Sure, but it's still human beings pulling the strings. Not much of a difference in effect but still not the apocalyptic scenario science-fiction movies painted back in the 50s
How far we've come... Remember back in the early 90s? All we dreamed about was cramming a computer into everything.
But with experience, our optimism has cooled a bit, hasn't it?
And we're the PRO-tech guys.
Well at least we got a little out of it, if you compare public perception of computers today with that of our childhood; back then, people really were afraid that monstrous computers would become all-knowing. Today, common people have realized that computers are NOT intelligent, are rather fragile and consequently have an appreciation of the gulf between what computers are and what they used to be afraid of.
Thanks for the light. So once pressurized, it is contained in some vessel which is then cooled? Too cool! Literally! So how do they squeeze it down? In some sense it is a mechanical operation, right?
Thank you for that, fullmetal! I always appreciate it when someone lights the way in front of me!
In restrospect, I didn't really think about my question because of course, engineers and scientists take multiple precautions. Those precautions may not always be 100% effective but they ARE there.
You're right, when you download a file, the original copy disappears in a cloud of smoke. You've deprived its owner of his copy. That is theft.
Or worse, if you would never have bought a copy in the first place, then you've stolen the profit the media company would never have made. That is theft.
Of course if you mention viewing the movie to someone such that they would not have considered it otherwise and THEY buy a copy, then you've deprived the media company of a sale. That is theft.
It's important to pay for all copies so that media companies can keep getting rich and not pay the artists because the media companies hold all the rights and make all the money. That is theft.
[...] I don't want to see Google with a monopoly either. MS kind of keeps them in check.
I was going to reply 'Meet the new boss, same as the old boss' but in fact, you can be sure the two are allies in screwing-over their employees, so I'll quote Orwell, instead:
"Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever. Their struggles and their difficulties were one. Was not the labour problem the same everywhere?"
What if by the time a race has evolved sufficiently that they have mastered all technology, they simply enter another dimension to escape being destroyed by their star's death?
Physics seems to be saying there could be as many as 11 dimensions, possibly more.
Maybe you only need to exist at right-angles to this one to escape any devastation coming and maybe then energy/resource needs become a non-issue.
No need to exit the solar system then and you're effectively undetectable...
Since he can expect you to tthrow paper pretty often, he'd want to make scissors take up at least some of the non-rock ones he can throw, so if you throw rock, he would lose and if you were countering one of his rocks, you'd negate.
Ironic, isn't it? After saying that linux was free because it was worthless, microsoft finally admits its own os is worthless by giving it away in hopes of losing no further shares to linux because people have come to realize linux is priceless
Thanks! So that would mean that it is more likely that our universe is a simulation, right? Determinism would sort of imply it, since it can't play out any differently.
The way I've thought of it would be that it is theorized our universe is inside a black-hole; all space and time perceived is an illusion because it is all happening at the same time, in the singularity, making non-locality trivial to implement. I suppose the flaw is that you need multiple dimensions at right-angles to it to make sense of it...
If somebody with any say at Slashdot is reading this, please do the right thing and get the focus back to where it used to be, on science and technology. There are many, many other places we can go to read and bitch about the day-in, day-out shenanigans of American politics. Slashdot shouldn't be one of them.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, but it's still human beings pulling the strings.
Not much of a difference in effect but still not the apocalyptic scenario science-fiction movies painted back in the 50s
How far we've come...
Remember back in the early 90s? All we dreamed about was cramming a computer into everything.
But with experience, our optimism has cooled a bit, hasn't it?
And we're the PRO-tech guys.
Well at least we got a little out of it, if you compare public perception of computers today with that of our childhood; back then, people really were afraid that monstrous computers would become all-knowing. Today, common people have realized that computers are NOT intelligent, are rather fragile and consequently have an appreciation of the gulf between what computers are and what they used to be afraid of.
Thank you for writing out what lots of us are thinking.
I bought an android 'smartphone' 5 years ago. At the time, it was cutting-edge.
Now it's constantly locking-up/rebooting and incredibly slow.
I also can't install many of the newer apps on it because its firmware revision is too ancient(?!).
I thought "maybe if I go to the telephone vendor and ask if they can upgrade the firmware"
"Naw, we can't update it, buy a new phone"
I can just imagine what dumb excuses the car-makers will have.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
that you're very macho?
It'll take a few weeks to compile, at least
The headline is certainly prescient: This may indeed be the plane that will bomb the next generation
because we WANT our programmers to eventually not understand how a microprocessor works.
We need to breed a dumber programmer so s/he can write buggy code, fast.
Make it idiot-proof because eventually the bar will be so low, only idiots will be needed to do the job.
If we're lucky, this will cause a resurgence in VisualBasic.
You two aren't just whistlin' Dixie; that's the major plot of the Charlton Heston classic The Omega Man.
Then again, that one chick-zombie was pretty cool, so if that's a possible side-effect, then I say it's win-win.
Thanks for the light.
So once pressurized, it is contained in some vessel which is then cooled? Too cool! Literally!
So how do they squeeze it down? In some sense it is a mechanical operation, right?
How can a material be pressed at 150 gigapascals and still be cool?
I thought that if you put a billion atmospheres of pressure on material, said material would be heated by the pressure. Is that not so?
Inquirin' minds want to know
Thank you for that, fullmetal! I always appreciate it when someone lights the way in front of me!
In restrospect, I didn't really think about my question because of course, engineers and scientists take multiple precautions. Those precautions may not always be 100% effective but they ARE there.
Thanks again!
It may have been sterilized but a seagull can just fly over and poop on it.
As the rocket speeds out the atmosphere, it must initially flatten lots of bugs against itself.
How did anyone think we could send anything into space that wasn't crawling with earth-bacteria and other stuff, exactly?
Inquiring minds want to know
Can it read e-mail?
You're right, when you download a file, the original copy disappears in a cloud of smoke. You've deprived its owner of his copy. That is theft.
Or worse, if you would never have bought a copy in the first place, then you've stolen the profit the media company would never have made. That is theft.
Of course if you mention viewing the movie to someone such that they would not have considered it otherwise and THEY buy a copy, then you've deprived the media company of a sale. That is theft.
It's important to pay for all copies so that media companies can keep getting rich and not pay the artists because the media companies hold all the rights and make all the money. That is theft.
I was going to reply 'Meet the new boss, same as the old boss'
but in fact, you can be sure the two are allies in screwing-over their employees, so I'll quote Orwell, instead:
"Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever. Their struggles and their difficulties were one. Was not the labour problem the same everywhere?"
What if by the time a race has evolved sufficiently that they have mastered all technology, they simply enter another dimension to escape being destroyed by their star's death?
Physics seems to be saying there could be as many as 11 dimensions, possibly more.
Maybe you only need to exist at right-angles to this one to escape any devastation coming and maybe then energy/resource needs become a non-issue.
No need to exit the solar system then and you're effectively undetectable...
Since he can expect you to tthrow paper pretty often, he'd want to make scissors take up at least some of the non-rock ones he can throw, so if you throw rock, he would lose and if you were countering one of his rocks, you'd negate.
Tech-savvy people agree that dollar-for-dollar, android is better quality than Apple.
Apple has much better marketing, though, so they've got that going for them
I immediately check the Celestia Motherlode.
The reason being that you can almost get a sense of how big something really is with it since it displays your distance to it in au (or ly, Kpc, Mpc).
I encourage you to try it, hit H then G to go to sol, then scroll away first to 1 au, then 10, etc. The sun is still quite bright at 1 ly.
Imagine how big that thing appears at 1 ly distance! // Maybe someone will create a Celestia add-on for it? Please please please!
Ironic, isn't it? After saying that linux was free because it was worthless, microsoft finally admits its own os is worthless by giving it away in hopes of losing no further shares to linux because people have come to realize linux is priceless
Thanks! So that would mean that it is more likely that our universe is a simulation, right? Determinism would sort of imply it, since it can't play out any differently.
The way I've thought of it would be that it is theorized our universe is inside a black-hole; all space and time perceived is an illusion because it is all happening at the same time, in the singularity, making non-locality trivial to implement. I suppose the flaw is that you need multiple dimensions at right-angles to it to make sense of it...
I really like that, man.
I'm not peer-reviewed, so it doesn't matter, but I like your idea
You... I like you