Yep. Made by the same company (Wizards of the Coast, now part of Hasbro) in fact. I used to play this game until I saw that it was nothing but a big money sink and stopped playing. I still have my old cards... mabye I should auction them on EBay and make a little $.
- Degree in computer science/engineering, electrical engineering, math, or whatever language the enemy is speaking today (Arabic languages) - U.S. citizenship of you and your immediate family (though I hear this is sometimes waived) - Ability to pass a detailed background check for security clearance
That's about it. The NSA has all sorts of educational programs, such as one I am applying for where they will pay for your college education if you go to work for them afterwards. Free college, guaranteed employment, and if you're really good private enterprise will pay 'em off and you go work for someone else.
Not exactly. The Apollo Command/Service Module (the lunar orbiter) ran on two fuel cells. The Command Module, when seperated from the Service Module, ran on batteries designed to provide just enough power for reentry. The Lunar Module used batteries (may have been fuel cells, but I doubt it). The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages, which were left on the moon, were what used the RTG. When they ditched the lander after using it as a lifeboat, the RTG would have reentered. So there was an RTG, but it wasn't powering the orbiter and was supposed to have been left on the moon.
A black light is basically an ultraviolet (I think) light. It causes most light and flourescent colors as well as glow-in-the-dark material to glow. They are often used for stage effects. Sometimes they are used to help clean up pet accidents, as urine glows under a blacklight.
imagine how tiny the cumulative slices for, say "higher salaries for congress" would be;-).
Let's think about this for a little while. You probably get a yearly pay raise, for cost of living increases if nothing else. Congress hasn't had a pay raise since the sixties or seventies. It sounds bad when the other guy starts campaigning by saying "Senator Smith voted to increase his own pay!" but how would you like going 20-30 years with no pay raise??
The Hilton space hotel proposal is unworkable with the current state NASA is in. They want to take space shuttle external tanks (which currently burn up on reentry right after launch) and give them an extra boost to orbit and then assemble the tanks into a space station. Problem is, shuttle tanks are not designed to, and will not, last in space for an extended period of time. People have been pointing out how NASA is resisting change, and this proposal will require NASA to radically change the way the tanks are built. The new tanks will most likely cost more and be heavier, which will mean the Shuttle will have its payload capacity reduced. Besides, the folks who originally proposed this idea had a statement up on their website for a while that said something to the effect of "We really don't know what we're talking about."
What we really should be doing is funding the innovative, low-cost launch vehicles being proposed by companies like , Bristol Spaceplanes, and Pioneer Rocketplane, among others. Many of these companies have workable designs if not actual prototypes and their designs are superior to existing launch vehicles. Bristol's "Spacebus" design launches an orbiter from a high-altitude supersonic aircraft, carrying 5 tons payload to space for $125,000. Sure beats a Shuttle per-mission cost of $500 million!
I think they redesigned the hatch again after the fire. The design on Apollo 1 actually had 3 seperate hatches and took about 90 seconds or so to open. They then redesigned the hatches so that there were 2 (I think) and that was quicker to open.
Gemini had a hatch that could be opened and closed in flight to allow for spacewalks. I don't know if the Apollo hatch allowed for this (probably not because then I bet they would have spacewalked to survey damage on Apollo 13 and see if the service module engine would run without blowing up.)
The folks at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum have a lot more in their collection than they are showing. They have stuff like an SR-71 and the Space Shuttle atmospheric test prototype "Enterprise". Lots of this is sitting in a hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport because they don't have any place to show it, but they finally got the money to build an annex where they can show this stuff. I hope they'll let you inside the Shuttle prototype...
A lot of astronauts found the Gemini capsules small. In fact, the astronauts called the Gemini the "Gusmobile" because they thought that only Gus Grissom (who was short) could fit comfortably in it.
The wires can be concealed by mounting the "smoke detector" to an electrical box in the ceiling, like you would with a smoke detector that runs off of line voltage. You then run the wire above the ceiling to your monitor.
However, we are rapidly reaching the point where as many people have televisions as have Internet connections...
I don't think this is accurate. I believe more homes have TV's than have telephones. (I saw something somewhere that said 96% of homes have phone service and 97% have a television, or something like that.)
I recall learning in TV production class that the Nielsen uses two methods to measure ratings. One group of homes gets a box that tells how long the TV has been turned on, and another group fills out the survey saying what they watched and when. These two measures are combined to give the ratings numbers.
I'm going to make an analogy here to the railroad industry. Most railroad tracks were built by private companies who spent lots of money to do so. However, the railroads do (and this is probably required by law) allow other railroads to run on their tracks for a price. For example, the tracks in the Washington, DC area are all owned by CSX Transportation. However, Amtrak (national passenger rail) as well as MARC and VRE (commuter rail) all run trains on these tracks.
If your logic was applied to the railroad industry, all of these people would have to build seperate sets of tracks. If this were the case, the costs of starting a new business would be so prohibitive that we wouldn't have Amtrak or the local commuter rail.
And if a big three or four letter agency wanted to build a series of these machines, they would get their own chip foundry going, and the price would come down as time went on. Assuming the NSA has done that, you can imagine the cracking power they can throw against codes they haven't comprimised yet.
The following is a quote from some NSA recruitment literature: "Your work may also take you into our microelectronics fabrication facility that includes a 20,000-sq.-ft "Class 10" clean room. It is here where we are redefining the limits of an array of key technologies - everything from electron beam maskmaking and "direct write" wafer lithography, to wafer fabrication and testing, and more."
So they can make chips themselves. But for a production run necessary to build this cracker it might be cheaper to have someone else make the chips, cause you need about 64 million of them.
Not the case. I live near DC, and there was an article in the Washington Post a few months back that talked about this situation. There is a list of types of guns that aren't legal in DC. If the gun isn't on that list, it's perfectly legal to have. The manufacturers of the Tec-9 - a handgun often used by criminals - were able to get around DC gun laws by changing the name to Tec-DC9. The gun wasn't on the banned list anymore, therefore it was legal.
The Windows version sometimes seems to count the time that the program is open in the system tray but not processing as well as the time when the program is processing, leading to inflated cpu time figures. (ex: It takes Seti@home 20 hours to process a data packet, but I use the computer for 10 hours during that time. Seti@home reports that it was running for 30 hours, when it was really only processing for 20.) Also, setting "Blank screen" cut my time/packet down from 70 or so hours to about 20 hours per packet on a K6-2/300.
Sport Utility Vehicle. A cross between a Jeep and a station wagon. These are becoming very popular in the United States. Due to it's large size, SUVs are very safe, but at the expense of any other cars involved in a collision. Sold for use in off-road and on-road driving but usually brought by rich people who just want to feel special.
These Sinclair machines used a Z-80 processor. So it's conceivable (but just barely) that they could be coerced into being compatable with the GameBoy.
I think the game boy has a graphics and sound chip in addition to the Z80. So, being able to make this thing compatible with the GB would probably be hard. However, if it has an expansion port (like the T/S 1000) you could probably put the additional circuitry required into an expansion RAM pack housing or something.
The point is that I came away from that discussion with the fear that this movie is going to suck, but that noone will EVER admit it if it does. The hype is too big. People are forced to love it now.
Exactly. Look at the advance reviews of the movie coming out -- most of them say the movie is not so hot. However, everybody either says "Episode 4 had bad reviews too" (interesting, because I have seen some links back to reviews of the original and they have been positive) or "George Lucas would never make a bad movie." And then, they've got themselves all convinced it will be a great movie and it will be really hard to admit that it was bad even if it was bad. It ain't easy to admit that you're wrong, especially if you've been telling other people the wrong thing for a long time.
Lucasfilm showed some preview screenings Sunday night in cities around the nation for $500 donations to various charities. The Washington Post took their computer van to the Washington D.C. screening and let people post their comments on the movie. I noticed that most of them said the movie was great, but also most of them were from children under 15. Also, someone who pays $500 to see a movie is NOT going to come out and admit the movie sucked!! (Just like people who get scammed by con artists never complain because they don't want to admit that they were the victim of a fraud.)
It would be soooo nice in sense of security, to have a unique phone number allocated to your house. A thing most maniacs and serial killers who are able enough to use the reverse phone lookup on www.anywho.com would love for sure.
If you've ever been shocked by an electric fence you will realize that electricity of a sufficiently high voltage can return to ground even if you are wearing shoes. My neighbor installed an electric fence to prevent her dogs from jumping out of her yard, and even though it was only 800 volts it could shock you even if you were wearing shoes.
However, this means that the scene in Jurassic Park where the kid climbing on the electric fence was zapped when they turned it on couldn't have happened, because he wasn't touching the ground at the time.
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There's a photo-illustration of what the Pizza Hut rocket will look like at Pizza Hut's page.
Yep. Made by the same company (Wizards of the Coast, now part of Hasbro) in fact. I used to play this game until I saw that it was nothing but a big money sink and stopped playing. I still have my old cards... mabye I should auction them on EBay and make a little $.
NSA job requirements:
- Degree in computer science/engineering, electrical engineering, math, or whatever language the enemy is speaking today (Arabic languages)
- U.S. citizenship of you and your immediate family (though I hear this is sometimes waived)
- Ability to pass a detailed background check for security clearance
That's about it. The NSA has all sorts of educational programs, such as one I am applying for where they will pay for your college education if you go to work for them afterwards. Free college, guaranteed employment, and if you're really good private enterprise will pay 'em off and you go work for someone else.
Not exactly. The Apollo Command/Service Module (the lunar orbiter) ran on two fuel cells. The Command Module, when seperated from the Service Module, ran on batteries designed to provide just enough power for reentry. The Lunar Module used batteries (may have been fuel cells, but I doubt it). The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages, which were left on the moon, were what used the RTG. When they ditched the lander after using it as a lifeboat, the RTG would have reentered. So there was an RTG, but it wasn't powering the orbiter and was supposed to have been left on the moon.
A black light is basically an ultraviolet (I think) light. It causes most light and flourescent colors as well as glow-in-the-dark material to glow. They are often used for stage effects. Sometimes they are used to help clean up pet accidents, as urine glows under a blacklight.
It's possible that the number on the card gets rewritten the next time you use the bank's ATM.
imagine how tiny the cumulative slices for, say "higher salaries for congress" would be ;-).
Let's think about this for a little while. You probably get a yearly pay raise, for cost of living increases if nothing else. Congress hasn't had a pay raise since the sixties or seventies. It sounds bad when the other guy starts campaigning by saying "Senator Smith voted to increase his own pay!" but how would you like going 20-30 years with no pay raise??
The Hilton space hotel proposal is unworkable with the current state NASA is in. They want to take space shuttle external tanks (which currently burn up on reentry right after launch) and give them an extra boost to orbit and then assemble the tanks into a space station. Problem is, shuttle tanks are not designed to, and will not, last in space for an extended period of time. People have been pointing out how NASA is resisting change, and this proposal will require NASA to radically change the way the tanks are built. The new tanks will most likely cost more and be heavier, which will mean the Shuttle will have its payload capacity reduced. Besides, the folks who originally proposed this idea had a statement up on their website for a while that said something to the effect of "We really don't know what we're talking about."
What we really should be doing is funding the innovative, low-cost launch vehicles being proposed by companies like , Bristol Spaceplanes, and Pioneer Rocketplane, among others. Many of these companies have workable designs if not actual prototypes and their designs are superior to existing launch vehicles. Bristol's "Spacebus" design launches an orbiter from a high-altitude supersonic aircraft, carrying 5 tons payload to space for $125,000. Sure beats a Shuttle per-mission cost of $500 million!
This is probably off topic, but it was something I was wondering. What was the name of the big evil corporation in Tron?
I think they redesigned the hatch again after the fire. The design on Apollo 1 actually had 3 seperate hatches and took about 90 seconds or so to open. They then redesigned the hatches so that there were 2 (I think) and that was quicker to open.
Gemini had a hatch that could be opened and closed in flight to allow for spacewalks. I don't know if the Apollo hatch allowed for this (probably not because then I bet they would have spacewalked to survey damage on Apollo 13 and see if the service module engine would run without blowing up.)
The folks at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum have a lot more in their collection than they are showing. They have stuff like an SR-71 and the Space Shuttle atmospheric test prototype "Enterprise". Lots of this is sitting in a hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport because they don't have any place to show it, but they finally got the money to build an annex where they can show this stuff. I hope they'll let you inside the Shuttle prototype...
A lot of astronauts found the Gemini capsules small. In fact, the astronauts called the Gemini the "Gusmobile" because they thought that only Gus Grissom (who was short) could fit comfortably in it.
The wires can be concealed by mounting the "smoke detector" to an electrical box in the ceiling, like you would with a smoke detector that runs off of line voltage. You then run the wire above the ceiling to your monitor.
However, we are rapidly reaching the point where as many people have televisions as have Internet connections...
I don't think this is accurate. I believe more homes have TV's than have telephones. (I saw something somewhere that said 96% of homes have phone service and 97% have a television, or something like that.)
I recall learning in TV production class that the Nielsen uses two methods to measure ratings. One group of homes gets a box that tells how long the TV has been turned on, and another group fills out the survey saying what they watched and when. These two measures are combined to give the ratings numbers.
I'm going to make an analogy here to the railroad industry. Most railroad tracks were built by private companies who spent lots of money to do so. However, the railroads do (and this is probably required by law) allow other railroads to run on their tracks for a price. For example, the tracks in the Washington, DC area are all owned by CSX Transportation. However, Amtrak (national passenger rail) as well as MARC and VRE (commuter rail) all run trains on these tracks.
If your logic was applied to the railroad industry, all of these people would have to build seperate sets of tracks. If this were the case, the costs of starting a new business would be so prohibitive that we wouldn't have Amtrak or the local commuter rail.
And if a big three or four letter agency wanted to build a series of these machines, they would get their own chip foundry going, and the price would come down as time went on. Assuming the NSA has done that, you can imagine the cracking power they can throw against codes they haven't comprimised yet.
The following is a quote from some NSA recruitment literature:
"Your work may also take you into our microelectronics fabrication facility that includes a 20,000-sq.-ft "Class 10" clean room. It is here where we are redefining the limits of an array of key technologies - everything from electron beam maskmaking and "direct write" wafer lithography, to wafer fabrication and testing, and more."
So they can make chips themselves. But for a production run necessary to build this cracker it might be cheaper to have someone else make the chips, cause you need about 64 million of them.
Not the case. I live near DC, and there was an article in the Washington Post a few months back that talked about this situation. There is a list of types of guns that aren't legal in DC. If the gun isn't on that list, it's perfectly legal to have. The manufacturers of the Tec-9 - a handgun often used by criminals - were able to get around DC gun laws by changing the name to Tec-DC9. The gun wasn't on the banned list anymore, therefore it was legal.
The Windows version sometimes seems to count the time that the program is open in the system tray but not processing as well as the time when the program is processing, leading to inflated cpu time figures. (ex: It takes Seti@home 20 hours to process a data packet, but I use the computer for 10 hours during that time. Seti@home reports that it was running for 30 hours, when it was really only processing for 20.) Also, setting "Blank screen" cut my time/packet down from 70 or so hours to about 20 hours per packet on a K6-2/300.
See here for an example.
These Sinclair machines used a Z-80 processor. So it's conceivable (but just barely) that they could be coerced into being compatable with the GameBoy.
I think the game boy has a graphics and sound chip in addition to the Z80. So, being able to make this thing compatible with the GB would probably be hard. However, if it has an expansion port (like the T/S 1000) you could probably put the additional circuitry required into an expansion RAM pack housing or something.
The point is that I came away from that discussion with the fear that this movie is going to suck, but that noone will EVER admit it if it does. The hype is too big. People are forced to love it now.
Exactly. Look at the advance reviews of the movie coming out -- most of them say the movie is not so hot. However, everybody either says "Episode 4 had bad reviews too" (interesting, because I have seen some links back to reviews of the original and they have been positive) or "George Lucas would never make a bad movie." And then, they've got themselves all convinced it will be a great movie and it will be really hard to admit that it was bad even if it was bad. It ain't easy to admit that you're wrong, especially if you've been telling other people the wrong thing for a long time.
Lucasfilm showed some preview screenings Sunday night in cities around the nation for $500 donations to various charities. The Washington Post took their computer van to the Washington D.C. screening and let people post their comments on the movie. I noticed that most of them said the movie was great, but also most of them were from children under 15. Also, someone who pays $500 to see a movie is NOT going to come out and admit the movie sucked!! (Just like people who get scammed by con artists never complain because they don't want to admit that they were the victim of a fraud.)
Also because they are now licensing Fraunhofer/IIS's decoder and that costs money...
It would be soooo nice in sense of security, to have a unique phone number allocated to your house. A thing most maniacs and serial killers who are able enough to use the reverse phone lookup on www.anywho.com would love for sure.
If you've ever been shocked by an electric fence you will realize that electricity of a sufficiently high voltage can return to ground even if you are wearing shoes. My neighbor installed an electric fence to prevent her dogs from jumping out of her yard, and even though it was only 800 volts it could shock you even if you were wearing shoes.
However, this means that the scene in Jurassic Park where the kid climbing on the electric fence was zapped when they turned it on couldn't have happened, because he wasn't touching the ground at the time.