But that's exactly the point. They didn't solve anything. So it plays the cards perfectly, but that's not the game. If the human walks in and due to chance gets several great hands in a row, then gets up and walks out, the robot doesn't win. They say right in the article "Given enough hands" well that's the entire point of the game! You don't give the opponent enough hands to win. Quit while you're ahead? There are so many gambling sayings that cover this very topic, I don't think I could remember them all. There's even a damned song about it!

You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done

But there will come a point in the not too distant future when "Warming" will no longer be a debate, and no one will argue with the need to cool the earth. At that point things may be so dire that some countries might get so desperate that they just start little to no planning or forethought. That's why it's good to think about these sorts of things now, so they at least have some sort of scientific frame work to start with rather than doing something rash that may very well kill us all.

Which is why I mentioned the Bootstrap paradox. He was his own mother and father. There's no way that can exist in One Timeline, at all. And, in fact it can't exist in many worlds either... because at some point he would have had to have existed prior to his having existed... Unless, travel between worlds is possible, and the him that is in this universe is the decedent of many other hims through the infinite multiverse that have some ancestor that is descended from elsewhere.

I suppose that it's possible the movies writers just don't understand causality, but there's no possible way to have a causality loop in a single world universe. There would be no way for the loop to start in the first place. If that's what they were trying to get at then it truly was the worst movie of all time.

Yea, I keep wondering why they allow him to post... is he paying them? I don't get it. Everyone hates his articles (even more than mine!) and they're rarely interesting topics to begin with... then you see Bennetts wall of text and you're like "I'm not reading that much text about this stupid of a topic"

Can someone please please make these stop?

I've no intention to insult anyones religion. I'd be more than happy to not do things that offend others, but I draw the line at threats. Threatening someones life should result in an automatic and overwhelming response from the entire world to do exactly the opposite of your demands.

If the Newspapers of the world had any backbone at all, they'd all band together and republish the cartoon front page on Monday along with pictures of the attackers with captions that say "This image is being published at the request of these 2 infidels."

Along with that they should declare that every time a reporter working for one of their papers is killed in an attempt to silence them, they will again run Muhammads image on the front page of their papers. The responsibility for the image will be the attackers and they'll burn in hell for their idolatry. Want to stay out of hell? Stop murdering people.

There is no proper cooling system that will do what they want.

You cannot get a modern high end CPU/GPU running at full capacity for any legth of time inside a laptop without them overheating. I often hear comments like yours followed by "I have a laptop and dont have problems!" only to find out later you're running WOW most of the time. Yea, you don't have a problem but your GPUs only hitting 10% load. Load up a bitcoin miner and see what happens.

Yea, I never got this... Laptops suck. The fact that you're trying to use a laptop as a workstation makes me question your competence as a developer because you seem to be valuing form over function. Get the job done on a desktop and use a cheap laptop for travel. To run a high performance computer properly you need low ambient temperature and lots of air flow. You get neither with a laptop because it's more than likely in your lap having your body heat compound the issue and you just can't fit a decent sized fan into the thing.

I watched the movie... and, to be honest, I had no idea what it was about before I started. But I'm into relativity and that sort of thing so I found it interesting.

I'll try not to give too much away but if you read on you might get some slight spoilers... so read at your own risk.

The gist of it is "Time cop" meets The NSA but less lame. And the premise is that the universe follows the "May worlds" theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
The film uses Many Worlds to try and resolve the "Boot strap paradox": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... and/or the "Predestination Paradox": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

Now, when you start watching it the movie kind of harms itself in that, it doesn't explain this at all... there are no convenient scientists around to explain possible scientific ways out of what we would generally consider not possible even in science fiction. I think it would have been helped by such a device. It wasn't until after I watched it, saw the ending, and then thought on it for a couple of days that I really understood what they were trying to get across.

***More spoilers, dont read if you don't want them!***
I think that the primary characters in the film were in a "Many worlds" universe and as such I think that the dance you see has been played out infinitely in many other versions of the universe. Furthermore what I think the film suggests is that these universes can interact and that the actors are not just traveling in time, they are also traversing these realities. So the events in the film may be in a closed loop, but that loop was started by the characters arriving from other "Worlds" etc... Perhaps this world existed all along, but the paradox they created collapsed "The past", etc...

The film does not explain this well at all, and I'd not take anyone that wasn't really into hardcore scifi to see this. I barely grasped it and I read the hardest hardcore scfi available every day. As far as film goes this is about as mind bending as it gets. The acting was good... but the device revolving around the main characters gender was very very clunky. I did not like that at all, and it was Rocky Horror picture show silly in its presentation. I'm not sure how else they could have pulled that off, but they should have tried a lot harder.
 

If your cellphone company let you, you could change that to. This is Linux folks... you should be able to do whatever you want with it.

I agree with your premise but not your conclusion.
They do lie a lot... but then we get to the whole "Why would they lie?" bit...
We all already hate the DPRK.
It's right to hate them, they're the most evil organization in the world. They still have concentration camps for Gods sakes.
The US government gains nothing by this. They could pretty much do anything they wanted to, short of nuking the place, and I think the general US population would cheer. So this isn't some sort of FUD attempt. The American peoples levels of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in regard to North Korea is already at 100%

On top of that, if this really was some movie piracy group... that would definitely be something many people would absolutely love to leverage to get new legislation passed so I'm rather surprised they didn't bite on that...

And more importantly, who else on the entire planet would want to do this? Pirates do not care about attacking Sony... at all... they want movies to post so they can collect ad revenue from the comments/description section of the peer sites. Attracting the attention of the FBI/NSA is not in their business plan.

There is... your cellphone company wont let you install it however. That needs to be addressed. Either by Google or Congress.

Not the porn companies.
In most cases these aren't even the porn companies. It's a scam. If they can get the ISP to hand over your name... and they can in some cases... then they send you threatening letters: "On suchandsuch date you downloaded our film 'Priests and Alterboys 5' illegally. Pay us $5000 or we will sue you" And then they send it certified mail to your front door. The signature requirement means there's a 50/50 chance they get your wife and how much would you pay to avoid that happening?

It's a scam, plain and simple.

Everything people hate about business is Marketings fault in my opinion. Honesty doesn't make sales.

A compulsory regulation on your home that exists in nearly every neighborhood you could possibly buy in the town you live is in no way "Optional" In my opion HOA's should be illegal.

I would never sign an HOA, and when I buy a house that's usually a problem because there are very few houses in town that do not have them. On the bright side, they are not that hard to ruin should you so chose and not mind alienating your neighbors. There are always loopholes, and ways you can make your house so annoying they'll eventually relent and let you do what you want to do. For example, they cannot prevent the construction of an amateur radio tower unless it's unsafe. There are long and drawn out discussions out on the net about how to pull this off, so I'll not get into it. But if done correctly you have a giant geeky eysore up for under $1000

A fellow around here went to a lawyer and picked appart his HOA contract until he finally settled on blanketing his front yard with toilets. He put daisies in the bowl of each one and called them "Flower pots"

After hearing all that I almost wish I'd been stupid enough to sign one. I would thoroughly enjoy pranking them constantly.