Good point. There is very little character development in short stories. Which is probably why they're short. Now, go read 3001 by Clarke or Prelude to Foundation by Asimov and tell me they don't use character development.
If you wish to get technical (and by your post I have to assume you do), America is not a continent. North America is a continent. Canada and The United States of America are both countries on that continent. Now, had he said "Zed is how non-North-Americans say what we call "Zee" " I can see where you would have a beef. But the international crowd refers to people from the USofA as Americans. His post was correct.
"1. I don't see how this would be useful for interstellar travel to the Alderon system since the vast void inbetween will a weak magnetic field if any."
It would certainly be useful, assuming you could get to a decent velocity before you leave our solar system. Once you hit cruising speed, you don't need the drive. Of course, you'd better hope you don't have to stop halfway....
"2. Surely environmentalists will require us to simultaneously send a ship in the opposite direction so that we don't disrupt the sun."
I think if someone were to point out to the the velocity that our sun is currently moving at, they just might figure out that it would be a moot point. Besides, in 6 months the planet would be opposite the site anyway. Why do it simultaneously?
I'm rather surprised by the apparent lack of Novell administrators on Slashdot. I'll admit that I'm not one either, although some of my clients do use Netware, and I do have to do some work with it. Everything I've seen lately from Novelll is pretty slick. Netware 5 is great(once you close all the Java apps that try to make it more like Win2K). ZENWorks is just plain incredible. One of the things that impressed me most was how ZEN Imaging uses linux LILO to set up partitioning, choose which OS gets booted to (works with all versiuons of windows, even 2K), and once you have that on, the (l)user can completely trash their system and the administrator can push a new image and have it fixed without ever leaving his desk. They can do remote admin with it as well.
I admin mainly windows environments (sue me, it's my job, k?) but I'm all kinds of impressed at what Novell has come out with lately.
I'll second that. Unfortunately, I DO live in NY. I've been tempted to move lately because it's becoming obvious that Hillary is going to win, mostly because Lazio is an idiot. I'm having a real hard moral problem this year because I can't ethicaly vote for either NY State Senator candidate or eitehr candidate for the Presidency. It's almost a foregone conclusion that the Democrats are going to win both, which, as much as I wish it were not so, is probably a good thing, because the Republicans simply failed to provide a candidate worth his oxygen quotient.
Internet Explorer has 40-bit or 128-bit encryption. IE is the windows shell. Therefore, NSA (allegedly) regulates Windows.
Is this truly information?
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Look at media coverage of sensational stories -- like the death of Princess Di, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Monica Lewinsky mess or the recent electoral nightmare.
Can this truly be called information overload?
Yes, okay, the report of Di's crash, O.J's stort, etc. at first all qualified as information. Something new was being reported to the public. But it seems to be that the reason htese are examples that are being used is not so much becvause it was an overload of information, but a large regurgitation of small amount of information.
The overload is the number of times one can hear the same information before tuning it all out.
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It actually reads off the emissions from the cable connecting the PC to the monitor. And the keyboard cable.
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Good point. There is very little character development in short stories. Which is probably why they're short. Now, go read 3001 by Clarke or Prelude to Foundation by Asimov and tell me they don't use character development.
If you wish to get technical (and by your post I have to assume you do), America is not a continent. North America is a continent. Canada and The United States of America are both countries on that continent. Now, had he said "Zed is how non-North-Americans say what we call "Zee" " I can see where you would have a beef. But the international crowd refers to people from the USofA as Americans. His post was correct.
What I want to know is, who moderated him up to 5?
So does that mean that going to http://www.con.con will crash a windows box?
"1. I don't see how this would be useful for interstellar travel to the Alderon system since the vast void inbetween will a weak magnetic field if any." It would certainly be useful, assuming you could get to a decent velocity before you leave our solar system. Once you hit cruising speed, you don't need the drive. Of course, you'd better hope you don't have to stop halfway.... "2. Surely environmentalists will require us to simultaneously send a ship in the opposite direction so that we don't disrupt the sun." I think if someone were to point out to the the velocity that our sun is currently moving at, they just might figure out that it would be a moot point. Besides, in 6 months the planet would be opposite the site anyway. Why do it simultaneously?
I'm rather surprised by the apparent lack of Novell administrators on Slashdot. I'll admit that I'm not one either, although some of my clients do use Netware, and I do have to do some work with it. Everything I've seen lately from Novelll is pretty slick. Netware 5 is great(once you close all the Java apps that try to make it more like Win2K). ZENWorks is just plain incredible. One of the things that impressed me most was how ZEN Imaging uses linux LILO to set up partitioning, choose which OS gets booted to (works with all versiuons of windows, even 2K), and once you have that on, the (l)user can completely trash their system and the administrator can push a new image and have it fixed without ever leaving his desk. They can do remote admin with it as well.
I admin mainly windows environments (sue me, it's my job, k?) but I'm all kinds of impressed at what Novell has come out with lately.
I'll second that. Unfortunately, I DO live in NY. I've been tempted to move lately because it's becoming obvious that Hillary is going to win, mostly because Lazio is an idiot. I'm having a real hard moral problem this year because I can't ethicaly vote for either NY State Senator candidate or eitehr candidate for the Presidency. It's almost a foregone conclusion that the Democrats are going to win both, which, as much as I wish it were not so, is probably a good thing, because the Republicans simply failed to provide a candidate worth his oxygen quotient.
Internet Explorer has 40-bit or 128-bit encryption. IE is the windows shell. Therefore, NSA (allegedly) regulates Windows.
Can this truly be called information overload?
Yes, okay, the report of Di's crash, O.J's stort, etc. at first all qualified as information. Something new was being reported to the public. But it seems to be that the reason htese are examples that are being used is not so much becvause it was an overload of information, but a large regurgitation of small amount of information.
The overload is the number of times one can hear the same information before tuning it all out.