Murphy's law was never meant to be negative. It actually began as "whatever can happen, will happen." Murphy always gets a bad wrap, I suggest you read the true history here.
Work expands to meet the time and money that is available.
To call angular resolution "image clarity" is greatly oversimplifying things. Angular resolution is a product of the size of the dish and the wavelength of the light observed. (Thus spectral coverage is not distinct from angular resolution). The atmosphere does pose a problem, but building the telescopes at higher elevations can greatly reduce distortion.
Extremely high angular resolution can be achieved on earth by linking up several telescopes. For instance, the VLBI technique created a telescope spanning 5,280 miles- with enough resolving power to, "sit in New York and be able to see the dimples on a golf ball in Los Angeles."
Space telescopes are great, but until it becomes cheaper to get large telescopes into orbit or on the moon nothing beats the basement bargain earth telescope.
The interesting thing about this patent is the future legal battle it creates.
Introns are the non-coding segments of DNA, the parts of the code that do not specially get transcribed and translated into proteins. However, many scientists have discovered cases where the introns often dictate the expression levels of exons (protein coding regions) around them.
My question is this, if this company "owns" the introns and claims to make a medically useful technology based on controlling protein expression, but another company already patented the sequence that codes for the protein, who gets the rights (and riches) of the technology - the owner of the modulator of the protein or the owner of the protein?
I'm really disappointed that the website does not warn George Bush the game is not real. He's probably already ordered it and has poor post-op Powell already on the trail of the "WMDs".
I just hope he doesn't use the game in the upcoming state of the union as more proof for their existence, although maybe it's more reliable than British intel?:)
This doesn't really seem like a good application for ion engines. They are designed more for long distance deep space travel as they build speed very slowly.
This device will probably have more conventional thruster units that allow for high thrust and greater manueverability - especially if trying to catch objects that are no longer in orbit.
That's amusing. I really only meant the post as a joke but now I feel stupid since they will probably actually do it - I should never question the Japanese.
I wonder if, in the growing trend of X vs Y such as Predator vs Alien and Krueger vs Jason, eventually they will release a Donkey Konga versus Dance Dance Revolution, where you have a dance/drum off, and the less rhythmically skilled person's head explodes. I would pay at least $4 for that.
In other news, does anyone remember the original pad play game Nintendo Track and Field, where the damn athlete never seemed to match the rate at which you ran on the pad, no matter how coordinated you were?
Three things strike me about this law:
1. After reading the text, it does not include the word "bulk" in any context for spam, which basically means that any single person email to another person (even if sent in good faith) could be applicable to the law if the receiver deems it "spam." I think that is a mistake.
2. It limits statutory damages for civil violations. This is ridiculous, is it really necessary to protect the spammers, basically the most hated group of people within the net?.
3. It still allows "spam" email from charities, religious organisations and government bodies. Now all I need is my penis enlargement emails coming to me from the church of large testicles. Seriously though, why is junk mail from churches or the even the government for that matter better than my daily breast enlargement emails?
I think this conversation is running too much in terms of the present. Obviously, as long as the PC is used for internet and office work there will remain a market for PC games, but with the trend of progressively more powerful consoles I think eventually the two will come together in one machine - eliminating both the PC and the independent console.
Once consoles acquire larger harddrives, the graphics capability of the system (including future VR integration) is going to make office users want to use the same technology to give presentations and maniuplate data (3D databasing). Once this happens I think the two will begin to come together for an all-around family computer/gaming system.
I once read about a full sensor suit attached to a very life-like virtual reality simulator. The point of the machine - an incredibly realistic simulation of sex, with anyone you want. I cannot even comprehend how much money this device would make - given the consensus in this discussion, I believe this device has the potential to completely shut down the world economy. No matter how morally righteous you believe yourself to be, would you really ever leave your house again?
For a second I thought this was the Paris Hilton study. Where Paris Hilton makes this desert storm night vision sex tape and then distributes it on the internet - just as her new show is coming out. So all the guys are like, "slut," but masturbate to the video every night and then subliminally cannot resist watching her show so the sponsors can add to her already enormous wealth.
They stopped implanting orgasm inducing electrodes in male mice because they would just trigger it until they died.
Men are dumb and I didn't really need this study to remind me of my failings - I'm living the dream baby!
Popular Science also has a best of what's new:
including the pet translator: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/2003/article/0,1 8881,535988,00.html
and this handy thing for watching people have sex (again and again):
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/2003/article/0,1 8881,536011,00.html
By the way, haven't Jules Verne and the recent movie "the core," taught us to stay the hell away from the center of the earth - someone slap this guy.
If only it could speak to me, pretend to be my father, and I could freeze time, I could be just like that girl in Out of this World - that sweet show from the 80s that featured Burt Reynolds trapped in a cube.
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Murphy's law was never meant to be negative. It actually began as "whatever can happen, will happen." Murphy always gets a bad wrap, I suggest you read the true history here.
Work expands to meet the time and money that is available.
To call angular resolution "image clarity" is greatly oversimplifying things. Angular resolution is a product of the size of the dish and the wavelength of the light observed. (Thus spectral coverage is not distinct from angular resolution). The atmosphere does pose a problem, but building the telescopes at higher elevations can greatly reduce distortion.
Extremely high angular resolution can be achieved on earth by linking up several telescopes. For instance, the VLBI technique created a telescope spanning 5,280 miles- with enough resolving power to, "sit in New York and be able to see the dimples on a golf ball in Los Angeles."
Space telescopes are great, but until it becomes cheaper to get large telescopes into orbit or on the moon nothing beats the basement bargain earth telescope.
the truth is so sad sometimes...
The interesting thing about this patent is the future legal battle it creates.
Introns are the non-coding segments of DNA, the parts of the code that do not specially get transcribed and translated into proteins. However, many scientists have discovered cases where the introns often dictate the expression levels of exons (protein coding regions) around them.
My question is this, if this company "owns" the introns and claims to make a medically useful technology based on controlling protein expression, but another company already patented the sequence that codes for the protein, who gets the rights (and riches) of the technology - the owner of the modulator of the protein or the owner of the protein?
Let science be free like the life in the sea!
I'm really disappointed that the website does not warn George Bush the game is not real. He's probably already ordered it and has poor post-op Powell already on the trail of the "WMDs".
:)
I just hope he doesn't use the game in the upcoming state of the union as more proof for their existence, although maybe it's more reliable than British intel?
This doesn't really seem like a good application for ion engines. They are designed more for long distance deep space travel as they build speed very slowly.
This device will probably have more conventional thruster units that allow for high thrust and greater manueverability - especially if trying to catch objects that are no longer in orbit.
Here is a comparison of space engine capabilities: Engine Comparisons.
That's amusing. I really only meant the post as a joke but now I feel stupid since they will probably actually do it - I should never question the Japanese.
I wonder if, in the growing trend of X vs Y such as Predator vs Alien and Krueger vs Jason, eventually they will release a Donkey Konga versus Dance Dance Revolution, where you have a dance/drum off, and the less rhythmically skilled person's head explodes. I would pay at least $4 for that.
In other news, does anyone remember the original pad play game Nintendo Track and Field, where the damn athlete never seemed to match the rate at which you ran on the pad, no matter how coordinated you were?
Now I'm starting to feel sorry for the milky way, anyone with my 5 arm pits must be rank!
ba dum bing babeee!
Now to answer the age old question, which galaxy arm pit is earth in exactly?
Three things strike me about this law:
1. After reading the text, it does not include the word "bulk" in any context for spam, which basically means that any single person email to another person (even if sent in good faith) could be applicable to the law if the receiver deems it "spam." I think that is a mistake.
2. It limits statutory damages for civil violations. This is ridiculous, is it really necessary to protect the spammers, basically the most hated group of people within the net?.
3. It still allows "spam" email from charities, religious organisations and government bodies. Now all I need is my penis enlargement emails coming to me from the church of large testicles. Seriously though, why is junk mail from churches or the even the government for that matter better than my daily breast enlargement emails?
I think this conversation is running too much in terms of the present. Obviously, as long as the PC is used for internet and office work there will remain a market for PC games, but with the trend of progressively more powerful consoles I think eventually the two will come together in one machine - eliminating both the PC and the independent console. Once consoles acquire larger harddrives, the graphics capability of the system (including future VR integration) is going to make office users want to use the same technology to give presentations and maniuplate data (3D databasing). Once this happens I think the two will begin to come together for an all-around family computer/gaming system.
Wow, this is going to completely blow away the four Americans who can still add.
-in search of a ship, a bone, and a way the hell outta here....
I once read about a full sensor suit attached to a very life-like virtual reality simulator. The point of the machine - an incredibly realistic simulation of sex, with anyone you want. I cannot even comprehend how much money this device would make - given the consensus in this discussion, I believe this device has the potential to completely shut down the world economy. No matter how morally righteous you believe yourself to be, would you really ever leave your house again?
For a second I thought this was the Paris Hilton study. Where Paris Hilton makes this desert storm night vision sex tape and then distributes it on the internet - just as her new show is coming out. So all the guys are like, "slut," but masturbate to the video every night and then subliminally cannot resist watching her show so the sponsors can add to her already enormous wealth. They stopped implanting orgasm inducing electrodes in male mice because they would just trigger it until they died. Men are dumb and I didn't really need this study to remind me of my failings - I'm living the dream baby!
Popular Science also has a best of what's new: including the pet translator: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/2003/article/0,1 8881,535988,00.html
and this handy thing for watching people have sex (again and again):
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/2003/article/0,1 8881,536011,00.html
By the way, haven't Jules Verne and the recent movie "the core," taught us to stay the hell away from the center of the earth - someone slap this guy.
If only it could speak to me, pretend to be my father, and I could freeze time, I could be just like that girl in Out of this World - that sweet show from the 80s that featured Burt Reynolds trapped in a cube.