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Comment Re:Taken to the logical extreme... (Score 1) 124

Then you get a fog to read your brain and "upload" you into its systems. Then you have a human-sentient-fog. Wouldn't you trade your physical body for a foglet one?

That's so pre-Mayan new cycle. There are probably a few of you that are still in simulated old cycle bodies, waiting until you've reached the sentience level required for ascension to the new cycle. The clock is ticking.

Comment Re:Like the cat (Score 1) 324

In all of these scenarios, there are multiple observers in the form of fermions receiving and transmitting bosons. It isn't simply the human observer that is counted in QM....

    It's a misleading analogy for QM in that it relies on the lack of observation of such a large system (cat, poison, etc.). The cat itself is an observer of whether or not the particle decays, as is the detector, etc.

    In fact, the state of the cat is observed by the box and every particle within it- does it maintain its output of IR or because its metabolism has ceased does its output of IR diminish?

    Blehh- someones quick and insightful joke about QM can cause such a high number of uncollapsed states among the unobservant.

Comment Re:Before (Score 1) 196

Yes, there was not a lot of software, though there was some you could buy on cassette as you say, or type in from magazines.

Lol.. some of the games were so awesome- they blow current generation computer games out of the water.

    Still have the books "Games for your timex sinclair 1000" and "GfyTS 2000" stashed, and the TS 1000 with 16k ram pack in the attic.
   

Comment Re:Wow (Score 2) 210

Personally, I can foresee a group of these going down the road when one in the lead hits a pothole and does the well-known segway faceplant. Collision avoidance kicks in on the following vehicles - causing them to segway faceplant and it looks like a billiard table.

When I think of a flock of segways, I imagine a bowling alley.

Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 891

Yes, it's simple enough to say "Just quit smoking". You've never been a smoker or been someone almost completely dependent on cigarettes.

I smoked regularly and quit except for social situations involving alcohol. It wasn't a big deal- I had smoked for years and decided I didn't want to keep doing it and stopped.

You know the hardest part about quitting smoking? The psychological bullshit about addiction to nicotine: you are taught that you are mentally and physically addicted to tobacco by the anti-tobacco lobby.

    When you think "normally I'd have a smoke right now, but I'm quitting", all of the bullshit you've been indoctrinated into believing about nicotine addiction makes you think that you will have a lot of trouble resisting smoking that cigarette. In other words you think that not smoking the cigarette is going to be hard- and this powerful thought exists in your mind because you've been told it your whole fucking life. If anything, it's the last great advertising scam of the tobacco industry.

    To reiterate: You've been told time and time again that you will want to smoke the cigarette when you quit. You've been told this by people who CLAIM they want to help you quit. However, this message perpetuates tobacco addiction. Who does this false message benefit? The tobacco industry.

    I simply didn't believe the bullshit, all of the hype about tobacco addiction, and guess what? It's as easy to break the habit of smoking a cigarette as it is to break any habitual behavior- you just don't do it. It isn't going to be any harder to break the habit- except for all of the bullshit that has been driven into your subconscious and conscious mind from the "anti" (actually pro) tobacco industry.

    The "anti" tobacco lobby is the tobacco industry's magnum opus, its last great hoorah. It's hard to keep customers when your product is dangerous and isn't actually very addictive- but pose as someone helping them quit who tells them it is very hard to quit... that's a Karl Rove.

Comment Fractal Music Implementation (Score 1) 38

Might work with some of [shameless plug] my fractal formulas * [/shameless plug], although you'd have to use sqrt [1-sin^2 (x)] for cosine as it apparently isn't implemented? (I only see sin and atan2).

  Probably try it with simple 2d fractal formulas first. Nice...

    On another note (I'll scan thread carefully), any recommendations for other open source mathematical music programs?

  *others scattered around the website.....

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