They've also really gone the extra mile to try and recreate the triad relationship of Kirk/Spock/McCoy. In this case it's Archer/T'Pol/ and the engineering guy, not the doctor.
Also, the there is a clear analog for Scotty in the person of Weapons Man Lieutenant Malcolm Reed who has a somewhat British/Commonwealth accent.
I'd say that Communications Specialist Ensign Hoshi Sato, is a beefed up Uhura character, more along the lines of the role she played in the movies rather than in TOS, which often wasn't much more than glorified receptionist.
Then you have Mayweather filling in the junior bridge officer slot of Chekov and Sulu combined, perhaps with a bit of Tom Paris/Harry Kim thrown in. But why was it that Mayweather was instructing Tucker in how to fly the alien ship? Why was Tucker flying the alien ship in the first place if he is an engineer?
The doctor 'Phlox' I think is filling more the role of Neelix from Voyager. Note how he is introducing the crew to all these alien medical treatments much as Neelix would get the crew to eat alien foods.
Vint Cerf was interviewed on NPR's Public Interest yesterday. You can listen to it in RealAudio here. He makes a great case for how the Internet was put its first real test of the original intention of using packet switching, which was to ensure a reliable method of communication in the event of an enemy attack here on US soil - and passed the test pretty well, with the exception of some of the major media sites being slashdotted.
Also, MAXIM's cover girl this month is Jolene Blalock, who plays Vulcan Sub Commander T'Pol. Presumably this is the same T'Pol that in ST:TOS Amok Time oversees Spock's Pon Farr ceremony. Many of the Trek fan site are speculating on just how long it will be before her character experiences the Pon Farr with no Vulcan males around and only Capt. Archer present to address her needs.
We bought an antenna but the picture is ghosty and blurry...which brought up the question, was non-cable, non-satellite TV always that way?
Pretty much. You didn't say what kind of antenna you bought though. Typical $10 bunny-ears will get generally only clear-up station you can get without an antenna in the first place. If you get nothing with an antenna, then you might want to look into a roof-top antenna, or one that uses the wiring in your house as the antenna. A lot of these were marketed as secondary antenna's just for Dish users prior to their carrying/offering local stations.
I keep seeing this exact same post crop up, and get modded up, every time an article related to the Moon is posted. Is this the definition of "karma whoring"?
Since it was posted by an AC by definition it can't be karma whoring since that term implies the poster is getting remuneration in the form of karma. Since AC's receive no karma from their post there is no way for them to receive such remuneration.
Furthermore, karma whoring in general became essentially pointless on slashdot when the 50 point cap was put in place. Once you get enough points to earn an automatic +1 Bonus, there is really no point to posting purely for the sake of karma, or skewing your posts with the intention of getting additional karma, the hallmarks of a true karma whore.
Also note that doctors and nurses in the background aren't wearing surgical gloves. Maybe there are gloved surgeons standing by, but this pic gave me the impression that had the robot malfunctioned (perhaps due to a power failure) the surgeons would first have to scrub and get gloved-up before jumping in to help the patient.
As to the aparent weight of the patient, I think its more likely that the patient was pumped up with CO2 which is typical for laparoscopic gall bladder surgery.
they come in a variety of colors: purple, red, white, yellow, sometimes all mixed together.
Perhaps with all this new found American patriotism McDonalds or one of the other fast food chains could start selling red, white, and blue french fries. Now what could be more American than that?
I checked one of the IPs and it said 'F*ck USA Government,
Aparently that was enough to get the attention of the FBI during the heightened attentions to security. I really pity whoever launched this thing if they aren't affiliated with Bin Laden et al, since any threat to the US government will now be considered an act of wart and will be dealt with accordingly.
The linked article notes that NIPC was anticipating an attack from a group called 'Dispatchers' to hit sometime today.
would that sort of thing be possible with this unit,
I also wonder, if instead of getting your video feed off the air you got it from your DVD player (or the DVD drive of your PC - since the devices aparently will shares data fairly seemlessly), couldn't this quickly become the ultimate DVD ripping device? (pardon me - I mean DVD backup device - soley for personal use with DVDs I actually own.) I mean it would go through a decompression/recompression cycle, but it would stay in digital format the whole time, certainly adequate to make a fairly good VCD copy of a DVD.
Also, with your ReplayTV connected to your PC can you burn the files to CD then mail the disc to your friend (who I assume would have to run the CD off their PC and view it on their own ReplayTV due to ReplayTV's own encryption/compression) instead of sharing it over the Internet? (I'm asking whether this would be technically feasible, I agree the MPAA will have its own opinion as to whether it is legally feasible.)
With ReplayTV 4000, the only networked Digital Video Recorder (DVR) with broadband connectivity, you can share your recorded shows between different ReplayTVs in your home, send recorded programs to your friends via the Internet
This will be shut down faster than you can say iCraveTV! (and that was legal under the laws of the country in which it was offered).
The Post Office DOES have a way to uniquely ID each house. 11-digit zip codes are set up to ID each individual building or apartment on a the mailperson's delivery route, this facilitates machine sorting of the mail.
Assuming you're familiar with 9-digit zip codes which ID one side of a specific block on a given street (or one building in an apartment complex) the number is then extended by the last two digits of the street address (which the USPS calls the 'delivery point code'). So for example, the President's 9-digit zip is 20502-0001, and since the address is 1600 Pennsyvania Ave, the 11-digit version would be 20502-0001-00. 11-digit zips are already useable in postal barcodes. The Univ. of Buffalo runs a service that will generate a PS or GIF image of your address with the barcode here.
About a year ago (*) the Postal Service proposed using this as a the basis for providing a free email address to each of their 'customers' (every resident of the US) they suggested that for individuals within a household the first and last initials could be appended to the 11-digit zip and emailed through a usps mail server so that the President's email address under this system would be gb20502000100@usps.gov and the first lady (who has a different 9-digit zip) would be lb20502000200@usps.gov
* Note: the date I saw this in the news was 10/3/00, but I can't find a link that documents the specific scheme used, though I made a note of how it worked. this page references that the zip + 4 + delivery point code could be used, but proposes a different way of doing and doesn't discuss the system I read about. Send me an email if you find a link that documents the system I outlined.
Personally, I think that if they really wanted to control for this they would have used left-handed indivuals only since people that are biologically lefthanded are often made to adapt as to living as righthanded, but the reverse is never true (except in the case of amputees or stroke victims who have lost the use of the right hand).
I did a quick Google on her and she seems to be fairly moderate, possiblly leaning more toward the little guy vs. the big monopolisitc company. The decisions that got her the most press seem to be:
Siding with Credit Unions on allowing them an expansive definition of who can qualify as a CU member in a civil decision against the American Bankers Association.
Deciding that the FDA can regulate/label GM foods just like any other food additive. Not likely to make the Greens happy, but a reasonable, consumer/regulatory friendly decision. And,
Finding against the CIA in FOIA suit brought by the National Security Archive, requesting bios the CIA prepared on Communist leaders. This was aparently the first decision that didn't uphold a doctrine held by the CIA that they didn't have to release documents if it they claimed to neither confirm nor deny the very existence of the documents, however, it was on a technicality that the CIA in fact already acknowledged the documents existed
Trying to find anything related to a previous antitrust decision was basically fruitless, though she aparently was the presiding judge that signed off on an agreement between the DoJ AntiTrust division and Fox Television.
but how would an anti-freeze PROTEIN help us form frost-resistant CONCRETE?
I think the point is that since the protein can be added to water to reduce the freezing point of the water, it would be useful in allowing the concrete to set up in below freezing conditions. Also, much of the cost of road repair is due to the ground freezing and buckling, I assume that if you add this protien to concrete, it would reduce damage caused by moisture that later seeps into the concrete freezing and thawing. This would not be possible with alcohol based anti-freeze.
Perhaps the %34 efficiency is for only a narrow band of the solar spectrum.
That seems to be it. According to the abstract "these films show photovoltaic response with external quantum efficiencies of >34% near 490 nm." 490 nm is right between blue and green in the visible spectrum.
Aluminum not a "cheap disposable metal"
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If that were the case the cost of recycling it would have to be less the cost of mining and refining the bauxite, which it is not. The cost of recycling Aluminum is about 1/20 the cost of producing 'new' metal from bauxite. Thus making it the most cost effective household material for recycling. Also, since savings is in reduced use of electricity, it benefits everyone who has to purchase electricity off the grid to recycle their aluminum.
Annually, the aluminum industry saves enough electricity by recycling to reduce by 60 the overall need for power plants in the US.
That's a very interesting question. According to Webelements Ununhexium (element 116) only existed as a shortlived decay product of 118.
The WebElements page for 118 has information about, and a link to, the retraction (the 116 page doens't) But reading the retraction, though it mentions 116, doesn't retract any claim regarding the existence of 116. So its possible that when the krypton collided with the Lead, an alpha particle was thrown off in the creation of Ununhexium, rather than during the decay of Ununoctium.
However, IANANP (I am not a nuclear physicist), so what do I know?
Sell your Worldnet service for $9.95 month or whatever the going rate is for generic dialup Internet service
The key term here is dialup, the phone is rigged to run on an ethernet connection. I for one wouldn't pay the $5/10-minutes these terminals typically charge at airports for a 56k connection. Also, if they connected via dial-up, then you wouldn't be able to use the phone and internet features at the same time, which from my experience is important if you're calling back to you're office to pass-off tasks sent to you in your email. Or calling someone who has sent you their phone number and needs an immediate response.
"X-Files" has actually gotten good again over the past few months.
Do you mean over the last few months where Mulder returned? SInce Mulder won't be back next year, I think everyone is dreading the samething I am, another season along the lines of Fall '00 episodes wher we have Scully as the believer (aka Mulder standin) and T2-guy as the skeptic (aka early Scully standin), minus all the sexual tension between Scully and Mulder.
They have run through all of the major thread of the X-files (actually probably more than once at this point) which basically leaves them with the monster of the week shows, which frankly, Special Unit 2 was doing better this season since they at least have the sexual tension between the leads.
"I first want to deploy it using a terminal interface instead of a GUI interface for the simple reason that there will be times when it's better to run thin machines without installing X11, and it might be easier to implement rather than jumping right into GTK or some X11 widget toolkit. So does anyone know of any character based UI libraries that are available for C?"
Have you looked at the ARACHNE Web Browser for Linux it requires svgalib on a 486 with 8MB of RAM, but allows you to design your whole interface in standard HTML since its an HTML/4.0 specification compliant webbrowser. The Linux version is still in alpha/beta stage, but the DOS version can run in Linux using dosemu.
I wouldn't call it a Non-GUI platform, but it is a low resource X11-free platform.
I remember visiting that exact same web site about three years ago.
I don't think it has changed since then. Note that the page says that for the 'Advanced Interface' you need a javascript enabled browser 'such as Netscape3'
What I'm curious to know is how much their Text-to-Speech synthesis has improved in the past few years.
I don't know if this site will be any help as there is no way of knowing whether they have updated the backend.
Thanks for the links. Check the second link again. It's a good example of why the Feds need a IT Czar:
GSAAuctions.gov - GSA's premier on-line surplus property auction site
GSAauctions.gov - Purchase surplus Federal Government property here.
They show the same URL twice but change the capitalization (though in fact the second link go to an entirely different URL than the one listed, of course the only thing on that page is a link to gsaauctions.gov).
Actually, no you can't. The problem is that the government can't afford to compete with Nortern Virginia based high tech industry in terms of salary. While the government does offer a pretty good benefits package, the salaries its allowed to offer to recent college grads are a joke. There was a recent effort to boost starting pay for computer specialists, but even after that, the best that a recent grad can get is the high 30's. Of those that start off in the government, probably half leave after 6 months for double the salary.
The high tech 'down turn' may help a little, or we may be able to pick up some older tech workers that are ready to kick back some and work 40 hour weeks so they can start to raise families, however, these workers still have to pay exhorbitant housing prices to live in the area, and that makes it hard to live off a government salary. At least for a few more years the government will be dependent on contractors.
One solution that is starting to pay off, is to decentralize the IT function by setting up data and call centers in various location all over the country. This may work, but unfortunately it is being done while we are still dependent on contractors and so many of these new data centers are being run by contractors instead of feds.
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They've also really gone the extra mile to try and recreate the triad relationship of Kirk/Spock/McCoy. In this case it's Archer/T'Pol/ and the engineering guy, not the doctor.
Also, the there is a clear analog for Scotty in the person of Weapons Man Lieutenant Malcolm Reed who has a somewhat British/Commonwealth accent.
I'd say that Communications Specialist Ensign Hoshi Sato, is a beefed up Uhura character, more along the lines of the role she played in the movies rather than in TOS, which often wasn't much more than glorified receptionist.
Then you have Mayweather filling in the junior bridge officer slot of Chekov and Sulu combined, perhaps with a bit of Tom Paris/Harry Kim thrown in. But why was it that Mayweather was instructing Tucker in how to fly the alien ship? Why was Tucker flying the alien ship in the first place if he is an engineer?
The doctor 'Phlox' I think is filling more the role of Neelix from Voyager. Note how he is introducing the crew to all these alien medical treatments much as Neelix would get the crew to eat alien foods.
Vint Cerf was interviewed on NPR's Public Interest yesterday. You can listen to it in RealAudio here. He makes a great case for how the Internet was put its first real test of the original intention of using packet switching, which was to ensure a reliable method of communication in the event of an enemy attack here on US soil - and passed the test pretty well, with the exception of some of the major media sites being slashdotted.
He is joined by George Sadowski, Executive Director of the Global Internet Policy Initiative, GIPI.
Sorry, the MAXIM link should be here instead.
WIRED: Star Trek: Bakula to the Future
Scripps/Howard: Operation: Enterprise
The San Francisco Examiner: Living in the now
New York Daily News: Bakula's Bold New 'Enterprise'
Also, MAXIM's cover girl this month is Jolene Blalock, who plays Vulcan Sub Commander T'Pol. Presumably this is the same T'Pol that in ST:TOS Amok Time oversees Spock's Pon Farr ceremony. Many of the Trek fan site are speculating on just how long it will be before her character experiences the Pon Farr with no Vulcan males around and only Capt. Archer present to address her needs.
We bought an antenna but the picture is ghosty and blurry...which brought up the question, was non-cable, non-satellite TV always that way?
Pretty much. You didn't say what kind of antenna you bought though. Typical $10 bunny-ears will get generally only clear-up station you can get without an antenna in the first place. If you get nothing with an antenna, then you might want to look into a roof-top antenna, or one that uses the wiring in your house as the antenna. A lot of these were marketed as secondary antenna's just for Dish users prior to their carrying/offering local stations.
I keep seeing this exact same post crop up, and get modded up, every time an article related to the Moon is posted. Is this the definition of "karma whoring"?
Since it was posted by an AC by definition it can't be karma whoring since that term implies the poster is getting remuneration in the form of karma. Since AC's receive no karma from their post there is no way for them to receive such remuneration.
Furthermore, karma whoring in general became essentially pointless on slashdot when the 50 point cap was put in place. Once you get enough points to earn an automatic +1 Bonus, there is really no point to posting purely for the sake of karma, or skewing your posts with the intention of getting additional karma, the hallmarks of a true karma whore.
Also note that doctors and nurses in the background aren't wearing surgical gloves. Maybe there are gloved surgeons standing by, but this pic gave me the impression that had the robot malfunctioned (perhaps due to a power failure) the surgeons would first have to scrub and get gloved-up before jumping in to help the patient.
As to the aparent weight of the patient, I think its more likely that the patient was pumped up with CO2 which is typical for laparoscopic gall bladder surgery.
they come in a variety of colors: purple, red, white, yellow, sometimes all mixed together.
Perhaps with all this new found American patriotism McDonalds or one of the other fast food chains could start selling red, white, and blue french fries. Now what could be more American than that?
I checked one of the IPs and it said 'F*ck USA Government,
Aparently that was enough to get the attention of the FBI during the heightened attentions to security. I really pity whoever launched this thing if they aren't affiliated with Bin Laden et al, since any threat to the US government will now be considered an act of wart and will be dealt with accordingly.
The linked article notes that NIPC was anticipating an attack from a group called 'Dispatchers' to hit sometime today.
would that sort of thing be possible with this unit,
I also wonder, if instead of getting your video feed off the air you got it from your DVD player (or the DVD drive of your PC - since the devices aparently will shares data fairly seemlessly), couldn't this quickly become the ultimate DVD ripping device? (pardon me - I mean DVD backup device - soley for personal use with DVDs I actually own.) I mean it would go through a decompression/recompression cycle, but it would stay in digital format the whole time, certainly adequate to make a fairly good VCD copy of a DVD.
Also, with your ReplayTV connected to your PC can you burn the files to CD then mail the disc to your friend (who I assume would have to run the CD off their PC and view it on their own ReplayTV due to ReplayTV's own encryption/compression) instead of sharing it over the Internet? (I'm asking whether this would be technically feasible, I agree the MPAA will have its own opinion as to whether it is legally feasible.)
This is directly from the ReplayTV website:
This will be shut down faster than you can say iCraveTV! (and that was legal under the laws of the country in which it was offered).
Assuming you're familiar with 9-digit zip codes which ID one side of a specific block on a given street (or one building in an apartment complex) the number is then extended by the last two digits of the street address (which the USPS calls the 'delivery point code'). So for example, the President's 9-digit zip is 20502-0001, and since the address is 1600 Pennsyvania Ave, the 11-digit version would be 20502-0001-00. 11-digit zips are already useable in postal barcodes. The Univ. of Buffalo runs a service that will generate a PS or GIF image of your address with the barcode here.
About a year ago (*) the Postal Service proposed using this as a the basis for providing a free email address to each of their 'customers' (every resident of the US) they suggested that for individuals within a household the first and last initials could be appended to the 11-digit zip and emailed through a usps mail server so that the President's email address under this system would be gb20502000100@usps.gov and the first lady (who has a different 9-digit zip) would be lb20502000200@usps.gov
* Note: the date I saw this in the news was 10/3/00, but I can't find a link that documents the specific scheme used, though I made a note of how it worked. this page references that the zip + 4 + delivery point code could be used, but proposes a different way of doing and doesn't discuss the system I read about. Send me an email if you find a link that documents the system I outlined.
They were all right-handed, too.
There is a "robust-but-imperfect correlation between handedness and brain lateralization", so if you are studying brain geography it is important to know the handedness of the individuals in the study.
Personally, I think that if they really wanted to control for this they would have used left-handed indivuals only since people that are biologically lefthanded are often made to adapt as to living as righthanded, but the reverse is never true (except in the case of amputees or stroke victims who have lost the use of the right hand).
- Siding with Credit Unions on allowing them an expansive definition of who can qualify as a CU member in a civil decision against the American Bankers Association.
- Deciding that the FDA can regulate/label GM foods just like any other food additive. Not likely to make the Greens happy, but a reasonable, consumer/regulatory friendly decision. And,
- Finding against the CIA in FOIA suit brought by the National Security Archive, requesting bios the CIA prepared on Communist leaders. This was aparently the first decision that didn't uphold a doctrine held by the CIA that they didn't have to release documents if it they claimed to neither confirm nor deny the very existence of the documents, however, it was on a technicality that the CIA in fact already acknowledged the documents existed
Trying to find anything related to a previous antitrust decision was basically fruitless, though she aparently was the presiding judge that signed off on an agreement between the DoJ AntiTrust division and Fox Television.but how would an anti-freeze PROTEIN help us form frost-resistant CONCRETE?
I think the point is that since the protein can be added to water to reduce the freezing point of the water, it would be useful in allowing the concrete to set up in below freezing conditions. Also, much of the cost of road repair is due to the ground freezing and buckling, I assume that if you add this protien to concrete, it would reduce damage caused by moisture that later seeps into the concrete freezing and thawing. This would not be possible with alcohol based anti-freeze.
I didn't know that FireWire ports could also transfer fire.
That's why it's very important to install a firewall to ensure that only friendly fire is transferred, and that malignant fires are stopped.
Perhaps the %34 efficiency is for only a narrow band of the solar spectrum.
That seems to be it. According to the abstract "these films show photovoltaic response with external quantum efficiencies of >34% near 490 nm." 490 nm is right between blue and green in the visible spectrum.
If that were the case the cost of recycling it would have to be less the cost of mining and refining the bauxite, which it is not. The cost of recycling Aluminum is about 1/20 the cost of producing 'new' metal from bauxite. Thus making it the most cost effective household material for recycling. Also, since savings is in reduced use of electricity, it benefits everyone who has to purchase electricity off the grid to recycle their aluminum.
Annually, the aluminum industry saves enough electricity by recycling to reduce by 60 the overall need for power plants in the US.
That's a very interesting question. According to Webelements Ununhexium (element 116) only existed as a shortlived decay product of 118.
The WebElements page for 118 has information about, and a link to, the retraction (the 116 page doens't) But reading the retraction, though it mentions 116, doesn't retract any claim regarding the existence of 116. So its possible that when the krypton collided with the Lead, an alpha particle was thrown off in the creation of Ununhexium, rather than during the decay of Ununoctium.
However, IANANP (I am not a nuclear physicist), so what do I know?
Sell your Worldnet service for $9.95 month or whatever the going rate is for generic dialup Internet service
The key term here is dialup, the phone is rigged to run on an ethernet connection. I for one wouldn't pay the $5/10-minutes these terminals typically charge at airports for a 56k connection. Also, if they connected via dial-up, then you wouldn't be able to use the phone and internet features at the same time, which from my experience is important if you're calling back to you're office to pass-off tasks sent to you in your email. Or calling someone who has sent you their phone number and needs an immediate response.
"X-Files" has actually gotten good again over the past few months.
Do you mean over the last few months where Mulder returned? SInce Mulder won't be back next year, I think everyone is dreading the samething I am, another season along the lines of Fall '00 episodes wher we have Scully as the believer (aka Mulder standin) and T2-guy as the skeptic (aka early Scully standin), minus all the sexual tension between Scully and Mulder.
They have run through all of the major thread of the X-files (actually probably more than once at this point) which basically leaves them with the monster of the week shows, which frankly, Special Unit 2 was doing better this season since they at least have the sexual tension between the leads.
"I first want to deploy it using a terminal interface instead of a GUI interface for the simple reason that there will be times when it's better to run thin machines without installing X11, and it might be easier to implement rather than jumping right into GTK or some X11 widget toolkit. So does anyone know of any character based UI libraries that are available for C?"
Have you looked at the ARACHNE Web Browser for Linux it requires svgalib on a 486 with 8MB of RAM, but allows you to design your whole interface in standard HTML since its an HTML/4.0 specification compliant webbrowser. The Linux version is still in alpha/beta stage, but the DOS version can run in Linux using dosemu.
I wouldn't call it a Non-GUI platform, but it is a low resource X11-free platform.
I remember visiting that exact same web site about three years ago.
I don't think it has changed since then. Note that the page says that for the 'Advanced Interface' you need a javascript enabled browser 'such as Netscape3'
What I'm curious to know is how much their Text-to-Speech synthesis has improved in the past few years.
I don't know if this site will be any help as there is no way of knowing whether they have updated the backend.
They show the same URL twice but change the capitalization (though in fact the second link go to an entirely different URL than the one listed, of course the only thing on that page is a link to gsaauctions.gov).
Actually, no you can't. The problem is that the government can't afford to compete with Nortern Virginia based high tech industry in terms of salary. While the government does offer a pretty good benefits package, the salaries its allowed to offer to recent college grads are a joke. There was a recent effort to boost starting pay for computer specialists, but even after that, the best that a recent grad can get is the high 30's. Of those that start off in the government, probably half leave after 6 months for double the salary.
The high tech 'down turn' may help a little, or we may be able to pick up some older tech workers that are ready to kick back some and work 40 hour weeks so they can start to raise families, however, these workers still have to pay exhorbitant housing prices to live in the area, and that makes it hard to live off a government salary. At least for a few more years the government will be dependent on contractors.
One solution that is starting to pay off, is to decentralize the IT function by setting up data and call centers in various location all over the country. This may work, but unfortunately it is being done while we are still dependent on contractors and so many of these new data centers are being run by contractors instead of feds.