I mean, Optimus Prime, is an 18 wheeler? where the hell does the trailer go when he's a robot.
It simply receeds over the horizon, duh. Weren't you paying attention?
Now, the interesting part is that it's the same desert horizon, regardless of where they're actually at.
So in short, your answer is: Over the horizon, in the desert. That's where the trailer goes.
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It _would_ learn about hacking. Come on. Such an entity would be born in a pure data environment. Getting through a basic firewall would probably seem like jumping over a small fence does to a 6-years old.
I disagree. I think that's like saying that since we're made up of tiny biological factories (our cells) that we should be able to conciously manipulate the world around us on a chemical level. But that's now how it works - there are many, many layers of complexity between our concious thoughts and those low-level functions.
I doubt a purely virtual creature would have any more influence over its existence at such a low level than we do.
Yeah, they'll probably have a good laugh about how quaint and tame early Internet porn was, having been totally desensitized at that point by full sensory immersion porn featuring the genetically engineered offspring of Goatse man and tubgirl.
Which just proves my point... anyone who says Netspeak isn't a threat to the English language needs to take a close look at the precedent of Cockney rhyming slang.
The ham also has an obligation to help reduce interference. Go talk to him about the problem - chances are pretty good that he'll be willing to help out. Then again, some people are just jerks.
For what it's worth, it's not really necessary to run an illegal amplifier to cause interference. The legal limit on some bands is 1500 watts. And on the VHF bands sometimes there are problems with the cable company not properly maintaining their cables, leading to the cable signal causing and being subject to outside interference.
Unless you suspect the ham of being a loon, talk to him first and see if you can find out where the problem is.
Maybe you can explain this to me. If the virtual particles are created in equal proportions of matter and anti-matter (they'd have to be, wouldn't they?), wouldn't you have a matter particle sucked in just as often as an anti-matter particle, meaning no net change in the mass of the black hole?
Apparently I'm missing something here, but all the explanations I've heard of Hawking ratiation are either just how you described it, or way, way over my head in technical terms.
3 out of 4 times, I got a busy signal. Most likely the dispatch center had reached its capacity. If I'd used a landline, though, I'd have gotten an entirely different dispatch center (as I understand the local system, anyway) and would have had a much greater chance of getting an operator.
In this case, it's probably not the technology that's to blame. It's still frustrating as hell to not be able to get through when you need to.
Sorry if I was a little hasty in applying the troll label, but I really don't think power consumption is an issue.
Regular POTS lines can actually supply a fair amount of juice, especially when driving things like mechanical ringers. And no one really designs landline phones to be efficient in their power usage.
Also, remember that at the central office, there's equipment connected to each and every phone line. That equipment consumes power. Each line also has a voltage applied to it, and there's bound to be a certain amount of loss, whether the lines are in use or not.
I once worked with a guy who'd spent time at AOL's NOC. This would have been several years ago, back before they were quite so huge. Back when companies like AOL and Prodigy were standalone services and not glorified ISPs.
He told me how they'd bring up particularly interesting private chat conversations on a big screen so they could all follow along and laugh together.
Maybe he exaggerated, but I never knew him to outright lie. If he said it happened, I think there's a very good chance it did, at least to some extent.
Maybe someone else could verify that this used to go on. I'm sure things are much different now, with AOL being such a huge outfit and presumably having a bit more oversight.
Any other ex-AOL'ers out there who could confirm or deny?
This is a very important point. I can recall, in the past 25 years, having trouble with landline phone service maybe once or twice - and those were local issues (e.g., downed pole from car accident.)
Immediately after the Loma Prieta quake, it took maybe 20 or 30 seconds to get dialtone, but it was there.
On my cellphone, I've had a success rate of 1 in 4 for getting through to 911, even without a natural disaster going on.
Yeah, I use the phone all the time. But it'll be many years before I trust it to the level I trust POTS. It'd be a good start if I could keep my phone running for more than two weeks without it locking up and needing a reset.
Ok, this has got to be a troll. You're seriously concerned about the power consumption of cell phones? Maybe the cell sites themselves consume more power than landline gear - I have no information on that. But the phones themselves? My phone runs for days on a few watt/hours of charge. Replace one incandescent bulb with a compact flourescent and you've saved enough power to run the cell phones for your entire neighborhood.
If you want something to get upset about, try something a little more plausible... like the disposal issues raised by lithium batteries.
Hmm. When I set up my PayPal account, I set it up under my real, full name. Some time back, when I began using the account for business purposes, I just changed it to a business account and entered the name of my business, without providing any proof of anything.
The popularity of ringtones, more than any other single thing, has convinced me that I must finally be getting old. I'm only 27 - that's not really old, right? But ringtones, and the idea of paying real money for them, seem so stupid to me that I must be totally out of touch.
When my phone's not on vibrate, it's set to a tone (one of the factory defaults) that I can distinguish from that of my coworkers when we're at lunch. That's it. I need to know when my phone is ringing, and that does it.
Can you imagine, 20 years ago, paying two bucks for a SID tune on your C-64? Honestly, a lot of these polyphonic ringtones aren't even up to that quality.
In closing, TURN OFF YOUR PHONE, AND GET OFF MY LAWN! Damn kids.
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Impressive maybe, but I still think it would look funny on your resume.
'Invented mauve.'
It simply receeds over the horizon, duh. Weren't you paying attention?
Now, the interesting part is that it's the same desert horizon, regardless of where they're actually at.
So in short, your answer is: Over the horizon, in the desert. That's where the trailer goes.
I disagree. I think that's like saying that since we're made up of tiny biological factories (our cells) that we should be able to conciously manipulate the world around us on a chemical level. But that's now how it works - there are many, many layers of complexity between our concious thoughts and those low-level functions.
I doubt a purely virtual creature would have any more influence over its existence at such a low level than we do.
Ok, so it's probably not going to make you sick... but I DID bite my tongue trying to pronounce that name.
Now if only someone would invent a way to quickly disseminate the information to those who need it...
What do you use to charge this pack?
Yeah, they'll probably have a good laugh about how quaint and tame early Internet porn was, having been totally desensitized at that point by full sensory immersion porn featuring the genetically engineered offspring of Goatse man and tubgirl.
"This is probably because people still have non-random memories."
Pfff. I can remember the opcode for the 6502 halt-catch-fire instruction. I can't, however, remember what I had for breakfast. How's that for random?
Which just proves my point... anyone who says Netspeak isn't a threat to the English language needs to take a close look at the precedent of Cockney rhyming slang.
For what it's worth, it's not really necessary to run an illegal amplifier to cause interference. The legal limit on some bands is 1500 watts. And on the VHF bands sometimes there are problems with the cable company not properly maintaining their cables, leading to the cable signal causing and being subject to outside interference.
Unless you suspect the ham of being a loon, talk to him first and see if you can find out where the problem is.
Not pain-free, but not all that bad. Like getting snapped with a rubber band. Unless you move, of course.
Wasn't nearly as bad as the penicillin shots we had to get when most of my flight came down with strep throat.
Thanks.
For those too lazy to read the article above, I'll summarize it here:
It's magic.
Maybe you can explain this to me. If the virtual particles are created in equal proportions of matter and anti-matter (they'd have to be, wouldn't they?), wouldn't you have a matter particle sucked in just as often as an anti-matter particle, meaning no net change in the mass of the black hole?
Apparently I'm missing something here, but all the explanations I've heard of Hawking ratiation are either just how you described it, or way, way over my head in technical terms.
3 out of 4 times, I got a busy signal. Most likely the dispatch center had reached its capacity. If I'd used a landline, though, I'd have gotten an entirely different dispatch center (as I understand the local system, anyway) and would have had a much greater chance of getting an operator.
In this case, it's probably not the technology that's to blame. It's still frustrating as hell to not be able to get through when you need to.
Sorry if I was a little hasty in applying the troll label, but I really don't think power consumption is an issue.
Regular POTS lines can actually supply a fair amount of juice, especially when driving things like mechanical ringers. And no one really designs landline phones to be efficient in their power usage.
Also, remember that at the central office, there's equipment connected to each and every phone line. That equipment consumes power. Each line also has a voltage applied to it, and there's bound to be a certain amount of loss, whether the lines are in use or not.
I once worked with a guy who'd spent time at AOL's NOC. This would have been several years ago, back before they were quite so huge. Back when companies like AOL and Prodigy were standalone services and not glorified ISPs.
He told me how they'd bring up particularly interesting private chat conversations on a big screen so they could all follow along and laugh together.
Maybe he exaggerated, but I never knew him to outright lie. If he said it happened, I think there's a very good chance it did, at least to some extent.
Maybe someone else could verify that this used to go on. I'm sure things are much different now, with AOL being such a huge outfit and presumably having a bit more oversight.
Any other ex-AOL'ers out there who could confirm or deny?
"plus it never has an error, ever, of any sort"
This is a very important point. I can recall, in the past 25 years, having trouble with landline phone service maybe once or twice - and those were local issues (e.g., downed pole from car accident.)
Immediately after the Loma Prieta quake, it took maybe 20 or 30 seconds to get dialtone, but it was there.
On my cellphone, I've had a success rate of 1 in 4 for getting through to 911, even without a natural disaster going on.
Yeah, I use the phone all the time. But it'll be many years before I trust it to the level I trust POTS. It'd be a good start if I could keep my phone running for more than two weeks without it locking up and needing a reset.
Ok, this has got to be a troll. You're seriously concerned about the power consumption of cell phones? Maybe the cell sites themselves consume more power than landline gear - I have no information on that. But the phones themselves? My phone runs for days on a few watt/hours of charge. Replace one incandescent bulb with a compact flourescent and you've saved enough power to run the cell phones for your entire neighborhood.
If you want something to get upset about, try something a little more plausible... like the disposal issues raised by lithium batteries.
Hmm. When I set up my PayPal account, I set it up under my real, full name. Some time back, when I began using the account for business purposes, I just changed it to a business account and entered the name of my business, without providing any proof of anything.
Use the operating system's default widget set? Pffft. That is SOOO 1993.
Can you imagine how boring it'd be if you already knew where to find, say, the 'minimize' button on EVERY application? Where's the fun in that?
Did anyone else catch the radio chatter as he switched over to the Selina tower frequency? Lots of congratulations from airlines, and one
"Fossett, you're a stud."
The popularity of ringtones, more than any other single thing, has convinced me that I must finally be getting old. I'm only 27 - that's not really old, right? But ringtones, and the idea of paying real money for them, seem so stupid to me that I must be totally out of touch.
When my phone's not on vibrate, it's set to a tone (one of the factory defaults) that I can distinguish from that of my coworkers when we're at lunch. That's it. I need to know when my phone is ringing, and that does it.
Can you imagine, 20 years ago, paying two bucks for a SID tune on your C-64? Honestly, a lot of these polyphonic ringtones aren't even up to that quality.
In closing, TURN OFF YOUR PHONE, AND GET OFF MY LAWN! Damn kids.
Galactic Kansas would, however, be an awesome name for a rock band.
Oh yeah? Well some guy broke in and swiped all of my USB, Firewire, RS-232, AND PCI Express peripherals!
I can see it now... drop a piece of hotdog into a scanner, and your PC starts scrolling out DNA matches.
70% Cow
10% Pig
5% Chicken
3% Rat
2% Cockroach
2% Mealworm
1% Quagga
1% Housefly
6% Other
On second thought, maybe we'd be better off not knowing...