*Whoops, quick side note, the DOD/DHS would shut down the GPS network of satellites in the event of a terrorist attack. My bad for not double checking my post.
A while back, a plan was exposed regarding how the DOD or DHS would shut down the GPS network of satellites. I don't recall where the artical was (I believe it was in Slashdot) or when it appeared (I'm guessing within the last 6-12 months).
Anyway, my question is this: How do they propose to maintain shipping safety, by dropping the sole navigational fallback in the event that such an event takes place?
Also, don't lighthouses occasionally perform the duty of keeping watch for any suspicious activities, such as smuggling drugs/contraband/immigrants (and mind you, since it's the rage, terrorists)?
Or maybe my memory's a little rusty on that, I may have watched "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" too many times.
Has anyone ever noticed that the human experience is much like human evolution?
(1)Birth (of course) (2)Growth, nurturing, education. (3)Attempt to change living environment to suit. (4)Success or failure, learning from experience or not, adapting accordingly. (5)Depending on (4), continue living, and eventually die, or die horribly on failure.
On a planetary basis, it reads as the following:
(1)Earth (2)Mars (3)Venus (4)Io (5)Europa
Each of these celestial bodies present the same challenge our evolutionary ancestors had to adapt to.
Earth: This is where we learn, dealing with our mistakes, learning how to break or fix the system. Mars: Too thin in the air and water department. Venus: Too toxic an environment and pressure, but damnned it if ain't like Earth otherwise. Io: The moon that provides a good excuse for interplanetary industry. Europa: The real terraforming objective, one that could teach way more than expected.
There has been no evidence of existing life on Mars. There is probable evidence of previously existing life on Mars.
If the former is incorrect, then we will in effect, improve the survival of an obviously endangered species.
If the latter is incorrect, then we will do no actual harm to the planet.
Before anyone goes into PETA/Greenpeace "Humans bad, nature good!" mode, consider this: At least 1/3 of the animals humans have cultivated as livestock and pets would probably have gone extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago, if we didn't come up with a convenient excuse to carry them around with us. Therefore it's very likely that humans have, in fact, preserved more species than driven into extinction.
Hell, just keeping housecats around a hundred years longer kept most of Europe from completely dying off from the bubonic plage, and those are descended from the African wildcat (a relatively endangered species, but close relative).
For one thing, it could be used as a computer. I doubt the PSX was able to do the same.
The chief was poor title availability, but otherwise the Pippin had some decent graphics in the titles that didn't completely suck.
The following URL has some reviews and screenshots.
http://www.pippinworld.co.uk/index.htm
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The @world Pippin. Basically a PPC 603 Mac, custom designed as a videogame console with net capabilities. in conjunction with Bandai. Barely sold enough in Japan, barely registered a blip in America. Considering it was released in 1995 and surpassed the Playstation in computing and graphical capabilities, it was definately ahead of its time, but miles behind decent marketing.
I'd think that due to its having USB 2.0 and firewire (IIRC) ports, it would be a relatively simple task to connect a drive of any size with an external housing. That's one of the reasons I want to get one myself, because while it has its expansion limits, I *can* install anything I need to use on the external ports.
And for that matter, even if I did, I would still have a nice tiny computer to work with (just stack 'em).
The misleading detail is the "inkjet printer" concept. For one, you would need tanks of nutrient bred human cells, which not only would take a good deal of time, but would require the patient live long enough to use them.
Secondly, you would need an individual sterile system for each application, meaning a "printer" would need to be prepped and ready, along with a sterile substrate (assumably collagen) to "print" on, AND a cell supply free of enough defective cells to use for the "ink".
Upon this, inkjet printers don't technically work in layers on a cellular basis, you need a printer that works in 3D, not 2D.
I wish these writers would at least consider the details in their reports.
Is there any word whether the Mac Mini would include the OS?
If so, then they could seriously beat down Microsoft, since the only way to get XP "free" is by buying a crappy prebuilt PC.
It's sexy and tiny, and probably the first time any kind of Mac has come in a price range that graphic artists could easily afford (which was essentially the first real use for Macs, historically).
Antarctica is actually a continent (with massive glaciers dropping off the landmass). The Arctic Ice Cap is one gigantic block of ice. Antartica cannot completely melt per se.
I've been observing HDTV sets at various stores over and over, and truth be said, flat screen CRT based sets are way better. The factors are simple: Price, image quality, and price.
LCDs: Look good at a distance or closeup, but unless you want to spend over $1000 for one large enough for a home system, you can't get better than a 20".
Plasma: See above, except the closeup resolution, they look good, but usually run several times the price of a CRT and a few times the price of a good LCD.
Rear screen projection: While a little more modest in price, and large enough screen, they suffer the same effects as their old school CRT cousins, mainly poor focus, and pixel "bleed over", so you lose a good deal of detail (unless watched from a distance).
CRT: What you see is what you get, the resolution is very close to LCD (essentially these are just overglorified computer displays). They're cheap (compared to the prior three). The only true drawback is size/weight, and of course lacking the opportunity to show off to the neighbors.
Or a ring of lunar debris that repeatedly pummell the Earth's surface at random (a'la Cowboy Bebop's gate disaster), which in turn could cause far worse damage than an asteroid impacting us directly.
If that's the case, prepare for skyscrapers where the elevators count down instead of up.
Considering that they could just give MS permission to bundle their software (kind of like how MS bundled AOL with Win9x). They essentially hurt themselves.
Also, consider that most movie previews (that I've seen) are in.mov format, along with a good deal of stuff on the web in solely.rm format, which MS cannot render within WMP, there's only one simple reason that Apple or RealNetworks could be hurt in any way:
If I browsed to a video clip, do I want to see it NOW, or do I want to wait up to 5 minutes for it to dick around on my system and install, along with cleaning up after it if there's a crash or spyware?
My two old favorites (being an ol'New Yawker) is Chock Full O' Nuts for regular, and Cafe Bustelo (REAL espresso).
I just could never get into going out for coffee, especially now that I live in the Puget Sound where you couldn't throw a rock without hitting an espresso stand.
As someone who draws erotic cartoons for a living, I learned early on about how Paypal refuses to perform any payment transactions involving adult material (in fact, they'll fine sellers $500 for adult material).
So how does that differ from iTunes, where any variety of "Parental Advisory" labeled music can be dowloaded?
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*Whoops, quick side note, the DOD/DHS would shut down the GPS network of satellites in the event of a terrorist attack. My bad for not double checking my post.
A while back, a plan was exposed regarding how the DOD or DHS would shut down the GPS network of satellites. I don't recall where the artical was (I believe it was in Slashdot) or when it appeared (I'm guessing within the last 6-12 months).
Anyway, my question is this: How do they propose to maintain shipping safety, by dropping the sole navigational fallback in the event that such an event takes place?
Also, don't lighthouses occasionally perform the duty of keeping watch for any suspicious activities, such as smuggling drugs/contraband/immigrants (and mind you, since it's the rage, terrorists)?
Or maybe my memory's a little rusty on that, I may have watched "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" too many times.
Has anyone ever noticed that the human experience is much like human evolution?
(1)Birth (of course)
(2)Growth, nurturing, education.
(3)Attempt to change living environment to suit.
(4)Success or failure, learning from experience or not, adapting accordingly.
(5)Depending on (4), continue living, and eventually die, or die horribly on failure.
On a planetary basis, it reads as the following:
(1)Earth
(2)Mars
(3)Venus
(4)Io
(5)Europa
Each of these celestial bodies present the same challenge our evolutionary ancestors had to adapt to.
Earth: This is where we learn, dealing with our mistakes, learning how to break or fix the system.
Mars: Too thin in the air and water department.
Venus: Too toxic an environment and pressure, but damnned it if ain't like Earth otherwise.
Io: The moon that provides a good excuse for interplanetary industry.
Europa: The real terraforming objective, one that could teach way more than expected.
There has been no evidence of existing life on Mars. There is probable evidence of previously existing life on Mars.
If the former is incorrect, then we will in effect, improve the survival of an obviously endangered species.
If the latter is incorrect, then we will do no actual harm to the planet.
Before anyone goes into PETA/Greenpeace "Humans bad, nature good!" mode, consider this: At least 1/3 of the animals humans have cultivated as livestock and pets would probably have gone extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago, if we didn't come up with a convenient excuse to carry them around with us. Therefore it's very likely that humans have, in fact, preserved more species than driven into extinction.
Hell, just keeping housecats around a hundred years longer kept most of Europe from completely dying off from the bubonic plage, and those are descended from the African wildcat (a relatively endangered species, but close relative).
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For one thing, it could be used as a computer. I doubt the PSX was able to do the same.
The chief was poor title availability, but otherwise the Pippin had some decent graphics in the titles that didn't completely suck.
The following URL has some reviews and screenshots.
http://www.pippinworld.co.uk/index.htm
The @world Pippin. Basically a PPC 603 Mac, custom designed as a videogame console with net capabilities. in conjunction with Bandai. Barely sold enough in Japan, barely registered a blip in America. Considering it was released in 1995 and surpassed the Playstation in computing and graphical capabilities, it was definately ahead of its time, but miles behind decent marketing.
n /a pple_bandai_pippin.html
http://assembler.roarvgm.com/Apple_Bandai_pippi
Oh, and yes, it comes with a copy of OS X, according to Apple's website.
I'd think that due to its having USB 2.0 and firewire (IIRC) ports, it would be a relatively simple task to connect a drive of any size with an external housing. That's one of the reasons I want to get one myself, because while it has its expansion limits, I *can* install anything I need to use on the external ports.
And for that matter, even if I did, I would still have a nice tiny computer to work with (just stack 'em).
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The misleading detail is the "inkjet printer" concept. For one, you would need tanks of nutrient bred human cells, which not only would take a good deal of time, but would require the patient live long enough to use them.
Secondly, you would need an individual sterile system for each application, meaning a "printer" would need to be prepped and ready, along with a sterile substrate (assumably collagen) to "print" on, AND a cell supply free of enough defective cells to use for the "ink".
Upon this, inkjet printers don't technically work in layers on a cellular basis, you need a printer that works in 3D, not 2D.
I wish these writers would at least consider the details in their reports.
Is there any word whether the Mac Mini would include the OS?
If so, then they could seriously beat down Microsoft, since the only way to get XP "free" is by buying a crappy prebuilt PC.
It's sexy and tiny, and probably the first time any kind of Mac has come in a price range that graphic artists could easily afford (which was essentially the first real use for Macs, historically).
Antarctica is actually a continent (with massive glaciers dropping off the landmass). The Arctic Ice Cap is one gigantic block of ice. Antartica cannot completely melt per se.
I've been observing HDTV sets at various stores over and over, and truth be said, flat screen CRT based sets are way better. The factors are simple: Price, image quality, and price.
LCDs: Look good at a distance or closeup, but unless you want to spend over $1000 for one large enough for a home system, you can't get better than a 20".
Plasma: See above, except the closeup resolution, they look good, but usually run several times the price of a CRT and a few times the price of a good LCD.
Rear screen projection: While a little more modest in price, and large enough screen, they suffer the same effects as their old school CRT cousins, mainly poor focus, and pixel "bleed over", so you lose a good deal of detail (unless watched from a distance).
CRT: What you see is what you get, the resolution is very close to LCD (essentially these are just overglorified computer displays). They're cheap (compared to the prior three). The only true drawback is size/weight, and of course lacking the opportunity to show off to the neighbors.
I'm sure it wouldn't be a question, and a lot more ./ers would be complaining.
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Or a ring of lunar debris that repeatedly pummell the Earth's surface at random (a'la Cowboy Bebop's gate disaster), which in turn could cause far worse damage than an asteroid impacting us directly.
If that's the case, prepare for skyscrapers where the elevators count down instead of up.
Considering that they could just give MS permission to bundle their software (kind of like how MS bundled AOL with Win9x). They essentially hurt themselves.
.mov format, along with a good deal of stuff on the web in solely .rm format, which MS cannot render within WMP, there's only one simple reason that Apple or RealNetworks could be hurt in any way:
Also, consider that most movie previews (that I've seen) are in
If I browsed to a video clip, do I want to see it NOW, or do I want to wait up to 5 minutes for it to dick around on my system and install, along with cleaning up after it if there's a crash or spyware?
My two old favorites (being an ol'New Yawker) is Chock Full O' Nuts for regular, and Cafe Bustelo (REAL espresso).
I just could never get into going out for coffee, especially now that I live in the Puget Sound where you couldn't throw a rock without hitting an espresso stand.
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I remember how they kept telling us kids in the 70s how there would be a new ice age before the turn of the century. Boy we were gullible back then.
It's not only well past that date now, but I'm pretty sure that parka I got just in case is long past the exchange/return period.
As someone who draws erotic cartoons for a living, I learned early on about how Paypal refuses to perform any payment transactions involving adult material (in fact, they'll fine sellers $500 for adult material).
So how does that differ from iTunes, where any variety of "Parental Advisory" labeled music can be dowloaded?
Not to mention in the event of an earthquake, styrofoam is relatively unlikely to cause deaths in a collqpse.