And just in case anyone suggests that all those items mentioned above are physical objects and thus have more value than the ethereal song, consider any time you may have spent working in retail, or a service industry, where you produced nothing of "value." We don't consider that work worthless in our society. The way I got treated back then, you coulda fooled me that we, and our work, weren't considered worthless. This is why I have a manufacturing job that pays, instead of $7.90/hr, $13.22/hr.
It's not much of an improvement, but at least it is one.
Let's say they were selling a brand new Earth. 6000 years ago, such a thing would not have been necessary On the contrary, this would fit in quite well with fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
The buyer? Well, he dresses all in white, has a big white beard, talks out of burning bushes...
Yeah, they're operating at 70% of "expected" efficiency, so instead it just equalizes the chip and the outside environment at room temp + 30% of the temperature difference.
Depending on how hot your processor is getting, this means the real efficiency is between 6.5% and 9%.
Can't copyright the sky; it's public domain to begin with. Can't patent it, as there are numerous examples of prior art. Unless MS is planning on getting into the aerospace industry (always a possibility; watch for falling flaming debris) why would they actually do this? So their programmers can actually see what it looks like outside?
Also, I want to report a bug with the sky software. Sometimes this giant ball of fire becomes visible, and looking at it hurts my eyes.
Just like in sports, it isn't fair for the ref, having screwed up in the first quarter, cannot "make it right" by ruling arbitrarily against the other team in the third quarter. Works for me. I liked that Subway commercial.
This system will turn into yet another straightforward application of CowboyNeal's Law of Karma Systems:
All popularity systems on the Internet eventually increase or decrease in complexity until they can be mapped one-to-one onto the Slashdot system.
Stallman is from the FSF not EFF. The FSF helps make software free, the EFF battles the RIAA and patent trolls. How much to hire the EFF to get rid of Stallman for us, then?
Real estate is valued according to size (well, actually number of bedrooms, which is why so many houses have kitchen cabinets fited out with hammmocks) No, those are for storing bananas. What, you've never heard of a banana hammock?
Considering how I don't listen to any (well, hardly any - "Still Alive" is catchy) music newer than about 1987, how about you just burn me a "Best of Black Sabbath" album and I'll write you a check for $6.95?
Out of curiosity, is the radiation-to-normal-matter ratio about the same as the supposed dark-energy-to-dark-matter ratio? If it is, wouldn't the simplest explanation of dark energy be that it's the equivalent of light for dark matter?
If artificial intelligence ever gets to the point where it is greater than humans, won't it be capable of producing even better AI, which would in turn create even better AI, and so on? You aren't going to get modded up for repeating things Vernor Vinge said twenty years ago. Obviously you're wrong, as he already got modded up.
As far as how big a black hole you'd need to eat the Earth, it's roughly half a lunar mass (which actually gives a black hole that's in rough equilibrium with the majority of the Earth's volume - you might wind up with some crust fragments at the end, but that's all).
So, as far as the project described way back in the grandparent post goes, you'd be wanting black holes of, more likely than not, roughly Junoan mass... but not more than about two thousand of them.
Okay, then. Assuming a relatively straight-line decrease in the rate of increase of house size (gah, what an ugly wording) that puts this kind of average house size about 280 years in the future.
Somehow I doubt the housing situation of 2290 will support single families having a 5000 sq. ft. house, so I recommend that Disney portray the HOTF as having extended families in it.
In other words, re-bill Cinderella's Castle as the House of the Future.
Out of curiosity, how long ago was the average single-family home 1,085 sq. ft.? That'd give us a reasonable guess for how far into the future this would have to be, assuming they're just going off of the same growth rate (which is stupid).
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It's not much of an improvement, but at least it is one.
To answer the question, the states that don't require private investigators to be licensed.
Er, I mean, go sage yourself.
The buyer? Well, he dresses all in white, has a big white beard, talks out of burning bushes...
Also used in Greg Egan's Diaspora, which might be of more interest to everyone here since we all spend 90% of our time in computers anyway.
Yeah, they're operating at 70% of "expected" efficiency, so instead it just equalizes the chip and the outside environment at room temp + 30% of the temperature difference.
Depending on how hot your processor is getting, this means the real efficiency is between 6.5% and 9%.
Can't copyright the sky; it's public domain to begin with. Can't patent it, as there are numerous examples of prior art. Unless MS is planning on getting into the aerospace industry (always a possibility; watch for falling flaming debris) why would they actually do this? So their programmers can actually see what it looks like outside?
Also, I want to report a bug with the sky software. Sometimes this giant ball of fire becomes visible, and looking at it hurts my eyes.
How do you measure anything when time's stopped for you? Wouldn't the act of measurement require time to pass for you?
Considering how I don't listen to any (well, hardly any - "Still Alive" is catchy) music newer than about 1987, how about you just burn me a "Best of Black Sabbath" album and I'll write you a check for $6.95?
Out of curiosity, is the radiation-to-normal-matter ratio about the same as the supposed dark-energy-to-dark-matter ratio? If it is, wouldn't the simplest explanation of dark energy be that it's the equivalent of light for dark matter?
I can hammer my six-inch penis through a spike with a board, does that count?
So, as far as the project described way back in the grandparent post goes, you'd be wanting black holes of, more likely than not, roughly Junoan mass... but not more than about two thousand of them.
Somehow I doubt the housing situation of 2290 will support single families having a 5000 sq. ft. house, so I recommend that Disney portray the HOTF as having extended families in it.
In other words, re-bill Cinderella's Castle as the House of the Future.
Out of curiosity, how long ago was the average single-family home 1,085 sq. ft.? That'd give us a reasonable guess for how far into the future this would have to be, assuming they're just going off of the same growth rate (which is stupid).
You would have to ensure that it remains operational at temperatures up to 4000 kelvins.
Or maybe a cabinet marked "Beware of the Leopard"?
Killing two birds with one stone - dark matter decays to dark energy, with a half-life of (multiple millions of years here).