If we are trapped in a VR, so a tree that fall in a forest when nobody is there to listen wont do any noise because it's it's will be a use of computer power unuseful.
Contrast with "Butterfly effect": how can you know the fall of the tree will not be needed for future events?
If you assume the VR programmer is able to determine it in advance, then what would be the motivation behind the simulation?
To me, it's more likely that the VR tree failing will still produce a VR sound; to determine the evolution of the system, it is more likely the programmer does not have any solution with a "lower cost" than actually running the simulation.
etc...
Is there anything like tunneling very high but narrow barriers?
(practical example: consider some movement differential equations for a system of particles which you solve numerically. Suppose now that you need to restrict the particles inside a box. Model the box as a potential function that increases sharply on the boundary; be careful, if the potential barrier is narrow enough relatively to you "integration quanta" - the step h you choose in integrating the DE system - some particles will "escape" the box even at energies lower than the maximum potential barrier).
Wake up from your exceptionalist dream, buddy. Last I checked, Alcatel is a French company and it's eating Cisco's market fast.
Check again: Alcatel-Lucent (there is no longer an Alcatel) is metanational.
You reckon, being metanational, is more american or asian than it is french/european?
Or... let me put it this way... a metanational able to buy Bell Labs and with the top officers named Michel Combes, Philippe Camus, Ben Verwaayen and HQ in Paris won't be able to deal with an european network paid by Germany/France?
Context - the point I advancenced was in reply to:
Are there even any non-American and non-Asian entities capable of implementing and maintaining such a large scale network
Won't this European network just be subject to the same censorship and spying paid for by American and Asian entities, as the current internet is anyway?
Think of this as an investment: at least they'll have to pay EU for it; the way it stands now, it's free.
Are there even any non-American and non-Asian entities capable of implementing and maintaining such a large scale network on their own, including using their own custom built non-American, non-Asian hardware, manufactured in a non-American, non-Asian factory?
Wake up from your exceptionalist dream, buddy. Last I checked, Alcatel is a French company and it's eating Cisco's market fast.
Last I checked, in a democracy, the parliament/congress and (depending on the country) maybe judges are the ones to make laws.
Besides, we aren't discussing how moral/ethical/trusted the lawyer profession is. so your remark is offtopic in the context of "NSA violating the lawyer-client confidentiality by spying on lawyers, thus hurting the client as well".
How would you like to be on the "receiving end"?
Am I to understand, that a lawyer is complaining about something sleazy and underhanded? Really? A lawyer? The same guys who sleaze their way to the top, then get political jobs so they can sleazy their way to the top again? They are the ones complaining about something possible being sleazy happening to them? Really? Let me get you a tissue.
Yes, sure, shoot the messenger.
Bored much today?
Of course, industry will have their own scientists - like the cigarette industry - that will show this is "junk science" or some other critique to prevent or at the very least, slow down any sort of regulation.
Well, call me cynical but... put this in contrast with kiddy-pr0n and then ask yourself a question "Which anatomical parts of a kid the society seems to value and protect more?"
That's the only part of their comment that you're going to respond to? Really?
I'm old and knowledgeable enough to get around their punny attempts of censorship.
Other than that... you think
... there is considerable debate as to whether a $1.2B a year public media organisation operating across all media channels and not having to produce a profit is actually stifling any commercial competitors.
You gotta be kidding, right? I mean... what do you see as interesting to watch on other than ABC and, sometimes, SBS channels? No seriously, my interest is genuine.
I was never at all fond of Tony Abbott, but since he's come into power I've come to fucking detest him and everything he stands for.
Ummmm... pardon me, but... Tony Abbot standing for something? I know he stand against boat people, carbon tax, NBN, unions, helping local industry... I didn't quite get what he stands for: can you help me this?
While it drives massive sales of consumer goods, but it also drives interest in sports, even though most just watch them and forget about it
Well, I matered this. I don't even need to watch it and I still forget about it the next moment.
"It's the best thing since professional golfers on 'ludes." -- Rick Obidiah