It's worth noting that this would have something most other renewables (solar, wind,... ) lack - a power output that is more or less constant day and night.
How much energy will it take to run this thing? If the ship is using something like an Ion engine that already demands tons of power, this could be a problem.
If laser communication overtakes radio for our own space equipment, it might explain the Fermi paradox - we cannot detect alien civilizations because the communicate with lasers (emitting no radio signals at all), making them undetectable to those not in the path of the beam.
I had my personal website up registered there, brrk.co.cc . It wasn't really public, but it was just a fileserver/webserver for my personal use while on the road. Guess I have to go back to the numerical IP now...
Every time someone comes out with a cool, low-priced tablet (Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, now Nexus 7) the media trumpets it as "the iPad Killer". But it never is, because those tablets occupy a different niche. There will not be an "iPad killer" tablet until there's one in the iPad's price range that truly is better. The Xoom came close...
Find a child and yank out a few teeth - they'll grow new ones eventually. Shoot them up full of Novocaine first and they won't even feel it. I assume no one thinks that's acceptable?
I'll second this. People who work office jobs just don't get enough exercise. The way this works is that, when you're just sitting there, subconscious bits of your mind are thinking "I'm not moving at all! Must be bedtime.", then they try to "go to sleep". This would be true in a pre-industrial world, where anything worth doing involved movement. But now, you're sitting there watching TV or working at your desk, and parts of your brain are "asleep" (causing depression) and parts are alert and conscious.
The solution here is MORE BITS of encryption. Keeping your data private is simply a matter of making sure the strength of your encryption keeps pace with the "enemy"'s computing power (which is vast and growing, but not infinite).
I understand that this might cause ADD, but when will these idiots learn that autism begins in the womb? It's not from tablets, it's not from vaccines, it's genetic.
My friend had an annyoing teenage neighbor who kept shooting paintballs at his house. Rather than call the cops, he figured out how to use his remote on the kid's TV, and switched it to the Playboy Channel the instant his mom walked in.
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It's worth noting that this would have something most other renewables (solar, wind, ... ) lack - a power output that is more or less constant day and night.
http://xkcd.com/369/
How much energy will it take to run this thing? If the ship is using something like an Ion engine that already demands tons of power, this could be a problem.
If laser communication overtakes radio for our own space equipment, it might explain the Fermi paradox - we cannot detect alien civilizations because the communicate with lasers (emitting no radio signals at all), making them undetectable to those not in the path of the beam.
I had my personal website up registered there, brrk.co.cc . It wasn't really public, but it was just a fileserver/webserver for my personal use while on the road. Guess I have to go back to the numerical IP now...
It already is sufficiently mature. People are just still scared of it. Maybe Bill Gates can change that... in Korea at least.
He meant thorium fission reactors, not thorium as a fusion reactor lining.
The danger here, of course, is that this type of thing will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Every time someone comes out with a cool, low-priced tablet (Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, now Nexus 7) the media trumpets it as "the iPad Killer". But it never is, because those tablets occupy a different niche. There will not be an "iPad killer" tablet until there's one in the iPad's price range that truly is better. The Xoom came close...
"All of that energy floating around" is a magnetic field. I only affects iron materials.
I take it this is why we don't/won't have space elevators?
KDE3 is alive and well in the Trinity project: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/
.. also Total Recall.
Find a child and yank out a few teeth - they'll grow new ones eventually. Shoot them up full of Novocaine first and they won't even feel it. I assume no one thinks that's acceptable?
I'm actually O.K. with this.
... a Beowulf cluster of these!
Except this is a sociological fix. It's not new technology, it's a new application of technology.
The hidden advantage of Lenovo is that all their stuff looks 10 years old, so no one bothers stealing it.
destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem.
Well good. It'll spur change. These old media "ecosystems" need to be torn down.
may be technically interesting and very clever, but hardly innovating.
"Technically interesting and very clever" is the definition of innovation.
I'll second this. People who work office jobs just don't get enough exercise. The way this works is that, when you're just sitting there, subconscious bits of your mind are thinking "I'm not moving at all! Must be bedtime.", then they try to "go to sleep". This would be true in a pre-industrial world, where anything worth doing involved movement. But now, you're sitting there watching TV or working at your desk, and parts of your brain are "asleep" (causing depression) and parts are alert and conscious.
The solution here is MORE BITS of encryption. Keeping your data private is simply a matter of making sure the strength of your encryption keeps pace with the "enemy"'s computing power (which is vast and growing, but not infinite).
The fact that this is modded Insightful makes it that much better.
I understand that this might cause ADD, but when will these idiots learn that autism begins in the womb? It's not from tablets, it's not from vaccines, it's genetic.
become legend. Seriously, this is the plot device for I Am Legend. They cure cancer but the virus turns everyone into zombies.
My friend had an annyoing teenage neighbor who kept shooting paintballs at his house. Rather than call the cops, he figured out how to use his remote on the kid's TV, and switched it to the Playboy Channel the instant his mom walked in.