I've seen pictures of it since I was a child, but your reference is better. I like the concise explanation of the colors in the photo, too. Masses, speeds and ongoing processes - Thanks!
"but if the 'coolness' of seeing ultra-bright beachball-sized plasma clouds thousands of light years away captures some young person's imagination and encourages them in technical pursuits, that's a good day's work."
How many of us spent years studying difficult topics in technical fields and learned how to do things because of the "coolness" of some things that we saw as children? I'm guessing that there are a lot of us for whom that was a big motivation for sticking with it when things got hard.
It's awfully tempting to suspect that a lot of "the guys that clean loaded guns... " are described that way because, after they've shot their walls, TVs, friends, kids or whatnot, they rely on that old excuse to avoid talking about why they REALLY fired that round...
The effect is the same, though. Somebody was careless, drunk, or otherwise out of control, and somebody paid for it. Normal people are capable of handling dangerous things properly, but it's important to pay attention.
Thanks; I stand corrected. I learned the legend of the Alto back in the 80's along with a lot of other dupes. I just checked http://bigmac.stanford.edu/myths/myth2.html a moment ago. Regards,
Yeah, when the suits at Xerox HQ saw the mouse that their engineers at Xerox PARC developed, they decided that it was a "not-useful" potential fad without real market potential, IIRC.
I bet that some form of e-cash will turn out to have major effects in the long run. Waiting for critical mass . ..
The following year, anyway, when we all ended up slashdotting the site that carried "comet Shoemaker-Levy crashes into Jupiter" photos that NASA posted almost in realtime. Mosaic was the hippest thing around, and - ohmygod! - the computers at the Univ. had an actual, hard-wired connection to the Internet.
The biggest effect of Mosaic on my brain was the gratitude I felt because we no longer needed to decipher cryptic fnames that showed up in archie and gopher, then DL a file for an hour and discover it was the wrong one.
i know, i know......some of you guys had the old 2800baud and how you walked to school bare foot in the snow, up hill........
Hey, try sending files back and forth at 300 baud where you can read ACK and NACK for packets and GUI means watching the dots show up on your screen as the file gets DL'd. Now I just laugh as I remember the amount of work that it took to get anything done.
{Takes another swig of Geritol) "Yep, I was hip once..."
Ours! Most of us old farts were sure when we were children that there would be colonies on Mars before 2003.
Maybe Mars will be a great place to try our hand at terraforming, but whether there's life there or not, we'll see outrageous political battles over the attempt. Let's go anyway! Perhaps it'll have to be some far-off planet that gives us the chance to really engineer the place without massive protests by people on Earth who aren't doing anything themselves. That's no reason not to go to Mars and see what we can find out about the place with actual people there on the ground.
And sure, [i]t would still be a long time before the environment would be safe for humans." Hey, this planet isn't all that safe for humans in the first place. Let's go.
Both cheaperthandirt.com and sportsmansguide.com are good places to go for surplus items and for accessories to go with surplus rifles. They have things like lightweight, fiberglass rifle stocks (military stocks are made to be durable, and they were heavy when they were made of wood), curved replacement bolt handles (so you can fit a scope to an old army rifle that had a straight bolt), surplus ammo for practice, and new, hunting-type ammo to take into the field.
Deer? Sure. The Russians used millions of copies of this rifle, in its several variants, to hunt Nazis with. They worked just fine. It's important when hunting deer, though, to use ammunition made with soft-nosed, hunting-type bullets. Major ammunition manufacturers like Remington and Federal make them, IIRC. Hunting with military-surplus ammunition that has metal jacketed bullets is not permitted most places, for a lot of good reasons.
And I don't think that he need worry that his interest might not be geeky enough. We geeks tinkered with guns, bicycles, ham radios and anything else with parts inside (preferably well made!) before computers that we could afford came along. Enjoy!
I'm running an old Win98 box at work and Opera wins hands-down over IE for me. Speed is the issue; I spend less time waiting for stuff to load. I also don't have to wonder which confidential data it's busy sending to MS Corp. while I wait.
You DID kill 'em. New ones are growing in their place, in a nice, moist environment.
In fact, there's a decent chance that a lot of that orange stuff isn't bacterial slime at all, but microscopic species of diatoms and red algae. They're naturally found in moist environments like stream banks and wet rocks. Their propagules (just call 'em spores, OK?) float around in the air and grow when they land in a suitable environment. You also carry them in on your shoes. No problem; you keep the sink basically clean, because you report that "The tiny crevice they occupy hasn't gotten any larger in the last year" - yeah, I get that you prob'ly mean that the orange hasn't expanded beyond the crevice.
The answer is to do just what you've been doing. You might do the bleach-and-a-toothbrush routine when you're expecting really fussy company, but otherwise, don't worry about it.
MS couldn't charge site-wide if the school administrators decided to grit their teeth and change over completely to open source software now, at the beginning of this outrageous MS campaign. Otherwise, MS can charge as much as it can get for as foolish a contract as the school is willing to sign.
The reasoning for me is that it's your job as a parent to decide what you want your children to see, and it's my job to rear my own kids. It is not the place of some legislator to try to absolve parents of the obligation they owe to their children, and to all of the rest of us, to teach those children how to be human.
I've never committed any of those either, and just about all of that stuff was present in the Alfred Hitchcock books that I used to check out at the public library when I was in grade school. Lots of murder, rape and mayhem; lots of nasty behavior...it was diverting. Eventually I moved on to other things: science, art, philosophy, music, sex, math, individual sports, computers. Keep raising a fuss: you can't vote yet, but you can write. Write about the curtailment of your rights from your perspective, and keep spreading your message. Reasoned discourse is what you're offering in exchange for their insults. It doesn't work every time, but it always works eventually. Remember Gandhi: nonviolence is not passivity; it is a means of waging conflict. Keep it up!
If politicians and lawyers often fail to understand technological issues, there is something they will understand: a sports analogy!
When the University of Oklahoma was found to have committed recruiting violations in connection with its football program, it was punished with a five (?) year suspension of eligibility to participate in end-of-season Bowl games (note to non-U.S. readers: these are very popular, extremely lucrative showcase exhibition games, and the potential to play in them upon making the team is a motive for choosing one school over another by prospective University students who play football). Oklahoma's football program was effectively crushed by this penalty; it was only assessed after proof that the violations had been serious, pervasive and persistent over years. That's kind of the way it's been for Microsoft, except they still act as though they can never be assessed a penalty serious enough to make their company change its ways.
An analogous penalty to punish anticompetitive behavior by a monopoly: No Enforcement of Copyright for Microsoft products for One Full Year!
Remember: those Amendments don't give us the rights we have. They just announce that we have them and prohibit the people who work in government from violating them. We need to do a certain amount of work to call them on it when they do, though.
How about the Tokyo real estate market over the past ten years? Remember when the Nikkei average was over 30 thousand? There are some serious problems waiting to disrupt things, and it's hard to predict lag times between untenable situations and effects.
On the other hand, that DOS attacks will occur is as newsworthy as saying that your children will have colds sometimes. It's all a part of growing up.
Dueling license agreements?Dueling subroutines in realtime! Your 'puter running separate sets of concurrent processes launched by the two programs, in a life-and-death struggle for total domination of your hard drive! Winner gets your bandwidth.
Who else got "an attempt to set a cookie from an unregistered IP address" when they followed this link?
The details were
http://adx.adrenalinesk.sk/{EXTRA CRAP INSERTED BY ME SO IT DOESN'T CLICK THROUGH}adrun.dll?action=1&id=352&target=_top&bord er=0&bgcolor=FFFFFF&link=0000FF&ref=http%3A//slash dot.org/article.pl%3Fsid%3D02/04/24/1946204%26mode %3Dthread%26tid%3D99&rnd=628345
Of course, Opera gave me the chance to kick the cookie out.
Perks and good equipment are two different things, even though it does feel nice to use good tools. How many dot-coms folded because, when the venture capitalists asked where their money'd gone, the answer was "we (or the marketing folks) drank it" ???
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.nraila.org/NewsCenter.asp?FormMod e=Detail&ID=2343&1=View
The effect is the same, though. Somebody was careless, drunk, or otherwise out of control, and somebody paid for it. Normal people are capable of handling dangerous things properly, but it's important to pay attention.
Thanks; I stand corrected. I learned the legend of the Alto back in the 80's along with a lot of other dupes. I just checked http://bigmac.stanford.edu/myths/myth2.html a moment ago. Regards,
I bet that some form of e-cash will turn out to have major effects in the long run. Waiting for critical mass . . .
The biggest effect of Mosaic on my brain was the gratitude I felt because we no longer needed to decipher cryptic fnames that showed up in archie and gopher, then DL a file for an hour and discover it was the wrong one.
Hey, try sending files back and forth at 300 baud where you can read ACK and NACK for packets and GUI means watching the dots show up on your screen as the file gets DL'd. Now I just laugh as I remember the amount of work that it took to get anything done.{Takes another swig of Geritol) "Yep, I was hip once..."
Maybe Mars will be a great place to try our hand at terraforming, but whether there's life there or not, we'll see outrageous political battles over the attempt. Let's go anyway! Perhaps it'll have to be some far-off planet that gives us the chance to really engineer the place without massive protests by people on Earth who aren't doing anything themselves. That's no reason not to go to Mars and see what we can find out about the place with actual people there on the ground.
And sure, [i]t would still be a long time before the environment would be safe for humans." Hey, this planet isn't all that safe for humans in the first place. Let's go.
And I don't think that he need worry that his interest might not be geeky enough. We geeks tinkered with guns, bicycles, ham radios and anything else with parts inside (preferably well made!) before computers that we could afford came along. Enjoy!
I'm running an old Win98 box at work and Opera wins hands-down over IE for me. Speed is the issue; I spend less time waiting for stuff to load. I also don't have to wonder which confidential data it's busy sending to MS Corp. while I wait.
In fact, there's a decent chance that a lot of that orange stuff isn't bacterial slime at all, but microscopic species of diatoms and red algae. They're naturally found in moist environments like stream banks and wet rocks. Their propagules (just call 'em spores, OK?) float around in the air and grow when they land in a suitable environment. You also carry them in on your shoes. No problem; you keep the sink basically clean, because you report that "The tiny crevice they occupy hasn't gotten any larger in the last year" - yeah, I get that you prob'ly mean that the orange hasn't expanded beyond the crevice.
The answer is to do just what you've been doing. You might do the bleach-and-a-toothbrush routine when you're expecting really fussy company, but otherwise, don't worry about it.
Declare to be unenforceable the portions of the EULA that specify audits, specifically as a penalty for MS' incorrigible behavior and vicious tactics.
MS couldn't charge site-wide if the school administrators decided to grit their teeth and change over completely to open source software now, at the beginning of this outrageous MS campaign. Otherwise, MS can charge as much as it can get for as foolish a contract as the school is willing to sign.
The reasoning for me is that it's your job as a parent to decide what you want your children to see, and it's my job to rear my own kids. It is not the place of some legislator to try to absolve parents of the obligation they owe to their children, and to all of the rest of us, to teach those children how to be human.
I've never committed any of those either, and just about all of that stuff was present in the Alfred Hitchcock books that I used to check out at the public library when I was in grade school. Lots of murder, rape and mayhem; lots of nasty behavior...it was diverting. Eventually I moved on to other things: science, art, philosophy, music, sex, math, individual sports, computers. Keep raising a fuss: you can't vote yet, but you can write. Write about the curtailment of your rights from your perspective, and keep spreading your message. Reasoned discourse is what you're offering in exchange for their insults. It doesn't work every time, but it always works eventually. Remember Gandhi: nonviolence is not passivity; it is a means of waging conflict. Keep it up!
When the University of Oklahoma was found to have committed recruiting violations in connection with its football program, it was punished with a five (?) year suspension of eligibility to participate in end-of-season Bowl games (note to non-U.S. readers: these are very popular, extremely lucrative showcase exhibition games, and the potential to play in them upon making the team is a motive for choosing one school over another by prospective University students who play football). Oklahoma's football program was effectively crushed by this penalty; it was only assessed after proof that the violations had been serious, pervasive and persistent over years. That's kind of the way it's been for Microsoft, except they still act as though they can never be assessed a penalty serious enough to make their company change its ways.
An analogous penalty to punish anticompetitive behavior by a monopoly: No Enforcement of Copyright for Microsoft products for One Full Year!
Remember: those Amendments don't give us the rights we have. They just announce that we have them and prohibit the people who work in government from violating them. We need to do a certain amount of work to call them on it when they do, though.
On the other hand, that DOS attacks will occur is as newsworthy as saying that your children will have colds sometimes. It's all a part of growing up.
What's the best preparation to work on this? If a person already has some background in how proteins behave, what are the best software tools to add?
{Wish I'd thought of your sig}
The details were
http://adx.adrenalinesk.sk/{EXTRA CRAP INSERTED BY ME SO IT DOESN'T CLICK THROUGH}adrun.dll?action=1&id=352&target=_top&bord er=0&bgcolor=FFFFFF&link=0000FF&ref=http%3A//slash dot.org/article.pl%3Fsid%3D02/04/24/1946204%26mode %3Dthread%26tid%3D99&rnd=628345
Of course, Opera gave me the chance to kick the cookie out.
Thar just ain't enuf room on this Hard Drahv fer both o' us...Draw!
Perks and good equipment are two different things, even though it does feel nice to use good tools. How many dot-coms folded because, when the venture capitalists asked where their money'd gone, the answer was "we (or the marketing folks) drank it" ???