If the size of a single "tick" reaches infinity at the time of death, as you suggest, then you'd never actually die - your consciousness will be streched out forever, like the image of an object falling through a black hole's event horizon.
If you're right, that means that your last-ever experience is gonna last until the end of infinity itself, even if it will only feel as a single subjective "tick".
I just decided, I wanna die having the greatest orgasm of my life.
It seems to me that part of the energy *does* go somewhere: it is used to deform the body armour, and in this case the foam, which will then use some more of the energy it stored to bounce back to it's original shape.
I believe you're overestimating things a bit - it mostly depends on customer demand. If a DS or PSP with phone capabilities were designed today, it would have WiFi, VoIP and 3.5G in addition to just being able to call your mother. How would those capabilities be "a joke" in five years?
Besides, you say 'a joke a couple of years down the road", and just a bit earlier mention that DS has has two major hardware revisions in five years. I easily do three years with a phone, usually more.
No, I suspect other factors play. Size, for one - while some systems may be dual-use, even a current DS or PSP is pretty large in terms of a mobile phone.
You may have a very good point, but we'll never be sure until the content providers show us their books.
Two thoughts, though:
* The number of DVD's bought at 15 bucks is not really small, especially when they bother to actually make a good movie, and then there's the low-budget markets for several more years * Any movie theatre worth it's salt is gonna have a much bigger screen than your TV at home, and thus will need the higher-quality version that you can sell them at an appropriate price.
A thought in the other direction, however, is that (smaller) movie theatres probably *prefer* to pay for their movies on a per-ticket base. Might cost them more in the long run, but can spread the cost out a bit.
> every one of these kids has the ability for higher learning
And this is modded insightful?
The "growing percentage [of kids] that's never had to try in an education system where no-one fails" is caused excactly by that kind of nonsense. Some people are born with the capacity to learn, some are born stupid. Some people are bred for inquisitiveness, some are bred for intellectual apathy. Those two things are on different axes, so you get intersections all over the spectrum: some are born intelligently, but bred to stupidity; others are born with less intellectual faculties, but by their education will keep trying until they reach their goals.
Educational institutions should acknowledge that not everyone can be smart enough, but should at least aid in the kind of education that promotes intelligence, not ridicules it.
If you want to start a discussion like this, please also provide the number of white americans who did *not* vote for barack based solely on the colour of his skin.
Oh, and also some references to where you got your numbers. Until then, I'm just going to ignore your post and assume you just invented the numbers.
Stop the marketingspeak already. Why is everything "DNA" these days ? Sleep DNA, colour DNA, digital DNA. I move we terminate all lifeforms containing too much stupid-DNA.
Where will you draw the line between individual mind and hivemind ?
An impartial observer could look at a mob of humans, and from the way they act conclude that they are a hivemind.
Shoals of fish and swarms of birds tend to act in almost perfect harmony when evading predators or such, although they consist of very distinct individuals at other times.
And how about the great coral reefs? They could only have been built by tremendous common effort, and yet there is no evidence whatsoever that the individual organisms communicate in a way that would indicate a hivemind.
It's a very complex question, and I guess you won't be distributing individual rights anytime soon:-)
Yeah, and their popularity and success will ensure that instead of just keeling over, they'll get bought out by some corporation, which will prevent the publication of such a patch - after all, they'll be running the servers. When those eventually decide to stop the service, there will no longer be any Valve to release the patch.
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Only available if you're a winner ?
If the size of a single "tick" reaches infinity at the time of death, as you suggest, then you'd never actually die - your consciousness will be streched out forever, like the image of an object falling through a black hole's event horizon.
If you're right, that means that your last-ever experience is gonna last until the end of infinity itself, even if it will only feel as a single subjective "tick".
I just decided, I wanna die having the greatest orgasm of my life.
Well, it is. It's just tighter and the insides are dirtier.
> Hasn't ever happened, and never will, since that would ruin the tourist industry.
Not saying you're wrong about the health details, just pointing out that monetary incentives have a history of being seen as rather more important.
It seems to me that part of the energy *does* go somewhere: it is used to deform the body armour, and in this case the foam, which will then use some more of the energy it stored to bounce back to it's original shape.
Dear Canadian,
Even your own country has at least two languages. Suppose GP is not a native english speaker, and just misinterpreted the question?
Eh ?
So stuff the phone component in an exchangeable plug-in card ?
I believe you're overestimating things a bit - it mostly depends on customer demand. If a DS or PSP with phone capabilities were designed today, it would have WiFi, VoIP and 3.5G in addition to just being able to call your mother. How would those capabilities be "a joke" in five years?
Besides, you say 'a joke a couple of years down the road", and just a bit earlier mention that DS has has two major hardware revisions in five years. I easily do three years with a phone, usually more.
No, I suspect other factors play. Size, for one - while some systems may be dual-use, even a current DS or PSP is pretty large in terms of a mobile phone.
You may have a very good point, but we'll never be sure until the content providers show us their books.
Two thoughts, though:
* The number of DVD's bought at 15 bucks is not really small, especially when they bother to actually make a good movie, and then there's the low-budget markets for several more years
* Any movie theatre worth it's salt is gonna have a much bigger screen than your TV at home, and thus will need the higher-quality version that you can sell them at an appropriate price.
A thought in the other direction, however, is that (smaller) movie theatres probably *prefer* to pay for their movies on a per-ticket base. Might cost them more in the long run, but can spread the cost out a bit.
You're right, it's not that simple :-D
> every one of these kids has the ability for higher learning
And this is modded insightful?
The "growing percentage [of kids] that's never had to try in an education system where no-one fails" is caused excactly by that kind of nonsense. Some people are born with the capacity to learn, some are born stupid. Some people are bred for inquisitiveness, some are bred for intellectual apathy. Those two things are on different axes, so you get intersections all over the spectrum: some are born intelligently, but bred to stupidity; others are born with less intellectual faculties, but by their education will keep trying until they reach their goals.
Educational institutions should acknowledge that not everyone can be smart enough, but should at least aid in the kind of education that promotes intelligence, not ridicules it.
Oh, you mean it's suffering from Gimp-disease.
Reputation. The httpd hears it's site is on slashdot and instinctively falls over and starts bleeding.
Sounds NIFty.
If you want to start a discussion like this, please also provide the number of white americans who did *not* vote for barack based solely on the colour of his skin.
Oh, and also some references to where you got your numbers. Until then, I'm just going to ignore your post and assume you just invented the numbers.
Stop the marketingspeak already. Why is everything "DNA" these days ? Sleep DNA, colour DNA, digital DNA. I move we terminate all lifeforms containing too much stupid-DNA.
...and see how many you can crash into each other ?
Like many countries, the UK doesn't actually *have* states.
I was going to comment about City 17, but you did it much more elegantly.
Where will you draw the line between individual mind and hivemind ?
An impartial observer could look at a mob of humans, and from the way they act conclude that they are a hivemind.
Shoals of fish and swarms of birds tend to act in almost perfect harmony when evading predators or such, although they consist of very distinct individuals at other times.
And how about the great coral reefs? They could only have been built by tremendous common effort, and yet there is no evidence whatsoever that the individual organisms communicate in a way that would indicate a hivemind.
It's a very complex question, and I guess you won't be distributing individual rights anytime soon :-)
Yeah, and their popularity and success will ensure that instead of just keeling over, they'll get bought out by some corporation, which will prevent the publication of such a patch - after all, they'll be running the servers. When those eventually decide to stop the service, there will no longer be any Valve to release the patch.
> I would not want to send my girlfriend on a trip that long unescorted by me.
Why not ? By the time she gets back, she might actually be so desperate she actually wants to have sex with you.
What'd they rename it to, Urectum ?
No, no, no. You have to look at the bigger picture. This technology will help us evolve a breed of near-infallible marksmen.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9147558/Here_comes_the_new_cell_phone_etiquette?taxonomyName=Mobile+and+Wireless&taxonomyId=15
> individual rights aren't related to human genetics, but rather to the organism's sapience
So do you look at individual ants, or the entire anthill to determine the level of sapience ?