While trying to prove how brave he was by waterskiing behind a bongo and jumping over a shark, a big gooberfish ate the bongo, and Jar Jar... well, most of Jar Jar.
Neither baseballs nor ballistic missiles follow a parabolic path. They follow an eliptical path, an orbit that intersects the Earth's surface (barring atmospheric effects, of course). In order to get a parabolic path, the object needs to be moving at exactly the escape velocity (See here for details.)
You've got the cart before the horse there. We need the shielding in order to GET people to Mars. Once the're there, then you can mine the minerals and build more shielding.
The Linux paradigm is changing, for better or for worse. There are now users who demand a single app that is completely integrated.
There is no reason why the gui can't blend a handful of separate applications into a seemless, completely integrated user experience. What is needed is some open design guides so that applications can share each other's data.
The copyright (gpl) says that it must remain open. If you close it, you are violating copyright. So yes, it is the same "theft" as in "downloading mp3s for music I don't own." (Where "theft"=copyright violation).
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Another characteristic I think is missing from the devices you mention is that they are "hard coded" devices. You can't take a thermostat and reprogram it to assemble calculators. You can't take a dishwasher and reprogram it to make automobiles. They just aren't general purpose machines. A pick and place industrial robot has that flexibility, but it generally lacks the "intelligence", the self adaptability, to be considered a robot in my books. In short, there are very few true robots in the world. Most of them are in AI labs.
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Well, apart from the fact that I don't have any of those in my home*, I don't classify any of them as robots. A dishwasher, washing machine, and dryer all follow a pre-programmed sequence of actions. A dishwasher doesn't monitor the cleanliness of the dishes. It isn't even aware whether or not there are dishes inside. Same thing with washing machines and dryers. These are all dumb machines, not robots.
Thermostats, although they sense their surroundings and respond to them, are basically the same: unintelligent machines. It has no feedback analyzing whether the furnace is actually heating the place or not.
A machine needs to have intelligence to be a robot. It needs to be able to sense it's environment, and choose it's actions in order to accomplish a goal. Simple binary feedback loops, and canned sequence following machines just don't cut it.
* I live in a basement apartment and the thermostat is in the Landlady's apartment.
It's often a matter of degree. PR can take a negative, such as "This printer only works with windows. It is not compatible with Mac, DOS, Linux, BSD, or any other operating system" and turn it into the phrase "Optimized for Windows", thereby duping unsuspecting people into buying $400 paperweights. (It happened to a friend of a friend of mine. Honest!) Fortunately, I wa^h^h^h^h^h my friend's friend was able to exchange it for a real printer.
Or maybe they left a mess when they were there last.
Like maybe lunar rovers, golf balls, LEM lander bases, bibles, photographs, toolbags, old experiments, people's ashes. NASA has left quite a mess up there.
When Roddenberry was pitching the show to the networks, he said it was a "Horatio Hornblower in Space" type of show.
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Advertising should be outlawed on specific media: Telephone, fax, email, pop-ups, etc. Basically, any communication channel where the end user pays should be free from ads, or at most, opt-in. Advertisers need to be put down, and put down hard, for their intrusive behaviour.
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Contact juggling? That sound's kind of pointless. It's not as if contacts are heavy, or sharp, or dangerous, or anything. I guess being small and transparent, and aerodynamically odd could make juggling contacts difficult, but it still sounds pointless.
I thought the seasons in the lands "down under" were 180 degrees out of phase with those in the northern hemisphere. Since fall is ending and winter beginning here, wouldn't spring be ending and summer beginning there? Am I missing something?
Well, the WIMP (Window, Icon, Mouse, Pointer) interface is a very effective, powerful and efficient creation. There is little room to improve on it. (Although, I haven't seen a multi-desktop switcher anywhere else (did the Amiga have something like this?))
Same thing with applications: Browsers, Spreadsheets and word processors are powerful pieces of software that get used for all sorts of things. You will have to think long and hard to come up with a common user need that isn't already covered by half a dozen MSWindows based programs. If you can't come up with a new "killer app", then all you've got left is feature copying and refinement.
microsoft and microsoft for instance are two completly diffrent words.
Reminds me of that Babylon 5 episode when they find a person named Zathras down on this planet. Ivanova thought she had been talking to Zathras:
"No, that was not Zathras, that was Zathras. There are 10 of us, all of family Zathras, each one named Zathras. Slight differences in how you
pronounce. Zathras, Zathras, Zathras.. You are seeing now?" - Zathras, Babylon 5: Conflicts of Interest
Set yourself up with a workshop. Set aside a room in the basement, preferably where all the cabling comes in. Install a nice workbench with powerbars mounted to the wall above the bench. Look through the catalogs of those industrial/safety equipment providers. They usually have some pretty cool storage solutions.
You could get a bunch of Rubermaid containers, or some of those plastic shelving systems.
If all else fails, get yourself a bunch of identical boxes, like banker's boxes, and label them.
Whatever you do, if the containment system can be kept neat, the collections won't appear to be junk.
No, you just use the higher rated cable for the entire run. Fire codes are *minimum* requirements. Assuming "riser" is rated higher than "plenum", then you can use "riser" rated cable wherever "plenum" is called for.
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You mean like being forced to do long division by hand, or solving quadratic equations, or *shudder* computing probabilities?
While trying to prove how brave he was by waterskiing behind a bongo and jumping over a shark, a big gooberfish ate the bongo, and Jar Jar... well, most of Jar Jar.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Neither baseballs nor ballistic missiles follow a parabolic path. They follow an eliptical path, an orbit that intersects the Earth's surface (barring atmospheric effects, of course). In order to get a parabolic path, the object needs to be moving at exactly the escape velocity (See here for details.)
unless mars has a source of minerals
You've got the cart before the horse there. We need the shielding in order to GET people to Mars. Once the're there, then you can mine the minerals and build more shielding.
The Linux paradigm is changing, for better or for worse. There are now users who demand a single app that is completely integrated.
There is no reason why the gui can't blend a handful of separate applications into a seemless, completely integrated user experience. What is needed is some open design guides so that applications can share each other's data.
The copyright (gpl) says that it must remain open. If you close it, you are violating copyright. So yes, it is the same "theft" as in "downloading mp3s for music I don't own." (Where "theft"=copyright violation).
Another characteristic I think is missing from the devices you mention is that they are "hard coded" devices. You can't take a thermostat and reprogram it to assemble calculators. You can't take a dishwasher and reprogram it to make automobiles. They just aren't general purpose machines. A pick and place industrial robot has that flexibility, but it generally lacks the "intelligence", the self adaptability, to be considered a robot in my books. In short, there are very few true robots in the world. Most of them are in AI labs.
Well, apart from the fact that I don't have any of those in my home*, I don't classify any of them as robots. A dishwasher, washing machine, and dryer all follow a pre-programmed sequence of actions. A dishwasher doesn't monitor the cleanliness of the dishes. It isn't even aware whether or not there are dishes inside. Same thing with washing machines and dryers. These are all dumb machines, not robots.
Thermostats, although they sense their surroundings and respond to them, are basically the same: unintelligent machines. It has no feedback analyzing whether the furnace is actually heating the place or not.
A machine needs to have intelligence to be a robot. It needs to be able to sense it's environment, and choose it's actions in order to accomplish a goal. Simple binary feedback loops, and canned sequence following machines just don't cut it.
* I live in a basement apartment and the thermostat is in the Landlady's apartment.
It's often a matter of degree. PR can take a negative, such as "This printer only works with windows. It is not compatible with Mac, DOS, Linux, BSD, or any other operating system" and turn it into the phrase "Optimized for Windows", thereby duping unsuspecting people into buying $400 paperweights. (It happened to a friend of a friend of mine. Honest!) Fortunately, I wa^h^h^h^h^h my friend's friend was able to exchange it for a real printer.
Or maybe they left a mess when they were there last.
Like maybe lunar rovers, golf balls, LEM lander bases, bibles, photographs, toolbags, old experiments, people's ashes. NASA has left quite a mess up there.
You're going to be able to do a lot more "real science" in the LEO's microgravity than on the lunar surface.
Um... How are you going to get the machine booted? The thing will only boot "approved" operating systems.
Either that or move the TV into the bathroom.
When Roddenberry was pitching the show to the networks, he said it was a "Horatio Hornblower in Space" type of show.
Advertising should be outlawed on specific media: Telephone, fax, email, pop-ups, etc. Basically, any communication channel where the end user pays should be free from ads, or at most, opt-in. Advertisers need to be put down, and put down hard, for their intrusive behaviour.
This post brought to you, in part, by ADCO Advertising Agency. "Bringing Your Ideas to the World." (tm)
Contact juggling? That sound's kind of pointless. It's not as if contacts are heavy, or sharp, or dangerous, or anything. I guess being small and transparent, and aerodynamically odd could make juggling contacts difficult, but it still sounds pointless.
I thought the seasons in the lands "down under" were 180 degrees out of phase with those in the northern hemisphere. Since fall is ending and winter beginning here, wouldn't spring be ending and summer beginning there? Am I missing something?
I guess you missed his autobiography [grin].
Well, the WIMP (Window, Icon, Mouse, Pointer) interface is a very effective, powerful and efficient creation. There is little room to improve on it. (Although, I haven't seen a multi-desktop switcher anywhere else (did the Amiga have something like this?))
Same thing with applications: Browsers, Spreadsheets and word processors are powerful pieces of software that get used for all sorts of things. You will have to think long and hard to come up with a common user need that isn't already covered by half a dozen MSWindows based programs. If you can't come up with a new "killer app", then all you've got left is feature copying and refinement.
microsoft and microsoft for instance are two completly diffrent words.
Reminds me of that Babylon 5 episode when they find a person named Zathras down on this planet. Ivanova thought she had been talking to Zathras:
"No, that was not Zathras, that was Zathras. There are 10 of us, all of family Zathras, each one named Zathras. Slight differences in how you pronounce. Zathras, Zathras, Zathras.. You are seeing now?" - Zathras, Babylon 5: Conflicts of Interest
Thanks for the FYI. I'd never heard of the "riser" rating until this thread.
You could get a bunch of Rubermaid containers, or some of those plastic shelving systems.
If all else fails, get yourself a bunch of identical boxes, like banker's boxes, and label them.
Whatever you do, if the containment system can be kept neat, the collections won't appear to be junk.No, you just use the higher rated cable for the entire run. Fire codes are *minimum* requirements. Assuming "riser" is rated higher than "plenum", then you can use "riser" rated cable wherever "plenum" is called for.
It's called a vampire tap, and I don't think it would have a significant effect on the signal carrying capacity of the cable.