I'm curious as to just how far we can go with this. We can keep a pig alive for an hour or two; how much longer? An hour or two is great for saving gunshot patients and the like, but we need at least a few months to make it matter for space travel. What limits are there on the current method? Why wouldn't this work for years on end?
To be honest, I don't care about the environment. I ride my bike because it's cheap, not because it saves trees and whales and penguins (or, for that matter, humans).
Given the way market forces work, it wouldn't surprise me if this eventually fell to a price comparable with regular power, and stopped billing seperately. I mean, seriously, what else are they going to do with this stuff?
The Christian claim to being "Sons of Abraham" is ideological, not genetic- which confused the heck out of me after singing "father Abraham had many sons, many sons had father Abraham, I am one of them, and so are you" a million times in Sunday school.
Given that the most reasonable "something-other-than-humans-caused" global warming hypothesis I've heard so far is that the sun's energy output is increasing, (incindentally, this would also explain Martian global warming, which by some evidence matches terrestrial warming), this seems like exactly the way to go. A more direct and exact correction could not be found (if this is, in fact, the cause of global warming) without changing the energy output of the sun manually, which is to my knowledge impossible.
While it would fit with human nature if Microsoft blocked Google on their intranet, it makes more sense for Microsoft to use this in-house as a barometer of their own performance: if Google use falls, and Microsearch use rises, then they're succeding; if the opposite happens, then they're doing something wrong.
Oh my GAWD! You mean I could lose almost $3.00 a year if I don't unplug my PS2?
But wait! Let's assume that it takes me 30 seconds to get off my lazy ass and move to the entertainment center, move the entertainment center, unplug the PS2 from the power strip, and move the entertainment center back into place so my roommate can still watch TV. I play videogames almost every day, sometimes in two or three seperate sessions. Just for argument's sake, we'll figure I do this 360 times a year. That works out to 10 800 seconds, or 180 minutes, or three hours.
Given that the federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour, that means that if I spend the time unplugging the PS2, then I'll be losing money! (3*5.15 = 15.45, if my redneck math is right, which I think is more than $2.63)
If I remember correctly, cirrhosis is caused when the liver has to process Alcohol, a high-priority toxin, before it can deal with whatever else is already being processed. The stuff that it should be working on while it's dealing with the alcohol builds up and causes scarring. This implies that people who eat nothing at all have the lowest rates of cirrhosis in the world.
TFA says that alcohol is a fuel, but it doesn't say that this is the only fuel for the muscles- Bio-Diesel is mentioned. This means that maybe alcohol isn't necessarily the best fuel.
However, for the sake of humor, science fiction, and the way I think the future should look, we must stop research now, while we're still using booze.
"Grand Challenge 2005 proved that autonomous ground vehicles can travel significant
distances and reach their destination, just as you or I would drive from one city to the next," said
DARPA Director Dr. Tony Tether. "After the success of this event, we believe the robotics
community is ready to tackle vehicle operation inside city limits."
I'm not going to speculate as to whether the robotics community is "ready" for this challenge, but what do the two challenges have to do with each other from a technical standpoint? In the previous challenges, vision wasn't good enough to tell a boulder from a bush. Are they going to give the robots the GPS location of all the stop signs and traffic circles? If they do, how well would this apply to a city where not all GPS locations are known? If not, how will it differentiate signs from one another and from random stuff in the background?
I'll be impressed with no crashing into each other, before they worry about compliance with all traffic laws. How will the robots recognize the speed limit in their area, or will they all crawl along at 10 mph, impeding the flow of traffic?
Everyone keeps pointing out that there are plenty of trumpet players. There are. They also ridicule the military for not hiring these trumpet players to play bugle at funerals.
The military may deserve ridicule, but they're be even more ridiculous if they hired trumpet players and expected them to bugle. Bugles don't have the button things on top. I don't know exactly how they make different notes; I can make sound on a bugle, but nothing more than meaningless tooting.
Trumpeters aren't bugle players any more than organists are pianists or floutists are bassoonists, as far as I know.
I seem to remember reading somewhere about a lizard with no legs. NOt technically a snake, because it has too much of the structure needed for legs. Wouldn't said lizard be even more primitive (it has shoulders)? Or are snakes descended from other, non-lizardly folk? Anyone else ever heard of this?
I did rtfa... and I'm not angry, game movies *do* suck. I'm big on substance in games as well as in movies and rarely play anything that taxes my system, because of the focus on style. Why does everyone assume that the sarcasm was directed at ebert?
Looking at the history of the sculpture, it's been seen that most of the information and methods considered have been unnecessary or incorrect. For instance, there should be somewhere to find the key words, but they weren't needed. Is is possible that in decoding part 4 (still unsolved) we're missing the forest for the trees? Maybe the final decryption won't have much to do with the typo in part 2.
Then again, maybe someone will have the solution two days from now and I'll look like an idiot.
This seemed that it might be more difficult and more useful than the DARPA challenge, until I read that the contest allowed semi-autonomous and even remote-controlled vehicles.
In light of this, I've begun working on my European citizenship so that I can enter a remote control car strapped to a camera.
I'm a bit confused, not that Microsoft wants their software distributed (duh) but that they're calling it a risk to traffic in OS-less PCs. What possible risk is there?
Ignoring everything else about both OSes, these two characteristics mean that windows wins. Not everyone wants to be an expert or a hacker, and windows is easier to deal with. Everything in windows is more intuitive at the Joe User level than in Linux. That's why windows wins.
The die itself doesn't need licensing, the rules of the d20 system (used in D&D 3.x and d20 modern, as well as every single frickin RPG made since) need licensing. High rolls are always good, what an innovative concept.
This is probably exactly what I'd do. I might even make up bogus searches and randomly click whatever comes up in hopes that I might get some free stuff. However, in doing so, I will be exposed to advertising, which is what makes a search engine profitable.
There's also a very strong positive correlation between my shoe size and level of mathematical understanding over the past twenty years, nad (according to the article) between Viking raids and increased world temperatures.
Damn Vikings.
Correlation does not imply causality.
I'm a first year Computer Science student. In high school, I took a year of HTML; it's amazing what you can do with it. If you include CSS (our book did) and Server Side Includes (it didn't), you can make extremely streamlined and beautiful pages. HTML along the lines of using h1 through h6 is foolish, but I've (literally) never seen anyone use any heading smaller than h2. Just because a feature exists doesn't mean you have to use it. PHP, Javascript and the like are easier to break, and harder to interpret; for a small business without a dedicated web programmer or a programmer without a lot of time, HTML is *the* way to go. The best web pages I've seen have been courtesy of a text editor and photoshop, using HTML and CSS only. HTML is simply not going away, any more than times new roman is.
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I'm curious as to just how far we can go with this. We can keep a pig alive for an hour or two; how much longer? An hour or two is great for saving gunshot patients and the like, but we need at least a few months to make it matter for space travel. What limits are there on the current method? Why wouldn't this work for years on end?
Given the way market forces work, it wouldn't surprise me if this eventually fell to a price comparable with regular power, and stopped billing seperately. I mean, seriously, what else are they going to do with this stuff?
The Christian claim to being "Sons of Abraham" is ideological, not genetic- which confused the heck out of me after singing "father Abraham had many sons, many sons had father Abraham, I am one of them, and so are you" a million times in Sunday school.
The summary mentions that, man. Pheremones = scent trails.
Given that the most reasonable "something-other-than-humans-caused" global warming hypothesis I've heard so far is that the sun's energy output is increasing, (incindentally, this would also explain Martian global warming, which by some evidence matches terrestrial warming), this seems like exactly the way to go. A more direct and exact correction could not be found (if this is, in fact, the cause of global warming) without changing the energy output of the sun manually, which is to my knowledge impossible.
While it would fit with human nature if Microsoft blocked Google on their intranet, it makes more sense for Microsoft to use this in-house as a barometer of their own performance: if Google use falls, and Microsearch use rises, then they're succeding; if the opposite happens, then they're doing something wrong.
Oh my GAWD! You mean I could lose almost $3.00 a year if I don't unplug my PS2?
But wait! Let's assume that it takes me 30 seconds to get off my lazy ass and move to the entertainment center, move the entertainment center, unplug the PS2 from the power strip, and move the entertainment center back into place so my roommate can still watch TV. I play videogames almost every day, sometimes in two or three seperate sessions. Just for argument's sake, we'll figure I do this 360 times a year. That works out to 10 800 seconds, or 180 minutes, or three hours.
Given that the federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour, that means that if I spend the time unplugging the PS2, then I'll be losing money! (3*5.15 = 15.45, if my redneck math is right, which I think is more than $2.63)
Posh. Stephen King's version of The Jaunt is far more sciency feeling and more patentable.
I am not a doctor, but I used to be an EMT.
However, for the sake of humor, science fiction, and the way I think the future should look, we must stop research now, while we're still using booze.
In other news, Luxco stock is up thirty points.
I'm not going to speculate as to whether the robotics community is "ready" for this challenge, but what do the two challenges have to do with each other from a technical standpoint? In the previous challenges, vision wasn't good enough to tell a boulder from a bush. Are they going to give the robots the GPS location of all the stop signs and traffic circles? If they do, how well would this apply to a city where not all GPS locations are known? If not, how will it differentiate signs from one another and from random stuff in the background?
I'll be impressed with no crashing into each other, before they worry about compliance with all traffic laws. How will the robots recognize the speed limit in their area, or will they all crawl along at 10 mph, impeding the flow of traffic?
And it would appear that I was quite badly wrong.
The military may deserve ridicule, but they're be even more ridiculous if they hired trumpet players and expected them to bugle. Bugles don't have the button things on top. I don't know exactly how they make different notes; I can make sound on a bugle, but nothing more than meaningless tooting.
Trumpeters aren't bugle players any more than organists are pianists or floutists are bassoonists, as far as I know.
I seem to remember reading somewhere about a lizard with no legs. NOt technically a snake, because it has too much of the structure needed for legs. Wouldn't said lizard be even more primitive (it has shoulders)? Or are snakes descended from other, non-lizardly folk? Anyone else ever heard of this?
I did rtfa... and I'm not angry, game movies *do* suck. I'm big on substance in games as well as in movies and rarely play anything that taxes my system, because of the focus on style. Why does everyone assume that the sarcasm was directed at ebert?
Weird.
Then again, maybe someone will have the solution two days from now and I'll look like an idiot.
In light of this, I've begun working on my European citizenship so that I can enter a remote control car strapped to a camera.
I'm a bit confused, not that Microsoft wants their software distributed (duh) but that they're calling it a risk to traffic in OS-less PCs. What possible risk is there?
24 ms, 18. No heineken.
1. it breaks.
What about linux?
1. it's hard for beginners to use
Ignoring everything else about both OSes, these two characteristics mean that windows wins. Not everyone wants to be an expert or a hacker, and windows is easier to deal with. Everything in windows is more intuitive at the Joe User level than in Linux. That's why windows wins.
The die itself doesn't need licensing, the rules of the d20 system (used in D&D 3.x and d20 modern, as well as every single frickin RPG made since) need licensing. High rolls are always good, what an innovative concept.
This is probably exactly what I'd do. I might even make up bogus searches and randomly click whatever comes up in hopes that I might get some free stuff. However, in doing so, I will be exposed to advertising, which is what makes a search engine profitable.
There's also a very strong positive correlation between my shoe size and level of mathematical understanding over the past twenty years, nad (according to the article) between Viking raids and increased world temperatures. Damn Vikings. Correlation does not imply causality.
I'm a first year Computer Science student. In high school, I took a year of HTML; it's amazing what you can do with it. If you include CSS (our book did) and Server Side Includes (it didn't), you can make extremely streamlined and beautiful pages. HTML along the lines of using h1 through h6 is foolish, but I've (literally) never seen anyone use any heading smaller than h2. Just because a feature exists doesn't mean you have to use it. PHP, Javascript and the like are easier to break, and harder to interpret; for a small business without a dedicated web programmer or a programmer without a lot of time, HTML is *the* way to go. The best web pages I've seen have been courtesy of a text editor and photoshop, using HTML and CSS only. HTML is simply not going away, any more than times new roman is.