You don't have to use "Yet Another Disc Format", it's entirely up to you how current you remain...
If there isn't need for anything, nothing will change ever.
Some as you would argue there wasn't need for "yet another systembus", yet there is now PCI-Express.
Or heck, why the hell 64-bits CPU's? Oh no, yet another CPU socket! Why multi-cores? Why SATA? Why didn't we stop at IDE OH YOUR GOD WHY!?
And even so, you can give each family 100$ and they can eat for a month from that. That's what organisations have been doing for decades now and keep on doing. But there will be new children, uneducated, unable to provide for themselves, in need for medical care, food, clean water, shelter.
Are you going to give another 100$ for the next generation or a factor of that cause the past generation is still starving? OR would you ensure education for all, so they can build their own economy and provide for themselves, create solutions and have the next generation being independant?
In a quasi infinate universe these things would happen constantly, not only once in a 225year span. (3*75, which is the human life expectency in Western Europe and the biggest part in the US)
If the universe is 13.7 billion years old and there is only one supernova in the universe each 226years, that would make only 60 619 469 supernovas since the origin of the universe.
wiki: Supernovae tend to enrich the surrounding interstellar medium with metals, which for astronomers means all of the elements other than hydrogen and helium and is a different definition than that use in chemistry. Thus, each stellar generation has a slightly different composition, going from an almost pure mixture of hydrogen and helium to a more metal-rich composition. Supernovae are the dominant mechanism for distributing these heavier elements
This means, in your words, that only 60 619 469 stellar compositionsions in the universe consist of more then hydrogen and helium alone, so also metals. Which implies aliens do not harvarst human genes and thoughts, but rather metals to build UFO's to show off to other races with their bling bling as it's so rare in the universe.
they cannot be over the large distances between two brains, because of quantum decoherence.
wiki: In quantum mechanics, quantum decoherence is the mechanism by which quantum systems interact with their environments to exhibit probabilistically additive behavior - a feature of classical physics - and give the appearance of wavefunction collapse.
So you look at a thought as matter, which should "travel" somehow to some other brain.
I believe there hasn't been any scientific precise breakdown of a "thought", as a dream in which an individual can experience a whole new world over a perceived longer timespan as the actual few minutes of the REM-period other then the brain releasing certain chemicals and reacting in a specific way. If dreams and thought were "matter", it would be possible to actually script a dream and a thought, and to back those up. You wouldn't be able to perceive time, in any concept, longer then a few minutes in that thinking, as you cannot travel faster then light or slow down time.
It DOES give interesting possibilities. Before Newton there wasn't such thing as gravity, it was there, but it was just to be "discovered". If they find nothing, then alot of people might have to review their beliefs and you can persist yours, but if there are some other results, it might prove an interesting new look to certain philosophy and religion.
So...
If you really believe our technological age is going to come to an end, why don't you build a big-ass monument that endures time and hide all the information of the world inside it, and hide it so only if a culture is advanced enough to find it can utilize it? With the reason that if it isn't advanced enough to understand the importance of that information, it might destroy it and discard it as worthless.
If you really believe things are coming to an end, why aren't you praying to your god, or actively doing something about it instead of sitting at home waiting for it to happen...? There's no need at all anymore for all medium-long planning as it "hasn't any use anyhow, cause I'm convinced I'm definatly dead in 10 years because chances are...".
Chances are some dino will come crashing down riding a meteor, hitting me while I'm on my bike to work and it'd be a blast, it as well will force evolutionary theory to be reshaped as the way we look at our earth! Both cool and hilarious! Also my death..:(
But I'm not staying inside waiting for it to happen...
Most likely you still drive your own car, that'd be so ironic. "I'm just going to stop living cause chances are I'm killing myself and others anyhow.."
I think you're in need of some prozac my friend...
It's generally known that a genius has mostly a few aspects of intelligence underdeveloped whereas the others are overdeveloped.
Many genius have been characterized with poor social skills, which doesn't surprice me as social interaction takes alot of energy and focus.
Could a genial person with great social abilities fe. be able to disconnect from the social distractions to fully concentrate on another task requiring alot of inverted and solitary work and time?
When I was a kid, we didn't have cellphones and certainly not in the classroom.
If we wanted to "secretly communicate", we wrote little notes, and passed them on. If the teacher intercepted one, well.. I couldn't claim my privacy was being violated. You just could get "negative credits". (a system where teachers could give you these "credits", 10 of these credits ment wednessdayafternoon obligated study.) for distrupting the class. Ha, even carrying cigarettes would be reason to be expelled for 3 days... If they had a suspicion, they would have reason to search your jacket.
Many people send their kids to school, trusting that school to take care of the wellbeing of these kids. And more and more as a pseudo-parent. If the school doesn't get the rights to somehow have an influence on (to not allow them to do just whatever they feel like doing) them. I believe that's a requirement for the all the other students and the student itself. In the case of the cigarettes; if your -caring- parents suspect you have been smoking, they'll search your stuff. Kids would love it if their parents only could search their stuff with a warrant, but things shouldn't work that way. In the time you're at school, they are expected to take over that function in a limited amount. If they screw up in the -caring- parents eye's they will have to argumentate why they just "didn't care about it" towards these parents. The oppinion of the child should matter not, as it's an individual but it's not yet an adult.
Well I sortof agree you shouldn't do the drugsearches by the school by installing a "big brother" system. But on the other hand, these kids can stop using their phones during class or turn them off and that might be the conclusion if that school doesn't get a way to monitor the traffic, because most likely they feel out of control of the things going on in that school and want to get back a hold on the problem. When I went to public school, drugs were found by running drugsdogs through some classes occasionally, I believe that's a bit more effective then snooping your 1000+ students but it doesn't leave much of a good impression.
I thought the people dieing from obsessive gaming were adults (20+).
Preventing minors to enter internet-cafés would target the wrong audience, wouldn't it?
What would those minors do when they have been DIEING to play a game because of all the media-hype around it, but couldn't because of local laws, and at a certain moment become "legal to game"?
Right.. play all they can to "catch up", even if it costs sleeping and eating...
While I'm guessing they're wringing their hands at such open bragging about underage drinking
It's funny to think of "underage drinking" as "drinking under 21" as in Belgium you're legally allowed to drink from the age of 16.
Even before you're allowed to drive a car...
I'm not sure what's better though, I used to get wasted when I was 16-17. Now I'm 24 and I barely drink as I lack to see the "cool" or "fun" of it other then once in a while a glass of wine with a nice dinner.
Mind to share why you wouldn't do it again? My girlfriend is seriously looking into lasersurgery, and I wouldn't want her to get into something that might hurt her for the rest of her life.
I might consider it but amblyopia can't be solved with lasersurgery.
And presumably you have to show up in person to get one, right? Prove your identity, show a passport, etc? That's not really verifying age online
Well it replaces the regular "identity card", which every Belgian is required by law to carry and is issues to you by the state. You have to be citizen to get one, you can't just "pick one up".
I believe the concept is not known in the US, but we are required by law to be able to identify at any moment after the age of 12. To be able to do so, we carry a "identity card", of which the eID is just the digital version.
Do you really use it though I use it to do my taxes and use government services online.
I've played around with the digital signing, but not many people are very familiour with signed emails and rather pass it then clicking through the prompts in their mailreader.
It should also be very easy to download your information in public systems as in hospitals (to get your adress and name, without having the secretary manually entering that) as well but I haven't seen that implemented as of yet. (haven't used public services in quite a while either, so I wouldn't know to be honest)
There is an API available, which I've played around with and is very easy to use but I lack time atm to look it up, but Linux is def. supported. (not sure about the API, but very sure about implementation)
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It must be 15 in imperial years this time...
You don't have to use "Yet Another Disc Format", it's entirely up to you how current you remain...
If there isn't need for anything, nothing will change ever. Some as you would argue there wasn't need for "yet another systembus", yet there is now PCI-Express. Or heck, why the hell 64-bits CPU's? Oh no, yet another CPU socket!
Why multi-cores? Why SATA? Why didn't we stop at IDE OH YOUR GOD WHY!?
If you're tired of discs, well, holographic storage has been thought of by many different entities as cubic storage.
*blink*
Are you sure about that?
And even so, you can give each family 100$ and they can eat for a month from that. That's what organisations have been doing for decades now and keep on doing. But there will be new children, uneducated, unable to provide for themselves, in need for medical care, food, clean water, shelter.
Are you going to give another 100$ for the next generation or a factor of that cause the past generation is still starving? OR would you ensure education for all, so they can build their own economy and provide for themselves, create solutions and have the next generation being independant?
In a quasi infinate universe these things would happen constantly, not only once in a 225year span. (3*75, which is the human life expectency in Western Europe and the biggest part in the US)
If the universe is 13.7 billion years old and there is only one supernova in the universe each 226years, that would make only 60 619 469 supernovas since the origin of the universe.
wiki:
Supernovae tend to enrich the surrounding interstellar medium with metals, which for astronomers means all of the elements other than hydrogen and helium and is a different definition than that use in chemistry. Thus, each stellar generation has a slightly different composition, going from an almost pure mixture of hydrogen and helium to a more metal-rich composition. Supernovae are the dominant mechanism for distributing these heavier elements
This means, in your words, that only 60 619 469 stellar compositionsions in the universe consist of more then hydrogen and helium alone, so also metals. Which implies aliens do not harvarst human genes and thoughts, but rather metals to build UFO's to show off to other races with their bling bling as it's so rare in the universe.
AND We can have drinks hooked up on one of these things and have our refreshments crawl to us!
Or even one hooked with a drainage tube with a slight suction-device, no more restroom breaks!
The possibilities... endless...
All I wonder is; will the electronics be able to withstand the temperatures of a fire?
Intel + AMD = LATE MIND
Intel + nVidia = EVIL DNA IN IT / DIVE IN AT NIL
AMD + nVidia = DNA VIA DIM
ATI + Intel = NIL ATE IT
wiki: In quantum mechanics, quantum decoherence is the mechanism by which quantum systems interact with their environments to exhibit probabilistically additive behavior - a feature of classical physics - and give the appearance of wavefunction collapse.
So you look at a thought as matter, which should "travel" somehow to some other brain.
I believe there hasn't been any scientific precise breakdown of a "thought", as a dream in which an individual can experience a whole new world over a perceived longer timespan as the actual few minutes of the REM-period other then the brain releasing certain chemicals and reacting in a specific way. If dreams and thought were "matter", it would be possible to actually script a dream and a thought, and to back those up. You wouldn't be able to perceive time, in any concept, longer then a few minutes in that thinking, as you cannot travel faster then light or slow down time.
It DOES give interesting possibilities. Before Newton there wasn't such thing as gravity, it was there, but it was just to be "discovered". If they find nothing, then alot of people might have to review their beliefs and you can persist yours, but if there are some other results, it might prove an interesting new look to certain philosophy and religion.
So...
:(
If you really believe our technological age is going to come to an end, why don't you build a big-ass monument that endures time and hide all the information of the world inside it, and hide it so only if a culture is advanced enough to find it can utilize it? With the reason that if it isn't advanced enough to understand the importance of that information, it might destroy it and discard it as worthless.
If you really believe things are coming to an end, why aren't you praying to your god, or actively doing something about it instead of sitting at home waiting for it to happen...? There's no need at all anymore for all medium-long planning as it "hasn't any use anyhow, cause I'm convinced I'm definatly dead in 10 years because chances are...".
Chances are some dino will come crashing down riding a meteor, hitting me while I'm on my bike to work and it'd be a blast, it as well will force evolutionary theory to be reshaped as the way we look at our earth! Both cool and hilarious! Also my death..
But I'm not staying inside waiting for it to happen...
Most likely you still drive your own car, that'd be so ironic. "I'm just going to stop living cause chances are I'm killing myself and others anyhow.."
I think you're in need of some prozac my friend...
It's generally known that a genius has mostly a few aspects of intelligence underdeveloped whereas the others are overdeveloped.
Many genius have been characterized with poor social skills, which doesn't surprice me as social interaction takes alot of energy and focus.
Could a genial person with great social abilities fe. be able to disconnect from the social distractions to fully concentrate on another task requiring alot of inverted and solitary work and time?
So how was that offtopic?
How is that relevant? I think it's very usefull.. and would love it for my MP3 player instead of wering a big headset to protect my ears!
If it'd be a bit more compact, I'd certainly go out and buy one and enjoy my music without worrying to lose my hearing before I'm 30.
When I was a kid, we didn't have cellphones and certainly not in the classroom. If we wanted to "secretly communicate", we wrote little notes, and passed them on. If the teacher intercepted one, well.. I couldn't claim my privacy was being violated. You just could get "negative credits". (a system where teachers could give you these "credits", 10 of these credits ment wednessdayafternoon obligated study.) for distrupting the class. Ha, even carrying cigarettes would be reason to be expelled for 3 days... If they had a suspicion, they would have reason to search your jacket.
Many people send their kids to school, trusting that school to take care of the wellbeing of these kids. And more and more as a pseudo-parent. If the school doesn't get the rights to somehow have an influence on (to not allow them to do just whatever they feel like doing) them. I believe that's a requirement for the all the other students and the student itself. In the case of the cigarettes; if your -caring- parents suspect you have been smoking, they'll search your stuff. Kids would love it if their parents only could search their stuff with a warrant, but things shouldn't work that way. In the time you're at school, they are expected to take over that function in a limited amount. If they screw up in the -caring- parents eye's they will have to argumentate why they just "didn't care about it" towards these parents. The oppinion of the child should matter not, as it's an individual but it's not yet an adult.
Well I sortof agree you shouldn't do the drugsearches by the school by installing a "big brother" system. But on the other hand, these kids can stop using their phones during class or turn them off and that might be the conclusion if that school doesn't get a way to monitor the traffic, because most likely they feel out of control of the things going on in that school and want to get back a hold on the problem. When I went to public school, drugs were found by running drugsdogs through some classes occasionally, I believe that's a bit more effective then snooping your 1000+ students but it doesn't leave much of a good impression.
But... don't you remember how all greedy stories end?
Your caps aren't big enough for it to hear/read.
Maybe try to add bold...
Well there are 108 "winners".
:-\
They wouldn't mind adding another 100 before January I'd think
I thought the people dieing from obsessive gaming were adults (20+).
Preventing minors to enter internet-cafés would target the wrong audience, wouldn't it?
What would those minors do when they have been DIEING to play a game because of all the media-hype around it, but couldn't because of local laws, and at a certain moment become "legal to game"?
Right.. play all they can to "catch up", even if it costs sleeping and eating...
It's funny to think of "underage drinking" as "drinking under 21" as in Belgium you're legally allowed to drink from the age of 16.
Even before you're allowed to drive a car...
I'm not sure what's better though, I used to get wasted when I was 16-17. Now I'm 24 and I barely drink as I lack to see the "cool" or "fun" of it other then once in a while a glass of wine with a nice dinner.
People really are in wonder when they discovere that there are "browsers" other then IE and seen extatic when they discovere "a new one".
Today in the newspaper (article (Dutch)) they wrote "Internet Explorer has a new competitor, called Opera!"... new...12 years isn't as new to me...
Because people don't buy more expensive things when there are cheaper alternatives (unless it's software...).
It's the same reason why [some] people go wild when they get coupons of 50cent or "+1 free" offers when they otherwise wouldn't buy that product.
Also, China actively sells producs cheaper to invade markets and can produce much higher volumes of sweet tech.
these crappy batteriesSo... Microsoft adopted your programming-philosofy?
In sovjet Russia...
Thanks for that! I'll read it through!
So far it's really interesting...
Mind to share why you wouldn't do it again?
My girlfriend is seriously looking into lasersurgery, and I wouldn't want her to get into something that might hurt her for the rest of her life.
I might consider it but amblyopia can't be solved with lasersurgery.
Well it replaces the regular "identity card", which every Belgian is required by law to carry and is issues to you by the state. You have to be citizen to get one, you can't just "pick one up".
I believe the concept is not known in the US, but we are required by law to be able to identify at any moment after the age of 12. To be able to do so, we carry a "identity card", of which the eID is just the digital version.
Do you really use it though
I use it to do my taxes and use government services online.
I've played around with the digital signing, but not many people are very familiour with signed emails and rather pass it then clicking through the prompts in their mailreader.
It should also be very easy to download your information in public systems as in hospitals (to get your adress and name, without having the secretary manually entering that) as well but I haven't seen that implemented as of yet. (haven't used public services in quite a while either, so I wouldn't know to be honest)
There is an API available, which I've played around with and is very easy to use but I lack time atm to look it up, but Linux is def. supported. (not sure about the API, but very sure about implementation)