What you replied to was +1 Funny. Yours is (as far as I can fathom) supposed to be serious. I will attempt to rectify this.
This Planetlet 1.0 specification lacks one major feature of Planet 1.0, which is the existence of a layered architecture. For example, the transport layer (aka mantle) allows for the movement of the data layer (crust). Applications can be built on top of this data layer, with the underlying transport and support layers transparent to their functions.
They already tried that in Oregon. Didn't work, tho'. They just ended up with large chunks of blubber crushing cars. This is the unknown first catastrophic result of NASA's higher, faster, cheaper.
Don't we have to unearth TMA first? Is there a magnetic anomaly in the Tycho crater on the moon? Maybe he was just off by a couple of years. I mean, we've only just started on the ISS, and don't even have a moon base yet. Clarke simply got his dates mixed up.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not an eco-terrorist or anything (actually, I loved the clip where the Russian loggers heaved a Greenpeace member off of their ship into the ocean:). However, are these fog nets large enough to have an effect on the surrounding environment? I know that fog banks are a critical part of the ecosystems on both sides of ridges. Is enough water being harvested to adversly affect anything?
It was different on Arrakis because any moisture they didn't collect would just be collected by the sand trout anyway. Here maybe it will make a difference.
Go so far as to sew a canadian flag on your backpack. The only one who's going to know is the customs official who lets you into the country, and is he really going to care? Just make sure you study the names of the provinces and capitals first. It's much easier than your country, we only have 13, not 50. You could also go the extra step of choosing your "home city" and learning a couple of relevant facts about it to impress people who've only heard about it.
As it would have been better for distancing yourself from the french. Both spanish and french are romantic languages (along with italian, and a few others). This means they are all directly descended from latin. German, on the other hand, is a germanic (wow, where'd they get that name) language, in the same family as english. I've often found that I can *almost* figure out what someone is saying / writing in spanish, just because I took 5 years of french in high school.
Plus there's that whole Oktoberfest thing, where the entire country is soused for a month, drastically increasing all chances of scoring. It's too bad we only do it for a weekend here:(
However, if you can't find your ownership papers anywhere (can you say inquisitive 2 year old?), then after a small inconvenience, I'm sure you can find proof of ownership from the DMV, the dealership you purchased the car from, etc.
Making both parties keep track of any transaction is not only good for accounting reasons, it creates redundancies in case one party happens to (oops) misplace the physical proof that they actually own the software. Any time I've been involved in any purchasing for a company, there have been at least four copies of the purchase order, and at least four of the delivery slip. Plus, the companies we purchased from all had records of our purchases. Granted, it was all hardware, but c'mon folks, really. How hard can it be?
I'm not sure if it is specifically the Vikings, but it is definitely a Germanic language. It contains the prefix wer, meaning "male" or currently, "man". Originaly, there were wermen and women, and the base word, "man" meant "human". The prefix is also used for various forms of lycanthropy, making a werewolf literally a "man-wolf".
Um, I think they went:
Croc
Jumbo
Super-Jumbo
Listed smallest to largest (croc being the first size bigger than the regular marble). But that was just my school. Looking at the names on the screen, they seem pretty pathetic to me. Oh, well, we were kids. I was especially proud of my Pearly Super-Jumbo, and my Root-Beer Croc.
This code was fun for me. With three lives, I'd be very lucky to get past the first three or four levels. I sucked huge at that game. I found it very disappointing that, no matter how much I memorized where each enemy was, where each boss bullet would fly, I'd invariably end up getting killed. Then I found out about this new code, and it opened new doors and new levels for me. I was able to access parts of the game that I previously couldn't. I was able to appreciate the game in all its glory.
Same thing with TMNT III (for which the code also works - 9 lives instead of 3). It's still a challenge to win, but it is possible. The problem with your pool analogy is that you did not get to actually play the game. This is analogous (sp?) to the Rocket Ranger (what a great game) cheat, where if you let the zepplin kidnap the girl, then just wait, and wait, and wait, and at the last second rescue her, you got to see the "guy saves girl kisses girl" end of game sequence. The joy of a game is in playing the game, and if you need a little help playing the game (as I did) then I see no problem to using a code such as this. Why do you think Nintendo made the game genie?
As a side note, I prefer RPG's, where if I'm having difficulty with a particular point in the game, I can wander around getting experience/level ups before going back for a second try.
Now I'm going to put my speakers in the ocean, and start playing "Feelings" over and over again. That'll fsck up the marine biologists when the whales start singing it!
The space-time metric is not unknown to us primitive earthlings. I ran into it in my second year course on relativity. It is called delta s. (I can't make that damn triangle).
My signs may be wrong, but
delta S = delta x - (c * delta t)
Unfortunately, I also forget what it was called. I do remember that whether it was positive or negative had some significance, though. If it was positive, there was an inertial frame of reference in which the two events that the delta was measured between were simultaneous. If it was negative, there was an inertial frame of reference in which the two events occur at the same point in space.
Rods see intensity (ie B&W). A couple more interesting facts: rods react to changes more quickly, and to smaller changes as well. Cones are concentrated around the centre of your eye, whereas there are relatively many more rods in your peripheral vision. This is why it is easier to see movement out of your peripheral vision, and easier to spot something that is a different colour by looking directly at it. Pretty cool if you ask me. Peripheral vision sensitive to movement to spot attacking predators, and central vision sensitive to colour differences to spot hiding prey...
1. Is that is $USD or in my own humble Canadian funny money?
2. Are you talking a complete system (17" monitor, printer, etc.) or just the main box? What kind of video card, RAM, etc?
3. Where is there, and how much will it cost to ship from there to here?
Sorry, the article states that the extra photoreceptor cones are sensitive to a wavelength in between red and green, directly on the range of visible wavelengths. At the most extreme, they would be receptive to a yellow-orange colour, although most of them hover around slightly different shades of green or red. No UV vision for you. (PS - aren't most remotes IR nowadays? Less harmful if you aim it at your eye).
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What you replied to was +1 Funny. Yours is (as far as I can fathom) supposed to be serious. I will attempt to rectify this.
This Planetlet 1.0 specification lacks one major feature of Planet 1.0, which is the existence of a layered architecture. For example, the transport layer (aka mantle) allows for the movement of the data layer (crust). Applications can be built on top of this data layer, with the underlying transport and support layers transparent to their functions.
They already tried that in Oregon. Didn't work, tho'. They just ended up with large chunks of blubber crushing cars. This is the unknown first catastrophic result of NASA's higher, faster, cheaper.
Don't we have to unearth TMA first? Is there a magnetic anomaly in the Tycho crater on the moon? Maybe he was just off by a couple of years. I mean, we've only just started on the ISS, and don't even have a moon base yet. Clarke simply got his dates mixed up.
And the obligatory $3 crack mention goes right here.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not an eco-terrorist or anything (actually, I loved the clip where the Russian loggers heaved a Greenpeace member off of their ship into the ocean :). However, are these fog nets large enough to have an effect on the surrounding environment? I know that fog banks are a critical part of the ecosystems on both sides of ridges. Is enough water being harvested to adversly affect anything?
It was different on Arrakis because any moisture they didn't collect would just be collected by the sand trout anyway. Here maybe it will make a difference.
Not to mention being able to elect a prime minister with a minimum of hassle.
Go so far as to sew a canadian flag on your backpack. The only one who's going to know is the customs official who lets you into the country, and is he really going to care? Just make sure you study the names of the provinces and capitals first. It's much easier than your country, we only have 13, not 50. You could also go the extra step of choosing your "home city" and learning a couple of relevant facts about it to impress people who've only heard about it.
As it would have been better for distancing yourself from the french. Both spanish and french are romantic languages (along with italian, and a few others). This means they are all directly descended from latin. German, on the other hand, is a germanic (wow, where'd they get that name) language, in the same family as english. I've often found that I can *almost* figure out what someone is saying / writing in spanish, just because I took 5 years of french in high school.
Plus there's that whole Oktoberfest thing, where the entire country is soused for a month, drastically increasing all chances of scoring. It's too bad we only do it for a weekend here :(
However, if you can't find your ownership papers anywhere (can you say inquisitive 2 year old?), then after a small inconvenience, I'm sure you can find proof of ownership from the DMV, the dealership you purchased the car from, etc.
Making both parties keep track of any transaction is not only good for accounting reasons, it creates redundancies in case one party happens to (oops) misplace the physical proof that they actually own the software. Any time I've been involved in any purchasing for a company, there have been at least four copies of the purchase order, and at least four of the delivery slip. Plus, the companies we purchased from all had records of our purchases. Granted, it was all hardware, but c'mon folks, really. How hard can it be?
I'm not sure if it is specifically the Vikings, but it is definitely a Germanic language. It contains the prefix wer, meaning "male" or currently, "man". Originaly, there were wermen and women, and the base word, "man" meant "human". The prefix is also used for various forms of lycanthropy, making a werewolf literally a "man-wolf".
Hell, I'm 21. We went through about 2 years of marbles, when I was in grades 4&5, I think. I wonder what's big on the playground these days...
Um, I think they went:
Croc
Jumbo
Super-Jumbo
Listed smallest to largest (croc being the first size bigger than the regular marble). But that was just my school. Looking at the names on the screen, they seem pretty pathetic to me. Oh, well, we were kids. I was especially proud of my Pearly Super-Jumbo, and my Root-Beer Croc.
This code was fun for me. With three lives, I'd be very lucky to get past the first three or four levels. I sucked huge at that game. I found it very disappointing that, no matter how much I memorized where each enemy was, where each boss bullet would fly, I'd invariably end up getting killed. Then I found out about this new code, and it opened new doors and new levels for me. I was able to access parts of the game that I previously couldn't. I was able to appreciate the game in all its glory.
Same thing with TMNT III (for which the code also works - 9 lives instead of 3). It's still a challenge to win, but it is possible. The problem with your pool analogy is that you did not get to actually play the game. This is analogous (sp?) to the Rocket Ranger (what a great game) cheat, where if you let the zepplin kidnap the girl, then just wait, and wait, and wait, and at the last second rescue her, you got to see the "guy saves girl kisses girl" end of game sequence. The joy of a game is in playing the game, and if you need a little help playing the game (as I did) then I see no problem to using a code such as this. Why do you think Nintendo made the game genie?
As a side note, I prefer RPG's, where if I'm having difficulty with a particular point in the game, I can wander around getting experience/level ups before going back for a second try.
That was only if you wanted to play 2-player, with 30 lives each. I personally used this code fot TMNT III.
The correct equation is
(delta S)^2 = (delta x)^2 - (c^2 * (delta t)^2)
I think that S is called the separation. Maybe.
Now I'm going to put my speakers in the ocean, and start playing "Feelings" over and over again. That'll fsck up the marine biologists when the whales start singing it!
I've wrapped tinfoil around my head to keep the PsiCops out.
The space-time metric is not unknown to us primitive earthlings. I ran into it in my second year course on relativity. It is called delta s. (I can't make that damn triangle).
My signs may be wrong, but
delta S = delta x - (c * delta t)
Unfortunately, I also forget what it was called. I do remember that whether it was positive or negative had some significance, though. If it was positive, there was an inertial frame of reference in which the two events that the delta was measured between were simultaneous. If it was negative, there was an inertial frame of reference in which the two events occur at the same point in space.
Also, check out the units - distance.
Come back and ask the DOJ and M$ in 34 years, and they'll be able to tell you all about going around in circles...
I love that band! But why is SDMI in them? If this is some kind of weird, kinky sex thing, I don't want to know about it.
Rods see intensity (ie B&W). A couple more interesting facts: rods react to changes more quickly, and to smaller changes as well. Cones are concentrated around the centre of your eye, whereas there are relatively many more rods in your peripheral vision. This is why it is easier to see movement out of your peripheral vision, and easier to spot something that is a different colour by looking directly at it. Pretty cool if you ask me. Peripheral vision sensitive to movement to spot attacking predators, and central vision sensitive to colour differences to spot hiding prey...
1. Is that is $USD or in my own humble Canadian funny money?
2. Are you talking a complete system (17" monitor, printer, etc.) or just the main box? What kind of video card, RAM, etc?
3. Where is there, and how much will it cost to ship from there to here?
Sorry, the article states that the extra photoreceptor cones are sensitive to a wavelength in between red and green, directly on the range of visible wavelengths. At the most extreme, they would be receptive to a yellow-orange colour, although most of them hover around slightly different shades of green or red. No UV vision for you. (PS - aren't most remotes IR nowadays? Less harmful if you aim it at your eye).
... my girlfriend always asks incredulously, "You're not wearing THAT, are you?" when we go out on a date?