I didn't plan for many games in high school... I mostly played them. Ok I did try to make some simple basketball game I believe... and I made a few games on my calculator. But I do have some notes left where I was trying to make plans for a self learning AI(!) Ofcourse nothing came out of that... Oh yeah in high school I also started this bold project of making an Othello ("Reversi" for some of you) game with an AI. I still have the code, and the most you can do is to move a cursor around and place those discs on the board. However just recently I've been planning and making notes for a Civilization like game. Ofcourse, I haven't done anything more than that.
What about songs and other material that you legally CAN share on P2P networks? Artists and musicians can't use this technology for their own purpose in that case. Also, I anyone can use FTP or HTTP or whatever to spread materials anyway. In the future, the internet wont be what it once was. Sadly, the governments will do everything they can to control this too. Every time something new comes up, they are there to either outlaw it or control it as much as possible.
Ok, I'm not a physics major and I didn't get that good a grade back in high school. So I have a few questions, all which may be considered stupid by others who knows stuff... but ok. So go ahead and laugh before you reply;-)
The discovery means faster-than-light travel, which is prohibited by the law of relativity, may one day be possible.
Why would this mean that faster than light travel will (or might) be possible in the future? Why not today? From what they are saying, the speed of light may have slowed down ever since the Big Bang. For me, that means that as soon as the speed of light has decreased, it should be possible with faster than light speed, right?
If the speed of light was close to infinity, immediately after the Big Bang, [...]
How close to infinity can one be? When are you far from infinite speed and when are you close? "Almost infinite"? What do they mean here?
The photons [...] interact with the electrons in the gas clouds, charged particles that orbit the nuclei of the metal atoms. This leaves a fingerprint on the light as it arrives on Earth, called the fine structure constant, Murphy explains.
How can this be a constant? Is it a universal constant or a constant different for each object? Still, how can this fingerprint be constant?
"My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters."
Yes I feel so bad for him. Um, hello. Apparently he doesn't know what he's doing to other people. And, apparently he never receives any spam himself. I don't think he understands. If so many people are so unhappy about spam and block him and others, causing his marketing cost to rise, doesn't that give him a clue? Spammers have used others bandwidth for their own purpose long enough; let them pay a little themselves.
Sure the european space programme could keep up with the american one, but it would take many years and considerable amounts of money. They had much bigger plans back in the, say, 80's, with space station and space shuttles. The space station became a part of the ISS and the shuttle (Hermes) was scrapped. Now they keep it up for some sort of pride and prestige.
I agree though that the future in space belongs more to commercial interests than these bureaucratic moneyeating government space agencies. Maybe, just maybe, will govts take "us" as far as to Mars, but no further. Maybe I'm wrong but I believe that private companies will provide space travel and so on, for scientists, tourists, settlers, mining companies and so on.
As the earth have been hit by asteroids originating from Mars, it makes sense to believe that pieces of Earth have found its way to Mars, right? Question is, how long is the average time for such debris to hit another planet, and can life survive, first of all the impact on our planet that caused the rocks to fly into space, secondly the long long travel in space before it hits Mars and thirdly, the impact on Mars? So about Beagle 2, can Earth organisms survive several months in vacuum, high radiation and extremely low temperature for months?
One of my hotmails is used for some registration sites, like a spam magnet address. 99% is spam there. On the others I have no spam at all, but that's only thanks to me blocking everything that is not explicitly allowed.
Ok. I actually don't know how those cameras work or how to change the settings... But, about the shadows. My english isn't very good, but I'm guessing "perpendicular" means the shadows were going in different directions? My explanations, as well as others I've seen, is that they appear to go in different directions due to the "bumpy" and rocky surface of the moon, skewing the shadows. Also, there were indeed other light sources. The sun was ofcourse the most dominant one, I'm guessing the earth and the moons surface come in as number two. Anyway, if this was staged in a studio on earth, with multiple spotlights, chances are that each object would have more than one shadow. About the crosshairs on the cameralenses... It appears that the brighter the object is, the more does its color or light "overflow" the dark thin crosshair. My guess is that this is because the white objects became too bright in this environment where there is no athmosphere to spread the light. I did see the documentary (if you mean the one by FOX), and only a few times could I not explain most things they brought up there. There are a few websites that explains more about the moon hoax, http://www.badastronomy.com is one of them.
Maybe there are Kuipier objects tugging at the space crafts? It's about 80 AU away from Earth, and the Kuipier belt is believed to reach from 30 to 100 AU from Sol.
But it doesn't have to be a lot of people doing so. Given how many they can send to, it only has to be a few percentages buying the products or services. Spam is a cheap way to advertise, that is why they can keep doing it again and again even if few people buy the stuff. The cost of advertisement is spread out on everyone who has to pass it on or who recieves it.
Hm, that sounds like a good idea. It's hard to find a good spot to observe. Well even with some light sources around you, one can still observe the moon or comets. I like the Pleiades too. But what probably made the greatest impression on me (except observing sunspots i guess) was to watch Jupiter and Saturn through my telescope. Sure, I've seen countless of great close up images of both planets, but to see Jupiter by myself was something else. I could see different colors of the clouds and also the red spot. Saturn was quite a sight too with its rings.
Remember that old story about how you can stand at the bottom of a well and see the stars during the day because the light from the sun is blocked out?
The sun is still shining, and the athmosphere is still spreading the light from the sun. Standing in a well wont change that...
Getting away from city lights may be the hardest part, though.
Light pollutions is a huge problem. I realized this myself when I started using a telescope, many nights was I standing just outside our house. Streetlights and light from our neighbours were very disturbing. So one time, I went to a nearby airfield (a very small one) and it was so dark i couldn't see my own hand. Then we looked up and saw the milky way. Not just like a faint barely visible ribbon, but it was really really bright. It was like a wide bright flood of stars across the sky, and it was basically impossible to see any constellations. Haven't seen anything quite like it before or after. Ofcourse, the lack of any artificial light source was only one good thing; the sky was probably more clear than ever. Too bad I left my telescope when I went to college...
True, I can not believe that they use Win98 for this purpose. Noone would consider that, not even an ordinary computer user would... let alone engineers.
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Maybe it's forming a culture that needs speech, rather than the other way around?
Not much to add, that was a great comment.
I didn't plan for many games in high school... I mostly played them. Ok I did try to make some simple basketball game I believe... and I made a few games on my calculator. But I do have some notes left where I was trying to make plans for a self learning AI(!) Ofcourse nothing came out of that... Oh yeah in high school I also started this bold project of making an Othello ("Reversi" for some of you) game with an AI. I still have the code, and the most you can do is to move a cursor around and place those discs on the board. However just recently I've been planning and making notes for a Civilization like game. Ofcourse, I haven't done anything more than that.
Yes, they are doing it bit by bit, often in the name of safety and security. Do it slowly and the people will adapt... until it's too late.
What about songs and other material that you legally CAN share on P2P networks? Artists and musicians can't use this technology for their own purpose in that case. Also, I anyone can use FTP or HTTP or whatever to spread materials anyway. In the future, the internet wont be what it once was. Sadly, the governments will do everything they can to control this too. Every time something new comes up, they are there to either outlaw it or control it as much as possible.
Ok, I'm not a physics major and I didn't get that good a grade back in high school. So I have a few questions, all which may be considered stupid by others who knows stuff... but ok. So go ahead and laugh before you reply ;-)
The discovery means faster-than-light travel, which is prohibited by the law of relativity, may one day be possible.
Why would this mean that faster than light travel will (or might) be possible in the future? Why not today? From what they are saying, the speed of light may have slowed down ever since the Big Bang. For me, that means that as soon as the speed of light has decreased, it should be possible with faster than light speed, right?
If the speed of light was close to infinity, immediately after the Big Bang, [...]
How close to infinity can one be? When are you far from infinite speed and when are you close? "Almost infinite"? What do they mean here?
The photons [...] interact with the electrons in the gas clouds, charged particles that orbit the nuclei of the metal atoms. This leaves a fingerprint on the light as it arrives on Earth, called the fine structure constant, Murphy explains.
How can this be a constant? Is it a universal constant or a constant different for each object? Still, how can this fingerprint be constant?
Thanks.
"My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters."
Yes I feel so bad for him. Um, hello. Apparently he doesn't know what he's doing to other people. And, apparently he never receives any spam himself. I don't think he understands. If so many people are so unhappy about spam and block him and others, causing his marketing cost to rise, doesn't that give him a clue? Spammers have used others bandwidth for their own purpose long enough; let them pay a little themselves.
I agree though that the future in space belongs more to commercial interests than these bureaucratic moneyeating government space agencies. Maybe, just maybe, will govts take "us" as far as to Mars, but no further. Maybe I'm wrong but I believe that private companies will provide space travel and so on, for scientists, tourists, settlers, mining companies and so on.
As the earth have been hit by asteroids originating from Mars, it makes sense to believe that pieces of Earth have found its way to Mars, right? Question is, how long is the average time for such debris to hit another planet, and can life survive, first of all the impact on our planet that caused the rocks to fly into space, secondly the long long travel in space before it hits Mars and thirdly, the impact on Mars?
So about Beagle 2, can Earth organisms survive several months in vacuum, high radiation and extremely low temperature for months?
This is creativity... so simple, yet so clever. I like it :)
One of my hotmails is used for some registration sites, like a spam magnet address. 99% is spam there. On the others I have no spam at all, but that's only thanks to me blocking everything that is not explicitly allowed.
Since we all know that
1. Cats always land on their feet, and
2. A buttered slice of bread will undoubtedly land on the carpet butter side down,
we could strap said buttered slice of bread onto the cats back, then drop the whole thing to the floor.
Ok. I actually don't know how those cameras work or how to change the settings...
But, about the shadows. My english isn't very good, but I'm guessing "perpendicular" means the shadows were going in different directions? My explanations, as well as others I've seen, is that they appear to go in different directions due to the "bumpy" and rocky surface of the moon, skewing the shadows. Also, there were indeed other light sources. The sun was ofcourse the most dominant one, I'm guessing the earth and the moons surface come in as number two.
Anyway, if this was staged in a studio on earth, with multiple spotlights, chances are that each object would have more than one shadow.
About the crosshairs on the cameralenses... It appears that the brighter the object is, the more does its color or light "overflow" the dark thin crosshair. My guess is that this is because the white objects became too bright in this environment where there is no athmosphere to spread the light. I did see the documentary (if you mean the one by FOX), and only a few times could I not explain most things they brought up there. There are a few websites that explains more about the moon hoax, http://www.badastronomy.com is one of them.
What evidences convinced you?
Ofcourse it would be easier if everyone used metrics, but then even us in Europe would have to switch from Celcius to Kelvin in everyday life, too.
More like the other way around, but ok.
You're working with web development... I like to use HomeSite or the free HTML-Kit.
*clickety-click* :-)
Maybe there are Kuipier objects tugging at the space crafts? It's about 80 AU away from Earth, and the Kuipier belt is believed to reach from 30 to 100 AU from Sol.
Do you think that in the future we will be able to talk to our computers as if they were real humans, so well done we could never see the difference?
Me: > who let the dogs out?
:-)
:-)
ALICE: Linus Torvalds.
My question is, what is going on in ALICEs mind?
But it doesn't have to be a lot of people doing so. Given how many they can send to, it only has to be a few percentages buying the products or services. Spam is a cheap way to advertise, that is why they can keep doing it again and again even if few people buy the stuff. The cost of advertisement is spread out on everyone who has to pass it on or who recieves it.
Hm, that sounds like a good idea. It's hard to find a good spot to observe. Well even with some light sources around you, one can still observe the moon or comets. I like the Pleiades too. But what probably made the greatest impression on me (except observing sunspots i guess) was to watch Jupiter and Saturn through my telescope. Sure, I've seen countless of great close up images of both planets, but to see Jupiter by myself was something else. I could see different colors of the clouds and also the red spot. Saturn was quite a sight too with its rings.
Remember that old story about how you can stand at the bottom of a well and see the stars during the day because the light from the sun is blocked out?
The sun is still shining, and the athmosphere is still spreading the light from the sun. Standing in a well wont change that...
Getting away from city lights may be the hardest part, though.
Light pollutions is a huge problem. I realized this myself when I started using a telescope, many nights was I standing just outside our house. Streetlights and light from our neighbours were very disturbing. So one time, I went to a nearby airfield (a very small one) and it was so dark i couldn't see my own hand. Then we looked up and saw the milky way. Not just like a faint barely visible ribbon, but it was really really bright. It was like a wide bright flood of stars across the sky, and it was basically impossible to see any constellations. Haven't seen anything quite like it before or after. Ofcourse, the lack of any artificial light source was only one good thing; the sky was probably more clear than ever. Too bad I left my telescope when I went to college...
True, I can not believe that they use Win98 for this purpose. Noone would consider that, not even an ordinary computer user would... let alone engineers.