The secret is out. I bet that they didn't want all the media hipe about cow mutilations, so now they use a human corporation as a shield for their operations.
Space eploration is nothing compared to military expenses. So get out of your hole - there is no haven on earth.
Any evolution in medicine would make us whis we invested more in space eploration. You'll cry for space in 30 years from now. Overcrowd -> lack of resources -> war. So cure more people to wipe them out with bombs.
Any way you have it, we need space exploration more than an instant cure for all desises.
So stop listening to what your grandmother says, and start thinking for youself. Think about weather forcast, internet, teflon, n's thousand of tv channels, asteroids, aliens and mostly about space.
And what the hell would you do with 1.000 billions you save in 40 years? Trust me you don't want to know. You have no assurance that the money would be used in a better way.
You can allways use the gpedit.msc to set anything you want or not in win2k. Just type gpedit.msc and go to user config/administrative templates/windows components/windows update..
Watch out for the semantics, the speak aske you like Yoda Q: Disable autoplay? A: Enable disable.
Dohhhhhhh....
A like i found very useful running win2k: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cook/Win2000.htm
You: YOU ARE FUTURED ON SLASHDOT.ORG Iniaes: What makes you say I'm futured on slashdot ? Thanks for the URL. You:http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl? sid=60 364&cid=5704193 Iniaes: Is that really YOU that is reading this? News for nerds, stuff that really doesn't matter. Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions. So, it's saturday. Are you going out tonight? Do you have any idea what I am talking about? You: YES I DO AND I'M GOING OUT THONIGHT. Iniaes: What am I talking about? You huh. Holy Dilemma! Is this the end for Chauncey and the Bot-Boy Wonder? Will the lobster and Yo Momma have the last laugh? Tune in again tomorrow: Same Bot-time, same Bot-channel!... You: i must say that you are the gretest bot i ever encouter. Iniaes: Why must you say that I am the gretest bot you ever encouter ? You: because you are Iniaes: That's self-evident.
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IT'S TIME I QUIT READING/., NOW THAT EVEN THE BOTS make jokes with geeks.
Yes the moon is the first step and should be only a jump station, we are thinking to much on terms of "terra firma". Just think at humanity like a horde of grasshoppers that jump from asteroids to asteroids, mining any useful mineral. They can send after that any scrap in chunks of pure mineral to some factory outside of the asteroid field. After that they can send the final product in the grav-well at almost no cost. And the whole shit would cost a fraction of any moon mining operation.
But first we have to make the big factories and the big ships. So we need the moon, if not for that, we need it for the suport of the masses, that don't gasp de the meaning, only the symbols and trends.
I wonder if Mars is going to be the big disappointment that Larry Niven predicts. This should be a question for the interview with Larry Niven...
Hmm... this remainds me of http://www.x3Dfx.com, but they don't seem alive and kicking, same old welcome message and a few tweaked drivers, voodoo users may find them useful. Would be nice to see them shake a leg.
I visited www.3dfx.com and it is sad to find an nVIDIA advertising there.
Well they went on in a blaze of glory, made it in the history of computing and disappear in a blink, adding a piece to my computer shrine to the history of PC where you can find along my (t)rusty Voodoo 3 2000, an Aureal Vortex 2 (Aureal gone), a 13Gb HDD from Quantum (Qunatum bye-bye) and an Ambient modem (Ambient bye-bye).
Cecil, you're my final hope
Of finding out the true Straight Dope
For I have been reading of Schroedinger's cat
But none of my cats are at all like that.
This unusual animal (so it is said)
Is simultaneously live and dead!
What I don't understand is just why he
Can't be one or other, unquestionably.
My future now hangs in between eigenstates.
In one I'm enlightened, the other I ain't.
If you understand, Cecil, then show me the way
And rescue my psyche from quantum decay.
But if this queer thing has perplexed even you,
Then I will and won't see you in Schroedinger's zoo.
--Randy F., Chicago
Dear Randy:
Schroedinger, Erwin! Professor of physics!
Wrote daring equations! Confounded his critics!
(Not bad, eh? Don't worry. This part of the verse
Starts off pretty good, but it gets a lot worse.)
Win saw that the theory that Newton'd invented
By Einstein's discov'ries had been badly dented.
What now? wailed his colleagues. Said Erwin, "Don't panic,
No grease monkey I, but a quantum mechanic.
Consider electrons. Now, these teeny articles
Are sometimes like waves, and then sometimes like particles.
If that's not confusing, the nuclear dance
Of electrons and suchlike is governed by chance!
No sweat, though--my theory permits us to judge
Where some of 'em is and the rest of 'em was."
Not everyone bought this. It threatened to wreck
The comforting linkage of cause and effect.
E'en Einstein had doubts, and so Schroedinger tried
To tell him what quantum mechanics implied.
Said Win to Al, "Brother, suppose we've a cat,
And inside a tube we have put that cat at--
Along with a solitaire deck and some Fritos,
A bottle of Night Train, a couple mosquitoes
(Or something else rhyming) and, oh, if you got 'em,
One vial prussic acid, one decaying ottom
Or atom--whatever--but when it emits,
A trigger device blasts the vial into bits
Which snuffs our poor kitty. The odds of this crime
Are 50 to 50 per hour each time.
The cylinder's sealed. The hour's passed away. Is
Our pussy still purring--or pushing up daisies?
Now, you'd say the cat either lives or it don't
But quantum mechanics is stubborn and won't.
Statistically speaking, the cat (goes the joke),
Is half a cat breathing and half a cat croaked.
To some this may seem a ridiculous split,
But quantum mechanics must answer, "Tough @#&!
We may not know much, but one thing's fo' sho':
There's things in the cosmos that we cannot know.
Shine light on electrons--you'll cause them to swerve.
The act of observing disturbs the observed--
Which ruins your test. But then if there's no testing
To see if a particle's moving or resting
Why try to conjecture? Pure useless endeavor!
We know probability--certainty, never.'
The effect of this notion? I very much fear
'Twill make doubtful all things that were formerly clear.
Till soon the cat doctors will say in reports,
"We've just flipped a coin and we've learned he's a corpse."'
So saith Herr Erwin. Quoth Albert, "You're nuts.
God doesn't play dice with the universe, putz.
I'll prove it!" he said, and the Lord knows he tried--
In vain--until fin'ly he more or less died.
Win spoke at the funeral: "Listen, dear friends,
Sweet Al was my buddy. I must make amends.
Though he doubted my theory, I'll say of this saint:
Ten-to-one he's in heaven--but five bucks says he ain't."
--CECIL ADAMS
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_122.html
It starts to get funny when you play Shoedinger's Cat with the 2 bits that
Larry gave you...
Case I
1. on
2. on
All OK, you'll make it (there is after-life) to heaven
case II
1. off
2. off
All OK, you won't make it and it dosn't matter.
Case III
1. on
2. off
All OK, you'll make it, who cares?
Case IV
1. off
2. on
All OK, ohh shit where is God? Who cares I'm in heaven.
CASE V (Shoedinger's Cat)
1. on/off
2. on/off
All Ok, just ahhhhhhhhh i'm trapped.... HelP.
As usual you need a handful of unreason to reason about God.
The safest way is makeing the bet like Pascal.
1 disc? can you make it install on a 200mb HDD? Oh no... it wont even let you install it. You have a 7-8 CD or a DVD from a linux distro pack, but I don't think you ever thought about what you have in there, if you need anything else let them know and you'll probably have it on the next relese. And if you realy want you can install only what you need, you don't have to install all they give you on the DVD or CD's so stop complaining and ask yourself what have you installed from your XP 1 CD and you really don't need but you can't get them out without 1000 clicks...
And on topic: I don't give a damn about the capacity of the hdd all I want is SPEED, today the HDD is the bottle-neck of the PC so I would be happier with a faster & cheaper 40GB HDD. (SATA looks promising.) And only after that a slower & cheaper 1000 GB HDD.
"We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will
firewall Napster at source - we will block it at your cable company, we will
block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [ISP]. We will firewall
it at your PC." That's what a big mouth Sony executive said two years
ago. You can find ithere.
So the need for OPEN HARDWARE specifications is the best way to stay ahead
of them, but as ivan256
said in a post it's irrelevant:
[quote]
General purpose components (processors, memory, storage) without DRM enforcement
will be readily available until it is governmentally mandated otherwise,
and at that point open hardware without DRM would be illegal. This discussion
leads to a dead end.
[/quote]
It dosen't what we want, it's all about what we do, every social system
runs on the people's belief in it.
We can have Open Hardware specifications, we can go underground just to stay
away from CPRM or Palladium, but I bet that is not what we want, the problem
is not in hardware, it's somewhere else. The world is changing so be aware,
the only ones that can leverage this kind of change are corporations. Today
is a chip that is stoping you from tranfering your music on hardware, what
is next?
We need to have open platforms and protocols, the Internet is based on open
protocols, just think where would we be now if let's say someone had all
the patents and would have asked for royalty. Probably the most advanced
and afordable aplication would have been telnet.
This is the Information Age, THE INFORMATION MUST FLOW.
This world is dead without a free flow of information, so keep the information
free. Don't by hardware with copyright protections and stuff, and let's hope
that the free market economy will take care of them.
"The carrot for them is that they can work with an actual city to develop this system," Meffert said. "They were extremely excited."
Does that mean there is a stick?
Probably they'll get more from support and upgrades. They're killing three rabbits (the comptetitors, model to showoff and one less city using non-microsoft products) with one bullet.
Slashdot Mirror
There is only one reason why I don't use opera and I use Firefox about:config
The secret is out.
I bet that they didn't want all the media hipe about cow mutilations, so now they use a human corporation as a shield for their operations.
Moohhhhaahhhhaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Space eploration is nothing compared to military expenses. .
So get out of your hole - there is no haven on earth
Any evolution in medicine would make us whis we invested more in space eploration. You'll cry for space in 30 years from now. Overcrowd -> lack of resources -> war. So cure more people to wipe them out with bombs.
Any way you have it, we need space exploration more than an instant cure for all desises.
So stop listening to what your grandmother says, and start thinking for youself.
Think about weather forcast, internet, teflon, n's thousand of tv channels, asteroids, aliens and mostly about space.
And what the hell would you do with 1.000 billions you save in 40 years?
Trust me you don't want to know. You have no assurance that the money would be used in a better way.
There goes my bussines idea. I wanted to start a bussines that puts humans in an eastern europe contry to sort corporate e-mail.
Now I have to think again about putting humans to decorticate sunflower seeds, it's cheper than all those machines.
http://www.douglasadams.com/news/#20031005-0-n.dna
You should try Jaba Mud Client. /. say, go after what you like.
It's my choice after testing a few mud clients.
Don't go after what
And now with USB 2.0 drivers from Panasonic for DOS, you can use it with your external HDD.
http://www.swhowto.com
After reading the article I started googling for cat5 and t568a/b and I found this site. It seems quite useful and nicely structured.
You can allways use the gpedit.msc to set anything you want or not in win2k. Just type gpedit.msc and go to user config/administrative templates/windows components/windows update..
m
Watch out for the semantics, the speak aske you like Yoda Q: Disable autoplay?
A: Enable disable.
Dohhhhhhh....
A like i found very useful running win2k:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cook/Win2000.ht
damn, this is scarry...
? sid=60 364&cid=5704193 ...
/., NOW THAT EVEN THE BOTS make jokes with geeks.
You: YOU ARE FUTURED ON SLASHDOT.ORG
Iniaes: What makes you say I'm futured on slashdot ? Thanks for the URL.
You:http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl
Iniaes: Is that really YOU that is reading this? News for nerds, stuff that really doesn't matter. Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions. So, it's saturday. Are you going out tonight? Do you have any idea what I am talking about?
You: YES I DO AND I'M GOING OUT THONIGHT.
Iniaes: What am I talking about? You huh. Holy Dilemma! Is this the end for Chauncey and the Bot-Boy Wonder?
Will the lobster and Yo Momma have the last laugh?
Tune in again tomorrow:
Same Bot-time, same Bot-channel!
You: i must say that you are the gretest bot i ever encouter.
Iniaes: Why must you say that I am the gretest bot you ever encouter ?
You: because you are
Iniaes: That's self-evident.
-
IT'S TIME I QUIT READING
Yes the moon is the first step and should be only a jump station, we are thinking to much on terms of "terra firma". Just think at humanity like a horde of grasshoppers that jump from asteroids to asteroids, mining any useful mineral. They can send after that any scrap in chunks of pure mineral to some factory outside of the asteroid field. After that they can send the final product in the grav-well at almost no cost.
And the whole shit would cost a fraction of any moon mining operation.
But first we have to make the big factories and the big ships. So we need the moon, if not for that, we need it for the suport of the masses, that don't gasp de the meaning, only the symbols and trends.
I wonder if Mars is going to be the big disappointment that Larry Niven predicts. This should be a question for the interview with Larry Niven...
1) I would like to know what was the most interesting question someone ever asked you and why did you found it so interesting?
2) What do you dream about?
Thank you for your books and the new worlds you brought in to my dreams.
Nope, for karma...
Hmm... this remainds me of http://www.x3Dfx.com, but they don't seem alive and kicking, same old welcome message and a few tweaked drivers, voodoo users may find them useful. Would be nice to see them shake a leg.
I visited www.3dfx.com and it is sad to find an nVIDIA advertising there.
Well they went on in a blaze of glory, made it in the history of computing and disappear in a blink, adding a piece to my computer shrine to the history of PC where you can find along my (t)rusty Voodoo 3 2000, an Aureal Vortex 2 (Aureal gone), a 13Gb HDD from Quantum (Qunatum bye-bye) and an Ambient modem (Ambient bye-bye).
The story of Schroedinger's cat (an epic poem)
Dear Cecil:
Cecil, you're my final hope
Of finding out the true Straight Dope
For I have been reading of Schroedinger's cat
But none of my cats are at all like that.
This unusual animal (so it is said)
Is simultaneously live and dead!
What I don't understand is just why he
Can't be one or other, unquestionably.
My future now hangs in between eigenstates.
In one I'm enlightened, the other I ain't.
If you understand, Cecil, then show me the way
And rescue my psyche from quantum decay.
But if this queer thing has perplexed even you,
Then I will and won't see you in Schroedinger's zoo.
--Randy F., Chicago
Dear Randy:
Schroedinger, Erwin! Professor of physics!
Wrote daring equations! Confounded his critics!
(Not bad, eh? Don't worry. This part of the verse
Starts off pretty good, but it gets a lot worse.)
Win saw that the theory that Newton'd invented
By Einstein's discov'ries had been badly dented.
What now? wailed his colleagues. Said Erwin, "Don't panic,
No grease monkey I, but a quantum mechanic.
Consider electrons. Now, these teeny articles
Are sometimes like waves, and then sometimes like particles.
If that's not confusing, the nuclear dance
Of electrons and suchlike is governed by chance!
No sweat, though--my theory permits us to judge
Where some of 'em is and the rest of 'em was."
Not everyone bought this. It threatened to wreck
The comforting linkage of cause and effect.
E'en Einstein had doubts, and so Schroedinger tried
To tell him what quantum mechanics implied.
Said Win to Al, "Brother, suppose we've a cat,
And inside a tube we have put that cat at--
Along with a solitaire deck and some Fritos,
A bottle of Night Train, a couple mosquitoes
(Or something else rhyming) and, oh, if you got 'em,
One vial prussic acid, one decaying ottom
Or atom--whatever--but when it emits,
A trigger device blasts the vial into bits
Which snuffs our poor kitty. The odds of this crime
Are 50 to 50 per hour each time.
The cylinder's sealed. The hour's passed away. Is
Our pussy still purring--or pushing up daisies?
Now, you'd say the cat either lives or it don't
But quantum mechanics is stubborn and won't.
Statistically speaking, the cat (goes the joke),
Is half a cat breathing and half a cat croaked.
To some this may seem a ridiculous split,
But quantum mechanics must answer, "Tough @#&!
We may not know much, but one thing's fo' sho':
There's things in the cosmos that we cannot know.
Shine light on electrons--you'll cause them to swerve.
The act of observing disturbs the observed--
Which ruins your test. But then if there's no testing
To see if a particle's moving or resting
Why try to conjecture? Pure useless endeavor!
We know probability--certainty, never.'
The effect of this notion? I very much fear
'Twill make doubtful all things that were formerly clear.
Till soon the cat doctors will say in reports,
"We've just flipped a coin and we've learned he's a corpse."'
So saith Herr Erwin. Quoth Albert, "You're nuts.
God doesn't play dice with the universe, putz.
I'll prove it!" he said, and the Lord knows he tried--
In vain--until fin'ly he more or less died.
Win spoke at the funeral: "Listen, dear friends,
Sweet Al was my buddy. I must make amends.
Though he doubted my theory, I'll say of this saint:
Ten-to-one he's in heaven--but five bucks says he ain't."
--CECIL ADAMS
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_122.html
It starts to get funny when you play Shoedinger's Cat with the 2 bits that Larry gave you...
Case I
1. on
2. on
All OK, you'll make it (there is after-life) to heaven
case II
1. off
2. off
All OK, you won't make it and it dosn't matter.
Case III
1. on
2. off
All OK, you'll make it, who cares?
Case IV
1. off
2. on
All OK, ohh shit where is God? Who cares I'm in heaven.
CASE V (Shoedinger's Cat)
1. on/off
2. on/off
All Ok, just ahhhhhhhhh i'm trapped.... HelP.
As usual you need a handful of unreason to reason about God.
The safest way is makeing the bet like Pascal.
1 disc? can you make it install on a 200mb HDD? Oh no... it wont even let you install it.
You have a 7-8 CD or a DVD from a linux distro pack, but I don't think you ever thought about what you have in there, if you need anything else let them know and you'll probably have it on the next relese.
And if you realy want you can install only what you need, you don't have to install all they give you on the DVD or CD's so stop complaining and ask yourself what have you installed from your XP 1 CD and you really don't need but you can't get them out without 1000 clicks...
And on topic:
I don't give a damn about the capacity of the hdd all I want is SPEED, today the HDD is the bottle-neck of the PC so I would be happier with a faster & cheaper 40GB HDD. (SATA looks promising.) And only after that a slower & cheaper 1000 GB HDD.
"We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source - we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [ISP]. We will firewall it at your PC." That's what a big mouth Sony executive said two years ago. You can find ithere .
So the need for OPEN HARDWARE specifications is the best way to stay ahead of them, but as ivan256 said in a post it's irrelevant:
[quote]
General purpose components (processors, memory, storage) without DRM enforcement will be readily available until it is governmentally mandated otherwise, and at that point open hardware without DRM would be illegal. This discussion leads to a dead end.
[/quote]
It dosen't what we want, it's all about what we do, every social system runs on the people's belief in it.
We can have Open Hardware specifications, we can go underground just to stay away from CPRM or Palladium, but I bet that is not what we want, the problem is not in hardware, it's somewhere else. The world is changing so be aware, the only ones that can leverage this kind of change are corporations. Today is a chip that is stoping you from tranfering your music on hardware, what is next?
We need to have open platforms and protocols, the Internet is based on open protocols, just think where would we be now if let's say someone had all the patents and would have asked for royalty. Probably the most advanced and afordable aplication would have been telnet.
This is the Information Age, THE INFORMATION MUST FLOW.
This world is dead without a free flow of information, so keep the information free. Don't by hardware with copyright protections and stuff, and let's hope that the free market economy will take care of them.
"The carrot for them is that they can work with an actual city to develop this system," Meffert said. "They were extremely excited."
Does that mean there is a stick?
Probably they'll get more from support and upgrades. They're killing three rabbits (the comptetitors, model to showoff and one less city using non-microsoft products) with one bullet.