If it would curb the use of fossil fuels, I'd take a reactor in my backyard. Hell, I'll take two. Unfortunately, I am in the minority of people that don't shit their pants whenever they hear the word "nuclear".
I dunno; stick one of these turbines on top of a car and not only would you have a tornado-powered car, you could use it to suck up the traffic in front of you!
Probably the wars they fought over oil. That's why we won't find any there now. Come to think of it, someone should probably tell Bush that. I'm convinced that he's only pushing his space exploration mandate because he thinks there's WMDs on the moon and trillions of barrels of oil on Mars. (for those of you who are going to mod me down as a troll [and I know you're there], it's a JOKE. get a sense of HUMOUR)
DDT was highly effective at killing mosquitos, the incidence rate of malaria dropped amazingly after it was put in use. However, someone had the idea that saving a few Peregrine Falcons was more important than tens of thousands of human lives. Too bad.
I absolutely loved that scene... in fact, the whole movie seemed to be embedded with references to video games and computer culture: they worked at an electronics store, played video games, stole CD-Rs, sold things on e-bay... And yeah, Andy does have a sweet video game chair. I want that chair.
Isn't the Earth-Moon system also technically a binary planet? And in that case, shouldn't we be referring to the third planet as "Earth-Moon" (or even more appropriately, "Terra-Luna")?
Isn't one of the reasons that creationist use when they attack evolution (actually abiogenesis) is that it would take such a long time to generate functioning proteins through random chance that it would be statistically impossible? If there are simple "rules" to create proteins, maybe that's how nature was able to come up with life so quickly.
I live out in the boonies, and I get a great wireless connection from the nearest town (pop. 540). On a good day it's close to 2 mbps, which is faster than my residence connection at the University of Toronto.
Slashdot Mirror
Just think about it... we'd better eradicate this species before they become a threat to our planet.
Jack Thompson is a douche, but threatening to torture and kill him just reinforces his ideas that violent games make people violent.
If it would curb the use of fossil fuels, I'd take a reactor in my backyard. Hell, I'll take two. Unfortunately, I am in the minority of people that don't shit their pants whenever they hear the word "nuclear".
I dunno; stick one of these turbines on top of a car and not only would you have a tornado-powered car, you could use it to suck up the traffic in front of you!
They're giving me a fronache.
What kinds of tests did they use that show that this is "true" AI? I see a lot of marketing bullshit and not much real data. I call shenanigans.
This is why they're running linux, methinks: http://ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54
No references to Google Grid or Googlezon yet? Come on, people!
The damn thing's smarter than I am. Well, that's taking an estimate of 100 teraflops for the human brain, which seems to be popular.
I'm in the top 4%. But we all know that it isn't the specs of your system, it's how you use it. [/brag]
"I don't know where these guys come from, where they think that electromagnetics are the ultimate macro-scale drivers of weather events."
He must be one of the "electric universe" types.
This looks like it's a lot of big words (which the article writer doesn't even understand) and not much science.
Probably the wars they fought over oil. That's why we won't find any there now. Come to think of it, someone should probably tell Bush that. I'm convinced that he's only pushing his space exploration mandate because he thinks there's WMDs on the moon and trillions of barrels of oil on Mars. (for those of you who are going to mod me down as a troll [and I know you're there], it's a JOKE. get a sense of HUMOUR)
DDT was highly effective at killing mosquitos, the incidence rate of malaria dropped amazingly after it was put in use. However, someone had the idea that saving a few Peregrine Falcons was more important than tens of thousands of human lives. Too bad.
I absolutely loved that scene... in fact, the whole movie seemed to be embedded with references to video games and computer culture: they worked at an electronics store, played video games, stole CD-Rs, sold things on e-bay... And yeah, Andy does have a sweet video game chair. I want that chair.
Yeah, I've got Celestia (as well as the add-on star pack)... it's still more interesting to see it for real though.
The cameras still work on Voyagers 1 and 2, don't they? Couldn't they swing around and get a nice distance shot of the sun? That'd be kinda neat.
Isn't the Earth-Moon system also technically a binary planet? And in that case, shouldn't we be referring to the third planet as "Earth-Moon" (or even more appropriately, "Terra-Luna")?
From now on, whenever there is a thunderstorm; I am going to refer to it as a neutron storm. That just sounds so cool.
Isn't one of the reasons that creationist use when they attack evolution (actually abiogenesis) is that it would take such a long time to generate functioning proteins through random chance that it would be statistically impossible? If there are simple "rules" to create proteins, maybe that's how nature was able to come up with life so quickly.
I wish it were so... I'm in the new building (Morrison Hall), and right now the connection is at 937.40kbps.
I live out in the boonies, and I get a great wireless connection from the nearest town (pop. 540). On a good day it's close to 2 mbps, which is faster than my residence connection at the University of Toronto.
How, exactly, would an object that's larger than Pluto, form in the shape of a cigar? It doesn't even make sense...
A terabyte of RAM? I'll believe it when I see it.
They could just stuff them full of copies of this article - if that's not light enough, I don't know what would be.