> but this tripe of the last few years... ugh. No character development, no REAL excitement, nothing of substance underneath those spectacular special effects. But they ARE spectacular...
His next triolgy is going to be a set of Pink Floyd laser shows.
> A consortium of some 300 individuals and corporations interested in the promotion of IPv6 have to offer significant amounts of money just to generate interest in this new protocol.
> I propose an IPv6 protocol app that allows you to browse other sites on the internet. Each site will store one or more files in a standard markup language. The app will download these files and render the text and images in a desktop window. The markup language should include links to other sites and files, creating a sort of "web." It could be useful for scientists who want to exchange research data.
I'll bet you could patent doing all that with IPv6 right now.
> It was bound to happen. It allways takes a week or so before the theories start popping up.
I think we could generate a timeline for the public response to certain kinds of disaster. From 9/11 and the Columbia accident the newscoverage seems to be:
Day one: news anchors all day; admit they know nothing and just keep repeating the same rudimentary facts over and over. A few unfounded rumors will start creeping in as the day progresses.
Day two: the news anchors yield to the talking heads; they don't know anything either, but they pretend they do. Bullshit rules.
Day three or four: the special reports start. A few more trivial facts emerge, but for the most part it's just a slicker package for what we got on day one.
> The chances are though, while there were some pretty nasty chemicals on board, all they wanted to do was to keep the parts in as good a condition as possible.
That's sort of what I thought too: scare us into doing the right thing. However, a day or two ago we started getting reports of animals in the area showing strange syndromes (swollen tongues and necks) that may or may not be related to the wreckage. Maybe more scary story, maybe a genuine problem.
> Atleast hope that like in LoTR, they mention that the movie has been inspired from the book, rather than an adaptation.
If my distant memory of the book is even approximately correct, RWR as written would make a horrible movie. You should go into this with the assumption of "inspired by" or "loosely based on", regardless of what the promotional material says.
That's not to knock the book; it's just that books and movies have different requirements.
> The bank has now signed your bill as being worth money, without knowing the id number on the bill.
And of course, it's all done electronically so you don't have the faintest clue whether they really anonymized it.
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> High-quality paper is always made with linen, cotton and other natural fibres. It is a common misunderstanding that "paper" is synonymous with "wood pulp".
For more info, google for "rag content".
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> What if the babysitter comes to my house and I owe $4.50. Do we both go to the nearest ATM to transfer onto our cards? Will I have a card swipe in my house (most probably not).
"Honey, I'm going to drive the babysitter down to the ATM. Be back in a couple of hours."
> MS has been spending a lot of time and $ and lobbying in Washington to handle the anti trust suit domestically, and they've been very successful. However, apparently, even with that money and power MS can't handle European politics.
Europe isn't ruled by Republicans who will fold a winning hand in an anti-trust suit for ideological reasons.
> service. yes, it's outrageously expensive - but when the gbic card on yr database server makes a gentle popping noise and ten million bucks worth of data drifts away like an untethered boat from the pier, you will appreciate that one phone call will have some ubergeek in tweed show up with a bag of pro bono hardware and a shoebox full of patch disk and make everything alright.
> "I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours." John F Kennedy 9-12-62 A quote to live by. I for one would be vastly troubled by the possiblity of an arms race in space.
Alas, Kennedy is long dead and almost forgotten, and a googling for "weaponization of space" turns up a couple of thousand hits.
> Full agreement here. Anyone who gets to the point of handing over a check to pay for a trip has been fully briefed on the risks. The risks haven't changed - they are the same as they were before the Columbia failure - so why would the paying passengers change their mind?
But it's not the paying passenger that's canceling the program. It's the space agency that doesn't want the PR nightmare of having a pop star gets killed in their amusement park.
> As it happens, Atlantis was on the pad already, but it still would've taken nearly a week to launch with minimal crew (pilot and engineer). Columbia had enough food and water to last half a week... although with rationing they may have been able to extend that sufficiently.
If in fact it was the falling insulation, and if they had figured that out within a couple of days of the launch, they would have had a full two weeks even without rationing.
> Even so, what do you do then? There's no way to "dock" two shuttles and Columbia didn't have jetpack suits onboard, and I don't believe everyone was rated for EVA. You can make a "jump" from one ship to another, but that's trickier than it sounds...
Send up the rescue ship with jetpacks, an EVA experienced crew, and lots of personnel tethers.
I suspect the Congress will demand an in-space rescue capability. Base requirement is enough food and air on-board to last until another ship could be prepped and lanuched, and another ship on (say) two-week standby anytime anyone is up.
Expensive, yes. But of course the first time there actually is a rescue, everyone will love the space program again for a decade or two.
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> Is also great
> And would suffice.
Did you really expect an unbiased opinion from someone named "Frost"?
> but this tripe of the last few years... ugh. No character development, no REAL excitement, nothing of substance underneath those spectacular special effects. But they ARE spectacular...
His next triolgy is going to be a set of Pink Floyd laser shows.
> A consortium of some 300 individuals and corporations interested in the promotion of IPv6 have to offer significant amounts of money just to generate interest in this new protocol.
Yeah... an average of about $30 each.
> I propose an IPv6 protocol app that allows you to browse other sites on the internet. Each site will store one or more files in a standard markup language. The app will download these files and render the text and images in a desktop window. The markup language should include links to other sites and files, creating a sort of "web." It could be useful for scientists who want to exchange research data.
I'll bet you could patent doing all that with IPv6 right now.
> hell, even Canada has five times more IPv4 addresses per user.
Great God! And we've been planning on invading Iraq instead!
> > For around $25,000 you too can make Pixar quality movies
>
And if that's too expensive you can forgo the creative talent and make Star Wars prequels!
> It was bound to happen. It allways takes a week or so before the theories start popping up.
I think we could generate a timeline for the public response to certain kinds of disaster. From 9/11 and the Columbia accident the newscoverage seems to be:
Day one: news anchors all day; admit they know nothing and just keep repeating the same rudimentary facts over and over. A few unfounded rumors will start creeping in as the day progresses.
Day two: the news anchors yield to the talking heads; they don't know anything either, but they pretend they do. Bullshit rules.
Day three or four: the special reports start. A few more trivial facts emerge, but for the most part it's just a slicker package for what we got on day one.
> The chances are though, while there were some pretty nasty chemicals on board, all they wanted to do was to keep the parts in as good a condition as possible.
That's sort of what I thought too: scare us into doing the right thing. However, a day or two ago we started getting reports of animals in the area showing strange syndromes (swollen tongues and necks) that may or may not be related to the wreckage. Maybe more scary story, maybe a genuine problem.
> Atleast hope that like in LoTR, they mention that the movie has been inspired from the book, rather than an adaptation.
If my distant memory of the book is even approximately correct, RWR as written would make a horrible movie. You should go into this with the assumption of "inspired by" or "loosely based on", regardless of what the promotional material says.
That's not to knock the book; it's just that books and movies have different requirements.
> The bank has now signed your bill as being worth money, without knowing the id number on the bill.
And of course, it's all done electronically so you don't have the faintest clue whether they really anonymized it.
> High-quality paper is always made with linen, cotton and other natural fibres. It is a common misunderstanding that "paper" is synonymous with "wood pulp".
For more info, google for "rag content".
> What if the babysitter comes to my house and I owe $4.50. Do we both go to the nearest ATM to transfer onto our cards? Will I have a card swipe in my house (most probably not).
"Honey, I'm going to drive the babysitter down to the ATM. Be back in a couple of hours."
> Still, there's the potential problem of hacking into it, for example to add more money.
That's a problem?
> And in America, a new food product.
The SUV of hamburgers!
> MS has been spending a lot of time and $ and lobbying in Washington to handle the anti trust suit domestically, and they've been very successful. However, apparently, even with that money and power MS can't handle European politics.
Europe isn't ruled by Republicans who will fold a winning hand in an anti-trust suit for ideological reasons.
> I can hardly wait!
Oh, do wait! In a few more years personal vibrators will run Linux, and girls will invite geeks over to help troubleshoot their software problems.
> So thankfully there are a few things in the world that Bill Gates can't buy!
As in "Japan's not done until Linux won't run?"
Are they going to send a couple of Highway Patrol officers to Taiwan to arrest people sending spam to Missouri?
ps - Where the heck is 'Colorodo'?
ps #2 - Wherezalla posts? Will I find out when I click 'Submit'?
> service. yes, it's outrageously expensive - but when the gbic card on yr database server makes a gentle popping noise and ten million bucks worth of data drifts away like an untethered boat from the pier, you will appreciate that one phone call will have some ubergeek in tweed show up with a bag of pro bono hardware and a shoebox full of patch disk and make everything alright.
Garsh, I didn't know James Bond worked for Sun!
> "I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours." John F Kennedy 9-12-62
A quote to live by. I for one would be vastly troubled by the possiblity of an arms race in space.
Alas, Kennedy is long dead and almost forgotten, and a googling for "weaponization of space" turns up a couple of thousand hits.
> Level 2: Repeatable or reactive.
> Level 4: Managed or predictive.
OK, I can predict that the project I'm on is going to fail due to mismanagement, just like the last one did. Does that put us at Level 2 or Level 4?
> Full agreement here. Anyone who gets to the point of handing over a check to pay for a trip has been fully briefed on the risks. The risks haven't changed - they are the same as they were before the Columbia failure - so why would the paying passengers change their mind?
But it's not the paying passenger that's canceling the program. It's the space agency that doesn't want the PR nightmare of having a pop star gets killed in their amusement park.
> As it happens, Atlantis was on the pad already, but it still would've taken nearly a week to launch with minimal crew (pilot and engineer). Columbia had enough food and water to last half a week... although with rationing they may have been able to extend that sufficiently.
If in fact it was the falling insulation, and if they had figured that out within a couple of days of the launch, they would have had a full two weeks even without rationing.
> Even so, what do you do then? There's no way to "dock" two shuttles and Columbia didn't have jetpack suits onboard, and I don't believe everyone was rated for EVA. You can make a "jump" from one ship to another, but that's trickier than it sounds...
Send up the rescue ship with jetpacks, an EVA experienced crew, and lots of personnel tethers.
I suspect the Congress will demand an in-space rescue capability. Base requirement is enough food and air on-board to last until another ship could be prepped and lanuched, and another ship on (say) two-week standby anytime anyone is up.
Expensive, yes. But of course the first time there actually is a rescue, everyone will love the space program again for a decade or two.
If he can get it certified as Open Source, he could call it OS3:> Ok, this is about the coolest statement in an OS FAQ I've ever seen: