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The restriction of high warp speeds (speeds above Warp 5) was made in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode called "Force of Nature" (originally aired 11/15/1993, so this would place it in the "middle" of the last year of Next Generation). In it, they explain that continued usage of warp fields, particularly the stronger ones created at the higher warp factors, on the same area of space gradually breaks down the fabric of space and makes it unstable, and that this unstable space would, if exposed to warp fields enough, break into a permanent hole into subspace.
Thus, the Federation decided to put a restriction on their ships that the highest speed they could travel would be Warp 5, unless prior permission was granted or an emergency occurred. This limit would be in place until research was made to either fix the damage to space or make modifications to new and existing drives not to damage subspace so much.
(Yes, this sounds an awful lot like some of the stuff the EPA and various environmentalists come up with from time to time... and that's the message the episode was trying to get across)
Now, Star Trek: Voyager was started in the fall of 1995 (or, in the universe of Star Trek's terms, about a year and a half after the events of "Force of Nature"). There was a line in the pilot episode, I believe while Lt. Stadi was taking Tom Paris to Deep Space Nine to board Voyager, where it was stated that Voyager had been equipped with engines that were more friendly to subspace and allowed them to bypass the Warp 5 restriction set by the Federation.
Now, I may be wrong about the point at which they stated it, but they did say it. Also, this being a year and a half after the events of "Force of Nature", it is possible that they had already done enough research to produce the correct kind of engines.
As to the point of Voyager taking 70 light years to get home:
In the first episode of Voyager, as Lt. Stadi was taking Tom Paris to Voyager, she stated Voyager's top speed was Warp 9.975. Now, I don't have the Voyager Tech Manual (Shame on me, I know!), but I do have the Next Generation tech manual, and in that manual they state that the Enterprise can withstand it's highest speed for about 15 minutes, about.25 below that for about 6 hours, and about.75 below that for about 18 hours, before ripping itself apart or needing serious repairs. I would think Voyager would follow similar rules.
To keep Voyager from ripping itself apart or stopping every so often to do extensive repairs (which are required at a Federation Shipyard, which Voyager didn't have access to), Janeway probably had them traveling about Warp 7 or 8. That, of course, would still be much less than the 70 years they stated.... more like about 55-60 years or so, but still a long time. However, remember, Voyager was designed to be a short range ship, and probably wasn't stocked completely full of enough fuel (Dilithium) or supplies for a trip that long. In fact, I highly doubt if the supplies they had on board if even fully stocked would take them much more than 3 years at continuous warp. That, and think of the effect you have during a long trip (I know you probably haven't traveled 3 years continuously, or even one year continuously, but seeing nothing but blurs of stars going past month after month gets awfully boring!!)
They probably factored in the possibilities of meeting new species, shore leave, finding species to trade with, stopping and fixing the ship in the middle of nowhere when it broke down, and maybe even stopping for a year or so to set up a mining operation to mine more fuel (which they'd have to do this at least a few times during their trip). If you think about it, those tasks, multiplied by about 20 or so times each (and that's being very modest, if you've seen the series), would ultimately end up adding about 5-10 years on their trip (and add in the mining operations, another 10-15 years). That's about 70 years.
OK, so you say that isn't so. To put it in easier terms: How much time does the average person (worldwide, not just US) sleep in a day? Let's say 7 hours. 7*365 is 2555 hours, or 106.46 days. That's a little less than a third of the year, spent snoozing.
Let's say Voyager meets one race every 2 months, and spends a week with them, exchanging information, trading, getting some R&R. That's 6 weeks a year. Keep that up for 9.6 years, you've actually only traveled 8.6 years of that time, and actually spent 1 year worth of time stopped.
It is possible to see Voyager spending 70 years out there, unless you wanted the crew to be insane by the time they get back. Remember... "All work and no play make Homer Something something". "Go Mad?" "Don't mind if I do!"
This was to keep from confusing everyone when Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) came out. Media were under the impression that Captain Kirk was still in command and it still had phony props and cheesy effects (well, they were half right.... Look at the monster which just looked like a puddle of oil (Armus) in the TNG episode Skin of Evil)
Nope.... in all superstates you've already failed your exams, so why even study? There is no superstate in which you passed your exam (although there is a superstate in which you passed out on your exam).
True.... but, if you live in a place that's concerned about energy usage, it'd probably be even more cost effective to turn it on an hour before you came home (usually can be done from work, or a web-enabled cellphone)
I've heard of IR redirector cables. Usually made for a Home Entertainment Center, when you have appliances hidden away in a cabinet, or for some other reason out of line of sight, they have an IR pickup on one end, and an emitter on the other. Not exactly what you need, and I have a feeling the minimum length is 6 foot.
But, you may be able to find better. I can't think of any web sites off the top of my head who have the redirector, but I saw a post about it in the TiVo AVSforum.
Or, to paraphrase Neo: We need Duct Tape. Lots of Duct Tape.
Sorry! Under current copyright protection, Sega owns the copyright to whatever they make for 50 years from the time it's copyright was set. So, it's up to Sega to say if you can or can't.... and I still can't do emulation of the SMS, let alone Dreamcast!
Unfortunately, the death of the Dreamcast has given us a view of things to come.
The major console systems as of before Dreamcast bowed out were Nintendo (Nintendo 64), Sony (Playstation 2) and Sega (Dreamcast), with Microsoft coming soon with the X-box. Nintendo has been slowly dying out over the past few years, with much of the Nintendo and Sega crowd going over to the Playstation and Playstation 2.
What it looks like will happen is that in a year or so, we will hear Nintendo barely hanging on as the X-box comes out. Unless Nintendo pulls a power move, probably in the handheld gaming market (which will probably be the rumored upcoming GameBoy Advance), they will bow out soon also.
Sony will be the only competitor to Microsoft. Hopefully, Sony will solidify it's consumer base and hold on to them with a drastic reduce in price of it's console and a wide variety of good, solid games, along with development of their online gaming division.
Unfortunately, what probably will happen is that Sony will drop the ball this year. Microsoft will release the X-box to a small audience and start out slow. The X-box and PS2 will be in competition for about a year, maybe 18 months, with Microsoft gaining ground as Sony loses ground. Microsoft will win out by offering lower prices and integration with the PC platform, along with a wide variety of online games. This will probably also lead to Microsoft licensing it's game operating system, and new consoles, all running X-box OS will pop up, all sanctioned by Microsoft. Sony will become a very minor player, eventually dying out sometime in the next 5 years.
Unfortunately, that's the way it most likely will turn out.
Well, of course it'll run Juno or Netzero.... if you take the time to search the net for a hack, or take the time yourself to find out.
But.... those ISP's rely on the banners to give them the capital they need to run. Why else do you think the other Free ISP's have dried up or been bought out?
If you're (dumb enough and) shelling out the money for this thing, with a 56K modem (and yes, it'll do the DSL or cable... you'll just have to redo the settings inside to point to an Ethernet port rather than the 56K for the incoming bandwidth... but save your money and get a Linksys for $150 for that purpose), you'll probably be better off getting a $14.95 (US dollars, not Canadian!) ISP.
A version of this is already being done on some MS products.
AFAIK, Office 2000 and Frontpage 2000 already have this incorporated. It's a limited license that allows you to run the program for 50 sessions (I'm not sure what exactly qualifies as a session, but I have a pretty good feeling a session can last a maximum of 24 hours). Sometime during that period, you must register the product with Microsoft (either over Internet, over modem, or through Fax or mail.) The two direct electronic ones send you an electronic key that executes and registers the product. The fax or mail ones, they send you back a disk that has an executable to run. Either way, this registers this particular program to your particular computer.
Now, I've tried installing to another computer (we were waiting for our Worldwide Fulfillment shipment of 300 OEM CD's of Office 2000, and went to WallyWorld and got a copy to install on a couple machines.). I couldn't register both machines, but it did give me a # to call if I had a dispute (the one most people have brought up, upgrading the machine).
As long as you're not a thief, you should be fine.... but if you are a thief, mark my words, it'll be cracked, either with a keygen or a simple crack.
Oh, and those installing it in bulk via a utility like Ghost, read the Yahoo article again. It says at the bottom that exceptions will be made for OEM copies, which is what Microsoft sells most often for bulk licensing.
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In related news, plans were announced to build new Operating Systems for the Commodore 64 and the TRS-80 lines of computers, in response to an earlier announcement of a new OS for the Amiga.
The makers of Altair are unavailable for comment at this time.
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Some have also attributed the asteroid impact, if it happened, to introducing a new microscopic life form, like a virus or bacteria.
From there, it's pretty easy to extrapolate: Something shades of "Andromeda Strain" or "The Stand" happened, and the ones who didn't have the natural immunity to the virus died. Not a superflu virus, just a normal one like AIDS that slowly killed.
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So, why not hack it to have a Playstation and/or Playstation 2 emulator? Those games already come on the format this thing uses. There's been hacks (Bleem) to play Playstation on PC's, so it is possible.
To me, that would give this thing a bit more use... Just gotta worry about Copyright.
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(This is from experience. I work in the IT Dept at a college where we use the MS Campus Agreement.... pay a chunk of money (I'm not in money, but I think our campus of 750 students and 175 staff and faculty costs about $10K), get licenses for all students, staff, and faculty to use all Visual Studio, Office, Frontpage, and OS versions, with upgrades included... and the students get to take the license with them when they leave.
Actually, this comment applyies to Office2000 CD's that were distributed by some plan via Worldwide Fulfillment. These CD's are identifiable by having the front paper insert in black and white, and the words "NOT FOR RESALE" printed across the front of that insert. These CD's had a yellow product key sticker on the back.
There were two versions of this CD: One that will accept the product key on the back (shipped until about April or May 2000), and one that says in an extra paragraph to check with the license coordinator for an appropriate product key. If you tried to use the key listed on the first type or second type with the second type CD's, you'd get the 50 session countdown. And if you register the 50 session countdown, that key is locked down to that particular install of Windows on that particular computer, so if you need to re-install the OS or upgrade it, tough.
We found this the hard way because we were distributing CD's, and once we finished with our old batch, started on the new batch we got. We got all sorts of complaints before we noticed the three line, 8 point font notice on the back of the new CD's.
-ERP
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From the detonate.net bastardization parodies. I think it's in both versions of the Matrix parody (cr0bar decided to revisit the first one and make some modifications.)
Here in Southeastern CT, there's a cable company that services most people from Hartford to the Rhode Island border, called Eastern Connecticut Cable, that teamed with @Home to do cable modem access. (I know, my boss lives about 8-9 miles from me and enjoys cable modem)
I just happened to get stuck in a fairly large "city" named Norwich, not even 10 miles from Eastern's service area. By a strange quirk, Adelphia cable (big in PA, but scattered in small areas in CT) has control over this area, and they say 1 year for Western CT, and 2-3 years until they get to my area. And, I happen to live about 4 miles from the telco office, so no DSL.
Even worse, I live right outside city limits, and the phone company hasn't even touched the copper here in over 5 years. As a result, I get 19.2 out of my 56K modem.
Anyone have any ideas on a fairly low-cost wireless solution that can reach about 9-10 miles? I'd be pleased if I was even getting a 1 meg connection to my boss's house (he uses IPMASQ for all his computers), but I'd like it if I could get an 802.11 connection out of it.
You probably just tossed all your cookies. (Wait a minute, that didn't sound right....)
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I've wondered this myself for a while. The way I put it is that the color I see as blue could, if I was to be able to see it in someone else's eyes (or brain, as this article implies) appear as something totally different, but that person has been conditioned to accept that color as the name blue.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that what I see as something isn't exactly the same way you see it.
Another good example, and this one is a little clearer for an example, is hearing. The way you hear yourself when you talk isn't the same as others hear you. A good way to illustrate this is to record your talking or singing or whatnot, and then play it back. Everyone will say you sound exactly the same to them. However, you hear yourself in a totally different manner than you do in livetime.
Anyone wanna clear up on that?
I can't really describe in the most accurate words what my theory is actually.
From time to time a couple years ago I saw, on those in-store touchscreen directories, a failed DOS boot. Seems the machines boot initially off of a floppy.
"Bad or missing boot disk. Please insert a disk and press any key."
Stupid thing is, it relied on an external power outlet to be powered. At the very least, they could have positioned the thing over the outlet. I'm willing to bet that was the cause of most of them.... kids being curious, and unplugging the machine.
These things went for days without being rebooted. After about a year of that, they just disappeared all of a sudden. Guess someone got tired of redoing them. It's taken a couple years for them to come back in, and I guess now someone has learned to use the MBR.
One thing I forgot to mention is that not all vehicles are launched on the side of Earth pointing directly at the destination. Also, not all vehicles are launched straight toward the destination's current position. In the case of Mars, let's say it takes 6 months for a vehicle to get there. In that 9 months, mars will have moved quite a distance.
Quite frequently, vehicles are launched on the opposite side of the planet as is directly pointing at the destination (whether the planet is on our side of the sun or away from our side is another matter to take into effect also!) They use the slingshot around half of Earth to gain cheap momentum, so we don't necessarily move closer to Mars... we could move closer to the sun, if that's the case of a particular launch!
All in all, our movement, and Mars's movement influenced by vehicle launches are not even noticeable, even after 1000 years of launches.
What we do need is a space elevator. However, not the kind that you see in books (I can't remember the book it was in, I think it was a Clarke one... also reference Kim Robinson's Red Mars).
It needs to have a terminal in space, sufficiently radiation shielded, like in the book, and also sufficient thrust to get back up into orbit. However, don't anchor the Earth terminal, leave it free floating, as a platform.
I'm not much of a scientist, so I don't know how good the balancing effects are for a spacebound end, if it would be able to keep the Earthbound end floating freely or if the Earthbound part would drag the whole thing down. Maybe anchoring is a good idea, I don't know.
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The restriction of high warp speeds (speeds above Warp 5) was made in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode called "Force of Nature" (originally aired 11/15/1993, so this would place it in the "middle" of the last year of Next Generation). In it, they explain that continued usage of warp fields, particularly the stronger ones created at the higher warp factors, on the same area of space gradually breaks down the fabric of space and makes it unstable, and that this unstable space would, if exposed to warp fields enough, break into a permanent hole into subspace.
.25 below that for about 6 hours, and about .75 below that for about 18 hours, before ripping itself apart or needing serious repairs. I would think Voyager would follow similar rules.
Thus, the Federation decided to put a restriction on their ships that the highest speed they could travel would be Warp 5, unless prior permission was granted or an emergency occurred. This limit would be in place until research was made to either fix the damage to space or make modifications to new and existing drives not to damage subspace so much.
(Yes, this sounds an awful lot like some of the stuff the EPA and various environmentalists come up with from time to time... and that's the message the episode was trying to get across)
Now, Star Trek: Voyager was started in the fall of 1995 (or, in the universe of Star Trek's terms, about a year and a half after the events of "Force of Nature"). There was a line in the pilot episode, I believe while Lt. Stadi was taking Tom Paris to Deep Space Nine to board Voyager, where it was stated that Voyager had been equipped with engines that were more friendly to subspace and allowed them to bypass the Warp 5 restriction set by the Federation.
Now, I may be wrong about the point at which they stated it, but they did say it. Also, this being a year and a half after the events of "Force of Nature", it is possible that they had already done enough research to produce the correct kind of engines.
As to the point of Voyager taking 70 light years to get home:
In the first episode of Voyager, as Lt. Stadi was taking Tom Paris to Voyager, she stated Voyager's top speed was Warp 9.975. Now, I don't have the Voyager Tech Manual (Shame on me, I know!), but I do have the Next Generation tech manual, and in that manual they state that the Enterprise can withstand it's highest speed for about 15 minutes, about
To keep Voyager from ripping itself apart or stopping every so often to do extensive repairs (which are required at a Federation Shipyard, which Voyager didn't have access to), Janeway probably had them traveling about Warp 7 or 8. That, of course, would still be much less than the 70 years they stated.... more like about 55-60 years or so, but still a long time. However, remember, Voyager was designed to be a short range ship, and probably wasn't stocked completely full of enough fuel (Dilithium) or supplies for a trip that long. In fact, I highly doubt if the supplies they had on board if even fully stocked would take them much more than 3 years at continuous warp. That, and think of the effect you have during a long trip (I know you probably haven't traveled 3 years continuously, or even one year continuously, but seeing nothing but blurs of stars going past month after month gets awfully boring!!)
They probably factored in the possibilities of meeting new species, shore leave, finding species to trade with, stopping and fixing the ship in the middle of nowhere when it broke down, and maybe even stopping for a year or so to set up a mining operation to mine more fuel (which they'd have to do this at least a few times during their trip). If you think about it, those tasks, multiplied by about 20 or so times each (and that's being very modest, if you've seen the series), would ultimately end up adding about 5-10 years on their trip (and add in the mining operations, another 10-15 years). That's about 70 years.
OK, so you say that isn't so. To put it in easier terms: How much time does the average person (worldwide, not just US) sleep in a day? Let's say 7 hours. 7*365 is 2555 hours, or 106.46 days. That's a little less than a third of the year, spent snoozing.
Let's say Voyager meets one race every 2 months, and spends a week with them, exchanging information, trading, getting some R&R. That's 6 weeks a year. Keep that up for 9.6 years, you've actually only traveled 8.6 years of that time, and actually spent 1 year worth of time stopped.
It is possible to see Voyager spending 70 years out there, unless you wanted the crew to be insane by the time they get back. Remember... "All work and no play make Homer Something something". "Go Mad?" "Don't mind if I do!"
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS)
This was to keep from confusing everyone when Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) came out. Media were under the impression that Captain Kirk was still in command and it still had phony props and cheesy effects (well, they were half right.... Look at the monster which just looked like a puddle of oil (Armus) in the TNG episode Skin of Evil)
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
Nope.... in all superstates you've already failed your exams, so why even study? There is no superstate in which you passed your exam (although there is a superstate in which you passed out on your exam).
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
True.... but, if you live in a place that's concerned about energy usage, it'd probably be even more cost effective to turn it on an hour before you came home (usually can be done from work, or a web-enabled cellphone)
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
Apparently, you didn't read the article, or even the summary. It's an IRIS scanner, not retina scanner.
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
I've heard of IR redirector cables. Usually made for a Home Entertainment Center, when you have appliances hidden away in a cabinet, or for some other reason out of line of sight, they have an IR pickup on one end, and an emitter on the other. Not exactly what you need, and I have a feeling the minimum length is 6 foot. But, you may be able to find better. I can't think of any web sites off the top of my head who have the redirector, but I saw a post about it in the TiVo AVSforum. Or, to paraphrase Neo: We need Duct Tape. Lots of Duct Tape.
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
Yes, it may be emulated for a while now, but has it been emulated LEGALLY? That's what I mean. Also, have the games been ROM'd LEGALLY?
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
Sorry! Under current copyright protection, Sega owns the copyright to whatever they make for 50 years from the time it's copyright was set. So, it's up to Sega to say if you can or can't.... and I still can't do emulation of the SMS, let alone Dreamcast!
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
Unfortunately, the death of the Dreamcast has given us a view of things to come.
The major console systems as of before Dreamcast bowed out were Nintendo (Nintendo 64), Sony (Playstation 2) and Sega (Dreamcast), with Microsoft coming soon with the X-box. Nintendo has been slowly dying out over the past few years, with much of the Nintendo and Sega crowd going over to the Playstation and Playstation 2.
What it looks like will happen is that in a year or so, we will hear Nintendo barely hanging on as the X-box comes out. Unless Nintendo pulls a power move, probably in the handheld gaming market (which will probably be the rumored upcoming GameBoy Advance), they will bow out soon also.
Sony will be the only competitor to Microsoft. Hopefully, Sony will solidify it's consumer base and hold on to them with a drastic reduce in price of it's console and a wide variety of good, solid games, along with development of their online gaming division.
Unfortunately, what probably will happen is that Sony will drop the ball this year. Microsoft will release the X-box to a small audience and start out slow. The X-box and PS2 will be in competition for about a year, maybe 18 months, with Microsoft gaining ground as Sony loses ground. Microsoft will win out by offering lower prices and integration with the PC platform, along with a wide variety of online games. This will probably also lead to Microsoft licensing it's game operating system, and new consoles, all running X-box OS will pop up, all sanctioned by Microsoft. Sony will become a very minor player, eventually dying out sometime in the next 5 years.
Unfortunately, that's the way it most likely will turn out.
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
Myself, I would rather see them lose the words and instead put a picture of a wine bottle.
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
Well, of course it'll run Juno or Netzero.... if you take the time to search the net for a hack, or take the time yourself to find out.
But.... those ISP's rely on the banners to give them the capital they need to run. Why else do you think the other Free ISP's have dried up or been bought out?
If you're (dumb enough and) shelling out the money for this thing, with a 56K modem (and yes, it'll do the DSL or cable... you'll just have to redo the settings inside to point to an Ethernet port rather than the 56K for the incoming bandwidth... but save your money and get a Linksys for $150 for that purpose), you'll probably be better off getting a $14.95 (US dollars, not Canadian!) ISP.
(Sorry about all the parentheses.)
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
Yes, but can it run Netzero or Juno?
icanneverbereached@sogoaway.com aint my address.
A version of this is already being done on some MS products.
AFAIK, Office 2000 and Frontpage 2000 already have this incorporated. It's a limited license that allows you to run the program for 50 sessions (I'm not sure what exactly qualifies as a session, but I have a pretty good feeling a session can last a maximum of 24 hours). Sometime during that period, you must register the product with Microsoft (either over Internet, over modem, or through Fax or mail.) The two direct electronic ones send you an electronic key that executes and registers the product. The fax or mail ones, they send you back a disk that has an executable to run. Either way, this registers this particular program to your particular computer.
Now, I've tried installing to another computer (we were waiting for our Worldwide Fulfillment shipment of 300 OEM CD's of Office 2000, and went to WallyWorld and got a copy to install on a couple machines.). I couldn't register both machines, but it did give me a # to call if I had a dispute (the one most people have brought up, upgrading the machine).
As long as you're not a thief, you should be fine.... but if you are a thief, mark my words, it'll be cracked, either with a keygen or a simple crack.
Oh, and those installing it in bulk via a utility like Ghost, read the Yahoo article again. It says at the bottom that exceptions will be made for OEM copies, which is what Microsoft sells most often for bulk licensing.
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In related news, plans were announced to build new Operating Systems for the Commodore 64 and the TRS-80 lines of computers, in response to an earlier announcement of a new OS for the Amiga. The makers of Altair are unavailable for comment at this time.
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Some have also attributed the asteroid impact, if it happened, to introducing a new microscopic life form, like a virus or bacteria.
From there, it's pretty easy to extrapolate: Something shades of "Andromeda Strain" or "The Stand" happened, and the ones who didn't have the natural immunity to the virus died. Not a superflu virus, just a normal one like AIDS that slowly killed.
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To quote the Russian Cosmonaut from "Armageddon":
Russian components, American Components. They're all made in Taiwan!
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It's already got CD and DVD support.....
So, why not hack it to have a Playstation and/or Playstation 2 emulator? Those games already come on the format this thing uses. There's been hacks (Bleem) to play Playstation on PC's, so it is possible.
To me, that would give this thing a bit more use... Just gotta worry about Copyright.
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(This is from experience. I work in the IT Dept at a college where we use the MS Campus Agreement.... pay a chunk of money (I'm not in money, but I think our campus of 750 students and 175 staff and faculty costs about $10K), get licenses for all students, staff, and faculty to use all Visual Studio, Office, Frontpage, and OS versions, with upgrades included... and the students get to take the license with them when they leave. Actually, this comment applyies to Office2000 CD's that were distributed by some plan via Worldwide Fulfillment. These CD's are identifiable by having the front paper insert in black and white, and the words "NOT FOR RESALE" printed across the front of that insert. These CD's had a yellow product key sticker on the back. There were two versions of this CD: One that will accept the product key on the back (shipped until about April or May 2000), and one that says in an extra paragraph to check with the license coordinator for an appropriate product key. If you tried to use the key listed on the first type or second type with the second type CD's, you'd get the 50 session countdown. And if you register the 50 session countdown, that key is locked down to that particular install of Windows on that particular computer, so if you need to re-install the OS or upgrade it, tough. We found this the hard way because we were distributing CD's, and once we finished with our old batch, started on the new batch we got. We got all sorts of complaints before we noticed the three line, 8 point font notice on the back of the new CD's. -ERP
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From the detonate.net bastardization parodies. I think it's in both versions of the Matrix parody (cr0bar decided to revisit the first one and make some modifications.)
Here in Southeastern CT, there's a cable company that services most people from Hartford to the Rhode Island border, called Eastern Connecticut Cable, that teamed with @Home to do cable modem access. (I know, my boss lives about 8-9 miles from me and enjoys cable modem) I just happened to get stuck in a fairly large "city" named Norwich, not even 10 miles from Eastern's service area. By a strange quirk, Adelphia cable (big in PA, but scattered in small areas in CT) has control over this area, and they say 1 year for Western CT, and 2-3 years until they get to my area. And, I happen to live about 4 miles from the telco office, so no DSL. Even worse, I live right outside city limits, and the phone company hasn't even touched the copper here in over 5 years. As a result, I get 19.2 out of my 56K modem. Anyone have any ideas on a fairly low-cost wireless solution that can reach about 9-10 miles? I'd be pleased if I was even getting a 1 meg connection to my boss's house (he uses IPMASQ for all his computers), but I'd like it if I could get an 802.11 connection out of it.
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I've wondered this myself for a while. The way I put it is that the color I see as blue could, if I was to be able to see it in someone else's eyes (or brain, as this article implies) appear as something totally different, but that person has been conditioned to accept that color as the name blue.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that what I see as something isn't exactly the same way you see it.
Another good example, and this one is a little clearer for an example, is hearing. The way you hear yourself when you talk isn't the same as others hear you. A good way to illustrate this is to record your talking or singing or whatnot, and then play it back. Everyone will say you sound exactly the same to them. However, you hear yourself in a totally different manner than you do in livetime.
Anyone wanna clear up on that?
I can't really describe in the most accurate words what my theory is actually.
From time to time a couple years ago I saw, on those in-store touchscreen directories, a failed DOS boot. Seems the machines boot initially off of a floppy.
"Bad or missing boot disk. Please insert a disk and press any key."
Stupid thing is, it relied on an external power outlet to be powered. At the very least, they could have positioned the thing over the outlet. I'm willing to bet that was the cause of most of them.... kids being curious, and unplugging the machine.
These things went for days without being rebooted. After about a year of that, they just disappeared all of a sudden. Guess someone got tired of redoing them. It's taken a couple years for them to come back in, and I guess now someone has learned to use the MBR.
One thing I forgot to mention is that not all vehicles are launched on the side of Earth pointing directly at the destination. Also, not all vehicles are launched straight toward the destination's current position. In the case of Mars, let's say it takes 6 months for a vehicle to get there. In that 9 months, mars will have moved quite a distance.
Quite frequently, vehicles are launched on the opposite side of the planet as is directly pointing at the destination (whether the planet is on our side of the sun or away from our side is another matter to take into effect also!) They use the slingshot around half of Earth to gain cheap momentum, so we don't necessarily move closer to Mars... we could move closer to the sun, if that's the case of a particular launch!
All in all, our movement, and Mars's movement influenced by vehicle launches are not even noticeable, even after 1000 years of launches.
What we do need is a space elevator. However, not the kind that you see in books (I can't remember the book it was in, I think it was a Clarke one... also reference Kim Robinson's Red Mars).
It needs to have a terminal in space, sufficiently radiation shielded, like in the book, and also sufficient thrust to get back up into orbit. However, don't anchor the Earth terminal, leave it free floating, as a platform.
I'm not much of a scientist, so I don't know how good the balancing effects are for a spacebound end, if it would be able to keep the Earthbound end floating freely or if the Earthbound part would drag the whole thing down. Maybe anchoring is a good idea, I don't know.