By the way, the same thing happened in the US when television was introduced. In fact, if you look at geographic location, you'll see that crime went up in each as soon as television became available. So like, TV would come online in New York, and crime would go up. TV would become available in California, and crime would go up, etc.
Jeez. I would have never guessed that shows like I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, Mr. Ed, the morning farm report and that Indian head test pattern had such a sinister influence on the population.
I still remember watching those shows on our black-and-white TV that sat on spindly wooden legs. I turned out OK, but I think it's because I payed more attention to the cool little RCA dog/grammophone logo on the cabinet and the 3-minute lingering white dot after shutdown than I did to the programming.
The economics would be similar to the current space shuttle: Cost of $200M to build the probe, $400M more to add the capability to return to earth, $800M more to develop and pay for "reusable" durability systems, and after each mission it would require a $500M overhaul for the next use.
It would be better just to spend $200M per mission and save the rest of the money.
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That's a pretty interesting article. For a while I've figured that one day people would start mining old landfills for raw materials; maybe that might come sooner than later.
It's funny that they're focusing on turkey guts though.
From the article:
Today, here at the plant at Philadelphia's Naval Business Center, the experimental feedstock is turkey processing-plant waste: feathers, bones, skin, blood, fat, guts. A forklift dumps 1,400 pounds of the nasty stuff into the machine's first stage, a 350-horsepower grinder that masticates it into gray brown slurry.
When I saw that part, I thought: Isn't that the recipie for turkey hot dog wieners? They could just squeeze it into casings and sell it for $1.49 per pack.
This is great news for ISPs! After the user has exhausted his 1 GB monthly bandwidth allocation, he can now choose to purchase more extra bandwidth to enhance revenue.
If extra bandwidth is only 10 cents per megabyte, a single user on a 150mbit line could choose to purchase up to $4,860,000.00 per month (plus $324,432.46 federal excise tax and $127,368.32 universal service fee) of additional data services! If only a few percent of all users decide to puchase this much data, there would be a huge potential for revenue growth.
Dunno about this one. IANARS (I am not a rocket scientist), but I suspect that even a damaged shuttle would be safer for re-entry than riding back in the Hubble.
They could all don cowboy hats and ride the Hubble down a la Dr. Strangelove. They might not survive, but they would sure go out in style.
A friend of mine recently had a minor crash in his F50, as an example, and the repairs involved $150,000 worth of new carbon fiber -- 8 layers for most body panels
I could have saved your friend about $149,900. (I'm pretty handy with a bucket of bondo and a putty knife.)
Good thing you posted that anonymously when using the U word. You were sure to be sued.
It's easy to talk about UNIX® ** without being sued. Just follow a few simple guidlines, and you can put UNIX® in your posts all day long. Let's try the original post with lawsuit-resistant terminology:
UNIX® become a generic term. Removing trademark status would benefit not only Apple, but the free UNIX®es, Linux and the BSDs.
** UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries.
Even with only 20K or so of code, the apollo guidance computer software development nearly slipped the schedule of the entire moon program. This page on this very interesting site describes the software development.
I haven't read the whole site in a while, but IIRC, it describes the typical problems with software: underscoping the problem (in the 60s, most people assumed that the computer hardware development would be the majority of the effort), code bloat (the computer required much more memory than originally planned), buggy production code, schedule slips, problems caused by cruft. When the project started, they just waded right in to coding with few tools and little awareness of the need for proper engineering practice.
This particular case was made more difficult by the program loading procedure: the program ROM was made one bit at a time by hand threading magnetic cores on to tiny wires then embedding it in a solid block of epoxy. The write-compile-debug cycle could be weeks. If bugs were discovered late in the schedule, the astronauts just had to work around them. The software devleopers did have mainframe-based simulators for development, though.
With the gigabytes of space available for today's software, I'm surprised that any modern space projects get finished at all.
you know how long I've been working on my three dimensional one? over a year. Perhaps I'm stupid, but that thing is impossible to solve.
Maybe somebody subjected you to one of my favorite old tricks. Take one corner off of a solved cube and rotate it so that the colors don't match the rest of the cube. Reassemble in this orientation. Presto: unsolveable cube.
People aren't excited while skydiving because they expect to plummet to their death, but most of them do know it's possible.
I doubt if anyone in history who has ever won the lottery put more into it than they got out. It's this possibility which excites people, let them have their fun.
Of course, if you drive a few miles to the store to buy a lotto ticket, your odds of dying in a traffic accident are similar to your odds of winning (both about 20,000,000:1).
Maybe playing lotto has more in common with skydiving than most people think.
Our government has sunk to new low levels. With this news, it looks like they've even sold or given our capitol buildings to private capitalists, and now these corporate robber-barons have set up shop in the former seats of government. I guess it's fitting, because they are running this country now.
And exactly *where* in the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights are we guaranteed the right of keeping our mobile telephone number forever?
Where in the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights are corporations guaranteed the rights to keeping contiguous chunks of mobile telephone numbers forever?
The first time I ever called tech support was because a Power PC, mac compatible, had just electrocuted me and I wanted to send it in for repair. It ended with a lot of yelling after his script demanded I electrocute myself again.
That script does make sense. If the user is killed by the debugging procedure, then the user's problems are over and the service ticket can be closed.
You do not own the content, you own the media it's on.
You do own the content. However, copyright law puts a "lien" on the content that generally forbids you to redistribute any copies you make.
This is similar to how you "own" your back yard, but the local government retains a lien that prevents you from building a garage within 3 feet of the lot line. You are restricted from doing certain things to your yard, but you don't say that you don't own it. Decades of IP creeping featurism have made people forget this distinction. The "P" in IP refers to ownership of the "lien", not of the content that it covers.
You merely license the content and are granted limited rights to view it.
When you buy a book, a CD or a movie, you do not sign a contract. Therefore, there is no license. You can do anything you want with the content you own as long as you do not violate the copyright statutes.
(Unfortunately, the DMCA breaks this centuries-old balanced system. Publishers create extralegal "licenses" implemented with technology alone, and the DMCA gives blanket legal enforcement to any such technical "license" terms whatsoever, no matter how byzantine, restrictive, broken, or proprietary-third-party-locked-in they may be.)
SEC investigators have unearthed several tractor-trailers suspected of being IBM's "mobile mainframe warehouses". Intellegence sources hinted that these specially modified trucks were capable of storing unsold mainframe inventory for an indefinite period of time -- even though the inventory had been reported as "revenue" to teams of international auditors.
Initial field tests indicated that the trucks did indeed contain mainframe hardware. However, the final determination can only be made after full analysis of the racks of circuit boards and cables.
Authorities had long suspected the existence of these mobile facilities based on the accounts of disgruntled IBM employees who reportedly witnessed the loading of the trucks.
You're off by one digit; if you aim for a comet 1 billion miles away, you're going to miss it by 100,000 miles.
Plus, it's not that simple. You have to decide if you're using standard feet (.3048 meter) or U.S. survey feet (0.3048006096012 meter). You might still miss the comet by 600 miles.
uh. it has no emissions, its hydrogen powered dude.
Well, it says that the engine is based on a conventional 50cc 2-stroke engine. These get lubrication by mixing motor oil with the gasline fuel. Unless they've figured out an entirely new way to lubricate the engine, you'd still get that nasty stinky blue smoke coming out from the burning oil.
In case of an accident, the tank will freeze and no fire or explosion would occur. Anyone can fill-up the tank on the scooter within 3 to 4 minutes, without being in any danger.
Unfortunately however, failing to learn the lessons of history, the manufacturer coated the scooter with a shiny silver coat of volatile powdered aluminum rocket fuel.
actually, Britain has hundreds of cameras used to catch motorists who speed or run red lights.
It's strange, but I've driven through much of the UK on a couple of trips a few years back and I don't think I can recall seeing any stop lights. Intersections almost always seemed to be managed using traffic circles or other arrangements where one path had to yield right-of-way without any active signal controls.
I came away thinking that the whole setup was pretty clever. (Even though it was stressful trying to navigate the unfamiliar traffic circles while trying to decipher the direction signs that often looked like a diagram of a porcupine rolled into a ball.)
A quick grep of/usr/src/linux reveals that that code is used in over 4400 lines of the linux kernel.
Wow, maybe SCO has a case after all. That is a significant body of code, and there is zero chance that the kernel would work if all of those variables were removed.
I never suspected that so much vital code had been lifted from SCO's sources.
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Jeez. I would have never guessed that shows like I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, Mr. Ed, the morning farm report and that Indian head test pattern had such a sinister influence on the population.
I still remember watching those shows on our black-and-white TV that sat on spindly wooden legs. I turned out OK, but I think it's because I payed more attention to the cool little RCA dog/grammophone logo on the cabinet and the 3-minute lingering white dot after shutdown than I did to the programming.
It would be better just to spend $200M per mission and save the rest of the money.
It's funny that they're focusing on turkey guts though. From the article:
When I saw that part, I thought: Isn't that the recipie for turkey hot dog wieners? They could just squeeze it into casings and sell it for $1.49 per pack.
If extra bandwidth is only 10 cents per megabyte, a single user on a 150mbit line could choose to purchase up to $4,860,000.00 per month (plus $324,432.46 federal excise tax and $127,368.32 universal service fee) of additional data services! If only a few percent of all users decide to puchase this much data, there would be a huge potential for revenue growth.
They could all don cowboy hats and ride the Hubble down a la Dr. Strangelove. They might not survive, but they would sure go out in style.
I could have saved your friend about $149,900. (I'm pretty handy with a bucket of bondo and a putty knife.)
It's easy to talk about UNIX® ** without being sued. Just follow a few simple guidlines, and you can put UNIX® in your posts all day long. Let's try the original post with lawsuit-resistant terminology:
** UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries.
Cells are held together by the hydrophobicity of their phospholipid bilayers. This effect is not decreased by lack of gravity.
You've told me zero-G isn't the problem . Now ... I want you to tell me: What ... is ... killing ... my ... men!!??
You've got to the bottom of this .... before we all end up like Johnson. I'll be in my quarters.
I haven't read the whole site in a while, but IIRC, it describes the typical problems with software: underscoping the problem (in the 60s, most people assumed that the computer hardware development would be the majority of the effort), code bloat (the computer required much more memory than originally planned), buggy production code, schedule slips, problems caused by cruft. When the project started, they just waded right in to coding with few tools and little awareness of the need for proper engineering practice.
This particular case was made more difficult by the program loading procedure: the program ROM was made one bit at a time by hand threading magnetic cores on to tiny wires then embedding it in a solid block of epoxy. The write-compile-debug cycle could be weeks. If bugs were discovered late in the schedule, the astronauts just had to work around them. The software devleopers did have mainframe-based simulators for development, though.
With the gigabytes of space available for today's software, I'm surprised that any modern space projects get finished at all.
Maybe somebody subjected you to one of my favorite old tricks. Take one corner off of a solved cube and rotate it so that the colors don't match the rest of the cube. Reassemble in this orientation. Presto: unsolveable cube.
Actually, his program did something more like:
find -name \*.c | xargs wc
I doubt if anyone in history who has ever won the lottery put more into it than they got out. It's this possibility which excites people, let them have their fun.
Of course, if you drive a few miles to the store to buy a lotto ticket, your odds of dying in a traffic accident are similar to your odds of winning (both about 20,000,000:1).
Maybe playing lotto has more in common with skydiving than most people think.
Our government has sunk to new low levels. With this news, it looks like they've even sold or given our capitol buildings to private capitalists, and now these corporate robber-barons have set up shop in the former seats of government. I guess it's fitting, because they are running this country now.
Where in the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights are corporations guaranteed the rights to keeping contiguous chunks of mobile telephone numbers forever?
That script does make sense. If the user is killed by the debugging procedure, then the user's problems are over and the service ticket can be closed.
You do own the content. However, copyright law puts a "lien" on the content that generally forbids you to redistribute any copies you make.
This is similar to how you "own" your back yard, but the local government retains a lien that prevents you from building a garage within 3 feet of the lot line. You are restricted from doing certain things to your yard, but you don't say that you don't own it. Decades of IP creeping featurism have made people forget this distinction. The "P" in IP refers to ownership of the "lien", not of the content that it covers.
You merely license the content and are granted limited rights to view it.
When you buy a book, a CD or a movie, you do not sign a contract. Therefore, there is no license. You can do anything you want with the content you own as long as you do not violate the copyright statutes.
(Unfortunately, the DMCA breaks this centuries-old balanced system. Publishers create extralegal "licenses" implemented with technology alone, and the DMCA gives blanket legal enforcement to any such technical "license" terms whatsoever, no matter how byzantine, restrictive, broken, or proprietary-third-party-locked-in they may be.)
Remember DOC, DOC, DOC, DOC, DOC, DOC, DOC, DOC, ....
I don't know... the phrase works pretty well if you imagine Duke Nukem saying it:
Of course, nobody takes a vaporware cartoon characters too seriously...
Initial field tests indicated that the trucks did indeed contain mainframe hardware. However, the final determination can only be made after full analysis of the racks of circuit boards and cables.
Authorities had long suspected the existence of these mobile facilities based on the accounts of disgruntled IBM employees who reportedly witnessed the loading of the trucks.
You're off by one digit; if you aim for a comet 1 billion miles away, you're going to miss it by 100,000 miles.
Plus, it's not that simple. You have to decide if you're using standard feet (.3048 meter) or U.S. survey feet (0.3048006096012 meter). You might still miss the comet by 600 miles.
Hmmm... I need to find something on the web. Bummer. I don't know how.
Wait! I remember hearing about a site called a "search engine". It knows how to find anything I need.
Gee... If I only knew how I could find a search engine. I'm kind of stuck here...
I know! I'll Google for it!
Here we go... http//www.google.com ... "search engine" ... OK.
Ahhh... Alta Vista. Sounds like just what I need.
I just love the Internet; information is always one click away!
Well, it says that the engine is based on a conventional 50cc 2-stroke engine. These get lubrication by mixing motor oil with the gasline fuel. Unless they've figured out an entirely new way to lubricate the engine, you'd still get that nasty stinky blue smoke coming out from the burning oil.
Unfortunately however, failing to learn the lessons of history, the manufacturer coated the scooter with a shiny silver coat of volatile powdered aluminum rocket fuel.
It's strange, but I've driven through much of the UK on a couple of trips a few years back and I don't think I can recall seeing any stop lights. Intersections almost always seemed to be managed using traffic circles or other arrangements where one path had to yield right-of-way without any active signal controls.
I came away thinking that the whole setup was pretty clever. (Even though it was stressful trying to navigate the unfamiliar traffic circles while trying to decipher the direction signs that often looked like a diagram of a porcupine rolled into a ball.)
int i;
Those bastards!
A quick grep of /usr/src/linux reveals that that code is used in over 4400 lines of the linux kernel.
Wow, maybe SCO has a case after all. That is a significant body of code, and there is zero chance that the kernel would work if all of those variables were removed.
I never suspected that so much vital code had been lifted from SCO's sources.