I say, have a Mac, a Winbox, and linux box all running side by side and let the students decide which one they want to use.
Um. 1) Much more hassle for the admins. 2) Spend three times as much on hardware. 3) Mac and Linux boxes would never get used. The kids would pick Windows every time.
In the space of one hundred and seventy six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over a mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oölitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-pole.
You want to be careful how you extrapolate things like that. Who says the relationship is linear? Who says they were originally together anyway? Yes, the 6000 year figure is off, but arguing with bad logic just makes the issue more tangled, and lowers the credibility of everybody else who's trying to argue the evolution issue. Please check your facts.
Do you think it's likely the government will take this seriously and place agents there? It's just an MIT party! Sure, they'll find out afterwards that there were time travellers at the party, but the government doesn't HAVE time travel so it'd be too late to do anything about it.
One theory which would explain the absence of evidence for time travel anywhere in history would be that there's a certain moment in time coming up in the future when the whole of the universe becomes instantaneously impermeable to time travel, and that this point is before the discovery of time travel (perhaps set off deliberately by its inventor). Of course, every optimistic time-traveller who ever tried to get past it would "bounce off" and reappear, all at once, a fraction of a second after this particular instant - could get crowded...
My take on the idea is that going back in time causes the universe to split. There are two universes - the one where you come from, from which you have now *permanently* disappeared, and the new one, where you can kill Hitler, prevent yourself being born, etc. etc.
In my experience the space scenes in Firefly are generally suffused with a pleasant acoustic guitar-based country and western soundtrack, but your point is taken.
No, no, no. Listen to the first two radio series. Then read all the books. THEN listen to the new radio series.
Disregarding my personal dislike of the new radio serious, radio-then-books seems like a much better order to do things in to me. Radio will leave gaps which your imagination can fill as well as providing a much more condensed, rich experience. The books will fill those gaps. The other way around is less entertaining. Also, this is the way they were originally presented.
Seconded. Flash is good for one thing: looking cool. AND NOTHING ELSE. Let's go through the list. Number one, takes a significant amount of time to load. This is the internet. Information on demand, as fast as the modem can manage, instantaneous responses. Every second a user sits waiting for your site to load, he is getting more bored and more likely to hit Back. Number two: by definition, the interface on any Flash site is non-standard. It doesn't matter how user-friendly it is, it's different from the norm and that makes it harder to figure out how to get the information you want. And that causes frustration. Number three: not every computer runs like the wind. Equals low framerates. More alienated users. And even with all your animations running at their smoothest, that menu is still taking time to open. Hint: I didn't click that menu to see a pretty animation, I clicked it to choose something from the menu. Number four: useless for presenting information. Suppose there's a page of text you want to show. In any normal browser there're about six ways to scroll through that text: arrow keys, Page Up/Down keys, mouse wheel, dragging the scroll bar, clicking part of the scroll bar, clicking the scroll arrows. In Flash you'll probably get one - usually just a pair of scroll arrows, which works by mouseovering it instead of clicking it. And scrolls at constant, slow rate. That's typical of a Flash interface. And it sucks. Flash has its uses, presenting content isn't one of them. Use HTML. HTML is powerful and EFFICIENT. Number five. NOT EVERYBODY HAS FLASH, and many of those who don't, don't want it.
Given that the events of Mostly Harmless - and indeed the entire HHGG series) conclude in a building which is number forty-two, some people have suggested that the question might be "Where does it all end?"
There's a novel, referred to at the bottom of this article in which the Doctor "retroactively wiped the Time Lords from history". Whether this is being used as canon to build the current series I couldn't say, but it fits.
I seem to recall Neal Stephenson used the idea in The Diamond Age. There's a sequence where a guy is using a sort of glove with force feedback to manipulate individual molecules and atoms - as in literally manipulate real molecules, not just manipulate in a simulation, because the whole culture the book is set in revolves around nanotech. Whether The Diamond Age predates your VR wossname, I don't know, but it doesn't stop it being immensely cool.
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Um. 1) Much more hassle for the admins. 2) Spend three times as much on hardware. 3) Mac and Linux boxes would never get used. The kids would pick Windows every time.
*schweeooooooorzzhhhh*
*vwom vwooorm vwoosh woomv*
*kza* *kjzt* *tzkch* *skrztle*
etc.
Titanic did in fact contain one instance of the F-word...
Didn't say it didn't, just saying you've got to be careful.
Mark Twain wrote:
You want to be careful how you extrapolate things like that. Who says the relationship is linear? Who says they were originally together anyway? Yes, the 6000 year figure is off, but arguing with bad logic just makes the issue more tangled, and lowers the credibility of everybody else who's trying to argue the evolution issue. Please check your facts.
Do you think it's likely the government will take this seriously and place agents there? It's just an MIT party! Sure, they'll find out afterwards that there were time travellers at the party, but the government doesn't HAVE time travel so it'd be too late to do anything about it.
One theory which would explain the absence of evidence for time travel anywhere in history would be that there's a certain moment in time coming up in the future when the whole of the universe becomes instantaneously impermeable to time travel, and that this point is before the discovery of time travel (perhaps set off deliberately by its inventor). Of course, every optimistic time-traveller who ever tried to get past it would "bounce off" and reappear, all at once, a fraction of a second after this particular instant - could get crowded...
My take on the idea is that going back in time causes the universe to split. There are two universes - the one where you come from, from which you have now *permanently* disappeared, and the new one, where you can kill Hitler, prevent yourself being born, etc. etc.
All internet screen names except those directly based on your real name are embarrassing when you tell other people in real life. FACT
The Alliance is powerful but remote authority
That sounds more like the American War of Independence to me.
A PDF warning would be nice next time around, folks.
In my experience the space scenes in Firefly are generally suffused with a pleasant acoustic guitar-based country and western soundtrack, but your point is taken.
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I'd suggest that this, of all times, would be the one occasion when it'd be a good idea to vote "boobies".
No, no, no. Listen to the first two radio series. Then read all the books. THEN listen to the new radio series.
Disregarding my personal dislike of the new radio serious, radio-then-books seems like a much better order to do things in to me. Radio will leave gaps which your imagination can fill as well as providing a much more condensed, rich experience. The books will fill those gaps. The other way around is less entertaining. Also, this is the way they were originally presented.
You obviously never tried to beat it 100%. The printout of collectibles runs to about 15 pages. *shudder*
Seconded. Flash is good for one thing: looking cool. AND NOTHING ELSE. Let's go through the list. Number one, takes a significant amount of time to load. This is the internet. Information on demand, as fast as the modem can manage, instantaneous responses. Every second a user sits waiting for your site to load, he is getting more bored and more likely to hit Back. Number two: by definition, the interface on any Flash site is non-standard. It doesn't matter how user-friendly it is, it's different from the norm and that makes it harder to figure out how to get the information you want. And that causes frustration. Number three: not every computer runs like the wind. Equals low framerates. More alienated users. And even with all your animations running at their smoothest, that menu is still taking time to open. Hint: I didn't click that menu to see a pretty animation, I clicked it to choose something from the menu. Number four: useless for presenting information. Suppose there's a page of text you want to show. In any normal browser there're about six ways to scroll through that text: arrow keys, Page Up/Down keys, mouse wheel, dragging the scroll bar, clicking part of the scroll bar, clicking the scroll arrows. In Flash you'll probably get one - usually just a pair of scroll arrows, which works by mouseovering it instead of clicking it. And scrolls at constant, slow rate. That's typical of a Flash interface. And it sucks. Flash has its uses, presenting content isn't one of them. Use HTML. HTML is powerful and EFFICIENT. Number five. NOT EVERYBODY HAS FLASH, and many of those who don't, don't want it.
A social contract ain't worth the paper it's printed on.
I find it curious that they interpreted "brain the size of a planet" with a brain the SHAPE of a planet.
Given that the events of Mostly Harmless - and indeed the entire HHGG series) conclude in a building which is number forty-two, some people have suggested that the question might be "Where does it all end?"
Actually, you can do this with money. They tried it once. It was called hyperinflation.
If I may ask, what gives you the impression that this isn't already very much the case? :)
There's a novel, referred to at the bottom of this article in which the Doctor "retroactively wiped the Time Lords from history". Whether this is being used as canon to build the current series I couldn't say, but it fits.
I seem to recall Neal Stephenson used the idea in The Diamond Age. There's a sequence where a guy is using a sort of glove with force feedback to manipulate individual molecules and atoms - as in literally manipulate real molecules, not just manipulate in a simulation, because the whole culture the book is set in revolves around nanotech. Whether The Diamond Age predates your VR wossname, I don't know, but it doesn't stop it being immensely cool.