Well yes and no. The real reason, as stated before, is they just didn't have the money for the makeup. There are a couple of competing theories as to why:
1.) Different race of the klingon empire which held power at that time OR the only one the enterprise ran into. Makes sense, after all klingon space is roughly 3,000 light-years across or so.
2.) Genetic Manipulation. This one was proposed somewhere and holds the most weight. The klingons might have genetically altered themselves so as to look more humanlike allowing to inflitrate human worlds more easily or to confuse them, etc. Of course, this isn't very honorable which is why worf says"doesn't discuss it with outsiders". Plausable.
Any other explanations are probably bunk. It is established that Khaless (the orignal klingon leader-god-guy) looked like the 'modern' klingons so we know that it wasn't a plague, or some sort of genetic reversal, etc, etc ad nausem.
Wait a second. I'm a total geek. I just wrote like 4 paragraphs on star trek. Oh boy.
A little more info from Encylopedia Astronautica. A scramjet is vastly more efficent than standard chemical rockets because only half the fuel has to be carried (hydrogen). Also scramjets have a greater ISP than most regular chemical engines and have no moving parts, unlike the hundreds of parts on moden rocket engines.
Obviously scramjets are vastly more efficent. Of course ION engines have ISP values of roughly 5,000-6,000 and fusion another magnitude greater, etc. Still lots of room for improvement.
Luck of the draw I would say. Usually a windows installation if used (important, a win installation that just runs one thing over and over and nothing is installed on it will last forever) will start to degrade pretty seriously after a few months, within a year it will become unusable.
Give microsoft some credit though, things have gotten temporarily better in Win2k . I can now have a win2k install for about 1 year before needing to format-whipe-reinstall. The longest I ever lasted with 95 was about 2 months, 98 I think I got to 5 months one time.
You point out there are many bad installers that leave stuff scattered across the registry, this is quite true. Of course linux has the nice problem of scatter-componets-across-10,000 directorys. I use linux as a server platform instead of a desktop platform for precisely this reason. I can *never* find all the parts of some installs and I despise when a program places itself into 4-5 different directorys.
gone are the days when uninstalling mean deleting the directory it was installed to.
Haven't used OS X have we? =) Honestly this is one area where the mac shines. To uninstall something all you have to do is drap-drop into the trash can. Nice and easy.
I believe the reasoning for Viking I and II to be RTG powered was due to the martian dust storms which can last for months and block out the sun - possibly interfering with the probe's operation.
BTW, the RTG's are powered by the decay of the Plutonium - specifically that decay gives off heat which is converted into electrcity (vastly oversimplified of course). The 'fuel' is indeed running out - it is decaying and soon won't generate enough ehat to power the spacecraft.
wave their hands in front of a Web cam, showing what they want to do through gestures.
This could lead to a disaster of epic proportions. Imagine hundreds of sexual frustrated males showing the playstation what they want it to do. Can you imagine the warranty requests?
This "game" only amounts to taxpayer funded propaganda by the US Army
Is that so bad? I mean really - the game is cool in case you haven't played it. Nice and fun. I would MUCH rather have the army spending money on something like this than buying a SINGLE 30-second ad during the superbowl. Judging by the demand it also seems to be a much greater success than any previous army type propoganda.
Besides which having the gov't develop cool computer games is the last thing we want to discourage.
This is designed to meet localized short-term increases in demand and, as such, is very well designed and fairly enviromentally friendly. Nobody wants to put a nuclear reactor on a train - that would be foolish. Is this Perfect - No. But don't go baggering them, at least they are trying to learn if biodiesel is OK to use and such. Would you rather that they build a coal plant?
BTW, yes nuclear power rocks - too bad a plant built starting today wouldn't get finished by the end of the decade baring radical swings in public opinion.
Can you imagine the consequences for the world if Britney's ass was hairy? The shock, horror - MTV talking about it all day every day.
Oh the bright side we would still get to see her ass, hairy or no.
Does mooning their booth make the community look bad?
That depends. Since most geeks don't have ass's like britney spears I am very much betting it would make the community look bad. Nobody wants to see hairy ass, nobody.
Not necassarily. On switches a collision should never happen. Hubs, on the other hand, collisions are commonplace since the bandwith is shared. What he described are relaly the only two reasons that a collision should occur on a switch.
So, when music sales are down, it's because of those damn pirates, but when we can get somebody to pay us, regardless of our principles, then it's a legitimate use.
Which kindof tells you something doesn't it? To keep our computers DRM free (and to prevent atrocities like the CBDPTA) we just have to name the right price for the RIAA/MPAA. You think they would object if we gave them.. say...50 per month/internet connection or 2$/50 blank cd's (I realize there is already a price on the CD's but it must not be high enough to completely silence their claims).
While I detest their methods of holding onto their monopoly I would be more than willing to pay them to shut em up - and make sure my computer is DRM free. Which, like it or not, is starting to gain steam and we will likely see it in the near future.
indeed. A friend of mine works for Verio and a oc-3 (155.5mbps) runs something like 55,000$/month. Just for the line mind you. I can only imagine what google has.
from g00gles site: Approximate number of employees: 400 Ph.D.s on staff: 50+ Languages spoken: 34 Number of roller hockey players: 32 Number of offices worldwide: 12 Massage Therapists: 2 Neurosurgeons: 1
Does google plan on releasing more products like the Google Search Appliance in the near future - specifically those that are geared more towards the consumer level rather than business market? I would, personally, love to have some sort of google search engine on my machine to rummage through all the stuff I have. Does google plan on expanding into this market or will you remain focused on the web?
I know, I know, Only one question but - it begs to be asked - how well is your technology going to be able to scale? Considering the near-expotential growth of the internet will PageRank be able to keep up?
Best buy doesn't trust their customers. Which is ok by me considering the amount of money they lose to shoplifting even with these insane security procedures in place. As long as they treat me ok (which they do when the inevitable security buzzer goes off) everything is fine.
BTW, they don't treat their employees any better - as a matter of fact worse. Friend of mine works for the tech department there. All employees (except for some managers) must be patted down before they leave the store. Despite this people try to steal stuff on a regular basis - the latest one I heard was someone stole 14 laptops (and got caught..). The lengths people go to steal stuff from the store is amazing, even customers. One guy snuck in a cable cutter to try and snip the cables on the laptops. He made it to the door..
Personally, I read the brochure on the burroughs B500 and was just a wee bit scared:
"A master control program to automatically manipulate machine programs, allocate memory, assign equipment, and route all information.
Found that quite humurous - I wonder if that is where the tron script writers got the idea? Reading the brochure was odd - I am a youngin' and know very little about very old computers (relatively...), and was quite curious about the description of the chip: "processors operate on 49 bit words (48 bits plus parity bit)"... where these chips then 49 bit? From the sound of the brochure it makes it seem like the entire system was 49 bit (memory, storage, etc). Or was it like a 4 bit processor that just used 49 bit commands?
To quothe from another slashdot reader: "The FAA has spotted an unusual number of pigs at high altitude, the devil called me up asking to send him a jacket and gloves, a cow was seen in the night sky above the moon......."
Madness! I'm going to go make myself a tinfoil suit - the END IS COMING THE END IS COMING!!! SAVE YOURSELF!!! OMG,IT CANT BE.. DUKE NUKEM FOREVER!!
The allegory (parable) of the people in the cave was taken from the greek philosphers, modified of course. The parable form itself.. well I dunno where that came from. Probably ancient man.
Interesting question. Ok, here we go - a test of my history abilities. I am calculating from united states and soviet union only, not factoring UK/Canada/Austrila, etc, etc. Not to offend anybody or in anyway diminish there contribution but this I don't wnat this to turn into an all day project.
United States
10% (avg) of GDP from 1941-42
37% of GDP from 1942-1945 (avg)
GDP(in billions) 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
113.5 144.2 180.0 209.0 221.1
Defense Spending: 11.4 53.4 66.0 77.3 81.8
Total Defense: $289.6 Billion (note: roughly 1/3 of this went to the pacific theatre)
Casulties: 292 000 dead (estimating cost of lives is NOT something I am going to do)
Soviet Union
Casulties: 13.6 million armed forces, 7.7 million civilian dead (note: roughly 1/2 of those who entered service in soviet military where either killed or wounded. Estimate the cost of that!)
Note: No official records of cost of WWII to Soviet Union have ever been released (that I know of or could find). Estimates are on the order of $350 billion counting damage to infrastructure, etc.
Soviet Union (350) + US (191.1) cost: $541.1 billion. unadjusted for inflation
"We Win" = 48 bits of ASCII code. Each Bit = 11.27$ billion dollars. Rough adjustment for Australia,NZ,Britain,Canada,etc = 13.45 billion dollars/bit unadjusted for inflation
Not taking into account casulties, thousands of other unknown/unquantifiable factors.
Sources:
A war to be Won - Murray and Millet
The World At Arms - Reader's Digest (publisher
Us Gov't GDP - IRS website
Slashdot Mirror
Well yes and no. The real reason, as stated before, is they just didn't have the money for the makeup. There are a couple of competing theories as to why:
1.) Different race of the klingon empire which held power at that time OR the only one the enterprise ran into. Makes sense, after all klingon space is roughly 3,000 light-years across or so.
2.) Genetic Manipulation. This one was proposed somewhere and holds the most weight. The klingons might have genetically altered themselves so as to look more humanlike allowing to inflitrate human worlds more easily or to confuse them, etc. Of course, this isn't very honorable which is why worf says"doesn't discuss it with outsiders". Plausable.
Any other explanations are probably bunk. It is established that Khaless (the orignal klingon leader-god-guy) looked like the 'modern' klingons so we know that it wasn't a plague, or some sort of genetic reversal, etc, etc ad nausem.
Wait a second. I'm a total geek. I just wrote like 4 paragraphs on star trek. Oh boy.
A little more info from Encylopedia Astronautica. A scramjet is vastly more efficent than standard chemical rockets because only half the fuel has to be carried (hydrogen). Also scramjets have a greater ISP than most regular chemical engines and have no moving parts, unlike the hundreds of parts on moden rocket engines.
Taken from here
air/LH2 (scramjet) ISP=1,550
Space Shuttle Main Engines
ISP = 453
Obviously scramjets are vastly more efficent. Of course ION engines have ISP values of roughly 5,000-6,000 and fusion another magnitude greater, etc. Still lots of room for improvement.
Luck of the draw I would say. Usually a windows installation if used (important, a win installation that just runs one thing over and over and nothing is installed on it will last forever) will start to degrade pretty seriously after a few months, within a year it will become unusable.
I would say you are just lucky.
Give microsoft some credit though, things have gotten temporarily better in Win2k . I can now have a win2k install for about 1 year before needing to format-whipe-reinstall. The longest I ever lasted with 95 was about 2 months, 98 I think I got to 5 months one time.
You point out there are many bad installers that leave stuff scattered across the registry, this is quite true. Of course linux has the nice problem of scatter-componets-across-10,000 directorys. I use linux as a server platform instead of a desktop platform for precisely this reason. I can *never* find all the parts of some installs and I despise when a program places itself into 4-5 different directorys.
gone are the days when uninstalling mean deleting the directory it was installed to.
Haven't used OS X have we? =) Honestly this is one area where the mac shines. To uninstall something all you have to do is drap-drop into the trash can. Nice and easy.
I believe the reasoning for Viking I and II to be RTG powered was due to the martian dust storms which can last for months and block out the sun - possibly interfering with the probe's operation.
BTW, the RTG's are powered by the decay of the Plutonium - specifically that decay gives off heat which is converted into electrcity (vastly oversimplified of course). The 'fuel' is indeed running out - it is decaying and soon won't generate enough ehat to power the spacecraft.
wave their hands in front of a Web cam, showing what they want to do through gestures.
This could lead to a disaster of epic proportions. Imagine hundreds of sexual frustrated males showing the playstation what they want it to do. Can you imagine the warranty requests?
Good god.
This "game" only amounts to taxpayer funded propaganda by the US Army
Is that so bad? I mean really - the game is cool in case you haven't played it. Nice and fun. I would MUCH rather have the army spending money on something like this than buying a SINGLE 30-second ad during the superbowl. Judging by the demand it also seems to be a much greater success than any previous army type propoganda.
Besides which having the gov't develop cool computer games is the last thing we want to discourage.
This is designed to meet localized short-term increases in demand and, as such, is very well designed and fairly enviromentally friendly. Nobody wants to put a nuclear reactor on a train - that would be foolish. Is this Perfect - No. But don't go baggering them, at least they are trying to learn if biodiesel is OK to use and such. Would you rather that they build a coal plant?
BTW, yes nuclear power rocks - too bad a plant built starting today wouldn't get finished by the end of the decade baring radical swings in public opinion.
Can you imagine the consequences for the world if Britney's ass was hairy? The shock, horror - MTV talking about it all day every day. Oh the bright side we would still get to see her ass, hairy or no.
Does mooning their booth make the community look bad?
That depends. Since most geeks don't have ass's like britney spears I am very much betting it would make the community look bad. Nobody wants to see hairy ass, nobody.
Not necassarily. On switches a collision should never happen. Hubs, on the other hand, collisions are commonplace since the bandwith is shared. What he described are relaly the only two reasons that a collision should occur on a switch.
So, when music sales are down, it's because of those damn pirates, but when we can get somebody to pay us, regardless of our principles, then it's a legitimate use.
.50 per month/internet connection or 2$/50 blank cd's (I realize there is already a price on the CD's but it must not be high enough to completely silence their claims).
Which kindof tells you something doesn't it? To keep our computers DRM free (and to prevent atrocities like the CBDPTA) we just have to name the right price for the RIAA/MPAA. You think they would object if we gave them.. say..
While I detest their methods of holding onto their monopoly I would be more than willing to pay them to shut em up - and make sure my computer is DRM free. Which, like it or not, is starting to gain steam and we will likely see it in the near future.
yeah, it's in his N*space books, don't know about any others
indeed. I have always thought about it like this:
Freedom x Security = K (constant)
You can't get more of one without giving up some of the other.
I was originally going to ask a scientology question, but changed my mind and forgot to change the topic. =)
indeed. A friend of mine works for Verio and a oc-3 (155.5mbps) runs something like 55,000$/month. Just for the line mind you. I can only imagine what google has.
from g00gles site:
Approximate number of employees: 400
Ph.D.s on staff: 50+
Languages spoken: 34
Number of roller hockey players: 32
Number of offices worldwide: 12
Massage Therapists: 2
Neurosurgeons: 1
Addendum:
How much bandwith you guys use/have?
Does google plan on releasing more products like the Google Search Appliance in the near future - specifically those that are geared more towards the consumer level rather than business market? I would, personally, love to have some sort of google search engine on my machine to rummage through all the stuff I have. Does google plan on expanding into this market or will you remain focused on the web?
I know, I know, Only one question but - it begs to be asked - how well is your technology going to be able to scale? Considering the near-expotential growth of the internet will PageRank be able to keep up?
Best buy doesn't trust their customers. Which is ok by me considering the amount of money they lose to shoplifting even with these insane security procedures in place. As long as they treat me ok (which they do when the inevitable security buzzer goes off) everything is fine.
BTW, they don't treat their employees any better - as a matter of fact worse. Friend of mine works for the tech department there. All employees (except for some managers) must be patted down before they leave the store. Despite this people try to steal stuff on a regular basis - the latest one I heard was someone stole 14 laptops (and got caught..). The lengths people go to steal stuff from the store is amazing, even customers. One guy snuck in a cable cutter to try and snip the cables on the laptops. He made it to the door..
Personally, I read the brochure on the burroughs B500 and was just a wee bit scared:
"A master control program to automatically manipulate machine programs, allocate memory, assign equipment, and route all information.
Found that quite humurous - I wonder if that is where the tron script writers got the idea? Reading the brochure was odd - I am a youngin' and know very little about very old computers (relatively...), and was quite curious about the description of the chip: "processors operate on 49 bit words (48 bits plus parity bit)"... where these chips then 49 bit? From the sound of the brochure it makes it seem like the entire system was 49 bit (memory, storage, etc). Or was it like a 4 bit processor that just used 49 bit commands?
Anybody know?
I hate replying to my own commnet but I screwed the pooch on the link to MS denoucnes the CBPDTA - here is the proper link.
You think your productivity is ruined? Just wait till the world ends here in a few days! Laugh at me are you? Consider:
Warcraft III released
Mozilla 1.0 released!
Microsoft denounces the CBPDTA (really they did. Yes i submitted the story, yes slashdot rejected it =))
To quothe from another slashdot reader:
"The FAA has spotted an unusual number of pigs at high altitude, the devil called me up asking to send him a jacket and gloves, a cow was seen in the night sky above the moon......."
Madness! I'm going to go make myself a tinfoil suit - the END IS COMING THE END IS COMING!!! SAVE YOURSELF!!! OMG,IT CANT BE.. DUKE NUKEM FOREVER!!
END WORLD
The allegory (parable) of the people in the cave was taken from the greek philosphers, modified of course. The parable form itself.. well I dunno where that came from. Probably ancient man.
Interesting question. Ok, here we go - a test of my history abilities. I am calculating from united states and soviet union only, not factoring UK/Canada/Austrila, etc, etc. Not to offend anybody or in anyway diminish there contribution but this I don't wnat this to turn into an all day project.
United States
10% (avg) of GDP from 1941-42
37% of GDP from 1942-1945 (avg)
GDP(in billions) 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
113.5 144.2 180.0 209.0 221.1
Defense Spending: 11.4 53.4 66.0 77.3 81.8
Total Defense: $289.6 Billion (note: roughly 1/3 of this went to the pacific theatre)
Casulties: 292 000 dead (estimating cost of lives is NOT something I am going to do)
Soviet Union
Casulties: 13.6 million armed forces, 7.7 million civilian dead (note: roughly 1/2 of those who entered service in soviet military where either killed or wounded. Estimate the cost of that!)
Note: No official records of cost of WWII to Soviet Union have ever been released (that I know of or could find). Estimates are on the order of $350 billion counting damage to infrastructure, etc.
Soviet Union (350) + US (191.1) cost: $541.1 billion. unadjusted for inflation
"We Win" = 48 bits of ASCII code. Each Bit = 11.27$ billion dollars. Rough adjustment for Australia,NZ,Britain,Canada,etc = 13.45 billion dollars/bit unadjusted for inflation
Not taking into account casulties, thousands of other unknown/unquantifiable factors.
Sources:
A war to be Won - Murray and Millet
The World At Arms - Reader's Digest (publisher
Us Gov't GDP - IRS website