You guys, that article is on Fox News, the same people who claimed that the FBI eavesdropped mobsters cell phones while they were turned off without gaining physical access to them, or that the VA Tech shooter was possessed by the devil.
If this thing isn't snake oil, I'd be curious to know how they create the light pulses and such.
The chances of getting hit by an asteroid are extremely small.
Well let's consider this. Apophisis has one chance out of 45,000 of hitting us in 2036, releasing as much energy as a 400 MT bomb. Note that Hiroshima released the equivalent of 15 kT, and the largest H-bomb ever detonated 60 MT. I don't know if it's a pessimistic estimate or not, but if we consider that let's say 450 million people might die if this asteroid hits Earth in 2036, that means that in average 10,000 people will die from it. If we get really pessimistic and estimate it'll kill the 9 billion of us, that's 200,000 who'll die in average
I'm intrigued because it would seem to be easier to generate power from the zero point energy with a repulsive effect than an attractive one. So this could also be the first step toward a zero point energy generator -- free energy. What will they think of next...
My thoughts exactly, although I found myself unable to word them thusly, which brings us to this inevitable question : Wouldn't it violate the second law of thermodynamics?
Space travel isn't so much a folly as it's misplaced priority
Not really. Space research dollars are well invested dollars, even if manned missions are arguably not necessarily the wisest way to spend them. And if you had no such Mars mission, the money for it wouldn't go to anything related to Darfur, more like it would go to defense budget. So please spare me your hippie demagogy. And if as an alien you'd ignore us, you'd be a fucking retard, cause only retards miss such occasions to learn about new things.
any evolved civilzation with the brains to travel at C will take one look at us, and fly on by. And I wouldn't blame them a bit. We're barely out of the stone ages.
If we found creatures that are at the stone age stage, would we fly on by? Obviously not, as we'd be happy to even find a bacteria. And why should there be such almighty creatures? Sometimes it sounds like aliens are there to replace God in the mind of people as the necessary one thing superior to us.
While I'm sure all these UFO events reported by pilots and such took place, I think it's highly fantasistic to jump to the conclusion that ETI beings are behind this. That's very wild baseless speculation that ensues that is only dign of a sci-fi movie scenario.
I suspect this is what happened with Roswell, both with the crash and the subsequent use of the crash debris.
Kiss your credibility goodbye. Roswell? Who doesn't know it's a hoax?
The Fermi paradox is just proof that there are much better forms of communication technology waiting to be discovered.
I agree, after all, 200 years ago, we had no clue about radio transmission and such, as weird of a thought as it might seem to us, maybe there's a few major means of communications we still completely ignore. 200 years ago, if you had wondered how you would communicate between two planets, you would have thought about sending some strong light signal, and back then, we effectively used to communicate using light signals. Now if you look at us, nobody communicates with light signals anymore. We don't know what we may find out in the next few centuries...
Ansible users are at a stage where it probably doesn't occur to them that a culture worth talking to would use electromagnetic radiation as a communications carrier.
Or maybe they have picked us up. Imagine a planet 40 ly away, similar in every point to ours at the same stage of technological evolution. Imagine we pick up radio signals from them. What would we do about it? Nothing, besides send back a message, literally a bottle in the sea.
Here's why, if this twin planet tried to send us such radio bottle in the sea, how would we get them? My point is, that whole SETI thing we're doing makes us thousands of times less likely to catch an extraterrestrial signal of intelligent origin than you would be if you tried spotting a shooting start by looking through a straw in one night. Because that's what we're doing, we're looking at the sky through a straw, a very tiny straw, and even if ETI radio signals were as common in our sky as shooting stars, we wouldn't get to "see" any through such a straw.
Dude, don't you read the numerous press previews of the game? Well I for one follow them eagerly, and while early Xbox 360 demoes of the game had quite a bad FPS (just look at the second trailer, that's pretty bad), as journalists see more recent builds of the game they report ever increasing framerates. The GP is right, and every game developer (even homebrew, just like me) knows that optimization comes after you got stuff doing what was intended, regardless of the performance.
I'd rather they fix those issues rather than release a piece of crap on the market.
And few fans of the series would think otherwise. But the problem isn't that the game as a whole is too far from completition, the problem is that the PS3 has been lagging behind more and more (hence why we've never seen a single screenshot of the PS3 build of the game) to the point that while they could get the Xbox 360 version in time, they wouldn't be able to do so with the PS3 version, and due to their agreements they can't put one version out before the other (imagine the major blow to the PS3 if the Xbox 360 had GTA IV monthes before it would!).
"CD Quality" isn't all that great. In theory it is just at the threshold of the limit of human perception, and I don't want to get into arguments about Nyquist and bitrates and dynamic range here.
You're not getting away with that. With CD's, you get frequencies perfectly reproduced up to 22,050 Hz as most people can't hear anything about 16,000, and the noise level is about 95 dB (take or give a couple of dBs) under the loudest sound you can hear, which is a noise level way lower than you have with any sound system, period. And don't tell me about bullcrap like non-linearities that let you hear ultra-sounds.
Huh! Not a good analogy. Your analogy implies that they presented completely wrong evidence. They did not. But they did include along with the valid evidence, other stuff that may damage the defendant. And RIAA may further argue that the folder was presumably willingly made public by the user (who they they at that time did not know was different from the defendant) and therefore could not assume that the constituted private information.
This is a good hearty laugh. You are safer today than you ever were.
Nooo! Don't you get it! The world is becoming ever increasingly more crazy and dangerous! The streets are always more dangerous "these days" than "back in the days"! The new generations are always more crazy and reckless than the old generations back when they were young! Kids these days are just a bunch of degenerates who will never pass on our values and culture into the future of our civilisation, if future of our civilisation there will even be! Things are getting worse and worse at an increasing pace! That's why so many people have the feeling that the end of times is nigh! It's because it is!
Oh well, the onereassuringthing is that while many of us think so, people 50 years ago also thought so, as well as people 2500 years ago.
FTFA : Why did it lose? In the end, the power of Windows and Mac OS was too great. Despite quite substantial public and commercial interest, funding dried up. The CEO of BeOS even launched a lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming that it prevented BeOS from being bundled with computers from Dell.
He would send one of the entangled beams (call it Signal A) through a circuitous detour - say, a few miles of fiber-optic cable - then fiddle with it when it came out of the cable. If the principles behind nonlocal communication held true, the evidence of that fiddling should be detected at a corresponding place in the other entangled beam (call it Signal B).
Now brace yourself for the backward-causality part: Because Signal B followed a shorter route to its detector, the fiddling in Signal A could theoretically show up in Signal B before Cramer actually fiddles with Signal A. It would be as if Cramer's actions had an effect that worked backward in time.
I just don't understand what this experiement consists in, practically, if someone could re-word it in a simpler way. My main problem is with the word "fiddle", I'm not getting what it means in this context.
And on that note, how is having 300 lbs (or mass-equivalent) less gear going to keep you from hopping off the moon into outerspace forever? Didn't the extra mass come in handy to keep people from flying away?
To be on the moon isn't quite like being on Armageddon's asteroid, if you get kicked in the balls by the hot mean chick you won't drift away in space. On the moon, if you jump, you might get a few meters high, but you'll fall back, at about the same speed at which you jumped. So yeah, this is really not a concern on the moon. If you wanted to jump from the moon and drift away in space, you'd have to jump at a speed of over 5300 mph.
You could jump butt naked on a trampoline on the moon, you'd get to jump pretty high, but you would always fall back.
Right, a movie suffers goofs instead. As for memory leaks, well any author has the time to release a patch/update to his game before he definitely stops working on it and that the game enters history. I can't even think of any "historical" game (understand old enough not to be updated) suffering such issues to the point you could possibly care, so it's a non-issue:-).
The original footage is there! You're watching it! With your eye balls!
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I'll try not to insult your intelligence, but you're not quite watching what's originally been filmed. Armageddon wasn't actually filmed on a smoking space asteroid. There's been quite a few things done between the original footage and what you saw..
If all is required for a movie to survive is for you to be able to see it, then all a game needs is for you to be able to play it, that means an emulator. Having the raw footage is still equivalent to having the sources of a game. You're still not making a point.
It is pretty obvious that it would be easier for future generations to figure out what the source code is doing.
That's the exact same for movies. "Oh it would be easier for people to remaster some old movies if they had all the original footage". Plus, you *can* figure out what the binary is doing. Oh surely it'd be easier if we had the source code, and it would be even easier if it was accompanied by a nice video explaining what does what, but just for like every other art forms, things are rarely as easy.
Plus that whole "in 100 years from now" thing is quite irrelevant. Binary code for each major type of processor is very well documented, many times emulated with emulation code in open source, so unless a major catastrophe happens in 100 years we won't have much more issues than now.
A level of a 4 year old would actually be sufficient for most applications.
And a mere couple of wrap drives shall do the job to get astronauts there. Even better! We should develop quantum telepotation, send a teleportation gate to Mars, and astronauts could just teleport there for missions of a few hours and teleport back to Earth. Or we could send people in a good old spaceship, and the astronauts would be frozen during the trip and unfrozen once they get there. Oh I know I know! To get there faster, we could create a black hole, put it in orbit around the Earth, and use its gravitional assistance to get to Mars at nearly the speed of light, and to stop the spaceship we'd make a kind of giant baseball glove in orbit around Mars to catch to ship and slow it down. Or even better! We send there a robot, we invent a way to communicate faster than the speed of light and someone on earth could directly control the robot! Or also, we could just invent a time travelling machine, go back to a time when Mars and Earth were much closer, go to Mars, *voice starts to fade away* and once there one of the astronauts' martian great^8,494,654,396 grandmother falls in love with her great^8,494,654,396 grandson and once they come back on Earth in present day the Earth is dominated by apes....
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You guys, that article is on Fox News, the same people who claimed that the FBI eavesdropped mobsters cell phones while they were turned off without gaining physical access to them, or that the VA Tech shooter was possessed by the devil.
If this thing isn't snake oil, I'd be curious to know how they create the light pulses and such.
The chances of getting hit by an asteroid are extremely small.
Well let's consider this. Apophisis has one chance out of 45,000 of hitting us in 2036, releasing as much energy as a 400 MT bomb. Note that Hiroshima released the equivalent of 15 kT, and the largest H-bomb ever detonated 60 MT. I don't know if it's a pessimistic estimate or not, but if we consider that let's say 450 million people might die if this asteroid hits Earth in 2036, that means that in average 10,000 people will die from it. If we get really pessimistic and estimate it'll kill the 9 billion of us, that's 200,000 who'll die in average
Does it still sound like an acceptable risk?
I'm intrigued because it would seem to be easier to generate power from the zero point energy with a repulsive effect than an attractive one. So this could also be the first step toward a zero point energy generator -- free energy. What will they think of next...
My thoughts exactly, although I found myself unable to word them thusly, which brings us to this inevitable question : Wouldn't it violate the second law of thermodynamics?
Space travel isn't so much a folly as it's misplaced priority
Not really. Space research dollars are well invested dollars, even if manned missions are arguably not necessarily the wisest way to spend them. And if you had no such Mars mission, the money for it wouldn't go to anything related to Darfur, more like it would go to defense budget. So please spare me your hippie demagogy. And if as an alien you'd ignore us, you'd be a fucking retard, cause only retards miss such occasions to learn about new things.
any evolved civilzation with the brains to travel at C will take one look at us, and fly on by. And I wouldn't blame them a bit. We're barely out of the stone ages.
If we found creatures that are at the stone age stage, would we fly on by? Obviously not, as we'd be happy to even find a bacteria. And why should there be such almighty creatures? Sometimes it sounds like aliens are there to replace God in the mind of people as the necessary one thing superior to us.
While I'm sure all these UFO events reported by pilots and such took place, I think it's highly fantasistic to jump to the conclusion that ETI beings are behind this. That's very wild baseless speculation that ensues that is only dign of a sci-fi movie scenario.
I suspect this is what happened with Roswell, both with the crash and the subsequent use of the crash debris.
Kiss your credibility goodbye. Roswell? Who doesn't know it's a hoax?
The Fermi paradox is just proof that there are much better forms of communication technology waiting to be discovered.
I agree, after all, 200 years ago, we had no clue about radio transmission and such, as weird of a thought as it might seem to us, maybe there's a few major means of communications we still completely ignore. 200 years ago, if you had wondered how you would communicate between two planets, you would have thought about sending some strong light signal, and back then, we effectively used to communicate using light signals. Now if you look at us, nobody communicates with light signals anymore. We don't know what we may find out in the next few centuries...
Ansible users are at a stage where it probably doesn't occur to them that a culture worth talking to would use electromagnetic radiation as a communications carrier.
Or maybe they have picked us up. Imagine a planet 40 ly away, similar in every point to ours at the same stage of technological evolution. Imagine we pick up radio signals from them. What would we do about it? Nothing, besides send back a message, literally a bottle in the sea.
Here's why, if this twin planet tried to send us such radio bottle in the sea, how would we get them? My point is, that whole SETI thing we're doing makes us thousands of times less likely to catch an extraterrestrial signal of intelligent origin than you would be if you tried spotting a shooting start by looking through a straw in one night. Because that's what we're doing, we're looking at the sky through a straw, a very tiny straw, and even if ETI radio signals were as common in our sky as shooting stars, we wouldn't get to "see" any through such a straw.
Dude, don't you read the numerous press previews of the game? Well I for one follow them eagerly, and while early Xbox 360 demoes of the game had quite a bad FPS (just look at the second trailer, that's pretty bad), as journalists see more recent builds of the game they report ever increasing framerates. The GP is right, and every game developer (even homebrew, just like me) knows that optimization comes after you got stuff doing what was intended, regardless of the performance.
I'd rather they fix those issues rather than release a piece of crap on the market.
And few fans of the series would think otherwise. But the problem isn't that the game as a whole is too far from completition, the problem is that the PS3 has been lagging behind more and more (hence why we've never seen a single screenshot of the PS3 build of the game) to the point that while they could get the Xbox 360 version in time, they wouldn't be able to do so with the PS3 version, and due to their agreements they can't put one version out before the other (imagine the major blow to the PS3 if the Xbox 360 had GTA IV monthes before it would!).
OMG TEH TERRISTS R IN T3H TUBES!!
Most. Ridiculous. Piece. Of. FUD. I've. Read. In. At. Least. Three. Days.
"CD Quality" isn't all that great. In theory it is just at the threshold of the limit of human perception, and I don't want to get into arguments about Nyquist and bitrates and dynamic range here.
You're not getting away with that. With CD's, you get frequencies perfectly reproduced up to 22,050 Hz as most people can't hear anything about 16,000, and the noise level is about 95 dB (take or give a couple of dBs) under the loudest sound you can hear, which is a noise level way lower than you have with any sound system, period. And don't tell me about bullcrap like non-linearities that let you hear ultra-sounds.
Huh! Not a good analogy. Your analogy implies that they presented completely wrong evidence. They did not. But they did include along with the valid evidence, other stuff that may damage the defendant. And RIAA may further argue that the folder was presumably willingly made public by the user (who they they at that time did not know was different from the defendant) and therefore could not assume that the constituted private information.
True, make the hammer a male blow-up doll.
Slashdot 29 July 2007: Sun Says Project Indiana is Not a Linux Copy - yeah right!
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Slashdot 31 July 2007: Mac OS-X is the most copied OS on planet - copying is the highest form of flattery.
Slashdot 32 July 2007: Netcraft confirms it: Apple is not dead.
This is a good hearty laugh. You are safer today than you ever were.
Nooo! Don't you get it! The world is becoming ever increasingly more crazy and dangerous! The streets are always more dangerous "these days" than "back in the days"! The new generations are always more crazy and reckless than the old generations back when they were young! Kids these days are just a bunch of degenerates who will never pass on our values and culture into the future of our civilisation, if future of our civilisation there will even be! Things are getting worse and worse at an increasing pace! That's why so many people have the feeling that the end of times is nigh! It's because it is!
Oh well, the one reassuring thing is that while many of us think so, people 50 years ago also thought so, as well as people 2500 years ago.
FTFA : Why did it lose?
In the end, the power of Windows and Mac OS was too great. Despite quite substantial public and commercial interest, funding dried up. The CEO of BeOS even launched a lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming that it prevented BeOS from being bundled with computers from Dell.
Wrong. True reason : Gassé's greed.
He would send one of the entangled beams (call it Signal A) through a circuitous detour - say, a few miles of fiber-optic cable - then fiddle with it when it came out of the cable. If the principles behind nonlocal communication held true, the evidence of that fiddling should be detected at a corresponding place in the other entangled beam (call it Signal B).
Now brace yourself for the backward-causality part: Because Signal B followed a shorter route to its detector, the fiddling in Signal A could theoretically show up in Signal B before Cramer actually fiddles with Signal A. It would be as if Cramer's actions had an effect that worked backward in time.
I just don't understand what this experiement consists in, practically, if someone could re-word it in a simpler way. My main problem is with the word "fiddle", I'm not getting what it means in this context.
But either can easily point out tactical and strategic positions for shooting from a distance.
Didn't he shoot people from the trunk of a car?
Has anyone ever heard of crap game competitions? That's where you find such games.
And on that note, how is having 300 lbs (or mass-equivalent) less gear going to keep you from hopping off the moon into outerspace forever? Didn't the extra mass come in handy to keep people from flying away?
To be on the moon isn't quite like being on Armageddon's asteroid, if you get kicked in the balls by the hot mean chick you won't drift away in space. On the moon, if you jump, you might get a few meters high, but you'll fall back, at about the same speed at which you jumped. So yeah, this is really not a concern on the moon. If you wanted to jump from the moon and drift away in space, you'd have to jump at a speed of over 5300 mph.
You could jump butt naked on a trampoline on the moon, you'd get to jump pretty high, but you would always fall back.
A movie doesn't suffer from software bugs
Right, a movie suffers goofs instead. As for memory leaks, well any author has the time to release a patch/update to his game before he definitely stops working on it and that the game enters history. I can't even think of any "historical" game (understand old enough not to be updated) suffering such issues to the point you could possibly care, so it's a non-issue :-).
The original footage is there! You're watching it! With your eye balls!
...
I'll try not to insult your intelligence, but you're not quite watching what's originally been filmed. Armageddon wasn't actually filmed on a smoking space asteroid. There's been quite a few things done between the original footage and what you saw..
If all is required for a movie to survive is for you to be able to see it, then all a game needs is for you to be able to play it, that means an emulator. Having the raw footage is still equivalent to having the sources of a game. You're still not making a point.
It is pretty obvious that it would be easier for future generations to figure out what the source code is doing.
That's the exact same for movies. "Oh it would be easier for people to remaster some old movies if they had all the original footage". Plus, you *can* figure out what the binary is doing. Oh surely it'd be easier if we had the source code, and it would be even easier if it was accompanied by a nice video explaining what does what, but just for like every other art forms, things are rarely as easy.
Plus that whole "in 100 years from now" thing is quite irrelevant. Binary code for each major type of processor is very well documented, many times emulated with emulation code in open source, so unless a major catastrophe happens in 100 years we won't have much more issues than now.
ARSE?!? Time for me to start suing!
A level of a 4 year old would actually be sufficient for most applications.
And a mere couple of wrap drives shall do the job to get astronauts there. Even better! We should develop quantum telepotation, send a teleportation gate to Mars, and astronauts could just teleport there for missions of a few hours and teleport back to Earth. Or we could send people in a good old spaceship, and the astronauts would be frozen during the trip and unfrozen once they get there. Oh I know I know! To get there faster, we could create a black hole, put it in orbit around the Earth, and use its gravitional assistance to get to Mars at nearly the speed of light, and to stop the spaceship we'd make a kind of giant baseball glove in orbit around Mars to catch to ship and slow it down. Or even better! We send there a robot, we invent a way to communicate faster than the speed of light and someone on earth could directly control the robot! Or also, we could just invent a time travelling machine, go back to a time when Mars and Earth were much closer, go to Mars, *voice starts to fade away* and once there one of the astronauts' martian great^8,494,654,396 grandmother falls in love with her great^8,494,654,396 grandson and once they come back on Earth in present day the Earth is dominated by apes....
Hehe, on the one I tried it had a few original programs comming with it, you surely can find the tic-tac-toe I was talking about :)