"Meat?" : "Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."
"I was hoping you would say that."
"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"
"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say? 'Hello, meat. How's it going?'"
It is impossible to make money selling a cryptographic algorithm.
So if you do find a way to profit, then you should come back and ask slashdot:
I've been sitting on an invention... My invention improves upon the existing make-no-money-from-crypto-algorithm business model turning it into 'make-lotsa-money-from-crypto-algorithm'...
The differences are: silicon added to the list of atomic numbers, different DNA and nucleotides, different "stick figure" and stats, other planets highlighted in the solar/star system and a completely different transmitter.
The best part about that one was.. the "transmitter" is almost unmistakably a small scale reproduction of the image made in the same field a year earlier:
It is completely feasible to use a linear motor on conventional wheeled "people movers."
Have a listen to Vancouver's "people mover" (shockwave site includes audio of train leaving station) - elevated, driverless 2, 4 or 6-car trains that run at about 80km/h.
The site says: SkyTrain's linear induction motors have no moving parts and rarely require maintenance, making the system one of the most reliable in the world. Whatever. When the new line is done, it will run near my house and take me to work quickly & quietly.
Although this application is rare since linear motors typical consume more energy than rotary motors.
We've got lots of hydroelectric power up here, we'd rather run our little trains with it than send it south for lighting up the desert.
What kind of reciprocation are you supposed to get for flipping a bit on a layer that's only provided for compatibility? The Quartz 2D font smoothing is for people that are too lazy to port their application to MacOSX native APIs. (Well, not that Quartz isn't native, but it's a continuation of the fugly MacOS
To correct/clarify, the bit they flipped was to enable the hack in 10.1.5 that allows Quartz font smoothing of Quickdraw text. Quickdraw is the continuation of the "fugly" 10 APIs you're talking about. Before 10.1.5, native apps using Quickdraw always got lame a-a inherited from OS 8/9.
Quartz 2D is the lowest level drawing APIs, its font smoothing is what's used in Cocoa & well-written Carbon apps. The Quartz API is totally legacy-free, and is fairly consistent & orthoganal from what I've seen, but like most of OS X's new core services, is also somewhat verbose and clumsy. So it's no surprise that not everyone has converted Quickdraw calls to Quartz 2D. Kudos to Apple for shoehorning another hack into Quickdraw and giving "lazy" developers like MS another option.
Richard C. Hoagland and friends have some odd theories, but one of them has been somewhat predictive along the lines of this finding. The theory is that Mars was in tidal lock in the not-too-distant past, ie. that it used to be a moon of a larger planet (which exploded or something).
Predicted by this theory: the distribution of underground water-ice at the equator being primarily in two areas 180 degrees apart. This is what was found, and funny thing, these are apparently areas of high-elevation, not low-elevation.
Also predicted, climate change on Mars due to cataclismic event as opposed to a slow decline. Such a rapid event would cause exactly the sort of thing described in this mars lake article.
Another good prediction: the 'stains' visible in Mars orbiter pics that look like liquid water on the surface, in fact are liquid water leaking to the surface. Others poo-poo this idea because they say Mars climate change was geologically ancient, and if water was leaking to the surface as frequently as the pics suggest, it would all be gone by now. Hoagland's theory says the climate change was relatively recent (millions of years), so this really is water and its not all gone yet. Look for this to be found next & lets see if the standard model can survive.
www.enterprisemission.com
Richard C. Hoagland is coincidentally is on the Coast to Coast AM (yes, Art Bell's radio show) tonight, not discussing this topic however (hmm, Speilberg producing TV miniseries about what??)
The Mac exists for a small group of people, and also in my opinion as a testing ground for new technology. Would your PC have a USB port on it right now if it wern't put onto a Mac first for B. Gates to notice and snap up?
Apple didn't cause the adoption of USB on PC motherboards, rather they kickstarted the market for USB devices.
Even before iMacs came along, PC motherboard already had USB (can you say Intel). So lots of PCs had USB ports, but nobody used them. As I understand it, Microsoft's USB support in Windows was either nonexistent (in win95) or flaky (in win98), so there were very few USB devices and even fewer suck^H^H^H^Hbuyers. blah blah chicken-egg blah
What Apple did with the iMac was cause a huge new market for USB *devices*. This was because the iMac had no other ports (except net & phone (and no floppy drive:-o)). Like a big, round, plastic, bondi blue clue-hammer smooshing the chicken & the egg together in one swift (if somewhat effeminate) blow. Mmm, chicken omlette.
The hypothetical question is instead: without Apple, would your PC's USB ports still be unused? Would PC users still be using a parallel port to connect printers or lame devices like zip drives & video capture boxes? (or do PC users still do that anyhow?) or MP3 players?! (shudder)
And about the column.. Dvorak is a stupidhead. "[Apple should start] fresh or at least introducing something new". Funny, it looks to me like Apple has already been reinventing its hardware & software to good effect for about 4 years now, increasingly so. I suspect he really means Apple should start making Wintel boxes. Out.
According to some theories, the universe is an 11 dimensional finite state machine with a cycle time of 1x10-63second... Plankt time
Or its a simulation in which Plankt time is the framerate! (blah beowulf blah) On the other hand, time itself would be part of the simulation, which could be running at any speed, slower.. or faster.
I can see it now, our universe running in some shlep's screensaver which pumps out a universe over lunchtime, the sum total of human evolution and achievement resulting in a single pixel flipped from yellow to orange.
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While radio waves may not interfere with one-another directly the way sound waves do, what would happen to radio astronomy if we opened up every possible frequency to exploitation?
Radio astronomers will have to put their gear on the far side of the moon, where all telescopes belong.
allows microsoft to step in and "save the day", which leads to news headlines..
Positive PR from security updates is probably not it. The plan is surely far more insideous, perhaps as described in Cringely's article from last year: The Death of TCP/IP
According to these programmers, Microsoft wants to replace TCP/IP with a proprietary protocol -- a protocol owned by Microsoft -- that it will tout as being more secure. Actually, the new protocol would likely be TCP/IP with some of the reserved fields used as pointers to proprietary extensions, quite similar to Vines IP, if you remember that product from Banyan Systems. I'll call it TCP/MS.
How do you push for the acceptance of a new protocol? First, make the old one unworkable by placing millions of exploitable TCP/IP stacks out on the Net, ready-to-use by any teenage sociopath. When the Net slows or crashes, the blame would not be assigned to Microsoft. Then ship the new protocol with every new copy of Windows, and install it with every Windows Update over the Internet. Zero to 100 million copies could happen in less than a year, and that year could be prior to the new protocol even being announced. It could be shipping right now.
It's an old game called Provocation, perfected by dirty-tricks gang who now control your planet. Have a nice day.
the highlight for that year is "Leisure Suit Larry is born (without a name)", it seems likely that that's what "Softporn Adventure" turned in to
Indeed it was. Google found pages here and here (pg 69, ha).
The three Apple II programs any 12 year old boy was sure to have in the early-mid 80s were "Softporn Adventure", "Strip Poker" (with Suzi or Melissa!), and another one I can't quite remember the name of - if it had a name at all. It might have been called "Spanish Fly" but probably not. It wasn't a game, just a badly drawn hi-res cartoon that used page flipping and crummy beeps to remarkable effect (not really).
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I want to do this over the 100BaseT LAN in my house.
[Permit me to go off on a tangent..] In fact, I want to allow all my content input/generation devices to broadcast on my LAN, where any other content presenters can pick them up.
I want to:
- play cd or tuner from my living room stereo and also hear it in my bedroom or basement
- when watching the game on tv, also feed the audio to the bathroom:-)
- when surfing or gaming at my computer, monitor what someone else is watching on tv (or the other way around would be cool: mirror my game on my big screen tv (but that's a different problem))
- have an audio & video server which can play to any screen or speaker in the house
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"They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
:
"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."
"I was hoping you would say that."
"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"
"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say? 'Hello, meat. How's it going?'"
http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html
"Bobby, what are you doing in there!"
"Uhh, just conducting a loopback test, Mom"
See the "Arecibo reply" and the one from a year before. For lots more pretty pictures like these, go here and here
quack
The site says: SkyTrain's linear induction motors have no moving parts and rarely require maintenance, making the system one of the most reliable in the world. Whatever. When the new line is done, it will run near my house and take me to work quickly & quietly. We've got lots of hydroelectric power up here, we'd rather run our little trains with it than send it south for lighting up the desert.
quack
Quartz 2D is the lowest level drawing APIs, its font smoothing is what's used in Cocoa & well-written Carbon apps. The Quartz API is totally legacy-free, and is fairly consistent & orthoganal from what I've seen, but like most of OS X's new core services, is also somewhat verbose and clumsy. So it's no surprise that not everyone has converted Quickdraw calls to Quartz 2D. Kudos to Apple for shoehorning another hack into Quickdraw and giving "lazy" developers like MS another option.
quack
Richard C. Hoagland and friends have some odd theories, but one of them has been somewhat predictive along the lines of this finding. The theory is that Mars was in tidal lock in the not-too-distant past, ie. that it used to be a moon of a larger planet (which exploded or something).
Predicted by this theory: the distribution of underground water-ice at the equator being primarily in two areas 180 degrees apart. This is what was found, and funny thing, these are apparently areas of high-elevation, not low-elevation.
Also predicted, climate change on Mars due to cataclismic event as opposed to a slow decline. Such a rapid event would cause exactly the sort of thing described in this mars lake article.
Another good prediction: the 'stains' visible in Mars orbiter pics that look like liquid water on the surface, in fact are liquid water leaking to the surface. Others poo-poo this idea because they say Mars climate change was geologically ancient, and if water was leaking to the surface as frequently as the pics suggest, it would all be gone by now. Hoagland's theory says the climate change was relatively recent (millions of years), so this really is water and its not all gone yet. Look for this to be found next & lets see if the standard model can survive.
www.enterprisemission.com
Richard C. Hoagland is coincidentally is on the Coast to Coast AM (yes, Art Bell's radio show) tonight, not discussing this topic however (hmm, Speilberg producing TV miniseries about what??)
The Mac exists for a small group of people, and also in my opinion as a testing ground for new technology. Would your PC have a USB port on it right now if it wern't put onto a Mac first for B. Gates to notice and snap up?
:-o)). Like a big, round, plastic, bondi blue clue-hammer smooshing the chicken & the egg together in one swift (if somewhat effeminate) blow. Mmm, chicken omlette.
Apple didn't cause the adoption of USB on PC motherboards, rather they kickstarted the market for USB devices.
Even before iMacs came along, PC motherboard already had USB (can you say Intel). So lots of PCs had USB ports, but nobody used them. As I understand it, Microsoft's USB support in Windows was either nonexistent (in win95) or flaky (in win98), so there were very few USB devices and even fewer suck^H^H^H^Hbuyers. blah blah chicken-egg blah
What Apple did with the iMac was cause a huge new market for USB *devices*. This was because the iMac had no other ports (except net & phone (and no floppy drive
The hypothetical question is instead: without Apple, would your PC's USB ports still be unused? Would PC users still be using a parallel port to connect printers or lame devices like zip drives & video capture boxes? (or do PC users still do that anyhow?) or MP3 players?! (shudder)
And about the column.. Dvorak is a stupidhead. "[Apple should start] fresh or at least introducing something new". Funny, it looks to me like Apple has already been reinventing its hardware & software to good effect for about 4 years now, increasingly so. I suspect he really means Apple should start making Wintel boxes. Out.
According to some theories, the universe is an 11 dimensional finite state machine with a cycle time of 1x10-63second ... Plankt time
Or its a simulation in which Plankt time is the framerate! (blah beowulf blah) On the other hand, time itself would be part of the simulation, which could be running at any speed, slower.. or faster.
I can see it now, our universe running in some shlep's screensaver which pumps out a universe over lunchtime, the sum total of human evolution and achievement resulting in a single pixel flipped from yellow to orange.
Radio astronomers will have to put their gear on the far side of the moon, where all telescopes belong.
Positive PR from security updates is probably not it. The plan is surely far more insideous, perhaps as described in Cringely's article from last year: The Death of TCP/IP
It's an old game called Provocation, perfected by dirty-tricks gang who now control your planet. Have a nice day.
the highlight for that year is "Leisure Suit Larry is born (without a name)", it seems likely that that's what "Softporn Adventure" turned in to
Indeed it was. Google found pages here and here (pg 69, ha).
The three Apple II programs any 12 year old boy was sure to have in the early-mid 80s were "Softporn Adventure", "Strip Poker" (with Suzi or Melissa!), and another one I can't quite remember the name of - if it had a name at all. It might have been called "Spanish Fly" but probably not. It wasn't a game, just a badly drawn hi-res cartoon that used page flipping and crummy beeps to remarkable effect (not really).
I want to do this over the 100BaseT LAN in my house.
:-)
[Permit me to go off on a tangent..] In fact, I want to allow all my content input/generation devices to broadcast on my LAN, where any other content presenters can pick them up.
I want to:
- play cd or tuner from my living room stereo and also hear it in my bedroom or basement
- when watching the game on tv, also feed the audio to the bathroom
- when surfing or gaming at my computer, monitor what someone else is watching on tv (or the other way around would be cool: mirror my game on my big screen tv (but that's a different problem))
- have an audio & video server which can play to any screen or speaker in the house
Is this possible? impractical? silly?
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no sig, no plan, no clue