Seriously, blood is a core component for our bodies. Once you can swap it out with something better you get a lot more options. Artificial hearts tend to cause clotting. How about replacing the blood at the same time?
Along similar lines, I wonder how hard it would be to keep a brain (just the brain) alive on life support. Hook it up to an external interface (not simple, I know) then live virtually forever.
if the protocol makes spamming harder. there will be a lot less
Web forum security is entirely broken for bots now. Spam is under control on/. because we have many eyes to attack the problem. With point to point communication you don't have this advantage.
Arthur C Clarke had a great idea along those lines. Political leaders should be chosen at random from a pool of people who have never shown an interest in the role.
Its a good idea but implementing it has a few problems.
Most of what you say is true. We mainly play Wii sports. On the weekend we found the Mii creation tool and my son had a great time building funny looking Miis. That was a lot of fun. The day after we got the Wii I started looking out for something like second life. Say what you will, I know it doesn't have a good reputation with gamers. I bought a cheap flight sim game because it looked like it had some good simulation in it. But I got bored trying to get past the game play and gave up.
I think an MMO would do very well if the avatar system was used properly. Maybe it will come eventually.
The tools for automated submissions of the pictures are already in place. What is needed, however, are people to translate the German captions into English.
Well for the English version anyway. What about all the other languages supported by wikipedia?
I think tiny netbooks are the equivalent of a tiny piano (+pianist) for the uninitiated: They look stupid.
My eeepc 701 is very small, but I keep it with my gps, multimeter, soldering iron, mobile phone, light meter, sound pressure meter, altimeter, wind speed meter, usb to serial adapter, portable hard disk, video camera, digital camera, etc.
Every one of those instruments is exactly the size it needs to be.
More likely they bounce off each other. A gnome developer who wants animated icons everywhere and per-component customisation of transparency can be told to piss off to KDE. Likewise a KDE developer who wants to enforce on one good way to do everything can be sent packing to gnome.
Yes but to get 1/6 g your hole would have to reach down to the mantle of the earth. So its going to be pretty warm. Another way would be to suspend a black hole above your experiment. It wouldn't even need to be a big black hole as these things go.
I am a parent of a seven year old boy and I have to come down on the side of innate behaviour. Language learning started from birth and he made sounds to mimic words he had heard from a month or so of age. I noticed that his language tended to come in bursts. He started repeating simple sounds (like "poo" when his nappy was being changed) then abandoned that approach and returned weeks later with a more complex interpretation. His language didn't really get on track until he was 18 months old but did a lot of learning to get to that point. I definitely think the basics of language were there at birth.
When he was about two years old we went to a science museum. There was a school group there at the time with kids sitting on the floor in a circle listening to a teacher. My son seemed to recognise this configuration immediately. He walked over to them, found a gap in the circle and sat down.
Sharia just means customary law. The Church of England has spoken out in favour of Sharia law in the UK. Like many other religions and social organisations Scientology presumably wants a way to judge and sanction their members.
It is worth noting that in Malaysia Muslims can be punished by normal courts for doing things which are perfectly legal for non-muslims in the same country.
The biggest problem I have with sharia law is that it is generally not documented. It relies primarily on precedent. Unlike western systems where the laws are held in a single repository.
China and India have both made a career out of using their population as robots. Both have legal and cultural systems in place to keep the status quo. India have been doing this for five hundred years. The population bomb is the wildcard here. With India the lack of control over population growth may lead to starvation within a generation. With China central population controls are tied to controls over population movement.
Both of these things could break down. In fact, looking at the population issue, it is hard to see it not breaking down.
Look at the comments under any YouTube video on Chinese suppression of Tibet and you'll see the Chinese government in action: especially lies about Tibet always having been part of China. The funny thing is, the Chinese aren't physically adapted to living under diminished oxygen conditions, so they can only stay there for a few years and then have to be replaced by other Chinese. In the long run they can't win.
If I got sent to Tibet for some reason I would want to go home eventually too, but it wouldn't be because of the altitude.
"No. A centrifuge can only add to gravity."
Although commonly measured in g's. You should probably point out that it doesn't increase gravity. Pedantic, I know.
Saying add to gravity is not the same as saying add gravity.
Couldn't this same experiment be done on a centrifuge in Earth's gravity? Centrifuges usually are used to increase apparent gravity, but if it were shaped so that the plant and soil faced outward, at the right speed, wouldn't one be able to mimic that 1/6 g?
If it were 200 light years, we would probably be all dead, since we would be hit by a very large dose of x-rays at the same time that the light arrived.
Mortgage terms disclosure rules are antiquated and fantastically inadequate.
Looking at the speed with which the US mortgage market collapsed I think it is more likely that a lot of home owners decided to cash in by walking away from their homes. In other words, they knew exactly what the terms of their mortgages were.
The touch screen seems to mainly concern itself with entertainment and environmental control. These are a UI mess anyway. Controls for lights, indicators etc are presumably in the usual places.
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Seriously, blood is a core component for our bodies. Once you can swap it out with something better you get a lot more options. Artificial hearts tend to cause clotting. How about replacing the blood at the same time?
Along similar lines, I wonder how hard it would be to keep a brain (just the brain) alive on life support. Hook it up to an external interface (not simple, I know) then live virtually forever.
It's shit like this that makes the rest of the world shake their heads with pity at the US and Saudi Arabia
Different outcomes but similar problems. Unable to distinguish between victim and perpetrator.
if the protocol makes spamming harder. there will be a lot less
Web forum security is entirely broken for bots now. Spam is under control on /. because we have many eyes to attack the problem. With point to point communication you don't have this advantage.
As long as we have communication we will have spam. Seriously, if facebook was our only way to send messages then spammers would use facebook.
Arthur C Clarke had a great idea along those lines. Political leaders should be chosen at random from a pool of people who have never shown an interest in the role.
Its a good idea but implementing it has a few problems.
Most of what you say is true. We mainly play Wii sports. On the weekend we found the Mii creation tool and my son had a great time building funny looking Miis. That was a lot of fun. The day after we got the Wii I started looking out for something like second life. Say what you will, I know it doesn't have a good reputation with gamers. I bought a cheap flight sim game because it looked like it had some good simulation in it. But I got bored trying to get past the game play and gave up.
I think an MMO would do very well if the avatar system was used properly. Maybe it will come eventually.
The tools for automated submissions of the pictures are already in place. What is needed, however, are people to translate the German captions into English.
Well for the English version anyway. What about all the other languages supported by wikipedia?
It's a wang computer.
I always wondered what happened to them...
I think tiny netbooks are the equivalent of a tiny piano (+pianist) for the uninitiated: They look stupid.
My eeepc 701 is very small, but I keep it with my gps, multimeter, soldering iron, mobile phone, light meter, sound pressure meter, altimeter, wind speed meter, usb to serial adapter, portable hard disk, video camera, digital camera, etc.
Every one of those instruments is exactly the size it needs to be.
...that a person with a small laptop has no need for compensation.
both projects feed off each other
Care to elaborate?
More likely they bounce off each other. A gnome developer who wants animated icons everywhere and per-component customisation of transparency can be told to piss off to KDE. Likewise a KDE developer who wants to enforce on one good way to do everything can be sent packing to gnome.
Yes but to get 1/6 g your hole would have to reach down to the mantle of the earth. So its going to be pretty warm. Another way would be to suspend a black hole above your experiment. It wouldn't even need to be a big black hole as these things go.
Also hand signals. I keep reminding my wife, who is a native cantonese speaker, not to continually point at people.
I am a parent of a seven year old boy and I have to come down on the side of innate behaviour. Language learning started from birth and he made sounds to mimic words he had heard from a month or so of age. I noticed that his language tended to come in bursts. He started repeating simple sounds (like "poo" when his nappy was being changed) then abandoned that approach and returned weeks later with a more complex interpretation. His language didn't really get on track until he was 18 months old but did a lot of learning to get to that point. I definitely think the basics of language were there at birth.
When he was about two years old we went to a science museum. There was a school group there at the time with kids sitting on the floor in a circle listening to a teacher. My son seemed to recognise this configuration immediately. He walked over to them, found a gap in the circle and sat down.
Sharia just means customary law. The Church of England has spoken out in favour of Sharia law in the UK. Like many other religions and social organisations Scientology presumably wants a way to judge and sanction their members.
It is worth noting that in Malaysia Muslims can be punished by normal courts for doing things which are perfectly legal for non-muslims in the same country.
The biggest problem I have with sharia law is that it is generally not documented. It relies primarily on precedent. Unlike western systems where the laws are held in a single repository.
China and India have both made a career out of using their population as robots. Both have legal and cultural systems in place to keep the status quo. India have been doing this for five hundred years. The population bomb is the wildcard here. With India the lack of control over population growth may lead to starvation within a generation. With China central population controls are tied to controls over population movement.
Both of these things could break down. In fact, looking at the population issue, it is hard to see it not breaking down.
Look at the comments under any YouTube video on Chinese suppression of Tibet and you'll see the Chinese government in action: especially lies about Tibet always having been part of China. The funny thing is, the Chinese aren't physically adapted to living under diminished oxygen conditions, so they can only stay there for a few years and then have to be replaced by other Chinese. In the long run they can't win.
If I got sent to Tibet for some reason I would want to go home eventually too, but it wouldn't be because of the altitude.
"No. A centrifuge can only add to gravity." Although commonly measured in g's. You should probably point out that it doesn't increase gravity. Pedantic, I know.
Saying add to gravity is not the same as saying add gravity.
Couldn't this same experiment be done on a centrifuge in Earth's gravity? Centrifuges usually are used to increase apparent gravity, but if it were shaped so that the plant and soil faced outward, at the right speed, wouldn't one be able to mimic that 1/6 g?
No. A centrifuge can only add to gravity.
Thus any differences between earth grav and 1/6 earth grav are likely to be negligible. Dumbest experiment ever.
Famous last words...
Your towel is a vital store of emergency nutrients.
If it were 200 light years, we would probably be all dead, since we would be hit by a very large dose of x-rays at the same time that the light arrived.
Well, half of us, anyway.
Mortgage terms disclosure rules are antiquated and fantastically inadequate.
Looking at the speed with which the US mortgage market collapsed I think it is more likely that a lot of home owners decided to cash in by walking away from their homes. In other words, they knew exactly what the terms of their mortgages were.
The touch screen seems to mainly concern itself with entertainment and environmental control. These are a UI mess anyway. Controls for lights, indicators etc are presumably in the usual places.
Define "on".