http://perfectpitch.ucsf.edu
These articles are a result of people participitating in the above web site. Particularly fun is their test to determine whether you possess absolute pitch or not.
There are these bizzare things called 'Radio Stations' that make songs just as available as someone on Kazza. All I have to do is pipe their output into a tape recorder. Granted quality is less than stellar, but then again, so are most people's ears from blasting 90 db music for years...
We need to
a) Fly shuttle to international space station.
b) Use duct tape to tape shuttle to international space station.
c) Astronauts use escape pod on international space station.
d) Shuttle uses engines to either deorbit shuttle and space station into pacific ocean, or change orbit such that it intersects with the sun.
Flying transportation will only become a reality if it can be made completely autonomous.
Consider getting up in the morning at 7:30, walking outside to a skycar that you requested to arrive at 8:10 getting in and going to sleep for a half hour while it navigates to a destination. Once it arrives it drops you off and goes in search of its next customer. There is no reason that it is impossible to create a distribued system of flying cars that know how to go from point a to point b without running into anything (including another flying cars). Thats the basic idea, add in saftey and redunancy and you have a workable system?
It is just a software problem (and a hardware problem in the sense that a more reliable devices for VTOL than a helicopter needs to be invented)...
There is a good reason why warships have more people then are strictly necessacry to run them on board.
Simply, if a whole bunch of people get killed on the ship, then there are still enough left to run it. This is not insignifigant, after all who wants to have an undermanned ship after 1/4-1/2 the crew dies?
Does Adobe give users the ability to print out copies of
their e-books? If so, then they need to prosecute every manufacture of OCR
software that exists.
In fact, they need to prosecute every manufacture of OCR
software anyway because it could be used to read the characters directly off of
a screenshot of an open e-book.
They also need to bring lawsuits against anyone with data
entry skills because theoretically someone could read text from a screen and
input it into a word processor.
Wait, that means word processors are a circumvention device
for e-book protection, but that's ok: everyone uses Microsoft Word anyway and
Microsoft has more lawyers then Adobe.
The list goes on, but the point is that data will be copied one
way or another when people want to copy the data.
Pick your favorite fix to the copyright system we have today,
but it had better deal with two parts of reality:\
Everyones been in turbulance right? Ever watch the end of the wing tips flex ~20 feet in bad turbuleance? Imagine if you were sitting on those wings during turbulence. This is essentially what happens in a flying win passenger craft. This is a problem that has to be solved...
As for the no windows problems. How bout sky lights?
The entertainment industry is fighting a losing battle here. Anyone who has purchased a TIVO or similar hard disk recorder will absolutely never go back to watching ads.
I personally have a hard disk recorder, and since having it I cannot stand to watch live tv, because I now percieve how much of my time is wasted by ads.
My guess is that eventually the entertainment industry is going to have to modify their revenue system, because no one will willing submit to ads again after being free of them.
What is interesting is that the TV industry will has a system allready in place that could be switched to an ad less system. All they would need to do is charge more for cable or satellite service, or something along those lines. They would probably be forced to take an income cut, because people will not be interested in paying very much more for ad less TV then they do for regular TV today.
If media corporations think they have a problem now, wait until hard disk recorders drop below $200....
They are facing a losing battle, just like the music industry.
Is that "Causality is unproven." in the study. So while they may be able to say that there is a correlation between 7 hours of sleep and longer life spans, it is not deterimined whether the 7 hours of sleep is actually causing longer life.
It could instead be something completely unrelated to sleep, but rather related to some other behaviour that the 7 hour sleepers engage in.
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NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY! We like green power, just not in our back yard...
The site is fun to use. I voted on 200 questions mostly because the random crap that people ask is pretty entertaining.
The concept isn't bad -- think of it as wisdom of crowds in action...
2^128 is enough to track every grain of sand on earth. It is logical to conclude that it is also big enough to track every bullet as well.
http://perfectpitch.ucsf.edu These articles are a result of people participitating in the above web site. Particularly fun is their test to determine whether you possess absolute pitch or not.
There are these bizzare things called 'Radio Stations' that make songs just as available as someone on Kazza. All I have to do is pipe their output into a tape recorder. Granted quality is less than stellar, but then again, so are most people's ears from blasting 90 db music for years...
What happens if I go back and screw my mother and father myself? Can I? Can't I?
(blatently ripped off from someone)
We need to
a) Fly shuttle to international space station.
b) Use duct tape to tape shuttle to international space station.
c) Astronauts use escape pod on international space station.
d) Shuttle uses engines to either deorbit shuttle and space station into pacific ocean, or change orbit such that it intersects with the sun.
Flying transportation will only become a reality if it can be made completely autonomous.
Consider getting up in the morning at 7:30, walking outside to a skycar that you requested to arrive at 8:10 getting in and going to sleep for a half hour while it navigates to a destination. Once it arrives it drops you off and goes in search of its next customer. There is no reason that it is impossible to create a distribued system of flying cars that know how to go from point a to point b without running into anything (including another flying cars). Thats the basic idea, add in saftey and redunancy and you have a workable system?
It is just a software problem (and a hardware problem in the sense that a more reliable devices for VTOL than a helicopter needs to be invented)...
Simply, if a whole bunch of people get killed on the ship, then there are still enough left to run it. This is not insignifigant, after all who wants to have an undermanned ship after 1/4-1/2 the crew dies?
The first time someone dies when their gun refuses to fire.
Does Adobe give users the ability to print out copies of their e-books? If so, then they need to prosecute every manufacture of OCR software that exists.
In fact, they need to prosecute every manufacture of OCR software anyway because it could be used to read the characters directly off of a screenshot of an open e-book.
They also need to bring lawsuits against anyone with data entry skills because theoretically someone could read text from a screen and input it into a word processor.
Wait, that means word processors are a circumvention device for e-book protection, but that's ok: everyone uses Microsoft Word anyway and Microsoft has more lawyers then Adobe.
The list goes on, but the point is that data will be copied one way or another when people want to copy the data.
Pick your favorite fix to the copyright system we have today, but it had better deal with two parts of reality:\
Encryption can and will be decrypted.
Content must be cheap or people will copy it.
First, one major problem boeing has is this:
Everyones been in turbulance right? Ever watch the end of the wing tips flex ~20 feet in bad turbuleance? Imagine if you were sitting on those wings during turbulence. This is essentially what happens in a flying win passenger craft. This is a problem that has to be solved...
As for the no windows problems. How bout sky lights?
The entertainment industry is fighting a losing battle here. Anyone who has purchased a TIVO or similar hard disk recorder will absolutely never go back to watching ads.
I personally have a hard disk recorder, and since having it I cannot stand to watch live tv, because I now percieve how much of my time is wasted by ads.
My guess is that eventually the entertainment industry is going to have to modify their revenue system, because no one will willing submit to ads again after being free of them.
What is interesting is that the TV industry will has a system allready in place that could be switched to an ad less system. All they would need to do is charge more for cable or satellite service, or something along those lines. They would probably be forced to take an income cut, because people will not be interested in paying very much more for ad less TV then they do for regular TV today.
If media corporations think they have a problem now, wait until hard disk recorders drop below $200....
They are facing a losing battle, just like the music industry.
Is that "Causality is unproven." in the study. So while they may be able to say that there is a correlation between 7 hours of sleep and longer life spans, it is not deterimined whether the 7 hours of sleep is actually causing longer life.
It could instead be something completely unrelated to sleep, but rather related to some other behaviour that the 7 hour sleepers engage in.