the crackpot theories.. the end of the world.. the mysterious cyclical calendars..
and, come to find out, the mayans were only predicting the switch from analog to digital tv.
if the aliens were al effigies of jeebus. imagine mowing through a throng of bouncing crucified saviors with a minigun? that sounds like a good time to me!
i expect to see a new low-end model hit the shelves in the next couple of months. i'm guessing a $450 20gb model.
it doesn't make sense to slash the 60gb prices and just discontinue it. they had to sell them off, and who would dole out $500 when they know a cheaper model is just around the corner.
as whack as sony seems, i think they just may know what they are doing. with the hd wars leaning in favor of blu-ray, i think the ps3 is gonna start to make a huge comeback in the console war
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technically, the memory reference is correct. hard drive storage is a type of memory used by pcs and the like. the term memory can refer to ram, cache, hdd. so it's vague, and i agree that it's annoying; but it isn't wrong.
i think its gonna boil down to storage capacity in the end. an HDDVD can hold 30 gb of data; a blu-ray disc can hold 50 gb of data. that's 40% more. the mediums are similar enough where producion cost is gonna be comparable as both formats become more popular; and in the end, people will choose the medium with the greatest capacity.
i'm willing to bet whoever stole the tapes from the car didn't know what the hell he or she was stealing. they went in for the radar detector, saw the tapes, and grabbed them cause they were there.
their probably at the bottom of some restaurant's dumpster by now. or well burnt and buried in the woods.
you can't blame the intern too much, though. any institution who's policy is to bring the tapes home probably doesn't stress data security all that much, and him being an intern means he probably doesn't have all that much experience to know just how important it is.
explain to me how the light from the andromeda galaxy, which is 2.5 MILLION light years away, can be seen present day. and if you give the compulsory "he gave the light a head start" argument, then please explain why he wants to trick us. it seems like a dirty trick to pull for an all-loving benevolent creator
evolution is not faith by any means. it is a logical conclusion brought by observation cold hard facts. god is the only farce here- a two thousand year old construct to try and explain the previously unexplainable. the modern day zeus, whipping lightning bolts from the top of olympus because the romans didn't understand static electricity.
the fact is that there is a probability, regardless how small, that the conditions can exist to support life. given the vast amount of matter and energy, the conditions will be right somewhere (and perhaps even elsewhere).
what happens when a sub-atomic particle isn't exactly 1836 times more massive than an electron? atoms don't form, and you are left with quarks, photons, gluons and all the other amazing little bits of matter that are being discovered.
scientists have also determined fossils to be 65,000,000 years old through carbon dating. scientists have also found animals 10,000 years old frozen in glaciers. there is much stronger evidence supporting the earth to be 4 billion years old than there is supporting a 6000 year old earth.
the sea is not saturated with minerals because earth is not static. minerals recycle themselves much the same was as water. only instead of evaporation and rain, we have them depositing on beaches or the ocean floor, or they enter the ground at underwater fault lines to be churned in the molten core before reaching the surface some where and when else.
the problem with the ID standpoint is proponents of ID have a preconcieved notion of what they are looking for. they believe in ID, so they look for evidence to support it; or, look at evidence in a way that could support it. evolution theory was not formed by this approach. it is the result of unbiased analysis of evidence, it is a damn good explaination of why we see such evidence.
probably because the posters want to be comedians.
in my experience, the people i know who believe in ID tend to be more naive than those who do not believe in ID. believers take for granted something that the large amount of evidence points away from.
ID is a social issue, and pointing out social flaws (for lack of a better word) is the meat of comedy.
is not that it is water vapour they found. It is that they were able to successfully detect and determine water vapor is in the atmosphere of a planet 63 lightyears away. The fact that we can tell what is there is significant.
its true that we cannot imagine technology that would allow for interstellar travel, but naive to think it is impossible. consider quantum entanglement which demonstrates that two electrons seperated at any distance, will have an instantaneos effect on eachoter, regardless of the distance. or quantum superposition which demonstrates an object can be in multiple positions at the same time.
With the difficulties making a walking robot here on earth, how do they plan on making its movements reliable? I see this thing tripping early in it's mission.
They better make sure to put one of those life line badges on it.
Calling it an "amnesty bin" implies to me that Microsoft labels iPods as contraband. Amnesty bins are usually provided as a no questions asked solution to disposing contraband. Like weapons amnesty programs, and contraband amnesty bins at military installations.
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the crackpot theories.. the end of the world.. the mysterious cyclical calendars.. and, come to find out, the mayans were only predicting the switch from analog to digital tv.
if the aliens were al effigies of jeebus. imagine mowing through a throng of bouncing crucified saviors with a minigun? that sounds like a good time to me!
i found out my beautiful elf princess was really a 56 year old man
i expect to see a new low-end model hit the shelves in the next couple of months. i'm guessing a $450 20gb model. it doesn't make sense to slash the 60gb prices and just discontinue it. they had to sell them off, and who would dole out $500 when they know a cheaper model is just around the corner. as whack as sony seems, i think they just may know what they are doing. with the hd wars leaning in favor of blu-ray, i think the ps3 is gonna start to make a huge comeback in the console war
star wars is dumb! and so is dnd! neener neener neener...
you can only buy censored albums at walmart, yet they sell R rated movies and M rated games. that just does not make sense.
i just grabbed this for 360. incredible. i put in a good 3 hours tonight and i can't wait for another block of free time to burn.
and so does dnd...
technically, the memory reference is correct. hard drive storage is a type of memory used by pcs and the like. the term memory can refer to ram, cache, hdd. so it's vague, and i agree that it's annoying; but it isn't wrong.
i RTFA, but didn't see any explanation or examples. im baffled how this works.. any insight?
i think its gonna boil down to storage capacity in the end. an HDDVD can hold 30 gb of data; a blu-ray disc can hold 50 gb of data. that's 40% more. the mediums are similar enough where producion cost is gonna be comparable as both formats become more popular; and in the end, people will choose the medium with the greatest capacity.
thats cause most people are fat. ;)
you know where i was going with my last comment and thats all i need to say.I suppose those of us who are thin would depress the panels less than those of us who are not, thereby generating less energy.
heh heh.. its all good.
i'm willing to bet whoever stole the tapes from the car didn't know what the hell he or she was stealing. they went in for the radar detector, saw the tapes, and grabbed them cause they were there. their probably at the bottom of some restaurant's dumpster by now. or well burnt and buried in the woods. you can't blame the intern too much, though. any institution who's policy is to bring the tapes home probably doesn't stress data security all that much, and him being an intern means he probably doesn't have all that much experience to know just how important it is.
explain to me how the light from the andromeda galaxy, which is 2.5 MILLION light years away, can be seen present day. and if you give the compulsory "he gave the light a head start" argument, then please explain why he wants to trick us. it seems like a dirty trick to pull for an all-loving benevolent creator
The Oort cloud is thought to be a remnant of the original protoplanetary disc that formed around the Sun approximately 4.6 billion years ago note the part that says "approximately 4.6 billion years"
The major geologic exposures in Grand Canyon range in age from the 2 billion year old Vishnu Schist at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 230 million year old Kaibab Limestone on the Rim
evolution is not faith by any means. it is a logical conclusion brought by observation cold hard facts. god is the only farce here- a two thousand year old construct to try and explain the previously unexplainable. the modern day zeus, whipping lightning bolts from the top of olympus because the romans didn't understand static electricity.
where did you get your data? the creation museum?
the fact is that there is a probability, regardless how small, that the conditions can exist to support life. given the vast amount of matter and energy, the conditions will be right somewhere (and perhaps even elsewhere).
what happens when a sub-atomic particle isn't exactly 1836 times more massive than an electron? atoms don't form, and you are left with quarks, photons, gluons and all the other amazing little bits of matter that are being discovered.
scientists have also determined fossils to be 65,000,000 years old through carbon dating. scientists have also found animals 10,000 years old frozen in glaciers. there is much stronger evidence supporting the earth to be 4 billion years old than there is supporting a 6000 year old earth.
the sea is not saturated with minerals because earth is not static. minerals recycle themselves much the same was as water. only instead of evaporation and rain, we have them depositing on beaches or the ocean floor, or they enter the ground at underwater fault lines to be churned in the molten core before reaching the surface some where and when else.
the problem with the ID standpoint is proponents of ID have a preconcieved notion of what they are looking for. they believe in ID, so they look for evidence to support it; or, look at evidence in a way that could support it. evolution theory was not formed by this approach. it is the result of unbiased analysis of evidence, it is a damn good explaination of why we see such evidence.
please, show me this evidence.
probably because the posters want to be comedians. in my experience, the people i know who believe in ID tend to be more naive than those who do not believe in ID. believers take for granted something that the large amount of evidence points away from. ID is a social issue, and pointing out social flaws (for lack of a better word) is the meat of comedy.
yeah, god forbid they actually take the recorded message offered to them and used it in a game.
is not that it is water vapour they found. It is that they were able to successfully detect and determine water vapor is in the atmosphere of a planet 63 lightyears away. The fact that we can tell what is there is significant.
its true that we cannot imagine technology that would allow for interstellar travel, but naive to think it is impossible. consider quantum entanglement which demonstrates that two electrons seperated at any distance, will have an instantaneos effect on eachoter, regardless of the distance. or quantum superposition which demonstrates an object can be in multiple positions at the same time.
when kids hear "shit" and "fuck", their heads explode
The article says it will be four-legged.
With the difficulties making a walking robot here on earth, how do they plan on making its movements reliable? I see this thing tripping early in it's mission.
They better make sure to put one of those life line badges on it.
"I've fallen! And I can't get up!"Calling it an "amnesty bin" implies to me that Microsoft labels iPods as contraband. Amnesty bins are usually provided as a no questions asked solution to disposing contraband. Like weapons amnesty programs, and contraband amnesty bins at military installations.