You sound disappointed. I'm looking forward to the day I can be regenerated after death as a hologram. (As long as there aren't any AI toasters around.)
If your apologizing for sending traffic his way, don't. He deserves it for wasting everybody's time by creating an absolutely addicting cast of characters and storylines. I've never apologized for my sig and I never will.:)
Easy peasy. The light beam travels at the speed of light. Both an external observer and the.5 c traveler experience this. Its easier to understand when you realize that as speed increases, the rate of time decreases. So the.5 c traveler is moving faster but is watching slower.
Someone around here has a sig that goes, Common sense is what tells us the world is flat. I've always loved that. Especially when my wife tells me I've got book smarts but no common sense. I thank her.
How about the kid who discovered a brand new mathematical theorum during study hall? (Posted on/. awhile back, i'm too lazy to look it up.) The truth is that many, if not most, discoveries are accidents. From penicillin to plastics, they were stumbled upon. Does it take a PhD to have an accident? My 6 year-old says no.
One computer expert illustrates the rapid advancement of personal computing by estimating that if the automobile business had developed like the computer business, a Rolls-Royce would now cost $2.75 and run three million miles on a gallon of gas.
There's a rebuttal list to this comment made by the head of some automotive company. I can't locate it right now though. Anyone else remember this? It was, of course, directed at MS with items such as: "And they (the cars) would stop running for apparently no reason, after which you would stop the engine, restart it and continue as if if nothing was unusual." and "When the roads were repaved would have to buy another car." I wish I could find the whole list.
Just wait till somebody monitors you and cans you for some pornography popover that came up while you were reading an article
My first thoughts exactly. I've noticed a growing "Guilty, until proven innocent" mindset lately. Nevermind if you didn't do it, it looks like you did it, so fire first (no pun intended(ok maybe a little)) and ask questions later.
My wife once tried searching for information on Erector Sets for my son's birthday. Guess what happened. She spent 10 minutes desparately battling the flood of porn popups hoping to kill the last one before any children came in. I could have done the same thing at work and ended up a lot worse off.
ROTFLMAO!
I read "Kerplunk" and had a vision of Erwin in his new Lego suit playing with my daughter. Not to mention that the word "Kerplunk" is just funny all by itself.:)
That wasn't the point of the demonstration. We already have computers that can play chess. This was to demonstrate the movement of physical objects though vibration. They could have used self-dealing cards or a self-setting dinner table. At least try staying OT when trashing an article.
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The prototype suit weighs 18 kilograms, but Yamamoto believes he will be able to cut the weight in half for a commercial version.
So why don't they design it to support itself? Have the person stand on platforms attached to the leg braces so that the suit is on the ground, not the wearer? Who cares how heavy it is if the person using it doesn't have to carry it? Do I have to think of everything? Can I post a sentence that isn't a question?
the scarey thing is that the 'destruction' probably consisted of tossing the drive in the garbage where any spook would be happy to dumpster dive and retrieve all of this data from one place.
I know your comment was probably just a joke, but I have to reply anyway. I worked in several high security offices in the US Air Force, and I can assure you that classified destruction is taken *very* seriously. In the case of hard drives, the drives are reformatted, disassembled and the platters are sanded until they turn from a nice rust color to a pretty burnished silver. In the military's eyes, there is no such thing as overkill.
Actually, this seems like the perfect answer to the threat of a Earth-asteroid collision. It seems highly unlikely that we would not know of an immenant collision well before it actually happened. The problem has always been, what do we do about it? Well now the answer is, bank-shot it away! By nudging one of the smaller rocks, we could aim it the offender and knock it off course with less effort than trying to affect the trouble maker itself.
Unfortunately, that occasional sociopath is all it takes to ruin everything for many others. While I agree with you that most people will work together in with the spirit of cooperation, I also think the original poster is right. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel. (Did I really say that?)
The studies published Monday conclude that proposals to limit companies from sharing or selling customer information without permission would cost 90 of the largest financial institutions $17 billion a year of added expenses, and would result in a $1 billion "information tax" on consumers through costs tacked onto products from catalogs and Internet retailers.
I can't sell your information so I'm going to charge you extra. Something here doesn't sound right. Like 90 of the "largest financial institutions" couldn't handle 17 billion less in income. Cry me a river.
Imagine moving that fast and twitching your arm or leg. You'd go tumbling completely out of control and be damn lucky not to have a limb torn off. And this guy thinks he'll land 50 feet from his launch site? Crazy is only half this guys problem.
Except that jurors are selected by the defense and procecuting lawyers. This process is designed to create a jury that is as impartial as possible. People educated in a subject related to the case will most likely pose a threat to one side or the other and would not (and should not) be selected. The jury needs to concentrate on making a decision based on the facts presented in the case. They should not (and usually cannot) worry about deciding which facts are true. This seems to be a great solution to what has been a problem for a long time.
Atom holography is another stunning idea. Instead of making an image in light as done in conventional holography, atom optics would make the hologram of atoms. "What this means is, we could make a real, 3-dimensional replica of some object. We could copy objects." Meystre said.
So when do we get food replicators, transporters, and holo-decks? All kidding aside, atom holography seems to make this all possible.
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You sound disappointed. I'm looking forward to the day I can be regenerated after death as a hologram. (As long as there aren't any AI toasters around.)
If your apologizing for sending traffic his way, don't. He deserves it for wasting everybody's time by creating an absolutely addicting cast of characters and storylines. I've never apologized for my sig and I never will. :)
Easy peasy. The light beam travels at the speed of light. Both an external observer and the .5 c traveler experience this. Its easier to understand when you realize that as speed increases, the rate of time decreases. So the .5 c traveler is moving faster but is watching slower.
Someone around here has a sig that goes, Common sense is what tells us the world is flat.
I've always loved that. Especially when my wife tells me I've got book smarts but no common sense. I thank her.
How about the kid who discovered a brand new mathematical theorum during study hall? (Posted on /. awhile back, i'm too lazy to look it up.) The truth is that many, if not most, discoveries are accidents. From penicillin to plastics, they were stumbled upon. Does it take a PhD to have an accident? My 6 year-old says no.
That's the one! Thanks. :)
There's a rebuttal list to this comment made by the head of some automotive company. I can't locate it right now though. Anyone else remember this? It was, of course, directed at MS with items such as: "And they (the cars) would stop running for apparently no reason, after which you would stop the engine, restart it and continue as if if nothing was unusual." and "When the roads were repaved would have to buy another car." I wish I could find the whole list.
My first thoughts exactly. I've noticed a growing "Guilty, until proven innocent" mindset lately. Nevermind if you didn't do it, it looks like you did it, so fire first (no pun intended(ok maybe a little)) and ask questions later.
My wife once tried searching for information on Erector Sets for my son's birthday. Guess what happened. She spent 10 minutes desparately battling the flood of porn popups hoping to kill the last one before any children came in. I could have done the same thing at work and ended up a lot worse off.
ROTFLMAO! I read "Kerplunk" and had a vision of Erwin in his new Lego suit playing with my daughter. Not to mention that the word "Kerplunk" is just funny all by itself. :)
LOL!! I'd mod you up for your sig if I could. :)
That wasn't the point of the demonstration. We already have computers that can play chess. This was to demonstrate the movement of physical objects though vibration. They could have used self-dealing cards or a self-setting dinner table. At least try staying OT when trashing an article.
So why don't they design it to support itself? Have the person stand on platforms attached to the leg braces so that the suit is on the ground, not the wearer? Who cares how heavy it is if the person using it doesn't have to carry it? Do I have to think of everything? Can I post a sentence that isn't a question?
I know your comment was probably just a joke, but I have to reply anyway. I worked in several high security offices in the US Air Force, and I can assure you that classified destruction is taken *very* seriously. In the case of hard drives, the drives are reformatted, disassembled and the platters are sanded until they turn from a nice rust color to a pretty burnished silver. In the military's eyes, there is no such thing as overkill.
Well, each to his own, but I can't stand Stern. Barsky rules.
They were observing the so-called auroral oval
How could this be the first aurora observed when they found it while looking at aurora?
So am I.
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Nothing alternative about this! Just awesome rock!
Actually, this seems like the perfect answer to the threat of a Earth-asteroid collision. It seems highly unlikely that we would not know of an immenant collision well before it actually happened. The problem has always been, what do we do about it? Well now the answer is, bank-shot it away! By nudging one of the smaller rocks, we could aim it the offender and knock it off course with less effort than trying to affect the trouble maker itself.
...he takes me with him.
Unfortunately, that occasional sociopath is all it takes to ruin everything for many others. While I agree with you that most people will work together in with the spirit of cooperation, I also think the original poster is right. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel. (Did I really say that?)
Nothing and forever are big terms. What he didn't list were the things that *are* still under the radar. And that's the whole point.
I can't sell your information so I'm going to charge you extra. Something here doesn't sound right. Like 90 of the "largest financial institutions" couldn't handle 17 billion less in income. Cry me a river.
Imagine moving that fast and twitching your arm or leg. You'd go tumbling completely out of control and be damn lucky not to have a limb torn off. And this guy thinks he'll land 50 feet from his launch site? Crazy is only half this guys problem.
Except that jurors are selected by the defense and procecuting lawyers. This process is designed to create a jury that is as impartial as possible. People educated in a subject related to the case will most likely pose a threat to one side or the other and would not (and should not) be selected. The jury needs to concentrate on making a decision based on the facts presented in the case. They should not (and usually cannot) worry about deciding which facts are true. This seems to be a great solution to what has been a problem for a long time.
So when do we get food replicators, transporters, and holo-decks? All kidding aside, atom holography seems to make this all possible.
Slashdot is encouraging us to use windows? Fat chance!
Using my birthday is a much better method.
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