It is precisely because all current digital cameras use FAT that future cameras will need to- otherwise, those future cameras will be at a competitive disadvantage because sticking a memory-card into them doesn't "just work".
Bah. Cameras are evolving, with new models coming out, so quickly that it hardly matters, IMO, that you couldn't exchange chips between them. Besides, with Americans being as price-conscious as they are, the price difference between "license-amortized" and "non-amortized" will heavily influence their decision.
"These two models are almost identical, but this one is way cheaper." "So get it. What's the problem?" "Well, I can't exchange memory chips with older cameras." "So what? How often are you going to do that, anyway?" "Hmm, never, I guess."
And which part of one's body would that be, that genital wart, or that superfluous nipple?
I like my superfluous nipples. When it's cold and they dent my shirt, I'm reminded of Alicia Silverstone's outfit in Batman & Robin. This is a pleasant thing.
One thought I had on battery cars - why not "swap" batteries at a garage, instead of pumping in fuel (petrol, hydrogen..) - you dont "own" the batteries, just hire them, and keep swapping them for a fully charged set at each garage.
For it to not be time and labor-intensive, the method by which the battery pack is installed and removed would have to be roughly uniform across *ALL* cars of that style. Look at "normal" cars--they all get their gas pumped in the same way. Taking out and putting in a several-hundred pound battery pack is a bit more complicated than sticking a nozzle in a hole.
Also, what's the incentive? What would you be willing to pay the "juice" station owner for this service? There's no way it would be self-serve, at least not for years. And where's he going to put all these packs while they're charging up before getting installed on a new car? That's a significant storage/power issue.
No, I think fuel cells, gassed up with methanol or somesuch, is more feasible... though also far-off.
The good ol' internal-combustion engine (ICE) has many, many years left in it. Want to improve air quality? Quit fretting about the number of cars on the road, and target the tiny tenth of a percent of the cars out there that, due to age or neglect of maintenance, are the REAL polluters.
Although these would be very basic forms of life (not as advanced a monkeys) discovering them would mean that we could no longer view ourselves as being at the center of the universe.
Oh, finding some extraterrestrial robo-bacteria would somehow unseat us from the center of the universe?? What are they going to do, throw a mitochrondria at us? Now, if we found Unicron or something, I'd be more interested.
The Compleat Bolo, by Keith Laumer. He died. Baton picked up by miscellaneous authors ("Bolos" books 1-6) and at novel length by William Keith Jr., in Bolo Bridade, Bolo Rising, and Bolo Strike.
My fave is Bolo Rising. No kidding: I was sitting in a restaurant about halfway through the book, and I started shaking my fist and pounding my foot I was excited. You'll know it when you reach it. Hint: think "asteroid defense". Mmmm, boy.
NASA-Langley had a section of the "science" building at the State Fair in Richmond, VA last year, and invited both civil servants and contractors (like me) to help man it. One of the displays, which I was at, was a large aquarium tank with a fan attached to one end, and little rocks and sand and junk cemented to the bottom to simulate the Martian landscape. I had six different models of potential "tumbleweed" craft, designed by schoolchildren, that you would drop into the tank and see how well it tumbled. The fan speed was low, MUCH less than some of the crazee whirlwinds on Mars, and pretty accurately approximated the volume of air moving given the much greater air density on Earth.
The only model that consistently tumbled over half the length of the tank was a small Styrofoam ball, with wooden sticks poked into it with little plastic discs attached to the ends of them. It had the most outside surface area of any of the models.
They also had a full-scale model of the Sojourner robot. That was cool. It looked expensive.
Darth Vader is not just an icon of evil and historical American entertainment, but also represents the ultimate triumph of good over evil. Luke says "I've felt the good in you, Father," but Vader retorts, "It is too late for me, Son." Yet, in the end, he is redeemed. What better place to put a reminder that even in the darkest night, there is still hope, than on a cathedral?
Don't believe there is hope? Visit the Cathedral; spend some time there. You may be redeemed, too.:)
No way... tank treads are notorious maintenance sinks. Frank Dunnigan in his How to Make War describes this problem well. Maybe if you were only going a few miles, it'd be OK... but 250? With no [autonomous] maintenance crew on hand? That's a non-starter.
Ballistic Magnetoresistance?? Souds almost like technobabble; I had a funny thought that you could automatically generate alerts like this every six months using a random "new technology" generator.
June 2003: Scientists have found they can dramatically increase hard drive capacity using *Ferrous Multipliers*!
January 2004: Scientists have found they can dramatically increase hard drive capacity using *Quantum Isolators*!
June 2004: Scientists have found they can dramatically increase hard drive capacity using *Magneto Flux Capacitors*!
Little known fact: Shatner started doing his trademark dramatic pauses in the early 60's as a Shakesperian actor, when he would forget his lines. The critics(?) loved it, so he incorporated it into his acting style.
This is something that the Laotian villagers asked for.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect 4th-worlders to necessarily know what's best for them.
I've heard a story from a missionary to SE Asia describe this problem. He asked an utterly destitute mountain village what they needed, and first they said more alcohol. When he urged them to focus on the absoluete necessities, what would improve their standard of living, they discussed amongst themselves... and replied, "We've decided that what would really make our lives better is having a karaoke machine like they have in the town."
It took the missionary and his wife a year just to teach them basic hygiene.
Somehow, I don't think having access to cnn.com and cnet.com is what these people really need...
Slashdot Mirror
Wrong.
I believe the library planet you refer to is Ossus, revealed in the Dark Horse TPB Dark Empire II.
(which was, IMHO, not as good as Dark Empire I. The writing was decent but the art was lackluster)
It's called aerogel.
When is somebody going to start a collection of "There be Slashdottin'" error pages?
I thought that was the Mad Hatter!
"That's very important! WRITE THAT DOWN!!!"
-- Queen of Hearts
It is precisely because all current digital cameras use FAT that future cameras will need to- otherwise, those future cameras will be at a competitive disadvantage because sticking a memory-card into them doesn't "just work".
Bah. Cameras are evolving, with new models coming out, so quickly that it hardly matters, IMO, that you couldn't exchange chips between them. Besides, with Americans being as price-conscious as they are, the price difference between "license-amortized" and "non-amortized" will heavily influence their decision.
"These two models are almost identical, but this one is way cheaper."
"So get it. What's the problem?"
"Well, I can't exchange memory chips with older cameras."
"So what? How often are you going to do that, anyway?"
"Hmm, never, I guess."
And which part of one's body would that be, that genital wart, or that superfluous nipple?
I like my superfluous nipples. When it's cold and they dent my shirt, I'm reminded of Alicia Silverstone's outfit in Batman & Robin. This is a pleasant thing.
Are you suggesting that once we get rid of those, the air pollution problems will be solved?
No no, but it would help. Our air pollution problems won't be solved until my officemates start using Tic-Tacs.
One thought I had on battery cars - why not "swap" batteries at a garage, instead of pumping in fuel (petrol, hydrogen..) - you dont "own" the batteries, just hire them, and keep swapping them for a fully charged set at each garage.
For it to not be time and labor-intensive, the method by which the battery pack is installed and removed would have to be roughly uniform across *ALL* cars of that style. Look at "normal" cars--they all get their gas pumped in the same way. Taking out and putting in a several-hundred pound battery pack is a bit more complicated than sticking a nozzle in a hole.
Also, what's the incentive? What would you be willing to pay the "juice" station owner for this service? There's no way it would be self-serve, at least not for years. And where's he going to put all these packs while they're charging up before getting installed on a new car? That's a significant storage/power issue.
No, I think fuel cells, gassed up with methanol or somesuch, is more feasible... though also far-off.
The good ol' internal-combustion engine (ICE) has many, many years left in it. Want to improve air quality? Quit fretting about the number of cars on the road, and target the tiny tenth of a percent of the cars out there that, due to age or neglect of maintenance, are the REAL polluters.
I once had a story that William Shatner had his 70th birthday.. REJECTED(!)
Try again next year.
> I've wondered why some people use "an" instead of "a" when using a noun that starts with an "h." The H makes a sound, so why say "an?"
Saying "an homo sapiens" is incorrect. AFAIK it only applies to the word "historic".
When you're talking fast it's easier to say "annistoric event" than "a historic event". It's especially noticeable on news programs.
Oh, finding some extraterrestrial robo-bacteria would somehow unseat us from the center of the universe?? What are they going to do, throw a mitochrondria at us? Now, if we found Unicron or something, I'd be more interested.
I mean, Linux runs on ANYTHING! It's compatible with my orbiting brain lasers!
Into giant, sentient, autonomous tanks?
The Compleat Bolo, by Keith Laumer.
He died. Baton picked up by miscellaneous authors ("Bolos" books 1-6) and at novel length by William Keith Jr., in Bolo Bridade, Bolo Rising, and Bolo Strike.
My fave is Bolo Rising. No kidding: I was sitting in a restaurant about halfway through the book, and I started shaking my fist and pounding my foot I was excited. You'll know it when you reach it. Hint: think "asteroid defense". Mmmm, boy.
The inventor of radio spells his name "T-E-S-L-A" not "M-A-R-C-O-N-I." Google Cache
NASA-Langley had a section of the "science" building at the State Fair in Richmond, VA last year, and invited both civil servants and contractors (like me) to help man it. One of the displays, which I was at, was a large aquarium tank with a fan attached to one end, and little rocks and sand and junk cemented to the bottom to simulate the Martian landscape. I had six different models of potential "tumbleweed" craft, designed by schoolchildren, that you would drop into the tank and see how well it tumbled. The fan speed was low, MUCH less than some of the crazee whirlwinds on Mars, and pretty accurately approximated the volume of air moving given the much greater air density on Earth.
The only model that consistently tumbled over half the length of the tank was a small Styrofoam ball, with wooden sticks poked into it with little plastic discs attached to the ends of them. It had the most outside surface area of any of the models.
They also had a full-scale model of the Sojourner robot. That was cool. It looked expensive.
Popups? What popups?
Ohh, I remember now. Those little advertisements that appear when people are using legacy (MSIE) browsers instead of Mozilla/FIrebird/Netscape 7.
=)
Darth Vader is not just an icon of evil and historical American entertainment, but also represents the ultimate triumph of good over evil. Luke says "I've felt the good in you, Father," but Vader retorts, "It is too late for me, Son." Yet, in the end, he is redeemed. What better place to put a reminder that even in the darkest night, there is still hope, than on a cathedral?
:)
Don't believe there is hope? Visit the Cathedral; spend some time there. You may be redeemed, too.
> go with a tri-lobed treaded 'tank'.
No way... tank treads are notorious maintenance sinks. Frank Dunnigan in his How to Make War describes this problem well. Maybe if you were only going a few miles, it'd be OK... but 250? With no [autonomous] maintenance crew on hand? That's a non-starter.
If you don't believe /., believe Linus. He said x86 isn't so bad, and the problem with ia64 is they "got rid of the best parts!"
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7966
Ballistic Magnetoresistance?? Souds almost like technobabble; I had a funny thought that you could automatically generate alerts like this every six months using a random "new technology" generator.
June 2003: Scientists have found they can dramatically increase hard drive capacity using *Ferrous Multipliers*!
January 2004: Scientists have found they can dramatically increase hard drive capacity using *Quantum Isolators*!
June 2004: Scientists have found they can dramatically increase hard drive capacity using *Magneto Flux Capacitors*!
I was able to get in if I used the prefbar from xulplanet.com to spoof as a Moz 1.0/Win98 client.
Little known fact: Shatner started doing his trademark dramatic pauses in the early 60's as a Shakesperian actor, when he would forget his lines. The critics(?) loved it, so he incorporated it into his acting style.
P.S. The ol' feller is 71.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect 4th-worlders to necessarily know what's best for them.
I've heard a story from a missionary to SE Asia describe this problem. He asked an utterly destitute mountain village what they needed, and first they said more alcohol. When he urged them to focus on the absoluete necessities, what would improve their standard of living, they discussed amongst themselves... and replied, "We've decided that what would really make our lives better is having a karaoke machine like they have in the town."
It took the missionary and his wife a year just to teach them basic hygiene.
Somehow, I don't think having access to cnn.com and cnet.com is what these people really need...
No, just Emacs.