They've done unorthodox "input": sense augmentation. Sight by tongue-mounted electrodes, magneto-sensing, orientation-enhancement (ie for fighter pilots, divers). It works, you don't have to be young, and the brain figures it out pretty darn fast: the extra sense gets integrated and feels natural(ish). I would reckon having an extra digit or wheels or something would be very similar.
How the crap does that happen? I, just today, learned about the Unruh effect. I had never previously even heard the term. Now it pops up again. Coincidence? Probably, but it's still spooky.
The Tralfamadorians said it best:
"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
The AS2 version of Papervision has basically been discontinued: all the shiny stuff is in the AS3 version. There's quite an incentive to run it in AS3, because it's relatively fast compared to the old AVM. Since I started messing around in PV3D I've switched entirely to AS3: it's not really much of a change in coding style.
I've watched a lot of good PBS documentaries, no worries about advertising revenue there. TV is often a lot more accessible than books. As someone else mentioned, http://xkcd.com/200/>Bill Nye FTW!
Well any species that doesn't get off whatever rock it starts on is eventually doomed. He's not glossing over the point: he's saying that there could well be some big thing in our future, and that of every other intelligent species, that makes it vanishingly unlikely that we ever go interplanetary. However, if this big thing is in our _past_ then we're fine.
I don't know about transcending physical form, but think about it. In 50 years we'll have implanted computers in a good deal of people. Eventually we figure out how to upload our memories into the vast amounts of data storage ability we've invented. Unhappy about your personality? Tweak your onboard computer, and your personality alters a bit. Keep going with this for a generation and humans have practically melded with the machine. It could be quite a gradual process, and by the end of it humans will likely be unrecognizable.
Other species have had an incredibly long time to colonize the galaxy, if they're out there. On the order of billions of years. Von Neumann machines, generation ships or just giant sperm banks in the sky should have gotten here by now.
PGP's job is to stop anyone snooping in between sender and receiver. If either computer has been rooted, then you could be running as much encryption as you like and they'll still be able to read your keystrokes. PGP stands for "pretty good privacy": is that good enough for a lawyer?
Well, if we can prove with science that the universe is infinitely cyclical, there is no beginning nor end and no need for a "creator", because there has always been a universe and always will be.
There's plenty of examples in history and today of people reckoning that the deity they subscribe to actually wants them to go out and kill innocent people. It works both ways: horrible things have been done in the name of atheistic _and_ religious ideologies.
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Splitting the atom exchanges mass for energy: a little bit of mass is a _lot_ of energy (e = m*c^2, c = the speed of light. That's a lot of energy).
... or just consent to a pat-down. It's optional.
Godwinned.
They've done unorthodox "input": sense augmentation. Sight by tongue-mounted electrodes, magneto-sensing, orientation-enhancement (ie for fighter pilots, divers). It works, you don't have to be young, and the brain figures it out pretty darn fast: the extra sense gets integrated and feels natural(ish). I would reckon having an extra digit or wheels or something would be very similar.
Except for the Bering land bridge. That's a function of sea level, but the world did look quite a bit different. Lots more ice around, less water.
Since when is $135/barrel "cheap"?
Right, just like the xbox 1 did once the softmod exploits showed up.
We've got some new bills that are slightly colored: pinkish 20s and purplish 5s, apparently to fight counterfeiting.
Yesterday.
It was the product of a simulation, which means it's interesting but not necessarily even possible in reality.
How the crap does that happen? I, just today, learned about the Unruh effect. I had never previously even heard the term. Now it pops up again. Coincidence? Probably, but it's still spooky.
The Tralfamadorians said it best:
"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
That scoops up most animal life though, doesn't it? Your average chimpanzee isn't working on reflex, arguably neither is your average starfish.
My goal is to learn C++; most of my experience is with Actionscript. I have a feeling it'll be a lot harder than learning Processing.
The AS2 version of Papervision has basically been discontinued: all the shiny stuff is in the AS3 version. There's quite an incentive to run it in AS3, because it's relatively fast compared to the old AVM. Since I started messing around in PV3D I've switched entirely to AS3: it's not really much of a change in coding style.
Damn, messed up the link. http://xkcd.com/200/
I've watched a lot of good PBS documentaries, no worries about advertising revenue there. TV is often a lot more accessible than books.
As someone else mentioned, http://xkcd.com/200/>Bill Nye FTW!
Ringtone or not, if the movie theater is shielded then no calls will get in at all, and therefore no doctors on call will ever go to a movie.
Or going really, really fast.
Well any species that doesn't get off whatever rock it starts on is eventually doomed. He's not glossing over the point: he's saying that there could well be some big thing in our future, and that of every other intelligent species, that makes it vanishingly unlikely that we ever go interplanetary. However, if this big thing is in our _past_ then we're fine.
I don't know about transcending physical form, but think about it. In 50 years we'll have implanted computers in a good deal of people. Eventually we figure out how to upload our memories into the vast amounts of data storage ability we've invented. Unhappy about your personality? Tweak your onboard computer, and your personality alters a bit. Keep going with this for a generation and humans have practically melded with the machine. It could be quite a gradual process, and by the end of it humans will likely be unrecognizable.
Other species have had an incredibly long time to colonize the galaxy, if they're out there. On the order of billions of years. Von Neumann machines, generation ships or just giant sperm banks in the sky should have gotten here by now.
PGP's job is to stop anyone snooping in between sender and receiver. If either computer has been rooted, then you could be running as much encryption as you like and they'll still be able to read your keystrokes. PGP stands for "pretty good privacy": is that good enough for a lawyer?
Well, if we can prove with science that the universe is infinitely cyclical, there is no beginning nor end and no need for a "creator", because there has always been a universe and always will be.
There's plenty of examples in history and today of people reckoning that the deity they subscribe to actually wants them to go out and kill innocent people. It works both ways: horrible things have been done in the name of atheistic _and_ religious ideologies.