I doubt this drug would permanently replace sleep without some form of side-effect. However, I'm sure it could work as a good "supplement" to sleep for periods of time where awareness is crucial. A low side effect No Doze?
I am not that efficient when it comes to managing influx of information. For me, I'm high with information bong day in, day out. I surf and surf, and at some point in the day I "burn out" from the influx of information. There's simply too much swirling in my head to really contemplate anything else. Internal filtering of the information is done that cuts out most of the fluff, but there's always a dozen really interesting things I'm keeping track of at once. I experience a "information hangover", simply drained of energy and my mind is tired from endless processing of information fluff. I'm slowly weening myself off of my drug. But, in 3 weeks I may come barreling back as I am hooked in.
eBay, ubid, and countless other auction sites, along with the formentioned craigs list, autotrader, etc, etc. etc. The whole paper-classifieds industry is coming down. If newspapers don't take local classifieds to the internet and find a way to make some $$ of of it, they will need to find a new business model, period. The times are achangin'
You have hundreds of "flying cars" in this stream bumper to bumper traveling at fast speeds. Of course the Jetsons is anything "realistic", but its still a good analogy.
As I type on my new XO (just got it through the G1G1 program) in Black and white mode, I can attest to the screen's clarity. It is like reading a newspaper, and the refresh rate is far superior to both the sony/amazon readers. Sure, its "not a reader", it's bigger than the other readers and its only available for order for another two weeks. However, with the upcoming sw update it will have close to a day's worth of battery in reading mode. It is also about the same price as the readers, and it is a laptop w/ built in wifi. Show me a current ebook reader that you can go to a website and download your book/pdf/news story.
If you want a fast refresh, laptop capability and wifi enabled, go with the OLPC. And, did I mention you could accidentally drop it and spill you coffee on it and it will still work?
1)Create Duke Nukem 2)Make big fuss over sequal 3)Don't deliver, but make big deal for next decade 4)Once DNF is a household name, deliver 5)Profit!!
Seriously though, 3D Realms has found a good formula to get its namebrand out. I mean, what gamer hasn't heard of Duke Nukem Forever? It's the most famous non-game in gaming history. Weight for weight, DNF has more name recognition than even probably Halo. It almost behooves them to release it. It will turn every gamer's head 180 with "WTF?! DNF is finally been released!". Even if the game is say 7/10, you can guerentee a lot of copies would be sold just out of name recognition alone.
"In the scheme of things a few hundred voters not voting because of bad voting may give enough bad press that it would give the officials enough concern to maybe at least listen to the issue." -> In the scheme of things, a few hundred voters not voting from bad practices may give officials enough bad pres that they may listen.
The way these literally corrupt machines are going, I think citizens in states where they are the only option should call for a VERY public boycott. Get several hundred people picketing outside, signing petitions to vow not to vote unless they have PROVEN methods. Sure the county/state/whatever will come back saying they're "secure". In the scheme of things a few hundred voters not voting because of bad voting may give enough bad press that it would give the officials enough concern to maybe at least listen to the issue.
If elections continue, picket the polling stations. It may give enough bad press they will decide not to do it again. Or sadly, it may just get totally ignored. But at least it gives the people going in to vote some thought
but why does everyone assume all the ETs are more advanced than we are?
The way I see it: The universe is measured currently at 13+ Billion years old. Our solar system has evolved from protostar to what it is today in about 5 billion years. That means when the universe was about 8 billion years old, the sun and planets were just coming into form. 13 billion years is a hell of a lot of time. If the Earth evolved from lavaball to raising current humanity in 5 billion years, I'm sure some wheres in the wide universe a planet spawned some form of life at least as advanced as humans in 13 billion years.
"Intelligence" is quite variable. When people think intelligent extraterrestrial life, they think something equivalent or higher in technology than we are currently. However, "Intelligent" life is obviously more common here on Earth than simply humans. I guess a new label, "Higher Intelligence" to deliniate an advanced ET civilization. Intelligent ET could simply be an alien version of our rat.
If there is evidence found, then that would prove they have visited earth. Proving they haven't visited Earth is a monumental task. The fact remains there is a possibility they have visited Earth. Fact? of course not. possible? yes.
Based on the lack of evidence currently, it is probable they have never visited earth. It can never proven though, like it can't be proven they have visted Earth in the past.
In 100 years our radio listening abilities will be far superior to anything we can pull off today. We'll have exponentially more sensitive equipment, be able to scan more channels than all capacity of the radio telescopes on earth combined. And that is just limiting it to radio. We may be able to peer onto other worlds in 100 years with our telescopes, who knows. We should continue searching for ET in different ways, if only to satisfy our curiosity. It may be a backburner, "idle" time type project. Astronomy is currently in its infancy, s20451.
ET may have come to Earth sometime during human civilization's thousands of years here, and yet decided to keep distance. Just because they didn't pull an Independence Day-style invasion or leave artifacts, or interact with humans doesn't mean they've been here in the past.
You are correct in that radio waves are a very potent tool in learning about the universe. Our radio detecting capabilities in the past couple of decades may pale in comparison to what is needed to detect ET though.
Centuries from now we will have a much greater chance than now at detecting some sort of signal, radio or otherwise. We may discover some sort of "sub-space" medium like Star Trek has, in which communication is much faster and reliable at astronomical distances. Radio tech would still be reliable, but it may take back seat to a more advanced mode we don't even comprehend yet. My point is, our tech is still its infancy. Give it a LOT of time and we'll have detecting capabilities beyond anything we can fathom.
Astronomers first directly discovered an exosolar planet in 1995. Sure we've been listening for ET via radio for decades, but really do you you think just over a few decades we'd happen upon the right channel frequency at the right star system?
If we ever find ET directly, it would probably be in a few hundred years. Our radio technology is antiquated probably to whatever ET has used. They may not even use radio to communicate long distance. They may use laser pulses, or god knows. My point is, our technology is in its infancy. Come back 400 years from now and if we haven't found at least some form life, then spew. But judging out ability to discover ET based on a few mere decades of tech is just plain ignant.
The next generation of geeks comes! The first guy from Washington took atomic clocks on his family camping trip and showed his children direct evidence of Einsteins Theory of Relativity. If I were growing up and my father showed me this, not to mention other cool time/electronics like this guy has, you can guarantee that I'd be hooked. Not that I'm already hooked by other things, but you get my point.
I certainly agree that though the US is far from perfect, in fact it is ugly in some abuses, there is still a large public view of "the dissenting view".
Though I am worried about the future state of Russia, I haven't given up hope on it just yet. There's still a large movement towards democracy and political/market freedom, and many things are still uncertain. What I do know though is its an up hill battle to win.
Shentech.com are crooks beyond simply selling laptop batteries. Look no further than their resller rating, a nice 2.9/10. They "sell" not only laptop batteries, but almost everything else under the sun.
I absolutely love their ironic tagline..."Shentech - Get Your Money's worth!
As you say, the fee they're discussing is unspecified. There are probably small hardware companies that will take advantage of this opening. I don't think Verizon isn't 100% bullshitting here. However that being said, I don't think Verizon is showing all its cards on this.
is that this has a LOT to do with Google's latest bid on the 700mhz spectrum. If not the reason, this latest action by Google certainly is on the top list of reasons why Verizon probably did this abrupt change. It reminds me of the kind of paradigm Gmail set with its massive space offerings. Suddenly, Hotmail went from a puny 2 megabytes of space to a whopping 200mb+ in a few months. Yahoo, and practically all the major email companies have massive storage because of the shift. My hunch is we are going to be seeing a paradigm shift within the cell industry, not just Verizon. I hope so at least:)
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I doubt this drug would permanently replace sleep without some form of side-effect. However, I'm sure it could work as a good "supplement" to sleep for periods of time where awareness is crucial. A low side effect No Doze?
The internet is a merciless master
eBay, ubid, and countless other auction sites, along with the formentioned craigs list, autotrader, etc, etc. etc. The whole paper-classifieds industry is coming down. If newspapers don't take local classifieds to the internet and find a way to make some $$ of of it, they will need to find a new business model, period. The times are achangin'
You have hundreds of "flying cars" in this stream bumper to bumper traveling at fast speeds. Of course the Jetsons is anything "realistic", but its still a good analogy.
If its anything like this underwater "meeting", I'm sure the higher-ups would have a lot of explaining to do.
As I type on my new XO (just got it through the G1G1 program) in Black and white mode, I can attest to the screen's clarity. It is like reading a newspaper, and the refresh rate is far superior to both the sony/amazon readers. Sure, its "not a reader", it's bigger than the other readers and its only available for order for another two weeks. However, with the upcoming sw update it will have close to a day's worth of battery in reading mode. It is also about the same price as the readers, and it is a laptop w/ built in wifi. Show me a current ebook reader that you can go to a website and download your book/pdf/news story.
If you want a fast refresh, laptop capability and wifi enabled, go with the OLPC. And, did I mention you could accidentally drop it and spill you coffee on it and it will still work?
2)Make big fuss over sequal
3)Don't deliver, but make big deal for next decade
4)Once DNF is a household name, deliver
5)Profit!!
Seriously though, 3D Realms has found a good formula to get its namebrand out. I mean, what gamer hasn't heard of Duke Nukem Forever? It's the most famous non-game in gaming history. Weight for weight, DNF has more name recognition than even probably Halo. It almost behooves them to release it. It will turn every gamer's head 180 with "WTF?! DNF is finally been released!". Even if the game is say 7/10, you can guerentee a lot of copies would be sold just out of name recognition alone.
I will refuse any release unless its Duke Nukem Forever on a Phantom Console running on an Atom Chip. Otherwise, you can forgettaboutit.
Run sentence, run!
If elections continue, picket the polling stations. It may give enough bad press they will decide not to do it again. Or sadly, it may just get totally ignored. But at least it gives the people going in to vote some thought
The way I see it: The universe is measured currently at 13+ Billion years old. Our solar system has evolved from protostar to what it is today in about 5 billion years. That means when the universe was about 8 billion years old, the sun and planets were just coming into form. 13 billion years is a hell of a lot of time. If the Earth evolved from lavaball to raising current humanity in 5 billion years, I'm sure some wheres in the wide universe a planet spawned some form of life at least as advanced as humans in 13 billion years.
"Intelligence" is quite variable. When people think intelligent extraterrestrial life, they think something equivalent or higher in technology than we are currently. However, "Intelligent" life is obviously more common here on Earth than simply humans. I guess a new label, "Higher Intelligence" to deliniate an advanced ET civilization. Intelligent ET could simply be an alien version of our rat.
If there is evidence found, then that would prove they have visited earth. Proving they haven't visited Earth is a monumental task. The fact remains there is a possibility they have visited Earth. Fact? of course not. possible? yes.
Based on the lack of evidence currently, it is probable they have never visited earth. It can never proven though, like it can't be proven they have visted Earth in the past.
In 100 years our radio listening abilities will be far superior to anything we can pull off today. We'll have exponentially more sensitive equipment, be able to scan more channels than all capacity of the radio telescopes on earth combined. And that is just limiting it to radio. We may be able to peer onto other worlds in 100 years with our telescopes, who knows. We should continue searching for ET in different ways, if only to satisfy our curiosity. It may be a backburner, "idle" time type project. Astronomy is currently in its infancy, s20451.
ET may have come to Earth sometime during human civilization's thousands of years here, and yet decided to keep distance. Just because they didn't pull an Independence Day-style invasion or leave artifacts, or interact with humans doesn't mean they've been here in the past.
Centuries from now we will have a much greater chance than now at detecting some sort of signal, radio or otherwise. We may discover some sort of "sub-space" medium like Star Trek has, in which communication is much faster and reliable at astronomical distances. Radio tech would still be reliable, but it may take back seat to a more advanced mode we don't even comprehend yet. My point is, our tech is still its infancy. Give it a LOT of time and we'll have detecting capabilities beyond anything we can fathom.
If we ever find ET directly, it would probably be in a few hundred years. Our radio technology is antiquated probably to whatever ET has used. They may not even use radio to communicate long distance. They may use laser pulses, or god knows. My point is, our technology is in its infancy. Come back 400 years from now and if we haven't found at least some form life, then spew. But judging out ability to discover ET based on a few mere decades of tech is just plain ignant.
They are still militant against the blue shirts, though. (rolls eyes)
The next generation of geeks comes! The first guy from Washington took atomic clocks on his family camping trip and showed his children direct evidence of Einsteins Theory of Relativity. If I were growing up and my father showed me this, not to mention other cool time/electronics like this guy has, you can guarantee that I'd be hooked. Not that I'm already hooked by other things, but you get my point.
Putinist Russia is more than scary, it is downright putrid smelling with state control. The Kremlin have essentially forced EU poll monitors out of Russia. There were far to few to begin with, and now there's no sign of them.
Though I am worried about the future state of Russia, I haven't given up hope on it just yet. There's still a large movement towards democracy and political/market freedom, and many things are still uncertain. What I do know though is its an up hill battle to win.
That definitely doesn't look like water to me. My best hunch is some form of geological outcropping (blue crystals?)
Either that or some sort of weird shrub.
I absolutely love their ironic tagline... "Shentech - Get Your Money's worth!
As you say, the fee they're discussing is unspecified. There are probably small hardware companies that will take advantage of this opening. I don't think Verizon isn't 100% bullshitting here. However that being said, I don't think Verizon is showing all its cards on this.
is that this has a LOT to do with Google's latest bid on the 700mhz spectrum. If not the reason, this latest action by Google certainly is on the top list of reasons why Verizon probably did this abrupt change. It reminds me of the kind of paradigm Gmail set with its massive space offerings. Suddenly, Hotmail went from a puny 2 megabytes of space to a whopping 200mb+ in a few months. Yahoo, and practically all the major email companies have massive storage because of the shift. My hunch is we are going to be seeing a paradigm shift within the cell industry, not just Verizon. I hope so at least :)