened to me a few months ago and I didn't unsubscribe to anything.
I credit the FBI and recent spamming busts.
"Digital watches" would have fit more with the theme of the joke.
Why that's only 8 years old when written in decimal.
There is already a commercial system that does this. They say there is a six second delay between a gun being fired and the location showing up on 911.
Oh, and it looks like both systems use microphones -- not cameras
At some point, after sales have trickled off, I suspect they will release a patch that turns off the authentication requirement. That patch, along with one that lets you install from the CD, will be available online without steam. Of course, this is only speculation.