And Nasa launched the last of its deep space probes...
Sadly, I worry that might well be true.
Why not simply turn over access to "deep space" to private enterprise? Asteroid belt mining is a staple of SF - is there a real commercial incentive today or do we have to wait till ol' Mother Earth runs out of diggable dirt-based useful stuff first?
And wasn't there a story about the moon being made not of cheese but of some kind of minable... helium? Something like that...
that we can finally see just what happens with that light box experiment with waves/particles of light?
Someone with a clue help me out here. Does this mean we'll get a definitive answer on how a single particle of light can actually be in two places at once?
NASA has released a video clip of its server being struck with 17 billion hits all at the same time.
"That's about the same as 4 tons of TNT, or an entire Slashdot community" says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL.
It was inscribed with a text of over 2,000 characters, of which about 95% have been deciphered. The full text of the inscription has not yet been published.
Why? Go on, I DARE you... publish the text. Let's all have a look, particuarly if it says "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over... Tell us what it says. We can handle it.
Scientists seem quite keen on delaying the release of their findings until such time as they Know Everything There Is To Know about [insert whatever it is here]. Haven't they heard of beta?
I get sick and tired of the "Y2K was all nonsense" line of argument. I saw plenty of companies that would have been unable to function without their Y2K upgrades.
Sure, the Hollywood spectacular was never on the cards, but we all knew that right?
Y2K was real. It was a problem. We solved it. Well done to all concerned.
BG has gone from strength to strength. Who'd have thought it, for a remake of such a camp piece o'crap. I went in with EXCEEDINGLY low expectations. Maybe that's the secret.
All my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb and my mom always tolld me to try and lern just like Miss Kinnian tells me but its very hard to be smart and even when I lern something in Miss Kinnians class at the school I ferget alot.
This is astonishingly cool news... I can sit here, in Auckland, New Zealand, and trawl (not troll) through archive footage going back to Sir Thomas Lipton sailing in one of the first America's Cup yachting regattas.
Come on, people. Are we so jaded that this isn't taken for what it is? It's fantastic news. Gone are the days of history text books that don't mention the Korean War, let alone anything more recent. Gone are the maths texts that have been scribbled on/chewed/drooled in by countless generations of bored teens (countless because they can't count). We have access to a staggering amount of information - the collected knowledge of the world is at our fingertips.
Quite probably, but the best thing about my own government is its complete lack of influence on most matters of import... Whereas in this instance, any decision handed down based on BellSouth's lobbying will probably influence the rest of us as well. Pricing, governance, attitude. New Zealand's own telcos do like to look to the US for "ideas" on how best to "maintain" their market "position".
And who else have they funded...? Surely there are a couple of other companies, or are they simply very good at picking future winners on the largest scale possible?
Here at Computerworld New Zealand we have both a paper edition (weekly) and a daily online service http://www.computerworld.co.nz/ and I like to think they serve different readers in different ways.
Take a breaking news story (HP buys Compaq is my favourite example). We ran a BREAKING NEWS thing on the site immediately. We ran a follow-up story later that day with industry reaction (such as it was) also online. The next morning we had the customer comments/expectations story online, while most daily newspapers here were only just running the equivalent of our first story.
By the time our weekly print edition came out we had a full round-up of comment locally plus international expectations etc for a more rounded view.
That's the best approach I feel. Break news online (with attendant email alerts, SMS alerts or whatever you've got going) with more detailed relfective stuff in print.
This isn't new - print had to cope with radio beating it to news and TV (film at eleven!) doing what we couldn't do. What print does well is take a step back and offer a critical analytical assessment. In depth stuff. Well, that's what print SHOULD do well.
The two aren't mutually exclusive - print and online can co-exist quite nicely thank you. You add immediacy to your print edition with online. You add depth to your online edition through print. Different readers are served in different ways.
In 1972/2005 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court/accidentally released into the wild for a crime they didn't commit/by a hurricane.
These men/dolphins promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade/maximum security pool to the Los Angeles/Texas underground.
Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team. Warning - will work for mackerel.
Slashdot Mirror
Like SCO business...
OK... taking bets now... how long before SCO goes completely?
copying copyright material is not theft. It is copying.
Why should we be treating this as a criminal act when it's clearly a civil issue?
Lobbying money, that's what.
And Nasa launched the last of its deep space probes...
... helium? Something like that...
Sadly, I worry that might well be true.
Why not simply turn over access to "deep space" to private enterprise? Asteroid belt mining is a staple of SF - is there a real commercial incentive today or do we have to wait till ol' Mother Earth runs out of diggable dirt-based useful stuff first?
And wasn't there a story about the moon being made not of cheese but of some kind of minable
(wanders off to google for a bit)
that we can finally see just what happens with that light box experiment with waves/particles of light?
Someone with a clue help me out here. Does this mean we'll get a definitive answer on how a single particle of light can actually be in two places at once?
NASA has released a video clip of its server being struck with 17 billion hits all at the same time.
"That's about the same as 4 tons of TNT, or an entire Slashdot community" says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL.
from the Wik:
It was inscribed with a text of over 2,000 characters, of which about 95% have been deciphered. The full text of the inscription has not yet been published.
Why? Go on, I DARE you... publish the text. Let's all have a look, particuarly if it says "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over... Tell us what it says. We can handle it.
Scientists seem quite keen on delaying the release of their findings until such time as they Know Everything There Is To Know about [insert whatever it is here]. Haven't they heard of beta?
Well done that man...
I get sick and tired of the "Y2K was all nonsense" line of argument. I saw plenty of companies that would have been unable to function without their Y2K upgrades.
Sure, the Hollywood spectacular was never on the cards, but we all knew that right?
Y2K was real. It was a problem. We solved it. Well done to all concerned.
Is that the best they can come up with?
Attacks on SCADA systems?
Who puts their vital power infrastructure controls online anyway?
I cry FUD, and let slip the dogs of mainstream media.
Not so long as journalists keep getting arrested with Yahoo's help.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31124
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0909/p01s03-woap.ht
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17180
I'd turn up. More power to ya, Ron.
BG has gone from strength to strength. Who'd have thought it, for a remake of such a camp piece o'crap. I went in with EXCEEDINGLY low expectations. Maybe that's the secret.
Anyway, Ron can tell a story. I'll be there.
All my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb and my mom always tolld me to try and lern just like Miss Kinnian tells me but its very hard to be smart and even when I lern something in Miss Kinnians class at the school I ferget alot.
You mean, there was actually a vision? With the Star Wars prequels?
Where?
Come on, it was bad enough Han Fired Second but to make Yoda into Hong Kong Phooey and Darth Vader into a whiny teen... puhleeze.
Worst Use of Natalie Portman Eva.
Some actual visualisation would be nice.
For me it would be:
John Brunner (the internet, in the mid 70s, with privacy concerns for all. OMG)
Philip K Dick (mad as a bag of hammers)
Ray Bradbury (mostly for his non-SF short stories, funnily enough, but for Farenheit 451)
Robert Heinlein (just for the idea that when you don't know what to do, keep the readers on their toes by saying "the door dilates". Got to love that)
Fredric Brown (short stories about time travel that work)
Neal Stephenson (real geeks, real simple (lousy endings though... ))
there are many more, these are the few I can think of off the top of my head.
let go...
relieved of command...
disestablished...
made redundant...
surplus to requirements...
it all amounts to the same thing at the end of the day: Yer Outta Here.
I got no mod pooints so kudos to you....
This is astonishingly cool news... I can sit here, in Auckland, New Zealand, and trawl (not troll) through archive footage going back to Sir Thomas Lipton sailing in one of the first America's Cup yachting regattas.
Come on, people. Are we so jaded that this isn't taken for what it is? It's fantastic news. Gone are the days of history text books that don't mention the Korean War, let alone anything more recent. Gone are the maths texts that have been scribbled on/chewed/drooled in by countless generations of bored teens (countless because they can't count). We have access to a staggering amount of information - the collected knowledge of the world is at our fingertips.
Yay us.
Quite probably, but the best thing about my own government is its complete lack of influence on most matters of import... Whereas in this instance, any decision handed down based on BellSouth's lobbying will probably influence the rest of us as well. Pricing, governance, attitude. New Zealand's own telcos do like to look to the US for "ideas" on how best to "maintain" their market "position".
the American Govt doesn't run the interweb, eh?
Oh, wait....
never mind.
And who else have they funded...? Surely there are a couple of other companies, or are they simply very good at picking future winners on the largest scale possible?
Here at Computerworld New Zealand we have both a paper edition (weekly) and a daily online service http://www.computerworld.co.nz/ and I like to think they serve different readers in different ways.
Take a breaking news story (HP buys Compaq is my favourite example). We ran a BREAKING NEWS thing on the site immediately. We ran a follow-up story later that day with industry reaction (such as it was) also online. The next morning we had the customer comments/expectations story online, while most daily newspapers here were only just running the equivalent of our first story.
By the time our weekly print edition came out we had a full round-up of comment locally plus international expectations etc for a more rounded view.
That's the best approach I feel. Break news online (with attendant email alerts, SMS alerts or whatever you've got going) with more detailed relfective stuff in print.
This isn't new - print had to cope with radio beating it to news and TV (film at eleven!) doing what we couldn't do. What print does well is take a step back and offer a critical analytical assessment. In depth stuff. Well, that's what print SHOULD do well.
The two aren't mutually exclusive - print and online can co-exist quite nicely thank you. You add immediacy to your print edition with online. You add depth to your online edition through print. Different readers are served in different ways.
not sure if I should post a story I wrote but what the hey, it's /.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/8515A04B
with "hints" on how to circumvent the Aussie only rule. I'm sure you've already cottoned on to that.
Apple NZ head said he doesn't know if/when Apple will even launch in NZ.
Ah, but you see the end of the Hyperion pair... isn't the end. You do have to read Endymion and (the rise of?) Endymion to get the full flavour...
it's worth it because, as you say, hugely rich and entertaining.
Go on. Give it a go. What else are you gonna do - watch more re-runs of Lost? hehehe
For those of you who haven't read Dan Simmons' Hyperion cantos I can't recommend it highly enough...
one of those books (and then series) that actually deserves all the awards/praise heaped on it.
Dan's home page http://www.dansimmons.com/
Come on, helping people regain sensation in their long-dormant limbs? Where can it lead?
Oh the humanity!
Won't someone think of the children!?
etc.
ahem. Sorry. pre-emptive sarcasm mode, OFF!
In 1972/2005 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court/accidentally released into the wild for a crime they didn't commit/by a hurricane.
These men/dolphins promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade/maximum security pool to the Los Angeles/Texas underground.
Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
Warning - will work for mackerel.
blah blah laser
blah blah welcome new overlords
blah blah cluster of these
blah blah blah blah
Frickaseein' wabbits