Umm... from where do you get the impression that tazers aren't supposed to be used to intimidate?
The two prongs on the front are all that is really needed, but most tazers are equipped with a second set of prongs which point towards each other. The only point of those prongs are to generate an arc so that you can scare people off.
But as I said the spread would be slow. Making them adaptable to the varying conditions they would encounter in the wild (not to mention active hunter-type counter nanites which could be dropped into a pool of them) would make them need to be so complex as to need a central controller, and thus a central point of failure.
They don't want people to make changes to the format.
That defeat the purpose of having a set file format if every coder with a keyboard added his or her own tags to it and started calling the files standard.
The way I see it you are just pronoucing the word phonetically in your head and then finding what word it sounds like.
Try this.
Go through the paragraph again and say it aloud slowly and phonetically as if you were a two year old just learning to read. Your mind will find words that sounds similar if you read phonetically, but if you don't know how to you will just stumble over the word.
It just goes to prove that the word recognition way of reading that the U.S. public schools is teaching now days is very much inferior to the phonetic method that we used to use. (That the "Hooked on Phonics" program uses to great effect)
Villians these days have too much emotional baggage to really do things right.
They are almost as angsty as the heros.
I think its a cultural thing.
Have a game developed in america and the bad guy killed the good guy's family and the good guy is pissed off armed with half a platoon's worth of weapons and is out for vigilante justice.
Same game in Japan the hero is equiped with a magic sword and out to save the world along with his friends while being sad about his lost family.
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Umm... from where do you get the impression that tazers aren't supposed to be used to intimidate?
The two prongs on the front are all that is really needed, but most tazers are equipped with a second set of prongs which point towards each other. The only point of those prongs are to generate an arc so that you can scare people off.
Nah they need to use .damnforeigners :)
Yes.
But most of them would only be in contact with others of their kind.
Its not like they can instantly find new material to absorb the second they are made.
Most of them will be in the center of the pool doing effectively nothing.
Well political with claims to being enviromental.
-_-
I don't think they have updated since that issue has come to light.
Its not known whether that is caused by nanotubes specifically or nanites in general.
Actually the hard part is making the first one.
Having that one build a second one is easy.
True.
But as I said the spread would be slow.
Making them adaptable to the varying conditions they would encounter in the wild (not to mention active hunter-type counter nanites which could be dropped into a pool of them) would make them need to be so complex as to need a central controller, and thus a central point of failure.
Isn't prey the novel were the guy actully has to run from the nanites that he sees chasing him?
If not there are plenty of other errors.
Nanotech if it takes off like predicted will basically change society like electricty did.
:)
Want a new car?
Dump some scrap metal in the factory, load up the car image you torrented off the internet last night, and in a few hours you have your new ferrai.
We might start getting beer that is free as in software.
Not to mention DDT which could stop millions of deaths due to malaria.
Which was killed by enviromental groups to increase their political power despite being no danger to anything but insects.
This site has a lot of good information on nanotechnology.
Among other things they address the 'grey goo' or uncontrolled replicator issue.
Basically it would require a deliberate effort to create such a thing.
The spread, while exponential, would be slow due to a nanite's size.
You could do with multible attempts.
Do all the blue, pop out the can, put in red, do the red part, pop out the can, put in the green can, ect...
Doh I should RTFA before commenting :) he mentions that.
Set solitare in 2000 to three card mode then hold down CTRL+ALT+SHIFT when you click on the deck.
Actually DeCSS(the css remover) was named that to troll for the MPAA.
http://www.pigdog.org/decss/
They don't want people to make changes to the format.
That defeat the purpose of having a set file format if every coder with a keyboard added his or her own tags to it and started calling the files standard.
No they are claiming a patent on the file format of their word documents saved in XML format.
Overall a very reasonable claim comparitivly.
They must resell the review products.
Man they have quite the racket going on.
Small nuclear reactors would be great for any space based missions.
This would be a perfect power supply for a moon base or something.
Without a water table to worry about there is virtually no chance of contamination.
The only problem is that it is still steam driven.
If we could get a decent direct heat to electicity converter developed we could eliminate most of the overhead in this design.
That could be cool.
Lets just hope that the thin layer of heat sink is enough.
Also that seems like a very complicated system in which case it makes for more chances for things to go wrong.
zuperdee wrote it.
CmdrTaco only posted it.
The way I see it you are just pronoucing the word phonetically in your head and then finding what word it sounds like.
Try this.
Go through the paragraph again and say it aloud slowly and phonetically as if you were a two year old just learning to read. Your mind will find words that sounds similar if you read phonetically, but if you don't know how to you will just stumble over the word.
It just goes to prove that the word recognition way of reading that the U.S. public schools is teaching now days is very much inferior to the phonetic method that we used to use. (That the "Hooked on Phonics" program uses to great effect)
Damn Straight...
Man that game runs with good detail even on low end graphics cards.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/moontruth.asp
I still just can't bring myself to like Sephy.
Villians these days have too much emotional baggage to really do things right.
They are almost as angsty as the heros.
I think its a cultural thing.
Have a game developed in america and the bad guy killed the good guy's family and the good guy is pissed off armed with half a platoon's worth of weapons and is out for vigilante justice.
Same game in Japan the hero is equiped with a magic sword and out to save the world along with his friends while being sad about his lost family.
Eh just my $0.02