THe other end is held in place by gravity. This demands an extremely stong material in order to keep from being broken, but the cable will hang there if extended far enough out from the surface of the planet.
If you get any recommendations, please let me know! i still have my two copies of caesar II . but don't play them much any more. Seems like to me the whole field has faded and the X-box and playstation is the systems that everyone is designing or building games. All of these games Are fps. Boring! Boring and more boring! When are people going to figure out that any Damn fool can kill something! but it takes real political skill and economic knowledge plus management skills to build a civilization! Have you checked out Microsoft games? i believe they have modified their game Age of Empires game into something you might check out.
Please forgive me for saying I told you so. But this information is now about a year or more old. The Russians have been turning those old, big, dumb ICBM boosters into satellite launch sytems since 2 years after the" Fall of the Wall". Why is that now such news here?
Dear Friends,
I suppose it is very human to see faces or features in an inantimate object. when I look at this asteriod / moon, the word/ pattern that comes to me is hammered.
1. Your assertion about me making racist comments is incorrect and a twisting of the intent of my words. 2. the only person using racist terminology here is you. raghead is a mildly derogatory term for certain peoples, but it is not racist. 3 Your message-
your slang / media references were not clear to me to intrepert your intended sarcasm of my viewpoint.
Am i correct to assume that was your intention?
4. I have reviewed your message and you made two assertions about United States Foreign policy and influence in the Israelie-Palestine conflict and the government of Saudi Arabia. Both of these assertions are old propaganda statements used for at least the last 20 or more years in Arab media. They purport to explain the failure of Palistian peoples to achieve some sort of victory against the Isrealie government and the disaffected citizens against monarchy of Saudia Arabia.
Prehaps you would like to review my message and grasp my sharply worded attack upon Osama bin Laden and his brand of religious and historically motivated terrorism against the United States.
I believe the original message was complaining about the increased time and inspection and interrogation of people crossing the border from Canada into the United States.
My reply was not an attack upon Canadaians nor upon the vast majorities of Arab peoples.
Somehow i get the impression that the term Nation-state has not penetrated into a lot of people's mental awarness. That Term means something! you are a member of your Nation-state. last I heard Canada had amongst the most liberal immigration policies(open door for Terrorist) in the Free world. Catch a clue here.-- Al- Quida and What's his name are not kidding or playing games. THey mean to destroy every american institution they can reach with explosives or a hijacked jet. United States (Nation-State) is not going to allow a bunch of half baked, ingorant, rag heads with some kind of religious and historical nonsence for a philosophy - to Do That!
If that means that some soldier points an M-16 at you at an air port or border crossing. Then i would take seriously the United States intention to defend itself from all Enemies foreign and domestic. so Suck it up! this is not a perament situation, so for the next 60 months or so get use to people with Guns pointing them at you at U.S. border crossings. Also expect for the identification process at the border to get more invovled and exacting. This does not mean that War has broken out between Canada and the U.S. or that it is a good situation but see remark about Terrorist Rag heads and be a little more grown up about the Whole thing. Ok?
I have watch G4$/comcast programming a little. What i have seen i will characterize as Kiddie -corporate X-box power hour. I have never owned an X-box or X-box game nor do i intend to. Great programming if your only gaming experience is an X-box or your microsoft stock owner. G4$/comcast programming is aimed at the saturday morning set and they have a very long way to go to address the more mature users of computers. G-4$/comcast, i expect will do little to help open source like Tech-Tv did!
AS for Tech-TV, my impressions of most slash-dotters are somewhere between my skill level with a computer and extreme power users. Thus Tech-Tv addressed power users issues very little. Tech-Tv, i felt was some what like slash-dot would be if it were on TV. Tech-Tv however did address ordinary users technical issues and provide a lot of real and helpful hardware and software information for less skilled computer users. Leo Laporte was very good, but he was a tad bit overbearing on the Screen Savers. He was however, an excellent source of technical information and did support the open source movement. All the other TEch people on Screen Savers, Call for Help and the other shows were of pretty high caliber and informative.
I wish I could say the same for G$/comcast programming and the chicks on Tech-Tv were HOT! Laura Swisher,Morgan Webb,Cat Schartz And the red haired news chick - I Want you to bear my children!
You know, I have heard for the last 5 or 6 years how Everything that Michael Powell and The FCC does is meant to get better service to rural Areas. Living in Central West Virigina. People are still waiting for the improvements to our telecommunications service. Meanwhile it seems that every other decision Mr. Powell and his FCC have made has enriched big corporations and managed to ignore the fact that everything that he has done has not improved Rural service of the Telecommunication industry to this part of West Virginia.
DEar Friends, Has anyone considered the money and research hours spent by all those scientists just to check out this expermental breakthrough. Then think of all the non-American research people that are going to investigate and spend research dollars if what was said is true about the energy potential of this radioactive isotope? As our german soldier from "LAugh-In" would say "Veerry Interesting".
The man/ machine battle in matrix-3 was very good. The biggest depictions of space battles are the movies and TV shows you and others have mentioned. The media has a tendency to go for the massive WW II Dogfight scenario around the bombers style of space battle. It is easier for most people to grasp that type of battle and makes better cinema. Warfare in space is limited in the scifi movies because in tends to be a climatic scene.
you will find more computer games about the subject then cinema or TV. most of those games are again you flying a armed space craft in space / you in a walking tank. remeber the technology to depict space battles has advanced tremendously in the last 40 years. Compare the 1939 Buck Rodgers serials to todays movies to understand the state of the art in space battles.
is it possible for me to patent a cellphone that "walla"
presss a cell phone key or key sequence and swiss army knife style a fly swatter spring out to swats the little buggers with.
Dear J. Maximus, your comments about China breaking away from Intel and Microsoft domination are correct to a point. This will certainly allow the Chinese to develope their own version of the internet! There own servers built with their own chips using their own transmission protocols and packet switching standards. Right ON! thus the Chinese Government will eventually achieve their domination over the internet and internal information by creating and providing the own internal version of the internet to their own people! This development prevents the contanmination and corruption of Western ideas and news from reaching the majority of the Chinese!
Dear Telastyn,
Yes the can plug in the Humvee.
The ARmy since the 1950,s has had gasoline and diesel powered towed Field Generators of different KiloWatts and Amperage Ratings to power various AAA Radars and truck mounted electrically operated equiptment (including mainframe computers).
THe Patriot Missile System has one very large trailer mounted generator to operate the radars and various radios and command and control electronics(specialized computer systems) necessary for the system to work.
The power for the laser is just a simple logistics problem for the present day Army.
It would be nothing for the Hummer with the laser mounted to tow the generator directly behind the vechile until need.
Stop, Set up the generator before operational use and plug the 10 meter power cable into the conveniently mounted power connector on the laser.
Proceed on with the Mine Clearing Mission!
Dear Mad Marlin,
Grabbing my reference book on measurement conversions, I find that measurements and conversions are a bit more involved. The Book- i am going to quote from is the 1996 edition published by Blue Willow press. It is titled "Measure for Measure"by the authors Richard A. Young and Thomas J. Glover. THere are four different type of volume measure- Dry and Wet, British type definition and U.S. type definition.
Gills and pecks are respectively liquid and dry volume amounts.THe British system uses them interchangeably for both liquid and dry volume amounts. The U.S. system defines gills only for liquid volume and no other type. The peck is used as a unit of dry volume measure. So there are vast difference bewteen the English and American types. Also most of thost terms are from the 18 and 19 th century and were used for Agricultural trade. This Book lists Five different conversion tables for the Bushel. There is defined under the U.S. type DRY,Heaped,and Struck! The British type is just Stuck and a standard Bushel for the U.K. Please don't ask me what a Struck Bushel is! There are listed in this book Conversion factors for Hogsheads both British type And U.S. type. Both different types i might add. I could not find anything under DemiBushel. As i have gone on too long now. We might find more praise for the metric system and it's relative ease of use for wet and dry volume measure and every other type of measure.
THis is a clear example of money and organization and lobbyists influencing the U.S. government policy on a particular subject.
The RIAA is trying very hard to close a loophole. And at the same time protect their control over what kind of music that gets made and played.
What did you expect?!
I don't think they can, but they are certainly going to try and outlaw people making CD copies of music.
people like you kill me!! It takes some nut flying an Airplane into a building befroe you pay any attention!
Waht did you expect!! THese people that are politicians deal with people like you all the time.
You never cast a vote one way or another and when something happens that finally attracts your attention.
You get pissed off because somebody in his office didn't immediately hold your little hand.
Do the rest of the world a favor and Grow up.
your little opinion counts but not for very much.
Now you will probadly sit around and growl about how they never pay attention to Big important you!
Grow up.
I would be willing to bet that 75% of the people that are agreeing with you here and now, could not pick their state represenative let alone your federal congressman from a crooks line up of pictures in your local post office.
If you want to be counted amonst the opinion shapers in your neighborhood, do something to help the people in your local home town.
DEar Tyler The simple matter is that space or outer space, if you will is a radiation environment. If you send up untested and unprotected computer components in a space craft of any sort. You run the real risk of having the components(CPU and or hard drive) fried by radiation. Solar wind, cosmic rays or any of the other stray radiation particles that stream through outer space. We are protected to very great degree by the cover of our planets magnetic field and 100 mile thick blanket of atmosphere. It is similar to going to sea. You have to have a Boat and minimal instruments for navigation to cross the ocean. As well as some protection from the Bad weather; in this case the radiation in space.
Dear Computer Ethics, This is not a case of the Weapon maker being unable to control the use of the weapon after it leaves his establishment. In the case of software you can make a very powerful argument for harmful intent. software can be so designed to do nothing other then it's intended purpose. But when you start adding all kinds of little programs that monitior and survail the user or another user while the software is running amounts to invasion of privacy at the least and up to criminal harmful intent. When programs are written into software for whatever imagined crimes, you are breaking certain unwritten moral codes an probadly laws as well. How you might justify logic of such programming, you are clearly stepping across a line.
Dear friends, Believe it or not War is fought by the Rules. The U.S.Military learned it's lesson in Vietnam about not following the rules of Land warfare. Today's most current example of not following the rules of land warfare is in Checheneya. There the Russian Army is delibertly targeting Civilians. The result is is horrendous casaulties among those poor people. If you go and attack computer system that causes Unnecessary civilian casualties without effecting Military targets, you are committing a War Crime. Even attacking Civilians Computer systems that help the millitary opens up to many grey areas of War Crimes. But there are still lots of options open to the creative military hacker. If you don't think that the pentagon isn't studying all those attacks that are being made on it now, sober up. WE are watching an opening into a new Arms Race.
Dear Rolan, THe ABM Treaty was and is a historically significant agreement bewteen The U.S. and the U.S.S. R.. It will go down the drain as the Anti-missile technology catches up with the real world. This Agreement bewteen the worlds two super power's was more for style and Russian fear of the old American techonological End Run. What we are beginning to see is the possible beginning of either a renegoaition of the treaty or another Arms Race in ABM Weapons. Russia is right now on the ropes. It could not compete in such an Arms Race if it wanted to. This may or maynot change due to the political situation in Russia. Who can Tell? If we donot cater to Russian concerns at least in some ways we could still have them threaten to give nuclear weapons to say Serbia or Iraq or some other wonderful group with an Axe to grind and no fear or concern who they kill. So there will be noises and rumors and secert weapon programs by the U.S. And the Russians will trust that the agreements we sign with them, won't make their entire nuclear missile fleet obsolete and ineffective too soon. We all have an interest in seeing that as few nuclear weapons are denotaed on this planet as we can. yours truly, Stanleverlock
Slashdot Mirror
DEar ACoward
Are you by the way related to Noel?
THe other end is held in place by gravity. This demands an extremely stong material in order to keep from being broken, but the cable will hang there if extended far enough out from the surface of the planet.
yours truly,
If you get any recommendations, please let me know! i still have my two copies of caesar II . but don't play them much any more. .
Seems like to me the whole field has faded and the X-box and playstation is the systems that everyone is designing or building games
All of these games Are fps. Boring! Boring and more boring!
When are people going to figure out that any Damn fool can kill something! but it takes real political skill and economic knowledge plus management skills to build a civilization!
Have you checked out Microsoft games? i believe they have modified their game Age of Empires game into something you might check out.
yours truly,
Stanleverlock
Please forgive me for saying I told you so. But this information is now about a year or more old.
The Russians have been turning those old, big, dumb ICBM boosters into satellite launch sytems since 2 years after the" Fall of the Wall".
Why is that now such news here?
Dear Friends,
I suppose it is very human to see faces or features in an inantimate object.
when I look at this asteriod / moon, the word/ pattern that comes to me is hammered.
Dear Medievalist,
1. Your assertion about me making racist comments is incorrect and a twisting of the intent of my words.
2. the only person using racist terminology here is you. raghead is a mildly derogatory term for certain peoples, but it is not racist.
3 Your message-
your slang / media references were not clear to me to intrepert your intended sarcasm of my viewpoint.
Am i correct to assume that was your intention?
4. I have reviewed your message and you made two assertions about United States Foreign policy and influence in the Israelie-Palestine conflict and the government of Saudi Arabia.
Both of these assertions are old propaganda statements used for at least the last 20 or more years in Arab media. They purport to explain the failure of Palistian peoples to achieve some sort of victory against the Isrealie government and the disaffected citizens against monarchy of Saudia Arabia.
Prehaps you would like to review my message and grasp my sharply worded attack upon Osama bin Laden and his brand of religious and historically motivated terrorism against the United States.
I believe the original message was complaining about the increased time and inspection and interrogation of people crossing the border from Canada into the United States.
My reply was not an attack upon Canadaians nor upon the vast majorities of Arab peoples.
yours truly,
stanleverlock
Dear Medievalist,
you are an Arab and and a someone under 14 years old?
yours truly,
Stanleverlock
This is an excellent idea! how do help Leo and the gang get this started?
Somehow i get the impression that the term Nation-state has not penetrated into a lot of people's mental awarness.
That Term means something! you are a member of your Nation-state. last I heard Canada had amongst the most liberal immigration policies(open door for Terrorist) in the Free world.
Catch a clue here.-- Al- Quida and What's his name are not kidding or playing games.
THey mean to destroy every american institution they can reach with explosives or a hijacked jet.
United States (Nation-State) is not going to allow a bunch of half baked, ingorant, rag heads with some kind of religious and historical nonsence for a philosophy - to Do That!
If that means that some soldier points an M-16 at you at an air port or border crossing. Then i would take seriously the United States intention to defend itself from all Enemies foreign and domestic.
so Suck it up! this is not a perament situation, so for the next 60 months or so get use to people with Guns pointing them at you at U.S. border crossings.
Also expect for the identification process at the border to get more invovled and exacting.
This does not mean that War has broken out between Canada and the U.S. or that it is a good situation
but see remark about Terrorist Rag heads and be a little more grown up about the Whole thing. Ok?
I have watch G4$/comcast programming a little. What i have seen i will characterize as Kiddie -corporate X-box power hour. I have never owned an X-box or X-box game nor do i intend to. Great programming if your only gaming experience is an X-box or your microsoft stock owner.
G4$/comcast programming is aimed at the saturday morning set and they have a very long way to go to address the more mature users of computers.
G-4$/comcast, i expect will do little to help open source like Tech-Tv did!
AS for Tech-TV, my impressions of most slash-dotters are somewhere between my skill level with a computer and extreme power users. Thus Tech-Tv addressed power users issues very little.
Tech-Tv, i felt was some what like slash-dot would be if it were on TV.
Tech-Tv however did address ordinary users technical issues and provide a lot of real and helpful hardware and software information for less skilled computer users.
Leo Laporte was very good, but he was a tad bit overbearing on the Screen Savers. He was however, an excellent source of technical information and did support the open source movement. All the other TEch people on Screen Savers, Call for Help and the other shows were of pretty high caliber and informative.
I wish I could say the same for G$/comcast programming
and the chicks on Tech-Tv were HOT! Laura Swisher,Morgan Webb,Cat Schartz And the red haired news chick - I Want you to bear my children!
You know, I have heard for the last 5 or 6 years how Everything that Michael Powell and The FCC does is meant to get better service to rural Areas.
Living in Central West Virigina. People are still waiting for the improvements to our telecommunications service.
Meanwhile it seems that every other decision Mr. Powell and his FCC have made has enriched big corporations and managed to ignore the fact that everything that he has done has not improved Rural service of the Telecommunication industry to this part of West Virginia.
DEar Friends,
Has anyone considered the money and research hours spent by all those scientists just to check out this expermental breakthrough.
Then think of all the non-American research people that are going to investigate and spend research dollars if what was said is true about the energy potential of this radioactive isotope?
As our german soldier from "LAugh-In" would say
"Veerry Interesting".
The man/ machine battle in matrix-3 was very good. The biggest depictions of space battles are the movies and TV shows you and others have mentioned. The media has a tendency to go for the massive WW II Dogfight scenario around the bombers style of space battle.
It is easier for most people to grasp that type of battle and makes better cinema. Warfare in space is limited in the scifi movies because in tends to be a climatic scene.
you will find more computer games about the subject then cinema or TV. most of those games are again you flying a armed space craft in space / you in a walking tank.
remeber the technology to depict space battles has advanced tremendously in the last 40 years.
Compare the 1939 Buck Rodgers serials to todays movies to understand the state of the art in space battles.
is it possible for me to patent a cellphone that "walla"
presss a cell phone key or key sequence and swiss army knife style a fly swatter spring out to swats the little buggers with.
Dear J. Maximus,
your comments about China breaking away from Intel and Microsoft domination are correct to a point.
This will certainly allow the Chinese to develope their own version of the internet! There own servers built with their own chips using their own transmission protocols and packet switching standards.
Right ON! thus the Chinese Government will eventually achieve their domination over the internet and internal information by creating and providing the own internal version of the internet to their own people!
This development prevents the contanmination and corruption of Western ideas and news from reaching the majority of the Chinese!
Dear Telastyn,
Yes the can plug in the Humvee.
The ARmy since the 1950,s has had gasoline and diesel powered towed Field Generators of different KiloWatts and Amperage Ratings to power various AAA Radars and truck mounted electrically operated equiptment (including mainframe computers).
THe Patriot Missile System has one very large trailer mounted generator to operate the radars and various radios and command and control electronics(specialized computer systems) necessary for the system to work.
The power for the laser is just a simple logistics problem for the present day Army.
It would be nothing for the Hummer with the laser mounted to tow the generator directly behind the vechile until need.
Stop, Set up the generator before operational use and plug the 10 meter power cable into the conveniently mounted power connector on the laser.
Proceed on with the Mine Clearing Mission!
Dear Mad Marlin,
Grabbing my reference book on measurement conversions, I find that measurements and conversions are a bit more involved.
The Book- i am going to quote from is the 1996 edition published by Blue Willow press. It is titled "Measure for Measure"by the authors Richard A. Young and Thomas J. Glover.
THere are four different type of volume measure- Dry and Wet, British type definition and U.S. type definition.
Gills and pecks are respectively liquid and dry volume amounts.THe British system uses them interchangeably for both liquid and dry volume amounts.
The U.S. system defines gills only for liquid volume and no other type.
The peck is used as a unit of dry volume measure.
So there are vast difference bewteen the English and American types.
Also most of thost terms are from the 18 and 19 th century and were used for Agricultural trade.
This Book lists Five different conversion tables for the Bushel.
There is defined under the U.S. type DRY,Heaped,and Struck!
The British type is just Stuck and a standard Bushel for the U.K.
Please don't ask me what a Struck Bushel is!
There are listed in this book Conversion factors for Hogsheads both British type And U.S. type.
Both different types i might add.
I could not find anything under DemiBushel. As i have gone on too long now.
We might find more praise for the metric system and it's relative ease of use for wet and dry volume measure and every other type of measure.
yours truly,
Stanlevelock
THis is a clear example of money and organization and lobbyists influencing the U.S. government policy on a particular subject.
The RIAA is trying very hard to close a loophole. And at the same time protect their control over what kind of music that gets made and played.
What did you expect?!
I don't think they can, but they are certainly going to try and outlaw people making CD copies of music.
people like you kill me!! It takes some nut flying an Airplane into a building befroe you pay any attention!
Waht did you expect!! THese people that are politicians deal with people like you all the time.
You never cast a vote one way or another and when something happens that finally attracts your attention.
You get pissed off because somebody in his office didn't immediately hold your little hand.
Do the rest of the world a favor and Grow up.
your little opinion counts but not for very much.
Now you will probadly sit around and growl about how they never pay attention to Big important you!
Grow up.
I would be willing to bet that 75% of the people that are agreeing with you here and now, could not pick their state represenative let alone your federal congressman from a crooks line up of pictures in your local post office.
If you want to be counted amonst the opinion shapers in your neighborhood, do something to help the people in your local home town.
DEar Tyler The simple matter is that space or outer space, if you will is a radiation environment. If you send up untested and unprotected computer components in a space craft of any sort. You run the real risk of having the components(CPU and or hard drive) fried by radiation. Solar wind, cosmic rays or any of the other stray radiation particles that stream through outer space. We are protected to very great degree by the cover of our planets magnetic field and 100 mile thick blanket of atmosphere. It is similar to going to sea. You have to have a Boat and minimal instruments for navigation to cross the ocean. As well as some protection from the Bad weather; in this case the radiation in space.
Dear Computer Ethics, This is not a case of the Weapon maker being unable to control the use of the weapon after it leaves his establishment. In the case of software you can make a very powerful argument for harmful intent. software can be so designed to do nothing other then it's intended purpose. But when you start adding all kinds of little programs that monitior and survail the user or another user while the software is running amounts to invasion of privacy at the least and up to criminal harmful intent. When programs are written into software for whatever imagined crimes, you are breaking certain unwritten moral codes an probadly laws as well. How you might justify logic of such programming, you are clearly stepping across a line.
Dear friends, Believe it or not War is fought by the Rules. The U.S.Military learned it's lesson in Vietnam about not following the rules of Land warfare. Today's most current example of not following the rules of land warfare is in Checheneya. There the Russian Army is delibertly targeting Civilians. The result is is horrendous casaulties among those poor people. If you go and attack computer system that causes Unnecessary civilian casualties without effecting Military targets, you are committing a War Crime. Even attacking Civilians Computer systems that help the millitary opens up to many grey areas of War Crimes. But there are still lots of options open to the creative military hacker. If you don't think that the pentagon isn't studying all those attacks that are being made on it now, sober up. WE are watching an opening into a new Arms Race.
Dear Rolan, THe ABM Treaty was and is a historically significant agreement bewteen The U.S. and the U.S.S. R.. It will go down the drain as the Anti-missile technology catches up with the real world. This Agreement bewteen the worlds two super power's was more for style and Russian fear of the old American techonological End Run. What we are beginning to see is the possible beginning of either a renegoaition of the treaty or another Arms Race in ABM Weapons. Russia is right now on the ropes. It could not compete in such an Arms Race if it wanted to. This may or maynot change due to the political situation in Russia. Who can Tell? If we donot cater to Russian concerns at least in some ways we could still have them threaten to give nuclear weapons to say Serbia or Iraq or some other wonderful group with an Axe to grind and no fear or concern who they kill. So there will be noises and rumors and secert weapon programs by the U.S. And the Russians will trust that the agreements we sign with them, won't make their entire nuclear missile fleet obsolete and ineffective too soon. We all have an interest in seeing that as few nuclear weapons are denotaed on this planet as we can. yours truly, Stanleverlock