sooo are you saying i should check out the sweet sunset that evening, or prepare for oblivion, or put on some sunscreen, or what? i beg your pardon, i'm just not sure what the proper reaction is when a huge coronal mass ejection blasts a magnetic bubble filled with energetic particles at me.
guess they're not from the east coast either... they put fairfax county down near fredericksburg and DC is out by annapolis (both about 40 miles off target).
no, he's suggesting looking for items that are whiter than the background. an intense burst could be a solar flare (or whatever) or a highly compressed bitstream of alien porn.
at which point of the process does it become silly to you?
1. believing that alien life exists? 2. believing that some of it is intelligent? 3. believing they would intentionally broadcast their existence to the rest of the universe? 4. actively seeking out that sign? 5. looking for it in narrow band radio signals?
no, this totalyl depends on the processor. older processors (pentium3 and earlier) use pretty much the same wattage at idle as when peaked. newer processors definitely use a lot less power when idel, though.
so if he was doing this for ten years, he didn't cost the schools anything (in power) for at least the first 5 years or so.
#1 there's no strategic advantage to nto knowing whether your nukes work or not. so, this study needs to be done.
#2 in case you haven't noticed, keeping secrets is not exactly what our government is good at. in fact we're horrible at it. if our nukes were paper tigers, word would eventually get out. and if the rest of the world were to suddenly realize that our nukes didn't work, that would probably be horrendously destabilizing revelation, with potentially cataclysmic consequences.
For example, in 500AD, President Julius Ceasar of the Roman Empire discovered railroads, which led to Charles Darwin's Voyage, which as every schoolboy knows resulted in the Romans immediately aquiring the knowledge of both Amphibious Warfare and Economics, thus allowing them to finally end their 3000 year war with King Abraham Lincoln of the United States. This expansion led to much unrest amongst the populace, however, and in order to maintain order Ceasar was forced to convert nearly 35% of his worforce into Elvis impersonators.
maybe you're thinking of Voyager? Most of TNG's plots were character-driven. if a character came up with a technological solution, it was usually because he licked his holo-addiction or whatever.
does ALL sci-fi have to be about the technology? is that a requirement?
star trek does a crummy job of predicting plausible technology and its deeper implications on man's place in the universe. but that's like saying Shakespeare's Henry VIII is not very historically informative. it sort of misses the point.
star trek, when it's about something, is primarily about meditations on what it means to be human. the writers would be trying to say something about, i don't know, honor or justice or leadership or whatever. they didn't care about how transporter technology would transform society. they definitely didn't give a crap about scientific principles or bosons or tachyons or whatever.
the science is flawed, and the whole scenario is more than a bit ludicrous.
but i'm ok with that.
is it really a huge problem that the ressikans, a dying culture with limited apparent technology, could build an indestructible, arbitrarily fast probe that could transmit a lifetime of completely real, interactive memories through the enterprise's shields into the brain of picard in a matter of minutes? who cares, that episode rocked.
haha, except it certainly looks like a near-unanimous majority who would rather attack the person who brought the issue up in the first place, insisting that she is incompetent, gay, crazy, and all the other names she correctly predicted she would be called.
it's funny how defensive guys get when their sexism is pointed out to them. any woman who tries to talk about it is of course either just making excuses or is a lunatic with an agenda. the most astonishing aspect is how uniform and predictable the slashdot response is.
i work for a defense contractor on a contract with DISA and i recently had to take that exact "training" course.
i was indeed offended at that section, but let's face it: the war is over, and we lost. download + music = crime. fair use? alternative licensing? an obsolete anachronism and an irrelevant niche, unfortunately.
we had our chance at some very interesting, fundamental change when napster and that scene were first exploding, but we blew it.
i don't know what expansion you played because it wasn't wotlk.
quests are unquestionably more interesting than "go kill 8 spiders". in wotlk, you constantly get to drive vehicles, bomb things from the air, elad a charge up a hill, or take part in quests that truly matter in the world and even change the face of the zone (through phasing). you take part in meaningful battles with zone-wide consequences. you see huge chunks of lore unfurl before your eyes...
speaking of which, did you even do the Wrathgate thing? best thing in WoW ever. look it up on youtube if you missed it.
70-80 unquestionably puts you more in the middle of the lore situation than anything previous. Arthas shows up at least once per zone to threaten you with the wrath of doom or whatever... hell, in icecrown you actually get to BE Arthas for a while!
i understand what you're saying but i strongly disagree. for me and my friends, the game really [i]starts[/i] at level 80. we are not the hardcore elite of the game by any means, either. blizzard has made max-level raiding accessible to anyone with a handful of friends, and that's what me and my handful are doing. it's the latest content with the richest rewards and most complex mechanics and prettiest graphics. there's a heck of a lot more story in the more modern content, as well.
the leveling process takes you through content that is over 5 years old (if you count the open beta). it's outdated graphically and mechanically. the quests are simple and mundane. old players have seen it before, and new players... well, the sooner they see more modern content (and catch up with their friends who have been trying for years to get them into the game) the better.
0-60 in 5 seconds and top speed of 171? that's about the same performance numbers as my family sedan (a chrysler 300C SRT-8) which is DECIDEDLY not a supercar! i did not know my 5-passenger luxury sedan was a viable candidate for lemans.
i paid for windows vista ultimate edition *waits for laughter to die down* but after a few months, i discovered that the machine i installed it on had some dodgy RAM and i had to replace it. i don't know if it was because i changed the RAM or because the bad RAM corrupted something, but after that Microsoft decided that my copy of Windows was pirated, and put a permanent message in the lower-right corner of my machine telling me as much, and refused to let me use certain features, such as the Aero graphics enhancements.
personally, i suggest microsoft take a page from our founding fathers, and adopt a more "innocent until proven guilty" attitude (for example, offering a way to call them up and verify your CD Key) before implementing more draconian punishments upon the convicted!
this is a really good point. an uncompressed image format is crucial, to maximize the ability to recover the bulk of the data despite some degredation.
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sooo are you saying i should check out the sweet sunset that evening, or prepare for oblivion, or put on some sunscreen, or what? i beg your pardon, i'm just not sure what the proper reaction is when a huge coronal mass ejection blasts a magnetic bubble filled with energetic particles at me.
guess they're not from the east coast either ... they put fairfax county down near fredericksburg and DC is out by annapolis (both about 40 miles off target).
according to their interactive map.
your lack of curiosity baffles me.
are you suggesting SETI@HOME invent the universe?
no, he's suggesting looking for items that are whiter than the background. an intense burst could be a solar flare (or whatever) or a highly compressed bitstream of alien porn.
that doesn't preclude communication, which in my opinion is not at all pointless.
at which point of the process does it become silly to you?
1. believing that alien life exists?
2. believing that some of it is intelligent?
3. believing they would intentionally broadcast their existence to the rest of the universe?
4. actively seeking out that sign?
5. looking for it in narrow band radio signals?
no, this totalyl depends on the processor. older processors (pentium3 and earlier) use pretty much the same wattage at idle as when peaked. newer processors definitely use a lot less power when idel, though.
so if he was doing this for ten years, he didn't cost the schools anything (in power) for at least the first 5 years or so.
#1 there's no strategic advantage to nto knowing whether your nukes work or not. so, this study needs to be done.
#2 in case you haven't noticed, keeping secrets is not exactly what our government is good at. in fact we're horrible at it. if our nukes were paper tigers, word would eventually get out. and if the rest of the world were to suddenly realize that our nukes didn't work, that would probably be horrendously destabilizing revelation, with potentially cataclysmic consequences.
For example, in 500AD, President Julius Ceasar of the Roman Empire discovered railroads, which led to Charles Darwin's Voyage, which as every schoolboy knows resulted in the Romans immediately aquiring the knowledge of both Amphibious Warfare and Economics, thus allowing them to finally end their 3000 year war with King Abraham Lincoln of the United States. This expansion led to much unrest amongst the populace, however, and in order to maintain order Ceasar was forced to convert nearly 35% of his worforce into Elvis impersonators.
maybe you're thinking of Voyager? Most of TNG's plots were character-driven. if a character came up with a technological solution, it was usually because he licked his holo-addiction or whatever.
does ALL sci-fi have to be about the technology? is that a requirement?
star trek does a crummy job of predicting plausible technology and its deeper implications on man's place in the universe. but that's like saying Shakespeare's Henry VIII is not very historically informative. it sort of misses the point.
star trek, when it's about something, is primarily about meditations on what it means to be human. the writers would be trying to say something about, i don't know, honor or justice or leadership or whatever. they didn't care about how transporter technology would transform society. they definitely didn't give a crap about scientific principles or bosons or tachyons or whatever.
the science is flawed, and the whole scenario is more than a bit ludicrous.
but i'm ok with that.
is it really a huge problem that the ressikans, a dying culture with limited apparent technology, could build an indestructible, arbitrarily fast probe that could transmit a lifetime of completely real, interactive memories through the enterprise's shields into the brain of picard in a matter of minutes? who cares, that episode rocked.
haha, except it certainly looks like a near-unanimous majority who would rather attack the person who brought the issue up in the first place, insisting that she is incompetent, gay, crazy, and all the other names she correctly predicted she would be called.
it's funny how defensive guys get when their sexism is pointed out to them. any woman who tries to talk about it is of course either just making excuses or is a lunatic with an agenda. the most astonishing aspect is how uniform and predictable the slashdot response is.
i work for a defense contractor on a contract with DISA and i recently had to take that exact "training" course.
i was indeed offended at that section, but let's face it: the war is over, and we lost. download + music = crime. fair use? alternative licensing? an obsolete anachronism and an irrelevant niche, unfortunately.
we had our chance at some very interesting, fundamental change when napster and that scene were first exploding, but we blew it.
i don't know what expansion you played because it wasn't wotlk.
quests are unquestionably more interesting than "go kill 8 spiders". in wotlk, you constantly get to drive vehicles, bomb things from the air, elad a charge up a hill, or take part in quests that truly matter in the world and even change the face of the zone (through phasing). you take part in meaningful battles with zone-wide consequences. you see huge chunks of lore unfurl before your eyes ...
speaking of which, did you even do the Wrathgate thing? best thing in WoW ever. look it up on youtube if you missed it.
70-80 unquestionably puts you more in the middle of the lore situation than anything previous. Arthas shows up at least once per zone to threaten you with the wrath of doom or whatever ... hell, in icecrown you actually get to BE Arthas for a while!
i understand what you're saying but i strongly disagree. for me and my friends, the game really [i]starts[/i] at level 80. we are not the hardcore elite of the game by any means, either. blizzard has made max-level raiding accessible to anyone with a handful of friends, and that's what me and my handful are doing. it's the latest content with the richest rewards and most complex mechanics and prettiest graphics. there's a heck of a lot more story in the more modern content, as well.
the leveling process takes you through content that is over 5 years old (if you count the open beta). it's outdated graphically and mechanically. the quests are simple and mundane. old players have seen it before, and new players ... well, the sooner they see more modern content (and catch up with their friends who have been trying for years to get them into the game) the better.
do lemans cars get pit stops? if so i see no reason it couldn't. handling, of course, is about what you'd expect from a 4000lb car.
but my point was 0-60 in 4 seconds and 171mph is not supercar territory, unless this is 1986.
0-60 in 5 seconds and top speed of 171? that's about the same performance numbers as my family sedan (a chrysler 300C SRT-8) which is DECIDEDLY not a supercar! i did not know my 5-passenger luxury sedan was a viable candidate for lemans.
i disagree. while the men of learning play with their quill pens, the city defenses stay as thin as parchment. BUILD CITY WALLS!!!
i paid for windows vista ultimate edition *waits for laughter to die down* but after a few months, i discovered that the machine i installed it on had some dodgy RAM and i had to replace it. i don't know if it was because i changed the RAM or because the bad RAM corrupted something, but after that Microsoft decided that my copy of Windows was pirated, and put a permanent message in the lower-right corner of my machine telling me as much, and refused to let me use certain features, such as the Aero graphics enhancements.
personally, i suggest microsoft take a page from our founding fathers, and adopt a more "innocent until proven guilty" attitude (for example, offering a way to call them up and verify your CD Key) before implementing more draconian punishments upon the convicted!
that's a horrible idea. now you're counting on dozens of independant parts surviving the 25-year burial instead of just one storage medium.
this is a really good point. an uncompressed image format is crucial, to maximize the ability to recover the bulk of the data despite some degredation.
how very useful his insights must be!