Screw the grammar. I just wanna see Katz learn the difference
between a " 1 " and an " l ". "l953"?
Me too. This show's Katz's old age; he obviously learned to type on a typewriter*,
where there is no "one", and one has to use the lower case
"L" key...
Hey, Katz, you oughta read "The
mac is not a typewriter", by Robin Williams. That'll teach
you how to type properly.
* For the younger fry out there, a
typewriter is a machine
with a keyboard which IMMEDIATELY prints the character you type
on a piece of paper inserted in the abovementionned machine.
Re:Higher Ground that we won't see...
on
The High Frontier
·
· Score: 2
Forget the space station - move to the moon, start working
with a lower-gravity world, strip mine it for all it's worth - do nuclear
fuel research there, and yes, grow food, have children, allow them to have
children - then we will be on higher ground.
You obviously haven't read O'Neil's book. The problem with being on the
moon is being at the bottom of a gravity well. The cost of moving things
in space is not relative to the distance travelles, but to the delta-V,
that is the difference in velocity necessary to move things around, and
that delta-V increases dramatically when going up and down
gravity wells, that is, to/from the surface of a planet(oid).
Initially, you'd want to ship things to Earth. Leaving from the lunar
surface means that you have to go against it's gravity, escape lunar orbit,
then fling it all the way to the Earth.
At least, going down to earth requires no energy, as the space shuttle
demonstrates in gliding down to earth by cleverly using it's atmosphere.
No so going down on the Moon. You have to counter it's gravity, and
without any atmosphere to do so, you have to use expensive rocket fuel
(you have to get it all the way up from Earth). This is why the LEM was
such a flimsy affair, whose pressure hull could be punctured with a pencil,
all just to save weight. It could not even support it's own weight on Earth!!!
To ship something from the Moon back to the Earth, you have to go up
the Moon's gravity well.
When you're in space, everywhere is downhill from there. You're king
of the hill, and you can laugh on your way to the Gravity Bank. So, it
becomes trivial to ship down things from either Earth orbit, or from any
of the Lagrange points proposed by O'Neil to put his space islands.
As for raw materials, you ship the minimum from the moon surface, and
for a magnetic mass-driver, the energy can be solar, thus, free.
Or you just go mine the asteroid belt. It may be very far away, but
it is not expensive in terms of delta-V to go there.
Of course, in this, time is the essence, and patience is not a virtue
seen often in venture capitalists and other commercial endeavours...
There used to be a long road, with nothing for hundreds of kilometers, where when you entered, were given a time-stamped ticket, which you had to surrender at the other end, where a calculation was made, and if you speeded, you were promptly ticketed for it... -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
In that case, if you put roadside transponders who tell the car the maximum speed, and the car control system does the job (instead of using a costly satellite system), there is no more monitoring. And, besides, what is wrong in monitoring the use of a privilege? Since driving is a privilege, it can be revoked, and as such, it is in the interests of everyone that such monitoring is facilitated to the competent authorities. -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Given that driving a car is a privilege, and not a right, and that this privilege has killed and maimed far more people than all the wars since the dawn of humanity, limiting speeding, which is the major cause of accidents, is a darn very good thing. -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
What about Joannes Gutemberg's gadget, the printing press, without which the diffusion of scientific idea wouldn't have advanced enough for you to read this on glowing phosphors??? -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
> I personally think that beer is the best thing ever invented.
Even more so that it could very well be the impetus which led to the wide scale adoption of agriculture... -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
> But to have to (in effect) stand naked infront of someone I > don't know and don't know his/her mental state creeps me out. > And that is what you have to do...someone who may or may not > have perverted intentions, will be staring at your naked body > as you pass by.
Now, that's something that'd odd to understand. What kind of twisted logic would make someone not want to be naked in front of a stranger? Everybody is made the same way, so why being naked be something awfully special? Why so big a deal?
I remember reading about some naturist camp where, each second week or so, nearby farmers would setup a marketplace to sell their fruits and vegetables. One (farmer) woman interviewed said that what she found most shocking was not that everyone went around naked (she didn't), but that after 30 minutes, she found that perfectly normal!!! -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
> Even if etoy.com was a hard core porn site, etoys > should have no moral or legal rights to do what they > did. etoy.com is not bound by US laws.
Perhaps. But even though etoy is based in Europe, they could have thought that if they register a domain that's managed by an U.S.-based entity (Network Solutions), that managing entity could very well fall prey to U.S.-style legal bludgeoning tactics.
Why didn't they register a domain in Europe in the first place??? -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
I could swear he wrote a story of such a chip that is **VOLUNTARLY** applied. However, once you have the chip, it is illegal to have it removed.
So, in the story, a criminal convinces a kid not to have such a chip implanted, for him to use the kid several years later to perpetrate a "perfect crime", thanks to the kid's "unusual" untraceability... -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
And it took a surgeon general to find this out... (Oh, well, I guess that proves it)... -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Re:How does it work without compromising the image
on
IDs in Color Copies
·
· Score: 1
Tha's very easy to do, because photocopiers will never be able to make a copy with an aspect ratio of exactly 1. So, whenever you have a screen made of horizontal lines besides a screen of vertical lines of the SAME density, when photocopied, they will appear contrasted.
The trick for the VOID on the check is simply to write the "VOID" with a line screen that is at 90 degrees of the background. -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Cloning was out-evolved by sexual reproduction. What is eugenics but asexual cloning by another name? Since eugenics is obviously the end of evolution, evolution will evolve around it, just as it evolved around asexual reproduction.
Only the most primitive of unicellular organism clone themselves nowadays... -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
> The embedded market is the fastest portion of the computer industry. > When you have 512K of flash to store all your applications, and MAYBE > another 256K of RAM, you have to squeeze everything that you can bare > out of your software.
Spoiled brat! You'll have ample justification to bitch when you'll have to fit your controlling program into 2K bytes of ROM, whilst having only 127 bytes of RAM to play with... -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Slashdot Mirror
(Dunno what's wrong with /. today. The URL is http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/6/0,5716 ,62436+1,00.html )
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
If one is okay for the children, why not the other?
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Hey, Katz, you oughta read " The mac is not a typewriter ", by Robin Williams. That'll teach you how to type properly.
--
The german onomatopeias themselves are worth reading...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Just tune in at Radio Data System(RDS) WWW interface website and enjoy...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Initially, you'd want to ship things to Earth. Leaving from the lunar surface means that you have to go against it's gravity, escape lunar orbit, then fling it all the way to the Earth.
At least, going down to earth requires no energy, as the space shuttle demonstrates in gliding down to earth by cleverly using it's atmosphere.
No so going down on the Moon. You have to counter it's gravity, and without any atmosphere to do so, you have to use expensive rocket fuel (you have to get it all the way up from Earth). This is why the LEM was such a flimsy affair, whose pressure hull could be punctured with a pencil, all just to save weight. It could not even support it's own weight on Earth!!!
To ship something from the Moon back to the Earth, you have to go up the Moon's gravity well.
When you're in space, everywhere is downhill from there. You're king of the hill, and you can laugh on your way to the Gravity Bank. So, it becomes trivial to ship down things from either Earth orbit, or from any of the Lagrange points proposed by O'Neil to put his space islands.
As for raw materials, you ship the minimum from the moon surface, and for a magnetic mass-driver, the energy can be solar, thus, free.
Or you just go mine the asteroid belt. It may be very far away, but it is not expensive in terms of delta-V to go there.
Of course, in this, time is the essence, and patience is not a virtue seen often in venture capitalists and other commercial endeavours...
--
There used to be a long road, with nothing for hundreds of kilometers, where when you entered, were given a time-stamped ticket, which you had to surrender at the other end, where a calculation was made, and if you speeded, you were promptly ticketed for it...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
In that case, if you put roadside transponders who tell the car the maximum speed, and the car control system does the job (instead of using a costly satellite system), there is no more monitoring.
And, besides, what is wrong in monitoring the use of a privilege? Since driving is a privilege, it can be revoked, and as such, it is in the interests of everyone that such monitoring is facilitated to the competent authorities.
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Given that driving a car is a privilege, and not a right, and that this privilege has killed and maimed far more people than all the wars since the dawn of humanity, limiting speeding, which is the major cause of accidents, is a darn very good thing.
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
In approximate order:
- Bow and arrow
- Harnessing fire
- Agriculture
- Breeding livestock
- Ore smelting & ceramics
- Naval implements (ships, sails, compass, astrolabes, locks)
- The wheel
- Fortifications
- Roads (à la Roman empire)
- The printing press
The rest (water, steam & electric power) will come naturally...-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
What about Joannes Gutemberg's gadget, the printing press, without which the diffusion of scientific idea wouldn't have advanced enough for you to read this on glowing phosphors???
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Even more so that it could very well be the impetus which led to the wide scale adoption of agriculture...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
> don't know and don't know his/her mental state creeps me out.
> And that is what you have to do...someone who may or may not
> have perverted intentions, will be staring at your naked body
> as you pass by.
Now, that's something that'd odd to understand. What kind of twisted logic would make someone not want to be naked in front of a stranger? Everybody is made the same way, so why being naked be something awfully special? Why so big a deal?
I remember reading about some naturist camp where, each second week or so, nearby farmers would setup a marketplace to sell their fruits and vegetables. One (farmer) woman interviewed said that what she found most shocking was not that everyone went around naked (she didn't), but that after 30 minutes, she found that perfectly normal!!!
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
This thing will surely be loved by exhibitionists...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
> should have no moral or legal rights to do what they
> did. etoy.com is not bound by US laws.
Perhaps. But even though etoy is based in Europe, they could have thought that if they register a domain that's managed by an U.S.-based entity (Network Solutions), that managing entity could very well fall prey to U.S.-style legal bludgeoning tactics.
Why didn't they register a domain in Europe in the first place???
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
So, in the story, a criminal convinces a kid not to have such a chip implanted, for him to use the kid several years later to perpetrate a "perfect crime", thanks to the kid's "unusual" untraceability...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
This won't fly; for one thing, it's blatantly sexist...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
And it took a surgeon general to find this out... (Oh, well, I guess that proves it)...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
The trick for the VOID on the check is simply to write the "VOID" with a line screen that is at 90 degrees of the background.
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Only the most primitive of unicellular organism clone themselves nowadays...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
> us, how the fuck can they not be public domain?
Oh, the SIGNALS ARE public domain. It's just the DATA that's not.
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Spoiled brat!!!
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Use Delphi...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
So it must be Belgium then...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
> When you have 512K of flash to store all your applications, and MAYBE
> another 256K of RAM, you have to squeeze everything that you can bare
> out of your software.
Spoiled brat! You'll have ample justification to bitch when you'll have to fit your controlling program into 2K bytes of ROM, whilst having only 127 bytes of RAM to play with...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!