It is a well documented fact the the countries with a dominant Navy have always been the pwoer house of the world.
There is no way to fly, reload and refuel our (the U.S.) military planes and use them effectively in a war without air craft carriers.... which is why we keep a dominant Navy. They also make it possible to place embargos into effect!
As far as history... why do you think Great Britian was the power house it was back in the day? G.B. is just a small islnad nation, but yet they were the dominant force on this planet for over a century. Why? Their NAVY!!!
Keep in mind that there is no way for any Asian or European countries to invade the Americas (if they wanted to) without the use of a Navy. A solid Navy is the key to winning ANY war (without using nukes).
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to re-live it!
Probably just the current political situation. I wouldn't exactly want to go looking around Kashmir for fossils right now, would you?
That... and for the other reasons:
Europe: Since most of Europe is developed, I seriously doublt people want scientists tearing down their homes in an effort to find dino-mummies...
South America: Drug lords and people trying to save the rain forrest... enough said.
Africa: Who wants to go to the desert? Who wants to go to a continet with such a high percentage of the population infected with AIDS?
Asia: Still a dangerous portion of the world for Americans/Europeans. You might get trapped in China, the entire Indian region is at war, Japan is totally developed, and the Koreans don't want us there. However, you could probably pay Russia for the rights to look in the middle of their country, but that makes it more expensive than it needs to be to go dino-hunting.
Australia: Maybe they should look in Australia... it is safe there... and 1/2 of the continent is undeveloped. Just watch out for rabid kangaroos!
This article is very very vague. It states that the creature died when it was just 3 years old; I wonder why. The article doesn't say.
What I want to know is how the scintists know that this dinosaur died when it was three years old! The "mummy" is 77 million years old, so how can they post a number like that? Are they sure it wasn't 2.5, 4, or 5 years old....
Lets face it, they dont't have anything that was living during any of our life times to compare it to... so how do they know this?
You've heard of the web service that will publish anyone's book for a reasonable fee, but wondered if any of the books are worth buying? If you like fantasy with a dash of science fiction you will likely enjoy Reflecting Fires."
You've heard of the web service that will advertise anyone's book for a reasonable fee (or free in this case), but wondered if any of the books are worth buying?
Yes, IDE drives do that now.... but you'd figure that crashes due to power failure would be much more frequent with batteries.... and that these failures would happen when you need your hard drive the most! People have this stupid tendancy to push things to the limit... many times over the limit.
How many times has your IDE drive had to endure a power failure? Compare that number to the number of times the batteries would wear out in the blue tooth drive (EVERY 6 HOURS!!!).... Sounds like you'd better have a good disater recovery plan in place if you use this drive!
the chances of discovering intelligent life approaches 1 the less intelligent they get, and approaches 0 the more intelligent they get
but using humans as a standard is somewhat close minded (although I guess we don't have any other standard at this time)... In all honesty, I don't believe the human race is really all that intelligent. We don't even know (100%) how our own bodies function and everything about our own planet, let alone the universe! I think as our evolution progesses, we'll eventually see just how stupid we really are at this point in our existance.
Honestly, I believe the odds are closer to 1 than they are 0 that we'll find life more intelligent than us.... how likely is it that less evolved beings would be able to send us back a signal or visit our planet. We've only been able to do it for the last 50 years or so... and our ability to transmit or decrypt a transmission is still quite basic. Hell, some alien race could be sending us a signal right now in some other medium, and we're so stupid that we'd most likely fail to recognize it.....
It's further out than other recently discovered planets and astronomers are saying it means there's an odds-on chance of intelligent life being out there
Let's face it folks... looking for E.T. might be a cool idea, but we are assuming that E.T. is friendly....
Consider this: If we are able to communicate with extra terrestrials, odds are that they are more advanced technologicaly than we are. That being said, what if these aliens are aggressive beings that are looking for a conquest? Do we really want to make their job of finding a planet of slaves any easier?
Has anyone considered the possibility that we might be putting a big red target on our planet?
What happens when the batteries go dead? Is it smart enough to move the read/write heads into the locked position and stop functioning before it causes damage to the disk before the batteries completely die?
Instead of doing lame ass physical security, try something like what the folks at Blizzard did with War Craft III.
Yes, it doesn't stop people from pirating the game, but checking CD keys and such to see how often they are used when playing online (what fun is a game if you can't play it online?) seems to be a fairly good way to keep your "average" kiddie pirate from stealing your software.
Besides, if you make your game/software good enough, people generally will want to support it. To all software companies: How about worrying more about the quality of your products and wasting less time figuring out how to prevent people from stealing them???
That is what way too many people did during the late 90's.. and that is what the problem is!
People didn't realise that most companies price/earnings ratio was 25:1!!! That is nuts!!
We were living on "fake" money... and for those people that didn't realize this.. they got what they deserved!
I was born in 1977 (whew... I missed the cut off by 2 years), but I started a company during the roaring 90's.... a dot com company... and it is still here! The other problem was that people were paying people rediculous salaries and not managing the monies they were earning very effectively. They also didn't make provisions in their business models for downsizing... so most of them ran while the running was still good.. and went out of business. A little restraint by some people may have been the secret to keeping many of those dot busts in business (although many of these companies simply didn't have a product to sell, so they were destined to fail).
I just hope that this last decade makes for some good reading in future economic books as examples of what people should NOT do. The Internet had FANTASTIC potential (and still does in some cases), but as with most great things, people looking to make a quick buck ruined it for everyone by draining all of the available investment capital by putting it into her pocket.
I hope they commericialize and sell this, looks much better than my old Tonka truck.
You must have REALLY been hard on your toys!
But in order for the Timbot to "make it" on the open market, they're DEFINATELY going to need to do some marketing... the concept is cool, but that thing is UGLY! You'd think they'd have enough money left in their grant to put a cheesy plastic cover on the top of it... putting the PC on the board just isn't very stylish. If they really wanted to do it with some style, take a page out of Dr. Emmitt Brown's book and cover it with stainless steal and make it look like a DeLorian!
But I don't think this toy would last half as long as your Tonka truck did in its current state... we're gonna need titainium!!
No more anonymous posts! Now if you want to say stupid things, people will know who you are, where you live, what you ate for lunch, where you work, who's your boss, and if you sleep with your boss!
People trying to start companies, get promotions, or earn PhD's have to get inovative ideas somewhere.... and since they all read/., you figure that a couple good ideas might come from here....
Lets face it, some people might be very mechanically inclided, but many of those people lack imagination.
Way to contribute to the advancement of man kind/. !!!!!
And what do you do if an airplane runs into this elevator?
I don't know of anything that could go and get the people except a space shuttle... and don't tell me they could prep a shuttle fast enough to go save the people... Besides that, do you really think the government is going to pay to save these people when their are "charities" that the politicians "have no association with" to donate to?
C'mon... the government won't allow us to have hover boards and floating cars like in Back to the Future Part II because of safety reasons... what makes you think that they'd really allow one of these things to be built?
With a hover board, you are 2 inches from the ground... with a space teather, you are over 2 levels of atmosphere from the ground... er some really big number!
And remember Superman the movie? What if you were Lois Lane on the Eifel tower, but this time, you are in a space elevator... and there is no Superman... they'd NEVER get insurance for this thing!
And what if we ever wanted to tear it down? Oh, that's right, we'll just pull it into space so that earth can have 4 moons....
Although it is a cool idea, it just isn't safe and it isn't practicle. They'd be better off spending the money trying to develop "beaming" technology or some other alternative method for getting people into space.
I was also including older servers that need to run old NT 4.0 because of software that won't run on the newer versions of the OS. (Or because companies are too cheap to upgrade to 2000/XP).
Also, don't you have to have identical (or pretty damn close to identical) hardware for that to work correctly with no human intervention (which was the point I was trying to make)?
Linux doesn't have issues like this... that was they key here....
And yes, I administer a TRUE operating system, not a GUI on top of DOS. (not looking to get flammed here.. just proud to be a linux admin)
Did this study take into account the amount of time required to install the OS'es on these boxes (or the cost of the software needed to do this?)
With Linux, if you are smart and purchase identical drives, you can just 'dd' the drives, where with Windows, you need to purchase ghost or its equivilant and pray that you didn't forget to put anything in the image.
Also, with Linux... MOST of the software you'd need to install can be installed at OS install time... I haven't found the same to be true with Windows...
And what if the rest of your hardware isn't the same... Windows images won't take too kindly to that... all of the driver install time needed!
Kudzu will take care of that with most Red Hat boxes.
Also, after the licensing costs and time neded per server for Windows boxes... are they sure it is not less than 40% to administer a Linux box??
That number seems kinda high to me considering that, even if you bought a copy of Linux instead of downloading it like they should, you only need ONE copy of Linux (and no licenses) versus one copy of Windows for each box PLUS all of the software for that box (yes, I know you can buy group licenses, but it is still pricey!!)
And besides that, although remote administration of Windows boxes has gotten easier with Windows, it is still a pain in the ass!! I administer both types of boxes, and I spend atleast 75% of my time with the few Windows boxes I have (versus the dozens of Linux boxes I have)
I thought it would be about 20% AT MOST!!
Maybe a study should be done to determine if this study is valid..... ??????
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It is a well documented fact the the countries with a dominant Navy have always been the pwoer house of the world.
.... which is why we keep a dominant Navy. They also make it possible to place embargos into effect!
... why do you think Great Britian was the power house it was back in the day? G.B. is just a small islnad nation, but yet they were the dominant force on this planet for over a century. Why? Their NAVY!!!
There is no way to fly, reload and refuel our (the U.S.) military planes and use them effectively in a war without air craft carriers
As far as history
Keep in mind that there is no way for any Asian or European countries to invade the Americas (if they wanted to) without the use of a Navy. A solid Navy is the key to winning ANY war (without using nukes).
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to re-live it!
No Way!
C'mon people
That
Europe: Since most of Europe is developed, I seriously doublt people want scientists tearing down their homes in an effort to find dino-mummies
South America: Drug lords and people trying to save the rain forrest
Africa: Who wants to go to the desert? Who wants to go to a continet with such a high percentage of the population infected with AIDS?
Asia: Still a dangerous portion of the world for Americans/Europeans. You might get trapped in China, the entire Indian region is at war, Japan is totally developed, and the Koreans don't want us there. However, you could probably pay Russia for the rights to look in the middle of their country, but that makes it more expensive than it needs to be to go dino-hunting.
Australia: Maybe they should look in Australia
What I want to know is how the scintists know that this dinosaur died when it was three years old! The "mummy" is 77 million years old, so how can they post a number like that? Are they sure it wasn't 2.5, 4, or 5 years old
Lets face it, they dont't have anything that was living during any of our life times to compare it to
Some food for thought
You've heard of the web service that will advertise anyone's book for a reasonable fee (or free in this case), but wondered if any of the books are worth buying?
Yes, IDE drives do that now .... but you'd figure that crashes due to power failure would be much more frequent with batteries .... and that these failures would happen when you need your hard drive the most! People have this stupid tendancy to push things to the limit ... many times over the limit.
.... Sounds like you'd better have a good disater recovery plan in place if you use this drive!
How many times has your IDE drive had to endure a power failure? Compare that number to the number of times the batteries would wear out in the blue tooth drive (EVERY 6 HOURS!!!)
I agree with:
but using humans as a standard is somewhat close minded (although I guess we don't have any other standard at this time)
Honestly, I believe the odds are closer to 1 than they are 0 that we'll find life more intelligent than us
Some additional food for thought
Let's face it folks
Consider this: If we are able to communicate with extra terrestrials, odds are that they are more advanced technologicaly than we are. That being said, what if these aliens are aggressive beings that are looking for a conquest? Do we really want to make their job of finding a planet of slaves any easier?
Has anyone considered the possibility that we might be putting a big red target on our planet?
Just some food for thought
What happens when the batteries go dead? Is it smart enough to move the read/write heads into the locked position and stop functioning before it causes damage to the disk before the batteries completely die?
I'm going to patent 256 bit, 512 bit, 1024 bit
Muhahahahahahahahahaaaaa
I'm gonna be rich!!! Wanna be my lawyer Johnnie Cochran???
Instead of doing lame ass physical security, try something like what the folks at Blizzard did with War Craft III.
Yes, it doesn't stop people from pirating the game, but checking CD keys and such to see how often they are used when playing online (what fun is a game if you can't play it online?) seems to be a fairly good way to keep your "average" kiddie pirate from stealing your software.
Besides, if you make your game/software good enough, people generally will want to support it. To all software companies: How about worrying more about the quality of your products and wasting less time figuring out how to prevent people from stealing them???
Your sig page is down!
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I can't get to http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~stremler/sigs/sigs.htm
Just an FYI
That is what way too many people did during the late 90's .. and that is what the problem is!
... and for those people that didn't realize this .. they got what they deserved!
... I missed the cut off by 2 years), but I started a company during the roaring 90's .... a dot com company ... and it is still here! The other problem was that people were paying people rediculous salaries and not managing the monies they were earning very effectively. They also didn't make provisions in their business models for downsizing ... so most of them ran while the running was still good .. and went out of business. A little restraint by some people may have been the secret to keeping many of those dot busts in business (although many of these companies simply didn't have a product to sell, so they were destined to fail).
People didn't realise that most companies price/earnings ratio was 25:1!!! That is nuts!! We were living on "fake" money
I was born in 1977 (whew
I just hope that this last decade makes for some good reading in future economic books as examples of what people should NOT do. The Internet had FANTASTIC potential (and still does in some cases), but as with most great things, people looking to make a quick buck ruined it for everyone by draining all of the available investment capital by putting it into her pocket.
I mirrored the entire story from http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~mpj/timbot/index.html before it got /.'ed.
t / for the full article and pics.
Go to http://hosting.coldfirestudios.com/slashdot/timbo
It is better!!!
:)
... and get a story on /.
Your's is ready to serve Java too
You should apply to DARPA for some grant money!
You must have REALLY been hard on your toys!
But in order for the Timbot to "make it" on the open market, they're DEFINATELY going to need to do some marketing
But I don't think this toy would last half as long as your Tonka truck did in its current state
No more anonymous posts! Now if you want to say stupid things, people will know who you are, where you live, what you ate for lunch, where you work, who's your boss, and if you sleep with your boss!
Make's getting even pretty easy, wouldn't ya say?
I guess this devise would prevent guys from telling their date's parents that they are going to "the movies" ....
Hmmm ... I hope my cord doesn't rip ....
I'm digital, therefore, I am?????
People trying to start companies, get promotions, or earn PhD's have to get inovative ideas somewhere .... and since they all read /., you figure that a couple good ideas might come from here ....
/. !!!!!
Lets face it, some people might be very mechanically inclided, but many of those people lack imagination.
Way to contribute to the advancement of man kind
And what do you do if an airplane runs into this elevator?
... and don't tell me they could prep a shuttle fast enough to go save the people ... Besides that, do you really think the government is going to pay to save these people when their are "charities" that the politicians "have no association with" to donate to?
... the government won't allow us to have hover boards and floating cars like in Back to the Future Part II because of safety reasons ... what makes you think that they'd really allow one of these things to be built?
With a hover board, you are 2 inches from the ground ... with a space teather, you are over 2 levels of atmosphere from the ground ... er some really big number!
... and there is no Superman ... they'd NEVER get insurance for this thing!
....
I don't know of anything that could go and get the people except a space shuttle
C'mon
And remember Superman the movie? What if you were Lois Lane on the Eifel tower, but this time, you are in a space elevator
And what if we ever wanted to tear it down? Oh, that's right, we'll just pull it into space so that earth can have 4 moons
Although it is a cool idea, it just isn't safe and it isn't practicle. They'd be better off spending the money trying to develop "beaming" technology or some other alternative method for getting people into space.
RIS = Ghost for this purpose.
... that was they key here ....
.. just proud to be a linux admin)
I was also including older servers that need to run old NT 4.0 because of software that won't run on the newer versions of the OS. (Or because companies are too cheap to upgrade to 2000/XP).
Also, don't you have to have identical (or pretty damn close to identical) hardware for that to work correctly with no human intervention (which was the point I was trying to make)?
Linux doesn't have issues like this
And yes, I administer a TRUE operating system, not a GUI on top of DOS. (not looking to get flammed here
Phase 1: Collect old cell phones
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!
Did this study take into account the amount of time required to install the OS'es on these boxes (or the cost of the software needed to do this?)
... MOST of the software you'd need to install can be installed at OS install time ... I haven't found the same to be true with Windows ...
... Windows images won't take too kindly to that ... all of the driver install time needed!
Kudzu will take care of that with most Red Hat boxes.
... are they sure it is not less than 40% to administer a Linux box??
..... ??????
With Linux, if you are smart and purchase identical drives, you can just 'dd' the drives, where with Windows, you need to purchase ghost or its equivilant and pray that you didn't forget to put anything in the image.
Also, with Linux
And what if the rest of your hardware isn't the same
Also, after the licensing costs and time neded per server for Windows boxes
That number seems kinda high to me considering that, even if you bought a copy of Linux instead of downloading it like they should, you only need ONE copy of Linux (and no licenses) versus one copy of Windows for each box PLUS all of the software for that box (yes, I know you can buy group licenses, but it is still pricey!!) And besides that, although remote administration of Windows boxes has gotten easier with Windows, it is still a pain in the ass!! I administer both types of boxes, and I spend atleast 75% of my time with the few Windows boxes I have (versus the dozens of Linux boxes I have)
I thought it would be about 20% AT MOST!!
Maybe a study should be done to determine if this study is valid