Seriously, ignoring pure performance considerations, RDRAM is garbage. It has to be put in pairs, and if those pairs aren't made by the same manufacturer, I've seen motherboards refuse to boot. Heat is a serious issue, and I've burned one finger too many on those heat spreaders. I've also seen an analog cable coming from the cdrom get stuck between the RIMM's and melt to the heat spreader. And price is still an issue, although it's improved quite a bit recently.
Expensive + Has to run in pairs + Runs very hot == Useless to me.
And I understand that research costs money, but maybe we as a society would be better off if governments not spend so much on space when there are so many worthwhile medical research programs that arin dire need of funding.
You assume that just because the space program would stop recieving funds, medical research would start recieving more. Not only that, but this seems to me to be incredibly short-sighted thinking. What happens if we cut off all funding to space and concentrate on medical advances? Everyone starts living longer, the planet becomes overcrowded very quickly, at which point we would wish we had spent more on space research. Space research is humanitys only chance for long-term survival. Our top priority should be expanding beyond this vulnerable little planet before we get wiped out or wipe ourselves out.
Their reasoning behind this is probably because the only two official languages of the Olympics are, you guessed it, English and French. That's what you get for letting a Frenchman create the modern Olympics. It really has nothing to do with "self-serving Americans". If you went to the Olympics, you'd see that all the signs are in English and French. Don't like it? Blame the IOC, not the people who made the website.
By using the official languages only, they avoid several problems. If they used only the "major" languages of Europe, complaints from other peoples of the world would rightfully come rolling in. Similarly, I doubt they have the budget or the resources to make a translation for everyone. By sticking to the official languages, they're avoiding any sign of favoritism or any Euro-centric or Amero-centric prejudices. Or at least they can plausibly deny such prejudices.;)
Ain't it Cool News had a story on this earlier. Looks like the title will be The Great Vegetable Plot and the director is shooting for a release 2 years from now. Here's to hoping it turns out better than Chicken Run, which just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. *shrug*. I just can't make myself care about the well-being of chickens, which are so darn tasty.;)
This would be a nice feather in the cap of string theory, which to this point does not have any experimental observations to back it up.
One of the predictions (or you could say requirements) of string theory, is that the universe contains a total of 11 space-time dimensions, 7 of which are "curled-up" and are extremely tiny. Every time you move, you pass through the entire universe in each of these 7 dimensions, although your position in the 3 "enlarged" dimensions hardly changes. The interesting thing is that a guy predicted these extra dimensions way back in the 1910's, and was ignored for about 50 years. Experimental evidence on the side of string theory (or as they're calling it now, M-theory) would go a long way towards convincing the experimental physicists that all these theoretical physicists aren't off their rockers.
Nah, you wouldn't need one of these routers in each room. The router only goes at the point where your Power-line network needs to interface with another type of network (in this case, the rj-45 network that most dsl and cable modems use). For each computer you just need a power-line network card. Granted, I have no idea on the pricing for those or for the router, but this definitely will be easier than running cat5 all over creation. Probably works better than 802.11b, especially if you've got a lot of walls.
Yeah, yeah, I knew as I soon as I submitted it that someone would comment on that. What I should have said was "Hollywood, which is not very well known for risk-taking or being offensive, has since 9/11 become so annoyingly non-offensive and cautious about certain things that it's actually starting to offend me." Better?;)
if in light of recent events, many of the Islamic references from these 2 books were removed or reduced. Galactic Jihad, anyone? One thing's for sure--it's gonna take a while before Hollywood grows back the balls they had cut off on 9/11.
Nice sources you got there. Care to elaborate? Oh, and here's the scoop straight from the World Health Organization:
A recent United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report giving field measurements taken around selected impact sites in Kosovo (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) indicates that contamination by DU in the environment was localized to a few tens of metres around impact sites. Contamination by DU dusts to local vegetation and water supplies was found to be extremely low. Thus, the possibility of significant exposure to the local populations was found to be very low.
So if you could provide some links that show that "cancer rates have shot up", I'd appreciate it, because otherwise it looks like you're making things up to push your own particular agenda.
What if you are an artist and become colour blind?
What if you are a pilot and develop mild epilepsy?
Hell, what if you are a sailor and develop severe sea sickness?
What if you're deaf and you're a composer? Oh wait...
So they finally agreed to put in the Mountain Dew Camelbak? Excellent news! Now I can finally get a look at this "outside" that everyone keeps talking about.
I have been needing the help and advice on some things, but files send I to people, no response! Where can send I this file to get advice that I am needing?
Something roughly along the same lines happened with UPS shortly after I quit working as an underpaid and overworked tech support for them. Their new software, Worldship (which customer were being told they had to upgrade to) installed IE 5.5, made it the default browser, deleted all the customers bookmarks, and set ups.com as the homepage, all without asking the customer. I was extremely glad I quit before this happened. Last I heard some people had filed a class action lawsuit, although I don't know where it went from there.
...there must be something controlling them, right?
Not necessarily. Nanobots could be built that have the capability to detect a certain chemical, seek it out, and absorb that chemical, and then shut down. No outside control would be necessary.
But, if a hoarde of nanobots gets out of control, we do have a way of stopping them, an Electro Magnet Pulse wreaks havoc with pretty much every electronic device, and to shield the little buggers would be an act of utter stupidity.
In order to be vulnerable to EMP the nanobots would have to contain semi-conductors. Here's some useful info:
"Society has entered the information age and is more dependent on electronic systems that work with components that are very susceptible to excessive electric currents and voltages."(15) Many systems needed are controlled by a semiconductor in some way. Failure of semi-conductive chips could destroy industrial processes, railway networks, power and phone systems, and access to water supplies. Semiconductor devices fail when they encounter an EMP because of the local heating that occurs. When a semi-conductive device absorbs the EMP energy, it displaces the resulting heat that is produced relatively slowly when compared to the time scale of the EMP. Because the heat is not dissipated quickly, the semiconductor can quickly heat up to temperatures near the melting point of the material. Soon the device will short and fail. This type of failure is call thermal second-breakdown failure.Source
But there are several different possibilities for the future of nanobot production. Some of these are entirely mechanical, some entirely chemical, or even biological. An EMP would do nothing to these types of nanobots.
CloneCD makes a bit-by-bit image of a CD. It will still run into the errors that are introduced by some copy protection, but it'll skip right over them, and you can also make it copy the errors, which need to be there for some copy protection programs. I've used this to make Backup copies of Black & White and The Sims, which both use a copy protection that fools EZCD and Nero by introducing errors into the first 1000 blocks of data. Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but it sure helped me out.
I'm sorry, but this annoys the hell out of me every time I see it.
loose (ls)
adj. looser, loosest
Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.
Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.
Free from confinement or imprisonment; unfettered: criminals loose in the neighborhood; dogs that are loose on the streets.
Not tight-fitting or tightly fitted: loose shoes.
Not bound, bundled, stapled, or gathered together: loose papers.
Not compact or dense in arrangement or structure: loose gravel.
Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; idle: loose talk.
Not formal; relaxed: a loose atmosphere at the club.
Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.
Not literal or exact: a loose translation.
Characterized by a free movement of fluids in the body: a loose cough; loose bowels.
lose (lz)
v. lost, (lôst, lst) losing, loses
v. tr.
To be unsuccessful in retaining possession of; mislay: He's always losing his car keys.
To be deprived of (something one has had): lost her art collection in the fire; lost her job.
To be left alone or desolate because of the death of: lost his wife.
To be unable to keep alive: a doctor who has lost very few patients.
To be unable to keep control or allegiance of: lost his temper at the meeting; is losing supporters by changing his mind.
To fail to win; fail in: lost the game; lost the court case.
To fail to use or take advantage of: Don't lose a chance to improve your position.
To fail to hear, see, or understand: We lost the plane in the fog. I lost her when she started speaking about thermodynamics.
To let (oneself) become unable to find the way.
To remove (oneself), as from everyday reality into a fantasy world.
To rid oneself of: lost five pounds.
To consume aimlessly; waste: lost a week in idle occupations.
To wander from or become ignorant of: lose one's way.
To elude or outdistance: lost their pursuers.
To be outdistanced by: chased the thieves but lost them.
To become slow by (a specified amount of time). Used of a timepiece.
To cause or result in the loss of: Failure to reply to the advertisement lost her the job.
To cause to be destroyed. Usually used in the passive: Both planes were lost in the crash.
To cause to be damned.
Ok NASA, time to cut your losses...and here's how to do it:
1. Cut yourself back to two launches a year
2. On each of those launches have at least 1 paid tourist. Instead of having this person pay directly for the trip, have the price of their trip go directly into the coffers of lobbyists to work Congress and the public on your behalf.
3. Spend the next 10 years putting all the money you saved from those launches into R&D. Focus on Single-Stage-to-Orbit and a Manned Mars Mission. These things will save you.
4. Once you put a man on Mars, you're golden, untouchable. Use the momentum gained from that to put us off this single solitary pinprick of a planet forever.
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This is no troll, it's the truth, the overall sentiment that I've seen in comments on the site in the last several years is "Oh my God they're trying to stop us from saying what we want" on one day and "We must censor spammers" on the next.
There is a huge freaking world of difference between censorship and closing open mail relays. This is *not* a free speech issue. The people using open mail relays are not legitimate businesses. They are hijacking other peoples 1)ignorance or 2) goodwill in order to hide their origins and make it impossible for the *end user* to block these unwanted messages. If people want to send spam, fine. All the best of luck to them. But they should at least be honest about it. This has absolutely nothing to do with free speech.
We should be sending Marines there and oil rig miners- people who are used to very extreme conditions and will relish the hardship and use it as an incentive to change the red planet to something habitable for human life.
We shouldnt be sending people who'll need their booze and blowup dolls by any means.
If you had ever met any Marines or oil rig miners you would know that those two sentences are self-contradictory.
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Seriously, ignoring pure performance considerations, RDRAM is garbage. It has to be put in pairs, and if those pairs aren't made by the same manufacturer, I've seen motherboards refuse to boot. Heat is a serious issue, and I've burned one finger too many on those heat spreaders. I've also seen an analog cable coming from the cdrom get stuck between the RIMM's and melt to the heat spreader. And price is still an issue, although it's improved quite a bit recently.
Expensive + Has to run in pairs + Runs very hot == Useless to me.
You assume that just because the space program would stop recieving funds, medical research would start recieving more. Not only that, but this seems to me to be incredibly short-sighted thinking. What happens if we cut off all funding to space and concentrate on medical advances? Everyone starts living longer, the planet becomes overcrowded very quickly, at which point we would wish we had spent more on space research. Space research is humanitys only chance for long-term survival. Our top priority should be expanding beyond this vulnerable little planet before we get wiped out or wipe ourselves out.
By using the official languages only, they avoid several problems. If they used only the "major" languages of Europe, complaints from other peoples of the world would rightfully come rolling in. Similarly, I doubt they have the budget or the resources to make a translation for everyone. By sticking to the official languages, they're avoiding any sign of favoritism or any Euro-centric or Amero-centric prejudices. Or at least they can plausibly deny such prejudices. ;)
Ain't it Cool News had a story on this earlier. Looks like the title will be The Great Vegetable Plot and the director is shooting for a release 2 years from now. Here's to hoping it turns out better than Chicken Run, which just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. *shrug*. I just can't make myself care about the well-being of chickens, which are so darn tasty. ;)
This would be a nice feather in the cap of string theory, which to this point does not have any experimental observations to back it up.
One of the predictions (or you could say requirements) of string theory, is that the universe contains a total of 11 space-time dimensions, 7 of which are "curled-up" and are extremely tiny. Every time you move, you pass through the entire universe in each of these 7 dimensions, although your position in the 3 "enlarged" dimensions hardly changes. The interesting thing is that a guy predicted these extra dimensions way back in the 1910's, and was ignored for about 50 years. Experimental evidence on the side of string theory (or as they're calling it now, M-theory) would go a long way towards convincing the experimental physicists that all these theoretical physicists aren't off their rockers.
Nah, you wouldn't need one of these routers in each room. The router only goes at the point where your Power-line network needs to interface with another type of network (in this case, the rj-45 network that most dsl and cable modems use). For each computer you just need a power-line network card. Granted, I have no idea on the pricing for those or for the router, but this definitely will be easier than running cat5 all over creation. Probably works better than 802.11b, especially if you've got a lot of walls.
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Civ3
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Mechwarrior4 -Black Knight
Empire Earth
So if you could provide some links that show that "cancer rates have shot up", I'd appreciate it, because otherwise it looks like you're making things up to push your own particular agenda.
What if you are a pilot and develop mild epilepsy?
Hell, what if you are a sailor and develop severe sea sickness?
What if you're deaf and you're a composer? Oh wait...
Am I the only one who thinks that "Matrix: Reloaded" is worse than "Attack of the Clones"?
Well, at least it isn't "The Agents Strike Back"
So they finally agreed to put in the Mountain Dew Camelbak? Excellent news! Now I can finally get a look at this "outside" that everyone keeps talking about.
It's called Calvinball, and it's the sport of kings.
I have been needing the help and advice on some things, but files send I to people, no response! Where can send I this file to get advice that I am needing?
Goodbye!
Not necessarily. Nanobots could be built that have the capability to detect a certain chemical, seek it out, and absorb that chemical, and then shut down. No outside control would be necessary.
But, if a hoarde of nanobots gets out of control, we do have a way of stopping them, an Electro Magnet Pulse wreaks havoc with pretty much every electronic device, and to shield the little buggers would be an act of utter stupidity.
In order to be vulnerable to EMP the nanobots would have to contain semi-conductors. Here's some useful info:
"Society has entered the information age and is more dependent on electronic systems that work with components that are very susceptible to excessive electric currents and voltages."(15) Many systems needed are controlled by a semiconductor in some way. Failure of semi-conductive chips could destroy industrial processes, railway networks, power and phone systems, and access to water supplies. Semiconductor devices fail when they encounter an EMP because of the local heating that occurs. When a semi-conductive device absorbs the EMP energy, it displaces the resulting heat that is produced relatively slowly when compared to the time scale of the EMP. Because the heat is not dissipated quickly, the semiconductor can quickly heat up to temperatures near the melting point of the material. Soon the device will short and fail. This type of failure is call thermal second-breakdown failure. Source
But there are several different possibilities for the future of nanobot production. Some of these are entirely mechanical, some entirely chemical, or even biological. An EMP would do nothing to these types of nanobots.
Not all that extreme, apparently
I'm sorry, but this annoys the hell out of me every time I see it.
loose (ls)
adj. looser, loosest
Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.
Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.
Free from confinement or imprisonment; unfettered: criminals loose in the neighborhood; dogs that are loose on the streets.
Not tight-fitting or tightly fitted: loose shoes.
Not bound, bundled, stapled, or gathered together: loose papers.
Not compact or dense in arrangement or structure: loose gravel.
Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; idle: loose talk.
Not formal; relaxed: a loose atmosphere at the club.
Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.
Not literal or exact: a loose translation.
Characterized by a free movement of fluids in the body: a loose cough; loose bowels.
lose (lz)
v. lost, (lôst, lst) losing, loses
v. tr.
To be unsuccessful in retaining possession of; mislay: He's always losing his car keys.
To be deprived of (something one has had): lost her art collection in the fire; lost her job.
To be left alone or desolate because of the death of: lost his wife.
To be unable to keep alive: a doctor who has lost very few patients.
To be unable to keep control or allegiance of: lost his temper at the meeting; is losing supporters by changing his mind.
To fail to win; fail in: lost the game; lost the court case.
To fail to use or take advantage of: Don't lose a chance to improve your position.
To fail to hear, see, or understand: We lost the plane in the fog. I lost her when she started speaking about thermodynamics.
To let (oneself) become unable to find the way.
To remove (oneself), as from everyday reality into a fantasy world.
To rid oneself of: lost five pounds.
To consume aimlessly; waste: lost a week in idle occupations.
To wander from or become ignorant of: lose one's way.
To elude or outdistance: lost their pursuers.
To be outdistanced by: chased the thieves but lost them.
To become slow by (a specified amount of time). Used of a timepiece.
To cause or result in the loss of: Failure to reply to the advertisement lost her the job.
To cause to be destroyed. Usually used in the passive: Both planes were lost in the crash.
To cause to be damned.
1. Cut yourself back to two launches a year
2. On each of those launches have at least 1 paid tourist. Instead of having this person pay directly for the trip, have the price of their trip go directly into the coffers of lobbyists to work Congress and the public on your behalf.
3. Spend the next 10 years putting all the money you saved from those launches into R&D. Focus on Single-Stage-to-Orbit and a Manned Mars Mission. These things will save you.
4. Once you put a man on Mars, you're golden, untouchable. Use the momentum gained from that to put us off this single solitary pinprick of a planet forever.
There is a huge freaking world of difference between censorship and closing open mail relays. This is *not* a free speech issue. The people using open mail relays are not legitimate businesses. They are hijacking other peoples 1)ignorance or 2) goodwill in order to hide their origins and make it impossible for the *end user* to block these unwanted messages. If people want to send spam, fine. All the best of luck to them. But they should at least be honest about it. This has absolutely nothing to do with free speech.
We shouldnt be sending people who'll need their booze and blowup dolls by any means.
If you had ever met any Marines or oil rig miners you would know that those two sentences are self-contradictory.