Sure they are ocean beds. Just like those river beds which were later found to be formed from wind.
NASA is just desperate for cash, so they resort to sensationalism to get support for their budget bills in Congress. As an astronomer, I think that space travel is great, but it shouldn't come at the cost of our collective dignity.
I can see the headline now--"NASA, the boy who cried 'Life!'"
What you are talking about is infringement on copyright laws, and this has nothing to do with typosquatting. If someone at www.ed.com did the same you'd still be upset.
Cybersquatting is a bunch of bull. Domain names ate like real estate, and if your company is too slow to get the best piece of that real estate, tough shit. Pay the price if it means so much to you. It is amazing how many so-called capitalist ventures go crying to the government when things dont go their way.
Throw together some corny religious symbolism, more "umm..."s, "err..."s, and "what?"s than you can shake a stick at, top it all off with the evil is bad morality message, and you have a Square RPG.
I once played FF VII for one half hour, and never picked up the controler again. That in my estimation was the best Square ever had to offer. I just hope Jar Jar doesn't make a cameo.
If it says in the contract that the website must work under AOL 4.0, then it must work under AOL 4.0 or they can sue. What if you paid for a house to be handicapped accessable and the didn't bother to put ramps for your wheelchair? You could sue that contractor as well.
It may be a grey area over what's "accessable" or not, but there are tons of similar lawsuits. This is a non-issue.
There is something special about seeing an awful horror or sci-fi flick in a drive-in. I saw "Tron" in a drive-in during it's original run, and there is something about it that causes my friends to nod in appreciation whenever I boast about it. The odder thing is that I can boast about it. There is some mystic, nostalgic coolness that follows me around, because I did what the wish they could have done or, more accurately, what they wish they could do now.
It wouldn't mean anything if drive-ins weren't an endangered species, but the rise of the movie omniplex have doomed the very big screen to extinction.
But if I gain a rung (albeit a small one) on the social ladder for seeing Tron when a drive-in was in every self-respecting town, watching Battlefield Earth in a drive-in in the very twilight of this american icon's existance, will gain you much more.
You will be cool for doing it, oh yes, but you will also be among the last to use the drive-in for what it was meant for--turning otherwise worthless cinema into a good time. 20 years down the road, when your children see a movie that features a drive in, you will be able to tell the you were there on a blanket next to your car with a lover or friends, and say from experience that it was all it was cracked up to be.
And you came so close to being the first person I have ever seen use the proper plural of virus (which is spelled viri; it is a latin second declension masculine noun).
But kudos to you for trying! ^_^
Always Withhold your Social Security #
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You NEVER need to give your social security number when you are purchasing something online or otherwise. Not even when paying with checks, not even if it is your "student #" as well.
Anyone who has the right to ask for your social security number is *required by law* to give you documentation that they have this right and can withhold items or services until you give it to them.
This is very frequently abused especially by universities and the areas surrounding them. Put your foot down.
All-Purpose Cultural Cat-Girl Nuku Nuku
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Akiko Natsume is the president of Mishima Heavy Industries which manufactures weapons (mecha, orbital weaponry, a real ACME Co. kind of company).
Kyusaku Natsume, her separated husband, leaves the company with their son and the company's prized project (that he built and doesn't want it to be turned into a weapon) the NK-1124 android. He is a brillant engineer and his own personal ACME Co.
Nuku Nuku is the NK-1124 with the brain of a cat. She is a 14 year old girl, but, not to fear, Kuysaku and Ryu (his son) treat her as Kyusaku's daughter. Only high school boys chase her.
Akiko is willing to do *anything* to get Nuku Nuku and her son back. Enter Mishima's arsenal.
This is the best of the funny animes. It is a parody of all of those other cheesy, little girl saves the world, animes.
What's more? The male characters are well done, and *no one* is evil.
Weather forcasting has to be done now. You can't wait for John Q Computer User's packet to get crunched, washed, and shipped back to NOAA. It isn't as simple as checking a number against a key or finding a pattern in a sampling of radio waves. You need a huge amount of information to determine the fate of just one data point, and every different data point needs a different huge amount of information. And they would all have to be done in order.
You'd have to send packets the size of bowling balls to get even the smallest amount of work done. It would be inefficient for both the clients and servers. The clients would be spending their time downloading and uploading, and the servers would spend their time desperately making connections between packets preparing the next bowling ball for the next client. If just one of the packets are lost because someone turned their computer off for the night, millions of next generation data points will have to wait.
In other words, when you are not talking about a very linear project where it doesn't matter what order you get things processed, distributed computing sucks.
I have played a few games that have touted their realism. What I have found is that the more buttons and effects you have to worry about the harder it is to pick up and play.
Take the Playstation game Wipeout. I have played many racing games in my life, but Wipeout is by far the best. What makes it different from the more realistic racing sims is the fact that you don't need the brake in the beginning levels while getting all of the nifty graphic effects of the later stages and most of the speed. In other words, the game was fun while I was building skill.
The problem with video games is that you have fewer options than you would ever have in real life. In a real baseball game you have the option to stand anywhere you want in the batter's box, swing as hard as you want, even drop your shoulder a hair when you see a juicy fastball to uppercut the ball out of the park with nothing more than minute adjustments, but if you want to include it in a game, you have to find a separate input device for each small feature.
My prediction is that this space sim will have so many features that it will be rendered unweildly to all but the most experienced gamers, and even they will have a learning curve that will bore them for a while
Read the article. Maybe some at slashdot should have as well.
In the end, who really cares if we finish it?
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Space Station Freedom is a watered down version of something that was more or less completely useless to begin with. We don't need another SkyLab or Mir which only exists for scientific purposes. We need something that can build things in space.
That would help the space program, and have a chance at being worth the money.
So what you are saying is that we should break ties with a free state in order to endorse a government that would thing nothing of attacking a group of students with tanks.
Communism doesn't work. It makes almost everyone poor. Few remember that it was Chairman Mao's great wisdom that caused the Chinese to starve in the mid-1900's.
I clearly made the wrong choice of words. I didn't mean a perfect ellipse. I ment to distinguish a closed orbit from a open orbit such as a parabolic or hyperboic orbic, and I foolishly used the word parabolic.
As I said in a reply to a reply, this asteroid is not a moon of Earth's. It does not orbit the earth, it is just heavily affected by it. If it were orbiting the earth the horseshoe orbit would make little sense. Although I guess a very small asteroid could be affected by the moon in such a way, but because the gravity wells are so much smaller it would be far less stable and therefore less likely to happen.
My point whas that it has to be closed. No planet or asteroid is in a perfect ellipse.
I recieved an email from someone trying to debunk what I said. He referenced a webpage that is very informative. http://www.asteroid.yorku.ca/.
This shows the asteroid's true colors. It does not orbit Earth. It orbits with Earth, much like the trojans around Jupiter, but a little more funkily. It is not a moon. That is what threw me about the "horseshoe" orbit.
The trojan asteroids are found in the same orbit as Jupiter. The orbit at a stable gravity well formed by the interaction between Jupiter and the Sun. They follow Jupiter (or maybe lead, I can't quite remember) in the same orbit one sixth of the way around the sun. Trojan asteroids are classified solely by their pecular orbit, so that a former trojan asteroid orbiting Earth would no longer be a trojan asteroid.
The concept of a "horseshoe" orbit is laughable. If it is in a closed orbit, that orbit must be an ellipse (see Kepler's first Law). A horseshoe is open ended, and while open ended orbits do exist, the object would only pass by the earth once in the orbit, achieve escape velocity, and never return.
In other words this article, and yea verily this Slashdot post, makes no sense whatsoever.
I don't doubt that the "Terminator" gene is a bad idea. I don't think genetically modified foods are inherently evil though. I think a lot of good can come of it. The person who wrote this post (and linked to "Seeds of Destruction" as proof of his/her argument) is obviously a zelot, and I think that whenever applicable that fact should be pointed out.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure they are ocean beds. Just like those river beds which were later found to be formed from wind.
NASA is just desperate for cash, so they resort to sensationalism to get support for their budget bills in Congress. As an astronomer, I think that space travel is great, but it shouldn't come at the cost of our collective dignity.
I can see the headline now--"NASA, the boy who cried 'Life!'"
What you are talking about is infringement on copyright laws, and this has nothing to do with typosquatting. If someone at www.ed.com did the same you'd still be upset.
Cybersquatting is a bunch of bull. Domain names ate like real estate, and if your company is too slow to get the best piece of that real estate, tough shit. Pay the price if it means so much to you. It is amazing how many so-called capitalist ventures go crying to the government when things dont go their way.
I say, you snooze, you LOSE.
Throw together some corny religious symbolism, more "umm..."s, "err..."s, and "what?"s than you can shake a stick at, top it all off with the evil is bad morality message, and you have a Square RPG.
I once played FF VII for one half hour, and never picked up the controler again. That in my estimation was the best Square ever had to offer. I just hope Jar Jar doesn't make a cameo.
I want the "trojan" mp3's too, and so do other fans. Besides they have had full length RealAudio versions of four songs for weeks.
If it says in the contract that the website must work under AOL 4.0, then it must work under AOL 4.0 or they can sue. What if you paid for a house to be handicapped accessable and the didn't bother to put ramps for your wheelchair? You could sue that contractor as well.
It may be a grey area over what's "accessable" or not, but there are tons of similar lawsuits. This is a non-issue.
And Canadian, and australian.
There is something special about seeing an awful horror or sci-fi flick in a drive-in. I saw "Tron" in a drive-in during it's original run, and there is something about it that causes my friends to nod in appreciation whenever I boast about it. The odder thing is that I can boast about it. There is some mystic, nostalgic coolness that follows me around, because I did what the wish they could have done or, more accurately, what they wish they could do now.
It wouldn't mean anything if drive-ins weren't an endangered species, but the rise of the movie omniplex have doomed the very big screen to extinction.
But if I gain a rung (albeit a small one) on the social ladder for seeing Tron when a drive-in was in every self-respecting town, watching Battlefield Earth in a drive-in in the very twilight of this american icon's existance, will gain you much more.
You will be cool for doing it, oh yes, but you will also be among the last to use the drive-in for what it was meant for--turning otherwise worthless cinema into a good time. 20 years down the road, when your children see a movie that features a drive in, you will be able to tell the you were there on a blanket next to your car with a lover or friends, and say from experience that it was all it was cracked up to be.
That is the value in Battlefield Earth.
And you came so close to being the first person I have ever seen use the proper plural of virus (which is spelled viri; it is a latin second declension masculine noun).
But kudos to you for trying! ^_^
You NEVER need to give your social security number when you are purchasing something online or otherwise. Not even when paying with checks, not even if it is your "student #" as well.
Anyone who has the right to ask for your social security number is *required by law* to give you documentation that they have this right and can withhold items or services until you give it to them.
This is very frequently abused especially by universities and the areas surrounding them. Put your foot down.
Akiko Natsume is the president of Mishima Heavy Industries which manufactures weapons (mecha, orbital weaponry, a real ACME Co. kind of company).
Kyusaku Natsume, her separated husband, leaves the company with their son and the company's prized project (that he built and doesn't want it to be turned into a weapon) the NK-1124 android. He is a brillant engineer and his own personal ACME Co.
Nuku Nuku is the NK-1124 with the brain of a cat. She is a 14 year old girl, but, not to fear, Kuysaku and Ryu (his son) treat her as Kyusaku's daughter. Only high school boys chase her.
Akiko is willing to do *anything* to get Nuku Nuku and her son back. Enter Mishima's arsenal.
This is the best of the funny animes. It is a parody of all of those other cheesy, little girl saves the world, animes.
What's more? The male characters are well done, and *no one* is evil.
Check it out.
You missed the point.
Weather forcasting has to be done now. You can't wait for John Q Computer User's packet to get crunched, washed, and shipped back to NOAA. It isn't as simple as checking a number against a key or finding a pattern in a sampling of radio waves. You need a huge amount of information to determine the fate of just one data point, and every different data point needs a different huge amount of information. And they would all have to be done in order.
You'd have to send packets the size of bowling balls to get even the smallest amount of work done. It would be inefficient for both the clients and servers. The clients would be spending their time downloading and uploading, and the servers would spend their time desperately making connections between packets preparing the next bowling ball for the next client. If just one of the packets are lost because someone turned their computer off for the night, millions of next generation data points will have to wait.
In other words, when you are not talking about a very linear project where it doesn't matter what order you get things processed, distributed computing sucks.
I have played a few games that have touted their realism. What I have found is that the more buttons and effects you have to worry about the harder it is to pick up and play.
Take the Playstation game Wipeout. I have played many racing games in my life, but Wipeout is by far the best. What makes it different from the more realistic racing sims is the fact that you don't need the brake in the beginning levels while getting all of the nifty graphic effects of the later stages and most of the speed. In other words, the game was fun while I was building skill.
The problem with video games is that you have fewer options than you would ever have in real life. In a real baseball game you have the option to stand anywhere you want in the batter's box, swing as hard as you want, even drop your shoulder a hair when you see a juicy fastball to uppercut the ball out of the park with nothing more than minute adjustments, but if you want to include it in a game, you have to find a separate input device for each small feature.
My prediction is that this space sim will have so many features that it will be rendered unweildly to all but the most experienced gamers, and even they will have a learning curve that will bore them for a while
I think they are opening it up so that someone ports it to a Palm, and they don't take the blame for developing it.
Beware the SetupWeasel
Read the article. Maybe some at slashdot should have as well.
Space Station Freedom is a watered down version of something that was more or less completely useless to begin with. We don't need another SkyLab or Mir which only exists for scientific purposes. We need something that can build things in space.
That would help the space program, and have a chance at being worth the money.
So what you are saying is that we should break ties with a free state in order to endorse a government that would thing nothing of attacking a group of students with tanks.
Communism doesn't work. It makes almost everyone poor. Few remember that it was Chairman Mao's great wisdom that caused the Chinese to starve in the mid-1900's.
Go Taiwan.
I clearly made the wrong choice of words. I didn't mean a perfect ellipse. I ment to distinguish a closed orbit from a open orbit such as a parabolic or hyperboic orbic, and I foolishly used the word parabolic.
As I said in a reply to a reply, this asteroid is not a moon of Earth's. It does not orbit the earth, it is just heavily affected by it. If it were orbiting the earth the horseshoe orbit would make little sense. Although I guess a very small asteroid could be affected by the moon in such a way, but because the gravity wells are so much smaller it would be far less stable and therefore less likely to happen.
My point whas that it has to be closed. No planet or asteroid is in a perfect ellipse.
I recieved an email from someone trying to debunk what I said. He referenced a webpage that is very informative. http://www.asteroid.yorku.ca/.
This shows the asteroid's true colors. It does not orbit Earth. It orbits with Earth, much like the trojans around Jupiter, but a little more funkily. It is not a moon. That is what threw me about the "horseshoe" orbit.
The trojan asteroids are found in the same orbit as Jupiter. The orbit at a stable gravity well formed by the interaction between Jupiter and the Sun. They follow Jupiter (or maybe lead, I can't quite remember) in the same orbit one sixth of the way around the sun. Trojan asteroids are classified solely by their pecular orbit, so that a former trojan asteroid orbiting Earth would no longer be a trojan asteroid.
The concept of a "horseshoe" orbit is laughable. If it is in a closed orbit, that orbit must be an ellipse (see Kepler's first Law). A horseshoe is open ended, and while open ended orbits do exist, the object would only pass by the earth once in the orbit, achieve escape velocity, and never return.
In other words this article, and yea verily this Slashdot post, makes no sense whatsoever.
Still, I'm glad to see that CNN has at least one shred of integrity. I'm really surprised that it would be mentioned there at all.
Let me give you an idea of how much energy that is.
It would power a 100 watt light bulb for 1.023 microseconds.
For me to have 1023 ergs of kinetic energy, I would have to move at a whopping 0.1 cm/s.
In other words that would have to be one FREAKY SMALL CITY!
To me that is digging pretty deep. ^_^
windows 98 is actually version 4.11.1998. You have to dig to find it.
My copy of windows 98 is Windows version 4.11.1998
For those of you keeping score Microsoft has not even come out with a half version upgrade of windows in FIVE years!
They aren't sitting on their OS trying to extend their market share in other areas or anything. Really! ^_^
I don't doubt that the "Terminator" gene is a bad idea. I don't think genetically modified foods are inherently evil though. I think a lot of good can come of it. The person who wrote this post (and linked to "Seeds of Destruction" as proof of his/her argument) is obviously a zelot, and I think that whenever applicable that fact should be pointed out.
That was the reason for my post.