Is this the only specimen found for this species? If it's the only one, I wonder if science can tell whether it is a new species with a deformity, or whether the species actually look like that. Imagine some alien species in the distant future digging up bones of the elephant man or someone with a weird deformity and thought we all looked like that, or that we were a sub-species or something!
The concept of matter ending up as human beings, and then being aware of its own existence, is mind blowing! Is there a scientific definition for life? I don't mean the using energy and waste - has dna - reproduces - want to will to survive stuff. I hope you understand what I am trying to ask. Like a clump of matter one day, then aware of its own existence the next day, what a transition!!
I've read that some say it just might be that it's all just a bunch of chemical/electrical interactions, but to get to the point where matter contemplates its own existence is just on a different level. So it's big bang heat explosion stars planets...then human beings (albeit much much later). Is that something you can say is a property of matter? That at some point it will know of its own existence?
What's/where's the threshold between a blob of carbon+goo, and me? Or at least, are there any theories? Or is all of this stuff discussed only in the philosphical realm?
I've discovered this when i was little. It's called back, and forth, and I was unbeatable. Of course, I couldn't beat the other guy who was doing the same thing
ITI's eBay "About Me" page explains that the sale of its products by anyone but an authorized dealer constitutes patent and trademark infringement
The seller wasn't even under contract. Are they saying that I can't resell a wrench (or shoe) that I just bought? It's MINE! Can the seller selling the makeup get around this by saying that the products are "used"? Like she licked the box or something.
Please can article-posters to slashdot stop assuming all readers are in the USA
Don't you think it a bit trivial to make such a request? Where does it stop? Can article-posters to slashdot stop assuming that all readers can read English? Can article-posters to slashdot stop assuming that all readers are on planet earth? Can article-posters assume that all readers know what a "Washington" is? What is an "elected official"? Stop the madness and stop assuming! (I'm assuming you know what sarcasm is)
I always wondered how astronomors calculate for distortions, or even realize if there are distortions to their calculator. Like the light data they receive from other galaxies far far away. How do they know if the light went through some medium that cause it to slow down, then went fast again, or if what they are looking at is actually a mirror galaxy that's reflecting something else, mirages, weird anomalies and physics that we sitll dont understand, or any other spacial distortions between here and there that might screw with data
I take a snapshot of my sister's desktop, then open it in photoshop and clone all sorts of icon and littering it all over like a mess, then save the file and use it as a desktop background. She comes over to me screaming that her desktop is a mess and she couldn't find anything, and she can't open an icon when she clicks on it, much less highlight it! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!
you get more emotion from a cartoon character than a realistic looking CGI. Why is that? isnt that weird. CGI chracters look more like dolls with stiff movements, while simple 2D cartoons have more emotion. A crappy looking spiderman jumping at real physics and real movements is MORE REAL than a real looking spiderman jumping at bad physics and fake looking movements.
The grpahics may have changed and look better, but the physics and implementation are still awful. When I see spiderman swing, he just falls too fast and the swing doesnt look natural with the cgi (like, his body doesnt react or stiffen to the G-force).
And when Cgi characters jump off something and land on the ground, most of the time it doesnt look natural. I mean, are they even using earth's gravity acceleration of 9.8 m/s2????
Seriously, look at the scene from the first movie where Peter jumps from building to building. it doesnt look naturally he's falling too fast, and when he lands, the way his body looks when he lands just doesnt look natural. looks as if he just fell 3 feet. his body should have crouched/sunk more.
hey guys i'm curious. Does the "$220 to make" include only the manufacturing and material aspect, or also shipping and marketing and all that. in other words, does all of that $220 including paying back for R&D and sales and all sorts, and the other $380 or $280 is pure profit?
Thanks
"....prices that consumers have no choice but to pay...."
No choice but to pay? No way! We also have a choice NOT TO PAY! Unless you can't SURVIVE without a video card, then you do have a choice. And because we have a choice, we can start a massive boycott. But because we lack the organizational skills of ants, WE LOSE.
until the government starts spreading fear and terror and death threats.... you know, old commy style, so that even if it is easy to circumvent censorship, people will be so afraid to do so. And then they will have won the cat and mouse game.
When the youtube videos are sized down to the dimensions of the iphone screen, wouldn't it look less pixelated anyways. I bet even some of the bad videos out there will look good on that small screen without having to change codecs.
The exec also highlighted Mozilla's attitude about market share: "We've never ever at Mozilla said that we care about Firefox market share at the expense of our more important goal: to keep the web open and a public resource,"
I don't see how Safari and IE will be causing problems. The nature of the web/internet is that it's open (except in extreme cases, of course). If Apple/MS does something nasty, the community will cry foul and move to an alternative, or make one themselves. Isn't that how mozilla got started?
Personally, I'm more worried about careless legislation and government regulation, and politicians who may still refer to the web as the Information Superhighway. yeah, I'd trust those guys to be in charge:P
AH. THEN here is the truly weird part! Let's say you have a 600,000,000 meter pole. it will take light about 2 seconds to reach from one end to the other. Let's just say, for simplicity's sake, the actual speed of is such that it will take 10 seconds for the other end of the pole to actually move. If I pushed the pole 4 meters forward, and the other end hasn't moved YET, wouldn't the pole be 599,999,996 meters long, for that time being? That is to say, it shrunk? isn'tthat weird???
Hey guys, let's say you have a 500 foot pole out in space, far away from anything (no friction, nothing). you are on one end of the pole, and i on the other. Then i push the pole towards you. When does the other end of the pole move towards you, after MY END MOVES? is it instantaneous? or does it take.000000005 seconds of whatever. Like the atoms of the pole push each other on and on and so forth till it gets to the end.
if it does take time, is it faster than light, or slower? what if the pole was 300,000,000 meters long? does it take about 1 second for u to notice the other end moves?
Was this obvious back in 1996 or 1999? probably so, probably not. But does that matter? Let's look at this in the broader sense. In the field of databases, "location" is just that, a field - a criteria. it could be hair color, height, race, planet. Replace location with those other criteria. In this case, should we allow a patent for each of those criteria? A race-based search. A hair-color based search? Should we have to define every single criteria so we can decide if they are patentable or not? NO!
This was totally obvious. it's what a database search is. a criteria based search. be it location-based or whatever
if I have a 600,000,000 meter pencil
out in space. And I push one end of it, when does the other end move? Instantaneously?
Let's say i am on one end of the pencil and you are on
the other. We agree that if you receive a push, the answer is 1. if the pencil is pulled away from
you, then answer is 0. When I push or pull from the other end, how long does it take for you to
realize it? Instantly? Same as the speed of light?
In another scenario, let's say we are 600,000,000 meters apart. if I turn on a light, the answer is
1. if I turn it off, the answer is 0. But it will take approximately 2 seconds for that light to
reach you.
I have a pen lying on a flat surface. Regular pen.
When I push the pen from one end, it moves. What I want to know is, the moment one end moves, when
does the other end move as well? you know what i'm trying to say? When I push, does that force
push the atoms from that end, causing a chain reaction and having it push the other atoms and so
forth till the other end moves, and the whole pen moves. is it instantaneous? or does the end i
push moves, and then.000000000000000000000000001 seconds later the whole end moves? ok, that might
not make sense but here's what i am getting at.
Suppose we can theoretically have a pencil out in space that is 600,000,000 meters long. basically
it will take light 2 seconds to start from one end and go to the other. My question is, if you push
that one end, when does the other end move? instantaneously? 2 seconds later (speed of light)? or
slower? if its instantaneous, thats fricken awesome, cos we can theoretically have information
travel faster than light.
if it takes 2 seconds (speed of light), then would the pencil be short for that 2 seconds? like, if
I push the pencil 1 meter, and the other end hasn't moved yet, wouldn't it be 599,999,999 meters?
Wouldn't that be weird!
I've been wanting something like this . Also, I wish there was a camera out there that comes with functions that lets it automatically take a photo at X time, repeat Y times at Z intervals. That would be great for time lapse shots. Or with the wifi link you can remotely control the camera!! Is there one like that out there? Or you can sync 100 of these cameras and place them in a row and let them take a snapshot at the same focal point,.01 seconds apart!
Does this mean i can go to Poland, call your non-english speaking mom a butt monkey peg-legged pirate (by singing it!), then sue you for translating it to her without my permission?
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Is this the only specimen found for this species? If it's the only one, I wonder if science can tell whether it is a new species with a deformity, or whether the species actually look like that. Imagine some alien species in the distant future digging up bones of the elephant man or someone with a weird deformity and thought we all looked like that, or that we were a sub-species or something!
Wonder if anyone has checked for a nail?
The concept of matter ending up as human beings, and then being aware of its own existence, is mind blowing! Is there a scientific definition for life? I don't mean the using energy and waste - has dna - reproduces - want to will to survive stuff. I hope you understand what I am trying to ask. Like a clump of matter one day, then aware of its own existence the next day, what a transition!!
I've read that some say it just might be that it's all just a bunch of chemical/electrical interactions, but to get to the point where matter contemplates its own existence is just on a different level. So it's big bang heat explosion stars planets...then human beings (albeit much much later). Is that something you can say is a property of matter? That at some point it will know of its own existence?
What's/where's the threshold between a blob of carbon+goo, and me? Or at least, are there any theories? Or is all of this stuff discussed only in the philosphical realm?
I've discovered this when i was little. It's called back, and forth, and I was unbeatable. Of course, I couldn't beat the other guy who was doing the same thing
ITI's eBay "About Me" page explains that the sale of its products by anyone but an authorized dealer constitutes patent and trademark infringement
The seller wasn't even under contract. Are they saying that I can't resell a wrench (or shoe) that I just bought? It's MINE! Can the seller selling the makeup get around this by saying that the products are "used"? Like she licked the box or something.
Please can article-posters to slashdot stop assuming all readers are in the USA
Don't you think it a bit trivial to make such a request? Where does it stop? Can article-posters to slashdot stop assuming that all readers can read English? Can article-posters to slashdot stop assuming that all readers are on planet earth? Can article-posters assume that all readers know what a "Washington" is? What is an "elected official"? Stop the madness and stop assuming! (I'm assuming you know what sarcasm is)
I always wondered how astronomors calculate for distortions, or even realize if there are distortions to their calculator. Like the light data they receive from other galaxies far far away. How do they know if the light went through some medium that cause it to slow down, then went fast again, or if what they are looking at is actually a mirror galaxy that's reflecting something else, mirages, weird anomalies and physics that we sitll dont understand, or any other spacial distortions between here and there that might screw with data
I take a snapshot of my sister's desktop, then open it in photoshop and clone all sorts of icon and littering it all over like a mess, then save the file and use it as a desktop background. She comes over to me screaming that her desktop is a mess and she couldn't find anything, and she can't open an icon when she clicks on it, much less highlight it! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!
:D
Not a virus, just a prank but still
you get more emotion from a cartoon character than a realistic looking CGI. Why is that? isnt that weird. CGI chracters look more like dolls with stiff movements, while simple 2D cartoons have more emotion. A crappy looking spiderman jumping at real physics and real movements is MORE REAL than a real looking spiderman jumping at bad physics and fake looking movements.
To me at least!
The grpahics may have changed and look better, but the physics and implementation are still awful. When I see spiderman swing, he just falls too fast and the swing doesnt look natural with the cgi (like, his body doesnt react or stiffen to the G-force).
And when Cgi characters jump off something and land on the ground, most of the time it doesnt look natural. I mean, are they even using earth's gravity acceleration of 9.8 m/s2????
Seriously, look at the scene from the first movie where Peter jumps from building to building. it doesnt look naturally he's falling too fast, and when he lands, the way his body looks when he lands just doesnt look natural. looks as if he just fell 3 feet. his body should have crouched/sunk more.
hey guys i'm curious. Does the "$220 to make" include only the manufacturing and material aspect, or also shipping and marketing and all that. in other words, does all of that $220 including paying back for R&D and sales and all sorts, and the other $380 or $280 is pure profit? Thanks
"....prices that consumers have no choice but to pay...."
No choice but to pay? No way! We also have a choice NOT TO PAY! Unless you can't SURVIVE without a video card, then you do have a choice. And because we have a choice, we can start a massive boycott. But because we lack the organizational skills of ants, WE LOSE.
until the government starts spreading fear and terror and death threats.... you know, old commy style, so that even if it is easy to circumvent censorship, people will be so afraid to do so. And then they will have won the cat and mouse game.
As opposed to monitoring the criminals in their neighborhood? They're as much a plague on civil liberties as big brother.
When the youtube videos are sized down to the dimensions of the iphone screen, wouldn't it look less pixelated anyways. I bet even some of the bad videos out there will look good on that small screen without having to change codecs.
Sorry me so sorry :( quote from article ends on first paragraph.
From the TFA
:P
The exec also highlighted Mozilla's attitude about market share: "We've never ever at Mozilla said that we care about Firefox market share at the expense of our more important goal: to keep the web open and a public resource,"
I don't see how Safari and IE will be causing problems. The nature of the web/internet is that it's open (except in extreme cases, of course). If Apple/MS does something nasty, the community will cry foul and move to an alternative, or make one themselves. Isn't that how mozilla got started?
Personally, I'm more worried about careless legislation and government regulation, and politicians who may still refer to the web as the Information Superhighway. yeah, I'd trust those guys to be in charge
AH. THEN here is the truly weird part! Let's say you have a 600,000,000 meter pole. it will take light about 2 seconds to reach from one end to the other. Let's just say, for simplicity's sake, the actual speed of is such that it will take 10 seconds for the other end of the pole to actually move. If I pushed the pole 4 meters forward, and the other end hasn't moved YET, wouldn't the pole be 599,999,996 meters long, for that time being? That is to say, it shrunk? isn'tthat weird???
Hey guys, let's say you have a 500 foot pole out in space, far away from anything (no friction, nothing). you are on one end of the pole, and i on the other. Then i push the pole towards you. When does the other end of the pole move towards you, after MY END MOVES? is it instantaneous? or does it take .000000005 seconds of whatever. Like the atoms of the pole push each other on and on and so forth till it gets to the end.
if it does take time, is it faster than light, or slower? what if the pole was 300,000,000 meters long? does it take about 1 second for u to notice the other end moves?
Was this obvious back in 1996 or 1999? probably so, probably not. But does that matter? Let's look at this in the broader sense. In the field of databases, "location" is just that, a field - a criteria. it could be hair color, height, race, planet. Replace location with those other criteria. In this case, should we allow a patent for each of those criteria? A race-based search. A hair-color based search? Should we have to define every single criteria so we can decide if they are patentable or not? NO!
:P
This was totally obvious. it's what a database search is. a criteria based search. be it location-based or whatever
Oh yeah, it's ON THE INTERNET!!
if I have a 600,000,000 meter pencil out in space. And I push one end of it, when does the other end move? Instantaneously? Let's say i am on one end of the pencil and you are on the other. We agree that if you receive a push, the answer is 1. if the pencil is pulled away from you, then answer is 0. When I push or pull from the other end, how long does it take for you to realize it? Instantly? Same as the speed of light? In another scenario, let's say we are 600,000,000 meters apart. if I turn on a light, the answer is 1. if I turn it off, the answer is 0. But it will take approximately 2 seconds for that light to reach you. I have a pen lying on a flat surface. Regular pen. When I push the pen from one end, it moves. What I want to know is, the moment one end moves, when does the other end move as well? you know what i'm trying to say? When I push, does that force push the atoms from that end, causing a chain reaction and having it push the other atoms and so forth till the other end moves, and the whole pen moves. is it instantaneous? or does the end i push moves, and then .000000000000000000000000001 seconds later the whole end moves? ok, that might
not make sense but here's what i am getting at.
Suppose we can theoretically have a pencil out in space that is 600,000,000 meters long. basically
it will take light 2 seconds to start from one end and go to the other. My question is, if you push
that one end, when does the other end move? instantaneously? 2 seconds later (speed of light)? or
slower? if its instantaneous, thats fricken awesome, cos we can theoretically have information
travel faster than light.
if it takes 2 seconds (speed of light), then would the pencil be short for that 2 seconds? like, if
I push the pencil 1 meter, and the other end hasn't moved yet, wouldn't it be 599,999,999 meters?
Wouldn't that be weird!
I've been wanting something like this . Also, I wish there was a camera out there that comes with functions that lets it automatically take a photo at X time, repeat Y times at Z intervals. That would be great for time lapse shots. Or with the wifi link you can remotely control the camera!! Is there one like that out there? Or you can sync 100 of these cameras and place them in a row and let them take a snapshot at the same focal point, .01 seconds apart!
back in high school i would cry a little and squint my eye so I can see the board. I needed glasses bad!
Does this mean i can go to Poland, call your non-english speaking mom a butt monkey peg-legged pirate (by singing it!), then sue you for translating it to her without my permission?
Will we be able to write our own apps for the iphone? Would be great to use it for VOIP! And many many other things!