One of the most useful aspects of this kind of thing being posted to a place with as many readers as slashdot is that someone with some bright new innovation in the process might see it and make his idea known to others, thus bringing down the cost and difficulty factor for all.
I think I know where he got the numbers. Just go here and take a look at the poll. The numbers are obvious: there are far more penguins than mac users.
so how exactly will this telescope pinpoint "dark matter" any more than any other telescope? I mean, you don't really even know what you are looking for. Is it just that there is more night time to use it in, or is this just the only way they could sell this project.
"Well, everyone thinks stars and galaxies are old and boring... Oh wait! We're going to look for "dark matter"! And maybe we'll do a little side project in anti-gravity super ray guns too!
Despite the more visible benefits of the implant, I think that getting some of these suckers in my hands and feet would be quite possibly the greatest implant to date (followed immediately, of course, with some nice high-res cybernetic eyes).
Here at the University of Arizona almost everything is done online: course registration, book ordering, dialog with instructors and TA's, lesson plans, homework, etc. It really works quite well with very few glitches (though I can hardly imagine the havoc that must have been going on the first year it was implemented). There are only a few peculiarities, such as some online services only being available during business hours. Overall it works great and makes things far easier for me on a daily basis.
Though I firmly believe that Earth is on a seemingly inevitable path to disastrous overpopulation, I do not think that this will really add appreciably to the problem. While it is relatively cheap to grow a pig, the cost of surgery will be prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of the population of even countries as wealthy as the United States and other industrialized nations, not to mention the rest of the world.
Forget the pigs, what I'm waiting for that
mammoth
to be cloned. I may need a backpack to carry around my heart, but by God they made 'em good back in the old days.
For an adult colorblind his entire life, would the visual cortex even be capable of seeing color or would it be like an adult who has been blind his entire life suddenly being able to see? In the case of the blind person, he would be incapable of seeing well because of the lack of development in the unused portions of the brain that handle sight.
Also, how do they know that animal trials were successful??
judging by the ultra-low resolution provided by these "eyes," the tests with animals probably consisted of something akin to providing a high-contrast, moving image (for instance a black square moving around a white field) and seeing if the animals responded to it(perhaps by moving their heads to follow the object's movement).
Just keep a cache of commercials that fit the profile and play them during the commercial breaks.
While this idea would seem reasonable at face value I cringe to think at the uproar that would be raised by the/. crowd were it to be implemented. The general response would not be grateful in the least and would instead show a feeling of general panic at the privacy invasions that might follow.
Simply witness the outrage expressed daily be/.ers at the huge databases of information bought and sold by spammers the world over every day...
How about a big huge magnetic doorway a la Cryptonomicon that scrambles everything on a computer that goes through it? Now everyone should have at least one of those...
something's up
something's on my mind
i try to go to sleep
i try to pass the time
what gives you the right
to kill a harmless carrot
growing in god's sunlight
you say they're best
you say they're best for you
i say it's not true
you say they make
a damn good stew
so it's time
it's time to liberate
don't eat a carrot
spare it
and don't eat the beet
on your plate
all my friends say
veggies feel no pain
all my friends say
veggies have no brains
all my friends say
veggies feel no pain
don't stir fry by me!
ya-ya-ya!
One of the reasons that open software works is that the amount of capital required to compile a piece of software is, in many cases, negligible. In making hardware, on the other hand, the capital investment is truly massive. Therefore, the only way I could see for this to work would be hacking around DRM stuff in drivers, certainly something that will not gain OSS any love from the politicians...
This would work extremely well if the primary way in which we sensed our physical environment was by touch. Unfortunately for this technology this is not the case, as a majority of the sensing we do is based on sight. This technology may have applications in niche markets (for the visually impaired, as an aid to a visual interface like the ifeel mouse mentioned above, etc.), but it does not seem to me that it will ever be able to really break out to as wide an audience as its creators might invision.
Jane's also mentions theorized weapons 'capable of producing a beam of "gravity-like" energy that can exert an instantaneous force of 1,000g [1000 Gravities, not grams] on any object -- enough, in principle, to vaporise it,
especially if the object is moving at high speed.'
I may just be confused (very likely, as a recent graduate of America's public school system), but aren't gravities a measure of acceleration(i.e. a change in velocity)? If so, would there be any appreciable difference in the effectiveness of this theoretical superraygunofinstantgravitationaldeath on an object going at a high velocity versus a stationary object? It seems to me that if the acceleration that comes as a result of the beam is the same in either case, it would result in essentially the same amount of destructive force.
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Sure, in normal business a company would stand to make a killing in something with so wide and presumably desperate a market (the whole world, or at least that one lucky continent), but does anyone truthfully think that if something like this truthfully stood to impact earth in as devastating a manner as predicted by the article that copyright laws would be honored at all? If the company demanded anything (monetary or otherwise) at all for using their copyright, it would result in the company being risen up against by a panicked populace and/or simply having their ideas taken at gunpoint by the threatened government(s). Surely if we have learned anything over the past months it is that the government can justify most anything in the name of an emergency, and a government forseeing its entire continent devastated would certainly not hesitate to simply take and use the processes covered by the copyright possessed by this company by any means necessary.
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One of the most useful aspects of this kind of thing being posted to a place with as many readers as slashdot is that someone with some bright new innovation in the process might see it and make his idea known to others, thus bringing down the cost and difficulty factor for all.
And with the coming of quantum computing as reported in past articles, this golden age, like any, will have a definite ending point
I think I know where he got the numbers. Just go here and take a look at the poll. The numbers are obvious: there are far more penguins than mac users.
After all, if the asteroids already have one, why can't we?
will everyone who this suprises raise their hand? Hello? anyone...?
I hate to have to say it, and I am sure the sentiment has already been expressed but this time we really can...
well, and the US and europe...
Despite the more visible benefits of the implant, I think that getting some of these suckers in my hands and feet would be quite possibly the greatest implant to date (followed immediately, of course, with some nice high-res cybernetic eyes).
Here at the University of Arizona almost everything is done online: course registration, book ordering, dialog with instructors and TA's, lesson plans, homework, etc. It really works quite well with very few glitches (though I can hardly imagine the havoc that must have been going on the first year it was implemented). There are only a few peculiarities, such as some online services only being available during business hours. Overall it works great and makes things far easier for me on a daily basis.
I think that taking up Lance Bass may result in just what NASA needs to gain public support: a theme song! Suggestions anyone?
Though I firmly believe that Earth is on a seemingly inevitable path to disastrous overpopulation, I do not think that this will really add appreciably to the problem. While it is relatively cheap to grow a pig, the cost of surgery will be prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of the population of even countries as wealthy as the United States and other industrialized nations, not to mention the rest of the world.
Forget the pigs, what I'm waiting for that mammoth to be cloned. I may need a backpack to carry around my heart, but by God they made 'em good back in the old days.
For an adult colorblind his entire life, would the visual cortex even be capable of seeing color or would it be like an adult who has been blind his entire life suddenly being able to see? In the case of the blind person, he would be incapable of seeing well because of the lack of development in the unused portions of the brain that handle sight.
...and never get near her again now that you know what she really looks like.
While this idea would seem reasonable at face value I cringe to think at the uproar that would be raised by the /. crowd were it to be implemented. The general response would not be grateful in the least and would instead show a feeling of general panic at the privacy invasions that might follow.
Simply witness the outrage expressed daily be /.ers at the huge databases of information bought and sold by spammers the world over every day...
How about a big huge magnetic doorway a la Cryptonomicon that scrambles everything on a computer that goes through it? Now everyone should have at least one of those...
just to show how immensely well-cultured I am ;) :
something's up
something's on my mind
i try to go to sleep
i try to pass the time
what gives you the right
to kill a harmless carrot
growing in god's sunlight
you say they're best
you say they're best for you
i say it's not true
you say they make
a damn good stew
so it's time
it's time to liberate
don't eat a carrot
spare it
and don't eat the beet
on your plate
all my friends say
veggies feel no pain
all my friends say
veggies have no brains
all my friends say
veggies feel no pain
don't stir fry by me!
ya-ya-ya!
-guttermouth (veggicide)
One of the reasons that open software works is that the amount of capital required to compile a piece of software is, in many cases, negligible. In making hardware, on the other hand, the capital investment is truly massive. Therefore, the only way I could see for this to work would be hacking around DRM stuff in drivers, certainly something that will not gain OSS any love from the politicians...
I guess that means I'll have to take in the 'ol starship for yet another speedometer recalibration. sigh...
This would work extremely well if the primary way in which we sensed our physical environment was by touch. Unfortunately for this technology this is not the case, as a majority of the sensing we do is based on sight. This technology may have applications in niche markets (for the visually impaired, as an aid to a visual interface like the ifeel mouse mentioned above, etc.), but it does not seem to me that it will ever be able to really break out to as wide an audience as its creators might invision.
Sure, in normal business a company would stand to make a killing in something with so wide and presumably desperate a market (the whole world, or at least that one lucky continent), but does anyone truthfully think that if something like this truthfully stood to impact earth in as devastating a manner as predicted by the article that copyright laws would be honored at all? If the company demanded anything (monetary or otherwise) at all for using their copyright, it would result in the company being risen up against by a panicked populace and/or simply having their ideas taken at gunpoint by the threatened government(s).
Surely if we have learned anything over the past months it is that the government can justify most anything in the name of an emergency, and a government forseeing its entire continent devastated would certainly not hesitate to simply take and use the processes covered by the copyright possessed by this company by any means necessary.