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Comment Re:Actually (Score 1) 614

Well, the great Founding Fathers could have ruled out laws of physics, such as gravity, for instance. Doesn't mean it will automatically cease to exist. Just because you have that concept on a piece of paper (which even some former president openly declared not much more worthy than a piece of toilet paper), doesn't automagically makes it real.

Comment Re:Make it static. (Score 1) 586

Humm, I'm sorry to barge in like this. I'm not a US citizen, I'm from one of the so-called PIGS :)

But it seems you had some people there shouting before those crisis happened, and all they got was embarrassment and getting laughed at. ( check "Overdose: the next financial crisis" on youtube).
It really doesn't matter anymore. We're fscked anyway.

Math

First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life 241

Calopteryx writes "New Scientist has a story on a self-replicating entity which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life. 'Dubbed Gemini, [Andrew Wade's] creature is made of two sets of identical structures, which sit at either end of the instruction tape. Each is a fraction of the size of the tape's length but, made up of two constructor arms and one "destructor," play a key role. Gemini's initial state contains three of these structures, plus a fourth that is incomplete. As the simulation progresses the incomplete structure begins to grow, while the structure at the start of the tape is demolished. The original Gemini continues to disassemble as the new one emerges, until after nearly 34 million generations, new life is born.'"

Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 270

Well, then it's ok for you if they suddenly go and change the terms of service to, let's say, require you to pay a fee each time you log onto the PSN? After all, if you don't accept, you don't get to use it, f*ck you very much !

Of course, you are forgetting (or ignoring) that people do make buying decisions based on the service they are advertised. It's NOT ok to change them in the future and screw all the customers. People PAYED for the OtherOS support. Now, Sony is simply ripping them off of what they payed for. Everything else is secondary.

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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein

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