Not really...first off they don't lend themselves to film, as most of the books are concept. Secondly, hollywood would just fuck it up (look at Solaris).
Too true. I've always wondered why they fsck about with photon torpedoes when they could just as easily transport a mayor engine part 300 meters to the right.
Fantasy was non-existent before Tolkien? Chrits, man, pass the crackpipe, puhlease! Haven't you read any myths/legends? That's the original fantasy. Check out Irish, Greek, Chinese, Afrikan, Amerikan-indian, Indian, Aboriginal legends. Also have a look at Edgar Rice Burroughs and many others before Tolkien.
Actually, Apple computers was named that for entirely different reasons. Jobs wondered into the meeting where they were going to figure out a name for the company and plonked an apple on the table. Then he said that if they hadn't got a name everybody agreed on after two hours, they'd call it fater the apple. So guess what happened.
Don't forget communication. It's tourism and communication which make money for the space program. I for one would pay up to a years wages for a day up in space. (freefall and all...a lousy 15 minutes in a seat isn't what I'll pay for...an hour's worth of freefall and the view, though...).
Check out Rotary Rockets and Scaled Composites (the last one is Burt Rutan's baby). Now those are two companies which most definitely deserve funding. Rotary Rockets especiall, as it's a SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit), fully reusable (ie no bits which drop off) launch vehicle. It has working rpototypes, and in 5 years they'll launch...for a measely 7 million dollasr a pop!
But they're both private companies. Now where is NASA's fully reusable launch vehicle? And don't give me Venture Star...that's theoretical work, one (non-fullscale) prototype at best.
So why did Windows Commander change it's name? I mean, the name pretty much sums up what it does, it has brand recognition...and I assume they have an up-to-date lawyer (one familliar with the recent Lindows case). So why? Did MS threaten something, or what?
How about this one:
http://search.metacrawler.com/texis/search?q=Spitt in%27+cause+we+want+to+chickenbutt&refer=mc-metasp y&brand=metacrawler
The mind boggles.
"so it existed in all quantum states simultaneously"
I'd say that the current universe then evolved out of that quantum state in which an observer evolved out of a quantum state! Any other universe would be irrelevent, as this is the one we're in:)
Off the top of my head I'd say the distance photons travell through air is way too short to see any effect...you'd need huge distances to find any effect, and those kinds of distances only occur through the interstallar medium...where there's dramaticcally little 'air' to be found.
That's because it is just a competing theory, which at this point has no predictions going for it. A scientific theory is only valid if it can make a testable prediction, and then that prediction has to be right; string theory is as of yet just a thought experiment, with no emprical data to back it up. Therefore, string theory in any form is not accepted.
To recap; string theory looks neat, but doesn't (as yet) say ANYTHING about the real world. Your contention that it makes more sence of the real world is therefore incorrect.
But that's just my point! I don't want or need a full sized keypad! I mean, why not just use the screen? That's what it's there for, and any other (IMO unneccessary) buttons just make the whole device larger!
I must admit, Kyocera has made it better than most, but all I want is a regular Palmpilot III form factor (or V, or tungsten...you get the picture, I think), no extra buttons, speaker/mic in the back (otherwise my cheeck'll rub against the screen...not a good idea with my stubble). No extra phone keypad...just do that in software, onscreen. Add a place to chuck my simcard, and I'm a happy man; I don't need a complex Industrial Design case (which is bigger than it should be because of all teh added keypads)....
Well, I was too simple in my post. The deal is that certain processes, like the dusty atmosphere and the progression of temperature increases are things that look highly similar to earth. There's loads more, and I'm certainly not the one to give a propper explanation. But anyway, this astronomer discovered certain processon on mars which are applicaple to earth (in the same way that processes in sand and piles of ballbearings which are vibrated are similar) too. From that was born a theory which has since been empirically proven. It hasn't been a hypothesis since the mid 80's.
Some good goole-ing will turn up quite a few sites which explain all this more clearly.
Oh, and Mars most certainly does have a magnetic field.
Yeah...it's a shame though, as Palm could have 'won' quite a bit of market penetration if they had gotten their hardware asses into gear. But instead, they STILL don't have a PalmOS/mobile combination out. And Treo just doesn't cut it...screw the flap/keyboard...I just want my IIIc with a mobile phone inside (ok, actually I want a clie with a phone inside, but I'm not that rich yet:) )
Case in point: phone sex lines. And the first service I could get on a WAP enabled phone? You guessed it: downloading dot-matrix style pixelated naked ladies. It's not cash that makes the world go round...it's pussy.
Not the case in the Netherlands, France, Belgium or Germany...landlines get hooked up fast enough (a couple of days), yet still mobiles are to be found in nearly everyones pocket. So much so that when we were organising a big event, we could just assume that all our 'middle management' (all volunteers, +-150 people) would have one. And yes, they did.
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Not really...first off they don't lend themselves to film, as most of the books are concept. Secondly, hollywood would just fuck it up (look at Solaris).
Too true. I've always wondered why they fsck about with photon torpedoes when they could just as easily transport a mayor engine part 300 meters to the right.
I do hope you mean "Do androids dream of electronic sheep?"...otherwise you just read the movie adaptation, and you'd have missed a great book.
Fantasy was non-existent before Tolkien? Chrits, man, pass the crackpipe, puhlease! Haven't you read any myths/legends? That's the original fantasy. Check out Irish, Greek, Chinese, Afrikan, Amerikan-indian, Indian, Aboriginal legends. Also have a look at Edgar Rice Burroughs and many others before Tolkien.
Actually, Apple computers was named that for entirely different reasons. Jobs wondered into the meeting where they were going to figure out a name for the company and plonked an apple on the table. Then he said that if they hadn't got a name everybody agreed on after two hours, they'd call it fater the apple. So guess what happened.
Crickey! Talk about me being out of date :)
'tis a damn shame though, as I thought the whole concept was definitely well thought out...too bad the accounting wasn't.
Don't forget communication. It's tourism and communication which make money for the space program. I for one would pay up to a years wages for a day up in space. (freefall and all...a lousy 15 minutes in a seat isn't what I'll pay for...an hour's worth of freefall and the view, though...).
Check out Rotary Rockets and Scaled Composites (the last one is Burt Rutan's baby). Now those are two companies which most definitely deserve funding. Rotary Rockets especiall, as it's a SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit), fully reusable (ie no bits which drop off) launch vehicle. It has working rpototypes, and in 5 years they'll launch...for a measely 7 million dollasr a pop!
But they're both private companies. Now where is NASA's fully reusable launch vehicle? And don't give me Venture Star...that's theoretical work, one (non-fullscale) prototype at best.
So why did Windows Commander change it's name? I mean, the name pretty much sums up what it does, it has brand recognition...and I assume they have an up-to-date lawyer (one familliar with the recent Lindows case). So why? Did MS threaten something, or what?
Never seen the BangBus?
Yeah, that thought grossed me out too.
You should have realised by now that no single nation has a monopoly on idiots.
"... 'Have fun and buy gifts for everyone day'..."
We do have that; it's called Christmas.
A metal-file?
How about this one: http://search.metacrawler.com/texis/search?q=Spitt in%27+cause+we+want+to+chickenbutt&refer=mc-metasp y&brand=metacrawler
The mind boggles.
It's amazing how few of the searches that are described in the articel I have executed myself.
I guess that means I am strange.
"so it existed in all quantum states simultaneously"
:)
I'd say that the current universe then evolved out of that quantum state in which an observer evolved out of a quantum state! Any other universe would be irrelevent, as this is the one we're in
Off the top of my head I'd say the distance photons travell through air is way too short to see any effect...you'd need huge distances to find any effect, and those kinds of distances only occur through the interstallar medium...where there's dramaticcally little 'air' to be found.
That's because it is just a competing theory, which at this point has no predictions going for it. A scientific theory is only valid if it can make a testable prediction, and then that prediction has to be right; string theory is as of yet just a thought experiment, with no emprical data to back it up. Therefore, string theory in any form is not accepted.
To recap; string theory looks neat, but doesn't (as yet) say ANYTHING about the real world. Your contention that it makes more sence of the real world is therefore incorrect.
But that's just my point! I don't want or need a full sized keypad! I mean, why not just use the screen? That's what it's there for, and any other (IMO unneccessary) buttons just make the whole device larger!
I must admit, Kyocera has made it better than most, but all I want is a regular Palmpilot III form factor (or V, or tungsten...you get the picture, I think), no extra buttons, speaker/mic in the back (otherwise my cheeck'll rub against the screen...not a good idea with my stubble). No extra phone keypad...just do that in software, onscreen. Add a place to chuck my simcard, and I'm a happy man; I don't need a complex Industrial Design case (which is bigger than it should be because of all teh added keypads)....
Well, I was too simple in my post. The deal is that certain processes, like the dusty atmosphere and the progression of temperature increases are things that look highly similar to earth. There's loads more, and I'm certainly not the one to give a propper explanation.
But anyway, this astronomer discovered certain processon on mars which are applicaple to earth (in the same way that processes in sand and piles of ballbearings which are vibrated are similar) too. From that was born a theory which has since been empirically proven. It hasn't been a hypothesis since the mid 80's.
Some good goole-ing will turn up quite a few sites which explain all this more clearly.
Oh, and Mars most certainly does have a magnetic field.
Yeah...it's a shame though, as Palm could have 'won' quite a bit of market penetration if they had gotten their hardware asses into gear. But instead, they STILL don't have a PalmOS/mobile combination out. And Treo just doesn't cut it...screw the flap/keyboard...I just want my IIIc with a mobile phone inside (ok, actually I want a clie with a phone inside, but I'm not that rich yet :) )
Screw that...I can do all that with a labtop!
Case in point: phone sex lines. And the first service I could get on a WAP enabled phone? You guessed it: downloading dot-matrix style pixelated naked ladies. It's not cash that makes the world go round...it's pussy.
Not the case in the Netherlands, France, Belgium or Germany...landlines get hooked up fast enough (a couple of days), yet still mobiles are to be found in nearly everyones pocket. So much so that when we were organising a big event, we could just assume that all our 'middle management' (all volunteers, +-150 people) would have one. And yes, they did.