There was a claim that certain tiling problems could not be solved via Turing machine, but that humans could solve them. This is interesting because it implies that a computer simulation of the universe, including the human brain, could not ever be 100% complete because "brains" in said universe could not solve said tiling problems.
Is this a definitely proven statement about the tiling issue, or is it still hot air (up in the air)?
And, like a guy holding a fake lightsaber, your mecha would get instantaneously cut down by real military hardware, even if it were built to well-engineered, military standards. It's a walking "shoot me" sign.
> Remember 'toothing'? It was a craze that was > sweeping England last year as bored commuters > arranged sexual encounters using Bluetooth- > enabled cellphones.
Ya, when was the concept of a black hole created? Once the force between quarks inside a neutron was surpassed, and they collapsed inward, with (apparently) no forces left to stop it from collapsing infinitely small? Was that concept floating around in science, and hence science fiction, before 1967?
> There was always something a bit more romantic > about the sling shot
I always loathed the slingshot method precisely because it had no romance or mystery.
The original method, where Spock and Scotty do a cold start implosion of the antimatter engines in order to save the ship from its decaying orbit, well, now there's a timetravel method that'll put hair on your chest.
They even got the technobabble correct: "We are now traveling faster than is possible for normal space." I.e. faster than the speed of light while in normal, not warp, space. Very mysterious and sexy indeed!
Any nerd can tell you the slingshot method is idiotic -- the energy gained is still in the same old ballpark as normal physics, and thus could not get you going faster than the speed of light. But a controlled, never before done implosion of cold antimatter, well, what more can be said?
Motion sickness has more to do with the fact your eyes are telling your brain you're moving (3D game) but your sense of balance is telling it you're not. Your brain gets confused, assumes you ate something bad, and initiates a gag reflex. It's all very well studied.
There was a little thing called a "tee vee", if ya'll remember it. The exact same thing was said of it. "Don't sit too close to the tee vee!"
And believe me, before the invention of the (pay attention) remote control-as-standard-equipment-instead-of-$100-opti on, your face was right in front of the teeee veeee because you were layin' on the floor in front of it. The remote was your outstretched arm. Sofa cushions had perma-creases in it from where you took it off and folded it over in half and laid your head on it as you lay on your side.
I got glasses before 2nd grade, over 30 years ago. My eyes progressively worsened until I started working long hours in front of computer screens during my 3rd year of college.
My eyesight has not changed since then, over 15 years ago, and I've been a professional programmer all this time (to say nothing of long hours at home playing games or surfing on top of it.) Clearly from my anecdote, computer screens stop nearsightedness from getting worse.
I shall now make pointless generalizations based on one anectodal data point.
If "Star Trek: Enterprise" were driving a car over a cliff, then "Academy" has just strapped a rocket to the roof, just in case gravity isn't working as well as it should.
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There was a claim that certain tiling problems could not be solved via Turing machine, but that humans could solve them. This is interesting because it implies that a computer simulation of the universe, including the human brain, could not ever be 100% complete because "brains" in said universe could not solve said tiling problems.
Is this a definitely proven statement about the tiling issue, or is it still hot air (up in the air)?
And, like a guy holding a fake lightsaber, your mecha would get instantaneously cut down by real military hardware, even if it were built to well-engineered, military standards. It's a walking "shoot me" sign.
> Remember 'toothing'? It was a craze that was
> sweeping England last year as bored commuters
> arranged sexual encounters using Bluetooth-
> enabled cellphones.
It ended when:
"Hey, you're actually a dude!"
"Hey, so are you! And a fat one at that!"
Except, evidently, English.
Ya! It's like claiming you know all about women because you understand pixels from your downloads!
Just her career.
Budda pish! (rim shot)
Not true.
Curly from The Three Stooges was evidently quite the ladies' man.
Ya, when was the concept of a black hole created? Once the force between quarks inside a neutron was surpassed, and they collapsed inward, with (apparently) no forces left to stop it from collapsing infinitely small? Was that concept floating around in science, and hence science fiction, before 1967?
> There was always something a bit more romantic
> about the sling shot
I always loathed the slingshot method precisely because it had no romance or mystery.
The original method, where Spock and Scotty do a cold start implosion of the antimatter engines in order to save the ship from its decaying orbit, well, now there's a timetravel method that'll put hair on your chest.
They even got the technobabble correct: "We are now traveling faster than is possible for normal space." I.e. faster than the speed of light while in normal, not warp, space. Very mysterious and sexy indeed!
Any nerd can tell you the slingshot method is idiotic -- the energy gained is still in the same old ballpark as normal physics, and thus could not get you going faster than the speed of light. But a controlled, never before done implosion of cold antimatter, well, what more can be said?
>> ...and the detection was made using sensitive
>> scales
>
> Just what the world needs. Weight conscious
> atoms.
And scales to sit there and eat ice cream with them.
I've seen Internet malware that causes me to release seminal fluid, but this really scares me!
Motion sickness has more to do with the fact your eyes are telling your brain you're moving (3D game) but your sense of balance is telling it you're not. Your brain gets confused, assumes you ate something bad, and initiates a gag reflex. It's all very well studied.
There was a little thing called a "tee vee", if ya'll remember it. The exact same thing was said of it. "Don't sit too close to the tee vee!"
i on, your face was right in front of the teeee veeee because you were layin' on the floor in front of it. The remote was your outstretched arm. Sofa cushions had perma-creases in it from where you took it off and folded it over in half and laid your head on it as you lay on your side.
And believe me, before the invention of the (pay attention) remote control-as-standard-equipment-instead-of-$100-opt
I got glasses before 2nd grade, over 30 years ago. My eyes progressively worsened until I started working long hours in front of computer screens during my 3rd year of college.
My eyesight has not changed since then, over 15 years ago, and I've been a professional programmer all this time (to say nothing of long hours at home playing games or surfing on top of it.) Clearly from my anecdote, computer screens stop nearsightedness from getting worse.
I shall now make pointless generalizations based on one anectodal data point.
So...you're saying Matt and Trey would be a worse hack job than B&B?
No, I didn't think so. Just checking.
> a serial port
Too bad they couldn't fit it into an RJ-11 so they could actually use the serial port.
Estimated time to someone submitting a penis picture as their "face": 10 seconds and counting.
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Haw haw! I can't believe they took it!
Three words: Young Indiana Jones
Still no lesbian saliva-string kiss between Hoshi and T'Pol.
(Actually, I used to jokingly call her "T'Pow", to be sarcastic. Then they introduced her mother, with that name.)
So the "Academy" rumors were true.
If "Star Trek: Enterprise" were driving a car over a cliff, then "Academy" has just strapped a rocket to the roof, just in case gravity isn't working as well as it should.
In this case, I'd guess it's about 99% bad apples spoiling it for the rest.
And let's face it, 99% is probably an underestimate.
How many people download some friend's paper, or something from Project Gutenberg?
It's where the rhetoric meets the reality. Sorry, friends.
Still, "until a court says P2P is ok" is a bit premature on the part of the college.
I do feel my sci-fi life would be seriously degraded without Blade Runner in it.
Sorry. You must be on the wrong web site. You would probably be more interested in SurvivorTheTVShow.com.
Well, Star Trek isn't really *science* fiction like 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Now "Focus!" will be replaced by "Turn off Fast Find backgrounder!"
Sigh
And, I hate to say it, but he's even dragged the US into a war.
To sum up:
- Massive expansion of government
- Massive expansion of spending
- Get involved in a war
- Purchase votes via massive increase of social programs
How W differs from Wilson, FDR, or Kennedy/Johnson, I don't know.