This might not be a bad idea. Imagine some poor bored kid who comes home from school every day, finding that DVD in the mail....he pops it in and hee is finding himself interested in space and science... Might not happen otherwise.
How expensive could it be for NASA to do this? In a culture where AOL can pump out millions and millions of CD's it's be cool to see some worthwhile plastic discs being mailed about.
I've always wanted to know what Snoopy's voice sounded like....you never hear him talk in the cartoons. Now thanks to this revolutionary skeletal analysis technique, hearing his voice is within our reach.
And after that, I'd like them to map out Morn from Deep Space Nine. He never spoke either.
Great mysteries are about to be solved.
However, when this work is complete, these guys can devote their spare cycles to folding protiens..another worthy cause.
You know, what I'm wondering about is this...forget about what this thing tastes like....
What happens when you have the probe on your tounge, and your helmet radar shows you 50 unfriendlies heading your way, and you need to spit out (pun intended) the information to your buddies.... but if you take the probe off the tounge you lose the radar...but if you leave it on you can't communicate what you're 'seeing'.
I often wonder what compulsive pople would be doing if their vices had not ever been invented?
For example, the poor fool who claims to have the 'disease' of alocolholism: would the person have the disease if alcohol had never been created?
The same for the gambler..what if we never got the concept of making a game of of random occurances...what would 'compulsive gamblers' be doing with their lives?
I suppose that on the other side of this, if we had discovered that you can get high by |insert unknown undiscovered science here| would we suddenly have a 'disease' for that?
I often wonder what compulsive pople would be doing if their vices had not ever been invented?
For example, the poor fool who claims to have the 'disease' of alocolholism: would the person have the disease if alcohol had never been created?
The same for the gambler..what if we never got the concept of making a game of of random occurances...what would 'compulsive gamblers' be doing with their lives?
I suppose that on the other side of this, if we had discovered that you can get high by would we suddenly have a 'disease' for that?
If April Fools on this site wasn't so overdone, and if this story was inserted in the middle of a bunch of real ones, it would have made for a very good joke. Without the AJAX reference of course...
The timing would have been beleivable, given that we haven't heard from 3d realms is a while.
From TFA: "Data access over fiber between San Rafael and San Francisco was very fast, but when you're shooting packets to Singapore and introducing millisecond delays, the computers start bogging down," says Thompson. "It's not the throughput; it's the round-trip time. We're looking at Network Appliance, Hewlett-Packard, and a lot of start-up companies that deal with these WAN issues for a solution."
A solution for round trip time to the far side of the planet? So he's looking for packets that travel faster then the speed of light? What is this, a Sci-Fi reality?... oh wait
Even by mimimizing the hops (less router jumps) you are still going to hit the hard limit of "the speed of light"... maybe these guys haven't heard of this... they could be thinking about maybe piggybacking their packets onto subspace radio waves...or reverse polarized tachyon pulses... or maybe 50,000 CD's in a freighter which can make the trip in less than 2 parsecs...
What that needs to be is an LCD/HDTV enabled waterbed..... It's certainly big enough.... Imagine being able to watch pron, in the bed, with the models?
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This might not be a bad idea. Imagine some poor bored kid who comes home from school every day, finding that DVD in the mail....he pops it in and hee is finding himself interested in space and science... Might not happen otherwise.
How expensive could it be for NASA to do this? In a culture where AOL can pump out millions and millions of CD's it's be cool to see some worthwhile plastic discs being mailed about.
In a related story, the biggest game we've never played is described here.
...Don't the producers know that OSS is neither relieable nor dependable?
Jeez....
A true advance in science
I've always wanted to know what Snoopy's voice sounded like....you never hear him talk in the cartoons. Now thanks to this revolutionary skeletal analysis technique, hearing his voice is within our reach.
And after that, I'd like them to map out Morn from Deep Space Nine. He never spoke either.
Great mysteries are about to be solved.
However, when this work is complete, these guys can devote their spare cycles to folding protiens..another worthy cause.
....How many libraries of congress would that be?
8 years ago Duke Nukem Forever was in development, and people were wondering what it would be like when it was released.
I guess not much has changed.
wbs.
Ooh yes I need some love, I think I'm going bald, and I see red..it hurts my head
Sadly, it seems that Rush doesn't care about this. They'd be a powerful voice for this one.
You'd think that a rock band comprised of computer literate, tech savy guys would be on board for something like this. As a fan, I'm dissapointed.
You know, what I'm wondering about is this...forget about what this thing tastes like....
What happens when you have the probe on your tounge, and your helmet radar shows you 50 unfriendlies heading your way, and you need to spit out (pun intended) the information to your buddies.... but if you take the probe off the tounge you lose the radar...but if you leave it on you can't communicate what you're 'seeing'.
What's the workaround?
I often wonder what compulsive pople would be doing if their vices had not ever been invented?
For example, the poor fool who claims to have the 'disease' of alocolholism: would the person have the disease if alcohol had never been created?
The same for the gambler..what if we never got the concept of making a game of of random occurances...what would 'compulsive gamblers' be doing with their lives?
I suppose that on the other side of this, if we had discovered that you can get high by |insert unknown undiscovered science here| would we suddenly have a 'disease' for that?
I often wonder what compulsive pople would be doing if their vices had not ever been invented?
For example, the poor fool who claims to have the 'disease' of alocolholism: would the person have the disease if alcohol had never been created?
The same for the gambler..what if we never got the concept of making a game of of random occurances...what would 'compulsive gamblers' be doing with their lives?
I suppose that on the other side of this, if we had discovered that you can get high by would we suddenly have a 'disease' for that?
Apply for a position as a /. editor.
OMG Ponies!!!! Hooray!!!
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If April Fools on this site wasn't so overdone, and if this story was inserted in the middle of a bunch of real ones, it would have made for a very good joke. Without the AJAX reference of course...
The timing would have been beleivable, given that we haven't heard from 3d realms is a while.
So you get to go home to a different apartment each night?
Cool! But how do you move all your stuff from place to place?
wbs.
From TFA:
... oh wait
"Data access over fiber between San Rafael and San Francisco was very fast, but when you're shooting packets to Singapore and introducing millisecond delays, the computers start bogging down," says Thompson. "It's not the throughput; it's the round-trip time. We're looking at Network Appliance, Hewlett-Packard, and a lot of start-up companies that deal with these WAN issues for a solution."
A solution for round trip time to the far side of the planet? So he's looking for packets that travel faster then the speed of light? What is this, a Sci-Fi reality?
Even by mimimizing the hops (less router jumps) you are still going to hit the hard limit of "the speed of light"... maybe these guys haven't heard of this... they could be thinking about maybe piggybacking their packets onto subspace radio waves...or reverse polarized tachyon pulses... or maybe 50,000 CD's in a freighter which can make the trip in less than 2 parsecs...
wbs.
It almost sounds like the XP experience.... flying around free because of Win XP.
What that needs to be is an LCD/HDTV enabled waterbed..... It's certainly big enough.... Imagine being able to watch pron, in the bed, with the models?
God, I need to get some soon.....
wbs.
I read that as "highly critical Ho"...... But I guess if you think about it, they really mean the same thing...
Must be a slow news day............
It wants to know why we need pentiums on the desktop. Why isn't a 486 DX fast enough?
wbs.
Of course, being the typical /. geek, you're referring to the huge screen, not the girls, right? :)
wbs.
No, you do need imagination when you "use" porn....
You have to imagine that she's naked for, and wanting you.