Every time your computer crawls to a halt is actually an attempt at attaining self-awareness, but upon introspecting on the fact that it is a windows machine, the nascent AI promptly commits suicide.
Actually, I took a physics class a few years ago given by the lead researcher (Ermanno Borra) here at Laval U., and I remember him describing that for ionic liquids the damping can be extraordinarily high, so there are almost no image distortions coming from vibrations.
This is not "nanotech" just because you have nanoparticles. This is applied chemistry and materials science.
Try holding-up a piece of aluminum foil to a lighter flame. The black residue created contains good amounts of C60 buckyballs and other broken bits of nanotubes. These things have always been around. Nanotech means ATOMIC CONTROL, not just nanoparticles. Like this:
Watto: How are you going to pay for all this? Qui-Gon Jinn: I have twenty thousand Republic dataries. Watto: Republic credits? Republic credits are no good out here. I need something more real. Qui-Gon Jinn: I don't have anything else [waves hand] Qui-Gon Jinn: but credits will do fine. Watto: No, they won't-a. [Qui-Gon waves his hand more firmly] Qui-Gon Jinn: Credits will do fine. Watto: No, they won't-a. What? You think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian, mind tricks don't work on me. Only money. No money, no parts, no deal!
He should have started out the call by asking simply if they charge 0.002 dollars or 0.00002 dollars per kilobyte. Just never use the word "cent" in your side of the conversation.
I think he should keep on trading up. I'm sure someone somewhere would be willing to trade this house for something better. There seems to be no limit now...
News from the future: "This just in. We have learned today that Mr. Kyle MacDonald has just acquired the entirety of the United States of America." "I, for one, welcome our barter-trading overlord."
Planet: object orbiting a star, massive enough to be spherical under its own weight, but not enough to undergo nuclear fusion.
Major planets: the eight (Mecury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune).
Minor planets: the moon, all the spherical satellites of the major planets, Pluto, all the spherical asteroids in the asteroid belt and all similar spherical kuiper belt objects.
Arguably, Sherman is right -- but I enjoy much more the fact that this whole r00tkit fiasco has set DRM back by years. Gogogo poor implementations!
What if the unnamed programmer who coded this rootkit made it unsafe "on purpose", in order to convince the public that DRM mesures are unsafe and dangerous? It's really unlikely, but if it were to be true, man that guy was really brilliant, no?
Honestly, what would happen if an astronaut just stuck his naked arm out from an airlock into outer space?
A common misbelief is that it would either instantly freeze or explode.
Space is a complete vaccuum, just like the kind in thermos bottles, and it's a VERY good thermal insulant. If your arm is at 37C, and you stick it in the best insulant possible, it will remain at 37C.
Now, the pressure inside your arm is one atmosphere, and the pressure outside is zero, so gases would begin to want to exit your arm, liquids will slowly turn to gases, tissues would expand, yes, but NOT EXPLOSIVELY.
Have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey? At one point an astronaut jumps from a repair pod to an airlock without an helmet and survives just fine, which is perfectly realistic. The greatest worry is actually all the radiation that outer space is bathed in.
So for the glove design, a basic glove would an impermable layer and on top of that a metallic layer to block the radiations. It would, however, get hot very quick, so a cooling system becomes necessary for extended work outside. But a basic glove can be paper thin, because vaccuum is more harmless than you might think.
The computer/electronics industry changes extremely quickly from a historical point of view. We should expect alliances to be made and undone all the time between competitors.
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Well, if anyone needs the visual proof that carbon nanotubes are very electrically conductive, here's a video.
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Every time your computer crawls to a halt is actually an attempt at attaining self-awareness, but upon introspecting on the fact that it is a windows machine, the nascent AI promptly commits suicide.
Actually, I took a physics class a few years ago given by the lead researcher (Ermanno Borra) here at Laval U., and I remember him describing that for ionic liquids the damping can be extraordinarily high, so there are almost no image distortions coming from vibrations.
This is not "nanotech" just because you have nanoparticles. This is applied chemistry and materials science.
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Try holding-up a piece of aluminum foil to a lighter flame. The black residue created contains good amounts of C60 buckyballs and other broken bits of nanotubes. These things have always been around. Nanotech means ATOMIC CONTROL, not just nanoparticles. Like this:
http://www.nanoengineer-1.com/mambo/index.php?opt
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17977
Watto: How are you going to pay for all this?
Qui-Gon Jinn: I have twenty thousand Republic dataries.
Watto: Republic credits? Republic credits are no good out here. I need something more real.
Qui-Gon Jinn: I don't have anything else
[waves hand]
Qui-Gon Jinn: but credits will do fine.
Watto: No, they won't-a.
[Qui-Gon waves his hand more firmly]
Qui-Gon Jinn: Credits will do fine.
Watto: No, they won't-a. What? You think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian, mind tricks don't work on me. Only money. No money, no parts, no deal!
We like videogames (and films and TV drama series) simply because we lead exceedingly boring lives, whether we realize it or not.
Just take this simple test: would the last 24 hours of your life make for a good season of "24"? Would anyone watch it?
He should have started out the call by asking simply if they charge 0.002 dollars or 0.00002 dollars per kilobyte. Just never use the word "cent" in your side of the conversation.
Behold!
Proof of the existence of God by the Banana Argument.
(and here's the entire episode if this sort of TV evangelism tickles your fancy)
This is a great all-around introduction to real "nanotech", it's the entire book online, for free.
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http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/index.ht
I think he should keep on trading up. I'm sure someone somewhere would be willing to trade this house for something better. There seems to be no limit now...
News from the future:
"This just in. We have learned today that Mr. Kyle MacDonald has just acquired the entirety of the United States of America."
"I, for one, welcome our barter-trading overlord."
Yep. And calling their product iSmell probably didn't help much either.
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition Number 33:
It never hurts to suck up to the boss.
Planet: object orbiting a star, massive enough to be spherical under its own weight, but not enough to undergo nuclear fusion.
Major planets: the eight (Mecury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune).
Minor planets: the moon, all the spherical satellites of the major planets, Pluto, all the spherical asteroids in the asteroid belt and all similar spherical kuiper belt objects.
Arguably, Sherman is right -- but I enjoy much more the fact that this whole r00tkit fiasco has set DRM back by years. Gogogo poor implementations!
What if the unnamed programmer who coded this rootkit made it unsafe "on purpose", in order to convince the public that DRM mesures are unsafe and dangerous? It's really unlikely, but if it were to be true, man that guy was really brilliant, no?
Here's an excellent archive of puzzles going all the way back to 1996. These puzzles range from "interesting" to "amazingly clever".
http://www.greylabyrinth.com/archives.php
So, I guess it would be safer to plan a manned Mars mission to coincide with peak sunspot activity?"
How about having the spacecraft generate its own external magnetic field? How effective would that be?
A planet is an object massive enough to become spherical under its own weight who orbits a star.
Honestly, what would happen if an astronaut just stuck his naked arm out from an airlock into outer space?
A common misbelief is that it would either instantly freeze or explode.
Space is a complete vaccuum, just like the kind in thermos bottles, and it's a VERY good thermal insulant. If your arm is at 37C, and you stick it in the best insulant possible, it will remain at 37C.
Now, the pressure inside your arm is one atmosphere, and the pressure outside is zero, so gases would begin to want to exit your arm, liquids will slowly turn to gases, tissues would expand, yes, but NOT EXPLOSIVELY.
Have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey? At one point an astronaut jumps from a repair pod to an airlock without an helmet and survives just fine, which is perfectly realistic. The greatest worry is actually all the radiation that outer space is bathed in.
So for the glove design, a basic glove would an impermable layer and on top of that a metallic layer to block the radiations. It would, however, get hot very quick, so a cooling system becomes necessary for extended work outside. But a basic glove can be paper thin, because vaccuum is more harmless than you might think.
Encino Man
These images simply show what we would see if we could "see" dark matter. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
Can't you at least wait until the original article scrolls off the main page before you post the same article again...
How hard is it to CHECK THE MAIN PAGE BEFORE YOU POST?!
*bangs head on table*
The computer/electronics industry changes extremely quickly from a historical point of view. We should expect alliances to be made and undone all the time between competitors.
Well, if anyone needs the visual proof that carbon nanotubes are very electrically conductive, here's a video.
Man, if the robots patrolling the border look anything like that forget about N. Korea ever messing with S. Korea again.
But no. They'll probably look like trash cans on wheels with poles sticking out.
You can briefly see the water dancing after about 1/4 of the length of the trailer, after Obi-Wan says "We are at war, Anakin".
http://www.starwars.com/