This planet has had times when the ice from the poles almost met at the equator and times when there was no ice at all. Aren't we jumping to conclusions (hubris too...) with all of maybe 100 - 150 years of climate data (some of it very marginal data too) by trying to say that 1) we actually can measure and know what's going on and that 2) we can actually have influenced things in any way.
two words to all the "global warming" claimants... Prove it... then prove we actually influenced something as large, robust, and chaotic as an entire plantary atmosphere.
Excuse me Mr. Flamebait, but I wonder if you've ever even heard of CalTech and MIT. Unquestionably the two best scientific institutions in the world, barf none. I happen to work at one, and can say that yes there is ALOT of 'homegrown talent' as you call it. I would aggree that our (my ?) society doesnt place the pursuit of science in the limelight as it does things that are obviously more appealing to the masses like sports and entertainers, but show me one that does, ok? Consider it a challenge...
ummmmmm big guy....dontcha know both the Getstopo and the NKVD (precussor to the KBG/FSB) did a mighty fine job of repression using THREE BY FIVE INDEX CARDS and manual labor. don't confuse the availability of the tools of repression with the will it takes to implement it, or the subservience of the populace that allows it.
FYI... seems a great many companies in these Orwellian times, have acceptable use policies they make you sign these days... AUP's that contain sticks like termination for fscking around with the company's machine...be it at home or the office. reality sucks, huh?
still though i'd be rebel enough to reformat and install slackware on it, piss on the bastards;) fire me, im overdue for a raise anyway.
even tho this would the perfect consultant's rig... just have the clients supply me with a monitor and some keys and we's in biddness... the wave out and lack of descent ethernet connectivity ( USB we dont need steeeeenkin USB) has this kid awaiting version two, which will certainly suck down a paycheck or two of mine:)
thanks to the ars bunch for the review and/. as always
Like many other technologies nanotech has the potential to be the best thing since sliced bread or the cause havoc on the scale of a cosmic disaster. The middle ground, that is to say what you and i will likely see will be, hopefully, safely banal.
Perhaps nanites instead of surgery, that are targeted for cancer cells. Maybe artificial immune systems for those whose natural ones have failed.
nanomachines to make molecular level computers perhaps. payloads of nanites to observe for eploration of space, heck, something on that scale could be accelerated close to lightspeed without using resources on the kind of scale sending macro scale hardware requires. perhaps nanites could construct macro scale hardware both lighter and stronger than we can now. send them to alpha centuri with a mission to reproduce, mine, build communactions gear and explore...
Perhaps the computers that design the nanites will engineer a machine intellect, perhaps not self knowing but quite possibly way more a powerful brain than you or i could have, especially if you consider distibuted computing.
the dark side of course is making a race of machines and pissing them off by treating them as subservient. the matrix has you neo...
are they gonna push ext3 or one of the others reported in here last week hmmmmm... ill take clues for 100 please jim... im sure the deveolpers of the other file would kinda like to know tot, do you suppose??
As the first post pointed out if you must go the Linux route instead of an iWhack (as a later poster mentioned). Why not go with the big as dinner plates window maker icons;)
government of the corporations, by the beaurocracies, for the money... why does the Friendly Candy Company have to meddle in consumer issues any more than it already does?? This isnt so much an issue of Big Goverment as much as it Corporate Government. To wit, as is so common in the Age of Clinton, the U.S. government chooses and backs whatever policy the highest bidder asks for... in this case those sorry ass mofos we call the telco's... when im elected king things will be different... for one i'll be king;)
local news said that the l.a. county coroner's office is holding onto the results of the autopsy...can anyone tell me why ?? anyone know anything further???
i went from having half way descent service as a netcom customer to be a second class citizen of the mindspring empire... now what?? am i do be a non person as a part of this new juggernaught?? might as well get an aol account. think those aol disks im using to prop up the short leg of the kitchen table are still any good??
y'all dont remember your physics classes do you... prolly cutting class, to stay in the computer lab too huh huh...admit it:)
Basic Orbital Dynamics people... MIR and the ISS are in two completly different orbits. Complete with different inclinations (due to lanuch sites) and assorted other orbital elements... say apogee and perigee, and eccentricity just to start. While possible its not very likely or the RSA and NASA would have considered it, dontcha think?? I mean they do have staffs of rocket scientists, bright cookies them-uns:)
The problem with boosting MIR higher in orbit... the RSA actually flys MIR and without constant guidance (read *money* ) it will tumble and probably break up...no matter how high an orbit you place it in
Bottom Line...to match MIR's orbit to the ISS's would cost way way more that it would be worth...safer just to land it in the drink than leave several 100 more tons of space junk waiting to clock someone at several meters per second
When we can get the gov't to privatize NASA, so its inherant conservatism is based on the engineering rather than beaureaucratic hoop jumping we all may just get to see our childrens children living in space. As it stands now, sadly, progress can be compared to a fast moving glacier. This is not a new technology. It's just sad that it takes forever to get anything 'new' approved for testing even...
ummm hey big guy the "RAM" part of "DVD-RAM" stands for Random Access Memory. Yup that makes it a *writable* DVD drive. Even a lowly sysadmin like myself knows you'll need someone to hack the drivers to get the burn part of the system to work. One plus gigs on a platter to start with and then we should get more in a year or two...
No m.s.r.p. anywhere, the ones they use with the m.i.t. project (out of production too i might add) cost in the niehborhood of a Gee. this lil beauty with all it's capabilities... weeeeeell. I guess if i have to ask i can't afford it anyway.
say for instance we colonize europa (prolly the best choice actually we KNOW there is water ice there) the colony would still be very dependant on the motherworld. so any disaster, natural or not will still take out the in system colonies. leaving them without the resources to make the tools that make the tools that make things go. so really the survival of the race depends on leaving the cradle.
Ok coupla days ago Rob had the 27 million dollar fusion reactor story...combine that with some serious cryo research into cold sleep and perhaps my kids will get to be in the first ramscoops out of the Sol system...provided of course that >we can maintain a civilization long enough to create the daughter colonies that would prevent humankind from becoming extinct or causing its own extiction...does anyone take the long view anymore??
one of my biggest beefs with mac o/s is that it had been stagnant for the last ten years. memory management or lack thereof, same low-res icons, etc, are all the same. (shields on double front:) nomex suits at the ready ). now we have gates' recent spew regarding linux, but the innovation too is gone from windows. how much of a change will win2k be from win95/nt. it will look the same, it will be more bloated, it will still fall down too much, etc. the change from dos to win3.11 and from win3.11 to 9x was revolutionary but now microshaft like apple before it (or any large resonably successful organization, think goverments in the historical point of view) is mired in a deeply conservative slow (if the consumer is lucky) evolutionary cycle of change. it's the dont rock the boat we have something that works institutional mentality that has taken down men bigger than herr gates, or at the very least turned any dream of excellence into the quest for mediocrity.
linux by being an open decentralized project seems to be avoiding these traps. surely there will be new pitfalls associated with a differnet model, but hey i think its a better organizational model to start with....lets see a democraticly based model rather than an autocratic one, have we been down this road before, you think?
ancient chinese curse: may you live in interseting times
the bumpersticker that my friends got after they were busted in utah says it all...eat, drink, and be merry for tommorrow we may be in utah. make that the mormon 'republic' of utah even. orwell was right.
i thought you could. On all the systems i install for my users, i send clippy or whatever to the great bit bucket in the sky via the option in the office tools checklist. try it you'll like it, no need to write VB scripts unless you got nuffin better to do. even the most computer illiterate users don't seem to mind the absence of the paper clip from hell:)
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actually it is ok ...if you use PLENUM rated cat 5 cable... thats what its for, and thats why its costs more too
This planet has had times when the ice from the poles almost met at the equator and times when there was no ice at all. Aren't we jumping to conclusions (hubris too...) with all of maybe 100 - 150 years of climate data (some of it very marginal data too) by trying to say that 1) we actually can measure and know what's going on and that 2) we can actually have influenced things in any way.
... Prove it ... then prove we actually influenced something as large, robust, and chaotic as an entire plantary atmosphere.
two words to all the "global warming" claimants
Excuse me Mr. Flamebait, but I wonder if you've ever even heard of CalTech and MIT. Unquestionably the two best scientific institutions in the world, barf none. I happen to work at one, and can say that yes there is ALOT of 'homegrown talent' as you call it. I would aggree that our (my ?) society doesnt place the pursuit of science in the limelight as it does things that are obviously more appealing to the masses like sports and entertainers, but show me one that does, ok? Consider it a challenge...
ummmmmm big guy....dontcha know both the Getstopo and the NKVD (precussor to the KBG/FSB) did a mighty fine job of repression using THREE BY FIVE INDEX CARDS and manual labor. don't confuse the availability of the tools of repression with the will it takes to implement it, or the subservience of the populace that allows it.
FYI ... seems a great many companies in these Orwellian times, have acceptable use policies they make you sign these days ... AUP's that contain sticks like termination for fscking around with the company's machine...be it at home or the office. reality sucks, huh?
;) fire me, im overdue for a raise anyway.
still though i'd be rebel enough to reformat and install slackware on it, piss on the bastards
remember tho...you can't out run a radio ...you guys were just plain stupid lucky
even tho this would the perfect consultant's rig ... just have the clients supply me with a monitor and some keys and we's in biddness ... the wave out and lack of descent ethernet connectivity ( USB we dont need steeeeenkin USB) has this kid awaiting version two, which will certainly suck down a paycheck or two of mine :)
/. as always
thanks to the ars bunch for the review and
Like many other technologies nanotech has the potential to be the best thing since sliced bread or the cause havoc on the scale of a cosmic disaster. The middle ground, that is to say what you and i will likely see will be, hopefully, safely banal.
...
Perhaps nanites instead of surgery, that are targeted for cancer cells. Maybe artificial immune systems for those whose natural ones have failed.
nanomachines to make molecular level computers perhaps. payloads of nanites to observe for eploration of space, heck, something on that scale could be accelerated close to lightspeed without using resources on the kind of scale sending macro scale hardware requires. perhaps nanites could construct macro scale hardware both lighter and stronger than we can now. send them to alpha centuri with a mission to reproduce, mine, build communactions gear and explore
Perhaps the computers that design the nanites will engineer a machine intellect, perhaps not self knowing but quite possibly way more a powerful brain than you or i could have, especially if you consider distibuted computing.
the dark side of course is making a race of machines and pissing them off by treating them as subservient. the matrix has you neo...
are they gonna push ext3 or one of the others reported in here last week hmmmmm...
ill take clues for 100 please jim...
im sure the deveolpers of the other file would kinda like to know tot, do you suppose??
As the first post pointed out if you must go the Linux route instead of an iWhack (as a later poster mentioned). Why not go with the big as dinner plates window maker icons ;)
government of the corporations, by the beaurocracies, for the money... ... in this case those sorry ass mofos we call the telco's... when im elected king things will be different... for one i'll be king ;)
why does the Friendly Candy Company have to meddle in consumer issues any more than it already does?? This isnt so much an issue of Big Goverment as much as it Corporate Government. To wit, as is so common in the Age of Clinton, the U.S. government chooses and backs whatever policy the highest bidder asks for
local news said that the l.a. county coroner's office is holding onto the results of the autopsy...can anyone tell me why ?? anyone know anything further???
i went from having half way descent service as a netcom customer to be a second class citizen of the mindspring empire ... now what?? am i do be a non person as a part of this new juggernaught?? might as well get an aol account. think those aol disks im using to prop up the short leg of the kitchen table are still any good??
of course it is all things done in the name of Political Correctness, are acceptable in these benighted times now aren't they
y'all dont remember your physics classes do you ... prolly cutting class, to stay in the computer lab too huh huh ...admit it :)
... MIR and the ISS are in two completly different orbits. Complete with different inclinations (due to lanuch sites) and assorted other orbital elements ... say apogee and perigee, and eccentricity just to start. While possible its not very likely or the RSA and NASA would have considered it, dontcha think?? I mean they do have staffs of rocket scientists, bright cookies them-uns :)
... the RSA actually flys MIR and without constant guidance (read *money* ) it will tumble and probably break up...no matter how high an orbit you place it in
Basic Orbital Dynamics people
The problem with boosting MIR higher in orbit
Bottom Line...to match MIR's orbit to the ISS's would cost way way more that it would be worth...safer just to land it in the drink than leave several 100 more tons of space junk waiting to clock someone at several meters per second
When we can get the gov't to privatize NASA, so its inherant conservatism is based on the engineering rather than beaureaucratic hoop jumping we all may just get to see our childrens children living in space. As it stands now, sadly, progress can be compared to a fast moving glacier. This is not a new technology. It's just sad that it takes forever to get anything 'new' approved for testing even...
ummm hey big guy the "RAM" part of "DVD-RAM" stands for Random Access Memory. Yup that makes it a *writable* DVD drive. Even a lowly sysadmin like myself knows you'll need someone to hack the drivers to get the burn part of the system to work. One plus gigs on a platter to start with and then we should get more in a year or two...
No m.s.r.p. anywhere, the ones they use with the m.i.t. project (out of production too i might add) cost in the niehborhood of a Gee. this lil beauty with all it's capabilities ... weeeeeell.
I guess if i have to ask i can't afford it anyway.
say for instance we colonize europa (prolly the best choice actually we KNOW there is water ice there) the colony would still be very dependant on the motherworld. so any disaster, natural or not will still take out the in system colonies. leaving them without the resources to make the tools that make the tools that make things go. so really the survival of the race depends on leaving the cradle.
Ok coupla days ago Rob had the 27 million dollar fusion reactor story...combine that with some serious cryo research into cold sleep and perhaps my kids will get to be in the first ramscoops out of the Sol system...provided of course that >we can maintain a civilization long enough to create the daughter colonies that would prevent humankind from becoming extinct or causing its own extiction...does anyone take the long view anymore??
one of my biggest beefs with mac o/s is that it had been stagnant for the last ten years. memory management or lack thereof, same low-res icons, etc, are all the same. (shields on double front :) nomex suits at the ready ). now we have gates' recent spew regarding linux, but the innovation too is gone from windows. how much of a change will win2k be from win95/nt. it will look the same, it will be more bloated, it will still fall down too much, etc. the change from dos to win3.11 and from win3.11 to 9x was revolutionary but now microshaft like apple before it (or any large resonably successful organization, think goverments in the historical point of view) is mired in a deeply conservative slow (if the consumer is lucky) evolutionary cycle of change. it's the dont rock the boat we have something that works institutional mentality that has taken down men bigger than herr gates, or at the very least turned any dream of excellence into the quest for mediocrity.
linux by being an open decentralized project seems to be avoiding these traps. surely there will be new pitfalls associated with a differnet model, but hey i think its a better organizational model to start with....lets see a democraticly based model rather than an autocratic one, have we been down this road before, you think?
ancient chinese curse: may you live in interseting times
the bumpersticker that my friends got after they were busted in utah says it all...eat, drink, and be merry for tommorrow we may be in utah. make that the mormon 'republic' of utah even. orwell was right.
i'd never have to go offline ??? LOL
i thought you could. On all the systems i install for my users, i send clippy or whatever to the great bit bucket in the sky via the option in the office tools checklist. try it you'll like it, no need to write VB scripts unless you got nuffin better to do. even the most computer illiterate users don't seem to mind the absence of the paper clip from hell :)