Actually if you read TFA, the long-pondered question of why humans only use 1-15% of their brain is largely a matter of power consumption, and the reason for the abundance of dormant neurons is for greater potential diversity of thought.
"While accounting for just 2 percent of our body weight, the human brain devours 20 percent of the calories that we eat."
"The brain achieves optimal energy efficiency by firing no more than 1 to 15 percent—and often just 1 percent—of its neurons at a time."
That seems to indicate that a human brain would burn more calories than the rest of the body if it were "always on".
Being a hypoglycemia sufferer, I can attest to the severe limitations of brain activity when deprived of sugar. Before being diagnosed I underwent tunnel vision and black-outs, not to mention the typical mood swings, shakiness, cold sensations, etc.
There's a difference between an enemy and a predator. For a prey to evade a predator is not defeat, it simply buys time to either become tougher prey or a tougher predator. Hosting DeCSS for download was a great way to attract predators.
And the right to free speech doesn't include the right to anonymity, nor does it include the right to disseminate trade secrets. Not saying you're wrong, just not supported by the constitution.
The hyperdrive you refer to was actually conceived before Star Trek: "Burkhard Heim began to explore the hyperdrive propulsion concept in the 1950s" Heim also coined the term "sub-space" which is used widely throughout Star Trek, so clearly Roddenberry was aware of the subject matter, like any proficient nerd of that era.
And let's not overlook all the technologies predicted in Star Trek that won't enter reality, or the episode where Picard talks about the still-unproven Fermat's Last Theorem.
Or better yet we could shut up and get on with our lives... nah!
Perhaps all the Linux contributors as a whole should be awarded, with Linus being the caretaker of the prize. Such a paradigm-shifting achievement calls for unique recognition.
What to do with the prize money though... more ram anyone?
"Your TV's soak too much power, so we're going to make your kitchen appliances more costly to operate and make electric vehicles less affordable. Don't worry, we'll get you to work along with a bunch of punk gangsters."
Might want to target the issue a little more precisely.
Kosher or not the data is 100% reliable. If you buy answers to an exam, the seller gets caught, you can't get your money back, you're free and clear, and the exam questions haven't changed, do you not take advantage of your purchase?
I wouldn't say that they're "past" mines, if anything they lack the resources and facilities to make a proper mine, instead what they make are called Improvised Explosive Devices (IED's) which can perform the job of a mine, but can't withstand the elements for decades like a properly encased munition mine can. Sure, many are triggered manually, but a pressure plate trigger can be made from the ringer out of a typical telephone - a piezo transducer, same thing used to measure earthquakes. Wire that through a relay to a diesel-nitrogen cocktail, and it'll take the treads off a tank no problem, but it couldn't last more than maybe 5 years before the batteries die.
Take a look at the tanks and APV junkyards in Afghanistan and try telling the repair crews there aren't any mines out there. And there are definitely booby traps in buildings where the bacteria could come in handy for sure.
Google "TV Magnifier" and you'll get several options. They're big flat magnifying lenses you can place in front of your monitor. They might be awkward on your desk, but if not, they're much less than a custom LCD monitor. They suck for multiple viewers, but at a workstation should be fine.
That's a wonderful notion, but I can't think of a time when a corporation patented something bad soley as a way of preventing someone from using it.
Actually, not quite the same thing, but AFAIK Mercedes Benz has never enforced their patent on car "crumple zones". It's as though they patented it to make sure it was free for everyone to use, enabling something good rather than disabling something bad.
I really doubt Apple has filed it to disable it though. I bet they want this to show up on stockholder reports, otherwise they'd use a dummy corporation to keep their reputation at a distance.
Yeah that's it, they spent the money to file it, but Apple would never use it for profitable gain, for Apple is an honorable corporation.
It has a clear application on iPods exactly like trailers in movie theaters, but Apple wouldn't inconvenience its customers (1), for Apple is an honorable corporation.
The *exact* same thing has already become reluctantly accepted by Blu-Ray customers, paving the way for its acceptance on iPods, but Apple would never profitably annoy their customers (2), for Apple is an honorable corporation.
Footnotes:
(1) Try installing Quicktime without also installing iTunes
(2) "right, PC guy?"
There is no such thing as an honorable corporation. Apple's reputation is an asset they exploit no differently than any other. If advertising revenues can be generated in excess of the cost of a diminished reputation, Apple will go after them. Perhaps they'll make it seem like the movie studios are doing it. How many average Joe's know that Apple gets a royalty from every iLink interface on Sony camcorders, for example?
FWIW I'm a corporation basher, not an Apple basher specifically.
Most Americans aren't such cretins. But when you have a population of many millions and most have access to the internet then you're going to notice the loud, persistent, mentally ill ones.
Especially when they're elected to top government positions...
If adding caffeine in mass quantities to a commercial beverage is not the business of the FDA, neither is adding salt St. Peter or any other over-the-counter drug.
However, you, like dozens of others here, did not read TFA, which only deals with high ratios of caffeine *packaged* in alcoholic beverages. The FDA cannot prevent anyone from ordering a Jagermeister and a Red Bull, and mixing them together themselves. That is up to the liquor control boards of the relevant jurisdiction. For example in Ontario Canada, bartenders cannot pour the Jager into the Red Bull, nor can they even put the shot glass into the Red Bull glass, but patrons are free to do it themselves.
I've also heard of some municipalities banning the sale of Red Bull at licensed establishments, though patrons can bring in their own. This is intended to reduce the promotional effect of bars putting Red Bull on sale to sell more liquor. It's otherwise very common for bars to have Jager bombs on sale for the same price as just a shot of Jager, which gets people trying it who otherwise wouldn't, and shouldn't. Now that's a restriction I can live with. Remember that caffeine is no less addictive than alcohol.
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Actually if you read TFA, the long-pondered question of why humans only use 1-15% of their brain is largely a matter of power consumption, and the reason for the abundance of dormant neurons is for greater potential diversity of thought.
"While accounting for just 2 percent of our body weight, the human brain devours 20 percent of the calories that we eat."
"The brain achieves optimal energy efficiency by firing no more than 1 to 15 percent—and often just 1 percent—of its neurons at a time."
That seems to indicate that a human brain would burn more calories than the rest of the body if it were "always on".
Being a hypoglycemia sufferer, I can attest to the severe limitations of brain activity when deprived of sugar. Before being diagnosed I underwent tunnel vision and black-outs, not to mention the typical mood swings, shakiness, cold sensations, etc.
Never has my nickname been more appropriate...
There's a difference between an enemy and a predator. For a prey to evade a predator is not defeat, it simply buys time to either become tougher prey or a tougher predator. Hosting DeCSS for download was a great way to attract predators.
And the right to free speech doesn't include the right to anonymity, nor does it include the right to disseminate trade secrets. Not saying you're wrong, just not supported by the constitution.
Making the leap from telephone to communicator is hardly ESP, and a cel phone won't work from orbit.
Star Trek phasers are particle beam emitters, very different from lasers.
The hyperdrive you refer to was actually conceived before Star Trek: "Burkhard Heim began to explore the hyperdrive propulsion concept in the 1950s" Heim also coined the term "sub-space" which is used widely throughout Star Trek, so clearly Roddenberry was aware of the subject matter, like any proficient nerd of that era.
And let's not overlook all the technologies predicted in Star Trek that won't enter reality, or the episode where Picard talks about the still-unproven Fermat's Last Theorem.
Or better yet we could shut up and get on with our lives... nah!
If Japanese have infuence the Engwish langwige, it would be moe appawent.
Perhaps all the Linux contributors as a whole should be awarded, with Linus being the caretaker of the prize. Such a paradigm-shifting achievement calls for unique recognition.
What to do with the prize money though... more ram anyone?
I wonder how many M$ haters are going to buy/mod and Xbox just to be a part of this suit...
Let's not forget the environmental damage and/or cost associated with disposing/recycling CRT's.
"Your TV's soak too much power, so we're going to make your kitchen appliances more costly to operate and make electric vehicles less affordable. Don't worry, we'll get you to work along with a bunch of punk gangsters."
Might want to target the issue a little more precisely.
Kosher or not the data is 100% reliable. If you buy answers to an exam, the seller gets caught, you can't get your money back, you're free and clear, and the exam questions haven't changed, do you not take advantage of your purchase?
The entire UK (Is it any different elsewhere?)
Well It's different in Canada, sure things mess up now and then, but every time I've bitched at Telus, they've come through. No doubt mileage varies.
I wouldn't say that they're "past" mines, if anything they lack the resources and facilities to make a proper mine, instead what they make are called Improvised Explosive Devices (IED's) which can perform the job of a mine, but can't withstand the elements for decades like a properly encased munition mine can. Sure, many are triggered manually, but a pressure plate trigger can be made from the ringer out of a typical telephone - a piezo transducer, same thing used to measure earthquakes. Wire that through a relay to a diesel-nitrogen cocktail, and it'll take the treads off a tank no problem, but it couldn't last more than maybe 5 years before the batteries die.
Take a look at the tanks and APV junkyards in Afghanistan and try telling the repair crews there aren't any mines out there. And there are definitely booby traps in buildings where the bacteria could come in handy for sure.
The CFL condition that limits the maximum time step one can take shows no sign of relenting.
You mean they're STILL punting on 3rd down?!
I wouldn't even power up a 100M core box that couldn't figure out what to do with its own heat.
"Sort that heat out or I'll send you into a perpetual loop re-transcoding 'Iceland's Got Talent' re-runs. You hear me?!"
Google "TV Magnifier" and you'll get several options. They're big flat magnifying lenses you can place in front of your monitor. They might be awkward on your desk, but if not, they're much less than a custom LCD monitor. They suck for multiple viewers, but at a workstation should be fine.
Exactly. What's $1M to Facebook compared to the benefits of Google's hits?
Even if the "top 1000" sites accepted the bribe, that wouldn't make much of a dent. How small does this pilgrim think the internet is?
And what's to stop Google from re-indexing them?
That's a wonderful notion, but I can't think of a time when a corporation patented something bad soley as a way of preventing someone from using it.
Actually, not quite the same thing, but AFAIK Mercedes Benz has never enforced their patent on car "crumple zones". It's as though they patented it to make sure it was free for everyone to use, enabling something good rather than disabling something bad.
I really doubt Apple has filed it to disable it though. I bet they want this to show up on stockholder reports, otherwise they'd use a dummy corporation to keep their reputation at a distance.
Yeah that's it, they spent the money to file it, but Apple would never use it for profitable gain, for Apple is an honorable corporation.
It has a clear application on iPods exactly like trailers in movie theaters, but Apple wouldn't inconvenience its customers (1), for Apple is an honorable corporation.
The *exact* same thing has already become reluctantly accepted by Blu-Ray customers, paving the way for its acceptance on iPods, but Apple would never profitably annoy their customers (2), for Apple is an honorable corporation.
Footnotes:
(1) Try installing Quicktime without also installing iTunes
(2) "right, PC guy?"
There is no such thing as an honorable corporation. Apple's reputation is an asset they exploit no differently than any other. If advertising revenues can be generated in excess of the cost of a diminished reputation, Apple will go after them. Perhaps they'll make it seem like the movie studios are doing it. How many average Joe's know that Apple gets a royalty from every iLink interface on Sony camcorders, for example?
FWIW I'm a corporation basher, not an Apple basher specifically.
I protest this wanton racial discrimination! After all, turning off a windows box can only be described as an "affirmative action"!
Actually, the grandparent poster is correct. Zero-day means just that. What you're talking about needs a different word.
I believe the term "Windows exploit" in itself adequately covers that it was quickly and easily discovered and abused.
Bonus points for stating that anyone who thinks differently from you must be stupid.
Damn Mac users eh?
Begun, the Clone War has.
Most Americans aren't such cretins. But when you have a population of many millions and most have access to the internet then you're going to notice the loud, persistent, mentally ill ones.
Especially when they're elected to top government positions...
Do you sell used cars or something? Nothing personal, but that's a rather self-defeating argument for something you don't seem to have much faith in.
Face it, you're just hoping to improve your odds.
If adding caffeine in mass quantities to a commercial beverage is not the business of the FDA, neither is adding salt St. Peter or any other over-the-counter drug.
However, you, like dozens of others here, did not read TFA, which only deals with high ratios of caffeine *packaged* in alcoholic beverages. The FDA cannot prevent anyone from ordering a Jagermeister and a Red Bull, and mixing them together themselves. That is up to the liquor control boards of the relevant jurisdiction. For example in Ontario Canada, bartenders cannot pour the Jager into the Red Bull, nor can they even put the shot glass into the Red Bull glass, but patrons are free to do it themselves.
I've also heard of some municipalities banning the sale of Red Bull at licensed establishments, though patrons can bring in their own. This is intended to reduce the promotional effect of bars putting Red Bull on sale to sell more liquor. It's otherwise very common for bars to have Jager bombs on sale for the same price as just a shot of Jager, which gets people trying it who otherwise wouldn't, and shouldn't. Now that's a restriction I can live with. Remember that caffeine is no less addictive than alcohol.