technically speaking, Japan already does. In the Japanese animation, there is a sect known as "hentai" (animated porn more or less). As anime is now all done entirely by computers, so they're basically CG characters - depending upon what you consider to look "CG".
Well see if this helps to clarify things. A black hole does not have size but it does have a mass. The mass can change, while the size technically does not. What we define as the black hole is typically what we can't see. A black hole has an event horizon around the singularity (the hole itself). The horizon defines that edge where nothing comes back (exempting hawking radiation). The more massive a black hole is the larger the radius of the event horizon is - so a black hole can sort of be bigger when you consider where the event horizion is, but at the same time static in size (the singularity itself).
um.... just so you're aware, Mozilla can block images on a site or address basis. I guess if you use konquor or galeon it doesn't matter, but it's something to look into
The real question is "does it matter if we did see something?". I highly doubt any civilization would have the opportunity to actually look at each other through their narrow window of existence. When you look at the night sky, you don't see the present, you look directly at the past. You're actually watching what happened thousands or tens of thousands (or longer) years ago. Half the universe could disappear tomorrow and we wouldn't know for thousands of years. Whatever we see now is probably long gone, so really astronomy is more like a history lesson in physics to help us understand things. There's nothing we can really grasp beyond the scope of our solar system, and maybe a close star or two.
Actually scientists were recently very shocked in discovering that Mercury in fact DOES have an atmosphere. It's extremely thin, made of lighter elements and hardly noticeable. If I recall correctly it tends to bleed off eventually due to the low gravity but is replenished by the junk the sun spits at it.
we don't know that for sure. I'd be willing to bet that our solar system is probably average right now. As the universe ages, stars will burn up and form more elements (mainly stuff like carbon, and iron). The formation of a solar system isn't really static, it has more to do with what was floating around at the time, and where it was. Chances are that during the initial phases of development of a solar system, that the first ignition of a star would tend to blow out the lighter elements, so you would get dense planets closer towards the star at the middle. Most of which would be (relatively) small and hard to see.
yeah, I agree. He says "disappointment", but nothing to back it up. You download crap, and no matter what you do to it, it will still be crap. As far as I've seen, ripping my own CD's for myself with ogg vorbis at around 256kb is good enough for me, and I consider myself to be extremely picky.
typically you want to move your furnature to a new house before completely burning the old one down.... but that's just the way I would approach things.
well by you're scheme it would still require a catcher of some sort. Getting it to earth isn't the hard part. Getting it to the right place on earth is the hard part. I mean we wouldn't want gigantic capsules landing everywhere from the plains of Africa to the top of buildings of Chicago. It would all have to be coordinated, and I think "catching" jetisoned capsules would be a bit harder than one would think. All in all you'd probably have to shoot it back to the earth of the intent of placing it in orbit until someone would figure out where to put it. It could be an organizational nightmare if multiple corperations started fighting over who got to put what where, and when.
In reference to the future; that could be the genius of this entire licence scheme. What happens when MS no longer supports XP? Sure they don't support windows 98, but I can wipe the hard drive and re-install it until I'm blue in the face. With XP, no support = no activation = no install. Years down the road if you want to install XP back onto a computer you may very well end up being hosed. MS will no doubt be more than happy to sell you their latest OS : MS Level 2 (which they will aquire once they get enough XP)
The president can't declare war. Its unconstitutional. Congress declares war. They haven't done so.
This isn't really a war in those terms. It's more like the "war on drugs". Congress declares war on other countries, any politician can declare war on a vague concept.
the good news is that because the Taliban outlawed women learning to read, that we can have more people read our truth in our books than they can have reading theirs.
I hope that things don't move too fast in Afghanistan. It's easy to sit here in the west and think this is all fine and dandy, but if this all gets pushed in too fast it could end up being culture shock to a lot of people, and potentially generate more fundamentalist extremists (who would of course be anti-american). Afghanistan needs to change, but it needs to do it slowly. It needs to find that middle ground that most of the people will find socially acceptable.
A CLI can be set up to be fairly easy to use. I mean if you've ever seen some people sift through their sea of icons on the desktop or the kludge of a start menu, that can get pretty messy too. Seems much easier if you could simply type "mail" and it sends you to your e-mail client (or hotmail/whatever).
Personally I'd like a blending of the desktop and CLI. You have a bar to type stuff at like the windows "run" command, but it's always visible. It has an easy to access shortcut key, and you type whatever you want to do. It introduces problems like spelling errors, but would cut down on all these messy menus which tend to prevail now days. Right now (while using windows) I just hit the windows key and 'r', then type, but I'd like to see this take a step further.
That seems more like a case for people who actually keep their computers clean. About the only advantage of that, that I could see would be the ability to watch your Athlon burst into flames in reasonable safety.
You know, I find it sort of odd that all these law makers are so concerned about protecting our kids from bad stuff on the internet, but at the same time allow our kids to be subjected to tons of p0rn spam mail.
As an aside, I've just started to really get spam within the last year (out of 3 years). I only have one filter though, and that dumps any mail that doesn't have my address in the To: field. When I looked at the mail I noticed that my address wasn't in the CC either. I have a domain so I assume that the mail is somehow getting to me because I am the default mail address. This actually catches about 90% of my spam. Anyone know what this is all about?
Is this really that interesting? While I admit it would be cool to have a MAME machine for a TV, I'm not sure I see the difference between this, and finding an old laptop running DOS with a special controller. (Note that I referr to a laptop for the size comparability.)
Slashdot Mirror
When an electric car can keep me warm in -40 degrees below zero, while driving against the wind for a 300 mile drive I'll be impressed.
Personally I'd put more stock in a vehicle powered by hydrogen.
technically speaking, Japan already does. In the Japanese animation, there is a sect known as "hentai" (animated porn more or less). As anime is now all done entirely by computers, so they're basically CG characters - depending upon what you consider to look "CG".
Well see if this helps to clarify things. A black hole does not have size but it does have a mass. The mass can change, while the size technically does not. What we define as the black hole is typically what we can't see. A black hole has an event horizon around the singularity (the hole itself). The horizon defines that edge where nothing comes back (exempting hawking radiation). The more massive a black hole is the larger the radius of the event horizon is - so a black hole can sort of be bigger when you consider where the event horizion is, but at the same time static in size (the singularity itself).
"It's law meets new technology and no one gets it perfect the first time around."
like the guillotine? (sp?)
um.... just so you're aware, Mozilla can block images on a site or address basis. I guess if you use konquor or galeon it doesn't matter, but it's something to look into
The real question is "does it matter if we did see something?". I highly doubt any civilization would have the opportunity to actually look at each other through their narrow window of existence. When you look at the night sky, you don't see the present, you look directly at the past. You're actually watching what happened thousands or tens of thousands (or longer) years ago. Half the universe could disappear tomorrow and we wouldn't know for thousands of years. Whatever we see now is probably long gone, so really astronomy is more like a history lesson in physics to help us understand things. There's nothing we can really grasp beyond the scope of our solar system, and maybe a close star or two.
Actually scientists were recently very shocked in discovering that Mercury in fact DOES have an atmosphere. It's extremely thin, made of lighter elements and hardly noticeable. If I recall correctly it tends to bleed off eventually due to the low gravity but is replenished by the junk the sun spits at it.
we don't know that for sure. I'd be willing to bet that our solar system is probably average right now. As the universe ages, stars will burn up and form more elements (mainly stuff like carbon, and iron). The formation of a solar system isn't really static, it has more to do with what was floating around at the time, and where it was. Chances are that during the initial phases of development of a solar system, that the first ignition of a star would tend to blow out the lighter elements, so you would get dense planets closer towards the star at the middle. Most of which would be (relatively) small and hard to see.
think if you stripped *BSD down and let it run with the limitations of DOS, you'd find it just as stable, and probably still more useful.
yeah, I agree. He says "disappointment", but nothing to back it up. You download crap, and no matter what you do to it, it will still be crap. As far as I've seen, ripping my own CD's for myself with ogg vorbis at around 256kb is good enough for me, and I consider myself to be extremely picky.
"will this make my internet faster?"
No
thank you, have a nice day
typically you want to move your furnature to a new house before completely burning the old one down.... but that's just the way I would approach things.
well by you're scheme it would still require a catcher of some sort. Getting it to earth isn't the hard part. Getting it to the right place on earth is the hard part. I mean we wouldn't want gigantic capsules landing everywhere from the plains of Africa to the top of buildings of Chicago. It would all have to be coordinated, and I think "catching" jetisoned capsules would be a bit harder than one would think. All in all you'd probably have to shoot it back to the earth of the intent of placing it in orbit until someone would figure out where to put it. It could be an organizational nightmare if multiple corperations started fighting over who got to put what where, and when.
In reference to the future; that could be the genius of this entire licence scheme. What happens when MS no longer supports XP? Sure they don't support windows 98, but I can wipe the hard drive and re-install it until I'm blue in the face. With XP, no support = no activation = no install. Years down the road if you want to install XP back onto a computer you may very well end up being hosed. MS will no doubt be more than happy to sell you their latest OS : MS Level 2 (which they will aquire once they get enough XP)
The president can't declare war. Its unconstitutional. Congress declares war. They haven't done so.
This isn't really a war in those terms. It's more like the "war on drugs". Congress declares war on other countries, any politician can declare war on a vague concept.
I think we've been going on "guilty until "proven" guilty" for a while now
the good news is that because the Taliban outlawed women learning to read, that we can have more people read our truth in our books than they can have reading theirs.
"When you make regular software, it may have a bug but its not such a big deal, when you make a game there can be NO bugs at all."
You've never played Everquest have you?
All software (worth anything) has a bug in it somewhere. It's just a matter of finding it... but I know what you mean...
I hope that things don't move too fast in Afghanistan. It's easy to sit here in the west and think this is all fine and dandy, but if this all gets pushed in too fast it could end up being culture shock to a lot of people, and potentially generate more fundamentalist extremists (who would of course be anti-american). Afghanistan needs to change, but it needs to do it slowly. It needs to find that middle ground that most of the people will find socially acceptable.
A CLI can be set up to be fairly easy to use. I mean if you've ever seen some people sift through their sea of icons on the desktop or the kludge of a start menu, that can get pretty messy too. Seems much easier if you could simply type "mail" and it sends you to your e-mail client (or hotmail/whatever).
Personally I'd like a blending of the desktop and CLI. You have a bar to type stuff at like the windows "run" command, but it's always visible. It has an easy to access shortcut key, and you type whatever you want to do. It introduces problems like spelling errors, but would cut down on all these messy menus which tend to prevail now days. Right now (while using windows) I just hit the windows key and 'r', then type, but I'd like to see this take a step further.
That seems more like a case for people who actually keep their computers clean. About the only advantage of that, that I could see would be the ability to watch your Athlon burst into flames in reasonable safety.
You know, I find it sort of odd that all these law makers are so concerned about protecting our kids from bad stuff on the internet, but at the same time allow our kids to be subjected to tons of p0rn spam mail.
As an aside, I've just started to really get spam within the last year (out of 3 years). I only have one filter though, and that dumps any mail that doesn't have my address in the To: field. When I looked at the mail I noticed that my address wasn't in the CC either. I have a domain so I assume that the mail is somehow getting to me because I am the default mail address. This actually catches about 90% of my spam. Anyone know what this is all about?
and when you open them up with word, they're just a garbled mess. What's up with that? I just send them back and tell them it sucks.
Is this really that interesting? While I admit it would be cool to have a MAME machine for a TV, I'm not sure I see the difference between this, and finding an old laptop running DOS with a special controller. (Note that I referr to a laptop for the size comparability.)
Is that before or after taxes?