Well, perhaps the term 'unisexual' was a bit glib. They were kinda unisexual and kinda hermaphroditic. But what was enforced was angogynous behavior. Choosing to emulate a gender (as 'she' did when she initiated a romatic liason with Riker) is forbidden, and as above poster stated, met with reprogramming.
How about "The Outcast" (TNG 217), which features a unisexual race where angrogyny is manditory. Until one falls in love with Riker. 'She' makes a passionate speech about how what matters is not one's gender or lack thereof, but the emotion in ones heart.
Or "The Host" (TNG 97), where Dr. Crusher falls in love with a visiting ambassador. When he dies, it is revealed he is a Trill, part of a symbiotic species. The humanoid is merely the host for a worm-like creature that stores the memories and emotions of all previous hosts. The next host of her lover turns out to be a woman. A woman who still loves Beverly . ..
Or "Hide and Q" (TNG 111), where Riker is given the godlike power of the Q Continuum, and most realise for himself that "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absoloutly."
I could go on, but I don't think it's really necessary, as these are just the ones of the top of my head about a series that hasn't been first run in a decade.
Maybe he wouldn't, but I would. I swore an oath to defend our country from those who would attempt to oppress us. Note that the military oath is first to 'support and defend the Constitution'. I know that I am not alone in interpreting that to mean to defend the Constitution from anything or one - including our own government.
That maybe the case, but it doesn't change the basic logic. If a 500W is 70% effecient, then it is pulling in 715W. If 500W is what you need, then at 90%, you now only need a PS that pulls 555W. Dropping almost 200W from your input, decreases your heat, decreases your fan requirement, decreases your output (and therefore input) requirement. See?
Also one should take into consideration someone using a 500W is only getting 350 at 70% effecient. If you had a PS that was 90%, you would only need a 400W. Now that you have a smaller PS, you might could drop a fan or two. This now decreases your power load on your new 400W. Savings on effeciency == savings everywhere
the horrid diagram charting the evelution of *nixes. It was featured along with Sata^H^H^H^H McBride on the cover of a recent Fortune. This one seems to be slightly easier to understand, though. And it IS interesting to see where languages come from. (I imagine not everyone knows that C came from a language called B).
Look pal, I'm not sure what you think is going on here, but this is a discussion. In a typical discussion, people post opinions. Yes, it may be inevitable (may be), but that does not mean we should accept it like complacent sheep. When large groups of people say they don't like the war, should Bush say "Tough, it's happening." No, obviously not.
Despite crappy business practices, they actually have some talented people that produce some good solid work.
Yes... good solid work. Which is why you never hear of successful exploits or virii on Microsoft products.
If you want to be paranoid, why don't you look up EFI and cross reference with DRM?
Just remember, paranoia is not the false belief that everyone is out to get you, just the belief. Even if everyone IS out to get you.
Hour 0: DVD Purchased. Child or sibling opens it while you are not looking.
Hour 1: You realize the package was opened, but do not know when.
Hour 2: You finally get home, only to realize that your Windows machine is DOA and needs a reinstall....
Hour 5: Reinstall finish. Hunt for DVD burning/decrypt^H^H^H^H^H^H backup software begins.
Hour 6: DVDXCopy found and installed, read phase begins. You realize that you burned your last blank DVD last night.
Hour 7: You return from Staples with a rediculously priced 5pack. Burning begins.
Hour 8: You finish just in time to watch the light show on the back of this 'novel' disc. Perhaps a 48-hour version would be less stressful in the future.
Seems to be:
games based on a movie (ie the game plot and objectives mirror the movie plot and objectives)
vs.
games inspired by a movie (ie games that merely occur in the same universe with more or less the same characters as a movie)
I know there are exceptions to the rule on both sides, so I do not need to be inundated with examples. But generally, this seems to be the determining factor.
For those not in the know Rent-A-Coder is a site where people/companies put up software projects, and (get this!) coders bid on the project. Once a coder is selected, the client puts the agreed upon fee in escrow. All communication (in theory) is conducted through the website, so that in cases of despute, there is a clear papertrail. At the end of the project, the escrow company releases the money to the coder. Badabing, badaboom.
It sounds like a good place for young coders to get experience. In practice however, the overwhelming majority of jobs get placed to more experienced coders (read: RAC users with higher ratings). So even in the code-whoring business, the classic experience catch-22 remains in effect.
First of all, while there are MANY problems quantum teleportation (you name a few of the worst), there is always something 'impossible' that remains so until someone does it. As laws of physics are refined and rewriten, we discover what is possible, not what is not. Second, I merely meant to state that QC was a 'next step', not a 'final step'. Excuse me. Finally, as to QC helping the idea of teleportation along, check out Dr. Krauss, author of Phsyics of Star Trek. And whatever your problems with Star Trek, the man is well credentialed.
I absolutely agree that superluminal transportation is completely beyond what we currently believe to be within the laws of physics. 'No information can travel faster than light' Heisenburg helps us here too.
What this refers to is the fact that quanta do not have discrete positions. They have probabilities. 50% chance of location A or 50% chance of location B (to make it simple). The issue is that until you check, it exists at BOTH A and B. But even after you check, there are problems...
One of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics is Heisenburg's Uncertainty Priciple. It states that you cannot know both the location and the velocity (remember that in physics velocity is both speed and direction).
Explanation (basic terms):
The smaller something is the more powerful the light you need to see it. This appeals to common sense. When you are looking at things VERY small (like quanta) the 'light' you use to look at it is powerful enough to move it. So you can know where is WAS but not where it IS. Or, you can know where it WAS going but not where it IS going. This pertains to ALL the properties of quanta.
Long story short, maybe the tree makes a sound when it falls , and maybe it doesn't. But once you check, you change the results. See the Wikipedia entry on Schrödinger's cat for more info.
Think of a 'standard' bit. On or off. 1 or 0. Classically what determines the state of a bit, is the charge of x atoms. (X is an arbitrary number based on the size of the conductor.) So what if instead of HUGE atoms, you used quantom particles? Particles that have more than charge, but have many properties. Leading itself to a computer that computes in octal or other bases.
Besides this obvious benefit, quantom mechanics allows for some 'weird' computing. Cases where the computer knows the result of a calcuation before you ask it. Or possibly is helped by quantom computers in other realities. Definiately weird, but rediculous amount of computing power.
The techs that can come for this computing power is unimaginable. Several physicits have said that it would take a quantum computer on the scall of a contemporary computer to achieve feats such as teleportation (Star Trek, eat your heart out!)
Michael Chricton (of course) has dealt with the subject quite entertainingly in the novel Timeline. Again, I say the novel.
First, what you speak of already exists. They are called either automatic or active windows. However they wouldn't work to well for walls because LCD exists in two states. Black and transparent. I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of a black wall. A heavily shaded window is okay, but a black wall is horrid!
Slashdot Mirror
Well, perhaps the term 'unisexual' was a bit glib. They were kinda unisexual and kinda hermaphroditic. But what was enforced was angogynous behavior. Choosing to emulate a gender (as 'she' did when she initiated a romatic liason with Riker) is forbidden, and as above poster stated, met with reprogramming.
Ah, but DS9 did. Check out Reassociation.
How about "The Outcast" (TNG 217), which features a unisexual race where angrogyny is manditory. Until one falls in love with Riker. 'She' makes a passionate speech about how what matters is not one's gender or lack thereof, but the emotion in ones heart.
.
Or "The Host" (TNG 97), where Dr. Crusher falls in love with a visiting ambassador. When he dies, it is revealed he is a Trill, part of a symbiotic species. The humanoid is merely the host for a worm-like creature that stores the memories and emotions of all previous hosts. The next host of her lover turns out to be a woman. A woman who still loves Beverly . .
Or "Hide and Q" (TNG 111), where Riker is given the godlike power of the Q Continuum, and most realise for himself that "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absoloutly."
I could go on, but I don't think it's really necessary, as these are just the ones of the top of my head about a series that hasn't been first run in a decade.
Maybe he wouldn't, but I would. I swore an oath to defend our country from those who would attempt to oppress us. Note that the military oath is first to 'support and defend the Constitution'. I know that I am not alone in interpreting that to mean to defend the Constitution from anything or one - including our own government.
That maybe the case, but it doesn't change the basic logic. If a 500W is 70% effecient, then it is pulling in 715W. If 500W is what you need, then at 90%, you now only need a PS that pulls 555W. Dropping almost 200W from your input, decreases your heat, decreases your fan requirement, decreases your output (and therefore input) requirement. See?
Also one should take into consideration someone using a 500W is only getting 350 at 70% effecient. If you had a PS that was 90%, you would only need a 400W.
Now that you have a smaller PS, you might could drop a fan or two. This now decreases your power load on your new 400W.
Savings on effeciency == savings everywhere
From the article: "You can run a small country on $2.8 billion and still get change,"
Can I get that in small bills, please?
RTA:
FORTRAN I begot ALGOL 58 begot ALGOL 60 begot CPL begot BCPL begot B begot C begot C++
And it was good.
the horrid diagram charting the evelution of *nixes. It was featured along with Sata^H^H^H^H McBride on the cover of a recent Fortune. This one seems to be slightly easier to understand, though. And it IS interesting to see where languages come from. (I imagine not everyone knows that C came from a language called B).
"Tough, it's happening."
... good solid work. Which is why you never hear of successful exploits or virii on Microsoft products.
Look pal, I'm not sure what you think is going on here, but this is a discussion. In a typical discussion, people post opinions. Yes, it may be inevitable (may be), but that does not mean we should accept it like complacent sheep. When large groups of people say they don't like the war, should Bush say "Tough, it's happening." No, obviously not.
Despite crappy business practices, they actually have some talented people that produce some good solid work.
Yes
If you want to be paranoid, why don't you look up EFI and cross reference with DRM?
Just remember, paranoia is not the false belief that everyone is out to get you, just the belief. Even if everyone IS out to get you.
In Soviet Russia, the vital statistics are based on tunes!
Oh well. I tried.
Yes yes yes. But that wouldn't have been as funny, and I was running out of ideas for delays. Artistic license and whatnot.
Hour 0: DVD Purchased. Child or sibling opens it while you are not looking. ...
Hour 5: Reinstall finish. Hunt for DVD burning/decrypt^H^H^H^H^H^H backup software begins.
Hour 6: DVDXCopy found and installed, read phase begins. You realize that you burned your last blank DVD last night.
Hour 7: You return from Staples with a rediculously priced 5pack. Burning begins.
Hour 8: You finish just in time to watch the light show on the back of this 'novel' disc. Perhaps a 48-hour version would be less stressful in the future.
Hour 1: You realize the package was opened, but do not know when. Hour 2: You finally get home, only to realize that your Windows machine is DOA and needs a reinstall.
Seems to be:
games based on a movie (ie the game plot and objectives mirror the movie plot and objectives)
vs.
games inspired by a movie (ie games that merely occur in the same universe with more or less the same characters as a movie)
I know there are exceptions to the rule on both sides, so I do not need to be inundated with examples. But generally, this seems to be the determining factor.
For those not in the know Rent-A-Coder is a site where people/companies put up software projects, and (get this!) coders bid on the project. Once a coder is selected, the client puts the agreed upon fee in escrow. All communication (in theory) is conducted through the website, so that in cases of despute, there is a clear papertrail. At the end of the project, the escrow company releases the money to the coder. Badabing, badaboom.
It sounds like a good place for young coders to get experience. In practice however, the overwhelming majority of jobs get placed to more experienced coders (read: RAC users with higher ratings). So even in the code-whoring business, the classic experience catch-22 remains in effect.
is that they could come out with HORRIBLE games at this point, and just because they are H2 and D3, people are going to buy them in hordes.
Sometimes comercial unavailability is not a burden, but a blessing.
First of all, while there are MANY problems quantum teleportation (you name a few of the worst), there is always something 'impossible' that remains so until someone does it. As laws of physics are refined and rewriten, we discover what is possible, not what is not.
Second, I merely meant to state that QC was a 'next step', not a 'final step'. Excuse me.
Finally, as to QC helping the idea of teleportation along, check out Dr. Krauss, author of Phsyics of Star Trek. And whatever your problems with Star Trek, the man is well credentialed.
I absolutely agree that superluminal transportation is completely beyond what we currently believe to be within the laws of physics. 'No information can travel faster than light' Heisenburg helps us here too.
What this refers to is the fact that quanta do not have discrete positions. They have probabilities. 50% chance of location A or 50% chance of location B (to make it simple). The issue is that until you check, it exists at BOTH A and B. But even after you check, there are problems...
One of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics is Heisenburg's Uncertainty Priciple. It states that you cannot know both the location and the velocity (remember that in physics velocity is both speed and direction).
Explanation (basic terms):
The smaller something is the more powerful the light you need to see it. This appeals to common sense. When you are looking at things VERY small (like quanta) the 'light' you use to look at it is powerful enough to move it. So you can know where is WAS but not where it IS. Or, you can know where it WAS going but not where it IS going. This pertains to ALL the properties of quanta.
Long story short, maybe the tree makes a sound when it falls , and maybe it doesn't. But once you check, you change the results. See the Wikipedia entry on Schrödinger's cat for more info.
Think of a 'standard' bit. On or off. 1 or 0. Classically what determines the state of a bit, is the charge of x atoms. (X is an arbitrary number based on the size of the conductor.) So what if instead of HUGE atoms, you used quantom particles? Particles that have more than charge, but have many properties. Leading itself to a computer that computes in octal or other bases.
Besides this obvious benefit, quantom mechanics allows for some 'weird' computing. Cases where the computer knows the result of a calcuation before you ask it. Or possibly is helped by quantom computers in other realities. Definiately weird, but rediculous amount of computing power.
It both can handle /. and cannot handle /. This is known as the CowboyNeal's Cat Effect.
The techs that can come for this computing power is unimaginable. Several physicits have said that it would take a quantum computer on the scall of a contemporary computer to achieve feats such as teleportation (Star Trek, eat your heart out!)
Michael Chricton (of course) has dealt with the subject quite entertainingly in the novel Timeline. Again, I say the novel.
Yes, why has no one asked about the current exorbant costs of VDSL and what those costs mean for USMDSL (UltraSuperMegaDSL).
First, what you speak of already exists. They are called either automatic or active windows. However they wouldn't work to well for walls because LCD exists in two states. Black and transparent. I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of a black wall. A heavily shaded window is okay, but a black wall is horrid!