Scientists discover an exotic fundamental particle called the ficton with the rest mass of a small moon that only existed in the unimaginable pressures and temperatures of the first 10^-25 seconds after the universe began its expansion. They promise it will allow users with next-generation PDAs to play Angry Birds with quantum computing.
Uh, yeah, after years of being hammered by Maddow and Olbermann on MS-NBC I'm sure Republicans are crying in their beer over Obama "ruining" Microsoft to the point where NBC even disowned them.
Uh, I hope you realize that Dark Matter doesn't have anything to do with the universe being "dark". Besides, it's not dark in the microwave band anyway. The Dark Matter "bandwagon" is trying to account for 23% of the mass of the universe which does not interact with the electromagnetic field, and hence is "dark". Much of this is hot dark matter consisting of neutrinos (generated by the conversion of a proton into a neutron) and antineutrinos (generated by the conversion of a neutron into a proton). These reactions were known in the Twentieth Century. Neutrinos have a very low rest mass, and travel at just under the speed of light. So infrequent are their interactions with normal matter that a neutrino would be able to pass through a light-year of lead with no scattering events. That leaves warm dark matter (with velocities from 1 to 10% of c) and cold dark matter (with velocities below 1% of c) to be discovered. The negatinos and positinos of supersymmetry theory were promising in this direction, but apparently have been falsified. But no one is "afraid".
That's very true! In the Bible a prophet like Ezekiel would "prophesy" that the city of Tyre would be sacked, and low and behold, three centuries later, Alexander II sacked that sucker. Tyre sacked, who woulda thunk it?
One of my four boxes won't boot from the HD, whether it has XP or Ubuntu or even DOS on it. I settled for XP, and boot Grub from a floppy disk to kick start it. Just maybe, since they don't even make floppies anymore, yet BIOSes retain a boot from floppy option as a legacy, this will be a overlooked backdoor through Secure Boot. Microsoft can't very well say the black hats are distributing their malware through snail mail on floppies.
All those Win8 machines people are going to kick to the curb, and places like RE-PC won't even be able to make sell them as "boot only" boxes ready for another OS because the boot is locked down at the hardware level.
I prefer a gold mesh to tin foil because it allows my scalp to breathe while still blocking the Google/Trilateral mind control rays with the Faraday Cage effect.
You cannot predict what one air molecule will do, but give me 10^9 of them and you still can't predict the weather out more than five days in advance. Asimov had a thousand years laid out like a movie script. And we, being young and naive, believed it.
What happens when the Skynet Drones run out of gas? Do they swipe their own credit cards at Chevron? Do they maintain their own engines? No! So that's where we still got the robots by the short ones.
The original Trilogy ended with the Second Foundation firmly in the ascendant, and the Plan intact, but the Encyclopedia a sham. Then in 1982 Asimov threw a monkey wrench in the works when Golan Trevise chose for "Gaia" and Psychohistory was deprecated in favor of Galaxia and it was the Seldon Plan that was a sham. Then David Brin, in "Foundation's Triumph" had the final word, when he asked Daneel if Galaxia would have need for an Encyclopedia Galactica. Daneel answered in the negative, and so Hari Seldon made him a friendly wager, that would not be settled until long after he died, that the Second Empire would still have an Encyclopedia Galactica, signifying that human will won through after all. And of course, every blurb from the Encyclopedia throughout the series has been from the edition published in 1054 of the Foundation Era, half a century after the Second Galactic Empire.
The concept was fascinating and original, but flawed. Asimov based psychohistory on thermodynamics, not chaos theory. Greg Bear tossed around a lot of technobabble in "Foundation and Chaos" but his understanding of the underlying theory was as simplistic as George Lucas and his "good force/dark force" dualism. If Asimov hadn't have contracted HIV from that blood transfusion, he would have had Seldon (in yet another prequel) speak of the Second Empire as a strange attractor, without focusing on the details that led up to it.
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Overinflated tuition surely is an epic khan.
Europe does have a lot to bring to the table, what with their extensive mid-20th Century research in hereditary hygiene.
Yeah, look what a disaster that Y2K thing turned out to be.
Scientists discover an exotic fundamental particle called the ficton with the rest mass of a small moon that only existed in the unimaginable pressures and temperatures of the first 10^-25 seconds after the universe began its expansion. They promise it will allow users with next-generation PDAs to play Angry Birds with quantum computing.
The same Constitution that let the gunman own his piece says no cruel and unusual punishment. So it's lethal injection, no Old School.
Uh, yeah, after years of being hammered by Maddow and Olbermann on MS-NBC I'm sure Republicans are crying in their beer over Obama "ruining" Microsoft to the point where NBC even disowned them.
Uh, I hope you realize that Dark Matter doesn't have anything to do with the universe being "dark". Besides, it's not dark in the microwave band anyway. The Dark Matter "bandwagon" is trying to account for 23% of the mass of the universe which does not interact with the electromagnetic field, and hence is "dark". Much of this is hot dark matter consisting of neutrinos (generated by the conversion of a proton into a neutron) and antineutrinos (generated by the conversion of a neutron into a proton). These reactions were known in the Twentieth Century. Neutrinos have a very low rest mass, and travel at just under the speed of light. So infrequent are their interactions with normal matter that a neutrino would be able to pass through a light-year of lead with no scattering events. That leaves warm dark matter (with velocities from 1 to 10% of c) and cold dark matter (with velocities below 1% of c) to be discovered. The negatinos and positinos of supersymmetry theory were promising in this direction, but apparently have been falsified. But no one is "afraid".
Have no fear. Five hundred years from now, the spaceships will be manned by cowboy types and the only time they will speak Chinese is when they swear.
That's very true! In the Bible a prophet like Ezekiel would "prophesy" that the city of Tyre would be sacked, and low and behold, three centuries later, Alexander II sacked that sucker. Tyre sacked, who woulda thunk it?
One of my four boxes won't boot from the HD, whether it has XP or Ubuntu or even DOS on it. I settled for XP, and boot Grub from a floppy disk to kick start it. Just maybe, since they don't even make floppies anymore, yet BIOSes retain a boot from floppy option as a legacy, this will be a overlooked backdoor through Secure Boot. Microsoft can't very well say the black hats are distributing their malware through snail mail on floppies.
All those Win8 machines people are going to kick to the curb, and places like RE-PC won't even be able to make sell them as "boot only" boxes ready for another OS because the boot is locked down at the hardware level.
I prefer a gold mesh to tin foil because it allows my scalp to breathe while still blocking the Google/Trilateral mind control rays with the Faraday Cage effect.
You cannot predict what one air molecule will do, but give me 10^9 of them and you still can't predict the weather out more than five days in advance. Asimov had a thousand years laid out like a movie script. And we, being young and naive, believed it.
What happens when the Skynet Drones run out of gas? Do they swipe their own credit cards at Chevron? Do they maintain their own engines? No! So that's where we still got the robots by the short ones.
The original Trilogy ended with the Second Foundation firmly in the ascendant, and the Plan intact, but the Encyclopedia a sham. Then in 1982 Asimov threw a monkey wrench in the works when Golan Trevise chose for "Gaia" and Psychohistory was deprecated in favor of Galaxia and it was the Seldon Plan that was a sham. Then David Brin, in "Foundation's Triumph" had the final word, when he asked Daneel if Galaxia would have need for an Encyclopedia Galactica. Daneel answered in the negative, and so Hari Seldon made him a friendly wager, that would not be settled until long after he died, that the Second Empire would still have an Encyclopedia Galactica, signifying that human will won through after all. And of course, every blurb from the Encyclopedia throughout the series has been from the edition published in 1054 of the Foundation Era, half a century after the Second Galactic Empire.
mv /home/* /dev/mule
How come Miss Cleo's Hotline needs me to STATE my Visa number and expiration date?
It's going to make Jiordi LaForge's vision prosthetic look as outdated as Kirk's flip phone in TOS.
Not so Fast there, Furious.
The concept was fascinating and original, but flawed. Asimov based psychohistory on thermodynamics, not chaos theory. Greg Bear tossed around a lot of technobabble in "Foundation and Chaos" but his understanding of the underlying theory was as simplistic as George Lucas and his "good force/dark force" dualism. If Asimov hadn't have contracted HIV from that blood transfusion, he would have had Seldon (in yet another prequel) speak of the Second Empire as a strange attractor, without focusing on the details that led up to it.
Give criminals girlfriends? The bus arrives at the can every week with new punks, what more do they want?
I really want to watch the Kardasians but DS9 ain't even in syndication anymore.
Maybe if they ask real nice, the NSA can give the FOIA requestors their not-so-blank copy of the "blank" email archive.
World's most popular OS, like the way Saddam once won 99% of the vote. Like the way Catholicism was popular when the alternative was the rack.
...is that we have access to 100% of Chi-com comms, including 100% military. We tend to be ahead of the curve. We just do not brag about it.