'm just waiting for a studio to announce a remake of a movie that hasn't even been released yet, or a reboot of a franchise that isn't even finished yet.
That's already happened. See the _Fantastic Four_ movie. Not the one with Jessica Alba. The one from 1993?
What, you didn't like watching people teleported into wacky water tubes right out of Looney Tunes? Or the tiresomely overdone: big monster chasing character gets killed by bigger monster which inexplicably keeps chasing the character, abandoning the giant meal it just acquired? The inexplicable supernova that destroys the Romulans (I mean, I can see Next Generation level tech being unable to prevent planetary destruction from a supernova, but not somehow destroying the inhabitants before they could evacuate, since it would take years for the explosion to get there). Or "red matter". Or the inexplicable black hole that "red matter" can create that's capable of sucking up a supernova explosion, including the parts that have already escaped at the speed of light, while not being _more_ dangerous than the supernova. Or how Kirk ended up in the same cave as Spock (you could explain it away as vulcan telepathy guiding him there, but Spock didn't seem to expect him, so the only answer is obviously "the force" guided him). Or lens flares, Lens Flares, LENS FLARES!!!
I still managed to enjoy the movie, but that doesn't mean I didn't recognize that it was junk.
Errr. Harrison Ford didn't age well? I mean, he's '72 now, but he was a pretty major Hollywood leading man for quite a long time, so your position seems pretty hard to defend.
I think you may have replied to the wrong post. I was discussing the differences between wartime monitoring of military communications and peacetime (for a given value of peacetime, of course, since the US seems to basically be eternally at war) domestic surveillance).
RADAR seems to be pretty irrelevant to this discussion. As for the rest of it, that's all intercepting military communications during wartime. It doesn't fit the current situation.
I don't think brown dwarf stars are really going to be much of a problem. They're hard to spot when they're 7 light years away, but they're still really big objects that are highly likely to appear to be moving through space from the perspective of any interstellar craft. Any such craft can be expected to have telescopes and something like this is virtually certain to show up through the telescope occluding other objects when it's closer. At the kinds of distances where it would be obvious there's still plenty of time to make a tiny course correction which will allow the craft to dodge it entirely. Heck, you can still make such a course correction when it's close enough to spot by the naked eye as a hole in the field of stars.
So, unless the the interstellar craft is effectively just drifting blind, I'm going to have to conclude that objects like this are basically a 0% risk for a direct collision. The smaller objects you mention are definitely the only real risk.
Woz probably still would have managed some sort of success without Jobs. As for Jobs, I'm not so sure he would be a billionaire otherwise. Jobs was very good at the position he was in, but he was very fortunate. Personalities like his are much, much more likely to self-destruct than succeed.
Russia still has the nuclear weapons that had everyone scared of nuclear annihilation back in the day. Well, technically the US has most of the nuclear weapons that had everyone scared of nuclear annihilation back in the day, but Russia still has its share.
Technically speaking, most of those nuclear weapons everyone was afraid of back then are still there, just waiting to be fired. Now, rather than the Soviet Union, they're in the hands of Russia. A least nothing is going on that might increase tensions between Russia and the rest of the world right? Oh, and fortunately Russia isn't run by some hard-right authoritarian, obsessesed with projecting strength.
That's what cheapbytes.com was great for, back in the days of dialup. You could order a CD and have it delivered faster than downloading the contents. I just went to see if their site was still there. It doesn't seem to be coming up.
Wozniak did not ride Steve Jobs coattails. Do you think jobs would have gotten anywhere without Woz at the beginning? He probably would have ended up as a used car salesman.
I think the basic problem with the Fermi Paradox is that it hasn't met the Anthropic Principle. If we were aware of the existence of intelligent alien life, we wouldn't be asking: "Where's the alien life?".
While they would probably still be using radio waves, or at least EM radiation of some kind, for communication, they might be using them in such a way that we wouldn't be able to pick them up. For example, they might be using highly directional communications and spread spectrum signals carrying complex communications protocols that look like noise if you don't know exactly how to read them. That's not particularly far-fetched since that's what most of our telecommunications consist of now.
Personally, I don't see where all the hate for Uncle Tom, the character comes from. The character from the book is kind, humane, and principled -- effictively a saint, all the way to martyrdom.
Do you mean that kbg is wrong about restrictions forced on 3D printing, or about steganographic tags and anti-counterfitting technologies in printers/scanners/copiers? Because I can assure you that the latter are real (they degrade print quality too).
I'm guessing that property rights are pretty important to you too. Do you mind the men with guns defending your property rights? Of course I'm also going to guess that you think you'll defend your property rights just fine single-handed with your own guns.
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'm just waiting for a studio to announce a remake of a movie that hasn't even been released yet, or a reboot of a franchise that isn't even finished yet.
That's already happened. See the _Fantastic Four_ movie. Not the one with Jessica Alba. The one from 1993?
What, you didn't like watching people teleported into wacky water tubes right out of Looney Tunes? Or the tiresomely overdone: big monster chasing character gets killed by bigger monster which inexplicably keeps chasing the character, abandoning the giant meal it just acquired? The inexplicable supernova that destroys the Romulans (I mean, I can see Next Generation level tech being unable to prevent planetary destruction from a supernova, but not somehow destroying the inhabitants before they could evacuate, since it would take years for the explosion to get there). Or "red matter". Or the inexplicable black hole that "red matter" can create that's capable of sucking up a supernova explosion, including the parts that have already escaped at the speed of light, while not being _more_ dangerous than the supernova. Or how Kirk ended up in the same cave as Spock (you could explain it away as vulcan telepathy guiding him there, but Spock didn't seem to expect him, so the only answer is obviously "the force" guided him). Or lens flares, Lens Flares, LENS FLARES!!!
I still managed to enjoy the movie, but that doesn't mean I didn't recognize that it was junk.
Does your definition of "carry it yourself" allow for powered exoskeletons or cybernetic limbs?
For that matter, Luke and Han didn't either
Errr. Harrison Ford didn't age well? I mean, he's '72 now, but he was a pretty major Hollywood leading man for quite a long time, so your position seems pretty hard to defend.
...or a slab of prime rib medium with au jus...
Arrgh. That one really bothers me. Say "with jus" or "with juice", or say "prime rib medium au jus". Please.
I think you may have replied to the wrong post. I was discussing the differences between wartime monitoring of military communications and peacetime (for a given value of peacetime, of course, since the US seems to basically be eternally at war) domestic surveillance).
It's maybe becoming more like the TV show "Friends" with everybody in a relationship
That kind of tends to be the pattern in real life as well.
RADAR seems to be pretty irrelevant to this discussion. As for the rest of it, that's all intercepting military communications during wartime. It doesn't fit the current situation.
You know, they actually do a lot of really important stuff there.
Like sabotaging communications protocols to compromise everyone's security.
I don't think brown dwarf stars are really going to be much of a problem. They're hard to spot when they're 7 light years away, but they're still really big objects that are highly likely to appear to be moving through space from the perspective of any interstellar craft. Any such craft can be expected to have telescopes and something like this is virtually certain to show up through the telescope occluding other objects when it's closer. At the kinds of distances where it would be obvious there's still plenty of time to make a tiny course correction which will allow the craft to dodge it entirely. Heck, you can still make such a course correction when it's close enough to spot by the naked eye as a hole in the field of stars.
So, unless the the interstellar craft is effectively just drifting blind, I'm going to have to conclude that objects like this are basically a 0% risk for a direct collision. The smaller objects you mention are definitely the only real risk.
Woz probably still would have managed some sort of success without Jobs. As for Jobs, I'm not so sure he would be a billionaire otherwise. Jobs was very good at the position he was in, but he was very fortunate. Personalities like his are much, much more likely to self-destruct than succeed.
It's a pity for nostalgic reasons, but not really unexpected. They had a great service back when network bandwidth was hard to come by.
Russia still has the nuclear weapons that had everyone scared of nuclear annihilation back in the day. Well, technically the US has most of the nuclear weapons that had everyone scared of nuclear annihilation back in the day, but Russia still has its share.
I already replied to you, but I thought It was worth noting that the CEO you were listening to makes about $2 million dollars a year.
Having low margins as an organization doesn't neccessarily mean anything. There's plenty of "Hollywood accounting" even outside the movie industry.
If you can't even HTML, you shouldn't be commenting on /. at all.
Argh! I can't even tell if this post allows one of those sarcastic posts about the missing verb or if HTML actually _is_ the verb.
Technically speaking, most of those nuclear weapons everyone was afraid of back then are still there, just waiting to be fired. Now, rather than the Soviet Union, they're in the hands of Russia. A least nothing is going on that might increase tensions between Russia and the rest of the world right? Oh, and fortunately Russia isn't run by some hard-right authoritarian, obsessesed with projecting strength.
That's what cheapbytes.com was great for, back in the days of dialup. You could order a CD and have it delivered faster than downloading the contents. I just went to see if their site was still there. It doesn't seem to be coming up.
We demanded it because they were the cheaper solution. Before MS put TCPIP in windows 98 you paid for it (in some cases as much as the OS itself).
Or you used an OS that wasn't missing critical network functionality like Linux.
Wozniak did not ride Steve Jobs coattails. Do you think jobs would have gotten anywhere without Woz at the beginning? He probably would have ended up as a used car salesman.
I think the basic problem with the Fermi Paradox is that it hasn't met the Anthropic Principle. If we were aware of the existence of intelligent alien life, we wouldn't be asking: "Where's the alien life?".
While they would probably still be using radio waves, or at least EM radiation of some kind, for communication, they might be using them in such a way that we wouldn't be able to pick them up. For example, they might be using highly directional communications and spread spectrum signals carrying complex communications protocols that look like noise if you don't know exactly how to read them. That's not particularly far-fetched since that's what most of our telecommunications consist of now.
Personally, I don't see where all the hate for Uncle Tom, the character comes from. The character from the book is kind, humane, and principled -- effictively a saint, all the way to martyrdom.
Do you mean that kbg is wrong about restrictions forced on 3D printing, or about steganographic tags and anti-counterfitting technologies in printers/scanners/copiers? Because I can assure you that the latter are real (they degrade print quality too).
I'm guessing that property rights are pretty important to you too. Do you mind the men with guns defending your property rights? Of course I'm also going to guess that you think you'll defend your property rights just fine single-handed with your own guns.