That calculations involved "dirty" weapons. It's entirely possible to build a warhead specifically for this use (well, it wouldn't be a "war"head anymore...), without fission stage, that would give practically no nuclear fallout.
While I agree on general matter, I think the details about France are incorrect a little. Because, for example, where I live practically none electricity is generated from oil...but we still are dependant on it... So I think they are still hostage... (who knows if opposing the war wasn't precisely part of it)
No particular reason? How about beeing able RIGHT NOW with our current technology to launch an object that weights at least 8000000 tonns? (wikipedia: project orion). How loung would it take to launch such mass on chemicals and assemble it on orbit (plus: needed connections between parts = waste of mass)
OTOH I would tend to call decisions to service Hubble ANYTHING but agressive. (unfortunatelly) "Licking ass of general public" is perhaps too much...but you get the idea:/
My opinion is that the ones working on it should coin a name NOT including the word "nuclear". The public is so brainwashed on the matter that whenever they hear ir red lamp in their mind turns on:/
From the description it appears that late models of PS2 (PS1 too perhaps) are smaller...could be wrong though. Anyway, who cares as long as it's not too big and nice overall (I'd like to have a system in format of typical HiFi equipment, like CD32; original PS2 was closest to that from the recent systems...)
It could be that backwards compatybility in PS3 will be resolved similar to as in PS2: they took the original PS1 CPU and changed it a little bit for new role: acting as IO processor. However, when PS1 game was loaded, this IO habdled also.
The point is: not necesserilly. Remembering at all times it's just s-f we're talking about, we could assume such scenario: Machines ask themselves: do parts of the brain that are responsible for image processing from the eyes (put here anything that won't be used both in pod and in matrix) are used? Could they be used specifically for our needs?
Come to think of it - why the hell do I even respond to someone who confuses fraze "large parts of neural systems were unused" (it's obvious that it relates to that specific situation we're speculating about) with "large parts of neural systems are unused" (which I didn't saY)
You simply don't understand or don't see the context - large parts of human brain are used for other things than for consciousness, memories, and so on. Those parts would be "idle" in those matrix pods. Therefore could be used (of course it would be extremely hard - but it's s-f we're talking about in the first place) And I hope you realise that your explenation, while not false, is largery simplistic (and in one detail - BS)...(yep, you had bad luck of talking this to someone who knows a "little bit" more than average)
Actually, humans wouldn't have to sleep for the machines to use them for processing - large parts of neural systems were unused. And I also like to think that human brains were some sort of "source of new thoughts" for deterministic machine brains or something like that...
Poland: Half of the four biggest TV chanels is state owned. And they were the ones presenting most not-biased viewpoint, very often presenting criticizing opionions.
"the number of Jews and Gypsies that were killed during the Holocaust"
sidenote: it's sad that nobody remembers that 1/3 of those killed during Holocaust were ethnically Poles (and when it comes to nationality - most of them). Oh well, nothing to cry about; Putin also forgot to mention Poland at all during his recent speech on the occasion of 60th anniversary...and apparently only soldiers from forces who were occupying post-war germany deserve to be on statue created for the occasion... oh well...
So I understand you don't use normal phones either? (because if you can't imagine situations in which "on" mobile could be usefull...why would you find cable phone usefull?)
Low bandwith usually means low limits... (as for the dial-up it means 1h download; yes, I know theoretical max is higher, I had been achieving almost that when I had modem - but it was good, hardware modem; the modems people usually have are horrible...) It usually comes to this unfortunatelly: many people simply won't upgrade because of this...
PS. And SP2 can be found in magazines... (not that I need it, SP4 more...)
yes, I know the arguments behind it...but it would be relly nice if update didn't involve simply downloading installer (on mine 128kbps it's so so...and on slower?)
Oh, and 1km^2 of steel is little on the edge regarding your argument:p I'd had to do some calculations to be sure of course, but I think such mass would have clearly noticeable effect on orbits of nearby satellites.
That's why I've put driving in "" - I only meant the effect that larger object will be statistically more likely to get hits (you don't have to teach me about such things, I am/was physics kind of person). And what you say later is mostly speculation, I gather?...that's why I said some research has to be made. Oh, and about impurities...what I've meant is...I'm simply not sure that "vacuum cleaning" is so great...I could imagine some problems. It is so great? The problems are small compared to what we have?
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And could you enlighten us why would you put uranium in a device that relies entirely on fusion?
That calculations involved "dirty" weapons. It's entirely possible to build a warhead specifically for this use (well, it wouldn't be a "war"head anymore...), without fission stage, that would give practically no nuclear fallout.
While I agree on general matter, I think the details about France are incorrect a little. Because, for example, where I live practically none electricity is generated from oil...but we still are dependant on it...
So I think they are still hostage... (who knows if opposing the war wasn't precisely part of it)
No particular reason? How about beeing able RIGHT NOW with our current technology to launch an object that weights at least 8000000 tonns? (wikipedia: project orion). How loung would it take to launch such mass on chemicals and assemble it on orbit (plus: needed connections between parts = waste of mass)
OTOH I would tend to call decisions to service Hubble ANYTHING but agressive. (unfortunatelly) :/
"Licking ass of general public" is perhaps too much...but you get the idea
My opinion is that the ones working on it should coin a name NOT including the word "nuclear". The public is so brainwashed on the matter that whenever they hear ir red lamp in their mind turns on :/
But also OTOH, when it comes to consoles, it's all about the exclusive games...
From the description it appears that late models of PS2 (PS1 too perhaps) are smaller...could be wrong though.
Anyway, who cares as long as it's not too big and nice overall (I'd like to have a system in format of typical HiFi equipment, like CD32; original PS2 was closest to that from the recent systems...)
It could be that backwards compatybility in PS3 will be resolved similar to as in PS2: they took the original PS1 CPU and changed it a little bit for new role: acting as IO processor. However, when PS1 game was loaded, this IO habdled also.
The point is: not necesserilly.
Remembering at all times it's just s-f we're talking about, we could assume such scenario:
Machines ask themselves: do parts of the brain that are responsible for image processing from the eyes (put here anything that won't be used both in pod and in matrix) are used? Could they be used specifically for our needs?
Come to think of it - why the hell do I even respond to someone who confuses fraze "large parts of neural systems were unused" (it's obvious that it relates to that specific situation we're speculating about) with "large parts of neural systems are unused" (which I didn't saY)
You simply don't understand or don't see the context - large parts of human brain are used for other things than for consciousness, memories, and so on. Those parts would be "idle" in those matrix pods. Therefore could be used (of course it would be extremely hard - but it's s-f we're talking about in the first place)
And I hope you realise that your explenation, while not false, is largery simplistic (and in one detail - BS)...(yep, you had bad luck of talking this to someone who knows a "little bit" more than average)
But for pacemaker it should suffice I guess...
Actually, humans wouldn't have to sleep for the machines to use them for processing - large parts of neural systems were unused.
And I also like to think that human brains were some sort of "source of new thoughts" for deterministic machine brains or something like that...
Poland:
Half of the four biggest TV chanels is state owned. And they were the ones presenting most not-biased viewpoint, very often presenting criticizing opionions.
"the number of Jews and Gypsies that were killed during the Holocaust"
sidenote: it's sad that nobody remembers that 1/3 of those killed during Holocaust were ethnically Poles (and when it comes to nationality - most of them). Oh well, nothing to cry about; Putin also forgot to mention Poland at all during his recent speech on the occasion of 60th anniversary...and apparently only soldiers from forces who were occupying post-war germany deserve to be on statue created for the occasion...
oh well...
Are you interested in local stats? :>
Poland, 28th April:
Microsoft IE 83,1%
Mozilla Firefox 9,6%
Opera 5,1%
Mozilla 1.6%
So it's very probable that by now it has 10%
So I understand you don't use normal phones either? (because if you can't imagine situations in which "on" mobile could be usefull...why would you find cable phone usefull?)
You know, there are those things called on/off switches...
Low bandwith usually means low limits... (as for the dial-up it means 1h download; yes, I know theoretical max is higher, I had been achieving almost that when I had modem - but it was good, hardware modem; the modems people usually have are horrible...)
It usually comes to this unfortunatelly: many people simply won't upgrade because of this...
PS. And SP2 can be found in magazines... (not that I need it, SP4 more...)
Great, to the list we can add "Google knows where you are" ;P
I was most often told that it's because of multitude of different compile versions in existence, likely causing borked updates.
yes, I know the arguments behind it...but it would be relly nice if update didn't involve simply downloading installer (on mine 128kbps it's so so...and on slower?)
Oh, and 1km^2 of steel is little on the edge regarding your argument :p I'd had to do some calculations to be sure of course, but I think such mass would have clearly noticeable effect on orbits of nearby satellites.
That's why I've put driving in "" - I only meant the effect that larger object will be statistically more likely to get hits (you don't have to teach me about such things, I am/was physics kind of person). And what you say later is mostly speculation, I gather?...that's why I said some research has to be made.
Oh, and about impurities...what I've meant is...I'm simply not sure that "vacuum cleaning" is so great...I could imagine some problems. It is so great? The problems are small compared to what we have?