Responding to cpu6502 here, but...
We have plenty of energy to give to all of the world's 7 billion people, and will have for an extremely long time. Current nuclear technologies can serve pretty much as a drop in replacement for coal as far as the power grid is concerned (take a coal plant, add a nuke plant), corn based plastics can largely replace oil based ones, biofuel or electric cars, etc. The future only sucks because you decide to let the incredible mass of energy emitting radioactive metals in our crust go to waste.
"Don't tell me about the future,' said Ford. "I've been all over the future. Spend half my time there. It' s the same as anywhere else. Anywhen else. Whatever. Just the same old stuff in faster cars and smellier air.'
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Responding to AC troll, but what's wrong with being anti-abortion? I'm sure many moderators here would disagree, but it's a legitimate viewpoint. It's my opinion that as soon as it has become a life form with unique DNA, different from both partners, it's not strictly a part of the woman's body- it's an independent life form though it requires nutrition. But that's just me.
Unless you have it in a stream which somehow doesn't all go off once the matter reaction starts, it will be pulsed. Of course, it wouldn't matter much as in "jerky" acceleration if it was done in small chunks, nearly constantly.
Not really- as in I doubt it would be economical to have gigantic particle accelerators running for years on end all over the planet to generate even the small amount of antimatter it takes to reach orbit as opposed to refine a couple million gallons of conventional fuel. Not to mention that fueling a ship on antimatter is far more akin to fueling a ship on nuclear bombs than rocket fuel- total redesign. And I imagine given the nature of antimatter, storage difficulties increase exponentially with size. However, if we could generate a significant amount, it'd be useful in near-light orion style intra and interstellar propulsion.
For IE, yes. For IPv4? Do you realize how long American ISPs are going to wait to roll out IPv6? No matter how many customers ask for it, they're rolling it out approximately 10 years after we've run out of IPv4 addresses, which is last month, which means 2021, at the earliest.
If you're running unpatched servers with no firewall and you've pissed off major hacker organizations, it matters not what operating system you run, you will be compromised.
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Unity, not ubiquity. And I really hope it does not become such...
Well, there's firefox which sorta restarted invention and progress in the browser world...
Europa has intelligent life at our stage of development? Amazing! Thank you random AC on slashdot!
Yeah, basically. I mean nobody with a brain stem really believes that, right? Right?!
We have plenty of energy to give to all of the world's 7 billion people, and will have for an extremely long time. Current nuclear technologies can serve pretty much as a drop in replacement for coal as far as the power grid is concerned (take a coal plant, add a nuke plant), corn based plastics can largely replace oil based ones, biofuel or electric cars, etc. The future only sucks because you decide to let the incredible mass of energy emitting radioactive metals in our crust go to waste.
"Don't tell me about the future,' said Ford. "I've been all over the future. Spend half my time there. It' s the same as anywhere else. Anywhen else. Whatever. Just the same old stuff in faster cars and smellier air.'
I'm hoping for it too...
Woosh.
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By "Apollo-style manned stunts" are we talking a moonshot? If so, and you could give me a source, I would be most grateful.
Besides the fact that zombies... don't exist, this oatmeal should help ye prepare:http://theoatmeal.com/comics/zombie_how
OK, that is... in a phrase, batshit insane.
Responding to AC troll, but what's wrong with being anti-abortion? I'm sure many moderators here would disagree, but it's a legitimate viewpoint. It's my opinion that as soon as it has become a life form with unique DNA, different from both partners, it's not strictly a part of the woman's body- it's an independent life form though it requires nutrition. But that's just me.
I'd like to see where you were getting gasoline for 89 cents a gallon in '03. Or is this a compilation of all global prices period?
We count in hexadecimal.
and if it was accidentally installed by a Sony employee trying to listen to music at work.
Technically everything is physics. Or math, whichever you prefer.
Or if the company that originally sold the games went out of business.
I'd say morrowind's better, still no multiplayer though.
Unless you have it in a stream which somehow doesn't all go off once the matter reaction starts, it will be pulsed. Of course, it wouldn't matter much as in "jerky" acceleration if it was done in small chunks, nearly constantly.
Ugh, libraries of congress please? The length metric being all books in the library being stacked.
We all pretty much know who has the antimatter.
The Illuminati right?
Not really- as in I doubt it would be economical to have gigantic particle accelerators running for years on end all over the planet to generate even the small amount of antimatter it takes to reach orbit as opposed to refine a couple million gallons of conventional fuel. Not to mention that fueling a ship on antimatter is far more akin to fueling a ship on nuclear bombs than rocket fuel- total redesign. And I imagine given the nature of antimatter, storage difficulties increase exponentially with size. However, if we could generate a significant amount, it'd be useful in near-light orion style intra and interstellar propulsion.
No need to be an asshole. I guess you just have a different idea of what "Security through Obscurity" is than I do.
For IE, yes. For IPv4? Do you realize how long American ISPs are going to wait to roll out IPv6? No matter how many customers ask for it, they're rolling it out approximately 10 years after we've run out of IPv4 addresses, which is last month, which means 2021, at the earliest.
If you're running unpatched servers with no firewall and you've pissed off major hacker organizations, it matters not what operating system you run, you will be compromised.