I don't understand why 4K TVs exist before 4K monitors do. Firstly, TVs simply don't need a crazy resolution like that. Look at how long it took before HD finally took hold. Is anything actually being broadcast in 4K? And if it's impossible to get a decent signal to it, how do those 4K broadcasts end up on the TV?
Except now you presume we're ONLY talking about SETI, which is quite wrong. ANY of our astronomical observations should be able to pick-up signs of advanced life... Think, artificial light, Dyson Spheres, planetary engineering, etc.
I don't see why. Well, Dyson spheres would probably be visible, but everything else is negligible compared to the power of a star.
No, to me, the biggest part of Fermi's Paradox is: why don't we see the aliens on our own planet? If aliens are so likely, there's bound to be thousands of civilizations that are millions or billions of years ahead of us. Even if it takes thousands of years to colonize a single planet, they've had more than enough time to colonize the entire galaxy several times over. Shouldn't we at least be finding their robotic probes in orbit around our sun?
But if jythie is correct that the sun is an unusually old Population I star, then that makes it more likely that we're one of the first, and nobody got a billion year head start on us.
Well, it is always possible we are simply the first. We do have an unusually old population I star and it still took billions of years for humans to come on the scene, so it is possible that the typical case simply takes longer and many suns are younger then our's.
This is the first time I hear that our sun is unusually old for a population I star. Do you have a reference for that?
Of course it makes every kind of sense that a reasonably high amount of heavy elements is important for the development of life, but I've always assumed that there are far older population I stars than our sun. If our sun is indeed old for its metalicity, then I would actually consider that the solution to the Fermi Paradox. How many other stars in our galactic neighbourhood are as old as our sun with a similar metalicity? It's no use to keep staring at far older planets if their concentration of heavier elements is too low for life to develop.
Though of course the fact that a planet is rocky, and not just a ball of gas, is by itself a pretty clear sign that it has plenty of heavier elements.
+1 for hacking although I'm surprised they didn't make withdrawals first
They'd definitely go straight to prison in that case. It's hard enough to warn about serious security leaks these days without getting treated like a criminal.
These are good kids. Let's hope they get rewarded and not punished.
Really because I watched a documentary about this on the BBC a while back. In the USA in CCD all the bees just disappear from the hives. In the U.K. they all end up dead literally just outside the hive. So clearly CCD is different between the USA and the UK, yet neonicotinoids are being blamed both sides of the Atlantic.
Is it possible that the US and UK have slightly different species of bees? Are bees used in a different manner? In a different environment?
That the problem manifests is a different manner doesn't mean there's no problem. It probably means you haven't isolated all of the variables. CCD could easily manifest differently in different species.
I've seen people argue very convincingly that Stalisnism was actually closer to fascism than nazism was.
Because Stalin was real big on corporations?
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" --Benito Mussolini
"Fasci" means "group", and one of its characteristics is the organization in concentric circles around the group: a strong leader, his inner circle, the party, the people, the nation. Russia with its strong leader, politbureau, and perks for party members, was not so different. Though obviously the merger between state and corporate property was of a very different nature.
Who is "win[ning] prizes" for holding the US government to standards?
Well, his boss won the Nobel Peace Prize.
But not for holding the US to any standards. I mean, well, back in the day, he was against illegal detention in Guantanamo Bay, and for transparent government and protection of whistle blowers, and you could argue that he got his Nobel Peace Prize before he turned his back on all that.
Quite often, when I type a local url without the protocol in front, Chrome assumes I want to google for it. It's very annoying. I'm all for separating the search box from the address box.
The studio, CD Projekt Red, reveals that, unusually, it'll be releasing the game as a DRM-free download.
Unusually? The Witcher 2 was also DRM-free (if you bought it from them, and not through some other distributor, at least). Releasing DRM-free is standard for them, and one of several reasons why I like them so much. (Other reasons are that their games are unbelievably gorgeous, and they do interesting stuff with really driving moral choices in their games.)
My Steam games are often very slow to start, and sometimes refuse to start at all. I'm not a huge fan of whatever it is Steam does to my games (though easily installing it on multiple machines is certainly nice).
In the UK, we have had "cats-eyes" since at least WW2.
We have those too. Problem is that they only reflect light that shines on them, which means you don't see them until you're pretty close. I think the idea behind these glow-in-the-dark lines is that you can see the shape of the road much further ahead.
If you are in public, you have no right to privacy.
But what's under your clothes is still public. Photographing under someone's skirt is like photographing the interior of your house through the window. It's technically visible from the right angle and with the right effort, but it's not intended to be public.
But this is *not* visible in public from a normal human viewing angle.
I assumed that's what he meant. A skirt is clearly meant to cover something. Photographing up someone's skirt is clearly photographing something not currently intended to be publicly visible.
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I don't understand why 4K TVs exist before 4K monitors do. Firstly, TVs simply don't need a crazy resolution like that. Look at how long it took before HD finally took hold. Is anything actually being broadcast in 4K? And if it's impossible to get a decent signal to it, how do those 4K broadcasts end up on the TV?
You mean that we're about to destroy ourselves. That has been suggested as one of the more terrifying solutions to the Fermi Paradox.
Except now you presume we're ONLY talking about SETI, which is quite wrong. ANY of our astronomical observations should be able to pick-up signs of advanced life... Think, artificial light, Dyson Spheres, planetary engineering, etc.
I don't see why. Well, Dyson spheres would probably be visible, but everything else is negligible compared to the power of a star.
No, to me, the biggest part of Fermi's Paradox is: why don't we see the aliens on our own planet? If aliens are so likely, there's bound to be thousands of civilizations that are millions or billions of years ahead of us. Even if it takes thousands of years to colonize a single planet, they've had more than enough time to colonize the entire galaxy several times over. Shouldn't we at least be finding their robotic probes in orbit around our sun?
But if jythie is correct that the sun is an unusually old Population I star, then that makes it more likely that we're one of the first, and nobody got a billion year head start on us.
Well, it is always possible we are simply the first. We do have an unusually old population I star and it still took billions of years for humans to come on the scene, so it is possible that the typical case simply takes longer and many suns are younger then our's.
This is the first time I hear that our sun is unusually old for a population I star. Do you have a reference for that?
Of course it makes every kind of sense that a reasonably high amount of heavy elements is important for the development of life, but I've always assumed that there are far older population I stars than our sun. If our sun is indeed old for its metalicity, then I would actually consider that the solution to the Fermi Paradox. How many other stars in our galactic neighbourhood are as old as our sun with a similar metalicity? It's no use to keep staring at far older planets if their concentration of heavier elements is too low for life to develop.
Though of course the fact that a planet is rocky, and not just a ball of gas, is by itself a pretty clear sign that it has plenty of heavier elements.
+1 for hacking although I'm surprised they didn't make withdrawals first
They'd definitely go straight to prison in that case. It's hard enough to warn about serious security leaks these days without getting treated like a criminal.
These are good kids. Let's hope they get rewarded and not punished.
Really because I watched a documentary about this on the BBC a while back. In the USA in CCD all the bees just disappear from the hives. In the U.K. they all end up dead literally just outside the hive. So clearly CCD is different between the USA and the UK, yet neonicotinoids are being blamed both sides of the Atlantic.
Is it possible that the US and UK have slightly different species of bees? Are bees used in a different manner? In a different environment?
That the problem manifests is a different manner doesn't mean there's no problem. It probably means you haven't isolated all of the variables. CCD could easily manifest differently in different species.
If a farm uses harmful pesticides, it should not be called organic. If calling it that is legal in the US, then the word has become meaningless.
Because Stalin was real big on corporations?
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power"
--Benito Mussolini
"Fasci" means "group", and one of its characteristics is the organization in concentric circles around the group: a strong leader, his inner circle, the party, the people, the nation. Russia with its strong leader, politbureau, and perks for party members, was not so different. Though obviously the merger between state and corporate property was of a very different nature.
You know those are polar opposites, right?
I've seen people argue very convincingly that Stalisnism was actually closer to fascism than nazism was.
I think "win prizes" is referring to Snowden getting nominated for a Nobel Peace prize.
But that's a Swedish Prize. The US wants to lock him up.
I guess that tells you which country is on the right side of history, and which isn't.
Who is "win[ning] prizes" for holding the US government to standards?
Well, his boss won the Nobel Peace Prize.
But not for holding the US to any standards. I mean, well, back in the day, he was against illegal detention in Guantanamo Bay, and for transparent government and protection of whistle blowers, and you could argue that he got his Nobel Peace Prize before he turned his back on all that.
It's not gamification until the tank crew scores points by doing their job.
Apparently you can turn a jock into a nerd by damaging his brain? Suddenly I understand college football.
Quite often, when I type a local url without the protocol in front, Chrome assumes I want to google for it. It's very annoying. I'm all for separating the search box from the address box.
The studio, CD Projekt Red, reveals that, unusually, it'll be releasing the game as a DRM-free download.
Unusually? The Witcher 2 was also DRM-free (if you bought it from them, and not through some other distributor, at least). Releasing DRM-free is standard for them, and one of several reasons why I like them so much. (Other reasons are that their games are unbelievably gorgeous, and they do interesting stuff with really driving moral choices in their games.)
No idea what you're talking about. I got Witcher 2 totally DRM free.
My Steam games are often very slow to start, and sometimes refuse to start at all. I'm not a huge fan of whatever it is Steam does to my games (though easily installing it on multiple machines is certainly nice).
In the UK, we have had "cats-eyes" since at least WW2.
We have those too. Problem is that they only reflect light that shines on them, which means you don't see them until you're pretty close. I think the idea behind these glow-in-the-dark lines is that you can see the shape of the road much further ahead.
I can see just fine by the faint yellow haze that hangs over my city at night.
How many times has there been a choice with a chance in hell of winning that wasn't one of the assholes?
If everybody was to stop voting for assholes, the chance of a non-asshole winning would be pretty good.
No, I got that. I'm just pointing out that it's just the outer clothing that's in public, and not the underwear.
If you are in public, you have no right to privacy.
But what's under your clothes is still public. Photographing under someone's skirt is like photographing the interior of your house through the window. It's technically visible from the right angle and with the right effort, but it's not intended to be public.
But this is *not* visible in public from a normal human viewing angle.
I assumed that's what he meant. A skirt is clearly meant to cover something. Photographing up someone's skirt is clearly photographing something not currently intended to be publicly visible.
Usually it's the US version that gets censored. I guess it's a "nudity + drugs" versus "libel and hate speech" issue.
That reminds me. I still need to return a book to the library. Better get on it within the next 9 years.