Sure, the situation differed from what we call now "normal" but fortunatly the conditions were just right for, say, aminoacids to build up with all that methane and stuff swimming around in the oceans. But it's quite unlikely that the first RNA molecule (I believe that's what scientist think formed first) would have lasted long in a lake of acid (like some bacteria like it nowadays). Or near a "black smoker" in 400C hot water. Nor do I think the chemical reactions would have happened at 30K (at which these creatures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrada survive).
The range of conditions in which life can exist may be quite wide, but it seems life needs very special conditions to begin - otherwise we would have probably found life on other planets.
This is no proof that there probably is life on other planets. We can see here that life can evolve to adapt to such extreme environments but this doesn't mean life can begin in such places. The first biological, self replicating molecules were probably quite fragile and would certainly "die" in extreme environments
you know, wireless p2p style internet is already here: it's called "datenwolke" (datacloud) and build by volunteers in berlin. every person gets an accesspoint and donates bandwidth to the cloud. in turn he get get online trough some gateways
http://freifunk.net/ (german)
Come on! I don't want my browser to do stupid things like teaching me some words. Not everything has to run in your browser. If you need a vocabtrainer make it a full program not just an extension to something else. Heck imagine an extension for these M$ Office clients that let's them pop up on occasion and nag you until you give the correct translation
I know people sharing a 3Mbit DSL connection through a wireless router and some repeaters (here in Germany though). That's neat, they're saving quite a bit every month.
That's true. I switched to DSL a few months ago and it's awesome! With my modem I was online like half an hour per day paying ~15-20Euro/month. Now I have one gig/month and I'm online even if I'm not at home ^^ (btw it's 1024/128:-P). Plus it's only 16Euro/month! It's not perfect but it is indeed much better than dial-up
I started with a 100mhz box when I was about 10. However I wanted to have a computer like... as soon as I could talk. I always was fascinated about them. So when I got it (it ran win 3.11) I broke it like twice a week "playing aroung with it" (wow you can put the resolution so high your monitor can't deal with it..., hey what's that file... autoexec.bat never saw it before! It's occupying precious discspace! Let's delete it)
After I while I discovered this QBasic interpreter that ships with Windows (at least it did) and was like "look ma, I can do circles on my screen". From then on I learned to program. However Basic sucks, it slow and 16bit and alows you only to use 64k ram. So I moved on to c++...
So I would introduce children to computers by giving them an old, crappy one on which they can't play all those eye-candy games and teaching them how to program and how to use the commandline. Probably I would run Linux on it (there aren't so many games on linux) and some kind of pascal (pascal sucks, but it's better than basic)
I think we had a story on slashdot telling you something like "we've been using this special cosmic-ray-resistant 20mhz processor for 10 years because, uhm, like we know it in and out and it's better to be slow than to fail completely"
these cameras aren't faster than "normal" high speed cameras. it's just like they're build using walmart webcams.
maybe they're cheaper, but I doubt they have the same qualitiy as the real thing. 1kfps is nice but useless if the quality sucks
Slashdot Mirror
read the above post about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrada
Sure, the situation differed from what we call now "normal" but fortunatly the conditions were just right for, say, aminoacids to build up with all that methane and stuff swimming around in the oceans. But it's quite unlikely that the first RNA molecule (I believe that's what scientist think formed first) would have lasted long in a lake of acid (like some bacteria like it nowadays). Or near a "black smoker" in 400C hot water. Nor do I think the chemical reactions would have happened at 30K (at which these creatures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrada survive).
The range of conditions in which life can exist may be quite wide, but it seems life needs very special conditions to begin - otherwise we would have probably found life on other planets.
This is no proof that there probably is life on other planets. We can see here that life can evolve to adapt to such extreme environments but this doesn't mean life can begin in such places.
The first biological, self replicating molecules were probably quite fragile and would certainly "die" in extreme environments
On the junkyard. Where else?
it's not the machine that chooses. it's the people who sign the software.
light travels much faster than sound
the boom arrives right after our sun died
you know, wireless p2p style internet is already here: it's called "datenwolke" (datacloud) and build by volunteers in berlin. every person gets an accesspoint and donates bandwidth to the cloud. in turn he get get online trough some gateways http://freifunk.net/ (german)
Wow, you build such things? Man that's cool! Teach me!
Come on! I don't want my browser to do stupid things like teaching me some words. Not everything has to run in your browser. If you need a vocabtrainer make it a full program not just an extension to something else.
Heck imagine an extension for these M$ Office clients that let's them pop up on occasion and nag you until you give the correct translation
I know people sharing a 3Mbit DSL connection through a wireless router and some repeaters (here in Germany though). That's neat, they're saving quite a bit every month.
That's true. I switched to DSL a few months ago and it's awesome! With my modem I was online like half an hour per day paying ~15-20Euro/month. Now I have one gig/month and I'm online even if I'm not at home ^^ (btw it's 1024/128 :-P). Plus it's only 16Euro/month!
It's not perfect but it is indeed much better than dial-up
I started with a 100mhz box when I was about 10. However I wanted to have a computer like... as soon as I could talk. I always was fascinated about them. So when I got it (it ran win 3.11) I broke it like twice a week "playing aroung with it" (wow you can put the resolution so high your monitor can't deal with it..., hey what's that file... autoexec.bat never saw it before! It's occupying precious discspace! Let's delete it) After I while I discovered this QBasic interpreter that ships with Windows (at least it did) and was like "look ma, I can do circles on my screen". From then on I learned to program. However Basic sucks, it slow and 16bit and alows you only to use 64k ram. So I moved on to c++...
So I would introduce children to computers by giving them an old, crappy one on which they can't play all those eye-candy games and teaching them how to program and how to use the commandline. Probably I would run Linux on it (there aren't so many games on linux) and some kind of pascal (pascal sucks, but it's better than basic)
I think we had a story on slashdot telling you something like "we've been using this special cosmic-ray-resistant 20mhz processor for 10 years because, uhm, like we know it in and out and it's better to be slow than to fail completely"
Probably time till 16bit seconds counter overflow
actually it's just much cooler to communicate using light instead of radiowaves because you need much less energy...
Guess Microsoft infiltrated the modding system...
Why is the parent a Troll whereas like ten similar posts are modded "funny" or "insightful"?
Do I really need to understand the modding system?
Probably I'm modded Troll myself for this...
There were already worms installing SETI@Home on peoples' computers. Alas, not very successfull
In Soviet Russia you eat what's left from the previous crew
of course the aliens have mind-control beams too, so I wouldn't trust those "news".
I for one welcome our new plasma-based overlords"
excellent. could've been my idea! let's stop all the other phishers so we can phish more effectively!
That's what I call a good strategy
these cameras aren't faster than "normal" high speed cameras. it's just like they're build using walmart webcams.
maybe they're cheaper, but I doubt they have the same qualitiy as the real thing.
1kfps is nice but useless if the quality sucks
I don't think so. Rather it would form a nice ring...
with some Powerking(tm) bars!
I know many people say it's crap, but hey it's a install&forget firewall, it's free and it has no ads http://www.zonelabs.com/