ive been given 250 megs already, though most of the people i know are still on 2... i guess theyre upgrading older accounts earlier (mines what? 7-8 years old?)... 2 gigs will be the plus, not the free...
thats my point... asthma is the biggest killer in the uk of 16-18 year olds... kids which were brought up in incredibly clean surroundings entering smoke filled pubs for the first time and having an attack... mothers kill with their cleaning... literally
i also blame detergent, and peoples incessent need for clean environments... human immume systems have become incredibly weak over the last couple of decades... let the kids play in the mud... all were doing is increasing sensitivities, creating super-bacteria immume to more or less everything and screwing ourselves over in the long run...
i didnt have a clue quite how large the lake was... it would take over half a million years of using the lake as an air conditioner for it to increase in temperature by even 1 degree (celcius)... my first post was far from serious, but yeh... i guess every joke has a bit of truth in it... anyway... thanks for the links
the heat from the equivalent of 8000 homes? how powerful is a typical air conditioner? few thousand watts? say just over a thousand... megawatt equivalent cooling (more than a little energy) over the course of 3 months? thats about 10,000,000,000,000 joules of energy a year extra going into the lake... 10 trillion joules... im sure thatll do something over the course of a decade or two... then again, dont really know the specifics of the lake (is it dammed? surface area?) and am too hungover to really care enough to check
but in the long run the lake will evapourate, making the climate in the region less stable (water holding a lot of heat is one of the main reasons the earth has such a (relatively) mild climate) with hotter summers and colder winters, leading to the requirement of more heating in winter and more air conditioning in summer... brilliant
the idea is a good one... lets just hope that the above doesnt happen...
well... i somehow doubt magnetic field (only earth and mercury have one IIRC of the inner four planets... our moon doesnt...) and gravity? ive got gravity... the only cut off point could be size... otherwise theyre just natural satelites...
no... theres no chance of "sailing upstream" unless you build a lot of momentum then turn into the decelerating path... the idea of a solar sail is to build momentum over a long(ish) period of time, the 45 degree into the wind motion would just be counterproductive (it would require fuel counteracting the point of a solar sail) and at the speeds solar sails hope to achieve, there would be the need for a *lot* of fuel...
sorry if im making little sense, more than a little hungover...
i think that this would be classed as a performance enhancing drug, was it released onto the market... could you imagine taking a couple of pills leading you to be able to work your arse off before your finals and actually enjoying it? (or whatever sensation workoholics tend to get) im lucky in that i have the ability to do so, but ive never worked for anything more than 24 hours before the deadline (i cut it a bit close with a programming coursework this winter... but still) if i could get my hands on this stuff id be unstoppable (cue evil laughter)
uhm, sorry... there are many, many cases in the uk where there are contractual clauses forcing you to be unable to work for a competitor, or even work in the field you worked in before... this is very common in shipping (brokerside, not operations) where brokers are a firms main links to clients, if a broker leaves a company and joins another he is likely to take ship and cargo owners with him... the usual minimum is about half a year though up to two years isnt uncommon...
this is mainly because quite a few directors at quite a few companies, once they reach a certain level are at a plateau financially and cant really earn any more than their current (substancial) salaries and bonuses... they then leave the companies knowing that in 6-24 months theyll be able to start up their own taking that companies former clients with them...
how about a one way mirror then? i know it currently depends upon light differentials and the like but im sure that by the time stars become near reachable (what? few hundred years?) someone will come up with a light diode of sorts... mirrored from one side, transparent from t'other
the rejections with replaced internal organs is due to them being organic and genetically different to you... the lens wouldnt be organic, wouldnt be detected by the body as an attacking life form... your thinking of hearts and kidneys... think hip replacements
utopia? bah... people thrive on problems... you take every problem out of someones lives and they start creating their own...
ive seen too many people out there with near perfect lives who go crazy over, literally, nothing...
as to your comment, true... there is inertia in the current state, in the short run everything is fairly static... and depending on how you class it, everything in the medium term is also quite set...
dont we live in an anarchy? everything else is temporary, every law, every state, every person, a continual flow of authority between the billions... nothing holds sway for more than a few centuries... a few millenia at most
it wouldnt be a crap picture... you dont get that much distortion with a vga cable, im sure that if you give the standard user (someone who doesnt work with graphics) a box with dvi one day and a box with vga the next most wouldnt notice... ok, the signal wont be quite as crisp but i doubt most people would notice (granted, that if youre spending that much on a display you probably would but...)
i personally work on a LaCie Electron22Blue, i value a good display, my point is most people wouldnt notice the difference
thats more than fair... it would be very good if you could technically make sure that there is only one copy, for example with printed copies that you have to give in the damaged older copy (could be done by embedding a tag of some sort or something)...
id be all in for paying more than i do currently for a book if that was a possibility...
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ive been given 250 megs already, though most of the people i know are still on 2... i guess theyre upgrading older accounts earlier (mines what? 7-8 years old?)... 2 gigs will be the plus, not the free...
thats my point... asthma is the biggest killer in the uk of 16-18 year olds... kids which were brought up in incredibly clean surroundings entering smoke filled pubs for the first time and having an attack... mothers kill with their cleaning... literally
i also blame detergent, and peoples incessent need for clean environments... human immume systems have become incredibly weak over the last couple of decades... let the kids play in the mud... all were doing is increasing sensitivities, creating super-bacteria immume to more or less everything and screwing ourselves over in the long run...
a doctor who will take their word, and their money...
i didnt have a clue quite how large the lake was... it would take over half a million years of using the lake as an air conditioner for it to increase in temperature by even 1 degree (celcius)... my first post was far from serious, but yeh... i guess every joke has a bit of truth in it... anyway... thanks for the links
the water is heated... it takes the heat from the air... that heat...
the heat from the equivalent of 8000 homes? how powerful is a typical air conditioner? few thousand watts? say just over a thousand... megawatt equivalent cooling (more than a little energy) over the course of 3 months? thats about 10,000,000,000,000 joules of energy a year extra going into the lake... 10 trillion joules... im sure thatll do something over the course of a decade or two... then again, dont really know the specifics of the lake (is it dammed? surface area?) and am too hungover to really care enough to check
but in the long run the lake will evapourate, making the climate in the region less stable (water holding a lot of heat is one of the main reasons the earth has such a (relatively) mild climate) with hotter summers and colder winters, leading to the requirement of more heating in winter and more air conditioning in summer... brilliant
the idea is a good one... lets just hope that the above doesnt happen...
my point was you cant increase your speed going 'upwind' like you can in a sail boat...
well... i somehow doubt magnetic field (only earth and mercury have one IIRC of the inner four planets... our moon doesnt...) and gravity? ive got gravity... the only cut off point could be size... otherwise theyre just natural satelites...
no... theres no chance of "sailing upstream" unless you build a lot of momentum then turn into the decelerating path... the idea of a solar sail is to build momentum over a long(ish) period of time, the 45 degree into the wind motion would just be counterproductive (it would require fuel counteracting the point of a solar sail) and at the speeds solar sails hope to achieve, there would be the need for a *lot* of fuel...
sorry if im making little sense, more than a little hungover...
now find a way to get that data to alter the algorithm and... yeh...
dont you mean "ad mortum"?
i think that this would be classed as a performance enhancing drug, was it released onto the market... could you imagine taking a couple of pills leading you to be able to work your arse off before your finals and actually enjoying it? (or whatever sensation workoholics tend to get) im lucky in that i have the ability to do so, but ive never worked for anything more than 24 hours before the deadline (i cut it a bit close with a programming coursework this winter... but still) if i could get my hands on this stuff id be unstoppable (cue evil laughter)
as you said... getting it a few nanometres thick could be a tiny bit tricky :) ive heard of faradays, just had no idea how they worked... thanks
uhm, sorry... there are many, many cases in the uk where there are contractual clauses forcing you to be unable to work for a competitor, or even work in the field you worked in before... this is very common in shipping (brokerside, not operations) where brokers are a firms main links to clients, if a broker leaves a company and joins another he is likely to take ship and cargo owners with him... the usual minimum is about half a year though up to two years isnt uncommon...
this is mainly because quite a few directors at quite a few companies, once they reach a certain level are at a plateau financially and cant really earn any more than their current (substancial) salaries and bonuses... they then leave the companies knowing that in 6-24 months theyll be able to start up their own taking that companies former clients with them...
how about a one way mirror then? i know it currently depends upon light differentials and the like but im sure that by the time stars become near reachable (what? few hundred years?) someone will come up with a light diode of sorts... mirrored from one side, transparent from t'other
and what better motivation is there?
getting bloody hard finding something on earth that someone hasnt done before...
its really, REALLY pleasant seeing something like this modded +5 insightful... id like to see more of this...
the rejections with replaced internal organs is due to them being organic and genetically different to you... the lens wouldnt be organic, wouldnt be detected by the body as an attacking life form... your thinking of hearts and kidneys... think hip replacements
utopia? bah... people thrive on problems... you take every problem out of someones lives and they start creating their own...
ive seen too many people out there with near perfect lives who go crazy over, literally, nothing...
as to your comment, true... there is inertia in the current state, in the short run everything is fairly static... and depending on how you class it, everything in the medium term is also quite set...
each one of which can be killed by a plebian...
dont we live in an anarchy? everything else is temporary, every law, every state, every person, a continual flow of authority between the billions... nothing holds sway for more than a few centuries... a few millenia at most
it wouldnt be a crap picture... you dont get that much distortion with a vga cable, im sure that if you give the standard user (someone who doesnt work with graphics) a box with dvi one day and a box with vga the next most wouldnt notice... ok, the signal wont be quite as crisp but i doubt most people would notice (granted, that if youre spending that much on a display you probably would but...)
i personally work on a LaCie Electron22Blue, i value a good display, my point is most people wouldnt notice the difference
thats more than fair... it would be very good if you could technically make sure that there is only one copy, for example with printed copies that you have to give in the damaged older copy (could be done by embedding a tag of some sort or something)...
id be all in for paying more than i do currently for a book if that was a possibility...