I'd say learning to use the steering wheel is equivalent to learning to use the mouse. As neither the car nor the computer are going to do anything useful without this knowledge. Learning to use the brakes however, is a fairly good analogy.
Someone operating a motor vehicle who does not know how to use the brakes will operate his or her machine at high speed, wondering why it is not operating faster, careen around the road system posing a danger to themselves and others and will only stop when slamming into something and at the very least heavily damaging their machine.
Someone who is not willing to understand what vectors malware uses to infect a machine will typically operate his or her machine at what is for them high speed, wondering why it is not operating faster, careen around the internet from page to page posing a danger to themselves and others and will only stop when receiving such a terrible infection as to bring the machine to its knees requiring either a format or someone very knowledgeable about malware to clean it up.
Homeostasis - Adjusts flame temperature to match fuel and oxidizer chemical composition and ratio of availability
Organization - Collects to maximize burn rate given state and configuration of fuel and oxidizer
Metabolism - Oxidizes a fuel to release energy to sustain itself
Growth - Expands to cover a fuel source
Adaptation - Will attempt to consume all available fuel by any means necessary
Response to Stimuli - Is influenced by and reacts to stimuli such as wind and the movement of fuel sources
Reproduction - Can start secondary fires on fuel sources not yet reached by wind, flash over, and other effect
To be honest, I felt that this movie came as close to hard sci-fi as you could expect from Hollywood. Nothing was dismissed with handwaiving or technobabble. Without boring the average viewer who has no idea what magnetic flux and gaia theory are they were able to put in little one-liners here and there that allowed the more informed viewers to connect the dots and see that everything made some kind of sense.
I'm the kind of guy that finds it hard to suspend disbelief in a movie when some sort of orbital insertion craft instead of doing a de-orbit burn burns straight towards the planet. Throughout watching all of this movie I never felt as if I was required to suspend disbelief as even when presented with the unbelievable I had already been given enough hints to the science to explain it or knew it would be coming shortly.
NASA's budget is already pretty small, 17.2 billion. The current stimulus plan is valued at 135.15 billion. In other terms, NASA's budget would have covered 12.7% of the economic stimulus if allocated in that way. The type of reform you're talking about would require more than the entirety of NASA's budget. What is amazing to me is the number of jobs for our educated persons that are created with that 17.2 billion dollars and also the amount of technology we get back out of it. I understand you believe that we need to pump more into economic recovery but please look somewhere with deeper pockets than NASA for the money.
You realize that the way two factor security is supposed to work is that is requires you to know something and have something right? The way that two factor security is usually done from what I've seen is requiring a password that the client knows and a rolling code from a small device the client has. As long as a bank does not allow that same rolling code to be used twice it doesn't matter what kind of keystroke logging, mouse gesture capturing, or screen recording is used nor how fast it is sent to the bad guys.
For you car enthusiasts, it's like taking the engine with you when you leave the car. Even if the car is hot-wired, it's not going anywhere without that thing you still have.
You don't have many cars or buildings out in the ocean. Most of the Earth is covered by ocean. Most meteoric impacts are going to be in the ocean. The better question is "why haven't we seen more boats taken out by meteors?" However the odds are still greater that any given plane will be hit by a meteor than any given boat because airplanes travel over both land and water.
The only application where infofuses would actually outperform other forms of communication I can come up with is the transmission of a message from a location other than where the sender is located with little complication. Simply attach a normal long delay fuse to an infofuse atop a high structure such that it will light the infofuse at a predetermined time when someone will be looking. Essentially a data drop-off point. I can imagine several espionage scenarios where this could be useful.
It would be much more difficult and noticeable to rig a lantern, semaphore, or radio system to do the same thing. It also beats dropping off a one-time pad encrypted note in that the receiver of the message is not required to be in physical contact with the message. In addition there's the prospect of signal interception or discovery. With some mechanical lantern or semaphore system the apparatus would likely have to remain after the message was sent, allowing for the possibility of reverse engineering the device to determine what message was sent. Once an infofuse burns up the best you can do is determine what signals were sent but not in what order.
Keep in mind that for the longest time something excel could do that calc couldn't was determine the linear regression for a set of data and display that regression equation on the graph. That's a fundamental difference I've encountered that's forced me to use Excel in the past. Open office can now display the regression equations on the graph but there are bound to be more fundamental differences out there.
Hey, It's still better than movies: Put a year or more of work into a product, and you've still only produced enough content to last a couple of hours.
The skin already senses a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. It senses in the infrared what we interpret as heat. All the wiring is probably there for the skin to be able to deliver signals for things higher up in the electromagnetic spectrum but I am doubtful the tissue itself has the capability, even with some extreme re-working.
"Well, figure out where it's coming from"
"It's coming from the network sir"
"Of course it is, now where is it?"
"No, sir. The network is hacking itself. It's coming from one of the switches"
First it was printers that could run applications. Pop a tunneling app on the printer and remote in and now you're hacking them from their printer. Now switches can run apps too. Sure, a lot of problems related to this could be avoided by proper network administration but it's just one more thing to worry about if the network admin gets the order from management to turn those switches into servers because there's not enough room in the budget for more servers.
This system wouldn't work in Florida or any other place where the water table is actually above ground. That is of course unless they feel like spending tons of extra money making this tunnel system able to survive in local conditions. It's okay though at some point here we'll get started on that high speed rail we voted into our constitution 12 years ago. After that we can vote this in as well...
If you expect your boss is the type to do this, you look up the results before hand and pick a serial number to his or her liking. Just hope you don't hit that one in a million chance and accidentally pick his or her serial number.
First off, I am not a rocket scientist, but I am studying for a BS in Aerospace Engineering.
How exactly is this supposed to reduce travel time? Current lengths of travel are not due to a lack of available thrust or due to amount of fuel available but rather the path taken to reach the destination. Currently in order to travel to say Mars Hohman transfers are often used. These paths and others like them take a certain amount of time to complete, and stronger engines or more available Delta-V allow only for more instantaneous entrances of the transfers or more allowed change in course once at the ship's destination.
In order to reduce time traveled a different orbital mechanic is needed. Even if a ship were to travel in a straight line toward a destination at a rapid enough speed that it would not have to meet up with it too much further along in its orbit it would have to be able to kill relative speed quickly enough to enter a capture orbit.
Anyone know what orbital transfer method they're saying that this engine makes possible?
The problem is that webcasters can't even do this. July 15th the royalty rate hike goes in effect for songs played up to a year ago. On this day even if all webcasters switched to open music, many of them would go bankrupt.
Quantum entanglement is a great way to get information from one location to another at faster than the speed of light but offers no way to transmit matter. Theoretically the precesses here allow for technology like the ansible from Card's Ender's Game series but won't be transmitting ensign Ricky to his death from aboard the starship enterprise.
Now, if we were all information-based entities teleporting about using quantum entanglement would be highly feasible.
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I'd say learning to use the steering wheel is equivalent to learning to use the mouse. As neither the car nor the computer are going to do anything useful without this knowledge. Learning to use the brakes however, is a fairly good analogy.
Someone operating a motor vehicle who does not know how to use the brakes will operate his or her machine at high speed, wondering why it is not operating faster, careen around the road system posing a danger to themselves and others and will only stop when slamming into something and at the very least heavily damaging their machine.
Someone who is not willing to understand what vectors malware uses to infect a machine will typically operate his or her machine at what is for them high speed, wondering why it is not operating faster, careen around the internet from page to page posing a danger to themselves and others and will only stop when receiving such a terrible infection as to bring the machine to its knees requiring either a format or someone very knowledgeable about malware to clean it up.
Fire exhibits all of these. Is it alive?
Homeostasis - Adjusts flame temperature to match fuel and oxidizer chemical composition and ratio of availability
Organization - Collects to maximize burn rate given state and configuration of fuel and oxidizer
Metabolism - Oxidizes a fuel to release energy to sustain itself
Growth - Expands to cover a fuel source
Adaptation - Will attempt to consume all available fuel by any means necessary
Response to Stimuli - Is influenced by and reacts to stimuli such as wind and the movement of fuel sources
Reproduction - Can start secondary fires on fuel sources not yet reached by wind, flash over, and other effect
To be honest, I felt that this movie came as close to hard sci-fi as you could expect from Hollywood. Nothing was dismissed with handwaiving or technobabble. Without boring the average viewer who has no idea what magnetic flux and gaia theory are they were able to put in little one-liners here and there that allowed the more informed viewers to connect the dots and see that everything made some kind of sense. I'm the kind of guy that finds it hard to suspend disbelief in a movie when some sort of orbital insertion craft instead of doing a de-orbit burn burns straight towards the planet. Throughout watching all of this movie I never felt as if I was required to suspend disbelief as even when presented with the unbelievable I had already been given enough hints to the science to explain it or knew it would be coming shortly.
NASA's budget is already pretty small, 17.2 billion. The current stimulus plan is valued at 135.15 billion. In other terms, NASA's budget would have covered 12.7% of the economic stimulus if allocated in that way. The type of reform you're talking about would require more than the entirety of NASA's budget. What is amazing to me is the number of jobs for our educated persons that are created with that 17.2 billion dollars and also the amount of technology we get back out of it. I understand you believe that we need to pump more into economic recovery but please look somewhere with deeper pockets than NASA for the money.
You realize that the way two factor security is supposed to work is that is requires you to know something and have something right? The way that two factor security is usually done from what I've seen is requiring a password that the client knows and a rolling code from a small device the client has. As long as a bank does not allow that same rolling code to be used twice it doesn't matter what kind of keystroke logging, mouse gesture capturing, or screen recording is used nor how fast it is sent to the bad guys.
For you car enthusiasts, it's like taking the engine with you when you leave the car. Even if the car is hot-wired, it's not going anywhere without that thing you still have.
You don't have many cars or buildings out in the ocean. Most of the Earth is covered by ocean. Most meteoric impacts are going to be in the ocean. The better question is "why haven't we seen more boats taken out by meteors?" However the odds are still greater that any given plane will be hit by a meteor than any given boat because airplanes travel over both land and water.
The only application where infofuses would actually outperform other forms of communication I can come up with is the transmission of a message from a location other than where the sender is located with little complication. Simply attach a normal long delay fuse to an infofuse atop a high structure such that it will light the infofuse at a predetermined time when someone will be looking. Essentially a data drop-off point. I can imagine several espionage scenarios where this could be useful. It would be much more difficult and noticeable to rig a lantern, semaphore, or radio system to do the same thing. It also beats dropping off a one-time pad encrypted note in that the receiver of the message is not required to be in physical contact with the message. In addition there's the prospect of signal interception or discovery. With some mechanical lantern or semaphore system the apparatus would likely have to remain after the message was sent, allowing for the possibility of reverse engineering the device to determine what message was sent. Once an infofuse burns up the best you can do is determine what signals were sent but not in what order.
Keep in mind that for the longest time something excel could do that calc couldn't was determine the linear regression for a set of data and display that regression equation on the graph. That's a fundamental difference I've encountered that's forced me to use Excel in the past. Open office can now display the regression equations on the graph but there are bound to be more fundamental differences out there.
what is so hard to understand about a closed system
Exactly, keep that DHMO and you don't exactly go any where. Better ship some up to be on the safe side.
Hey, It's still better than movies: Put a year or more of work into a product, and you've still only produced enough content to last a couple of hours.
The skin already senses a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. It senses in the infrared what we interpret as heat. All the wiring is probably there for the skin to be able to deliver signals for things higher up in the electromagnetic spectrum but I am doubtful the tissue itself has the capability, even with some extreme re-working.
"Well, figure out where it's coming from"
"It's coming from the network sir"
"Of course it is, now where is it?"
"No, sir. The network is hacking itself. It's coming from one of the switches"
First it was printers that could run applications. Pop a tunneling app on the printer and remote in and now you're hacking them from their printer. Now switches can run apps too. Sure, a lot of problems related to this could be avoided by proper network administration but it's just one more thing to worry about if the network admin gets the order from management to turn those switches into servers because there's not enough room in the budget for more servers.
Or make it a vampire bat in the sense it lands on local power lines and leeches in order to recharge.
Actually if you landed at a large airport in a large plane, the pilot probably had and used an autoland.
This system wouldn't work in Florida or any other place where the water table is actually above ground. That is of course unless they feel like spending tons of extra money making this tunnel system able to survive in local conditions. It's okay though at some point here we'll get started on that high speed rail we voted into our constitution 12 years ago. After that we can vote this in as well...
If you expect your boss is the type to do this, you look up the results before hand and pick a serial number to his or her liking. Just hope you don't hit that one in a million chance and accidentally pick his or her serial number.
First off, I am not a rocket scientist, but I am studying for a BS in Aerospace Engineering.
How exactly is this supposed to reduce travel time? Current lengths of travel are not due to a lack of available thrust or due to amount of fuel available but rather the path taken to reach the destination. Currently in order to travel to say Mars Hohman transfers are often used. These paths and others like them take a certain amount of time to complete, and stronger engines or more available Delta-V allow only for more instantaneous entrances of the transfers or more allowed change in course once at the ship's destination.
In order to reduce time traveled a different orbital mechanic is needed. Even if a ship were to travel in a straight line toward a destination at a rapid enough speed that it would not have to meet up with it too much further along in its orbit it would have to be able to kill relative speed quickly enough to enter a capture orbit.
Anyone know what orbital transfer method they're saying that this engine makes possible?
The problem is that webcasters can't even do this. July 15th the royalty rate hike goes in effect for songs played up to a year ago. On this day even if all webcasters switched to open music, many of them would go bankrupt.
Quantum entanglement is a great way to get information from one location to another at faster than the speed of light but offers no way to transmit matter. Theoretically the precesses here allow for technology like the ansible from Card's Ender's Game series but won't be transmitting ensign Ricky to his death from aboard the starship enterprise. Now, if we were all information-based entities teleporting about using quantum entanglement would be highly feasible.