Have you seen Caprica? While it's set in the Battlestar Galactica universe instead of Star Trek, it is a mostly planet-bound drama set in an age of interstellar travel, examining the implications of technology on the populace. Themes include religion, ethnic gangs, terrorism, and corporate greed. It was well reviewed but tanked in the ratings.
If you asked members of the general public what a hacker is, you are most likely to get the definition of a cracker.
That ship has sailed. Note that ships almost never have sails anymore, either, so that term has been hijacked also. And don't get me started about "hijack" being applied to word meaning...
Dr. William Gray, noted hurricane predictor, has publicly downplayed the "warming causes more hurricanes" idea. I'm willing to trust him on this, since hurricane formation is complicated.
Can you imagine what would happen if another country ( pick one ) started a program like the one we run for snatching up Americans ( or American Allies ) suspected of ties to $scarylabel ?
ISIS is already snatching up and executing journalists and aid workers suspected of ties to the CIA. The US populace is being manipulated to be horrified, we're already sending drones and bombers, probably will eventually send troops.
The ironic thing about Grubergate is that he's been proven right. The Republicans have used one recorded remark by a mid-level bureaucrat to override all fact-based arguments about the ACA for the past month. Yes, people really are stupid. Give them something to be angry about, and they'll vote against their own interests.
Also pointless. Unless you can personalize the printed thingy somehow, it just sounds like a more-expensive way to make cheap plastic trinkets, which are currently available by the truckload at any dollar store.
For a good example of mangling language in a tale of the future, try Riddley Walker. Tough reading, but an interesting book that won several awards. There's even a website devoted to interpreting the more confusing verbiage.
We can't even estimate the error in the Drake Equation, since so much is fundamentally unknown. But at least we know more about the number of potential Earth-like planets out there, which is the real point of this article.
If you google "renewable energy can prevent climate change" without quotes, you get 70 million hits. If you google "renewable energy cannot prevent climate change", 30 million. Therefore, using the same methodology that was used to prove that Coloradans love them some frog eye salad, there's hope after all, Google!
Achieving regular manned commercial space travel is also worthwhile
When I see statement like this, I think of the Everest guiding industry. In many ways, carrying tourists to 100 kilometers and then returning is much like guiding them to 29,000 feet. Neither one has any real purpose other than bragging rights. Arguably the boom in Everest climbing tourism has had major negative effects, including pollution of the high-alpine environment and a high death rate by the employees. I wouldn't be surprised if the suborbital tourism industry took a similar path, but pretending that it has some long-term benefit is deceiving yourself, IMO. Richard Branson isn't going to colonize the stars, any more than Alpine Ascents International is colonizing the high Himalayas.
I'm having flashbacks to the KIM-1, a 1976 single-board computer with a keyboard (hex digits) and display (6 LED digits) and 1K bytes of memory. This has a bigger keyboard, a bigger display, more memory, a bit more software, and costs less, but it's basically the same thing, right?
But, hey, Bush was in business with the family of OBL... so he was a terrorist too, right?
And, as the Republicans used to repeatedly hammer us over the head with, Obama was a member of an organization that included Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers. While I'm no supporter of Bush, this kind of thing could get almost anybody.
"[Getting a new prosthetic hand and iPod configured to work together] takes a long time," Eberle told the San Antonio Express-News. "It's tedious and it's a lot of work with the hand itself."
So in fact, another ipod could work, but it has to be trained first. A good backup of the training data should allow a new ipod to be set up quickly, but it sounds like they didn't do that.
The speed limit on I-70 heading out of the mountains into Denver used to be 55 mph, but most people drove 75 or more. It was changed to 65 about a year ago, and it appears to me that traffic has slowed down since then.
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Have you seen Caprica? While it's set in the Battlestar Galactica universe instead of Star Trek, it is a mostly planet-bound drama set in an age of interstellar travel, examining the implications of technology on the populace. Themes include religion, ethnic gangs, terrorism, and corporate greed. It was well reviewed but tanked in the ratings.
If you asked members of the general public what a hacker is, you are most likely to get the definition of a cracker.
That ship has sailed. Note that ships almost never have sails anymore, either, so that term has been hijacked also. And don't get me started about "hijack" being applied to word meaning...
Now every terrorist organization around the world will see how easy it is to control North American media.
Sony is a Japanese corporation.
Dr. William Gray, noted hurricane predictor, has publicly downplayed the "warming causes more hurricanes" idea. I'm willing to trust him on this, since hurricane formation is complicated.
Can you imagine what would happen if another country ( pick one ) started a program like the one we run for snatching up Americans ( or American Allies ) suspected of ties to $scarylabel ?
ISIS is already snatching up and executing journalists and aid workers suspected of ties to the CIA. The US populace is being manipulated to be horrified, we're already sending drones and bombers, probably will eventually send troops.
The ironic thing about Grubergate is that he's been proven right. The Republicans have used one recorded remark by a mid-level bureaucrat to override all fact-based arguments about the ACA for the past month. Yes, people really are stupid. Give them something to be angry about, and they'll vote against their own interests.
Also pointless. Unless you can personalize the printed thingy somehow, it just sounds like a more-expensive way to make cheap plastic trinkets, which are currently available by the truckload at any dollar store.
For a good example of mangling language in a tale of the future, try Riddley Walker. Tough reading, but an interesting book that won several awards. There's even a website devoted to interpreting the more confusing verbiage.
If only 40 gigabytes contained all of this damning information, just imagine what 100 terabytes contains
The same thing 2,500 times?
Sony has 140,000 employees; 40 gigabytes is already 280K per employee, so there's probably not much left to reveal just based on quantity alone.
We can't even estimate the error in the Drake Equation, since so much is fundamentally unknown. But at least we know more about the number of potential Earth-like planets out there, which is the real point of this article.
If you google "renewable energy can prevent climate change" without quotes, you get 70 million hits. If you google "renewable energy cannot prevent climate change", 30 million. Therefore, using the same methodology that was used to prove that Coloradans love them some frog eye salad, there's hope after all, Google!
Achieving regular manned commercial space travel is also worthwhile
When I see statement like this, I think of the Everest guiding industry. In many ways, carrying tourists to 100 kilometers and then returning is much like guiding them to 29,000 feet. Neither one has any real purpose other than bragging rights. Arguably the boom in Everest climbing tourism has had major negative effects, including pollution of the high-alpine environment and a high death rate by the employees. I wouldn't be surprised if the suborbital tourism industry took a similar path, but pretending that it has some long-term benefit is deceiving yourself, IMO. Richard Branson isn't going to colonize the stars, any more than Alpine Ascents International is colonizing the high Himalayas.
If you're going to cheat, why not just use wheels? The wheelchair record is way under two hours already (1:18:24 as of 2012).
Whatever happened to Algol anyway?
By 1980, it had turned into Pascal, never to return. Wirth's compiler was a big reason - it was easy to port to new machines, so spread like a virus.
Fortran: will live forever
Cobol: ditto
PL/1: probably a goner
Pascal: is that still around?
LISP: was already for hipsters only by the 80's
I guess the lure of the big bucks in teaching and nursing is too hard to resist.
I'm having flashbacks to the KIM-1, a 1976 single-board computer with a keyboard (hex digits) and display (6 LED digits) and 1K bytes of memory. This has a bigger keyboard, a bigger display, more memory, a bit more software, and costs less, but it's basically the same thing, right?
Would have been a chance to catch up with current events.
But, hey, Bush was in business with the family of OBL ... so he was a terrorist too, right?
And, as the Republicans used to repeatedly hammer us over the head with, Obama was a member of an organization that included Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers. While I'm no supporter of Bush, this kind of thing could get almost anybody.
And what if these were the last two specimens ?
The authors did say these might be a "failed experiment in multicellular life".
The reported video is from 2013, so NatGeo must have been reporting something else.
"[Getting a new prosthetic hand and iPod configured to work together] takes a long time," Eberle told the San Antonio Express-News. "It's tedious and it's a lot of work with the hand itself."
So in fact, another ipod could work, but it has to be trained first. A good backup of the training data should allow a new ipod to be set up quickly, but it sounds like they didn't do that.
I shudder to think how many insects die on America's highways every second (billions?), but that seems OK to most people.
The speed limit on I-70 heading out of the mountains into Denver used to be 55 mph, but most people drove 75 or more. It was changed to 65 about a year ago, and it appears to me that traffic has slowed down since then.
I for one would buy Google car tomorrow if it could get me to work in brief bursts at 120mph shaving seconds off my commute.
FIFY. Get real, self-driving cars aren't magic, and will still need to deal with traffic.