Thought experiment: Think about a group of rational and non-religious people like scientists say, and ask yourself if they don't have any dogmatic convictions that they won't defend as staunchly as any theistic believer. The answer is they very much do. The behaviors associated with 'belief' can occur outside of a religion, and outside of spirituality of any kind. The consequences for human interactions from these behaviors will stay with us for a long time.
Actually the twirling over the head bit is to make blood leave their head, the goal being to make things less painful for the chicken. I'm not sure if they actually lose consciousness but they certainly become light-headed/less aware.
Cheaper if you have all the hardware needed to build a dedicated routing box lying around. Also, a non PC router is almost guaranteed to use less energy. Electricity isn't free where most people live.
Just a note: When you're traveling at above ~40 mph your blood will have enough momentum to break through the walls of your veins/arteries if you suddenly stop/decelerate.
You're forgetting extradition. There are few places that the US cannot extradite people from. Naturally it would have to be grave enough matter or have the proper political momentum for it to happen, but these things aren't impossible when it comes to doing things that large businesses don't like.
I watched the stream of Microsoft's presentation/show. They've built in several revenue generating factors as well. Since they stated that they're looking for a wider audience, they've included things like purchasing music and videos/other content through their concole. I doubt they're going to give away that kind of service to the stores they provide it to, so they'll probably be getting a cut of each purchase in addition to charging all the content providers up front for the privelage to sell through their network and on their platform.*
In addition they mentioned a 'Marketplace', and although they didn't describe it in too much detail they did mention that users would be able to create in-game content and sell it to other users. Microsoft will most likely be taking a cut of those sales.
*A side note, they mentioned that users would be able to stream audio and video "...from their Media Center computers." Does this mean that users cannot directly load content from say, a disc with pictures, onto their Xbox 360?
Perhaps no one has noticed this...but the PSP has wireless capabilities. A friend of mine bought one and we fired up the wireless part, set everything to auto, and it latched onto some AP in the neighborhood. It then connected to its home base to check for updates to its firmware. What I'm saying is transfering files via WiFi to this device could be very feasible.
So you'd rather have the world opperating on a quater-by-quater basis? (fiscal quater, what else) This kind of attitude - one that shuns long-term thinking - is very detrimental to the development of these kinds of technologies which are still in their infancy. Just because they can't deliver their final results in a few years doesn't mean they'll never accomplish anything. If a project is properly managed (although this is NASA so chances are it won't) it can stay on track, even over a period of years. Yeah, hard to believe I know.
To sum up: Judging a project solely on the amount of time it takes to be carried out isn't justified. Long term projects should be encouraged if they're hands of people with a good track record.
Are they going to be released with English subtitles? If not, they're not interesting to most people here. Also the $5 pricetag for a movie at release time? For that much you might as well go to a theater. Heck, some matinee shows cost little more than that. I think if they charged the for new releases the same $1.99 they're charging for the oldies it might be more interesting, seeing how I've heard that some of their movies are worth looking into. Oh, and what can you get for $5 in India? (As compared to other places).
Now, NPR seems to go out of its way to present bi-partisan views, except it often does so across multiple days' telecasts
There's a difference between saying things that support both sides, and hence being bi-partisan, or truly having a neutral view, and being non-partisan. Some people tend to think if you take the average of the magnitude some source leans in either political direction (why must people be so one dimensional?!) one can asses that source's true orientation. That's incorrect. The source would only be 'centrist' if it provided non-partisan information.
[rant]What ever happened to reporters, who report the facts? Nowadays all we have is journalists...who seem to keep a journal of their personal opinion and nothing more.[/rant]
I think the grand-parent was trying to show that a 10MB file in the base-64 system is equivalent to a 7.5MB 'normal' file. So the 10MB limit may actually pertain to the file size under the base-64 system, in which case the effective max. file size would be 7.5MB
There's more. This January, 12 remotely exploitable buffer overflow bugs were found in Gaim. Less than a week ago, the SuSE security team found another remotely exploitable buffer overflow. (Scroll down.) Those found in January should be fixed as far as I can tell.
What if the mobitat (or whatever) runs into the same problem the rover[s] ran into? In general what if the mobitat runs into any problems? This page shows a mobitat that also acts as a lander. I'm guessing it would also act as the return vehicle. Do you really want to put your ticket back home into more jeopardy than absolutely necessary? For example, by having it move around, possibly through difficult terrain and such. Of course one would have to weigh the benefit of not having to travel to get back to your return vehicle over the mobility of this type of habitat and the equipment-carrying capability it implies.
However there are pieces of sci-fi whose purpose is to introduce a new scientific concept by way of a story. Think The Fountains of Paradise. Also some of the best sci-fi stories are those who analyze/show the effects of some new invention, scientific discovery, etc. on society. So far I've found these exclusively in text.
That adaptation/tailoring does not yet have a word associated with it. There are certain terms like 'biomoding' and such, but because the technologies are still being developed, mostly as medical treatments and not for enhancement, there is no popular vocabulary to go with them.
I don't think this would apply since we're talking about altering already existing humans to be able to live in a different environment. Also the traits that would let a human survive in that environment are nocexistent in the human genepool as far as I know, so you'd have a hard time finding someone to use for breeding those traits.
"The remaining science fiction notion was terraforming humans..."
Terraforming isn't the right word. Terraforming is forming planets to make them more like Earth (Terra). Purposefully altering humans/human physiology does not yet have a word accosiated with it, I think.
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Thought experiment: Think about a group of rational and non-religious people like scientists say, and ask yourself if they don't have any dogmatic convictions that they won't defend as staunchly as any theistic believer. The answer is they very much do. The behaviors associated with 'belief' can occur outside of a religion, and outside of spirituality of any kind. The consequences for human interactions from these behaviors will stay with us for a long time.
Obligatory project Thor link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
Misleading headline: FDA != NIH.
The Committee for Supporting the Ridiculous Kabuki Theatre that Passes for Environmental Policy Discussion ...
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I think this is bringing us one step closer to EPIC (video).
This new form of N-type ink, made by dissolving a specific molecule in a certain solvent...
Specific reporting like that is why I keep frequenting certain websites.
Can you say anti-trust lawsuit?
Actually the twirling over the head bit is to make blood leave their head, the goal being to make things less painful for the chicken. I'm not sure if they actually lose consciousness but they certainly become light-headed/less aware.
The full video including Will Wright's remarks about the demo scene and the procedurally generated games and such is also available on Google Video.
Cheaper if you have all the hardware needed to build a dedicated routing box lying around. Also, a non PC router is almost guaranteed to use less energy. Electricity isn't free where most people live.
Just a note: When you're traveling at above ~40 mph your blood will have enough momentum to break through the walls of your veins/arteries if you suddenly stop/decelerate.
You're forgetting extradition. There are few places that the US cannot extradite people from. Naturally it would have to be grave enough matter or have the proper political momentum for it to happen, but these things aren't impossible when it comes to doing things that large businesses don't like.
In addition they mentioned a 'Marketplace', and although they didn't describe it in too much detail they did mention that users would be able to create in-game content and sell it to other users. Microsoft will most likely be taking a cut of those sales.
*A side note, they mentioned that users would be able to stream audio and video "...from their Media Center computers." Does this mean that users cannot directly load content from say, a disc with pictures, onto their Xbox 360?
Perhaps no one has noticed this...but the PSP has wireless capabilities. A friend of mine bought one and we fired up the wireless part, set everything to auto, and it latched onto some AP in the neighborhood. It then connected to its home base to check for updates to its firmware. What I'm saying is transfering files via WiFi to this device could be very feasible.
To sum up: Judging a project solely on the amount of time it takes to be carried out isn't justified. Long term projects should be encouraged if they're hands of people with a good track record.
I think you're being a little optimistic about how much control most people have over their emotions.
Are they going to be released with English subtitles? If not, they're not interesting to most people here. Also the $5 pricetag for a movie at release time? For that much you might as well go to a theater. Heck, some matinee shows cost little more than that. I think if they charged the for new releases the same $1.99 they're charging for the oldies it might be more interesting, seeing how I've heard that some of their movies are worth looking into. Oh, and what can you get for $5 in India? (As compared to other places).
There's a difference between saying things that support both sides, and hence being bi-partisan, or truly having a neutral view, and being non-partisan. Some people tend to think if you take the average of the magnitude some source leans in either political direction (why must people be so one dimensional?!) one can asses that source's true orientation. That's incorrect. The source would only be 'centrist' if it provided non-partisan information.
[rant]What ever happened to reporters, who report the facts? Nowadays all we have is journalists...who seem to keep a journal of their personal opinion and nothing more.[/rant]
I think the grand-parent was trying to show that a 10MB file in the base-64 system is equivalent to a 7.5MB 'normal' file. So the 10MB limit may actually pertain to the file size under the base-64 system, in which case the effective max. file size would be 7.5MB
There's more. This January, 12 remotely exploitable buffer overflow bugs were found in Gaim. Less than a week ago, the SuSE security team found another remotely exploitable buffer overflow. (Scroll down.) Those found in January should be fixed as far as I can tell.
What if the mobitat (or whatever) runs into the same problem the rover[s] ran into? In general what if the mobitat runs into any problems? This page shows a mobitat that also acts as a lander. I'm guessing it would also act as the return vehicle. Do you really want to put your ticket back home into more jeopardy than absolutely necessary? For example, by having it move around, possibly through difficult terrain and such. Of course one would have to weigh the benefit of not having to travel to get back to your return vehicle over the mobility of this type of habitat and the equipment-carrying capability it implies.
However there are pieces of sci-fi whose purpose is to introduce a new scientific concept by way of a story. Think The Fountains of Paradise. Also some of the best sci-fi stories are those who analyze/show the effects of some new invention, scientific discovery, etc. on society. So far I've found these exclusively in text.
That adaptation/tailoring does not yet have a word associated with it. There are certain terms like 'biomoding' and such, but because the technologies are still being developed, mostly as medical treatments and not for enhancement, there is no popular vocabulary to go with them.
I don't think this would apply since we're talking about altering already existing humans to be able to live in a different environment. Also the traits that would let a human survive in that environment are nocexistent in the human genepool as far as I know, so you'd have a hard time finding someone to use for breeding those traits.
Terraforming isn't the right word. Terraforming is forming planets to make them more like Earth (Terra). Purposefully altering humans/human physiology does not yet have a word accosiated with it, I think.