Here's a question I have... if the next telescope is on the far side of the moon, how are we going to getting signals from it? It's not like we have a lunar relay sattelite like we have (2 of.. actually now 3 of) on Mars...
Airport security is a stupid idea. It's a waste of money and it's there for only one reason: to make white people feel safe. That's all it's for. To provide a feeling, an illusion, of safety in order to placate the middle class.
Scary thing is that quote (and the entire rant) is from before 9/11... and it *still* applies today. This isn't about fighting terrorism, it's about asserting control.
Ahh yes, the main NASA TV Real stream was pretty good... but I managed to grab the links for the two JPL NASA TV servers that mysteriously dissapeared from their website this morning. Thank goodness for RealOne's cache
Worse yet, I'm going to be a prick and not post the links, I have no NASA TV access in Canada except for this, and the JPL server is pretty near perfect. I don't want to lose my server when the coverage starts again at 11pm.
I decided I had enough when I was downing 2 liter Pepsi bottles over an hour at work. Before that it was 8 cokes while working on programming projects at university. I was came home every night with the shakes and couldn't sleep.
Cold Turkey worked for me. I stopped drinking caffeine one day in 1995 and I haven't looked back. About the same way I decided to quit alcohol in 1988 (I was 14, but that was mostly rebelling against my parents). Thankfully I've never picked up a cigarette.
Yes, I know. I'd probably be Amish if it weren't for the lack of religion and all the kinky sex.
I'm frankly stunned.. I only saw the NASA versions of these videos.. the video resolution was lower.. I also guess they weren't as quite into the music...
Very nice work. My 6 year old daughter was very impressed.
A new distance record for an un-amplified Wi-Fi link, set by the students of Utah's Weber State University. 82 miles was accomplished with 802.11b.
Sources within Utah's Weber State University state that this amazing feat was accomplished with the aid of an 82 mile long antenna, laid horizontally along the ground toward the Wi-Fi node.
Hate to say it, but I did in fact kill a system this way by plugging a Serial mouse into a PS/2-Serial mouse converter while the system was on. Took out both keyboard and mouse ps/2 ports at the back of the machine.
Needless to say, my boss wasn't too happy about it.
Nowadays, I've become somewhat more lax, but I always make sure that the ps2 cable is grounded before plugging it back in...
Well, technically the CMP of Apollo 17 (you know, the poor guy who had to stay behind in the Apollo capsule while the other two were off on the moon) would have been the last solo flyer, which puts it about 1972.
Certainly it wasn't a solo launch, but you have to appreciate someone who is flying behind the moon, solo, with no human contact whatsoever. The CMPs of Apollo 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 for a time were more "alone" than any other person in the history of mankind.
Perhaps because eDonkey REQUIRES you to upload if you want to download. I believe you might be able to set it up to download at 100 bytes (0.1 kb) per second if you have uploading turned off.
I just wondered what the reaction would be if I got a baby seal head stuffed and mounted on a ring, and wear it around on my hand, saying "Look what I got! Is isn't it gorgeous! And it's so big!
Maybe that's why the prices were so high when British Columbia sold power to California 2-3 years ago? News Story
Sure price fixing and all that (seperate discussion in possible flame war below), but I wonder if this is a factor? BC to California isn't the shortest distance.
Imagine the day a person can do with a physical object to what they can do with information. Download a replication plan for a Hershey's bar, a can of Coke or a new Porsche.
What effect would that have on the economy? Manufacturing would be very different, materialism would be less meaningful because physical objects would be far more disposable.
You'd probably hear a lot about viruses floating around in food plans, you have to know it's safe.
100 years from now, everything might just be energy consumption and intellectual property...
For now, I wonder if I'll get the first copy of Harry Potter 5 faster through the mail or over the Internet.
I think I'd agree to this if it were federally mandated that "Basic Cable" be 100% free. Including all the wiring to your house. Wires, wireless, what's the difference?
Good luck watching TV portably too... No more sports+BBQ in the back yard.
I remember in Carl Sagan's book "Dragon's of Eden", chimps skill in ASL had progressed enough that one chimp, rather upset with a fellow chimp, signed out to it:
"You Green Shit."
While this may not difinitively prove that Chimps comprehend language, I always found that example of the generic use of the word "shit" to be very human. Either that or our swearing is very chimp-like...:)
I think you nailed it dead on. The demise of cartoons was when they started writing 'em not for adults, but rather for what they THINK appeals to kids. (Funny how this was concurrent with the big slide in the educational system, and the advent of toys that do the playing FOR the child, but that's another rant.)
This is interesting.. I'm a new parent. Two daughters, 5 and 2.
While a good chunk of shows out there for kids are still junk, it's interesting to see how *GOOD* some of those shows targeted for 3-5 year olds are. Take a look at the credits at the end. Some shows, like Dora the Explorer or Blue's Clues have multiple Ph.D.'s in education on staff or consulting for the show. Maybe both these shows also live off toy sales, but the amount of viewer-character interaction in the shows has increased something like tenfold from the junk we used to watch as a kid (Smurfs, Pac-Man, and Rubik, the amazing cube). Sesame Street started to realize this when they started getting their ratings ass kicked back in the mid 90's. Elmo grew out of that... not the best choice, IMHO....
Even other shows, like Teletubbies (now out of style) were interesting, when you realized this was one of the first shows directly targeted for 6-18 month old children. Shining baby sun in the sky as laugh track. Very short "skits" that require very little attention span. Repetition. Oh man repetition seems to be important.
Teletubbies aren't as evil as people think. You'd have a scene that would go something like:
Chair?
Chair!
Sit in chair!
Which is about as much as a 1 year old kid can take in. It's sorta cool to watch the kids watch the show.
Way better than children dancing around some large purple totem object singing about how much they love it...
If RMS is reading this, he'd probably suggest that the human genome should be licensed under the GPL.
Stallman actually visited our university several years back (2000, I think) and I asked him this very question. "What should be done about IP rights and the sequencing of the human genome".
At the time, he said he didn't see the connection. At the time I don't believe this interested him too much. Not sure if his opinion has changed since.
I actually don't see a problem dying of GE complications if I live to the grand old age of 160... Especially if my quality of life was dramatically increased because of it.
What do you think all the biotech companies are going to start working on once they start getting a good grasp of proteomics (the next step after genetics). Longevity will go hand in hand with a search for a cancer cure. Just in time for all the baby boomers to turn 70.
And GE is already here. I'm taking Remicade, genetically engineered mono-clonal antibody (GM mouse protien, yum!) that dramatically lessens the effects of auto-immune disorders like Crohn's disease or Rheumatoid Arthritis. Works like magic, and expensive as all hell: $1200CDN/20kg of body mass, with infusions every 12 weeks (8 weeks for some).. do the math.. thank goodness for Canadian Pharmacare.
Get that equity down on your house now, you'll need to sell it to get your boosterspice in 2023...
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In Canada, what's the best option today for PVRs if we don't get Bell ExpressVu's mega-expensive PVR sattelite option?
Here's a question I have... if the next telescope is on the far side of the moon, how are we going to getting signals from it? It's not like we have a lunar relay sattelite like we have (2 of.. actually now 3 of) on Mars...
All these security measures are just put in place to make the people feel safe
I think you slightly misquoted George Carlin
Airport security is a stupid idea. It's a waste of money and it's there for only one reason: to make white people feel safe. That's all it's for. To provide a feeling, an illusion, of safety in order to placate the middle class.
Scary thing is that quote (and the entire rant) is from before 9/11... and it *still* applies today. This isn't about fighting terrorism, it's about asserting control.
Ahh yes, the main NASA TV Real stream was pretty good... but I managed to grab the links for the two JPL NASA TV servers that mysteriously dissapeared from their website this morning. Thank goodness for RealOne's cache
Worse yet, I'm going to be a prick and not post the links, I have no NASA TV access in Canada except for this, and the JPL server is pretty near perfect. I don't want to lose my server when the coverage starts again at 11pm.
I decided I had enough when I was downing 2 liter Pepsi bottles over an hour at work. Before that it was 8 cokes while working on programming projects at university. I was came home every night with the shakes and couldn't sleep.
Cold Turkey worked for me. I stopped drinking caffeine one day in 1995 and I haven't looked back. About the same way I decided to quit alcohol in 1988 (I was 14, but that was mostly rebelling against my parents). Thankfully I've never picked up a cigarette.
Yes, I know. I'd probably be Amish if it weren't for the lack of religion and all the kinky sex.
I'm frankly stunned.. I only saw the NASA versions of these videos.. the video resolution was lower.. I also guess they weren't as quite into the music...
Very nice work. My 6 year old daughter was very impressed.
I find this quite interesting because apparently the replica flight attempt failed today. They never got off the ground and crashed into a mud puddle.
Go see for yourself!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3326297.stm
A new distance record for an un-amplified Wi-Fi link, set by the students of Utah's Weber State University. 82 miles was accomplished with 802.11b.
Sources within Utah's Weber State University state that this amazing feat was accomplished with the aid of an 82 mile long antenna, laid horizontally along the ground toward the Wi-Fi node.
(Yes, dammit, I didn't read the article...)
Yes, Skylab! It was the first manned space station, and it was american!
Incorrectamundo! The first manned space station was Soviet.
Salyut 1 (1971)
Skylab (1973)
I agree with the sentiment of your post though. I don't see a 2011 replacement telescope going up for some time.
I said it before and I'll say it again, things have gone to crud since Daniel Goldin left/was removed from the post of Director of NASA.
While we wait for the American program to recover, I'll be off watching what China is up to.
Let the flame war commence!
Hate to say it, but I did in fact kill a system this way by plugging a Serial mouse into a PS/2-Serial mouse converter while the system was on. Took out both keyboard and mouse ps/2 ports at the back of the machine.
Needless to say, my boss wasn't too happy about it.
Nowadays, I've become somewhat more lax, but I always make sure that the ps2 cable is grounded before plugging it back in...
Most things in LEO orbit every 90 minutes. I recall seeing a site that showed where Hubble, ISS, and Mir were orbiting the earth...
So, no, it's definately not hovering over one location, but it is trackable.
Well, technically the CMP of Apollo 17 (you know, the poor guy who had to stay behind in the Apollo capsule while the other two were off on the moon) would have been the last solo flyer, which puts it about 1972.
Certainly it wasn't a solo launch, but you have to appreciate someone who is flying behind the moon, solo, with no human contact whatsoever. The CMPs of Apollo 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 for a time were more "alone" than any other person in the history of mankind.
Anyone know where to get some real time telemetry on Shenzhou? Is it passing overhead tonight?
:)
:)
I'm listening to trance right now in my Soundblaster 16 ISA card.. Installed in my own IBM Netfinity 5500...
No lie, I tell the truth. And yes, this machine weighs easily over 100 pounds. Dumb part is that it's not even 4 years old yet. (Dual PII 450Mhz)
Other machine is a PII 350Mhz running Win98.
What is this term Gigahertz of which you speak?
FEAR FEAR FEAR ...
Just like Y2K: Recognize problem. Fix problem. End of problem
(until several years before 2038, then repeat cycle)
Perhaps because eDonkey REQUIRES you to upload if you want to download. I believe you might be able to set it up to download at 100 bytes (0.1 kb) per second if you have uploading turned off.
I just wondered what the reaction would be if I got a baby seal head stuffed and mounted on a ring, and wear it around on my hand, saying "Look what I got! Is isn't it gorgeous! And it's so big!
Would get a little heavy after a while.
Maybe that's why the prices were so high when British Columbia sold power to California 2-3 years ago? News Story
Sure price fixing and all that (seperate discussion in possible flame war below), but I wonder if this is a factor? BC to California isn't the shortest distance.
Imagine the day a person can do with a physical object to what they can do with information. Download a replication plan for a Hershey's bar, a can of Coke or a new Porsche.
What effect would that have on the economy? Manufacturing would be very different, materialism would be less meaningful because physical objects would be far more disposable.
You'd probably hear a lot about viruses floating around in food plans, you have to know it's safe.
100 years from now, everything might just be energy consumption and intellectual property...
For now, I wonder if I'll get the first copy of Harry Potter 5 faster through the mail or over the Internet.
I think I'd agree to this if it were federally mandated that "Basic Cable" be 100% free. Including all the wiring to your house. Wires, wireless, what's the difference?
Good luck watching TV portably too... No more sports+BBQ in the back yard.
I remember in Carl Sagan's book "Dragon's of Eden", chimps skill in ASL had progressed enough that one chimp, rather upset with a fellow chimp, signed out to it:
:)
"You Green Shit."
While this may not difinitively prove that Chimps comprehend language, I always found that example of the generic use of the word "shit" to be very human. Either that or our swearing is very chimp-like...
I think you nailed it dead on. The demise of cartoons was when they started writing 'em not for adults, but rather for what they THINK appeals to kids. (Funny how this was concurrent with the big slide in the educational system, and the advent of toys that do the playing FOR the child, but that's another rant.)
:)
This is interesting.. I'm a new parent. Two daughters, 5 and 2.
While a good chunk of shows out there for kids are still junk, it's interesting to see how *GOOD* some of those shows targeted for 3-5 year olds are. Take a look at the credits at the end. Some shows, like Dora the Explorer or Blue's Clues have multiple Ph.D.'s in education on staff or consulting for the show. Maybe both these shows also live off toy sales, but the amount of viewer-character interaction in the shows has increased something like tenfold from the junk we used to watch as a kid (Smurfs, Pac-Man, and Rubik, the amazing cube). Sesame Street started to realize this when they started getting their ratings ass kicked back in the mid 90's. Elmo grew out of that... not the best choice, IMHO....
Even other shows, like Teletubbies (now out of style) were interesting, when you realized this was one of the first shows directly targeted for 6-18 month old children. Shining baby sun in the sky as laugh track. Very short "skits" that require very little attention span. Repetition. Oh man repetition seems to be important.
Teletubbies aren't as evil as people think. You'd have a scene that would go something like:
Chair?
Chair!
Sit in chair!
Which is about as much as a 1 year old kid can take in. It's sorta cool to watch the kids watch the show.
Way better than children dancing around some large purple totem object singing about how much they love it...
Did I have a point?
If RMS is reading this, he'd probably suggest that the human genome should be licensed under the GPL.
Stallman actually visited our university several years back (2000, I think) and I asked him this very question. "What should be done about IP rights and the sequencing of the human genome".
At the time, he said he didn't see the connection. At the time I don't believe this interested him too much. Not sure if his opinion has changed since.
I actually don't see a problem dying of GE complications if I live to the grand old age of 160... Especially if my quality of life was dramatically increased because of it.
What do you think all the biotech companies are going to start working on once they start getting a good grasp of proteomics (the next step after genetics). Longevity will go hand in hand with a search for a cancer cure. Just in time for all the baby boomers to turn 70.
And GE is already here. I'm taking Remicade, genetically engineered mono-clonal antibody (GM mouse protien, yum!) that dramatically lessens the effects of auto-immune disorders like Crohn's disease or Rheumatoid Arthritis. Works like magic, and expensive as all hell: $1200CDN/20kg of body mass, with infusions every 12 weeks (8 weeks for some).. do the math.. thank goodness for Canadian Pharmacare.
Get that equity down on your house now, you'll need to sell it to get your boosterspice in 2023...
Them: "Duke Nukem source released to the net under the GPL..."
Me: "Come Get Some..."