they are not lasers but an energy/matter transition state where energy is made to behave as matter
And if blaster bolts behave as matter, and energy shields block matter, then that would also explain how energy shields block both blaster bolt and physical objects (the reason why the attack on the 2nd Death Star was aborted).
Sure it may be fiction, but it's fun to imagine. Besides, fiction sometimes begins new idea paths that might lead to discoveries and inventions that eventually may lead to fact.
All my life I've gone to sleep around 2 o'clock at night. As a kid, I'd lie restless in bed for about three hours every night.
Then I worked out a mental... imagery thing. That helped alot. In retrospect, it was a form of meditation.
Later I studied kung-fu, and an important part of that is (Buddhist style) mediation. I've always had a "chattery brain", but for months I practiced as best I could before I got anywhere. I'd force myself to sit at least 20-40 minutes every night before going to bed.
After a couple of years I'd reached the point where I could do a 5-10 minute meditation to make me sleepy (after which I fall asleep within 2-5 minutes),
or a 10-15 minute meditation to increase my enegy levels. (Really handy when going to party and feeling tired. After a short meditation, I could be bouncing and ready to go.)
That was 15 years ago. I still sit down briefly before going to bed (now more a body habit than actual mediation). I'm usually alseep within 5 minutes.
And I always sleep deeper after I've meditated.
If I meditate, I seldom dream.
If I don't meditate... lighter sleep, less restful, with dreams.
How can any water powered motor work without conflicting with the first law of thermodynamics?
From what I understand, both fuel and exhaust would be the same... water. Probably the same amount of it too. That sounds very much like free energy to me.
Don't get me wrong... I would really love for any type of water powered motor to work for real. (There appear to be several types.) But I've had a look around, and can't find any links describing the theory or science behind any type of water powered motor.
I remember, in the mid-late 1980's, trying a small console with a 3D screen. It had it's own screen that was set back into a black, plastic box, slanting slightly upwards for viewing ease. It came with a pair of "glasses" that used a spinning disk with holes in it to help with the stereo vision (instead of todays' polaroid filters). The game I tried was a space game that used vector graphics. I think it had a few colours, though I don't remember for sure. It worked really well. I have no idea what it was called.
Yeah, XvT was the best space-sim I've played. The graphics were... okay. But the feel of each ship was awsome. One really got a feel for the metallic clunkyness of some ships (like Y-Wings), and the brittleness of others (mainly TIE fighters). The missions were varied and intelligent, and not simply attack and destroy.
I've often wished for a remake, or at least an upgrade. I too bought a Sidewinder joystick, just for XvT.
The only problem with XvT is that it came out a couple of years too early, before the internet and multiplayer gaming was common enough, and one DirectX version too soon (the next version would've allowed us to play it now, with higher resolution than 800x600.).
That's exactly the point... it's too close to the hardware.
did you miss the part where the guy also bitched that interpreted languages are "too slow"?
Delphi has lost marketshare mainly because of crappy marketing. But damn it's an excellent OO language.
- The code is native.
- You have full OO capabilities (unlike VB, for example).
- You have classes at runtime and proper HTTP. (If I'm not mistaken, and I might be, C++ lacks this.)
- You can write assembly code inside a method/function, if you want/need that detail.
- UI designer.
As far as I can see, Delphi's problems are:
- No support for different platforms. (It doesn't even have a 64-bit compilation yet.)
- Marketing that keeps touting 2-tier RAD instead of proper OO, which is the main reason Delphi is so underrated.
- Too few competent OO developers. C# is running into the same problem, in that it's too easy to drop in and connect a few components to make something simple, whereas a proper, maintainable application really needs to be written with a well thought out business layer in the middle. That ease-of-use makes developers lazy, and attracts lazy developers.
“This lab used to be secret. Most people don’t know it exists,” Caballero told us. Dubbed the “Black Labs,” when I asked about the black cloaks, Caballero said that “we have a lot of other projects going on.”
Other secret projects? Alien research!!! That's how they stay ahead of the curve. I knew it!
Different schools, even different year-groups within the same school can be vastly different.
I went to different schools. In one school I was uber-nerd, with no chance of going to blue-light disco's.
The year after, in the next school, I was a study-head who most weekends was invited to parties (and went, of course:).
In one school, my year-group was really cliquey, while my sisters' year-group was really accomodating.
You we're lucky. So was I. I was never bullied like some of my classmates, because when I was at the bad schools/year-groups I had already learnt better social skills.
I expect the peak load generators to shut down at night and base load generators to shut down as much as they can.
That's what I thought too. But apparently it's too slow (and costly?) to fire them up once/twice each day, so they just keep on running during off peak times. Generation is reduced during off peak times, but not as much as we might like.
Unfortunately, to prevent brownouts, the peak usage of the day combined with the momentum of starting up generators, limits how much power generation can be reduced during off peak times. This means that, although the difference in consumption may vary alot (ex. http://www.solarchoice.net.au/blog/how-do-i-use-electricity-throughout-the-day-the-load-curve.html), power generation cannot vary anywhere near as much. So, during off peak (especially during night time) there is alot of power that currently is not being used.
If we had batteries that could store off peak power, and give it back to us during high peak, then the whole power generation curve could be lowered, and we could save alot of fuel. It has been suggested that electric car batteries may be able to help with this (though I think people would prefer having their cars charged and ready to drive instead). There was a post on/. recently about a type of battery created with enourmous pressure that would be able to store much more energy than current technology batteries. This is where such batteries would be used, while current, cheaper, types of batteries would continue to be in mobiles phones and laptops.
In the meantime, charging electric cars during off peak times won't strain the grid, because much of that power is currently wasted anyway.
I currently set my mobile phone and laptop to charge at night before I go to bed. That way they are fully charged by the morning. Yeah, I might top up the laptop battery during the day, but it's only a top up, and I only need to sometimes.
Also childrens' songs and nursery rhymes today are often modified versions of old songs from our childhood. That's fine, except... Humpty Dumpty does not have a great fall, and does not get injured. Tales such as Hansel and Gretel are never told. Why? To protect kids, unpleasantness has been systematically removed.
(Source: My girfriend works with pre-schoolers.)
Instead you get mindeless crap such as Teletubbies (and it is mindless). Sure, parents can safely leave Teletubbies to babysit, and the kids might be entertained. But it's creativity, learning and playtime lost.
Though some stuff is good, such as Dora who solves problems with her friends.
But old "harsh" tales served a valuable purpose.
For example...
Hansel and Gretel:
- Don't trust strangers giving out sweets.
- Careful of trusting people who give you lots of nice stuff without asking for anything in return.
- When you do realise you're in trouble, you might have to find a way out of it yourself. (Okay, so perhaps baking people alive might not be the best way about it.)
Humpty Dumpty: Please don't sit on a high wall. You might fall and hurt yourself really badly.
And yet, I can't talk on a mobile phone for long, as I get a headache. Not so with a "normal" phone. And no, it is not psychosomatic. It's real. It might not be damaging to me, but could it be damaging to other life?
Maybe it's nothing, may it's something. How do we know for sure?
Research.
She might have a very valid point, despite not being a qualified scientist.
Do we really *know* for a fact that made-made EM radiation has no effect on the bioshphere? Or is that just an assumption? Perhaps we should research that, just to be sure.
There's a big difference between intelligence and wisdom.
I saw a documentary once about a native american who was the last survivor of a little known tribe in the early 1900's. When he saw San Fransisco for the first time, with gas lamps, trams, etc., he said:
The white man is very clever, but not very wise.
Was that foresight, or are we modern people really so blinded by our cleverness that we fail to see our lack of wisdom?
Would a solution be to allow teens to have "credit cards with zero credit limit"? (Not sure what that would be called.) ...meaning that it can only have a positive balance, and that overdrafts can't happen.
- Zero risk for overspending, meaning zero risk for banks and zero risk for parents.
- Electronic transfer of pocket money.
- Perhaps parental overview of transactions.
Perhaps it might also help teens with early budgeting of pocket money, if the "kids" look at their online statements.
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they are not lasers but an energy/matter transition state where energy is made to behave as matter
And if blaster bolts behave as matter, and energy shields block matter, then that would also explain how energy shields block both blaster bolt and physical objects (the reason why the attack on the 2nd Death Star was aborted).
Sure it may be fiction, but it's fun to imagine. Besides, fiction sometimes begins new idea paths that might lead to discoveries and inventions that eventually may lead to fact.
All my life I've gone to sleep around 2 o'clock at night. As a kid, I'd lie restless in bed for about three hours every night.
Then I worked out a mental... imagery thing. That helped alot. In retrospect, it was a form of meditation.
Later I studied kung-fu, and an important part of that is (Buddhist style) mediation. I've always had a "chattery brain", but for months I practiced as best I could before I got anywhere. I'd force myself to sit at least 20-40 minutes every night before going to bed.
After a couple of years I'd reached the point where I could do a 5-10 minute meditation to make me sleepy (after which I fall asleep within 2-5 minutes),
or a 10-15 minute meditation to increase my enegy levels. (Really handy when going to party and feeling tired. After a short meditation, I could be bouncing and ready to go.)
That was 15 years ago. I still sit down briefly before going to bed (now more a body habit than actual mediation). I'm usually alseep within 5 minutes.
And I always sleep deeper after I've meditated.
If I meditate, I seldom dream.
If I don't meditate... lighter sleep, less restful, with dreams.
Doh! I misspellt "crumble". Me fail.
It will cumble?!? Must be made of some new type of material. ;)
How can any water powered motor work without conflicting with the first law of thermodynamics?
From what I understand, both fuel and exhaust would be the same... water. Probably the same amount of it too. That sounds very much like free energy to me.
Don't get me wrong... I would really love for any type of water powered motor to work for real. (There appear to be several types.) But I've had a look around, and can't find any links describing the theory or science behind any type of water powered motor.
I remember, in the mid-late 1980's, trying a small console with a 3D screen. It had it's own screen that was set back into a black, plastic box, slanting slightly upwards for viewing ease. It came with a pair of "glasses" that used a spinning disk with holes in it to help with the stereo vision (instead of todays' polaroid filters). The game I tried was a space game that used vector graphics. I think it had a few colours, though I don't remember for sure. It worked really well. I have no idea what it was called.
Yeah, XvT was the best space-sim I've played. The graphics were... okay. But the feel of each ship was awsome. One really got a feel for the metallic clunkyness of some ships (like Y-Wings), and the brittleness of others (mainly TIE fighters). The missions were varied and intelligent, and not simply attack and destroy.
I've often wished for a remake, or at least an upgrade. I too bought a Sidewinder joystick, just for XvT.
The only problem with XvT is that it came out a couple of years too early, before the internet and multiplayer gaming was common enough, and one DirectX version too soon (the next version would've allowed us to play it now, with higher resolution than 800x600.).
That's exactly the point... it's too close to the hardware.
did you miss the part where the guy also bitched that interpreted languages are "too slow"?
Delphi has lost marketshare mainly because of crappy marketing. But damn it's an excellent OO language.
- The code is native.
- You have full OO capabilities (unlike VB, for example).
- You have classes at runtime and proper HTTP. (If I'm not mistaken, and I might be, C++ lacks this.)
- You can write assembly code inside a method/function, if you want/need that detail.
- UI designer.
As far as I can see, Delphi's problems are:
- No support for different platforms. (It doesn't even have a 64-bit compilation yet.)
- Marketing that keeps touting 2-tier RAD instead of proper OO, which is the main reason Delphi is so underrated.
- Too few competent OO developers. C# is running into the same problem, in that it's too easy to drop in and connect a few components to make something simple, whereas a proper, maintainable application really needs to be written with a well thought out business layer in the middle. That ease-of-use makes developers lazy, and attracts lazy developers.
“This lab used to be secret. Most people don’t know it exists,” Caballero told us. Dubbed the “Black Labs,” when I asked about the black cloaks, Caballero said that “we have a lot of other projects going on.”
Other secret projects? Alien research!!! That's how they stay ahead of the curve. I knew it!
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The egg came first because it came from the eggplant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant
Different schools, even different year-groups within the same school can be vastly different.
:).
I went to different schools. In one school I was uber-nerd, with no chance of going to blue-light disco's.
The year after, in the next school, I was a study-head who most weekends was invited to parties (and went, of course
In one school, my year-group was really cliquey, while my sisters' year-group was really accomodating.
You we're lucky. So was I. I was never bullied like some of my classmates, because when I was at the bad schools/year-groups I had already learnt better social skills.
If so can we see something coming? Dust cloud?
We already know what it looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5onyywptm0
(Sorry, couldn't find a better link.)
I expect the peak load generators to shut down at night and base load generators to shut down as much as they can.
That's what I thought too. But apparently it's too slow (and costly?) to fire them up once/twice each day, so they just keep on running during off peak times. Generation is reduced during off peak times, but not as much as we might like.
/. recently about a type of battery created with enourmous pressure that would be able to store much more energy than current technology batteries. This is where such batteries would be used, while current, cheaper, types of batteries would continue to be in mobiles phones and laptops.
Unfortunately, to prevent brownouts, the peak usage of the day combined with the momentum of starting up generators, limits how much power generation can be reduced during off peak times. This means that, although the difference in consumption may vary alot (ex. http://www.solarchoice.net.au/blog/how-do-i-use-electricity-throughout-the-day-the-load-curve.html), power generation cannot vary anywhere near as much. So, during off peak (especially during night time) there is alot of power that currently is not being used.
If we had batteries that could store off peak power, and give it back to us during high peak, then the whole power generation curve could be lowered, and we could save alot of fuel. It has been suggested that electric car batteries may be able to help with this (though I think people would prefer having their cars charged and ready to drive instead). There was a post on
In the meantime, charging electric cars during off peak times won't strain the grid, because much of that power is currently wasted anyway.
I currently set my mobile phone and laptop to charge at night before I go to bed. That way they are fully charged by the morning. Yeah, I might top up the laptop battery during the day, but it's only a top up, and I only need to sometimes.
I would do the same thing with an electric car.
Also childrens' songs and nursery rhymes today are often modified versions of old songs from our childhood. That's fine, except... Humpty Dumpty does not have a great fall, and does not get injured. Tales such as Hansel and Gretel are never told. Why? To protect kids, unpleasantness has been systematically removed.
(Source: My girfriend works with pre-schoolers.)
Instead you get mindeless crap such as Teletubbies (and it is mindless). Sure, parents can safely leave Teletubbies to babysit, and the kids might be entertained. But it's creativity, learning and playtime lost.
Though some stuff is good, such as Dora who solves problems with her friends.
But old "harsh" tales served a valuable purpose.
For example...
Hansel and Gretel:
- Don't trust strangers giving out sweets.
- Careful of trusting people who give you lots of nice stuff without asking for anything in return.
- When you do realise you're in trouble, you might have to find a way out of it yourself. (Okay, so perhaps baking people alive might not be the best way about it.)
Humpty Dumpty: Please don't sit on a high wall. You might fall and hurt yourself really badly.
Mind you, "hind-sight is a wonderful thing".
Yeah, lights and transportation and warm shelter are so unwise. (facepalm)
I didn't say it's unwise to use technology.
But just doing things without thinking through potential consequences can be quite unwise.
And yet, I can't talk on a mobile phone for long, as I get a headache. Not so with a "normal" phone. And no, it is not psychosomatic. It's real. It might not be damaging to me, but could it be damaging to other life?
Maybe it's nothing, may it's something. How do we know for sure?
Research.
She's just looking at it from another angle.
Please mod parent up. I'm out of points.
She might have a very valid point, despite not being a qualified scientist.
Do we really *know* for a fact that made-made EM radiation has no effect on the bioshphere? Or is that just an assumption? Perhaps we should research that, just to be sure.
but is cool enough to remove heat from the chips.
Why do that? Cold, soggy chips don't usually taste as good.
thermodynamics is some of the coolest math I have ever seen.
Wouldn't it be some of the hottest math you've ever seen?
There's a big difference between intelligence and wisdom.
I saw a documentary once about a native american who was the last survivor of a little known tribe in the early 1900's. When he saw San Fransisco for the first time, with gas lamps, trams, etc., he said:
The white man is very clever, but not very wise.
Was that foresight, or are we modern people really so blinded by our cleverness that we fail to see our lack of wisdom?
Would a solution be to allow teens to have "credit cards with zero credit limit"? (Not sure what that would be called.)
...meaning that it can only have a positive balance, and that overdrafts can't happen.
- Zero risk for overspending, meaning zero risk for banks and zero risk for parents.
- Electronic transfer of pocket money.
- Perhaps parental overview of transactions.
Perhaps it might also help teens with early budgeting of pocket money, if the "kids" look at their online statements.
the discovery of an axe that had the word “axe” written on it in Ugaritic
A conversation in Semitic times:
"What's that?"
"Dunno..." examines the object "...it says on here that it's an axe."