....it's called 'using batteries'. With a 3 meter range and relatively huge copper coils involved, how is this better that using batteries? Most devices use a transformer to customize the input for the device. With wireless power, would each device need some kind of special wireless receiver/transformer? And this would be better how?
How are they different? I mean, every 'review' is just full of varying degrees of 'good'. Even the cars that clearly crappy, get something like 'this car was okay'. They would never give any direct negative information about their only significant revenue stream. I don't see why a blogger who got a free iPhone to blog about how awesome his iPhone is would be held to a higher standard.
Wikipedia is missing the media rich content found on every other software-based encyclopedia, like Encarta and Worldbook. Since such software is dying off because the things like Wikipedia are so packed full of free, up-to-date information, it seems like a natural extension for the free encyclopedia.
Those are for-profit products that are anything but neutral on controversial topics.
I think using You Tube would be fundamentally flawed. Every video would essentially be an advertisement for Google. How would WP defend against claims of Google influence if they depended on them for content. And hosting the videos themselves really would not be possible, unless WP has A LOT more money then they are letting on. Once can host 10,000 text pages for the same server/network resources a one popular 5-minute video.
It very well may be. But since most people don't have an OGG player installed, why bother? And what's more, what if someone ripped that video from the site and replaced it with almost exact the same - but with, say, some political rant at the end. Ever try doing a diff check on video content? Is someone going to have to watch every video, frame-by-frame, everyday, to see if something changed?
I have donated to Wikipedia a few times over the years. But I think I will stop if this video 'enhancement' takes off. I can think of no article I have ever read that would have been served better by video on the same page. Just reference a video from a source site. I thought Wikipedia was a non-profit organization running an lean crew of committed semi-volunteers, not a business looking to 'drive traffic' to their site.
cash gets an IMMEDIATE credit to your account whereas a check, regardless of who issues it, means at least a ten day hold on the funds.
Only if you have a history of writing/depositing hot checks. The 'Check 21' initiative a few years ago did away with most of the delay of posting paper checks. The only delay now is how long to takes a merchant to physically get the checks to the bank. And for large merchants, even that delay is removed with EFTs (the checks are just sent through the back after the fact for your records).
You mean the model where something is only deemed entertaining because everything else is either soccer or BBC news? And after a decade or so people just stop caring and the the whole things becomes a kind of national joke? That model?
Maybe I am missing something, but the article linked in the summary (about Pwn2Own's prize for hacking Safari) appears to be about someone hacking IE, not Safari.
No, I've seen people brought back to life, in one case after almost 5 minutes.
I assure you, you have not. You've seen people in deathlike states resuscitated. Children who fall through an icy pond can be underwater for 20 minutes and still be resuscitated. These children are not dead, but rather in an extremely minimal metabolic state.
The term 'clinically dead' refers to people who have no detectable signs of life (i.e. detectable heartbeat, breathing). That would included anyone who is truly dead as well, but not the other way around. So a truly dead person is also clinically dead, but a clinically dead person is not truly dead. True death starts when cell death cascades and becomes massive, also called decomposition. Once the body begins to decompose, there is no coming back.
It's only a matter of time were death will be reversible for hours after the fact.
Possibly I suppose. But once cell death goes cascade and massive (i.e. decomposition), then bringing them back would require rebuilding their vital organs' cells via nanomachines (or some such). That would not really be 'bringing them back' as much as 'we can rebuild it, we have the technology'; really a entirely new life form.
What you are describing is not death, but extreme hibernation or suspended animation. Many lifeforms will slow to a deathlike state when temperatures are lowered enough. Centuries ago, scientists thought many of those creatures actually were dead. Now, with more advanced instruments, they know they are not dead at all but in extreme hibernation. Death is when nothing (beyond a crit roll on a d20) can bring the lifeform back.
That's just the point. It have had some metabolic function and internal chemical reactions. I am pretty sure that's required for all carbon based life, no matter how simple. It's like saying that the Sea Monkeys I had as a kid were dead and 'brought them back to life' at home. They were not dead.
If this was 'brought back to life' (assuming the process was done by mere mortals), then it was never truly dead. It may have been dormant, in suspended animation, or beyond modern sciences' ability to detect life, but it certainly was not dead. Dead is what something is when it doesn't come back. And don't talk about 'my uncle died on the operating table three times...'. That's clinically dead, an altogether different thing.
Yep he did indeed get an engineering degree. Which he promptly put to use as an 'engineer' for Lucasfilm's Home THX division and then ILM. He has more of an interest in movie magic than science. But he's Asian, so that made him an easier sell to the obedient American viewer than an actual scientist.
Since the Moon has about 1/6 the gravity of Earth, this 6 mile high explosion would be about, what, 1 mile high on Earth? So that's the equivalent of a firecracker in Denver. Meh.
Mythbusters was NEVER devoted to scientific inquiry. Using the terms 'control group' and 'data' twenty times an episode does not a scientist make. Infotainment at best.
Reminds me of my preteen years making dozens and dozens of D&D characters, even though I had no idea (at the time) how to play the game. But man, making those characters sure was fun....let's just do that! What's 'psyche'? I don't know, but let's roll a d20 for it! WHEE!
I did a little reading under Supervolcano on Wikipedia and it says "...supervolcano was not a technical term used in volcanology. The term megacaldera is sometimes used.."
You got that? It's a Megacaldera guys. Only total n00bz call it a supervolcano! I bet you guys called Yoda a Jedi Knight too....everybody knows he was a Jedi MASTER.
You are saying "poker", but you mean "illicit gambling". I play penny-stakes poker all the time and have yet to get into a knife fight.
And regarding option 2, it's not someone breaking through the encryption that will get you, it's the offshore admins running the game. Do you think they don't just log in and give themselves a little 'straight flush' whenever they need a few bucks? They are not stupid, they won't steal your CC info. They would much rather tilt the cards in their favor and let their naive and docile clientele continue to click 'deal' thinking that this might be 'the hand'.
But hey, keep playing at home if you want. If it keep the trash off the street it works for me.
TFA claims there are 10 pictures, but I count only 9. Unless the image saying 'back to the beginning' counts as a slide. Come on NYT, we expect more from you.
Sounds great. But with all that digital media out there, and all the copyright holders' rights to enforce, we would need some kind management system. Maybe some kind of software that will constantly monitor users' PCs and make sure that actually are allowed to use the media they have. We could call it something like "E-Rights Watcher". Great idea!
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....it's called 'using batteries'. With a 3 meter range and relatively huge copper coils involved, how is this better that using batteries? Most devices use a transformer to customize the input for the device. With wireless power, would each device need some kind of special wireless receiver/transformer? And this would be better how?
How are they different? I mean, every 'review' is just full of varying degrees of 'good'. Even the cars that clearly crappy, get something like 'this car was okay'. They would never give any direct negative information about their only significant revenue stream. I don't see why a blogger who got a free iPhone to blog about how awesome his iPhone is would be held to a higher standard.
Those are for-profit products that are anything but neutral on controversial topics. I think using You Tube would be fundamentally flawed. Every video would essentially be an advertisement for Google. How would WP defend against claims of Google influence if they depended on them for content. And hosting the videos themselves really would not be possible, unless WP has A LOT more money then they are letting on. Once can host 10,000 text pages for the same server/network resources a one popular 5-minute video.
It very well may be. But since most people don't have an OGG player installed, why bother? And what's more, what if someone ripped that video from the site and replaced it with almost exact the same - but with, say, some political rant at the end. Ever try doing a diff check on video content? Is someone going to have to watch every video, frame-by-frame, everyday, to see if something changed?
I have donated to Wikipedia a few times over the years. But I think I will stop if this video 'enhancement' takes off. I can think of no article I have ever read that would have been served better by video on the same page. Just reference a video from a source site. I thought Wikipedia was a non-profit organization running an lean crew of committed semi-volunteers, not a business looking to 'drive traffic' to their site.
Only if you have a history of writing/depositing hot checks. The 'Check 21' initiative a few years ago did away with most of the delay of posting paper checks. The only delay now is how long to takes a merchant to physically get the checks to the bank. And for large merchants, even that delay is removed with EFTs (the checks are just sent through the back after the fact for your records).
woosh!
You mean the model where something is only deemed entertaining because everything else is either soccer or BBC news? And after a decade or so people just stop caring and the the whole things becomes a kind of national joke? That model?
Maybe I am missing something, but the article linked in the summary (about Pwn2Own's prize for hacking Safari) appears to be about someone hacking IE, not Safari.
I assure you, you have not. You've seen people in deathlike states resuscitated. Children who fall through an icy pond can be underwater for 20 minutes and still be resuscitated. These children are not dead, but rather in an extremely minimal metabolic state.
The term 'clinically dead' refers to people who have no detectable signs of life (i.e. detectable heartbeat, breathing). That would included anyone who is truly dead as well, but not the other way around. So a truly dead person is also clinically dead, but a clinically dead person is not truly dead. True death starts when cell death cascades and becomes massive, also called decomposition. Once the body begins to decompose, there is no coming back.
Possibly I suppose. But once cell death goes cascade and massive (i.e. decomposition), then bringing them back would require rebuilding their vital organs' cells via nanomachines (or some such). That would not really be 'bringing them back' as much as 'we can rebuild it, we have the technology'; really a entirely new life form.
What you are describing is not death, but extreme hibernation or suspended animation. Many lifeforms will slow to a deathlike state when temperatures are lowered enough. Centuries ago, scientists thought many of those creatures actually were dead. Now, with more advanced instruments, they know they are not dead at all but in extreme hibernation. Death is when nothing (beyond a crit roll on a d20) can bring the lifeform back.
That's just the point. It have had some metabolic function and internal chemical reactions. I am pretty sure that's required for all carbon based life, no matter how simple. It's like saying that the Sea Monkeys I had as a kid were dead and 'brought them back to life' at home. They were not dead.
If this was 'brought back to life' (assuming the process was done by mere mortals), then it was never truly dead. It may have been dormant, in suspended animation, or beyond modern sciences' ability to detect life, but it certainly was not dead. Dead is what something is when it doesn't come back. And don't talk about 'my uncle died on the operating table three times...'. That's clinically dead, an altogether different thing.
Yep he did indeed get an engineering degree. Which he promptly put to use as an 'engineer' for Lucasfilm's Home THX division and then ILM. He has more of an interest in movie magic than science. But he's Asian, so that made him an easier sell to the obedient American viewer than an actual scientist.
Since the Moon has about 1/6 the gravity of Earth, this 6 mile high explosion would be about, what, 1 mile high on Earth? So that's the equivalent of a firecracker in Denver. Meh.
Mythbusters was NEVER devoted to scientific inquiry. Using the terms 'control group' and 'data' twenty times an episode does not a scientist make. Infotainment at best.
....to never run the same scam over and over? Oh right, because they are greedy crooks.
You know, I think you are right. For some reason the word 'FASERIP' keeps coming to me. I wonder if I put that on a vanity license plate....
Whale oil is not fundamentally 'bad' either. It's just been replaced by electricity. It's a joke. Laugh.
Reminds me of my preteen years making dozens and dozens of D&D characters, even though I had no idea (at the time) how to play the game. But man, making those characters sure was fun....let's just do that! What's 'psyche'? I don't know, but let's roll a d20 for it! WHEE!
I did a little reading under Supervolcano on Wikipedia and it says "...supervolcano was not a technical term used in volcanology. The term megacaldera is sometimes used.."
....hehe...supervolcano.
You got that? It's a Megacaldera guys. Only total n00bz call it a supervolcano! I bet you guys called Yoda a Jedi Knight too....everybody knows he was a Jedi MASTER.
You are saying "poker", but you mean "illicit gambling". I play penny-stakes poker all the time and have yet to get into a knife fight.
And regarding option 2, it's not someone breaking through the encryption that will get you, it's the offshore admins running the game. Do you think they don't just log in and give themselves a little 'straight flush' whenever they need a few bucks? They are not stupid, they won't steal your CC info. They would much rather tilt the cards in their favor and let their naive and docile clientele continue to click 'deal' thinking that this might be 'the hand'.
But hey, keep playing at home if you want. If it keep the trash off the street it works for me.
TFA claims there are 10 pictures, but I count only 9. Unless the image saying 'back to the beginning' counts as a slide. Come on NYT, we expect more from you.
Sounds great. But with all that digital media out there, and all the copyright holders' rights to enforce, we would need some kind management system. Maybe some kind of software that will constantly monitor users' PCs and make sure that actually are allowed to use the media they have. We could call it something like "E-Rights Watcher". Great idea!