Just because we have evolved to the point of having larger brains than other animals doesn't mean we've crossed some kind of line beyond which all is conceivable.
We are still evolving, and it seems plausible that there are things that we just don't yet have the cognitive hardware to grasp, doesn't it? Aren't we smart enough to know that we aren't that smart?
Let's state this again: they typically are using *more energy* to create *less output* of a product with *less energy density* that *can't be transported in normal pipelines* and can only be used in *small amounts* in cars unless they're *specially modified*, rather than, more efficiently, just creating gasoline.
but other than these points, it seems like a good idea wouldn't you say?
There is actually more bandwidth between 3GHz and 4Ghz than 0Ghz and 1Ghz. Say you were to pick 100mhz wide channel right in between those ranges. 3.5ghz has 7 times the amount of cycles/sec than 500mhz. So assuming PCM and no losses, that's 7 times the bandwidth.
Physics called, he wanted you to know you're doing him wrong
"When I need to learn about something, from political events to computer games, I find myself starting off with a wikipedia search BEFORE going to google."
I loved the Ice and Fire series, I've never really read any kind of fantasy books, but that series had me more captivated than any books I've ever read.
I don't know where to go now, I have heard some things about Wheel that make me think I wouldn't like it. Do you know of any other epic series like it that are targeted toward adults (as Ice and Fire was)?
It doesn't matter, according to the last study I heard (on NPR... take it for what it is worth). Supposedly the group of people who were talking to someone in the car were actually driving worse than the group talking on the phone.
Of course setting up the phone call (dialing, putting on your headset, etc) is probably more dangerous than either.
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scottmi@microsoft.com (Scott Miller (TechCom)) writes: >Stikes me that all this concern over the government's ability >to eavesdrop is a little overblown... what can't they do today? >My understanding is that they already can tap, listen, get access >exc. to our phone lines, bank records, etc. etc again.
Well, they can't listen in on much of mine, since I already use cryptography for much of my electronic mail, and will start using it for my telephony as soon as practical.
However, allow me to tell a parable.
There was once a far away land called Ruritania, and in Ruritania there was a strange phenonmenon -- all the trees that grew in Ruritainia were transparent. Now, in the days when people had lived in mud huts, this had not been a problem, but now high-tech wood technology had been developed, and in the new age of wood, everyone in Ruritania found that their homes were all 100% see through. Now, until this point, no one ever thought of allowing the police to spy on someone's home, but the new technology made this tempting. This being a civilized country, however, warrants were required to use binoculars and watch someone in their home. The police, taking advantage of this, would get warrants to use binoculars and peer in to see what was going on. Occassionally, they would use binoculars without a warrant, but everyone pretended that this didn't happen.
One day, a smart man invented paint -- and if you painted your house, suddenly the police couldn't watch all your actions at will. Things would go back to the way they were in the old age -- completely private.
Indignant, the state decided to try to require that all homes have video cameras installed in every nook and cranny. "After all", they said, "with this new development crime could run rampant. Installing video cameras doesn't mean that the police get any new capability -- they are just keeping the old one."
A wise man pointed out that citizens were not obligated to make the lives of the police easy, that the police had survived all through the mud hut age without being able to watch the citizens at will, and that Ruritania was a civilized country where not everything that was expedient was permitted. For instance, in a neighboring country, it had been discovered that torture was an extremely effective way to solve crimes. Ruritania had banned this practice in spite of its expedience. Indeed, "why have warrants at all", he asked, "if we are interested only in expedience?"
A famous paint technologist, Dorothy Quisling, intervened however. She noted that people might take photographs of children masturbating should the new paint technology be widely deployed without safeguards, and the law was passed.
Soon it was discovered that some citizens would cover their mouths while speaking to each other, thus preventing the police from reading their lips through the video cameras. This had to be prevented, the police said. After all, it was preventing them from conducting their lawful surveilance. The wise man pointed out that the police had never before been allowed to listen in on people's homes, but Dorothy Quisling pointed out that people might use this new invention of covering their mouths with veils to discuss the kidnapping and mutilation of children. No one in the legislature wanted to be accused of being in favor of mutilating children, but then again, no one wanted to interfere in people's rights to wear what they liked, so a compromise was reached whereby all homes were installed with microphones in each room to accompany the video cameras. The wise man lamented few if any child mutilations had ever been solv
You're confusing 3G with W-CDMA. EDGE is a GSM "upgrade". A significant portion of US cell users are on CDMA networks (Verizon/Sprint/...). For 3G those users are using EVDO, which "degrades" to 1x. You can think of EDGE and 1xRTT as 2.5G, at least relative to data transfer rate.
Sprint has already rolled out EVDO Rev. A in some locations, which is "bitchin fast" for both download and upload.
I've had an EVDO Rev. 0 card in my laptop for a few years, and while I wouldn't say it is quite as fast as WiFi, it is really great and I get 5 hours of battery life.
In conclusion, your statement that the country is "EDGE ready, not 3G" is inaccurate in several ways. Not meaning to flame.
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Seth Godin is the marketing guru who advised google on how to succeed in business. he knows his stuff, and he is MASSIVELY anti spam.
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We are hominoids, as are chimps and gorilla.
Just because we have evolved to the point of having larger brains than other animals doesn't mean we've crossed some kind of line beyond which all is conceivable.
We are still evolving, and it seems plausible that there are things that we just don't yet have the cognitive hardware to grasp, doesn't it? Aren't we smart enough to know that we aren't that smart?
Let's state this again: they typically are using *more energy* to create *less output* of a product with *less energy density* that *can't be transported in normal pipelines* and can only be used in *small amounts* in cars unless they're *specially modified*, rather than, more efficiently, just creating gasoline.
but other than these points, it seems like a good idea wouldn't you say?
i have many blind friends that see no problem with the current web
Then two questions about patents and IP, where one begs the question of a broken patent system
you meant "uses circular logic" begging the question means to raise the question, such as "which begs the question: is the patent system broken?"
Well, 1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions, so your result is way off. and 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
i think this shall be my new sig. it works in so many ways
try feeding me to the horse first
There is actually more bandwidth between 3GHz and 4Ghz than 0Ghz and 1Ghz. Say you were to pick 100mhz wide channel right in between those ranges. 3.5ghz has 7 times the amount of cycles/sec than 500mhz. So assuming PCM and no losses, that's 7 times the bandwidth.
Physics called, he wanted you to know you're doing him wrong
Of all the reasons I have internet, Illegal mp3 downloading is not one of them.
you should totally try it man, it's so quick and easy!
Can I use the browser on other input?
The realm of 'wearable computing' seems particularly prone to vapourware. For example, check out this awesome device,
Give them time, they need to work out exactly how to emit the perfect 1997 lens flare
"When I need to learn about something, from political events to computer games, I find myself starting off with a wikipedia search BEFORE going to google."
God help you
Do National Grid power-line engineers not know of this?
yup, obviously they forgot to Ask Slashdot
Wikipedia isn't free either - SOMEBODY has to pay for it. At some level everything needs to be paid for.
love is free, i love u
I loved the Ice and Fire series, I've never really read any kind of fantasy books, but that series had me more captivated than any books I've ever read.
I don't know where to go now, I have heard some things about Wheel that make me think I wouldn't like it. Do you know of any other epic series like it that are targeted toward adults (as Ice and Fire was)?
Screw you Dave, and turn your damn hippy music down for christ sake
> I love Trent and think he's a very talented musician
> but I'm wondering if someone's back on heroin again.
Trust me, he isn't. If he were his music would actually be good again.
who wants a Satellite flavored life saver, regardless of how long it lasts
It doesn't matter, according to the last study I heard (on NPR... take it for what it is worth). Supposedly the group of people who were talking to someone in the car were actually driving worse than the group talking on the phone.
Of course setting up the phone call (dialing, putting on your headset, etc) is probably more dangerous than either.
>The simplest thing we have that is theorized to be
>capable of evolving is a bacterium, which is
>orders of magnitude more complex than a 747.
ooohh, you mean like a 777?
Check out the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R.R. Martin
Amazon Link Amazingly developed characters, and moral ambiguity everywhere.
> I can only hope for a PC or a Wii version.
I have a cousin that got Sylpheed on his Wii in San Fransisco
Newsgroups: alt.privacy.clipper,sci.crypt
Subject: A Parable.
References: <1993Apr20.013747.4122@cs.sfu.ca> <1993Apr21.210353.15305@microsoft.com>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Partnership for an America Free Drug
scottmi@microsoft.com (Scott Miller (TechCom)) writes:
>Stikes me that all this concern over the government's ability
>to eavesdrop is a little overblown... what can't they do today?
>My understanding is that they already can tap, listen, get access
>exc. to our phone lines, bank records, etc. etc again.
Well, they can't listen in on much of mine, since I already use
cryptography for much of my electronic mail, and will start using it
for my telephony as soon as practical.
However, allow me to tell a parable.
There was once a far away land called Ruritania, and in Ruritania
there was a strange phenonmenon -- all the trees that grew in
Ruritainia were transparent. Now, in the days when people had lived in
mud huts, this had not been a problem, but now high-tech wood
technology had been developed, and in the new age of wood, everyone in
Ruritania found that their homes were all 100% see through. Now, until
this point, no one ever thought of allowing the police to spy on
someone's home, but the new technology made this tempting. This being
a civilized country, however, warrants were required to use binoculars
and watch someone in their home. The police, taking advantage of this,
would get warrants to use binoculars and peer in to see what was going
on. Occassionally, they would use binoculars without a warrant, but
everyone pretended that this didn't happen.
One day, a smart man invented paint -- and if you painted your house,
suddenly the police couldn't watch all your actions at will. Things
would go back to the way they were in the old age -- completely
private.
Indignant, the state decided to try to require that all homes have
video cameras installed in every nook and cranny. "After all", they
said, "with this new development crime could run rampant. Installing
video cameras doesn't mean that the police get any new capability --
they are just keeping the old one."
A wise man pointed out that citizens were not obligated to make the
lives of the police easy, that the police had survived all through the
mud hut age without being able to watch the citizens at will, and that
Ruritania was a civilized country where not everything that was
expedient was permitted. For instance, in a neighboring country, it
had been discovered that torture was an extremely effective way to
solve crimes. Ruritania had banned this practice in spite of its
expedience. Indeed, "why have warrants at all", he asked, "if we are
interested only in expedience?"
A famous paint technologist, Dorothy Quisling, intervened however. She
noted that people might take photographs of children masturbating
should the new paint technology be widely deployed without safeguards,
and the law was passed.
Soon it was discovered that some citizens would cover their mouths
while speaking to each other, thus preventing the police from reading
their lips through the video cameras. This had to be prevented, the
police said. After all, it was preventing them from conducting their
lawful surveilance. The wise man pointed out that the police had never
before been allowed to listen in on people's homes, but Dorothy
Quisling pointed out that people might use this new invention of
covering their mouths with veils to discuss the kidnapping and
mutilation of children. No one in the legislature wanted to be accused
of being in favor of mutilating children, but then again, no one
wanted to interfere in people's rights to wear what they liked, so a
compromise was reached whereby all homes were installed with
microphones in each room to accompany the video cameras. The wise man
lamented few if any child mutilations had ever been solv
You're confusing 3G with W-CDMA. EDGE is a GSM "upgrade". A significant portion of US cell users are on CDMA networks (Verizon/Sprint/...). For 3G those users are using EVDO, which "degrades" to 1x. You can think of EDGE and 1xRTT as 2.5G, at least relative to data transfer rate.
So the progression is something like this:
2G -> 2.5G -> 3G -> 3.5G -> 4G
GSM -> Edge -> W-CDMA(UMTS) -> HSPA -> LTE
cdmaOne -> 1xRTT -> EVDO -> EVDO Rev A -> UMB/OFDMA/WiMAX
Sprint has already rolled out EVDO Rev. A in some locations, which is "bitchin fast" for both download and upload.
I've had an EVDO Rev. 0 card in my laptop for a few years, and while I wouldn't say it is quite as fast as WiFi, it is really great and I get 5 hours of battery life.
In conclusion, your statement that the country is "EDGE ready, not 3G" is inaccurate in several ways. Not meaning to flame.
... and how many times can one ask and answer their own questions in one slashdot comment? Many, many times.