Voyager 1 has been travelling for thirty years and still isn't completely out of the solar system. If you travel at half the speed of light it will take you that long to get to Sirius and back.
I think before we contemplate attacking France maybe we should get out of our own backyard first.
Will they simply laugh at us earthlings; or shake their heads in frustration, wondering "when will we ever learn"?
What makes you think life forms entirely alien to earth will even have heads? Starfish have no heads, jellyfish have no heads.
I think it's a bit early to worry about TFS's "Star Trek Prime Directive". Sure, there is probably life alien to earth but face it, guys - we haven't found any. Not yet.
There are folks who think an advanced civilization from some other star has already come here to study us (Roswell), but if in fact those are aliens come to visit us, I think it more likely that it is a species descended from us come back in time to do some archaeology rather than visiting from Betelguise to work on a Wikipedia entry on us..
Travelling faster than the speed of light is, after all, just as impossible as time travel. Humans have been human for less than a million years, what will we be like in another ten million? Will we have found that time travel is as impossible as air travel was 1000 years ago?
Well, that was a semiliterate error! It should have been "having" rather than "have". The "if you" part of "if you have" could be put in as well, but I agree that it isn't very readable.
There's a difference between a typo (dropping a ltter when one is TYPING) and not knowing how a word is spelled. Semiliterate. Like when "I road on the rode"".
A misplaced apostrophe may or may not change the meaning of a word. "The engine has leak's" would flag itself as an error and cause no confusion, but when "leak's" is at the beginning of a sentence you would think that the rest of the sentence is about something the leak has caused.
If you want a truly horrifying experience, try watching a teen chatting with other teens on myspaceIM.
No thanks. I'd rather try and decipher Russian using babelfish. Why aren't those kids' teachers flunking them? It isn't the kids' fault, it's their teachers'.
Call it sub-literate, call it semi-literate, call it the dumbing-down of our youth, call it whatever you would like. It's a trend that is only increasing as the technology curve grows.
I don't think that's accurate. I don't think people are dumber these days, I think it's just that you never saw semiliterates' writing very much before the internet.
William Shakespeare couldn't spell his own name
I always said he was a talentless hack!
and Albert Einstein flunked out of school
His teachers were the morons, not him. I once failed a paper in high school because the teacher thought I made up the word hierarchy.
If my sentense structure makes the sentenses hard to parse than I should try harder and hope someone corrcets me. Because I only want to look stupid when I WANT to look stupid.
That's true, and I may be wrong but I think most of the "Libertarians" here are more socail libertarians rather than economic libertarins. Anyone middle class or below who thinks government regulation of corporations is a bad thing is ignorantly brainwashed.
As to the actual subject, it already costs way too much for a patent. The world lost yet another device a couple of weeks ago when I had to keep my head down after a vitrectomy. If a patent was twenty bucks and fill in a form, the device would be on the market in a couple of years.
But as there's no way in hell I'm giving away ideas for free to big rich corporations who always scream about their intellectual "property" the world is just going to have to make do without it.
And don't believe everything everything you see on mythbusters; there was a slashdot story last yeat about some kids at MIT debunking Mythbusters, who had "proven" that the ancient Greek death ray was impossible.
I really, REALLY wish you people would learn to use an apostrophe, damn it! And more importantly, when NOT to use one.
Semilierates wouldn't have a problem, but some of us see images and smell smells as well as hearing sounds when we read. So I read "I understand that the SR-71's leaked fuel:
I see an SR71 fuel leak and smell the JP4 (or JP3 or whatever the mix they used was)
"until they got up high enough"
Then I have to start over because I have NO FUCKING CLUE what you are talking about. I'm sure it's easier for younger nerds, who are used to all the illiterates on the internet but us geezers aren't used to reading writing that was written by illiterates.
Damned internet, I'm gonna go find a book by someone literate that's been edited by someone else literate. Too bad nobody under the age of 30 does this any more.
As to your post, I was stationed at a base in 1974 that had several SR71s. I never saw any stains where they were parked, and never heard about leaks, so I'm assuming you probably read that in People magazine or (more likely) saw it on TV. Because I've never heard of them leaking and can't imagine that they would let a new plane like that leak.
Have the engines fall off is quite another thing entirely, the C5As had that problem. But leaks? Nah. Well the hydraulics maybe...
"Yeah, I heard they caught a couple of animal rights activists trying to start a fire at Macy's but they passed out because they were too weak from only eating vegetables." ~ Oscar Wilde on Animal Rights Activists
I used the Uncyclopedia because everybody knows wikipedia is unreliable. Like, you know, Britannica is flawless and all.
I don't hate the people, only the crap they make. It's annoying and frustrating and tries to dictate to me how I should use it. With software especially that's ass-backwards, but that's one of the things I hate amout Microsoft stuff - it's ass backwards and forces you to work that way. I don't just strongly dislike using Micorsoft software, I am loathe to use the stuff. I have to use it at work, however.
If I didn't have to use Microsoft's software I wouldn't mind it a bit.
Yeah, like a car wreck is interesting. The problem isn't that patents aren't expensive enough, your big corporations that can afford patents can afford any sum. The problems are severalfold, and making patents more expensive will only make the problem worse, not better.
Who gave Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump mod points anyway? I thought this was a nerd site, not a neocon economics site!
Never fear, the metamods will correct the problem.
Not anti-science; anti-technology. You can't patent a scientific discovery, And as you say, it shouldn't be that way. If a patent was twenty bucks you would have published.
You just touched on what I see as the biggest problem. You have to be a rich person or a rich corporatuin to get a patent in the first place.
When I had to have my head down after my Vitrectomy (it's journaled) I thought of a device that would have mede my life for that week and a half a lot less hellish. If patents were like copyrights and all I had to do was fill out a form with twenty bucks, I'd have applied for a petent on it and the world's vitrectomy sufferers would be spared some grief.
But I can't afford a patent. If you thnk I'm going to give it to some big corporation for free You're crazy. If I could give it to the world for free I'd be fine with that, but the way the laws are it's impoessible; a big corporation would have it.
So if you have a vitrectomy you can blame me for part of your suffering - because if patent laws were so that I as a middle class working man could get a patent, it would be on the market in no time.
Patent laws are stifling innovation and copyright laws are stifling artistic creativity. Too bad "we, the people" lost our voice long ago.
If it's tastier I'll be happy with it. But they try to say tofu is tastier when in fact it's NASTY. The same people will push margarine instead of butter. Margarine is NASTY. The winner of this x-prise will undoubtedly come up with something NASTY.
Hell, every single thing the food conglomerates come up with is nasty compared to even homegrown, let alone artificial food compared to homegrown. I can barely eat a store tomato. I thought I hated peas, but found out what I hated was canned peas, fresh or frozen are tasty. Grocery store eggs are edible but the brown country eggs are a whole lot better.
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Voyager 1 has been travelling for thirty years and still isn't completely out of the solar system. If you travel at half the speed of light it will take you that long to get to Sirius and back.
I think before we contemplate attacking France maybe we should get out of our own backyard first.
Please? Please? Just ONE question? PLEASE?
This equation was devised by Dr. Frank Drake (now Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz) in 1960, in an attempt to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy with which we might come in contact. The main purpose of the equation is to allow scientists to quantify the uncertainty of the factors which determine the number of such extraterrestrial civilizations.
There is no page titled "Drake equation".
"D'Oh... I really should have read that book by that wheelchair guy." ~ Homer Simpson on Quantum Singularities
Will they simply laugh at us earthlings; or shake their heads in frustration, wondering "when will we ever learn"?
What makes you think life forms entirely alien to earth will even have heads? Starfish have no heads, jellyfish have no heads.
I think it's a bit early to worry about TFS's "Star Trek Prime Directive". Sure, there is probably life alien to earth but face it, guys - we haven't found any. Not yet.
There are folks who think an advanced civilization from some other star has already come here to study us (Roswell), but if in fact those are aliens come to visit us, I think it more likely that it is a species descended from us come back in time to do some archaeology rather than visiting from Betelguise to work on a Wikipedia entry on us..
Travelling faster than the speed of light is, after all, just as impossible as time travel. Humans have been human for less than a million years, what will we be like in another ten million? Will we have found that time travel is as impossible as air travel was 1000 years ago?
Oops, I forgot how unreliable it was! Here you gow.
"Isaac Asimov is in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously."
~ Arthur C. Clarke on Isaac Asimov
Well, that was a semiliterate error! It should have been "having" rather than "have". The "if you" part of "if you have" could be put in as well, but I agree that it isn't very readable.
I would but they probably own a patent on telling anone anything.
There's a difference between a typo (dropping a ltter when one is TYPING) and not knowing how a word is spelled. Semiliterate. Like when "I road on the rode"".
A misplaced apostrophe may or may not change the meaning of a word. "The engine has leak's" would flag itself as an error and cause no confusion, but when "leak's" is at the beginning of a sentence you would think that the rest of the sentence is about something the leak has caused.
If you want a truly horrifying experience, try watching a teen chatting with other teens on myspaceIM.
No thanks. I'd rather try and decipher Russian using babelfish. Why aren't those kids' teachers flunking them? It isn't the kids' fault, it's their teachers'.
Call it sub-literate, call it semi-literate, call it the dumbing-down of our youth, call it whatever you would like. It's a trend that is only increasing as the technology curve grows.
I don't think that's accurate. I don't think people are dumber these days, I think it's just that you never saw semiliterates' writing very much before the internet.
William Shakespeare couldn't spell his own name
I always said he was a talentless hack!
and Albert Einstein flunked out of school
His teachers were the morons, not him. I once failed a paper in high school because the teacher thought I made up the word hierarchy.
If my sentense structure makes the sentenses hard to parse than I should try harder and hope someone corrcets me. Because I only want to look stupid when I WANT to look stupid.
122,000 Errors? That's a lot of "technical details!" Yikes!
That's true, and I may be wrong but I think most of the "Libertarians" here are more socail libertarians rather than economic libertarins. Anyone middle class or below who thinks government regulation of corporations is a bad thing is ignorantly brainwashed.
As to the actual subject, it already costs way too much for a patent. The world lost yet another device a couple of weeks ago when I had to keep my head down after a vitrectomy. If a patent was twenty bucks and fill in a form, the device would be on the market in a couple of years.
But as there's no way in hell I'm giving away ideas for free to big rich corporations who always scream about their intellectual "property" the world is just going to have to make do without it.
kinda makes you wonder what the hell they're working on now!
Here ya go!
Retuire to a job? What a stupid airplane!
When I retire I'm not even going to mow the lawn.
Jet fuel is a mixture of gasoline and kerosine.
And don't believe everything everything you see on mythbusters; there was a slashdot story last yeat about some kids at MIT debunking Mythbusters, who had "proven" that the ancient Greek death ray was impossible.
I really, REALLY wish you people would learn to use an apostrophe, damn it! And more importantly, when NOT to use one.
Semilierates wouldn't have a problem, but some of us see images and smell smells as well as hearing sounds when we read. So I read "I understand that the SR-71's leaked fuel:
I see an SR71 fuel leak and smell the JP4 (or JP3 or whatever the mix they used was)
"until they got up high enough"
Then I have to start over because I have NO FUCKING CLUE what you are talking about. I'm sure it's easier for younger nerds, who are used to all the illiterates on the internet but us geezers aren't used to reading writing that was written by illiterates.
Damned internet, I'm gonna go find a book by someone literate that's been edited by someone else literate. Too bad nobody under the age of 30 does this any more.
As to your post, I was stationed at a base in 1974 that had several SR71s. I never saw any stains where they were parked, and never heard about leaks, so I'm assuming you probably read that in People magazine or (more likely) saw it on TV. Because I've never heard of them leaking and can't imagine that they would let a new plane like that leak.
Have the engines fall off is quite another thing entirely, the C5As had that problem. But leaks? Nah. Well the hydraulics maybe...
That was only PART of the joke. The bigger joke is PETA.
I looked it up.
"Yeah, I heard they caught a couple of animal rights activists trying to start a fire at Macy's but they passed out because they were too weak from only eating vegetables."
~ Oscar Wilde on Animal Rights Activists
I used the Uncyclopedia because everybody knows wikipedia is unreliable. Like, you know, Britannica is flawless and all.
Actually I have killed and cleaned animals, never a horse. I'd have to be pretty hungry to eat a horse.
I don't hate the people, only the crap they make. It's annoying and frustrating and tries to dictate to me how I should use it. With software especially that's ass-backwards, but that's one of the things I hate amout Microsoft stuff - it's ass backwards and forces you to work that way. I don't just strongly dislike using Micorsoft software, I am loathe to use the stuff. I have to use it at work, however.
If I didn't have to use Microsoft's software I wouldn't mind it a bit.
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Yeah, like a car wreck is interesting. The problem isn't that patents aren't expensive enough, your big corporations that can afford patents can afford any sum. The problems are severalfold, and making patents more expensive will only make the problem worse, not better.
Who gave Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump mod points anyway? I thought this was a nerd site, not a neocon economics site!
Never fear, the metamods will correct the problem.
I got modded troll and flamebait for saying this here once: we need to reboot the legal system.
Mod me down again mister "the corporation can do no wrong and i'm better because I have more money" neocon, my karma's still excellent >=P
patents are profoundly anti-science
Not anti-science; anti-technology. You can't patent a scientific discovery, And as you say, it shouldn't be that way. If a patent was twenty bucks you would have published.
You just touched on what I see as the biggest problem. You have to be a rich person or a rich corporatuin to get a patent in the first place.
When I had to have my head down after my Vitrectomy (it's journaled) I thought of a device that would have mede my life for that week and a half a lot less hellish. If patents were like copyrights and all I had to do was fill out a form with twenty bucks, I'd have applied for a petent on it and the world's vitrectomy sufferers would be spared some grief.
But I can't afford a patent. If you thnk I'm going to give it to some big corporation for free You're crazy. If I could give it to the world for free I'd be fine with that, but the way the laws are it's impoessible; a big corporation would have it.
So if you have a vitrectomy you can blame me for part of your suffering - because if patent laws were so that I as a middle class working man could get a patent, it would be on the market in no time.
Patent laws are stifling innovation and copyright laws are stifling artistic creativity. Too bad "we, the people" lost our voice long ago.
-mcgrew
Aren't you haunted by all those broccoli who died for you? Oh the horrors!
If it's tastier I'll be happy with it. But they try to say tofu is tastier when in fact it's NASTY. The same people will push margarine instead of butter. Margarine is NASTY. The winner of this x-prise will undoubtedly come up with something NASTY.
Hell, every single thing the food conglomerates come up with is nasty compared to even homegrown, let alone artificial food compared to homegrown. I can barely eat a store tomato. I thought I hated peas, but found out what I hated was canned peas, fresh or frozen are tasty. Grocery store eggs are edible but the brown country eggs are a whole lot better.