Comment Re:But what if (Score 1) 107
Instead of being like a giant battery to power the city, instead it is a evil giant CAPACITOR?
...or if we build it and a sexually ambiguous Jaye Davidson shows up?
Instead of being like a giant battery to power the city, instead it is a evil giant CAPACITOR?
...or if we build it and a sexually ambiguous Jaye Davidson shows up?
Well, that went South quickly.
It can't just be a small overclock, you need to turn that bastard all the way up to 11.
On X-10, I can go all the way up to 16!
I'm afraid I do not know how she determined the sodium mass increase in the BEC, and I was not in her lab at that time.
She mentioned the mass increase in correspondence.
I just found it interesting because of E=mc^2 implications.
I am aware that, in the case of this article, the stated goal was to create matter; whereas at her lab, it was more of a byproduct.
What? How can you link a paper like that and completely not understand its contents?...
I was in communication wi. Dr. Hau in 2007, and she indicated that the sodium mass had indeed increased when the probe pulse was stopped.
Light was already turned into matter back in 2001 by Lene Hau at Harvard.
When the light pulse disappeared, the mass of the sodium increased.
I hope they are nice to us.
They will probably just be frustrated by us:
Marvin: "I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
Zem: "Er, five."
Marvin: "Wrong. You see?"
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how many of your 100 friends have the hardware even remotely capable of true 4K playback...needless to say, this is a solution without a problem...)
Not really an issue... You don't have to deliver 4K to everyone now; just like how Youtube lets you screen selective resolutions.
A few alternatives:
In the future (probably not that far off) more of your friends will have 4K.
The 4K still looks better in the sample than the native 1080, even though we were viewing at 1080.
Also in the future, you will have 4K at home (even if you don't now) and you will be able enjoy your memories @ higher resolution. Just like how we can enjoy TV shows shot on film at a higher resolution now, than TV audiences did back when they were first broadcast.
Finally, If you shoot in 4K, you can crop into the video to feature or eliminate things, without losing too much resolution.
...the anecdote about the eldery woman...
This was anticipated in the film "Strange Days" way back in 1995 (produced by James Cameron)
where a VR 'dealer' made a "running on the beach" recording to cheer up a wheelchair bound friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(picture only)
...The cheat won. Not you.
Thank you for expressing that... something that was nagging me as I read the article and these comments.
I understand why people cheat in Vegas: they might walk away with real money.
I understand why athletes take steroids: million dollar contracts, fan adoration, groupies.
But, the point of online gaming is pure competition. It's anonymous, you don't even get the adoration of strangers. (and you're losing money, to boot!)
Cheating online just seems like bringing a pistol to a 1-on-1 basketball game, gunning down your opponent, shooting the ball through the hoop a couple of times; and then telling yourself what a great basketball player you are.
If you cheat, your score will always be a zero.
Those numbers in the corner don't mean anything...
I think basically, he's proposing pay per pixel.
They sort of have this model now (in the disc world.)
A DVD costs less than a Blu-Ray of the same movie.
And this is our cue to get the HELL out of this evil, communist nation and move to Europe!
Yeah, cool! I heard there are no cameras in England.
We all know we only have computers because of NASA and space. Although computers can be used to add and subtract vast reams of numbers, back then governments and corporations were too stupid to see this. Only though space exploration do we have the computers we have today. Charles Babbage? Konrad Zuse? All lies. There were no computers before about 1961.
Alan Turing 1941?
John von Neumann?
ENIAC 1948?
Anything?
No?
The court ruled, "It is concluded that, as Complainant: has not issued an enforceable FAR regulatory rule governing model aircraft operation...
You are correct. There is a difference, a legal difference, between FAA issuing 'policy' and 'position' papers, and passing actual rules.
They tried to fine this poor guy $10,000, and the court tossed it out saying the FAA had not (and still have not) passed a rule that carries the force of law.
Say "twenty-three-skiddoo" to logout.
