Wait a second - if I am accidentally tossing my iPhone onto people's lawns on a routine basis, then it's arguable that I am soliciting trouble. Did Monsanto perform due diligence in ensuring that its seeds did not trespass onto the neighboring farmer's lawn? Otherwise, to me it sounds like entrapment.
If the police are routinely parking expensive cars in poor neighborhoods with the door left ajar, then I would argue that they're trying to tempt someone into committing a crime. I'm not arguing whether it was wrong of the farmer to deliberately harvest the modified seeds to sell enhanced crops, I'm arguing whether it was right of Monsanto to have exposed him to those seeds to begin with. They created the situation.
I'd say tackle it the way you'd tackle anything that's difficult and complex - do it in baby steps.
Don't try to do that grand game on the first try. Do the smaller things first. Try to do a level, or a character, or a model, etc. Don't go for a 3D game first, try doing a 2D one, and mastering 2D physics first, etc.
Apprentice with people who are better than you are.
Just because James Cameron has made an obscene pile of money with his 3D Avatar, everyone else wants to jump on the bandwagon, and announce that their upcoming movie will be made in 3D.
Who the hell is next to jump on the 3D bandwagon?
"... and in breaking news, Vivid Video plans to release a line of 3D porn movies..."
You can't "transmit" the energy unless you also use classical transmission methods to send over the information on how to extract the energy at the other end. So you're left with the same issues there are for quantum communication - whatever you send "instantly" is no good until you can send a classical signal to extract some value out of it on the other side.
Well, if you're still having to send things the old fashioned way anyhow, then what advantage are you even gaining from using the quantum method at all?
What about having Packing Ratio Sats that are designed to stuff as many sats as possible into the payload faring of a rocket? Are cubes the best for cylindrical rockets?
I like the Fusion concept, and feel that Intel will ultimately be forced to imitate it as well. Their abandonment of Larrabee is consistent with that. Hell, I even hope that Scorpius will become the foundation for Nintendo's Wii-2 or Wii-HD.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of footage is available in the uncut version that isn't available in the episode 3 version? I remember watching that episode 3 with Kirk's friend Gary Mitchell turning superhuman, and I'm curious as to what additional footage the uncut version has.
I'm not sure what applications extremely high frequency vibrations have, but I'm thinking that this could be used to make better quality audio speakers, microphones, ultrasound, sonar, etc.
If you have such fine control over vibrations, perhaps you could create fancier waveforms, for sound that has weird properties. Phased array sonar?
Constructive and destructive interference?
I own a pair of Bose noise-canceling headphones that I enjoy, so maybe that tech would be enhanced by these crystals. Or perhaps you could make sonic weapons by building up massive disruptor wave pulses
I'm trying to think of what high frequency synchrotron radiation makes possible through EM. The extremly short wavelengths allow imaging of very tiny objects like molecules. So would extremely short mechanical wavelengths allow extremely fine sonic imaging of... individual cells?
Seriously though - I wonder what would be the best kind of sensors/instrumentation to map underground caves and tunnels on the Moon from orbit? Isn't there supposed to be something called "cavern sensing radar" or "ground penetrating radar" that can do this stuff? If so, then how come it hasn't been done yet? Surely we're not just going to rely on finding these choice living locations by just luckily spotting some hole in the ground?
If Man is going to return to the Moon and make a permanent base there, then it might as well be done in a cave, which is much more naturally sheltered from harmful cosmic rays and meteors, as compared to living in some inflatable habitat on the surface. Heck, that's why our cavemen ancestors liked caves to begin with - because they were uniquely sheltering environments. Shouldn't there be some kind of effort to map out the lunar underground to reveal where the best locations might be? As they say in real estate - it's location, location, location!
Maybe things like the Crossbow IMU are what electronics and MEMS companies could develop a cheaper substitute for, if a toy market were to take off around little mini space-toy gadgets. Who knows what other appliances they could improve, from jittery camcorders to gesture-based cellphones.
Just haul men and materiel up to space separately. If nobody wants to risk seeing heroic astronauts die, then use the safe tech just for delivering humans to space. Meanwhile,use the riskier higher-payoff tech on sending the materiel to space, since nobody will cry so much if it's just some cargo that's lost. That's what Ares-I and Ares-V seemed to be trying, even though Ares-I seems to suffer from risky vibrations. It's that one-size-fits-all approach that seems to impose too many compromises.
What if instead of developing the Space Shuttle, the United States had instead spent the money working on scramjets and hypersonic airliners? I still feel that there are 2 main passenger markets for high-velocity travel -- the first being astronauts trying to achieve escape velocity, and the other being intercontinental travelers trying to get to the other side of the world in a few hours. The latter market is clearly a bigger payoff and return on investment in the near to medium term, as compared to the former. Furthermore, the rising global economy would only continue to increase that demand.
Maybe catering to such globalist trends will lead us to getting off the globe.
Beyond the lunar lander prize, they should have another X-Prize for re-entry technologies, which could be tested using sounding rockets.
I'm mentioning this in the wake of NASA's awesome low-cost Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, which looks to have been a resounding success. It too was done using just a sounding rocket.
Another example of a low-cost experiment was Australia's recent HyShot test for a hypersonic scramjet engine, which was also done using a sounding rocket. Such technologies are much more difficult to master than rockets are, but perhaps the Carmacks of the world can find more challenge in this.
So technologies that can be tested/proven using sounding rockets would be the kinds of things that would be good for prize-based competitions, since their cost would be at a level where privately-funded teams might be able to manage it. This would keep the playing field open to a wider number of competitors.
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Maybe a strong enough monitor could allow the BSOD to irradiate your nuts
Wait a second - if I am accidentally tossing my iPhone onto people's lawns on a routine basis, then it's arguable that I am soliciting trouble. Did Monsanto perform due diligence in ensuring that its seeds did not trespass onto the neighboring farmer's lawn? Otherwise, to me it sounds like entrapment.
If the police are routinely parking expensive cars in poor neighborhoods with the door left ajar, then I would argue that they're trying to tempt someone into committing a crime. I'm not arguing whether it was wrong of the farmer to deliberately harvest the modified seeds to sell enhanced crops, I'm arguing whether it was right of Monsanto to have exposed him to those seeds to begin with. They created the situation.
and people will be buying it in the millions per week. Seriously though, the multi-touch technology offers a lot of flexibility.
I'd say tackle it the way you'd tackle anything that's difficult and complex - do it in baby steps.
Don't try to do that grand game on the first try. Do the smaller things first. Try to do a level, or a character, or a model, etc. Don't go for a 3D game first, try doing a 2D one, and mastering 2D physics first, etc.
Apprentice with people who are better than you are.
And I'd have gotten away with it too - if it weren't for those pesky kids!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uc3jMgvmC8
As with my stain-resistant dockers, I want to know how many washes will this effect last for
No, this is the coolest sounding thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYj31Y_IbcM
Who the hell is next to jump on the 3D bandwagon?
"... and in breaking news, Vivid Video plans to release a line of 3D porn movies..."
You can't "transmit" the energy unless you also use classical transmission methods to send over the information on how to extract the energy at the other end. So you're left with the same issues there are for quantum communication - whatever you send "instantly" is no good until you can send a classical signal to extract some value out of it on the other side. Well, if you're still having to send things the old fashioned way anyhow, then what advantage are you even gaining from using the quantum method at all?
What about having Packing Ratio Sats that are designed to stuff as many sats as possible into the payload faring of a rocket? Are cubes the best for cylindrical rockets?
That's why until processing power radically improves, this thing would be a lagging mimic of human movement
Osama Bin Laden may be hiding in neighboring star system, 72-Virginis
I like the Fusion concept, and feel that Intel will ultimately be forced to imitate it as well. Their abandonment of Larrabee is consistent with that. Hell, I even hope that Scorpius will become the foundation for Nintendo's Wii-2 or Wii-HD.
Resistance is useless - we will make your sun go nova...
Just out of curiosity, what kind of footage is available in the uncut version that isn't available in the episode 3 version? I remember watching that episode 3 with Kirk's friend Gary Mitchell turning superhuman, and I'm curious as to what additional footage the uncut version has.
Now stand on one leg!
I think Omni Consumer Products would make an excellent White Knight investor
I'm not sure what applications extremely high frequency vibrations have, but I'm thinking that this could be used to make better quality audio speakers, microphones, ultrasound, sonar, etc.
If you have such fine control over vibrations, perhaps you could create fancier waveforms, for sound that has weird properties. Phased array sonar?
Constructive and destructive interference?
I own a pair of Bose noise-canceling headphones that I enjoy, so maybe that tech would be enhanced by these crystals. Or perhaps you could make sonic weapons by building up massive disruptor wave pulses
I'm trying to think of what high frequency synchrotron radiation makes possible through EM. The extremly short wavelengths allow imaging of very tiny objects like molecules. So would extremely short mechanical wavelengths allow extremely fine sonic imaging of... individual cells?
If Man is going to return to the Moon and make a permanent base there, then it might as well be done in a cave, which is much more naturally sheltered from harmful cosmic rays and meteors, as compared to living in some inflatable habitat on the surface. Heck, that's why our cavemen ancestors liked caves to begin with - because they were uniquely sheltering environments. Shouldn't there be some kind of effort to map out the lunar underground to reveal where the best locations might be? As they say in real estate - it's location, location, location!
Let's wait until they discover element 126, formally known as Unbihexium, but labeled by Action Comics as the atomic number for Kryptonite.
Maybe things like the Crossbow IMU are what electronics and MEMS companies could develop a cheaper substitute for, if a toy market were to take off around little mini space-toy gadgets. Who knows what other appliances they could improve, from jittery camcorders to gesture-based cellphones.
What if instead of developing the Space Shuttle, the United States had instead spent the money working on scramjets and hypersonic airliners? I still feel that there are 2 main passenger markets for high-velocity travel -- the first being astronauts trying to achieve escape velocity, and the other being intercontinental travelers trying to get to the other side of the world in a few hours. The latter market is clearly a bigger payoff and return on investment in the near to medium term, as compared to the former. Furthermore, the rising global economy would only continue to increase that demand.
Maybe catering to such globalist trends will lead us to getting off the globe.
I'm mentioning this in the wake of NASA's awesome low-cost Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, which looks to have been a resounding success. It too was done using just a sounding rocket.
Another example of a low-cost experiment was Australia's recent HyShot test for a hypersonic scramjet engine, which was also done using a sounding rocket. Such technologies are much more difficult to master than rockets are, but perhaps the Carmacks of the world can find more challenge in this.
So technologies that can be tested/proven using sounding rockets would be the kinds of things that would be good for prize-based competitions, since their cost would be at a level where privately-funded teams might be able to manage it. This would keep the playing field open to a wider number of competitors.