Bonobo's are chimps. Humans are genetically 98% chimp. What you mean to lament is that we are closer to the warfaring common chimpanzee than the peacenik bonobo.
Because you can give a book of one time pads to the ship captain/secret agent/etc. when he sets out from port/inserts in the field/etc. He can then use (and discard!) the pad to communicate securely at some point in the future.
Sorry, yes your right of course. Brain fart. What I was thinking of was lunar face exposure to the sun as it orbits, so you'd still have the same issues (and in any event you'd need some sort of relay to get your data back to Earth).
Check your preferenes, is the default set to italy? It's not as if google doesn't redirect www.google.com for foreigners either (a huge PITA while I was in FR).
No, there are plenty of other reasons for a base on the moon. Space based solar power for one, or helium-3 mining for another. It's also a good mine for anything else that you want to send somewhere. Why build something at the bottom of a hole and waste all that energy to get it out if you can build it--from nuts to soup--in space?
FYI the moon is not tidally locked and your telescope would only be usable about 1/3 -1/2 of the time, this is the same reason why you'd need 3 beaming stations for lunar based solar power.
You solution is client pull vs. the existing server push. They have different feature sets. Beyond that it is much easier to archive email than an RSS feed.
I should think a major disadvantage is the formation of NOX. A quick search
shows that there's work in that area (reducing NOX) but it can never be
completely eliminated. So I'd guess the process itself apparently pollutes more
than a fuel+LOX burn; though it may pan out better given less fuel required
to burn.
Nooo! Go harass the folks at http://www.javajunkies.org/ instead; same concept, both are/were based on the everything2 engine created by many of the original/. crew & friends http://everydevel.com/
Hockey is not a major sport everywhere in the US, and it's more of a Canadian thing than American. As for baseball, well it's supposedly pretty damn big in the Carribean and Latin America.
English is not a minority language, perhaps if you consider native speakers only, and have an odd definition of minority, but it's the 2nd most spoken language on the planet
Like nearly everyone else: form factor and DRM. The format itself, isn't so much an issue but opener things are preferred (PDF, etc.) Why? For the same reason that eBooks are in one way better than physical tomes (beyond saving material), as Crow puts it, "Because you can't grep a dead tree".
ASCII, XML, PNG et al. are standards. These standards are written down, often in electronic form but there are certainly published books documenting PNG and XML. ASCII is a trivial thing to reverse engineer, noticing that all/most(perhaps some bit rot) of the files you discover are a multiple of 8 bits is pretty easy. After that if you you know the charatcer frequency distribution of English/Latin/Hawaiian you should be well on your way to recovering all of Project Gutenberg's texts.
Yeah, because much of the great research done at PARC--which has benefitted us--was so clearly related to making photocopies. There is nothing wrong with research for research's sake, be it private or public. See also serendipity, James Burke, and NASA/DOE/DOD (yeah, like this internet thing you're using).
Slashdot Mirror
Compatability. Being on a fistful of pills a day for the rest of your life,
to dampen your immune system isn't such a lovely prospect is it?
evil bit
A pony is also a small keg.
Bonobo's are chimps. Humans are genetically 98% chimp. What you mean to lament is that we are closer to the warfaring common chimpanzee than the peacenik bonobo.
Because you can give a book of one time pads to the ship captain/secret agent/etc. when he sets out from port/inserts in the field/etc. He can then use (and discard!) the pad to communicate securely at some point in the future.
s/your/you're/; s/it/the moon/;
Sorry, yes your right of course. Brain fart. What I was thinking of was lunar face exposure to the sun as it orbits, so you'd still have the same issues (and in any event you'd need some sort of relay to get your data back to Earth).
Check your preferenes, is the default set to italy? It's not as if google doesn't redirect www.google.com for foreigners either (a huge PITA while I was in FR).
No, there are plenty of other reasons for a base on the moon. Space based solar power for one, or helium-3 mining for another. It's also a good mine for anything else that you want to send somewhere. Why build something at the bottom of a hole and waste all that energy to get it out if you can build it--from nuts to soup--in space?
FYI the moon is not tidally locked and your telescope would only be usable about 1/3 -1/2 of the time, this is the same reason why you'd need 3 beaming stations for lunar based solar power.
You solution is client pull vs. the existing server push.
They have different feature sets. Beyond that it is much
easier to archive email than an RSS feed.
You can't get (traditional) power unless the pile *is* supercritical;
a r)l ectric_generator
otherwise you're limited to low power thermoelectrics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(nucle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoe
I should think a major disadvantage is the formation of NOX. A quick search shows that there's work in that area (reducing NOX) but it can never be completely eliminated. So I'd guess the process itself apparently pollutes more than a fuel+LOX burn; though it may pan out better given less fuel required to burn.
Correlation is not causation.
t ml
http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/toetheline.h
You're critics aren't sheeple just because they disgree with your own bleeting.
Nooo! Go harass the folks at http://www.javajunkies.org/ instead; /. crew & friends http://everydevel.com/
same concept, both are/were based on the everything2 engine created by many of
the original
Hockey is not a major sport everywhere in the US, and it's more of a Canadian thing than American.
As for baseball, well it's supposedly pretty damn big in the Carribean and Latin America.
See Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey, which points out that you have to have ice to play.
English is not a minority language, perhaps if you consider
native speakers only, and have an odd definition of minority,
but it's the 2nd most spoken language on the planet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
Like nearly everyone else: form factor and DRM. The format itself, isn't so much an issue but opener
things are preferred (PDF, etc.) Why? For the same reason that eBooks are in one way better than
physical tomes (beyond saving material), as Crow puts it, "Because you can't grep a dead tree".
I prefer Ty McQueen's, "Analogies are like wives."
Yes.
ASCII, XML, PNG et al. are standards. These standards are written down, often in electronic form but there are
certainly published books documenting PNG and XML. ASCII is a trivial thing to reverse engineer, noticing that
all/most(perhaps some bit rot) of the files you discover are a multiple of 8 bits is pretty easy. After that if you
you know the charatcer frequency distribution of English/Latin/Hawaiian you should be well on your way to
recovering all of Project Gutenberg's texts.
Yeah, because much of the great research done at PARC--which has benefitted us--was so clearly related to
making photocopies. There is nothing wrong with research for research's sake, be it private or public. See also
serendipity, James Burke, and NASA/DOE/DOD (yeah, like this internet thing you're using).
2/3? WTF?! 1.3 billion / 6.5 billion = 1/, that's 3/15 as opposed to the 10/15 you stated.
It's framed as domestic spying because the targets are domestic i.e; "citizens" and residents
http://www.catb.org.nyud.net:8080/jargon/html/magi c-story.html