I'd guess that around 50% of the male UK population is over 180lb.
Japanese people are usually lighter than that (specially the elderly ones and except sumo wrestlers). Besides, that's just a prototype, I'm sure they will improve its strenght and battery lifetime.
This idea just doesn't seem possible.... A space elevator sounds great, it just seems far-fetched. A 100 meter test. Only 96,560,540 more meters to go.
Eniac. Do I need to say more?
I will say more nonetheless. A little over 500 years ago the europeans didn't know that the Americas existed. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean with fragile ships (fragile for our current standard) and in that time about half of men that went to such adventure wouldn't return alive.
There was a time when the treatment for liver diseases was to remove it, wash it with water and putting it back, because "the problem with it was that it was dirty". (I swear I'm not making it, I read it somewhere, I just can't find a link to cite as source)
You forget..The 'alien ship' in Independence Day came 'alive' when the motherships hit orbit. I suspect all of the needed patches were deployed automatically to the one we held.
No if they didn't have the Windows Genuine Advantage installed...
Hate to see the short that could occur if this car was in the wrong kind of accident.
You are more likely to die from the trauma in the case of an accident. Or from the explosion, if you have an american car (I saw them exploding in the movies, I swear!). Anyway, the same way cars have safety devices (like controlled deformation, gas interruption system, air bags, safety belts, etc), I'm sure the auto makers will have a good idea to keep the capacitors safe.
...people fly in the air after catching a bullet...
This is nothing!!! Haven't you seen The Scorpion King? The guy sends 200-pound people flying back with arrows!!! Can you calculate the kinetic energy in those arrows? And the dullness of the arrow head? Man, I believe he could divide by zero and go unpunished...
And if memory serves, they had one of their ships since the 50's, so some people there should know their technology and therefore build a invasive destruction software (called "virus" just for the audience sake). The obvious conclusion is: the aliens didn't patch their OS for 50 years!
Well, some new 3D interfaces I've been seen out there (like the touch-screen one, where you can manipulate your multiple desktops as the faces of a cube or dual-touch/dual-mouse) seem much more nice and interesting than the ones I see in movies.
... had thousands of well-documented years of history to make his predictions. We still don't have those, specially because until a "few" years ago, historians didn't have to be accurarate, just write a nice story to read that was losely based on reality. Maybe his theory is possible, maybe not. But Asimov has already impressed me in his non-fiction essays to make me believe we can, someday, have psychohistory.
As a Brazilian, I'm very proud of our democratic system. For a country which was under a military dictatorship until 1986, our voting system is clean and everything but messy. We've been using voting machines since 1996 (first in only one State, just a trial then in the biggest cities and now everywhere since 2000) and voting fraud dropped to zero (or something around that). In our last election we had about 87.5 million people voting in a single day (from 8 AM to 5 PM) and we knew the results around 11 PM in the same day and it was uncontested (although the opposition to the current won the elections). It's sad to see a country like the USA (which claims to be a example of democracy) to have elections the way it has. Just sad and pathetic (DISCLAIMER: americans, don't get me wrong. I'm criticizing only the voting system).
If you guys are curious about our voting machines, take a look at Wikipedia. By the way, yes, it does run Linux!;-)
The face looks like Cornelius from Planet of the Apes (1968). It's more like a chimp face than a human face. Maybe when the martians made us this homage, there were only Australopithecus afarensis on Earth...
But if we were jellyfish-like creatures, we probably wouldn't notice it, instead we would notice the round formations that would look like our heads. Like meteorite craters.
Yes, but when you apply a word to an action or condition not normally associated with it (in this case DRM), people will naturally use the most common definition of that word, and a viral infection isn't very accurate.
Do you mean that the country that is liberating opressed countries and bringing Democracy to the world had two presidential elections stoled in a row?!?!? I'm SHOCKED!!!
Go ahead, mod me troll or flame-bait. I don't care for karma.
But it looks like the only option will be music services such as Yahoo! Unlimited that charge me $60 a year to listen to whatever I want. Now if only I had broadband in my car, I'd be set...
In my days, we had a FM radio in the car. And we liked it! And it used to be free!! And it played music!
Now get out of my lawn.
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I'd guess that around 50% of the male UK population is over 180lb.
Japanese people are usually lighter than that (specially the elderly ones and except sumo wrestlers). Besides, that's just a prototype, I'm sure they will improve its strenght and battery lifetime.
By the way, if you are going to make a very tiny internet, are you supposed to use nanotubes?
I also wonder what happens if a strong electromagnetic wave burns out the chip while you are outside your country. What happens when you return?
"...and expects by then to have 7 million customers using FiOS for Internet access."
"Fios" is portuguese for "wires"... That name wouldn't inspire many people here in Brazil!
Oh, nevermind... this message was supposed to be in other article. That's what happens when tabbed navigation falls in the wrong hands.
You are seeing it from the wrong angle...
This idea just doesn't seem possible. ... A space elevator sounds great, it just seems far-fetched. A 100 meter test. Only 96,560,540 more meters to go.
Eniac. Do I need to say more?
I will say more nonetheless. A little over 500 years ago the europeans didn't know that the Americas existed. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean with fragile ships (fragile for our current standard) and in that time about half of men that went to such adventure wouldn't return alive.
Again, do I need to say more?
And oddly enough, we didn't have anything with it becoming extinct...
But there is a car that takes 5 minutes to charge and it will go for 500 miles!
But...
1) Is is electric?
2) Does it cost $9 to charge?
Like that old chinese saying I just made goes, "the true revolution is in the details".
There was a time when the treatment for liver diseases was to remove it, wash it with water and putting it back, because "the problem with it was that it was dirty". (I swear I'm not making it, I read it somewhere, I just can't find a link to cite as source)
You forget..The 'alien ship' in Independence Day came 'alive' when the motherships hit orbit. I suspect all of the needed patches were deployed automatically to the one we held.
No if they didn't have the Windows Genuine Advantage installed...
Hate to see the short that could occur if this car was in the wrong kind of accident.
You are more likely to die from the trauma in the case of an accident. Or from the explosion, if you have an american car (I saw them exploding in the movies, I swear!). Anyway, the same way cars have safety devices (like controlled deformation, gas interruption system, air bags, safety belts, etc), I'm sure the auto makers will have a good idea to keep the capacitors safe.
...people fly in the air after catching a bullet...
This is nothing!!! Haven't you seen The Scorpion King? The guy sends 200-pound people flying back with arrows!!! Can you calculate the kinetic energy in those arrows? And the dullness of the arrow head? Man, I believe he could divide by zero and go unpunished...
And if memory serves, they had one of their ships since the 50's, so some people there should know their technology and therefore build a invasive destruction software (called "virus" just for the audience sake). The obvious conclusion is: the aliens didn't patch their OS for 50 years!
Well, some new 3D interfaces I've been seen out there (like the touch-screen one, where you can manipulate your multiple desktops as the faces of a cube or dual-touch/dual-mouse) seem much more nice and interesting than the ones I see in movies.
... had thousands of well-documented years of history to make his predictions. We still don't have those, specially because until a "few" years ago, historians didn't have to be accurarate, just write a nice story to read that was losely based on reality. Maybe his theory is possible, maybe not. But Asimov has already impressed me in his non-fiction essays to make me believe we can, someday, have psychohistory.
As a Brazilian, I'm very proud of our democratic system. For a country which was under a military dictatorship until 1986, our voting system is clean and everything but messy. We've been using voting machines since 1996 (first in only one State, just a trial then in the biggest cities and now everywhere since 2000) and voting fraud dropped to zero (or something around that). In our last election we had about 87.5 million people voting in a single day (from 8 AM to 5 PM) and we knew the results around 11 PM in the same day and it was uncontested (although the opposition to the current won the elections). It's sad to see a country like the USA (which claims to be a example of democracy) to have elections the way it has. Just sad and pathetic (DISCLAIMER: americans, don't get me wrong. I'm criticizing only the voting system).
;-)
If you guys are curious about our voting machines, take a look at Wikipedia. By the way, yes, it does run Linux!
The face looks like Cornelius from Planet of the Apes (1968). It's more like a chimp face than a human face. Maybe when the martians made us this homage, there were only Australopithecus afarensis on Earth...
But if we were jellyfish-like creatures, we probably wouldn't notice it, instead we would notice the round formations that would look like our heads. Like meteorite craters.
Yes, but when you apply a word to an action or condition not normally associated with it (in this case DRM), people will naturally use the most common definition of that word, and a viral infection isn't very accurate.
Thanks, Captain!
You are thinking of "infection" only in the biological meaning. Wrong. According to wordreference.com, infection can mean:
moral corruption or contamination;
So, depending on the point of view, DRM can be an infection.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: English isn't my first language. Actually, it's my third language.
In Soviet Russia, the IE exploits the malign javascript!
Will Google become irrelevant in Belgian [sic]?
Or will Belgium become irrelevant on Google?
Do you mean that the country that is liberating opressed countries and bringing Democracy to the world had two presidential elections stoled in a row?!?!? I'm SHOCKED!!!
Go ahead, mod me troll or flame-bait. I don't care for karma.
But it looks like the only option will be music services such as Yahoo! Unlimited that charge me $60 a year to listen to whatever I want. Now if only I had broadband in my car, I'd be set...
In my days, we had a FM radio in the car. And we liked it! And it used to be free!! And it played music!
Now get out of my lawn.
Meanwhile the Curia argues over whether the church should ban printing presses since they will put all the clerics in abbeys out of work...
Did this really happen? Sounds pretty much like "home video will destroy the movie industry"...
They say that history repeats itself, huh?