As we stand right now, all it would take is one rock the size of Texas and the human race would cease to exist. Doesn't that scare anyone else? It seems like getting off this wet, dirty, bumpy rock should be an evolutionary imperative.
And hell yes, sign me up. What more could I hope to accomplish with my life than to be one of the first humans to call another planet home?
Unfortunately, spammers are not in the business of selling things to consumers. They are in the business of selling advertising space to other companies. As long as they can convince unscrupulous business owners that advertising via spam is worthwhile, the spam will continue.
Am I the ONLY person on earth who still plays BZFlag on a regular basis? I certainly hope not, as I don't like the idea that all the other players on a server are just figments of my imagination. I doubt they'd much care for it, either.
Psychologists answer to Biologists Biologists answer to Chemists Chemists answer to Physicists Physicists answer to Mathemeticians Mathemeticians answer to Philosophers (albeit poorly) Philosophers answer to Psychologists...
>This is a frightening prospect because it would allow you to make ebola "from scratch", or just from the the string of letters that represent the genome (which is so short I could write it out by hand on a stack of cocktail napkins.) We're not to that point yet but it is a scary possibility.
Think of the implications of this. If this technology became at all widespread, then a string of characters (CD, book, radio transmission, etc) would be all that's necessary for someone (terrorist, etc.) to acquire some of the deadliest things our world has ever produced.
The legislation this idea could produce is terrifying. Every possible medium of communication could be used to carry Ebola into terrorist hands, and therefore must be restricted...
It'll be interesting to see what effects this technology has in the future, if any.
try the nearest military surplus store. Every surplus store I've ever been in sells them, and most have a variety of old military cans and/or civilian knockoffs. Another thing to consider is plastic cases by Pelican. Equally bombproof, and a little more sophisticated looking, not to mention foam lined so things don't rattle. Try www.pelicancases4less.com
lol...how far we've come. Didn't google originally start out as a noun, describing the number 1X10^100, which was the inspiration for the search engine, since 1X10^100 is a whole lot? In theory at least, our ability to have a google of computers is (and always has been) limited only by manufacturing capability.
Or are we differentiating Google (capital G) from google (lowercase g)?
That's not entirely true. While there may be SPACE for them, the area doesn't have the resources to support them. An example that's too close to home for me:
Most of the state of New Mexico is almost completely devoid of people. Drive 15 minutes outside of Santa Fe, and you're in the middle of nowhere. "Yay, empty space to expand!" people say. However, Santa Fe is already too big for its environment. It's looking at a severe water shortage due to the fact that there just isn't enough water to supply the city. Drilling more wells doesn't help, because the wells aren't the bottleneck; the aquifer itself just isn't big enough to supply 80,000 people. Either we change the local hydrology (screwing those people downstream even more), or we don't build cities that the environment can't support.
Certainly, there are places that could support many more people (most of the Midwest, for example), but it's not true that all unoccupied space is capable of supporting human habitation.
we can use the same frequencies (we often work in the 155-mHz band,like the police). Problem is, when you're in a deep valley, those frequencies don't work worth squat. The only thing you can do is hope to hit a mountaintop repeater, and those are ham only.
As a strike team leader for a mountain search and rescue team, I'll tell you that without HAM radio, our job would be just plain impossible in many situations. There simply is no other option currently in existence. HAM radio is not only a hobby, but in my line of work it's a critical life-support resource, more so than any other technology we use (except maybe a flashlight). Tell the thousands of people whose lives have been saved through S&R or any of the other emergency situations that depend on HAM capabilities that it's not really a necessity.
On Debian at least. apt-get is handy in that it'll help sort out the layers of dependencies, but it's a pain in the rear when something useful declares itself as being dependent on some obscure (or worse, completely nonexistant) library, and it refuses to do a damned thing unless I find it.
Uhh...Norway? Japan? While the US may have the largest total right now (they didn't in 1999 or 2000), figure it out in terms of spending per capita, and the US isn't so hot.
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/US Ai d.asp?so=d2k#oda
There are still a lot of people that depend on broadcast TV for their main form of information input. In addition to the places in the middle of nowhere that have absolutely no chance of ever getting cable, there are those places where cable just isn't necessary.
In my home, we don't have cable, a) because we don't need it and b) it's not available. All that we use the TV for is watching the evening news on the local CBS station, and watching concerts/documentaries/etc. on PBS. I might watch an episode of Star Trek or something on Fox. I know that a lot of people in my area do the same. If they cut off broadcast TV, we'd be fairly well screwed, because cable just isn't available, and our local selection of radio stations isn't any good. I suppose we could get satellite or something, but that's more cost and hassle than most people want to deal with.
I had the IP rights on this years ago, except that I didn't use an INDUSTRIAL crusher, and I based mine on computer failures instead of time.
After my comp crashed 100 times during paper-writing week, I took it out to my garage and smashed it with a sledgehammer. Much more efficient, and more gratifying.
I am an avid user of both my Palm and my TI-86. However, I did not learn geometry, trig, or even calculus on either; I learned basic math with the same Euclidean rules that have stood for millenia.
I remember back in high school. One time out of curiousity I asked my (I think it was Algebra II) teacher if he could teach me how to find square roots without a calculator. He didn't know offhand, and so I went to EVERY MATHEMATICS TEACHER and NONE of them knew how to do it. I finally found one person who knew how: the ancient librarian. She taught me, and I'm grateful.
Calculators are a tremendous help for solving things faster and more accurately. But if you don't understand what the calculator's doing, what good does it do you when you have to modify it a bit to fit a given situation?
What kind of an "educational" system is this where so many people are utterly incapable of standing on their own two feet without the support of calculators?
This is a really disturbing trend in math, and education in general. And it's only getting worse thus far.
-eosha
When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
We're in the midst of a marathon session of the entire Evangelion series, including all the eps and movies. Hopefully enough of my brain will remain to be able to celebrate the coming of 2002.
Slashdot Mirror
As we stand right now, all it would take is one rock the size of Texas and the human race would cease to exist. Doesn't that scare anyone else? It seems like getting off this wet, dirty, bumpy rock should be an evolutionary imperative.
And hell yes, sign me up. What more could I hope to accomplish with my life than to be one of the first humans to call another planet home?
Unfortunately, spammers are not in the business of selling things to consumers. They are in the business of selling advertising space to other companies. As long as they can convince unscrupulous business owners that advertising via spam is worthwhile, the spam will continue.
I don't know about the latin, but lego (lambda epsilon gamma omega) is Greek for "I say (that)"
Yes. It's called a minivan.
Am I the ONLY person on earth who still plays BZFlag on a regular basis? I certainly hope not, as I don't like the idea that all the other players on a server are just figments of my imagination. I doubt they'd much care for it, either.
Psychologists answer to Biologists
Biologists answer to Chemists
Chemists answer to Physicists
Physicists answer to Mathemeticians
Mathemeticians answer to Philosophers (albeit poorly)
Philosophers answer to Psychologists...
Here's the torrent:
u x-9.2-DOWNLOAD-3CD.torrent
:-)
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/download/MandrakeLin
Make with the downloading...I'm only getting 160k/sec so far
>This is a frightening prospect because it would allow you to make ebola "from scratch", or just from the the string of letters that represent the genome (which is so short I could write it out by hand on a stack of cocktail napkins.) We're not to that point yet but it is a scary possibility.
Think of the implications of this. If this technology became at all widespread, then a string of characters (CD, book, radio transmission, etc) would be all that's necessary for someone (terrorist, etc.) to acquire some of the deadliest things our world has ever produced.
The legislation this idea could produce is terrifying. Every possible medium of communication could be used to carry Ebola into terrorist hands, and therefore must be restricted...
It'll be interesting to see what effects this technology has in the future, if any.
try the nearest military surplus store. Every surplus store I've ever been in sells them, and most have a variety of old military cans and/or civilian knockoffs. Another thing to consider is plastic cases by Pelican. Equally bombproof, and a little more sophisticated looking, not to mention foam lined so things don't rattle. Try www.pelicancases4less.com
lol...how far we've come. Didn't google originally start out as a noun, describing the number 1X10^100, which was the inspiration for the search engine, since 1X10^100 is a whole lot? In theory at least, our ability to have a google of computers is (and always has been) limited only by manufacturing capability.
Or are we differentiating Google (capital G) from google (lowercase g)?
That's not entirely true. While there may be SPACE for them, the area doesn't have the resources to support them. An example that's too close to home for me:
Most of the state of New Mexico is almost completely devoid of people. Drive 15 minutes outside of Santa Fe, and you're in the middle of nowhere. "Yay, empty space to expand!" people say. However, Santa Fe is already too big for its environment. It's looking at a severe water shortage due to the fact that there just isn't enough water to supply the city. Drilling more wells doesn't help, because the wells aren't the bottleneck; the aquifer itself just isn't big enough to supply 80,000 people. Either we change the local hydrology (screwing those people downstream even more), or we don't build cities that the environment can't support.
Certainly, there are places that could support many more people (most of the Midwest, for example), but it's not true that all unoccupied space is capable of supporting human habitation.
I'll shut up now.
3 lava lamps and steady female companionship...
we can use the same frequencies (we often work in the 155-mHz band,like the police). Problem is, when you're in a deep valley, those frequencies don't work worth squat. The only thing you can do is hope to hit a mountaintop repeater, and those are ham only.
"It's more of a hobby than a necessity"
As a strike team leader for a mountain search and rescue team, I'll tell you that without HAM radio, our job would be just plain impossible in many situations. There simply is no other option currently in existence. HAM radio is not only a hobby, but in my line of work it's a critical life-support resource, more so than any other technology we use (except maybe a flashlight). Tell the thousands of people whose lives have been saved through S&R or any of the other emergency situations that depend on HAM capabilities that it's not really a necessity.
KD5SMV
On Debian at least. apt-get is handy in that it'll help sort out the layers of dependencies, but it's a pain in the rear when something useful declares itself as being dependent on some obscure (or worse, completely nonexistant) library, and it refuses to do a damned thing unless I find it.
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IANASH - I Am Not A Super Hero
Well crap...just this morning I updated to 2.4. Now I can't feel all cool anymore.
Uhh...Norway? Japan? While the US may have the largest total right now (they didn't in 1999 or 2000), figure it out in terms of spending per capita, and the US isn't so hot.
S Ai d.asp?so=d2k#oda
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/U
Are we allowed to slashdot a government server? Does the fact that I'm a slashdot user make me a cyberterrorist? Should I go hide in my bunker yet?
*whimper*
There are still a lot of people that depend on broadcast TV for their main form of information input. In addition to the places in the middle of nowhere that have absolutely no chance of ever getting cable, there are those places where cable just isn't necessary.
In my home, we don't have cable, a) because we don't need it and b) it's not available. All that we use the TV for is watching the evening news on the local CBS station, and watching concerts/documentaries/etc. on PBS. I might watch an episode of Star Trek or something on Fox. I know that a lot of people in my area do the same. If they cut off broadcast TV, we'd be fairly well screwed, because cable just isn't available, and our local selection of radio stations isn't any good. I suppose we could get satellite or something, but that's more cost and hassle than most people want to deal with.
Geekroom, huh? Depends where you look. In my office, I've got 3 desktops and 4 monitors. A laser printer, filing cabinets, etc.
In my workshop? Probably 4 desktops worth of various components. None currently assembled.
In my truck? Multiband HAM radio w/ data and GPS capability. Homebrew mp3 jukebox.
And in my pants? Pager, cell phone, LED flashlight, Handspring Visor (w/ wireless net, of course), and of course, a Leatherman.
I had the IP rights on this years ago, except that I didn't use an INDUSTRIAL crusher, and I based mine on computer failures instead of time.
After my comp crashed 100 times during paper-writing week, I took it out to my garage and smashed it with a sledgehammer. Much more efficient, and more gratifying.
yet another way to attach "fine print" to software...
I am an avid user of both my Palm and my TI-86. However, I did not learn geometry, trig, or even calculus on either; I learned basic math with the same Euclidean rules that have stood for millenia.
I remember back in high school. One time out of curiousity I asked my (I think it was Algebra II) teacher if he could teach me how to find square roots without a calculator. He didn't know offhand, and so I went to EVERY MATHEMATICS TEACHER and NONE of them knew how to do it. I finally found one person who knew how: the ancient librarian. She taught me, and I'm grateful.
Calculators are a tremendous help for solving things faster and more accurately. But if you don't understand what the calculator's doing, what good does it do you when you have to modify it a bit to fit a given situation?
What kind of an "educational" system is this where so many people are utterly incapable of standing on their own two feet without the support of calculators?
This is a really disturbing trend in math, and education in general. And it's only getting worse thus far.
-eosha
When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
We're in the midst of a marathon session of the entire Evangelion series, including all the eps and movies. Hopefully enough of my brain will remain to be able to celebrate the coming of 2002.
Unless I'm severely mistaken, small-scale piles like this have been around since the 50s...I don't know...