Well, I can't really think of any buzzwords that haven't already been said. I don't work in that kind of environment any more (thank god:)) I do find it funny when people try and sound S.M.R.T. by using big words. It works for some, but it's downright silly for others. Words like extrapolate, interdependance, eccentricity, or pedantic. Extrapolate is the big one though, I've heard that a lot and I just think it's funny. It's a good word, really, but anymore it seems to only by used by people who want to sound intelligent.
I have to say that I agree with you, I think it's important to continue space exploration at all costs. I doubt we'll live to see the discovery of alien life form or interplanetary travel, but that doesn't mean there aren't quite a few reasons to keep humans in space if not other "objects".
For one, how many technological advances have been created from our desire to reach into space? How many products have reached the basic consumer market because people at NASA (or wherever) thought them up.
Second, there are too many unknowns. Money aside, there are many reasons to continue space exploration (including the space station) and almost no reasons to stop it.
Third, we have no need to stop exploration. When the gov. runs out of money then maybe I'll concede, but for now, we're all fine and there's no need to stop the programs. If it's not broken, then don't fix it.
So, I don't feel that the Shuttle accident should have any negative impact on any countries space programs. Astronauts know the risk they take, and certainly they understand far better then me how insanely difficult it is to fly into space and back. Frankly, I'm amazed we can do it at all, but hell, the internal combustion engine boggles me sometimes.
I feel that in this situation, it's better to learn from the mistakes that were made instead of refusing to take any more risks.
Ok, so perhaps our government has made mistakes...and grevious ones at that. I don't know the reasons for all of our attacks and I'm sure that there are soem I heavily disagree with. A simple fact remains, however, we have been attacked...no, let me back up, the world has been attacked, on many occasions, and on September 11th, by some organization. There are groups of people out there that want to see America, Europe, and possible any non-islamic country either dead or converted, and are apparently willing to sacrifice their lives for it.
I don't like violence, and I don't like rash actions, but like the recent Prime Minister of Isreal said, if we don't do something now, do we want to wait until until these groups have the ability to do exactly what they want...to kill us all?
Maybe we're ignorant, and maybe we're hypocticial because we've only chosen to act now, but the fact remains that something has to be done. I don't know what the best thing for us to do is, but I do know that it has little or nothing to do with just sitting back and waiting for our, and the free worlds, destruction.
Please, I'm not trying to be militaristic, or disrespectful of human life, regardless of it's nationality, but there are ways that an organization such as Al Queda can kill millions and millions of people, and I don't think that rethinking our foreign policy is going to stop that.
I think that the cost/benefit ratio is too low to make it worth the trouble. In addition, I generally feel that the less the government has control, the better. I'm sorry, but developing, and mass distributing, the technology to "detect" (I couldn't think of a better word) a person's presence is too much for me to let slide.
I am for safety, but not if my privacy's at stake. I mean, many people have a hard enough time using a credit card because they don't want their transactions logged; I see this as being far worse.
I watched (and taped) the Scifi Dune, then watched the original Dune (The Directors Cut) and spent that weekend reading the book. It's amazing how different the two movies were, in my opinion.
For instance, the first film has better acting, character portrayel, casting, special effects, and better stillsuits.
The new scifi film was FAR closer to the story line, and yes, Chani was way hotter, but many of the characters were very unlike those in the books...except for LETO, I liked him. Plus the stillsuits were laim. Of course the effects were worse, but I can accept that considering the budget.
The Sciffi version had an "anti-climactic" ending in my opinion, but than again, so did the book, sort of. The old Dune was good in the end, but it involved Pauls newfound telekenetic powers that somehow came from no where.
What worms did you guys like better? I kind of liked the teeth from the sciffi version, especially considering that they're described that way in the book, but the orginal Dune movie had some cool looking worms. Oh yeah, when Paul rode the worm for the first time in the sciffi version, was he using a jump rope? Anyone remember that:)
Don't flame me. I'm very excited for the part two to come out. I think in some ways it will be a better movie, but it will be very difficult to develop the characters of Leto II and his sister. I'm curious to see how they do that.
I don't know how many times I've spent hours (on my connection) trying to find a tolkien image, or a cool desktop theme. I am pleased that once again Google has stepped up to the plate and beat the competition. I'm interested to see where else the net takes us as these "dotcommers" fall away and truly intuitive people keep the industry fun.
There are some "For Sale By Owner" sites that I can't think of right off hand (I'm at work), but those worked really well for me. There are a few problems with those, though such as:
A) unless you have really good credit, or are capable of a hefty down payment, you're fairly limited.
B) A lot of the homes don't have pictures, which is really annoying, and
C) You're removed from the possibility of getting a HUD or FHA home.
I'm currently looking for a house as well. I don't know what you're markets like, but I'm being told by several people to be patient and try for a HUD home so that I can get a really good deal. There are so many homes being traded right now that it seems ideal for purchasing one. Not to mention the low interest rate, and the VERY expensive rent on apartments.
All in all, I think that the Online part of home buying will become more prominent, but it will take some modifications in the home buying process to help steamline the "parouse to Purchase" process. All of the realtors use the computer to look up homes, we just need to find a way to grab their benefits without their cost.
Can the police use recorded conversations as evidence? I know that they are used all the time in movies, but I seem to recall that unless they have consent, they cannot tap phone lines.
I'm not trying to be naive, I know that the FBI (I mean England) probably has tons of phones tapped, but they don't care about the local brothel, crackhouse, whatever. I'm just curious if tapping pay phone lines is something that your local police even waste their time on.
I have some questions on the subject of cloning and cell reproduction that I'm hoping some of you can shed some light on:
1) In short, how far have we really come in the cloning process? I know that we have come very far, but in relation to how far we have to go to actually clone something, and do so consistently. I can think of Absolute zero and (Hot Fusion?) where we can "DO IT", or get real close, but we're still a long way off from it being useful or feasible.
2) Living matter versus inanimate objects. I know it doesn't seem to make sense, but if we can alter DNA and cell structure, what is the distance we need to go before we can actually alter the molecular structure of inanimate objects. (Lead into Gold)
3) What do I, as a person, have to fear, or admire, about cloning. I know there is a "mass hysteria" over around the subject, but that doesn't mean much to me.
I've been trying to keep up with events, but alas, there's too much info to follow. I could have a fool time job just reading everything I get in the mail. What sucks is that it's all good information too.
Along with the acid rain idea, I think that wherever this "Pillar of Vanity" is being placed, the geography is also an issue. Whether near a volcano, along the coast, or near a volcano on the coast! What we should do is build tombstones out of the stuff those little black boxes in planes are made out of. Those things never fail!
Besides, aren't we going to be cloned anyway, or is there a patent on that?
This does bring up an interesting question, and one I'm glad made it to the Slashdot Board. Most people tend to think long term in the sense of 50 or 100 years, even our houses are only engineered to last a little over a lifetime. I'd be very curious to see the long term affects of certain polymers. Certain engineered plastics can be very high performers in all areas, including price. Though I'm not aware of all the spec data, you can do that if you want, here's a few polymers I was able to dig up:
GE Has created a few Super-Performing resinse that I've read about before, but can't get access into their site without registering...God I hate that!
Well, I'm not finding many right now, but I know that I've seen quite a few different plastics that have proven to be tremendous performers; but for 10,000 years, I can't say. But I'm almost sure it wouldn't be too difficult to find some closed cell, non-corrosive polymer, or maybe a polymer/metal blend, or a coating over concrete/stone...Hey, you know what, there may be niche for a business here? Either way, now that I think about it, a Good quality Stone or blend of some kind, dipped into an amorphous resin such as acrylic, might do very well in the aging process; but it'd require one hell of a creep test!
All of the stations where I work have Bimbo's 2000, and, well, lets just say new isn't always better, just like the boss isn't always right! I'm glad there's light at the end of the tunnel!
What alternatives will there be? If the big companies get a hold of this, they'll have us all (excuse me) by the nuts!
I just found out about the bill, and from what I know, it's very very scary. There is a reason that so many big companies are opposed to it. I like the freedom that we have now with software, code, and technology. Software is a tricky thing, it's information, and inforation, I admint, is hard to define, let alone control. But I can think of so many negative repurcussions to UCITA. I'm ashamed it's even been allowed anywhere.
Regardless of who does it, they've certainly got something that I don't; or I've got something they don't. Either way, they can have their fun...I guess.
Now that I think about it though, we could start doing lots of cool things from that height; imagine how far a man could hanglide from up there??
"My life should be accompanied my a musical score"
I heard a speaker say the other day that "if it isn't made out of polymers today, someday it will be" and I find this to be very true.
While polymers are often hard to work with, we are gaining a lot of knowledge on the workability of the molecular structure of polymers and synthetics. Therefore, this expands our possibilites. The size of polymer molecules are enourmous when compared to those of others, in fact, polymer molecules are the largest known to man.
Example: A Mole is a collection of 600,000 billion billion molecules. In Salt, this comes to about 18 grams. In Polyetheylene, however, (used for milk jugs, etc,...) a "mole" of molecules can weigh up to...Damn, I can't remember, and I can't find it either, I believe it's several tons, anybody know? It's far, far more, and that's the point I'm trying to make.
Anyway, I'm getting offtopic. Due to the workability of polymers, it only makes sense to use them in every way possible. Their inherent size gives us many options.
I am surprised the number of users has jumped up that much, but I think I can understand why. Simplicity and price. We crossed Geoffrey Moore's Chasm, and are now standing on the other side, but in reality, I think there are two (or more) "chasms." A lot of people are willing to try new things, new technologies, but there is another larger group of people who will, but are slow to, become part of the "information age".
Yeah I know that, I was being Facetious. Even with a great markup, theyre still highly overpriced. They were even under investigation a few years ago for having a monopoly. Why they were found innocent, I don't know but...whatever
If I purchase a CD, than I own the rights to it, and so what if technology permits me to copy it for my own uses. I've been burning CD's for a few years now, and I can HONESTLY say that most are for me to listen to the same songs I purchased, but in different mixes or whatever.
However, if they're so concerned about all of us "robbing them blind", why don't they give us just a little less incentive to "rape them" and DROP THEIR PRICES! I'm being serious and sarcastic at the same time. Don't try and sell me a product at a cost several dozen times what it took to make it, and then tell me not to find an alternative!
Holy Cow! I remember that dog! I used to have the toy. I had completely forgotten about that! Now that I think about it, I had the ship as well. BG was before my time, though I tried to watch the reruns when I could. All I really remember, aside from the fact that I liked it, is twinky, the robot, who always said bee-dee-bee-dee-bee-dee.
I'm excited to find this out, and I hope they don't screw it up like Hollywood screws up every great "classic". I don't mean to be negative, but, well you all know what I mean!
On a related matter, I've also been checking out the coming of the new Robotech which should be very cool as well. Anybody have any additinoal news on it?
I'm always a sucker for the flashback!
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My laste response was way off, apparently I've been freebasing or something!
Lewis met with Tolkien, Charles Williams, and a few others in a group called "The Inklings" at a pub called "the Eagle and the Child". In this group they held philisophical discussions and such.
My laste response was way off, apparently I've been freebasing or something!
Lewis met with Tolkien, Charles Williams, and a few others in a group called "The Inklings" at a pub called "the Eagle and the Child". In this group they held philisophical discussions and such.
Tolkien wrote on time travel but never published the result himself.
Actually, I didn't know that.
I knew that C.S.Lewis and Tolkien were good friends, and did challenge one another. If memory serves, there were four people, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, and somebody else (not sure), who often met and discussed things far beyond the intellect of most people.
What is the title of Tolkien's work you mentioned? Is it any good? So far I'm a big fan of nearly every book I've read of his. All in all, I enjoy C.S. Lewis better though. I mean Of course the best is the LOTR, but considering all of the books written by both, I side with Lewis. However, in Tolkiens defense, he did write some seventy five books, of which I've only read maby six, whereas I've read quite a few more C.S.Lewis books.
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Well, I can't really think of any buzzwords that haven't already been said. I don't work in that kind of environment any more (thank god:)) I do find it funny when people try and sound S.M.R.T. by using big words. It works for some, but it's downright silly for others. Words like extrapolate, interdependance, eccentricity, or pedantic. Extrapolate is the big one though, I've heard that a lot and I just think it's funny. It's a good word, really, but anymore it seems to only by used by people who want to sound intelligent.
I have to say that I agree with you, I think it's important to continue space exploration at all costs. I doubt we'll live to see the discovery of alien life form or interplanetary travel, but that doesn't mean there aren't quite a few reasons to keep humans in space if not other "objects".
For one, how many technological advances have been created from our desire to reach into space? How many products have reached the basic consumer market because people at NASA (or wherever) thought them up.
Second, there are too many unknowns. Money aside, there are many reasons to continue space exploration (including the space station) and almost no reasons to stop it.
Third, we have no need to stop exploration. When the gov. runs out of money then maybe I'll concede, but for now, we're all fine and there's no need to stop the programs. If it's not broken, then don't fix it.
So, I don't feel that the Shuttle accident should have any negative impact on any countries space programs. Astronauts know the risk they take, and certainly they understand far better then me how insanely difficult it is to fly into space and back. Frankly, I'm amazed we can do it at all, but hell, the internal combustion engine boggles me sometimes.
I feel that in this situation, it's better to learn from the mistakes that were made instead of refusing to take any more risks.
I don't like violence, and I don't like rash actions, but like the recent Prime Minister of Isreal said, if we don't do something now, do we want to wait until until these groups have the ability to do exactly what they want...to kill us all?
Maybe we're ignorant, and maybe we're hypocticial because we've only chosen to act now, but the fact remains that something has to be done. I don't know what the best thing for us to do is, but I do know that it has little or nothing to do with just sitting back and waiting for our, and the free worlds, destruction.
Please, I'm not trying to be militaristic, or disrespectful of human life, regardless of it's nationality, but there are ways that an organization such as Al Queda can kill millions and millions of people, and I don't think that rethinking our foreign policy is going to stop that.
I am for safety, but not if my privacy's at stake. I mean, many people have a hard enough time using a credit card because they don't want their transactions logged; I see this as being far worse.
For instance, the first film has better acting, character portrayel, casting, special effects, and better stillsuits.
The new scifi film was FAR closer to the story line, and yes, Chani was way hotter, but many of the characters were very unlike those in the books...except for LETO, I liked him. Plus the stillsuits were laim. Of course the effects were worse, but I can accept that considering the budget.
The Sciffi version had an "anti-climactic" ending in my opinion, but than again, so did the book, sort of. The old Dune was good in the end, but it involved Pauls newfound telekenetic powers that somehow came from no where.
What worms did you guys like better? I kind of liked the teeth from the sciffi version, especially considering that they're described that way in the book, but the orginal Dune movie had some cool looking worms. Oh yeah, when Paul rode the worm for the first time in the sciffi version, was he using a jump rope? Anyone remember that:)
Don't flame me. I'm very excited for the part two to come out. I think in some ways it will be a better movie, but it will be very difficult to develop the characters of Leto II and his sister. I'm curious to see how they do that.
I don't know how many times I've spent hours (on my connection) trying to find a tolkien image, or a cool desktop theme. I am pleased that once again Google has stepped up to the plate and beat the competition. I'm interested to see where else the net takes us as these "dotcommers" fall away and truly intuitive people keep the industry fun.
A) unless you have really good credit, or are capable of a hefty down payment, you're fairly limited.
B) A lot of the homes don't have pictures, which is really annoying, and
C) You're removed from the possibility of getting a HUD or FHA home.
I'm currently looking for a house as well. I don't know what you're markets like, but I'm being told by several people to be patient and try for a HUD home so that I can get a really good deal. There are so many homes being traded right now that it seems ideal for purchasing one. Not to mention the low interest rate, and the VERY expensive rent on apartments.
All in all, I think that the Online part of home buying will become more prominent, but it will take some modifications in the home buying process to help steamline the "parouse to Purchase" process. All of the realtors use the computer to look up homes, we just need to find a way to grab their benefits without their cost.
I'm not trying to be naive, I know that the FBI (I mean England) probably has tons of phones tapped, but they don't care about the local brothel, crackhouse, whatever. I'm just curious if tapping pay phone lines is something that your local police even waste their time on.
1) In short, how far have we really come in the cloning process? I know that we have come very far, but in relation to how far we have to go to actually clone something, and do so consistently. I can think of Absolute zero and (Hot Fusion?) where we can "DO IT", or get real close, but we're still a long way off from it being useful or feasible.
2) Living matter versus inanimate objects. I know it doesn't seem to make sense, but if we can alter DNA and cell structure, what is the distance we need to go before we can actually alter the molecular structure of inanimate objects. (Lead into Gold)
3) What do I, as a person, have to fear, or admire, about cloning. I know there is a "mass hysteria" over around the subject, but that doesn't mean much to me.
I've been trying to keep up with events, but alas, there's too much info to follow. I could have a fool time job just reading everything I get in the mail. What sucks is that it's all good information too.
Besides, aren't we going to be cloned anyway, or is there a patent on that?
Rynite, by Dupont.
GE Has created a few Super-Performing resinse that I've read about before, but can't get access into their site without registering...God I hate that!
Well, I'm not finding many right now, but I know that I've seen quite a few different plastics that have proven to be tremendous performers; but for 10,000 years, I can't say. But I'm almost sure it wouldn't be too difficult to find some closed cell, non-corrosive polymer, or maybe a polymer/metal blend, or a coating over concrete/stone...Hey, you know what, there may be niche for a business here? Either way, now that I think about it, a Good quality Stone or blend of some kind, dipped into an amorphous resin such as acrylic, might do very well in the aging process; but it'd require one hell of a creep test!
All of the stations where I work have Bimbo's 2000, and, well, lets just say new isn't always better, just like the boss isn't always right! I'm glad there's light at the end of the tunnel!
I just found out about the bill, and from what I know, it's very very scary. There is a reason that so many big companies are opposed to it. I like the freedom that we have now with software, code, and technology. Software is a tricky thing, it's information, and inforation, I admint, is hard to define, let alone control. But I can think of so many negative repurcussions to UCITA. I'm ashamed it's even been allowed anywhere.
Now that I think about it though, we could start doing lots of cool things from that height; imagine how far a man could hanglide from up there?? "My life should be accompanied my a musical score"
Hey thanks a lot, I don't feel so dumb now, and thats generally a good thing!! :)
While polymers are often hard to work with, we are gaining a lot of knowledge on the workability of the molecular structure of polymers and synthetics. Therefore, this expands our possibilites. The size of polymer molecules are enourmous when compared to those of others, in fact, polymer molecules are the largest known to man.
Example: A Mole is a collection of 600,000 billion billion molecules. In Salt, this comes to about 18 grams. In Polyetheylene, however, (used for milk jugs, etc,...) a "mole" of molecules can weigh up to...Damn, I can't remember, and I can't find it either, I believe it's several tons, anybody know? It's far, far more, and that's the point I'm trying to make.
Anyway, I'm getting offtopic. Due to the workability of polymers, it only makes sense to use them in every way possible. Their inherent size gives us many options.
I am surprised the number of users has jumped up that much, but I think I can understand why. Simplicity and price. We crossed Geoffrey Moore's Chasm, and are now standing on the other side, but in reality, I think there are two (or more) "chasms." A lot of people are willing to try new things, new technologies, but there is another larger group of people who will, but are slow to, become part of the "information age".
Yeah I know that, I was being Facetious. Even with a great markup, theyre still highly overpriced. They were even under investigation a few years ago for having a monopoly. Why they were found innocent, I don't know but...whatever
However, if they're so concerned about all of us "robbing them blind", why don't they give us just a little less incentive to "rape them" and DROP THEIR PRICES! I'm being serious and sarcastic at the same time. Don't try and sell me a product at a cost several dozen times what it took to make it, and then tell me not to find an alternative!
I remembered as soon as I wrote it. Oh well, hopefully no one else will pick it up!
I still say that to this day!
On a related matter, I've also been checking out the coming of the new Robotech which should be very cool as well. Anybody have any additinoal news on it? I'm always a sucker for the flashback!
Lewis met with Tolkien, Charles Williams, and a few others in a group called "The Inklings" at a pub called "the Eagle and the Child". In this group they held philisophical discussions and such.
Thought you'd like the truth.
Lewis met with Tolkien, Charles Williams, and a few others in a group called "The Inklings" at a pub called "the Eagle and the Child". In this group they held philisophical discussions and such.
Actually, I didn't know that.
I knew that C.S.Lewis and Tolkien were good friends, and did challenge one another. If memory serves, there were four people, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, and somebody else (not sure), who often met and discussed things far beyond the intellect of most people.
What is the title of Tolkien's work you mentioned? Is it any good? So far I'm a big fan of nearly every book I've read of his. All in all, I enjoy C.S. Lewis better though. I mean Of course the best is the LOTR, but considering all of the books written by both, I side with Lewis. However, in Tolkiens defense, he did write some seventy five books, of which I've only read maby six, whereas I've read quite a few more C.S.Lewis books.