.. that the time it takes to finish a computing project is better spent waiting and doing nothing, because the technology improves so fast that at the end of your project you will have new systems available that didn't exist when you started!
(does anyone know who said it? i ferget at the moment. it's not moore's law, that's something different...)
Before China takes over the moon, they should first practice in earth's polar regions. This has never been done before (successfully), and if one could do this to grow rice and live and work and not perish too early, then it would be one small proof that a permanent moon village is possible.
Perhaps using silver coin, or small amounts of gold, or gold-and-silver combonations would help stop counterfeiting crimes. Lead-to-gold conversion was proved impossible, since atoms are exactly conserved and can not be copied like paper money.
There should be pre-positioned Escape-n-Rescue devices, put all over the earth's orbit at several altitude. This would allow anyone (rocket men, shuttle crew, cosmonaught, Space Station, etc.) to use them during emergency. The U.N. should pay for this, since it would have to be international in order to avoid risk of more shuttle crews exploding like Discovery and Challenger.
I no longer contribute to the thermal and chemical pollution of cars or even buses
Wrong, my friend. You contribute the same pollution, because the energy to power that thing was obtained by burning fossil fuels (or maybe nuclear in some places... which could be good or bad I suppose).
In fact since significant energy is lost to efficiency when you change its form, you're actually burning more fuel than if you did so directly and skipped the step of charging that thing by replacing it with a gas motor. I guess you can figure the cost of transporting gas vs the cost of laying power lines, but I doubt that compensates in the big picture.
Segways pollute just like other vehicles. Anything that does work (in the physical sense) is going to have issues. Just like "hydrogen cars" are total BS.
People should either call themselves what they are or what they WISH they COULD be. It is crazy to try and keep track of user I.D. in those places where all people look so much alike.
Interests are common everywhere, but in places where most people are pretty much the same, this can be an important tool for meeting new and interesting folks who are as much like you.
I would like to see a web sight that is much the same, but with a "Hot-or-Not" option to help find girls that I like.
The music industry is Doomed. When you receive a lethal wound, you may still still linger for awhile and even twitch after you're dead. Either way, it's history. Don't believe me?
Why is there no place for the victims? We suffer immensely from SPAM attacks. Writing back doesn't help, they only SPAM you more by sending you more SPAM.
This message is to all spammers: HELL'S COMING TO YOU! You hear? You've SPAM'd the wrong Hao Wu!
What ever happened to "It's ALL about the music maaaan..."?
I want to say something to the selfish artists: you guys are greedy. You used to be cool, but now you want money and to "make it big." If you want to do that, fine. But you are sell-outs. You are not genuine anymore. You instantly become phony-balony manufacturing tools the moment you sign away your heart and soul.
Not when you take the stage to rap against eminem, but the VERY INSTANT you sign! You hesitate before signing your name, then you feel shame as you are writing it, and finally you know you have lost all honor when you dot the "i" in your middle-name, "Idiot".
Consider many points of view when you sell your art in public.
Who the hell uses Euro or kroner? Please. Tell me in terms we know, such as Fish Market exchange rate, or cantelope or concubine women or something USE-FULL!
The moneys should go to the victims of SPAM. Earthlink should take the 16 million dollar prize, divite it by it's members or whatever, and then give cash to the people who hate SPAM.
China has been dictatorial wasteland for 40 years. Look at the internet in all dictator states. It is useless. It only gets you killed if you play with it or violate it.
If you build a free internet, it will follow that society will be free as well. There will be no stopping the information!
What are you talking about? Apollo was long ago. Their familys are long dead, and the friends of the scorched astronaughts are mostly retired and senile. I can't see your point.
You sit behind a computer and critisize other computer people. You say things like, "Oh. Programmers sent our space men hurtling toward their firey grave."
Look at the facts. Not one space man perished in this. Space men have only died in shuttle disasters, such as in 1986 and also a few months ago. Nobody died from this Russian misfortune. Every man is OK.
Don't critisize so quickly, lest YOU get the same treatment.
Come. You and I are both sharp businessmen. You wear a black tie to to work. You look sleak. I wear a pricy suit to look sophisticated.
Let's not beat around the bush with this. Make an offer for my walkway design. If I like it, I will show you up swiftly and that will be that.
I am not worthy to clean your attic over this. You are a smart man, I can tell. Let's do lunch sometime, EH! Ha ha ha ha. You are an honest man as well. Lunch will be on me!
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.. that the time it takes to finish a computing project is better spent waiting and doing nothing, because the technology improves so fast that at the end of your project you will have new systems available that didn't exist when you started!
(does anyone know who said it? i ferget at the moment. it's not moore's law, that's something different...)
Before China takes over the moon, they should first practice in earth's polar regions. This has never been done before (successfully), and if one could do this to grow rice and live and work and not perish too early, then it would be one small proof that a permanent moon village is possible.
And my finger-prints? DNA and retinal scan?
If space men are killed in such disaster, do they still win the prize, or only set the world-record for a memorial of their memory?
Perhaps using silver coin, or small amounts of gold, or gold-and-silver combonations would help stop counterfeiting crimes. Lead-to-gold conversion was proved impossible, since atoms are exactly conserved and can not be copied like paper money.
There should be pre-positioned Escape-n-Rescue devices, put all over the earth's orbit at several altitude. This would allow anyone (rocket men, shuttle crew, cosmonaught, Space Station, etc.) to use them during emergency. The U.N. should pay for this, since it would have to be international in order to avoid risk of more shuttle crews exploding like Discovery and Challenger.
Go to a chat room right now, and say something nice to somebaody. At random, let's all do this RIGHT NOW.
If you go to average chat room, you find LITTLE wars and hatred. War is OK sometimes, but peace is better.
Why not try and use the 'net for peace technology, if we all go and do this RIGHT NOW!
I no longer contribute to the thermal and chemical pollution of cars or even buses
Wrong, my friend. You contribute the same pollution, because the energy to power that thing was obtained by burning fossil fuels (or maybe nuclear in some places... which could be good or bad I suppose).
In fact since significant energy is lost to efficiency when you change its form, you're actually burning more fuel than if you did so directly and skipped the step of charging that thing by replacing it with a gas motor. I guess you can figure the cost of transporting gas vs the cost of laying power lines, but I doubt that compensates in the big picture.
Segways pollute just like other vehicles. Anything that does work (in the physical sense) is going to have issues. Just like "hydrogen cars" are total BS.
People should either call themselves what they are or what they WISH they COULD be. It is crazy to try and keep track of user I.D. in those places where all people look so much alike.
Interests are common everywhere, but in places where most people are pretty much the same, this can be an important tool for meeting new and interesting folks who are as much like you.
I would like to see a web sight that is much the same, but with a "Hot-or-Not" option to help find girls that I like.
You use one "joy-stick" and a picture of Buffy, the Slayer of Vampires.
The music industry is Doomed. When you receive a lethal wound, you may still still linger for awhile and even twitch after you're dead. Either way, it's history. Don't believe me?
"It's written on the studio wall!"
Salesmen.
Why is there no place for the victims? We suffer immensely from SPAM attacks. Writing back doesn't help, they only SPAM you more by sending you more SPAM.
This message is to all spammers: HELL'S COMING TO YOU! You hear? You've SPAM'd the wrong Hao Wu!
Then maybe the growth was a log function, or sigmoidal.
But most journalists couldn't care about growth models. To them, anything that is "big" or "fast" is considered exponential.
What ever happened to "It's ALL about the music maaaan..." ?
I want to say something to the selfish artists: you guys are greedy. You used to be cool, but now you want money and to "make it big." If you want to do that, fine. But you are sell-outs. You are not genuine anymore. You instantly become phony-balony manufacturing tools the moment you sign away your heart and soul.
Not when you take the stage to rap against eminem, but the VERY INSTANT you sign! You hesitate before signing your name, then you feel shame as you are writing it, and finally you know you have lost all honor when you dot the "i" in your middle-name, "Idiot".
Consider many points of view when you sell your art in public.
Who the hell uses Euro or kroner? Please. Tell me in terms we know, such as Fish Market exchange rate, or cantelope or concubine women or something USE-FULL!
The moneys should go to the victims of SPAM. Earthlink should take the 16 million dollar prize, divite it by it's members or whatever, and then give cash to the people who hate SPAM.
China has been dictatorial wasteland for 40 years. Look at the internet in all dictator states. It is useless. It only gets you killed if you play with it or violate it.
If you build a free internet, it will follow that society will be free as well. There will be no stopping the information!
Was it due to broken software?
What are you talking about? Apollo was long ago. Their familys are long dead, and the friends of the scorched astronaughts are mostly retired and senile. I can't see your point.
You sit behind a computer and critisize other computer people. You say things like, "Oh. Programmers sent our space men hurtling toward their firey grave."
Look at the facts. Not one space man perished in this. Space men have only died in shuttle disasters, such as in 1986 and also a few months ago. Nobody died from this Russian misfortune. Every man is OK.
Don't critisize so quickly, lest YOU get the same treatment.
What will happen when terrorists acquire a nuclear weapon.
Nor do you care, because you either want a socialist revolution, or you're naive to think they could never succeed in nuking an American city.
Sending thousands of messages for a commercial/political interest. That's the definition of SPAM.
Wasn't she the joker, I think?
Come. You and I are both sharp businessmen. You wear a black tie to to work. You look sleak. I wear a pricy suit to look sophisticated.
Let's not beat around the bush with this. Make an offer for my walkway design. If I like it, I will show you up swiftly and that will be that.
I am not worthy to clean your attic over this. You are a smart man, I can tell. Let's do lunch sometime, EH! Ha ha ha ha. You are an honest man as well. Lunch will be on me!