Another beauty of a hydroponic garden is that it is incredibly easy to do anywhere you get sunlight - you need a little bit of power (the amount used by an aquarium aerator) to aerate the nutrient solution, and change the nutrient solution every week or so, and the food grows itself. Every geek should have a little hydroponic garden - might as well put that sunlight to some good use.
Sort of, but not exactly. DC (Grant Morrison, specifically) created a structure under which the DC Universe operates: Hypertime. All stories ever written have actually taken place in Hypertime, just on different timeline "branches" - and branches can remerge. If two events on inconsistent, that just means that they were on different timelines (or one was a minor timeline that was reabsorbed by a main line).
Which they are going to be really glad of in a year or five, as old characters and old stories will be referred to. That has happened with every "reboot" - too many people have too much invested in the older stories. The Legion of Super-Heroes had it worst, I think, because they could be rebooted without affecting most of the other stories, except to a varying degree those involving Superman/boy (Kal-El), Superboy (Conner Kent), or Supergirl.
More like 4.0. But eventually they will start bringing in old stories, and just say that this was another possible path in Hypertime, or some such. They can't turn their back on decades of character history forever.
"If they don't stop picking at it, it will never heal." - JMS on comic book continuity reboots (around the time of the Legion's... 3rd? 4th? reboot)
Also importantly: NO USED GAME SALES. Game publishers believe that they are being killed by used games, and will flock to a platform where they aren't possible.
Time Machine backs up just fine to any local (non Apple) external hard drive (I suppose internal, too, if you have multiple internal drives). No extra Apple hardware required.
There are no modern nuclear reactors running commercially in the United States.
And that's the problem - the United States is not part of any "modern nuclear age.". We're stuck in the 1950s and 1960s, design-wise - retrofits really don't substitute.
Look for that to change with HBO. They are already exploring direct delivery of content to their cable channel subscribers via HBO Go, which will make it easy for them to start taking on subscribers directly.
I can not wait for the cable monopolies to be disintermediated.
Yeah. The writing was on the wall when they first renewed Farscape for an unprecedented two seasons at once, and then broke their contract and canceled the final season, leaving a number of plot lines up in the air. Yes, they halfway made good with the Peacekeeper Wars, but there was much that never got resolved because of the collapse of one whole season of 22 43 minute episodes into 3 hours of action.
BSG only got made because it was cofunded by the British channel SkyOne.
BSG was also a British series - it was cofunded by the Sci-Fi Channel and the british channel SkyOne. For much of its run episodes were aired in the UK well before they were aired in the US, until they figured out that this just made US fans download it from UK caps.
Sorry, you're making a comment on Quantum Mechanics. I am going to have to ask to see you explain any version of a Schrödinger equation, or ask you to stop.
I totally know the Civilization strategy. While the other great civilization spends all of its resources on its military, they spend all their resources on first population growth (while collecting all of the other civilizations' technology) and then jump ahead via new technology development.
In the game, another civilization would have declared war and conquered their cities, but real world politics don't work that way. They are totally getting to Alpha Centari before we do.
Boy, it really sucks that technology never advances then, doesn't it?
In truth, some sort of Starship Enterprise seems really unlikely. I think a much more likely scenario is something like mining operations, perhaps centered on really big rocks, gradually building up self-sufficient centers (because importing stuff is expensive) over decades, and eventually one getting an itch to travel. Even then, they will need one hell of a motivator - probably religious or just maybe political (but that is unlikely - it is a big solar system). But humans are good at coming up with religious motivations to do odd things.
But that isn't going to happen any time soon - call it centuries down the road.
Bucky Fuller wrote about this, in the context of how quickly humans adopt new technologies. The sequence you describe is exactly what he believed: in essence, the more frivolous a technology is to our live and safety, and the shorter the product cycle, the faster humans can adopt that technology. Thus, food - fast product cycle, beverages - fast cycle and purely luxury, we can change quickly over a matter of years. Automobiles have a medium life cycle and are of varying criticality to our lives (compare rural Texas with Manhattan or urban Chicqgo), so they will be a medium length of time tomadopt - decades, plus or minus. But housing? That's a very long product cycle and we have a very strong emotional connection to our shelter, so we are very conservative about how we build them. It'll take a century (let's say, from 1960-1980ish) to change.
It was a very interesting discussion in his book, _Critical Path_, where he concluded that for certain kinds of inventions, the inventor wishing to help humanity should publish his housing inventions (the geodesic dome and the dymaxion house, in this case), perhaps work to promote them for some special purposes to get them into intellectual circulation (he worked to get them used by scientific and military organizations), and then move on to other topics - because without a specific adaptive pressure (eg, (my example) PEX to replace now-expensive copper plumbing) housing inventions would take more than a lifetime to go into general use.
That's right. Academic pursuits are inherently elitist - you have to invest time, sweat, and intellectual power in order to gain the standing to teach to others, and the respect for the investment that has gone into learning the deep nuances of their field.
Wikipedia is explicitly antielitist and believes that all knowledge is shallow given enough eyes.
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If I recall correctly, the use of unprecedented levels of pesticides was also a major component.
Yes. The way we grow food now is incredibly wasteful in terms of water - a well managed hydroponic garden can use as little as 5% of the water of an open air dirt garden - you're not losing all that water to evaporation from the soil.
Another beauty of a hydroponic garden is that it is incredibly easy to do anywhere you get sunlight - you need a little bit of power (the amount used by an aquarium aerator) to aerate the nutrient solution, and change the nutrient solution every week or so, and the food grows itself. Every geek should have a little hydroponic garden - might as well put that sunlight to some good use.
Sort of, but not exactly. DC (Grant Morrison, specifically) created a structure under which the DC Universe operates: Hypertime. All stories ever written have actually taken place in Hypertime, just on different timeline "branches" - and branches can remerge. If two events on inconsistent, that just means that they were on different timelines (or one was a minor timeline that was reabsorbed by a main line).
Which they are going to be really glad of in a year or five, as old characters and old stories will be referred to. That has happened with every "reboot" - too many people have too much invested in the older stories. The Legion of Super-Heroes had it worst, I think, because they could be rebooted without affecting most of the other stories, except to a varying degree those involving Superman/boy (Kal-El), Superboy (Conner Kent), or Supergirl.
More like 4.0. But eventually they will start bringing in old stories, and just say that this was another possible path in Hypertime, or some such. They can't turn their back on decades of character history forever.
... 3rd? 4th? reboot)
"If they don't stop picking at it, it will never heal." - JMS on comic book continuity reboots (around the time of the Legion's
Then you're a scumbag who has no place in civilized life. Criminals are to blame for their crimes, not their victims.
There's a phrase for this attitute.
Do you also blame raped women for "dressing like sluts?"
Also importantly: NO USED GAME SALES. Game publishers believe that they are being killed by used games, and will flock to a platform where they aren't possible.
Time Machine backs up just fine to any local (non Apple) external hard drive (I suppose internal, too, if you have multiple internal drives). No extra Apple hardware required.
Horseshit. People often take on loads of personal debt - included secured debt, like mortgages - to fund startups.
You know that many chiropractors deny the "germ theory" of disease, right? Eg: http://chiropracticwellnesscenter.blogspot.com/2010/08/your-health-and-germ-theory.html
I should add - or if he did, his passphrase must have been on a post-it next to his computer.
All I can say is that I am glad he wasn't sophisticated enough to use PGP with a strong passphrase.
There are no modern nuclear reactors running commercially in the United States.
And that's the problem - the United States is not part of any "modern nuclear age.". We're stuck in the 1950s and 1960s, design-wise - retrofits really don't substitute.
Look for that to change with HBO. They are already exploring direct delivery of content to their cable channel subscribers via HBO Go, which will make it easy for them to start taking on subscribers directly.
I can not wait for the cable monopolies to be disintermediated.
Yeah. The writing was on the wall when they first renewed Farscape for an unprecedented two seasons at once, and then broke their contract and canceled the final season, leaving a number of plot lines up in the air. Yes, they halfway made good with the Peacekeeper Wars, but there was much that never got resolved because of the collapse of one whole season of 22 43 minute episodes into 3 hours of action.
BSG only got made because it was cofunded by the British channel SkyOne.
BSG was also a British series - it was cofunded by the Sci-Fi Channel and the british channel SkyOne. For much of its run episodes were aired in the UK well before they were aired in the US, until they figured out that this just made US fans download it from UK caps.
Sorry, you're making a comment on Quantum Mechanics. I am going to have to ask to see you explain any version of a Schrödinger equation, or ask you to stop.
That should really be a law.
There hasn't been DRM lock-in to Apple's AAC for years.
That's the problem - in academia, they instead learn how to become master debaters.
I totally know the Civilization strategy. While the other great civilization spends all of its resources on its military, they spend all their resources on first population growth (while collecting all of the other civilizations' technology) and then jump ahead via new technology development.
In the game, another civilization would have declared war and conquered their cities, but real world politics don't work that way. They are totally getting to Alpha Centari before we do.
Boy, it really sucks that technology never advances then, doesn't it?
In truth, some sort of Starship Enterprise seems really unlikely. I think a much more likely scenario is something like mining operations, perhaps centered on really big rocks, gradually building up self-sufficient centers (because importing stuff is expensive) over decades, and eventually one getting an itch to travel. Even then, they will need one hell of a motivator - probably religious or just maybe political (but that is unlikely - it is a big solar system). But humans are good at coming up with religious motivations to do odd things.
But that isn't going to happen any time soon - call it centuries down the road.
Bucky Fuller wrote about this, in the context of how quickly humans adopt new technologies. The sequence you describe is exactly what he believed: in essence, the more frivolous a technology is to our live and safety, and the shorter the product cycle, the faster humans can adopt that technology. Thus, food - fast product cycle, beverages - fast cycle and purely luxury, we can change quickly over a matter of years. Automobiles have a medium life cycle and are of varying criticality to our lives (compare rural Texas with Manhattan or urban Chicqgo), so they will be a medium length of time tomadopt - decades, plus or minus. But housing? That's a very long product cycle and we have a very strong emotional connection to our shelter, so we are very conservative about how we build them. It'll take a century (let's say, from 1960-1980ish) to change.
It was a very interesting discussion in his book, _Critical Path_, where he concluded that for certain kinds of inventions, the inventor wishing to help humanity should publish his housing inventions (the geodesic dome and the dymaxion house, in this case), perhaps work to promote them for some special purposes to get them into intellectual circulation (he worked to get them used by scientific and military organizations), and then move on to other topics - because without a specific adaptive pressure (eg, (my example) PEX to replace now-expensive copper plumbing) housing inventions would take more than a lifetime to go into general use.
Bucky Fuller was a dozen kinds of awesome.
That's "victory units," comrade.
41 here, and I completely agree.
The scribes' union really hated the printing press, let me tell you...
That's right. Academic pursuits are inherently elitist - you have to invest time, sweat, and intellectual power in order to gain the standing to teach to others, and the respect for the investment that has gone into learning the deep nuances of their field.
Wikipedia is explicitly antielitist and believes that all knowledge is shallow given enough eyes.
They are fundamentally incompatible.