"IIRC, Douglas Adams' "Meaning of Liff" defines Belgium as a swearword"
Maybe he did in that book too, but 'Belgium' is the most dreadfully profane thing that a person can say in HHGttG. One guy at a flying party even won an award for the most Gratuitous Use of that word in a Serious Screenplay -- the Rory, IIRC.
Whoa dude, there's something wrong with your computer. When you copied and pasted that, "Steven I. Lurie" became "Rob Malda". Better get a spyware scanner quick!
Yes. You will use ten times the fuel to constantly change course targetting a constantly moving body. Since you can't carry 10X the amount of fuel, you make a precise calculation beforehand.
Ditto. And if someone's bent on vandalizing, there are plenty of hotmail accounts they can use.
What I could see working is: anyone can edit, but before it "goes live" where anyone can see it, it must be approved by a moderator. No vandalism will get through (unless you have a corrupt moderator, and then you can fire him), yet people can still contribute without a high barrier to entry.
Actually, while I was thinking about it, I realized NASA should just remodulate the deflector dish to emit an inverse tachyon beam. That should take care of the problem.
"the Manned Maneuvering Unit has not been used since the 1980s"
I just watched Star Trek: First Contact, and they had these magnetic boot thingies to walk on the ventral side of the saucer section. It should be no problem to use those on the shuttle.
Wow, for a second there, I didn't even think my keyboard *had* 64 printable characters. But upon counting, I think you can expand that minimum password length to about 94 unique characters.
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"2 In 1 Cancel/Refresh"
Ingenious. When is this coming to FireFox? Who cares if we're copying the competition, it's cool, let's do it.
IIRC, mirrors are not 100% reflective. You would absorb and scatter a little bit of light with each mirror. Telescopes use mirrors with a layer of aluminum a few microns thick, and they're pretty darn good, but I don't know if they would be good enough to go 'round the world efficiently.
"How do you figure it'd take longer to bang out a message"
My phone does T9 and sending 'omw' takes 4 keystrokes to enter message compose, 5 to enter omw, and 4 to send. This is faster than dialling, waiting to connect to the network, waiting for her to pick up, and saying whatever -- especially since I am obliged to offer such pleasantries as "hello" and "I love you" and "bye" and such unless I want to sleep alone in the garage.
"I'm on a plan with some outrageous number of included minutes"
Yeah, but I'm not. I get 60 minutes for $20 a month, and I rarely go over. My total bill is $23 plus taxes, and I bet that's a lot lower than your bill.
IM works well in my workplace. It replaces the stop-by-someones-cube routine for people who are more than a few second's walk away. Saves me dozens of trips across the corporate campus per day, as my growing waistline will attest.
Yes, there are still telephones for urgent matters, but most things just aren't *that* urgent, and the phone seems to be much more of a distraction than IM.
I'm in the US. I use T-mobile, and get 500 text messages for an extra $3 a month. I use it mainly to keep in touch with the S.O., simple little stuff like "omw" for "on my way" etc -- information that would take longer to communicate using a voice call.
If I didnt have text messaging, I would have to get a plan with more monthly minutes, so messaging saves me about $17 a month.
[Modern SATA drives easily get 80MB/s, so how is 150MB/s "up to 6x faster"??]
Seek times and sustained transfer rates. The memory-based-disk has essentially 0ms seek times, wheras the Raptor averages 8.6ms. Also, the Raptor can only put out a sustained 63MBps reading start to finish from an contiguous, unfragmented file. If you are doing random seeks (database or file fragmentation) -- and most hard drive access is random -- the memory unit will kick the rotating hard drive in the teeth.
"other ideas might include removing all conventional lighting and replacing it with lower wattage lights"
Already happened in offices and other commercial buildings long ago. They pioneered the switch from incandescent to florescent to save money on power bills, something homeowners are only now beginning to discover (as the price of compact florescents comes down).
BTW, I second the idea for homes. I converted my house over to compact florescent the week after I moved in. It was a large initial investment (couple hundred bucks), but with rising energy costs, such a conversion will pay itself off in a coulple of years (depending on how many lights are in your house and how much you use them, of course). Also, if you live in a hot palce, realize that the florescents put out a lot less heat than incandescents, which translates into less heat your A/C has to push outside, which results in further savings.
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Yup. Even simple garage door openers are resistant to replay attacks.
http://khaaan.com/
"IIRC, Douglas Adams' "Meaning of Liff" defines Belgium as a swearword"
Maybe he did in that book too, but 'Belgium' is the most dreadfully profane thing that a person can say in HHGttG. One guy at a flying party even won an award for the most Gratuitous Use of that word in a Serious Screenplay -- the Rory, IIRC.
Whoa dude, there's something wrong with your computer. When you copied and pasted that, "Steven I. Lurie" became "Rob Malda". Better get a spyware scanner quick!
But what about the experiments that show that plants are healthier when you play them classical music? Maybe plants have feelings too?
"Anyway, I'm a level 5 Vegan. I don't eat anything that casts a shadow." --obSimpsonsQuote
http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~jwp/astro/OrbitApplet.htm l
Sorry no mod points, but that's cool.
Yes. You will use ten times the fuel to constantly change course targetting a constantly moving body. Since you can't carry 10X the amount of fuel, you make a precise calculation beforehand.
"It shouldn't be too much trouble to intercept the packets sent across the LAN."
Except for that pesky 2048-bit AES encryption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion
"If I had to register, I wouldn't have bothered."
Ditto. And if someone's bent on vandalizing, there are plenty of hotmail accounts they can use.
What I could see working is: anyone can edit, but before it "goes live" where anyone can see it, it must be approved by a moderator. No vandalism will get through (unless you have a corrupt moderator, and then you can fire him), yet people can still contribute without a high barrier to entry.
Actually, while I was thinking about it, I realized NASA should just remodulate the deflector dish to emit an inverse tachyon beam. That should take care of the problem.
"the Manned Maneuvering Unit has not been used since the 1980s"
I just watched Star Trek: First Contact, and they had these magnetic boot thingies to walk on the ventral side of the saucer section. It should be no problem to use those on the shuttle.
Why yes, I *am* a rocket scientist!
ANT looks pretty cool. 7 bytes for message overhead is impressive.
You might be able to fool them by not showering or changing clothes for a week.
"Citrix servers are NOT boxen"
Yeah, they're round. Like an orange.
Wow, for a second there, I didn't even think my keyboard *had* 64 printable characters. But upon counting, I think you can expand that minimum password length to about 94 unique characters.
"2 In 1 Cancel/Refresh"
Ingenious. When is this coming to FireFox? Who cares if we're copying the competition, it's cool, let's do it.
For a second, I was sure that was an urban myth... but sho 'nuff, you're right!
"huge evacuated tubes with mirrors"
IIRC, mirrors are not 100% reflective. You would absorb and scatter a little bit of light with each mirror. Telescopes use mirrors with a layer of aluminum a few microns thick, and they're pretty darn good, but I don't know if they would be good enough to go 'round the world efficiently.
"How do you figure it'd take longer to bang out a message"
My phone does T9 and sending 'omw' takes 4 keystrokes to enter message compose, 5 to enter omw, and 4 to send. This is faster than dialling, waiting to connect to the network, waiting for her to pick up, and saying whatever -- especially since I am obliged to offer such pleasantries as "hello" and "I love you" and "bye" and such unless I want to sleep alone in the garage.
"I'm on a plan with some outrageous number of included minutes"
Yeah, but I'm not. I get 60 minutes for $20 a month, and I rarely go over. My total bill is $23 plus taxes, and I bet that's a lot lower than your bill.
IM works well in my workplace. It replaces the stop-by-someones-cube routine for people who are more than a few second's walk away. Saves me dozens of trips across the corporate campus per day, as my growing waistline will attest.
Yes, there are still telephones for urgent matters, but most things just aren't *that* urgent, and the phone seems to be much more of a distraction than IM.
I'm in the US. I use T-mobile, and get 500 text messages for an extra $3 a month. I use it mainly to keep in touch with the S.O., simple little stuff like "omw" for "on my way" etc -- information that would take longer to communicate using a voice call.
If I didnt have text messaging, I would have to get a plan with more monthly minutes, so messaging saves me about $17 a month.
[Modern SATA drives easily get 80MB/s, so how is 150MB/s "up to 6x faster"??]
Seek times and sustained transfer rates. The memory-based-disk has essentially 0ms seek times, wheras the Raptor averages 8.6ms. Also, the Raptor can only put out a sustained 63MBps reading start to finish from an contiguous, unfragmented file. If you are doing random seeks (database or file fragmentation) -- and most hard drive access is random -- the memory unit will kick the rotating hard drive in the teeth.
Meh. I guess so.
"other ideas might include removing all conventional lighting and replacing it with lower wattage lights"
Already happened in offices and other commercial buildings long ago. They pioneered the switch from incandescent to florescent to save money on power bills, something homeowners are only now beginning to discover (as the price of compact florescents comes down).
BTW, I second the idea for homes. I converted my house over to compact florescent the week after I moved in. It was a large initial investment (couple hundred bucks), but with rising energy costs, such a conversion will pay itself off in a coulple of years (depending on how many lights are in your house and how much you use them, of course). Also, if you live in a hot palce, realize that the florescents put out a lot less heat than incandescents, which translates into less heat your A/C has to push outside, which results in further savings.