There are tons of things that are more fitting than to have your name attached to some dead rock floating in space.
It is very fitting. His most famous piece of fiction is about space.
You must also remember that this comes from a group of astronomers - so they honour them in their way. Other pay tribute in different ways. Where do you think Alta Vista got the name Babel Fish from. Where do you think the band Level 42 got their name from.
However, I still think the coolest thing in the world would have been if this press release had compared the size of the Huygens probe to a Ford Prefect instead of a VW Beetle
This move by HP is asinine for many reasons, but one has not been brought up in the comments so far:
On the one hand big companies and corporations are lobbying governments to lessen trade restrictions and import/export taxes so that they can benefit from cheap production costs in other countries. Then on the other hand, they add restrictions themselves so that they can still sell the items at high prices. They make sure that they benefit and not the customer.
Try are trying to have their globalisation cake and eat it.
Why do I always run out of mod points right before I read a comment that really deserves to be modded up?
I read the IGN article, and I'm sorry, the guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
I was planning to write a long critique on the article, until I read the link in the parent post... it says most of what I wanted to say. So go ahead and read it
I know many individuals who have no intrest in buying new tech products. They are quite happy with the last generation and see no reason to upgrade yet.
While this is true for some sectors (look at the failure of 3G mobile phones as an example) there are definitely sectors that are experiencing, or on the verge of experiencing a boom.
They seem to be mostly multi-media related. E.g. iPod/iTunes and PVRs. The wider public is also (finally) realizing that the internet is about more than just sending emails to grandma and a bit of pr0n surfing every now and again.
I also think that the time is finally right for integrated entertainment/communication devices for the home market. PVR, VoIP, home theatre, video on demand from the net etc. all in one device, with content sharing to portable devices.
Too late. The climate change is already under way. Increased heat waves in Europe, increased hurricane frequency, thinning of ice caps, retreating glaciers. Whether or not this is due to human activity, its happening. Now.
Is this really a major climate change or just part of the normal variation in weather. We don't know. Why? We don't have enough data yet. Even in places like London, accurate weather records stretch back less than 200 years. Records of global weather are only a few decades old.
We do know for example that in the past century, average tempratues is Europe have gone up. Can we acurately predict that this trend will continue? No.
Should we try to minimise human influence on climate change? Of course.
Should we start preparing for the end of the world beacause of an immanent catastrophic change in weather? Too ealry to say.
Wow, you realise that - as you know something that none of the other climatologists in the world know, that you must be on the brink of a glittering career and probably a Nobel prize! We sure are lucky to have scientific geniuses of yuor calibre hanging out on/.!
The point is that no-one (me included of course) knows. If however you look at the frequency of climate changes in the past, and the short life span of humans, you can see that the odds of you living in the time of the climate change is very small.
I don't know how to predict the outcome of lotteries either, but I can tell you that your chances of winning are very small.
If you want to support real climate change research instead of listening to this fear mongering, head over to climateprediction.net and donate some of your idle CPU time to their distibuted computing project.
So let's just treat the planet like one big fucking toilet so our ancestors can be treated to hell on eearth.
That is not what I said at all. For our descendants' sake we should look after the planet as well as we can. We should also make plans to ensure human survival in the case of major climate change, which will happen at some stage.
I was just pointing out that these kinds of (scare mongering) predictions are nothing new, and I don't see any reason to give this one more credence than any of all the wrong predictions that have been made since the 70's
We know that in the past the earth has gone through many (often cataclysmic) climate changes. We also know that this will happen again.
Since the 70's every now and again someone predicts that such a climate change is just around the corner. The truth is that these predictions are very inaccurate. I'm talking thousands of years uncertainty. I see nothing in this article that makes this prediction any different.
So relax, the chances of anything like this happening in your lifetime is vanishingly small.
Not because I don't like B5, but I don't get what's going on. I've tried several times to get into B5, but I keep finding myself not understanding what was going on. If I watch an episode in the middle of season 3, I don't get half the references to things that have happened already, so I don't understand what's being done in that episode.
This is the reason why the networks never really liked B5, but it's also the thing that makes B5 way cooler than any other tv series. Instead of the old "problem of the week" format of most tv series, B5 has a five year coherent story line.
I love the feeling when in (say) series 4 they reference something that happened way back in series 1. Totally mind blowing: "No way... that was planned that three years ahead!"
My wife hates most sf, end even she became an addict after I showed her the dvds.
PS If you can't afford the dvds, maybe try something like netflix
Just an idea that pop out of my head without further think: why not RRSoP2P (RSS over P2P)? Sharing streams across peer users.
It's the first thing I thought of as well. Create an RSS reader that works along the same lines as bittorrent - a technology that has already proven it can greatly reduce the load on servers.
It's an Anime about an old man who gets a robotic bed to care for him that goes on a city destroying rampage.
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No, Netscape was based on Mozilla.
OK, so you haven't been around that long. Netscape 6 and later was based on Mozilla. Mozilla itself started when Netscape open sourced Netscape 4. So Netscape is Mozilla's daddy.
If you go further back, they're all of course descendants of NCSA Mosaic.
From many of the previous posts it is clear that the MPAA's explanation of "human error" is bull, so here is what we do:
1. Anyone who administrates a web/ftp site put a fairly big random file on your site that is called >.mpg or.avi or whatever.
2. Look at the MPAA spam flowing in
3. Wait for the stage where the majority of the MPAA's spam is sent to people who are not actually infringing.
4. Complain to the relevant authorities.
PS It might be a good idea to put a disclaimer with the file so that people looking for movies don't eat up all your server bandwidth trying to download your random file. Even better configure you server to give an error when someone actually tries to downoad the file.
For a change, slashdot really got the scoop here. The release notes aren't even updated yet.
So far I have noticed a few new features. Search as you type now shows more info and has extra options. There is also a RSS button at the bottom right of the status bar for any page that has a RSS feed. Clicking on it creates a "Live Bookmark".
Anybody else notice other new features I missed?
Only negative thing so far is that my favourite extension (DownloadWith) no longer works... but I suspect that will be fixed soon.
Kerry's record in voting against funding development of the military equipment in use today...are not going to garner much support amongst soldiers IMO
Somehow I think that if I were a soldier that I would prefer a decorated war veteran as commander-in-chief over someone with minimal military experience.
I don't play games without purchasing them (though I did as a student, because I was poor then. If I hadn't then, I probably wouldn't have the gaming drive now that causes me to purchase all of the games I do.)...
Amen.
I truly believe that a very large percentage of 25-40 year old males (the biggest buyers of games) have exactly the same experience.
I was very exited about this as I have extensive SQL Server knowledge as well as some Ingres experience. As it turns out however, I can't enter. The PDF with the terms and conditions contains this paragraph:
The contest is intended for presentation in the United States, Canada (except Quebec Province), Mexico, India, China, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Do not proceed in this site if you are not a resident of one of those countries.
(In the actual document, it's in all CAPS, but the lameness filter prevents me from posting it that way)
If you already have a working installation of Gentoo Linux (Version 1.4, 2004.0, 2004.1) there is no need to reinstall. You will automatically get Gentoo 2004.2 if you sync your Portage tree and run emerge --update world. If you still have an installation with a Gentoo 1.2 profile it might make sense -- in some cases -- that you do a new installation.
There is also the possibility to update your system to a 1.4 profile from which you -- as already stated -- can easily get to Gentoo 2004.2. This update includes recompiling of glibc and some essential system packages; it will take a very long time (possibly longer as a complete re-installation) and it might also fail. So if you still have an installation with a Gentoo 1.2 profile, it's your decision whether you update or reinstall.
He forgot the most important Open Source myth: 8. Every writer on the internet thinks he understands Open Source better than enyone else, and knows the future of Open Source.
Announcer: Coming, this summer! It's the digitally enhanced re-release of the very first pilot episode of South Park! Yes, the classic, rough, hand-made first episode is getting a make-over for 2002! The simple, funny aliens are now super badass and kewl! Flying saucer? No longer cheap construction paper, but a 4.0 megapixel constructed through a masterpiece of technology! Everything's new! New is better!
Trey Parker: When we first made South Park, we didn't wanna use construction paper. We just had to because it was cheap.
Matt Stone: And now with new technology we can finally remaster South Park, make it look sharp, clean and focused.
Trey: Expensive.
Announcer: Yes, all the charm of a simple little cartoon will melt before your eyes as it is replaced by newer and more standardized animation!
Trey: For instance, in the scene at the bus stop, we always meant to have Imperial walkers and giant dewback lizards in the background, but simply couldn't afford it.
Announcer: Get this special enhanced version quick, because another enhanced version will likely be coming out for 2003!
It's a very good episode, and it reflects exactly how many people feel about the "improvement" of old movies
OK, the Mazarin site is dead, but if it really contains the whole of Project Gutenberg, then they have 11 books by Martin Luther. Just try this search.
Slashdot Mirror
There are tons of things that are more fitting than to have your name attached to some dead rock floating in space.
It is very fitting. His most famous piece of fiction is about space.
You must also remember that this comes from a group of astronomers - so they honour them in their way. Other pay tribute in different ways. Where do you think Alta Vista got the name Babel Fish from. Where do you think the band Level 42 got their name from.
However, I still think the coolest thing in the world would have been if this press release had compared the size of the Huygens probe to a Ford Prefect instead of a VW Beetle
This move by HP is asinine for many reasons, but one has not been brought up in the comments so far:
On the one hand big companies and corporations are lobbying governments to lessen trade restrictions and import/export taxes so that they can benefit from cheap production costs in other countries. Then on the other hand, they add restrictions themselves so that they can still sell the items at high prices. They make sure that they benefit and not the customer.
Try are trying to have their globalisation cake and eat it.
Not that I agree with his dumb behaviour, but lines are no longer for tickets.. they're for getting the best seats..
... no standing in lines required.
I've heard this before, but is it true that you can't book a specific seat in any movie theatres in the USA?
Here in South Africa, I can book the seat I want on the internet
Why do I always run out of mod points right before I read a comment that really deserves to be modded up?
... it says most of what I wanted to say. So go ahead and read it
I read the IGN article, and I'm sorry, the guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
I was planning to write a long critique on the article, until I read the link in the parent post
In keeping with the space theme, wouldn't it be better to say that it's about the size of a Ford Prefect?
I know many individuals who have no intrest in buying new tech products. They are quite happy with the last generation and see no reason to upgrade yet.
While this is true for some sectors (look at the failure of 3G mobile phones as an example) there are definitely sectors that are experiencing, or on the verge of experiencing a boom.
They seem to be mostly multi-media related. E.g. iPod/iTunes and PVRs. The wider public is also (finally) realizing that the internet is about more than just sending emails to grandma and a bit of pr0n surfing every now and again.
I also think that the time is finally right for integrated entertainment/communication devices for the home market. PVR, VoIP, home theatre, video on demand from the net etc. all in one device, with content sharing to portable devices.
Too late. The climate change is already under way. Increased heat waves in Europe, increased hurricane frequency, thinning of ice caps, retreating glaciers. Whether or not this is due to human activity, its happening. Now.
Is this really a major climate change or just part of the normal variation in weather. We don't know. Why? We don't have enough data yet. Even in places like London, accurate weather records stretch back less than 200 years. Records of global weather are only a few decades old.
We do know for example that in the past century, average tempratues is Europe have gone up. Can we acurately predict that this trend will continue? No.
Should we try to minimise human influence on climate change? Of course.
Should we start preparing for the end of the world beacause of an immanent catastrophic change in weather? Too ealry to say.
Wow, you realise that - as you know something that none of the other climatologists in the world know, that you must be on the brink of a glittering career and probably a Nobel prize! We sure are lucky to have scientific geniuses of yuor calibre hanging out on /.!
The point is that no-one (me included of course) knows. If however you look at the frequency of climate changes in the past, and the short life span of humans, you can see that the odds of you living in the time of the climate change is very small.
I don't know how to predict the outcome of lotteries either, but I can tell you that your chances of winning are very small.
If you want to support real climate change research instead of listening to this fear mongering, head over to climateprediction.net and donate some of your idle CPU time to their distibuted computing project.
So let's just treat the planet like one big fucking toilet so our ancestors can be treated to hell on eearth.
That is not what I said at all. For our descendants' sake we should look after the planet as well as we can. We should also make plans to ensure human survival in the case of major climate change, which will happen at some stage.
I was just pointing out that these kinds of (scare mongering) predictions are nothing new, and I don't see any reason to give this one more credence than any of all the wrong predictions that have been made since the 70's
We know that in the past the earth has gone through many (often cataclysmic) climate changes. We also know that this will happen again.
Since the 70's every now and again someone predicts that such a climate change is just around the corner. The truth is that these predictions are very inaccurate. I'm talking thousands of years uncertainty. I see nothing in this article that makes this prediction any different.
So relax, the chances of anything like this happening in your lifetime is vanishingly small.
Not because I don't like B5, but I don't get what's going on. I've tried several times to get into B5, but I keep finding myself not understanding what was going on. If I watch an episode in the middle of season 3, I don't get half the references to things that have happened already, so I don't understand what's being done in that episode.
... that was planned that three years ahead!"
This is the reason why the networks never really liked B5, but it's also the thing that makes B5 way cooler than any other tv series. Instead of the old "problem of the week" format of most tv series, B5 has a five year coherent story line.
I love the feeling when in (say) series 4 they reference something that happened way back in series 1. Totally mind blowing: "No way
My wife hates most sf, end even she became an addict after I showed her the dvds.
PS If you can't afford the dvds, maybe try something like netflix
Just an idea that pop out of my head without further think: why not RRSoP2P (RSS over P2P)? Sharing streams across peer users.
It's the first thing I thought of as well. Create an RSS reader that works along the same lines as bittorrent - a technology that has already proven it can greatly reduce the load on servers.
Haven't they seen Rojin Z?!
It's an Anime about an old man who gets a robotic bed to care for him that goes on a city destroying rampage.
No, Netscape was based on Mozilla.
OK, so you haven't been around that long. Netscape 6 and later was based on Mozilla. Mozilla itself started when Netscape open sourced Netscape 4. So Netscape is Mozilla's daddy.
If you go further back, they're all of course descendants of NCSA Mosaic.
From many of the previous posts it is clear that the MPAA's explanation of "human error" is bull, so here is what we do:
.avi or whatever.
1. Anyone who administrates a web/ftp site put a fairly big random file on your site that is called >.mpg or
2. Look at the MPAA spam flowing in
3. Wait for the stage where the majority of the MPAA's spam is sent to people who are not actually infringing.
4. Complain to the relevant authorities.
PS It might be a good idea to put a disclaimer with the file so that people looking for movies don't eat up all your server bandwidth trying to download your random file. Even better configure you server to give an error when someone actually tries to downoad the file.
For a change, slashdot really got the scoop here. The release notes aren't even updated yet.
... but I suspect that will be fixed soon.
So far I have noticed a few new features. Search as you type now shows more info and has extra options. There is also a RSS button at the bottom right of the status bar for any page that has a RSS feed. Clicking on it creates a "Live Bookmark".
Anybody else notice other new features I missed?
Only negative thing so far is that my favourite extension (DownloadWith) no longer works
Kerry's record in voting against funding development of the military equipment in use today ...are not going to garner much support amongst soldiers IMO
I hope you realise that story is false.
The whole "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" is also mostly BS.
Somehow I think that if I were a soldier that I would prefer a decorated war veteran as commander-in-chief over someone with minimal military experience.
I don't play games without purchasing them (though I did as a student, because I was poor then. If I hadn't then, I probably wouldn't have the gaming drive now that causes me to purchase all of the games I do.)...
Amen.
I truly believe that a very large percentage of 25-40 year old males (the biggest buyers of games) have exactly the same experience.
I was very exited about this as I have extensive SQL Server knowledge as well as some Ingres experience. As it turns out however, I can't enter. The PDF with the terms and conditions contains this paragraph:
The contest is intended for presentation in the United States, Canada
(except Quebec Province), Mexico, India, China, United Kingdom,
Australia, and New Zealand. Do not proceed in this site if you are not a
resident of one of those countries.
(In the actual document, it's in all CAPS, but the lameness filter prevents me from posting it that way)
I live in South Africa. Oh well...
From the release notes:
Upgrading to Gentoo Linux 2004.2
If you already have a working installation of Gentoo Linux (Version 1.4, 2004.0, 2004.1) there is no need to reinstall. You will automatically get Gentoo 2004.2 if you sync your Portage tree and run emerge --update world. If you still have an installation with a Gentoo 1.2 profile it might make sense -- in some cases -- that you do a new installation.
There is also the possibility to update your system to a 1.4 profile from which you -- as already stated -- can easily get to Gentoo 2004.2. This update includes recompiling of glibc and some essential system packages; it will take a very long time (possibly longer as a complete re-installation) and it might also fail. So if you still have an installation with a Gentoo 1.2 profile, it's your decision whether you update or reinstall.
He forgot the most important Open Source myth:
8. Every writer on the internet thinks he understands Open Source better than enyone else, and knows the future of Open Source.
The naming convention these days is that a multi-processor version of a chess program gets "Deep" added to its name.
E.g. Fritz - Deep Fritz and Junior - Deep Junior
Announcer: Coming, this summer! It's the digitally enhanced re-release of the very first pilot episode of South Park! Yes, the classic, rough, hand-made first episode is getting a make-over for 2002! The simple, funny aliens are now super badass and kewl! Flying saucer? No longer cheap construction paper, but a 4.0 megapixel constructed through a masterpiece of technology! Everything's new! New is better!
Trey Parker: When we first made South Park, we didn't wanna use construction paper. We just had to because it was cheap.
Matt Stone: And now with new technology we can finally remaster South Park, make it look sharp, clean and focused.
Trey: Expensive.
Announcer: Yes, all the charm of a simple little cartoon will melt before your eyes as it is replaced by newer and more standardized animation! Trey: For instance, in the scene at the bus stop, we always meant to have Imperial walkers and giant dewback lizards in the background, but simply couldn't afford it.
Announcer: Get this special enhanced version quick, because another enhanced version will likely be coming out for 2003!
It's a very good episode, and it reflects exactly how many people feel about the "improvement" of old movies
OK, the Mazarin site is dead, but if it really contains the whole of Project Gutenberg, then they have 11 books by Martin Luther. Just try this search.