I still can't believe that back in 1972 we could just launch from the Earth, land on the Moon and start driving around in a jeep. It was normal back then.
We have completely lost the ability to do anything like that.
What he describes in his paper is quite similar to the Special Relativity of Einstein, although he does not explain it as clearly and as completely as Einstein does. But why history keeps him the shadow I'll never understand.
You can find soundtracks extracted from SNES games at zophar.net. These are the raw spc files extracted from the roms, they sound exactly like the SNES music digitizer output.
A satellite is any object that orbits a planet, regardless of mass.
A moon is any natural object that orbits a planet, again regardless of mass. (so probes and debris don't qualify)
A planet is an object massive enough to become spherical under its own gravitationnal field, that orbits a star. An asteroid is any rocky object that orbits a star and doesn't qualify as a planet.
A moon doesn't have to be spherical, so that's why the two irregular moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos (captured asteroids), are still called moons. The rings of saturn are made up of millions of small "moons", but they are (rightfully so) considered a single entity.
First a reminder for everyone (Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics):
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Do you think it will be really possible to "hardwire" the 3 laws, (especially the first one) into robots? How?
And won't that require the robots to be capable of "abstract judgement", a quality only observed thus far in human beings? How could we implement that? Is it possible?
Steve Jobs DOES have vision, and a profound understanding of the principles of technological innovation, no matter what some people might think. For example, he wrote that famous text himself:
http://www.apple.com/thinkdifferent/
The danger arises when something goes wrong in someone's mental development and that person comes to believe that people's lives *in reality* are worth nothing, just like in videogames.
This "sliding" of definition (imaginary people = real people = ok to kill) is NOT caused by videogames. Someone who is mentally unstable enough to kill over a videogame would be triggered as well by violent movies, books or his own violent mental imagery.
12 years elapsed between the launching of Spoutnik (a small 84 kg sphere) and the landing of men on the moon, who came aboard a fully functionnal interplanetary spacecraft.
Now 35 years have passed and all we have done is build a piece of junk space station that uses essentially the same technology that NASA had in 1969. Even the astronaut's suits from 1969 are basically the same than what they have today.
Why did progress stop?
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I consider Scott Wasson's Tech Report to be one of the best "independent" review sites around.
Simple.
Just equip every airlock with that marvel of 1980s technology...
"What does the Slashdot community think?"
Well, at the speed new stories are being posted, this one will scroll off the main page before anyon...
And I thought that in rural communities of North Dakota, the perfect mode of transportation was the mule...
from the if-you-must-run-windows-remove-ie dept.
f ault.aspx
Really? The microsoft website oftens blocks browsers other than IE from downloading updates and whatnot.
You CAN'T just remove IE. You need it. Just try to update office on firefox for example:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/de
Explanation here:
_ effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Doppler
You want direct evidence?
l oLaser.html _ of_satellites/lunar.html r iments_LRRR.html
Sent a powerful laser beam to the moon, aimed at the landing sites of either Apollo 11, 14 or 15.
It will be reflected back.
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEhelp/Apol
http://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellite_missions/list
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo15/A15_Expe
I still can't believe that back in 1972 we could just launch from the Earth, land on the Moon and start driving around in a jeep. It was normal back then.
We have completely lost the ability to do anything like that.
This old footage even looks like science-fiction to us.
...his first girlfriend experience will not work out as planned?
To hold you up until the first lander pictures are in, here's every image ever taken of Titan by NASA probes.
Quite simply:
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
--Carl Sagan
This will open a brand new market share for Apple, since a simple KVM switch can make that mac very tempting, for me at least.
The power of Mac OS X, suddenly very affordable. (also, expect that box to have the same clean pure white design lines of other current models)
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosop hy/works/fr/poincare.htm
What he describes in his paper is quite similar to the Special Relativity of Einstein, although he does not explain it as clearly and as completely as Einstein does. But why history keeps him the shadow I'll never understand.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternati ve.htm
Although less annoying, there's a Quicktime alternative too:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alte rnative.htm
You can find soundtracks extracted from SNES games at zophar.net. These are the raw spc files extracted from the roms, they sound exactly like the SNES music digitizer output.
http://www.zophar.net/zsnes/spc/
Players are here (get the winamp pluging):
http://www.zophar.net/utilities/spc.html
Be sure to check out Final Fantasy III (6 Japan) and Chrono Trigger.
Wow. A super intelligent mouse. Aren't they afraid that mouse will then get a slow-witted sidekick and try to take over the world?
Now imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!...
A satellite is any object that orbits a planet, regardless of mass.
A moon is any natural object that orbits a planet, again regardless of mass. (so probes and debris don't qualify)
A planet is an object massive enough to become spherical under its own gravitationnal field, that orbits a star. An asteroid is any rocky object that orbits a star and doesn't qualify as a planet.
A moon doesn't have to be spherical, so that's why the two irregular moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos (captured asteroids), are still called moons. The rings of saturn are made up of millions of small "moons", but they are (rightfully so) considered a single entity.
Oh, the theory for that has already been worked out. Now we only need dilithium crystals!
http://www.lcarscom.net/fsd/operations/warp.html
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Do you think it will be really possible to "hardwire" the 3 laws, (especially the first one) into robots? How?
And won't that require the robots to be capable of "abstract judgement", a quality only observed thus far in human beings? How could we implement that? Is it possible?
http://www.robrady.com/images/infl/new/infl-proto1 -lg.jpg
http://www.robrady.com/images/infl/new/infl-proto2 -lg.jpg
There's not much, but still the console exists in real hardware and plastic.
Steve Jobs DOES have vision, and a profound understanding of the principles of technological innovation, no matter what some people might think. For example, he wrote that famous text himself: http://www.apple.com/thinkdifferent/
The people you kill in videogames are not real.
The danger arises when something goes wrong in someone's mental development and that person comes to believe that people's lives *in reality* are worth nothing, just like in videogames.
This "sliding" of definition (imaginary people = real people = ok to kill) is NOT caused by videogames. Someone who is mentally unstable enough to kill over a videogame would be triggered as well by violent movies, books or his own violent mental imagery.
12 years elapsed between the launching of Spoutnik (a small 84 kg sphere) and the landing of men on the moon, who came aboard a fully functionnal interplanetary spacecraft. Now 35 years have passed and all we have done is build a piece of junk space station that uses essentially the same technology that NASA had in 1969. Even the astronaut's suits from 1969 are basically the same than what they have today. Why did progress stop?