See, the problem is, it could never give off more energy than it takes in.
The reason fission gives off more energy than it requires to be started is that the energy you put in is enough to break the bonds of the "strong force", the force holding the nucleus together. This strong force bond-breaking-ness flings the nucleus' parts apart, which in turn, hit other nucleii and cause a chain reaction.
Fusion, however, is fission in reverse. Without the chain reaction, that is. It smashes two nucleii together with enough force to leave a strong force bond.
Or, to further mutilate an abused analogy, which of the above cars would be easier to repair?
Well, let's continue this analagy. Microsoft has a team of crack developers, and nearly unlimited resources at its disposal. Firefox and Opera have 6 guys in the back of a white van huddled around a Commodore 64.
Suppose you're one guy who knows a little about cars and you decide to fix the timing on the first car. No problem.
Now, suppose you have a team of crack mechanics with the best tools, the most experience, and unlimited resources, and they offer to fix the horribly torn apart car for you. Also, no problem.
Half a kilo of butter, or a pound of butter is a reasonable purchase. Grams just don't cut it.
You can still use kilos... using grams as the base unit does not completely eliminate kilos from the face of the earth.
What am I getting if I ask for 80 grams of salami? Well I guess I can visualize it and some Europeans buy it that way, but the average everyday user of a measuring system is nearly innumerate. They want to buy one or two or maybe a half of something.
Uh... if you need to buy eighty grams, then you'd have to say something like 2/25ths of a kilo. It's actually easier to use grams in that example. Also, if you ever need eighty grams of salami, you could just ask for one medium-thickness slice. Thus, we should use the slice of salami as a SI unit rather than the gram or the kilo. Wait, that wouldn't work...
'The moon wieghs the same as thirty-two billion slices of salami...'
Well, whatever. I say we just use them interchangeably.
Seriously, a computer with sufficient peripherals and software will work as everything described here and more.
And more, and more, and more.
Plus, fifteen minutes after they release something like this for cheap, someone (maybe you, the reader) will figure out a way to put Linux on it and use it to take over the world.
Or not.
It's still a stupid idea.
Of course, that's what they said about the Internet.
It matters how many wires are in the cable. A cable is a mass of wires, and the more wires, the more data can be sent at once. Hence the sucktasticness of phone lines as internet connections with their few measly threads of single wires. Now, a broadband cable line has a whole mess of wires in it. A T1 or T3 line has an unfathomable number of seperate cables twisted upon each other within it. It's not the wire that matters, it's the number of them.
"Flash licenses in lower volumes to makers of POS (point-of-sales/service) terminals,"
Now, we all know what POS stands for, so why did you put in those parentheses? I mean, there's no need to deny what those terminals really are. I swear, one time my dad drove up to an ATM (same thing as a POS terminal in my opinion), entered his pin, and got BSOD'd. Yes, he crashed the ATM machine.
The patent system was concieved to protect unique, innovative, and useful ideas. Now, I may not be one to complain, but I seriously doubt the uniqueness of the spiral stack of post-it notes, which is almost identical in its description to the patent on a straight stack of post-it notes. Also, software patents just suck in general. There should be no such thing as a software patent, merely copyrights on source code. For instance, the original patent on the Windows OS ended several years ago, because patents only last 7 years. At the time that the patent ends, the patent holder is required to release the product to the public for use. I don't know about you, but I payed good money for this crap-o-rific Windows XP. Do you know why? Because Microsoft filed a patent for every single friggin' line of code they've ever written (obviously an exaggeration, but they have taken out multiple patents as ways of extending expired patents). I say we abolish the patent system, abolish all forms of unbacked currency, and go to the liberty dollar.
"Japan's trade surplus with the United States remains astronomically high, at over $6 billion; yet any regular reader of technophile Web sites such as I4U, Engadget or Gizmodo knows that the world's biggest exporter of consumer electronics regularly keeps its most innovative and exciting widgetry to itself, selling it only to the domestic market. Cell phones that do everything but make toast (although appropriate attachments are probably available from third-party accessory vendors). Gigapixel digital cameras. Laptops so tiny that "My dog ate my homework" is once again a valid excuse. And, of course, the most incredible toilets in the history of humankind."
EMail parts of the source code to thousands of people, and then hire someone in Australia to write software that can compile files into one large binary executable, even when the files are broken up. That way, they can't sue you all, and they can't sue the Australian.
Make a program that can determine the exact size, shape, and position of everything in the universe by examining how the atoms in a piece of fairy cake are arranged. While you're at it, bake a fairy cake. And create something capable of measuring every single atom's position in that fairy cake.
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Nooo! Wherever will we shoot our 1980's cult films now?!
Sunbird would work perfectly for this. Only downside is, you have to be running the application to get the notifications.
10 monkeys, one keyboard, five minutes.
lather, rinse, repeat.
See, the problem is, it could never give off more energy than it takes in.
The reason fission gives off more energy than it requires to be started is that the energy you put in is enough to break the bonds of the "strong force", the force holding the nucleus together. This strong force bond-breaking-ness flings the nucleus' parts apart, which in turn, hit other nucleii and cause a chain reaction.
Fusion, however, is fission in reverse. Without the chain reaction, that is. It smashes two nucleii together with enough force to leave a strong force bond.
"Don't hate microsoft, they're good!"
no.
every os sucks.
except for the one used on the Nintendo DS.
I love that.
whooo!
double line breaks.
printer
They missed some of the best quotes!
"I'm not following a man whose brain is powered by lemons!"
"Very Splendid and worthwhile bypass"
"Go stick your head in a pig"
"Share and enjoy"
and they didn't even get to the Hitchhiker's Guide headquarters!
This definitely needs a sequel.
I do, however, like the cameo of Marvin from the original TV show, and the part where they become yarn-people.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes.
Boom.
LiteStep.
Or, to further mutilate an abused analogy, which of the above cars would be easier to repair?
Well, let's continue this analagy. Microsoft has a team of crack developers, and nearly unlimited resources at its disposal. Firefox and Opera have 6 guys in the back of a white van huddled around a Commodore 64.
Suppose you're one guy who knows a little about cars and you decide to fix the timing on the first car. No problem.
Now, suppose you have a team of crack mechanics with the best tools, the most experience, and unlimited resources, and they offer to fix the horribly torn apart car for you. Also, no problem.
In Soviet Russia, the computers hack YOU.
int main() {
int x=1;
while (1=1) {
x++;
}
return 0;
}
That's one sure fire way to spike CPU usage.
Half a kilo of butter, or a pound of butter is a reasonable purchase. Grams just don't cut it.
You can still use kilos... using grams as the base unit does not completely eliminate kilos from the face of the earth.
What am I getting if I ask for 80 grams of salami? Well I guess I can visualize it and some Europeans buy it that way, but the average everyday user of a measuring system is nearly innumerate. They want to buy one or two or maybe a half of something.
Uh... if you need to buy eighty grams, then you'd have to say something like 2/25ths of a kilo. It's actually easier to use grams in that example. Also, if you ever need eighty grams of salami, you could just ask for one medium-thickness slice. Thus, we should use the slice of salami as a SI unit rather than the gram or the kilo. Wait, that wouldn't work...
'The moon wieghs the same as thirty-two billion slices of salami...'
Well, whatever. I say we just use them interchangeably.
So, you think that all the planets should stay perfectly still?
In fact, everything should stay perfectly still, at 0 Kelvin?
Here's your sign.
And more, and more, and more.
Plus, fifteen minutes after they release something like this for cheap, someone (maybe you, the reader) will figure out a way to put Linux on it and use it to take over the world.
Or not.
It's still a stupid idea.
Of course, that's what they said about the Internet.
And the personal computer before that.
No, it still seems stupid in comparison.
There's no chance of error if you did the math right.
Everything is math and physics.
Goddammit I wanted to say that!
Do not look directly into the zBox unless you are the most important person in the universe.
No, yourself.
It matters how many wires are in the cable. A cable is a mass of wires, and the more wires, the more data can be sent at once. Hence the sucktasticness of phone lines as internet connections with their few measly threads of single wires. Now, a broadband cable line has a whole mess of wires in it. A T1 or T3 line has an unfathomable number of seperate cables twisted upon each other within it. It's not the wire that matters, it's the number of them.
first post, i think it's a great idea, why only in japan though? i want to play movies in the 'states.
"Flash licenses in lower volumes to makers of POS (point-of-sales/service) terminals,"
Now, we all know what POS stands for, so why did you put in those parentheses? I mean, there's no need to deny what those terminals really are. I swear, one time my dad drove up to an ATM (same thing as a POS terminal in my opinion), entered his pin, and got BSOD'd. Yes, he crashed the ATM machine.
The patent system was concieved to protect unique, innovative, and useful ideas. Now, I may not be one to complain, but I seriously doubt the uniqueness of the spiral stack of post-it notes, which is almost identical in its description to the patent on a straight stack of post-it notes. Also, software patents just suck in general. There should be no such thing as a software patent, merely copyrights on source code. For instance, the original patent on the Windows OS ended several years ago, because patents only last 7 years. At the time that the patent ends, the patent holder is required to release the product to the public for use. I don't know about you, but I payed good money for this crap-o-rific Windows XP. Do you know why? Because Microsoft filed a patent for every single friggin' line of code they've ever written (obviously an exaggeration, but they have taken out multiple patents as ways of extending expired patents). I say we abolish the patent system, abolish all forms of unbacked currency, and go to the liberty dollar.
"Japan's trade surplus with the United States remains astronomically high, at over $6 billion; yet any regular reader of technophile Web sites such as I4U, Engadget or Gizmodo knows that the world's biggest exporter of consumer electronics regularly keeps its most innovative and exciting widgetry to itself, selling it only to the domestic market. Cell phones that do everything but make toast (although appropriate attachments are probably available from third-party accessory vendors). Gigapixel digital cameras . Laptops so tiny that "My dog ate my homework" is once again a valid excuse. And, of course, the most incredible toilets in the history of humankind."
Eventually, the cable would wrap itself around the Earth due to the moon's orbit.
EMail parts of the source code to thousands of people, and then hire someone in Australia to write software that can compile files into one large binary executable, even when the files are broken up. That way, they can't sue you all, and they can't sue the Australian.
Make a program that can determine the exact size, shape, and position of everything in the universe by examining how the atoms in a piece of fairy cake are arranged. While you're at it, bake a fairy cake. And create something capable of measuring every single atom's position in that fairy cake.