If the discovery can "challenge our models of solar system formation", how did they compute the age of the planet ? Wasn't that computation dependent on the current "models of solar system formation" ?
if you took off the thinkgeek shirt, read/watched something other than scifi/fantasy trash
Funny you say that... round here it's the jocks that buy/wear ThinkGeek shirts, read Sci-Fi, and fail to shower after gym... and it does them neither harm nor good. Geeks just grow beards, quietly debate multiple inheritance and lambda functions, and share info on the tropical islands they took their wives to with the last paycheck. In fact, when you overhear somebody getting intense about overclocking or modded cases, it's a jock that just got dumped.
It's not that bad, you know... when you get invited at her place and there indeed is an ailing computer awaiting rescue instead of a distressed damsel awaiting... rescue, at least you get a coffee, some conversation, maybe some fashion pointers or earn your invitation to the next party etc. It's not like we, the others, want either sex or 50 Euro/hour (or whatever price my employer asks for my work).
Men behave the same: if you're a deep-geek, you start to get invited to join them to the pub only when you prove you're useful. After being "useful" for some time, your humanity and sly wit might get discovered (if you still have any left) and you become "one of the boys".
With women it's a bit more difficult, since the task is a bit more ambitious. By being useful a geek has the chance of having the "target" get used with his peculiarities and be accepted as a human. Then he gains some time to get over the panic of being in the presence of the fair sex and becomes able to say more than "Yes", "No", "Not that button" and "Control Alt Del", or even discover that she is not what he needs. After that things might change: if you might have gotten rejected first, later it is easier. Even more, if a male geek sends his own signals of interest coherently instead of seeming to experience a panic attack, in my experience women might get a cue and answer back.
My point was not to malign manipulative women, but only to warn the good folks around here that the signals you mention don't necessarily point to advanced stages of courtship. It is true that I am somewhat bitter about the subject, but not because "women are evil/dumb/shallow/gold diggers", but because I still sympathize with the guy I was 10 years ago and who misread those signals a lot, either by ignoring them or by reading too much into them.
Nothing says I am interested like leaning forward enough to brush against him, whisper in his ear something, and smiling.
That can be and is frequently faked. Those signals and a bit higher body temperature in the extremities might mean something. Otherwise it is just "let's recruit this geek to take care of my computer" or "I want to punish this geek for being male by persuading him to listen to the romanticized story of my unhappy love life".
awesome ? this was kind of lame, you know... like taking candy from children, stealing crutches from the crippled and painting the faces of the blind; if they are so great and powerful, they should organize duels among themselves.
more likely stupid than "awesome" , if they are the same group that took on the CoS.
Google's power grows day by day, month by month, year after year.
Google's power grows only as much as Search Engine Optimization allows it to grow. Ten years ago HotBot showed up, and it was good, really good, and pushed AltaVista et. comp aside, until SEO got hold of it, and you had to get to the second or third page of results to find something relevant. Nine years ago I found Google and after a few days never used anything else. Now, Google is not only a search engine, but also a popularity contest, so it's more difficult to game it, but it's not very far from where HotBot was in 1999. I think that if the social networking applications will get more traction, Google will be forced to index them, and then you'll see real link spam, and a new search engine that will do smarter NLP than google does now will take over. Google will become the new Yahoo: big enough that you can't ignore it, but no longer indispensable.
As to the information that Google collects... I doubt they can make much use of it, otherwise they would know that I am not really able or interested to buy "computers on a chip" in batches of 1000 and would stop showing me the link to the company that sells them.
... is this "Hollywood Accounting" a Sci-Fi story ? How come the IRS had not put those responsible behind bars ? This looks a lot like tax evasion, too.
If this is practical and it's energy potential can be tapped, we'll have at our fingertips, an unlimited power source that won't kill you with radiation.
How about the CO2 ? It's only 8% hidrogen... the rest is carbon. Kind of difficult to burn it without burning the C.
And if nothing is done to react it back harmlessly the ozone will corrode downwind metals and degrade downwind plastics.
That's easy... just fill the server room with CFCs and install a big lamp with ultraviolet light. Leftover ions ? Ground the whole building. To make sure, fill the whole building with CFCs, ultraviolet light lamps and make it out of steel.
"What about the users ?" Who needs users when you can have a life size simulation of an "evil alien spaceship" to play with ?
"To go where no man has gone before" is a nice, romantic tag-line for a cheesy television program but it's not what drives exploration and discovery. The motivating force for exploration has always been the all-mighty buck and you can see in the stagnation of the exploration of space how pivotal the profit motive is. No profit, no warp drives.
mod this true +42 please, or at least insightful +1 if no true +42 button gets installed in the meantime
And let's get rid of the moronic "Outer Space" treaty so there would be an incentive to actually explore the outer space, not just "search for life on other planets" and "go where no man has gone before".
If my (slightly unhappy) experience with former SU consumer goods is any help, the SU products were overengineered for robustness while consuming a lot of electricity and looking kind of ugly. Could you give me some reference to stories of SU engineers sent to unpleasant jobs because they said "it can't be done on these therms" ?
Which you have to dig for the foundations on any modern building.
No, not really. The depth depends on the what's the ground made of and depends on the size of the building. For a one level home you don't need to dig the big hole, unless you build on silt.
I wonder how are they planning to dig those tunnels in cities that already exist.
How do you think they got all those subways into cities that already exist? Who do you think takes care of the sewage and drainage systems in a large city?
As for damage to buildings, I doub't it would be more dangerous than your run-of the mill pile driver.
This is supposed to get to every building, so the "subway" comparison does not apply: subway tunnels are quite sparse compared to the density of tunnels this scheme would need.
I wonder if the drainage and sewer systems have expensive and delicate electronics (integrity sensors, surveillance cameras, guidance) all along their tunnels, and switching devices at each intersection, and elevator shafts able to lift... lets see... 1.6m height, 4 to 6m long judging from the pictures... 4000 kg and not shake the container too much in case there are delicate objects inside;... I don't know, our sewers are not that sophisticated, and don't need an army of hobbits or gnomes that these scheme would need in order to work for more than two weeks after launch.
Even TFA tells us it's going to be monstrously expensive.
Designing this would be a lot of fun, and reading the article made me wish I was a postgrad student again, but as a real life application... why not extent the subway system and use it to move merchandise, too (if it's not already done) ?
A basement complicates a lot the construction, and adds a lot more to the price: it's almost the same as building a two-stories house, with the added expense of having to dig a big hole, and later the expense of keeping that hole drained. Basements made sense in crowded cities/towns where the land price would be greater than the overhead imposed by an habitable basement.
1.6 meters of height ? Who is going to do maintenance in those tunnels? Hobbits ?
I wonder how are they planning to dig those tunnels in cities that already exist. It would be horribly expensive, those that would make this attempt will have to pay for a lot of structural damage to the buildings above due to vibrations, and a lot of buildings would have to be excluded because it would be mightily unsafe to alter the foundations to allow for "stations".
[I am an euro-skeptic] I call this "draining EU funds for sci-fi projects". The same bloody attitude resulted in the GM industry in Europe to fall behind: they wasted money on plastic-producing-rapeseed and other such projects in the early 1990s, and now are upset Monsanto et. comp stole the ground from below their feet with more practical research.[/I am an euro-skeptic]
unless people from Mozilla or Safari or IE were forbidden to participate, I think it's a good thing that Opera had somebody in the team that developed the standard, and maybe the others should have sent somebody, too.
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yes, looks like the acid tests are failing the slashdot test.
In fact, lead would not help, since gamma rays would create more radiation, and even more dangerous radiation, when crossing lead, if I remember well my physics classes from long ago.
I would suggest water. A couple of hundred meters.
there has been a history of many poor countries being a "dumping ground" of inferior or obsolete products that cannot be sold in Europe or the US
The sad thing is that the XO seems to be the better product, compared with the Intel "educational something" and Eee . I could buy the Eee right now, but... I still have hope for the XO. Probably misguided hope, since the marketing division of AMD seems to be brain dead. They have a couple of other products that would make good application platforms for SMBs (kind of like extremely cheap low power consumption blades) but they choose to market them as "educational crap" too.
... please, if you know them, could you talk some sense into the folks making the OLPC and persuade them to start distributing it commercially? Unless it will arrive in the hands of the 2000000 people that are not third world children but would benefit a lot from a good rugged ebook reader, the fact that the OLPC wiki is very extensive and growing is absolutely useless.
Please, start selling the damn' thing, please ? I'm upping the amount I am willing to pay: last time it was 300Euro... I am ready to shell 350 Euro if I can buy it in a shop nearby and have 12 month guarantee on it.
You are right about the "original 12". Not so right as far as teh unoriginal 13 are concerned, and also strike out UK from the list of countries that have granted full working rights for any EU subjects. It's no longer true.
There are lots of barriers to EU citizens working wherever they please, starting with "minimum wage" laws, labor union resistance, citizenship laws, nostrification of diplomas, high housing prices (the angry folks from UK should blame the building regulations for skyrocketing home prices, not the immigrants), language barriers, schooling for children (schooling a kid in one country for a while then moving him or her to other country, for ex., will cause the said kid to be bumped back a couple of years and pretty much ruining any hope of higher education if there is an competitive entrance examination system in place... I know a real world example)... even what passes for food or "decent entertainment" in another country might make the potential immigrant think twice about taking a job 50KM away across the border.
Should I mention xeno^H^H^H^H fear of strangers ? Hell, even the state own TV stations from Germany and France have not found out yet that WWI is finished (I talk about TV5 and Deutsche Welle, who are constantly picking on the other country when they are not finding wrongs with or making idiotic jokes about US )...
Right now I live in a city that's larger that Latvia, Lituania, Estonia or Slovenia, and getting close to the size of Slovakia and had an average of economic growth of 25% per year during the last 10 years. My bet is that it will have two or three years of high growth if the building regulations are kept as restrictive as they are now (rents are close to NY averages if you don't take Manhattan into consideration), or even more if the housing prices stop growing and all the available labour from the country will move here. When the idyll will be over, I won't even think about moving to EU and becoming a third rate citizen... US, Canada or Australia still look more appealing. Even Moscow looks more appealing than any place in Germany, France or UK for anything more than temporary jobs.
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Did BBC get slashdoted ? It loads awfully slow.
If the discovery can "challenge our models of solar system formation", how did they compute the age of the planet ? Wasn't that computation dependent on the current "models of solar system formation" ?
I am not trying to argue, dear. I was just feeding the ... anonymous coward.
Funny you say that ... round here it's the jocks that buy/wear ThinkGeek shirts, read Sci-Fi, and fail to shower after gym ... and it does them neither harm nor good. Geeks just grow beards, quietly debate multiple inheritance and lambda functions, and share info on the tropical islands they took their wives to with the last paycheck. In fact, when you overhear somebody getting intense about overclocking or modded cases, it's a jock that just got dumped.
in case you're not being ironic :)
... when you get invited at her place and there indeed is an ailing computer awaiting rescue instead of a distressed damsel awaiting ... rescue, at least you get a coffee, some conversation, maybe some fashion pointers or earn your invitation to the next party etc. It's not like we, the others, want either sex or 50 Euro/hour (or whatever price my employer asks for my work).
It's not that bad, you know
Men behave the same: if you're a deep-geek, you start to get invited to join them to the pub only when you prove you're useful. After being "useful" for some time, your humanity and sly wit might get discovered (if you still have any left) and you become "one of the boys".
With women it's a bit more difficult, since the task is a bit more ambitious. By being useful a geek has the chance of having the "target" get used with his peculiarities and be accepted as a human. Then he gains some time to get over the panic of being in the presence of the fair sex and becomes able to say more than "Yes", "No", "Not that button" and "Control Alt Del", or even discover that she is not what he needs. After that things might change: if you might have gotten rejected first, later it is easier. Even more, if a male geek sends his own signals of interest coherently instead of seeming to experience a panic attack, in my experience women might get a cue and answer back.
My point was not to malign manipulative women, but only to warn the good folks around here that the signals you mention don't necessarily point to advanced stages of courtship. It is true that I am somewhat bitter about the subject, but not because "women are evil/dumb/shallow/gold diggers", but because I still sympathize with the guy I was 10 years ago and who misread those signals a lot, either by ignoring them or by reading too much into them.
That can be and is frequently faked. Those signals and a bit higher body temperature in the extremities might mean something. Otherwise it is just "let's recruit this geek to take care of my computer" or "I want to punish this geek for being male by persuading him to listen to the romanticized story of my unhappy love life".
awesome ? this was kind of lame, you know ... like taking candy from children, stealing crutches from the crippled and painting the faces of the blind; if they are so great and powerful, they should organize duels among themselves.
more likely stupid than "awesome" , if they are the same group that took on the CoS.
Google's power grows only as much as Search Engine Optimization allows it to grow. Ten years ago HotBot showed up, and it was good, really good, and pushed AltaVista et. comp aside, until SEO got hold of it, and you had to get to the second or third page of results to find something relevant. Nine years ago I found Google and after a few days never used anything else. Now, Google is not only a search engine, but also a popularity contest, so it's more difficult to game it, but it's not very far from where HotBot was in 1999. I think that if the social networking applications will get more traction, Google will be forced to index them, and then you'll see real link spam, and a new search engine that will do smarter NLP than google does now will take over. Google will become the new Yahoo: big enough that you can't ignore it, but no longer indispensable.
As to the information that Google collects ... I doubt they can make much use of it, otherwise they would know that I am not really able or interested to buy "computers on a chip" in batches of 1000 and would stop showing me the link to the company that sells them.
you say all that effort to hide the profits is there only to rip off some actors or writers ?
Buy trained bats to guide them ?
How about the CO2 ? It's only 8% hidrogen ... the rest is carbon. Kind of difficult to burn it without burning the C.
That's easy ... just fill the server room with CFCs and install a big lamp with ultraviolet light. Leftover ions ? Ground the whole building. To make sure, fill the whole building with CFCs, ultraviolet light lamps and make it out of steel.
"What about the users ?" Who needs users when you can have a life size simulation of an "evil alien spaceship" to play with ?
mod this true +42 please, or at least insightful +1 if no true +42 button gets installed in the meantime
And let's get rid of the moronic "Outer Space" treaty so there would be an incentive to actually explore the outer space, not just "search for life on other planets" and "go where no man has gone before".
Ain't Germany in Europe ? If it is, then how come software patents get enforced there ?
If my (slightly unhappy) experience with former SU consumer goods is any help, the SU products were overengineered for robustness while consuming a lot of electricity and looking kind of ugly. Could you give me some reference to stories of SU engineers sent to unpleasant jobs because they said "it can't be done on these therms" ?
No, not really. The depth depends on the what's the ground made of and depends on the size of the building. For a one level home you don't need to dig the big hole, unless you build on silt.
How do you think they got all those subways into cities that already exist? Who do you think takes care of the sewage and drainage systems in a large city?As for damage to buildings, I doub't it would be more dangerous than your run-of the mill pile driver.
This is supposed to get to every building, so the "subway" comparison does not apply: subway tunnels are quite sparse compared to the density of tunnels this scheme would need.
I wonder if the drainage and sewer systems have expensive and delicate electronics (integrity sensors, surveillance cameras, guidance) all along their tunnels, and switching devices at each intersection, and elevator shafts able to lift ... lets see ... 1.6m height, 4 to 6m long judging from the pictures ... 4000 kg and not shake the container too much in case there are delicate objects inside; ... I don't know, our sewers are not that sophisticated, and don't need an army of hobbits or gnomes that these scheme would need in order to work for more than two weeks after launch.
Even TFA tells us it's going to be monstrously expensive.
Designing this would be a lot of fun, and reading the article made me wish I was a postgrad student again, but as a real life application ... why not extent the subway system and use it to move merchandise, too (if it's not already done) ?
A basement complicates a lot the construction, and adds a lot more to the price: it's almost the same as building a two-stories house, with the added expense of having to dig a big hole, and later the expense of keeping that hole drained. Basements made sense in crowded cities/towns where the land price would be greater than the overhead imposed by an habitable basement.
1.6 meters of height ? Who is going to do maintenance in those tunnels? Hobbits ?
I wonder how are they planning to dig those tunnels in cities that already exist. It would be horribly expensive, those that would make this attempt will have to pay for a lot of structural damage to the buildings above due to vibrations, and a lot of buildings would have to be excluded because it would be mightily unsafe to alter the foundations to allow for "stations".
[I am an euro-skeptic] I call this "draining EU funds for sci-fi projects". The same bloody attitude resulted in the GM industry in Europe to fall behind: they wasted money on plastic-producing-rapeseed and other such projects in the early 1990s, and now are upset Monsanto et. comp stole the ground from below their feet with more practical research.[/I am an euro-skeptic]unless people from Mozilla or Safari or IE were forbidden to participate, I think it's a good thing that Opera had somebody in the team that developed the standard, and maybe the others should have sent somebody, too.
yes, looks like the acid tests are failing the slashdot test.
In fact, lead would not help, since gamma rays would create more radiation, and even more dangerous radiation, when crossing lead, if I remember well my physics classes from long ago.
I would suggest water. A couple of hundred meters.
The sad thing is that the XO seems to be the better product, compared with the Intel "educational something" and Eee . I could buy the Eee right now, but ... I still have hope for the XO. Probably misguided hope, since the marketing division of AMD seems to be brain dead. They have a couple of other products that would make good application platforms for SMBs (kind of like extremely cheap low power consumption blades) but they choose to market them as "educational crap" too.
Please, start selling the damn' thing, please ? I'm upping the amount I am willing to pay: last time it was 300Euro ... I am ready to shell 350 Euro if I can buy it in a shop nearby and have 12 month guarantee on it.
I am certain XO is superb, but ...
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XO - not on sale
Eee - on sale in all the shops
so until I can buy an XO, whether it has 2400x1900 resolution or 600x480, and runs GNU Hurd or Multics, I could not care less
You are right about the "original 12". Not so right as far as teh unoriginal 13 are concerned, and also strike out UK from the list of countries that have granted full working rights for any EU subjects. It's no longer true.
... I know a real world example) ... even what passes for food or "decent entertainment" in another country might make the potential immigrant think twice about taking a job 50KM away across the border.
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... US, Canada or Australia still look more appealing. Even Moscow looks more appealing than any place in Germany, France or UK for anything more than temporary jobs.
There are lots of barriers to EU citizens working wherever they please, starting with "minimum wage" laws, labor union resistance, citizenship laws, nostrification of diplomas, high housing prices (the angry folks from UK should blame the building regulations for skyrocketing home prices, not the immigrants), language barriers, schooling for children (schooling a kid in one country for a while then moving him or her to other country, for ex., will cause the said kid to be bumped back a couple of years and pretty much ruining any hope of higher education if there is an competitive entrance examination system in place
Should I mention xeno^H^H^H^H fear of strangers ? Hell, even the state own TV stations from Germany and France have not found out yet that WWI is finished (I talk about TV5 and Deutsche Welle, who are constantly picking on the other country when they are not finding wrongs with or making idiotic jokes about US )
Right now I live in a city that's larger that Latvia, Lituania, Estonia or Slovenia, and getting close to the size of Slovakia and had an average of economic growth of 25% per year during the last 10 years. My bet is that it will have two or three years of high growth if the building regulations are kept as restrictive as they are now (rents are close to NY averages if you don't take Manhattan into consideration), or even more if the housing prices stop growing and all the available labour from the country will move here. When the idyll will be over, I won't even think about moving to EU and becoming a third rate citizen
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