The magnetic field has a much smaller effect on radiation than its atmosphere does, and Mars's atmosphere extends about twice as high as earths (11km compared to 6km http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars/ ) and is composed almost entirely of CO2, compared to oxygen and nitrogen for earth (not to mention the large amounts of dust suspended in the Martian atmosphere.)
I'm no astronomer, but it seems to me that radiation would be the least of our problems. I would be much more worried about keeping warm.
We thought it was bad with those headsets, but now there is REALLY going to be no way to tell the difference between the crazy homeless man on the street corner, and a crazy stock broker.
The first batch had trouble, but with they second, they decided to replace the yarn strap with the carbon nanotube strap used for the space elevator. Thats right, now someone with a head 1 mile around can still strap the helmet on.
However, for some applications I still prefer webapps (email, calendar) primarily for synchronization. If everything is stored out on a server, I never have to worry about synchronizing different computers.
This is why I think its a great idea for more effort to be put into making webapps more usable. It is also handy that processor speed doesn't really matter. You can get performance on a mobile phone comparable to a desktop. Of course, this is assuming no connection bottlenecks, which ATM is a horrible assumption to make.
Would you buy stock in a company based on "buzz"? Doubt it. Do you know ANYthing about the stock market? Did you not read the article about those stock market mass email spamming ventures. The stock price goes up 5-10% (I forget the exact number) just because someone sends out a bunch of email!!! The stock market is COMPLETELY about "buzz".
Also, I would like this chance to point out what I like about Macs. It is nice and simple:
I can't stand touchpads. Everytime I use a laptop, I have trouble with the damn touchpad. They are POS's compared to a mouse. However, the Macbook touchpads are slightly better. They have multiple touch response, which allows you to scroll down a page by sliding two fingers across the touchpad (functioning like the mouse wheel).
Mac's have lots of tiny little additions that by themselves, don't mean much, but all together, add a lot of functionality and increased productivity.
In all seriousness, though, the human population will grow to devour whatever food supply it is given. The only way to effectively limit population is to limit the world's food production. One way is converting some of the food to energy, which in turn creates a better life for those who ARE alive (or at least the ones rich enough to benefit), but doesn't promote growth acceleration.
It's sad but true - there will always be a portion of the human population that has to suffer. I don't study this topic, but from the thought experiments I have done, I can't see any way for everyone to have a high standard of living (especially since this is a relative term). At least, not for any extended period of time - resources will eventually run out.
Apparently, getting your marklar across in Marklar is a lot harder through marklar. I actually have no marklar understanding marklar when I can hear the marklar in their marklar, but I have NO marklar what you are talking about.
It only has to store the memory actually in use, which shouldn't be more than a couple hundred megs when you put it in hibernate. (why would you go into hibernate in the middle of using memory intensive app?)
Also, as far as I know, sleep only puts the processor into sleep mode (as apposed to cutting power off entirely). In other words, it still draws a considerable amount of power. However, since theres no disk access, and the LCD is off, it is a LOT better than nothing. But if you are going to be gone for more than 30 minutes, put it in hibernate to keep the battery from getting drained.
When you find a game developer who supports and improves their products released several years ago better than valve does, you come and tell me, and I might try them out.
This side effect of speed has been known for ages! What rock have these 100 scientists been hiding under?
Hell, first time I did speed, I formed at least 5 new galaxies! Then, I scrubbed them so hard with the galactic sponge that they disappeared completely. Those quasars can be a real pain to get out of your multi-dimensional trousers, though. They always leave behind a bit of redshift.
I agree... I think the idea was to put a wire mesh in the covers so that no communication can be made with the RFID without opening the cover. I'm not sure how effective this would be, since its not a perfectly closed surface. It would definitely weaken the signal, but they all the hacker has to do is increase his signal enough to where he can actually read the return signal.
Then again, I don't really know anything about RFID. This is just going on my knowledge of electro-magnetics.
This result is absolutely amazing for a computer algorithm. There is only one spot (below left wing) that I can see any kind of artifact.
Some of the other results are less stupefying, but still impressive. Comparing the time it would take to get the same (most likely worse, if your as bad of an artist as I am) result in GIMP (using the stamp tool mainly), this tool is very impressive. I recently removed text from a picture (the advent children poster), but it took me at least an hour. I bet this tool could handle the same problem in a matter of minutes (creating the mask, and running the algorithm).
Even the other photos which weren't quite as perfect:
Your post is partially true, and yet contradicts itself. Humans DO want to believe in life after death, but there IS a biological advantage to this belief.
Belief gives a sense of power and immortality to the believer which, assuming the believer uses discretion (ie. not believing he can fly, etc.), can lead to a more successful existence (ie. healthier, live longer, more children). It also gives a reason for humans to be moral, not to kill and fight others, and to work together and love thy fellow man, which, all in all, leads to a more successful species.
I personally don't have a belief in anything supernatural, but I do think their is a benefit for many people. If I do have children, I do plan on taking them to church, because at the very least, it is something that many kinds of people can have in common and use to build community.
I do, however, think that blind faith is very dangerous. One must always question their own beliefs, and be able to view them from a different perspective. How else, can one truly know anything to be true.
Also:
Which is the better biological explanation for a belief in God -- evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident? Can someone explain to me how these to explanations differ? Evolution is the convoluted sum of many different accidents.
Honestly the content is just too limited. For instance, compare the tennis game to mario tennis for the gamecube. Mario tennis is orders of magnitudes more entertaining.
As for the other "really impressive" games. Red Steel sux (nearly impossible to aim), Twilight Princess was a lackluster port (once again, controls are awkward), Monkey ball is horrible compared to the previous version for gamecube, and Wario Ware was the most ridiculously pointless and boring game I have ever had the misfortune to play.
All in all, the Wii is just another gimmick, and the good games are the ones that are similar, and yet not as good, as their gamecube counterparts.
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PC gaming will never go away.
First of all, developers like it more because its simple and doesn't change. (although the XBOX 360 is helping by keeping things very PC-like.)
Second, and more importantly, the keyboard and mouse is a far superior input device for several genres. Until the consoles can come up with an input device to rival the KBAM, PC gaming wont go away. (And don't even talk to me about the Wiimote. Have you tried playing Red Steel? It's horrible compared to KBAM.)
any article that says that you can be productive on a mac for more than the generic things and like 2-3 specialized apps has a built in bias. I disagree. The good majority of PC users could be more productive on macs. However this IS because they only use maybe 6 apps. Even the people who use macs for design work, still only use maybe 10 apps. But if that is all they need, why should they not be considered. They need something that "just works" for the things they want to do.
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I thought it was just some fetish I'd never heard of before, until I finally realized they were totally separate comments.
The magnetic field has a much smaller effect on radiation than its atmosphere does, and Mars's atmosphere extends about twice as high as earths (11km compared to 6km http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars/ ) and is composed almost entirely of CO2, compared to oxygen and nitrogen for earth (not to mention the large amounts of dust suspended in the Martian atmosphere.)
I'm no astronomer, but it seems to me that radiation would be the least of our problems. I would be much more worried about keeping warm.
We thought it was bad with those headsets, but now there is REALLY going to be no way to tell the difference between the crazy homeless man on the street corner, and a crazy stock broker.
The first batch had trouble, but with they second, they decided to replace the yarn strap with the carbon nanotube strap used for the space elevator. Thats right, now someone with a head 1 mile around can still strap the helmet on.
I agree. And input is a lot more difficult.
However, for some applications I still prefer webapps (email, calendar) primarily for synchronization. If everything is stored out on a server, I never have to worry about synchronizing different computers.
This is why I think its a great idea for more effort to be put into making webapps more usable. It is also handy that processor speed doesn't really matter. You can get performance on a mobile phone comparable to a desktop. Of course, this is assuming no connection bottlenecks, which ATM is a horrible assumption to make.
Also, I would like this chance to point out what I like about Macs. It is nice and simple:
I can't stand touchpads. Everytime I use a laptop, I have trouble with the damn touchpad. They are POS's compared to a mouse. However, the Macbook touchpads are slightly better. They have multiple touch response, which allows you to scroll down a page by sliding two fingers across the touchpad (functioning like the mouse wheel).
Mac's have lots of tiny little additions that by themselves, don't mean much, but all together, add a lot of functionality and increased productivity.
In all seriousness, though, the human population will grow to devour whatever food supply it is given. The only way to effectively limit population is to limit the world's food production. One way is converting some of the food to energy, which in turn creates a better life for those who ARE alive (or at least the ones rich enough to benefit), but doesn't promote growth acceleration.
It's sad but true - there will always be a portion of the human population that has to suffer. I don't study this topic, but from the thought experiments I have done, I can't see any way for everyone to have a high standard of living (especially since this is a relative term). At least, not for any extended period of time - resources will eventually run out.
Apparently, getting your marklar across in Marklar is a lot harder through marklar. I actually have no marklar understanding marklar when I can hear the marklar in their marklar, but I have NO marklar what you are talking about.
and a good Marklar to Marklar.
-Marklar
It only has to store the memory actually in use, which shouldn't be more than a couple hundred megs when you put it in hibernate. (why would you go into hibernate in the middle of using memory intensive app?)
Also, as far as I know, sleep only puts the processor into sleep mode (as apposed to cutting power off entirely). In other words, it still draws a considerable amount of power. However, since theres no disk access, and the LCD is off, it is a LOT better than nothing. But if you are going to be gone for more than 30 minutes, put it in hibernate to keep the battery from getting drained.
Well, if you used bittorrent, it would go up =P (after enough ppl had parts downloaded.
First thing I thought when reading the subject line:
"Shit, Skynet finally took over."
How dumb do I feel now...
When you find a game developer who supports and improves their products released several years ago better than valve does, you come and tell me, and I might try them out.
This side effect of speed has been known for ages! What rock have these 100 scientists been hiding under?
Hell, first time I did speed, I formed at least 5 new galaxies! Then, I scrubbed them so hard with the galactic sponge that they disappeared completely. Those quasars can be a real pain to get out of your multi-dimensional trousers, though. They always leave behind a bit of redshift.
I prefer filtered beer. No yeast infection for me, please.
Thank God! I've been waiting for this for ages.
Sometimes you can't tell if that's really Christina Aguilera, or just a fake. Now, we can rest assured, it's the real thing!
I agree... I think the idea was to put a wire mesh in the covers so that no communication can be made with the RFID without opening the cover. I'm not sure how effective this would be, since its not a perfectly closed surface. It would definitely weaken the signal, but they all the hacker has to do is increase his signal enough to where he can actually read the return signal.
Then again, I don't really know anything about RFID. This is just going on my knowledge of electro-magnetics.
I have never heard of a material with N less than 1 and greater than 0. Can you give an example?
There ARE, so called, metamaterials with N less than 0. However, my understanding is that these still only work on group velocity.
If the inpainting algorithm is incomplete, I am utterly impressed.
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This result is absolutely amazing for a computer algorithm. There is only one spot (below left wing) that I can see any kind of artifact.
Some of the other results are less stupefying, but still impressive. Comparing the time it would take to get the same (most likely worse, if your as bad of an artist as I am) result in GIMP (using the stamp tool mainly), this tool is very impressive. I recently removed text from a picture (the advent children poster), but it took me at least an hour. I bet this tool could handle the same problem in a matter of minutes (creating the mask, and running the algorithm).
Even the other photos which weren't quite as perfect:
http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstora
could be fixed much quicker by running the algorithm, then going back by hand.
Unfortunately I can't think of too many practicle purposes other than the one I already mentioned.
Belief gives a sense of power and immortality to the believer which, assuming the believer uses discretion (ie. not believing he can fly, etc.), can lead to a more successful existence (ie. healthier, live longer, more children). It also gives a reason for humans to be moral, not to kill and fight others, and to work together and love thy fellow man, which, all in all, leads to a more successful species.
I personally don't have a belief in anything supernatural, but I do think their is a benefit for many people. If I do have children, I do plan on taking them to church, because at the very least, it is something that many kinds of people can have in common and use to build community.
I do, however, think that blind faith is very dangerous. One must always question their own beliefs, and be able to view them from a different perspective. How else, can one truly know anything to be true.
Also: Which is the better biological explanation for a belief in God -- evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident? Can someone explain to me how these to explanations differ? Evolution is the convoluted sum of many different accidents.
Yeah, wii sports was fun... for a few days.
Honestly the content is just too limited. For instance, compare the tennis game to mario tennis for the gamecube. Mario tennis is orders of magnitudes more entertaining.
As for the other "really impressive" games. Red Steel sux (nearly impossible to aim), Twilight Princess was a lackluster port (once again, controls are awkward), Monkey ball is horrible compared to the previous version for gamecube, and Wario Ware was the most ridiculously pointless and boring game I have ever had the misfortune to play.
All in all, the Wii is just another gimmick, and the good games are the ones that are similar, and yet not as good, as their gamecube counterparts.
PC gaming will never go away.
First of all, developers like it more because its simple and doesn't change. (although the XBOX 360 is helping by keeping things very PC-like.)
Second, and more importantly, the keyboard and mouse is a far superior input device for several genres. Until the consoles can come up with an input device to rival the KBAM, PC gaming wont go away. (And don't even talk to me about the Wiimote. Have you tried playing Red Steel? It's horrible compared to KBAM.)
When have you ever seen a wave 15meters high excluding major storms?
AFAIK Microsoft still hasn't made a profit off of the Xbox 1. I don't have any sources to prove it, but that was the impression I had.
They need to sell software to make money. Hardware is not where the profit is.
F***in A.
"What foam?"
STFU Donnie, you're out of your element.