of a book called Ill Wind, by Kevin J. Anderson. Its about a bacteria designed to eat oil after a spill, and it gets out of hand and destroys anything made with petroleum products (plastics, gasoline in cars, lubricant in guns and machinery, insulators on some wires). The rest of the book is about the sort of post-apocalyptic world that results.
Library cards are usually free. Anyone willing to take some initiative can begin to get a decent education at little or no cost. Many of the so-called "less fortunate" are simply unwilling to do a little hard work when they can live on the government dime.
The meter is defined one ten millionth (1/10000000) of the distance from the north pole to the equator through Paris.
I don't know what century you're getting your information from, but the standard for the meter is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 second. Seems like that would be pretty damn precise to me. As for intuitiveness, the meter is the base unit for length (you have to define a unit somewhere along the way), and the other units are multiples of 10, how simple can you get?
I think most of you are missing one thing, RadioShack would have no way of correlating the serial number in your particular Cat with your name, address, phone number unless you register with their software. When you get your Cat they ask for your phone number and scan the bar code on the Cat package into their computer, but the bar code on every Cat package is the same so their computer system would have no way of matching up your personal data with the serial number on the particular Cat you bought unless you use the software they give you.
This is one of the problems I've had with some textbooks I've bought that come with CD-ROMs. Unlike most books the ones that come with CDs can't be sold back to the bookstore at the end of the semester, I suspect this is one of the reasons so many books are including CDs now. Because It contains opened software the bookstores must refuse to buy it back from you.
More New book sales == More money for the publishers
Even if the satellite survives, how do I know my message will?
The CD-ROMs on which the messages will be stored underwent exhaustive testing in July 1998 at the National Grand Accelerator of Heavy Ions (GANIL). The CD-ROMs were exposed to the equivalent of 50,000 years' of cosmic radiation in GANIL's particle accelerator and passed with flying colors. Despite the heavy exposure, the disks remained intact and legible.
How will our distant descendants be able to read our messages?
It's obvious that today's state-of-the-art technology in data storage, the laser reader, will be obsolete and totally forgotten by then. At any rate, it would be impossible to include one in the cargo due to its prohibitive volume and innate fragility.
We are therefore currently drafting a "user manual" using simple symbolic images to explain how to construct a CD player so as to be able to access the content of the disks. Like the Rosetta Stone, the information will be represented in such a manner so as to facilitate the task of decryption.
Its already possible to change the color of the BSoD in Windows. The following lines in [386Enh] section of the system.ini file will do it,
MessageTextColor=F MessageBackColor=4
This would make it white on red, I believe, but you can use hex values for any color you want.
0 - Black 1 - Blue 2 - Green 3 - Cyan 4 - Red 5 - Magenta 6 - Yellow/brown 7 - White 8 - Gray 9 - Bright blue A - Bright green B - Bright cyan C - Bright red D - Bright magenta E - Bright yellow F - Bright white
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That's $1.6 trillion
of a book called Ill Wind, by Kevin J. Anderson. Its about a bacteria designed to eat oil after a spill, and it gets out of hand and destroys anything made with petroleum products (plastics, gasoline in cars, lubricant in guns and machinery, insulators on some wires). The rest of the book is about the sort of post-apocalyptic world that results.
Library cards are usually free. Anyone willing to take some initiative can begin to get a decent education at little or no cost. Many of the so-called "less fortunate" are simply unwilling to do a little hard work when they can live on the government dime.
I could never get bored with Tetris.
The meter is defined one ten millionth (1/10000000) of the distance from the north pole to the equator through Paris.
I don't know what century you're getting your information from, but the standard for the meter is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 second. Seems like that would be pretty damn precise to me. As for intuitiveness, the meter is the base unit for length (you have to define a unit somewhere along the way), and the other units are multiples of 10, how simple can you get?
I think most of you are missing one thing, RadioShack would have no way of correlating the serial number in your particular Cat with your name, address, phone number unless you register with their software. When you get your Cat they ask for your phone number and scan the bar code on the Cat package into their computer, but the bar code on every Cat package is the same so their computer system would have no way of matching up your personal data with the serial number on the particular Cat you bought unless you use the software they give you.
Mozilla does run on Be.
http://www.mozilla.org/ports/beos/
This is one of the problems I've had with some textbooks I've bought that come with CD-ROMs. Unlike most books the ones that come with CDs can't be sold back to the bookstore at the end of the semester, I suspect this is one of the reasons so many books are including CDs now. Because It contains opened software the bookstores must refuse to buy it back from you.
More New book sales == More money for the publishers
Even if the satellite survives, how do I know my message will?
The CD-ROMs on which the messages will be stored underwent exhaustive testing in July 1998 at the National Grand Accelerator of Heavy Ions (GANIL). The CD-ROMs were exposed to the equivalent of 50,000 years' of cosmic radiation in GANIL's particle accelerator and passed with flying colors. Despite the heavy exposure, the disks remained intact and legible.
How will our distant descendants be able to read our messages?
It's obvious that today's state-of-the-art technology in data storage, the laser reader, will be obsolete and totally forgotten by then. At any rate, it would be impossible to include one in the cargo due to its prohibitive volume and innate fragility. We are therefore currently drafting a "user manual" using simple symbolic images to explain how to construct a CD player so as to be able to access the content of the disks. Like the Rosetta Stone, the information will be represented in such a manner so as to facilitate the task of decryption.
Its already possible to change the color of the BSoD in Windows. The following lines in [386Enh] section of the system.ini file will do it,
MessageTextColor=F
MessageBackColor=4
This would make it white on red, I believe, but you can use hex values for any color you want.
0 - Black
1 - Blue
2 - Green
3 - Cyan
4 - Red
5 - Magenta
6 - Yellow/brown
7 - White
8 - Gray
9 - Bright blue
A - Bright green
B - Bright cyan
C - Bright red
D - Bright magenta
E - Bright yellow
F - Bright white
Just a neat little trick.