Lets ignore the obvious problem of where you're going to get all that extra mass to fill the shuttles. The Space shuttles are basically low Earth orbit devices. They can go up a few hundred miles. That's it. They can't even go and service the communications sattelites in geosynchronous orbit, for example - they just don't carry anywhere near enough fuel to get them there. To deflect an asteroid you need to be able to hit it hard (momentum is based on mass and speed), In contrast to any asteroid that would present a problem to Earth, the space shuttle has neither.
So not only would the shuttle not be able to hit an asteroid far enough away from Earth do do any good, it wouldn't have the momentum to get it's attention.
Slice it up, put the pieces into aerobrake containers like a simplified version of the Mars landers. Then just sell the pieces on EBay to fund more ambitious projects.
This is hardly going to work. They put the pieces into (expensive, once you make enough and thet them up there) containers, then drop them to Earth. How the heck do they expect to get them back? A container like this is not a very controlled re-entry device. Do they just expect anyone who comes across one, or anyone who's property it lands on to return it to them? What of the liability of hurling this at someone's property or home or body? It's not a problem on Mars, since Mars is free of pesky lawyers so far, but on Earth - big problem due to the lawyer infestation.
OK, I've RTFA. Hype! The bottom line is that steam is not a source of energy. Something has got to make that steam. And that gets us right back to the problem of supplying the energy in a form that burns clean and is clean to produce in the first place (Hydrogen for hydrogen based cars, by the way, burns clean, but is made from natural gas in a very polluting and wasteful process; overall a "clean burning" hydrogen car is a much more wasteful car and a source of more total polution tyhan one that would just use natural gas directly. Of course, if we were to produce hydrogen cleanly that would change, but there seems to be no move to do so.)
is a past Intel decision to concentrate on MHz rather than FPS
Translation: At Intel we decided to put our effort into having a CPU that had an insanely high clock speed, which we decided was much more important than actually getting the CPU to do a lot of processing, which would help contribute to higher frame rates for games and higher output for most users. Our evil competitor AMD realized that it was important to have the computer do something with the cycles they used, and built CPUs that not only did more, but did more at slower clock speeds. We are trying to figure out why this allowed them to win in a market we previously owned, but so far we've only come up with this MHz rather than FPS marketing phrase.
I'm not sure what the buy in by the den of theives has to do with this, but it's hardly a surprise that new and improved forms of communication have an impact on old, outdated and over priced forms of communication. This is news for nerds? It would be news if it didn't happen.
Wind? You'd think that/.ers would know that mars does have an atmosphere, and therefore can produce some kind of wind, which could be blowing sand and dirt all over the panels.
SCO was under $3 at the beginning of November. It's last trade today was at $4.17. Yea, stocks go up and down, but to call this a tailspin is a bit extreme. It's taken a couple of bigger drops in the last two months, but the rises have been even larger. Hey, I hate SCO too, but reporting a relatively small dip in the stock as a tailspin is an overstatement based only on bias against them.
Not only for the reasons you mentioned. But he claims that the entire world should follow one standard, and then goes on to suggest that that standard should be based on a myth in the Jewish bible. If we are all going to adopt a new standard world calendar, then it would make a lot more sense to base it on Chinese or perhaps Hindu beliefs rather than a minority viewpoint based on a Jewish myth and religions based on hand me downs of Jewish fables. The sheer numbers should make that obvious.
In the manual it's mentioned that all the Epyx games were there courtesy of some corporation, but it wasn't a name you would have heard of - just a small IP holding company, as far as I could tell
Well, it is interesting that they tried to at least do something, but it is far less clear that this holding company really had all rights to do this (assuming 30 or more original authors wre not contacted).
Yea, but your friends at Homeland Security have already considered this and are taking care of it. They daily send out billions of decoy messages to all the mailboxes thay can find, with all sorts of spam looking messages. The terrorists are frustrated because, even if their mailbox is not completely full blocking the receipt of spam encoded messages from other members of their terrorist cells, the spam is so dense that they can't find the real messages in all of the spam.
Homeland Security, protecting America by spying on Americans and detaining citizens indeffinately without a warrant.
Does anyone know what she did (or did not do) on the legal issues of recreating the C64 and building in not only 30 games (where it would likely be very hard to find the owners of those games and obtain the ights), but the Commodore kernel code as well?
Thanks. That helps some, and makes it a bit clearer than jusr reading the protocol document. But I'm not clear on how this acomplishes Big Brother can't read your messages even if he wiretaps you AND grabs your computer later on.
I presume this has something to do with that authentication tunnel, but I'm not really following it. Do you understand it?
Erm, there's a reasonably detailed presentation there and a protocol description on the OTR homepage link provided. What more do you want?
Well, there were a bunch of links, honestly I didn't follow them all. I was looking for a "how does it work" explination, not a protocol document. Now I've looked at the protocol document and all I can say is: How does it work? I'm hoping for one or two short paragraphs that can get across the basic concept, not a dozen or more screens of protocol information to try to digest.
Moderate me down all you want, but if you can honestly say and I havent seen people complaining about that. than you're a moron who just hasn't been paying attention. I guess this is the new lie of the "uber-big brother" set, claim that no one cared what you did before to try to excuse further erosion of privacy, as well as labeling anyone who tries to protect their privacy as a kook or a terrorist.
This is not about lawsuits against someone who is only publishing information about files, rather than publishing any (potentially) copyrighted information themselves. What it is about is someone with a lot of money filing lawsuits against someone who can't aford to fight them.
....specifically longer lasting fuel cells and better hydrogen storage capabilities."
It would also help if there were a supply of hydrogen for the cars to use. Currently this supposedly clean fuel is being generated by processes on natural gas that are actually extremely wasteful of energy and also highly polluting. They just move the pollution and energy waste away from the car itself. But the user still pays for the wasted energy, and everyone breathing the air pays for the pollution.
aimed at employees who cannot install AOL software at their workstations. The browser will be based on Internet Explorer
Good move. Make a brower for employees who can install AOL stuff on their computers out of the most vulnerable browser out there. Oh yea, system administrators are going to love this!
That's funny. Back in the 70's I knew a blind girl who was getting really sick of stupid people at bars asking to see her driver's lisence for proof of age (this was before states started issuing alternate ID's for people who didn't qualify for driver's licenses). So she did some research and found out that although she couldn't get a driver's license, they only did the vision test as part of the actual driver's test. So she got her learner's permit, and had great fun showing it to the people at bars who asked for her driver's license.
(I wonder why small hard drives weren't chosen, though; they seem to bear up pretty well.)
It doesn't really matter if flash or hard drives are used, as once the data is in this format it will be easy to move between the technologies. I suspect flash is being used because it's much cheaper (for a device that still holds plenty of audio) and more rugged than a hard drive based unit.
The real question is, although this material is being produced thanks to a copyright exemption for the handicapped, doesn't any citizen have a right to the information once it is produced? And why do the blind get all the good parking spaces?
It's good to see a new release, but what happened to Crack Attack? From the list of games (don't have my download yet), this game is MIA. I thought this was a reeally great game, and a nice change from most of the "me too" FPS and fighting games out there.
This is the same as not using email at all. Personally I find this technique useless. Don't you?
I certainly would find it unacceptable to shut down receiving e-mail for a few days. But if the concept here is that the bounces that result from shutting down an e-mail account for a few days result in far less spam, then I would certainly be glad to forge some bounces for the damn spammers. Hell, why don't we have an application that can do this automatically, just highlight your spam and hit a bounce button in the mail client? How do I get this in the next release of Thunderbird?
Sure, there are plenty of spammers who use false addresses. I'm the real owner of one they frequently "make up", and I see a lot of both spam and bounces as a result of it. I can assure you that anyone who the spammers are picking on this way by using their address as a false return address is already getting plenty of bounces, and will think nothing of one more. If he knew it was in the cause of fighting the spammers he might even welcome it.
Heck with his system. I just want the computers that they use to monitor the sensors at the light to respond to you if you are there before the light changes. As it is, these systems currently seem to decide what will happen over 5 and sometimes as much as ten seconds in advance of their next step through a cycle. If you get to the red light for a left turn in that time window, the system will completely ignore you and make you sit there (often several minutes) while it goes through a complete traffic cycle and then finally acknowledges you and lets you make that left turn. There is simply no reason with the modern electronics in traffic control devices that this decision could not be made just a fraction of a second before the next step in the cycle. Such a system would be somewhat safer too, as it would be less frustrating to drivers and so would cause less people to cut through the intersections when the lights are against them.
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Lets ignore the obvious problem of where you're going to get all that extra mass to fill the shuttles. The Space shuttles are basically low Earth orbit devices. They can go up a few hundred miles. That's it. They can't even go and service the communications sattelites in geosynchronous orbit, for example - they just don't carry anywhere near enough fuel to get them there. To deflect an asteroid you need to be able to hit it hard (momentum is based on mass and speed), In contrast to any asteroid that would present a problem to Earth, the space shuttle has neither. So not only would the shuttle not be able to hit an asteroid far enough away from Earth do do any good, it wouldn't have the momentum to get it's attention.
This is hardly going to work. They put the pieces into (expensive, once you make enough and thet them up there) containers, then drop them to Earth. How the heck do they expect to get them back? A container like this is not a very controlled re-entry device. Do they just expect anyone who comes across one, or anyone who's property it lands on to return it to them? What of the liability of hurling this at someone's property or home or body? It's not a problem on Mars, since Mars is free of pesky lawyers so far, but on Earth - big problem due to the lawyer infestation.
OK, I've RTFA. Hype! The bottom line is that steam is not a source of energy. Something has got to make that steam. And that gets us right back to the problem of supplying the energy in a form that burns clean and is clean to produce in the first place (Hydrogen for hydrogen based cars, by the way, burns clean, but is made from natural gas in a very polluting and wasteful process; overall a "clean burning" hydrogen car is a much more wasteful car and a source of more total polution tyhan one that would just use natural gas directly. Of course, if we were to produce hydrogen cleanly that would change, but there seems to be no move to do so.)
Translation: At Intel we decided to put our effort into having a CPU that had an insanely high clock speed, which we decided was much more important than actually getting the CPU to do a lot of processing, which would help contribute to higher frame rates for games and higher output for most users. Our evil competitor AMD realized that it was important to have the computer do something with the cycles they used, and built CPUs that not only did more, but did more at slower clock speeds. We are trying to figure out why this allowed them to win in a market we previously owned, but so far we've only come up with this MHz rather than FPS marketing phrase.
I'm not sure what the buy in by the den of theives has to do with this, but it's hardly a surprise that new and improved forms of communication have an impact on old, outdated and over priced forms of communication. This is news for nerds? It would be news if it didn't happen.
Wind? You'd think that /.ers would know that mars does have an atmosphere, and therefore can produce some kind of wind, which could be blowing sand and dirt all over the panels.
Me too, and I was born in the 50's.
SCO was under $3 at the beginning of November. It's last trade today was at $4.17. Yea, stocks go up and down, but to call this a tailspin is a bit extreme. It's taken a couple of bigger drops in the last two months, but the rises have been even larger. Hey, I hate SCO too, but reporting a relatively small dip in the stock as a tailspin is an overstatement based only on bias against them.
Not only for the reasons you mentioned. But he claims that the entire world should follow one standard, and then goes on to suggest that that standard should be based on a myth in the Jewish bible. If we are all going to adopt a new standard world calendar, then it would make a lot more sense to base it on Chinese or perhaps Hindu beliefs rather than a minority viewpoint based on a Jewish myth and religions based on hand me downs of Jewish fables. The sheer numbers should make that obvious.
Well, it is interesting that they tried to at least do something, but it is far less clear that this holding company really had all rights to do this (assuming 30 or more original authors wre not contacted).
Homeland Security, protecting America by spying on Americans and detaining citizens indeffinately without a warrant.
After reading this we are all dumber ....
Does anyone know what she did (or did not do) on the legal issues of recreating the C64 and building in not only 30 games (where it would likely be very hard to find the owners of those games and obtain the ights), but the Commodore kernel code as well?
I presume this has something to do with that authentication tunnel , but I'm not really following it. Do you understand it?
Well, there were a bunch of links, honestly I didn't follow them all. I was looking for a "how does it work" explination, not a protocol document. Now I've looked at the protocol document and all I can say is: How does it work? I'm hoping for one or two short paragraphs that can get across the basic concept, not a dozen or more screens of protocol information to try to digest.
OK, I've followed the link and read, but the bottom line is, how does this supposedly do what it claims to be able to do?
Moderate me down all you want, but if you can honestly say and I havent seen people complaining about that. than you're a moron who just hasn't been paying attention. I guess this is the new lie of the "uber-big brother" set, claim that no one cared what you did before to try to excuse further erosion of privacy, as well as labeling anyone who tries to protect their privacy as a kook or a terrorist.
This is not about lawsuits against someone who is only publishing information about files, rather than publishing any (potentially) copyrighted information themselves. What it is about is someone with a lot of money filing lawsuits against someone who can't aford to fight them.
It would also help if there were a supply of hydrogen for the cars to use. Currently this supposedly clean fuel is being generated by processes on natural gas that are actually extremely wasteful of energy and also highly polluting. They just move the pollution and energy waste away from the car itself. But the user still pays for the wasted energy, and everyone breathing the air pays for the pollution.
Good move. Make a brower for employees who can install AOL stuff on their computers out of the most vulnerable browser out there. Oh yea, system administrators are going to love this!
That's funny. Back in the 70's I knew a blind girl who was getting really sick of stupid people at bars asking to see her driver's lisence for proof of age (this was before states started issuing alternate ID's for people who didn't qualify for driver's licenses). So she did some research and found out that although she couldn't get a driver's license, they only did the vision test as part of the actual driver's test. So she got her learner's permit, and had great fun showing it to the people at bars who asked for her driver's license.
It doesn't really matter if flash or hard drives are used, as once the data is in this format it will be easy to move between the technologies. I suspect flash is being used because it's much cheaper (for a device that still holds plenty of audio) and more rugged than a hard drive based unit.
The real question is, although this material is being produced thanks to a copyright exemption for the handicapped, doesn't any citizen have a right to the information once it is produced? And why do the blind get all the good parking spaces?
It's good to see a new release, but what happened to Crack Attack? From the list of games (don't have my download yet), this game is MIA. I thought this was a reeally great game, and a nice change from most of the "me too" FPS and fighting games out there.
I certainly would find it unacceptable to shut down receiving e-mail for a few days. But if the concept here is that the bounces that result from shutting down an e-mail account for a few days result in far less spam, then I would certainly be glad to forge some bounces for the damn spammers. Hell, why don't we have an application that can do this automatically, just highlight your spam and hit a bounce button in the mail client? How do I get this in the next release of Thunderbird?
Sure, there are plenty of spammers who use false addresses. I'm the real owner of one they frequently "make up", and I see a lot of both spam and bounces as a result of it. I can assure you that anyone who the spammers are picking on this way by using their address as a false return address is already getting plenty of bounces, and will think nothing of one more. If he knew it was in the cause of fighting the spammers he might even welcome it.
Heck with his system. I just want the computers that they use to monitor the sensors at the light to respond to you if you are there before the light changes. As it is, these systems currently seem to decide what will happen over 5 and sometimes as much as ten seconds in advance of their next step through a cycle. If you get to the red light for a left turn in that time window, the system will completely ignore you and make you sit there (often several minutes) while it goes through a complete traffic cycle and then finally acknowledges you and lets you make that left turn. There is simply no reason with the modern electronics in traffic control devices that this decision could not be made just a fraction of a second before the next step in the cycle. Such a system would be somewhat safer too, as it would be less frustrating to drivers and so would cause less people to cut through the intersections when the lights are against them.