If you want us to buy into your oddball conspiracy then you're going to have to come up with some evidence. The burden of proof is on you.
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"It would be interesting to hear from some of you who know more about this than most people."
Did you miss the question marks in the article? I'm not Katz's biggest fan but sometimes you people are just desperate to jump on him for anything. He was asking for suggestions and you're making it sound like he's lecturing on warfare. If there's a complaint to be made about the article it's that it is almost completely lacking for any assertions on the writers part!
With nanotech, energy collection gets a lot simpler though. In the comic book Transmetropolitan (best comic I've ever read btw) they get most of Earths power by covering Mercury in solar cells and beaming it back via laser or microwave. I don't know how plausible that particular version is but solar power becomes a lot more attractive when the cells are really cheap to produce.
The problem is that the rate of technological advancement is increasing. To see that just look at the technology and science developed in the 20th century compared to all of human history before that point. We may be at the "Ogg make fire!" stage of nanotech at the moment but it's not as far to the "Ogg make neutron bomb!" stage as you think it is.
And do you suppose the crusoe chip is carved out of wood and stone by native craftsmen? No, it's produced using the same nasty chemical processes as other chips. The worst pollution comes from the solvents used to clean the silicon wafers before the actual etching starts.
Also, if all thats standing between us and cheaper space flight is a few million crabs lets just boil them and get on with it.
I agree. In my experience there are actually two companies named Compaq. There's the Compaq that makes utter shit for the Best-Buy crowd. And there's the Compaq that makes fairly kickass servers, laptops and workstations for business use.
IANACPE (Cell Phone Expert) but I think the shielding is only placed between the antenna and the earpiece. It's still free to radiate in all other directions although I would imagine this will cause a slight decrease in range and power.
We just bought a Proliant series server and it comes with a utility called smart-start or something like that which basically asks you which OS you want to load and what settings you want for the RAID and then sets up and configures the system for you. The options were NT, 2K, Netware, Linux and 2 other Unixes as I recall.
If you think about how God would design a chip, obviously God would skip the silicon, copper, angles of any kind, binary computing and everything we consider a computer and just make a better one. Unless he felt like using angles or curves or squiggly lines. He's kind of hard to predict, all that "mysterious ways" business I suppose.
That being said it was a spectacularly arrogant quote.
I'm sorry to flame but how can you say that? What evidence is that based on? You state it as though it were a simple fact. Is there a single nation in the world with a functioning Lasse Fair(e?) economy? How would corporate control be better? Answer all of these questions and your opinion will have some merit, otherwise your just another slashbot.
It doesn't matter how you'd feel. Noone has a right to patent their culture, it's culture you can't just decide not to share it. The whole concept of Public Domain exists on the assumption that certain things are just part of human culture and noone has any more right to them than anyone else.
"In a nutshell, this is the tale of what happens to old gods when they are brought, sometimes without the believers even knowing it, to a country that doesn't really hold a belief in gods - or rather, a belief in traditions"
Did you not read the review or are you just jumping on the bash-the-editors bandwagon? He said what it was about and he said it was a good book. What more do you want, the plot spelled out for you in explicit detail?
Also, which words did you need a dictionary for? Mythology and Nationcentric are the only two words in there that the average 6th grader shouldn't know, maybe you need to spend more than half an hour with the dictionary.
"children have no right to expect privacy from their parents"
I think that statement is a little dated. Legally yes, the parent is responsible for the actions of the child therefore the child has only those rights which the parent chooses to give him/her.
Morally however I think we're approaching a point where the technology is available but shouldn't necessarily be used. Parents have to ask themselves whether knowing what Johnny had for lunch is a good thing.
Children, particularly teens need a certain amount of privacy in order to develop a sense of identity, violating that privacy constantly is IMO a very easy way to produce a poorly-adjusted adult.
Last time I checked DLT4 would hold 40 gb uncompressed and ~80 compressed. Thats 187.5 tapes for each full backup. I think they need something a little more dense, personally.
What exactly is the point of playing Q3 with no textures in 512*300? "Well it looks like shit, and I'm bored as hell but I'm owning those losers who are busy having fun with the game." I honestly can't understand the mentality of people who will sacrifice the game experience for a small boost in their frag count.
Umm actually your wife is very roughly 1.6 meters tall. And what's wrong with using centimeters to measure yourself? 1.80 meters to 1.57 is a perfectly good measurement.
Just because the standard of employment in those countries is poor doesn't give Nike the right to employ young children in dangerous, unhealthy environments for a wage that is a patheticically small percentage of what their labor is worth to the company. How about holding huge multinational corporations to a higher standard instead of comparing them to the average employer in Pakistan.
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If you want us to buy into your oddball conspiracy then you're going to have to come up with some evidence. The burden of proof is on you.
"It would be interesting to hear from some of you who know more about this than most people."
Did you miss the question marks in the article? I'm not Katz's biggest fan but sometimes you people are just desperate to jump on him for anything. He was asking for suggestions and you're making it sound like he's lecturing on warfare. If there's a complaint to be made about the article it's that it is almost completely lacking for any assertions on the writers part!
With nanotech, energy collection gets a lot simpler though. In the comic book Transmetropolitan (best comic I've ever read btw) they get most of Earths power by covering Mercury in solar cells and beaming it back via laser or microwave. I don't know how plausible that particular version is but solar power becomes a lot more attractive when the cells are really cheap to produce.
The problem is that the rate of technological advancement is increasing. To see that just look at the technology and science developed in the 20th century compared to all of human history before that point. We may be at the "Ogg make fire!" stage of nanotech at the moment but it's not as far to the "Ogg make neutron bomb!" stage as you think it is.
If that's true then
1. Why did the military apparently try to hide it?
2. What is the production model going to use to get an initial trajectory?
Not looking for flames, just responses thanx.
And do you suppose the crusoe chip is carved out of wood and stone by native craftsmen? No, it's produced using the same nasty chemical processes as other chips. The worst pollution comes from the solvents used to clean the silicon wafers before the actual etching starts.
Also, if all thats standing between us and cheaper space flight is a few million crabs lets just boil them and get on with it.
I agree. In my experience there are actually two companies named Compaq. There's the Compaq that makes utter shit for the Best-Buy crowd. And there's the Compaq that makes fairly kickass servers, laptops and workstations for business use.
"I'm a big fan of Half-Life in single player mode, but have any FPS games attempted to seriously match it in the past 3 years?"
Go out and buy Deus Ex. Right now. Really, it's that good.
IANACPE (Cell Phone Expert) but I think the shielding is only placed between the antenna and the earpiece. It's still free to radiate in all other directions although I would imagine this will cause a slight decrease in range and power.
I second that vote. Chick tracts are the only things I can think of with more logical errors than Chiu's website.
We just bought a Proliant series server and it comes with a utility called smart-start or something like that which basically asks you which OS you want to load and what settings you want for the RAID and then sets up and configures the system for you. The options were NT, 2K, Netware, Linux and 2 other Unixes as I recall.
If you think about how God would design a chip, obviously God would skip the silicon, copper, angles of any kind, binary computing and everything we consider a computer and just make a better one. Unless he felt like using angles or curves or squiggly lines. He's kind of hard to predict, all that "mysterious ways" business I suppose.
That being said it was a spectacularly arrogant quote.
I'm sorry to flame but how can you say that? What evidence is that based on? You state it as though it were a simple fact. Is there a single nation in the world with a functioning Lasse Fair(e?) economy? How would corporate control be better? Answer all of these questions and your opinion will have some merit, otherwise your just another slashbot.
It doesn't matter how you'd feel. Noone has a right to patent their culture, it's culture you can't just decide not to share it. The whole concept of Public Domain exists on the assumption that certain things are just part of human culture and noone has any more right to them than anyone else.
"In a nutshell, this is the tale of what happens to old gods when they are brought, sometimes without the believers even knowing it, to a country that doesn't really hold a belief in gods - or rather, a belief in traditions"
Did you not read the review or are you just jumping on the bash-the-editors bandwagon? He said what it was about and he said it was a good book. What more do you want, the plot spelled out for you in explicit detail?
Also, which words did you need a dictionary for? Mythology and Nationcentric are the only two words in there that the average 6th grader shouldn't know, maybe you need to spend more than half an hour with the dictionary.
"children have no right to expect privacy from their parents"
I think that statement is a little dated. Legally yes, the parent is responsible for the actions of the child therefore the child has only those rights which the parent chooses to give him/her.
Morally however I think we're approaching a point where the technology is available but shouldn't necessarily be used. Parents have to ask themselves whether knowing what Johnny had for lunch is a good thing.
Children, particularly teens need a certain amount of privacy in order to develop a sense of identity, violating that privacy constantly is IMO a very easy way to produce a poorly-adjusted adult.
Last time I checked DLT4 would hold 40 gb uncompressed and ~80 compressed. Thats 187.5 tapes for each full backup. I think they need something a little more dense, personally.
Which links up quite nicely with the theory that "Karl Marx was a fruit loop" Another concept which speaks for itself.
What exactly is the point of playing Q3 with no textures in 512*300? "Well it looks like shit, and I'm bored as hell but I'm owning those losers who are busy having fun with the game." I honestly can't understand the mentality of people who will sacrifice the game experience for a small boost in their frag count.
Umm actually your wife is very roughly 1.6 meters tall. And what's wrong with using centimeters to measure yourself? 1.80 meters to 1.57 is a perfectly good measurement.
Simple we'll just genetically engineer them to have cold fusion like you said. You can do anything with genetic engineering, don't you watch tv?
Its' significantly more than 24 hours though. Microsoft bashing is fun and all but Win2k is reasonably stable.
How about conclusive physical evidence that your email account works?
Just because the standard of employment in those countries is poor doesn't give Nike the right to employ young children in dangerous, unhealthy environments for a wage that is a patheticically small percentage of what their labor is worth to the company. How about holding huge multinational corporations to a higher standard instead of comparing them to the average employer in Pakistan.
I wish I had mod points for this!