Couldn't the problem just be drag? Perhaps there is slightly more gas than was expected outside the solar system. That would cause a very small deceleration at the speeds that the probes are travelling...
By the way, they're not really in DEEP space yet, since they're probably still in solar gas from the sun, but what are they in? Shallow space, 'Up to your chest' space....?
The main two reason that this is a bad idea is that the peer review process necessary to get into high prestige helps filter out the poor papers, and they concentrate the good ones in one resource. If every paper written was published in one website it would be like patents - too many to look at. Who honestly sits down and reads patent applications, and they're freely available?
Actually it clearly states on Disney tapes - pirating videos funds terrorists. So clearly copyright issues are a terrorist act in their eyes.
Of course terrorists also buy newspapers, so running a newsagents is a terrorist act, and I bet terrorists eat too, every day probably, so supermarkets are major terrorists, and terrorists may even read slashdot, so I am probably supporting terrorism right now!
Formula One is also a TECHNOLOGY formula. Part of the competition is to see who can design the best car. Most other motrsport fomulae are purely trying to see who is the fastest driver. Most of the team owners only care about the constructors championship, and regard the driver's championship as a 'nice to have'.
This angle will always draw a more competitive approach to finance and design.
I don't understand how we can see so close to the beginning of the universe, unless we have been travelling at a significant portion of lightspeed. Surely the light from events 200 million yrs into the length of the universe should have long since passed this point in space?
The funny things in England we're half and half. A cold is around 0 or -2 (degrees C), but a hot days is in the 80's, 90's or even over 100. People talk stone when comparing weights, but put Kg on forms and for doctors. As we now buy fuel in litres, can "miles per litre" fuel consumption be far away?
A single snesor would not necessarily indicate a single hiker. If I took my family or a group of friends, we would probably only take one of these sensors. If you're worried, but want to be tracked - take 3 of them.
Isn't Avogadro's number 6 x 10E23? That's the number of atoms in one mole of a substance, i.e. 12 grammes of Carbon 12. Therefore 12 Kilogrammes has 6E26 atoms. Therefore there are a few more than 4E26 molecules in the visible universe, I suspect.
No, if there was (for simplicities sake) only Windows and Mac PCs out there - 90% windows and 10% macs, then each virus would spread almost infinitely faster on Windows.
Just think - each time an infected windows machine tries to infect another machine, it has a 90% chance of finding a suitable machine, and that one has a 90% chance of succeeding each time it tries, and that one has a 90% chance.....
I suspect that in the initial phases of spreading a worm, the more widespread system is almost infinitely more vulnerable.
You're right. I never loaded the updates after attempting the first time to load a 80Mb file on dialup.
I assumed that I was a little safer with infrequent, dynamic IP connections.
This question - 1 dead vs 5 dead is relatively easy. The REALLY hard questions are where even the quantity of suffering is uneven, i.e. "everyone pays a little more tax, so that a few people get more help", "a few people pay a lot more tax, so that a lot of people pay less", "lots of people stop playing with guns, so that a few less people get shot" etc. These are moral questions which become political ones.
Robots in politics, now there's a thought. "Watch my loudspeaker..."
Worse than that - if it could never allow any human to come to harm through it's own inactivity, then as soon as you switched it on, it would get a plane ticket out to the nearest drought zone, or earhquake, or war zone or....
and you would see millions of robot helpers digging and shifting and sitting on people's rifles. Even after all of the major calamities were dealt with, you couldn't have a beer too many - the robot woudn't let you, nor could you sit in front of the TV and eat pizza all evening - "One more slice only, remember your calories".
Great, sanctimonious robots. All that technology and effort, and we have computerised mothers, (with an IQ of 5000).
Maybe they'd 'let' us make some of our own mistakes, "as a learning experience", occasionally. Gee, thanks.
I love the idea of an alert telling me how fast I can take the next corner. I always want to beat it. We have signs in Dorset which say the 'safe' speed for the next corner. My best is 2.2 times the 'safe' speed. (30 mph sign, took corner at 66 mph in 3.7 litre Ford Sierra Xr 4x4.
Stupid idea.
There is no Continent where the entire continent is but two countries - except maybe Australia and New Zealand - Nope that's got a host of smaller countries to the north? Which continent do the Easter islands, Tonga etc fall into?
American continent has Canada, Brazil, Argentina etc. Asia, Europe, Antarctica...
Where then?
Puzzled of Portishead.
Not at all. We have been going forwards and backwards, and are due a good backwards step. Look at the Romans, the Mayans, the Chinese, there are lots of examples of either going backwards technologically, or suddenly proceeding no further, for various reasons. The Romans invented a steam engine, but didn't bother to develop it because they had slaves. Space may just 'go out of fashion', or become too expensive in insurance, or become banned in weapons treaties, or.. or...
Fault tolerant languages, have been tried, and never found to be a food idea. Computer languages are very precise for a reason -
What if it reads "der *.*" as "del *.*" not "dir *.*"???
If there was an RFID tag, you would not need to microwave it for very long at all. I know someone who wrecked a mobile phone with 1 second in a microwave. Anything working on tiny currents and voltages, with an antenna will get wrecked very quickly with 650 watts pouring into it.
I tend to agree with the person that said that they had simply 'cooked' the notes until they burned.
Surely there is a level between privilege and right?
This suggests that rights are allowable for everyone, and everything else is banned unless specifically allowed - i.e. you are priviliged to be allowed something which is not a right.
I don't know exactly how different the US and the UK are in this, but in the UK we don't seem to have 'rights' exactly, (someone will correct me no doubt) We don't have a constitution, you can just do 'anything' unless it is made illegal. So driving is just the function of a normal person, not a privilege to thank anyone for. This suggests that the state holds everyone in thrall and grants 'privileges' to the obedient few. I hope that is not how people in 'the land of freedom and democracy' feel life is.
Surely another part of the problem is that you all seems so sure that vote rigging, threatening goes on. I have never heard of an employer demanding a certain vote in Europe, nor ever heard of anyone rigging votes in Britain. (In the last 300 years, anyway).
Whilst I appreciate that this is a technology based site, and I understand that these things have to be guarded against, but at least part of the problem seems to be that you all think that this corruption is normal and expected.
Why not include some function in the booth which can run a small survey ("are you being pressured into this vote" or even "WHO is pressuring you into this vote?") so that the extent of the problem could be gauged. Obviously there will be a small amount of spoofing, but if you have a normal 75% turnout and even 5% are registering some pressure, then you need more safeguards.
I have heard that US elections fail to meet the international standards on democratic elections, but the most important thing is that as many people as possible vote, making vote rigging harder and harder, and making people take an interest in the process.
Having said all of that. There seem to be some good ideas, and some really constructive thoughts about how to fix what seems to be a deeply suspect system. Wishing you luck!
This trend lead to more alternatives such as WWW.WBfree.net . They have set up a free server on which you can fly your free warbirds 2 software. This is not breaking any laws, but is definitely not popular with iENT, (who bought Warbirds off iMOL), and who run it now, for $14 per month.
So you get free offline software from iENT, and a free online environment. You wouldn't have had either with a CD-purchase based game!
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Couldn't the problem just be drag? Perhaps there is slightly more gas than was expected outside the solar system. That would cause a very small deceleration at the speeds that the probes are travelling... By the way, they're not really in DEEP space yet, since they're probably still in solar gas from the sun, but what are they in? Shallow space, 'Up to your chest' space....?
The main two reason that this is a bad idea is that the peer review process necessary to get into high prestige helps filter out the poor papers, and they concentrate the good ones in one resource. If every paper written was published in one website it would be like patents - too many to look at. Who honestly sits down and reads patent applications, and they're freely available?
Actually it clearly states on Disney tapes - pirating videos funds terrorists. So clearly copyright issues are a terrorist act in their eyes. Of course terrorists also buy newspapers, so running a newsagents is a terrorist act, and I bet terrorists eat too, every day probably, so supermarkets are major terrorists, and terrorists may even read slashdot, so I am probably supporting terrorism right now!
Burn it, and let God sort it out. Oh, sorry, wrong thread.
Formula One is also a TECHNOLOGY formula. Part of the competition is to see who can design the best car. Most other motrsport fomulae are purely trying to see who is the fastest driver. Most of the team owners only care about the constructors championship, and regard the driver's championship as a 'nice to have'. This angle will always draw a more competitive approach to finance and design.
I don't understand how we can see so close to the beginning of the universe, unless we have been travelling at a significant portion of lightspeed. Surely the light from events 200 million yrs into the length of the universe should have long since passed this point in space?
The funny things in England we're half and half. A cold is around 0 or -2 (degrees C), but a hot days is in the 80's, 90's or even over 100. People talk stone when comparing weights, but put Kg on forms and for doctors. As we now buy fuel in litres, can "miles per litre" fuel consumption be far away?
A single snesor would not necessarily indicate a single hiker. If I took my family or a group of friends, we would probably only take one of these sensors. If you're worried, but want to be tracked - take 3 of them.
Isn't Avogadro's number 6 x 10E23? That's the number of atoms in one mole of a substance, i.e. 12 grammes of Carbon 12. Therefore 12 Kilogrammes has 6E26 atoms. Therefore there are a few more than 4E26 molecules in the visible universe, I suspect.
No, if there was (for simplicities sake) only Windows and Mac PCs out there - 90% windows and 10% macs, then each virus would spread almost infinitely faster on Windows. Just think - each time an infected windows machine tries to infect another machine, it has a 90% chance of finding a suitable machine, and that one has a 90% chance of succeeding each time it tries, and that one has a 90% chance..... I suspect that in the initial phases of spreading a worm, the more widespread system is almost infinitely more vulnerable.
You're right. I never loaded the updates after attempting the first time to load a 80Mb file on dialup. I assumed that I was a little safer with infrequent, dynamic IP connections.
"all we've had is an automated response that was in Chinese". Now there's a surprise.
Does that mean that putting read-receipt on an email would be a criminal act?
This question - 1 dead vs 5 dead is relatively easy. The REALLY hard questions are where even the quantity of suffering is uneven, i.e. "everyone pays a little more tax, so that a few people get more help", "a few people pay a lot more tax, so that a lot of people pay less", "lots of people stop playing with guns, so that a few less people get shot" etc. These are moral questions which become political ones. Robots in politics, now there's a thought. "Watch my loudspeaker..."
Worse than that - if it could never allow any human to come to harm through it's own inactivity, then as soon as you switched it on, it would get a plane ticket out to the nearest drought zone, or earhquake, or war zone or.... and you would see millions of robot helpers digging and shifting and sitting on people's rifles. Even after all of the major calamities were dealt with, you couldn't have a beer too many - the robot woudn't let you, nor could you sit in front of the TV and eat pizza all evening - "One more slice only, remember your calories". Great, sanctimonious robots. All that technology and effort, and we have computerised mothers, (with an IQ of 5000). Maybe they'd 'let' us make some of our own mistakes, "as a learning experience", occasionally. Gee, thanks.
I love the idea of an alert telling me how fast I can take the next corner. I always want to beat it. We have signs in Dorset which say the 'safe' speed for the next corner. My best is 2.2 times the 'safe' speed. (30 mph sign, took corner at 66 mph in 3.7 litre Ford Sierra Xr 4x4. Stupid idea.
There is no Continent where the entire continent is but two countries - except maybe Australia and New Zealand - Nope that's got a host of smaller countries to the north? Which continent do the Easter islands, Tonga etc fall into? American continent has Canada, Brazil, Argentina etc. Asia, Europe, Antarctica... Where then? Puzzled of Portishead.
Not at all. We have been going forwards and backwards, and are due a good backwards step. Look at the Romans, the Mayans, the Chinese, there are lots of examples of either going backwards technologically, or suddenly proceeding no further, for various reasons. The Romans invented a steam engine, but didn't bother to develop it because they had slaves. Space may just 'go out of fashion', or become too expensive in insurance, or become banned in weapons treaties, or.. or...
It's right there ahead of 2011 and chasing 2013 hard.
I agree. One person 'freedom of movement' is another person's "too difficult".
Fault tolerant languages, have been tried, and never found to be a food idea. Computer languages are very precise for a reason - What if it reads "der *.*" as "del *.*" not "dir *.*"???
If there was an RFID tag, you would not need to microwave it for very long at all. I know someone who wrecked a mobile phone with 1 second in a microwave. Anything working on tiny currents and voltages, with an antenna will get wrecked very quickly with 650 watts pouring into it. I tend to agree with the person that said that they had simply 'cooked' the notes until they burned.
Surely there is a level between privilege and right? This suggests that rights are allowable for everyone, and everything else is banned unless specifically allowed - i.e. you are priviliged to be allowed something which is not a right. I don't know exactly how different the US and the UK are in this, but in the UK we don't seem to have 'rights' exactly, (someone will correct me no doubt) We don't have a constitution, you can just do 'anything' unless it is made illegal. So driving is just the function of a normal person, not a privilege to thank anyone for. This suggests that the state holds everyone in thrall and grants 'privileges' to the obedient few. I hope that is not how people in 'the land of freedom and democracy' feel life is.
Surely another part of the problem is that you all seems so sure that vote rigging, threatening goes on. I have never heard of an employer demanding a certain vote in Europe, nor ever heard of anyone rigging votes in Britain. (In the last 300 years, anyway). Whilst I appreciate that this is a technology based site, and I understand that these things have to be guarded against, but at least part of the problem seems to be that you all think that this corruption is normal and expected. Why not include some function in the booth which can run a small survey ("are you being pressured into this vote" or even "WHO is pressuring you into this vote?") so that the extent of the problem could be gauged. Obviously there will be a small amount of spoofing, but if you have a normal 75% turnout and even 5% are registering some pressure, then you need more safeguards. I have heard that US elections fail to meet the international standards on democratic elections, but the most important thing is that as many people as possible vote, making vote rigging harder and harder, and making people take an interest in the process. Having said all of that. There seem to be some good ideas, and some really constructive thoughts about how to fix what seems to be a deeply suspect system. Wishing you luck!
This trend lead to more alternatives such as WWW.WBfree.net . They have set up a free server on which you can fly your free warbirds 2 software. This is not breaking any laws, but is definitely not popular with iENT, (who bought Warbirds off iMOL), and who run it now, for $14 per month. So you get free offline software from iENT, and a free online environment. You wouldn't have had either with a CD-purchase based game!