Microsoft is the most successful example of the type of company where it's not enough to make a lot of money, but you also have to stop other people from making money. To them life is choking off other people's air supply.
It does not necessarily violate conservation of momentum. Remember, photons have momentum. Light radiating from the sun exerts a small amount of force when it hits something. Careful with the claims of scientific illiteracy.
Experience with long durations of isolation (e.g. in Antartica and on old Soviet space missions) showed that the ability of the crew to get along with each other (and in some cases not go downright nuts) is a major factor. And normally it's completely overlooked...
This is all a naive exponential extropolation of current trends. Where will the energy come from to do all this work? How will the curve continue upwards while people still need to sleep? The actual future involves energy depletion and a reversal of technology. The sooner we admit it and face up to the coming difficulties the better.
The real question is can we get back to the moon at all? The US govt is likely to cut funding rather than increase it as the Hubbert Curve begins to bite.
Try downloading one TV episode file out of a torrent containing a whole season. Often Azureus will just sit there and not download the file, even though many clients that you've connected to have the file. It's as if Azureus has just decided to do nothing, even for an hour at a time. Why on earth is this?
Nuclear power yields little to no energy, once you consider the enourmous amounts of energy needed for mining, processing, enrichment, building a reacter, discommisioning the reactor etc. They looked great when oil was cheap.
All physical processes require energy. If you're going to ramp something up an exponential curve then you'll need an exponential energy supply. Not going to happen.
This is a classic example of a smart person taking a line of reasoning too far without considering basic physical constraints. It's sad, really.
Why not just append the MD5 and SHA1 hashes together? What are the chances of getting hash collisions with two difference algorithms from the same input? I don't think I'd lose much sleep over it.
Google around for information on the Mars Direct Mission plan. Very interesting stuff.
Of course, with peak oil and the crashing world economy it's obvious there will never be a manned mission to Mars.
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It's just not going to happen, no matter how cool it sounds.
...that you didn't have to fix this week.
I guess this Windows stuff is just not ready for the desktop yet.
Microsoft is the most successful example of the type of company where it's not enough to make a lot of money, but you also have to stop other people from making money. To them life is choking off other people's air supply.
Most space nerds would argue that the first words were "Contact light", closely followed by "Main engine stop".
It does not necessarily violate conservation of momentum. Remember, photons have momentum. Light radiating from the sun exerts a small amount of force when it hits something. Careful with the claims of scientific illiteracy.
Experience with long durations of isolation (e.g. in Antartica and on old Soviet space missions) showed that the ability of the crew to get along with each other (and in some cases not go downright nuts) is a major factor. And normally it's completely overlooked...
This is all a naive exponential extropolation of current trends. Where will the energy come from to do all this work? How will the curve continue upwards while people still need to sleep? The actual future involves energy depletion and a reversal of technology. The sooner we admit it and face up to the coming difficulties the better.
Goes round the sun and is > 1000 Km. Allows Pluto, denies Ceres. Also allows that new largest TNO.
Unfortunately all these nifty ideas will fail to occur as the Hubbert Curve begins to bite.
Come on, isn't this the real question that we want answered?
Have a look at the Six Thinking Hats technique. It seeks to reduce confusion by examining only one aspect of a decision at any one time.
Perhaps they will demo Killzone 2, allowing people to move the camera around. Or perhaps they'll admit it was a fake...
The real question is can we get back to the moon at all? The US govt is likely to cut funding rather than increase it as the Hubbert Curve begins to bite.
Try downloading one TV episode file out of a torrent containing a whole season. Often Azureus will just sit there and not download the file, even though many clients that you've connected to have the file. It's as if Azureus has just decided to do nothing, even for an hour at a time. Why on earth is this?
No problem if you're a 17 year old hacker and too young to enter into a contract.
So true indeed. Let's not forget that it was their efforts that essentially invented the electronic computer.
Nuclear power yields little to no energy, once you consider the enourmous amounts of energy needed for mining, processing, enrichment, building a reacter, discommisioning the reactor etc. They looked great when oil was cheap.
All physical processes require energy. If you're going to ramp something up an exponential curve then you'll need an exponential energy supply. Not going to happen. This is a classic example of a smart person taking a line of reasoning too far without considering basic physical constraints. It's sad, really.
Due to peak oil.
He wrote something like E^2 = m^2c^4 + p^2c^2. Hazy memories of university physics lectures 15 years ago... Outgeeked a lot of you with that one!
Why not just append the MD5 and SHA1 hashes together? What are the chances of getting hash collisions with two difference algorithms from the same input? I don't think I'd lose much sleep over it.
Google around for information on the Mars Direct Mission plan. Very interesting stuff. Of course, with peak oil and the crashing world economy it's obvious there will never be a manned mission to Mars.
Don't worry, gas prices will continue to climb. It's called the Hubbert Curve.