There was a story a while back finding emergent life within space dust.
Evidently, it organized itself akin to DNA, shared genetic information between 2 "creatures" to create a 3rd unique creature, 'ate' other inert space dust, and other tings we wouldnt hesitate to call life here on Terra. Their time-frame was also very slow to what we perceive.
And that's not science fiction. It's science fact.
If we can learn the nanotech and computing required, we should be able to upload ourselves in durable substrate (diamondoid CPUs). Once we have control what was once only biological control, we could change the way we perceive time to say a second per year (or more or less for the required job).
It could also be said that if we lived between compute platforms in each solar system, our global consciousness could be diffuse and communicate with the idea that light speed is the barrier which we will never cross.
Back in the Roman Empire days, they could communicate with Rome using towers built on each others horizon. They then used light codes (similar to morse) to then relay information back to the Caesar.
They had it down to 18 hrs from Great Britan... I think that's damned impressive.
1. What exactly are black holes? They only have 3 unique traits: mass, angular momentum, and charge. Thos e3 triats seem very similar to how we distinguish particles. Are black holes macro-particles?
2. Is time quantized? Energy appears in quanta, as does other particles of shapes and sizes. Is time the same?
3. What is the carrier of the magnetic force? What is the carrier of the gravity force?
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I suppose you'd say the same about electricity and phone lines, right?
Did you know that we once traded monopoly status so that ALL would benefit from such a service? Companies like Ma Bell and REMC put up the poles and strung the lines for miles down rural roads so that ONE household could get service.
What makes high speed communications different than low speed communications? After Congress (and we) paid the phone companies 4 billion to do so?
Take a look what I posted prior to this (article about anti-copyright getting removed from Canadian copyright discussion).
I'm for fair compensation for creators. I dont necessarily think it needs copyright. However, Spore-creators want to charge people to create content, which they will turn around and sell back to the creators.
I dont think what they are doing is right either.. unless they are paying people back for good content (heh heh hardly).
It just seems that we have children on both sides of the copyright issue: one wanting everything for free, and the other saying "GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEE".
Its regardless if he was trying to stack the deck against them... Where are the mature communicators of copyright? Cause I sure dont see any.
Well lets look at he very questions on his blog....
Question - On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is strongly oppose and 5 is strongly support, how much do you support laws that would enable record companies to demand and collect a "settlement" of more than $5,000 from you because a member of your household may have downloaded music and made it available for sharing on the internet?
How about: On a measure of X currency, how much should be fined for downloading 1 song that they have not paid for?
That would give a true assessment on what people think songs are really worth, as it puts the listeners in the "creator" category. Along with that, it would have strong tendencies to deflate now-exorbitant statutory damages.
Question - On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is strongly oppose and 5 is strongly support, how much do you support laws that would enable a record company to easily obtain your name without your consent so that it can sue you for up to $20,000 for each song a member of your household may have downloaded and made available for sharing on the internet?
Same as above.
Question - On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is strongly oppose and 5 is strongly support, how much do you support laws that would enable record and movie companies to control how, when, where, how many times and on what type of electronic device that you can enjoy music and movies that you have bought and paid for?
2 questions: What is an acceptable time for copyright so it would promote creators to profit and create more? Should copyright be extended to companies who use technological means to prevent fair use (backing up film, taking snippets for critique, etc.)? yes/no
As we see, its all vitriol. No wonder he was ejected before it startred.
Do you think that OpenSolaris lives in isolation from everything else? Hardware support on it stinks. Windows is better, yet even Linux trumps Windows.
Im tenatively convinced about global warming for the following reason: acidic ocean water.
As anybody in chemistry knows, dissolving CO2 in water results in H2CO3, an acid. Only 2 major variables result in this, and that is pressure and amount. Since our pressure is roughly constant (28mmHg-32mmHg), that leaves the amount of CO2 to be rising.
Now, how can we look at prior trends of CO2 affecting the oceans? Simple. H2CO3 is an acid, and tends to leach calcium from single-celled creatures in the sea water. Now, looking at these plankton now shows disastrous effects on their shells due to oceans acidity. We can, however, use oceanbed samples to view millions of years prior to see if these effects have occurred before.
According to samples from ocean beds around the world, effects like these have never been seen on this dramatic of a scale.
Like I said, I was a naysayer, until I saw this evidence, and others.
I looked at macs when I bought my current laptop. I have a t61 thinkpad with multiple optional batteries (9 cell and drive battery give 8-10 hrs). Also have 4 gigs ram and the rest of the goodies you get with IBM.. 5 year warranty. The prices and feature set arent even comparable, as Apple doesnt offer the caliber of hardware that IBM does. And their policies of nigh everything being a service call pisses me off. I can change a keyboard module or hard drive, and in thinkpads, its really easy.
I tried to download it. Well, it wants all your information, which I wasnt even going to jump through their hoops.. After all, Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat and the rest dont make you do this.
And the hardware support sucks, even for a virtualized environment.
Simply said, Linux works better than Windows, and I enjoy it more. Better hardware support, better fun apps, and things Just Work.
For starters, many of these drugs do not work, or cause sever side effects that make the original malus look like nothing.
Next, many of the drugs that DO work are simply plant derivatives from indigenous peoples around the globe. Many of those nations have banned us (the USA) from going in there and pilfering their genetic diversity and selling it back to them at 10000* the original cost. We can look at Mexico and the native and mestizo cooperation to ban us from their mainland.
And now, the USA is subsidizing the whole world's prescription drugs because nigh every 1'st world country has some form of socialized medicine and a hard nose against the US drug companies. Those same companies belly-ache about mandatory pricing, but they will still make and sell drugs, as there is a great deal of profit. However, I do concede that the FDA needs to be taken out back and shot. They are a bunch of worthless do-nothings that require buckets of money to do nothing.
And your viewpoint is what makes atheists look very bad. Why?
Religion has two major things it accomplishes: a creation myth and a death myth. Many, many people cannot grasp the idea that you will be worm food when you die. They instead seek things like Heaven, enlightenment, or Valhalla as a means to cope with what they do not understand.
As long as these people are peaceful, let them have their beliefs, as it does not hinder what happens. And if somebody is 10% more efficent/successful/happier because of it, I see no reason to burst their bubble.
Why this? This shows where population is via light pollution. If we pay attention to Oceania, we see that very little land mass of Australia is used, in opposition to places like the eastern US, most of Europe, and Japan.
Why would a little-used large landmass country like Australia use this, and not the densely packed countries?
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There was a story a while back finding emergent life within space dust.
Evidently, it organized itself akin to DNA, shared genetic information between 2 "creatures" to create a 3rd unique creature, 'ate' other inert space dust, and other tings we wouldnt hesitate to call life here on Terra. Their time-frame was also very slow to what we perceive.
And that's not science fiction. It's science fact.
Not really..
If we can learn the nanotech and computing required, we should be able to upload ourselves in durable substrate (diamondoid CPUs). Once we have control what was once only biological control, we could change the way we perceive time to say a second per year (or more or less for the required job).
It could also be said that if we lived between compute platforms in each solar system, our global consciousness could be diffuse and communicate with the idea that light speed is the barrier which we will never cross.
Back in the Roman Empire days, they could communicate with Rome using towers built on each others horizon. They then used light codes (similar to morse) to then relay information back to the Caesar.
They had it down to 18 hrs from Great Britan... I think that's damned impressive.
Its simpler for me..
I download them from the local torrent site.
I can look for the size of the video I want (1 cd, 2 cd, HD, multi audio...) and put my request in with Azureus. After a while, It's done.
My videos are checked for ads, as they are completely removed. My videos play anywhere and can be converted to newer/older formats if I wish.
I paid less (nothing!) and have better freedoms than you. Guess who I think won out?
Well, bad shit happens when one involves the government.
Well, these public schools are in part funded by the government and play by their rules.
ADA compliance is one of them.
Decent questions.. I have better.
1. What exactly are black holes? They only have 3 unique traits: mass, angular momentum, and charge. Thos e3 triats seem very similar to how we distinguish particles. Are black holes macro-particles?
2. Is time quantized? Energy appears in quanta, as does other particles of shapes and sizes. Is time the same?
3. What is the carrier of the magnetic force? What is the carrier of the gravity force?
I suppose you'd say the same about electricity and phone lines, right?
Did you know that we once traded monopoly status so that ALL would benefit from such a service? Companies like Ma Bell and REMC put up the poles and strung the lines for miles down rural roads so that ONE household could get service.
What makes high speed communications different than low speed communications? After Congress (and we) paid the phone companies 4 billion to do so?
Who modded a win3.1 troll up(insightful)?
What a moron.
Thats simple. Go download the kernel and read it for what hardware it works with natively.
Its not hard.
I guess this is called for now :P
Dont bend over to pick up the mouse, Hans!
Im pretty sure I was bitten by the hash colliding bug. One afternoon, /usr/ collided with something and had complete jibberish in the ls.
I never submitted anything cause it was tainted with nvidia blobs at the time.
Were they talking of reiserfs, or where he hid the body?
Tacky.
I guess you've never heard of sarcasm.
Take a look what I posted prior to this (article about anti-copyright getting removed from Canadian copyright discussion).
I'm for fair compensation for creators. I dont necessarily think it needs copyright. However, Spore-creators want to charge people to create content, which they will turn around and sell back to the creators.
I dont think what they are doing is right either.. unless they are paying people back for good content (heh heh hardly).
I pass.
If I create, I expect to get paid.
Oh well, I guess piratbay will have it.. The full game, I mean.
It just seems that we have children on both sides of the copyright issue: one wanting everything for free, and the other saying "GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEE".
Its regardless if he was trying to stack the deck against them... Where are the mature communicators of copyright? Cause I sure dont see any.
Well lets look at he very questions on his blog....
Question - On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is strongly oppose and 5 is strongly support, how much do you support laws that would enable record companies to demand and collect a "settlement" of more than $5,000 from you because a member of your household may have downloaded music and made it available for sharing on the internet?
How about: On a measure of X currency, how much should be fined for downloading 1 song that they have not paid for?
That would give a true assessment on what people think songs are really worth, as it puts the listeners in the "creator" category. Along with that, it would have strong tendencies to deflate now-exorbitant statutory damages.
Question - On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is strongly oppose and 5 is strongly support, how much do you support laws that would enable a record company to easily obtain your name without your consent so that it can sue you for up to $20,000 for each song a member of your household may have downloaded and made available for sharing on the internet?
Same as above.
Question - On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is strongly oppose and 5 is strongly support, how much do you support laws that would enable record and movie companies to control how, when, where, how many times and on what type of electronic device that you can enjoy music and movies that you have bought and paid for?
2 questions: What is an acceptable time for copyright so it would promote creators to profit and create more?
Should copyright be extended to companies who use technological means to prevent fair use (backing up film, taking snippets for critique, etc.)? yes/no
As we see, its all vitriol. No wonder he was ejected before it startred.
Nobody, until (if) theres a lawsuit. Only when theres a lawsuit will damages be limited.
Yes, and MSWindows is posix compliant.
Do you think that OpenSolaris lives in isolation from everything else? Hardware support on it stinks. Windows is better, yet even Linux trumps Windows.
Im tenatively convinced about global warming for the following reason: acidic ocean water.
As anybody in chemistry knows, dissolving CO2 in water results in H2CO3, an acid. Only 2 major variables result in this, and that is pressure and amount. Since our pressure is roughly constant (28mmHg-32mmHg), that leaves the amount of CO2 to be rising.
Now, how can we look at prior trends of CO2 affecting the oceans? Simple. H2CO3 is an acid, and tends to leach calcium from single-celled creatures in the sea water. Now, looking at these plankton now shows disastrous effects on their shells due to oceans acidity. We can, however, use oceanbed samples to view millions of years prior to see if these effects have occurred before.
According to samples from ocean beds around the world, effects like these have never been seen on this dramatic of a scale.
Like I said, I was a naysayer, until I saw this evidence, and others.
Sure. Whatever.
I looked at macs when I bought my current laptop. I have a t61 thinkpad with multiple optional batteries (9 cell and drive battery give 8-10 hrs). Also have 4 gigs ram and the rest of the goodies you get with IBM.. 5 year warranty. The prices and feature set arent even comparable, as Apple doesnt offer the caliber of hardware that IBM does. And their policies of nigh everything being a service call pisses me off. I can change a keyboard module or hard drive, and in thinkpads, its really easy.
BTW, how much does "Apple Ram" cost again?
I tried to download it. Well, it wants all your information, which I wasnt even going to jump through their hoops.. After all, Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat and the rest dont make you do this.
And the hardware support sucks, even for a virtualized environment.
Simply said, Linux works better than Windows, and I enjoy it more. Better hardware support, better fun apps, and things Just Work.
For starters, many of these drugs do not work, or cause sever side effects that make the original malus look like nothing.
Next, many of the drugs that DO work are simply plant derivatives from indigenous peoples around the globe. Many of those nations have banned us (the USA) from going in there and pilfering their genetic diversity and selling it back to them at 10000* the original cost. We can look at Mexico and the native and mestizo cooperation to ban us from their mainland.
And now, the USA is subsidizing the whole world's prescription drugs because nigh every 1'st world country has some form of socialized medicine and a hard nose against the US drug companies. Those same companies belly-ache about mandatory pricing, but they will still make and sell drugs, as there is a great deal of profit. However, I do concede that the FDA needs to be taken out back and shot. They are a bunch of worthless do-nothings that require buckets of money to do nothing.
And your viewpoint is what makes atheists look very bad. Why?
Religion has two major things it accomplishes: a creation myth and a death myth. Many, many people cannot grasp the idea that you will be worm food when you die. They instead seek things like Heaven, enlightenment, or Valhalla as a means to cope with what they do not understand.
As long as these people are peaceful, let them have their beliefs, as it does not hinder what happens. And if somebody is 10% more efficent/successful/happier because of it, I see no reason to burst their bubble.
Im going to look at something completely different: used land mass..
Light Map of the world.
Why this? This shows where population is via light pollution. If we pay attention to Oceania, we see that very little land mass of Australia is used, in opposition to places like the eastern US, most of Europe, and Japan.
Why would a little-used large landmass country like Australia use this, and not the densely packed countries?