I have lots of fun woodworking, but there's a lot of carbon released in getting to those trees, harvesting them, transporting them, and turning them into something you can build something out of. They don't float 'em down a river to a water powered sawmill anymore, and only hobbyists air dry or solar kiln the boards.
That's pretty technically difficult, even on Earth it was only relatively recently that we discovered how common archaea are since they generally can't be cultured. We'll probably need to bring samples back or send very well equipped humans there before we can definitively state that we've found Martian life.
I've worked on EPA grants before, they're legit. Not so many these days, this admin has been pretty bad for research. Luckily, congress has mostly ignored the president's budget proposals or biomedical research in the US would be smoke in the wind.
Well I think the point is that unless you are participating in performing the concert, the music isn't going to be surrounding you in a 5.1 sort of way, just regular room-filling stereo.
Yeah for headphones on the PC I like the surround, you really can tell where stuff is sometimes in FPS/RPG games. For movies it is actually distracting to me to have stuff sound behind me anymore, possibly since it isn't interactive. It'd be like an audiobook using surround.
The forms seem to have all settled on an "all screen" look. Looking to sci-fi, I guess next will be where it is just a little handle and the screen either unrolls or projects out the side... then maybe the same idea but it comes out of a wristwatch instead of being large enough you need to keep it in your pocket?
Are they even fashion accessories anymore? I can't remember the last time anyone was 'excited' to see what kind of phone someone had. At least not since the Samsung whatevers were catching fire: "oh is that one of those ones that will explode? when are they sending you a new one?" Conversely, the last time I was on a campus I was shocked to see how many people had Apple Watches, in general public or at work there are few enough people wearing a watch of any kind, perhaps a fitness tracker here and there.
And despite that we can imagine plenty of things we can't actually manage to build yet. It isn't likely that it is possible to jet around Star Trek style for anyone to leave their detritus here anyhow, but if it could be done it'd certainly involve techniques we yet lack. You're skewering arguments that aren't being made.
Presumably an interstellar race would be capable of manufacturing techniques out of our reach even if we knew the materials. In the bronze age, a smith would be able to recognize and use meteoric steel, so, say, an M1 Garand wouldn't be made of materials foreign to him, but he could not duplicate it even if he could potentially discern how to use and repair it. There are a multitude of reasons that dumped alien tech might not actually be useful at all: the bronze age smith would think an iPhone was questionably useful, and doubly so once the battery ran out.
I don't know if it is still a thing, but a while back I recall seeing that there were Canadian mined diamonds etched with a microscopic polar bear to market as blood-free. For the lab made, there might be a market for "custom ordered" diamonds, perhaps doped with the giver's blood/DNA/something romantically marketable? Bespoke artisanal diamonds... made in a lab with solar power or whatever.
That seems a little extreme... somewhere in the history of the land hosting the lab growing the diamonds, its ownership changed by a heavy stone being swung just right, I'd bet. It'd be like being required to destroy an antique that used ivory in it.
It is pretty hard to burn anything and have it completely convert to CO2, let alone something as heterologous as a corpse. My furnace burns comparatively easy natural gas and would still kill me if it didn't have a flue.
Now that I think about it, subscription TV (whether Netflix or more traditional HBO) certainly enjoys getting away with content that advertisers would be scared of. The web has largely been immune to most of this, but with web advertising becoming more centralized I suppose it'll likely increase.
These are letting you play a game that requires your desktop's hardware while you sit on the couch with the tablet. thin client/server vs fat client of playing at the desktop.
There is a bit of fatigue about it... I've been enjoying the Marvel movies but having trouble being bothered to keep up with them, too. If Disney pulls them off Netflix when their deal is done I'll probably just stop.
Yeah but now the Koreas have China arbitrate, make whatever deal the Chinese like best, and then stick a Chinese military base in the NK capital so that the US is left toothless.
If I'm feeling charitable, I'd agree, but plenty of people scooted on through primary and secondary education without getting much out of it beyond a diploma.
It can't be that much for the sensors, my Mazda has a camera that reads road signs, a radar to check the speed of the car in front of me for adaptive cruise control and collision avoidance. It can scold me for drifting out of my lane. The expensive part is the processing power and software to figure out how to use that information as well as a human.
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I have lots of fun woodworking, but there's a lot of carbon released in getting to those trees, harvesting them, transporting them, and turning them into something you can build something out of. They don't float 'em down a river to a water powered sawmill anymore, and only hobbyists air dry or solar kiln the boards.
That's pretty technically difficult, even on Earth it was only relatively recently that we discovered how common archaea are since they generally can't be cultured. We'll probably need to bring samples back or send very well equipped humans there before we can definitively state that we've found Martian life.
I've worked on EPA grants before, they're legit. Not so many these days, this admin has been pretty bad for research. Luckily, congress has mostly ignored the president's budget proposals or biomedical research in the US would be smoke in the wind.
I assume it is harder to wipe with 100% cotton, foil embossed paper that was paid for with money appropriated to clean water in some superfund site.
Yeah he's just going to be releasing his used toilet paper and calling it a day, nobody is going to be shocked he just pulled it out of his ass.
Well I think the point is that unless you are participating in performing the concert, the music isn't going to be surrounding you in a 5.1 sort of way, just regular room-filling stereo.
Yeah for headphones on the PC I like the surround, you really can tell where stuff is sometimes in FPS/RPG games. For movies it is actually distracting to me to have stuff sound behind me anymore, possibly since it isn't interactive. It'd be like an audiobook using surround.
The forms seem to have all settled on an "all screen" look. Looking to sci-fi, I guess next will be where it is just a little handle and the screen either unrolls or projects out the side... then maybe the same idea but it comes out of a wristwatch instead of being large enough you need to keep it in your pocket?
Are they even fashion accessories anymore? I can't remember the last time anyone was 'excited' to see what kind of phone someone had. At least not since the Samsung whatevers were catching fire: "oh is that one of those ones that will explode? when are they sending you a new one?" Conversely, the last time I was on a campus I was shocked to see how many people had Apple Watches, in general public or at work there are few enough people wearing a watch of any kind, perhaps a fitness tracker here and there.
That makes it much cheaper to offer than a living wage!
And despite that we can imagine plenty of things we can't actually manage to build yet. It isn't likely that it is possible to jet around Star Trek style for anyone to leave their detritus here anyhow, but if it could be done it'd certainly involve techniques we yet lack. You're skewering arguments that aren't being made.
Presumably an interstellar race would be capable of manufacturing techniques out of our reach even if we knew the materials. In the bronze age, a smith would be able to recognize and use meteoric steel, so, say, an M1 Garand wouldn't be made of materials foreign to him, but he could not duplicate it even if he could potentially discern how to use and repair it. There are a multitude of reasons that dumped alien tech might not actually be useful at all: the bronze age smith would think an iPhone was questionably useful, and doubly so once the battery ran out.
I don't know if it is still a thing, but a while back I recall seeing that there were Canadian mined diamonds etched with a microscopic polar bear to market as blood-free. For the lab made, there might be a market for "custom ordered" diamonds, perhaps doped with the giver's blood/DNA/something romantically marketable? Bespoke artisanal diamonds... made in a lab with solar power or whatever.
That seems a little extreme... somewhere in the history of the land hosting the lab growing the diamonds, its ownership changed by a heavy stone being swung just right, I'd bet. It'd be like being required to destroy an antique that used ivory in it.
It is pretty hard to burn anything and have it completely convert to CO2, let alone something as heterologous as a corpse. My furnace burns comparatively easy natural gas and would still kill me if it didn't have a flue.
Now that I think about it, subscription TV (whether Netflix or more traditional HBO) certainly enjoys getting away with content that advertisers would be scared of. The web has largely been immune to most of this, but with web advertising becoming more centralized I suppose it'll likely increase.
These are letting you play a game that requires your desktop's hardware while you sit on the couch with the tablet. thin client/server vs fat client of playing at the desktop.
There is a bit of fatigue about it... I've been enjoying the Marvel movies but having trouble being bothered to keep up with them, too. If Disney pulls them off Netflix when their deal is done I'll probably just stop.
Yeah it seems weird to try to compete with Youtube by putting all your content on Youtube...
Here I was making a joke and your reply makes me realize I've become a troll instead...
How much WoW gold was stolen since 2017? I got ripped off on a socketed tower shield with diamonds in it in Diablo II once, too.
Yeah but now the Koreas have China arbitrate, make whatever deal the Chinese like best, and then stick a Chinese military base in the NK capital so that the US is left toothless.
If I'm feeling charitable, I'd agree, but plenty of people scooted on through primary and secondary education without getting much out of it beyond a diploma.
Open a new newspaper these days? He already mentioned the welfare queue...
It can't be that much for the sensors, my Mazda has a camera that reads road signs, a radar to check the speed of the car in front of me for adaptive cruise control and collision avoidance. It can scold me for drifting out of my lane. The expensive part is the processing power and software to figure out how to use that information as well as a human.