I have long thought, and some local hess stations apparently agree with me on this, that gas pumps should have some form of relaying advertisements to idividuals pumping gas into their cars. Think about it.. all the free email sites and the free ISPs out there are driven by revenue from advertisements, and there is even software that allows you to constantly watch banner ads and make PROFIT from it.. Long distance phone calls can be had free at the price of listening to advertisements on the telephone. Why couldn't someone integrate direct advertisement to the gas-purchasing public and offer their gas cheaper for it? I would be willing to listen to advertisements about local zoos, restaurants, and even godawful car dealer commercials to save ten or fifteen cents a gallon.
Thursdays are MUCH worse than wednesdays... sure, wednesdays are bad, it being the middle of the week and all, but by thursday, the week has droned on for 24 more hours than it had on wednesday... fridays would be even worse, but its friday and everyone knows that the weekend starts that night. thursdays are the worst day of the week, with the POSSIBLE exception of a hung-over monday.
Funny how an issue like this could arise so soon after people were accusing CyberPatrol of being TOO restrictive... someone send the archived slashdot stories to the feds. All Hail Slashdot, Protector of the First Amendment!
After briefly perusing the comments and finding nothing of a vein similar to this, I will speak my thoughts on the subject. As soon as I read the teaser on/.'s page, I immediately thought, "Those arent JEDIs, theyre BORG..." So what if I'm crossing sci-fis here, thats what they are. A bunch of digitized soldiers.. and we all know that military minds are all like ants anyhow. This just completes the transformation.
next thing you know, they might just give you an injector into every cylinder's combustion chamber so that they'll all fire! whatll they think of next... yet another example of someone who thinks they know about cars because they read about them on the almighty internet.
I may get crap for this, but seven of nine is fugly. shes got big breasts, and thats her only quality that can (in my mind) explain why so many of my fellow nerds have this obsession with her. shes got the Marcy D'arcy (read: married w/ children character) haircut, shes always got an angry face on, and honestly.. her breasts are TOO big.. just my two cents.
To My knowledge, not only were they being filmed simultaneously, but they were originally slated for release christmas/summer/christmas 2000/2001. this has obviously since changed, as the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) lists their release dates as december 2001, 2002, and 2003, respectively. However, those dates are obvously off by a year.. i HOPE at least. anyhow, i believe that they are doing the filming of all three movies at the same time, yes.
How Many Times have you read LOTR/Hobbit/Silmarillion, which is the best, who was the true hero (i personally would put alot of weight on Sam, and believe that his significance is highly overlooked by most), How many people use names of elvish origins.. (daeron was minstrel in King Thingol's court, and tar was the prefix added to the kings of Numenor, both in the sindarin language i THINK), etc. Also, for anyone who has read the silmarillion only once and didnt quite acquire a taste for it, re read it. i did not care much for it myself the first time i plowed through it, but the second time, (after i had re- re- re- re- read the LOTR and was hungry for more tolkien) it was much better. anyhow, heres to the movie being released on december 13, my birthday:- )
The beauty of a democracy is that, in a situation such as this, if it turns out to be against the will of the general populace, the populace shall vote into office the right people to make it work properly. If it turns out that the internet becomes highly regulated, then the case must be true that there is not enough real desire among the people for it to be otherwise. Of course, this only applies to individual nations, but at the present time its the best we can do. Write your congressman, write the members of the courts deciding this factor, because it is not merely a case of law, this is a case of public desires. If the petty whiners who want censorship and regulation to be the law win, then must the working class of the computing public throw their weight around in the political arena. Users of the Internet Unite!
Granted, it doesnt seem like knowing all this happy stuff about black holes and mars has any effect on me as a person. However, it is a form of abstract knowledge, and the time frequently comes when abstract knowledge leads to vital information. For instance, having the space shuttle drag a sled through our atmosphere at a certain level does not seem to have any positive effect, but the knowledge garnered from such a task could lead to stations in geostationary orbit, in a gravitational field LOWER than that of earth, where medicine could be applied to certain people with peculiar and not-so-peculiar problems that low gravity _may_ help more than no gravity. Just because it doesnt apply directly to real life now does not mean that it will never apply to real life.
First off, if youve never been to the Twelve Hours of Sebring (a road race held in march in central Florida), you will NOT understand this. However, if you have, then you may get a kick out of it. This year, my father had the brilliant idea to bring an old computer case, keyboard, and monitor to burn. (this is where you people get lost who dont understand what im talking about, the fires are an integral part of sebring. couches, big stuffed animals, port-o-lets, it gets crazy.) Anyhow, saturday noght rolled around, and me and my buddies grabbed the "machine", marched around the fire, and tossed it in. as an afterthought, I yelled "dot com THAT, motherfscker!!" (uncensored of course.) it seemed somewhat relevant to the story, and as i said.. sebring people will get this.
Actually, an ocean habitat is not neccessarily needed for the rise of life. Lynn Margulies, Carl Sagan's ex-wife and a microbiologist/darwinist/author states in her book Microcosmos one very real possible solution to the puzzle of how the biological components of the first prokaryotes "congealed" (i use the term loosely.) She said that they concentrated to a certain critical mass needed for life through protein-rich water splashing against rocks and evaporating, or possibly tidal pools evaporating. the high concentration of proto-organic molecules acheived thus could rise to life much easier in such a high-density solution than in the relatively low density of the ocean.
being that i am too poor to get magazine subscriptions and too lazy to read alot of technical stuff on the internet, i have no clue as to what this ion drive is. call me flamebait if you will, but if someone could email me a link to a description, or a description itself, id appreciate it. i THINK i have a vague idea of what it is, but im not sure im even thinking about the right thing, and that which i am thinking about is only a vague description given to me by someone with an accent that was very thick, so i couldnt quite make out all that he was saying. beldaeron@zdnetmail.com
Quoting the Author's Note from Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two, "Finally, there is the strange case of the 'Eye of Japetus'- Chapter 35 of 2001. Here I describe Astronaut David Bowman's discovery on the Saturnian moon of a curious feature, '...a brilliant white oval, about four hundred miles long and two hundred wide... perfectly symmetrical... and so sharp-edged that it almost looked... painted on the face of the little moon.' As he came closer, Bowman convinced himself that 'the satellite was a huge empty eye staring back at him as he approached...' Later, he noticed 'the tiny black dot at the exact center' which turns out to be the monolith (or one of its avatars.) Well, when Voyager 1 transmitted the first photographs of Iapetus they did indeed disclose a large, clear-cut white oval with a tiny black dot at the center. Carl Sagan promptly sent me a print from the JPL with the cryptic annotation 'Thinking of you...' I do not know whether to be relieved or disappointed that Voyager 2 has left the matter open." Personally, im anxious to see if this black dot is a real feature, or if its merely a few missing bits like the images of the "face" on mars is. thought fellow slashdotters might get a kick out of reading that though, especially those who havent been religious about their Clarke recently.
as has been said in the earlier replies to this post, it would be possible to do such, but inefficient. the orbits these satellites trace around the planets and moons within the solar system plot the pull of gravity against relative velocity. an orbit returning probes sent to other planets would be similar in theory to the orbits that the voyager probes made when they traversed the solar system decades ago. the major difference, of course, is that it would result in the probe returning to earth. the orbits which result in a probe being flung out into the reaches of the cosmos is called a hyperbolic orbit, with the focus of the hyperbola being the center of the gravitational field it is working against. in order to maintain an orbit where the craft can go slow enough to take any worthy readings of ambient conditions, (photographs, radiation and magnetic filed readings, etc.) the craft would need to be outfitted with its own source of thrust, which alone makes it ridiculously inefficient even disregarding the fact that the technology is outdated. however, this story not only makes me feel that NASA has regained some face with Galileo's longevity, but it truly is an excellent plan to study the ionosphere of the largest planet in this solar system.
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I have long thought, and some local hess stations apparently agree with me on this, that gas pumps should have some form of relaying advertisements to idividuals pumping gas into their cars. Think about it.. all the free email sites and the free ISPs out there are driven by revenue from advertisements, and there is even software that allows you to constantly watch banner ads and make PROFIT from it.. Long distance phone calls can be had free at the price of listening to advertisements on the telephone. Why couldn't someone integrate direct advertisement to the gas-purchasing public and offer their gas cheaper for it? I would be willing to listen to advertisements about local zoos, restaurants, and even godawful car dealer commercials to save ten or fifteen cents a gallon.
now packets from british porn sites are gonna be routed up to outer space, making it take even LONGER for them to get to my machine......
Have you ever owned, ridden in, or driven an honest-to-god Ford Prefect?
Thursdays are MUCH worse than wednesdays... sure, wednesdays are bad, it being the middle of the week and all, but by thursday, the week has droned on for 24 more hours than it had on wednesday... fridays would be even worse, but its friday and everyone knows that the weekend starts that night. thursdays are the worst day of the week, with the POSSIBLE exception of a hung-over monday.
Yes.
so the PRE-pubescent female breast is fine?
Funny how an issue like this could arise so soon after people were accusing CyberPatrol of being TOO restrictive... someone send the archived slashdot stories to the feds. All Hail Slashdot, Protector of the First Amendment!
After briefly perusing the comments and finding nothing of a vein similar to this, I will speak my thoughts on the subject. As soon as I read the teaser on /.'s page, I immediately thought, "Those arent JEDIs, theyre BORG..." So what if I'm crossing sci-fis here, thats what they are. A bunch of digitized soldiers.. and we all know that military minds are all like ants anyhow. This just completes the transformation.
next thing you know, they might just give you an injector into every cylinder's combustion chamber so that they'll all fire! whatll they think of next... yet another example of someone who thinks they know about cars because they read about them on the almighty internet.
I may get crap for this, but seven of nine is fugly. shes got big breasts, and thats her only quality that can (in my mind) explain why so many of my fellow nerds have this obsession with her. shes got the Marcy D'arcy (read: married w/ children character) haircut, shes always got an angry face on, and honestly.. her breasts are TOO big.. just my two cents.
To My knowledge, not only were they being filmed simultaneously, but they were originally slated for release christmas/summer/christmas 2000/2001. this has obviously since changed, as the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) lists their release dates as december 2001, 2002, and 2003, respectively. However, those dates are obvously off by a year.. i HOPE at least. anyhow, i believe that they are doing the filming of all three movies at the same time, yes.
How Many Times have you read LOTR/Hobbit/Silmarillion, which is the best, who was the true hero (i personally would put alot of weight on Sam, and believe that his significance is highly overlooked by most), How many people use names of elvish origins.. (daeron was minstrel in King Thingol's court, and tar was the prefix added to the kings of Numenor, both in the sindarin language i THINK), etc. Also, for anyone who has read the silmarillion only once and didnt quite acquire a taste for it, re read it. i did not care much for it myself the first time i plowed through it, but the second time, (after i had re- re- re- re- read the LOTR and was hungry for more tolkien) it was much better. anyhow, heres to the movie being released on december 13, my birthday :- )
The beauty of a democracy is that, in a situation such as this, if it turns out to be against the will of the general populace, the populace shall vote into office the right people to make it work properly. If it turns out that the internet becomes highly regulated, then the case must be true that there is not enough real desire among the people for it to be otherwise. Of course, this only applies to individual nations, but at the present time its the best we can do. Write your congressman, write the members of the courts deciding this factor, because it is not merely a case of law, this is a case of public desires. If the petty whiners who want censorship and regulation to be the law win, then must the working class of the computing public throw their weight around in the political arena. Users of the Internet Unite!
Granted, it doesnt seem like knowing all this happy stuff about black holes and mars has any effect on me as a person. However, it is a form of abstract knowledge, and the time frequently comes when abstract knowledge leads to vital information. For instance, having the space shuttle drag a sled through our atmosphere at a certain level does not seem to have any positive effect, but the knowledge garnered from such a task could lead to stations in geostationary orbit, in a gravitational field LOWER than that of earth, where medicine could be applied to certain people with peculiar and not-so-peculiar problems that low gravity _may_ help more than no gravity. Just because it doesnt apply directly to real life now does not mean that it will never apply to real life.
First off, if youve never been to the Twelve Hours of Sebring (a road race held in march in central Florida), you will NOT understand this. However, if you have, then you may get a kick out of it. This year, my father had the brilliant idea to bring an old computer case, keyboard, and monitor to burn. (this is where you people get lost who dont understand what im talking about, the fires are an integral part of sebring. couches, big stuffed animals, port-o-lets, it gets crazy.) Anyhow, saturday noght rolled around, and me and my buddies grabbed the "machine", marched around the fire, and tossed it in. as an afterthought, I yelled "dot com THAT, motherfscker!!" (uncensored of course.) it seemed somewhat relevant to the story, and as i said.. sebring people will get this.
Actually, an ocean habitat is not neccessarily needed for the rise of life. Lynn Margulies, Carl Sagan's ex-wife and a microbiologist /darwinist /author states in her book Microcosmos one very real possible solution to the puzzle of how the biological components of the first prokaryotes "congealed" (i use the term loosely.) She said that they concentrated to a certain critical mass needed for life through protein-rich water splashing against rocks and evaporating, or possibly tidal pools evaporating. the high concentration of proto-organic molecules acheived thus could rise to life much easier in such a high-density solution than in the relatively low density of the ocean.
oh. well, that makes sense then. thanks.
being that i am too poor to get magazine subscriptions and too lazy to read alot of technical stuff on the internet, i have no clue as to what this ion drive is. call me flamebait if you will, but if someone could email me a link to a description, or a description itself, id appreciate it. i THINK i have a vague idea of what it is, but im not sure im even thinking about the right thing, and that which i am thinking about is only a vague description given to me by someone with an accent that was very thick, so i couldnt quite make out all that he was saying. beldaeron@zdnetmail.com
Quoting the Author's Note from Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two, "Finally, there is the strange case of the 'Eye of Japetus'- Chapter 35 of 2001. Here I describe Astronaut David Bowman's discovery on the Saturnian moon of a curious feature, '...a brilliant white oval, about four hundred miles long and two hundred wide ... perfectly symmetrical ... and so sharp-edged that it almost looked ... painted on the face of the little moon.' As he came closer, Bowman convinced himself that 'the satellite was a huge empty eye staring back at him as he approached...' Later, he noticed 'the tiny black dot at the exact center' which turns out to be the monolith (or one of its avatars.) Well, when Voyager 1 transmitted the first photographs of Iapetus they did indeed disclose a large, clear-cut white oval with a tiny black dot at the center. Carl Sagan promptly sent me a print from the JPL with the cryptic annotation 'Thinking of you...' I do not know whether to be relieved or disappointed that Voyager 2 has left the matter open." Personally, im anxious to see if this black dot is a real feature, or if its merely a few missing bits like the images of the "face" on mars is. thought fellow slashdotters might get a kick out of reading that though, especially those who havent been religious about their Clarke recently.
as has been said in the earlier replies to this post, it would be possible to do such, but inefficient. the orbits these satellites trace around the planets and moons within the solar system plot the pull of gravity against relative velocity. an orbit returning probes sent to other planets would be similar in theory to the orbits that the voyager probes made when they traversed the solar system decades ago. the major difference, of course, is that it would result in the probe returning to earth. the orbits which result in a probe being flung out into the reaches of the cosmos is called a hyperbolic orbit, with the focus of the hyperbola being the center of the gravitational field it is working against. in order to maintain an orbit where the craft can go slow enough to take any worthy readings of ambient conditions, (photographs, radiation and magnetic filed readings, etc.) the craft would need to be outfitted with its own source of thrust, which alone makes it ridiculously inefficient even disregarding the fact that the technology is outdated. however, this story not only makes me feel that NASA has regained some face with Galileo's longevity, but it truly is an excellent plan to study the ionosphere of the largest planet in this solar system.