yeh,
the chances that we'll find any intelligant life based upon:
a)whether they have developed radio communications
b)whether they have it switched on within the cosmically-minute time frame that seti is searching.
not to mention the ramifications if seti does find something:
hey there they are. great. thanks everyone.
folding at home is useful for us humans not trying to phone-home.
i know you're joking but...a lot of people claim that their LPs sound better becuase they're "analogue", using the word to imply that the waveform has an infinate resolution. even the vynil cutter has a resolution. i think that clean vynil sounds better because the resolution is higher but, it should be noted, it's not infinate.
burn yes, tan no. burn - UVB, is different to tan - UVA
Polycarbonate or acrylic will photodegrade. Frontsilvered mirrors would work, but damage easily.
I suppose there is a material out there.
this should read:
fun toy banned because of stupid implementation of the law
whilst these kids have brought about their own demise, they did not issue the ban. yes we do have to share the planet with morons. unfortunately most of them survive childhood and go on to implement law.
google cannot be completly fair since people are aware of its methods and can design ways to negate them.
i can't see how this test was carried out scientifically. the test should not be whether the results are mainstream or not, it should be whether the results are relevent. it appears that economically poor websites have as much ability to fix search results as rich ones do.
great.
the information content relevence is scored, not by an independent expert, but by the number of other websites that link to it. what we have here is a problem of the popular becoming more popular. not necessarily because of relevence, but because if a webdesigner wants to find an address to link to in their web page, more often than not they're gonna search for it using something like google.
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don't lick the end of a live USB cable even if it looks yum
We weren't called 'Brits' a long time before you weren't 'The Colonies'. I think the time has come for Britain to stop having to lead the way for north america and finally let it free to explore the possibility that being nice to people encourages reciprocation.
there are enough distractions to filter out in modern day living without having additional adverts on your computer. i don't doubt that within some software there already exists subliminal advertising. there are operating systems which can be acquired for nothing. if Microsoft were to release a free or heavily advert-subsidised version of windows i am sure that more people would consider those free alternatives void of advertising. this could be a good thing for the alternatives. so long as people remain altruistic enough to keep on developing alternatives without advertising. advertising is one thing that really gets my goat. to create an economically successful product a company does not need to create a good product, they simply use marketing to create the right vogue. whilst many people are happy simply satisfying the consumer that marketing has made of them, this leads to a devaluing in society. a products worth is not measured by its functionality anymore, it is measured by how much it satisfies ones consumer instincts - which are created by marketing. i strive to be influenced only by experience of a product, or by respected peers who are also striving to rid themselves of fallacious consumer instincts.
and i haven't even started ranting about the effects on a human of constantly having to filter-out these bloody distractions
...don't you think microsoft has its nerds well placed? this post will only be displaying for about 30 seconds before one of them manages to delete my existence. all the contentional points in this thread were designed to build a 'hyper' 360-whatever so that everyone will go out and buy it. THIS IS THE POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD.
feel reassured if you're younger than 19 as I don't care either. silly rabbit[s]! tricks are for kids. tell me the logarithems, reveal the mathematics, learn me of your creation. gaming is at best a way to keep the mind active for tiny periods of time between writing, reading, calculating and going out and enjoying the world. please, before shooting virtual people, understand what it is to be a person. this misunderstanding results in confused indivduals. i don't mean to flamebait, i just want to bring to your attention the way things sometimes are. hoof beats pounding in my head at breakneck speed and making me see stars. you hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. one day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzing around your eyes, blood on your saddle!
sorry i got carried away there. i meant, just to say that Bob Dylan is such a great songwriter. I am in no way affiliated with Bob Dylan OR Starbucks.
nor do i know how this happened
I took part in a series of lectures back in 2003 in sydney. 2 qubit quantum computers have alreayd been built and the algorithms to work greater qubit computers have been designed. I asked the lecturer who led the research team when they would be avaliable and he said that by 2010 governments might own them. We're a long way off security threats from criminals (unless you consider the government...).
But lets hypothesise. The govenement of a country powerful enough to own a quantum computer is trillions in debt and needs a bit of extra revenue. Clickity click...0.01% from every bank account in the world...nobody notices a thing and the government's back in the black
i remember hearing about a program that was designed to analyse the night sky looking for clusters, searching out for something...(would love to be able to reference this claim sorry!). The software was then turned to looking for cancers on smear plates. The direct usefulness sometimes escapes us. In the spirit of the Baconian tradition, we should be looking to expand our knowledge without bias. Not that this is always the case - the venus express is studying the recent warming effect seen on venus, trying to shed some light on what might be happening on earth. More to the point, we don't know how useful something we don't know about could be until we look at it.
I'm english and we were taught that pythagoras had already devised his heliocentric theory and copernicus just copied it and got the credit. does anyone care where pythagoras is buried?
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yeh, the chances that we'll find any intelligant life based upon: a)whether they have developed radio communications b)whether they have it switched on within the cosmically-minute time frame that seti is searching. not to mention the ramifications if seti does find something: hey there they are. great. thanks everyone. folding at home is useful for us humans not trying to phone-home.
i know you're joking but...a lot of people claim that their LPs sound better becuase they're "analogue", using the word to imply that the waveform has an infinate resolution. even the vynil cutter has a resolution. i think that clean vynil sounds better because the resolution is higher but, it should be noted, it's not infinate.
burn yes, tan no. burn - UVB, is different to tan - UVA Polycarbonate or acrylic will photodegrade. Frontsilvered mirrors would work, but damage easily. I suppose there is a material out there.
though the glass would absorb the UV light and nobody would be able to tan themselves on it
this should read: fun toy banned because of stupid implementation of the law whilst these kids have brought about their own demise, they did not issue the ban. yes we do have to share the planet with morons. unfortunately most of them survive childhood and go on to implement law.
i'm sure the majority of people will have used IE to get firefox. don't complain. if it wasn't there in the first place it'd be harder to replace it.
google cannot be completly fair since people are aware of its methods and can design ways to negate them. i can't see how this test was carried out scientifically. the test should not be whether the results are mainstream or not, it should be whether the results are relevent. it appears that economically poor websites have as much ability to fix search results as rich ones do. great. the information content relevence is scored, not by an independent expert, but by the number of other websites that link to it. what we have here is a problem of the popular becoming more popular. not necessarily because of relevence, but because if a webdesigner wants to find an address to link to in their web page, more often than not they're gonna search for it using something like google. __________________________________________________ _______
don't lick the end of a live USB cable even if it looks yum
We weren't called 'Brits' a long time before you weren't 'The Colonies'. I think the time has come for Britain to stop having to lead the way for north america and finally let it free to explore the possibility that being nice to people encourages reciprocation.
there are enough distractions to filter out in modern day living without having additional adverts on your computer. i don't doubt that within some software there already exists subliminal advertising. there are operating systems which can be acquired for nothing. if Microsoft were to release a free or heavily advert-subsidised version of windows i am sure that more people would consider those free alternatives void of advertising. this could be a good thing for the alternatives. so long as people remain altruistic enough to keep on developing alternatives without advertising. advertising is one thing that really gets my goat. to create an economically successful product a company does not need to create a good product, they simply use marketing to create the right vogue. whilst many people are happy simply satisfying the consumer that marketing has made of them, this leads to a devaluing in society. a products worth is not measured by its functionality anymore, it is measured by how much it satisfies ones consumer instincts - which are created by marketing. i strive to be influenced only by experience of a product, or by respected peers who are also striving to rid themselves of fallacious consumer instincts. and i haven't even started ranting about the effects on a human of constantly having to filter-out these bloody distractions
...don't you think microsoft has its nerds well placed? this post will only be displaying for about 30 seconds before one of them manages to delete my existence. all the contentional points in this thread were designed to build a 'hyper' 360-whatever so that everyone will go out and buy it. THIS IS THE POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD.
feel reassured if you're younger than 19 as I don't care either. silly rabbit[s]! tricks are for kids. tell me the logarithems, reveal the mathematics, learn me of your creation. gaming is at best a way to keep the mind active for tiny periods of time between writing, reading, calculating and going out and enjoying the world. please, before shooting virtual people, understand what it is to be a person. this misunderstanding results in confused indivduals. i don't mean to flamebait, i just want to bring to your attention the way things sometimes are. hoof beats pounding in my head at breakneck speed and making me see stars. you hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. one day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzing around your eyes, blood on your saddle! sorry i got carried away there. i meant, just to say that Bob Dylan is such a great songwriter. I am in no way affiliated with Bob Dylan OR Starbucks. nor do i know how this happened
I took part in a series of lectures back in 2003 in sydney. 2 qubit quantum computers have alreayd been built and the algorithms to work greater qubit computers have been designed. I asked the lecturer who led the research team when they would be avaliable and he said that by 2010 governments might own them. We're a long way off security threats from criminals (unless you consider the government...). But lets hypothesise. The govenement of a country powerful enough to own a quantum computer is trillions in debt and needs a bit of extra revenue. Clickity click...0.01% from every bank account in the world...nobody notices a thing and the government's back in the black
Yeah and it turned me into a newt. I got better.
yeh it's a bugger I'm doing the same with some files. can anyone recommend a free equilivent? [to turnbite]
i remember hearing about a program that was designed to analyse the night sky looking for clusters, searching out for something...(would love to be able to reference this claim sorry!). The software was then turned to looking for cancers on smear plates. The direct usefulness sometimes escapes us. In the spirit of the Baconian tradition, we should be looking to expand our knowledge without bias. Not that this is always the case - the venus express is studying the recent warming effect seen on venus, trying to shed some light on what might be happening on earth. More to the point, we don't know how useful something we don't know about could be until we look at it.
I'm english and we were taught that pythagoras had already devised his heliocentric theory and copernicus just copied it and got the credit. does anyone care where pythagoras is buried?