...due to the Moon and the Sun. On one day the rotation of the Earth will stop and as we only see one side of the Moon, only one side of the Earth will face the Sun. Once I calculated the time when the rotation will stop and I got about 5 billion years (assuming a linear slowdown). It's quite strange because that's about the remaining life of the Sun, too.
That is the raw translation of a hungarian novel written in the early 80's.
It takes place in the near future when the Earth population is 10 billion. An asteroid threatens Earth, but so big nothing can be done just one thing. By calculating the trajectory of the asteriod the engineers notice that it nearly collide another, but smaller asteroid.
So, they send up a spaceship with full of explosives and ram it into the small asteroid in order to give it a push which is sufficient to make it collide with the big one.
Billiard on the cosmic scale. And it was written well before the public became aware of the asteriod threat.
...there was a contest about what kind of application should be written for this phone. I think the prize was $500 and a P800. However, the development kit for this phone is $1500 (if I am not mistaken).
One of my colleagues (an UPX developer), suggested to use UPX to compess the applications. According to him, the executable header looks quite similar to the format used by Windows. Unfortunately, because of lack of support he was unable to complete his idea.
AFAIK, Tesla was the first to think about EMP as a weapon (I think he called it Death Ray). He even came up with the idea of an EM shield which act as an impenetrable wall against any kind of attack.
They are 11 digits also and it has the advantage that you can keep your phone bill low. If you want to reach someone and he has a fix and a mobile number you should try the fix first (it is cheaper). Or if you are a eg. a WESTEL subscriber then calling another WESTEL subscriber is cheaper than calling eg. a PANNON subscriper. So, it is advatageous to know what kind of number you call.
Only by physically seperating people in a controlled environment can we be sure that everyone is completely free to vote exactly as they please (and that they can't even sell their vote, since they can't prove how they voted).
They can sell their vote with the following procedure if the voting is done with paper voting cards (like in Hungary).
1. Bring out from the voting booth the original voting card in your pocket and drop a folded (empty)paper into the box (as if you voted).
2. Mark your prefered vote on the card and give it to the person who agreed to sell his vote to you.
3. This person puts the card in the box and must bring out the original voting card which he got to get his money.
4. Goto 2.
The only problem is that the person can put an empty paper into the box as you did, but this is not likely (he agreed to sell his vote in the first place, which means he does not care about voting anyway).
Using hyperthreading you have one real CPU and a virtual one. Which means tasks cannot run as much paraller as in a real dual system. This is the reason hyperthreading is just a hype, IMHO. A CPU with hyperthreading enabled will never complete a task faster than two of the same CPUs running parallel with hyperthreading disabled.
A fey months ago I told my wife about Disney and it's attempt to expand the expiration of copyright. And I told her Disney's intention was wrong. Then she asked me "Why should copyright expire? Disney created these cartoons, the cartoons are the property of Disney.". And I couldn't convice her.
So, can you tell me why should copyright exipre? If I write a novel, I want to be paid for it by anybody who reads it until I or my heir deems it appropriate to give it to the public.
Moderators: do not mod me as flamebait. I'd like to get some information how I can convice other people about why unlimited copyright is wrong.
There is a problem with it. According to theories (and maybe some observations) the universe must be about 12-13 billion years old. However, there are some very old deep space objects which seem to be 14-15 billion years old. Of course the universe must be older than the oldest object in it. So, this creates a praradox and this is the reason why we do not know the exact age of the Universe.
I don't mean to be too hard on you, but I don't think you can come up any original ideas which will be implemented in some way in the future. Or do you criticize Clarke because he did not forsee the miniaturization which occured in the past few decades?
Anyway, what Clarke fortold may be realized as space stations on geostationary orbit for space ship assembly (or some space mission).
What is the probability of detecting a signal which was not directly sent towards Earth? Do we have the technology to dectect a signal which power was a few kW when emitted from 1000 light years? And what about background radiation? AFAIK, SETI listens at the frequency of hydrogen, because the backround radiation is the lowest at that frequency. However, I doubt that aliens use this frequency for sort distance communication. They may use it for long distance, but in that case, they send it directly to the receiver. If we are not in the path of such a signal we won't detect it.
Some say our presence can be detected from 100 light years. Is this really the case? Note that 99.99999% of the radio waves we emit are very weak compared to what neccessary for long distance communication and not emmited at the frequency of hydrogen.
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"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein
One of my favourite quotes from Einstein...
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Today's most significant problems cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created them.
I do not want to sound Trollish, but SETI is a complete waste of time, IMHO. I believe the aliens do not use radio waves for communication for the sole reason that radio waves are just too slow.
Just calculate the time which is needed for light to cover the distance between Sun and Earth. It's 8 minutes and the Sun is just 150 million km away. I think there is a more advanced communication mechanism which waits for us to discover, because radio waves are clearly unusable for great distances.
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AFAIK, one of the advantages of this theory is that it explains why the universe seems to be "flat". And the answer is that we just percieve a tiny fraction of the universe, so it's not surprising we see the universe as if it was flat.
According to some theories, the Universe itself is a black hole. So, if someone (God maybe?) look at it from the outside, he won't see anything but a big black hole.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, during the fight scene with the Smiths it can be seen clearly (during the slow motion parts) that Neo's face is a texture.
Nasa is building a satellite capable of catching gamma-ray burst on the fly. Here's the link.
...due to the Moon and the Sun. On one day the rotation of the Earth will stop and as we only see one side of the Moon, only one side of the Earth will face the Sun. Once I calculated the time when the rotation will stop and I got about 5 billion years (assuming a linear slowdown). It's quite strange because that's about the remaining life of the Sun, too.
I am curious to see if they really solved the critical mass problem found in strategic games as well as they claim here.
Deep Space 1 (DS1) was the first probe to use ion propulsion. There were 12 other advanced technology used on that probe. You can find more here.
That is the raw translation of a hungarian novel written in the early 80's.
It takes place in the near future when the Earth population is 10 billion. An asteroid threatens Earth, but so big nothing can be done just one thing. By calculating the trajectory of the asteriod the engineers notice that it nearly collide another, but smaller asteroid.
So, they send up a spaceship with full of explosives and ram it into the small asteroid in order to give it a push which is sufficient to make it collide with the big one.
Billiard on the cosmic scale. And it was written well before the public became aware of the asteriod threat.
If you do not have a P800 and want to emulate your software you will need CodeWarrior. It costs $1500.
...there was a contest about what kind of application should be written for this phone. I think the prize was $500 and a P800. However, the development kit for this phone is $1500 (if I am not mistaken).
One of my colleagues (an UPX developer), suggested to use UPX to compess the applications. According to him, the executable header looks quite similar to the format used by Windows. Unfortunately, because of lack of support he was unable to complete his idea.
AFAIK, Tesla was the first to think about EMP as a weapon (I think he called it Death Ray). He even came up with the idea of an EM shield which act as an impenetrable wall against any kind of attack.
Yeah, and in Hungary (but I think in most European countries) you can even tell the provider from the telephone number.
06-20-xxx-xxxx PANNON
06-30-xxx-xxxx WESTEL
06-70-xxx-xxxx VODAFONE
They are 11 digits also and it has the advantage that you can keep your phone bill low. If you want to reach someone and he has a fix and a mobile number you should try the fix first (it is cheaper). Or if you are a eg. a WESTEL subscriber then calling another WESTEL subscriber is cheaper than calling eg. a PANNON subscriper. So, it is advatageous to know what kind of number you call.
Only by physically seperating people in a controlled environment can we be sure that everyone is completely free to vote exactly as they please (and that they can't even sell their vote, since they can't prove how they voted).
They can sell their vote with the following procedure if the voting is done with paper voting cards (like in Hungary).
1. Bring out from the voting booth the original voting card in your pocket and drop a folded (empty)paper into the box (as if you voted).
2. Mark your prefered vote on the card and give it to the person who agreed to sell his vote to you.
3. This person puts the card in the box and must bring out the original voting card which he got to get his money.
4. Goto 2.
The only problem is that the person can put an empty paper into the box as you did, but this is not likely (he agreed to sell his vote in the first place, which means he does not care about voting anyway).
Using hyperthreading you have one real CPU and a virtual one. Which means tasks cannot run as much paraller as in a real dual system. This is the reason hyperthreading is just a hype, IMHO. A CPU with hyperthreading enabled will never complete a task faster than two of the same CPUs running parallel with hyperthreading disabled.
A fey months ago I told my wife about Disney and it's attempt to expand the expiration of copyright. And I told her Disney's intention was wrong. Then she asked me "Why should copyright expire? Disney created these cartoons, the cartoons are the property of Disney.". And I couldn't convice her.
So, can you tell me why should copyright exipre? If I write a novel, I want to be paid for it by anybody who reads it until I or my heir deems it appropriate to give it to the public.
Moderators: do not mod me as flamebait. I'd like to get some information how I can convice other people about why unlimited copyright is wrong.
There is a problem with it. According to theories (and maybe some observations) the universe must be about 12-13 billion years old. However, there are some very old deep space objects which seem to be 14-15 billion years old. Of course the universe must be older than the oldest object in it. So, this creates a praradox and this is the reason why we do not know the exact age of the Universe.
I don't mean to be too hard on you, but I don't think you can come up any original ideas which will be implemented in some way in the future. Or do you criticize Clarke because he did not forsee the miniaturization which occured in the past few decades?
Anyway, what Clarke fortold may be realized as space stations on geostationary orbit for space ship assembly (or some space mission).
...rename my charachter in Morrowind.
Name: Linus
Level: Godlike
Cast: Knight of the Open Source
Maybe I'm just a dick, or an elitist snob. But if a book makes the NYT bestseller list, or Oprah's list, then I steer clear of it.
So, you haven't read Hawking's "A short history of time"?
What is the probability of detecting a signal which was not directly sent towards Earth? Do we have the technology to dectect a signal which power was a few kW when emitted from 1000 light years? And what about background radiation? AFAIK, SETI listens at the frequency of hydrogen, because the backround radiation is the lowest at that frequency. However, I doubt that aliens use this frequency for sort distance communication. They may use it for long distance, but in that case, they send it directly to the receiver. If we are not in the path of such a signal we won't detect it.
Some say our presence can be detected from 100 light years. Is this really the case? Note that 99.99999% of the radio waves we emit are very weak compared to what neccessary for long distance communication and not emmited at the frequency of hydrogen.
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein
Today's most significant problems cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created them.
my first thought was how on Earth a planet can forecast 50% increase in spam?
In another time, a teenager bitten by a radioactive squirrel would have been a great idea for a superhero.
Go, Squirell-Man, go!!!
I do not want to sound Trollish, but SETI is a complete waste of time, IMHO. I believe the aliens do not use radio waves for communication for the sole reason that radio waves are just too slow.
Just calculate the time which is needed for light to cover the distance between Sun and Earth. It's 8 minutes and the Sun is just 150 million km away. I think there is a more advanced communication mechanism which waits for us to discover, because radio waves are clearly unusable for great distances.
AFAIK, one of the advantages of this theory is that it explains why the universe seems to be "flat". And the answer is that we just percieve a tiny fraction of the universe, so it's not surprising we see the universe as if it was flat.
According to some theories, the Universe itself is a black hole. So, if someone (God maybe?) look at it from the outside, he won't see anything but a big black hole.