The physicists in the Hiroshima era didn't seem to have any choice but to make the bomb, because it was a race. If they didn't make the bomb, first, then a nation hostile to the United States might get it done first. That put a lot of pressure on the physicists.
In this case, though, there doesn't seem to be any race, so there shouldn't be as much pressure to just walk away.
The Arecibo Observatory will work for three and a half days, starting March 18, to revisit the candidate signals identified by SETI@home users.
There doesn't seem to be anything new in this article in comparison to the previous slashdot article. The only difference seems to be that SETI has decided when to actually do this analysis (which I've quoted above).
In this case, the real problem is that people didn't see the 1995 movie: 'Hackers'. Doesn't everyone already know that the three most common passwords are: "god", "sex", and "love" ? It looks like those names are in the password list used by this virus;-). That movie wasn't completely useless! (yes it was)
and the use of Tcl in the Mars Explorer project (the one that didn't crash!).
I was particularly interested in that use of Tcl, so I searched the web for more info, and all I could find was this document. Any more info would be appreciated!
She added that the company was in discussions with the five largest record labels -- Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group; Sony Music; AOL Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Music Group; Bertelsmann AG; and EMI Group Plc -- to license their music.
The sad thing is, the only real way to make a Napster service legit is to make it be a thin front-end to the big record labels. Who will really be setting the prices for Napster? If the record companies allow Napster to run this service, then will they allow there to be competitors to Napster? I doubt it, unless they are forced to by the government.
While we are debating whether Andy Serkis was an actor portraying Gollum, I thought I'd throw another question into the mix. What is acting? If an actor does the same scene 34 times, and the movie editor picks a different 2 seconds out of each of those takes to create a 68 second scene, should the actor get the credit, alone?
Back in the old days, there wasn't nearly as much editing done in the movies, so actors really had to "act". Now-a-days, good movie editors can make the worst child actors in the world look like geniuses. Just nip and tuck out all the legitimate bad acting, and you got yourself a "Best Actor" nomination.
The point is, in 2003, even the non-digital actors are getting a lot of help.
Content management has always been a hobby of mine. And Apple's have been a hobby of mine. You see where this is going;-) ? I wonder how many people will actually use this ?
I wonder what Isaac Newton would have done if someone would have introduced him to slashdot while he was at college? Would he debated 'what a planet was' ? Or denied that someone was a woman because they used a certain kind of smiley? Maybe. He might have used it as a diversion just to get him through some tough times. Geniuses are often a little crazy. Look at Abraham Lincoln's wife, for instance.
Since the beginning of time, those with screwdrivers have screwed everything, and those with hammers have hammered everything. The new part? Those with hammers and and screwdrivers are told by their bosses that hammers are easier to maintain, so please use a hammer to knock the screws in. Nobody wants to train someone to turn their wrist when everybody already knows how to swing their arms.
Microsoft is balding. Microsoft just bought a new sports car. Microsoft just got a divorce. Microsoft was spotted in the movie 'American Beauty'. Any other "Middle age" jokes? Jokes about Camelot do not count.
A method in which a slashdot user reads very old slashdot posts and makes comments to those old posts. These 'last posts' will probably only ever be seen by lunatics, and the occasional Googler (the term Googler is illegal for you to read). Which are you, lunatic, or Googler? I am very sick, tonight, so that is my excuse for being such a lunatic. What is your excuse for being a lunatic? Are you off your meds? Maybe you should see a psychiatrist? Or maybe you need to get laid? I have news for you. Reading slashdot and putting people down is not going to get you laid. Go out and see the world. If you want to get more friends, you need to have more stories to tell. Take risks. If you want to have more friends, you need to take more chances and fail a few times. If you just tell your friends conquest story after conquest story, they will not be able to relate to you, and they will leave. If you tell your friends stories about how you failed many times, and then eventually percevered (sp?), they will respect you. And lastly, listen. Listen to what your friends have to say. When they break any of the rules I listed above, give them the benefit of the doubt and still love them.
I thought for sure that my IPod supported Ogg, but I did some more searching, and it is only ITunes that supported Ogg. I wonder if Apple can change that through a "BIOS" upgrade? Or is that impossible?
The "predictive" technology that other people have pointed out is still pretty crappy. Either that, or I'm just too old to learn this new-fangled stuff.
A few people tried to decipher what I wrote in the parent post. I just randomly typed numbers;-). If you found anything, you need to see a psychiatrist.
Next they can study my dog's wagging tail when he sticks his head out my cars window. What actually makes his tail wag? Why doesn't similar stimuli make my cat's tail wag? What type of game can they make from that info? Any game! My point is, people will study everything in existence to make more realistic games. There isn't anything that special about NASCAR as compared to anything else. I'm not saying they shouldn't study NASCAR, I'm just saying this isn't that big a deal. Now, again, why is my dog's tail wagging?;-)
Very good show;-). I still maintain 3 boxes at home (windows, linux, and mac), but maybe now I can get that down to 2! I rarely want to develop a windows program, but when I do, I always have to boot up Windows on my second Linux box, and create and compile my program, and then boot back into Linux, test my program in WINE, etc. This will hopefully save me a step;-).
It sounds like there is more and more evidence that many people at NASA had an inkling something was wrong before the disaster. Still, I stick to my original analysis.
Maybe they should cut costs? This sounds like a "duh" moment, but I don't care. This decade will probably end up being called the "duh"cade, after all the idiot things people did the last decadentade.
If we ever want to make renewable energy really work, the government has to step in. If a coorporation tried to do it, they would lose a ton of money and go out of business. The government is the only entity that can survive under those circumstances...
It used to be about a band playing music for all of their friends, and maybe going from town to town scraping together enough money to survive. Now it's about a band playing the same music over and over again in a recording studio for a year, and then just barely scraping together enough money to survive. There are drawbacks and benefits with both methods, but the second way benefits the most number of consumers.
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In this case, though, there doesn't seem to be any race, so there shouldn't be as much pressure to just walk away.
There doesn't seem to be anything new in this article in comparison to the previous slashdot article. The only difference seems to be that SETI has decided when to actually do this analysis (which I've quoted above).
In this case, the real problem is that people didn't see the 1995 movie: 'Hackers'. Doesn't everyone already know that the three most common passwords are: "god", "sex", and "love" ? It looks like those names are in the password list used by this virus ;-). That movie wasn't completely useless! (yes it was)
and the use of Tcl in the Mars Explorer project (the one that didn't crash!).
I was particularly interested in that use of Tcl, so I searched the web for more info, and all I could find was this document. Any more info would be appreciated!
Kurtz: We train young men to write Java and C code, but their commanders won't allow them to write "perl" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
The sad thing is, the only real way to make a Napster service legit is to make it be a thin front-end to the big record labels. Who will really be setting the prices for Napster? If the record companies allow Napster to run this service, then will they allow there to be competitors to Napster? I doubt it, unless they are forced to by the government.
Back in the old days, there wasn't nearly as much editing done in the movies, so actors really had to "act". Now-a-days, good movie editors can make the worst child actors in the world look like geniuses. Just nip and tuck out all the legitimate bad acting, and you got yourself a "Best Actor" nomination.
The point is, in 2003, even the non-digital actors are getting a lot of help.
You laugh, but I consider my parent post insightful ;-).
Content management has always been a hobby of mine. And Apple's have been a hobby of mine. You see where this is going ;-) ? I wonder how many people will actually use this ?
Good to see some standard moderation techniques being practiced in the parent post. My posts are quite the honeypot ;-).
I wonder what Isaac Newton would have done if someone would have introduced him to slashdot while he was at college? Would he debated 'what a planet was' ? Or denied that someone was a woman because they used a certain kind of smiley? Maybe. He might have used it as a diversion just to get him through some tough times. Geniuses are often a little crazy. Look at Abraham Lincoln's wife, for instance.
He was an American icon and will be missed. He will best be remembered for his posthumous contributions to slashdot discussions.
Since the beginning of time, those with screwdrivers have screwed everything, and those with hammers have hammered everything. The new part? Those with hammers and and screwdrivers are told by their bosses that hammers are easier to maintain, so please use a hammer to knock the screws in. Nobody wants to train someone to turn their wrist when everybody already knows how to swing their arms.
Microsoft is balding. Microsoft just bought a new sports car. Microsoft just got a divorce. Microsoft was spotted in the movie 'American Beauty'. Any other "Middle age" jokes? Jokes about Camelot do not count.
I tried to read the story, but someone added "window.close()" to the dang page.
Patent that. It's called "not being a prick".
I thought for sure that my IPod supported Ogg, but I did some more searching, and it is only ITunes that supported Ogg. I wonder if Apple can change that through a "BIOS" upgrade? Or is that impossible?
Next they can study my dog's wagging tail when he sticks his head out my cars window. What actually makes his tail wag? Why doesn't similar stimuli make my cat's tail wag? What type of game can they make from that info? Any game! My point is, people will study everything in existence to make more realistic games. There isn't anything that special about NASCAR as compared to anything else. I'm not saying they shouldn't study NASCAR, I'm just saying this isn't that big a deal. Now, again, why is my dog's tail wagging? ;-)
Very good show ;-). I still maintain 3 boxes at home (windows, linux, and mac), but maybe now I can get that down to 2! I rarely want to develop a windows program, but when I do, I always have to boot up Windows on my second Linux box, and create and compile my program, and then boot back into Linux, test my program in WINE, etc. This will hopefully save me a step ;-).
It sounds like there is more and more evidence that many people at NASA had an inkling something was wrong before the disaster. Still, I stick to my original analysis.
Maybe they should cut costs? This sounds like a "duh" moment, but I don't care. This decade will probably end up being called the "duh"cade, after all the idiot things people did the last decadentade.
If we ever want to make renewable energy really work, the government has to step in. If a coorporation tried to do it, they would lose a ton of money and go out of business. The government is the only entity that can survive under those circumstances...
It used to be about a band playing music for all of their friends, and maybe going from town to town scraping together enough money to survive. Now it's about a band playing the same music over and over again in a recording studio for a year, and then just barely scraping together enough money to survive. There are drawbacks and benefits with both methods, but the second way benefits the most number of consumers.
It's either that, or, "Welcome, you've got spam!". Which is worse? ;-)