There already is a second stage, Space Ship 2. The White Knight (poor choice of names, I see some crazy hick in a KKK hood when I hear it), is simple a very low weight high altitude jet that is capable of carrying the Space Ship 2 to a thinner part of the atmosphere closer to it's destination altitude so it can use a much smaller rocket to reach apex. This is similar to the military idea of using air breathing super jets (scram jets) to get missiles/rockets to a high altitude and speed so the rocket itself uses much less fuel and can subsequently weight significantly less yet carry a decent amount of cargo.
Um, I'm pretty sure they put some monitoring equipment on it. The purpose of the specimens would be to ensure biological matter will actually survive up in the damn thing before we start sending up the primates.
I think you just got the point with your last statement. There are plenty of places where there is a huge abundance of sunlight, and very little possibility of growing plants, i.e. the desert. Not only are there no plants, but there are some areas where there is very little life in general. These places could be exploited for our benefit without interrupting human/plant/animal(non-human) habitats.
Gotta agree with Guitar Hero, the guitar the built has been a success and it really only works with one game. In fact there are any number of third party knock-offs for the guitar.
They avoid paying taxes, they brainwash themselves and others, they use pyramid schemes to make their money, they suppress freedom of thought and action that doesn't benefit the church
Wait, so how does this differ from Christianity/Judaism/Islam?
Sometimes I think you would need a supercomputer to run Lotus Notes decently. It is sloooooow even on my fastest machines, although I've only ever used it through my corporate email so most of the slowness could be our servers.
I think you forgot the masses between the sun and Jupiter which will clearly effect the center of gravity. These are not two independent bodies operating in an otherwise massless system.
The Sun? Never heard of it, what weird world do you live in with your fantasy realms called "out of doors". Man, Slashdot really does attract crazy people.
The PS3 is expensive even when adjusted for inflation compared to the average price of consoles since the early 80's. Not only that but recall that those first systems typically came with two controllers and a game. Add that extra $80 to the PS3 and your theory that consumer electronics are violently declining in price goes down the drain.
There are two IR sensors on the controller, and a bank of IR sensors on or near the console. This allows the console to determine the complete position of the controller in 3d space (X,Y,Z). 2 IR sensors on the controller has the additional benefit of allowing the IR bank to determine the rotational velocity of the control. Essentially the systems knows exactly where you controller is in space, and even if its rotating in a particular direction.
The robot the build will be replaced with an Aibo, Takashi will be an Indian guy, Gilbert will use his photoshop skills to pick up the girl, instead of his logo skills (does anyone remember logo?), Lamar will be a metrosexual instead of a homosexual, Haley Joel Osmand will play Wormser, and Ogre will be an actual Ogre using left over makeup from Lord of the Rings. Ted McGinley will still play the jock. Also the Christian Right will lobby, and the panty raid scene will unfortunately be removed from the movie.
According to Websters "A Theory" is A working hypothesis that is considered probable based on experimental evidence or factual or conceptual analysis and is accepted as a basis for experimentation. Therefore intelligent design is not a theory. It has no experimental evidence, no factual or conceptual analysis, and it is comepletely and uttery untestable by any known or concieved means. It's basically a completely random guess that is perpetuated by people whose families and history have too much invested in their religion for it to be wrong. How would you like to find out that the last 66 generations in your family tree wasted their lives persuing nothing.
KNOPPIX CD's and similar are a great help for fixing a dorked up install.
This is how I have always installed windows on a machine that already has linux installed. Install windows, throw in my knoppix cd, chroot onto the linux parition once knoppix loads, add the new windows partiton to my lilo.conf or grub.conf using chainloader, then run lilo or update-grub. It's extremely difficult for an end user but for any halfway competent geek who can read a manpage and follow instructions it should be trivial. I'm not sure you can fix the Mac problem in a similar manner. Fact is I doubt many non-geeks are using linux already and will be subsequently installing windows, while many Mac users will likely hear about boot camp and want to give it a shot.
Gotta agree with you there, as an analyst I am tied to excel, and truth be told it really is much better than any other spreadsheet app I have used. I could care less about word, and I loathe powerpoint, I could really use any alternative to those two without care, but I will stick with office until a decent alternative to excel comes along.
What can you do on a Linux box that you can't do on a mac?
Look at the gui and core apps source code? Yes I realize that the kernel (Darwin) is open source, and I'm not a OSS zelot, but it is important to some people out there especially developers and do-it-yourselfers. Yes for the end user, you can pretty much do the same things on OS X that you can on a Mac.
Yes, Yes, we get the fact that these characters were all played by Billy West. Unfortunately he is currently busy with the wild success of the Ren & Stimpy adult party cartoon and will not be able to work on Futurama again.
t is not really possible for Science to tell us what is right and wrong. Religion is still important for item 2.
I disagree, Right and Wrong are completely subjective. There is no absolute right and absolute wrong. No system, be it religion, or science, can tell a person how to behave, it is up to the individual to decide how to act. There in lies the problem, religion believes that all people should act and feel the same, whereas human behavior is complex an intricate. Religion is basically one or a select few people who believe they have the absolute answer to a completely relative question, and religious people spend most of their lives living like sheep and convincing others to do the same through fear and coersion. There is no one set of beliefs which is right, each person must choose to act how they feel is the proper way and experiance the consequences, weather those consequences are viewed by ones self as good or bad.
Slashdot Mirror
There already is a second stage, Space Ship 2. The White Knight (poor choice of names, I see some crazy hick in a KKK hood when I hear it), is simple a very low weight high altitude jet that is capable of carrying the Space Ship 2 to a thinner part of the atmosphere closer to it's destination altitude so it can use a much smaller rocket to reach apex. This is similar to the military idea of using air breathing super jets (scram jets) to get missiles/rockets to a high altitude and speed so the rocket itself uses much less fuel and can subsequently weight significantly less yet carry a decent amount of cargo.
-kap
Um, I'm pretty sure they put some monitoring equipment on it. The purpose of the specimens would be to ensure biological matter will actually survive up in the damn thing before we start sending up the primates.
-kap
I think you just got the point with your last statement. There are plenty of places where there is a huge abundance of sunlight, and very little possibility of growing plants, i.e. the desert. Not only are there no plants, but there are some areas where there is very little life in general. These places could be exploited for our benefit without interrupting human/plant/animal(non-human) habitats.
-kap
I can see it now...
{scottish accent}Got a little sheep in ya? Want about 15% more?{/scottish accent}
-kap
Gotta agree with Guitar Hero, the guitar the built has been a success and it really only works with one game. In fact there are any number of third party knock-offs for the guitar.
-Kap
They avoid paying taxes, they brainwash themselves and others, they use pyramid schemes to make their money, they suppress freedom of thought and action that doesn't benefit the church
Wait, so how does this differ from Christianity/Judaism/Islam?
-Kap
Sometimes I think you would need a supercomputer to run Lotus Notes decently. It is sloooooow even on my fastest machines, although I've only ever used it through my corporate email so most of the slowness could be our servers.
-Kap
I think you forgot the masses between the sun and Jupiter which will clearly effect the center of gravity. These are not two independent bodies operating in an otherwise massless system.
Wait, so it looks like a penis AND it's stinky?
The Sun? Never heard of it, what weird world do you live in with your fantasy realms called "out of doors". Man, Slashdot really does attract crazy people.
-kap
The PS3 is expensive even when adjusted for inflation compared to the average price of consoles since the early 80's. Not only that but recall that those first systems typically came with two controllers and a game. Add that extra $80 to the PS3 and your theory that consumer electronics are violently declining in price goes down the drain.
-Kap
There are two IR sensors on the controller, and a bank of IR sensors on or near the console. This allows the console to determine the complete position of the controller in 3d space (X,Y,Z). 2 IR sensors on the controller has the additional benefit of allowing the IR bank to determine the rotational velocity of the control. Essentially the systems knows exactly where you controller is in space, and even if its rotating in a particular direction.
-Kap
The robot the build will be replaced with an Aibo, Takashi will be an Indian guy, Gilbert will use his photoshop skills to pick up the girl, instead of his logo skills (does anyone remember logo?), Lamar will be a metrosexual instead of a homosexual, Haley Joel Osmand will play Wormser, and Ogre will be an actual Ogre using left over makeup from Lord of the Rings. Ted McGinley will still play the jock. Also the Christian Right will lobby, and the panty raid scene will unfortunately be removed from the movie.
-Kap
Very Clever! Let's just hope slashdotters are into the Guitar Virtuoso scene.
I always end up getting talked into buying those X-Mods cars. Grrrrrrrr.
According to Websters "A Theory" is A working hypothesis that is considered probable based on experimental evidence or factual or conceptual analysis and is accepted as a basis for experimentation. Therefore intelligent design is not a theory. It has no experimental evidence, no factual or conceptual analysis, and it is comepletely and uttery untestable by any known or concieved means. It's basically a completely random guess that is perpetuated by people whose families and history have too much invested in their religion for it to be wrong. How would you like to find out that the last 66 generations in your family tree wasted their lives persuing nothing.
-kap
KNOPPIX CD's and similar are a great help for fixing a dorked up install.
This is how I have always installed windows on a machine that already has linux installed. Install windows, throw in my knoppix cd, chroot onto the linux parition once knoppix loads, add the new windows partiton to my lilo.conf or grub.conf using chainloader, then run lilo or update-grub. It's extremely difficult for an end user but for any halfway competent geek who can read a manpage and follow instructions it should be trivial. I'm not sure you can fix the Mac problem in a similar manner. Fact is I doubt many non-geeks are using linux already and will be subsequently installing windows, while many Mac users will likely hear about boot camp and want to give it a shot.
-kap
Better yet, how can it be a Universal Media Disc, if it only plays on one system and is a completely proprietary format?
-kaplanfx
Gotta agree with you there, as an analyst I am tied to excel, and truth be told it really is much better than any other spreadsheet app I have used. I could care less about word, and I loathe powerpoint, I could really use any alternative to those two without care, but I will stick with office until a decent alternative to excel comes along.
-Kappy
RAmen!
I was touched ~~
Only until you get your Epic Mount!!
What can you do on a Linux box that you can't do on a mac?
Look at the gui and core apps source code? Yes I realize that the kernel (Darwin) is open source, and I'm not a OSS zelot, but it is important to some people out there especially developers and do-it-yourselfers. Yes for the end user, you can pretty much do the same things on OS X that you can on a Mac.
This reminds me of when my sharp zarus could only sync with windows (yet it ran linux).
Yes, Yes, we get the fact that these characters were all played by Billy West. Unfortunately he is currently busy with the wild success of the Ren & Stimpy adult party cartoon and will not be able to work on Futurama again.
t is not really possible for Science to tell us what is right and wrong.
Religion is still important for item 2.
I disagree, Right and Wrong are completely subjective. There is no absolute right and absolute wrong. No system, be it religion, or science, can tell a person how to behave, it is up to the individual to decide how to act. There in lies the problem, religion believes that all people should act and feel the same, whereas human behavior is complex an intricate. Religion is basically one or a select few people who believe they have the absolute answer to a completely relative question, and religious people spend most of their lives living like sheep and convincing others to do the same through fear and coersion. There is no one set of beliefs which is right, each person must choose to act how they feel is the proper way and experiance the consequences, weather those consequences are viewed by ones self as good or bad.
-kaplanfx