Never say we won't get DNA from dinosaurs. Just recently some scientists uncoverered a dinosaur bone that wasn't completely fossilized: it was so big that they couldn't transport it, so they cut it in half and found actual flesh in the center! I couldn't find it on google news in 5 seconds, but does anybody else remember this? I think there was a reason they couldn't extract any DNA from this guy, but stranger things have happened. Of course, DNA an entire being does not make, so we won't be able to actually make a living breathing dinosaur but we all know what would happen if we did!
Funny, yes, but also true. With a less diverse food source we're more subject to disease in our food supply. Jared Diamond makes a great point in Guns Germs and Steel that early man had hundreds of grain types available to him, and now we have something like 15. A single blight that affected a few key crops could do some real damage. I too envy early man and his many foods.
There are a lot of people who can literally do ANYTHING, and partly because of this they end up doing NOTHING. Kind of like a horse caught between two bales of hay.
Dictionaries are supposed to be descriptive and not proscriptive, so if these words are used so much, why are they NOT in the dictionary? A recent example of this would be the alternate pronounciaton of nuclear as "nookyoulure." Stupid as hell, yes, but it's in the dictionary.
I don't know what your problem is, sir. I downloaded Star Wars III and don't remember raping any geese. But I do remember seeing it in my local movie theater a day later. I think the concentration of wealth that is Hollywood is proof positive that movies are overpriced. Has the P2P revolution hurt hollywod and the music industry? No, they've only helped it. Picture this: instead of vast recording companies, you have indepenent artists making their own music. They get exposure through word of mouth, P2P, etc. Their music is free for the taking. How do they make money then? Live concerts. So they won't be billionaires. Big deal, I won't have a hard time sleeping at night knowing I've prevented the latest pop idol from becoming extremely wealthy. As for movies? If the studios were smart, they would buy up audio and video hardware companies. Sooner or later, theater quality sound and video systems will become available to the home user and once that happens there will be no reason to go to a theater. Instead, the studios should make their movies free and make money off the presentation of their media. The more and better that media is, the more incentive there is to buy top quality gear. Kinda like the iTunes Music Store / iPod duality where the music is essentially free (apple makes nothing from iTMS) and the hardware to play it is the cash cow.
Anyway, just a thought. You can throw words like "illegal" and "rape" around all you want, but when Elite Torrents has more than a hundred thousand members alone... the people have spoken. It's time for something new.
I am indeed intrigued by your theory, but there are several problems... perhaps you could help me out:
How does the military exactly use a weapon that takes a week to reach its target?
Why not just bomb the motherfucker? Lifting a heavy-ass piece of tungsten takes a lot of energy, so I repeat, why not just bomb the motherfucker?
How do you correct for errors in the initial velocity vector? The atmosphere will divert the javelin to a not-insignificant degree, and the initial toss will never be perfect. How do you steer the weapon to prevent it from hitting the preschool next door to the weapons factory?
I also don't understand your point about it starting to accelerating at =roughly= 9.8 m/s^2. When did it ever stop accelerating? All objects in orbit are accelerating down at that rate (with an insignificant falloff for distance, at least at the altitudes we're talking about.)
Minimal terminal velocity? The terminal velocity of a javelin will be MAXIMAL not minimal.
Yes, indeed, this explanation is "too much" for me to handle. Please fix your blatant errors in reasoning!
There's a very strange phenomenon associated with orbital mechanics, and the true nature of this effect is somewhat of a mystery to mankind, but the jist of it is this: if you drop something in orbit, it doesn't fall too the ground, it merely floats next to you until you pick it up again. Scientists like to call this baffeling phenomenon "microgravity." Perhaps you've heard of it?
That got me thinking: what kind of weapons are unviable from ground positions, but well placed in space? On the defensive front, placing a missile defense system in space is MUCH better than putting it on the ground: You can't really stop a ballistic missile attack on the way down, because each ICBM will break up into separate vehicles, countermeasures and all, and be traveling at much higher speeds, so any ground based defense system must detect, launch and destroy any incoming missile earlier. Place the same system in space and it suddenly becomes a lot easier. Try this scenario: a US satellite detects an ICBM launch from an unfriendly nation. A laser satellite in space then points at this missile when it's cleared the atmosphere and fries it. Of course that sort of nullifies the idea of mutually assured destruction, let's just hope the public remains horrified enough that any nuclear attack remains political suicide.
Now, put that same laser system in space and you've got a) an instant assassination tool, b) something that can fry just about anything, from tanks to enemy aircraft, to factories. There's no real sense in putting an offensive missile system up there, because all you've really done is climb a very high ladder. Sure you've gained potential energy and a missile wouldn't have to carry as much fuel, but that fuel had to be spent in getting the damn thing up there anyway, so that's a moot point. You've also gained a slight advantage by placing a missile higher up, because it will reach its target faster, but I don't think the tradeoff is that significant.
So I think the real potential for space weapons is lasers. We've gotten to the point that if you can see it, you can kill it, and let's face it: orbital platforms have the rather unparalleled distinction of being able to see, well, everything.
Strategies overcoming browser quirks are discussed throughout the book.
For ANY web designer who has at least some experience with html/css, this is the single most difficult aspect of web design. That is, getting the page to work in all the popular browsers takes the most time and really has no logic to it. What I would like to see is a book that skips all the fluff that we've seen before and goes straight to browser bugs. If they can be avoided in the first pass at making a web site it makes perfecting the final presentation all that much easier.
Why go to the gym? You don't just burn calories. You strengthen your muscles and help the cardiovascular system. I suppose the second one would be taken care of by this plug, because the heart doesn't care where the blood is going, only that it's going and needs to be replentished. But other muscles would not benefit at all from this. But the problem is even deeper than this. A significant drain on blood energy would seriously fuck with your body. Would you release endorphines from this? Would your body know to get out of breath? Would your heart rate increase? I dunno... it could be dangerous.
There is also the possibility that FOX might pick firefly back up. Or, if they're not interested in the SciFi genre, they could sell the rights to UPN which is undoubtedly looking for something to replace Enterprise. I don't buy the whole "FOX wants to destroy popular shows." Futurama, Family Guy, Firefly, Dark Angel et al. might be popular with us, but they were simply not popular enough with the volgus.
$5 for an episode? H-h-h-h-helllll no! I'd pay no more than 25 cents. Note that if Apple implemented a bittorrent-like protocol for movie downloads, their bandwidth costs would be negligible.
Whatever the issue is, my guess is Apple will have it fixed within the month. It's possible they will have a patch out by the end of next week. It's just a bug, and last time I heard, unless active measures need to be taken by network admins NOW to shore up potential security issues, bugs aren't news. Major new OS versions will always have wrinkles to iron out, stop the presses!
I assume from your post that you've never tried to call someone from a concert or a party (hey this is/. after all) where there's loud music. There really are times when you can't hear shit.
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"Nationwide"? Which nation would that be?
Hint: america is not the only nation in the world.
Hint: Slashdot is owned and operated in the US by Americans. Not draw any other comparisons, but if the New York Times said "nationwide" you wouldn't bat an eye.
But what's up with this wholesale, mass production "song" business? The only time there was so much music out there that sounded exactly the same was the baroque era. Giving away 25 free songs a month doesn't help shake that stigma. Because of the Napster revolution (or perhaps IN spite - that's a pun by the way), the music companies have had to go for quantity, and in the process have devalued the intrinsic worth of the music that they're selling. iTunes has what, 10 MILLION songs? At what point is enough enough? Instead of getting 9 symphonies from a composer in their lifetime you get 9 albums each with 15 piecemeal songs that do their thing in 2 minutes 30 seconds, tops. This isn't going to change soon, so I guess what I'm saying is: if you're going to get 25 free songs, don't waste them on cookie-cutter stuff, get some Mahler or Shostakovich, music that takes 45 minutes to take you on an epic journey. Just like sex, no music should last less than half an hour.
If I hook up a hardware-based traffic generator and run at 100% over an OC192 for a few weeks will I get a slashdot article, too?
If you do so on a worldwide scale and use that infrastructure to solve the fundamental questions of physics, yes. It's not supposed to be that technologically amazing, it's just a progress report and a proof of concept.
...which is why they should probably REDUCE the data on-site, instead of sending it around the world on a massive grid. Isn't bandwidth generally more expensive than computing power these days?
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Never say we won't get DNA from dinosaurs. Just recently some scientists uncoverered a dinosaur bone that wasn't completely fossilized: it was so big that they couldn't transport it, so they cut it in half and found actual flesh in the center! I couldn't find it on google news in 5 seconds, but does anybody else remember this? I think there was a reason they couldn't extract any DNA from this guy, but stranger things have happened. Of course, DNA an entire being does not make, so we won't be able to actually make a living breathing dinosaur but we all know what would happen if we did!
Funny, yes, but also true. With a less diverse food source we're more subject to disease in our food supply. Jared Diamond makes a great point in Guns Germs and Steel that early man had hundreds of grain types available to him, and now we have something like 15. A single blight that affected a few key crops could do some real damage. I too envy early man and his many foods.
Before anyone goes off about freedom being limited, rights, etc... come on. Nobody has the right to drive drunk.
There are a lot of people who can literally do ANYTHING, and partly because of this they end up doing NOTHING. Kind of like a horse caught between two bales of hay.
hahaha yeah you're right. per is the prefix I'm looking for. *hangs head in shame*
Dictionaries are supposed to be descriptive and not proscriptive, so if these words are used so much, why are they NOT in the dictionary? A recent example of this would be the alternate pronounciaton of nuclear as "nookyoulure." Stupid as hell, yes, but it's in the dictionary.
Because when a webpage is spoofed, the skin will make it look like the gates of hell, and when it's legit, you see a kitten frolicking in a meadow.
Anyway, just a thought. You can throw words like "illegal" and "rape" around all you want, but when Elite Torrents has more than a hundred thousand members alone... the people have spoken. It's time for something new.
You can get internet from the middle of the Pacific. Or anywhere else on the face of the planet for that matter, with a satellite.
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How's that for clickability? Come oooon, you know you want to...
- How does the military exactly use a weapon that takes a week to reach its target?
- Why not just bomb the motherfucker? Lifting a heavy-ass piece of tungsten takes a lot of energy, so I repeat, why not just bomb the motherfucker?
- How do you correct for errors in the initial velocity vector? The atmosphere will divert the javelin to a not-insignificant degree, and the initial toss will never be perfect. How do you steer the weapon to prevent it from hitting the preschool next door to the weapons factory?
- I also don't understand your point about it starting to accelerating at =roughly= 9.8 m/s^2. When did it ever stop accelerating? All objects in orbit are accelerating down at that rate (with an insignificant falloff for distance, at least at the altitudes we're talking about.)
- Minimal terminal velocity? The terminal velocity of a javelin will be MAXIMAL not minimal.
Yes, indeed, this explanation is "too much" for me to handle. Please fix your blatant errors in reasoning!There's a very strange phenomenon associated with orbital mechanics, and the true nature of this effect is somewhat of a mystery to mankind, but the jist of it is this: if you drop something in orbit, it doesn't fall too the ground, it merely floats next to you until you pick it up again. Scientists like to call this baffeling phenomenon "microgravity." Perhaps you've heard of it?
That got me thinking: what kind of weapons are unviable from ground positions, but well placed in space? On the defensive front, placing a missile defense system in space is MUCH better than putting it on the ground: You can't really stop a ballistic missile attack on the way down, because each ICBM will break up into separate vehicles, countermeasures and all, and be traveling at much higher speeds, so any ground based defense system must detect, launch and destroy any incoming missile earlier. Place the same system in space and it suddenly becomes a lot easier. Try this scenario: a US satellite detects an ICBM launch from an unfriendly nation. A laser satellite in space then points at this missile when it's cleared the atmosphere and fries it. Of course that sort of nullifies the idea of mutually assured destruction, let's just hope the public remains horrified enough that any nuclear attack remains political suicide.
Now, put that same laser system in space and you've got a) an instant assassination tool, b) something that can fry just about anything, from tanks to enemy aircraft, to factories. There's no real sense in putting an offensive missile system up there, because all you've really done is climb a very high ladder. Sure you've gained potential energy and a missile wouldn't have to carry as much fuel, but that fuel had to be spent in getting the damn thing up there anyway, so that's a moot point. You've also gained a slight advantage by placing a missile higher up, because it will reach its target faster, but I don't think the tradeoff is that significant.
So I think the real potential for space weapons is lasers. We've gotten to the point that if you can see it, you can kill it, and let's face it: orbital platforms have the rather unparalleled distinction of being able to see, well, everything.
For ANY web designer who has at least some experience with html/css, this is the single most difficult aspect of web design. That is, getting the page to work in all the popular browsers takes the most time and really has no logic to it. What I would like to see is a book that skips all the fluff that we've seen before and goes straight to browser bugs. If they can be avoided in the first pass at making a web site it makes perfecting the final presentation all that much easier.
Why go to the gym? You don't just burn calories. You strengthen your muscles and help the cardiovascular system. I suppose the second one would be taken care of by this plug, because the heart doesn't care where the blood is going, only that it's going and needs to be replentished. But other muscles would not benefit at all from this. But the problem is even deeper than this. A significant drain on blood energy would seriously fuck with your body. Would you release endorphines from this? Would your body know to get out of breath? Would your heart rate increase? I dunno... it could be dangerous.
Brilliant, sir. It DOES look like Splinter!
He is one of the most successful businessmen in the world, you have to give him some credit. I'd say Bill Gates is right quite a lot of thie time.
There is also the possibility that FOX might pick firefly back up. Or, if they're not interested in the SciFi genre, they could sell the rights to UPN which is undoubtedly looking for something to replace Enterprise. I don't buy the whole "FOX wants to destroy popular shows." Futurama, Family Guy, Firefly, Dark Angel et al. might be popular with us, but they were simply not popular enough with the volgus.
$5 for an episode? H-h-h-h-helllll no! I'd pay no more than 25 cents. Note that if Apple implemented a bittorrent-like protocol for movie downloads, their bandwidth costs would be negligible.
Whatever the issue is, my guess is Apple will have it fixed within the month. It's possible they will have a patch out by the end of next week. It's just a bug, and last time I heard, unless active measures need to be taken by network admins NOW to shore up potential security issues, bugs aren't news. Major new OS versions will always have wrinkles to iron out, stop the presses!
I assume from your post that you've never tried to call someone from a concert or a party (hey this is /. after all) where there's loud music. There really are times when you can't hear shit.
Hint: america is not the only nation in the world.
Hint: Slashdot is owned and operated in the US by Americans. Not draw any other comparisons, but if the New York Times said "nationwide" you wouldn't bat an eye.
But what's up with this wholesale, mass production "song" business? The only time there was so much music out there that sounded exactly the same was the baroque era. Giving away 25 free songs a month doesn't help shake that stigma. Because of the Napster revolution (or perhaps IN spite - that's a pun by the way), the music companies have had to go for quantity, and in the process have devalued the intrinsic worth of the music that they're selling. iTunes has what, 10 MILLION songs? At what point is enough enough? Instead of getting 9 symphonies from a composer in their lifetime you get 9 albums each with 15 piecemeal songs that do their thing in 2 minutes 30 seconds, tops. This isn't going to change soon, so I guess what I'm saying is: if you're going to get 25 free songs, don't waste them on cookie-cutter stuff, get some Mahler or Shostakovich, music that takes 45 minutes to take you on an epic journey. Just like sex, no music should last less than half an hour.
If you do so on a worldwide scale and use that infrastructure to solve the fundamental questions of physics, yes. It's not supposed to be that technologically amazing, it's just a progress report and a proof of concept.
...which is why they should probably REDUCE the data on-site, instead of sending it around the world on a massive grid. Isn't bandwidth generally more expensive than computing power these days?