I just saw a show on the Discovery Health Channel this past Monday about sleep deprivation. They intereviewed that guy that stayed awake for 11 days. It was pretty funny when he started talking about how he was hallucinating and talking to a Stop sign.
Back in the day (when I was in college) a bunch of friends and I decided we'd try to stay awake for as long as we could. We had read somewhere that if you don't get any sleep for 72 hours, you can leagally be declared "temporarily insane" and after 7 full days, there is permanent damage done to your mind.
That being said, I never made it past 60 hours. My damn partner, that was supposed to stay awake with me, fell asleep while we were watching the Incredible Hulk. (Such an exciting show! How could ANYone fall asleep to that!)
That's like putting up a sign in your front yard and making it illegal for people to look at it.
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Did anyone else get the feeling, after reading the article, that this company ONLY exists to make money from spammers?
Individuals and Internet service providers can license and use the mark for free, while businesses and bulk e-mail companies will pay to use it.
So once they get people hooked on using their "spam-blocking" technology, they just start selling the rights to use their haiku to spammers, and we're all back to where we were to begin with.
(My apologies for this not being posted in Haiku form.)
What are the chances of the number being so round? [referring to the title of "New Pictures Reveal 100,000 Galaxies"]
Silly question for two reasons:
1. Do you think there could possibly be 100,000.1 galaxies?!?
2. You are making the assumption that the value given is base-10.
The way the US patent office is being run though (here's a good example), I could probably get away with having a patent for breathing through my mouth, nose, or a combination of the two.
Just letting you know that you are correct. Fiber has been layed out all over the campus for quite a while. (I started there in 1994 and fiber was already everywhere.) And it is EVERYWHERE. Computer labs, dorms, fraternity/sorority houses, lecture halls, classrooms, libraries, and I even believe some food courts. They are not (from what I have been informed) currently installing any fiber; they are just replacing the switches in each building. They already started with some dorms and Greek houses a month or so ago and promised to have all student housing completed by the beginning of this coming school year.
On Case's campus for the past several years they have had a system set up for freshman Chemistry review sessions (I'm sure it is used for other classes as well). The prof can broadcast the review live to the entire campus and students can call in and ask questions. From experience, I have found this useful in that (1) it saves me the trouble of hiking across campus to Schmitt lecture hall, but more importantly (2) if I have other obligations at the same time the review is going on, I can just record the review and watch it when I find time.
Having the new technology so the "teacher can control lights, sound system and link to the web" will allow more professors to do the same. (Only one TV channel is currently used, so if it is broadcast over the internet, the number of classes you can broadcast simultaneously now increases... well, technically not infinitely, but you get the picture.) Being connected will also allow students to possibly send the prof diagrams, code-snippets, etc... which may improve the quality of the sessions as well.
("We... have ways... of finding out... who.. who... who you are....")
They didn't explain it in the article, but the whole campus is already layed-out with fiber and has been for a while. I graduated about 3 years ago from Case and when I started there 5 years before that, the whole campus was alreayd set up. All they are doing (according to what they told us at alumni meetings) is changing the switch boards in each of the dorms. No wiring is necessary.
Having graduated from CWRU a few years ago, I still visit the campus and sit in on meetings that discuss campus improvements. I was only informed of this technology at the end of this past school year and was, as can be expected, astounded... and also a little jealous of my younger brother who is still going to school there.
In the meeting we were informed that a deal was struck with Sprint and that "in the near future" (possibly 2 or 3 years) they plan on setting up the entire campus with wireless connectivity. Not only will the students' computers be wired, but plans have discussed to get a mobile phone to every student; so rather than have a phone for each room, each student would get a phone now. (And since people that go to school there know that Sprint service currently sucks, I'm sure they will be installing a tower or two on campus as well.)
Plans were also discussed on having all data to-and-from dormrooms be wired through this network within the near future. (All computer network, wire-based phone system, television, etc...)
No doubt. Here in Cleveland it was perfectly clear skies ALL DAY LONG. I drove my Jeep up to Lake Erie, found a nice place to view the sunset on the lake, and then about a half hour before sunset: the clouds rolled in and blocked everything.
Actually, FM radio is line of sight Um... what's YOUR definition of Line of Sight? Because it doesn't appear to be the same as everyone else's definition. (Unless of course, you can "see" radio waves with your eyes!)
If you read the entire article, you would have read: "LOS systems rely on a high-power transmitter at the base station, an unimpeded line of sight between transmitter and customer, and a highly directional outdoor antenna at the customer premises,..."
How would you explain people being able to listen to a radio in their house/apartment/dorm-room? (And don't go telling me that "the radio signal goes in through a window and bounces around your house until it finds your radio antenna", because it just isn't true.)
Yes, in my opinion, NASA IS far ahead. They are the only ones that have successfully sent a human to the moon's surface... multiple times too. They have also put many probes into space to study our solar system, our sun, our galaxy, other galaxies, etc... I understand that they too have had failed missions as well, but I still hear about the successful missions as well. I just don't hear about many successful missions from any other organization.
Wow. That was a pretty harsh response. I simply stated "that all I hear about" is failed missions from other countries. I have no interest in researching this information. A simple "yes, it's the media to blame" would have sufficed.
I'm curious to know how many rockets/satellites have been sent into space and successfully completed their missions by countries OTHER than the United States. Seriously, it seems that all that I hear about is Japanese satellites failing to reach their destination or Chinese rockets failing to get into a correct orbit (or even LAUNCH) or Russian solar sails being destroyed on lift-off.... Is NASA really that far ahead of the rest of the world in space (rockets and probes) knowledge and technology? Or is it just that the media only decides to report on failed missions around the world now-a-days?
... is to put tasers in the vehicles so that even if someone tries to steal something from your car (ie. car stereo/cd/mp3 player) they get zapped and just lie there quivvering until the authorities get there. Of course, in this case, the vehicle should probably call the paramedics as well as the police though.
Thanks for the info. (no sarcasm here) I was actually wondering about the article.
The article says: "Voyager I was launched in 1977 to study and photograph the giant planets in the outer solar system...."
and then later says: "A robotic twin of Voyager I left Earth in 1975 as well. Voyager II is heading in the opposite direction of Voyager I and traveling at a slightly slower speed."
That confused the hell outta me. (Why would they name it "II" if it left 2 years earlier than "I"???)
As for the fastest man-made object, Deep Space 1 would have it I believe with its ion drive (53,100 kilometers per hour): http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sola rsystem/ deepspace_propulsion_000816.html
From what I remember from my college Physics/Relativity course [info gathered when I wasn't using the class as purely nap-time]: "time is relative". Isn't building a "perfect clock" impossible to do on Earth? In order for it to be accurate, wouldn't you have to create it somewhere in deep-space (ie. no large mass ANYWHERE affecting it) and somewhere where it would have absolutely NO movement (ie. not revolving around a star, not revolving around [the center of] a galaxy, not approaching anything that might be out there between the galaxies, etc...)?
"If you want a lot of hits, put pr0n on the front page. Seems to work, considering pr0n is the most profitable industry on the net..."
Actually, I was more thinking along the lines of "If you want a lot of hits, submit a link to it in the intro of a Slashdot article and watch the numbers climb."
1. How does the monthly subscription work? Like DirecTV cards? Is there a cellular modem in each radio? Do you have to type in a security code at the beginning of each month?
2. [the important one] How long will it be until we can download the instructions from the net on how to build one of these puppies on our own from parts from RadioShack?
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And in other news...
This one guy and his soon-to-be-famous company from somewhere on Earth developed and created this thing that can do some really cool technical stuff.
I just saw a show on the Discovery Health Channel this past Monday about sleep deprivation. They intereviewed that guy that stayed awake for 11 days. It was pretty funny when he started talking about how he was hallucinating and talking to a Stop sign.
Back in the day (when I was in college) a bunch of friends and I decided we'd try to stay awake for as long as we could. We had read somewhere that if you don't get any sleep for 72 hours, you can leagally be declared "temporarily insane" and after 7 full days, there is permanent damage done to your mind.
That being said, I never made it past 60 hours. My damn partner, that was supposed to stay awake with me, fell asleep while we were watching the Incredible Hulk. (Such an exciting show! How could ANYone fall asleep to that!)
What the hell? You're the same guy who was bragging about not watching any TV in a 5-rated comment in this same story. What's the deal?
When you're rootin for both teams, you're gonna win [karma] one way or the other.
That's like putting up a sign in your front yard and making it illegal for people to look at it.
(My apologies for this not being posted in Haiku form.)
What are the chances of the number being so round? [referring to the title of "New Pictures Reveal 100,000 Galaxies"]
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Silly question for two reasons:
1. Do you think there could possibly be 100,000.1 galaxies?!?
2. You are making the assumption that the value given is base-10.
The way the US patent office is being run though (here's a good example), I could probably get away with having a patent for breathing through my mouth, nose, or a combination of the two.
Just letting you know that you are correct. Fiber has been layed out all over the campus for quite a while. (I started there in 1994 and fiber was already everywhere.) And it is EVERYWHERE. Computer labs, dorms, fraternity/sorority houses, lecture halls, classrooms, libraries, and I even believe some food courts. They are not (from what I have been informed) currently installing any fiber; they are just replacing the switches in each building. They already started with some dorms and Greek houses a month or so ago and promised to have all student housing completed by the beginning of this coming school year.
On Case's campus for the past several years they have had a system set up for freshman Chemistry review sessions (I'm sure it is used for other classes as well). The prof can broadcast the review live to the entire campus and students can call in and ask questions. From experience, I have found this useful in that (1) it saves me the trouble of hiking across campus to Schmitt lecture hall, but more importantly (2) if I have other obligations at the same time the review is going on, I can just record the review and watch it when I find time.
Having the new technology so the "teacher can control lights, sound system and link to the web" will allow more professors to do the same. (Only one TV channel is currently used, so if it is broadcast over the internet, the number of classes you can broadcast simultaneously now increases... well, technically not infinitely, but you get the picture.) Being connected will also allow students to possibly send the prof diagrams, code-snippets, etc... which may improve the quality of the sessions as well.
("We... have ways... of finding out... who.. who... who you are....")
They didn't explain it in the article, but the whole campus is already layed-out with fiber and has been for a while. I graduated about 3 years ago from Case and when I started there 5 years before that, the whole campus was alreayd set up. All they are doing (according to what they told us at alumni meetings) is changing the switch boards in each of the dorms. No wiring is necessary.
Having graduated from CWRU a few years ago, I still visit the campus and sit in on meetings that discuss campus improvements. I was only informed of this technology at the end of this past school year and was, as can be expected, astounded... and also a little jealous of my younger brother who is still going to school there.
In the meeting we were informed that a deal was struck with Sprint and that "in the near future" (possibly 2 or 3 years) they plan on setting up the entire campus with wireless connectivity. Not only will the students' computers be wired, but plans have discussed to get a mobile phone to every student; so rather than have a phone for each room, each student would get a phone now. (And since people that go to school there know that Sprint service currently sucks, I'm sure they will be installing a tower or two on campus as well.)
Plans were also discussed on having all data to-and-from dormrooms be wired through this network within the near future. (All computer network, wire-based phone system, television, etc...)
No doubt.
Here in Cleveland it was perfectly clear skies ALL DAY LONG. I drove my Jeep up to Lake Erie, found a nice place to view the sunset on the lake, and then about a half hour before sunset: the clouds rolled in and blocked everything.
Actually, FM radio is line of sight
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Um... what's YOUR definition of Line of Sight? Because it doesn't appear to be the same as everyone else's definition. (Unless of course, you can "see" radio waves with your eyes!)
If you read the entire article, you would have read:
"LOS systems rely on a high-power transmitter at the base station, an unimpeded line of sight between transmitter and customer, and a highly directional outdoor antenna at the customer premises,
How would you explain people being able to listen to a radio in their house/apartment/dorm-room? (And don't go telling me that "the radio signal goes in through a window and bounces around your house until it finds your radio antenna", because it just isn't true.)
Yes, in my opinion, NASA IS far ahead. They are the only ones that have successfully sent a human to the moon's surface... multiple times too. They have also put many probes into space to study our solar system, our sun, our galaxy, other galaxies, etc... I understand that they too have had failed missions as well, but I still hear about the successful missions as well. I just don't hear about many successful missions from any other organization.
Wow. That was a pretty harsh response. I simply stated "that all I hear about" is failed missions from other countries. I have no interest in researching this information. A simple "yes, it's the media to blame" would have sufficed.
I'm curious to know how many rockets/satellites have been sent into space and successfully completed their missions by countries OTHER than the United States. Seriously, it seems that all that I hear about is Japanese satellites failing to reach their destination or Chinese rockets failing to get into a correct orbit (or even LAUNCH) or Russian solar sails being destroyed on lift-off.... Is NASA really that far ahead of the rest of the world in space (rockets and probes) knowledge and technology? Or is it just that the media only decides to report on failed missions around the world now-a-days?
The company typically code-names its chips after geographical features.
Like Chicago and Memphis and... oh wait. . . nevermind.
I thought that's what you called what the bully vegetables did to the little tomatos [when they beat them to a paste].
... is to put tasers in the vehicles so that even if someone tries to steal something from your car (ie. car stereo/cd/mp3 player) they get zapped and just lie there quivvering until the authorities get there. Of course, in this case, the vehicle should probably call the paramedics as well as the police though.
Thanks for the info. (no sarcasm here) I was actually wondering about the article.
a rsystem/ deepspace_propulsion_000816.html
The article says:
"Voyager I was launched in 1977 to study and photograph the giant planets in the outer solar system...."
and then later says:
"A robotic twin of Voyager I left Earth in 1975 as well. Voyager II is heading in the opposite direction of Voyager I and traveling at a slightly slower speed."
That confused the hell outta me. (Why would they name it "II" if it left 2 years earlier than "I"???)
As for the fastest man-made object, Deep Space 1 would have it I believe with its ion drive (53,100 kilometers per hour):
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sol
I just started reading this a few days ago. Drexler even talks about nanotech "smart-suits" in the book.
Check it out: "Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology" by K. Eric Drexler
http://www.foresight.org/EOC/index.html
From what I remember from my college Physics/Relativity course [info gathered when I wasn't using the class as purely nap-time]: "time is relative". Isn't building a "perfect clock" impossible to do on Earth? In order for it to be accurate, wouldn't you have to create it somewhere in deep-space (ie. no large mass ANYWHERE affecting it) and somewhere where it would have absolutely NO movement (ie. not revolving around a star, not revolving around [the center of] a galaxy, not approaching anything that might be out there between the galaxies, etc...)?
Just curious.
"If you want a lot of hits, put pr0n on the front page. Seems to work, considering pr0n is the most profitable industry on the net..."
Actually, I was more thinking along the lines of "If you want a lot of hits, submit a link to it in the intro of a Slashdot article and watch the numbers climb."
Perhaps they don't thing that thair advertizors can spell well enuff so they R still lookin for new wonz.
1. How does the monthly subscription work? Like DirecTV cards? Is there a cellular modem in each radio? Do you have to type in a security code at the beginning of each month?
2. [the important one] How long will it be until we can download the instructions from the net on how to build one of these puppies on our own from parts from RadioShack?