Doesn't this mean the odds are even higher that life could evolve in space than even on planets? Maybe not higher lifeforms but simple ones. Resources are sparce so the formation and life processes would be slow but looking at the shear volume of material and area involved the odds should be much higher that life itself and not just the elements of life would start in space. Just in our system there's a massive donut of space within the life zone with a great deal of material available. Even gas giants would provide energy for life to form expanding the zone even more.
You're forgetting the most important point, how did they taste in sushi? Several million Japanese are dying to find out. See, there are good reasons for cloning.
I'm not sure if the guy patented it but I saw the exact same setup, I believe it was in Popular Science, thirty years or more ago. Dead serious on this one. It had the same front fin arrangement. I remember photos of him testing it in a swiming pool. I think he claimed more than 2 knots but it could have been exaggerated. I seem to remember it being more like 3 or 4 knots.
How long will it take until video drivers are Vista Only - just to force an upgrade to Vista?
Try going to pro level video cards. Graphics software is Open GL driven so they'll never drop the standard. The prices are inline with the better gaming cards especially if you are willing to accept last year's technology. I just bought workstation video cards for some new machines I'km building that once sold for $2,800 for $360 a piece. They may not be cutting edge but the quality is still stunning.
Want to know what you can get for nothing? Head down to Blockbuster and find the crappiest video horror film you can find. Even those do cost some money but they are cheap enough for people to produce for ego reasons and not have to worry about keeping investors happy. Want big budget films like Transformers and Bourne? Those cost 1,000X to 2,000X, or more, as much to make. They need equipment and skilled people to make. Everyone working cheap still won't make them free it'll just drive out the last of the talented people. There is no economic model that can make high budget, or even low budget films, for no money. The only possible option would be massive amounts of advertizing which would result in people wanting to find ways to view them without seeing the advertizing. In that case advertizers would loose interest and the money would still dry up. If you want to see it pay for it, if you don't want to see it that bad pass on it. Supply and demand. If the revenue dries up so will the films.
I say the military contractors should declare war on each other. It'd cut out the middle man and make things more clear cut. Instead of road side bombs they'd be bombing each other's factories. Think of all the jobs being created rebuilding factories let alone all the new weapons!
The problem really is if they start out as we did with radio signals then they would be low powered for local use. Once they advance to space travel it's unlikely they'd be using radio type communications. There's either a narrow range of years, where we are now, where they might try to contact other races. Once they advance to interstellar space travel it's unlikely they'd be interested in tracking down far less advanced civilizations. Why broadcast radio signals hoping to hear back in ten thousand years from a far less advanced civilization? The only real hope is detecting radio signals that escaped into space but we don't have equipment sensitive enough to detect weak signals. Let's say there's a two hundred year window a race uses radio signals. Say over the last million years 100 races developed to the point of using radio within a 100 light years of us. Overlaps in two races in the zone would be rare and that's even assuming we had the equipment to detect the signals. But what about a million lightyears away? The signal would be that much weaker. The only hope really is a long term program with the intent to communicate with other races. We've yet to do that ourselves. We haven't had a civilization last ten thousand years so how likely is it going to be that we are still monitoring radio signals in ten thousand years? It's been a fight to keep SETI going for a few decades and it just monitors a fairly narrow range of signals in low noise areas of the spectrum.
He signs up for National Guard and the next thing he knows he's cruising the streets of Bagdad. Now for the really bad news robots don't get rotated stateside.
Just a rationalization to monitor people using WOW and Second Life. Pretty soon they'll have an excuse to monitor anyone they want because of some affliation. Does anyone remember the Red Scare days when just subscribing to certain mainstream magazines was enough to get you under suspicion? The current administration are a bunch of freedom hating facistist that want the dirt on everyone possible. Knowledge is power and they want intel on everyone they see as a threat. That includes most Americans. If they're addicted to WOW I'd say the threat from those terrorist has been neutralized. Better to try to get more hooked on it then we can bargin with them for a few million in on-line gold than billions in repartions for all damage done by the war.
You can patent the process to convert the DNA to music but not the DNA itself as music. You might have some rights to music made from your own unique DNA but patenting the concept is rediculous. I doubt anything of value would be made from DNA but it's the principal. Part of the point is are they sequencing the DNA themselves or using sequencing done by the Human Genome project? If so what rights do they have to the Genome Project sequencing information? It's meant for medical use not to be exploited for some BS patent for generating music.
You expected fair and balanced reporting from Fox News? Ever watch Fox News before? They're the first news service in history to qualify in the dramatic series category for the Emmy Awards.
It's bad enough we have to compete with low wages in other countries but we also have to compete with the fact countries like China and the India largely don't pay for software. I have tens of thousands a year in hardware and software purchases just trying to survive. It's impossible to compete against foreign companies. Already my primary client wants to shop part of the work I've been dealing with to a foreign source because they can save money. The situation will get radically worse before there's any hope of improving. It's competely rediculous that I have to pay many thousands a year just in upgrades while most of Asia pays $5 for most any software you can name on pirate disks. I'm not complaining about software prices I just don't see why they should be allowed to get essentially get for free what I pay a bundle for. My money is going to support their free software since I have to help pay for development costs where as they freeload.
I just changed services yesterday. I drove the salesperson nuts but I didn't get a single condition I wanted. Every single service was the same, there were no options. Everyone had two years contracts where as I wanted no more than a one year. I wanted an iPhone but I can't swing it. If I want out of the contract in a year it'll cost me $200. Well I thought that was for the extra cost of the cell phone. Nope the store will charge me $200 if I cancel in less than six months because they are paying for the phone. The $200 the phone company is charging is simply because they can. I paid an extra $100 to get a razor, it may be trendy but it seemed the best option. The salesperson also lied to me that I didn't have to send in for the $50 rebate, I wasn't happy about that. I was also annoyed that I didn't want text messaging or internet but I was warned that if I recieve a text message or accidentally hit the button for the internet I'd be charged. I asked can I disable it? No I couldn't. So if some one decides to text message me I get charged. They also lied about that. I was told it'd be $0.10 a message. When I got the contract it turned out to be $0.15 a message. Basically there were no options with the service and they were all the same. That's essentially price fixing when every company decides to set the same conditions and give no options. I even asked if there was an option of buying a phone outright, paying $300, and not have a contract? Nope, not a single service offered to sell you a phone and sell you a monthly service. It's a scam to lock you into 24 month contracts and they are all involved. There are a couple like Virgin offering monthly contracts or pay as you go but they are very expensive and the support on Virgin was miserable beyond belief, that was the service I cancelled. When my battery went dead I tried switching the service to a new phone. I only wound up killing both phones and tech support after over an hour was of no help. I wish I could recommend Virgin but their plans suck and if you need support they'll put you through hell. I happened to talk to one of their reps when I tried to buy the replacement phone and she admitted that support was by far their biggest complaint but their upper management had no plans to fix the mess. They are a last ditch service so they aren't responsive to their customers. Everyone is complaining about iPhones but when you compare them to what else is out there I can't see anything better. The phone itself is expensive but the service providers tend to be six of one and half a dozen of the other. Cell phones in general lack options. Your only choice buying a cell phone or not buying one, they spoonfeed you conditions. Congress really needs to take on the phone companies over the condition fixing but first they have to stop taking tens of millions from the telecoms.
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Doesn't this mean the odds are even higher that life could evolve in space than even on planets? Maybe not higher lifeforms but simple ones. Resources are sparce so the formation and life processes would be slow but looking at the shear volume of material and area involved the odds should be much higher that life itself and not just the elements of life would start in space. Just in our system there's a massive donut of space within the life zone with a great deal of material available. Even gas giants would provide energy for life to form expanding the zone even more.
Boneless humans.
we'll cut down a forest in your honor.
You're forgetting the most important point, how did they taste in sushi? Several million Japanese are dying to find out. See, there are good reasons for cloning.
I'm not sure if the guy patented it but I saw the exact same setup, I believe it was in Popular Science, thirty years or more ago. Dead serious on this one. It had the same front fin arrangement. I remember photos of him testing it in a swiming pool. I think he claimed more than 2 knots but it could have been exaggerated. I seem to remember it being more like 3 or 4 knots.
I feel for the frogs. I've had kidney stones. Even perfect ones would hurt like hell.
Try going to pro level video cards. Graphics software is Open GL driven so they'll never drop the standard. The prices are inline with the better gaming cards especially if you are willing to accept last year's technology. I just bought workstation video cards for some new machines I'km building that once sold for $2,800 for $360 a piece. They may not be cutting edge but the quality is still stunning.
Want to know what you can get for nothing? Head down to Blockbuster and find the crappiest video horror film you can find. Even those do cost some money but they are cheap enough for people to produce for ego reasons and not have to worry about keeping investors happy. Want big budget films like Transformers and Bourne? Those cost 1,000X to 2,000X, or more, as much to make. They need equipment and skilled people to make. Everyone working cheap still won't make them free it'll just drive out the last of the talented people. There is no economic model that can make high budget, or even low budget films, for no money. The only possible option would be massive amounts of advertizing which would result in people wanting to find ways to view them without seeing the advertizing. In that case advertizers would loose interest and the money would still dry up. If you want to see it pay for it, if you don't want to see it that bad pass on it. Supply and demand. If the revenue dries up so will the films.
I say the military contractors should declare war on each other. It'd cut out the middle man and make things more clear cut. Instead of road side bombs they'd be bombing each other's factories. Think of all the jobs being created rebuilding factories let alone all the new weapons!
It also protects you from lots of commercial software and hardware.
Yeah but have they split the Beer atom?
The problem really is if they start out as we did with radio signals then they would be low powered for local use. Once they advance to space travel it's unlikely they'd be using radio type communications. There's either a narrow range of years, where we are now, where they might try to contact other races. Once they advance to interstellar space travel it's unlikely they'd be interested in tracking down far less advanced civilizations. Why broadcast radio signals hoping to hear back in ten thousand years from a far less advanced civilization? The only real hope is detecting radio signals that escaped into space but we don't have equipment sensitive enough to detect weak signals. Let's say there's a two hundred year window a race uses radio signals. Say over the last million years 100 races developed to the point of using radio within a 100 light years of us. Overlaps in two races in the zone would be rare and that's even assuming we had the equipment to detect the signals. But what about a million lightyears away? The signal would be that much weaker. The only hope really is a long term program with the intent to communicate with other races. We've yet to do that ourselves. We haven't had a civilization last ten thousand years so how likely is it going to be that we are still monitoring radio signals in ten thousand years? It's been a fight to keep SETI going for a few decades and it just monitors a fairly narrow range of signals in low noise areas of the spectrum.
He signs up for National Guard and the next thing he knows he's cruising the streets of Bagdad. Now for the really bad news robots don't get rotated stateside.
lead based sun block?
Just a rationalization to monitor people using WOW and Second Life. Pretty soon they'll have an excuse to monitor anyone they want because of some affliation. Does anyone remember the Red Scare days when just subscribing to certain mainstream magazines was enough to get you under suspicion? The current administration are a bunch of freedom hating facistist that want the dirt on everyone possible. Knowledge is power and they want intel on everyone they see as a threat. That includes most Americans. If they're addicted to WOW I'd say the threat from those terrorist has been neutralized. Better to try to get more hooked on it then we can bargin with them for a few million in on-line gold than billions in repartions for all damage done by the war.
The movie was "I Know Who Killed Me". It was definitely a camcorder.
You can patent the process to convert the DNA to music but not the DNA itself as music. You might have some rights to music made from your own unique DNA but patenting the concept is rediculous. I doubt anything of value would be made from DNA but it's the principal. Part of the point is are they sequencing the DNA themselves or using sequencing done by the Human Genome project? If so what rights do they have to the Genome Project sequencing information? It's meant for medical use not to be exploited for some BS patent for generating music.
That's all we need terrorist on the moon!
Paris Hilton and Nicohol Richie could pass a flight medical test? What's next Keith Richards passing a flight readness test?
You expected fair and balanced reporting from Fox News? Ever watch Fox News before? They're the first news service in history to qualify in the dramatic series category for the Emmy Awards.
That's been Shatner's motto for decades.
Wow, you're uptown. I'm still using tracing paper and make giant flip books of my favorite shows.
It's bad enough we have to compete with low wages in other countries but we also have to compete with the fact countries like China and the India largely don't pay for software. I have tens of thousands a year in hardware and software purchases just trying to survive. It's impossible to compete against foreign companies. Already my primary client wants to shop part of the work I've been dealing with to a foreign source because they can save money. The situation will get radically worse before there's any hope of improving. It's competely rediculous that I have to pay many thousands a year just in upgrades while most of Asia pays $5 for most any software you can name on pirate disks. I'm not complaining about software prices I just don't see why they should be allowed to get essentially get for free what I pay a bundle for. My money is going to support their free software since I have to help pay for development costs where as they freeload.
I just changed services yesterday. I drove the salesperson nuts but I didn't get a single condition I wanted. Every single service was the same, there were no options. Everyone had two years contracts where as I wanted no more than a one year. I wanted an iPhone but I can't swing it. If I want out of the contract in a year it'll cost me $200. Well I thought that was for the extra cost of the cell phone. Nope the store will charge me $200 if I cancel in less than six months because they are paying for the phone. The $200 the phone company is charging is simply because they can. I paid an extra $100 to get a razor, it may be trendy but it seemed the best option. The salesperson also lied to me that I didn't have to send in for the $50 rebate, I wasn't happy about that. I was also annoyed that I didn't want text messaging or internet but I was warned that if I recieve a text message or accidentally hit the button for the internet I'd be charged. I asked can I disable it? No I couldn't. So if some one decides to text message me I get charged. They also lied about that. I was told it'd be $0.10 a message. When I got the contract it turned out to be $0.15 a message. Basically there were no options with the service and they were all the same. That's essentially price fixing when every company decides to set the same conditions and give no options. I even asked if there was an option of buying a phone outright, paying $300, and not have a contract? Nope, not a single service offered to sell you a phone and sell you a monthly service. It's a scam to lock you into 24 month contracts and they are all involved. There are a couple like Virgin offering monthly contracts or pay as you go but they are very expensive and the support on Virgin was miserable beyond belief, that was the service I cancelled. When my battery went dead I tried switching the service to a new phone. I only wound up killing both phones and tech support after over an hour was of no help. I wish I could recommend Virgin but their plans suck and if you need support they'll put you through hell. I happened to talk to one of their reps when I tried to buy the replacement phone and she admitted that support was by far their biggest complaint but their upper management had no plans to fix the mess. They are a last ditch service so they aren't responsive to their customers. Everyone is complaining about iPhones but when you compare them to what else is out there I can't see anything better. The phone itself is expensive but the service providers tend to be six of one and half a dozen of the other. Cell phones in general lack options. Your only choice buying a cell phone or not buying one, they spoonfeed you conditions. Congress really needs to take on the phone companies over the condition fixing but first they have to stop taking tens of millions from the telecoms.
Not fair, Keith Richards only looks dead.