Sorry, but you can't completely eliminate gridlock with computers. There is a maximum capacity for any road and when there are too many cars traffic slows down. Computer control could increase this capacity but not infinitely.
We _could_ apply the lessons we've learned about packet routing on the internet to real world traffic....just so long as we set the packet size as "one vehicle". Getting smaller than that'd get messy.;)
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Harrumph...."pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoco niosis". Well, okay, it won't fit on a scrabble board, but it _is_ in the OED....;)
Actually, there is no such thing as inherently "additive" and "subtractive" colors; what happens is when you project light through a colored filter, the colors are additive (cyan, yellow, and magenta filtered light will blend to white just like red, green, and blue will), and when the light is reflected from them (as in the case of pigments applied to a surface), they are subtractive (red paint plus green paint plus blue paint will give you black, just like CMY paints or inks will).
The meteor that made Barringer Crater in Arizona (1.6k across and nearly 200m deep) was ~45m in diameter -- only about 50% wider and roughly twice the mass of the one detected. This rock _could_ have spoiled someone's day....
Also look into "super adobe" construction -- great for building hive-like domes, arched galleries, and other forms from rammed earth, barbed wire, and shot-crete.
Then there's the "geodome", made by spraying shot-crete over an inflatable form (after making it rigid with spray foam insulation and reenforcing it with a little rebar).
These methods can also make use of light-weight aggregate in the shot-crete, giving you more versatility.
Cob is great for building vertical walls, but these other methods you've got almost free form building if you want it.
I disagree. While it's hard to argue with the success of Spirit and Opportunity, they still don't compare to what human researchers could accomplish if they were there in person. Just look at the amount of time it took to debark the rovers from the landers and manuver them into position to take samples or do other research! One suitably equipped human could _easily_ do in hours what has taken these rovers weeks to accomplish....
How long before the script-kiddies figure out how to fool servers equipped with this into misdirecting their attacks at the target of their choice? IP spoof a few pings and let Corporate America DDoS itself?
I never claimed te electoral college was better than a direct election, eh? Just mentioned that your one vote _is_ more likely to be the one that turns the entire election, and so _could_ carry even more weight than the original poster gave it credit for.
In any regard, the electoral college is less broken than the current system of primaries leading up to the main vote, which makes it less likely for the person the majority of voters find most acceptable to be elected. It tends to favor the people's _second_ choice.
I mean, I know my vote for president (and in the democratic primaries this year) doesn't count for shit thanks to the electoral college system, but couldn't we at least pretend that it does?
Actually, under the electoral college system your single vote is more likely to sway the election in the event of a close vote than it would be in a direct majority count, and is therefore, theoretically, _more_ important.
Under the electoral college system, if you wind up casting the deciding vote in your district that buys the elector for that district for essentially one vote. Never mind that the district next door voted for the other guy by a landslide -- they only got one elector as well, at a cost of hundreds of votes that would otherwise have counted against you in a direct election....
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Sorry, but you can't completely eliminate gridlock with computers. There is a maximum capacity for any road and when there are too many cars traffic slows down. Computer control could increase this capacity but not infinitely.
We _could_ apply the lessons we've learned about packet routing on the internet to real world traffic....just so long as we set the packet size as "one vehicle". Getting smaller than that'd get messy. ;)
Harrumph...."pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoco niosis". Well, okay, it won't fit on a scrabble board, but it _is_ in the OED.... ;)
Why am I suddenly picturing a rampaging bull elephant squashing a pigmy? Teach them to poke an elephant with a blunt stick....
Actually, there is no such thing as inherently "additive" and "subtractive" colors; what happens is when you project light through a colored filter, the colors are additive (cyan, yellow, and magenta filtered light will blend to white just like red, green, and blue will), and when the light is reflected from them (as in the case of pigments applied to a surface), they are subtractive (red paint plus green paint plus blue paint will give you black, just like CMY paints or inks will).
Hmmm...
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Just an eensy nitpick...the actual quote was "Houston, we've had a problem." Unless, of course, you're quoting the Tom Hanks movie.....
Laptop display? Forget that....give this to me embedded in the drawing surface of a Wacom tablet.....
*drool*
"...he's got an arm off!"
"It's only a flesh wound!"
The meteor that made Barringer Crater in Arizona (1.6k across and nearly 200m deep) was ~45m in diameter -- only about 50% wider and roughly twice the mass of the one detected. This rock _could_ have spoiled someone's day....
...when the Fellowship sings "The Hills are Alive..." on the slopes of Carhadras?
Also look into "super adobe" construction -- great for building hive-like domes, arched galleries, and other forms from rammed earth, barbed wire, and shot-crete.
Then there's the "geodome", made by spraying shot-crete over an inflatable form (after making it rigid with spray foam insulation and reenforcing it with a little rebar).
These methods can also make use of light-weight aggregate in the shot-crete, giving you more versatility.
Cob is great for building vertical walls, but these other methods you've got almost free form building if you want it.
Metallica. Bootlegs. Need I say more?
I disagree. While it's hard to argue with the success of Spirit and Opportunity, they still don't compare to what human researchers could accomplish if they were there in person. Just look at the amount of time it took to debark the rovers from the landers and manuver them into position to take samples or do other research! One suitably equipped human could _easily_ do in hours what has taken these rovers weeks to accomplish....
Especially for pr0n in Cantonese?
How long before the script-kiddies figure out how to fool servers equipped with this into misdirecting their attacks at the target of their choice? IP spoof a few pings and let Corporate America DDoS itself?
I never claimed te electoral college was better than a direct election, eh? Just mentioned that your one vote _is_ more likely to be the one that turns the entire election, and so _could_ carry even more weight than the original poster gave it credit for.
In any regard, the electoral college is less broken than the current system of primaries leading up to the main vote, which makes it less likely for the person the majority of voters find most acceptable to be elected. It tends to favor the people's _second_ choice.
Actually, under the electoral college system your single vote is more likely to sway the election in the event of a close vote than it would be in a direct majority count, and is therefore, theoretically, _more_ important.
Under the electoral college system, if you wind up casting the deciding vote in your district that buys the elector for that district for essentially one vote. Never mind that the district next door voted for the other guy by a landslide -- they only got one elector as well, at a cost of hundreds of votes that would otherwise have counted against you in a direct election....