A few years ago I hired a landscaper who wouldn't return my calls or fix his shoddy work after screwing the job badly. If I wanted to warn others about this, I could use Sidewiki to leave a note about my experience. I'm sure he would disable it if he could, but the fact that he can't is the beauty of such a system. I'm not changing his content or using his server--I'm using a Google service.
In "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, he makes the point that there are approximately a billion billion planets in the universe within the so-called "goldilocks zone", that is, capable of sustaining life because they probably have liquid water. So, even if the likelihood of DNA or RNA randomly forming was a billion-to-one, that would still mean that it has happened on a billion planets.
Say what you will, but Provo is in fact a leader in municipal fiber-to-home. I, for one, enjoy surfing slashdot at 10 Mbps. And not all of us are Mormon. I know I'm sure as hell not.
I think that a good solution would be to provide (surprise, more noise) a buzz, a sort of masked noise from the phone. When the person on the other end of the phone is talking, we get an unintelligable but audible buzz. It would be crucial that (a) the buzz not be an annoying annoying, (b) the buzz not be easily picked up by microphones (especially cell phones, so that feedback doesn't occur -- a filter is necessary), (c) that cell phone manufacturers standardize on such a buzz sound, so that people talking near each other on different cell phones don't interfere -- this would also allow people to more quickly learn to identify cell phones.
It would be cool if they could make the person on the other end of the conversation sound like people on the phone in Peanuts cartoons. Unintelligible but expressive. Waa wa wa wa...etc.;)
UPS units tend to be heavy and large. Maybe NEC is targeting that market because they haven't found a way to move this battery technology to smaller devices yet?
Actually, "lifetime" as defined by TiVo is the lifetime of the TiVo hardware you are purchasing the service for. So the actual lifetime we're talking about is the lifetime of the hardware or the lifetime of the company, whichever is shorter. It has nothing to do with the lifetime of the human making the purchase.
Maybe this is the technology Senator Hatch has been looking for. If you illegally download MP3s, your car will try to strangle you with the seatbelt and cause you to skid off the road.
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A few years ago I hired a landscaper who wouldn't return my calls or fix his shoddy work after screwing the job badly. If I wanted to warn others about this, I could use Sidewiki to leave a note about my experience. I'm sure he would disable it if he could, but the fact that he can't is the beauty of such a system. I'm not changing his content or using his server--I'm using a Google service.
In "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, he makes the point that there are approximately a billion billion planets in the universe within the so-called "goldilocks zone", that is, capable of sustaining life because they probably have liquid water. So, even if the likelihood of DNA or RNA randomly forming was a billion-to-one, that would still mean that it has happened on a billion planets.
Man in Black: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Vizzini: Wait til I get going! Now, where was I?
Say what you will, but Provo is in fact a leader in municipal fiber-to-home. I, for one, enjoy surfing slashdot at 10 Mbps. And not all of us are Mormon. I know I'm sure as hell not.
That's true, but the majority of the company's engineering talent is in Utah. And the company was founded there.
No you don't. Did you look at the third definition?
It would be cool if they could make the person on the other end of the conversation sound like people on the phone in Peanuts cartoons. Unintelligible but expressive. Waa wa wa wa...etc. ;)
UPS units tend to be heavy and large. Maybe NEC is targeting that market because they haven't found a way to move this battery technology to smaller devices yet?
Actually, "lifetime" as defined by TiVo is the lifetime of the TiVo hardware you are purchasing the service for. So the actual lifetime we're talking about is the lifetime of the hardware or the lifetime of the company, whichever is shorter. It has nothing to do with the lifetime of the human making the purchase.
Maybe this is the technology Senator Hatch has been looking for. If you illegally download MP3s, your car will try to strangle you with the seatbelt and cause you to skid off the road.
What about nano-technology? When the Borg take over the earth, won't each of those cellular-level bits in our blood stream need to be addressable?
Shouldn't the article mention something about Murphy's law, buttered bread, and a cat?