It may have been wild speculation but in fact I think these may be good predictions.
Firstly, the sun is eventually going to render the Earth uninhabitable so - assuming we survive that long - we'll have to leave.
Secondly, with the Universe being such a big place I'd wager my last penny on there being millions upon millions of intelligent species and so at least one that has died out confined to their planet.
From what I read in Hansard the scheme is only in effect in parts of Yorkshire and is being used ostensibly to look for uninsured drivers. Ever thought of applying for a job at the Mail?
It would be pretty awesome, yes. The Brennan monster beats them off and we only lose one colony world because of Truesdale and as I recall the inhabitants of the Ringworld are about as Pak-like as humanity. Known Space ends up being pretty big and - Kzinti aside - pretty safe for humans.
I would imagine there's more to it than moving spikes: the spikes are ~1 inch thick (I think) so having them ~2 inches away from the old hole in the sleeper might not be such a good idea. I'm curious, did they need to replace the sleepers too?
and that is the 7ft 0.25in of Brunel's GWR.
anything else is just a sham.
You know, it doesn't quite capture the larger-than-life, cigar-smoking awesomeness unless you say it in full: Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway.
He did some double blind testing (nobody in the house was remotely aware of what he was doing).
I'm going to lay off saying "bullshit" to the idea of wi-fi sensitivity and just concentrate on this: I don't think double-blind means what you think it does. In essence, he knew whether the wi-fi was on or not.
Oh, spare us... even if you were responsible for "spend[ing] millions on algorithm research" you'd know that if all you had boiled down to mathematics you didn't have a product at all. Patentable inventions are (read: should be) the things that are unique and inventive implementations of physical and mathematical concepts*. I'm not going to address the OP but your argument was so weak that I couldn't resist responding to it.
* The fact that one plus one makes two is obvious and cannot be seen as inventive, but a design for a processor that adds could be seen as an invention. Similarly the knowledge that non-conductive materials can become conductive under certain conditions comes out of the maths (I imagine), but designing something that uses this knowledge for a purpose is different.
Personally, I'm not willing to decide where obvious facts of nature stop and inventiveness begins, so - again, if it was up to me - I'd give the benefit of the doubt and drop the idea of patents altogether. Patents do, allegedly, promote innovation, however, so I made the decision years ago just to steer clear of the whole mess as best I can and leave such things to people who have more... shall we say... flexible standards.
Real engineers go to university too, you know, and the point in going is to learn the skills one needs to come up with one's own ideas and to articulate/instantiate them.
Baiting aside, the argument that software patents make a degree in the computer sciences worthless isn't why people are so up in arms about them. The problem is that comp. sci. can cover areas exempt from patents - like mathematics - and other areas that are subject to patent law. For my two penneth, legislators have drawn the line too far into the former's camp.
I wish the world's press offices would declare a moratorium on announcing breakthroughs in solar technology.
I don't complain because, since the deaths of FEDs and their ilk, I need something to take the place of the Display Tech. of the Week articles we used to get.
From TFS. Apple started with hardware and they still sell it. Without the iPod there would be no iTunes, no App Store. Who writes these claptrap headlines?
At least the first post here was succinct - and probably right.
I have CD-Rs and DVD±Rs that are unreadable after (OTOO) 10 years; I have yet to find a mastered/pressed disc that has similarly failed. Viz. the issue of obsolescence I can still read them with off-the-shelf hardware as of 2011.
That's an annoying claim to make, even if they've done accelerated aging tests. The only human construct that's been proven to stay usable after 10,000 years is stone artifacts, such as blocks and arrowheads. Over a hundred centuries, there's plenty of chances for some unexpected failure mode to pop up.
I agree with you: it is somewhat annoying. However, to play devil's advocate (I find it irresistible) Human civilisation as we know it has been around on the order of 10k years. I hope and - figuratively - pray that we'll make it to 10^6.
not more inhabitant spam. Normally junk mail is addressed to resident. I blame those damn alien direct-marketroids with their faulty understanding of the English as she is spoke.
In their defence, the dry product is - unlike grain - at least as desirable to consumers than the fresh, wet stuff. I didn't realise THC evaporated to any significantly detrimental degree, though.
Personal intrusion? your cellphone provider has a nice database of your every move that is accurate.
Evidence please. I know that my network provider has data on where I am right now and that they would be capable of doing what you say (given a court order, for example), but that doesn't automatically mean they actually are.
I don't trust Apple any more or less implicitly than my network so I make no comment on whether or not they are in possession of the data my iPhone allegedly collects.
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It may have been wild speculation but in fact I think these may be good predictions.
Firstly, the sun is eventually going to render the Earth uninhabitable so - assuming we survive that long - we'll have to leave.
Secondly, with the Universe being such a big place I'd wager my last penny on there being millions upon millions of intelligent species and so at least one that has died out confined to their planet.
From what I read in Hansard the scheme is only in effect in parts of Yorkshire and is being used ostensibly to look for uninsured drivers. Ever thought of applying for a job at the Mail?
It would be pretty awesome, yes. The Brennan monster beats them off and we only lose one colony world because of Truesdale and as I recall the inhabitants of the Ringworld are about as Pak-like as humanity. Known Space ends up being pretty big and - Kzinti aside - pretty safe for humans.
I would imagine there's more to it than moving spikes: the spikes are ~1 inch thick (I think) so having them ~2 inches away from the old hole in the sleeper might not be such a good idea. I'm curious, did they need to replace the sleepers too?
and that is the 7ft 0.25in of Brunel's GWR. anything else is just a sham.
You know, it doesn't quite capture the larger-than-life, cigar-smoking awesomeness unless you say it in full: Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway.
He did some double blind testing (nobody in the house was remotely aware of what he was doing).
I'm going to lay off saying "bullshit" to the idea of wi-fi sensitivity and just concentrate on this: I don't think double-blind means what you think it does. In essence, he knew whether the wi-fi was on or not.
Think video production, 3d animation, CAD, etc. We are talking multi GB of part files, or TB of raw video footage.
Not on an iPad though. As has been mentioned before, wi-fi is quite adequate for streaming whatever you might need.
You're not doing real CAD on an iPad, though you might be using one to view a model.
You're not doing real video editing on an iPad either, though you might be trimming or resizing some home movies.
You're definitely not working with TB of footage on a device with less than 100GB of memory.
DO NOT CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK.
No problem. I don't click links on /. that use URL shorteners.
This isn't Tweeter; we don't need shorteners. It would be nice if we could have Unicode though. Are you doing something about this, Taco?
Many of us...
Oh, spare us... even if you were responsible for "spend[ing] millions on algorithm research" you'd know that if all you had boiled down to mathematics you didn't have a product at all. Patentable inventions are (read: should be) the things that are unique and inventive implementations of physical and mathematical concepts*. I'm not going to address the OP but your argument was so weak that I couldn't resist responding to it.
* The fact that one plus one makes two is obvious and cannot be seen as inventive, but a design for a processor that adds could be seen as an invention. Similarly the knowledge that non-conductive materials can become conductive under certain conditions comes out of the maths (I imagine), but designing something that uses this knowledge for a purpose is different.
Personally, I'm not willing to decide where obvious facts of nature stop and inventiveness begins, so - again, if it was up to me - I'd give the benefit of the doubt and drop the idea of patents altogether. Patents do, allegedly, promote innovation, however, so I made the decision years ago just to steer clear of the whole mess as best I can and leave such things to people who have more... shall we say... flexible standards.
Real engineers go to university too, you know, and the point in going is to learn the skills one needs to come up with one's own ideas and to articulate/instantiate them.
Baiting aside, the argument that software patents make a degree in the computer sciences worthless isn't why people are so up in arms about them. The problem is that comp. sci. can cover areas exempt from patents - like mathematics - and other areas that are subject to patent law. For my two penneth, legislators have drawn the line too far into the former's camp.
I wish the world's press offices would declare a moratorium on announcing breakthroughs in solar technology.
I don't complain because, since the deaths of FEDs and their ilk, I need something to take the place of the Display Tech. of the Week articles we used to get.
From TFS. Apple started with hardware and they still sell it. Without the iPod there would be no iTunes, no App Store. Who writes these claptrap headlines?
At least the first post here was succinct - and probably right.
I have CD-Rs and DVD±Rs that are unreadable after (OTOO) 10 years; I have yet to find a mastered/pressed disc that has similarly failed. Viz. the issue of obsolescence I can still read them with off-the-shelf hardware as of 2011.
Why go ruin a superficial anti-military rant with facts?
Because this is slash... oh, wait. Nevermind.
That's an annoying claim to make, even if they've done accelerated aging tests. The only human construct that's been proven to stay usable after 10,000 years is stone artifacts, such as blocks and arrowheads. Over a hundred centuries, there's plenty of chances for some unexpected failure mode to pop up.
I agree with you: it is somewhat annoying. However, to play devil's advocate (I find it irresistible) Human civilisation as we know it has been around on the order of 10k years. I hope and - figuratively - pray that we'll make it to 10^6.
Radiators have belts?
Yes, they do... if you're in the minority without an electric cooling fan.
As I recall, there's a well known Jaguar advert where a pretty lady uses a stocking as an impromptu fan belt*.
*I forget what the american term is.
not more inhabitant spam. Normally junk mail is addressed to resident . I blame those damn alien direct-marketroids with their faulty understanding of the English as she is spoke.
Physician, heal thyself.
Hey! It's not our fault we keep getting the wrong kind of snow!
Did they change their business model and name to "weedbucks?"
How about WH Spliff?
Send your mod points on a postcard to Paul Merton.
In their defence, the dry product is - unlike grain - at least as desirable to consumers than the fresh, wet stuff. I didn't realise THC evaporated to any significantly detrimental degree, though.
As in Shake and Bake?
Doesn't that mean we have become GODS? I think it does... lets just agree that it does...
Not quite...
We are Boorg, Ye cannae resist!
It just doesn't sound right...
Suspects? I can accept that network operators would provide location data for such people, which is why included the court order part in my comment.
Personal intrusion? your cellphone provider has a nice database of your every move that is accurate.
Evidence please. I know that my network provider has data on where I am right now and that they would be capable of doing what you say (given a court order, for example), but that doesn't automatically mean they actually are.
I don't trust Apple any more or less implicitly than my network so I make no comment on whether or not they are in possession of the data my iPhone allegedly collects.