There is a general guideline to not to respond to AC trolls but I believe that I have to defend what in my opinion is the spirit of Slashdot. So what if he likes a product published by Microsoft? 1. It is his opinion. 2. There are also good products published by Microsoft. Their work is often quite impressive - Look at white papers coming out from Microsoft Research. 3. Even if he worked for Microsoft, then maybe he could sometimes afford to little bit promote the products associated with him. People working at NASA post about their projects sometimes. This is Slashdot, shouldn't be news to you that most of the people here work for technology companies.
If there will be defense measures that will avoid deleting the "vigilante virus", then it seems likely that there will also be viruses with a similar signature to this one, with a slightly different agenda of course.
Usage of a term depends on it's definition. So where is it?? In your post or somewhere?
There is such a term like Earth analog which is the synonym for Earth-like planet (I found it in Wikipedia and the first poster should try using it), there are no good specifications inside that specific article, although the round talk under "Attributes and Criteria" is quite similar to the above posters.
There is something a little bit more specific in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index
- At least you can say for sure that KOI 736.01 has Earth Similarity Index (ESI) of 0.98 and Standard Primary Habitability (SPH) of 0.63.
As the article says, there is no such battery yet, because it still needs an appropriate anode. So, the suitable words right now are still - would and could. If that was what you meant.
Everlasting is a lame use of words anyway, being overused nowadays by.. everyone(!). But if someone could say "This battery could last for a thousand years.", is cool. Now imagine Winston Churchill saying that.
The other technologies like wind turbines and those steaming solutions are just alternative green solutions to solar cells that are often cheaper. When the solar cells are going to continue to get cheaper like they are and no new alternative pops out, then they will probably be the prefferable choice of green energy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/20/solar-panel-price-drop
Their co-existence with new ways of storing electricity would make them even more practical.
New cheaper ways for making hydrogen:
http://www.gizmag.com/fukai-hydrogen-extraction-process/16674/
or carbon based supercapacitors?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110512150731.htm
My point is, that there are actually new advancements in every horizon, which make this article a bit outdated.
China is doing this too... they know that the US has the ability to stop food shipments at any time, so have been developing technologies to make arable land in the Sahel and other parts of Africa to feed their population, and part of that is automated tilling/planting/irrigation/harvesting.
WHAT?
1. Sahel is a part of the Sahara desert with probably the worst famine problem in the world. Part of the problem is that the land is being over used and then turns into desert.
Over-farming, over-grazing, and over-population of marginal lands and natural soil erosion have caused serious desertification of the region.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahel
2. Now, are we aware that Eurasia and Africa aren't one little island west of USA? The closest land route between China and Sahel would be something like 4500km and it would go over the hills, (other) deserts and through countries with not so friendly governments, bandits and areas with no roads. The sea transport would take months.
3. In EU the overproduced wheat (side effect of the EU's agricultural market stabilization measures) is being burnt because it would be too expensive to ship it to.. Sahel for example.
4. I am probably answering to a troll, again. I am not going to delete the post this time.
You might be right about it. Then you could also explain just about everything being learnt that way. Then again may be somebody could re-make the research study using only the people unable to learn from other peoples fear or disgust reactions (they were once called psychopaths but nowadays the antisocial personality is more preferred but also more broader term applying also to a wide variety of not so extreme cases). Good luck for that poor fellow who needs to supervise them during the study.
May somebody please explain why this dude got modded down? The fact that there was one sentence that almost suggested that there was no misuse, was indeed worth of being ridiculed.
An average Apple product with x86 architecture has mediocre hardware, rounded corners and is overpriced, but they have somehow managed to make people to buy these things. This is witchcraft, admirable! Gas-stops and fat-food chains have managed to do a similar thing with food. So, why not Apple?
I would also like to point out that, "good luck, thanks for the cash" mentality has even for longer worked for the other type of coders - lawmakers. When a use-case happens where the outcome of a law is publicly expected to be different, the law fails. Are the lawmakers running to patch or bugfix their work each time this happens? Do they even feel concerned a bit? A career criminal gets out early, kills another man, its a...fatal error?
Its a nice technology for a good purpose, though still couldn't resist...- now try reading it with "earthquake" replaced by "human extermination effort" !
It could have been a dummy account for manipulating the markets. They have to search for another trader(s) somewhere, who bought before it bought and short selled right before it selled a huge amount of some stocks for less than the market value.
"..hasn't even surpassed Perl scripts on IRC in the 1980s."
"Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987.." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
"IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988.." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat#History
So, are we talking about one year?
1 Feb 2011 – As of this day, cleverbot's database of over 20 million online conversations continues to grow. -http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/artificial-intelligence-cleverbot-2000/
while the more powerful version used in Turing competitions runs 42 database searches. - http://www.qwhatis.com/what-is-cleverbot/
Do you know how big the capacity of a hard disk was these days? You would have needed an enterprise scale solution for storing this amount of data - if each conversation would have been something like 1 byte (definetly not), it woud have taken up a whole 20MB desktop computers hard disk. Now, do you know how fast it would have been to search from them? If you have heard that hard disk clinging after each 10-20 lines of C code compilation (each second), then you probably know what I am talking about.
Although, some if not all of these problems could be controlled, but I didn't dig much deeper (no pun). But hey..the article was about floating houses and we ended up discussing about cow dung?
Nevertheless, thank you for a really nice piece of historical info about villages built on crap. I can and will use it as a valuable input in my next lunch table conversation.
What junk? Typical landfill junk decomposition produces dioxins. There is a reason why you don't want your house on a graveyard or a landfill. Also what about the drinking water? I bet the surrounding sea ecosystem wouldn't be overly happy about it either.
Dunbal-"Actually you can." (... justify a bad investment by point to an even worse investment.)
By bad investment he might have meant an investment with a negative overall outcome, which really shouldn't happen at all.
How about something that actually isn't bad investment at all then? Like an investment into the search for alternative energy sources?
Through the global economy it would make even the space flight cheaper, not to mention that it would also solve many other problems, like the next big problem - material production crisis (think about bauxite or silicon for example) and give rise to a new economic fluctuation (so that some "economic geniuses" could throw away their "communists were actually right about capitalism" thesis and concentrate on another stupid theory far from reality).
Ok , now I went a bit off topic, but I am not going to delete it either. Thank you.
"If they can just figure out a way to keep the hosts alive" -If you meant the host cells, then yes sure that would be great. In case of illness it usually dies of protein overproduction (the virus can up- or down-regulate its newly aquired war factory.. -I really like that comparison:) ) or gets killed by the host organisms immune system. There has been no other way of disinfecting a cell that has already been infected by a virus. They would have to remove the virus code (DNA or RNA) from the cells production units and ensure that the proper human DNA would be left over.
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There is a general guideline to not to respond to AC trolls but I believe that I have to defend what in my opinion is the spirit of Slashdot. So what if he likes a product published by Microsoft?
1. It is his opinion.
2. There are also good products published by Microsoft. Their work is often quite impressive - Look at white papers coming out from Microsoft Research.
3. Even if he worked for Microsoft, then maybe he could sometimes afford to little bit promote the products associated with him. People working at NASA post about their projects sometimes. This is Slashdot, shouldn't be news to you that most of the people here work for technology companies.
If there will be defense measures that will avoid deleting the "vigilante virus", then it seems likely that there will also be viruses with a similar signature to this one, with a slightly different agenda of course.
There is such a term like Earth analog which is the synonym for Earth-like planet (I found it in Wikipedia and the first poster should try using it), there are no good specifications inside that specific article, although the round talk under "Attributes and Criteria" is quite similar to the above posters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_analog#Surface-water_and_hydrological_cycle
How about somebody define it then?
There is something a little bit more specific in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index
- At least you can say for sure that KOI 736.01 has Earth Similarity Index (ESI) of 0.98 and Standard Primary Habitability (SPH) of 0.63.
So, anyone getting far enough with reading the article to reach the "..or to be more precise the smallest Stirling engine" part?
As the article says, there is no such battery yet, because it still needs an appropriate anode. So, the suitable words right now are still - would and could. If that was what you meant.
Everlasting is a lame use of words anyway, being overused nowadays by .. everyone(!). But if someone could say "This battery could last for a thousand years.", is cool. Now imagine Winston Churchill saying that.
Solar cells are potentially made from carbon :
graphene - http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/carbon-based-solar-cells/
or carbon nanotubes - http://www.bitsofscience.org/solar-cell-carbon-nano-energy-3418/
http://inhabitat.com/carbon-nanotubes-could-create-better-solar-cells/
The other technologies like wind turbines and those steaming solutions are just alternative green solutions to solar cells that are often cheaper. When the solar cells are going to continue to get cheaper like they are and no new alternative pops out, then they will probably be the prefferable choice of green energy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/20/solar-panel-price-drop
Their co-existence with new ways of storing electricity would make them even more practical.
New cheaper ways for making hydrogen:
http://www.gizmag.com/fukai-hydrogen-extraction-process/16674/
or carbon based supercapacitors?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110512150731.htm
My point is, that there are actually new advancements in every horizon, which make this article a bit outdated.
China is doing this too... they know that the US has the ability to stop food shipments at any time, so have been developing technologies to make arable land in the Sahel and other parts of Africa to feed their population, and part of that is automated tilling/planting/irrigation/harvesting.
WHAT?
1. Sahel is a part of the Sahara desert with probably the worst famine problem in the world. Part of the problem is that the land is being over used and then turns into desert.
Over-farming, over-grazing, and over-population of marginal lands and natural soil erosion have caused serious desertification of the region.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahel
2. Now, are we aware that Eurasia and Africa aren't one little island west of USA? The closest land route between China and Sahel would be something like 4500km and it would go over the hills, (other) deserts and through countries with not so friendly governments, bandits and areas with no roads. The sea transport would take months.
3. In EU the overproduced wheat (side effect of the EU's agricultural market stabilization measures) is being burnt because it would be too expensive to ship it to .. Sahel for example.
4. I am probably answering to a troll, again. I am not going to delete the post this time.
You might be right about it. Then you could also explain just about everything being learnt that way. Then again may be somebody could re-make the research study using only the people unable to learn from other peoples fear or disgust reactions (they were once called psychopaths but nowadays the antisocial personality is more preferred but also more broader term applying also to a wide variety of not so extreme cases). Good luck for that poor fellow who needs to supervise them during the study.
I haven't been taught that the squeaking of the handling of polystyrene should sound unpleasant, but it still does to me.
Fancy some panzerschokolade?
May somebody please explain why this dude got modded down? The fact that there was one sentence that almost suggested that there was no misuse, was indeed worth of being ridiculed.
I think he meant meth crystals.
An average Apple product with x86 architecture has mediocre hardware, rounded corners and is overpriced, but they have somehow managed to make people to buy these things. This is witchcraft, admirable! Gas-stops and fat-food chains have managed to do a similar thing with food. So, why not Apple?
I would also like to point out that, "good luck, thanks for the cash" mentality has even for longer worked for the other type of coders - lawmakers. When a use-case happens where the outcome of a law is publicly expected to be different, the law fails. Are the lawmakers running to patch or bugfix their work each time this happens? Do they even feel concerned a bit? A career criminal gets out early, kills another man, its a ...fatal error?
So, we are doing just fine, compared to this.
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Defect-Black-Market.aspx
Its a nice technology for a good purpose, though still couldn't resist...- now try reading it with "earthquake" replaced by "human extermination effort" !
It could have been a dummy account for manipulating the markets. They have to search for another trader(s) somewhere, who bought before it bought and short selled right before it selled a huge amount of some stocks for less than the market value.
"Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987.." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
"IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988
So, are we talking about one year?
1 Feb 2011 – As of this day, cleverbot's database of over 20 million online conversations continues to grow. -http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/artificial-intelligence-cleverbot-2000/
while the more powerful version used in Turing competitions runs 42 database searches. - http://www.qwhatis.com/what-is-cleverbot/
Do you know how big the capacity of a hard disk was these days? You would have needed an enterprise scale solution for storing this amount of data - if each conversation would have been something like 1 byte (definetly not), it woud have taken up a whole 20MB desktop computers hard disk. Now, do you know how fast it would have been to search from them? If you have heard that hard disk clinging after each 10-20 lines of C code compilation (each second), then you probably know what I am talking about.
That is why I was asking "What junk" as the one that I was criticizing was the typical landfill junk. In the other hand, the cow manure isn't entirely safe either:
http://www.ehow.com/about_5533501_nitrogen-effects-cow-manure-humans.html
Although, some if not all of these problems could be controlled, but I didn't dig much deeper (no pun). But hey..the article was about floating houses and we ended up discussing about cow dung?
Nevertheless, thank you for a really nice piece of historical info about villages built on crap. I can and will use it as a valuable input in my next lunch table conversation.
What junk? Typical landfill junk decomposition produces dioxins. There is a reason why you don't want your house on a graveyard or a landfill. Also what about the drinking water? I bet the surrounding sea ecosystem wouldn't be overly happy about it either.
Dunbal-"Actually you can." (... justify a bad investment by point to an even worse investment.) By bad investment he might have meant an investment with a negative overall outcome, which really shouldn't happen at all. How about something that actually isn't bad investment at all then? Like an investment into the search for alternative energy sources? Through the global economy it would make even the space flight cheaper, not to mention that it would also solve many other problems, like the next big problem - material production crisis (think about bauxite or silicon for example) and give rise to a new economic fluctuation (so that some "economic geniuses" could throw away their "communists were actually right about capitalism" thesis and concentrate on another stupid theory far from reality). Ok , now I went a bit off topic, but I am not going to delete it either. Thank you.
Time laughs at all things... Except Chuck Norris. Time knows better than to laugh at Chuck Norris. And that's why he will live forever.
You could use a stirling engine. It can convert up to 28% (as far as I know) of heat into mechanical energy. Abstract: http://www.mendeley.com/research/automotive-stirling-engine-mod-ii-design-report/ Full: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19880002196_1988002196.pdf It was mounted and tested on actual cars. The car: http://grcimagenet.grc.nasa.gov/share/scr_stillimages_detail.cfm?year=1979&cnumber=3995&c_numbertextdisplay=C-1979-3995&dis_opts=shoicons&maxcnumber=707&maxcyear=1980
"If they can just figure out a way to keep the hosts alive" -If you meant the host cells, then yes sure that would be great. In case of illness it usually dies of protein overproduction (the virus can up- or down-regulate its newly aquired war factory .. -I really like that comparison :) ) or gets killed by the host organisms immune system. There has been no other way of disinfecting a cell that has already been infected by a virus. They would have to remove the virus code (DNA or RNA) from the cells production units and ensure that the proper human DNA would be left over.