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The solution is on its way, if you read here
They still have not worked out how photosynthesis does what it does. You can come up with as many cute solutions as you like to the environmental problems caused by our species, if compressing air creates polution, then this is not a solution. I'm not that mathematically literate, perhaps someone has the necessary equations, what I envision is, if you can use photosynthesis to extract hydrogen from water you can then use that to power an infernal combustion engine, with the right carburetta mods. So my idea is something like an artificial leaf type thing that sits on top of your car, if the system is closed ie. the water from the exhaust being fed back up to the leaf. As I said before I don't have the math to work it out. But it would be doable if the leaf didn't have to be too big, the point is, could the current;-) efficiency of photo voltaic cells be beaten by this route. If you have not got the drift of what I'm saying, think about the energy conversion factor of a giant redwood.
Perhaps somebody would have the kindness to explain to me, being an ignorant netizen, why most of the spam emits from America. I cannot ever remember receiving any English spam, perhaps we are deficient.
Reading all this stuff makes me giggle somewhat, I spent many years driving a truck, the idea of my boss not wanting me to know how my truck worked, gives me belly giggles.
Have a look at.
http://www.dollyknot.com
How do I get it to appear as a clickable connection? Typical.
The secret is, who has configuration power?
Just flying an idea, like a kite. Why not explore the hardware solution to the security problem, make the processor identify the human controller via retina patterns, smell, fingerprints etc. the more accurate the process of identity, the more the security. In other words, stand up and be counted.
You have misunderstood me, I know a fair amount about computers, I started out with a TRS80 with 4K of memory and I poked mc into it, with some judicial pokes and it worked, you don't get to do that, unless you understand boolean algebra. I learn from the bottom up, once I know a things architecture I can usually hack it. As of yet the architecture of Linux eludes me, except to observe it seems remarkably baroque. As it turned out I finally managed to get subscribed, surprise surprise. The idea of writing to these guys asking inane questions about sound cards, well no wonder you are an AC. We have the peoples computer, when are we going to get the peoples operating system? We live in a virtual city we need an honest and openly obtainable street guide. Why can't the cathedral and the bazaar stop fighting each other, and give a thought to the rest of the life forms that live here. Us miserable sinners, that live in the land of point and click. I think the main problem is people keep inventing new names for the same things, just to mystify and confuse the uninitiated, KISS does not mean keep it simple stupid. It means keep it secret stupid, to the stupid.
I had a look at the linux-kernel archive and thought I would like to join the list to learn more, I'm 51 and starting to suffer incipient brain rust, so I'm stiill stuck in windoze. I've tried to configure Linux more than once without success. It works but I cannot get it to do anything useful, much to my chagrin. Being on the net is very important to me. When it comes to Linux, I am unable as yet, to achieve net access via Linux. The point is, my subscription request to Majordomo@vger.kernel.org bounced like it was an illegal address, I suspect it was because it was sent from windoze. Linux is what Dos should have been I understand that. You need a fire in your belly to code, mine went out. I always get the feeling with configuring Linux, that a lot of it is unsaid. Is linux being held back by the age gap?
I'm a data whore. I wonder about the moderating process, sometimes people's enlightenment is shackeled or sheckeled by the moderaters preconceptions.
I've sometimes come across a gem with a -1.
Sad bastards sometimes enlighten us more than confident bastards. Put in a nutshell, confidence and arrogance are inversely proportional, to ignorance and innocence.
Simple solution, join Mir onto the ISS make sure you biologicaly quarantine it off, let it rip, grow things in it, lark about abit, have some fun, life would love it 'cos life loves space.
Nobody has noticed how profound it is, that life has gained a foothold, without our planning. I would have thought that it would be cause for celebration, not complaints and noises like ugh. Yeah life causes hassle, big deal. People seem to think that the only communication is words or music or pictures. Life talks to me its incredible diversity, yeah funky fungi too.
Baffles me why all the talk of ditching such a potentialy valuable resource, brew beer in it, can you imagine the premium on such a brew? Wrap it in clear plastic to keep it air tight, grow oxygenators. Why can't Mir be made part of the ISS? The fun part. Create a micro climate. What is the name of honorable mould?
Perhaps we could tinker with its genes and turn it into cheese. Or get really crafty and find something that likes the taste of this mould then build a food chain that ends with a duck.
Yeah ok give him credit, for waking up first. Then ask why he was asleep in the first place. Come on is he really a geek? What does he code in then, apart from toothpaste.
Get two of the highest fastest conventional jets you can find, fly them to the limits. Stretch a long wire between them. Take a conventional spacecraft that is already in orbit bung in a big reel of wire type stuff with a hook on the end of it , bring it down to the level of the conventional jets and point it towards the middle of the wire streched between the jets and connect the hook. then as the reel starts to pay out, apply some sort of braking system to the reel on the space craft, this way you could controllably pass the velocity of the spacecraft to the velocity of the jets. Sort of like using the principle of the catapault on an aircraft carrier, another idea is building a flying slingshot. I know these ideas will be probably be thought crazy, but has any body done a feasability study? Its all maths and materials technology not something I know a lot about. But if the wires had a high elasticity it would help a lot.
Try looking up Fiegenbaum's constant 4.669. You will have to read a fair amount about it, to get the idea. Glieck does a pretty good job with his book Chaos.
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One dot in the wrong place and you are in the wrong place.
I can't believe what I am reading, you are not a bot or something are you? How on earth can I teach you to be yourself. By definition you are saying you are not conscious. Or is it that you just want empty bollocks and a fat wallet and yes I know life is a sexually trasmitted desease with a hundred percent mortality rate. And the only gripe I have with people who commit suicide is how impatient they are.
Hardly. Machines are unpredictable and non-deterministic, just like organisms.
MMM so if we are just like machines upredictable and non-deterministic, maybe you would be so kind as to define, what is predictable, and what is deterministic, because if you are incapable of defining what determinism is and what predictability is, then you are probably incapable of defining what they are not.
well if you would like to come round my pad I'll play my guitar to you, maybe that will explain it.
I have a URL tucked away somewhere, its all for free as well. If you can find it that is. Its a lovely place the internet for hiding things, best damn haystack I ever saw.
And what will you do if you can't have a *formal* *verbal* answer to what consciousness is.... run away and play with some other toys?
From where do you get the idea, that reasoning is verbal? The mind has to be in gear, before the words ever come out, words are only an afterthought after all.
To get any kind of handle on what consciousness really is, usually ivolves a damn lot of suffering
And no I haven't had nails banged through my hands, I've just this got darned ingrowing toeail.
This is loopy, you don't know consciousness is ?????? What, are you not conscious? I know what consciousness is, however because consciousness has a nonverbal essence, I cannot tell you what it is though.
I didn't ever think I was, I am wether, I think I am or not. I do however feel I am. Yum Yum
Sorted or what? move them uptairs when their wallets get stroked. Full wallet and empty bollocks, sum total of human motivation? Is this what we all exist for? Is that it?
Peter.
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I got this problem too, all remedies gratefully received.
An idea I had, I'm not much of a mathematician so I'll leave that to others. Basically build a linear accelerator, strap it to about ten jumbos fill each jumbo, with a dielectric substance, charge each dielectric up on the ground. Arrange each row of jumbos, along either side of the linear accelerator, do it somewhere like the salt flats in Utah. I understand the payload of a jumbo is around a hundred tons or so, ten of them would give you a thousand ton pay load.
So ok the whole assemblage jumbos, linear accelerator containing a rocket, trundles along would it get in the air? hopefully. If you can get it to fly, jumbos get up to their full speed around 700 miles an hour. The linear accelerator could have ten electromagnetic rings. A timed discharge from each capacitor, would accelerate the rocket till it emerged from the end of the accelerator, much faster than 700 miles an hour. Whoosh the rocket fires, the question is, how much fuel would it have to carry to achieve escape velocity.
Is my idea any crazier than a space elevator?
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I dissagree, to understand recursion, you first have to understand 'understand'
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The solution is on its way, if you read here They still have not worked out how photosynthesis does what it does. You can come up with as many cute solutions as you like to the environmental problems caused by our species, if compressing air creates polution, then this is not a solution. I'm not that mathematically literate, perhaps someone has the necessary equations, what I envision is, if you can use photosynthesis to extract hydrogen from water you can then use that to power an infernal combustion engine, with the right carburetta mods. So my idea is something like an artificial leaf type thing that sits on top of your car, if the system is closed ie. the water from the exhaust being fed back up to the leaf. As I said before I don't have the math to work it out. But it would be doable if the leaf didn't have to be too big, the point is, could the current ;-) efficiency of photo voltaic cells be beaten by this route. If you have not got the drift of what I'm saying, think about the energy conversion factor of a giant redwood.
Peter.
Perhaps somebody would have the kindness to explain to me, being an ignorant netizen, why most of the spam emits from America. I cannot ever remember receiving any English spam, perhaps we are deficient.
Peter.
Reading all this stuff makes me giggle somewhat, I spent many years driving a truck, the idea of my boss not wanting me to know how my truck worked, gives me belly giggles.
Have a look at.
http://www.dollyknot.com
How do I get it to appear as a clickable connection? Typical.
The secret is, who has configuration power?
Just flying an idea, like a kite. Why not explore the hardware solution to the security problem, make the processor identify the human controller via retina patterns, smell, fingerprints etc. the more accurate the process of identity, the more the security. In other words, stand up and be counted.
Pete.
You have misunderstood me, I know a fair amount about computers, I started out with a TRS80 with 4K of memory and I poked mc into it, with some judicial pokes and it worked, you don't get to do that, unless you understand boolean algebra. I learn from the bottom up, once I know a things architecture I can usually hack it. As of yet the architecture of Linux eludes me, except to observe it seems remarkably baroque. As it turned out I finally managed to get subscribed, surprise surprise. The idea of writing to these guys asking inane questions about sound cards, well no wonder you are an AC. We have the peoples computer, when are we going to get the peoples operating system? We live in a virtual city we need an honest and openly obtainable street guide. Why can't the cathedral and the bazaar stop fighting each other, and give a thought to the rest of the life forms that live here. Us miserable sinners, that live in the land of point and click. I think the main problem is people keep inventing new names for the same things, just to mystify and confuse the uninitiated, KISS does not mean keep it simple stupid. It means keep it secret stupid, to the stupid.
I had a look at the linux-kernel archive and thought I would like to join the list to learn more, I'm 51 and starting to suffer incipient brain rust, so I'm stiill stuck in windoze. I've tried to configure Linux more than once without success. It works but I cannot get it to do anything useful, much to my chagrin. Being on the net is very important to me. When it comes to Linux, I am unable as yet, to achieve net access via Linux. The point is, my subscription request to Majordomo@vger.kernel.org bounced like it was an illegal address, I suspect it was because it was sent from windoze. Linux is what Dos should have been I understand that. You need a fire in your belly to code, mine went out. I always get the feeling with configuring Linux, that a lot of it is unsaid. Is linux being held back by the age gap?
Utopia is a direction not a destination.
I'm a data whore. I wonder about the moderating process, sometimes people's enlightenment is shackeled or sheckeled by the moderaters preconceptions.
I've sometimes come across a gem with a -1.
Sad bastards sometimes enlighten us more than confident bastards. Put in a nutshell, confidence and arrogance are inversely proportional, to ignorance and innocence.
Notice no sig. Nothing automatic here.
Simple solution, join Mir onto the ISS make sure you biologicaly quarantine it off, let it rip, grow things in it, lark about abit, have some fun, life would love it 'cos life loves space.
Nobody has noticed how profound it is, that life has gained a foothold, without our planning. I would have thought that it would be cause for celebration, not complaints and noises like ugh. Yeah life causes hassle, big deal. People seem to think that the only communication is words or music or pictures. Life talks to me its incredible diversity, yeah funky fungi too.
Baffles me why all the talk of ditching such a potentialy valuable resource, brew beer in it, can you imagine the premium on such a brew? Wrap it in clear plastic to keep it air tight, grow oxygenators. Why can't Mir be made part of the ISS? The fun part. Create a micro climate. What is the name of honorable mould?
Perhaps we could tinker with its genes and turn it into cheese. Or get really crafty and find something that likes the taste of this mould then build a food chain that ends with a duck.
Go mould GO
Come on, we have still got the olympic spirit haven't we? My only quibble is between silver and bronze.
Yeah ok give him credit, for waking up first. Then ask why he was asleep in the first place. Come on is he really a geek? What does he code in then, apart from toothpaste.
Get two of the highest fastest conventional jets you can find, fly them to the limits. Stretch a long wire between them. Take a conventional spacecraft that is already in orbit bung in a big reel of wire type stuff with a hook on the end of it , bring it down to the level of the conventional jets and point it towards the middle of the wire streched between the jets and connect the hook. then as the reel starts to pay out, apply some sort of braking system to the reel on the space craft, this way you could controllably pass the velocity of the spacecraft to the velocity of the jets. Sort of like using the principle of the catapault on an aircraft carrier, another idea is building a flying slingshot. I know these ideas will be probably be thought crazy, but has any body done a feasability study? Its all maths and materials technology not something I know a lot about. But if the wires had a high elasticity it would help a lot.
Drastic problems require drastic solutions
Try looking up Fiegenbaum's constant 4.669. You will have to read a fair amount about it, to get the idea. Glieck does a pretty good job with his book Chaos.
Pete.
One dot in the wrong place and you are in the wrong place.
Complex and simple are perceptual value judgements.
I like the fractal route, a little bird told me Howard Bloom is making nice noises.
I can't believe what I am reading, you are not a bot or something are you? How on earth can I teach you to be yourself. By definition you are saying you are not conscious. Or is it that you just want empty bollocks and a fat wallet and yes I know life is a sexually trasmitted desease with a hundred percent mortality rate. And the only gripe I have with people who commit suicide is how impatient they are.
Hardly. Machines are unpredictable and non-deterministic, just like organisms.
MMM so if we are just like machines upredictable and non-deterministic, maybe you would be so kind as to define, what is predictable, and what is deterministic, because if you are incapable of defining what determinism is and what predictability is, then you are probably incapable of defining what they are not.
well if you would like to come round my pad I'll play my guitar to you, maybe that will explain it.
I have a URL tucked away somewhere, its all for free as well. If you can find it that is. Its a lovely place the internet for hiding things, best damn haystack I ever saw.
and what makes it worse is I have also got a dodgy n o my keyboard.
And what will you do if you can't have a *formal* *verbal* answer to what consciousness is.... run away and play with some other toys?
From where do you get the idea, that reasoning is verbal? The mind has to be in gear, before the words ever come out, words are only an afterthought after all.
To get any kind of handle on what consciousness really is, usually ivolves a damn lot of suffering
And no I haven't had nails banged through my hands, I've just this got darned ingrowing toeail.
This is loopy, you don't know consciousness is ?????? What, are you not conscious? I know what consciousness is, however because consciousness has a nonverbal essence, I cannot tell you what it is though.
I didn't ever think I was, I am wether, I think I am or not. I do however feel I am. Yum Yum
Sorted or what? move them uptairs when their wallets get stroked. Full wallet and empty bollocks, sum total of human motivation? Is this what we all exist for? Is that it?
Peter.
I got this problem too, all remedies gratefully received.
Peter.
An idea I had, I'm not much of a mathematician so I'll leave that to others. Basically build a linear accelerator, strap it to about ten jumbos fill each jumbo, with a dielectric substance, charge each dielectric up on the ground. Arrange each row of jumbos, along either side of the linear accelerator, do it somewhere like the salt flats in Utah. I understand the payload of a jumbo is around a hundred tons or so, ten of them would give you a thousand ton pay load.
So ok the whole assemblage jumbos, linear accelerator containing a rocket, trundles along would it get in the air? hopefully. If you can get it to fly, jumbos get up to their full speed around 700 miles an hour. The linear accelerator could have ten electromagnetic rings. A timed discharge from each capacitor, would accelerate the rocket till it emerged from the end of the accelerator, much faster than 700 miles an hour. Whoosh the rocket fires, the question is, how much fuel would it have to carry to achieve escape velocity.
Is my idea any crazier than a space elevator?
I dissagree, to understand recursion, you first have to understand 'understand'
The best answer is listen to classical music, most of the composers are dead and don't worry about royalties any more. Chopin really blows your mind.