Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!
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Ponder, if you will, a shell of light 1600 light-years in diameter. Outside of that shell, a war is still going on -- two planetary systems are still full of life. Inside that shell, the war is over and nothing remains of those systems but two stars gone nova. If this image moves you, so will the book.
Great Moogly Googly! They wrote a book about the US election and the aftermath.
This is a self correcting problem (believe me). When I first started out in programming, I'd almost always trash my programs the day before they were due. Then I learned how to backup. Haven't had a problem since. If you have students who don't backup for whatever reason (e.g. laziness, forgetfulness, stupidity), then maybe it's a sign that they're on the wrong path in life. This smacks of Technical Darwinism. The lowly will perish and the strong will not lose their work.
My advice. Teach them a couple times. Then forget about it. The cream will rise to the top.
Bah. I spent $0.75 and bought me a pair of 3D glasses. My computing experience has never been the same since.
So, Apples ARE good for something after all...
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End To Blindness?
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AppleEye -- You get perfectly true color and are able to see the world in ways few people do. The problem with this, though, is that the current refresh rate is 3 times per second -- and it costs a QUITE significant amount of money to purchase an optical eye that has a better refresh rate.
However, the good news about the Apple version, is they'll be able to daisy chain other sensory functions off of the eyes. Experiments are being right now, to see if this is a viable solution to male impotence.
What information about me are they going to find out? How many doors I have in my house? They already know where the back door is and have been using it for years.
This is exactly the kind of thing that will make people not want to fill out the form every decade. Every ten years, they beg and plead for us to fill these things out. They promise confidiality. They screen the census takers. Will they never learn?
No wonder Joseph left town when they took the census 2000 years ago. Maybe he was on to something.
As you say, it's rare but it happens. Even if there was no law passed, I believe that each of those could be dealth with, as a simple matter or corporate turpitude. If a company got wind of a coup against the company, it could always argue that since the computers and everything on it are property of the company, that all correspondences are as well. There'd be a pretty good chance the court would side with the company, since after all, the participants of the email were up to no good. There's always the plea of corporate self defense .
I think more often, the companies would use the newly enacted law to fire people who are passing off-colour jokes or sending those annoying joke exe files - espcecially if the exe files have a virus attached to them. At the very minimum, they could use it as leverage to save some money at evalution time (i.e. no raise for you).
What on earth could you be sending to other employees while at work, that it would matter what you're sending? Anyone, who at this point, is not aware that email is not in the least bit secure, should get what they have coming to them. Personally, I hate it when other employees send crap they download from AOL, thinking they are witty or clever, and that I'd be interested in this droll humour. Chances are, I've probably already seen it anyway.
Has anyone ever noticed it's the technopeasants who send you this stuff (as if they discovered some untapped corner of the internet).
Now, the mnemonic to remember the order of the planets work any longer. I'll have to change My Very Easy Mother Justifies Sex, Unless Not Paid to something else.
 My Very Easy Mnemonic Just Sucks - Useless Now, Extra Planet.
All that needs to happen is legislation that spammers have to pay per spam. Advertisers have to pay postage to put their stuff in my mailbox. If I take my wares to Uncle Bob's storage, he's gonna charge me monthly to keep my stuff. My stuff now exists on his property. It's a simple matter of economics.
If Joe Spammer wants to store his wares on my property, then a monthly fee is due. It's that simple.
I don't think that the same deal with telemarketers apply here. A telemarketer has to be told not to call after one time. However, he's not really storing anything on your property, just wasting some of your time. There are so many spammers out there (and the ability to forge so readily), that it'd be impossible to enforce the same kind of idea. Even if they were to implement something like this, the idea of tracking the forgers (which is what most people would start doing), would be a logistical nightmare.
Geraldo will host a live 3 hour TV show, to see what mysteries are locked away in the Mir spacestation. He'll drone on about aliens that visited Mir, and secretly helped with some of the missions. They'll be talk about Einstein-Rosen brige experiments. Speculations will be made about Zero-G sexual activities. They have plans to plant a small little boy named Kenny donning an orange jump suit about Mir, just before reentry. If there's a lull in the show, they have backup plans to talk about Jimmy Hoffa and Timothy Lear.
I'm curious if all the space fungus will adapt to the ocean life and start propogating and thriving, before they are able to clean up the mess, or if they reentry will sizzle the little rascals before hitting the ocean. Also, for as long as its been in space, it has to have soaked up a large amount of radiation. Any hints as to what the outcome of all this will be?
Assuming they can get cars to fly, there exists the possibility (no matter how small it is) that Milla Jovovich will bada boom right through the ceiling. The only thing better than that would be meeting the blue opera lady, but hey, I'm a realist...
I'll wait until Ron Popeil comes on TV to pitch these. I mean, getting these will be REALLY cool, but it'll be even cooler, if it comes with kitchen utensils, beef jerky maker and fishing rod.
It depends all on dominant and recessive genes. You'd have a period where there would be a battle for survival of the fittest where linux would triumph.
The only problem is, deep in the back of your subconcious, you'd know that sooner or later, those recessive genes will pop up at the most inopportune time.
They already have countermeasures in which they plot a solution. I think it's magnesium that splashes around in front of the incoming torp. It wouldn't be difficult assumedly to change what's coming out of the countermeasure device.
Even if they aren't able to completely imitate the hagfish, a technology like this might be able to be used in submarine warfare. It'd have to be mighty powerful stuff and in greater quantities to trap incoming torpedoes, or clog the screws (propellers) of an enemy submarine, but it has possibility. Of course, it wouldn't be a primary weapon, but they could release a fence of the mixture if need-be. However, they'd need to have a solution to dissolve the stuff, should they become trapped in their own net.
Just how many dialets of C++ are they going to create? The more dialets out there, the less portable this language is going to become. Sure there are shared libraries, and all, but why do we need yet another C language?
Many people assume the bacteria could do harmful things to us. It's not unthinkable that it could do beneficial things, like curing certain diseases. After all, it's 250,000,000 years old. It must be doing something right.
"Well, what goes around comes around. According to a New York Times article (free registration required), 21st century electronics may be based on plastic and other carbon-based molecules, or Organic Chemicals."
Scientists have been moving in this direction for a long time. This is not really news. The problem with creating things out of organics, is that organic things either decay or die or whatever. Granted, plastic, metal, glass and ceramic wear down in some fashion or another, but can be much more durable than organic material (for machinery). How do they intend to solve this problem? I don't see ordering replacement parts every few months, unless they're going to sell these parts like disposable contacts, where we get a year's supply at a time.
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Ponder, if you will, a shell of light 1600 light-years in diameter. Outside of that shell, a war is still going on -- two planetary systems are still full of life. Inside that shell, the war is over and nothing remains of those systems but two stars gone nova. If this image moves you, so will the book.
Great Moogly Googly! They wrote a book about the US election and the aftermath.
I've had my IBM PS/2 model 50 for years now, and I must say, that it's nary a keeping up with the technology, and furthermore...
Oh, you mean the playstation...Never mind.
This is a self correcting problem (believe me). When I first started out in programming, I'd almost always trash my programs the day before they were due. Then I learned how to backup. Haven't had a problem since. If you have students who don't backup for whatever reason (e.g. laziness, forgetfulness, stupidity), then maybe it's a sign that they're on the wrong path in life. This smacks of Technical Darwinism. The lowly will perish and the strong will not lose their work.
My advice. Teach them a couple times. Then forget about it. The cream will rise to the top.
Bah. I spent $0.75 and bought me a pair of 3D glasses. My computing experience has never been the same since.
AppleEye -- You get perfectly true color and are able to see the world in ways few people do. The problem with this, though, is that the current refresh rate is 3 times per second -- and it costs a QUITE significant amount of money to purchase an optical eye that has a better refresh rate.
However, the good news about the Apple version, is they'll be able to daisy chain other sensory functions off of the eyes. Experiments are being right now, to see if this is a viable solution to male impotence.
Now they'll have to be more selective about who they date.
What information about me are they going to find out? How many doors I have in my house? They already know where the back door is and have been using it for years.
This is exactly the kind of thing that will make people not want to fill out the form every decade. Every ten years, they beg and plead for us to fill these things out. They promise confidiality. They screen the census takers. Will they never learn?
No wonder Joseph left town when they took the census 2000 years ago. Maybe he was on to something.
As you say, it's rare but it happens. Even if there was no law passed, I believe that each of those could be dealth with, as a simple matter or corporate turpitude. If a company got wind of a coup against the company, it could always argue that since the computers and everything on it are property of the company, that all correspondences are as well. There'd be a pretty good chance the court would side with the company, since after all, the participants of the email were up to no good. There's always the plea of corporate self defense .
I think more often, the companies would use the newly enacted law to fire people who are passing off-colour jokes or sending those annoying joke exe files - espcecially if the exe files have a virus attached to them. At the very minimum, they could use it as leverage to save some money at evalution time (i.e. no raise for you).
What on earth could you be sending to other employees while at work, that it would matter what you're sending? Anyone, who at this point, is not aware that email is not in the least bit secure, should get what they have coming to them. Personally, I hate it when other employees send crap they download from AOL, thinking they are witty or clever, and that I'd be interested in this droll humour. Chances are, I've probably already seen it anyway.
Has anyone ever noticed it's the technopeasants who send you this stuff (as if they discovered some untapped corner of the internet).
Now, the mnemonic to remember the order of the planets work any longer. I'll have to change My Very Easy Mother Justifies Sex, Unless Not Paid to something else.
 My Very Easy Mnemonic Just Sucks - Useless Now, Extra Planet.
All that needs to happen is legislation that spammers have to pay per spam. Advertisers have to pay postage to put their stuff in my mailbox. If I take my wares to Uncle Bob's storage, he's gonna charge me monthly to keep my stuff. My stuff now exists on his property. It's a simple matter of economics.
If Joe Spammer wants to store his wares on my property, then a monthly fee is due. It's that simple.
I don't think that the same deal with telemarketers apply here. A telemarketer has to be told not to call after one time. However, he's not really storing anything on your property, just wasting some of your time. There are so many spammers out there (and the ability to forge so readily), that it'd be impossible to enforce the same kind of idea. Even if they were to implement something like this, the idea of tracking the forgers (which is what most people would start doing), would be a logistical nightmare.
One old idea this illustrates is that large, merger-ridden companies like AOL are hard to categorize simply -- they simply have too many parts
I notice he was careful not to say "too many moving parts.
Geraldo will host a live 3 hour TV show, to see what mysteries are locked away in the Mir spacestation. He'll drone on about aliens that visited Mir, and secretly helped with some of the missions. They'll be talk about Einstein-Rosen brige experiments. Speculations will be made about Zero-G sexual activities. They have plans to plant a small little boy named Kenny donning an orange jump suit about Mir, just before reentry. If there's a lull in the show, they have backup plans to talk about Jimmy Hoffa and Timothy Lear.
It will make broadcasing history.
I'm curious if all the space fungus will adapt to the ocean life and start propogating and thriving, before they are able to clean up the mess, or if they reentry will sizzle the little rascals before hitting the ocean. Also, for as long as its been in space, it has to have soaked up a large amount of radiation. Any hints as to what the outcome of all this will be?
Assuming they can get cars to fly, there exists the possibility (no matter how small it is) that Milla Jovovich will bada boom right through the ceiling. The only thing better than that would be meeting the blue opera lady, but hey, I'm a realist...
I'll wait until Ron Popeil comes on TV to pitch these. I mean, getting these will be REALLY cool, but it'll be even cooler, if it comes with kitchen utensils, beef jerky maker and fishing rod.
Babes will be knocking down my door.
It depends all on dominant and recessive genes. You'd have a period where there would be a battle for survival of the fittest where linux would triumph.
The only problem is, deep in the back of your subconcious, you'd know that sooner or later, those recessive genes will pop up at the most inopportune time.
They already have countermeasures in which they plot a solution. I think it's magnesium that splashes around in front of the incoming torp. It wouldn't be difficult assumedly to change what's coming out of the countermeasure device.
Even if they aren't able to completely imitate the hagfish, a technology like this might be able to be used in submarine warfare. It'd have to be mighty powerful stuff and in greater quantities to trap incoming torpedoes, or clog the screws (propellers) of an enemy submarine, but it has possibility. Of course, it wouldn't be a primary weapon, but they could release a fence of the mixture if need-be. However, they'd need to have a solution to dissolve the stuff, should they become trapped in their own net.
Slashdot C++. It's the same language, but all the keywords are misspelled.
Just how many dialets of C++ are they going to create? The more dialets out there, the less portable this language is going to become. Sure there are shared libraries, and all, but why do we need yet another C language?
Then they came for Sally Struthers, but no one spoke up, because no one cared.
And there was much rejoicing.
Many people assume the bacteria could do harmful things to us. It's not unthinkable that it could do beneficial things, like curing certain diseases. After all, it's 250,000,000 years old. It must be doing something right.
"Well, what goes around comes around. According to a New York Times article (free registration required), 21st century electronics may be based on plastic and other carbon-based molecules, or Organic Chemicals."
Scientists have been moving in this direction for a long time. This is not really news. The problem with creating things out of organics, is that organic things either decay or die or whatever. Granted, plastic, metal, glass and ceramic wear down in some fashion or another, but can be much more durable than organic material (for machinery). How do they intend to solve this problem? I don't see ordering replacement parts every few months, unless they're going to sell these parts like disposable contacts, where we get a year's supply at a time.