The trick is differentiating between the not currently possible but we could see the pathways to get there and the not currently possible and we haven't the first clue how to practically pull it off.
We can see the paths that may make seeding planets, duplicating and assembling humans from raw materials, and so on possible.
FTL starships? Time travel? Teleportation? Let us get back to you.
We had to black out the sky to cut off their access to solar energy. We eventually won and abandoned modern technology, but effects of the blackout on the climate could not be overcome.
Many of us have by our own admission terrible handwriting, and have trouble reading our own notes. (And this is going to be more and more of a problem as some quarters continue viewing cursive handwriting as archaic and not worth the time needed to teach it.) Also, my paper notebook doesn't have a search function.
For many classes I would take notes on my laptop in a continuous excel spreadsheet, then re-read and annotate them with material from the book, off the internet, etc. It worked quite well.
One day Pavlov walked into a bar and ordered a cognac. He was about to take a sip when the barkeep rang him up. He dropped his glass and shouted "Shit! I've got to feed the dogs!" and ran out.
I've done some VCR conversion and the main problem with basic came-with-the-computer video cards is that they'll stop recording at the first big glitch in the analog video signal being fed to them, and most home recorded video tapes will have more than a few. Very frustrating if say, you have a bunch of mystery 6-hour tapes that you just want to dump onto your hard drive while at work, and then pan the resulting file for gold at your leisure.
I bought a converter like this one and it works great, converting the entire output to DV, glitches and all. Your PC will need DV / Firewire input to use it, and Firewire cards are available cheap. The added advantage is that they have unadvertised Macrovision bypass features (google the make/model and 'macrovision' for more info.)
It's far easier for a computer company to create computers that strap to your wrist than it is for a watch company to create watches with computer functionality. Besides there's no real risk of being "locked out" of the market. Plenty of cross-licensing/design/development opportunities will be available if smartwatches ever become a thing.
Oklahoma has some fantastic wind & solar resources
Especially when the wind comes sweepin' down the plain. Plen'y of air and plen'y of room, plen'y of room to swing a rope! Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope!
It's all about blimps nowadays. Both Google and SpaceX are racing to complete their prototypes
"My atomic zeppelins high above in the mesosphere, beyond the reach of storms and artillery, will beam both free energy and internet connectivity directly into the homes of a grateful populace below. And once the masses has abandoned their carbon fuels and cable service, greedily suckling at our teat for both knowledge and energy, they will be completely under our domination, and then nothing - nothing - will stand in our way!" - Sergey Brin interview, The Economist, 18 Jan 2014, p. 42
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The trick is differentiating between the not currently possible but we could see the pathways to get there and the not currently possible and we haven't the first clue how to practically pull it off.
We can see the paths that may make seeding planets, duplicating and assembling humans from raw materials, and so on possible.
FTL starships? Time travel? Teleportation? Let us get back to you.
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Was the year 2000 so long ago?
http://youtu.be/GYSfncB4peU?t=...
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http://i.imgur.com/jrfXcAX.png
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...who only knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will be posting in 3....2....1....
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We had to black out the sky to cut off their access to solar energy. We eventually won and abandoned modern technology, but effects of the blackout on the climate could not be overcome.
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Not America proper. You had us worried for a minute there, guys.
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Well, there's like a bajillion web sites, and I only visit about ten on a regular basis! Who's wasting bandwidth now? Checkmate, new media!
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Many of us have by our own admission terrible handwriting, and have trouble reading our own notes. (And this is going to be more and more of a problem as some quarters continue viewing cursive handwriting as archaic and not worth the time needed to teach it.) Also, my paper notebook doesn't have a search function.
For many classes I would take notes on my laptop in a continuous excel spreadsheet, then re-read and annotate them with material from the book, off the internet, etc. It worked quite well.
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One day Pavlov walked into a bar and ordered a cognac. He was about to take a sip when the barkeep rang him up. He dropped his glass and shouted "Shit! I've got to feed the dogs!" and ran out.
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I've done some VCR conversion and the main problem with basic came-with-the-computer video cards is that they'll stop recording at the first big glitch in the analog video signal being fed to them, and most home recorded video tapes will have more than a few. Very frustrating if say, you have a bunch of mystery 6-hour tapes that you just want to dump onto your hard drive while at work, and then pan the resulting file for gold at your leisure.
I bought a converter like this one and it works great, converting the entire output to DV, glitches and all. Your PC will need DV / Firewire input to use it, and Firewire cards are available cheap. The added advantage is that they have unadvertised Macrovision bypass features (google the make/model and 'macrovision' for more info.)
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The IMSAI 8080 had 8" drives
http://www.computerhistory.org...
"Secure system" - yeah, right....
http://www.imsai.net/images/wa...
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It's far easier for a computer company to create computers that strap to your wrist than it is for a watch company to create watches with computer functionality. Besides there's no real risk of being "locked out" of the market. Plenty of cross-licensing/design/development opportunities will be available if smartwatches ever become a thing.
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Hey, hey you can’t! See? It’s totally frictionless. Oh this must be one mother of a mover!
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Either float or sink even faster. Not quite sure how that'd work out.
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I don't like the looks of this:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl...
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Oklahoma has some fantastic wind & solar resources
Especially when the wind comes sweepin' down the plain. Plen'y of air and plen'y of room, plen'y of room to swing a rope! Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope!
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What's this note on the air lock? What the - we were in! They didn't even bother to hail us! Frakkin' SpaceX, I'm sick of this shit!
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It's all about blimps nowadays. Both Google and SpaceX are racing to complete their prototypes
"My atomic zeppelins high above in the mesosphere, beyond the reach of storms and artillery, will beam both free energy and internet connectivity directly into the homes of a grateful populace below. And once the masses has abandoned their carbon fuels and cable service, greedily suckling at our teat for both knowledge and energy, they will be completely under our domination, and then nothing - nothing - will stand in our way!" - Sergey Brin interview, The Economist, 18 Jan 2014, p. 42
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THE SHROPSHIRE SLASHER!!
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2001? Something like that would cost $1000, bare minimum. Add that it weighs four pounds without a keyboard? They made the right call.
If, of all words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are, "It might have been,"
More sad are these we daily see:
"It is, but hadn’t ought to be."
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What the..Oof! Ow! Ouch! Merde! Zut Alors! Sonova..Oh, nice one.
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There are definitely old school reference books with the value of pi to hundreds if not thousands of decimal places.
Unless the zombies take up reading or eat books, and you don't break your glasses, we're good to go.
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Just temporarily embarrassed space explorers.
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Well, they could learn data mining.
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....I'll see meself out.
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I mean, you NASA guys got plutonium, right? We'll have to focus the blast somehow but we'll get your rocks into orbit, no problemo.
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