Also, I would be interested to know how much this thing could raise the temperature of the worlds oceans by, if at all. If anyone has any actual information please post a link (or a huge amount of maths justifying their theory)
We need to git rid of all scanners, x-ray machine, etc. There will be random, "aggressive", pat downs by attractive male/female "escorts"... Your choice as to which you will be groped by. There will of course be a charge for this service, cough, I mean security procedure. And there will be a menu of other extras you may request at an additional cost. This will not only solve the security and radiation exposure issues, but the TSA will become self supporting agency and within a few years run a surplus I suspect.
A 40 year old reactor that was poorly maintained/upgraded fails in mag 9.2 earthquake and has probably ended any possibility of new plants being built in the united states for at least 20 years. Not only could this kill or injure a large amount of people but it's a setback for the only realistic option we had to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and global CO2 reduction. Sadly this will be reported as a failure of the technology and not the people that maintain it.
I fear you may be right. However when gasoline starts to go north oft $5/gal.we may have a sudden outbreak of common sense.
Hi, this is Jerry Bruckheimer, we read your script and we'd like to hire you on as head writer for the newest show in our franchise; CSI Fuvk Ya!
Please wire the money through several shell companies and I need an ironclad guarantee that my real name will not be attached to his project in any way, nor any information about myself, family, or (past, present, future) pets will ever be traced to this project.
No kidding. I can't believe that in this day and age when computers are ubiquitous that Hollywood is still treating them like semi-magic boxes.How many people are left in the US that still think that programmers do all their coding on multiple screes with nothing but spinning 3D graphics. This is especially prevalent when someone is "hacking" into a "secure" system. Half the time they show someone manipulating a strand of DNA and are just mashing together what a four year old kid would say that heard a parent talking about computers. Something like:
[Picture the monitor showing a fractal spinning on the screen with shiny spheres flying around and attaching to it randomly with techno music in the background]
Hacker guy: The firewall has 7337 -bit encryption. That's more options than there are atoms in a car Hot chick: Really! So it's going to take you like two days to hack the NSA Excel 4-train database. Are you using the Bernoulli quadratic equation? Hacker guy: No, I'm already past the firewall. I dropped in a logic bomb and spammed the secure email SQL server with a hydra worm. Bad guy: Wow, it took Linus 14 hours on a Cray XMP Beowulf cluster linked to a direct fiber-channel modulator to do what you did in 17 seconds. Hacker guy: Yeah, I know. Just think how much faster I could have done it if you hadn't shot my best friend five minutes ago, didn't have a knife in my back, and I didn't have to power the mainframe with this hamster wheel. Bad guy: It'll all be over soon. Once you get the launch codes for the neutron bomb from the ZX81 RAM pack.
Um.. enzymes are just proteins, they don't reproduce. There is no more danger of that occurring than there is of my spilling a vial of muriatic acid and it dissolving the whole Earth.
I would guess it would depend on how they will produce the enzyme(s). If it's going to be created in a lab, then there's probably not much to worry about (at least in regards to it "escaping"). If they are going to engineer a fungus, bacteria, or some other life form to produce it then it has the potential to be a little more problematic if it makes it into the wild. But that's just crazy talk. We humans have an impeccable track record in regards to keeping things like this contained. What could possibly go wrong?;-)
The navigational equipment should be designed so it is tolerant of this sort of interference.
Perhaps it will be going forward. However the average age of an aircraft you fly in today is probably in the neighborhood of 11 to 12 years old. Which means the designs for these planes are even older. Since WiFi wasn't very common (if it was at the consumer level in some cases)when the current planes were designed, it's a little silly to state the current fleet should be designed to be tolerant of it.
Maybe it will be possible to retrofit active designs in the future, but I'd guess the cost involved will be extremely prohibitive. I'd also guess even if they could retrofit all current aircraft, the testing that would be required before doing so would take years.
That's a really oversimplified way of looking at it. As a life-long hard core PC gamer who didn't cozy up to consoles *at all* until just a few years ago, I'm completely fine acknowledging that many games are a much better experience on the console. Not MMOs or strategy games, of course. And not some FPSes (especially multiplayer).
I guess the difference is that I don't consider myself to be a "hard core" gamer. Perhaps at one time, but not these days. Hell, I have a GTS250 VGA in my system right now and a GTX465 sitting in a box somewhere that I haven't had the time to swap out.
I'm not even talking about the fact that even the highest end computer isn't running with a 65" screen and a high end audio system like your home theater is. Or that your computer is on a desk in front of an office chair, like you probably spend most of your life in already, instead of on a nice comfy beanbag or sofa or lounger, like your television.
I' have a 40' TV that I sit 10 feet way from and my main computer has dual 24" monitors. I mostly play FPS and an occasionally strategy games. In all honesty I prefer my office chair for playing these types of games. Plus I can play games on my laptop when I travel. Carrying a console would be crazy for me.I play games on Wii with my daughter, but in all honesty I've never played a game on it by myself.
I'm just talking about the presentation itself, the controls, and the pretty decent online experience (as far as match-making and number of people to play with).
I don't know what you mean by "the presentation". I tired to play an XBox game a while back, but in all honesty I didn't know the controller buttons well enough to really utilize it. I'm sure this makes me sound old (I guess I am actually) but there were too many buttons for me to learn for just one sitting.If I owned one, that would be different I'm sure. I know the keys on my keyboard and can usually remap them on a PC game. I also don't care about online gaming either.
Saying one is definitely an ideal while the other has no redeeming value is kind of silly. I have all the consoles and a sweet rig and I enjoy them all equally.
I never said a PC was ideal, just my preference. I also never said that consoles have no redeeming value.
Well, not the Wii, because I haven't touched that since it came out (I don't even know where the hell it is, right now) . . . but everything *else* . . .:P
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I prefer the PC versions of the types of games I enjoy, not that they are superior in every way. I too have a Wii which I also enjoy because these are games that I can play with my family. However I wouldn't play any of the Wii games by myself. Which, again, is where we differ. Not that either opinion is right or wrong, just different.
Hell, I couldn't tell what level the PixelShader is on my VGA card right now either. But in the last 8 or so years every game I've purchased worked right out of the box with the exception of the Mass Effect patch I mentioned.
Frankly that's a small price to pay IMO. And no, I really don't like the simplified console versions of games. If I'm actually going to take the time to play a game, then I prefer it be worth my time.
For a patent, it should be the first to walk into the office with a working prototype, and that implementation is what the patent should cover.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of patents are granted that actually have a working prototype these days. I have no idea, but would speculate it's fairly small.
The main benefit to console gaming is the greater chance of a working game out of the box, compared to the troubles of running games on pc.
I don't remember the last time I had major issues with a PC game. Mass Effect didn't like my Phenom processor, but it took all of five minutes to find a patch and get it working. Prior to that I honestly can't remember anything going wrong unless I go back to Windows 95 or getting 3D drivers in Linux. I'm sure there were issues with games w/ 2K, but they must have been trivial enough that I don't recall.
In all honesty, I'd rather deal with driver issues and patches than when sequels to good PC games get overly simplified so that it can be played on a console (Deus Ex 2). Not that I have much time for games these days anyhow.
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I'm holding out for 6G Bieber Fever.
I'm waiting for 640G. It's all anyone will ever need. ;-)
Standards bodies have become nothing but the whore of businesses.
The main problem with standards is that they aren't.
Standards, like rules, are meant to be broken...
Also, I would be interested to know how much this thing could raise the temperature of the worlds oceans by, if at all. If anyone has any actual information please post a link (or a huge amount of maths justifying their theory)
Considerably less than these numerous naval tests. Which were immeasurable.
We need to git rid of all scanners, x-ray machine, etc. There will be random, "aggressive", pat downs by attractive male/female "escorts"... Your choice as to which you will be groped by. There will of course be a charge for this service, cough, I mean security procedure. And there will be a menu of other extras you may request at an additional cost. This will not only solve the security and radiation exposure issues, but the TSA will become self supporting agency and within a few years run a surplus I suspect.
So Skynet really was in the bunker all along.
A 40 year old reactor that was poorly maintained/upgraded fails in mag 9.2 earthquake and has probably ended any possibility of new plants being built in the united states for at least 20 years. Not only could this kill or injure a large amount of people but it's a setback for the only realistic option we had to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and global CO2 reduction. Sadly this will be reported as a failure of the technology and not the people that maintain it.
I fear you may be right. However when gasoline starts to go north oft $5/gal.we may have a sudden outbreak of common sense.
Sorry about your keyboard. I just ordered Hackers on NF. I was in my late 20's when that came out and I missed it. Damn I'm feeling old.
Sorry, I'm pretty sure that's a pretty close amalgamation of at least half a dozen movies that have already been made.
Hi, this is Jerry Bruckheimer, we read your script and we'd like to hire you on as head writer for the newest show in our franchise; CSI Fuvk Ya!
Please wire the money through several shell companies and I need an ironclad guarantee that my real name will not be attached to his project in any way, nor any information about myself, family, or (past, present, future) pets will ever be traced to this project.
No kidding. I can't believe that in this day and age when computers are ubiquitous that Hollywood is still treating them like semi-magic boxes.How many people are left in the US that still think that programmers do all their coding on multiple screes with nothing but spinning 3D graphics. This is especially prevalent when someone is "hacking" into a "secure" system. Half the time they show someone manipulating a strand of DNA and are just mashing together what a four year old kid would say that heard a parent talking about computers. Something like:
[Picture the monitor showing a fractal spinning on the screen with shiny spheres flying around and attaching to it randomly with techno music in the background]
Hacker guy: The firewall has 7337 -bit encryption. That's more options than there are atoms in a car
Hot chick: Really! So it's going to take you like two days to hack the NSA Excel 4-train database. Are you using the Bernoulli quadratic equation?
Hacker guy: No, I'm already past the firewall. I dropped in a logic bomb and spammed the secure email SQL server with a hydra worm.
Bad guy: Wow, it took Linus 14 hours on a Cray XMP Beowulf cluster linked to a direct fiber-channel modulator to do what you did in 17 seconds.
Hacker guy: Yeah, I know. Just think how much faster I could have done it if you hadn't shot my best friend five minutes ago, didn't have a knife in my back, and I didn't have to power the mainframe with this hamster wheel.
Bad guy: It'll all be over soon. Once you get the launch codes for the neutron bomb from the ZX81 RAM pack.
Yeah, but Goldblum had never seen their computers and wouldn't have the foggiest damned clue how to infect their OS.
...But he was using an Apple; "It just works."
Interesting how the students who went to school with that character described him as an "extreme leftist."
The notion that the fellow was a Ron Paul supporter was completely debunked mere minutes after Keith Olbermann and crew tried to tie him to it.
This is Slashdot. Stop trying to interject facts into the discussion.
Can we just kill all of the IP lawyers now and be done with it?
Just say'in.
Um.. enzymes are just proteins, they don't reproduce. There is no more danger of that occurring than there is of my spilling a vial of muriatic acid and it dissolving the whole Earth.
I would guess it would depend on how they will produce the enzyme(s). If it's going to be created in a lab, then there's probably not much to worry about (at least in regards to it "escaping"). If they are going to engineer a fungus, bacteria, or some other life form to produce it then it has the potential to be a little more problematic if it makes it into the wild. But that's just crazy talk. We humans have an impeccable track record in regards to keeping things like this contained. What could possibly go wrong? ;-)
Ahh, that makes sense now. Nice movie reference btw. ;-)
The correction is in the comments, the original website states 1kW.
Also, common sense might help... 1MW wouldn't should through just the razor...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but a MW (mega watt) is 1000 kW. I assume you meant mW (milliwatt).
One of these should do the trick.
The future is now!
Then where's my flying car damn-it.
The navigational equipment should be designed so it is tolerant of this sort of interference.
Perhaps it will be going forward. However the average age of an aircraft you fly in today is probably in the neighborhood of 11 to 12 years old. Which means the designs for these planes are even older. Since WiFi wasn't very common (if it was at the consumer level in some cases)when the current planes were designed, it's a little silly to state the current fleet should be designed to be tolerant of it.
Maybe it will be possible to retrofit active designs in the future, but I'd guess the cost involved will be extremely prohibitive. I'd also guess even if they could retrofit all current aircraft, the testing that would be required before doing so would take years.
That's a really oversimplified way of looking at it. As a life-long hard core PC gamer who didn't cozy up to consoles *at all* until just a few years ago, I'm completely fine acknowledging that many games are a much better experience on the console. Not MMOs or strategy games, of course. And not some FPSes (especially multiplayer).
I guess the difference is that I don't consider myself to be a "hard core" gamer. Perhaps at one time, but not these days. Hell, I have a GTS250 VGA in my system right now and a GTX465 sitting in a box somewhere that I haven't had the time to swap out.
I'm not even talking about the fact that even the highest end computer isn't running with a 65" screen and a high end audio system like your home theater is. Or that your computer is on a desk in front of an office chair, like you probably spend most of your life in already, instead of on a nice comfy beanbag or sofa or lounger, like your television.
I' have a 40' TV that I sit 10 feet way from and my main computer has dual 24" monitors. I mostly play FPS and an occasionally strategy games. In all honesty I prefer my office chair for playing these types of games. Plus I can play games on my laptop when I travel. Carrying a console would be crazy for me.I play games on Wii with my daughter, but in all honesty I've never played a game on it by myself.
I'm just talking about the presentation itself, the controls, and the pretty decent online experience (as far as match-making and number of people to play with).
I don't know what you mean by "the presentation". I tired to play an XBox game a while back, but in all honesty I didn't know the controller buttons well enough to really utilize it. I'm sure this makes me sound old (I guess I am actually) but there were too many buttons for me to learn for just one sitting.If I owned one, that would be different I'm sure. I know the keys on my keyboard and can usually remap them on a PC game. I also don't care about online gaming either.
Saying one is definitely an ideal while the other has no redeeming value is kind of silly. I have all the consoles and a sweet rig and I enjoy them all equally.
I never said a PC was ideal, just my preference. I also never said that consoles have no redeeming value.
Well, not the Wii, because I haven't touched that since it came out (I don't even know where the hell it is, right now) . . . but everything *else* . . . :P
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I prefer the PC versions of the types of games I enjoy, not that they are superior in every way. I too have a Wii which I also enjoy because these are games that I can play with my family. However I wouldn't play any of the Wii games by myself. Which, again, is where we differ. Not that either opinion is right or wrong, just different.
I wish you happy gaming btw.
They opened the windows.
I'm sure Steve Ballmer would throw a chair at you for suggesting they open Windows.
Hell, I couldn't tell what level the PixelShader is on my VGA card right now either. But in the last 8 or so years every game I've purchased worked right out of the box with the exception of the Mass Effect patch I mentioned.
Frankly that's a small price to pay IMO. And no, I really don't like the simplified console versions of games. If I'm actually going to take the time to play a game, then I prefer it be worth my time.
For a patent, it should be the first to walk into the office with a working prototype, and that implementation is what the patent should cover.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of patents are granted that actually have a working prototype these days. I have no idea, but would speculate it's fairly small.
The main benefit to console gaming is the greater chance of a working game out of the box, compared to the troubles of running games on pc.
I don't remember the last time I had major issues with a PC game. Mass Effect didn't like my Phenom processor, but it took all of five minutes to find a patch and get it working. Prior to that I honestly can't remember anything going wrong unless I go back to Windows 95 or getting 3D drivers in Linux. I'm sure there were issues with games w/ 2K, but they must have been trivial enough that I don't recall.
In all honesty, I'd rather deal with driver issues and patches than when sequels to good PC games get overly simplified so that it can be played on a console (Deus Ex 2). Not that I have much time for games these days anyhow.
HP's ink cartridges cost a kidney, new printer can actually print kidneys.
The circle of life is complete.
Sadly, 90% through printing of the new kidney, the "replace cartridge" light will start blinking - the house always wins...
That's OK. You have enough ink to print 5 more full kidneys before you really run out of ink.