Of course the posts are funny when we're talking about the ultimate mass transportation system. I submitted the article, and I was tempted to point out that this might help Linux survive its second billion years. That would have really stirred up the responses...
The Earth already has a large magnetic bubble around it. The Moon doesn't. Build a strong magnetic field around the Moon. But would that cause additional drag that would slow down the orbit and move us toward the Sun? Well, if you can turn the magnetic field on and off every two weeks you could create thrust in different directions...
But would probably be easier to drop some asteroids on the Moon to speed it up a little (and shift the center of gravity a little), then chew up the asteroids (or the Moon) and spit it out with mass drivers to apply thrust to the Moon.
The ecological calculation is greatly simplified when the alternative is to leave the Earth where it is and letting it burn to a cinder. Besides, preventing getting blown out of the heavens by a big rock can only be solved by putting an engine on that big rock and moving it. Within a billion years we'll have a lot of former Doomsday asteroids with drive engines on them...
So the British will move us into a warmer orbit, the Libyans will move us into a cooler orbit, the Swiss will make the orbit take exactly 365.25 days...Everybody dance!
The point of having Linux is so there's a chance that you can make the thing more useful to you. If you get a black box which you can't change, you're stuck with it and its current bugs. If you can change it, you (or someone you hire) can improve it.
Indeed, any shared resource including CPU usage can be measured by something else on the same hardware.
Or someone with access to that hardware can accomplish copying through other means -- looped back serial ports, feeding video image to a machine with video capture card, making beeps and listening to them...
It depends upon the simulation. Some have limited resources which you have to use, and you have to accomplish something to "win" before running out of a resource. A game can be tuned to make it more open-ended, such as considering fusion to be "free" power and using that power to recycle everything -- including mining old landfills which were occupying real estate.
Well, it is more complicated than that...for example at 300 MPH it's not unusual to have significant weather events within 1/2 hour. But it's almost possible, so I'm only being a little silly. Particularly because there already are aircraft for which it will be easier to do. Not that pilot incapacitation happens easily...
If the avionics are advanced enough for this, just push the red "EMERGENCY" button on the top of the instrument panel. It will put the plane level at altitude, and eventually it'll land as best it can at the nearest airport. It's there to give Hollywood stewardesses other things to do. It's standard equipment, effective as of the next "Die Hard" movie.
Indeed, I chose this login name about 30 years ago because it's short enough for many systems. It's also distinctive enough to prevent confusion, yet "Wilco" is a recognizable word.
I also tried to avoid all simple names and characters. Because "All The Good Names Are Taken" was obvious.
They can't yet refine and shape metal parts. Wait for the mechanic-replacing robots to be developed. The evil-enhanced versions of these robots can only dig secret tunnels and gather piles of robot raw materials in preparation for the next step...
The military will have its own power sources when needed. There are plenty of resources, it's just a matter of where they're distributed. California simply did a bad job, by restricting consumer price but not cost.
If you destroy enough of the enemy's war resources, they have to devote more resources to building replacements, thus stressing the enemy's country. Make the enemy devote enough resources to the war and more people have to sacrifice more in order to replace the losses. Either the entire country changes to a war machine to sustain the war, or the defenses will be worn down and the attacker can pick more targets.
This was done recently in Iraq, with much of the normal infrastructure torn apart and the political balance between the population and goverment left to develop as it would. Of course, the Iraqis which were "defenders" were dealing with an "attacker" which was not trying to take their possessions, unlike the situation when Kuwait was the "defender" several months earlier.
Thanks to Wiley, here is a History of Search Engines, with a section on Archie and AltaVista. By the time of AltaVista there were a number of crawlers, spiders, etc.
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Of course the posts are funny when we're talking about the ultimate mass transportation system. I submitted the article, and I was tempted to point out that this might help Linux survive its second billion years. That would have really stirred up the responses...
But would probably be easier to drop some asteroids on the Moon to speed it up a little (and shift the center of gravity a little), then chew up the asteroids (or the Moon) and spit it out with mass drivers to apply thrust to the Moon.
If we're maneuvering asteroids, nothing would have an unobstructed shot at us.
The ecological calculation is greatly simplified when the alternative is to leave the Earth where it is and letting it burn to a cinder. Besides, preventing getting blown out of the heavens by a big rock can only be solved by putting an engine on that big rock and moving it. Within a billion years we'll have a lot of former Doomsday asteroids with drive engines on them...
So the British will move us into a warmer orbit, the Libyans will move us into a cooler orbit, the Swiss will make the orbit take exactly 365.25 days...Everybody dance!
The point of having Linux is so there's a chance that you can make the thing more useful to you. If you get a black box which you can't change, you're stuck with it and its current bugs. If you can change it, you (or someone you hire) can improve it.
Gee, I could have done that research!
Or someone with access to that hardware can accomplish copying through other means -- looped back serial ports, feeding video image to a machine with video capture card, making beeps and listening to them...
It depends upon the simulation. Some have limited resources which you have to use, and you have to accomplish something to "win" before running out of a resource. A game can be tuned to make it more open-ended, such as considering fusion to be "free" power and using that power to recycle everything -- including mining old landfills which were occupying real estate.
I'll give 5,000 points to whoever creates a computer-based version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?".
Well, there's no mention of an interface for Juno distributed processing...
Well, it is more complicated than that...for example at 300 MPH it's not unusual to have significant weather events within 1/2 hour. But it's almost possible, so I'm only being a little silly. Particularly because there already are aircraft for which it will be easier to do. Not that pilot incapacitation happens easily...
If the avionics are advanced enough for this, just push the red "EMERGENCY" button on the top of the instrument panel. It will put the plane level at altitude, and eventually it'll land as best it can at the nearest airport. It's there to give Hollywood stewardesses other things to do. It's standard equipment, effective as of the next "Die Hard" movie.
I also tried to avoid all simple names and characters. Because "All The Good Names Are Taken" was obvious.
You're right, another way to block imaging would be to drag a sticky tongue across the lens.
Those guys aren't offering bounties on the Internet. But BailJumpers.Net is.
Well, at least it doesn't scare BountyQuest. They issued a bounty on their own business model.
They can't yet refine and shape metal parts. Wait for the mechanic-replacing robots to be developed. The evil-enhanced versions of these robots can only dig secret tunnels and gather piles of robot raw materials in preparation for the next step...
Moreover, they don't mention any observations that the black hole is evaporating during starvation. That would be interesting data.
It was an international mistake.
The military will have its own power sources when needed. There are plenty of resources, it's just a matter of where they're distributed. California simply did a bad job, by restricting consumer price but not cost.
Squirtgun. Bolo net. Magnets.
This was done recently in Iraq, with much of the normal infrastructure torn apart and the political balance between the population and goverment left to develop as it would. Of course, the Iraqis which were "defenders" were dealing with an "attacker" which was not trying to take their possessions, unlike the situation when Kuwait was the "defender" several months earlier.
You can also see AltaVista's Brief History sixth paragraph). Archie FTP, AltaVista HTML.