30 years is considered good enough for day to day use, nowadays.
But as a teacher of mine keeps repeating: "we have more problems retrieving data from the 1970's than from the beginnig of this century"
Indeed, our future generation will only see a gap...
one way to preserve data longer than 50 years is still microfilm. Guaranteed to las at least 100 years, if processed and stored correctly.
Currently several companies offer the service to store 'digital dots' on microfilm, instead of typeface, improving the data-density considerably.
Of course density is still waaaay below that of DVD or CD, but at least you're sure it'l be there in the future, and relatively easy to read (optical-scanning...)
... but was i the only one that got really frustrated because there were only.wmw versions of the starwarskid movies around? i never even saw the original one....
This thing is only a sophisticated first stage, an unmanned plane-like vehicule that boosts sats with additional stages to 130 km. After that it returns to earth. Above 130km there's a lot less atmospheric drag, so this makes sense. They plan to have it fling in 2015, but the guys from X-Prize are doing essentially the same thing...
Conspiracy crowd will tell you that those CPUs are supposed to blow, shortly before your year runs out... In order to brainwash you to buy extended....
Their homepage hints they'll not fall into that trap. They're going to concentrate on the story, and let YOUR imagination do the FX (kind of.)
Original series was laughably low budget, compared to starwars, still i know a lot of people that preferred Blake's 7, for it had a good plotline, deep characters et.c. They didn't need flashy effects (their website OTOH is one big Flash effect... hmmm...
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Also a fellow Belgian. one thing that's a bit scary about al that digital logging of your whereabouts is that you can end up looking suspicious w/o being guilty.
i had this little experience, not so long ago: my credidcard was wearing out, so i had problems using it, so i go to the bank to ask for a change in. they go checking when and where i had troubles on their terminal, and on one point the guy asks me: 'it says here that yesterday you took XXXmoney out of the ATM at XXXsquare at 2 AM. is that right?' I go, 'yup, right' and all of a sudden people in the bank start looking a bit strange at me. why? That square is renowned for it's drugdealing scene, and i saw them thinking i was a user (being skinny and pale...withdrawing money at 2AM) What they do not know is that i work late shifts, and pass that ATM on my way home from work.
so thanks to Big Bro my bankmanager now thinks i'm a junk... (i didn't care to explain what i did there)
Heh, was that me? ALERT!!!! This game could ruin your social life! (talking from experience) and to ruin it even more: http://mapage.cybercable.fr/deanco/
that's one of the many websites with upgrades, extra missions, military background info etc. it's part of the combatmission webring, just go to the bottom of the page, and there should be a webring menu.
Sorry for ruining your life;)
Good eample of a succesful game: 'Combat Mission:Beyond Overlord' Found their demo yeaaaaars ago on a CD with shareware/free games/demostuff. They called it something like 'realtime-turn-based-wargame'
Thinking, 'yea right,another one of those badly written, boring things,' but startded it up anyway.... And lost hours, days, weeks, months of my life playing it (bought the full version on the net of course)
This thing is a real 3-D campaign- turn-based-blahblahblah. You just have to see it to believe it. The setting is WWII Europe, and it's really beautifully implemented, with a lot of attention to historical accurracy.Those guys went into a lot of trouble to make their infantry, tanks, vehicles, terrains as good as they could, and that's nearly perfect. Seen a lot of commercial stuff that can't touch it. Nice thing is, you plot the course of action, but your units react 'intelligent,' for instance if you order them to run through open land, and they get shot at, they scramble for cover, often ignoring your commands to a degree. (They WILL try to continue, but often they search for a more protected course. Sometimes they panic, and then you can't order them around anymore before they get their wits together again...So you have to calculate these kind of things in before you go into action, just like a real commander would.
Later they made a follow-up, 'beyond barbarossa, depicting the germans against the soviet-union'. awesome.
Admittedly the guys are a bit crazy, doing all that work to get every detail right, but that makes it such a deep game. Multiplayer capability, a big crowd of users who make new skins et.c. An operation editor et.c. et.c.
One word : Battlefront.com
And actually, it's a myth. Idea was first coined in an (Australian?) commercial for beer. But it was not founded on any research or whatever. Still, it caught on, and now it's a perceived 'fact,' esp. by women;)
I sure hope they build a good pornfilter into this device, you know, men thinking of sex every xx minutes, could play some havoc with those delicate electronics, relais, the gearbox....
Only problem I see is: in this fast evolving softwareworld, if they sequentially test encoders for different formats, the first one tested has a really good chance to be less than state-of-the-art, by the time they finish testing. So when it comes to a head to head comparison of the formats themselves, it is possible that in the mean time there were better encoders developed for (in this instance quictime,) giving it a disatvantage. I hope they keep an eye open for new releases.
Hmmm.... 't was just a case of foresight. They built all those new shiny prisons to be ready to accomodate those Enron and Worldcom guys, once it came out those growth-figures were a bunch of lies to the shareholders...;)
...launch twice as many..
sadly he Russian govt can't afford that, AND the american govt is not able to give them money for it, because of some law (supposedly russia did something wrong in iraq- )
The still DO need a shuttle, and quite urgently, because the soyuz -progress can't carry enough stuff to keep them alive up there, even wit their reduced crew of two, they risk running out of consumables, and what about the labe equipment/samples.... If they don't get the shuttle flying real soon, ISS will be abandoned.
...As long as they have the original music, it can't be bad:) OOOOOOWWWWW!!!!! that hurt! I can still remember, even as i watched the original series as a snotty nosed 10 somewhat years old, cringing when i saw the scenes of their 'parties' That made me really mad, like this is the future, all metallicky-silvery hi-tech stuf, and they are dancing on some kinda waterded down muzak disco stuff, 'dancing' with stupid colored err... tubes in their hands, boy oh boy, was i pissed when i saw that, it was sooooo bad. Of course, now, seeing where the music bizz is heading, these days, maybe they WERE right..../shudder/
Yea, quite expensive, but sometimes, like on eBay, if you're a collector or what have you, you might JUST be crazy enough to use their service. It's not ideal for modern consumer electronics, but if there's no other way to do it, no competition, you pay the price if you really need- want certain stuff
Have people experience with this service? I think A LOT of non-Americans would be very interested if this is not some kind of bogus thing... Ok, they have a testimonials page, nothing but good feedback, but in mags you can have those 'they're great! ads too, for the most ludicrious things (snake-oil department) Also, can they claim having worked together with, say,eBay? would be a bummer if you bought something on eBay, and they go, 'no we won't work with myus, sorry, bad feedback etc.
It is a problem, but at least they saw it coming. it's not only those craft, also a bunch of other important missions need a lot of attention, Cassini/Huygens, The cometchasers, et.c. are al nearing important phases of their mission. Last thing i read somewhere, it that they built an extra telesope (radio) in Spain (IIRC) So, it'l be a lot of juggling, and timing tings to the max but i guess they're ready for it. (well, let's hope so, Interplanetary/.ing wouldn't look too good, after al that work and money invested...
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30 years is considered good enough for day to day use, nowadays. But as a teacher of mine keeps repeating: "we have more problems retrieving data from the 1970's than from the beginnig of this century" Indeed, our future generation will only see a gap...
one way to preserve data longer than 50 years is still microfilm. Guaranteed to las at least 100 years, if processed and stored correctly. Currently several companies offer the service to store 'digital dots' on microfilm, instead of typeface, improving the data-density considerably. Of course density is still waaaay below that of DVD or CD, but at least you're sure it'l be there in the future, and relatively easy to read (optical-scanning...)
... but was i the only one that got really frustrated because there were only .wmw versions of the starwarskid movies around? i never even saw the original one....
This thing is only a sophisticated first stage, an unmanned plane-like vehicule that boosts sats with additional stages to 130 km. After that it returns to earth. Above 130km there's a lot less atmospheric drag, so this makes sense. They plan to have it fling in 2015, but the guys from X-Prize are doing essentially the same thing...
Where's the time that every new discovery was a possible way to cure cancer? One does get tired of this throwing around of buzzwords, that's for sure
Sure, better get 'em get used to the idea while they're young, gives them better chances when they graduate.
Conspiracy crowd will tell you that those CPUs are supposed to blow, shortly before your year runs out... In order to brainwash you to buy extended....
Their homepage hints they'll not fall into that trap. They're going to concentrate on the story, and let YOUR imagination do the FX (kind of.) Original series was laughably low budget, compared to starwars, still i know a lot of people that preferred Blake's 7, for it had a good plotline, deep characters et.c. They didn't need flashy effects (their website OTOH is one big Flash effect... hmmm...
Also a fellow Belgian. one thing that's a bit scary about al that digital logging of your whereabouts is that you can end up looking suspicious w/o being guilty. i had this little experience, not so long ago: my credidcard was wearing out, so i had problems using it, so i go to the bank to ask for a change in. they go checking when and where i had troubles on their terminal, and on one point the guy asks me: 'it says here that yesterday you took XXXmoney out of the ATM at XXXsquare at 2 AM. is that right?' I go, 'yup, right' and all of a sudden people in the bank start looking a bit strange at me. why? That square is renowned for it's drugdealing scene, and i saw them thinking i was a user (being skinny and pale...withdrawing money at 2AM) What they do not know is that i work late shifts, and pass that ATM on my way home from work. so thanks to Big Bro my bankmanager now thinks i'm a junk... (i didn't care to explain what i did there)
Looks like Cliff wants to be excommunicated by the slashdotcrowds. Average slashdot user: 'WTF? A linux guy as windows admin? /popping artery/
Heh, was that me? ALERT!!!! This game could ruin your social life! (talking from experience) and to ruin it even more: http://mapage.cybercable.fr/deanco/ that's one of the many websites with upgrades, extra missions, military background info etc. it's part of the combatmission webring, just go to the bottom of the page, and there should be a webring menu. Sorry for ruining your life ;)
AND they're working on the battles in the african ('Africa Korps') desert (Rommel, General Patton...) looking really good...
Good eample of a succesful game: 'Combat Mission:Beyond Overlord' Found their demo yeaaaaars ago on a CD with shareware/free games/demostuff. They called it something like 'realtime-turn-based-wargame' Thinking, 'yea right ,another one of those badly written, boring things,' but startded it up anyway.... And lost hours, days, weeks, months of my life playing it (bought the full version on the net of course)
This thing is a real 3-D campaign- turn-based-blahblahblah. You just have to see it to believe it. The setting is WWII Europe, and it's really beautifully implemented, with a lot of attention to historical accurracy.Those guys went into a lot of trouble to make their infantry, tanks, vehicles, terrains as good as they could, and that's nearly perfect. Seen a lot of commercial stuff that can't touch it. Nice thing is, you plot the course of action, but your units react 'intelligent,' for instance if you order them to run through open land, and they get shot at, they scramble for cover, often ignoring your commands to a degree. (They WILL try to continue, but often they search for a more protected course. Sometimes they panic, and then you can't order them around anymore before they get their wits together again...So you have to calculate these kind of things in before you go into action, just like a real commander would.
Later they made a follow-up, 'beyond barbarossa, depicting the germans against the soviet-union'. awesome.
Admittedly the guys are a bit crazy, doing all that work to get every detail right, but that makes it such a deep game. Multiplayer capability, a big crowd of users who make new skins et.c. An operation editor et.c. et.c.
One word : Battlefront.com
And actually, it's a myth. Idea was first coined in an (Australian?) commercial for beer. But it was not founded on any research or whatever. Still, it caught on, and now it's a perceived 'fact,' esp. by women ;)
I sure hope they build a good pornfilter into this device, you know, men thinking of sex every xx minutes, could play some havoc with those delicate electronics, relais, the gearbox....
Only problem I see is: in this fast evolving softwareworld, if they sequentially test encoders for different formats, the first one tested has a really good chance to be less than state-of-the-art, by the time they finish testing. So when it comes to a head to head comparison of the formats themselves, it is possible that in the mean time there were better encoders developed for (in this instance quictime,) giving it a disatvantage. I hope they keep an eye open for new releases.
Hmmm.... 't was just a case of foresight. They built all those new shiny prisons to be ready to accomodate those Enron and Worldcom guys, once it came out those growth-figures were a bunch of lies to the shareholders... ;)
...launch twice as many.. sadly he Russian govt can't afford that, AND the american govt is not able to give them money for it, because of some law (supposedly russia did something wrong in iraq- )
The still DO need a shuttle, and quite urgently, because the soyuz -progress can't carry enough stuff to keep them alive up there, even wit their reduced crew of two, they risk running out of consumables, and what about the labe equipment/samples.... If they don't get the shuttle flying real soon, ISS will be abandoned.
...As long as they have the original music, it can't be bad :) OOOOOOWWWWW!!!!! that hurt! I can still remember, even as i watched the original series as a snotty nosed 10 somewhat years old, cringing when i saw the scenes of their 'parties' That made me really mad, like this is the future, all metallicky-silvery hi-tech stuf, and they are dancing on some kinda waterded down muzak disco stuff, 'dancing' with stupid colored err... tubes in their hands, boy oh boy, was i pissed when i saw that, it was sooooo bad. Of course, now, seeing where the music bizz is heading, these days, maybe they WERE right.... /shudder/
Yea, quite expensive, but sometimes, like on eBay, if you're a collector or what have you, you might JUST be crazy enough to use their service. It's not ideal for modern consumer electronics, but if there's no other way to do it, no competition, you pay the price if you really need- want certain stuff
Have people experience with this service? I think A LOT of non-Americans would be very interested if this is not some kind of bogus thing... Ok, they have a testimonials page, nothing but good feedback, but in mags you can have those 'they're great! ads too, for the most ludicrious things (snake-oil department) Also, can they claim having worked together with, say ,eBay? would be a bummer if you bought something on eBay, and they go, 'no we won't work with myus, sorry, bad feedback etc.
they have. airline pilots have greater risk to get cancer. Some study yesteryear showed... (forgot where i read it, sorry)
It is a problem, but at least they saw it coming. it's not only those craft, also a bunch of other important missions need a lot of attention, Cassini/Huygens, The cometchasers, et.c. are al nearing important phases of their mission. Last thing i read somewhere, it that they built an extra telesope (radio) in Spain (IIRC) So, it'l be a lot of juggling, and timing tings to the max but i guess they're ready for it. (well, let's hope so, Interplanetary /.ing wouldn't look too good, after al that work and money invested...
Mod parent up! Man, that was funny! I almost went for it...