If there is a planetary ocean, then the cracks are what are called "leads"; Areas of either open water or thin ice between large ice sheets. These are the places where there would be enough light for some photosynthesis to occur. The question I have is; "What is the radiation environment at or near the surface of Europa's leads?"
Jupiter has a simply huge magnetic field that traps cosmic rays and energetic solar wind particles for very long periods of time. This is bad enough that our space hardware has an difficult time with it, and I have heard the speculation that human beings could never visit the region of Jupiter without taking a lethal dose.
Could life evolve or take root (transported from Earth on tektites) in the leads of Europa given the extant conditions?
Long ago, SciFi writers, such as the late Robert Heinlein, used to write about a future in which we all had helicopters in our garages. Well, helicopters are here, and should any major auto maker choose to build them in quantity, they should be roughly as cheap as a luxury SUV. So, why don't most of us have a whirlybird to go to work in? The simple answer is that the skills required to fly a helicopter are a lot more difficult to acquire than the skills required to drive an automobile. (And, we have all seen how badly some people do with *those*!) I predict that this new innovation, though perhaps it will penetrate a bit further than the helicopter, will primarily be the toy of the rich, and the tool of law enforcement. Just like the helicopter.
Well, I work for 3Com now, but a couple of years ago, when I worked for Zenith, I asked 3Com for the specifications for a NIC so I could write a Linux driver for it. I didn't expect much. What I got amazed me. The Very Next Day, by express mail, I got several books on the NIC, and example driver code. Far more than enough. (Then, I discovered that Donald Becker had just added support for the NIC I was interested in, and I simply used his driver. Thanks, Don!)
It is one thing to be able to create an exact copy of a sequenced chromosome. It is another thing entirely to be able to create a working chromosome from first principles. This is an important first step, but it is not even close to a real understanding.
It hardly qualifies as a small business, but I believe that an IMSAI 8080, S-100 machine is still a part of the "Core Board Simulator" at Commonwealth Edison's nuclear data center.
Well, actually, the content of the disk is encrypted, and the key to the decryption comes over the wire from DIVX, and is itself encrypted with unique box and disk information. The disk information itself is coded "out of band" on the disk and is read in a manner different from data. I really doubt that anybody will ever come up with a simple hack that will break this. And the really involved hacks that might be able to break it are unlikely to be profitable enough for anybody to bother developing them.
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I believe it should work as well as any other modem. The iMac modem is not a "bus" modem. It is a serial modem that is wired to a serial port on the processor card via a standard DIN-8 connector. Pretty much a generic Rockwell modem, I believe.
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Okay, so, you've turned me out already as an Apple user. I bought two of the Rev B iMacs at the beginning of the year, one for me, and one for my kids. I have been very pleased with them. I have 96 Meg of RAM in my machine, and a ZIP-100. It may be an "unexpandible" machine, but I haven't yet found anything I want to hook to it that I cannot get a USB version of. I do not have Linux on it yet, but I do run both MkLinux and LinuxPPC on a pair of 7500/132 machines, and they both perform really well.
My opinion is that an iMac is the best computing value for the money. And a 300MHz machine at a cheaper price is rumored to be due mid-April.
MkLinux was meant as a trial baloon, and it didn't catch fire. It works. I use it every day, but it was just too far away from mainstream Linux, being based on MACH as a hardware abstraction layer. LinuxPPC has had a hard time getting off the ground without hardware disclosure from Apple. This move will benefit them. It will also allow Apple to fly another balloon labelled; "How can this open source stuff work for us?" They are not about to give out the goodies unless they can see what the advantage is. And I assume the stockholders would agree. (If this makes less-than-perfect sense, please forgive me; I'm writing this with a migraine.)
If you simply type "appleimac" into Netscape 4.5, it sends you to the Apple Inc. site. In this way, Netscape is acting as a "meta nameserver" in WWW space, and is where the real battle has been won already. I predict a lot of this sort of name redirection will occur, with friends of Netscape and those with deep pockets always getting their say.
I have both Adesso Truform and Nuform keyboards on the Macs we use here in the lab. I like them both rather a lot, though the Truform seems to be easier to type on for long periods. It took some getting used to, though. I have the ones with the little "eraser nub" pointer in the center. These are good products for the price.
Maybe somebody out there with a Thesis to write will be kind enough to use the occasion to design an ASIC Pentium clone? And then release it under GPL? Something that could execute from a big Xilinx part would be ideal. Then somebody designs a standard open motherboard, and anonymous souls all over the world will make and sell copies.
They just respond to loud noise. And they don't LEARN speech, they just add new words over a period of time to simulate learning. I'm told it is a quite convincing illusion, but I've never seen one myself.
But usually data processing jobs are paid for based on either the skill required, or the drudgery factor, or a mixture of both. Being a Mac Sysadmin is a very comfortable job, usually.
Yeah, there is a reason for that. Administering an all-mac network is nearly a "no-brainer". I mean, you gotta set it up right, which is slightly difficult, but after that you seldom need to fix any part of it.
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If there is a planetary ocean, then the cracks are what are called "leads"; Areas of either open water or thin ice between large ice sheets. These are the places where there would be enough light for some photosynthesis to occur. The question I have is; "What is the radiation environment at or near the surface of Europa's leads?"
Jupiter has a simply huge magnetic field that traps cosmic rays and energetic solar wind particles for very long periods of time. This is bad enough that our space hardware has an difficult time with it, and I have heard the speculation that human beings could never visit the region of Jupiter without taking a lethal dose.
Could life evolve or take root (transported from Earth on tektites) in the leads of Europa given the extant conditions?
Long ago, SciFi writers, such as the late Robert Heinlein, used to write about a future in which we all had helicopters in our garages. Well, helicopters are here, and should any major auto maker choose to build them in quantity, they should be roughly as cheap as a luxury SUV. So, why don't most of us have a whirlybird to go to work in? The simple answer is that the skills required to fly a helicopter are a lot more difficult to acquire than the skills required to drive an automobile. (And, we have all seen how badly some people do with *those*!) I predict that this new innovation, though perhaps it will penetrate a bit further than the helicopter, will primarily be the toy of the rich, and the tool of law enforcement. Just like the helicopter.
Well, I work for 3Com now, but a couple of years ago, when I worked for Zenith, I asked 3Com for the specifications for a NIC so I could write a Linux driver for it. I didn't expect much. What I got amazed me. The Very Next Day, by express mail, I got several books on the NIC, and example driver code. Far more than enough. (Then, I discovered that Donald Becker had just added support for the NIC I was interested in, and I simply used his driver. Thanks, Don!)
It is one thing to be able to create an exact copy of a sequenced chromosome. It is another thing entirely to be able to create a working chromosome from first principles. This is an important first step, but it is not even close to a real understanding.
It hardly qualifies as a small business, but I believe that an IMSAI 8080, S-100 machine is still a part of the "Core Board Simulator" at Commonwealth Edison's nuclear data center.
Well, actually, the content of the disk is encrypted, and the key to the decryption comes over the wire from DIVX, and is itself encrypted with unique box and disk information. The disk information itself is coded "out of band" on the disk and is read in a manner different from data. I really doubt that anybody will ever come up with a simple hack that will break this. And the really involved hacks that might be able to break it are unlikely to be profitable enough for anybody to bother developing them.
I believe it should work as well as any other modem. The iMac modem is not a "bus" modem. It is a serial modem that is wired to a serial port on the processor card via a standard DIN-8 connector. Pretty much a generic Rockwell modem, I believe.
Okay, so, you've turned me out already as an Apple user. I bought two of the Rev B iMacs at the beginning of the year, one for me, and one for my kids. I have been very pleased with them. I have 96 Meg of RAM in my machine, and a ZIP-100. It may be an "unexpandible" machine, but I haven't yet found anything I want to hook to it that I cannot get a USB version of. I do not have Linux on it yet, but I do run both MkLinux and LinuxPPC on a pair of 7500/132 machines, and they both perform really well.
My opinion is that an iMac is the best computing value for the money. And a 300MHz machine at a cheaper price is rumored to be due mid-April.
Our main server here runs Slackware. Has for three years now. It has exactly the software it needs to have. No more. No less.
I just love machine translations!
MkLinux was meant as a trial baloon, and it didn't catch fire. It works. I use it every day, but it was just too far away from mainstream Linux, being based on MACH as a hardware abstraction layer. LinuxPPC has had a hard time getting off the ground without hardware disclosure from Apple. This move will benefit them. It will also allow Apple to fly another balloon labelled; "How can this open source stuff work for us?" They are not about to give out the goodies unless they can see what the advantage is. And I assume the stockholders would agree. (If this makes less-than-perfect sense, please forgive me; I'm writing this with a migraine.)
If you simply type "appleimac" into Netscape 4.5, it sends you to the Apple Inc. site. In this way, Netscape is acting as a "meta nameserver" in WWW space, and is where the real battle has been won already. I predict a lot of this sort of name redirection will occur, with friends of Netscape and those with deep pockets always getting their say.
I have both Adesso Truform and Nuform keyboards on the Macs we use here in the lab. I like them both rather a lot, though the Truform seems to be easier to type on for long periods. It took some getting used to, though. I have the ones with the little "eraser nub" pointer in the center. These are good products for the price.
Now that they are doing a Mac port of RRT-II, perhaps a Linux port is not out of the question? I would really love that!
Maybe somebody out there with a Thesis to write will be kind enough to use the occasion to design an ASIC Pentium clone? And then release it under GPL? Something that could execute from a big Xilinx part would be ideal. Then somebody designs a standard open motherboard, and anonymous souls all over the world will make and sell copies.
...the emperor is not as forgiving as I.
They just respond to loud noise. And they don't LEARN speech, they just add new words over a period of time to simulate learning. I'm told it is a quite convincing illusion, but I've never seen one myself.
Oh, nothing wrong with it at all!
But usually data processing jobs are paid for based on either the skill required, or the drudgery factor, or a mixture of both. Being a Mac Sysadmin is a very comfortable job, usually.
He has one in his studio.
Yeah, there is a reason for that. Administering an all-mac network is nearly a "no-brainer". I mean, you gotta set it up right, which is slightly difficult, but after that you seldom need to fix any part of it.