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Considering New Scientist's recent track record of poor reporting skills, I'm cautious at best about the actual feasibility and practicality of such a device.
What we really need is cooperative insurance where everyone adds to the pool and the unused pool money gets returned to the contributors.
There is just such an insurance company. It's called USAA.
A *RUSSIAN* scientist spreading homeland security propaganda for an *AMERICAN* political party. You really put a lot of thought into that assertion, didn't you?
Now all we have to do is convince the general population that their cars are safe in the autonomous control of computers rather than their own two hands.
Sure, *I* know that having automobiles controlled by a sophisticated traffic network would be safer and more efficient -- I read Slashdot, after all -- but I doubt very many people in this country would be so thrilled about the idea of giving up their grip on the steering wheel.
I had the exact same problem as I graduated high school and entered college as a freshman almost a year ago. My grades were on a steady decline through high school and I seemed to lack any motivation to study for my courses and complete my assignments. But I knew I was smart -- my IQ was 136.
I went into my university's office of disability services, thinking I might have dyslexia because of some difficulty in reading and hoping I could be testing. After a few interviews with myself and my parents, and several months of taking a variety of achievement, aptitude, and psychological tests, I was diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and my doctor put me on a prescription for Strattera.
Since then, I feel like I've been reborn. With the medication, I have a renewed motivation to work hard on my studies and I'm able to keep better attention on my reading assignments and professor's long-winded lectures. You claim to have "unlimited attention span" when working on things you enjoy, but your grades seem to reflect otherwise -- I bet you had trouble getting your homework assignments done, didn't you? If I were you, I would look into getting tested for ADD.
...he'll be telling us we have to collect eight "spirits" to "heal" Gaia, while the military will be advocating the use of a giant orbital laser. Pffffftt.
In fact, I think that we should seriously question whether the entire premise of SETI@home--that other life forms would transmit data at the radio frequency of water--is still valid
Actually, the searching is done at the frequency of hydrogen, not water. The hydrogen line (1420.40575 MHz) is the precession frequency of neutral hydrogen atoms, the most abundant substance in the universe. From SETI League: "In 1959 two scholars (Philip Morrison at Cornell University and Frank Drake at NRAO) independently recognized that the hydrogen line would be a likely frequency for interstellar beacons. They reasoned that more advanced civilizations would reason that young civilizations (like ours) might already be listening there. Based upon that circular reasoning, Morrison went on to co-author the world's first modern SETI article ("Searching for Interstellar Communications," Nature 184(4690):844-846, September 19, 1959), and Drake conducted a the first modern SETI study, "Project Ozma," a hydrogen line search of two nearby Sun-like stars for possible artificial signals."
But, if you have a better idea of what frequency to look at, I'm sure the SETI project is listening -- no pun intended.;)
The university I attend, Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, has an excellent disability services office with professionals who are willing to help every step of the way for both the mentally and physically disabled. I have been truly impressed by their aid. As a result, a whopping 5% of the campus population happens to have a disability -- 5% is much, much higher than the average.
There's also a lawsuit against Microsoft in progress by Merrium-Webster, citing that both "micro" and "soft" are used in their dictionary and that Bill Gates has no right to capitalize on words in the English language without their explicit permission.
I didn't mean to imply that I had some concerns over the advertising system -- I just think that if the article had brought up the points you just mentioned, it would be even better.
I personally will be signing up with GMail as soon as it is released to the general public.
I'm glad they covered all the important features and what needs to be added or improved, but I wish they'd spent some time going over the privacy issues and what they think about Google reading our e-mails.
Ah well -- still a decent review overall. Kudos to Mr. Lynch.
Will this new universal 3D standard specify a certain graphical capability? I think it'd be great if developers could use this format to make clean, effective 3D images that run well on older, less hardware-intensive machines that don't necessarily have the latest nVidia or ATI cards in them.
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I'll take that one mil if you don't want it!
Considering New Scientist's recent track record of poor reporting skills, I'm cautious at best about the actual feasibility and practicality of such a device.
What we really need is cooperative insurance where everyone adds to the pool and the unused pool money gets returned to the contributors. There is just such an insurance company. It's called USAA.
A *RUSSIAN* scientist spreading homeland security propaganda for an *AMERICAN* political party. You really put a lot of thought into that assertion, didn't you?
Here's a good link from the Canadian Space Agency's web site on Dextre (Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator): http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/csa_sectors/human_p re/iss/mss_spdm.asp
I laughed when I saw the 730-passenger Airbus concept. I laughed even harder when I saw that it was made in March of 2004.
Now all we have to do is convince the general population that their cars are safe in the autonomous control of computers rather than their own two hands. Sure, *I* know that having automobiles controlled by a sophisticated traffic network would be safer and more efficient -- I read Slashdot, after all -- but I doubt very many people in this country would be so thrilled about the idea of giving up their grip on the steering wheel.
This calculation doesn't include the number of people turned off from the SETI@Home project by the new BOINC software.
I had the exact same problem as I graduated high school and entered college as a freshman almost a year ago. My grades were on a steady decline through high school and I seemed to lack any motivation to study for my courses and complete my assignments. But I knew I was smart -- my IQ was 136.
I went into my university's office of disability services, thinking I might have dyslexia because of some difficulty in reading and hoping I could be testing. After a few interviews with myself and my parents, and several months of taking a variety of achievement, aptitude, and psychological tests, I was diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and my doctor put me on a prescription for Strattera.
Since then, I feel like I've been reborn. With the medication, I have a renewed motivation to work hard on my studies and I'm able to keep better attention on my reading assignments and professor's long-winded lectures. You claim to have "unlimited attention span" when working on things you enjoy, but your grades seem to reflect otherwise -- I bet you had trouble getting your homework assignments done, didn't you? If I were you, I would look into getting tested for ADD.
On a somewhat related note, I'm an ENTJ.
"Another interesting tidbit : he has flirted with the idea of going to work for Google."
Really now, who these days hasn't thought about that? :D
It's events like this that make GMail look more and more tantilizing.
If trolls are a problem with the patent office, the solution seems simple: start giving citizens patent moderator points.
...he'll be telling us we have to collect eight "spirits" to "heal" Gaia, while the military will be advocating the use of a giant orbital laser. Pffffftt.
..."Quantum Torpedos".
In fact, I think that we should seriously question whether the entire premise of SETI@home--that other life forms would transmit data at the radio frequency of water--is still valid
Actually, the searching is done at the frequency of hydrogen, not water. The hydrogen line (1420.40575 MHz) is the precession frequency of neutral hydrogen atoms, the most abundant substance in the universe. From SETI League: "In 1959 two scholars (Philip Morrison at Cornell University and Frank Drake at NRAO) independently recognized that the hydrogen line would be a likely frequency for interstellar beacons. They reasoned that more advanced civilizations would reason that young civilizations (like ours) might already be listening there. Based upon that circular reasoning, Morrison went on to co-author the world's first modern SETI article ("Searching for Interstellar Communications," Nature 184(4690):844-846, September 19, 1959), and Drake conducted a the first modern SETI study, "Project Ozma," a hydrogen line search of two nearby Sun-like stars for possible artificial signals."
But, if you have a better idea of what frequency to look at, I'm sure the SETI project is listening -- no pun intended. ;)
I always thought that intrusive regulation of a free market was more "bad economics" than letting the system guide itself.
The university I attend, Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, has an excellent disability services office with professionals who are willing to help every step of the way for both the mentally and physically disabled. I have been truly impressed by their aid. As a result, a whopping 5% of the campus population happens to have a disability -- 5% is much, much higher than the average.
There's also a lawsuit against Microsoft in progress by Merrium-Webster, citing that both "micro" and "soft" are used in their dictionary and that Bill Gates has no right to capitalize on words in the English language without their explicit permission.
You would do well to report his nickname and IP address to the FBI.
I didn't mean to imply that I had some concerns over the advertising system -- I just think that if the article had brought up the points you just mentioned, it would be even better.
I personally will be signing up with GMail as soon as it is released to the general public.
I'm glad they covered all the important features and what needs to be added or improved, but I wish they'd spent some time going over the privacy issues and what they think about Google reading our e-mails.
Ah well -- still a decent review overall. Kudos to Mr. Lynch.
First Microsoft "negotiates" with Sun, now they're trying to gain the upper-hand with Mozilla. What's next?
Next thing you know, they'll be telling us green tea is good for your HEALTH, too.
Erk, sorry about that. Thanks for being light-hearted about it. :)
Will this new universal 3D standard specify a certain graphical capability? I think it'd be great if developers could use this format to make clean, effective 3D images that run well on older, less hardware-intensive machines that don't necessarily have the latest nVidia or ATI cards in them.