This is the perfect way to promote Gnu/Linux.
Much the way software companies use phony methods to measure financial losses to piracy, when you download Gnu/Linux for free, you can see how much it's 'really' worth.
Although '# of lines of code' might be an unfair measure,since open source tends to be more stable.
So just add 50% to that value.
I'd like it to be able to connect to my cell phone, and sync up phone numbers, maybe a category in the PDA that's called cell, all those numbers load into the phone, and load numbers from the phone into the PDA as well. I don't want it to be part of the phone, I like them separate. And while it's connected to the phone it could send and recieve email, and Avantgo web clippings. Simple do-able integrated functionality. Oh damn, this idea smacks of monopolistic exploitability. Nevermind.
I bet that they discover that humankind originated on Mars and dug all those canals and stuff.
But they had a catastrophic atomic war, but their space program allowed them to settle on the promising planet of earth, where environmental differences caused them to de-evolve into apes, whereupon, it took millions of years to evolve to near their former selves.:)
As small as the chances of viral lifeforms from Mars existing and infecting earth, it's worth taking the precautions. Remember H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds"? Aliens from Mars were kicking our ass, until they mysteriously died off, for they were not immune to our local 'innocuous' bacterium. Of course you would hope that an agency like NASA would have the ability to check for the presence of bacteria, and that, in fact, that would be one of the purposes of such a mission, but hey, never question beaurocratic motives.
It's amazing how much Microsoft whines about how the government's proposed measures against them could hurt them. Um, well... yeah...and...so...?
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Dear SecretAsianMan, Don't worry, 13,000 terawatts should be more than we can ever use. your pal, Bill Gates
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What about the filtering effect of the earth's atmosphere upon microwaves transmitted to earth?
Not to mention, what is the efficiency ratio, of collecting energy on the moon, changing it's form from solar to electrical to microwave, transmitting it 250,000 miles through space and earth's atmosphere, changing it again from microwave to useable electricity?
What about having the microwaves aimed precisely at a target on earth without missing and 'microwaving' the wrong target (you or your neighbor)?
Also 1% is a very nice cute little number, but guess what, if your talking 1% of the sunlight surface of the moon, you're talking a vast area. Especially if you want to cover that vast area with complex microwave transmitters, and solar panels.
Mr. Criswell's thinking borders on the absurd, excuse me for being so negative, but why does he want to 'bury wires' from the solar panels to the microwave transmitters? The moon is so dead, the delicate footprints of Armstrong in the dust are probably still as they were in 1969.
He states "90 percent of the aluminum, silicon and glass needed to build solar power plants can be found on the moon".
Yes, true, but where are the foundries to smelt the aluminum from rock, the oxygen to burn fuel to melt silicon into glass, most importantly the human labor to make it all happen, as well as the food and fuel and tools to keep them alive and working?
Seems like we should try it here on earth first.
I could go on but Criswell displays such an exasperating level of naivete, that I wonder what drugs he took to become so excited about this, and how he even got a job at the University of Houston.
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This is the perfect way to promote Gnu/Linux. Much the way software companies use phony methods to measure financial losses to piracy, when you download Gnu/Linux for free, you can see how much it's 'really' worth. Although '# of lines of code' might be an unfair measure,since open source tends to be more stable. So just add 50% to that value.
I'd like it to be able to connect to my cell phone, and sync up phone numbers, maybe a category in the PDA that's called cell, all those numbers load into the phone, and load numbers from the phone into the PDA as well.
I don't want it to be part of the phone, I like them separate.
And while it's connected to the phone it could send and recieve email, and Avantgo web clippings.
Simple do-able integrated functionality.
Oh damn, this idea smacks of monopolistic exploitability.
Nevermind.
I've always wondered how anyone can find out once it is compiled into binaries?
I bet that they discover that humankind originated on Mars and dug all those canals and stuff. But they had a catastrophic atomic war, but their space program allowed them to settle on the promising planet of earth, where environmental differences caused them to de-evolve into apes, whereupon, it took millions of years to evolve to near their former selves. :)
As small as the chances of viral lifeforms from Mars existing and infecting earth, it's worth taking the precautions.
Remember H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds"?
Aliens from Mars were kicking our ass, until they mysteriously died off, for they were not immune to our local 'innocuous' bacterium.
Of course you would hope that an agency like NASA would have the ability to check for the presence of bacteria, and that, in fact, that would be one of the purposes of such a mission, but hey, never question beaurocratic motives.
It's amazing how much Microsoft whines about how the government's proposed measures against them could hurt them.
Um, well... yeah...and...so...?
Dear SecretAsianMan,
Don't worry, 13,000 terawatts should be more than we can ever use.
your pal,
Bill Gates
What about the filtering effect of the earth's atmosphere upon microwaves transmitted to earth? Not to mention, what is the efficiency ratio, of collecting energy on the moon, changing it's form from solar to electrical to microwave, transmitting it 250,000 miles through space and earth's atmosphere, changing it again from microwave to useable electricity? What about having the microwaves aimed precisely at a target on earth without missing and 'microwaving' the wrong target (you or your neighbor)? Also 1% is a very nice cute little number, but guess what, if your talking 1% of the sunlight surface of the moon, you're talking a vast area. Especially if you want to cover that vast area with complex microwave transmitters, and solar panels. Mr. Criswell's thinking borders on the absurd, excuse me for being so negative, but why does he want to 'bury wires' from the solar panels to the microwave transmitters? The moon is so dead, the delicate footprints of Armstrong in the dust are probably still as they were in 1969. He states "90 percent of the aluminum, silicon and glass needed to build solar power plants can be found on the moon". Yes, true, but where are the foundries to smelt the aluminum from rock, the oxygen to burn fuel to melt silicon into glass, most importantly the human labor to make it all happen, as well as the food and fuel and tools to keep them alive and working? Seems like we should try it here on earth first. I could go on but Criswell displays such an exasperating level of naivete, that I wonder what drugs he took to become so excited about this, and how he even got a job at the University of Houston.