Comment It Met My Basic Needs (Score 2) 233
Things went fast, caught fire, and exploded, over and over again. My basic needs were well met by this film. I plan to see it again.
Things went fast, caught fire, and exploded, over and over again. My basic needs were well met by this film. I plan to see it again.
Why not buy cars as in-app purchases through Grand Theft Auto?
Can we take it on a test drive on a Kindle?
But, will it be as interesting to look at as the prefab housing built in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for Expo 67?
http://www.dwell.com/essay/article/prefab-decade
Arcology also appears as part of the backstory in "The Digital Effect", by Steve Perry. Improper building materials lead to an arcology's collapse.
Let me give you an example of what I mean. To the best of our ability to tell, there's only one place where elements heavier than carbon (such as nitrogen, oxygen, sodium, etc. etc.) can be formed in large amounts -- and that's inside a star. Only elements as heavy as carbon or lighter can be formed in the early universe (and, for that matter, the amounts of Li, Be, B and C formed in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis are very very small); for heavier elements, and for larger amounts of carbon etc., you need a star. Now, if you didn't already know this, stop and think about it for a second. A huge chunk of you, perhaps all of you, was inside a star at one time. It appears that you and I are star debris. And it gets even better. The way that large amounts of these elements, forged within a star, can get out of the star is if the star supernovas -- dies at the end of its lifetime with a big boom. That big boom also serves to make very heavy elements -- such as uranium, for instance -- that cannot be made even in a star while it's burning away. There's uranium, and other similar very heavy elements, on our planet. Do you see what I'm getting at? Much of the atoms that make all of us up, that make this planet up, were at one time inside a star (or stars) that lived its life, supernovaed, and spewed out debris. Eventually, maybe a few hundred million years later, that stuff is part of our planet, part of our atmosphere, our water, part of you and me. We are all brothers and sisters; we all came from the same place, sorta.
Now, that knowledge will never make me any money.
You might not be able to figure out how to make money, but Moby appears to have done well with it.
Why not?
There are certain viruses that contain DNA, such as the ones that cause herpes. Although some of these replicate via a DNA-RNA-DNA path, others, I believe, replicate their DNA directly. Thus, these viruses would not be affected by the new treatment.
All these data centers failed at roughly the same time as the sunspots returned, but that's just a coincidence, right?
Linux kernel 2.6.27 was released this afternoon.
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:59:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Linux 2.6.27
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810091651220.3210@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs