If everyone could live forever then your girlfriend would regret letting you make that list of celebrities you could sleep with "if you got the chance".
Pure fantasy of course, but I suspect the trivial problems would become even bigger business if we ever did reverse aging. If we all lived to 150, you'd need treatment to correct 150 years of unchecked ear and nose growth, loss of tooth enamel, follicle wear and tear, etc etc.
The battle to build the fastest supercomputer has become a sort of national pride as these high performance computers are used in a variety of areas like defense, energy, finance, science. They are also used for drug discovery, hurricane and tsunami modeling, cancer research, car design, even studying the formation of galaxies.
For example, oil companies use supercomputers to find reservoirs, while Wall Street traders use it for speedy automated trades.
Everyone knows that you can do all of the above on a simple netbook
I call BS, the old KITT could safely crash through just about anything up to and including an immovable object. The new one got trashed in every other episode.
I thought you could pick a common starting point for related species or maybe a period of time for unrelated species and ask how different is this species today compaired to what it was then (at least hypothetically if it's impossible to do so pratically). The one with the greatest genetic drift would be considered to have evolved more.
I'd like to consider that the insecurity settings I've applied to my account actually mean something. If an unauthorised post ends up on my wall I would consider that my account was compromised, particularly if the post was visible to others.
Not bringing Flash to mobile devices would have been *the* chance for a competitor to develop and grow
Are you saying that it is correct to ban the most popular product from mobile devices so as allow for competitors to enter the market? I didn't realize that flash was directly blocking competitors, someone should write some laws preventing that kind of behaviour. Sarcasm aside, it seems to me that you and others want to ban flash because ye don't like it, boohoo if that's the case.
I'd said you're probably correct. Robots in cartoons and animated film never really suffered from poor SFX, and since they made the perfect bad guy (no blood etc) there's plenty of examples of threading/ badass ones. Robots in any of the sci-fi books I've read have also tend to be superior to humans in most regards.
I don't have a clue how common of an event this is supposed to be, but from the tone of the article I think tinfoil will offer sufficient protection from it. My guess would be that the real story is that the birth of this "solar storm" was recorded.
In theory yes, but the shield would have to be complete for it to be effective. If for example your hands were unprotected you'd stand out like a sore thumb (yes, pun intended..) and probably get shot at.
I'm not sure I like the Dwarf planet designation either, I'd suspect that if they wanted to classify something as being smaller than a dwarf but still a planet they'd call it a hobbit planet.
Ah but what are your opinions on the breeding and slaughter of domesticated animals? It may not apply to you, but 99% of the people I meet who think that hunting is evil, consider eating meat and wearing leather to be perfectly ok(excluding leather pants of course). I dislike those people.
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yeah but since the AIs would be doing the fighting it'd be ok?
If everyone could live forever then your girlfriend would regret letting you make that list of celebrities you could sleep with "if you got the chance".
Pure fantasy of course, but I suspect the trivial problems would become even bigger business if we ever did reverse aging. If we all lived to 150, you'd need treatment to correct 150 years of unchecked ear and nose growth, loss of tooth enamel, follicle wear and tear, etc etc.
Technically trains might be more efficient than cargo ships in open water. Only when delivering to some underwater fantasy land though.
Be careful suggesting things like that, he could lose his temper.
The battle to build the fastest supercomputer has become a sort of national pride as these high performance computers are used in a variety of areas like defense, energy, finance, science. They are also used for drug discovery, hurricane and tsunami modeling, cancer research, car design, even studying the formation of galaxies. For example, oil companies use supercomputers to find reservoirs, while Wall Street traders use it for speedy automated trades.
Everyone knows that you can do all of the above on a simple netbook
I call BS, the old KITT could safely crash through just about anything up to and including an immovable object. The new one got trashed in every other episode.
only?
I thought you could pick a common starting point for related species or maybe a period of time for unrelated species and ask how different is this species today compaired to what it was then (at least hypothetically if it's impossible to do so pratically). The one with the greatest genetic drift would be considered to have evolved more.
I'd like to consider that the insecurity settings I've applied to my account actually mean something. If an unauthorised post ends up on my wall I would consider that my account was compromised, particularly if the post was visible to others.
Agreed, in my opinion while they might not actually be trolls, they seem to have too much in common with one for comfort.
Can you clarify for me if the post this worthless thread has spawned from was more of a troll or a flamebate?
I can't wait to sort out the confused people around me thinking there are two physical CPUs
I'd imagine that the only people who care to hear about the internals of your computer (if any) will be able to figure it out for themselves.
Not bringing Flash to mobile devices would have been *the* chance for a competitor to develop and grow
Are you saying that it is correct to ban the most popular product from mobile devices so as allow for competitors to enter the market? I didn't realize that flash was directly blocking competitors, someone should write some laws preventing that kind of behaviour. Sarcasm aside, it seems to me that you and others want to ban flash because ye don't like it, boohoo if that's the case.
It's easier said than done, even for Stephen Hawking...
I'd said you're probably correct. Robots in cartoons and animated film never really suffered from poor SFX, and since they made the perfect bad guy (no blood etc) there's plenty of examples of threading/ badass ones.
Robots in any of the sci-fi books I've read have also tend to be superior to humans in most regards.
Someone blowing up your house is only a problem for you. So applying explosives directly to you should make the problem go away.
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I don't have a clue how common of an event this is supposed to be, but from the tone of the article I think tinfoil will offer sufficient protection from it. My guess would be that the real story is that the birth of this "solar storm" was recorded.
In theory yes, but the shield would have to be complete for it to be effective. If for example your hands were unprotected you'd stand out like a sore thumb (yes, pun intended..) and probably get shot at.
I'm not sure I like the Dwarf planet designation either, I'd suspect that if they wanted to classify something as being smaller than a dwarf but still a planet they'd call it a hobbit planet.
The Anonymous Coward's post was so bad it was deemed a capital offense, ha-ha!
Maybe, but I find the frequent stuttering a little off putting. http://themacgamer.com/2010/05/28/half-life-2-performance-mac-vs-pc/
I estimate that it would cost something in the the region of sweet fannyy f**k all to decommission this plant.
Ah but what are your opinions on the breeding and slaughter of domesticated animals? It may not apply to you, but 99% of the people I meet who think that hunting is evil, consider eating meat and wearing leather to be perfectly ok(excluding leather pants of course). I dislike those people.