PS: on rereading, actually, the word is mispelled twice, not corrected at all.
vounteers' home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far nothing noteworthy has comeout of this massive project... that is until today! One of the voluteers
Long ago I used to work on a news web site. Single-handed much of the time, I pushed out about 80 articles, several paragraphs long on average, a day. Many were chock-full of errors when I got them. I fixed them. Here they have at least four paid editors, each publishing a half-dozen articles a day at most. I'm amazed how they get away with this.
Duh. I wasn't talking about the apostrophe. The word "volunteers" was rendered "vounteers" -- missing an L. Amusingly, since I posted, it has now been changed, to "voluteers", missing an N.
Despite your calling me a troll, my question was simply trying to understand your point. The text you wrote made it impossible to work out which side you were arguing.
Yeah, which doesn't make sense. The first part says how afraid they were the screenplays had been deleted, the second part says "he always made backups". One or the other is bullshit.
alarmed that someone could delete the screenplays and novels that his wife, Melinda Kimberly, was writing.... [after it was returned] Kimberly's writings were safe.... "He always backed up all my data
The first part implies the screenplays on the laptop were the only copies. Then the wife says he "always backed up" her data. So did she have backups or not? Or perhaps just not very recent ones?
Those of you that are visiting Slashdot for the first time... can see how the editors disdain the fascist idea of "spelling correctly". Spellcheck is for wimps.
No, I meant wasn't. The section started with "Presumes:" So read it as "presumes earth wasn't colonized...
You wrote "Earth wasn't colonized, and dolphins (or something else, maybe cats or fleas) are the remains of it". So if it wasn't colonized, what are dolphins the remains of?
Doesn't mean we weren't engineered out of the same genome
So you're saying Xenu visited Earth and uplifted us?
I wonder how the Muslim and Jewish communities would react to this technology, as it involves materials taken from an animal that those religions traditionally view as "unclean".
They're using mice cells to regenerate mice teeth. For humans, they'd use human cells. Ideally, your own.
Just because you're qualified to push formulas around, doesn't mean you're an authority on aliens, for crying out loud.
Fermi's argument was statistical. True, much is based on a single data point, us, but most of your quibbles would imply a species that wasn't interested in exploration at all.
Your points:
Earth wasn't colonized, and dolphins (or something else, maybe cats or fleas) are the remains of it
Earth wasn't colonized, and they died out due to lack of vigor
Earth wasn't colonized, and they died out as a result of an asteroid, etc
Earth wasn't colonized, and someone else came along and took exception to it, and wiped them out
Presumably you meant "was" not "wasn't", and these aren't convincing. If any civilisation had been established here any time in the last 500 million years, we WOULD know. We've got hundreds of T-rex skeletons, would an intelligent species leave less? Cities, metals, glass? Moonbases? And it's hard to think of a catastrophe that would wipe out an intelligent species completely, yet leave the planet intact enough to end up with us. And biologically, there would be whole animal kingdoms completely unrelated to native life. There has been some weird stuff found, but nothing that came out of nowhere; we all go back to the same genetic roots. We share most of our genome with "dolphins, cats and fleas". (But thanks at least for not bringing up the "we are aliens" argument.)
>Even if they subsequently went extinct here, it's hard to imagine a high-tech civilisation >would not have left relics.
And the odds of your every finding them? Talk about a needle in a haystack
A world-wide civilisation? They couldn't have hidden that if they tried. Cities, metals, radioactives, gravitational anomalies. And as they would have been a space-going society, Galileo would have been able to see their cities on the moon.
It does? I don't Darwinism says anything at all about this.
It's a basic biological urge to reproduce. Those that don't, don't pass on their genes.
If they were here in the first 99% of those 10 billion years, they would have missed us.
The Fermi Paradox is that if they were here any time in the last 500 million years or so, thay would have colonised the place. Even if they subsequently went extinct here, it's hard to imagine a high-tech civilisation would not have left relics. Perhaps not every race feels the urge to do so, but Darwinism indicates that many will, and those will more than make up for any with qualms about pre-empting local intelligence from evolving.
If anyone else had written it, I might think that "comments incitefully" was a clever pun. But as it's Zonk, I'm afraid it's more likely a Malapropism.
The classic: "Universe" by Robert A Heinlein, (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1941). [Later published in Orphans of the Sky, 1963.]
Wikipedia put the first "Generation ship" story at J. D. Bernal's 1929 novel The World, The Flesh, & The Devil. It was even in a TV series 1973's The Starlost.
The "draconian" part is the disproportionate punishments. And it's "insisting", not "asking".
Again, any punishment is a matter of the Russian legal system, it is not enforced by Microsoft.
Again? WTF? "Draconian" applies regardless of which body is imposing the punishment. By definition, "Draconian" is legal. That's not the point.
And it's "insisting", not "asking".
OK, so what's wrong with insisting
Who said there was anything wrong with it?
The mu-chip is Hitachi's response to resolving some of the issues associated with conventional RFID technology. The mu-hip uses the frequency of 2.45GHz. It has a 128-bit ROM for storing the ID with no write-read and no anti-collision capabilities. Its unique ID numbers can be used to individually identify trillions of trillions of objects with no duplication. Moreover with a size of 0.4mm square, the mu-chip is small enough to be attached to a variety of minute objects including embedding in paper.
You KNOW when someone use a car analogy to "explain" a highly technical or abstract concept that it will make no sense. And worse, will start up a whole bunch of threads about cars, driving, etc, etc.
There are plenty of safe ways to do that, lots of anonymising services for a few dollars a month, sited overseas if you're paranoid (if you're a pedo online, you should be).
The MS Office skills most people claim, and most jobs require, are the ability to type, to format by clicking on an icon, and to enter and sum a column of figures.
Actually, 95% of "MS Office" skills are identical to those you'd get from using WordPerfect/Star/Open/Lotus office suites. Spend $20 on a "For Dummies" book and you can pick up the quirks of a new one in an afternoon.
MS carefully cloned WordPerfect's commands for WinWord, and Lotus 123 for Excel. Now competing suites return the favour. Unless you look closely at the icons, or do complex macro coding, you can switch without a pause.
The assumption is the MS or whomever can stay in business long enough to eventually "profit" years later. Since I've known several software companies that have folded due to piracy, that assumption is unwarranted.
But it does work for the big dominant companies, like Microsoft and Adobe. Competing software can't get traction, even trying to compete on price if MSOffice or Adobe Photoshop, etc, are available for $2. A few years later, the US govt negotiates a trade agreement, part of which mandates a crackdown on pirated software. Over the next few years, users are forced to convert to legal versions of the software they've become dependent on. Very few will consider converting to an alternative, even if it's free, once they've gotten used to it.
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Duh. I wasn't talking about the apostrophe. The word "volunteers" was rendered "vounteers" -- missing an L. Amusingly, since I posted, it has now been changed, to "voluteers", missing an N.
Despite your calling me a troll, my question was simply trying to understand your point. The text you wrote made it impossible to work out which side you were arguing.
Yeah, which doesn't make sense. The first part says how afraid they were the screenplays had been deleted, the second part says "he always made backups". One or the other is bullshit.
Those of you that are visiting Slashdot for the first time... can see how the editors disdain the fascist idea of "spelling correctly". Spellcheck is for wimps.
You wrote "Earth wasn't colonized, and dolphins (or something else, maybe cats or fleas) are the remains of it". So if it wasn't colonized, what are dolphins the remains of?
Doesn't mean we weren't engineered out of the same genome
So you're saying Xenu visited Earth and uplifted us?
Why bother spending time and money protecting a Tetris system? In TFA, it failed, they reboot, it works. Sorry if you lose your high-score.
If I'd said that, it would be.
Woops -- I hadn't read the other story about fingers...
They're using mice cells to regenerate mice teeth. For humans, they'd use human cells. Ideally, your own.
Fermi's argument was statistical. True, much is based on a single data point, us, but most of your quibbles would imply a species that wasn't interested in exploration at all.
Your points:
Earth wasn't colonized, and dolphins (or something else, maybe cats or fleas) are the remains of it Earth wasn't colonized, and they died out due to lack of vigor Earth wasn't colonized, and they died out as a result of an asteroid, etc Earth wasn't colonized, and someone else came along and took exception to it, and wiped them out
Presumably you meant "was" not "wasn't", and these aren't convincing. If any civilisation had been established here any time in the last 500 million years, we WOULD know. We've got hundreds of T-rex skeletons, would an intelligent species leave less? Cities, metals, glass? Moonbases? And it's hard to think of a catastrophe that would wipe out an intelligent species completely, yet leave the planet intact enough to end up with us. And biologically, there would be whole animal kingdoms completely unrelated to native life. There has been some weird stuff found, but nothing that came out of nowhere; we all go back to the same genetic roots. We share most of our genome with "dolphins, cats and fleas". (But thanks at least for not bringing up the "we are aliens" argument.)
>Even if they subsequently went extinct here, it's hard to imagine a high-tech civilisation
>would not have left relics.
And the odds of your every finding them? Talk about a needle in a haystack
A world-wide civilisation? They couldn't have hidden that if they tried. Cities, metals, radioactives, gravitational anomalies. And as they would have been a space-going society, Galileo would have been able to see their cities on the moon.
It does? I don't Darwinism says anything at all about this.
It's a basic biological urge to reproduce. Those that don't, don't pass on their genes.
The Fermi Paradox is that if they were here any time in the last 500 million years or so, thay would have colonised the place. Even if they subsequently went extinct here, it's hard to imagine a high-tech civilisation would not have left relics. Perhaps not every race feels the urge to do so, but Darwinism indicates that many will, and those will more than make up for any with qualms about pre-empting local intelligence from evolving.
"More likely" than what? No one, from Fermi on suggested otherwise.
If anyone else had written it, I might think that "comments incitefully" was a clever pun. But as it's Zonk, I'm afraid it's more likely a Malapropism.
Wikipedia put the first "Generation ship" story at J. D. Bernal's 1929 novel The World, The Flesh, & The Devil. It was even in a TV series 1973's The Starlost.
Perhaps you missed the periodic attempts to create a .xxx TLD, and force everything that isn't kid safe to move there. And then block it.
Again, any punishment is a matter of the Russian legal system, it is not enforced by Microsoft. Again? WTF? "Draconian" applies regardless of which body is imposing the punishment. By definition, "Draconian" is legal. That's not the point.
And it's "insisting", not "asking".
OK, so what's wrong with insisting Who said there was anything wrong with it?
The "draconian" part is the disproportionate punishments. And it's "insisting", not "asking".
draconian. ADJ: Exceedingly harsh; very severe: a draconian legal code; draconian budget cuts. from Draco, Gk. statesman who laid down a code of laws for Athens 621 B.C.E. that mandated death as punishment for minor crimes.
RTFA FFS. It has a link to Hitachi, in English:
You KNOW when someone use a car analogy to "explain" a highly technical or abstract concept that it will make no sense. And worse, will start up a whole bunch of threads about cars, driving, etc, etc.
There are plenty of safe ways to do that, lots of anonymising services for a few dollars a month, sited overseas if you're paranoid (if you're a pedo online, you should be).
The MS Office skills most people claim, and most jobs require, are the ability to type, to format by clicking on an icon, and to enter and sum a column of figures.
Actually, 95% of "MS Office" skills are identical to those you'd get from using WordPerfect/Star/Open/Lotus office suites. Spend $20 on a "For Dummies" book and you can pick up the quirks of a new one in an afternoon.
MS carefully cloned WordPerfect's commands for WinWord, and Lotus 123 for Excel. Now competing suites return the favour. Unless you look closely at the icons, or do complex macro coding, you can switch without a pause.
But it does work for the big dominant companies, like Microsoft and Adobe. Competing software can't get traction, even trying to compete on price if MSOffice or Adobe Photoshop, etc, are available for $2. A few years later, the US govt negotiates a trade agreement, part of which mandates a crackdown on pirated software. Over the next few years, users are forced to convert to legal versions of the software they've become dependent on. Very few will consider converting to an alternative, even if it's free, once they've gotten used to it.