But if someone discovers a drug that does everything that sleep is supposed to do, then what's the problem? It's not like nature is perfect, if we can develop a way of doing something more effectively then why not? Now I don't know if this drug does that, but surely they'll test it for any potentially negative side-effects.
Same here. Some of those missions just make me want to strangle the person who designed them. Instead of studying if videogame violence increases aggressive behavior, we should study how idiotic and irritating game design increases aggressive behavior.
This link has been posted a billion times on slashdot already, but here it is again. 10 billion dollars for the first elevator, and roughly 3 billion apiece for the next ones. I have a feeling that construction on the space elevator will begin in the beginning of the next decade, though I'm not sure who will build it. According to this survey nanotubes are already produced in quantities of hundreds of tons, with production in all four regions with space-launch capability. Most likely we'll see two competing elevator projects, with the chinese and NASA-ESA as the competitors.
According to this plan it would need to be 100 000 km. The center of gravity would need to be in a geostationary orbit, which is ~36 000 km, the additional 64 000 km is for a 600 ton counterweight, which would include a space station.
Granted, I'm a city boy, but you really don't know much about farming, do you? A cow only has to be inseminated once. You only ever inseminate the cow again if you want a calf. It will continue to give milk as long as you keep milking. The biological signal in all mammals is to turn off the milk when it stops being used.
Nope. They will give milk for about nine months after the birth of a calf. Because of that they have to be inseminated yearly, usually about three months after the previous calf has been born.
But even if you can't hear a difference with the equipment you use now, you can't be sure that the next set of speakers won't enable you to hear a difference; when I originally got introduced to mp3, I ripped a few cd's with a bitrate of 128 kbit because I couldn't hear a difference between that and the original. But when I upgraded to a better set of speakers, my mp3's sounded the same as before, but the original cd's had a wider range of sounds that couldn't be heard on my old speakers. By using FLAC you can be sure that your audio will be a perfect copy of the original; I would think that this is especially important if you archive your music on DVD's. Also, what's the point with digital audio if you can't have identical copy of the original?
Oh, and I didn't know lossless is popular among live concert recorders. It makes sense though; if the source is of poor quality, degrading it further with lossy compression sounds like a very bad idea.
If you want access to WGF, you're pretty much forced to get longhorn, because it won't be released for Windows XP. For non-gamers that probably isn't a problem though.
When has Microsoft announced that? The only info about HD-DVD and Xbox360 I found was this quote from Bill Gates:
"The initial shipments of Xbox 360 will be based on today's DVD format," Gates explained. "We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capability of an HD DVD player or something else."
That could just as easily mean Blu-Ray, depending on which format takes off in the consumer market. And yes, I know Microsoft is one of the supporters of HD-DVD, but if Blu-Ray becomes a great success in the couple of years before the Xbox360 2.0 comes out, I don't really see how they could try to force HD-DVD on people.
The Flat Earth Society is not in any way responsible for the failure of the French to repel the Germans at the Maginot Line during WWII. Nor is the Flat Earth Society responsible for the recent yeti sightings outside the Vatican, or for the unfortunate enslavement of the Nabisco Inc. factory employees by a rogue hamster insurrectionist group. Furthermore, we are not responsible for the loss of one or more of the following, which may possibly occur as the result of exposing one's self to the dogmatic and dangerously subversive statements made within: life, limb, vision, Francois Mitterand, hearing, taste, smell, touch, thumb, Aunt Mildred, citizenship, spleen, bedrock, cloves, I Love Lucy reruns, toaster, pine derby racer, toy duck, antelope, horseradish, prosthetic ankle, double-cheeseburger, tin foil, limestone, watermelon-scented air freshner, sanity, paprika, German to Pig Latin dictionary, dish towel, pet Chihuahua, pogo stick, Golf Digest subscription, floor tile, upper torso or halibut.
Damn those rounders and their false teachings! I demand that this opposing point of view is taught in school!
Well the reason I skipped that part is because it probably is true. And the point in my post is that at least the chinese are doing something to improve the situation, whereas the U.S. is just making it worse.
The Ariane 5 is capable of taking humans to space. It hasn't been used for that though. Anyways, Nasa needs to start designing a new spacecraft, because when the chinese visit the moon it would be quite embarrasing to not even have a craft capable of reaching there...
F.Y.I: The PRC has ratified the Kyoto protocol, whereas the U.S. has not. China is building a lot of nuclear power; the U.S. is working on getting more oil. When (if) China becomes the worlds largest polluter, your comment will have merit. Until then, let's just remember which country is responsible for most of the greenhouse gases on our planet.
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Well the freezing point would also be a lot lower because of the pressure. Otherwise, I agree.
But if someone discovers a drug that does everything that sleep is supposed to do, then what's the problem? It's not like nature is perfect, if we can develop a way of doing something more effectively then why not? Now I don't know if this drug does that, but surely they'll test it for any potentially negative side-effects.
Same here. Some of those missions just make me want to strangle the person who designed them. Instead of studying if videogame violence increases aggressive behavior, we should study how idiotic and irritating game design increases aggressive behavior.
I guess you won't be satisfied until someone designs a replacement for DNA and construct new kinds of life from it. :P
Indeed, France is to Europe what Texas is to the U.S. (IMHO)
This link has been posted a billion times on slashdot already, but here it is again. 10 billion dollars for the first elevator, and roughly 3 billion apiece for the next ones. I have a feeling that construction on the space elevator will begin in the beginning of the next decade, though I'm not sure who will build it. According to this survey nanotubes are already produced in quantities of hundreds of tons, with production in all four regions with space-launch capability. Most likely we'll see two competing elevator projects, with the chinese and NASA-ESA as the competitors.
According to this plan it would need to be 100 000 km. The center of gravity would need to be in a geostationary orbit, which is ~36 000 km, the additional 64 000 km is for a 600 ton counterweight, which would include a space station.
If a spacefaring, plasma-shotgun wielding race of carnivores arrives to earth, I guess you'll be the first to volunteer for some human processing?
Granted, I'm a city boy, but you really don't know much about farming, do you? A cow only has to be inseminated once. You only ever inseminate the cow again if you want a calf. It will continue to give milk as long as you keep milking. The biological signal in all mammals is to turn off the milk when it stops being used.
Nope. They will give milk for about nine months after the birth of a calf. Because of that they have to be inseminated yearly, usually about three months after the previous calf has been born.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just stripmine Mars with robots and use the raw materials for space habitats? It wouldn't take so darn long either.
FLAC achieves a compression ratio of 55% on average. So assuming a 44100 Hz 16-bit stereo wav:
(4500000000 bytes/(44100 hz * 2 bytes * 2)) / 0.55 = ~13 hours
But even if you can't hear a difference with the equipment you use now, you can't be sure that the next set of speakers won't enable you to hear a difference; when I originally got introduced to mp3, I ripped a few cd's with a bitrate of 128 kbit because I couldn't hear a difference between that and the original. But when I upgraded to a better set of speakers, my mp3's sounded the same as before, but the original cd's had a wider range of sounds that couldn't be heard on my old speakers. By using FLAC you can be sure that your audio will be a perfect copy of the original; I would think that this is especially important if you archive your music on DVD's. Also, what's the point with digital audio if you can't have identical copy of the original?
Oh, and I didn't know lossless is popular among live concert recorders. It makes sense though; if the source is of poor quality, degrading it further with lossy compression sounds like a very bad idea.
It doesn't help in CRPG's (real CRPG's, not MMO games) though, I just can't imagine anyone wanting to be a peasant or kobold or some other random NPC.
Indeed. Vorbis is better suited for audio in movies, I think it's about time everyone started storing their music in lossless format.
Maybe he is collecting a list of email addresses to sell to some spammers. :P
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Come on someone, bring out some Transformers jokes!
Ah, that explains why they have a military alliance. Oh wait, no it doesn't.
If you want access to WGF, you're pretty much forced to get longhorn, because it won't be released for Windows XP. For non-gamers that probably isn't a problem though.
When has Microsoft announced that? The only info about HD-DVD and Xbox360 I found was this quote from Bill Gates:
"The initial shipments of Xbox 360 will be based on today's DVD format," Gates explained. "We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capability of an HD DVD player or something else."
That could just as easily mean Blu-Ray, depending on which format takes off in the consumer market. And yes, I know Microsoft is one of the supporters of HD-DVD, but if Blu-Ray becomes a great success in the couple of years before the Xbox360 2.0 comes out, I don't really see how they could try to force HD-DVD on people.
The Flat Earth Society is not in any way responsible for the failure of the French to repel the Germans at the Maginot Line during WWII. Nor is the Flat Earth Society responsible for the recent yeti sightings outside the Vatican, or for the unfortunate enslavement of the Nabisco Inc. factory employees by a rogue hamster insurrectionist group. Furthermore, we are not responsible for the loss of one or more of the following, which may possibly occur as the result of exposing one's self to the dogmatic and dangerously subversive statements made within: life, limb, vision, Francois Mitterand, hearing, taste, smell, touch, thumb, Aunt Mildred, citizenship, spleen, bedrock, cloves, I Love Lucy reruns, toaster, pine derby racer, toy duck, antelope, horseradish, prosthetic ankle, double-cheeseburger, tin foil, limestone, watermelon-scented air freshner, sanity, paprika, German to Pig Latin dictionary, dish towel, pet Chihuahua, pogo stick, Golf Digest subscription, floor tile, upper torso or halibut.
Damn those rounders and their false teachings! I demand that this opposing point of view is taught in school!
... no one on Slashdot is going to actually pay money for it (or at least admit to it). We'll eBay someones box ...
;)
I guess slashdotters will pay for it with bottle caps or karma points?
Are you an example of a identity thief? My brain seemed to malfunction for a second and thought you were one particular linux developer... :)
Well the reason I skipped that part is because it probably is true. And the point in my post is that at least the chinese are doing something to improve the situation, whereas the U.S. is just making it worse.
The Ariane 5 is capable of taking humans to space. It hasn't been used for that though. Anyways, Nasa needs to start designing a new spacecraft, because when the chinese visit the moon it would be quite embarrasing to not even have a craft capable of reaching there...
F.Y.I: The PRC has ratified the Kyoto protocol, whereas the U.S. has not. China is building a lot of nuclear power; the U.S. is working on getting more oil.
When (if) China becomes the worlds largest polluter, your comment will have merit. Until then, let's just remember which country is responsible for most of the greenhouse gases on our planet.