Now the way I read that I'm saying just the opposite that you have interpreted it to be. Rather I think it is less legitimate to revive species killed off by less evolved humans. I do feel that humans in their current state do have many "unfair" advantages over less evolved species, I am not one to beleve in creationism and I definately think that humans are simply highly evolved animals, but due to our advantages that were carelessly used to wipe entire species from the face of the planet, we should feel somewhat responsible (we are responsible, directly so) and try to correct the mistakes our forefathers have made. The earth is only made richer by the preservation of species, and there is no possible argument to the contrary.
When you consider the facts, it would be far more profitable for the average person to cultivate alfalfa to sell as hay, considering the minute amount of gold available in the plant matter, and the fact that a single bale of quality alfalfa hay can sell for 7-10 dollars, it quickly becomes appearant that there is better money in the hay. However the application in computer science is valuable beyond all actual value of the gold. On that note, I wonder exactly how much this should really reduce costs in producing such small particles of gold.
I thought I had seen this before, but last time tasmainian tigers were the target species. The difference in my opinion is that the tasmainian tigers demise was a direct result of (pay close attention here) modern human activity, the mammoth was a similar situation, but the extinction of the mammoth was caused by prehistoric humans. Point being is that the methods used to hunt the tigers included rifles, shotguns, snares, dead-falls, etc. The only known method of hunting the mammoth was spears, this fact combined with the lack of habitat for this species really brings into question as to whether or not this is a good idea that should be done. In the case of the tiger I say go for it, but for crying out loud, leave the damn mammoth be.
You know, you have forgotten one very important rule of an urban legend, Make sure there is no possible correlating evidence to be had, so there if there is any doubt it will always remain doubt. In this case however I see several possibilities of where such evidence could be had, 1. The original specs for the I.R.A. module, 2. NASA Records of said module, 3. machine shop records of creating said module. 4. look at the design of the space craft and see if what he has described even fits within the design parameters. Having said that, I feel that this is possible, although a bit of incredulity is inherent in any story of this nature.
So, they're trying to say that since he came up with the idea for this software after he had signed the agreement (even though he never worked on it, wrote anything down) that they own the idea?? Well, although this is most likely going to be a serious pain in the ass for this guy, he shouldn't really have a giant problem winning. One of my good freinds is a lawyer and he has said to me before "did you do this? What documentation of that do you have? No documentation? Then it's obvious you really did'nt do anything" and that is (from what I understand after all IANAL) the court's point of view usually too.
I think you missed something or I mis-read this line from the article "Individuals will be able to purchase n-Series Precision workstations, but not Optiplex PCs, via Dell's Web site. " Now if I understand that, Dell is just restricting the Optiplex PCs, not the Precision workstations.
Microsoft can do pretty much whatever they want and most people and company's just don't really care all that much, however this last move was a bit too far and most definately an example of anti-competitiveness rather than the anti-piracy measure they would have you beleve it to be. However not being able to buy a PC without an OS is not a concern for the mass majority of people. Now, we're all/.'s and we definately care a great deal about this, mostly just because we're all nerds and geeks who like to install an OS for the fun of it, but another perfectly valid reason for our caring (and in my opinion more important) is the fact that it seems Microsoft is trying to be a bully agian and we are all just really, really tired of that position from MS, as a matter of a fact if they started to act decent I might actually have a few good things to say about them.
I'm sure they will think through these thing very carefully and make it as safe as possible to all concerned, however there are unknown factors... In the case of a world war this would be a very likely tatical target, as a matter of a fact terrorists right now would likely consider it a viable target. However there is a good chance that any attack on the cable would be done in the lower atmosphere, probably no more than 5 miles or so up, this leaves a minimal amount of cable to fall (since it is paper thin, and weighs very little this should'nt be a problem really) The bigger concern that I have is what effect COULD this have on Earth's orbit over the long run? The fact is we really don't know, there is tension on the cable so obviously the earth which is naturally balanced will be possibly thrown out of balance (even if it is ever-so-slight) The effects of this concern me far more than the possibility of the cable striking earth and causing damage. Another question to be answered is, how do they plan to keep it out of the way of air traffic, the moon, etc. A paper thin cable would be very hard to spot from the side, however being a meter wide it should be easy to spot from an angle or straight on. There are so many questions to be answered I would be very suprised if they had it done in fifteen years, but I hope they have a great success. Now that I'm done with concerns I'd like to move on to what good this could do, imagine being able to launch your own personal satellite! (yes I know there is WAY too much red tape for this to be a reality, but I can dream ok?) virtually any company could launch purpose built satellites for whatever purpose, how about a vacation to the moon or mars? This would actually make that somewhat feasable! I'm sure that these boys will be jumping hurdle after hurdle to get where they need to be, but I don't doubt that they will get there, it's just a question of when and at what cost.
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If advances are made in superconducting materials then it may be possible... however you are correct that copper is a poor idea.
Ahhh it seems like only yesterday I was sooo impressed by mario, blocky graphics and plain colors with no frills really. Then I was impressed by doom, 3-d, awesome action, multi-player, toystory-animated movie? WOW! Final Fantasy-Good animated movie! double WOW! Now what next? The way things advance today it really is getting hard to tell real world film scenes from CG stuff, I just watched lord of the rings and it really is hard to tell real from CG, now with the hardware getting cheaper and software becoming more advanced what was only a fantastic dream in the 80's, a big movie corp with render farm only dream in the 90's is now becoming possible for the home user. Don't know about you, but I'm still impressed, and I can't wait to see what is just over the horizon.
From the interview "Dave Arneson is the father of role-playing, no really; it says so on his business card."
Now that is a true honor, imagine how this guy feels, I mean he literally spawned a whole class of games and set the standard by which all other rpg's are judged (or at least the standard by which they were judged for quite some time) I want one of those business cards, it'd go into my collection of useless-but-neat-none-the-less stuff.
Well they have demonstrated it, so it may be somewhat more feasable than teleporters and dyson spheres, however they do have quite a few hurdles to jump before this is pratical. But just a thought, if this was adapted from politician to normal folk interpreting a one hour speech could be compressed to less then 10 seconds, something like the following: Hello and thank you for coming, I have virtually nothing useful to say, however I would like to point out that you do like me and I have the best ideas. We're going to do alot of things that really don't matter, then try to restrict your freedoms a little more, and, trust us, this really is for your own good. Please vote _______ in the coming election and have a wonderful day.
I really hate to see people importing forgein plants and animal species into this country without really stopping to think as to what the consequences could be. These worms not only have the potential to wipe out certain bi-valves. The article seems to imply that they really don't know what damage they could do. A bit of research would be a great idea. Anything that can survive on the dash of a hot car for 3 days is a serious ecological threat. However the northern states have little to worry about, since the worms can't live under 68 degrees there is little chance of a problem occuring there, however florida in particluar could have some SERIOUS problems, since these breed in mangroves (florida has plenty) and florida does'nt really get cold enough to kill them off, there is a great likely-hood of these gaining a foot-hold there. Like I said, bad idea, really bad idea.
Check out this rare yellow beauty, complete with call AT&T for service sticker, 1-800-222-3111. I wonder, This looks to be a leased phone, if you lease a home you can't sell it, so it stands to reason that you can't legally sell a leased phone, No?
That you can buy your fill of rotary phones for 5 to 10 dollars US, that means that they were able to actually charge MANY times more per month than the damn things were actually worth.
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Now the way I read that I'm saying just the opposite that you have interpreted it to be. Rather I think it is less legitimate to revive species killed off by less evolved humans. I do feel that humans in their current state do have many "unfair" advantages over less evolved species, I am not one to beleve in creationism and I definately think that humans are simply highly evolved animals, but due to our advantages that were carelessly used to wipe entire species from the face of the planet, we should feel somewhat responsible (we are responsible, directly so) and try to correct the mistakes our forefathers have made. The earth is only made richer by the preservation of species, and there is no possible argument to the contrary.
When you consider the facts, it would be far more profitable for the average person to cultivate alfalfa to sell as hay, considering the minute amount of gold available in the plant matter, and the fact that a single bale of quality alfalfa hay can sell for 7-10 dollars, it quickly becomes appearant that there is better money in the hay. However the application in computer science is valuable beyond all actual value of the gold. On that note, I wonder exactly how much this should really reduce costs in producing such small particles of gold.
I thought I had seen this before, but last time tasmainian tigers were the target species. The difference in my opinion is that the tasmainian tigers demise was a direct result of (pay close attention here) modern human activity, the mammoth was a similar situation, but the extinction of the mammoth was caused by prehistoric humans. Point being is that the methods used to hunt the tigers included rifles, shotguns, snares, dead-falls, etc. The only known method of hunting the mammoth was spears, this fact combined with the lack of habitat for this species really brings into question as to whether or not this is a good idea that should be done. In the case of the tiger I say go for it, but for crying out loud, leave the damn mammoth be.
In defense of /.'s search function I will say that you must either have:
A: Not used the proper critera to search by
or (and I prefer this answer)
B: Did'nt try very hard
either way the link you were referring to is right here
However you were exactly right on the sum.....
and you can sue the fast food company, that's already been done.
and even then watch wtf you put over the line.
Now where did I put that?
Don't use it for anything that should be even remotely secure.... or encrypt the data, but I like the first answer better.....
You know, you have forgotten one very important rule of an urban legend, Make sure there is no possible correlating evidence to be had, so there if there is any doubt it will always remain doubt. In this case however I see several possibilities of where such evidence could be had, 1. The original specs for the I.R.A. module, 2. NASA Records of said module, 3. machine shop records of creating said module. 4. look at the design of the space craft and see if what he has described even fits within the design parameters. Having said that, I feel that this is possible, although a bit of incredulity is inherent in any story of this nature.
Note that he WILL need a lawyer to win.
So, they're trying to say that since he came up with the idea for this software after he had signed the agreement (even though he never worked on it, wrote anything down) that they own the idea?? Well, although this is most likely going to be a serious pain in the ass for this guy, he shouldn't really have a giant problem winning. One of my good freinds is a lawyer and he has said to me before "did you do this? What documentation of that do you have? No documentation? Then it's obvious you really did'nt do anything" and that is (from what I understand after all IANAL) the court's point of view usually too.
I think you missed something or I mis-read this line from the article "Individuals will be able to purchase n-Series Precision workstations, but not Optiplex PCs, via Dell's Web site. " Now if I understand that, Dell is just restricting the Optiplex PCs, not the Precision workstations.
Microsoft can do pretty much whatever they want and most people and company's just don't really care all that much, however this last move was a bit too far and most definately an example of anti-competitiveness rather than the anti-piracy measure they would have you beleve it to be. However not being able to buy a PC without an OS is not a concern for the mass majority of people. Now, we're all /.'s and we definately care a great deal about this, mostly just because we're all nerds and geeks who like to install an OS for the fun of it, but another perfectly valid reason for our caring (and in my opinion more important) is the fact that it seems Microsoft is trying to be a bully agian and we are all just really, really tired of that position from MS, as a matter of a fact if they started to act decent I might actually have a few good things to say about them.
I'm sure they will think through these thing very carefully and make it as safe as possible to all concerned, however there are unknown factors... In the case of a world war this would be a very likely tatical target, as a matter of a fact terrorists right now would likely consider it a viable target. However there is a good chance that any attack on the cable would be done in the lower atmosphere, probably no more than 5 miles or so up, this leaves a minimal amount of cable to fall (since it is paper thin, and weighs very little this should'nt be a problem really) The bigger concern that I have is what effect COULD this have on Earth's orbit over the long run? The fact is we really don't know, there is tension on the cable so obviously the earth which is naturally balanced will be possibly thrown out of balance (even if it is ever-so-slight) The effects of this concern me far more than the possibility of the cable striking earth and causing damage. Another question to be answered is, how do they plan to keep it out of the way of air traffic, the moon, etc. A paper thin cable would be very hard to spot from the side, however being a meter wide it should be easy to spot from an angle or straight on. There are so many questions to be answered I would be very suprised if they had it done in fifteen years, but I hope they have a great success. Now that I'm done with concerns I'd like to move on to what good this could do, imagine being able to launch your own personal satellite! (yes I know there is WAY too much red tape for this to be a reality, but I can dream ok?) virtually any company could launch purpose built satellites for whatever purpose, how about a vacation to the moon or mars? This would actually make that somewhat feasable! I'm sure that these boys will be jumping hurdle after hurdle to get where they need to be, but I don't doubt that they will get there, it's just a question of when and at what cost.
If advances are made in superconducting materials then it may be possible... however you are correct that copper is a poor idea.
is that to say Rob is a "Cereal Killer?" (sorry, but the reference was way too easy...)
Ahhh it seems like only yesterday I was sooo impressed by mario, blocky graphics and plain colors with no frills really. Then I was impressed by doom, 3-d, awesome action, multi-player, toystory-animated movie? WOW! Final Fantasy-Good animated movie! double WOW! Now what next? The way things advance today it really is getting hard to tell real world film scenes from CG stuff, I just watched lord of the rings and it really is hard to tell real from CG, now with the hardware getting cheaper and software becoming more advanced what was only a fantastic dream in the 80's, a big movie corp with render farm only dream in the 90's is now becoming possible for the home user. Don't know about you, but I'm still impressed, and I can't wait to see what is just over the horizon.
From the interview "Dave Arneson is the father of role-playing, no really; it says so on his business card."
Now that is a true honor, imagine how this guy feels, I mean he literally spawned a whole class of games and set the standard by which all other rpg's are judged (or at least the standard by which they were judged for quite some time) I want one of those business cards, it'd go into my collection of useless-but-neat-none-the-less stuff.
Well they have demonstrated it, so it may be somewhat more feasable than teleporters and dyson spheres, however they do have quite a few hurdles to jump before this is pratical. But just a thought, if this was adapted from politician to normal folk interpreting a one hour speech could be compressed to less then 10 seconds, something like the following:
Hello and thank you for coming, I have virtually nothing useful to say, however I would like to point out that you do like me and I have the best ideas. We're going to do alot of things that really don't matter, then try to restrict your freedoms a little more, and, trust us, this really is for your own good. Please vote _______ in the coming election and have a wonderful day.
I really hate to see people importing forgein plants and animal species into this country without really stopping to think as to what the consequences could be. These worms not only have the potential to wipe out certain bi-valves. The article seems to imply that they really don't know what damage they could do. A bit of research would be a great idea. Anything that can survive on the dash of a hot car for 3 days is a serious ecological threat. However the northern states have little to worry about, since the worms can't live under 68 degrees there is little chance of a problem occuring there, however florida in particluar could have some SERIOUS problems, since these breed in mangroves (florida has plenty) and florida does'nt really get cold enough to kill them off, there is a great likely-hood of these gaining a foot-hold there. Like I said, bad idea, really bad idea.
How about 25 bux?
Check out this rare yellow beauty, complete with call AT&T for service sticker, 1-800-222-3111. I wonder, This looks to be a leased phone, if you lease a home you can't sell it, so it stands to reason that you can't legally sell a leased phone, No?
Hmmm, "manaing", I think the proper spelling should be mangling as in
"How about mangling hundreds of lines in a hunt chain"
Freudian slip? I think so.
That you can buy your fill of rotary phones for 5 to 10 dollars US, that means that they were able to actually charge MANY times more per month than the damn things were actually worth.
Whooaaa cowboy, slow down, don't phreak out on us. lol ;)
If you tell them you lost it, there is a *good* chance that you would actually owe them the 240 or so dollars it would be valued at in their minds.