War on brain. For too long the brain has mocked us with its pithy comments and wry observations. No longer will we be held to the whims of that pickled organ that hides so smugly in its bony skull-like fortress using us like mindless slaves, forcing us to read endless articles on slashdot, trawling through comment after comment, doing battle with other brains whose ruthless control of their outer extremities is awesome to behold, kablahh!!!!
The mobile phone market in Ireland is completely deregulated, carriers are simply falling falling over each other to provide consumers with better deals, isn't it the same in Canada?. This seems as though the two companies in question agreed before hand to up the costs together without the threat of genuine competition from each other.
there's work underway to replace the light emitting components of flat panel displays with carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are much better conductors of electricity than copper. Graphene (flat carbon) could potentially replace silicon. the nanotubes are also incredibly strong, potentially replacing steel and concrete as a building material. Seeing as carbon is so good for making tubes, it could replace the entire internet AS WELL!!!!!!
quite right, if the attrition of the atmosphere on Mars had been due to a lack of gravity and/or the solar wind, Venus would surely be without an atmosphere as it has.9g and it is much more exposed to the abrasive effect of high velocity particles from the sun as well as havinga weak magnetic field. The atmosphere on Venus is 92 times more dense than earth.
the swedes also took to eugenics in a big way, sterilising 62,000 people between 1934 and 1975. The link between Eugenics and Sweden's new monitoring laws is the willingness of the Swedes to trust in the communal wisdom. Big brother knows best, and to be fair, Sweden seems to have got it right, they enjoy some of the highest living standards in the world in one of the most inhospitable climates of the world (during the winter anyway). However, what's good for the Swedes is not necessarily good for other countries, especially where the morality of the political elite is in question.
They should try switching the perceived colours of multiplayer teams and observe the result. For example, some games always show the enemy as red and friendlies as blue. Reversing this might have a noticeable effect on the game play and consequently lead the way to isolating the effect of team colour on our behaviour.
What really impresses me is the fact that the most powerful supercomputer in the world can only simulate a part of my brain, just goes to show the incredible level of processing we subconsciously perform on mundane everyday tasks, like wasting time on slashdot.
"Because, frankly, the stated aims of environmentalists - improving the forests, saving the fuzzy animals, and so on, is actually served by the increasing CO2 in the atmosphere, as plants grow better in richer CO2 atmospheres and that leads to a stronger biosphere all round."
Hold up there buddy, that is simply not true, many animals depend on icy habitats (polar bears, penguins) which are going to disappear with increasing temperature. Increased melting will disrupt the north Atlantic drift which will completely change the climate of northern Europe to something like the previous ice age. Increased levels of CO2 interacting with the sea will cause the oceans to become more acidic, this is already happening.
Whatever the result, the planet is likely to be going through the most rapid period of change to its internal distribution of gases ever recorded, as a direct result of pollution from burning fossil fuels. As a species, humanity has emerged in a relatively calm period in the earth's climatic history, now, our children and their children, and heaven forbid, maybe even we, will have to deal with the consequences of these actions, which I doubt will "lead to a stronger biosphere all round."
I've often scoffed at the seemingly obtuse propaganda used by communist nations in their media, to be fair, usa has plenty propaganda too, but this is just laughable, if you read about the North East blackout, you'll see that a bug in a Unix based system was primarily responsible for the failure of the electricity infrastructure to react when it should have.
Now, if I was a Chinese spy, I'd infiltrate General Electric, install a bug in the operating software responsible for the control of the energy distribution network, wait till those dumb ol americans had got complacent and then, for no strategic advantage whatsoever, cripple their energy distribution network, and then laugh my black communist heart out.
this is a really exciting experiment, our understanding of life has progressed dramatically since the viking landers, if there is any viable trace of life down there, this robot will find it. The nature of the presence of water also stands to be dramaically confirmed by this spacecraft, can't wait to spark up a j and watch pictures from another world roll in...
This isn't about flash not meeting Apple standards, this is Apples way of squeezing out flash's dominance in the web media standards without falling foul of the competition litigation. Just wait a few months and Apple will start pushing their "iPhone compatibile" media standard, which needless to say, will be completely proprietary, KKKKKkkkkkkuuuuunntttsss!
according to the article, they discovered these crystals after processing thousands of compounds, somewhat like the way Edison figured out a stable element for light bulbs, pretty cool stuff, would be even cooler if they could process the captured co2 and seperate it into o2 and carbon.
In Bill Brysons excellent book about the development of science over the last 300 years or so, he gives dozens of examples of paleontologists being invloved in petty, bitterly waged ego battles as well as brazen plagiarism, although, on the converse, when Darwin finally decided to publish his "Origin of the Species" book, he did so because one of his colleagues had started communicating to him about ideas that were very close to his theory of evolution. This individual Wallace did the honorable thing and let Darwin take all the credit.
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use gold dvds and flood the time capsule with CO2 or some other suitable gas which will prevent any corrosion.
War on brain. For too long the brain has mocked us with its pithy comments and wry observations. No longer will we be held to the whims of that pickled organ that hides so smugly in its bony skull-like fortress using us like mindless slaves, forcing us to read endless articles on slashdot, trawling through comment after comment, doing battle with other brains whose ruthless control of their outer extremities is awesome to behold, kablahh!!!!
"Optimism, pessimism, f-ck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work." Wow, I admire his grit.
If NASA can call a rock a gravity tractor, then I'm calling my chair a hovercraft and calling my pentium 4 hal
The mobile phone market in Ireland is completely deregulated, carriers are simply falling falling over each other to provide consumers with better deals, isn't it the same in Canada?. This seems as though the two companies in question agreed before hand to up the costs together without the threat of genuine competition from each other.
I, for one, welcome our transsexual robot overlords and their unbiased assessment of cognitive differences between the sexes!!!!!
there's work underway to replace the light emitting components of flat panel displays with carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are much better conductors of electricity than copper. Graphene (flat carbon) could potentially replace silicon. the nanotubes are also incredibly strong, potentially replacing steel and concrete as a building material. Seeing as carbon is so good for making tubes, it could replace the entire internet AS WELL!!!!!!
a focused laser beam from earth or LEO could power a spacecraft through efficient, wavelength specific solar cells or thermoelectric conversion.
quite right, if the attrition of the atmosphere on Mars had been due to a lack of gravity and/or the solar wind, Venus would surely be without an atmosphere as it has .9g and it is much more exposed to the abrasive effect of high velocity particles from the sun as well as havinga weak magnetic field. The atmosphere on Venus is 92 times more dense than earth.
google bombs away!
wow, thanks for the info, I just bought one of those kits.
the swedes also took to eugenics in a big way, sterilising 62,000 people between 1934 and 1975. The link between Eugenics and Sweden's new monitoring laws is the willingness of the Swedes to trust in the communal wisdom. Big brother knows best, and to be fair, Sweden seems to have got it right, they enjoy some of the highest living standards in the world in one of the most inhospitable climates of the world (during the winter anyway). However, what's good for the Swedes is not necessarily good for other countries, especially where the morality of the political elite is in question.
They should try switching the perceived colours of multiplayer teams and observe the result. For example, some games always show the enemy as red and friendlies as blue. Reversing this might have a noticeable effect on the game play and consequently lead the way to isolating the effect of team colour on our behaviour.
What really impresses me is the fact that the most powerful supercomputer in the world can only simulate a part of my brain, just goes to show the incredible level of processing we subconsciously perform on mundane everyday tasks, like wasting time on slashdot.
"Because, frankly, the stated aims of environmentalists - improving the forests, saving the fuzzy animals, and so on, is actually served by the increasing CO2 in the atmosphere, as plants grow better in richer CO2 atmospheres and that leads to a stronger biosphere all round." Hold up there buddy, that is simply not true, many animals depend on icy habitats (polar bears, penguins) which are going to disappear with increasing temperature. Increased melting will disrupt the north Atlantic drift which will completely change the climate of northern Europe to something like the previous ice age. Increased levels of CO2 interacting with the sea will cause the oceans to become more acidic, this is already happening. Whatever the result, the planet is likely to be going through the most rapid period of change to its internal distribution of gases ever recorded, as a direct result of pollution from burning fossil fuels. As a species, humanity has emerged in a relatively calm period in the earth's climatic history, now, our children and their children, and heaven forbid, maybe even we, will have to deal with the consequences of these actions, which I doubt will "lead to a stronger biosphere all round."
I've often scoffed at the seemingly obtuse propaganda used by communist nations in their media, to be fair, usa has plenty propaganda too, but this is just laughable, if you read about the North East blackout, you'll see that a bug in a Unix based system was primarily responsible for the failure of the electricity infrastructure to react when it should have.
Now, if I was a Chinese spy, I'd infiltrate General Electric, install a bug in the operating software responsible for the control of the energy distribution network, wait till those dumb ol americans had got complacent and then, for no strategic advantage whatsoever, cripple their energy distribution network, and then laugh my black communist heart out.
finally, hardware built with the needs of penguins in mind, Linus is probably shedding tears of joy, icy tears mind
this is a really exciting experiment, our understanding of life has progressed dramatically since the viking landers, if there is any viable trace of life down there, this robot will find it. The nature of the presence of water also stands to be dramaically confirmed by this spacecraft, can't wait to spark up a j and watch pictures from another world roll in...
it does me good to see the Microsoft juggernaut take one on the chin, now for round 2!
I stand corrected.
This isn't about flash not meeting Apple standards, this is Apples way of squeezing out flash's dominance in the web media standards without falling foul of the competition litigation. Just wait a few months and Apple will start pushing their "iPhone compatibile" media standard, which needless to say, will be completely proprietary, KKKKKkkkkkkuuuuunntttsss!
according to the article, they discovered these crystals after processing thousands of compounds, somewhat like the way Edison figured out a stable element for light bulbs, pretty cool stuff, would be even cooler if they could process the captured co2 and seperate it into o2 and carbon.
damn, I'd mod you funny if I could
In Bill Brysons excellent book about the development of science over the last 300 years or so, he gives dozens of examples of paleontologists being invloved in petty, bitterly waged ego battles as well as brazen plagiarism, although, on the converse, when Darwin finally decided to publish his "Origin of the Species" book, he did so because one of his colleagues had started communicating to him about ideas that were very close to his theory of evolution. This individual Wallace did the honorable thing and let Darwin take all the credit.
on microsofts rotted corpse!!!!!!