And how is this question different from the "640K is all you'll ever need" or "10 computers is all that's needed", or the 2GB limit mentioned awhile back?
Computer these days come with most components, that in the past, would have taken up a PCI slot. I've got 4 PCI on my mobo. None are used. Like most all motherboards, I've got onboard ethernet, onboard sound, onboard modem (don't use that), so the only slot of any kind that I use is my AGP. Losing a PCI slot is a nonissue for me and 90% of all computer users out there.
"Brodie, when a woman tells you it's a good size, that's a nice way of saying 'It's too small.
It's not the size, mate, it's how you use it. Even though I've only got a 17" CRT, I've got it set to 100 hz. Nothing will make a woman moan with pleasure like stimulating her with pages of flicker-free text.
The gaming market changed once Sony entered it. Sony and Microsoft are powerful companies. Much larger than Nintendo. They have the sheer muscle that Nintendo doesn't to excell in the console market. They can market more, get the best games licensed only for their console, and stomach more losses when selling consoles (MS is selling xboxes at a great loss)
Nintendo is an excellent company in all respects, but I sadly predict that Sony and Microsoft will be in 2005 what Sega and Nintendo were in 1995.
Uh, I could certainly imagine a videogame market without a SEGA console. Only two of their consoles have been stand-outs (Genesis & Dreamcast).
I've always been confused... Why did the dreamcast fail so horribly? Their sales weren't awful. (I have a few friends who own dreamcasts, more than who own xboxes or gamecubes) What happened?
Actually, as this would be totally incompatible with DVD players and drives, there would be no concievable reason to abide by the DVD standard. Why not just encode the movies in divx? It doesn't make sense to use the outdated mpeg-2 standard found in DVDs when this is being used with a computer.
I've been hearing lately that this version of windows has a exploit in which a hacker can use a tool called "crowbar" to compromise security. This may be fixed in upcoming patches.
They are using cadmium, a nasty horrid posionous heavy metal that causes polution and soon to be banned from use in the European Union. Even lead in solder is to be banned shortly. Mercury another posionous heavy metal has already been banned.
It never ceases to amaze me how blatant trolls like this are modded up by idiot moderators.
Cadmium is really only dangerous if powderized and taken into the lungs. Nickel is poisonous if ground up and breathed, as well. Do you have a nickel in your wallet? YOU HAVE A HORRIBLE POISON ON YOUR PERSON! DECONTAMINATE YOURSELF IMMEDIATELY!!! BTW, cadmium and nickel are used in ni-cad batteries. It isn't that dangerous.
As for mercury, it is still widely available, being used for such things as dental fillings and still in some thermometers. Lead is perfectly safe to use in electronic and machine solder. It's only being phased out for plumbing.
but as far as I can see new Amino Acids would have no purpose whatsoever:?
You know that proteins are made of amino acids, right? All that DNA does is make amino acids that are made into proteins. This is a completely new amino acid, different from the 21 or so found in nature. This could produce completely different proteins than natural DNA can produce, producing revolutionary new medicines and other things.
Flash memory is very slow. Much slower than hard drives, but faster than EEPROM. Magnetic ram, due to appear in '06 or so, will be nonvolatile and at least as fast as dram.
I'd start you off with Forward's Dragon's Egg and Starquake (a sequel to Dragon's Egg), where humans are really just perhipheral characters.
Sorry, I didn't mean that I hated all books about aliens. I've actually read Dragon's Egg. I just dislike the pulp scifi. Like cliched plots about fighting aliens in space. That kind of tunrs me off. And, btw, I love Tolkien.
There's nothing wrong with aliens in scifi. I just don't like the cliched space opera types of aliens that are in Star Trek or Star Wars, as well as many other pulp scifi books and shows.
There's a problem with that, though (at least as far as I can tell). The banner ads at Slashdot, for example, are from images.slashdot.org. If I block those, I lose all of the icons on the page, which I don't want to do. Mozilla needs a finer-grained image filter, based on the image name and/or path (e.g., block stuff with "banner" or "ad" in the path).
Why do you want to block/. 's ads? They aren't intrusive and they don't have annoying animations. Sites *do* have to pay for server and bandwidth costs, you know that, right? I believe ads should only be blocked if they are intrusive. (ie, annoying animated gifs, flash, popups, very large banners)
In phoenix, I block popups, have Java turned off, and don't have flash. Even when they aren't used in intrusive ads, 98% of the time java and flash are just crutches for poor web design.
I tend not to read Space Navy types of scifi. I don't like it. I mostly go for cyberpunk like Neuromancer or Snow Crash, and some books by Heinlein and such. As for movies and tv, I like scifi movies like Blade Runner or Gattaca, and Max Headroom. I'm not interested in space operas. Human like aliens are just almost omnipresent in most scifi on tv and many books. Kind of stupid.
Actually, due to accelerating technical advancement, it could happen by the end of the century. After all, imagine where we'll be with computers and AI by then. I'd say it's unlikely, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
You do know that the next closest start is about 4 light years away, and IIRC we haven't detected any planets in the system.
With the Origins program, which is an array of orbital telescopes capable of resolving surface features on intersteller terrestrial planets, we will be able to find earth-like planets. That is planned for around 2040. Beyond that, we can send out unmanned laser propelled intersteller sails, or fusion powered probes, which would be capable of reaching a good percentage of the speed of light. Even so, if this probe reached.2 C, it would take many, many years to reach a distant system. If it was 40 lightyears away, it would take 200 years.
Even farthur down the road, if we are exceedingly advanced, we could send out a manned (most definitely not with biological humans as we know them) spacecraft using a laser sail. The sail would be hundreds of miles across, and constructed of pure gold film ribbed with carbon nanotube supports. It would be propelled by a laser beam powered by space-based solar cells. The power would be many, many terawatts. A huge fresnel lense around the orbit of Saturn would focus the light onto the sail. This could reach just under the speed of light. And, by seperating the sail into two parts, the laser light could be reflected off of one section, onto the other part, slowing it down as it approaches the target star system.
They should've populated every habitable planet in the universe.
One thing that I've never understood in scifi is that the aliens are always quite a bit like us. They are explorers, and they are interested in conquest, philosophy, etc. One thing we have to remember is that life on other planets is likely to be vastly, vastly different from life on Earth. On earth, we share a great deal of genes with our most distant cousins. Alien life will be completely different.
There will of course, be some parallel evolution on other planets. For example, fish on other worlds will always be streamlined and usually have the same kinds of fins as earth fish. Most large animal on other planets will have four legs. If technical civilizations evolved from these four legged creatures, they would probably be bipedal. Anyway, intelligent alien life probably won't share the same drive to explore or even advance, that we do. Many intelligent aliens will be perfectly content to live a primitive lifestyle, most likely. Many may even eliminate themselves with powerful weapons.
Just because it's habitable doesn't mean it has life. Odds are it's just got an atmosphere with oxygen, and liquid water. The land would be bare rock. There's nothing there to destroy. Perhaps we could relocate humans to non-earth planets and preserve earth.
Yeah, just because it's in the habitable zone doesn't mean it has life or is habitable to humans. Too little atmosphere would make it freeze like Mars (mars is in the goldilox zone) or a dense greenhouse gas rich atmosphere would make it bake like Venus. (Venus is in the habitable zone, also)
Anyway, I think by the time we have the technology for manned missions to other stars, we won't be at all like today's biological humans. We'll probably be hyperintelligent machines or something more intangible. It's hard to grasp the difficulty of intersteller travel. The stars are so distant. But we'll have the technology someday. If we move fast enough, perhaps the first intersteller colony will be established in this century.
I was just pointing out that the previous poster seemed to think that you should get more energy back from the fuel cells than you put into it. And that the gliding method would fail because you have a net loss of energy. Due to the solar cells, it's not a closed system at all, so it can obviously gain energy.
I recieved an email a few weeks ago explaining how I could be given a PhD from prestigious nonaccreditted universities based on my life experience. I told them that I have a first aid kit, and I now I'm an MD!
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, somehow, without internal nuclear fusion processes, like stars -- still manage to radiate more energy out into space than they receive directly from the Sun.
It's called 'cooling down', anything that you put in a relatively cold place, such as (for example) 'space', will do
Not quite. Any dust or gas that formed jupiter would have had to have had thermal equilibrium with the rest of space. I read once what caused the excess heat, but I forgot.
Energy density for conventional batteries is at least 10 times this. Energy density for chemical fuels is several hundred times this. So, for a fuel cell power storage system representing a small fraction of the craft's mass, you get much more power storage capacity than you'd get from having the craft sink and rise again.
I think you're missing the point. It does not matter at all how much potential energy is stored in a few kms of altitude. But if this craft is good at gliding, which it should be, being light with a large wingspan, it would only drop a few kilometers overnight through unpowered gliding. That could be easily gained the next day.
yes but would you be gaining more energy then you were loosing the next day by trying to regain that alitude? Unless you have actual data your idea doesn't sound that usefull.
Actually, his idea makes some sense. Of course you would "loose" energy. The laws of physics dictate that you will, whether you store the energy in fuel cells or as potential energy. If you gain more energy than you lose, that would be a perpetual motion machine, wouldn't it?
The previous poster's idea makes a lot of sense. If these solar powered aircraft are efficient at gliding, they would be able to glide all night and lose only a few kilometers, which could very easily be gained back the next day. I think it makes more sense than fuel cells.
He and this woman "scientist" founded a sex cult based on the Raelian crap and every few years they come out with some crazy thing to get attention in the news which draws even more idiots into their cult.
Sex cult you say? Hmmm.
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What they are doing is just growing muscle tissue. Could this be applied to other types of tissue, skin for example?
Yeah. They've been experimenting with growning human skin in labs for burn victims for a while now. Works fairly well. Also, they've succeeded in the first lab grown organ, a bladder.
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With these steaks, I imagine the actual taste would be pretty much the same. It would be the texture that could be different.
This is why technicians who work on televisions and monitors need to be either journeyman tradesmen or an apprentice supervised by a journeyman.
The main danger with working on tvs is not the radiation, it's the high voltage capacitors. Those suckers can kill you while working on a tv. Have to be sure to discharge them. Anyway, crts these days emit very, very small amounts of ionizing radiation. You get more by standing in the sun for a few minutes than from a life time of sitting in front of a CRT.
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And how is this question different from the "640K is all you'll ever need" or "10 computers is all that's needed", or the 2GB limit mentioned awhile back?
Computer these days come with most components, that in the past, would have taken up a PCI slot. I've got 4 PCI on my mobo. None are used. Like most all motherboards, I've got onboard ethernet, onboard sound, onboard modem (don't use that), so the only slot of any kind that I use is my AGP. Losing a PCI slot is a nonissue for me and 90% of all computer users out there.
"Brodie, when a woman tells you it's a good size, that's a nice way of saying 'It's too small.
It's not the size, mate, it's how you use it. Even though I've only got a 17" CRT, I've got it set to 100 hz. Nothing will make a woman moan with pleasure like stimulating her with pages of flicker-free text.
The gaming market changed once Sony entered it. Sony and Microsoft are powerful companies. Much larger than Nintendo. They have the sheer muscle that Nintendo doesn't to excell in the console market. They can market more, get the best games licensed only for their console, and stomach more losses when selling consoles (MS is selling xboxes at a great loss)
Nintendo is an excellent company in all respects, but I sadly predict that Sony and Microsoft will be in 2005 what Sega and Nintendo were in 1995.
Uh, I could certainly imagine a videogame market without a SEGA console. Only two of their consoles have been stand-outs (Genesis & Dreamcast).
I've always been confused... Why did the dreamcast fail so horribly? Their sales weren't awful. (I have a few friends who own dreamcasts, more than who own xboxes or gamecubes) What happened?
Actually, as this would be totally incompatible with DVD players and drives, there would be no concievable reason to abide by the DVD standard. Why not just encode the movies in divx? It doesn't make sense to use the outdated mpeg-2 standard found in DVDs when this is being used with a computer.
I've been hearing lately that this version of windows has a exploit in which a hacker can use a tool called "crowbar" to compromise security. This may be fixed in upcoming patches.
They are using cadmium, a nasty horrid posionous heavy metal that causes polution and soon to be banned from use in the European Union. Even lead in solder is to be banned shortly. Mercury another posionous heavy metal has already been banned.
It never ceases to amaze me how blatant trolls like this are modded up by idiot moderators.
Cadmium is really only dangerous if powderized and taken into the lungs. Nickel is poisonous if ground up and breathed, as well. Do you have a nickel in your wallet? YOU HAVE A HORRIBLE POISON ON YOUR PERSON! DECONTAMINATE YOURSELF IMMEDIATELY!!! BTW, cadmium and nickel are used in ni-cad batteries. It isn't that dangerous.
As for mercury, it is still widely available, being used for such things as dental fillings and still in some thermometers. Lead is perfectly safe to use in electronic and machine solder. It's only being phased out for plumbing.
but as far as I can see new Amino Acids would have no purpose whatsoever :?
You know that proteins are made of amino acids, right? All that DNA does is make amino acids that are made into proteins. This is a completely new amino acid, different from the 21 or so found in nature. This could produce completely different proteins than natural DNA can produce, producing revolutionary new medicines and other things.
Flash memory is very slow. Much slower than hard drives, but faster than EEPROM. Magnetic ram, due to appear in '06 or so, will be nonvolatile and at least as fast as dram.
I'd start you off with Forward's Dragon's Egg and Starquake (a sequel to Dragon's Egg), where humans are really just perhipheral characters.
Sorry, I didn't mean that I hated all books about aliens. I've actually read Dragon's Egg. I just dislike the pulp scifi. Like cliched plots about fighting aliens in space. That kind of tunrs me off. And, btw, I love Tolkien.
There's nothing wrong with aliens in scifi. I just don't like the cliched space opera types of aliens that are in Star Trek or Star Wars, as well as many other pulp scifi books and shows.
There's a problem with that, though (at least as far as I can tell). The banner ads at Slashdot, for example, are from images.slashdot.org. If I block those, I lose all of the icons on the page, which I don't want to do. Mozilla needs a finer-grained image filter, based on the image name and/or path (e.g., block stuff with "banner" or "ad" in the path).
/. 's ads? They aren't intrusive and they don't have annoying animations. Sites *do* have to pay for server and bandwidth costs, you know that, right? I believe ads should only be blocked if they are intrusive. (ie, annoying animated gifs, flash, popups, very large banners)
Why do you want to block
In phoenix, I block popups, have Java turned off, and don't have flash. Even when they aren't used in intrusive ads, 98% of the time java and flash are just crutches for poor web design.
But the answer is still "read better sci-fi".
I tend not to read Space Navy types of scifi. I don't like it. I mostly go for cyberpunk like Neuromancer or Snow Crash, and some books by Heinlein and such. As for movies and tv, I like scifi movies like Blade Runner or Gattaca, and Max Headroom. I'm not interested in space operas. Human like aliens are just almost omnipresent in most scifi on tv and many books. Kind of stupid.
Actually, due to accelerating technical advancement, it could happen by the end of the century. After all, imagine where we'll be with computers and AI by then. I'd say it's unlikely, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
You do know that the next closest start is about 4 light years away, and IIRC we haven't detected any planets in the system.
.2 C, it would take many, many years to reach a distant system. If it was 40 lightyears away, it would take 200 years.
With the Origins program, which is an array of orbital telescopes capable of resolving surface features on intersteller terrestrial planets, we will be able to find earth-like planets. That is planned for around 2040. Beyond that, we can send out unmanned laser propelled intersteller sails, or fusion powered probes, which would be capable of reaching a good percentage of the speed of light. Even so, if this probe reached
Even farthur down the road, if we are exceedingly advanced, we could send out a manned (most definitely not with biological humans as we know them) spacecraft using a laser sail. The sail would be hundreds of miles across, and constructed of pure gold film ribbed with carbon nanotube supports. It would be propelled by a laser beam powered by space-based solar cells. The power would be many, many terawatts. A huge fresnel lense around the orbit of Saturn would focus the light onto the sail. This could reach just under the speed of light. And, by seperating the sail into two parts, the laser light could be reflected off of one section, onto the other part, slowing it down as it approaches the target star system.
They should've populated every habitable planet in the universe.
One thing that I've never understood in scifi is that the aliens are always quite a bit like us. They are explorers, and they are interested in conquest, philosophy, etc. One thing we have to remember is that life on other planets is likely to be vastly, vastly different from life on Earth. On earth, we share a great deal of genes with our most distant cousins. Alien life will be completely different.
There will of course, be some parallel evolution on other planets. For example, fish on other worlds will always be streamlined and usually have the same kinds of fins as earth fish. Most large animal on other planets will have four legs. If technical civilizations evolved from these four legged creatures, they would probably be bipedal. Anyway, intelligent alien life probably won't share the same drive to explore or even advance, that we do. Many intelligent aliens will be perfectly content to live a primitive lifestyle, most likely. Many may even eliminate themselves with powerful weapons.
Just because it's habitable doesn't mean it has life. Odds are it's just got an atmosphere with oxygen, and liquid water. The land would be bare rock. There's nothing there to destroy. Perhaps we could relocate humans to non-earth planets and preserve earth.
Yeah, just because it's in the habitable zone doesn't mean it has life or is habitable to humans. Too little atmosphere would make it freeze like Mars (mars is in the goldilox zone) or a dense greenhouse gas rich atmosphere would make it bake like Venus. (Venus is in the habitable zone, also)
Anyway, I think by the time we have the technology for manned missions to other stars, we won't be at all like today's biological humans. We'll probably be hyperintelligent machines or something more intangible. It's hard to grasp the difficulty of intersteller travel. The stars are so distant. But we'll have the technology someday. If we move fast enough, perhaps the first intersteller colony will be established in this century.
I was just pointing out that the previous poster seemed to think that you should get more energy back from the fuel cells than you put into it. And that the gliding method would fail because you have a net loss of energy. Due to the solar cells, it's not a closed system at all, so it can obviously gain energy.
I recieved an email a few weeks ago explaining how I could be given a PhD from prestigious nonaccreditted universities based on my life experience. I told them that I have a first aid kit, and I now I'm an MD!
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, somehow, without internal nuclear fusion processes, like stars -- still manage to radiate more energy out into space than they receive directly from the Sun.
It's called 'cooling down', anything that you put in a relatively cold place, such as (for example) 'space', will do
Not quite. Any dust or gas that formed jupiter would have had to have had thermal equilibrium with the rest of space. I read once what caused the excess heat, but I forgot.
Energy density for conventional batteries is at least 10 times this. Energy density for chemical fuels is several hundred times this. So, for a fuel cell power storage system representing a small fraction of the craft's mass, you get much more power storage capacity than you'd get from having the craft sink and rise again.
I think you're missing the point. It does not matter at all how much potential energy is stored in a few kms of altitude. But if this craft is good at gliding, which it should be, being light with a large wingspan, it would only drop a few kilometers overnight through unpowered gliding. That could be easily gained the next day.
yes but would you be gaining more energy then you were loosing the next day by trying to regain that alitude? Unless you have actual data your idea doesn't sound that usefull.
Actually, his idea makes some sense. Of course you would "loose" energy. The laws of physics dictate that you will, whether you store the energy in fuel cells or as potential energy. If you gain more energy than you lose, that would be a perpetual motion machine, wouldn't it?
The previous poster's idea makes a lot of sense. If these solar powered aircraft are efficient at gliding, they would be able to glide all night and lose only a few kilometers, which could very easily be gained back the next day. I think it makes more sense than fuel cells.
He and this woman "scientist" founded a sex cult based on the Raelian crap and every few years they come out with some crazy thing to get attention in the news which draws even more idiots into their cult.
Sex cult you say? Hmmm.
What they are doing is just growing muscle tissue. Could this be applied to other types of tissue, skin for example?
Yeah. They've been experimenting with growning human skin in labs for burn victims for a while now. Works fairly well. Also, they've succeeded in the first lab grown organ, a bladder.
With these steaks, I imagine the actual taste would be pretty much the same. It would be the texture that could be different.
This is why technicians who work on televisions and monitors need to be either journeyman tradesmen or an apprentice supervised by a journeyman.
The main danger with working on tvs is not the radiation, it's the high voltage capacitors. Those suckers can kill you while working on a tv. Have to be sure to discharge them. Anyway, crts these days emit very, very small amounts of ionizing radiation. You get more by standing in the sun for a few minutes than from a life time of sitting in front of a CRT.