Why would Sony/Sharp do that? They're not making any more money per unit, and they'll lose sales to the competition who *don't* pull stupid moves like this. This really only affects "prestige" goods, where people primarily care about the label. Personally, I don't really care if people buying that stuff get soaked. I mean, the case that SCOTUS was hearing concerned a small woman's clothing store. 2 bucks of fabric, 3 bucks of sweatshop labor, and 200 bucks for the label.
Simulating a virtual environment would take a tiny fraction of the computing power required for simulating a brain. What's the saying, life is 30 million polygons a second? It could have whatever body it wanted and have total control of its surroundings. Sounds like a sweet deal to me.
Some interesting considerations are 1) it could effectively be immortal, 2) you can make copies of it, 3) assuming Moore's law continues to hold, every couple years it could double in speed, 4) interstellar travel is a lot easier if you can lower your clock speed to whatever you want, and 5) when it decides to learn French, it cranks up the "Neural Growth" parameter for that section of its brain.
What? Iridium is stable. Why would you you think an asteroid or comet strike would create radioactive by-products? Heck, they can detect the iridium layer left by the asteroid that hit 63 million years ago.
I read my great-grandma's diary. If you think people in the 30's or the 40's had more free time than we do now, you're a fool. And if you want to complain about the cost of health care, think about what it meant back then to get cancer. You don't need health insurance to pay the doctor to say "You're going to die. Sucks to be you". And if you don't like property tax, go live in a "Park Model" home in south Texas like my parents. No property tax. Plenty of money left over for green fees.
If you're a "slave", it's because you haven't figured out how not to be.
From *my* incomplete understanding of the theorem, it seems to me that, since the laws governing the universe are both complete and consistent (at least that's what the truthiness in my gut tells me), those laws would have to be very simple, and the only question is do we have the intelligence or the energy levels required to figure them out.
Not at the equator. Which is where this would be. Storms are driven by temperature differentials and Coriolis acceleration, which are both pretty much zero at the equator in the middle of the ocean.
Venus has a thick crust and no plate techtonics, so there's no way for carbon dioxide emitted by volcanoes to be recycled into the interior; it just builds up. Earth was lucky enough to have most of its crust stripped away four billion years ago in the collision that formed the moon.
Many of the single parents I've met had enough money to smoke a pack a day, so there's a few thousand a year they could save or invest. And they usually have cable TV too.
When you consider that all three of the men you listed lived and died well before Darwin published "On The Origin Of Species", yeah, it's pretty likely they didn't believe in evolution.
And a substance called telomerase rebuilds telomeres.
Telemores need to be rebuilt in some parts of your body (i.e. egg, sperm production). Some think cancer cells need to start producing telomerase before they can be dangerous; if they don't they'll "flame out" before they're even large enough to be detected.
That's not being caused by rising sea levels, chief. The Mississippi river is all leveed up and it's not depositing any more sediment onto the delta. The delta's being eaten away by waves. You can blame the Army Corps Of Engineers for that fubar.
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Hate to burst your bubble, but not only did the Soviets know about the bomb before they were used, but they already had the blueprints.
Obviously you've never been asked "Does this dress makes me look fat?" or "What are you thinking about?". No surprise, this is slashdot.
It had potential? Obviously you never read the book. It was too crappy to even be camp.
Why would Sony/Sharp do that? They're not making any more money per unit, and they'll lose sales to the competition who *don't* pull stupid moves like this. This really only affects "prestige" goods, where people primarily care about the label. Personally, I don't really care if people buying that stuff get soaked. I mean, the case that SCOTUS was hearing concerned a small woman's clothing store. 2 bucks of fabric, 3 bucks of sweatshop labor, and 200 bucks for the label.
Simulating a virtual environment would take a tiny fraction of the computing power required for simulating a brain. What's the saying, life is 30 million polygons a second? It could have whatever body it wanted and have total control of its surroundings. Sounds like a sweet deal to me.
Some interesting considerations are 1) it could effectively be immortal, 2) you can make copies of it, 3) assuming Moore's law continues to hold, every couple years it could double in speed, 4) interstellar travel is a lot easier if you can lower your clock speed to whatever you want, and 5) when it decides to learn French, it cranks up the "Neural Growth" parameter for that section of its brain.
Hopefully, we'll make great pets.
What? Iridium is stable. Why would you you think an asteroid or comet strike would create radioactive by-products? Heck, they can detect the iridium layer left by the asteroid that hit 63 million years ago.
I read my great-grandma's diary. If you think people in the 30's or the 40's had more free time than we do now, you're a fool. And if you want to complain about the cost of health care, think about what it meant back then to get cancer. You don't need health insurance to pay the doctor to say "You're going to die. Sucks to be you". And if you don't like property tax, go live in a "Park Model" home in south Texas like my parents. No property tax. Plenty of money left over for green fees.
If you're a "slave", it's because you haven't figured out how not to be.
I wouldn't call it brand inheritance. More like Pavlovian conditioning.
From *my* incomplete understanding of the theorem, it seems to me that, since the laws governing the universe are both complete and consistent (at least that's what the truthiness in my gut tells me), those laws would have to be very simple, and the only question is do we have the intelligence or the energy levels required to figure them out.
I think his problem was with your statement that male frogs had eggs . . .
Not at the equator. Which is where this would be. Storms are driven by temperature differentials and Coriolis acceleration, which are both pretty much zero at the equator in the middle of the ocean.
Venus has a thick crust and no plate techtonics, so there's no way for carbon dioxide emitted by volcanoes to be recycled into the interior; it just builds up. Earth was lucky enough to have most of its crust stripped away four billion years ago in the collision that formed the moon.
I imagine either duct tape or a mirror mounted at 45 degrees would be even more low cost.
Many of the single parents I've met had enough money to smoke a pack a day, so there's a few thousand a year they could save or invest. And they usually have cable TV too.
Then he probably wasn't Jon Stewart, either. :)
I would be willing to bet he's talking about 46 kilometers per gallon.
You are aware that liquid hydrogen and oxygen are manufactured using, you guess it, techniques that have a substantial carbon footprint?
When you consider that all three of the men you listed lived and died well before Darwin published "On The Origin Of Species", yeah, it's pretty likely they didn't believe in evolution.
And a substance called telomerase rebuilds telomeres.
Telemores need to be rebuilt in some parts of your body (i.e. egg, sperm production). Some think cancer cells need to start producing telomerase before they can be dangerous; if they don't they'll "flame out" before they're even large enough to be detected.
Have a twelve year old install it on your computer. They can't enter a legal contract.
I imagine if you stripped away 99.9% of the Earth's atmosphere, you'd get a lot better satellite images.
Germany. Japan.
If that were true, it'd be kinda hard to prosecute someone for murder.
That's not being caused by rising sea levels, chief. The Mississippi river is all leveed up and it's not depositing any more sediment onto the delta. The delta's being eaten away by waves. You can blame the Army Corps Of Engineers for that fubar.
What I heard, was that someone did wing a rock at the adultress and knocked her out cold. Jesus turned around, and said "Mom, stay out of this".