But a black hole DOES emit radiation! It's odd, but here goes: Oftentimes, a pair of particles, one antimatter and one matter, will be spontaneously generated. 99.whatever percent of the time, they either collide with each other and with other particles, destroying themselves again and creating as much energy as it took to make then in the first place. Occasionally, one of these pairs is created near a black hole. If one of the pair is sucked into the hole, but the other escapes, the net result is generation of a small amount of antimatter and a small amount of matter by the black hole. These particles eventually collide with other particles, generating X-rays, which is the radiation from a black hole that has been discovered, IIRC.
And actually, infinity is a bright flaming neon orange and yellow spinning spiral. That's why you go insane when you see it.
"Geeks", almost by definition, would in any given political campaign only concern themselves with the technological issues at hand. We aren't so much a group that needs representing on the whole as a special-interest group that could perhaps involve itself with politics when technology is to be an issue.
...but it's not enough. It should be our goal to open up information on all science to the people, to foster the advancement of the knowledge of the human race as a whole. The more we know, the less possible it will be to accidentially destroy ourselves.
What about a TLD for people's individual sites? Not a home-based business, but just a page set up for oneself. Like.per or.ind or something like that. Also, AlterNIC has the following domains: .exp (Experimental Use) .llc (Limited Liability Corp.) .lnx (Linux) .ltd (.com alternative) .med (Medical) .nic (Network Information Centers) .noc (Network Operations Centers) .porn .xxx See here for the list and more info. Also, it is apparently possible to register an entire TLD. (.msft, anyone?)
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In Europe (this is Oslo....), a comma is a dot, and a dot is a comma. Thus 3 million would be 3.000.000 and 8 and three quarters would be 8,75...
*We'd be immune to AIDS, cancer, and anything that can't penetrate an android body into which we could have our computer-minds implanted. *We could link our minds to each other and transfer information, and perhaps even entire memories and experiences. *It'd be that much easier to multitask.
On the other hand... *A static charge could kill us, *as could a simple computer virus.
If I can't have girls in my room, I'll need the net for something other than education... And if I can't go to those sites, then I need girls in my room!
They have them at the Store of Knowledge and similar places. Basic set is $20... Advanced is 40 and Expert is 60. Here is the product info for the three sets.
All you'd have to do is attach some sort of circular sensor to the head and shoulders... It could sense the rotation of the head relative to the shoulders and turn the avatar accordingly. Small turn (10 deg. or so) means turn slowly, large turn (90?) means quickly. As for the wider field of vision, all they'd need to do is build an oversized pair or something. And in doing so they could most likely up to resolution to 1024 x 768... SVGA? That's probably not hard, although it may have to built specifically for that setting.
I don't know about the rest of the other people you mentioned, but Mark Twain lived from 1835 to 1910. The vast majority of his work was written in the 19th century. It was often about, and commenting on, the post-Civil-War South. I think this more applies to last century.
But how well can we program them to do specific tasks? I know the vision running through many people's heads is one of robots doing every simple task required. Cooking food, cleaning, etc.... But how versatile are they in terms of different tasks they can perform? Obviously, programming a robot vaccuum cleaner is easy, given the layout and obstacles in the room. But when will a robot be cooking my breakfast?
I'm not Christian, but here it is: "Let them (humans) have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the Earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the Earth." (Genesis, 1:24) That was God talking there, saying Man shall have control over all the life on Earth. Not only does He not think that it's not ethical, He commanded that we should have control over the rest of life. And I would think that that would include studying it that we could make it ourself.
Would such a program cost $10 billion dollars? The Mars Society aims to get a million sigs on the petition, and I'd say they'll do it, too, with enough publicity. But if, for every person in the country, 40 bucks were taken from tax money and allocated to it, we'd have 10 billion right there. And don't tell me taking an average of 40 bucks from an average of, what, $10-15 K in taxes will make a huge dent in the money. Take it from the military budget, we can already kill every person on the planet 10 times over with ammo to spare. What I'd really like to see is some of these really rich computer entrepreneurs donating some money to this. I know Bill Gates could donate $20 billion and still have a comfortable lifestyle in his $50 million house complex.
The dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program. -Arthur C. Clarke
That reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes strip abour ten years ago. The two of them saw what a mess we were making of Earth, and decided to move to Mars. They took off (in their wagon, entering orbit with the help of a wooden ramp) and landed on Mars... If I recall correctly, they left after deciding, essentially, that human presence was bound to mess up Mars like it did Earth.
So what does this do to entropy? Seems to me like, since the total entropy of the universe must always increase with time (and, far as I can tell, this is one of the only things that is completely dependent on the flow of time), areas of reverse time would decrease in entropy. Is it just me, or does that throw the Second Law of Thermodynamics out the window?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein
Seems to me that in the case of a computer inventing something, and the computer's owner/operator getting credit for it, the definition for the denial of a patent needs to be modified a bit. Change it to 'A patent is denied when the idea to set up and program a computer to search for/devise an invention is obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art....' and it almost makes sense. Of course, my wording's probably a bit awkward, but you get the idea...
Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that silicon CAN perform the same functions as carbon in being an integral part of life. Let's also assume that it DOES have the same side always facing the sun. Would it be at all possible for life to evolve on the cooler side of the planet, still maybe warm enough to support life? Of course, there's no sunlight for photosynthesis, but that may not be the only method of creating oxygen in the atmosphere... Of course, I'm probably completely wrong on this. And it'll be moot when the planet does the big sun-dive.
The sheer number of people who see movies like this as one of their only sources of information are going to cause some problems because of their panic... Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Why not try and track down the rest of the skeleton? If it had been found, and it was non-human, we probably would have heard of it by now. If it hasn't been found, then can't we figure out where the caves are and search them? And, of course, if the rest has been found, and it's completely human, then it's obviously either a human skull or a hoax. This is, of course, assuming that the story of how the skulls were found is true, which, quite honestly, I'd say is doubtful, given the scientific processes by which the "scientists" arrived at the conclusion that the skull is at least partially non-human. But a DNA test will help determine whether it's human, or another hominid...
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Someone needs to show those pricks how the Germans truly intended their cars to be used.
I figure an hour or two on the Autobahn should do the trick.
But a black hole DOES emit radiation!
It's odd, but here goes: Oftentimes, a pair of particles, one antimatter and one matter, will be spontaneously generated. 99.whatever percent of the time, they either collide with each other and with other particles, destroying themselves again and creating as much energy as it took to make then in the first place.
Occasionally, one of these pairs is created near a black hole. If one of the pair is sucked into the hole, but the other escapes, the net result is generation of a small amount of antimatter and a small amount of matter by the black hole. These particles eventually collide with other particles, generating X-rays, which is the radiation from a black hole that has been discovered, IIRC.
And actually, infinity is a bright flaming neon orange and yellow spinning spiral. That's why you go insane when you see it.
"Geeks", almost by definition, would in any given political campaign only concern themselves with the technological issues at hand. We aren't so much a group that needs representing on the whole as a special-interest group that could perhaps involve itself with politics when technology is to be an issue.
...but it's not enough. It should be our goal to open up information on all science to the people, to foster the advancement of the knowledge of the human race as a whole.
The more we know, the less possible it will be to accidentially destroy ourselves.
What about a TLD for people's individual sites? Not a home-based business, but just a page set up for oneself. Like .per or .ind or something like that.
.exp (Experimental Use)
.llc (Limited Liability Corp.)
.lnx (Linux)
.ltd (.com alternative)
.med (Medical)
.nic (Network Information Centers)
.noc (Network Operations Centers)
.porn
.xxx
Also, AlterNIC has the following domains:
See here for the list and more info. Also, it is apparently possible to register an entire TLD. (.msft, anyone?)
In Europe (this is Oslo....), a comma is a dot, and a dot is a comma. Thus 3 million would be 3.000.000 and 8 and three quarters would be 8,75 ...
*We'd be immune to AIDS, cancer, and anything that can't penetrate an android body into which we could have our computer-minds implanted.
*We could link our minds to each other and transfer information, and perhaps even entire memories and experiences.
*It'd be that much easier to multitask.
On the other hand... *A static charge could kill us,
*as could a simple computer virus.
We'll have to be careful.
If I can't have girls in my room, I'll need the net for something other than education...
And if I can't go to those sites, then I need girls in my room!
They have them at the Store of Knowledge and similar places.
Basic set is $20... Advanced is 40 and Expert is 60. Here is the product info for the three sets.
He wanted to have more time to advise AOL in their programming practices...
All you'd have to do is attach some sort of circular sensor to the head and shoulders... It could sense the rotation of the head relative to the shoulders and turn the avatar accordingly. Small turn (10 deg. or so) means turn slowly, large turn (90?) means quickly.
As for the wider field of vision, all they'd need to do is build an oversized pair or something. And in doing so they could most likely up to resolution to 1024 x 768...
SVGA? That's probably not hard, although it may have to built specifically for that setting.
I don't know about the rest of the other people you mentioned, but Mark Twain lived from 1835 to 1910. The vast majority of his work was written in the 19th century. It was often about, and commenting on, the post-Civil-War South. I think this more applies to last century.
...is it even possible to trademark a person's name?
Well, David Bowie had an IPO, so why not?
"Look, I own three shares of David Bowie's left nostril!"
Are they going to bring a suit naming all the museums in Italy as defendants? How about the Louvre? And what about the Ninja Turtles?
But how well can we program them to do specific tasks?
I know the vision running through many people's heads is one of robots doing every simple task required. Cooking food, cleaning, etc.... But how versatile are they in terms of different tasks they can perform?
Obviously, programming a robot vaccuum cleaner is easy, given the layout and obstacles in the room. But when will a robot be cooking my breakfast?
I'm not Christian, but here it is: "Let them (humans) have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the Earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the Earth." (Genesis, 1:24) That was God talking there, saying Man shall have control over all the life on Earth. Not only does He not think that it's not ethical, He commanded that we should have control over the rest of life. And I would think that that would include studying it that we could make it ourself.
Would such a program cost $10 billion dollars? The Mars Society aims to get a million sigs on the petition, and I'd say they'll do it, too, with enough publicity.
But if, for every person in the country, 40 bucks were taken from tax money and allocated to it, we'd have 10 billion right there. And don't tell me taking an average of 40 bucks from an average of, what, $10-15 K in taxes will make a huge dent in the money. Take it from the military budget, we can already kill every person on the planet 10 times over with ammo to spare.
What I'd really like to see is some of these really rich computer entrepreneurs donating some money to this. I know Bill Gates could donate $20 billion and still have a comfortable lifestyle in his $50 million house complex.
The dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program.
-Arthur C. Clarke
That reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes strip abour ten years ago. The two of them saw what a mess we were making of Earth, and decided to move to Mars. They took off (in their wagon, entering orbit with the help of a wooden ramp) and landed on Mars... If I recall correctly, they left after deciding, essentially, that human presence was bound to mess up Mars like it did Earth.
I don't know about you, but I don't want my elevator telling me to have a nice day.
So what does this do to entropy? Seems to me like, since the total entropy of the universe must always increase with time (and, far as I can tell, this is one of the only things that is completely dependent on the flow of time), areas of reverse time would decrease in entropy.
Is it just me, or does that throw the Second Law of Thermodynamics out the window?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein
Seems to me that in the case of a computer inventing something, and the computer's owner/operator getting credit for it, the definition for the denial of a patent needs to be modified a bit. Change it to 'A patent is denied when the idea to set up and program a computer to search for/devise an invention is obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art....' and it almost makes sense. Of course, my wording's probably a bit awkward, but you get the idea...
Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that silicon CAN perform the same functions as carbon in being an integral part of life.
Let's also assume that it DOES have the same side always facing the sun.
Would it be at all possible for life to evolve on the cooler side of the planet, still maybe warm enough to support life? Of course, there's no sunlight for photosynthesis, but that may not be the only method of creating oxygen in the atmosphere...
Of course, I'm probably completely wrong on this. And it'll be moot when the planet does the big sun-dive.
The sheer number of people who see movies like this as one of their only sources of information are going to cause some problems because of their panic... Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Why not try and track down the rest of the skeleton? If it had been found, and it was non-human, we probably would have heard of it by now. If it hasn't been found, then can't we figure out where the caves are and search them? And, of course, if the rest has been found, and it's completely human, then it's obviously either a human skull or a hoax.
This is, of course, assuming that the story of how the skulls were found is true, which, quite honestly, I'd say is doubtful, given the scientific processes by which the "scientists" arrived at the conclusion that the skull is at least partially non-human.
But a DNA test will help determine whether it's human, or another hominid...
whoops. 15-16" wouldn't be fine, it'd be great... if you've got the RAM to support it. Otherwise, you'd have trouble booting.