Making something float with magnets has been done before.
With frogs.
I wish I kept the link now, but it wasn't THAT interesting.
Following the link back to the groups offical home page is intersting though. It could be just me, science though interesting experiments is always cool.
Where the hell did you read that?
I saw something where they did blood tests on Lawyers and found abnormally high testoserone in the men AND the women.
Last time I checked, a car isn't the dominant form of transportation for ANY other country besides America.
Sure other countrys have cars, but here you MUST have a car. Towns and citys aren't set up for walking. I really enjoyed being overseas, I never had to use my car except to drive to work.
I think a good orbital platform would work wonders. Pump up all the gas you need, the atmosphere is 80% nitogen after all. shield the tank from the sun, store the runoff in small shielded tank. Send the small tanks back to earth, filled with liquid N. You also have plenty of O2 to hand off to the space station.
When my real computer desk slid out of the back of the pickup and fell apart, I went shopping for a new one. To my surprise, I couldn't find the same model, and all the other ones were awful! Overpriced JUNK. I ended up going to OfficeMax and buying a 8 foot fold up table. It's wonderful. Sturdy, and plenty of space on top and underneath. Only cost me 60$ also.
Business Week had an article on this. Phone companies WILL be switching to package deals like you described within the next decade. All calls, anywhere, for any length of time, for free.
But you have to buy a monthly or yearly package from them.
>I'm constantly stunned at how many people like the Diablo games. They're graphical rip-offs of the roguelike genre (particularly angband), but without any of depth or the playability.
Hear hear!
I was a roguelike game addict for years. So when Diablo came out, I wasn't that impressed. But I like roguelike games so I played it anyway.
Diablo II was enjoyable for about 2 weeks, and mostly because of multiplay with my friends. I'm hoping that in Diablo III they come up with a programmable game engine so you can set up your own adventures.
Dude, they're attaching a laser that's designed to fire at metallic high-speed objects in orbit.
They want to give it the most harmless boring name EVER. Otherwise every reactionist country with something in orbit will protest.
From what I understand, SETI is also a Science experiment. This involves checking as many possible forms of communications as you can.
Who knows what else we might find.
Besides, if you think you can do better, I suggest you go do it. Being the person who first contacted an Alien Civilization will put you in the history books until the end of time.
Sorry, you won't be working with all of your morals at work. If your Employer say 'Get us some working drivers, we're shipping as soon as we get something stable' That's what you do.
It's an old cliche, but time is money. And if you don't get those drivers out in time, your employeer may not have the money to pay you.:-)
>These are the kinds of problems that quantum computers are geared to compute. Not for playing games, not for doing spreadsheets, and definitely not anything for the store shelves.
Whew! I'm glad you figured it all out for us. You saved everyone a lot of time and money by letting us know what what we shouldn't be doing with quantum computing.
Oh, but I think you're wrong on games, I believe you'd be able to program some incredible AI for games like Quake, Or do fantastic universe simulations for games like Elite or privateer.
You're right about the spreadsheets though, who needs spreadsheets when you have have a quantum computer go though all the possible combinations of funding for a company to come up with the best fiscal plan, in about two seconds.
And I'd hate to have one of these things on my desktop, I mean, I'd be playing with it all the time, trying to find out new things that could be done with it. Working together with other cutting edge geeks out there...I mean, what's the point?
"while I'm not looking for media to "represent the way I live my life", I am looking for it to be interesting, original and entertaining. Sadly very little of what I see on cable is any of these."
I guess you work too much. That would be the only excuse for you to say a show like 'Titus' isn't interesting, original and entertaining.
>Small 'rebel' nations are becoming nuclear powers. How would you like to wake up in the morning to news of Los Angles being wiped off the map?
That would be pretty cool actually. Not only would a small rebel nation come up with a nuke way better than anything we have, but then we FINALLY have a target that nobody would argue with. Considering the cost of getting rid of aging nukes, I can see the White house wondering how many hundreds of nukes to rain down on that rebel country.
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Making something float with magnets has been done before.
With frogs.
I wish I kept the link now, but it wasn't THAT interesting.
Following the link back to the groups offical home page is intersting though. It could be just me, science though interesting experiments is always cool.
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Erik Z
Woah woah woah!
Light travels at 1/3 c in glass or platic?
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Erik Z
Where the hell did you read that?
I saw something where they did blood tests on Lawyers and found abnormally high testoserone in the men AND the women.
It's called Black Humor.
Everyone is my family has the skill of coming up with some truely evil and tastless jokes.
Heh heh. They're pretty funny.
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Erik Z
Last time I checked, a car isn't the dominant form of transportation for ANY other country besides America.
Sure other countrys have cars, but here you MUST have a car. Towns and citys aren't set up for walking. I really enjoyed being overseas, I never had to use my car except to drive to work.
Later
Erik Z
I think a good orbital platform would work wonders. Pump up all the gas you need, the atmosphere is 80% nitogen after all. shield the tank from the sun, store the runoff in small shielded tank. Send the small tanks back to earth, filled with liquid N. You also have plenty of O2 to hand off to the space station.
later
Erik Z
When my real computer desk slid out of the back of the pickup and fell apart, I went shopping for a new one. To my surprise, I couldn't find the same model, and all the other ones were awful! Overpriced JUNK. I ended up going to OfficeMax and buying a 8 foot fold up table. It's wonderful. Sturdy, and plenty of space on top and underneath. Only cost me 60$ also.
Later
Erik Z
Business Week had an article on this. Phone companies WILL be switching to package deals like you described within the next decade. All calls, anywhere, for any length of time, for free.
But you have to buy a monthly or yearly package from them.
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Erik Z
My ISP gets around this by only guaranting 9600bps on my DSL line.
The bastards.
I have a bad feeling about B&W. I thought Populous III sucked. i LIKED Populous I and II, it was even more fun playing over a LAN!
I'd probably be playing II now if I could get it to work on my PC.
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Erik Z
>I'm constantly stunned at how many people like the Diablo games. They're graphical rip-offs of the roguelike genre (particularly angband), but without any of depth or the playability.
Hear hear!
I was a roguelike game addict for years. So when Diablo came out, I wasn't that impressed. But I like roguelike games so I played it anyway.
Diablo II was enjoyable for about 2 weeks, and mostly because of multiplay with my friends. I'm hoping that in Diablo III they come up with a programmable game engine so you can set up your own adventures.
Later,
Erik Z
Dude, they're attaching a laser that's designed to fire at metallic high-speed objects in orbit.
They want to give it the most harmless boring name EVER. Otherwise every reactionist country with something in orbit will protest.
Later
ErikZ
Yes you're right.
From what I understand, SETI is also a Science experiment. This involves checking as many possible forms of communications as you can.
Who knows what else we might find.
Besides, if you think you can do better, I suggest you go do it. Being the person who first contacted an Alien Civilization will put you in the history books until the end of time.
Later
Erik Z
(sigh)
Cobol using MVS JCL, next semester.
Kill me.
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Erik Z
>The major reason Compaq is saying "last call" on new VAX systems is that it can't build them anymore.
Woah, you mean Compaq can't call up some fab plant and have new ones made? Were these chips that exotic?
I doubt it.
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Erik Z
Sorry, you won't be working with all of your morals at work. If your Employer say 'Get us some working drivers, we're shipping as soon as we get something stable' That's what you do.
:-)
It's an old cliche, but time is money. And if you don't get those drivers out in time, your employeer may not have the money to pay you.
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Erik Z
Sorry, that's just to cute.
We don't have to proove you wrong. You have to come up with proof that we decide is adequate.
And you know this.
So shoo!
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Erik z
>These are the kinds of problems that quantum computers are geared to compute. Not for playing games, not for doing spreadsheets, and definitely not anything for the store shelves.
Whew! I'm glad you figured it all out for us. You saved everyone a lot of time and money by letting us know what what we shouldn't be doing with quantum computing.
Oh, but I think you're wrong on games, I believe you'd be able to program some incredible AI for games like Quake, Or do fantastic universe simulations for games like Elite or privateer.
You're right about the spreadsheets though, who needs spreadsheets when you have have a quantum computer go though all the possible combinations of funding for a company to come up with the best fiscal plan, in about two seconds.
And I'd hate to have one of these things on my desktop, I mean, I'd be playing with it all the time, trying to find out new things that could be done with it. Working together with other cutting edge geeks out there...I mean, what's the point?
Sheesh,
Erik Z
Man, think of the purchasing scams you can pull at your company.
"Bill, I want to talk to you about this 20 million dollar hardware acquisition charge. All we got was this box with foam kernels in it"
"You opened the box?! You fool! You let all the quantum computers out! Now I'll have to reorder them! The board will hear about this!"
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Erik Z
Ye Cats, I'm surprised anyone on this group read 'The Little Prince'
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Erik Z
(Frantic voice)
"I don't know what happened to him Officer! He was trying to get some toast out of the toaster with a fork when his head exploded!"
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Erik Z
"while I'm not looking for media to "represent the way I live my life", I am looking for it to be interesting, original and entertaining. Sadly very little of what I see on cable is any of these."
I guess you work too much. That would be the only excuse for you to say a show like 'Titus' isn't interesting, original and entertaining.
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Erik Z
>His son with 5 years of political experience...
I would think less time spent in the goverment would be a plus.
Think of all the tricks Al Gore must of picked up from Bill.
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Erik Z
I don't, but I'm sure bringing up Linux at the local pub is a surefire way to be left standing by yourself.
>Small 'rebel' nations are becoming nuclear powers. How would you like to wake up in the morning to news of Los Angles being wiped off the map?
That would be pretty cool actually. Not only would a small rebel nation come up with a nuke way better than anything we have, but then we FINALLY have a target that nobody would argue with. Considering the cost of getting rid of aging nukes, I can see the White house wondering how many hundreds of nukes to rain down on that rebel country.
Later
Erik Z