It was obvious to almost everyone at the time that Tesla's invention could be outright dangerous. Even without knowing much about the detrimental effects of microwaves, the huge lightning bolts emitted by the machine gave something of a reason to doubt its effectiveness.
Its marvelously ineffiecient, as well. MASSIVE amounts of power are disappated with his scheme. There's no way around it. Its completely impractacle. We'd have to charge the entire planet, from the top of the upper atmosphere down 10 miles under the ground. Its impossible.
You know why there where people who thought he might not be someone to listen to? Maybe it was the hallucenations. Or maybe it was the disregard for the safety of his own life. Those aren't little trivial details.
Its not like the media was saying that a Yale graduate is stupid, as many media figures have with Bush. These claims are a little more waranted.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity, and Tesla walked it. That's why he's so cool; that's why he's idolized.
This is exactly why we all need either helmets or umbrellas. To keep from getting hit by debris falling from the sky. I was saved just last week from a flaming meteor because I was wearing my helmet.
"The world's going to end"
"Oh? Nice day for it."
Language is a form of thought control. What you are capable of saying determines what you think about. Read languages of Pao and 1984.
Yep. English stole from other languages. Thats part of our language. In fact, it is likely that the means of creating and altering lingual subsets is built into English can explain why English has more words than any other language by far.
It also explains why it is useful for the internet as a primary language. Everyone can use it to speak the way they think, because there are words to describe that, and if there aren't, they can invent them.
In addition, I believe it explains the success of America in using the free enterprise system. The language has encouraged individuality in thinking for a long time. Developing a society where that leads to profit is therefore extremely benificial. This is not the case for some other languages that promote unity or harmony of language, where everyone must speak the same.
If you don't believe me, then examine the locations where most of the free-thinking goes on - Acadamia. Most of the best graduate and doctorate programs are in the United States, with a few in other places. And in almost all of them, English is the primary language.
I think the most important feature is useablility by people who know nothing, and the ability to extend it quickly. As luck would have it, I'm working on a calendar "server" as well.
I put server in parentheses because servers usually require cgi or jsp, or something equivalent. We are making a prototype using JSP, however, this is difficult for the layperson to set up. A much more useful calendar would be updated via applet which copys itself via an ftp connection, and which is updateable in this fashion, while being viewable using javascript. Extesibility could easily be maintained via Javabeans. Make each event a bean, and then if you ever feel like it, you could connect those to databases, or whatever, and could easily change the javascript output they produce.
I think that pretty much covers everything a calendar should do.
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Its marvelously ineffiecient, as well. MASSIVE amounts of power are disappated with his scheme. There's no way around it. Its completely impractacle. We'd have to charge the entire planet, from the top of the upper atmosphere down 10 miles under the ground. Its impossible.
You know why there where people who thought he might not be someone to listen to? Maybe it was the hallucenations. Or maybe it was the disregard for the safety of his own life. Those aren't little trivial details.
Its not like the media was saying that a Yale graduate is stupid, as many media figures have with Bush. These claims are a little more waranted.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity, and Tesla walked it. That's why he's so cool; that's why he's idolized.
This is exactly why we all need either helmets or umbrellas. To keep from getting hit by debris falling from the sky. I was saved just last week from a flaming meteor because I was wearing my helmet. "The world's going to end" "Oh? Nice day for it."
Language is a form of thought control. What you are capable of saying determines what you think about. Read languages of Pao and 1984. Yep. English stole from other languages. Thats part of our language. In fact, it is likely that the means of creating and altering lingual subsets is built into English can explain why English has more words than any other language by far. It also explains why it is useful for the internet as a primary language. Everyone can use it to speak the way they think, because there are words to describe that, and if there aren't, they can invent them. In addition, I believe it explains the success of America in using the free enterprise system. The language has encouraged individuality in thinking for a long time. Developing a society where that leads to profit is therefore extremely benificial. This is not the case for some other languages that promote unity or harmony of language, where everyone must speak the same. If you don't believe me, then examine the locations where most of the free-thinking goes on - Acadamia. Most of the best graduate and doctorate programs are in the United States, with a few in other places. And in almost all of them, English is the primary language.
I put server in parentheses because servers usually require cgi or jsp, or something equivalent. We are making a prototype using JSP, however, this is difficult for the layperson to set up. A much more useful calendar would be updated via applet which copys itself via an ftp connection, and which is updateable in this fashion, while being viewable using javascript. Extesibility could easily be maintained via Javabeans. Make each event a bean, and then if you ever feel like it, you could connect those to databases, or whatever, and could easily change the javascript output they produce.
I think that pretty much covers everything a calendar should do.