Actually, that's a very good idea. Even better is the idea of using the water as a temperature differential. At the equator, water temperature is 80F, and at the bottom of the ocean there, it's 40F. Much more effecient and productive than in the air. If this sounds interesting to you, take a look at a book called "The Millenial Project." Of course, there are huge problems involved with this, like transporting the energy, etc. But this book covers every aspect of it (not that it's definitely feasible or anything). It's very grandiose, to say the least.
It might've been your tone. After reading the whole post, I saw you weren't a troll, but your post was kind of an attack, with a dash of rant which is typical troll pattern. I guess people recognize the pattern and move to the next post.
Spoils *what* view? Maybe they don't want it, I'm sure that's true, but I doubt it's because it would "ruin" the view. They don't see anything from eastern horizon to the western. Besides, when was the last time anyone considered what the locals wanted?
besides, they can even include an ethernet adapter with a game. They did that with a few things, like the rumble feedback thing, and also with the expansion pack (extra memory). I think it's highly likely they will include it with a game and the history of adoption of new products this way is considerably brighter than looking at entire console add ons like sega-cd. A hard drive might find bigger problems being adopted. But I don't think it was appropriate to include an ethernet adapter in that catergory. Just like they said, it's real cheap. It'll come with a game.
I don't see why you need swatch "beat" time to have a universal time system. The fact that 12 o'clock is noon is a little arbitrary. If noontime were called five o'clock all along you wouldn't think twice about it. I say that if everyone used the same time (say, greenwich mean time), then in two weeks we'd be pretty used to it and in a year we'll nearly have forgotten the whole thing.
Oh and you're definitely right, the guy (sorry, gal) was trying to argue with the original point. I guess I lost track of who started the thread (it can get a little confusing in nested view).
That's exactly the point. The kelvin scale is not made up of degrees. So when you say "287 kelvin," that's shorthand 287 on the kelvin scale. It's not a quantity. Take the richter scale. Normally they say "the earthquake was 7.2 on the richter scale." Something equivalent to that would be "7.2 richter." And even aside from this, suppose we were talking about this with knowledge English grammar and nothing else (as it seems to be in your case). There are irregular plurals.
Haven't you learned about irregular plurals in grade school?
I defy you to find three times where a peer-reviewed scientific journal says 72 Kelvins (as a specific temperature) rather than 72 kelvin. And if you read this a month from now, or six, and the discussion is closed, email me at martyn27015@yahoo.com to send me a URL of your findings.
Oh, God. What do you think we're talking about??? If methods like the ones being described here didn't exist, then you wouldn't be able to *find* it on Kazaa/whatever. The whole point is that one person out there will use optical in-out, and then it will be all over file sharing networks. But you don't necessarily have to rip your CDs yourself.
You're missing the point. All it takes is one person to spend an hour and a half on a particular CD, and then you can find it everywhere on file sharing networks.
Try reading my post. Yes, "60 kelvins is 10 kelvins more than 50 kelvis," is correct, but it has a different meaning than "60 Kelvin is 10 kelvins more than 50 Kelvin."
I got caught up in all the intracacies of my post. I tried proofreading it, but I guess I missed that. You're right, it should've read "60 Kelvin is 10 kelvins more than 50 Kelvin." I'm unclear on whether "kelvins" should be capitalized or not.
I am not confused about English at all, and I don't know a whit about Latin grammar. I think "declension" is a pretty arcane term, and that maybe he should explain it, regardless of whether I know what it means or not.
Just asking, but is it known that 3DES is not used at all to protect copyrighted works? Also, the fact that the DMCA only applies to digital works reveals the inconsistency in the whole thing.
Why do you use abbreviations which you have no reason to assume people know what they stand for? Does it make you feel special to talk over some peoples heads? Is it based on some inferiority complex involving your mother somehow? By the way, ssDNA is single stranded DNA. And what is RAPDs?
This type of computer isn't for playing mp3's and shit. It's for solving problems which require highly highly parallel processing. Like a Hamiltonian path problem with 11,000 nodes. In the Yahoo article, they seemed to think that this computer had anything to do with biology. In made an implied statement that "one day computers like this may be living in your cells." These computers have nothing to do with biology (except it might calculate protein folding problems). DNA just happens to be a novel molecule which is good for massive parallel processing and which didn't have to be synthesised in a lab, or engineered from scratch.
Ok, why don't you go to someone's house, a friend who owns a PC perhaps, and try comparing the performance of a game running at 640x480 with the same game/configuration running at 1024x768. Well, did you notice a performance hit?
It's okay, you don't have to pretend any more. You should whack off to Regis's little brown hole during the commercials of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, like you used to, instead of posting the screed of a profoundly retarded man using your fresh new WebTV terminal that you bought from Walmart for yourself as an early christmas gift.
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Actually, that's a very good idea. Even better is the idea of using the water as a temperature differential. At the equator, water temperature is 80F, and at the bottom of the ocean there, it's 40F. Much more effecient and productive than in the air. If this sounds interesting to you, take a look at a book called "The Millenial Project." Of course, there are huge problems involved with this, like transporting the energy, etc. But this book covers every aspect of it (not that it's definitely feasible or anything). It's very grandiose, to say the least.
It might've been your tone. After reading the whole post, I saw you weren't a troll, but your post was kind of an attack, with a dash of rant which is typical troll pattern. I guess people recognize the pattern and move to the next post.
Spoils *what* view? Maybe they don't want it, I'm sure that's true, but I doubt it's because it would "ruin" the view. They don't see anything from eastern horizon to the western. Besides, when was the last time anyone considered what the locals wanted?
besides, they can even include an ethernet adapter with a game. They did that with a few things, like the rumble feedback thing, and also with the expansion pack (extra memory). I think it's highly likely they will include it with a game and the history of adoption of new products this way is considerably brighter than looking at entire console add ons like sega-cd. A hard drive might find bigger problems being adopted. But I don't think it was appropriate to include an ethernet adapter in that catergory. Just like they said, it's real cheap. It'll come with a game.
I don't see why you need swatch "beat" time to have a universal time system. The fact that 12 o'clock is noon is a little arbitrary. If noontime were called five o'clock all along you wouldn't think twice about it. I say that if everyone used the same time (say, greenwich mean time), then in two weeks we'd be pretty used to it and in a year we'll nearly have forgotten the whole thing.
Oh and you're definitely right, the guy (sorry, gal) was trying to argue with the original point. I guess I lost track of who started the thread (it can get a little confusing in nested view).
Thanks for letting me know you're a "her." I suppose you would've preferred me to say he/she. Or maybe I should've just assumed you were female.
What makes you think he was trying to refute his point?
That's exactly the point. The kelvin scale is not made up of degrees. So when you say "287 kelvin," that's shorthand 287 on the kelvin scale. It's not a quantity. Take the richter scale. Normally they say "the earthquake was 7.2 on the richter scale." Something equivalent to that would be "7.2 richter." And even aside from this, suppose we were talking about this with knowledge English grammar and nothing else (as it seems to be in your case). There are irregular plurals.
Haven't you learned about irregular plurals in grade school?
I defy you to find three times where a peer-reviewed scientific journal says 72 Kelvins (as a specific temperature) rather than 72 kelvin. And if you read this a month from now, or six, and the discussion is closed, email me at martyn27015@yahoo.com to send me a URL of your findings.
Have you ever even taken high school chemistry?
Oh, God. What do you think we're talking about??? If methods like the ones being described here didn't exist, then you wouldn't be able to *find* it on Kazaa/whatever. The whole point is that one person out there will use optical in-out, and then it will be all over file sharing networks. But you don't necessarily have to rip your CDs yourself.
You're missing the point. All it takes is one person to spend an hour and a half on a particular CD, and then you can find it everywhere on file sharing networks.
It is spelled B'Elanna. Hey you have my name Martin S. You are my evil counterpart.
Maybe she was cast as a Klingon because it would be such a perfect role for her to play. I don't find that hard to believe.
Try reading my post. Yes, "60 kelvins is 10 kelvins more than 50 kelvis," is correct, but it has a different meaning than "60 Kelvin is 10 kelvins more than 50 Kelvin."
I got caught up in all the intracacies of my post. I tried proofreading it, but I guess I missed that. You're right, it should've read "60 Kelvin is 10 kelvins more than 50 Kelvin." I'm unclear on whether "kelvins" should be capitalized or not.
I am not confused about English at all, and I don't know a whit about Latin grammar. I think "declension" is a pretty arcane term, and that maybe he should explain it, regardless of whether I know what it means or not.
Just asking, but is it known that 3DES is not used at all to protect copyrighted works? Also, the fact that the DMCA only applies to digital works reveals the inconsistency in the whole thing.
Your analogy is just as flawed as the analogy (and to often the equation) of copyright priveleges and property rights.
A frictionless car would have problems accelerating too.
I didn't know what it stood for. He wrote it for me.
Why don't you actually explain what you're talking about, instead of letting us all know how smart you are.
I'm not sure if you were being clever or not, but points 2 and 3 can be interpreted as the same thing. This makes point 2 funny.
Why do you use abbreviations which you have no reason to assume people know what they stand for? Does it make you feel special to talk over some peoples heads? Is it based on some inferiority complex involving your mother somehow? By the way, ssDNA is single stranded DNA. And what is RAPDs?
This type of computer isn't for playing mp3's and shit. It's for solving problems which require highly highly parallel processing. Like a Hamiltonian path problem with 11,000 nodes. In the Yahoo article, they seemed to think that this computer had anything to do with biology. In made an implied statement that "one day computers like this may be living in your cells." These computers have nothing to do with biology (except it might calculate protein folding problems). DNA just happens to be a novel molecule which is good for massive parallel processing and which didn't have to be synthesised in a lab, or engineered from scratch.
Ok, why don't you go to someone's house, a friend who owns a PC perhaps, and try comparing the performance of a game running at 640x480 with the same game/configuration running at 1024x768. Well, did you notice a performance hit?
It's okay, you don't have to pretend any more. You should whack off to Regis's little brown hole during the commercials of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, like you used to, instead of posting the screed of a profoundly retarded man using your fresh new WebTV terminal that you bought from Walmart for yourself as an early christmas gift.