Do you mean to imply that Windows is addictive? I think imperical evidence pretty much obliterates that notion. Perhaps something like, "Hey man, want me to punch you in the face? The first one is free!" would be more accurate.
Fog juice is made, as everyone knows, by gathering a bunch of fog and squeezing it until you get the juice out. The trick is, of course, making sure that you don't get any smog mixed in with the fog, or else you'll get sfog juice, better known as Mountain Dew.
Ah yes, you're correct. All of my measurements are in fact minutes. I don't know why I said two were months and one was minutes, since all the measurements from my book had the letter "m" next to them. Weird.
Well, if he had some Francium, he probably doesn't have it anymore. The most common type has a half life of only 21.8 months (that's 223Fr, 221 and 212 have halflives of 4.8 months and 20 minutes, respectively). Not to mention that he would probably be able to knock "cancer" up a few notches on the ol' "What's probably going to kill me" list, and rule out any prospect of having children. Well, children that don't glow in the dark and are less than 60 feet tall, anyway.
Uhh.. you need a nuclear reactor to enrich Uranium. I don't know of too many plants that can get that hot. There's a big difference between sapping up Arsenic and forcing neutrons into an atom's nucleus.
Unless they made the plant somehow resistant to arsenic, aren't we basically engineering it to commit suicide for our benefit? Granted, it is just a plant, but aren't there some unsettling moral connotations of this? There has never been an organism that has acted in this way. This plant is probably the first decidedly non-human "unnatural" life on this planet.
Why has no one considered that there would have to be some consent of the person transmitting the data? It's not like the PDA is going to be constantly broadcasting. Even if this technology is made widely available, I sincerely doubt that there will ever be privacy issues with people stealing your email address right from the palm of your hand.
Wow.. Slashdot has looked the same for ever . I guess us nerds like to be mired in traditio... er... consistant. I mean, without the dates, old news, and missing images, I don't know if I could tell the difference.
What happens if this guy finds the cure for cancer in your DNA? Is it your property? Same goes for lesser things, like a really good example of a gene. Is furthering the scientific community not optional?
And the same question goes for if someone gets your DNA from a hair you dropped, and makes some discovery through that. What rights do you have over your own genetic makeup?
If it's *that* simple to double the data rate of memory, why don't they, for example, divide the memory architecture into eight sectors and have each bit of a byte on a different sector, making 16x memory? It seems that this philosophy has no limit, as long as you have lots of sectors. What's preventing people from doing that?
Scientists announced today that they have created a freezer that cools things below absolute zero made entirely from parts salvaged from a 1962 Ford Thunderbird. Following this amazing news, a group of graduate students announced their construction of an aparatus, built entirely from elmer's glue and tooth picks, which accelerates forever with no outside force. Not to be outdone, the Apache Software Organization announced a few hours later the availablity of mod_perl for Apache 2.0.
But this is kind of cool. A while back, when we Seattleites weathered an earthquake, a pendulum set up in a store that was balanced over sand carved an amazing pattern. It's worth a look, even if it has nothing to do with satellites!
As great as Linux is, it seems likely that the data provided isn't really what people are interpreting it as. How many nerd-wannabes have downloaded Linux and followed an online FAQ to dual-boot, only to return to Windows for Quake 3 and forget about it? I'd like to see a number for people who use Linux 90% of the time on their computers, or even more than half. Furthermore, does "Linux" mean strictly that, or does it include BSD or other Unicies? The article doesn't say.
Basically, those numbers are meaningless. As is the vast majority of statistics in this industry.
I've always though of Flash as being a high-overhead, annoying, processor intensive thing. Most people heavily abuse it (for example, website intros), so, in my own mind, it has no legitimate use. Sure, it's cute to play "slap the monkey" once in a while, but I'd be hard pressed to think of it as having real-world uses. This is an interesting perspective. It's easy to forget the inherent efficiency of it's vector-based engine.
I fail to see how this is a real technology. They have untrustworthy results, so they want to get results that make sense, so they mess with them. So they already know what they want to get, and by implementing this system, they manipulate the "data" so that they do. What's the worth in asking actual people, anyway? If you assume that they lie and then change their data entirely to fit into your bell, why don't you just make up the data entirely? I bet you could make it fit much nicer on the bell if you did that.
ironic considering that NASA took something that wasn't under U.S. jurisdiction
Oh please. Who paid tens of billions to research and develop the moon landing? Under your definition, no one would own anything, as at some point in history no one owned it. The United States was first to the moon; doesn't historical context give them ownership of the landing area?
Furthermore, the rock, if stolen, should be returned. The United States can do a lot more with it (scientific research, etc) than some Honduras collector.
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Do you mean to imply that Windows is addictive? I think imperical evidence pretty much obliterates that notion. Perhaps something like, "Hey man, want me to punch you in the face? The first one is free!" would be more accurate.
Fog juice is made, as everyone knows, by gathering a bunch of fog and squeezing it until you get the juice out. The trick is, of course, making sure that you don't get any smog mixed in with the fog, or else you'll get sfog juice, better known as Mountain Dew.
Ah yes, you're correct. All of my measurements are in fact minutes. I don't know why I said two were months and one was minutes, since all the measurements from my book had the letter "m" next to them. Weird.
Oh, you're right.
Well, if he had some Francium, he probably doesn't have it anymore. The most common type has a half life of only 21.8 months (that's 223Fr, 221 and 212 have halflives of 4.8 months and 20 minutes, respectively). Not to mention that he would probably be able to knock "cancer" up a few notches on the ol' "What's probably going to kill me" list, and rule out any prospect of having children. Well, children that don't glow in the dark and are less than 60 feet tall, anyway.
Uhh.. you need a nuclear reactor to enrich Uranium. I don't know of too many plants that can get that hot. There's a big difference between sapping up Arsenic and forcing neutrons into an atom's nucleus.
Unless they made the plant somehow resistant to arsenic, aren't we basically engineering it to commit suicide for our benefit? Granted, it is just a plant, but aren't there some unsettling moral connotations of this? There has never been an organism that has acted in this way. This plant is probably the first decidedly non-human "unnatural" life on this planet.
Why has no one considered that there would have to be some consent of the person transmitting the data? It's not like the PDA is going to be constantly broadcasting. Even if this technology is made widely available, I sincerely doubt that there will ever be privacy issues with people stealing your email address right from the palm of your hand.
You mean to tell me they've made books already?!
For those among us too lazy to copy and paste.
Darn slashcode killed my link.
Wow.. Slashdot has looked the same for ever . I guess us nerds like to be mired in traditio... er... consistant. I mean, without the dates, old news, and missing images, I don't know if I could tell the difference.
What happens if this guy finds the cure for cancer in your DNA? Is it your property? Same goes for lesser things, like a really good example of a gene. Is furthering the scientific community not optional?
And the same question goes for if someone gets your DNA from a hair you dropped, and makes some discovery through that. What rights do you have over your own genetic makeup?
If it's *that* simple to double the data rate of memory, why don't they, for example, divide the memory architecture into eight sectors and have each bit of a byte on a different sector, making 16x memory? It seems that this philosophy has no limit, as long as you have lots of sectors. What's preventing people from doing that?
:).
Sorta like a beowulf cluster of chips, really
Scientists announced today that they have created a freezer that cools things below absolute zero made entirely from parts salvaged from a 1962 Ford Thunderbird. Following this amazing news, a group of graduate students announced their construction of an aparatus, built entirely from elmer's glue and tooth picks, which accelerates forever with no outside force. Not to be outdone, the Apache Software Organization announced a few hours later the availablity of mod_perl for Apache 2.0.
In the spirit of drawing attention to trailers that have been out for a month, here's the Matrix Reloaded trailer.
So there!
Don't follow it ;). My link works fine.
But this is kind of cool. A while back, when we Seattleites weathered an earthquake, a pendulum set up in a store that was balanced over sand carved an amazing pattern. It's worth a look, even if it has nothing to do with satellites!
As great as Linux is, it seems likely that the data provided isn't really what people are interpreting it as. How many nerd-wannabes have downloaded Linux and followed an online FAQ to dual-boot, only to return to Windows for Quake 3 and forget about it? I'd like to see a number for people who use Linux 90% of the time on their computers, or even more than half. Furthermore, does "Linux" mean strictly that, or does it include BSD or other Unicies? The article doesn't say.
Basically, those numbers are meaningless. As is the vast majority of statistics in this industry.
Ew... I'll take the crab juice.
I've always though of Flash as being a high-overhead, annoying, processor intensive thing. Most people heavily abuse it (for example, website intros), so, in my own mind, it has no legitimate use. Sure, it's cute to play "slap the monkey" once in a while, but I'd be hard pressed to think of it as having real-world uses. This is an interesting perspective. It's easy to forget the inherent efficiency of it's vector-based engine.
I fail to see how this is a real technology. They have untrustworthy results, so they want to get results that make sense, so they mess with them. So they already know what they want to get, and by implementing this system, they manipulate the "data" so that they do. What's the worth in asking actual people, anyway? If you assume that they lie and then change their data entirely to fit into your bell, why don't you just make up the data entirely? I bet you could make it fit much nicer on the bell if you did that.
There's also an excellent "first impressions" at Gamespot.
ironic considering that NASA took something that wasn't under U.S. jurisdiction Oh please. Who paid tens of billions to research and develop the moon landing? Under your definition, no one would own anything, as at some point in history no one owned it. The United States was first to the moon; doesn't historical context give them ownership of the landing area? Furthermore, the rock, if stolen, should be returned. The United States can do a lot more with it (scientific research, etc) than some Honduras collector.