Crappy white boxes??? I'm still using *all* of my crappy white boxes I've bought since '91. Since I've built this machines using hardware back then I thought was state-of-the-art it tends to extend the lifetimes of these machines considerably!!!!
Hell no.. we'd still be bitching about the Evil Big Blue!
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You seem to forget that spending money on space issues means that money is going to end op somewhere. Most of the times in companies. And in these companies work employees. So increased spending of money most of the time also means an increase in the number of jobs... (which also means more revenues from taxes..)
>There could be a server log that shows my PC was at >that url at uspto.gov
that only proves something (and I state 'thing') originating from your company made a connection to that URL. But it is nearly impossible to prove some*one* also actually *read* the page that was displayed on the screen.
true, but still: 300 meters plus a margin is still quite an engineering challenge.. although as someone earlier raised it won't necessarily need to be in the rockbed. But given the tectonic plates-issue and the economics involved (spain and morocco, problem of the lack of major cities) I think this project borders the impossible.
Sounds really interesting but the implementation of this could be really difficult. Aren't Europe and Africa two different tectonic plates?? This could cause some problems in designing the tunnel. On the other hand, I'm not really sure at what rate the plates move relative to eachother and maybe one could build *some* flexibility into the design. And the other problem could be that the Straits of Gibraltar at some points is really deep. Building a tunnel *that* deep could also raise some issues!
Or even better yet, there are sufficient asteroids who come close enough to Earth. Isn't it possible we could alter an orbit of a small asteroids in such a way we could nudge into an Earth orbit?? If sufficiently large we could even make double use of it in coverting it to space station...
Even the Nazi's committed their act being convinced that "God was on their side". Even the Catholic church is still quite ashamed of their own role during these 5 years.
True.. but then again: it happened twice *here* in The Netherlands! Given the odds and the amount of phones sold, what's the chance that these two cases happened on this little spot on the planet? Or is it because of how the Dutch use their phones?;)
I always work with a strict feature schedule. I'm (amongst other things) responsible for a number of applications running in this organisation I work for. For all these applications there exists a *huge* wishlist. So what I basically have done is decide which features go in which version. Every feature gets a timeline attached to it (cost aren't really a big option here, but time is) and these timelines combined get a releasedate per version. Now, new features (as opposed to bugs!!) get pushed in behind in the queue and are versioned. And just stick fanatically to this versionlist. This helps me a lot (and has also helped me a lot when I used to work for a webdev company)
> it is a dead end. It will not solve the
Now this is a real contradiction you're stating here. Why for heavens sake would it be a deadend?? First of all, read the following link:
http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space.htm
Now, she's a bookwriter so on some issues she's a bit fantastic... but she raises a number of interesting issues. First of all, you state that it doesn't solve the problem of overcrowding, or pollution issues. Why??? You state this without giving any backingup. I'd say it DOES give a solution to overcrowding and pollution in fact it gives us the ONLY solution to overcrowding and pollution. And what's more: we should give priority to spaceexploration and moving the industrial base offplanet before issuing the problems of overcrowding and pollution and even before doing something about the poverty issues we face on this planet. The human race has a builtin need to expand (like any living organism on this planet under a set of predefined conditions). We humans can't escape our builin desire to grow and expand. And if we're faced with restrictions (i.e. in this case a limited planet with limited resources) natural laws begin to kick in. Wars/famine/diseases how rude it may sound is just "nature's" way of correcting the human races' desire to expand. So... expansion can only be found offplanet. For sure, this won't mean we have to move 4 bln people offplanet. It WILL however mean in a couple of 100 years a few million people will live on the Moon/Mars, on asteroids/habitats in Earth orbit. So now you think, "how does this solve the overcrowding bit?". It doesn't solve it. The problem isn't the overcrowding: it is the stress our numbers generate on the environment. By moving a substantial amount of our industry offplanet we might reduce this environmental stress. We'd live off goods/items produced offplanet. This is the ONLY solution available to mankind. Sticking our heads in the sands won't solve the problems. Hoping we come up with a solution to address poverty/hunger/terrorism/war etc. is just an equivalent of this reaction. What we need to do is give in to our natural impulse and start moving offplanet.
I'd gladly pay the artist if it was possible however most of the time you can only buy a CD at *full* price (something like 20$/e), not taking in account the inprice reduced CD's. Of this 20$/e the artist only sees a very *small* percentage. Most of the money goes to the distributionnetwork. Now I also realize some money has to be spent on this because I blantantly refuse to go to the artists' house and collect the song I would like to hear. However, nowadays it's also possible to distribute songs through the Net skipping the whole recordingindustry. I don't give a rats ass for promotion, distribution, etc. I'd rather have some huge searchengine that enables me to preview songs and if I like the song download it. For this I'm even perfectly willing to pay an additional fee to the guys/organisation that enable the searchengine. What I don't want to pay for is this whole industry that now has arrisen around the artists that only exists purely and solely for itself!!
Oracle/Larry Ellison is positively no different from Microsoft and only stands to gain from any downfall (if that *ever* happens) of Microsoft. Possibly Ellison will be worse than Gates. At least Gates ones *did* some coding. And Ellison *will* go for presidency when he gets the chance. Let me put it this way: rather Microsoft as the big evil enemy than Oracle!
hehe.. well, in that case since you leave the large planets I'll just claim ownership of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus... I think developing technology to 'mine' the large planets is somewhat simpler than 'mining' the sun.
I'd especially would like to recommend Peter F Hamilton. His Night's Dawn-trilogy is one of the best SF-stories I've read so far! Admittedly it takes you a while since all in all it's about 3300 pages but this story is really capturing!
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Eh? Explain me how civilization caused this event 5.200 years ago...
the same reasoning caused the Mars Climate Observer to smack itself onto the face of Mars. Feet != Meters... but still .. 750 feet is a long ass tether
Crappy white boxes??? I'm still using *all* of my crappy white boxes I've bought since '91. Since I've built this machines using hardware back then I thought was state-of-the-art it tends to extend the lifetimes of these machines considerably!!!!
I just bought me a Pioneer DEH-P3500MP .. I just burn a number of my MP3's to a CDR and voila .. works like a charm!
Which would've been a fine subject in its own right! :)
Simple, we evolve into the next species.. the Borg .. it's already happening: read http://www.baja-beachclub.com/bajaes/asp/zonavip.a spx. It's in Spanish but do a simple Bablefish-translation and you're in.
Hell no .. we'd still be bitching about the Evil Big Blue!
You seem to forget that spending money on space issues means that money is going to end op somewhere. Most of the times in companies. And in these companies work employees. So increased spending of money most of the time also means an increase in the number of jobs ... (which also means more revenues from taxes ..)
>There could be a server log that shows my PC was at
>that url at uspto.gov
that only proves something (and I state 'thing') originating from your company made a connection to that URL. But it is nearly impossible to prove some*one* also actually *read* the page that was displayed on the screen.
true, but still: 300 meters plus a margin is still quite an engineering challenge.. although as someone earlier raised it won't necessarily need to be in the rockbed. But given the tectonic plates-issue and the economics involved (spain and morocco, problem of the lack of major cities) I think this project borders the impossible.
Sounds really interesting but the implementation of this could be really difficult. Aren't Europe and Africa two different tectonic plates?? This could cause some problems in designing the tunnel. On the other hand, I'm not really sure at what rate the plates move relative to eachother and maybe one could build *some* flexibility into the design. And the other problem could be that the Straits of Gibraltar at some points is really deep. Building a tunnel *that* deep could also raise some issues!
*grin* .. but that also goes for an orbital body like ... the Moon! If that orbit decays: now, *that* is really going to mess up ones hair!!!!! :)
Or even better yet, there are sufficient asteroids who come close enough to Earth. Isn't it possible we could alter an orbit of a small asteroids in such a way we could nudge into an Earth orbit?? If sufficiently large we could even make double use of it in coverting it to space station...
Even the Nazi's committed their act being convinced that "God was on their side". Even the Catholic church is still quite ashamed of their own role during these 5 years.
True.. but then again: it happened twice *here* in The Netherlands! Given the odds and the amount of phones sold, what's the chance that these two cases happened on this little spot on the planet? Or is it because of how the Dutch use their phones? ;)
now, there you go! You just circumvent these ugly SQL strings in your code by using .. stored procedures. Plain and simple!
The words "Macintosh" and "open source" couldn't possibly be in one scentence...
I always work with a strict feature schedule. I'm (amongst other things) responsible for a number of applications running in this organisation I work for. For all these applications there exists a *huge* wishlist. So what I basically have done is decide which features go in which version. Every feature gets a timeline attached to it (cost aren't really a big option here, but time is) and these timelines combined get a releasedate per version. Now, new features (as opposed to bugs!!) get pushed in behind in the queue and are versioned. And just stick fanatically to this versionlist. This helps me a lot (and has also helped me a lot when I used to work for a webdev company)
> it is a dead end. It will not solve the Now this is a real contradiction you're stating here. Why for heavens sake would it be a deadend?? First of all, read the following link: http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space.htm Now, she's a bookwriter so on some issues she's a bit fantastic ... but she raises a number of interesting issues. First of all, you state that it doesn't solve the problem of overcrowding, or pollution issues. Why??? You state this without giving any backingup. I'd say it DOES give a solution to overcrowding and pollution in fact it gives us the ONLY solution to overcrowding and pollution. And what's more: we should give priority to spaceexploration and moving the industrial base offplanet before issuing the problems of overcrowding and pollution and even before doing something about the poverty issues we face on this planet. The human race has a builtin need to expand (like any living organism on this planet under a set of predefined conditions). We humans can't escape our builin desire to grow and expand. And if we're faced with restrictions (i.e. in this case a limited planet with limited resources) natural laws begin to kick in. Wars/famine/diseases how rude it may sound is just "nature's" way of correcting the human races' desire to expand. So... expansion can only be found offplanet. For sure, this won't mean we have to move 4 bln people offplanet. It WILL however mean in a couple of 100 years a few million people will live on the Moon/Mars, on asteroids/habitats in Earth orbit. So now you think, "how does this solve the overcrowding bit?". It doesn't solve it. The problem isn't the overcrowding: it is the stress our numbers generate on the environment. By moving a substantial amount of our industry offplanet we might reduce this environmental stress. We'd live off goods/items produced offplanet. This is the ONLY solution available to mankind. Sticking our heads in the sands won't solve the problems. Hoping we come up with a solution to address poverty/hunger/terrorism/war etc. is just an equivalent of this reaction. What we need to do is give in to our natural impulse and start moving offplanet.
I'd gladly pay the artist if it was possible however most of the time you can only buy a CD at *full* price (something like 20$/e), not taking in account the inprice reduced CD's. Of this 20$/e the artist only sees a very *small* percentage. Most of the money goes to the distributionnetwork. Now I also realize some money has to be spent on this because I blantantly refuse to go to the artists' house and collect the song I would like to hear. However, nowadays it's also possible to distribute songs through the Net skipping the whole recordingindustry. I don't give a rats ass for promotion, distribution, etc. I'd rather have some huge searchengine that enables me to preview songs and if I like the song download it. For this I'm even perfectly willing to pay an additional fee to the guys/organisation that enable the searchengine. What I don't want to pay for is this whole industry that now has arrisen around the artists that only exists purely and solely for itself!!
>You can't even ban IP's with the current one! Yes you can!
ones=once .. sorry .. :( .. should read my text *before* posting
Oracle/Larry Ellison is positively no different from Microsoft and only stands to gain from any downfall (if that *ever* happens) of Microsoft. Possibly Ellison will be worse than Gates. At least Gates ones *did* some coding. And Ellison *will* go for presidency when he gets the chance. Let me put it this way: rather Microsoft as the big evil enemy than Oracle!
hehe .. well, in that case since you leave the large planets I'll just claim ownership of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus... I think developing technology to 'mine' the large planets is somewhat simpler than 'mining' the sun.
I'd especially would like to recommend Peter F Hamilton. His Night's Dawn-trilogy is one of the best SF-stories I've read so far! Admittedly it takes you a while since all in all it's about 3300 pages but this story is really capturing!