From the article: Kirk and colleagues surveyed soil at 6000 sites, spaced 5 kilometres apart, across England and Wales between 1978 and 2003.
See what happens when you get out and do real research? You find out that the computer simulations accepted previously are all inaccurate as hell! Shocking!
I find that a lot of people who hated the toon-shading made their decisions before they actually saw the GAME. Hell, I was guilty of that myself. The screenshots didn't impress me, but the first time I saw the game actually on display at Video Games Etc I was completely blown away. The animation was the smoothest-looking I think I've ever seen, the characters' motions looked real and solid, everything had -weight- to it. Everywhere I looked in the game, details, details, details! Look at a star through your telescope.. it's actually twinkling. Moths dance around the torches. Link's facial expressions are used well, especially the way his eyes will give you hints about something nearby that you need. I'm looking forward to the new "realistic" Zelda game as well, but I sure hope they haven't lost the feel and movement of Windwaker.
t's a firestorm in the hams-on-Internet world, as some are extremely vocal (with very poor grammar) about keeping "the rif-raf" out with the hurdle of a morse code test for the HF bands. You'd think the sky was falling...
The USA has maintained a "take our ball and go home" attitude on other international issues, and there's no reason to expect anything different here. After all, the US Commerce Department maintains that it reserves final policy control over the authoritative root server. ICANN simply cannot do its job as long as the USA controls (or claims to control) the DNS.
Hard to say how long, but this WILL happen. As soon as one country begins to do it, others will have to follow just to keep up. Best we learn how to deal with it now.
Seeing as how the riot-control beam doesn't penetrate more than skin deep, there shouldn't be a problem unless this uses an external battery pack or something.
Check "Disable application keypad mode" under Terminal Features. Set Initial Keyboard state to "Normal" under Terminal Keyboard. Set the function keys and keypad sequences to "ESC[n~" under Terminal Keyboard.
These 3 options get me "normal" numeric keypad function when remoting into a Linux machine, as well as using vim and the like. YMMV.
Not only that, but hardware providers fall over themselves to lock things down. The Creative Audigy 2, for example, automatically disables its digital audio output when you play DVD-A. While this is probably unimportant since DVD-A appears to be getting nowhere fast, the fact remains that no one forced Creative to do this; they were quite happy to implement it themselves.
Why do you think Google released Google Earth yesterday? Everyone's going to be so busy playing with that, no one will have time to crack Google videos anymore...
a decent internet connection will keep the travelers from feeling too cut off
Except for that pesky lightspeed delay.
PING earth.ssnet (3ffe:ffff:100:f101::1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from earth.ssnet (3ffe:ffff:100:f101::1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=14412874.9 ms 64 bytes from earth.ssnet (3ffe:ffff:100:f101::1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=14412872.3 ms 64 bytes from earth.ssnet (3ffe:ffff:100:f101::1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=14412876.2 ms 64 bytes from earth.ssnet (3ffe:ffff:100:f101::1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=14412874.3 ms
This reminds of the "Ident-I-Eeze" card in "Mostly Harmless". Positive identification in a galaxy full of many and varied life forms was intensely difficult, requiring bodily fluid samples, skin samples, retina scans, fingerprints, etc. It was a major pain.
So all this information was placed onto a single card for ease of use.
By stealing this card, of course, one could become that person as far as any and all security systems were concerned.
If a given country (say, the US) makes intelligence enhancing treatments illegal for moral reasons, then it will get a big heaping dose of reality when it loses out to another country that has been modifying its people left and right. Once that technology is available (and we're nowhere near that point with the brain), anyone who does not adopt it will be at a disadvantage. It becomes something like a prisoner's dilemma; each nation would have to trust each other nation to not allow enhancement of their citizens, while each nation would gain a huge advantage over the others if they _did_.
Not good. But sooner or later we _will_ have to deal with this problem.
I'll bear that in mind. As you probably guessed, I know very little about the actual operation of radio equipment beyond the most basic principles. I've got no problem learning a new term. Thanks for the correction.
That's just it. It's RF noise. Cell phones create modulated RF signals with harmonics on frequencies that radiotelescopes need to be listening on. Imagine trying to hear someone playing a flute from 30 miles away. Now imagine you're trying to hear that flute, standing 50 yards from a raging waterfall. That's like what radio telescopes do right now; it's tricky, but picking signals out of full-spectrum RF noise is what they are designed to do.
NOW imagine trying to hear that distant flute while standing 50 yards from a raging waterfall, and a band starts playing Sousa marches right in your ear. Even if the sound of the distant flute is still reaching you, you'll never ever be able to pick out its waveform from the sound of the band AND the white noise of the waterfall. Especially during the picolo solo.
That'll happen. You wait. Corporations will grant financial support to people who otherwise couldn't afford to support children, or maybe people biologically incapable of having them. The catch? The baby will be genetically programmed to prefer Coke over Pepsi... or Nike over Adidas.. or.. whatever.
Okay, so maybe not. But I bet there are at least a couple of bad sci-fi novels just waiting to be written on the subject.
And here I thought I had thought that concept up myself.
Seriously, though, I've spent a few mental cycles on this problem, and a neuron-by-neuron replacement seems to be the only way to be -certain- that "I" continue to experience the world. Hell, you might even be able to do it in larger chunks than that, but if the technology to do a neuron-by-neuron replacement existed (autonomous neuron-replacing nanobots?) then a complete understanding of the brain wouldn't be needed. Replace the neurons with something capable of creating the same connections at the same speed... Maybe even a faster speed! Accelerate your conciousness like Miles Teg, and watch your own arm break as you try to move it at a significant fraction of lightspeed... okay, that would suck, but the possibility of being able to replace the physical mechanisms of the brain whilst maintaining the same "being" is pretty exciting concept.
The Outer Limits frequently made episodes out of sci-fi short stories. As I recall they even made an episode out of Niven's "Inconstant Moon". I've never seen it, though.
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From the article: Kirk and colleagues surveyed soil at 6000 sites, spaced 5 kilometres apart, across England and Wales between 1978 and 2003.
See what happens when you get out and do real research? You find out that the computer simulations accepted previously are all inaccurate as hell! Shocking!
I find that a lot of people who hated the toon-shading made their decisions before they actually saw the GAME. Hell, I was guilty of that myself. The screenshots didn't impress me, but the first time I saw the game actually on display at Video Games Etc I was completely blown away. The animation was the smoothest-looking I think I've ever seen, the characters' motions looked real and solid, everything had -weight- to it. Everywhere I looked in the game, details, details, details! Look at a star through your telescope.. it's actually twinkling. Moths dance around the torches. Link's facial expressions are used well, especially the way his eyes will give you hints about something nearby that you need. I'm looking forward to the new "realistic" Zelda game as well, but I sure hope they haven't lost the feel and movement of Windwaker.
t's a firestorm in the hams-on-Internet world, as some are extremely vocal (with very poor grammar) about keeping "the rif-raf" out with the hurdle of a morse code test for the HF bands. You'd think the sky was falling...
Know what this sounds like? The September that Never Ended.
The USA has maintained a "take our ball and go home" attitude on other international issues, and there's no reason to expect anything different here. After all, the US Commerce Department maintains that it reserves final policy control over the authoritative root server. ICANN simply cannot do its job as long as the USA controls (or claims to control) the DNS.
Mars's moons are tiny. There are asteroids bigger than Phobos and Deimos combined.
How the hemmoraging FUCK does a curtain cost $8000?
Hard to say how long, but this WILL happen. As soon as one country begins to do it, others will have to follow just to keep up. Best we learn how to deal with it now.
Seeing as how the riot-control beam doesn't penetrate more than skin deep, there shouldn't be a problem unless this uses an external battery pack or something.
Check "Disable application keypad mode" under Terminal Features.
Set Initial Keyboard state to "Normal" under Terminal Keyboard.
Set the function keys and keypad sequences to "ESC[n~" under Terminal Keyboard.
These 3 options get me "normal" numeric keypad function when remoting into a Linux machine, as well as using vim and the like. YMMV.
I love the numeric keypad. It's too bad the damn thing has problems with PuTTY.
You can fix this by twiddling the Keyboard settings in the PuTTY Terminal configuration.
Beats me. As far as I can tell, you don't. Not with an Audigy 2, anyway. You've gotta have analog speakers connected directly to the card.
Here's the official word (look under Digital Speakers).
Not only that, but hardware providers fall over themselves to lock things down. The Creative Audigy 2, for example, automatically disables its digital audio output when you play DVD-A. While this is probably unimportant since DVD-A appears to be getting nowhere fast, the fact remains that no one forced Creative to do this; they were quite happy to implement it themselves.
Why do you think Google released Google Earth yesterday? Everyone's going to be so busy playing with that, no one will have time to crack Google videos anymore...
Sorry, but how exactly is this scary?
TTL doesn't represent how long the request takes to time out. TTL represents the number of hops the ping will make before it "gives up".
Except for that pesky lightspeed delay.
With the world as full of mindless zombies as it is today, I would not be at all surprised.
This reminds of the "Ident-I-Eeze" card in "Mostly Harmless". Positive identification in a galaxy full of many and varied life forms was intensely difficult, requiring bodily fluid samples, skin samples, retina scans, fingerprints, etc. It was a major pain.
So all this information was placed onto a single card for ease of use.
By stealing this card, of course, one could become that person as far as any and all security systems were concerned.
If a given country (say, the US) makes intelligence enhancing treatments illegal for moral reasons, then it will get a big heaping dose of reality when it loses out to another country that has been modifying its people left and right. Once that technology is available (and we're nowhere near that point with the brain), anyone who does not adopt it will be at a disadvantage. It becomes something like a prisoner's dilemma; each nation would have to trust each other nation to not allow enhancement of their citizens, while each nation would gain a huge advantage over the others if they _did_.
Not good. But sooner or later we _will_ have to deal with this problem.
I'll bear that in mind. As you probably guessed, I know very little about the actual operation of radio equipment beyond the most basic principles. I've got no problem learning a new term. Thanks for the correction.
That's just it. It's RF noise. Cell phones create modulated RF signals with harmonics on frequencies that radiotelescopes need to be listening on. Imagine trying to hear someone playing a flute from 30 miles away. Now imagine you're trying to hear that flute, standing 50 yards from a raging waterfall. That's like what radio telescopes do right now; it's tricky, but picking signals out of full-spectrum RF noise is what they are designed to do.
NOW imagine trying to hear that distant flute while standing 50 yards from a raging waterfall, and a band starts playing Sousa marches right in your ear. Even if the sound of the distant flute is still reaching you, you'll never ever be able to pick out its waveform from the sound of the band AND the white noise of the waterfall. Especially during the picolo solo.
That'll happen. You wait. Corporations will grant financial support to people who otherwise couldn't afford to support children, or maybe people biologically incapable of having them. The catch? The baby will be genetically programmed to prefer Coke over Pepsi... or Nike over Adidas.. or.. whatever.
Okay, so maybe not. But I bet there are at least a couple of bad sci-fi novels just waiting to be written on the subject.
And here I thought I had thought that concept up myself.
Seriously, though, I've spent a few mental cycles on this problem, and a neuron-by-neuron replacement seems to be the only way to be -certain- that "I" continue to experience the world. Hell, you might even be able to do it in larger chunks than that, but if the technology to do a neuron-by-neuron replacement existed (autonomous neuron-replacing nanobots?) then a complete understanding of the brain wouldn't be needed. Replace the neurons with something capable of creating the same connections at the same speed... Maybe even a faster speed! Accelerate your conciousness like Miles Teg, and watch your own arm break as you try to move it at a significant fraction of lightspeed... okay, that would suck, but the possibility of being able to replace the physical mechanisms of the brain whilst maintaining the same "being" is pretty exciting concept.
Or maybe that's just me.
The Outer Limits frequently made episodes out of sci-fi short stories. As I recall they even made an episode out of Niven's "Inconstant Moon". I've never seen it, though.
You have caused me to eject soda violently from both nostrils. I salute you.
Dwarf bread, just like mother used to hew...