I think you have confused yourself in replying to my post. I did not reply to the original post, rather yours, and if your re-read my post you will find that I was not considering a chino-european force to be the agressor but rather the US to be an aggressor against a theoretical force.
As such I reiterate my earlier statement that a technologicaly superior force would succumb to a numerically superior and motivated force equiped with reliable weaponry. Again I refer to recent history to reinforce my point. The vietnam war and the Iraqi conflict. In the first instances the US was the agressor with a technologically superior army but succumbed to a motivated force with basic but reliable weaponry. In the second instance the technologically superior force has struggled to occupy and 'police' a nation with inferior weaponry.
It may have passed you by, but nevertheless my point was that any future global conflict would still involve a substantial ammount of 'trenchline' fighting. And in such a situation, as proved historically, the technologicaly superior force would not necessarily be the victor.
Interesting, to stay on topic (or off topic) with an automotive analogy. Wwhy not have a system similar in principle to Honda's variable cam system. Monitor system resourse's and usage and dynamically clock processor speed to suit application requirements. This could be useful in a laptop where power consumption limits the length of time before your battery dies. For simple word processing, underclock the CPU to increase battery life. Then up the clock speed as required for gaming etc. It will probably only save a few watts but every bit helps.
This is just another reason why microbes should be required to carry ID cards at all times. Microbial illegal immigration is crippling our economy and a burden on the tax payer.
Our proposed Bill will create a score of new offences including failure to notify authorities about a damaged or defective card, refusal of a microbe to obey an order from the Secretary of State, failure to notify the Secretary of State of any change in cellular structure, failure to obey an order to mutate and providing false plasmids. Penalties range from mild exposure to radiation to two years solitary containment in an offshore government facility, with a maximum ten-year cryogenic imprisonment for possession of forged DNA.
We will also introduce new laws to help catch and convict those microbes involved in helping to plan terrorist activity or who glorify or condone acts of terror. New control orders will enable police and security agencies to keep track of microbes they suspect of planning terrorist outrages including bans on who they can meet or form cellular colonies with, electronic tagging and mitosis curfew orders, and for those who present the highest risk, a requirement to stay permanently at home.
The Vietcong seemed to do ok without any power stations or fuel. An AK-47 and a bowl of rice every now and then was sufficient to defeat a technologically superior US force. What good are EMP attacks going to be against AK-47's, mortars and RPG's. Even a small resistance force with a modocum of organisation can be effective. Look at the recent conflict in Iraq, the US has struggled to control a population of 26m confined to a space twice the size of Idaho.
Look at the numbers of US military casualties in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan versus the casualties of the other side, that will explain what "surgical strikes" can do.
No, that would explain what a policy of carpet bombing can do. Really less of a surgical strike and more a brute force style attack. Past the stage of 'lets dig trenches and shoot at each other for months on end'? Refresh my memory how long has the US been 'policing' Iraq now?
I don't see how accurate this simulation can be when it only takes into account 10b particles. The Milkyway alone consists of approx 100b stars. If you take a 2bly x 2bly square you could expect to find 300,000 trillion stars!
I believe the purpose of the simulation is to try to gain a better understanding of the distribution and nature of dark matter/energy. To do this though surely you'd want to be mapping all the luminous matter and then work out what the dark stuff is doing from there? Why didn't they plot a smaller blob of the universe.
The mission is so-named because it carries with it the legacies of two earlier, failed, attempts to explore Mars.
The lander was built for the Mars Surveyor mission originally planned for 2001, but mothballed by Nasa's administration in 2000. And many scientific instruments for Phoenix were built or designed for Mars Polar Lander which was lost as it entered the Martian atmosphere in 1999.
And I thought my phone was the ultimate emulator. Series 60 phones can now emulate Gameboy, Nes, Genesis, Commodore 64 and Mame but I guess im going to have to throw it out now!
The article seems a bit short on details. Like what treatments they are implimenting based on the formula. Or do they just write formulae down on paper and feed them to the patient?
Principle part, would refer to the 'main body' or 'majority' of a given something. The main body does not consititute all of something. Rather the main part, negating the minor or subsidiary parts.
Popular Science has been promising these since the magazine's inception.
That's because people don't want to read about the reality of futuristic transportation. "Marvel at the amazing car with reduced emmisions! Gaze in wonder at the practical public transportation system!" Oooooo....Ahhhhh!
The article makes some substantial assumptions with little real science explaining how it reaches the conclusion that humans are causing a mass extinction. It lists the five major extinctions where at least 17% of species died (huge proportion of them sea based) and attributes this to major shifts in global climate. It then goes on to just assume that humans are responsible for the current minor trend of rising temperatures. Im yet to see definitive proof that humans are the primary cause. Ice ages come and go all the time (on an evolutionary time scale) and long before humans could have contributed, correlation does not imply causality. Perhaps we've just reducing the time until the next one?
I've no doubt that we have had an impact on the global climate but we dont know enough about long term changes to be pointing fingers just yet. If the article is correct then it would imply we've already tipped the scales. if that's the case were screwed (well, life is going to become very difficult) because once the ice starts melting theres no going back for a few tens of thousands of years.
Remember global warming will lower temperatures in the long term. When the polar caps melt it will reduce salinity and prevent transportation of warm water across the atlantic. No warm currents, no warm thermals = major reduction in marine species + frozen Europe.
For me the most worrying aspect of the new identity card scheme are the new powers that will be granted to the state and criminal penalties that they will incur.
The Bill creates a score of new offences including;
Refusal to obey an order from the Secretary of State (6(4))
Failure to notify authorities about a lost, stolen, damaged or defective card (13(1))
Failure to renew a card (9(2))
failure to submit to fingerprinting (9(4)(b))
Failure to provide information demanded by the government (9(4)(d))
Failure to attend an interview at a specified place and time (9(4)(a))
Failure to notify the Secretary of State of any change in personal circumstances (including change of address) (12(1)).
So if i were to copy your memories and install them into another body you would be happy for me to kill you? After all your memories are what makes you, you....
Just to eleborate, this quote is how I discovered/. ! I didn't get the joke so I googled around trying to find out who Yakov Smirnov was and why I should be laughing. My journey ended, or began (as a matter of perspective) here.
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As such I reiterate my earlier statement that a technologicaly superior force would succumb to a numerically superior and motivated force equiped with reliable weaponry. Again I refer to recent history to reinforce my point. The vietnam war and the Iraqi conflict. In the first instances the US was the agressor with a technologically superior army but succumbed to a motivated force with basic but reliable weaponry. In the second instance the technologically superior force has struggled to occupy and 'police' a nation with inferior weaponry.
It may have passed you by, but nevertheless my point was that any future global conflict would still involve a substantial ammount of 'trenchline' fighting. And in such a situation, as proved historically, the technologicaly superior force would not necessarily be the victor.
Interesting, to stay on topic (or off topic) with an automotive analogy. Wwhy not have a system similar in principle to Honda's variable cam system. Monitor system resourse's and usage and dynamically clock processor speed to suit application requirements. This could be useful in a laptop where power consumption limits the length of time before your battery dies. For simple word processing, underclock the CPU to increase battery life. Then up the clock speed as required for gaming etc. It will probably only save a few watts but every bit helps.
Our proposed Bill will create a score of new offences including failure to notify authorities about a damaged or defective card, refusal of a microbe to obey an order from the Secretary of State, failure to notify the Secretary of State of any change in cellular structure, failure to obey an order to mutate and providing false plasmids. Penalties range from mild exposure to radiation to two years solitary containment in an offshore government facility, with a maximum ten-year cryogenic imprisonment for possession of forged DNA.
We will also introduce new laws to help catch and convict those microbes involved in helping to plan terrorist activity or who glorify or condone acts of terror. New control orders will enable police and security agencies to keep track of microbes they suspect of planning terrorist outrages including bans on who they can meet or form cellular colonies with, electronic tagging and mitosis curfew orders, and for those who present the highest risk, a requirement to stay permanently at home.
Look at the numbers of US military casualties in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan versus the casualties of the other side, that will explain what "surgical strikes" can do.
No, that would explain what a policy of carpet bombing can do. Really less of a surgical strike and more a brute force style attack.
Past the stage of 'lets dig trenches and shoot at each other for months on end'? Refresh my memory how long has the US been 'policing' Iraq now?
I believe the purpose of the simulation is to try to gain a better understanding of the distribution and nature of dark matter/energy. To do this though surely you'd want to be mapping all the luminous matter and then work out what the dark stuff is doing from there? Why didn't they plot a smaller blob of the universe.
Ooooh the irony!
You mean like the vehicles already on Mars now? Sure, why not.
While a computer using this new technology is at least a decade away
Cool so in a decade I can jump in my flying car and go down the store to buy a Single Molecule Transistor PC!
And I thought my phone was the ultimate emulator. Series 60 phones can now emulate Gameboy, Nes, Genesis, Commodore 64 and Mame but I guess im going to have to throw it out now!
The article seems a bit short on details. Like what treatments they are implimenting based on the formula. Or do they just write formulae down on paper and feed them to the patient?
Imprecisely more like.
Principle part, would refer to the 'main body' or 'majority' of a given something. The main body does not consititute all of something. Rather the main part, negating the minor or subsidiary parts.
Popular Science has been promising these since the magazine's inception.
That's because people don't want to read about the reality of futuristic transportation.
"Marvel at the amazing car with reduced emmisions! Gaze in wonder at the practical public transportation system!" Oooooo....Ahhhhh!
Ok now I'm just being silly....
Mass; A large quantity; a sum; the principal part.
The article makes some substantial assumptions with little real science explaining how it reaches the conclusion that humans are causing a mass extinction. It lists the five major extinctions where at least 17% of species died (huge proportion of them sea based) and attributes this to major shifts in global climate. It then goes on to just assume that humans are responsible for the current minor trend of rising temperatures. Im yet to see definitive proof that humans are the primary cause. Ice ages come and go all the time (on an evolutionary time scale) and long before humans could have contributed, correlation does not imply causality. Perhaps we've just reducing the time until the next one?
I've no doubt that we have had an impact on the global climate but we dont know enough about long term changes to be pointing fingers just yet. If the article is correct then it would imply we've already tipped the scales. if that's the case were screwed (well, life is going to become very difficult) because once the ice starts melting theres no going back for a few tens of thousands of years. Remember global warming will lower temperatures in the long term. When the polar caps melt it will reduce salinity and prevent transportation of warm water across the atlantic. No warm currents, no warm thermals = major reduction in marine species + frozen Europe.
I agree why not wait a few more years, skip a few and just bring out Star Trek XII: So Very Tired
I feel i must undertake a velocitous extramuralisation of your company
Good day to you Sir.
Interphrastically, Sausage.... Sssaauuusage!
What does this mean to Slashdot people?
Appologies, I read the subject as Life, the universe, everything...
The answer obviously being 42
Another case of 'Scientific Research That Could Have Been Avoided'?
/sarcasm
For me the most worrying aspect of the new identity card scheme are the new powers that will be granted to the state and criminal penalties that they will incur.
The Bill creates a score of new offences including;
Refusal to obey an order from the Secretary of State (6(4))
Failure to notify authorities about a lost, stolen, damaged or defective card (13(1))
Failure to renew a card (9(2))
failure to submit to fingerprinting (9(4)(b))
Failure to provide information demanded by the government (9(4)(d))
Failure to attend an interview at a specified place and time (9(4)(a))
Failure to notify the Secretary of State of any change in personal circumstances (including change of address) (12(1)).
I've resorted to using a sundial to measure seek times, its going to be getting dark soon though....
Sarcastic Guy: Ooh, a fat sarcastic Star Trek fan, you must be a devil with the ladies!
So if i were to copy your memories and install them into another body you would be happy for me to kill you? After all your memories are what makes you, you....
Just to eleborate, this quote is how I discovered /. ! I didn't get the joke so I googled around trying to find out who Yakov Smirnov was and why I should be laughing. My journey ended, or began (as a matter of perspective) here.
Gentlemen, To Futurama!
"This ice dispenser is SO big, the ice crushes YOU! Yakov Smirnov said it!".
Leela: "No, he didn't".