sending the produced energy back to the earth in some energy beam (such as microwave).
Never going to happen. All I have to do is yell "Save the Birds" and any microwave beams coming down to Earth will immediate ly never happen. The problem with transporting energy using some kind of beam is simple. How do you keep the energy from being transfered to the wrong thing. There is dust in our atmosphere, bugs, birds Water molocules. Microwave ovens work by causing certain molocules to oscillate back and forth to produce heat... Water is one of those molocules... What happens when this beam accidentally hits a bird... a plane... a satellite... a person... an ocean??
Look, all I want is a car that drives. I am sick of all these features. Sure they are nice, but what ever happened to a car that just took you from point A to point B?
What is it with automanufacturers nowdays anyway? I look at new cars and their prices and am dumbfounded. Even with all the government safety and emmissions standards you should still be able to buy a brand new car for $5000.00 USD ---and I'm not talking about a $#!+box of a car either.
It's getting harder to find cars without a radio... Why do I have to have a radio? Maybe I want my own after-market radio, so why should I have to buy theirs? Why do (on some models) I have to have power windows? ---Yes I know these are all little things, but there are a lot of these little things now and they are starting to add up
Why not make a more modular car? A car that not only comes with no options, but you can't get it with any. BUT it is made specifically so you can put your own options in. I would love this idea. I could actually afford a car with all the options I want without being forced to buy one with options I feel are ridiculous.
I would love a car that came without a computer. Yes I am well aware of what computers do in cars and why they are there, but don't try to tell me that a car can't be made and still meet all the government mandated emissions and fuel economy requirements without one. At the very least If I'm gunna have a computer shoved in my car, I want one where I can hook up my laptop to and it can tell me what the hell ERROR41 is or what not, none of this force me to go to a dealer crap just to know I need blinker fluid or some other inane but useless thing.
You are incorrect. Espeically about the "stuff under your land" part. Ever hear of "mineral rights?"
I dunno where you live, but where I live, I own those mineral rights under my land. Also, if someone wanted to park a floating city over my land, The have to rent the space from me.
If I may be so silly, I'm still waiting for 2160p to be available. At that resolution, I can upscale 720p easily (x3) and 1080i easily (x2) without artifacting.
4320p would be even better! not only would you up 720 by 6 but 1080 by 4.... and unlike your lousey 2160p, you could upscale that crappy 480 by a nice even 9 (not 4.5) incase you got some lousey signal you still need to watch.
t's funny how the more earthlike features we find on Mars, the more habitable it seems to become. That is, until you stop to realize that the atmosphere is still really thin, almost vacuum, and comprised of nothing we can breathe.
Well how unihabitable is Mars anyway? hmm lets see... the ambient atmospheric pressure on Mt. Everest here on Earth can be 140-220 millibars and people climb that thing maybe with the assistance of a little bit of oxygen. (No space suit). Well on Mars... hmm according to NASA says according to viking there was an AVERAGE pressure of about 8 millibars. But on a warm day in some of the deepest (sun exposed) valleys, it may be possible to get up to 85 millibars (we really don't know).
FYI normal pressure on Earth is supposed to be 1 bar (1000 millibars)
As for temperature, it is possible that on a warm day on the equator during Mars's Aphelion could go as high as 60`F... well atleast according to pathfinder it has far as 20`F. It seems that soil temperatures have been recorded as high as 81`F. (Viking)
Oxygen in Mars's atmosphere is 0.13%. But Carbon Dioxide is 95%.
It may be possible to have enough Oxygen to brethe on a warm day in a deep valley during Mars's Aphelion that if you just lied down and didn't try to move or talk that you'd live breathing 60`F Air on 85`F Soil and a very thin 85 millibar atmosphere......
EXCEPT
Even if all that were possible you'd still die from Carbon Dioxide Poisoning. At high concentrations, CO2 imparts an acidic taste in the mouth as it dissolves in mucosal water to form carbonic acid. You would probably experience immediate hypoxia or anoxia. Even on Earth, assphyxiation can also occur at high altitudes, where reduced atmospheric pressures lead to reduced partial pressures of oxygen. To give you an idea of what it'd feel like, next time you go to a quickie mart and get a coke or pepsi (fountain drink) immediately put it under your nose and breathe in... you will find out you don't very much like such high concentrations of CO2.
We really need to replace the existing carbon dioxide on mars with something else or we will never be able to live there.
Imagine the flow of a liquid, except that all the atoms in the liquid have a crystal structure, and that entire structure is flowing in lockstep while maintaining a rigid crystalline structure.
A few people are sloppy and let couple refer to the "few", meaning, but most people prefer the definition referring to a pair.
Some are sloppier than others - depends on which one. No one will argue what a dozen means, most people ar clueless about a peck... couple, & few depend on who you are talking to. Not to mention some words have always had two meanings... one being ambiguous
1/10 = gry
1 = single
2 = couple
3 = few
4 = gang
5 = punch
6 = half dozen
7 = several
8 = peck / basket
9 = bunch
10 = carton / minyan
11 = short dozen
12 = dozen
13 = long dozen / baker's dozen
14 = fort
16 = kenning / half bushel
20 = score
24 = case
32 = bushel
144 = gross
1728 = great gross
FTA: "Furthermore, DNA analysis shows that the changes were passed on genetically from one generation to the next, until they were no longer needed, thus confirming that the researchers had caught evolution in the act.
Variation != Evolution
I don't think this is evolution but rather variation. first off, none of these critters has evolved into anything else, and If it evolved a bigger helmet... then it devolved back? WTF?
The answer is no! I'm sorry but I call bullshit on any of this social contract crap. First off, if we are going to have any social contracts, how about the requirement of such thing to better mankind? If so, How exactly does a flashing bozai buddy do that?
If anything I think the ADs have violated a social contract. What was the internet like 5 or 10 years ago? What's up with these ADs and data mining? spyware? malware? All of these came from those ADs.
I do not believe that I am obligated to put myself, my computer or my data in harms way simply because someone can't develop a better business model. NO ONE LIKES ADS and we all wished they'd go away. The only way that is ever going to happen is to cut them off with blocking software. Sure someone is going to have trouble making money for a while... AIN'T MY PROBLEM. and in the end those left over will be left to develop a business model that is more pallatable to everyone. -SO BE IT.
What business does an AD from any unannounced THIRD PARTY have putting any cookie on my computer? Sounds more like ADs are ABUSING the public as it is.... SOICIAL CONTRACT? MY ARSE!
Did they simply not train the volunteers before dumping them in Namibia?
Basically, yes!
They took 2 unmarried couples and dumped them in Namibia! And of coarse local custom dictates that the couples can't be with one another as they wern't married. There was a lot of bitching and moaning about how crappy Namibia was and in general, the take I got from it was Stupid-ass American embarrass themselves and their country. The show did however make the Namibians look very good, they showed unbelievable patience and tolerance toward their guests.
I was also thinking it would be interesting for some of those Christian channels to do something like this with some of their missionaries around the world... Say waht you will about Christianizing the world, I think you may have to admit it would make a lot better TV than the big network surreality shows.
Take a dozen volunteers and run them through a couple months of training with the Peace Corps or some NGO, then ship them off to Africa to build a school or dig a well or whatever. Then follow their progress through the season, etc...
I don't have any mod points, but you are right. I would actually look forward to watching something like that. Not to mention that since the producers don't have to pay actors, they could actually spend some of that money on the effort write it off and yet still make money doing it.
It sure would be a lot better than the lets make fun of the Americans show I last saw where they dumped these people in Namibia. All we got to see is how useless these people were and how much extra work the Namibians had to do just having them there. Lets see a show where the people in it actually make a diference.
The only thing more reliable than a get-rich-quick scheme, is the stupidity of people.
I always prefered: "The only thing reliable as a get-rich-quick scheme, is the stupidity of people. " --- but that's gunna depend a whole lot on which side of the stupidity circle you're on, wouldn't it?
You betetr believe it! After all you are posting on Slashdot, where the common person here knows how to use an on-line dictionary for anything he or she doesn't understand!
Plus self-respecting slashdotter posting in a disussion on telephones ought to darn-well better understand what POTS means.
Avoid acronyms. Always. It's just a good rule of thumb. Once your grandmother knows an acronym, it's okay to use it: DVD, ATM. Until then, use actual words. Don't say "POTS." Say "telephone line."
DVD and ATM are not acronyms, they are abbreviations or initials. In order for initials or abbreviations to be acronyms, they mst from words. LASER, SCUBA, POTS, FUD and FUBAR are acronyms. CD, ATM, DVD, USMC, PDQ, RTFM and RTFA are not.
It is completely acceptable to use an acronym. These acronyms are even in dictionaries. What people shouldn't use are abbreviations with out first defining them, or alteast having their meaning very obvious in context. After all which type of CD am I talking about? a disc or certificate of deposit???? or ATM = Automated Teller Machine, or asynchronous transfer mode???
POTS is far more descriptive than "telephone line" as a telephone line could be ISDN or Cable VoIP or even a cellular/mobile phone but none of those is Plain Old Telephone Service (or system)
I find this quite stupid as all candidates to the elections would have done the same anyways. Elections are just an illusion.
The problem with your statement is that it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's people like you that cause the very problems you point out.
When people become disenchanted with democracy and claim it doesn't matter anyway... then the also do not vote and in the end they are right it really doesn't matter since they did not participate.
I don't understand how it is possible for them to be 'theoretically illegal' AND 'the law can't be applied against them'. Surely if the law is not applicable, then they are legal (both theoretically and in practice)?
Ah now you see the differences in the precepts of Russian common law verses English or French common law we are more used to.
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Never going to happen. All I have to do is yell "Save the Birds" and any microwave beams coming down to Earth will immediate ly never happen. The problem with transporting energy using some kind of beam is simple. How do you keep the energy from being transfered to the wrong thing. There is dust in our atmosphere, bugs, birds Water molocules. Microwave ovens work by causing certain molocules to oscillate back and forth to produce heat... Water is one of those molocules... What happens when this beam accidentally hits a bird... a plane... a satellite... a person... an ocean??
Just log in to 35 active IRC channels simultaneously and start chatting on each one... after a week of that, if you can't type, give up.
At least with fan films I can still get Star Trek:
New Voyages
Star Trek Hidden Frontier
Starship Exeter
Tales of the Seventh Fleet
Star Trek: Intrepid
USS Hathaway
Audio:
Star Trek: Pioneers
Star Trek: The Section 31 Files
But "American Cheese" was named by Americans.
For a big group of color images and an explination of why they look the way they do, check out http://www.xpda.com/mars/
New Voyages
Star Trek Hidden Frontier
Starship Exeter
Tales of the Seventh Fleet
Star Trek: Intrepid
USS Hathaway
Audio:
Star Trek: Pioneers
Star Trek: The Section 31 Files
Some of these are quite enjoyable
I for one have learned over the past many years not to ask the question: "What would you ever need all that for?" when it comes to computers.
What is it with automanufacturers nowdays anyway? I look at new cars and their prices and am dumbfounded. Even with all the government safety and emmissions standards you should still be able to buy a brand new car for $5000.00 USD ---and I'm not talking about a $#!+box of a car either.
It's getting harder to find cars without a radio... Why do I have to have a radio? Maybe I want my own after-market radio, so why should I have to buy theirs? Why do (on some models) I have to have power windows? ---Yes I know these are all little things, but there are a lot of these little things now and they are starting to add up
Why not make a more modular car? A car that not only comes with no options, but you can't get it with any. BUT it is made specifically so you can put your own options in. I would love this idea. I could actually afford a car with all the options I want without being forced to buy one with options I feel are ridiculous.
I would love a car that came without a computer. Yes I am well aware of what computers do in cars and why they are there, but don't try to tell me that a car can't be made and still meet all the government mandated emissions and fuel economy requirements without one. At the very least If I'm gunna have a computer shoved in my car, I want one where I can hook up my laptop to and it can tell me what the hell ERROR41 is or what not, none of this force me to go to a dealer crap just to know I need blinker fluid or some other inane but useless thing.
You are incorrect. Espeically about the "stuff under your land" part. Ever hear of "mineral rights?"
I dunno where you live, but where I live, I own those mineral rights under my land. Also, if someone wanted to park a floating city over my land, The have to rent the space from me.
4320p would be even better! not only would you up 720 by 6 but 1080 by 4.... and unlike your lousey 2160p, you could upscale that crappy 480 by a nice even 9 (not 4.5) incase you got some lousey signal you still need to watch.
Actually you do so own the sky above your land. You also own all the stuff under your land too.
That being said, you still can't stop someone from flying over it (in general).
Well how unihabitable is Mars anyway? hmm lets see... the ambient atmospheric pressure on Mt. Everest here on Earth can be 140-220 millibars and people climb that thing maybe with the assistance of a little bit of oxygen. (No space suit). Well on Mars... hmm according to NASA says according to viking there was an AVERAGE pressure of about 8 millibars. But on a warm day in some of the deepest (sun exposed) valleys, it may be possible to get up to 85 millibars (we really don't know).
FYI normal pressure on Earth is supposed to be 1 bar (1000 millibars)As for temperature, it is possible that on a warm day on the equator during Mars's Aphelion could go as high as 60`F... well atleast according to pathfinder it has far as 20`F. It seems that soil temperatures have been recorded as high as 81`F. (Viking)
Oxygen in Mars's atmosphere is 0.13%. But Carbon Dioxide is 95%.
It may be possible to have enough Oxygen to brethe on a warm day in a deep valley during Mars's Aphelion that if you just lied down and didn't try to move or talk that you'd live breathing 60`F Air on 85`F Soil and a very thin 85 millibar atmosphere......
EXCEPTEven if all that were possible you'd still die from Carbon Dioxide Poisoning. At high concentrations, CO2 imparts an acidic taste in the mouth as it dissolves in mucosal water to form carbonic acid. You would probably experience immediate hypoxia or anoxia. Even on Earth, assphyxiation can also occur at high altitudes, where reduced atmospheric pressures lead to reduced partial pressures of oxygen. To give you an idea of what it'd feel like, next time you go to a quickie mart and get a coke or pepsi (fountain drink) immediately put it under your nose and breathe in... you will find out you don't very much like such high concentrations of CO2.
We really need to replace the existing carbon dioxide on mars with something else or we will never be able to live there.
You mean kinda like a glacier?
Not all of us click and paste.
Some are sloppier than others - depends on which one. No one will argue what a dozen means, most people ar clueless about a peck... couple, & few depend on who you are talking to. Not to mention some words have always had two meanings... one being ambiguous
1/10 = gry1 = single
2 = couple
3 = few
4 = gang
5 = punch
6 = half dozen
7 = several
8 = peck / basket
9 = bunch
10 = carton / minyan
11 = short dozen
12 = dozen
13 = long dozen / baker's dozen
14 = fort
16 = kenning / half bushel
20 = score
24 = case
32 = bushel
144 = gross
1728 = great gross
Variation != Evolution
I don't think this is evolution but rather variation. first off, none of these critters has evolved into anything else, and If it evolved a bigger helmet... then it devolved back? WTF?
The answer is no! I'm sorry but I call bullshit on any of this social contract crap. First off, if we are going to have any social contracts, how about the requirement of such thing to better mankind? If so, How exactly does a flashing bozai buddy do that?
If anything I think the ADs have violated a social contract. What was the internet like 5 or 10 years ago? What's up with these ADs and data mining? spyware? malware? All of these came from those ADs.
I do not believe that I am obligated to put myself, my computer or my data in harms way simply because someone can't develop a better business model. NO ONE LIKES ADS and we all wished they'd go away. The only way that is ever going to happen is to cut them off with blocking software. Sure someone is going to have trouble making money for a while... AIN'T MY PROBLEM. and in the end those left over will be left to develop a business model that is more pallatable to everyone. -SO BE IT.
What business does an AD from any unannounced THIRD PARTY have putting any cookie on my computer? Sounds more like ADs are ABUSING the public as it is.... SOICIAL CONTRACT? MY ARSE!
Basically, yes!
They took 2 unmarried couples and dumped them in Namibia! And of coarse local custom dictates that the couples can't be with one another as they wern't married. There was a lot of bitching and moaning about how crappy Namibia was and in general, the take I got from it was Stupid-ass American embarrass themselves and their country. The show did however make the Namibians look very good, they showed unbelievable patience and tolerance toward their guests.
I was also thinking it would be interesting for some of those Christian channels to do something like this with some of their missionaries around the world... Say waht you will about Christianizing the world, I think you may have to admit it would make a lot better TV than the big network surreality shows.
I don't have any mod points, but you are right. I would actually look forward to watching something like that. Not to mention that since the producers don't have to pay actors, they could actually spend some of that money on the effort write it off and yet still make money doing it.
It sure would be a lot better than the lets make fun of the Americans show I last saw where they dumped these people in Namibia. All we got to see is how useless these people were and how much extra work the Namibians had to do just having them there. Lets see a show where the people in it actually make a diference.
You mean the one where on dark colored keys it looks like a B&W English flag, but on light colored keys looks like a B&W Danish flag?
I always prefered: "The only thing reliable as a get-rich-quick scheme, is the stupidity of people. " --- but that's gunna depend a whole lot on which side of the stupidity circle you're on, wouldn't it?
You betetr believe it! After all you are posting on Slashdot, where the common person here knows how to use an on-line dictionary for anything he or she doesn't understand!
Plus self-respecting slashdotter posting in a disussion on telephones ought to darn-well better understand what POTS means.
DVD and ATM are not acronyms, they are abbreviations or initials. In order for initials or abbreviations to be acronyms, they mst from words. LASER, SCUBA, POTS, FUD and FUBAR are acronyms. CD, ATM, DVD, USMC, PDQ, RTFM and RTFA are not.
It is completely acceptable to use an acronym. These acronyms are even in dictionaries. What people shouldn't use are abbreviations with out first defining them, or alteast having their meaning very obvious in context. After all which type of CD am I talking about? a disc or certificate of deposit???? or ATM = Automated Teller Machine, or asynchronous transfer mode???
POTS is far more descriptive than "telephone line" as a telephone line could be ISDN or Cable VoIP or even a cellular/mobile phone but none of those is Plain Old Telephone Service (or system)
The problem with your statement is that it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's people like you that cause the very problems you point out.
When people become disenchanted with democracy and claim it doesn't matter anyway... then the also do not vote and in the end they are right it really doesn't matter since they did not participate.
Ah now you see the differences in the precepts of Russian common law verses English or French common law we are more used to.