Funny thing is, this new direction for Enterprise sounds a lot like Crusade. A little bit like how DS9 plot arc aped B5's at some points.
Of course that's not really fair DS9. There are only so many different directions you can go with stories. Plus a rather convincing arguement could be made that Crusade was JMS attempt to do a Star Trek: the Original Series on his terms in his universe.
Of course all bets are off if the next Trek series is a post-apocalyptic drama starring Jason Priestly and Lisa Bonet (like Jeremiah).
The fatality rate is actually a bit higher, and that's with many of the sick being treated in hospitals. If it gets out into the general population the numbers will be higher, obviously.
No, not obviously. Most patients in a hospital are already sick, often with immune systems that are affected, so they are more at risk from infectious diseases. People in the general public will tend to have better immune systems and tend to be able to fight off infections.
Even so, 3% of 200,000,000 is 6 million potential dead. That's of the scale of horror of a smallpox epi.
Well, the key point is that you first have to infect 200 million people. The current evidence on SAR's infectiousness supports the idea that it is unlikely become that large of an epidemic.
Yeah, I think that I've played Space War on just about every computer that I've ever owned. First, on a TRS-80, then on DOS and Windows machines, and finally on Linux.
There are lots of clones on Space War out there. There's a java
version that supposed runs the original on a PDP emulator, but I can't get it to work - probably a java VM problem. KDE also has an updated clone with prettier graphics called kspaceduel (apt-get install kspaceduel).
Well, I really got nailed on this one. I wasn't clear in what I meant, and a bunch of you called me on it.
You are indeed correct that you can think of Space War as a curved space projected on a flat screen. I doubt that too many of the people who played the game thought of it that way, though. Space War
being a projection of a curved space is not well explained in the article, and in fact he seems to emphasze the discontinuous way that most people would perceive the game.
"Oh look, it disapeared off in some direction to galactic north. Oh look, it 'magically' reapeared to the galactic south!"
Argh! It this kind of perception (which is similar to perceiving Space War as discontinous) that bothers me. Of course if you set up your hypothetical Universe correctly, your example would work out, but your example also makes it seem as though something discontinous happening.
I think a better example is to say that in certain types of curved universes, with a powerful enough
telescope, you can look off in one direction and your own backside (or the backside of your planet). This of course assumes that you can wait long enough and that nothing else moves, but then again so does your example. Also, relativity isn't really relevant - there is no reason that you need to be going faster than the speed of light for this type of scenario, you just have to wait long enough.
The Space War anlaogy for a curved universe doesn't really fit. The behavior in Spae War is discontinuous. You start out on one edge of the screen and after going past the edge of the screen, you are magically transported to the other side.
In certain types curved universe the behavior would be quite different. If you start out going in one direction and continue going long enough, you may end up where you started. There would be nothing discontinuous about this motion though. A "straight" path in a curved universe isn't really
what we would think of as straight. As you go along your "straight" path the stars that appear to be ahead of you would impercibly change as time wore on. Eventually you could end up back where you started, but considering the likely size of the Universe, it might take you longer than the age of the Universe to do it.
Anyway, curved space is weird to think about, but not as weird as Space War.
On a related note, as a followup to their article
on Palladium which was posted to slashdot, the Chronicle of Higher Education is hosting an
online discussion today at 2 ET with
Brian LaMacchia, one of Palladium's designers. It should be an interesting chance to answers straight from one of the horses' mouths.
Part of Dmitry's "plea" agreement was a provision that required him to testify for the government. As he said on several ocassions he was perfectly willing to do that since he had nothing to hide. Dmitry was not the defendant in the case that finally went to trial - his company was. Dmitry did eventually testify for the defense, but it still was pretty sketchy for the government to use his taped deposition instead of calling him to the stand.
Yeah, I know that I was being pendantic. I think its just a difference in perspective between physicists and chemists/geologists.
By the way, if you had said natural abundance, then I wouldn't have had a problem with it. Plutonium is not found in measurable amounts in nature on Earth. Plutonium isotopes do occur in nature on Earth, just not in measureable quantities. Every nuclear reaction that occurs in a nuclear reactor also occurs in nature on Earth (due to background raditaon hitting uranium, etc.), but just not very often.
Of course it is a natural isotope, it is just a short-lived isotope. So short-lived that it isn't commonly found on Earth (except possibly at naturally formed nuclear reactors like the one in Africa).
Nearby recent supernova plenty of plutonium isotopes can probably be found. Unfortunately, we're not yet able to travel there and see for ourselves.
More like 2 figures for me. (I think that all of the single digits were reserved - or at least almost impossible to get). When they first got accounts, I didn't see the benefit. That was a little short-sighted.
I'd say buy a bike from a garage sale, especially if your interested in a road bike. You can find some awfully sweet 10-30 road bike at a garage sale for $10 - $50. It might need a new tube, but it will be a sweet ride.
A 20 year-old Schwinn road bike is the way to go. The parts might not be as fancy as on a new mountain bike, but those old Schwinns were built to last, and you can really move on them. Of course you have to be a little more watchful for pot holes, but the speed difference is worth it.
Also, if your commuting more than a mile or two, make sure you have the tools to fix a flat with you. You can get a frame pump, a spare tube, and some tube pullers for under $10. Then either get a bag that straps on your bike, or carry in a bag that you bring with you. (I do the latter because I commute with a couple of different bikes, and I didn't feel like getting a pump for each).
I have been commuting 5 - 15 miles roundtrip
by bike year-round for almost 10 years, and let me tell it sure beats the alternatives. Even in the winter, I only wimp out and take the bus or drive a few times a year.
You think Netscape is going to issue a patch for 4.7x now that version 7 is out? Just one example of many.
I doubt that's a very good example. Netscape 4.8 just came out in August. Since there are probably still more people using Netscape 4.x, than using Netscape 6 and Netscape 7 combined, and since Netscape can't afford to throw away any customers, I think that the Netscape 4 branch probably will be supported for at least a couple more years.
Odd, Mozilla runs fine for me on a single CPU Sun Sparc Ultra 10 (300 Mhz?) with 256 MB ram. It takes a while to load, but it runs pretty snappy once loaded.
I also run Mozilla on a 200 Mhz Pentium without problems. Its not speedy, but it works fine.
Take a look at bug 140050. The same type of behavior has been seen on Xterminals logged into Solaris machines. Nothing seems to be happening on that bug, but maybe if it was known that it occurs on more platforms, somebody would take a look at the problem.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, this was on slashdot a while ago too.
Yep, my guess is that my signature ticked somebody off. My post was just a lame joke, certainly not a flame. Whatever - its just karma.
Funny thing is, this new direction for Enterprise sounds a lot like Crusade. A little bit like how DS9 plot arc aped B5's at some points. Of course that's not really fair DS9. There are only so many different directions you can go with stories. Plus a rather convincing arguement could be made that Crusade was JMS attempt to do a Star Trek: the Original Series on his terms in his universe.
Of course all bets are off if the next Trek series is a post-apocalyptic drama starring Jason Priestly and Lisa Bonet (like Jeremiah).
Rupert Murdoch is Australian, not American. Not that that makes the news coming out of his company anymore reliable.
There are lots of clones on Space War out there. There's a java version that supposed runs the original on a PDP emulator, but I can't get it to work - probably a java VM problem. KDE also has an updated clone with prettier graphics called kspaceduel (apt-get install kspaceduel).
You are indeed correct that you can think of Space War as a curved space projected on a flat screen. I doubt that too many of the people who played the game thought of it that way, though. Space War being a projection of a curved space is not well explained in the article, and in fact he seems to emphasze the discontinuous way that most people would perceive the game.
Argh! It this kind of perception (which is similar to perceiving Space War as discontinous) that bothers me. Of course if you set up your hypothetical Universe correctly, your example would work out, but your example also makes it seem as though something discontinous happening. I think a better example is to say that in certain types of curved universes, with a powerful enough telescope, you can look off in one direction and your own backside (or the backside of your planet). This of course assumes that you can wait long enough and that nothing else moves, but then again so does your example. Also, relativity isn't really relevant - there is no reason that you need to be going faster than the speed of light for this type of scenario, you just have to wait long enough.In certain types curved universe the behavior would be quite different. If you start out going in one direction and continue going long enough, you may end up where you started. There would be nothing discontinuous about this motion though. A "straight" path in a curved universe isn't really what we would think of as straight. As you go along your "straight" path the stars that appear to be ahead of you would impercibly change as time wore on. Eventually you could end up back where you started, but considering the likely size of the Universe, it might take you longer than the age of the Universe to do it.
Anyway, curved space is weird to think about, but not as weird as Space War.
On a related note, as a followup to their article on Palladium which was posted to slashdot, the Chronicle of Higher Education is hosting an online discussion today at 2 ET with Brian LaMacchia, one of Palladium's designers. It should be an interesting chance to answers straight from one of the horses' mouths.
Part of Dmitry's "plea" agreement was a provision that required him to testify for the government. As he said on several ocassions he was perfectly willing to do that since he had nothing to hide. Dmitry was not the defendant in the case that finally went to trial - his company was. Dmitry did eventually testify for the defense, but it still was pretty sketchy for the government to use his taped deposition instead of calling him to the stand.
No problem. Google is your friedd. Try keywords:
natural nuclear reactor Africa
to find more nice links. (BTW, sorry for the open tag above).
By the way, if you had said natural abundance, then I wouldn't have had a problem with it. Plutonium is not found in measurable amounts in nature on Earth. Plutonium isotopes do occur in nature on Earth, just not in measureable quantities. Every nuclear reaction that occurs in a nuclear reactor also occurs in nature on Earth (due to background raditaon hitting uranium, etc.), but just not very often.
Which doesn't really answer whether she has a PC or a Mac.
Mozilla has done this for ages. Check the bottom of this page for details.
Yes, though rm -rf / or rm -rf ~ probably shouldn't be used that often.
More like 2 figures for me. (I think that all of the single digits were reserved - or at least almost impossible to get). When they first got accounts, I didn't see the benefit. That was a little short-sighted.
A 20 year-old Schwinn road bike is the way to go. The parts might not be as fancy as on a new mountain bike, but those old Schwinns were built to last, and you can really move on them. Of course you have to be a little more watchful for pot holes, but the speed difference is worth it.
Also, if your commuting more than a mile or two, make sure you have the tools to fix a flat with you. You can get a frame pump, a spare tube, and some tube pullers for under $10. Then either get a bag that straps on your bike, or carry in a bag that you bring with you. (I do the latter because I commute with a couple of different bikes, and I didn't feel like getting a pump for each).
I have been commuting 5 - 15 miles roundtrip by bike year-round for almost 10 years, and let me tell it sure beats the alternatives. Even in the winter, I only wimp out and take the bus or drive a few times a year.
Sheesh, get some perspective.
I also run Mozilla on a 200 Mhz Pentium without problems. Its not speedy, but it works fine.
Take a look at bug 140050. The same type of behavior has been seen on Xterminals logged into Solaris machines. Nothing seems to be happening on that bug, but maybe if it was known that it occurs on more platforms, somebody would take a look at the problem.