It is 2002, we have a very limited space program, and few orbital outposts. Yet still the rich are trying to get a chance to go to the ISS. People have a natural interest in space. As costs go down tourists will flock to get their chance to get closer o the stars. Of course this is way on down the line, but preparations can start now. You see, in the years ahead new doors will be opened in the travel industry. The biggest one of all is space. Once space travel is possible going to the beach will seem trivial. Of course it will probably start as a luxury (as we are seeing), and then progress into a getaway for the throngs of middle-class underlings.
As everybody knows, if there is demand, the act of supplying is lucrative. Now that both going to the ISS and low orbit travel are possible we are two steps closer to the "dream of the 50's".
This may not hurt us, but later generations will have one fat pickle on their hands. It's ironic that our government was considering opening up Anwar to oil drilling just in case, but won't take steps to lessen space debris. Space travel will be one of the biggest industries we've ever seen. We should do something to help it blossom. Maybe we should tell the higher-ups that there is oil on the moon. HUGE amounts of it filling the center like a big truffle. Then we'd have efficient space travel and a clean LEO in like, 24 hours.
90+ percent of the world, eh? I strongly doubt that.
While we're on the subject of wild assumptions, I'm willing to bet that 100% of rapists view porn regularly. Ted Bundy used increasingly violent porn as time went on. It started off with standard woman-sex-object, moved to domination, to extreme domination, etc.
If you lack the moral tools to know when you've gone too far then any activity can be a problem.
Linking to the kde.org ftp site before they've had a chance to mirror and announce it first is like bombing a hospital filled with soldiers on the mend. You want to wait until they're out of the hospital to bomb them. Much fairer fight that way.
Let's take this proposal to the next level:
$21 music copying tax
$21 software copying tax
$21 image copying tax
$21 published text copying tax...
That's at least another $84 dollars per gig. That would effectively kill the future of large drives. Companies would have to make them so cheaply that most of the cost would be tax.
This article points out that some stars in the cluster could have been as close as 130 light-years away around 2 million years ago. The local bubble itself is only 150 light-years across, so the earth would have been within the necessary range for damage to occur.
There's also a theory floating around that a star in the cluster actually made the local bubble.
"But Maiz-Appellanis and Benitez did some detective work and came up with the likely culprit -- a volatile star pack known as the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association, which passed relatively near the solar system several million years ago."
Actually, the signal wouldn't ever be 'blurred'. You just pick out a spot and measure the intensity of light on it, compare it to the known specs of the display, and viola. A display that emitted light with an extended decay rate wouldn't be useful anyway.
But then again, light itself tends to have a uniform decay rate. Can you imagine how cool light would be if it did have an observeable decay time? Think of the savings! Turn on the light once in the early evening, and have the house lit until midnight.
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Owing to the extreme nature of this solution, I bet that they tore the mars probe plans apart in looking for a solution.
You know, it would be really cool if they had actually planned for this eventuality. It's kind of Star Trek-like. Rerouting power to unrelated components in order to save the day was happening there long before this. I bet it'd be fun as hell to be on that team...
That's all good. You still have to have a legal copy of Windows XX to test your product. Money is still changed hands, just at different points in time.
No money is required to develop for the open community. Period. That difference is important.
He didn't even bother to check it out. That's pathetic, especially at a store where the mean price for merchandise is over $100. What the hell.
Then again, CompUSA has also told me many times that they have items in stock that they don't. They're too lazy to even give customers correct information... I own two Apple Studio Diplays, both from CompUSA. It was like pulling teeth to get them to talk intelligently about Apple products. ALL of my shopping had to be done online.
You could copyright a pattern of sound waves, but not a single wave itself.
Imagine an international database of copyrighted sound patterns. Of course this would be so far into the future that the database could be scanned real-time and shutdown the play mechanism as soon as a pattern was recognized. Yikes.
I bet all of it will eventually be done. Eventually we'll have the connectedness and the computing power at such low cost that even our thoughts will be checked for redundancy. When someone has a truly original thought, alarms will go off worldwide so every one can poke at it in amazement.
Guns that won't shoot innocent people, Microphones that won't record copyrighted soundwaves, Pencils that won't write copyrighted strings, Speakers that won't vibrate to reproduce copyrighted current patterns, Film that won't change when exposed to copyrighted rays of light, Oh yeah, and brains that won't remember copyrighted material of any sort.
Actually, it was generated by Microsoft FrontPage 3.0. Some people just don't care about appearances. I bet these guys have dreds, without trying to have dreds.
Think about Photoshop without the history feature. I would have shot myself several times by now. Seriuosly though, most of my better/faster knowledge has come from talking to other users. So a list of how to do things quickly would be best made during beta testing, and released with the documentation.
Then your 'most efficient' log file would be updated, and shared among all users through the web. Connectivity! BWAHAHAHAHA!
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It is 2002, we have a very limited space program, and few orbital outposts. Yet still the rich are trying to get a chance to go to the ISS. People have a natural interest in space. As costs go down tourists will flock to get their chance to get closer o the stars. Of course this is way on down the line, but preparations can start now. You see, in the years ahead new doors will be opened in the travel industry. The biggest one of all is space. Once space travel is possible going to the beach will seem trivial. Of course it will probably start as a luxury (as we are seeing), and then progress into a getaway for the throngs of middle-class underlings.
As everybody knows, if there is demand, the act of supplying is lucrative. Now that both going to the ISS and low orbit travel are possible we are two steps closer to the "dream of the 50's".
snow
This may not hurt us, but later generations will have one fat pickle on their hands. It's ironic that our government was considering opening up Anwar to oil drilling just in case, but won't take steps to lessen space debris. Space travel will be one of the biggest industries we've ever seen. We should do something to help it blossom. Maybe we should tell the higher-ups that there is oil on the moon. HUGE amounts of it filling the center like a big truffle. Then we'd have efficient space travel and a clean LEO in like, 24 hours.
snow
90+ percent of the world, eh? I strongly doubt that.
While we're on the subject of wild assumptions, I'm willing to bet that 100% of rapists view porn regularly. Ted Bundy used increasingly violent porn as time went on. It started off with standard woman-sex-object, moved to domination, to extreme domination, etc.
If you lack the moral tools to know when you've gone too far then any activity can be a problem.
snow
Okay, here is a more appropriate comparison:
Linking to the kde.org ftp site before they've had a chance to mirror and announce it first is like bombing a hospital filled with soldiers on the mend. You want to wait until they're out of the hospital to bomb them. Much fairer fight that way.
Let's take this proposal to the next level:
$21 music copying tax
$21 software copying tax
$21 image copying tax
$21 published text copying tax...
That's at least another $84 dollars per gig. That would effectively kill the future of large drives. Companies would have to make them so cheaply that most of the cost would be tax.
This article points out that some stars in the cluster could have been as close as 130 light-years away around 2 million years ago. The local bubble itself is only 150 light-years across, so the earth would have been within the necessary range for damage to occur.
There's also a theory floating around that a star in the cluster actually made the local bubble.
"But Maiz-Appellanis and Benitez did some detective work and came up with the likely culprit -- a volatile star pack known as the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association, which passed relatively near the solar system several million years ago."
A google search turned up:
The association is embedded in a large roughly circular structure; this is a huge bubble of hot gas created by the stellar winds of the numerous massive stars in the association and by several super-nova explosions, which happened in the Scorpius Centaurus association during the last few million years.
So supernovas have happened in our local bubble, and evidently quite close.
Actually, the signal wouldn't ever be 'blurred'. You just pick out a spot and measure the intensity of light on it, compare it to the known specs of the display, and viola. A display that emitted light with an extended decay rate wouldn't be useful anyway.
But then again, light itself tends to have a uniform decay rate. Can you imagine how cool light would be if it did have an observeable decay time? Think of the savings! Turn on the light once in the early evening, and have the house lit until midnight.
Owing to the extreme nature of this solution, I bet that they tore the mars probe plans apart in looking for a solution.
You know, it would be really cool if they had actually planned for this eventuality. It's kind of Star Trek-like. Rerouting power to unrelated components in order to save the day was happening there long before this. I bet it'd be fun as hell to be on that team...
That's all good. You still have to have a legal copy of Windows XX to test your product. Money is still changed hands, just at different points in time.
No money is required to develop for the open community. Period. That difference is important.
He didn't even bother to check it out. That's pathetic, especially at a store where the mean price for merchandise is over $100. What the hell.
Then again, CompUSA has also told me many times that they have items in stock that they don't. They're too lazy to even give customers correct information... I own two Apple Studio Diplays, both from CompUSA. It was like pulling teeth to get them to talk intelligently about Apple products. ALL of my shopping had to be done online.
snow
You could copyright a pattern of sound waves, but not a single wave itself.
Imagine an international database of copyrighted sound patterns. Of course this would be so far into the future that the database could be scanned real-time and shutdown the play mechanism as soon as a pattern was recognized. Yikes.
snow
I bet all of it will eventually be done. Eventually we'll have the connectedness and the computing power at such low cost that even our thoughts will be checked for redundancy. When someone has a truly original thought, alarms will go off worldwide so every one can poke at it in amazement.
snow
Guns that won't shoot innocent people,
Microphones that won't record copyrighted soundwaves,
Pencils that won't write copyrighted strings,
Speakers that won't vibrate to reproduce copyrighted current patterns,
Film that won't change when exposed to copyrighted rays of light,
Oh yeah, and brains that won't remember copyrighted material of any sort.
snow
Actually, it was generated by Microsoft FrontPage 3.0. Some people just don't care about appearances. I bet these guys have dreds, without trying to have dreds.
Think about Photoshop without the history feature. I would have shot myself several times by now. Seriuosly though, most of my better/faster knowledge has come from talking to other users. So a list of how to do things quickly would be best made during beta testing, and released with the documentation.
Then your 'most efficient' log file would be updated, and shared among all users through the web. Connectivity! BWAHAHAHAHA!