Every single "game" on the holodeck was the same thing, only with a different historical setting.
But that's the point isn't it? Let's have less holodecky games. I'd personally like to see a continuation of the space quest series. Or some other 2-d kings quest ripoff. Just because every game *can* be 3d doesn't mean every game *must* be 3d.
Oh and katamari damacy? isn't that the game where you roll a ball around that picks up stuff? I think that games should be more than just original. They should be good. There are far too few of those.
How would you be able to say that the starting bacteria didn't already have antibiotic resistant genes and instead aquired them as a result of your experiment? It may be a hypothetical possibility, but the question is, is it an experimentally confirmable possibility.
I ran a lexmark jumpdrive through a washer-dryer cycle. It still works fine as well. I would've thought the detergent and agitation would've been quite damaging.
Funny story. afaik, ALL of the life-detecting experiments on Viking detected life according to the parameters set forth before the experiment. Later on, the experiments were either "discovered" to be invalid due to some kind of contamination or shown to have actually proved the nonexistance of life.
My thoughts? an actual bona-fide "life-detector" is still too complicated to attempt. all of the proxies that we try to measure are just that, proxies, and can represent chemistry that we simply weren't aware of. weeding out the data from the noise is simply too difficult, then or now.
BTW, mass spectrometers don't actually measure any kind of "mass spectrum." they measure charge-to-mass ratio. It takes incredible resources and trickiness to get information about anyting more massive than simple elements and binary molecules. Determining the existance specific classes of molecules like hydrocarbons is very difficult. Made even moreso by the fact that you cannot guarantee that your ions are singly ionized.
Gas spectrometers aren't much better. You could get absorption bands that can be fitted to more than one possible mixture. Especially problematic since we're not even sure what to look for. Why should we expect martian life to be hydrocarbon based?
So, It's very hard to be sure of your results in a "is there life" experiment. My guess is that rather than put themselves in the position of declaring "There is life" as in Viking, only to retract later, they're simply avoiding the question altogether. Nothing sinister about it unless you think deliberately avoiding answering the one question everyone thinks they're paying for answers to is sinister...
Where did you get this fantastic idea? plants gather something like 1% of the energy from incident light on their surfaces (actually I think it's quite a bit less)
even solar cells from 10 years ago could convert 10% of the energy.
Fusion is not renewable. It's just that there is a tremendous amount of available hydrogen and the energy obtained is also huge. A better description of the fusion supply is "practically limitless"
Who says photoshop has the best interface? Certainly they've done more research into useability than the GIMP dev's have had the resources to do, but GIMP should strive to be whatever its creators intended it to be. If that's a photoshop clone, then so be it. If their goal is a maximally useable program and that happens to converge to a PS-like design, the so be it, but if GIMP doesn't want to just be another Buran, they will consider everything they can.
The parent was expressing the desire for this to be a genuine improvement in GIMP's useability, rather than a consult-job going in with a pre-concieved notion that photoshop already does everything in the best way possible.
SSTO may be the holy grail, but it's wasteful from an efficiency standpoint. Multiple staging allows lower fuel mass fractions with weaker engines. It does not matter whether the stages are similar or not (though dissimilar stages could potentially take advantages of conditions in various regimes) multiple similar staging provides enough benefit to be worthwhile.
It is probably more effective, from a mass-fraction standpoint to use multiple rocket stages rather than using an airbreathing stage over a small fraction of the trip.
IMO, the real "holy grail" is not reducing the stages to 1, but increasing the stages to infinity: a rocket that consumes its own structural mass as its usefulness is spent. No piece of structural mass should be lofted higher than it needs to be. Continuous staging would be the ultimate extension of that principle. In fact, I believe I have seen engines for sounding rockets that are designed to do just that.
This is english. We've begged, borrowed and stolen many of the best and worst words and phrases we could get our hands on from the entire world. We've got an order of magnitude more words than just about any other language the world over (and nearly two orders of magnitude on french)
Why do we have to have barnyard wide definitions of anything?
I'm guilty of tuning out after the first show. I know people claim that people tuned out because they were out of order. Or that the "first" episode was designed to be more action-packed to make up for the pilots allegedly slow pacing.
I say bollox. I watched the first episode and thought to myself, "Oh look another sci-fi series that conveniently (for the budget) takes place in a post-apocolyptic old-west setting. How very original. This won't be like Cleopatra 2525, Stargate SG-1 or half the worlds of Star Trek at all."
Later I saw 'Outlaw Star' on Cartoon and as a result, will probably watch the film.
outlaw star ship's navigation system/crew member: malfina (who was thawed from being frozen for the purpose of smuggling her somewhere in the first episode)
firefly Captain's name + ship name in a latinish construct: Mal + flamma
You don't touch-tone a cell. You enter the number. No tones are involved. DTMF* encoding is another antique telephone technology that, like dialing, still works for legacy reasons.
Ironically perhaps, Ph.D means, Doctor of Philsosphy. I assumed that the reason is that they discover new ways to think about the world around us. So technically, a CS professor is very likely to be a philosopher.
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I thought AMD was a european company?
Every single "game" on the holodeck was the same thing, only with a different historical setting.
But that's the point isn't it? Let's have less holodecky games. I'd personally like to see a continuation of the space quest series. Or some other 2-d kings quest ripoff. Just because every game *can* be 3d doesn't mean every game *must* be 3d.
Oh and katamari damacy? isn't that the game where you roll a ball around that picks up stuff? I think that games should be more than just original. They should be good. There are far too few of those.
Mutagenic compound eh? I name the results "Bebop" and "rocksteady"
So... his surname is the same as his alma mater? weird.
How would you be able to say that the starting bacteria didn't already have antibiotic resistant genes and instead aquired them as a result of your experiment? It may be a hypothetical possibility, but the question is, is it an experimentally confirmable possibility.
I ran a lexmark jumpdrive through a washer-dryer cycle. It still works fine as well. I would've thought the detergent and agitation would've been quite damaging.
3-7 generations?? I've never seen that claim *anywhere* please post links to abstracts.
Funny story. afaik, ALL of the life-detecting experiments on Viking detected life according to the parameters set forth before the experiment. Later on, the experiments were either "discovered" to be invalid due to some kind of contamination or shown to have actually proved the nonexistance of life.
My thoughts? an actual bona-fide "life-detector" is still too complicated to attempt. all of the proxies that we try to measure are just that, proxies, and can represent chemistry that we simply weren't aware of. weeding out the data from the noise is simply too difficult, then or now.
BTW, mass spectrometers don't actually measure any kind of "mass spectrum." they measure charge-to-mass ratio. It takes incredible resources and trickiness to get information about anyting more massive than simple elements and binary molecules. Determining the existance specific classes of molecules like hydrocarbons is very difficult. Made even moreso by the fact that you cannot guarantee that your ions are singly ionized.
Gas spectrometers aren't much better. You could get absorption bands that can be fitted to more than one possible mixture. Especially problematic since we're not even sure what to look for. Why should we expect martian life to be hydrocarbon based?
So, It's very hard to be sure of your results in a "is there life" experiment. My guess is that rather than put themselves in the position of declaring "There is life" as in Viking, only to retract later, they're simply avoiding the question altogether. Nothing sinister about it unless you think deliberately avoiding answering the one question everyone thinks they're paying for answers to is sinister...
Troll and Grammar nazi, meet meta-poster. He's better than you because he's "above the fray"
signed,
Self-referential meta-meta-poster.
You're saying you know where he is and refuse to turn him in? Doesn't that make you some kind of accessory after the fact?
Where did you get this fantastic idea? plants gather something like 1% of the energy from incident light on their surfaces (actually I think it's quite a bit less)
even solar cells from 10 years ago could convert 10% of the energy.
Fusion is not renewable. It's just that there is a tremendous amount of available hydrogen and the energy obtained is also huge. A better description of the fusion supply is "practically limitless"
What if you only kill one very large person?
Who says photoshop has the best interface? Certainly they've done more research into useability than the GIMP dev's have had the resources to do, but GIMP should strive to be whatever its creators intended it to be. If that's a photoshop clone, then so be it. If their goal is a maximally useable program and that happens to converge to a PS-like design, the so be it, but if GIMP doesn't want to just be another Buran, they will consider everything they can.
The parent was expressing the desire for this to be a genuine improvement in GIMP's useability, rather than a consult-job going in with a pre-concieved notion that photoshop already does everything in the best way possible.
Ah, I see operation name things with overly descriptive names is a success!
I meant why do you think you use the word ping for that?
SSTO may be the holy grail, but it's wasteful from an efficiency standpoint. Multiple staging allows lower fuel mass fractions with weaker engines. It does not matter whether the stages are similar or not (though dissimilar stages could potentially take advantages of conditions in various regimes) multiple similar staging provides enough benefit to be worthwhile.
It is probably more effective, from a mass-fraction standpoint to use multiple rocket stages rather than using an airbreathing stage over a small fraction of the trip.
IMO, the real "holy grail" is not reducing the stages to 1, but increasing the stages to infinity: a rocket that consumes its own structural mass as its usefulness is spent. No piece of structural mass should be lofted higher than it needs to be. Continuous staging would be the ultimate extension of that principle. In fact, I believe I have seen engines for sounding rockets that are designed to do just that.
Yeah, like I said, legacy reasons.
where do you think the word came from?
This is english. We've begged, borrowed and stolen many of the best and worst words and phrases we could get our hands on from the entire world. We've got an order of magnitude more words than just about any other language the world over (and nearly two orders of magnitude on french)
Why do we have to have barnyard wide definitions of anything?
I'm guilty of tuning out after the first show. I know people claim that people tuned out because they were out of order. Or that the "first" episode was designed to be more action-packed to make up for the pilots allegedly slow pacing.
I say bollox. I watched the first episode and thought to myself, "Oh look another sci-fi series that conveniently (for the budget) takes place in a post-apocolyptic old-west setting. How very original. This won't be like Cleopatra 2525, Stargate SG-1 or half the worlds of Star Trek at all."
Later I saw 'Outlaw Star' on Cartoon and as a result, will probably watch the film.
outlaw star ship's navigation system/crew member: malfina (who was thawed from being frozen for the purpose of smuggling her somewhere in the first episode)
firefly Captain's name + ship name in a latinish construct:
Mal + flamma
coincidence? or homage? you be the judge.
Or did you mean to do that?
You don't touch-tone a cell. You enter the number. No tones are involved. DTMF* encoding is another antique telephone technology that, like dialing, still works for legacy reasons.
*Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
Did you respond with, "Why hadn't you seen the series?"
What? we'll never get the complete works of shakespeare rewritten if we let those lazy monkeys sleep at the typewriters.
Ironically perhaps, Ph.D means, Doctor of Philsosphy. I assumed that the reason is that they discover new ways to think about the world around us. So technically, a CS professor is very likely to be a philosopher.