Hold on a minute... you get energy from fission. You get energy from fusion. Damn, I'm confused. As Pogo said, "nuclear physics ain't so new, and it ain't so clear!"
However, PLANTS convert energy to matter. I forgot about plants. But we didn't invent those, not yet anway.
I never said they didn't nake money you fucking moron, I said that wasn't their primary purpose. Now get the fuck off my lawn and back to the fifth grade you stupid boy.
Since you;re working with atoms and molecules raw materials are free; even gold and platimum, which are surely in and on the dust floating around in this room, and there are gold and platinum in the computer I'm typing on. You'll have little "seeker" nanobots flying around inspecting dust and searching for the needed raw materials. As to energy, if you can make anything without cost, you can construct solar panels and windmills and batteries other such energy producers for free as well.
It's a shame that the technology to do science costs so much, but since it does it's a good thing that some rich people see their money for the tool it is and act accordingly, instead of worshiping it.
I hope the folks who work on the various rovers get together periodically and exchange ideas -- a standard data bus, a secure common operating system, reuse of algorithms, joint testing of components... could save time, money, and mistakes.
Must... resist... making... lame microsoft joke...
Dude, give it up. That was the worst attempt at trolling I've ever seen. If you want aliens you need to go to my journal. Well actually that one's not a good example, the alien is only mentioned in passing. It's more about alcohol and drugs and violence and attempted murder and what's worse, shooting pool. The entry from last year titled Alien Invader would be more to your liking.
I called the cops on the alien. The stupid alien almost got hauled off to jail.
-mcgrew
(PS- downmodding myself here, no karma bonus on this one as it's only on topic for the troll it bites.)
Saying "The Hubble not making profit is like saying that people don't pay taxes" is like saying "eggs are like rabbits."
Eggs and rabbits are alive unless they're dead, that's where the similarity ends. Taxes are money and so are profits, that's where the similarity ends.
The sunrise isn't an analogy. I did indeed profit from it, and it doesn't matter whether or not the sunrise was created. It was there, it had value, it was priceless and costless. If it wasn't costless, if I had to pay money to construct it, I would have. IBM moving atoms isn't costless, but it is priceless.
How valuable is the air you breathe? How much do you pay for it? I pity you and your pathetically narrow world view.
Money is only a tool. You shouldn't worship your tools. Not because of any religious injunction but because worshiping your tools is retarded.
You're missing an importanat step in your transporter - converting mass to energy and back. We've been able to convert mass to energy since prehistoric times (a campfire converts mass to energy) but AFAIK we've never converted energy to mass.
If we could you could conceivably unfry an egg, which would violate all three laws of thermodynamics.
I think we'll probably break the lightspeed barrier first. That will likely happen right after Satan wins his first snowball fight, if Einstein was right.
A step forward to the Star Trek Matter Replicator.
When you have a machine that can construct anything out of atoms or even molecules (perhaps nanometer sized machines doing the constructing, in the scale of billions of the little things), then physical property will in fact be equal to intellectual property.
In short, the only thing that will have monetary value will be land. The "IP" wars being waged today are setting the stage for the future wars between the "have nots" and the "we have but don't want anyone else to"s.
The matter replicator will cause more upheaval than any invention earth has ever seen. Blood will be shed just to maintain the rich's illusion of superiority.
Dude, what are you doing at slashdot? This is a nerd site, not a greedhead site. This advances human knowlege, who gives a damn if it ever makes a profit?
Does the Hubble bring profit? No. Do earth based telescopes bring anyone profit? No. Should they? Not as a primary function. There are more important things in life than money and profits!
There was a beautiful sunrise this morning. Although nobody made any money off of it, I greatly profited by the experience. Mankind greatly profits by knowing how much force is required to move an atom, whether IBM makes any money from the exersize or not.
Go back to the bank to worship your little green god and stop trolling us nerds.
Clinton surprised me. I thought he'd be a really bad President but when he ran for reelection he became the first one I actually voted FOR as opposed to holding my nose and picking the lesser of two evils.
Carter's problem, I think, was that he was a good man. You need to be a ruthless patriot to be a good President. Carter was a patriot but didn't have a ruthless bone in his body. Bush is ruthless but he doesn't give a damne about the country, only his own interests. I never thought I'd see a worse President than Carter but Bush proved me wrong.
Reagan was a lousy President too, unless you were rich.
Why does slashdot let me submit a comment without previewing, then when I do it says the seventeen seconds to type "You should have been modded up" isn't long enough?
No, I did it outside and carefully. I still have all my body parts (well a few brain cells may have bit the dust).
However, at age 12 I was walking past the back of my friend Tom's house (I still keep in touch with the lunatic, we're both 55 now) and he was in his back yard with a hammer.
"Whatcha doin', Tom?"
"I'm gonna hit this bullet with a hammer!"
"You're gonna WHAT?" I ran inside his house; I'd been taught firearm safety. His mom asked what I was doing. "Tom's gonna hit a bullet with a hammer."
"He's going to WHAT?!"
BLAM!!!
She ran outside, and brought him back in, blood dripping from his hand from where the shell casing had scraped it.
"I did it!" he proudly exclaimed. He was pretty damned lucky to be alive, let alone to keep all his body parts.
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Thanks for asking.
Hold on a minute... you get energy from fission. You get energy from fusion. Damn, I'm confused. As Pogo said, "nuclear physics ain't so new, and it ain't so clear!"
However, PLANTS convert energy to matter. I forgot about plants. But we didn't invent those, not yet anway.
I never said they didn't nake money you fucking moron, I said that wasn't their primary purpose. Now get the fuck off my lawn and back to the fifth grade you stupid boy.
7 years is a long time.
Seven years is the blink of an eye, kid.
Um, they just made an announcement that they reached 16Tbits/sec on Wednesday, sheesh. Use the bandwidth you have for something useful.
Like porn?
Since you;re working with atoms and molecules raw materials are free; even gold and platimum, which are surely in and on the dust floating around in this room, and there are gold and platinum in the computer I'm typing on. You'll have little "seeker" nanobots flying around inspecting dust and searching for the needed raw materials. As to energy, if you can make anything without cost, you can construct solar panels and windmills and batteries other such energy producers for free as well.
It's a shame that the technology to do science costs so much, but since it does it's a good thing that some rich people see their money for the tool it is and act accordingly, instead of worshiping it.
Kudos to Branson, Carmak, IBM's leaders, etc.
I hope the folks who work on the various rovers get together periodically and exchange ideas -- a standard data bus, a secure common operating system, reuse of algorithms, joint testing of components... could save time, money, and mistakes.
Must... resist... making... lame microsoft joke...
AAAGH! THE AGONY!
Dude, give it up. That was the worst attempt at trolling I've ever seen. If you want aliens you need to go to my journal. Well actually that one's not a good example, the alien is only mentioned in passing. It's more about alcohol and drugs and violence and attempted murder and what's worse, shooting pool. The entry from last year titled Alien Invader would be more to your liking.
I called the cops on the alien. The stupid alien almost got hauled off to jail.
-mcgrew
(PS- downmodding myself here, no karma bonus on this one as it's only on topic for the troll it bites.)
Saying "The Hubble not making profit is like saying that people don't pay taxes" is like saying "eggs are like rabbits."
Eggs and rabbits are alive unless they're dead, that's where the similarity ends. Taxes are money and so are profits, that's where the similarity ends.
The sunrise isn't an analogy. I did indeed profit from it, and it doesn't matter whether or not the sunrise was created. It was there, it had value, it was priceless and costless. If it wasn't costless, if I had to pay money to construct it, I would have. IBM moving atoms isn't costless, but it is priceless.
How valuable is the air you breathe? How much do you pay for it? I pity you and your pathetically narrow world view.
Money is only a tool. You shouldn't worship your tools. Not because of any religious injunction but because worshiping your tools is retarded.
You're missing an importanat step in your transporter - converting mass to energy and back. We've been able to convert mass to energy since prehistoric times (a campfire converts mass to energy) but AFAIK we've never converted energy to mass.
If we could you could conceivably unfry an egg, which would violate all three laws of thermodynamics.
I think we'll probably break the lightspeed barrier first. That will likely happen right after Satan wins his first snowball fight, if Einstein was right.
A step forward to the Star Trek Matter Replicator.
When you have a machine that can construct anything out of atoms or even molecules (perhaps nanometer sized machines doing the constructing, in the scale of billions of the little things), then physical property will in fact be equal to intellectual property.
In short, the only thing that will have monetary value will be land. The "IP" wars being waged today are setting the stage for the future wars between the "have nots" and the "we have but don't want anyone else to"s.
The matter replicator will cause more upheaval than any invention earth has ever seen. Blood will be shed just to maintain the rich's illusion of superiority.
Because when this story was there a week or two ago, 90% of the comments were stupid jokes.
What's wrong with stupid jokes, so long as they're funny?
Q: How many IBM engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: (insert punch line here)
Dude, what are you doing at slashdot? This is a nerd site, not a greedhead site. This advances human knowlege, who gives a damn if it ever makes a profit?
Does the Hubble bring profit? No. Do earth based telescopes bring anyone profit? No. Should they? Not as a primary function. There are more important things in life than money and profits!
There was a beautiful sunrise this morning. Although nobody made any money off of it, I greatly profited by the experience. Mankind greatly profits by knowing how much force is required to move an atom, whether IBM makes any money from the exersize or not.
Go back to the bank to worship your little green god and stop trolling us nerds.
I stand corrected.
His brain suffers some kind of disconnect from reality.
No, he's trying to sell hardware and hopes that YOUR (or rather, whoever runs a telco) brain is disconnected from reality.
Amen to that.
I have explained to every telco that either you become a destination site, or the destination site will become a telco
I didn;t actually RTFA but I'm going to have to, just to see how in the hell a web site will become an ISP.
I think the telcos have to make sure they don't get marginalized to being just bit providers and bandwidth providers
That's exactly what an ISP is supposed to be!
WTF is wrong with that guy, besides being a lying asshat who will say anything to sell his company's crap?
Me too but I don't think you would want to drink the water.
Clinton surprised me. I thought he'd be a really bad President but when he ran for reelection he became the first one I actually voted FOR as opposed to holding my nose and picking the lesser of two evils.
Carter's problem, I think, was that he was a good man. You need to be a ruthless patriot to be a good President. Carter was a patriot but didn't have a ruthless bone in his body. Bush is ruthless but he doesn't give a damne about the country, only his own interests. I never thought I'd see a worse President than Carter but Bush proved me wrong.
Reagan was a lousy President too, unless you were rich.
You should have been modded up.
Why does slashdot let me submit a comment without previewing, then when I do it says the seventeen seconds to type "You should have been modded up" isn't long enough?
Homer industries? Isn't Homer Gail's brother in law?
Look at this graph. 1999 is when they started rising. It was $1.05 here, prices vary from state to state. Yesterday it was $3.19.
No, I did it outside and carefully. I still have all my body parts (well a few brain cells may have bit the dust).
However, at age 12 I was walking past the back of my friend Tom's house (I still keep in touch with the lunatic, we're both 55 now) and he was in his back yard with a hammer.
"Whatcha doin', Tom?"
"I'm gonna hit this bullet with a hammer!"
"You're gonna WHAT?" I ran inside his house; I'd been taught firearm safety. His mom asked what I was doing. "Tom's gonna hit a bullet with a hammer."
"He's going to WHAT?!"
BLAM!!!
She ran outside, and brought him back in, blood dripping from his hand from where the shell casing had scraped it.
"I did it!" he proudly exclaimed. He was pretty damned lucky to be alive, let alone to keep all his body parts.
I've never heard of one that could fly without a tow plane.
TWO BRICKS BEING SMASHED TOGETHER!
I'm sorry sir, but that's offtopic. Try Again, please.
I'D LIKE TO SEE... A ROCKET SMASHING INTO THE MOON!
That's more like it. And now for something completely different...