My first introduction to Hitchhiker was through an audio casette on a 4-hour car ride when I was seven. I loved it so much that I devoured the books as soon as I could find them. I can still hear Marvin explaining why the cops on Magrathea died, because he was talking to their ship's computer, and "it committed suicide." HA!
My goal was to get a master materia of each type, as well as maxed out HP-plus and MP-plus and stuff like that. I was killing those magic pots in the volcano. Thank goodness for that x-item cheat^H^H^H^H^H work-around.
However, I got bored after about 120 hrs. Is there any truth to the rumours that you can get a sephiroth clone or an aeris clone? I was a little annoyed that I never got to see most of Aeris's limit breaks.
Did the floating continent actually fall ON the airship? I thought it just cracked up as the world was blowing up. Also, didn't it have some problems earlier in the game, when the espers first came out of the gate?
I'll have to play FFVII for a while now, 'cause I forget how the airship crashes. I thought it had something to do with the crater up north, and they escaped in some sort of jet that was part of the gondola.
And yes, the original airship was not a real LTA aircraft. Man, I hated getting that damn stone. I think that it was the hardest part of the game. Stupid ice cave. I hated the floor with battles where nine undead of some sort would attack, stun everyone in your party, and then slowly kill you, while all you could do was watch and hope someone woke up. Did that ever piss me off. The airship was worth it though. I can still hear the music: Da-da-da-da-dadada-da-dada-da-daaaa...
Yes, but those airships are notoriously dangerous. In FFIII, it doesn't survive the destruction of the world, even though it's flying at the time. In FFVII, there's a spectacular crash, but it's been a while so I forget why.
They should go back to the original design. The very first Final Fantasy airship still functioned after being buried in the desert for thousands of years. Now that's a sturdy product!
Well, we can't have two Bond flicks with the same bad guy doing the same bad thing, can we?
I can see him, watching Bond, smoking some $3 crack, and then he sees an AOL CD and thinks- Hmm, how would an insane super-genius try to threaten the world with CDs. The obvious answer is by blowing up the moon. Jeez. I wonder what they'd call the new Bond chick...
Miss E.C. Laye?
Miss Bea Jaye?
Miss Shae Ven Pussie?
Surely there would be some identifying headers or content. If the servlets find that, then look for the next page and return it. Otherwise, just return the page.
Your ad buster would get better and better as you kept adding more sites to filter out. Like I said, though: I'm probably not the best person to be designing this. I'm sure that hundreds with better knowledge of the web and programming will become annoyed and create these things for us.
So just wire up the hygrometer to the controller of the sprinkler system. Then you don't even have to worry about turning on the water when your field is glowing. Plant the field, hook up the hygrometers, wait, take down the hygrometers, harvest the field. Occasionally spray pest/herbicide if you're into that kind of thing.
Well, if one plant every 100m is sufficient to indicate roughly what the water situation is in a field, and you place them in a square grid (to make it easier) you could get away with a field 500mx600m. Alright, that's a little bit small. You win.
However, I'm sure that you could figure out a way to easily harvest the GM plants separately from the others. Here's a new idea: every once in a while make a row of glowing potatoes. You can then use an automatic picker of some sort to clean out that row. Of course, as an added step, when the potatoes are harvested, run them through a dark room on a conveyor belt and pick out any that glow.
Okay, here's the (possible) solution to your GenEng problems:
Make the potato plants sterile outside of the laboratory. I'm pretty sure this is done for other types of modified organisms. There goes your worries about the modified genes getting out into the rest of the crop.
If the plants are glowing gently, it would be a fairly simple matter to manually remove the fifteen or twenty plants in a field, prior to harvesting. If you plant one or two of these plants separated from the rest of the crop by three or four feet, they would still be a good indicator of dry soil in the rest of the field, but easy enough to identify and remove before the rest of the field is harvested.
Of course, the same thing could be done with a bunch of hydrometers (sp?) - things that measure moisture. I have one for my plants at home. Just get a bunch of them and stick them into the ground around the field. Then, you don't have to worry about GM fears, and, you can re-use them from year to year. Why do some people have to over-complicate things.
That said, cool! I want glow in the dark plants in my house. It'd be much better than night-lights!
If a url redirected to an ad, and then to the real content? If this became widespread, I would whip up a java servlet that would parse the ad page and get the real page, returning it to me. Yeah, there's probably much neater/faster ways to do it, but Apache and JServ are free, and I know how to use them.
Of course, by the time I'd gotten around to doing this, someone else will have already done it in a much neater and faster fashion, so I'll just use that. This would be a white-hat hack. How long do you think it would take a benevolent hacker to work something like that out?
Okay. But isn't the mass of the fused atom after nuclear fusion less than the sum of the initial atoms? This was the first place that we were taught to apply the mass-energy equivalence equation.
I feel that there is a huge difference between fear mongering among the general public and adequate supervision & safety. Everyone understands that planes can be dangerous when used/built incorrectly, but news reporters don't call every flight a "potential airline disaster", and there aren't hordes of people protesting outside of airports... Well, maybe that analogy doesn't work, but I hope I got my point across. No good can come of causing irrational fear in anyone.
Okay. The byproducts of a nuclear reactor are hazardous for a very long time. However, it is much easier to collect and deal with these byproducts than those of fossil fuel generating stations. And, at worst, they will probably only have a localized effect on the environment (barring disasters, of course). Compare this to the thousands of acres of trees dying thousands of miles away from acid rain. Besides, aren't the particulate matter foisted into the air by fossil fuel plants also carcinogens? And unless you have *really* good eyesight, you're not going to see them.
Of all the options available to us, I find nuclear the least intrusive and most effective. Call it the lesser of a hundred or so evils.
I guess I'll need clarification on what "proper" mass is then. If you could, please also include how it figures into at least special relativity, as I am slightly conversant in that as well.
I'm arguing for nuclear powered generating stations. It looks like your post is as well. If this is not the case, I apologize. Could you state your arguments against nuclear power more clearly, please?
But what about the equation:
E^2 = p^2c^2 + m_0^2c^4?
Here mass energy equivalence is being used in a system with non-zero net momentum. Are you telling me that this equation is bunk? We used it in tons of places, conserving energy/mass, and momentum to solve simple systems in my first year quantum course. Of course, I have heard that each new Quantum course first teaches you that everything you have learned so far is wrong, so that may just be the case.
Same reason? Thanks. I thought it had something to do with internuclear forces or something like that. Of course, energy and mass being equivalent and all, what we claim isn't semantically correct. What it should read is something like "The balance between energy and mass reach a new equilibrium, with more energy and less mass, when the atoms (fuse|fission)."
I think you mean to say that the future is fusion power. Fusion involves the joining of two atoms into one, and the energy is released due to the decrease in total mass. Fission is the splitting of large atoms, and the energy is released due to (??? I forget)
Rebuttal time: There is no perfectly clean power source. You may claim that fossil fuels are safer than nuclear fuels, but have you ever seen smog in a city, or listened to the chronic coughs of someone who lives in that every day? And that's just from cars. The coal generating stations of the USian middle-north (whatever you call that area) alone dump thousands of tons of pollutants into the sky, most of which drift over into Canada. This isn't an anti-american post, but I'm just pointing out that the effects of these plants are far-reaching indeed. In fact, it has been determined that it is acid rain from these coal power plants that are destroying the maple tree forests in Quebec, and putting many of their owners out of (syrup making) business.
This is one easily recognizable area where nuclear fission has a distinct advantage. The byproducts of the reactions are relatively small, and completely contained. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't a bunch of them sitting in a (modified) swimming pool somewhere? Fossil fuel plants dump thousands of tons (or maybe millions) into the ecosystems, and there is no way to contain them. I'd personally rather have one pound of solid waste that I knew was hazardous than breathe contaminated air and be slowly poisoned over my entire lifetime.
I feel it is my open mind which has allowed me to avoid the fear-mongering surrounding nuclear power. As such, I will read all replies with the same open mind. If there is anyone who wants to debate the safety of a properly designed and properly run nuclear power plant, state your arguments.
Or the next version of survivor! Nuts to that whole survivor in space theme that pops up in every article about MIR or ISS, we can have something much more entertaining!
The person who survives the radiation poisoning the longest wins free mush (that being all they can eat) for the rest of their life! Not only is it a real life drama, but the prize won't cost the network any more than about fifteen bucks, given the winner's life expectancy!
Have you noticed that artificial intelligence is becoming more and more feared as "natural" intelligence diminishes? Hmm...
That started out as just a sarcastic comment, but now I see some sense to it. If uninformed people would take some time to learn about the problems that AI currently faces, as well as the restrictions we can put on it, as well as the benefits that it can provide us, would this irrational fear still exist? One of the best applications that I have ever heard for an AI application is a "diagnosis machine." An expert system, always ready, always alert, that you describe your symptoms to and it will tell a hysterical mother at 3 in the morning to give their child some asprin, burp them, and put them to bed, or justify their fears and tell them to get the ailing child to a hospital.
This seems to me to be just another case of fear of the unknown. It has parallels to every technology issue unfairly being given bad light in the media. Compare fear of AI to fear of hackers (used in the benevolent sense). John Q. Public does not understand their motives, their methods, or their limitations. Begin fear mongering now.
I wonder how much saner the world would be if people were required to understand things before judging them. Wow! I just independantly stumbled upon the Heinlein concept of grok... That's eerie.
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My first introduction to Hitchhiker was through an audio casette on a 4-hour car ride when I was seven. I loved it so much that I devoured the books as soon as I could find them. I can still hear Marvin explaining why the cops on Magrathea died, because he was talking to their ship's computer, and "it committed suicide." HA!
Boo-urns.
Yeah, I did the same KOTR - Counter-Mime trick as well. I also hooked up Phoenix to a Final Attack, just in case. It helped me out against Ruby.
Hey, do you know what that sleeping guy in the cave through the mines past the midgar zolom (whew, that's a mouthful) does?
My goal was to get a master materia of each type, as well as maxed out HP-plus and MP-plus and stuff like that. I was killing those magic pots in the volcano. Thank goodness for that x-item cheat^H^H^H^H^H work-around.
However, I got bored after about 120 hrs. Is there any truth to the rumours that you can get a sephiroth clone or an aeris clone? I was a little annoyed that I never got to see most of Aeris's limit breaks.
Yeah, well, the entire FFVII plot didn't really make that much sense. It was kinda like watching Akira. Very cool, but completely incomprehensible. :)
Did the floating continent actually fall ON the airship? I thought it just cracked up as the world was blowing up. Also, didn't it have some problems earlier in the game, when the espers first came out of the gate?
I'll have to play FFVII for a while now, 'cause I forget how the airship crashes. I thought it had something to do with the crater up north, and they escaped in some sort of jet that was part of the gondola.
And yes, the original airship was not a real LTA aircraft. Man, I hated getting that damn stone. I think that it was the hardest part of the game. Stupid ice cave. I hated the floor with battles where nine undead of some sort would attack, stun everyone in your party, and then slowly kill you, while all you could do was watch and hope someone woke up. Did that ever piss me off. The airship was worth it though. I can still hear the music: Da-da-da-da-dadada-da-dada-da-daaaa...
Yes, but those airships are notoriously dangerous. In FFIII, it doesn't survive the destruction of the world, even though it's flying at the time. In FFVII, there's a spectacular crash, but it's been a while so I forget why.
They should go back to the original design. The very first Final Fantasy airship still functioned after being buried in the desert for thousands of years. Now that's a sturdy product!
Well, we can't have two Bond flicks with the same bad guy doing the same bad thing, can we?
I can see him, watching Bond, smoking some $3 crack, and then he sees an AOL CD and thinks- Hmm, how would an insane super-genius try to threaten the world with CDs. The obvious answer is by blowing up the moon. Jeez. I wonder what they'd call the new Bond chick...
Miss E.C. Laye?
Miss Bea Jaye?
Miss Shae Ven Pussie?
Surely there would be some identifying headers or content. If the servlets find that, then look for the next page and return it. Otherwise, just return the page.
Your ad buster would get better and better as you kept adding more sites to filter out. Like I said, though: I'm probably not the best person to be designing this. I'm sure that hundreds with better knowledge of the web and programming will become annoyed and create these things for us.
So just wire up the hygrometer to the controller of the sprinkler system. Then you don't even have to worry about turning on the water when your field is glowing. Plant the field, hook up the hygrometers, wait, take down the hygrometers, harvest the field. Occasionally spray pest/herbicide if you're into that kind of thing.
Well, if one plant every 100m is sufficient to indicate roughly what the water situation is in a field, and you place them in a square grid (to make it easier) you could get away with a field 500mx600m. Alright, that's a little bit small. You win.
However, I'm sure that you could figure out a way to easily harvest the GM plants separately from the others. Here's a new idea: every once in a while make a row of glowing potatoes. You can then use an automatic picker of some sort to clean out that row. Of course, as an added step, when the potatoes are harvested, run them through a dark room on a conveyor belt and pick out any that glow.
Okay, here's the (possible) solution to your GenEng problems:
Make the potato plants sterile outside of the laboratory. I'm pretty sure this is done for other types of modified organisms. There goes your worries about the modified genes getting out into the rest of the crop.
If the plants are glowing gently, it would be a fairly simple matter to manually remove the fifteen or twenty plants in a field, prior to harvesting. If you plant one or two of these plants separated from the rest of the crop by three or four feet, they would still be a good indicator of dry soil in the rest of the field, but easy enough to identify and remove before the rest of the field is harvested.
Of course, the same thing could be done with a bunch of hydrometers (sp?) - things that measure moisture. I have one for my plants at home. Just get a bunch of them and stick them into the ground around the field. Then, you don't have to worry about GM fears, and, you can re-use them from year to year. Why do some people have to over-complicate things.
That said, cool! I want glow in the dark plants in my house. It'd be much better than night-lights!
Hmm...
If a url redirected to an ad, and then to the real content? If this became widespread, I would whip up a java servlet that would parse the ad page and get the real page, returning it to me. Yeah, there's probably much neater/faster ways to do it, but Apache and JServ are free, and I know how to use them.
Of course, by the time I'd gotten around to doing this, someone else will have already done it in a much neater and faster fashion, so I'll just use that. This would be a white-hat hack. How long do you think it would take a benevolent hacker to work something like that out?
Excuse me, mister president. You should know. Where can I get some Tang? - Homer Simpson
Okay. But isn't the mass of the fused atom after nuclear fusion less than the sum of the initial atoms? This was the first place that we were taught to apply the mass-energy equivalence equation.
I feel that there is a huge difference between fear mongering among the general public and adequate supervision & safety. Everyone understands that planes can be dangerous when used/built incorrectly, but news reporters don't call every flight a "potential airline disaster", and there aren't hordes of people protesting outside of airports... Well, maybe that analogy doesn't work, but I hope I got my point across. No good can come of causing irrational fear in anyone.
Okay. The byproducts of a nuclear reactor are hazardous for a very long time. However, it is much easier to collect and deal with these byproducts than those of fossil fuel generating stations. And, at worst, they will probably only have a localized effect on the environment (barring disasters, of course). Compare this to the thousands of acres of trees dying thousands of miles away from acid rain. Besides, aren't the particulate matter foisted into the air by fossil fuel plants also carcinogens? And unless you have *really* good eyesight, you're not going to see them.
Of all the options available to us, I find nuclear the least intrusive and most effective. Call it the lesser of a hundred or so evils.
I guess I'll need clarification on what "proper" mass is then. If you could, please also include how it figures into at least special relativity, as I am slightly conversant in that as well.
I'm arguing for nuclear powered generating stations. It looks like your post is as well. If this is not the case, I apologize. Could you state your arguments against nuclear power more clearly, please?
But what about the equation:
E^2 = p^2c^2 + m_0^2c^4?
Here mass energy equivalence is being used in a system with non-zero net momentum. Are you telling me that this equation is bunk? We used it in tons of places, conserving energy/mass, and momentum to solve simple systems in my first year quantum course. Of course, I have heard that each new Quantum course first teaches you that everything you have learned so far is wrong, so that may just be the case.
Same reason? Thanks. I thought it had something to do with internuclear forces or something like that. Of course, energy and mass being equivalent and all, what we claim isn't semantically correct. What it should read is something like "The balance between energy and mass reach a new equilibrium, with more energy and less mass, when the atoms (fuse|fission)."
To prematurely circumvent any nit-pickers.
I think you mean to say that the future is fusion power. Fusion involves the joining of two atoms into one, and the energy is released due to the decrease in total mass. Fission is the splitting of large atoms, and the energy is released due to (??? I forget)
Rebuttal time: There is no perfectly clean power source. You may claim that fossil fuels are safer than nuclear fuels, but have you ever seen smog in a city, or listened to the chronic coughs of someone who lives in that every day? And that's just from cars. The coal generating stations of the USian middle-north (whatever you call that area) alone dump thousands of tons of pollutants into the sky, most of which drift over into Canada. This isn't an anti-american post, but I'm just pointing out that the effects of these plants are far-reaching indeed. In fact, it has been determined that it is acid rain from these coal power plants that are destroying the maple tree forests in Quebec, and putting many of their owners out of (syrup making) business.
This is one easily recognizable area where nuclear fission has a distinct advantage. The byproducts of the reactions are relatively small, and completely contained. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't a bunch of them sitting in a (modified) swimming pool somewhere? Fossil fuel plants dump thousands of tons (or maybe millions) into the ecosystems, and there is no way to contain them. I'd personally rather have one pound of solid waste that I knew was hazardous than breathe contaminated air and be slowly poisoned over my entire lifetime.
I feel it is my open mind which has allowed me to avoid the fear-mongering surrounding nuclear power. As such, I will read all replies with the same open mind. If there is anyone who wants to debate the safety of a properly designed and properly run nuclear power plant, state your arguments.
Or the next version of survivor! Nuts to that whole survivor in space theme that pops up in every article about MIR or ISS, we can have something much more entertaining!
The person who survives the radiation poisoning the longest wins free mush (that being all they can eat) for the rest of their life! Not only is it a real life drama, but the prize won't cost the network any more than about fifteen bucks, given the winner's life expectancy!
This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
-T.S.Eliot(?)
The Hollow Men
Have you noticed that artificial intelligence is becoming more and more feared as "natural" intelligence diminishes? Hmm...
That started out as just a sarcastic comment, but now I see some sense to it. If uninformed people would take some time to learn about the problems that AI currently faces, as well as the restrictions we can put on it, as well as the benefits that it can provide us, would this irrational fear still exist? One of the best applications that I have ever heard for an AI application is a "diagnosis machine." An expert system, always ready, always alert, that you describe your symptoms to and it will tell a hysterical mother at 3 in the morning to give their child some asprin, burp them, and put them to bed, or justify their fears and tell them to get the ailing child to a hospital.
This seems to me to be just another case of fear of the unknown. It has parallels to every technology issue unfairly being given bad light in the media. Compare fear of AI to fear of hackers (used in the benevolent sense). John Q. Public does not understand their motives, their methods, or their limitations. Begin fear mongering now.
I wonder how much saner the world would be if people were required to understand things before judging them. Wow! I just independantly stumbled upon the Heinlein concept of grok... That's eerie.
Don't you just love the way that this is called Moore's "Law", whereas a^2+b^2=c^2 is the Pythagorean "Theorem" no matter how many times it is proven?
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