How about doing the reverse, i. e. adjust the white-balance of photos taken on earth to look like they were taken on mars? Can this be done accurately if we take the picture of Curiosity's sundial as a martian reference?
I think it would be very interesting to see earthly scenes the way they would look on mars!
Russian was my first language, then I moved to Germany (age 5) and starting at age 6 German became my 'main language', in that I started thinking in it and being more fluent in it than in Russian, which I only used at home. At age 16 I set myself a challenge: think only in English! After some time, it became my thinking language, although maths were still done in German (German school, German university).
As the others, when talking in a specific language I think it, too. Recently I started forcing myself to count and do maths in English as well, and now it became effortless. At some point, I found thinking in Japanese to be quite pleasant, but as my vocabulary is rather limited I switched back to English. Really, my reasons for thinking in a particular language are convenience and aesthetics.
What I am dreaming in? Just this night I was dreaming in English; I can distinctly remember English phrases that I said.
When making personal notes, I write them down in English. Also, whenever there is a choice between English and some other language (web sites, books) I prefer the former.
Even though I've only ever been once to England for one week and have no English-speaking friends/relatives, it became my most used language. I just like it way more than my other two alternatives and it's much more practical.
I am 21 years old now and speak fluently in German, Russian, English and to a limited extent in Japanese.
Now I use Russian to talk to relatives and my girlfriend; German to my friends, acquaintances, generally people around here; English for consuming media (movies, books, internet).
Get your ass to Mars,... Get your ass to Mars,... Get your ass to Mars,...
And build a reactor that we can then start to release the water into the atmosphere.
My case is almost the same, only I switched from manuals to science fiction novels at some point. English lessons at school consisted mostly of handheld console games for me.
In addition to that, I learned German (to the greatest part; of course I had some interaction as well) from TV at age 5, when I moved to Germany. When school started (a year later) I could read, write and speak better German than most of my native classmates.
Back on topic, I agree with the notion that at least developers should all have a functional English at their disposal, it makes life easier. Also, there isn't nearly as much (useful) content for developers to be found on German or Russian websites, as far as I've discovered so far. Well, in my opinion that also applies to most other topics as well, but that's a different story.
That's exactly how I see it. Laws are rules, nothing more. There's no "right" or "wrong", just preferences.
But still, my point was that hacking yourself is not as easy as it could/should be, because of legal restrictions. You can circumvent those, of course.
Yeah, good luck hacking your system when most interesting and promising hacks are not available or will land you in jail. Or the government actively prohibits any such hacking (see stem-cell debates).
This guy should team up with the Time Cube person. Then they'd rule the earth with their infinite knowledge and (invented) ideas.
I wonder if Shampoo already "invented" this idea.
It is stated in the FAQ that this awesome service will only be available for one month. Considering the immense wealth of information obtainable from 2001's Google and its use for historians and the like (not to mention the fun of it) this limitation is really a shame in my opinion.
Why not accept permadeath? I think MMOs could change into something way more interesting than the farming and grinding that WoW and such usually turn into. Especially modern, that is not fantasy settings require much less killing (and resulting death) to be interesting. I mean, how often do you need to kill NPCs or other players in a cyberpunk setting? Only in key situations. Also, with permadeath players would try really really hard not to die, and think thoroughly before doing dangerous stuff.
I would much rather play a MMO with permadeath than one with some bogus resurrection system and immortal veteran players.
Don't really know, perhaps unhealthy side effects? Some kind of moral issues? They could also prohibit protein-rich food for sports, or use of the Total Gym 1000 to enable people without access to these things or who wish to remain "not improved" by "unnatural practices" to stay competitive. Anyway, it's just a law/rule, and these aren't always logical (take slashdot's favorites: copyright laws, drugs, TSA, etc.).
You'll fall behind, naturally. No one's denying that. It would be just like the scenario you described. But what's wrong with that? There have always been people with an advantage over others, be it inherited or acquired. As long as you don't prohibit others from "improving" themselves, there's nothing to worry about IMHO.
"What about those of us that don't want to be 'improved'?" implies that you mean post-natal genetic modification (how can you not want anything if you are not born yet?). To compete with me you simply let yourself be modified in a similar way. Again, it's the same with education: I studied something, you can do the same. After all, isn't education a "modification" of your neural pathways, your thinking and possibly your behavior? There are people opposed to education as well (see creationists).
"free to learn it" as in free to buy textbooks, go to college, pay for an internet connection, etc. Go tell some poor villager in [insert third world country here] that he's free to learn anything that enables him to compete with an MIT graduate.
What about those of us that don't want to be "improved"? Will our choice basically be the same as the handful of honest baseball players that didn't take steroids?
This could also be applied to literacy, you know. Or any other kind of knowledge.
Simple solution: relocate the polar bears to the other pole.
Same applies for all the other endangered arctic animals.
There's lots and lots of ice down there.
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How about doing the reverse, i. e. adjust the white-balance of photos taken on earth to look like they were taken on mars? Can this be done accurately if we take the picture of Curiosity's sundial as a martian reference? I think it would be very interesting to see earthly scenes the way they would look on mars!
There are walkers in Star Wars? I thought the came out in Empire Strikes Back, that is 18 years after 1962. Hand in your Star Wars card, please.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Pepsi%2C+Coca+Cola&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0 At last, we can declare a winner. It's Pepsi, by far!
Russian was my first language, then I moved to Germany (age 5) and starting at age 6 German became my 'main language', in that I started thinking in it and being more fluent in it than in Russian, which I only used at home. At age 16 I set myself a challenge: think only in English! After some time, it became my thinking language, although maths were still done in German (German school, German university).
As the others, when talking in a specific language I think it, too. Recently I started forcing myself to count and do maths in English as well, and now it became effortless. At some point, I found thinking in Japanese to be quite pleasant, but as my vocabulary is rather limited I switched back to English. Really, my reasons for thinking in a particular language are convenience and aesthetics.
What I am dreaming in? Just this night I was dreaming in English; I can distinctly remember English phrases that I said.
When making personal notes, I write them down in English. Also, whenever there is a choice between English and some other language (web sites, books) I prefer the former.
Even though I've only ever been once to England for one week and have no English-speaking friends/relatives, it became my most used language. I just like it way more than my other two alternatives and it's much more practical.
I am 21 years old now and speak fluently in German, Russian, English and to a limited extent in Japanese.
Now I use Russian to talk to relatives and my girlfriend; German to my friends, acquaintances, generally people around here; English for consuming media (movies, books, internet).
(dm^3)/(100*km) is fine, but I prefer to simplify by measuring gas consumption in square meters.
Get your ass to Mars, ... Get your ass to Mars, ... Get your ass to Mars, ...
And build a reactor that we can then start to release the water into the atmosphere.
Of course, in the end, I would rather see us send several nuke reactors there.
Just don't forget to start those reactors.
After all, we need to give these people air.
My case is almost the same, only I switched from manuals to science fiction novels at some point. English lessons at school consisted mostly of handheld console games for me.
In addition to that, I learned German (to the greatest part; of course I had some interaction as well) from TV at age 5, when I moved to Germany. When school started (a year later) I could read, write and speak better German than most of my native classmates.
Back on topic, I agree with the notion that at least developers should all have a functional English at their disposal, it makes life easier. Also, there isn't nearly as much (useful) content for developers to be found on German or Russian websites, as far as I've discovered so far. Well, in my opinion that also applies to most other topics as well, but that's a different story.
That's exactly how I see it. Laws are rules, nothing more. There's no "right" or "wrong", just preferences.
But still, my point was that hacking yourself is not as easy as it could/should be, because of legal restrictions. You can circumvent those, of course.
Yeah, good luck hacking your system when most interesting and promising hacks are not available or will land you in jail. Or the government actively prohibits any such hacking (see stem-cell debates).
I enjoyed Miku's rendition of Kraftwerk's Computer Love:
:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOlcq3JFbsU
It combines my favorite Kraftwerk song with Japanese lyrics (and much more of them than in the original piece).
When I first encountered this work on YouTube I wasn't aware of Vocaloid and thought it to be a vocoded/otherwise edited human voice
This guy should team up with the Time Cube person. Then they'd rule the earth with their infinite knowledge and (invented) ideas. I wonder if Shampoo already "invented" this idea.
You're remembering the PicoP from Microvision, which is the only "pico projector" that will use lasers http://www.microvision.com/pico_projector_displays/howitworks.html . Everything else is just a small DLP.
It is stated in the FAQ that this awesome service will only be available for one month. Considering the immense wealth of information obtainable from 2001's Google and its use for historians and the like (not to mention the fun of it) this limitation is really a shame in my opinion.
Why not accept permadeath? I think MMOs could change into something way more interesting than the farming and grinding that WoW and such usually turn into.
Especially modern, that is not fantasy settings require much less killing (and resulting death) to be interesting. I mean, how often do you need to kill NPCs or other players in a cyberpunk setting? Only in key situations. Also, with permadeath players would try really really hard not to die, and think thoroughly before doing dangerous stuff.
I would much rather play a MMO with permadeath than one with some bogus resurrection system and immortal veteran players.
Don't forget to close the curtains and buy a dog.
Don't really know, perhaps unhealthy side effects? Some kind of moral issues? They could also prohibit protein-rich food for sports, or use of the Total Gym 1000 to enable people without access to these things or who wish to remain "not improved" by "unnatural practices" to stay competitive. Anyway, it's just a law/rule, and these aren't always logical (take slashdot's favorites: copyright laws, drugs, TSA, etc.).
You'll fall behind, naturally. No one's denying that. It would be just like the scenario you described. But what's wrong with that? There have always been people with an advantage over others, be it inherited or acquired. As long as you don't prohibit others from "improving" themselves, there's nothing to worry about IMHO.
"What about those of us that don't want to be 'improved'?" implies that you mean post-natal genetic modification (how can you not want anything if you are not born yet?). To compete with me you simply let yourself be modified in a similar way.
Again, it's the same with education: I studied something, you can do the same. After all, isn't education a "modification" of your neural pathways, your thinking and possibly your behavior? There are people opposed to education as well (see creationists).
"free to learn it" as in free to buy textbooks, go to college, pay for an internet connection, etc. Go tell some poor villager in [insert third world country here] that he's free to learn anything that enables him to compete with an MIT graduate.
What about those of us that don't want to be "improved"? Will our choice basically be the same as the handful of honest baseball players that didn't take steroids?
This could also be applied to literacy, you know. Or any other kind of knowledge.
You mean, the Terrible Secret of Space??
Morphology, longevity, incept dates.
Simple solution: relocate the polar bears to the other pole.
Same applies for all the other endangered arctic animals.
There's lots and lots of ice down there.
What could possibly go wrong?
One step closer to super-light bicycles with paper frames!
Everyone knows that the best neurosurgeons operate in Chiba...