It doesn't have graphics processing hardware, it has graphics rendering hardware; so I really don't see how this could be used for much of anything else.
Of course we would have! After all, we've been searching very small portions of the bandwidth in very small portions of the sky for a very, very, very (very, very) small amount of time.
Yes, lets give it to the No Such Agency to build a big factorization computer.
The (poorly implemented) CSS protocol wasn't really broken, one of the DVD players (Xing I think) left the keys (relatively) in the open and they were found.
The problem with your "child filter that can be truely controlled by parents" is that (not all!) the parents who consider censorware necessary don't want to bother with setting anything up, or thinking about whether it's OK to have wrongly blocked sites, they just want something to babysit their kids on the net. If parents would take a more active role in parenting, they wouldn't need companies and organizations telling them what is and isn't decent for their kids to be viewing. Also, if kids really want to do/see/read something, they're going to do it. (sorry about the rant)
Absolutely! The No Such Agency could've used all that money to find even more ingenious ways to invade citizens privacy. Now THERE's a cause that can have an "impact on the lives of ordinary Americans"! Or maybe they could've appropriated the money to the Presidential Cover-up Fund. Oh, I almost forgot, they could've used the money to overstep their bounds and subpena(sp?) people in other countries who try to keep the megacorporations from controlling the world.
Yes, using money to better understand the most basic structures of the universe is truely a worthless cause.
This is complete BS. If NASA found life, (after careful consideration) they'd be telling everyone and their mother. Something as monumental as that would also increase their already dwindling budget.
Brain volume has nothing to do with levels of intelligence. The sperm whale has an immense brain, but it isn't any smarter (as far as I know; I've never talked to a whale) than a smaller mammel.
When I was in algebra the teacher made us find things like quadratic regression before he told us about it, so that we would actually understand how it worked. It took longer than just spoon-feeding the information, but it made understanding the concepts much easier. Many schools today are just teaching the (standardized) test answers instead of teaching the material.
Are you talking about the same privately-funded internet I'm thinking of? ok. What he's talking about are great government-funded projects to give everyone 'go fever' towards a specific challenging task.
If a clear winner of all the different single-stage-to-orbit designs is ever made, it would really help the space program by making it efficient to haul lots of materials to build future in-space launch facilities. This would make the actual long-distance space veichles much more efficient (not having to deal with great stresses taking off from earth). What we need is an efficient, large-capacity workhorse of a SSTO craft.
Not to call you stupid, but just to point it out... The RTG's that are used in spacecraft aren't nuclear reactors, those would be much too heavy. What they use is the energy released from decaying radioactive elements.
Hey! My quake dir is ~500megs, my q2 dir is ~1.2gb, and my HL dir is ~700megs; there's 2.4gb. You don't have to be a porn collector to accumulate space:)
GAH! I'm so sick of that name...Pentium! Can't the well-paid Intel marketers think up a better name, considering that the 586 was a -few- generations ago?
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The reason those private companies wouldn't 'fuck up' is because they'd never take the risks, and you don't get anywhere without taking risks.
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I'll pay my $5 share of it.
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It doesn't have graphics processing hardware, it has graphics rendering hardware; so I really don't see how this could be used for much of anything else.
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Of course we would have!
After all, we've been searching very small portions of the bandwidth in very small portions of the sky for a very, very, very (very, very) small amount of time.
Yes, lets give it to the No Such Agency to build a big factorization computer.
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What are you talking about? These are EXTRASOLAR planets they're talking about.
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The (poorly implemented) CSS protocol wasn't really broken, one of the DVD players (Xing I think) left the keys (relatively) in the open and they were found.
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The Iridium satellites aren't digital, they're analog. But you could still get a decent 9600 baud connect through them, with a few seconds of lag :P
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The problem with your "child filter that can be truely controlled by parents" is that (not all!) the parents who consider censorware necessary don't want to bother with setting anything up, or thinking about whether it's OK to have wrongly blocked sites, they just want something to babysit their kids on the net. If parents would take a more active role in parenting, they wouldn't need companies and organizations telling them what is and isn't decent for their kids to be viewing.
Also, if kids really want to do/see/read something, they're going to do it.
(sorry about the rant)
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You can't really 'program' it to do anything other than what it was designed for.
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Absolutely! The No Such Agency could've used all that money to find even more ingenious ways to invade citizens privacy. Now THERE's a cause that can have an "impact on the lives of ordinary Americans"!
Or maybe they could've appropriated the money to the Presidential Cover-up Fund.
Oh, I almost forgot, they could've used the money to overstep their bounds and subpena(sp?) people in other countries who try to keep the megacorporations from controlling the world.
Yes, using money to better understand the most basic structures of the universe is truely a worthless cause.
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"...everyone on here is foaming at the mouth to shout the reasons why science is right and religion is wrong."
Huh? Am I missing something? You're the one who brought up religion in this article.
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I don't really think its going to work that way.
I know a LOT of people who would take the easiest approach and just go with aol.
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This is complete BS. If NASA found life, (after careful consideration) they'd be telling everyone and their mother. Something as monumental as that would also increase their already dwindling budget.
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Brain volume has nothing to do with levels of intelligence. The sperm whale has an immense brain, but it isn't any smarter (as far as I know; I've never talked to a whale) than a smaller mammel.
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When I was in algebra the teacher made us find things like quadratic regression before he told us about it, so that we would actually understand how it worked. It took longer than just spoon-feeding the information, but it made understanding the concepts much easier.
Many schools today are just teaching the (standardized) test answers instead of teaching the material.
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He gets to do a -little- more than kiss her, if you know what I mean... >:)
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One word... Tang (!)
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Are you talking about the same privately-funded internet I'm thinking of? ok.
What he's talking about are great government-funded projects to give everyone 'go fever' towards a specific challenging task.
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Yeah, all that "clear logical thought" went into designing the iMac mouse, which is clicked by mashing your palm onto the circular *scream* mouse.
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If a clear winner of all the different single-stage-to-orbit designs is ever made, it would really help the space program by making it efficient to haul lots of materials to build future in-space launch facilities. This would make the actual long-distance space veichles much more efficient (not having to deal with great stresses taking off from earth). What we need is an efficient, large-capacity workhorse of a SSTO craft.
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Not to call you stupid, but just to point it out...
The RTG's that are used in spacecraft aren't nuclear reactors, those would be much too heavy.
What they use is the energy released from decaying radioactive elements.
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Don't forget that the alien race had the power to excrete large crystalline tears!
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Hey! My quake dir is ~500megs, my q2 dir is ~1.2gb, and my HL dir is ~700megs; there's 2.4gb. :)
You don't have to be a porn collector to accumulate space
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Nanotechnology is about making things very small, but still be very precise (not necessarily to the scale of single atom alignment).
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GAH! I'm so sick of that name...Pentium!
Can't the well-paid Intel marketers think up a better name, considering that the 586 was a -few- generations ago?
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