Trillions of years from now, the universe is much larger and colder. Aspects of the four forces we know of now become apparent, creating new forces.
Interesting... we do actually discover new physics in the domain of the supercool. Perhaps new life might evolve in the form of superconducting structures in the iron corpses of burned-out black dwarfs in the unspeakably distant future, and wonder about the time in the afterglow of the Big Bang in which a mysterious quantity called 'electrical resistance' dominated physics...
Yup, AOL to that. Except that there's nothing cool about Athlon 2000s, as I discovered the hard way when my heatsink catch went 'pwong!', the fan went 'fwip-fwip-FWIPFWIPFWIP' and the system as a whole went 'foom...'
Still, it was cheap enough. I'd have to pay through the nose to get seriously better performance; it represents the cash / power sweet spot for my budget. Still needs a decent video card, though; my Voodoo 4 is looking a little weedy in this beast:-)
This type of fakery only serves to deceive the consumer, instead of informing then. Instead of lying to the very people who pay their salary, the AMD marketing department should place a call over to Intel and ask to coordinate a marketing campaign explaining the irrelavency of clock speed and deciding a more appropriate way to base the performance of their chips.
The people who care about the difference between AMDese and real megahertz, already know. Joe Public doesn't honestly care; an Athlon 2000 is a match for a Pentium IV 2000, and that's all that really matters. AMD aren't on the fiddle; they've been entirely fair with the ratings at which they market their chips (and the temptation to inflate a little would be considerable...)
As for asking Intel nicely to help out AMD's marketing department, what colour is the sky where you live? The Pentium IV is designed to get big megahertz at the expense of actual performance; why would Intel throw away their chip's advantage like that?
Why does everyone in the USA assume that everyone else in the world will somehow obey US law when it is made "illegal"?
Because the vast majority of spam is sent by Americans, advertising products sold by other Americans and hoping to sell them to still more Americans. The fact that the spam is sent via open relays in Korea or bulletproof accounts in China, and received in Europe or Australia, is neither here nor there. Ralsky, for instance, lives in America, regardless of where the spam is routed; indeed, _his_ location is very well known nowadays;-)
They've always been allowed to do the characters' voices, but they're not allowed to create new material. So Dan Castellaneta can't (for instance) endorse some product in Homer's voice. He is, however, allowed to say 'D'oh!' or 'Mmm, donuts' as much as he likes, because those phrases are already Homer-canonical. Nonetheless, whenever any Simpsons voice artist goes on a radio show, they _always_ try to get them to say something like 'I'm Homer Simpson and you're listening to QXFR radio'. Never works.
Most spam is sent from overseas, because the US ISPs have mostly learned that spammers are bad news. Well, apart from SpewUNet. And Qworst. And Clueless & Witless. Nonetheless, the spammers themselves are almost all either American or spamming on behalf of Americans to make sales in America. It's rare for me to receive a spam from (say) a German in German for a product sold in Germany, though I do get the occasional all-Korean spew.
A government-backed do-not-mail list wouldn't stop genuinely foreign spam, but suppose Ralsky (an old Slashdot favourite;-) fires up his computer (that's the one at 6747 MINNOW POND DR, WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48322), links to his account on cn.net or to an open relay at some Korean high school, and uses those machines to fire his spam back at people in the US. Though the spam was sent via China or Korea, it was sent by a US citizen to US citizens with the intent of promoting products sold by US citizens to US citizens, and Ralsky's in the shitola.
I don't think I've ever seen anything sillier in all my life. That includes 11 years at Catholic school and a lifetime of watching Warner Bros. cartoons. Those sites, though... wow.
So far the chief problem with Russia's space tourism effort (apart from finding rich enough customers) has been NASA's objection to them taking people to ISS. Well, NASA, if you don't like people paying the Russians for Soyuz trips to ISS, feel free to keep all your astronauts on the ground.
If I was them, I'd be pushing space tourism harder now. NASA suddenly can't object any more.
Preacher (Garth Ennis) -- Texas preacher (with a vampire sidekick and his assassin girlfriend) go hunting for God
Wonderful series. There's a great website that counts up all the grievous head wounds inflicted throughout. The total is an astonishing one hundred and seventy-two. Yowch.
My personal favourite is the story where Cassidy meets Eccarius and les Enfants du Sang. WANKERS!
* Lucifer -- The title character is the angel, cast out of heaven and formerly ruler of hell. This is a spin-off of the classic late-80s/early-90s series Sandman.
And that's Lucifer's big problem - it's always going to be compared to Sandman. I like the series, but it seems to me that it's Sandman without the digressions. We get a sequence of plot arcs in which a lot of weird stuff happens, and then Lucifer kicks ass at the end. The whole sequence where Lucifer lost his powers and had to face a more powerful opponent with trickery alone was reminiscent of Sandman's 'Sound and Fury', with the heart in place of the ruby.
In Sandman, there were plenty of plots like this, yes, but there were also the side-plots. All this cosmological intrigue is going on, but then we get to see how this all impacts ordinary people. So we get to see the whole story of the Corinthian and the Collectors, and Dream doesn't even come into play until the very end. There are whole wonderful plots that hardly feature the title character at all (such as the World's End arc, the ending of which could make you want to die on the spot), and others that do include him but are entirely aside from the main story - things like Ramadan, for instance. Lucifer has done a little this way - I loved the episode in China - but I feel it needs a lot more of that kind of thing.
Imagine a Sandman that consisted only of Preludes and Nocturnes, Season of Mists, Brief Lives and The Kindly Ones. That's what Lucifer risks becoming.
Yes, the Nedelin disasterin 1960. Nobody in the West knew until the fall of Communism; chances are even the CIA were in the dark, because I'm sure if America knew of such a disaster they would have published it to the world with great glee.
And I admit to my deep shame that I had forgotten entirely about the whole event.
What about Russian deaths? I've heard it mentioned that they lost 3 cosmonauts on the return from orbit in the '70s, but haven't seen any evidence to back it up. How many russians died in the quest for space? (IMHO, they were more succesful than the americans in terms of leaping the first hurdles)
To my knowledge, the Russians have lost four in space; I don't know how many on the ground. They lost Col. Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov on Soyuz 1 on April 24 1967, and they lost Lt. Col. Georgi Timofiyevich Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov and Viktor Ivaonvich Patsayev on Soyuz 11 on June 29 1971.
Soyuz 1 suffered multiple hardware failures and ended up reentering the atmosphere at the wrong angle. Komarov knew he was doomed and spoke with his wife on the radio before he burned up; the conversation was intercepted by US radio bases in Turkey.
Soyuz 11 suffered decompression, again on reentry. The explosives that separated the flight cabin from the orbital module for reentry shook open an exhaust valve in the cabin; the automatic thrusters kicked in to correct for the change in orientation produced by the jet of air, and the resulting gyrations disoriented the crew sufficiently to prevent them stopping the valve. They would have been dead within a minute. The rest of the reentry continued as normal under automatic control, and the cosmonauts were found dead in the intact capsule.
The only serious downer I've noticed is an interface issue with the new Konqueror. It has tabbed browsing now - great! Trouble is, where Galeon has an 'x' button on each tab and Mozilla has an 'x' to close the current tab on the far right, Konqueror requires a right-click and 'close tab'. Yeah, there's Ctrl-W keyboard shortcut, but I tend to think in terms of the mouse for window manipulation.
Oh, and the Ctrl-T combination for opening a new tab, that's the same in every other browser I ever saw, opens up a Konsole. Ctrl-Shift-N opens a tab. That's only a minor bother, though...
Anyone who thinks the EU will hold out for more than a week in the face of pressure from the US govenment AND the global megacorps is living in a fantasy.
Is this the same EU that was quite happy to fight trade wars with the USA over such things as bananas and steel? And are these megacorps the ones that are overwhelmingly US-based and generally not European? Sure, there's a big incentive for the EU to look after Hollywood's interests...
Your Palladium is coming, Europe, and your leaders won't have the backbone to try and stop it. In 10 years, the only place you will be able to get TCPA/Pd free computers will be a few third-world nations, and those will be slapped with a trade embargo. Once the US government declares a "war on copyright piracy" everyone else will toe the line, just like they did for our "war on drugs" and "war on terrorism".
Yeah, war on terror, just look at the way France and Germany are going right along with Georgie's war plan without any complaints. And war on drugs, too; America's great campaign against people enjoying themselves certainly affected the decisions of the Dutch government. Oh, and it's not called Palladium any more... haven't you been paying attention today?
When the copyright expires, the licence will be irrelevant. The work will be in the public domain.
True, but for purposes of determining this, who's the author? Linux 2.4.20, for instance - who wrote it? When did they do it? Elements of Linux from 1991 to 2002 are in there, so when's the date from which we start counting down to copyright expiry?
Not forever, but maybe for life. I should have the sole right to decide how my writings get used during my life, but after my death they should be considered public domain. They certainly shouldn't be inherited by some corporation and exploited for decades on into the future. Why shouldn't John Lennon's music be public domain just like Beethoven's is? Why shouldn't Stephen King's work be public domain like Dickens's (Stephen King is dead, didn't you hear?)
This article seems to be on thin ice. The Voodoo 3 3000 was out in 95? I don't think so. I don't believe the Voodoo 2 was even out then. The Voodoo 3 came out around 98 or 99 I believe. I have a feeling this guy is trying to trick me into believing that not only did he invent the name X-Box but he also invented the Internet and had all the ideas for Sesame Street. Next story!
There was NO 3D in 1995 unless you wanted an insanely expensive Silicon Graphics box. Back then a 2MB S3 board - a Diamond Stealth 64, for instance - was damn nice. I think the first Voodoo was in '97, and the Voodoo 2 in '98. UltraHLE came out in late '98 or early '99, and managed high-speed N64 emulation using SLI'd Voodoo 2s. Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo 3 started making 3D popular because you could have it all on one card; about this time people like nVidia and ATi started getting serious marketshare as well, since 3dfx didn't go in for 32-bit colour, preferring speed over quality.
Voodoo 4 and 5 were too late to save 3dfx, but wonderfully cheap after the wreck:-)
And to anyone who has suffered through Neon Genesis: Evangelion, Toastyfrog's Neon Genesis: Evangelion Thumbnail Theatre [toastyfrog.com] is good for a solid laugh.
I don't think I've laughed liquids out of my nose for many years, but I just did. That page is extremely cruel and accurate. Now, excuse me while I embark on a 13-hour Evangelithon.
Does anyone actually play video in a resized window? Surely only "normal" size and fullscreen are ever used? By the way, Windows Media Player up to version 6 at least did the same trick.
Oh, I didn't realize that a shitty "feature" is ok, as long as some old version of windows software did the same thing. After all, the point of any free software project isn't to create an excellent program in its own right, its just to emulate the equivalent windows version, flaws and all, right?
As a matter of fact, I _do_ play video in a resized window. I've got a bunch of videos in a wide variety of resolutions, most of which are too small on my 1600x1200 desktop. But I don't want fullscreen because I'm doing something else at the time. Solution? Resize the window. This has never actually been a problem - just click the corner and drag the thing - except for one South Park episode, which crashes mplayer when I do that. Odd.
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Cosmic rays are mostly protons, which were particles last time I checked.
An interesting thought though... could amateur pics capture something astronomers miss?
Absolutely. Buy yourself a half-decent telescope and make a habit of scanning uninteresting patches of sky. Sooner or later you'll find a comet, and the odds are you're the first person who ever saw it. Note down its exact position and the place and time of the observation, contact your local university's astronomy people, and if it's not on the books then it gets your name.
IIRC, most comets are still discovered by lucky amateurs.
The movie was Star Wars Episode I. The experience was so displeasing that I went to see Episode I in a movie theater and I do not plan to watch a pirated movie again. Mainly because the quality of the 80% of the pirated material sucks and also because I have better things to waste money/bandwith on.
Run that one by me again, will you?
You SAW Episode 1 for free. Having found this a displeasing experience (didn't we all) you then went and PAID to see it AGAIN? What kind of masochist are you?
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Interesting... we do actually discover new physics in the domain of the supercool. Perhaps new life might evolve in the form of superconducting structures in the iron corpses of burned-out black dwarfs in the unspeakably distant future, and wonder about the time in the afterglow of the Big Bang in which a mysterious quantity called 'electrical resistance' dominated physics...
Yup, AOL to that. Except that there's nothing cool about Athlon 2000s, as I discovered the hard way when my heatsink catch went 'pwong!', the fan went 'fwip-fwip-FWIPFWIPFWIP' and the system as a whole went 'foom...'
Still, it was cheap enough. I'd have to pay through the nose to get seriously better performance; it represents the cash / power sweet spot for my budget. Still needs a decent video card, though; my Voodoo 4 is looking a little weedy in this beast:-)
The people who care about the difference between AMDese and real megahertz, already know. Joe Public doesn't honestly care; an Athlon 2000 is a match for a Pentium IV 2000, and that's all that really matters. AMD aren't on the fiddle; they've been entirely fair with the ratings at which they market their chips (and the temptation to inflate a little would be considerable...)
As for asking Intel nicely to help out AMD's marketing department, what colour is the sky where you live? The Pentium IV is designed to get big megahertz at the expense of actual performance; why would Intel throw away their chip's advantage like that?
Because the vast majority of spam is sent by Americans, advertising products sold by other Americans and hoping to sell them to still more Americans. The fact that the spam is sent via open relays in Korea or bulletproof accounts in China, and received in Europe or Australia, is neither here nor there. Ralsky, for instance, lives in America, regardless of where the spam is routed; indeed, _his_ location is very well known nowadays ;-)
They've always been allowed to do the characters' voices, but they're not allowed to create new material. So Dan Castellaneta can't (for instance) endorse some product in Homer's voice. He is, however, allowed to say 'D'oh!' or 'Mmm, donuts' as much as he likes, because those phrases are already Homer-canonical. Nonetheless, whenever any Simpsons voice artist goes on a radio show, they _always_ try to get them to say something like 'I'm Homer Simpson and you're listening to QXFR radio'. Never works.
Most spam is sent from overseas, because the US ISPs have mostly learned that spammers are bad news. Well, apart from SpewUNet. And Qworst. And Clueless & Witless. Nonetheless, the spammers themselves are almost all either American or spamming on behalf of Americans to make sales in America. It's rare for me to receive a spam from (say) a German in German for a product sold in Germany, though I do get the occasional all-Korean spew.
A government-backed do-not-mail list wouldn't stop genuinely foreign spam, but suppose Ralsky (an old Slashdot favourite ;-) fires up his computer (that's the one at 6747 MINNOW POND DR, WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48322), links to his account on cn.net or to an open relay at some Korean high school, and uses those machines to fire his spam back at people in the US. Though the spam was sent via China or Korea, it was sent by a US citizen to US citizens with the intent of promoting products sold by US citizens to US citizens, and Ralsky's in the shitola.
Wow.
I mean, wow.
I don't think I've ever seen anything sillier in all my life. That includes 11 years at Catholic school and a lifetime of watching Warner Bros. cartoons. Those sites, though... wow.
So far the chief problem with Russia's space tourism effort (apart from finding rich enough customers) has been NASA's objection to them taking people to ISS. Well, NASA, if you don't like people paying the Russians for Soyuz trips to ISS, feel free to keep all your astronauts on the ground.
If I was them, I'd be pushing space tourism harder now. NASA suddenly can't object any more.
Wonderful series. There's a great website that counts up all the grievous head wounds inflicted throughout. The total is an astonishing one hundred and seventy-two. Yowch.
My personal favourite is the story where Cassidy meets Eccarius and les Enfants du Sang. WANKERS!
And that's Lucifer's big problem - it's always going to be compared to Sandman. I like the series, but it seems to me that it's Sandman without the digressions. We get a sequence of plot arcs in which a lot of weird stuff happens, and then Lucifer kicks ass at the end. The whole sequence where Lucifer lost his powers and had to face a more powerful opponent with trickery alone was reminiscent of Sandman's 'Sound and Fury', with the heart in place of the ruby.
In Sandman, there were plenty of plots like this, yes, but there were also the side-plots. All this cosmological intrigue is going on, but then we get to see how this all impacts ordinary people. So we get to see the whole story of the Corinthian and the Collectors, and Dream doesn't even come into play until the very end. There are whole wonderful plots that hardly feature the title character at all (such as the World's End arc, the ending of which could make you want to die on the spot), and others that do include him but are entirely aside from the main story - things like Ramadan, for instance. Lucifer has done a little this way - I loved the episode in China - but I feel it needs a lot more of that kind of thing.
Imagine a Sandman that consisted only of Preludes and Nocturnes, Season of Mists, Brief Lives and The Kindly Ones. That's what Lucifer risks becoming.
A deer!
A female deer!
Definitely the best pun they've done, but...
- visual jokes
The Indiana Jones sequence where Bart steals Homer's penny jar
The wonderful scene where Homer fails to jump Springfield Gorge on a skateboard
- songs
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
We Do!
We Put The Spring In Springfield
- character-driven
The bit where Lisa is about to launch a tirade against the exclusive country club class, and then gets distracted by the ponies
The episode where Marge finally snaps and stops her car across the main bridge
- hallucinations
The Land of Chocolate - my favourite bit of _all_
Homer falling asleep on the road
Moe. Moe. Moe moe moe. Moe moe moe moe moe. Moe.
Yes, the Nedelin disasterin 1960. Nobody in the West knew until the fall of Communism; chances are even the CIA were in the dark, because I'm sure if America knew of such a disaster they would have published it to the world with great glee. And I admit to my deep shame that I had forgotten entirely about the whole event.
To my knowledge, the Russians have lost four in space; I don't know how many on the ground. They lost Col. Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov on Soyuz 1 on April 24 1967, and they lost Lt. Col. Georgi Timofiyevich Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov and Viktor Ivaonvich Patsayev on Soyuz 11 on June 29 1971.
Soyuz 1 suffered multiple hardware failures and ended up reentering the atmosphere at the wrong angle. Komarov knew he was doomed and spoke with his wife on the radio before he burned up; the conversation was intercepted by US radio bases in Turkey.
Soyuz 11 suffered decompression, again on reentry. The explosives that separated the flight cabin from the orbital module for reentry shook open an exhaust valve in the cabin; the automatic thrusters kicked in to correct for the change in orientation produced by the jet of air, and the resulting gyrations disoriented the crew sufficiently to prevent them stopping the valve. They would have been dead within a minute. The rest of the reentry continued as normal under automatic control, and the cosmonauts were found dead in the intact capsule.
And both of them with the great honour of actually being _listened_ to.
Oh, and the Ctrl-T combination for opening a new tab, that's the same in every other browser I ever saw, opens up a Konsole. Ctrl-Shift-N opens a tab. That's only a minor bother, though...
Is this the same EU that was quite happy to fight trade wars with the USA over such things as bananas and steel? And are these megacorps the ones that are overwhelmingly US-based and generally not European? Sure, there's a big incentive for the EU to look after Hollywood's interests...
Your Palladium is coming, Europe, and your leaders won't have the backbone to try and stop it. In 10 years, the only place you will be able to get TCPA/Pd free computers will be a few third-world nations, and those will be slapped with a trade embargo. Once the US government declares a "war on copyright piracy" everyone else will toe the line, just like they did for our "war on drugs" and "war on terrorism".
Yeah, war on terror, just look at the way France and Germany are going right along with Georgie's war plan without any complaints. And war on drugs, too; America's great campaign against people enjoying themselves certainly affected the decisions of the Dutch government. Oh, and it's not called Palladium any more... haven't you been paying attention today?
If, as the US government once argued, PGP is a munition, then a PC is a weapon.
True, but for purposes of determining this, who's the author? Linux 2.4.20, for instance - who wrote it? When did they do it? Elements of Linux from 1991 to 2002 are in there, so when's the date from which we start counting down to copyright expiry?
Not forever, but maybe for life. I should have the sole right to decide how my writings get used during my life, but after my death they should be considered public domain. They certainly shouldn't be inherited by some corporation and exploited for decades on into the future. Why shouldn't John Lennon's music be public domain just like Beethoven's is? Why shouldn't Stephen King's work be public domain like Dickens's (Stephen King is dead, didn't you hear?)
There was NO 3D in 1995 unless you wanted an insanely expensive Silicon Graphics box. Back then a 2MB S3 board - a Diamond Stealth 64, for instance - was damn nice. I think the first Voodoo was in '97, and the Voodoo 2 in '98. UltraHLE came out in late '98 or early '99, and managed high-speed N64 emulation using SLI'd Voodoo 2s. Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo 3 started making 3D popular because you could have it all on one card; about this time people like nVidia and ATi started getting serious marketshare as well, since 3dfx didn't go in for 32-bit colour, preferring speed over quality.
Voodoo 4 and 5 were too late to save 3dfx, but wonderfully cheap after the wreck :-)
And to anyone who has suffered through Neon Genesis: Evangelion, Toastyfrog's Neon Genesis: Evangelion Thumbnail Theatre [toastyfrog.com] is good for a solid laugh. I don't think I've laughed liquids out of my nose for many years, but I just did. That page is extremely cruel and accurate. Now, excuse me while I embark on a 13-hour Evangelithon.
Oh, I didn't realize that a shitty "feature" is ok, as long as some old version of windows software did the same thing. After all, the point of any free software project isn't to create an excellent program in its own right, its just to emulate the equivalent windows version, flaws and all, right?
As a matter of fact, I _do_ play video in a resized window. I've got a bunch of videos in a wide variety of resolutions, most of which are too small on my 1600x1200 desktop. But I don't want fullscreen because I'm doing something else at the time. Solution? Resize the window. This has never actually been a problem - just click the corner and drag the thing - except for one South Park episode, which crashes mplayer when I do that. Odd.
Particles? Pah! They're waves, I tell you! Waves!
Absolutely. Buy yourself a half-decent telescope and make a habit of scanning uninteresting patches of sky. Sooner or later you'll find a comet, and the odds are you're the first person who ever saw it. Note down its exact position and the place and time of the observation, contact your local university's astronomy people, and if it's not on the books then it gets your name.
IIRC, most comets are still discovered by lucky amateurs.
Run that one by me again, will you?
You SAW Episode 1 for free. Having found this a displeasing experience (didn't we all) you then went and PAID to see it AGAIN? What kind of masochist are you?