Seriously, not to be critical or anything, but I'm just curious:
Why would you spend your spare CPU cycles on something like this? Why not put them more towards protein folding or an AIDS cure or even evolutionary research... something that would/might benefit humanity? Or is finding a proof/disproof to this hypothesis going to benefit us somehow?
Honestly, you basically just translated that gobbledeegook from Latin to French for me. I still don't really understand what it all means, but I shall now do what I have done in the past for articles related to extremely complex mathematical hypothesis (hypothesese?)... I'll just nod my head, tell myself "Sure! But of course!" and move on to look for more "+5 Funny" comments.
Mr Grimes predicted that Australia's financial institutions would
begin adopting iris technology at automatic teller machines within five years.
BEGINING to use them does not mean that EVERY SINGLE ONE WILL contain it immediately. It could mean that just every time a new machine is created, it will contain this functionality.
And the Greeks kept electric eels in big wading pools and would walk into the water and get zapped. It doesn't mean they knew what electricity was; they just knew it felt cool to get a mild shock.
I don't see how they can assume these are batteries when there is no evidence of wires or mechanical devices that would use the electricity.
A few months ago I saw something on the Discovery Channel talking about all of this. They found similar things (bowls/pots with acid in them) in South America too. They said all of these most likely were for magical purposes (cool shock or possibly even coating/electro-plating jewelry), but not batteries.
...there isn't any reason that it shouldn't drift on for millions of years...
What about the gravitational pull of the Sun? Does Pioneer 10 have enough velocity to escape its pull? (I've been looking around for this and can't find the answer anywhere.)
Yeah, I'm right there with you. It just sounded like "they're good for you!" meant "it's chock-full of protiens, vitamins, minerals and all that good nutritional stuff!"
... it has been found that another related gene is linked to people forgetting to spell-check their posts. It is also highly believed that the same gene is also related to others constantly pointing this fact out again and again and again. >Writing assinine playoffs of the parrent topic... >Or "Poor me, I'm a descriminated Windows user who just blew 10 grand on an MCSE cert"
I thought it was an awesome concept: instead of cartdiges, it used cards... about the same size as a credit card, but about 3 times thicker. 16 bit system. decent sound. And (the best part) the cards you used for the main system, you could also use for the portable (handheld) system.
I'm assuming the game console tanked because they didn't really have that many games for it, but I ended up dishing out about $150 for the portable system anyways... and got 5 free games with it. (yeah, the store was practically giving it away. It was initially marked up at about $400 I believe.) Even got a TV tuner to attach to the handheld console for an extra $30!
Great idea in my opinion. Too bad they couldn't get any decent games for it.
Who needs PXML when you got HTML?
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HTML is a subset of XML - an alternative to the bloated XMl language.
believe me, you wont use XML (and those pesky XSLTs) anymore if you once tried HTML
AND (most importantly) in virtually every single web browser that you can find, support for viewing this format over the internet is available and built into the browser itself!
This isn't really anything new. (And they actually state that in the article too.) A few years ago I went to the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland and they showed how this glass works. (And even when I saw it a few years ago, the display had already been up for a while.) They showed multiple ways of changing the screen from clear to opaque.
There were 4 ways: touch sensitive (when you touch the window, it toggled clear/opaque), switch (simple ON/OFF, like a normal light switch), sound sensitive (you could clap your hands and the screen would toggle), and... hm. darn. can't really remember the 4th way. Maybe it changed depending on the light around it? (if there was enough light, it was opaque, otherwise it was clear? this way it could be used to help cool your home during the summers by keeping the sunlight out, but still allow you to see out of it in the mornings and evenings.)
Is it me, or are a lot of comments on here insinuating that the window itself is the television? If you people read the article:
When the current is on, the window is clear. But flip a switch to turn the current off and the glass goes opaque, allowing it to be used as a
projection screen for watching television or DVDs.
(emphasis mine) The window would be used simply as something that your video projector would produce an image on. If the glass breaks, so what? Your TV (tuner and other equipment) is/are still fine. Only the screen needs to be replaced. Just turn the projector at an empty wall then! Or get a pulldown screen or something. Your TV still works.
The glass is NOT and LCD or any similar technology.
There are certainly ethical ways to do things that don't necesarilly require banning large areas of research.
Unfortunately, that's not how politics work though.
From here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/sh owbiz/2 263289.stm
"There are religious groups - the Jehovah's Witness, I believe - who think it's a sin to have a blood transfusion. Well, what if the president for some reason decided to listen to them, instead of to the Catholics, which is the group he really listens to in making his decisions about embryonic stem cell research?" - Christopher Reeve
So then their calculations are centered around finding the age of the earliest hydrogen atoms that were created from the first (or latest?) explosion of amassed "protons, neutrons, electrons, WIMPs, MACHOs and other exotica"? Or is this still considered the beginning of the universe? (meaning: the amount of time between the creation of these fundamental particles and the time that the first hydrogen was created was an extremely small amount of time (less than a second)).
From what I understand, all matter that we can see in the universe comes from old stars. Hydrogen got together to form stars and when the stars spent up all the fuel, they exploded creating heavier elements. Right?
Well, with all of this new revelation that the universe is made up of 95% of "dark matter", do we really know that dark matter didn't create the hydrogen atoms? If scientists are trying to figure out the age of the universe by checking out how old distant stars are, do we really know that there was nothing before the stars formed?
You apparently haven't been to a Wal-Mart recently. Many women who are wearing spandex shouldn't.
Ahhh... but the article is on "ideas that changed the world". It doesn't specify "for better or worse" though.;) In the case of Spandex, it is both. (depending on who is wearing it and what your... um... personal preferences are of course.
This Ben Stein essay originally in Forbes or somesuch is such tripe.
Something that starts off with this line can be considered "Insightful"??
zrodney is attacking the article because it is written by someone who he says is apparently "evil" because he has a game show. That reeks of a Troll to me. I guess not to everyone else.
Lets ignore the fact that his gameshow (like some others) actually rely on the knowledge and intelligence of the contestants to win money and prizes... not just the "luck of the spin of the wheel". Lets also ignore the fact that Ben Stein is a highly intelligent man who has written speeches for U.S. Presidents and presidential candidates. Lets mod this guy up because he talks about the author of the article "being part of the problem with society"... which really has nothing to do with the article at all.
Wish I could find a picture of it, but I'm thinking the handicap sign from the movie "Johnny Dangerously" would be perfect. In the same style as your everyday handicap sign, it shows a guy making a crazy-face... (ARGH! Already did a big search on Google images and couldn't find anything.)
I can't help but think that they reason they have changed so drastically is that they have realized that they get more ADULT viewers that CHILDREN viewers. Well, at least in the evenings.
It just makes sense for business: when the preschoolers/toddlers are at home, they should be showing cartoons like Smurfs or whatnot. (ok, I have no idea what they show during the day. Fortunately, I have a job.); when the gradeschoolers get home, show the new He-Man and Transformers; when the adults get home (and after the kiddies go to bed) show the more adult toons, which would include the "classics" like Bugs and Daffy and Hanna-Barbera shows (which we grew up watching) as well as the more "adult" oriented animation series as well... ones that have more of a plot (or more violence or whatever your tastes may be) rather than just big-headed, happy-voiced characters that have a problem and solve it (sometimes TWICE) in a half-hour show. (referring to PowerPuff Girls... which I personally like to watch, but I'm a freak like that so... eh. I digress.)
I like the change they've made. Others may disagree (college students who now have to wait until late-night to watch their shows, unemployed people, people whoe work the graveyard shift, etc...) but to each, their own.
And imagine what combining THIS technology to others will results in... like the work being done on presthetic eyes. Instead of having a huge battery pack and camera and other electrical equipent strapped to a rodent's back, in the near future, this will all be miniaturized (of course) and the camera can actually BE the rodent's eyes, so all that may need to be external would be a powersource.
A seemingly regular-looking rodent (of any other animal for that matter!) may in-fact be a secret agent!
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Yay! More candidates for Darwin Awards!
Seriously though, thanks. Your explanation DID help me... a little. :)
Seriously, not to be critical or anything, but I'm just curious:
Why would you spend your spare CPU cycles on something like this? Why not put them more towards protein folding or an AIDS cure or even evolutionary research... something that would/might benefit humanity? Or is finding a proof/disproof to this hypothesis going to benefit us somehow?
Wow. that is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. (yeah, I don't get out much.)
I doubt anyone (whether they speak Swedish, English, or even BOTH) can understand THAT translation without having to go over it a few times.
Heh, and probably the people that CAN speak both languages, probably can't understand what it's talking about anyways.
*preparing to get flamed from all of the Swedish/English speaking people on this site*
whew. Well THAT explains THAT then!
:)
Honestly, you basically just translated that gobbledeegook from Latin to French for me. I still don't really understand what it all means, but I shall now do what I have done in the past for articles related to extremely complex mathematical hypothesis (hypothesese?)... I'll just nod my head, tell myself "Sure! But of course!" and move on to look for more "+5 Funny" comments.
Then maybe get back to work too.
Hmmm... I'm sure I'm thinking of the same episode, but I remember it differently. I thought he held up a card that said:
A dog is
is man's
best friend.
And most of the time you won't notice that the word "is" is repeated. But, yes, the same principle is there: the brain corrects things for you.
BEGINING to use them does not mean that EVERY SINGLE ONE WILL contain it immediately. It could mean that just every time a new machine is created, it will contain this functionality.
And the Greeks kept electric eels in big wading pools and would walk into the water and get zapped. It doesn't mean they knew what electricity was; they just knew it felt cool to get a mild shock.
I don't see how they can assume these are batteries when there is no evidence of wires or mechanical devices that would use the electricity.
A few months ago I saw something on the Discovery Channel talking about all of this. They found similar things (bowls/pots with acid in them) in South America too. They said all of these most likely were for magical purposes (cool shock or possibly even coating/electro-plating jewelry), but not batteries.
...there isn't any reason that it shouldn't drift on for millions of years...
What about the gravitational pull of the Sun? Does Pioneer 10 have enough velocity to escape its pull? (I've been looking around for this and can't find the answer anywhere.)
I'm timothy and I have a rare bone-marrow disease that prevents me fom typing the letter R in fom.
Yeah, I'm right there with you.
It just sounded like "they're good for you!" meant "it's chock-full of protiens, vitamins, minerals and all that good nutritional stuff!"
... it has been found that another related gene is linked to people forgetting to spell-check their posts. It is also highly believed that the same gene is also related to others constantly pointing this fact out again and again and again. ...
>Writing assinine playoffs of the parrent topic
>Or "Poor me, I'm a descriminated Windows user who just blew 10 grand on an MCSE cert"
No mention of the Turbo Grafix 16 system either.
I thought it was an awesome concept: instead of cartdiges, it used cards... about the same size as a credit card, but about 3 times thicker. 16 bit system. decent sound. And (the best part) the cards you used for the main system, you could also use for the portable (handheld) system.
I'm assuming the game console tanked because they didn't really have that many games for it, but I ended up dishing out about $150 for the portable system anyways... and got 5 free games with it. (yeah, the store was practically giving it away. It was initially marked up at about $400 I believe.) Even got a TV tuner to attach to the handheld console for an extra $30!
Great idea in my opinion. Too bad they couldn't get any decent games for it.
HTML is a subset of XML - an alternative to the bloated XMl language.
believe me, you wont use XML (and those pesky XSLTs) anymore if you once tried HTML
AND (most importantly) in virtually every single web browser that you can find, support for viewing this format over the internet is available and built into the browser itself!
And another thing...
This isn't really anything new. (And they actually state that in the article too.) A few years ago I went to the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland and they showed how this glass works. (And even when I saw it a few years ago, the display had already been up for a while.) They showed multiple ways of changing the screen from clear to opaque.
There were 4 ways: touch sensitive (when you touch the window, it toggled clear/opaque), switch (simple ON/OFF, like a normal light switch), sound sensitive (you could clap your hands and the screen would toggle), and... hm. darn. can't really remember the 4th way. Maybe it changed depending on the light around it? (if there was enough light, it was opaque, otherwise it was clear? this way it could be used to help cool your home during the summers by keeping the sunlight out, but still allow you to see out of it in the mornings and evenings.)
(emphasis mine)
The window would be used simply as something that your video projector would produce an image on. If the glass breaks, so what? Your TV (tuner and other equipment) is/are still fine. Only the screen needs to be replaced. Just turn the projector at an empty wall then! Or get a pulldown screen or something. Your TV still works.
The glass is NOT and LCD or any similar technology.
Unfortunately, that's not how politics work though.
From here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/s
"There are religious groups - the Jehovah's Witness, I believe - who think it's a sin to have a blood transfusion. Well, what if the president for some reason decided to listen to them, instead of to the Catholics, which is the group he really listens to in making his decisions about embryonic stem cell research?" - Christopher Reeve
So then their calculations are centered around finding the age of the earliest hydrogen atoms that were created from the first (or latest?) explosion of amassed "protons, neutrons, electrons, WIMPs, MACHOs and other exotica"? Or is this still considered the beginning of the universe? (meaning: the amount of time between the creation of these fundamental particles and the time that the first hydrogen was created was an extremely small amount of time (less than a second)).
From what I understand, all matter that we can see in the universe comes from old stars. Hydrogen got together to form stars and when the stars spent up all the fuel, they exploded creating heavier elements. Right?
Well, with all of this new revelation that the universe is made up of 95% of "dark matter", do we really know that dark matter didn't create the hydrogen atoms? If scientists are trying to figure out the age of the universe by checking out how old distant stars are, do we really know that there was nothing before the stars formed?
You apparently haven't been to a Wal-Mart recently. Many women who are wearing spandex shouldn't.
;) In the case of Spandex, it is both. (depending on who is wearing it and what your ... um... personal preferences are of course.
Ahhh... but the article is on "ideas that changed the world". It doesn't specify "for better or worse" though.
Something that starts off with this line can be considered "Insightful"??
zrodney is attacking the article because it is written by someone who he says is apparently "evil" because he has a game show. That reeks of a Troll to me. I guess not to everyone else.
Lets ignore the fact that his gameshow (like some others) actually rely on the knowledge and intelligence of the contestants to win money and prizes... not just the "luck of the spin of the wheel". Lets also ignore the fact that Ben Stein is a highly intelligent man who has written speeches for U.S. Presidents and presidential candidates. Lets mod this guy up because he talks about the author of the article "being part of the problem with society"... which really has nothing to do with the article at all.
Wish I could find a picture of it, but I'm thinking the handicap sign from the movie "Johnny Dangerously" would be perfect. In the same style as your everyday handicap sign, it shows a guy making a crazy-face... (ARGH! Already did a big search on Google images and couldn't find anything.)
No diggity.
;) Great concepts. I watch it as much as possible. I just wish it were on more often. :)
Absolutely hillarious shows. Excellent animation.
I can't help but think that they reason they have changed so drastically is that they have realized that they get more ADULT viewers that CHILDREN viewers. Well, at least in the evenings.
It just makes sense for business: when the preschoolers/toddlers are at home, they should be showing cartoons like Smurfs or whatnot. (ok, I have no idea what they show during the day. Fortunately, I have a job.); when the gradeschoolers get home, show the new He-Man and Transformers; when the adults get home (and after the kiddies go to bed) show the more adult toons, which would include the "classics" like Bugs and Daffy and Hanna-Barbera shows (which we grew up watching) as well as the more "adult" oriented animation series as well... ones that have more of a plot (or more violence or whatever your tastes may be) rather than just big-headed, happy-voiced characters that have a problem and solve it (sometimes TWICE) in a half-hour show. (referring to PowerPuff Girls... which I personally like to watch, but I'm a freak like that so... eh. I digress.)
I like the change they've made. Others may disagree (college students who now have to wait until late-night to watch their shows, unemployed people, people whoe work the graveyard shift, etc...) but to each, their own.
And imagine what combining THIS technology to others will results in... like the work being done on presthetic eyes. Instead of having a huge battery pack and camera and other electrical equipent strapped to a rodent's back, in the near future, this will all be miniaturized (of course) and the camera can actually BE the rodent's eyes, so all that may need to be external would be a powersource.
A seemingly regular-looking rodent (of any other animal for that matter!) may in-fact be a secret agent!
Ain't technology cool?!