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Now the RIAA wants to charge ISPs for people using P2P, rofl. So now all the users will have to pick up the increase for those of us who do use it. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=3&cid=582&u=/nm/20030118/wr_nm/tech_internet_music_dc

64 codons, 20 amino acids.

There is no rush. If there was a rush, we would have been there decades ago. The government doesn't adequately fund science.

Actually, there is a precedent to this; back in the 60s, announcing missions boosted the economy.

According to this article, NASA will use nuclear propulsion to send astronauts to Mars by 2010. Project Prometheus will take 2 months to arrive at Mars rather the 6 month trip the current space flight technology at 18,000mph would take. President Bush may announce the project in his upcoming State of the Union Addresse.

Division by genetic alteration would be extremely similar to current division-- only the rich would be able to afford it for quite some time.

If money wasn't an object I'd just get a 64 processor array with a 5PB storage system. Unfortunately as a college student, money is quite a significant factor.

I've been considering either a P4 2.66GHz or an Athlon XP 2700+ in my new computer if i'm unable to resolve my current hardware problems. Besides the obvious differences in cost, which will perform better for high-end gaming, graphic design, and mathematics-intense applications?

Are you high?

Gravity curves space-time, this is what alters the trajectory of the photon. You have not learned the complete equations.

There will always be competition, at least in the imaginable future (millions of years). In order for our race to have no competition, we would need zero population growth or limitless resources, and no other species could compete for those resources with us.

1. We don't fully understand it YET. We will. Once we get it done with higher primates, we will move on to humans and it will be perfectly safe. Unhealthy clones is related to imperfections in technique that lead to DNA damage; we will develop better methods too. 2. We already divide the population by race, income, ethnicity, etc; why would genetic alterations be any more severe?

Sounds great to me. Why should we have to have more faults than we can avoid? Just because nature says so? I find it quite hypocritical for people to be OK with doing everything else that makes up a society in opposition to nature, but when it comes to altering the genetic makeup of our body, it's a huge ethics issue. Furthermore, all the people who support altering the gene to cure an illness but are ethically against enhancements should be smacked. Same for people who support in vitro fertilization but thinking cloning is the greatest moral offense ever.

In light of recent hoaxes... bump. Yes, hoax, the Raelians and Clonaid are a psychotic sect/cult. Anyone who gives any credibility to them is a flaming imbecile.

I sure wish the 3GHz P4 wasn't so much money. I doubt the manufacturing cost justifies the several hundred dollar increase over the 2.8.

In the future when computers perform rapid parallel operations on trillions of bytes controlled by trillions of other bytes, AI will be possible. When molecular simulations are perfected, all we have to do is add some DNA and all the other needed mocules, and life itself will be simulated. Granted our computing technologies and understandings of molecular interactions are still in their infancy, but this is not an impossible task looking forward even a few decades.

I hope you're not planning a career in physics a) don't need mass to find velocity. (photons have no mass, so you're saying the speed of light, the cornerstone of physics, is impossible to measure?) b) interaction with objects can be used to indicate speed.

Well it all started back around the time I attempted to install a TV Wonder VE TV capture card. 14 hours of work on it later, I bailed out. But the damage was done. My computer started getting blue screen errors. Soon, this progressed to IRQ conflicts on my main board. Various devices would randomly conflict. First, it was just the hard drives and disc drives. Then, it was the IDE cards. Randomly rearranging these would solve the conflict. Then, things got worse. IRQ conflicts were caused by the mouse and ethernet. Then the memory. Then last night the CPU went. Replaced it today and everything seems to be normal, but the next 48 hours will tell the tale.

lol

For all the humanitarians out there I guess we could simply require a high IQ to be allowed to procreate.

Um, we've had a user title ladder ever since the forum went online :/

They couldn't rebel if they were dead...

Also note there is a 20-25% margin of error. http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1042065116.html

who cares who the king of namibia was in 1500? 99% of history is useless

Grammar, bah