You're overlooking the hardware itself. Solder is often composed of lead, tin, and a number of other amusing elements. High end circuitry is composed of gallium arsnide, which in addition to being relatively valuable, contains elements that are not recommended for consumption.
If you take a look at the effects of consuming silver in its known compounds, you'd see that even the more stable heavy metals can cause blindness or other afflictions that people don't want to have.
By recycling this waste, it's possible to slow down the terminal point where we've consumed all copper on earth, and prevent permanently damaging our environment.
Do you realize that you're comparing the number of installs in 4 days of an operating system which needed an install via physical media, and an open source web-browser which can be downloaded and installed in under 3 minutes. Yes they're both software, but the comparison is moot.
I'm waiting for someone to start doing a comparison between how long it took to download firefox vs build their house...
You also need to take our current bandwidth and latencies into account. We can pump a considerable amount of data over a pipe spanning from coast to coast today, even compared to what we had 3 years ago.
I agree,
I think $75 an hour for being a fan of something with the risk of lawsuits
seems pretty fair.
$9000 is a huge risk.
If they don't back off, you might say that Universal Pictures just isn't getting the picture.
Welcome to the wonderful world where we could march three ranks of people directly into the ocean constantly and STILL increase in population.
People are still, after thousands of years, acting like sheep or lemmings and not stepping far enough out of their box to see that a lot of rules that do exist are merely because someone is uncomfortable with the thing that they are preventing.
Condom use seems to increase with IQ. Note that that's not solving the problem I mentioned above. We have enough care to take care of enough people who if we didn't have it wouldn't have survived. Think about how many people wear glasses now. This is going to keep increasing because it's now normal to see people with glasses. If people who had really bad eyesight stopped having kids, the problem would resolve itself. This is not going to happen because of ethical reasons.
It's important to realize that these same ethics are driving the discussions around another way out of the situation. Genetic Engineering.
Humans do stupid things. Take a course on how well we can actually make decisions, you'll die laughing. It's shocking that we've survived so long. What's even more important to realize is that even with an article that basically hands an election out, nobody's going to do anything. If it raises a debate, it would be surprizing. People will wait to see it realized and then shit themselves IF it's proven. We're going to have to see someone take a fall before ANYTHING is done about it. And then it will take at least a decade before changes to the system start showing up in it.
Just think. They're still arguing about building on the WTC grounds six years after they supposedly cleaned it up. And they just uncovered MORE bodies. This article won't change a thing.
This would be less of an issue if more strains of stem cells were available for research. The more that people have to work with, the less people run into special cases where a single strain of cell just happens to work better than the rest, or overlook the usefulness completely.
Haven't people been working with stemcells successfully?
Is this one clinical trial that just exploded because of some level of carelessness?
It makes more sense for small applications, I would think. A 39MPix CCD is several inches in each dimension. A single pixel would easily fit under a fingernail without anyone noticing. Depending on the mirror arrangement, you could probably have a lens-less camera that is not much bigger than a few grains of sand.
However, that's still almost a realistic project. What happens if you instead of direct-routing to the monitor via the wireless connection, first pass through a JPEG2000 codec. Then on the wireless monitor side re-decode in realtime. If there's a chance of that, MAYBE there's a better chance of actually getting the system to work.
You might try a better codec for lossless high speed compression.
Other stations have LESS:
"...The Daily Show was much funnier, with less of the hype -- references to photo ops, political endorsements, and polls -- that typically overshadows substantive coverage on network news..."
If it can't be proven based off current law and observation, it is not a theory.
If it can't be used predictively, it's not self supporting.
If repeatable observations support it, but not current theoretical law, the laws we've come up with are missing something necessary to grasp the whole scenario.
Relativity predicted light would bend a certain way around a star. Newtonian physics didn't expect it to. Observations supported relativity. Therefore relativity is a theory.
String theory isn't a theory. It's sound mathematical conjecture.
What I'm worried about is when people decide they're going to try making black holes so they can look at string theory locally and in its natural element.
How much would it cost to construct your energy rails...
How about power them with high voltage so there's little power loss
How about covering the lawsuits for the first jackass to get electricuted while going on an on-ramp
What about replacement costs. Trains and trolleys carry how many trains an hour. Now replace the wear from that with the wear of hundreds of cars
What I'm interested in is how they electrically isolate the caps so that over 1-3 weeks, the cap doesn't leak energy on its own, or possibly short and burst, trashing the car when someone shorts the terminals.
The no batt-acid approach is a great idea, but the heat dissapated from charging enough to drive a car on in five minutes is a frightening propisition.
I don't know about Chicago, but if you're referring to the comics then that would be the place to be.
NYC on the other hand has dozens of blocks of sky scrapers, with hundreds of blocks of 3-4 story sky line. I don't see how that is an issue considering that 40+ feet of fall room still provides a decent area for swinging. (20 if you need to avoid telephone wire)
In the same breath, the main reason I bought Metroid Prime was because the game graphics were extrordinary. Anyone who's tried to design a game understands the artistic endeavor involved in creating it.
I'm certain that most modern games (not so much pong or tetris) are works of art. Games like REZ and rRootage are designed to catch your eye.
The real question is "Is the converse true"
As light propagates through the universe, does it warp space/time as well, allowing it to attract other bodies.
Would high intensity light warp more than low intensity?
Would high frequency light warp more than low frequency?
Slashdot Mirror
Did you have to remind me that I'm part of a species that's THIS DUMB?
You're overlooking the hardware itself.
Solder is often composed of lead, tin, and a number of other amusing elements.
High end circuitry is composed of gallium arsnide, which in addition to being relatively valuable,
contains elements that are not recommended for consumption.
If you take a look at the effects of consuming silver in its known compounds, you'd see that even
the more stable heavy metals can cause blindness or other afflictions that people don't want to have.
By recycling this waste, it's possible to slow down the terminal point where we've consumed all
copper on earth, and prevent permanently damaging our environment.
I for one welcome our new Venutian Overlords
Do you realize that you're comparing the number of installs in 4 days of an operating system which needed an install via physical media, and an open source web-browser which can be downloaded and installed in under 3 minutes. Yes they're both software, but the comparison is moot.
I'm waiting for someone to start doing a comparison between how long it took to download firefox vs build their house...
You also need to take our current bandwidth and latencies into account. We can pump a considerable amount of data over a pipe spanning from coast to coast today, even compared to what we had 3 years ago.
I agree,
I think $75 an hour for being a fan of something with the risk of lawsuits
seems pretty fair.
$9000 is a huge risk.
If they don't back off, you might say that Universal Pictures just isn't getting the picture.
Welcome to the wonderful world where we could march three ranks of people directly into the ocean constantly and STILL increase in population.
People are still, after thousands of years, acting like sheep or lemmings and not stepping far enough out of their box to see that a lot of rules that do exist are merely because someone is uncomfortable with the thing that they are preventing.
Condom use seems to increase with IQ. Note that that's not solving the problem I mentioned above. We have enough care to take care of enough people who if we didn't have it wouldn't have survived. Think about how many people wear glasses now. This is going to keep increasing because it's now normal to see people with glasses. If people who had really bad eyesight stopped having kids, the problem would resolve itself. This is not going to happen because of ethical reasons.
It's important to realize that these same ethics are driving the discussions around another way out of the situation. Genetic Engineering.
Humans do stupid things. Take a course on how well we can actually make decisions, you'll die laughing. It's shocking that we've survived so long. What's even more important to realize is that even with an article that basically hands an election out, nobody's going to do anything. If it raises a debate, it would be surprizing. People will wait to see it realized and then shit themselves IF it's proven. We're going to have to see someone take a fall before ANYTHING is done about it. And then it will take at least a decade before changes to the system start showing up in it.
Just think. They're still arguing about building on the WTC grounds six years after they supposedly cleaned it up. And they just uncovered MORE bodies. This article won't change a thing.
You can shut them off.
They won't get any worse.
Best part, you don't have to learn a new OS.
This would be less of an issue if more strains of stem cells were available for research. The more that people have to work with, the less people run into special cases where a single strain of cell just happens to work better than the rest, or overlook the usefulness completely.
Haven't people been working with stemcells successfully?
Is this one clinical trial that just exploded because of some level of carelessness?
It makes more sense for small applications, I would think. A 39MPix CCD is several inches in each dimension. A single pixel would easily fit under a fingernail without anyone noticing. Depending on the mirror arrangement, you could probably have a lens-less camera that is not much bigger than a few grains of sand.
So when you have a single stalker, you get the one guy breathing into the phone.
What happens when you have a corporate stalker?
However, that's still almost a realistic project. What happens if you instead of direct-routing to the monitor via the wireless connection, first pass through a JPEG2000 codec. Then on the wireless monitor side re-decode in realtime. If there's a chance of that, MAYBE there's a better chance of actually getting the system to work. You might try a better codec for lossless high speed compression.
Speaking of classic archaia,
Anyone remember Jetpack?
Lets go further back... How about ZZT.
ZZT was on eof my top five for a good 3 or 4 years.
This one:
http://www.plasmapong.com/
Mine would probably be Super Mario World, Super Mario 3, Tetrisphere, Netris, and lately Plasma Pong
Other stations have LESS:
"...The Daily Show was much funnier, with less of the hype -- references to photo ops, political endorsements, and polls -- that typically overshadows substantive coverage on network news..."
Tell me no one caught the ghostbusters proton gun comment...
If it can't be proven based off current law and observation, it is not a theory. If it can't be used predictively, it's not self supporting. If repeatable observations support it, but not current theoretical law, the laws we've come up with are missing something necessary to grasp the whole scenario. Relativity predicted light would bend a certain way around a star. Newtonian physics didn't expect it to. Observations supported relativity. Therefore relativity is a theory. String theory isn't a theory. It's sound mathematical conjecture. What I'm worried about is when people decide they're going to try making black holes so they can look at string theory locally and in its natural element.
Chi Chian used hollow worms
How much would it cost to construct your energy rails...
How about power them with high voltage so there's little power loss
How about covering the lawsuits for the first jackass to get electricuted while going on an on-ramp
What about replacement costs. Trains and trolleys carry how many trains an hour. Now replace the wear from that with the wear of hundreds of cars
What I'm interested in is how they electrically isolate the caps so that over 1-3 weeks, the cap doesn't leak energy on its own, or possibly short and burst, trashing the car when someone shorts the terminals.
The no batt-acid approach is a great idea, but the heat dissapated from charging enough to drive a car on in five minutes is a frightening propisition.
Gold Boullion in Pants
???
Profit!
Landfill you say?
Better get my waders!
I don't know about Chicago, but if you're referring to the comics then that would be the place to be. NYC on the other hand has dozens of blocks of sky scrapers, with hundreds of blocks of 3-4 story sky line. I don't see how that is an issue considering that 40+ feet of fall room still provides a decent area for swinging. (20 if you need to avoid telephone wire)
In the same breath, the main reason I bought Metroid Prime was because the game graphics were extrordinary. Anyone who's tried to design a game understands the artistic endeavor involved in creating it. I'm certain that most modern games (not so much pong or tetris) are works of art. Games like REZ and rRootage are designed to catch your eye.
Off topic, but yes, I would say so.
The real question is "Is the converse true" As light propagates through the universe, does it warp space/time as well, allowing it to attract other bodies. Would high intensity light warp more than low intensity? Would high frequency light warp more than low frequency?