IINAP but I think that althogh the scientists speeded up light in this particular medium that does not mean that the absolute limit will be change. Comments?
Light is an absolute limit, but the limit depends on where you are in the Universe and how fast you are traveling from point A to point B. Or rather it would be better to say "Sometimes laws of physics bends depending where you are and how fast you are traveling." or at least bend your observations of the laws of phsyics.
I mean if you were traveling near the speed of light pretty close to a black hole then perhaps your observation of the speed of light would be quite different than those walking around on earth...
I mean if you were traveling at the speed of light... How would that affect instruments that produce light? Would you just not see the light hitting your eyes or light emmiting objects travling as fast as light have some type of doppler affect since the light behind it is more of a trail and the light infront of it just balls up since the light emmitting object is travling as fast as the light it produces...
Zoroastrians - Coolest burials ever!
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These guys have a 3,000 year old religion and are still around in Iran and India:
Principles of modern-day Zoroastrianism
Death and burial. Religious rituals related to death are all concerned with the person's soul and not the body. Upon death, a person's soul leaves the body after three days and the body becomes just an empty shell. Traditionally, Zoroastrians disposed of their dead by leaving them atop open-topped enclosures, called Towers of Silence. Vultures and the weather would clean the flesh of the bones, which were then placed into an ossuary at the center of the Tower. While this practice is continued in India by some Parsis, it had ended by the beginning of the twentieth century in Iran. In India, burial and cremation are becoming increasingly popular alternatives.
"Any government money spent on technology regardless of cost or efficiency is better than it not spending the money on technology." -Me
Why is this? Because Technology is the only thing that makes humanity more than animals than living in caves (well there is the whole language and knowledge thing we have built up of a few thousand years, but this is actually amplified by technology).
The truth of the matter is that Government will spend this money one way or the other. Telling government not to spend money is an oxymoron, because if you happened to ever work for any State or Federal instituion will know right before new budget time that Agencies will scramble to spend all their money because of the fear that if they don't they will not get the same amount allocated to them next year. (Which is why I am glad I work for a private company these days)
Are there better things to spend money on? In the short term yes, like feeding and getting the poor jobs. Saving the environment... Tax money for schools.
But the fact of the matter is that none of these things will save humanity in the long long term. As they say "The main reason the dinosaurs became extinct was because they didn't have a space program." All the advances you see before you are not because of Government spending on social programs, but government spending (and private and corporate innovation) on technology (and military spending). The internet... Transistors... Electricity and electronics... Medicine and all other technologies immediate and long term affect man kind for the better.
Even though municipal wifi projects are really low on the scale compared to government space programs, it's still better than spending on pork barrel and tax breaks for corporations (or whatever short term projects City hall has come up with).
Still... Even if no one uses the technology on the scale as expected we have given another techie a job somewhere and given more profits to a Wifi hardware company (who will hopefully use the profits to better their R&D and reduce the costs for us technophiles in purchasing equipment for our own).
That and if you live in the city you are can always get cheap wifi anywhere you take your laptop in the city.
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So people can afford a $400 Dell cheapass PC, but can't spring for a $5 a month Internet dialup connection?
Actually, certain organisations in Philadelphia give computers to the poor, but one of the main gripes was that the poor couldn't afford to do anything with them. Still the $5 dial up access is less than the $20 that Philly is going to offer for wireless, but if you take a look at the major ISP prices (Earthlink... AOL...) for dial up that it's about the same cost. Do you think the poor are going to hunt the net and search for a no-named mom and pop ISP that they haven't seen advertising on? They'll be luck to see a Net Zero add.
And personally, I'm all for a city wide Wifi because not only will I keep my Comcast cable connection, but I can afford a wireless connection for only $20 more so I can haul a laptop anywhere in the city and have an internet connection.
Hell if it works right I can haul a computer to Tatooed Mom's On South Street and drink a PBR and post to slashdot... Although that might get dangerous after the 6th one.
I have TimeWarner Cable internet and get 8Mbps (downpipe) no sweat.
Lucky bastard.
I wish I could choose TimeWarner, but I #$#@#@# can't.
I have two choices: Comcast or Verizon (even if I go with another DSL provider I still need a Verizon telephone line. I have no choice.)
And do you know where I am? I'm in center city Philadelpha, PA one of the oldest and larger cities on the east coast.
Although, I think Speak Easy can offer a service now in which you don't have to have a phone line through your telco... That and I'm lucky enough that eventually the city of Philly will have their own broad band service through wireless.
And yes... The masses do need a 100Mbps pipe. How else are they going to TV on demand, VoIP, and various other things over their broad band pipe. Hell even Comcast and Verizon are accutley aware of this and Comcast is inkling to get into the VoIP and Verizon and looking to provide media delivering services some day. Cable coax and POTS will be a thing of the past if they can get fiber to the curb.
Must they supply you with food and toilet paper too?
Actually, they do in the US. Have you have looked at the politics and the billions of dollars that go to subsidize farms, and then tax breaks for food and lumber industry?
What does it mean when you can only spot the picture in sequence B. For some reason that is the only of the series that I can spot the rotated picture and is the one everyone else scored the lowest in and has the bloody hand. Perhaps I see the hand and start paying attention... How weird.
When you are making some hamburger, wad up a ball, add some pepper and salt and eat it. I've done it since I was a kid and never had any ill effects.
I think the intestinal worms are thinking the same thing. However, they do ask if you could eat it with a little less salt, because they are trying to watch their blood pressure these days.
But seriously, from what I am told by relatives and friends in the military you generally need to confirm who you are shooting because not only you might be shooting civilians, but you might also be shooting other US soldiers. According to the Pentagon, 13% of casualties in Afghanistan conflict were due to friendly fire so it's something they are always trying to work on. The US soldiers often have the benefit of superior intelligence so they don't have to ask, but mostly confirm who they are going to shoot. On the downside though, sometimes you just don't have the time to really find out...
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Do the equivalent in just about any country, and you'll end up with the same thing.
But the equivalent usually involves food being handed off the back of red cross truck. *drum roll crash* *crickets* Hey least it wasn't the guard tower joke...
These new nanotubes may not scale to well for mass production.
Anything that can be manufactured by man can be scaled to mass production (like jet aircraft, complex chemicals, atomic bombs and ICBMs for example). It's just a matter of how much resources you are willing to put into it, and even then it might not be economical.
I think Moore's law will be sustanible if there is economic demand for faster chips. If they can't get the Hz faster they'll scale outwards (dual cores and parallel processing route)
Or when marketers build long-term profiles on you, then try to grab identifying information from other sites you use.
Look... If a marketer wants to somehow make money off me making posts on/., reading webcomics and looking a pics of whiny cam girls on LJ all day, then more power to him. I just feel sorry for the poor sod who buys the data from him.
Bonus question: What do you think/compare/dislike about StarWars Galaxies?
Real game developers don't play other companies games... Much less play their own game.
(I jest! I jest! Please don't let me log in and find my inventory empty!)
Though it makes me wonder. How many mistakes could have EQ avoided if the developers had played Ultima Online for a bit. One of the original EQ devs, Brad from Sony addmited he played UO for a week or two but didn't find it interesting...
Come on. If I can steal your identity and borrow money in your name, how hard can it be to spam in your name?
Well, if you could steal someone's identity, you'd be likley to be doing more than just creating spam accounts.
Spamming is quasi-legal in a sense because they don't have entire government departments devoted to hunting and prosecuting spammers (yes it's illegal in quite a few places, but usually it's ISP's that do the suing not the government).
Identity theft is highly illegal and is persued by the Post Inspectors General (the Law Branch of the US Postal Serivce).
With that thinking, a spammer looking to keep a low profile would more likley keep "legit" as far as billing goes and not use other people's credit cards.
Although doesn't mean it doesn't happen since spammers may not think about this problem and maybe living off other's credit card anyways.
Be nice if their a government agency that was totally devoted to fighting spam.
Me and a friend almost got in a fight with some guy over his wife playing that game. I guess he didn't take kindly with my friend's sleeping with his wife in the Inn option of the game.
That and I power killed him once per night out of spite. We'd use to keep camping the phone lines until we got through at midnight to take another turn.
Ah the fun day's of BBS. Reminds of me of gaming today in a sense... Except more vulgar and more young people.
Like it not, but without the chance to profit, no great adventures can be sustained...
Well... Unless you happen to what to start your own country free from Earth rule. Of course being rich also helps, but then you are usually the one doing the ruling on Earth.
On the serious side, when Explorers came to the Americas in the 1500's they'd thought they find riches to bring back with them (and some did), but most of the found nothing but native americans and lots of land and it was the settlers that got the most of this situation and even started their own nation or two after a century or so.
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IINAP but I think that althogh the scientists speeded up light in this particular medium that does not mean that the absolute limit will be change. Comments?
Light is an absolute limit, but the limit depends on where you are in the Universe and how fast you are traveling from point A to point B. Or rather it would be better to say "Sometimes laws of physics bends depending where you are and how fast you are traveling." or at least bend your observations of the laws of phsyics.
I mean if you were traveling near the speed of light pretty close to a black hole then perhaps your observation of the speed of light would be quite different than those walking around on earth...
I mean if you were traveling at the speed of light... How would that affect instruments that produce light? Would you just not see the light hitting your eyes or light emmiting objects travling as fast as light have some type of doppler affect since the light behind it is more of a trail and the light infront of it just balls up since the light emmitting object is travling as fast as the light it produces...
These guys have a 3,000 year old religion and are still around in Iran and India:
Principles of modern-day Zoroastrianism
Death and burial. Religious rituals related to death are all concerned with the person's soul and not the body. Upon death, a person's soul leaves the body after three days and the body becomes just an empty shell. Traditionally, Zoroastrians disposed of their dead by leaving them atop open-topped enclosures, called Towers of Silence. Vultures and the weather would clean the flesh of the bones, which were then placed into an ossuary at the center of the Tower. While this practice is continued in India by some Parsis, it had ended by the beginning of the twentieth century in Iran. In India, burial and cremation are becoming increasingly popular alternatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
"Any government money spent on technology regardless of cost or efficiency is better than it not spending the money on technology." -Me
Why is this? Because Technology is the only thing that makes humanity more than animals than living in caves (well there is the whole language and knowledge thing we have built up of a few thousand years, but this is actually amplified by technology).
The truth of the matter is that Government will spend this money one way or the other. Telling government not to spend money is an oxymoron, because if you happened to ever work for any State or Federal instituion will know right before new budget time that Agencies will scramble to spend all their money because of the fear that if they don't they will not get the same amount allocated to them next year. (Which is why I am glad I work for a private company these days)
Are there better things to spend money on? In the short term yes, like feeding and getting the poor jobs. Saving the environment... Tax money for schools.
But the fact of the matter is that none of these things will save humanity in the long long term. As they say "The main reason the dinosaurs became extinct was because they didn't have a space program." All the advances you see before you are not because of Government spending on social programs, but government spending (and private and corporate innovation) on technology (and military spending). The internet... Transistors... Electricity and electronics... Medicine and all other technologies immediate and long term affect man kind for the better.
Even though municipal wifi projects are really low on the scale compared to government space programs, it's still better than spending on pork barrel and tax breaks for corporations (or whatever short term projects City hall has come up with).
Still... Even if no one uses the technology on the scale as expected we have given another techie a job somewhere and given more profits to a Wifi hardware company (who will hopefully use the profits to better their R&D and reduce the costs for us technophiles in purchasing equipment for our own).
That and if you live in the city you are can always get cheap wifi anywhere you take your laptop in the city.
So people can afford a $400 Dell cheapass PC, but can't spring for a $5 a month Internet dialup connection?
Actually, certain organisations in Philadelphia give computers to the poor, but one of the main gripes was that the poor couldn't afford to do anything with them. Still the $5 dial up access is less than the $20 that Philly is going to offer for wireless, but if you take a look at the major ISP prices (Earthlink... AOL...) for dial up that it's about the same cost. Do you think the poor are going to hunt the net and search for a no-named mom and pop ISP that they haven't seen advertising on? They'll be luck to see a Net Zero add.
And personally, I'm all for a city wide Wifi because not only will I keep my Comcast cable connection, but I can afford a wireless connection for only $20 more so I can haul a laptop anywhere in the city and have an internet connection.
Hell if it works right I can haul a computer to Tatooed Mom's On South Street and drink a PBR and post to slashdot... Although that might get dangerous after the 6th one.
Geordi: "Captain! The Borg have installed themselves and are taking up all available CPU cycles on decks 5 through 18! I recommend rebooting!"
Picard: "Damn those Borg! Worf! Assemble a security to format the drives!"
Worf: "Aye sir!"
Data: "Captain we have a message from the Borg Ship."
Picard: "On screen!" *gasps* "It's you!"
Bill: "Lower your shields! Resistance is futile! Superior processors is futile! Multi-core threading is futile! You will be bloated! Res..."
Picard: *motions to Data to turn the screen off* "Number 1, what you would recommend?!"
Riker: "What was that ancient Vulcan saying 'What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away'..."
Data: *ligh bulb expression* "Perhaps we could turn the Intel processors on the borg... Perhaps if we installed OS X for the X86"
Geordi: "...if we couple the SSE3 with our current intel processor, download the torrent, and reverse the polarity... *pauses* it just might work!"
Picard: "Make it so!"
Another explaination would be a schrödinger-like effect induced by closed source.
;)
No. I think it's safe to say Longhorn was dead before we even looked in the box.
I have TimeWarner Cable internet and get 8Mbps (downpipe) no sweat.
Lucky bastard.
I wish I could choose TimeWarner, but I #$#@#@# can't.
I have two choices: Comcast or Verizon (even if I go with another DSL provider I still need a Verizon telephone line. I have no choice.)
And do you know where I am? I'm in center city Philadelpha, PA one of the oldest and larger cities on the east coast.
Although, I think Speak Easy can offer a service now in which you don't have to have a phone line through your telco... That and I'm lucky enough that eventually the city of Philly will have their own broad band service through wireless.
And yes... The masses do need a 100Mbps pipe. How else are they going to TV on demand, VoIP, and various other things over their broad band pipe. Hell even Comcast and Verizon are accutley aware of this and Comcast is inkling to get into the VoIP and Verizon and looking to provide media delivering services some day. Cable coax and POTS will be a thing of the past if they can get fiber to the curb.
Must they supply you with food and toilet paper too?
Actually, they do in the US. Have you have looked at the politics and the billions of dollars that go to subsidize farms, and then tax breaks for food and lumber industry?
It is quite huge.
What does it mean when you can only spot the picture in sequence B. For some reason that is the only of the series that I can spot the rotated picture and is the one everyone else scored the lowest in and has the bloody hand. Perhaps I see the hand and start paying attention... How weird.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't French copyright law a great deal more lenient than most other places or am I think of a country in Scandinavia?
Voyager left the universe? Whoa! I thought it left/was leaving the solar system.
Wrong Voyager. You are thinking of other one...
When you are making some hamburger, wad up a ball, add some pepper and salt and eat it. I've done it since I was a kid and never had any ill effects.
I think the intestinal worms are thinking the same thing. However, they do ask if you could eat it with a little less salt, because they are trying to watch their blood pressure these days.
Isn't it shoot first, ask questions later?
No! It's confirm target and then shoot...
But seriously, from what I am told by relatives and friends in the military you generally need to confirm who you are shooting because not only you might be shooting civilians, but you might also be shooting other US soldiers. According to the Pentagon, 13% of casualties in Afghanistan conflict were due to friendly fire so it's something they are always trying to work on. The US soldiers often have the benefit of superior intelligence so they don't have to ask, but mostly confirm who they are going to shoot. On the downside though, sometimes you just don't have the time to really find out...
"No sir I am an Italian secret serv-!" *gets shot*
And I quote from the C:\windows\system32\eula.txt
;)
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So "lack of viruses" is not covered in the warranty
If the DS will the Revolutions controller then I won't need batteries and I'll only need to rechart it every 5 hours.
Wouldn't be able to tell you what the 360 will use, but I'd hope they'd use rechargle controllers.
Do the equivalent in just about any country, and you'll end up with the same thing.
But the equivalent usually involves food being handed off the back of red cross truck. *drum roll crash* *crickets* Hey least it wasn't the guard tower joke...
These new nanotubes may not scale to well for mass production.
Anything that can be manufactured by man can be scaled to mass production (like jet aircraft, complex chemicals, atomic bombs and ICBMs for example). It's just a matter of how much resources you are willing to put into it, and even then it might not be economical.
I think Moore's law will be sustanible if there is economic demand for faster chips. If they can't get the Hz faster they'll scale outwards (dual cores and parallel processing route)
Best damn series of all time... I ended up buying the first seven dvds. Didn't know they had another one.
Or when marketers build long-term profiles on you, then try to grab identifying information from other sites you use.
/., reading webcomics and looking a pics of whiny cam girls on LJ all day, then more power to him. I just feel sorry for the poor sod who buys the data from him.
Look... If a marketer wants to somehow make money off me making posts on
Bonus question: What do you think/compare/dislike about StarWars Galaxies?
Real game developers don't play other companies games... Much less play their own game.
(I jest! I jest! Please don't let me log in and find my inventory empty!)
Though it makes me wonder. How many mistakes could have EQ avoided if the developers had played Ultima Online for a bit. One of the original EQ devs, Brad from Sony addmited he played UO for a week or two but didn't find it interesting...
Come on. If I can steal your identity and borrow money in your name, how hard can it be to spam in your name?
Well, if you could steal someone's identity, you'd be likley to be doing more than just creating spam accounts.
Spamming is quasi-legal in a sense because they don't have entire government departments devoted to hunting and prosecuting spammers (yes it's illegal in quite a few places, but usually it's ISP's that do the suing not the government).
Identity theft is highly illegal and is persued by the Post Inspectors General (the Law Branch of the US Postal Serivce).
With that thinking, a spammer looking to keep a low profile would more likley keep "legit" as far as billing goes and not use other people's credit cards.
Although doesn't mean it doesn't happen since spammers may not think about this problem and maybe living off other's credit card anyways.
Be nice if their a government agency that was totally devoted to fighting spam.
Me and a friend almost got in a fight with some guy over his wife playing that game. I guess he didn't take kindly with my friend's sleeping with his wife in the Inn option of the game.
That and I power killed him once per night out of spite. We'd use to keep camping the phone lines until we got through at midnight to take another turn.
Ah the fun day's of BBS. Reminds of me of gaming today in a sense... Except more vulgar and more young people.
Like it not, but without the chance to profit, no great adventures can be sustained...
Well... Unless you happen to what to start your own country free from Earth rule. Of course being rich also helps, but then you are usually the one doing the ruling on Earth.
On the serious side, when Explorers came to the Americas in the 1500's they'd thought they find riches to bring back with them (and some did), but most of the found nothing but native americans and lots of land and it was the settlers that got the most of this situation and even started their own nation or two after a century or so.
Maybe Real Time 2030 will fret about how our college kids do little more than steal full-res holographic porn
Bah! If it doesn't have full tactile neural input, then I'm not interested.