I always thought it was so cheesy when the villian in some movie would capture the hero and say, "I want you to die knowing my evil plot. This will be my last punishment." Then you just know the hero is going to escape, and use this newfound knowledge to thwart the villian. This has been so overdone that you'd think everyone would have seen it at least once and gone "mental note..."
Research is already underway to genetically engineer a shark with the carrying capacity of a 747. The biggest hurdles are a sufficiently large aquarium, and food supply. Expect results in 5 to 10 years.
But, there have been concerns that we're in the middle of a cooling period, being negated somewhat by our poor pollution practices. How likely? I don't know. But if that's the case, doing the cheaper thing would be best. Now you have to convince all the people that this isn't the case, or even a possibility, or they will choose that option because it's best for them. So what about the next generation.
Yep, if parthenogenisis did occur to cause the virgin birth of Jesus (a male), that would indeed be a miracle. Not so much because it wouldn't require a man for the pregnancy to occur, but that an X chromosome would have to change to a Y (quite an evolutionary change for a single chromosome transcription event) in such a way as to make a person who didn't look much different than other men.
To paraphrase Futurama, "You win again, gravity." Great models that don't work are kind of pointless, whether it be FTL, time travel, or high speeds in Newtonian physics. We also know that Newtonian physics aren't going to get better in this aspect. That means our only real options are relativistic travel, with all the drawbacks, or FTL, whose possibility seems unlikely.
In other words, you'll get to travel the universe, but you'll never know that you did it.
How is this bad? This is one of the cool things about relativistic travel. One of the bigger challenges we're facing right now is keeping people alive long enough to reach their destination. The good news is, if we travel at (or approach) c, this becomes less of a problem.
Besides, I always hated the travel part of vacations anyway...
Colliding two Britney albums at high speeds makes them both better. Further research revealed that colliding a single Britney album against a brick wall improved that album to the same degree as colliding it with another Britney album. Grant proposals are being written up as we speak for extensive studies in this field, both with different celebrities and combinations of celebrities to see if this observation holds true, and under what circumstances.
The trick is to make the nanobots really stupid. This might sound funny, but look how successful (and useful) bacteria are. They certainly aren't one-size-fits-all, but each is remarkably suited for it's task. Ultimately, there are only two ways nanotechnology will work: very stupid, autonomous, specific-use nanobots; or very stupid, externally controlled, general-use nanobots. Keep in mind, even a nanoscale cube, packed with transistors of 1 nm cude, will only have 1 million transistors, and nothing else.
I agree with what you say, but this seems to have fallen out of favour in the music industry (along with quality IMHO). The Wall was also a very cohesive work. Later, you saw works with a 'feel' to them. There was a flow and rythm to the album. I felt that way about Barenaked Ladies' album, Gordon. Most albums I've heard, though, seem to have little flow, and no story to tell. This isn't necessarliy a bad thing, but doesn't lend itself to the argument that we are losing something by using random play.
Time-correlated shuffle would have to have other weightings added, otherwise over time it would resolve to the last song played. You would end up with one or two songs being repeated ad nauseum. I personally would prefer the opposite, where the song is always fresh and new, weighted, of course, so I don't get a constant cycle.
As for what's outside the universe, there can be only one answer:
Lost socks.
No, given your explanation earlier, all those sock are streaming through space. Given the relatively emptiness of space, one day all these socks are going to rain down on us in a constant stream, the duration of which is the duration of how long we've been losing socks. The good news is, if we determine the velocity of these inbound socks, we will have the diameter of the universe on a certain line. If we track the density of sockfall over the number of socks used at a given time (assuming that the percentage of sock disappearance is constant) we will be able to determine the speed the universe is expanding (or shrinking) on that line. I'm sure our progenitors will be waiting anxiously for an opportunity to examine this data that all of us sock-wearing individuals have sacrificed to create.
Add FAT structure, and you have a 1.2MB floppy rectangle. Take 1 inch off the top, and you can have floppy sheets that you could put in a binder, while still holding about 1MB. Take 1000 of those, put them in a (huge) binder, and when you throw "the book" at your marketing type, he'll be in no shape to say, "whew, I'm glad there weren't 24 more pages in there..."
It's a good start, but you're not going far enough.
Chopsticks look a lot like branches on trees - we have whole forests of potential weapons! Cut them down, burn them up! Global warming isn't nearly as dangerous as all these weapons we have just lying around waiting to be used! Even some grasses are dangerous! There are incidents of straw being driven through a door during a tornado. We should stop growing wheat! Starvation is a small price to pay if it saves even one life!
Yeah, but something tells me the cops aren't there to catch copyrighters. Otherwise the cops would be there every day, or the copyright breakers would come on days other than Friday or Saturday. My recommendation is that you try to avoid that theatre on Fridays and Saturdays, unless those cops are doing an exceptional job at subduing the ne'er-do-wells.
I buy DVDs for their quality and the longevity of the medium (under careful handling). This includes movies and videos for my kids. But I won't let my 4-year-old touch a DVD if I can at all help it. Fingerprints are bad enough, let alone all the other bad things you can do to a DVD, so I want to copy them to VHS. The kids can operate the VCR well enough. They've only destroyed a few tapes, and they're getting better at not doing that. Putting the DVD Player higher up isn't an option, as any parent can tell you. If you put something your kid wants 6 inches from the ceiling, they'll find a way to get at it when your back is turned. I don't want them taking a broomstick to my DVD player. So, yes, I have a legitimate, fair use desire to copy my DVDs.
Nice how you buried that legal activity in a bunch of illegal activities. I'm tempted to call you a troll, but then I'd have to say I was successfully baited.:P
...the police ought to be the ones taking action, not vigilantes from the MPAA...
Perhaps you would rather have the public pay for police officers to operate in malls to arrest shoplifters? I don't think that would be cost-effective for the public. It's not a perfect example, but it's quite close.
I propose that we start calling 'reality' programming by a new term. Surreality programming is much more apt, seeing how Survivor and The Bachelor have more in common with Escher than anything I've seen personally or in the news. On a side note, it may embarrass those who watch it enough that the ratings will go down, and maybe we'll get some new programming.
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At $1/hour, running round-the-clock, this would generate more income per month than some people make flipping burgers (1 * 24 * 30 = 720), with the added advantage that you can still flip burgers. If I ran 4 or 5 machines, it would make more than I make working. Rest assured that people will sign up.
If you don't like it, don't purchase your music there. But this is a clear violation of iTMS's terms of service and use. So if you use *Apple's* system then *they* get to set the rules.
But Apple doesn't have a right to set the rules. I'm buying a product, not a license. What I do with the product after it leaves their hands is none of their business. If I delete the file, that's too bad for me, because they have no obligation to manage my product. If I didn't make sure that it couldn't be accidentally deleted, that's my problem. But wait, I can't back up my product, because of DRM which contradicts fair use. Hmm. But I can use playfair, regain my rights, back up my music, and have broken exactly one law, the DMCA, which the grandparent mentioned in the first place.
In short, this has nothing to do with Apple's rights. Because, once it leaves their hands, they don't have any. If anything, the copyright holder has some rights that may be violated, and Apple's capability to market a product may be hurt. But they don't have a right to market a product anyway. Which takes us back to the beginning.
The odds of breaking the glass due to pressure is virtually nil. You may have noticed in the pic that there is no membrane sealing the head in. It uses atmospheric pressure to keep the water out. Well, how does it do that? By exerting the same amount of pressure as the water. This means that the pressure is the same from both sides of the window. For the stresses to get high enough to actually matter to the window, you would have to do some pretty cool things, and probably wouldn't survive resurfacing anyway.
Scientists discover an unknown colony of Cowboy Neals buried deep within the Earth's crust!
A plan is in place to deliver a series of neutron bombs in a unique impregnable ship to destroy this colony. A scientist was overheard saying, "Well, of course this could stop the core from spinning and turn earth into a lifeless wasteland, but that's a risk I'm willing to take."
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I always thought it was so cheesy when the villian in some movie would capture the hero and say, "I want you to die knowing my evil plot. This will be my last punishment." Then you just know the hero is going to escape, and use this newfound knowledge to thwart the villian. This has been so overdone that you'd think everyone would have seen it at least once and gone "mental note..."
Research is already underway to genetically engineer a shark with the carrying capacity of a 747. The biggest hurdles are a sufficiently large aquarium, and food supply. Expect results in 5 to 10 years.
But, there have been concerns that we're in the middle of a cooling period, being negated somewhat by our poor pollution practices. How likely? I don't know. But if that's the case, doing the cheaper thing would be best. Now you have to convince all the people that this isn't the case, or even a possibility, or they will choose that option because it's best for them. So what about the next generation.
Yep, if parthenogenisis did occur to cause the virgin birth of Jesus (a male), that would indeed be a miracle. Not so much because it wouldn't require a man for the pregnancy to occur, but that an X chromosome would have to change to a Y (quite an evolutionary change for a single chromosome transcription event) in such a way as to make a person who didn't look much different than other men.
To paraphrase Futurama, "You win again, gravity." Great models that don't work are kind of pointless, whether it be FTL, time travel, or high speeds in Newtonian physics. We also know that Newtonian physics aren't going to get better in this aspect. That means our only real options are relativistic travel, with all the drawbacks, or FTL, whose possibility seems unlikely.
In other words, you'll get to travel the universe, but you'll never know that you did it.
How is this bad? This is one of the cool things about relativistic travel. One of the bigger challenges we're facing right now is keeping people alive long enough to reach their destination. The good news is, if we travel at (or approach) c, this becomes less of a problem.
Besides, I always hated the travel part of vacations anyway...
Colliding two Britney albums at high speeds makes them both better. Further research revealed that colliding a single Britney album against a brick wall improved that album to the same degree as colliding it with another Britney album. Grant proposals are being written up as we speak for extensive studies in this field, both with different celebrities and combinations of celebrities to see if this observation holds true, and under what circumstances.
The trick is to make the nanobots really stupid. This might sound funny, but look how successful (and useful) bacteria are. They certainly aren't one-size-fits-all, but each is remarkably suited for it's task. Ultimately, there are only two ways nanotechnology will work: very stupid, autonomous, specific-use nanobots; or very stupid, externally controlled, general-use nanobots. Keep in mind, even a nanoscale cube, packed with transistors of 1 nm cude, will only have 1 million transistors, and nothing else.
I agree with what you say, but this seems to have fallen out of favour in the music industry (along with quality IMHO). The Wall was also a very cohesive work. Later, you saw works with a 'feel' to them. There was a flow and rythm to the album. I felt that way about Barenaked Ladies' album, Gordon. Most albums I've heard, though, seem to have little flow, and no story to tell. This isn't necessarliy a bad thing, but doesn't lend itself to the argument that we are losing something by using random play.
I was going to post a witty reparte to your comment, but I got distracted after the second sentence...
Time-correlated shuffle would have to have other weightings added, otherwise over time it would resolve to the last song played. You would end up with one or two songs being repeated ad nauseum. I personally would prefer the opposite, where the song is always fresh and new, weighted, of course, so I don't get a constant cycle.
As for what's outside the universe, there can be only one answer:
Lost socks.
No, given your explanation earlier, all those sock are streaming through space. Given the relatively emptiness of space, one day all these socks are going to rain down on us in a constant stream, the duration of which is the duration of how long we've been losing socks. The good news is, if we determine the velocity of these inbound socks, we will have the diameter of the universe on a certain line. If we track the density of sockfall over the number of socks used at a given time (assuming that the percentage of sock disappearance is constant) we will be able to determine the speed the universe is expanding (or shrinking) on that line. I'm sure our progenitors will be waiting anxiously for an opportunity to examine this data that all of us sock-wearing individuals have sacrificed to create.
Add FAT structure, and you have a 1.2MB floppy rectangle. Take 1 inch off the top, and you can have floppy sheets that you could put in a binder, while still holding about 1MB. Take 1000 of those, put them in a (huge) binder, and when you throw "the book" at your marketing type, he'll be in no shape to say, "whew, I'm glad there weren't 24 more pages in there..."
It's a good start, but you're not going far enough.
Chopsticks look a lot like branches on trees - we have whole forests of potential weapons! Cut them down, burn them up! Global warming isn't nearly as dangerous as all these weapons we have just lying around waiting to be used! Even some grasses are dangerous! There are incidents of straw being driven through a door during a tornado. We should stop growing wheat! Starvation is a small price to pay if it saves even one life!
There, how's that?
Yeah, but something tells me the cops aren't there to catch copyrighters. Otherwise the cops would be there every day, or the copyright breakers would come on days other than Friday or Saturday. My recommendation is that you try to avoid that theatre on Fridays and Saturdays, unless those cops are doing an exceptional job at subduing the ne'er-do-wells.
..for the playing of The Tailor of Panama. Anyone downloading that abyssmal trainwreck of a movie has been punished enough.
I buy DVDs for their quality and the longevity of the medium (under careful handling). This includes movies and videos for my kids. But I won't let my 4-year-old touch a DVD if I can at all help it. Fingerprints are bad enough, let alone all the other bad things you can do to a DVD, so I want to copy them to VHS. The kids can operate the VCR well enough. They've only destroyed a few tapes, and they're getting better at not doing that. Putting the DVD Player higher up isn't an option, as any parent can tell you. If you put something your kid wants 6 inches from the ceiling, they'll find a way to get at it when your back is turned. I don't want them taking a broomstick to my DVD player. So, yes, I have a legitimate, fair use desire to copy my DVDs.
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Nice how you buried that legal activity in a bunch of illegal activities. I'm tempted to call you a troll, but then I'd have to say I was successfully baited.
...the police ought to be the ones taking action, not vigilantes from the MPAA...
Perhaps you would rather have the public pay for police officers to operate in malls to arrest shoplifters? I don't think that would be cost-effective for the public. It's not a perfect example, but it's quite close.
Other than that, yeah, I agree with your post.
I propose that we start calling 'reality' programming by a new term. Surreality programming is much more apt, seeing how Survivor and The Bachelor have more in common with Escher than anything I've seen personally or in the news. On a side note, it may embarrass those who watch it enough that the ratings will go down, and maybe we'll get some new programming.
At $1/hour, running round-the-clock, this would generate more income per month than some people make flipping burgers (1 * 24 * 30 = 720), with the added advantage that you can still flip burgers. If I ran 4 or 5 machines, it would make more than I make working. Rest assured that people will sign up.
If you don't like it, don't purchase your music there. But this is a clear violation of iTMS's terms of service and use. So if you use *Apple's* system then *they* get to set the rules.
But Apple doesn't have a right to set the rules. I'm buying a product, not a license. What I do with the product after it leaves their hands is none of their business. If I delete the file, that's too bad for me, because they have no obligation to manage my product. If I didn't make sure that it couldn't be accidentally deleted, that's my problem. But wait, I can't back up my product, because of DRM which contradicts fair use. Hmm. But I can use playfair, regain my rights, back up my music, and have broken exactly one law, the DMCA, which the grandparent mentioned in the first place.
In short, this has nothing to do with Apple's rights. Because, once it leaves their hands, they don't have any. If anything, the copyright holder has some rights that may be violated, and Apple's capability to market a product may be hurt. But they don't have a right to market a product anyway. Which takes us back to the beginning.
...that laughed my ass off at someone thinking a question like that could be resolved on /.?
First: How's Darwin going to do that? He's been dead for years, and he wasn't an engineer.
Second: You say you want evolution to engineer smarter drivers, but then you complain when stupid drivers run into you. You can't have it both ways...
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The odds of breaking the glass due to pressure is virtually nil. You may have noticed in the pic that there is no membrane sealing the head in. It uses atmospheric pressure to keep the water out. Well, how does it do that? By exerting the same amount of pressure as the water. This means that the pressure is the same from both sides of the window. For the stresses to get high enough to actually matter to the window, you would have to do some pretty cool things, and probably wouldn't survive resurfacing anyway.
Scientists discover an unknown colony of Cowboy Neals buried deep within the Earth's crust!
A plan is in place to deliver a series of neutron bombs in a unique impregnable ship to destroy this colony. A scientist was overheard saying, "Well, of course this could stop the core from spinning and turn earth into a lifeless wasteland, but that's a risk I'm willing to take."