First of all, we were asuming an all-digital world.
Secondly, It's called supply and demand. Noone will buy a 1000$ photo, thus the price will drop. It's got nothing to do with "going that road" It just IS, deal with it.
you're not getting the point. Items need only be unique in a world where everything can be copied without (much) effort. I can get a fake rolex, which is indistinguishable to anyone but the experts, functions just as well to, for only 20$. The only reason Rolex can stay in buisiness is that the copies are illegal and because of bragability.
It's a bit more difficult to "copy" a mercedes, and a lot less usefull to copy a bigmac. With the copybot, selling copies is uselss, thus one can no longer sustain the economy on sales of a product, thus it must be sustained with services. I'm sure there are a lot of economists going crazy about this.
If the guy:
A - Voted correctly
B - Pressed the right button, not a slip of the finger to another candidate.
They've all got printouts right? So comapre the 36 printouts with the 36 votes, and see if they match, easily done in such a small town. Also, 80 people and only 36 votes?
The Town of North Hempstead has positioned helpers at the dump the last four weekends, assisting people with a flood of old monitors, keyboards, laptops, word processors, and even a Pong game or two.
You don't dam the ocean, so I suspect you're talking about fresh water devices. Totally different animals compared to saltwater energy-extraction thingies. Once you assemble that big a device in the water, you can't take it out again for repainting.
10 years, Are you kidding? You can easily build it to last 75 or hundreds of years with proper maintenance. Take the word of a civil engineer. The moving parts may be more difficult, but I doubt it.
We've got movable dams that are just about zero maintenance, that have been standing there for almost 40 years now. Of course, If you put multiple installations nearby, it saves the immense cost of laying another pipeline underwater (Probably costs more then the whole facility.)
Also, funding for projects like this doesn't work like a bak loan. You simply take a percentage of the profit in eschange for providing funding.
Even here in the Netherlands we could make good use of it, as salinization is a major problem and a threat to groundwater quality here (lots of coastline.)
Just put these babies into the ocean, stick a tube down into the ground and, presto, no more saltwater in the dunes.
to answer those, sinse i'm spamming this article to death anyway...
a - Why wouldn't it? as long as wikipedia excists, the data will. As long as it's kept alive, it will live.
b - Seeing how there will be a LOT of language, it'll be simpler to decipher. That and dictionaries will make it a lot easier
c - nobody is a big word. I don't give a rats ass about the whatchamacallit rulers of whereverstan, but someone probably does.
A dvd would be hard pressed to last fifty years given the average build quality, and hard drives just plain don't last that long.
That depends on the ammount you're filling to put into it. A DVD will probably not work in a dvd drive after 50 years, but that doesn't mean the data is gone. Magnetic tape, if made of a proper thickness, can last hundreds of years while barely degrading.
Does anyone know how flash memory will stand up to time? or CMOS?
Still, you would need to keep the medium fresh if you want to store data for millenia. From punchcard to floppy to mag-tape to harddisk to dvd to holographic medium, in whatever format runs at that time.
And before anyone chimes in with "regular encyclopedias have inaccuracies too!", save it. While that is certainly the case, that doesn't let Wikipedia off the hook.
Depends on the way you look at it.
1 - regular encyclopedias suck just as much as wikipedia
OR
2 - Wikipedia is almost as good as other encyclopedias
Here is the problem, the higher the technology N is, the harder it is to recover past technologies. This probably applies for ideas, language, and technology.
Thus, one must keep it up to date.
Good thing we started realising last century that preserving history is not as simple as stuffing it in a vacuum case and throwing it in a safe. Preserving history is a full time job. And we're doing it. Stories being written down, books being microfilmed, microfilm being digitized etc etc.
How exactly does Wikipedia reflect the state of modern human life? Most humans don't have computers.
Let me counter by saying:
How exactly does [any repository of knowledge] reflect the state of modern human life? Most humans can't read.
see, it's also based on nothing, and utterly pointless.
The idea is that wikipedia will both serve as a place to find out what we "knew" today, as well as what our social view of events is (as shown in discussion pages.)
That's odd, It has both, a lot of plagiarism, and yet holds not a shred of thruth?
The problem is that no encyclopeida can be the repository of human knowledge. That would require several libraries full of books, and still not be enough. Any encyclopedia falls short by the arguments you use.
and by the way, you deserve at least a moddown for being a general asshole
rendering the whole computer class idea completely useless....
now, i'm asuming that computer class =/= send mail, read news, print file, but that the machines are actually usefull.
My school used to do this to machines, which resulted in me going down to the BofH to ask yet again for acces because I needed VisualBasic/Not quite C (for Mindstorms)/Autocad/whatever. Which eventaully resulted in an "advanced account" thus rendering the whole idea pretty useless.
So, this being computer class, not general-all-purpose machines, I'd agree with Brumak and say Lock the door, and allow supervised use with full rights.
a supernova with the mass of about 20 suns exploded relatively near the early Sun when it formed 4.6 billion years ago
So... close? IANAA, but close in terms of supernovae could be 20 lightyears for all I know, which would explain where the rest of the stars went.
Another theory could be that the rest of the suns died out, effectively turning the Sisters into "Sistahs"
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Is obviously to aquire bigger sharks, With nuclear reactors on their backs.
Yes there can be, as YOU still need to allow someone to copy it, right? correct me if i'm wrong.
Most unfortunate that you can't be modded up over +5... I'll have to suffice with congratulating you this way.
First of all, we were asuming an all-digital world. Secondly, It's called supply and demand. Noone will buy a 1000$ photo, thus the price will drop. It's got nothing to do with "going that road" It just IS, deal with it.
you're not getting the point. Items need only be unique in a world where everything can be copied without (much) effort. I can get a fake rolex, which is indistinguishable to anyone but the experts, functions just as well to, for only 20$. The only reason Rolex can stay in buisiness is that the copies are illegal and because of bragability. It's a bit more difficult to "copy" a mercedes, and a lot less usefull to copy a bigmac. With the copybot, selling copies is uselss, thus one can no longer sustain the economy on sales of a product, thus it must be sustained with services. I'm sure there are a lot of economists going crazy about this.
If the guy: A - Voted correctly B - Pressed the right button, not a slip of the finger to another candidate. They've all got printouts right? So comapre the 36 printouts with the 36 votes, and see if they match, easily done in such a small town. Also, 80 people and only 36 votes?
which is of course spelled with a D, and not an F
10 years, Are you kidding? You can easily build it to last 75 or hundreds of years with proper maintenance. Take the word of a civil engineer. The moving parts may be more difficult, but I doubt it. We've got movable dams that are just about zero maintenance, that have been standing there for almost 40 years now. Of course, If you put multiple installations nearby, it saves the immense cost of laying another pipeline underwater (Probably costs more then the whole facility.) Also, funding for projects like this doesn't work like a bak loan. You simply take a percentage of the profit in eschange for providing funding.
Even here in the Netherlands we could make good use of it, as salinization is a major problem and a threat to groundwater quality here (lots of coastline.)
Just put these babies into the ocean, stick a tube down into the ground and, presto, no more saltwater in the dunes.
to answer those, sinse i'm spamming this article to death anyway... a - Why wouldn't it? as long as wikipedia excists, the data will. As long as it's kept alive, it will live. b - Seeing how there will be a LOT of language, it'll be simpler to decipher. That and dictionaries will make it a lot easier c - nobody is a big word. I don't give a rats ass about the whatchamacallit rulers of whereverstan, but someone probably does.
It'll place the information in a social and historical context.
That's odd, It has both, a lot of plagiarism, and yet holds not a shred of thruth? The problem is that no encyclopeida can be the repository of human knowledge. That would require several libraries full of books, and still not be enough. Any encyclopedia falls short by the arguments you use. and by the way, you deserve at least a moddown for being a general asshole
Yeah, try doing that for a change. All the extra blades are good for is cutting loose extra flaps of skin when you make a mistake.
They're called Tauren
(and i don't even play WoW)
rendering the whole computer class idea completely useless.... now, i'm asuming that computer class =/= send mail, read news, print file, but that the machines are actually usefull. My school used to do this to machines, which resulted in me going down to the BofH to ask yet again for acces because I needed VisualBasic/Not quite C (for Mindstorms)/Autocad/whatever. Which eventaully resulted in an "advanced account" thus rendering the whole idea pretty useless. So, this being computer class, not general-all-purpose machines, I'd agree with Brumak and say Lock the door, and allow supervised use with full rights.
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