You've got all your facts backwards. WW2 was ended by the A-Bomb (fission).
WWII was ended by the Japanese capitulating, repeatedly. Theny needed to repeat themselves because the allies ignored the first capitulation, the americans because they wanted to play with bombs and the soviet union because they wanted Japan.
"Just because it isn't nice doesn't mean it isn't a miracle." -- Terry Pratchett
"Just because it isn't nice doesn't mean it isn't true." -- Me
The current batch of 20-year olds will burn up all of the remaining fossil fuels in their lifetime. That's been a truism for quite a while, you know. Intelligent life evolving on other planets? Out of millions some should be xmitting right now. Yes, but in which direction? Anyway, who says that intelligent life will keep a capacity to use high-energy radio for more than a century or so? Stone age, here we come...
How about more efficient usage, solar plants, and a li'l bit o' fission of to the side? Or orbital solar plants? (Y'know... the ol' microwave transmission principle. Mars is a big place; a miss wouldn't damage anything if you plan properly.)
That's an idea... when I've perfected my carbon-nanotube-generating engineered organism and become 100x as rich as W. H. Gates IV, I'll start sponsoring Open Source coders' beer tabs.
This is one of the most sickening things I've ever seen. The only bright point in it is that it's happening in the country which bores the rest of us to tears telling us about their "superior personal freedoms" and their status as the self-proclaimed "greatest nation on earth."
Drifting back towards the point... that anyone even considering that sort of thing in a nominally democratic country is ludicrous. I seriously doubt that this is in the best interest of the people, or that the majority of the people agree with it. If Orwell were alive today, he'd turn in his grave. (The same goes for Karl Marx, mind you.)
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I would, but there are large parts of the world where this is not a practical suggestion.
The energy requirement to significantly change the orbit of a 10 km asteroid is roughly equivalent to what it takes to accelerate at least a few million people to the speed of light.
Glow-in-the-dark plants sound like they could have a lot of potental. Lots of people have a small plant or two around the house - what if your aloe doubled as a nightlight?
For this particular application, phosphorecense seems more appropriate: turn of the light and the glow of the plants guides you to bed, then fades out. (The usefulness of this might not be appearant to those with moderately tidy floors, though...)
-- These are *MY* opinions. They will not be *YOUR* opinions until the Orbital Mind Control Lasers are operational.
Actually, the secret space weapon is a plasma dart cannon. Although this is generally believed impossible, it has been proven to work (theoretical support is found in Maxwells oft-ignored fourth equation).
luciferase (which sounds like nothing more to me than satan's protein)
Well, lucifer means "bringer of light" (don't forget that he was an angel to start with).
I'm an atheist too, but that doesn't stop me from using christmas trees. (Christmas trees are actually pagan - in Norse paganism, they sacraficed horses, goats and slaves to the gods at midwinter (night of 20th/21st dec.); the christmas tree was introduced in Germany in the 18th century (when paganism was in vogue) as a reference to this. Guess why you use red decorations...)
Long live... vattenfall (watercraft) or something like that;)
Vattenfall (lit. Waterfall) is a Swedish power company specialising in water power and nuclear energy... I don't quite see the connection to fossil fuels.
I'll take some of the silliness of our consumer culture which is due to our greater freedom and greater respect for individual rights over the earnest seriousness and self-righteous sanctimoniousness of other, more socialist countries who feel, perhaps, that there ought to be a law against these kinds of things
I live in one of those more socialist countries (actually, so do most people... by the way, it's worth pointing out that "social democracy" is very differnet from communism). There is no law or barrier against buying tacky stuff, but we don't do it anyway. The reason is that we have an older and more homogenous culture than the US. (I'm not saying that a varied culture is bad, mind you, but I prefer one based on long-standing roots with variations woven in afterwards.) Of course, we didn't go through the WWII->"man in the grey flannel suit"->now-for-something-completely-different period either.
Apple should work on a better gaming API than DirectX, and make it available for Win95/98/NT.
They already have a gaming API, which is said to be better than DirectX (I don't know, I haven't used DX). However, much of the advantage lies in the simplicity of it's design; this, in turn, stems from one of the main advantages of the Mac: viz, being monopolized for most of it's history, there are strong standards for everything, drafted before implementation. Example: graphics hardware. Windows is built on top of DOS (surprise) which was, from the beginning, entirely text-based. Lots of different people made graphics cards, and the standards were made up later. This means that on the mac, each monitor has two sets of attributes: dimensions (arbitrary, although the smallest in practice was 512*344) and bit depth. There is only one interpretation of each bit depth. Pixels are always square. Therefore, DrawSprocket has less mess to contend with that DirectDraw, and it follows that it is simpler to use. As such, it would be hard to port it to Windows without some rather messy emulation of different screen modes.
(Gawd, that was a long, messy paragraph...)
On the other hand, Apple has released the "sequel" to NetSprocket, OpenPlay (formerly Über) as open source, and I believe it's being ported to Windows and Linux.
This is a load of bollocks. MS do not rewrite for Mac, they use Windows-API-emulating wrappers, thereby making painfully slow Mac stuff. Adobe has been increasing their Intel optimization over the board.
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That wouldn't be 100% either. Consider the energy required to throw the particles around and "catch" the radiation.
Wasn't he the one who suggested that the forst A-bomb test might just eradicate the whole atmosphere?
WWII was ended by the Japanese capitulating, repeatedly. Theny needed to repeat themselves because the allies ignored the first capitulation, the americans because they wanted to play with bombs and the soviet union because they wanted Japan.
"Just because it isn't nice doesn't mean it isn't a miracle."
-- Terry Pratchett
"Just because it isn't nice doesn't mean it isn't true."
-- Me
The current batch of 20-year olds will burn up all of the remaining fossil fuels in their lifetime. That's been a truism for quite a while, you know. Intelligent life evolving on other planets? Out of millions some should be xmitting right now. Yes, but in which direction? Anyway, who says that intelligent life will keep a capacity to use high-energy radio for more than a century or so? Stone age, here we come...
How about more efficient usage, solar plants, and a li'l bit o' fission of to the side? Or orbital solar plants? (Y'know... the ol' microwave transmission principle. Mars is a big place; a miss wouldn't damage anything if you plan properly.)
Even if aliens where similar to us physically, that doesn't mean that their DNA would be particularly similar (assuming they had any).
That's an idea... when I've perfected my carbon-nanotube-generating engineered organism and become 100x as rich as W. H. Gates IV, I'll start sponsoring Open Source coders' beer tabs.
Actually, it's a quote, generally attributed to Samuel Goldwyn (a.k.a. Goldfish).
Yes, you do - Andover.net, for example.
Drifting back towards the point... that anyone even considering that sort of thing in a nominally democratic country is ludicrous. I seriously doubt that this is in the best interest of the people, or that the majority of the people agree with it. If Orwell were alive today, he'd turn in his grave. (The same goes for Karl Marx, mind you.)
I would, but there are large parts of the world where this is not a practical suggestion.
I.e. infinite?
That's an idea... maybe I should abondon C++ and learn DNA, and make a tube-spewing organism.
They think, "that makes two of us."
For this particular application, phosphorecense seems more appropriate: turn of the light and the glow of the plants guides you to bed, then fades out. (The usefulness of this might not be appearant to those with moderately tidy floors, though...)
-- These are *MY* opinions. They will not be *YOUR* opinions until the Orbital Mind Control Lasers are operational.
Actually, the secret space weapon is a plasma dart cannon. Although this is generally believed impossible, it has been proven to work (theoretical support is found in Maxwells oft-ignored fourth equation).
No, that isn't a joke.
...And you can be sure any glowing trees will be marketed with an appropriately marketable name...
...Like "Lucifer trees"?
Well, lucifer means "bringer of light" (don't forget that he was an angel to start with).
I'm an atheist too, but that doesn't stop me from using christmas trees. (Christmas trees are actually pagan - in Norse paganism, they sacraficed horses, goats and slaves to the gods at midwinter (night of 20th/21st dec.); the christmas tree was introduced in Germany in the 18th century (when paganism was in vogue) as a reference to this. Guess why you use red decorations...)
Vattenfall (lit. Waterfall) is a Swedish power company specialising in water power and nuclear energy... I don't quite see the connection to fossil fuels.
Is this a dieting tip?
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I live in one of those more socialist countries (actually, so do most people... by the way, it's worth pointing out that "social democracy" is very differnet from communism). There is no law or barrier against buying tacky stuff, but we don't do it anyway. The reason is that we have an older and more homogenous culture than the US. (I'm not saying that a varied culture is bad, mind you, but I prefer one based on long-standing roots with variations woven in afterwards.) Of course, we didn't go through the WWII->"man in the grey flannel suit"->now-for-something-completely-different period either.
The sad thing about this is the assumption that highschool football should be important...
Or read the Lord of the Rings.
They already have a gaming API, which is said to be better than DirectX (I don't know, I haven't used DX). However, much of the advantage lies in the simplicity of it's design; this, in turn, stems from one of the main advantages of the Mac: viz, being monopolized for most of it's history, there are strong standards for everything, drafted before implementation. Example: graphics hardware. Windows is built on top of DOS (surprise) which was, from the beginning, entirely text-based. Lots of different people made graphics cards, and the standards were made up later. This means that on the mac, each monitor has two sets of attributes: dimensions (arbitrary, although the smallest in practice was 512*344) and bit depth. There is only one interpretation of each bit depth. Pixels are always square. Therefore, DrawSprocket has less mess to contend with that DirectDraw, and it follows that it is simpler to use. As such, it would be hard to port it to Windows without some rather messy emulation of different screen modes.
(Gawd, that was a long, messy paragraph...)
On the other hand, Apple has released the "sequel" to NetSprocket, OpenPlay (formerly Über) as open source, and I believe it's being ported to Windows and Linux.
This is a load of bollocks. MS do not rewrite for Mac, they use Windows-API-emulating wrappers, thereby making painfully slow Mac stuff. Adobe has been increasing their Intel optimization over the board.