I think everyone but you picked up on the assumed "viewed from earth's perspective", because why would you be viewing it from anywhere(time) else? You're being way way way overly-anal about that.
Awesome, I like your style, and I find myself doing the same things, having to block out entire countries and portions of the world from getting to my stuff. I hope a lot of PC weenies try to argue with you, because they have no footing to stand on.
Aah, either the boiling-point calculator I used is just totally wrong (was just the first one I came across from Google), or I mistyped it, my mistake.
Few things: The atmospheric pressure on mars is only ~10 millibars, whereas earth's atmospheric pressure is ~1000 millibars. That drops water's boiling point to around ~70 celcius. That alone isn't enough to cause the water to boil, I think the parent probably meant "evaporated" or just didn't have all the facts. Water would evaporate more quickly than on earth due to the low pressure, and sublimation. Enough energy from the sun reaches Mars to do that easily.
Mars definitely does have an atmosphere, check this out.
Wasn't there a plane that could do that with just its wing? It still had a normal plane fuselage, but the wing would rotate to achieve better geometry for different flight modes. Maybe it was just a prototype though, I can't remember where I saw the info.
Haha, it's funny you mention the 2600, I just dug mine out the other day, complete with scores of busted controllers. My dad and I actually rebuilt some of the controllers with metal posts, instead of the "break me in half please" plastic posts. Those lasted a lot longer.
I'm with you, but for different reasons. Nature might require sleeping for all its woodland creatures, but us humans with our mighty science can conquer whatever we want. If something chemically happens overnight that we can replicate with a pill, why not? I'd love to never have to sleep, I could have so much time for all the projects I'm working on. If you say it's something mental that happens overnight, humans can change that too. I can't wait for all this stuff to come of age. I'll be the first to volunteer for brain-chip implants.
-Jesse
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In highschool, we had Macs primarily. The one server we had had an external drive (old hardware). If the drive was powered down for more than a couple of minutes, when you powered it back up, it would appear that the drive wasn't connected, not recognized, not even there as far as the computer was concerned. If you let it sit long enough, then rebooted, it'd come up just fine. We eventually determined that there were some cracked solder traces on the board that would expand just enough when warm to make the connection well enough.
One of my favorite things is to spin-up an opened hard drive, and watch the heads get ripped off as you breathe on the platters, hehe. Learned that from a friend of mine.
I would, to some degree. Cars definitely have more safety, but that's the only real improvement (not that it's a minor improvement). But they still use gasoline engines, most commuter cars still get 25-30 MPG, trucks still get ~10 MPG, etc. They might have more power, but it only goes into pushing more of the weight of the safety equipment around. Essentially, other than safety, nothing has changed drastically since the 60s. You might say "hybrid" power cars are a huge improvement, but personally I don't see it as such. They only get marginally better gas mileage, and sacrifice huge amounts of weight, and non-trivial amounts of passenger and cargo space because of it.
What if he opens up the cabinet under the sink, and the bloody knife is right there? Or what about if you had a mechanic working on your car, and he discovered a few bags of crack under the hood? What then? What if it's someplace obvious?
What about prosthetic limbs that people are using? There have been articles on slashdot about false limbs that people can use to sense temperature, and pressure. Are they less human (I'm not whining, it doesn't bother me if you think that's true, it's just to pose a point)? What about those who have artificial hearts, and other biological-function replacements? How about even those who wear glasses; glasses change the way humans perceive things. Then there's more advanced things that science has done for the injured or disabled; wheelchairs and other mobility things, all the way up to controlling computers/playing games with just your thoughts. These things all deviate from the norm, but I don't think anybody would call any of them non-human. How much do you have to replace? Personally, I think that humanity is the mind, not the body. The physical brain that houses the mind is also part of the body, and (in the future, maybe, hopefully) could also be replaced/augmented/upgraded without becoming a non-human.
So you're ideal future includes the perfected gang bang?
Despite the bad grammar, why not (though I was thinking more of orgy, gang-bang sounds violent and like not everybody is willing)? Many guys dream of two+somes, so why not a thousandsome if you had a thousand transhuman naughty-bits:)
kthnx, re-read what the parent poster was talking about before you go trying to be all high-and-mighty. They were discussing that # of results returned was in NO WAY a good estimate for DB size, because fewer results can (and should) be a result of a better algorithm. The parent was NOT saying that they conclude that Google returns better results. Jeez, I wish it hurt to be stupid, or wish there was a way to easily hurt stupid people. What I need is to wield a cluestick.
Who says you won't be able to do any/all of those things, and far more that your feeble human body never was designed possible to do. Because this is obviously the way-way-far future, where things like transhumanity is possible, I'm willing to bet that making a "fake" body that functions AT LEAST 100% as much as a human body should be a piece of cake. Imagine then the possibilities of what more could be done. Like singing? Try singing out of three mouths all at once, harmonizing with yourself. Like making love? Try making love with 1,000 other transhumans all at the same time. Who knows what would be possible.
-Jesse
Is that much more than what we pay now?
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That doesn't seem _that_ bad. I've paid close to $60 for games in the past, and IIRC consoles have cost at least somewhat close to $300 at some points, and that's just the starting cost, it'll come down.
You embrace it, and then extend what you embraced in your own image. IE: Microsoft: Oh we love C++, now it's Visual C++! (embrace, extend), in order to help maintain vendor lock-in.
I totally agree. I went all through college with a PII 350 with a gig of memory in it. It hauled ass for anything I'd need to do, even most games were within reason. My main point was that the average consumer hasn't ever even heard the word "BIOS", so if they see "UEFI" they'll assume it's a new feature, which just adds to the perceived value. The technical aspects of things are beyond people, and I'll bet that a lot of people will buy these EFI machines before they realize that they can't get the newest songs and movies from Limewire anymore. By that time though, most people will have an EFI machine, and it'll be too late, 'cause they'd have chucked the old machine already.
I'm not a C fan, I haven't programmed in C since school. The languages I use day-to-day are perl and assembly. They both allow you to do anything you want, without guards or guides. It's just a personal preference, because I like to be the one to do things.
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I think everyone but you picked up on the assumed "viewed from earth's perspective", because why would you be viewing it from anywhere(time) else? You're being way way way overly-anal about that.
-Jesse
They talked about regenerating optic nerves in the article, so I assume that would be possible.
-Jesse
We can take care of the g/m (my new term for genetically modified) cats with some g/m dogs. After that, we'll have to bring on the... what eats dogs?
-Jesse
Awesome, I like your style, and I find myself doing the same things, having to block out entire countries and portions of the world from getting to my stuff. I hope a lot of PC weenies try to argue with you, because they have no footing to stand on.
-Jesse
Nevermind, I see how the sentence can be, it's just extremely awkward.
-Jesse
Editors?
-Jesse
Aah, either the boiling-point calculator I used is just totally wrong (was just the first one I came across from Google), or I mistyped it, my mistake.
-Jesse
Few things: The atmospheric pressure on mars is only ~10 millibars, whereas earth's atmospheric pressure is ~1000 millibars. That drops water's boiling point to around ~70 celcius. That alone isn't enough to cause the water to boil, I think the parent probably meant "evaporated" or just didn't have all the facts. Water would evaporate more quickly than on earth due to the low pressure, and sublimation. Enough energy from the sun reaches Mars to do that easily.
Mars definitely does have an atmosphere, check this out.
-Jesse
Wasn't there a plane that could do that with just its wing? It still had a normal plane fuselage, but the wing would rotate to achieve better geometry for different flight modes. Maybe it was just a prototype though, I can't remember where I saw the info.
-Jesse
Haha, it's funny you mention the 2600, I just dug mine out the other day, complete with scores of busted controllers. My dad and I actually rebuilt some of the controllers with metal posts, instead of the "break me in half please" plastic posts. Those lasted a lot longer.
-Jesse
I'm with you, but for different reasons. Nature might require sleeping for all its woodland creatures, but us humans with our mighty science can conquer whatever we want. If something chemically happens overnight that we can replicate with a pill, why not? I'd love to never have to sleep, I could have so much time for all the projects I'm working on. If you say it's something mental that happens overnight, humans can change that too. I can't wait for all this stuff to come of age. I'll be the first to volunteer for brain-chip implants.
-Jesse
In highschool, we had Macs primarily. The one server we had had an external drive (old hardware). If the drive was powered down for more than a couple of minutes, when you powered it back up, it would appear that the drive wasn't connected, not recognized, not even there as far as the computer was concerned. If you let it sit long enough, then rebooted, it'd come up just fine. We eventually determined that there were some cracked solder traces on the board that would expand just enough when warm to make the connection well enough.
-Jesse
One of my favorite things is to spin-up an opened hard drive, and watch the heads get ripped off as you breathe on the platters, hehe. Learned that from a friend of mine.
-Jesse
I would, to some degree. Cars definitely have more safety, but that's the only real improvement (not that it's a minor improvement). But they still use gasoline engines, most commuter cars still get 25-30 MPG, trucks still get ~10 MPG, etc. They might have more power, but it only goes into pushing more of the weight of the safety equipment around. Essentially, other than safety, nothing has changed drastically since the 60s. You might say "hybrid" power cars are a huge improvement, but personally I don't see it as such. They only get marginally better gas mileage, and sacrifice huge amounts of weight, and non-trivial amounts of passenger and cargo space because of it.
-Jesse
What if he opens up the cabinet under the sink, and the bloody knife is right there? Or what about if you had a mechanic working on your car, and he discovered a few bags of crack under the hood? What then? What if it's someplace obvious?
-Jesse
I think the point is you'll probably pay $150 for a $50 drive, instead of being able to install any extra drives you have lying around.
-Jesse
Haha, great example.
-Jesse
Where do you draw the line though?
What about prosthetic limbs that people are using? There have been articles on slashdot about false limbs that people can use to sense temperature, and pressure. Are they less human (I'm not whining, it doesn't bother me if you think that's true, it's just to pose a point)? What about those who have artificial hearts, and other biological-function replacements? How about even those who wear glasses; glasses change the way humans perceive things. Then there's more advanced things that science has done for the injured or disabled; wheelchairs and other mobility things, all the way up to controlling computers/playing games with just your thoughts. These things all deviate from the norm, but I don't think anybody would call any of them non-human. How much do you have to replace? Personally, I think that humanity is the mind, not the body. The physical brain that houses the mind is also part of the body, and (in the future, maybe, hopefully) could also be replaced/augmented/upgraded without becoming a non-human.
-Jesse
So you're ideal future includes the perfected gang bang?
:)
Despite the bad grammar, why not (though I was thinking more of orgy, gang-bang sounds violent and like not everybody is willing)? Many guys dream of two+somes, so why not a thousandsome if you had a thousand transhuman naughty-bits
-Jesse
kthnx, re-read what the parent poster was talking about before you go trying to be all high-and-mighty. They were discussing that # of results returned was in NO WAY a good estimate for DB size, because fewer results can (and should) be a result of a better algorithm. The parent was NOT saying that they conclude that Google returns better results. Jeez, I wish it hurt to be stupid, or wish there was a way to easily hurt stupid people. What I need is to wield a cluestick.
-Jesse
Who says you won't be able to do any/all of those things, and far more that your feeble human body never was designed possible to do. Because this is obviously the way-way-far future, where things like transhumanity is possible, I'm willing to bet that making a "fake" body that functions AT LEAST 100% as much as a human body should be a piece of cake. Imagine then the possibilities of what more could be done. Like singing? Try singing out of three mouths all at once, harmonizing with yourself. Like making love? Try making love with 1,000 other transhumans all at the same time. Who knows what would be possible.
-Jesse
That doesn't seem _that_ bad. I've paid close to $60 for games in the past, and IIRC consoles have cost at least somewhat close to $300 at some points, and that's just the starting cost, it'll come down.
-Jesse
You embrace it, and then extend what you embraced in your own image. IE: Microsoft: Oh we love C++, now it's Visual C++! (embrace, extend), in order to help maintain vendor lock-in.
-Jesse
I totally agree. I went all through college with a PII 350 with a gig of memory in it. It hauled ass for anything I'd need to do, even most games were within reason. My main point was that the average consumer hasn't ever even heard the word "BIOS", so if they see "UEFI" they'll assume it's a new feature, which just adds to the perceived value. The technical aspects of things are beyond people, and I'll bet that a lot of people will buy these EFI machines before they realize that they can't get the newest songs and movies from Limewire anymore. By that time though, most people will have an EFI machine, and it'll be too late, 'cause they'd have chucked the old machine already.
I'm not a C fan, I haven't programmed in C since school. The languages I use day-to-day are perl and assembly. They both allow you to do anything you want, without guards or guides. It's just a personal preference, because I like to be the one to do things.
-Jesse