You know, we aren't usually at war. I'm sure subs will take standard security procedures during combat periods. Also, the bouys might be cheap enough to saturate any area with.
I think this sounds cool. Give the navy guys something to do while they're stuck down there.
Intel has a monopoly on Intel computers (well, the processor anyways.) This is, I believe, what he meant. It's a good analogy; there is only one place to get CDs by any particular band. The problem is industry associations like the RIAA prevent competition between record companies, so prices get out of control. As in the other poster's example, sure, there is only one place to get any particular CD... but all the other bands, produced by the other record companies, cost the same.
Price fixing, plain and simple. It's as if Linux, Beos, Windows, MacOS, and BSD all cost exactly the same, because some association decided that's what was fair.
How to fix it? Simple. Dissolve the RIAA, and make it illegal to form any horizontal-market association not dealing solely with standards. They only exist to prevent competition and screw the consumer.
It seems to me that since each country has it's own set of domains, they should have control over them. So if some tiny country wants to sell www.coke.co.?? to the highest bidder, I say let them. The UN should only have control of the international domains... like.com or.org.
Just out of curiousity, has anyone ever seen the USA's domains used? Or are the international ones just considered ours, de facto?
You know, we kill way more fish every year to eat, and we sacrifice far more animals to science. This really is insignificant in terms of deaths; one fishing trip and I can do better. And monkeys can and have been used for much nastier research than this before.
And as for torture, the lamprey was under full anesthesia.
When it comes to preventing death or pain, you could focus on all the human tragedies going on in third world countries (Sierra Leon(sp?) for an example.) Worrying about one fish is, quite frankly, overreacting.
But I don't think I'd like to see this through the current phone companies. "Your bill is 2 months overdue. Pain centers in brain are being activated now."
According to the article, it displayed advanced behaviors such as avoiding light, following light, and moving in a circle. So I'd guess some parts of the brain are still functioning.
I've installed tons of hardware drivers, and I've never seen it cause a registry error. Not once. What usually causes registry errors for me is power failures and serious crashes (anything that requires a cold boot or causes a freeze during boot-up; very rare problems.) And I've only had auto-restore fail once (the backup was corrupt also. This was, incidentally, caused by a quake crash) And that's out of what, 4 years, using windows 95/98 pretty consistantly? Not that bad of a track record.
Incidentally, it is also a lot easier to keep track of and backup one registry than myriad linux drivers, and it isn't that hard to keep track of.
If you're going to complain about windows, at least do it about real problems with windows, like security. I mean, at least windows HAS drivers. Drivers for linux are a shotgun affair.
It's feasable for non-control devices, at least. My USB modem was slightly cheaper than it's equivilent serial model.
As for the usb mice, they have a higher sampling rate, which means higher accuracy. They have attained fair popularity with the gaming crowd, at least.
I'm not sure about current word meanings, but when I learned spanish, I was taught that amiga means 'female friend.' Just a friend that happens to be female, not a romantic one.
I'm pretty sure the word for girlfriend is 'novia'.
What I meant was that the sunlight there wasn't enough to explain the temperature difference.
And isn't the much thicker atmosphere and different chemical composition the reason it became a greenhouse, not the closeness to the sun? I don't see the sun making the air so much thicker... in fact, I'd almost expect the atmosphere to be far less dense (due to the planet's closeness during the T Tauri phase.) Probably it just got hit by a few comets more or less afterwards.
From all the predictions I've seen, it will turn most of the planet's plains into deserts and swamp the coastlines. Warmer doesn't equal better; Nevada and Florida are probably around the same temperature.
That is, if it doesn't trigger another ice age first.
Not only do you need a thicker atmosphere, but you need a more powerful magnetic field surrounding the planet. Mars' magnetic field if I remember correctly is pretty weak compared to Earth's.
Excess CO2 on that kind of scale would make the planet like Venus, not Mars. Remember that the sunlight isn't that different on Venus - the 300 degree f. difference is mostly due to global warming, due to a atmosphere that is very thick and mostly consists of CO2.
This device is not on the scale to change a planetary atmosphere. This is mainly something designed for either exploration missions or bases.
Some sort of genetically engineered plant or algae would be more realistic for planetary alterations, although mass water supplies would be likely required for this type of operation. If machinery was used, it would most likely have to be constructed from local materials and have a vastly larger scale power source than sunlight (which is weaker there.)
Hmm... The technology you propose could pose a serious security risk, either by giving away your credit card or SS number (how else they gonna recieve payment?) or by the fact that this would enable the government to track wherever you go (are there no areas you would not like to be known to be in?)
In addition, the charges could easily get away from you if you didn't pay attention, and since there is no way to 'abort' payment (can't turn around on an interstate) there would be no way to stop a private road from charging exorbitantly using the same device (what? You mean they *didn't* know the road was 20$ a trip? But they drove on it....) and unless the device made you pretty damn aware of the charges (which it wouldn't likely do) you could easily build up a huge bill.
Regarding your opinion on pay-per-use roads, the problem with that is threefold -
1. It gives the government an opportunity to raise taxes without repurcussion (you really think you'll pay less with tolls? Get real. Since it is very difficult to compare tolls and taxes, they will raise it dramatically since no one would notice. Meanwhile they will brag about how much they lowered taxes.)
2. It drastically increases commute time with all those damn annoying tollbooths. Add about 10 minutes per booth per day. Go through 3 a trip (which is reasonable under your system) and you've just increased your commute time one hour, per day. Not counting all the times you don't have change or one of the 5+ people ahead of you doesn't... ugh.
3. Since tollbooths are unpleasant, people will evade them, causing massive traffic on non-tolled roads (not counting bridges and such, there are always alternate routes across a city.)
Really? I never knew that. I know that disks used to come in special packages so they didn't get broken, and they used to say "Do not x-ray" or something similar across the front. Go figure.
Don't high energy photons cause problems for satellites, though? I think mostly it's gamma rays and cosmic rays but it just seems like x-rays would damage the BIOS or HD, or at least create errors therein.
A while ago Sierra decided to allow 'Betrayal at Krondor' to be downloaded for free as kind of an advertising for its sequals. While I don't know about anyone else, I bought one of them, and I wouldn't have even heard of it had they not.
Now, if it only could have been as good as the original...
Same with eye/retinal scanners. You can't use a dead or fake eyeball. A complex mechanical one might work, but if security is that weak, you can always burn through the door or chain an ATM to a truck.
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You know, we aren't usually at war. I'm sure subs will take standard security procedures during combat periods. Also, the bouys might be cheap enough to saturate any area with.
I think this sounds cool. Give the navy guys something to do while they're stuck down there.
It's fairly amusing that .us is probably THE most depopulated domain in existance.
Intel has a monopoly on Intel computers (well, the processor anyways.) This is, I believe, what he meant. It's a good analogy; there is only one place to get CDs by any particular band. The problem is industry associations like the RIAA prevent competition between record companies, so prices get out of control. As in the other poster's example, sure, there is only one place to get any particular CD... but all the other bands, produced by the other record companies, cost the same.
Price fixing, plain and simple. It's as if Linux, Beos, Windows, MacOS, and BSD all cost exactly the same, because some association decided that's what was fair.
How to fix it? Simple. Dissolve the RIAA, and make it illegal to form any horizontal-market association not dealing solely with standards. They only exist to prevent competition and screw the consumer.
It seems to me that since each country has it's own set of domains, they should have control over them. So if some tiny country wants to sell www.coke.co.?? to the highest bidder, I say let them. The UN should only have control of the international domains... like .com or .org.
Just out of curiousity, has anyone ever seen the USA's domains used? Or are the international ones just considered ours, de facto?
You know, we kill way more fish every year to eat, and we sacrifice far more animals to science. This really is insignificant in terms of deaths; one fishing trip and I can do better. And monkeys can and have been used for much nastier research than this before.
And as for torture, the lamprey was under full anesthesia.
When it comes to preventing death or pain, you could focus on all the human tragedies going on in third world countries (Sierra Leon(sp?) for an example.) Worrying about one fish is, quite frankly, overreacting.
Cool! Telepathy!
But I don't think I'd like to see this through the current phone companies. "Your bill is 2 months overdue. Pain centers in brain are being activated now."
According to the article, it displayed advanced behaviors such as avoiding light, following light, and moving in a circle. So I'd guess some parts of the brain are still functioning.
I've installed tons of hardware drivers, and I've never seen it cause a registry error. Not once. What usually causes registry errors for me is power failures and serious crashes (anything that requires a cold boot or causes a freeze during boot-up; very rare problems.) And I've only had auto-restore fail once (the backup was corrupt also. This was, incidentally, caused by a quake crash) And that's out of what, 4 years, using windows 95/98 pretty consistantly? Not that bad of a track record.
Incidentally, it is also a lot easier to keep track of and backup one registry than myriad linux drivers, and it isn't that hard to keep track of.
If you're going to complain about windows, at least do it about real problems with windows, like security. I mean, at least windows HAS drivers. Drivers for linux are a shotgun affair.
It's feasable for non-control devices, at least. My USB modem was slightly cheaper than it's equivilent serial model.
As for the usb mice, they have a higher sampling rate, which means higher accuracy. They have attained fair popularity with the gaming crowd, at least.
Simply send it there from somewhere it isn't illegal at. I'm sure there are countries where these things aren't illegal yet.
I'm not sure about current word meanings, but when I learned spanish, I was taught that amiga means 'female friend.' Just a friend that happens to be female, not a romantic one.
I'm pretty sure the word for girlfriend is 'novia'.
I don't know about your experiances, but when I played D3 I never had any trouble with bugs whatsoever. Not one.
Must be your hardware.
What I meant was that the sunlight there wasn't enough to explain the temperature difference.
And isn't the much thicker atmosphere and different chemical composition the reason it became a greenhouse, not the closeness to the sun? I don't see the sun making the air so much thicker... in fact, I'd almost expect the atmosphere to be far less dense (due to the planet's closeness during the T Tauri phase.) Probably it just got hit by a few comets more or less afterwards.
From all the predictions I've seen, it will turn most of the planet's plains into deserts and swamp the coastlines. Warmer doesn't equal better; Nevada and Florida are probably around the same temperature.
That is, if it doesn't trigger another ice age first.
Not only do you need a thicker atmosphere, but you need a more powerful magnetic field surrounding the planet. Mars' magnetic field if I remember correctly is pretty weak compared to Earth's.
>One more thing... what use can be made of the carbon byproduct?
Probably nothing, but perhaps it could be used in hydroponics. Or maybe fullrenes could be syntesized at a building material.
Excess CO2 on that kind of scale would make the planet like Venus, not Mars. Remember that the sunlight isn't that different on Venus - the 300 degree f. difference is mostly due to global warming, due to a atmosphere that is very thick and mostly consists of CO2.
This device is not on the scale to change a planetary atmosphere. This is mainly something designed for either exploration missions or bases.
Some sort of genetically engineered plant or algae would be more realistic for planetary alterations, although mass water supplies would be likely required for this type of operation. If machinery was used, it would most likely have to be constructed from local materials and have a vastly larger scale power source than sunlight (which is weaker there.)
Hmm... The technology you propose could pose a serious security risk, either by giving away your credit card or SS number (how else they gonna recieve payment?) or by the fact that this would enable the government to track wherever you go (are there no areas you would not like to be known to be in?)
In addition, the charges could easily get away from you if you didn't pay attention, and since there is no way to 'abort' payment (can't turn around on an interstate) there would be no way to stop a private road from charging exorbitantly using the same device (what? You mean they *didn't* know the road was 20$ a trip? But they drove on it....) and unless the device made you pretty damn aware of the charges (which it wouldn't likely do) you could easily build up a huge bill.
Regarding your opinion on pay-per-use roads, the problem with that is threefold -
1. It gives the government an opportunity to raise taxes without repurcussion (you really think you'll pay less with tolls? Get real. Since it is very difficult to compare tolls and taxes, they will raise it dramatically since no one would notice. Meanwhile they will brag about how much they lowered taxes.)
2. It drastically increases commute time with all those damn annoying tollbooths. Add about 10 minutes per booth per day. Go through 3 a trip (which is reasonable under your system) and you've just increased your commute time one hour, per day. Not counting all the times you don't have change or one of the 5+ people ahead of you doesn't... ugh.
3. Since tollbooths are unpleasant, people will evade them, causing massive traffic on non-tolled roads (not counting bridges and such, there are always alternate routes across a city.)
Really? I never knew that. I know that disks used to come in special packages so they didn't get broken, and they used to say "Do not x-ray" or something similar across the front. Go figure.
Don't high energy photons cause problems for satellites, though? I think mostly it's gamma rays and cosmic rays but it just seems like x-rays would damage the BIOS or HD, or at least create errors therein.
I don't know about you, but if airport security ignored a briefcase with a large red button on it, I'd think twice about boarding their planes.
You have to make SURE it never gets x-rayed.
A while ago Sierra decided to allow 'Betrayal at Krondor' to be downloaded for free as kind of an advertising for its sequals. While I don't know about anyone else, I bought one of them, and I wouldn't have even heard of it had they not.
Now, if it only could have been as good as the original...
Same with eye/retinal scanners. You can't use a dead or fake eyeball. A complex mechanical one might work, but if security is that weak, you can always burn through the door or chain an ATM to a truck.