Greg H.

Well, I think the first question is - do you lean toward simple, quick playability (a la Dungeons and Dragons) or realism at the expense of my players actually using it (a la GURPS or Traveller)?

The arrival of the IRS agent ends the ignorance and the bliss simultaneously.

 

I don't need to plan how to answer the questions: I just answer them honestly.

It worked once...

http://www.bbc.co.uk...ngland-16740033

But the real question becomes how do you answer them at all when you don't know the answers? Your ignorance of the information doesn't end just because someone knocked on your door. You don't suddenly possess new information concerning this pile of money, save that it exists and is, apparently yours. You still have no idea where it came from, why it's yours, etc. Yet, I suspect that you would have quite a hard time convincing the nice auditor of this, true or not.

Hmm, there's an interesting concept. Are ignorance and bliss both reduced by the same amount? Or are they really two independent variables that are completely unrelated to each other? Is it possible that your bliss could be reduced by a greater amount than your ignorance in a given case?

The key phrase in my example was "but never found out about it".

 

I fail to see how that should change my answer. Your lack of knowledge does nothing to change the fact that the money (or debt) exists. All that has changed is that you will now have no idea why the IRS (or a court agent with a summons) will appear on your doorstep asking you answer some questions. And as you won't know why they're there, you will have no idea how to prepare for the questions, which means your willful ignorance is going to cost you a great deal.

Christianity: the Truth that's important enough to Lie about.

You owe me a new keyboard Phi. I'll never get the Pepsi out of this one.

If you had a million dollars but you had no idea that you had it, would you really have a million dollars? Better yet if you were a million dollars in debt but never found out about it, would you actually be in debt?

Yes. Although it would be funny to see someone try and defend ignorance of their assets during a tax audit.

"But I didn't know I had the money, so it doesn't count, right?"

The point that seems to be missing here is that ignorance is only blissful until it's rudely interrupted by reality. Things like being ignorant of the local wildlife while you're out walking and then getting a poisonous, but non-fatal, snake bite. Your ignorance, in this case, will hurt. And quite a bit. If you're lucky you won't lose a limb due to necrosis.

There is a point at which ignorance and stupidity are one and the same. Not knowing what you don't know is ignorance. Actively avoiding new knowledge is not.

Inertia is a property of matter. Specifically it is the property of matter that resists changes in the state of that matter's motion. (The old objects in motion tend to remain in motion, etc etc).

However, a cursory google search of the terms "time inertia" gives a few results that look like theories relating the two via relativity (I didn't take the time to read more than the abstracts of a couple of them). Maybe one of our learned physics colleagues can expand on the topic.

I think the relevant thing is this:

 

Science has no idea what the EFE are relative to, So, they have no idea about the size color and or shape of anything on this planet.

 

Communication is a design intended for those whom study the "trend."

 

Everyone can have sex without communication, it is universal, music to is universal, art is universal.

Not only are these lines not relevant to anything in this thread (that I can determine), they're not even relevant to each other.

Are you being deliberately obscure in the hopes you'll "win" when we all give up and go do something else?

What does 1 represent to you guys though??

 

My x and my y values represent the speed of light to a precession as its - exponent..

Meaning that -1 or +1 = precession in a exponential way...

Nothing can = 0 from what I know.

 

 

c/ x17403623434808744+y2712253364740.28 = 1.72231803046111e-14

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, I am going to lose my patience in a minute.

Did it not occur to you at some point that we might need to know what x and y stood for, since you had already assigned them values?

Y is completely fine:

http://www3.wolframa...s=29&w=249&h=65

 

It states in this link that the exact result is denominator of 2..

 

This here is my proof for the constant of 2

 

 

 

 

Funnily enough, when I put that equation into WolframAlpha (which I did not know about before today) it gives me back something completely different.

http://www3.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x%5E2-92y%5E2%3D1&lk=4

Except x=0

 

((edit))

 

Actually, except x<1

If you're referring to the values of x that would yield imaginary results, it would be anything -1 < x < 1. Both 1 and -1 one would yield answers of 0, if I am doing the math right.

Let x = 0:

[math] y=\sqrt{\frac{0^{2} - 1}{92}}[/math]

[math] y=\sqrt{\frac{-1}{92}}[/math]

[math] y=\frac{\sqrt{-1}}{\sqrt{92}}[/math]

[math] y=\frac{i}{2\sqrt{23}}[/math]

Let x = -1:

[math] y=\sqrt{\frac{-1^{2} - 1}{92}}[/math]

[math] y=\sqrt{\frac{1 - 1}{92}}[/math]

[math] y=\sqrt{\frac{0}{92}}[/math]

[math] y=\sqrt{0}[/math]

[math] y=0[/math]

The same also holds true for x = 1

nothing to it:

 

[math] x = \sqrt{92y^{2} + 1}[/math] for any y

I prefer the format [math] y=\sqrt{\frac{x^{2} - 1}{92}}[/math] for any x.

Scott Aaronson's blog Shtetl-optimizedis a great place for explanation of quantum algorithms, p v np etc

 

Here is his everytake on Shor's Algorithm http://www.scottaaro...com/blog/?p=208

Nice read. Thanks for the link!

It's easier to just redefine "floor" as meaning whatever is "below" your feet.

No no - we're missing an amazing opportunity here. We define floor to be whatever is under my back. That way I am always working while laying down! (Score one for laziness.)

Where do you get this kind of garbage Moon? I don't care much for Romney either, but to hear this "IDIOT" lash out at anyone he pleases, is atrocious. Where did this fuckhead spend his time these past 10 to 12 years? The jerk is only hoping to get another paycheck from people like you before he's found out to be the ass he is. I want to vomit when he speaks. On top of that, where the hell was Obama during the same time frame?

For the record, President Obama was a minor during the Vietnam conflict. He turned 18 in 1979 - 4 years after the end of the conflict.

Hybridization and subsequent introgression occurs readily between cultivated plants like maize, rice, sunflower, etc, and their wild-type relations. In addition, pollen from these plants has high dispersal capability.

 

If the pollen from GM crops was viable, it would readily spread from the crops to native, wild populations of related species and create hybrid individuals with modified genes introgressed in their genomes. Thus the modified genes would escape into natural populations.

 

http://onlinelibrary...enticated=false

http://www.jstor.org...sid=56308962303

http://web.sau.edu/b...ression2003.pdf

In short, if your native corn suddenly shows up with a patented gene in it, you still don't have to abide by the terms of the licensing agreement, but you get the benefits of it. It's all about protecting the investment - at least until the patent expires.

According to my dictionary, it's either fun-jeye or fun-guy - no long e sounds to found.

If they really needed to they could use loops, straps, or velcro pads.

In this image, the astronaut on the right appears to have his feet tucked under two blue bars on the floor to keep himself anchored while he works.

Do not be too proud of this technological marvel you have created. Its power is insignificant compared to the power of the Force.

Did you seriously just quote Darth Vader in your word salad?

Dude.

And then you go on to misquote Spock.

depending on application for the benefit of the few or the many (Spock)

You know, basing scientific arguments on science fiction is not normally acceptable. You do know that, right?

Am I allowed to be a bit skepctical? I am still waiting for promised AI (what happened finally with Kasparov accusations on IBM's Deep Blue?) and I am waiting for promised optical computers 1000 times faster than electronic ones.

 

Also I cannot see how "a quantum computer would be able to process much of the math at the same instant instead of sequentially" in nonlinear and/or non-parallel problems.

George Johnson's book A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to Quantum Computer (Johnathon Cape Publishers, London: 2003) offers some insight into how this works (in theory).

Each of the possible factors to test can be thought of as a quantum ripple, one piece of a complex wave packet. Computing the answer is equivalent to massaging the the wave with the laser so that all the possible answers interfere with each other, the least likely cancelling each other out and the most likely reinforcing each other. Finally the wave collapses to reveal the solution.

The book goes into a good deal more detail about the theory and the physics, as well as developments up to that point in time. One of the things that quantum computing can do very rapidly (in theory) is factor very large numbers into their relevant prime factors - which is the heart of modern computer encryption algorithms.

On page 89, Johnson goes on to point out why this is such a big deal to modern computer encryption. With a modern Strong RSA encryption, you get a 1,024 bit encryption scheme. With a 1,024 qubit computer, you could

...try out all the possible factors simultaneously, in superposition, then collapse to reveal the answer.

The reason long encryption codes work better is because modern computers, even supercomputers, are constrained by the laws of classical physics (Johnson, 89). With Shor's Algorithm (See Johnson, pp 67-82 or Shor's Algorithm on Wikipedia), and an appropriate quantum computer, you could compute the prime factors of an encryption string in far less time.

And let's not forget that quantum computing, when it does come, will render all existing forms of computer encryption not only obsolete, but completely useless.

"1024-bit encryption? This will just take a second."

We're talking potatoes pre-human intervention. Yes, they were indeed poisonous.

They still are. Did you bother to read the link to Solanine at all? For example:

Showing green under the skin strongly suggests solanine build-up in potatoes, although each process can occur without the other. A bitter taste in a potato is another, potentially more reliable indicator of toxicity. Because of the bitter taste and appearance of such potatoes, solanine poisoning is rare outside conditions of food shortage. The symptoms are mainly vomiting and diarrhea, and the condition may be misdiagnosed as gastroenteritis. Most potato poisoning victims recover fully, although fatalities are known, especially when victims are undernourished or do not receive suitable treatment.^[5] Fatalities are also known from solanine poisoning from other plants in the nightshade family, such as the berries of Solanum dulcamara (woody nightshade).^[6]

 

The United States National Institutes of Health's information on solanine says to never eat potatoes that are green below the skin.

 

Just to settle the whole are potatoes poisonous thing:

Yes, they are, but they're only particularly dangerous if eaten when they have a green coloration to the tuber. So are eggplants, by the way. And cherry, peach, and apricot pits, and almonds (they all have cyanide in them).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine

http://listverse.com/2009/01/06/top-10-poisonous-foods-we-love-to-eat/

oh I'm ready for them...

 

The existence of screaming harry Potter fans does mean harry Potter was a real person or that Hogworts exists or that magic works...

What?????

Here's some more information about how the SR520 bridge is anchored to the bottom

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR520/I90BridgeAnchorCableRepl/Graphics.htm