What kind of gaming server WOULD this kind of processing power allow? Imagine the AIs, physics, and real-time geographical updates something like this could support. I know that EVE has a rather massive server and database for their universe but this should kick that server's behind.
Communications with clients would likely be the main bottleneck to keep up with all this but imagine some nifty in-house gaming consoles.
Yes, you too can foster Total Political Disintegration (Normal Mode), Totalitarian Rule (Easy Mode), New Nazi Order (Hard Mode), or Common Sense Government (Insane Mode) by pitting the various German political factions against one another via clever remote control of their computers at home and in the office!
Game Play includes: That's Not My Porn and Child Porn Prisoner internet insertion features, send copies of incriminating e-mails to political rivals and international newspapers, bonus mod features to hack China for bonus points or massive DOS attacks on known enemies of Anonymous (pick a target, any target), and many, many other features that have to be seen to believe. (Especially when taking remote control of laptop cameras to take pictures of Government at home and posting the more interesting captions all over the Internet.)
The German Government, working to make life more difficult for citizens and officials alike. You flew it, you blew it, you rue it. (This software law, that is.)
A lot of that is in response to the ever lengthening copyrights that corporations keep pushing.
"10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or more, the bloody red corps... are running up the score. 8 pirates died, trying to end that spree... of the bloody red corps... of inter-nationality."
Publishers have even more resources than single authors and have a broader reach. If they can't sell a particular book well in twenty years, well, I don't see how another thirty is going to make it better. If it does sell well then twenty years is about time for everyone to have a copy if the publisher has done their work well and made boatloads of cash in the process but you can only sell so many copies of a book before everyone has one or two copies. Even after the copyright is done they are a good book maker and can likely still sell loads of reprints over time but the main rush is gone.
Twenty years is a nice good maximum copyright for publishing a book. Maybe twenty five. Movie rights might be something that is worth something longer given how movie makers love redoing old movies but not the book itself.
If it converts heat to electricity better than other materials that could make things interesting in harsher environments where solar panels aren't practical but extremes of temperature exist (like in desert regions). Match this with a water condenser and hellooooooo water vapor farming.
Static magnetic fields definitely/do/ affect CRT displays, and it doesn't require that strong of a field, either..
They certainly do. One lady in my former workplace got a brand new 23" CRT monitor (bloody heavy and not missing CRTs of that size!) but when me and a co-worker installed it the picture was wonky at the top. We figured--new monitor, CRT, needs to warm up--but after a day or two it was still bad. Tried another--same thing.
At this point we started checking her desk area and discovered that she had a whole box of children's magnets right above her old monitor's location. Didn't affect the 17" CRT but the 23" protested. She even had the darn collection there long enough that it magnetized the metal shelving it was on, affecting the 23" even when we moved the magnets. Put CRT in different spot while someone else replaced shelf--not us for we had done more than enough thanks to her.
Morale of story? Do NOT bring a collection of magnets near your working computer's location. Ever. Yeesh!
Which is why cheaper space travel really needs to be developed not to mention cleaning up the junk already up there by those who think getting rid of it is too expensive.
Well, when it starts blowing up satellites I think that will be even more expensive. Ah well.
Given the remote locations that a lot of small aircraft pass over I'd desire a little redundancy in cases of emergency like, say, a plane crashing in the wilderness or even someone lost.
No satellite, no coordination to locate said craft or survivors. What happens in the case of a solar flare being just powerful enough to really knock it out?
Oops, sorry?
Well, maybe if Canada loses an MP or Prime Minister this way they might get the hint.
I'd toss in the theory that the pre-stresses of an earthquake generate atomic-power level electric currents in the metal ores of the earth's crust. Induction ala the theory that transformers use thus causes electric current to be generated at a certain point in the earth's atmosphere, possibly because it's a good medium for this type of induction.
I read the e-mails as well and, well, I have to side with the prof.
While he was being *gasp* dramatic he did have a point in his first letter. Basically, she politely said 'we tore down your sign and took it while you were away because we 'felt' it was a threatening, mind altering poster and we don't need to ask if you aren't there even if you, the professor, put it up.' There was nothing respectful in that letter--polite, yes; respectful, no--and he let her have it with both barrels in no uncertain terms. Not to mention he's a drama professor and she tore down a poster (of a relatively popular sci-fi drama series, go figure) of material relevant to his profession without asking him first because she didn't like it? In a mild way, she just told the professor his ENTIRE PROFESSIONAL LIFE was offensive to her and she could do whatever she wanted to tear it down and he could do jack.
Yet secretly wish to shoot him when he least expects it ala, "Right at your back, Sarge!", or redirect that bottled up malice towards the folks they're aimed at?
Create a cheap device that creates industrial-use diamond from the carbon in C02 for fashion beads! Or, more seriously, hybrid windows or wall glazing.
That would suck most of the carbon from the atmo right quick.
I vote for a quad flash system that combines the power of 1,000 pro cameras to absolutely ruin the night vision of people walking around at night for hundreds of meters in all directions. Non-lethal, silent, and the soldiers can co-ordinate to look away/close eyes better than terrorists who HAVE to watch the men they are about to attack/ambush at night. Maybe even an invisible, infra red only version mixed in?
Nothing says 'run away' like a weird looking robot thing flashing the light of a hundred suns into your night eyes/night vision goggles. (What would it take to burn out sensors on those kinds of goggles anyway?)
A programming glitch swaps the 'Dangerous/Auto Kill' tags in the hunter/killer drone targeting databases using these technologies with the 'Officers/Senators' ones.
Technology, making more high tech ways for idiots on your side to kill you.
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What kind of gaming server WOULD this kind of processing power allow? Imagine the AIs, physics, and real-time geographical updates something like this could support. I know that EVE has a rather massive server and database for their universe but this should kick that server's behind.
Communications with clients would likely be the main bottleneck to keep up with all this but imagine some nifty in-house gaming consoles.
Yes, you too can foster Total Political Disintegration (Normal Mode), Totalitarian Rule (Easy Mode), New Nazi Order (Hard Mode), or Common Sense Government (Insane Mode) by pitting the various German political factions against one another via clever remote control of their computers at home and in the office!
Game Play includes: That's Not My Porn and Child Porn Prisoner internet insertion features, send copies of incriminating e-mails to political rivals and international newspapers, bonus mod features to hack China for bonus points or massive DOS attacks on known enemies of Anonymous (pick a target, any target), and many, many other features that have to be seen to believe. (Especially when taking remote control of laptop cameras to take pictures of Government at home and posting the more interesting captions all over the Internet.)
The German Government, working to make life more difficult for citizens and officials alike. You flew it, you blew it, you rue it. (This software law, that is.)
My last job had the tech dept install a fingerprint scanner (due to bad store layout mostly). Half the time the stupid thing was broken in some way.
Scanners down? Schools out!
Easy way to dismiss the charges is to for the ISPs to reveal every single cost and bring the truth to light. Let truth and justice prevail!
Uh huh. Not going to happen unless you pry that data from their cold, dead hands.
A lot of that is in response to the ever lengthening copyrights that corporations keep pushing.
"10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or more, the bloody red corps... are running up the score.
8 pirates died, trying to end that spree... of the bloody red corps... of inter-nationality."
It's a case of too little or too much medicine for creativity. Too little does nothing to promote creativity and too much kills it.
Um... no.
Publishers have even more resources than single authors and have a broader reach. If they can't sell a particular book well in twenty years, well, I don't see how another thirty is going to make it better. If it does sell well then twenty years is about time for everyone to have a copy if the publisher has done their work well and made boatloads of cash in the process but you can only sell so many copies of a book before everyone has one or two copies. Even after the copyright is done they are a good book maker and can likely still sell loads of reprints over time but the main rush is gone.
Twenty years is a nice good maximum copyright for publishing a book. Maybe twenty five. Movie rights might be something that is worth something longer given how movie makers love redoing old movies but not the book itself.
If it converts heat to electricity better than other materials that could make things interesting in harsher environments where solar panels aren't practical but extremes of temperature exist (like in desert regions). Match this with a water condenser and hellooooooo water vapor farming.
Static magnetic fields definitely /do/ affect CRT displays, and it doesn't require that strong of a field, either. .
They certainly do. One lady in my former workplace got a brand new 23" CRT monitor (bloody heavy and not missing CRTs of that size!) but when me and a co-worker installed it the picture was wonky at the top. We figured--new monitor, CRT, needs to warm up--but after a day or two it was still bad. Tried another--same thing.
At this point we started checking her desk area and discovered that she had a whole box of children's magnets right above her old monitor's location. Didn't affect the 17" CRT but the 23" protested. She even had the darn collection there long enough that it magnetized the metal shelving it was on, affecting the 23" even when we moved the magnets. Put CRT in different spot while someone else replaced shelf--not us for we had done more than enough thanks to her.
Morale of story? Do NOT bring a collection of magnets near your working computer's location. Ever. Yeesh!
Isn't the problem determining the mathematical pattern, though? Just because the method is new doesn't mean it's not valid and can't be adapted.
Hey, the Foldit programmers were able to model protein structures for Foldit players to solve that even the most advanced computers couldn't.
Perhaps a quasi-crystal simulator that one can manipulate and this create mathematical solutions? (Not a mathematician so dunno if that's feasible)
Which is why cheaper space travel really needs to be developed not to mention cleaning up the junk already up there by those who think getting rid of it is too expensive.
Well, when it starts blowing up satellites I think that will be even more expensive. Ah well.
Given the remote locations that a lot of small aircraft pass over I'd desire a little redundancy in cases of emergency like, say, a plane crashing in the wilderness or even someone lost.
No satellite, no coordination to locate said craft or survivors. What happens in the case of a solar flare being just powerful enough to really knock it out?
Oops, sorry?
Well, maybe if Canada loses an MP or Prime Minister this way they might get the hint.
Aye. At a relatively young 56. Died too early. I'm living for the day when all the cancer cures finally become available to doctors.
Hmm... Electrons suggest electric current.
I'd toss in the theory that the pre-stresses of an earthquake generate atomic-power level electric currents in the metal ores of the earth's crust. Induction ala the theory that transformers use thus causes electric current to be generated at a certain point in the earth's atmosphere, possibly because it's a good medium for this type of induction.
Just a thought.
Obviously these senators aren't superheroes because, well, common sense is a super power.
Perhaps pass a resolution saying that senators must possess an IQ higher than before being considered for office?
I read the e-mails as well and, well, I have to side with the prof.
While he was being *gasp* dramatic he did have a point in his first letter. Basically, she politely said 'we tore down your sign and took it while you were away because we 'felt' it was a threatening, mind altering poster and we don't need to ask if you aren't there even if you, the professor, put it up.' There was nothing respectful in that letter--polite, yes; respectful, no--and he let her have it with both barrels in no uncertain terms. Not to mention he's a drama professor and she tore down a poster (of a relatively popular sci-fi drama series, go figure) of material relevant to his profession without asking him first because she didn't like it? In a mild way, she just told the professor his ENTIRE PROFESSIONAL LIFE was offensive to her and she could do whatever she wanted to tear it down and he could do jack.
I'd be right pissed off too.
Yet secretly wish to shoot him when he least expects it ala, "Right at your back, Sarge!", or redirect that bottled up malice towards the folks they're aimed at?
A tiff for TAT?
Create a cheap device that creates industrial-use diamond from the carbon in C02 for fashion beads! Or, more seriously, hybrid windows or wall glazing.
That would suck most of the carbon from the atmo right quick.
I vote for a quad flash system that combines the power of 1,000 pro cameras to absolutely ruin the night vision of people walking around at night for hundreds of meters in all directions. Non-lethal, silent, and the soldiers can co-ordinate to look away/close eyes better than terrorists who HAVE to watch the men they are about to attack/ambush at night. Maybe even an invisible, infra red only version mixed in?
Nothing says 'run away' like a weird looking robot thing flashing the light of a hundred suns into your night eyes/night vision goggles. (What would it take to burn out sensors on those kinds of goggles anyway?)
Innocent until proven guilty inversed to the extreme: guilty until proven completely, absolutely, with a cherry on top innocent?
Suddenly the market for my Darth Vader costume/portable air conditioning system hybrid opens up!
"This isn't the suspect you're looking for."
A programming glitch swaps the 'Dangerous/Auto Kill' tags in the hunter/killer drone targeting databases using these technologies with the 'Officers/Senators' ones.
Technology, making more high tech ways for idiots on your side to kill you.
Hundreds of pages of tracking and logging every single user in that kind of detail?
And that's why I use Facebook as little as possible.