Ringworld, like Rendezvous with Rama, began as a science problem story with the rigorous puzzle logic of a Lucas Arts adventure game. There is a reason why the smart money goes into more accessible projects like Guardians of the Galaxy.
but if they can put them close go city centers, then they could have a huge advantage over airplanes
Approaching the city center implies rapidly escalating costs for right-of-way.
If I understand the Hyperloop correctly, it is more or less as rigidly constrained in its design as a pneumatic tube or a pipeline. Even the gentlest of curves become a problem. You can't simply route around obstructions that would be too expensive to clear.
I am reminded that when cars were first invented, there were laws put in place mandating that someone walk ahead of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag, for fear of scaring horses and making people uncomfortable.
Not automobiles as we know them.
Steam powered road tractors, mammoth agricultural tractors and heavy construction equipment. Ca. 1860-1896. Think township or county roads that were dirt or gravel tracks barely more than a single lane wide. Now do you know why you needed a flag man?
The only question remaining is whether protected content will be accessible through a general purpose web browser. If not, subscribers will abandon the browser for the app.
The app that has already been integrated into their smartphone, tablet, HDTV, video game console, set top box, etc.
The streaming music service I use has 30 million tracks to explore. It would be very tempting to settle in there to stay. If you want me to have a look at what can be found elsewhere, don't make it anymore difficult than it needs to be.
Privacy concerns helped kill it for one. Because the threat to your privacy isn't the NSA or CCTV cams everywhere or facebook on your phone or the two cameras on it. No no, it's a grainy camera on some tech bro's head evidently.
He's not my tech bro.
The smartphone is visible and there is no mistaking when it is being used as a camera.
The CCTV camera keeping watch over the till is not something I need to worry about. The creep sneaking videos of my girlfriend at the bar is something else again. The geek frets over the anonymous bureaucrat pouring over video footage at the NSA but this strikes close to home.
plan to parachute into the Calgary Stampede chuckwagon races
The chuckwagon race is the prairie equivalent of the chariot races in Ben Hur. Punishing and occasionally lethal. There is a reason why they call it a Stampede.
The Raspberry Pi is a circuit board for hobbyists --- one component of the kit of parts you'll need for various projects. The C-64 and its cassette or disk drive a home PC designed for mass market sale. No assembly required.
So Firefox can write their own sound server to get sound data from each independent content tab, or blow huge holes in the sandboxes for ALSA dmix, or they can just use the sound server that already exists and is used by 98% of Linux desktop users: PulseAudio.
It's strange to think that audio can still be problematic on the Linux desktop over twenty years out from the launch of Win 95.
There are a large number of books that they can use as a base for movies.
The reason is not that they are out of ideas, the reason is that they are lazy and just re-use what did work one more time.
How many fan-made episodes of Star Trek: TOS have been produced in the last 20 years or so?
How many original productions? How many adaptations of classic sci-fi stories, film or TV that hasn't been touched since the 1950s or even earlier? There is a lot out there, still relevant and entertaining, that could be successfully revived.
The geek doesn't have much cause for complaint if his amateur productions follow the same well-worn path of the big-budget studios.
In fact, they lost the grip when they first shipped MS-DOS that was a decade behind other operating systems with its single tasking and lack of memory protection and small memory limits
IBM went out shopping for an OS that would run on the more or less affordable commodity x86 PC hardware available in 1980 and provide a natural upgrade path for developers and small business users familiar with CP/M.
Bonus points for being priced at 1/5 the cost of CP/M-86, retail list. The MS-DOS PC was a viable commercial product before the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS.
Daylight savings time has been opposed by a grassroots group of Montana farmers and ranchers, who have to sync their work schedule to the sun rather than the time on the clock.
Take the argument to its logical conclusion and these farmers should be reverting to the pre-railroad days of setting their clocks based on local solar time. Be sure to re-set your watch every 25 miles or so as you move east or west.
Example: 3D CAD software that runs on Windows 14, Playstation 7, an Android Smartphone, Nintendo's latest handheld gaming device and an Ubuntu PC in exactly the same way with no compatibility problems whatsoever occurring.
The Playstation sells to console gamers and home theater enthusiasts with a big screen HDTV. Your CAD/CAM program has to be something that market needs and wants and can use effectively.
It all falls apart when they say "Can I buy a disk and install my own software?" and you say "No, but here's an easier way to install software from a vast repository of packages", they're done.
What's in a "package?" Is it ready-to-run? Where do I find clear and detailed product descriptions, reviews and screen shots?
Steam is successful because Valve knows how to sell software on line.
Child pornography is a form of child sexual exploitation.
Federal law defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (persons less than 18 years old). Images of child pornography are also referred to as child sexual abuse images.
It is important to distinguish child pornography from the more conventional understanding of the term pornography. Child pornography is a form of child sexual exploitation, and each image graphically memorializes the sexual abuse of that child. Each child involved in the production of an image is a victim of sexual abuse.
While some child sexual abuse images depict children in great distress and the sexual abuse is self-evident, other images may depict children that appear complacent. In most child pornography cases, the abuse is not a one-time event, but rather ongoing victimization that progresses over months or years. It is common for producers of child pornography to groom victims, or cultivate a relationship with a child and gradually sexualize the contact over time.
Furthermore, victims of child pornography suffer not just from the sexual abuse inflicted upon them to produce child pornography, but also from knowing that their images can be traded and viewed by others worldwide. Once an image is on the Internet, it is irretrievable and can continue to circulate forever. The permanent record of a childÂs sexual abuse can alter his or her live forever. Many victims of child pornography suffer from feelings of helplessness, fear, humiliation, and lack of control given that their images are available for others to view in perpetuity.
Unfortunately, emerging trends reveal an increase in the number of images depicting sadistic and violent child sexual abuse, and an increase in the number of images depicting very young children, including toddlers and infants.
It can be a useful exercise for the geek to have a look at the registry of sex offenders for his state or county. No better way I think to dispel the fantasies he promotes about child pornography.
If the leader of the Munich Green Party is right...it's too bad they don't use all that money for hiring an army of programmers...
It could just be that the city government feels that its competence lies in providing traditional municipal services like police and fire protection and not in the development of an office suite.
Yeah, it's a little hard to "sell" something for free and compete with the $$ marketing campaigns of major closed-source companies
That doesn't explain why Linux distributions haven't been able to forge successful partnerships with OEMs and retailers which do have brand name recognition and big-budget advertsing campaigns.
Firestone Ford and Standard oil engaged in nearly illegal actions, buying bus lines and tram lines and closing them down etc.
The streetcar token cost 5 cents. The Model T Ford about a penny a mile for a family of four plus dog and cargo. "You could afford a Ford." The automobile was convenient, comfortable, and private. The tram lines went under because riders were looking elsewhere.
It seems to me you should be looking at the commercial viability of particular markets and not the dismal per capita income of the population as a whole. Licensing AutoCAD isn't going to break the budget of a $10 million dollar construction project in Central America.
Telegraph companies were dealing with problems like these in the 1840s. It's a damn nuisance when a rodent chews through a cable or a storm brings down a pole. But these are random, localized, events that aren't likely to cause any lasting harm.
They ship a lot retailers for sure, but they don't sell any.
Retail margins are thin and nothing is stocked or shelved which can't be moved quickly. The girl working check-out at the Dollar Store learns at least this much about running a business.
The numbers change hourly, but currently four of the best-selling 2 in 1 laptops at Amazon are Surface models in the $800-$3000 price range.
If there were a reasonable limit on copyright duration, then preservation occurs naturally by the public.
No it doesn't.
Preservation demands money and expertise that can be hard to find.
You have a spool of tape, but do you have a compatible recorder for playback? If the signal is degraded can you recover it? That's often not a trivial problem even for the mathematician and electrical engineer. Now and again a successful solution might win you an award.
The Disney archives remain essentially intact because they remain commercially viable and the studio has always been alert to the potential of new media.
These engineers went on to build software that re-created every mistake in the book about how and OS should be designed and implemented.
Microsoft had a client OS that ran on the hardware-challenged commodity PCs of the early eighties and nineties --- not a trivial achievement. It's future was not dependent on the success or failure of any single computer manufacturer --- and in the early days it presented a plausible and relatively straight-forward upgrade path from CP/M.
Walmart spent about a decade trying to make the OEM Linux desktop an affordable mass market product ---but it's only real success was in unloading truckloads of sweepings off the warehouse floors to the geek looking for a bargain.
To this day, marketing will go to any lengths to avoid Linux branding in the consumer market.
That is why you have "Android" in mobile and the "Steam Machine" in PC gaming. Though the strategy doesn't seem to be working out so well for Valve.
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Shit or get off the pot.
Ringworld, like Rendezvous with Rama, began as a science problem story with the rigorous puzzle logic of a Lucas Arts adventure game. There is a reason why the smart money goes into more accessible projects like Guardians of the Galaxy.
but if they can put them close go city centers, then they could have a huge advantage over airplanes
Approaching the city center implies rapidly escalating costs for right-of-way.
If I understand the Hyperloop correctly, it is more or less as rigidly constrained in its design as a pneumatic tube or a pipeline. Even the gentlest of curves become a problem. You can't simply route around obstructions that would be too expensive to clear.
I am reminded that when cars were first invented, there were laws put in place mandating that someone walk ahead of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag, for fear of scaring horses and making people uncomfortable.
Not automobiles as we know them.
Steam powered road tractors, mammoth agricultural tractors and heavy construction equipment. Ca. 1860-1896. Think township or county roads that were dirt or gravel tracks barely more than a single lane wide. Now do you know why you needed a flag man?
The only question remaining is whether protected content will be accessible through a general purpose web browser. If not, subscribers will abandon the browser for the app.
The app that has already been integrated into their smartphone, tablet, HDTV, video game console, set top box, etc.
The streaming music service I use has 30 million tracks to explore. It would be very tempting to settle in there to stay. If you want me to have a look at what can be found elsewhere, don't make it anymore difficult than it needs to be.
Privacy concerns helped kill it for one. Because the threat to your privacy isn't the NSA or CCTV cams everywhere or facebook on your phone or the two cameras on it. No no, it's a grainy camera on some tech bro's head evidently.
He's not my tech bro.
The smartphone is visible and there is no mistaking when it is being used as a camera.
The CCTV camera keeping watch over the till is not something I need to worry about. The creep sneaking videos of my girlfriend at the bar is something else again. The geek frets over the anonymous bureaucrat pouring over video footage at the NSA but this strikes close to home.
plan to parachute into the Calgary Stampede chuckwagon races
The chuckwagon race is the prairie equivalent of the chariot races in Ben Hur. Punishing and occasionally lethal. There is a reason why they call it a Stampede.
The Raspberry Pi is a circuit board for hobbyists --- one component of the kit of parts you'll need for various projects. The C-64 and its cassette or disk drive a home PC designed for mass market sale. No assembly required.
So Firefox can write their own sound server to get sound data from each independent content tab, or blow huge holes in the sandboxes for ALSA dmix, or they can just use the sound server that already exists and is used by 98% of Linux desktop users: PulseAudio.
It's strange to think that audio can still be problematic on the Linux desktop over twenty years out from the launch of Win 95.
There are a large number of books that they can use as a base for movies.
The reason is not that they are out of ideas, the reason is that they are lazy and just re-use what did work one more time.
How many fan-made episodes of Star Trek: TOS have been produced in the last 20 years or so?
How many original productions?
How many adaptations of classic sci-fi stories, film or TV that hasn't been touched since the 1950s or even earlier? There is a lot out there, still relevant and entertaining, that could be successfully revived.
The geek doesn't have much cause for complaint if his amateur productions follow the same well-worn path of the big-budget studios.
In fact, they lost the grip when they first shipped MS-DOS that was a decade behind other operating systems with its single tasking and lack of memory protection and small memory limits
IBM went out shopping for an OS that would run on the more or less affordable commodity x86 PC hardware available in 1980 and provide a natural upgrade path for developers and small business users familiar with CP/M.
Bonus points for being priced at 1/5 the cost of CP/M-86, retail list. The MS-DOS PC was a viable commercial product before the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS.
Daylight savings time has been opposed by a grassroots group of Montana farmers and ranchers, who have to sync their work schedule to the sun rather than the time on the clock.
Take the argument to its logical conclusion and these farmers should be reverting to the pre-railroad days of setting their clocks based on local solar time. Be sure to re-set your watch every 25 miles or so as you move east or west.
Example: 3D CAD software that runs on Windows 14, Playstation 7, an Android Smartphone, Nintendo's latest handheld gaming device and an Ubuntu PC in exactly the same way with no compatibility problems whatsoever occurring.
The Playstation sells to console gamers and home theater enthusiasts with a big screen HDTV. Your CAD/CAM program has to be something that market needs and wants and can use effectively.
Unless....the reason for switching is because Microsoft bribed them in some way.
The geek's all-purpose explanation for any legal or political decision he doesn't like is bribery.
So what happens when travelers start carrying attack hardware & software that bites back?
The border guard bites back harder. So unless you are fond of cavity searches and border town lockups, I suggest you reconsider your options.
It all falls apart when they say "Can I buy a disk and install my own software?" and you say "No, but here's an easier way to install software from a vast repository of packages", they're done.
What's in a "package?" Is it ready-to-run? Where do I find clear and detailed product descriptions, reviews and screen shots?
Steam is successful because Valve knows how to sell software on line.
Define child porn for us.
Fair enough.
Child pornography is a form of child sexual exploitation.
Federal law defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (persons less than 18 years old). Images of child pornography are also referred to as child sexual abuse images.
It is important to distinguish child pornography from the more conventional understanding of the term pornography.
Child pornography is a form of child sexual exploitation, and each image graphically memorializes the sexual abuse of that child. Each child involved in the production of an image is a victim of sexual abuse.
While some child sexual abuse images depict children in great distress and the sexual abuse is self-evident, other images may depict children that appear complacent.
In most child pornography cases, the abuse is not a one-time event, but rather ongoing victimization that progresses over months or years. It is common for producers of child pornography to groom victims, or cultivate a relationship with a child and gradually sexualize the contact over time.
Furthermore, victims of child pornography suffer not just from the sexual abuse inflicted upon them to produce child pornography, but also from knowing that their images can be traded and viewed by others worldwide.
Once an image is on the Internet, it is irretrievable and can continue to circulate forever.
The permanent record of a childÂs sexual abuse can alter his or her live forever. Many victims of child pornography suffer from feelings of helplessness, fear, humiliation, and lack of control given that their images are available for others to view in perpetuity.
Unfortunately, emerging trends reveal an increase in the number of images depicting sadistic and violent child sexual abuse, and an increase in the number of images depicting very young children, including toddlers and infants.
Child Pornography
It can be a useful exercise for the geek to have a look at the registry of sex offenders for his state or county. No better way I think to dispel the fantasies he promotes about child pornography.
If the leader of the Munich Green Party is right...it's too bad they don't use all that money for hiring an army of programmers ...
It could just be that the city government feels that its competence lies in providing traditional municipal services like police and fire protection and not in the development of an office suite.
Yeah, it's a little hard to "sell" something for free and compete with the $$ marketing campaigns of major closed-source companies
That doesn't explain why Linux distributions haven't been able to forge successful partnerships with OEMs and retailers which do have brand name recognition and big-budget advertsing campaigns.
Firestone Ford and Standard oil engaged in nearly illegal actions, buying bus lines and tram lines and closing them down etc.
The streetcar token cost 5 cents. The Model T Ford about a penny a mile for a family of four plus dog and cargo. "You could afford a Ford." The automobile was convenient, comfortable, and private. The tram lines went under because riders were looking elsewhere.
It seems to me you should be looking at the commercial viability of particular markets and not the dismal per capita income of the population as a whole. Licensing AutoCAD isn't going to break the budget of a $10 million dollar construction project in Central America.
Telegraph companies were dealing with problems like these in the 1840s. It's a damn nuisance when a rodent chews through a cable or a storm brings down a pole. But these are random, localized, events that aren't likely to cause any lasting harm.
They ship a lot retailers for sure, but they don't sell any.
Retail margins are thin and nothing is stocked or shelved which can't be moved quickly. The girl working check-out at the Dollar Store learns at least this much about running a business.
The numbers change hourly, but currently four of the best-selling 2 in 1 laptops at Amazon are Surface models in the $800-$3000 price range.
If there were a reasonable limit on copyright duration, then preservation occurs naturally by the public.
No it doesn't.
Preservation demands money and expertise that can be hard to find.
You have a spool of tape, but do you have a compatible recorder for playback? If the signal is degraded can you recover it? That's often not a trivial problem even for the mathematician and electrical engineer. Now and again a successful solution might win you an award.
The Disney archives remain essentially intact because they remain commercially viable and the studio has always been alert to the potential of new media.
These engineers went on to build software that re-created every mistake in the book about how and OS should be designed and implemented.
Microsoft had a client OS that ran on the hardware-challenged commodity PCs of the early eighties and nineties --- not a trivial achievement. It's future was not dependent on the success or failure of any single computer manufacturer --- and in the early days it presented a plausible and relatively straight-forward upgrade path from CP/M.
Walmart spent about a decade trying to make the OEM Linux desktop an affordable mass market product ---but it's only real success was in unloading truckloads of sweepings off the warehouse floors to the geek looking for a bargain.
To this day, marketing will go to any lengths to avoid Linux branding in the consumer market.
That is why you have "Android" in mobile and the "Steam Machine" in PC gaming. Though the strategy doesn't seem to be working out so well for Valve.