It's a big universe and there's a lot of HeH molecules out there. How do they know this is the first one?
(...and how do they even see a molecule from 3000 light years away? This "discovery" is very implausible to me)
Well considering the universe is 6000 years old and the earth is at the center of creation I would think it's obvious. Plus God gave me a certificate of authenticity. She's nice like that.
Here's an idea, just shut down the damn entertainment system and read a book (I know, radical thought).
That's generally what I do when I fly domestic. But many planes will turn it back on any time the flight attendants make an announcement. On some planes this resets the system to being turned on once the announcement is done.
I don't understand why the current generation of game consoles even have a optical drive in them. From what I can tell, a good chunk of the game has to be downloaded anyhow. Did they include it because physical media has been the norm historically?
When the PS3 came out, it was probably the best option for a Blu-Ray player. But these days a Blu-Ray player is so cheap, I would guess that anyone that wants one, already has it. From what I understand, both the current XBox and PS require an internet connection to even play single player games. So what was the point of having a drive?
Nobody gives a shit. Despite the contention of many Slashdotters, very few people in the world live out in the countryside operating farms.
America isn't even the reason so much of the world population lives in rural areas. According to the UN, in 2014 "Today, 54 per cent of the worldâ(TM)s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050." It appears that the much of he rural population is in China and India. "The 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects by UN DESAâ(TM)s Population Division notes that the largest urban growth will take place in India, China and Nigeria."
I suppose you could call it that. By the title I was expecting to see it pick up a ratchet and tighten/loosen a bolt or something. And since it's about AI it would have been better if it started grabbing random parts to assemble another arm/hand. Looking at the video, I could say my dog uses tools as well. Sometimes when it wants my attention it will grab a rope bone or other toy, flail it around and hit me with it to get my attention. I don't think we define dogs as tool users though.
Seems like it'd be even easier for protestors to disrupt aerial traffic than road traffic with a drone fleet - possibly autonomous to prevent jamming.
People holding signs and yelling at passing cars is little more than a nuisance and may get some peoples attention. Sending up a swarm of drones is not going to make people sympathetic to a cause. At that point it goes from a protest to endangering lives. Which won't get the kind of attention any non-insane group is looking for.
Well, if we "lost" 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, since 1961, and it did not melt.... and the lower 48 states is not under 4 ft of water.... where did it all go?
My bad. I forgot it on the bus on my way into work a while ago. If anyone finds it please let me know so, I can put it back. TIA.
I hear that Texas is planning to keep all of their death row inmates on these. Austria and Switzerland also would like to build a bunch of these off of their coastlines as well.
Playing the devil's advocate, you're saying that someone who thinks legalizing sexual activities with 3 year old should be listened to?
Obviously you have to draw the line somewhere. But I hardly think republican bad, democrat good(or vice versa) is where it needs to be.
Regardless, yes, it should be possible to have this discussion. The alternative is to shout them down and punish them for mentioning such things. What do you think that will get you? My guess is that they will learn to not be noticed and their beliefs will continue. If you can have a rational discussion, you at least have a chance of persuading someone that they should reconsider.
But we're getting to the point where discussion has become irrelevant. If group A wants something and suddenly Group B decides they want it too, group A then changes their mind and considers the topic to be the harbinger of the apocalypse just to spite group B.
Plenty of cat owners will happily tell you their felines are capable of responding to their own names, but the scientific jury remains ambivalent on the matter.Â
It sounds like the cats were the ones on this scientific jury.
If you recover an mp3, and there is no one around to stream it, does it still make a sound?
It doesn't matter because the RIAA lawyers will still think you owe them $400k for recovering it. It doesn't even matter if it's from an artist they have rights to.
I know companies love the constant revenue stream, but I don't. It's not like I really have the time to play games, but I wouldn't be doing this if I had the time. I prefer to own the things I buy. I don't want software, games,music or anything i buy to just disappear one day because the company doesn't find it profitable any longer. How many music services have gone under now? I keep getting emails about Ultraviolet closing down. Or my favorite thing is when I hear about a service deleting ebooks or music from devices. I can still set up a Win 2K box and load Quake from the CD anytime i want. But that likely won't be the case with these games in 20 years.
But who in their right mind would connect an MRI machine to the internet?
No one. But I've seen it done. In fact 12+ years ago I was at a hospital that had to reimage the console on a magnet because the techs were using it to surf the internet and got all kinds of malware and/or viruses on it. I think the the scanner was down for close to a week because of it.
To reach orbit one must achieve a velocity of around 25000 feet per second; a 50BMG round travels at around this speed.
Actually that's a little over 8 times faster than the muzzle velocity of a 50BMG. 2700 to 3000 ft/sec is the typical velocity for a 50. 25k ft/sec is 3X what the Navy's railgun muzzle velocity is. So it's quite a bit faster.
Change the model of how Youtube makes money. The problem is they make money by showing us stuff the worst part of our nature likes, and they do this, because it hooks people.
Doesn't that just about sum up most of reality television too?
I'm pretty sure we've been sitting on the same set of netflix dvds since before our kid was born. Has netflix really left some poor sucker waiting 6 years to borrow this discs after I'm done? I doubt it.
Apparently you only rent new titles. I currently have 110 titles in my "Saved" list on Netflix. It's been much higher in the past. I've deleted a lot from that list. Though there have been a few that they did replace eventually. However I know that several have been there for over 10 years now. So no, they don't replace older titles when they don't get returned.
It can take years for that to happen in some cases. Pre-2005 Doctor Who disks don't appear to get replaced once they run out of them. I've been waiting for the Tom Baker "Meglos" disk for 7 or 8 years now.
All my computers run on Windows 9, and I see no reason to upgrade. I bought licenses for a great price off some Chinese website.
You should have waited like I did. Everyone knows Windows 9.1 is the way to go. It had much higher ratings on Newegg.cn and Amaxon.cn. I feel like it's the 1990's again since they shortened.com to.cn. Everything has gotten so much cheaper. It's crazy how much that "o" and extra hump added to the n costs.
mean, you can still ask for a receipt if you want one. I just don't want 6ft of paper when I buy a soda at CVS.
I always find that ironic. They stopped selling tobacco products years ago because they were concerned with people's health. But every store goes through a 1500 year old redwood worth of paper per day. But no one is smoking any more.
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It's a big universe and there's a lot of HeH molecules out there. How do they know this is the first one?
(...and how do they even see a molecule from 3000 light years away? This "discovery" is very implausible to me)
Well considering the universe is 6000 years old and the earth is at the center of creation I would think it's obvious. Plus God gave me a certificate of authenticity. She's nice like that.
Here's an idea, just shut down the damn entertainment system and read a book (I know, radical thought).
That's generally what I do when I fly domestic. But many planes will turn it back on any time the flight attendants make an announcement. On some planes this resets the system to being turned on once the announcement is done.
I don't understand why the current generation of game consoles even have a optical drive in them. From what I can tell, a good chunk of the game has to be downloaded anyhow. Did they include it because physical media has been the norm historically?
When the PS3 came out, it was probably the best option for a Blu-Ray player. But these days a Blu-Ray player is so cheap, I would guess that anyone that wants one, already has it. From what I understand, both the current XBox and PS require an internet connection to even play single player games. So what was the point of having a drive?
Nobody gives a shit. Despite the contention of many Slashdotters, very few people in the world live out in the countryside operating farms.
America isn't even the reason so much of the world population lives in rural areas. According to the UN, in 2014 "Today, 54 per cent of the worldâ(TM)s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050." It appears that the much of he rural population is in China and India. "The 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects by UN DESAâ(TM)s Population Division notes that the largest urban growth will take place in India, China and Nigeria."
DVDs and CDs are so last decade.
Everyone around here buys LPs, except those who realize tape is even better.
If only someone could figure out a way to get movies onto a tape of some kind. They could call it a video cassette. Or something.
I suppose you could call it that. By the title I was expecting to see it pick up a ratchet and tighten/loosen a bolt or something. And since it's about AI it would have been better if it started grabbing random parts to assemble another arm/hand. Looking at the video, I could say my dog uses tools as well. Sometimes when it wants my attention it will grab a rope bone or other toy, flail it around and hit me with it to get my attention. I don't think we define dogs as tool users though.
Seems like it'd be even easier for protestors to disrupt aerial traffic than road traffic with a drone fleet - possibly autonomous to prevent jamming.
People holding signs and yelling at passing cars is little more than a nuisance and may get some peoples attention. Sending up a swarm of drones is not going to make people sympathetic to a cause. At that point it goes from a protest to endangering lives. Which won't get the kind of attention any non-insane group is looking for.
Well, if we "lost" 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, since 1961, and it did not melt.... and the lower 48 states is not under 4 ft of water.... where did it all go?
My bad. I forgot it on the bus on my way into work a while ago. If anyone finds it please let me know so, I can put it back. TIA.
They aren't doing this in secret, nor is this even recent news. It's not even recent on /. It was posted here in 2017
When they can do this I'll be thrilled to get one of these services.
I hear that Texas is planning to keep all of their death row inmates on these. Austria and Switzerland also would like to build a bunch of these off of their coastlines as well.
Jeff Bezos had this problem all worked out until his wife got the money he was going to use to buy those countries outright.
Playing the devil's advocate, you're saying that someone who thinks legalizing sexual activities with 3 year old should be listened to?
Obviously you have to draw the line somewhere. But I hardly think republican bad, democrat good(or vice versa) is where it needs to be.
Regardless, yes, it should be possible to have this discussion. The alternative is to shout them down and punish them for mentioning such things. What do you think that will get you? My guess is that they will learn to not be noticed and their beliefs will continue. If you can have a rational discussion, you at least have a chance of persuading someone that they should reconsider.
But we're getting to the point where discussion has become irrelevant. If group A wants something and suddenly Group B decides they want it too, group A then changes their mind and considers the topic to be the harbinger of the apocalypse just to spite group B.
There actions have been widely condemned and are unlikely to serve another term.Â
Obviously Northam will not be seeking reelection. Virginia has a one term limit for the governor.
Plenty of cat owners will happily tell you their felines are capable of responding to their own names, but the scientific jury remains ambivalent on the matter.Â
It sounds like the cats were the ones on this scientific jury.
It doesn't matter because the RIAA lawyers will still think you owe them $400k for recovering it. It doesn't even matter if it's from an artist they have rights to.
I know companies love the constant revenue stream, but I don't. It's not like I really have the time to play games, but I wouldn't be doing this if I had the time. I prefer to own the things I buy. I don't want software, games,music or anything i buy to just disappear one day because the company doesn't find it profitable any longer. How many music services have gone under now? I keep getting emails about Ultraviolet closing down. Or my favorite thing is when I hear about a service deleting ebooks or music from devices. I can still set up a Win 2K box and load Quake from the CD anytime i want. But that likely won't be the case with these games in 20 years.
But who in their right mind would connect an MRI machine to the internet?
No one. But I've seen it done. In fact 12+ years ago I was at a hospital that had to reimage the console on a magnet because the techs were using it to surf the internet and got all kinds of malware and/or viruses on it. I think the the scanner was down for close to a week because of it.
Wasn't this more or less the plot to Terminator: Genisys?
Yes. It's so much funnier when you explain a joke. I'm sure you're very popular in the audience at comedy clubs.
To reach orbit one must achieve a velocity of around 25000 feet per second; a 50BMG round travels at around this speed.
Actually that's a little over 8 times faster than the muzzle velocity of a 50BMG. 2700 to 3000 ft/sec is the typical velocity for a 50. 25k ft/sec is 3X what the Navy's railgun muzzle velocity is. So it's quite a bit faster.
A self aware car would be slavery or torture or both, don't you think so?
Not if you put it in a 1982 Trans Am. It worked out pretty well for David Hasselhoff.
Change the model of how Youtube makes money. The problem is they make money by showing us stuff the worst part of our nature likes, and they do this, because it hooks people.
Doesn't that just about sum up most of reality television too?
I'm pretty sure we've been sitting on the same set of netflix dvds since before our kid was born. Has netflix really left some poor sucker waiting 6 years to borrow this discs after I'm done? I doubt it.
Apparently you only rent new titles. I currently have 110 titles in my "Saved" list on Netflix. It's been much higher in the past. I've deleted a lot from that list. Though there have been a few that they did replace eventually. However I know that several have been there for over 10 years now. So no, they don't replace older titles when they don't get returned.
It can take years for that to happen in some cases. Pre-2005 Doctor Who disks don't appear to get replaced once they run out of them. I've been waiting for the Tom Baker "Meglos" disk for 7 or 8 years now.
All my computers run on Windows 9, and I see no reason to upgrade. I bought licenses for a great price off some Chinese website.
You should have waited like I did. Everyone knows Windows 9.1 is the way to go. It had much higher ratings on Newegg.cn and Amaxon.cn. I feel like it's the 1990's again since they shortened .com to .cn. Everything has gotten so much cheaper. It's crazy how much that "o" and extra hump added to the n costs.
mean, you can still ask for a receipt if you want one. I just don't want 6ft of paper when I buy a soda at CVS.
I always find that ironic. They stopped selling tobacco products years ago because they were concerned with people's health. But every store goes through a 1500 year old redwood worth of paper per day. But no one is smoking any more.