Didja notice that there were no comments on the story on the actual page, but that there is a whole bunch of threads going here. Looks like Slashdot has become the message board of choice. Either that or no one actually looked at the story before commenting here, naaa no one ever does that.
Sad to see Andromeda go. It was one of the better scifi shows currently on TV. Imaginative, good characters, fun plot-lines. In many ways it carried on the vision of Gene Roddenberry. I have given up on expecting the Paramount owned Star Trek francise to give us anything original or interesting. "sniff"
If you were a student at Florida State and said hi to him, chances were good that he wouldn't respond at all.
I was a student at FSU while Dirac was alive. He did have a stand-offish personality, but I wouldn't say that he was intentionaly rude. He just seemed to be in deep thought, supposedly working on a mathematical or physics problem. Although he was in his latter years when he was here, he used to take long walks, and I would see him walking along the road miles from his home.
The web was created to be cross platform and to be able to use different types of browsers. Microsoft has cosistently created browsers and web editors, as well as the internet technology in Word, etc. to favor its own products and OS's. Maybe Tim B-L getting this award will get them to use standards and technology that anyone on any platform, using any browser can access. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...
My university (FSU, host of our glorious VP more...), has a great spam filter that looks for patterns in e-mail that indicate thats it is spam, e.g. return address doesn't match actual sender. If this legistlation goes through and if spammers actually comply, the filter could look for "Sexually Explicit" in the subject line and filter it out. This would filter out about 80% of my spam. (Well they said that I could enter the site for free if I just gave them my e-mail address. I didn't think they would sell to anyone else.)
Well, I messed up my Karma, but I was second. Anyway, guess I shoud say something on-topic to see if i can get modded up: Does AT&T have a trademark on the name 'phone book'? does Ford have a trademark on the name 'automobile'? Windows is a generic name for the area of a computer screen where we see a file or program. It just goes to show you that money talks. Just a matter of time before they outlaw Linux in the U.S. We will have to download it from China or Korea.
So if they had nuclear landmines that weighed only 400 lbs. why did the need one that was 7 tons?? And since nuclear material gives off its own heat, why the chickens?? Must be 4/1/04 (or 1/4/04 for our Euro-friends).
As anyone who has taken high school physics should know, to get into orbit does not just require "going up." It requires reaching orbital velocity about 25,000 mph.
physlink.com
A scram jet could be used for part of an orbital flight from about 7 to 10 times the speed of sound. A rocket would probably be used before and after the scram jet, but there would be considerable fuel savings. Of coure once you are outside the atmosphere, a jet is useless and a rocket engine would have to be use.
I think the peguin is gay. Who else would wear a tuxedo everyday? And just look at that boyish face. Forget the teletubbies, Tux is obviously designed to recruit geeks to become gay.
Good Quicktime is much better than MediaPlayer or RealPlayer. Steve Jobs is just not good at promotion, other that preaching to the faithful at MacWorlds.
As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong), C|Net has ties to Microsoft, so its no surprise that they took SCO's side of the story.
Also, did you notice at the bottom of the story the "white papers" claiming savings in running MS servers rather than Linux servers? These same "white papers" have been linked from other SCO stories on C|Net.
That's still pretty high, compare it to Vietnam where the median age is 20. Its going to become a problem for first world countries in the next few years as the median age goes up, due to low birth rate. (The median age for US is around 40.)(Thanks CIA!)
Maybe robots will become helpful to an aging population. The one in this discussion is only 39 cm high (about 14 inches). I don't thinks its big enough to go down to the corner drug store for geritol yet.
It seems like Lucas and other movie companies are beginning to realize what record companies have known for years; by providing new media you can sell the same product over and over. First we had LP's, then 8-tracks then cassettes, then CD's, then super CD's,... Now we have Beta then VHS, then DVD,...
I still have my old LP collection and a betamax copy of "Star Wars" that I taped off HBO twenty years ago.
The heoric literature genre that the Lord of the Rings and many Fantasy and Sci-Fi novels/stories/movies belong to has been around for much longer than a few hundred years. It has probably been with us since humans first learned to speak and tell stories. Joseph Campbell outlined the basic plot to these stories in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." Tolkein was a professor of ancient European languages and was well aqainted with this type of story and its part of the background that gave rise to "The Lord of the Rings."
I am not sure if there was contact between Tolkein and Campbell, but they were contemporaries. If anyone know of this let me know.
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Popular Science has always been crazy as hell science. I am still wating for my flying car and hotel room on Mars that was predicted in the magazine when I read in in junior high in the 70's.
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Didja notice that there were no comments on the story on the actual page, but that there is a whole bunch of threads going here. Looks like Slashdot has become the message board of choice. Either that or no one actually looked at the story before commenting here, naaa no one ever does that.
Just another day for me as sysadmin for all Mac office. Ho hum, wonder what's on the net today? What is Dibert up to? Wonder what's on Slashdot?
The two dialogs of Plato's which describe Atlantis are the Timeaeus and Critias. It is on-line at: Atlantis
The Timeaeus only refers to Atlantis in two paragraphs. The Critias has a longer description, but it ends in the middle of the dialogue.
You can draw your own conclusions.
Sad to see Andromeda go. It was one of the better scifi shows currently on TV. Imaginative, good characters, fun plot-lines. In many ways it carried on the vision of Gene Roddenberry. I have given up on expecting the Paramount owned Star Trek francise to give us anything original or interesting. "sniff"
If you were a student at Florida State and said hi to him, chances were good that he wouldn't respond at all.
I was a student at FSU while Dirac was alive. He did have a stand-offish personality, but I wouldn't say that he was intentionaly rude. He just seemed to be in deep thought, supposedly working on a mathematical or physics problem. Although he was in his latter years when he was here, he used to take long walks, and I would see him walking along the road miles from his home.
The web was created to be cross platform and to be able to use different types of browsers. Microsoft has cosistently created browsers and web editors, as well as the internet technology in Word, etc. to favor its own products and OS's. Maybe Tim B-L getting this award will get them to use standards and technology that anyone on any platform, using any browser can access. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ...
My university (FSU, host of our glorious VP more...), has a great spam filter that looks for patterns in e-mail that indicate thats it is spam, e.g. return address doesn't match actual sender. If this legistlation goes through and if spammers actually comply, the filter could look for "Sexually Explicit" in the subject line and filter it out. This would filter out about 80% of my spam. (Well they said that I could enter the site for free if I just gave them my e-mail address. I didn't think they would sell to anyone else.)
Well, I messed up my Karma, but I was second. Anyway, guess I shoud say something on-topic to see if i can get modded up: Does AT&T have a trademark on the name 'phone book'? does Ford have a trademark on the name 'automobile'? Windows is a generic name for the area of a computer screen where we see a file or program. It just goes to show you that money talks. Just a matter of time before they outlaw Linux in the U.S. We will have to download it from China or Korea.
FP? or at least second or third???
So if they had nuclear landmines that weighed only 400 lbs. why did the need one that was 7 tons?? And since nuclear material gives off its own heat, why the chickens?? Must be 4/1/04 (or 1/4/04 for our Euro-friends).
As anyone who has taken high school physics should know, to get into orbit does not just require "going up." It requires reaching orbital velocity about 25,000 mph.
physlink.com
A scram jet could be used for part of an orbital flight from about 7 to 10 times the speed of sound. A rocket would probably be used before and after the scram jet, but there would be considerable fuel savings. Of coure once you are outside the atmosphere, a jet is useless and a rocket engine would have to be use.
Well this is "news for nurds."
Can you do that with just HTML? Wouldn't you also need at lest JavaScript or C running under Active X?
The answer is 42.
I think the peguin is gay. Who else would wear a tuxedo everyday? And just look at that boyish face. Forget the teletubbies, Tux is obviously designed to recruit geeks to become gay.
Good Quicktime is much better than MediaPlayer or RealPlayer. Steve Jobs is just not good at promotion, other that preaching to the faithful at MacWorlds.
OK, now put all this news together: Microsoft life camera, the Japanese robot, the neuron/silicon chips, the powered exoskeleton, ...
Maybe the Slashdot graphic of Bill Gates as a Borg is not so far off.
"Were do you want to be assimilated today?"
As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong), C|Net has ties to Microsoft, so its no surprise that they took SCO's side of the story.
Also, did you notice at the bottom of the story the "white papers" claiming savings in running MS servers rather than Linux servers? These same "white papers" have been linked from other SCO stories on C|Net.
So who is pulling the strings on all this???
Maybe they are being Slashdotted. Any links to their page from current articles?
The mean and median ages are barely past forty.
That's still pretty high, compare it to Vietnam where the median age is 20. Its going to become a problem for first world countries in the next few years as the median age goes up, due to low birth rate. (The median age for US is around 40.)(Thanks CIA!)
Maybe robots will become helpful to an aging population. The one in this discussion is only 39 cm high (about 14 inches). I don't thinks its big enough to go down to the corner drug store for geritol yet.
If he has an effect on our lives, then he is not dead, so how could his death have any effect on my salvation since he is not dead to begin with???
It was the "smoking man" hiding in a manhole who actually sent the second asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Any conspiracy nut knows that.
It seems like Lucas and other movie companies are beginning to realize what record companies have known for years; by providing new media you can sell the same product over and over. First we had LP's, then 8-tracks then cassettes, then CD's, then super CD's, ... Now we have Beta then VHS, then DVD, ...
I still have my old LP collection and a betamax copy of "Star Wars" that I taped off HBO twenty years ago.
And Microsoft Word also has a pop-up that tells me how to spell my own name when I type in the first few letters!
Seriously, I do miss WordPefect, it had a good spell check and no grammer check. The lastest version that I bought for my old 66Mhz 486 was great.
I wonder if there will be an OS X version?????
The heoric literature genre that the Lord of the Rings and many Fantasy and Sci-Fi novels/stories/movies belong to has been around for much longer than a few hundred years. It has probably been with us since humans first learned to speak and tell stories. Joseph Campbell outlined the basic plot to these stories in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." Tolkein was a professor of ancient European languages and was well aqainted with this type of story and its part of the background that gave rise to "The Lord of the Rings."
I am not sure if there was contact between Tolkein and Campbell, but they were contemporaries. If anyone know of this let me know.
Popular Science has always been crazy as hell science. I am still wating for my flying car and hotel room on Mars that was predicted in the magazine when I read in in junior high in the 70's.