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I honestly think if the human race is going to attempt existing in microgravity, then the best way would be to evolve gradually by initially living in a 1G space station, and then for that space station to gradually reduce its rotational speed over the cource of a few centuries or even millenniums.
I don't disagree with you generally, but saying "every bit of art owes to previous works" is misleading, because obviously, some art owes more than other art. Some pieces may hardly copy at all, whilst others could copy 99%. Just because we can't say for sure what this value is, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
And God help us even more, when that knowledge turns out to be more truthful than a Slashdot post which also doesn't cite any reliable sources. For the record, that post isn't the only place I've heard that Megaupload was very good with this kind of thing. Yes far from proof, but one has to be careful.
On a related note, I've heard in two different places with one place saying that vast majority of stuff on Megaupload was perfectly legal personal storage stuff, and another place saying the vast majority is pirate stuff. It's pretty hard to know what to believe even with the whole internet at one's fingertips.
I'm a DMCA agent and this may well make my job harder. Megauploads was incredible with their response time to DMCA notices. There are a lot of other sites out there, like Oron.com, that straight up ignore them, and many more that take quite a lot longer. It's absolutely absurd that they'd go after Megauploads.
Most of the time, I'd want to have night sky lit up 10x brighter than the brightest place on Earth, but I think it's awesome to have a few nights let off so that people can appreciate the sky as it would be. If everyone agrees, and skips a night of travel for a day or two per year, that's more than a worthy sacrifice. It's something I've been wanting all along.
If some PhD in the field can confirm the above, that would be useful. It would show then that "LENR" doesn't always equate to "cold fusion". This would also provide less evidence for the validity of the E-cat, as wonderful as that would be.
A couple from that thread claim that NASA hasn't discovered cold fusion here, but 'merely' radio active beta decay, which is similar to an atomic battery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery
I know, how about we skip having to enter the user ID altogether, and just reply on the password. It's usually a pain to enter TWO things for every single website out there. The password can easily be an extra 3-6 digits longer to make up for the security loss of a username. Heck, the password could contain the user name if they really want.
Exactly. A screen should just be a screen. High resolution, low latency, great colour gamut, high frame-rate - sure, knock yourself out. Anything else will probably detract from the purchase.
Higher level drawing functions are good fun too and have their place and are great fun too. But go too high-level (giving them ready-made sprites and music) and a lot of the power and creativity is removed. Things get cookie-cutter like very quickly.
Sure, give them those things too, but there's no replacement for the pixel, in the sense that it's the building block of everything else. You can't create for example, raytracers out of the things you listed. Even the 'point' doesn't quite fit the bill as it doesn't quite have a one to one mapping with the physical pixels in the screen display.
Indeed - what I would've done for a faster plot or circle function back then:)
And we mustn't forget about sound too. Just instead of the x and y, we have time and volume/pressure, which can of course be represented by the x and y again. I was in awe when I realized I could 'draw' the wave of a sound with simple maths and have it played back (that was on the Amiga and in AMOS). Some surprisingly effective sounds can be created using very little knowledge of maths and sheer experimentation.
I hope that the plot(x,y,r,g,b) function is featured as part of their lessons, because that can easily multiply a student's interest by a factor of 10.
There's nothing quite like being able to control any part of the screen. When I started off on the ZX spectrum, I was just drawing dots, lines and circles. And it looked rubbish, but it felt amazing, especially when animation came into play. Today, I'm doing more this kind of stuff, but at the heart of it is the plot(x,y,r,g,b) function.
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So what would be some of the hurdles to get a life-sized Wipeout track based around this principle? At a guess, I'd say almost limitless quantities of energy would be the main hurdle to cool the track down enough. (I know you get maglev trains, but they're fixed to a track and can't move left or right).
Nothing's 'wrong' with soap and water. It's just a quick wave of the hand using (lasting say 10 seconds) an ultra high-powered ray of UV light is much less hassle (if it works).
And 6% hydrogen peroxide is 100x more effective than soap and water btw (great as a mouthwash too).
Yes I know these things may be dangerous, but some consumer products (e.g. heavy duty rust removers) have hydrofluoric acid in them (yes, that's fluoric, not chloric, and yes you can buy it from town). The potential risk may be outweighed by the benefits if the wearer wore special glasses, and there was a clear way that points 'down' (e.g. this product.
If that's not good enough, then it could even detect if there wasn't a surface within an inch or two of the device and would then automatically shut itself off.
I just think these things could be magic for cleaning say, dog rugs (my dog leaks a little in his sleep unfortunately). But would it do that well? If not there's always the peroxide...
My question is how much more powerful can we make these. I understand there's a safety issue, but ignoring that, what kind of wattage could one go to to use on beds, chairs, carpets, cupboards, even sinks and food areas.
Would a kilowatt or two for one of these 'wands' do a good enough job, and not set the house on fire? Would it also clear up dog/cat wee for example? It would be great to have something like this to avoid using liquids/bleach or throwing out the item, especially for pet owners like myself.
It's great because the more stuff we break generally, the more kludges and patches will be needed to fix them, and the more unnecessary work there will be to do.
This CREATES JOBS people, and as EVERYONE knows by now, that is always the prime directive. Forget how happy people are, or metrics based on pointless things like efficiency and standards. More jobs (i.e. more employment) are all we need to make the world go round.
No, I'm a Windows user actually, and I agree with you that (for now) Linux would probably cause more problems that it solves for many businesses for the time being.
My point is that any flaws in the design stage by Microsoft for the OS (or any company for any OS) are magnified many times over and waste the world's economy billions if not trillions of pounds. This is why we've got to be so careful about what the world chooses for an OS, and how we go about designing it.
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I honestly think if the human race is going to attempt existing in microgravity, then the best way would be to evolve gradually by initially living in a 1G space station, and then for that space station to gradually reduce its rotational speed over the cource of a few centuries or even millenniums.
Can you explain that in more depth? Doesn't the structure have to be strong anyway to withstand takeoff pressures from Earth?
I don't disagree with you generally, but saying "every bit of art owes to previous works" is misleading, because obviously, some art owes more than other art. Some pieces may hardly copy at all, whilst others could copy 99%. Just because we can't say for sure what this value is, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
And God help us even more, when that knowledge turns out to be more truthful than a Slashdot post which also doesn't cite any reliable sources. For the record, that post isn't the only place I've heard that Megaupload was very good with this kind of thing. Yes far from proof, but one has to be careful.
On a related note, I've heard in two different places with one place saying that vast majority of stuff on Megaupload was perfectly legal personal storage stuff, and another place saying the vast majority is pirate stuff. It's pretty hard to know what to believe even with the whole internet at one's fingertips.
I'm a DMCA agent and this may well make my job harder. Megauploads was incredible with their response time to DMCA notices. There are a lot of other sites out there, like Oron.com, that straight up ignore them, and many more that take quite a lot longer. It's absolutely absurd that they'd go after Megauploads.
Here's the full list of Reddit comments relating to that topic: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/onplj/feds_shut_down_megaupload/
Most of the time, I'd want to have night sky lit up 10x brighter than the brightest place on Earth, but I think it's awesome to have a few nights let off so that people can appreciate the sky as it would be. If everyone agrees, and skips a night of travel for a day or two per year, that's more than a worthy sacrifice. It's something I've been wanting all along.
If some PhD in the field can confirm the above, that would be useful. It would show then that "LENR" doesn't always equate to "cold fusion". This would also provide less evidence for the validity of the E-cat, as wonderful as that would be.
Here's Reddit's discussion of the story: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ofz9f/nasa_developing_a_low_energy_nuclear_reactor_its/
A couple from that thread claim that NASA hasn't discovered cold fusion here, but 'merely' radio active beta decay, which is similar to an atomic battery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery
I know, how about we skip having to enter the user ID altogether, and just reply on the password. It's usually a pain to enter TWO things for every single website out there. The password can easily be an extra 3-6 digits longer to make up for the security loss of a username. Heck, the password could contain the user name if they really want.
Exactly. A screen should just be a screen. High resolution, low latency, great colour gamut, high frame-rate - sure, knock yourself out. Anything else will probably detract from the purchase.
Higher level drawing functions are good fun too and have their place and are great fun too. But go too high-level (giving them ready-made sprites and music) and a lot of the power and creativity is removed. Things get cookie-cutter like very quickly.
Sure, give them those things too, but there's no replacement for the pixel, in the sense that it's the building block of everything else. You can't create for example, raytracers out of the things you listed. Even the 'point' doesn't quite fit the bill as it doesn't quite have a one to one mapping with the physical pixels in the screen display.
Indeed - what I would've done for a faster plot or circle function back then :)
And we mustn't forget about sound too. Just instead of the x and y, we have time and volume/pressure, which can of course be represented by the x and y again. I was in awe when I realized I could 'draw' the wave of a sound with simple maths and have it played back (that was on the Amiga and in AMOS). Some surprisingly effective sounds can be created using very little knowledge of maths and sheer experimentation.
I hope that the plot(x,y,r,g,b) function is featured as part of their lessons, because that can easily multiply a student's interest by a factor of 10.
There's nothing quite like being able to control any part of the screen. When I started off on the ZX spectrum, I was just drawing dots, lines and circles. And it looked rubbish, but it felt amazing, especially when animation came into play. Today, I'm doing more this kind of stuff, but at the heart of it is the plot(x,y,r,g,b) function.
You win 270 internet points. Congratulations. Your post however contains copyrighted content (I copyrighted it a few years back). Expect then a visit from Your Friendly Law Enforcement officers within the next couple of days!
So what would be some of the hurdles to get a life-sized Wipeout track based around this principle? At a guess, I'd say almost limitless quantities of energy would be the main hurdle to cool the track down enough. (I know you get maglev trains, but they're fixed to a track and can't move left or right).
Nothing's 'wrong' with soap and water. It's just a quick wave of the hand using (lasting say 10 seconds) an ultra high-powered ray of UV light is much less hassle (if it works).
And 6% hydrogen peroxide is 100x more effective than soap and water btw (great as a mouthwash too).
Yes I know these things may be dangerous, but some consumer products (e.g. heavy duty rust removers) have hydrofluoric acid in them (yes, that's fluoric, not chloric, and yes you can buy it from town). The potential risk may be outweighed by the benefits if the wearer wore special glasses, and there was a clear way that points 'down' (e.g. this product.
If that's not good enough, then it could even detect if there wasn't a surface within an inch or two of the device and would then automatically shut itself off.
I just think these things could be magic for cleaning say, dog rugs (my dog leaks a little in his sleep unfortunately). But would it do that well? If not there's always the peroxide...
Perhaps someone with enough know-how can chime here with something I've always pondered. There's a range of products which rely on UV light to kill bacteria, mold, viruses etc. Unfortunately, many of these products are underpowered such as this one (I can't say for sure, but some of the reviews don't seem great):
http://www.amazon.com/Verilux-CleanWave-VH01WW4-UV-C-Sanitizing/dp/B0018A330K/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1325745037&sr=8-4
My question is how much more powerful can we make these. I understand there's a safety issue, but ignoring that, what kind of wattage could one go to to use on beds, chairs, carpets, cupboards, even sinks and food areas.
Would a kilowatt or two for one of these 'wands' do a good enough job, and not set the house on fire? Would it also clear up dog/cat wee for example? It would be great to have something like this to avoid using liquids/bleach or throwing out the item, especially for pet owners like myself.
It's great because the more stuff we break generally, the more kludges and patches will be needed to fix them, and the more unnecessary work there will be to do.
This CREATES JOBS people, and as EVERYONE knows by now, that is always the prime directive. Forget how happy people are, or metrics based on pointless things like efficiency and standards. More jobs (i.e. more employment) are all we need to make the world go round.
Yes, but at best, that's balanced by the evil scum companies having that money instead.
I wasn't with them to begin with.
GoDaddy accounts for 30% of all domain registrations, and there are, on average, 27K .com domains registered PER DAY.
Parables, windows and breakage spring to mind...
No, I'm a Windows user actually, and I agree with you that (for now) Linux would probably cause more problems that it solves for many businesses for the time being.
My point is that any flaws in the design stage by Microsoft for the OS (or any company for any OS) are magnified many times over and waste the world's economy billions if not trillions of pounds. This is why we've got to be so careful about what the world chooses for an OS, and how we go about designing it.
No offense, but the broken window fallacy comes to mind here. I wonder why.