Thanks, Sir, you owe me a new keyboard, and possibly a new job as I had to explain to my coworkers why i was coughing coffee all over the table. Apart from that, congratulations. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter! If you need some help with this mod, you know where to find me...
Sure you can. After all, the speed of electromagnetic radiation in atmosphere is less than c. ... Or perhaps use a color-changing car paint
No need for the color changing paint - if you travel at that speed, you would be sufficiently red-shifted for the tailing cops. Just run, then park at the next lot - "No officer, I didn't see that red car speeding by."
Seriously... Who is going to control them after the nuclear holocaust, when only Keith and the roaches are left? Better equip a roach, so that it can remote control Keith.
*Goes back to his lab and starts drawing schematics.
Just to add some paranoia - let`s say it is sold with the separate power circuits you are requesting, so you got two switches, two cables, etc. How do you find out if one isn`t really a fake? Open the case, see the cables vanish in some monolithic integrated block of electronic whatever that you cannot even open without breaking it?
Aren't kinetic penetrators being at least partially turned to plasma upon impact anyway? I always thought that this actually helped the penetrator burn its way through the armor and subsequently fry everything inside to a nice crisp?
Wooh! It would be sweet if we could turn the moon into a giant Zen Garden!!!
Good Sir, that is one of the most innovative, brilliant and mind-boggling ideas that I encountered lately. A project worth of human endeavour, albeit in a completely batshit-crazy way. I say, let us for a cult, gather disciples and raise funding for the Moon Zen Garden project! Let us plant a beacon of tranquility, peace and introspection into the night sky, for all to see! Let Earth bask in the spiritual emanations of the Moon Zen Garden! World peace! Happyness! Enlightenment for all! It is only a few simple steps away!
Let me direct you to the official Oblivion forums. There's a free-for-all whinefest going on for the last couple of weeks. Could you please direct your whines there? It is bad enough that the oblivion forums are rendered unusable by the regular trolls and whiners there - I don't want to read the same bullcrap all over slashdot, thank you very much.
But there are a lot more good books than good games, simply because there are very few classic games that keep value after their "tech peek" (like Tetris).. But there are lots of good books that were written a long time ago that are still interesting... The library is just larger.
Well, we have been producing books for a couple of thousands of years longer than videogames. Lots of old printed crap has simply vanished from sight, as will lots of crappy games. But the library of classic games will still grow on. Let's compare it again in thousand years - remember to necro up this old thread on slashdot then for a good laugh.
I actually don't buy into Kurzweil's singularity theory. I am not sure where he pulls that super-exponential growth figure from. Looking at past technological advances, I rather think that technological growth follows a succession of sigmoids. First you got a "buildup phase", followed by a very fast "breakthrough" phase, which slows down again, till the process settles on a plateau. Then there might be nothing for quite some time, till the next advancement phase sets in.
Such a development model might very well go on for a long time, without reaching a Kurzweil-style singularity.
Well, you know, a government agency isn't a pharmaceutical company. Why don't they just shut it down and employ a couple of soothsayers predicting the climate from the intestines of sacrificed oxen, if they don't like what their research gives them? It is indeed a sad state of government.
That link, good Sir, was exceedingly funny! For the lack of mod points, I hereby bestow upon you the "poster of the day" merit badge. Please find attached an invoice covering the price for a new keyboard, as my old one died due to beer being coughed all over it as a direct consequence of your post. Hoping to hear from you soon,
I remain sincerely yours,
Dr. GeneMachine
Interesting. Thanks for the info. However, there has to be a point where an increase in sensitivity is eaten up by an increased need for redundancy, especially when you come into the realm of single photon detection. I am not arguing that this is the case here - just interested in the basic theory.
The scientists in question aren't censored per se. What is censored, are the official reports. While no one drags away scientists who speak against official policies to Guantanamo (yet), they are hindered to publish their findings in an official way, or have to watch how their findings are altered to match the government agenda. Bad enough.
Ok, so they boosted the sensitivity of their detectors. That is good thing, for sure. I would, however, be interested what this technology does to the signal to noise ratio of the transmission. Large bandwidth won't be of much use if you have to repeat every packet one hundred times, because most of it is lost in the noise.
And that's why I won't touch any class-based MMORPG with a barge pole. I'm quite happy in EVE where I freely can model my characters in a class-less system. Oh, yeah, and level-less, too.
The trains by me are funded by force -- the average rider pays a few dollars, and the taxpayer pays almost $10 more to cover the bureaucracy of the trains. Many trains originally were privately run, but the cronies found ways to get government to foot the bill. I believe cars are way more efficient and cheaper once you factor in the true costs of the train system.
Who exactly do you think pays the upkeep for your "cheaper and more efficient" road system? The Highway Fairy?
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Thanks, Sir, you owe me a new keyboard, and possibly a new job as I had to explain to my coworkers why i was coughing coffee all over the table.
Apart from that, congratulations. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter! If you need some help with this mod, you know where to find me...
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Or perhaps use a color-changing car paint
No need for the color changing paint - if you travel at that speed, you would be sufficiently red-shifted for the tailing cops. Just run, then park at the next lot - "No officer, I didn't see that red car speeding by."
Seriously... Who is going to control them after the nuclear holocaust, when only Keith and the roaches are left? Better equip a roach, so that it can remote control Keith.
*Goes back to his lab and starts drawing schematics.
Wheeeeemacs!!!
Why build artificial insects when you can remote control cockroaches?
Just to add some paranoia - let`s say it is sold with the separate power circuits you are requesting, so you got two switches, two cables, etc. How do you find out if one isn`t really a fake? Open the case, see the cables vanish in some monolithic integrated block of electronic whatever that you cannot even open without breaking it?
Aren't kinetic penetrators being at least partially turned to plasma upon impact anyway? I always thought that this actually helped the penetrator burn its way through the armor and subsequently fry everything inside to a nice crisp?
Good Sir, that is one of the most innovative, brilliant and mind-boggling ideas that I encountered lately. A project worth of human endeavour, albeit in a completely batshit-crazy way.
I say, let us for a cult, gather disciples and raise funding for the Moon Zen Garden project! Let us plant a beacon of tranquility, peace and introspection into the night sky, for all to see! Let Earth bask in the spiritual emanations of the Moon Zen Garden! World peace! Happyness! Enlightenment for all! It is only a few simple steps away!
Let me direct you to the official Oblivion forums. There's a free-for-all whinefest going on for the last couple of weeks. Could you please direct your whines there? It is bad enough that the oblivion forums are rendered unusable by the regular trolls and whiners there - I don't want to read the same bullcrap all over slashdot, thank you very much.
Well, we have been producing books for a couple of thousands of years longer than videogames. Lots of old printed crap has simply vanished from sight, as will lots of crappy games. But the library of classic games will still grow on. Let's compare it again in thousand years - remember to necro up this old thread on slashdot then for a good laugh.
Such a development model might very well go on for a long time, without reaching a Kurzweil-style singularity.
I agree that to resign would be the first thing to do in such a situation, before stirring up this discussion.
Well, you know, a government agency isn't a pharmaceutical company. Why don't they just shut it down and employ a couple of soothsayers predicting the climate from the intestines of sacrificed oxen, if they don't like what their research gives them? It is indeed a sad state of government.
That link, good Sir, was exceedingly funny! For the lack of mod points, I hereby bestow upon you the "poster of the day" merit badge. Please find attached an invoice covering the price for a new keyboard, as my old one died due to beer being coughed all over it as a direct consequence of your post. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain sincerely yours, Dr. GeneMachine
Interesting. Thanks for the info. However, there has to be a point where an increase in sensitivity is eaten up by an increased need for redundancy, especially when you come into the realm of single photon detection. I am not arguing that this is the case here - just interested in the basic theory.
The scientists in question aren't censored per se. What is censored, are the official reports. While no one drags away scientists who speak against official policies to Guantanamo (yet), they are hindered to publish their findings in an official way, or have to watch how their findings are altered to match the government agenda. Bad enough.
Ok, so they boosted the sensitivity of their detectors. That is good thing, for sure. I would, however, be interested what this technology does to the signal to noise ratio of the transmission. Large bandwidth won't be of much use if you have to repeat every packet one hundred times, because most of it is lost in the noise.
I'd posit that Jack Daniel's is savagery in itself. At least get a decent drink, dude.
A Mind Forever Voyaging has to be on that list.
Congratulations. A sane voice on slashdot. You must be new here... ;)
No chance, the apes will find out about the great thermal insulation properties of styrofoam and shield themselves against the cold.
And that's why I won't touch any class-based MMORPG with a barge pole. I'm quite happy in EVE where I freely can model my characters in a class-less system. Oh, yeah, and level-less, too.
Who exactly do you think pays the upkeep for your "cheaper and more efficient" road system? The Highway Fairy?
And, well, Opera is still better....
you have no idea how reassuring it is to see that i am not the only one....