Yeah, I could see it. The average consumer isn't going to know any better, and doesn't even use 99% of the functionality of his computer. But the average geek? No way will we give up are machines!
Will we see companies like this selling other information that their software collects? Email addresses perhaps? Names? Maybe the folks running the porn sites will want to buy these things so thay no where to send their direct marketing spam.
... what would you say of translator wearable of language when on a foreign execution?
Ummm... well, actually, if I knew I was going to be executed in another country, I probably wouldn't go in the first place... Oh! You mean foriegn excursions.
The simplest being a brown dwarf. This is an object that astronomers have predicted for some time... an object not quite large enough to support sustained nuclear fusion, but too large to be classed a planet.
They've just managed to alienate a certain segment of the population. That segment... including me... didn't bother to watch the Olympics on TV this time around, and probably won't in the future either.
The press release makes no mention of the number of galaxies in the cluster that was detected. A footnote mentioned that a cluster of galaxies was composed of at least 50 galaxies, but that was the only number of galaxies mentioned. The press release did state that some 30,000 objects were captured in the photograph, but made no mention of what those objects were. The article on StartBulletin.com is the only place that 1000 Galaxies was mentioned.
Where groups of galaxies occure, it is indeed very common for the larger ones to absorb the smaller ones when they venture too close. Our own Milky Way galaxy is known to have canniblized a number of small irregular galaxies, as evidenced by the common orbits of a few scattered stars outside the plane of the galaxy. The same effect can be better observed (and has been) in other galaxies when it occurs.
Non-sense. Five Billion years isn't that long in the life of a Galaxy. Our Galaxy is estimated to be about 8-12 Billion years old (depending on which astronomer you ask). Even a typical star's life is measured in Billions of years. Or Sun is estimated to be 5 Billion years old, and is only halfway through its life.
Well, being able to share your calander is one of the features that makes MS Exchange tolerable. But it would be nice if resources could be scheduled the same way. I can schedule a conference room on my outlook... once I look at ITs calendar. Not sure how to make it easier... I just have the feeling that it should be.
1. I wouldn't pay money for recordings of the quality that many of the things I download for free from Napster. For free, they're OK, but not for pay.
What do the independent artists do? Some of them depend on Napster to get their music to the public, and they expect it to be free. Will Napster and the music industry give them a cut?
The NEAR spacecraft, and the information that it is gathering, are probably one of the most worthwhile missions that NASA has ever had. The detailed look at Eros that it is providing will fill in a lot of details about our scientific knowledge of asteroids.
You can expect to see similiar missions to asteroids in the coming years. SpaceDev, a publicly owned company, is proposing NEAP, the Near Earth Asteroid Prospector. This probe, tentatively scheduled to launch in 2003, was originaly planned to visit the Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) Nereus. Recent discovery of hundreds of previously unknown NEA's may cause SpaceDev to delay the mission, and redirect the probe to some better target asteroid.
Additional missions? None scheduled yet. But you can bet they'll happen. The accessable resources of the asteroids have an estimated dollar value of about $100 Billion per person currently living on Earth. Someday soon, someone is going to dig into that Bonanza.
We may never see a robot piloted race car on the same track as the human driven cars, but I could see competing robots racing against each other. Then, it becomes more a matter of which team has the best programmers, as well as the best pit crew, etc.
it would make a video game based on classic Warner Brothers cartoons (eg: Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, etc) illegal for kids to watch/play without parental consent. Of course, that is probably why those of us who grew up watching those graphically violent cartoons turned out to be so warped.
If it goes over a company network, there is always the chance that the company can intercept it. Live with it.
Do I let it worry me? Well, if the company wants to listen in to my IM conversation between my wife and myself, they are welcome to hear all about who's turn it is to pick up the kids, or who has to stay late. If they want to tap my email, they can read all they want about my opinions about some book, show, or event in some mailing list or other. I am very careful to not post anything that would be considered undesirable from work, and fairly careful to limit "ok" emails.
You want to send inflammatory material? Do it from home.
Whether or not Hawking's predictions of climatic upheavle is correct or not, the Earth will eventually cease to be habitable by humans. That may happen in a few hundred years, as predicted by Hawking, or in a few hundred million when the sun overwelms the ocean's ability to regulate the Earth's temperature. Its going to happen.
In the mean time, I expect that people will be moving off into space. In a hundred years or so, access to orbit and beyond should be common enough that anyone can manage it, and once this is possible, the moon, Mars, and the Asteroids are just down the street. I probably won't be here to see it. My kids may not be. But my grandkids probably will, and their kids almost certainly will.
Why should we want to go live somewhere else? Why not stay here on Earth and fix up the mess that we've made of things?
One reason: its smart not to keep all your eggs in one basket.
It seems like establishing a national monument on the moon or any other extraterrestrial body is a step over the line established by the various international treaties regarding space.
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Yeah, I could see it. The average consumer isn't going to know any better, and doesn't even use 99% of the functionality of his computer. But the average geek? No way will we give up are machines!
I expect we'll all be able to buy systems at least this by next year.
Will we see companies like this selling other information that their software collects? Email addresses perhaps? Names? Maybe the folks running the porn sites will want to buy these things so thay no where to send their direct marketing spam.
Ummm... well, actually, if I knew I was going to be executed in another country, I probably wouldn't go in the first place... Oh! You mean foriegn excursions.
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Can the combination be that much better?
The simplest being a brown dwarf. This is an object that astronomers have predicted for some time... an object not quite large enough to support sustained nuclear fusion, but too large to be classed a planet.
They've just managed to alienate a certain segment of the population. That segment... including me... didn't bother to watch the Olympics on TV this time around, and probably won't in the future either.
My third grade teacher, Mrs. Williams, is the oldest form of life. Hmmm... come to think of it, she may have been inorganic.
The press release makes no mention of the number of galaxies in the cluster that was detected. A footnote mentioned that a cluster of galaxies was composed of at least 50 galaxies, but that was the only number of galaxies mentioned. The press release did state that some 30,000 objects were captured in the photograph, but made no mention of what those objects were. The article on StartBulletin.com is the only place that 1000 Galaxies was mentioned.
Where groups of galaxies occure, it is indeed very common for the larger ones to absorb the smaller ones when they venture too close. Our own Milky Way galaxy is known to have canniblized a number of small irregular galaxies, as evidenced by the common orbits of a few scattered stars outside the plane of the galaxy. The same effect can be better observed (and has been) in other galaxies when it occurs.
Non-sense. Five Billion years isn't that long in the life of a Galaxy. Our Galaxy is estimated to be about 8-12 Billion years old (depending on which astronomer you ask). Even a typical star's life is measured in Billions of years. Or Sun is estimated to be 5 Billion years old, and is only halfway through its life.
Well, being able to share your calander is one of the features that makes MS Exchange tolerable. But it would be nice if resources could be scheduled the same way. I can schedule a conference room on my outlook... once I look at ITs calendar. Not sure how to make it easier... I just have the feeling that it should be.
But can it flail its arms around and say "Danger! Danger Will Robinson!" That is the true mark of a great robot.
I think this should be obvious. If you actually reformed the election process, how could they manipulate the system?
I've seen little kids do it... if they can, why not a pinguin?
1. I wouldn't pay money for recordings of the quality that many of the things I download for free from Napster. For free, they're OK, but not for pay.
What do the independent artists do? Some of them depend on Napster to get their music to the public, and they expect it to be free. Will Napster and the music industry give them a cut?
The NEAR spacecraft, and the information that it is gathering, are probably one of the most worthwhile missions that NASA has ever had. The detailed look at Eros that it is providing will fill in a lot of details about our scientific knowledge of asteroids.
You can expect to see similiar missions to asteroids in the coming years. SpaceDev, a publicly owned company, is proposing NEAP, the Near Earth Asteroid Prospector. This probe, tentatively scheduled to launch in 2003, was originaly planned to visit the Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) Nereus. Recent discovery of hundreds of previously unknown NEA's may cause SpaceDev to delay the mission, and redirect the probe to some better target asteroid.
Additional missions? None scheduled yet. But you can bet they'll happen. The accessable resources of the asteroids have an estimated dollar value of about $100 Billion per person currently living on Earth. Someday soon, someone is going to dig into that Bonanza.
This object belongs the the Knuiper Belt a class of objects similiar to asteroids. Pluto is thought to be the largest example of a Knuiper object>.
We may never see a robot piloted race car on the same track as the human driven cars, but I could see competing robots racing against each other. Then, it becomes more a matter of which team has the best programmers, as well as the best pit crew, etc.
it would make a video game based on classic Warner Brothers cartoons (eg: Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, etc) illegal for kids to watch/play without parental consent. Of course, that is probably why those of us who grew up watching those graphically violent cartoons turned out to be so warped.
then they probably deserve what they get.
If it goes over a company network, there is always the chance that the company can intercept it. Live with it.
Do I let it worry me? Well, if the company wants to listen in to my IM conversation between my wife and myself, they are welcome to hear all about who's turn it is to pick up the kids, or who has to stay late. If they want to tap my email, they can read all they want about my opinions about some book, show, or event in some mailing list or other. I am very careful to not post anything that would be considered undesirable from work, and fairly careful to limit "ok" emails.
You want to send inflammatory material? Do it from home.
Whether or not Hawking's predictions of climatic upheavle is correct or not, the Earth will eventually cease to be habitable by humans. That may happen in a few hundred years, as predicted by Hawking, or in a few hundred million when the sun overwelms the ocean's ability to regulate the Earth's temperature. Its going to happen.
In the mean time, I expect that people will be moving off into space. In a hundred years or so, access to orbit and beyond should be common enough that anyone can manage it, and once this is possible, the moon, Mars, and the Asteroids are just down the street. I probably won't be here to see it. My kids may not be. But my grandkids probably will, and their kids almost certainly will.
Why should we want to go live somewhere else? Why not stay here on Earth and fix up the mess that we've made of things?
One reason: its smart not to keep all your eggs in one basket.
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Actually, I could see someone from NASA going back to look at the original lander... and finding a ticket for littering posted on the thing.
But it will be the people who eventually live there that will decide this... not some foreign government!
It seems like establishing a national monument on the moon or any other extraterrestrial body is a step over the line established by the various international treaties regarding space.
How will I ever remember a new one?