As previous replies have said, the CDs were subjected to a simulation of 50,000 years of space radiation. They came out of the simulator and were completely legible. In addition, they're including schematics and an "instruction manual" on how to construct a device that will be able to read the CD-ROMs.
I just hope they don't save that instruction manual on the CD!;)
The FAQ on the KEO website says that they're including simple schematics and an "instruction manual" for a CD-ROM device so that the finders may be able to read the CD's.
...they're going to need to introduce new material. While any diehard Simpsons fan will go to see the movie, it'll quickly lose interest unless they introduce a new character, or a major new thing to the show.
Another great way to follow through with the movie would be to incorporate the ending of the movie in with some of the television episodes about a month or a month and a half after the release of the movie. How do you all feel?
Anyone know if South Park incorporated the ending of their movie into some of their new episodes?
Even though I agree with with the fact that those who don't want to register shouldn't have to, I don't agree with going against copyrights. However, I know virtually nothing about copyright law, etc. Could anyone enlighten me on whether this is legal or not, and what the punishments would/could be?
Just the other day (within 2 weeks probably), I was pouring over my usual daily websites and I found a story about a company creating Wolfenstein 2000. A 3D version of the game based on a MUCH newer engine - my guess Q2, Q3. Wolfenstein was an id game, so if id Software is making it, they might have a Q3-based game. Anyways, it'll probably sell lots of copies. I can't wait.
Personally, I'd spring for a 747 anyday. Those things are massive. They would make an amazing house. Live with me now as I walk you through my rendition:
1) The cockpit would become my master bedroom with skylights.
2) The entire plane would have white carpeting. Within the living room, my 55" flatscreen TV with DVD player and surround sound system would be on a wall opposite my black leather fainting couches, etc.
3) I'm sure I could bring all of my computer gear into the cargo space on the bottom and turn it into a lean, mean office.
Some questions though:
1) Anyone know how much a used, inoperable 747 goes for? The exterior must be in tip-top shape - however.
2) Anyone know the amount of living space it would have on all decks of the 747?
My mother is a freecell addict. She has won every single game possible by trying seeds 1 to the limit. As far as games won/lost goes, she has won , as of right now, 19,023 games and lost only 19. She's been tempted many times to reset and try for 100% victory over 20,000 games; but the screen is just too pretty for her to erase.
And yes, she did not cheat. She doesn't even know what the registry is; yet alone how to edit the score table, etc.
That's true. To consider all of the money he donates to his own charity each year truly makes him look like a great philanthropist. Recently, he just donated $1 billion dollars to his own charity in order to pay for the tuitions of minorities entering colleges. Even though I feel I could use that extra $150,000 for college tuition, room and board, computer, books, beer, and other fees myself, I must ignore my selfishness and still have to give him the honor of being such a great philanthropist.
My mom has been a desktop publisher since I was born. When I was born, she took leave for 17 years to raise me, and practiced desktop publishing for the whole time. Eventually, she become so fast at typing, she was able to type over 200 wpm. We had wondered if she could break the world record, so we sat down at timed here. Continuously typing "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." (followed by two spaces, and repeated) yieled a time of 227 wpm (over a period of 1 minute). We never really followed through with it because she was always so busy, she never had the time to attempt to break it officially. However, my World Record book was from 1991, so I'm unsure as to what the time is. She uses QWERTY and the proper hand layout. As for me, I never took a typing class, and my fingers have just memorized where all the keys are. Even though my hands are all over the keyboard hitting keys in unison, it never really looked that pretty. I can type about 90-100 wpm this style. I'm sorta scared to try DVORAK, b/c I have to use my school's computers and all.
A neat idea for DVORAK users, would be to create a small program that changes the registry value on the Windows 9x machines automatically. Just run the program, and go at it. This makes switching from one computer to the next easier. Also, maybe a thin, plastic cover that you could fit over standard win9x keyboards; however, this would be impossible because many keyboards come in wierd shapes. The latter idea isn't really needed because most DVORAK users would know where the keys are located and wouldn't have to look down.
Anyways, just thought ya'll would like to know that DVORAK isn't always the fastest...;) I doubt DVORAK would let her type 300 wpm...:) MmMmM...efficiency.
You're right. NASA has the brightest people from the best colleges. They've got custom programs up the wazzo that track comets by the second. By inputing velocity of the harpoon, they should be able to have the computer figure out the exact angle and when to fire the projectile.
Didn't you ever see Under Siege 2? What about Apollo 13?:) Orbit-tracing and comet tracking programs must be fun. I wanna see the code!
I haven't had time to read all of the postings; however, it seems that everyone has the impression that the site is gone. We do not need to search our cache, nor do we need to whine.
I saw it the night before it was released at 9:00 EST. My sister works for a movie theater chain in the area. They had an employee screening. I called all my best frends and we hauled up there. There must have been 50 seats out of 500 filled in this huge theater with a huge screen and a HUGE sound system. We had Starbucks and Blimpie cater us and we invited some of their employees as well. Unlimited subs and unlimited frappucinos + Star Wars = GOOD. Saw it the next day too.:)
Especially with mirrors. Sit right around a corner. Be even cooler if you could install one in something like a camera.:) Pretty much the ultimate spy tool. Freeze an entire army with a huge mirror and a kickin' battery (maybe a lightening rod).
A while ago my Quake clan was in need of a webpage; however, some people were HTML/CGI illiterate. I wrote a cgi program utilizing the now obsolete cgi-lib.pl. The program would be called thru a form in a locked directory (accomplished via.htaccess). The program would lock the file to be edited (which was selected via a form on the page), and then present you with it to be edited. The editing page was just a large textarea. A Preview button and a submit button were placed under it for finishing the job.
Still, people were complaining they didn't know HTML. They only wanted to update the news page. So I simplified it for a goddamned monkey. All I did was had all the fields that the news update required (topic,updater,updater's email,news submission). It then opened a temp file, and copied line for line from the old file. When it came to just above the old news, it placed the submission above it. It then continued writing the rest of the file. Then the files were unlocked and switched. The temp file gets deleted. Job done.
This was my first decent cgi/perl program. I'm sure you could write one in under a few hours. Mine took me under 100 lines of code. Really inefficient little hack-job.
Tom Pabst, of Tom's Hardware fame, recently took a Kryotech K6-3 500 system and utilizted the cooling system to overclock an Intel processor to 618Mhz. The 618Mhz Celeron cooked the P3-500 and all other processors in it's way. He entitled his article "The World's Fastest PC."
If I had cash, I would make a Dual Celeron system o/c'd to 618Mhz a piece, 256meg of RAM, all running on a Tyan Thunderbolt motherboard. Got my SCSI and ethernet built right in. Pop in a Diamond MX300. I'd wait for Metabyte to license there new technology to Diamond. Using PGP, I'd have 4 Viper 770s running in parallel. Can you the best gaming rig in existence?
Isn't Mars's gravity a lot less than ours? I'm not that bright; however, it's feasible that this rock did come from Mars.
There gravity is less, so a smaller force is needed to send it out of their atmosphere. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but they have a lot of explosions due to heat and trapped gases. Just like our volcanos, rocks can get thrown into air; a decent size explosion could have sent it towards our planet.
The rock may have been much bigger when it began the re-entry phase; however, the heat could have broken away parts of it. Or, many other parts may still be surviving and remain unfound. It's very possible that it did; however, it's also very possible that it didn't.
In otherwords, it's not stupid; however, very puzzling.
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Yeah, but like he said...he's in a dorm. Rensselaer would be footing the electrical power bill for me if I decided to buy it.
Hmm...one year tuition at a top-notch engineering school or a Cray supercomputer.
Oh what the hell am I thinking - my parents would murder me.
Why a group? The DeCSS source code that I've read weighs in at under 1000 characters.
As previous replies have said, the CDs were subjected to a simulation of 50,000 years of space radiation. They came out of the simulator and were completely legible. In addition, they're including schematics and an "instruction manual" on how to construct a device that will be able to read the CD-ROMs.
;)
I just hope they don't save that instruction manual on the CD!
The FAQ on the KEO website says that they're including simple schematics and an "instruction manual" for a CD-ROM device so that the finders may be able to read the CD's.
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I guess we read different books as kids...;)
...they're going to need to introduce new material. While any diehard Simpsons fan will go to see the movie, it'll quickly lose interest unless they introduce a new character, or a major new thing to the show.
Another great way to follow through with the movie would be to incorporate the ending of the movie in with some of the television episodes about a month or a month and a half after the release of the movie. How do you all feel?
Anyone know if South Park incorporated the ending of their movie into some of their new episodes?
Oh no! I'm blind!
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Even though I agree with with the fact that those who don't want to register shouldn't have to, I don't agree with going against copyrights. However, I know virtually nothing about copyright law, etc. Could anyone enlighten me on whether this is legal or not, and what the punishments would/could be?
Except of course for those dual Celeron 600s. :)
Just the other day (within 2 weeks probably), I was pouring over my usual daily websites and I found a story about a company creating Wolfenstein 2000. A 3D version of the game based on a MUCH newer engine - my guess Q2, Q3. Wolfenstein was an id game, so if id Software is making it, they might have a Q3-based game. Anyways, it'll probably sell lots of copies. I can't wait.
Personally, I'd spring for a 747 anyday. Those things are massive. They would make an amazing house. Live with me now as I walk you through my rendition:
1) The cockpit would become my master bedroom with skylights.
2) The entire plane would have white carpeting. Within the living room, my 55" flatscreen TV with DVD player and surround sound system would be on a wall opposite my black leather fainting couches, etc.
3) I'm sure I could bring all of my computer gear into the cargo space on the bottom and turn it into a lean, mean office.
Some questions though:
1) Anyone know how much a used, inoperable 747 goes for? The exterior must be in tip-top shape - however.
2) Anyone know the amount of living space it would have on all decks of the 747?
My mother is a freecell addict. She has won every single game possible by trying seeds 1 to the limit. As far as games won/lost goes, she has won , as of right now, 19,023 games and lost only 19. She's been tempted many times to reset and try for 100% victory over 20,000 games; but the screen is just too pretty for her to erase.
And yes, she did not cheat. She doesn't even know what the registry is; yet alone how to edit the score table, etc.
That's true. To consider all of the money he donates to his own charity each year truly makes him look like a great philanthropist. Recently, he just donated $1 billion dollars to his own charity in order to pay for the tuitions of minorities entering colleges. Even though I feel I could use that extra $150,000 for college tuition, room and board, computer, books, beer, and other fees myself, I must ignore my selfishness and still have to give him the honor of being such a great philanthropist.
My mom has been a desktop publisher since I was born. When I was born, she took leave for 17 years to raise me, and practiced desktop publishing for the whole time. Eventually, she become so fast at typing, she was able to type over 200 wpm. We had wondered if she could break the world record, so we sat down at timed here. Continuously typing "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." (followed by two spaces, and repeated) yieled a time of 227 wpm (over a period of 1 minute). We never really followed through with it because she was always so busy, she never had the time to attempt to break it officially. However, my World Record book was from 1991, so I'm unsure as to what the time is. She uses QWERTY and the proper hand layout. As for me, I never took a typing class, and my fingers have just memorized where all the keys are. Even though my hands are all over the keyboard hitting keys in unison, it never really looked that pretty. I can type about 90-100 wpm this style. I'm sorta scared to try DVORAK, b/c I have to use my school's computers and all.
A neat idea for DVORAK users, would be to create a small program that changes the registry value on the Windows 9x machines automatically. Just run the program, and go at it. This makes switching from one computer to the next easier. Also, maybe a thin, plastic cover that you could fit over standard win9x keyboards; however, this would be impossible because many keyboards come in wierd shapes. The latter idea isn't really needed because most DVORAK users would know where the keys are located and wouldn't have to look down.
Anyways, just thought ya'll would like to know that DVORAK isn't always the fastest...;) I doubt DVORAK would let her type 300 wpm...:) MmMmM...efficiency.
MmMMmM...I smell a distributed computing project.
port 111 port 23 port 80
(sunrpc) (t-net) (httpd)
You're right. NASA has the brightest people from the best colleges. They've got custom programs up the wazzo that track comets by the second. By inputing velocity of the harpoon, they should be able to have the computer figure out the exact angle and when to fire the projectile.
:) Orbit-tracing and comet tracking programs must be fun. I wanna see the code!
Didn't you ever see Under Siege 2? What about Apollo 13?
I haven't had time to read all of the postings; however, it seems that everyone has the impression that the site is gone. We do not need to search our cache, nor do we need to whine.
d net/story.html?s=v/zd/19990 701/tc/19990701380.
Yahoo has an article, in which it says "Harvard intends to send the complete contents of the site back to Williams so that he can post it elsewhere." http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/z
A real OS? Why would any Linux, Unix, *BSD, et al user run AOL? Why should they waste resources porting it to Linux when nobody would use it?
I saw it the night before it was released at 9:00 EST. My sister works for a movie theater chain in the area. They had an employee screening. I called all my best frends and we hauled up there. There must have been 50 seats out of 500 filled in this huge theater with a huge screen and a HUGE sound system. We had Starbucks and Blimpie cater us and we invited some of their employees as well. Unlimited subs and unlimited frappucinos + Star Wars = GOOD. Saw it the next day too. :)
Especially with mirrors. Sit right around a corner. Be even cooler if you could install one in something like a camera. :) Pretty much the ultimate spy tool. Freeze an entire army with a huge mirror and a kickin' battery (maybe a lightening rod).
A while ago my Quake clan was in need of a webpage; however, some people were HTML/CGI illiterate. I wrote a cgi program utilizing the now obsolete cgi-lib.pl. The program would be called thru a form in a locked directory (accomplished via .htaccess). The program would lock the file to be edited (which was selected via a form on the page), and then present you with it to be edited. The editing page was just a large textarea. A Preview button and a submit button were placed under it for finishing the job.
Still, people were complaining they didn't know HTML. They only wanted to update the news page. So I simplified it for a goddamned monkey. All I did was had all the fields that the news update required (topic,updater,updater's email,news submission). It then opened a temp file, and copied line for line from the old file. When it came to just above the old news, it placed the submission above it. It then continued writing the rest of the file. Then the files were unlocked and switched. The temp file gets deleted. Job done.
This was my first decent cgi/perl program. I'm sure you could write one in under a few hours. Mine took me under 100 lines of code. Really inefficient little hack-job.
Good luck to ya.
Tom Pabst, of Tom's Hardware fame, recently took a Kryotech K6-3 500 system and utilizted the cooling system to overclock an Intel processor to 618Mhz. The 618Mhz Celeron cooked the P3-500 and all other processors in it's way. He entitled his article "The World's Fastest PC."
If I had cash, I would make a Dual Celeron system o/c'd to 618Mhz a piece, 256meg of RAM, all running on a Tyan Thunderbolt motherboard. Got my SCSI and ethernet built right in. Pop in a Diamond MX300. I'd wait for Metabyte to license there new technology to Diamond. Using PGP, I'd have 4 Viper 770s running in parallel. Can you the best gaming rig in existence?
Diamond is attempting the same thing too. Don't consider this a let-down - just purchase one early. :)
Isn't Mars's gravity a lot less than ours? I'm not that bright; however, it's feasible that this rock did come from Mars.
There gravity is less, so a smaller force is needed to send it out of their atmosphere. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but they have a lot of explosions due to heat and trapped gases. Just like our volcanos, rocks can get thrown into air; a decent size explosion could have sent it towards our planet.
The rock may have been much bigger when it began the re-entry phase; however, the heat could have broken away parts of it. Or, many other parts may still be surviving and remain unfound. It's very possible that it did; however, it's also very possible that it didn't.
In otherwords, it's not stupid; however, very puzzling.