The lunar landing sites will still be recognizable in 200 million years. Even the footprints are estimated to survive for a hundred times the age of the Pyramids.
Voyager 2 and Pioneer 10 will outlive the Earth.
Ah...so for those that are serious about religions where god brings your body back to life, then space is the place to wait out the future blessing....
Fundies should be funding our space program and not trying to cut it!
Similarly, French law does not and should not apply to those outside France's borders.
I'm really not worried about the French coming to get me, but I would be concerned if I was planning on traveling to France and didn't know my site would get me in trouble there.
My first thought was 'great, we'll bring back more toxic materials so we can have fast computers.'
But then I thought...why do we need to bring them back to earth? Ship them to the moon and run them supercool. Have the computers on the moon do the crunch for us lowly humans on Earth.
What natural desaster is going to happen on the moon? The moon sounds like a great place to dump toxic equipment, over clock processors, and have offsite data storage. There is a bit of a lag time, but I'm just saying it would be good for data storage, data mining, and long term research.
Someone who spends much time looking at pr0n will develope a reclusive attitude and thus not have the same social development. I also believe that looking at pr0n does affect how you persieve the opposit sex. I say this all based on just being a teen myself and growing up, and having my own son. I'm a single dad, i'm not an idealist concervitive I'm just being honest. Sitting at home beeting it off to porn is not benificial in ones overall development.
I think it comes down to that old saying...
idle hands are the devil's tools... (smirk)
Seriously, it sounds like parents need to find activities that force their kids to do other things. If the boy isn't getting the needed social development, put him in a social situation. When is the boy looking at porn? Why isn't the computer in a public place?
With a nice broadband speed from Mars to Earth, I can picture more Rovers on Mars doing tasks in prep for humans landing. Just imagine a nice 3d virtual world of Mars with the construction worker on earth. Robots building everything controled from Earth and then waiting for humans to land. Once the humans bounce to landing the robots could go gather them from wherever they bounce to and connect them up to the structure they built. Once on the planet, humans there could take over control of the robots until everything checks out for them to go outside....
Right now people have to sit and think about what they are doing because of the delay. If they don't get it right the first time they have to wait hours to find out.
Basically this sounds like realtime exploring...something we needed.
I want a futuristic home that pays its own property taxes. that way i can live in it forever.
I know you are joking, but I totally agree. I hate feeling like I am forever having to pay rent.
I want the government to stick to progressive income taxes and not shaft me year after year.....It would be nice when I retire to not have to pay any more property taxes.
with property taxes you never own your home....the government does.
(ditto for sales taxes, but at least I can choose those....)
I had hoped after reading several comments that I would find someone that spoke positive about e-books. I love e-books, but I like buying reference material e-books, namely RPG books.
It is incredibly handy to have my entire library with me every where I go, to be able to back them up, and print only the parts that I want or need, to be able to copy and paste to create my own books.
DRM & pricing is the only barrier I see for e-books. I have several and it is annoying every time I change out my hardware. I prefer watermarks.
I don't think that is going to be possible per HDCP
You'll be require to hook them into digital jacks just to make it work....
on a side note...I so totally agree about people with fancy equipment hooking into legacy jacks. I have a Cisco buddy that has his Xbox and dvd player connected via composite cables. He then wonders why my xbox on the same 65" tv looks so much better....component video wonderful stuff.
after all, we know those in Canada or Japan watch different movies and play different games than us USA citizens....they play and watch wholesome stuff. That is why they have such a low instance of homicides.
The Matrix, based on a comic out of Japan, never caused any violence.
*cough Columbine*
I find it annoying that games that are played in multiple industrial civilized nations, that do not have any where near the violence level as in the US, are held to be the escape goat. I guess it is easier to attack games and movies than the gun lobby. For a 'Christian' nation, we sure are violent....
Interestingly, because of the central point of my poasting, that it seems a universal law that the more powerful species will prey on weaker species, I have to say that I am *glad* we have not encountered alien lifeforms. There is a good chance that when we meet them, we will size them up as dinner, they will do the same, and someone will get eaten.to serve man
*Don't mod up...I'm just trolling cause his comment made me remember that twilight zone with that awesome ending "Don't get on the ship. The book, To Serve Man, IT'S A COOKBOOK!"
In fact, natural selection has clearly operated at a huge scale, when Europeans settled every corner of the globe, while indigenous populations have disappeared or mingled. Genes associated with those Europeans have spread, while many others have nearly disappeared.
The European gene pool had little to do with their spread. Read
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
or watch it on PBS. Basically everyone was equal, but some had better resources / environment.
My own example is imagine if our intelligence had developed underwater as amphibious creatures, but the world was 90% water. We would have a hard time discovering fire. Our environment would have restricted our progress. The group with access to land probably would have dominated the world after a time because their intelligence had more access to resources beyond the rest that were restricted just to the ocean.
So if Office sells for $500, a certain amount of personal property tax needs to be paid by Microsoft each year.
and you do not think Microsoft wouldn't just turn around and have the consumer pay that tax to continue using the software? Maybe deny security updates until they do pay.
Starflight I & II All the Civs Master's of Orion Starcraft Warcraft Fallout Wizardry 1 (because I cracked the heck out of it.)
and I have a fondness for my first text based adventure on a trash80 written in Basic. I can't remember the name of it, but it taught me a lot about programing because I had to do traces in the code to figure out what I needed to do next in the adventure. The whirl of my tape player loading that game still makes me smile.
Following the crowd probably evolved as a pretty good way of shortening the decision making process. If someone else ate a berry or mushroom and didn't get sick or die, then there was a pretty good chance that I could eat it too and would be ok. This saves a lot of time and energy instead of having to sort through everything by yourself.
It works really well for Buffalo right up to that point where they go over the cliff....
I would say the same standard applies at the end of life. If Shiavo had a 10% chance of recovering, killing her would have been wrong, don't you agree? But the fact was that her chances of recovering were vanishingly small. That is why pulling the plug was ethical. Now, if a fertilized egg has a 30% chance of surviving, why would we also not grant it rights?
wow, I didn't know that we had advanced so far to grow a person outside of a womb...let alone a 30% chance of surviving...
Seriously, I do not see a problem with doing research on fertilized eggs when there is 0% chance of them developing into people.
Star Wars is just toys for the boys and pork barrel contracts.
Yeah....I remember when Ronald Reagan pitched Star Wars and the scientists were then saying it would be 90% effective...100 Russian missiles...10 get through...pick 10 US cities and say goodbye.
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
from that and the It's a balrog...The Norwegians dug too deep and greedily
my view of the article will never be the same....
Writing. Their. Passwords. Down.
writing their passwords down is not a problem. It is only a problem if they do not treat it like a $1000 bill.
The lunar landing sites will still be recognizable in 200 million years. Even the footprints are estimated to survive for a hundred times the age of the Pyramids.
Voyager 2 and Pioneer 10 will outlive the Earth.
Ah...so for those that are serious about religions where god brings your body back to life, then space is the place to wait out the future blessing....
Fundies should be funding our space program and not trying to cut it!
Similarly, French law does not and should not apply to those outside France's borders.
I'm really not worried about the French coming to get me, but I would be concerned if I was planning on traveling to France and didn't know my site would get me in trouble there.
My first thought was 'great, we'll bring back more toxic materials so we can have fast computers.'
But then I thought...why do we need to bring them back to earth? Ship them to the moon and run them supercool. Have the computers on the moon do the crunch for us lowly humans on Earth.
What natural desaster is going to happen on the moon? The moon sounds like a great place to dump toxic equipment, over clock processors, and have offsite data storage. There is a bit of a lag time, but I'm just saying it would be good for data storage, data mining, and long term research.
Someone who spends much time looking at pr0n will develope a reclusive attitude and thus not have the same social development. I also believe that looking at pr0n does affect how you persieve the opposit sex. I say this all based on just being a teen myself and growing up, and having my own son. I'm a single dad, i'm not an idealist concervitive I'm just being honest. Sitting at home beeting it off to porn is not benificial in ones overall development.
I think it comes down to that old saying...
idle hands are the devil's tools...
(smirk)
Seriously, it sounds like parents need to find activities that force their kids to do other things. If the boy isn't getting the needed social development, put him in a social situation. When is the boy looking at porn? Why isn't the computer in a public place?
With a nice broadband speed from Mars to Earth, I can picture more Rovers on Mars doing tasks in prep for humans landing. Just imagine a nice 3d virtual world of Mars with the construction worker on earth. Robots building everything controled from Earth and then waiting for humans to land. Once the humans bounce to landing the robots could go gather them from wherever they bounce to and connect them up to the structure they built. Once on the planet, humans there could take over control of the robots until everything checks out for them to go outside....
Right now people have to sit and think about what they are doing because of the delay. If they don't get it right the first time they have to wait hours to find out.
Basically this sounds like realtime exploring...something we needed.
I want a futuristic home that pays its own property taxes. that way i can live in it forever.
I know you are joking, but I totally agree. I hate feeling like I am forever having to pay rent.
I want the government to stick to progressive income taxes and not shaft me year after year.....It would be nice when I retire to not have to pay any more property taxes.
with property taxes you never own your home....the government does.
(ditto for sales taxes, but at least I can choose those....)
Exanimus is expected to be rated "Mature" and not intended for anyone under the age of 18.
If they can enforce this, I'll definately start playing.
One credit card and one click through agreement later....yup...it's the death of teenagers.
I had hoped after reading several comments that I would find someone that spoke positive about e-books. I love e-books, but I like buying reference material e-books, namely RPG books.
It is incredibly handy to have my entire library with me every where I go, to be able to back them up, and print only the parts that I want or need, to be able to copy and paste to create my own books.
DRM & pricing is the only barrier I see for e-books. I have several and it is annoying every time I change out my hardware. I prefer watermarks.
I don't think that is going to be possible per HDCP
You'll be require to hook them into digital jacks just to make it work....
on a side note...I so totally agree about people with fancy equipment hooking into legacy jacks. I have a Cisco buddy that has his Xbox and dvd player connected via composite cables. He then wonders why my xbox on the same 65" tv looks so much better....component video wonderful stuff.
Everyone is saying "the point is so that you can access your calendar from anywhere."
The point also is to share with others and in that case you need a central place to store the calendars.
Ahmen.
after all, we know those in Canada or Japan watch different movies and play different games than us USA citizens....they play and watch wholesome stuff. That is why they have such a low instance of homicides.
The Matrix, based on a comic out of Japan, never caused any violence.
*cough Columbine*
I find it annoying that games that are played in multiple industrial civilized nations, that do not have any where near the violence level as in the US, are held to be the escape goat. I guess it is easier to attack games and movies than the gun lobby. For a 'Christian' nation, we sure are violent....
Interestingly, because of the central point of my poasting, that it seems a universal law that the more powerful species will prey on weaker species, I have to say that I am *glad* we have not encountered alien lifeforms. There is a good chance that when we meet them, we will size them up as dinner, they will do the same, and someone will get eaten.to serve man
*Don't mod up...I'm just trolling cause his comment made me remember that twilight zone with that awesome ending "Don't get on the ship. The book, To Serve Man, IT'S A COOKBOOK!"
The European gene pool had little to do with their spread. Read
- Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
or watch it on PBS. Basically everyone was equal, but some had better resources / environment.My own example is imagine if our intelligence had developed underwater as amphibious creatures, but the world was 90% water. We would have a hard time discovering fire. Our environment would have restricted our progress. The group with access to land probably would have dominated the world after a time because their intelligence had more access to resources beyond the rest that were restricted just to the ocean.
So if Office sells for $500, a certain amount of personal property tax needs to be paid by Microsoft each year.
and you do not think Microsoft wouldn't just turn around and have the consumer pay that tax to continue using the software? Maybe deny security updates until they do pay.
In no order:
Starflight I & II
All the Civs
Master's of Orion
Starcraft
Warcraft
Fallout
Wizardry 1 (because I cracked the heck out of it.)
and I have a fondness for my first text based adventure on a trash80 written in Basic. I can't remember the name of it, but it taught me a lot about programing because I had to do traces in the code to figure out what I needed to do next in the adventure. The whirl of my tape player loading that game still makes me smile.
Smoking. Co-workers that smoke use up far more time than those that blow off steam with Solitare.
So true. I know several people in the military that took up smoking because that was a way to get a break.
Heck, I started taking smoke breaks and I don't smoke.
"copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents [to] Google's own servers"?
I've got over 40gb of PDFs. I don't want this feature turned on simply because of the bandwidth it would suck.
Following the crowd probably evolved as a pretty good way of shortening the decision making process. If someone else ate a berry or mushroom and didn't get sick or die, then there was a pretty good chance that I could eat it too and would be ok. This saves a lot of time and energy instead of having to sort through everything by yourself.
It works really well for Buffalo right up to that point where they go over the cliff....
There is a reason why people get paid to work. Work is not fun. If 'work' was fun, then you'd do it for free and it would be called 'play.'
I think everyone should step back and think about that.
On a related note....
State Marrriage Statutes or in a way Age of Consent by state.
Parents probably should look at that link to know when to lock up their kids (kidding)
I would say the same standard applies at the end of life. If Shiavo had a 10% chance of recovering, killing her would have been wrong, don't you agree? But the fact was that her chances of recovering were vanishingly small. That is why pulling the plug was ethical. Now, if a fertilized egg has a 30% chance of surviving, why would we also not grant it rights?
wow, I didn't know that we had advanced so far to grow a person outside of a womb...let alone a 30% chance of surviving...
Seriously, I do not see a problem with doing research on fertilized eggs when there is 0% chance of them developing into people.
Why does these data need to be printed at all? What possible need is there to see these numbers on paper?
For legal reasons one must still be able to present data in a form counsel can use in a trusted and secure method.
It will be a suitcase bomb delivered by a madman.
Star Wars is just toys for the boys and pork barrel contracts.
Yeah....I remember when Ronald Reagan pitched Star Wars and the scientists were then saying it would be 90% effective...100 Russian missiles...10 get through...pick 10 US cities and say goodbye.
It seemed silly then and seems silly now.