The version that you are most likely to find of Ashokan Farewell is track 20 of the Philmont CD "The Tobascco Donkeys" and can be bought at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimerron, New Mexico.
The Hindenburg would have been fine, but it was designed to be built with Helium as its bouancy, not hydrogen. It only switched because the US had a monopoly on helium and wouldn't sell any to Germany.
By the way, for 1930's transportation, the DC-3 was definatly the way to travel. And its still in use.
this sounds really good, but with one problem. The progectile is shaped like a can which rolls around. I couldn't get the videos to work, but that sounds like the "scouts" would not be very good for rough terrain, even if the "ranger" is. Also, if they were used indoors, where they could roll much better (i think). Things like door would stop them. It seems to me the best way to use this would be so that after landing, the can unrolls to a (near) flat surface with they monitering and transmission on top (what was the inside when in flight) This way, it would be low enough to slip through door jams, (some of them anyways), and would be able go across country a little easier. I'll try to get the videos again later.
you mention these in your post. I collect them and am trying to get a (cheep) full set. I have about 80% so far. Anybody interested in trading or selling (i have quite a few dublicates) reply to this and I'll send you a list of what I have.
Now, on the subject of the cars. I think it;s a good idea but it will not work. Not because drivers will be unable to change routes, but because of (a)speed of travel. If the train is stoping every 5-30km, even if it has a top speed of 60km/h, it will still barely reach that on the longest runs before it has to slow down again. (b)the cars are small, and americans like big cars. (c)would you want to be not just staring at the next cars bumper on the way to work for and hour, but actually attached to it!?
I think public transportation is great (every couple of weeks I take about a 5 hour train ride accros state from collage and I take the bus or my bike to most places around town), and concepts like this should be researched more. I just don't think this one will work that well in practice.
read the article, people! It is not a "one atom" transister, it is a 500 atom capaciter and 3 3-nanometer wires and the gate 4 nm from the capaciter. It only uses one electron for the current, which is why it is listed as 1 atom. There is still pleanty of room to shrink the transister.
Also, if someone made one-atom think walls on a transister, that could be taken one better by having one transister on each side of that wall, in effect, your 1/2 atom idea.
By the way, did you note the way he is planning to test this? Building a carbon nanotube onto the end of the probe to use as a circuit tester. I think those nanotubes will become more important in the future than anybody can guess.
lets try this again, it crashed netscape last time.
What kind of guidance are they giving these robots? Radio/camera or pre-programmed plan? If it is radio, thats often a lot of rock and metal to go through, and radio isn't too fond of that. If it's pre-programmed, what contingencies does the program allow, such as a dead rat or a bird nest in the way?
It would be nice if they could do this in San Jose as well, but most of Silicon Valley used lots of pipes instead of large tunnels for their sewer system, (we came later so we learned from the mistakes in sewer design made in the east coast and europe, looks like we were a little short sighted) so I don't think they'd be able to put the fiber down there.
First off, Canada is only talking about this right now, not actually doing anything. Any canadians that are reading this might want to tell Industry Canada as well as posting here. Now on to the arguments for and against.
Good things:
Keep cell phones off in certain places. Well, ok, but how? A field effect? Last time I checked, most buildings are not hemispherical so the field would probably extend into other buildings as well. These buildings might actually want their cell phones to work, so this might be a problem. A device installed on the phones themselves? This might work very well, including the problem of allowing select users (emergency services). The only problem with this is that people will probably just find a way to turn off the device or just buy a cell phone from another country. I don't know that much about cell phones, anybody know of another idea?
The bad:
Freedom of speech impared. I don't know what the freedom of speech laws in Canada are, but here in the US you are (normally) allowed to say what you want. where you want, to whoever you want. I don't know if this would be considered limiting this or not.
Emergency Services. This is one of the biggest arguments against the ban based on the site listed. Because emergency services use some of the same frequency band that cell phones use, devices that block one would hinder the other. One way to change this would be to change the emergency services frequency, but this would be expensive, time consuming and difficult. A better sollution could be to make it so that whatever device they make sends a simple radio signal to all the phones in range, which have another device in them, which turns off the phones. The emergency equipment would not have this device, so it would not be effected.
And before you say that this would only create a black market for cell phones, think about this: All cell phones still have to have some form of service provider. Just order the service providers to change their systems so that the phones will only work if the device is installed in them and working. As a bonus for PR, have existing cell phone users come in to some servicing station to have it installed at the government's expence (a small extra chip shouldn't be that expensive).
I don't know if this would work, but it was the best I could come up with right now.
sorry, i read that wrong. I think linux is great for desktops but i don't know how well it applies to palmtops. my only experiance is with an hp 660lx palmtop running ce, and i have enough trouble with it. Anything that can make it run better, i'll apreciate.
The bacteria would not have to be air-born. Put in in the copper for one computer, and it will spread to others via power cables and modems. Granted, it would have to be extremely fast and versitile to have much affect, but it might work. Fibre-op would stop the modem aspect of it, but once it is into the power supply it can go almost anywhere. As for cut-off systems, such as bunkers, maybe find some sort of carriers?(such as the people who use them?) A time delay between spread and destruction wouldn't hurt either.
A case on my computer. hmmm. Well I still use the skeleton of it I guess, but I don't think the side panels have been on for a few months. Of coarse, in a dorm with poor ventalation and cramped areas, I don't need to move it much and need whatever airflow to the cpu I can get. It still crashes too much, but I'm too busy using it to get a tune-up. And yes, I am using windows 98. And no, I'm not going to change OS's because I don't have time to learn a new OS. I wonder if underclocking would help... better not, it's slow enough already.
I have seen some Dr. Who, and it was funny but corny. I have never heard of Space 1999, but I was not born til 81 so I will hold comment on it.
First the Bad:
I have not sean Buck Rogers or Logan's Run, and very little Battlestar Galactica, so I can't really evaluate them either. Space: Above and Beyond looked to me that it would have a very short and limited plot from the first episode, and later episode confirmed this theory, and I would agree that it was pretty bad. I am affraid I must agree with you on most startrek series, but I didn't watch it too much either. Startrek DS9 sounds more to your style though.
Now for the good:
Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits do not have permanent cast members or plots, making them a special case, but are both very good. Seaquest DSV was very good for the first two seasons, until they got that new captain. Earth2, while I did not like it myself and being rather linear in its storyline, had some possibilities and focused a great deal on character development and dialog. The plot line for Babylon 5 just didn't sit with me, but it also dealt with interaction between people. A great american sci-fi series was Quantum Leap. Not a lot of special effects, and even those weren't too flashy. Great character development, cool plot. My favorite sci-fi series though, is Stargate SG1. Too bad I can't watch it anymore because it's on showtime and I don't get that in the dorms. If you want to see any more examples american sci-fi series just go to the sci-fi channel. (21b or 71digital in San Jose, CA)
Now with all these series that I wasn't paying much attention to when they were fairly new, you may ask what I was watching?
McGyver. While not a sci-fi series, it was very cool. And yes, McGyver is also Jack O'Niel in stargate sg1. The transformers were very cool. (I guess they're a sci-fi cartoon) Mr. Wizard was cool too. (Way better than that nerd Bill Nye that they have now)
Anybody remember any other good american sci-fi series?
While I consider myself to have some faith, I have to disagree with you. I am not a bible schoolar, but one thing I consider is this: For the first six "days" of the universe, how long is a "day"? If you give a value of a few million (billion?) years to each "day", then you might say it fits the big bang fairly well, including for the most part the order of how things appeared. Before Adam was created, who was keeping the stopwatch going to time those days? If the sun and moon wern't even created until the 4th day, the how could you know how long a day was?
I'm not questioning God, but if there was nobody there watching, how long was it?
By the way, don't use google. Dogpile is much nicer.
If I buy (or sell) a cd or tape at a garage sale (yard sale, moving sale, whaterver you call it), it is untaxed and there are no royalties of any kind. How does this fit into the RIAA's grand scheme of things? If they don't approve of garage sales, does it mean that eventually they too will be under attack? If they do, then is there really that much difference between these sales and music trading that goes on at napster? They don't get money either way.
Personally, I have never bought music in a store for myself in my life. I go to a lot of garage sales where with some luck I can find something I want for $1 instead of $15. I don't care about quality that much anyways so I normally just do an analog rip from the tape to mp3. Then I don't care where I got it from.
I do use napster, but either to learn about bands I hadn't heard of, such as TMBG, and then if I see their music at the sales I may or may not buy it, or I will use it to find music that is hard to find (yes I have looked in the music stores, just not bought anything), such as music from old movies (such as Paint Your Wagon and South Pacific) or just strange stuff (stargate sg1 theme, speach from braveheart).
I don't see DataPlay as too much of a problem. If I could find the music I wanted for a resonable price, I would buy it. Does anybody have any idea how much these things will cost if you buy them with music already on them? How much does the player/burner for these cost? If you copy your existing mp3's to them, do they still have the contentkey?
Well, I have to get to class so if I think of anything else I'll post it later.
Well, to be more exact,
518400/2^(6000/1.5) = 3.93262319987748905184465682942e-1199.
Watch that minus sign or you'll confuse somebody.
I need one of those computers, mine had trouble coming up with this number even.
Does there happen to be a name for that (former) planet? I mean "the asteroid belt" doesn't seem very original. And if there isn't, why not? Just because it isn't there now doesn't mean it doesn't deserve a name. Maybe since Ceres (or something like that) is this biggest piece left, the planet should be called that. Or some other (major) Roman god.
I thought the book was better than the movie.
Maybe the fungus will drown and the dolphins will eat the fungus like Thread? (ever read the dolphins of pern?)
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The version that you are most likely to find of Ashokan Farewell is track 20 of the Philmont CD "The Tobascco Donkeys" and can be bought at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimerron, New Mexico.
The Hindenburg would have been fine, but it was designed to be built with Helium as its bouancy, not hydrogen. It only switched because the US had a monopoly on helium and wouldn't sell any to Germany.
By the way, for 1930's transportation, the DC-3 was definatly the way to travel. And its still in use.
this sounds really good, but with one problem. The progectile is shaped like a can which rolls around. I couldn't get the videos to work, but that sounds like the "scouts" would not be very good for rough terrain, even if the "ranger" is. Also, if they were used indoors, where they could roll much better (i think). Things like door would stop them. It seems to me the best way to use this would be so that after landing, the can unrolls to a (near) flat surface with they monitering and transmission on top (what was the inside when in flight) This way, it would be low enough to slip through door jams, (some of them anyways), and would be able go across country a little easier. I'll try to get the videos again later.
you mention these in your post. I collect them and am trying to get a (cheep) full set. I have about 80% so far. Anybody interested in trading or selling (i have quite a few dublicates) reply to this and I'll send you a list of what I have.
Now, on the subject of the cars. I think it;s a good idea but it will not work. Not because drivers will be unable to change routes, but because of (a)speed of travel. If the train is stoping every 5-30km, even if it has a top speed of 60km/h, it will still barely reach that on the longest runs before it has to slow down again. (b)the cars are small, and americans like big cars. (c)would you want to be not just staring at the next cars bumper on the way to work for and hour, but actually attached to it!?
I think public transportation is great (every couple of weeks I take about a 5 hour train ride accros state from collage and I take the bus or my bike to most places around town), and concepts like this should be researched more. I just don't think this one will work that well in practice.
read the article, people! It is not a "one atom" transister, it is a 500 atom capaciter and 3 3-nanometer wires and the gate 4 nm from the capaciter. It only uses one electron for the current, which is why it is listed as 1 atom. There is still pleanty of room to shrink the transister.
Also, if someone made one-atom think walls on a transister, that could be taken one better by having one transister on each side of that wall, in effect, your 1/2 atom idea.
By the way, did you note the way he is planning to test this? Building a carbon nanotube onto the end of the probe to use as a circuit tester. I think those nanotubes will become more important in the future than anybody can guess.
lets try this again, it crashed netscape last time.
What kind of guidance are they giving these robots? Radio/camera or pre-programmed plan? If it is radio, thats often a lot of rock and metal to go through, and radio isn't too fond of that. If it's pre-programmed, what contingencies does the program allow, such as a dead rat or a bird nest in the way?
It would be nice if they could do this in San Jose as well, but most of Silicon Valley used lots of pipes instead of large tunnels for their sewer system, (we came later so we learned from the mistakes in sewer design made in the east coast and europe, looks like we were a little short sighted) so I don't think they'd be able to put the fiber down there.
ok here goes.
First off, Canada is only talking about this right now, not actually doing anything. Any canadians that are reading this might want to tell Industry Canada as well as posting here. Now on to the arguments for and against.
Good things:
Keep cell phones off in certain places. Well, ok, but how? A field effect? Last time I checked, most buildings are not hemispherical so the field would probably extend into other buildings as well. These buildings might actually want their cell phones to work, so this might be a problem. A device installed on the phones themselves? This might work very well, including the problem of allowing select users (emergency services). The only problem with this is that people will probably just find a way to turn off the device or just buy a cell phone from another country. I don't know that much about cell phones, anybody know of another idea?
The bad:
Freedom of speech impared. I don't know what the freedom of speech laws in Canada are, but here in the US you are (normally) allowed to say what you want. where you want, to whoever you want. I don't know if this would be considered limiting this or not.
Emergency Services. This is one of the biggest arguments against the ban based on the site listed. Because emergency services use some of the same frequency band that cell phones use, devices that block one would hinder the other. One way to change this would be to change the emergency services frequency, but this would be expensive, time consuming and difficult. A better sollution could be to make it so that whatever device they make sends a simple radio signal to all the phones in range, which have another device in them, which turns off the phones. The emergency equipment would not have this device, so it would not be effected.
And before you say that this would only create a black market for cell phones, think about this: All cell phones still have to have some form of service provider. Just order the service providers to change their systems so that the phones will only work if the device is installed in them and working. As a bonus for PR, have existing cell phone users come in to some servicing station to have it installed at the government's expence (a small extra chip shouldn't be that expensive).
I don't know if this would work, but it was the best I could come up with right now.
sorry, i read that wrong. I think linux is great for desktops but i don't know how well it applies to palmtops. my only experiance is with an hp 660lx palmtop running ce, and i have enough trouble with it. Anything that can make it run better, i'll apreciate.
The bacteria would not have to be air-born. Put in in the copper for one computer, and it will spread to others via power cables and modems. Granted, it would have to be extremely fast and versitile to have much affect, but it might work. Fibre-op would stop the modem aspect of it, but once it is into the power supply it can go almost anywhere. As for cut-off systems, such as bunkers, maybe find some sort of carriers?(such as the people who use them?) A time delay between spread and destruction wouldn't hurt either.
A case on my computer. hmmm. Well I still use the skeleton of it I guess, but I don't think the side panels have been on for a few months. Of coarse, in a dorm with poor ventalation and cramped areas, I don't need to move it much and need whatever airflow to the cpu I can get. It still crashes too much, but I'm too busy using it to get a tune-up. And yes, I am using windows 98. And no, I'm not going to change OS's because I don't have time to learn a new OS. I wonder if underclocking would help... better not, it's slow enough already.
I have seen some Dr. Who, and it was funny but corny. I have never heard of Space 1999, but I was not born til 81 so I will hold comment on it.
First the Bad:
I have not sean Buck Rogers or Logan's Run, and very little Battlestar Galactica, so I can't really evaluate them either. Space: Above and Beyond looked to me that it would have a very short and limited plot from the first episode, and later episode confirmed this theory, and I would agree that it was pretty bad. I am affraid I must agree with you on most startrek series, but I didn't watch it too much either. Startrek DS9 sounds more to your style though.
Now for the good:
Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits do not have permanent cast members or plots, making them a special case, but are both very good. Seaquest DSV was very good for the first two seasons, until they got that new captain. Earth2, while I did not like it myself and being rather linear in its storyline, had some possibilities and focused a great deal on character development and dialog. The plot line for Babylon 5 just didn't sit with me, but it also dealt with interaction between people. A great american sci-fi series was Quantum Leap. Not a lot of special effects, and even those weren't too flashy. Great character development, cool plot. My favorite sci-fi series though, is Stargate SG1. Too bad I can't watch it anymore because it's on showtime and I don't get that in the dorms. If you want to see any more examples american sci-fi series just go to the sci-fi channel. (21b or 71digital in San Jose, CA)
Now with all these series that I wasn't paying much attention to when they were fairly new, you may ask what I was watching?
McGyver. While not a sci-fi series, it was very cool. And yes, McGyver is also Jack O'Niel in stargate sg1. The transformers were very cool. (I guess they're a sci-fi cartoon) Mr. Wizard was cool too. (Way better than that nerd Bill Nye that they have now)
Anybody remember any other good american sci-fi series?
While I consider myself to have some faith, I have to disagree with you. I am not a bible schoolar, but one thing I consider is this: For the first six "days" of the universe, how long is a "day"? If you give a value of a few million (billion?) years to each "day", then you might say it fits the big bang fairly well, including for the most part the order of how things appeared. Before Adam was created, who was keeping the stopwatch going to time those days? If the sun and moon wern't even created until the 4th day, the how could you know how long a day was?
I'm not questioning God, but if there was nobody there watching, how long was it?
By the way, don't use google. Dogpile is much nicer.
If I buy (or sell) a cd or tape at a garage sale (yard sale, moving sale, whaterver you call it), it is untaxed and there are no royalties of any kind. How does this fit into the RIAA's grand scheme of things? If they don't approve of garage sales, does it mean that eventually they too will be under attack? If they do, then is there really that much difference between these sales and music trading that goes on at napster? They don't get money either way.
Personally, I have never bought music in a store for myself in my life. I go to a lot of garage sales where with some luck I can find something I want for $1 instead of $15. I don't care about quality that much anyways so I normally just do an analog rip from the tape to mp3. Then I don't care where I got it from.
I do use napster, but either to learn about bands I hadn't heard of, such as TMBG, and then if I see their music at the sales I may or may not buy it, or I will use it to find music that is hard to find (yes I have looked in the music stores, just not bought anything), such as music from old movies (such as Paint Your Wagon and South Pacific) or just strange stuff (stargate sg1 theme, speach from braveheart).
I don't see DataPlay as too much of a problem. If I could find the music I wanted for a resonable price, I would buy it. Does anybody have any idea how much these things will cost if you buy them with music already on them? How much does the player/burner for these cost? If you copy your existing mp3's to them, do they still have the contentkey?
Well, I have to get to class so if I think of anything else I'll post it later.
Well, to be more exact, 518400/2^(6000/1.5) = 3.93262319987748905184465682942e-1199. Watch that minus sign or you'll confuse somebody. I need one of those computers, mine had trouble coming up with this number even.
Does there happen to be a name for that (former) planet? I mean "the asteroid belt" doesn't seem very original. And if there isn't, why not? Just because it isn't there now doesn't mean it doesn't deserve a name. Maybe since Ceres (or something like that) is this biggest piece left, the planet should be called that. Or some other (major) Roman god.
I thought the book was better than the movie. Maybe the fungus will drown and the dolphins will eat the fungus like Thread? (ever read the dolphins of pern?)