and it happens fast enough that there's a good chance of blowing yourself up since the gases cool down and recombine rather quickly.
That's exactly the point. The Earth's crust doesn't seem to have the habit of blowing itself up due to such chemical reactions, possibly because said reactions are not happening fast enough to create an explosion.
I still believe that if the bigs let us download MP3s for a quarter a track, we'd do it.
Do you think they'd let you buy, for a quarter each, every song that you might have downloaded illegally? I know that for a lot of people the rigor of redownloading all their songs would just not be worth it, especially since they would have had to pay to do it. Perhaps they could just charge a little more to "validate" mp3 files that had been previously downloaded.
It seems rather obvious. Carbon, when placed under extreme pressure for millions of years, becomes diamond. Apparently water, when placed under similar circumstances, becomes hydrogen. Why would it not take millions of years?
Do you realize how foolish it would be if the scientists claimed that the hydrogen could be formed from water after just a few hours and then re-mined? That's not mining, it's farming. We're talking about rocks, not plants: it takes a damn long time.
Yes, but surely this process takes place on a geological time scale, such that once the supply becomes depleted it would take ten thousand years to get it back. In parallel, if we start using this within the next couple decades, what percentage of the current supply will be used up in a century, and by that time what percentage of the original value will have been produced?
Exactly how "limitless" is this? I mean, a century ago when the oil tycoons were around and drilling, it was projected that the oil would be limitless, because they just did not know how much oil we would soon be using. Similarly, this supply of hydrogen may seem limitless to us now, but will we be running into the same problems again in another hundred years? How much energy will things take in a century? Even if it increases linearly from the amount needed a hundred years ago (unlike everything else), we may well be running out of hydrogen in the same way we are now running out of oil.
Should this story have been on the front page? It has been up for several hours, and there are not a significant amount of comments on it, and none that are highly rated. Granted, the editors may be very interested in anime as a general subject, but it seems to me that it shouldn't be on the front page. There are subtopics for a reason.
Try supporting yourself as a theoretical physicist. There is absolutely no payout in that field, other than knowledge. That isn't to say it doesn't cost a lot, because it does.
Senator: So why do you need this supercollider? Scientist: To get atoms travelling very fast in opposite directions and see what happens when they hit each other. Senator: How much does it cost? Scientist: Oh, $100 billion. Senator: And what is it good for? What do we get when the little atoms do collide? Scientist: Um, nothing.
It's difficult stuff, but you don't really get paid the big bucks.
But wait a second: if a pristine universe is useless with nobody around to see it, why would we want less people? If anything, that is a reason to have even more people, so that we can send them out around the galaxies to admire its beauty.
Wasn't that one of the newspaper articles from SimCity?
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..."It wasn't easy, but I devoted myself, and I just thought, what would Mayor [insert name here] do? That didn't really give me any answers, but the Ancient Golden Llama of Infinite Wisdom told me: 'If you build it, he will come.' So I built it. I'm still waiting for Mayor What's-his-name to show though."
Where does it say that the codename "Longhorn" refers to a beetle? Usually the word "Longhorn" brings to mind a large, powerful beast upon which hundreds of individualist cowboys were able to make their living, on account of their extreme reliability and...
I spend at least 10 consecutive hours on the XBox at least once a week. Four player Halo doesn't exactly get old. But the old hands start to feel it after a while.
I honestly believe that it was the fact of few games, horrid controller, and did I say horrid controller?
First of all, when the Playstation 2 came out, it had just as many games as the XBox had. And don't give me any "backward-compatibility" nonsense, I have a Playstation 2, and I find it completely impossible to play the old PSX games now that I've tasted better. Secondly, the argument that the Xbox controller is horrid is just ridiculous. It is horrid for small children, women, and idiots. Have you ever played video games for several hours? That is what the Xbox contoller is designed for: they expect you to play for several hours... USING YOUR HANDS! After 10 hours of GTA3 my hands were sore beyond comparison, and I was forced to stop because I could no longer reach the buttons on the cramped PS2 controller, but the XBox controller had no such issues, even after 43 consecutive hours of Halo.
It is an excellent controller.
And don't forget: people ruled out the PS2 as dead when it was fighting the Dreamcast. That didn't happen. Now people are saying that the XBox is dead when it is fighting the PS2. Neither one is dead. The market should thrive on competition. Or is that against the rules when Microsoft is on a level playing field and just releases a product that is technologically better?
So can we expect them to design a new type of system that has non-volatile memory and vast storage in a similar array, divvied up on the fly by the system depending on whether it needs storage or memory at the moment? I've been waiting for the day when memory and hard drive became one, and this seems to take that one step closer to the inevitable.
Yeah, and once I stubbed my toe, so I stopped walking forever. And then I bit my tongue, so I stopped eating. Bad things may happen, but you still have to do what is necessary. Killing is not necessary. Killing is not diplomacy. If the Israelis are still killing people, they have yet to try diplomacy. Stop being an ass.
He says that the reason he wanted to be a physicist was to invent time travel so that he could warn his father about the dangers of smoking. When Mallett was only 10 years old, his father died, allegedly from smoking. But if Mallett successfully builds his time machine and goes back to warn his father, and prevents his premature death, wouldn't the motivation for and thus the invention of the time machine disappear, making it impossible for any of this to have happened? Perhaps what Mallett is really trying to do is become the first person to instigate one of the time travel paradoxes of sci-fi fame.
he isn't sure it's even theoretically possible to travel through time. As far as whether time travel is a possibility, he says: "Definately not in our lifetime."
But wait a second: didn't he say that he isn't sure time travel is a possibility? These two sentences don't quite contradict each other, but the first really should have prevented the asking of the second question. Right?
People seem to be trying to develop more and more ways to kill each other, and these methods are getting faster, easier, and more brutal all the time. Rather than a helmet that will shoot a missile at something just by looking, wouldn't money be better spent developing a helmet that, when pointed at someone, encouraged peace? If more time and money were spent on diplomacy, and less on new ways to kill people, peace would be easier to come by in the world.
If anybody at NASA had said "It'll hit the ground on April 7th, give or take 2 days," people would have been all over them for being so imprecise. By saying "4:41 EDT," they somehow give credibility to their claim, regardless of whether or not they had made any calculations.
Similarly, if a high school student had made such a prediction relating to, say, the next time he'd get play from the girl down the street by saying "It will happen at 7:56 PM, April 21, 2002. Give or take a few weeks," it would mean absolutely nothing. The exact time does not matter when even the date is in question.
When Tesla came to America, he came with an interesting and groundbreaking idea, the concept of using alternating current to distribute electricity over large distances. However, he also lacked money, so he sought a job working for none other than Thomas Edison. His job involved rebuilding the generators when they broke, and the only restriction on this rebuilding process was that he continue to use the direct current concepts that Edison had invented and was trying to push through to fruition. Edison honestly believed that DC was the future, and that it just needed a little more innovation. You see, DC cannot travel long distances at high voltages or with a lot of amps. AC, on the other hand, can, and Tesla recognized this. This recognition led to a rift between Edison and Tesla, with the latter being abrasive, arrogant, and obnoxious, and the former retaliating by stifling AC and Tesla even more. It was a reasonable reaction to Tesla's behavior.
But don't say that Edison "won," or that Tesla "lost." You may have noticed that electricity travels long distances (across the country, from the plant to your home) by AC, and short distances (from component to component inside your computer) by DC. They are both used because they are both useful.
Actually, it's only mildly annoying if not invisible to the legitimate user, and also mildly annoying and usually crackable for the person determined to circumvent it.
This part might be a little OT, but oh well.
An interesting ploy that Sony could have done is to release a hacker's version of the Playstation that has a mod-chip built-in, thus able to play CD-Rs, comes with a keyboard/mouse, and has a modified Linux distribution that can read/play/write games for the console. Even if it were only for the Playstation 1, I would buy one of these machines today. I know they have done something like this for the Playstation 2, but there are limitations for the Linux distro they give you, most notably that it is completely independent and incompatible with the actual PS2 games. What if Sony released a wholly new version of the PS2 that came with the Linux OS built in, and modified for total compatibility with the rest of the PS2 system/games? That would buy them a whole lot more marketshare. Who would buy an Xbox or a Gamecube when they could have Sony's modified PS2 monster-machine?
Gnucleus has a better setup. Each time you load the program, it checks the gnucleus server before connecting to gnutella, and if any part of the program has been updated, it informs you of the update and tells you a little something about the update, what it will do for you, and then asks whether or not you want it. That's not a bad idea.
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and it happens fast enough that there's a good chance of blowing yourself up since the gases cool down and recombine rather quickly.
That's exactly the point. The Earth's crust doesn't seem to have the habit of blowing itself up due to such chemical reactions, possibly because said reactions are not happening fast enough to create an explosion.
I still believe that if the bigs let us download MP3s for a quarter a track, we'd do it.
Do you think they'd let you buy, for a quarter each, every song that you might have downloaded illegally? I know that for a lot of people the rigor of redownloading all their songs would just not be worth it, especially since they would have had to pay to do it. Perhaps they could just charge a little more to "validate" mp3 files that had been previously downloaded.
It seems rather obvious. Carbon, when placed under extreme pressure for millions of years, becomes diamond. Apparently water, when placed under similar circumstances, becomes hydrogen. Why would it not take millions of years?
Do you realize how foolish it would be if the scientists claimed that the hydrogen could be formed from water after just a few hours and then re-mined? That's not mining, it's farming. We're talking about rocks, not plants: it takes a damn long time.
Exercise pill? You mean like speed? Or angeldust? Sorry Duke, you've been beat to the punch...
Yes, but surely this process takes place on a geological time scale, such that once the supply becomes depleted it would take ten thousand years to get it back. In parallel, if we start using this within the next couple decades, what percentage of the current supply will be used up in a century, and by that time what percentage of the original value will have been produced?
Exactly how "limitless" is this? I mean, a century ago when the oil tycoons were around and drilling, it was projected that the oil would be limitless, because they just did not know how much oil we would soon be using. Similarly, this supply of hydrogen may seem limitless to us now, but will we be running into the same problems again in another hundred years? How much energy will things take in a century? Even if it increases linearly from the amount needed a hundred years ago (unlike everything else), we may well be running out of hydrogen in the same way we are now running out of oil.
Nothing is limitless except to the short-sighted.
Should this story have been on the front page? It has been up for several hours, and there are not a significant amount of comments on it, and none that are highly rated. Granted, the editors may be very interested in anime as a general subject, but it seems to me that it shouldn't be on the front page. There are subtopics for a reason.
Try supporting yourself as a theoretical physicist. There is absolutely no payout in that field, other than knowledge. That isn't to say it doesn't cost a lot, because it does.
Senator: So why do you need this supercollider?
Scientist: To get atoms travelling very fast in opposite directions and see what happens when they hit each other.
Senator: How much does it cost?
Scientist: Oh, $100 billion.
Senator: And what is it good for? What do we get when the little atoms do collide?
Scientist: Um, nothing.
It's difficult stuff, but you don't really get paid the big bucks.
But wait a second: if a pristine universe is useless with nobody around to see it, why would we want less people? If anything, that is a reason to have even more people, so that we can send them out around the galaxies to admire its beauty.
You're not getting this motherboard for your 486 firewall either, I hope.
Where does it say that the codename "Longhorn" refers to a beetle? Usually the word "Longhorn" brings to mind a large, powerful beast upon which hundreds of individualist cowboys were able to make their living, on account of their extreme reliability and...
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Actually, that's even more amusing
I spend at least 10 consecutive hours on the XBox at least once a week. Four player Halo doesn't exactly get old. But the old hands start to feel it after a while.
I honestly believe that it was the fact of few games, horrid controller, and did I say horrid controller?
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First of all, when the Playstation 2 came out, it had just as many games as the XBox had. And don't give me any "backward-compatibility" nonsense, I have a Playstation 2, and I find it completely impossible to play the old PSX games now that I've tasted better. Secondly, the argument that the Xbox controller is horrid is just ridiculous. It is horrid for small children, women, and idiots. Have you ever played video games for several hours? That is what the Xbox contoller is designed for: they expect you to play for several hours... USING YOUR HANDS! After 10 hours of GTA3 my hands were sore beyond comparison, and I was forced to stop because I could no longer reach the buttons on the cramped PS2 controller, but the XBox controller had no such issues, even after 43 consecutive hours of Halo.
It is an excellent controller.
And don't forget: people ruled out the PS2 as dead when it was fighting the Dreamcast. That didn't happen. Now people are saying that the XBox is dead when it is fighting the PS2. Neither one is dead. The market should thrive on competition. Or is that against the rules when Microsoft is on a level playing field and just releases a product that is technologically better?
That said, I'm waiting for the Playstation 3.
So can we expect them to design a new type of system that has non-volatile memory and vast storage in a similar array, divvied up on the fly by the system depending on whether it needs storage or memory at the moment? I've been waiting for the day when memory and hard drive became one, and this seems to take that one step closer to the inevitable.
Yeah, and once I stubbed my toe, so I stopped walking forever. And then I bit my tongue, so I stopped eating. Bad things may happen, but you still have to do what is necessary. Killing is not necessary. Killing is not diplomacy. If the Israelis are still killing people, they have yet to try diplomacy. Stop being an ass.
He says that the reason he wanted to be a physicist was to invent time travel so that he could warn his father about the dangers of smoking. When Mallett was only 10 years old, his father died, allegedly from smoking. But if Mallett successfully builds his time machine and goes back to warn his father, and prevents his premature death, wouldn't the motivation for and thus the invention of the time machine disappear, making it impossible for any of this to have happened? Perhaps what Mallett is really trying to do is become the first person to instigate one of the time travel paradoxes of sci-fi fame.
he isn't sure it's even theoretically possible to travel through time. As far as whether time travel is a possibility, he says: "Definately not in our lifetime."
But wait a second: didn't he say that he isn't sure time travel is a possibility? These two sentences don't quite contradict each other, but the first really should have prevented the asking of the second question. Right?
People seem to be trying to develop more and more ways to kill each other, and these methods are getting faster, easier, and more brutal all the time. Rather than a helmet that will shoot a missile at something just by looking, wouldn't money be better spent developing a helmet that, when pointed at someone, encouraged peace? If more time and money were spent on diplomacy, and less on new ways to kill people, peace would be easier to come by in the world.
If a syzygy is three celestial bodies lined up collinearly, what is five? Syzygytyly?
Obviously I know that they are not actuallu collinear, they only appear to be from Earth's perspective...
If anybody at NASA had said "It'll hit the ground on April 7th, give or take 2 days," people would have been all over them for being so imprecise. By saying "4:41 EDT," they somehow give credibility to their claim, regardless of whether or not they had made any calculations.
Similarly, if a high school student had made such a prediction relating to, say, the next time he'd get play from the girl down the street by saying "It will happen at 7:56 PM, April 21, 2002. Give or take a few weeks," it would mean absolutely nothing. The exact time does not matter when even the date is in question.
When Tesla came to America, he came with an interesting and groundbreaking idea, the concept of using alternating current to distribute electricity over large distances. However, he also lacked money, so he sought a job working for none other than Thomas Edison. His job involved rebuilding the generators when they broke, and the only restriction on this rebuilding process was that he continue to use the direct current concepts that Edison had invented and was trying to push through to fruition. Edison honestly believed that DC was the future, and that it just needed a little more innovation. You see, DC cannot travel long distances at high voltages or with a lot of amps. AC, on the other hand, can, and Tesla recognized this. This recognition led to a rift between Edison and Tesla, with the latter being abrasive, arrogant, and obnoxious, and the former retaliating by stifling AC and Tesla even more. It was a reasonable reaction to Tesla's behavior.
But don't say that Edison "won," or that Tesla "lost." You may have noticed that electricity travels long distances (across the country, from the plant to your home) by AC, and short distances (from component to component inside your computer) by DC. They are both used because they are both useful.
Actually, it's only mildly annoying if not invisible to the legitimate user, and also mildly annoying and usually crackable for the person determined to circumvent it.
This part might be a little OT, but oh well.
An interesting ploy that Sony could have done is to release a hacker's version of the Playstation that has a mod-chip built-in, thus able to play CD-Rs, comes with a keyboard/mouse, and has a modified Linux distribution that can read/play/write games for the console. Even if it were only for the Playstation 1, I would buy one of these machines today. I know they have done something like this for the Playstation 2, but there are limitations for the Linux distro they give you, most notably that it is completely independent and incompatible with the actual PS2 games. What if Sony released a wholly new version of the PS2 that came with the Linux OS built in, and modified for total compatibility with the rest of the PS2 system/games? That would buy them a whole lot more marketshare. Who would buy an Xbox or a Gamecube when they could have Sony's modified PS2 monster-machine?
If you are going to argue against the bill, argue with some clarity or you will be dismissed by the jerks in Congress.
Actually, you'll be dismissed as a jerk by Congress.
Gnucleus has a better setup. Each time you load the program, it checks the gnucleus server before connecting to gnutella, and if any part of the program has been updated, it informs you of the update and tells you a little something about the update, what it will do for you, and then asks whether or not you want it. That's not a bad idea.