(Tau neutrinos? I had a jarfull of them laying around since my college days, but my wife threw them out last year.)
To answer your question, one application I've heard about: Communication.
The theory is that neutrinos are small enough to pass directly through the earth without hitting anything, so you could point a transmitter directly at the destination. The small hurdle is to develop a receiver that will detect the beam. (Well, another small problem is generating the beam in the first place...)
I forget the exact details (it was posted here quite a few months ago), but doesn't Microsoft, the master of vaporware, somehow influence the Perl development group with a hefty financial arrangement?
This is starting to sound too much like the Seth books. In one of the books (don't remember which one) he claims matter is time-shared between dimensions. So we get our little time slice, then we are suspended and some other dimension gets a chance to "run". (He didn't mention what happens if our swap space gets corrupted though.)
Does this mean that we will be able to build gravity bombs so we can preemptively defend ourselves from invasion from those other dimensions? "Let's 'grav' those suckers before they decide to come over here and take our stuff."
Alcohol must have some sort of local effect on gravity. It has been my experience that the more I drink, the more inconsistent gravity becomes. Alcohol must cause these little nano-blackholes to come into existence. That would explain why doing simple things like trying to walk a straight line, or setting a bottle on a table, are so difficult when completely blasted. Other intoxicants like pot or acid or nitrous oxide don't have this effect. Yeah, it must be the alcohol.
He'll be out of a job soon. He already knows a little bit about the FBI.
Bruce Campbell, isn't he the master thief on "Xena, Warrior Princess"? If so, maybe he could get Lucy Lawless to replace Scully. Each episode would end in a large sword fight.
- It could be attached to a "coasting sensor" (e.g. you are going downhill), and it would pop up and start working;
- In addition to the brake-operated battery charger, the windmill could pop up when you apply the brakes.
- If it was big enough (i.e. Dutch windmill size), it could be an antitheft device. Who would want to try to steal your car if they had to time their entry between the blades. (Could also be a dog-pee deterrent.)
A couple of days ago, I posted a comment to the AskSlashdot question "Why are we still using gasoline", about battery stations. Some idiot replied something about "electric cars don't exactly use D cells, do they?".
From the Ars article on the Honda Insight: Beneath the control units is a pack of 120 NiMH D cells (shown separately in the right hand picture)
I've always wondered why one of the objections to electric cars is the battery recharge time. Why not have battery stations where you can go exchange your low battery pack for a freshly charged one?
Everyone has long suspected MSFT of directly or indirectly influencing software reviews in their favor. "Hmmm, this magazine gets half it advertising revenue from Microsoft, I wonder if this article is unbiased."
Especially suspicous are the ones that start out with a few potshots at MSFT, but end up recommending their stuff. I remember a classic one on WinCE a few years ago. It went something like "Well, MSFT just doesn't understand real-time, multitasking, and WinCE is a piece of shit, but you might as well start using it because everyone else will."
I knew I should have posted the whole quote: They're able to do this because every mark the Greek mathematician made on the vellum parchment, a writing surface made from animal skin, left a residue that can be uncovered even a millennium later.
Actually, I am wrong though. I originally thought this was a quote from the scholar, but it looks like the reporte can't count his millennia.
In either case, since I don't gamble, I prefer state regulation because that ultimately lowers the amount of tax I need to pay and maybe helps address some social problems as well. It's a win win situation either way.
In California, part of the lottery profits go toward education (they had to promise that in order to get the thing passed). As lottery profits went up, other state contributions to education went down. The California educational system now consistently rates at the bottom in most categories ($/student, class size, etc, etc).
Don't get me started. Oh, too late. I remember posting something about 15 years ago to a newsgroup (ba.traffic.sux.or.something) about treating traffic as a fluid dynamics problem. Several replies were "Huh? What in the world are you talking about?"
I've always wanted to try an experiment: Get several thousand trained drivers to simulate a rush hour environment, but they will do things like 1) always leave ample space in front; 2) allow merging traffic to enter the freeway; 3) merging traffic will smoothly enter, without stopping at the end of the on-ramp; 4) lose the territorial attitude; etc, etc. I'll bet that,even though they never exceed about 35-45 mph, the commute time will be drastically reduced.
There was a dude on CNBC this morning talking about the looming energy crisis in the US. He mentioned that "the Internet and its related IT" (whatever that means - backbones, routers, etc?) currently consume about 13% of the electric power in the US, and is projected to rise to 24% in the next few years. Sorry, I didn't take notes, as I wasn't expecting to post the info anywhere, so I don't remember his name/company/etc.
Here's a "AskSlashDot" question. Should you turn off your PC when not in use? In the olden days it seemed like it was better to leave them on, but maybe that is not true anymore. Maybe it never was true.
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(Tau neutrinos? I had a jarfull of them laying around since my college days, but my wife threw them out last year.)
To answer your question, one application I've heard about: Communication.
The theory is that neutrinos are small enough to pass directly through the earth without hitting anything, so you could point a transmitter directly at the destination. The small hurdle is to develop a receiver that will detect the beam. (Well, another small problem is generating the beam in the first place...)
I heard somewhere that Einstein's brain had a lot more glial cells than normal, but at that time no one knew if that was a factor in his intelligence.
I forget the exact details (it was posted here quite a few months ago), but doesn't Microsoft, the master of vaporware, somehow influence the Perl development group with a hefty financial arrangement?
If they were really cool, they'd write it in PERL.
I apologize for my previous response. I've had lunch and I feel much better now (blood sugar must be stabilized).
My point was not that they should only make what I want, but that it is only available in IDE, not both IDE and SCSI.
I guess my post was didn't fit your expectations, so that makes me a bad person.
BTW, ucfuckwad, I have both IDE and SCSI at home. SCSI is superior.
This is starting to sound too much like the Seth books. In one of the books (don't remember which one) he claims matter is time-shared between dimensions. So we get our little time slice, then we are suspended and some other dimension gets a chance to "run". (He didn't mention what happens if our swap space gets corrupted though.)
Does this mean that we will be able to build gravity bombs so we can preemptively defend ourselves from invasion from those other dimensions? "Let's 'grav' those suckers before they decide to come over here and take our stuff."
Alcohol must have some sort of local effect on gravity. It has been my experience that the more I drink, the more inconsistent gravity becomes. Alcohol must cause these little nano-blackholes to come into existence. That would explain why doing simple things like trying to walk a straight line, or setting a bottle on a table, are so difficult when completely blasted. Other intoxicants like pot or acid or nitrous oxide don't have this effect. Yeah, it must be the alcohol.
Hey, I checked it a few minutes ago, and it WAS there!
He'll be out of a job soon. He already knows a little bit about the FBI.
Bruce Campbell, isn't he the master thief on "Xena, Warrior Princess"? If so, maybe he could get Lucy Lawless to replace Scully. Each episode would end in a large sword fight.
TV fucking sucks
I have a TV user manual that has in its Helpful Hints section:
"Do not pour liquids into your television set."
I guess TV fucking would fall into that category.
Two^h^h^three more uses for the windmill:
- It could be attached to a "coasting sensor" (e.g. you are going downhill), and it would pop up and start working;
- In addition to the brake-operated battery charger, the windmill could pop up when you apply the brakes.
- If it was big enough (i.e. Dutch windmill size), it could be an antitheft device. Who would want to try to steal your car if they had to time their entry between the blades. (Could also be a dog-pee deterrent.)
A couple of days ago, I posted a comment to the AskSlashdot question "Why are we still using gasoline", about battery stations. Some idiot replied something about "electric cars don't exactly use D cells, do they?".
From the Ars article on the Honda Insight:
Beneath the control units is a pack of 120 NiMH D cells (shown separately in the right hand picture)
is part of the car's chassis
That's great. So when the battery wears out you have to throw away the car?
I've always wondered why one of the objections to electric cars is the battery recharge time. Why not have battery stations where you can go exchange your low battery pack for a freshly charged one?
Everyone has long suspected MSFT of directly or indirectly influencing software reviews in their favor. "Hmmm, this magazine gets half it advertising revenue from Microsoft, I wonder if this article is unbiased."
Especially suspicous are the ones that start out with a few potshots at MSFT, but end up recommending their stuff. I remember a classic one on WinCE a few years ago. It went something like "Well, MSFT just doesn't understand real-time, multitasking, and WinCE is a piece of shit, but you might as well start using it because everyone else will."
I knew I should have posted the whole quote:
They're able to do this because every mark the Greek mathematician made on the vellum parchment,
a writing surface made from animal skin, left a residue that can be uncovered even a millennium later.
Actually, I am wrong though. I originally thought this was a quote from the scholar, but it looks like the reporte can't count his millennia.
In either case, since I don't gamble, I prefer state regulation because that ultimately lowers the amount of tax I need to pay and maybe helps address some social problems as well. It's a win win situation either way.
In California, part of the lottery profits go toward education (they had to promise that in order to get the thing passed). As lottery profits went up, other state contributions to education went down. The California educational system now consistently rates at the bottom in most categories ($/student, class size, etc, etc).
between state sanctioned lotteries and congressional elections?
Not much, occasionally there is a winner, but you have a much greater chance of losing.
left a residue that can be uncovered even a millennium later.
Archimedes lived circa 250 BC. That would put it about 2.25 millennia.
Don't get me started. Oh, too late. I remember posting something about 15 years ago to a newsgroup (ba.traffic.sux.or.something) about treating traffic as a fluid dynamics problem. Several replies were "Huh? What in the world are you talking about?"
I've always wanted to try an experiment: Get several thousand trained drivers to simulate a rush hour environment, but they will do things like 1) always leave ample space in front; 2) allow merging traffic to enter the freeway; 3) merging traffic will smoothly enter, without stopping at the end of the on-ramp; 4) lose the territorial attitude; etc, etc. I'll bet that,even though they never exceed about 35-45 mph, the commute time will be drastically reduced.
Looks like PacBell is charging an extra $20/month for two years for a free PC. Where do I sign, I'll take three.
I thought Jobs was absolutely against anything more than a one-finger mouse. Of course, all Disney mice have three fingers.
There was a dude on CNBC this morning talking about the looming energy crisis in the US. He mentioned that "the Internet and its related IT" (whatever that means - backbones, routers, etc?) currently consume about 13% of the electric power in the US, and is projected to rise to 24% in the next few years. Sorry, I didn't take notes, as I wasn't expecting to post the info anywhere, so I don't remember his name/company/etc.
Here's a "AskSlashDot" question. Should you turn off your PC when not in use? In the olden days it seemed like it was better to leave them on, but maybe that is not true anymore. Maybe it never was true.