The Russians aren't as risk adverse as NASA. (Hell, they're less risk adverse than I am!)
As described in LEO on the Cheap, the Russians do have a more realistic and economical approach to spaceflight. That is, they build their rockets with shipyard-level technology, not ballistic missile-level technology. Big, heavy, tough and dumb vs light, high-performance and expensive.
On point made in "LEO..." is to split your man rated (99.99% reliable) boosters from your cargo haulers (99% (95%?) reliable). Exactly NOT what NASA did when they designed the space camel, err... shuttle.
And for God's sake, have a plan with a definate goal, not "lets get everybody together and put on a show"!
So then all they have to worry about is cows on stilts.
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Dekard is a replicant.
They made that clear in the super platinum director's extended cut with complimentary Cliff notes.
err, what?...
In the English translation I read, Kelvin is a real person and there is absolutely no ambiguity about that. Same for the Tark.. Tarov.., 1972 version of the film.
Oh come on, I found Event Horizon to be a decent scifi/horror movie, and was pleasntly surprised by the shared themes from Solaris. It wasn't really that bad.
Kids these days. I take it you've never had the misfortune of being subjected to Jake Speed. Two of the three of us wanted to walk out, but the third was in a sadistic mood that day. "What, you mean those lions are real?!!"
What I want to know is "James, how do we get those diamonds down from there?"
And they could've at least made a comment along the lines of "that'll never work SPECTRE tried that years ago!"
And why the hell have they completely killed off the bad guy by the end of the last five movies? What kind of wussies are these? Does SPECTRE hit too close to reality for them to use it these days?!!
I've read the English translation and just watched the 1972 version on IFC yesterday.
That film also brought the love story more to the forground than it seemed in the book. Of course, part of that may be the transition from the novel to the screen. I like Lem's work, but like many Science fiction authors, often his characters seem like props that the author moves around to explore some idea with. I wouldn't think of Lem when I thought of love stories or multifaceted characterizations.
I was surprised by how much the actors Soderberg cast for Kelvin (Clooney) and Rhea (McElhone) resembled the actors in Tarkovsky's version.
I found the first part, on Earth, of Tarkovsky's version to be unbearably slow. There were several scenes that could have been been edited to be shorter or left out completely. Once Kelvin gets to the spacestation, the film seemed to move along well while relating the salient points of the story.
I was surprised how well he captured the sheer creepyness of arriving on the station that had only three people aboard, and sensing small figures flitting about and other indirect evidence of the guests.
It seems that there are at least three obvious spins that you could give this story : the love story, the "haunted house" or horror story, and the first contact story. That's what so great about the story, one moment 'Rhea' is the return of Kelvin's lost wife, the next, she's some terrifying other, smashing through the door because he thoughlessly closed it between them.
Larry Niven (or was it Jerry Pournelle, I can't keep the two apart in my mind...) wrote a short story similar to that. It was a murder mystery.
But I don't really believe that, it really depends on how large the particle is in relation to a cell. Most likely it could pass through you, causing no serious or permanant damage. That is, as long as there's no sonic boom.
Rooting around on the interweb superhighway looking for info on radionics/psionics/Charles Cosimano, I encountered this: http://www.keelynet.com/interact/Arc_7_98-12_98/00 001970.htm In which I would like to draw your attention to the following passage :
"There are some mailing list dedicated to this:
[Note you HAVE **NOT** BEEN ADDED TO ANY LIST's, these are just what the original messages said when I subscribed to these lists!]
{Also note that once you get on Charles Cosimano's list, it is litterly impossible to get off. The unsubscribe command does not work, and the moderator has not been heard from for years to do it manually. So if you post all you get is nasty complaints from the people who can't get off the list.} "
Please note the key points -- 1. weirdo freakazoid mailing list, 2. seems impossible to get off, you can hear the wails of the damnned.
Know the email of any enemies that would deserve such abuse? Further research could probably turn up other moribund/rogue mailing lists that may be more appropriate for other marks.
THIS IS INFORMATION IS INTENDED SOLELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES!!!
I thought UNIX was intended to play Space Wars?!!!
But I agree that it's a great shortcoming of all GUI-based systems that they don't have a good scripting mechanism thoroughly integrated. You should be able to write a script to do anything that you have authority to do.
One "advantage" Windows has over UNIX is that having the GUI built into the kernel drasticlly imporves performance over the client/server architecture used for X. Of course, that also means a poorly written video card driver or game can crash your whole system. It appears that the only people to get the right balance of performace/stability are the QNX photon developers.
It's not like they do that damn much!
I know I'm kinda late to this party, the 90's are well over now, but come on people!! Haven't you seen the movie "Brewster's Millions"?!!!
I could throw wads of $100 bills out the window to homeless people and I couldn't squander 1% of that much money if I did it 24x7x365 for the last ten years! (And I'd die of exhaustion before that because I never slept!)
Stories like this just reek of creative accounting! MAYBE ADVERTISING ISN"T REALLY WORTH WHAT THEY"RE CHARGING YOU FOR IT, PEOPLE! The only way this makes sense is if that $725 million is internet monopoly money, and not good, honest U.S. greenbacks.
1. I could see $1e6/yr for staff (ok, so they're probably terribly overstaffed!)
2. Toss in another $1,000,000/yr for facilites.
3. x (what, like, ) 7 years.
4. = $66 million PROFIT!
If these guys actually burned through $80, 000, 000 , they're doing something wrong! (of course there was a lot of that going around in the 90's!)
I don't even know what I'm doing, and I'm confident I could put together the equivalent for much less than that. The only difficulty would be getting the "A list" talent, and I'm not so sure that what they have is really that special.
Some people see the truth, but they usually blame it on the drugs. In actuality, the drugs are opening the doors of perception, allowing the real world to be seen.
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You should have gone for the extra points and used EBCIDIC.
The Russians aren't as risk adverse as NASA. (Hell, they're less risk adverse than I am!)
..." is to split your man rated (99.99% reliable) boosters from your cargo haulers (99% (95%?) reliable). Exactly NOT what NASA did when they designed the space camel, err... shuttle.
As described in LEO on the Cheap, the Russians do have a more realistic and economical approach to spaceflight. That is, they build their rockets with shipyard-level technology, not ballistic missile-level technology. Big, heavy, tough and dumb vs light, high-performance and expensive.
On point made in "LEO
And for God's sake, have a plan with a definate goal, not "lets get everybody together and put on a show"!
"I just doubt that my wife would let me put a tunnel through the fridge "
You mean you don't have a beerfridge in the garage? You've got a long ways to go...
Look in the big blue room, I'm sure you'll find here there!
when I first got my GPS, I tried this for a week. I got bored when all it showed was route from the coffee pot to my cube to the bathroom and back.
So then all they have to worry about is cows on stilts.
Dekard is a replicant.
They made that clear in the super platinum director's extended cut with complimentary Cliff notes.
err, what?...
In the English translation I read, Kelvin is a real person and there is absolutely no ambiguity about that. Same for the Tark.. Tarov.., 1972 version of the film.
Oh come on, I found Event Horizon to be a decent scifi/horror movie, and was pleasntly surprised by the shared themes from Solaris. It wasn't really that bad.
Kids these days. I take it you've never had the misfortune of being subjected to Jake Speed. Two of the three of us wanted to walk out, but the third was in a sadistic mood that day. "What, you mean those lions are real?!!"
What I want to know is "James, how do we get those diamonds down from there?"
And they could've at least made a comment along the lines of "that'll never work SPECTRE tried that years ago!"
And why the hell have they completely killed off the bad guy by the end of the last five movies? What kind of wussies are these? Does SPECTRE hit too close to reality for them to use it these days?!!
I've read the English translation and just watched the 1972 version on IFC yesterday.
That film also brought the love story more to the forground than it seemed in the book. Of course, part of that may be the transition from the novel to the screen. I like Lem's work, but like many Science fiction authors, often his characters seem like props that the author moves around to explore some idea with. I wouldn't think of Lem when I thought of love stories or multifaceted characterizations.
I was surprised by how much the actors Soderberg cast for Kelvin (Clooney) and Rhea (McElhone) resembled the actors in Tarkovsky's version.
I found the first part, on Earth, of Tarkovsky's version to be unbearably slow. There were several scenes that could have been been edited to be shorter or left out completely. Once Kelvin gets to the spacestation, the film seemed to move along well while relating the salient points of the story.
I was surprised how well he captured the sheer creepyness of arriving on the station that had only three people aboard, and sensing small figures flitting about and other indirect evidence of the guests.
It seems that there are at least three obvious spins that you could give this story : the love story, the "haunted house" or horror story, and the first contact story. That's what so great about the story, one moment 'Rhea' is the return of Kelvin's lost wife, the next, she's some terrifying other, smashing through the door because he thoughlessly closed it between them.
This is more of a Shelbyville idea, anyway...
Larry Niven (or was it Jerry Pournelle, I can't keep the two apart in my mind...) wrote a short story similar to that. It was a murder mystery.
But I don't really believe that, it really depends on how large the particle is in relation to a cell. Most likely it could pass through you, causing no serious or permanant damage. That is, as long as there's no sonic boom.
" I tested this by putting my gun on a table in my garage and I videotaped it all afternoon. It didn't fire once on its own. Not once. "
.GIF on a 1-second loop, I'll check for that!
Not that I care to dispute any of your argument, BUT...
Did you really do that test, or are you just using patented internet rhetorical hyperbole?
A link to a copy of this alledged evidence would be greatly appreciated. And it better not be an animated
Rooting around on the interweb superhighway looking for info on radionics/psionics/Charles Cosimano, I encountered this: http://www.keelynet.com/interact/Arc_7_98-12_98/00 001970.htm In which I would like to draw your attention to the following passage :
"There are some mailing list dedicated to this:
[Note you HAVE **NOT** BEEN ADDED TO ANY LIST's, these are
just what the original messages said when I subscribed to
these lists!]
{Also note that once you get on Charles Cosimano's list, it
is litterly impossible to get off. The unsubscribe command
does not work, and the moderator has not been heard from for
years to do it manually. So if you post all you get is
nasty complaints from the people who can't get off the
list.}
"
Please note the key points -- 1. weirdo freakazoid mailing list, 2. seems impossible to get off, you can hear the wails of the damnned.
Know the email of any enemies that would deserve such abuse?
Further research could probably turn up other moribund/rogue mailing lists that may be more appropriate for other marks.
THIS IS INFORMATION IS INTENDED SOLELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES!!!
Under U.S. postal law, if you recieve unsolicited merchandise, you can keep it. ;-)
I thought UNIX was intended to play Space Wars?!!!
But I agree that it's a great shortcoming of all GUI-based systems that they don't have a good scripting mechanism thoroughly integrated. You should be able to write a script to do anything that you have authority to do.
One "advantage" Windows has over UNIX is that having the GUI built into the kernel drasticlly imporves performance over the client/server architecture used for X. Of course, that also means a poorly written video card driver or game can crash your whole system. It appears that the only people to get the right balance of performace/stability are the QNX photon developers.
It's not like they do that damn much!
I know I'm kinda late to this party, the 90's are well over now, but come on people!! Haven't you seen the movie "Brewster's Millions"?!!!
I could throw wads of $100 bills out the window to homeless people and I couldn't squander 1% of that much money if I did it 24x7x365 for the last ten years! (And I'd die of exhaustion before that because I never slept!)
Stories like this just reek of creative accounting! MAYBE ADVERTISING ISN"T REALLY WORTH WHAT THEY"RE CHARGING YOU FOR IT, PEOPLE! The only way this makes sense is if that $725 million is internet monopoly money, and not good, honest U.S. greenbacks.
$80 million.
$80, 000, 000 !
1. I could see $1e6/yr for staff (ok, so they're probably terribly overstaffed!)
2. Toss in another $1,000,000/yr for facilites.
3. x (what, like, ) 7 years.
4. = $66 million PROFIT!
If these guys actually burned through $80, 000, 000 , they're doing something wrong! (of course there was a lot of that going around in the 90's!)
I don't even know what I'm doing, and I'm confident I could put together the equivalent for much less than that. The only difficulty would be getting the "A list" talent, and I'm not so sure that what they have is really that special.
My answer to this : Buy Nothing Day.
"See? I didn't take advantage of commonly available price information to make an informed decision!"
I haven't seen the article yet (slashdotted, natch), so cut me some slack.
But they could use an emergancy parachute system in case of failure.
I don't feel that an academic body like the ACM should have anything to do with research that undermines our fair use rights !
They're one slippery slope away from throwing intellectual freedom out the window.
WAY TO GO, ACM!
The dining Austrailian philosopher's problem : seven software developers at a table and only one bottle opener!
Enough with the "Skynet" and "Deep Thought" references!
Be true to your geek nature! What about "GOLEM or HONEST ANNIE"?!
What do you mean "evolved", there sunshine?
Some people see the truth, but they usually blame it on the drugs. In actuality, the drugs are opening the doors of perception, allowing the real world to be seen.
Monsanto -- making things "Greener than You Think"
(HINT: Moderators, if you're not familiar with the book in question, DO NOT MODERATE!)