Even with larger brain pans the discription of them as being more complex may not infact be a completely true statement. Did they have vocal cords that were sophisticated enough to produce real language? Did they all have something akin to autism spectrum disorder. Did the added brain capacity lead to any actual increase in computational, creative or otherwise survival enhancing benifit over Homo Sapien? Or, as maybe more likely, it was useless fatty tissue that wasn't utalized and became a burden. History tends to show that if you don't fit the niche some one else will supplant you that does.
Further, being born with a huge head is hard on female. With out C-sections, how would a woman survive? Maybe they procreated with homo sapians and lost the genetic destinction.
I'm guessing he was born in the wrong decade to have read snowcrash. I'm also guessing he doesn't understand how cyberwarfare has already been used in warfare, both hot and cold, with quite positive effects.
I remember when 6" of air made something safe. It's downright scary how much of what we use and rely on is internet facing. Maybe, soon enough, the securty decision will factor into the engineering decision.
While political implications of UAV testing near a "partner" who has been on the receiving end of a sortie or 2 of ours can't be completely discounted. The testing is most likely taking place in afganastan due to the varried terrain and enviromental conditions providing an array of opportunities to test. Coupled with the fact that a hostile force is currently trying not to get killed by our current round of UAV enabled air capabilites. This permits us to say important things like, "Global Hawk could acheive this mission is the Sentinal any better. Does it do it's primary mission as well? Will it save American lives?" Franlky it is a near certainty that Pakistan has plenty of eyes on it. Those could be from space, manned or unmanned aircraft or eyes on the ground. There is real benifit to see what is going on on the edges of an engagement, but this isn't placed to infuriate Pakistan. Maybe it's best to think of Pakistan as Loas, but I digress.
It is always better to have to give it back then never to have had it.
This has gone on for how many years. That money has been divided out to "share holders" and other Intrested parties I'm sure. Don't worry, they will BK before they payback anything in the ball park of Millions to anyone. So, yes it is a rational expectation.
You make a great set of points. I would like to ask a question or two that you might have an answer for, and that is pretty f'ing relevant. Didn't anyone stop to think, that maybe it's not the best approach to allow our military logistical communications to be built on an infrastructure of Open-Source parts. Wouldn't that make finding holes much easier for our enemies? How do you classify and protect open-source code, even if you are just using components?
1. Make a ton of these chambers.
1b. Build an array of bombpumped x-ray lasers.
2. Fill them sequentially with array of bomb pumped x-ray lasers.
3. Threaten to unleash them simultaneously with a high-powered x N laser burst at the target (where N = number of chambers where E = Mass of bomb * Speed of light^2).
4. Extort govenments of the world to not melt the sun.
5. Profit(able weapon)
6. Buy Sharks with consumer version on head.
"can see from the photos in tfa, that the photons don't exhibit the same pattern that they did when the laser was firing (indicating some internal diffraction), so there wouldn't be a danger of having the equivalent of a more powerful laser shooting out in the same direction as the original beam."
brownian motion, it's trapped in a liquid. I doubt highly that you would actully get much of a laser beam out of it under any circumstance, more of a omni-directional flashlight. Now if they can use that external magnet to focus the light's direction...
With quantaum fluctuations they could get around the problem of thermodynamics for the short run, maybe substantialy more so if they can work so bizzaro magic with entangled particles in a "heat sink" but I doubt there would be any hopes of seeing the NC117-C.
(I hope my sleep deprived geekness hasn't scrambled the call letters.)
AT&T is in banking because there is a metric fuckton of profits in banking transactions. Only suckers rely on intrest when you can charge per-transaction fees, monthly acess fees, data plan fees, fees to institutions... oh and lock customers in to a propritery network.
Would be nice if they would have done Sim City 5 in house, and just made a decent AI that you could give specific management tasks, boundries, objectives, ect. That way you could micro-manage as much as you want with out being forced to playing a trash disposal simulator. I think a more organic building and zoning process would have been good too. "Your sims want comercial here not residential, damnit!" Better use the GoToHell-acopter and start rezoning.
Perhaps you need to take a peek at http://www.darkfallonline.com/
It appears like it will infact not suck... and today they said they are targeting beta for this summer, not to be confused with the other proposed beta dates that go back a few years:)
check it out.
Ok, I think everyone is kinda missing what the question and answer are here...
The question is why in the name of the sweet baby Jeebus does the solar wind have a minimum speed of about 161 miles/sec. It sounds like, according to the article that the ammount of helium asomatotically approaches 0 as the speed slows to 161 miles/sec.
So the question becomes:
1) why must helium be present?
2) why is there a relationship since nothing that promotes the solar wind is thought to have an effect on the air speed of an unladen plasma of helium?
QTF:/quote
Because helium nearly vanishes from the solar wind at its minimum speed, the researchers believe helium might somehow set the minimum speed. Helium is not accelerated efficiently by any process thought to be propelling the solar wind. Instead, it has to be dragged along by the hydrogen: Solar wind hydrogen atoms exert a small electric field that drags the helium out along with it, according to the team./quote
Basically, they don't have a frigg'n clue, but they figured out how the helium might be present.
If you look at the picture it appears that the telescope hangs everything pretty far out there. It looks like the mirror is exposed to space over atleast about 270 degrees of any circle you draw around the things center of gravity. With out any thing to block debris, and being possitioned at L2 is this thing going to get creamed by leonoid dust or something.
I guess it has the advantage of being far enough out that you don't have to worry about much man-made crap hitting it.
1) Irrational fear monger 2) Extremeist 3) Constitutional Revisionist 4) Historical Revisionist 5) Strong Central Governmentalist (Is that a word?)
About 75 years ago we would have simply either called them Facists for Conservatives or Socalists for Liberals. It's really 2 sides of the same coin. As a disclaimer I'm fiscally conservative. (By this I simply mean, 1. Government Debts are bad. 2. Overwhelming Taxes are bad. 3. Governemnt Involvment should be limited to sectors where the private markets are flawed, failing or non-existant.) I am also socially liberal. (1. Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose, but not before that. 2. War is the last recourse of a failed diplomatic policy. 3. People should be protected from the government as much as by it.) I tend to actully fall at both extreme ends of the spectrum. I beleive the proper term from elections past is Militant Moderate.
I think its unfortunate that this is what American Politics has come to. I don't like Bush. I think it is however very bad form to impeach him by proxy through his VP, or his AG (the one I was expecting), in a time of war.
I think it is 100% possible that the administration is guilty of countless High Crimes, possibly even treason, against the American People. I don't know if either of these is true, but there seems to be enough smoke to search for a fire. I would be happy however if this was done after Bush left office.
Everyone is looking for some one to blame for the quagmire in the Middle East. Where is Osama anyway? There are alot of other issues as well, wiretapping, warrentless searches, corruption, Halaburton, Black Water.... it's a long list.
Will Impeaching Cheaney solve any of this? No..
Will it stick? No..
Are there the votes to remove the administration from power via a series of Impeachments? No..
What can this accomplish aside from polarizing the people, and hurting further the prestige of the United States. Part of me is happy that some one has the balls to impeach Bush by proxy, most of me is just sad for our country.
For the love of God people, vote in the primaries so we atleast get some decent choices in 08.
I should have mentioned before that I used to manage a game store, and I think part of my blase' about Dragon and Dungeon comes from that. I was barraged with obscure rules, story and content questions. It was our policy to always fall back on the "Offical" word of TSR, by applying a simple formula. What is the latest errata from TSR, what does the most recent printing of the most recent relevant book say, and do you smell funny. So we discounted the "Unofficial", i.e. not books, sources. That was also much better for selling books. Sell Dragon make $1 and them they get a subscription, sell them Fighter's Handbook make $10, and then they need the other handbooks aswell. Seems that the wheat of Dragon and Dungeon always found a good place to live. I'm not sure if 3.5's spell compendium would be a good defendant, but in good old 2nd ed there was a fantastic 4 volume spell conpendium.
Sounds like they ended up adding some solid content, however none of the groups I played in were very intrested in moduals.
After reading your post, I'm moved from neutral about this to happy. I Love gamebooks in PDF. I wish both versions would come packaged togather. My current game group, once a month on Sundays meets about an hour away from my home, and it would save alot of luggin for me, hopefully Hasbro, WotC, whomever follows the sucess of pathfinder.
I have a few copies of Dragon laying around some place, and I have to say in 15 years of D&D I never really found them usefull. Seems like everyone would be better surved with forums, a web-page and the normal book releases.
This is actully akin to something I have long wondered. I'm certain there is a technical limitation I don't grasp, but most of this "lag" is actully a combination of true network latency and bandwith and frame rate issues. Most MMO's run into frame rate issues because they seem to go for tons of extra sexy textures. However after graphics cards get all the models for an area loaded up, the textures, the shaders, the widgets and the whatsits it seems that frankly, there aren't cards out which have enough RAM. For well optimized games... well the better optimized games this isn't a big issue. SL of course is a sand box, and is filled with crap, and because of this you can't put all those "BUY IT NOW" banners, furries and digitized emorphous genitals into video ram. The question remains, if a company like the guys who make KillerNIC can survive off fringe hardware, why hasn't some one produced graphics card that can address say 4GB of RAM, and sold them for a crack-smoking sum. It doesn't have to be top shelf in Operations per second, it just has to get around making hard drive / network / RAM calls all the time. Seems like with that much RAM to play with you could buffer on the fly for a pretty big area.
More on topic however, I imagine that they have a scenerio in which they can control the central database and use teleporters to move between Linden and Trusted 3rd-party servers. At this point the probably just want to be the PayPal of digitized emorphous genitals. Possibly integrating other features like streaming / selling media (Linden Movie Co!) and providing a "Brick and Mortor" store for every giant corporation and taking.001% every time you buy something on servers hosted by some one else.
Oh and micro-loans, so you can buy new digitized emorphous genitals. Just my.02 Linden.
In almost any MMORPG your toon is 95% gear, 4% Luck/Time and 1% skill. Doesn't matter if it's EQ2, WoW or anyother level based game. Once you cap out your level the only things that can differentiate your toon is gear and skill. If the difficulty of a game is too great many people will not make it to the max level. AA Xp ala EQ/EQ2 is just another leveling metric, it just makes the treadmill run a bit longer. My personal favorite peice of Vaporware currently is http://darkfallonline.com/ . It seems to have a design which would punch this type of activity in the gibbly bits (medical term). It's a PvP enviroment with apparently full loot, it's a levelless system (ala Ultima Online), and the combat interface seems to be far more Half Life then anything I've seen aside from Conan Online. I can only imagine it will be far harder for the IGN's of the world to sell coin in an enviroment where their harvesters are soft, fleshy and tasty targets. Maybe they will just come up with a scheme for a stock exchange style gold purchase system, but delivery is gonna be scary when anyone can attack you anywhere at anytime.
Just my 14plat
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Even with larger brain pans the discription of them as being more complex may not infact be a completely true statement. Did they have vocal cords that were sophisticated enough to produce real language? Did they all have something akin to autism spectrum disorder. Did the added brain capacity lead to any actual increase in computational, creative or otherwise survival enhancing benifit over Homo Sapien? Or, as maybe more likely, it was useless fatty tissue that wasn't utalized and became a burden. History tends to show that if you don't fit the niche some one else will supplant you that does.
Further, being born with a huge head is hard on female. With out C-sections, how would a woman survive? Maybe they procreated with homo sapians and lost the genetic destinction.
Or maybe they were eaten by zombies
I'm guessing he was born in the wrong decade to have read snowcrash. I'm also guessing he doesn't understand how cyberwarfare has already been used in warfare, both hot and cold, with quite positive effects.
I remember when 6" of air made something safe. It's downright scary how much of what we use and rely on is internet facing. Maybe, soon enough, the securty decision will factor into the engineering decision.
While political implications of UAV testing near a "partner" who has been on the receiving end of a sortie or 2 of ours can't be completely discounted. The testing is most likely taking place in afganastan due to the varried terrain and enviromental conditions providing an array of opportunities to test. Coupled with the fact that a hostile force is currently trying not to get killed by our current round of UAV enabled air capabilites. This permits us to say important things like, "Global Hawk could acheive this mission is the Sentinal any better. Does it do it's primary mission as well? Will it save American lives?" Franlky it is a near certainty that Pakistan has plenty of eyes on it. Those could be from space, manned or unmanned aircraft or eyes on the ground. There is real benifit to see what is going on on the edges of an engagement, but this isn't placed to infuriate Pakistan. Maybe it's best to think of Pakistan as Loas, but I digress.
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ check there
It is always better to have to give it back then never to have had it. This has gone on for how many years. That money has been divided out to "share holders" and other Intrested parties I'm sure. Don't worry, they will BK before they payback anything in the ball park of Millions to anyone. So, yes it is a rational expectation.
Install Log me in on both computers. No walking.. problem solved. Cost 0
You make a great set of points.
I would like to ask a question or two that you might have an answer for, and that is pretty f'ing relevant. Didn't anyone stop to think, that maybe it's not the best approach to allow our military logistical communications to be built on an infrastructure of Open-Source parts. Wouldn't that make finding holes much easier for our enemies? How do you classify and protect open-source code, even if you are just using components?
1. Make a ton of these chambers. 1b. Build an array of bombpumped x-ray lasers. 2. Fill them sequentially with array of bomb pumped x-ray lasers. 3. Threaten to unleash them simultaneously with a high-powered x N laser burst at the target (where N = number of chambers where E = Mass of bomb * Speed of light^2). 4. Extort govenments of the world to not melt the sun. 5. Profit(able weapon) 6. Buy Sharks with consumer version on head.
"can see from the photos in tfa, that the photons don't exhibit the same pattern that they did when the laser was firing (indicating some internal diffraction), so there wouldn't be a danger of having the equivalent of a more powerful laser shooting out in the same direction as the original beam." brownian motion, it's trapped in a liquid. I doubt highly that you would actully get much of a laser beam out of it under any circumstance, more of a omni-directional flashlight. Now if they can use that external magnet to focus the light's direction... With quantaum fluctuations they could get around the problem of thermodynamics for the short run, maybe substantialy more so if they can work so bizzaro magic with entangled particles in a "heat sink" but I doubt there would be any hopes of seeing the NC117-C. (I hope my sleep deprived geekness hasn't scrambled the call letters.)
AT&T is in banking because there is a metric fuckton of profits in banking transactions. Only suckers rely on intrest when you can charge per-transaction fees, monthly acess fees, data plan fees, fees to institutions... oh and lock customers in to a propritery network.
I think Maxis is a bit to engrosed in Spore.
:(
I was thinking the same thing, a tycoon game.
Would be nice if they would have done Sim City 5 in house, and just made a decent AI that you could give specific management tasks, boundries, objectives, ect. That way you could micro-manage as much as you want with out being forced to playing a trash disposal simulator. I think a more organic building and zoning process would have been good too. "Your sims want comercial here not residential, damnit!" Better use the GoToHell-acopter and start rezoning.
Perhaps you need to take a peek at http://www.darkfallonline.com/ It appears like it will infact not suck... and today they said they are targeting beta for this summer, not to be confused with the other proposed beta dates that go back a few years :)
check it out.
Ok, I think everyone is kinda missing what the question and answer are here...
/quote
/quote
The question is why in the name of the sweet baby Jeebus does the solar wind have a minimum speed of about 161 miles/sec. It sounds like, according to the article that the ammount of helium asomatotically approaches 0 as the speed slows to 161 miles/sec.
So the question becomes:
1) why must helium be present?
2) why is there a relationship since nothing that promotes the solar wind is thought to have an effect on the air speed of an unladen plasma of helium?
QTF:
Because helium nearly vanishes from the solar wind at its minimum speed, the researchers believe helium might somehow set the minimum speed. Helium is not accelerated efficiently by any process thought to be propelling the solar wind. Instead, it has to be dragged along by the hydrogen: Solar wind hydrogen atoms exert a small electric field that drags the helium out along with it, according to the team.
Basically, they don't have a frigg'n clue, but they figured out how the helium might be present.
If you look at the picture it appears that the telescope hangs everything pretty far out there. It looks like the mirror is exposed to space over atleast about 270 degrees of any circle you draw around the things center of gravity. With out any thing to block debris, and being possitioned at L2 is this thing going to get creamed by leonoid dust or something.
I guess it has the advantage of being far enough out that you don't have to worry about much man-made crap hitting it.
Yes. These companies aren't just exposing their information. These companies are exposing your families information.
If you work your cards right, you could make them seem valiant for announcing such information, and attempting to resolve it.
Or you might get canned.
most likely canned.
-Lemur
So what is the new metric, I couldn't find it in there?
Since when did the prefix neo- come to mean:
1) Irrational fear monger
2) Extremeist
3) Constitutional Revisionist
4) Historical Revisionist
5) Strong Central Governmentalist (Is that a word?)
About 75 years ago we would have simply either called them Facists for Conservatives or Socalists for Liberals. It's really 2 sides of the same coin. As a disclaimer I'm fiscally conservative. (By this I simply mean, 1. Government Debts are bad. 2. Overwhelming Taxes are bad. 3. Governemnt Involvment should be limited to sectors where the private markets are flawed, failing or non-existant.) I am also socially liberal. (1. Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose, but not before that. 2. War is the last recourse of a failed diplomatic policy. 3. People should be protected from the government as much as by it.) I tend to actully fall at both extreme ends of the spectrum. I beleive the proper term from elections past is Militant Moderate.
I think its unfortunate that this is what American Politics has come to. I don't like Bush. I think it is however very bad form to impeach him by proxy through his VP, or his AG (the one I was expecting), in a time of war.
I think it is 100% possible that the administration is guilty of countless High Crimes, possibly even treason, against the American People. I don't know if either of these is true, but there seems to be enough smoke to search for a fire. I would be happy however if this was done after Bush left office.
Everyone is looking for some one to blame for the quagmire in the Middle East. Where is Osama anyway? There are alot of other issues as well, wiretapping, warrentless searches, corruption, Halaburton, Black Water.... it's a long list.
Will Impeaching Cheaney solve any of this? No..
Will it stick? No..
Are there the votes to remove the administration from power via a series of Impeachments? No..
What can this accomplish aside from polarizing the people, and hurting further the prestige of the United States. Part of me is happy that some one has the balls to impeach Bush by proxy, most of me is just sad for our country.
For the love of God people, vote in the primaries so we atleast get some decent choices in 08.
That was my $0.02 plus tax.
Lemur
I should have mentioned before that I used to manage a game store, and I think part of my blase' about Dragon and Dungeon comes from that. I was barraged with obscure rules, story and content questions. It was our policy to always fall back on the "Offical" word of TSR, by applying a simple formula. What is the latest errata from TSR, what does the most recent printing of the most recent relevant book say, and do you smell funny. So we discounted the "Unofficial", i.e. not books, sources. That was also much better for selling books. Sell Dragon make $1 and them they get a subscription, sell them Fighter's Handbook make $10, and then they need the other handbooks aswell. Seems that the wheat of Dragon and Dungeon always found a good place to live. I'm not sure if 3.5's spell compendium would be a good defendant, but in good old 2nd ed there was a fantastic 4 volume spell conpendium. Sounds like they ended up adding some solid content, however none of the groups I played in were very intrested in moduals. After reading your post, I'm moved from neutral about this to happy. I Love gamebooks in PDF. I wish both versions would come packaged togather. My current game group, once a month on Sundays meets about an hour away from my home, and it would save alot of luggin for me, hopefully Hasbro, WotC, whomever follows the sucess of pathfinder.
I have a few copies of Dragon laying around some place, and I have to say in 15 years of D&D I never really found them usefull. Seems like everyone would be better surved with forums, a web-page and the normal book releases.
This is actully akin to something I have long wondered. I'm certain there is a technical limitation I don't grasp, but most of this "lag" is actully a combination of true network latency and bandwith and frame rate issues. Most MMO's run into frame rate issues because they seem to go for tons of extra sexy textures. However after graphics cards get all the models for an area loaded up, the textures, the shaders, the widgets and the whatsits it seems that frankly, there aren't cards out which have enough RAM. For well optimized games... well the better optimized games this isn't a big issue. SL of course is a sand box, and is filled with crap, and because of this you can't put all those "BUY IT NOW" banners, furries and digitized emorphous genitals into video ram. The question remains, if a company like the guys who make KillerNIC can survive off fringe hardware, why hasn't some one produced graphics card that can address say 4GB of RAM, and sold them for a crack-smoking sum. It doesn't have to be top shelf in Operations per second, it just has to get around making hard drive / network / RAM calls all the time. Seems like with that much RAM to play with you could buffer on the fly for a pretty big area.
.001% every time you buy something on servers hosted by some one else.
.02 Linden.
More on topic however, I imagine that they have a scenerio in which they can control the central database and use teleporters to move between Linden and Trusted 3rd-party servers. At this point the probably just want to be the PayPal of digitized emorphous genitals. Possibly integrating other features like streaming / selling media (Linden Movie Co!) and providing a "Brick and Mortor" store for every giant corporation and taking
Oh and micro-loans, so you can buy new digitized emorphous genitals.
Just my
Terrorist Attack + Google + Massive Amounts of Dot Com Era Dark Fiber = Google Controlling the flow of information.
:: Grabs Tin Foil, Makes Hat ::
Provided they have massive buildings filled with routers and servers...
Might be a better solution for the lesser of two evils to physically own the back bone.
I guess the Neo-Con's won't like hearing that some one isn't terrified of terrorists, however.
In almost any MMORPG your toon is 95% gear, 4% Luck/Time and 1% skill. Doesn't matter if it's EQ2, WoW or anyother level based game. Once you cap out your level the only things that can differentiate your toon is gear and skill. If the difficulty of a game is too great many people will not make it to the max level. AA Xp ala EQ/EQ2 is just another leveling metric, it just makes the treadmill run a bit longer. My personal favorite peice of Vaporware currently is http://darkfallonline.com/ . It seems to have a design which would punch this type of activity in the gibbly bits (medical term). It's a PvP enviroment with apparently full loot, it's a levelless system (ala Ultima Online), and the combat interface seems to be far more Half Life then anything I've seen aside from Conan Online. I can only imagine it will be far harder for the IGN's of the world to sell coin in an enviroment where their harvesters are soft, fleshy and tasty targets. Maybe they will just come up with a scheme for a stock exchange style gold purchase system, but delivery is gonna be scary when anyone can attack you anywhere at anytime. Just my 14plat
"There's no need for a general computer in a car."
That may be the most Bill Gates thing I have read today.
4 AU is a pretty big distance.
Would you have benifited from the internet?