lesson Learned? Make the !@$#%$^!&! things OFFPLANET, especially since we don't have any convienet ray-guns that can push/pull with gravitational forces. and yes, he knew enough to invoke the Hawking Radiation ideas too.
The purpose of copyright protection is to keep artists from being hurt financially by other people using their works. Since people by music to listen to, complete with instruments, not lyrics to their favorite song to read, there is no financial damage to the artist from sites like lyricfind.com, and it has a strong potential to increase sales.
As many Japanese companies have found out, a strong fan base supports and increases sales of a product. Because of this, they allow the publishing of fan-based derivitive works, often at a lower price that the real material, and their sales do not suffer. Instead, they rise. This is because the publishing of unofficial, non-cannon works means more people who haven't read the series are more likely to come across & read a copy of either the original or the derivative work, which means another potential fan is introduced to the material, who will then want to buy both the 'cannon' stories and some of the fan art. While the publishing of lyrics on the web is not a direct correlation, it is true that if some one can only remember a snatch of song they want to own, they are more likely to be able to purchase that song if they can find out it's name and who the artistis, and more likely to buy it if they find other interesting looking songs by the same artist. Lyric sites aid in this endeavor.
Therefor, it is financially to their benifit to leave these sites in place.
Why not install internal SuperDisk drives instead? the price of the compuer goes up about $50 (maybe less?), the people who know what they are doing now have a 250MB Disk Drive that is backwards compatible with the old 3 1/4" drives, and the ignorant simply have what seems to be a faster floppy drive.
I wasn't in he Navy, I was in he USCG, onboard a cutter. I think this is a situation where being small helps, a lot. Our ship's convrsion ook a while, startng with runnng fiberglass through out the entire thing, but every step of the installation went smoothly, and the only eason we still have old systems sitting around, is because we do not have all he programs running yet.
But yes, we are also stuck with nothing but W2K... sucks. but a least the web was not restricted. yet.
let's see, when angry, you can hurt the person you are mad at.. mm, no, bad idea.
Punch a pillow till you are exhausted (reccomended by some counselers).. er, not really satisfying.
Or you can go blow stuff up on the computer! Vent anger, and is fun and saisfying. Optionally, grab yor bag of dice and rulebooks, and go play a quick hack and slash session of DnD. Not as immediately gratifying, but still fun!
You know what I would like to see done with some of those? Just one out of ten even: Rather than sending it to the moon, You pack this tiny space ship with spoors of sulphur & heat loving bacteria, point them at venus, and let them go!
Have it break up into smaller packets when it gets close, burning that last of it's fuel as a brake before doing so, then having each packet deploy several sets of chutes on the way down, an start releasing the spores once a certain altitude is reached. If even one strain of these microbes is able to survive in the harsh enviroment of Venus, our first terraformaion project will have begun.
Sulphur will be slowly leeched out of the atmosphere, and 02 will slowly begin to ocur more often. In a few thousand years, if we have managed to not kill ourselves, we might be able to start sending in other bacteria, and maybe even lichen. Of course, the moe strains we start off with, and the more often we send them, the more likely they are to take hold and start doing work for us.
Now there's an idea for colanization.. we find a suitable planet hat has no life, we just start sending packets in waves designed to auto-deploy, while we continue to fill our solar system. Whn we want to go fill up those other planets, we start building Generation Ships. By the tme humans get there, baceria & plantlife should have made the planet at least close to hospitable. And we will have had lots of practice seeing how things work on venus.
Of course, my ideas require looking out or the good of our species of incredibly long periods of time that we will not live to see. I'm just a True Survivalist: I want my desendants to be prosperous and continue to have kids forever. Though the idea of slowly turning Venus into an eden is kinda nice.
and truly, this would be a perfect project to stat up while we work with the moon. Early resourcs devoted would be very minor if we ran it off of the backbone of the moon or even a mars project.
You know what I would like to see done with some of those? just one out of ten even: Rather than sending it to the moon, You pack this tiny space ship with spoors of sulphur & heat loving bacteria, point them at venus, and let them go!
Have it break up into smaller packets when it gets close, burning that last of it's fuel as a brake before doing so, then having each packet deploy several sets of chutes on the way down, an start releasing the spores once a certain altitude is reached.
If even one strain of these microbes is able to survive in the harsh enviroment of Venus, our first terraformaion project will have begun. Sulphur will be slowly leeched out of the atmosphere, and 02 will slowly begin to ocur more often.
In a few thousand years, if we have managed to not kill ourselves, we might be able to start sending in other bacteria, and maybe even lichen. Of course, the moe strains we start off with, and the more often we send them, the more likely they are to take hold and start doing work for us.
Now there's an idea for colanization.. we find a suitable planet hat has no life, we just start sending packets in waves designed to auto-deploy, while we continue to fill our solar system. Whn we want to go fill up those other planets, we start building Generation Ships. By the tme humans get there, baceria & plantlife should have made the planet at least close to hospitable.
Of course, my ideas require looking out or the good of our species of incredibly long periods of time that we will not live to see. I'm jus a True Survivalist: I want my desendants to be prosperous and continue to have kids forever.
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book in question: "Earth"
lesson Learned? Make the !@$#%$^!&! things OFFPLANET, especially since we don't have any convienet ray-guns that can push/pull with gravitational forces. and yes, he knew enough to invoke the Hawking Radiation ideas too.
The purpose of copyright protection is to keep artists from being hurt financially by other people using their works. Since people by music to listen to, complete with instruments, not lyrics to their favorite song to read, there is no financial damage to the artist from sites like lyricfind.com, and it has a strong potential to increase sales.
As many Japanese companies have found out, a strong fan base supports and increases sales of a product. Because of this, they allow the publishing of fan-based derivitive works, often at a lower price that the real material, and their sales do not suffer. Instead, they rise. This is because the publishing of unofficial, non-cannon works means more people who haven't read the series are more likely to come across & read a copy of either the original or the derivative work, which means another potential fan is introduced to the material, who will then want to buy both the 'cannon' stories and some of the fan art. While the publishing of lyrics on the web is not a direct correlation, it is true that if some one can only remember a snatch of song they want to own, they are more likely to be able to purchase that song if they can find out it's name and who the artistis, and more likely to buy it if they find other interesting looking songs by the same artist. Lyric sites aid in this endeavor.
Therefor, it is financially to their benifit to leave these sites in place.
Why not install internal SuperDisk drives instead? the price of the compuer goes up about $50 (maybe less?), the people who know what they are doing now have a 250MB Disk Drive that is backwards compatible with the old 3 1/4" drives, and the ignorant simply have what seems to be a faster floppy drive.
I wasn't in he Navy, I was in he USCG, onboard a cutter. I think this is a situation where being small helps, a lot. Our ship's convrsion ook a while, startng with runnng fiberglass through out the entire thing, but every step of the installation went smoothly, and the only eason we still have old systems sitting around, is because we do not have all he programs running yet. But yes, we are also stuck with nothing but W2K... sucks. but a least the web was not restricted. yet.
let's see, when angry, you can hurt the person you are mad at.. mm, no, bad idea.
Punch a pillow till you are exhausted (reccomended by some counselers).. er, not really satisfying.
Or you can go blow stuff up on the computer! Vent anger, and is fun and saisfying. Optionally, grab yor bag of dice and rulebooks, and go play a quick hack and slash session of DnD. Not as immediately gratifying, but still fun!
You know what I would like to see done with some of those? Just one out of ten even: Rather than sending it to the moon, You pack this tiny space ship with spoors of sulphur & heat loving bacteria, point them at venus, and let them go!
Have it break up into smaller packets when it gets close, burning that last of it's fuel as a brake before doing so, then having each packet deploy several sets of chutes on the way down, an start releasing the spores once a certain altitude is reached. If even one strain of these microbes is able to survive in the harsh enviroment of Venus, our first terraformaion project will have begun.
Sulphur will be slowly leeched out of the atmosphere, and 02 will slowly begin to ocur more often. In a few thousand years, if we have managed to not kill ourselves, we might be able to start sending in other bacteria, and maybe even lichen. Of course, the moe strains we start off with, and the more often we send them, the more likely they are to take hold and start doing work for us.
Now there's an idea for colanization.. we find a suitable planet hat has no life, we just start sending packets in waves designed to auto-deploy, while we continue to fill our solar system. Whn we want to go fill up those other planets, we start building Generation Ships. By the tme humans get there, baceria & plantlife should have made the planet at least close to hospitable. And we will have had lots of practice seeing how things work on venus.
Of course, my ideas require looking out or the good of our species of incredibly long periods of time that we will not live to see. I'm just a True Survivalist: I want my desendants to be prosperous and continue to have kids forever. Though the idea of slowly turning Venus into an eden is kinda nice.
and truly, this would be a perfect project to stat up while we work with the moon. Early resourcs devoted would be very minor if we ran it off of the backbone of the moon or even a mars project.
Crap.
Of course a geek friendly sight would want me to use break tags instead of just accepting me hitting the return key.
Any way to edit posts? I couldn't find a link.
You know what I would like to see done with some of those? just one out of ten even: Rather than sending it to the moon, You pack this tiny space ship with spoors of sulphur & heat loving bacteria, point them at venus, and let them go! Have it break up into smaller packets when it gets close, burning that last of it's fuel as a brake before doing so, then having each packet deploy several sets of chutes on the way down, an start releasing the spores once a certain altitude is reached. If even one strain of these microbes is able to survive in the harsh enviroment of Venus, our first terraformaion project will have begun. Sulphur will be slowly leeched out of the atmosphere, and 02 will slowly begin to ocur more often. In a few thousand years, if we have managed to not kill ourselves, we might be able to start sending in other bacteria, and maybe even lichen. Of course, the moe strains we start off with, and the more often we send them, the more likely they are to take hold and start doing work for us. Now there's an idea for colanization.. we find a suitable planet hat has no life, we just start sending packets in waves designed to auto-deploy, while we continue to fill our solar system. Whn we want to go fill up those other planets, we start building Generation Ships. By the tme humans get there, baceria & plantlife should have made the planet at least close to hospitable. Of course, my ideas require looking out or the good of our species of incredibly long periods of time that we will not live to see. I'm jus a True Survivalist: I want my desendants to be prosperous and continue to have kids forever.
Seems we may have crashed the chat oom over at sci-fi. :) either that, or they shut it down 'cause they were sick of us.
OGF is the foundation, OGL = Open Gaming License. You have to copy a part of the OGL into any D20 product you publish.