Don't we have quite a few satelites speeding through the solar system already? It would take some work and a lot of luck, but it might be possible to redirect one of those. Heck, Saturn isn't undergoing any major changes anytime soon, is it? Send Cassini! We have lots of time to watch the other planets.
NASA hasn't been thinking ahead. Why didn't they choose to hit Pluto years ago?
We're going to entering a new Dark Age of superstition, fear of the Dark and things that go bump in the night. And we may end up with very powerful technology that no-one understands anymore. The Age of Thought could well be neding and the Age of Technological darkness could well be beginning.
If we do not destroy ourselves in years to come they will wonder at this incompetence...This turning away from Science to turning back the clock.
Personally, I think we're headed into the age of over-capitalization.
Re:This could be bad news for manned space travel.
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However, is this the responsible thing to do? Wherever man travels he brings with him a shower of varied microrganisms, which adapt to local conditions.It would be extremely difficult to rid any travelling ship or astronaut of the organisms. If they got free in the Martian environment, they could wreak havoc.
Woah, that's scary. They could completely destroy Mars' delicate ecosystem. The damage to the food chain would be irreparable! This is serious, folks. We need to take every precaution to prevent Mars from turning into a cold, dry and entirely lifeless planet.
Not true, those aren't NEWS sources. Those are hard core entertainment. Even thought it has news in the title, if you read a story in the Weekly World News do you believe it as a news source? Of course not. If the New York Times ran the same story as the Weekly World News, you would probably believe the Times, but not the WWN.
One of them has achieved journalistic respect from the masses, the other has received entertainment respect.
What does it matter to Fox news who their target audience is so long as their ratings soar? If, for whatever reason, their ratings go up when they lower their journalistic integrity but still try to pass it off as news... *shrug* Well, money is their motivator to keep doing it, right?
The harmful thing is that the credulous don't see it as pure entertainment.
Of course there are companies that care about reporting honest news. But I think the very "report" in question here presents good evidence that Fox isn't one of them. At the very least, it shows that there are some clear loopholes to the system you describe.
Fox News is arguably a news channel. This means that in order for people to watch it as a news channel (and not entertainment) it needs to maintain some level of credibility with the public. Every time it airs a story that is erronious or foolish, people have less respect for thier journalistic integrity and will not watch it as news.
Unfortunately, this is not true. If it were, tabloids like "Weekly World News" and "Sun" would have died a long time ago.
People watch television to be entertained. Conspiracy theory is like candy to the masses.
You don't need to worry. Pretty soon his browser won't be able to visit your page, right? (The one with all the gaudy eye candy that he doesn't want to see.)
We all know that the primary reason the Dreamcast died so quickly is because they decided on the worst possible OS for it: WinCE. I mean, how could they have expected anything but total failure when you have a console that BSOD's every 15 minutes? A bad choice by Sega, and the results prove it.
You're right. CE did hurt the system, but not because it gave the Dreamcast nothing but poor games. The vast majority of DC games didn't use the CE OS. It hurt them because of all the people like you who heard "Windows" and instantly began screaming/whining about how terrible the system was.
I hated the "It's Thinking" bit. Worst line since Jaguar's "Do the Math." I think it hurt the Dreamcast rather than helped it. Why couldn't they have just stuck with "SEGA!!"?
Patents are a necessary way to protect those who invest a lot of time innovating[Microsoft buzzword]otherwise, where is the motive if you know someone is going to steal your work.
Certainly. But seventeen years? No way! Our society moves much faster than when patents were first implemented. At that time there was no such thing as software. Patent abuse has become rampant -- we need a ban on software patents.
In the long term, do you think we'll be synthesizing gasoline? Perhaps wood alcohol, but that'll be a hell of a lot more expensive than the stuff we're currently pumping out of finite ground reserves, and I suspect battery/fuel cell improvements will make all-electric cars superior.
Bio-fuel.
(Yes, that's right; Our own waste put to good use.)
You can bet that of people who hear of this project, those who are the equivalent of CB burpers will be waving laser pointers at the Moon and random satellites. If we had megawatt lasers easily available, by now someone would have etched "Hi Mom" across the Moon.
Apple tried to do this today by comparing performance between a 733MHz Power Mac system and a 1.5GHz Pentium 4. The Mac won handily. Naturally, Apple probably chose the operations that made the Mac look best, but that still implies a G4 is comparible to a Pentium with, say, 1.5 times the MHz
How'd it hold up against the Thunderbird? Running anything other than Windows?
Here is an article by two economists that rather thoroughly demolishes the claimed superiority of Dvorak
And here is a page addressing the myths your source has perpetuated.
I find it hard to believe that people are so stubborn about admitting these things. A little commmon sense and a simple look at a DVORAK keyboard shows that it would be easier to type on once you've learned it. For crying out loud -- all of the vowels are kept in the under one hand in the home row!
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If someone gets going a transparent cube with lots of transparent chips blinking very fast in different colors...
...It's going to be Apple's intellectual property.
iCube, anybody?
Don't we have quite a few satelites speeding through the solar system already? It would take some work and a lot of luck, but it might be possible to redirect one of those. Heck, Saturn isn't undergoing any major changes anytime soon, is it? Send Cassini! We have lots of time to watch the other planets.
NASA hasn't been thinking ahead. Why didn't they choose to hit Pluto years ago?
We're going to entering a new Dark Age of superstition, fear of the Dark and things that go bump in the night. And we may end up with very powerful technology that no-one understands anymore. The Age of Thought could well be neding and the Age of Technological darkness could well be beginning.
If we do not destroy ourselves in years to come they will wonder at this incompetence...This turning away from Science to turning back the clock.
Personally, I think we're headed into the age of over-capitalization.
However, is this the responsible thing to do? Wherever man travels he brings with him a shower of varied microrganisms, which adapt to local conditions.It would be extremely difficult to rid any travelling ship or astronaut of the organisms. If they got free in the Martian environment, they could wreak havoc.
Woah, that's scary. They could completely destroy Mars' delicate ecosystem. The damage to the food chain would be irreparable! This is serious, folks. We need to take every precaution to prevent Mars from turning into a cold, dry and entirely lifeless planet.
I'm going to write my congressman!
Not true, those aren't NEWS sources. Those are hard core entertainment. Even thought it has news in the title, if you read a story in the Weekly World News do you believe it as a news source? Of course not. If the New York Times ran the same story as the Weekly World News, you would probably believe the Times, but not the WWN.
One of them has achieved journalistic respect from the masses, the other has received entertainment respect.
What does it matter to Fox news who their target audience is so long as their ratings soar? If, for whatever reason, their ratings go up when they lower their journalistic integrity but still try to pass it off as news... *shrug* Well, money is their motivator to keep doing it, right?
The harmful thing is that the credulous don't see it as pure entertainment.
Of course there are companies that care about reporting honest news. But I think the very "report" in question here presents good evidence that Fox isn't one of them. At the very least, it shows that there are some clear loopholes to the system you describe.
Another star Trek? Woohoo! I'm sure everyone here is mutually happy :)
Let me respectfully say that I'm *not*.
Fox News is arguably a news channel. This means that in order for people to watch it as a news channel (and not entertainment) it needs to maintain some level of credibility with the public. Every time it airs a story that is erronious or foolish, people have less respect for thier journalistic integrity and will not watch it as news.
Unfortunately, this is not true. If it were, tabloids like "Weekly World News" and "Sun" would have died a long time ago.
People watch television to be entertained. Conspiracy theory is like candy to the masses.
Please do me a favour and stay off my homepage.
You don't need to worry. Pretty soon his browser won't be able to visit your page, right? (The one with all the gaudy eye candy that he doesn't want to see.)
I agree. Look back at the letter, and ask yourself: Would Microsoft have asked so nicely? I believe that the company's trademark should be respected.
How about OpenScSh?
You don't patent software, you copyright it. You patent algorithms, but since copyrights last so much longer,
Alright, algorithims. LZW should never have been allowed a patent. But does "one-click shopping" fit into that category?
We all know that the primary reason the Dreamcast died so quickly is because they decided on the worst possible OS for it: WinCE. I mean, how could they have expected anything but total failure when you have a console that BSOD's every 15 minutes? A bad choice by Sega, and the results prove it.
You're right. CE did hurt the system, but not because it gave the Dreamcast nothing but poor games. The vast majority of DC games didn't use the CE OS. It hurt them because of all the people like you who heard "Windows" and instantly began screaming/whining about how terrible the system was.
Dreamcast was Thinking. You weren't.
I hated the "It's Thinking" bit. Worst line since Jaguar's "Do the Math." I think it hurt the Dreamcast rather than helped it. Why couldn't they have just stuck with "SEGA!!"?
Patents are a necessary way to protect those who invest a lot of time innovating [Microsoft buzzword] otherwise, where is the motive if you know someone is going to steal your work.
Certainly. But seventeen years? No way! Our society moves much faster than when patents were first implemented. At that time there was no such thing as software. Patent abuse has become rampant -- we need a ban on software patents.
The article says that AMD will buy them if their share drop[s].
If Intel doesn't buy them first...
>> You can't stop sciance.
> Nope, but you can spell it properly...
> now I KNOW this will get modded down...
I would have modded it up (as funny), were it not for your "prediction" about being modded down.
I think that's exactly how Unisys got the patent on LZW (the compression used in gifs).
Which will expire sometime this fall. Terrific!
(Now it's just another 17 year wait until all of this new crap is done with.)
But don't forget, this is all based on a rumor that Sega has denied.
In the long term, do you think we'll be synthesizing gasoline? Perhaps wood alcohol, but that'll be a hell of a lot more expensive than the stuff we're currently pumping out of finite ground reserves, and I suspect battery/fuel cell improvements will make all-electric cars superior.
Bio-fuel.
(Yes, that's right; Our own waste put to good use.)
You can bet that of people who hear of this project, those who are the equivalent of CB burpers will be waving laser pointers at the Moon and random satellites. If we had megawatt lasers easily available, by now someone would have etched "Hi Mom" across the Moon.
Or worse yet, "FIRST MOONPOST!"
*cringes*
No one will ever need more than 640 MHz!
Apple tried to do this today by comparing performance between a 733MHz Power Mac system and a 1.5GHz Pentium 4. The Mac won handily. Naturally, Apple probably chose the operations that made the Mac look best, but that still implies a G4 is comparible to a Pentium with, say, 1.5 times the MHz
How'd it hold up against the Thunderbird? Running anything other than Windows?
why crash romania when U can cooperate with the romanian ISP's and track down the attacker ?
U can't do that. U is out of commision, just like X and W. Pay attention!
Heh. Imagine -- Linux, running on a Microsoft console. The delicious irony!
Here is an article by two economists that rather thoroughly demolishes the claimed superiority of Dvorak
And here is a page addressing the myths your source has perpetuated.
I find it hard to believe that people are so stubborn about admitting these things. A little commmon sense and a simple look at a DVORAK keyboard shows that it would be easier to type on once you've learned it. For crying out loud -- all of the vowels are kept in the under one hand in the home row!
Of course on DVORAK these keys are all over the place.
Right! Quite unlike the QWERTY keyboard, where all the keys are layed out in a sensible,
non-random fashion.
(If you can memorize where keys are on QWERTY, you can do it on DVORAK.)