Consider a massively pungent environment, where all smells are rendered undetectable against the background within a metre or so. If you hunt over large distance, your species will likely only use smell for identification within social groups. Sight, hearing, maybe sonic radar, whatever will become far more important, and therefore more prominent to your species.
Consider the opposite - a constantly foggy environment. Here sight (unless you evolve a radio-sense) will be pretty useless, smell and hearing will take control.
Well, you forget one point. Evolution only forces the fittest to survive, but the definition of fit is simply that it survives. A being with perfect senses that can see into the x-ray spectrum, smell anything in one part per quadrillion, and can kill other creatures with it's mind, but only lives 20 years and only has a chance to reproduce once in that timespan will surely die out to a creature that is blind, unable to defend itself, tastes excellent, but can reproduce ever 30 seconds.
I have test driven just about every Java IDE out ther, and so far, hands down, Intellij Idea is the way to go. It isn't free, but it's quite cheap. It's had Java 5.0 support since Java 5.0 was java 1.5 beta and generic support even before that. It's got refactoring capabilities out the whoozow and integrated amazingly well with cvs. It can even do codeanalysis and find duplicated code across your entire project (and of course help you refactor it out). Except for JBuilder's GUI building, I can't think of another IDE that can do anything that it does better.
.....who not only cannot afford to fight back, but can't really afford to pay their fines in the first place.
But, if they were anything like me in College, they are just the kind of people TO fight back, even without money. If I were sued back then I would have gone to court, no lawyer, mind you, and made sure to call all the TV stations on my way out the door. I would have brought a laptop into court with a perl script continuously copying a single song over and over again as fast as possible, and once the "cost" of the songs I had copied reached a number higher than the sum of all the money in the world, I would have DEMANDED that they find me guilty and fine me the full cost. Sure, I would be negative 10 quadrillion dollars, but I would have proven my point and I would file for bankruptcy the next day. I would also mention to the court reporters that the IRS should probably be looking the music industy's way since they owe QUITE a bit of virtual money.
I'm all in favor of making voting fun and easy, but I have to stop short at the idea of bribing people to vote.
Surely that's what happens already... The difference is that in this case the bribe is very obvious whereas in the current state of affairs it's disguised as a new military base or a tax cut or a new dam.
Its use in perpetuating slavery further serves to hollow Jefferson's heroic image, and keeping his role as public figure in better proportion to his failings as a citizen - and human.
Oh, come on. Back then, and for the preceding 10,000 years, slavery was a non-issue for most people. You can't call him a bad human just because he couldn't forsee morality that was to come hundreds of years later. Perhaps in some distant future writing your personal thoughts on a public weblog will be considered so base and vile that only the lowliest of low would ever consider thinking of it... does that make you a bad person today?
Thats a great point that I did not think of... however, I do not know if it will apply to our situation. We are talking about travelling through space - a place that is fairly barron. The rain example seems more apt if we were running through a meteor shower, or an astroid belt (one moving fast enough to make it impossible to dodge individual rocks).
It shouldn't matter. Say an asteroid crosses somewhere along your path once every ten minutes. If you took only ten minutes to travel the complete distance, then only one asteroid could have crossed and the chances of it having crossed rigth where you were at the time is fairly low. But if it takes 1000 minutes to cross then 100 asteroids have crossed your path... The chance that one of them crossed a the same place you are is 100x times higher, right?
Billions of tax dollars shouldn't be blown on a project of little scientific validity just because "it's cool."
Dude, hate to break it to you, but we just spend $120-200 BILLION to go lose a war, trash a country, and make the whole world just a little more unsafe for us. I'd *seriously* like to see our tax dollars go to something with absolutly NO scientific validity, indeed even if it LOWERED the scientific validity of world in general, if it means less money to throw around fighting wars and making the world suck more.
If you have to travel 10 million miles you have to travel 10 million miles...the amount of time it takes you to get there is irrelevant...
Try this next time it rains:
Run as fast as you can ten feet, unprotected, through the rain, then turn around and walk very slowly back the same ten feet. Which direction got you more wet, going fast or going slow?
The hacking army's mission is to break into South Korean, Japanese and American corporate networks to gather intelligence and steal trade secrets, according to reports.
Gather intelligence of non-existant plans for North Korean campaigns? And gather trade secrets to keep them competitive in what? Subsistance farming? What do they even produce? You could ship trade secrets by the boat load and it wouldn't do them a bit of good.
Would somebody please tell me what exactly is wrong with the lever operated mechanical machines still largely used in my state (New York)?
Well, for one, I won't be able to win by a landslide by promising to empty the entire US treasury into the bank accouts of the employees, investors and the families of the people involved with e-voting machines.
Unify! Seriously, South Korea's culture would decimate the North Koreans. Just say, hey, you win NK, let's open the border... Two months later there will be no more North Korea to speak of. It'll be empty and South Korea will be filled with wide-eyed noobs who find themselves in an alien world they that can't comprehend.
I think the problem with antimatter is that most of the energy is essentially unusable gamma radiation. If you find a way to turn that radiation into thrust, I think there may be a nobel waiting for you.
It's probably a big waste of money. The efficiencies in creating antimatter are incredibly low. Nuclear power is far cheaper for virtually all applications. From the article:
With present techniques, the price tag for 100-billionths of a gram of antimatter would be $6 billion
Actually, when you think about it, the $6B is probably just to build the collider... once you've got that built, all you need is electricity, which is pretty cheap, and you can make 100 billionths of grams of antimatter all day.
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Consider a massively pungent environment, where all smells are rendered undetectable against the background within a metre or so. If you hunt over large distance, your species will likely only use smell for identification within social groups. Sight, hearing, maybe sonic radar, whatever will become far more important, and therefore more prominent to your species.
Consider the opposite - a constantly foggy environment. Here sight (unless you evolve a radio-sense) will be pretty useless, smell and hearing will take control.
Well, you forget one point. Evolution only forces the fittest to survive, but the definition of fit is simply that it survives. A being with perfect senses that can see into the x-ray spectrum, smell anything in one part per quadrillion, and can kill other creatures with it's mind, but only lives 20 years and only has a chance to reproduce once in that timespan will surely die out to a creature that is blind, unable to defend itself, tastes excellent, but can reproduce ever 30 seconds.
I have test driven just about every Java IDE out ther, and so far, hands down, Intellij Idea is the way to go. It isn't free, but it's quite cheap. It's had Java 5.0 support since Java 5.0 was java 1.5 beta and generic support even before that. It's got refactoring capabilities out the whoozow and integrated amazingly well with cvs. It can even do codeanalysis and find duplicated code across your entire project (and of course help you refactor it out). Except for JBuilder's GUI building, I can't think of another IDE that can do anything that it does better.
Your not compairing apples to oranges. Those 40,000 people were not directly targeted for no reason.
And yet, I'll bet with $200 billion dollars we could actually prevent a great number of those.
But, if they were anything like me in College, they are just the kind of people TO fight back, even without money. If I were sued back then I would have gone to court, no lawyer, mind you, and made sure to call all the TV stations on my way out the door. I would have brought a laptop into court with a perl script continuously copying a single song over and over again as fast as possible, and once the "cost" of the songs I had copied reached a number higher than the sum of all the money in the world, I would have DEMANDED that they find me guilty and fine me the full cost. Sure, I would be negative 10 quadrillion dollars, but I would have proven my point and I would file for bankruptcy the next day. I would also mention to the court reporters that the IRS should probably be looking the music industy's way since they owe QUITE a bit of virtual money.
I'm smarter now, though.
doh, misread, it's not FTTH, it's FTTP...
$39.95 for 5MB/2MB, $49.95 for 15MB/2MB, and $199.95 for 30MB/5MB
In Tokyo (my home nw) that's DSL rates! Fibre STARTS at 100MBps! WTF?
I'm all in favor of making voting fun and easy, but I have to stop short at the idea of bribing people to vote.
Surely that's what happens already... The difference is that in this case the bribe is very obvious whereas in the current state of affairs it's disguised as a new military base or a tax cut or a new dam.
Its use in perpetuating slavery further serves to hollow Jefferson's heroic image, and keeping his role as public figure in better proportion to his failings as a citizen - and human.
Oh, come on. Back then, and for the preceding 10,000 years, slavery was a non-issue for most people. You can't call him a bad human just because he couldn't forsee morality that was to come hundreds of years later. Perhaps in some distant future writing your personal thoughts on a public weblog will be considered so base and vile that only the lowliest of low would ever consider thinking of it... does that make you a bad person today?
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Thats a great point that I did not think of... however, I do not know if it will apply to our situation. We are talking about travelling through space - a place that is fairly barron. The rain example seems more apt if we were running through a meteor shower, or an astroid belt (one moving fast enough to make it impossible to dodge individual rocks).
It shouldn't matter. Say an asteroid crosses somewhere along your path once every ten minutes. If you took only ten minutes to travel the complete distance, then only one asteroid could have crossed and the chances of it having crossed rigth where you were at the time is fairly low. But if it takes 1000 minutes to cross then 100 asteroids have crossed your path... The chance that one of them crossed a the same place you are is 100x times higher, right?
since they are already on the surface of Earth they should pose no threats to spacecraft in space.
I beg to differ... A huge planet rushing towards you poses a GREAT threat to a spacecraft.
Billions of tax dollars shouldn't be blown on a project of little scientific validity just because "it's cool."
Dude, hate to break it to you, but we just spend $120-200 BILLION to go lose a war, trash a country, and make the whole world just a little more unsafe for us. I'd *seriously* like to see our tax dollars go to something with absolutly NO scientific validity, indeed even if it LOWERED the scientific validity of world in general, if it means less money to throw around fighting wars and making the world suck more.
If you have to travel 10 million miles you have to travel 10 million miles...the amount of time it takes you to get there is irrelevant...
Try this next time it rains:
Run as fast as you can ten feet, unprotected, through the rain, then turn around and walk very slowly back the same ten feet. Which direction got you more wet, going fast or going slow?
Not really. Micrometorites would be on the surface of the Earth.
In that case it seems like something to be INSANELY worried about...
The hacking army's mission is to break into South Korean, Japanese and American corporate networks to gather intelligence and steal trade secrets, according to reports.
Gather intelligence of non-existant plans for North Korean campaigns? And gather trade secrets to keep them competitive in what? Subsistance farming? What do they even produce? You could ship trade secrets by the boat load and it wouldn't do them a bit of good.
Why are the majority of these new anti-terrorism laws targeting American citizens?
Because they are actually only OSTENSIBLY anti-terrorism laws.
Would somebody please tell me what exactly is wrong with the lever operated mechanical machines still largely used in my state (New York)?
Well, for one, I won't be able to win by a landslide by promising to empty the entire US treasury into the bank accouts of the employees, investors and the families of the people involved with e-voting machines.
I imagine they are so high on the list because of their numbers, and few people think of them in this way.
Either that or, perhaps, just perhaps, being the single greatest natural hunters of thier size plays some small part.
Do you have any suggestions?
Unify! Seriously, South Korea's culture would decimate the North Koreans. Just say, hey, you win NK, let's open the border... Two months later there will be no more North Korea to speak of. It'll be empty and South Korea will be filled with wide-eyed noobs who find themselves in an alien world they that can't comprehend.
Your chances of dying or being seriously injured in a car, by comparison, work out to about 1:125.
Soooo, that's like a million or two American a year dying in car crashes a year?
stored among other places in a now unused airlock.
For a bunch of smart people, they sure can be stupid... The solution is just a red button push away.
I think the problem with antimatter is that most of the energy is essentially unusable gamma radiation. If you find a way to turn that radiation into thrust, I think there may be a nobel waiting for you.
It's probably a big waste of money. The efficiencies in creating antimatter are incredibly low. Nuclear power is far cheaper for virtually all applications. From the article:
With present techniques, the price tag for 100-billionths of a gram of antimatter would be $6 billion
Actually, when you think about it, the $6B is probably just to build the collider... once you've got that built, all you need is electricity, which is pretty cheap, and you can make 100 billionths of grams of antimatter all day.
1 g would have the energy content of a a mid-sized H-bomb. You could run your laptop for a little longer than a couple of centuries.
Linux users...
ure, it doesn't weigh any less, but you can pack 50 million tons of it in a suitcase.
And the best part is you don't even have to leave your base at that point, you just wait for your enemies to be gravitationally sucked towards you.