I am not a nuclear expert, but many space vehicles have had nuclear reactors in them which must have been small and not very massive.
That's simply for generating electricity, not propulsion, and the EE's at NASA can design some very efficient circuits, I'm sure. To actually move the probes takes some very reactive materials, hydrazine and such.
Further, in "Mars Direct" (I think that is what the book was called) the author talks about sending powerful reactors to Mars. He seems to know what he is talking about.
...a key difference between the original poster and that author.
I mean, keep in mind that nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers are big, in part, because they need to be big! Likewise powerplants.
A turbine big enough to power a car would have to be pretty big as well. I'm not sure how it would work out if you used the reactor to simply generate electricity for an electric motor.
I'd like to see an upward trend in sales after the filtering began on Napster.
Napster has been rendered practically useless to me; I haven't used it in weeks, and I've had little luck with any of the alternatives. Presumably this is the case with other people as well.
Of course they'd also have to realize that the US economy is slowing, which tends to effect the demand for stuff like CDs heavily.
Since Macromedia can't get their sorry asses going with Flash support for Netscape 6 (or more importantly, mozilla) under *Windows*, I can't see them supporting tbe C64 just yet...
Can you send me a link that backs up what you're saying?
Jive claims to be "part of the Zomba Group of Companies which is the world's largest independent music company" on their website, which oddly enough is hosted on getmusic.com, which is owned by Universal. But the MAXIMUMROCKNROLL "Who Owns Who" chart puts them under BMG as you suggested.
However, all the references to No Limit I can find on the web connect them to Virgin, which would put them under EMI/Capitol. One would think if they were owned by a major they could afford a better website, though. And you were right about it being P, not Snoop.
Thanks for setting me straight. Records labels are some fucked up shit, you know?
Good idea, but probably more likely the case that N'Sync is on the indie label Jive and Snoop is on the indie label he founded, No Limit.
The other artists you mentioned are on major labels (RIAA members).
It's probably true that artists (well let's face it, companies) resting on their back catalogs have the most to fear from Napster. But in the end I think society is better off if artists actually create art to get paid.
"Don't Panic" is what was written on the cover of the actual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (in large, friendly letters).
It is unrelated to the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything, which was determined thousands of years ago by the largest computer ever built at that time to be "42". Since that didn't make any sense, a much bigger computer had to be built to determine what the *question* really was. The bigger computer was The Earth.
So the characters become stranded on earth in prehistoric times, by having a caveman pull scrabble letters from a bag they determine that the question is "What is Five by Nine?"
Yes.
And that is why the Earth is such a fundamentally messed-up place. That and the fact that we are all descended not from cavemen, but from a group of telephone sanitizers who were banished from their planet and colonized Earth.
You really, really ought to read the books. It's definitely been highly influencial to many famous computer science people. Plus, they're funny.
Or even (gasp) Lorain, or Medina County Freenet people? I still have newspaper clippings from when those two finally shut down. It was sad, but the web really killed off our Northeastern Ohio BBS community.
And yes, to say this all is redundant, but I am feeling nostalgia for the days of 1200 8/N/1 and a 12" amber CRT, and dammit, I think I need a beer. *sniff*
It is still the case that "alumni" is the masculine plural and "alumnae" is the feminine plural.
Just because it is accepted that the masculine gender takes precedence over the feminine in a mixed group doesn't make it right--see the numorous essays in which "she" is arbitrarily being substituted for "he" where a non-gender-specific pronoun is needed.
Actually, there are some major differences. Because we went to college, most of us took some basic economics, and if we payed attention we learned that workers can't simply unionize, demand more money and have it magically appear in our laps. There is a large operating expense involved in running a union that could otherwise translate into more money for us and higher productivity for our employers (which again translates into more money for us).
We also realize that we are in many ways much better off than the typical blue-collar worker. There is, believe it or not, still a scarcity of good tech workers, which allows us to negotiate on their own. That was what the guy was asking about. He wants to know waht to negioate for, not whether or not he could negotiate without threatening to take the rest of the office with him.
We already have our management to deal with, we don't need another large bureaucracy making silly rules about who can do what kind of work.
There was a great line in Douglas Coupland's _Microserfs_ about the resistance agaisnt unionizing, where one girl says, "What's it going to be? I type a line of code and wait to have a union worker press the enter key?"
Ok, so maybe news, traffic, and sports scores are reasons to keep your radio (along with NPR and good college stations). For music, the extra cost of a portable MP3 player would be greatly outweighed by the ability to listen to what I want to hear without commercials or idiot DJs.
But ignoring that, can you tell me how deregulating the allocation on radio bandwidth would significantly harm the state of radio today? I ask because most of the criticism I was seeing had to do with "corporations evil, deregulation bad", despite the fact that the airwaves are 99% corporation-controlled, anyway.
Radio *sucks* now. How could deregulation make it any worse?
I mean, seriously. With maybe the exception of NPR, it's all one corporation-controlled, homogenized, music-industry record promotion tool.
The gov't puts some restrictions on how much of the airwaves one company can broadcast on in a given market, but all that really means is that the conglomerates trade stations between themselves in order to maximize their market share up to the current limit.
If the code didn't come from your employees, don't "officially" support it.
Since many open-source business models rely on customers paying for tech support, only give real, corporate-level support to the official package that came from your shops.
However, don't stop your developers from helping answer questions on your product's development list. There's a difference, I think, between J. Random Hacker looking for a little bit of insight on the code he's trying to integrate with his OSS project, and a company buying your software, customizing it to hell, and then demanding your support.
Maybe include a clause in the support contract specifying different rates for modified software.
This section features 3 predefined security preferences to choose from (high, medium, low)
Well, Mandrake still has them beat in this department, by offering security levels ranging from "Paranoid" to "Welcome to Crackers".;-)
One thing I wish all distros would do better is explain what each setting will really do. What packages, etc. does workstation have that server doesn't? What changes at each security level? What will I get to see in "expert install" that I won't with the others?
It's frustrating when the features that get installed appear to be picked randomly (and hand-tweaking the install involves looking through thousands of packages...)
There's a fine line between making installation easy and dumbing it down, and some of the install options I've seen are dumbed down to the point where the user cannot make any sort of rational choice based on the information given.
To reproduce low frequencies the speaker surface must move a fairly large distance. The problem is that this movement actual creates a doppler shift in the high frequencies, creating a "muddy" sound.
For most hifi systems this solved by having separate cones for the high end, midrange, and low end (tweeters, subwoofers, etc.).
My guess is that these simply won't be suitable for audiophile-level quality sound reproduction. Their best use would be for portable systems where sound quality isn't as big an issue, or computer speakers since we're all used to crappy sound anyway.
``I wouldn't want to be on the pointy end of one of these things if its got a bomb on it,'' Sitz said. ``We could call someone up and say: 'We're gonna bomb you,' and there would be nothing they could do about it.''
Since this is basically what the US does anyway, it's good to know that we'll have some stability in our foreign policy during the coming decades!
I also find it hilarious that is a NASA project manager talking...
The Apache Foundation will be forced by the RIAA to pay damages from alleged copyright violation unless the module is altered to disallow the streaming of copyrighted content...
Well that *started out* as a joke post, but now I'm not so sure...
The reason why it wouldn't be indecent is because the FCC is only in charge of regulating broadcast media. Print media is *usually* safe under the first amendment, although this document being distributed over the *internet* creates new problems (see Communications Decency Act, etc.)
What WOULD be funny (and very likely!) is if that document or the entire FCC.gov domain was blocked by library filtering software!
This is just inane. This is more like the slashdot editors crapflooding their own site.
I mean, c'mon, the "lossy zip file compression" wasn't a bad attempt, but this one isn't even funny. It's like a bad attempt at a troll.
Every distro I've used recognizes it (and I've tried all the majors). It normally activates the "K menu" or the Gnome foot menu thing, and I seem to remember it doing something cool with E as well.
One can now put the Monitor on a convenient distance and write on the ergonomically designed IR keyboard.
Heyyy, I didn't realize that 'ergonomic' now means 'shrinking the space bar down to three key-widths.'
I can't tell what keys they're putting down there, but I'm sure I'll end up hitting them with my right thumb.
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That's simply for generating electricity, not propulsion, and the EE's at NASA can design some very efficient circuits, I'm sure. To actually move the probes takes some very reactive materials, hydrazine and such.
Further, in "Mars Direct" (I think that is what the book was called) the author talks about sending powerful reactors to Mars. He seems to know what he is talking about.
I mean, keep in mind that nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers are big, in part, because they need to be big! Likewise powerplants.
A turbine big enough to power a car would have to be pretty big as well. I'm not sure how it would work out if you used the reactor to simply generate electricity for an electric motor.
Napster has been rendered practically useless to me; I haven't used it in weeks, and I've had little luck with any of the alternatives. Presumably this is the case with other people as well.
Of course they'd also have to realize that the US economy is slowing, which tends to effect the demand for stuff like CDs heavily.
And how 'bout a Shockwave player for Linux, huh?
Jive claims to be "part of the Zomba Group of Companies which is the world's largest independent music company" on their website, which oddly enough is hosted on getmusic.com, which is owned by Universal. But the MAXIMUMROCKNROLL "Who Owns Who" chart puts them under BMG as you suggested.
However, all the references to No Limit I can find on the web connect them to Virgin, which would put them under EMI/Capitol. One would think if they were owned by a major they could afford a better website, though. And you were right about it being P, not Snoop.
Thanks for setting me straight. Records labels are some fucked up shit, you know?
The other artists you mentioned are on major labels (RIAA members).
It's probably true that artists (well let's face it, companies) resting on their back catalogs have the most to fear from Napster. But in the end I think society is better off if artists actually create art to get paid.
It is unrelated to the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything, which was determined thousands of years ago by the largest computer ever built at that time to be "42". Since that didn't make any sense, a much bigger computer had to be built to determine what the *question* really was. The bigger computer was The Earth.
So the characters become stranded on earth in prehistoric times, by having a caveman pull scrabble letters from a bag they determine that the question is "What is Five by Nine?"
Yes.
And that is why the Earth is such a fundamentally messed-up place. That and the fact that we are all descended not from cavemen, but from a group of telephone sanitizers who were banished from their planet and colonized Earth.
You really, really ought to read the books. It's definitely been highly influencial to many famous computer science people. Plus, they're funny.
And yes, to say this all is redundant, but I am feeling nostalgia for the days of 1200 8/N/1 and a 12" amber CRT, and dammit, I think I need a beer.
*sniff*
Just because it is accepted that the masculine gender takes precedence over the feminine in a mixed group doesn't make it right--see the numorous essays in which "she" is arbitrarily being substituted for "he" where a non-gender-specific pronoun is needed.
And fuck you, that was not a troll.
We also realize that we are in many ways much better off than the typical blue-collar worker. There is, believe it or not, still a scarcity of good tech workers, which allows us to negotiate on their own. That was what the guy was asking about. He wants to know waht to negioate for, not whether or not he could negotiate without threatening to take the rest of the office with him.
We already have our management to deal with, we don't need another large bureaucracy making silly rules about who can do what kind of work.
There was a great line in Douglas Coupland's _Microserfs_ about the resistance agaisnt unionizing, where one girl says, "What's it going to be? I type a line of code and wait to have a union worker press the enter key?"
But ignoring that, can you tell me how deregulating the allocation on radio bandwidth would significantly harm the state of radio today?
I ask because most of the criticism I was seeing had to do with "corporations evil, deregulation bad", despite the fact that the airwaves are 99% corporation-controlled, anyway.
I mean, seriously. With maybe the exception of NPR, it's all one corporation-controlled, homogenized, music-industry record promotion tool.
The gov't puts some restrictions on how much of the airwaves one company can broadcast on in a given market, but all that really means is that the conglomerates trade stations between themselves in order to maximize their market share up to the current limit.
The internet has made radio passe. Let it go.
Since many open-source business models rely on customers paying for tech support, only give real, corporate-level support to the official package that came from your shops.
However, don't stop your developers from helping answer questions on your product's development list. There's a difference, I think, between J. Random Hacker looking for a little bit of insight on the code he's trying to integrate with his OSS project, and a company buying your software, customizing it to hell, and then demanding your support.
Maybe include a clause in the support contract specifying different rates for modified software.
Well, Mandrake still has them beat in this department, by offering security levels ranging from "Paranoid" to "Welcome to Crackers". ;-)
One thing I wish all distros would do better is explain what each setting will really do. What packages, etc. does workstation have that server doesn't? What changes at each security level? What will I get to see in "expert install" that I won't with the others?
It's frustrating when the features that get installed appear to be picked randomly (and hand-tweaking the install involves looking through thousands of packages...)
There's a fine line between making installation easy and dumbing it down, and some of the install options I've seen are dumbed down to the point where the user cannot make any sort of rational choice based on the information given.
For most hifi systems this solved by having separate cones for the high end, midrange, and low end (tweeters, subwoofers, etc.).
My guess is that these simply won't be suitable for audiophile-level quality sound reproduction. Their best use would be for portable systems where sound quality isn't as big an issue, or computer speakers since we're all used to crappy sound anyway.
``I wouldn't want to be on the pointy end of one of these things if its got a bomb on it,'' Sitz said. ``We could call someone up and say: 'We're gonna bomb you,' and there would be nothing they could do about it.''
Since this is basically what the US does anyway, it's good to know that we'll have some stability in our foreign policy during the coming decades!
I also find it hilarious that is a NASA project manager talking...
Yes, I'm talking about the RIAA and MPAA...
Well that *started out* as a joke post, but now I'm not so sure...
What WOULD be funny (and very likely!) is if that document or the entire FCC.gov domain was blocked by library filtering software!
shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits are the infamous "7 Dirty Words" you can't say on broadcast media.
This is just inane. This is more like the slashdot editors crapflooding their own site.
I mean, c'mon, the "lossy zip file compression" wasn't a bad attempt, but this one isn't even funny. It's like a bad attempt at a troll.
This is what gave it away for me.
Every distro I've used recognizes it (and I've tried all the majors). It normally activates the "K menu" or the Gnome foot menu thing, and I seem to remember it doing something cool with E as well.
Having two serial ports is useful when you have to use expensive software that requires a dongle, or you want to use your laptop as a debugger.
Heyyy, I didn't realize that 'ergonomic' now means 'shrinking the space bar down to three key-widths.'
I can't tell what keys they're putting down there, but I'm sure I'll end up hitting them with my right thumb.
the bastard child of an Apple iBook and my Colecovision...