And how long does it take before you can actually use it? Maybe the desktop appears after 8 seconds, but the system is still configuring itself and, well, basically finishing the booting process, the antivirus system is still setting itself up, etcetera. Meanwhile you're clicking on icons and nothing happens, or at the very least it's extremely sluggish. At least that's what earlier versions of Windows were like, I haven't actually had the... err... pleasure to try Windows 8, so this is a genuine question.
Not yet. What technology did we have a hundred years ago? Who knows what's possible a hundred years further ahead.
2) If you are counting on bacteria evolving into intelligent life, you'll find that it took 3 Billion years last time and the Sun doesn't have that kind of productive lifetime left.
OK, I stand corrected. How about some insects or small mammals surviving? That should cut down the required amount of evolution a fair bit.
They should have kept this secret and stuck with the earlier prediction as a deadline for getting off this planet. Then, when it turns out we're not actually ready yet by that time, you can give us the relieving "ok, you've got another few hundreds of millions of years but that's final". Our species is notoriously bad at making deadlines.
I, for one, will jump at the opportunity to buy some at less than half price. I'm sure plenty of others will, too. I'd be surprised if it dropped more than 75% or so (which is a normal fluctuation for bitcoin). The currency has already survived a few large sell orders remarkably well.
I can exchange BTC for my local currency and then go about my business, but that's about it.
Overstock.com, Amazon, CVS, Target, Victoria's Secret, Zappos, the list keeps growing.
Of course most of these stores actually use a payment processor that immediately converts the bitcoins to USD for them, but if more and more stores start accepting it, at some point the currency may become so practical that such conversions will no longer need to be made. If a company does business with another company that accepts bitcoin, they may as well take bitcoin from their clients and then use those bitcoins to pay their suppliers. Transaction fees are much lower than those for credit cards, you don't even need any middle men.
You jest, but in Belgium we actually had a lawsuit a few weeks ago where police officers were accused of speeding through a red light while chasing gangsters after a robbery. They are legally allowed to go through red lights, but only after having stopped first to make sure it's safe to cross. The criminals, of course, tend to just keep going at the same speed.
Fortunately for all of us, the judge applied some common sense and let them off the hook. Otherwise you could forget about police ever chasing a criminal again.
It's not that different. you know. It's not like they have some magical coating that other countries don't have. The only difference is that they trust their drivers to be responsible and, guess what, it works!
I've driven 200 km/h on unlimited sections that in no way looked or felt different from Belgian roads limited to 120.
Don't your e-mails get caught in spam filters then? Some people seem to have really paranoid e-mail services that consider mail as spam if the "from" address does not match the smtp server or for similar reasons.
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The fact that everyone jumps to potential mate every time a woman does something is one of the biggest barriers to women in technical fields.
It's very good for the evolution of our species, though.
They do have a battery heating system. So once the car is "running", it will be OK. The problem here was just charging it, apparently.
But I've never heard of a gasoline engine car's battery bursting into flames.
And I've never heard of an electric car's gas tank bursting into flames.
I think they'll probably skip rule 34 like some hotels skip room 13.
Otherwise there would be too much confusion as rule 34 already exists and, unsurprisingly, indeed applies to tennis racquets.
And how long does it take before you can actually use it? Maybe the desktop appears after 8 seconds, but the system is still configuring itself and, well, basically finishing the booting process, the antivirus system is still setting itself up, etcetera. Meanwhile you're clicking on icons and nothing happens, or at the very least it's extremely sluggish. At least that's what earlier versions of Windows were like, I haven't actually had the... err... pleasure to try Windows 8, so this is a genuine question.
See the Simpsons' episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
Just one (if you remove the line feeds)
And then if it clicks on a computer in the background of one of the pictures, you know it's a bot.
Well, the end of the last episode did seem to suggest a next episode was coming.
Well, a hydrogen rocket produces steam, doesn't it?
1) A printer doesn't magically create Uranium
Not yet. What technology did we have a hundred years ago? Who knows what's possible a hundred years further ahead.
2) If you are counting on bacteria evolving into intelligent life, you'll find that it took 3 Billion years last time and the Sun doesn't have that kind of productive lifetime left.
OK, I stand corrected. How about some insects or small mammals surviving? That should cut down the required amount of evolution a fair bit.
We should produce more CO2 while we still can, then!
And give it another 100 years before anyone can 3D-print a nuclear bomb. We may not even get to exhaust our resources.
Then again, some other species will probably rise from our ashes. Plenty of bacteria will be left over to evolve into something similar to us.
At least maybe we'll get to play Half Life 3.
They should have kept this secret and stuck with the earlier prediction as a deadline for getting off this planet. Then, when it turns out we're not actually ready yet by that time, you can give us the relieving "ok, you've got another few hundreds of millions of years but that's final". Our species is notoriously bad at making deadlines.
Incredible, it turns out my algorithm actually works!
I have determined in advance that the future posts by Anonymous Coward will be rubbish.
the police get to keep it and spend it.
Too bad for them the Silk Road doesn't exist anymore...
I, for one, will jump at the opportunity to buy some at less than half price. I'm sure plenty of others will, too. I'd be surprised if it dropped more than 75% or so (which is a normal fluctuation for bitcoin). The currency has already survived a few large sell orders remarkably well.
Right now, I can't buy groceries with BTC.
Wrong. Whole Foods accepts bitcoin.
I can't take a friend out for lunch and pay with BTC.
Wrong again
I can exchange BTC for my local currency and then go about my business, but that's about it.
Overstock.com, Amazon, CVS, Target, Victoria's Secret, Zappos, the list keeps growing.
Of course most of these stores actually use a payment processor that immediately converts the bitcoins to USD for them, but if more and more stores start accepting it, at some point the currency may become so practical that such conversions will no longer need to be made. If a company does business with another company that accepts bitcoin, they may as well take bitcoin from their clients and then use those bitcoins to pay their suppliers. Transaction fees are much lower than those for credit cards, you don't even need any middle men.
You don't happen to know what that code word is, do you?
You jest, but in Belgium we actually had a lawsuit a few weeks ago where police officers were accused of speeding through a red light while chasing gangsters after a robbery. They are legally allowed to go through red lights, but only after having stopped first to make sure it's safe to cross. The criminals, of course, tend to just keep going at the same speed.
Fortunately for all of us, the judge applied some common sense and let them off the hook. Otherwise you could forget about police ever chasing a criminal again.
No, not "Le Elite", the French are an exception. We were talking about Germans.
It's not that different. you know. It's not like they have some magical coating that other countries don't have. The only difference is that they trust their drivers to be responsible and, guess what, it works!
I've driven 200 km/h on unlimited sections that in no way looked or felt different from Belgian roads limited to 120.
Don't your e-mails get caught in spam filters then? Some people seem to have really paranoid e-mail services that consider mail as spam if the "from" address does not match the smtp server or for similar reasons.