Not really, they are saying this won't be out until at least Longhorn. By the time that comes out, you can bet a LOT of games will fully exploit DirectX 9...
A PCR machine is really nothing more than a heating device with a fairly accurate controller. Not sure what robotics components they needed, unless they did the old multiblock thing (keep four blocks are the cyclical temps, moving the plate instead of changing the temp of just one block)...
The patent on PCR machines isn't too far from running out (I think...), the expense is really in the polymerase enzymes needed.
We can't predict the WEATHER, as in the day to day flow of air, all that well, but we are pretty good at predicting the CLIMATE, as in the general pattern of temperature and moisture.
Global warming is definitely more related to climate than weather.
There were three (maybe four??) unreleased episodes that were "released" unto the web a few months after cancellation. They were obviously VHS rips, but the quality was OK. I'm sure you could still find copies on Ed2k as I doubt they will ever be released unfortunately...
Might want to re-read the weather report posted, looks like the Great Lakes region, northeast (N. Carolina up), and desert southwest are the only parts of the country to have good weather. Pretty much everywhere else will be cloudy.
I think that eventually would be a very open ended number, and personally means that humans will be there...not probes and definitely no the author of the comment.
Interstellar craft aren't a manufacturing problem so much as a THEORY problem...
You say it becomes a 6 billion person job, so would those "in the know" tell the other 99.99999% ? If they do, within a day it would be a 5 billion person job...meaning atleast a billion people would be dead from suicide, riots, etc etc. Most of those remaining would have no idea HOW to help even if they WANTED to help. The average American (and I have to assume Earthling, just haven't met enough non-Americans to draw a real concensus of any one other place) nearly curls up into a ball when faced with just a minor incident, something like this would put most of us into crying baby mode. Then we deal with the fact that not that many of the 6 billion, er 5 billion by this time, would actually know HOW to help. I'm a molecular geneticist and am more educated than the overwhelming majority of those 5 billion people but don't have a clue how I could help. I doubt those working at the local K-Mart would be better off and I REALLY doubt the 4 billion or so people currently sitting on a dirt floor around the world would know how to help.
If we knew about it 10 years in advance, maybe we could do something. All out intense re-education and complete disregard for Earth's natural resources MIGHT get it done.
A week's notice would be enough time for us to legalize drugs and let everyone have a really nice 7 days before the big boom.
Yea, but ethanol is pretty damned easy to make...we make billions of liters of it every year starting with little more than grain. Gasoline isn't so easy to make, we simply refine what is already there...
Well it's also because most landfills are extremely dry, anoxic environments. Newsprint from 50+ years ago has been recovered from many landfills, not much will ever be MORE biodegradable than newspaper.
The problem with small stuff isn't really puncture but plasma generation.
Imagine: a fleck of paint hits a satellite, it instantly ionizes COMPLETELY this destroys every sensitive piece of equipment on the satellite...much worse than a hole.
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You're welcome... To be honest, I didn't read the article but saw a more in-depth synopsis on another site which mentioned what I stated ;)
Not really, they are saying this won't be out until at least Longhorn. By the time that comes out, you can bet a LOT of games will fully exploit DirectX 9...
That's pretty cool...
I'm pretty sure you are right with the date, not sure why I was thinking ten years for the patent.
A PCR machine is really nothing more than a heating device with a fairly accurate controller. Not sure what robotics components they needed, unless they did the old multiblock thing (keep four blocks are the cyclical temps, moving the plate instead of changing the temp of just one block)...
The patent on PCR machines isn't too far from running out (I think...), the expense is really in the polymerase enzymes needed.
We can't predict the WEATHER, as in the day to day flow of air, all that well, but we are pretty good at predicting the CLIMATE, as in the general pattern of temperature and moisture.
Global warming is definitely more related to climate than weather.
Since I arrived 6 months ago: none in Florida.
What part of Florida do you live in?
From everything I've heard, I'll have to agree.
SciFi was really crappy at first, hit its stride a few years later and then outright died a few years after that. I almost never watch it now...
There were three (maybe four??) unreleased episodes that were "released" unto the web a few months after cancellation. They were obviously VHS rips, but the quality was OK. I'm sure you could still find copies on Ed2k as I doubt they will ever be released unfortunately...
Yes, I know...hence my joke...
Read what I wrote again, this time taking it for the joke that it is...
This will be worthwhile if for nothing else than finally giving all us nerds the "data crystals" we have always wanted from various crap sci-fi...
Of course, it isn't optical and will be coated with typical electronics, but still...it will be 3D memory...multilayered 2D at least...
Keeps getting worse as I go...
Might want to re-read the weather report posted, looks like the Great Lakes region, northeast (N. Carolina up), and desert southwest are the only parts of the country to have good weather. Pretty much everywhere else will be cloudy.
Nevermind the last half there, I just re-read your comments and you didn't imply what I thought you had.
I think that eventually would be a very open ended number, and personally means that humans will be there...not probes and definitely no the author of the comment.
Not necessarily broken, but definitely bent to hell...
Actually, the handcuffs usually come in right around the arresting part.
This is one of those situations where I HOPE you are right and fear that I am...
Try to do the same thing tomorrow...will be colder :)
Odd weather patterns are just that, odd...nothing really scary going on...just a little warmer than normal. Tomorrow it will be back to normal.
Oh, and today it was 84 in my little part of northern Arkansas.
Such as ???
Interstellar craft aren't a manufacturing problem so much as a THEORY problem...
You say it becomes a 6 billion person job, so would those "in the know" tell the other 99.99999% ? If they do, within a day it would be a 5 billion person job...meaning atleast a billion people would be dead from suicide, riots, etc etc. Most of those remaining would have no idea HOW to help even if they WANTED to help. The average American (and I have to assume Earthling, just haven't met enough non-Americans to draw a real concensus of any one other place) nearly curls up into a ball when faced with just a minor incident, something like this would put most of us into crying baby mode. Then we deal with the fact that not that many of the 6 billion, er 5 billion by this time, would actually know HOW to help. I'm a molecular geneticist and am more educated than the overwhelming majority of those 5 billion people but don't have a clue how I could help. I doubt those working at the local K-Mart would be better off and I REALLY doubt the 4 billion or so people currently sitting on a dirt floor around the world would know how to help.
If we knew about it 10 years in advance, maybe we could do something. All out intense re-education and complete disregard for Earth's natural resources MIGHT get it done.
A week's notice would be enough time for us to legalize drugs and let everyone have a really nice 7 days before the big boom.
"the health concerns NIDA is referring to here are for the heroin itself" :
"infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis."
I would like to see a study where heroin spontaneously generated any infectious disease.
Yea, but ethanol is pretty damned easy to make...we make billions of liters of it every year starting with little more than grain. Gasoline isn't so easy to make, we simply refine what is already there...
Well it's also because most landfills are extremely dry, anoxic environments. Newsprint from 50+ years ago has been recovered from many landfills, not much will ever be MORE biodegradable than newspaper.
Definitely...I've read some very BS papers in Science and Nature and some really good ones in MUCH less respected journals.
I would not apply a trust metric to an article based on the journal alone...
The problem with small stuff isn't really puncture but plasma generation.
Imagine: a fleck of paint hits a satellite, it instantly ionizes COMPLETELY this destroys every sensitive piece of equipment on the satellite...much worse than a hole.
No, but many have a hell of a lot more than one line.
2,000 phones? Jezz, seriously upscale that. U of A uses up one entire exchange and most of another, so closer to 15,000-20,000.