Not to mention that most stations play with their equalizer settings to try to warp all the songs they play towards their format. So the same song played on a "hard rock" station will sound much more "hard rockish" than on a "soft rock" station. The only way to get something close to the original is really to rip it from the cd yourself.
I know that Cornell University has been doing this with Cayuga Lake (which is somewhat smaller than Lake Ontario) for several years now without too many ill effects. They even dump the water back into the lake after using it for cooling.
Needless to say people felt pretty strongly both
for and against the project.
I would highly recommend bogofilter too. I recently switched to it from SpamAssassin and it is really much more effective (at least for me). So far its missed about 6 spam out of 2000 and only given two false positives (both automated replies from registering online, which is understandable).
The thing I really love is that bogofilter is that it is continuosly trainable. If a spam leaks through to the inbox I can tell bogofilter right away that it made a mistake and bogofilter will update its keyword database. SpamAssassin tended to just make the same mistakes over and over again.
Part of the background of your Known Space novels was the ARM governmental organization on
Earth. You described ARM as a paternalistic, totalitarian world government that
existed for the most part to protect humankind from the consequences of
unrestrained technological development (widely available fusion bombs, exotic
weapons, etc.) and to control population growth (which could be seen as another outcome of improved technology). In contrast. the Belt civilization seemed to be a
much freer society, perhaps because of its different situation (more distributed ==
less vulnerable, more room == less worry about population pressure).
With that as a background, both of these societies sacrificed different levels
of freedom for different amounts of security, certainly a relevant issue in todays post-9/11 environment where there is an increased awareness that technology (secure communications for terrorists, increased travel, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, etc.) have made society more vulnerable. What do you think of the United State's steps towards increasing safety (perhaps at the expense of freedom)? Do you feel that as Earth becomes more technologically advanced and more densely populated and interconnected that some movement towards an ARM level of social control is inevitable?
PS: Just wanted to thank you for your many stellar (pun!) novels. Your books never cease to provoke new ideas and questions and were/are a tremendous influence on a developing young technie. Keep it up!
Hmmm. I'm pretty sure that Kepler was the first guy to come up with the elliptical orbit idea (Kepler's Laws anyone?). Newton just ("just!" i should be so lucky [grin]) showed how this is derivable from an inverse square gravitational force. Oh yeah, and he invented calculus.
The post referred to was talking about using Venus's moon(s) for a gravitational assist. This implies a certain minimum size for this hypothetical moon(s), such that the relative momentum difference between your craft and the aforementioned moon(s) is large enougth that you can borrow all the momentum you need without affecting the moon's orbit. Without whipping out the old HP, this is somewhere on the order of "pretty darn huge".
Venus is nice and close and plenty bright. So we would have seen any moon this size by now. So we should feel pretty darn comfortable saying that Venus has no moons.
That would true for a rigid beam. But for a non-rigid material (which I'm guessing the "ribbon" would be) that really wouldn't apply.
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I knew the author back in college when we both worked at the college newspaper (Cornell Daily Sun ). Good writer, good editor, but hard-core computer nerd he was not. [grin]
Looks like my college German has degenerated even more than I thought. [grin] But from what I could piece together he seems pretty cool for a priest (good booze, good music...)
Yes, cigarettes are bad for you. But so are chocolate eclairs. Both are darned silly ways to die. Moderation is key to the enjoyment of everything.
That said, few things in life go together as perfectly as hot, black coffee and a cigarette. I personally feel that the coexistence of nicotine and caffeine in the same universe, in close proximity to each other, is one of the strongest arguments for a benevolent diety. [grin]
So get off your high horse. Your after school special mentality reflects poorly on yourself.
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Not to mention that most stations play with their equalizer settings to try to warp all the songs they play towards their format. So the same song played on a "hard rock" station will sound much more "hard rockish" than on a "soft rock" station. The only way to get something close to the original is really to rip it from the cd yourself.
I know that Cornell University has been doing this with Cayuga Lake (which is somewhat smaller than Lake Ontario) for several years now without too many ill effects. They even dump the water back into the lake after using it for cooling.
Needless to say people felt pretty strongly both for and against the project.
I would highly recommend bogofilter too. I recently switched to it from SpamAssassin and it is really much more effective (at least for me). So far its missed about 6 spam out of 2000 and only given two false positives (both automated replies from registering online, which is understandable).
The thing I really love is that bogofilter is that it is continuosly trainable. If a spam leaks through to the inbox I can tell bogofilter right away that it made a mistake and bogofilter will update its keyword database. SpamAssassin tended to just make the same mistakes over and over again.
Part of the background of your Known Space novels was the ARM governmental organization on Earth. You described ARM as a paternalistic, totalitarian world government that existed for the most part to protect humankind from the consequences of unrestrained technological development (widely available fusion bombs, exotic weapons, etc.) and to control population growth (which could be seen as another outcome of improved technology). In contrast. the Belt civilization seemed to be a much freer society, perhaps because of its different situation (more distributed == less vulnerable, more room == less worry about population pressure).
With that as a background, both of these societies sacrificed different levels of freedom for different amounts of security, certainly a relevant issue in todays post-9/11 environment where there is an increased awareness that technology (secure communications for terrorists, increased travel, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, etc.) have made society more vulnerable. What do you think of the United State's steps towards increasing safety (perhaps at the expense of freedom)? Do you feel that as Earth becomes more technologically advanced and more densely populated and interconnected that some movement towards an ARM level of social control is inevitable?
PS: Just wanted to thank you for your many stellar (pun!) novels. Your books never cease to provoke new ideas and questions and were/are a tremendous influence on a developing young technie. Keep it up!
Hmmm. I'm pretty sure that Kepler was the first guy to come up with the elliptical orbit idea (Kepler's Laws anyone?). Newton just ("just!" i should be so lucky [grin]) showed how this is derivable from an inverse square gravitational force. Oh yeah, and he invented calculus.
The post referred to was talking about using Venus's moon(s) for a gravitational assist. This implies a certain minimum size for this hypothetical moon(s), such that the relative momentum difference between your craft and the aforementioned moon(s) is large enougth that you can borrow all the momentum you need without affecting the moon's orbit. Without whipping out the old HP, this is somewhere on the order of "pretty darn huge".
Venus is nice and close and plenty bright. So we would have seen any moon this size by now. So we should feel pretty darn comfortable saying that Venus has no moons.
That would true for a rigid beam. But for a non-rigid material (which I'm guessing the "ribbon" would be) that really wouldn't apply.
I knew the author back in college when we both worked at the college newspaper (Cornell Daily Sun ). Good writer, good editor, but hard-core computer nerd he was not. [grin]
Looks like my college German has degenerated even more than I thought. [grin] But from what I could piece together he seems pretty cool for a priest (good booze, good music...)
Yes, cigarettes are bad for you. But so are chocolate eclairs. Both are darned silly ways to die. Moderation is key to the enjoyment of everything.
That said, few things in life go together as perfectly as hot, black coffee and a cigarette. I personally feel that the coexistence of nicotine and caffeine in the same universe, in close proximity to each other, is one of the strongest arguments for a benevolent diety. [grin]
So get off your high horse. Your after school special mentality reflects poorly on yourself.