The ancient Egyptian civilisation also lasted for thousands of years, but they never got to cars, computers and automatic washers. I believe civilisation has been continuously developing since the beginning, so any developments in the last 2000 years were built on top of the developments of the previous 2000 years.
Also, the level of development of a civilisation depends on lots of things apart from the time it has existed. The ancient Greeks and Romans had about the same level of technology as medieval Europeans in some areas, so it is quite possible for civilisations to exist for a long time without developing our level of technology.
I think if a high-tech society existed before the flood, we would see more obvious evidence of this now.
I find it interesting that everything is always referred to as six degrees of separation. It has been said that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else in only six degrees. From this, one would expect that a small group of people with related interests would be connected in less than six degrees.
I was actually going to say, in soviet russia, robots ride you.
But I thought I would get modded down.
I bet this post gets modded down too.
Go on, mod me down, see if i care. For every troll you kill, {n:n>1} will appear to take its place. You're all crazy anyway. The world is out to get me! also, my tinfoil hat has holes in it too! And the RIAA i--
connection terminated
The Phi-X174 phage has only 5368 base pairs in its DNA. This is not very much code. Surely at some point in the near future scientists will be able to completely reverse engineer it and write their own virus based on this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi-X174_phage
I run Windows, and spend all my time on the Internet, but I have never got any spyware. Where do people get spyware from, and how much of it can be attributed to their own stupidity?
Even the analog signals will contain a "broadcast flag" which means they're not allowed to be copied
It will be illegal to build a device which ignores this flag and copies the signal anyway.
If god simulated a universe perfectly, it would be the same as if he made one. We would still be conscious in God's "imagined" universe, and it would essentially be no different to if he had made a real one.
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I, for one, welcome our new grey gooey overlords.
But personally, if I was making the goo, I would make it a sort of weird metallic purple.
The ancient Egyptian civilisation also lasted for thousands of years, but they never got to cars, computers and automatic washers. I believe civilisation has been continuously developing since the beginning, so any developments in the last 2000 years were built on top of the developments of the previous 2000 years.
Also, the level of development of a civilisation depends on lots of things apart from the time it has existed. The ancient Greeks and Romans had about the same level of technology as medieval Europeans in some areas, so it is quite possible for civilisations to exist for a long time without developing our level of technology. I think if a high-tech society existed before the flood, we would see more obvious evidence of this now.
I find it interesting that everything is always referred to as six degrees of separation. It has been said that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else in only six degrees. From this, one would expect that a small group of people with related interests would be connected in less than six degrees.
I think it's arbitrary, and just means the nearby galaxies to ours, and stuff. Or maybe it refers to sector ZZ9 plural Z alpha. Or something.
I was actually going to say, in soviet russia, robots ride you.
But I thought I would get modded down.
I bet this post gets modded down too.
Go on, mod me down, see if i care. For every troll you kill, {n:n>1} will appear to take its place. You're all crazy anyway. The world is out to get me! also, my tinfoil hat has holes in it too! And the RIAA i--
connection terminated
Ah, yes, a spell checker. Now there's something we *can* use to detect slashdot article fraud.
Can we adapt it to detect Slashdot article fraud?
The Phi-X174 phage has only 5368 base pairs in its DNA. This is not very much code. Surely at some point in the near future scientists will be able to completely reverse engineer it and write their own virus based on this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi-X174_phage
I run Windows, and spend all my time on the Internet, but I have never got any spyware. Where do people get spyware from, and how much of it can be attributed to their own stupidity?
But seriously,
Why do we need FreeBSD? What does it do that Linux doesn't? Who actually uses FreeBSD?
It's already happened. http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/0 7/02/australia.wheel/
My sig really doesn't contrast very well with my posts.
In Soviet Russia, spacesuits dump you
How long does the fuel last for? 5 seconds? You couldn't carry a long time's worth of rocket fuel on a bike.
In soviet russia, plushies buy YOU!
Therefore, NT kernel + unix + zealots + stupidity = Windows.
a Beowulf cluster of geniuses!
If I found myself in that situation, I, for one, would welcome my new insect overlords.
In Soviet Russia, radiation exposes YOU!
In soviet russia, Pixar buys YOU! but seriously, why do any of us actually care if disney owns Pixar or not? It doesn't make any difference to me.
Even the analog signals will contain a "broadcast flag" which means they're not allowed to be copied It will be illegal to build a device which ignores this flag and copies the signal anyway.
Probably not. Does it run NetBSD? Of course!
But there is a practical reason why the IID wouldn't work. We haven't worked out how improbable it is yet.
I, for one, welcome our new chinese plasma physics overlords
If god simulated a universe perfectly, it would be the same as if he made one. We would still be conscious in God's "imagined" universe, and it would essentially be no different to if he had made a real one.