OK. Without the politics, please explain why spending what will most likely be trillions of dollars over the next few decades to explore efforts instead of using it to improve life on earth is in the best interests of mankind.
Sorry, I meant to say "explore Mars"
OK. Without the politics, please explain why spending what will most likely be trillions of dollars over the next few decades to explore efforts instead of using it to improve life on earth is in the best interests of mankind.
Whatever you may say Bush's motivation is or what you think of Bush, this is a great announcement! I don't care if we are in a deficit. I don't care how much this costs. We MUST boldly go where no one has gone before, for the rest of the time our species exists.
This isn't mankind's idea, this is the idea of a United States president searching for ways to get himself re-elected without actually having to do anything, by setting crowd pleasing goals decades in advance that he will ultimately have no responsibility for.
How many technologies we are using toady are based (somewhere in their roots) on the Apollo missions or shuttle missions? What a great advancement for mankind!
The problem is that there is still no person or organization that is qualified to speak for mankind, nor does mankind have an unified message it wishes to convey to the universe. Mankind's current technological maturity is already thousands of years more advanced than its social maturity, causing all sorts of problems from the vast inequities in use of the earth's resources, to the constant threat of planetwide annihilation. Unless we spend the next few hundred years building a more mature society that is capable of handling the technological advances it has brought upon itself, mankind is going to burn out (figuratively and literally) much sooner than you expect. You might even live to see the end yourself...
Nah. It's just an election year. Making a popular promise for something so far out in the future that you'll have nothing to do with it if it fails costs nothing and picks up valuable votes in the geek sector.
My old 200 mhz Pentium is still chugging along with Windows 95...mainly because I have a PC-98. I don't think they ever released Windows 98 for the PC-98, and the FreeBSD wasn't worth the trouble to install.
This is most certainly not true. My train is delayed at least three times a month due to suicide jumpers, and that number is much higher for the more highly traveled lines in Tokyo like the Chuo-line.
If you're living in Japan, I suggest purchasing this money saving device: a sledgehammer. I've smashed up three old pieces of furniture into pieces small enough to be placed into trashbags that were then hauled away free of charge. And on top of saving money, it's a great way to relieve some of the stress you accumulate while riding rush-hour trains, getting bitched out by your bucho, etc.
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:47:46 -0700 From: Dan Johnston To: danj@beincorporated.com Subject: Be.com Domain
You are receiving this e-mail because at some point in the past year you have expressed some credible interest in purchasing the be.com domain name. At that time we indicated that we were seeking an amount within the appraised range of U.S. $230,000.00 and U.S. $290,000.00. Because the appraisal was performed at a peak period of the market and economy, it is clear that Board should now be willing to consider offers below that range.
The competitive offers that have been made to date have fallen within the U.S. $50,000.00 to U.S. $100,000.00 range. I am trying to determine if you are still interested in purchasing the domain name and, if so, requesting that you make a renewed bid at this time. I will take the highest bid back to the Board of Directors for approval with the intent of finally accepting that highest bid and completing the sale without taking the domain to a public auction.
Let me know if you would like to make an offer under these new conditions.
I had an idea almost twenty years ago of creating an "Arcade Chess" game. Basically, both players could move at the same time. Checkmate would be impossible (a lone King could thoretically roam around the board and capture the other King), so the object is simply to grab the other guy's King.
Playing around with the concept on a real board, this added a whole new dimension to chess playing. I tried programming on my C64, but never ended up completing it (damn pain in the ass machine language programming...) Too bad, because I think this could have become almost as big as Tetris.
Implementing an RFC 1149 network is the obvious solution for your co-op. Not only can you transmit data over rough terrains, but it's the only proven, tested networking option that is 100% organic!
...is a regenerating medium. Something that you can "refresh" as many times as necessary. Then every ten years or so you just stick your Refreshable DVD's (for lack of a better name) into the Refreshacycle, which copies the contents, cleans the Refreshable DVD, and rewrites it again, good as new.
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That had to have the most plausible story of an AI's origin of all time! Guy spills a drink on his computer, and it gains the ability to write and perform Culture Club songs. That could happen anyday!
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Searchspell has two novel approaches to fixing the typo problem:
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OK. Without the politics, please explain why spending what will most likely be trillions of dollars over the next few decades to explore efforts instead of using it to improve life on earth is in the best interests of mankind. Sorry, I meant to say "explore Mars"
OK. Without the politics, please explain why spending what will most likely be trillions of dollars over the next few decades to explore efforts instead of using it to improve life on earth is in the best interests of mankind.
This isn't mankind's idea, this is the idea of a United States president searching for ways to get himself re-elected without actually having to do anything, by setting crowd pleasing goals decades in advance that he will ultimately have no responsibility for.
How many technologies we are using toady are based (somewhere in their roots) on the Apollo missions or shuttle missions? What a great advancement for mankind!
The problem is that there is still no person or organization that is qualified to speak for mankind, nor does mankind have an unified message it wishes to convey to the universe. Mankind's current technological maturity is already thousands of years more advanced than its social maturity, causing all sorts of problems from the vast inequities in use of the earth's resources, to the constant threat of planetwide annihilation. Unless we spend the next few hundred years building a more mature society that is capable of handling the technological advances it has brought upon itself, mankind is going to burn out (figuratively and literally) much sooner than you expect. You might even live to see the end yourself...
Nah. It's just an election year. Making a popular promise for something so far out in the future that you'll have nothing to do with it if it fails costs nothing and picks up valuable votes in the geek sector.
Mars really does need women!
My old 200 mhz Pentium is still chugging along with Windows 95...mainly because I have a PC-98. I don't think they ever released Windows 98 for the PC-98, and the FreeBSD wasn't worth the trouble to install.
This is most certainly not true. My train is delayed at least three times a month due to suicide jumpers, and that number is much higher for the more highly traveled lines in Tokyo like the Chuo-line.
If you're living in Japan, I suggest purchasing this money saving device: a sledgehammer. I've smashed up three old pieces of furniture into pieces small enough to be placed into trashbags that were then hauled away free of charge. And on top of saving money, it's a great way to relieve some of the stress you accumulate while riding rush-hour trains, getting bitched out by your bucho, etc.
the first C-64 virus!
Got this email today...
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:47:46 -0700
From: Dan Johnston
To: danj@beincorporated.com
Subject: Be.com Domain
You are receiving this e-mail because at some point in the past year you
have expressed some credible interest in purchasing the be.com domain name.
At that time we indicated that we were seeking an amount within the
appraised range of U.S. $230,000.00 and U.S. $290,000.00. Because the
appraisal was performed at a peak period of the market and economy, it is
clear that Board should now be willing to consider offers below that range.
The competitive offers that have been made to date have fallen within the
U.S. $50,000.00 to U.S. $100,000.00 range. I am trying to determine if you
are still interested in purchasing the domain name and, if so, requesting
that you make a renewed bid at this time. I will take the highest bid back
to the Board of Directors for approval with the intent of finally accepting
that highest bid and completing the sale without taking the domain to a
public auction.
Let me know if you would like to make an offer under these new conditions.
It's probably more cost effective to FedEx the hardware to India, fix it, and ship it back then to have you do it...
I had an idea almost twenty years ago of creating an "Arcade Chess" game. Basically, both players could move at the same time. Checkmate would be impossible (a lone King could thoretically roam around the board and capture the other King), so the object is simply to grab the other guy's King.
Playing around with the concept on a real board, this added a whole new dimension to chess playing. I tried programming on my C64, but never ended up completing it (damn pain in the ass machine language programming...) Too bad, because I think this could have become almost as big as Tetris.
What are the odds of this asteroid slamming in the moon, and thus driving the moon into the earth?
Implementing an RFC 1149 network is the obvious solution for your co-op. Not only can you transmit data over rough terrains, but it's the only proven, tested networking option that is 100% organic!
...is a regenerating medium. Something that you can "refresh" as many times as necessary. Then every ten years or so you just stick your Refreshable DVD's (for lack of a better name) into the Refreshacycle, which copies the contents, cleans the Refreshable DVD, and rewrites it again, good as new.
That had to have the most plausible story of an AI's origin of all time! Guy spills a drink on his computer, and it gains the ability to write and perform Culture Club songs. That could happen anyday!
Perhaps, if you consider the U.S. taking over Iraqi state radio as "hacking"
Well, I know I would buy Emmet Otter's Jug Band Motocross if there was such a product. That Christmas special ruled!
Wow, think what you could do with a Beowulf Cluster of EFIs...
I've been using a Hi-8 for recording for the past six years now. Works great, and I can store about eight of them in the space of one VHS tape!
Working in Japan, December 24th and 25th were workdays just like any other, just like the 26th is now...
Where Dilbert creates a device to convert pocket lint into a parsley substitute:
"That's absolutely brilliant, and completely unmarketable."
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You can check out your ancestry as coded in your DNA, specifically what percentage Caucasian, African, etc. you are.