The TOS episode didn't say. I don't think. There was a book written under TOS. Forgot the title, but it was about a conference on some Fed data archive planet, and they had artificial intelligences (human level intell.) called Pathfinders and you interfaced with them using the nerves in your fingers, so they had to install implants in your fingers to conduct the electricty. There was a spy posing as a vulcan and he had the implants and tried to crash the system (very bad thing), so spock had to stick his hand in without them, which hurt, but he got the guy. In there, Scotty (although it might have been a Centuarian, it was a long time ago that I read it) said that Cochrane was from Centauri. FC, and a TNG-TOS crossover book say that he's an Earthman, though they give different dates.
One minor problem. Star Trek:TOS books and Star Trek:TNG books can't agree on if Cochrane was an Earthman or a Alpha Centaurian. I know, FC says Earthman, but I didn't like the movie, so there.
...use one of these guys to put an olympic sized swimming pool in my closet. The author seems to indicate that the warp bubble is larger on the inside than on the outside. Actually, he's saying that the volume can be increased while the surface area is decreased or something like that. It's a bit like this: Take a rectangle with a perimiter of 52. The rectangle with the least surface area is 1x25 at 25 square units. The rectangle with the most surface area is 13x13 at 169 square units. This is the sort of thing he means.(I think.)
Watermarking won't do anything. All watermarking can do is show who created the source audio on the cd. What they have to do is change every single piece of mp3 encoding and decoding software so the encoding software embeds a number into it somewhere, maybe in one of those fields. Then, the decoder (rio, or winamp, etc.) checks if its number matches the one in the mp3. They've gotta convince everyone to use their encoder and decoder software, otherwise, since the mp3s without this number are usable anywhere, they've shot themselves in the foot. Also, even if they can take control of the software, about half a day will pass until some hotshot writes a proggie that finds the number of your decoder and embeds it into the mp3 so you can play it.
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The TOS episode didn't say. I don't think. There was a book written under TOS. Forgot the title, but it was about a conference on some Fed data archive planet, and they had artificial intelligences (human level intell.) called Pathfinders and you interfaced with them using the nerves in your fingers, so they had to install implants in your fingers to conduct the electricty. There was a spy posing as a vulcan and he had the implants and tried to crash the system (very bad thing), so spock had to stick his hand in without them, which hurt, but he got the guy. In there, Scotty (although it might have been a Centuarian, it was a long time ago that I read it) said that Cochrane was from Centauri. FC, and a TNG-TOS crossover book say that he's an Earthman, though they give different dates.
One minor problem. Star Trek:TOS books and Star Trek:TNG books can't agree on if Cochrane was an Earthman or a Alpha Centaurian. I know, FC says Earthman, but I didn't like the movie, so there.
...use one of these guys to put an olympic sized swimming pool in my closet. The author seems to indicate that the warp bubble is larger on the inside than on the outside.
Actually, he's saying that the volume can be increased while the surface area is decreased or something like that. It's a bit like this:
Take a rectangle with a perimiter of 52.
The rectangle with the least surface area is 1x25 at 25 square units.
The rectangle with the most surface area is 13x13 at 169 square units.
This is the sort of thing he means.(I think.)
Watermarking won't do anything. All watermarking can do is show who created the source audio on the cd. What they have to do is change every single piece of mp3 encoding and decoding software so the encoding software embeds a number into it somewhere, maybe in one of those fields. Then, the decoder (rio, or winamp, etc.) checks if its number matches the one in the mp3. They've gotta convince everyone to use their encoder and decoder software, otherwise, since the mp3s without this number are usable anywhere, they've shot themselves in the foot. Also, even if they can take control of the software, about half a day will pass until some hotshot writes a proggie that finds the number of your decoder and embeds it into the mp3 so you can play it.