Thank you for your well formulated comments. But you misunderstood my point.
The poster was jokingly putting up a list of things he'd like - and I as a German found them somewhat superficial.
Of course telephony and DSL are expensive in Germany, but you have to agree they DO work very well.
And obviously you have never used our digital TV or you would have remembered. It does indeed work flawlessly and as another poster mentioned is called DVBs. And Teletext is really nothing compared to that. And it is in operation for at least 5 years.
And for health care: yes, it is horribly expensive. But you cant fall out of it. There is NO circumstance where you are not covered. And that while maintaining a standard that is the same as the US. Its basically designed to be expensive.
but its fun. Your a student? Your fully covered! Your old ? Your covered. Your in between? Your covered....you never have to worry about your health or that of your familiy....to me that is worth a LOT. And Im willing to pay it.
Our mobile phones work flawlessly for at least 10 years now. 100% coverage and full interoperability between the diferent providers. And of course SMS and MMS.
2) Digital TV that works properly;
I'm using digital TV for at least 5 years now. It is fully standarized and works flawlessly including an electronic program guide on all channels.
3) A DSL modem where the drivers have not been coded by sadists;
You can get DSL nearly everywhere in Germany, and the drivers while not exactly works of art work quite well. I prefer hardware routers with buildin modems anyhow e.g. Draytek Routers
(there's places on your body that can't discriminate between two touches over a centimeter apart),
Would that be in the crack between one's arse-cheeks?
Joke aside, the place he's talking about is your shoulder blades. Try pressing someone 1,2 or 3 fingers simultaniously against the shoulderblade and ask how many you used. The subject will not be able to determine the number, it all feels the same.
I already knew I had a deprived childhood because there was no internet when I was younger, but that text drove the point home.
Quote from the text:So here's some advice (invert pronouns if necessary if you happen to be female). If you don't have other relationships that it would mess up, and a woman who's attractive to you and appears clean and healthy seems to be beaming come-ons at you on all frequencies, stop agonizing and make a pass at her, dammit! Odds are high you'll both be happier than if you spent the next six months playing should-I/shouldn't-I/how-should-I games in your own head -- and that's so even if the two of you strike out
For those to lazy to read the Nature article here is the important quote:
We carefully examined the specimens under the microscope and with high-resolution X-ray computerized tomography (CT) to test the authenticity of one of the studied specimens45 (IVPP V13352) and can guarantee the accuracy of the information that we provide in this study.
I doubt this is fraud, Nature has a lengthy piece about those fossils with a lot of detail. Seems quite a lot of people already studied those 6 specimens. The Nature article
Using Introns for storage was the way the protagonist in Blood Music made the intelligent bacteria, which then destroyed all of North America. The Book
Well, goodbye America then, it was nice knowing you. But I think I will miss Slashdot and memepool.
> No, the point of this article is that no one has done anything useful yet with nanotech on virtually any scale. This may be the first Real World(TM) application of nanotech on a large scale.
Actually there are 2 product on the market now using nano-particles that I know of.
Sunblocker's using nano-particles to absorb UV-light
I could actually think of a real world application for the fish tank PC, although not as a case mod.
I would just love it, if the front glass of my aquarium would be a PC. Then I could just touch it, and it would display the water temperature, the pH, the salinity and so on directly on the front. Boy, would that be cool. No more Gadgets which destroy the look of the aquarium.
Look at the parent applications, it has priority back to 1988, which is prior to the people selling chocololate over the internet and prior to a lot of other art.
So what? In Germany there was BTX much prior even to that, 1984ish I think, where a lot of stuff was sold (rather pixelish pr0n for example). The French had a similar system, which predates the German one too.
Cheating has up to now destroyed 3 online games that I enjoyed playing.
But the MAC-method obviously isn't a viable solution. I was actually hoping that matters would turn out better with internet console gaming, but seeing that XBoxs and PS2s can me mod-chipped I'm not setting my expectations too high.
The only solution I came up with that might work better is making the first sign-in/subscription rather hard. For example by sending each player a letter by snail-mail with their sign-in code. Thus if you get banned you need days to sign in again.
But I don't think there is a technology solution, because basically everything on a home machine can be hacked. Be it the game itself or some driver.
I doubt any national TV stations other than TechTV read slashdot, this can be seen pretty obviously. Time Magazine just published an article on the music companies using glue to seal in unrelased songs for publications to read...
The German magazine "Der Spiegel" definitly does read slashdot. The more interesting articles from slashdot go on their newsticker a few days after they're published here. With some additional text which I identified more than once to be from the commentary of the article (without attribution of course).
I guess quite a lot of magazines skim newssites like slashdot for their own articles.
Drive it through the middle of nowhere on a truck? Gosh, you mean like shipping German cars like Mercedes, VW and Porsches to the US, you're right, that's unheard of. There is no means to accomplish this.
I'm pretty sure equatorial conditions (high temp, high humidity) aren't the best thing that could happen to any satelite or other object bound for space.
Yes, those conditions are really forbidding. That would be as if the NASA would Launch their satellites from Florida, say e.g. Cape Canaveral. Or if the ESA would launch there satellites from Guinea, say e.g. Kourou.
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You are right, though, the catastrophe if it snapped would be enormous.
Why don't you all just read the FAQ ? Let me quote:
For the portion that doesn't burn up in a fall- what effect will it have on the environment? Honestly, it will make a little bit of a mess. But New York City tickertape parades have made bigger messes. Comparatively it will put much less dust, dirt, debris and chemicals into the environment than wildfires of the American west, any one of the large expendable rockets, or a month of natural meteors hitting Earth. The ribbon is light (7.5 kg/km) so, any pieces that fall to earth will slow down, in the air, to about the same terminal velocity as that of an open newspaper page falling. It will not have enough momentum to cause mechanical damage when it comes down. We have considered other health risks such as inhalation of very small fragments and believe this will not be a problem but we are conducting studies to make sure this isn't a problem. Since we are aware of the possible problems now we can design the elevator to avoid these problems.
I mean she runs Linux. Can't you just imagine her telling everybody that she told you a thousand times that you shouldn't use Windows and that the RIAA is evil ?
Im sorry that those links are for completly German pages, but just email the operators of those pages and they should be able to supply you with lots of english resources.
Solar: And this helps you heat your home at night... how? (Note that we don't yet have superconducting storage batteries. Nor do we have
cheap photovoltaics.) And this helps the Midwest and the North... how?
This is the easiest of all. You just put a well isolated and rather big tank in the middle of the house which stores warm water.
There are already a lot of those houses in Germany, they are called zero emission houses, guess why.
With today technology it is possible to build houses that are self contained where heat and cold is concerned, when you do it right you can even lower the need for further electricity down to a point that the house runs for days in a row without the need for external power.
The problem with this is of course is that it is a decentralized approach, each house needs that technology, hence each house builder needs to integrate it. For existing houses this is impossible of course.
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But you misunderstood my point.
The poster was jokingly putting up a list of things he'd like - and I as a German found them somewhat superficial.
Of course telephony and DSL are expensive in Germany, but you have to agree they DO work very well.
And obviously you have never used our digital TV or you would have remembered. It does indeed work flawlessly and as another poster mentioned is called DVBs. And Teletext is really nothing compared to that. And it is in operation for at least 5 years.
And for health care: yes, it is horribly expensive. But you cant fall out of it. There is NO circumstance where you are not covered. And that while maintaining a standard that is the same as the US. Its basically designed to be expensive.
but its fun. Your a student? Your fully covered! Your old ? Your covered. Your in between? Your covered....you never have to worry about your health or that of your familiy....to me that is worth a LOT. And Im willing to pay it.
1) A mobile phone that works properly;
Our mobile phones work flawlessly for at least 10 years now. 100% coverage and full interoperability between the diferent providers. And of course SMS and MMS.
2) Digital TV that works properly;
I'm using digital TV for at least 5 years now. It is fully standarized and works flawlessly including an electronic program guide on all channels.
3) A DSL modem where the drivers have not been coded by sadists;
You can get DSL nearly everywhere in Germany, and the drivers while not exactly works of art work quite well. I prefer hardware routers with buildin modems anyhow e.g. Draytek Routers
4) Good health;
Well our health service is quite exellent.
5) Peace and quiet.
No problem either.
Would that be in the crack between one's arse-cheeks?
Joke aside, the place he's talking about is your shoulder blades. Try pressing someone 1,2 or 3 fingers simultaniously against the shoulderblade and ask how many you used. The subject will not be able to determine the number, it all feels the same.
I already knew I had a deprived childhood because there was no internet when I was younger, but that text drove the point home.
Quote from the text:So here's some advice (invert pronouns if necessary if you happen to be female). If you don't have other relationships that it would mess up, and a woman who's attractive to you and appears clean and healthy seems to be beaming come-ons at you on all frequencies, stop agonizing and make a pass at her, dammit! Odds are high you'll both be happier than if you spent the next six months playing should-I/shouldn't-I/how-should-I games in your own head -- and that's so even if the two of you strike out
This advice would have been a real help to me.
And here is a picture of the material in production
...mobile phones and wearables like mp3 players.If the material isn't too stiff to be used in clothing that is.
We carefully examined the specimens under the microscope and with high-resolution X-ray computerized tomography (CT) to test the authenticity of one of the studied specimens45 (IVPP V13352) and can guarantee the accuracy of the information that we provide in this study.
I doubt this is fraud, Nature has a lengthy piece about those fossils with a lot of detail.
Seems quite a lot of people already studied those 6 specimens.
The Nature article
here is a link to the article in German from "Der Spiegel":
The article
Well, goodbye America then, it was nice knowing you. But I think I will miss Slashdot and memepool.
Actually there are 2 product on the market now using nano-particles that I know of.
Sunblocker's using nano-particles to absorb UV-light
Selfcleaning window-glass
I could actually think of a real world application for the fish tank PC, although not as a case mod.
I would just love it, if the front glass of my aquarium would be a PC. Then I could just touch it, and it would display the water temperature, the pH, the salinity and so on directly on the front. Boy, would that be cool. No more Gadgets which destroy the look of the aquarium.
So what? In Germany there was BTX much prior even to that, 1984ish I think, where a lot of stuff was sold (rather pixelish pr0n for example). The French had a similar system, which predates the German one too.
But the MAC-method obviously isn't a viable solution. I was actually hoping that matters would turn out better with internet console gaming, but seeing that XBoxs and PS2s can me mod-chipped I'm not setting my expectations too high.
The only solution I came up with that might work better is making the first sign-in/subscription rather hard. For example by sending each player a letter by snail-mail with their sign-in code. Thus if you get banned you need days to sign in again.
But I don't think there is a technology solution, because basically everything on a home machine can be hacked. Be it the game itself or some driver.
The German magazine "Der Spiegel" definitly does read slashdot. The more interesting articles from slashdot go on their newsticker a few days after they're published here. With some additional text which I identified more than once to be from the commentary of the article (without attribution of course).
I guess quite a lot of magazines skim newssites like slashdot for their own articles.
I'm pretty sure equatorial conditions (high temp, high humidity) aren't the best thing that could happen to any satelite or other object bound for space.
Yes, those conditions are really forbidding. That would be as if the NASA would Launch their satellites from Florida, say e.g. Cape Canaveral.
Or if the ESA would launch there satellites from Guinea, say e.g. Kourou.
Why don't you all just read the FAQ ? Let me quote:
For the portion that doesn't burn up in a fall- what effect will it have on the environment?
Honestly, it will make a little bit of a mess. But New York City tickertape parades have made bigger messes. Comparatively it will put much less dust, dirt, debris and chemicals into the environment than wildfires of the American west, any one of the large expendable rockets, or a month of natural meteors hitting Earth. The ribbon is light (7.5 kg/km) so, any pieces that fall to earth will slow down, in the air, to about the same terminal velocity as that of an open newspaper page falling. It will not have enough momentum to cause mechanical damage when it comes down. We have considered other health risks such as inhalation of very small fragments and believe this will not be a problem but we are conducting studies to make sure this isn't a problem. Since we are aware of the possible problems now we can design the elevator to avoid these problems.
I mean she runs Linux. Can't you just imagine her telling everybody that she told you a thousand times that you shouldn't use Windows and that the RIAA is evil ?
But where do I get a case for this thing ???
Homepage of a TV-Show about environmental Topics with tons of information about conserving energy in houses
Im sorry that those links are for completly German pages, but just email the operators of those pages and they should be able to supply you with lots of english resources.
This is the easiest of all. You just put a well isolated and rather big tank in the middle of the house which stores warm water.
There are already a lot of those houses in Germany, they are called zero emission houses, guess why.
With today technology it is possible to build houses that are self contained where heat and cold is concerned, when you do it right you can even lower the need for further electricity down to a point that the house runs for days in a row without the need for external power.
The problem with this is of course is that it is a decentralized approach, each house needs that technology, hence each house builder needs to integrate it. For existing houses this is impossible of course.
DeBeer's main fear at the moment is not diamond films in processors, but those artifical diamonds made in Russia with huge presses.
They spend a fortune just to make test equipment available that can decide wether a diamond is articifical or not.
I suggest you try it out its brilliant.
Argon Zark
Wouldn't it be really fun if they sued everybody who reproduced their bugs...
They could start with access violations in end-user programs, that should break the neck of 99% of all other software producers.
No, it isn't.
The European trains (Transrapid) use kind of a rolled out electromotor - called a linear-motor.