No, this guy obviously has no idea what he's doing. He is releasing cupious amounts of HYDROGEN gas.
Iron plate: Fe Water: H2O Salt: NaCl
Methane: CH4 HOW?!?!?! No carbon involved!
This is electrolysis. Splitting water into O- which oxidates the metal (cutting it) and H2 which floats to the surface, gradually filling the room till everything goes Kaboom.
I use Lynx notoriously. My "main" box playing a game, my firewall just next to it, with lynx fired at the game FAQ, walkthrough, tips or something like this.
Natural Language usage of "Ask Jeeves" As for me, encouraged by "ask a question in natural language", I asked "where to find info about (X)" and was presented with thousands of results "where to find info about (everything but X)".
You proclaim the ultimate truth and call all who see something besides what meets your eye a liar.
Oh, no! I just see them seeing things and sometimes jumping to conclusion without enough knowledge, sometimes describing things too difficult for others to understand.
Life after death, parapsychology, all that stuff "out there" - I believe it exists, and I believe it can be explained. We just lack methods to do so now.
I believe there are whole huge branches of science to be discovered yet, hardly related to anything we know now. And quite possibly there IS more behind some of that old "higher values", but we have no idea how to tackle it and we don't understand it....but for now we may "feel", "believe", "hope" in all that stuff, but we shouldn't limit the science because of that, say that whatever was discovered is wrong because it's against our faith. Research them, yes. Seek the new ways, seek their origins, yes. But don't let them impact what we've reached so far in science, unless you have a firm scientific proof that tells you so.
...because some idiots cry it would be playing God? Or maybe just because at several gigaflops you can accurately simulate a few atoms at most, structures the size of a cell far beyond our reach?
There is a difference in difficulty between understanding and replicating. Can you replicate the Moon? Can you replicate a CPU for which you don't have any documentation?
(And obviously if we did muck around in this too much, homo sapiens would eventually be overthrown as the dominant species of this planet. That would kinda suck.)
I for one would welcome this gladly. Human morality is FUBAR and I'd be happy to see i.e. creatures with IQ and skills of humans, but mentality of horses to take over the world. It would become a much nicer place to live. Even for humans.
Yes. Because it all IS just a chemical/matematical formula.
Trial and error - systems with feedback, memory. Pain - warning reaction in case of damage/failure. Suffering - The "pleasure center" of your brain isn't stimulated enough, opposed to these of "negative feelings". Motivates to change. Hard work - just result of learning, "work and you will profit" - create better conditions for your brain pleasure center to be stimulated better and more often. Learning - memory system. Love - chemistry, hormonal reactions. Will to life - evolution eliminates these without it.
All the old "higher values" can be reduced to some formulas and equations. That's the ultimate truth. I know it's not comfortable, but lying to yourself isn't the solution.
No, no, no! You good-for-nothing pervert! They are evil creation of Satan! They tear people away from their families! They display P0RN They radiate radiation straight in your face!
And God gave us 20 fingers to count, anything above that is creation of Satan, so Computers are definitely creation of Satan.
We must put a stop to this madness at all cost. Nobody expect the American Inquisition!
These are all serious problems. But none of them is unsolvable. If there was a "global Bugzilla", you'd need to mark the bug "create hybrids" depend on all these. But that wouldn't mean the "create hybrits" development would have to stop. Just don't check it into trunk (mainstream use) until the above are solved in satisfactory way.
What rights would "subhuman creatures" have? Don't create "subhuman", just "improved human" with same rights and better, healthier body, sharper senses, stronger muscles... And i.e. really low organisms with parts for transplants - these would have standard "animal rights" and without brain nearly similar to human, no doubt about their "position".
It's neither good nor bad. It's a blind tool, a technology. It can be used to do good, it can be used to do bad. People die in car accidents - ban cars? Explosives may kill - stop all development of explosives? Sorry, it's a backwards way of thinking. Just restrict the application to "good" uses and prohibit the "bad" ones instead of trying to stop all the technology altogether.
Ancient "standards" of morality should be reexamined and rebuilt from the ground up. It "feels" wrong but nobody can really tell, why. So did transplants, blood transfusions, artificial insemination in case of otherwise infertile parents... These aren't bad things, but they are "slippery" too.
We should come with a "short and sweet" list of axioms of what is good and what is bad, based on actual profits (especially long-term) and costs to the humanity, and everything should be then examined in light of these axioms. A lot of harmless practices are suffering nowadays because someone somewhere believed them wrong. Think how "slipery" is the zone of sexuality - and putting aside pathologies like abuse, it's perfectly harmless. On the other hand, model of success without really looking behind, winning by conquest, exploiting the weaker for own profit is really popular, all the "business strategies", trying to cheat people. It's just as wrongly on the "plus" side.
Technology of creation of human-animal hybrid is just a blind tool. Maybe one of more dangerous ones, but still a tool, without its own moral value. Like gunpowder. Can be used to kill (gunpowder: ammo. hybrid: produce soldiers with better senses), can be used to profit at cost of suffering of others (weapons of oppression, breeding animals for "replacement parts" for humans), can be used for something useful (explosives to help in construction, "improved" humans of better health and traits), something pretty (fireworks, Furries), saving life (signal flares / cloned body parts in organisms without "feeling" facilities, i.e. brainless), and many others.
It's the application that has some moral value, and that should be controlled. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people". Just the same way, "hybrids aren't evil, misusing hybrids is evil."
It would be a good role for the Church, if they only for a moment stopped shouting "No, Veto, Never, Nothing of this" and instead thought and guided precisely "This, this and this - yes, this - try it, but stop if..., and this - better stay away".
Created on God's likehood, where it's said we weren't given the power to create new lifeforms?
A race so advanced that it hardly could reach anything more (mice) built a supercomputer that for a long time (something like a million years?) worked on an answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything. It came out with "42". And politely explained that you still have to figure out the question itself yet. So another computer was built, ultimately huge and powerful, to guess the question. This computer happened to be the Earth. And got destroyed in really silly circumstances.
That all takes time. With speeds really nearing speed of light, distance from end to end of a typical DIMM becomes significant. Single extra transistor on the way introduces several % of delay. Serial delays things even more - chop the 64-bit signal into 10-inch long pulses (moving at speed of light!) and you're down to 1GHZ clock. And how much potential, how many extra electrons can you fit at 1.3V in 10 inches of a wire? And they must suffice to change polarity often of several transistors.
All these tricks would be viable if c wasn't 300.000km/s but, say, 3.000.000, if we had superconductors instead of copper, 1-atom transistors that can be triggered with a single electron and such. Nowadays adding another layer of indirection won't solve anything.
I remember the long, long hours spent with friends playing Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge! Incredible game! Play the "training course" and silently watch as opponent's fuel bar slowly nears zero, and he must make a decision, let you take over and refuel or try that one remaining lap:)
Then Lotus 2, with that monstrous swamp level, and Lotus 3 (TURBO ZONE!) I managed to create a level in Lotus 3 where after 3-4 checkpoints of relatively normal track with sparsely placed "turbo zones" you began riding downhill, down a VERY steep hill, straight ahead, maybe 15 laps and all the time in the turbo zone. Slowly closing to 400MPH...
I'd like to complain that img src doesn't support Amiga Volumes (hd0:), Atari Handlers (T:), Samba resources (\\host\path), memory pointers, math expressions, Gerber data and Reverse Polish Notation.
Note the U in URI. And DWYW, just don't wonder if you're the only one who sees the images on the webpage you publish, as the webpage points to your harddrive. (I've seen WAY too many webpages published on the net by "smart people" with C:\My%20Documents\mywebpage_files\ as source of their images... Now tell me you'd like to complain this doesn't work?)
Not really. Right now the fingerprint security can't differentiate between a rubber copy (say, thin gloves) and the real tissue. The worst problem now is stealing the "original" data. At a hands reach here I have a machine that could recreate a human finger, including the fingerprint, taking maybe 24h, in brass. (then just transfer it to rubber and voila). Just supply me with corresponding CAD data.
Fingerprint-based security sucks. It's less reliable than traditional keys, and once your fingerprint gets copied, you can't get a new one. Similar problem with voice recognition. Retinal scans are a step ahead but they still can be fooled. For now only DNA test seems relatively reliable, and still should be supervised somehow so you don't sneak in someone else's cells.
Of course fingerprint+DNA test would be hard to beat (cut finger off?). But printing tissue (with some arbitrary DNA) won't circumvent that, and the point of fingerprint-based security is that it's easier, cheaper and faster than DNA scans.
The URI syntax is dependent upon the scheme. In general, absolute
URI are written as follows:
:
Letters A-Z aren't alias schemes for 'file' scheme with changed syntax. They are drive letters. Parts of the address itself. (and since context is undefined, treating the URI as "relative" where scheme can be omitted isn't right as well. I can put a webpage on my page and reference a file on YOUR drive at position completely unrelated to my page location.) If it was a protocol, couldn't I say (img src="ftp://ftp.whatever.com/images/a.jpg") ???? And you can't? I can. It even asks for password if anonymous is not accepted. (very annoying). Accepts even syntax src="ftp://user:password@host...)
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No, this guy obviously has no idea what he's doing.
He is releasing cupious amounts of HYDROGEN gas.
Iron plate: Fe
Water: H2O
Salt: NaCl
Methane: CH4 HOW?!?!?! No carbon involved!
This is electrolysis. Splitting water into O- which oxidates the metal (cutting it) and H2 which floats to the surface, gradually filling the room till everything goes Kaboom.
Know what you're doing. Definitely.
I use Lynx notoriously. My "main" box playing a game, my firewall just next to it, with lynx fired at the game FAQ, walkthrough, tips or something like this.
Natural Language usage of "Ask Jeeves"
As for me, encouraged by "ask a question in natural language", I asked "where to find info about (X)" and was presented with thousands of results "where to find info about (everything but X)".
My reaction was:
"Ack! Jeezzz! This search engine is DUMB!"
You proclaim the ultimate truth and call all who see something besides what meets your eye a liar.
...but for now we may "feel", "believe", "hope" in all that stuff, but we shouldn't limit the science because of that, say that whatever was discovered is wrong because it's against our faith. Research them, yes. Seek the new ways, seek their origins, yes. But don't let them impact what we've reached so far in science, unless you have a firm scientific proof that tells you so.
Oh, no! I just see them seeing things and sometimes jumping to conclusion without enough knowledge, sometimes describing things too difficult for others to understand.
Life after death, parapsychology, all that stuff "out there" - I believe it exists, and I believe it can be explained. We just lack methods to do so now.
I believe there are whole huge branches of science to be discovered yet, hardly related to anything we know now. And quite possibly there IS more behind some of that old "higher values", but we have no idea how to tackle it and we don't understand it.
...because some idiots cry it would be playing God?
Or maybe just because at several gigaflops you can accurately simulate a few atoms at most, structures the size of a cell far beyond our reach?
There is a difference in difficulty between understanding and replicating. Can you replicate the Moon? Can you replicate a CPU for which you don't have any documentation?
The key word in your question is "yet".
Actually, birth control would be a good thing. Except "the state" is definitely unreliable entity, when it comes to deciding about -anything-.
What about combining brains? IQ (and rights) equal to human, body at least similar to human, psyche (feelings, mentality) similar to dog?
Enthusiasm, reliablity, alertness, whole set of features of dog psyche humans lack, combined with human-level IQ? How bad could that be?
(And obviously if we did muck around in this too much, homo sapiens would eventually be overthrown as the dominant species of this planet. That would kinda suck.)
I for one would welcome this gladly. Human morality is FUBAR and I'd be happy to see i.e. creatures with IQ and skills of humans, but mentality of horses to take over the world. It would become a much nicer place to live. Even for humans.
Yes. Because it all IS just a chemical/matematical formula.
Trial and error - systems with feedback, memory.
Pain - warning reaction in case of damage/failure.
Suffering - The "pleasure center" of your brain isn't stimulated enough, opposed to these of "negative feelings". Motivates to change.
Hard work - just result of learning, "work and you will profit" - create better conditions for your brain pleasure center to be stimulated better and more often.
Learning - memory system.
Love - chemistry, hormonal reactions.
Will to life - evolution eliminates these without it.
All the old "higher values" can be reduced to some formulas and equations. That's the ultimate truth. I know it's not comfortable, but lying to yourself isn't the solution.
No, no, no!
You good-for-nothing pervert!
They are evil creation of Satan!
They tear people away from their families!
They display P0RN
They radiate radiation straight in your face!
And God gave us 20 fingers to count, anything above that is creation of Satan, so Computers are definitely creation of Satan.
We must put a stop to this madness at all cost.
Nobody expect the American Inquisition!
These are all serious problems.
But none of them is unsolvable. If there was a "global Bugzilla", you'd need to mark the bug "create hybrids" depend on all these. But that wouldn't mean the "create hybrits" development would have to stop. Just don't check it into trunk (mainstream use) until the above are solved in satisfactory way.
What rights would "subhuman creatures" have? Don't create "subhuman", just "improved human" with same rights and better, healthier body, sharper senses, stronger muscles... And i.e. really low organisms with parts for transplants - these would have standard "animal rights" and without brain nearly similar to human, no doubt about their "position".
It's neither good nor bad. It's a blind tool, a technology. It can be used to do good, it can be used to do bad. People die in car accidents - ban cars? Explosives may kill - stop all development of explosives? Sorry, it's a backwards way of thinking. Just restrict the application to "good" uses and prohibit the "bad" ones instead of trying to stop all the technology altogether.
Ancient "standards" of morality should be reexamined and rebuilt from the ground up. It "feels" wrong but nobody can really tell, why. So did transplants, blood transfusions, artificial insemination in case of otherwise infertile parents... These aren't bad things, but they are "slippery" too.
We should come with a "short and sweet" list of axioms of what is good and what is bad, based on actual profits (especially long-term) and costs to the humanity, and everything should be then examined in light of these axioms. A lot of harmless practices are suffering nowadays because someone somewhere believed them wrong. Think how "slipery" is the zone of sexuality - and putting aside pathologies like abuse, it's perfectly harmless. On the other hand, model of success without really looking behind, winning by conquest, exploiting the weaker for own profit is really popular, all the "business strategies", trying to cheat people. It's just as wrongly on the "plus" side.
Technology of creation of human-animal hybrid is just a blind tool. Maybe one of more dangerous ones, but still a tool, without its own moral value. Like gunpowder. Can be used to kill (gunpowder: ammo. hybrid: produce soldiers with better senses), can be used to profit at cost of suffering of others (weapons of oppression, breeding animals for "replacement parts" for humans), can be used for something useful (explosives to help in construction, "improved" humans of better health and traits), something pretty (fireworks, Furries), saving life (signal flares / cloned body parts in organisms without "feeling" facilities, i.e. brainless), and many others.
It's the application that has some moral value, and that should be controlled. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people". Just the same way, "hybrids aren't evil, misusing hybrids is evil."
It would be a good role for the Church, if they only for a moment stopped shouting "No, Veto, Never, Nothing of this" and instead thought and guided precisely "This, this and this - yes, this - try it, but stop if..., and this - better stay away".
Created on God's likehood, where it's said we weren't given the power to create new lifeforms?
That, and you can't sue them for any patent infrigement (valid or not) or you lose the right to use their patents.
Take my patents freely. Sue me for violating your patents (rightfuly or not) and you can't use my patents anymore.
Yes, it isn't GPL compatible.
These patents can't be used in any code other than OpenSolaris.
Once it becomes financially viable (start now by depositing a penny into a savings account), perhaps a restaurant could be built on the asteroid?
I guess with current rates it will be financially viable about the time of the end of the Universe.
You can have a cup of something not entirely but almost quite unlike tea.
And don't crash the computer ship by trying to get it to produce real tea!
***WARNING SPOILER ALERT***
A race so advanced that it hardly could reach anything more (mice) built a supercomputer that for a long time (something like a million years?) worked on an answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything.
It came out with "42". And politely explained that you still have to figure out the question itself yet. So another computer was built, ultimately huge and powerful, to guess the question. This computer happened to be the Earth. And got destroyed in really silly circumstances.
clever hardware that chopped up memory
That all takes time.
With speeds really nearing speed of light, distance from end to end of a typical DIMM becomes significant. Single extra transistor on the way introduces several % of delay. Serial delays things even more - chop the 64-bit signal into 10-inch long pulses (moving at speed of light!) and you're down to 1GHZ clock. And how much potential, how many extra electrons can you fit at 1.3V in 10 inches of a wire? And they must suffice to change polarity often of several transistors.
All these tricks would be viable if c wasn't 300.000km/s but, say, 3.000.000, if we had superconductors instead of copper, 1-atom transistors that can be triggered with a single electron and such. Nowadays adding another layer of indirection won't solve anything.
If that image-index program is your own, what problem to add file:// in front of the path? And if not, report the bug :)
:)
I believe URI should also include any local filename using the file notation of the local machine automatically.
I'm not so sure about it, but I think if you submitted a patch to Firefox, it would get accepted
ps. Irfanview/Windows, ZGV (Yes, SVGAlib!) Linux.
I remember the long, long hours spent with friends playing Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge! Incredible game! Play the "training course" and silently watch as opponent's fuel bar slowly nears zero, and he must make a decision, let you take over and refuel or try that one remaining lap :)
Then Lotus 2, with that monstrous swamp level, and Lotus 3 (TURBO ZONE!)
I managed to create a level in Lotus 3 where after 3-4 checkpoints of relatively normal track with sparsely placed "turbo zones" you began riding downhill, down a VERY steep hill, straight ahead, maybe 15 laps and all the time in the turbo zone. Slowly closing to 400MPH...
I'd like to complain that img src doesn't support Amiga Volumes (hd0:), Atari Handlers (T:), Samba resources (\\host\path), memory pointers, math expressions, Gerber data and Reverse Polish Notation.
Note the U in URI. And DWYW, just don't wonder if you're the only one who sees the images on the webpage you publish, as the webpage points to your harddrive. (I've seen WAY too many webpages published on the net by "smart people" with C:\My%20Documents\mywebpage_files\ as source of their images... Now tell me you'd like to complain this doesn't work?)
Not really.
Right now the fingerprint security can't differentiate between a rubber copy (say, thin gloves) and the real tissue. The worst problem now is stealing the "original" data. At a hands reach here I have a machine that could recreate a human finger, including the fingerprint, taking maybe 24h, in brass. (then just transfer it to rubber and voila). Just supply me with corresponding CAD data.
Fingerprint-based security sucks. It's less reliable than traditional keys, and once your fingerprint gets copied, you can't get a new one. Similar problem with voice recognition. Retinal scans are a step ahead but they still can be fooled. For now only DNA test seems relatively reliable, and still should be supervised somehow so you don't sneak in someone else's cells.
Of course fingerprint+DNA test would be hard to beat (cut finger off?). But printing tissue (with some arbitrary DNA) won't circumvent that, and the point of fingerprint-based security is that it's easier, cheaper and faster than DNA scans.
It's not a file. In case of data: URL it would be a file. It's just an identifier of the file.
:
:
From HTML 4.01 Quick Reference:
src %URI; #REQUIRED -- URI of image to embed --
RFC2396 (Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax)
3. URI Syntactic Components
The URI syntax is dependent upon the scheme. In general, absolute
URI are written as follows:
Letters A-Z aren't alias schemes for 'file' scheme with changed syntax. They are drive letters. Parts of the address itself.
(and since context is undefined, treating the URI as "relative" where scheme can be omitted isn't right as well. I can put a webpage on my page and reference a file on YOUR drive at position completely unrelated to my page location.)
If it was a protocol, couldn't I say (img src="ftp://ftp.whatever.com/images/a.jpg") ????
And you can't? I can. It even asks for password if anonymous is not accepted. (very annoying). Accepts even syntax src="ftp://user:password@host...)